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Jonah or Jonas, son of Amittai, is a prophet in the Hebrew Bible and the Quran, from Gath-hepher of the northern kingdom of Israel in about the 8th century BCE.
Is Johan A biblical name?
Johan is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin. It is a shortened form of the Hebrew name יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhôḥānān), meaning “God is gracious”, and uncommon as a surname.
Johan (given name)
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Who is Yohan in the Bible?
7th – 1st century BCE) Johanan, son of Kareah, mentioned as a leader of the army who led the remnant of the population of the Kingdom of Judah to Egypt for safety after the Babylonian dismantling of the kingdom in 586 BC and the subsequent assassination of Gedaliah, the Babylon-appointed Jewish governor.
What is the story of Jonah about in the Bible?
Set in the reign of Jeroboam II (786–746 BC), it tells of a Hebrew prophet named Jonah, son of Amittai, who is sent by God to prophesy the destruction of Nineveh, but tries to escape this divine mission. The story has a long interpretive history and has become well known through popular children’s stories.
What was Jonah’s main message?
The primary theme in Jonah is that God’s compassion is boundless, not limited just to “us” but also available for “them.” This is clear from the flow of the story and its conclusion: (1) Jonah is the object of God’s compassion throughout the book, and the pagan sailors and pagan Ninevites are also the benefactors of …
What was Johan Lieberts goal?
The Perfect suicide is Johan’s last goal. He wants to erase himself from the world, and by doing so, he has to get rid of everyone who knows him and his past. Just like the character Johan in The Nameless Monster, he wants to be the last one to know his identity, before killing himself.
Why is Johan pronounced Yohan?
The name is unrelated to Yehokhanan/Yohanan (יְהוֹחָנָ/יוֹחָנָן), which is the original Hebrew name from which the Dutch–German name was derived. Because in Indonesia, the male name Johan is also a Malay name meaning ‘champion’. It has the same meaning in Indonesian and is pronounced as /dʒohʌn/.
What does the name Johan mean?
What does Johan mean? God is gracious. Hebrew.
What is John the Baptist real name?
He is also known as John the Forerunner in Christianity, John the Immerser in some Baptist Christian traditions, and Prophet Yaḥyā in Islam. He is sometimes alternatively referred to as John the Baptizer.
John the Baptist.
|Saint John the Baptist|
What does Johan mean in Arabic?
Johan is Arabic/Muslim Boy name and meaning of this name is “Gift of God; The Lord is Gracious”.
What happened to Jonah in the end?
Lots are cast, and Jonah confesses that it is his presence on board that is causing the storm. At his request, he is thrown overboard, and the storm subsides. A “great fish,” appointed by God, swallows Jonah, and he stays within the fish’s maw for three days and nights.
Is Jonah a true story?
Mainstream Bible scholars generally regard the Book of Jonah as fictional, and often at least partially satirical, but the character of Jonah son of Amittai may have been based on the historical prophet of the same name who prophesied during the reign of Amaziah of Judah, as mentioned in 2 Kings.
Why is Jonah angry?
Jonah’s anger burned hot after God didn’t destroy Nineveh. Yet when God took the plant from him he becomes just as angry. He cares more for the plant than for his fellow humanity in Nineveh. Jonah selfishly wants his way no matter the outcome.
Why did God choose Jonah?
God used Jonah to demonstrate His mercy and love even though they were distant from HIm. Jonah was human he had self doubt as some do. He had to learn to rely not on himself but on God and his Holy Spirit active on him to fulfill his commission.
Who wrote the Book of Jonah?
Who wrote this book? Although this book is clearly about the prophet Jonah, it was written by a later, unknown author (see Bible Dictionary, “Jonah”). Jonah, who was the son of Amittai, was from a town called Gath-hepher in Zebulun, a territory in Israel (see Jonah 1:1; 2 Kings 14:25).
Where is Nineveh today?
Nineveh, the oldest and most-populous city of the ancient Assyrian empire, situated on the east bank of the Tigris River and encircled by the modern city of Mosul, Iraq.
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DePauw Event Finding Application & DePauw Event Scheduling Web App
The project will entail the design and development of an Android based DePauw event finding application, as well as, a Ruby on Rails powered web application. The two applications will be designed to work together. The Rails web application will allow organizations recognized by the DePauw Student Government to create events and post them to the web site. The Android application will provide an easy to use interface to display the events and their details. The Android application will include a variety of features to enhance usability. The user will be able to sort events by organization, date, or type. Also, the user will have different options to view upcoming events. The user will be able to view the events as a list, or view them on a Google map. When the user selects an event from the list or map, more information will be displayed about the event, and the user will be able to get directions to the event. The Android application would also allow users to "follow" a certain organization. When an organization that a user follows posts a new event, the Android application will display a notification in the device's status bar. If time permits, the final feature of the Android application would allow users to view images or minutes from a prior event.
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WASHINGTON -- Bring on the Olympics. Please. When Paris Hilton dominates the presidential campaign for a whole week, even spelling out a plan for achieving energy independence, it is sooooo time for a break.
There will be no respite, however, from the obligation to think hard about choices and consequences -- no hiatus from having to ponder America's place in the world and its prospects for the young century. The spectacle in Beijing promises to be, well, spectacular -- but in the sense of the word that encompasses both the exhilarating and the horrifying.
On proud display will be China's explosive economic growth, which has lifted more people out of poverty in less time than any such burst of development in history. Much less visible, Chinese authorities hope, will be the shameful political repression that continues to deny basic rights and freedoms to China's 1.3 billion citizens.
I should make clear that I'm glad the Olympics are being held in China, because I've always believed the way to deal with repressive governments is engagement, not isolation. China's economic miracle never could have happened if the Chinese leadership didn't allow personal freedoms that would have been unimaginable in the days of Mao jackets and Little Red Books. These Games, and the intense spotlight they focus on the host country, may ultimately spur further reforms.
We all should acknowledge, though, that nothing of the sort has happened yet. According to Human Rights Watch, the run-up to the Games "has been marred by a well-documented surge in violations of the rights of free expression and association, as well as media freedom. In addition, abuses of migrant construction workers who were pivotal to Beijing's infrastructure improvements have increased, as have evictions of Beijing residents whose homes were demolished to make way for that infrastructure."
Amnesty International agrees, reporting that a "crackdown on human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers has intensified because Beijing is hosting the Olympics. The authorities have stepped up repression of dissident voices in their efforts to present an image of 'stability' and 'harmony' to the outside world."
Stopping in Thailand on his way to Beijing, President Bush grappled with the contradiction inherent in the fact that holding the Olympics in China has, arguably and perhaps for the short term, made the human rights situation worse.
"America stands in firm opposition to China's detention of political dissidents and human rights advocates and religious activists," he said. "We press for openness and justice not to impose our beliefs, but to allow the Chinese people to express theirs."
Bush added, "Change in China will arrive on its own terms and in keeping with its own history and its own traditions. Yet change will arrive."
I think he's right, but I'm not as sure as I once was. The Chinese government has been skillful in encouraging economic growth while also squelching political freedom. As I watch the Olympics, I'll be wondering whether the Chinese model of authoritarian capitalism will prove to be durable -- and, if so, how we'll come to look back on these Games.
During the next two weeks of pageantry and competition, I'll also be paying attention -- as far as possible, through the television screen -- to the Beijing sky. Will there be days of actual blue? Or is whitish-bluish gray about the best we can hope for? And, more important than the color of the air, will it be breathable?
Beijing's smog may prove uniquely effective in focusing attention on the kinds of environmental choices the world now faces. China's economic boom has been quite literally breathtaking.
Chinese authorities knew the dirty air was a problem -- the world's best athletes can hardly be expected to perform at their peak if they're breathing factory smoke and tailpipe exhaust -- so officials did everything they could to clean it up. Beginning several years ago, they moved some polluting factories to other parts of the country. In recent days they have imposed driving restrictions. If a rain shower is needed to clear the air, officials will attempt to generate one by seeding clouds.
According to reports from Beijing, though, the effect of any of these measures is hard to quantify. Ignoring the environmental implications of decades of rapid development has created a situation unlikely to respond to quick fixes. My guess is that watching the Olympics will give me, and perhaps others, a new appreciation of what environmentalists mean when they talk about the world we're leaving for our grandchildren.
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RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism, aims at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements and workers of Latin America, as well as building a Plurinacional America
On April 25, former Bolivian President Evo Morales announced the birth of RUNASUR, a new regional integration mechanism aimed at uniting the Indigenous people, peasants, social movements and workers of Latin America with an anti-imperialist ideology. The organization will serve as the people’s alternative to the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), an existing regional integration mechanism that has become paralyzed due to the withdrawal of the majority of members under right-wing governments. RUNASUR brings together grassroots organizations of 12 Latin American countries that originally constituted UNASUR. Its central headquarters is located in Bolivia, and its main objective is the construction of a Plurinational America.
“RUNASUR’s goal is to unite social movements -be it Indigenous, workers, middle class and teachers, intellectuals and professionals-, and fight for a true liberation, a Plurinational America, of the peoples for the peoples. Purinational America is not compatible with capitalism, imperialism or colonialism,” said Morales, during a press conference held at the conclusion of the first meeting of the technical commission appointed to launch the RUNASUR. Morales stressed that a Plurinacional America will help us “go beyond the unity of Indigenous and social movements, and the defense of progressive governments” and will allow us to “seize power with our programs, cultures and ways of living in harmony with Mother Earth.”
