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FCTB013: How to Identify and Prioritize Your Core Values
For today’s episode, we will tackle Core Values. Identifying your personal core values is guaranteed to help you grow, but most people do not see this as a top of mind thing to do. However, we often realize how important core values are once faced with conflicts and decisions where we find it hard to arrive at a resolution.
As defined, value is the relative worth or importance of something. While we all can value a lot of things, we also have our core values. If we look back to the balance wheel which we’ve discussed a few weeks ago, its spine/foundation is your core values, and it steers how you traverse your life.
Some of the points I’ve raised are:
How our core values determine how you spend your time, money and resources, how you treat other people and how you will be treated, what you will stand for, fight for and what you let slide (2:20).
Quotes about core values that I would like to share to all of you so you get to have a better grasp and understanding of the concept (3:20; 3:40; 24:31).
- “Values are like fingerprints. Nobody’s are the same, but you leave ’em all over everything you do.” – Elvis Presley
- “It’s not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.” – Roy E. Disney
- “Begin each day with the blueprint of my deepest values FIRMLY in mind then when challenges come, make decisions BASED on those values.” – Stephen Covey
Looking back on my personal evolution and seeing that even I wasn’t fully aware of my personal core values years ago, and this drove me into being an advocate of learning (4:36).
How knowing our core values help us with communicating our stand better, dealing with relationships, understanding ourselves and the people around us, and realizing that despite differences or our own truths not echoing with the majority’s stance, it is alright (5:48, 12:15).
An exercise with a list questions to help you identify your values are listed below. I also share my answers to the questions, anecdotes, and confessions just so you also get an idea of what my values are (7:14).
- What makes you happy and brings you joy (7:34)?
- What frustrates you and ticks you off, and why (7:42)?
- Where do you spend your time and money (7:48)?
- Where do you want to be spending your time and money (7:51)?
- What do you worry about repeatedly (8:01)?
- What are you most proud of (9:36)?
- What brings you a sense of fulfillment (10:03)?
- Who do you admire and why (10:07)?
- Who do you dislike and why (10:12)?
- What do you think positively about (13:16)?
- What’s the biggest argument you’ve had, and how was it resolved (13:28)?
- When have you gone out of your way to help someone, and why did you do that (16:19)?
- What sacrifices have you made for others (16:27)?
- What decisions do you regret (16:35)?
- What decisions would you make again in a heartbeat (16:41)?
- What things, peoples, events, etc. do you feel drawn to (16:47)?
- What things, peoples, events, etc. do you pull away from (17:03)?
How to identify your Core Values through this exercise by:
- Checking what are the common themes that run through all your answers (17:59).
- Identifying the values that keep coming up for you (18:29).
- Taking the 3-5 most common themes (18:35).
- Asking other people who know you well what they think your values are (19:00).
- Prioritizing your core values (19:35).
The most important part of this exercise, however, is aligning your thoughts, words, behavior, and decisions around your core values. I also illustrate by sharing my experiences how knowing the prioritization and order of my core values made it easier for me to arrive at a decision.
I hope that you take the time to really reflect on this, maybe even journal about it, so you can realize your personal truth and core values.
When you’re done with this, I’d love to hear the results of this exercise for you, give me a shout out in the comments section, or by directly emailing me at firstname.lastname@example.org. If you find this episode useful to you, share it to your social circle and see how they’ll benefit from it too.
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Lufthansa Group has stripped down an Airbus A340-300 to identify ways to reduce or eliminate unnecessary weight and save fuel.
In its experiment, shortly after a 12 hour flight from Rio de Janeiro to Frankfurt, Lufthansa employees participated in the special inventory, which included removing items in the A340 cockpit, cabin and cargo hold that were not screwed down. Each item was photographed, weighed and documented in detail.
“The lighter our aircraft, the less fuel they burn and the lower their impact on the environment,” said Jens Ritter, an A340 senior first officer, who was part of the inventory team and oversees fuel efficiency measures at Lufthansa Group.
Lufthansa’s strict quality- and safety-aspects were essential when considering what items should be placed back on board. “Besides passenger comfort, we have to adhere to Lufthansa’s stringent safety norms and the safety regulations decreed by aviation authorities,” Ritter said. “Life vests, oxygen masks, and medical kits are weighed, but will remain onboard the A340 unless there’s a lighter variant of the same quality.”
With the findings in hand, Jens Ritter and specialists from other Lufthansadepartments will analyze the information to identify ways to reduce the weight of the A340 by eliminating unnecessary items and introducing lighter and better equipment. For example, a recently-introduced catering trolley not only reduces the dry ice consumption by 30-50%, but also offers a total weight-reduction of almost 50%.
“A hundred kilos less on each plane in the Lufthansa passenger fleet would trim the fuel by a yearly €2.6 million ($3.5 million) and reduce CO2 emissions by a good margin,” Ritter said.
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7-1. STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION. The successful implementation of selected formulated strategies is not without challenges. If you were an experienced strategist for the UIW, what five recommendations would you propose to the university president that would help ensure success in implementing the university strategies?
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A great many things have happened since Tamino set out in search of Pamina at the behest of the Queen of the Night. He has had time to find out the supernatural powers of his magic flute but also the truth about the supposed perfidy of Sarastro. Meanwhile Papageno and Pamina have been caught running away. Although Sarastro has refused to give Pamina back to her mother, he has punished the vile Monostatos and ordered Tamino and Papageno to be taken into the Temple of Trials for purification. It is there that the second act begins: Sarastro, accompanied by his priests, beseeches the aid of Isis and Osiris.
Listen to the excerpt:
SARASTRO AND CHORUS
O Isis and Osiris, grant
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dehydroepiandrosterone/de·hy·dro·epi·an·dros·ter·one/ (DHEA) (-ep″e-an-dros´ter-ōn) a steroid secreted by the adrenal cortex, the major androgen precursor in females; often present in excessive amounts in patients with adrenal virilism.
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By Dr. Nikolay Gaubitch, Director of Research, Pindrop
When news of coronavirus broke to the world at the start of 2020, few could have predicted the scale and depth of disruption that was about to follow. As governments scrambled to mitigate the enormous strains placed on public health systems, economic and social activity ground to a halt as the virus swept its way through populations. Now we’re halfway through 2021 however, things are looking up. We have overcome the initial state of panic and adapted to new ways of working, vaccine rollouts are making daily activities in the UK accessible again, and business is running somewhat ‘as usual’.
Nevertheless, the ensuing upheaval carried over from 2020 has fundamentally altered the landscape from which companies, including banks and financial services firms, interact with their customers, with large numbers of people forced into accessing services remotely for the first time. For contact centres in particular, this led to enormous surges in call volumes and durations. As with any kind of disruption to ‘normal’ operations and the way things were usually done, nefarious actors have been looking at how they can capitalise on the turmoil to their own advantage by committing fraudulent activity. In particular, voice fraud is a key concern and one that has unfortunately gone under the radar for too long.
Historically the telephony channel has not been well protected from fraudulent activity. With the majority of business being carried out online, organisations have been investing into the digital channel and getting very good at securing it, therefore making it harder for fraudsters looking to earn quick cash. Within the financial services sector, specifically banks, we’ve seen an increased reliance on the interactive voice response (IVR) channel – an automated phone system technology that allows incoming callers to access information. We’re increasingly seeing fraudsters use the IVR as their preferred fraud attack vector, they start with committing fraud in the voice channel, and then moving to others, most frequently online.
Fraudster tactics are shifting! While they are not waiting on hold the attacks are significantly up.
Overall last year we saw an increase in fraud attacks with previously commissioned research conducted by Forrester on behalf of Pindrop, finding that 57% of fraud detection and prevention decision-makers across security and risk, fraud, and IT experienced increases in fraud attacks in the contact centre over the course of 2020.
Nevertheless, according to our Voice Intelligence & Security Report, which provides an in-depth analysis of fraud, data theft, and the impact to contact centres, in 2020 one in 1,074 calls made to contact centres were fraudulent, down from the one in 770 calls recorded for 2019. This apparent drop in fraudulent calls could suggest that the huge strains being placed on contact centres and resulting increased call durations are carrying an inadvertent security advantage – however, the reality is more complex, and worrying.
Our research also suggested that longer call durations and increased times spent in call queues have not only impacted the customers’ experience but also that of the fraudster, resulting in them shifting their tactics and looking towards methods that will get them the biggest return on investment.
In light of this, over the past year, we have observed fraudsters developing new methods which sees them favour fewer yet higher value targets. In addition, they’re also looking towards other avenues in the form of government-backed emergency finance packages designed to keep businesses afloat and support individuals whose incomes have been hit.
One example of such emergency packages was the US Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A $349-billion package aimed at small businesses which was enacted in the spring of 2020 at the onset of the pandemic and extended into 2021 with another $500 billion being injected to support SMEs.
These PPP loans and other available unemployment benefits are available through fintech companies and banks, the idea being that these providers service their known customers. Due to being rolled out with such urgency, the scheme inadvertently created openings for fraudsters to exploit. This meant that following the introduction of the program, high volumes of scammers flocked to set up new accounts with web-based loan companies, through which around 75% of loans connected to fraud are issued.
In 2020, at least $36 billion was lost to fraud, representing 10% of the entire package of funds allocated to the programme by the US federal government. Likewise, in the UK, fraudsters have already taken more than £1.5 billion in Universal Credit payments through the course of the pandemic.
How do they do it?
This serious loss to fraud has in part been enabled by the ease at which scammers have been able to obtain directly off the dark web what we call lifetime data – critical information such as, birth dates, address history, and other knowledge all commonly used by contact centres to verify customer identities.
Infiltrating channels such as the IVR has become a common means for validating and extracting this data. A recent commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Pindrop, showed that more than three quarters of contact centres reported an uptick in fraudsters using IVR for account mining and reconnaissance activities. The customer data acquired from such activities within the IVR provides the fraudster with enough personal information to build up the profile of, and then pose as, a genuine account holder.
However, fraudsters are not only using the IVR channel to mine personal information, they’re also able to use the technology to check account balances, loan statuses and transaction history. What’s more, fraudsters who have collected vast amounts of customer information, may start identifying patterns which helps to piece the puzzle together. A common example of this is being able to work out the typical format of account numbers for particular banks. Having such information to hand reduces the preliminary research required to commit fraud as the step of identifying which bank to target with which credentials is removed.
Furthermore, once they have a good amount of personal information, enough to build up a profile, the method of some fraudsters involves utilising both the online and telephony channels. An example of this would be filling out online forms for loan applications then using the voice channel to follow up and check the status, and thus execute the fraud. This omni-channel approach equips fraudsters with more information and makes them seem more genuine.
While 2020 has undoubtedly been a challenging period for contact centres, there are many ways to fight back. We have seen this in action first-hand at Pindrop.
For example, last year we supported an American bank in its bid to fish out fraudulent calls and identify at risk accounts, contributing to an expected annual saving of $10 million.
Over a three-month period, we saw more than 600,000 calls being made into the bank’s prepaid card division, which revealed a much higher concentration of fraudulent activity occurring in comparison to its retail unit. Staggeringly, it was higher by a factor of 1,000. With approximately 2.5% of all calls flagged for review, two of three calls turned out to be fraudulent – an extremely high rate.
Our team not only helped the bank to detect the number of fraudulent calls it was receiving, but by tracking the sources of the attacks we were also able to identify an average of 10 additional at-risk accounts. A fraudster’s potential gain from one card could be as high as $24,700 per identity so being able to identify and block these accounts enabled the bank to prevent future claims being issued and ultimately resulted in large savings.
Deterring the fraudsters
Contact centres, in all industries, are striving for the best customer experience and satisfaction. Aiming to make operations as seamless with reduced customers waiting times – something fraudsters are acutely aware of and using to their advantage. As such, taking the pressure off contact centre agents is a top priority.
Anti-fraud systems designed for the telephony channel support contact centres by analysing audio, voice, behaviour, and metadata to create call risk scores and fraudster profiles, while authentication solutions help to passively authenticate real customers by creating unique multi-factor credentials based on factors such as the device, voice, and behaviour of the customer.
The majority of successful fraudsters will use a combination of online and telephone channels to gather data and ultimately carry out fraud.
Securing the telephony channel will not only reduce online fraud, but it also enables organisations to detect and prevent fraud earlier in the fraudster journey which results in lower fraud losses and improved customer experience.
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Mirrors have been in use since the 17th century and have filled both a functional and stylish purpose due to their often-elaborate detailing and framing. While many antique mirrors are now reproduced in more modern materials that can withstand time and use, there are a few ways to determine if a mirror is an authentic antique or a modern reproduction.
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Look at the mirror frame. If it is made out of wood, locate a screw someplace not immediately visible, remove it carefully and examine it. Antique screws will be irregular and rough in size and shape because the screws were made by hand. In addition, look at the wood near the hardware. If there is some natural darkening of the wood, the mirror and the hardware are probably all original.
Examine the thickness of the glass, if possible. Modern mirror glass is fairly thin, while the glass used for antique mirrors is thick, heavy and solid. Carefully hold the tip of a metal key to the mirror glass and see how close the reflected image of the key tip is to the actual key. If it is very close, it is more likely that the mirror is an antique. Repeat the same experiment with a modern mirror to get an idea of the distance of the image with modern glass.
Look at any detailing or painting on the mirror frame and examine it for signs of hand-detailing. If the detailing or paint is perfect and completely precise, it was probably done by machine and is a modern reproduction. However, if the details show some irregularities and changes in thickness, the mirror is likely an authentic antique.
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Keep an eye out for antique mirrors with two small glass plates that are set next to each other in the frame. These mirrors are indicative of mirrors made in America and Great Britain in the late 1700s and are rare.
Look for mirrors with thinner glass plates with a dark reflection, which is caused by a mercury-coated foil that was placed over the glass during mirror-making in the 18th century.
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The team over at ASAPScience, which produces fantastic science-themed animated videos for YouTube, has published the following explanation of the age-old question, "Which Came First? The Chicken or the Egg?"
After watching the video you'll either better understand the question (and answer), but you'll also be hungry for either chicken or eggs, depending on the time of day you're watching it:
So, does anyone know where I can find some proto-chicken eggs?
Keith Shaw rounds up the best in geek video in his ITworld.tv blog. Follow Keith on Twitter at @shawkeith. For the latest IT news, analysis and how-tos, follow ITworld on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.
Watch some more cool videos: Mash-up gold: Marty McFly meets The Doctor Squee alert: Elder Scrolls Online announces beta Take a tour of the International Space Station Is there a Nerd Culture War going on? Science Thursday: The Momentum Misconception
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By Bridgett Lynn
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
A senior attorney with the
Southern Environmental Law Center
has briefed the
Rivanna River Basin Commission
on the status of new federal legislation that would provide nearly $1.5 billion for programs to help reduce pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
Listen using player above or download the podcast:
Rick Parrish discussed the details of Senator Benjamin Cardin’s (D-MD) proposed Chesapeake Clean Water and Ecosystem Restoration of 2009.
If passed by Congress, the Cardin bill would increase funding for monitoring grants and implementation grants for Chesapeake Bay states and localities. The goal is to help all levels of government attain the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) limits mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“The good news for local governments working to restore local waters that contribute to the Bay’s problems is that the Cardin bill would authorize $1.5 billion to be spent over the next five years to help local governments deal with stormwater problems, develop stormwater regulatory programs, provide technical assistance to those in need, and there may even be a little bit left over for financial assistance,” said Parrish.
The Cardin bill would require states to develop Watershed Implementation Plans as soon as May 12, 2011 and provide progress reports every two years beginning May 12, 2014. These plans must describe in detail how nitrogen, phosphorous and sediment will be reduced or removed from agricultural runoff, stormwater, and sewage treatment facilities. Parrish said the task is not without challenges, especially as deadline to develop Bay-wide plans to meet pollution loads by December 31, 2010.
“[The] EPA has set out criteria for development of the Bay TMDLs that are really impressive, really aggressive, and are going to be burdensome. There’s no question about it. This is going to be a challenge,” said Parrish.
The national economic crisis, however, has created other priorities that have delayed this bill.
“There’s support, but there’s a lot of concern about the money, there’s also concern among the agricultural community and the developers that this is the first step toward a national regulatory program that reins in their activities, so it’s a pretty contentious issue,” said Parrish.
draft TMDL plan
for the entire Chesapeake Bay will be completed by August 1, 2010, after which the public review process will begin. The EPA is expected to release its final Chesapeake Bay cleanup plan in December 2010.
Parrish concluded, “At this point, the environmental community intends to support [the] EPA and what they’re producing.”
next meeting for the Rivanna River Basin Commission
is scheduled for August 9 at the
Albemarle County Office Building
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The vision of ‘Government Degree College Nirmal’ is to impart higher education with employability readiness to students and “to provide quality education to students and strive for their allround personality development through extension activities to serve the needs of students for employment and career advancement by providing employability skills”
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LEKHA NAGAR JARAL*
“No one dies from working hard. But when people don’t get any recognition in their work, the stress of that lack of control can kill them” We all have heard about the term stress but what is the real meaning of stress. Stress is a strain, force, tension, difficulty and breakdown, anxiety or depression. During the course of our life, we encounter stress, some in high levels, and some in low. But what exactly is stress? It is the result of placing undue expectations or desire on ourselves, creating images of our self and trying to live up to the image that has been created by others. When we compare the image of ourselves to the reality of ourselves, opposing forces are created, and our mind tries to match the created image with the current situation. Stress can be made worse by other people’s expectations, and as being human we always care what others think of us - even though we tell ourselves that we do not. We try to change ourselves so that we can be accepted by other people, regardless of whether or not they care. Negative thoughts about our self image also add to the stress. We remember everything that we have done in life, but more so the negative ones. We re-live those negative moments over and over again in our minds, lowering our self esteem. The first thing we have to learn is that what has happened in the past cannot be changed, or erased. All we can do is take the lesson we learnt, and learn not to do it again. What happens in the past is exactly that, passed, and we must learn to live for now. People feel stress as they can no longer have complete control over what happens in life. There is no escape from stress in modern life. Day to day life is full of stress both on professional and personal front’s pressure of time often result in people reporting to their organizations with headaches, tensions, frustration etc. Stress therefore is a costly business expense that may badly affects both employee’s health and company’s profits. Stress makes cancer cells stronger and less likely to die. Research indicates that a protein called BAD that killed cancer cells does not work in the presence of epinephrine which is produced by adrenal glands during stressful situations and depression. According to P.K.JULKA oncologist AIIMS: Emotional stress may reduce the effectiveness of cancer treatment. At times, stress could be beneficial as it can give you that push that you really need thereby encouraging you to put your best and to stay alert and focused. The events and demands that upset balance in our personal life are known as stressors. We normally think of stressors as negative but stressors can be positive too. It is because of these stressors that we excel in our life and work. We become more professional and achieve a position of which we really dreamt off. Am I in control of stress or is stress controlling me?
•When I feel agitated, do I know how to quickly calm and soothe myself? •Can I easily let go of my anger?
•Can I turn to others at work to help me calm down and feel better? •When I come home at night, do I walk in the door feeling alert and relaxed? •Am I seldom distracted or moody?
•Am I able to recognize upsets that others seem to be experiencing? •Do I easily turn to friends or family members for a calming influence? •When my energy is low, do I know how to boost it?
Source: The Language of Emotional Intelligence by Jeanne Segal, Ph.D.
What's Stressful For You? What's stressful for you may be quite different from what's stressful to your best friend, your spouse, or the person next door....
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A new ruling by a federal appeals court means managers in a growing number of states must accept what, for many, is a troubling reality – their employees have the legal right to keep guns in their cars at work. With layoffs on the rise, economic tensions running high and increasing stress, this decision is causing concern for many employers, said attorney James P. Anelli, an attorney in LeClairRyan's Labor and Employment Group.
On Feb. 19, the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a District Court ruling, thereby upholding an Oklahoma law that gave workers the right to keep guns in their locked vehicles.
“This unanimous and clearly worded ruling has broad implications for managers in the several states that have passed laws like Oklahoma’s,” said Anelli, who is based in the law firm’s Newark, N.J. office. “It also could embolden pro-gun lawmakers around the country to draft similar measures.”
The aim of the Oklahoma law, introduced with the support of the National Rifle Association, was to stop companies from banning guns in workplace parking lots. The rationale was that such prohibitions violated employees’ constitutional rights to possess and carry firearms. In October 2007, however, U.S. District Judge Terence Kern issued an injunction against the enforcement of the state’s legislation. The new law, he ruled, created an obstacle to employers charged with maintaining safe workplaces according to requirements issued by OSHA.
In its 3-0 ruling, the appeals court cited evidence that OSHA does not regard the Oklahoma law as being in conflict with its workplace safety provisions. “The court pointed specifically to a January 16 letter by an acting OSHA official that signified OSHA’s neutrality on the matter,” Anelli noted. “Essentially, this ruling amounted to a clear invitation to states that have passed these types of provisions to feel free to enforce them. For employers who had hoped to see these types of provisions thrown out in court, this is a dramatic development.”
Several Oklahoma employers, including Weyerhaeuser Corp., Whirlpool Corp. and ConocoPhillips, had challenged the Oklahoma law out of safety concerns. In the wake of the appeals court ruling, Anelli says human resources and legal teams in states where these pro-gun laws have passed may need to rewrite employee handbooks to include firearms policies specifically crafted to reflect the reality that guns could be present in the parking lot. States that have passed pro-gun laws similar to Oklahoma's include Georgia, Florida, Alaska, Kentucky, Mississippi, Kansas and Minnesota. Similar measures are under consideration in the statehouses of Alabama, Louisiana, Montana, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.
“I have never seen an employee handbook that had a firearms policy,” said Anelli, who has 20 years of experience representing management in employment discrimination and labor litigation. “It is more than prudent to adopt policies on how firearms should be handled and to explicitly state, for example, that guns must stay locked in vehicles and cannot be brought into the workplace.”
Even as they draft such policies, however, employers must still provide a safe workplace and intervene where appropriate. For example, if an employee exhibits violent behavior, there may still be a basis to take appropriate action to ensure that the workplace remains safe. In fact, some states allow employers to obtain court orders limiting the possession of firearms in parking lots even when the local law allows them if there is an indication of potential violence.
Still, Anelli says, company executives in states that have passed such laws should remember that they have not been relieved of their obligation to keep the workplace, including its parking lot, safe. It is their responsibility to work with security professionals, attorneys and local law enforcement officials to defuse situations involving potential violence and the possible use of firearms. They also can take other steps to protect both their companies and employees. Some types of businesses, for example, may have been legally exempted from the applicable law and can therefore continue to enforce gun bans. Others might be able to carve out “secured parking areas” that are gun-free but still in compliance with their states’ laws.
Importantly, the court also rejected the employers’ arguments that, as a “property owner,” they could regulate if firearms were stored in employee vehicles. The appeals court ruled, however, that the Oklahoma law could most accurately be “characterized as a restriction on plaintiff’s use of their property.” In short, the appeals court ruled that the employer’s property could be regulated in this manner and withstand constitutional “taking” arguments. Part of the ruling is based on the notion Oklahoma was expanding the rights of its citizens, as citizens, to store firearms in their vehicles as opposed to regulating employers or addressing employment, per se.
Anelli added that if OSHA were to reverse course and declare such laws in conflict with its existing safety provisions or if other appellate panels were to issue conflicting rulings on the legality of firearms in workplace parking lots, the U.S. Supreme Court might take up the matter.
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The charge of publishing seditious statements refers to leaflets found in Ponsonby Road, 2 km from the Prime Minister’s office in Sandringham Road, Auckland, after an axe attack on the window of the Prime Minister’s electorate office, during the foreshore and seabed legislation debate.
Sedition is defined within New Zealand as being “speech, writing or behaviour intended to encourage rebellion or resistance against the government”. Selwyn has been charged under section 81(1)(c) of the New Zealand Crimes Act 1961, which forbids any such publication which means “[t]o incite, procure, or encourage violence, lawlessness, or disorder”. The New Zealand Police cite the pamphlet as being seditious.
This is the first prosecution for sedition in New Zealand for at least 75 years.
The decision to charge Selwyn has drawn considerable controversy within New Zealand, with many bloggers protesting. Blogger Idiot/Savant, who has extensively researched the history of sedition in New Zealand, called the law “an archaic holdover from feudalism which should have been relegated to the dustbin of history long ago.” Blogger Lewis Holden, stated “Allowing the state to prosecute an individual for publishing an idea is morally abhorrent and wrong. The state should not have such a power at its disposal: to do so invites abuse of our right to freedom of speech.”
The Crown says to find him guilty the jury must decide if the pamphlets encouraged other New Zealanders to break the law through similar crimes, and whether Selwyn knew that is what the material set out to do.
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Prescription medications are generally safe and effective, but many of them can interact poorly with certain foods. Blood pressure medications are one example of drugs that can be affected by the food you eat. Speak to your physician or pharmacist about what foods you should avoid if you're taking blood pressure medication. If you start a diet plan, speak with your physician to make sure it is safe.
Grapefruit and grapefruit juice may interact with a class of antihypertensive drugs called the calcium channel blockers, or CCBs. These include amlodipine, felodipine, verapamil, nifedipine, isradipine and nicardipine. CCBs are not the preferred treatment for high blood pressure, but they are effective at lowering blood pressure when other medications have failed. The breakdown of the CCBs may be blocked by grapefruit juice, leading to an increase in the amount of medication in the blood. Large amounts of grapefruit juice increase the effect of the medications, according to “Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach.” This may lead to an increase in medication side effects and toxicity effects. Grapefruit and grapefruit juice should be avoided if you take a calcium channel blocker.
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Are you interested in the mechanisms behind our consumption? At the Centre for Consumption Research, the researchers are investigating how we are affected by consumption, and how consumption is affected by us.
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You are hereDonald Kent “Deke” Slayton & John Wayne Airport
Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton & John Wayne Airport
On 13 June 1993 in the skies above John Wayne Airport in Orange County a small red distinctive racing aircraft identified as belonging to astronaut Donald Slayton triggered automatic noise monitoring systems which led him being sent a noise violation warning letter. However, the aircraft in question was in a museum at the time of the alleged disturbance and Donald Kent “Deke” Slayton (March 1, 1924 – June 13, 1993) had passed away five and a half hours earlier.
In part of his article entitled Ghosts in the machine - Tales of haunted hangars and phantom pilots , Guy Norris from Flight International describes the reported experience.
I didn't keep a diary in 1993, so I will never know how close I came to witnessing the events that reportedly happened just a few miles away on 13 June that year. It was Sunday morning and I was at home in Orange County, California, while most of my Flight International colleagues were in Paris covering the air show.
What I, and the rest of the world, did not yet know was that Donald "Deke" Slayton, one of the original Mercury "Seven" astronauts and a true test pioneer of The Right Stuff fame, had just died at his home 2,225km (1,200nm) away in Houston, Texas. Slayton, who succumbed to a brain tumour, died at 03:22 local time, with his wife Bobbie and daughter Stacey at his bedside.
