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Private equity firms are raising increasingly bigger funds, but they don’t necessarily deliver bigger returns. This according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal.
“The rise of megafunds reflects the growing demand for private equity from large investors such as sovereign-wealth funds with hundreds of millions of dollars to put to work,” the article explains, adding that persistently low interest rates, private equity’s reputation for double-digit returns is enticing, even if it means paying higher fees and locking up capital.
The problem, however, is that these behemoth funds haven’t always delivered. The article cites data from Cambridge Associates showing that private equity funds of $10 billion or more generated five-year annualized returns of 14.4% (net of fees) as of the end of last September, “barely edging past the 14.1% return for the S&P 500.”
The reason for this, the article explains, is simply that “bigger funds have to find bigger targets to invest their money, which means they have fewer options. It tends to be more difficult to broadly implement new operating strategies at larger companies than at smaller ones. Megafunds, as a result, are often buying the market.” Conversely, it says, the smaller the fund, the less its returns tend to track the broader market.
The article reports that, according to megafund managers, they tend to outperform when the market is down, “not in a decadelong bull market like the current one.” They also provide one of the few options for large pension and sovereign-wealth funds to “invest massive amounts of cash all at once” and therefore get exposure to a growing portion of the market that isn’t traded on the major exchanges.
According to Andrea Auerbach, head of the global private-investments group at Cambridge, “Size is the frenemy of performance.”
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Buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is used very much in Polish cookery as the plant grows well in a cold climate. Buckwheat requires a well drained soil but without too much fertiliser – lots of fertiliser reduces the yield. It is not in fact a grass or cereal crop but the flour is used in much the same way as wheat.
Buckwheat is related to sorrel and rhubarb and has small triangular seeds. The plant originated in South East Asia and then was brought to Europe.
I have read that it came to Poland via Manchuria and Siberia but the Polish word for buckwheat – gryka indicates that it came from the Greeks – I have also read that the plant was brought to areas of what are now Eastern Poland, Russia & the Ukraine in the 7th century by Byzantine Greeks.
Another regional word used in Polish for buckwheat is hreczka – this again suggests a Greek origin.
Photographs from the book Kuchnia Polska by Maciej Kuroń
The triangular seeds have a strong scent which is quite distinctive and the flour is grey/speckled black in colour. It is mixed with wheat flour to make pancakes and bliny.
- Bliny are popular in Eastern Poland and in the area called Kresy – the Eastern Borderlands – from where both my parents came as well as in the Ukraine and Russia.
- The word bliny is plural – I doubt very much if the singular blin is much used!
- Bliny are best cooked on a griddle or a cast iron frying pan.
- Bliny are small risen pancakes made using yeast they are in the American style of pancake.
Bliny can be served warm or cold – I much prefer them warm!
- 80g plain flour
- 80g buckwheat flour
- 1 egg
- 125 ml warm milk (full or semi-skimmed)
- 125 ml warm water
- 25g fresh yeast or 1 tablespoon of dried yeast
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 tablespoon of melted butter
- Pinch of salt
Put the yeast, sugar and milk in a bowl and leave to rise. (You can place this over bowl of warm water).
- In a large bowl mix the flours together and add yeast mixture and then the beaten egg.
- Add the water bit by bit until the mixture is like pouring cream, you might not need it all.
- Add the pinch of salt and the melted butter then cover with a cloth and leave to rise.
- Use the risen batter to make small pancakes by using 1 large tablespoon per pancake – I make 3 or 4 at a time in my lightly greased cast iron pan.
- Once you get the pan hot, lower the heat to a steady low so as not to burn the bliny.
- Once they are cooked on one side, turn then over using a spatula and cook for a few minutes more.
Serve the bliny with any of the following: melted butter, soured cream, twaróg, yoghurt cheese or cream cheese, smoked salmon, pickled herrings or even caviar, gherkins, fried onions, skwarki (crispy bacon bits) fried mushrooms and one of my favourites a fried egg.
These are thin pancakes and are also very popular in Northern France where they are called gallettes de sarrasin.
The French for buckwheat is sarrasin or blé noir.
Many years ago whilst on holiday in France I bought and brought home a very large French pancake pan.
However on my gas stove it is too large for a good distribution of heat – you get a hot spot in the centre which tends to burn that part – so I use my smaller pancake pan.
Last week whilst in a department store in Leeds I saw the following – An Electric Crêpe Pan – It might be good.
- 75g buckwheat flour
- 25g plain flour
- 2 eggs
- 120ml of milk (full or semi-skimmed)
- 120ml of water
- 25g of melted butter
- pinch of salt
- Some extra milk might be needed.
Make these in the same way as standard pancakes adding the melted butter after the batter has been standing for about an hour.
I think these pancakes are best with savoury fillings and my favourite is in fact French in origin, Breton style with a slice of good ham, grated Gruyère cheese and a soft fried egg.
The fillings are put on the cooked pancake and the sides are folded over but with the filling still showing in the centre. (You can put this back on the pan to heat it a little more.)
These mini buckwheat pancakes are Dutch in origin and it was only as I was trying out the recipes again that I realised how similar they are to bliny – but these are not served with savoury toppings but with icing sugar.
(The Dutch for buckwheat is boekweit)
- Several decades ago when on a visit to The Netherlands I bought a special cast iron pan which is used for making poffertjes .
- It was in the days before cheap flights & just hand luggage and I had travelled there by car – not as easy to bring home without.
- If you do not have access to the authentic pan you can make them on a frying pan – my cast iron pan works very well.
- 10g dried yeast
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 125g buckwheat flour
- 125 plain flour
- Pinch of salt
- 1 egg
- 350ml of full fat or semi-skimmed milk – warmed slightly
- 1 tablespoon of butter – melted
- Icing sugar to serve.
- In a small bowl or jug dissolve the sugar, the yeast and around 50 ml of the milk.
- Leave for around 10 minutes or so as it froths up.
- In a separate bowl, combine the buckwheat and wheat flours, salt, egg, yeast mixture and half the remaining milk and mix well.
- Now add the remaining milk until the mixture is like double cream – you might not need all the milk.
- Add the melted butter.
- Cover the bowl and leave for around 1 hour until the mixture has bubbled and risen.
- Lightly grease the pan and heat the pan – keep it the pan warm but not too hot or you will burn the poffertjes.
- Using a teaspoon fill each indentation in the pan – you need around 2 teaspoons for each.
- Turn the poffertjes around as soon as the bottom has set, using two forks.
Dredge the poffertjes with lots of icing sugar.
One of my friends who now lives in Canada brought me a large bottle of maple syrup on her last visit and I tried this over the poffertjes instead of the icing sugar – they were delicious.
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The police cannot be everywhere.
The United States is a large and very open country. Drug prohibition has put guns into the hands of many criminals, and has fueled some of the most violent gang and turf wars that rival even the most brutal periods of alcohol prohibition. How then can the government compassionately tell someone that they have no right to defend themselves from harm from whatever source with lethal weapons?
The 2nd amendment is not meant to provide hunters with the right to shoot animals for meat. It was not only just meant for persons to be able to carry protection against criminals. It was meant to keep the government honest as well. The 2nd amendment was meant to enumerate one of our rights that come from our humanity; the right to be secure in ones property and in ones person.
I would never support any law that takes away that right. I would also never support a law that would make it illegal for gun rights groups to buy advertising criticizing a federal legislator for voting for gun control.
I support the following bills:
- H.R. 1096 which includes provisions for repealing the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the Federal Firearms License Reform Act of 1993
- H.R. 3305 which would allow pilots and specially assigned law enforcement personnel to carry firearms in order to protect airline passengers. Had this been law in 2001, I firmly believe that the events of 9/11 would not have been possible.
- H.R. 1146 which would end our membership in the United Nations.
The 2nd amendment goes hand-in-hand with the 4th amendment. How many pro-gun politicians voted for the Patriot Act which gives the government the right to search your home without a warrant, when you're not home, leave listening devices, and use any and all information to create a prosecution on any charge regardless of their original reason for the search? I would never vote for any law that restricts the 2nd or 4th amendments in any way.
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In April 2013, Gabrielle Giffords was sitting with then-Vice President Joe Biden in his Capitol office as the bipartisan bill that would have expanded background checks for gun owners failed in the Senate.
It was just two years after she had been shot in the head during a mass shooting, and the former congresswoman was furious at Congress’s failure to enact meaningful reform, says Peter Ambler, executive director of Giffords, the gun violence prevention group named in her honor. Ambler says Biden assured her that some day, Congress would have the will to act on gun control. “Don’t worry,” Biden said. “The country will be so upset that there will ultimately be progress in building your movement.”
Nearly eight years later, the movement has taken off, but progress remains elusive. And Biden, now President, is facing pressure to act. Gun violence prevention is entrenched in the national political debate as mass shootings have continued to plague the country, but the federal government has not implemented major reforms. Even though Biden ran for president on a gun control platform that activists hailed as the strongest in history, he has not taken any executive action on gun control since taking office. And in the wake of two shooting sprees in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado this month that left 18 people dead, calls for reform from both activists and members of his own party are already intensifying. The question now is whether Biden can deliver on his promises.
“The Administration is dealing with many crises. We knew that when they came in,” says Shannon Watts, who founded the advocacy group Moms Demand Action. “But at this point, gun violence is a pandemic within a pandemic. And we do need the Administration to act.”
Speaking from the State Dining Room in the White House on Tuesday, Biden called on lawmakers to reform background checks for gun purchases. “I don’t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common sense steps that will save lives in the future and to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act,” Biden said during a 8 minute address. He pointed to two House bills that have already passed that would expand the use of background checks and other measures, and he urged senators to approve the bills. “The United States Senate, I hope some are listening, should immediately pass bills that close loopholes in the background check system,” Biden said.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday the Senate would vote on both bills. But with an evenly-divided Senate, many are skeptical Democrats will garner the requisite 60 votes to pass the bills into law. That puts even more pressure on Biden to handle things himself. As a candidate, Biden promised to use executive authority to ban the importation of assault weapons, and said he would approach gun violence as a “public health epidemic”— two campaign pledges activists are now demanding he honor.
Top Biden advisers including Susan Rice, who directs the Domestic Policy Council, and Cedric Richmond, who runs the Office of Public Engagement, met with gun violence prevention groups in February to discuss potential actions at both the executive and legislative levels. In a statement after their meeting, the White House said they talked about ways to stop the spread of ghost guns— guns that can be assembled at home that do not require background checks— implementing universal background checks, and expanding community violence intervention programs.
“We are certainly considering a range of levers, including working through legislation, including executive actions,” White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday, to address “gun safety measures” and “violence in communities.”
But nothing has materialized yet. Among gun control activists, the deadly shootings in Atlanta and Boulder have not only reinforced the need for the Biden Administration to step in, but also intensified simmering frustrations from years of inaction. Some activists have privately questioned the White House’s commitment to quickly taking executive actions on guns, and are angry that the Administration has not installed an official to specifically handle gun violence prevention, according to one source familiar with the situation. Others are disappointed that the Administration has not confronted this issue the way it has taken on climate change, another source says, an issue which has already been the subject of
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
State officials are also ramping up pressure on the Biden Administration. On March 22, 18 states, led by Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland asking him to close the “ghost gun” loophole, which would effectively allow ghost guns to be regulated like firearms. “Congress has previously considered bills that would close this loophole. However, ATF need not—and should not—wait for Congress to act to close off criminals’ illegal access to untraceable firearms,” the Attorneys General wrote. “Existing law provides you all the authority you need; you can begin the process of issuing rulemaking today to reverse this erroneous interpretation and close this loophole.”
Gun control groups have long considered Biden an ally, which makes his slow start on the issue as president all the more frustrating to some. Biden’s platform on gun control during his 2020 campaign was an extension of his progressive record on the issue from over half a century in public life. He ran television ads in Nevada during the 2020 Democratic primaries that highlighted the 2017 Mandalay Bay Hotel shooting in Las Vegas, NV that killed 60 people, to show Biden’s record pushing for gun restrictions. He frequently pointed to two instances in which he prevailed over the National Rifle Association (NRA): his role in passing the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which created a federal background check system, and his work the following year with Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, to pass a 10-year ban on military-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines. (The ban expired in 2004 and Congress did not renew it.) He also touted how, in the wake of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., President Barack Obama asked him to spearhead a raft of actions which included making it harder to buy guns
Publicly, gun control activists are still praising the Administration, cognizant of the fact that Biden is focused on combatting the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis. But with gun violence reemerging at the forefront of the national conversation, they believe that they could start to see action from Biden in the next few weeks.
“I know the Administration is taking the time to get this right, and they’re being very intentional about examining the options and doing something that is smart and impactful,” says Ambler of gun violence prevention group Giffords. “It’s not just winning the political fight and winning the message fight, it’s about having a governing agenda, which each and every day is going to be moving the ball forward.”
–With reporting by Melissa Chan/New York
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Places Past Disappearance
journal contributionposted on 06.12.2017, 00:00 authored by R Gibson
In this address, I think out loud about the work we need to do with history in order to understand better how to live well in the present and future. I call this process “vestige work”. Rummaging in Australia’s aftermath cultures, I try to re-dress the disintegration in our story-systems, in our traditional knowledge caches, our landscapes and ecologies. My job is to investigate and recuperate scenes and collections of artifacts that have been torn apart somehow, torn by landgrabbing, let’s say, or by accidents, or exploitation that ignores rituals of preservation and restoration. Typically, the scenes and systems I investigate were once a good deal more coherent, but now they are ailing or out of balance. I’ve come to understand that most of Australia is like this, that the place we inhabit is our best evidence about our unbalanced selves and that this place has so much raggedness in it because it is patterned to the society that has used it so roughly.
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This is a drawing depicting the motions in interior of Uranus.
Image from: The New Solar System
Motions in Uranus' Interior
Motions in the interior of a planet help carry heat from the inside to the outside.
The drawing to the left illustrates the kind of movements that happen in interior of a planet. Material rises from the interior, and flows in a roiling motion like the boiling of a pot. In the drawing are
shown loops of material turning over in the upper ice layer of Uranus.
In the interior of Uranus, the ice layers are warm enough to move in this fashion. Some scientists think, however, that the interior of Uranus may have a different sort of motion.
The magnetosphere of Uranus seems to be produced by motions in the icy layers inside Uranus.
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Schneider/Ansel: Creating jobs in a shifting economy
A good job is the cornerstone of the American dream. Jobs give us the income to buy a home and support a family. Jobs provide the resources for communities to grow and prosper, to invest in schools, parks, roads, and services that improve the quality of life for young and old alike. Today in Massachusetts, however, we have a "good news, bad news" story about our economy that we need to understand as we consider how to expand our job base.
First: the good news. As we document in our report Mass Jobs: Meeting the Challenges of a Shifting Economy, the Massachusetts economy is the envy of many other states. We rank near the top of the nation in our level of labor productivity and have outpaced the nation in further increasing that productivity. We have the most educated workforce in the nation, and we rank near the top in terms of knowledge jobs and innovation.
The Massachusetts economy continues to shift toward knowledge-based industries, and is increasingly becoming what we call a "boutique economy." For example, between 2000 and 2005, we created jobs in the biotech sector at more than double the national rate (15 percent vs. 7 percent). Many of these jobs are, as the saying goes, good jobs at good wages. For those who have the skills to participate in it, the boutique economy offers great rewards.
At the same time, the state's boutique economy offers fewer options for everyone else. And that's just the beginning of the bad news about our recent jobs record.
Massachusetts is still down 100,000 jobs, or 3 percent, from our employment peak in 2001. Between the start of 2001 and the end of 2006 we ranked 49th in the nation in job creation, outpacing only the state of Michigan.
The number of jobs in Massachusetts shrank by 3 percent between 2001 and the second quarter of 2007, a performance that was worse than all 10 of our economic competitor states. Even more striking is the loss of high-tech jobs in Massachusetts. Between 2000 and 2005, our state lost 58,000 high-tech jobs, many of them in the Metrowest region. High-tech, an industry that once powered the "Massachusetts Miracle," saw employment shrink by 23 percent.
This economic shift had a profound impact in office buildings and communities up and down Rte. 128, the Mass Pike, and I-495 - so much so that many residents chose to move to another state. Between 2000 and 2006, 286,000 Massachusetts residents, the equivalent of 4.6 percent of the state's 2000 population, moved out to pursue the American dream elsewhere.
That's why Governor Patrick has made job creation a priority for his administration. His $1 billion plan to help the life sciences sector grow in Massachusetts is currently before the legislature with a strong likelihood of passing. But we think there is more that needs to be done. Here are four ideas worth considering:
UExpand the number of export-based jobs. Export-based companies are those businesses that produce goods or services at a level above and beyond the demand from within our own state. As Massachusetts-produced goods and services are sold to other states and countries, more money comes back to the state and ripples through the economy. Life science jobs are part of our export base, but so are many other types of jobs. Rather than target economic incentives for specific industry sectors, we urge policymakers to support incentives that will result in the growth of export-based jobs across many sectors.
UCreate a favorable business climate and help existing companies expand here. Massachusetts has tried to shed the reputation that it is not a good place to do business. Recent efforts to streamline permitting and cut through some of the red tape have helped. There is no reason why we can't make the permitting process even more transparent and easier to navigate. Reasonable timelines for decisions should be established and technical assistance provided to the many smaller communities who lack the resources to make quick decisions about permitting. And regional overlay districts should also be considered to encourage communities to work together on business and industrial expansion projects.
UCreate a job vacancy and workforce strategy. The quality of our workforce attracts and keeps companies in our state. We currently have more than 90,000 job vacancies right now - jobs that would exist for those with the right set of skills. We need to step up our efforts to match job seekers with vacancies and to align our workforce development, vocational education, and higher education systems with jobs in fields where we know we will have a need for labor for the foreseeable future. We also need to stay relentless about making sure we have the best preK-12 system in the nation. This means targeting our public investment on what works while staying focused on improving educational outcomes.
UDevelop a regional approach with an urban agenda. Regional economic conditions and needs vary considerably across the state. Significant job losses have occurred in cities outside of the greater Boston region. We need to make sure that all regions of Massachusetts have opportunities for job growth and that our older industrial cities are not left further behind.
There are no easy answers when it comes to job growth. But we believe that if we focus on strategies that broaden our economic competitiveness, we can once again provide good jobs with good wages to Massachusetts workers.
By John R. Schneider, is executive vice president and Dana Ansel, Ph.D., is research director for MassINC.
The MetroWest Chamber of Commerce will host a forum on the MassINC report and workforce development at 8 a.m. Friday, March 7, at the Framingham Sheraton. For more information, go to www.metrowest.org. - The full Mass Jobs report is available through MassINC at www.massinc.org.
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A prescription medication, Adderall is a medication that is indicated in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. While it is commonly associated with ADHD, Adderall is also associated with narcolepsy. Unlike a lot of medications, this one is only available in the United States and Canada. This medication is classified as a psychostimulant medication that works by increasing dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain.
Make an appointment with a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists are mental health professionals who have the ability to prescribe medication. Keep in mind that psychologists cannot prescribe medication. During your first session, your doctor will ask you why you scheduled the appointment. Tell him or her about your symptoms, how often they occur, and how long you have noticed them. He or she will then ask several follow up questions to help make a diagnosis
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It was nearing sunset on Lake Dora, and the calm waters were liquid smoke. Only the cries of a couple of blackbirds broke the stillness of the early evening. A blue heron waded among the cattails, and an egret glided silently by.
Handfuls of tourists began arriving on the wooden pier by the Lakeside Inn for the sunset cruise.
``Is that it?'' an elderly woman from Miramar asked incredulously when a pontoon boat pulled up. It was a very plain craft, open on all sides and looking badly in need of a coat of paint. Wooden planks served as benches along the two sides, and one shorter plank created additional seating in the middle.
The Liki Tiki (Hawaiian for Love Boat) was indeed our vessel for the next hour. There were no drinks, no bathroom, no life vests that we could see anywhere, just four seat cushions like those one might take to a football game. On the middle bench there was a book on birds and two pairs of binoculars to share among the passengers.
But the boat seemed to fit well in this land of rolling hills, sparkling lakes, scenic hammocks and leisurely pace. The craft rode smoothly across the water, its unassuming appearance actually an aid as we let our minds wander back to a Florida that once was.
The journey took us along the shores of six-mile-long Lake Dora and adjacent Lake Beauclaire to see the sights: Mount Dora's Boathouse Row, with its old boathouses now converted into homes; Grantham Point, with the 35-foot red-and-white Mount Dora lighthouse; Palm Island Park, with its boardwalk from which it is possible to see some of the 200 species of birds identified in the region, plus alligators, otters and raccoons.
We saw no gators, otters or raccoons, but we did see green herons, blue herons, egrets, anhingas, ospreys, ducks and geese in the neighborhood of the park.
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We understand that there may be times when you struggle to make your Council Tax payments.
If you are having difficulty paying your Council Tax bill, let us know as soon as possible. We may be able to help. If possible, don’t stop paying. Instead, pay as much as you can afford to bring the balance down and contact us.
Council Tax is known as a priority debt and ranks above loan repayments, telephone bills, TV subscriptions, etc. If you don’t keep up your payments you can be sent to prison.
We can look at ways to help you to make payments and keep the outstanding amount down. You might be able to change when or how you pay, apply for Council Tax support or see if you are eligible for any discounts or exemptions.
Change how you pay your bill
Move to Direct Debit
Setting up a Direct Debit can help you manage your payments and it gives you the option to pay on a fixed date every month.
You can set up a Direct Debit online using My Account.
Once you have activated your Council Tax account, follow the link to set up a Direct Debit.
Increase the number of payments
You can choose to spread your payments over 12 months instead of 10 months. You must advise us in advance that you want to do this. Your last instalment of each bill will always be made in the last month of the financial year, i.e. March.
The number of instalments will reduce based on the number of months left in the year.
You can do this using My Account.
Discounts and exemptions
Some people qualify for a reduction on their Council Tax bill. Make sure that you are receiving all of the discounts or exemptions you are entitled to.
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A loan modification can improve your terms and save you money without the cost and hassle of a refinance. Unlike a full refinance, a loan modification is not a new note, nor is it a replacement of your original note. It is simply an addendum to the original document, changing the terms as agreed.
Requesting a Modification
A modification request is less involved than an initial loan application. Since a modification is not a new loan, you will contact your lender to inquire about the process. The lender may require some paperwork and updated financials, but nothing as extensive the original process. The lender will review your loan, your payment history and your credit. If you are still in conformance with its guidelines, it will approve the modification.
Once you're approved and ready to move forward, you sign a modification agreement. This is a simple document, no more than a few pages. It describes the terms and date of the original note. For example, “Borrower entered into promissory note dated May 1, 2005, in the amount of $200,000.” The document then goes on to describe the modified terms. For example, “The interest rate on the note is hereby modified from 5 percent to 4 percent as of May 1, 2013.” The modification becomes an amendment to the original note, rather than a replacement.
If your modification involves an increase in your loan amount, the mortgage will need to be amended as well. This is common in lines of credit. For example, if you have a $100,000 line of credit with your house as collateral, the lender has a mortgage recorded with the county clerk in the amount of $100,000. If your line of credit is increased to $150,000, the lender will file a $50,000 mortgage amendment increasing the total amount secured to $150,000. Like the note, this becomes part of, not a replacement for, your original mortgage.
Because mortgages often last 30 years or sometimes even longer, there’s a good chance you may seek to modify the loan more than once. If you go through with future modifications, the process will be the same. The note will be amended with a second amendment referencing it and the previous amendment. The only time the original note goes away is if you refinance the loan or pay it off.
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In the spring of 1943 Britain was enjoying exceptionally warm weather, the best for almost 50 years. It must have helped raise spirits as the war went relentlessly on, with no end in sight.
In London Vere Hodgson was still keeping her diary, which she had maintained throughout the worst days of the blitz. The war was now the backdrop to every domestic activity, with the pubs crowded with military personnel from every service and Allied nation, the food limited in availability and unexceptional, and death and destruction ever present in the background:
Sunday, 11th April 1943
A real Florentine Spring. Went with Mrs T. to find ‘Dirty Dick’s’. Have long wished to do this. It is a Pub in the City…
We found it opposite Liverpool St Station. Dirty signboard outside. We descended to an underground vault, filled with men of all nations having a drink. No women there. Mrs T. bravely approached and we had two glasses of port. We drank to her son in H.M.S. Sussex, and her husband serving in India.
We looked around. Innumerable sailors had scratched their names and ships on the walls. American soldiers were interested: Old leather bottles, heavy with dirt, hung from ceilings. One old scallywag seated on a barrel, gazed at us much amused. In spite of the dirt and cobwebs somehow the place was pleasing to the eye.
Upstairs was another bar done in the old style with notices inviting people to go below and see the Old Vaults. But no available history to buy during the war.
I suggested ‘The Cheshire Cheese` for lunch, not bombed. We poked our way up an alley. No lunches on Saturday. … But we found ‘Ye Old Cock Tavern’ in the Strand. … We had Fish and potatoes and Xmas pudding. Not much of anything, but we enjoyed ourselves. 3/- each.
Walked through the devastated Temple. The most serious scene of ruin concentrated on one set of historical buildings, just appalling! Went to the river and saw Discovery. The sea scouts were playing about in rowing boats…
Dr Remy and I had tea with Auntie Nell. He considered I was in an optimistic mood. I felt we ought to count our blessings. Sir Alfred Baker head of his legal firm, has died. He was Chairman of the L.C.C. and had done much for the refugees. A whole family, friends of Auntie Nell, the Smallwoods of Birmingham, had just been drowned at sea. She was very upset.
Actually a little cod fish this week – not much taste, but we have enjoyed it. Cheese ration to be lowered.
[An Air Raid] Warning last week. But the All Clear led to two Anglo-American horses running amok. They were just passing Ladbroke Rd Police Station when it boomed out. The horses started at a gallop. The brake broke and the unhappy driver could not hold them. They charged straight for the main road, crossed it and crashed into a tree at the corner of Holland Walk.
When Miss Ashton passed the ambulance was taking away the driver. Other people were coping with the horses. When I arrived both poor creatures were up Holland Walk, shaking with fright. One had a piece out of his shoulder and a damaged eye. The other was all of a tremble. A little boy had jumped clear, and he was holding them while a woman was covering the uninjured one with a rug. No bones broken. The Vet was putting stuff on the wounds of the other.
Worthing has had bad raids. Miss Jones was going there to stay with two sisters. She wrote and got no reply. Their brother sent word that they had both gone out to tea to a house with two ladies -it had a direct hit, and all were killed.
As to the war, we seem fast turning Rommel out of Tunisia, In about two months we shall attack Sicily. Perhaps this is too optimistic. Fatal for me to get cheerful – some awful disaster always follows rapidly.
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Underneath we’ll get into a portion of the arrangements on A List Of Advantages And Disadvantages Of Apple Music.
Advantages And Disadvantages Of Apple Music:
Same as the various famous administrations out there, Apple Music accompanies advantages and disadvantages. It has numerous incredible things and Apple improves it even with each new update. We shall list some of these advantages and disadvantages of Apple Music.
Advantages of Apple Music:
We will begin with the Apple Music geniuses. On the off chance that you haven’t attempted it yet, you will love its features and determination of tunes.
Choice Of Tunes
With regards to music streaming, determination of melodies or songs is a standout amongst the most critical things. In this division, Apple did really well. There are more than 40 million tunes. In this way, regardless of what your most loved sort is, you will discover a lot of tunes to tune in to. Old and new, quick or moderate, simply name it! Something else to say. You can discover exclusives. A few collections have its introduction appropriate on this music streaming feature before arriving to others.
Apple Music accompanies a huge amount of convenient features. The entire adventure begins with your inclinations. Pick the music you adore. You will likewise get proposals and playlists from music specialists. The feature numerous clients have been sitting tight for is the capacity to download the tunes and hear them out while being disconnected from the internet. You get the opportunity to appreciate Beats 1, different radio stations, and new hits. You can rearrange the tunes you have in your library, share your playlists with family and companions, and the sky is the limit from there.
Accessible On Various Gadgets, Including Android
Apple Music is accessible on a wide range of gadgets not simply iOS, including Android phones and tablets and Sonos. In the event that you are utilizing an Android gadget, simply peruse for the Play Store and download the Apple Music application. You will appreciate every one of its features and an incredible determination of melodies or songs.
3 Months Free Trial
An incredible aspect concerning Apple Music is that first-time clients get 3 months free trial. You should simply download the application for your gadget, enter your Apple ID, pick the plan and give the payment details. You won’t be charged amid the free time for testing. On the off chance that you do like the administration and need to keep utilizing it, you will be charged consequently consistently. You can wipe out the enrollment whenever. Before you get your expectations up, ensure that Apple Music is accessible in your nation.
There are two fundamental plans. The cost of individual clients is $9.99 every month. There is another arrangement choice, and that is family enrollment. It is more than reasonable in light of the fact that it incorporates whole Apple Music encounter for up to six individuals. Its cost is $14.99 every month. There is additionally half markdown price for those enrolled in school, so on the off chance that you are heading off to college, don’t miss this!
You Can Utilize Siri To Dispatch Tunes
On the off chance that you possess an iOS gadget, you can utilize Siri to dispatch the melodies you need effortlessly. Ensure that you enabled Hey Siri. You can give Siri orders, for example, play the top melody/song from the 80’s, or play Madonna, for instance.
Disadvantages Of Apple Music
Presently, we are moving to the Apple Music cons. There are a couple of things that are not as splendid.
The Interface Is Not Natural
While Apple improved Apple Music, we can’t state that its interface is instinctive. Numerous clients gripe about similar things. It is elusive a few choices, and everything may look confounding. In the event that you are a first-time client, you will require some time frame to make sense of it. In this way, this unquestionably is an enormous disadvantage of this music gushing administration.
Apple Music Is Not Accessible In All Nations Or Locales
Another disadvantage of Apple Music is the reality not everybody can give it a shot. Regardless of the possibility that there is an Apple Store in your nation and the support you require for Apple gadgets, there is no alternative to download and utilize Apple Music. That is the reason I said the accompanying above, yet I will rehash it. Before you get excessively energized over the music administration that such a large number of individuals acclaim, ensure it is accessible in your nation.
Having issues with your iOS device? See iOS Problems and their fixes Here:- iPhone iOS Fixes
Check out Technical Apple device reviews here:- Apple Devices
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If you want to know how far it is between London and Chicago, the straight line distance is 3,959 miles
or 6,372 kilometers
If you are a pilot flying a private plane, you can fly straight from London, United Kingdom to Chicago, IL for a total flight time of 8 hours, 25 minutes
Book a flight:
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Get more details to plan a trip from
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Exiting USAID Chief On The Pandemic, Foreign Aid, Trump's Policies
For nearly three years, Mark Green led the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in delivering foreign aid to countries in need during times of crisis, including the coronavirus pandemic.
In mid-March, Green announced that he was stepping down and taking on a new position as executive director of the McCain Institute for International Leadership. President Trump has asked John Barsa, part of the USAID leadership team, to take over as acting administrator.
NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with Green, a former Republican congressman from Wisconsin and U.S. ambassador to Tanzania, about the value of U.S. foreign assistance, his outlook on how developing countries will face the pandemic and what the future may hold for USAID.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Were you reticent at all to leave your job in the middle of this pandemic? I know it had been in the works, but even so, did you pause?
Over the course of a number of weeks when we first saw the epidemic, we began to take steps at USAID to craft the framework that we're now implementing in our work.
We stood up a crisis action team [for coronavirus], and then we moved to create an internal task force led by Ken Staley, who in his day job leads the President's Malaria Initiative. So I feel like we've got the right people at the right time at USAID to lead in that portion of the response to the pandemic.
But the other piece of this is that as we get through to the other side [of the crisis] — hopefully sooner than later — I'm really trying to dedicate myself to help build the kind of leadership that we need around the world to prepare against future shocks and crises. And that's the reason why I joined the McCain Institute, is to try to foster that kind of leadership.
So what does that look like? I mean, what is American leadership? What does it appear to be to you right now and what should it be?
I think the great lesson that we've seen from the coronavirus outbreak in some ways is strikingly similar to the lesson that we learned the hard way not so long after 9/11. We have to care about what takes place in the far reaches of the world.
I was elected to Congress in '98, and I remember not so long after 9/11 thinking to myself that if you would have told me that we would, in a remote corner of Afghanistan, really see a set of actions that resulted in 3,000 people being killed in New York — I'd have said, "You're crazy."
That same thing is true here. We have to care about what takes place in Asia, in Africa, because if we don't — if we're not engaged, if we're not building capacity in these countries — sadly, the challenges will come to us.
You have said that the spread of COVID-19 underscores the importance of investing in foreign aid and global health programs. Yet the White House is looking to cut funding to the World Health Organization. Does that concern you?
There is no doubt that the World Health Organization made some missteps early on. The World Health Organization has said that.
But the advantage of the World Health Organization for the U.S. government and for the American people is that they're able to work in places that are often difficult for us — insecure settings, places where we don't want to post Americans for a range of reasons. So an effective World Health Organization is important for our interests as much as the interests of other countries and other peoples.
President Trump has made clear for a very long time, even as a candidate, that he didn't have faith in international organizations and that, frankly, the U.S. should rethink its role in the world. As someone who believes that we should be paying attention and concern ourselves with all the corners of the world, how do you make sense of that?
There's no doubt that President Trump, that the White House [are] skeptics of foreign assistance and skeptics of multilateral organizations and there's nothing wrong with a healthy skepticism. When I was first asked about coming into the Trump administration, I remember meeting with president-elect Donald Trump, and he was asking me about the value of foreign assistance. And I said, "You know, look, Mr. President-elect. I believe that if we do this right, if our foreign assistance is spent wisely, effectively and efficiently, we can take on the challenges that you see that were an important part of American leadership and American foreign policy."
That's what we try to do at USAID, what I tried to do in my tenure there and I think it's important that we're always thinking in those terms. I think Americans are traditionally skeptical of foreign assistance and in working with international organizations. But I think as we look carefully at these investments, we'll see that they're wise, that in the long run, they're good for our security. They actually are good for our economy. They save us money in the long run, and I think they're important part of who we are as a people.
President Trump proposed slashing foreign aid by 21% in February of this year. Did that make your job harder?
At USAID and at other parts of the foreign assistance apparatus, our job is always to spend money as effectively and efficiently as we can. When we receive less funding, we can do less of that. Our job is to make the money go as far as it can. But make no mistake, when we face deep cuts, that means we have to make hard choices and things necessarily get set aside. And from my point of view, that's unfortunate.
One program that was reportedly cut was a USAID program called Predict. This was an initiative aimed at identifying and preventing animal viruses that might someday infect humans. Given what we know about the origins of COVID-19 at this point, was it a mistake to end funding for that kind of early warning program?
Well, I'm a little bit dated now, having been out of USAID for a couple of weeks. It's important to know that it wasn't cut, that it did come to the end of a contract that had been extended a number of times. And I do know that USAID is working with partners to actually recalibrate and build the successor to it.
I'm very proud of the investments that USAID has made, particularly looking at zoonotic diseases — those that move potentially from animals to humans. I'm also proud of the work that we've done against wildlife trafficking, which is oftentimes a driver of these risks. So the investments that we've made have made a huge difference and built capacity in places where it did not exist. We believe very much in a science- and technology-based approach, and I'm confident that we'll continue to build programs in that regard.
Do you think that America's alliances have frayed over the last few years?
I think they've been tested. I think we've had tough conversations. Again, nothing wrong with that. But, you know, I'm one of those who believes in our alliances. I believe that we're much stronger when we work closely together with our friends and allies on matters of mutual concern.
To the president's credit, he's asking tough questions about the model of foreign assistance that China, Russia, Iran and Turkey offer — more authoritarian models. But at the end of the day, I believe that our foreign assistance is well invested, well-spent and transparently, effectively outcome-oriented. I'm confident of how it lifts lives and helps make the American people stronger and safer.
What are your concerns as as we watch the pandemic start to unfold in developing countries?
In many cases, these countries lack some of the basic tools of an effective response, and I know that we — being the global community, from the United States to our allies — are trying to help with that. But to contain an outbreak, a pandemic, you need effective communications with your people so there's clarity around the steps that can be taken to prevent further spread of the disease and to make sure the treatment, when available, is applied effectively. That's often difficult in many of these countries.
It's also important to build the kind of citizen-centered, citizen-responsive governance that gives people confidence that their leaders, that their governments are well-equipped to take on the challenge.
Those are two key elements that we need to work on with our partners in many parts of the world to make sure not only that we're able to help contain and defeat the current outbreak, but to stop the reemergence of COVID-19 and other infectious diseases in the future.
What is the most important thing that USAID should do in this crisis right now?
It's no one thing — it's a lot of things. So first off, the United States government and USAID are the largest sources of humanitarian assistance in the world. During these times, we continue that leadership role with emergency medical supplies, emergency food assistance. We need to move effectively and efficiently to parts of the world where people are hurting.
Secondly, we need to make sure that the supply lines that enable us to get medical assistance during these challenging times are clear and effective. That's obviously challenging in the face of all of the transportation challenges that emerged during a pandemic like this.
I think finally, it's listening carefully to our partner country leaders on the ways that we can respond to the needs that they identify. So that's a crucial part of what USAID does. We're not transactional. We build relationships. We strengthen leadership and we respond to those with identified needs. So that's the approach and the role that USAID plays during these important times.
Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
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In every household in the UK, there should be a well-stocked first aid kit. Accidents and emergencies can strike when you least expect them, and knowing you have the essentials on hand will mean you can provide instant care and treat wounds and injuries. In some cases, it can be the difference between life and death.
A first aid kid is essential for both minor and severe accidents. To prevent further injuries and infections, here are several reasons why you should keep a family first aid kit, helping to keep you and your loved ones safe.
Quickly Treat Injuries
In a medical emergency, a first aid kit lets you handle the situation as quickly as possible. In a serious event, a delay of just 60 seconds can result in irreconcilable damage. First aid kits provide instant and basic care for all kinds of medical injuries, such as cuts and burns. As you will have everything you need in one place, you won’t waste any valuable time trying to find a particular item. Instead, you can quickly reach for what you need and provide instant care for a loved one.
Less Risk of Complications
If you don’t have a family first aid kit and a medical emergency occurs, you may have to use whatever is in your reach to treat the injury. Unfortunately, this can do more harm than good. Having a well-equipped first aid kit will mean you have the correct products in place to stop further complications from happening.
Peace of Mind
Ultimately, having a well-stocked family first aid kit will provide you and your loved ones with peace of mind. When an injury occurs, instead of panicking and not knowing what to do, you’ll be able to retrieve what you need and tend to your loved one in a matter of seconds. Make sure you regularly replenish your first aid kit and let the household know where it’s situated.
What to Buy
There are all sorts of products that you should purchase for your family first aid kit. These include hand sanitiser, compression wraps, medical tape, and disposable masks. Many of these items can be bought from medical-supermarket.com. Other essentials you can buy include plasters in different shapes and sizes, safety pins, disposable sterile gloves, and scissors. To ensure you have everything you need, it’s wise to create a checklist beforehand. This means you can go down the list and check whether it’s in the kit. The last thing you want is for a medical emergency to strike to find you haven’t got what you need. While it may seem like a hassle purchasing so many items, you cannot put a price on the health and safety of your loved ones.
No matter how careful you are, if you have young children running riot around the home, they’re more likely to encounter an injury. Should disaster strike, you’ll want to know you have the supplies needed to treat wounds and keep everyone safe. If you haven’t got a first-aid kit already at home, now is the time to take action.
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The key to getting affection from your cat may lie in letting it choose when it wants to be petted, new research suggests.
Giving the animals control may also save pet owners from getting bitten or scratched.
Experts in feline behaviour and welfare also found that paying close attention to cats’ behaviour, body language, and thinking about where to stroke them, were key when improving interactions between cats and people.
The Nottingham Trent University researchers developed a set of interaction guidelines.
They found that when these were followed, cats were less likely to behave aggressively towards people and were also more affectionate.
The guidance and advice follows a simple Cat acronym.
It encourages people to provide the cat with choice and control (C), pay attention (A) to the cat’s behaviour and body language and think about where they are touching (T) the cat.
The results demonstrate a clear preference amongst cats for a more ‘hands off’ approach to petting, which ultimately lets them call most of the shotsDr Lauren Finka
According to Dr Lauren Finka, the lead researcher on the study, providing the cat with choice and control is key to making sure it feels happy and comfortable during interactions.
This involves gently offering a hand to the cat and letting it decide if it wants to interact or not, usually indicated by it rubbing against the person’s hand.
Owners should allow the cat to move away if it chooses, and not be tempted to pick it up or follow it, as this takes away the cat’s sense of control, the research found.
The experts point to a number of signals that indicate if the cat may need a break from petting.
This includes if it turns its head or moves away during the interaction, if its ears rotate or become flattened, if it shakes its head or licks its nose, and if the fur along its back appears to ripple or its tail swishes rapidly.
Pet owners should also watch out to see if the cat goes a little still, stops purring or rubbing against them, suddenly starts grooming itself or sharply turns its head to face them.
This can all indicate it has had enough and is unlikely to welcome further stroking.
Researchers also looked at where the furry creatures like to be stroked.
They found that most friendly cats prefer the base of their ears, around their cheeks and under their chin.
Avoiding the tummy and the base of their tails and being careful when stroking along their backs is generally advisable, although each cat will have individual preferences.
Dr Finka said: “The results demonstrate a clear preference amongst cats for a more ‘hands off’ approach to petting, which ultimately lets them call most of the shots.
“Cats are not necessarily known for being overly expressive when it comes to communicating how they are feeling.
“This can often cause issues during petting because many cats may feel a little uncomfortable at times, but this isn’t something that is always easy for us to pick up on.”
Battersea’s feline welfare manager JoAnna Puzzo, said: “While every cat has a wonderfully unique personality, they do often share fundamental similarities, as this new study shows.
“Cats can be incredibly subtle when expressing their likes and dislikes, and as a result their behaviour can be misunderstood or ignored completely.
“By using these new simple yet effective ‘Cat’ guidelines, owners will be able to better understand how their cat is feeling and adapt how they interact together to ensure their pet is happy and relaxed.”
As part of the study, the researchers monitored participants’ brief interactions with 100 cats housed within the cattery at Battersea’s London centre.
Each participant interacted with six cats, three before they received training on the Cat guidelines and three after.
They found that cats were much less likely to exhibit signs of discomfort or behave aggressively when people followed the guidelines.
The same cats were also more likely to show friendly behaviours towards the participants and to appear more comfortable during the interactions that occurred post-training, the researchers found.
The research is published in the journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
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Heracles First Marriage In His Play Heracles. Essay, Research Paper Euripides treatments of the myth of Heracles first marriage in his play Heracles. The Heracles of Euripides is innovative in its treatment of the Heracles myth. Heracles is perhaps the greatest hero of the ancient Greek world. Stories about Heracles are varied and abundant however, the traditional nature of the myth does logically place many constraints upon the playwright.
Heracles First Marriage In His Play Heracles. Essay, Research Paper
Euripides treatments of the myth of Heracles first marriage in his play Heracles.
The Heracles of Euripides is innovative in its treatment of the Heracles myth. Heracles is perhaps the greatest hero of the ancient Greek world. Stories about Heracles are varied and abundant however, the traditional nature of the myth does logically place many constraints upon the playwright. Some events had to occur or be assumed to occur in any account of a story. Euripides, however, interpreted the Heracles myth and gave it his particular view and treatment. Euripides decided where to begin his play and which events to include or exclude. Euripides reshaped the myth in many ways, altering it for his own dramatic purposes and innovating certain details. The most striking alteration of the pre-existing tradition myth is Euripides treatment of the myth of Heracles first marriage. According to the traditional myth, the murder of the children and first wife preceded the labors of Heracles and provides the motivation for them. In Euripides version of the myth the murders follow the labors. One must ask what Euripides motivation for this alteration of the myth was and how it affects both the audience and the remaining traditional aspects of the Heracles myth.
In the opening scene, the audience learns the background information of the drama. Amphitryon, who delivers the prologue speech (1-59), explains that Heracles is in Hades, finishing the last of his labors, while a man named Lycus has staged a coup and holds the family of Heracles in peril. Euripides new innovative account of the myth necessitates a new motivation for the labors of Heracles. In the pre-existing tradition of the myth the labors were commonly described as a punishment or purification for Heracles murder of his family. Heracles is forced to undertake various labors and after the completion of these labors, Heracles eventually undergoes an apotheosis and becomes an Olympian god himself. In Euripides version Amphitryon explains (17 21) that because he is in exile from his native home Argos, Heracles undertook the labors in order to ease his misfortunes and win his own return to his homeland. A great quest for purification and apotheosis has, in Euripides version, become a quest for self, as Heracles labors are an effort to reclaim his origins. This seems to somehow distance Heracles from his divine heritage. Heracles sides with his mortal father and labors for their mutual benefit. Whereas the pre-existing myth focused on Heracles heroic quest to gain immortal status, his quest for reclaiming his and his fathers homeland shows only mortal concerns. By altering the Heracles myth, Euripides has turned the divine hero into a moral man and someone the audience can relate to on a new and intimate level.
The character of Lycus is also an innovation to the myth of Heracles. Lycus is an invention of Euripides and is of obvious dramatic importance because of the threat he posses to the family of Heracles. In the play, Lycus is responsible for the death of Megaras father (165-169) and now hold power over the children of Heracles and Megara. Lycus intends to kill all those who may avenge the murder of Megaras father and he believes that he can do so because of his belief that Heracles will not return from the underworld. Lycus is incorrect in his assumption and is slain by a returning Heracles (754-760). During the initial sequences of the play, Euripides implies that Heracles is indeed dead. The chorus sings of Heracles labors and they imply to the audience that he is dead (356-366). This song has several other implications most importantly it shows Heracles as a beneficial individual through his heroic exploits. Heracles subdued the terrorizing Centaurs (364-374), calmed the seas (400-402) and performed many other astonishing feats. All of these feats were beneficial to society and further humanity. Again Euripides make Heracles a more appealing and intimate character as his exploits now also seem to benefit mankind. Lycus also, by threatening the family of Heracles, allows Heracles to show his deep concern for his family. Euripides is attempting to build a relationship between Heracles and the audience. Previously Euripides endeavored to adapt the demi-god status of the hero Heracles into a more human character. Now, through the use of Lycus, Euripides has succeeded adapting Heracles further into a character that the audience feels a bond with.
As stated earlier, the most striking alteration of the pre-existing tradition myth is Euripides treatment of the myth of Heracles first marriage. According to the traditional myth, the murder of the children and first wife preceded the labors of Heracles and provides the motivation for them. However, in Euripides version, Megara is alive to welcome her husband home from his final labor. This is a unique situation as the audience is permitted to see actual interaction between Heracles and his ill-fated wife. In her initial dialog Megara gives a personal account of the situation. She paints a vivid picture of the anxiety she and her children feel as they await the return of Heracles. She believes that Heracles is dead and will never return from Hades.
Megara also believes that death at the hands of Lycus is inevitable and she believes that she should seek death with honor (309 311). Euripides exploits the dramatic potential of Megaras existence when Heracles finally does return from Hades. Euripides draws out this entrance and displays Megara s confusion, disbelief and joy. The audience witnesses Heracles vow vengeance for the situation Lycus placed his family in (565-573). Heracles is in fact so overwhelmed by the situation that he under emphasizes his completed labors and places greater emphasis on his defense of his family. Euripides now has succeeded in giving Heracles a quest that the audience can relate to. Few could possible fathom a quest into the underworld or subduing a fabulous beasts like the Nemean Lion but all viewers can relate to philos and the defense of ones family. Through the innovation of Euripides the defense of his family become the test of heroism for Heracles (578-586).
By adapting the myth of Heracles, Euripides has adapted Heracles himself different individual. Heracles is no longer the aggressive and superior half-god, but he is instead the compassionate half-mortal. Heracles has become a character whom, although still not equal to the common man, now treads the same ground as the common man with the same desires and similar drives. Due to this new audience identification towards Heracles, it is likely that the audience shares more closely in the experiences of Heracles; they share triumphant episodes as well as the failures. With this innovation to the Heracles character it is likely the murder of Megara by Heracles affects the audience deeply. This change of Heracles is necessary, as this play does not dwell on the feats of Heracles or on his heroic exploits. Euripides intends The Heracles to be regarded as a drama. He understood that in order for any dramatic work to be successful the audience must feel for the characters. Through one alteration of the pre-existing myth Euripides has altered the audiences perspective of Heracles and creates a character the audience can indeed feel for. Euripides succeeds in creating a powerful drama by making a near immortal man mortal and uses the audiences identification with the character of Heracles to make the previous pre-existing events of the myth far more powerful.
Euripides. The Heracles. Trans. Michael R. Halleran. Newburyport MA:
Focus Information Group, 1993.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, Trans. Sir James George Frazer.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1921.
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Air France diverts Rio-Paris flight over faulty engine
An Air France airliner heading from Rio to Paris was forced to make an emergency landing Friday in Casablanca due to damage to one of its two engines, the company said.
A spokeswoman said the aircraft, which had left Brazil's southern city of Rio Thursday and was carrying 201 passengers and 12 crew members including three pilots, had been diverted according to guidelines.
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She said a technical investigation was under way to determine what happened, and added that passengers had been transferred to other flights headed for Paris.
The aircraft, an Airbus A330, was the same model as the Air France airliner that plunged into the Atlantic in 2009 and killed all 228 people aboard during a Rio to Paris flight.
In a July report, French accident investigators concluded that technical faults led an ill-prepared crew to lose control, resulting in the airliner's crash.
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The advantages of laser welding can be obtained by comparing traditional arc welding with laser welding.
In order to get a better laser weld, this post discusses the laser welding process.
First, the depth width ratio and surface morphology of the weld are taken as the evaluation indexes, and then the process parameters that affect these indexes are studied.
The laser welding tests are carried out on stainless steel, aluminum plate and carbon steel plate, and the empirical conclusions that can be used in the welding production process are obtained.
Laser welding is a special production technology that uses laser with high energy density as the welding heat source to realize plate welding.
Because of its advantages of high energy density, fast welding speed, environmental protection, small plate deformation and so on, it has been well applied in the sheet metal manufacturing industry.