On April 24 and 25, a commission of representatives of various social movements and Indigenous leaders from Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela met in the town of Villa Tunari, Trópico of Cochabamba, Bolivia, to define the general structure and strategy for international organization.
At the conclusion of the two-day-long event, which was hosted by Morales, Argentine union leader Hugo Cachorro Godoy, who took part in the meeting, informed that the technical commission would “contact and invite the social movements, Afro-descendent and Indigenous organizations, trade unions in the rest of the countries of the region to strengthen RUNASUR and prepare for a great plurinational assembly of our peoples.” Meanwhile, Morales reported that Bolivia will coordinate and work with Peru and Paraguay, Argentina with Brazil and Uruguay, Ecuador with Colombia and Chile, and Venezuela with Suriname and Guyana.
The idea of creating RUNASUR was suggested by Morales in November 2020, a day after he returned to Bolivia after spending a year in exile, and called for the creation of an international organization of social movements. In December 2020, during the first ‘Meeting of Peoples and Organizations of Abya Yala towards the Construction of a Plurinational America’ in Bolivia, the call for the creation of RUNASUR or the Union of the People of South American Nations was formalized.
En el siglo XX las organizaciones sociales teníamos como consigna que América Latina no sea el patio trasero de EE.UU.
Nuestra generación tiene, ahora, otro desafío que es #AméricaPlurinacional para garantizar la liberación de próximas generaciones. pic.twitter.com/V2E8hb3Thf
— Evo Morales Ayma (@evoespueblo) April 24, 2021
What is UNASUR?
UNASUR is a sub-regional integration mechanism, created during the period of left-wing governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. It was formalized on May 23, 2008, under the leadership of Commander Hugo Chávez with the objective to build integration in the cultural, economic, social and political areas while respecting the diversity of each of the member nations.
It consisted of 12 Latin American countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela and brought together over 400 million people with the vision of a Latin American identity based on the principle of unity in diversity.
However, in April 2018, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay and Peru withdrew from the organization due their alignment with US imperialist interests. In March 2019, Ecuador also announced its withdrawal from the organization and the president of the country asked the bloc to return the headquarters building of the organization, based in its capital city, Quito. In November 2019, following the civic-military coup against the democratically elected government of Evo Morales, the de-facto government withdrew Bolivia from UNASUR. In March 2020, Uruguay announced its departure from the regional body. In November 2020, after the election of President Luis Arce in Bolivia, the country rejoined the body. Presently, it has only four members: Bolivia, Guyana, Suriname and Venezuela.
Featured image: Former Bolivian President Evo Morales and other members of the technical commission on the launch of RUNASUR. Photo: Evo Morales/Twitter
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TOP FIVE VISA INTERVIEW TIPS
A student visa is a crucial piece of paperwork you’ll need in order to enter, study, and work legally in a foreign nation.
Five tips you need to prepare for interview
- Make sure you have all of your documentation
Having the right paperwork is essential to obtaining a student visa. Although it is a difficult task, always look for a document checklist on the official websites of the nations in which you will be studying. You may locate all the necessary paperwork there to get ready for your forthcoming student visa interview.
- Learn to listen actively
Apply active listening throughout the student visa interview by paying close attention to the questions and giving succinct, direct responses. Don’t be deceived by this advice’s apparent simplicity. We can comprehend the complete context of words in a discussion by actively listening. The interviewer should essentially comprehend why you choose to study abroad.
- Make an excellent first impression
The first impression is crucial, just as in any interview. Just as in a job interview, it’s important to establish expectations up front in a student visa interview. Some ideas for making a good first impression:
- Be respectful to the visa officer. If you must raise an objection to a query or statement, do so in a professional manner.
- Give the interviewer a warm handshake as you say hello and introduce yourself.
- Be on time.
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Simply be yourself because the visa officer is here to confirm your plans to pursue an international education. In an interview for a student visa, you don’t have to oversell yourself or your credentials. You should have your acceptance letter at this time, which is a crucial document you’ll need when applying for a visa.
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Gibbous ♈ Aries
Previous main lunar phase is the Full Moon before 3 days on 9 August 2006 at 10:54.
Moon rises in the evening and sets in the morning. It is visible to the southwest and it is high in the sky after midnight.
Moon is passing first ∠2° of ♈ Aries tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 4% wider than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1972" and ∠1894".
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2006 after 26 days on 7 September 2006 at 18:42.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 18 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the middle to the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 81 of Meeus index or 1034 from Brown series.
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 14 hours and 39 minutes. It is 1 hour and 56 minutes shorter than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to increasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at apogee (∠180°).
The length of the current synodic month is 1 hour and 55 minutes longer than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 8 minutes shorter compared to 21st century's longest synodic month length.
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠131.2°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠158.8°.
1 day after point of perigee on 10 August 2006 at 18:27 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting widen, while the Moon is moving away from the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 13 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next apogee on 26 August 2006 at 01:23 in ♍ Virgo.
The Moon is 363 552 km (225 901 mi) away from Earth and getting further over the next 13 days until the point apogee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 406 271 km (252 445 mi).
Moon is in ascending node in ♓ Pisces at 01:31 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 25 August 2006 at 21:34 in ♍ Virgo.
At 01:31 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
6 days since the previous standstill on 6 August 2006 at 04:11 in ♐ Sagittarius when the Moon has reached South declination of ∠-28.594°, the lunar orbit is extending northward over the next 6 days to face maximum declination of ∠28.645° at the point of next northern standstill on 18 August 2006 at 19:43 in ♊ Gemini.
In 11 days on 23 August 2006 at 19:10 in ♌ Leo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
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Newswise — Users of high-potency cannabis are four times more likely to report associated problems, and twice as likely to report anxiety disorder, than users of lower-potency strains, according to new research from the University of Bristol.
Published today on JAMA Psychiatry the research uses data from Children of the 90s, a long-term health study that recruited more than 14,000 pregnant women and their babies born in and around Bristol in the early 1990s and has been following their health and development ever since.
This is the first research of its kind to look at data from a general population sample, with previous research into the links between cannabis potency and mental health only looking at clinical and self-selecting samples of people who use drugs. Added to this, the nature of the data available from the Children of the 90s health study enabled the research team to take into account whether mental health symptoms were present before the individual started using cannabis.
Frequency of cannabis use, which is also often associated with increased mental health problems, was also taken into account in order to determine whether this would explain the relationship between higher-potency usage and mental health conditions.
Lead author Dr Lindsey Hines, Senior Research Associate from Bristol Medical School explained: "We know that people who use cannabis are more likely to report mental health problems than those who don't use cannabis, but we don't fully understand how recent increases in the strength and potency of cannabis affects this. This study gives us an estimate of the increased likelihood of mental health problems from use of high-potency cannabis, compared to use of lower-potency cannabis, and we are able to account for the effect that people's early adolescent mental health symptoms may have on this relationship."
The research looked at data collected from participants aged 24 years who had reported using cannabis in the previous year, of which 13 per cent reported use of high-potency cannabis. Participants were also asked about their usage, and those who self-reported two or more of the Cannabis Abuse Screening Test (CAST) items within the past year were classified as having recently experienced problems as a result of their cannabis use. Researchers were then able to compare this data to reported mental health symptoms at age 24 as well as early symptoms of mental health collected when participants were younger.
Dr Hines continued: "People who use cannabis are more likely to report mental health problems than those who don't use cannabis, but reducing the potency and regularity of their cannabis use may be effective for lessening likelihood of harms from use. In countries where cannabis is sold legally, limiting the availability of high-potency cannabis may reduce the number of individuals who develop cannabis use disorders, prevent cannabis use escalating to a regular behaviour, and reduce impacts on mental health. In countries like the UK, where we are not able to limit the availability of high-potency cannabis, we should make sure there is good treatment and support for those who develop problems from cannabis use."
This research was funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Pacifica Institute Womens League organized Coffee Night on the 15th of December. This was the second of a series of Coffee Nights in Westwood.
The theme of second of the series was Rumi, the sufi poet who lived in the 13th century in central Turkish city, Konya . When Rumi completed his 24 000 verses of poems, he was only 37. He was not only a poet but a jurist, a scholar of Islam, a husband and a servant collecting wood, doing the daily chores like his students.
When he died in 1273, Greeks, Persians, Armenians, Arabs, Romans, Turks and Kurds joined his funeral procession. It was the sense of respect and love among the diverse nations living in that part of the world which was a result of his teachings, poems and stories that he wrote
After a short documentary about Rumi was the time for coffee. Dessert was also among the many snacks that was served along with coffee. Turkish coffee is prepared by boiling finely powdered roast coffee beans in a pot, with or without sugar, and serving it into small Turkish coffee cups.
Coffeehouse culture is highly developed in the former Ottoman world. Coffee has affected Turkish culture so much that the word breakfast (kahvaltı) in Turkish literally means “before coffee” (kahve-alti kahve:coffee, altı:below/before).