Although one of the select group picked to be the USA's first astronauts, Slayton was at first prevented from going into space by a heart problem, and it was not until he was cleared for flight in the 1970s that he finally made it into orbit as the docking module pilot of the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz project. Having celebrated his 51st birthday four months before the docking mission with the Soviet cosmonauts, he was then the oldest man to fly into space.
Back on Earth, Slayton later led the Shuttle approach and landing test programme before retiring from NASA in 1982. But retirement could not keep this ex-astronaut, Second World War bomber pilot and test pilot out of the air for long, and he developed an enthusiasm for the adrenalin-charged world of Formula One air racing. His chosen mount was a bright red, Art Williams-built 19ft (5.8m)-span monoplane dubbed "Stinger", with a 100hp (75kW) Continental 0-200 piston and the number "21" on the fuselage in black. Formerly flown to 18 US racing victories - including two national championships - by ace racer John Paul Jones, the Stinger was finally donated in the early 1990s by Slayton to an air racing museum in Nevada, never to fly again... or was it?
Orange County's John Wayne airport - at the centre of this strange tale - is tightly ringed by urban development and is one of the most noise-sensitive airfields anywhere in the world. Surrounded by a battery of 10 noise-monitoring stations (NMS), the airport's noise abatement office maintains a careful curfew that prevents any airliners from taking off before 07:00 Mondays to Saturdays, and 08:00 on Sundays. These same hours also mark the noise limitations for business and general aviation aircraft, which can operate for periods into the night as long as certain noise levels are not exceeded.
At 07:57 on 13 June 1993, while the curfew was still in place and commercial airliners were waiting impatiently for take-off clearance, a small red racing aircraft apparently took off, performed "various flight manoeuvres" according to reports, and immediately triggered the sensitive noise-monitoring systems into action.
NMS1, 0.75km from the runway localiser, recorded 90.4dBA, against a limit of 86.8dBA. NMS2, south of the departure path from runways 19 left and right, spiked at 90.9dBA (versus 86.9dBA) and NMS3, 1.3km away, registered 3.5dBA beyond the limit. The aircraft was then seen to continue in a slow climb to the west, outbound, and out of sight over the nearby Pacific.
It is unclear whether air traffic control tried to make voice contact with the mystery aircraft, but what is known is that several witnesses reported the noisy, high-speed fixed-propeller aircraft to the airport's Noise Abatement Office. All reports, presumably linking the clearly visible "21" identifier with the unusual lines of the F1 racer, identified it as the US Federal Aviation Administration-registered N21X.
A notice of violation of the airport's General Aviation Noise Ordnances Section 2-1-30 was sent by certified mail on 28 June 1993 to the Houston address of the aircraft's registered owner, Donald Slayton. Here it was picked up by Slayton's astonished widow, who read: "As an initial violation, this letter is intended as a warning, to seek your voluntary compliance with the Noise Ordinance - absent any additional violation, no further referral of this matter will be made."
Bobbie Slayton told the FAA that not only had her husband died about five and a half hours (including local time differences between Texas and California) before the alleged incident, but that N21X was, at the time, stored in a museum several hundred miles away. Edward Maloney, who received the aircraft into his museum collection from Slayton all those years ago, says: "We've never flown it at all since Deke gave it to us. He was the last one ever to fly it." Contrary to other reports, Maloney says the engine has never been removed from the aircraft which, in the mid-1990s, was relocated to his Planes Of Fame museum in Chino, California, where it resides to this day.
Although Maloney believes the ghost flight incident is "someone having pipedreams", there appears to be more than the usual circumstantial evidence often attributed to paranormal occurrences. Kay Bender, executive director of the Deke Slayton Memorial Space and Bicycle Museum in Sparta, Wisconsin - close to the farm where Slayton was born in 1924 - provided Flight International with a copy of the violation notice and says: "We have never questioned its authenticity." Although a few enquiries about the incident crop up from time to time, Bender says most visitors are interested in the stories about Slayton's proven lifetime achievements in space and in the air.
Beyond that, JWA's Noise Abatement Office changed its record-keeping process in the late 1990s and enquiries to the control tower revealed that, in common with most FAA sites, the strips recording movements from and to the airport are stored for only six months. So, like so many other apparent sightings and unusual events, Slayton's reported final flight remains a tantalising enigma.
But if it was a prank, and someone risked the ire of the FAA to fake Slayton's aircraft, the timing was "highly unusual", says Loyd Auerbach, the San Francisco-based director of the Office of Paranormal Investigations. "Surely, the best time to pull something like this would have been while Slayton was still alive. At the time we know that only Bobbie, their daughter and the doctor knew he was dead." The Formula One type aircraft is also highly unusual at John Wayne, where most of the resident high-performance sports aircraft are well known and easily recognised.
Also worth noting is a reported UFO sighting made by Donald Slayton over Prescott whilst doing a maintenance flight in an F-51.
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The Grapefruit Diet, which has also been called the Hollywood Diet, has been around since 1950. There are many versions of this quick weight-loss diet, based on the belief that enzymes found in grapefruit can help burn fat, thereby promoting rapid weight loss. Another claim is that dieters can expect to lose up to 10 pounds after 12 days on the Grapefruit Diet.
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On the Grapefruit Diet, you will eat half a grapefruit (or drink a cup of unsweetened grapefruit juice) before breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The Grapefruit Diet meal plan is low in carbohydrates and restricted to 800 calories per day or less.
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- Most of us need to eat more fruit. "There is no doubt that grapefruit is a healthful food," says dietitian Andrea Giancoli, MPH, a national spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association. Most people don't get enough fruits and other plant foods, so adding some grapefruit to your diet is a reasonable thing to do when you are trying to lose weight.
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“Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son?”
Numbers 27: 4
“Honor Thy Father”
“Into the father’s grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.”
What does it mean to me to “honor” my father?
“You have to dig deep to bury your daddy.”
“Honouring our fathers and mothers may mean recognizing them as frail human beings who are not the gods or devils our childish memories make them. We may come to understand why our parents behaved as they did – even if we are critical of it”
As I have shared with you before, I was blessed to have wonderful Christian parents who not only loved me unconditionally, but also gave me a spiritual foundation on which to build my life.
My father and I, whose personalities were very similar, forged a relationship through the years that even 22 years after his untimely death, still serves as a beacon of light. Having been orphaned at only 6 months of age, my dad felt a great sense of abandonment for the people in the foster home where he grew up not only verbally but physically abused him telling him repeatedly that his own brothers and sisters did not want him. Living in this environment, where conflict flourished, it became essential for my dad’s emotional survival for him to withdraw – keeping others at a distance because of his inner fear of being hurt.
As I grew up, I didn’t know about all the factors that influenced my dad. Nor did I understand some of his behavior as I was unaware of the pain that still lingered inside him.
My dad’s emotional “demons” reared themselves the most when my sister and I began to date. If he were alive today, he’d be the first to admit he was overly critical of nearly every boy we ever dated, no matter how nice he was. Years later, he admitted to me, in one of our many heart-to-heart discussions, that every time I’d come home with some young man, he would have a great fear welling up inside him that he was losing me. In fact, it took him years to recognize I could love him and another man as well.
Just three days before Dad died suddenly, my husband, Jim, and I went to visit my parents. They lived nearly 1,000 miles from us and it was a long trip – but one I’m so thankful we had, for on that visit, when we were all together, my dad looked at my husband, Jim, and said “Jim, if I had lined up all the men in the world and tried to pick the right one for Dorothy, I couldn’t have chosen anyone better than you.”
Three days later, completely unexpectedly, while out on an evening walk, my father dropped over dead of a massive heart attack, at the age of 58.
As I look back on Daddy’s life, if you asked me, “Was he perfect?” – I’d have to say, “NO!” He could give you a detailed list of his faults. But my father, with all the challenges he faced in his life, became, through the grace of God, the most gentle spirit. And as the years passed, I watched as he tried to open up, to let us in, and to embrace the love we wanted to give him.
Today, we are studying lesson #2 – the second lesson we can learn from the lives of Zelophehad’s five daughters – and it is the lesson of “honor.”
Yesterday, we focused on the quality of boldness. Today we will look at honor, specifically as it applies to the relationship between Zelophehad and his five girls.
As his daughters openly admitted before the entire congregation, their father wasn’t perfect. He died in the wilderness because of his own sin of murmuring at Kadesh.
But as his daughters pointed out, their father did not participate in the rebellion against the Lord in the company of Korah. It is as though these girls wanted everyone to recognize that while “dad” wasn’t perfect and he had made mistakes like everybody else, he had not been in rebellion before the God of heaven and earth. You know, this is one of those places where you just have to say, “I love the Bible!” God’s word is so relevant – for the problem of how we treat and view our parents is just as vital today as it was back in the book of Numbers. These five daughters openly admitted dear old dad had faults, but that didn’t mean his name should not be honored, and that the legacy of his life shouldn’t be carried on by his daughters.
And I’d like to insert a thought here. If you had a father who disrespected or abused you, remember, as a daughter of God, you can live to bring honor to your own name. The legacy of abuse can be broken as your Father in heaven bestows upon you the eternal and ever-flowing blessing of a new name – a new history as a child of the King.
Isn’t it wonderful we can learn from Zelophehad’s girls that “Honoring your father” is a gift we can choose to give, not based on perfection, but on love. As author Fanny Fern so poignantly wrote: “To her the name of father was another name for love.”
Today, if it has been sometime since you said, “I love you – I honor you,” to your father, I urge you to pick up the phone, write a note or just turn and say the words. If your father has passed away like mine, thank your Heavenly Father for the time you shared with your dad. And to those daughters whose father treated them in unspeakable ways, lift your hands heavenward and grasp the hand of your Heavenly Father whose love for you will heal your pain and who is a Father you can honor all the rest of your life.
“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”
John Gregory Brown
Decorations In A Cemetery
What Makes a Dad
“God took the strength of a mountain,
The majesty of a tree,
The warmth of a summer sun,
The calm of a quiet sea,
The generous soul of nature
The comforting arm of night,
The wisdom of the ages,
The power of the eagle’s flight,
The joy of a morning in spring,
The faith of a mustard seed,
The patience of eternity,
The depth of a family need,
Then God combined these qualities,
When there was nothing more to add,
He knew His masterpiece was complete,
He called it a Dad.”
Dorothy Valcárcel, Author
When A Woman Meets Jesus
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US donates 1.2 million doses of Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and Moderna vaccines to African nations in effort to help developing countries
- Four African countries will receive a combined 1.2 million vaccine doses from the United States
- The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Guinea and Seychelles will be the beneficiaries
- Donation comes as part of a larger effort to donate a half-billion vaccine doses to lower income nations
- Just over half of Americans are fully vaccinated with under one million getting jabbed every day
Four African countries with low vaccination rates will soon receive 1.2 million donated COVID-19 vaccine doses from the United States.
Vaccines were shipped to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Guinea and Seychelles on Friday, a White House official confirmed to Reuters.
The doses are being donated through COVAX, a program run by the World Health Organization to help create a more equitable distribution of Covid vaccines.
Africa has lagged sharply behind other regions in vaccinating its citizens, with most countries reporting single-digit vaccination rates, compared with much higher double-digit rates in advanced economies such as the United States.
The U.S. will be donating 1.2 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to four African nations: Uganda, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Seychelles and Guinea. Pictured: A man in Uganda received a COVID-19 vaccine last month
Uganda, which was shipped received 657,080 doses, and the Congo, 250,320 doses, will each receive the two-shot Moderna vaccine.
Seychelles will receive 35,100 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, which is also two shots.
Guinea will receive 302,400 doses of the one-shot Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
In total, more than 1.2 million vaccine doses are being donated to the four countries.
Data from each of the countries is incomplete, making it hard to know exactly how much of each population has received the jabs.
Each of them, like many other African nations, is among the countries with the lowest vaccination rate, though.
Donating vaccines to lower income countries was made a priority by the Biden Administration earlier in the summer.
In June, during the G7 summit, Biden said the United States would donate 500 million doses of Pfizer’s shot, made with partner BioNTech, and officials have said they would start shipping out in late August.
The U.S. will ship 200 million of the doses pledged by the end of 2021 and the other 300 million by June 2022, according to Jeff Zients, coordinator of the president’s COVID-19 task force.
‘Everything is on schedule there,’ he said at a White House news briefing earlier this month.
Of those doses, 75 percent will be sent to countries via COVAX and 25 percent will be shared with countries directly.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration sent 80 million doses to other nations after the president promised shots would be donated from the U.S. supply.
Another African nation, Rwanda, received 500,000 doses from the United States earlier this summer as well.
Biden administration health officials have said efforts to quell the coronavirus outbreak worldwide is key to ending the pandemic and preventing future problematic COVID strains, in addition to ongoing efforts to vaccinate people in the United States.
The White House had shifted priorities to sending vaccines abroad after the U.S. vaccination campaign slowed down to fewer than 500,000 doses a day in July, down from 3.5 million per day in April.
Numbers have bounced back, though, with just under a million Americans getting their first shot every day.
Currently in the U.S., 62.2 percent of residents have received at least one shot of a COVID vaccine and 53 percent are fully vaccinated.
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- About Us
- The Medical Home
- Priority Issues
December 9, 2016 | Patient-Centered Primary Care CollaborativeDecember 8, 2016 | Healthcare InformaticsDecember 8, 2016 | CMS Blog
- Practice Transformation
The word “home” has many connotations: the building in which you live, the place you come from, and even the end point of a game. Now, there is a new type of home: The Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH).
PCMH is a model of primary care that is patient-centered, comprehensive, team-based, coordinated, accessible and focused on quality and safety. It has become a widely accepted – and cost-effective – model for how primary care should be organized and delivered, encouraging providers to give patients the right care in the right place, at the right time and in the manner that best suits their needs.
“The magnitude of savings depends on a range of factors, including program design, enrollment, payer, target population, and implementation phase,” explains Michelle Shaljian, MPA, Chief Strategy Officer of the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC). “Most often, the medical home’s effect on lowering costs is attributed to reducing expensive, unnecessary hospital and emergency department utilization.”
When the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law in 2010, medical homes got a boost because of numerous provisions that increased primary care payments, expanded insurance coverage and invested in medical home pilots, among other programs.
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LocationEuropean Southern Observatory, Karl-Schwarzschild-Straße 2, 85748 Garching bei München, Germany
ArchitectsPhilipp Baumhauer with Karoline Markus
From the architect. The pavillion, which was comissioned privately, was originally conceived and planned as a tea house.
In the course of the planning phase, the project evolved into a decorative and ornamental structure that was given a new purpose. It grew into a Folly of the kind that populated 18th century landscaped gardens in England and turned into an edifice without a clear definition - a larger than lifesize abstract piece of furniture.
Niches in the facade, the roof as well as the interior, where cushions await, invite reposal.
The exterior consists of planed boards of larchwood, whose smoothness contrast with the weathering process.
No flashing (cover sheet), socket or visible attic, detract from the sharp edges and solidity of the structure - in part to ensure that the aging process will appear completely homogeneous.
When not in use, the pavillion is closed with shutters made of highly polished stainless steel.
In this way depth is achieved not only by structural means but in an imaginary and illusional way using the reflecting qualities as a mirror.
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The Bigger Picture: Visual Archives and the Smithsonian
Empress Cixi: Scanned and Discovered
Last month, John Dillaber worked with the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives to rescan our collection of the 1903 glass plate negatives of China’s Empress Dowager, Cixi (1835 - 1908).” As regent to two successive emperors, Cixi was the supreme sovereign of the Qing court for over 45 years, and an iconic international figure in the final years of the Qing dynasty. Consequently, these extremely rare images are one of the most important collections of early Chinese photography outside of China. Until now, our best reproductions were from contact prints, which only showed rough details. Because of the uniqueness and historical importance of these images, I was determined to get as much detail and tonal depth as possible from the project. Using John’s IQSmart3, we scanned to files nearly 1 gigabyte each. At that range, pixels compete with film grain for image resolution, but the spectacular results have produced previously hidden details that reveal much about the role of photography in the late Qing court. Here is one of those discoveries. The photograph of Cixi, her attendants and eunuchs on the imperial barge is almost festive, with varieties of props and theatrical costumes reflecting the Empress Dowager’s passion for Chinese opera. The photographer of the series, Xunling (c.1880 - 1943), was a young Manchu who picked up photography as a hobby while his father was ambassador in Paris. Documents tell that Xunling required a special indulgence to wear glasses in the Imperial Presence in order to focus the camera lens. Unfortunately, the new scans show that glasses didn’t help much; foreground figures are somewhat blurry. Nevertheless, a number of interesting features emerge. Cixi is seated before a standing screen, upon which is the title, “Guanyin of Putuo Mountain.” Cixi’s devotion to this manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion is well documented, made famous by the studio photographs in which she is more explicitly immersed in the Bodhisattva’s identity. On a bronze tripod in front of Cixi is written “Ningshougong” (Palace of Tranquil Longevity), a complex built within the Forbidden City for the retirement of the Emperor Qianlong (1711 - 1799), who Cixi particularly admired and emulated, and whose palace was given over for her use. But what is the white thing in the foreground? Rising out of the bronze vessel is the character for longevity stylized into a wisp of smoke. Cixi was fond of the character as a decorative element, and frequently had it embroidered in gold on her costumes, so it is no surprise that it should be so prominently visible. Yet in the new scans one can make out a series of previously unreadable Chinese characters on the top of the design, which spells out Guangrenzi, or “Broad Benevolence.” Quick research reveals that Guangrenzi is Cixi’s Daoist title, conferred by the abbot of Baiyunguan a major Daoist temple in Beijing and a political base for the court’s conservative faction. So this decorative element takes on considerable significance, and in combination with the Putuoshan Guanyin screen, and the reference to Qianlong’s palace, suggests that the boating scene is more than a picnic with eunuchs in opera costumes. On the contrary, Cixi employed photography to create a calculated assemblage of intersecting references to religious and political alliances, associations and hierarchies, as she sought to maintain her own political legitimacy within the factionalized environment of the final years of Qing dynastic decline. Well worth a gigabyte scan.
David Hogge, Freer-Sackler Galleries of Art Archives
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The Tragical History of Dr Faustus
Transcript of The Tragical History of Dr Faustus
R.M. Dawkins - Renaissance world emphasis on individual; on classical learning; on scientific inquiry into the nature of the world. Classical elements Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?
Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss:
Her lips sucks forth my soul, see where it flies!
Come Helen, come, give me my soul again.
Here will I dwell, for heaven be in these lips,
And all is dross that is not Helena!
(12.81–87) Faustus seeks heavenly grace in Helen’s lips, which can, at best, offer only earthly pleasure. “Make me immortal with a kiss,” he cries, even as he continues to keep his back turned to his only hope for escaping damnation—namely, repentance. - Faustus offered several moments where he can redeem himself, but chooses loyalty to Hell. Faustus never shows any signs of remorse, but is looking for other ways to escape his fate. - Dr Faustus committing mortal sin; a conscious disobedience of God and an swearing allegiance to the Devil. - No matter how horrible sin, forgiveness always there through redemptive powers of Jesus Christ. Possibility of Redemption always open. Ugly hell gape not! Come not, Lucifer!
I’ll burn my books—ah, Mephastophilis! Even in his final moment Faustus offers to burn his books and not ask God for forgiveness. - Change into an animal (Pythagoras' Metempsychosis) - Slow down or stop time altogether. - Let earth cover his body, so that he cannot be found. - Conjuring up Helen of Troy (immortalised in mythology. So by having her kiss him, he will become immortal too) (Not in the final hour-scene) - Let Faustus' body be turned to air and soul turned into little water drops. - Leaping up towards God. - Draw Faustus up like up a foggy mist. - New deal where Faustus will go to Hell a (hundred)thousand years and then go to to Heaven. - The final solution is not repent, but the burning of books. Since this is not asking God for forgiveness, Faustus is taken away to burn in Hell perpetually.
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“Providing 10 litres of powdered milk a day for 40 disabled children.”
Project Co-ordinator: Helen Ilsley and Katy Vatis
Location: Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- La Vida will fund a year’s supply of powdered milk for disabled children
- 85% of these children are unable to feed themselves and are on a liquid/soft food diet
- Milk is essential to their overall food intake and well being
Description of Project
Pasitos de Luz is a long-established non-profit organization founded by mothers of disabled children from low-income families. Pasitos de Luz provides vital services to disabled children and their families living in extreme poverty in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico and the surrounding communities. All of these services are provided 100% free of charge.
122 children are registered in the programme, with an attendance of approximately 40 a day. The Pasitos Kids are a fabulous mix of fun-loving children. Each one has his or her own unique story.
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Japan’s overtures to Russia to join its fold bound to fail
Although Japan is aligned with the United States and the two countries have formed a “united front” against Russia, it has not stopped Japanese PrimeMinister Shinzo Abe from visiting twice this year the country suffering the consequences of theWest’s sanctions.
Abe met Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the second Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Sept 2-3, which was initiated byMoscow to attract foreign investment to help develop its Far East.
Before leaving for Russia, Abe handed Japan’s minister of trade, industry and economic affairsHiroshige Seko the additional charge of the newly-created government department handling Tokyo’s economic cooperation withMoscow. During his visit to Russia, Abe was accompanied by a 150-strong group of Japanese businesspeople, including Softbank founder and CEOMasayoshi Son and chairman of Japanese trading giant Marubeni, Teruo Asada.
Abe has suggested Japanese and Russian leaders hold annual meetings in the hope that increasing economic assistance would promptMoscow to grant Tokyo concessions in the territorial dispute. Japan claims sovereignty over four Russia-controlled islands north ofHokkaido, which are called the Northern Territories in Japan and Southern Kuriles in Russia. And the territorial dispute has prevented the two sides from signing a peace treaty.
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By Chris Taylor
NEW YORK (Reuters) - It is not the longest journey in miles from the Tennessee's Smoky Mountains to the stage of the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville, but when Dolly Parton was growing up in a one-room cabin in the woods, it must have looked about as far away as outer space.
For Reuters' "Life Lessons" series, the iconic 70-year-old country singer, songwriter, actress and businesswoman talked about her unique journey as one of the most honored artists in American history.
Q: Your family didn't have much growing up. How did that shape your understanding of money?
A: I think being poor has been good for me. I saw how my mom and dad struggled, and how they could stretch a dollar farther than you could begin to imagine. Even now, if I am thinking about spending a lot of money on clothing or furniture, I think 'I can't spend so much money on one thing; my poor old Daddy could have raised his family five years on that!'
So I know the struggles of poor people, and have always kept that with me. I often say I had to get rich in order to sing as if I was poor.
Q: What was your first job as a kid?
A: We all had our chores on the farm, but my first money-making job was actually singing, at 10 years old. It was on the Cas Walker show down in Knoxville, Tennessee, and I used to ride the bus to the radio station.
I was on television before we even had one at home. In fact, I bought our first family television with my own money, putting it on credit and then paying it off every week.
Nobody in our area had a TV, so everyone used to come over and watch shows like Woody Woodpecker and Daniel Boone, and then never leave. Finally my Daddy said, 'That television has got to go!'
Q: Once you had some success, how did you deal with that wealth?
A: It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life. Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it. With the first money I ever made I bought my Mommy and Daddy a car, and helped them fix their house up.
Q: When you got the business idea of starting your Dollywood theme park and resort, did people not take you seriously at first?
A: A lot of my businesspeople said: 'That's a big mistake, that is a great way to lose all your money.' But I had a feeling in my stomach that it was the right thing to do, so I went ahead with it. Then I got rid of those lawyers and accountants who didn't believe in me, and got new ones who did. Needless to say, it's been the biggest and best investment I ever made.
Q: Any advice for entrepreneurs starting out?
A: Any business you go into, you have to think about how much money you are willing to put into it, and how much you are not. Unless you have spent your life doing something, you are not likely to be successful, so always partner with people who are smarter than you.
I do have a natural sense for business, which I think I get from my Dad. I know when something ain't right, and I know exactly what I will or won't tolerate. I can spot a con artist from a mile away.
Q: How do you direct your charitable dollars?
A: One of the things I'm proudest of is the Imagination Library, which gives books to kids from the time they are born to when they start school. So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write. It started in my hometown, and now we are all over the world. It gives me real pride because it reminds me of Daddy.
Q: You once gave a commencement speech about life lessons. What did you tell the graduates?
A: I asked them, are you willing to work hard? Because you have to work hard, in order to get anything done. Know that up front. Dreams are of no value if they don't have wings and feet. You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.
(Editing by Beth Pinsker and Bernadette Baum)
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Casting Instructions for 'Boost Creativity Spell'
On the piece of fabric/paper write a word or draw something that represents where you need to focus your creativity.
Rub the corners of the fabric/paper with the Cinnamon or Bergamot oil.
Place the cloth in front of the diffuser/burner on your altar. Put the citrine on top of the fabric.
Light the candle of your diffuser/burner and as the oil is burning meditate for a few minutes about your project while saying in your head
"Open my mind,
Let my creativity flow,
My heart and mind direct,
My hands create,"
The ideas will start coming to you and you will feel ready to create. When the oil is done burning, take the piece of fabric/paper with the citrine and place it near you on your place of work. You can put it by your desk.
Repeat the meditation every Wednesday to boost your creativity.
Every time you have a new project you must get a new piece of fabric or paper and write down/symbolize your project.(Remember to rub the oil on the corners)
Sending my blessings,
-Mar D Caos
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ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – As the city of St. Louis spells out new measures to crack down on hookers and the men who hire them, a new group is looking for other ways to get women off the streets.
“This is a major problem. It’s not because St. Louis is unique, it’s because we’re a major urban area. That means drugs are a problem and that means prostitution is a problem,” says Mike Kinman, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral in St. Louis and President of the Board of Magdalene St. Louis.
Kinman hopes to copy the model of Magdalene in Nashville, Tennessee. It’s a program that takes women off the streets, puts them in a secure home, and gives them the services they need to start a new life such as drug counseling, “most of them, 95 – 98% of them are heavily crack and heroin addicted,” points out Kinman. And most have suffered years of physical abuse, “their average age of first sexual experience probably was seven or eight.”
He adds most women who sell themselves for sex are caught in a cycle. “They’re arrested, there’s some sort of slap on the wrist because the judicial system is completely overloaded. And then they’re back out on the streets, and of course they’re heavily addicted to these drugs so they’re back out on the streets using and prostituting again.”
Kinman says getting them out of that life could save future generations. “Their children are growing up in awful situations. And all of the sudden, in a very short time, 2, 3, 4 years, you have a much more stable family situation and those kids have a shot that they never would before.”
Magdalene St. Louis is in the process of finding a house. They hope to have funding and staff in place to welcome four to six women by the summer of 2014.
They also plan to offer a “Johns school” through the court system for first-time offenders. “Prostitution is dehumanizing. It is largely men using women as objects of sexual gratification. That’s soul killing for everyone.”
