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Florida state lawmakers are enduring attacks from an organization many call a "terrorist front group" who oppose legislation aimed at banning the use of Sharia law -- the religious doctrine that's applied by Islamists in their own countries -- from courtrooms throughout Florida, claims a non-profit, public-interest group that investigates and exposes government corruption and crime. www.judicialwatch.org
Although the bill targets Sharia law, the legislation seeks to prohibit the application of any foreign law, code or system in legal cases, especially in family court. It was introduced after a state appeals court allowed a county judge in central Florida to consider "ecclesiastical Islamic law" to decide a civil case involving a mosque.
As a Florida state House committee considers the bill this week, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a national organization that serves as the U.S. front for the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, is blasting it as an attempt to demonize Islam, states the Judicial Watch blog.
If the measure passes it will also restrict religious freedom, according to CAIR.
A few years ago CAIR pressured a south Florida county's transit agency to drop bus advertisements considered by the group to be "misleading and bigoted" against Muslims. CAIR asserted that the ads created a campaign of hatred and intolerance because they gave the false impression that Muslims are "trapped" in their religion with no means of "escape," thus facing certain death.
CAIR bills itself as a Muslim civil rights organization but top FBI counterterrorism chiefs, such as the late John O'Neill, describe it as an entity that promotes and finances terrorism.
According to a report from the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security: "The Council on American-Islamic Relations and its employees have combined, conspired, and agreed with third parties, including, but not limited to, the Islamic Association for Palestine, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, the Global Relief Foundation, and foreign nationals hostile to the interests of the United States, to provide material support to known terrorist organizations, to advance the Hamas agenda, and to propagate radical Islam."
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, and certain officers, directors, and employees, have acted in support of, and in furtherance of, this conspiracy, said the Senate report.
M. Zuhdi Jasser, a Muslim who challenges groups such as CAIR, in an NYPD-used training video The Third Jihad details how CAIR was created shortly after a secret 1993 meeting in Philadelphia involving members of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee. Their goal was to lead opposition to the 1993 Oslo accords and generate support for Hamas, the terrorist organization that now runs the government in Gaza.
Dr. Daniel Pipes, a foremost expert on radical Islam and terrorism cites several criminal cases involving CAIR officials: A senior staff member, Randall Royer a/k/a "Ismail" Royer, pled guilty and was sentenced to twenty years in prison for participating in a network of militant jihadists centered in Northern Virginia. He admitted to aiding and abetting three persons who sought training in a terrorist camp in Pakistan for the purpose of waging jihad against American troops in Afghanistan. Royer's illegal actions occurred while he was employed by CAIR.
CAIR's Director of Public Affairs, Bassem Kafagi was arrested by the US due to his ties with a terror-financing front group. Khafagi pled guilty to charges of visa and bank fraud, and agreed to be deported to Egypt. Khafagi's illegal actions occurred while he was employed by CAIR.
Ghassan Elashi, a founder of CAIR's Texas chapter and founder of the Holy Land Foundation was arrested by the United States and charged with, making false statements on export declarations, dealing in the property of a designated terrorist organization, conspiracy and money laundering. Ghassan Elashi committed his crimes while working at CAIR, and was found guilty.
CAIR Board Member Imam Siraj Wahaj, an un-indicted coconspirator in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, has called for replacing the American government with an Islamic caliphate, and warned that America will crumble unless it accepts Islam.
Last year, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) was pressured to cease using a training film CAIR members found offensive. CAIR contacted NCIS after receiving a report about a three-day NCIS surveillance detection course at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C.
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This fluffy bee is Bombas hypnorum, a tree bumblebee, photographed yesterday in the reserve by Clive Knight.
Tree bumblebees are European natives that crossed the channel and arrived in Britain at the turn of the century. The first UK identification was actually right here in Wiltshire, in 2001. Since then, in little more than two decades, they have spread rapidly, are now found right through England and Wales and have become one of our most common bumblebees. The species was positively identified in the reserve last year by Mark Bushell, though it’s possible and probable they had been here a lot longer.
This is a woodland edge species that nests in cavities such as old birds’ nests and holes in trees. But, like a lot of insects that appear to be adjusting well to the demands of climate change, the tree bumblebee has adapted to urban life and is commonly found in gardens, nesting in bird boxes, holes in garden walls or roof spaces.
It is a generalist species that has been observed feeding at more than a hundred different kinds of wildflower and their garden cultivars. It is these generalists, cheerfully moving north as the European climate warms and busy making do, that will occupy the empty habitat left by our more specialised and less adaptable native bumblebees.
Check your bird boxes for bees!
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How to Prepare the Endometrium to Maximize Implantation Rates and IVF Success
The last step in the IVF treatment cycle, embryo transfer, is also the process with the highest failure rate. No matter how good the laboratory technique is, a successful pregnancy will not be achieved without meticulous preparation of the uterus to accept the embryo. This book reviews the scientific evidence on endometrial receptivity, including histological, hormonal, biochemical, and immunological factors. Practical and concise, it supports gynecologists and embryologists to make evidence-based decisions that can influence the success rates of implantation and live births. Part of a series of books offering treatments and strategies for fertility and conception to optimize IVF outcomes, this volume is for all clinicians and embryologists working in reproductive medicine.
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Maggie trained as a primary school teacher at The Froebel Educational Institute where art was her special subject and taught primary school children for many years. She learnt her Chinese painting in Hong Kong where she spent all her childhood also learning the calligraphy and Chinese (Cantonese) language. She has been teaching Chinese Painting on a part time basis for many years. She regularly learns with Chinese masters to update her skills as well as making visits to China.
Maggie's paintings are held in many private collections. She also exhibits with The Society of Floral Painters. She is also a member of the Chinese Brush Painters Society. Maggie has written three books on Chinese painting and produced a DVD.
Approach to Teaching
Although I always have a well prepared theme for a course I am prepared to be flexible in order to meet the needs of the students. I teach by demonstration as Chinese painting is a technique much more easily learnt by watching. As Chinese painting is steeped in tradition, rituals and symbolism I like to include detail of this in my teaching.
What inspires your work
The Chinese believe that to give a painting vitality or 'Chi' one must thoroughly observe one's subject before committing it to paper without any prior drawing. My favourite subject is flowers and birds so my garden and those of others are a constant inspiration. I love visiting China and soaking up the art and culture as well as the stunning scenery.
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Significant physical changes to the Cincinnati Art Museum
s existing 2,800-square-foot ancient Middle East gallery opened to the public. The new space showcases works from across the ancient Middle East, including the most significant collection of Nabataean art in the United States.
The new galleries have been arranged thematically and incorporate contemporary reflections on ancient pasts, encouraging visitors to rethink the way a twenty-first century museum interprets ancient Middle Eastern art.
The reinstallation includes objects displayed for the first time alongside much lauded strengths of the permanent collection to celebrate the art, innovation, and human endeavor from this vast region. This approach presents political, religious, economic, and cultural connections between the network of empires and city-states of the ancient Middle East. The objects and architectural material in the collection represent centuries of trade and cultural exchange that are formative in our understanding of how the region developed.
Architectural changes include new visitor pathways through the space, the addition of LED lighting, and new custom-built casework. In addition, new windows allow for more natural light and provide a spectacular view of both the front-facing grounds and interior Alice Bimel Courtyard. Adjacent galleries of South Asian art and the art of the Islamic World are also being renovated with updated lighting, casework, and interpretative approach. They will reopen in the spring.
The ancient Middle East is a vast geographic area that stretches from Turkey to the Indus Valley of present-day Pakistan, and from the Caucasus region to the Arabian Peninsula. The term ancient Middle East is often applied to objects made between the Neolithic period (eight millennium BCE) and the end of the Sasanian empire (mid-seventh century AD).
The project team is led by Dr. Ainsley M. Cameron, Cincinnati Art Museums Curator of South Asian Art, Islamic Art & Antiquities, alongside two Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Curatorial Research Fellows, PhD candidates at the University of Cincinnati and Hebrew Union College, respectively. Other significant collaborators to the project beyond the museum include constituents from the Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati, the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the University of Oxford.
According to Dr. Cameron, The new galleries do not provide a chronological, geographical, or materially complete presentation of history, nor does it hold those modes of presentation as a goal. Rather, it is a view into the ancient world that is representative of how we see, embody, feel, and experience these ancient civilizations today, located in the American Midwest and situated in a globally connected world.
Commissioned by the museum and inspired by the objects on view, the galleries also feature a new artwork by the artist Shahzia Sikander, titled Caesura. The monumental painted glass commission occupies the clerestory windows across both sides of the gallery and create dynamic connections between past and present. Sikander is known for innovative works that engage playfully with scale, religion, culture, histories, and iconographies of power. While her own identity connects with Pakistan rather than the countries of the modern Middle East, her practice mines cultural influences and forms that play across this vast region.
By incorporating a contemporary commission into these ancient galleries, we encourage multiple ways of seeing, reading, and understanding culturesjust as Sikanders layered work suggests movement, color, density, gesture, and ever-shifting light, said Dr. Cameron.
The museums ancient Middle East collections number more than 1,000 objects, with the monumental architectural fragments from Khirbet et-Tannur, a large Nabataean temple complex located 70 miles north of Petra in present-day Jordan, at its center. The museum is honored to steward the largest collection of Nabataean sculpture outside of Jordan. Khirbet et-Tannur was excavated in 1937 by the Department of Antiquities of Transjordan in collaboration with archaeologist and Cincinnati native Dr. Nelson Glueck.
Relief sculptures depicting deities, carved floral ornamentation, an arch from the central shrine, and terracotta works entered the museums collection in 1939, while complementary collections are in The Jordan Museum and the Jordan Archaeological Museum in Amman. Other highlights of the museums ancient Middle East collection include lavish royal goods, intricate votive objects, and architectural fragments from the Assyrian, Achaemenid, and Sasanian civilizations, among others.
The majority of the collection has been in storage since 2004 awaiting new gallery space. Constituents are eager to have the collection return to view, particularly the faculty and students at the University of Cincinnatis Department of Classics, the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology at Hebrew Union College, as well as visiting scholars and academics from around the world. The museum has long-standing ties with the government of Jordan and has collaborated often with Jordanian scholars and officials to represent the Nabataean civilization to our audiences. Cincinnati has official Sister City status with Amman, Jordan.
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The centenary of the first running of the Indianapolis 500 was celebrated at the Goodwood Festival of Speed (July 1-3) by a gathering of 15 drivers with an astonishing 26 wins at The Brickyard between them. Some original Indianapolis bricks have been permanently inserted into the start line and the fanfare and pageant of the famous race was recalled by Goodwood’s “Gasoline Alley” and the 33-car-and-driver parade headed by a marching band.
Goodwood has always excelled at matching cars and drivers, and this year was no exception with Parnelli Jones (1968 Lotus 56 Turbine), Bobby Unser (1981 Penske PC9B-Cosworth), Al Unser Jr. (1970 PJ Colt-Ford Johnny Lightning Special and 1994 Penske PC23-Mercedes that he shared with Emerson Fittipaldi) Johnny Rutherford (1974 McLaren M16C-Offenhauser and 1980 Chaparral 2K-Cosworth), Emerson Fittipaldi and Danny Sullivan (1985 March 85C-Cosworth), Bobby Rahal (1986 March 86C-Cosworth), Kenny Bräck (1977 Coyote-Foyt), Eddie Cheever (1951 Stevens-Offenhauser), Gil de Ferran and Helio Castroneves (2003 Panoz GForce GF09-Toyota), Scott Dixon (1957 Kurtis Kraft-Offenhauser), Dario Franchitti (1965 Lotus 38-Ford and 2008 Dallara-Honda) joining this year’s Indy winner, Dan Wheldon, in his home country. Arie Luyendyk was also present.
Lining up in Gasoline Alley alongside the cars in action were static displays brought over from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame museum, and among these was the Marmon Wasp, winner of the first race in 1911, and fitted with what is thought to be the world’s first rear-view mirror. Together, they represented the greatest collection of Indy racers outside of the USA. It would be difficult to imagine a more unlikely place to exercise these Speedway legends than up the 1.16-mile long, narrow hill that passes in front of the Earl of March’s family seat in England’s rural West Sussex!
The overall theme was “Racing Revolutions—Quantum Leaps that Shaped Motorsport.” This year marked 75 years since Auto Union won the European Championship with a ground-breaking rear-engined car, 30 years since the Audi quattro heralded rallying’s four-wheel-drive age, and the McLaren MP4/1 that introduced carbon fiber to F1. All were represented at Goodwood along with a host of drivers. Sir Stirling Moss, a Patron of this event since its inception in 1993, drew loud cheers as he demonstrated his own Porsche 718 RS61 despite recently announcing his retirement from vintage racing. Only a few entries opt to participate in timed runs, and this culminated in a top ten “shoot-out” for the fastest climb of the Hill. Dan Collins was narrowly fastest in a 1981 Lotus 88B “twin-chassis” that itself was a racing revolution, albeit one never allowed to compete in period.
Among other famous names taking part were Jean Alesi, Derek Bell, Martin Brundle, Jenson Button, Vic Elford, Lewis Hamilton, Damon Hill, Nigel Mansell, Jochen Mass, Arturo Merzario, Brian Redman, Nico Rosberg, John Surtees and Mark Webber. The present-day Formula One drivers and cars attract many of the spectators who hopefully gain an insight into motorsport history when they see their heroes also piloting cars from a previous era. It seems that most of today’s stars relish meeting their heroes from earlier times and many stories are exchanged. For others it is one big reunion at the world’s fastest garden party.
The central display in front of Goodwood House traditionally features a marquee celebrating an anniversary, and the stunning 90-foot-high creation this year reflected 50 years since the launch of the Jaguar E-Type. Gerry Judah had crafted a recognizable fixed-head coupe from what resembled giant organ pipes, said to weigh as much as 122 real E-Types! Mounted nose down, it looked like it had just landed from outer space. Many competition examples of the iconic model were also driven on the Hill, including the recently restored Lidner/Nöcker lightweight, lovingly brought back to life by Peter Neumark’s Classic Motor Company. Jaguar also celebrated 60 years since its first Le Mans win.
Every conceivable variation of four- and two-wheeled vehicle could be found around the Festival site. A walk up the increasingly steep Hill rewards the visitor with a view of the cars completing their climb, and just 40 feet away the top rally cars of past and present are performing on the 1.7-mile forest rally stage that draws its own devotees.
The next event at Goodwood is the circuit Revival Meeting on September 16-18. As always, entry is by advance ticket only and these are available at www.goodwood.com/tickets.
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A new study has shed light on the diets and feeding habits of Ningaloo’s stingrays, information which has never been documented before.
“They are ‘engineers of the sea’, changing and creating habitats as they feed. When looking for food, rays churn up the sediment on the ocean floor, which is very important, both physically and at a chemical level.
“The physical act of disturbing the sediment resuspends nutrients, but also allows other creatures to access hidden prey, which they previously couldn’t reach.
“As consumers themselves, they can give us an insight into the role stingrays play in coastal ecosystems, and highlight their importance as a key-stone group of fishes.”
During the study, Dr O’Shea and his team analysed the stomach and gut contents of 170 rays across 18 different Ningaloo Reef locations.
With five species of stingray sharing the same habitat, researchers expected to find that different species would feed upon different prey to reduce competition and ensure there are enough resources to go around. But the findings proved that this wasn’t necessarily the case.
“Only one species showed evidence of a different diet, which is interesting given the abundance of rays in these coastal ecosystems. We thought it would be more,” he said.
“Four of the five species we examined had overlapping diets consisting mainly of marine worms. This suggests that the area supports a biologically rich community with an ample supply of food, so the need to share resources was not apparent.”
Described as the ‘underdogs’ of the marine world, Dr O’Shea said stingrays were threatened by many of the same challenges which threatened sharks, but that conservation efforts and scientific literature tended to overlook them in favour of their marine cousins.
Dr O’Shea hopes his research, which has just been published in the Journal of Fish Biology, will shine the spotlight on the importance of rays as possible indicators of ecosystem health. He hopes this will allow decision-makers to consider the impact any coastal development will have on ray populations and the functions they perform.
Having completed his PhD at Murdoch University, Dr O’Shea will continue his work with sharks and rays, recently accepting a position as a Shark Research Associate at the Cape Eleuthera Research Institute in the Bahamas.
The full journal article can be viewed online here.
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The Brits at Davos should have a spring in their step. For, despite gloom from WPP chief Sir Martin Sorrell, our economy is entering a sweet spot.
Figures today showed a fall in jobless and wages rising at a pace not seen since 2012.
Even the hawks at the Bank of England have realised their arguments for raising interest rates are bogus in the face of zero inflation.
But does the supposed wage increase really feel like that in most people’s pay packets?
Perhaps not — particularly if you’re among the thousands of City workers finding out your “comp” numbers are down on last year.
And it’s not just bankers failing to enjoy the wages the Office for National Statistics suggests. This is in part because the ONS takes an average of the whole country’s weekly pay.
And because of the increase in the numbers of people getting back into work over the past couple of years, the pattern of that average shifted towards more bottom-rung-of-the-ladder jobs. That in turn pressed down on the average pay pot.
Now those people have been in work for a while, their wages have risen as they get more experienced, pushing up the average across the country.
That’s great for them, but hasn’t meant much for the rest of us.
Having said that, the economic numbers are going in the right direction, and fast. Falling unemployment will soon mean bosses must push through pay rises for everyone to avoid those “If you won’t pay me, I’ll hop off” chats.
Simultaneously, petrol prices will fall for most of the year, energy bills are falling and a supermarket price war is just getting underway.
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Fire is such a powerful force - it sparks, it jumps, it rages and it kill everything in it's path! Then the smoke is in the air for weeks! We get fires every summer. But, thank god, nothing like this!! Thanks for letting me know you are safe, Kirsten!!
It IS awful. Again, we are safe, and the fire that was nearby has now been contained. I have never been closely threatened, but our Black Saturday fires were close enough for me. The air was full of smoke, and places we loved were nearly destroyed. But your family's experience was much more dire than any I've experienced.It is a tragedy though, for those communities impacted.
Oh Kirsten - How horrifying. I had family in the middle of a raging fire last summer and it is such a terrifying thing. They had a wind change and some luck with retardant and it kept them, personally, relatively ok. But, they were out in the midst of it trying to help neighbors, etc. And, while it was in more than one state, it was nowhere near this size!!!!I am so very sorry! And the map show just how extensive it is. What a tragedy for so many folk!
Oops! I missed your reply here Jan. Now that I'm doing the littlies, I find that my completed bookmarks fill up so quickly, that I don't always notice when someone replies.The fires are terrible for Australia. In particular Tasmania, where the worst fires there destroyed more than 100 properties. There was 100 people not accounted for too, but as they complete their forensic searches and find no bodies (thank goodness), are putting it down to tourists who have left the area but failed to tell the authorities. Seeing the images though, takes me back to the devastation caused by our own Black Saturday fires that occurred very close to where I live, and impacted severely on some small communities nearby. At the moment the fires are impacting most in New South Wales (NSW), where many fires are still burning out of control. Even though there has been no loss of life at this stage, the loss of stock and property has been extraordinary. I think it would be 100,000 head of stock, and of course that would not include wildlife. And the property loss is very high too. One of the fires in NSW has a 44 kilometre perimeter, and another encompasses 16,000 hectares! Those numbers are nearly too big to comprehend! This picture graphically depicts the fire situation in Australia at the moment:http://www.bushfirecrc.com/fire-locationsIn terms of what's happening near us, last night we heard about a fire in a nearby area (about 10 kilometres away), but we are not under any threat by it, despite it neither being contained nor controlled. I'm keeping my eye on it, but I can't imagine that it will cause us any concern where we are. And the weather has been a bit kinder on our valiant fire-fighters today, as it a little cooler and less windy.So, all in all, OK for us personally, but terrible for many parts of Australia.
Thanks so much, Mandy! I really appreciate the comment!
Simple, yet extremely effective, thanks Jan :~)
Thanks, Kirsten! How are the fires? I've been thinking about you a lot!
Well, this was simply wonderful! Thanks Jan. :)))
It really is as simple as that, Hanne. Sometimes simple is a nice change! Thanks so much!
I can't help thinking about paper cutting put on coloured paper!! Thanks so very much Jan!!
Glad you liked it, JC. Thank YOU!Ardy - I try different solve techniques and usually go back to the ones I like and say heck with the time! Glad you enjoyed it anyway!
I tried something different in solving and I won't do it again. 3:05. I should have been able to post a much better time on this one. But the colors are so distinctive that I thought I could group the pieces and then they'd hop together - NOT. Thanks, Jan. Love the BOARDS.
Another fun one, Jan!
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'Observations' by Donal Keohane Illustrates Life Through Visual Art
Author and artist Donal Keohane wants to help you perceive the pleasures of life.
His second book, Observations Visible and Poetic, is a unique collection of paintings, sculpture, drawing, stained glass, mosaic and poetry that enhances the reader's awareness of the world around them. Keohane combined natural and personal elements to create this book.
"Through my art, I strive to open people up to looking at life from a new angle," said Keohane. "There are natural scenes all around us, but we rarely fully appreciate them."
The combination of visuals and poetry heightens the reader's awareness of the natural world. Observations Visible and Poetic is an exceptional collection that helps bring readers to a greater understanding of the vivacity of the world.
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Polls and tests conducted among pupils of different ages, show that today's children rather vaguely familiar with the history of the past years.Or they generally have little interest in history, or the poorly taught her.Some students find it difficult to remember the Russian Civil War was, because of which she even started, what are the most famous military leaders fought for either side.But of the times and in the manner associated with the name of IVStalin, as today's children know little.The political
system of the socialist era, a Pioneer and Komsomol organization of some children and almost nothing is known, although their parents were pioneers.
Great Patriotic War as an event of epic proportions and importance, which brought more death and destruction than the civil war, is known best for children.But here we must note with regret: knowledge of some students of this tragic and a great feat of our people is very superficial.The situation began several bug recently, with the strengthening of the military-patriotic propaganda and access many new films about the Great Patriotic War.
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about what appliances, equipment are made available to their parents (and even more so, and grandparents), modern students have only a vague idea.Now, not every house is preserved, for example, old fridge, TV or radio!Therefore, the current student come to genuinely astonished to learn that mothers and fathers when they were children, there was no computer, no cell phones, no players.Information about the situation in the country they were obtained by radio.Today's children do not know those games were played by their parents, because the street fun ousted computer technology.
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At its finest, the reality portrayed in opera is a hyperreality. Plucking out the most dramatic, the funniest, the most extreme moments in life, opera pins these events to the velvet, expanding them, drawing them out, embellishing them, digging into their weird emotional heart until their most profound elements are so intense they'll make you dizzy. In this way, the best opera productions become less about momentous events than about the unruly emotions that boil up in reaction to those events. This, I suspect, is why people attend opera in the first place—for the shot of adrenaline you get from being exposed to this kind of emotional vertigo.
Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar, this season's contemporary production from the Santa Fe Opera, is a hip modern affair in most ways. Gronk designed its flamboyant graffiti-esque set. To the extent it contains a plot at all, Ainadamar is distinctly nonlinear. The orchestra is filled with nontraditional instruments—guitars, marimbas and various Spanish percussion instruments. Likewise, the opera's sound design includes several prerecorded elements. Finally, unlike the sprawling classics of 19th century opera, Ainadamar is a quick shot at 75 minutes—one act, no intermission, no chance to catch your breath.
Yet Golijov's brilliant creation feels traditional, nonetheless. Not a lot happens during those 75 minutes, but what does happen is examined with such dramatic musical intensity that by the time the curtain falls you'll feel as if entire lifetimes have passed before your eyes. (I mean this in a good way.)
Most of the opera consists of one long look at the execution of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, who was shot to death by Fascist forces in 1936 during the first few days of the Spanish Civil War. Lorca was killed in his hometown of Granada in a place called Ainadamar, which means "the fountain of tears."
The main character in the opera, however, isn't Lorca but Margarita Xirgu, the great Spanish actress who collaborated with Lorca on many plays and did much to keep his memory alive following his execution. In Uruguay in 1969, at the end of her life, Xirgu looks back on the tragic events that took place more than 30 years earlier, when the dream of the Spanish Republic was crushed under the weight of Franco's superior military might. Lorca died during those years, but so did the dream of a free nation. When Xirgu died three decades later, the Fascists were still in power in Spain, a country to which she never dared return.
Golijov and his librettist, David Henry Hwang, spend a considerable amount of time tracing connections between Lorca and Mariana Pineda, a Spanish woman martyred in 1831 for sewing a revolutionary flag. Lorca's third play told her story, and Xirgu played the lead to great acclaim. The bond between these three figures—Lorca, his historical inspiration and his artistic collaborator—form the center of Golijov's opera.
This SFO creation is the first fully staged production of Ainadamar ever to be produced, and they do it up right. Director Peter Sellars has pulled it all together admirably. Gronk's towering 20-foot-high painting, which covers not only all three walls but also the entire floor, is a tumultuous piece of work that accurately reflects the trauma and chaos of a bloody civil war. Lights shining from the front of the stage frequently cast giant shadows against Gronk's painting, lending an appropriately eerie ambiance to the story line.
The Spanish-influenced orchestration is adventurous but entirely accessible. Golijov uses lone trumpets, Spanish guitars and rhythm instruments to capture the poetry of Lorca's life and work. The choreography, especially that involving a chorus of women in black dresses, is equally lyrical and ominous.
Of course, none of this would work without a great starring cast. The performance by mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor as Lorca is near perfect. Dressed in a light suit, O'Connor combines masculine and feminine affectations into her character in a way that feels utterly seamless. Golijov has given both her and soprano Dawn Upshaw, who does an equally spectacular job in the role of Xirgu, a range of gorgeous melodies to sing. Given the brevity of this opera, it's surprising that the relationship between these two characters is developed so fully and convincingly. They both accomplish their parts with an impassioned erotic grace.
It's fitting that an opera about Lorca should be this poetic. Golijov and company have found a way to take one of the most tragic events in the history of 20th century art and politics, and transform it into a beautiful emblem of hope and freedom.
The 2005 Santa Fe Opera season runs through August 26. To order tickets, call (800) 280-4654 or go to santafeopera.org.
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|Contents:||How involved should the government be in the economy? --
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It’s a good thing Cassandra lived in ancient Greece and not the modern world. Imagine what today’s headlines would do to her.
Cassandra, as you recall from English 101, was the poor soul from ancient Greek literature blessed with the ability to divine the future but the curse of having nobody believe her. Greek tragedy being Greek tragedy, you can imagine how that went, for Cassandra and her doubters.
We mention her today because sense a bit of the Cassandra out there in a lot of the stories surrounding the Fed and other central banks this week.
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Wednesday 24 April 1940
It was Wednesday, under the sign of Taurus. The US president was Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic).
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The Growth of Business Firms: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence
We introduce a model of proportional growth to explain the distribution of business firm growth rates. The model predicts that it is exponential in the central part and depicts an asymptotic power-law behavior in the tails with an exponent ζ = 3. Because of data limitations, previous studies in this field have been focusing exclusively on the Laplace shape of the body of the distribution. In this article, we test the model at different levels of aggregation in the economy, from products to firms to countries, and we find that the model’s predictions agree with empirical growth distributions and size-variance relationships.
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- Stephen Hymer & Peter Pashigian, 1962. "Firm Size and Rate of Growth," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 70, pages 556-556.
- Kaushik Matia & Dongfeng Fu & Sergey V. Buldyrev & Fabio Pammolli & Massimo Riccaboni & H. Eugene Stanley, 2005. "Statistical Properties of Business Firms Structure and Growth," Papers physics/0502081, arXiv.org.
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"The Relationship Between Firm Size and Firm Growth in the U.S. Manufacturing Sector,"
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"On size and growth of business firms,"
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Elsevier, vol. 324(1), pages 38-44.
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"Innovation and Corporate Growth in the Evolution of the Drug Industry,"
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2001/02, Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy.
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- Xavier Gabaix, 1999. "Zipf's Law for Cities: An Explanation," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Oxford University Press, vol. 114(3), pages 739-767.
- Canning, D. & Amaral, L. A. N. & Lee, Y. & Meyer, M. & Stanley, H. E., 1998. "Scaling the volatility of GDP growth rates," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 60(3), pages 335-341, September.
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From William A. Percy
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Thousands of pages – from erudite to scandalous – debunking received ideas about homosexuality, the American South, history, classics, and religions – emphasizing writers who have been censored, convicted, and condemned.