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Dr. Milou Groot Nibbelink
Milou started her master’s degree program in Regenerative Medicine, after completing her bachelor’s degree at University of Twente in 2008. During her second year she did a total of four internships at Medisch Spectrum Twente hospital in Enschede, University Medical Center Utrecht, University Medical Center St. Radboud (Nijmegen), and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA). For her master thesis project, “Immuno-protective membrane based scaffolds for extra hepatic islet transplantation”, she collaborated with four different research groups: the Developmental BioEngineering group, Biomaterial Science and Technology group, and BioMedical Photonic Imaging group at University of Twente and the department of Nephrology at Leiden University Medical Center. After finishing her master’s, she started as a PhD student in the Developmental BioEngineering group of Marcel Karperien in 2013.
Diabetes Type 1 patients, with an insufficient response to the insulin treatment, are in need for alternative therapies. Although transplantation of islets of Langerhans has proven to be an effective treatment, more than 60% of the islets are lost immediately after transplantation. In addition, the life-long use of immunosuppressive drugs, necessary to decrease the chance of rejection, is associated with numerous complications. Therefore, the goal of this project is to find a new islet encapsulation method to overcome the need for immunosuppressive drugs and to improve islet transplantation for type 1 Diabetes patients.
Milou Groot Nibbelink, MSc
Department of Developmental BioEngineering
Building Zuidhorst, Room no: ZH111
Drienerlolaan 5, PO BOX 217
7522NB Enschede, The Netherlands
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And in more rural wooded areas, mammal species enjoy the shaded environment… our protected Gopher turtles, armadillos, beavers, bobcats, deer, feral pigs, foxes, minks, moles, opossums, otters, panthers, pocket gophers, rabbits, raccoons, shrews, squirrels, and weasels all call the Florida landscape home!
Are there really crocodiles in Venice?
False: Crocodiles were spotted swimming in the canals of Venice without the bustle of tourists. – Poynter. Home Crocodiles were spotted swimming in the canals of Venice without the bustle of tourists.
Are there crocodiles or alligators in Venice?
No crocodiles in Venice.
Are there alligators in the Venice canals?
“There is the Venice Inlet there and a lot of the attributers run off there from the cow pen slew. The Mayakka River that water all drains out in the Venice inlet so there can be gators out there,” he said. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation was called out and a trapper came out.
What kind of fish live in Venice Italy?
The fish and seafood of Venice. Perhaps the two most important local fish are sardele (pilchards) and sardon (anchovies), both found in the lagoon itself. Abundant and traditionally cheap, these form the basis of two Venetian classics; sardele in saor, and bigoli in salsa.
Why is Venice called the floating city?
Venice is widely known as the “Floating City”, as its buildings seem to be rising straight from the water. The city was constructed on a swampy area, made up of over a hundred small islands and marshlands in between. … The building materials were carefully selected based on how well they could maintain under water.
What are the boats in Venice Italy called?
The best-known form of transport on the waterways of Venice is the gondola. Today there are only several hundred of these unique, keelless boats left, and they have long been outnumbered by other vessels.
Is Venice Italy an island?
Our tour today stops over Venice (Italian Venezia), a city and seaport in north-east Italy, Venice is situated on 120 islands formed by 177 canals in the lagoon between the mouths of the Po and Piave rivers, at the northern extremity of the Adriatic Sea. … A rail and road causeway connects Venice with the mainland.
What is the vegetation in Venice Italy?
The vegetation varies from ; passion flower and hydrangeas to roses, irises, petunias, snapdragons, mimosas, dahlias, palm trees, apricots, figs, persimmons, pomegranates, olives and cypresses. It is located in Cannaregio,( Calle Valmarana , 4629), and is run by the Dominican Sisters.
Are kayaks allowed in Venice?
Venice Permanently Bans Recreational Boats on the Grand Canal. The ban extends to paddleboards, kayaks, and canoes on most major channels in the city.
How deep is the Venetian lagoon?
Can you swim in Venice canals?
So, can you swim in the Venice canals? The simple answer is: no, you are not allowed to swim in the Venice canals, nor in any other place in the historic center of Venice.
Is the city of Venice sinking?
Venice, Italy, is sinking at the alarming rate of 1 millimeter per year. Not only is it sinking, but it is also tilting to the east and battling against flooding and rising sea levels. Venice is in northeast Italy and was built on top of sediments from the Po River.
What’s at the bottom of the Venice canals?
A barge sits on the muddy bottom of the drained canal, with a small backhoe being used to excavate muck and sewage sludge, lift pilings into place, etc. Wooden walkways give workers access to foundations along the drained canal.
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Anthraquinone contains only carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. When 4.80 mg of anthraquinone is burned, 14.2 mg of CO2 and 1.65 mg of H2O are produced. The freezing point of camphor is lowered by 22.3oC when 1.32 g of anthraquinone is dissolved in 11.4 g of camphor. Determine the empirical and molecular formulas of anthraquinone.
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Phase I Environmental Site Assessment
Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) are performed to identify environmental concerns attributed to current and past property uses, and to determine liability and business risk related to environmental issues on a property. Allied conducts Phase I Environmental Site Assessments in accordance with the current ASTM E1527-13 standard and the EPA All Appropriate Inquiry (AAI) rule.
The quality and reliability of a Phase I ESA report depends on the knowledge, experience and thoroughness of the scientist conducting the assessment. Allied's scientists take great pride in our exhaustive attention to detail that often exceeds the industry standard, which provides our clients with confidence when making property acquisition/transaction decisions.
Phase I Environmental Site Assessments typically include:
- On-site visual inspection of the subject property;
- Visual inspection of adjacent properties, as viewed from the subject site and public property;
- Review of available geological documentation;
- A review of federal, state and local regulatory databases to identify reported environmental conditions associated with the Subject Property and surrounding properties;
- Review of available historical documents including aerial photographs, fire insurance maps and city directories, to assist in determining past uses of the subject site;
- A historical chain-of-title review to determine past ownership of the site;
- Interviews with current and past property owners and occupants, and local government officials, regarding uses of the property and known environmental issues;
- Report presenting the assessment findings, recommendations and all references/sources of information.
Additional services including asbestos inspection, lead-based paint survey, radon survey, mold inspection, wetlands delineation and vapor intrusion assessment can be added to the Phase I ESA scope of work upon client request.
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We wrote the other day about the new “BlockBerry” advertising campaign, which purports to feature a world leader no less famous than Barack Obama as its quasi-spokesman. We thought that was a bit off the wall, even for the knockoff world of shanzhai.
Now three men in a small village in northern China appear to have taken shanzhai culture to new heights (or depths): creating an entire ersatz police station (report in Chinese here).
Tianpingying is a village of 300 people on the outskirts of Hohhot, the capital city of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Last month, according to the China Youth Daily newspaper, a few local villagers there noticed something was amiss when three men arrived one day to open a local police station.
The leader of the three “police officers” was a 41-year-old man surnamed Zhou, who referred to himself as the local “chief” and was an outsider to the small village. His 53-year-old “assistant chief” was a local man named Fan and an old friend of “Chief” Zhou. Another man surnamed Ren was known simply as the “instructor”.
Wearing bogus police uniforms of dubious origin and bearing all sorts of fake documentation, the three men appropriated space in local villagers’ homes. They claimed they could find jobs for local villagers in other towns, and for hefty fees, reportedly as much as 30,000 yuan (nearly $4,400) in one instance. While most villagers knew enough to steer clear of the three men, a few villagers were not so discerning. The shanzhai cops cheated at least five villagers out of 6,000 yuan (about $880) each, according to the article.
Not until a meeting of public security officials from across Hohhot on June 10 was it discovered that the Tianpingying bureau was a fraud. All three men were arrested at a local mahjong parlor shortly after the meeting.
Now that the true identity of the three “officers” has been revealed, however, the article says many villagers are reluctant to come forward and complain of being swindled, for fear of losing face.
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TOKYO – Bird flu has been detected in a fifth Japanese prefecture, the agriculture ministry said on Monday (Dec 7), as a wave of infections at poultry farms sparks Japan’s worst outbreak in more than four years.
Avian influenza was discovered at two egg-producing farms in Mihara city, in south-western Japan’s Hiroshima prefecture, the ministry said on its website.
Humans cannot contract bird flu from eating poultry or eggs, the ministry said.
Japan’s worst outbreak since at least 2016 started last month in Kagawa prefecture on Shikoku island, adjacent to Hiroshima.
Just over 130,000 chickens at two farms in Mihara city will be slaughtered and buried, while exports in a 3km radius around the farm will be restricted.
The new action means nearly 2 million chickens will have been culled since the latest outbreak began.
Japan’s last outbreak of bird flu was in January 2018 in Kagawa prefecture, when 91,000 chickens were culled.
The last big outbreak was between November 2016 and March 2017, when a total of 1.67 million chickens were culled due to the H5N6 strain of bird flu.
Bird flu is being reported around the world, with South Korea last week confirming another case in an outbreak that has led to the culling of around 400,000 chickens and ducks.
In Europe, the poultry industry is on alert as a highly contagious bird flu, deadly to animals, is spreading rapidly on the continent.
This article was first published in Asia One . All contents and images are copyright to their respective owners and sources.