You can contact Magdalene St. Louis through their website www.magdalenestl.org or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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PCR clonning - (Jun/20/2011 )
I am trying to ligate my Pcr Product into PEnter vector (invitrogen) but i cannot detect the positive insert band although there are enough colonies on the plate ?? Can anybody sujjest something to me
How long is your insert? You may put longer elongation step in your PCR in order to amplify it well. Are you using appropriate primers for your PCR?
You can do also restriction enzyme digestion.
yes of course i did restriction enzyme digestion then i run gel and check bands under U.v but i cannot detect my insert band only vector band is visible. my insert size is around 300 bp.
Seems like you have problem with ligation..even you have good colonies number but that all without insert..(mean there's nothing wrong with your transformation)
maybe the pcr product has no restriction site at the end of the fragment...? some people designing a fragment with few base pair (4-5bp) before RE site in their primers.. so if you did same thing make sure u digest it first...
and if u did that and no problem with digestion, maybe the ligation mixture is not good... for ligation...how long do u incubate the ligation mixture?at what temperature...try to extend it longer at 16C...Wish of luck
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Facebook Parental Advisory: Sweden eyes 16yo age limit for social media
The Swedish government said Friday it is going to launch a special commission on implementing the EU Data Protection Directive. At the meeting the authorities are planning to discuss which age limits Sweden should set. According to the new EU legislation, this must be between 13 and 16 years old. Before this age, social media sites must be assessed only after parents’ authorization.
The new regulation can have beneficial effects, Minister for Financial Markets and Consumer Affairs Per Bolund told Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper.
"If this gets more parents involved in what their children do online, that's fine," he said. The websites which are planned to fall out of the kids’ reach include Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
“The decree which was made at the EU level says that there should be a 16-year age limit, with the possibility of going down to a 13-year age limit," Bolund also told SVT channel. "This is a binding decree which must at some point enter Swedish law.”
@FrokenFlipp Idiotin. Jag blir trött. Vi förbjuder omklädningsrum och skolgårdar med. Där mobbas det väldigt mycket.— Karin Nygårds (@grishund) 29 января 2016
The regulation from December 2015 says that children “deserve specific protection” of their personal data, as they may be “less aware of risks” in relation to the processing of personal data.
“When it comes to information society services offered directly to a child, the Regulation foresees that consent for processing the data of a child must be given or authorized by the holder of the parental responsibility over the child,” the regulation says.
Not everyone in Sweden is happy about banning kids from Instagram and other social platforms.
“Students should be able to adapt in a complex reality, with the huge flow of information and a rapid rate of change. If we have a 16-year limit on social media, should we revise the curriculum?" a teacher Lotta Karlsson wrote on Twitter, as cited by Aftonbladet.
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Coral Reefs In Indian Ocean Should Bounce Back Quickly From Tsunami EffectsJan. 13, 2005
by Judy Long
Geographer Jennifer Rahn, a Baylor University assistant professor whose principle research focus is coral reefs, says the Dec. 26 tsunami in the Indian Ocean did not cause as much damage to the coral reefs as watchers initially feared. She said the reefs could take a couple of decades to recover, or they could bounce back in as quickly as one or two years. "There are lots of coral reefs in the Indian Ocean, and they have adapted to pounding by hurricanes."
Rahn said the latest reports indicate the destruction to the reefs is less than anticipated, though in some places the reefs may range from five to 50 percent damaged, depending on the location.
"Most of the damage consists of reefs covered with debris--refrigerators, doors and other garbage that has to be removed. Up to 100 scuba diving volunteers a day are out cleaning off the coral," she said.
Rahn said shrimp farms sustained extensive damage, so Asian shrimp prices will likely be high for awhile. "Some environmentalists think sea turtles may have sustained considerable damage, but these reports haven't been confirmed."
The greatest damage was to the fishing industry with the destructionof boats and fishing equipment, but there might be a silver lining to that. "The areas are so over-fished, this could give the fisheries a chance to restock," she said.
Other sea life suffered little damage. "Almost no fish or marine life have washed up on the shores, with the exception of a number of groupers, and they could have come from the aquaculture ponds that were wiped out," Rahn said.
Rahn said the tsunami was caused by a geologic plate shifting upward. "The two tectonic plates involved in the movement were the Burma plate and the Indian plate. In the quake, the Burma plate shifted up to 50 feet upward. That's what caused the tsunami."
For more information, contact Rahn at (254) 710-2361 or Jennifer_Rahn@baylor.edu.
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It has been a long time since I have posted anything - I'm having to relearn! Sandro Magister informs us that a new teaching document has been sent to the bishops of the world concerning the sign of peace. Following the Synod on the Eucharist in 2005, a study was made as to whether the sign of peace should be moved to another place in the Mass, e.g. before the Offertory, or remain in its traditional place. It has been decided with Pope Francis' approval that no change should be made as to its place to avoid structural changes to the Mass but that its true nature should be taught.
I cannot find the letter in English but from the Spanish version one learns the following:
- the invitation to exchange the sign of peace should not be given in a mechanical way, i.e. it shouldn't be just automatic. If it is likely that the sign of peace will not be exchanged in an appropriate manner in a given circumstance of if it is judged that pedagogically it is a good thing not to carry it out on certain occasions, it may be omitted and even should be omitted. We are reminded that the rubrics say: "Then, if appropriate, the Deacon, or the Priest, adds: Let us offer each other the sign of peace."
- abuses such as the following are to be avoided:
- the introduction of a "song for peace" which does not exist in the Roman Rite;
- the moving around of the faithful during the sign of peace;
- the priest leaving the altar to give the peace to some of the faithful;
- in circumstances such as Christmas, Easter, or during ritual celebrations such as Baptisms, First Communion, Confirmation, Marriage, Ordination, Religious Profession or Funerals, turning the sign of peace into an occasion to greet or to express condolences to those present.
- Episcopal Conferences are invited to prepare liturgical catechesis about the significance of the Rite of Peace in the Roman liturgy and the correct way of carrying it out during the Mass. The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments encloses with their letter some orientational lines.
[Update: Fr Z reports and comments.]
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Halloween might be over, but that doesn't mean you can't use it to help inspire your writing. Yewande, Creative Intern at Random House, gives us her top tips on writing a good horror story!
Remember it’s not just about killing people. It’s good to have a plan.
Sure, readers of horror fiction like a kill here or a kill there, but that isn’t the main reason they keep coming back. Horror is about building anticipation and suspense, playing on the fears of the characters as well as the readers, and introducing the occasional dead body now and again. A good horror fiction writer needs to have a vague idea or direction of where all this terror is leading to. The reader needs to understand why people are murdered left, right and centre – what is the purpose of it all. Find your big idea and explore it in detail.
Flesh out your characters
A well-drawn plan is powerless without good, well-developed characters.
For the readers to be drawn into your work of fiction and to ask why bad things keep on happening to the main protagonists, they need to be believable and resonate with the readers. Your characters should have flaws, vices, emotions and fears similar to yourself and the readers. By having these human qualities the readers are more likely to give in to the general outline of your story and place themselves within it, experiencing the horror alongside the characters.
Establish your setting
A good writer establishes their settings. Whether the story is set in your average English countryside village or a paranormal realm, the readers need to have a sense of the place. If your setting doesn’t feel real or concrete enough, the reader will find plot holes within your story.
Be consistent. Readers notice details
Nothing is worse than reading a story that has too many plot holes. If you want your readers to stay hooked and believe such terrifying events can happen, you have to remain consistent. If you’ve devised a plan (which if you haven’t, please read the top of this post), by all means build on it, develop it, but don’t get so carried away with development that you forget the basic structures you originally put in place, e.g. if a character supposed to be deaf throughout the novel, make sure all their actions reflect that of a deaf person.
Do your research
If you’re going to put specific concepts, real places and maybe even myths into your work, please do your research. One, it can help you develop your ideas, and two; it adds an element of realism to the story. The second point is reason enough to do it, especially if you want to leave the readers thinking about the authenticity of your story after the last page.
“And then suddenly...” Building suspense is a must
The readers want you to catch them off guard and lead them to something they wouldn’t expect. You need to have the readers on edge. Don’t deliver the action right away but work your way up to it, so that, like the characters, it works its way through the dark alley till the unexpected finally jumps out.
Look outside your window for inspiration
Some of the best ideas come from looking on one’s doorstep – just look at Stephen King. Quite a few of his books were set in his hometown of Maine, New England, and if you know anything about New England, you know that King had a lot of interesting history to work with.
Don’t give up
Not all ideas are as bad as they seem. Even Stephen King had to go back to the drawing board with Carrie, and look how well that turned out!
Why not give my tips a go and start writing your very own horror story?
Then post your finished story to the comments under here and the best stories can win some awesome books from the lovely people at Random House!
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[Here the timeline follows events more or less as they were.] Clinton started off well, being regarded as something of a political wunderkind for managing to win the 1992 elections. Soon, missed opportunities in the nomination process for cabinet secretaries and a controversial attempt to extend Health Care benefit to all Americans (an effort chaired by his wife, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton) backfired, creating the perception of a man "above his head" for the task. In addition, Cuomo had, in his usual Quixotic fashion, ordered troops into Somalia for "humanitarian" purposes in the waning days of his administration, and Clinton found himself in a civil war-like situation, with the presence of U.S. troops opposed by all sides in the conflict. Clinton added to his own foreign policy woes by ordering American forces into Haiti in 1993 to restore the Democratic administration of President Aristide. It was just another in a long list of Democratic mini-interventions abroad which cemented the Democrat's fame as an interventionist party. Finally, the emergence of a tough anti-Clinton leadership in Congress (led by House majority Leader New Gingrich of Georgia) chipped away at the President's credibility while building steady pro-Republican support. Manufactured scandals and much rumor-mongering regarding alleged infidelity and womanizing episodes did not help the President either.
Thus, by 1994 Clinton found himself exactly where Cuomo had been 4 years earlier: relatively unpopular and saddled by sagging poll numbers. Worse, his miscalculations in Haiti and Somalia led him to become overly-cautious in foreign policy manners; he did not order American troops into Bosnia nor Rwanda to ameliorate very grave genocide-like human rights abuses there (some 800,000 perished in Rwanda alone as a result). As a consequence of all this, Clinton suffered the devastating loss of both houses of Congress to the Republicans in 1994. The new anti-Clinton leaders of Congress, in turn, used their new positions of power to investigate and hound the President on a number of grounds, some valid and some mere acts of political vendetta. They overdid it a bit, however, for the average voter began to sense something rather unbecoming and sinister in the constant bullying of Clinton and his wife (herself despised by the Republican Right). With the U.S. economy booming as a result of U.S. leadership in the computer and telecommunications industries, Clinton entered the re-election year of 1996 polling ahead of his Republican rivals, who began to scramble for the right to challenge him in November.
On the Republican side, 1992 nominee Jack Kemp decided not to enter the primaries, choosing instead to remain retired, as did his running mate Dick Cheney, then CEO of a major oil corporation based in Texas. However, conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan, Governor Pete Wilson of California, former Governor Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Senators Phil Gramm (TX) and Richard Lugar (IN) entered the race, among others. In a close and often acrimonious contest, it was Alexander -- the plain-talking, plaid-wearing former Tennessee Governor, university president, and Bush cabinet member -- who surprised all the pundits and emerged victorious. He had been seen as the more viable candidate over the polarizing Buchanan, the decidely uncharismatic Gramm, and the controversial Wilson. Desperately needing someone more conservative, younger, and more charismatic than himself to balance the ticket, he had privately selected Governor Wilson of California, but was over-ruled by his staff, which considered Wilson a risky pick (he was widely seen as anti-immigrant, and his pro-choice stance on abortion offended many conservative Republicans). In the end, Alexander tapped the former Senator from Missouri (and ordained Episcopalian minister) John Danforth. Come November, Clinton and Gore won re-election easily, besting the lackluster duo of Alexander-Danforth by 51% to 47% in the popular vote.
Reinvigorated by his 1996 mandate, but chastened by the 1994-96 period and still facing a Republican Congress, Clinton governed as a moderate for the entirety of his second term, demoting his wife and other Left-leaning advisors to a secondary role. This was not enough for his enemies in Congress, however, who continued to investigate and subpoena him over all kinds of alleged misdeeds, real and imagined. One of these eventually paid off for them, when in early 1998 they obtained testimony from Monica Lewinsky, a former White House intern, that she had had an inappropriate sexual relationship with the President. Asked under oath s part of another investigation if he had had an affair with Lewinsky, Clinton denied it, thus stepping into the trap and providing his adversaries with the grounds for impeachment (perjury). With America at peace and the economy in its soundest footing, the Republican Congress opened up impeachment proceedings against Clinton, who, faced with evidence, had by now acknowledged the inappropriate sexual relationship with Lewinsky. As in 1995-96, U.S. public opinion massively turned pro-Clinton; Americans didn't want their President impeached over a matter largely seemed as trivial and private (not an abuse of power of "high crime" against the state). The procedures against the President were seen for what they truly were: petty "payback" for Watergate and Iran-Contra. Faced with such national opposition to Clinton's removal, Congress merely censured him in January 1999 (as the Democratic Congress had done against Bush in 1988) and allowed him to finish his second term.
With Clinton retiring and his Vice-President and heir-apparent Gore seeming vulnerable due to the impeachment crisis and some voter fatigue after 12 years of Democratic control of the White House, a number of high-profile Republicans vied for their party's nomination to the 2000 elections. Among them were Arizona Senator John McCain and Governor George W. Bush of Texas, son of the last Republican to be elected President (George H. W. Bush in 1984). In a bitter race, Bush bested McCain to capture the Republican nomination. With the two top vote-getters seemingly irreconcilably estranged as a result of the acrimonious primaries, Bush "followed his heart" and surprisingly selected Gary Bauer, a man tied with evangelist conservative circles. Gore, for his part, was confirmed as the Democratic torch-carrier, although only following a surprisingly spirited primaries challenge from former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey. Gore selected as his running mate California Senator Diane Feinstein of California, energizing Democratic women voters and thus reconciling the party with many females following the Clinton infidelity scandals (Feinstein had been one of the strongest critics of Clinton and his moral lapses). Senator Feinstein also solidified Jewish support for the ticket, being the first Jewish candidate for Vice-President in U.S. history.
The country seemed to be split by this point: many saw the advantage of keeping Gore and maintaining the pace of economic growth, while others longed for new leadership after 12 years of Democratic control of the White House. Gore seemed decent and high-minded, but also somewhat wooden, "coached," phony, while Bush Jr. appeared as more direct and personally likable. The polls remained close (within the margin of error) throughout the summer and fall. In the November 2000 elections, Gore won by an agonizingly narrow margin of about half of a percentage in the popular vote. The electoral results were contested by the Republicans (especially the crucial Florida results, where Gore had won by less than 1000 votes) but, without recourse to a mostly Democratically-appointed Supreme Court, the certification remained with Gore. He was sworn in (along with Vice-President Feinstein) in January 2001.
Key members of the two-term Clinton administration were:
- Secretaries of State: Richard Holbrooke (1993-97); George Mitchell (1997-99); Madeleine Albright (1999-2001)
- Secretaries of Defense: Adm. William Crowe (1993-95); William Perry (1995-97); Sam Nunn (1997-2001)
- Secretaries of the Treasury: Lloyd Bentsen (1993-95), Warren Rudman (1995-99), Robert Rubin (1999-2001
- Secretaries of Defense: Richard Riley (1993-1997), ? (1997-2001)
- Attorney Generals: Vernon Jordan (1993-97); Jamie Gorelick (1997-2001)
- National Security Advisors: Anthony Lake (1993-96); Madeleine Albright (1996-1999); Sandy Berger (1999-2001)
- 1984 U.S. Presidential Election
- 1988 U.S. Presidential Election
- 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
- 1996 U.S. Presidential Election
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Improvements made to fishing at Joe's Valley and Huntington North Reservoirs
At the June Public Lands Council meeting, the new aquatics manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources Justin Hart talked about area fisheries.
Hart reported that for a few years the DWR has been working to improve the fishing at Joe's Valley Reservoir and Huntington North Reservoir. He said there are good things to report. Joe's Valley has become a trophy splake fishery and is popular among the locals but doesn't see much use by those from other areas. The Utah chub still infest Joe's Valley and the trout are almost nonexistent in Joe's Valley. The splake have been sustaining themselves and have been eating the chub. The DWR worked for several years mechanically removing the chub, but they aren't going to do that any more and are letting the larger fish hopefully take care of the chub problem. It's the goal of the DWR to allow people to keep quality fish. In 2008 the DWR reported to the lands council some of the challenges these fisheries face and the different things that were going to be implemented to enhance the value of these waters.
Tiger muskies have been planted into Joe's Valley, the first stocking was of 11 inch fish. The next was smaller two inch fish. The funding for these fish came from a donation by Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife and the Emery County Travel Bureau. It is a goal to have one fish per acre. Hart said they want to be conservative. The tiger muskie are expensive right around $2 per inch. This year in the gill net survey one tiger muskie was netted that was 34 inches and 12 pounds. The tiger muskie will eat anything and they are eating the chubs as expected because one chub 9.5 inches was found inside one of the larger tiger muskies. "We have to be careful not to overstock, we want a great fishery," said Hart. "It's probably unlikely a legal tiger muskie will be caught this year. Any tiger muskie under 40 inches caught must be released. They are impressive fish.
"We will continue to stock splake from five-eight inches. In the summer the splake really go deep and you don't catch many, but we expect the tiger muskie will still be catchable during the summer months.
"Huntington North is a good bass fishery. There are blue gill and some old Utah chub in there. We stock the reservoir with browns and rainbows every year. It is a lower elevation water. We decided to try something else there and stocked it three years ago with wipers. They were fingerling. Those fish are now three years old and in the gill net survey there earlier this spring, 12-13 inch fish were netted," said Hart.
It is the hope of the DWR that these increased fishing opportunities will help draw people here to spend money and recreate in the area. The tiger muskies will help revitalize the fishery at Joe's Valley and will help take those chub numbers down. "If we get those chubs down we can stock with rainbow again," said Hart.
Hart said the chubs are so successful because they are aggressive predators and they live a long time.
Council member Sherrel Ward wondered about the mercury levels in the fish caught at Joe's Valley. Hart said the mercury is still there more so in the older larger fish because mercury builds up over time in their system. He expects mercury will be detected in the tiger muskie as they grow also. The mercury is brought in atmospherically and there isn't anything they can do to prevent it.
Another rotenone treatment of Ferron Reservoir will take place on June 13 and after that in two weeks the reservoir will be restocked with catchable rainbows in time for the July 4 holiday. By the end of the summer Colorado cutthroat will be stocked along with sterile brook trout.
A spawn-egg collection will take place at Duck Fork on June 11.
More treatments with rotenone will take place later this year in the Ferron drainage.
Testing will still take place for the quagga mussels at Electric Lake and all boats will need to be decontaminated before and after using local waters. Scofield Reservoir still has a chub problem, too.
A bass tournament will take place on June 23 for the Relay for Life at Huntington North reservoir. Joe's Valley has nine of the Cabelas tagged fish which can be redeemed for prizes. You must register on the Cabelas website.
A coyote predator bounty program is starting on July 1 for the DWR. Payments start on Sept. 1 and you must register with the DWR to participate it's $50 per coyote.
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FUTURE Foundation Sustainable Design Robot Construction Challenge
The FUTURE Foundation exists to advance robotics and technology through education.
With the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop as inspiration, build a VEX robot or robotically-controlled machine that achieves one or more sustainability goals. You may construct either a full-size VEX robot or a VEX model of a larger machine.
Sustainability is about using engineering and science to reduce human environmental impact. This can mean producing renewable energy, using less energy, replacing high-environmental-impact materials with low-impact alternatives, recycling, reusing, and designing upgradeable products that can meet future needs without having to be replaced. Learn more about sustainability, and specifically sustainable design, at the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop website at http://sustainabilityworkshop.autodesk.com/.
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I think that the setting to any drama is important as it allows the reader to understand the beginning of action, and use it as a benchmark to where note from where drama begins. Good writers will use setting to help illuminate much of what grips the protagonists, as the setting is a part of the characters' worlds. For example, Lorraine Hansberry in A Raisin in the Sun uses the setting of the crowded apartment to bring out the condition of her characters. As the reader/ audience is introduced to the characters, the setting of the apartment and where the family lives on the South Side of Chicago is incredibly important in understanding the condition of the family and the problems it presents. Shakespeare uses aspects of setting quite vividly in a play like Macbeth. The setting of weather conditions helps to bring out the ethical and psychological condition of the drama. The storm to open the drama represents a theory of correspondence, whereby meteorological elements help to represent the emotional state of Macbeth and that which surrounds him. Setting is essential in helping to establish the exposition of drama and to help allow the reader/ audience to understand the conditions that confront characters in drama.
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When we use the term ‘scope’, we are talking about all of the work and improvements that are expected to be completed as part of a project or even a group of projects. The ‘alignment’ is where on the land a project is being proposed. An alignment is critical in order to develop a scope for a project. But at the level of a study such as this, both are very fluid as we make some very high level assumptions for both in order to try and determine which project options should get prioritized to receive funding.
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The study speaks to timing for these projects primarily from the perspective of when traffic volumes are expected to reach a point where improvements are ‘warranted’. In a broad sense, intersection improvements around the Quaker/Hadley intersection are justified by 2025. Other improvements are spaced out in 10-year intervals from there. All of the projects referenced in the study require additional steps be taken to set aside funding, select engineering consultants, and further define project scoping and impacts. An example where these additional steps play a critical role is considering the proposed underpass of Quaker Boulevard. While this improvement will require INDOT approval, the impacts to their interchange justify the Town planning for this improvement to be constructed earlier than what might be needed strictly from a traffic capacity benefit.
This study is the direct result of INDOT and the Town agreeing to the relinquishment of SR 267 and Avon Ave. by INDOT. Plainfield agreed to accept the jurisdiction of these roadways in exchange for INDOT providing funding for some desirable improvements. This study is the Town’s effort to best direct these funds where they will be most meaningful and timely. Both INDOT and the Town recognize that the improvements will provide the most benefit if they are planned, and potentially constructed, together.
Building a new connection between Cambridge and Gateway will offer improved flexibility for patrons to access and enjoy Plainfield’s Hospitality District. The report points out that there is still a level of uncertainty on how the added access points to Quaker Boulevard can be designed to work with INDOT’s new interchange, but these considerations are expected to play out as that design unfolds. The desire is to create improved connectivity for the interchange area that will help support mobility to our business partners.
The recommended improvements are made as a response to expected increases in everyday traffic volumes. They are designed to reduce the amount of wait times drivers will experience by providing more design options that allow for free-flowing movements as reduced speeds. In addition, the improved connectivity and the illustrated extension of Gateway Drive around to connect to Center Street is planned to provide an alternative to Hadley Road for east-west travel.
Yes. With this Study, the Town worked with American Structurepoint to host 2 public input sessions as we were developing the various project options. As these individual projects are funded, additional public input meetings will be scheduled as part of the more detailed scoping considerations.
One of the best methods to stay informed about what is happening is to review the Town Council agenda that is publicized twice a month. In addition to that, we encourage all residents to subscribe to our official social media accounts, check out our webpage, and read our monthly Plainfield Post newsletter. You can always reach out to Town Staff who are eager to share what they’re working on. The Town’s Director of Transportation, Scott Singleton, can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.org or contacted by phone at (317) 903-8682.
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This fight had been city versus farm, and the city had repeatedly conned its way out of a sound beating at the hands of the farm.
Dennis's mother had called Dad, had explained what happened, and Dad said he would be right over. Since both Dan and I have been the victims of Dad's explosive and illogical temper, we both expect and dread the further punishment headed our way, when he gets there. I think he'll have a fit over Dan losing the contact lenses, for not winning decisively, for the potential trouble from the school, the cops, anything that would occur to Dad, but it doesn't happen.
Dad is uncharacteristically understanding, comforting even, and he and Richard had dropped all they were doing that afternoon and drove to Dennis's to pick Dan up and take him to the emergency room.
They x-ray his nose (no fracture) and his wrist (hairline fracture) and his thumb (clearly fractured). They they take Dan to dinner and buy him a beer.
Dan had fought, and survived, like a man. He was in the club. The club that Dad and Richard had never been able to enter. Maybe make deliveries there, through the tradesman's entrance, but certainly never enter through the front door. (p. 178)
Machismo. This untranslatable word contains stories within it. Stories of pride, sure, but also stories of deep, raw hurt that threatens to burst its dams and spill over into the lives surrounding it. It is a code, a way of life, yet so little of it could be defined precisely. One either had machismo or not; there was no middle ground. One bound by it could find himself doing the illogical for reasons of honor...and other things. There is a sense of tragedy in the word, ma-chis-mo, that can make a grown man cry or stiffen up and become like stone.
Domingo Martinez's debut book, the memoir The Boy Kings of Texas is as poignant as the rancheros and corrídos of singers such as José Alfredo Jiménez, whose "El Rey" ("The King") Martinez views as a key to unlocking the machismo code and from which he derived the inspiration for his memoir of his time growing up in Brownsville, Texas during the 1970s and 1980s and what led him and his older brother Dan to flee to Seattle by the early 1990s. The Boy Kings of Texas is a complicated, complex affair, reading as a love/hate letter to a family bound by machismo.
The Boy Kings of Texas is roughly in chronological order, although key events are sometimes narrated years or even decades after other events narrated in prior chapters. Martinez sets out to describe the fractious lives that he, his older brother, their three younger sisters, and occasionally his youngest brother live in a barrio on the outskirts of Brownsville with their parents, paternal grandmother, and their stepuncle, Richard. Told more in a looping, thematic fashion, similar to what a patient might relate to his therapist, the events in The Boy Kings of Texas revolve around the ways that the Martinez family members cope with their situations.
Race certainly plays a role in the book. The Martinezes are descended from a largely criollo background and their fairish skin allows members of the family, particular the three sisters (the three Mimis, as they were nicknamed) to pass as white, especially after they refused to wear anything but the most fashionable clothes possible and after they dyed their hair blonde. The older brother, Dan, who is 18 months older than Domingo (the fifth out of six), is a complex soul and Domingo's recollections show this through his recounting of the fights Dan would get into, often for Domingo's sake (even if Domingo rarely asked for help and usually felt ashamed when family members would intervene), usually over matters of race or ethnic slurs thrown at the more bookish Domingo. In passages such as the one quoted above, Martinez reveals a lot of the family dynamics and how machismo governs them: the fight itself, the way in which it ended (with a tragic end a few months later for the other participant), the lyrical description of how their dad, Domingo Sr. (Domingo was called "Yunior" or "June" by the family) , and their step-uncle, Richard, long for the sort of acceptance that comes to Dan in the aftermath of this brutal fight.