• Homosexuality/gay/queer/LGBTQQWXYZ and the "Eight P's." Beware! Politically incorrect! Beyond the pale! While the so-called LGBT movement sanitizes away its history, this section focuses on the ‘pariahs’ who pioneered the German and Uranian homosexual rights efforts, then the Anglophone homophile, and finally the gay-liberation revolution. The threads here are the “seven P’s” – Pederasty, the so-called ‘Paraphilias’ (into which I improperly lump Transgender and Transsexuals, along with S&M), Public sex, Prostitution, Promiscuity, Pornographers, and Poètes Maudits, including out Victorian martyr Oscar Wild. This section covers the sexual minorities that LGBTers (and the movement’s pet-poodles Social Constructionists and Queer Theorist) usually prefer to ignore. Among the features in this section are writings by and about important scholars and activists (particularly those suppressed or censored), and the full text of the prize-winning 1990 Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (outrageously shredded 5 years later, but reprinted in 2016.).
• Me and my biological families – The focus here is an eighth "P" that I add ironically to the seven above. It once was esteemed but is now even more reviled than those listed above, namely Planters, that is, owners of plantations (whether worked by slaves or sharecroppers). That category includes most of our founding fathers, and for that matter, if you add serfs, most of the eminent people throughout history. Here you'll find genealogy, wills, obituaries, pictures, books, poetry, speeches, letters, memoirs, and diaries of Percys (including three female novelists), Dents, Minors, Armstrongs, Popes, and (the only non-planters from whom I descend) Yarboroughs. Also here are my own memoirs, rough sketches of three screenplays about my Uncle Will (William Alexander Percy) and imaginary dialogues of his with other Uranians (poets of boy-love), a.k.a. as Calamites if American.
• Greek and Roman Classics – In this field, and elsewhere in the humanities, today's ‘publish or perish’ academics just prove the obvious or waste readers’ time on insignificant details and/or implausible theories. In almost all of this output – particularly in what is politically correct (that requires ignoring or denegrating pederasty) – what is new is not true, and what is true is not new. Especially egregious errors occur regarding the supposed late ages of Roman marriage, evolution of Greek sympoticware from ceramic to silver, and the presumed positive effect of democracy.
• Inspired by my great professors Joseph Strayer, Theodore Mommsan Jr., Edward W. Fox, Ernst Kantorowicz, and Kole-Norton, Eugene Rice. I specialized in Medieval Europe, Medieval, renaissance, modern Europe, and the US – The beneficial revival of Greek and Latin pagan classics during the Renaissance, reaching its climax during the 19th century, forming the basis for humanistic values, until its unfortunate decline of the classics during the 20th centuty, so that the basis western humanistic values has been lost. For the US, the long ignored smuggling of slaves from 1808 to 1861, homo or bisexual presidents and other leaders, injustice to gays, increasing censorship, draconian laws and overreaching government interference and control at every level: America’s bulging prisons and the neo-Jim Crow of homophobic drug and sex-offender laws.
• Superstitions: Religions and other dogmas – In the 13th century, the "first modern man," Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Sicily, quipped than mankind had three great deceivers: – Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad. I say that modern man has been deceived by Marx, Freud, and Hitler, secular dogmatists as intolerant (and even more lethal) than their medieval predecessors. They are, all six of them, the greatest enemies of peace, liberty, justice and the pursuit of happiness.
Some materials are posted in cooperation with the Homosexual Information Center, a surviving aspect of ONE, Incorporated that was founded in Los Angeles in 1965 by Don Slater, Billy Glover, Jim Schneider, and Joseph Hansen.
This site is part encyclopedia, part cabinet of curiosities, part ‘gay activist agenda’. I professed history at University of Massachusetts, Boston, for over 40 years. I published about Greek and Roman demography, art, and sexuality, Judeo-Christian-Muslim homophobia, homosexuals in the holocaust, 'outing', the American South, and the unconscionable, counterproductive persecution of ‘pedophiles’. Click here for my CV and my scholarly work. I am the scion of Southern families that produced William Alexander Percy, whose classic Lanterns on the Levee (1941) became a bestseller; Walker Percy, winner of the National Book Award in 1962 and Jefferson Lecturer in 1989; and Henry Longstreet Minor (A History of the Democratic Party, Macmillan, 1928), as well as numerous 19th-century writers. After graduating as valedictorian from Middlesex School in 1951 and enrolling in the Special Program in the Humanities at Princeton, I served in the US Army from 1953 to 1956, during which I was loaned to the CIA. With a BA from the University of Tennessee, I got an MA at Cornell, a certificato at Naples, and a PhD from Princeton in 1964. But I am also things socially deemed utterly disreputable – queer, sodomite, and aficionado of 'public sex' and bathhouses. My sponsorship of the first forum against the Vietnam war in the Deep South, at Louisiana State, Baton Rouge, drove me from my native soil. My sexual escapades among demimondes meant that my career as well as perhaps my life was always a moment away from destruction like Jews under Hitler or so-called pedophiles today. The material here reflects my origins, interests, and transforming passages through a number of radically different cliques or circles – from Southern aristocratic to New England Brahmin, to bohemian – some down-and-out and radical. A series of same age Jews inspired me: Emile Karafiol from age 17, Henry Friedlander from age 29 and Warren Jonhasson as well as Arthur Warner from age 53. Some recent inspires were down and out ex convicts. Briefly, after LBJ's war crimes, I became Republican but I haven't voted in over 30 years. I became an urban pioneer in 1970. On this site appear many materials not otherwise on the web, some by blacklisted scholars as well as convicted felons, on topics rarely discussed elsewhere in such depth or censored outright. I have funded this site in my estate so that it can continue and expand after my death.
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The wind shall eat up all thy pastors
King, nobles, counsellors, priests, prophets, and elders of the people; they shall be carried away as chaff before the wind, or perish as trees and fruits are blasted with an east wind; to which Nebuchadnezzar and his army are sometimes compared; see ( Jeremiah 18:17 ) . The Targum is,
``all thy governors shall be scattered to every wind;''and thy lovers shall go into captivity:
the Assyrians and Egyptians, as before; see ( Jeremiah 52:31 Jeremiah 52:32 ) ; surely then thou shalt be ashamed and confounded for all thy
being disappointed of all protection from their governors at home, and of all help from their allies abroad; and will then, when too late, be convinced of all their wickedness, and ashamed of it.
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for Backyard Beekeepers
Keeping bees is a wonderful hobby. There’s the satisfaction of knowing that you’re helping an important part of the eco-system, and there’s honey! But...
Having a bee hive in your garden can cause some problems, especially if space is an issue. In a normal hive the bees fly out from the bottom of the hive and sweep across your garden at around head height before they take off into the neighbourhood. This increases the risk of being stung as bees defend their hive entrance, or just they can simply accidentally bump into you!
A Chimney Hive raises the hive entrance and therefore the flight path of the bees to 2.4 metres above the ground.
This form of hive entrance allows bees and people to use the same area without interfering with each other, therefore minimising contact and decreasing the possibility of being stung as well as allowing you to maximise space in your back yard when considering the location of your hive.
The Apiary Code of Practice 2011 Statutory Planning Requirements (Reg 5.1.2) states that beekeepers must place hives greater than three metres from a property boundary fence. This could mean that your hive is in the middle of your back yard! A chimney hive assists with the compliance of the code by raising the entrance to the hive above 2 metres – thereby allowing your hive to be placed on a boundary.
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The colonially nesting Roseate Spoonbill (Platalea ajaja) is a medium-sized, pink-bodied, ibis-like bird with a flat spatula-shaped bill. These birds are found in the southeastern United States and West Indies through Mexico and Central America to South America, where they are distributed south to northern Argentina east of the Andes and western Ecuador and northwestern Peru west of the Andes. They are uncommon to locally common throughout their extensive range. Throughout much of their range, the species is apparently declining as a result of habitat alteration, hunting, and pollution. In the United States, Roseate Spoonbills were common along the Gulf Coast in the early 19th Century, but were almost exterminated in the 1930s by intense persecution and destruction of wading bird colonies for the plume trade starting in the 1880s. They were legally protected in the 1940s, after which populations recovered somewhat, but declines apparently followed later in the 20th century as a consequence of mosquito control programs and alteration of breeding and feeding habitats.
These highly gregarious waders often feed by sweeping the bill side to side, sifting through mud as they walk through shallow water. Their diet includes small fishes and aquatic invertebrates, as well as some plant material. They are found in coastal marshes, lagoons, mudflats, and mangrove keys, foraging in both salt and fresh water. Flocks typically include fewer than half a dozen individuals, but they are often associated with other wading birds as well. In courtship, male and female spoonbills first interact aggressively, then perch close together, presenting sticks to each other and crossing and clasping bills. They typically nest in mangroves or other trees and shrubs 5 to 15 feet above ground or water, but sometimes nest on the ground. The nest, a bulky platform of sticks with a deep twig- and leaf-lined center, is built mainly by the female with material brought by the male. Clutch size is 2 to 3 eggs (range 1 to 5). The white eggs are spotted with brown. Eggs are incubated (by both sexes) for 22 to 24 days. Both parents feed the young. Young may leave the nest after 5 to 6 weeks and are capable of strong flight at around 7 to 8 weeks. Roseate Spoonbills are mostly silent, but make a soft frog-like croak when disturbed.
(Matheu and del Hoyo 1992; Kaufman 1996; AOU 1998; Dunne 2006)
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Investments, real estate and internet access among lowest ranking consumer markets
"Investments, pensions and securities", "real estate services" and "internet service provision" are the three markets most likely to be failing consumers across the EU, according to the autumn 2010 Consumer Markets Scoreboard published today. Among goods markets, "second-hand cars", "clothing and footwear" and meat have scored lowest. At the other end of the spectrum, airlines show good results in spite of the disruptions of spring 2010 and consumers also appreciate cultural goods and services. The Scoreboard ranks consumer markets by looking at indicators such as comparability, consumer trust, consumer satisfaction, problems, complaints, the ease of switching providers, prices, etc. The purpose is to identify markets that appear most at risk of malfunctioning, for follow-up studies, which analyse problems in-depth and identify policy responses. For the first time, the Scoreboard ranks as many as 50 different markets – from food to domestic appliances to car repair – in all EU countries.
EU Commissioner in charge of Health and Consumer Policy John Dalli said: "The great promise of the Single Market is what it can deliver for consumers in terms of lower prices, greater choice, transparency and satisfaction. Thanks to the Scoreboard we can pinpoint the markets where this does not seem to be happening". To conclude: "Our next steps will be to study two markets, internet service provision and meat, more in-depth and to encourage national authorities to use the results in their work".
The Consumer Markets Scoreboard is based on a market monitoring survey measuring the reported experienced and opinions of consumers with recent purchasing experience in each market. For the first time in 2010, it provides data for 50 consumer markets, accounting for over 60% of the consumer household budget.
The purpose of the Scoreboard is to identify markets which may be underperforming for consumers. This provides crucial evidence for policy follow-up, and feeds into the Commission's broader work monitoring the functioning of the Single Market.
The main markets ranking is based on a total score made up of the following indicators:
In addition, the Scoreboard also monitors:
Losses incurred by European consumers, as a result of problems for which they had cause for complaint, are estimated at approximately 0.3% of EU's GDP. This money could be better used to purchase efficient and innovative goods and services thereby providing the EU's economy with a much needed boost.
The European Commission will launch two market studies to investigate in-depth the reasons behind the findings and to identify policy remedies. The markets concerned are:
Full text of the Scoreboard:
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BrisLETS – The Local Energy Trading System in Brisbane
LETS stands for Local Energy Trading System. LETS is an exchange system that operates on a community-issued interest-free complementary currency.
Instead of using bank-issued credit or dollars, a LETS system empowers people to issue credit for the goods or services they sell, by recording the value of the goods and services in the local currency – called Units (in the case of BrisLETS).
As a guide to working out how much to charge for goods and services, each Unit is equal to one dollar.
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WritingThe show's research team developed an annotated document, or "Writer's Notebook", which provided extended and developed definitions of the researchers' curriculum goals. The notebook assisted the writers and producers in translating their educational goals into televised material. Suggestions in the notebook were free of references to specific characters and contexts on the show so that they could be implemented as openly and flexibly as possible. The research team, in a series of meetings with the writers, also developed "a curriculum sheet" that described their goals and priorities for each season, which were divided into four categories: symbolic representation, cognitive processes, the physical environment, and the social environment.[note 5] After receiving the curriculum focus and goals for the season, the writers met to discuss ideas and story arcs for the characters, and when a script was completed, the show's research team analyzed it to ensure that the goals were met. Then each production department met to determine what each episode needed in terms of costumes, lights, and sets. The writers were present during the show's filming, which for the first twenty-four years of the show took place in Manhattan, and after 1992, at the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens, New York, to make last-minute revisions when necessary.
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A day after the African Union concluded a bi-annual summit calling for dialogue between Zimbabwe’s political foes, Zimbabwe’s information minister welcomed the resolution, saying the government was ready for dialogue.
Zimbabwe's information minister on Wednesday praised a resolution by African Union leaders calling for a national unity government, saying Robert Mugabe's regime was ready for talks with all sides.
"This is a welcome resolution which is an endorsement of President Mugabe's statements and pronouncements," Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu told AFP.
"Government is ready for dialogue with whoever, a dialogue for national unity in Zimbabwe," Ndlovu said.
The African Union concluded its bi-annual summit in Egypt on Tuesday calling for dialogue between the country's political foes and urging a national unity administration in the aftermath of Mugabe's widely discredited re-election.
In his inaugural speech on Sunday, Mugabe said it was time for Zimbabweans to bury their political differences and try to work around unity.
"It is only endorsing what the president said, that he is going for national dialogue and is open to anyone who is willing to talk, not national unity concocted by the West," said Ndlovu.
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), whose leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the first round of the election in March but boycotted last week's run-off poll, was meeting Wednesday to decide its reaction to the AU resolution.
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"I think very little of talking up the threat of World War III, and especially of demands for more money to arm NATO," 95-year-old Schmidt told the top-selling Bild daily.
Ex-chancellor Schmidt slams EU over Ukraine
Former chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Photo: DPA
16 May 2014
Former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt said on Friday the Ukraine standoff recalls the lead-up to World War I and blamed the "megalomania" of EU bureaucrats for sparking the crisis.
"But the danger that the situation gets ever more tense, as it did in August 1914, is growing day by day."
The outspoken elder statesman of German politics added: "The situation to me seems increasingly comparable" to the eve of war a century ago. "Europe, the Americans and also the Russians are acting the way author Christopher Clark describes the start of World War I in his very readable book, like 'sleepwalkers'."
The best-seller "The Sleepwalkers" by Australian historian Clark re-evaluates the eve of WWI, focusing on how clueless the leaders of Europe's great powers were about the carnage of the first industrialized war that would follow.
Schmidt, a Social Democrat from the northern port city of Hamburg, was German chancellor from 1974 to 1982. He remains a frequent commentator on world affairs, known for chain-smoking on TV while sharing his opinions.
The ex-chancellor also launched a broadside against the European Commission, charging that it should dabble less in world politics, of which he said "most commissioners understand very little".
"The latest example is the attempt of the European Commission to annex Ukraine, and also to try to draw in Georgia. Just a reminder: Georgia lies outside of Europe. This is megalomania, we have no business being there."
He added that "the officials and bureaucrats in Brussels ... are confronting Ukraine with the apparent choice of having to choose between West and East."
Railing further against the EU apparatus in Brussels, Schmidt also said the European parliament, which will be renewed in a May 22-25 election, should launch a "putsch" against the executive to assert its power.
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Or is the phrase too hostile for non-believers to engage with it properly?
This week Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth said that British society was being threatened by a “strangling counter-culture of death”.
In a powerful address after he was consecrated as Bishop of Portsmouth he said:
We must offer this salvific message to a people sorely in need of new hope and direction, disenfranchised by the desert of modern British politics, wearied by the cycle of work, shopping, entertainment, and betrayed by educational, legal, medical and social policy makers who, in the relativistic world they’re creating, however well-intentioned, are sowing the seeds of a strangling counter-culture of death.
The phrase has already prompted some criticism. Michael Walsh, a papal historian, argued in the Tablet that a real “culture of death” would look very different from modern Britain. Another academic, Dr Gemma Simmonds, a lecturer at Heythrop College, also suggested it was too negative, saying: “The theology of Vatican II makes clear that the Holy Spirit speaks within contemporary culture and in many voices outside as well as within the Church.”
Many Catholics believe the phrase is a useful shorthand term for destructive practices such abortion, euthanasia and IVF. But is it too negative to be persuasive for non-believers? It has in the past provoked outrage. In 2010 Edmund Adamus, director of pastoral affairs for the Diocese of Westminster, described Britain as the “geopolitical epicentre of the culture of death”, and got into trouble for it.
But the term has a good pedigree. Blessed Pope John Paul II introduced it in his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae; Americans Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal Burke and Cardinal O’Malley have all used it more recently. It gives society a shake. It conveys a sense of urgency and crisis. Non-believers will have a hard time brushing it off as irrelevant.
So, is it helpful to describe British secular society as a “culture of death”? Or do non-Catholics find the phrase too offensive to engage with it properly?
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The Glimpses of the Moonby Edith Wharton
Set in the posh milieu that Wharton knew so intimately, The Glimpses of the Moon is a sweeping portrait of a couple caught up in the trappings of privilege-and driven by a reckless, all-consuming ambition....
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The Glimpses of the Moon
By Edith Wharton
Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco MediaCopyright ©2001 Edith Wharton
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It rose for them - their honey-moon - over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own.
"It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to risk the experiment," Susy Lansing opined, as they hung over the inevitable marble balustrade and watched their tutelary orb roll its magic carpet across the waters to their feet.
"Yes - or the loan of Strefford's villa," her husband emended, glancing upward through the branches at a long low patch of paleness to which the moonlight was beginning to give the form of a white house-front.
"Oh, come - when we'd five to choose from. At least if you count the Chicago flat."
"So we had - you wonder!" He laid his hand on hers, and his touch renewed the sense of marvelling exultation which the deliberate survey of their adventure always roused in her....It was characteristic that she merely added, in her steady laughing tone: "Or, not counting the flat - for I hate to brag - just consider the others: Violet Melrose's place at Versailles, your aunt's villa at Monte Carlo - and a moor!"
She was consciousof throwing in the moor tentatively, and yet with a somewhat exaggerated emphasis, as if to make sure that he shouldn't accuse her of slurring it over. But he seemed to have no desire to do so. "Poor old Fred!" he merely remarked; and she breathed out carelessly: "Oh, well -"
His hand still lay on hers, and for a long interval, while they stood silent in the enveloping loveliness of the night, she was aware only of the warm current running from palm to palm, as the moonlight below them drew its line of magic from shore to shore.
Nick Lansing spoke at last. "Versailles in May would have been impossible: all our Paris crowd would have run us down within twenty-four hours. And Monte Carlo is ruled out because it's exactly the kind of place everybody expected us to go. So - with all respect to you - it wasn't much of a mental strain to decide on Como."
His wife instantly challenged this belittling of her capacity. "It took a good deal of argument to convince you that we could face the ridicule of Como!"
"Well, I should have preferred something in a lower key; at least I thought I should till we got here. Now I see that this place is idiotic unless one is perfectly happy; and that then it's - as good as any other."
She sighed out a blissful assent. "And I must say that Streffy has done things to a turn. Even the cigars - who do you suppose gave him those cigars?" She added thoughtfully: "You'll miss them when we have to go."
"Oh, I say, don't let's talk to-night about going. Aren't we outside of time and space...? Smell that guinea-a-bottle stuff over there: what is it? Stephanotis?"
"Y-yes....I suppose so. Or gardenias....Oh, the fire-flies! Look...there, against that splash of moonlight on the water. Apples of silver in a net-work of gold...."They leaned together, one flesh from shoulder to finger-tips, their eyes held by the snared glitter of the ripples.
"I could bear," Lansing remarked, "even a nightingale at this moment...."
A faint gurgle shook the magnolias behind them, and a long liquid whisper answered it from the thicket of laurel above their heads.
"It's a little late in the year for them: they're ending just as we begin."
Susy laughed. "I hope when our turn comes we shall say good-bye to each other as sweetly."
It was in her husband's mind to answer: "They're not saying good-bye, but only settling down to family cares." But as this did not happen to be in his plan, or in Susy's, he merely echoed her laugh and pressed her closer.
The spring night drew them into its deepening embrace. The ripples of the lake had gradually widened and faded into a silken smoothness, and high above the mountains the moon was turning from gold to white in a sky powdered with vanishing stars. Across the lake the lights of a little town went out, one after another, and the distant shore became a floating blackness. A breeze that rose and sank brushed their faces with the scents of the garden; once it blew out over the water a great white moth like a drifting magnolia petal. The nightingales had paused and the trickle of the fountain behind the house grew suddenly insistent.
When Susy spoke it was in a voice languid with visions. "I have been thinking," she said, "that we ought to be able to make it last at least a year longer."
Her husband received the remark without any sign of surprise or disapprobation; his answer showed that he not only understood her, but had been inwardly following the same train of thought.
"You mean," he enquired after a pause, "without counting your grandmother's pearls?"
"Yes - without the pearls."
He pondered a while, and then rejoined in a tender whisper: "Tell me again just how."
"Let's sit down, then. No, I like the cushions best."
He stretched himself in a long willow chair, and she curled up on a heap of boat-cushions and leaned her head against his knee. Just above her, when she lifted her lids, she saw bits of moon-flooded sky incrusted like silver in a sharp black patterning of plane-boughs. All about them breathed of peace and beauty and stability, and her happiness was so acute that it was almost a relief to remember the stormy background of bills and borrowing against which its frail structure had been reared. "People with a balance can't be as happy as all this," Susy mused, letting the moonlight filter through her lazy lashes.
People with a balance had always been Susy Branch's bugbear; they were still, and more dangerously, to be Susy Lansing's. She detested them, detested them doubly, as the natural enemies of mankind and as the people one always had to put one's self out for. The greater part of her life having been passed among them, she knew nearly all that there was to know about them, and judged them with the contemptuous lucidity of nearly twenty years of dependence. But at the present moment her animosity was diminished not only by the softening effect of love but by the fact that she had got out of those very people more - yes, ever so much more - than she and Nick, in their hours of most reckless planning, had ever dared to hope for.
"After all, we owe them this.!" she mused.
Her husband, lost in the drowsy beatitude of the hour, had not repeated his question; but she was still on the trail of the thought he had started. A year - yes, she was sure now that with a little management they could have a whole year of it! "It" was their marriage, their being together, and away from bores and bothers, in a comradeship of which both of them had long ago guessed the immediate pleasure, but she at least had never imagined the deeper harmony.
It was at one of their earliest meetings - at one of the heterogeneous dinners that the Fred Gillows tried to think "literary" - that the young man who chanced to sit next to her, and of whom it was vaguely rumoured that he had "written," had presented himself to her imagination as the sort of luxury to which Susy Branch, heiress, might conceivably have treated herself as a crowning folly. Susy Branch, pauper, was fond of picturing how this fancied double would employ her millions: it was one of her chief grievances against her rich friends that they disposed of theirs so unimaginatively.
"I'd rather have a husband like that than a steamyacht!" she had thought at the end of her talk with the young man who had written, and as to whom it had at once been clear to her that nothing his pen had produced, or might hereafter set down, would put him in a position to offer his wife anything more costly than a row-boat.
"His wife -! As if he could ever have one! For he's not the kind to marry for a yacht either." In spite of her past, Susy had preserved enough inner independence to detect the latent signs of it in others, and also to ascribe it impulsively to those of the opposite sex who happened to interest her. She had a natural contempt for people who gloried in what they need only have endured. She herself meant eventually to marry, because one couldn't forever hang on to rich people; but she was going to wait till she found some one who combined the maximum of wealth with at least a minimum of companionableness.
She had at once perceived young Lansing's case to be exactly the opposite: he was as poor as he could be, and as companionable as it was possible to imagine. She therefore decided to see as much of him as her hurried and entangled life permitted; and this, thanks to a series of adroit adjustments, turned out to be a good deal. They met frequently all the rest of that winter; so frequently that Mrs. Fred Gillow one day abruptly and sharply gave Susy to understand that she was "making herself ridiculous."
"Ah -" said Susy with a long breath, looking her friend and patroness straight in the painted eyes.
"Yes," cried Ursula Gillow in a sob, "before you interfered Nick liked me awfully...and, of course, I don't want to reproach you...but when I think...."
Susy made no answer. How could she, when she thought? The dress she had on had been given her by Ursula; Ursula's motor had carried her to the feast from which they were both returning. She counted on spending the following August with the Gillows at Newport...and the only alternative was to go to California with the Bockheimers, whom she had hitherto refused even to dine with.
"Of course, what you fancy is perfect nonsense, Ursula; and as to my interfering -" Susy hesitated, and then murmured: "But if it will make you any happier I'll arrange to see him less often...." She sounded the lowest depths of subservience in returning Ursula's tearful kiss....
Susy Branch had a masculine respect for her word; and the next day she put on her most becoming hat and sought out young Mr. Lansing in his lodgings. She was determined to keep her promise to Ursula; but she meant to look her best when she did it.
She knew at what time the young man was likely to be found, for he was doing a dreary job on a popular encyclopaedia (V to X), and had told her what hours were dedicated to the hateful task. "Oh, if only it were a novel!" she thought as she mounted his dingy stairs; but immediately reflected that, if it were the kind that she could bear to read, it probably wouldn't bring him in much more than his encyclopaedia. Miss Branch had her standards in literature....
The apartment to which Mr. Lansing admitted her was a good deal cleaner, but hardly less dingy, than his staircase. Susy, knowing him to be addicted to Oriental archaeology, had pictured him in a bare room adorned by a single Chinese bronze of flawless shape, or by some precious fragment of Asiatic pottery. But such redeeming features were conspicuously absent, and no attempt had been made to disguise the decent indigence of the bed-sitting-room.
Lansing welcomed his visitor with every sign of pleasure, and with apparent indifference as to what she thought of his furniture. He seemed to be conscious only of his luck in seeing her on a day when they had not expected to meet. This made Susy all the sorrier to execute her promise, and the gladder that she had put on her prettiest hat; and for a moment or two she looked at him in silence from under its conniving brim.
Warm as their mutual liking was, Lansing had never said a word of love to her; but this was no deterrent to his visitor, whose habit it was to speak her meaning clearly when there were no reasons, worldly or pecuniary, for its concealment. After a moment, therefore, she told him why she had come; it was a nuisance, of course, but he would understand. Ursula Gillow was jealous, and they would have to give up seeing each other.
The young man's burst of laughter was music to her; for, after all, she had been rather afraid that being devoted to Ursula might be as much in his day's work as doing the encyclopædia.
"But I give you my word it's a raving-mad mistake! And I don't believe she ever meant me, to begin with -" he protested; but Susy, her common-sense returning with her reassurance, promptly cut short his denial.
"You can trust Ursula to make herself clear on such occasions. And it doesn't make any difference what you think. What matters is what she believes."
"Oh, come! I've got a word to say about that too, haven't I?"
Susy looked slowly and consideringly about the room. There was nothing in it, absolutely nothing, to show that he had ever possessed a spare dollar - or accepted a present.
"Not as far as I'm concerned," she finally pronounced.
"How do you mean? If I'm as free as air -?"
He grew thoughtful. "Oh, then, of course -. It only seems a little odd," he added drily, "that in that case, the protest should have come from Mrs. Gillow."
"Instead of coming from my millionaire bridegroom? Oh, I haven't any; in that respect I'm as free as you."
"Well, then -? Haven't we only got to stay free?"
Susy drew her brows together anxiously. It was going to be rather more difficult than she had supposed.
"I said I was as free in that respect. I'm not going to marry - and I don't suppose you are?"
"God, no!" he ejaculated fervently.
"But that doesn't always imply complete freedom...."
He stood just above her, leaning his elbow against the hideous black marble arch that framed his fireless grate. As she glanced up she saw his face harden, and the colour flew to hers.
"Was that what you came to tell me?" he asked.
"Oh, you don't understand - and I don't see why you don't, since we've knocked about so long among exactly the same kind of people." She stood up impulsively and laid her hand on his arm. "I do wish you'd help me -!"
He remained motionless, letting the hand lie untouched.
"Help you to tell me that poor Ursula was a pretext, but that there is someone who - for one reason or another - really has a right to object to your seeing me too often?"
Susy laughed impatiently. "You talk like the hero of a novel - the kind my governess used to read. In the first place I should never recognize that kind of right, as you call it - never!"
"Then what kind do you?" he asked with a clearing brow.
"Why - the kind I suppose you recognize on the part of your publisher." This evoked a hollow laugh from him. "A business claim, call it," she pursued. "Ursula does a lot for me: I live on her for half the year. This dress I've got on now is one she gave me. Her motor is going to take me to a dinner tonight. I'm going to spend next summer with her at Newport....If I don't, I've got to go to California with the Bockheimers - so goodbye."