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Coercive control is a strategic pattern of behaviour designed to exploit, control, create dependency and dominate. The victim’s every day existence is micro managed and her space for action as well as potential as a human being is limited and controlled by the abuser.
Initially lovebombing and charm may occur to get the victim into the relationship. Gaslighting, isolation, economic control and financial abuse and rules and regulations are gradually introduced over time once the victim is emotionally invested as well as a consequence if they are broken. The rules apply to the victim rather the perpetrator creating a double standard and the victim fears the consequence if she breaks a rule.
Over time, coercively controlling behaviour erodes the victim’s sense of self, their confidence and self-esteem, agency and autonomy.
The abuser creates an unreal world of contradiction, confusion and fear. Moreover 51% of victims do not even know that they are being abused, manipulated and controlled.
Coercive control correlates significantly to serious harm and homicide.
Where did the term ‘coercive control’ originate from?
A number of feminist psychologists in the 1970s identified the domestic abuse victims that they worked with as living like hostages and coined the term ‘coercive control.’
This dangerous form of abuse relies on a range of behaviours or actions that can be very subtle and nuanced. The intention is to exploit and dominate and to ultimately deprive the victim of their most basic rights and needs. Over time, the victim may lose the very essence of being, the sense of who they are, their likes and dislikes, rendering their needs and desires irrelevant – hence hostage taking and living under an enforced regime.
At first the perpetrator may be charming and put the victim on a pedestal by the effective tactic of love bombing. Once under their spell, love bombed and intoxicated with love, their behaviour will change. The victim might wonder where the person they fell in love with went. They may not even recall when the change took place or how it happened.
Coercive Control is Akin to Brainwashing
The art of brainwashing is sophisticated. The abuser replaces the victim’s inner narrative and thoughts with their own. Gradually, the victim’s voice is eroded and replaced with the abuser’s narrative – their views, needs, desires, wants which is placed above all else.
The behaviours can be very different in each case because it depends on the victimology. It’s very idiosyncratic to the victim and tailor-made as a plan to target them. And it can happen to anyone.
These behaviours can include strategies such as pseudo-caring tactics that appear to be attentive and thoughtful, while in reality the perpetrator is actually just micro managing the victim and limiting their space for action. They may appear super attentive and into the victim in the beginning, but all the while they may be social engineering and data mining and storing up information about the intended victim or creating an atmosphere of co-dependence.
When we understand coercive control, it’s really about utter domination.
Case Study: Debra Newell #DirtyJohn
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Accounting Clerks monitor creditor and debtor accounts, undertake related routine documentation, and calculate and investigate the cost of wages, materials, overheads and other operating costs. The links below provide quick access to basic information for this occupation. Greater detail can be found using any of the page tabs above. A one page printable summary of the key statistics for this occupation can also be found under the Reports and Links tab above. Just click on the tab and follow the link for Occupational Bulletin.
This occupation may include associated occupations with varying tasks.
- preparing and processing documentation related to accounts payable and receivable
- reconciling invoices and despatching payments
- calculating, analysing and investigating the costs of proposed expenditure, wages and standard costs
- preparing bank reconciliations
- allocating expenditure to specified budget accounts
- summarising expenditure and receipts
- preparing records of standard costs and values for items such as raw materials and packaging supplies
- recording cost variations and contract price movements
- compiling cost data for preparation of operating budgets, and profit and loss calculations
- investigating the costs of proposed expenditures, quotations and estimates
- preparing reports of total costs, inventory adjustments, selling prices and profits
- may work in a call centre
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Securing Critical Infrastructure against Emerging ThreatsExperts Debate New Strategies to Respond to Targeted Attacks
The year started with reports of the cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid confirming the security community's worst fears about the vulnerability of critical infrastructure. This was followed by the Israeli Ministry of Power reporting a malware campaign against its network. The spectre of critical infrastructure attacks is increasingly rising, and CISOs protecting these targeted organizations are under increased pressure to identify emerging risks and prepare appropriate response.
What are India's unique challenges to protect critical infrastructure elements such as power grid, energy, defense and transportation? Where do critical infrastructure components stand against current threats? These questions were discussed recently at the Data Breach Summit Asia 2016 in Bengaluru, hosted by ISMG. Sanjay Sahay, Additional Director General of Police, Government of Karnataka, was the moderator. The panel included: Rudra Murthy, Chief Information Security Officer, Digital India, Ministry of Home Affairs; Rishi Mehta, Senior Group Manager-Information Security, Target; Subrahmanya Gupta Boda, Group CISO, GMR Group; Manoj Sarangi, CISO, HCL Technologies; and Harsha Sastry, industry expert, business continuity & crisis management.
"It's not an overstatement to say we are not in a state of responding to the increasing sophistication of cyber threats of the 21st century and innovative mechanisms of attackers," says Sahay of the Karnataka Police. "It's essential to go beyond ISO standards and benchmarks to tackle growing threats."
"While an attempt is being made to secure India's critical infrastructure, there are huge gaps in understanding the components of critical infrastructure, execution of strategies," maintains Murthy of Digital India. "There's a lack of architectural framework and no common enforcement policy."
Infrastructure Protection: Where Does India Stand?
Security leaders say India is in an infancy stage of assessing the national inventory of critical infrastructures, identifying key resources and coming up with a concrete plan to protect them against the rapid growth in dangerous malware invading our systems.
"While there's the huge challenge of identifying the components of critical infrastructure, given the spread of these across public and private sectors, the bigger task is to define the roles and responsibilities of industries and organizations in taking the onus of protecting these infrastructure," says Target's Mehta.
Some argue that security practitioners of most organizations are unaware of the mechanism hackers use in gaining a foothold and taking control of the commands to penetrate into the network - a big concern that no amount of advisories or alerts can help.
The cyberattack on the Ukrainian power grid stands testimony to the challenge of how vulnerable any critical infrastructure could get - a typical kill chain using phishing malware, they say.
Given that over 90 percent of the critical infrastructure is owned and managed by the private sector, HCL's Sarangi says these are under threat from various dimensions.
"The threats are originating from neighbouring states who are using three simple applications from Google to steal information - a hacking community stealing identities for the heck of it, insider threats and external individual threats which are becoming a menace, and the human element enhancing threat opportunities, resulting in poor defences due to the lack of an information sharing mechanism," Sarangi says.
While little has been done to secure critical infrastructure, mainly because of lack of skills, proper communication and awareness, critics say that this is also why boards do not take ownership of the critical infrastructure protection, nor hold security teams accountable for any untoward incident.
Sahay argues that most security breaches are a result of human intent or error, which accounts for approximately 80 percent. "These include misconfigured systems or applications, vulnerable code, end-user error, targeted attack exploited or undetermined factors," says Sahay.
According to Murthy, the challenge is that Indian organizations don't have prescribed policies or procedures or standards to provide clear direction for protecting infrastructure, unlike in other countries that have addressed the issue. "So, security practitioners are constrained in identifying risks associated with critical infrastructure," he argues.
Where to Start?
The immediate task, the panel recommends, is to identify risks, leverage threat intelligence through information sharing, tighten command controls and reduce breach detection and recovery time.
The Indian government has set up National Critical Information Infrastructure Protection Centre to assess risks associated with India's critical infrastructure. Experts say the process of taking stock of national inventory must be expedited.
To start with, Sahay recommends:
- Build a risk-aware culture;
- Automate security hygiene and manage incidents with intelligence;
- Protect the network and end-points.
Mehta says moving beyond traditional controls is vital. "Collaboration become very critical in investing on R&D, information sharing and defining the security and risk framework in responding to emerging threats."
Harsha Sastry sees the need to approach the issue with a business continuity and disaster recovery perspective to protect the nation's assets and build resilience. Sastry recommends four key imperatives:
- Asset inventory: Know the assets on the network on a real-time basis;
- Business impact analysis: Annual is a mandate, but he advises quarterly, monthly and daily analysis;
- Continuity and crisis management plan: is critical, as convergence is key. Write what you do, and do what you write;
- Disciplined exercising and testing: Test for extended periods and in worst case scenarios.
Besides investing in cybersecurity programs, evolving a security governance structure to assess risks with critical infrastructure is key, Sarangi says.
"Having a robust business continuity plan and focusing on end-point, data leakage solutions are important, but educating users on the best and right practices, besides thrust on actionable threat intelligence is critical," he says.
"Reporting the incidents to the concerned authority can help in seeking experts' help in responding to threats," Sarangi says.
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Shaun the Sheep was originally introduced as a sidekick of Wallace and Gromit in the Oscar-winning short film "A Close Shave". He also once featured in Cracking Contraptions, testing Wallace's invention called "the Shopper 13". Shaun got his name after he had all his wool shaven off by one of Wallace's contraptions. From that point onward, he wore a sweater made from the wool. Pronounced in British English, "Shaun" is a homophone for "shorn".
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It's countryside chaos as Shaun The Sheep returns to the small screen with his very own series. Shaun is a sheep who doesn’t follow the flock – in fact, he leads them into all sort of scrapes and scraps, turning peace in the valley into mayhem in the meadow. Shaun and his pals run rings around their poor sheepdog Bitzer, as he tries to stop the Farmer finding out what’s going on behind his back. The show also introduces a farmyard-full of new characters, including the Naughty Pigs, Timmy the baby lamb and the enormous Shirley, a sheep who eats anything and everything.