Violence looms large in The Boy Kings of Texas. Domingo finds it both abhorrent and fascinating. He is not the fighter his brother is, he sometimes tries to shrink back from the violent demands that machismo puts on the boys of his barrio, but he is again and again entrapped within its web. Casual descriptions of his father beating on his mother, brother, and self are not meant to downplay the significance of his father's actions, but instead are part and parcel of what drives this lonely "loser" of a man (as much in how he sees himself as how his family views him) to infidelities, inappropriate sexual talk with Domingo (the scene where he worries that his wife might have AIDS due to his screwing around and yet he is not the one who wants to know the result) is pitifully funny. There's such a sadness in Domingo's prose whenever he writes about his father that it is obvious that there is much more to him than he is ready to admit; after all, openness about familial feelings don't usually mesh well with machismo.
There is also a lot of humor within these scenes, from the beer sharing, the pot smuggling, Domingo's first sexual experience, awkward dates, etc. These humorous anecdotes leaven the narrative, relieving the depressing sense of fatality that sometimes threatened to overwhelm the narrative. Martinez has excellent comedic timing, with the humor never feeling forced nor does it ever detract from the weightier issues being described. But even more impressive than his melding of comedic scenes with the more brutal ones is his honesty. There is never the sense that he covers up his feelings or reactions to events. He does not see himself as a hero, but rather as a survivor. This veracious portrayal makes for a fascinating read of not just a typical family, but of a Latino family caught between the dual worlds of Mexico and the United States, of white and brown, of aspiring to advance and trying to remain true to one's roots. And through it all, machismo threads its way, coloring everything.
The Boy Kings of Texas is an outstanding memoir. It is one that I likely will re-read in years to come. Compared to the other National Book Award finalists in Non-Fiction, it ranks very highly, as the story told is moving, with excellent character descriptions. If there were any quibbles that I would have with it, perhaps it could have been divided into two books, pre-move to Seattle and post-move, but that is more because I would like to have more of his story to read than any real flaw with the memoir's narrative. The Boy Kings of Texas is simply one of the best books on a very strong shortlist.
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Important locations on a map of the Chicago Metropolitan Area include the downtown core, Navy Pier, Lincoln Park, the Museum Campus and Northerly Island. Chicago's two airports are O'Hare International, northwest of downtown, and Chicago Midway International, to the southwest. O'Hare is the larger of the two and has more flight options. Good Chicago maps show the roadways between the airports, subway lines and the various neighborhoods.Continue Reading
Chicago's downtown core contains the city's business and shopping districts, and is home to several high-end hotels. Museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago are in the core, as is the Magnificent Mile. Grant Park fronts Lake Michigan in this area.
The Navy Pier juts out into Lake Michigan east of downtown, and is one of the city's major tourist attractions. A landmark since the early 1900s, it served as a military base and hospital during World War I. As of 2015, the pier is home to shops, restaurants and arcades, and is a launch point for lake cruises.
The Lincoln Park neighborhood, north of downtown, is known for the Lincoln Park Zoo. Another important location is south of downtown, the Museum Campus, home to the Field Museum, Adler Planetarium and the Shedd Aquarium. Next to the Museum Campus is Northerly Island, an open-space recreation area within sight of the Chicago skyline.Learn more about The Midwest
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According to the National Institute of Mental Health, “about one in four adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.” Mental illness can be a heartbreaking burden for the sufferers and their loved ones; and occasionally, the effects of mental illness cross paths with the legal system.
Two types of mental illness cases exist in the U.S. court systems. These include Mental Health Courts and involuntary commitments. Mental Health Courts are often correlated with the Criminal Court system because the individual has been arrested and charged with a crime. If it is determined that the crime suspect suffers from a mental illness, and this was likely a factor in the crime, then the case may be eligible for a Mental Health Court. Each state has their specific requirements for a case to qualify for a Mental Health Court, but generally, these courts are voluntary, and the decision to have a case heard in a Mental Health Court is the decision of the person charged with the crime (and their attorney if applicable). The charged person’s incapacity must however be determined by a health care professional. The outcome of such cases will then involve some sort of treatment plan depending on the mental health issue. Treatments include mental health treatment, medication compliance, inpatient or outpatient chemical dependency treatment, Alcoholics Anonymous or other self-help groups, domestic violence treatment, sex offender treatment or other recommended specialized treatments. If the laws in your state permit criminal records to be open to the public, then this will include Mental Health Court records. In most cases, the actual evaluations performed by a medical professional that determine the health status will be sealed by the judge.
Cases for involuntary commitments involve commitment for treatment of a mental illness after a judge determines that an individual suffers from a mental illness and is either dangerous, or cannot provide for their own basic needs. These cases are typically found in a general jurisdiction county court such as a Superior Court or Circuit Court. However, due to the sensitive nature of these hearings, the records for these cases are not easily accessible by the public. Treatment records are always confidential. Yet, while the person’s commitment may not be confidential, the court will likely require the requester to provide an explanation as to why they are requesting the information. Check with the Clerk of Court in the relevant county to determine your eligibility to obtain access to this sensitive information.�
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- Digital Preservation and the Future of Culture will be released in November (2006) and is edited by Marilyn Deegan and Simon Tanner. According to the publisher's description it "covers every aspect and view of the complexities of preserving information in new digital formats. Chapters written by experts cover formats, authenticity, preservation strategies, international trends, Web archiving, metadata, institutional policies, and the comparative costs of preservation projects."
- Preservation Management for Libraries, Museums And Archives was released in September. Edited by G.E. Gorman and Sydney Shep, the book "offers cutting-edge guidance for the sustainability of collections including...digitization...."
- Archiving the Web: A Guide for Information Management Professionals was also released in September and was written by Adrian Brown. "Coverage includes the development of web archiving; selection policies; collection methods; quality assurance; preservation; delivery to users; optimizing Web sites for archiving';managing programs; and more." Hopefully this books conveys some of the lessons being learned from the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program.
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Mood-sensitive jewelry, emotive flowers and emotional lighting. Today we hunt: EMOTIONOLOGY - Sprint firsts in mood-based tech.
With growing technological advances and the increasing number of digital social outlets, it's easy to fear losing human emotional ties. Scientists and techies alike are exploring the world of emotion and how it can be applied to technology. Sacrificing human emotion will not be an issue if these experiments are kept up.
And now, the Sprint Top Ten.
10. The SKIN project explores the possibility of electronic ink with the capability of reflecting gestures and emotions. I think I can guess what emotion these two are feeling...
9. Scared of caring for real foliage due to your not-so-green thumb? The Flower Nurse is perfect for you! These pieces of tech decor change color when they are neglected and their leaves even start to droop when they aren't getting enough sun just like a real flower. However, this greenery can always be revived.
8. Feel lonely, like jogging, road-tripping or lost in thought? Stereo Mood is the place to go for creating a customized soundtrack to your life. They even have a "feel like crying" playlist for your next tear fest. (NOTE: Just pan the website for this visual.)
7.Peak Products' "Keep in Touch" device takes away your excuse of being distant. Complete with a mini tree, the more you nourish your long-distance relation ship, the more your tree will grow as well.
6. If you can't describe how you feel in words, use light! The E-lamp allows its users to express themselves via light intensity, color, temperature and angle. What a scary way to let your spouse know you're angry.
5. With the 'MeMe,' you'll never feel distance between you and your traveling loved ones again. This emotive gadget allows you to customize its look to reflect you and then update your mood via Internet or phone in order to have your little buddy mimic your feelings on his face.
4. What happens when you combine conductive ink and textile sensors? The Phillips VIBE Smotion senor -- the perfect combination of tech and fashion.
3. Everyone has their own flavor so that's why Philippe Boulet designed a line of LED furniture that change depending on who is in the room and the temperature. Now if someone is giving off bad vibes, you can literally see them.
2. The Ghostly Discovery App lets users pick the tempo of their music to fit their exact preferences. The mood-based tagging system is exactly what you need if you're ready to get the party started and you need a good, up-tempo playlist fast.
1. If the color blue doesn't fit in your living room decor, you better not sit on the Mood Chair while feeling a little melancholy. This interactive piece of furniture changes color depending on how the person sitting on it is feeling at the moment.
Video of the day: Sprint
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As documented by UNESCO itself, this declaration from 1950 was heavily critisized by researchers who was concerned that "freedom of scientific enquiry is imperilled when any scientific findings or opinions are elevated, by an authoritative body, into the position of doctrines", and UNESCO's approach was compared to "the National Socialists’ notorious attempts to establish certain doctrines as the only correct conclusions to be drawn from research on race, and their suppression of any contrary opinion; as well as the Soviet Government’s similar claim on behalf of Lysenko’s theory of heredity, and its condemnation of Mendel’s teaching." (Fischer). "I can have no part in attempts to solve scientific questions by political manifestoes, as is the practice in Soviet Russia and now at Unesco as well." (Scheidt). The result was a new and somewhat less tendentious declaration the following year.
See also other papers in the UNESCO-series on race.
UNESCO, Paris, July 1950
1. Scientists have reached general agreement in recognising that mankind
is one: that all men belong to the same species, Homo sapiens. It is
further generally agreed among scientists that all men are probably
derived from the same common stock; and that such differences as exist
between different groups of mankind are due to the operation of evolutionary
factors of differentiation such as isolation, the drift and random
fixation of the material particles which control heredity (the genes),
changes in the structure of these particles, hybridisation, and natural
selection. In these ways groups have arisen of varying stability and
degree of differentiation which have been classified in different ways for
2. From the biological standpoint, the species Homo sapiens is made
up of a number of populations, each one of which differs from the others
in the frequency of one or more genes. Such genes, responsible for the
hereditary differences between men, are always few when compared to
the whole genetic constitution of man and to the vast number of genes
common to all human beings regardless of the population to which they
belong. This means that the likenesses among men are far greater than
3. A race, from the biological standpoint, may therefore be defined as
one of the group of populations constituting the species Homo sapiens.
These populations are capable of inter-breeding with one another but,
by virtue of the isolating barriers which in the past kept them more or
less separated, exhibit certain physical differences as a result of their
somewhat different biological histories. These represent variations, as it
were, on a common theme.
4. In short, the term ‘race’ designates a group or population characterised
by some concentrations, relative as to frequency and distribution,
of hereditary particles (genes) or physical characters, which appear,
fluctuate, and often disappear in the course of time by reason of geographic
and/or cultural isolation. The varying manifestations of these
traits in different populations are perceived in different ways by each
group. What is perceived is largely preconceived, so that each group arbitrarily
tends to misinterpret the variability which occurs as a fundamental
difference which separates that group from all others.
5. These are the scientific facts. Unfortunately, however, when most
people use the term ‘race’ they do not do so in the sense above defined.
To most people, a race is any group of people whom they choose to
describe as a race. Thus, many national, religious, geographic, linguistic
or cultural groups have, in such loose usage, been called ‘race’, when
obviously Americans are not a race, nor are Englishmen, nor Frenchmen,
nor any other national group. Catholics, Protestants, Moslems,
and Jews are not races, nor are groups who speak English or any other
language thereby definable as a race; people who live in Iceland or
England or India are not races; nor are people who are culturally
Turkish or Chinese or the like thereby describable as races.
6. National, religious, geographic, linguistic and cultural groups do
not necessarily coincide with racial groups: and the cultural traits of
such groups have no demonstrated genetic connection with racial traits.
Because serious errors of this kind are habitually committed when the
term ‘race’ is used in popular parlance, it would be better when speaking
of human races to drop the term ‘race’ altogether and speak of ethnic
7. Now what has the scientist to say about the groups of mankind
which may be recognised at the present time? Human races can be and
have been differently classified by different anthropologists, but at the
present time most anthropologists agree on classifying the greater part
of the present-day mankind into three major divisions as follows: (a) the
Mongoloid division; (b) the Negroid division; and (c) the Caucasoid
division. The biological processes which the classifier has here embalmed,
as it were, are dynamic, not static. These divisions were not the same in
the past as they are at present, and there is every reason to believe that
they will change in the future.
8. Many sub-groups or ethnic groups within these divisions have
been described. There is no general agreement upon their number, and
in any event most ethnic groups have not yet been either studied or described
by the physical anthropologists.
9. Whatever classification the anthropologist makes of man, he never
includes mental characteristics as part of those classifications. It is now
generally recognised that intelligence tests do not in themeslves enabIe
us to differentiate safely between what is due to innate capacity and
what is the result of environmental influences, training and education.
Wherever it has been possible to make allowances for differences in
environmental opportunities, the tests have shown essential similarity
in mental characters among all human groups. In short, given similar
degrees of cultural opportunity to realise their potentialities, the average
achievement of the members of each ethnic group is about the same. The
scientific investigations of recent years fully support the dictum of Confucious
(551-478 B.c.): ‘Men’s natures are alike; it is their habits that
carry them far apart.’
10. The scientific material available to us at present does not justify
the conclusion that inherited genetic differences are a major factor in
producing the differences between the cultures and cultural achievements
of different peoples or groups. It does indicate, however, that the
history of the cultural experience which each group has undergone is the
major factor in explaining such differences. The one trait which above all
others has been at a premium in the evolution of men’s mental characters
has been educability, plasticity. This is a trait which all human
beings possess. It is indeed, a species character of Homo sapiens.
11. So far as temperament is concerned, there is no definite evidence
that there exist inborn differences between human groups. There is
evidence that whatever group differences of the kind there might be are
greatly overridden by the individual differences, and by the differences
springing from environmental factors.
12. As for personality and character, these may be considered raceless.
In every human group a rich variety of personality and character
types will be found, and there is no reason for believing that any
human group is richer than any other in these respects.
13. With respect to race mixture, the evidence points unequivocally
to the fact that this has been going on from the earliest times. Indeed,
one of the chief processes of race formation and race extinction or
absorption is by means of hybridisation between races or ethnic
groups. Furthermore, no convincing evidence has been adduced that
race mixture of itself produces biologically bad effects. Statements
that human hybrids frequently show undesirable traits, both physically
and mentally, physical disharmonies and mental degeneracies, are not
supported by the facts. There is, therefore, no biological justification
for prohibiting intermarriage between persons of different ethnic groups.
14. The biological fact of race and the myth of ‘race’ should be distinguished.
For all practical social purposes ‘race’ is not so much a
biological phenomenon as a social myth. The myth of ‘race’ has created
an enormous amount of human and social damage. In recent years it
has taken a heavy toll in human lives and caused untold suffering. It still
prevents the normal development of millions of human beings and
deprives civilisation of the effective co-operation of productive minds.
The biological differences between ethnic groups should be disregarded
from the standpoint of social acceptance and social action. The unity of
mankind from both the biological and social viewpoints is the main
thing. To recognise this and to act accordingly is the first requirement
of modern man. It is but to recognise what a great biologist wrote in
1875: ‘As man advances in civilisation, and small tribes are united into
larger communities, the simplest reason would tell each individual that
he ought to extend his social instincts and sympathies to all the members
of the same nation, though personally unknown to him. This point being
once reached, there is only an artificial barrier to prevent his sympathies
extending to the men of all nations and races.’ These are the words of
Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (2nd edn, 1875, pp. 187-8). And,
indeed, the whole of human history shows that a co-operative spirit is
not only natural to men, but more deeply rooted than any self-seeking
tendencies. If this were not so we should not see the growth of integration
and organisation of his communities which the centuries and the
millenniums plainly exhibit.
15. We now have to consider the bearing of these statements on the
problem of human equality. It must be asserted with the utmost emphasis
that equality as an ethical principle in no way depends upon the
assertion that human beings are in fact equal in endowment. Obviously
individuals in all ethnic groups vary greatly among themselves in endowment.
Nevertheless, the characteristics in which human groups differ
from one another are often exaggerated and used as a basis for questioning
the validity of equality in the ethical sense. For this purpose we have
thought it worth while to set out in a formal manner what is at present
scientifically established concerning individual and group differences.
(a) In matters of race, the only characteristics which anthropologists can
effectively use as a basis for classifications are physical and physiological.
(b) According to present knowledge there is no proof that the groups of
mankind differ in their innate mental characteristics, whether in
respect of intelligence or temperament. The scientific evidence indicates
that the range of mental capacities in all ethnic groups is much
(c) Historical and sociological studies support the view that genetic
differences are not of importance in determining the social and
cultural differences between different groups of Homo sapiens, and
that the social and cultural changes in different groups have, in the
main, been independent of changes in inborn constitution. Vast social
changes have occurred which were not in any way connected with
changes in racial type.
(d) There is no evidence that race mixture as such produces bad results
from the biological point of view. The social results of race mixture
whether for good or ill are to be traced to social factors.
(e) All normal human beings are capable of learning to share in a
common life, to understand the nature of mutual service and reciprocity,
and to respect social obligations and contracts. Such
biological differences as exist between members of different ethnic
groups have no relevance to problems of social and political organisation,
moral life and communication between human beings.
Lastly, biological studies lend support to the ethic of universal brotherhood;
for man is born with drives toward co-operation, and unless these
drives are satisfied, men and nations alike fall ill. Man is born a social
being who can reach his fullest development only through interaction
with his fellows. The denial at any point of this social bond between men
and man brings with it disintegration. In this sense, every man is his
brother’s keeper. For every man is a piece of the continent, a part of
the main, because he is involved in mankind.
Original statement drafted at Unesco House, Paris, by the following
Professor Ernest Beaglehole (New Zealand);
Professor Juan Comas (Mexico);
Professor L. A. Costa Pinto (Brazil);
Professor Franklin Frazier (United States of America);
Professor Morris Ginsberg (United Kingdom);
Dr Humayun Kabir (India);
Professor Claude Levi-Strauss (France);
Professor Ashley Montagu (United States of America) (rapporteur).
Text revised by Professor Ashley Montagu, after criticism submitted by
Professors Hadley Cantril, E. G. Conklin, Gunnar Dahlberg, Theodosius
Dobzhansky, L. C. Dunn, Donald Hager, Julian S. Huxley, Otto Klineberg,
Wilbert Moore, H. J. Muller, Gunnar Myrdal, Joseph Needham,
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Omar Khayyam 1048-1131
Omar Khayyam's full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abu'l-Fath Umar ibn Ibrahim Al-Nisaburi al-Khayyami. A literal translation of the name al-Khayyami (or al-Khayyam) means 'tent maker' and this may have been the trade of Ibrahim his father. Khayyam played on the meaning of his own name when he wrote:-
The political events of the 11th century played a major role in the course of Khayyam's life. The Seljuq Turks were tribes that invaded southwestern Asia in the 11th century and eventually founded an empire that included Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and most of Iran. The Seljuq occupied the grazing grounds of Khorasan and then, between 1038 and 1040, they conquered all of north-eastern Iran. The Seljuq ruler Toghrïl Beg proclaimed himself sultan at Nishapur in 1038 and entered Baghdad in 1055. It was in this difficult unstable military empire, which also had religious problems as it attempted to establish an orthodox Muslim state, that Khayyam grew up.
Khayyam studied philosophy at Naishapur and one of his fellow students wrote that he was:-
However, this was not an empire in which those of learning, even those as learned as Khayyam, found life easy unless they had the support of a ruler at one of the many courts. Even such patronage would not provide too much stability since local politics and the fortunes of the local military regime decided who at any one time held power. Khayyam himself described the difficulties for men of learning during this period in the introduction to his Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra (see for example ):-
However Khayyam was an outstanding mathematician and astronomer and, despite the difficulties which he described in this quote, he did write several works including Problems of Arithmetic, a book on music and one on algebra before he was 25 years old. In 1070 he moved to Samarkand in Uzbekistan which is one of the oldest cities of Central Asia. There Khayyam was supported by Abu Tahir, a prominent jurist of Samarkand, and this allowed him to write his most famous algebra work, Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra from which we gave the quote above. We shall describe the mathematical contents of this work later in this biography.
Toghril Beg, the founder of the Seljuq dynasty, had made Esfahan the capital of his domains and his grandson Malik-Shah was the ruler of that city from 1073. An invitation was sent to Khayyam from Malik-Shah and from his vizier Nizam al-Mulk asking Khayyam to go to Esfahan to set up an Observatory there. Other leading astronomers were also brought to the Observatory in Esfahan and for 18 years Khayyam led the scientists and produced work of outstanding quality. It was a period of peace during which the political situation allowed Khayyam the opportunity to devote himself entirely to his scholarly work.
During this time Khayyam led work on compiling astronomical tables and he also contributed to calendar reform in 1079. Cowell quotes The Calcutta Review No 59:-
Khayyam measured the length of the year as 365.24219858156 days. Two comments on this result. Firstly it shows an incredible confidence to attempt to give the result to this degree of accuracy. We know now that the length of the year is changing in the sixth decimal place over a person's lifetime. Secondly it is outstandingly accurate. For comparison the length of the year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, while today it is 365.242190 days.
In 1092 political events ended Khayyam's period of peaceful existence. Malik-Shah died in November of that year, a month after his vizier Nizam al-Mulk had been murdered on the road from Esfahan to Baghdad by the terrorist movement called the Assassins. Malik-Shah's second wife took over as ruler for two years but she had argued with Nizam al-Mulk so now those whom he had supported found that support withdrawn. Funding to run the Observatory ceased and Khayyam's calendar reform was put on hold. Khayyam also came under attack from the orthodox Muslims who felt that Khayyam's questioning mind did not conform to the faith. He wrote in his poem the Rubaiyat :-
Now despite being out of favour on all sides, Khayyam remained at the Court and tried to regain favour. He wrote a work in which he described former rulers in Iran as men of great honour who had supported public works, science and scholarship.
Malik-Shah's third son Sanjar, who was governor of Khorasan, became the overall ruler of the Seljuq empire in 1118. Sometime after this Khayyam left Esfahan and travelled to Merv (now Mary, Turkmenistan) which Sanjar had made the capital of the Seljuq empire. Sanjar created a great centre of Islamic learning in Merv where Khayyam wrote further works on mathematics.
The paper by Khayyam is an early work on algebra written before his famous algebra text. In it he considers the problem:-
Khayyam shows that this problem is equivalent to solving a second problem:-
This problem in turn led Khayyam to solve the cubic equation x3 + 200x = 20x2 + 2000 and he found a positive root of this cubic by considering the intersection of a rectangular hyperbola and a circle. An approximate numerical solution was then found by interpolation in trigonometric tables. Perhaps even more remarkable is the fact that Khayyam states that the solution of this cubic requires the use of conic sections and that it cannot be solved by ruler and compass methods, a result which would not be proved for another 750 years. Khayyam also wrote that he hoped to give a full description of the solution of cubic equations in a later work :-
Indeed Khayyam did produce such a work, the Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra which contained a complete classification of cubic equations with geometric solutions found by means of intersecting conic sections. In fact Khayyam gives an interesting historical account in which he claims that the Greeks had left nothing on the theory of cubic equations. Indeed, as Khayyam writes, the contributions by earlier writers such as Al-Mahani and Al-Khazin were to translate geometric problems into algebraic equations (something which was essentially impossible before the work of Al-Khwarizmi). However, Khayyam himself seems to have been the first to conceive a general theory of cubic equations. Khayyam wrote (see for example or ):-
Another achievement in the algebra text is Khayyam's realisation that a cubic equation can have more than one solution. He demonstrated the existence of equations having two solutions, but unfortunately he does not appear to have found that a cubic can have three solutions. He did hope that "arithmetic solutions" might be found one day when he wrote (see for example ):-
The "someone else who comes after us" were in fact del Ferro, Tartaglia and Ferrari in the 16th century. Also in his algebra book, Khayyam refers to another work of his which is now lost. In the lost work Khayyam discusses Pascal's triangle but he was not the first to do so since al-Karaji discussed Pascal's triangle before this date. In fact we can be fairly sure that Khayyam used a method of finding nth roots based on the binomial expansion, and therefore on the binomial coefficients. This follows from the following passage in his algebra book (see for example , or ):-
In Commentaries on the difficult postulates of Euclid's book Khayyam made a contribution to non-euclidean geometry, although this was not his intention. In trying to prove the parallels postulate he accidentally proved properties of figures in non-euclidean geometries. Khayyam also gave important results on ratios in this book, extending Euclid's work to include the multiplication of ratios. The importance of Khayyam's contribution is that he examined both Euclid's definition of equality of ratios (which was that first proposed by Eudoxus) and the definition of equality of ratios as proposed by earlier Arab mathematicians such as Al-Mahani which was based on continued fractions. Khayyam proved that the two definitions are equivalent. He also posed the question of whether a ratio can be regarded as a number but leaves the question unanswered.
Outside the world of mathematics, Khayyam is best known as a result of Edward Fitzgerald's popular translation in 1859 of nearly 600 short four line poems the Rubaiyat. Khayyam's fame as a poet has caused some to forget his scientific achievements which were much more substantial. Versions of the forms and verses used in the Rubaiyat existed in Persian literature before Khayyam, and only about 120 of the verses can be attributed to him with certainty. Of all the verses, the best known is the following:-
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A bridge's many lives: Bayou St. John
Did you know that the historic, blue-tinted bridge spanning Bayou St. John across from Cabrini High School—colloquially referred to as the “Cabrini Bridge,” or Magnolia Bridge—has not always lived where it lives now? For decades, it spanned the bayou at Esplanade Avenue, serving as the last link along that bustling artery connecting downtown with City Park and Metairie Road.
Imagine how many thousands of buggy wheels have rolled across its stretch! How many clopping horse hooves and clattering streetcars!
In 1909, before upgrading to a significantly larger steel trunnion bridge, they unhooked the Magnolia Bridge from its foundations and floated it down to its present location on a barge. The original idea was to re-erect it across from Grand Route St. John, but the curve at that spot in the bayou rendered the location less than ideal. So the bridge was set down in its current location, where it began its second life as a key artery for residents of the surrounding neighborhoods until it ceased serving vehicular traffic sometime in the middle of the last century.
The re-location of the old Magnolia Bridge in 1909 went off without a hitch, but the same cannot be said about the construction of the new bridge at Esplanade that same year. On May 19, 1909, the Times-Picayune reported that during a routine test during the bridge’s construction, "With a terrific crash, the span of the steel bascule trunnion bridge in course of construction at the Esplanade Street end, crossing Bayou St. John, snapped in twain, and the heavy superstructure fell into the bayou, effectually closing navigation of that waterway for some time to come. Five men were injured, one of them, Frank Cunningham, fatally, two others severely and two slightly…."
Frank Cunningham, originally from Oklahoma, Mississippi, was only 24 years old. Newly married, he had been living in New Orleans for eight years doing iron and steel work. When the new bridge “snapped in twain,” Cunningham “was struck on the head by a piece of iron…and, falling, the base of his skull was fractured. He lay there unconscious until he was carried to Picdeloup’s saloon, opposite, remaining there until the ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital.”
The rest of the new bridge’s construction saw its fair share of mishaps and delays, even once repairs were made. In fact, its entire existence (before the present-day bridge at Esplanade replaced it) was besotted by inefficiencies, closures, and repairs. All in all, it seems our Magnolia Bridge was far more trustworthy—not to mention older, more unique, and, let’s face it, sexier (!).
This just goes to show you that a bridge, in all its day-to-day stillness, can be far more than it appears to be.