Suddenly in tears, she was out of the door and down his steep three flights before he could stop her - though, in thinking it over, she didn't even remember if he had tried to.
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America's most famous woman of letters, and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize, Edith Wharton was born into one of the last "leisured class" families in New York City, as she put it, in 1862. Educated privately, she was married to Edward Wharton in 1885, and for the next few years, they spent their time in the high society of Newport (Rhode Island), then Lenox (Massachusetts) and Europe. It was in Europe that Wharton first met Henry James, who was to have a profound and lasting influence on her life and work. Wharton's first published book was a work of nonfiction, in collaboration with Ogden Codman, The Decoration of Houses (1897), but from early on, her marriage had been a source of distress, and she was advised by her doctor to write fiction to relieve her nervous tension. Wharton's first short stories appeared in Scribner's Magazine, and though she published several volumes of fiction around the turn of the century, including The Greater Inclination (1899), The Touchstone (1900), Crucial Instances (1901), The Valley of Decision (1902), Sanctuary (1903), and The Descent of Man and Other Stories (1904), it wasn't until 1905, with the publication of the bestselling The House of Mirth, that she was recognized as one of the most important novelists of her time for her keen social insight and subtle sense of satire. In 1906, Wharton visited Paris, which inspired Madame de Treymes (1907), and made her home there in 1907, finally divorcing her husband in 1912. The years before the outbreak of World War I represent the core of her artistic achievement, when Ethan Frome (1911), The Reef (1912), and The Custom of the Country (1913) were published. During the war, she remained in France organizing relief for Belgian refugees, for which she was later awarded the Legion of Honor. She also wrote two novels about the war, The Marne (1918) and A Son at the Front (1923), and continued, in France, to write about New England and the Newport society she had known so well in Summer (1917), the companion to Ethan Frome, and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which she won the Pulitzer Prize. Wharton died in France in 1937. Her other works include Old New York (1924), The Mother's Recompense (1925), The Writing of Fiction (1925), The Children (1928), Hudson River Bracketed (1929), and her autobiography, A Backward Glance (1934).
- Date of Birth:
- January 24, 1862
- Date of Death:
- August 11, 1937
- Place of Birth:
- New York, New York
- Place of Death:
- Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, France
- Educated privately in New York and Europe
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I read House of Mirth by Edith Wharton and liked it so much that I sought out another book by the same author. Glimpses of the Moon has a similar theme as House of Mirth - a central character craving a wealthy lifestyle but lacking the means to achieve it. However, this topic is treated with a lighter touch in Glimpses of the Moon than in House of Mirth. A subtle humor comes through in Glimpses of the Moon that is absent in House of Mirth. Susy Lansing, the central character, has a more positive outlook than Lily Bart in House of Mirth. Unlike Lily who is overwhelmed by her desires and the inability to achieve them, Susy is strong enough to look beyond her circumstances and discover what truly matters in life. The book kept me interested from beginning to end, because up until the last paragraph I did not know how it was going to turn out. It was a delight to read, and I recommend it highly. I love the novels of Edith Wharton and other classic women authors from the 19th and early 20th century because they are able to convey human desire, emotion and sensuality without the gratuitous sex that is unfortunately so central in most modern romance fiction.
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On 28 January 2016, the Dominican Republic initiated an anti-dumping investigation on imports of steel bars or rods from China (Resolution No. CDC-RD-AD-010-2016, 28.01.2016). The products subject to investigation are classified under the following HS codes: 7213.10.00, 7213.20.90, 7214.10.00, 7214.20.00, 7214.30.00, 7214.91.00 and 7214.99.00. The complaint was lodged on 20 November 2015 by METALDOM GERDAU S.A.
On 30 June 2016, the Dominican Republic decided to impose a provisional anti-dumping duty on imports of steel bars or rods from China (Resolution No. CDC-RD-AD-020-2016, 30.06.2016). The rate of the duty is 31% ad valorem. This provisional duty entered into force on 11 July 2016 and is applicable for a period of four months.
On 25 January 2017, the Dominican Republic imposed a definitive anti-dumping duty on imports of the of certain steel bars or rods from China. The products subject to definitive anti-dumping duty are classified under the following HS code subheadings: 7214.10.00, 7214.20.00, 7214.30.00, and 7214.99.00 (Resolution No. CDC-RD-AD-026-2017). The rate of the duty is 43% ad valorem. The definitive anti-dumping duty is in force for a period of five years.
On 25 May 2021, the authorities of the Dominican Republic announced the initiation of a sunset review of the definitive duty imposed on imports of the subject good from China.
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The ruling African National Congress may lose control of three of South Africa’s main cities including the capital, Pretoria, and the key economic hub, Johannesburg, in Aug. 3 municipal elections, according to the latest poll.
In Johannesburg, 31% of respondents said they would vote for the ANC, 29% supported the Democratic Alliance and 10% backed the Economic Freedom Fighters, the survey conducted June 6 and 7 by research company Ipsos for Johannesburg-based broadcaster eNCA and released Thursday found.
The DA topped the rankings in the Tshwane municipality, which includes Pretoria, with 33% support, while the ANC polled 28% and the EFF 10%. In the southern Nelson Mandela Bay municipality, which incorporates the city of Port Elizabeth, the DA had 34% backing, the ANC 30% and the EFF 7%.
The Ipsos poll results suggest support for the ANC has slipped following a series of scandals implicating its leader, President Jacob Zuma, and amid rising discontent grows over a lack of jobs, decent housing and education.
Both the DA and EFF have said they are prepared to enter into coalitions with other opposition parties but not the ANC. The ANC, which has ruled Africa’s most industrialised economy since the first multiracial elections in 1994, secured an outright majority in all three cities in the last municipal vote five years ago and won 62% support in the last national election in 2014.
“I think the ANC should be extremely concerned about this poll,” Daniel Silke, director of Cape Town-based Political Futures Consultancy, said by phone. “It shows there are more South Africans in the urban areas that are prepared to consider an alternative to the ANC than at any other time since 1994.”
Ipsos surveyed 3,000 eligible voters across the three cities. The election results may still change, with between 17 and 21% of respondents in each of the cities saying they were undecided about who they would vote for, it said.
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The 'Project Green Prom' video contest held by Teens Turning Green and Whole Foods proves that an eco-friendly attitude isn't just for adults. The contest solicits teens to submit their videotaped ideas of how to make their school's prom more eco-friendly.
The prizes for the top contestants in the 'Project Green Prom' video contest include an eco-friendly makeover for prom, a trip to New York, a Bahar Shahpar eco-prom dress, and eco-shoes from Olsen Haus. Teens can upload their videos to the Teens Turning Green YouTube site through March 30.
Inspiring Eco-Friendly Adolescents
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Green Fashion LA
Top 25 Eco Chic Styles
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"How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?” asked Swedish architect Magnus Larsson for his new project that creates a 6,000 kilometer-long green sandstone wall in the Saharan desert. By introducing a bacterial microorganism to the desert sand, Larsson envisions the formation of a porous structure that will provide habitable spaces to thousands of refugees. Bacillus pasteurii, commonly found in marshes and wetlands, reacts with sand particles to transform loose sand into sturdy dunes that can support life and living.
The project redefines the limits of designing the built environment, and successfully manipulates the existing earth for a good cause. Realizing his project's pioneering potential, Larsson says, "To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to don a white coat."
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Why digital learning for upcoming generation
by Digital Teacher Smart Classroom Service provider
As we all know, the more friendly the textbook is, greater the pace of learning. It is not easy for the first time learners to cope up with everything that is expressed in the levels of masters in that field. It must be as appealing as possible to have the things fed. But think carefully. There are certain limitations to the textbook because of its existence in two dimensions. The three dimensions explanations in the online education system with the Multimedia educational software create more vision with the learner, making it easy to understand. So the only means that can provide three-dimensional learning is the advanced smart classroom in India. Students also do have the option of choosing the courses from home.
These are fed in, with regular intervals. Such type of system is very much evident in the central board of secondary education. It has been decided to implement in other boards sooner. This helps to inculcate as many variations as possible in lesser time. The reputed colleges also do practice online education system instead of regular classroom discussions. The digital learning also helps in taking the cognitive skills to another level. It is believed that cognitive skills are hereditary, but with proper training and exposure to Multimedia educational software, it can be improved.
It is not just with the ease in flow, but also the vast expander when it comes to depth of the content. Many of the educational programs promote smart classroom in India, to increase the growth in advanced education so that it increases the overall potential productivity. The digital learning is friendly to the extent that, can be chosen from anywhere, including courses from home. It also reduces the fragility due to the pressure of the classroom learning. This may the main reason the central board of secondary education chose it before anyone. They are not thriving till date, without the advancement.
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In 1985, R.E.T.I (Reseach for Extra Terrestial Intelligence), under a grant from a private benefactor, launched three satellites to seek out our solar system for signs of life. Two of theses satellites, Osiris and Isis, were destroyed six months after the launch in a meteor shower. The third, Horus, survived but malfunctioned and went off course and has been meandering the universe aimlessly for a little over two decades. On occasion the transmitter would kick on and send random audio signals back to R.E.T.I.. These transmissions were recorded and kept classified as the organized structure of the audio seemed to indicate that the signals were created by a sophisticated life form. In 2009, after the death of the mysterious benefactor, the recordings were smuggled out of the archives by a former employee of R.E.T.I. and given to Astrophedelic Records. The tapes however were encrypted and starting to deteriorate. After hours of painstaking work to decrypt the files at Parson's Crater and countless more hours at Arjuna's Soundroom facility to restore them, the recordings are now being made public for the first time. As for the Orphan Satellite it has not been heard from for some time and is now considered lost.
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What Are the Causes of Graying Hair?
- The Process of Graying Hair. In actuality, there is no such thing as gray hair.
- Aging. The process of hair losing its natural pigment normally begins in a person’s 30s and accelerates as he ages.
- Medical Conditions.
- Vitamin Deficiency.
What exactly is grey hair and why do we get it?
Hair goes gray when color-producing cells stop producing pigment, says Jeffrey Benabio, MD, a dermatologist at Kaiser Permanente in San Diego. Naturally occurring hydrogen peroxide can also build up in the hair, bleaching the color.
What foods cause grey hair?
Graying hair is a common side effect of folate and or B-12 deficiency. Folate is abundant in leafy greens, beans and legumes, poultry and citrus fruit. You can obtain B-12 from animal foods such as fish, beef, eggs and shellfish — especially oysters, clams and mussels.
Does grey hair ever go away?
Yes it can, but it really depends on the person him or herself. We all know that there are lots of products that are aimed to Reverse Gray Hair or make gray go away.
What age do women commonly start getting gray hairs?
Research has revealed that gender can also affect the age we are likely to first notice gray hairs appearing. The average man starts to become gray at the age of 30, whilst in women it is slightly later at the age of 35 . Although regardless of these averages, ‘going gray’ can affect people of all ages.
What does it mean to have gray hair?
All the info, whether you’re already gray or getting there. Your first gray hair is a rite of passage, a reminder that you’re getting older, wiser, and that you are blessed to be a vibrant human being. Like laugh lines, gray hairs are a totem of a life well lived.
Why does my hair turn gray overnight?
This may lead to “overnight” graying because previously present gray or white hairs suddenly become more obvious. When hair growth resumes, it may be white or gray, but colored hair may eventually return. When and how thoroughly your hair turns gray is influenced mostly by the genes you inherit from your parents.
Why do we get grey hair in the first place?
“Most women who are in their 30s should see a few grey hairs, but by the time they get into their 50 most women would expect to have more than 50% of their scalp hairs turn grey.” 2. So, why do we get grey hair in the first place? “Grey hair is a combination of normally pigmented hairs interspersed with white ones.
Is grey hair coarse than colored hair?
Gray hair isn’t more coarse than colored hair. Gray hair is actually finer than colored hair, but it may seem drier because our scalps produce less oil as we get older. Another reason it could seem more rough? “Your hair may also ‘feel’ coarser if you pull out your first few grey hairs,” says Philip Kingsley trichologist Glenn Lyons.
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The horror of cracking open an egg in your kitchen to find a dead, bloody baby bird inside is more of a fear than fact. True, it happened to me once and I didn’t eat eggs for a few years afterward. But that is very, very, very rare, eggsperts say. Sorry (not sorry!) for that pun. Edible egg advocates even say it never happens.
Regardless, the average consumer buying a carton of eggs at the store or farmers market can’t tell the difference between a fertilized egg and an unfertilized egg from outside the shell. Chances are you’ve never eaten a fertilized egg, because nearly all eggs sold commercially are produced by hens that have not mated, says Lauren Cobey, media representative for the American Egg Board.
The difference between fertilized and unfertilized eggs comes down to whether a rooster has been involved or not. Hens do not need a rooster to lay an egg; they do so (almost daily) on their own simply according to light patterns. However, if a rooster does mate with a hen, the eggs she produces are fertilized and, under the right incubation conditions, can bear chicks. No rooster means zero possibility of the egg ever becoming anything more than that.
When fertilized eggs are sold for consumption, there is no danger of eating a developing embryo, says Cobey, for a few reasons: All eggs sold in the United States as food must be refrigerated, a process that halts any growth inside the shell. Also, the interior of any egg intended to be sold as food must be inspected—accomplished by shining a bright light through the shell (called candling)—which highlights any irregularities, such as a developing chick. These regulations hold true whether the eggs are intended for a large chain like Safeway or for the farmers’ market. Eggs with irregularities never make it to retail and are destroyed (except for that one time).
Nutritionally, says Cobey, fertilized and unfertilized eggs are the same. They also taste the same, says Kathy Shea Mormino in her “Facts & Myths About Fertile Eggs” article on her blog, The Chicken Chick. Mormino is an attorney as well as a backyard-chicken keeper, advocate, and educator who’s appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Associated Press and on local and national TV, radio, and podcasts.
If you find a blood spot inside an egg, it doesn’t mean that egg was fertile either, Mormino says. A blood vessel and rupture at any point in a hen’s reproductive system as a result of a vitamin A deficiency, genetics, or some random occurance. People may think so because fertile eggs develop veins around day 4 of incubation, but it doesn’t look like a blood spot.
That said, if you’re still on board with eating eggs as I am, several years after that traumatic childhood experience, we have some delicious (unfertilized) egg recipes you gotta try.
Make these cakes spiced with hot sauce and herbs along with the crema, ahead of time and then all you have to do is fry some eggs when your guests are over for brunch. Get our black bean cakes with fried eggs and avocado crema recipe.
This recipe is inspired by a recipe in My Paris Kitchen by David Lebowitz. Do you need much more than that? Get our baked eggs with kale, portobellos, and feta recipe.
Favas get the treatment they deserve in this dish that requires you to shell them and cook the creamy beans along with fingerling potatoes and mushrooms. Get our warm fava bean salad recipe.
Anytime we can slip some pesto into a recipe, we will. How could pesto not improve scrambled eggs? Get our breakfast sandwich with pesto scrambled eggs and crispy pancetta recipe.
These tartlets are pretty and pretty easy to make. And with these ingredients, you know it will go over well at a brunch. Get our egg, cheese, and chive tartlets recipe.
Original article by Michele Foley on September 26, 2008; updated by Amy Sowder on May 7, 2016.
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Piston temperature plays a major role in determining details of fuel spray vaporization, fuel film deposition and the resulting combustion in direct-injection engines. Due to different heat transfer properties that occur in optical and all-metal engines, it becomes an inevitable requirement to verify the piston temperatures in both engine configurations before carrying out optical engine studies. A novel Spot Infrared Temperature Estimations (SITE) technique was developed to estimate the piston window temperature in an optical engine. Chromium spots of 200 nm thickness were vacuum-arc deposited at different locations on a sapphire window. An infrared (IR) camera was used to record the intensity of radiation emitted by deposited spots. From a set of calibration experiments, a relation was established between the IR camera measurements of these spots and the surface temperature measured by a thermocouple. Transmissivity of the chromium spot was investigated by using different background media. The deviations between the thermocouple readings and estimated temperatures were noted to be within 10℃ for the working range of 75℃ to 180℃. This technique was demonstrated to estimate the optical piston temperature during engine operation at 1500 rpm and 2000 rpm. A piston warm-up strategy was developed for optical engine studies to attain metal engine steady state piston temperatures. The effect of piston warm-up on in-cylinder soot formation was studied using high-speed imaging.
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Brushes, Prints & Workshops -> https://www.arsfantasio.de
Hayao Miyazaki meets Albert Bierstadt!
The landscape is heavily based on a painting from Albert Bierstadt
The work is in Public Domain, according to: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil…
What does that mean? fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/…
Actually the jpegs of this specific work for reference, were in such a bad quality that I had to paint the whole image from scratch - a nice test for me and I created some useful brushes along the way. Since I had no usable hi-res source, I hope you can accept the little flaws in it, most stuff is painted from imagination and my personal interpretation of huge jpeg-artifacts ;)
I like popculture and I love traditional art, so this project came so naturally to me and since the paintings are public domain, no one was harmed, not even the original paintings!
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Ophthalmology - A Pocket Textbook Atlas
PDF in RAR | 24 Mb | Rapidshare | No Password
608 pp, 305 illustrations, most in color | ISBN 0865779368 / 3131261617
|“||The didactic concept of this book, grounded on years of teaching experience, considers all aspects of training:|
- it allows easy studying through clear yet comprehensive coverage,
- easy memorizing by a well-structured presentation, and
- easy application through a clear distinction between symptoms and diagnosis, tabular presentation of major symptoms, and extensive indexing.
A role model for a pocket textbook designed for the study of the field of ophthalmology, extensively illustrated with high-quality color photographs and clear explanatory drawings.
Other medical shares:
Color Atlas of Neuroscience
Color Atlas of Neurology
Pocket Atlas of Radiographic Anatomy
Color Atlas of Hematology
Color Atlas of Physiology
Color Atlas of Pathophysiology
Color Atlas of Pathology
Color Atlas of Dental Medicine - Radiology
Normal Findings on CT and MRI
Color Atlas of Genetics, 2nd Edition
Color Atlas of Biochemistry
Color Atlas of ENT Diagnosis
A Pocket Guide to the Ear
As always: if you like the book and use it, buy it!
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A dog not eating is a sign that something’s not quite happy and healthy with your canine. Several reasons a dog may not be eating, from a medical issue to a lack of appetite.
Before understanding how to increase a dog’s appetite, it’s important to know the underlying cause. If it’s an illness, veterinary care can assist with treatment. If it’s just appetite, there are ways to increase your dog’s eating.
Let’s learn how to increase a dog’s appetite naturally:
1. Treat a dog’s illness
A dog not eating is not a sure sign of illness but has them assessed by a vet. It could indicate a serious problem, such as systemic infection, liver problems, or kidney failure. Always rule these out and have the illness treated. This will aid in resolving their lack of appetite.
2. Make a dog comfortable
A dog in a new location, in unfamiliar surroundings, or travelling may not have the same appetite they do in their own home. Some animals get very nervous and uncomfortable in unfamiliar places, but making them comfortable and giving them attention can help resolve anxiety like this.
3. Try a different food
Some dogs are picky. Even if it’s a food they’ve had before, perhaps something new or different about what’s in front of them is turning them off. Try different food. Try raw dog food as an example. See what your dog likes and doesn’t, and try to ensure they receive a varied diet as they build up their appetite again.
4. Try rotisserie chicken
Most dogs love rotisserie chicken. To dogs, they just want to gobble it up. If your dog’s sick, debilitated, or senior and picky about what they ate, you can offer them white rotisserie chicken meat, and they will love it. Be careful with this type of chicken, though, as you don’t want to feed them bones or skin. You may also want to avoid some fattier pieces if they’re on a low-fat diet.
5. Make a feed schedule
Cut back on treats and feed them. Let their appetite build. Set a schedule to feed them at least twice a day. At the same time, the same amount. This is to get your dog in the habit of eating. This includes any treats or any human food you would normally give them. This will emphasize that they are expected to eat strictly from their dog bowl and at the set times.
6. Try dog acupuncture
Another thing you can do, if it’s within your budget, to stimulate a dog’s appetite is acupuncture. This will help combat any pain, inflammation, or nausea they may be going through and is associated with increased appetite.
Although you may have to look for someone who does this type of acupuncture, this is another avenue you can go down if your dog is sick and you want to improve your appetite.
7. Take your dog for a walk
Just like with human beings, dogs who exercise get hungry. If they aren’t being walked regularly, this could be something you can do to keep them healthy and motivated to eat. A quick walk before dinner will help stimulate your dog to want to drink and eat and recoup the energy they spent. Also, walks are fun!
8. Change where you feed them
In addition to changing what and when you feed them, change where. Give them their private area if they’re fed alongside other pets. Try different bowls or plates at different heights to see if it’s an accessibility issue.
If they’re somewhere with a new puppy or aggressive dog, your dog may be hesitating to eat. Switch things up and see if they behave differently.
9. Try a raw dog food diet
Most dogs love raw food. There are many healthy, highly nutritious foods in a raw food diet, including organ meats, muscle meat, whole or ground bone, raw eggs, fruits and vegetables that you’ve verified are safe for dogs, and certain dairy products like yogurt.
This is sure to boost your puppy’s appetite and result in benefits, such as a la shinier coat of fur, improved dental health, increased energy, and smaller stools.
10. Medications and CBD oil
You can give your dog a few medications to help stimulate appetite as a last resort. Mirtazapine is often prescribed for appetite, increases serotonin levels and stimulates the central nervous system. Meclizine is an antihistamine that reduces nausea due to vertigo, potentially offering another route to easier eating.
There are also CBD products that your vet may recommend. CBD in dogs is associated with reducing pain and increasing appetite, although you’ve got to make sure it’s pet-safe, made specifically for dogs, and is legal in your jurisdiction.
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Franky Zapata who attempted to cross the English Channel using his flyboard recently will be attempting to cross the English Channel for the second time again. His flyboard can travel at speeds that go over 100 mph mark. Franky Zapata is known as the Flyman and wanted to cross the English Channel to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the very first instance an airplane flight flew across the Channel.
Flyman has said that crossing the Channel using his flyboard is the realization of his dream but also added that he is stressed while he prepares for his second attempt for the flight slated for Sunday. Last week, Flyman was unable to cross the Channel and ended in the water when he missed the mark for his refueling. He was uninjured and remained motivated. For this time, Zapata and his team will be using a bigger boat for the refueling landing.
Flyman will have to stop halfway during the twenty-minute flight for the sake of refueling. The Kerosene tank that is used by Zapata for powering his flyboard only lasts for ten minutes at an average speed of 87 mph. The flyboard can, reportedly, go to speeds of 118 mph. Our readers would remember Flyman because of his demonstration during the Bastille Day celebrations, where he had impressed the French President. However, the Bastille Day demonstration required only 3% of the flyboard’s output whereas he needs 99% output for the crossing of the English Channel.
Zapata says that he believes that he has a 30% chance of success for this attempt as well. He had plans of refueling once in England and once in France but a ruling by the maritime prefecture; he will only be able to refuel once. He already has the title of longest flight on hoverboard where he flew 2,252.4 meters in 2016. He will become the first man to cross the English Channel using a jet-powered hoverboard if he succeeds!
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Neuro-endocrine-immune diseases (NEIDs) are chronic multi-system illnesses that take a dramatic toll on society, individuals and their families. They include myalgic encephalomyelitis / chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia syndrome, chronic tick-borne infections, multiple chemical sensitivities / environmental illness and Gulf War illnesses. Millions of Americans suffer from NEIDs.
Many of these patients cannot find knowledgeable healthcare, face obstacles in accessing social services and do not have the physical and emotional strength to be their own advocates.
The good news is that NEIDs are now receiving state and national attention. More good news is that scientific breakthroughs have brought a greater understanding of the biological abnormalities that may explain the debilitating symptoms associated with NEIDs. Even better, PANDORA Org and other patient organizations are now working together to advocate for physician education, increased government-funded research and government policies that will improve these patients' quality of life.
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Imad El Asmar, M.D. Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine since July 1997 and President and CEO of IMD Medical Group.
“As your doctor my goal is to provider UNIQUE HEALTH CARE AND INDIVIDUAL ATTENTION for all of my patients by getting to know each patient as a PERSON and taking the time to understand each of your wellness need and health care concerns.”
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Cardiologia 1991; 36 (685-691).
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One of the trends that has not received much attention in conversations is the increasing use of ad blocking software. Some of the quick facts that were received from PageFair are:
- Ad blocking is estimated to cost publishers a whopping $22 Billion dollars in 2015.
- There are now 198 million active users of ad blocking softwares around the world.
- Ad blocking grew by 41% globally in last 12 months.
- UK ad blocking grew by 82% to reach 12 million active users of ad blocking softwares by june 2015.
Even though this technology is not new but still the web seems to have reached its tipping point where frustrated users have decided to jump the technical hurdles in larger numbers to block online ads from bothering them anymore.
What is the reason behind such user behaviours?
User frustrations have stemmed from the fact that many publishers have tried to catch their attention online: pop-ups, pre-roll ads on online videos, invasive ads, and geo and demographic targeted ads. Then there are ads not to speak of that are on-click ads that keep loading and loading with more ad units.
Despite the advertiser’s efforts to use technology to reach the right and targeted audience, many users are bombarded with ads they have no interest in. Moreover, some of the ads consume more bandwidth as compared to the content, the user was trying to access. This in turn means that people are effectively paying for viewing these ads, when they do not want to and potentially slowing down their internet connection. Therefore, it is no surprise that ad blocking softwares are gaining interest.
Apple Inc., that has always been known to position itself at the forefront of user behaviour, recently released its iOS 9 operating system with the capabilities of allowing third-party ad blocking applications to run on its platform for the first time. Some of them are Purify and Crystal– which is a clear indication of where the tech giant sees the trend going.
Is this trend of Ad-blocking gaining interest for good?
Even though this trend users feel is happening for good, there are big drawbacks of using ad-blocking both for users and the advertising industry. This trend damages the viability of websites and the livelihood of advertisers that have ensured that internet remains free. This in turn harms the choices available to the internet users.
Ad blocking not only hurts publishers and advertisers, but also prevents businesses from communicating and competing, reduces the diversity of voices in digital media and hinders the ability of consumers from obtaining important information about products and services.
So this cannot be the way of the future for the industries to make their presence online.
Is there a way to keep both consumers and advertising industry happy?
There are a number of ways many businesses have followed to provide the user satisfaction and not frustrate them:
#1. IAB Tech Lab launches the L.E.A.N ads programme globally
L.E.A.N stands for Light, Encrypted, Ad choice supported, Non-invasive ads, and aims to establish principles to guide the technical advertising industry standards for global use of digital advertising channels. The programme aims at ad frequency capping, targeting user before but not after a purchase, and the volume of ads that could be served per page.
This will change the way the users feel about ads and will allow publishers and advertisers to generate revenue.
#2. Try native advertising
Also known as sponsored content, native advertising is brand content produced in partnership with a publisher that matches their style and voice; with the hope of leading users to your brand. This content can be seen as an ad. One company that noteworthily deserves your attention is netflix. Some marvelous content examples include:
- Their Cocainenomics piece that was released by Netflix in collaboration with the Wall Street Journal to promote their new show Narcos.
- How Television is changing, another sponsored content masterpiece in association with Wired.
- Showcasing the women inmates in the prison system in association with New York Times to promote the new show: Orange Is The New Black.
The reason behind Netflix’s native advertising success is that the content blends in seamlessly with the publication’s existing content, while providing the content their audience wants to see and read.
#3. Advertisers need to be organic
While ad blockers are blocking text and shopping ads virtually in SERPs, users are being directed more towards natural search results. Hence, it is inevitable for SEO practices to gain momentum in such scenarios. Organic search space is bound to become more competitive; advertisers can’t afford to not optimize pages for search. This optimization technique extends way beyond meta tags, title tags and H1 tags to optimizing your content for other sections of Google search such as Image searches and video searches, to increase the chances of generating more clicks to your site.
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Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Great Men of Our Time": "Lloyd-George" on David Lloyd George; "Birkenhead" on 1st Lord Birkenhead [earlier F E Smith]; "Curzon" on 1st Lord Curzon of Kedleston; "Clemenceau" on Georges Clemenceau; "Balfour" on 1st Lord Balfour; "Chamberlain" on Joseph Chamberlain; "John Morley" on Lord Morley of Blackburn.
Public and Political: General: Personal Office correspondence, R-S, many congratulating WSC on becoming Prime Minister and praising his leadership and speeches, Apr 1908 - Dec 1940. [Please note that almost the whole file dates from 1940].