Every day brings a new adventure for Shaun – a stray cabbage bouncing into the field turns into a football feud with the Naughty Pigs, and a freezing cold sheep dip sends him on a commando raid to get hot water from the Farmer’s bathroom. With high-energy slapstick and classic silent comedy in Aardman’s world-beating animation style, one thing’s for sure – when Shaun’s around, the countryside will never be the same again!
- Off The Baa!
- Shape Up With Shaun
- Timmy In A Tizzy
- Still Life
- Mower Mouth
- Take Away
- The Bull
- Saturday Night Shaun (Titled "Heavy Metal Shaun" in USA)
- The Kite (Working Title: "Being for the Benefit of Shaun's Kite!". This was mistaken to be the actual production name)
- Little Sheep of Horrors
- Who's the Mummy?
- Shaun Shoots the Sheep
- Big Top Timmy
- Mountains Out of Moleholes
- Buzz off Bees
- Things That Go Bump
The 40 part series, "Shaun the Sheep" has been produced at Aardman's Bristol studios. Shaun is said to be having many adventures in this series such as synchronised swimming in a sheep dip and disguising himself in a scarecrow costume, all of which are with his fellow flock. The series has been aired on Danish television. One episode will feature a character designed by a Blue Peter competition winner.
The theme tune is sung by the comedian Vic Reeves.
Shaun is a sheep who does not follow the flock. Inquisitive, imaginative and mischievous, his lively personality marks him out from the other sheep in his field. His fun-loving, maverick nature is forever leading him into tricky situations, but he usually proves resourceful enough to come out on top.
Popular with the rest of the flock and a natural leader, Shaun's independence is sometimes undermined by his relative youth and naiveté. He confronts problems with a can-do sheep-like logic, but has a tendency to leap before he looks – this mix of enthusiasm and inexperience is often a recipe for trouble. But despite his recklessness, he has an inherent sense of responsibility and will try to make amends for the chaos he causes.
Unlike Shaun in the Wallace and Gromit series, Shaun has a tail in the TV series.
Bitzer is the long-suffering sheepdog who keeps a watchful eye over his wayward flock. He only wants a quiet life, but this is the last thing he is going to get when Shaun is around. He has tolerant attitude to the sheep’s antics, but is ready to step in if things get seriously out of hand. And if there’s something in it for him, he’ll even join in some of Shaun’s crazy schemes – as long as the Farmer never finds out.
He behaves like a factory foreman, checking the sheep into the field on his clipboard and bringing a flask of tea and sandwiches to work. He often relieves the tedium of his job by listening to his walkman or doing the crossword, which gives Shaun ample opportunity to get up to mischief behind his back. Although Shaun is a source of constant exasperation, the relationship between them is essentially friendly. But ultimately Bitzer’s loyalty lies with the Farmer – he is not going to bite the hand that keeps him in dog food! Bitzer wishes that he could at least round the flock up without trouble but that never seems to happen!
A solitary and unremarkable figure, the Farmer tends to his small-holding with only the loyal Bitzer for assistance. He goes about his business with a dogged dependability, expressing little emotion except the occasional burst of frustration when things go wrong, or an air of bemusement at the result of some of Shaun’s antics. However, we get some clues to his inner life – he is enthusiastic about new technology and has a secret passion for drum and bass.
Like all the human characters in the series, we see him from the animals’ point of view and his speech comes across as a series of grunts and mumbles. He is unaware that his farmyard fold are anything other than normal animals – and Bitzer is determined to keep it that way; the Farmer must never find out what goes on when his back is turned.
For the most part, the flock are typical sheep – content to spend the day chewing the cud. But when Shaun gets an idea into his head, they are only too happy to follow where he leads. They are easily amused and even more easily influenced – they provide an enthusiastic audience for Shaun’s shenanigans, and willingly throw themselves into whatever plans he hatches. But equally they can be clumsy, cowardly and are none too bright – their incompetence all too often undermines Shaun’s more ambitious exploits.
While they are mainly a group of indistinguishable and undistinguished animals who usually act as one, there are a few more individualistic characters who stand out within the group:
Four times the size of any other member of the flock, Shirley has to be pushed from place to place and can eat just about anything that comes her way. She is also useful as a trampoline, a battering ram and her capacious fleece provides a hiding place for all manner of unlikely items.
Adorable but perhaps not as innocent as he looks, Timmy is a baby lamb who sucks a dummy and has an alarming propensity for getting into dangerous situations. He loves teddy bears and will cry if he is without them. He even likes pizza shown in two episode. He only has one tooth.
With curlers in her hair, Timmy’s mother displays a rather careless attitude towards maternal duties, leaving a lot of the work with Shaun. But when her little boy goes astray – as he frequently does – she is inconsolable until he is safely back in her arms.
The Naughty Pigs
Housed in a yard next to the sheep’s field, the Naughty Pigs are the bane of Shaun’s life. Mocking, cantankerous and greedy, they get no greater pleasure than disrupting Shaun’s schemes-though they are far too lazy to come up with any good ideas for themselves.
Appears at the start of the opening credits.
The Mother Hen
She and her annoyingly chirpy Chicks appear in Who’s The Mummy.
Appears in several episodes, including Off The Baa and Bath Time, and often suffers collateral damage as a result of Shaun’s exploits. As seen in Bitzer Puts His Foot In It, he has several other duck friends.
The goat is an unstoppable eating machine – while not an unfriendly character, all his considerable energy is focused on his next meal.
A short-tempered belligerent powerhouse, who is all too ready to see red at Shaun’s antics. He appears in The Bull and Heavy Metal Shaun. The bull gets angry at red items so when Shaun orders a red bed sheet, he stops chasing the other sheep (that have been painted red) around the farm.
A rude and annoying pest who appears in Mountains Out Of Molehills. He is fearless when mocking Shaun, but not so brave when his Mother Mole turns up.
A female dog belonging to some campers who pitch their tent next to the sheep’s field in Fetching. After a brief courtship, she and Bitzer are cruelly separated.
The Farmer’s Cat, an idle and selfish lout who can be remarkably quick and vicious when he wants to be. Doesn’t like sheep. Appears in Timmy In A Tizzy.
A rather non-descript frog that is found in the hat of the scarecrow, then later in the pocket when Shaun takes the coat, he is given as currency along with 3 buttons, a small comb and a kazoo in exchange for a number of pizzas. However he seems unwilling to become the pizza boy's pet.
Pizza Delivery Boy
A gormless teenager who rides a moped and works in the local pizzeria. Has also been seen moonlighting as a postman in Saturday Night Shaun.
The Farmer’s Niece
A sweet little cherub whose over-enthusiastic love of animals spells trouble for Shaun.
A liberal, nature-loving couple who appear in Shaun Shoots The Sheep.
A yobbish litterbug who sets up his tent in the sheep’s field in Camping Chaos.
Not a human character, more of a handy prop which Shaun makes use of in Take Away and Things That Go Bump.
An Extra-Terrestrial crash-lands his flying saucer in the sheep’s field in Alien. The sheep treat him like any other species, helping him return home.
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Keats and Shelley
House” in Rome, but I also followed him around the island, and one of the most interesting parts of that journey was the trail that he followed; the walk he took every day.
At the very end of his life in Winchester, before he wrote To Autumn.
And you will be writing more about him. It is a biography?
No. It?s got biographical material in it. It?s another kind of meditation I suppose. It?s really a meditation on immortality; how it works, and in a way, how mortal immortality is, and how
I like what Robert Pinsky says about the book. that you 'honor John Keats with the informed intimacy of actual practice. These essays reveal the mysterious drama of great poetry." This book should be in college classrooms, and maybe can be.
Well, wouldn?t that be great.
It just came out this year so we?ll see .We are at the Library of Congress. We wish to honor Stanley's work which has informed the world -- and it is the greatest pleasure that we hear his next poem.
This is a poem called, Naps.
In a dream or fantasy I see my mother,
having put me down, leaning over me,
pulling the door shut twice, and if I rise
again, locking it. In school we were told
to put our heads down on the desks and think
of it as prayer or to lie on our left
sides on the floor, an inch between the pound
weight of the heart and passage of the earth.
We were told to listen to the silence,
not to talk, and breathe in slowly, slowly,
and pretend, if we had to, it was dark.
Already on our own we?d learned to study
out the window, to cogitate the tree
within the cloud, the long sunlit fingers
of the crow, and how to hold an object
in the mind and let it turn until it
turned the other life it wanted, the way
a doorknob with its facet-gaze of glass
becomes a diamond or a crystal,
and as you fall asleep, disintegrates,
snow in a paperweight. And now we were
intuiting sleeping in the future,
the disconnected nights, the dawn-light wakings,
the shadow puzzles clouding up the windows,
the hardwood study table and chair,
gravity?s floor 3333333‹4444444 a lifetime?s worth of all
the afternoons we?d lose or lose part of
trying to recover what was lost. So
we?d use our hands and arms to blind the eyes,
and then the mind to separate ourselves.
Then wait the voice outside calling our return,
the same voice as the moment of instruction:
to lie down in the middle of the day,
dream fragmentary, dusk-enhancing dreams,
be the body-of-the-one-looked-upon,
come back to life, O startled, distant child.