- "Bayou Bridge Wrecked, Killing One, Injuring Four. Steel Structure Across Esplanade Avenue Breaks Under Strain." Times-Picayune 19 May 1909: 5. NewsBank. Web. 28 Dec. 2016.
Cassie Pruyn is a New Orleans based poet who is currently working on a narrative history of Bayou St. John in New Orleans. You can see her posts and poetry on her website.
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The Heart of the Guardian was an ancient crystal that was rediscovered on the surface of Yavin 4 by the Rodian inventor Suvam Tan some time prior to the Jedi Civil War. Possibly utilized as a lightsaber crystal by the redeemed Revan, it gave the blade of any such weapon into which it was installed a unique bronze hue and yellow core. The Heart was one of two legendary crystals that Revan possibly obtained from Tan near the end of his quest to find and destroy the Star Forge, the other being the Mantle of the Force.
When placed within a lightsaber, it altered the properties of other crystals that the lightsaber carried in a positive way; this crystal created a fast yet devastating blade that was perfect for lightsaber combat.
It is believed that the Heart was involved in the founding of the Jedi Order. According to prophecies of the Order, the Heart would appear at the time of greatest turmoil and help in bringing the galaxy into salvation. However, the Sith also believed it to be an object of their heritage, which in turn would have brought about their domination of known space.
Behind the scenesEdit
This crystal can only be purchased at the Yavin Station in the PC version of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for 20,000 credits; Yavin is also available as downloadable content for the Xbox version. The bronze color of the blade is exclusive to this crystal in the game.
The benefit of the crystal will likely vary depending on what other crystals you use in the light saber. Also, you will not see identical benefits when used in the right or the left hand. For instance, in the right hand, The Heart of the Guardian will negate a VS Dark Side benefit crystal and replace it with a Blaster Bolt Deflection benefit, but it will not give the Blaster Bolt Deflection benefit in the left hand.
- Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (First appearance)
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Amphibians are cold-blooded vertebrates that, for the most part, spend a part of their life living under water (the larval stage) and another part of their life living on the land (the remainder of their life). Amphibians breathe through their gills when they live under water and following metamorphosis, they breathe through their lungs when they emerge to live on land. Some amphibians will go on to breathe through their skin or the lining in their mouth. Here are some broad tips on learning more about amphibians.
1Know your amphibians. Amphibians are:
- Frogs (tadpoles)
- Toads (tadpoles)
- Caecilians (legless, burrowing, similar to salamanders)
2Understand the amphibian life cycle. In general, amphibians hatch from eggs and live in the water in their baby stage. During this stage they grow legs. Once they change (metamorphosing), their gills usually disappear and for frogs and toads, the tail disappears.
3Recognize the common traits amongst amphibians. Amphibians tend to have in common:
- Soft, moist skin
- An affinity for water throughout their lives; most can swim and walk on land
- A need to hibernate in colder climates
- Ability to change body temperature with the environment
4Find out more about amphibians. There are several ways to find out more information about amphibians:
- Self-study: Observe nature for real. If you are near a pond on a farm, in a park or in another area frequented by amphibians, you can watch them for yourself. Frogs are usually the easiest as tadpoles are easy to spot. You can catch them gently with a net to observe the different stages that the tadpole is at; for instance before legs, with legs, at froglet stage and then as a frog. Always handle gently and place back into the water with care. Do not keep tadpoles out of the water for too long.
- Library: Research in books on amphibians in general or on the specific animal that interests you. Look in the reference section, as well as the children's and adult's non-fiction sections. Books with colourful pictures will help you to identify the different types of amphibians, which is especially important if you are either studying them or planning on keeping them as pets.
- Internet: Some of the best websites for learning good information will come from museums, wildlife parks, zoos and very experienced amphibian keepers. Using a search engine, type in the name of the amphibian you are interested in learning more about. There are some useful links provided below.
- Visit a wildlife park/zoo or aquatic centre: Often such places will have big displays of amphibians through glass. This enables you to see the life cycle easily and will likely be accompanied by information. Ask an attendant if you want more information.
- Ask a biologist or zoologist: ask a local university professor or someone you know who works in this field for more information.
5Be aware of the importance of amphibians as "environmental indicators". Did you know that frogs are one of the world's best indicators of environmental health? When the frogs disappear from an area they are supposed to be in, that is a sign that the environment is not well. Major threats to amphibians include pollution, accidents such as being squashed under vehicles, invasive species, natural disasters (for example, fire, flooding) and illegal trade. You can learn more about this fascinating aspect of amphibians through websites dedicated to protecting animal species or visit Global Amphibian Assessment as one example.
- Brazil is the country that has the most amphibians in the world - over 700 species!
- Be very knowledgeable about the preferred conditions of your amphibian before you buy or catch one to keep. They are delicate when kept captive and can suffer disease easily. Make sure you have an excellent set-up for them and that you are aware of their nutrition needs, care needs and temperature/lighting needs before getting them.
- Ask lots of questions of people you know who keep or have kept amphibians as pets if you are interested in keeping them as pets.
- Be aware of proper handling methods for amphibians. Some have poisonous skin and should be treated with great care, or not handled at all.
- Don't make the mistake of thinking turtles or tortoises are amphibians; they're reptiles.
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Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds: The Ox and the Yak and Other Stories
Written by Julia Donaldson
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The Children's Laureate and best-selling author of The Gruffalo, Julia Donaldson has carefully created the Songbirds Phonics series to support children who are learning to read. Julia Donaldson has captivated children all over the world with her lively and engaging stories. This series of books under the Songbirds name builds children's confidence through a clear phonics development with gradual progression to build reading confidence and success. This Stage 2 Songbirds collection contains 6 exciting phonics stories in 1! These are perfect for parents to read at home with their kids to establish a really strong love of reading.
Julia Donaldson says: "Creating the 'Songbirds' series was an enormous challenge of my favourite kind. Almost every word in every book had to be phonically decodable, and yet I wanted to write real stories which children would enjoy reading. I was determined also that the content and illustrations should be as varied as possible, as I know how children’s tastes differ and how monotonous some reading schemes can be. So some of the stories are in prose, some in rhyme, some are realistic and others fantastical."
Oxford Reading Tree Songbirds: The Ox and the Yak and Other Stories by Julia Donaldson
Songbirds Phonics have been carefully created by Julia Donaldson to support children who are learning to read and are used in schools to teach phonics and inspire a love of reading. This Stage 2 Songbirds collection contains 6 exciting phonics stories in one, with built-in progression to build reading confidence and success: 'Mr Zed', 'The Ox and the Yak', 'The Doll in the Bin', 'Animal Quiz', 'The Seven Kids', 'Ron Rabbit's Big Egg'. The Songbirds series offers a clear phonics development with gradual progression and lots of practice to help children gain reading confidence. It provides a fantastic breadth and variety of storylines, rhyme, rhythm and genres by the nation's favourite children's author, with vibrant and humorous illustrations to engage children and stimulate discussion. There are also useful tips and ideas for parents/carers.
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"An excellent full range of phonic usage for these stages of text. I feel children would benefit immensely from the scheme." - St Nicholas Primary School, Oxford
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Sunday 12 July 1959
It was Sunday, under the sign of Cancer. The US president was Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican). In that special week of July people in US were listening to The Battle Of New Orleans by Johnny Horton.
In UK Dream Lover by Bobby Darin was in the top 5 hits.
North by Northwest, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1959
while Lady Chatterly'S Lover by D.H. Lawrence was one of the best selling books.
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Which were the important events of 12 July 1959 ?
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- Newfoundland - Orangemen's Day
- Northern Ireland - Battle of the Boyne Day (also known as Orangemen's Day or the Twelfth, see Irish calendar).
- Mongolia - Naadam Holiday (2nd day)
- The "center pivot irrigation day" of Colorado
- Kiribati - Independence Day
- RainMaker Day - Salem, OR.
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- Rolonda Watts: American talk-show host with her own show, "Rolanda" making its debut in January 1995.
- David Brown: Australian meteorologist.
- Nagisa Katahira: Japanese actress.
- Karl Friston: English psychiatrist and neuroscientist.
- Jordi Boixaderas: Spanish voice actor, working in film, television and theatre.
- Judi Adams: Phoenix, Arizona -- Archer (Olympics - 1980, 96)
- Rolanda Watts: TV Show Host
- Charlie Murphy: American actor and writer
- NBC uses cameras to show catchers signals during ankee-Red Sox game
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- Fabian - Tiger
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2012-05-02 12:45:59 by Jill Chang - Patient, as posted on the inside.akronchildrens.org blog.
I am 40 years old and have Lynch syndrome, an inherited condition that increases your risk of colon and other cancers. I am a twice cancer survivor - colon cancer at age 30 and endometrial cancer at 40. And for 40 years I didn’t even know that I had Lynch syndrome.
I grew up knowing that I had a lot of cancer on my mom's side of the family, and always wondered why we had so much cancer, but didn’t know why until recently, when I visited Akron Children’s Hospital’s genetic center.
My mother, Karen, has survived four cancers - colon, breast, endometrial and lung. She is currently fighting lung cancer. All of her cancers were primary cancers. Thankfully, they have been caught at a stage 2 A diagnosis each time. My mother also has Lynch syndrome. My mother’s twin brother died of melanoma (skin cancer) at age 40. And my brother, David, was diagnosed with colon cancer 5 weeks after I had my colon cancer surgery. He has Lynch cancer too.
My maternal grandmother, Ruby, had colorectal cancer three times in her life and also had breast cancer. We assume that she had Lynch syndrome. And the list goes on two generations above my grandmother. Wow, I know that sounds overwhelming. It is.
For a long time we were baffled about why this was happening to our family. I’d always say, "I've got a great family, but sucky genes."Although I would say this, I didn't know what kind of gene contributed to these cancers and if there was a way for us to prevent it from happening.
Then, last March I was sitting in my primary care physician’s office for a routine visit and a poster on the wall caught my eye. I was drawn to it.
I had briefly heard of Lynch syndrome in a few conversations, but honestly didn’t know enough about it. The poster really spoke to me with statistics like:
This sounded like my family. And I had been having an irregular menstrual cycle in the past 6 months.
I immediately spoke to the nurse practitioner about LS. She took the time to get more information about LS and encouraged me to visit my gynecologist to get checked out and genetic testing. I did and found out that I had stage 2 endometrial cancer.
That poster helped save my life. Since then, I have received surgery and treatment. Thank you, God, I am cancer free!
My brother and sister were also tested at Akron Children’s for LS. My brother has it, but my sister doesn’t.
In a way it’s hard to know that I have this genetic mutated mismatch repair gene, and that I may have inherently passed it along to my children. But what's more important is that I have power through this knowledge. I am now informed and follow annual screenings, procedures and tests to catch any problems early.
It feels good to know what I can do to preserve my life and my family members. I now have a passion to let others know about LS. With awareness will come more survivors! In knowing that, I feel blessed.
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Fact Checking Trump On Veteran Affairs
ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST:
Among the many issues President Trump touched on in his speech to veterans today was naturally care for veterans and ongoing reforms at the VA. To hear about what is and what isn't happening at the VA, we're now joined by NPR's Quil Lawrence. And, Quil, how much has the president done for veterans since he took office?
QUIL LAWRENCE, BYLINE: Well, he has signed some important laws. Very recently he put through something that's called The Forever GI Bill, which extended GI Bill benefits to more people and allow them to use it for a longer amount of time. There's a VA Accountability Act which makes it easier to fire misbehaving VA officials. And Trump mentioned today some changes in the way VA clinics will operate.
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PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We are publishing wait times online for every VA facility so you know what the wait is. We've delivered same-day emergency mental health services at every VA medical center.
LAWRENCE: In fact he signed another law on stage at the convention today which makes it faster and easier for vets to appeal their VA decision about disability ratings. Now, many of these ideas are bipartisan consensus ideas as they have been around for years. But now they're moving relatively fast through Congress to the president's pen.
SIEGEL: This is worth noting here. You're talking about Congress acting in a bipartisan fashion, sending legislation quickly to the president. He's signing it. This is the exception to the rule in Washington these days, Quil.
LAWRENCE: It's like a parallel universe or something (laughter). The - but vets' issues have always been less partisan. And now with Republicans controlling Congress and the White House, they sort of own the VA. So some of the bashing of the VA, some of the political obstructionism has gone. Now, some critics, like the DNC, today said, well, Trump is just taking credit for things that have been already in the works for years. Now, this isn't unusual for a politician to do that. And Trump today at the American Legion did say that last year, he had promised them he would fix the VA.
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TRUMP: And you see what's been happening. Now you have a true reformer in Secretary David Shulkin. He has done an incredible job.
SIEGEL: Now, Quil, Secretary Shulkin may be a true reformer, but he's also a true holdover from the Obama administration - so not a radical change from the VA leadership. Has that been well-received?
LAWRENCE: Yes. I think the continuity has been appreciated. Shulkin spoke at the Legion today, too, and he got a great reception. I should say the VA still isn't fully staffed up. There are no nominees for the top three positions under Shulkin. But he, Shulkin, has been announcing big changes, including slaughtering some sacred cows.
He dropped the VA's long-suffering in-house electronic medical record. I know it sounds boring, but it's hugely important. It means that they'll be able to take electronic records from the Pentagon and send them straight over to the VA. He's opened up mental health care to veterans with other-than-honorable discharges. These people had figured high in the suicide epidemic. So he is getting some stuff done.
SIEGEL: Now, the president and the VA secretary also mentioned today the continuation of the Veterans Choice Program which lets veterans get care outside the VA system. With things moving so relatively fast at the VA, what about the concern that this program could be a slow-moving privatization of veterans' health care?
LAWRENCE: No matter how many times they deny it, that keeps coming back. Vets Choice, as we've reported on, hasn't really been a poster child for private care. The program Veterans Choice allows certain veterans to get care outside the system. It's been problematic. Shulkin today was talking up plans to reform it. We're hoping to see something like that in the fall. But even so, at the end of his speech today, he still felt the need to say that he will never, ever privatize the VA. And that got a big applause from the audience at the American Legion.
SIEGEL: That's Quil Lawrence, who covers veterans' affairs for NPR News. Quil, thanks.
LAWRENCE: Thanks, Robert. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Rare Large Lithograph Print from a Scarce limited edition folio (Number 42 of 50) Les Dessins de Hans Holbein Circa 1911-26. Original Depiction Details of the Original Piece. HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (1497/8-1543).Stained Glass Design The Crowned Virgin Mary. Details of The Listed Print For Sale. Original vintage litho print circa 1911-26. Freshly mounted ready for framing backed and sealed, great overall condition condition. You will receive the item pictured, so the pictures are integral to the condition report and listing. This and the others come from a large private library and have been in the same family for a number of decades. Tipped Lithograph plate on the original Van Gelder paper. This is a large size piece, there is a set of key in some pictures, this is to give you an idea of scale, these are not included in the sale. Approx Mount Size: 22" x 16.5" Inches. Approx Visible Size of Print Including Folio Sheet: 13.75" x 18.75" Inches APPROX. Hans Holbein the Younger German: Hans Holbein der Jüngere; c.
1497 - between 7 October and 29 November 1543 was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style, known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and he made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called "the Younger" to distinguish him from his father Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school. Holbein was born in Augsburg, but he worked mainly in Basel as a young artist.
At first, he painted murals and religious works, designed stained glass windows, and printed books. He also painted an occasional portrait, making his international mark with portraits of humanist Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. When the Reformation reached Basel, Holbein worked for reformist clients while continuing to serve traditional religious patrons. His Late Gothic style was enriched by artistic trends in Italy, France, and the Netherlands, as well as by Renaissance humanism. The result was a combined aesthetic uniquely his own.
Holbein travelled to England in 1526 in search of work, with a recommendation from Erasmus. He was welcomed into the humanist circle of Thomas More, where he quickly built a high reputation. By 1535, he was King's Painter to Henry VIII of England. In this role, he produced portraits and festive decorations, as well as designs for jewellery, plate, and other precious objects.
His portraits of the royal family and nobles are a record of the court in the years when Henry was asserting his supremacy over the Church of England. Holbein's art was prized from early in his career. French poet and reformer Nicholas Bourbon (the elder) dubbed him "the Apelles of our time, " a typical accolade at the time. Holbein has also been described as a great "one-off" of art history, since he founded no school. Some of his work was lost after his death, but much was collected, and he was recognised among the great portrait masters by the 19th century.Recent exhibitions have also highlighted his versatility. He created designs ranging from intricate jewellery to monumental frescoes. Holbein's art has sometimes been called realist, since he drew and painted with a rare precision.
His portraits were renowned in their time for their likeness, and it is through his eyes that many famous figures of his day are pictured today, such as Erasmus and More. He was never content with outward appearance, however; he embedded layers of symbolism, allusion, and paradox in his art, to the lasting fascination of scholars.In the view of art historian Ellis Waterhouse, his portraiture "remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement, penetration into character, and a combined richness and purity of style". This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints".london" and is located in this country: GB. This item can be shipped worldwide.
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In this inaugural episode of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Unknown, join our co-hosts; psychologist and National Director of the National Eating Disorders Collaboration (NEDC), Dr Beth Shelton; and carer and CEO of Eating Disorders Victoria (EDV), Belinda Caldwell, in identifying and unpacking commonly held myths surrounding what it’s like to live with, care for, and provide support for someone living with and eating disorder.
Listeners will get to know our hosts and their stories in working with and caring for people living with eating disorders. Beth and Belinda share their insights, expertise, and experiences as they dive into the ‘Hat of Myths,’ one by one addressing common misconceptions and stigma around eating disorders including predisposing factors, the role of families, and prevalence of eating disorders across diagnostic presentation. Leaning on research, clinical expertise, and lived experience, Beth and Belinda explore the implications of these myths and stigmas on both service provision and recovery.
Liked this episode? Stay tuned for the next episode of Eating Disorders: Beyond the Unknown as Beth and Belinda explore eating disorder diagnoses characterised by restrictive eating, as they are joined by a young person with lived experience of atypical anorexia.
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What exactly did you do? What do you mean by running xf86config?
I haven't tried installing the nvidia drivers under debian, but I have on quite a few other distros. This is what I do.
1.) I download the current nvidia driver
2.) I exit the x window, I have a round about way of doing this but this is the way I prefer.
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I change nv or vesa under the monitor section (I believe) to nvidia
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Designed by penda, the cola-bow installation is a public art installation made out of more than 17,000 recycled plastic bottles, which were braided to create a shape inspired by the swings of the Coca-Cola logo.
Designed for the 2nd Beijing University Creation Expo, which turns into the Beijing Design Week, the installation aims to also serve as a statement against plastic pollution by taking trash and turning it into a shelter.
More than 17,000 bottles were collected by a joint initiative of universities around Beijing and Coca-Cola China to give citizens a bottle of Coke for every 10 empty ones brought back to a recycling spot. The amount of collected plastic bottles ended up in an entrance canopy.
A lot of things which are most convenient to us are made out of plastic. A too small percentage of this plastic waste end up in recycling bins. To make matters worse, plastic is persistent in the environment where it can remain up to 450 years. Surrounded by increased pollution every, the sculpture can also be seen as a reminder for creating awareness to recycle plastic waste.
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René Laënnec, in full René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laënnec (born February 17, 1781, Quimper, Brittany, France—died August 13, 1826, Kerlouanec), French physician who invented the stethoscope and perfected the art of auditory examination of the chest cavity.
When Laënnec was five years old, his mother, Michelle Félicité Guesdon, died from tuberculosis, leaving Laënnec and his brother, Michaud, in the incompetent care of their father, Théophile-Marie Laënnec, who worked as a civil servant and had a reputation for reckless spending. In 1793, during the French Revolution, Laënnec went to live with his uncle, Guillaume-François Laënnec, in the port city of Nantes, located in the Pays de la Loire region of western France. Laënnec’s uncle was the dean of medicine at the University of Nantes. Although the region was in the midst of counterrevolutionary revolts, the young Laënnec settled into his academic training and, under his uncle’s direction, began his medical studies. His first experience working in a hospital setting was at the Hôtel-Dieu of Nantes, where he learned to apply surgical dressings and to care for patients. In 1800 Laënnec went to Paris and entered the École Pratique, studying anatomy and dissection in the laboratory of surgeon and pathologist Guillaume Dupuytren. Dupuytren was a bright and ambitious academic who became known for his many surgical accomplishments and for his work in alleviating permanent tissue contracture in the palm, a condition later named Dupuytren contracture. While Dupuytren undoubtedly influenced Laënnec’s studies, Laënnec also received instruction from other well-known French anatomists and physicians, including Gaspard Laurent Bayle, who studied tuberculosis and cancer; Marie-François-Xavier Bichat, who helped establish histology, the study of tissues; and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart des Marets, who used chest percussion to assess heart function and who served as personal physician to Napoleon I.
Laënnec became known for his studies of peritonitis, amenorrhea, the prostate gland, and tubercle lesions. He graduated in 1804 and continued his research as a faculty member of the Society of the School of Medicine in Paris. He wrote several articles on pathological anatomy and became devoted to Roman Catholicism, which led to his appointment as personal physician to Joseph Cardinal Fesch, half brother of Napoleon and French ambassador to the Vatican in Rome. Laënnec remained Fesch’s physician until 1814, when the cardinal was exiled after Napoleon’s empire fell. While Laënnec’s embrace of Catholic doctrine was viewed favourably by royalists, many in the medical profession criticized his conservatism, which contradicted the views of many academicians. Nonetheless, Laënnec’s restored faith inspired him to find better ways to care for people, especially the poor. From 1812 to 1813, during the Napoleonic Wars, Laënnec took charge of the wards in the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, which was reserved for wounded soldiers. After the return of the monarchy, in 1816 Laënnec was appointed as physician at the Necker Hospital in Paris, where he developed the stethoscope.
Laënnec’s original stethoscope design consisted of a hollow tube of wood that was 3.5 cm (1.4 inches) in diameter and 25 cm (10 inches) long and was monoaural, transmitting sound to one ear. It could be easily disassembled and reassembled, and it used a special plug to facilitate the transmission of sounds from the patient’s heart and lungs. His instrument replaced the practice of immediate auscultation, in which the physician laid his ear on the chest of the patient to listen to chest sounds. The awkwardness that this method created in the case of women patients compelled Laënnec to find a better way to listen to the chest. His wooden monoaural stethoscope was replaced by models using rubber tubing at the end of the 19th century. Other advancements include the development of binaural stethoscopes, capable of transmitting sounds to both ears of the physician.
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In 1819 Laënnec published De l’auscultation médiate (“On Mediate Auscultation”), the first discourse on a variety of heart and lung sounds heard through the stethoscope. The first English translation of De l’auscultation médiate was published in London in 1821. Laënnec’s treatise aroused intense interest, and physicians from throughout Europe came to Paris to learn about Laënnec’s diagnostic tool. He became an internationally renowned lecturer. In 1822 Laënnec was appointed chair and professor of medicine at the College of France, and the following year he became a full member of the French Academy of Medicine and a professor at the medical clinic of the Charity Hospital in Paris. In 1824 he was made a chevalier of the Legion of Honour. That same year Laënnec married Jacquette Guichard, a widow. They did not have any children, his wife having suffered a miscarriage. Two years later at the age of 45 Laënnec died from cavitating tuberculosis—the same disease that he helped elucidate using his stethoscope. Using his own invention, he could diagnose himself and understand that he was dying.
Because Laënnec’s stethoscope enabled heart and lung sounds to be heard without placing an ear on the patient’s chest, the stethoscope technique became known as the “mediate” method for auscultation. Throughout Laënnec’s medical work and research, his diagnoses were supported with observations and findings from autopsies. In addition to revolutionizing the diagnosis of lung disorders, Laënnec introduced many terms still used today. For example, Laënnec’s cirrhosis, used to describe micronodular cirrhosis (growth of small masses of tissue in the liver that cause degeneration of liver function), and melanose (Greek, meaning “black”), which he coined in 1804 to describe melanoma. Laënnec was the first to recognize that melanotic lesions were the result of metastatic melanoma, in which cancer cells from the original tumour site spread to other organs and tissues in the body. He is considered the father of clinical auscultation, and he wrote the first descriptions of pneumonia, bronchiectasis, pleurisy, emphysema, and pneumothorax. His classification of pulmonary conditions is still used today.
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“I speak of Africa and golden joys.” William Shakespeare.
I speak of a time of abundance, a time of plenty and a time of growth. It is a time for learning, it is a time for spreading seeds and a time for sharing. Summer is in full flight and it is a time of plenty. It was a week filled with an array of colours, rain, sun, birds, flowers, insects, cats and chameleons. One that flew by faster than any other, and as we approach the festive season, soon to have our bellies filled with cake, have a quick look at the week in pictures.
One of the biggest I have ever seen, Camp Pan.
Detail and textures captivate me in the bush.
The innocence intrigues me. A future killer.
More of these magnificent summer days.
Investigating Termite mounds to find Warthog piglets.
A Lesser Striped Swallow chick.
The smallest Chameleon I have ever seen, less than an inch long.
Experimenting with various presets, a Mhangeni Cub.
The Tamboti young female.
A Green Backed Cameroptera (formerly Bleating Warbler).
Tsalala pride looking after their tiny little cubs.
The Nanga female.
A young Zebra Foul.
Gowrie male on the hunt.
Looking up to the heavens, the golden glow in her eyes.
One of my favourite animals to watch.
Wild Aniseed growing abundantly all over the reserve.
A beautiful sunset, as the moon looks over the Mhangeni Pride.
Written and Photographed by: Mike Sutherland
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Vegan meals have a reputation for being more fiddly than most. With any number of preparatory steps, the recipes can seem to take up a huge amount of your time and by the time they’re cooked, you be feeling hungry and fed up. What, though, if that weren’t the case? Veganism has come on leaps and bounds in recent years and now, it’s easier than ever to whip up something tasty and healthy. These vegan meals will work wonders for your health and slash your preparatory time in the kitchen.
Just because you’re going vegan, it doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy the same old favorites. Take these vegan sloppy joes as an example. Used with fiber rich lentils, the dish is packed full of nutrition and tastes just as great as the original dish. The plant-based alternative is rich in tomato goodness and perfect for a cold night. Make a pot of the stuff, let it simmer away and tuck into the food when hunger calls.
Vegan dishes are just as filling and hearty as their meaty counterparts. Using the best whole grains and pulses, the recipes can keep you going for hours at a time, cutting down your temptation to snack on the bad stuff. This Mexican brown rice meal is proof of the fact. Mixed in with black beans, avocado, corn and chili powder, the recipe is incredibly comforting and loaded with healthy ingredients. You can make a bigger batch of the dish and portion it off to eat throughout the week; easy!
Simple, easy to prepare and packed full of flavor, this sun-dried tomato recipe is one of the best of its kind. If you’re rushing to prepare something healthy, the dish is always a winner and can be rustled up at the drop of a hat. While the type of noodles you include is up to you, a quinoa or whole grain variety will always go down well. Toss the fresh pasta with the tomatoes, finish off with a little basil and you’re good to go.