Comparison between laser welding and traditional arc welding
Introduction to arc welding
Traditional arc welding can be roughly divided into electrode arc welding, argon tungsten arc welding, gas metal arc welding, submerged arc welding, etc.
Electrode arc welding is to draw an arc between the weldment and the electrode, and the heat generated by the arc melts the contact part between the weldment and the electrode to form a metal molten pool.
With the direction of the electrode, new molten pools continue to be generated, and the old molten pool continues to cool and solidify, finally forming a weld.
The schematic diagram of welding process is shown in Figure 1.
Fig. 1 Schematic diagram of electrode arc welding
Tungsten electrode argon arc welding uses tungsten electrode as the discharge electrode, but the electrode will not be consumed.
Inert gas is used as the protective gas, and the heat generated by the arc is used to melt the base metal and welding materials.
The welding area is covered by protective gas, and there is basically no splash.
Gas metal arc welding is to generate an arc between the welding wire and the base metal by energizing the welding wire to melt the base metal and the welding wire.
At present, arc welding still occupies a dominant position in the welding field, but with the increasing requirements of the market for welding quality and efficiency, traditional arc welding has encountered bottlenecks in some high-end sheet metal manufacturing fields, and the shortcomings of arc welding are becoming more and more obvious.
Traditional arc welding requires argon as the shielding gas, and the cost of high-purity argon is high;
Arc welding operation requires professionals with special operation certificates, and the access threshold is high;
Argon arc welding will produce high-density current and high heat, which is not conducive to the welding of metal plates with low melting point;
Low welding efficiency and slow speed;
The welding surface is relatively rough. If the surface morphology is required to be high, grinding process needs to be added;
The arc welding intensity is limited.
Advantages of laser welding
Mainstream laser welding can be divided into self fusion welding, swing welding, wire filling welding, galvanometer welding and composite welding combined with various welding methods.
Compared with traditional arc welding, the advantages of laser welding technology are shown in Table 1.
For the high-end sheet metal manufacturing industry with high added value, good product consistency, small weld gap and efficiency, laser welding can be the first choice.
Table 1 Comparison of characteristics between laser welding and arc welding
|Arc welding||Laser Welding|
|High density current is required, and the thermal effect is large||Low welding heat, small deformation and thermal effect|
|Shallow penetration and poor welding strength||Deep penetration and high welding strength|
|Contact type, limited by space||Non contact type, less limited by space|
|Large arc starting current and large welding range||Small welding spot, capable of welding precision workpiece|
|Operators have high requirements and require special operation certificates.||Low requirements for operators|
|Low welding efficiency and slow welding speed||High welding efficiency and fast welding speed|
|Electrode pollution and loss||No electrode loss|
|The surface is rough and requires subsequent grinding.||The surface morphology is stable, and there is basically no need for subsequent grinding.|
Laser welding process parameters
Laser welding seam index
Due to different customer needs, the requirements for the welding effect of sheet metal parts are also different.
The requirements for welds are mainly reflected in the following indicators:
Surface morphology, width depth ratio of molten pool, whether there are pores, cracks, impurities, undercuts and other defects.
The surface morphology is the shape and appearance of the weld surface after the combination of welding material and base metal or the combination of base metal and base metal, or concave, or flat, or convex.
Different welding morphologies can be achieved by adjusting welding power, defocus, splicing mode, etc.
The ratio of weld pool width to depth refers to the ratio of weld pool depth to width.
If customers have strength requirements for welding products, they need to pass a series of steps of wire cutting → inlay → grinding and polishing → corrosion → microscopic metallographic analysis to reflect the welding strength according to the depth width ratio of the weld, which is more the embodiment of hardness.
They can also feed back the tensile strength index of welding through tensile strength test. Metallographic analysis of penetration ratio is shown in Fig. 2.
Fig. 2 metallographic analysis of penetration ratio
In a specific working environment, the weldments have defects such as pores, cracks, impurities, undercuts, etc., which are likely to cause serious safety accidents.
For example, some products have strict requirements on air tightness, water leakage, etc.
The schematic diagram of normal welds and defective welds is shown in Fig. 3.
Fig. 3 weld seam diagram
Influencing factors of laser welding
The factors that directly affect laser welding include welding temperature, melting point of welding materials, laser absorption rate of welding materials, thermal influence, etc.
Corresponding to the welding process, it can be considered from the aspects of material performance, laser power, welding speed, focus position, shielding gas, weld gap, etc.
The laser absorptivity of welding materials affects the welding effect. For general materials, aluminum and copper have higher laser absorptivity, while carbon steel and stainless steel have lower laser absorptivity.
Welding materials with high absorptivity often need to spend more energy to melt and form a stable weld pool and weld.
Laser power is the energy source of laser welding, which has a decisive impact on the welding effect, and the size of laser power also affects the welding speed.
The higher the laser power is, the better.
After reaching a certain laser power, the corresponding welding penetration will also reach a threshold.
Beyond this threshold, the weld pool will be more unstable, but the weld pool depth will be reduced.
Therefore, choosing the appropriate laser power value becomes particularly critical.
There is a negative correlation between welding speed and penetration.
The faster the speed is, the lower the energy input on the welding material will be, and vice versa.
Too fast speed can not make the welding material obtain enough energy to form an ideal weld. Too low speed will lead to over melting, especially for heat sensitive aluminum.
The position of the focus directly affects the penetration and width of the weld.
The laser focus just located on the surface of the welding material is called zero focus, and it is eccentric focus when it is above or below the welding material.
The zero focus spot is the smallest, and the spot energy density is the highest;
The off focus welding power density decreases but the light spot becomes larger, which is suitable for welding workpieces with a large range.
The influence of shielding gas on welding is not only reflected in the type of blowing, but also in different ways of blowing.
The function of air blowing is not only to prevent the workpiece surface from being oxidized during welding, but also to suppress the plasma cloud generated during laser welding.
Shielding gas will directly affect the appearance and color of the surface. Welding products with requirements for these two points must pay attention to the importance of shielding gas.
The weld gap of the workpiece to be welded is directly related to the weld penetration, weld width and weld morphology.
If the weld gap is too large and the light spot is small, the weld cannot be fused and combined, and the fusion is difficult;
At the same time, the laser is exposed, which is likely to damage the tooling or workpiece.
If the gap is too large and within a certain range, it can be improved by increasing the light spot and increasing the swing, but the improvement effect is limited.
Welding test analysis
In the welding test, Yaskawa robot GP25, Prima laser, ospri welding joint (core diameter 100μm, focal length 300mm) and WSX wire feeder were used to test the welding effect of 1.5mm Q235 carbon steel plate, SS304 stainless steel and 3-Series aluminum alloy plate respectively.
According to experience, a reference can be provided in the process of testing:
The test welding of 1mm thin plate can be started from 1kW power and 30mm/s welding speed.
The reference power can be P=A · X, where a is the constant coefficient (A ≥ 0), and X is the plate thickness.
When the welding speed, material, gas and other welding conditions remain unchanged, the size of coefficient a gradually decreases with the increase of plate thickness, and the coefficient A is also affected by the welding method.
Analysis of welding process of carbon steel plate
See Table 2 for the swing welding process parameters of Q235 carbon steel plate with thickness of 1.5mm.
Table 2 swing welding process parameters of Q235 carbon steel plate
It can be seen from the above test data that during the swing welding of carbon steel plates, the laser power should be appropriately increased with the increase of welding speed.
Under the condition of ensuring that the swing range remains unchanged, the swing speed needs to be increased to ensure the welding effect.
If the swing speed is too small, the weld will be uneven.
Generally speaking, the energy required for carbon steel self fusion welding is less than that required for carbon steel self fusion swing welding.
The energy required for carbon steel self fusion swing welding is less than that required for carbon steel swing wire filler welding.
When other factors remain unchanged, the energy is mainly controlled by power and speed.
The same welding effect, higher power, faster speed;
The power is low and the speed is slow.
Ideally, in order to give consideration to welding quality and efficiency, the welding speed should be improved as much as possible, but too fast welding joints will shake, and will be limited by laser power and material properties.
Therefore, the balance between power and speed is generally sought.
Analysis of aluminum plate welding process
The core diameter of optical fiber selected in the test is 100μm.
If aluminum, copper and other high reflective and heat absorbing materials are to be welded, higher power density is required to melt aluminum.
At this time, it is necessary to choose zero focus welding metal.
When the weld is small, it can make the laser form the maximum power density with the minimum power, melt the metal and form a molten pool, which is one of the reasons why zero focus needs to be found.
See Table 3 for welding process parameters of different materials.
Table 3 Comparison of welding process parameters of different materials
|Plate thickness||Swing range|
|1||1.5||2.1||1.5||1||300||Good||Q235 carbon steel|
|2||1.5||1.8||1.5||1||300||Good||3 series aluminum alloy|
|3||2||2.0||2||1||300||Good||Q235 carbon steel|
|4||2||1.7||2||1||300||Good||3 series aluminum alloy|
From the above test data, it can be seen that under the condition that other parameters are almost unchanged, the welding speed of 3-Series aluminum alloy is slower than that of Q235 carbon steel to achieve the ideal welding effect, which essentially requires more heat.
Analysis of stainless steel white blowing process
See Table 4 for the comparison of whitening process parameters of stainless steel welding seams with a thickness of 1.5mm. The welding effect is shown in Fig. 4.
The welding parameters of the three welds (from left to right) correspond to the serial numbers 1, 2 and 3 in table 4 respectively.
Fig. 4 Comparison of welding effect
Table 4 Comparison of process parameters of stainless steel welding seam whitening
|Plate thickness||Swing range|
In order to whiten stainless steel, it is necessary to quickly cool and crystallize in the atmosphere of shielding gas after laser melting the metal.
If the power is too high, a lot of heat will be accumulated on the metal plate, the cooling speed will be slow, and it is easy to oxidize and discolor;
The power is too low to melt through;
If the speed is too fast, and the blowing tooling may not be large enough, the blowing effect will be bad;
If the speed is too slow, there is too much heat accumulation.
In general, to blow white, it is necessary to balance the power, speed and blowing.
If it is really impossible to blow white at one time, you can weld one layer under the condition of slightly higher power, and then reduce the power and then weld another layer.
In the process of laser welding, in order to ensure the welding quality, comprehensive consideration can be given to material properties, laser power, welding speed, focus position, shielding gas, weld gap, etc.
For mainstream carbon steel, stainless steel and aluminum plates, the initial test parameters mentioned above can be selected, and then various parameters can be adjusted according to material characteristics, customer requirements, etc., so as to achieve the desired effect of the weld.
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Confession: I'm a little leery of YouTube. There are so many choices for videos to watch that it sometimes paralyzes me! Plus, some clips look like they're innocuous songs or cartoons but end up depicting things I never, ever, ever wanted to see T'choupi or Caillou engaging in. And yet I know that it's an amazing resource for language learners, so a year or so ago I started seeking out materials in French for children. Griffin now has his favorites, so I want to gather them here on my blog with my comments!
Take these four videos, for example. They feature a man and woman (and he has a dreamy voice!) singing traditional songs while a small group of children dance and act them out. The videos are a mix of live action and animation with very simple drawings, which makes them just charming! Based on my questions to the mamans at French playgroup and the fact that only one of songs appears on any of Griffin's CDs, it seems like some of the songs are less well-known in France; YouTube is the only source I have for them.
Here's the one you probably know already: Sur le pont d'Avignon. I love how earnest the kids look as they carry out the choreography and that they're actually dancing on the bridge!
Passe, passe, passera boasts a lovely melody, although I'm not crazy about the refrain that requires the participants to whack the kid in the middle. I would guess that the dance moves for this one are pretty standard--the kids make a bridge for the others to duck under until one of them is caught, and then they circle around the culprit.
Next we have a French song about Spain! You might complain that the elements featured--mountains, ocean, bulls--are stereotypes. But it's a song, not a thesis, and it was my son's first exposure to Spain, and now he can find it on a map and tell me about the toreadors. This song is Dans mon pays d'Espagne. (Ole!)
And finally, a song that we used recently in our transportation-themed storytime: Dans le pre s'en va le train. Again, the children are just adorable as they act out both the passengers on the train and the people doing the train dance as they hold onto each other's shoulders and chug-chug-chug through the countryside.
Up next: the always-whimsical Alain Le Lait! What are your favorite French YouTube videos?
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Though I wrote the majority of this post before leaving, I was undecided whether to include it at the end of my blog, as I did not want to end on a negative note. Looking back on China now –from almost a year ago–, I have extremely fond memories, but believe it necessary to include the following. On a side note, please excuse awkward tense shifts, as I am writing in the present about the past, and combining these ideas with subjects written already.
Having safely returned to the land of the free, I intend to comment on subjects that could have drawn the attention of China’s “proofreaders”. Before seemingly bashing the society that I lived in for four months, I would like to preface my remarks by saying that I thoroughly enjoyed studying abroad in China. I do wish to return to China, but only to explore smogless landscape, not to live.
Although one of the first words that comes to mind when people think about China is communism, the first time I even considered China a communist country was a month into my trip. Around the (fiftieth?) anniversary of the school at which I stayed, a few students with red armbands were stationed at its entrances to welcome visitors. I saw the same red armbands on random individuals through the city during the transition of China’s highest officials. The armbands are supposed to signify that the wearer is some form of volunteer that is in touch with government officials.
From simple observation, I would assume China was communist in name only, but after getting to know my teachers, my impression changed. One of my teachers never intended to become a teacher, but was told to become a teacher. Although he was one of the best teachers I’ve ever had, he simply had no other choice than to teach; however, I do not believe this is as common today. From a political perspective, China may be rather communist, but from an economic standpoint, the country is slightly more capitalist. [That being said, I am almost as far as one can get from being knowledgeable about both political systems and economics. These were just my impressions from both my observations and from a single sociology class.]
Although communism was not obviously present, nationalism (coupled with racism) was overt. From the few conversations that I either participated in or overheard in the company of native Chinese students, the students were willing to yield that China has issues with the environment and human rights. However, their first attempt at rebuttal usually involved pointing out the problems of other nations, accusing the US of doing the same, or underplaying the issue within China. Although this is my subjective opinion, I think even world-conscious individuals are influenced from a young age. I cannot say whether the people are fed distraction, or whether “leading by example” means significantly more in Chinese culture.
Moreover, I have heard some of these students admit that they take most of what they learn in school about government with a grain of salt; they accept that censors play a role in most everything they encounter in the news and historical texts.
The activism surrounding the F!@#ing Islands epitomizes the nationalistic nature of China. [And in hindsight, I do not believe this subject means anything to the American public anymore, nor did it at the time, but it was a heated topic during my stay in China]. In order to use the internet in my dorm, I had to go to a site to log on. On said website, a rather large picture took the place of what would have been an advertisement on an American website. The picture displayed an overlook of the Diaoyu Islands, and was accompanied by the bolded words, “The Diaoyu Islands is forever Chinese territory” [please note their grammatical error].
One could interpret this statement as propaganda, or as the internet sellers’ support of the China’s side of the controversy. It is interesting to note, however, that this statement was in English, not Chinese, and was viewed by all of the international students at the university trying to access the internet. I can only speculate the intentions of the statement, but it certainly made me feel uncomfortable because many Chinese held hostilities against the US for siding more in favor of Japan on the controversy.
Around one month into my stay, when I was in the car with my martial art instructor, we saw a sign on the back of the car in front of us calling for war with Japan and the US. Also around this time, my language partner’s father’s car was keyed simply because it was a Toyota.
Although there are (or at least I hope they are classified as) extremists, everyone I’ve spoken with, including my martial arts coworker/instructor, does not care at all about these islands. In addition, the consensus is [or was, at the time] that the Chinese government itself will prevent the situation from escalating because of economic relations with the US.
That being said I also saw iPhone cases with nationalistic remarks on the Diaoyu Islands and coin purses with racist anti-Japanese slang, akin to the n-word, sold in market places.
Concerning the government’s influence on the people themselves, the subjects for our research projects had to be approved by the teacher and the director of the program to avoid attracting the government’s attention. Typing certain subjects into a search engine triggers programs by censors, [the internet is set up in China in such a way that there really is no such thing as an anonymous internet use] and the school does not want to be known for housing dissenters.
Someone told us that his internet was shut down for several hours because he was unintentionally directed from one site to another that discussed forced abortions. At one point during the semester, one of the students in my program could not access facebook despite having a VPN that should have allowed her to get around censorship.
Because I did not know much about China before studying abroad, was unaware but only heard notions of how there are many human rights issues within China. I witnessed the discrimination and maltreatment firsthand, however, of nomad minorities during an extended trip to rural China. China’s government, in an attempt to feign an interest in environmental protection, recently quarantined a family we met to a reservation. It reminded me of the relocations of Native Americans in US history.
Despite the horrific smog in Beijing where I studied, the Chinese government wishes to preserve the grasslands to convey an interest in environmental protection (likely because environmental protection is a growing issue in the US and other developed countries). This is one of the more mild instances of a lack of human rights, but is similar to the others in the way that these issues simply are not discussed. In China, the people may know that there are significant human rights abuses, but the government does its best to hide the details, and the people do not feel they can make a difference.
Because of this mentality –the general acceptance that nothing can really be done so why not save the trouble– I have gained a greater appreciation for America.
I have never been so proud to be an American.
Concerning random people that I met that were unjustly treated, one was an English teacher that was put under house arrest for a month because his student attended a protest and wrote on a sign in English. (The student is presumably still in prison). Another individual was tortured for over a month for attempting to enter Tibet. (He was assumed to be a spy, but actually just wanted to visit family). I was informed by another individual that if I wore all white (a symbol of mourning the loss of life) in Tiananmen Square as a sign of protest around the time of the appointment of the new Chinese president, I would have been shoved into an unmarked van in less than a minute.
While discussing China’s history with a different Chinese individual, he mentioned that he was at the Tiananmen Square protest, saw the tanks, and knew classmates that died there. Although I wished to learn more about his perspective, I do not think it appropriate to ask. I think it would have been akin to asking a Vietnam veteran about war stories before he or she had time for the scars to heal.
Honestly, I was taken aback, if not awestruck, because I never made the connection that those individuals around me had personal connections to major, tragic historical events.
On a side note, this man said casually in an appropriate juncture in the conversation that he is a socialist –a word that is thrown around far too much in the US in my opinion.
I consider myself extremely lucky to have been able to learn from him.
Another tangent that I did not necessarily feel appropriate to address while I was in China involved the subject of medicine. It was my impression, mostly imposed upon me by a close Chinese friend of mine, that old-wives-tales are accepted as legitimate forms of care. When faced with a serious medical condition that could easily be remedied in the US, she was given old-fashioned Chinese medicine. In addition, in our Chinese language textbook, we were taught the distinction between Western medicine and Chinese medicine.
Another side note: This same close Chinese friend told me that she knew she was studying hard because her teeth were bleeding after brushing them. I tried to understand, and believe what she meant was that significant mental effort/exertion can manifest in physical form.
For my capstone project, I dissected a number of scientific articles about acupuncture. In summary, I do not believe there are proven conclusions on the subject to validate its implementation as a legitimate treatment. There are apparently benefits, but nothing conclusive about the origin of the benefit has been found.
Moreover, all the articles that supported acupuncture employed deductive reasoning instead of inductive. This is a huge distinction, not like old and modern, but more akin to medieval humorism and current empiricism. Instead of being able to create predictions (theories), I received the impression that acupuncturists put pins in peoples’ backs and tried to draw conclusions on why it helped. I could not find any research that related the layout of acupoints to the physiology, such as nerve or muscle arrangements, of a person.
What bothered the hell out of me on the subject was an article published by a renowned research facility in Beijing. Not only did it lack (inductive) evidence and proper methodology to back its conclusions, but it was also highly subjective, even mocking western science in its introduction.
All of the aforementioned material aside, I find myself squashing the negative preconceptions people have of China in conversation. It is NOT a backward place (in parts). I will also, however, disagree with people that believe China is a “sleeping dragon” that will eventually rule the world.
Moreover, I abhor generalizations about China because, frankly, no two places in the US are very similar. I believe China is a land where there is no black and white, but a mosaic of grey. Even the majestic and celebrated Great Wall has a backstory of travesty. I have learned to appreciate further the understanding of context and background.
I will NEVER consider myself an expert, let alone someone proficient in understanding Chinese culture.
I have learned a ton from this whole experience, and am so incredibly thankful for the opportunity. Although one inevitably uncovers things one does not like anywhere one goes, I maintain that China is not a bad place. That being said, I do not want to live there. I made friends with the American students I traveled with and with locals alike, and intend on staying in touch with them for as long as possible.
Despite that almost a full year has passed since I left for China, I still relish in the memories, occasionally bring up my experiences and observations in conversation (hopefully only when appropriate), and continue to appreciate and reflect on all that I have learned.
I will always continue to appreciate and reflect on what I learned.
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Crews recover teen's body from icy S. Dakota river
- Article by: DIRK LAMMERS
- Associated Press
- March 15, 2013 - 11:22 PM
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Crews have recovered the body of a 16-year-old girl who drowned after a fast-moving, icy river in South Dakota dragged her and another man away as they tried to save her 6-year-old brother, authorities said Friday. The search for the man is ongoing.
Madison Leigh Wallace jumped into the Big Sioux River at Falls Park on Thursday night after her brother either fell into the frothing water or became obscured by the gathering foam, which reached as high as 10 feet, Sioux Falls Fire Chief Jim Sideras.
Her brother, Garrett, had been climbing on slippery quartzite rocks at the edge of the river at the park in Sioux Falls.
"It's hard to say if he actually ended up in the water or not," Police Chief Doug Barthel said.
After Madison jumped in, Sioux Falls resident Lyle Francis Eagletail, 28, went into the freezing water to help the two, Barthel said.
A friend of Eagletail's who witnessed the tragedy, 21-year-old Napoleon Ducheneaux, said his friend was holding onto the girl and boy by their hands before his hands began sliding. Then, he just "slipped and disappeared," Ducheneaux told The Associated Press late Thursday.
Eagletail's body had not yet been recovered as of Friday evening, when crews suspended their search because of dangerous river conditions. They planned to resume their search Saturday.
Madison was from Vermillion, about 60 miles south of Sioux Falls.
Witness accounts differ on whether someone pushed the boy out of the water or he popped up on a rock before being pulled ashore. Emergency workers carried the boy away from the river wrapped in a blanket and he was not injured, Sideras said.
"These people literally jumped in without thinking of their own safety and trying to rescue that child," Sideras said. "It's a very noble act that they did, and they probably contributed to saving that boy's life."
Nevertheless, the fire chief said the optimum way to help someone who falls into water is to stay on the shore and mark where that person went in.
Rescue crews have been working against the river's strong current, a thick sheet of ice that firefighters are trying to break into pieces, and large amounts of foam, which firefighters were blowing away with water hoses, Sideras said.
The water temperature hovered around freezing, putting emergency crews at risk of hypothermia.
The city of Sioux Falls is named after the Big Sioux River's cascading waterfalls in Falls Park, a tourist attraction where people often picnic or pose for wedding photos.
It's a popular spot in the summer and spring, drawing about 525,000 visitors annually, according the local visitors' bureau. For the first time in months, the temperature rose to around 50 degrees in Sioux Falls on Thursday.
The park was closed Friday as crews continued their recovery effort.
Fatal accidents are rare at Falls Park. In 2006, the body of 29-year-old Travis Hallan was found just north of the falls after his canoe tipped over. In 1999, 26-year-old Slavisa Andric drowned after losing his footing on rocks at the park. A bystander in 1997 pulled the body of 43-year-old Omar Iasi Ibrahim Warsame from the water below a bridge where he had been fishing.
Barthel said the city could perhaps prevent accidents by fencing off the entire area, but there's some inherent danger with a fast-moving river meandering through the city.
"The Falls is the crown jewel of our city," Barthel said. "I don't think we want to get to a position where we're going to be totally fencing it off."
The city rescheduled its annual lighting of The Falls green to mark St. Patrick's Day until Sunday because of the search effort.
Associated Press writer Kristi Eaton in Sioux Falls and Blake Nicholson in Bismarck, N.D., contributed to this report.
Follow Dirk Lammers on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/ddlammers
© 2017 Star Tribune
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This practice sets the stage for higher yields
Weston Wiler will tell you that counting corn adds up to a better crop. Each season, Wiler evaluates his fields by taking corn stand and ear counts throughout his 4,000-plus-acre corn crop, grown in the rolling hills of south-central Michigan, near Hillsdale.
The resulting information helps him determine a variety of things, from how well he and his crew planted the crop earlier that spring to what he might anticipate for yield results at harvest.
Early summer signals the start of the process, with Wiler making random stand counts when the young corn is at the V3 or V4 growth stage.
"Everything you do is important, but that split second you go across that ground planting will define your level of success for the entire year with that crop," Wiler says.
His goal at planting is to establish good seed-to-soil contact. That and even planting depth contribute to uniform emergence, which leads to what Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie likes to call photocopied plants and ears.
|Use a tape measure to mark off the row length that corresponds with row spacing. Length of row equals 1/1000 of an acre.
Source: University of Minnesota Extension Service
"Comparing corn stands to a picket fence is a way to measure how you did with seed singulation," Ferrie says. "Planter performance should be precise to give each plant an equal chance."
To consistently achieve uniform stands, Wiler says, he has slowed his planter down to nearly a walking speed.
"Maybe it takes an extra 20 minutes to plant a field, but what we get in return in ear count makes that additional time seem trivial," he says.
Uniform plant stands have a domino effect by contributing to the quality of corn ears.
Corn ear numbers are a good indicator of the yield potential of the field because yield is based on the number of ears per acre and the size of the ears (number of rows around, kernels long and kernel depth).
"A thousand ears per acre is equal to 5 bu. to 7 bu. per acre," explains Missy Bauer, Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist.
Make it count. Wiler conducts corn ear counts each August and spends an average of three days per season on the process. Last year, he and four employees did ear counts on every farm that Wiler leases.
"We did a spot sample on every farm; we probably checked 100 fields," Wiler explains. "We were scouting for weeds and insects at the same time, so while it was a big undertaking, it was fairly efficient."
Wiler uses the following process to estimate corn yield potential:
- Use a tape measure to mark off 17'5" in 30" corn rows.
- Count the number of corn plants in the measured-off space. Subtract any corn plants that appear unlikely to produce a good, harvestable ear.
- Use stalk diameter and plant spacing to help determine harvestable ears.
"A skinny stalk diameter when compared with neighboring plants indicates that particular plant is behind in maturity and will have trouble pollinating or will produce a very small ear and isn’t something we want to count," Bauer says.
To evaluate plant spacing, look for double drops, which indicate two seeds were metered together by the planter, Bauer says. This situation usually results in two plants that will compete too much for available nutrients, and neither one will end up producing a large, harvestable ear.
- Once you determine the number of harvestable ears in the measured-off space, randomly select three to five ears to count rows around and kernels long and use the following formula to arrive at anticipated yields:
Average ears x Average rows around x Average kernels long ÷ 90 = Yield
Using 32" row spacing, 16 rows around and 35 kernels long, the formula looks like this:
32 x 16 x 35 ÷ 90 = 199 bu. per acre
Bauer encourages farmers to implement this practice in four or five different locations within each field, and then average the numbers to arrive at a fairly accurate, comprehensive yield estimate.
"Keep in mind the formula does not take into consideration kernel depth," she says. "Based on weather conditions during kernel fill, you may increase or decrease your yield by 5% to 10%."
Hand in hand. As farmers evaluate plant stand numbers and ear counts, Bauer says, they can benefit from getting those two numbers to more closely align with each other.
"You want to minimize the difference between plant count and ear count numbers," Bauer says.
For example, she adds: "If you have 30,000 plants per acre and your ear count is only 27,000 ears per acre, you have the potential to increase yields 15 bu. to 21 bu. per acre by increasing your ear count to 30,000 ears per acre."
Bauer says that while the number difference between plant stands and ear counts cannot be eliminated, it can be minimized. She says that in a corn-soybean rotation, the difference between the two is ideally no more than 1,200. In corn-on-corn, with heavy residue conditions, Bauer says, the ideal difference between the two is 2,000 or less.
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Subwoofer boxes can add low-end tunes to your car or truck stereo. But most people don't want to see a bare box sitting in the vehicle. To fix this problem, you can wrap the box in vinyl and match it to the inside of the vehicle. The difficulty of this project depends on the size and shape of the subwoofer box, but it can be done at home.
Things You'll Need
- Permanent marker
- Air compressor and air line
- Pneumatic glue gun
- Spray-grade upholstery contact adhesive
- Straight razor blades
Set the subwoofer box in the vehicle. Trace the perimeter of the visible area-the part of the box that you want to cover with vinyl-using the permanent marker. Then remove the box and set it on a clean work surface.
Lay out the vinyl on top of the subwoofer box and cut it to an approximate size using a razor blade. Leave at least one foot of space around your approximate coverage area to give you more leeway with the vinyl.
Lay the vinyl face down on the work surface. Fill the glue gun with the contact cement and connect the gun to the air compressor via the air line. Spray the back surface of the vinyl with glue, spraying light coats at first, then going back over the surface again. Do the same for the subwoofer box, and go outside of the lines you made in Step 1. Allow the glue to dry and get tacky to the touch, which takes approximately 10 minutes.
Pick up the vinyl and lay down a small section onto the subwoofer box. Hold the remaining vinyl at a 90-degree angle to the panel and rub the vinyl down against the box, keeping it smooth. If you need to get around a tight curve or a corner, pull the vinyl with one hand and push it flat with the other. Work the vinyl across the box until you've covered all of the visible areas.
Cut off the excess vinyl using the razor blades. Cut large X-shapes for the subwoofer holes, then cut slits in the vinyl, approximately two nches apart, around the perimeter of the hole. Tuck the vinyl into the holes and cut off any excess.
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When Aaron Jackson was growing up in eastern Oregon, he’d never seen a lamprey in the umatilla river. tribal elders remembered harvesting the fish there for ceremonies. But by the time Jackson was a.
He knew that Oregon State University – which owns much of the property traversed by the creek – was a world leader in the study of lamprey.. there was no river or stream named Lamprey in.
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When Aaron Jackson was growing up in eastern Oregon, he’d never seen a lamprey in the Umatilla River. Tribal elders remembered harvesting the fish there for ceremonies. But by the time Jackson was a.
Despite their similar body shape, the lamprey and eel are not even closely related (Lamprey are actually more closely related to hagfish and sharks). The name stuck, however, and it is common to still hear people call lamprey "eels." Below is a table showing the attributes of both the lamprey and eels that highlights their differences.
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Pacific lamprey, a prehistoric fish native to the Columbia River Basin and treasured by Native American people, are returning to Oregon’s Umatilla River in record numbers.
Record numbers of Pacific lamprey made a splash in the Umatilla River. Scientists with the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation counted more the 2,600 of the prehistoric fish.
Kelly Dirksen holds tight to a lamprey as a team of four harvest the fish from Willamette Falls on Monday, July 9, 2018, in Oregon City. Lamprey are the oldest fish alive today, dating back to.
Lessons from the reintroduction of a noncharismatic, migratory fish: Pacific lamprey in the upper Umatilla River, Oregon.. S C H U LT Z E T A L. Statoliths have been documented to be absent or have.
Just five years ago, there were only a few hundred lamprey in the Umatilla River, a tributary that feeds into the Columbia River in northeastern Oregon. For more than two decades, the tribes have been.
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August 18, 2019| Press Releases|
In line with the directions of Prime Minister Imran Khan to observe 18 August 2019 as the Plant for Pakistan Day, a simple tree plantation ceremony was held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi inaugurated the event by planting a pine tree sapling at the premises of the Ministry. Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood and other officials of the Ministry were also present on the occasion.
The Foreign Minister noted that the tree plantation campaign not only showcased the commitment of the Government to afforestation and climate change mitigation, but was aimed also at motivating the people to become part of this effort. With perseverance and commitment, Pakistan will achieve the target of 10 billion tree tsunami, the fruits of which will be enjoyed by future generation.
The 10 billion tree tsunami project aims to upscale and build upon the success of the billion tree tsunami project of the KPK Government, that has seen a substantial increase in area under forest cover in the Province.
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Last modified: November 14, 2019
Our foreign policy is one of friendliness and goodwill towards all the nations of the world.
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|Title:||Effect of Ovaprim doses and latency periods on induced spawning of Clarias batrachus: Observation on larval deformity|
|Authors:||Sahoo, S. K.|
Giri, S. S.
Sahu, A. K.
|Keywords:||Clarias batrachus;Deformed larvae;Latency period;Ovaprim|
|Abstract:||Induced spawning of C. batrachus was conducted at different Ovaprim dose and latency period combinations to observe the deformed larvae among the hatchlings. For the purpose, four doses of Ovaprim (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 ml/kg body weight) and five latency periods (11, 14, 17, 20 and 23 hr) were considered in 20 different combinations. There were no deformed larvae in the females injected with all four doses and stripped at 11 hr latency, as the eggs did not hatch. The percentage of deformed larvae (4-7%) did not vary significantly at 1.0-2.0 ml dose level in combination with 14-17 hr latency periods. While increasing the latency period beyond 17 hr at 1-1.5 ml dose level, the percentage of deformed larvae increased significantly and touched as high as 11%. The results indicated that 1-1.5 ml dose in combination with 14-17 hr latency are suitable to reduce the deformed larvae among the hatchlings during induced spawning of C. batrachus.|
|ISSN:||0975-1009 (Online); 0019-5189 (Print)|
|Appears in Collections:||IJEB Vol.45(10) [October 2007]|
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Over 2,400 men are diagnosed with testicular cancer in the UK every year. Of those, around 47% will be under the age of 35.
However, it is one of the most treatable forms of cancer – with the outlook one of the best – so spotting it early is incredibly important.
Now, as we mark Men’s Health Week this week, the Charity’s Nursing Services Lead Kath Savage reveals some of the main symptoms, exactly how to check yourself and what to do if you’re concerned:
What is testicular cancer?
Cancer of the testicle is one of the less common cancers and tends to mostly affect men between 15 and 49 years of age.
In England and Wales, almost all men (99%) survive for a year or more after being diagnosed with testicular cancer, and 98% survive for five years or more after diagnosis.
If found early, there is nearly a 100% chance of a cure – so knowing the signs and how to check yourself is essential.
What are the symptoms?
Typical symptoms are a painless swelling or a lump in one of the testicles, or any change in shape or texture of the testicles. Other symptoms can also include:
- An increase in the firmness of a testicle
- A difference in appearance between one testicle and the other
- A dull ache or sharp pain in your testicles or scrotum, which may come and go
- A feeling of heaviness in your scrotum
It is important to be aware of what feels normal for you. Get to know your body and see a GP if you notice any changes.
What are the risk factors?
Unlike many cancers, there are few known strong risk factors for testicular cancer and we cannot currently predict who is likely to get the disease.
Whilst most of these cancers occur in unsuspecting individuals, some risk factors can be traced in a minority of cases. These can include:
- Undescended testicle (cryptorchidism): Where the testicle fails to descend into the scrotum. Around 10% of men diagnosed with testicular cancer will have a history of this.
- Pre-cancerous cells found inside the testicle: There is a 50% chance that these cells will develop into testicular cancer within five years.
- Diagnosed before: If you have been diagnosed with it before, you are 12-18 times more likely to develop in the other testicle, which is why it’s important to regularly check yourself.
- Family history: Having a close relative with a history of testicular cancer or an undescended testicle increases your risk of also developing it. For example, if your father had testicular cancer, you are around four times more likely to develop it than someone with no family history of the condition.
How to check yourself
The best place to check yourself is in a bath or the shower. Roll each testicle between the thumb and forefinger to check the surface is free of lumps. Do not squeeze.
Get to know your own body and testicles, including their size, texture and anatomy, so you notice any changes straight away.
Does pain mean cancer?
You may experience testicular pain; this does not mean it is cancer. There are several reasons why you might experience testicular pain.
- Wearing underwear that is too tight as well as sexual arousal with an erection, but without ejaculation. Pain from this will usually go after a few hours while chronic sports damage may need further input from a GP or physiotherapist.
- Physical activity can sometimes cause strain injuries in the lower back and groin which may cause nerve pain.
What should I do?
If you find a lump or experience pain, visit your GP. Most lumps are not cancerous, but it is important to get them checked.
Your GP will ask you about your symptoms, and take a medical history, as well as performing a scrotal examination. They may hold a small light or torch against your scrotum to see whether light passes through it. Testicular lumps tend to be solid, which means light is unable to pass through them, whereas a collection of fluid in the scrotum will allow light to pass through it.
If you have a non-painful swelling or a lump, or a change to the shape or texture of your testicle, then your GP will refer you for further testing within two weeks. Some of these tests will include:
- Scrotal ultrasound – painless
- Blood tests – to detect markers in the blood
- Biopsy – to examine under a microscope
What are the treatment options?
Treatment almost always includes the surgical removal of the affected testicle (orchidectomy or orchiectomy), which does not usually affect fertility or the ability to have sex. It is a fairly simple procedure, taking around half an hour normally, under general anaesthetic.
A prosthetic testicle can be inserted at the same time. Men may also be offered the possibility of sperm storage. Sexual activity can resume after two weeks if it’s not uncomfortable.
In some cases, chemotherapy may be used, less commonly radiotherapy. If you have any concerns please visit your GP. If you would like further support from the Charity please contact our Support Line on 0800 389 8820.
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Here on EasyLogistics.site we approach the most different aspects of logistics, but we seldom stop to think and define what logistics really is. More importantly, we now describe what types of real-life problems companies can solve through good and integrated logistics management.
Today, logistics is an art and a science, dedicated to doing whatever it takes to deliver the right products in the right place at the right time. The origin of the word logistics comes from the Greek and means calculation skills and logical reasoning. Therefore, by doing the right things and acting logically and intelligently, logistics delivers the products efficiently, involving much more than simply transporting stuff around.
The definition of logistics
In this post you will find a historical evolution of logistics. The use of quantitative techniques (as opposed to qualitative ones) has dramatically increased over the last 20 years thanks to the greater availability of data, the power of computers, and the possibility of creating models and algorithms to deal with real problems with sufficient speed and realism. This is particularly true in logistics, where we find a very large number of complex and quantifiable decision problems that fit well with mathematical models and optimization. You’ll see how these tools help companies reduce their costs and improve the quality of their services.
Before that, we need to understand what logistics is and why it exists. By definition, logistics manages the flow of products from the points of supply to the points of consumption, in order to satisfy customer demand at the lowest possible cost. Thus, logistics exists because we see a spatial and temporal separation between production and consumption. If we could produce everything we wanted at the time and place of consumption, there would be no need to transport and stock these products. Logistics groups all the activities related to the ownership and movement of the products in the organizations: forecast of the demand, inventory management, transportation, warehousing, design of distribution networks, etc.
Logistics is an important source of costs (and value!) for many companies: transportation, storage and cost of inventories typically account for more than 10% of the cost of a product, and this proportion can easily reach 30% in some sectors, such as food. For customers, logistics is part of creating value by making products available at the time and place desired for consumption.
Success and failure stories
With globalization and the growth of e-commerce, logistics plays an increasingly important role for many companies, both related to goods and services. It is present all the time in modern societies, but just like other support areas, it usually only appears to the general public when a problem occurs. This was the case, for example, in December 2010 when a lack of the product used in the defrosting stations caused the cancellation of numerous flights just before Christmas in Paris, France. At the same time, UPS, which has a world-class logistics network and a large fleet of cargo planes, delivered nearly one million parcels per hour around the world.
For some companies, logistics is not just a source of competitive advantage – it represents the company’s reason for being, its core competency.
Stay tuned and you’ll soon see how logistics has evolved into what we now call supply chain management. Subscribe to our newsletter so you will not miss the next posts.
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First you’ll most likely need a mortgage in order to buy a home. In today’s world, before you even start looking at houses, you need to know if you can qualify for a mortgage. A lot of information and advice is available online but unless you know the ins and outs of mortgage underwriting and all the programs currently available to borrowers I always suggest you talk with your bank, credit union, loan officer or mortgage broker of choice. If you need names your Realtor® can usually provide contacts.
Meeting with the lender provides with guidance on which direction you need to go. Many of today’s borrowers have some minor problems with credit reports that need to be cleared or clean. The lender will walk you through the steps to clearing problems and, ultimately, getting a great credit score/report. Other potential borrowers may have to work longer (in some cases it may be years if they went through bankruptcy) and working with your lender to clear up problems before you actually start house hunting.
It’s important to understand that having good credit and letter from your lender stating you can obtain a loan is one the best tools buyers have when bidding on a property in today’s real estate market. In fact it’s really a informal requirement today.
Clearing up your credit is step 1 and step 2 “loan application” requires borrowers to produce reams of documentation….and I mean reams. It can be frustrating but don’t take it out on the lender (or your Realtor® ) it’s what the federal government requires. In addition to endless paperwork borrowers also have to pay attention to emails and phone calls from lenders and respond in a timely manner.
Processing your loan application and loan approval occurs in the background and while you may get requests for additional financial documentation you are not heavily involved in paperwork for the loan. However out-of-site doesn’t mean out-of-mind. Many lenders won’t communicate with your agent- so it’s up to you to follow up and make sure the loan is on track so you can meet the dates specified in your purchase contract.
Keeping Current Matters published a great infographic about the loan process-hopefully it will help you understand the “big picture” when it comes to securing a mortgage.
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Belvidere Mansion FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about the Bayless Family and Their Beautiful Belvidere Mansion
🏰 Q: When did the Bayless family move to Claremore?
A: Mr. Bayless visited Claremore often, starting about 1901. He traveled between Claremore and his home in Cassville, Missouri, while building the Sequoyah Hotel (1901/2), the Windsor Opera House (1902), and the Claremore Athletic Association (started 1907). Mr. Bayless's oldest daughter, Francis Davis, and her husband, George Decatur Davis, moved to Claremore in 1902 to run the family's Bank of Claremore. The oldest Bayless son, Guy, joined the work in the bank in 1904. Mr. Bayless's wife, Mary Bayless, did not move the rest of the family to Claremore until after Mr. Bayless's death in June 1907.
🏰 Q: When was the Belvidere Mansion built?
A: The Belvidere Abstract states Mr. Bayless purchased the property in 1905. The mansion does not appear on the Sanborn Fire Insurance maps until 1907, and even then it says "from plans." 1907 Claremore newspapers report that Mr. Bayless broke ground in March 1907, and the family moved into the home in late November of 1907.
🏰 Q: Where did the name "Belvidere" originate?
The name, “Belvidere,” is created from the Italian phrase “bello per vedere” or “beautiful to see.” It is uncertain if the mansion was so named because of the beautiful, captivating view from the third story windows above or since the mansion itself was beautiful to see from the surrounding wide-open prairie and streets below.
🏰 Q: What is the hole in the ceiling of the foyer of the Belvidere Mansion?
A: The hole in the ceiling of the foyer of the Belvidere Mansion is an atrium. Starting in the first-floor foyer the opening goes up through the two floors above, allowing air to circulate through the house. Since the only heating units were on the first floor, this was an important feature that warmed the second and third floors in winter. At the top of the atrium, a skylight opens through the roof of the third-floor ceiling letting warm air escape the house in summer allowing cooler air to enter through tall windows below.
🏰 Q: Are there any original Bayless family items in the Belvidere Mansion?
A: There are several pieces of Bayless family furniture that are original to the Belvidere Mansion. The large desk and bookcase in the Gentlemen's Parlor, now Gift Shop, was originally in the library of the home. A green Eastlake Victorian chair and a square wooden table in the master bedroom and a formal gown in a glass case in the hallway both belonged to Mrs. Bayless and are on display on the second floor. There is also a collection of family artifacts and photographs found in the second-floor hallway.
🏰 Q: What happened to the Belvidere Mansion when the family moved out?
A: When the Bayless family moved out of the Belvidere Mansion in 1919, Mrs. Bayless moved to a small house on what is now Patti Page Blvd. The mansion was then used as a hospital and a boarding house. In the late 1920s the Bell family purchased the home and divided the three floors into apartments. By the late 1900s the home had deteriorated and there was a plan to tear it down. The Rogers County Historical Society rescued the mansion purchasing the property in 1991. They then began the renovations that make the Belvidere the lovely Claremore attraction we enjoy today.
🏰 Q: Was the central atrium opening of the Belvidere Mansion that goes through all three floors to the skylight, supposed to be used for an elevator?
A: The central atrium opening that goes up through all three floors in the Belvidere Mansion was probably never intended to be used for an elevator. The atrium and skylight were created to circulate air through the Belvidere Mansion, warming it in the winter and cooling it in the summer. There is an elevator cage in the Belvidere gardens, but this came from the Mason Hotel that was originally in downtown Claremore but no longer exists. The atrium opening inside the mansion is about 5 feet x 5 feet. The elevator in the garden is over 6 feet long and would need all kinds of gears and pulleys to make it work. This would not fit the atrium opening of the Belvidere Mansion.
🏰 Q: Was another house built to look just like Belvidere?
A: Yes, the Dodd Home in Hugo, Oklahoma, built by Claremore homebuilder Laban Barcus was built from similar plans and looked very much like Belvidere. The Dodd Home no longer exists.
🏰 Q: Who was Mr. Belvidere?
A: There was no Mr. Belvidere. Mr. John Melville Bayless built the Belvidere Mansion for his wife, Mary, and their family. Belvidere, in Italian, means "beautiful to see" or "beautiful view." The Belvidere Mansion is beautiful to see from the street, and it has a beautiful view from the third floor ballroom windows.
🏰 Q: How did Mr. Bayless make his money?
A: John Bayless was an entrepreneur, real estate man, banker, city and railroad builder, and businessman. He was President of the Bank of Claremore and several other banks in Missouri and Indian Territory. He built the Hotel Barry in Cassville, Missouri; the Artesian Hotel in Sulphur, Indian Territory; and the Belvidere Mansion, Windsor Opera House, Sequoyah Hotel, and began the Claremore Athletic Club in Claremore, Indian Territory. He also built railroads in Missouri, Indian Territory, Texas, and Arkansas. Buying and selling real estate also helped Mr. Bayless make his fortune.
🏰 Q: Is the Belvidere Mansion haunted?
A: This you will have to decide for yourself. Old houses make many unusual sounds that can be easily explained. Some attribute these odd sounds to paranormal activity.
🏰 Q: Has anyone ever died at the Belvidere?
A: We continue to look for eyewitness accounts and records to answer this question. Mr. Bayless died June 2, 1907, six months before the Belvidere Mansion was completed. A July 22, 1920, Claremore Progress reports that "Louis Fields, of Collinsville, died at the Cinnabar Hospital." The Belvidere Mansion housed the Cinnabar Hospital at the time.
🏰 Q: Did someone hang him/herself at the Belvidere Mansion?
A: No record has been found that anyone hanged him/herself at Belvidere. Sadly, a Bayless daughter, Bland Bayless, did take her own life, but she was married and living in Kansas City at the time.
🏰 Q: What is the stone by the front curb of the Belvidere Mansion?
A: The stone at the front curb of the Belvidere Mansion is a carriage step. It was used to step up into carriages or to climb onto horses. This stone came from the Bayless family home in Cassville, Missouri. The stone is inscribed with the year of John and Mary Bayless' wedding, 1879.
🏰 Q: What is the stone structure in the back parking lot of the Belvidere Mansion?
A: The stone structure in the back parking lot was once a well for water. A large brick barn was built originally on the property. This well would have been a helpful asset.
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We started covering the Windows key back when the blog first started on February 23. (Recall that the Windows key by itself will show the Start menu; combined with different keystrokes, you can perform other useful tasks.)
One of the most useful shortcuts we covered is Windows key+D to show the Desktop. Related to that is a similar keystroke: Windows key+M will minimize all of the open applications that can be minimzied, showing only dialog boxes. Try it out!
(If you want to minimize only the current window, try this minimize shortcut.)
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And that too, in a way that will be super fun for both you
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Your Pet Conure
It is very important that you understand your Conure before you start training the bird. This is because though the Conure is small in size it always comes up with various challenges and you need to meet these challenges successfully.
A Conure can be extremely noisy depending on the nature of the bird. If the Conure is noisy and screams then it should be trained properly so that it does not scream often.
There are ways in which you can train your pet Conure and these ways are:
- Prompting the Conure to do something and when it does so then reward it with a treat
- Not giving any treat to the Conure if it is shouting loudly as it will imply that if it does not stop screaming it is not going to get the treat
- Always praise the bird whenever it learns any trick or learns any behavioral pattern
How to tame your Conure
After the Conure is settled in your house now it is time to tame the Conure and for that you need to take the help of these tips.
- When the bird is calm then come closer to the cage and watch the body language of the bird.
- Speak to the bird and allow the bird time to accept your presence near it. If you find that it is becoming aggressive or scared then back off until the bird has calm down. Again try to make the bird accept you by talking later on.
- If possible visit the bird's cage at night and speak softly to the bird not startling it but comforting it.
- Once the bird has accepted your presence now you should open the cage door and offer your finger to the bird so that it can step up to your finger. For that you need to tap the breast of the bird and ask it to "Step Up".
- If the bird does not understand the command then do not force it. Rather keep your hand in the cage and let it get used to it
Things to keep in mind while training your Conure
If you want a well-trained conure then you should keep in mind that the conure is a noisy bird and it might bite you if it is scared or irritated. A nanday conure is a bird which is always extremely noisy and needs special training to change its screaming habit. It also has a biting habit too and can bite often and that too needs intense training for changing.
You need to understand the reason for the nanday conure's screaming. There can be multiple reasons. It might be happy to see you or it might be needing a mate. For this you need to put the conure in the cage and check whether it is screaming the moment you walk out of the room. If it is so, then you should ignore the behavior.
- There are some things you should do to have a properly trained conure
- Give it proper exercise to keep its mind and body active
- If the nanday conure is aggressive then you should show it that you are the boss
- If your nanday conure is shy or is scared then give it enough time so that it can trust you
- Always try to build a strong bond with the conure so that it can rely on you
- Never shout at the bird if you find that it is biting or behaving aggressively
Trick training is the best way in which you can control the aggressive nature of your conure but then the training should be imparted by an expert.