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, D-G., Sep 1946 - Nov 1948
Public and Political: General: Political: correspondence and papers on the movement towards a United Europe, K-R., May 1946 - Aug 1949
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence A - D., 04 Jul 1945 - 31 Dec 1945
Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence H - N., 26 Mar 1946 - 04 Jan 1950
Speeches: House of Commons and Non-House of Commons: Speech notes and source material., 10 Dec 1948 - 10 Oct 1953
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The UK Archival Thesaurus has been integrated with our catalogue, thanks to Kings College London and the AIM25 project for their support with this.
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WASHINGTON — The nation’s homeownership rate remained at its lowest in more than a decade, hampered by a rise in foreclosures and weak demand for housing.
The percentage of households that owned their homes was unchanged at 66.9 percent in the July-September quarter, the Census Bureau said Tuesday. That’s the same as the April-June quarter.
The last time the rate was lower was in 1999, when the rate was 66.7 percent.
For decades, 64 percent of American homes were owned by their occupants. That began to climb in 1995, with strong encouragement from President Bill Clinton and later on from President George W. Bush.
Democrats, including Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., pushed for mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to purchase more loans targeted toward low-income Americans. Republicans encouraged subprime lending to borrowers with weak credit and fought off regulation of the industry, despite warnings that many of those loans had predatory terms.
Homeownership hit a peak of more than 69 percent in 2004 at the height of the housing boom. But the housing bubble burst in 2006 and the rate has been declining gradually since then.
“They just assumed: The more homeownership the better,” said Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal Washington think-tank.
A record number of foreclosures and tight lending standards are expected to keep pushing the homeownership rate down and it will eventually return to pre-1995 levels, said IHS Global Insight economist Patrick Newport.
The housing troubles have brought the government’s role in promoting homeownership into question. Most analysts agree that both the Clinton and Bush administrations placed too much emphasis on encouraging homeownership — promoting and enabling loans to borrowers with poor credit and those with small down payments.
“The consensus is, in a lot of cases, it just makes sense for a lot of people to rent,” Newport said.
About 18.8 million homes, or 14.4 percent of all houses and apartments, were vacant, according to the government survey. Without vacation homes, that rate would be 11 percent.
The number of vacant homes has soared over the past four years from about 16 million at the start of 2006. It has been hovering around 19 million since the end of 2008. There are around 131 million housing units nationwide, according to the Census Bureau.
About 2.5 percent of all primary residences were vacant and for sale and 10.3 percent of all year-round rental units were listed as vacant and for rent.
Banks have seized more than 816,000 homes through the first nine months of the year and are on pace to seize more than a million, according to foreclosure listing service RealtyTrac Inc.
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According to the latest report by IMARC Group, titled "Bottled Water Market: Global Industry Trends, Share, Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027," the global bottled water market reached a value of US$ 220.5 Billion in 2021. Bottled water is generally packed in a sanitary container that is intended for human consumption. It is derived from multiple sources, including wells, protected springs or public water supply that is subjected to filtration and disinfection processes, which makes it free from impurities and safe for consumption. It is widely available via online and offline organized retail channels across the globe that differ on the basis of its size, mineral contents, shape, color and price. In comparison to tap water, it ensures safety, is convenient to consume and is easy to carry.
We are regularly tracking the direct effect of COVID-19 on the market, along with the indirect influence of associated industries. These observations will be integrated into the report.
Global Bottled Water Market Trends:
The global market is primarily driven by the rising prevalence of water-borne diseases among the masses. Moreover, the increasing awareness regarding the adverse effect of carbonated drinks owing to the growing health consciousness among individuals is providing a boost to the sales of bottled water across the globe. Along with this, the shifting preference towards bottled drinking water in cafes and food joints due to the improved living standards of the masses is creating a positive market outlook. Additionally, several leading players are heavily investing in launching eco-friendly bottled water variants in the market due to an enhanced focus on sustainable development among the masses. Furthermore, major players are engaging in the development of aggressive marketing strategies, promotional campaigns and innovative packaging solutions. Other factors, including emerging tourism and hospitality industries and extensive research and development (R&D) activities conducted by key players, are also positively influencing the market growth. On account of the aforementioned factors, the market is anticipated to reach a value of US$ 339.5 Billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 7.4% during 2022-2027.
- On the basis of the product type, the market has been categorized into still, carbonated, flavored and mineral.
- Based on the distribution channel, the market has been segmented into supermarkets/hypermarkets, convenience stores, direct sales, on-trade and others.
- Based on the packaging type, the market has been categorized into PET bottles, metal cans and others.
- On the basis of the region, the market has been divided into North America (the United States and Canada), Asia Pacific (China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia and others), Europe (Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Russia and others), Latin America (Brazil, Mexico and others) and the Middle East and Africa.
- The competitive landscape of the market has been studied in the report with the detailed profiles of the key players operating in the market. Some of these players include Bisleri International Pvt. Ltd., Danone S.A., Gerolsteiner Brunnen GmbH & Co. KG, Nestle S.A., Nongfu Spring (Yangshengtang Co. Ltd.), Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd., PepsiCo Inc., Primo Water Corporation, Tata Consumer Products Limited and The Coca-Cola Company.
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By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
TWO characteristics of this government are that it regularly overreaches and that where possible it shies away from transparency and accountability.
Very different issues in the news this week highlight these features – the proposed new requirements for job seekers and some shocking revelations in relation to asylum seekers.
One would have thought, after all the trouble over its budget measures, that the government would have been careful in calibrating its new model for employment services. But instead it has again gone too far.
The argument that work-for-the-dole can help get and keep people engaged may be fair enough – although the hard evidence doesn’t support the conclusion it helps them into jobs. The government produces anecdotal accounts rather than empirical data to back up its belief that having the under 30s complete 25 hours a week for six months each year is the way to go.
And while obviously people on unemployment benefits should have to show they’re making serious efforts to apply for jobs, the proposed requirement to undertake up to 40 job searches per month seems absurd.
The small business sector is complaining it will be swamped with applications. Peter Strong, executive director of the Council of Small Business of Australia, said: “It’s not workable. It won’t really achieve anything. You know, it’s classic tough talking from governments that they do now and then”.
Employment minister Eric Abetz says people can do one application in the morning and another in the afternoon. The government is putting more emphasis on quantity rather than quality, which suggests it is driven more by ideology than common sense.
Answering criticism that the plan would increase red tape, Tony Abbott recalled his days as employment minister in the Howard government. “There was a requirement for people on unemployment benefits to make contact with potential employers and in those days, all you had to do was call or knock on the door and make a diary entry” which was “occasionally” audited by Centrelink. That sounds like tokenism.
The government points out its employment services blueprint is out for consultation, and it will be listening to feedback.
But what it has put up tells us a lot about its mindset. Go for the more extreme, rather than the moderate, approach. And assume that people who are unemployed are very likely to be so because they are not trying hard enough to get jobs.
The fact is that in some areas and for certain cohorts jobs will be hard to find.
The government encourages the option of people moving to where there is more work but even for the young, this is often not as easy as it suggests. And for both younger and older workers, there are particular problems in the labour market. While the government has some initiatives directed to these issues, its dominant attitude towards the unemployed – especially the young unemployed – seems punitive, most notably demonstrated by its imposition in the budget of a six months waiting period for the unemployment benefit for those under 30.
Saul Eslake, chief economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch says: “The main reason for relatively high unemployment among young people is not that they don’t want to work but that there aren’t enough jobs for them.
“Employers in aggregate have almost completely stopped new hirings since the global financial crisis. Almost inevitably the brunt of that will be felt by new entrants to the work force – who are bound to be predominately young people.”
If it’s negative towards the young jobless, the government’s approach to asylum seekers is to try to dehumanise them in the public mind. They are labelled “illegals”. Immigration Minister Scott Morrison pronounced the 157 Tamils he was forced to finally bring to Australia as “economic migrants” before they have been processed.
After Human Rights Commission President Gillian Triggs visited Christmas Island and said most of the children were sick, and highlighted the self harm among them, Morrison on Wednesday rejected her account, essentially accusing her of giving an untruthful picture.
“I don’t think there is evidence of the claim that the Human Rights Commissioner has made in the way that she has made it,” he said. “I think they’re quite sensational claims that have been made. She herself is not a doctor and we have medical people who are there who provide that care on a daily basis.”
But on Thursday doctors with experience on the ground, who appeared before the Human Rights Commission’s inquiry into children in immigration detention, backed up her account in spades.
Psychiatrist Peter Young, former director of mental health services for the private provider International Health and Medical Services that has the immigration detention contract, made the very serious allegation that the Immigration department, presented with figures showing the significant mental health problems among child detainees, “reacted with alarm” and asked for the figures to be withdrawn from the reporting.
The department’s head, Martin Bowles, who also appeared at Thursday’s hearing, could not shed any light on this.
Two doctors who worked on Christmas Island in 2013 told the inquiry how inappropriate the conditions were for treating children. The inquiry heard that asylum seekers had medications taken from them when they arrived, including a three year old girl with epilepsy who started having seizures.
Asked about the children, Abbott told reporters: “They will be dealt with in the ordinary way and the best thing that we can do for children in detention is to ensure that this whole people smuggling business is ended as swiftly as possible and that is the commitment of this Government”. In other words he defaulted to the old mantra, which is not the present issue.
In a strong statement outside the inquiry, Triggs said Morrison “has a responsibility to be much more transparent about what is happening.
“We’re trying to get facts right when frankly it would be much simpler for the minister to provide the Australian public with this information in the first instance.”
She followed this up later with a call for Morrison to get the children out into the community “because a lot of damage is being done”.
Morrison, whose commitment to secrecy has been most recently shown by his refusal for weeks to disclose where the shipload of Tamils was, has said he will appear at the inquiry but this week gave the excuse of the High Court case over the Tamils to avoid doing so.
It is worth remembering that we are only hearing what is happening to the children in detention because of the independence of the Human Rights Commission and the willingness of Triggs to take on Morrison, refusing to be bullied by his attempt to discredit her. The onus is on Morrison to answer the latest claims and evidence. He is responsible for what is done by his department.
What this week has made clear above all else is that the call in a just-released report from a church taskforce for the guardianship of asylum seeker children to be removed from the Immigration Minister is absolutely spot on. The conflict of interest is blatant.
Michelle Grattan does not work for, consult to, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has no relevant affiliations.
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What does "She has a green thumb" mean? (Hint: She can make anything grow. People say she has a green thumb)
She is good with plants // She is good at helping plants grow.
What does "catch some zzz's mean?" (Hint: I'm tired so I'm going to catch some zzz's).
Sleep // To get some sleep
What does "kill two birds with one stone" mean? (Hint: If you do laundry while watching tv you kill two birds with one stone").
To get two things done at the same time // Accomplish two things at once
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Welcome back to Newsarama’s Wide World of Webcomics, our continuing look at the best of the web! Today, we take a trip back in time for a fantasy story set in a prehistoric world of high adventure.Jordan Kotzebue’s Hominids (www.homindscomic.com) takes readers to a fantasy world where a group of prehistoric humans must fight for survival against the dangerous creatures around them…including other evolving humans, such as the nightmarish creatures called “Flesh-Eaters.” Colorful and action-packed, it’s earned a following from fantasy fans since its launch last year. We spoke with Kotzebue, who has a pretty cool day job at PopCap Games (makers of Bejeweled, Plants vs. Zombies) to talk about the origin of his species of webcomic.
Newsarama: Jordan, how did you initially conceive the idea for Hominids?
Jordan Kotzebue: Hominids is based on characters from my childhood. There is an amazing old-growth forest park in Bellingham, WA called Whatcom Falls by the house I grew up in. The park has miles of trails, amazing waterfalls and watering holes with massive cliffs we’d jump off. My childhood friend Luke Barton and I would run around the park acting like wild native boys. Then we would go back home and draw our adventures.
After moving away I kept drawing them and was always thinking about this world but never really planned to do anything with them. I post all those old drawings at my site under the ‘Blog’ section.
At that point, I was really into learning about human evolution, and all the recent archeological findings on Neanderthals I found really amazing. I thought how cool it would be if our heroes were Neanderthals and everything was told from their perspective. The story started to piece together from there.Nrama: Why did you decide to do the project online?
Kotzebue: I spent a lot of years playing the game of trying to get work with the major publishing companies. I had more success getting into the gaming industry – that’s my full-time gig – and that took up most my time.
I first did a Hominids story when my longtime art director and friend, Dev Madan of Sly Cooper and Young Heroes in Love fame, got all the artists at PopCap Games, where I work, together and we did an anthology book called Monsterpedia. This was my chance to get the ball rolling on a Hominids story.
From there I just wanted to keep going and see if I could actually do a full issue.
My friend Lynn Hogan already had a webcomic called Prydwen and she showed me how to put together a comic on the web. The idea of posting all my work online sounded really appealing.
The webcomic world is an interesting community where people really seem to support each other and give great feedback. You can really grow a dedicated fan base where the gap between creator and audience shrinks considerably. Not to mention, you can sell your books at your site and get 100% of the return, instead getting a small percentage going through a publisher and Diamond.
It’s also a place where creators really want to see each other succeed. It’s not competitive at all. There’s an understanding there that if you’re successful, they’re successful. This really feels like the next generation of indie comics.Nrama: Do you have a favorite character in the tribe to write/draw, and if so, which one?
Kotzebue: Keyli, the main Neanderthal boy, has always held a special place in my heart. He’s the first character I created and was the one I always pretended to play growing up. However Sno, the albino Neanderthal girl, I feel is the standout character in the story.
I love writing her scenes. I feel like there is a lot going on in her head even when she says very little. She sticks out like a sore thumb which makes her vulnerable physically and mentally. It forces her to stay tough and be more aware of her surroundings--much more so than anyone else.
Nrama: What sort of research did you have to do for the strip?
Kotzebue: It may not seem like it at first since this is a fantasy world, but I did a ton of research before starting this series. Each species is based on real hominids that lived at one point or another in the real world. For example, the Flesh-Eaters that our characters are fighting right now are a species called the Denisovans. All scientists have found is a finger, but through DNA they know it’s a different species and that we have 4% of their DNA in us.
The characters called the “Root Dwellers” (who fought Keyli and Sno at the beginning of Chapter 1) are based on Homo Floresiensis, a hobbit-sized species that was discovered in Indonesia.As for the Neanderthal, who call themselves “Tree Dwellers”, a lot of their characteristics are based on research that I’ve read. Their Popeye-like forearms are based on fairly recent findings. Some of them have red hair, which has also been found to be true in the real world. A lot of the research helped dictate the direction the story will go in as well...but I can’t talk about that yet.
Having said that, the fortunate part of dealing with prehistoric creatures is that because we know so little about them, there is a ton of room to play. We don’t know how they interacted with each other, how they talked, what they believed, etc. In the story I really want their culture to feel completely different from the humans they go up against. So, the setting, culture, and scenario is all very much a fantasy world.
Nrama: Not to get prurient, but there's a lot of topless women in the strip, a historically-accurate detail that might put some readers off. Why did you go this route, and what overall audience would you say is an appropriate age range for this strip?Kotzebue: I spent a lot of time thinking about this issue. There were a lot of reasons for me to go this route and I felt they outweighed the reasons not to. First, the story takes place in a pre-Judeo-Christian world, so the idea of ‘Original Sin’ is non-existent within the story. I did want the cultures between the “Tree Dwellers” and the humans (called “Mountain Dwellers” in the book) to be very different. It was important to have all the characters who were “Tree Dwellers” to dress equally. The men are just as bare as the women. When we meet more “Mountain Dwellers”, their culture will be very different.
On a personal note, I don’t really believe in self-censorship. We’re being conditioned do this in every aspect of our culture these days and I don’t think we need to. The internet allows us to be free of censorship and ratings. Nothing’s holding us back...yet.
I feel like the majority of us have outgrown this kind of puritanical outlook on the world. Nudity in and of itself isn’t offensive. I have a hard time seeing how a woman’s nipple is bad but a man’s is okay. Seems a bit sexiest on a mass scale. Women are objectified all the time while still being fully clothed. That’s way more offensive to me.
I make a point in the story to not objectify the women even though they are topless. I want them to be seen as strong characters that can hold their own to any male counterpart.
The age range is probably appropriate for a young adult audience. I think if you’re old enough to read The Hunger Games or Twilight you’re old enough for this story. People get over the nudity quicker than you’d expect. Of all the people who’ve read it, I’ve only had one reader say they couldn’t read it due to the nudity. Later, they came back and said they got over it because they loved the story.
I actually think my comic is a good example of how nudity can work in the industry.Nrama: How long do you ultimately see the storyline running?
Kotzebue: This first book is going to run six chapters, and then I’m going to do a Book Two which will more than likely be six chapters as well. After that, I might have one more book in me, but we’ll see about that. Ideally I’m hoping to have book 1 done by next year but it may run a little longer then that.
Nrama: What were some of the biggest influences on the strip? I'm wondering if Kirby's The Eternals, or the book Chariots of the Gods played a major role...
Kotzebue: I definitely love Kirby. Bruce Timm as well, who of course has a lot of Kirby influence-- I grew up on Batman: The Animated Series. That’s when I realized cartoons could actually be a respectable form of storytelling.
I’ve also worked with my older brother Travis in the game and comic industry and he’s had a massive influence on me.
As I’ve gotten older I really love reading about science and the universe. Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, although dated, really got me into researching about cosmology and evolution. I hardly understand it but I think it’s awesome.Nrama: Tell us about some of your work at PopCap, and how that work might have influenced the style of Hominids.
Kotzebue: I’m an illustrator and animator at PopCap. It’s a company where you have to wear a lot of hats. So I really had to hone in on my design skills, backgrounds and tighten up my work. PopCap is incredibly supportive of artists working on their own projects. They really encouraged us to work on the Monsterpedia book. It is clear all the employees within the company really support each other.
Nrama: For that matter, could you ever see Hominids becoming a film or video game?
Kotzebue: No doubt. I kind of think anyone who says ‘no’ is kidding themselves, unless you’re Alan Moore. If you’re approached with an opportunity like that, how can you not entertain it, at the very least? The important thing for me is to not make it the end goal, which seems to be happening frequently in comics today.
That being said...my dream would be for it to be an animated series on HBO with Avatar: The Last Airbender’s co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko helming the project. How awesome would that be!?! You can see why I need to put these things out of my head.Nrama: What opportunities do you feel have been afforded by such new delivery systems as the iPad and smartphones, and what do you feel both individual creators and larger companies can do to take advantage of these opportunities?
Kotzebue: I get most of my webcomic reading done on my iPad. It’s a game changer for sure. When it comes to comics I think there’s a lot of opportunity to be creative there that’s barely been touched yet. We’ll be able to do a lot more than just make digital comics or motion comics. You can pretty much do anything.
Daniel Lieske’s Wormworld Saga has an awesome iPad app which is perfect for his infinite canvas. You can press a button and all the text goes away so you can enjoy just the art. Hit another button and the whole thing switches to thumbnail mode. That kind of thinking will really push this industry forward.
That’s what inspired me to set up my website the way it is, with the map in the background and the thumbnails of each page following the path of the story. I had thought about doing the basic Comicpress layout but it’s the internet. You can do anything! Maybe it won't work, but you gotta go for it, because maybe it will.
I think its immediate impact is that independent creators have more opportunity than ever to have their original ideas to get noticed and be potentially successful. And it’s an opportunity for bigger companies to take notice of something they might have overlooked in the past.Nrama: What trials are coming up for our Hominid crew?
Kotzebue: Right now, our heroes are being hunted by bloodthirsty Flesh-Eaters. I’ll just say these are the happy times. Things are good right now, but they’re going to get much much harder. Icari, the young human, is going to continue his quest and take some of his new friends with him.
The mountain that the humans live on is going to play a prominent part in the second half of the book. Before all that, though, our characters will get a little R&R and you’ll see where the Neanderthals live. Happy times first, then the stakes are gonna be raised.
Nrama: What other comics/creators are you currently enjoying, online and off?
Kotzebue: Online, the first webcomic I was introduced to was Tracy Butler’s Lackadaisy. That’s when I realized this webcomic business was no joke. There are some talented folks out there! I love Ethan Nicole’s work and sense of humor. Jason Brubaker’s reMind and Travis Hanson’s The Bean are awesome. Not only are their books great, but the creators themselves are a wealth of knowledge, and are well worth meeting at conventions. And make sure to check out Jason’s Making Comics website and podcast.I also love Lora Innes and Chris Oatley’s Paper Wings site. All these guys have made available a wealth of really helpful information that any creator should check out. I know Matt Inman, and his comic Oatmeal is just a powerhouse of funny.
I’ve been “plugged in” for awhile so these days it’s pretty rare that I buy a comic. But I really love Juanjo Guarnido’s work on Blacksad. Nate Simpson’s Nonplayer blows me away everytime I flip through it. I just got the compendium editions of both The Walking Dead and Invincible, so I’ve been enjoying those. I love Sean Murphy’s work on Joe the Barbarian and really liked Off Road.
Nrama: What's next for you?Kotzebue: This project takes up most my time. Besides Hominids and my day job, I work on spending time with my lovely and talented wife, who’s incredibly patient and supportive of my work. I do have another comic project in the works but I probably won’t get to that until I’m at least into Book 2 of Hominids. I’m also trying to help promote my brother Travis’s super secret awesome project. He blogs about it at SkullBabyLand.
Nrama: Anything else you'd like to talk about that we haven't discussed yet?
Kotzebue: I’m on The Facebook, that Twitter thing and Tumblr. Come follow! Also, I have a pretty good list of webcomics at my links page. I know I didn’t get to mention everyone but they are all really great reads, so check those out.
Travel back to the age of the Hominids every Tuesday at www.hominidscomic.com.
Next: It’s high adventure with the Eisner-nominated Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant! And later: Feel Afraid, Sarah and the Seed, the comics of Dylan Meconis and many more as Newsarama’s Wide World of Webcomics continues!
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The government need to enact legislative supports for the local festival community if they're to survive.
That's according to Executive Director of Association of Irish Festivals and Events, Colm Croffey, who says community festivals face a very uncertain future.
Rising material costs, volunteer shortages and the difficulty in securing insurance mean many local events are facing tough decisions on whether they can go ahead.
The Ballinasloe Native says that in the current insurance market, it's almost impossible for festivals to secure cover for events including animals, water sport or fireworks, among others.
Speaking to the Joe Finnegan Show today, he's called on the government to enact strong supports for the sector.
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Lucky Machine Corp needs your help again.
One of our biggest customers (a crypto-analysis organization that can't
be named) has been using our
The nature of the task only requires tabulating uppercase letters
No lowercase nor any symbols are used. For historical reasons they've
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Once the data from a roll has been read and processed the tape is of no further use and is thrown away. But because of recent budget cuts, they want to know if there's some way to reuse the roll.
It is a requirement that each
The Punch-22 is a read/write device and can examine the holes currently under the punch head before punching additional holes and advancing to the next row.
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Let's say a B is recorded on the tape during its first use. The machine punches ●. On the second use, if the character to be written is a B, then we leave it as ●; there's no way to use the other code for B (●● ) anyway. If, however, we now need to overwrite an A on top of the B, we can use ●●●. Simlarly a C can now be punched as ● ●, and a D as ●●.
Your task is to come up with a 7-bit code for the symbols
Solution checker in Haskell: here
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(17 June 2004 — Washington, DC) Environmental Defense today released “Orphan Chemicals in the HPV Challenge: A Status Report” showing that approximately 10% of eligible chemicals in the U.S. High Production Volume (HPV) Challenge have not been sponsored by their producers. The report also found that more than 700 additional chemicals have emerged as new HPVs since the program began in 1998, but only about 100 have been sponsored. The report is available online at www.environmentaldefense.org/go/hpvorphans.
“It’s frustrating to see some companies shirking their responsibilities when, as a whole, the HPV Challenge has been incredibly successful,” said Environmental Defense senior scientist Dr. Richard Denison. “Companies need to promptly adopt their remaining orphaned chemicals, and also commit to picking up new HPV chemicals as they emerge. By making hazard data public for all HPV chemicals in use, the country can take a critical step toward addressing the enormous legacy of toxic ignorance.”
The report is based an Environmental Defense survey of more than 200 companies that reported producing or importing HPV chemicals, but have not committed to fill gaps in the basic data needed to characterize the chemicals’ hazards to human health and the environment.
Based on responses received, Environmental Defense found that at least 156, and possibly as many as 259, Challenge program chemicals remain “orphans” - chemicals still manufactured in amounts exceeding one million pounds annually but not sponsored by any producer. Over 100 companies reported manufacturing orphan HPV chemicals but either did not respond to the survey or provided insufficient justification for non-sponsorship. These “deadbeat dad” companies are singled out in the report for the orphan chemicals they manufacture and have not sponsored, although some of the companies have sponsored other HPV chemicals. The following companies are the worst apparent “deadbeat dads,” based on number of orphans (shown in parentheses): Koppers Industries, Inc. (13), United States Steel Corp. (10), BASF Corp. (8), The Dow Chemical Company (8), Exxon Mobil Chemical Company (6), Lonza, Inc. (6), Univar USA, Inc. (6), Albemarle Corp. (5), Clariant LSM (US) Inc. (5), Atofina Chemicals, Inc. (4), Reilly Industries, Inc. (4), Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc. (4) and Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. (4).
Many companies have claimed their identity in association with particular orphan chemicals as confidential business information (CBI), and hence could not be contacted - a significant limitation to the analysis Environmental Defense could perform. Environmental Defense urged the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) both to aggressively challenge such CBI claims and to use its own access to CBI information to determine which companies making such claims are also “deadbeat dads.”
Another key finding identified in the Environmental Defense report is that more than 700 additional chemicals have begun being produced at HPV levels since the program was launched. These chemicals are not formally included in the Challenge, although companies are encouraged to sponsor them as they emerge as HPV chemicals.
“More than 600 of the new HPVs have yet to be sponsored, a problem that needs to be addressed if the Challenge is to fulfill its promise of ensuring that the public has access to hazard data on all HPV chemicals,” said Denison.
In the HPV Challenge, launched in 1998 under a framework developed jointly by EPA, Environmental Defense and the American Chemistry Council, several hundred companies have volunteered to sponsor more than 2,200 HPV chemicals. Sponsorship entails a commitment to compile existing or develop new data on a basic set of hazard characteristics specified under the program, and to provide the data to EPA, which committed to make all of the data publicly available by no later than the end of 2005.
Detailed information on the status of all companies and chemicals involved in the HPV Challenge, including the unsponsored chemicals, and copies of the companies’ response letters to the Environmental Defense survey are available online in the Environmental Defense HPV Tracker at www.environmentaldefense.org/go/hpvtracker.
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Be careful what you wish for.
In the case of Tasmanians who have set out to help asylum seekers, it's perhaps the most challenging group possible: lone boys.
In what can only add to an already surreal life experience for Afghan Hazara teenagers, 125 of them have been shifted from remote mainland detention to Pontville, outside Hobart.
Here you are, perhaps 17 years old, having left a war-struck home in Afghanistan. Your family not only fears for your safety if you stay - you're also their desperate bet at obtaining for them a foothold in Australia.
Having made it to Christmas Island, you're sent to remote Curtin on the edge of a Western desert, and then board a jet to fly to . . . Tasmania?
The Pontville centre re-opened this year, at first to take adults, but now mainly for people who in immigration-speak are UAMs, or unaccompanied minors.
One of the reasons outgoing minister Chris Bowen had for sending them so far south was that Tasmanian groups already had gone out of their way to help the adult male asylum seekers at Pontville.
Here then, is a real challenge, made greater each day by the way these boys are being confined.
When Greens leader Christine Milne went to Pontville last week, she found the federal government breaching its own policy against holding asylum seeker children behind wire.
As refugee advocate Greg Barns put it: ''They are being detained under draconian Commonwealth laws which do what no Australian would do, and that is detain them when they have committed no crime.''
Apart from having energy to burn, these boys are also much more likely to need help to deal with past trauma.
A spokeswoman for outgoing Immigration Minister, Chris Bowen, said minors held in detention, including at Pontville, had access to health, education and recreational services.
The state Education Minister, Nick McKim, is moving to enable them to attend a Hobart polytechnic.
He believes they should not be in Pontville, but in homes.
That would be another big life change for these boys, not to mention the Tasmanians who might open their homes. It would take time to do properly.
Meanwhile, bring down the walls.
Andrew Darby is Hobart correspondent
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A boy who is believed to have lived rough in a German forest for five years said he was ‘alone in the world’ when he presented himself at Berlin City Hall, it has been revealed.
The English-speaking teenager, who says his name is Ray, told security guards: ‘I’m alone in the world. I don’t know who I am. Please help me.’