How do you get there? How do you get there?
Well, I think the oldest and the sagest advise is always practice, practice, practice. I think you have to hear the poem for a long, long time in your head, and on the page to make sure it has...
has arrived where you want it to be.
I?m also talking about the place where it starts. I know that you practice yoga. I think you said, for seven years.
Well, now about ten years.
But your work before then had this meditative quality.
Yes, well, that?s part of, maybe my Quaker heritage. I started doing that a long, long time ago. Even when I didn?t want to do it. You were sort of forced into it, sitting on those hard benches for a couple of hours.
But the silence that you capture, and the light and the shadows and the dark, make for haunting work. I think the highest kind of lyricism being written into today?s poetry. Does anyone tell you that?
I?ve heard that before, yes. Thank you.
Let?s hear another.
This is a poem called Mercy, and some in the audience may recognize a line in the poem that I?ve borrowed from Emily Dickinson.
A murder of crows,
what I saw on a spindle of dead white oak,
two or three of them, at different times,
hectoring the head of the sick one,
the old one, the weak one apart.
From school those Eskimo stories
in which leathery grandfathers and grandmothers
are left behind or set afloat.
They?d freeze, Mr. Steinman said, from the extremities in.
Thinking about what they must have been thinking,
I imagined the brain last
on the ascending list
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow
I read, in chilling poetry,
years later. Even at twelve,
the concept seemed distant, efficient,
in keeping with the clarity
and killing cold of vast, undifferentiated arctic spaces.
In keeping with the landscape of the old.
In the language of the desert Navajo,
the old man didn?t drown,
the water came up to get him.
That?s how I imagined freezing,
as a kind of incremental drowning,
a sort of slow, word by word submersion,
then, at last, the pulling under, rings on water.
The killed crow fell the sixty feet in seconds,
less, though in the while it took
to find it, it had moved. My mother,
alive in the machine,
becalmed on hard white sheets,
the narrative of legs, arms,
animal centers stilled,
some starlight in the mind glittering off
and on, couldn?t tell me
whether or not to leave her.
If you were to think about how it is that you can get so close the reader, can you put your finger on what that is, in your work?
Well, I don?t know, that?s. . .
You really get next to the reader.
Yeah, I guess because one, at some point in the career of the poem, has to become that reader. At least ones own ideal reader. And it?s an odd paradox. You have to be separated from the work, and yet love what you do at the same time. You?re almost in a kind of schizophrenia about yourself.
There?s an intimacy about your work...
...It is what makes us draw in so close.
Absolutely, but the separation is part of that intimacy.
I don?t know anyone else achieving this as much as W.S. Merwin, and maybe Mark Strand
Those are two poets I admire a great deal.
So let?s hear another poem.
A great American subject, this one, I think. Debt.
Pound, for whom collateral was metaphor,
Stevens, for whom poetry was a kind of money,
Eliot, who counted money in a bank - O
let them be the three or four dour men
standing around the outside of the house
funereally in overcoats, stamping their feet,
staring or looking down, faintly breathing
fire. It?s a hard Ohio morning, snowing.
My father?s out there too, in shirtsleeves,
hands in his pockets, two or three tired years
past thirty. Then one of the men is writing
in a book that makes me think of school,
the others drawing pictures in the air,
which is the still gray grainy white of paper.
What else: except they measure off the fencerows.
Walk the acre frontage, wade a sort of circle
of the house as if they?re going to buy it.
What else: except the window ice and cold
and hole enough to see through; secrecy, fell
silence, and intermittent, fragmentary snow,
fields of it, and half a mile or less the B & O.
Pound defined usury as the tax on borrowed time
by those who own mortality. I wish Pound
had been there. I wish someone like him.
He had the moment?s right mad temperament
and the animal face of the prophet. Wallace
Stevens as well in that grave wool worsted
coat he wore on his wintry walks to work. The w?s
like angels in the snow. The greatest poverty,
he said, is not to live within a physical world.
Great poverty is what it felt like when they
stood like winter itself in the middle
of the room talking figures. I was nine
or ten and twenty years from poetry, when Eliot
said imagination is different from fulfillment.
A Doctrine of Signatures is the title of this book, in which that poem is found. And who else would put those three guys together anyway, around money, with of course the recurring theme, the exalted father. The exalted father comes in here again. That is your signature, isn?t it?
Well, he is both personal and archetypal, I think. A double life.
I agree, and also this is a very good poem to know about your work, because it is without judgement.
I think that?s a good point Grace. You?re right. I don?t think about that, but that?s the result.
I was looking again at your work, and I just saw my note, no judgement.” And that may be about the way you live your life too, I?m not sure. But you can speak of the terror of voices, in your work, and some memories that are not pretty. But you never judge.
Quakers have a word for that. It?s called giving witness.” I think you?re absolutely correct, and in the moment you begin to judge, you cut off certain possibilities; certain options. And you really begin to close down the imaginative part of your thinking.
Why can?t we learn that first, rather than last?
Well it is something you do learn. This is a poem called, Simile.
This heart I found at lowtide this morning,
accurate to a fault, hand-sized, heart-shaped,
with the thick weight of a heart, a perfect
piece of limestone cut by hand by the sea
who knows how long, brought up from the bottom
again and again, split like our own hearts,
nicked from the top half down, as if in another
life it had been real, stone atrium, stone sorrow,
stone ventricles, stone arteries and veins.
And these glittering halves of oyster shells
I picked this afternoon, like the stones
worn into shape, swirled, half-eaten-out, still
oiled and pearly-wet, with edges sharp enough
to clean a fish. Imagine that the oysters
have survived, like eyes of the otherworldly
or symbols of some sexual potency, look-alikes
for testicles of a woman?s soft insides,
as we drink them down by swallowing them whole...
In the doctrine of signatures things become
themselves as something else, as we are who
we are word of mouth. Then I found a bird,
a kind of gull, eaten by the fish and other birds,
one missing wing, one eye, the rest of it
so rendered past resemblance you throw it back,
into the void, the chaos it came from,
yet the moment it goes under it?s a memory,
a metaphor, we say, for what we can?t quite
name, tip of the tongue, whistle in the bone,
death in its variety, its part-by-piece detail.
Like the skull washed up one lost-and-found
new year, fallen from the ocean sky,
dead off the moon, something to conjure with,
now set on the desk on the bony back of its
head, neither human nor animal but brilliant white
brain-coral, pitted, scalloped, furrowed
at the brow, its stone, teardrop-shaped face
a mask for mourning. Unlike the shapely clouds,
changeable, emotional, a skein of moving mare?s-
tails, a skimmer?s broken wing, cumulonimbus
places where once-and-future beings act out
their human longing. I went down to the sea,
the source of life, it was filled to overflowing.
The blue horizon line, however many miles,
parted nothing more than air from bluer water,
though it was poetry to say what it looked like.
Is that the title poem? A Doctrine of Signatures? It should be.
I guess it is. I didn?t mean for it to be, but it turned out to be. You know this is typical of me. All those objects exist. I have them in my office. They?re real objects. I could not write a poem like this unless I had the real thing in front of me. That?s just how my imagination works.
The oyster shells.
The oyster shells. But ... I have this marvelous piece of limestone. Perfect heart shape,
with this crack right down the middle, to about three quarters. I have this skull shaped brain
corral too, that?s the size of a head, human head, which I found in Florida.
So your image vocabulary is from objects, many times.
Oh, absolutely. But from real objects and things that have entered my life involuntarily.
But then there?s always a Stanley Plumly question. 'We are what we are by word
of mouth.' Is that the way we are?
I think we are.
Is that how we get put together?
Exactly. You can take that all the way back to the book of Genesis. The breath.
They say many things about you. They say you are " a modern elegiac poet, successor to James Wright and John Keats.". Rita Dove said that.. And those are your credentials, whether you recognize them or not. That?s what we got by word of mouth. So let?s go on.
Here?s a poem that is, you might say, very local. Farragut North, which is a Metro stop, among other things, here in Washington.
In the tunnel light at the top of the station two or three
figures huddled under tarps built against the wind crossing
Connecticut and K. It?ll be noon before they rise in their
Navajo blankets, trinkets, ski masks and gloves to start
the day, noon before the oil slicks of ice on the sidewalks thaw.
In the forties, after the war, in the Land of Uz, when
somebody came to the house for a handout, my mother?d
give him milk money or bread money as well as bread and milk.
To her each day was the thirties. The men at the door had
the hard-boiled faces of veterans, soldiers of the enemy.
My mother saw something in them, homelessness the condition
of some happiness, as if in the faces of these drifters could be
read pieces of parts of herself still missing: like the Indian
woman in Whitman?s Sleepers who comes to his mother?s door
looking for work when thee is no work yet is set by the fire
and fed: so that for my mother, the first time she left,
it became a question of whom to identify with most,
the wanderer or the welcomer. The stunted sycamores on K are
terminal, though they?ll outlast the hairline fractures marbling
the gravestones of the buildings. Under the perfect pavement
of the sky the figures frozen in this landscape contemplate
the verities too fundamentally for city or country: their isolation
is complete, like the dead or gods. When I think of a day with
nothing in it, a string of such days, I think of the gray life of
buildings, of walking out of my life in a direction just
invented, or, since some of us survive within the mental wards
of our own third worlds, I see myself disguised for constant
winter, withdrawn into the inability to act on the least impulse
save anger and hear myself in street-talk talking street-time.