6 Safe Ways to Give Your Conure Exercise
It is important to give proper exercise to your Conure. But when you are trying to give the bird exercise the safety of the bird should be of utmost importance to you since these birds have the tendency to fly towards wrong directions. Also these birds are extremely active and hence need to have a long play stand where they can play and stay engaged for a long time.
It is extremely important to let the bird fly and for that you need to take the conure out of the cage but before you take the bird out of the cage you should ensure that the windows and the doors of the room are closed so that the bird is not able to fly out.
Also you should not give the bird exercise in a room where there are ceiling fans or any other electrical equipment hanging because the bird might hit any of these and injure itself.
If you have a green cheek conure at home then you have a natural acrobat at home and therefore give it a perch and a cage with horizontal bars so that it can carry on with its climbing tricks. You can also provide them with lava blocks and perches so that the beak and the claws of the bird are trimmed.
If you have a Blue Crown Conure then it is good to give it at least two hours of exercise time every day since it is also a very high energy bird. If you have a Nanday then the exercise hour should be 4 hours since the bird is also high energy bird and needs to spend more time out of the cage and enjoy playing.
In our membership site you would get detailed articles on how you can ensure that your conure does its exercise safely.
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Conure Toys and Why they are Important
Toys are important for the conure because they would keep the bird entertained and not only the bird it would keep you entertained too if you watch the bird play with the toys. This is because a conure is a active and high spirited bird and it is really amusing to find it does various kinds of tricks with the toys.
When you are buying the toys you should keep in mind the perfect size for the toys because the toys should not be of small size as the bird might swallow them. It is better to take the help of the pet store attendant before you get a toy for your pet conure because otherwise it might be difficult for you to get the right kind of toys for your bird.
You should have hoops and rings in the cage as the conure loves to jump on the hoops and swing of the rings. They also like the toys which make sounds and would love to play with them.
In our membership site you would come to know about more such toys and know which toys would attract the attention of the conure.
Your Conure's Diet and Nutritional Requirements
While in wild the conure eats various types of fruits and nuts and vegetables and when in captivity it is important that the bird gets to eat not only fruits and vegetables but also a good mix of various kinds of seeds. It is also good if you can give your bird a good formulated diet because that will help your bird in growing.
Since the conure has the problem of Conure Bleeding Syndrome you must add calcium and vitamin K in the diet of the bird. Thus you should give more importance to include green leafy vegetables in the diet of the bird so that the bird gets a good dose of calcium and Vitamin K. You can also give egg yolk, soy oil and even meat to the bird.
The regular diet of the bird should include vegetables and fruits and the fruits should be a proper mixture which would provide the bird with proper nutrition. You can even try the human baby food with fruits and vegetables and your conure might like it too. Dry fruits and vegetables are also immensely liked by the bird.
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Safe chewing fun for Conures
Usually the conures love to have few branches within the cage both for chewing as well as for using as perches and it is important to know that the branches that you have offered to the conure are safe for them. This is because not all the branches of the trees are good for conures. Thus you can have few branches of Manzanita, Ash, Aspen and Norfolk Island Pine as wonderful options if you want to give your bird something good to chew and as well as to sit.
You can also give varieties of wooden toys to your conure along with wooden spoons or spools of sewing threads and so on so that the bird can play and never sits idle in the cage.
In our site we have a huge section on the trees that are safe for the conures and it would help you know your conure's needs in a better way.
Keeping Your Conure's Cage Clean
It is absolutely essential to keep the urine tray of the conure's cage clean because a healthy conure would urinate about 25-50 times in a day. Also the conure needs to do regular exercises and henceforth the cage should have long horizontal bars so that the conure can climb up and do the exercises. It is better to wipe the cage of your conure at least once a day. It is good to do it before you give any food or water as then the chance of getting infected gets reduced. The toys should be checked regularly to see if they are in good conditions and if not then they should be changed immediately. The newspaper in the floor of the cage should also be changed regularly so that there is no bird mess left in the cage and the cage is clean perfectly.
It is also important to see that the perches are all intact and if any perch is broken it should be replaced immediately. The food and water trays should be cleaned thoroughly regularly before you give food and water to the bird.
Once in every week you should disinfect the cage of your conure with a disinfectant so that your conure remains protected from any disease.
Interpreting Your Conure's Body Language
It is important that you can interpret your conure's body language easily. This would help you learn the mood of your bird and behave accordingly. If your conure hangs from your shirt collar by its beaks it might mean that the conure is not willing to go back to the cage and wants to spend more time in the open. Interpreting the body language of the bird would also let you know whether the bird wants to come out of the cage or not. If it is growling it means that the bird is frightened and if it is screaming loudly then it might mean that the bird is desperately seeking your attention.
If you become a member of our site then you would come to know many such signs and it will help you know your conure's mood in a better way and thus you can communicate in a better way with your pet.
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How to breed Conure
If you want to breed conures successfully you need to look for a pair of conures which are healthy. After you bring them in you need to take special care of their diets and the cage and the general well-being so that the conures can be bred successfully. After the chicks are born it is extremely important to keep an eye on the chicks to check whether the parents are properly taking care of the chicks. If not, then you have to take care of the chicks.
In our membership site we deal with this in greater details and you would get expert's advices on this subject if you subscribe to our site.
Personality of Your Conure
Conures are generally known for their sweet personality especially the sun conure. It is the friendliest among the conures and therefore generally recommended. It is an energetic bird and loves to spend time with the family members. Same holds true for green cheek conure too as it is an equally intelligent and active bird. These birds are strong chewers and if not given something to chew they might even harm the furniture of the house. Conures are generally cuddly and therefore they need lots of love and affection. Some conures have the problem of screaming though often the loud calls of these birds are regarded as screaming. However, the screaming problem can be easily corrected with proper training.
Our membership site deals with various types of conures giving you a fair idea about the types of conures and their personalities so that you can find a suitable pet for yourself. If you become a member of our site then you would come to know about the personalities of all the varieties of conures.
Variety of Recipes for Conures
Every conure loves to have good food and can get bored with the same food everyday. You can surprise your conure with new recipes and it will love the surprise. In our membership site we have kept a section separately for the delicious recipes that your conure would love to eat. Whether it is sprout or a special recipe like"birdie bread" we have it all in our site. All you need to do is to become a member and you would get access to various recipes for your conure. You can also make sweet potato puffs and make a salad by adding various kinds of nuts and fruits and see how much your conure loves to eat them.
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Information about Conure Diseases
Like the other birds of the parrot family Conures also suffer from various types of diseases and some of these diseases can be even life threatening. The diseases that can infect your pet conure include:
- Conure Bleeding Syndrome
- Bacterial infection
- Polyoma Virus
- Pacheco's Disease
- Conure wasting disease
In our site you would have a good idea about these diseases and their symptoms and would also come to know what preventive measures can be taken so that these diseases can be prevented and your conure can lead a healthy life.
Conure toxin and poison list
When you have purchased your conure now it is time to see whether the bird is safe in your house or not. For that you need to keep something out of your house since these things are extremely toxic to the birds. These toxic substances include the following:
- Copper including copper used for making water pipes.
Conures also have a tendency to chew and for that they can chew many things. However, some things can be extremely toxic and poisonous to them. These include some trees also such as avocado and cherries and some foods that you are fond of such as chocolate and fast foods. Chocolate, coffee and salt are strictly prohibited for conure because all of these are lethal to the bird.
Other household stuff that are poisonous for conure include Teflon fumes and the fume of overheated oil. Keep your conure out of these things and these are:
- Air fresheners
- Strong chemicals
Along with these there are many such things which are extremely harmful to your pet conure and which are described in detail in our membership site. Learn about these toxins and poisons in our membership site so that you can keep your pet conure safe from these.
After purchasing our membership site you would get to know
all the varieties of parrots and know everything about them
in the section Parrot Summary. Here you would
- About the whereabouts of the parrots
- About the behavior of the parrots
- About the food that you should give to your pet parrot
for keeping it healthy
- About the various species of the parrots and their specialties
This last section is very important as every owner should
have a fair idea about the bird that would be a pet in the
house and it is also important to know about the behavior
and the needs of the parrot so that the owners can decide
which parrot is suitable for his or her house.
Often we get queries from people who want to own parrots
but are confused about the various types of parrots as very
few have good idea about the parrots that are there in the
market. For this reason we have started special pages on various
types of parrots. The first of these sections is on Budgie.
These are birds from Australia and are known for their friendly
nature. For knowing them well and understanding them properly
you need to visit our membership site which would give you
access to all the information about this bird.
The next section is about Cockatiel. It
is found in Australia and like the Budgie, it is also a desert
bird. These birds are good natured and it is easier to tame
them. In our membership site you would know about the following:
- Cockatiel Temperament
- Cockatiel Diet and Health
- Cockatiel Care
It would give you a good idea and would help you have a good
bird in your house.
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your house then it is really a challenging job. But with our
guidance you can easily train the Conure and win the challenge.
There are various types of Conures such as
- Blue Crown Conure
- Green Cheek Conure
- Nanday Conure
- Sun Conure
- Jenday Conure
Know about them and have a fair idea about the types of Conures
and their needs.
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Cockatoo is another bird that is extremely
popular as pets. You would find this bird in various colors
and most species of this bird are from Indonesia. If you want
to have a cockatoo as a pet and want to have some knowledge
beforehand about it, come to our membership site. A minimum
amount can give you abundance knowledge about this bird. Learn
about the species that are available and if you already have
one and having any problem with it then know about their behavior
from the article written by our expert so that you can handle
it’s tantrums successfully. Cockatoos can be divided
into following category.
- Goffin Cockatoo
- Moluccan Cockatoo
- Umbrella Cockatoo
- Rose Breasted Cockatoo
- Palm Cockatoo
- Sulphur Crested Cockatoo
The cutest of the parrot species is the lovebird
and they are known for their breathtaking beauty and also
their affectionate nature. If you are wondering how to train
them or to take care of them then, the simple solution is
to log in to our site and access the page so that you can
learn how to train them and how to enjoy the company of your
“Winged Rainbows” are Macaws
as they are known to us. They have earned their name “Winged
Rainbows” because of their availability in array of
colors. There are varieties of macaws available as pets and
- Hahns Macaw
- Scarlet Macaw
- Green Wing Macaw
- Military Macaw
- Blue Throated Macaw
Know about them thoroughly in our website so that you are
able to handle them easily. Though they are easy going as
pets but still the owner should have some knowledge before
having any of them as a pet.
Parakeets are smaller versions of parrots
which are available in various colors. They are cute and are
extremely popular as pets because of their nice disposition.
If you have any parakeet as your pet then you should know
how to train a parakeet and most importantly how to take care
of it. If you are wondering where you would get substantial
knowledge about the parakeet then do not worry, here is our
membership site offering you articles on whatever you want
to know about parakeet. The page about parakeet covers the
- About Parakeets
- Parakeet Training
- Parakeet Care
- Health & Diet
- Parakeet Behavior and
- Quaker Parakeets
Parrotlets or miniature parrots are also
nowadays extremely popular as pets. With proper training these
birds can talk fluently thus entertaining you constantly.
Our next section deals with these parrots and gives you a
good idea about their training and their species.
You must have a fair idea about parrots
before getting any of them as a pet because there are various
parrots that are known for their specific behaviors and you
should know properly about them so that you can choose the
right kind of parrot as pet. Keeping your need in mind in
our membership site we have kept a separate article on parrots
where you would find description of all kinds of parrots that
are popular as pets. The species of parrots that are mentioned
in this article are:
- African Grey Parrots
- Amazon Parrots
- Senegal Parrots
- Eclectus Parrots
- Quaker Parrots
- Green Parrots
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The most beautiful species among parrots is the Caique.
If you are looking for a beautiful bird as a pet which is
also good in tricks then here it is for you. Go for a Caique
and you would not be disappointed. Though it is hard to train
these birds but it is not impossible and with persistence
and our expert guidance you can easily be a master to a beautiful
and tame Caique. Know about them thoroughly in our membership
site before getting one as a pet.
Now a tendency has been noticed that more and more people
are going for baby parrots as pets. This is because they believe
that baby parrots are easy to tame. While their idea is not
wrong, it should also be kept in mind that baby parrots are
extremely delicate. Before you keep a baby parrot as pet you
should know what care should be taken so that the parrot remains
healthy and grows into a well trained adult parrot. For knowing
about it refer to our “Baby Parrot”
section in the membership site.
A quiet pet is welcome to a family who do not have much time
to spend for the pet. If you fall in this category then go
for a Pionus Parrot. It is easy to take care of these parrots
and to know about their nature and their care visit our membership
site and check the article “Pionus Parrot”
and you would know everything about this parrot.
Toucan is a unique bird and for a long time there was a debate
whether it is a part of the parrot family or not. However,
now it is accepted that it is a parrot and thus it is kept
as pet too. If you are interested in having this unique bird
as a pet then we can help you learn more about it in our section
For your help we also have a photo
gallery where you can see the photographs
of varieties of parrots so that you can easily choose which
parrot to have as your pet.
We also have a video gallery
which would further help you see how parrots perform tricks
and know more about the parrots.
Conures are good pets for kids but not all conures are good for kids especially kids who are less than 10 years of age. The bird that is recommended for kids is a Blue Crown Conure which is known for its sweet nature and do not have biting tendencies like a Green Cheek or a Maroon-Belly. Blue Crown Conure is also a good talker. Nanday Conure is also good as a pet for kids but then a Nanday is not a good talker. Learn more about Conure and its interaction with kids in our section “Conure Facts for Kids”. It is a part of our membership site and you would also know about the responsibilities that your kids should share when a Conure is at home.
We have a very special section for parrot lovers and that
is a section on “Parrot Training Workshops”.
It would help you owners, to know a great deal about how to
train your parrots so that they become wonderful pets.
We have seen that our experts get queries mostly on how to
handle screaming of parrots. We want to tell you that our
section “Parrot Screaming” is
an article that can help you in solving this because it is
a behavioral problem of a parrot. If you are facing this problem
go to this section and know how to handle such a situation.
We have dedicated one section on a parrot species having
a very special physical trait. We are talking about lorikeet,
the parrot which has a unique tongue for sucking honey. Know
about its temperament, diet and its lifestyle in our membership
site. Also there is a section describing the training requirements
of a lorikeet.
A distinct species of the parrot family is kakapo.
This is a flightless bird and is one of the world’s
longest living birds. This is a complete vegetarian bird and
has large claws and feet which enable it to run and walk.
It is also a nocturnal bird and sleeps during the day. The
bird is generally reared as a chick and shows various characteristic
behaviors. Learn more about this unique member of the parrot
family in our site.
Our last section is about “Parrot Enrichment”.
This section would help you know how you can train your parrot
well and also help you know about the various enrichment kits
that are available in the market for training your parrot.
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- Right Diet: Healthy food makes healthy
parrot! Are you one of those numerous parrot owners who
are under the misconception that parrots feed only on seeds
and nuts? Did you know the right food for one variety of
parrots might make another variety sick? Do you exactly
what proportions of vitamins, proteins and minerals should
make up your pet’s diet? Find out what makes your
parrot happy and healthy and what best be avoided.
- Weaning: Find out the right time and
way of weaning. One mistake, and your feathered guest might
be in a bad mood for life!
- Taking care of a sick parrot: Parrots
can be affected by a wide range of diseases. A sick parrot
needs as much care as a sick child. Learn how to look out
for symptoms and the basic care for each disease.
- Correct bad behavior: If the parrot is
behaving badly without apparent reason, chances are there
is something wrong in its training process. If your parrot
screeches, screams or behaves in a ferocious way you need
to be armed with the right tricks to deal with it. Too much
delay, and you might not be left with any choice other than
to leave it at the pet shop.
- Talk: So has it been months and all that
your parrot seems to be saying, over and over again, is
‘hello’? Chill! Before you know it, it will
be able to carry on an amazingly real conversation with
you. And you are going to help it to do that, with a little
bit of help from us.
- Stop biting: If your parrot is causing
bloodshed at home, it’s time to act, and act fast.
Most of the times, biting is an act of self defense. Know
how to make your parrot feel comfortable in your presence
and assure it that you are its friend. In a matter of days,
you will have a beautiful creature perched proudly on your
- Be potty trained: Very important, if
you don’t want your house to be a yucky mess! This
needs a lot of patience and the right tricks.
- Learn new tricks: If your parrot is not
performing tricks, it is just wasting its amazing inherent
talent. With a little bit of help from us, train your parrot
like a professional and explore its full potential.
- Be disciplined: Pamper your parrot, but
draw the line before it turns into a spoilt brat and becomes
unruly. Learn how to control and channelize its energy so
that it remains lively without turning the house upside
- Hygiene and cleanliness: This may be
crucial to your parrot’s health and can be fatal if
not taken seriously. Learn how to clean your bird’s
cage, perch, food plate and toys and the bird itself.
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human voice. However, it should never be imagined that training
a parrot is an easy job. It is important to remember that
your parrot comes from a wild habitat and was not meant to
be domesticated, tamed or trained. At the beginning, your
parrot might strongly resist being trained.
Thus, training a parrot needs utmost patience, and often,
a considerable amount of time. However, the returns are mostly
worth the effort many times over. Also, it is always easier
to train a baby parrot than an adult one. Though it is not
impossible to train an adult parrot, it is difficult to train
one that was improperly trained a s a baby or had suffered
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- How can I let my Conure know that I am happy with its
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Catholic Prayer: November Devotion: The Holy Souls in Purgatory
Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. As a reminder of our duty to pray for the suffering faithful in Purgatory, the Church has dedicated the month of November to the Holy Souls. The Holy Souls are those who have died in the state of grace but who are not yet free from all punishment due to their unforgiven venial sins and all other sins already forgiven for which satisfaction is still to be made. They are certain of entering Heaven, but first they must suffer in Purgatory. The Holy Souls cannot help themselves because for them the night has come, when no man can work (John 9:4). It is our great privilege of brotherhood that we can shorten their time of separation from God by our prayers, good works, and, especially, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.
INVOCATION Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord; and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen.
FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY My Jesus, by the sorrows Thou didst suffer in Thine agony in the Garden, in Thy scourging and crowning with thorns, in the way to Calvary, in Thy crucifixion and death, have mercy on the souls in purgatory, and especially on those that are most forsaken; do Thou deliver them from the dire torments they endure; call them and admit them to Thy most sweet embrace in paradise. Our Father, Hail Mary, Eternal rest, etc.
FOR ALL THE DECEASED By Thy resurrection from the dead, O Christ, death no longer hath dominion over those who die in holiness. So, we beseech Thee, give rest to Thy servants in Thy sanctuary and in Abraham's bosom. Grant it to those, who from Adam until now have adored Thee with purity, to our fathers and brothers, to our kinsmen and friends, to all men who have lived by faith and passed on their road to Thee, by a thousand ways, and in all conditions, and make them worthy of the heavenly kingdom. Byzantine Liturgy
DE PROFUNDIS The psalmist is crying out here from the depression that grips him because of his sense of sin. He tells God that no man could be forgiven should strict justice be demanded; but, since God is forgiving and merciful, the psalmist (Israel) will hope for redemption from iniquities. We, who know the mercy of God far better than the g Israelites, may pray this psalm with even greater trust in God. The Church uses this psalm in the liturgy as her official prayer for the souls in Purgatory. Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my, voice! Let Your ears be attentive to my voice in supplication: If You, O Lord, mark iniquities, Lord, who can stand? But with You is forgiveness, that You may be revered. I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in His word. My soul waits for the Lord more than sentinels wait for the dawn. More than sentinels wait for the dawn, let Israel wait for the Lord, For with the Lord is kindness and with Him is plenteous redemption; And He will redeem Israel from all their iniquities. Psalm 130
THE MISERERE This psalm is a marvelous act of contrition, confession, and supplication by a repentant sinner. It was composed by David after his sin with Bethsabee. In reparation David promises to lead others back to God by telling them of the ways of divine justice. Instead of offering God an external sacrifice which he knows He will not accept, he offers instead the sacrifice of a contrite and humble heart, a sacrifice that will always be most pleasing in the eyes of God. Have mercy on me, 0 God, in Your goodness; in the greatness of Your compassion wipe out my offense. Thoroughly wash me from my guilt and of my sin cleanse me. For I acknowledge my offense, and my sin is before me always: "Against You only have I sinned, and done what is evil in Your sight"-- That You may be justified in Your sentence, vindicated when You condemn. Indeed, in guilt was I born, and in sin my mother conceived me; Behold, You are pleased with sincerity of heart, and in my inmost being You teach me wisdom. Cleanse me of sin with hyssop, that I may be purified; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Let me hear the sounds of joy and gladness; the bones You have crushed shall rejoice. Turn away Your face from my sins, and blot out all my guilt. A clean heart create for me, 0 God, and a steadfast spirit renew within me. Cast me not out from Your presence, and Your holy spirit take not from me. Give me back the joy of Your salvation, and a willing spirit sustain in me. I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners shall return to You. Free me from blood guilt, 0 God, my saving God; then my tongue shall revel in Your justice. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth shall proclaim Your praise. For You are not pleased with sacrifices; should I offer a holocaust, You would not accept it. My sacrifice, O God, is a contrite spirit; a heart contrite and humbled, 0 God, You will not spurn. Be bountiful, O Lord, to Sion in Your kindness by rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem; Then shall You be pleased with due sacrifices, burnt offerings and holocausts; then shall they offer up bullocks on Your altar. Psalm 50
FOR THE SOULS IN PURGATORY O Lord, who art ever merciful and bounteous with Thy gifts, look down upon the suffering souls in purgatory. Remember not their offenses and negligences, but be mindful of Thy loving mercy, which is from all eternity. Cleanse them of their sins and fulfill their ardent desires that they may be made worthy to behold Thee face to face in Thy glory. May they soon be united with Thee and hear those blessed words which will call them to their heavenly home: "Come, blessed of My Father, take possession of the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."Prayer Source: Prayer Book, The by Reverend John P. O'Connell, M.A., S.T.D. and Jex Martin, M.A., The Catholic Press, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 1954
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Latino Mental Health
The Latino Mental Health Program offers consultations in psychopharmacology, cognitive neurology, brief psychotherapy and neuropsychological evaluations. With an inter-departmental team of bilingual and bicultural neurologists, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and community resource specialists, the program provides services based on an understanding of the Latino culture and community in the United States. The Latino Mental Health Program is part of the Latino 360 Initiative, a program facilitating interdisciplinary referrals for our Spanish-speaking patients. It is also a training site for psychiatry residents, psychology and social work interns who want to increase their knowledge and skills in culturally oriented health care.
- Psychopharmacological consultation
- Short-term, solution-oriented adult individual and group psychotherapy
- Consultations to primary care providers and other medical specialties
- Cognitive Neurology Services
- Neuropsychological testing
- Teaching sessions for primary care providers
- Consultation, educational and training services to health centers, schools and other community agencies
- Information about other community resources for Spanish-speaking patients
- The BIDMC Latino Mental Health Program sponsors the “Sobremesa” quarterly luncheons for Latino providers in the community. The goal of this program is to promote education, communication and networking among providers serving the Latino community in the greater Boston area. For further information, contact 617-667-4074.
The Latino Mental Health Program is located in the Cognitive Neurology Unit, Kirstein 2nd Floor, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, 330 Brookline Ave, Boston, MA.
Phone: 617-667-4074; Fax: 617-667-2808
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No other phone stores this information in this way.
British security researchers have figured out that iPhones keep track of where their owners go, saving data to the device and uploading it to a user's computer when the phone is synced with iTunes. The data includes the phone's latitude and longitude and is timestamped to the second, all of which is recorded in a hidden file--which is very much not secure.
This could theoretically be useful for anyone interested in knowing where an iPhone owner spends his or her time - advertisers, employers, spouses, parents.
"Apple have made it possible for anyone from a jealous spouse to a private investigator to get a detailed picture of your movements," according to researcher Pete Warden.
To be clear, such a snoop would need access to your phone or computer and a way to extract and refine the data. It is not sent to Apple nor any third parties, as far as the researchers can tell - it's just stored on an individual user's devices. But it is apparently not very difficult to extract the location data from a user's computer.
Warden and Alasdair Allan say they tried to find similar location tracking code on Android phones, but could not find anything. "We haven't come across any instances of other phone manufacturers doing this," Warden tells the Guardian.
Given Google's penchant for location tracking and mapping, the alarm is perhaps surprising - Google's "Latitude" app lets users see their friends on a map, for instance. But Latitude requires that users actively choose to track their location information; in this case, the user is unaware of the data collection. The Guardian reports that Apple did not comment on why the file was created or whether it could be disabled. If you upgrade to a new phone, the file is transferred to that next-generation device, which the researchers say means the data collection is not accidental.
Warden - who has previously worked for Apple - and Allan created their own app that finds the hidden file among the stored backup files on a Mac and turns it into a map. If you don't care to visualize your travels, Warden explains how to find the file on his website.
The researchers believe the location data is obtained by triangulating the phone's position against the closest cell phone towers, which uses less battery power than GPS. It also explains why some of the data is incorrect, as triangulation is much less precise than GPS. But the data is still alarmingly accurate, tracking your history as an iPhone owner through the months and years. Forgot that you took that trip to Boston last summer? Your iPhone didn't.
It's not clear how this information would be used, but there are several possible explanations, including targeted mobile advertising, synchronization for location-based networks like FourSquare, understanding commuter habits, and so on.
Allan found the file while the pair were working on how to visualize mobile data, having already collaborated on other data-visualization projects including a radiation map for Japan. At first the researchers weren't sure what it was, Warden explains on his website.
"After we dug further and visualized the extracted data, it became clear that there was a scary amount of detail on our movements," he writes.
There is no real way to disable this logging at the moment, though you can encrypt your data to make it harder to read once it's synced to your computer. This is a big enough problem that we expect Apple will respond at some point, so we'll keep you updated if and when that happens.
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Tradition and culture are revered around the world. We create traditions then we carry them through over the years blindly. If our traditions last long enough they take on an air of holiness. Others will write of our traditions. Some will with baited curiosity examine and study our traditions thus adding to their importance. In many instances those very traditions are burying, blinding and bamboozling the practitioners. What are the dangers of blindly following such traditions?
After more than thirty years of studying the Bible I can say with full assurance that Jesus Christ never contradicted himself. There is one instance where it would seem that he did but after careful examination I found that rather than a contradiction it ends up being more of an enigma.
In Matthew 24:35 Jesus said…Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words shall not pass away. The Bible has lasted through every kind on onslaught that has ever been thrown at it through the centuries. It still causes debate and resistance among some and conversion and new found life for millions of others. Be it yea or nay it won’t go away. In a contrasting statement Jesus said something that almost seems diametrically opposite to what he uttered in Matthew 24:35. In Mark 7:13 Jesus said…Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. Hold the phone! You mean the entire world and its doubts and resistance can’t remove the word of God but tradition can? Yes, and it is the only thing according to scripture that can so effectively do this.
Some traditions are quaint and some are innocuous but when it comes to religious traditions this is not the case. Religion is stifled and beaten to the point of impotence by tradition. It is what makes true the saying that the seven last words of a dying, gasping, pointless and apostate church will be…We have always done it that way.
How has Catholicism found seven sacraments in a Bible that gives to us only two outward ceremonial ordinances, which are, water baptism and the communion? How has one protestant church added foot washing as a tradition and even elevated that to a sacrament? How have countless liturgies, ceremonies, ordinances and practices crept into Christianity over the centuries? The answer is tradition as usual. It is the traditions of the fathers or patristic teachings, the ceremonies of the celebrated like our pastors, preachers bishops and yes, the Pope. These have added to the overshadowing construct of outward and often meaningless practices in our churches. This construct is now so heavily layered that it is obscuring the simple but profound life giving qualities of the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. It indeed has succeeded in many churches to make the word of God of no effect.
Odd as it may sound it seems that most people expect tradition and religion to be connected together at the hip. The Bible does not agree with this assumption. In fact the word…religion, is used only five times in the entirety of the Bible. And only once is it used to define what religion is. That definition doesn’t look anything like what our religious practices have become. James said…Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 1:27
Religious traditions have an assuring quality that the human psyche can’t very well resist. It assuages us to see the cathedral long standing and its ministers appropriately garbed in robes and vestments. It gives us the idea that they must be professionals if nothing else, the proof is apparent in the trappings and all the blaring visuals. But Christ never prescribed any sort of adornment for us or our churches. And the idea that Christian traditions or any other religious traditions are firmly established by their longevity is a mindless absurdity. Crimes, war, disasters, floods, famines, disease, are all as old as man but none of these are given any traditional significance. These things are never memorialized, missalized, or traditionalized. That some religious traditions are ancient serves only to point out mans persistence in idolatry and the practice of the mundane.
Some say they love the ceremonies and the liturgies of the church. Perhaps they do, but it behooves anyone to scrutinize the reasons for such a love. Is it practical, does it lead to the salvation of others? Or is it a place to hide a place to get a dose of something much like the tiny dose of a disease that is contained in an inoculation. Isn’t this little dose all that keeps us from getting the real thing? If god is the real thing ten don’t we need more than a little dose?
Can people who are connected to churches that are heavily dependent on traditions be saved? Of course they can because their faith although not often bolstered by these traditions, cannot be destroyed by them either. It will be true for millions of people in the end that they were not saved by their religion but in spite of it. Thank God for the grace of God.
About the Author
Rev Bresciani is from New Orleans La and the author of…Hook line and Sinker or What Has Your Church Been Teaching You, PublishAmerica 2005 and…An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ, Xulon Press 2005. His website is
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Dr Amir Khan discusses 'variant proof' coronavirus vaccine
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For some time the NHS has listed symptoms of coronavirus in adults as including a high temperature, a new, continuous cough, and a loss or change to your sense of smell or taste. It has now updated its page on the main symptoms of Covid. The guidance around self isolation has also now changed, with adults who test positive being advised to stay home for five days, and avoid people who are at high risk for ten days.
The health body lists the following signs in adults:
- A high temperature or shivering (chills) – a high temperature means you feel hot to touch on your chest or back (you do not need to measure your temperature)
- A new, continuous cough – this means coughing a lot for more than an hour, or three or more coughing episodes in 24 hours
- A loss or change to your sense of smell or taste
- Shortness of breath
- Feeling tired or exhausted
- An aching body
- A headache
- A sore throat
- A blocked or runny nose
- Loss of appetite
- Feeling sick or being sick.
It also notes: “The symptoms are very similar to symptoms of other illnesses, such as colds and flu.”
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The NHS also says children and young people aged 18 and under can get coronavirus, “but it’s usually a mild illness and most get better in a few days”.
Current advice is to try to stay at home and avoid contact with other people if you have symptoms of COVID-19 and either a high temperature, or you do not feel well enough to go to work or do your normal activities.
The NHS suggests people take extra care to avoid close contact with anyone who is at higher risk of getting seriously ill from COVID-19.
“You can go back to your normal activities when you feel better or do not have a high temperature,” the NHS website reads.
The NHS notes free testing for COVID-19 from the NHS has ended for most people in England.
It states: “If you have symptoms of COVID-19, you are no longer required to do a rapid lateral flow or PCR test.
“If you still want to get tested and you’re not eligible for a free NHS test, you must pay for a COVID-19 test yourself.
“You can buy a COVID-19 test from some pharmacies and retailers, in person or online.”
There are, however, a small number of people who will still be able to get free COVID-19 tests from the NHS.
It explains: “If you have a health condition which means you’re eligible for new COVID-19 treatments, you should be sent a COVID-19 test to use if you have symptoms.”
Other possible qualifiers include if you’re going into hospital for surgery or a procedure, or if you work in the NHS or in social care.
“If you work in care homes, domiciliary care, extra care and supported living services, and adult day care centres, you can also get free NHS tests,” adds the health body.
The NHS is offering antibody and antiviral treatments to people with coronavirus (COVID-19) who are at highest risk of becoming seriously ill.
It explains: “These treatments can help some people manage their COVID-19 symptoms and reduce the risk of becoming seriously ill. They are for people who have not been admitted to hospital.”
Vaccines are also available to help protect against severe infection.
You can book them through the NHS website.If you or your child have tested positive for COVID-19, you need to wait a number of weeks before having the vaccine.
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Gov. Jerry Brown's proposal for next years' budget stakes out quite a reasonable path for California to get back to fiscal sustainability.
Now, if only the Legislature doesn't mess it up.
The governor has presided over painful spending cuts the past couple of years, most notably to education and social services. Voters responded by passing Brown's Proposition 30 tax hikes, allowing him to balance this budget while restoring much of the funding for education and a little for social services.
But Brown knows full well how tenuous that balance is.
The governor repeatedly stressed the need for fiscal discipline in his Thursday press conference. He expressed justifiable pride that his 2013-2014 budget is balanced and projects surpluses in years to come after the state has spent so many unpleasant years battling huge deficits.
At the same time, the governor acknowledged forces outside his control that could unravel the projections: federal action on the debt ceiling or deficit, increases in health care costs and actions by the courts or federal government to block some of his proposed spending cuts.
The biggest threat to Brown's plan, though, might be his fellow Democrats with their super-majorities in the state Senate and Assembly.
If they taste a little fresh revenue and go on a drunken-sailor spending binge, California could quickly find itself back in the red. And the Dems have the numbers to override any potential veto that Brown might use to slow them down.
For him to prevent that, Brown said, will "take a lot of charm." That, plus his substantial political know-how and the political capital voters gave him by passing Prop. 30.
Brown's budget plan is true to what voters wanted when they approved those tax hikes, trusting the governor and state government "to be good stewards of their money." Of the $5 billion in increased spending he proposes for the coming year, more than $4 billion goes to education.
It was schools' dire fiscal straits, after all, that convinced voters to raise taxes.
The governor's plan boosts K-12 school funding by $2.7 billion, an increase of more than $1,100 per student, and predicts an increase of $19 billion by 2016-17.
All school districts will get more funding, but Brown would direct more of the increased spending to the most challenged districts - those with high percentages of low-income and English-learner students. He wisely suggests cutting the strings that come with funds in 60-some categorical programs so that local school districts can control more of the state funding they get.
The governor would use the $400 million in energy-efficiency spending mandated by voter-approved Prop. 39 to upgrade school buildings. That's wise, because it will save districts money over the long run.
Brown proposes 5 percent growth in state spending on the University of California and Cal State University systems. He wants UC and CSU to avoid tuition hikes by "using their teaching resources more efficiently" and moving students to graduation more quickly.
He allocates an increase of $700 million for community colleges and wants them to take over adult education from K-12 districts.
Brown sets aside $350 million for implementation of the federal Affordable Health Care Act. It's difficult to judge that amount, since so much is yet to be determined about Obamacare's costs and savings.
We disagree fundamentally with spending any money on Brown's pet high-speed rail project. But his proposals to pay down the state's "wall of debt" and to build a rainy-day fund of $1 billion - though a small start to continued fiscal sanity - is in his favor. Unfortunately, he doesn't address the growing unfunded liability of state pensions.
The governor's overarching goal is to eliminate the boom-and-bust, rollercoaster budgets the state has dealt with for so long, restraining spending in the good times so that some money will still be there for the bad. That is exactly what needs to happen.
Here's a line Brown tweeted and repeated a couple of times Thursday as he talked about his budget and his resolve: "Fiscal discipline is not the enemy of democratic governance, but rather its fundamental predicate."
In terms of catchiness and memorability, it's not quite Nike's "Just do it." But it's a fine mantra for this Zen-trained governor in these economically uncertain times.
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UK to 'apologise' to 'Orphans of Empire’
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The UK Government is thinking in terms of saying sorry to thousands of British child migrants, who were sent to Australia last century, according to Sky News.
Available information suggests the move comes at a time when the Rudd Government has vowed to officially express apology to former child migrants before the year end.
It is believed Britain's Deputy High Commissioner has told Sky News the UK is likely to follow Australia in the matter of apology.
The development is significant as a large number of orphans are said to have suffered physical and emotional abuse. Estimates suggest as many as 10,000 poor “unwanted” children were sent out to Australia in two decades beginning 1947. They were often falsely labelled as orphans; and were treated badly upon arrival on ships. Collectively, they came to be known as the `Orphans of the Empire’.
So far, both the Australian and the British governments have turned down the pleas for compensating former child migrants.
Alan Gill, author of the expose `Orphans of Empire’, has already asked for compensation for those badly treated in the orphanages. He has categorically asserted neither Britain, nor Australia, showed any compassion in their matter.
Australia had earlier made public its plans to apologise to thousands of British children, who were admitted to orphanages, “where brutality and sexual abuse were everyday occurrences”.
Describing it as a “significant national step”, Families Minister Jenny Macklin had asserted it was likely to go a long way in contributing to the healing process.
The apology is expected to cover thousands of local children, who also suffered abuse and neglect after they were placed in government institutions or foster homes.
A government report, some five years ago, estimated that 500,000 children had been placed in orphanages or foster homes as they were born to single mothers or into poor families
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Medical Device Industry in the Emerging Markets
As the world population continues to increase, there is a related trend in the aging population. According to the World Population Report (2013), the aging population (60 years and older) is projected to double in the next 40 years. More interestingly, in the year 2050, 8 out of 10 persons in the aging population are anticipated to be living in less developed nations.
What does this have to do with emerging markets and the medical devices industry?
The medical devices industry has exhausted its market territory in North America and Europe. Thus it is looking to expand into emerging markets which have shown promise due to increased demand for the healthcare industry, by the aging population.
The Emerging Market Front Runners – China and India
The landscape of the Chinese market, in terms of healthcare, is controlled by the government. However the recent healthcare reforms of 2009-2011, budgeted $10 billion of the $173 billion for medical institutions to purchase medical devices. Although this allocation looks advantageous for companies, the Chinese government wishes to implement a policy that restricts foreign manufactures from infiltrating the local market. The National Health and Planning Commission wants the Class III hospitals to purchase medical devices made locally. This will have a trickledown effect on smaller hospitals, who will be forced to purchase domestic products as the larger hospitals have the representation power to influence purchasing decisions. The bias toward local medical devices manufactured by hospitals has international implications. It is possible that China’s responsibility to the World Trade Organization might be under question. Since the current guidelines allow China to discriminate against outside investors, it will create more conflict for the medical devices industry to venture into the market. In China’s perspective, it is a brilliant business move to force foreign companies to establish themselves locally so that they can qualify their product as domestic.
India’s medical device industry is quite different from that of China, as imports drive almost 75% of the local market. The local market covers basic medical supplies whereas foreign goods are the high-value devices that are deemed to be greater quality. According to a study conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, the tax for imported raw material is higher than finished products, whereas local cost of raw material is higher. This paradoxical situation unintentionally impacts the local medical device manufacturers, who are unable to tap the opportunities in their own market due to high manufacturing costs.
The dichotomy of the two front runners will add a new layer of complexity for the expansion of foreign medical device companies in these emerging markets. Especially since the companies are seeing their profit margins stagnate in the developed markets; the increasing demand created by the aging population will force them to think differently in terms of their current business model and sales/distribution strategy.
- Furniss, J. (2012). Medical devices: the future is emerging
- markets. pharmaphorum. Retrieved 16 September 2014, from http://www.pharmaphorum.com/articles/medical-devices-the-future-is-emerging-markets
- Mishra, P. (2014). Growth of Indian medical devices’ industry marred by import-export anomaly: Assocham – The Times of India. The Times of India. Retrieved 18 September 2014, from http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/Growth-of-Indian-medical-devices-industry-marred-by-import-export-anomaly-Assocham/articleshow/36725630.cms
- Shobert, B. (2014). A New Wrinkle For China’s Medical Device Market. Forbes. Retrieved 17 September 2014, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/benjaminshobert/2014/08/21/a-new-wrinkle-for-chinas-medical-device-market/
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2013).
- World Population Ageing 2013. ST/ESA/SER.A/348.
– Saket Tallapaka, Consultant, Bristlecone
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HAIMEN, China—Nestled among tiny farms in this rural outpost outside Shanghai is a huge, supersanitary chicken farm—a bold bet by Tyson Foods Inc. TSN -0.39 % that it can thrive in China by overhauling a decades-old business model.
Instead of buying chickens from independent farmers, as Tyson long has done world-wide, the company is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build its own farms in China. The effort is aimed at making inroads in a crucial growth market by addressing one of the country's most vexing problems: food safety.
On a recent afternoon, 330,000 chickens graze in 16 ventilated buildings, each about the area of two Olympic swimming pools. Video cameras monitor the interiors, where the faint sound of chirps mix with the whir of big fans. Workers don sterilized uniforms and shoes. Every delivery truck entering the grounds is sprayed three times with disinfectant.
Tyson aims by 2015 to run 90 such farms in China and supply its processing plants here almost exclusively with company-raised broilers, as chickens raised for meat are called. Today the Springdale, Ark., company has 20 farms in China. Three years ago, none. The goal is to double production in China to three million birds a week for supermarkets and restaurants to help offset sluggish growth in the U.S.
"We just can't build the [chicken] houses fast enough, and we're going absolutely as fast as we know how to go," says Tyson Chief Executive Donnie Smith.
Tyson has competition. Chinese companies, such as KFC supplier Fujian Sunner Development Co. 002299 -0.77 % , dominate the market and are expanding. Many are working to modernize their food-production system, sometimes with their own company farms. Acquiring new technology and safety practices was a reason for this year's $4.7 billion takeover of U.S.-based pork processor Smithfield Foods Inc. by China's Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd.
Tyson doesn't disclose its investment costs or revenue by country. But CLSA Americas LLC estimates that Tyson's China revenue was about $715 million in the fiscal year that ended in September and will reach $1.1 billion by fiscal 2015.
In the U.S., where Tyson is the largest meat processor by sales, the company contracts with 4,000 farmers to raise the chickens that Tyson processes. The farmers raise about 100,000 birds at a time, shouldering the risk and navigating the logistical hassles.
But that doesn't fly in China, which is dominated by small-scale farms. Small poultry farms, which may have only a few hundred birds each, are hard to monitor to prevent disease and deter excessive use of the feed additives that speed animal growth.
Such food-safety problems are hindering companies' efforts to tap a growing demand for meat in China's emerging middle class. China overtook the U.S. last year as the world's largest consumer of chickens. But since then, a new bird-flu outbreak and other health scares have triggered sharp declines in sales.
Yum Brands Inc., YUM 0.89 % which counts on China for about half the company's $14 billion in global revenue, blamed consumer concerns over chicken for weaker sales at Yum's KFC outlets. The company cut ties this year with some small-scale suppliers after several vendors were investigated for using excessive levels of antibiotics.
China's chicken market is central to Tyson's plan to increase its sales from international production by at least 12% annually over the next few years. Tyson, which generated $34 billion in global revenue for fiscal 2013, has processed chicken in China since 2001. Lately, though, the company hasn't turned a profit in the country because of its investments in new farms and processing plants. The company expects to be profitable in China by the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014.
After a decade of purchasing birds from independent farmers, Tyson determined it needed to take over production. "It became apparent we have less control over product quality and safety when we buy chickens available on the open market," says Malik Sadiq, the chief operating officer of Tyson's China division.
Tyson says that while operating farms raises costs, it also gives the company direct oversight of production, enabling it to use biosecurity measures. For example, its chicken houses are covered, unlike at many Chinese farms, protecting the animals from the droppings of migrating birds that can carry diseases such as bird flu.
Tyson hopes that safe products will help build its retail brand in a country where it is little known.
The payoff could be significant. Poultry sales here have been growing faster than those of pork, China's favorite meat, in part because chicken is less expensive. Retailers and fast-food companies are expanding and looking for safe suppliers. The bulk of Tyson's chicken sales in China today are to wholesalers and other meatpackers that use the meat in sausage and other products. About 20% of its sales by volume is for the fast-food sector.
Minnesota-based Cargill Inc. started processing chicken in China this past spring, opening its own farms and plants as part of a $250 million investment. And Illinois-based OSI Group Inc., a supplier to McDonald's Corp., said recently that it had expanded the poultry farms it operates in China through a joint venture.
Building farms is complicated and capital-intensive. Gaining rights to China's scarce agricultural land is difficult. Tyson must find plots without neighbors who raise poultry to mitigate the spread of disease. Government approval of leases can take months, if not years, according to industry executives.
Mr. Sadiq, the Tyson operating chief, says the tax revenue the company provides help its case with officials. But analysts say that provincial authorities generally give preference to local companies. When Tyson gets approval, it often pays compensation or rent to current farmers.
China's national government generally has supported the move to larger farms to modernize production and improve food safety. The government also has aided the commercial chicken industry by reducing the number of so-called wet markets, where live birds and other farm products are sold to consumers and where viruses can circulate easily.
Tyson has had to build roads and bridges and install electrical lines. Cargill is making similar investments, including building 30 miles of roads near its operations in Anhui, a relatively poor eastern province, and splitting the cost with the local government for installing 300 miles of electrical lines.
"Embarking on these projects in rural China requires just immense complexity," says Christopher Langholz, who heads Cargill's animal-protein business in China.
Still, executives believe it will pay off. Retailers are selling upscale labels and imported foods to consumers who believe that such products are safer than what is available at traditional markets.
Tyson says its strategy already is winning more business from restaurant chains and retailers. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. WMT -0.57 % 's chief executive for China, Greg Foran, says Tyson has helped minimize the retailer's risk by providing a safe, controlled supply.
Tyson aims to expand retail sales to 20% of its volume in China from 10% today. But that will require building name recognition and persuading consumers to buy packaged breasts and wings instead of entire birds recently slaughtered at market—and to pay more for chicken billed as higher quality.
"Chinese customers don't pay," says James Rice, a former vice president of Tyson's operations in China who now works for a Chinese liquor company. "In China, 20% of customers have the purchasing power and the other 80% will buy the cheapest thing."
Macy Lu, a 40-year-old homemaker in Shanghai, says she bought Tyson chicken recently because the deboned and skinned thighs were more convenient than what she would have bought elsewhere. It was a "bit more expensive," she says, but she felt safer buying the Tyson chicken because of the production date on the label. "If there is any problem, at least it's traceable."
—Fanfan Wang contributed to this article.
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by Margaret Croyden
"Trying," An Intelligent Work
Margaret Croyden is a theater reviewer and essayist for the New York Theatre Wire.
by Joanna McClelland Glass
Starring Fritz Weaver
The Promenade Theatre
West 77th Street and Broadway
Opened October 13,2004
Reviewed October 15,2004 by Margaret Croyden
Fritz Weaver in the play "Trying" is a remarkable actor. On the stage for over two and a half hours, never missing a beat, articulating perfectly, and thoroughly convincing, Weaver gives one the most intelligent and insightful portrayals that must be seen. He depicts the 82 year old Attorney General Francis Biddle under Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, who also represented America at the Nuremberg trials. Weaver must convince us that he is a highly intellectual, powerful patrician who, in his heyday, was sure of his prowess, but in the last years of his life, had deteriorated into a complaining, cantankerous crank. A heavy assignment, to be sure. On the one hand, the play is about aging and how it feels to lose one's power and place in the world but also one's physical prowess without the actor projecting an air of self-pity. Weaver accomplishes this successfully: he captures every angle of old age--the walk, the talk, the voice, the look, the act of sitting, or getting up, or lying down. Especially the existential anger at the inevitable blows suffered by aging. Truly a remarkably detailed portrait.
The story line is simple. Biddle's wife has recommended a new secretary, since his irksome disposition has alienated all previous ones. And no wonder. He is rigid, argumentative, and ill tempered. A young Canadian woman about 25 (The author actually did work for Attorney General Biddle) applies for the job, gets it and gets the grouchy old man with it. But in the course of the play, she tames him, wins him, and saves him. By her steely, quietly clever attitude, she helps him overcome his inner and outer chaos, and, in the process, the man's politics and understandable contradictions are subtlety revealed.
The second aspect of the play tells us more about his past and his real accomplishments. Francis Biddle was born into a well connected aristocratic Republican family. Later in life he switched his politics, became a Democrat, and chairman of Americans for Democratic Action as well as advisor to the American Civil Rights Union. A firm critic of the McCarthy hearings, he loudly condemned the Senator and the manner in which those hearings were conducted, and in one of his books, Biddle argued against guilt by association. In general, he clearly opposed the House UN-American Activities Committee, though his stance was not entirely popular with his "crowd." For his truthfulness, he was accused of being a traitor to his class.
Although the playwright Joanna McClelland Glass does not harp unduly on Biddle's politics, one gets the general idea that beneath all the man's irritation, he is a humanist, capable of tender feelings, or at least his realization (however belated) that people are not put on earth to satisfy his whims, his orders, and his complaints. In the end, despite his continual irascibility, he is, strangely enough, likeable. The playwright has given him the wittiest lines in the play, so that his harsher side is softened and his decline into old age is recognizable and indeed sympathetic. Plainly, it is no fun getting old.
So Fritz Weaver succeeds in capturing the role very well. And so does his foil, Kati Brazda as the secretary, who also has a difficult acting task. She has no showy knock-our scenes; the character she plays needs to be subdued, plain spoken, and subtle in manipulating her boss. And this is not easy for the actor precisely because the role is so low key. But that's just the point. Ms. Brazda is beautifully convincing on stage without big scenes and artificial histrionics.
Sandy Shinner, who also directed the sold-out production in Chicago at the Victory Gardens Theater, moves the play along quickly, although it could use a cut or two. Still it has started the season off on the right foot. Don't miss this production of "Trying." You will experience some fine acting and get a whiff of history as well. And it will remind you that the theater, when it produces serious plays with accomplished actors, can be still be a positive force in a culture that is seriously undermining serious art. [Croyden]
Margaret Croyden's most recent book is "Conversations With Peter Brook, 1970-2000" published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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We all know that it is possible to import a table of data to SQL Server tables using Integration Services (SSIS). It is as easy as A-B-C. But what if you want to read only a cell from an Excel sheet and import that. Let say you have some kind of Excel sheet from which we need to perform a non-traditional import.
In the above Excel sheet, you will see that format is not a row, column format. Instead, you need to read each cell to find the data. For example, if you want to read Customer Name you, need to read the B3 cell. Similarly for the Order Number you need to read cell E3 and for Address, read B4, etc.
So you will not be able to use native SSIS to import this data. Instead there are two options of doing this, which I will show you.