He arrived at the city hall two weeks ago carrying a rucksack and sleeping bag, and said he had been living with his father in tents and ‘burrows’ in a forest south of Berlin until the man had died in a fall.
However, according to sources quoted in the Daily Mail, the boy is now yearning to return to the wild after struggling to adjust to sleeping in a proper bed and finds his current surroundings unsettling.
The source said: ‘He has indicated that he would be far more comfortable on the forest floor and would prefer to return there to sleep.’
The boy, who is believed to be 17, handed himself in to officials on September 5, claiming he had just buried his father, who it is thought was named Ryan.
A civil servant who spoke at length with the boy told the Daily Telegraph: ‘He didn’t look like at all like a vagrant â he didn’t smell, he was clean, his clothes were clean but he simply didn’t know anything about who he was.
‘He said he needed help, that he didn’t know where to go and had no one in the world to look after him. I tried as much as I could to find out details about where he was from but he just didn’t know.’
German police are still baffled as to the true identity of the boy, who is being cared for by social services, but they believe his story is credible.
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In a State of the Union address that stretched upwards of 7,000 words, President Barack Obama devoted around 1,300 to issues of war of peace. When there’s not an axis of evil to confront or an open-ended war on tyranny to proclaim (and thankfully, there was neither), that’s an enviable chunk of real estate.
What the former law professor offered was something like a report card for his foreign policy to date. Let’s start with the good.
On Iran, Obama reiterated his commitment to the ongoing international negotiations over Iran’s nuclear enrichment program — an effort 60 percent of Americans now support. Directly rebuffing efforts by hawks in Congress to punish Iran even as it cooperates, Obama vowed unambiguously to veto any new Iran sanctions legislation while the parties are still at the table. Obama did give brief credence to the mistaken notion that crippling U.S. sanctions “helped make this opportunity possible” (in reality, Tehran offered Washington a more conciliatory deal over 10 years ago), but his veto threat convinced at least one previous sanctions supporter — West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin — to agree to “give peace a chance.”
And though he didn’t say so directly, Obama’s boast about getting Iran to agree to inspections that “help the world verify, every day, that Iran is not building a bomb” subtly reiterated an assessment that the U.S. intelligence community has maintained since at least 2007: that Iran is not currently developing a nuclear weapon. Seven years after the government first made that assessment, it’s still much more common to hear politicians declare just the opposite.
Then there’s the passable, such as Obama’s claim that “American diplomacy, backed by the threat of force, is why Syria’s chemical weapons are being eliminated.” It would be more accurate to say that Americans’ overwhelming rejection of Obama’s plans for military intervention in the country — along with an assist from Russian President Vladimir Putin, of all people — is what made diplomacy possible. But I suppose it’s all right to let the White House claim a meager victory here, however disingenuously, as long as Obama recognizes that he’s boxed into the diplomatic track. The real question is why Washington is sending small arms shipments to rebels in Syria even after Americans made it abundantly clear that they’d rather not get involved.
Which brings us to the not-so-good. Obama’s assurance that the war in Afghanistan “is finally coming to an end” didn’t gel with his subsequent admission that thousands of troops could still remain in the country for years to come. He didn’t say how many, but the Pentagon has said it would prefer to keep 10,000 troops in Afghanistan after the 2014 withdrawal date. The CIA is also keen on keeping its drone bases in Afghanistan to continue launching attacks inside Pakistan after the pullout, despite growing public scrutiny of the program and abundant evidence that the cross-border strikes kill civilians, traumatize villagers, and violate human rights.
This is a blatant contradiction, particularly in light of Obama’s (admittedly moving) praise for Cory Remsburg, the gravely injured Army Ranger who sat alongside the First Lady during the State of the Union address. Remsburg miraculously recovered after ending his tenth tour of duty in Afghanistan — his tenth tour — with a head caved in by shrapnel and in a vegetative state. Obama needs to make up his mind. Is this war — which two-thirds of Americans say isn’t worth fighting — really coming to an end, or will more troops see their number of tours climb into double digits?
Obama did proclaim a desire to get the United States off its “permanent war footing” — that’s wonderful. But here the former professor earned some incompletes.
Scouring the text of Obama’s speech, you’d find no explanation for why the United States is plunking down thousands of U.S. troops in Australia and Guam, bulking up its naval forces in the Pacific, hunting down leftist rebels in Colombia, building new drone bases in Africa, or sending arms to increasingly repressive regimes in Egypt and Bahrain, among other places. And to a country that’s increasingly trying to vote its way out of the drug war, Obama failed to explain why we need DEA agents shooting it up with drug traffickers in Honduras, or why he’s keeping marijuana on the list of prohibited Schedule I drugs despite finding it not so different from alcohol or tobacco (though of course, many studies will tell you those two are worse).
Similarly, after an independent federal watchdog determined that the NSA’s surveillance dragnet on ordinary Americans was blatantly illegal and ineffective, it’s hard not to want more from a former constitutional law professor than a single sentence with a vague promise of “reform” — especially since the administration has already ruled out suspending the program and rebuffed calls to offer clemency to the whistleblower who exposed it.
Obama can give himself high marks for charting a new course on Iran, and I suppose he can pass himself on Syria, pending some edits. But for the rest, I hope he still has some red ink left over after running the numbers on the Pentagon.
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Beta Tools combination wrench manufacturing process
Here are Adafruit, we are mega fans at behind-the-scenes manufacturing content. Check out this awesome video of the Beta Tools workshop from Neponset River on YouTube. Bonus points for the narrator’s cool British accent and the early aughts club background music.
Beta Tools combination wrench manufacturing proces
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
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Thanh Nien talks to Li Linghua, a retired researcher from China’s National Maritime Information Center, who has objected to China's claim to most of the East Sea (AKA, the South China Sea), including Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands.
Do you think Vietnam and China can settle the East Sea disputes via peaceful measures?
Yes, I believe so. I hope the two countries can settle the dispute in peace and I believe this dispute [i.e. the China’s deployment of a giant oil rig into Vietnamese waters] can be settled. I hope the two countries’ peoples can maintain their friendship forever.
We see you updated your blog with opinions on the East Sea disputes on May 1, 6, 10 and 11.
Yes. I hope foreign media, including Vietnamese media, can report the [East] disputes objectively, while at the same time maintaining your friendly attitude towards the Chinese people.
On my blog, I have repeatedly said that sovereignty over the islands, as provided in Article 121 of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), remains unclear, and no authoritative ruling or consensus on its interpretation has yet emerged. Therefore, countries in the [East] Sea can only delimit maritime border lines, or deploy oil exploration or fishing activities via peaceful talks and consultancies to ensure a win-win situation.
Do you think China must respect 1982 UNCLOS?
Yes, as a signatory to the 1982 UNCLOS, China must comply with articles 74 and 83 of the convention, respecting the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone 200 nautical miles from adjacent coasts.
What about Vietnam?
I believe Vietnam has enough experts on international sea law and its own maritime researchers. The modern international sea laws have made progress in defining territorial waters, realizing legal status of islands and such.
As you may have read recently, Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Cheng Guoping said he believes the [East] Sea disputes can be settled peacefully and the two countries can maintain friendship and cooperation.
I support his idea. Vietnamese-Chinese relations should be nurtured and developed.
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If you haven’t yet seen David Attenborough’s new Netflix documentary A Life on Our Planet, you should. As a self-described “witness statement” on the state of our world from one of the most widely traveled and respected naturalists of our time, it’s sobering viewing. And its message deeply aligns with our mission in the College of Global Futures.
And yet for all its warnings of a planet in crisis, I found Attenborough’s perspective somewhat limited while watching the documentary, compelling as it is.
Like many Brits of my generation, I have a soft spot for David Attenborough. I grew up in the 1970’s transfixed by his captivating enthusiasm for the natural world, and the unique glimpses he gave us into the hidden lives of the plants and animals around us. One of my more enduring memories of that time is rushing home from church on a Sunday evening where my father was the local pastor, to watch the latest episode of the TV series The World About Us.
And then of course, there was the genre-defining documentary series that transformed Attenborough’s career, Life On Earth.
Looking back, it’s shocking to realize that Attenborough was in his early 50’s when Life on Earth first aired in 1979 — not far off my age now. The series marked the beginning of a new phase in his long career, and paved the way for forty more years of ground-breaking television that transformed how we saw and understood the natural world, and that inspired a generation and beyond to think differently about the planet we live on.
A Life On Our Planet is, in many ways, a culmination of this personal journey that began for David Attenborough with Life On Earth. Except, in place of the awe and wonder that permeates that initial series, it’s threaded through with a deep sadness as Attenborough reveals the decimation of the natural world that he’s seen unfolding before his eyes over the past half a century.
This is, as Attenborough describes it, a personal witness statement on the state of the planet. It’s his first-hand observations of how the world has changed in his lifetime, and the gut-wrenching projections of where we’re heading if these trends continue.
Here, Attenborough paints a bleak picture, and one that’s been validated time and time again by scientists around the globe as they’ve warned against our profligate disregard for the planet we inhabit and rely on.
Yet Attenborough ends on a positive note. This, he tells us, is a catastrophe that can be avoided. And the pathway forward is not hard: Have fewer children, increase our wild spaces, use the land we do occupy more efficiently, transition to renewable energy sources, and eat less meat.
In this way, he argues, we have the possibility of re-stabilizing the planet–not necessarily for Planet Earth’s sake, because life will find a way regardless, but for our sake as a species, as we strive to thrive in an environment that we’re precipitously close to destroying.
These are not new ideas of course, but they are presented clearly and compellingly in the documentary. And here, Attenborough’s experience and authority make him worth listening to. Yet, for all their relevance, I worry that these fixes for a more sustainable future are, on their own, little more than naive dreams.
The problem is, people are complex. More than this, our social interactions, expectations and aspirations are messy, and near-impossible to control with any degree of predictability or moral certitude And because of this, simple solutions to global problems rarely if ever succeed in the harsh light of social, economic and political reality.
To make things harder still, when we try and force seemingly simple solutions onto people, we quickly end up in ethically uncertain territory as we sacrifice what’s important to others in our rush to protect what’s important to ourselves. And as we do, we risk slipping into an “immoral logic” where morally questionable actions in the present are justified on the basis of imagined–but far from certain–futures.
Attenborough stays well away from such an immoral logic. But each of his proposed approaches to building a sustainable future risks running into social and ethical quandaries if humanity’s complexity isn’t factored in.
Population reduction for instance, has a long and sordid history of good intentions leading to deeply immoral ideas and actions. Reducing the amount of managed land (or ocean) around the earth rapidly runs into political and ideological barriers that cannot be discounted by simply saying that its opponents are ignorant, misguided, or simply bad people. Beyond certain limits, telling people what they can and cannot eat is a social minefield. And while innovative solutions to challenges like energy transitions and land use are desperately needed, these rely on the very same socioeconomic ecosystems that often lead to problematic behaviors in the first place.
In other words, much as we might want to, we cannot separate planet from people as we strive to build a sustainable future. Whether we like it or not, humanity, with all of our foibles, eccentricities, dreams, desires, vices and capabilities, is at the heart of our pathway toward a better tomorrow. We may dream of simple fixes, transformative technologies, and sustainable solutions. But unless the outsized role of people is factored in–together with what is important to us individually and en mass–these will fail.
Of course, to build a vibrant, sustainable and just future–remembering that sustainability is not necessarily synonymous with vibrancy and justice–we need new technologies and innovative approaches to future-building. But these must be developed within a broader understanding of the social, ethical, economic and political landscape around us if they’re to succeed. And this is fiendishly difficult to get a handle on.
The good news is that there is growing expertise around the understanding and knowledge that’s necessary to do this.
As we develop this expertise, we’re learning how to approach future-building in ways that transcend notions of simple fixes that conveniently ignore human complexities. But for these to flourish, we need to move beyond naive and misguided ideas of how we can fix the future, if only people would do as they are told.
Despite this, David Attenborough’s A Life On Our Planet is well worth watching as a personal and heartfelt witness statement from someone who’s seen the harm that our human profligacy and short-sightedness is causing. And its emphasis on simple solutions aside, who knows, maybe it’ll inspire more people to grapple with the complex challenges of building a better future before it’s too late.
Because whichever way you look at it, the one thing we can’t afford to do is to stand by and do nothing.
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Savers in the UK are putting money into their savings accounts for a rainy day instead of raiding their funds for luxury items or emergencies, according to new research from Birmingham Midshires.
A survey carried out by YouGov on behalf of the bank asked 2,112 adults throughout Britain how much, if at all, they have saved and raided over the past three months and the reasons why.
The results showed that saving has become a priority with investors cutting down on the amount they pull from their nest eggs for things like holidays, home repairs, unexpected bills or other luxury items.
In the three months to April 2010, Britons saved an average of £1,031, compared with £554 this time last year and £776 during the three months to January 2010. Two in five British adults (39%) admit to raiding their savings during the same period although the average raiding amount has reduced to £1,499 from £1,724.
Birmingham Midshire's Saving Britain campaign has been tracking Britons' saving habits since 2002. John Bianco, Senior Manager, Birmingham Midshires Savings said: “It is reassuring to see that people have increased the amount they save for the second quarter in a row, as good saving habits are important to ensure you can plan ahead financially.”
The research also pinpointed the areas in the UK with the best and worst savers and raiders.
Savers in London admitted to having raided their savings accounts by an average of £2,171 in the last quarter. Almost a quarter (22%) of respondents said they had raided their savings to pay for emergency home or car repairs, whilst a sixth (15%) used their savings to pay for a holiday.
The smartest savers were those in South have who set aside the most in the past three months at £1,493 compared to £704 for those in the rest of Wales.
The percentage of people saving for a rainy day has remained steady at 26%.
But more than a third of savers in Scotland admitted they did not know how much money they had saved in the last three months, suggesting they do not keep a track of their spending and savings habits.
Click here to compare savings deals »
© Fair Investment Company Ltd
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Topic: Not Made By Chance
Text: Genesis 1:26-31 (KJV)
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Key Verse: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” – (Genesis 1:26)
Evolutionists believe that our world is an accident. They teach that matter acting on matter given sufficient time can bring anything into existence. Since most evolutionists are atheists, they try frantically to prove that God did not make the world and that everything in it came into existence over time by itself, man inclusive. But one wonders why man has not changed into another creature since his existence!
The truth is, man is not a creature of chance or our world either. Accidental products cannot have any form of similar designs and regular patterns as we have in humans and all the other creations of God. Man is a product of the well-thought-out-plan of God. He planned the world and systematically brought everything into existence. He carefully made man with very distinct qualities and characteristics and for very specific purpose, which is to rule and dominate the world.
Some persons have come to conclude that their life is a product of chance or mistake! They feel they are not meant to live or that where they are presently and who they are, is a mistake. Many others feel unfortunate about their race, colour, gender, family and social background, and even their physical features.
God did not make any mistake about anyone, including you. Even if you were born out of wedlock or there were attempts to abort you, God made and placed you where you are now for a definite purpose. Your life will begin to have a new meaning and become worth living once you purge yourself of the lies of the devil concerning your existence. You are made to win, rule and have dominion!
Thought For The Day: God made you for a good purpose.
DCLM Daily Manna was written by Pastor William Folorunso Kumuyi; is the founder and General Superintendent of the Deeper Life Bible Church situated at KM 42 on the busy Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Nigeria.
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The God or Not carnival's topic for this week is Scriptural Literalism. So far, I have read some previews of what will be posted at the aptly named Uncredible Halq (personally, he has very little credibility with me) and at one of my favorite blogs, Prosthesis (who points out that there may be no Biblical literalists other than the straw men set up by those seeking to debunk the Bible). These two entries raised some interesting issues and I am sorry that I didn't find out about this carnival until after it was too late to submit an entry. (For the record, the next topic is "Definition of God" which is scheduled to be posted on January 31. Note to self: put on calendar.)
Literalism is not Inerrancy
First, Prosthesis author Macht is absolutely correct in pointing out that literalism and inerrancy are two different things. One does not have to be a literalist to be an inerrantist and visa versa. I recommend a review of the differences as detailed by Macht. I am personally an inerrantist, but I do not think that literalism is either necessary or even correct.
Some of the Bible is so clearly poetic and figurative that it begs common sense to read it too literally (and it seems quite apparent to me that the Bible is meant to be read from a natural, common sense point of view). Certainly there are places that the Bible is literal in meaning, but that does not mean that one should read the entire thing in a stilted literalism. The prophesies in Revelations are often images and symbols which cannot be taken literally. Jesus taught in parables which had multiple dimensions of meaning. The language of the creation account in Genesis 1 is plainly poetic in nature. If these Scriptures are obviously not to be taken literally, it is apparent that the interpretation of the Bible, taken as a whole, does not require that every passage be taken literally.
Jewish interpretation levels
Moreover, it is my view (shared by others) that even the historical accounts in the Bible may have multiple levels of meanings. For example, Genesis 14 is the account of the King/Priest Melchizedek. The Genesis account tells very little about him. He is called the King of Salem and a priest of the most high God. Melchizedek blesses Abraham, receives a tithe from him, and then feeds him bread and wine. That's all. Yet, he becomes a central figure in an argument constructed by the author of the Letter to the Hebrews in Chapter 7. How did that happen? It happened because the early Christians adopted the Israelite view that the Bible had meanings on different levels.
An essay by Dr. James Trimm of the Church of the Nazarene entitled "PaRDeS: The Four Levels of Understanding the Scriptures"highlights the four levels used by Jewish rabbis in understanding the Scriptures:
The PASHAT is the plain, simple meaning of the text; understanding scripture in its natural, normal sense using the customary meanings of the words being used, in accordance with the primary exegetical rule in the Talmud that no passage loses its PASHAT (b.Shab. 63a; b.Yeb. 24a). While there is figurative language (like Ps. 36:7) symbolism (like Rom. 5:14); allegory (like Gal. 4:19-31) and hidden meanings (like Rev. 13:18; see also 1Cor. 2:7) in the Scriptures, the first thing to look for is the literal meaning or PASHAT.
This is the implied meaning of the text. Peculiarities in the text are regarded as hinting at a deeper truth than that conveyed by its PASHAT.
this is the allegorical, typological or homiletical application of the text. Creativity is used to search the text in relation to the rest of the Scriptures, other literature, or life itself in order to develop an allegorical, typological or homiletical application of the text. This process involves eisogesis (reading of the text) of the text.
This understanding is the hidden, secret or mystic meaning of a text. (See I Cor. 2:7-16 esp. 2:7).
The Great Gatsby and the green light
When I was in High School, my literature class read F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. To this day, I still remember my literature teacher stressing that the green light that Fitzgerald repeatedly referenced in the work had a meaning beyond being simply a green light. It represented Gatsby's ulimate goal or aspiration. I remember that many of my fellow students in the class had difficulty accepting the fact that the author of the book would be throwing in metaphorical imagery when there was a plain meaning to the text -- the green light was a green light. But this was a stilted view of the creativity of the author and his ability to spin a deeper meaning into everyday objects in the book.
By the same token, it is certainly true that some accounts in the Bible could be taken as metaphorical -- even some of the more factual accounts can have a dual nature. For example, in Genesis 14, Abraham could have in actual fact and history met a King/Priest named Melchizedek who blessed him and gave him bread and wine. At the same time, Melchizedek could be a metaphor (put in place by the great author, God) for the perfect priesthood of Jesus who is the "King of Righteousness" (the meaning of the name Melchizedek), the King of "Peace" (the meaning of the name Salem), and who also served his disciples the bread and wine.
No "possible metaphorical meaning" to some Bible verses?
Which brings me to the Uncredible Hallq's rather uninspired contribution. In his none-too-enlightening post, he complains that literalism is not the issue. Rather, he says, "there are some passages that simply lack any possible metaphorical meaning", and proceeds to point to a couple of Biblical passages that he thinks supports this view. He starts with the account of the Israelite men who "played harlot" with the gods of Moab by worshipping and sacrificing to them. The text reports that God was angered and Moses ordered that all men who had "joined themselves to Baal of Peor" be slain.
I would like Hallq to explain exactly why he believes that this account has no "possible metaphorical meaning." Keep in mind, I am not saying it is not an historical account -- some of the people of God had turned from God and were bowing down to other gods, and Moses ordered them killed for violating the first commandment. That seems perfectly plausible to me. (Of course, the passage continues beyond the passages cited with other things happening that would take awhile to explain, but let's deal only with the portion Hallq identified.) Having recognized that it is an actual historical event as portrayed in the Bible, why is it necessarily the case that it is not also a metaphor for something deeper in the text?
The history of the Jewish people is a dual-layered event. Being chosen gave the Jewish people the privilege of being God's people, but at the same time, it placed them in a position of being the people through whom God communicated about Himself. He made it clear repeatedly -- if you follow Me and My laws, you will be blessed; if, however, you do not do these things, you will be punished. Did God punish the Israelites because it gave Him pleasure to do so? No, it made Him sad. But He punished the Israelites as a message to the world of the depths to which he hates sin and the severe punishment that follows from sin. If one sins, one can expect death.
Back to the Exodus story: cannot this event be seen as a confirmation of the depth of the sin that is revealed when the people of God worship other gods? But for the grace of God which follows about 2,000 years later when Jesus was crucified, isn't this a lesson about the severity of the sin that worshipping other gods brings?
Seeing a green light as a green light
I'm sure that Hallq is more like the people in my class who couldn't see that the green light in the Great Gatsby was anything more than just a green light. But the Bible is not always literal, and even when it appears to be literal, it is often capable of having more than one level. Thus, even the verses that appear historical in nature (and, in my view, almost certainly are historical) are capable of carrying an underlying message and meaning that was also intended by the great author, God.
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This time of year always finds me reflecting on the men and women who have served in our Armed Forces. Veterans Day, Pearl Harbor Day, the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, the anniversary of the Tet Offensive all take place at this time of year. Additionally, from now through New Year’s Eve we will see TV commercials from service women and men who are overseas wishing loved ones back home a merry and happy holiday season.
As a member of the Armed Forces and a person in long-term recovery, I have spent a career carrying the message of hope and recovery to my fellow brothers and sisters in arms. I was recently asked by some fellow members of the program how they could help members of the Armed Forces. What follows are a few suggestions of how to bring the message of hope and rebirth to a service member who may be suffering from alcoholism and addiction.
1. See about bringing a meeting into your local VA. Many veterans within the VA system are unable to attend meetings because of transportation challenges. If they can can’t come to us, how about going to them?
2. Join your local network of service-member organizations e.g., Beyond the Yellow Ribbon or Joining Community Forces. Let them know about your willingness to talk to a veteran who may have an alcohol or drug problem.
3. Contact your local Armory or Reserve Center and let them know you would like to act as a point of contact for a service-member who is looking for information about recovery from drug or alcohol problem.
4. Contact your local National Guard commander and let him/her know that you would be willing to speak to his/her soldiers about your recovery experiences. All service-members must receive an hour of education on drug and alcohol abuse each year. Your offer might just be the solution to the commander’s training problem.
5. Contact the local chaplain for your nearest service center. Let the chaplain know you would be willing to talk to a service-member or veteran who is dealing with substance abuse. Often times the Chaplains are the first ones to learn or know about a service-member who has a drinking or drug problem.
6. Get in touch with the local group who conducts the semi-annual Stand Down. The Stand Down is an event that provides services to veterans who have fallen upon hard times. A Stand Down can be an excellent place for a veteran to learn about A.A. or N.A.
Consider carrying the message to those who have served. You’ll find that “nothing will so much insure immunity from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics” and “it is in giving that we receive”.
Yours in Service,
MAJ John D
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Experiments at the Large Hadron Collider specialize in the discovery of previously undetected particles. So of course they are on the hunt for one of physics’ most coveted prizes: dark matter.
Dark matter outnumbers visible matter—the kind of matter that makes up the Earth, the stars and all of us—five-to-one. Astronomers have seen its effects, and many experiments are working to catch dark matter particles as they pass through the Earth. So far, no one has found it for certain.
At the LHC, however, “we’re not depending on dark matter to find us,” says University of Bergen physicist Heidi Sandaker of the ATLAS experiment. “We’re trying to create it ourselves.”
To produce new particles in the LHC, scientists pump protons full of kinetic energy and then smash them together. The energy in a particle collision can transform into mass in the form of new particles, which then decay into less massive particles and eventually back into energy.
Particles collide in the LHC at a variety of different energies. The amount of energy that goes into a collision determines the kinds of particles that can come out. For example, a collision with about 125 giga-electronvolts of energy can create a Higgs boson. Physicists don’t yet know how much energy it would take to create a dark matter particle.
The CMS and ATLAS experiments at the LHC can detect particles such as Higgs bosons because they decay into other particles that leave signatures in particle detectors. Dark matter particles, however, could be a different story.
Dark matter seems to interact very weakly with ordinary matter. So a dark matter particle made in the LHC could pass right through a particle detector without leaving a trace. The only clue it would leave behind would be its missing energy.
A balanced amount of energy must come out of each side of a particle collision. When there’s an imbalance, scientists know something emerged from the collision that the detector could not see.
That’s how physicists discovered neutrinos, which rarely interact with other matter. They weren’t showing up in particle detectors, but their absence did throw off the balance of energy coming from collisions.
If LHC scientists notice that energy is going missing, they won’t know for sure that they’ve found dark matter. The hidden particles could be something else entirely. But knowing how much energy they had would make it easier to organize a search party.
“We need something to point us in the right direction,” Sandaker says. “Once we know where we’re going, we can take big steps.”
More than 100 physicists of the thousands on LHC experiments are hard at work on the search for dark matter at the LHC. And thousands of other physicists are looking for dark matter through other types of experiments.
“We need information from all different types of experiments,” says CERN theorist Gian Giudice. “If one experiment has a strong signal of dark matter, the other experiments need to have data to support it.”
Dark matter experiments are constantly growing and improving. When the LHC restarts at almost twice its previous luminosity in 2015, it will be another powerful member of the dark matter search team.
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SAVE MY SON to Debut on TV One, 9/26
Beginning Wednesday, September 26 at 9 PM ET, TV One will introduce Save My Son, a powerful new documentary series, that will delve into the gripping tales of families struggling to save their sons who have fallen victim to bad influences and wrong choices.
Hosted by renowned educator Dr. Steve Perry, Save My Son is intended to shed light on an all too familiar story within the African American community across a broad spectrum of socio-economic backgrounds. Dr. Perry will venture into these young men's communities and give viewers a real, unfiltered look into their daily lives and struggles. Each episode will tell the story of a different young man and the dangerous activities and/or behaviors that threaten to derail a promising young life, from drug use to gang involvement to truancy to robbery. Along with Dr. Perry, in each episode a celebrity mentor will offer inspiration, support and insight into what choosing a different path can mean, and help these young men fight their darkest demons. Each episode also features an intervention with Dr. Perry and loved ones of the troubled youth. They work together to design the best possible plan of action to get the young man in crisis back on track. Celebrity mentors include radio personality, comedian, actor, and author StEve Harvey; former NBA players Jalen Rose and Derek Anderson; American Idol winner and R&B artist, Ruben Studdard and actor Pooch Hall. Also making a guest appearance is, author, inspirational speaker and television personality Iyanla Vanzant, among others.
"We have hit rock bottom. Our sons are dying of every disease, suffering from every academic, social and emotional trauma at rates that have never been recorded," says Dr. Perry."The only thing left to do is to fight like hell to save our sons."
Dr. Perry is on a mission to reform black communities and save as many young men as possible. As founder and principle of Capital Preparatory Magnet School in Hartford, CT, Dr. Perry is no stranger to the hardships young black men face growing up. Capital Preparatory Magnet School is designed to send children to college, and since its inception, 100 percent of its students have gone on to four year colleges. Dr. Perry is also author of bestselling books Man Up! and Push has Come to Shove, CNN education contributor, a columnist for Essence magazine, and a highly sought after speaker for colleges and education forums around the country.
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بهره وری فنی و تغییرات بهره وری در فرودگاه های اسپانیایی: روش توابع فاصله پارامتریک
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Volume 46, Issue 2, March 2010, Pages 249–260
This paper contributes to the airport benchmarking literature in two ways. To our knowledge, this is the first attempt at using a stochastic distance function to measure airports’ productivity changes while considering multiple outputs. Secondly, we calculate the evolution and decomposition of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) for Spanish airports. The average rate of productivity showed a slight annual improvement of 0.9%, and the core engine of this was 3% increase in technical progress rather than through efficiency. Results, by airport, identify those needing improvement, to be more attractive in the Spanish airport restructuring program.