Chickpeas are a vegan’s best friend. High in both protein and fiber, the food is a great supplement to a plant-based diet, loading up each meal time with essential nutrients. These savory turmeric chickpea oats are one of the best breakfast foods out there, giving you a taste of something different first thing in the morning. All you need to do is prepare the dish the night before and store it for the morning. Even if you’re in a rush, you can eat something fantastic for your health!
When it comes to vegan diets, quinoa really is a superfood. As well as being packed full of a phenomenal amount of nutrients, the grain can help to pack out veggie-loaded dishes, leaving you a whole lot more satisfied. If you’re looking for something light and tasty, these quinoa and veggie collard wraps will do the trick. While the meal will keep you feeling full, it won’t weigh you down in the process. Eat these on the go, for your dinner or as a light snack!
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NASA has just received a significant boost in the agency’s current budget after both chambers of Congress passed the $1.1 Trillion 2016 omnibus spending bill this morning, Friday, Dec. 18, which funds the US government through the remainder of Fiscal Year 2016.
As part of the omnibus bill, NASA’s approved budget amounts to nearly $19.3 Billion – an outstandingly magnificent result and a remarkable turnaround to some long awaited good news from the decidedly negative outlook earlier this year.
This budget represents an increase of some $750 million above the Obama Administration’s proposed NASA budget allocation of $18.5 Billion for Fiscal Year 2016, and an increase of more than $1.2 Billion over the enacted budget for FY 2015.
Space enthusiasts worldwide should rejoice at this tremendously positive budget news for NASA – which enables the agency to move forward with its core agenda of human spaceflight, robotic exploration, and science and technology research and development programs.
The Federal spending bill first passed the House by an overwhelming vote of 316 to 113. It then moved to the Senate where it passed easily by a vote of 65 to 33, in one of the final acts of Congress this year before they adjourn for the Christmas holiday season. President Obama announced he will sign the bill.
After a contentious year of high states political brinkmanship that could easily have ended in another government shutdown this week, the US Congress and the Obama White House did the nearly unimaginable and decided to strike a compromise and pass the omnibus spending bill for the 2016 Fiscal Year that funds the government and NASA for the remainder of this year’s budget season through September 2015.
Committees in both chambers passed bills earlier this year with much less funding for NASA and far different space exploration priorities compared to President Obama. The outlook for the entire Federal budget changed mightily in the past two months under the new House speaker, Republican Paul Ryan who replaced outgoing Speaker John Boehner. Ryan worked with the President and the Democratic party leadership to craft the compromise US Federal budget that passed today.
Under the newly passed Fiscal Year 2016 NASA Budget, virtually all of the agency’s programs benefit with either full or added funding.
The SLS, Orion, Commercial Crew and Planetary Sciences among others are all big beneficiaries of the omnibus budget compromise.
To accomplish the ‘Journey to Mars’ initiative, NASA is developing the mammoth Space Launch System (SLS) heavy lift rocket and the state of the art Orion deep space crew capsule.
The SLS is one of the bigggest winners. SLS will receive $2 Billion in the FY 2016 budget, compared to an Obama Administration request of only $1.36 billion that was actually a cut from the prior year. This new total represents a nearly 50% increase and is also above earlier House and Senate bills.
The Orion crew capsule receives $1.27 Billion, an increase of $70 million above the fiscal year 2015 level.
The SLS will be the most powerful rocket the world has ever seen starting with its first liftoff. It will propel our astronauts on journey’s further into space than ever before.
Blastoff of the first SLS heavy lift booster (SLS-1) carrying an unmanned test version of NASA’s Orion crew capsule is targeted for no later than November 2018.
The maiden SLS test flight with the uncrewed Orion is called Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1) and will launch from Launch Complex 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
The bill also directs NASA to use $85 million of the SLS funding to develop a new, enhanced cryogenic upper stage to replace the Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage (from the Delta IV rocket) that currently will be utilized on SLS-1.
NASA needs the enhanced upper stage to carry out future manned missions with Orion to deep space destinations like the Moon, Asteroids and Mars.
NASA had been marching towards an August 2021 liftoff for the maiden crewed Orion on a test flight dubbed Exploration Mission-2 (EM-2). But in August, the agency announced that EM-2 could slip two years from 2021 to 2023 due to a variety of budget and technical issues.
So the 2016 budget plus up could aid NASA significantly in trying to maintain the still officially targeted 2021 launch date.
NASA’s other human spaceflight pillar, namely the Commercial Crew Program (CCP) to develop a pair of human rated ‘space taxis’ to transport our astronauts to the low Earth orbit and the International Space Station (ISS) is also a big beneficiary.
The goal of CCP is to end the US sole reliance on the Russian Soyuz manned capsule at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars and to restore the US Human spaceflight capability to launch our astronauts on American rockets from American soil.
For the first time in its five year history, CCP will receive the full funding requested by the Obama Administration – in the amount of $1.244 Billion. Whereas earlier markups by both the House and Senate had cut CCP funding to $1 Billion or below.
Under CCP awards announced by Bolden in September 2014, NASA had contracted Boeing to develop the CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX to develop the Crew Dragon.
Bolden had made it completely clear to Congress that any reduced funding would have forced NASA into slowing the program with another substantial delay in first launch now targeted for 2017, by renegotiating the CCP contracts with both Boeing and SpaceX and delaying completion of the required milestones.
“It would upend the investments we need to execute contracts with Boeing and SpaceX to return the launches of American astronauts to American soil and to do it by 2017,” wrote Bolden in his NASA blog.
NASA’a Planetary Sciences Division also gets a much earned and much needed big budget boost. The omnibus bill affords $1.631 billion for Planetary exploration. This amounts to an increase of some $270 million above the Obama administration’s request – which has repeatedly cut of one of NASA’s crown jewels.
Congress has had the good sense to save the long lived and very scientifically productive Opportunity MER rover and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions from certain termination – due only to a ridiculous lack of money that was “zeroed out” by the White House.
The omnibus bill also appropriates $175 million for NASA’s planned mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa in the early 202os. It includes funding for both an orbiter and lander. Europa is a prime target in the search for life.
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) receives the Administrations full funding request of $620 million to keep it on track for launch in 2018.
Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news.
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The most important foods we eat in New Jersey during the holidays are turkey, mashed potatoes, and veggies. Some activities we like to do are having parties, opening gifts, and talking to Santa. Several traditions that we have are hanging stockings and sledding. And finally, we like to decorate by putting up a pretty tree with lights, garlands, and tinsel.
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Dongting Lake Festivals
The dragon boat festival is considered to be most enjoyable and the busiest. Various activities are organized to celebrate this festival like hanging moxa and calamous on their front door, racing the dragon boats, enjoying the hsiung huang wine and eating Zongzi which is a glutinous rice dumpling.
The Tuija New Year
The New Year is celebrated three times each year by the Tuija ethnic tribe of the Hunan province- in December, June and October. In December the festival is usually on the 28th or the 29th. In June, the New Year is usually celebrated on the 25th while in October the festival is celebrated on the 1st. The day before the New Year eve, a celebration is enjoyed at night.
People usually build a huge bonfire on the open ground at the village. Women and men of Tujia would attend the Swaying Hands dance and would sing various songs for the New Year.
For the June New Year festivities celebrated on the 25th, people normally slaughter cattle and worship their deities in the olden times. This celebration is still enjoyed even today. In October each year, the New Year celebrations are enjoyed on the 1st. This tradition originated with the first ever bumper crop that the ethnic group enjoyed after their migration. That day, the Tujia people had held various celebratory activities light slaughtering pigs, wishing each other a happy and prosperous new year and drinking wine. The same tradition continues even today. The Tujia New Year is a very unique festival to be enjoyed and definitely something that everyone should attend at least once in their lives.
The Torch Festival
The Torch Festival is a traditional festival which is held by the Bai Nationality in Zhangjiajie in the sixth lunar month on the 25th day. This festival is celebrated for protecting the crops and killing all the pests.
On this day, the Bai Nationality people would hold various celebration rituals in which they wish for a bumper crop as well as for thriving livestock herds. The main activities are offering ancestors with a sacrifice, the torches, igniting torches, playing with the torches and jumping over the torches along with other activities.
The Flower Festival- October, November
Every year in October or November, the alleys and streets are filled with white, purple, yellow and red chrysanthemums which make Kaifeng a beautiful sea of colorful flowers. Various flower exhibitions are held in the Baogong Shrine, Big Xiangguo Monastery, Emperor Yu Platform, Iron Tower and Dragon Pavilion. More than a hundred varieties of chrysanthemums are exhibited.
During this festival, many trade and economic activities are also held. Kaifeng is known for its chrysanthemums since the Song Dynasty. Various activities like drinking of the chrysanthemum wine, opening of the chrysanthemum meetings, hanging beautiful chrysanthemum lamps have been carried out for thousands of years in history.
The Festival of Lanterns
This traditional festival has been celebrated for centuries, ever since the Song Dynasty. The exhibition during the festival showcases beautifully designed lanterns which makes this ancient city luminous and attractive. The new festive lanterns today are made with advanced technologies and new materials with breakthrough in design and colors. The festival also includes various other popular nongovernmental activities such as playing plate drums, the temple fair of Dongjin Emperor, flying beautiful kites and the cockfighting competition.
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China Medical University (CMU) was established in the year 1931. CMU was a university affiliated with Ministry of Health (MOH) previously and now it is a university co-constructed by Ministry of Education, National Health and Family Planning Commission and Liaoning Province. In 1940, proposed by Comrade Mao Zedong and approved by Central Committee of Chinese Communist Party, the school changed its name to China Medical University. In 1948, it absorbed and took over the former national Shenyang Medical School (formerly known as the Manchuria Medical College established by the Japanese South Manchuria Railway in 1911) and the former private Liaoning Medical College (formerly known as Shengjing Medical College, founded by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland in 1883). So it was also one of the earliest schools that delivered college education of western medicine in China. Since its establishment, it has educated more than 90 thousand senior medical professionals including 9 Ministers or Vice Ministers of the central government, more than 40 generals of the army and 14 academicians of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering.
CMU has two campuses, one in Shenbei New Area and the other in Heping District of Shenyang City. It has 33 colleges and departments. CMU is authorized to issue degrees in the field of medicine, education, science, engineering, philosophy and management. It offers doctoral degree in basic medicine, clinical medicine, biology, stomatology, public health and preventive medicine and nursing. It has 53 programs of doctoral degree, 63 programs of master degree and 21 programs of bachelor degree. It has 5 national key disciplines, 1 national key discipline in cultivation, 40 national key programs of clinical specialties of National Health and Family Planning Commission and 7 postdoctoral research stations. CMU has three general affiliated hospitals and 1 dental hospital, with 10785 beds in use and 240 dentistry complex therapy chair.
CMU has 9157 registered staff. Among them, there are 751 professors and 1087 associated professors. 1240 are postgraduate supervisors. Currently, there are 15548 full-time students, among whom 1182 are doctor degree students, 4821 are master degree students and 9081 undergraduate students. There are 1156 international students from 69 countries are studying in CMU.
CMU occupies an area of 1.1105 million square meters. The Department of Experimental Animals is also the Liaoning provincial quality inspection center of experimental animals as well as the supporting unit of Liaoning Provincial Key Laboratory of Transgenic Animal. The library has a storage of 1.254 million books and 21TB e-resources. CMU organizes and publishes 15 journals.
CMU has extensive international collaborations. For example, cooperating with The Queen's University of Belfast in the UK, CMU founded China Medical University-The Queen's University of Belfast Joint College (CQC) in 2014. Up to now, CMU has established international links with 87 universities and research institutions from different countries and areas such as USA, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, Korea, Canada, Australia, Italy, Denmark, Spain, North Korea, Finland, Macow and Taiwan. It also conducted cooperation with the World Bank Group (WBG), China Medical Board (CMB) and Japan International Cooperation Agency. In total, 408 world-renowned experts have been awarded honorary title by CMU till now, and 73 important international cooperation programs have been carried out, including 37 CMB programs.
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Having bags of candy leftover from Halloween can be extremely frustrating. After looking for good deals and jumping on sales, not getting many trick-or-treaters can be disappointing. However, leftover candy does not need to be a waste of money. There are ways to store your candy for later or even for next year. Whether you found a great deal on candy and stocked up before the Halloween season or if there is too much candy leftover after the holiday, freezing is a frugal way to make the best of it.
How to Store Candy
Store candy in an air-tight container, such as a plastic food container or a plastic bag with a zip seal. Label the canister with the date and type of candy inside so you know when you put it in. Below are guidelines on how long you can store candy for optimal taste:
- Chocolate Candy Bars: 10 months to 1 year
- Peanut Butter Cups: 6 to 8 months
- Hard Candies: 1 year
- Caramels: 6 to 9 months
- Jellybeans: 8 to 10 months
- Candy Corn: 6 to 8 months
- Chewing Gum: 8 to 10 months
These times are just broad guidelines to consider. If frozen, candy can be safely eaten after that date, but may not taste as good as when you eat it within that time frame.
What to Do With Leftovers
If you do not think your candy will hold until next year or you think you will not get many visitors, there are still frugal and creative ways to use the candy yourself. If you froze your candy, you can have tasty treats for many months ahead:
- Stir It Into Ice Cream: You can use leftover candy to jazz up even the plainest ice cream flavors. Pick out your favorite ice cream, then set it out to thaw for several minutes until it is soft enough to stir. It can be anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes, depending on the ice cream and the temperature. You want it to be soft, but not melted enough to be a liquid. When it has reached the right consistency, stir in your favorite candies. Try vanilla ice cream with peanut butter cups or chocolate ice cream with chocolate-covered candies.
- Add Them to Trail Mix: Candy can add an extra kick to trail mix. If you've bought a bag of plain trail mix or are making your own, adding chocolate to the mixture of nuts and dried fruit can make a tasty treat.
- Give Yourself a Lunch Treat: Remember when you were a child and you found a piece of chocolate with your lunch? Give yourself the same mid-day treat by bringing a piece of candy to indulge in at lunchtime. It can be a nice way to reward yourself for hard work.
While you may feel disappointed if you have bags of candy leftover from Halloween, luckily, you do not have to waste the money you spent. Freezing the candy for future holidays or other uses throughout the year can be a frugal way to make the most of your purchases.
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IBM Q is an industry first initiative to build universal quantum computers for business, engineering and science. This effort includes advancing the entire quantum computing technology stack and exploring applications to make quantum broadly usable and accessible. At the heart of IBM Q systems is the transmon qubit. Successive generations of IBM Q processors have demonstrated the potential of superconducting transmon qubits as the basis for electrically controlled solid-state quantum computers. With a scalable approach to chip architecture and research into error correction and mitigation, IBM Q is developing systems with sufficient quantum volume to demonstrate advantage in real world applications. Several IBM quantum devices are available to the public through quantum cloud services. Users can access devices for free through the IBM Q Experience or Qiskit, and more advanced quantum systems are available to clients in the IBM Q Network.
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A unique hand-illustrated map capturing the energetic streets of Soho has been produced to raise money for the homeless charity, centrepoint, and is now on sale.
Our Graphic designers based in the heart of Soho Square, have painstakingly pieced together the history, architecture, culture, business and people that make up the one square mile of Soho.
Working alongside Leslie Hardcastle OBE, retired Controller of the BFI Southbank and founder member of the Soho Housing Association as well as Honorary President at the Soho Society, the team were able to uncover some of the lesser-known aspects of this remarkable London village and help bring them to life. It is this local knowledge which really captures the essence of Soho and makes the map so interesting to look at.
Graphic Communication Associate Adrian Babb said: “This is first time we’ve zoomed in on an area within a city in so much detail having produced similar award-winning maps for a number of other cities across the UK. It’s been incredibly interesting delving into the history of Soho and uncovering so many interesting facts and locations that I am sure many people who live, work and play here weren’t aware of either.”
Leslie Hardcastle OBE, added: “I congratulate the authors of this project and hope it will reach a wide audience. We are proud that the beneficiaries of sales of the map, centrepoint, started life in Soho, at St. Anne’s Church and continues to have a base in Soho.”
centrepoint provides accommodation and support to homeless people aged 16 and 25-years-old with approximately 1,200 bed spaces nationwide. It also provides specialist support, with a skills and employability team, helping young people back into education, training or employment, and also the teaching of life skills.
The hand illustrated map of Soho will be available for purchase from 16th December from Gosh Comics on Berwick Street and is also available through their website for £25. All profits raised will be donated to centrepoint.
Keep an eye on social media #handillustratedsohomap
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Here they rested under the apple trees, eating the rosy fruit, while alca talked to the children.
The most accurate and complete list—till 1884—of specimens of alca impennis.
They say the same of the eggs of the alca 384 torda, which they call "Tinkers."
"The spell will work, Coifi," replied alca in a gentle voice.
A quarter of an hour later the brave Emiral had left the city of alca.
The wisdom of alca and her insight will bring comfort to our parents.
They met together one night in the Duke of Ampoule's country house, six miles eastward of alca, to consider ways and means.
Do you remember, Coelred, the day when alca came to visit us at Stillingfleet?
The friends had not poured their experiences into his ears at once and in full detail, as they did in the case of his sister alca.
He had twice asked for alca in marriage, but had been repulsed.
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Rev. 10:1 – Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like fiery pillars, 2and he had a little scroll opened in his hand. He put his right foot on the sea, his left on the land, 3and he cried out with a loud voice like a roaring lion. When he cried out, the seven thunders spoke with their voices. 4And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write. Then I heard a voice from heaven, saying, “Seal up what the seven thunders said, and do not write it down!”
5Then the angel that I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6He swore an oath by the One who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it: “There will no longer be an interval of time, 7but in the days of the sound of the seventh angel, when he will blow his trumpet, then God’s hidden plan will be completed, as He announced to His servants the prophets.”
8Now the voice that I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “God, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
9So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take and eat it; it will be bitter in your stomach, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”
10Then I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I ate it, my stomach became bitter. 11And I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages, and kings.” (HCSB)
An interlude between woes
There is an interlude between the second and third woes (the sixth and seventh trumpet judgments), just as there is a pause between the sixth and seventh seal judgments. John sees a mighty angel descend from heaven and stand with one foot on land and one in the sea. He holds a “little scroll” in his hand. The angel roars like a lion, prompting the seven thunders to speak; but what they say is sealed up and hidden, at least for now.
The mighty angel proclaims, “There will no longer be an interval of time.” When the seventh angel blows his trumpet, “God’s hidden plan” will be completed.
A voice from heaven tells John to take the scroll from the mighty angel. As the angel gives the open scroll to John, he tells the apostle to eat it. John obeys and finds the scroll as sweet as honey in his mouth but bitter in his stomach.
Finally, John is told that his work is far from finished; he must “prophesy again about many people, nations, languages, and kings.”
Why is there a break in the action between the sixth and seventh trumpet judgments? Who is the mighty angel that roars like a lion? Who are the seven thunders that speak, and why is John forbidden from revealing what they say? Why is there to be no more delay before God’s hidden plan is completed? What is written on the scroll in the mighty angel’s hand? Why is John told to eat the scroll? And why is it sweet to the tongue but bitter to the stomach?
This chapter is filled with vivid imagery and rich meaning. Let’s move slowly through these verses.
Another mighty angel
John sees “another mighty angel” coming down from heaven, surrounded by a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face is like the sun. His legs are as fiery pillars. He stands with his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, and his voice is like a roaring lion’s. What a magnificent image of a powerful heavenly being. So magnificent, in fact, that many commentators conclude this is Christ.
And perhaps he is. There are similarities between this “mighty angel” and Jesus as He is depicted in Revelation 1 and Revelation 19. But there also are differences – among them, the fact that the angel in Revelation 10 is called “another mighty angel,” whereas Jesus is unique and there is no one like Him. Also, in Revelation 1 John falls at Jesus’ feet in worship, but he does not worship this angel, even though he mistakenly worships an angel in Revelation 22. Jesus, we should remember, is never called an angel in Revelation.
Finally, in verse 6 the mighty angel swears an oath by the One who lives forever and ever, an inappropriate action for the Messiah, who is God and needs to swear no oath, for merely in speaking He guarantees the truth of His words and the surety of His promises.* For these reasons, it appears best to understand this mighty angel as a powerful heavenly messenger who, like John, worships and serves Christ.
In calling him “another mighty angel,” John may be distinguishing him from the mighty angel we encounter in Rev. 5:2, who proclaims, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” Or John may be setting this mighty angel apart from the other angels who sound the seven trumpets. In any case, this appears to be a mighty angel who instills awe in the human observer yet is not divine.
Notice how John describes the mighty angel:
- Coming down from heaven. As W.A. Criswell notes, this is not so much a point of departure as a description of his abode. He is a heavenly creature, familiar with the presence of the triune Godhead and the trappings of the throne room.
- Surrounded by a cloud. The English Standard Version renders it “wrapped in a cloud” and the New American Standard Bible says he is “clothed with a cloud.” God often is identified with clouds. He leads Israel out of Egypt and through the desert by a cloud. Dark clouds cover Mt. Sinai when He delivers the Law. He appears to Moses in a cloud of glory. The Psalmist writes that He “makes the clouds His chariot” (Ps. 104:3). A cloud receives Jesus when He ascends into heaven. And when He returns it will be with clouds. This phrase alone may cause some to conclude that the mighty angel is Jesus. Yet for the reasons stated above, this likely is not the Lord. Consider that people are sometimes identified with clouds in service to the Lord. For example, the writer of Hebrews tells us we are surrounded by “a large cloud of witnesses,” those who have gone into heaven before us. And note that the Lord’s two witnesses are carried up to heaven in “a cloud” in Rev. 11:12.
- A rainbow over his head. Some render it, “with a halo on his head.” Many see this as an allusion to Rev. 4:3, where we see an emerald rainbow surrounding the throne. At the very least, the rainbow is a sign of our covenant-keeping God. This does not necessarily mean the mighty angel in Revelation 10 is Christ, however, for the Lord employs angels in His covenant work.
- With his face like the sun. This follows the description of Jesus in Rev. 1:16 and on the Mount of Transfiguration in Matt. 17:2. Even so, consider that Moses’ face “shone as a result of speaking with the Lord” so that he wore a veil to keep from frightening his fellow Israelites (Ex. 34:29-35). And other passages of scripture suggest that believers acquire a radiance in God’s presence (Judges 5:31; Dan. 12:3; Matt. 13:43). Remember, too, that angels, who reside in God’s presence, often are associated with bright light (see, for example, Luke 2:9). Even Satan may disguise himself as an angel of light (2 Cor. 11:14), although there is no suggestion in John’s vision that this mighty angel is anything but holy.
- Legs like fiery pillars. This angel comes in judgment. Even though Jesus is depicted as One with “feet like fine bronze fired in a furnace” (Rev. 1:15), He also sends out His angels as “a fiery flame” (Heb. 1:7).
- A little scroll in his hand. Some see this as the same scroll of Rev. 5:1. Two different Greek words are used to describe them (biblion and biblaridion), but they come from the same root word (biblos). Perhaps the most fitting tie is to the scroll Ezekiel is commanded to eat before prophesying to the house of Israel (Eze. 2:8 – 3:14).
- His right foot on the sea, his left on the land. Many commentators believe this symbolizes a universal message, one for both Jews and Gentiles. The angel seems extraordinarily large, although John does not tell us his height and he could in fact simply be the size of a man standing on the shoreline. The rabbis in the Talmud discuss an angel named Sandelfon, who stands 500 miles taller than other angels (Hagigah 13b).
- A loud voice like a roaring lion. The word translated “roaring” (mukaomai) usually is used for the voice of oxen, a low bellow. However, it seems an appropriate allusion to Old Testament passages where the Lord speaks as a lion (Jer. 25:30; Hosea 11:10; Joel 3:16; Amos 3:8). More to the point, throughout Revelation we see angels speaking with commanding voices (Rev. 5:2, 4:9, etc.).
So, while many commentators identify this mighty angel as Jesus – and again, perhaps he is – it seems best to see this figure as a powerful angelic messenger of the Lord, one with an awe-inspiring appearance and magnificent power who speaks on behalf of Almighty God and whose voice carries an ambassadorial authority.
It’s possible that this mighty creature is the same angel we encounter in Rev. 5:2, who proclaims with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?” Perhaps, as well, it’s the angel of Rev. 7:2, who has the seal of the living God and who instructs four other angels in a loud voice not to harm the earth until the servants of the Lord are sealed. Additionally, it could be the angel of Rev. 8:3-5, who carries a gold incense burner and stands before the altar in heaven, then takes coals from the fire and hurls them to earth.
Finally, it could be the angel we will see in Rev. 18:1, who comes down from heaven with great authority and illuminates the earth with his splendor. Some commentators suggest this is Michael the archangel, whose name means “one like God.” However, because John calls him “another mighty angel,” he simply may be a unique contemporary of the others.
W.A. Criswell summarizes, “More than sixty times, besides the reference to the angels of the seven churches, are angels referred to in the Revelation, and every time the reference is to their employment in the service to God. So this angel is a glorious servant of the most High God” (Expository Sermons on Revelation, p. 198).
Next: A little scroll opened in his hand – Revelation 10
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The NOAA/SITES poster set, From Sea to Shining Sea: 200 Years of Charting America's Coasts opened at 200 locations across the country in June 2007 and reports from the field have been pouring in!
Alongside the posters, the Pensacola Historical Society in Pensacola, FL, presented overviews of local maritime history, Pensacola hurricanes (ranging from the storm of 1906 to Hurricane Ivan in 2004), and historic artifacts from the collection including a sextant, a telescope, binoculars, a coastal chart from the 1940s, and a NOAA Hurricane warning flag.
In Kirtland, OH, the Lakeland Community College Library worked with the Lake County Historical Society to augment the posters with an exhibit about their local waterways, entitled When Water Was THE Way. The display features maps and pictures of local waterways and ports while highlighting their economic and recreational value.
The exhibition was part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Museum of Science History in Corpus Christi, TX. The museum supplemented the poster exhibit with two table top cases of surveying instruments from their collection and 1860s maps of the Texas coast made by Felix Blucher, an early surveyor in south Texas. Simultaneously, the museum presented a children's exhibit that included an interactive lighthouse and shrimp boat. On the day of their celebration, their visitor count was 2,123 compared with 382 visitors that same Saturday in 2006.
The Museum of the Gulf Coast in Port Arthur, TX, worked with the local Seafarers Center and Women's Maritime Club to promote the exhibit, which was augmented with surveying instruments, charts, and maps.
Thanks for the feedback, folks!
-Jennifer Bine, SITES Project Director
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ERIC Number: ED209625
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1981-Aug
Reference Count: 0
Sex Differences in Occupational Values: Implications for Reducing Sex Bias.