By Using Name Cells
In Excel there is a feature where you can create "name cells". You can create a named cell by selecting Insert->Name->Define as shown below
For each cell, you need to create a Name. After creating a name, you can access that name treating it is as a table. However, from the Excel data source, you cannot create a cross join. So you need to create five Excel sources (for five cells) and create the SSIS package. Not only will you have five data sources, you also need to have Sorts, Merge Joins, which will complicate your SSIS package layout. See the package below as an example.
This is the output
Though this is what we are expecting, to get to that point we need to work hard, which is not worth money. On top of all this, you need to create a name cell in a Excel file, which you have to either do programmatically or use a template of some sort. The template method will not work in the case when you are generating these files from another third party system.
Using the Script Option
As they say, when you need some non-standard operations in SSIS, it is the script component's turn to put his hand up. These are the steps you need to follow to import that data using the Script component.
1.Drag and drop a script component and select "source" as the script option type.
2.By default the script language is Microsoft Visual C# 2008 and I have done this sample with Microsoft Visual Basic 2008. (That is my preference). Change this if you need to.
3.Define your output columns with the correct data type as shown below.
4.Edit the script. In the IDE you should add two references. These are the last two shown below.
I am not sure whether you need both references. However, in my case I had to add both.
5.Finally it is time to write some code. You need the Imports Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel at the top of the imports section. Then replace the procedure CreateNewOutputRows with following code.
Public Overrides Sub CreateNewOutputRows()
Dim oExcel As Object = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
Dim FileName As String
FileName = Variables.FileName
Dim oBook As Object = oExcel.Workbooks.Open(FileName)
Dim oSheet As Object = oBook.Worksheets(1)
Output0Buffer.Address = oSheet.Range("B4").Value
Output0Buffer.CustomerName = oSheet.Range("B3").Value
Output0Buffer.OrderDate = oSheet.Range("E4").Value
Output0Buffer.OrderNumber = oSheet.Range("E3").Value
Output0Buffer.RepName = oSheet.Range("B5").Value
6.Now this is our data flow.
Yes, you saw that correctly, no complications whatsoever, thus the same results.
The only issue with the script method is you need to have the Excel runtime installed. Apart from that, this method looks much smarter. If you wish to download the samples for above, you can get them from sky drive
- Order.xls - Excel where I have add some samples data and defined named cells
- ReadingCellByDefineName - SSIS Package which reads from the define cell names. You need to change the Excel file path to suit your environment
- ReadingCellByScriptTask - SSIS Package which reads from a script.You need to change the FilePath variable to suit your environment
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House of the week: New York armory
49 Florida Ave, Amsterdam NY
For sale: $895,000
Situated high above a bluff overlooking the Mohawk River and the upstate New York town of Amsterdam is a fortress. Imposing and dramatic, the building’s narrow windows, high turrets and limestone bricks look utterly medieval.
Which, of course, was the entire intent of the original architect.
In 1863, draft riots erupted throughout New York City during the Civil War. Such events led the U.S. to rely more and more on the National Guard to keep the peace at home. New York State, in particular, led the charge in creating home bases for the Guard. These armories were heavily Gothic and medieval in style — intended to inspire and drive fear into would-be agitators.
The Amsterdam Armory, also known as the Amsterdam Castle, fulfills its role quite well. Built in 1895, the imperial building served as the administration and training facility for the 46th Separate Company of the New York National Guard, which turned into the “G” Company of the 105th Infantry Regiment of the New York National Guard. In World War II, the 105th Infantry fought in Japan.
Following World War II, the armory continued to serve as the base of the Infantry until 1995, when the state sold the home to a private owner for $62,500. In 2005, after some updates, a new owner bought the home for $800,000 and transformed it into a bed-and-breakfast.
“My client did a restoration, [and] the largest nonprofit in the state, the Preservation League of New York, gave her an award for best restoration,” said listing agent Mike Franklin of Select Sotheby’s International Realty. “It won best bed-and-breakfast in the capital district, and that’s quite an honor considering the B&Bs there.”
The home is back on the market currently, ready to be another B&B or private residence. Measuring a whopping 36,000 square feet, the home gleams in its current state with restored hardwood floors, original stained glass and crown moldings. The officers’ rooms serve as bedrooms, and commercial spaces — including a basement kitchen, locker rooms and full gym — are also in the home. A drill and vehicle maintenance shed are also on the property.
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California Department of Transportation
Headquarters - Public Affairs Office
August 18, 2008
CALTRANS EARNS NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION HONORS
Sacramento –The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has won five prestigious awards from the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO).
Caltrans received accolades for its public awareness campaigns on two major transportation projects in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area, for hosting a prominent national highway safety campaign and for creating the safety campaign’s striking logo.
“These national awards demonstrate that Caltrans continues to be an innovative transportation leader throughout the United States,” said Caltrans Director Will Kempton.
Caltrans was recognized for the following achievements:
- Winner for "Innovative Management” - Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze: In April 2007, a gasoline truck exploded near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge among a tangle of freeway ramps known as the MacArthur Maze. Two major freeway ramps were projected to be closed for months. Caltrans implemented an intense public outreach program, which included daily media briefings near the meltdown site and a Web page with updates, news coverage, and a live camera feed so the public could see first-hand the rapid progress of the rebuilding. Working with local transit officials, Caltrans’ public outreach plan created a sea change in Bay Area transportation: a record 2.1 million passengers rode Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), the highest in the agency’s 35-year history. Originally projected to take months to finish, the repairs were completed in 26 days, turning the Maze Meltdown into the Maze Miracle.
- Winner for “Innovative Management" - Public Outreach Program and Replacement of the West Approach of Bay Bridge: The West Approach project closed the lower deck of the Bay Bridge over the 2006 Labor Day weekend for the first time since the bridge was damaged in 1989 by the Loma Prieta Earthquake.
Caltrans initiated the largest public outreach campaign in its history. This included TV, radio and newspaper commercials, flyers, electronic freeway message signs and advertisements in movie theaters. The massive awareness effort helped motorists find alternate routes and prevented regional gridlock.
- Winner of Excel Award - Rebuilding the MacArthur Maze: This is AASHTO’s highest award for public relations programs and campaigns. A summary of Caltrans’ public awareness campaign for the MacArthur Maze is in the first bullet point in this news release.
- Winner of Excel Award - National Work Zone Awareness Week: Every spring, Caltrans holds a memorial to honor its employees who have died in the line of duty. This year’s memorial marked the first time in history that the national kick-off event was held outside metropolitan Washington D.C. Caltrans’ safety slogan, “Slow for the Cone Zone,” was adopted across the United States as this year’s national campaign theme.
- Winner of Graphic Design Award - “Best Logo”: As host of the 2008 National Work Zone Awareness Week kick-off event, Caltrans needed to create a unique identity for the occasion. Using “Slow for the Cone Zone” as a template, Caltrans designed and produced the National Work Zone Awareness Week logo. The logo was used on hundreds of printed materials and online by state departments of transportation throughout the nation, as well as by the Federal Highway Administration. To view the logo, visit: http://www.atssa.com/galleries/clean_titles/08CT207_POSTER-final.jpg
The awards competition, sponsored by AASHTO, the American Automobile Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, honored transportation projects from the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (WASHTO) region. AASHTO membership consists of every state department of transportation and the federal department of transportation. Most Canadian departments of transportation, as well as a few foreign nations are associate members.
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Hi! I'm from Santiago of Chile and i have information about last name Jara Jara is an original last name of Murcia, Cartagena, Spain. In addition,Jara is one runa, that means compensates and represents a tree, the oak. According to chamanes, this runawould be one of the revelations of the Gods to Odín. Jara it's the name of a very common wild flower to a large extent of Spain and the word "Jara " comes from the Arab and means "full land of vegetation".
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Over the last few years, I’ve watched my parents move from a Windows PC to a Mac mini to iPads for their Internet access.
Accessing the Internet from their iPads is quite easy for them but introduced some interesting situations for me as their support person.
There are some tasks that once required a computer, such as setting up a new wireless router, that no longer do.
I’ve been testing the new TAP-R2 High Power Touch Screen AC750 Wi-Fi Router from Amped Wireless.
All configuration can be done via the router’s 3.5-inch color touch screen display.
View video at dallasnews.com
Plug in and go
If you read through the entire mouthful of a product name, the TAP-R2 is a high-powered router, which Amped Wireless says provides three times the range for larger homes or offices.
The power comes from six internal broadcast amplifiers and reception amplifiers and a detachable dual-band high gain antenna.
The TAP-R2 supports all 802.11 variations, including 802.11ac, which is the fastest Wi-Fi available today.
There is one USB port on the router to share a flash drive or hard drive. The files on the USB drive are available to connected users.
There are also two Ethernet ports to connect gaming consoles, a smart TV or any other device that can use a hard-wired Internet connection.
Out of the box, you simply plug the TAP-R2 into an open Ethernet port on your Internet modem and power it on.
The touch screen comes alive, and you’re shown the two networks that begin broadcasting by default.
My first order of business was to change the wireless network names and passwords for the 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks. Touch the name and use the onscreen keyboard to make the changes.
The TAP-R2 can broadcast up to eight wireless networks at once, including restricted access networks and guest networks.
Security choices include the usual suspects — WPS one-touch setup, WPA and WPA 2.
I had no problem setting up any of the network choices.
The router offers Wi-Fi coverage control, which lets the administrator adjust the power to limit the distance if you’d like the network not to extend beyond your home or yard.
Parents can do it
A Wi-Fi router is a strange gadget.
You bring it home, spend 10 minutes setting it up and then, if everything acts as it should, you won’t interact with it for a very long time.
The fact that I could configure the TAP-R2 without touching my computer is a big deal. There have been routers configurable via smartphones for a while, but this is my first experience with a touch-screen router, and it worked perfectly.
I found the range to be better than my 3-year-old Apple Airport Extreme, but I can’t confirm its range is three times longer.
The TAP-R2 is a great router. It’s easy to configure, has great range and doesn’t need a computer for setup.
I had to do some major research and use my laptop to help my parents change their Wi-Fi password the last time I visited.
With the TAP-R2, they could certainly do their own configuration changes.
Follow Jim Rossman on Twitter at @jimrossman.
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Canada’s CH-148 Cyclones: 4th Time Lucky?
What did Canada’s military give up on for v4.0 of the program?
November 7/16: A Canadian CH-148 Cyclone has conducted its first anti-submarine warfare testing with the HMCS Windsor off the coast of Nova Scotia. The Sikorsky-made naval helicopter was tested as part of its Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) carried out by the Helicopter Test and Evaluation Facility (HOTEF). Crews onboard the CH-148 employed Expendable Mobile ASW Training Targets (EMATTs) to simulate submarine movements and noise patterns, which allowed HOTEF crews to further develop those tactical procedures that will be used by operational crews following CH148 Release to Service.
Canada’s Maritime Helicopter Replacement Program has been a textbook military procurement program over its long history. Unfortunately, it has been a textbook example of what not to do. While Canada’s 50-year old Sea King fleet aged and deteriorated to potentially dangerous levels, political pettiness and lack of concern turned a straightforward off-the-shelf buy into a 25+ year long odyssey of cancellations, lawsuits, rebids, and more. Eventually, the Canadian military settled on Sikorsky’s H-92 Superhawk as the basis of its new CH-148 Cyclone Maritime Helicopter, which will serve from the decks of Canada’s naval ships and bases.
The civilian S-92 has gone on to some commercial success. To date, however, Canada has been the H-92’s only military customer – with all of the associated systems integration and naval conversion burdens that one would expect. After a long series of badly missed milestones and delivery delays, there are also deeper questions being raised concerning both the machines’ fitness, and DND’s conduct of the program as a whole. This article covers the rationale for, history of, and developments within Canada’s Maritime Helicopter Program.
CH-148 MHP: Systems & Program
The 5-bladed EH101 had been the New Shipboard Aircraft Program’s initial winner in July 1992, and serves in a naval and anti-submarine helicopter role with the British and Italian navies. A civilian version currently serves Canada in a search-and-rescue role as the CH-149 Cormorant, but they were bought long after the naval helicopter contract was canceled for political reasons. Reliability and readiness issues with the Canadian CH-149s have added further strains to Canada’s relationship with AgustaWestland.
Canada chose a different naval helicopter platform when they restarted the Maritime Helicopter Replacement Program, but the ride has been rough and the delays have been long. Many of those delays arose because a project touted as an off-the-shelf buy became nothing less than the development of a new helicopter platform for the global military market, with specifications that no existing off-the-shelf machine could meet.
The MH-92/ CH-148 Naval Helicopter
The H-92 Superhawk platform Canada chose for its “CH-148 Cyclone” maritime helicopters is a larger derivative of the ubiquitous H-60 family that comprise most of the US Navy’s current fleet. it makes heavier use of rust-proof composite materials, and also sports uprated engines, a rear ramp, and other features that place it in a similar class to Europe’s delayed NH90 NFH model, whose schedule has also slipped until it is also expected to become fully operational around 2013.
Initial Cyclone specifications called for GE’s 3,000 hp class CT7-8C engines, but helicopter weight growth will force another engine upgrade before the final design is ready. Standard self-sealing fuel tanks can carry up to 3,030 kg of fuel, and an in-flight refuelling probe allows in-air refueling for extended range flights.
The 17 cubic meter cabin is fitted with a cargo handling system with a centerline 1,814 kg/ 4,000 pound capacity cargo winch, floor rollers, and cargo tie-down points. A 6 foot-wide aft ramp allows easy and fast loading and unloading of cargo and troops. A 272 kg/ 600 pound capacity hydraulic rescue hoist can reportedly be added to the helicopter if necessary.
A Telephonics APS-143B radar, a HELRAS active dipping sonar system supplemented with launched sonobuoys, and a Star SAFIRE-III day/night surveillance turret, offer a good mid-level sensor set by the standards of new western naval helicopters.
Armament has not been discussed. Other naval helicopters generally hold 2-4 mounting points for some combination of lightweight torpedoes, depth charges, and light anti-ship missiles. Some, such as the Cyclone’s smaller MH-60 cousins, can also mount machine guns, rockets, or short-range anti-armor missiles on their wing stubs. Canada’s history suggests that a minimalist approach is likely, involving only Canada’s Mk46 torpedoes. On the other hand, enough re-use of existing MH-60 family systems could leave the Cyclones fitted “for, but not with” a wider variety of weapons. Sikorsky is known to be eyeing potential exports, and would benefit from having a wide range of available weapon options.
Survivability will be handled using the helicopter’s AN/ALQ-210 radar warning and locator system, linked to the AN/ALQ-144Av5 countermeasures suite. The nature of their missions, however, means that these helicopters’ most dangerous enemy is likely to be… nature. This is also true for their crews. If the worst should come to pass, Canada’s frigid waters challenge sailors to survive long enough to be rescued. To address that, the CH-148 includes emergency flotation systems under the cockpit and in the tailboom; they’re deployed automatically, and are expected to work up to Sea State 5 conditions. If they fail, or aren’t practical, a 15-man life raft is installed in each side wheel sponson.
A number of CH-148s won’t be fielded to this standard, at least initially.
Program delays eventually pushed Canada’s DND to accept “interim” helicopters that could be used for some training, but weren’t ready for service. Overall, the CH-148 interim helicopters will be deficient in 4 areas:
1. Mission system software which controls all weapons and sensors won’t be ready.
2. Messaging functionality/ tactical data exchange capability (automated data-link exchanges of tactical data between designated units, including the ships and aircraft) won’t be fully installed.
3. Mission flight endurance will be 21 minutes less than the contracted requirements.
4. The ability to operate on a single engine, even at high temperatures that cost helicopters their lift.
The first 2 issues will be solved with software and electronics upgrades. The latter 2 issues are expected to be solved by uprated turboshaft engines. All of these upgrades will, of course, require extensive testing of their own.
The CH-148 Program
In 2000, Canadian program costs for 28 maritime helicopters were estimated at C$ 2.8 billion. That escalated to C$ 3.1 billion in 2003. By 2010, the program had hit C$ 6.2 billion, including purchase costs, 20 years of in-service support, training, and extra spending in order to keep the CH-124 Sea King fleet operational during project delays.
Those delays have also been substantial. Initial CH-148 delivery was originally scheduled for November 2008, but that was pushed back twice, and the new December 2010 milestone would be for “interim” helicopters that were missing key capabilities. Those standards were relaxed even further to eliminate night or over-water flights, but Sikorsky still missed the delivery date.
In the wake of a very vague announcement about contract renegotiation and further program delays, observers began questioning whether the program’s initial dates were ever realistic, and whether even the revised dates could be depended upon. As of September 2013, the program hasn’t even had a single interim helicopter accepted. It has missed every milestone so far, and shows no signs of changing that record. The timeline below captures most of the program’s shifting dates and promises, along with its progress to date:
Meanwhile, the H-92 seems likely to become the base helicopter for the USA’s new Presidential helicopter fleet, but hasn’t been able to secure other military sales. If Canada collapses as a customer, the USA’s VXX program could still go ahead, because the civil S-92 is already the base machine for several heads of state. Its military future beyond that would become very tenuous, however, and the S-92 would likely join the S-76 as proposed military machines that became reasonably successful civil-only platforms.
Plan B: Other Options
In September 2013, Canada’s government confirmed that they were seriously considering other helicopters for their naval needs, in conjunction with cancellation of the CH-148 contract. By January 2014, they decided to renegotiate the CH-148 contract one more time. While sunk costs should be discounted, all alternatives to the H-92/CH-148 would have involved some type of cancellation fee, even if Canada terminates for breach of contract. Beyond that, each model had its own strengths and drawbacks.
AW101. AgustaWestland’s AW101 naval serves in a full anti-submarine role with Britain and Italy. The British are upgrading their fleet to a stable Merlin Mk2 configuration, and the helicopter is more advanced and proven than it was when the S-92 beat the AW101 in 2004.
The flip side is that Canada’s AW101/ CH-149 search and rescue machines have had consistent issues with reliability and demand for spare parts, and Britain’s figures indicate that the problem isn’t limited to Canada. The Mk.2 hopes to improve that situation, but there isn’t enough operational data yet to know how much improvement has actually been delivered. AW101s would also require an associated weapons buy, or a sub-project to integrate the helicopter with American weapons in Canada’s stocks.
AW159 Lynx Wildcat. If Canada is willing to consider a significantly smaller helicopter, the new AW159 variant of the globally popular Lynx family offers them more versatility for shipboard deployment, without major structural upgrades.
The new AW159s are very capable anti-submarine helicopters, but won’t have the same utility helicopter versatility as Sea Kings, S-92s, or other large counterparts. They also wouldn’t have space for Canada’s extra TACCO (tactical control officer) in back to monitor the sensors and make tactical decisions. Their purchase cost would be lower, but like the AW101, they’d require added weapons integration or purchases, as well as an investigation of flotation options.
EC725 Super Cougar. Eurocopter’s machine lacks a folding tail boom for storage aboard navy ships, and would need to integrate naval equipment (radar, dipping sonar, sonobuoys, weapons). Canada has been there and done that with the S-92, and they’re deeply unlikely to do it again.
MH-60R Seahawk. Sikorsky’s smaller but proven MH-60R has been in service with the US Navy for several years, and Australia won’t be its last export customer. It offers great interoperability, compatibility with Canada’s existing weapons is assured, and deliveries would take place quickly from a full-rate production line.
MH-60Rs could be an option if Canada decides to negotiate them as part of a broader settlement with Sikorsky. Its problem is that it won’t qualify unless Canada scraps the flotation requirements, which exist because Canadian crews have to fly over a lot of lethally cold water. Canada also wouldn’t have space to include their extra TACCO (tactical control officer) in back, to monitor the sensors and make tactical decisions.
NH90 NFH. The European NHI consortium’s helicopter has an strong installed base within NATO, and offers Canada the advantage of ongoing modernization investments from multiple partner countries. The NH90 NFH variant was very developmental in 2004, but as of 2013, the naval version is finally being delivered in its operational configuration. NHI is publicly unclear re: integrated weapons options, and so Canada would need to investigate that.
The NH90’s problem has been late, late delivery, and the company remains backlogged. Given cutbacks in orders from their core customers, they’d certainly welcome the business. The questions are: Can NHI deliver? And how much stock can Canada place in a helicopter that doesn’t have much operational history in its operational configuration?
CH-148 Industrial Partnerships
The basic S-92 helicopter is assembled in Stratford, CT, but key parts are made elsewhere. It is used in industries like offshore oil & gas, and has carved out a niche as a government VIP helicopter. Industrial partners for the S-92 civil helicopter and CH-148 maritime patrol helicopter include:
CH-148 MHP: Contracts & Key Events
November 7/16: A Canadian CH-148 Cyclone has conducted its first anti-submarine warfare testing with the HMCS Windsor off the coast of Nova Scotia. The Sikorsky-made naval helicopter was tested as part of its Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) carried out by the Helicopter Test and Evaluation Facility (HOTEF). Crews onboard the CH-148 employed Expendable Mobile ASW Training Targets (EMATTs) to simulate submarine movements and noise patterns, which allowed HOTEF crews to further develop those tactical procedures that will be used by operational crews following CH148 Release to Service.
June 23/14: Concessions. What trade-offs did Canada’s government make, in order to get a CH-148 helicopter that could be built and accepted? CBC News reports that they traded away:
- The ability to secure the helicopter’s ramp in various positions during flight.
- Crew comfort systems that could handle extreme temperature operations, as in Afghanistan or Libya.
- Unobstructed hand and foot holds for technicians to conduct maintenance.
- The ability to self start in very cold weather.
- Cockpit ergonomics factors.
- A system to automatically deploy personnel life rafts in emergency situations.
That last concession could be an issue in Canada’s lethally cold oceans, but the biggest concession is that the Canadian military will default to FAA civilian standards under “FAR Part 29,” instead of insisting on on 30-minute “run dry” capability if the main gearbox loses all of its oil. That’s exactly what happened in the S-92 crash off of Newfoundland (q.v. March 11/09), causing Canada’s Transportation Safety Board to recommend that the FAA do away with FAR Part 29’s “extremely remote” loophole. Other competitors, like the AW101, have proven this capability. Sources: CBC News, “Sea King replacements: $7.6B Cyclone maritime helicopters lack key safety requirement”.
June 18/14: Agreement #4. Sikorsky parent firm United Technologies:
“United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) today announced Sikorsky Aircraft Corp.’s signing of a contract amendment with the Government of Canada on the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Program, pursuant to the previously disclosed Principles of Agreement [q.v. April 15/14]. The amended contract enables Canada’s Department of National Defense to take delivery of operationally relevant CH148 Cyclone helicopters and facilitates retirement of the Sea King fleet starting in 2015.
As a result of the amended agreement, Sikorsky will record sales of approximately $850 million and a charge of $440 million in the second quarter of 2014 reflecting the cumulative effect of progress to date toward completion of the program, as modified [see also $157 million charge taken Jan 23/13].”
It has been a good quarter for the S-92, as Sikorsky received an $1.245 billion contract on May 7/14 to develop the S-92 into the next US Presidential helicopter. Sources: UTC, “United Technologies Announces Agreement With Government of Canada for the Maritime Helicopter Program; Reaffirms 2014 EPS Expectations of $6.65 to $6.85 Per Share”.
April 15/14: Agreement #4. Canada and Sikorsky have reportedly reached an agreement regarding the CH-148 program, but it isn’t public yet. Anonymous sources are telling CP that Canada won’t pay more money, will accept up to 8 interim capability helicopters, and will pay only for “the delivery of capable aircraft.” The catch is that Canada had to be realistic about what that meant, and distinguish between capabilities they needed to have, vs. capabilities they wanted to have. It’s amazing that this hadn’t been done during previous contract amendments, but there you have it. CP adds:
“Documents obtained under the Access to Information Act show that in addition to a report by consultants, officials also conducted an independent analysis of the financial implications of the existing program on the country’s defence industry. [Competitors] were also asked what they might be able to provide…. Internal documents showed last January that more than $1.7 billion has already been spent in preparing to receive the troubled choppers.”
Sources: The Canadian Press, “Ottawa and Sikorsky agree on new terms for Cyclone choppers: sources”.
3rd contract amendment
April 14/14: FAA on S-92. The FAA issues a warning that may have some bearing on the CH-148 program:
“The FAA has issued a Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin… [re:] the possibility of salt encrustation and engine performance degradation while operating the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. S-92A in a heavy salt spray environment. At this time, the airworthiness concern is not an unsafe condition…. For operations that take place in a heavy salt spray environment, the pilot should monitor turbine gas temperature (TGT) relative to engine torque. Any abrupt rise in TGT might indicate salt encrustation and possible engine power degradation or imminent compressor stall. If a rise in TGT is observed while maintaining constant engine torque, the pilot should give priority to exiting the heavy salt spray environment. Flight through precipitation may help to reduce salt encrustation on engine components.”
Sources: HAI Rotor News, “Sikorsky S-92A: Heavy Salt Spray Environment”.
Jan 3/14: 4th time lucky? Canada will negotiate a 4th contract with Sikorsky to deliver the CH-148:
“Today, the Government of Canada and Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation announced that a Principles of Agreement (POA), which will form the basis of formal contract negotiations…. Canada will see delivery of helicopters with operational capability sufficient to begin retirement of Sea Kings in 2015, and a program to enhance those capabilities culminating in a fully capable CH 148 Cyclone Maritime Helicopter in 2018…. Sikorsky has committed to deliver the needed helicopter capability at no additional cost to Canada… the Government of Canada will only issue further payment to Sikorsky upon capability delivery…. Sikorsky has agreed to pay Canada $88.6 million in liquidated damages for non-delivery.”
Shifting risk to Sikorsky makes for an attractive offer, under circumstances where other options would either have great difficulty delivering anything earlier, or create significant integration problems on their own. The question was whether the CH-148’s remaining problems could be solved, without jettisoning important operational and safety features. Hitachi seems to think so (q.v. Sept 4/13), but that has yet to be proven. Initial training and testing will continue in Shearwater, and Hitachi Consulting will retain some role in the project. Sources: Public Works Canada, “Government of Canada to continue with Maritime Helicopter Project and begin retiring Sea Kings in 2015” | Halifax Chronicle-Herald, “Ottawa won’t scrap Cyclone purchase, Sea Kings retirement starts next year”.
Initial delivery not until 2015 now – if it ever happens, with Canada looking elsewhere; Serious tech issues with CH-148 detailed; Sikorsky takes financial hit, losing money on each initial helicopter; CCPA-Rideau report; Procurement a general problem within Canada.
Dec 13/13: The Canadian Press reports that Canada is back in talks with Sikorsky to salvage the CH-148 program, which remains their primary option:
“[UTC CEO] Louis Chenevert… told analysts in a conference call on Thursday that the company is having “productive discussions with the Canadian government” on the Cyclone program and that the talks are in the “advanced stages.” Public Works Minister Diane Finley conceded the government “is in discussions” with Sikorsky to see if they can put together a plan to go forward.”
Oct 4/13: Other Options. The Canadian Press reports that the the Canadian government is actively putting together a “Plan B” for the maritime helicopter program.
“The attempt to chart a new course for the long-delayed Sea King replacement program took place in Ottawa on Thursday at an unusual meeting that involved not only government officials and executives of AgustaWestland and NH Industries, but also Cyclone manufacturer Sikorsky.”
Helicopters of interest reportedly involve the AW101 Merlin, NH90 NFH, and MH-60R Seahawk. Source: Global Post, “Official met with Cyclone rivals as Tories consider ditching chopper program”.
Nov 8/13: Tech issues. The Official Opposition’s defence critic Jack Harris [NDP, St. John’s East] formally asks Conservative Party Defence Minister Rob Nicholson to confirm that (a) the MHP still has a requirement to run for 30 minutes with no lubrication; and (b) that the CH-148 either has this capability, or will have it when Sikorsky delivers its helicopters.
Harris specifically references an S-92’s fatal 2009 crash off of Newfoundland (q.v. March 11/09), which was blamed in part on the helicopter’s failure to run after a mechanical failure drained its oil.
The government, and Sikorsky, both refuse to answer his questions. CBC News, “Sea King helicopter replacement standard questioned by NDP”.
Oct 17/13: Small is complicated. While DND is supposedly considering smaller machines like the MH-60R or AW159 as CH-148 alternatives, Canada would either have to change the way it uses helicopters, or place a difficult upgrade aboard its ships.
The biggest problem is Canada’s habit of using a TACCO (tactical control officer) in back to monitor the sensors and make tactical decisions, up to and including firing weapons. The MH-60R and AW159 wouldn’t have space for one. Canada could then do 1 of 2 things. It could rely on modern electronics to eliminate the TACCO, and let the pilot team handle that. Or, it could try to retrofit a TACCO space and equipment into the operations rooms of its current and future ships. Sources: CBC, “Smaller Sea King replacements would mean big changes to navy”.
Sept 12/13: Tech issues. The CBC reports that current CH-148’s engines and cockpit are at risk because of certified “E-3” vulnerabilities to powerful electromagnetic waves (q.v. July 2013). Their source is “defence sources with intimate knowledge of the troubled program”, and E-3 fixes could be a real problem:
“The aircraft was not designed from the ground up with this kind of shielding in mind,” said the source. “Military aircraft, the skin of military aircraft, are sometimes embedded with a fine copper screen or mesh to prevent the intrusion of electromagnetic interference.” One solution could involve retroactively installing screens around sensitive electronics, but that could add as much as 136 kilograms to the weight of the helicopter. That worries engineers who have long been concerned whether the Cyclone’s engine is powerful enough to comfortably lift its existing weight.”
The article also claims that the CH-148’s flight limitations over water stem from “separate, unresolved concerns about the flotation system”. Sources: CBC News, “New Cyclone choppers beset with technical snags”.
Sept 5-6/13: Other Options. June 2013 statements by Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose seemed to hint that Canada was looking for a way out of the contract. That’s no longer just a hint. Public Works spokesperson Amber Irwin says that the report from Hitachi Consulting “is not yet finalized,” but she does confirm that:
“We are conducting an analysis of price and availability of other aircrafts manufactured by other vendors….” …sources inside National Defence said the effort is “quite serious” and more than just a warning to Sikorsky…”
Canada has reportedly sent a team to Britain to look at their AW101 Merlin naval helicopter, which is a militarized counterpart to the CH-149 search and rescue helicopters that Canada already operates. It was also the naval helicopter that Canada originally ordered in the 1980s, at the beginning of this whole sorry saga. An AgustaWestland spokesperson says that they’ve conducted an internal analysis, and believe the AW101 is “more compliant today than we were at the time of bidding.” Other potential options, including Sikorsky’s smaller MH-60R Seahawk, Europe’s NH90 NFH, and AgustaWestland’s AW159 Lynx Wildcat, also have their pros and cons discussed in the “CH-148 Program” section. Sources: CDFAI, “Canadian Cyclone Maritime Chopper Never to Rotate in Service?” | Canadian Manufacturing, “Timing of acquisition unclear if Ottawa changes course on maritime helicopter” | CBC News, “‘Other options’ sought for Sea King helicopter replacements” | Global News, “Harper government now evaluating helicopters ‘other’ than troubled Cyclones”.
Sept 4/13: Report. Hitachi Consulting delivers its CH-148 Program Report to the Canadian government. They say that there is a “reasonable expectation” that the project is salvageable, but only if the government treats it like the developmental project it is, and reorganizes how the project is managed within 3 months. Most of all, the government needs to let go of a specification set that couldn’t be met by any existing naval helicopters, and create the authority for “trade space” that will give up some of those specifications in return for cost, space, and time improvements. That, says Hitachi, has been the project’s fundamental flaw from Day 1. The 3-month period would see the governance model changed, and the specification trades negotiated with Sikorsky and the RCAF. Sources: Hitachi Report PPT summary | CBC, “Cyclone helicopter contract revisions urged by report”.
Aug 4/13: The Canadian Naval Review delivers a hard body-check to recent Canadian defense reporting, on the dubious occasion of the CH-124 Sea King’s 50th anniversary in service. CNR:
“It is highly likely that the movement on the Cyclone file came from developments in the United States, not in Canada, and particularly relate to the renewed competition for the presidential helicopter. According to a report in the New York Times, “Few Suitors to Build a New Marine One” by Christopher Drew (28 July), Sikorsky will be the sole bidder for the contract to replace the presidential Sea Kings. This contract, along with a potential order for the USAF Combat SAR helicopter, both using the Cyclone airframe/engine combination, has effectively created a “critical mass” which makes the prospect of the resolution of whatever technical (as opposed to legal) issues affect the Cyclone more attractive to Sikorsky.”
July 2013: E-3 XX. DND’s directorate of air worthiness gives the interim CH-148s a restricted flight certificate, and imposed restrictions on the helicopter’s operations because of electromagnetic compatibility, electromagnetic vulnerability and electromagnetic interference (E-3 concerns). Civilian helicopters aren’t designed to take the full brunt of emissions from a high-power naval radar or similar source, while military machines design resistance in from the outset. Sources: CBC News, “New Cyclone choppers beset with technical snags”.
July 28/13: Deal, v4.0? Sikorsky has reportedly reached agreement with the Canadian government to begin fight testing with the 4 helicopters it has delivered as of early August 2013, without having Canada formally accept them as meeting requirements.
They’re also proposing a deal that would retire the 50-year old Sea Kings sooner, in return for CH-148s that would be below previously-agreed standards, then phase them into full service over time using software upgrades. Sources: CTV News, “Sea King choppers could retire sooner under U.S. aircraft-maker’s proposal”
July 15-20/13: Sea Kings. Canada’s Sea King helicopter fleet is grounded, after a CH-124 accident at CFB Shearwater near Halifax. It had landed after a 5-hour training mission and taxied to a hangar, then stopped and tipped forward while the rotors were still spinning. The blade fragments dented walls and broke glass on surrounding buildings, but didn’t hurt anyone. The helicopter sustained extensive damage, and the operational fleet may shrink to 22 machines.
June 25/13: What’s Canada preparing for? As maintenance of Canada’s CH-124 Sea King fleet continues to get harder, CBC News reports that Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose has hired an outside consultant to study Sikorsky’s work, and Canada’s contract. The question? Whether it’s even possible to deliver the aircraft Canada ordered. Minister Ambrose:
“I have employed the services of an independent consultant and contractor to undertake a review of the ability of this company to deliver this to the government…. I am very disappointed in Sikorsky…. They have not met their contractual obligations to date. They have missed every deadline and every timeline…”
Which is partly because Canada kept changing the specifications, a fact that places Canada in a weaker legal position than it might otherwise enjoy. Ambrose adds that the 4 / 6 interim helicopters delivered to date don’t even meet minimum interim specifications, and offered that gap as an explanation for her department’s refusal to allow Canadian Forces personnel to train with them. That’s astonishingly bad defense policy, but refusing to take any delivery does make sense if you’re thinking of escaping the contract altogether. Come to think of it, so does removing the planned deck strengthening for some frigate updates, and hiring an independent consultant to examine what amounts to a question of contractor default. CBC News.
Feb 21/13: 2015? RCAF head Lt.-Gen. Yvan Blondin tells a Postmedia interview that: “In the short term, the Sea King can fly.” The report adds that:
“That flexibility will likely be needed amid recent reports that the air force won’t receive the first of its planned Sea King replacements, U.S. aerospace giant Sikorsky’s Cyclone maritime helicopters, until 2015 – seven years later than scheduled.”
Feb 17/13: Why so long? A DND analysis obtained by Postmedia says that as of 2011, it takes an average of 199 months/ 16.5 years for military acquisitions over 55 sampled projects. This has been a long term problem. the average was 190 months in 1998, but assistant deputy minister Alan Williams at the Defence Department implemented initiatives that dropped it to 89 months under Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin. Does the report offer an explanation? No:
“It is impossible to pinpoint what is delaying the cycle time, further in-depth analysis needs to be conducted to review the whole acquisition process. Progress has not been made in reducing the overall acquisition cycle time.”
Williams, who left the public service in 2005, offers a fairly simple explanation: sole-source procurements give the upper hand to the vendor, so contract negotiations drag on indefinitely. That probably part of it, but Canada’s balkanized responsibilities, consistent insistence om specifications not met by anything in the marketplace, and an unaccountable public service culture which has included deceiving Parliament, must also be considered as factors. Ottawa Citizen.
Feb 11/13: CCPA & Rideau. The left-wing CCPA and Rideau Institute issue a joint paper about the CH-148 program, which borrows its title from minister MacKay’s July 2012 comments. “The Worst Procurement in the History of Canada” chronicles Canada’s maritime helicopter replacement efforts since 1990, and notes the recent 50th anniversary of CH-124 Sea King operations. With respect to those Sea Kings:
“Sea King operations suffer because of a lack of spare parts, increasing maintenance hours, and concerns resulting from accidents. Between 1995 and 1998, the Auditor General found the Mission Capable Rate (MCR) of Sea Kings fell from 42% to 29%.18 The number of “aborts” increased substantially — to more than 60 aborts per 1,000 flight-hours — between 1990 and 2000.19 By the year 2000 an average of 30 hours of maintenance was required per flight-hour.20”
Another 12 years hasn’t helped matters. Meanwhile, the CH-148 has become a Mexican standoff. As CCPA explains:
“One reason for the lack of collection [on late delivery fees] seems to be that DND and Public Works introduced new requirements for the helicopter after the contract was signed. Sikorsky therefore might have a basis for legal action against the government if they are fined. This may also explain why Public Works reduced the penalty from $250,000 per day in the original Request for Proposal to $100,000 a day, and why it capped that penalty at one year.94 Canada thus finds has itself between a rock and a hard place, unable to secure new helicopters without pressuring Sikorsky, and unable to pressure Sikorsky for fear of being sued.”
CCPA recommends that Canada explore alternatives to the CH-148s, including AgustaWestland’s AW101 naval, Eurocopter’s EC725 Super Cougar, Europe’s NH90 NFH, or Sikorsky’s smaller but proven MH-60R. Unfortunately, as noted above, every one of these options is problematic. With that said, CCPA is correct in pointing out that looking elsewhere would strengthen their recommendation to toughen negotiations with Sikorsky, who won’t want the S-92’s only military customer to ditch it.
They’re on more fanciful ground with their 1st recommendation, for “full transparency on the Maritime Helicopter Project, so that the public can judge the appropriateness of any approach to dealing with the crisis.” Not going to happen – certainly not from this government, and probably not from any other party’s government, either. The culture of denial and coverup in Canada’s public service is too established and too deep, and none of the 3 major parties shows any signs of challenging it. See also Epoch Times | National Post | Reuters.
Jan 23/13: Sikorsky Finance & Forecast. Parent firm UTC holds its Q4 2012 conference call for investors, which includes references to the Canadian Maritime Helicopter program. The company is taking a USD $157 million charge related to costs associated by expected program delays, or about $5.6 million per helicopter.
They’re maintaining their projection of 8 helicopters delivered in 2013, which would make 12 total at Shearwater, but don’t offer any definitive forecast regarding requirements compliance and acceptance. What they do say is that they’ll lose $14 million on each CH-148 delivered in 2013. Sikrosky IR – Webcasts.
Late fees an issue now for “worst procurement in Canadian history”; Helicopters at Shearwater, but no formal delivery as milestones missed; is 2017 the real delivery date?
Sept 25/12: #4 in. Technically, it could be argued that MH-806 was #1, since it first arrived in May 2011. It left that same month, however, and has just returned after a round of modifications at Sikorsky’s West Palm Beach facility. Source.
Aug 3/12: #3 in. A new CH-148, MH-807, arrives at CFB Shearwater. That makes 3 helicopters on site, but the government still hasn’t taken delivery. Sikorsky still operates and maintains the machines.
Training for CH-148 technicians also begins this month. Source.
July 12/12: Worst. Procurement. Ever. That’s the opinion of… Defence Minister Peter MacKay. His exact words:
“Unlike shipbuilding, that was a brand new design that was put in place through negotiations by a prior government. We inherited this contract. This is an example of how procurement can go badly wrong. This is the worst procurement in the history of Canada, including the $500-million cancellation costs that are attached to the Maritime helicopter program [cancellation by the Liberal Chretien government in the 1990s] and then the costs of further maintenance to fly 50-year-old helicopters…. I saw a Sea King aboard the Charlottetown when we were in the [Persian] Gulf and that aircraft has been replaced piece by piece, almost in its entirety, so there is urgency to get the Maritime helicopter program on track…”
July 4/12: 2017? CBC News reports:
“Canada’s long-promised fleet of new Sikorsky naval helicopters… likely won’t be delivered and ready for combat for up to another five years, informed industry sources tell CBC News…. industry insiders familiar with the Sikorsky project say the Cyclone helicopters being built for Canada are a new design with a lot of sophisticated electronics and military mission systems that aren’t yet even installed, all of which will take years to integrate and become combat-ready.
….Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose, whose department is responsible for enforcing deadlines in the contract with Sikorsky, tells CBC she wouldn’t even guess when the company might deliver the entire fleet. “They haven’t given us a date…. As we know, their dates – the promises they have made to us – have shifted numerous times.” “
July 2/12: Nothing, Still. Canada’s Globe and Mail reports that the deadline to begin delivering fully operational helicopters has now passed, without even interim helicopters that have been accepted for service.
“Sikorsky and the federal government are remaining vague about the problems with the Cyclone program, but it is clear the company is struggling to obtain the “airworthiness certification” that is mandatory for the helicopters to fly off on military missions. In addition, the company is still working to ensure the helicopters have the necessary engine power to meet the government’s mandatory endurance requirements… Public Works and National Defence are stating that they expect the delivery of the interim helicopters to occur “later this year.” This suggests the delivery of the fully compliant helicopters – initially scheduled for 2008 – will not happen until 2013.”
June 16/12: #2 in. A new CH-148, MH-808, arrives at CFB Shearwater. That makes 2 helicopters on site, but the government still hasn’t taken delivery. Source.
June 7/12: #1 in. A new CH-148, MH-805, arrives at CFB Shearwater to replace MH-806 in the initial training role. We’re calling it #1, because it’s the first one that’s staying. Source.
May 17/12: CH-148 out. The Navy’s lone CH-148 training helicopter, MH-806, leaves CFB Shearwater and flies to Palm Beach, FL, for modifications. Source.
Jan 27/12: More delays, more penalties. The Winnipeg Free Press reports that things are about to become more difficult for the CH-148 program. The CH-148 safety certification process, and other delays, make it very unlikely that Sikorsky can begin delivering fully capable CH-148s with all mission software, for acceptance by June 2012.
Instead, an unnamed defense source says they’re only committed to 5 interim training helicopters in 2012. That would trigger another C$ 80 million in contract penalties, on top of the C$ 8 million levied for not delivering the interim helicopters on schedule.
“But senior defence officials said that penalty and the anticipated additional $80 million be deducted… out of reduced [maintenance] payments and in-service support over time… said the senior official. “If you beat them up now, you disincentive the company from giving you completed aircraft. If you take it out of in-service support costs, it’s easier for them to manage and it lowers our operating costs.”
Jan 3/12: Late fees. The Ottawa Citizen reports that Public Works and Government Services Canada still intends to get the much-reduced $8 million in late fee damages from Sikorsky, but has no timeline for when. That mirrors the helicopter itself, which still has no interim status CH-148 flying, even though they were supposed to have begun flying in summer 2011:
“In its attempts to help Sikorsky along, DND officials reduced the criteria for the interim aircraft to receive a military airworthiness certification… [that] would have allowed for safe flying of the aircraft but the helicopter would have been restricted in what it could do. It would not have been allowed to fly over water or at night… Sikorsky has sent an interim helicopter to Shearwater, NS but DND has not accepted delivery of that aircraft. “The CF (Canadian Forces) will take formal delivery and assume ownership of the helicopter once a Canadian military airworthiness clearance is granted and once initial aircrew flight training is conducted,” DND noted in an email. DND will not say when that first interim helicopter will be accepted but noted that Sikorsky has maintained that it plans to deliver maritime helicopters to Canada sometime in 2012.”
1st interim CH-148 arrives, but not fit for flight training; Infrastructure investments; Flight testing.
Nov 28/11: No flight training. The Canadian Press reports that the helicopter flown to Shearwater AB in Halifax earlier is still being used to train ground crew. Despite defense minister MacKay’s promises of an operational flight training helicopter by summer 2011, DND spokeswoman Tracy Poirier says they don’t have it yet:
“Critical work remains outstanding before the Defence Department can take official delivery and assume ownership of the interim helicopter in accordance with the contract”… the federal government will only accept the helicopter when it receives a Canadian military air worthiness certificate.
A spokesman for the federal Department of Public Works said in an email that Ottawa has assessed $8 million in penalties against Sikorsky for delays with the Cyclone procurement program — the maximum that can be applied. But Sebastien Bois declined to say whether the fines have been paid.”
May 12/11: Interim CH-148 Arrives. The first interim CH-148 Cyclone model, MH-806, arrives at 12 Wing Shearwater in Nova Scotia. It will be used to support ground-based training of Canadian Forces (CF) aircrew and technicians, and will remain under Sikorsky ownership and control for now.
The Canadian Forces will take formal delivery, and assume ownership of the helicopter, once a Canadian military airworthiness certificate is granted, and once initial aircrew flight training is conducted. That formal delivery is expected before the end of summer 2011 – but that isn’t what happens. Canada DND | CASR.
“Interim” CH-148 arrives
March 7/11: Rotorhub reports from Heli-Expo in Orlando, FL, where Sikorsky CEO Jeff Pinto says that despite yet another delay (vid. Jan 7/11 entry), the firm is “weeks rather than months away” from finally delivering the first interim CH-148. That delivery was scheduled for November 2010, under a June 2010 agreement that ratified long-standing delays and set out a new baseline. Key milestones completed so far include 750 flight hours, and finalized certification. The publication adds:
“Pino said although the delays in delivery had resulted in penalty payments, these could be ‘rationalised’ [DID: written off in stages] over the life of the programme. ‘This is a very interesting and lucrative contract where the Canadians want to pay to fly and leave the rest to the OEM,’ Pino said. The company was working with the Canadian government on the possibility of a bigger transmission for the CH-148, although it may take six months for the final configuration to be determined.”
In the wake of the Cougar Helicopters crash (vid. March 11/09 entry), the Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) had raised issues with the certification of the civilian S-92’s gearbox. Pino said that no S-92 changes were planned in response to that incident, however, adding that the new transmission mount is unrelated. For the military version, a bigger transmission would be a likely follow-on from engine power upgrades the Canadians are requesting. The civilian S-92 changes are focused on weight, reliability, and operating cost improvements, plus electronics upgrades, and an internal auxiliary fuel certification for the SAR configuration.
Feb 22/11: Infrastructure. The government of Canada announces a C$ 155 million project to replace a 60-year-old hangar near Victoria International Airport on Canada’s west coast, with a 20,000-square-meter merged operations and support facility at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, British Colombia. Given the requirement for more space, and the need for an appropriate fire-suppression system, it was cost effective to build a new facility, rather than renovate the current 60-year-old hangar.
CFB Esquimalt is the home of Canada’s Pacific Fleet. The facility will be ready by 2014, in order to house 443 Squadron’s 9 new CH-148 helicopters. The project includes the hangar, an exterior aircraft parking apron for up to 5 CH-148s; a taxiway linking this apron to the runway; a re-fuelling and wash area; parking for up to 300 vehicles; and a guard house with security barriers and a perimeter security fence. At least one existing building will be demolished during the project, and the new facility is expected to accommodate 350 people. No contractors have been picked yet. Prime Minister’s Office | Postmedia | Rotorhub.
Jan 31/11: Testing. Canada’s DND announces that a CH-148 Cyclone, which arrived at Shearwater base on Jan 6/11, will be undergoing several weeks of testing on board the frigate HMCS Montreal, under the direction of Sikorsky International Operations Inc.
The tests will revolve around its operational limits in ship-borne use, and “the vessel has undergone considerable modification so that the tests may be conducted in optimal fashion.” Since the modifications were made, HMCS Montréal has successfully completed Air Work-Ups, which tested the abilities of the crew to conduct routine flying operations, respond to in-flight emergencies and to a helicopter crash, and combat shipboard fires.
Jan 7/11: Sikorsky:
“We have notified the Canadian government that there will be a short delay in delivery of the first aircraft due to an issue outside of our control. Our contract contains provisions for such events, and we are now in discussions with the Crown in keeping with those provisions.”
Auditor General report faults DND for evading rules, not being honest with Parliament; 2nd contract renegotiation involves “interim” helicopters now; CH-148 prototype arrives for SHOL testing.
Oct 28/10: OAG Report. Canada’s Office of the Auditor General (OAG) releases its 2010 Fall report. The report’s main focus is on Canada’s C$ 61 billion economic stimulus program, which rates an unusual verdict of being well managed. Canada’s CH-148 program, on the other hand, rates a far more negative verdict. The biggest issues involve huge cost and time inflation, but the 2008 contract amendment also comes in for criticism because the original procurement strategy was based on a lowest price bid, giving no credit to bids offering more capability. OAG points out that by signing a contract to upgrade the S-92’s engines in 2008 (q.v. Dec 23/08 entry), DND effectively acknowledged that its contracting strategy had misled bidders on 2 key counts: the importance of an off-the-shelf platform, and the requirements themselves. Key excerpts:
“In 2000, total indicative costs of the 28 maritime helicopters were estimated at $2.8 billion and revised to $3.1 billion in 2003, exclusive of the cost of providing in-service support. The cost of purchasing and providing in-service support for the helicopters, and of training personnel, is currently estimated to be $5.7 billion over 20 years. This estimate does not include costs related to contracted Sea King support, new infrastructure, Canadian Forces personnel, and ongoing operating costs [which raise the program to C$ 6.2 billion for 28 helicopters]. In addition, the project has experienced delays. Delivery of the first fully capable Cyclone, initially expected in 2005, was delayed to 2008 and is now expected to occur in 2012.
“We found that National Defence has been slow to assess the full life-cycle costs, and some elements of these costs have still not been completely determined. As early as 2000, information provided to National Defence’s Program Management Board for preliminary project approval described the proposed acquisition project as non-developmental… [but] The project specifications included nearly 3,000 technical requirements. The winning bid by Sikorsky was to convert an existing commercial helicopter (the S-92) to military service, adapt it for marine use, and integrate numerous individual existing mission components and new technologies. According to National Defence officials, this will result in a state-of-the-art helicopter that has never existed before. The initial acquisition contract reflects this complexity in that it included $612 million for one-time engineering costs… The developmental nature of the Cyclone helicopter, along with its novel features, also has implications for certifying its airworthiness.