An airport is more than a mere interchanger of transport modes; it is a system that serves a wide and complex range of needs related to the movements of people and items worldwide. A performance measurement of the airport industry becomes crucial, to guarantee that those services are provided correctly. However, the evaluation of airport performance has been, for quite some time, neglected by transport research. Recently, a wide variety of airport studies have been carried out, in order to fill this gap in transport literature; see Table 1 in Section 2. One reason for the recent interest in airport performance could be the worldwide trend towards airport privatization. This privatization process makes the evaluation of performance in order to ensure that resources are used effectively. Governments have to verify that the best use is made of national resources, and that airports provide the required services at a fair price without taking advantage of their monopolistic or quasi-monopolistic position. Spain has a centralized network of state ownership airports. AENA is the public business body entrusted with the planning, development, building, installation, operation and management of all the 47 airports included in the Spanish Network. Recently, the Government of Spain announced that AENA will be restructured in two ways. Regional governments will participate in the management of airports located within their territories and private companies will also take part. Some argue that the airports should be ceded entirely to Spain’s autonomous regional governments, which would mean the disappearance of AENA. The Government’s intention seems to be that AENA retains day to day management, and that regional officials will participate in key planning decisions; for example commercial space allocation, infrastructure investment, and so on. Although details regarding the participation of private companies are not yet known, the reform does not seem to be oriented towards full privatization. On the contrary, the Government’s intention seems to be to allow private companies buy up to 49% of the shares of AENA, so the airports are kept under public control. Whatever these future changes may be, a deep knowledge of the performance of Spanish airports will be useful; and that is the main goal of this paper. We attempt to analyze the technical efficiency and productive change for Spanish airport using a parametric distance function approach. The reason behind the selection of this function lies in its advantages which are discussed later. The estimated parameters enable us to calculate the evolution of the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and its decomposition, thus showing the airports attractiveness for the agent involved in the restructuration process of the Spanish airports. This paper is organized as follows. First, in Section 2, we undertake a review of the literature on airport productivity analysis. Subsequently, in Section 3, we describe our methodological approach. Afterwards, in Section 4, we present our estimation of the distance function for a sample of Spanish airports, and the results are discussed. Finally, we present our conclusions.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
As we have previously seen, almost all of the papers have used the non-parametric DEA approach to analyze airport productivity. In this study the productivity change of Spanish airports was analyzed using a parametric technique. The estimation of a best frontier for Spanish airports was made using Stochastic Frontier Analysis. Our paper relies on a distance function, which can be considered as a multiple output version of a production frontier. To analyze the productivity change and its decomposition, the Malmquist TFP index was used. The empirical evidence found in this study is similar to that in the literature reviewed. Hub airports showed an above average level of efficiency. We also found a significant difference in efficiency between mainland airports and island airports. Moreover, airports in the north of Spain seem to be more efficient than those in the south. In general terms, we found that, for our airport sample, the average rate of productivity showed a slight annual improvement of 0.9%, and the core engine was the 3% increase in technical progress, rather than improvements in efficiency. This can be explained because during the period studied, AENA, the public enterprise that manages the Spanish Airport Network, developed an ambitious investment programme to modernize Spanish airports. This programme started in the early 1990s and is still continuing. With the exception of Pamplona, Santander and Jerez, there was rapid technological change in all airports. Tourist airports had the same rate of technical change as the two hubs Madrid and Barcelona. Only these two hubs airports showed a significant improvement in pure technical efficiency. According to our sample, any efficiency change associated with airport size was negligible. According to our results, it is obvious that not all airports are in the same position in terms of the privatization and decentralization process. Those airports located on a frontier, and with a good performance level, may be more attractive for the agents involved in the restructuration process; i.e. the regional government and private capital. However, private capital could also be interested in less efficient airports, if they have good potential to improve. Our results indicate which airports need more attention, in order to improve their results. In any case, the information about efficiency level is valuable.
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For more information, please visit our Integrated Spine Care site
What is it?
Spinal Fusion is a surgery that is performed when fusion of the spine is required. This can be done at any level, and can involve as few as two levels or in rare circumstances a large portion of the spinal column. This could be for a variety of reasons including degenerative disease or trauma.
What is its goal?
With many degenerative or traumatic diseases of the spinal column, fusion is required to maintain the alignment or prevent further disease. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways but the end goal is to cause fusion of the spinal column at the segments in question.
How is it done?
Your surgeon will describe to you in specific detail how he or she performs the surgery. There are multiple ways to accomplish spinal fusion and your surgeon can describe the specific approach he or she is planning on using. Your surgeon may choose to approach the spinal column from the front, the back or at an angle from the side. In most cases, general anesthesia is required. Your surgeon will use anatomic landmarks and X-Rays to identify the proper level for surgery and depending on the specific approach, opening may require retracting the paraspinal muscles (muscles attached to the sides of the spine) and removing the bone at the back. Your surgeon will then remove any abnormal bone and disc material and place a box between the vertebral bodies. He or she will then place screws in the pedicles of the spine and into bodies and connect them with rods. Compounds to aid with bony fusion may be used if deemed necessary. The overlying tissue and skin are then closed with sutures and the anesthesia team will reverse the anesthesia and remove the breathing tube as you wake up.
What are the risks?
In addition to the standard surgical and anesthetic related risks of bleeding, infection, stroke, coma, heart attack, and death, the specific risks to spinal fusion are blood vessel damage, nerve damage, leak of cerebrospinal fluid and the need for further surgery. Most people do very well following a spinal fusion, with low complication rates.
What is the success rate?
In experienced hands, the fusion rate can be as high as 60 - 90+%. This, however, depends on a variety of factors, depending on the level of surgery, and your specific situation. Talk to your surgeon about the specific variables that can affect your fusion success rate.
How long will I stay in the hospital?
Most people will stay in the hospital between 2 – 4 days after their surgery. Various factors, such as mobility, pain control and physical therapy requirements can affect length of stay.
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A viewer asked this question on 8/3/2000:
what is soft money?
madpol gave this response on 8/3/2000:
"Soft money" is money contributed directly to a political party rather than to a specific candidate.
Theoretically, this money is used to fund Party operations and to promote the Party's platform.
Politicians being what they are, however, it is usually used to circumvent federal campaign spending restrictions. This is done by running "educational" ads on key issues in markets where the party's candidate or his\her opponent is identified in the public mind with a particular stand on an issue.
While there are limits to how much individuals and organizations can contribute to a single campaign, there is no limit to how much parties and politically oriented organizations can spend on "Public Education."
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I read this fantastic JOHN CARTER article on GeekDad earlier today and I wanted to share since so many of you have been asking about this film and if your kids will like it.
10 Things Parents Should Know About Disney’s John Carter
By Tony Sims – WIRED http://www.wired.com/geekdad/
I recently had the tremendous privilege to see an advanced screening of Disney’s John Carter. I know there have been many mixed signals in the media lately concerning this movie. I hope that the answers to these questions help our readers make a more informed decision for themselves.
1. What’s it all about?
The author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, wrote the John Carter series of sci-fi/adventure stories about 100 years ago. Burroughs was also the author of Tarzan and many other stories. The main character, John Carter, is transported to the planet Mars. On Mars, he discovers he has superior physical abilities, such as the ability to leap 100 yards and unmatched physical strength. He eventually wins the respect of the local population of alien creatures know as the Tharks. He also becomes involved in assisting the human-like royalty of Mars against the uprising of a group who seeks to strip-mine the planet. If any of these concepts sound familiar – that is because much of our superhero fantasy and science-fiction over the past century has been created from ideas borrowed from Burroughs’ classics.
2. Will I like it?
Yes. If you are reading this site, most likely yes. If you like Star Wars or any other action sci-fi, then yes. You can really tell this movie was created with the passion that only a lifelong fan of this series could devote. Andrew Stanton, the writer/director, was actually working on this film’s screenplay while WALL-E was still in production (before a studio even signed on to do the project).
3. Will my kids like it?
If they are like you and you agree to the above, then yes. I plan on taking my 7-year-old son this weekend and I believe he will love it. It has something for everyone. Take your daughters to see this. It has amazing, strong female characters. In fact, many times they are the ones to fight the battles. Everyone will love Woola by the way – you’ll see.
4. How faithful is it to the books?
Disclaimer – I have not read the books in over 20 years. Even though many sites state that this movie is based on The Princess of Mars, actually it uses elements from Burroughs’ first three books in the series. This way, the audience gets to see the best parts of a third of the series, including more alien life and epic battles. One main difference between the books and movie is how he is transported to Mars; but fans of the book most likely won’t be disappointed with this change.
5. When’s the best time for a bathroom break?
At exactly 1 hour and 5 minutes in there are a few minutes of dialogue you could miss. When the heroes stop for a breather after the halfway point battle – head to the latrine.
6. How are the special effects?
Fantastic. What else could you expect from a movie that was created by Andrew Stanton? The man is behind WALL-E, Toy Story (1, 2 & 3), Finding Nemo, A Bug’s Life, and Monsters, Inc. Not to mention (if you believe the press buzz going around), this movie had a budget of nearly a billion dollars. The imagery is simple breath-taking.
7. What about the 3D?
This is probably one of the only movies where I would say that seeing it in 3D is worth it. Stanton made this movie to use 3D effects just to give the movie depth. This means that there are no “gimmicks” that use the 3D to overwhelm the viewer with “jumping out of the screen” surprises. Also this movie is filmed in primarily desert type regions, so the subtle darkening effect that 3D glasses tend to have on movies is not as noticeable. That being said, seeing it in 2D would not diminish the quality of the movie either.
8. It is rated PG-13. How PG-13 is it?
This was one of my primary concerns. I have younger children, so I wanted to see if this would be a movie I could introduce them to. Here’s the skinny: there is a lot of violence. The majority of the bloodshed is greenish alien blood, so some parents might find it easier to stomach with their children than others. Most of the fighting is sword play, so keep that in mind also. Hardly any foul language is spoken and there are no real intimate moments that need young eyes covered. [SPOILER ALERT, BUT IMPORTANT FOR PARENTS TAKING YOUNG CHILDREN] The one real moment I had concern about occurs in a flashback sequence where you briefly see the clothed remains of his dead wife and child. This is the one event that is a bit disturbing on anyone’s eyes – young or old. This scene takes place during an onslaught of a fight scene. If you want to cover younger eyes, here it is – when the Thark army is taking on John Carter by himself, he goes into a sort of battle rage. When you see this scene, he will flashback to images of his Virginia home which was burned to the ground, he will go back to the fight, the next flashback is that image – after that it is done. [END SPOILER]
Your mileage may vary on this. I will be taking my 7-year-old to see it, but he has also seen the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (does that make me a bad dad?). If he can handle the battle of Helm’s Deep, then he can definitely handle this.
9. It is a Disney movie. Why can I not find any John Carter toys in the stores?
Disney decided with this movie not to license mass market toys. I know, this is a strange decision; after all, they produced Pirates of the Caribbean toys! Well, that has a good bit to do with it also. The other non-animated toy lines which have been produced in the past have never been big hits except with the collectors. With that in mind, Disney is only going to license John Carter to higher-end collectibles manufacturers. If the movie proves to be huge and the sequels get their green lights, then maybe we will see the mass market open up.
10. Will I want to see it again?
Yes – and you will hope that it does well enough to merit the two sequels that Andrew Stanton already has written and is ready to produce. You will probably want to go ahead and pre-order it on Blu-ray as well.
All information has been shared with written permission from Walt Disney Studios
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Stolen Doggie Wheelchair Replaced
What sort of person steals a dog’s wheelchair? That’s what Rhode Island resident, Marilyn Proulx must have been wondering when she discovered that her dog, Jack’s wheelchair was missing from the side of her house last Tuesday.
Jack, a 13-year-old lab and shepherd mix lost the use of his rear legs due to two herniated discs. The specialized wheelchair allowed him to not just walk, but run to his heart’s content. Without it Marilyn must use a sling to assist Jack with mobility. It’s hard on Marilyn and Jack.
Having reported the theft to police, Marilyn was delighted to discover the generosity of strangers. A number of New England news channels picked up the story. As word spread, offers of wheelchair replacements came pouring in.
A company called Handicapped Pets offered to donate a new, custom-made wheelchair to Jack. Less than 24 hours after the news broke, Keith Downs and David Holtzen saw the report about Jack on a local station. Having lost their handicapped dog Gil a year ago, they knew the doggie wheelchair sitting in their garage may have found a new home. They contacted Marilyn and offered to donate the chair to Jack.
As it turns out, Gil’s chair was manufactured by the same company — Eddie’s Wheels — as Jack’s stolen wheelchair. They brought the chair for Jack to try on and found it to be a near-perfect fit. Jack is once again ambulating independently.
It should be noted that Eddie’s Wheels also offered to replace Jack’s wheelchair at no cost but Jack decided to accept Gil’s old wheelchair instead. Good dog; gotta’ recycle!
Thank you to everyone who called and offered to help Jack get another wheelchair. Now, if police can find the thief… it would be a happy ending indeed.
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Learn to count! Fun cow puppet for children. Funny.
CLICK TO ORDER http://TinyGrads.com TinyGrads.com is made up of parents and teachers who wanted to make educational and enjoyable videos available to parents at a price everyone can afford. Without a production budget, working from our personal computers and laptops we picked up our puppets and computer mice and went to work. We hope you and your children enjoy these little clips from our first full 27 minute project entitled 5 on the Farm. For only .75 cents (a price we hope is within every ones' means during these difficult economic times) you can download the entire video and let your children join in the adventure with our 5 farm animal puppets and colorful animation as they learn 5 simple colors and how to count to 5. Our own children really love the video and even they watched it slowly take shape over a long period of time, they still get a thrill every time they see it—laughing and pointing happily at the screen to the funny puppets, colors, bright photographs, and age-appropriate music. Please enjoy 5 on the Farm. After a little rest from this first project, we hope to bring you more videos your children will enjoy and you can trust. Thank you for watching, The TinyGrads family.
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DUBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Tension between Sunni and Shi'ite
Muslims is the biggest threat to world security, Iran's foreign
minister said in comments published on Monday, accusing Sunni
Arab countries of "fanning the flames" of sectarian conflict.
The increasingly sectarian civil war in Syria has drawn in
regional powers with Shi'ite Iran backing President Bashar
al-Assad and Sunni Gulf Arab states and mainly Sunni Turkey
helping the rebels. The conflict threatens to spill over into
countries split between Sunnis and Shi'ites such as Lebanon and
The sectarian tension is "the most serious security threat
not only to the region but to the world at large", Foreign
Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the BBC.
"I think we need to come to understand that a sectarian
divide in the Islamic world is a threat to all of us."
Zarif, a U.S.-educated former Iranian ambassador to the
United Nations, called for regional powers to come together to
try to solve the conflict in Syria. He is the point man of
President Hassan Rouhani's bid to ease tensions between Iran and
the outside world.
"I think all of us," he said, "regardless of our differences
on Syria, we need to work together on the sectarian issue."
But, the BBC said, without naming any countries directly,
Zarif accused Sunni Arab leaders of "fanning the flames" of
"This business of fear-mongering has been a prevalent
business," he said. "Nobody should try to fan the flames of
sectarian violence. We should reign it in, bring it to a close,
try to avoid a conflict that would be detrimental to everybody's
(Writing by Jon Hemming, editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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Online Resources to Help Make Web Browsing Safer
The prevalence of online security threats to data or identity lurk in the back of many internet users’ minds. The suspect could be a link in an email from an unknown, or at least unfamiliar source. Or danger may come in the form of a “helpful” popup which carries an ominous message to proceed at your own risk. Fortunately, there are several online resources which can help make web browsing safer.
Today’s internet browsers all have their own security technologies built-in. Features include looking at downloads and performing reputation checks on websites. In addition to this, anti-malware programs come with their own reputation systems as well. For many users, this may translate to multiple independent security alerts popping up at any time. In reality, no one browser or anti-malware program will catch EVERYTHING.
Featured below are a selection of online tools highlighted by a recent TechWorld article titled: “Website security checking – 7 online tools to scan URLs and files for danger”
- Comodo Web Inspector - https://app.webinspector.com/ - Users are presented with a simple page with the instruction to type or paste the url to be checked in the search field and then click to “start the scan”. Within a few moments, the Threat Report is ready and includes: Blacklist Checking, Phishing, Malware Downloads, Drive-by-Downloads, Worms, Backdoors, Trojans, Suspicious Iframes, Heuristic Viruses, Suspicious Code, Suspicious Connections, and Suspicious Activity.
- Google Safe Browsing - is a service provided by Google that lists URLs for web resources that contain malware or phishing content. Google Chrome, Firefox and Safari use this information to check pages for existing or potential threats.
- McAfee WebAdvisor - is a free download that checks to see if the firewall and antivirus protection is active, scans downloads for potential risks, and advises users if passwords are too weak or easy to guess.
- PhishTank - collects phishing websites from users and compiles them into a searchable database. Users can submit a url of a site suspected of being “phish-y”. PhishTank also has a mailing list available for free subscription.
- StopBadware - According to Wikipedia, “StopBadware is an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites.” The site provides several services to help websites remove badware, prevent badware infections and also website reviews (by request) to help get a website off of blacklists.
- Virus Total - Similar to Comodo, VirusTotal is a free service that analyzes suspicious files and URLs and facilitates the quick detection of viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware. Users type or paste urls into the search field to start the scan.
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A large number of U.S. employers would like to obtain more highly skilled foreign workers, but to do this they must first submit visa applications to a processing center. One such processing center is located in California. Ironically, many of these workers have advanced degrees that were obtained from American universities, and the education these people have received comes to no use for the U.S. if they are not allowed to work here.
The H-1B visa is the primary way for highly skilled workers to enter our workplace, and the demand for H-1B visas appears to be increasing. However, the level of acceptance of applications remains the same as was set back in 1990. The immigration system we now have in place based upon a lottery system ultimately results in about half of the applicants being rejected for these employment-based visas.
The restriction on the number of visas granted has appeared to have affected our economy. The economic growth since restrictions have been put in place has not what the many in the country would have desired, and there is an even greater need for skilled workers now since so many new forms of technology have come into place. At the same time, more foreign students are receiving degrees for math or engineering from our colleges.
Those employers wishing to hire on more skilled workers have relied upon immigration attorneys to help them out. Attorneys can advise businesses concerning their legal options. The reason why employers and attorneys have teamed up is because they understand the price we could pay for not allowing these individuals to work in our country.
A highly skilled worker who has had his or her visa rejected could very well end up working for a foreign competitor to many American companies. It's for that reason that at least one advocate is pushing for changes to our immigration system.
Source: The Hill, "Immigration lottery limits US employers," Lynden Melmed, April 1, 2014
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Adverio has established a new daughter company specialised in services for Waste Systems. The new company is called Adverio Waste Systems BV (“AWS”) and is an independent company that offers global solutions for the (re) use and use of waste for recycling of raw materials and renewable energy generation. Over the past 10 years there has been gained a lot of knowledge and experience by the management team and partner companies of AWS in the development and realization of waste treatment and renewable energy projects.
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There is a great article on the MSN home page today. It's written by Craig Playstead (did he make that up?). The article is about the mistakes parents make and I want to specifically comment about one of them.
Here is what Mr. Playstead says is #3- Failing to get involved at school
"School is where your kids will spend more time than any place besides your home. It's also the place that will have the most responsibility for shaping their life—from teachers and their peers. That being said, how can you not want to be involved in what's going on there? It doesn't matter if it's you or your spouse: Your family needs to have a presence at that school. And don't use work as an excuse—take a vacation day if you need to. You'll see immediately that it's time well spent. You should also have at least an e-mail relationship with their teacher. It's a great way for that teacher to see that you're interested in your child's development, and the teacher can alert you to anything concerning that may be going on with your son or daughter. Your kid's teacher may take a much more active role with your child if they know you're keeping close tabs."
From a teacher's perspective I just want to add a big "Amen!". This is my tenth year as an public school teacher. (I also taught many years in private daycare.) I've taught in five different school systems and they all have the same problem- lack of parental involvement. Yes, I know about work schedules and family responsibilities. However, I once met the parents of my four-year-old student at a ballgame, in November, because I introduced myself! And I never saw them again!
Granted, that situation was the extreme. It is far more common for me to see parents two or three times a year, with a few notes and emails in between. However, the more you visit school, participate in field trips and activities, and communicate with your child's teacher, the more satisfied you will be with your child's education. And your child will be more successful- I can almost guarantee it! Parents who stay in touch with their child's teacher not only understand expectations, but are quick to help with minor problems before they become major ones.
Older children may not express delight if their parents hang around school "too much", but younger ones love for their parents to visit. A surprise lunch visit or participation in a class activity makes them swell with pride. Parents are often hesitant at first, but I always encourage them to visit and see for themselves what I teach and how I teach it. If your child's teacher doesn't want you in the classroom once in a while, I would question why.
If you haven't been very involved in your child's education, you have a chance to change that. When the new school year begins, ask your child's teacher about the most effective way of communicating: notes, phone calls, emails. Every teacher has a preference. Notes and emails fit my schedule best. Each of my students has a "daily communication" folder that they carry in their backpack. Ask the teacher about field trips, projects and class activities. Ask about lunch visits. And most important of all, get a schedule of the parent-teacher conferences and mark them on your calendar.
Be involved. Be an advocate for your child. Be a partner with your child's teacher.
And read the rest of the article.
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Aisha is a thirteen-year-old refugee living in London. Happy for the first time since leaving her war-torn home, she is devastated when her foster mother announces that a new family has been found for her and she will be moving on. Feeling rejected and abandoned, Aisha packs her bags and runs away, seeking shelter in the nearby woods.
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Interview by Richard Marshall.
Katalin Farkas'smain area of research is the philosophy of mind. She defends an uncompromising internalism about the mental, and an equally uncompromising conception of the phenomenal availability of mental features. Perhaps unsurprisingly, she has great admiration for Descartes, and hopes to make a modest contribution to restoring his reputation after a century or so of bad press.
In recent years, she has been working on the nature of perceptual experiences, where she hopes to combine a philosophical investigation about the phenomenal character of experiences with a study of empirical results from the psychology. Her current project is to create an empirically informed philosophical account of standing states, especially of beliefs, and their relation to knowledge. Here she discusses internalism and externalism, the extended mind thesis, the Twin Earth thesis, Descartes and dualism, intentionality, knowledge-wh ascriptions and knowledge that doesn't aim at the truth. Read on...
3:AM:What made you become a philosopher?
Katalin Farkas:I have no idea, really, but like many people, I have a couple of anecdotes that I can wheel out when this question is asked. There is a family story about me when I was around three years old, and I spent a day with my grandmother. Apparently, I kept asking questions, which she patiently answered. Finally, I seemed to have had enough, and said: “Why do you keep answering, why don't you say what Dad says?” “What’s that?” my grandmother asked. I replied: “There is no cause or purpose to everything in the universe, Kati”. My father was a philosopher, and it was very typical of him to say something like this to a 3-year old. He often shared quite abstract thoughts with our cats. I remembered what he said well enough to repeat it, which shows an early interest in fundamental questions and a tendency to be a bit of a smart alec — which I think is a good preparation for being a philosopher. When I was in primary school, it looked like I might have some talent in mathemat-ics. I won the national mathematics competition in Hungary when I was 11. Subsequently it turned out that I entirely lacked mathematical genius. But philosophy is similar in some ways to maths, and my father was a philosopher, so philosophy was a natural choice for me. I ended up doing a joint degree in mathematics and philosophy, gradually losing interest in maths and becoming more and more interested in philosophy.
3:AM:You are an internalist about the mental and an admirer of Descartes who was also one of those wasn’t he? So could you start by sketching out what the internalist claims?
KF:In the Meditations, Descartes introduces the Evil Demon hypothesis. How do I know that I am not deceived by an Evil Demon to experience and believe all the things I do, when in fact none of the things I take to exist are real? There is no earth, no sky, it’s all an illusion caused by the demon. But even if I was deceived by a demon, Descartes claims, I would still think and hence exist. Moreover – and this is the crucial bit – I would still think the same thoughts and have all the same experiences, emotions, intentions, and so on, as I do now. So the mind is autonomous in the follow-ing sense: although it is, of course, causally influenced by the environment, in principle it would be possible for me to be the only existing thing in the world and yet have all the same mental features as I have now. This is internalism.
3:AM:So internalism opposes externalism. This has become a popular position hasn’t it over the last few years and has been the position that has undermined Descartes’ influence in many philosophers’ eyes. Can you say what you take the main claims are of this other position to be so we can see where your disagreement lies?
KF:Yes, externalism is pretty much the orthodoxy, and the kind of uncompromising internalism that I defend, which says that all mental features are internal, is rare. Externalists say that some mental features essentially depend on things outside us. So victims of an evil demon, or people who live in the Matrix, cannot think certain thoughts or have certain experiences that we have. Not because they are not prompted to have these episodes – we assume that they can have hallucinations and il-lusions that match exactly our experiences. But when an inhabitant of the Matrix has a perfect illu-sion of drinking water, her thoughts and experiences are still different from those of ours. It's a very counter-intuitive idea, in my view.
3:AM:Why don’t you think that the boundary between the internal and the external in this context is the skull or the skin of the thinking subject?
KF:Imagining that you are the victim of the Evil Demon reduces your world to a perspective, to how things appear from your point of view. In the demon scenario, things are very different from the way they actually are, but they still seem exactly the same. This is what the mental consists of: it's how things seem to you, either in thought, or experience, or emotions. (Hence the title of my book The Subject’s Point of View). How this is realised materially is a different question and lies, to a great extent, outside the scope of philosophy. So as a matter of natural law, maybe you need a brain, or a whole nervous system, or a whole body, or even things outside your body (though this is un-likely), to sustain the same appearance. It’s an empirical question, interesting in its own right, but the philosophically significant boundary lies not around the skull, but between what does and does not make a difference to appearances.
3:AM:Is internalism as you conceive it a matter of phenomenal intentionality without com-promise, that is, that there really is no reason for thinking that some kind of external-ism is required alongside the ‘narrow intentionality’?
KF:Indeed, there is no no reason. Everything that deserves to be called “mental” is a matter of how things seem (in a suitably broad sense), and “phenomenal” is of course another name for how things seem. So the root of all mentality, including intentionality, is the phenomenal. I admit that there is a danger here that the issue becomes terminological: does it matter that we call this or that “mental”? In my book I attempt to offer a picture on which the nature of the mind is is connected to issue of personhood. This picture motivates the uncompromising internalism I defend.
3:AM:You’ve engaged with Chalmers’ and Clark’s extended minds thesis. You say there are two ways of interpreting the thesis which are very different. Can you say what the dif-ference is between the two versions and why one of them is important because it points to a potential tension in our conception of minds or selves?
KF:There is a less interesting version which says that the material basis of mental features could extend beyond the skull. Imagine that some neurons in your brain are replaced by silicone wiring and bits of the wiring stick out of your skull. Your mind extends beyond your skull and therefore beyond the boundaries of your body! Andy Clark suggested at a couple of places that the possibility of this sce-nario is all we need to support the extended mind thesis. But if that's all, it would hardly be a controversial issue.
There is a much more interesting version, which has to do with mental states which are not part of the stream of your consciousness – for example, those beliefs of yours that you are currently not considering. Call these “standing states”. The main function of these states is to guide behaviour. Now there could be someone who stores information not in her brain, but in an external device, but after consulting the device, would tend to behave exactly the same way as someone who stores in-formation internally. Say the difference between someone who knows phone-numbers by heart and someone who looks them up on her smartphone. The challenge is to give a principled reason why these two people differ in their standing states. And if you can store some of your beliefs on external devices, how can we stop this extending too far? This is the real tension which the extended mind idea introduces. For an intriguing and very accessible exposition of this problem read Brie Gertler's paper “Overextending the Mind”
3:AM:Twin Earth arguments purport to show that externalism is the right way to go about thinking about minds. Can you say what the Twin Earth argument is and what it is supposed to rule in and out and why don’t you think it works?
KF:Let me give a somewhat simplified version. Twin Earth is an imaginary planet, which is an exact replica of Earth, including all its inhabitants and their history. My Doppelgänger on Twin Earth is now answering questions posed by your Doppelgänger. So while I am thinking about Richard Mar-shall, my Twin is thinking about Twin Richard Marshall. The Twin Earth argument is this: since my Twin and I are thinking about different things, our thoughts must be different. But we are exact replicas, so whatever is responsible for the difference, must be external to us. This is the externalist conclusion. I don't think this argument works, because it assumes that a mere difference in the ob-jects of thought implies a difference about the thoughts themselves. In contrast, my view is that the very same idea or thought can concern different things, depending on the circumstances.