Tittle, Carol Kehr
Research on career development has shown sex differences in patterns of occupational choices and labor force participation. Test takers of career interest inventories and occupational tests may perceive adult roles differently if they are male or female; thus, these perceptions are critical to any attempt to reduce sex bias in testing. High school students (N=600) rated the importance of several values on their choice of an occupation, the decision to marry, and the decision to become a parent. Both males and females agreed on the importance of high income, job security and leisure opportunities as components of an ideal job. For females, the addition of a prestige value suggested a belief in the prestige of working. For males, prestige was related to leadership and working in a field of interest. Results showed that high school students perceived the adult world differently. Career choices by women tended to be limited by past experience or expectation; career choices made by men did not consider values related to other adult roles in marriage and parenthood. The findings suggest that these differences may affect the construct validity of tests and therefore should be taken into consideration by counselors. (JAC)
Publication Type: Reports - Research; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Note: Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association (89th, Los Angeles, CA, August 24-26, 1981).
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Chesapeake Energy contracts Tervita for water treatment services in Utica shale
Chesapeake Energy has awarded a contract to Tervita to treat produced and tophole drilling water in its Utica shale production facility.
Tervita's water treatment services will be used to recycle and reuse the vital resource in Chesapeake's operations, as part of its Aqua Renew programme.
As per the contract, Tervita will set up a water treatment facility in Carroll County, Ohio, US, with an option for mobile water treatment technology.
Tervita will use its hybrid water recycling technology to remove hydrocarbons and suspended solids from tophole drilling water, produced water and well pad rain water.
If required, the company will also provide services to remove hardness in water, well site sludge and for ponds treatment.
In addition, Tervita may also remove unwanted suspended solids from the flowback and produced water by using its mobile processing system to treat water.
Tervita US president Phil Vogel said the contract involves recycling and reusing water in the Utica shale.
"Tervita's water treatment capabilities and technologies, paired with our integrated service offerings, are invaluable to our customers as they continue to put more effort into responsible and sustainable resource development," Vogel added.
Chesapeake Energy Utica district manager Tim Dugan said, "Tervita's treatment process will provide clean water and decrease our process costs which will increase our efficiency with reusing water."
Chesapeake will use Tervita Dioxi-Treat and Tervita Dioxi-Green (Cl02) to manage various challenges with oilfield waters that require treatment prior to reuse.
Image: Tervita will provide water treatment technologies to remove suspended solids from produced and tophole drilling water in the Utica shale. Photo: US NARA.
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Subject to s 403, a state has jurisdiction to prescribe law with respect to
(1) (a) conduct that, wholly or in substantial part, takes place within its territory;
(b) the status of persons, or interests in things, present within its territory;
(c) conduct outside its territory that has or is intended to have substantial effect within its territory;
(2) the activities, interests, status, or relations of its nationals outside as well as within its territory; and
(3) certain conduct outside its territory by persons not its nationals that is directed against the security of the state or against a limited class of other state interests.
a. Bases of jurisdiction to prescribe. International law recognizes links of territoriality, Subsection (1), and nationality, Subsection (2), as generally justifying the exercise of jurisdiction to prescribe. But these links are not sufficient in all cases: not all activities within a state's territory, nor all activities of a state's nationals, may reasonably be subjected to its legislation. See s 403. The links indicated in this section are universally recognized. Other links may also be sufficient to support jurisdiction in limited circumstances. See, e.g., Comment g to this section and s 414.
Subsection (3) recognizes a special basis of jurisdiction to prescribe which permits a state to safeguard a limited class of state interests, Comment f. For exceptional universal jurisdiction by all states, see s 404.
b. Overlap of bases of jurisdiction. Territoriality and nationality are discrete and independent bases of jurisdiction; the same conduct or activity may provide a basis for exercise of jurisdiction both by the territorial state and by the state of nationality of the actor. Territoriality is considered the normal, and nationality an exceptional, basis for the exercise of jurisdiction. In some situations the existence of both links may be important to make the exercise of jurisdiction reasonable. An exercise of jurisdiction on the basis of effect in the territory (Subsection (1)(c)), for example, may be more acceptable with respect to nationals of the state exercising jurisdiction than with respect to nonresident aliens. The exercise of jurisdiction both by the state of nationality and by the territorial state may result in overlap or conflict, actual or potential, and may call for evaluation of the competing interests by a standard of reasonableness, as set forth in s 403(3) and Comment e to that section.
c. The principle of territoriality. The territorial principle is by far the most common basis for the exercise of jurisdiction to prescribe, and it has generally been free from controversy. However, in some circumstances there may be controversy as to whether a person or property can properly be deemed present in the state's territory for purposes of jurisdiction, or whether the territorial principle can be satisfied without the physical presence of the person or thing being subjected to jurisdiction. Some states, including the United States, have asserted jurisdiction over goods or technology located abroad on the basis of their origin in the state exercising jurisdiction. See, e.g., s 431, Reporters' Note 3. States have sometimes exercised jurisdiction with respect to foreign companies outside their territory on the basis of the state's control over affiliates present in the territory. See, e.g., s 412, Comment e and Reporters' Note 7; s 414, Comment a and Reporters' Note 2. For the effects principle as an aspect of territoriality, see Comment d.
d. Effects principle. Jurisdiction with respect to activity outside the state, but having or intended to have substantial effect within the state's territory, is an aspect of jurisdiction based on territoriality, although it is sometimes viewed as a distinct category. The effects principle is not controversial with respect to acts such as shooting or even sending libelous publications across a boundary. It is generally accepted with respect to liability for injury in the state from products made outside the state and introduced into its stream of commerce. Controversy has arisen as a result of economic regulation by the United States and others, particularly through competition laws, on the basis of economic effect in their territory, when the conduct was lawful where carried out. This Restatement takes the position that a state may exercise jurisdiction based on effects in the state, when the effect or intended effect is substantial and the exercise of jurisdiction is reasonable under s 403.
Cases involving intended but unrealized effect are rare, but international law does not preclude jurisdiction in such instances, subject to the principle of reasonableness. When the intent to commit the proscribed act is clear and demonstrated by some activity, and the effect to be produced by the activity is substantial and foreseeable, the fact that a plan or conspiracy was thwarted does not deprive the target state of jurisdiction to make its law applicable. See cases cited in s 403, Reporters' Note 8.
e. Nationality, domicile, and residence. International law has increasingly recognized the right of a state to exercise jurisdiction on the basis of domicile or residence, rather than nationality, especially in regard to "private law" matters such as the law of wills and succession, divorce and family rights, and, in some cases, liability for damages for injury. See, for example, s 411 (jurisdiction to tax) and s 484 (divorce).
The nationality principle is applicable to juridical as well as to natural persons. For the purposes of this section, the nationality of a corporation or comparable juridical entity is that of the state under whose law it is organized. See s 213. Exercise by a state of jurisdiction over foreign corporations owned or controlled by its nationals, by extension of or by analogy to the nationality principle, is addressed in s 414.
f. The protective principle. Subsection (3) restates the protective principle of jurisdiction. International law recognizes the right of a state to punish a limited class of offenses committed outside its territory by persons who are not its nationals--offenses directed against the security of the state or other offenses threatening the integrity of governmental functions that are generally recognized as crimes by developed legal systems, e.g., espionage, counterfeiting of the state's seal or currency, falsification of official documents, as well as perjury before consular officials, and conspiracy to violate the immigration or customs laws. The protective principle may be seen as a special application of the effects principle, Comment d, but it has been treated as an independent basis of jurisdiction. The protective principle does not support application to foreign nationals of laws against political expression, such as libel of the state or of the chief of state.
The protective principle of jurisdiction is to be distinguished from "diplomatic protection," which refers to the right of a state to intercede on behalf of its nationals through diplomatic channels or to bring an international claim on their behalf before an international forum. See s 902.
g. The passive personality principle. The passive personality principle asserts that a state may apply law--particularly criminal law--to an act committed outside its territory by a person not its national where the victim of the act was its national. The principle has not been generally accepted for ordinary torts or crimes, but it is increasingly accepted as applied to terrorist and other organized attacks on a state's nationals by reason of their nationality, or to assassination of a state's diplomatic representatives or other officials. See Reporters' Note 3.
h. Regulation of activities aboard vessel, aircraft, or spacecraft. A state may apply its law to activities, persons, or things aboard a vessel, aircraft, or spacecraft registered in the state, as well as to foreign vessels or aircraft in its territorial waters or ports or airspace. See s 502. The application of law to activities on board a state's vessels, aircraft, or spacecraft has sometimes been supported as an extension of the territoriality principle but is better seen as an independent basis of jurisdiction. See s 502(2) and Comment d to that section. Serious offenses aboard a foreign vessel or aircraft "in the commerce of the United States" may be within the jurisdiction of the United States as a special application of the effects principle, Subsection (1)(c). See s 403, Reporters' Note 9.
i. Exercise of jurisdiction to prescribe by courts and regulatory agencies in the United States. As noted in the Introductory Note to this Part, jurisdiction to prescribe is exercised not only by legislatures, but also by regulatory agencies and by courts. To the extent that regulatory agencies in the United States exercise jurisdiction to prescribe, they do so pursuant to statute; this is usually true for courts as well. Since it is presumed that Congress does not intend to violate international law, s 114, statutes should, where fairly possible, be interpreted consistently with this section and s 403. However, when the intent of Congress to apply United States law in particular circumstances is clear, courts and agencies will apply that law notwithstanding any inconsistency with the rules of this section and s 403. See also s 403, Comment g.
j. United States jurisdiction to prescribe and powers of Congress. Apart from the constraints of international law, the jurisdiction of the United States to prescribe is governed by the Constitution, and is limited by the Bill of Rights and other constitutional provisions. See ss 721-22. The powers of Congress are also limited by principles of federalism, and some of the jurisdiction that the United States has under international law may be exercised under the Constitution only by the States. See generally s 1, Reporters' Note 5.
k. Exercise of jurisdiction by a State of the United States. Since international and other foreign relations law are the law of the United States, under the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution an exercise of jurisdiction by a State that contravenes the limitations of ss 402-403 is invalid. See s 111 and Comment d to that section. A contention that an exercise of jurisdiction by a State violates international or other foreign relations law raises a federal question. See s 111 and Comment e and Reporters' Notes 3 and 4 thereto.
International law normally is not concerned with how authority to exercise jurisdiction is allocated within a state's domestic constitutional order. Whether a State may exercise jurisdiction that the United States is entitled to exercise under international law is, therefore, generally a question only of United States law. Subject to constitutional limitations, a State may exercise jurisdiction on the basis of territoriality, including effects within the territory, and, in some respects at least, on the basis of citizenship, residence, or domicile in the State.
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Farming for the future
07-03-2011 | Combining a healthy appetite for exceptional food, an actively engaged community of customers and a total commitment to a sustainable approach, it’s no surprise that Peelham Farm has been heralded as a model for the future of farming.
Sustainable self reliance
With a driving philosophy of ‘sustainable self-reliance’, Peelham Farm in Berwickshire is a model example of an organic farm. Since the early 1990s the farm has been run by husband and wife team Denise and Chris Walton with partner Amanda Cayley, who are as passionate about producing exceptional food as they are committed to sustainable farming. Their inspired and innovative approach was acknowledged in 2009 when Pelham won the Future Farmer award, which recognises exceptional achievement in sustainable farming in Scotland.
The mixed farm rears pigs, cattle and sheep and also produces all the animals’ feed on the farm. Its wind-powered, onsite butchery processes a large proportion of its own meat, supplying the public, hotels and some of the UK’s finest restaurants including the Witchery in Edinburgh, Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles and Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen in London.
“Over the last few years, our whole ethos has focused on producing meat for direct sale to consumers,” says Chris Walton, the farm’s managing partner. “Part of our approach is to bring people to the farm to engage with them. We bring chefs, hoteliers and the public and show them how we farm.”
The farm’s ‘own a Tamworth’ scheme demonstrates just how hands-on Pelham’s field to fork experience is. After acquiring one of the pigs as a 10-week old, owners are invited down to the farm for three weekends over a year, when they can learn about how the pigs are farmed, help with the processing and take the finished produce home to enjoy it for dinner.
“It brings together a really interesting and diverse bunch of people from across the country. They’ve all got a common interest in food, sustainable farming and of course the pigs,” says Chris.
Peelham Farm started banking with Triodos in 2009, borrowing a significant sum to refinance the farm’s existing loan and support the business’ growth. Chris explains that the crisis of confidence in the financial system was a catalyst for the move.
“The main banks have been totally irresponsible with people’s money. With the current banking situation we were keen to engage with a bank that, like us, is investing ethically and in sustainable operations,” says Chris. “The personal relationship with Triodos was also important, as well as being able to benchmark with the bank’s like-minded customers. To be integrated within a small bank is important to us, rather than to engage in a tick-box arrangement with one of the corporate banks.”
Chris concludes; “As farmers we are stewards of the land have a responsibility to protect it for future generations. Banks should act in the same way – they are stewards of our money with a responsibility of trust to look after it sustainably.”
Rising to 700 feet at the southern edge of the Lammermuir Hills, close to the Berwickshire Coast, Peelham is a mixed farm with a diversity of habitats influenced by its proximity to the sea. The farm is run by Cayley Walton Partners (Amanda Cayley, Chris and Denise Walton), who are committed to animal welfare, environmental renewal and habitat restoration. The farm has been organic since 2005, and includes an on-site butchery and an equestrian centre and cross-country course.
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With Instructables you can share what you make with the world, and tap into an ever-growing community of creative experts.
the moonwalk... mikey's coolest move and i'll teach you with sticks
the trick is stand on one flat foot and your other foot tip toes and contrary to belief... the flat foot slides back... so you want to start ...
as said earlier, the flat foot slides back so your left, slide back a foot's distance, and flow back ,with your right foot stationary
after moving the first step, switch the tipping, now with your left tipping behind your flat right so with the trick, slide the left foot back...
follow the pics and repeat
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Ahhhh, summertime! The one season that most people seem to wait for all year, only to have many complain about the heat once it finally arrives!
Summertime always seems to go hand in hand with reading. Whether it's by the calm tranquility of the lake or amongst the kids' splashes in the pool, there seems to be something so special and calming about summer reading.
Do we read to our children as much in the summertime as we tend to during the school year? Given my own observations and experiences, I would say that with the absence of the same routine, bedtime stories occasionally get replaced by extra time outdoors and attending fun summer activities. And while we may not read as much or as often to our children during these short months, I do have some great book finds for when you 're looking to spend some quiet time with your kids. Reading summertime themed books is a great way to allow our children to enjoy summer in a bit of a different way... through literature!
Blackouts for example, have become part of summer heat waves, but they don't have to be bad. Blackout, a new picture book by John Rocco, offers a great perspective and sheds some positive light for us and our kids, on the brighter side of a blackout.
The illustrations in this book are brilliant. The pictures are appropriately darker, using shades of blue and black with well placed hints of warm light and colour. I especially love how Rocco captures the glow of the burning candle and the way it illuminates the family he has illustrated. Really beautiful! The text isn't too wordy or descriptive; it doesn't need to be. This book is great example of how text and illustrations can merge beautifully to create a masterful story.
This is a fantastic book to read to your children with the lights out... it would be fun to read it by a flashlight under the covers or by the camp fire. Or, still great when read aloud in your illuminated (and hopefully air conditioned) bedroom! Any way you read it, a great choice.
And while the lights can go out, the power of imagination and creativity is constant. Rocco has found an effective way to help your child's imagination soar! Think of all the fun things we can do when we unplug. Talk to your kids about blackouts... perhaps reminisce about your experiences, or simply make it a game of "what if." Ask your kids what they would do during a blackout -- I bet they would come up with some fun and creative ideas.
Another great summertime book is My Garden by Kevin Henkes. In this book, Henkes explores and highlights the wonder and organic purity of a child's imagination! The illustrations in this book (watercolour paints and ink) are beautiful and sweet and bring this story to life. There are dazzling shades of pinks and purples and yellows and blues. Told in first person, the story itself, is of a girl who helps her mother in the garden. While helping her mother in the garden, she begins to think about how her garden would grow, if she had one of her own. The jelly bean bush, the chocolate bunnies and the invisible carrots are just some of the fun, creative and imaginative ideas in this story. Henkes writes so authentically, that it seems as though this story were written by a little girl. Truly genuine.
However you choose to spend your summer with your children, books are a great thing to incorporate into your summertime fun. Happy reading!
Follow Heather Feldstein on Twitter: www.twitter.com/wordsbymom
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In honor of Women’s History Month, we will present essays throughout the month by local authors documenting, honoring and celebrating powerful women who inspire us in South Seattle and beyond.
Women’s leadership in challenging injustice was front and center at Radical Women’s celebration of International Women’s Day on Sunday, March 11. Moving and powerful speakers from different races and backgrounds, working on a range of issues, expressed how life challenges propelled them into the forefront. In that process, they are finding community, confidence, and allies.
Lively discussion before and after the formal program showed connections being made that will bring these women’s efforts closer to victories for low-income tenants, Native sovereignty, environmental safety, union protections, and targets of sexual harassment and discrimination.
Titled “Working Women Rise Up: Many Fronts, One Struggle,” the gathering was chaired by revolutionary feminist Gina Petry. She explained how International Women’s Day originated in a massive demonstration against workplace exploitation by female textile workers in New York City on March 8, 1908. Inspired by this and other uprisings by working-class heroines, socialist women in 1910 declared March 8 as a day to recognize women’s struggles. Petry read greetings from women of a Mexican party, the Partido Obrera Socialista (Socialist Workers Party), who wrote, “The message of resistance and struggle of the women of the world comes as a hopeful wave to us as Mexican women militants.”
Below are brief profiles of some of the amazing grassroots movers and shakers who spoke from the panel and from the audience.
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Armin Henreich's infamous "I Am Rich" Apple iPhone application - a $1,000 ruby screensaver - was pulled from Apple App Store shelves months ago, but its message still resonates loudly. Now the iPhone, the tech symbol of the in crowd, is on the verge of crossing the line into excess and arrogance.
"I'm not sure, under the current economic conditions, that it's a great statement to make," says Rob Enderle, principal analyst of the Enderle Group. "You may not want to flash it."
From "my apps are cooler than your apps" contests to "sent from my iPhone" email footers, people love showing off their iPhones. That's not surprising, given that the users most compelled to buy the latest and greatest handsets and mobile phones are "alpha dogs", according to Sarah Welch, COO of Mindset Media, which helps companies target adverts based on personality traits. It's when alpha-dog enthusiasm goes overboard and becomes bad manners that others get annoyed.
Yet the Apple iPhone's cultural impact is much more than just another wedge separating the haves and have-nots; the iPhone changes how people interact with each other and their surroundings. Traditional mobile phones and iPods already audibly isolated people in their own little worlds, and the iPhone's visual carnival pushes that isolation further.
With more iPhone-like devices hitting the streets (most notably, Research in Motion's BlackBerry Storm and T-Mobile's Google Android-based G1), the notion of a siloed nation is neither far-fetched nor far off.
Indeed, traditional mobile phones rattled American culture in only a few short years. In 2006, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger put the kibosh on the use of mobiles while driving in California, which led to a rash of tiny Bluetooth headsets sprouting from people's ears.
"You can walk around and be insane, and people will think you're just another person with a headset," Enderle says. "With mobile phones, we were largely talking on the phones, and that created a problem. We've moved to things like the iPhone that are much more visual, which makes the problem more pronounced."
The visual nature of the iPhone can be a big distraction. Will consumers, walking around with their heads down as they play a game or look at a map on the iPhone's mini-screen, collide with each other like pinballs?
Glibness aside, there are real and tragic consequences to being visually distracted. Last month, a train engineer in Los Angeles was allegedly text messaging on his mobile moments before he crashed into a freight train, killing 25 people, including himself.
"These things are significant distractions," Enderle says, "and I think the culture is going to have to wrap its arms around a certain number of behaviors that reduce those distractions."
Tom Kaneshige writes for InfoWorld US.
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Let’s all remember that this month marks the 88th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birth. This is, as always, an opportunity to ponder the lessons of his courageous life, and consider what his legacy means to us today. I encourage everyone within the New Brunswick Public Schools family to remember his battle for equality, as well as his many inspiring words, including the following, one of my personal favorites: "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
We are near the mid-point of the 2016-2017 school year, and I believe this is an excellent time for us to consider how things are progressing. As with any district that has several thousand students spread out in more than 10 schools, we’ve had a few challenges along the way. That said, I think the positives have far outweighed any negatives, and I’m hoping we can build on our momentum as we move through the winter and spring.
One example of a truly wonderful event was the first “Superintendent Learning Night,” which we held at Roosevelt School in early December. This was an opportunity for parents to see firsthand the dynamic curriculum we’re developing, and participate in some hands-on experiences. We expected perhaps 150 attendees but what we got was in excess of 200 parents, 350 students and 100 staff members. It was a remarkable, exciting event, and we still have three more Superintendent Learning Nights scheduled at different schools during the remainder of this year (as dates move closer, we’ll certainly share details).
Of course, reporters will continue to also cover the challenges our schools face and they should; that’s their role. But I’m delighted New Brunswick Public Schools is being recognized for the multiple successes we’re enjoying whether in the classroom, in extracurricular activities, or in positioning our district for future growth. All in all, we’ve made quite a bit of good news during this current school year.
I’m confident there’s much additional good news still to come as we continue to Prepare, Empower and Inspire our students to be lifelong learners and leaders.
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Who's Going Broke? Comparing Growth in Healthcare Costs in Ten OECD Countries
Government healthcare expenditures have been growing much more rapidly than GDP in OECD countries. For example, between 1970 and 2002 these expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP in the U.S., 2.0 times faster than GDP in Germany, and 1.4 times faster than GDP in Japan. How much of government healthcare expenditure growth is due to demographic change and how much is due to increases in benefit levels; i.e., in healthcare expenditures per beneficiary at a given age? This paper answers this question for ten OECD countries -- Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, Japan, Norway, Spain, Sweden, the UK, and the U.S. Specifically, the paper decomposes the 1970-2002 growth in each countrys healthcare expenditures into growth in benefit levels and changes in demographics. Growth in real benefit levels has been remarkably high and explains the lions share %uF818 89 percent %uF818 of overall healthcare spending growth in the ten countries. Norway, Spain, and the U.S. recorded the highest annual benefit growth rates. Norways rate averaged 5.04 percent per year. Spain and the U.S. were close behind with rates of 4.63 percent and 4.61 percent, respectively. Allowing benefit levels to continue to grow at historic rates is fraught with danger given the impending retirement of the baby boom generation. In Japan, for example, maintaining its 1970-2002 benefit growth rate of 3.57 percent for the next 40 years and letting benefits grow thereafter only with labor productivity entails present value healthcare expenditures close to 12 percent of the present value of GDP. By comparison, Japans government is now spending only 6.7 percent of Japans current output on healthcare. In the U.S., government healthcare spending now totals 6.6 percent of GDP. But if the U.S. lets benefits grow for the next four decades at past rates, it will end up spending almost 18 percent of its future GDP on healthcare. The difference between the Japanese 12 percent and U.S. 18 percent figures is remarkable given that Japan is already much older than the U.S. and will age more rapidly in the coming decades. Although healthcare spending is growing at unsustainable rates in most, if not all, OECD countries, the U.S. appears least able to control its benefit growth due to the nature of its fee-for-service healthcare payment system. Consequently, the U.S. may well be in the worst long-term fiscal shape of any OECD country even though it is now and will remain very young compared to the majority of its fellow OECD members.
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Sustainable development goals
The SDGs wedding cake
A new way of viewing the Sustainable Development Goals and how they are all linked to food
Speaking at the Stockholm EAT Food Forum 13 June 2016, former centre director Johan Rockström and board member Pavan Sukhdev pushed for a new way of viewing the economic, social and ecological aspects of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
They argued that all the sustainable development goals are directly or indirectly connected to sustainable and healthy food. Watch their presentation below.
The illustration describes how economies and societies should be seen as embedded parts of the biosphere. This vision is a move away from the current sectorial approach where social, economic, and ecological development are seen as separate parts.
The illustration above is free to use under the Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0).
An animation of the model has also been made and is free to download under the same license. Watch it here:
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Watch Johan Rockström and Pavan Sukhdev demonstrate how food connects all the Sustainable Development Goals:
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What is Bartholin's Gland, where is it, and why do we care?
- Glands posterior to the vaginal opening which produce lubricating mucous.
- They can sometimes get infected or develope cysts. Both can be painful.
Why is a torn hymen not a great indicator of virginity?
Because heavy menses or use of tampons can also tear it.
What is Infibulation?
- Sewing the vaginal canal shut to prevent intercourse or pleasure during intercourse.
- It's a cultural thing.
Cultural Competence: Aging Woman
- Female’s hormonal milieu decreases rapidly in contrast with slow decline in aging male
- Uterus shrinks in size because of decreased myometrium
- Ovaries atrophy to 1 to 2 cm and are not palpable after menopause
- Uterus droops as sacral ligaments relax and pelvic musculature weakens
- Vagina becomes shorter, narrower, and less elastic because of increased connective tissue
- Externally, mons pubis looks smaller because fat pad atrophies
- Labia and clitoris gradually decrease in size
- Pubic hair becomes thin and sparse
Subject Health Hx questions concerning reproductive system
- Menstrual history: When was your first? When was your last normal? Can help if determining the possibility of pregnancy.
- Obstetric history: remember all the uncomfortable questions we four weeks ago? Review those.
- Menopause: Technically, is not menopause until 1 year after last normal period.
- Self-care behaviors: Shower? IUD? Partners? Pap smears? DES?
- Urinary symptoms
- Vaginal discharge
What is menorrhagia?
Unusually heavy bleeding.
What is Dyspareunia?
- Pain during intercourse. Can be caused by:
- Lack of estrogen--> dry, unelastic vaginal canal.
- Fear/reluctance to engage. Great time to ask about childhood/current abuse, peer pressure, educate about date rape, etc...
What is an STI?
- Sexually Transmitted Infection
- Changed from STD to avoid negative connotation with the word, "disease."
What are some additional questions for the aging woman?
- Postmenopausal bleeding? Always cancer until proven otherwise.
- Atrophic vaginitis: Lack of estrogen
- Uterine prolapse. Normal, may need to be meshed.
- Sexual satisfaction
Preping for a pelvic exam
- Lithotomy position (feet in stirrups) and draping
- Measures to enhance comfort during exam
- Mirror pelvic examination. Pt need need a mirror to follow along and to identify structures and/or areas of concern.
What do you need to condut a pelvic exam?
- Protective clothing for examiner
- Goose-necked lamp with a strong light
- Vaginal speculum of appropriate size/shape
- Large cotton-tipped applicatorsn (aka Proctoswabs)
- Materials for cytologic study (microscope slides)
- Water soluble lubricant (e.g., K-Y)
Do's and don'ts of the pelvic exam
- External genitalia—Palpation
- Skene’s glands
- Bartholin’s glands
- Support of pelvic musculature: less intrinsic support in children and aged.
- Have pt empty bladder before exam.