“…the full life-cycle costs were not–and some still have not been–presented to decision makers at key decision points… Moreover, without sufficient funds, National Defence may have to curtail planned training and operations… On the basis of the bid received from Sikorsky, $2.3 billion in estimated costs for contracted in-service support for 16 years (based on flying 10,000 hours annually) was presented for effective project approval in 2004. By this time, National Defence realized that personnel, operations, and maintenance costs would exceed those associated with the Sea King by $1.1 billion over 20 years. This is significant because National Defence did not seek additional funding for the in-service support provisions, so these incremental costs will need to be covered by its existing operations and maintenance budget… National Defence initially assumed that, despite known deficiencies, the hangars and other facilities used for the Sea King helicopters could be used for the new helicopters… In 2005, however, National Defence determined that there was a need for significant investment in new infrastructure. It has since initiated approximately $340 million in projects for maintenance, spare parts warehousing, training, and squadron facilities… There was also a need to extend the life of the Sea King helicopters longer than originally anticipated… An option to extend the period was exercised in November 2007 for an additional $168 million to cover the period up to 2014. The extension coincided with the notification that the delivery of the Cyclone helicopters would be delayed.”
See: Canadian OAG Release re: military helicopters | Media Statement | Full report || Parliamentary Hansard transcript re: defense questions | Canadian Press | CBC | Global News timeline | National Post | National Post op-ed | Toronto Sun | Vancouver Sun || Agence France Presse | China’s Xinhua || Defense News.
Key Report: Canada’s OAG
July 26/10: New deal. Canada’s Department of National Defence clarifies the new arrangements with Sikorsky, and the state of the program.
The first 4 phases of Ship/Helicopter Operating Limitations (SHOL) trials (vid. April 19/10 entry) successfully tested and validated the design of hangar and flight deck modifications aboard Canadian ships, maintenance support, developed standard operating procedures for ship and flight crew personnel, and defined safe flight parameters. Subsequent SHOL trials will be conducted in extreme weather conditions to define those parameters.
Mission software development has become an issue for the program, and Sikorsky’s inability to meet contract requirements forced a contract amendment, so the Navy could take delivery of interim CH-148s with partially-functional mission systems.
The interim helicopters will not be deployed on operations, Instead, they’ll be used for initial cadre training of aircrew and maintenance personnel, and initial operational testing and evaluation (IOT&E) to develop procedures for the Cyclone’s flight and operations, and to develop support systems like supply chains for spare parts, and maintenance processes and procedures. Once delivery of the fully compliant CH-148s begins in 2012, the interim helicopters will be retrofitted and returned by December 2013.
June 30/10: The Canadian government and Sikorsky sign an agreement to amend their CH-148 contract. In return for changes to acceptance criteria for the initial helicopter set, to the overall delivery schedule, and to milestone payments and liquidated damages provisions, Sikorsky will:
- Withdraw an existing arbitration claim against the government;
- Invest another C$ 80 million in contracts/ R&D work with Canadian firms;
- Offer payments for any future MH-92 maritime helicopter sales that could amount to more than US$ 30 million;
- Charge reduced interim helicopter in-service support rates until acceptance of the fully compliant helicopters in June 2012.
Liquidated damages requirements will now be triggered only by failure to deliver interim helicopters starting in November 2010, and for failure to deliver the fully compliant helicopters beginning in June 2012. The C$ 3.2 billion 20-year in-service support contract will run until March 2028. Source.
2nd contract amendment
June 8/10: From late to later. Sikorsky will deliver its CH-148s to the Canadian Armed Forces late, even by the revised schedule. Borrowing a leaf from the NH90 NFH’s playbook, Sikorsky will begin delivering only “interim helicopters” for testing and training by the renegotiated date of November 2010. Then, instead of delivering at a rate of one per month, Sikorsky will deliver only 6 helicopters by June 2012.
The remaining 22 helicopters will be fully operational versions, including upgraded engines. They are promised as of June 2012, and as they arrive, the initial 6 helicopters will be pulled back for engine retrofits and any other required modifications. Recall that the original contract’s initial delivery date for the CH-148 was November 2008. Halifax Chronicle-Herald | CTV.
June 7/10: German exports? Canada may not wind up alone. Germany is the NH90 TTH’s biggest customer, but the helicopters have had problems, and it has delayed any NH90 NFH anti-submarine helicopter buy. Now Sikorsky is looking to pursue a 30-helicopter bid to replace Germany’s H-3 Sea Kings with their MH-92 Cyclone instead of Eurocopter’s NH90 NFH. They also want to compete with the H-92 for an 8-19 helicopter Combat Search And Rescue (CSAR) opportunity to replace German UH-1Ds. A German decision is expected in late 2010, if proposed budget cuts don’t derail the programs.
At the ILA 2010 airshow in Berlin, Sikorsky signed a Memorandum of Understanding “to explore opportunities” in aftermarket support involves their long-standing partner ZF Luftfahrttechnik GmbH (ZF Aviation Technology), while the other involves Switzerland’s RUAG, and will explore “Maintenance and Repair Operation as well as integrated logistics support and completion capabilities.” Rheinmetall and MTU are also reputed to be involved in discussions.
The H-92 might be operational in a maritime role before the NH90 NFH, and the firm has some H-92 CSAR design experience from its participation in the aborted American CSAR-X competition. Their bid remains something of a long shot, but Sikorsky representatives are quoted as saying that the partnerships and experience will stand them in good stead to bid the future CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter for the Franco-German HTH program. Sikorsky has reportedly secured American export approval for the Cyclone, and would conduct final assembly in Germany. Aviation Week | Flight International | Shephard Group.
April 16/10: Testing. The CH-148s have begun SHOL (Ship Helicopter Operational Limitations) testing off of Nova Scotia. Testing started shortly after the test helicopter arrived in Feb 19/10 and is taking place in 4 phases:
Phase 1 tests confirmed that the prototype aircraft’s flight test instrumentation systems could operate in close proximity to the electromagnetic emitters of the ship.
Phase 2 evaluated how the test helicopter and the Canadian Recovery, Assist, Securing and Traversing (C-RAST) work together. The C-RAST moves the helicopter in and out of the hanger, and locks the helicopter in place on the ship so it doesn’t slide off.
The 3rd phase was completed earlier in April and involved take-offs, departures, landings and utility evolutions conducted during the day, in order to establish the standard operating procedures for the aircraft.
The 4th and final phase is expected to be complete by the end of April. These tests will be conducted at sea in the North Atlantic under increasingly challenging weather conditions and sea states, in order to determine a safe envelope for the helicopter to operate from the Halifax class ship with medium winds and deck motions. Further testing is planned later in the program to test the full capabilities of the aircraft at high winds and high deck motions.
Feb 19/10: Testing arrival. Sikorsky’s prototype CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter arrives at CFB Shearwater, Nova Scotia, for several weeks of “ship helicopter operational limits” trials with the Halifax-class frigate HMCS Montreal. “Aircraft 801” reportedly first flew in November 2008. Canadian Navy | Aviation Week Ares.
Pattern of government dishonesty begins to surface; Civil S-92 crash off Newfoundland has implication for CH-148.
Nov 8/09: The Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese reports on the CH-148’s slow progress. While the first helicopter is scheduled to arrive at CFB Shearwater in December 2009, actual sea trials aren’t scheduled until February 2010 or later, and even when those are done, other steps are required before Canadian pilot training can begin:
“…sources say while the first helicopter is expected to arrive in early December from Sikorsky, it is not being actually accepted by the Canadian Forces… The first Cyclone (MH02) has just finished being painted at West Palm Beach in Canadian Forces colors… The sea trials should have been completed almost 20 months ago according to the delivery schedule contracted with Sikorsky in 2004.
Successful completion of the sea trials, followed by development and approval of the ship-helicopter operating limitations (SHOL) for the new helicopter, which will require several months at least, are a MHP contractual obligation that must be met long before Canada accepts delivery of the first aircraft and can begin training its own pilots on the Cyclone…”
March 11/09: S-92 accident. An S-92 operated by Cougar Helicopters goes down in the sea off of Newfoundland, Canada with 18 people aboard, while ferrying workers to one of the offshore oil rigs. In the end, only 1 of the 18 passengers survives. Standard procedures give all passengers immersion suits, but winds were running between 25-35 knots, with a 3m/ 9-10 foot swell, and water temperatures near freezing.
The problem ends up involving shearing in some of the helicopter’s titanium studs, which caused the loss of all oil. The helicopter crashed about 10 minutes after that, which calls the 30-minute “run dry” requirement into serious question. The Globe and Mail | See also CBC and Flight International report & photos re: later Canadian TSB findings.
Feb 20/09: The Ottawa Citizen’s David Pugliese continues to investigate the specifics behind the December 2008 announcement of a contract settlement with Sikorsky. In “New Engnes for the Troubled Cyclone Helicopter?” he quotes Canada’s DND:
“Sikorsky is making a number of improvements to the current design of the helicopter to meet the performance requirements specified in the current contract. An improvement being made that was not in the original contract will provide the helicopter with growth potential for the engine and main transmission.”
Pugliese points out that this is a problem, for 2 reasons:
“The weight growth requirement was actually stated in the MH Statement of Operational Requirement (SOR) and was initially included in the RFP Requirements Specification but was later removed at Sikorky’s request… [however,] In order to use a [Lowest Cost Compliant ] selection methodology, PWGSC and DND both had to assure the Auditor General in 2003 that the MH performance and equipment requirements (as stated in the RFP) would be finite and that no extra funds would ever have to be allocated for additional capability over the entire life of the aircraft, otherwise a Best Value selection methodology whereby additional capability could be acquired at minimal additional cost was mandated.”
DND responses add that they are also looking at technological improvements that will become available as a spin-off from Sikorsky’s R&D. They include “an enhanced rotor blade design, larger tail rotor and a new 5-bladed rotor hub”, which could add another 500-600 pounds of payload capacity. Aerospace analysts contacted by Pugliese respond that:
“The new rotor design that the response refers to is the one being considered for Sikorsky’s bid for the USAF’s CSAR helicopter. It involves very significant structural changes to the aircraft including a substantial increase in the aircraft’s overall length both with rotors turning and when folded which would raise major issues for ship compatibility. Since DND and PWGSC are inexplicably avoiding the engine question, we suggest you dig further.”
Winter 2009: SNAFU. Plain Talk: The Process of (Not) Acquiring Maritime Helicopters [PDF format] is published in the Canadian Naval Review by Jane’s Canadian correspondent Sharon Hobson. Hobson reports that Sikorsky was exempted from key performance requirements during the bidding phase, unlike its competitors NIH Industries (NH90) and Lockheed Martin/ AgustaWestland (EH101). Additionally:
“…In order to speed things up during the bidding process, the project office only required that the bidders provide proof of compliance for 475 [mandatory technical requirements]. The bidders were allowed merely to state that they would comply with the other 1,000. When things started to go wrong – and they started to go wrong fairly quickly – the project office went into crisis management mode.
When I interviewed the project manager in February 2006, he told me that the preliminary design review (PDR) had been completed in January, and that the critical design review (CDR) would be completed by the first week of June. However, in September 2006, the same official conceded to another reporter that the PDR was not yet complete. The project office does not appear to have given a media interview since then. Moreover, it turns out that because Sikorsky was unable to complete fully each milestone within the PDR and CDR, the project office subdivided the milestones so that the payments would continue to flow…
2007 – 2008
Reports of impossible schedule prove true – contract renegotiated; RWR & ESM picked.
Dec 23/08: Contract failure, change. Canada’s government announces that they have renegotiated the contract with Sikorsky. DND will now begin receiving helicopters by November 2010, allowing necessary operational testing and training to begin prior to the delivery of mission-ready helicopters beginning in 2012, and all helicopters by 2013.
The effect of these changes is to delay operational use of the helicopters for 2 years. The original contract had penalty clauses for late delivery, but those clauses appear to have been waived in exchange for these contract amendments. The government release also took pains to state that it “…has determined that the delays experienced were largely outside the control of the Contractor.”
Most of the contract modifications appear to concern “upgrades.” These have not been specified, except to say that they have an estimated value of $77 million for the 28 helicopters, and $40 million for the 20 years of In-Service Support contract, based on the Canada/ US currency exchange rate of December 2008. The release adds that contract amendments will be funded from within the original project budget. Canadian government announcement | CBC report.
Nov 20/08: Dev flight. A CH-148 Cyclone makes its first flight at the Sikorsky Flight Development Center in Florida. Source.
Nov 5/08: The Ottawa Citizen’s defense reporter David Pugliese publishes some comments from his sources, suggesting the program’s schedule was never realistic, that further delays to 2012 or even 2014 are possible, and that vague statements from Sikorsky and Canada’s DND are omitting important pieces of information. One key excerpt:
“Your blog notes that Sikorsky is now claiming the first article will fly “before the end of the year”. Rumors in the industry suggest that any such flight will be without the mission system, which is still not in formal lab testing. Compare this to Sikorsky’s original (public) promise to fly a fully equipped first article by September 2007.”
January 2008: Sikorsky formally advises the Canadian government of delays in the original schedule.
April 18/07: RWR/ESM. Lockheed Martin announces a $59.4 million U.S. Navy Foreign Military Sales contract to provide the helicopters with Radar Warning Receiver (RWR)/Electronic Support Measure (ESM) systems derived from its AN/ALQ-210 system, which will also be deployed on the US Navy’s new MH-60R multi-mission naval helicopters.
The ALQ-210 passively detects, identifies and geo-locates hostile radar transmitters. The systems provided to Canada’s Department of National Defence will also feature new functionality designed to meet specific Canadian Forces requirements. Honorary Col. Rick Mercer of 423 Maritime Helicopter Sqn will be relieved, we’re sure.
Jan 23/07: Strike! The Globe and Mail reports that CH-148 delivery will be at least 5 1/2 weeks late because of a strike at Sikorsky’s factory. Canada’s federal government deems the delay to be reasonable, and they are reportedly foregoing the late penalty provisions in the contract. Those terms could allow Canada to charge up to $100,000 a day for late delivery, to a maximum of $36 million.
2004 – 2006
Contract for 28; Radar & surveillance turret picked.
Dec 6/05: Sikorsky Aircraft opens the company’s new MH-92 helicopter fly-by-wire system integration lab with a ribbon cutting ceremony in Stratford, CT. The new lab will develop, integrate and test the fly-by-wire and avionic systems for the MH-92, and the CH-148 Cyclone will be the system’s inaugural customer.
BAE Systems will be Sikorsky’s team-mate on this sub-project, which is expected to lead to companion fly-by-wire integration labs for Sikorsky’s H-60, CH-53K, and X2 aircraft.
Fly-by-wire differs from traditional helicopter flight control systems by replacing the mechanical linkages to the cockpit controllers with a redundant, purely electrical system that is more responsive, more survivable if hit, saves weight, and reduces maintenance costs. Europe’s competing NH90 already has fly-by-wire built in, so Sikorsky is playing catch-up in this area. Sikorsky release.
Fly-by-wire lab open
June 14/05: FLIR. FLIR Systems, Inc. announces a “competitively awarded” subcontract from General Dynamics Canada of Ottawa, Ontario, for its popular Star SAFIRE III airborne multi-sensor imaging systems with multi-year in-service support. The total subcontract value, including potential option awards, is in excess of $20 million (USD). Deliveries will commence within 9 months of contract award, and continue until 2009.
FLIR’s Star SAFIRE III is used on a wide variety of systems, and has options to include laser rangefinding and targeting features.
June 5/05: Radar. Griffon Corp. subsidiary Telephonics announces a subcontract award from General Dynamics Canada. They will supply 31 ship sets of their APS-143Bv3 multi-mode imaging Maritime Surveillance Radar, fully integrated with their Mark XIIA Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) interrogator sub-system hardware. The contract also contains options for initial spares and 20 years of in-service support for the Canadian Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP), and could exceed $50 million in value if all options are exercised.
The internal, fully integrated Mark XIIA IFF interrogator has been designed to be compatible with the IFF interrogators being supplied for the US Navy’s MH-60R LAMPS helicopter, the Canadian CP-140 Aurora upgrade program, and the US and International Air Force’s AWACS platforms.
This program will be managed from Telephonics’ facilities in Farmingdale, NY, with a portion of the work being performed in Canada as defined in the Industrial Regional Benefit plan included in Telephonics proposal. The first test aircraft system is scheduled for delivery in July 2007.
April 21/05: Infrastructure. L-3 Communications MAS launches the construction of a new $45-million Maritime Helicopter Training Centre for the Canadian Forces in Shearwater, Nova Scotia. L-3 MAS has lead responsibility for the Cyclone’s in-service support, which includes provision of the training facility and training.
The actual construction is subcontracted to PCL Constructors Canada Inc., and the center is expected to be operational in April 2008. It is expected that over 160 new jobs will be created directly and indirectly during construction of the 3-storey facility, which will be LEED(Leadership in Energy and Environment Design) Silver Certificate certified. The building will include flight and mission simulators, and serve as the home for 406 Squadron. Sikorsky release.
April 12/05: Project office open. Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. and Canadian government officials today formally inaugurate a new Canadian Maritime Helicopter Project (MHP) office located here in the company’s main manufacturing facility in Stratford, CT.
The newly renovated 25,000 square-foot space includes a 5,000 square-foot secure area to accommodate a detachment of 17 Canadian government employees overseeing the project. The remainder of the space houses Sikorsky Aircraft, General Dynamics Canada and L-3 MAS Canada personnel assigned to the MHP. Sikorsky release.
Nov 23/04: Deal signed. The Government of Canada signed contracts with Sikorsky International Operations Inc. for the Maritime Helicopter Project, to provide 28 helicopters (C$ 1.8 billion), as well as 20 years of in-service support and a training facility (C$ 3.2 billion), including construction of a training facility and a simulation and training suite.
Sikorsky had joined with L-3 MAS (in-service support) and General Dynamics Canada (systems integration) to form The Maritime Helicopter Team. CBC report.
- Canada DND – Maritime Helicopter Project: Status
- General Dynamics Canada – CH148 Cyclone – Maritime Helicopter Project
- Canadian Office of the Auditor General (Oct 26/10) – 2010 Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada: Chapter 6 – Acquisition of Military Helicopters
- Canadian DND – CH-148 Cyclone
- Sikorsky – H-92 Helicopter. Military version of the S-92 civil helicopter, which is used by customers like the global offshore oil & gas industry.
- Naval Technology – [AW101] Merlin – ASW / Transport Helicopter, United Kingdom. Also serves with or has been ordered in a naval role by Italy, Denmark, Japan, and Portugal.
- DID – AW159 Wildcat: The Future Lynx Helicopter Program
- Eurocopter – Cougar EC725. Note that it doesn’t have a naval/ anti-submarine version with a naval radar, that can carry sonobuoys, dipping sonar, and naval weapons.
- DID FOCUS – MH-60R/S: The USA’s New Naval Workhorse Helicopters
- DID FOCUS – NH90: Europe’s Medium Helicopter Contender
Background and Views
- CASR, via WayBack – Politics, Procurement Practices, and Procrastination: the CH-124 Sea King Helicopter Replacement Saga
- DID – Ring My Bell: New Helicopters for Canada’s Coast Guard. S-92/CH-148 helicopters could be an option for the new polar icebreaker entering service around 2017. But Sikorsky is running out of time to be competitive.
- Epoch Times (Feb 13/13) – Scandals the Norm in Military Buys: Military procurements an uphill battle. Begins to explain why, something that’s missing from many other analyses.
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Feb 11/13) – “The Worst Procurement in the History of Canada”: Solving the Maritime Helicopter Crisis. Prepared with the equally left-wing Rideau Institute.
- Defence Watch, via WayBack (Jan 27/10) – Canada’s Maritime Helicopter Saga Laid Out in a New Book, The Politics of Procurement. By UBC Press. Covers the entire saga, from the CH-124 replacement competition to the EH101 cancellation, CH-149 Cormorant (EH101) SAR buy, and the CH-148 Cyclone.
- Canadian Naval Review (Winter 2009, Vol.4 #4) – Plain Talk: The Process of (Not) Acquiring Maritime Helicopters [PDF]. Characterizes the procurement process as dishonest in several respects.
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Little Creek Behavioral Health offers comprehensive reactive attachment disorder treatment for children and adolescents ages 12-18. Features of care at our reactive attachment disorder treatment center in Conway, Arkansas, include personalized residential programming and specialized services for young people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Learn About Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment
Important facts about treatment for reactive attachment disorder at Little Creek Behavioral Health in Conway, AR
Reactive attachment disorder, otherwise known as RAD, is a serious mental health condition that can develop in young children who have experienced severe neglect or whose caregivers did not give them the opportunity to establish healthy attachments to them.
A child may develop RAD if their caregivers did not meet their need for comfort and affection in their early years, or if they regularly had different caregivers, limiting their opportunities to form healthy bonds.
This condition most commonly occurs in children younger than age 5, though some older children can develop reactive attachment disorder. If a child is suffering from RAD, they may rarely seek or react to comfort or nurturing from adult caregivers when they feel distressed or scared. They may also struggle to regulate their emotions and might react with fear, sadness, or irritability when interacting with adult caregivers, even if they are in a safe environment.
A child with reactive attachment disorder might appear listless or even wary, preferring to watch others rather than participate in social activities. Some children with this disorder may seem emotionless, failing to smile or laugh when adult caregivers attempt to engage with them during potentially non-threatening interactions, such as games like peek-a-boo.
Without professional treatment, a child living with RAD is at risk of experiencing long-term harm in various aspects of their life. Little Creek Behavioral Health offers expert treatment for children who are suffering from reactive attachment disorder. The specially trained staff at our facility in Conway, Arkansas, can help a child in your care take the first steps toward building emotionally healthy attachments to the people in their life.
Why Consider Treatment
Why consider getting treatment for reactive attachment disorder at Little Creek Behavioral Health in Conway, AR
A child who is suffering from reactive attachment disorder will struggle to relate to the people around them, whether those are adult caregivers or peers who are around the same age. This can be an isolating experience and may severely limit their ability to develop the bonds of friendship or accept the support of a caregiver.
A child living with RAD may have difficulty feeling safe and might either shut down emotionally or lash out in anger. Their behaviors can make it challenging for them to function at home or in day-to-day social situations.
Since reactive attachment disorder can develop because of social neglect, a child or adolescent may be at an increased risk of other developmental delays, including cognitive and linguistic, if they do not receive timely treatment. This can severely hinder a child’s ability to learn, grow, and succeed in educational environments.
The sooner you seek reactive attachment disorder treatment for a child in your care, the greater the chances of minimizing any long-term damage they may have experienced as a result of living with this condition. Little Creek Behavioral Health provides expert treatment for children and adolescents ages 12-18 who are battling RAD. Through the developmentally appropriate treatment at our facility in Conway, Arkansas, you can help a child in your care start to live their very best life.
Types of Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment at Little Creek
Types of treatment for reactive attachment disorder at Little Creek Behavioral Health in Conway, AR
At Little Creek Behavioral Health, we provide physician-led residential treatment for children and adolescents who are struggling with reactive attachment disorder, including a specialized track for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. We treat the entire emotional well-being of our young patients, including medical, psychiatric, social, and academic needs, in a secure, comfortable environment.
Before a child or adolescent begins reactive attachment disorder treatment at our facility in Conway, Arkansas, they complete a thorough assessment. This process allows Little Creek to make sure we have identified and are prepared to address every challenge that may be preventing that young person from living a happier, healthier, and more satisfying life. The information we gather during the assessment stage forms the foundation of that child’s or adolescent’s personalized treatment plan.
Depending on a child’s or adolescent’s unique strengths, goals, and needs, their personalized RAD treatment at Little Creek may include:
- Individual therapy
- Group therapy
- Family therapy
- Experiential therapy
- Medication management services
- Basic medical care
Each child’s or adolescent’s individualized reactive attachment disorder treatment at Little Creek may also incorporate a variety of therapeutic modalities and techniques, such as trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy (TF-CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR).
We understand that not every therapeutic intervention or treatment modality is appropriate for everyone, so we work closely with parents or caregivers to ensure that we create a reactive attachment disorder treatment plan that is tailored to their child’s specific needs. Each patient who comes to our campus in Conway, Arkansas, to heal can expect to work with a team of compassionate professionals who are dedicated to helping children and adolescents experience more positive outcomes in a safe, secure environment.
Continuing Care for Reactive Attachment Disorder Treatment
Continuing care options for reactive attachment disorder treatment
Finding and receiving effective professional treatment for reactive attachment disorder can be a vital step on the path toward long-term recovery. But at Little Creek Behavioral Health, we understand that a child’s or adolescent’s time in treatment with us is just one part of their recovery journey. That’s why we place tremendous emphasis on preparing each patient to make sustained progress long after they’ve left our campus and returned to their day-to-day life.
At our facility in Conway, Arkansas, each child or adolescent will develop a variety of skills and strategies that they can use to deal with continued challenges that pop up after discharge. To ensure that each individual is in the best position to succeed at the end of their time at Little Creek, we begin the discharge process the day they arrive at our campus.
A variety of individuals are involved in the discharge planning process. These can include treating therapists, case managers, referral sources, parents, caregivers, and those who may be providing step-down services in the community.
When a child or adolescent is ready to leave Little Creek, we will recommend continuing care options, which may include time in a partial hospitalization program (PHP), an intensive outpatient program (IOP), or appropriate outpatient services. This will allow those with a vested interest in each child or adolescent who heals with us to have as much information as possible at their disposal to ensure that the young person’s medical, psychiatric, social, and academic needs continue to be met upon release.
For more information about discharge planning, continuing care for reactive attachment disorder, or any other behavioral health treatment services at Little Creek, please contact us at your convenience. We look forward to helping you determine if our RAD treatment facility in Conway, Arkansas, is the perfect place to aid in the recovery of a child or adolescent in your care.
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Financial planning and the treasury budget are deeply linked to the economic activity of the company.
Any entrepreneur has to properly plan their activity and their needs. This is something that everyone knows when embarking on a business adventure and must be very clear about the strategic lines that will direct their activity. The best way to concertize these ideas is by translating them into a series of objectives. These goals must be concrete and achievable. It is important, because these objectives serve to create the Business Plan and this business plan is the entrepreneur’s guide in his daily operations. It’s key!
Correctly identifying the needs for funds is very important. It is one of the most important and transcendental aspects in the financial planning of any company. It is essential to spend time identifying these needs correctly instead of turning daily activity into a “fire extinguisher”. This can lead to cash tensions and high financial expenses, which are caused by unfavorable and hasty negotiations.
You have to define the deadlines, costs and resources necessary to achieve the financial objectives of the company. Good financial planning will be your ally. For what? So that future contingencies do not imply an impediment in the fulfillment of those objectives. Although the deadlines, costs and resources vary, you will have it under control and you will be able to execute a contingency plan without much stress.
A financial plan, among other elements, includes the treasury budget. The treasury indicators will allow us to better define those objectives to be achieved. If we control them periodically we will be able to identify where incidents are taking place on the desired objectives. Therefore, we are going to know where we should focus our priority action.
With the financial planning and the treasury budget, the time for action is reduced. Likewise, we also reduce burdens and we do not go blindly. It has several advantages. You will have an idea of your income and expenses. This is very important to grow. Even to be certain of the viability of your company. You will be able to calculate how much money you earn, lose or amortize, with your economic and financial analysis.
If you have any questions about your treasury plan contact John Labunski , you can write to us and we will be happy to help you. We are aware that sometimes it can be complicated.
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Basic Guidance For You In Insect Control.
If you do not have a green thumb, you need to consider making use of contemporary pest control products. These will certainly keep bugs away from your property as well as make them much less most likely to return. Some people have had success with some approaches of parasite control, however pest control business will always advise making use of chemicals as the best method for removing parasites. Nonetheless, there are a few points you can try out your own.
When most individuals think about chemicals, they think of those poisons that pest control specialists make use of to kill mice and other rodents. Although some chemicals made use of by pest control experts work, they can likewise be dangerous to individuals and pets. Modern chemical-based chemicals are safe for usage for both outdoors as well as indoors, so there’s no need to leave your residence. But the pest control specialists will typically ask that you await at least fifteen mins for the treatment to completely dry extensively. Тази уеб страница
You can deal with outdoor bugs like termites, roaches, as well as ants without making use of chemicals. For some types of parasites, like computer mice, you can try a lure. This includes dried corn or dish combined with Vaseline or petroleum jelly, which computer mice will find tempting. An additional technique for bug control that’s growing in appeal is incorporated pest administration, which makes use of baits, catches, and also obstacles to stop computer mice, ants, and other rodents from getting inside your residence or service.
There are numerous benefits to pest control that you won’t discover with chemical therapies. The initial is that it’s much less costly. For some chemicals, such as baits, you may even be able to conserve money by making your own. You can quickly develop a lure utilizing corn cob rather than expensive chemicals. On top of that, many pest control experts can not do away with particular sorts of parasites without making use of unsafe chemicals, which can be dangerous to people.
If you’re unsure exactly how to approach pest control, a pest control operator can be helpful. While you’ll pay more than doing it on your own, a pest control man has professional expertise of the best way to remove them. A pest control expert can likewise guide you towards the very best option for chemical-free pest control, whether that’s natural products traps, or barriers. If you pick to do it on your own, study the chemicals so you recognize what you’re placing on your food as well as animals, as well as method safe hygiene to avoid any type of health and wellness dangers.
Obviously, if you have a lot of building concerns, it could be better for you and your structure proprietors’ spending plan to hire a professional insect control business instead of trying to do it yourself. Some pest control operators are licensed parasite control professionals, and also they understand the best means to eliminate various types of bugs. Nonetheless, if you’re seeking to save cash, you may have the ability to manage with diy insect control methods. Simply make certain that you understand what you’re doing, which you do not make use of hazardous products or put people’s health and wellness in danger. As well as always remember that pest control isn’t always about removing pests; in some cases, all it takes is a quick message to the property owner to prevent an annoyance problem from developing. официален уебсайт
Bug control has actually been around for a very long time. Several of our ancestors have discovered how harmful these insects can be. With that in mind, they did all that they might do to eradicate them from the land. The bright side is that parasite control has progressed throughout the years to a factor where these awful animals can be regulated rather efficiently. Some of the insect that eliminate by expert insect control are termites, cockroaches, mice, vermins, and also several others. For lots of centuries, the phrase insects bring a lot concern right into the lives of individuals that they become hesitant to even engage in any kind of task that may involve contact with these creatures.
Nevertheless, today individuals do have a great interest in pest control. There are many DIY methods offered for getting rid of these parasites without calling in an exterminator. The methods utilized differ but the result is always the same: these pests are killed. Some Do It Yourself methods include putting diy catches around your house and also making sure that these traps are well-fitted and that no access factors are left open. Other DIY approaches are as basic as boiling egg coverings or cleaning fruit skins and also string.
If you intend to utilize Do It Yourself techniques to regulate termites after that you ought to familiarize on your own first with how termites are made as well as established. It is this information that will certainly offer you the concept on what methods you can use to regulate them. Termites expand with larvae that become grownups ready to consume as well as reproduce. A few of the most common parasites like cockroaches are known to develop inside houses through the accumulation of food.
Exactly how do bug exterminators identify whether there is a termite invasion? They look closely at the architectural weak points in the house like cracks, wooden doors, walls, and floorboards. They additionally check the soil around your house for any type of evidence of termites. When the parasite control specialists determine that there is indeed a pest problem, they generally take example samples from the locations influenced for laboratory evaluation.
Among the very best DIY methods to deal with a termite infestation is to utilize Cultural Control Products. These are unique baits that are secure to make use of, do not harm human beings, yet wipe out termites in simply a few days. These lures have actually been designed particularly to look like a yummy snack that a termite would find alluring. Nonetheless, unlike lures, Cultural control items are developed to last lengthy in the soil before they perish and die off. Another great aspect of these baits is that you do not need to hire a pest control man to do the job for you. You can do it on your own! Този интернет сайт
There are numerous possible control strategies that you can use for termite removal. The key to success with your parasite control approach is to utilize baits and also culture techniques to eliminate pests over time. It is best to plan out a number of possible obliteration in advance so that your initiatives will be well concentrated. However, if you want one of the most efficient eradication, make certain to take advantage of a professional pest control business.
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If you've ever owned a sailboat or had a friend who did, you know how it begins: with a dream. You dream about the ship, and gradually the dream consumes you. Practical considerations lose all meaning ... until, inevitably, the dream morphs into a nightmare. David Vann is familiar with that nightmare. His begins in Turkey: a thirty-year-old tourist, he stumbles across the steel frame of a ninety-foot sailboat that cries out to be built. From friends, family, and credit cards, he borrows the $150,000 to construct the ship. The Turkish builders take shameless advantage of him, eventually charging him over $500,000. On the edge of financial ruin, Vann starts a chartering business. But, when some new part of the ship isn't falling apart, he encounters freak storms. As his debts escalate, Vann begins to wonder if he is merely repeating his father's dreams and failures at sea—which ended with his father's suicide. At once a page-turning true story of adventure on the open ocean and an archetypal tale of one man's attempt to overcome fate and realize his dream, A Mile Down is an unforgettable story of struggle and redemption by a writer at the top of his form.
About David Vann
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Biographies & Memoirs, Sports & Outdoors, Nature & Wildlife.
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- "Now Jacob heard that the sons of Laban were saying, ""Jacob has taken all that was our father's; and from what was our father's he has gained all this wealth."" "
- And Jacob saw that Laban did not regard him with favor as before.
- "Then the Lord said to Jacob, ""Return to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you."" "
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Today I have some images from Cannonsburgh Village located at Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Historic Cannonsburgh Village represents approximately 100 years of early Tennessee life from the 1830s to the 1930s. Within the village is a gristmill, school-house, telephone operator’s house, the University House, the Leeman House, a museum, a caboose, the Wedding Chapel, a doctor’s office, a general store, a blacksmith’s shop, a well, and other points of pioneering interest.
This was our first stop (before breakfast) on Tuesday.
This was also the day that my tripod ball-head decided to malfunction, so I was left to shoot in some pretty dark rooms without the benefit of timed exposure. Fortunately I did have a speed-light and a flashlight with me so I was able to compensate but I did not get the kind of shots I really wanted to.
It is an interesting representation of how early life must have been in Tennessee. I was reminded of the time Jeanne and I visited “Living History Farms” near Des Moines. I had a film camera back then so who knows where those prints are. 🙂
Still I did make some images of the landscape and some of the interesting static displays but the real good stuff was inside the buildings where it was dark and a tripod was a must.
I also don’t function well before breakfast. Some folks can’t get started without their cup of coffee in the morning. I’m one that needs a full breakfast. So I was really hungry the whole time I was there. I did have a couple of snacks with me but they did not meet the test. 🙂
We stopped at a Cracker Barrel on the way back to Nashville for breakfast so it was all good.
That’s it for today. Thanks for stopping by the blog. Enjoy your day and be careful.
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Interpret the coefficient of determination for the data set on semester average marks. Given this number, can you conclude that the way to increase student marks is to keep students from working while they are studying?
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Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of vitamin D and home-based quadriceps resistance exercise on reducing falls and improving the physical health of frail older people after hospital discharge.
Design: Multicenter, randomized, controlled trial with a factorial design.
Setting: Five hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand, and Sydney, Australia.
Participants: Two hundred forty-three frail older people.
Interventions: Patients were randomized to receive a single dose of vitamin D (calciferol, 300,000 IU) or placebo tablets and 10 weeks of high-intensity home-based quadriceps resistance exercise or frequency-matched visits.
Measurements: The primary endpoints were physical health according to the short-form health survey at 3 months and falls over 6 months. Physical performance and self-rated function were secondary endpoints. Assessments took place in the participants' homes at 3 and 6 months after randomization and were performed by blinded assessors.
Results: There was no effect of either intervention on physical health or falls, but patients in the exercise group were at increased risk of musculoskeletal injury (risk ratio = 3.6, 95% confidence interval = 1.5-8.0). Vitamin D supplementation did not improve physical performance, even in those who were vitamin D deficient (<12 ng/mL) at baseline.
Conclusion: Neither vitamin D supplementation nor a home-based program of high-intensity quadriceps resistance exercise improved rehabilitation outcomes in frail older people after hospitalization. There was no effect of vitamin D on physical performance, and the exercises increased the risk of musculoskeletal injury. These findings do not support the routine use of these interventions at these dosages in the rehabilitation of frail older people.
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New Yorkers, prepare to hang your head in shame.
The Stanley Cup (French: La Coupe Stanley) is an ice hockey club championship trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League (NHL) playoffs champion. It is commonly referred to as The Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously (chiefly by sportswriters) as Lord Stanley's Mug. The Stanley Cup is surrounded by numerous legends and traditions, the oldest of which is the celebratory drinking of champagne out of the cup by the winning team. Unlike the trophies awarded by the other three major professional sports leagues of North America, a new Stanley Cup is not made each year; Cup winners keep it until a new champion is crowned. It is the only trophy in professional sports that has the name of the winning players, coaches, management, and club staff engraved on its chalice. The original bowl was made of silver and has a dimension of 18.5 centimeters (7.28 inches) in height and 29 centimeters (11.42 inches) in diameter. The current Stanley Cup is made of silver and nickel alloy. Today, it has a height of 89.54 centimeters (35.25 inches) and weighs 15.5 kilograms (34.5 lb).
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Why Study Food Webs?
The study of food webs is critical to understanding the route by which
pollutants get concentrated (bioaccumulated) up the food chain (e.g., in
game fish such as bass). Current examples of bioaccumulation that the USGS
is studying are mercury in the Florida Everglades, selenium in the Central
Valley, and selenium and mercury in San Francisco Bay.
The knowledge of how species interrelate is also necessary to understanding
how natural and man-made environmental pressures affect ecosystems. These
include destructive pollution (toxic chemicals such as PCBs, DDT, mercury,
and selenium) which can break or alter the food chain, and nutrient pollution
which can shift whole ecosystems toward nutrient-hungry species. An example
of the latter is crop fertilizers, sewage, and animal waste escaping into
lakes and streams, causing massive algae blooms at the expense of fish
and other species.
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of other applications of isotopes to food web studies.
|Fig. 2. This diagram shows the relations between
typical aquatic organisms. The arrows connect the prey (diet) to the predator
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Attention Employers: Submit Form 9/Form 2/Form 5/Form 10 in Soft Copy
RAJASTHAN-REGION AT A GLANCE
Rajasthan is situated in the North western part of the India Union. The state of Rajasthan is the largest state in India with the geographical spread of about 3.42 lakh sq.kms. having 32 districts and ranks first in terms of area of the country. It occupies 10.41% of country is total area yet its population is only 5.5% of total population of the country. It covers 826 km. from North to south and 869 from west to east.
It is land of vibrant colours known for its valiance and chivalry. It is unusual diversity in all its from people, customs, weather, music, manners, cuisine and physiography.
The regional office is located at Jaipur which is located at Jaipur which is the capital of Rajasthan and popularly known as Pink City of India. The Regional Office is functioning since 1956-57 with an overall responsibility of implementing the provisions of Employees Provident Funds and Misc. Provisions Act, 1952 and schemes framed there under in the State of Rajasthan. The Regional Office is assisted by three Sub-regional Offices at Kota, Udaipur and Jodhpur. This office is housed in its own building and has Staff quarters as well. Implementation of the provisions of the Employees Provident Funds and Misc. Provisions Act, 1952 and schemes framed there under in 10 districts namely, Jaipur. Tonk, Bharatpur, Dholpur, Sikar, Jhunjhunu, Churu, Alwar, Dausa and Ajmer are directly looked after by the Regional Office. the region is headed by Shri M.P.Sinha, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner (Grade-I) with effect from 3rd July.2009.
Sub-Regional Office:In pursuance of the policy of providing better & prompt services to the subscribers nearer to their door steps, three Sub-Regional Offices have been set each at Kota, Udaipur and Jodhpur.
Sub-Regional Office, Kota:This office was opened in December, 1982 and is currently headed by Shri R.M.Verma, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-Grade-II. This office is operating from its own building and has staff quarters also. The work relating to compliance, accounts and pension etc. is looked after by this office in respect of six districts namely Sawaimadhhopur, Karauli, Baran, Kota, Bundi and Jhalawar. this area is known as Hadoti Anchal.
SRO, Kota has been selected as one of the Six Pilot Offices of EFPO under Re-inventing EPF India Project.
Sub-Regional Office, Udaipur:The second Sub-regional Office in Rajasthan region was setup at Udaipur in May, 1987. It is headed by Shri P.P.S Maingi, Regional Provident Fund Commissioner-Grade-II. This office is functioning in its own building and has staff Quaters as well. This Sub-regional Office has jurisdiction over six districts viz. Udaipur, Chittorgarh, Raj Samand, Bhilwara, Banswara & Dungarpur. This area is also known as Mewar Anchal & Wagarh.
Sub-Regional Office, Jodhpur:The third Sub-Regional Office, Jodhpur started functioning at Jodhpur in October, 1997. This office is headed by Shri G.D. Verma, A.P.F.C. This office is now discharging its functions from own building. The work of constructions of its own office building was completed on Dec.2005 and staff quarters was completed. The work relating to compliance, accounts and pension in respect of 10 districts viz. Jodhpur, Barmer, Jalore, Jaisalmer, Sirohi, Pali, Bikaner, Nagaur, Sriganganager and Hanumangarh is looked after by this office. This area is known Marwar Anchal.
istrict Offices (Inspectorates):To facilate effective implementation of the Act, and Schemes framed there under and to provide services in the nature of supplying forms etc. nearer to the door steps of the subscribers and employers, eight inspectorates have been opened known as District Offices are as under:-
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American Fisheries Act (AFA) Pollock Cooperatives
The American Fisheries Act (AFA), a limited access privilege program, was signed into law in October 1998. The purpose of the AFA was to tighten U.S. ownership standards for U.S. fishing vessels under the Anti-Reflagging Act and to provide the BSAI pollock fleet the opportunity to conduct their fishery in a more rational manner while protecting non-AFA participants in the other fisheries.
The AFA eliminated the race for pollock by creating a framework for the formation of fishing cooperatives, with an excessive share limit of no more than 17.5% of the total pollock-directed fishery allocation per cooperative. It also established provisions for allocations to the CDQ program, fisheries that incidentally catch BS pollock, mandated minimum U.S. vessel ownership requirements, and implemented criteria for eligible catcher/processors, catcher vessels, motherships, and processors. In response to a directive in the AFA, the Council added measures to protect other fisheries from adverse effects arising from the exclusive pollock allocation.
The effects of AFA on the pollock industry were tremendous. Capacity was reduced, efficiency was increased, regulatory bycatch was reduced, a higher portion of the fish was utilized, and higher valued products were produced.
Amendment 80 Program
Amendment 80, implemented in 2008, allocates BSAI yellowfin sole, flathead sole, rock sole, Atka mackerel, and Aleutian Islands Pacific ocean perch to the head and gut trawl catcher processor sector, and allows qualified vessels to form cooperatives. The program establishes GOA groundfish sideboard limits for pollock, Pacific cod, Pacific ocean perch, northern rockfish, and pelagic shelf rockfish, as well as GOA halibut PSC. GOA sideboard restrictions are based on historic participation during 1998-2004. In addition, participation in the GOA flatfish fishery is prohibited for vessels with less than 10 weeks of history in the GOA flatfish fisheries. One vessel is exempt from the GOA halibut PSC sideboard limits, having fished 80% of its weeks in the GOA flatfish fisheries from 2000 through 2003.
Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program
The Rockfish Program allocates harvest privileges to holders of License Limitation Program (LLP) groundfish licenses with a history of Central Gulf of Alaska (GOA) rockfish legal landings in either 2000-2006, or the entry-level trawl fishery in 2007, 2008, or 2009. Primary rockfish species are northern rockfish, Pacific ocean perch, and dusky rockfish. Prior to implementation, the Gulf of Alaska rockfish fisheries opened on January 1st for non-trawl gear participants and on July 1st for trawl gear participants. Both the trawl and non-trawl fisheries were prosecuted from a total allowable catch (TAC) of rockfish species that was not further divided among sectors.
In 2003, the U.S. Congress directed the Secretary of Commerce to establish, in consultation with the NPFMC, a Rockfish Pilot Program (RPP). In 2005, the Council adopted the RPP, under which the TAC was apportioned as exclusive shares to cooperatives formed by individuals holding an LLP license with rockfish QS. Fishing under cooperative management resulted in a slower-paced fishery that allowed harvesters to choose when to fish and provided greater stability for processors by spreading out production over a longer period of time. The original RPP was scheduled to sunset after 2 years, but the 2007 reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act extended the term for another five years. Under that extension, the RPP was scheduled to sunset after the 2011 season.
In 2012, NMFS implemented the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program with a sunset date of December 31, 2021. The intent of the Central Gulf of Alaska Rockfish Program was to retain the conservation, management, safety, and economic gains created by the Rockfish Pilot Program. Specific elements of the Pilot Program were modified under the Rockfish Program so that the program could be improved.
In March 2021, the Rockfish Program was reauthorized, and the sunset date was removed with the passage of Amendment 111 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Gulf of Alaska, allowing the Program to continue indefinitely.
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How do you measure the success of your company's website? Receiving reports on how many users clicked on the site is a fairly basic way. If the site is set up for ecommerce, the number of sales generated through the site is the simplest, most obvious measurement. Calculating how many visits were successfully converted into sales takes a bit of math but is achievable.
But determining such potentially critical data as where your website's page viewers are from, how much time they spend on a particular page, even from what other Internet domain they entered your site, is more complicated. Enter the booming business of web analytics, which collects, measures, analyzes and reports on such information as a way of understanding and optimizing web pages.
The leader in such on-site web analytics - not surprisingly - is Internet search company Google, which formally introduced Google Analytics (GA) in 2005. According to web technology analysis firm W3Techs, of the various traffic analysis tools used by the top one million websites, 86.7 percent of those websites employ GA, as of January 4, 2010 (W3Techs updates its survey daily). GA's percentage of the web analytics market handily dwarfs that of its closest competitor, StatCounter, at 5.3 percent.
GA can track website visitors from all online sources, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click firms (in which advertisers pay their host site only when their ad is clicked), email marketing, and links within PDF documents. When integrated with Google AdWords - a pay-per-click venture that also offers site-targeted advertising for both text and banner ads, and the primary source of Google's reported total advertising revenues of $21 billion in 2008 - GA users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions. "Conversions" can be defined as sales, lead generations, specific page views, or downloads of a particular file. Thus, companies can quickly and efficiently determine which ads are performing best and adjust their marketing activities accordingly.
In addition, GA can be used to determine poorly performing pages on a particular site, measured by tracking where visitors originated (from a search engine, a competitor's site, etc.), how long they stayed on each page, and their geographical location. The tool also offers more advanced features, including the ability to group visitors into segments based on geography, past shopping activity, and so on.
How It Works
The gathering of such data is made possible by the Google Analytics Tracking Code (GATC) that is added onto every page of a given website. The GATC collects private visitor data and sends it to Google's data processors, which usually results in a report within four hours. The GATC also sets "cookies" (a small piece of text stored on a user's computer by a web browser; typically these include such information as user preferences and shopping cart contents) on each visitor's computer. This information, in turn, is used to store anonymous information such as whether the visitor is new or returning to the site, how long the current visit lasts, and from what online destination he came.
Companies can therefore maintain a relatively accurate view of such trends as whether their site's traffic is growing, shrinking, or stagnating (by comparing unique visitors per period with a previous period, and looking at whether views are affected by particular promotions or advertising campaigns); how useful visitors find the site (by looking at average page views and average time spent per page, and determining possible reasons for significant fluctuations from one time period to the next); and where visitors - both new and returning - are geographically located (resulting in possible modifying of jargon to attract visitors in given areas, or types of campaigns to increase new and/or returning visitors).
In terms of content, companies can look at what their most frequently visited pages are and decide if they correspond with the company's expectations. This can lead to redesigning pages, tweaking offers, or completely rethinking a page's content if company expectations or goals are not being met. Making pages more interesting or useful to users, as well as making them more easily accessible by those users, is a key consideration.
In addition, tracking where visitors first land on a company's site can be valuable. Not all visitors will automatically land on a company's homepage, especially if they've searched for a specific product via a search engine. Once combined with tracking visitors' click paths from the home page (where most visitors go once they're on your site), a company may ultimately want to re-think its homepage strategy and content.
Just as important is tracking from where visitors exit a company's site. If there is a substantial number of departures from anything other than the "Thank You" page, companies may want to reconsider everything from design to pricing.
Also possible is tracking what sources-direct typing of the website's URL, search engine, paid ad, referral, etc.-are driving visits to the company's site, and how those segments may be changing in relation to each other. The company can then use this information to determine the success or failure of new ad campaigns, page redesigns, pricing changes, and so on.
When it comes to referring sites, a company may want to determine which referrers tend to bring visitors who stay the longest, view the most pages, and, of course, result in the most business. If certain referrers seem to be underperforming, a company may want to suggest to the referrer different messages in their links to improve clicks; similarly, if desirable referrers are not referring to your site, the company can look into why not.
Keywords and phrases used by visitors to find your products or services can likewise be examined; if certain keywords implemented by the company are failing to deliver traffic, extensive copy or design changes may be in order, as well as alterations in the company's paid search ads.
As with any online technology, Google Analytics is in a state of constant evolution. One common complaint about GA is that its cookies-based approach for GATC results in sharp declines of utility when trying to track websites browsed from mobile phones, as only the latest versions of those and other PDA devices are able to set cookies.
However, with the increasing trend towards smartphones like Apple's iPhone and the BlackBerry (and, not to be ignored in this category, Google itself, which is testing its own mobile smartphone, the Nexus One, for possible release this year) that can set cookies, and GA's own updates/upgrades, that concern has been mostly addressed. In October 2009, GA announced a number of improvements, including:
Expanded Mobile Reporting: GA now tracks mobile websites and mobile applications, to allow companies to better measure their mobile marketing efforts. GA can track traffic to a mobile website from all web-enabled devices. iPhone and Android mobile application developers can now also track how users engage with apps, just as with tracking engagement on a website. For apps on Android devices, usage can be tied back to ad campaigns: from ad to marketplace to download to engagement.