Such is the freedom of transformation, letting the deep
voice climb on its own; such is the shell of the body broken,
falling away like money?s new clothes; such is my mother?s
truant spirit, moving dead leaves with the wind among the shadows . . . .
I'm interested in those devices that get you where you need to go. As in the
Pound poem. "What else," you said, "what else?" Are you aware of how you?re doing that? How you get us from one place to another? You are aware. So we get the language of your
experience; we have incidents of your life; but then in each poem, they come together in a
moment. There?s always a moment in your poem, where it all comes together. This time it?s your mother giving out something to the hobo?s of the S?40's. And then, the poem fans out again to more meanings. Do you feel that is true, in each poem?
Well, I think of course that?s part of its root system. I feel very committed to what I say to my students, is the interrupted narrative. Narrative can be pretty boring when it?s merely recited,
and a repeated experience, so to speak, or a repeated version of experience. Because there are
no straight lines in nature, and there aren?t, I think, in true organic writing. So I describe it as a
meander, which is a natural movement. The way a river moves, or a snake moves, or whatever.
It?s what generates the energy. In a way the diversion is part of the most interesting aspect of the
And also the way you?re teaching John Keats, and I know you have a graduate class waiting for you right now--so you'll go back and, you say, comfort them. Because they are studying Keats? odes.
Exactly. They?re in the process of writing final papers right now.
Right this minute.
We spent this semester surrounding the odes with, I hope, relevant information, and then
examining them ode by ode; really line by line, over the course of the term.
And are you hoping that they?ll bring something to that, which is new?
Yes, I want them to write, not research papers, they know that. Something fairly original, which will be supported by evidence of course, but...
G: Can you be surprised by someone saying something that you haven?t thought of?
Oh, sure! I hope so.
And it happens?
Yeah, we do that in class all the time. When I ask a question in class, it?s usually because I want an answer; I?m not certain myself.
Do you have a lot of hope about these young people?
Oh yeah, definitely.
Are they PhD?s? MA?s? Graduates?
Some are, some MA?s, some PhD?s, some MFA?s.
We?re talking about the University of Maryland at College Park. And we?re at the Library of Congress with Stanley Plumly; I?m Grace Cavalieri. He is reading from two books. One his collected poems, Now that My Father Lies Down Beside Me, and that?s Harper Collins Echo. And then the new manuscript, which is A Doctrine of Signatures, which is a premiere. Now I want to talk about Stanley Plumly, the naturalist
Well, I don?t know about that, but I love the natural world in a way that I can understand it,
And you have patience with it.
Well, you don?t have much choice.
You could walk away from it. ,
Well, you could, but if you?re going to enjoy it, you have to sit in it, you have to walk in it, you have to be in it, and you have to be in time with it. In sync with it, I think is the way to put it.
And that?s what I see in the essays Argument & Song, because you take us into
the woods with you, and describe every flora and fauna and bird and tree, and you know so much? Or you learned so much.
Well, both. I mean, you see and then you have to figure out what it is you?re seeing. That?s a kind of reflective act. But cities, too, are nature. They may be artifice, and they may be man-
made, but they have their own natural aspect. Or we turn them into nature. We have a need to
do that, and will. Hence in New York those avenues, those great avenues, become canyons. The
way the wind works in those streets. You know, sometime walking along in a place like New
York, there?ll be stillness. And you cross the street, go around a corner, and you?ll be hit with
this incredible force of wind coming off the park, or who knows, off the Hudson. Whatever.
Well, that?s nature. You look up, and those buildings have divided the sky in a certain way. It
forces you to focus on a segment of sky you wouldn?t notice somewhere else. Certainly way out
in the world; in Montana somewhere, or Wyoming. And so you?ll notice the shape of a cloud
that you might not have been interested in, in another context.
If you were a painter we wouldn?t get any poetry.
Well, that?s actually how I started out. I was a lousy painter. That was my first job, teaching painting. My first teaching job.
You and Mark Strand
Yeah, well I fell into it. I think he had plans. I had no plans.
You know how to see.
That?s one thing taking painting classes does teach you. It teaches you what to look for.
This is a poem in a different direction. Infidelity.
The two-toned Olds swinging sideways out of
the drive, the bone-white gravel kicked up in
a shot, my mother in the death seat half
out the door, the door half shutshe?s being
pushed or wants to jump, I don?t remember.
The Olds is two kinds of green, hand-painted,
and blows black smoke like a coal-oil fire. I?m
stunned and feel a wind, like a machine, pass
through me, through my heart and mouth; I?m standing
in a field not fifty feet away, the
wheel of the wind closing the distance.
Then suddenly the car stops and my mother
falls with nothing, nothing to break the fall. . . .
One of those moments we give too much to,
like the moment of acknowledgment of
betrayal, when the one who?s faithless has
nothing more to say and the silence is
terrifying since you must choose between
one or the other emptiness. I know
my mother?s face was covered black with blood
and that when she rose she too said nothing.
Language is a darkness pulled out of us.
But I screamed that day she was almost killed,
whether I wept or ran or threw a stone,
or stood stone-still, choosing at last between
parents, one of whom was driving away.
What a tough poem. That?s one of the few where you get the narrative, and the complication, and there?s actually closure, in that. It doesn?t happen all the time. But actually, there isn?t closure, either. No, there isn?t, I take that back.
No, there are different times being elevated and juxtaposed there. Different times in ones life.
But -as I said of you - the lack of judgement and the sweet grief. There?s a grief underlying all those words. You turn it into something. How do you turn grief into something?
I don?t know if I?d use the word sweet, but it is.... I?d like to think there?s a forgiveness there, an implicit forgiveness; I guess another, fancier word would be a reconciliation.
There isn?t a complaint in any of your work.
I think that?s how memory works. It ought to teach you forgiveness.
Your memory, maybe. Well, Ghandi said it, didn?t he?
Well, I don?t know. I don?t think we have to be quite so...grand being.
He said to change your work, change your life.
To me it?s the only way that happiness works. It?s not to subtract the sadness in your life, it?s to add something else to it simultaneously.
So that?s what?s in the line.
I think part of the judgement you?re talking about is that some people feel you always have to make a choice. You don?t have to. The soul, or whatever you want to call it is capacious, and
can include a great deal, I think. Even opposition. Well, now we go to visit my mother, back in Ohio. She would always report to me on the status of my former classmates, from elementary school, high school, and whatnot. It was not something I necessarily wanted to hear about, and it was amazing to me after a while, as the evidence began to pile up, how unfortunate that little group I started out with at Spring Creek Township School on the western side of Ohio; there were about twenty of us, I suppose; what percentage of those people ended up not doing well. I thought the percentage was a little outsized, and when I began to put it together, I came up with this poem. Souls of Suicides as Birds.
Because of his fierce red-orange hair,
which he hated and threatened to dye,
and did, on more than one occasion,
leaving the half-look of his head
strangely mottled, as if he had survived
scarlet fever, which, in his embarrassment,
he sometimes claimed he had, and because
he spoke and acted with a certain insect
abruptness yet showiness in spite of his
childish size, more diminutive each year,
and because Timothy is a grass, Tim the
diminution, he?s become an American Redstart,
demonstrative at the tiptop of branches,
che-wee, che-wee, che-wee. Linda Mannus,
whose intelligent, high-wire crisis voice
piqued everyone?s angst, even at twelve,
is a Chipping Sparrow, heard as well in
as among the orchard cages.
She took poison, then a razor, then ran -
Timothy Cotrell used all twenty gauges
of his gun. The farmer Elifritz drove
his tractor through a worn-out wall
of his barn, thereby piercing his throat
with old wood, and therefore is a warbler,
Black-throated Blue, who loves the swampy
interior, the dense scrub undergrowth.
Jack Butz, whose Vietnam wound was total,
like a lightening scar, lived for as long
as is possible in Piqua, Ohio, and be alive;
and Jerry Hart, star athlete, died of AIDS:
one is a Purple, one a Boat-tailed Grackle.
And when Raymond Baker flew with his Ford
Fairlane through the barrels and signs of
detour, planing his head through the wind-
shield, he became a Swift, able to dive
down chimneys and vector a straight line
of the invisible air, like an arrow aimed
at silence. And the two sisters, Alma
and Kay, each impregnated by their father,
transpired for a while as Whippoorwills,
then Doves, but found real joy as t Thrushes,
hermetic, unadorned, but adored at evening.
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These friends from school - and there are more,
doubtless, I don't know about. And others,
almost subtle, who crafted deaths, too natural,
none of whom made it out of their thirties
and forties, none of them murdered, none
of them victims of street ire, or planes,
sticks and stones, or drugs, none of them missing
persons, all of them Starlings, or the Siren
noise, high in the Tulip Poplars.
How did you ever transform them?
Well I started with, I remembered the old concept of the bird as a symbol for the soul, going
back to ancient times. And it just struck me that, why not now? Why can?t those birds be
representatives now, and not just of ancient souls.