3:AM:Descartes of course famously was a dualist and is supposed to have placed all the mind things in a ‘thinking substance’ of some sort, opposed to the bodily material stuff. But sensations, emotions, imagination and sensory perceptions are according to Descartes both mind and body things. Doesn’t this ruin his dualism and the claim that mind body substances are distinct?
KF:This is something not always appreciated in the popular conception of Descartes. He seemed to think that sensations, perceptual experiences, emotions, imaginations – all mental features with a phenomenal character – supervene on bodily states and require what he called the “union of mind and body”. This aspect of Descartes's dualism often puzzles interpreters, since in addition to asserting that mind and body are distinct, he also says that they are “intermingled”. I propose an interpretation of the relevant texts that is coherent with dualism. The key is that on Descartes's view, all the mental features just mentioned need a proximate cause outside the mind. So they depend on the body not for their existence, but for their causal origin.
3:AM:Are the causes of our experience also objects of the experience and what’s at stake in this ?
KF:It is usually assumed that the object of an experience (that is, a thing that you see, or hear, or touch) is among the causes of the experience. But clearly not all the causes of the experience are objects of the same experience: if you look at a tomato, one cause of the experience is the gardener who pro-duced the tomato, but you don't see the gardener by seeing the tomato! Saying which causes of an experience are also objects of the experience is fundamental to our understanding of the nature of perception.
3:AM:What are we talking about when philosophers use the terms ‘intentionality of sensory experience’ and ‘intentionality of thought’?
KF:Intentionality is the mind's direction upon objects. At least some sensory experiences are directed at things: for example, the visual experience involved in seeing a tomato is directed at a tomato. Thoughts are similarly directed: if you are thinking about a tomato, the tomato is the intentional ob-ject of your thought.
3:AM:You say the intentionality of sensory experience is constructed, but not that of the in-tentionality of thought. Why do you think this and why is it an important distinction?
KF:I think that sensory experiences are fundamentally objectless: they are mere modifications of the subject's mind, ways that she feels. But if they come in a highly organised and predictible structure, they become suggestive of an external object that's their source. The structure is essential in con-structing the object. Imagine that all your visual experiences were in constant swirl and motion, for example the way some acid trips are described. I think in that case your experiences wouldn't have intentional objects – they would just form a bad trip. This contrasts with the intentionality of thought, where there is no phenomenon that parallels the mere feel.
3:AM:Arguments from the extended mind thesis has been used by yourself to argue that knowing wh ascriptions. Before you tell us about this, can you just sketch what a knowledge –wh ascription is and what is it contrasted with and what have arguments in the extended mind thesis got mixed up in all this?
KF:This is going to be a bit complex. First, know-wh ascriptions. We often ascribe knowledge to peo-ple by saying that they know where, or when something happened, or who or what or which things have a certain nature. I know where I was born, you know what your mother's name is. These are know-wh ascriptions. They are contrasted with know-that ascriptions: you know that your mother's name is … well, you know what it is, I'm afraid I don't. Now to the extended mind thesis: this thesis states that we can have beliefs in virtue of having access to information stored on an external de-vice. A normal case of believing that NN's phone number is 12345678 is to be able to recall from memory that NN's phone number is 12345678. According to the extended mind thesis, you can have the very same belief simply by having reliable and easy access to this information on your smart phone. I suggest that extended mind scenarios are better described as cases of knowledge rather than cases of belief. Our ordinary ways of talking suggest this. You ask me if I know my brother's phone number, and I say sure, reaching for my phone. So I claim I have knowledge here, and it's best described as know-wh: I know what his phone-number is. At the same time, I probably don't have the belief that my brother's phone number is … well, whatever it is. If I'm right, then this is possibly a case of knowledge without belief, which goes against one of the central tenets of con-temporary epistemology.
3:AM:So why don’t you think that these knowledge wh ascriptions don’t reduce to knowledge that. Are you going up against Williamson and Stanley, for instance, in this? Why are they wrong and you right?
KF:What I just said already explains this. I don't know that my brother's phone number is … whatever it is – if I did, I could state this knowledge, but I can't. But I still speak the truth when I say that I know what my brother's phone number is. You see, I can state this knowledge fully. This goes against the standard analysis of know-wh, on which you know-wh only if you know that p, where p answers the wh-question.
This also goes against Williamson and Stanley insofar as they assume the standard analysis of know-wh, but these kind of cases don't really present a problem for Williamson and Stanley's ac-count of practical knowledge. However, I have a bunch of quite different know-wh cases which do potentially challenge their account. I call these practical know-wh. For example, a good joke-teller knows when it is time to tell a certain joke. The standard analysis then would require that she knows a proposition which specifies the time for telling the joke. However, there won't be just one such proposition: in different contexts, different propositions will give the right answer.
3:AM:So is it your view that there are some kinds of knowledge that doesn’t aim at the truth?
KF:Yes. Edward Craig says that the function of ascribing knowledge is to flag reliable sources of in-formation. I say that's true for factual knowledge; in addition, we ascribe practical knowledge in order to identify reliable performers of certain actions. This is a cognitive achievement that is simi-lar to factual knowledge in important ways, but it is evaluated in terms of success in action, rather than in terms of the truth.
However, I am sceptical of the existence of another kind of allegedly non-truth related knowledge: namely knowledge of things, or objectual knowledge, sometimes called “acquaintance knowledge” – the kind of knowledge that’s involved in knowing people or places. The reason is not that knowing someone is reducible to propositional knowledge; it isn't. It's rather that it's not really knowledge at all. In this way, it is similar to knowledge “in the biblical sense”. I hope it's clear that knowledge in the biblical sense (ie. having had sex with someone) is not reducible to propositional knowledge – but it's not really knowledge in a sense that matters to epistemology.
3:AM:And finally, are there five books that you can recommend to the readers here at 3:AM that will take us further into your philosophical world?
The first has to be Descartes's Meditations, which is arguably the best philosophy book ever written. One brilliant thing about it is that it will offer something to a high-school student who has just started to be interested in philosophy, but also to someone who has studied philosophy all her life. It's quite rare to find something like that in contemporary philosophy. I chose the next two books because they express some of my approach to philosophy. I am convinced that studying the history of philosophy is very important even for people interested in contemporary research. Philosophical questions don't just pop up without a context: their history matters a great deal.
So I'd like to recommend a forthcoming book: a History of Philosophy of Mind in the 20th and 21st century, edited by Amy Kind. Apart from history, another great source of inspiration for philosophers of mind is to read philosophically inclined cognitive psychologists. They tackle some of the same questions we are interested in: what it is to be human, what is the distinguishing feature of human mind. I have two colleagues at the Central European University, Gergely Csibra and Gyorgy Gergely, whose work on these matters is fascinating.
Unfortunately they don't have a book laying out their views, so I'm going to recommend another book by a developmental psychologist: The Philosophical Babyby Alison Gopnik.
The next book is connected to my growing interest in epistemology in the last few years. I really enjoyed reading Edward Craig’s Knowledge and the State of Nature.
Last but not least, let me recommend Elements of Mindby Tim Crane. It’s officially an introduction, it's very clear and accessible, but it is permeated by Tim's own's views, so it has a substantial content. I think it’s an example of how best to do philosophy. Incidentally, the book is dedicated to me, so that's extra reason for me to like it.
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This study of Italian news printing from its origins in 1470 to the sack of Rome in 1527 examines a broad array of Renaissance printed news texts in both Italian and Latin, in verse and in prose, which either relay information or comment more obliquely on contemporary events. The study explores the literary strategies Renaissance authors used to interpret the news of their day. It also traces connections among authors, printers, readers, and states seeking to control the flow of information at a time of political, social, and religious flux. Ultimately, the project attempts to redefine our understanding of printed political discourse in early modern Europe by locating its origins earlier and farther south than previously imagined.
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Violence has reached record levels in many cities of the world and has become a critical threat to the security and development of urban dwellers. Levels of burglary, robbery, rape, kidnapping, killing and other types of crimes are on the rise in several urban areas. These crimes not only result in injury and loss of property but also increase the general feeling of insecurity. Women and children, in particular, are the most vulnerable groups harmed by violence.
As the world becomes more and more urbanized, cities are increasingly seen as places of opportunity. If cities are secure and well administered, they can offer their residents diverse social, economic, and cultural benefits. However, most urban areas, particularly in the developing world, do not fulfill this potential. Many are characterized by extreme social exclusion, inequality, and high levels of crime and violence.
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The extraordinary peace and stability of Asmara is not really maintained through the work of the police and security forces. Asmara has become home to a peaceful society primarily because it exhibits a high degree of social cohesion. Trust makes it possible to maintain peaceful and stable social relations among the people. Asmara has, reportedly, the lowest incidence of crime and violence in Continent. The streets of Asmara are the safest places one can walk on at any time of the day or night. The government puts significant emphasis on the maintenance of peace and order and it ensures women and other vulnerable members of the society enjoy their rights to live in a peaceful and safe environment.
According to the well-known Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, safety and security are placed among the basic needs that should be satisfied for all humans. To live in a safe city free from harm and danger should be the right of every citizen. Among others, specifically Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “Everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person.” The Sustainable Development Goals particularly highlight the importance of safe cities in the commitment to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.”
We proudly claim with confidence that Asmara is safe because the city’s inhabitants are able to live, work and participate in urban life without fear of bodily harm or intimidation. Asmara is oftentimes described as a beautiful, clean city with well-designed buildings and well-decorated streets. The social beauty and safety of Asmara enjoyed by its inhabitants are, however, far greater and appreciable than the architectural beauty of the city. The people of Eritrea have developed the capacity to live together in harmony. Their collective historical experience oriented them toward peace and tolerance rather than towards violence. The life of the people is shaped by the discipline of peaceful co-existence, mutual trust, and tolerance.
Today, crime rates have soared in the developed and developing world. Urban dwellers try to secure their homes and gated communities are increasingly becoming common. Contrary to this reality, gating and surveillance technology is unknown in Asmara. The houses of the rich, government officials and famous personalities have no surveillance instruments or special fences.
The government’s policy that promotes social cohesion and peaceful coexistence has also developed a sense of community and trust among the people and removed all forms of discrimination and division.
In Eritrea, like many other countries, there is an increasing trend toward the concentration of people in the cities. The high concentration of people in cities constitutes advantages and disadvantages. In addition to social inequalities, it creates additional pressure on the state to respond to the increasing demand of the city. If these demands are not adequately addressed, crime, theft, violence, unsafe and unhygienic environments, and many other social ills develop. Therefore, in order to maintain and make the safety and security of our cities sustainable, the government must continue its efforts to make the rural areas attractive places. The provision of social services and opportunities in rural areas is a guarantee for the sustainability of city life.
Safety and security are sine-qua-non to progress and development. No society can develop without peace, security, and social harmony. Therefore, guarding the moral, spiritual and cultural values of the Eritrean society is of vital importance to the sustainability of safety and security.
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Skip to comments.Do white people have a future in South Africa?
Posted on 05/19/2013 7:18:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else. Now some of its white communities face a level of deprivation, or of violence, which threatens their future in the country.
Everyone here, regardless of colour, tells you that white people are still riding high.
They run the economy. They have a disproportionate amount of influence in politics and the media. They still have the best houses and most of the best jobs.
All of this is true but it is not the only picture.
Look below the surface and you will find poverty and a sense of growing vulnerability.
The question I have come to South Africa to answer is whether white people genuinely have a future here.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
No, they don’t.
From what I’ve read, I would say no. It’s probably in their best interest to leave as South Africa follows Zimbabwe/Rhodesia’s lead.
The blacks will be much happier once there are no whites to interfere with them murdering each other.
Do White People have a future in the United States?
It will be Haiti 2.0 before it’s all said and done.
They will just as soon as the multicultural Left finds anti-white racism less fashionable. In short, never.
Same answer for both SA and US.
“Apartheid South Africa looked after white people and nobody else.”
The very first sentence is factually incorrect. South Africa, during Apartheid, enjoyed the highest standard of living than any other Sub-Saharan African nation. That’s why South Africa saw massive black immigration into South Africa even during Apartheid. If Apartheid was truly that bad for blacks, then why were so many blacks immigrating to be part of it?
Also look at the murder rates during Apartheid and thereafter. More whites are killed by blacks in on average year post-Apartheid than blacks who were killed by whites during the entire time of Apartheid. Further, far more blacks are now raped and murdered by other blacks as a sense of anything goes has taken hold post-Apartheid.
The first sentence of the article is a bald faced lie.
During apartheid, Blacks had the highest and best education of any Blacks in Africa. They also had the best medical care and longest life span. In almost any fair comparison, Blacks in South Africa fared better than any other Black nation.
That might explain why so many tried to enter S.A. illegally, fleeing those run by Black Obama types.
Does the name “Custer” mean anything to you?
Only if snowballs don’t melt in hell.
Do white people have a future anywhere in the world?
I watched this video earlier today .....
My sentiments exactly. Unless whitey wakes up, there is no future here. There are just too many low information crackers in this here US of A.
Whites have had 20 years to clean up their business and flee. I feel horrible for those white families who are descendants of the Dutch settlers who, over 300 years ago, developed and farmed what was originally mostly barren wasteland. To watch invaders from other parts of Africa overrun the place, take it over, and then run it into the ground must be heartwrenching.
It’s one thing to see your house on fire and stick around to try to put fire out and save what you can. But it’s something else altogether when the burning rafters are falling down upon your head. It is way past time for whites to get out of that disgusting pisspot. It’s over. The American Democrats and African communists won.
The more important question is to white people have a future in the United States!
It's already here in this country too.
About the same odds as a non-moslem in an islamist country.
Russia and Eastern Europe. They just don't put up with Democrats, pansies, and political correctness there. Anyway, when (some) whites - - even in the former America - - are finally backed into a corner, there will be blood.
Yep. South Africa is in a race to get down to the level of neighbors economically, socially and militarily. The ruling party is massively corrupt, crime rates are skyrocketing and their brand new jet fighters are sitting up on blocks because they can’t afford to fly them. The SA Army just lost 14 soldier in the Central African Republic, which appear to have been there for no other reason than to protect the business interests of the ANC party bosses.
No. Look at Rhodesia. Look at Detroit.
Does anyone have a future in South Africa?
Two words: Hell, NO!
In other words, Little Steven & Paul Simon will not be giving benefit concerts.
America has functioned brilliantly in the past because of belief in free market capitalism, a strong work ethic and a generally unified population (including naturalized citizens from all over the world.) Things started to fall apart when the New Left radicalized racial minorities, feminists and homosexuals, and began to spread the insane ideas that "diversity (instead of unity) is our strength" and that our national treasury could support the entire world via immigration, legal and illegal.
There are many good people who come to the U.S., even illegally, who fully grasp the idea of individual initiative, opportunity and making better lives for themselves. So do many of our citizen minorities including Blacks. Unfortunately too many -- including some of our political elites and hopelessly spoiled, socialist-indoctrinated young people -- just don't grasp the fundamentals that made America rich and powerful. They simplistically see America as the goose that will continue to lay golden eggs forever, with no thought about feeding the goose and making sure it stays in good health.
If Zimbabwe is any indication my guess would be “no”.But I’m not nearly close enough to the situation to be certain.
True...just as they never shed a tear over Jews being driven out of various Middle Eastern countries or over Christians being *currently* driven out of those same countries (or murdered).
Whites should get out while they still have their lives. Racism is a one way street; whites are always guilty.
They’ve largely been disarmed. What do you think?
Die Antwoord’s stuff is like watching a train wreck.
Study up on 1800’s global bankers adventures in Africa.
That’s the 19th century, the years 1800-1899.
Learn about the whole cast of international banking characters.
Today will make much more sense.
Reverting to tribalism themselves, I guess it should have been anticipated. It’s violent, in your face, throwing ugly racial stereotypes right back, more than a little psychotic.
The second Lady Gaga spoof actually was good, even striking aesthetically once it got rolling but still very disturbed and very disturbing. Very colorful but very dark.
A lot of verys there. It’ll be a very violent thing if remaining white youth turn to this. It likely will be eventually anyway, whether they do or they don’t.
Hence the apparent psychosis.
Ask that question again in three years when Barry has finished with us. Apparently millions of jobless white people are not oppressed enough.
I agree. Blacks in Africa are incapable of governing themselves in any peaceful or rational manner.
The speech was given by Governor Lamm at the 2004 Immigration-Overpopulation Conference in Washington, D.C.
He titled it “A Plan to Destroy America.”
Wherever you stand, please take the time to read this; it ought to scare the pants off you!
We know Dick Lamm as the former Governor of Colorado (Democrat). In that context his thoughts are particularly poignant. Recently there was an immigration overpopulation conference in Washington, DC, filled to capacity by many of America’s finest minds and leaders. A brilliant college professor by
the name of Victor Davis Hansen talked about his latest book, “Mexifornia,” explaining how immigration - both legal and illegal was destroying the entire state of California He said it would march across the country until it destroyed all vestiges of The American Dream.
Moments later, former Colorado Governor Richard D. Lamm stood up and gave a stunning speech on how to destroy America. The audience sat spellbound as he described eight methods for the destruction of the United States. He said, “If you believe that America is too smug, too
self-satisfied, too rich, then let’s destroy America. It is not that hard to do. No nation in history has survived the ravages of time. Arnold Toynbee observed that all great civilizations rise and fall and that ‘An autopsy of history would show that all great nations commit suicide.’”
“Here is how they do it,” Lamm said: “First, to destroy America, turn America into a bilingual or multi-lingual and bicultural country.” History shows that no nation can survive the tension, conflict, and antagonism of two or more competing languages and cultures It is a blessing for an individual to
be bilingual; however, it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. The historical scholar, Seymour Lipset, put it this way: “The histories of bilingual and bi-cultural societies that do not assimilate are histories of turmoil, tension, and tragedy.” Canada, Belgium, Malaysia, and Lebanon all face crises of
national existence in which minorities press for autonomy, if not independence. Pakistan and Cyprus have divided. Nigeria suppressed an ethnic rebellion. France faces difficult times with Basques, Bretons, and Corsicans.”
Lamm went on: Second, to destroy America, “Invent ‘multiculturalism’ and encourage immigrants to maintain their culture. Make it an article of belief that all cultures are equal. That there are no cultural differences. Make it an article of faith that the Black and Hispanic dropout rates are due solely to prejudice and discrimination by the majority. Every other explanation is out of bounds.
Third, “We could make the United States an ‘Hispanic Quebec’ without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. As Benjamin Schwarz said in the Atlantic Monthly recently: “The apparent success of our own multi ethnic and multicultural experiment might have been achieved not by tolerance but by hegemony. Without the dominance that once dictated ethnocentricity and what it meant to be an American, we are left with only tolerance and pluralism to hold us together.”
Lamm said, “I would encourage all immigrants to keep their own language and culture. I would! replace the melting pot metaphor with the salad bowl metaphor. It is important to ensure that we have various cultural subgroups living in America enforcing their differences rather than as Americans, emphasizing their similarities.”
“Fourth, I would make our fastest growing demographic group the least educated. I would add a second underclass, unassimilated, undereducated, and antagonistic to our population. I would have this second underclass have a 50% dropout rate from high school.”
“My fifth point for destroying America would be to get big foundations and business to give these efforts lots of money. I would invest in ethnic identity, and I would establish the cult of ‘Victimology.’ I would get all minorities to think that their lack of success was the fault of the majority. I would start a grievance industry blaming all minority failure on the majority population.”
“My sixth plan for America’s downfall would include dual citizenship, and promote divided loyalties I would celebrate diversity over unity. I would stress differences rather than similarities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other- that is, when they are not killing each other. A diverse, peaceful, or stable society is against most historical precedent. People undervalue the unity it takes to keep a nation together. Look at the ancient Greeks. The Greeks believed that they belonged to the same race; they possessed a common Language and literature; and they worshipped the same Gods. All Greece took part in the Olympic games. A common enemy, Persia, threatened their liberty. ! Yet all these bonds were not strong enough to overcome two factors: local patriotism and geographical conditions that nurtured political divisions. Greece fell. “E. Pluribus Unum” — from many, one. In that historical reality, if we put the emphasis on the ‘Pluribus’ instead of the ‘Unum,’ we will balkanize America assuredly as Kosovo.”
“Next to last, I would place all subjects off limits; make it taboo to talk about anything against the cult of ‘diversity.’ I would find a word similar to ‘heretic’ in the 16th century - that stopped discussion and paralyzed thinking. Words like ‘racist’ or ‘xenophobe’ halt discussion and debate. Having made America a bi-lingual/bicultural country, having established multiculturalism, having the large foundations fund the doctrine of ‘victimology,’ I would next make it impossible to enforce our immigration laws. I would develop a mantra: That because immigration has been good for America, it must always be good. I would make every individual immigrant symmetric and ignore the cumulative impact of millions of them.”
In the last minute of his speech, Governor Lamm wiped his brow. Profound silence followed. Finally he said, “Lastly, I would censor Victor Hanson Davis’s book “Mexifornia.” His book is dangerous. It exposes the plan to destroy America. If you feel America deserves to be destroyed, don’t read that book.”
There was no applause. A chilling fear quietly rose like an ominous cloud above every attendee at the conference. Every American in that room knew that everything Lamm enumerated was proceeding methodically, quietly, darkly, yet pervasively across the United States today. Discussion is being suppressed. Over 100 languages are ripping the foundation of our educational system and national cohesiveness. Even barbaric cultures that practice female genital mutilation are growing as we celebrate ‘diversity.’ American jobs are vanishing into the Third World as corporations create a Third World in America - take note of California and other states - to date, ten million illegal aliens and growing fast. It is reminiscent of George Orwell’s book “1984.” In that story, three slogans are engraved in the Ministry of Truth building: “War is peace,” “Freedom is slavery,” and “Ignorance is strength.”
Governor Lamm walked back to his seat. It dawned on everyone at the conference that our nation and the future of this great democracy is deeply in trouble and worsening fast. If we don’t get this immigration monster stopped within three years, it will rage like a California wildfire and destroy everything in its path especially The American Dream. If you care for and love our country as I do, take the time to pass this on just as I did for you
Not while violent, black, racist socialists (ANC) are in power.
Get the hell out before they kill you, or if you’re a white woman, rape and/or kill you.
Apartheid South Africa looked after SOME white people. Not all of them. Plenty whites got nothing from the apartheid government.
And it’s about time all the rest of the folks here knew it.
No one has a future in South Africa. It is well on the way to becoming a vast socialist slum.
No, and South Africa doesn’t have a chance.
Not a good omen:
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Two Wisconsin power plants convert to biomass
Two biomass power conversion projects in Wisconsin are progressing, one already operating and the other just beginning its transformation.
DTE Energy Services has completed the conversion of a coal-fired power station in Cassville, Wis., to biomass and is selling the resulting 40 megawatts to Dairyland Power Cooperative in La Crosse, Wis. The facility, named E.J. Stoneman Station, now burns wood waste such as residue from forestry and tree trimming operations, railroad ties, demolition waste and sawdust.
The plant was owned and brought into service in 1951 by Dairlyand, but was sold in the 90s, according to DTE. The resurrected plant is now providing clean power back to its original owner. “We are pleased to see this major renewable energy resource come on line for our cooperative membership,” said Dale Pohlman, Dairyland vice president of strategic planning.
“DTE Energy Services is proud to be able to bring the Stoneman plant new life as a generator of renewable energy,” said David Ruud, president of DTE. He added that the plant will provide 32 local jobs and support the local economy through relationships with fuel suppliers and other local businesses.
Meanwhile, the University of Wisconsin-Madison has broken ground for the conversion of its Charter Street Heating Plant from coal to biomass. The $251 million project will include the replacement of coal-burning boilers, initially with natural gas furnaces, but by 2013, the plant will be burning about 250,000 tons annually of wood chips, corn stalks and switchgrass pellets from around the state, according to the university. The construction process has begun with a partnership between Appleton, Wis.,-based Boldt Construction and British engineering firm AMEC.
“It is a great moment in time when Wisconsin is going to demonstrate to the country and the world our commitment to a new energy future,” said Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle. Doyle isn’t the only one excited about the project, which is expected to operate as much as 10 percent more efficiently. “We know it will be fueling research into a number of problems for which we need solutions,” said UW-Madison Chancellor Biddy Martin. “It integrates all of what matters to us: basic research, education, outreach and real-world practice.”
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|Publication number||US4006744 A|
|Application number||US 05/589,278|
|Publication date||Feb 8, 1977|
|Filing date||Jun 23, 1975|
|Priority date||Jun 24, 1974|
|Also published as||CA1057151A, CA1057151A1, DE2527947A1|
|Publication number||05589278, 589278, US 4006744 A, US 4006744A, US-A-4006744, US4006744 A, US4006744A|
|Inventors||Peter Leslie Steer|
|Original Assignee||Abbott Laboratories|
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|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to devices for joining cannula or other fine bore tubes to fittings such as luer lock fittings.
In surgery it is often necessary to fit a device such as a luer mount to a cannula. For example, in the epidural cannulization of women for painless childbirth, a needle is inserted into the epidural space of the patient and a cannula is passed through the needle into the patient. The needle can then be removed and a mount fitted, but this is a difficult procedure because it is not easy for a person wearing rubber gloves to fit a fine needle end into a tube. Alternatively, the needle can be left on the cannula and then taped down onto the patient, but there is then a risk that the needle will cut the tube. An advantage of the invention is to provide a way of avoiding these problems, but it should be understood that the use of the device of the present invention is not restricted to use for epidural cannulization of a patient.
Holders for tubular items of the type concerned with in this invention can be found in U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,538,915; 3,574,306; 3,589,361; 3,592,192; 3,834,380. In U.S. Pat. Nos. 3,538,915 and 3,574,306, devices are disclosed for inseparably securing an infusion needle to a wing-type holder. A holder for cannula tubing is illustrated in U.S. Pat. No. 3,589,361 and in U.S. Pat. No. 3,834,380. In U.S. Pat. No. 3,592,192, a clamping unit is indicated for securing a cannula and catheter together. However, none of these prior art devices affords a fluid-tight fitment by means of an intermediate length of flexible tubing which is compressed around the catheter tubing after being inserted therein.
According to the invention, a mount arranged to be fitted on an end of a cannula is provided with a first clamping jaw secured to the mount adjacent a cannula inlet to the mount. A cannula inlet member is secured to the jaw opposite the cannula fluid inlet of the mount. A resilient inlet sleeve or tube extends between the cannula inlet member and the cannula fluid inlet of the mount whereby an end portion of the cannula can be passed through the inlet member and the tube to the mount. A second jaw is hinged to the first jaw and can be closed onto the first jaw and onto the sleeve thereby to clamp the cannula portion in the sleeve. Means are provided for locking the two jaws together in the closed position.
In a preferred embodiment of the invention, a cannula mount, for example a luer mount, is secured at one end to a pair of clamping jaws which can be locked together to secure the device to an end portion of a cannula leading to the mount. For convenience of description, the luer mount is herein considered to be positioned above the jaws. The mount and the two jaws are preferably molded in one piece from a suitable plastic material.
A better understanding of the present device will be afforded by reference to the drawing wherein:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the locking cannula mount with the wings or clamping jaws in an open position and having a length of cannula tubing extending from one end and the luer taper portion of a hypodermic syringe engaging the luer mount at the opposing end.
FIG. 2 is a top plan view of the unit shown in FIG. 1 without the tubing and the syringe portion.
FIG. 3 is a partial view in horizontal section of the unit illustrated in FIG. 1.
FIG. 4 is an end view of the locking cannula mount shown in FIG. 2 illustrating the movement of the one jaw or wing member over the other to effect a clamping or compressing action on the centrally disposed tubing.
FIG. 5 is a view in vertical section of the clamping jaws engaging each other with the centrally disposed flexible tubing compressed therein.
Referring to FIG. 1, the locking cannula mount 10 is composed of two oppositely positioned wing or jaw members 11 & 12 which are joined by a weakened hinge portion 14. The wing members 11 and 12 form a part of a body member 13 from which extends an annular cannula inlet passage 15. Extending oppositely to the inlet passage 15 is an entry mount or compartment 16 which has a luer taper inside to accommodate a luer taper portion 17 of a hypodermic syringe. Interconnecting the inlet passage 15 and the compartment 16 is a length of flexible tubing or a sleeve 18 which is secured in an intermediate section 19 in jaw member 11 of body member 13 adjacent hinge 14.
It will be seen that sleeve 18 is secured in the wing or jaw 11 by an intermediate retaining member 21 which surrounds sleeve 18 in a semicircular manner. As will best be seen in FIG. 5, sleeve 18 is accommodated in jaw member 11 by means of semicircular groove 22. It is contacted by groove 23 in jaw 12 which has a radius of curvature slightly smaller than the outside diameter of sleeve 18 so as to effect a compressive force on it when the catheter tubing 25 is inserted therein. It will be noted that groove 23 is interrupted by a central rectangular passage 27 which will accommodate the intermediate retaining member when the jaws are in a locking position as shown in FIG. 5, and the wall surface of groove 23 will compress sleeve 18 on each side of the retaining member 21.