Multiple Custom Variables: This feature allows the GA user to customize Google Analytics and collect the unique site usage data most important to their business. The upgrade allows easier classification of, according to Dai Pham of the Google Analytics Team, "any number of interactions and behaviors on your site."
Analytics Intelligence: Designed to provide automatic alerts of significant changes in the data patterns of a site's metrics and dimensions over daily, weekly and monthly periods, eliminating the need for companies to do the monitoring themselves. "Now you can spend your time actually taking action, instead of trying to figure out what needs to be done," per Pham.
Custom Alerts: Similarly, this allows the GA user to customize daily, weekly and monthly triggers on different visitor data parameters and be notified by email or right in the user interface when the changes actually occur.
Google's ongoing quest for world domination isn't quite complete yet, however. Several ad filtering programs and extensions, including Adblock and NoScript, can block the GATC, allowing some users to go untracked and, thus, not being contained within the GA reports. In addition, computer-savvy individuals can block or delete cookies from their systems, again with the result of being untracked.
Though the numbers of individuals going untracked due to the above are believed to be statistically small, such data is by its very nature difficult to accurately capture.
Even if individual users do not employ Google as their search engine, chances are high that many of the sites they visit are Google-enabled in one form or another (including GA). For its part, Google maintains that it stores personal information for 18 months, after which it is removed.
The Bottom Line
If one can overcome such concerns, the potential benefits of using GA are plentiful. One of its main attractions is its cost: free. The current version, along with an installation guide, can be found at http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=66983. While Google itself maintains that correctly installing and using GA is simple, there are a number of third-party agencies doing an apparently brisk business in helping business owners learn the ins and outs of the tool.
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Clever algorithms can easily execute tasks like smoothing out an effect or creating a pc determine that looks lifelike. As well as, the algorithms don’t consider cultural upheavals and altering patterns that can occur in the future. Such options relieve the studio’s mundane work (analysis, information assortment), lower subjectivity in determination-making, and assist in figuring out which film is more likely to be a future smash. Advanced visible results can also be rendered automatically using complicated algorithms. AI technology can detect places represented in scripts. As a result, AI allows artistic artists to concentrate on more necessary actions rather than spending time exactly perfecting an effect. Why aren’t these instruments extra commonly used if they’re so useful? Screenplays because it comprehends them. Briefly, as the film business strikes ahead, AI can be a huge benefit. It could possibly then suggest actual-world locations in which the scene might be shot, saving a major time. Furthermore, the widespread use of AI in decision-making and business information analytics might spell the end for clandestine and risky ventures that add variety to the movie industry’s ecosystem. The method will also be used to create castings. Via an trade where charm, aesthetic sense, and intuition are highly valued, counting on machine computing seems to be a plea for help or an admission that administration lacks originality and is unconcerned about a project’s inventive worth.
Translate spoken language as well as excessive throughput information processing. So as to communicate, for instance, one must know the meanings of many words and perceive them in lots of combinations. In 1970 Marvin Minsky told Life Magazine, “from three to eight years we could have a machine with the overall intelligence of an average human being.” However, while the fundamental proof of principle was there, there was still an extended option to go before the top objectives of pure language processing, abstract pondering, and self-recognition could possibly be achieved. Hans Moravec, a doctoral student of McCarthy at the time, stated that “computers were nonetheless hundreds of thousands of occasions too weak to exhibit intelligence.” As endurance dwindled so did the funding, and research got here to a sluggish roll for ten years. Optimism was high. Expectations have been even increased. The biggest was the lack of computational energy to do anything substantial: computers simply couldn’t store sufficient information or process it fast enough. Breaching the initial fog of AI revealed a mountain of obstacles.
The symbolic college centered on logic and Turing-computation, whereas the connectionist college targeted on associative, and often probabilistic, neural networks. Most philosophical curiosity, nonetheless, has targeted on networks that do parallel distributed processing, or PDP (Clark 1989, Rumelhart and McClelland 1986). In essence, PDP methods are pattern recognizers. That’s, the enter patterns could be acknowledged (up to a degree) even if they are imperfect. Not like brittle GOFAI packages, which often produce nonsense if provided with incomplete or half-contradictory data, they show graceful degradation. But the 2 methodologies are so different in apply that almost all arms-on AI researchers use either one or the opposite. There are several types of connectionist programs. A PDP community is made up of subsymbolic models, whose semantic significance can not simply be expressed in terms of acquainted semantic content material, still less propositions. If you have any concerns relating to exactly where and how to use “soleus air exclusive universal over the sill air conditioner aluminum frame, you can call us at the web-site. These ideas are represented, moderately, by the pattern of exercise distributed over your entire community. That’s, no single unit codes for a recognizable concept, such as canine or cat. Many people remained sympathetic to each schools.
However we are now in the realm of science fiction – such speculative arguments, while entertaining within the setting of fiction, shouldn’t be our principal strategy going forward in the face of the crucial IA and II problems that are starting to emerge. We want to resolve IA and II problems on their very own merits, not as a mere corollary to a human-imitative AI agenda. It is not onerous to pinpoint algorithmic and infrastructure challenges in II programs that are not central themes in human-imitative AI analysis. Lastly, and of explicit importance, II methods must carry economic ideas similar to incentives and pricing into the realm of the statistical and computational infrastructures that link people to each other and to valued goods. They should handle the difficulties of sharing knowledge throughout administrative and aggressive boundaries. Such methods should cope with cloud-edge interactions in making timely, distributed decisions they usually should deal with lengthy-tail phenomena whereby there is lots of data on some individuals and little information on most people. II programs require the ability to handle distributed repositories of knowledge which might be quickly altering and are more likely to be globally incoherent.
Cirrus has already formed partnerships and relationships with stakeholders in the AI area all through the world,” explained Wits director of Innovation Technique and AI Africa Consortium undertaking leader Professor Barry Dwolatzky. Further, the consortium may also lead engagement and coordination with authorities agencies and nonprofit analysis establishments on the adoption of Cirrus. It will assure the way forward for our society for generations to come,” Vilakazi stated. Although it is implied, it is usually ignored that infrastructure is ineffective without the supporting engineering to help in making use of it, Wits stated in a September eight statement. “There are huge alternatives to create financial activity and remedy issues drawing from AI and ML. We invite all members of the African Analysis Universities Alliance, in addition to from different universities and research institutions in Africa to affix the AI Africa Consortium and help us develop Africa’s footprint on the worldwide research output map,” Wits Analysis and Innovation deputy vice-chancellor Professor Lynn Morris stated. Tier-one consortium members will each appoint an ambassador, who will take part within the Ambassador Advisory Network, which is answerable for building the community and negotiating benefits on behalf of the members of the consortium. The consortium can even provide researchers with entry to hardware, software program and knowledge and ML engineers. “Through worldwide collaborations already established by Cirrus AI, the consortium will link members with the worldwide AI network,” Dwolatzky explained. It will help knowledge science practices throughout research fields and support native tutorial and analysis establishments to stimulate AI research and advance the appliance of AI in industry. Scholar participation and coaching shall be central in our efforts to develop AI abilities in Africa,” he added. “This partnership will promote and drive AI innovation and entrepreneurship by way of the infrastructure, engineering capacity and learning programmes that will likely be arrange. “Wits has Africa’s largest grouping of researchers and postgraduate students working within the disciplines of knowledge science, AI and ML.
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How do we prepare ourselves for a future pandemic? This was one of many questions discussed at a virtual symposium in September 2021. The discussion was virtual but the concerns are real. The event was organized by the of the Mexican Union of Chiapas’s Health Ministries Director, Dr. Faustino de los Santos, and displayed the grace-filled ministry in which the church is engaged. The five panelists represented the diversity that characterizes comprehensive health ministry and responded with humility to the thoughtful, probing questions for over two hours. The objective was to inform the 740 attendees about caring for themselves and their loved ones during COVID-19 pandemic in all dimensions of their wellbeing (physical, mental-emotional, social and spiritual) and ways to prepare for the anticipated but unknow future “pestilences” that are hallmarks of the times in which we live. Dr. Charles-Marcel shared information and ministry challenges and innovations from the world fields. The ZOOM chat was abuzz with interaction, encouraging words and quotations, and expressions of gratitude and commitment to God.
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Posted on 06 Aug 2013 by Neilson
A U.S. energy regulator Monday proposed to fine oil giant BP $28 million for allegedly manipulating the natural gas market in 2008.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission charged that a team of Texas-based traders for BP America undertook a number of trades in late 2008 that deliberately lost money as part of a "manipulative scheme" to fix prices and boost profits.
A FERC staff report said the scheme was revealed in a recorded phone call between two of the traders, which came after a senior BP official expressed concern at the propriety of the trades,
The FERC said the operation had sought to artificially maintain for nearly two months a large spread between prices at two southeast US locations that initially arose from market disruptions caused by a hurricane.
Doing so significantly increased the value of contracts held by the trading team, the report said, netting BP around $800,000 gains.
The taped phone conversation proved "sufficient to provide staff with an outline of the Texas team's manipulative scheme," the FERC report said.
In addition to the proposed $28 million penalty, BP would be required to disgorge $800,000 under the FERC action.
BP called the allegations "without merit" and said it will "vigorously" contest them.
BP vice president Geoff Morrell said in a statement that the phone conversation, which he said was between a trainee and a trader, was "completely" taken out of context.
"The recording does not support any allegation of wrongdoing," Morrell said. "In fact, the trainee involved in the conversation states that his characterization was incorrect and the trader never agrees with nor condones the trainee's statements."
"We stand by what we previously disclosed publicly in February 2011 -- that BP natural gas traders did not engage in any market manipulation in late 2008," he said.
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1st January. Cold bites and the earth is hard. The pool by the house is frozen fast with thick ice. There are lapwings over the house and blackbirds come to the bird feeder as the ground is too hard to search for worms. Ffion and Debs asked if we would check their horses because they had gone to Ramsey Island for New Year, so we walk across the frozen fields to smash the ice on their water trough, and somehow Larry manages to find the only place in the world where the mud is soft and sinks into a pit of slurry and mud in a field of cows, to emerge the dirtiest dog in the world. A paper boat blows over the ice pool by Penberi, watched by Rosie who licks the stone hard water, confused. And Robin wears my hat to keep his ears warm.
In between all I paint, make bread and venison casserole.
2nd January. Went to the hills, Tom's favorite walking place and found the world was golden and ice covered. Streams that ran down the hillside were silent and thick with ice. The sunshine played on golden grass, the air was clear, sharp and cold. In one place i found water music and a tiny waterfall with ice fingers dipping in a dark pool. We saw snipe and buzzard, ravens and a kite as well as redwing and fieldfare. On the way home called in at the butchers in Newport to stock up on pheasant and venison and bought rabbits for Tom to cook in cider. Outside the butchers a sign encouraged customers to order early for Christmas, so I tried, but they seemed to think January 2nd was a little too early! And around walking in the hills squeezed in some painting.
5th January. In the garden broken snail shells decorate the path and stones, brittle remnants of feasts for blackbirds. At the beach in the evening the dogs throw long shadows.
6th January. The day has been full of birds and the sound of feathers. On the way up the hill with the cats a peregrine put up a field full of redwing and fieldfare. In the shelter of the green lane they did not see us, so swooped so low overhead to escape the ruthless hunter. So many birds, plover and lapwing, small waders on the beach and the fieldfare and redwing, all seeking shelter from the cold. And outside the blackbirds flock to the bird feeder as the earth is still hard from frost. In the garden I photograph pheasants in the hope of finding time to paint them on gold leaf. Meanwhile I continue to work on Starlight and hope by February to be finished.
7th January. Today I left the camera at home. The beach was wide, the sea rolled back so far. We walked on the beach and I found
that the horizon was wrinkled with waves
over the sea white birds hunted, hundreds
small fish cut the roof of the sea with slender fins
a cormorant hunted close to shore, a frenzy of feathers
stones and shells drew patterns with water on the sand
a tunnel through the rock, secret, sculpted by water,
and though the dogs ran through I could only discover one end to it
a curtain wall of icicles at the cliff's end, fresh water dripping down to reach the salt of the sea
a perfect ginger scallop shell, a jewel from the seabed
water like opals
cliffs lit gold by the rising sun
deep pools lined with pink plants that love the salt
peace and space
8th January. Two days could not be more different in light for while yesterday the sun set the cliffs to blaze with gold today a cloud shrouded the sky and the cliffs were dark black monochrome.
In the early morning light curlew flew in a flock overhead, calling. I sailed a paper boat in a pool carved out in curves by the sea.
Yesterday Daf taught me to pluck and draw out pheasants, (the cats helped) not the kind of drawing I usually enjoy. Today I cooked them and they were wonderful, just roasted simply with strips of bacon to keep them moist, the recipe from an old old book found in a second hand shop, from a time when recipe books told you how to cook and were not all sexy photos and too much fussing. 'The Creda Housecraft Manual, a treasury of recipes and household information', simply said to cover the breast with fat bacon and cook at 375 f for 40-50 mins. There is also a chapter on how to do the washing. I think my children would like me to read that!
Tonight, in the dark, lapwing took to the air and a fox barked a frustrated plea for wings to the night sky.
In the winter in St Davids strange things can happen. I find myself getting through the days singing Roy Orbison songs. Robin, who is lovely, yesterday sent me flowers to celebrate our anniversary. Seven years. Today 'The very Best of Roy Orbison'. The man is a glutton for punishment!
10th January. Yesterday I saw a barn owl, bright white, caught in the car headlights sitting on a fence post eating something. All evening whenever I went out into the nighttime garden I could hear her hunting and calling, calling, calling, as if something had been lost.
Both today and yesterday were full of birds, around the bird feeders and out in the fields. Today it as if the night is trying to keep back the daylight. After days of stillness the wind is rising, rattling and clattering the bracken bones. Snipe and lapwing rise from the fields as we walk and already the lapwing are beginning to dance. From the bracken a pheasant rises, calling alarm calls, looking like a flash of fire. In between walking I paint.
14th January. Working steadily toward the end of Starlight. I think this is the first time in a long time I have worked so consistently on one book without painting in between times. Walking in sunshine and cloud. A run in with a local farmers wife left a bad taste in my ears. Can't remember ever having quite such a rain of abusive language falling on my head. Tried to shrug it off and walk away and not take it personally, but bad feeling followed me all day. Unpleasant, and on such a beautiful sunshine day. Came home to the peace of a ginger household, a warm fire and work, which went a long way to make me feel better.
15th January. Gray, dark, raining day, and cold, and the fire won't pick up and warm the house. But I think I have almost finished another spread for Starlight. Whilst waiting for paint to dry today I had an email from Sandi Baker who paints amongst other things, wonderful wolves. She flagged up for me that someone had made a film and put it on youtube with my paintings. Ordinarily there would be all kinds of copyright problems with this, but I am warmly flattered that someone has taken the time to play with my paintings, so here is a link to the film, more of a rolling slideshow.
18th January. Much has happened and still I concentrate on painting Starlight.
Glyn is in hospital. David Wilson gave me the right to use a couple of his photos over on the cat blog. A while back he made a program on hidden treasures of Wales. For him Glyn was one of those treasures and his portrait of Glyn in his small cottage in slanted sunlight is one of the most beautiful and poignant photographic portraits I have ever seen. On his website there is a clip from the program that includes a short interview with Glyn.
Yesterday I lazed in bed until nine for the first time in months. Usually I am up and about and down the beach with paper boats and dogs. So I missed the helicopters and location crew and Ridley Scott. They were looking for a location for the new film, Nottingham. Unperturbed by the absence of trees ( if they traveled back in time far enough Whitesands was a forest, but film budgets do not yet stretch to time travel ) they were however put off by the fact that time and tide wait for no make-up crew. Did they need to burn all that fuel to work out that by the sea the tide comes in and the tide goes out. I love his films, especially Blade Runner which will always be a great favorite of mine.
I have new prints, this time from The Seal Children. When Starlight is finished I will remake the prints page on the website as I now have loads of prints that aren't included on the page.
20th January. Days are too busy. Yesterday visited Glyn in hospital. Only a brief visit but so difficult as he just wants to come home but is so so ill. Have written about all on the cat blog.
Painting Starlight and now on the last couple of spreads so I am loosing myself in the universe and stars. Meanwhile, yesterday I was contacted by an artist working with paperboats in Scotland. Beautiful work, very organic, lots of paper, lovely boats and a competition that I will send a boat in for. Browsing her website I found that she had thrown six bottles into the sea with messages inside. So imagine how I felt down the beach this morning when I found a bottle on the beach, and inside a message! Coincidence.
I carried the bottle home to open it with Hannah as she was off school. We had to smash the glass to get the paper out, and to get inside and discover the bottle's story. It had traveled from Guernsey in a month, set on its voyage by Chloe and Charlie and Jack. Hannah has written a note and I will put on in too and then we will launch it again into the sea. Meanwhile an email or two has flown across to the three.
The postman brought proofs of Tell Me a Dragon. Sometimes I think they are called proofs because they are proof that you can get to the end of a book, proof that in the past you did do some work. I dedicated the book to Terry Pratchett as a thank you for the wonderful world he made out of words, and to Oliver Postgate who brought such joy to me when I was young.
24th January. Even as I write I can hear the rain thundering on the roof, the door ratting and the wind cat climbing in through the cat flap as the storm builds. So much water as fallen from the sky that my house begins to be a moatted house and wellies are required to get from the car to the front door. Soon I will have frogs and toads and newts and need a boat.
Still working on Starlight.
Also preparing prints for people by doodling in gold paint to make each individual. My studio seems to shrink with every day that passes and only a careful camera angle makes it look reasonable. When Starlight is finished I will tidy up leaving the studio until last. Otherwise I will tidy up the studio and then sit down and paint and ignore the pit that is the rest of the house. I have new prints now, from The Seal Children, but have to wait until Starlight is done to add to the online print catalogue. They are larger than the originals, but look good.
Glyn is still very ill in hospital and his house waits like something in a storybook, hidden behind a high thorn hedge, for him to get better, for him to come home.
28th January. The rain continued and now I have a stream flowing outside the house, clear spring water trickling down the lane and I begin to think of bottling it and designing labels. Still befuddled by stars but only half a days work left to do I think on Starlight. On the airfield the ground is covered with water, reflecting the sky. There are swans, bright white in golden marsh grass, sodden ponies, and water drips holding small pictures of the world on wire.
Today it is warm and the sun shines through a rolling bank of fog. Later, on the beach, I float a boat. The photographs look like something from the Isle of Avalon.
The news of Glyn is not good. The ward is closed to visitors as they have 'a bug'. His confusion of mind continues. We miss him.
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Lifeboat crews rescued a casualty trapped on rocks after slipping and suffering a suspected broken leg.
Rescuers were unable to safely carry the casualty to the road, so the casualty was taken from the rocks by volunteers at Rhyl RNLI via their lifeboats back to shore.
"The local coastguard team went to the spot and decided the person could not be recovered safely to the road, so the lifeboats launched and successfully recovered the person on to the all-weather lifeboat.
"All units returned to station,and the casualty was transferred to an ambulance and taken to the local hospital."
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- By Anselm Hannemann
- August 19th, 2016
- 0 Comments
There is a lot to learn this week. It starts with non-technical things like going for a walk to refresh your mind and finishes with how to prevent reverse XSS attacks in forms. But it doesn’t matter whether you learn how to build self-contained web components using the new specification or to maximize the efficiency of your Angular 2 app or just how you can write less code. What matters is that you keep asking questions and that you try to get better and smarter at your craft.
- Heydon Pickering shares tips on writing less code1 to make your developer life easier. Something we all should remember.
Tools Workflows Link
- Nucleus52 is certainly not the first living style guide generator but it’s still worth sharing. The Node.js module fits into existing projects, follows the Patternlab splitting by default, and has a nice layout where you easily find the things you’re looking for.
- If you ever lost a stash in git, here are a few tips on how to recover dropped stashes3.
- Matthew Green asks himself if Apple’s cloud key vault is a crypt backdoor6. In his explanatory answer, he shares why Apple’s method of using Hardware Security Modules is pretty clever and maybe worth learning more about if you’re interested in storing sensitive user data behind weak user-set passwords.
- Using social engineering by pretending to be a valid website in the URL bar is easy with the RTL feature of Chrome and Firefox and this little trick7. I’m sure this type of attack is successful since most normal users do check if a URL is correct but they can’t see anything bad in it. A good reminder that we need to find better ways to let users know that the URL they visit is safe.
- When we look into the source code of forms at github.com, we’ll find some interesting markup in there8. Its purpose: preventing XSS attacks. In this blog post we can learn about the tricks that GitHub uses9 to maximize the security of their web application.
- Troy Hunt wraps up how our personal data is usually leaked10 and why security is a design process, not only an implementation process. Also a good primer on how to design a password recovery feature.
Web Performance Link
- Minko Gechev shares how you can do Ahead-of-time compilation in Angular 215 to improve performance and reduce energy and bandwidth consumption to make your application more efficient.
- Addy Osmani shares best practices on how to use offline storage for your web application16 to ensure the app stays usable when the network connection is flakey.
- Eric Bidelman explains the new Shadow DOM v1 standard17, the now de-facto standard for building self-contained web components.
Work Life Link
- Margaret Gould Stewart talks about how she learned that making mistakes is crucial for a team’s morale18 and why this prevents people from becoming bored, burning out, and from feeling annoyed about their manager.
- Sometimes, a long walk outside can refresh your mind19. It can give you new inspiration and help you calm down if you’re feeling upset.
Going Beyond… Link
- Bill Gates shares what he learned from his school teacher20 and how only later he realized that students should ask teachers more questions. If we ask more, we will learn from others. It’s always harder to proactively communicate knowledge to other people than being asked for it.
- Phillip Rogaway shares a paper on “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work21” (PDF). An interesting read on the shift of power and why cryptography is often a political tool that demands high morals and ethical fundamentals of those who build it. Anyone who ever discussed the topic of morals and ethics in science should read this.
And with that, I’ll close for this week. If you like what I write each week, please support me with a donation22 or share this resource with other people. You can learn more about the costs of the project here23. It’s available via email, RSS and online.
- 1 http://www.heydonworks.com/article/on-writing-less-damn-code
- 2 https://holidaypirates.github.io/nucleus/
- 3 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/89332/how-to-recover-a-dropped-stash-in-git/7844566
- 4 https://holidaypirates.github.io/nucleus/
- 5 https://holidaypirates.github.io/nucleus/
- 6 http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2016/08/is-apples-cloud-key-vault-crypto.html?m=1
- 7 http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2016/08/google-chrome-firefox-address-bar.html
- 8 https://chloe.re/2016/07/19/protect-against-html-extraction/
- 9 https://chloe.re/2016/08/15/lets-look-at-some-of-the-security-at-github/
- 10 https://www.troyhunt.com/website-enumeration-insanity-how-our-personal-data-is-leaked/
- 11 http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2016/08/google-chrome-firefox-address-bar.html
- 12 http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2016/08/google-chrome-firefox-address-bar.html
- 13 http://www.rafayhackingarticles.net/2016/08/google-chrome-firefox-address-bar.html
- 14 https://nolanlawson.com/2016/08/15/the-cost-of-small-modules/
- 15 http://blog.mgechev.com/2016/08/14/ahead-of-time-compilation-angular-offline-precompilation/
- 16 https://medium.com/@addyosmani/offline-storage-for-progressive-web-apps-70d52695513c
- 17 https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/primers/shadowdom/
- 18 https://shift.newco.co/how-a-single-conversation-with-my-boss-changed-my-view-on-delegation-and-failure-ae5376451c8d
- 19 http://zenhabits.net/walk/
- 20 https://www.gatesnotes.com/Education/A-Teacher-Who-Changed-My-Life
- 21 http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
- 22 https://wdrl.info/donate
- 23 https://wdrl.info/costs/
Hold on, Tiger! Thank you for reading the article. Did you know that we also publish printed books and run friendly conferences – crafted for pros like you? Like SmashingConf Barcelona, on October 25–26, with smart design patterns and front-end techniques.
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Because the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and its retirement plan provisions became effective on March 27, 2020, April offered us the first full month of data to see what actions people are taking. By allowing plans to temporarily ease rules on withdrawals and loans, and by temporarily removing the mandate to take required minimum distributions, the CARES Act offers participants some means of financial relief. We took a look at our participant data to find out what they're calling about and which of the CARES Act's provisions they're taking advantage of.
No big uptick in calls, contribution changes, or loans
Although call volumes into our participant service center haven’t increased over the last few months, the CARES Act is top of mind for many participants. The number of calls about loans and withdrawals was about the same month to month, but in April, coronavirus-related distributions (CRDs) and loans were among the top reasons for those calls.
Contribution rate changes
Only 3% of participants decreased their contribution rate in April, and although that's still more than the 2% of participants who decreased their rate in April 2019, it's still a small percentage (as is generally the case).
The number of participants taking loans from their 401(k) in April actually went down compared with both March 2020 and April 2019, but the average loan amount went up 7%, to $12,433. With the CARES Act, plan sponsors can temporarily raise the loan limit to the lower of $100,000 or 100% of the account balance (from the usual limit of $50,000 or 50% of the balance).
Withdrawals are up sharply as people take advantage of CRDs
Under the CARES Act, withdrawals of up to $100,000 are permitted without triggering the normal 20% withholding tax and 10% early withdrawal penalty if participants certify that either they or a spouse were diagnosed with COVID-19 or have suffered adversity related to the quarantine, a work furlough, or other hardships.
April was really the first month that anyone had access to a CRD, as the CARES Act became effective at the end of March and it took some time for plan sponsors to adopt—or decide not to adopt—the provision. For the purpose of our analysis, we’re comparing CRD activity to in-service withdrawal activity.
CRDs are driving a huge increase in withdrawals, as April withdrawals (CRDs and in service combined) are more than 200% greater than those taken in March 2020 or in April 2019. As of May 12, the number of CRDs taken in that month had already surpassed the number for all of April.
We also see big changes in participants' investment behavior. Sixty-three percent more participants made changes to the types of investments in their 401(k)s this April compared with last April, and they're making very different changes this year, with some seeking to capitalize on the down market and others seeking shelter from the volatility. The number one investment change this past month was to move out of stable value and into a diversified fund.1
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|2||From diversified funds to stable value/fixed-income funds||2||From equities to diversified funds|
|3||From diversified funds to equities||3||Rediversified their portfolio|
|4||From diversified funds to target-date funds (TDFs)||4||From diversified funds to TDFs|
|5||Rediversified their portfolio||5||From diversified funds to equities|
The actions taken varied greatly by age group. Although the investments they chose within each strategy varied, generally, younger people stayed in the market and older people were more conservative. Even so, we saw almost as many people in their 50s and 60s moving out of stable value and fixed income compared with into them—again showing that, while some are seeking shelter, others see potential opportunity in the down market.
|Investment changes made by age group||<30||30–39||40–49||50–59||60+|
|Stayed in the market, either diversifying into equities, TDFs or diversified funds; or rediversifying||69%||49%||43%||34%||26%|
|Moved from stable value/fixed-income funds into diversified funds or TDFs||15%||25%||28%||28%||29%|
|Moved money into stable value/fixed-income funds||8%||15%||17%||23%||31%|
What does the activity mean for retirement plan professionals?
The new normal has spurred a good deal of activity among retirement plan participants, with large increases in people using their plans for liquidity and in making changes to their investment strategies. The suddenness of the current crisis and swift action of Congress with the CARES Act may have caught many participants with inadequate knowledge of how to respond.
It's not too late for retirement plan professionals and educators to help participants understand how to respond to market volatility and how to weigh the pros and cons of taking loans and withdrawals from a retirement plan. That's not to say that people shouldn't take advantage of CARES Act provisions—and other potential help that may come from Congress—as the eased rules may be a lifeline for many. But plan professionals should make sure that anyone taking action is doing so with a full understanding of the implications.
All data, unless otherwise indicated, is John Hancock’s internal data, as of 4/30/20.
1 Fund categories were defined as target-date fund, stable value/income, growth and income, equity, asset allocation, and other. A participant in more than two fund categories was labeled diversified. A participant who changed from more than two fund categories to greater than two other categories or to asset allocation alone was labeled as having rediversified.
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The abrupt shift to remote learning this past spring left many teachers with a crisis of professional identity, with questions like:
- What does it mean to be a teacher when I’m interacting with my students behind a screen?
- If I use online content created by someone else, how do I show my expertise?
- What is my day-to-day life as a teacher supposed to look like now?
To better understand the challenges associated with “emergency remote learning,” Michigan Virtual and Sundberg-Ferar conducted in-depth interviews with educators, students, and parents about their experiences and published the findings in a qualitative research report.
“I’m not interested in teaching this way,” remarked one teacher during these interviews. “I got into education for human interaction. That’s been ripped away.”
Another teacher lamented that the 100% remote experience felt like switching from “teaching in 3D” to “teaching in 2D” and had “lost the spirit of the classroom.”
These statements reflect the collective grief teachers felt during this time. They are valid responses to a near-overnight change in daily life with little time to prepare and little choice in the matter.
But remote learning doesn’t have to feel this way.
When done well, online learning should go beyond merely replicating the structure of the face-to-face classroom in a Zoom room. Research shows that there are key differences between effective online teaching and face-to-face teaching.
Ideally, during asynchronous remote learning with content, lessons, and assessments already created, teachers are freed up to focus their efforts on providing students individualized feedback and helping them form personal connections to the subject matter. This is where learning takes place. Teachers act as learning coaches, teaching students how to learn while guiding them through the content.
With time and training, many online teachers are surprised by the depth and quality of relationships they are able to develop in the virtual classroom. It may seem strange at first, but this format can actually allow them to give students more 1:1 attention. For quieter students, participating in class discussions and expressing their struggles may be easier in a digital environment than in a large group setting.
In the video below, Michigan Virtual’s lead science instructor, Jaci Hartman, discusses what this individualized instruction looks like in her online classroom:
As many schools begin the school year 100% remote, teachers deserve the support they need to do their jobs well in this new environment.
Rather than trying to fit a square peg into a round hole by expecting the remote learning to be a digital analog of the brick-and-mortar classroom, schools ought to play to the strengths of this platform and give our teachers the freedom and training to leverage their talents to reach students in the most effective way possible.
To learn more about best practices for remote teaching, read the Teacher Guide to Online Learning or explore this interactive Teacher Self-Assessment Tool & Personalized PD Playlist Generator.
Chalkbeat’s editorial staff had no role in writing or preparing this paid content. Learn about our sponsored content policy.
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EDT is committed to its customers in the European Union as well as to a clean and healthy environment. We are therefore phasing out our use of certain hazardous substances targeted by the European Union’s Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive 2002/95/EC.
The RoHS directive limits the use of lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium, and the halide-containing compounds polybrominated biphenyl and polybrominated diphenyl ether, often used in the manufacture of electronics components. Eliminating these substances means that electronic equipment can be recycled or incinerated without harming the environment or endangering its inhabitants.
Since 2006, EDT has been designing all new products and, depending on customer demand and technical feasibility, redesigning selected existing products to meet RoHS regulations. Products for which RoHS compliance is not feasible may still be sold, subject to market considerations. When relevant, product data sheets and web page descriptions will note RoHS compliance. If you have questions about compliance plans for a specific product, contact us.
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This one, for the July 11 Register-Guard section Weekend, was fun to write because it wasn’t just a typical fair overview. I put in a research request to the Lane County Historical Society to learn about the fair’s origins and realized that the first fair went back many more years than I thought — all the way back to 1859, when Oregon’s statehood was founded. The current administrators of the Lane County Fair were largely unaware of this history, so I shared the documents that my research uncovered. Hopefully everyone will get a renewed appreciation for this fun annual event and its agricultural roots.
From textiles to florals, from small animals to livestock, entries span many categories, harkening to event’s competitive roots
by Vanessa Salvia
It took only 13 years for the first settlers in Lane County to organize a county fair.
According to the “Lane County Historian,” a Lane County Historical Society publication, the first fair was held in “Eugene City” Oct. 11-12 in 1859, the year Oregon earned statehood. Awards totaling $80.75 were offered for the best examples of livestock, butter, cheese, field crops, garden produce and fruit.
The present-day Lane County Fair — this year July 22-26 — offers opportunities for competitors in those and many other categories, including baked goods, floral arranging and quilting and textiles.
Darlene Martin’s Banana Nut Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting has won Best of Show awards for eight consecutive years.
Martin, 60, entered baked goods and land products (such as fruit, veggies, herbs, eggs, honey) into fairs as a child in Ventura, California, and has entered them in the Lane County Fair since 1990.
“I always loved fairs,” she says. “I entered since I was a little kid and have been baking since I was old enough to sit at the bench with my grandma and Mom. My grandmother and my mother were both very big on baking things like yeast breads and pies. I went into the quick breads and cakes and cookies and candy; that was my favorite thing to do.”
Martin normally “goes crazy” and enters the maximum of 24 items each time. This also qualifies her for the High Point Baker Award, which she won in 2008 and again in 2013.
For Martin, the fun is competing against others for the bragging rights of who has the best items. A few years ago she got $10 and a plaque for her Best of Show pumpkin.
“Out of everybody in Lane County who entered pumpkins, mine was the best,” she says. “It’s kind of exciting. I’m sure there were hundreds of better pumpkins than mine out there but if you don’t enter it you’ll never know.”
Jackie Getty, 78, regularly enters florals and produce in the Lane County Fair. Her love affair with entering fair exhibits started when she took her three daughters to look at the produce on display when they were children.
“They said, ‘We’ve got better beans than that at our house,” Getty recalls with a laugh. “And then we went to the rhubarb and they said, ‘We’ve got better rhubarb, too!’ ”
Their first entry was for beans in the early 1970s. “The kids found 18 beans that all looked alike, and you don’t know how hard that is to do,” she says. “I think it’s more fun to go to the fair and see how you did compared to everybody else.”
Getty enters her own flower arrangements in the floral department in the open and advanced amateur classes using flowers and foliage from her yard. Her success depends largely on the weather and what’s in prime condition at fair time. She won’t know until the last minute what she can create based on how her roses, Shasta daisies, Lady’s mantle, hydrangeas, verbena boxwood and yarrow look. She’s waiting for her artichokes to dry, because one of the arrangements is required to have a vegetable in it.
Entering a time or two also helps to get a feel for what the judges like. “You enter and you get their comments and then you can do a little better job next year,” she says.
Sherry Cossey is the floral coordinator for the fair. For her and for others, part of the fun of entering is to share the flowers and potted plants that they have put so much care into tending. She says making the floral designs is fun and creative. “I love making the designs,” she says. “They really are floral art!”
Room for textiles
After that first fair in 1859, a second fair was held in 1861, and then no others occurred until the Lane County Agricultural Society sponsored a three-day fair in 1884, which gradually transformed into the fair we have today.
The modern Lane County Fair is held at what we know as the fairgrounds, or Lane Events Center, but it was held previously at Bangs Park. Sale of livestock from the 1908 fair raised enough money to acquire the present fairgrounds. Today, the fair encompasses a 36,000-square-foot livestock arena and six expo halls ranging in size from 6,500 to 8,200 square feet each.
That’s plenty of room for large-scale exhibits such as quilts and textiles.
Kathy Langston, 63, first entered her quilts 20 years ago. She works all year to create one or two quilts for display. She entered two quilts last year and placed second and third.
“That made me feel pretty good,” Langston says. “I always enjoy people coming in to look at the quilts and ‘ooh and aah’ about them. To see people looking at your work and appreciating what you’ve done makes you feel good and it makes you feel like you’ve accomplished something.”
Between Langston and the other quilters, there are usually up to 50 quilts to check out. Other fiber art such as knitting, weaving and cross stitch also is represented. “The talent is awesome,” Langston says.
Up to the Judge
The following judging sessions are closed to the public leading up to the fair, but the entries will be on display for the public during fair hours:
Beer and wine: Tuesday, July 14, noon; also Friday, July 17, noon, Convention Center.
Textiles: Wednesday, July 15, 9 a.m., Convention Center.
Art: Thursday, July 16, 9 a.m., Convention Center. Also Friday, July 17, 9 a.m., if needed.
Photography: Friday, July 17, 9 a.m., Convention Center.
Food Preservation: Sunday, July 19, 9 a.m., Convention Center.
Baking & Candy: Monday, July 20, 9 a.m., Convention Center.
Rabbits and Cavies: Monday, July 20, 9 a.m., Expo Halls.
Poultry: Tuesday, July 21, 9 a.m., in exposition halls.
Land Products: Tuesday, July 21, 9 a.m., Auditorium.
Floral: Wednesday, July 22, 9 a.m., Auditorium.
The following judging sessions are open to the public during fair hours:
Horses: Wednesday, July 22, 9 a.m., Livestock Arena. Open to the public at 11 a.m. A horse show follows the judging.
Sheep: Wednesday and Thursday, July 22-23, begins at 9 a.m., in expo halls. Open to the public at 11 a.m.
Goats: Wednesday through Friday, July 22-24, begins at 9 a.m., in expo halls. Open to the public at 11 a.m. Goat Gala Parade is Saturday, July 25, 5 p.m.
Swine: Wednesday and Thursday, July 22-23, begins at 9 a.m., Livestock Arena. Open to the public at 11 a.m.
Cattle: Friday, July 24, about 1 p.m., in expo halls.
Note: Judging times also are detailed atthefair.com, but may be subject to change.
The Lane County Fair is from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. July 22-25 and from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. July 26 at the Lane Events Center, 796 W. 13th Ave. Season pass is $20 at area Bi-Mart stores through July 21; otherwise, admission is $9 for adults, $7 for seniors, $6 for children ages 6 to 12, and free for children 5 and younger; atthefair.com.
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Tchaikovsky - Scene from Swan Lake sheet music for Mandolin
q=108 Moderato (q = c. 108) BPM
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About 'Scene from Swan Lake'
|Artist:||Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich (biography) (sheet music)|
|Born:||May 7, 1840 , Votkinsk|
|Died:||November 6, 1893 , St. Petersburg|
|The Artist:||Popular Romantic composer of 6 symphones and some of the world' most performed ballets including Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.|
from the ballet Swan Lake
|Score Key:||A minor (Sounding Pitch) (View more A minor Music for Mandolin )|
|Tempo Marking:||=108 Moderato ( = c. 108)|
|Time Signature:||4/4 (View more 4/4 Music)|
|Number of Pages:||2|
|Difficulty:||Easy Level: Recommended for Beginners with some playing experience|
|Style:||Classical (View more Classical Mandolin Music)|
|Copyright:||© Copyright 2000-2017 Red Balloon Technology Ltd (8notes.com) |
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In 1976 a group of Volusia County teachers with a passion for the arts; Lura Bell, Anne Johnson, Mary McClancy, Dorothy Felton, Marion Hillabold, Shirley Keppel, Dorothy Johnson and Viola Pierson founded the Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, Inc., as a not for profit organization.
At first the property known as the Central School of Barberville (c. 1919), and was leased from the Volusia County School Board, however in 2001 the School Board bestowed ownership of the property to the Board of Directors of the Settlement.
In the early years, the Board of Directors led by Lura D. Bell, struggled to fulfill their dreams of rehabilitating the badly deteriorated school and provide enriching educational programming. Public programs began in 1982, and have steadily developed into those enjoyed by thousands today. The rapid growth of the children's education program influenced the School Board's decision to place a teacher on site to coordinate the programs with mandated curricula meeting Sunshine State Standards. Additionally, over the years, the program has adapted to meet the growing need for FCAT-based learning benchmarks.
An important transition began to occur as growing attendance created a demand for more space. The Settlement began moving local and regional historically significant buildings onto the property, and a historical "village" setting emerged. Featured structures include:
-1982: Pierson Railroad Depot - Circa 1885
-1983: Astor Bridge Tender's House - Circa 1926
-1984: Turpentine Commissary Country Store - Circa early 1900s
-1988: Turpentine Still - Circa 1924
-1989: Pottery Shed - Circa 1920s
-1992: Lewis Log Cabin - Circa 1875
-1994: Midway United Methodist Church - Circa 1890
-1996: Huntington Post Office - Circa 1885
-1997: Quarters House - Circa 1920s
-1998: The Pastime touring boat – Circa 1910
-2021: The Relay Cabin - Circa 1880
Through the years, additional workshops were built to exhibit various historical trades and life ways of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s: Print Shop, Wheelwright Shop/Carriage House, Woodwright Shop, Blacksmith Shop, and the Timucuan-Myacca and Seminole Villages.
Here at the Barberville Pioneer Settlement a dedicated program of preserving artifacts, buildings and local history is ongoing. The Settlement has been a good steward of local and regional history for thirty-eight years. Many young adults, that now have children of their own, have fond memories of visiting the Settlement during field trips when they were in elementary school. The tradition continues today as school children from all over Florida grace our hallways and pathways almost daily.
Our annual special events are also a tradition for both locals and tourists alike. The Fall Country Jamboree was also established in 1976. This is the largest and most famous of all of our events, attracting visitors from all walks of life and all over the world. Featuring folk music, a juried arts and crafts show, corn boil, sugarcane boil, living history demonstrations and much more.
The Barberville Pioneer Settlement has been preserving the pioneer spirit for nearly fifty years. Living up to the Settlement’s founders aspiration, “to encourage the common man to express and experience his artistic urges and to fulfill the needs of thousands who might not otherwise be involved in the arts, and to admire the arts of their past. The warm nature of folk artists, the friendly atmosphere of the Settlement site and staff, and the non-intimidating programs should encourage youth, the elderly, minorities and the handicapped to become involved in the Settlement's many cultural heritage activities.”
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Argument recap: Reading silence’s meaning
If the sentiment that seems to run high in a Supreme Court hearing dictated how a case would come out, the Justices might well be on their way to declaring that the Constitution forbids prosecutors from telling juries that a suspect’s silence when talking to police in any criminal investigation means he is guilty. The argument Wednesday in Salinas v. Texas (12-246) showed the appeal of treating silence in response to police questions as too ambiguous to be allowed as proof of guilt.
But some hesitancy set in here and there, because several of the Justices were puzzled about how to write a new Fifth Amendment opinion that actually would work to protect the right against self-incrimination when a suspect meets with police, without being arrested or further detained and before “Miranda warnings” are required or given.
“Where is the line?” Justice Stephen G. Breyer kept asking, and when he was offered one by Genovevo Salinas’s attorney, it was not clear that there would be a majority to embrace it. The attorney, Stanford law professor Jeffrey L. Fisher, argued that a constitutional “right to remain silent” should be established for every suspect caught up in a criminal investigation as soon as it becomes evident — to the suspect — that the police “are turning against you,” or regarding you as a suspect.
At that moment, Fisher argued, there should be a “right to remain silent” and the prosecutor, at the trial later, should not be allowed to comment that the failure to answer a given question was essentially a confession of guilt. That is what happened to Salinas, a Houston man, when he accompanied police to a station for an hour-long interview, and answered every question except one — the one that would have linked him directly to a double murder.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy suggested that the Court’s prior precedents had provided clarity on when Fifth Amendment rights applied, but Fisher was asking the Court to put those rights into “a gray area.” The professor replied that he was, in fact, arguing for a “bright line” so that the right to remain silent would be safeguarded for any individual “in a police investigation setting.”
In technical legal terms, Fisher was arguing that, in the pre-arrest context, when an individual is being questioned, the suspect should not have to explicitly claim the Fifth Amendment privilege in order to keep his silence in response to a damaging question from being used against him.
The state of Texas, with the support of the federal Department of Justice, told the Court that in no situation before trial should the Fifth Amendment privilege apply unless the individual explicitly, or by strong implication, says something to claim that right. While no prior precedent of the Court settles whether the Fifth Amendment does or does not apply in that circumstance, the Texas lawyer at the lectern Wednesday, Alan K. Curry, encountered a largely skeptical Court in reaction to his plea for such a flat limitation of Fifth Amendment rights.
Curry argued that, if an individual does not invoke the Fifth Amendment, then silence in response to a specific police question about the crime should be open to the prosecutor to use against the individual at the trial.
Ginger D. Anders, an Assistant to the U.S. Solicitor General, bolstered that argument in her turn at the lectern, but almost immediately drew a sharp retort from Justice Sonia Sotomayor. It is, the Justice said, “such a radical position” to argue that “silence is an admission of guilt, that acts of commission and omission are the same” in indicating guilt.
Anders, who was treated somewhat more gently by the Justices than Texas’s lawyer had been, replied that the Supreme Court has always understood that when an individual meets voluntarily with police and is not in formal custody, that individual “is fully capable of asserting his rights,” and should do so if the officers press a question that the individual believes will be incriminating.
To extend Fifth Amendment rights to silence in response to a police question, the government lawyer contended, is to protect a great variety of reasons why an individual might not say something at such a point, and that would put a Fifth Amendment cloak around much that has nothing to do with self-incrimination.
Disclosure: Goldstein & Russell, P.C., whose attorneys work for or contribute to this blog in various capacities, is among the co-counsel to the petitioner in this case. However, the author of this post operates independently of the law firm.
Recommended Citation: Lyle Denniston, Argument recap: Reading silence’s meaning, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 17, 2013, 5:40 PM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2013/04/argument-recap-reading-silences-meaning/
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I write this in response to the article entitled “Human Rightism” vs Religion by one Dr Wan Azhar Wan Ahmad, appearing on September 22, 2009 in The Star. I have for awhile now seen the articles of the learned Doctor appear in The Star and I must, at the very outset, state that I have always found his views to be lacking in intellect, coldly bigoted and void of any erudition whatsoever. I will seek to comb through the learned Doctor’s piece to highlight his highly inconsistent viewpoints as well as the lack of substance in most if not all his arguments.
He starts by highlighting of the issue of human rights being put in tandem with that of religion and states that conflicts are bound to happen when human rights come into contact with Islam. I suspect the learned Doctor has neither read any books dealing with the sociology of religion nor has he ever considered the research and works of such sociological luminaries as Max Weber or the concerted efforts of Rodney Stark and William Bainbridge.
From what I gather within the first 4 paragraphs, the learned Doctor has true to all his previous efforts provided his typical unsubstantiated one sided view of how the rest of the world is out to get Islam; a perspective that reeks of cowardice, fear and folly.
Islam, like most other religions, is nothing more than a series of teachings that are flawed and imperfect unto itself. It is but a collection social rules and conventions that were applied 1400 years ago in the deserts of Arabia and nowhere else. It was a powerful tool for social cohesion and political rallying. It is most certainly only applicable in the day and age of its conception and to import it to our modern age is an exercise of great futility when it is put on a pedestal together with advances in legal jurisprudence, philosophy and science.
God, is therefore reduced to a mere subjective private experience; something every individual must relate to at his own personal level and rather ironically, this is more so justified if one were to take the religious view that if “God created everyone to be unique and individual” – therefore everyone must have their own “unique and individual way” of relating to God.
It is on that premise that Human Rights seeks to afford individuals the freedom of religion. If the learned Doctor had spent a minute contemplating Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance – perhaps then the learned Doctor would come to realise the essence of “religious freedom” as well as the bulwarks erected for the hindrance of religious persecution and discrimination against individuals.
The learned Doctor then begins to give his commentary on Kartika Shukarno’s case. The learned Doctor’s views here are highly ambiguous if not completely incoherent. What seems to be certain is that he seems to be defending the Syariah Court; a court constituted by State Legislation in dealing with matters pertaining to those professing the religion of Islam.
While the learned Doctor is completely justified in taking such a view, I personally see no reason why civil society cannot stand up and voice their complaints and grievance against what I perceive to be an unjust punishment against a woman (not to mention one that was erroneously granted). This is what Democracy calls for – that ALL men and women be able to speak, assemble and associate for the betterment of society.
People, whether Muslim or non-Muslim, have the right to argue against the jurisdiction and powers of the Syariah court for this is our country. All Malaysians have the right to argue against the laws of this Federation and even the provisions of the Federal Constitution. This is our Malaysia. If our brother or sister is hurt, we must stand up for him or her. This is no longer a Malaysia where we say “ini bukan aku punya pasal sebab aku bukan Islam”. We are all inter-connected. Where there is injustice or where there are unjust laws, we must fight – that is what nationhood requires.
The learned Doctor concludes this part by saying that queries raised against the Syariah court have served to denigrate public confidence. On the contrary, I think it is the sheer lack of judicial behaviour and absence of a fundamental understanding of crime, sentencing and punishment that has served to erode public confidence in the Syariah jurisdiction. This, I think, is a completely warranted response from the Malaysian public and international media.
The learned Doctor then goes on to elaborate on the issue of alcohol consumption within religious texts. Yet again, as one would presume from his line of reasoning, the learned Doctor has most certainly failed to elucidate his mind with the necessary sociological perspectives on religion of individuals like Talcott Parsons and Emile Durkheim, failing which his views are immensely biased and merely offer the public one side of the story.
I verily believe that all religious texts are ultimately man made fictions. One merely has to read any of these texts, might it be the Quran, Torah or Bible to see the sheer inconsistencies and paradoxes offered by the verses. If God was truly behind this, he certainly did not do a good job. And one could assume that, if indeed God was behind it, He would’ve at least made his message so clear that even a child could understand it without a need for a degree from an Islamic University or a Christian Theological College.
Only when one works on such pretentious notions that somehow these laws came from God, that one would succumb to the error that the learned Doctor has made and that is assuming that all “divine laws” are unalterable. No law is fixed, unalterable or immutable. Everything is subject to change for Man is in constant change.
If we operated in such a close minded and stagnant conception of life, women still won’t be able to vote, slavery would still be legal and child labour would still be permitted. Such preposterous notions of the law being fixed are groundless.
In fact, if one insists on obeying strictly to religious texts then we’ll have to resort to killing homosexuals, stoning apostates, discriminating against different ethnic groups and maintaining slaves; all were actions condoned by very many religious prophets and traditions. But what kind of a society would we turn into?
The learned Doctor then moves on to what could possibly be his vilest argument yet and unfortunately also expressed by many other Muslims – “you cannot talk about Islam because you don’t know anything about it.” – what utter nonsense!