- Don't have the table facing the door.
What might you see when inspecting the cervix using a speculum?
- Nullparous, parous, and Nabothian cycsts are normal findings.
- Cervical eversion: Can be normal in children/teens women through their 20s. Important because HPV (which can cause cancer) can attach to exposed mucosa. After it involutes it becomes less likely.
Things to think about when obtaining a cervical smear/culture.
- Vaginal pool
- Cervical scrape
- Endocervical specimen
- Data to include for the
- laboratory: When was last menestral cycle? Any IUD, DC, BC, etc.
- Inspect vaginal wall
Abnormal findings of the external female genitalia.
- Pediculosis pubis (crab lice)
- Syphilitic chancre: Sore or blister. Can be open and painless. Is syphilitic so can travel to brain.
- Herpes simplex virus—type 2 (herpes genitalis): 1st outbreak always most painful.
- Red rash—contact dermatitis: Can be contracted via bubble bath, condoms, intercourse, etc.
- Human papillomavirus (HPV) warts: Four types are known to cause cancer, worst are 16-18. Cannot be seen with naked eye. Can also show up in throat mouth due to oral sex.
What is cystocele?
- Downward migration of the urinary bladder.
- Usually due to age and decreased musculature.
What is a uterine prolapse?
Downward migration of the uterus.
What is rectocele?
Downward migration of the rectum.
Abnormal findings of the cervix...
- Bluish cervix—cyanosis. Also called Chadwick's sign. Indicates pregnancy.
- Human papillomavirus (HPV, condylomata)
- Diethylstilbestrol (DES) syndrome
- Polyp: Protrusion from cervix, always benign. Must be biopsied (painless) to rule out carcinoma.
Abnormal findings of the Vulvovaginal orifice.
- Atrophic vaginitis: Lack of estrogen.
- Candidiasis (moniliasis): Yeast nfxn
- Trichomoniasis: sexually transmitted bacterial nfxn.
- Bacterial vaginosis: Fishy smell.
- Vulvodynia: Pain during sex @ vulva. Red-haired, fair skinned women most at risk.
- Vulvar Vestibulitis: Pain during sex @ vulva. Red-haired, fair skinned women most at risk.
Considerations for the older woman during a pelvic exam.
- To avoid painful examination, take care to lubricate instruments and examining hand adequately
- Use Pedersen speculum, rather than Graves, because its narrower, flatter blades are more comfortable in women with vaginal stenosis or dryness
- Menopause and resulting decrease in estrogen production cause numerous physical changes
- Older women may have special needs and will appreciate following plans of care
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The Maynard Scholarships and Awards come from endowments established in the memory of long-time SMU professor Betty Maynard by her brother, Mr. William Maynard. Both are given to high-performing WGS minors, or to students majoring in Individualized Studies in the Liberal Arts with a focus in Women’s and Gender Studies, in their junior and/or senior years. Both the scholarship and the award are competitive. There are funds for both financial-aid-eligible students and for those who are not eligible for financial aid.
Professor Betty Maynard taught in SMU's urban studies program, while it still existed, and in the sociology department, which she at one time chaired. Her passions also led her to help found the Japan exchange program and establish the Women's Studies program in the early 1970s. As associate dean of Dedman College, she became one of the first women at SMU to hold a high position in the administration. She also served as President of Faculty Senate in 1985-86. A well-known campus activist, she was a mentor and role model to many students who encouraged women students to fulfill their dreams.
To apply, see the instructions on the Dedman College Merit Scholarship web page. Applications are due in April of every year.
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A Thursday, Sept. 17 air-quality agency board hearing to consider limited gasoline production at the explosion-damaged Torrance ExxonMobil refinery has been taken off calendar, the agency said Wednesday.
The February blast destroyed the plant’s pollution controls. A resumption permit would allow the refinery to begin producing gas at 65 percent capacity, using outdated but still-in-place pollution controls.
The refinery produces an estimated 20 percent of fuel for the region and its production loss has caused higher gas prices in Southern California, compared to the northern part of the state.
For the Riverside-San Bernardino metro areas, the average price Wednesday for a gallon of regular gas was about $3.22, while the price in Redding was $2.90.
It was the fourth delay for considering the matter before the South Coast Air Quality Management District Hearing Board.
The older pollution controls produce six times more fine particulate matter than the modern controls destroyed in the blast.
The SCAQMD requested the postponement “until ExxonMobil can agree to terms and conditions ensuring that sufficient safeguards are in place to protect the public’s health,” district spokesman Sam Atwood said in a statement.
“We continue to work closely with the South Coast Air Quality Management District on a potential plan to restart the fluid catalytic cracking unit,” said ExxonMobil spokeswoman Gesuina Paras in a statement. “But we are not in a position to speculate on a timeline for restart.”
No future hearing date was set.
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Ring Theory Helps Us Bring Comfort In … and “Dump” Our Own Stuff Out
By Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H.
Reprinted, with permission, from Psychology Today, May, 2017
A few years ago, psychologist Susan Silk and her friend Barry Goldman wrote about a concept they called the “Ring Theory.” It’s a theory to help yourself know what to do in a crisis. If the crisis is happening to you, you’re in the center of the ring. If the crisis is not happening to you, you’re in one of the outer circles.
Here are the basic tenets, paraphrased from Silk and Goodman:
1) Draw a circle. In this circle, write the name of the person at the center of the crisis.
2) Now draw a larger circle around the first one. In this ring, put the name of the person next closest to the crisis.
3) In each larger ring, put the next closest people. As Silk and Goodman state, “Parents and children before more distant relatives. Intimate friends in smaller rings, less intimate friends in larger ones. . . When you are done, you have a Kvetching* Order.”
Here are the rules:
The person in the center ring can say anything she wants to anyone, anywhere. She can kvetch and complain and whine and moan and curse the heavens and say, “Life is unfair,” and, “Why me?” That’s the one payoff for being in the center ring. Everyone else can say those things too, but only to people in larger rings. When you are talking to a person in a ring smaller than yours, someone closer to the center of the crisis, the goal is to help.
Listening is often more helpful than talking. But if you’re going to open your mouth, first ask yourself if what you are about to say is likely to provide comfort and support. If it isn’t, don’t say it. Don’t, for example, give advice. People who are suffering from trauma don’t need advice. They need comfort and support. So say, “I’m sorry,” or, “This must really be hard for you,” or, “Can I bring you a pot roast?” Don’t say, “You should hear what happened to me,” or, “Here’s what I would do if I were you.” And don’t say, “This is really bringing me down.” If you want to scream or cry or complain, if you want to tell someone how shocked you are or how icky you feel, or whine about how it reminds you of all the terrible things that have happened to you lately, that’s fine. It’s a perfectly normal response. Just do it to someone in a bigger ring.
In the time since I originally read their piece, I have thought of this theory many, many times. Where I am in the circle? Given that position, what should I say, or what can I hope would be said to me? Who are people in the circle I could comfort? Who can I “dump” to?
Kvetching (complaining) is an important tool for managing stress, anxiety, and depression, as well as for strengthening bonds between people and increasing empathy. It’s also a delicate instrument that needs careful handling. The definition of kvetch, from the Yiddish kvetshn, means to squeeze, pinch or press. In modern, American terms, think of it as the everyday complaining over issues both large and small that we all engage in almost unconsciously. It’s about whatever it is that we have to get off our chest.
Here’s a list of practical things that can be done for someone in crisis:
1. Bring a meal
2. Bring a cup of coffee, tea, or a chocolate bar.
3. Offer to go for a walk.
4. Offer to watch/spend time with kids, older parents or pets.
5. Come over just to wash dishes or do a load of laundry.
6. Bring by a favorite CD or movie.
7. If going in person seems like too much, send a note by mail.
What do you have to add to that list?
What’s been helpful for you or a loved one?
Where are you in the circle now?
Elana Premack Sandler, L.C.S.W., M.P.H., approaches health issues from a social perspective, viewing elements of the social environment as crucial factors in promoting individual health and well-being. Elana worked with the national Suicide Prevention Resource Center, providing consultation to organizations on using evidence-based interventions and best practices for developing suicide prevention programs. Elana earned a Master of Social Work and a Master of Public Health at Boston University and is a faculty with Simmons School of Social Work.
She is author of the blog, Promoting Hope, Preventing Suicide. It is written from both personal and professional perspectives. Promoting Hope, Preventing Suicide explores suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention. This blog is a forum for new looks at old ideas and encourages challenging dogma. Elana is a survivor, having lost her father to suicide 32 years ago when she was a child. Many of her blog posts touch on her own personal experiences as her grief has evolved over the years.
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The 44th federal election was held last week, with Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau forming another minority government.
The federal election may have caused déjà vu for Canadians voters, with the $600-million election revealing very similar results as the previous. The liberal party collected 158 seats compared to the 157 seats held by the party after the 2019 election, missing the mark of the 170 seats needed to obtain a majority government.
Two members of York’s community ran as candidates for their respective ridings and spoke with Excalibur about their experiences in Canada’s shortest campaign period on record.
“The campaign was a long and challenging path filled with excitement and hard work,” says Eric Frydman, Green Party candidate for Eglington-Lawrence and JD/MBA at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business.
“However, it was worth the effort to have the opportunity to connect with people in my community, whether I was speaking for affordable housing, mental healthcare, or the investments we need to make towards a Green economy.”
Christina Love, Scarborough North New Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the 2021 federal election, and third-year double major student in Indigenous Studies and French at York states that the dehumanizing experiences faced as an essential worker during the pandemic provoked their drive to run for office. “When the system doesn’t serve us, we need to force change,” she says.
Love goes on to say that this past election should serve as a wakeup call to students that the “government does not support us.”
“The shortest election in Canadian history unequivocally demonstrates that the status quo will continually perpetuate itself through ‘established channels’ and that it is crucial for us to organize our communities in order to get changes that we need to see,” Love says. She continues on to say that she believes a “national general strike and blockade of industry would do more for progressive causes compared to the last 154 years of settler colonial” politics.
The voter turnout rate dropped this year with just over 58 per cent of registered voters showing up to the polls. The Vote on Campus initiative was cancelled by Elections Canada following the pandemic and the uncertainty of a minority government, which initially caused concerns over potential student voter turnout.
While the voter turnout rates based on age for the 2021 election have yet to be disclosed by Elections Canada, Canadians aged 18 to 24 statistically have the lowest voter turnout rate for federal elections.
The discontinuing of a service that would provide students the ability to reach the poll, along with the shortest possible time allotted for a Canadian election, could have been a culprit of the low turnout rate.
Frydman now encourages students to insert themselves into the democratic process. “I recommend that anyone passionate about student issues gets involved in the political process, whether that means volunteering for a campaign, holding events to bring greater attention to issues or running in an election themselves.”
Love also encourages young people to become involved with politics, saying that “as a student, I see no future for us should nothing change.”
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Ashley Buck, MS, will discuss a recent study in which the OAAA explored the gap between what individuals with osteoarthritis want to know about nutrition education and what healthcare professionals believe they need to know.
About the speaker:
Ashley Buck, MS
PhD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
Ashley Buck is a PhD student in the Human Movement Science Curriculum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of the Pietrosimone Lab Group in the MOTION Science Institute. Her primary research interests are in exploring the impacts of ACL injury on knee biomechanics and biochemistry to further understand the development of post-traumatic osteoarthritis. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Sports Medicine at Pepperdine University (2016) and her Master of Science in Kinesiology at Seattle University (2022). At Seattle University, she worked under Dr Sarah Shultz assisting in research surrounding osteoarthritis and lower extremity biomechanics in children with obesity.
The OA Action Alliance Lunch & Learn webinars keep you up-to-date on the latest osteoarthritis research, news and activities. Each monthly webinar begins at 12:00 pm ET and runs for 30 minutes. Webinars are free and open to the public. Webinars are archived on our website events page (URL: oaaction.unc.edu/webinar) and on the OA Action Alliance YouTube channel in case you missed one or can't get enough!
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Are you leveraging the power of neuroscience to help your customers? Or are you putting customers into a brain state that is undermining your goal of keeping them coming back? Let’s take a quick assessment.
After an interaction with me, an internal or external customer would say they felt: A) Brilliant, Respected, Alive, Independent, and Noticed; or B) Bored, Rejected, Apathetic, Insecure, and Neglected.
To move responses in a more positive direction, consider using a neuroscience approach. What would it take to help people feel brilliant, respected, alive, independent, and noticed? Here are five ways to get started.
Brilliant: To feel brilliant, the pattern-seeking brain takes in millions of bits of information, seeking to connect them with other previous ideas and information. You can help people feel brilliant by making those connections—showing people how to connect what you are sharing to what they already know. For example, if you are selling a software solution, move beyond an early awkwardness with the new technology by sharing similarities to software the customer is already using successfully. Showcase the skill and brilliance that the customer already has.
Respected: Listening is one of the most powerful strategies you can use to show respect. In many of the classes I facilitate, I use a ten-minute activity called “Being with…,” to show the power of truly listening. I divide the class into pairs and ask one person to speak and the other to listen—but in a very special way. The speaker uses sentence stems such as, “Something I have been wanting to share with someone is…,” or “Something I am proud of is….” The listener just gets to say, “Thank you,” “Tell me more,” or “I understand.” The amazing outcome is that everyone connects at a powerful level and realizes that in their daily lives they are usually problem solving or speaking instead of really listening.*
Alive: In today’s world, people zoom from one thing to another which often causes them to miss the fun, engagement, and joy of life. You can help rekindle the feeling of being alive for customers by being unique, being a bit vulnerable, or increasing your level of generosity of thought and practices. I was at major department store getting supplies for my college grad in his new apartment. The salesperson went beyond just pointing me to what I wanted and, instead, took a moment to ask who the purchase was for and what was happening with this new transition. Because of this interaction, I felt a renewed energy and focus for the rest of my day. One person has the ability to create a space in which someone else is renewed. You can be that person.
Independent: Building competence in others is another great way to deepen relationships. Teach people how to use the products they are purchasing. Show them how to be successful. Building and reinforcing valued skills in others deepens neural connections. People love to learn new skills—it leads to increased independence.
Noticed: To connect, you first have to notice. Use customer’s names. Stop and really notice who they are. If face-to- face, look at them. If on the phone, listen to what is not being said as well as what is being said. Remember that each person you interact with has a life journey, experiences, and rich knowledge different from any other person. Find out what is unique about your customers. Calling it out builds deep, permanent relationships by fulfilling the brain’s craving for relatedness.
Use a BRAIN-based approach
Apply the learnings from neuroscience to your customer service strategies. Use the BRAIN acronym to remind yourself (and others on your team) about the impact you can have when you help people bring the full capacity of their brain to the experience. Create connections that allow people to feel Brilliant, Respected, Alive, Independent, and Noticed for who they are and what they have done in their lives. It’s a great way to create a lasting brain bond with customers.
*To learn more about the listening technique described above, I highly recommend Straight From the Heart by Paul and Layne Cutright
About the author
Vicki Halsey is a senior consulting partner and one of the principal authors—together with Kathy Cuff—of The Ken Blanchard Companies’ Legendary Service training program.
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What is most important to think about when it comes to branding development for your online business? One in all my good friend’s daughters labored at Birchbox so I can tell you that these subscription box leaders have grow to be huge businesses with hundreds of thousands of shoppers. Effective branding, attached to robust model values, can result in larger gross sales of not only one product, however of other products related to that model.
Other multibrand firms introduce new product manufacturers as a protecting measure to reply to competition known as combating manufacturers or fighter manufacturers. Even the industrialized international locations have initiated privatization applications for some businesses that were previously owned by the federal government. Manufacturers assist in minimising these prices at the internal stage, i.e., in relation to the expectations of the consumers and at the exterior level, i.e., by way of exploring the opposite obtainable choices in the market.
Those are my fifty eight favourite small business concepts. Nikki is a communication stylist and what better method to showcase this to her viewers than by literally sporting phrases in her model photographs. When I was in the guide business for instance, our merchandise can be displayed at these exhibits by our unbiased gross sales rep groups that served the reward commerce.
Their roles could be emphasized as executing organizational plans in conformance with the company’s policies and the goals of the top management, they outline and talk about data and policies from top management to decrease management, and most significantly they inspire and provide steering to decrease-stage managers towards higher performance.
Think about promoting to properties in your neighborhood and get extra bang for your buck by earning a couple of small businesses as shoppers as properly. An interesting example is Fiji Water, which managed to create a bottle design that completely reflects the brand’s values: purity is mirrored via transparency results, and nature is perceived through the image of tropical flowers and leaves in the background.
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The O2 sensor (also well-known as the oxygen sensor) is among the vital components in helping your car run efficiently. A faulty sensor can cause poor fuel consumption and can potentially reason serious damage to the engine, therefore the O2 sensor replacement expense can be far much less than the extr fuel or the expense of significant engine repairs.
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The repair chin is fairly straightforward, so many people opt to simply purchase the component and perform the job-related themselves. Labor costs at a garage are relatively reasonable too, as it won’t take it a trained mechanic lengthy to switch out the parts. It’s normally a rapid diagnosis utilizing the engine computer prior to simply instead of the oxygen sensor through a brand-new one.
If you decide to execute the repairs, the cost to change the oxygen sensor yourself can be in between $20-$94, depending upon the brand and type of sensor friend buy. To have the repairs done by a mechanic the price have the right to be anywhere in between $113 come $478 because that parts and labor. The huge difference in price is brought about by the various prices that the sensor for details models that car, and potentially 2 sensors needing replaced at once.
Replacement O2 Sensor cost Comparison
There space two methods of replacing your oxygen sensor – do it yourself or have it done at a garage. If you choose to do it you yourself the cost will only be for the part (and possibly for one O2 sensor socket), while at a garage you will do it be paying for labor and parts.
We’ve compiled the average costs for parts and labor native a few of the major chains in the country, and the expected expense to bespeak the component itself online.
|Parts & Labor||12 months||$113-$478|
|Parts & Labor||12 months||$145-$398|
|Parts & Labor||12 months||$113-$478|
|Parts & Labor||24 months||$186-$420|
What Is The Oxygen Sensor?
In a gasoline engine over there is a certain ratio of gasoline and air the is perfect for combustion. If there’s less air 보다 the perfect ratio requires, there will certainly be additional fuel left end after combustion. This is known as rich mixture. A well-off mixture is problematic as it reasons excess pollution and also can negatively affect the atmosphere.
If the inverse is the case, and there’s an ext oxygen in the mixture 보다 is necessary, this creates a skinny mixture. A skinny mixture can result in negative engine performance and also may even cause long ax damage, together producing much more nitrogen-oxide pollutants 보다 the perfect mixture.
The oxygen sensor was emerged to help combat this issue and also prevent excess pollution or damage to the engine. It’s commonly placed in the exhaust pipe and also it functions to finding lean and rich mixtures, and works v the engine’s computer to help change the quantity of fuel entering the engine. The an outcome is much less pollution, better performance and less money spent which is what us strive for at Auto company Costs.
Benefits of O2 Sensor Repair
Having a working and accurate O2 sensor is important for achieving optimal performance and also fuel efficiency in your car. There space a variety of variables i m sorry can influence the lot of oxygen available to the engine, such as air temperature, altitude, engine temperature, engine load, barometric pressure and more.If you have a faulty oxygen sensor the engine computer is forced to assumption: v the optimal air come fuel ratio, causing a loss that performance and potentially damages to the engine.The expense of O2 sensor repair is much less 보다 the additional fuel expenses (and substantially less than major engine repair) for this reason it’s worth acquiring it fixed as soon as friend can.By solving the sensor you’ll ensure that the automobile is burning fuel efficiently, and also you’re substantially reducing the likelihood of any type of long term damage to her car.A common failure of auto inspections in plenty of states all fall earlier to the oxygen sensor which will require being fixed prior to returning come the DMV.
When should You have The O2 Sensor Repaired?
There are more subtle indications to be aware of, too. Girlfriend may find that her fuel usage increases, the vehicle doesn’t idle and it should, it might have difficulties starting, and it may feel jerky in spite of a secure throttle. While these symptoms are not always caused by a faulty sensor, it can be the reason of some of them.
How to Replace An O2 Sensor
When you take it your automobile to the mechanic they’ll normally run a couple of diagnostic exam to check the issue. They’ll use an OBD2 diganostic device to check that the inspect engine light is sending out out the password for the oxygen sensor. This process is frequently done throughout an automotive song up and shouldn’t cost any extra money to test for. If a auto has much more than one O2 sensor climate the scan should show which one is resulting in the issue.
Once the problematic sensor has been figured out by the engine computer, the mechanic will usage an oxygen sensor socket come loosen and remove the device. The socket will certainly fit on come a cheater bar and also can be purchased from most major car component outlets, so if she planning on do the repair you yourself it’s a great idea to choose one up. The sensors tend to it is in fitted reasonably tight, therefore it’s a an excellent idea to use the ideal socket to prevent damaging the exhaust pipe.
The electrical link will must be unplugged to allow the socket to be attached to the device. The socket need to need one or two transforms to ease it off, after i beg your pardon it should be easy enough to eliminate with your hands. You deserve to then begin to screw the replacement sensor in through hand, prior to tightening it up again with the O2 sensor socket. The electrical connection should then be snapped earlier on as soon as the sensor is in place. Begin the engine back up, and the inspect engine light must now be off!
Most mechanics will recommend replacing the oxygen sensor with the exact same kind that was on the automobile originally. While an aftermarket O2 sensor may be cheaper, it periodically won’t occupational properly v the car’s computer and the engine irradiate will continue to be on. occasionally the official O2 sensor expenses a little more than the aftermarket part, but you have that extra layer of security discovering it will definitely work properly.
The video clip below helps define the whole process.
How to conserve money top top O2 Sensor Repair
The tricky component of fixing it yourself is in reality the early diagnosis. Most human being won’t have access to the OBD2 diagnostic tool that many garages use, but there space a number of smartphone apps that have the right to turn your phone into an OBD2 scanner. If you deserve to confirm that the component has failed and also needs to it is in replaced, you have the right to order it virtual from a number of major retailers. As discussed previously, the not appropriate to choose up low quality aftermarket parts, so discover the right little of equipment and shop around for the ideal price. You’ll likewise need one O2 sensor socket, which can be picked up at the very same time as your sensor.
When the component arrives you have the right to follow the procedure outlined above, ideally in tandem v using the hands-on which came through your car. Most cars will have the sensor in slightly different places, therefore you deserve to save yourself a lot of time and effort by utilizing the manual. The oxygen sensor is among the easiest components on a auto to change by yourself, therefore you can save money on O2 sensor repair costs by notified the parts and also doing the occupational yourself. If you battle to make the repair climate by all method take it to a mechanic, but it’s worth trying to carry out it you yourself if money is a concern.
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Sample Oxygen Sensor instead of Costs
Below is a table the sample repair expenses for the finest selling dare in the USA this year. The prices room indicative that the common costs you have the right to expect as soon as taking the auto to a mechanic, yet they may vary native state to state.
|Ford F-Series||$81 – $103||$96 – $109||$167-$199|
|Chevrolet Silverado||$79 – $100||$112 – $168||$191-$268|
|Ford Focus||$39 – $50||$89 – $146||$143-$201|
|Toyota Camry||$110 – $141||$136 – $332||$246-$473|
|Toyota Corolla||$94 – $121||$121 – $357||$215-$478|
|Nissan Altima||$55 – $70||$161 – $189||$216-$259|
|Honda CR-V||$63 – $80||$115 – $340||$178-$420|
|Honda Civic||$39 – $50||$74 – $289||$113-$339|
|Honda Accord||$39 – $50||$74 – $289||$113-$339|
|Ford Fusion||$47 – $60||$79 – $115||$126-$175|
O2 Sensor expenses Submitted By our Users
Compare your quote come other people from about the country to make sure you are gaining the best deal. The typical for O2 Sensor is $291
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The Choosing Wisely campaign promotes conversations on overuse and waste in our health care system. However, before many physicians are able to engage in these conversations with their patients they need to become more comfortable with shared decision-making and refine their communication skill set. The Minnesota Medical Association, a grantee of the ABIM Foundation, partnered with the Guthrie Theater to create an innovative approach to understanding and changing the behavior of physicians as they interact with their patients.
“Choosing Wisely’s emphasis on communication as the foundation for more informed decision-making resonated with us. Effective communication is a well-documented gap in the skills of many physicians. We wanted to help physicians improve these skills in a unique and interactive way,” said Janet Silversmith, Director of Health Policy at the Minnesota Medical Association. “The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis has a tradition of connecting health care and the arts. Choosing Wisely was a perfect opportunity for us to partner with the Guthrie in applying actors’ communication techniques to the physician-patient relationship and the critical conversations that occur about care choices and options.”
Research shows that more than 90 percent of the impact of a message results from non-verbal influences. The Guthrie Theater’s Theater and the Healing Arts program is renowned for improving physician communication by helping physicians better understand their non-verbal cues and how they affect their patients. The Theater and the Healing Arts program has worked with notable institutions such as the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota on topics such as vaccine use and substance abuse issues.
The Minnesota Medical Association partnered with Theater and the Healing Arts to create a physician communication workshop designed to help clinicians:
- maximize productivity in patient visits;
- improve communication with patients;
- foster shared decision-making and support; and,
- illustrate how communication skills can be used in conversations about Choosing Wisely – how to talk about the best tests, treatments and procedures for a specific patient.
The free workshop was created specifically as the centerpiece of the Minnesota Medical Association’s Choosing Wisely learning network, consisting of local physician practices interested in implementing the campaign in their clinical settings. The first two of four workshops in the series were held in April.
During the four-hour training, physicians from multiple specialties focused on improving a number of non-verbal cues to make their patients feel more comfortable, including body language and breathing. The instructors explained that breathing patterns are often unconsciously mimicked by a patient and can help set a relaxed conversation tone. Physicians at the workshop also became attuned to how a quick and busy gait when entering an exam room may set the wrong tone for the patient exam.
Through role-playing exercises and feedback from instructors, physicians built on these skills throughout the training. Participants also practiced eye contact and positive speech patterns to help build trust and reinforce verbal instructions.
“[This was a] great presentation of skills we will all need to employ in changing patient expectations and serving as good stewards of health care resources,” said one of the attendees.
Complementing Minnesota Medical Association’s efforts in this area, the ABIM Foundation worked with Drexel University College of Medicine to develop a set of interactive physician communication modules to enhance physician and patient communication around specialty society recommendations. The modules are designed to help physicians, patients and other health care stakeholders think and talk about overuse of health care resources by providing strategies for physicians to build trust and address patient attitudes and beliefs that more care is not always better care.
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Make a face shield. Sew your own PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) to protect yourself, your family and friends, and your community from COVID-19.
Free tutorials show you how to sew a scrub cap and a face mask. Attach your mask to a scrub hat and avoid ear irritation from rubbing elastic.
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Check out the September issue of American Quilter Magazine for a new bag design, The Zip & Flip. It’s built like a backpack but has only one strap.
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