As best seen in FIG. 3, sleeve 18 is accommodated in enlarged passages 30 and 31 in compartment 16 and inlet passage 15. This provides a central coaxially aligned channel 34 extending between the luer taper compartment and inlet 15. It should be noted that a small diameter portion 37 is disposed in inlet passage 15 with the internal diameter being substantially the same as the internal diameter of sleeve 18. This with the conical entry port 36 having a larger diameter than sleeve 18 affords ready and quick insertion of catheter tubing 25 in sleeve 18.
It should also be noted in FIGS. 1, 2, 4 and 5 that a retentive frictional engaging means for the wings or jaws 11 and 12 is provided in the form of a knob 38 and an opening 39 into which the knob 38 will frictionally fit when the jaws are in a closed position as indicated in FIG. 5.
It will also be seen with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2 that wings 11 and 12 are provided with opposing and off-setting flanges 41 and 42 which will aid in separating the wing portions when knob 38 engages opening 39.
A better understanding of the locking cannula mount 10 will be had by a description of its operation. A length of catheter tubing 25 will be inserted into the epidural space of a patient in the usual manner employing a cannula. When the needle or cannula is removed, it is desired to then introduce fluid materials into the cannula. With the cannula properly positioned in the patient, the opposing end is inserted into entry 36 and inwardly into sleeve 28 a sufficient distance so that proper clamping action of the sleeve can be effected. In this regard, reference is made to FIG. 3 which shows the cannula 25 in sleeve 18. After insertion of the cannula in the sleeve member, the jaw members 11 and 12 are brought together by means of the hinge 14 with knob 38 fitting into opening 39 in a frictional manner. This causes semicircular groove 23 to engage sleeve 18 on either side of retaining member 21 thereby compressing the resilient sleeve firmly but gently around the cannula which is thereby clamped in the sleeve. Introduction of parenteral solution or fluids is easily effected by means of a luer taper syringe such as indicated at 17 which is inserted into compartment 16. A fluid-tight connection is thereby made as the cannula 25 is firmly held in sleeve 18 with sleeve 18 communicating with the inside of entry compartment 16 through small diameter portion 44. With the jaws or wings 11 and 12 interconnected, the unit is easily secured to a patient by means of adhesive tape. When it is desired to release cannula 25, all that is required is for the wing members 11 and 12 to be separated by grasping flanges 41 and 42 and forcing them in an opposing direction.
The locking cannula mount body 13 is easily molded from various resinous plastic materials and resilient sleeve 18 is fabricated from rubber or rubber-like material. Sleeve 18 can be secured in passages 30, 31, groove 22 and through retaining member 21 by means of molding. The locking cannula mount 10 is easily molded in one piece. Various configurations can be provided for the jaws 11 and 12 as well as various sizes to provide sufficient surface area for applying adhesive tape so as to secure the locking cannula mount to a patient. It will also be appreciated that while a snap-type fitment of a knob 38 and opening 39 is illustrated, other retentive retaining means could be employed such as a metal clip or a latch-type mechanism. However, as the knob and opening arrangement of this unit 10 does not require any moving parts, it is preferred.
It will thus be seen that through the present invention there is now provided a locking cannula device wherein a length of cannula tubing can be quickly inserted and clamped in a fluid-tight manner. The jaw members are easily manipulated and a large compartment is afforded for the introduction of fluids into the cannula from the opposing end. The unit is readily molded from standard plastic materials and requires no moving parts except for a hinging action.
The foregoing invention can now be practiced by those skilled in the art. Such skilled persons will know that the invention is not necessarily restricted to the particular embodiments herein. The scope of the invention is to be defined by the terms of the following claims as given meaning by the preceding description.
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Wizards of Technology Win 2021 Robotics Tournament
Joe Denoyer - March 27, 2021 8:46 pm
The Liberal Recreation Department hosted the Annual Kansas Southwest Region First Lego League Championship. The event took place Saturday, March 27th at the Seward County Activity Center.
Teams from Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas competed in this Robotics Competition. During the morning hours, the teams made presentations before a panel of judges and fine tuned their robots on practice tables for the afternoon table competition.
The theme for this years event was ” Star Wars Solving Real City Problems”. Lego Teams constructed a robot from Lego’s, with a Project mission related to Cities. The students had been asked to research and solve real-problems related to Cities. Winners on the day were:
Project Award – 1st Boise City Battlecats, 2nd Turpin Turpinators Black
Robot Design – 1st Perryton Wizards of Technology 2nd Vici Outlaws
Core Values – 1st Fellowship Baptist Robofalcons #2, 2nd Hugoton Blockbusters
Robot Performance – 1st Leedy Robotics 2nd Arnette Robocats
Overall Champion – Perryton Wizards of Technology
The event took over 70 volunteers to put on, and over 1000 people were in attendance at the tournament.
The Junior Lego League competed in the morning.
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AUSTRALIA'S military has suffered its darkest day since the Vietnam War with the deaths of five soldiers in Afghanistan - three of them at the hands of an Afghan ally - dealing a heavy blow to the image of a war being slowly but surely won.
In particular, the shooting of three Australian soldiers by a rogue soldier at a tiny Afghan National Army patrol base - a ''green on blue attack'' - will leave a sour taste in the mouths of Australian soldiers trying to fight the decade-long war against the Taliban.
The three soldiers were part of an Australian military mentoring team who travel between bases in Oruzgan training the Afghan army. Two soldiers from the team were also shot, but survived.
The incident placed immediate pressure on the Australian government to justify their ongoing presence in the increasingly unpopular war. The government is slowly reducing the number of Australian troops there but will not end the combat role until December 31, 2014, when all International Security Assistance Force troops are due to finish their mission.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, yesterday left early from the Pacific Islands Forum on the Cook Islands to return to Canberra for more detailed briefings today on the deaths.
She was quick to refute suggestions the five deaths might prompt an early Australian withdrawal from Afghanistan.
''We cannot allow even the most grievous of losses to change our strategy,'' Ms Gillard said in Rarotonga.
''In my view that wouldn't be appropriately honouring the men we have lost. In my view that would be letting our nation down. We went there for a purpose and we will see that purpose through.''
The soldiers were part of a team of more than 30 who were staying at the Wahab patrol base - in the Baluchi Valley about 20 kilometres north of the Oruzgan capital of Tarin Kowt - training their Afghan counterparts.
Some of the Australian soldiers were standing in an open area of the small base around twilight when the Afghan soldier, understood to be a relatively new recruit, approached them and fired a sustained burst of automatic fire. He then scaled a wall and, despite being shot at by other Australian troops, fled into the dark. Afghan soldiers in guard towers were unable to fire at him.
A Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousuf Ahmad, said last night that the soldier was not known to the Taliban.
In the other incident, two Australian privates from the 2nd Commando Regiment died when a US Black Hawk helicopter they were on crashed while landing in northern Helmand. The men, aged 23 and 30, were veterans of the war. ''Australia has lost five men today,'' the acting defence chief, Air Marshal Mark Binskin, told reporters in Canberra yesterday.
''I cannot begin to describe the overwhelming grief that their families are experiencing but I want them to know that the Army and the ADF community share their anguish and will continue to support them and care for them.''
The deaths are the highest in a 24-hour period since five Australian soldiers were killed in Vietnam, on September 21, 1971.
The Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, said yesterday was a ''terrible day for our country and a black day for our defence force''.
Air Marshal Binskin also announced Australia would be adopting tougher security practices to mitigate the possibility of another green on blue attack.
An ADF team is en route to Wahab to investigate the shooting.
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BULOG (Indonesian Bureau of Logistics) Regional Division West Java is a state-owned public company that regulates and maintains a supply of rice in order to meet the needs of all Indonesian people. Currently, BULOG distributing rice from one SubDivre warehouse to another SubDivre warehouse (point-to-point system) so shipping costs are higher because the frequency of transportation used is higher and the total distance traveled is higher. To reduce the cost of distribution, we propose consolidation model based on hub and spoke network topology. Hub and spoke system is done by determining which points become the hubs and which points become the spoke. The problem in determining the location of the hub and spoke is known as the hub location problem. In this problem, single allocation p-hub median problem is used. We use AMPL to get the solution. Various number of hubs (5,6,7) are tested and evaluated based on total shipping cost. The number of hubs which gives the minimum total shipping cost is 7. Delivery system using the hub and spoke network model can reduce the total cost of distribution by 13,94%.
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Active Directory was taken to the world with Microsoft. it is truly a help that is brand name by the multi-billion dollar company.
This is one of the core and essential components to the total architecture of the ever-popular Microsoft Windows operating systems that are available on the market today.
The Active Directory trait runs to help in the area of management after it comes to the network that the running scheme is part of.
If your place or industry uses a network that is calculated to be a “distributed” one, then Active Directory is running in the background.
Active Directory was initial integrated into the famous Windows Server patented “2000″. In the Server by Windows that was branded as “2003″, it was made a bit more improved. This list helps in the control of the features of a network.
This includes the consumers agreements and openness levels the printers plus erstwhile peripherals on the network, as well as many other reserves.
Active Directory is critical to guarantee that the network is successfully shielded and operating correctly according to the policies on that network. If you willing to secure the files plus erstwhile stuffs on the network in your home, or the network in your company, Active Directory is the practice to go!
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(KPLR) - Experts say a serious problem is growing in St. Louis at an alarming rate: sex trafficking. Girls as young as 14 are being lured into a brutal life of prostitution, violence, and drug abuse. Magdalene St. Louis, a new organization, still in its infancy is working to help get victims of the crime off the streets and the help they need to lead safe healthy lives.
On The Pulse Of St. Louis, Christine McDonald, a street survivor, shares her story and what can be done to reverse a growing trend.
Programs to get women out of sex trafficking
How involved is law enforcement in stopping sex trafficking
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This comprehensive package provides a thorough overview of the EU’s founding treaties (with special emphasis on the Lisbon Treaty), as well as an in-depth overview of its various institutions and agencies – ideal for quickly acquiring the necessary EU knowledge for the EPSO Assessment Centre. Please see the individual course descriptions for more details.
Number of Courses Included: 7The Lisbon Treaty (41 minutes) European Parliament (36 minutes) EU Treaties (34 minutes) European Commission (36 minutes) Council of Ministers & European Council (33 minutes) EU Courts & Legal System (64 minutes) EU Financial, Advisory & Regulatory Bodies (68 minutes)
About us: Arboreus Online EU Training
Arboreus is one of Central Europe’s most dynamically developing innovative e-learning companies, offering professional online training on European Union policies and EU Careers. Our clients include European graduates, EU and national officials, managers, job seekers, Brussels professionals and others.
We do this by creating a community of professionals, academics, diplomats and job seekers covering European affairs all over the world so they can network and learn about the EU.
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I've been told I have a weird way of looking at the body. I've likened the digestive system to a train route, the heart to a machine, and now I'm about to throw a bunch of computer jargon at you for the brain.
Think of your body as a computer. Mac or PC—doesn't matter. A computer is made up of tons of small wires (vasculature and nerves), parts (organs), and the tasks it performs come from the central processing unit, or CPU (brain). It takes a lot of digging to get to the CPU of a computer, so that's what we're going to do: we're going to dig.
Muscles of Expression
Every time you smile, frown, laugh, cry, or clench your teeth in anger, you are expressing an emotion. Some of these are involuntary—you react automatically when you find something funny or upsetting. It takes a lot of discipline to contain your emotions.
The muscles of expression allow you to show your emotions. They pull at your eyebrows and the corners of your mouth; they wrinkle your nose and chin; they furrow your forehead. And guess what—the brain is responsible for all of it.
When you laugh at a joke or cry during a sad movie, your brain interprets these emotions and uses your muscles to express them.
Cerebral Arterial Circle: Circle of Willis
Okay, so we peel back the cover of the computer (a.k.a., everything on the outside) and begin our descent.
Blood supply to the body's organs is obviously important, but blood supply to the brain is super important. Think of it as plugging in your laptop—you need a continuous power source to keep everything running.
Numerous branches of the Circle of Willis (the cerebral arterial circle) distribute blood throughout the brain and provide collateral circulation.
The thick, blue structure that rests above the two brain hemispheres is the superior sagittal sinus, which drains blood from the brain.
Functions of the Four Lobes of the Brain
Here we go. Now we're in the "guts" of our computer, so to speak. The brain has two hemispheres. The largest part of the brain (what most people visualize when they think of the brain) is the cerebrum. In the image above I've highlighted sections of the four main lobes of the cerebrum: the frontal lobe, parietal lobe, temporal lobe, and occipital lobe; each are named for the bones with which they correspond.
- The frontal lobe is the most anterior of the four, and it is responsible for functions including speech, long-term memory, and decision-making.
- The parietal lobe integrates sensory information and plays a role in spatial perception. It processes awareness of the body's motion, touch, perception of temperature, and pain.
- The temporal lobe contains an auditory cortex that receives input from the cochlear nerve, and association areas that integrate auditory, olfactory, and complex pattern perception.
- The occipital lobe is the most posterior of the four; its functions include receiving input from the eye and processing visual perceptions.
Functions of the Hindbrain
Most people, when they picture the brain, only think of the cerebrum. There's much more to it than that!
The hindbrain, or rhombencephalon, is a large structure in the posterior region of the brain, inferior to the occipital lobe. It consists of the medulla oblongata, the pons, and the cerebellum. The cerebellum fine-tunes body movement and manages balance and posture. The medulla oblongata (which is just fun to say) acts as the conduction pathway between the spinal cord and the brain as it controls involuntary functions of the respiratory, digestive, and circulatory systems and contributes to hearing balance and taste. The pons bridges the two main function areas of the central nervous system, the "higher" brain centers and the spinal cord.
Functions of the Limbic System
The limbic system is made up of a number of structures that manage a range of emotions and contribute to the processing of memory and smell.
The hippocampus, one of the most recognizable structures of the limbic system, is made up of mostly gray matter and plays a role in the consolidation of long-term memory.
Functions of the Midbrain
The midbrain, one of the main areas of the brain, is involved with vision, hearing, motor control, and thermoregulation.
So the next time you open up Solitaire or spend 18 hours on Facebook, think about how your computer is working inside to let you do these tasks—just like how your brain is working to let you use the computer. It's all very Inception.
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Choosing drinks, juices, and other liquids to consume on a low-acid diet can be challenging as most fruit juices are acidic. It can also be hard for coffee lovers to find a type of milk that doesn’t aggravate their acid reflux and GERD symptoms but still tastes great.
These days, there are many milk types available in stores, so you’re bound to find one that works for you and isn’t acidic. Let’s take a look at coconut milk; is it acidic?
Is coconut milk acidic?
Coconut milk can be both acidic and alkaline, depending on the preparation method. When coconut milk is made with fresh coconuts, it’s alkaline-forming, but the versions made with dried coconuts are acid-forming. Because of that, if you suffer from acid reflux or GERD, it’s important to check the ingredient list before buying coconut milk.
On the bright side, coconut milk is rich in many nutrients and minerals, so it helps you maintain a healthy, balanced diet. Some of these nutrients also help protect your stomach lining from inflammation, which reduces the risk of severe acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
What is the pH level of coconut milk?
Coconut milk has a pH level ranging between 6.10-7.00. If the milk is pasteurized, it has a slightly lower pH level and may be more acidic. Most coconut milk brands these days are made with fresh coconuts, though.
Because of that, they have alkaline-forming properties, so they can help you with soothing your acid reflux or GERD symptoms. In addition, coconut milk is rich in vitamins and minerals that help protect your digestive system from damage and inflammation, so it’s a great addition to any diet.
Another crucial thing to remember when buying coconut milk is that certain additives can lower its pH level and increase acidity.
Because of that, the best choice might be canned coconut milk, as the additives used don’t acidify the milk. You can also choose to make your own coconut milk, which will ensure it’s not pasteurized, consequently retaining all of its alkaline-forming properties.
By making your own coconut milk, you’ll also be able to control the ingredients, which is beneficial for tracking how many nutrients you’re taking in.
Is coconut milk healthy?
Coconut milk is not only very rich in ingredients but also calories. In fact, a half-cup serving of coconut milk contains around 222 calories, most of which come from fat.
While this might seem unhealthy, coconuts contain good fats that don’t clog up your arteries, so they don’t pose a threat to your cardiovascular system. It still does contain fats, so make sure not to consume too much as it may lead to weight gain, which has been proven to worsen acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
Coconut milk is also a wonderful source of iron. It contains nearly half your daily recommended need, and it’s also rich in compounds that help you absorb this mineral.
Iron is essential for growth and development, and it’s also used to make hemoglobin, which is a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen around your body.
It’s also necessary for the production of hormones that help regulate all bodily processes. A lack of this mineral may also lead to anemia, so it’s essential to take in enough iron, and drinking coconut milk is a good way to do it.
Another mineral that this type of milk is high in is magnesium. In fact, just half a cup provides you with around 26% of your daily recommended need for this mineral.
Regularly consuming too little magnesium can lead to the development of various health conditions, including heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and osteoporosis. It’s also a mineral that’s easily flushed out of your body, so you should include magnesium-rich foods in every meal you consume.
Drinking coconut milk can also help reduce inflammation, which is beneficial for people struggling with acid reflux. A recent study indicates that even just half a cup of coconut milk (or coconut extract) can prevent inflammation and irritation in your digestive system.
Decreased inflammation, in turn, helps prevent more severe symptoms of acid reflux by soothing your esophagus and protecting your stomach lining. This makes coconut milk a good drink choice for people with acid reflux or GERD.
Can you drink coconut milk on acid reflux?
Most coconut milk brands use fresh coconut to make the finished product, which means that it’s alkaline-forming. Such products help neutralize stomach acids, thus preventing acid reflux and GERD symptoms.
What’s more, drinking coconut milk may even help soothe the symptoms when they appear, so it’s a good idea to have some ready in case of an emergency.
Nevertheless, it’s important to check the ingredient list to ensure that the coconut milk you’re purchasing is, in fact, made with fresh coconuts and not dried ones.
It’s also beneficial to check for any other added ingredients that can make the milk acid-forming, therefore bad for people with acid reflux.
While some preservatives are OK and ensure that the product doesn’t spoil, try choosing coconut milk with an ingredient list that’s rather short. That way, you can be sure that you’re consuming a product that’s as healthy as possible.
Is coconut milk better for acid reflux than other kinds of milk?
Coconut milk, including other kinds of milk from nuts, is great for acid reflux as most of them are alkaline-forming. On the other hand, cow milk and soy milk are acid-forming, so they should be avoided or infrequently drank if you struggle with acid reflux and GERD.
As always, some people might tolerate milk better than others, but it’s best to introduce potential trigger foods to your diet slowly to avoid heartburn and other issues.
Coconut milk is a great drink choice for people with acid reflux as it has alkaline-forming properties. While there are some coconut milk brands that use dried coconut (which is acid-forming), most brands use fresh coconut, which neutralizes your stomach acids.
Coconut milk also contains an abundance of minerals and micronutrients that help you stay healthy, making it a great addition to any diet.
Alicia is the senior content editor and writer here at Food FAQ. She has extensive experience with acid reflux, heartburn, GERD, and various supplements. When not eating food for “research”, she’s watching “Friends” for the 100th time.
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Dental health for humans as well as cats and dogs is often overlooked. It is easy for pet parents to forget that they must pay attention to the dental health of their pets. Our pets are eating more processed foods that they should, which is responsible for creating plaque and tartar. Make sure you pay attention to your pets dental health.
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Some of the aims of our annual Fashion Less Waste design competition are revealed...
Artists and designers of many types find inspiration from nature for functional or aesthetic aspects of their works. Indeed, the Museum’s own natural history collections have been looked to for this purpose by various people, and not just our artists in residence and the school students who visit for our Artlink program.
Fashion Less Waste celebrates and encourages the practice of finding inspiration from nature – each year there is a natural history theme related to one of the Museum’s upcoming temporary exhibitions. Entrants need to research the theme and make the inspiration that they have drawn from it visibly apparent in the outfit they create – by colour or texture, shape or manner of movement.
What have the themes been? In 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, it was Australian animals. In 2011 it was birds of paradise. In 2012 it is Deep Oceans – we’re looking forward to the Museum’s Deep Oceans exhibition! It opens in June.
And whatever an entrant’s idea of research is – going outdoors and looking around, reading or viewing video – an opportunity is created for a greater understanding and appreciation of the natural world. Reading the Fashion Less Waste entry forms is an absolute treat. Entrants usually focus on one or more animals suited to the competition theme. Then on the entry form they describe the influence of that animal or animals. In so many cases it's apparent that if the entrant wasn’t already enamoured of their chosen animal or animals when they began their FLW entry, they certainly were by the time they had finished.
Of course too, Fashion Less Waste is one way in which the Museum can help our culture to become more environmentally sustainable. Outfits need to be mostly made from used, non-clothing materials. We're looking for outfits that are eye catching and thought provoking, so that competition onlookers (as well as the entrants themselves) are prompted to consider environmental issues in the fashion industry, and to exert whatever influence they have to move the fashion industry in a more sustainable direction.
We’re not suggesting that clothing should only be produced from recycled materials – though there are some fabulous clothing and fashion accessory makers out there who do just that!
Would you or someone you know like to fall in love with an oceanic beast this year? And make something fabulous to wear? And help to make the fashion industry more sustainable? The competition categories are High School and Open.
See www.australianmuseum.net.au/Fashion-Less-Waste/ for information and images and video of past years of the competition. Hurry on to gather your materials – Reverse Garbage (a display venue for the awarded entries) is an obvious rummaging place.
Entries close 8 May!
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A Catholic is a member of the Catholic Church.
Ordinary Form Parishes
- St. James Catholic Church which has a vibrant community parish with people of all ages.
- Newman Center, primarily a ministry for university students, but also welcomes faculty, staff and city residents as well.
If either these places don't suit you, there are other Roman Catholic Parishes close by:
- St. Anthony Catholic Church is a quaint little church located by downtown Winters.
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church, located in Woodland and has a large congregation.
- St. Peter's Catholic Church in Dixon.
The closest Tridentine parish is located in Sacramento. It is in the care of the FSSP.
- Catholic Church of St. Stephen the First Martyr is a prominant Catholic Parish in Sacramento that offers Latin Masses.
St. Philip the Apostle Byzantine Catholic Church (Ruthenian)
St. George Melkite-Greek Catholic Church (Melkite) After the scripture readings are read in English, they are read in Arabic.
St. Andrew the Apostle (Ukrainian) Liturgy is celebrated in Ukrainian
Holy Wisdom Eastern Catholic Parish (Ukrainian)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chaldean-Assyrian Catholic Church Liturgy is celebrated in Syriac and Arabic
Our Lady of the Rosary Maronite Community Liturgy is celebrated in Arabic and English
See also Youth for Christ
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Melania Trump has rejected suggestions that she violated visa rules when she started working as a model in New York.
In a statement, Donald Trump’s said she had followed immigration laws “at all times”.
Melania Trump has yet to clarify what type of visa she used during a 1995 photo shoot in New York.
The Republican candidate has taken a hard line on illegal immigration in his campaign.
So far, the Trump campaign has refused to say exactly which visas Melania Trump had, and when she had them.
The development comes during a turbulent week for the billionaire property developer.
There are reports of deep divisions in the GOP after a series of controversial statements by the nominee.
Melania Trump said she began working as a model in the US in 1996, but photos published at the weekend by a New York tabloid appear to have been taken in 1995 for a now defunct French magazine.
This discrepancy has raised questions about Melania Trump’s immigration status at the time and whether she had the right to work.
Paolo Zampolli, the owner of one modeling agency, says he sponsored Melania Trump for an H1B work visa in 1996.
Melania Trump has said that she had to go back to her native Slovenia every few months to renew her permit – something that is only generally necessary for tourist and business visas that do not permit work.
Donald Trump has also railed against the use of the H1B visa specifically, suggesting abuse of it is widespread and rampant.
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Master kapa maker Marie McDonald’s exhibition, “He Ho’ala Ana / An Awakening: Kapa by Marie McDonald” opened Wednesday night at the Academy with an exceptional turn out. She was back Thursday morning as Textile Collection Manager Sara Oka shared the Academy’s kapa collection with her and other kapa makers. Oka laid out the large, fragile squares of kapa on a big viewing table, and as she presented each piece, mostly kapa moe (traditional Hawaiian bed coverings), the group buzzed, discussing how each piece may have been created. As the group huddled over the textile treasures, McDonald compared her own method with the pieces. She talked about how varying the strength of her kapa beating creates designs.
The other artists spoke of fermenting the wauke, or paper mulberry bark, that is used to create kapa. Kapa artist Dalani Tanahi explained to me how each maker has their own method. She lives in Wai‘anae, where the air is humid and her pieces of wauke ferment differently from those of McDonald, who lives in Waimea where the air is cool. I overheard McDonald’s daughter Roen Hufford say that McDonald has been known to put the pieces in plastic and then set them in her car to accelerate the fermenting process. From growing the wauke to creating the final kapa, McDonald and Hufford emphasized that kapa is an entire process, not just an end result.
With work so colorful and detailed, I wanted to know what inspired Marie McDonald to create such amazing kapa. Everyting around her inspires her, she told me. “Isn’t it that way for every artist?”
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In a conclave, if no one receives the required two-thirds of the votes on the first day, the cardinals celebrate Mass at 8:15 a.m. in the Pauline Chapel then meet again in the Sistine Chapel at 9:30 a.m. on the second day. After reciting the Divine Office, they again vote. If they are again unsuccessful, they immediately vote again. From then on, there can be two votes in the morning (beginning at 9:30 a.m. Rome time) and two in the afternoon (beginning at 4:50 p.m. Rome time). Each morning and afternoon, new scrutineers, infirmarii and revisers are chosen by lot.
If a second vote takes place, the materials from two votes are burned at the same time. Thus twice a day, there will be black smoke around noon and 7 p.m. Rome time from the stove until a pope is elected. White smoke could appear at these times or earlier, around 10:30 a.m. or 5:30 p.m. Rome time if a pope is elected on the first ballot of the morning or afternoon.
If after three days the cardinals have still not elected anyone, the voting sessions can be suspended for a maximum of one day for prayer and discussion among the electors. During this intermission, a brief spiritual exhortation is given by the senior cardinal deacon (in this case, French Cardinal Jean-Louis Pierre Tauran). Then another seven votes take place, followed by a suspension and an exhortation by the senior cardinal priest (Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels). Then another seven votes take place, followed by a suspension and an exhortation by the senior cardinal bishop (Italian Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re). Voting is then resumed for another seven ballots.
If no candidate received a two-thirds vote after this balloting, Universi Dominici Gregis of John Paul II allowed an absolute majority (more than half) of the electors to waive the requirement of a two-thirds majority vote. Thus, an absolute majority of the electors could decide to elect the pope.
Some criticized this innovation, including me, as contrary to centuries of tradition. We pointed out that if an absolute majority of the electors favored a candidate in the first ballot of the first day of the conclave, the election could in practice be over because they could hold firm for about 10 to 12 days until they could change the rules and elect their candidate.
In the past, the two-thirds requirement was an incentive for the electors to compromise or move to another candidate. Under John Paul's rules, a majority did not have to compromise. It could hold tight while the minority is pressed to give in since everyone knows eventually the majority will prevail. In such a case, the minority would undoubtedly give in rather than scandalize the faithful and upset the man who inevitably would become pope.
Cardinals who attended the 2005 conclave told John L. Allen Jr. of the National Catholic Reporter they were very conscious of the fact that anyone who came close to a majority would be difficult to stop.
John Paul II did not explain in Universi Dominici Gregis why he made this change. Perhaps he feared a long conclave. By giving the cardinals more comfortable quarters, he reduced the discomfort factor that discouraged long conclaves. Allowing the cardinals to elect a pope with an absolute majority reduces the likelihood of a conclave going on for months.
In 2007, Pope Benedict overturned John Paul's innovation and returned to the absolute requirement of a two-thirds majority. Instead, the pope instructed that if the cardinals are deadlocked after 33 or 34 votes (depending on whether there was a vote the first day), which would take 13 days, runoff ballots between the two leading candidates will be held. This procedure is problematic because if neither candidate is able to get a two-thirds vote, the conclave will be deadlocked with no possibility of choosing a third candidate as a compromise. The two leading cardinals cannot vote in the runoff ballots, though they remain in the Sistine Chapel while the voting takes place. Nor do Benedict's new rules say what to do if two candidates are tied for second place.
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