If Muslims insist on putting their religion in the public sphere and making it part of public life then they have no right to complain about people, Muslims or non-Muslims, commenting about it no matter how frivolous or vexatious the comments may be.
If you don’t like your religion to be commented upon, then don’t make it part of Malaysian public life – it is as simple as that!
And why is it that you must be an expert to discuss religion? Religion doesn’t deal with quantum physics, radioactive decay or Egyptian hieroglyphs. To talk about religion is to talk about a social institution that asserts the existence of its God and rules that purportedly emanated from that God. There is nothing difficult about it all. Any Tom, Dick, Harry, Ali, Ah Chong or Ramasamy can talk about it.
The learned Doctor should realise – commenting about his religion is what an established and democratic society calls for; discussion about the most taboo, sensitive and forbidden.
The learned Doctor continues to speak about Syariah law even alluding that it might apply to non-Muslims when our own Federal Constitution (Ninth Schedule List II) disallows it. The learned Doctor seems to think that all is good and well when it comes to Syariah law.
But civil society may disagree and argue that many issues still need to be resolved in relation to Syariah law. Do we afford officers the power to intrude into private spaces (in Khalwat cases)? Do we allow for moral policing (in alcohol consumption cases)? Are we to allow for the infiltration into our thoughts (in cases of deviationist teachings)? Are we to encroach into people’s privacy (in cases involving transsexuals and homosexuals)? Are we to question conscience and beliefs (consumption of food during Ramadhan)? Are we to punish people now or with humility leave the “punishments” to God in the afterlife?
The learned Doctor seems not to have contemplated the possibility that these laws are ultimately subject to public approval. As the constitution of the Syariah courts is a discretionary power given to a State (Article 74(2) of the Federal Constitution) unlike the High Court in Malaya and High Court in Sabah and Sarawak (Article 121), the State could always choose to discontinue its existence. This emphasizes the point that the choice is still within the people’s hands whether to be or not to be governed by Syariah law. The people still have the right to determine the lives they want for themselves. Thus, they must be allowed to speak and voice their opinions.
The learned Doctor then arrives to what convinced me that he has probably never read a single word regarding Human Rights doctrine or on secularism. And this is not the first time he is making such allegations. Perhaps, at this juncture, I should lay out a number of suggestions for the learned Doctor so he doesn’t commit himself to such errors anymore:
1. Open an English Dictionary and look up “Secularism”. Find out the meaning of the word. Write the definition down on a piece of paper. Then, look up the word “Hedonism” and write that definition down on a piece of paper. I hope the learned Doctor refers to these two words before he writes his next article to not cause any further embarrassment to himself.
For readers, Secularism does not mean free fornication on the streets, excessive boozing and drug taking (i.e. Hedonism). Secularism simply means that the laws that govern public life are not derived from any religious texts or dogma. Religion is a private matter for the individual to profess in his personal life.
2. Read the Malaysian Supreme Court case of Che Omar Bin Che Soh v. Public Prosecutor And Wan Jalil Bin Wan Abdul Rahman & Anor v. Public Prosecutor 2 MLJ 55 where the then Lord President Salleh Abbas said “However, we have to set aside our personal feelings because the law in this country is still what it is today, secular law, where morality not accepted by the law is not enjoying the status of law.”
Further, the Alliance Memorandum submitted to the Reid Constitution Commission on September 27, 1956 makes it clear that “the religion of Malaya shall be Islam … and shall not imply that the state is not a secular state.” And on May 1, 1958, then Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman clarified in the Legislative Council that “I would like to make it clear that this country is not an Islamic state as it is generally understood. We merely provide that Islam shall be the official religion of the state.”
So Malaysia, is a Secular Country.
3. The learned Doctor ought to also consider more credible viewpoints in relation to biology and nature when writing about God. Might I suggest reading Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. It is a compelling read which I think should not escape the shelves of any religious school or syllabus.
The learned Doctor makes a startling comment at the end of the article by declaring that the “common enemy” of the religious is secularism. I am uncomfortable with the phrase “common enemy” for it reminds me of Adolf Hitler and his fascism. Writing in Mein Kampf, Hitler says:
The art of truly great popular leaders in all ages has consisted chiefly in not distracting the attention of the people, but concentrating always on a single adversary… It is part of a great leader’s genius to make even widely separated adversaries appear as if they belonged to one category, because… the recognition of various enemies all too easily marks the beginning of doubt of one’s own rightness.
Such intellectual penury and overt demagogy by the learned Doctor should be greatly frowned upon.
It is indeed quite unfortunate too that The Star, a highly reputable newspaper, has allowed such mindless verbal drivel to be published. I certainly urge The Star to take greater precaution in studying its material in the future so as not to make itself a tool for the propagation of bigotry and prejudice.
Malaysia, on the other hand, as a nation has grown strong and we are far stronger today than we ever have been the past 20 years. I look around and I see a nation inspired by itself; a nation of men and women questioning social institutions and authority while boldly standing up for itself. I see a nation that today questions its very fundamental values, its traditions and its history while aspiring to be that much greater than it was yesterday.
I no longer see passivity, docility and blind obedience. I see volumes written on our current state of politics. I see demonstrations and protests. I see intellectual discourse and debates among civil society. I see youth groups making their voices heard. I see ordinary Malaysians who once spent their weekends picking their noses and scratching their asses in malls now being concerned with the Constitution.
We are courageous today not because our politicians have told us to be so or that our religious leaders have inspired us. Nay! We rise to the occasion today because we know who we are. We are aware of ourselves. We recognize the importance each and every one of us plays in the life of the other. No divisive categories of race, ethnicity, religion, descent or sex is going to keep us from progressing forward.
But we cannot stop here. We must keep going. We must reach a cultural revolution; a transvaluation of values. We must be able to maturely discuss all or any issue with each other and embrace that which takes us further. No issue must be left unturned. Nothing swept under the carpet. No one silenced.
We must even question God if we have to. Basing society on an invisible figure is no longer compatible with life in the 21st-century. We must embrace knowledge and philosophize. We must pose the important questions: Why are we here? What is God? Is there a God? If there is a God, who or what created God? We must aim to be the best we can; to question and inquire and yet to never be afraid of saying “I don’t know” if we haven’t found the answer.
We must always continue to be humble, to share and to be patient. To look to each other and say “We will live for Love for we are Humans”.
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Reassessing Muslim Claims Regarding the Absolute Worship and Unity of Allah
Muslims often boast that they have the purest form of monotheism of all the monotheistic religions. They claim that Islam, unlike what is found in the Holy Bible and taught in Christianity, holds to absolute monotheism and restricts worship to Allah alone, to the extent that even bowing to someone of honor which is done purely out of respect, not worship, is altogether forbidden.
They further deny that Allah can be represented by any physical or visible image since he is completely unlike anything.
With the foregoing in mind we set forth to examine the Quran and the Islamic source material to see if whether such claims of Muslims stand the test of their own religious scriptures.
To facilitate easier reading we have broken down the article into the following sections:
1. Who Should A Muslim Serve?
The word used in Islamic theology to denote the worship given to Allah alone is ibadah. This worship that is given to Allah alone is classified as tauhid al-ibadah or tauhid al-uluhiyya. Muslim propagandist Dr. Zakir Naik says:
C. Tawheed al-Ibaadah (maintaining the unity of worship):
(i) Definition and meaning of Ibadaah:
Tawheed al-Ibaadah means maintaining the unity of worship or Ibaadah. Ibaadah is derived from Arabic word Abd meaning slave or servant. Thus Ibaadah means servitude and worship.(Source)
This term, and its various forms, can be found all throughout the Quran in relation to the worship given to Allah alone:
And when We took compact with the Children of Israel: 'You shall not serve (tabuduna) any save God; and to be good to parents, and the near kinsman, and to orphans, and to the needy; and speak good to men, and perform the prayer, and pay the alms.' Then you turned away, all but a few of you, swerving aside. S. 2:83 Arberry
Say: O followers of the Book! come to an equitable proposition between us and you that we shall not serve any but Allah (alla nabuda illa Allaha) and (that) we shall not associate aught with Him, and (that) some of us shall not take others for lords besides Allah; but if they turn back, then say: Bear witness that we are Muslims. S. 3:64 Shakir
It is not (possible) for any human being unto whom Allah had given the Scripture and wisdom and the prophethood that he should afterwards have said unto mankind: Be slaves of me instead of Allah (ibadan lee min dooni Allah); but (what he said was): Be ye faithful servants of the Lord by virtue of your constant teaching of the Scripture and of your constant study thereof. S. 3:79 Pickthall
(Saying): Serve (tabuduu) none but Allah. Lo! I am unto you from Him a warner and a bringer of good tidings. S. 11:2 Pickthall
That ye serve (tabuduu) none, save Allah. Lo! I fear for you the retribution of a painful Day. S. 11:26 Pickthall
Thy Lord has decreed you shall not serve (tabuduu) any but Him, and to be good to parents, whether one or both of them attains old age with thee; say not to them 'Fie' neither chide them, but speak unto them words respectful, S. 17:23 Arberry
Verily, I am God: There is no god but I: So serve (fabudni) thou Me (only), and establish regular prayer for celebrating My praise. S. 20:14 Y. Ali
And We sent never a Messenger before thee except that We revealed to him, saying, 'There is no god but I; so serve (fabudun) Me.' S. 21:25
(Say): I (Muhammad) am commanded only to serve (abuda) the Lord of this land which He hath hallowed, and unto Whom all things belong. And I am commanded to be of those who surrender (unto Him), S. 27:91 Pickthall
Say (O Muhammad, to the disbelievers): Do ye bid me serve (abudu) other than Allah? O ye fools! Nay, but Allah must thou serve (fabud), and be among the thankful! S. 39:64, 66 Pickthall
Behold, the apostles came to them, from before them and behind them, (preaching): "Serve (tabuduu) none but God." They said, "If our Lord had so pleased, He would certainly have sent down angels (to preach). Now we reject your mission (altogether)." S. 41:14 Y. Ali
And your Lord says: "Call on Me; I will answer your (Prayer): but those who are too arrogant to serve Me (ibadati) will surely find themselves in Hell - in humiliation!" S. 40:60
And who is more astray than one who calls (invokes) besides God, such as will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even) unaware of their calls (invocations) to them? And when mankind are gathered (on the Day of Resurrection), they (false deities) will become enemies for them and will deny their worshipping (biibadatihim). S. 46:5-6 Hilali-Khan
In these last two references praying or invoking Allah is a part of his service or worship, with the implication being that prayer is to be made to Allah alone. This will become important later on in our discussion.
Here are a few more Quranic references:
I have only created Jinns and men, that they may serve Me (liyabudun). S. 51:56 Y. Ali
Say: 'O unbelievers, I serve (abudu) not what you serve (tabudun) and you are not serving (abiduna) what I serve (abud), nor am I serving (abidum) what you have served (abattum), neither are you serving (abiduna) what I serve (abud). To you your religion, and to me my religion!' S. 109:1-6 Arberry
Now obviously, a person who serves or slaves for Allah would naturally be called a slave or servant. This is why, as Dr. Naik noted, Arabic has a noun form of the verb which is used throughout the Quran in reference to the slaves of Allah:
Evil is that for which they sell their souls: that they should disbelieve in that which Allah hath revealed, grudging that Allah should reveal of His bounty unto whom He will of His slaves (ibadihi). They have incurred anger upon anger. For disbelievers is a shameful doom. S. 2:90 Pickthall
If Thou punish them, lo! they are Thy slaves (ibaduka), and if Thou forgive them (lo! they are Thy slaves). Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise. S. 5:118 Pickthall
And He is the Supreme, above His servants (ibadihi); and He is the Wise, the Aware. S. 6:18 Shakir
He is the Omnipotent over His servants (ibadihi). He sends recorders over you till, when any one of you is visited by death, Our messengers take him and they neglect not. S. 6:61 Arberry
There is none in the heavens and the earth but cometh unto the Beneficent as a slave (abdan). S. 19:93 Pickthall
O My servants ('ibadi) who believe! surely My earth is vast, therefore Me alone should you serve (fa'budun). S. 29:56 Shakir
And when the slave of Allah (abdullahi) stood up in prayer to Him, they crowded on him, almost stifling. Say (unto them, O Muhammad): I pray unto Allah only, and ascribe unto Him no partner. S. 72:19 Pickthall
The foregoing is quite clear: Allah alone is to be served which means that an individual can only be the slave of Allah. A person, if a true believer, cannot be someone elses slave or own a slave since this violates the allegedly pure monotheistic worship of Allah. This, perhaps, accounts for why the hadith literature speaks out against anyone calling a person his or her slave or abd:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "You should not say, Feed your lord (Rabbaka), help your lord in performing ablution, or give water to your lord, but should say, my master (e.g. Feed your master instead of lord etc.), (Saiyidi), or my guardian (Maulai), and one should not say, 'my slave (Abdi), or my girl-slave (Amati), but should say, 'my lad (Fatai), my lass (Fatati), and my boy (Ghulami)." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Book 46, Number 728)
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: None of you must say: "My slave" (abdi) and "My slave-woman" (amati), and a slave must not say: "My lord" (rabbi or rabbati). The master (of a slave) should say: "My young man" (fataya) and "My young woman" (fatati), and a slave should say "My master" (sayyidi) and "My mistress" (sayyidati), for you are all (Allahs slave and the Lord is Allah, Most High. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 41, Number 4957)
In fact, one Muslim who was rather anxious to refute us myopic Christian bigots and "Jesuits" wrote:
The Quran unequivocally makes it clear that no man, irrespective of his status (including a prophet), can enslave any other human being: "It is not (possible) for any human being unto whom Allah had given him the Scripture and wisdom and Nabuwah (Prophethood) that he should afterwards have said unto mankind: Be slaves of me instead of Allah " [3:79] (Dr. Habib Siddiqui, Islam and Coexistence: What I Didn't Say and Missionary Myopia; sources: A; B) (1)
Yet this is actually where the problem begins for the Muslims. The Quran says that there are Muslims who are slaves to other Muslims, and that Muslims can even own slaves:
O believers, prescribed for you is retaliation, touching the slain; freeman for freeman, slave for slave (wal-abdu bilabdi), female for female. But if aught is pardoned a man by his brother, let the pursuing be honourable, and let the payment be with kindliness. That is a lightening granted you by your Lord, and a mercy; and for him who commits aggression after that -- for him there awaits a painful chastisement. S. 2:178
And do not marry the idolatresses until they believe, and certainly a believing maid is better than an idolatress woman, even though she should please you; and do not give (believing women) in marriage to idolaters until they believe, and certainly a believing servant (laabdum-muminun) is better than an idolater, even though he should please you; these invite to the fire, and Allah invites to the garden and to forgiveness by His will, and makes clear His communications to men, that they may be mindful. S. 2:221 Arberry
And marry those among you who are single and those who are fit among your male slaves (ibadikum) and your female slaves; if they are needy, Allah will make them free from want out of His grace; and Allah is Ample-giving, Knowing. S. 24:32 Arberry
The hadiths record that Muhammad owned many black slaves and sold them:
Narrated Jabir ibn Abdullah:
There came a slave and pledged allegiance to Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) on migration; he (the Prophet) did not know that he was a slave. Then there came his master and demanded him back, whereupon Allah's Apostle (peace_be_upon_him) said: Sell him to me. And he bought him for two black slaves, and he did not afterwards take allegiance from anyone until he had asked him whether he was a slave (or a free man). (Sahih Muslim, Book 10, Number 3901)
Narrated Anas bin Malik:
Allah's Apostle was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah's Apostle said, "Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!" (Sahih Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 73, Number 182)
Narrated 'Urwa on the authority of 'Aisha:
On the days of Mina, (11th, 12th, and 13th of Dhul-Hijjah) Abu Bakr came to her while two young girls were beating the tambourine and the Prophet was lying covered with his clothes. Abu Bakr scolded them and the Prophet uncovered his face and said to Abu Bakr, "Leave them, for these days are the days of 'Id and the days of Mina." 'Aisha further said, "Once the Prophet was screening me and I was watching the display of black slaves in the Mosque and ('Umar) scolded them. The Prophet said, 'Leave them. O Bani Arfida! (carry on), you are safe (protected)'." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 15, Number 103)
So now we have a problem! How can a Muslim be a slave to another or own a slave when the Quran says that a person is a slave to no one except Allah?
2. Are Muslims Supposed to Fear Allah Alone?
Astonishingly, the Quran even says that Muslims are to fear or revere a womans womb just as they revere Allah!
Mankind, fear your Lord (ittaqoo rabbakumu), who created you of a single soul, and from it created its mate, and from the pair of them scattered abroad many men and women; and fear God (wa ittaqoo Allaha) by whom you demand one of another, AND the wombs (wa al-arhama); surely God ever watches over you. S. 4:1 Arberry
O mankind! reverence your Guardian-Lord, who created you from a single person, created, of like nature, His mate, and from them twain scattered (like seeds) countless men and women; - reverence God, through whom ye demand your mutual (rights), and (reverence) the wombs (That bore you): for God ever watches over you. Y. Ali
The Arabic word for fear is used throughout the Quran for the fear and worship due to Allah:
For Hajj are the months well known. If any one undertakes that duty therein, Let there be no obscenity, nor wickedness, nor wrangling in the Hajj. And whatever good ye do, (be sure) God knoweth it. And take a provision (With you) for the journey, but the best of provisions is right conduct. So fear Me (al-taqwa wa ittaqooni), o ye that are wise. S. 2:197 Y. Ali
O ye who believe! Fear God as He should be feared (ittaqoo Allaha haqqa tuqatihi), and die not except in a state of Islam. S. 3:102 Y. Ali
To Him belongs all that is in the heavens and (all that is in) the earth and Ad-Din Wasiba is His [(i.e. perpetual sincere obedience to Allah is obligatory). None has the right to be worshipped but Allah)]. Will you then fear any other than Allah (wasiban afaghayra Allahi tattaqoona)? S. 16:52 Hilali-Khan
O ye who believe ! profane not the Signs of ALLAH, nor the Sacred Month, nor the animals brought as an offering, nor the animals of sacrifice wearing collars nor those repairing to the Sacred House, seeking grace from their Lord and HIS pleasure. And when you put off the pilgrims' garb and are clear of the Sacred Territory, you may hunt. And let not the enmity of a people, that they hindered you from the Sacred Mosque, incite you to transgress. And help one another in righteousness and in piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear ALLAH (wa ittaqoo Allaha); Surely ALLAH is Severe in punishment. S. 5:2 Sher Ali
O you who believe! When you hold secret counsel, do it not for sin and wrong-doing, and disobedience towards the Messenger (Muhammad SAW) but do it for Al-Birr (righteousness) and Taqwa (virtues and piety); and fear Allah (wa ittaqoo Allaha) unto Whom you shall be gathered. S. 58:9 Hilali-Khan
How, then, can the Quran command persons to fear someone or something other than Allah without those individuals being guilty of idolatry?
3. Is it Reverence or Worship?
To top this all of, there are verses where Allah commands creatures to prostrate or bow down before other creatures:
And behold, We said to the angels: "Bow down to Adam" and they bowed down (osjudoo li-adama fasajadoo). Not so Iblis: he refused and was haughty: He was of those who reject Faith. S. 2:34 Y. Ali
And when We said to the angels, 'Bow yourselves to Adam'; so they bowed themselves (osjudoo li-adama fasajadoo), save Iblis; he was one of the jinn, and committed ungodliness against his Lord's command. What, and do you take him and his seed to be your friends, apart from Me, and they an enemy to you? How evil is that exchange for the evildoers! S. 18:50 Arberry
Behold! Joseph said to his father: "O my father! I did see eleven stars and the sun and the moon: I saw them prostrate (sajideena) themselves to me!" S. 12:4 Y. Ali
And he raised his parents upon the throne and they fell down in prostration (sujjadan) before him, and he said: O my father! this is the significance of my vision of old; my Lord has indeed made it to be true; and He was indeed kind to me when He brought me forth from the prison and brought you from the desert after the Shaitan had sown dissensions between me and my brothers, surely my Lord is benignant to whom He pleases; surely He is the Knowing, the Wise. S. 12:100 Shakir
Both Adam and Joseph received worship since the word for bow/prostrate comes from sujud, the term from which we derive masjid or mosque, the place where prostration is made to Allah alone:
And that the mosques (al-masajida) are Allah's, therefore call not upon any one with Allah: S. 72:18 Shakir
The two Jalals comment:
And [it has been revealed to me] that the places of prayer belong to God, so do not invoke, in them, anyone along with God, by associating others with Him, like the Jews and Christians do, who, when they enter their churches and temples, they ascribe partners to God. (Tafsir al-Jalalayn; source; bold and underline emphasis ours)
In fact, bowing down to Allah is directly connected with the service that must be rendered to him:
Surely those who are with thy Lord wax not too proud to serve Him (ibadatihi); they chant His praise, and to Him they bow (yasjudoona). S. 7:206 Arberry
For more on this point see the following: http://answering-islam.org/Responses/Abualrub/twoadams_ss1.htm
Again, if one is to bow before Allah then how could Allah command creatures to bow to others beside himself?
4. Do Muslims really Invoke Allah alone?
The text of Sura 72:18 that we just cited also says that a person is to invoke Allah alone, a point reiterated in the following texts:
Say (O Muhammad): "Verily, my Salāt (prayer), my sacrifice, my living, and my dying are for God, the Lord of the 'Alamīn (mankind, jinns and all that exists). S. 6:162 Hilali-Khan
And invoke not besides God, any that will neither profit you, nor hurt you, but if (in case) you did so, you shall certainly be one of the Zālimūn (polytheists and wrong-doers). S. 10:106 Hilali-Khan
And who is more astray than one who calls (invokes) besides God, such as will not answer him till the Day of Resurrection, and who are (even) unaware of their calls (invocations) to them? S. 46:5 Hilali-Khan
This next text further says that even if there are others who can hear they still would be incapable of helping those who call upon them:
He merges the night into the day (i.e. the decrease in the hours of the night are added to the hours of the day), and He merges the day into the night (i.e. the decrease in the hours of the day are added to the hours of the night). And He has subjected the sun and the moon, each runs its course for a term appointed. Such is God your Lord; His is the kingdom. And those, whom you invoke or call upon instead of Him, own not even a Qitmīr (the thin membrane over the date-stone). If you invoke (or call upon) them, they hear not your call, and if (in case) they were to hear, they could not grant it (your request) to you. And on the Day of Resurrection, they will disown your worshipping them. And none can inform you (O Muhammad) like Him Who is the All-Knower (of each and everything). S. 35:13-14 Hilali-Khan
The only problem with this position is that traditional Islam permits praying to others besides Allah. For instance, there is a practice known as tawassul which refers to seeking Allahs aid through the mediation of others, specifically those who are no longer physically alive such as Muhammad. As one Muslim source says:
Supplicating Allah by means of an intermediary, whether it be a living person, dead person, a good deed, or a name or Attribute of Allah Most High. The scholar, YUSUF RIFA'I, says: I here want to convey the position, attested to by compelling legal evidence, of the orthodox majority of Sunni Muslims on the subject of supplicating Allah through an intermediary (tawassul), and so I say (and Allah alone gives success) that since there is no disagreement among scholars that supplicating Allah through an intermediary is in principle legally valid, the discussion of its details merely concerns derived rulings that involve interschool differences, unrelated to questions of belief or unbelief, monotheism or associating partners with Allah (shirk); the sphere of the question being limited to permissibility or impermissibility, and its ruling being that it is either lawful or unlawful. There is no difference among groups of Muslims in their consensus on the permissibility of three types of supplicating Allah through an intermediary (tawassul):
(1) TAWASSUL through a living righteous person to Allah Most High, as in the hadith of the blind man with the Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) as we shall explain;
(2) The TAWASSUL of a living person to Allah Most High through his own good deeds, as in the hadith of the three people trapped in a cave by a great stone, a hadith related by Imam Bukhari in his "Sahih;"
(3) And the TAWASSUL of a person to Allah Most High through His entity (dhat), names, attributes, and so forth.
Since the legality of these types is agreed upon, there is no reason to set forth the evidence for them. The only area of disagreement is supplicating Allah (tawassul) through a righteous dead person. The majority of the orthodox Sunni Community hold that it is lawful, and have supporting hadith evidence, of which we will content ourselves with the Hadith of the Blind Man, since it is the central pivot upon which the discussion turns. (Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misris Reliance of the Traveler: A Classic Manual of Islamic Sacred Law In Arabic English Text, Commentary And Appendices edited and translated by Nuh Ha Mim Keller [Amana Publications, Beltsville Maryland, revised edition 1994], w40.1-2, pp. 933-935: source)
Some of the prayers offered to Muhammad now that he is dead include:
Tirmidhi relates, through his chain of narrators from 'Uthman ibn Hunayf, that a blind man came to the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and said, "I've been afflicted in my eyesight, so please pray to Allah for me." The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: "Go make ablution (wudu), perform two rak'as of prayer, and then say:
"Oh Allah, I ask You and turn to You through my Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy; O MUHAMMAD (YA MUHAMMAD), I SEEK YOUR INTERCESSION with my Lord for the return of my eyesight [and in another version: "for my need, that it may be fulfilled. O Allah, grant him intercession for me"]."
The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) added, "And if there is some need, do the same." (Ibid., w40.3, p. 935)
Moreover, Tabarani, in his "al-Mu'jam al saghir," reports a hadith from 'Uthman ibn Hunayf that a man repeatedly visited Uthman ibn Affan (Allah be pleased with him) concerning something he needed, but Uthman paid no attention to him or his need. The man met Ibn Hunayf and complained to him about the matter - this being after the death (wisal) of the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) and after the caliphates of Abu Bakr and Umar - so Uthman ibn Hunayf, who was one of the Companions who collected hadiths and was learned in the religion of Allah, said: "Go to the place of ablution and perform ablution (wudu), then come to the mosque, perform two rak'as of prayer therein, and say:
'O Allah, I ask You and turn to You through our Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of mercy; O MUHAMMAD (YA MUHAMMAD), I TURN THROUGH YOU to my Lord, that He may fulfill my need,' and mention your need. Then come so that I can go with you [to the caliph Uthman]." So the man left and did as he had been told, then went to the door of Uthman ibn Affan (Allah be pleased with him), and the doorman came, took him by the hand, brought him to Uthman ibn Affan, and seated him next to him on a cushion. 'Uthman asked, "What do you need?" and the man mentioned what he wanted, and Uthman accomplished it for him, then he said, "I hadn't remembered your need until just now," adding, "Whenever you need something, just mention it." Then, the man departed, met Uthman ibn Hunayf, and said to him, "May Allah reward you! He didn't see to my need or pay any attention to me until you spoke with him." Uthman ibn Hunayf replied, "By Allah, I didn't speak to him, but I have seen a blind man come to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) and complain to him of the loss of his eyesight. The Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) said, "Can you not bear it?' and the man replied, 'O Messenger of Allah, I do not have anyone to lead me around, and it is a great hardship for me.' The Prophet (Allah bless him and grant him peace) told him, 'Go to the place of ablution and perform ablution (wudu), then pray two rak'as of prayer and make the supplications.'" Ibn Hunayf went on, "By Allah, we didn't part company or speak long before the man returned to us as if nothing had ever been wrong with him."
This is an explicit, unequivocal text from a prophetic Companion proving the legal validity of tawassul through the dead. The account has been classified as rigorously authenticated (SAHIH) by Baihaqi, Mundhiri, and Haythami. (Ibid., w40.4, pp. 936-937; bold, capital and underline emphasis ours)
Not only did Muslims pray to and through Muhammad, they also invoked Allah on the merits or the religious standing of others:
III: People asking the Imam to ask for rain when there is a drought
963. It is related that the father of 'Abdullah ibn Dinar said, "I heard Ibn 'Umar reciting the poem of Abu Talib:
Faultless, he is asked, by his noble face, to pray for rain,
A support for the orphans, a defence for the widows."
It is related that Salim said that his father (Ibn 'Umar) said, "Sometimes I remembered the words of the poet while looking at the face of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, when he was praying for rain. He did not get down until the rain was flowing in every gutter:
Faultless, he is asked, by his noble face, to pray for rain,
A support for the orphans, a defence for the widows.
Those were the words of Abu Talib."
964. It is related from Anas, "If there was a drought, 'Umar ibn al-Khattab would ask al-'Abbas ibn 'Abdu'l-Muttalib to do the rain prayer. He would say, 'O Allah, we seek intercession with You by Your Prophet and we ask You for rain. We seek intercession with You by the uncle of our Prophet, so give us rain!'" He added, "And they were given rain." (Aisha Bewley, Sahih of al-Bukhari Collection, Chapter 21. The Rain Prayer; source; bold and underline emphasis ours)
Now notice how this Salafi version of Sahih al-Bukhari by Muhammad Muhsin Khan translates these narrations:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin Dinar:
My father said, "I heard Ibn 'Umar reciting the poetic verses of Abu Talib: And a white (person) (i.e. the Prophet) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows." Salim's father (Ibn 'Umar) said, "The following poetic verse occurred to my mind while I was looking at the face of the Prophet (p.b.u.h) while he was praying for rain. He did not get down till the rain water flowed profusely from every roof-g utter: And a white (person) who is requested to pray for rain and who takes care of the orphans and is the guardian of widows And these were the words of Abu Talib." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 17, Number 122)
Whenever drought threatened them, 'Umar bin Al-Khattab, used to ask Al-Abbas bin 'Abdul Muttalib to invoke Allah for rain. He used to say, "O Allah! We used to ask our Prophet to invoke You for rain, and You would bless us with rain, and now we ask his uncle to invoke You for rain. O Allah! Bless us with rain."(1) And so it would rain. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 17, Number 123)
Sunni writer Gibril Foaud Haddad has some harsh things to say of Khans translation:
Note that in his translation of Bukhari (2:65), Muhammad Muhsin Khan alters the wording of the hadith to read: "A white person WHO IS REQUESTED TO PRAY FOR RAIN" in place of "by whose face rain is sought." This is tahrif i.e. textual and semantic manipulation of the most important source in Islam after the Qur'an. (Tawassul of `Umar through al-`Abbas (Allah be pleased with them); source)
The reason why Khan rendered the Arabic in this manner is because, as a Salafi, he rejects the concept of tawassul as shirk, or as the sin of associating partners with Allah.
Still others take Umars comments that he invoked Allah through Abbas as proof that Muslims are forbidden to seek Muhammads mediation now that he is dead. After all, if Muslims were permitted to ask the dead for help then why did Umar seek Abbas intercession instead of Muhammads, unless such actions were prohibited?
Yet there is a way in which Umars actions can be reconciled with praying to Muhammad. According to one source, when a Muslim asked the members of Muhammads family to pray for him they did so by invoking Muhammads intercession:
Abdullah bin Qurt narrates
I then departed from the Masjid via Ethiopia Gate and said to myself, "I will commit a grave error if I fail to make salam at the tomb of Rasulullah, for I do not know whether or not I will see it again."
So I went to the room where Aishah was sitting at the grave. Ali and al-Abbas were also present with al-Husayn sitting in Alis lap and al-Hasan in al-Abbass lap. They were reciting Suratul-Anam while Ali was reciting Surah Hud. I made salam to Rasulullah.
Ali: O Ibn Qurt, are you going to Syria?
Ibn Qurt: Yes, O cousin of Rasulullah. I think that once I reach there the two armies will already be deeply embroiled in fighting. They will see me coming without help or reinforcements. I really fear that they will become weak and frightened. I wish that I could reach them before they fight so that I can at least advise them and counsel them with patience.
Ali: So what is stopping you from asking Umar to make dua for you?
Ibn Qurt: I am well aware of all these virtues of Umar which you have mentioned, but in addition I would like your dua and the dua of al-Abbas, the paternal uncle of Rasulullah, especially here at the noble tomb of Rasulullah.
Al-Abbas raised his hand in supplication. Ali, al-Hasan, al-Husayn, Aishah (and Hafsah and Umm Salamah who had also arrived) joined them. He prayed, "O Allah, we seek intercession THROUGH THIS CHOSEN PROPHET AND SELECTED MESSENGER THROUGH WHOM ADAM ALSO SOUGHT INTERCERSSION and then You forgave his error. O Allah, make the road easy for Abdullah and fold up the long distances for him. Help the Sahabah of Your Prophet with victory. You are the Hearer of Dua."
He then said, "Go Abdullah, for it is unlikely that Allah will reject the dua of Umar, Abbas, Ali, al-Hasan, and the wives of Rasulullah, especially when they have interceded through the best of all creation." (Al-Imam al-Waqidi, The Islamic Conquest of Syria, A Translation of Futuhusham: The Inspiring History of the Sahabahs Conquest of Syria, translated by Mawlana Sulayman al-Kindi [Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd., London 2005], Part 3: Al-Yarmuk, pp. 287-288; capital and underline emphasis ours)
The foregoing may explain why Umars appeal to al-Abbas prayers does not rule out the permissibility for Muslims to pray to Muhammad now that he is dead since a Muslim can argue that Umar wanted a living member of Muhammads family to invoke their prophet due to their intimate biological ties. He may have felt that a family member praying to Muhammad would be more acceptable to Allah than if someone else had prayed to their deceased prophet. We will have more to say about Muhammads present condition shortly.
For more on the subject of tawassul from those who embrace it please read the following articles:
And to read the views of those rejecting it please consult these links:
5. Seeking Help and Intercession from other than Allah?
The foregoing leads to a discussion of whether the Quran and Islamic sources permit Muslims to seek the help of others besides Allah. There are certain passages which suggest that they can:
O you who believe! Do your duty to Allah and fear Him. Seek the means of approach to Him, and strive hard in His Cause as much as you can. So that you may be successful. S. 5:35 Hilali-Khan
Some see in this text an implicit permission to beseech Allah through intermediaries, by the mediation of righteous prophets and believers. These next texts provide additional support for this understanding:
He said: "That (wealth, authority and power) in which my Lord had established me is better (than your tribute). So help me with strength (of men), I will erect between you and them a barrier." S. 18:95 Hilali-Khan
And he entered the city at a time of unawareness of its people, and he found there two men fighting, - one of his party (his religion - from the Children of Israel), and the other of his foes. The man of his (own) party asked him for help (faistaghathahu) against his foe, so Musa (Moses) struck him with his fist and killed him. He said: "This is of Shaitan's (Satan) doing, verily, he is a plain misleading enemy." S. 28:15 Hilali-Khan
The hadiths clearly teach that the righteous do seek the aid of prophets and will receive it, at least on the day of judgment:
Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Umar
The Prophet said, "A man keeps on asking others for something till he comes on the Day of Resurrection without any piece of flesh on his face." The Prophet added, "On the Day of Resurrection, the Sun will come near (to the people) to such an extent that the sweat will reach up to the middle of the ears, so, when all the people are in that state, they will ask Adam FOR HELP, and then Moses, and then Muhammad (p.b.u.h)." The sub-narrator added, "Muhammad will intercede with Allah to judge amongst the people. He will proceed on till he will hold the ring of the door (of Paradise) and then Allah will exalt him to Maqam Mahmud (the privilege of intercession, etc.). And all the people of the gathering will send their praises to Allah. (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 24, Number 553)
Yet there are other passages that strongly state that there are no intercessors or helpers besides Allah since he is sufficient:
Allah has full knowledge of your enemies, and Allah is Sufficient as a Wali (Protector), and Allah is Sufficient as a Helper. S. 4:45 Hilali-Khan
Allah it is He Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them in six Days. Then He Istawa (rose over) the Throne (in a manner that suits His Majesty). You (mankind) have none, besides Him, as a Wali (protector or helper etc.) or an intercessor. Will you not then remember (or be admonished)? S. 32:4 Hilali-Khan
The Quran even frowns upon those who seek help from someone other than Allah:
Do then those who disbelieve think that they can take My slaves [i.e., the angels, God's Messengers, 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary), etc.] as Auliyā' (lords, gods, protectors, etc.) besides Me? Verily, We have prepared Hell as an entertainment for the disbelievers (in the Oneness of God Islāmic Monotheism). S. 18:102 Hilali-Khan
Or have they taken (for worship) Auliya' (guardians, supporters, helpers, protectors, etc.) besides Him? But Allah, He ALONE is the Wali (Protector, etc.). And it is He Who gives life to the dead, and He is Able to do all things. S. 42:9 Hilali-Khan
This compounds the problem since how can the ahadith literature claim that the Muslims will seek the protection of the prophets if Allah will send people to hell for this very thing?
6. Do the Dead Hear or Not?
Now if those who have died are able to answer prayers and intercede for those living on the earth then this implies that they are alive in some dimension (whether heaven or the grave) and are cognizant of such invocations. The Quran seems to support this view since there are examples of messengers communicating with the dead such as Salih and Shuaib:
So they hamstrung the She-camel and turned in disdain from the commandment of their Lord, saying, 'O Salih, bring us that thou promisest us, if thou art an Envoy.' So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate. So he turned his back on them, and said, 'O my people, I have delivered to you the Message of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; but you do not love sincere advisers.' S. 7:77-79 Arberry
Said the Council of those of his people who disbelieved, 'Now, if you follow Shuaib, assuredly in that case you will be losers.' So the earthquake seized them, and morning found them in their habitation fallen prostrate, those who cried lies to Shuaib, as if never they dwelt there; those who cried lies to Shuaib, they were the losers. So he turned his back on them, and said, 'O my people, I have delivered to you the Messages of my Lord, and advised you sincerely; how should I grieve for a people of unbelievers?' S. 7:90-93 Arberry
The above citations claim that both Salih and Shuaib addressed their people after Allah had destroyed them, which suggests that the dead can still hear. The next examples go even further and say that the dead do hear:
Narrated Ibn 'Umar:
The Prophet looked at the people of the well (the well in which the bodies of the pagans killed in the Battle of Badr were thrown) and said, "Have you found true what your Lord promised you?" Somebody said to him, "You are addressing dead people." He replied, "You do not hear better than they but they cannot reply." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 452)
Anas b. Malik reported that Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) let the dead bodies of the unbelievers who fought in Badr (lie unburied) for three days. He then came to them and sat by their side and called them and said: O Abu Jahl b. Hisham, O Umayya b. Khalaf, O Utba b. Rab'ila, O Shaiba b. Rabi'a, have you not found what your Lord had promised with you to be correct? As for me, I have found the promises of my Lord to be (perfectly) correct. Umar listened to the words of Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) and said: Allah's Messenger, how do they listen and respond to you? They are dead and their bodies have decayed. Thereupon he (the Holy Prophet) said: By Him in Whose Hand is my life, what I am saying to them, even you cannot hear more distinctly than they, but they lack the power to reply. Then he commanded that they should be buried in the well of Badr. (Sahih Muslim, Book 040, Number 6869)
Moreover, the Quran denies that the martyrs are dead:
And say not of those who are slain in the way of God: "They are dead." Nay, they are living, though ye perceive (it) not. S. 2:154 Y. Ali
Think not of those who are slain in God's way as dead. Nay, they live, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord; They rejoice in the bounty provided by God: And with regard to those left behind, who have not yet joined them (in their bliss), the (Martyrs) glory in the fact that on them is no fear, nor have they (cause to) grieve. S. 3:169-170 Y. Ali
In other narrations Muhammad claimed to have seen Moses praying in his grave!
Anas b. Malik reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I came. And in the narration transmitted on the authority of Haddib (the words are): I happened to pass by Moses on the occasion of the Night journey near the red mound (and found him) saying his prayer in his grave. (Sahih Muslim, Book 030, Number 5858)
Anas reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: I happened to pass by Moses as he was busy in saying prayer in his grave, and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of 'Isa there is an addition of these words: I happened to pass on the occasion of the Night journey. In the hadith pertaining to Yunus (peace be upon him) the words of the Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) are: It is not meet for a servant that he should say, "I am better than Yunus (Jonah) son of Matta." (Sahih Muslim, Book 030, Number 5859)
These texts seem to suggest that the dead, because they still exist in another dimension or in a different manner, are capable of knowing events which occur in the physical realm.
Yet other verses and narrations emphatically state that the dead cannot hear and therefore do not know:
Surely you do not make the dead to hear, and you do not make the deaf to hear the call when they go back retreating. S. 27:80 Shakir
Until, when death comes to one of them (those who join partners with Allah), he says: "My Lord! Send me back, So that I may do good in that which I have left behind!" No! It is but a word that he speaks, and behind them is Barzakh (a barrier) until the Day when they will be resurrected. S. 23:99-100 Hilali-Khan
For verily thou (Muhammad) canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call when they have turned to flee. S. 30:52 Pickthall
Neither are the living and the dead alike. Surely Allah makes whom He pleases hear, and you cannot make those hear WHO ARE IN THE GRAVES. S. 35:22 Shakir
Aisha, Muhammad's beloved, used the above references to refute the claim that the dead corpses at Badr could actually hear Muhammad speak to them:
The Prophet said, "They now realize that what I used to tell them was the truth." And Allah said, Verily! You cannot make the dead to hear (i.e. benefit them, and similarly the disbelievers) nor can you make the deaf hear. (27.80). (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 2, Book 23, Number 453)
Narrated Hisham's father:
It was mentioned before 'Aisha that Ibn 'Umar attributed the following statement to the Prophet "The dead person is punished in the grave because of the crying and lamentation Of his family." On that, 'Aisha said, "But Allah's Apostle said, 'The dead person is punished for his crimes and sins while his family cry over him then." She added, "And this is similar to the statement of Allah's Apostle when he stood by the (edge of the) well which contained the corpses of the pagans killed at Badr, 'They hear what I say.' She added, "But he said now they know very well what I used to tell them was the truth." 'Aisha then recited: 'You cannot make the dead hear.' (30.52) and 'You cannot make those who are in their Graves, hear you.' (35.22) that is, when they had taken their places in the (Hell) Fire. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 316)
Narrated Ibn Umar:
The Prophet stood at the well of Badr (which contained the corpses of the pagans) and said, "Have you found true what your Lord promised you?" Then he further said, "They now hear what I say." This was mentioned before 'Aisha and she said, "But the Prophet said, 'Now they know very well that what I used to tell them was the truth.'" Then she recited (the Holy Verse):-- "You cannot make the dead hear..." till the end of Verse. (30.52) (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 317)
Hisham narrated on the authority of his father that it was mentioned to 'A'isha that Ibn 'Umar had narrated as marfu' hadith from the Apostle of Allah (may peace be upon him) that the dead would be punished in the grave because of the lamentation of his family for him. Upon this she said: He (Ibn 'Umar) missed (the point). The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) had (in fact) said: He (the dead) is punished for his faults or for his sins, and the members of his family are wailing for him now. (This misunderstanding of Ibn 'Umar is similar to his saying:) The Messenger of Allah (may peace be upon him) stood by the well in which were lying the dead bodies of those polytheists who had been killed on the Day of Badr, and he said to them what he had to say, i. e.: They hear what I say. But he (Ibn 'Umar) misunderstood. The Holy Prophet (may peace be upon him) had only said: They (the dead) understand THAT WHAT I USED TO SAY TO THEM was truth. She then recited: "Certainly, thou canst not make the dead hear the call" (xxvii. 80), nor can you make those hear who are in the graves, nor can you inform them when they have taken their seats in Hell. (Sahih Muslim, Book 004, Number 2027)
Another Muslim added his own explanation in what seems to be an obvious attempt of trying to reconcile these conflicting reports:
Narrated Abu Talha:
On the day of Badr, the Prophet ordered that the corpses of twenty four leaders of Quraish should be thrown into one of the dirty dry wells of Badr. (It was a habit of the Prophet that whenever he conquered some people, he used to stay at the battle-field for three nights. So, on the third day of the battle of Badr, he ordered that his she-camel be saddled, then he set out, and his companions followed him saying among themselves, "Definitely he (i.e. the Prophet) is proceeding for some great purpose." When he halted at the edge of the well, he addressed the corpses of the Quraish infidels by their names and their fathers' names, "O so-and-so, son of so-and-so and O so-and-so, son of so-and-so! Would it have pleased you if you had obeyed Allah and His Apostle? We have found true what our Lord promised us. Have you too found true what your Lord promised you?" 'Umar said, "O Allah's Apostle! You are speaking to bodies that have no souls!" Allah's Apostle said, "By Him in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is, you do not hear what I say better than they do." (Qatada said, "Allah brought them to life (again) to let them hear him, to reprimand them and slight them and take revenge over them and caused them to feel remorseful and regretful.") (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 314)
Qatadas explanation actually presupposes that the dead cannot hear and this is why it required a supernatural act on the part of Allah to bring them back to life.
The Quran further shows that the dead have no knowledge of events that took place after their demise:
One day will God gather the apostles together, and ask: "What was the response ye received (from men to your teaching)?" They will say: "We have no knowledge: it is Thou Who knowest in full all that is hidden." S. 5:109
And (remember) when God will say (on the Day of Resurrection): "O 'Iesa (Jesus), son of Maryam (Mary)! Did you say unto men: Worship me and my mother as two gods besides God?" He will say: "Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what I had no right (to say). Had I said such a thing, You would surely have known it. You know what is in my inner-self though I do not know what is in Yours, truly, You, only You, are the All-Knower of all that is hidden and unseen. Never did I say to them aught except what You (God) did command me to say: Worship God, my Lord and your Lord. And I was a witness over them while I dwelt amongst them, but when You took me up, You were the Watcher over them, and You are a Witness to all things. (This is a great admonition and warning to the Christians of the whole world). If You punish them, they are Your slaves, and if You forgive them, verily You, only You are the All-Mighty, the All-Wise." S. 5:116-118 Hilali-Khan
Jesus allegedly says that he only witnessed the deeds of the people while he was among them, but when he was taken out of this world Allah was the one who watched and witnessed their deeds. The foregoing seems to be pretty clear: The prophets have no knowledge of the events which transpired after them. This leads us to our next point.
7. What Condition is Muhammad in Exactly?
The Quran expressly teaches that Muhammad will share the same fate as those before him and eventually die:
And Muhammad is but a messenger. Verily all Messengers have passed away before him. If then he dies or is slain, will you turn back on your heels? And he who turns back on his heels shall not harm ALLAH at all. And ALLAH will certainly reward the grateful. S. 3:144 Sher Ali
Verily, you (O Muhammad) will die and verily, they (too) will die. Then, on the Day of Resurrection, you will be disputing before your Lord. S. 39:30-31 Hilali-Khan
Many of Muhammads followers were shocked when he died and refused to believe it, that is until these citations were quoted:
(the wife of the Prophet) Allah's Apostle died while Abu Bakr was at a place called As-Sunah (Al-'Aliya) 'Umar stood up and said, "By Allah! Allah's Apostle is not dead!" 'Umar (later on) said, "By Allah! Nothing occurred to my mind except that." He said, "Verily! Allah will resurrect him and he will cut the hands and legs of some men." Then Abu Bakr came and uncovered the face of Allah's Apostle, kissed him and said, "Let my mother and father be sacrificed for you, (O Allah's Apostle), you are good in life and in death. By Allah in Whose Hands my life is, Allah will never make you taste death twice." Then he went out and said, "O oath-taker! Don't be hasty." When Abu Bakr spoke, 'Umar sat down. Abu Bakr praised and glorified Allah and said, No doubt! Whoever worshipped Muhammad, then Muhammad is dead, but whoever worshipped Allah, then Allah is Alive and shall never die." Then he recited Allah's Statement.:-- "(O Muhammad) Verily you will die, and they also will die." (39.30) He also recited:--
"Muhammad is no more than an Apostle; and indeed many Apostles have passed away, before him, If he dies Or is killed, will you then Turn back on your heels? And he who turns back On his heels, not the least Harm will he do to Allah And Allah will give reward to those Who are grateful." (3.144)
The people wept loudly, and the Ansar were assembled with Sad bin 'Ubada in the shed of Bani Saida. They said (to the emigrants): "There should be one 'Amir from us and one from you." Then Abu Bakr, Umar bin Al-Khattab and Abu U'baida bin Al-Jarrah went to them. 'Umar wanted to speak but Abu Bakr stopped him. 'Umar later on used to say, "By Allah, I intended only to say something that appealed to me and I was afraid that Abu Bakr would not speak so well." Then Abu Bakr spoke and his speech was very eloquent. He said in his statement, "We are the rulers and you (Ansars) are the ministers (i.e. advisers)." Hubab bin Al-Mundhir said, "No, by Allah we won't accept this. But there must be a ruler from us and a ruler from you." Abu Bakr said, "No, we will be the rulers and you will be the ministers, for they (i.e. Quraish) are the best family amongst the 'Arabs and of best origin. So you should elect either 'Umar or Abu 'Ubaida bin Al-Jarrah as your ruler." 'Umar said (to Abu Bakr), "No but we elect you, for you are our chief and the best amongst us and the most beloved of all of us to Allah's Apostle." So 'Umar took Abu Bakr's hand and gave the pledge of allegiance and the people too gave the pledge of allegiance to Abu Bakr. Someone said, "You have killed Sad bin Ubada." 'Umar said, "Allah has killed him." 'Aisha said (in another narration), "When the Prophet was on his death-bed) he looked up and said thrice, (Amongst) the Highest Companion (See Qur'an 4.69)." Aisha said, "Allah benefited the people by their two speeches." 'Umar frightened the people some of whom were hypocrites whom Allah caused to abandon Islam because of 'Umar's speech. Then Abu Bakr led the people to True Guidance and acquainted them with the right path they were to follow so that they went out reciting:-- "Muhammad is no more than an Apostle and indeed many Apostles have passed away before him " (3.144) (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 57, Number 19)
But other citations claim that Muhammad has and will have knowledge now that he is dead:
They will present their excuses to you when ye return to them. Say thou: "Present no excuses: we shall not believe you: God hath already informed us of the true state of matters concerning you: It is your actions that God and His Apostle will observe: in the end will ye be brought back to Him Who knoweth what is hidden and what is open: then will He show you the truth of all that ye did." S. 9:94
And say (unto them): Act! Allah will behold your actions, and (so will) His messenger and the believers, and ye will be brought back to the Knower of the Invisible and the Visible, and He will tell you what ye used to do. S. 9:105 Pickthall
And know that among you is God's Apostle: were he, in many matters, to follow your (wishes), ye would certainly fall into misfortune: But God has endeared the Faith to you, and has made it beautiful in your hearts, and He has made hateful to you Unbelief, wickedness, and rebellion: such indeed are those who walk in righteousness;- S. 49:7 Y. Ali
These texts indicate that Allah makes known to Muhammad the actions of the people, and is present among them. Even though these verses obviously refer to Muhammads earthly sojourn, Muslims quote them to support their belief that Allah can communicate information to Muhammad now that he is dead. As GF Haddad writes:
There are other verses that affirm that the Prophet, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, hears and sees the deeds of human beings. Allah Most High said: [And know that the Messenger of Allah is among you] (49:7). In the verses [Allah and His Messenger will see your conduct] (9:94) and [Act! Allah will behold your actions, and (so will) His Messenger and the believers] (9:105), the Prophets, sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, perception is put on a par with that of the Lord of the worlds Who sees and encompasses all on the one hand and, on the other, that of all the living believers. (Haddad, "Hādir Nāzir", Omnipresence of the Prophet sall-Allahu `alayhi wa sallam, Standing During Mawlid; source)
Here are other passages that are often quoted to prove this point:
Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Apostle a witness over yourselves; and We appointed the Qibla to which thou wast used, only to test those who followed the Apostle from those who would turn on their heels (From the Faith). Indeed it was (A change) momentous, except to those guided by God. And never would God Make your faith of no effect. For God is to all people Most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful. S. 2:143 Y. Ali
But how (will it be with them) when We bring of every people a witness, and We bring thee (O Muhammad) a witness against these? S. 4:41 Pickthall
And strive in His cause as ye ought to strive, (with sincerity and under discipline). He has chosen you, and has imposed no difficulties on you in religion; it is the cult of your father Abraham. It is He Who has named you Muslims, both before and in this (Revelation); that the Apostle may be a witness for you, and ye be witnesses for mankind! So establish regular Prayer, give regular Charity, and hold fast to God! He is your Protector - the Best to protect and the Best to help! S. 22:78
The foregoing verses expressly say that Muhammad will be a witness of what his community and the other nations have done, which presuppose that he will have knowledge of their condition even though he has been dead for centuries.
The hadith literature provides additional support for this position:
The Prophet said, "I am your predecessor at the Lake-Fount (Kauthar) and some men amongst you will be brought to me, and when I will try to hand them some water, they will be pulled away from me by force whereupon I will say, 'O Lord, my companions!' Then the Almighty will say, 'You do not know what they did after you left, they introduced new things into the religion after you.'" (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 88, Volume 9, Number 173)
Narrated Sahl bin Sad:
I heard the Prophet saying, "I am your predecessor at the Lake-Fount (Kauthar), and whoever will come to it, will drink from it, and whoever will drink from it, will never become thirsty after that. There will come to me some people whom I know and they know me, and then a barrier will be set up between me and them." Abu Sa'id Al-Khudri added that the Prophet further said: "I will say those people are from me. It will be said, 'You do not know what changes and new things they did after you.' Then I will say, 'Far removed (from mercy), far removed (from mercy), those who changed (the religion) after me!" (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 88, Volume 9, Number 174)
The above incident is apparently thought to take place after the dead are raised for the final judgment. Muhammad relays information regarding the time the Muslims will gather to meet with him, which shows that he has knowledge of future events. Yet these ahadith pose a contradiction: If Muhammad will not know what certain Muslims did after him then how did he know that there would be people who would make changes to his religion? Does this mean that he will forget on the day of judgment that there would be some (many?) that would come to him who, although professing to be Muslim, introduced changes to his religion? Or does this mean that he was told beforehand that people would bring in changes to his religion yet he wasnt told who these people will be or what changes they will make?
Yet in our view, Allah saying to Muhammad, "You do NOT know what they did after you left, ", implies that Muhammad did not perceive the words and deeds of his former companions while being in the grave. Why else would he be so surprised and needs to be informed about the reason why some particular people are now separated from him?
In these narrations Muhammad claims some general knowledge of the future, i.e. that such an event will take place, but not which of his companions this will be. Muhammads great surprise on that day implies that he does not know now (in his earthly life) who it will be that is going to fall away from the true faith after his death. And on that "last day" he still does not know who and why until Allah makes the separation and then explains to Muhammad the reasons after he complains about that separation! In our opinion, this is the natural understanding of these narrations.
Yet, many Muslim interpret these narrations to mean just the opposite. Since Muhammad relays information regarding the time the Muslims will gather to meet with him, this shows that he has knowledge of future events. The above statement "you do not know" are explained away as a rhetorical device for the sake of dramatic effect. For example, GF Haddad writes:
The Prophet's designation of them as "My Companions" and the reply of the angels: "Do you not know..." are meant as didactic disclosures to the hypocrites that although they enter into his mercy in this world, they will not be allowed to enter it in the next unless they repent beforehand. The style of this disclosure is dramatic and develops as if from a state of ignorance to a state of discovery in order for the disclosure to be more effective. However, such ignorance-then-discovery are not literal for the Prophet upon him blessings and peace. How could they be when he is the one who is prophesying that this shall take place?? (Source)
In our view this interpretation seems highly artificial and a very weak attempt to explain away the obvious meaning of these narrations simply because they contradict a belief in Muhammads awareness of all that goes on in the Muslim community.
Whatever the case, if Muhammad has or is given knowledge of events that transpire after his death then this seems to provide support for the position of some Muslims that Muhammad hears and answers invocations made to him. In fact, there are narrations which even say that Allah actually returns Muhammads soul to his body in order to greet those who pray to him:
The Prophet (peace_be_upon_him) said: If any one of you greets me, Allah returns my soul to me and I respond to the greeting. (Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 10, Number 2036)
Thus, it seems pretty obvious that Islam has elevated Muhammad to a divine status, portraying him as sharing in Allahs attribute of omniscience in order to answer prayers!
8. A Physical Image and Symbol of Allah?
Muslims claim that Allah cannot be represented by any visible image and yet, astonishingly, there are narrations which say that Allah created Adam in his image, meaning in the image of Allah!
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in HIS IMAGE, sixty cubits (about 30 metres) in height. When He created him, He said (to him), 'Go and greet that group of angels sitting there, and listen what they will say in reply to you, for that will be your greeting and the greeting of your offspring.' Adam (went and) said, 'As-Salamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).' They replied, 'As-Salamu 'Alaika wa Rahmatullah (Peace and Allah's Mercy be on you).' So they increased 'wa Rahmatullah' The Prophet added, 'So whoever will enter Paradise, will be of the shape and picture of Adam. Since then the creation of Adam's (offspring) (i.e. stature of human beings) is being diminished continuously up to the present time." (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 74, Number 246, as translated in Interpretation of the Meanings of The Noble Quran In the English Language - A Summarized Version of At-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi and Ibn Kathir with comments from Sahih Al-Bukhari, Summarized in One Volume By Dr. Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali, Ph.D. Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan, pp. 142-143, fn. 1, pocket size edition; bold and capital emphasis ours)
Abu Huraira reported Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) as saying: Allah, the Exalted and Glorious, created Adam in His own image with His length of sixty cubits, and as He created him He told him to greet that group, and that was a party of angels sitting there, and listen to the response that they give him, for it would form his greeting and that of his offspring. He then went away and said: Peace be upon you! They (the angels) said: May there be peace upon you and the Mercy of Allah, and they made an addition of "Mercy of Allah." So he who would get into Paradise would get in the form of Adam, his length being sixty cubits, then the people who followed him continued to diminish in size up to this day. (Sahih Muslim, Book 040, Number 6809)
This hadith has been transmitted on the authority of Abu Huraira and in the hadith transmitted on the authority of Ibn Hatim Allah's Apostle (may peace be upon him) is reported to have said: When any one of you fights with his brother, he should avoid his face for Allah created Adam in His own image. (Sahih Muslim, Book 032, Number 6325)
These ahadith have caused trouble for some Muslims since they find it difficult to reconcile these statements with their belief that creatures do not resemble Allah. They interpret these reports to mean that Allah created Adam in Adams image, i.e. in the shape and form that Allah had ordained for Adam! Note, for instance, how the following online version of Sahih al-Bukhari translated the hadith:
Narrated Abu Huraira:
The Prophet said, "Allah created Adam in his complete shape and form (directly), sixty cubits (about 30 meters) in height (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 8, Book 74, Number 246)
Other Muslims, such as the Salafis, have no problem admitting that these narrations do indeed affirm that Adam was created in Allahs image:
Ibn Abi Aasim narrated in al-Sunnah (517) that Ibn Umar said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "Do not say May Allaah deform your face [a form of cursing in Arabic], for the son of Adam was created in the image of the Most Merciful." Shaykh Abd-Allaah ibn al-Ghunaymaan (may Allaah preserve him) said: "This hadeeth is saheeh and was classed as such by the imams and by Imam Ahmad and Ishaaq ibn Raahawayh. Those who classed it as daeef have no evidence, except for the view of Ibn Khuzaymah, but those who classed it as saheeh are more knowledgeable than him.
Ibn Abi Aasim also narrated (516) that Abu Hurayrah said: The Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: "When any one of you fights let him avoid the face, for Allaah created Adam in the image of His Face." Shaykh al-Albaani said: its isnaad is saheeh.
These two hadeeth indicate that the pronoun in the phrase "in His image" refers to Allaah, may He be glorified
From these ahaadeeth we learn that it is proven that Allaah has an image (soorah in Arabic), in a manner that befits Him, may He be glorified and exalted. His image is one of His attributes which cannot be likened to the attributes of created beings, just as His essence cannot be likened to their essence
And he [Ibn Taymiyya] said: "There was no dispute among the salaf of the first three generations that the pronoun in the hadeeth refers to Allaah, and it is narrated through many isnaads from many of the Sahaabah. The contexts of the ahaadeeth all indicate that but when al-Jahamiyyah became widespread in the third century AH, a group began to say that the pronoun refers to something other than Allaah, and this was transmitted from a group of scholars who are known to have knowledge and to follow the Sunnah in most of their affairs, such as Abu Thawr, Ibn Khuzaymah, Abul-Shaykh al-Asfahaani and others. Hence they were denounced by the imams of Islam and other Sunni scholars."
The Prophets words, "Adam was created in His image" means that Allaah created Adam in His image, for He has a face, an eye, a hand, and a foot, and Adam had a face, an eye, a hand, and a foot but that does not mean that these things are exactly the same. There is some similarity, but it is not exactly the same. Similarly the first group to enter Paradise are likened to the moon, but they are not exactly the same. This confirms the view of Ahl al-Sunnah wa'l-Jamaa'ah, who say that none of the attributes of Allaah can be likened to the attributes of created beings, without distorting or misinterpreting, or discussing how or likening Him to His creation.
See Sharh al-Aqeedah al-Waasitah by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Uthaymeen, 1/107, 293...
Islam Q&A (www.islam-qa.com)
(Question #20652: Commentary on the hadeeth, "Allaah created Adam in His image"; online source; bold and underline emphasis ours)
Moreover, the black stone, which is fixed to the Kabah, is said to actually be Allahs hand.
When we reached Rukn Aswad (the Black Stone) he said, "O Abu Muhammad, "What (command) has reached you regarding this Black Stone?" Ata' said: Abu Huraira (Allah be pleased with him) related to me that he heard Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) saying, "He who touches it, in fact touches THE HAND OF THE MERCIFUL (Allah)." (Sunan Ibn-I-Majah (Imam Abu Abdullah Muhammad b. Yazid Ibn-I-Maja Al-Qazwini), English version by Muhammad Tufail Ansari [Kazi Publications, Lahore (Pakistan), 1st edition 1995], Volume IV, Chapter NO. XXXII: Excellence of Tawaf (Circumambulation), Hadith Number 2957, p. 252; bold and capital emphasis ours)
GF Haddad notes:
"The Black Stone is the right hand of Allah Most High." Ibn Qutayba in Ta' wil Mukhtalif al-Hadith (1972 ed. p. 215=1995 ed. p. 198, 262) said that it was a saying of Ibn 'Abbas and relates a saying of 'A'isha that the Black Stone is the depository of the covenant of human souls with Allah on the Day of Promise (alastu bi rabbikum). He interprets the Black Stone as representing the place where one declares one's pledge of fidelity to the Sovereign. Ibn Hajar in Fath al-Bari (1959 ed. 3:463 #1520) cites al-Khattabi's and al-Muhibb al-Tabari's similar interpretations. Al-Qurtubi said in al-Asna fi Sharh Asma' Allah al-Husna (2:90-91): "It means that the Black Stone has the standing (manzila) of the Right Hand of Allah. metaphorically speaking." (Haddad, Problematic hadiths and various questions; source)
It will even come to life on the Day of Judgment!
2944. Sa'd b. Jubair (Allah be pleased with him) is reported to have said, "I heard Ibn 'Abbas (Allah be pleased with him) saying that Allah's Messenger (peace and blessings Allah be upon him) said, "This Stone must come on the Day of Resurrection and it will have two eyes to see with and a tongue to talk with bearing witness for him who caressed it with Truth (Islam)." (Sunan Ibn-I-Majah, Volume IV, Chapter NO. XVII: Caressing The (Black) Stone (Fixed in a Wall of Kaba), pp. 244-245; bold and underline emphasis ours)
The Quran also refers to the Ark of the Covenant that God commanded Moses to fashion, which symbolized Gods throne and his presence among his people:
And (further) their Prophet said to them: "A Sign of his authority is that there shall come to you the Ark of the covenant, with (an assurance) therein of security from your Lord, and the relics left by the family of Moses and the family of Aaron, carried by angels. In this is a symbol for you if ye indeed have faith." S. 2:248 Y. Ali
Hence, the foregoing makes it rather clear that the Quran and Islamic narrations do acknowledge visible images for Allah!
9. Summarizing the Contradictions
In order to assist the readers in remembering all the issues involved and the gross problems presented by the Islamic sources, we will provide a summary of the preceding data.
10. Concluding Remarks
Our somewhat lengthy analysis shows that Islam is not the purest form of monotheism. Rather than present a coherent and consistent picture of the absolute worship of Allah both the Quran and the Islamic sources teach quite contradictory things regarding Allahs worship, intercession etc. After all, there are references which clearly show that Allah is not the sole object of a Muslims devotion since there are passages permitting believes to take others along with Allah as intercessors and helpers, and that these other entities actually hear and respond to the invocations made to them. Yet, at the same time, there are passages that expressly deny that believers have any helpers alongside Allah, and plainly forbid Muslims from serving and invoking others with their god.
It is little wonder that there are Muslim groups who hold to contradictory views regarding these very issues, and who accuse the others that disagree with them of distorting what Islam actually teaches. Their differences stem directly from the contradictions and confusion which exist in the Quran and the so-called authentic reference material of Islam.
(1) For a comparison between Christianity and Islam regarding the issue of slavery we recommend the following articles:
Articles by Sam Shamoun
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Gratitude is associated with a number of mental health benefits. There appears to be variability with regard to how often one feels grateful, but experiencing gratitude can be profoundly, deeply healing. When we are grateful, we leave little room for resentment, anger, self-righteousness, or envy; these emotions are incompatible with appreciating what is good about a circumstance or person.
Gratitude also fosters openness. At any given point in time, any one of us can identify others who are more or less fortunate than we are. Being in a state of gratitude reminds us that even in difficult situations, and when dealing with difficult people, there is almost always something that we can find—even if it requires space and time to do so—for which we can be grateful.
Gratitude in the Face of Difficulty
Many years ago, I worked with a man I’ll call “Rich” who had multiple medical problems that caused severe pain and limited financial resources. During the course of our work, Rich became confined to a wheelchair as his health continued to decline. The medications he received gave Rich only very limited relief, and his inability to work cost him both his home and his ability to get around without assistance.
Rich never insinuated that his situation didn’t challenge him to his core, nor did he pretend that if a cure was available he wouldn’t avail himself of it. When he was angry or frightened—which was often—Rich was honest about this. Yet, despite multiple and severe challenges to his sense of self, Rich frequently expressed gratitude for many things, including our time together. He was also able to delight in the simple and mundane, such as the multisensory pleasure inherent in drinking a cup of earl grey tea, or watching a sunset, or in receiving some small kindness from a stranger. I believe that Rich’s gratitude made his life more bearable, and likely extended his time here.
Most of my practice involves working with people who have experienced health issues, and many of those who come to see me struggle with chronic pain. Still others who enter into therapy are tasked with finding a way to feel safe in the world following a trauma, see positives despite depression or anxiety, or develop healthy relationships, even though they may not have experienced adequate nurturing. When one’s body changes in such a way that function is compromised, one’s appearance is altered, and/or one is challenged to find a sort of equilibrium in the presence of ongoing painful or otherwise unpleasant physical or emotional symptoms, it can feel especially difficult to find any silver lining.
In the face of difficulty, we all can quite easily and legitimately find reasons to be angry, envious, fearful, resentful, or filled with despair. It is important to create space to allow ourselves to feel whatever comes up, rather than denying our emotions. If we can step back from the situation, whatever it is in the present moment, and see the larger picture, quite often we can identify things for which we can be truly grateful. And this can be liberating.
What Does the Research Show?
A number of studies have looked at the links between gratitude and other psychological and social outcomes. Emmons and Mishra (2011) reviewed and summarized the literature on gratitude and well-being in a recent book chapter. They found that dispositional gratitude has been associated with greater emotional well-being, empathy, forgiveness, and willingness to help others, as well as the ability to recognize the contributions of others to one’s own successes. Although it is unclear which generates which, people who experience gratitude also tend to have higher levels of self-esteem.
Gratitude and Generosity Versus Materialism
The authors also found that gratitude is incompatible with materialism. Grateful people are less likely to define themselves in terms of their accomplishments and possessions, are more generous with what they have, and are less likely to envy the possessions or accomplishments of others.
Gratitude as an emotional and cognitive state is freeing because anger, resentment, jealousy, and envy, when experienced for too long, become a virtual prison. Even as a situation improves, if we cling to the pain of what we do not have, or what another does have, or what we wish was different, we cannot really feel free.
In addition to the above, gratitude prompts us to both appreciate what we have right now and to seek to help others; it fosters reciprocity, generosity, and a sense that one is an important part of a larger whole. Thus, gratitude for one’s good fortune can lead to a sense of satisfaction from being helpful or generous—regardless of whether that good deed is common knowledge or results in some sort of reciprocal gain.
How to Cultivate Gratitude?
- Keep a journal. Research has found that daily or weekly journaling increases feelings of gratitude. Journaling is also associated with fewer health complaints, reduced envy, a more positive attitude in general, and feeling more spiritually connected. Those who engaged in this practice also got more exercise and viewed their families more positively.
- Practice mindfulness. This anchors one in the present moment, fosters a nonjudgmental stance, and can help one to notice what simply is—the easy, the challenging, and the neutral—rather than focusing solely on what is hard.
- Guided imagery or self-hypnosis can be used to help refocus on everyday blessings and shrink negative internal images down to size. Additionally, these tools have been shown to help in the management of unpleasant bodily sensations (pain, nausea, etc.) and emotions.
- Do a good deed every day. Doing so can shift our attention away from what is stressful or unpleasant and remind us that we can be a force for positive change. If we are fortunate, the desire to do good can be contagious. And for this we can be very grateful indeed.
Emmons, R. A., and Mishra, A. (2011). Why Gratitude Enhances Well-Being: What We Know, What We Need to Know. In Kennon M. Sheldon, Todd B. Kashdan, Michael F. Steger (Eds.), Designing Positive Psychology: Taking Stock and Moving Forward. Oxford University Press.
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Yesterday I received an email containing some pictures of alleged giant skeletons. PaleoBabble readers know that I’ve posted before on this topic before, noting how Photoshop is certainly the solution to many of these pictures you see circulating on the web. Whenever I get photos like these (see below), I wish I had the time to comb the web for the originals that were used to create the hoaxes. Sometimes you find someone who’s already done that work (like my earlier post, linked above). But this sort of thing could take dozens of hours. Fortunately, among the two photos sent to me are two that are easily demonstrated to be fakes. Here’s the first of the two:
Now here’s the second:
Can you spot the problem? Look at the skulls side by side below:
See it? What are the odds that two skulls, at two allegedly different archaeological digs, would be missing the exact same teeth? A billion to one, I’d say. Take a closer look at the comparison picture. You can see that the fracture lines on the two photos at the bridge of the nose are also exactly the same. It’s the same skull, photo-shopped into two different pictures, with adjustments made in tinting.
You can find these pictures on several creationist websites. That’s a shame. Readers should know that I am no enemy of the idea of a divine creator. Frankly, I think creation is much more philosophically coherent than naturalistic materialism. But this is simply unethical.
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Regarding your article featuring Rosalind Creasy promoting edible landscaping, I have some comments.
For 30 years we have tried to do edible landscaping but squirrels and possums eat the apricots; squirrels devour the guavas, leaving a big mess; the grapefruit is so bitter we can only pick it and put it in the garbage; squirrels eat the fruit from both apple trees without minding that coddling moths got there first (in spite of traps); the dwarf Asian-pear tree grew taller than the two-story house and is unreachable; the Fuyu persimmon has been raided by both squirrels and thieves; the crabapples are too small for anything except to make the ground a nice shade of pink; the robins love the blueberries and figs; and so it goes.
Herbs and vegetables have been successful.
My advice: buy your fruit at farmers' markets and avoid the frustration and angst of trying to grow your own, as Creasy suggests.
The NIMBY stance of the two writers against the proposed anaerobic digestion plant (Letters, Jan. 7) is especially ironic since the facility they want to stop would process waste from their very own backyards.
Without the facility, the considerable volume of yard trimmings produced in Palo Alto must be trucked to Gilroy since our landfill is closing. The proposed facility would be located next to the existing wastewater treatment plant and would require repurposing of about 8 percent of the land currently slated for the 126-acre Byxbee Park, or about 0.4 percent of the 1,940-acre Palo Alto Baylands.
It would use completely enclosed processes to convert yard and food waste into compost that could be distributed in Palo Alto parks and gardens, as well as methane gas that can generate electricity and revenue for the city. The anaerobic processes could also treat sewage sludge that currently is incinerated at the 40-year-old waste treatment plant, which undoubtedly would improve the air quality over Byxbee Park.
Palo Alto voters should get to decide what is the most responsible and ecological approach, which is why I'm supporting the petition to put the anaerobic project on the November ballot.
In response to letters from Emily Renzel and Enid Pearson:
"Where do I sign?" "Thanks for doing this." These are the responses I get every time I am collecting signatures for the composting initiative. The support is tremendous.
I volunteer because I create waste that can be used to provide material for healthy soil and growth. I volunteer because I want my city to be responsible for its waste and to reuse it efficiently in the service of the community. I volunteer because sending our waste to Gilroy landfill creates pollution.
The research of the Blue Ribbon Task Force and the current feasibility study appointed by the city will tell us how to proceed with providing a composting facility. This initiative is to re-purpose 10 acres of land that is currently part of the landfill so that Palo Alto can continue to compost material within the city.
The most realistic site for this purpose is adjacent to the sewage plant.
In the current climate of growing awareness and responsibility for the environment there is no alternative to this course of action.
PA Green Energy Initiative
We've been reading a lot lately about pedestrians being hit by vehicles making left turns onto major streets.
For each reported incident there are dozens of unreported near misses. I experienced one myself in Midtown crossing Middlefield at Colorado. It seems to me that the only really safe way for pedestrians to cross is for all traffic in all directions to be stopped when the pedestrian crossing light is on.
The problem is that drivers making left turns look for other vehicles and don't look for pedestrians.
The crosswalks are so close to the intersections that large vehicles such as buses can't even complete the turn without entering the crosswalks.
Certain traffic lights in town need to be changed to allow pedestrians to cross while all traffic is stopped.
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Light can penetrate the deepest, darkest crevices of a building thanks to the SmartLight electrofluidics lenses. The SmartLight is a grid made of millimeter size fluid cells that change shape when electrically stimulated via power coming from tiny, embedded, solar cells. By mounting this grid near the top of existing windows, light can be reflected, or conducted through, at various angles, putting the light where it's needed. SmartLight can be controlled wirelessly, and is therefore ideally suited to being controlled by a smartphone app.
This has the potential to totally change the approach to lighting. According to Anton Harfmann, Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati's school of architecture and interior design, "The SmartLight technology would be groundbreaking. It would be game changing. This would change the equation for energy. It would change the way buildings are designed and renovated. It would change the way we would use energy and deal with the reality of the sun."
One main downside? The name, SmartLight, is too common and already used by other light technologies.
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Chennai-Rameswaram Route, India
Chennai-Rameswaram Route in India passes though the Pamdan Railway Bridge that was opened in 1914 connecting mainland of South India with the Rameswaram Island. This bridge is very vast running across 2.065 km of sea upto the Rameswaran and lies on the low cantilever sea bridge.
Argo Gede Train Railroad – Indonesia
This train route stretches from Jakarta to Bandung on an extremely high Cikurutug pylon trestle bridge.
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USA White Pass and Yukon Route in Alaska is a very deadly railway route which runs practically hugging cliffs. Now used as thrill for the tourists, this route was built in 1898 during the height of the Klondike gold rush.
Apart from deadly train routes, there are many other things that exist in nature which is extremely dangerous to the human beings. Read about the deadly water bodies that are life threatening.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) -- It's a story that will have you running to your purses and wallets.
Police say there's a new influx of counterfeit bills floating around the area.
The Eau Claire Police Department is getting the word out to people and businesses to take a close look at their cash.
The Dollar General Store on Cameron Street was all about the Benjamins on Jan. 2.
According to a criminal complaint, three men came into the store just before 8 p.m.
Two of them paid for their items with two $100 bills and left.
The manager thought the money looked fishy and called Eau Claire Police.
When officers arrived they soon found the cash to be counterfeit and questioned the third man, Dorval Lewis of Eau Claire, who they say was busy shoplifting makeup and toothbrushes.
The complaint says officers found two more fake $100 bills on the 31-year-old suspect and arrested him.
“Counterfeit cases do come up on a regular basis and recently, two bills that appear to be of similar construction came in in a close time proximity,” said Detective Mike Voelker with the Financial Crimes Division.
Detective Voelker said the counterfeit has mostly been $100s but has shown up in other denominations.
“Most of the time the bills are passed at a convenience store or kind of a quick easy in and out location,” Voelker said.
Police say counterfeit will feel differently because it's printed on paper and not the cloth mixture real ones have.
You should also look out for the coloring and the consistency of the background images.
“For the most part the security thread and the watermark on the bill would be the most glaringly inconsistent things on a bill that would show that it's counterfeit,” Voelker said.
If you get passed a phony bill at a business, the detective said it would be up to the store's policy to determine if you could get real money back.
“When counterfeit currency is out there, it tends to devalue legitimate currency and cause a mistrust in the currency system,” Voelker said.
This is still an active investigation so if you have any counterfeit, police want you to bring it into them.
Lewis was released on bond.
He’s been charged with two counts of forgery and one count of retail theft.
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Outline the causes of both unemployment and inflation. Explain policies available to the government to combat these two economic issues.
Unemployment and inflation have many different causes and the levels of have had severe fluctuations over time. Unemployment and Inflation can be caused by many different things but normally they follow the business cycle with high inflation in times of boom and high unemployment in times of recession. The government can use two different policies to either expand or contract economic activity resulting in low or higher inflation or unemployment.
Inflation is caused by many different things, all resulting back to an upswing of the economy so most of the time inflation in high in recessions and low in booms. Inflation is measured by the CPI which measures the changes in the price of a fixed basket of goods and services acquired by household consumers, so you can see how much you can get for your money and measure inflation. There are three main causes of inflation: Increase in consumer demand (demand-pull inflation) , increase in the cost of producing goods (cost-push inflation) and increase in the price of imports (imported inflation)
One cause of inflation is demand-pull this happens when demand for a product becomes faster than business can increase there output this means that there will be shortages which will forces the price up and your purchasing power down. Demand pull inflation normally occurs when the economy is growing quickly
Another cause of inflation is cost-push inflation. This is when the increase of the price of something used to make the product increases meaning that the products price will be forced to increase. For example when oil rises all the products that are made with oil are forced to increase like petrol and plastic. Other inputs such as business cost and wage increases also affect to cost-push inflation.
Imported inflation is when an increase in another country will mean the...
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It should come as no surprise that healthy employees boost a companys bottom line. They experience less sick time, take fewer disability days and suffer lesser risk of premature deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 75% of employers’ health care costs and productivity losses are related to employee lifestyle choices. And a $1 investment in wellness programs saves $3 in health care costs, according to the Wellness Council of America.
It is good business for companies to help provide employees with the information and tools that will empower them to adopt healthy behaviors. However, according to a 2006 study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion, less than 20% of U.S. employers offer lifestyle modification services. Even more surprisingly, just four percent offer tobacco cessation services.
AstraZeneca is one of six groups–
They range from Johnson & Johnson’ stop-smoking program to the American Cancer Society’s colon cancer screening campaign.
AstraZeneca offers on-site screening programs for breast, prostate and colon cancer, as well as blood pressure and cholesterol measurement. Through the breast cancer screening program, more than 30 malignancies–most of them in their early stages–have been detected. The company also provides smoking cessation courses, and health benefits cover the cost of prescription and non-prescription medications that help smokers break the habit. All AstraZeneca’s facilities are smoke-free zones.
AstraZeneca employees save $50 a month on their health benefits payments if they participate in an annual health risk assessment, which surveys health habits and then provides a written appraisal and recommendations based on the identified risks.
In 2004 alone, over 6,000 active and retired AstraZeneca employees who were identified as high-risk for chronic diseases received free condition-management telephone consultations. This group of employees comprises only about 20% of the workforce, but is responsible for 80% of the lost productivity and total health care costs. Employees in the condition management program had fewer emergency room visits and hospital admissions.
AstraZeneca is by no means unique in appreciating the “ROI of wellness.” Here are some examples of what other Gold Standard accredited companies have done to promote healthy behaviors to their employees:
The American Cancer Society has an online employee volunteer community, where employees can sign up to drive fellow employees to colon cancer screenings. It also gives employees postcards to send to their loved ones to remind them to get screened too.
Novartis Pharmaceuticals offers a buy-four-get-one-free card that gives all employees incentive to choose the healthier option in the cafeteria, as well as an on-site nutritionist who consults with employees one-on-one at no cost.
Smoking cessation initiatives have helped Johnson & Johnson reduce its percentage of smokers from 12 percent in 1999 to 5 percent in 2005, well below the national average of 20 percent.
GlaxoSmithKline offers an on-site fitness center, walking trails, fitness-focused lunch-and-learns and recreation programs for children.
At OSI pharmaceuticals, an online Cancer Access Network program helps employees with cancer choose a physician, access resources and participate in clinical trials.
Together, the six Gold Standard accredited organizations reach approximately 270,000 people.
However, there are more than 130 million working Americans, many of whom would benefit greatly from increased corporate efforts to improve employee health.
The six Gold Standard accredited organizations have created solid examples of what employee health programs can look like. We are now challenging other companies to do the same for their employees.
Tony Zook is president and chief executive officer of AstraZeneca U.S.
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If spouses are having marital problems, they can either try to save the marriage through counselling or if there is no chance of saving the marriage, they can decide to get separated or divorced.
What is separation
A spouse can make an application for separation at any time before 3 years of marriage. The separation allows the spouses to try and reconcile or mend their marriage.
Separation is temporary and it comes before the divorce when the marriage has broken down.
When can spouses get a divorce?
- There are specific grounds for divorce that either spouse can rely on while filing for a divorce namely:
- extreme depravity,
- desertion for a continuous period of at least three years,
- irretrievable breakdown of the marriage; or
- mental illness or continued unconsciousness of one of the spouses.
- Examples of the irretrievable breakdown of a marriage as a ground for divorce include:
- Emotional abuse towards the spouse or the children;
- habitual criminality;
- drunkenness or drug addiction;
- loss of love and affection between the spouses.
What happens to the children upon divorce?
- Arrangements regarding the children born from the marriage, such as custody of the children will be determined by the children court unless the same can be agreed upon by both spouses.
- If no agreement can be reached between the spouses, the children court will make the decision regarding the children after considering the circumstances of the matter and in the best interest of the child.
How will the property be divided upon divorce?
- Any property acquired during the subsistence of the marriage is matrimonial property and shall be divided equally between the spouse or in their mode of contribution.
- Division of property can also be agreed upon by both spouses.
- If no agreement can be reached between the spouses, the property must be divided according to the Matrimonial Property Act;
- The court has a discretion to divide the property in any manner it deems fit when misconduct can be proven against one of the spouses. For example, if one spouse abused the other spouse and such abuse is the cause of the divorce, the court may decide to divide the property in such a way that the abusing spouse gets less than what s/he would have been entitled to.
How can a person get a divorce?
- Depending on the type of marriage, only a High Court or Kadhi’s court can grant a divorce. However, since customary law is also recognised under the Kenyan constitution divorce or separation can be done the traditional way.
- A spouse who wants to get a divorce starts the procedure by serving a summons on the other spouse.
- The other spouse can either agree to the divorce or defend the divorce.
- An advocate will be able to assist a spouse with the following:
- serving and filing of a summons;
- defending a divorce;
- division of the property;
- care, contact and maintenance in respect of the children; and/or
- spousal maintenance.
For more inquiry about Divorce or separation please chat us on the chat option through our Wakili 101 mobile APP or www.wakili101.com and our dedicated team of advocates will respond to you immediately.
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According to Apple chief executive Tim Cook, his company has now paid out $8bn to iOS app developers. That's up from the $7bn milestone that Apple announced on 7 January, indicating a billion-dollar month for App Store payouts.
To put that another way, once you add in Apple's 30% cut that's the same as 1.4bn sales of Angry Birds – or for younger readers, 1.4bn wagons of virtual Smurfberries.
Or, indeed, enough to fund Bjork's Kickstarter campaign to port her Biophilia app to the Android and Windows 8 platforms 3,809 times over. Not that this is high on Apple's priorities, obviously.
More seriously, if you want one statistic to explain why so many important and/or innovative apps still come out first (or only) on iOS, it's the $8bn total payouts figure.
How does Android compare? Well, that's the point: Google hasn't ever announced developer-payout totals for its platform, and nor to my knowledge have Microsoft or BlackBerry – although the latter has suggested a few times that its developers earn more on average than those on rival platforms.
All too often, the tone of the smartphones debate in the comments section of sites like this one runs thus: "If you don't agree that my favourite platform is the best, you must be stupid or biased. Or both." With corruption thrown in for good measure when a journalist is being addressed.
App developers? Some love Apple, Google, Microsoft or BlackBerry so much that they only want to develop for one platform, sure.
Most, though, base their development decisions less on stupidity or bias, and more on pure pragmatism: where can their apps make money? $8bn of iOS payouts is a persuasive argument in Apple's favour on this score.
Now the caveats. What Cook didn't say – why would he? – is that the majority of iOS app developers aren't taking a significant chunk of these payouts. The App Store sales-tail has fat pickings at the top, but barely crumbs for the bottom (and, quite possibly, much of the middle).
Analytics firm Adeven coined the term "App Zombies" in 2012 to describe the two-thirds of available iOS apps that it claimed had sunk without a trace on the App Store. Less undead, and more never-alive in the first place.
Still, Apple's regular announcements of its cumulative iOS payouts – $2.5bn by July 2011, $4bn by January 2012, $5.5bn by July 2012, $7bn by January 2013 and now $8bn – are fuelling developers' dreams of making it big.
In the absence of comparable figures from the three main rivals, what should Google, Microsoft and BlackBerry be doing? Pushing more individual case studies of success stories on their platforms would be a smart move.
Not based on total downloads, not even active users, and especially not "users in x countries around the world" metrics. Actual revenue figures showing how developers are building viable businesses by looking beyond iOS.
In short, show me (well, developers) the money! BlackBerry was actually onto a good idea in this regard with its attempts to show that a good app, promoted by the platform owner on a less-crowded app store, can make a good return on investment.
That hints at the most sensible strategy for BlackBerry and Microsoft as they look to win more developers round to BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone 8 – with funding (or guarantees of minimum income) helping too. Google may prefer to focus a bit more on mobile advertising success stories, of course.
As a postscript, the $8bn figure also gives us a new data point to work with when judging the App Store's value to Apple.
If it can maintain a monthly rate of at least $1bn of developer payouts, Apple's 30% cut would make the App Store a $5.1bn business for the company annually.
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Promote a weblog? Why would a person do that? If you don’t know the answer to that question, maybe you shouldn’t have a blog. The purpose of having an on-line weblog is to record your opinions, thoughts and views on a given topic, subject of issue. The blog gets to be useless if no one every reads it. In addition to sharing your viewpoint with the world, a weblog can also be used to make money. By including hyperlinks to affiliate programs or Google AdSense ads you can start creating some cash. If you are creating money with your weblog, you will definitely want to market it.
Blogging is a great way to market a item or internet website, if you encourage feedback and discussion, that is. Weblogs are casual and easy to set up, which indicates you can add as many posts as you want to describe your product and even ask your visitors for beneficial feedback. So, if you are promoting a product in a brick and mortar store or on a web site, you should established up weblog to take advantage of the marketing possibilities that it creates.
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It is not incorrect to create smaller teams of like-minded people with in your see me internet function. It is completely all-natural and approved by networking methods.
If a blog is just a website, what makes it so special? Well it is actually a lot more. It includes what is known as a content administration method, which indicates that it is very simple for you to quickly include new content to your blog. There is no complex coding involved, you just type up your content, hit a button and the occupation is carried out.
Search engine spiders adore green content material. It’s bot meals and they gobble it up like children gobble gummi bears. But it may take a while for a search motor to crawl your online blog and start providing links on the search engine results webpages.
In purchase to write a effective weblog that readers will enjoy studying you require to comprehend who your readers are and the type of information that will entice them to your weblog. Your readers will be attracted to a blog that is written well and the information posted is fresh and present. Updating your blog content material presently is the first step to building your blog visitors and making your readers faithful.
In summary, this brings to an end my ten guidelines of radical blogging. Now I know I have stepped on some toes, I know I have challenged the views of many; I know I stirred the waters of standard wisdom. So I am going to level the taking part in area right here. If you really feel I have contradicted your views or principles; then feel totally free to shoot me via your feedback. I am prepared to take your bullets and also respond with mine, so let’s start.
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The Philippine Nazarene College has been playing a key role in the growth of the Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines, and to some extent in Asia, through providing the needed training for pastors, and other church workers as seen in the last six decades.
In 1950, the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene appropriated $9,250.00 for a Bible College in the Philippines. (This money was a part of a fund that was raised for a proposed Bible College in China by the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society (WFMS) in honor Mrs. Susan Fitkin, the first president of the society.)
On January 8, 1952, a 4.5-hectare land was purchased along Pico Road, La Trinidad, Benguet on which the building construction began immediately. In August of the same year, the college was officially opened with thirty-seven students consisting the first batch of enrollees. The late Rev. Pattee held the reins of leadership.
The initial academic program of the college offered a four-year coursed with one year of field work leading to a Bachelor of Theology degree. The first graduation exercises was held in March 1957, with seven students graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Theology.
In 1967, the college offered a course leading to the degree of Bachelor of Religious Education, which is an offshoot of the twinning of the existing Bachelor of Theology program. Four students graduated through this program in 1969.
Although it was granted official affiliation as an undergraduate level theological institution by the International Board of Education, PNC continued to gain recognition. In August 1991, PNC became an accredited member of the Philippine Association of Bible and Theology Schools (PABATS) and Asia Theological Association (ATA).
In 1998, the Commission on Higher Education recognized the Bachelor of Arts in Theology (AB Theology) program. (A slightly revised curriculum under the old Bachelor of Theology (BTh) ). It was also in same year when the Bureau of Immigration granted the college with authorization to accept international students. Furthermore, in 2001, the CHED accorded PNC a recognition for its Bachelor of Science in Religious Education (BSRE). (Which is the enriched adaption of the old Bachelor of Religious Education (BRE) curriculum.) These achievements made the Philippines Nazarene College as the first Protestant evangelical theological institution in the Cordillera that was recognized by the government.
With the aim to expand its academic programs, the college added to its course offerings the Bachelor of Elementary Education and Bachelor of Secondary Education in 2009. These degree programs, after having complied with the standards, were subsequently given CHED recognition in 2011.
In 2016, the College offer Senior High School Program in response to K to 12 refer of the Department of Education. Since 1952, five American missionaries and seven Filipinos assumed the presidency of the college: Rev. John Pattee, 1952-1954; Rev. Adrian Rosa, 1955; Rev. Roy Copelin, 1956-1962; Mrs. Lillian Pattee, 1963-1970; Dr. Ronald Beech, 1971-1973; Rev. Carlino Fontanilla, 1980-1983; Dr. Ernesto Rulloda, 1984-2001; Dr. Joven Laroya, 2001-2004; Dr. Angelito Agbuya, 2005-2008; Rev. Bonifacio Plantilla, 2010-2012; Rev. Stephen Gualberto, 2013-2015; and Rev. Marces Eugenio, 2015-2016. This year, the college is in transited in terms of leadership, for which its supervision in placed on the hands of our officer-in-charge, Rev. Allan Prado.
At present, PNC serves the five ecclesiastical districts of the Church of the Nazarene in the Philippines. Namely: Luzon Metropolitan Luzon, Metro Manila, Southern Tagalog, and Bicol. It also maintains a productive inter-institutional linkage with the Korea Nazarene University, Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary, Visayan Nazarene Bible College.
With these developments and milestone, the Philippine Nazarene College has still more horizons to explore and challenges to face but as it was in its humble beginning, it will constantly depend on God’s providence and grace in fulfilling its divine mandate.
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Evolving Literacies, Evolving Practice
This workshop is about active participation in educational change. It will address the connections between understandings of literacy and education practice.
||literacy, early literacy, action learning
International Journal of Learning, Volume 12, Issue 11, pp.47-54.
Article: Print (Spiral Bound).
Article: Electronic (PDF File; 783.058KB).
Dr Susan McKenzie is a Lecturer in Education with interests in the fields of early childhood education, family-school collaboration and inclusive education practice. She is an experienced early childhood teacher and her research focuses on inclusive education practice, early literacy, and collaboration between parents, families and education services. She also has particular interest and experience in action research and interpretive research approaches.
Ms Christine Glass is a lecturer in education and a Doctoral candidate. Her interests include English teaching in early and middle school, the role of leadership in developing collaborative practices within the learning community, and the value of positive relationships within the classroom and beyond. Her research focuses on changing practice and pre service and beginning teachers. She is an experienced teacher and has enjoyed an interesting and varied career in teaching and learning working as a classroom teacher, an administrator, an education officer, and a consultant within a variety of educational contexts.
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Today we will present to you four silly party games which you can play with your guests during your upcoming party.
- Find the bubble gum– This game is easy to play and requires very little preparation. Simply pass to each of your guests a bowl with a piece of unwrapped bubble on it. Then fill the bowl with whipped cream and have each player find their piece of gum by feeling around the bowl without using his hands. The first person that finds their bubble gum wins the game. We realize that this is a very silly, even childish game but it is also very amusing. The only downside is that you will have to do some cleaning afterwards, but if you are too tired to clean you can always using professional after party cleaning services of a company like Cleaners Notting Hill.
- Forehead pass the orange – You will need two oranges and an obstacle-free space to play this highly competitive game. Then split your guests into two teams of even number. Make sure that players in each team are of approximately the same height. Once the teams are ready, have the first two person of each team place an orange between their foreheads and then have them run through the room touch the farthest wall and return. Once the first pair is back to the starting point, the orange is passed by hand to the next pair and like this until all pairs have completed a lap. The team that first finishes all runs, wins the game. If an orange is dropped during the game, the pair is obligated to start from the beginning.
- Bobbing for apples – This is one of the oldest games known to manmade. Historians claim that the game originated in the Middle Ages. Simply fill your bathtub or a large laver with water and then place floating apples into the water. Next have each player grab as many apples as he/she can by using their teeth while their hands are tied behind their back, for a period of 30 seconds. The player that grabs the most apples wins. You can add your own touch and customize the game by using whipped cream, chocolate syrup or custard instead of water. Just like with the bubble gum from above, this game may soil your household. So don’t be shy to use professional cleaning services once your party is over.
- Pass the parcel fancy dress – Grab a sports bags and fill with as many silly clothing items that you have. For instance you can place in it wigs, long johns, weird hats, Halloween customers and etc. Then gather in a circle and run a song, when the songs end the person holding the bag must put on a random item from the bag. Then play another song, and once again the person holding the bag when the song ends must put on a random item from the bag. The game ends when the bag is empty, while the winner is determined by a vote from all the players. The criteria for winning can be the best dressed player, the worst dressed players, the silliest dressed player and so on.
The best way to relax after a tough day is to sit down with a nice glass of wine and literally do nothing but watch the ceiling, nap or simply enjoy a conversation with your spouse or children. In order to relax however you will need a comfy chair that will aid your body and mind feel good. So if you don’t have a comfy chair keep calm and throw a glance at the list from down below.
The first chair that we will present to you is known as the Power Nap. The chair is designed by Ninna Helena Olsen and mimics a Japanese origami. The chair is designed in such fashion that it encloses your body and allows you to rest your body in full. The chair is so well designed that it can easily blend into any household or office design. The only downside of the chair is its white colour which means that it will require a lot of cleaning. However you can always use the services of Carpet Cleaning Hounslow to aid you maintain your Power Nap in top condition.
The next chair in our list in known as The Cradle and has the design of a large semi-spherical picnic basket. The interior of the chair frame is filled with soft cushions that will allow you to rest and relax in full and more important that will allow you to take a comfortable nap if you feel like it.
The Loopita is the next chair in our list and is a chair that is literally one of a kind. The chair resembles a giant looping track and can be use by either one or two person at the same time. The curves of the chairs will match perfectly to your spine and will literally relax your lumbar points while you are enjoying yourself. The only disadvantage of the Loopita is that is has a light beige cushioning that will certainly require professional cleaning services every now and then.
The Hanabi is perhaps the most interesting chair in our list. The chair is designed to mimic a pack of pillows that are thrown over one another. The pillows are filled with polystyrene pellets that will engulf your body in a warm hug-like feeling. The chair is designed by mottoWasabi and can easily be converted into a couch by combining several Hanabi chairs.
The Couch Sleeper doesn’t have a striking design like the chairs from above. In fact it literally looks like a lounge chair, a lounge chair that has been fitted in a sleeping bag. This way you can tuck yourself in as soon as you feel sleepy and have a very nice nap.
The last chair that we will present to you is known as the Feel Seating System Deluxe. The chair comprises of 120 soft balls which you can arrange to a variety of positions. This way you will be able to create your own unique and comfy chair which will allow you to rest and relax. Note that the soft balls are sold in different colors.
Nowadays lots of people tend to complain about the lack of storage space in their households. If you are currently having storage problems in your home, keep reading because we will present to you five ways by which you can drastically enhance the storage capacity of your home.
- Storage bed– The bedroom is perhaps the room of your household with the largest need of a maximum storage capacity. Ironically the bedroom is also the room with the least amount of free space, once that you place a wardrobe and bed in the room. Still there is a solution for this unpleasant conundrum and the solution is to get a storage bed which has a hollow frame and drawers on the side of the frame and therefore will allow you to store not so necessary items under the mattress and into the bed frame.
- Wooden storage chest– Don’t use common plastic storage containers to augment the storage capacity of any of your rooms. For one the containers are ugly and rarely blend it with the interior design of your home. Instead get a wooden storage chest for the task. The chest will be much more appealing to the eye and has a much larger storage capacity than plastic containers. The only downside of using a wooden storage chest is that it will require regular cleaning. Luckily for you, you can always spare yourself the task by using the services of Cleaners Kingston.
- Hallway bench– The hallway is another area of the household that requires a significant amount of storage space. An easy solution for the problem is to place a hallway bench into your foyer. This way you will be able to storage your shoes and boots underneath and bench and hang your coats, hats and umbrellas on the hooks that you will place above the bench. Another approach to enhance the storage of your hallway is to place a hallway wardrobe into the area but before you do so make sure that you have enough space into your foyer or risk blocking it with a large piece of furniture.
- Ottoman chairs– Ottoman chairs are considered by many interior designers as the ideal solution for storage problems. For one the chairs are quite comfortable and nice looking and two with their hidden compartment provide enough storage space to hide all your items that are not of first necessity. The only thing that goes against Ottoman chairs is that you will have to have to use cleaning services at least twice a year to maintain them in top condition.
- Cocktail Hutch– Instead of keeping your wine and alcoholic drinks in one of your kitchen cabinets you can place a cocktail hutch in your dining room and keep your beverages there. Keep in mind that most cocktail hutch have special compartment where you can keep the glasses, shakers, napkins and etc. So by placing a hutch in the dining room you will open even more space in your kitchen.
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Over the last few weeks, Randy Seaver has discussed two of his brick walls, one on Thomas J. Newton and the other Devier Lamphere. Bizarrely, these two surnames are also brick walls for my dear friend and great genealogist, Drew Bartley. Go figure that one out. Drew is the author of the English origins and definitive first three generations on the Lampheres. See NEHGR 153:131-40, 159:333-40, 160:47-59, 311 (English origins and three generation study. This is one continuous article despite the six year gap. Then see NEHGR 160:112-17 (mother’s probable identification and ancestry). He researched and wrote that article in order to see where his Lampheres fit into the larger family. He never found the "big" clue.
So Drew can't get his Lampheres out of Vermont and back to Connecticut. Randy's problem, although not insurmountable, is considerably more difficult in finding the biological parents of an adopted son in the 19th century. Likewise, the two Newtons are stuck in the 19th century. Randy's Newton is a Mass/Vermont/Maine mess whereas Drew's is a New York state/New Hampshire enigma.
Lamphere is one of the worst surnames to research that I've come across because of the variation of spelling between La (n) or (m) (ph) or (f) (ee) or (e) or (ea) r (e). Newton is one of those names that seem uncommon, but turns out to be more common than you think. And for some reason, there are no good genealogies on the Newtons of New England. Even I have two separate Newtons, both of which are 17th century. [Ellen, maiden name unknown Newton, wife of John Adams then Kenelm Winslow ca. 1598-1681 and Rev. Roger Newton ca. 1620-1683].
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