When you were in England, you do write about birds very much there. Is there any bird there that is not here, that you can think of?
Sure there are lots. I prefer the passerine kind. That is to say, the songbirds, and the small,
more insignificant types. You notice that no state claims the sparrow as its state bird. No state
claims a crow, or even a blue jay which are cousins to crows, because of their personalities, and
In Italy you hear the nightingale. But can you hear it in America?
What we call, our nightingale is a good old, democratic gray-brown bird that Whitman
labels in his great elegy for Lincoln. The hermetic thrush, or the hermit thrush.
The thrush is a nightingale?
Yeah, and of course their music is in direct proportion, the beauty of their music is in direct
proportion to the plainness of their being. I think of the American birds, the cardinal is the
exception. It has a pretty great singing voice, in the evening especially. It chirps in the
morning. The cardinal, which is the most popular state bird, even has a town in Iowa named for
it?s early morning call, and that is, What cheer! What cheer! What Cheer!” And the town is
called What-Cheer”. I think there?s even an exclamation point after.
Was someone really that imaginative?
If you?re driving along Route 80, you?ll see a sign. One of those green, white and green signs that will say, What Cheer!”
I give Ohio credit for that.
Let's shift gears a bit. We?ve been talking about Keats, referring to Keats. I have several
poems that come out of moments of my response to his life. Little things that I think were
unnoticed. This is a sort of, this poem, though, is a fantasy. Keats and John Constable lived in
Hempstead at the same time. There?s no record of them having ever met. In fact, the summer
after Keats writes the odes, or was revising the odes - the spring odes - Constable is in
Hempstead having trouble with his career, painting the sky. He?s painting nothing but the sky.
Actually, he?s painting clouds. Constable?s Clouds for Keats.
They come in off the sea peaceable masters
and hold the sea in the sky as long as they can.
And you write them down in oils because of their
brilliance, and to remember, in its turn, each one.
It?s eighteen twenty-two after the Regency,
and it would be right in the year after his death
to think of these - domed above the
Heath in their isolated chronicle - as elegies
of the spirit; right to see these forms
as melancholy hosts, even at this distance.
Yet dead Keats is amorphous, a shapelessness
re-forming in the ground, and no one you know enough
to remember. He lies in the artist?s paradise
in Rome, among the pagan souls of sheep at pasture.
You?ll lie in Hampstead where he should have stayed
to meet on your walks up Lower Terrace.
or along the crowning High Street heading home.
Your clouds grow whiter, darker, more abstract
from one elaborate study to the next,
correlatives, or close, to the real sentiment
that lives, you say, in clouds . . . subjects to counter-
weigh the airy gravity of trees and leaping horses.
Keats could have met you - you must have seen him once
against the light, at least. He could be
crossing on Christchurch Hill Road now,
over the Elm Row and down Old Admiral?s Walk.
He could be looking at the clouds blooming between
buildings, watching the phantoms levitating stone.
He was there your first Heath summer writing odes,
feeling the weather change from warm to chill,
focused, no less than you, on daylight?s last detail,
wondering what our feelings are without us.
And if we can have a final poem, I'd like you to read Birthday
An old mortality, These evening doorways into rooms,
this door from the kitchen and there?s the yard
the grass not cut and filled with sweetness
and in the thorn the summer wounding the sun.
And locked in the shade the dove calling down.
The glare?s a little blinding still but only
for the moment of surprise, like suddenly
coming into a hall with a window at the end,
the light stacked up like scaffolding. I am
that boy again my father told not to look
at the ground so much looking at the ground.
I am the animal touched on the forehead, charmed.
In the sky the silver maple like rain in a cloud
we?ve tied: and I see myself walking from what looks like
a classroom, the floor waxed white, into my father?s
arms, who lifts me, like a discovery, out of this life.
You can hear this series on www.loc.gov/poetry"poet&poem.
Grace Cavalieri is the author of several produced plays, and books of poetry, the latest, Water on the Sun (Bordighera Press, c2006) "The Poet and the Poem" now enters its 30th year on public radio. Poems from Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me, and A Doctrine Of Signatures © Stanley Plumly, are reprinted with permission of the author. Grateful acknowledgement is given to DoubleTake and Poetry Magazines in which some of these poems appeared.
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic autoimmune disease that primarily affects the joints, but can affect other parts of the body. Diagnosing and managing RA involves clinical evaluation by a rheumatologist, as well as several different laboratory tests that require blood work. The results of these tests may be used in two ways:
The doctor and health care team use the results of these tests to guide treatment options for each patient. In turn, understanding how the results of blood tests used to monitor RA and its treatment can help patients better able to manage their RA.
Rheumatoid factor (RF) was the first autoantibody to be discovered in people with RA. (Autoantibodies develop in response to the body’s own tissue, and are characteristic of autoimmune diseases, such as RA.) Despite the name, however, RF is not specific to RA, and there are many factors that can impact RF lab results. About 20% of those with confirmed RA will not have an abnormal RF test, while 5% of people who do not have RA will have an abnormal RF test. Negative levels do not exclude the disease, and positive levels do not guarantee the diagnosis.
The normal range of RF is from 0-20 u/ml. RF above 20 u/ml is not considered enough to diagnose RA, as there other reasons the RF level may be elevated. Some conditions and medical procedures that can raise RF levels include: other autoimmune diseases, certain chronic infections, diabetes, bacterial endocarditis, cancer, normal aging, vaccinations and transfusions. It’s important to note that once the RF level is elevated, it will often remain so even if the disease goes into remission.
Another test which is ordered when rheumatoid arthritis is suspected is the anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide (Anti-CCP). The normal level of anti-CCP is less than 20 u/ml. A level above 20 suggests the possibility of rheumatoid arthritis. As with rheumatoid factor, some people with positive anti-CCP antibody will not have rheumatoid arthritis, but this test is somewhat more specific for rheumatoid arthritis than the rheumatoid factor. The higher the levels of anti-CCP antibody, the more likely it is to suggest rheumatoid arthritis.
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Edited by Nancy Novick.
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Walmart supercenter hits the 1st place in the world’s top company list. The company has entered into the business in 1988. It provides a one-stop shopping experience to customers by enabling grocery stores with fresh produce, bakery, dairy products, apparel, toys, and home furnishings in one place. Walmart has more than 1000 retail shops with headquartered in America. The annual revenue of Walmart accounts for USD 523,964 million in 2020 and Walmart is the world’s largest private employer.
Sinopec group or the China Petrochemical Corporation is a company based in China engaged in the petroleum and petrochemical industry. The company was established in July 1998. Sinope group is the largest oil and petrochemical products supplier and the second-largest oil and gas producer in China, the largest refining company, and the third-largest chemical company in the world. Its total number of gas stations ranks second place in the world in terms of capacity. And 2nd largest in the world by revenue which accounts for USD 407,009 million.
State Grid Corporation of China is a Chinese state-owned electric utility company. This is the world’s largest utility company in the world and the third-largest in revenue-wise. The company had an annual revenue of USD 383,906 million in 2020. The company was founded in 2002 in Beijing. With the goal of “building up world-class power grid and world-class enterprise,” the State grid engage in continuous innovations and developments having a total of 90,712 patents.
China National Petroleum Corporation
China National petroleum mostly known as CNPC is also a China-based company. CNPC engages in businesses covering oil and gas operations, oil field services, petroleum engineering & construction, equipment manufacturing, financial services, and new energy development. CNPC has assets in more than 30 countries covering Africa, Central Asia-Russia, America, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. The company has an annual revenue of USD 379,130 million becoming the 4th largest company in the world in terms of revenue.
Royal Dutch Shell
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Saudi Aramco is a leading producer of energy and chemicals based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco is officially known as the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. It has subsidiaries in Asia, Europe, and America to cater to the rising demand in the globe. Saudi Aramco ranked 6th by fortune 500 for the revenue of USD 329,784 million in 2020. The company operates the world’s largest single hydrocarbon network, the Master Gas System.
Volkswagen AG or Volkswagen Group is a Wolfsburg German-based multinational automotive manufacturer. It is the largest carmaker in Europe and holds 13% of the global car market share. The very famous Volkswagen brands include Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini, Porsche, Ducati, Scania and MAN. Volkswagen Group has 125 production plants in Europe and 11 plants in Asia, America, and Africa. The company has earned a revenue of USD 282,760 million in 2020 by selling its products to customers in 153 countries in the world. Volkswagen is the largest automotive company in the world in revenue-wise.
BP PLC or commonly known as BP is a British multinational oil & gas company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1909 with the name of Anglo-Persian Oil Company. BP is working toward becoming a low carbon energy supplier by 2030 and a net-zero company by 2050 with the set targets in bpNetZero ambition. BP PLC ranked 8th place in the world with a revenue of USD 282,616 million.
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Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota, Aichi, Japan. Toyota is the 10th largest company in the world and 2nd largest automotive manufacturer in the world with a revenue of USD 275,288 million. Toyota is the largest company in Japan and 1st automobile company to produces more than 10 million vehicles per annum. The company’s subsidiaries include Lexus, Hino motors, Subaru Corporation, Isuzu Motors, Daihatsu Motor Company, and Noble Automotive.
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Abortion is still legal in Ohio for now though that may likely change. The U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling reversing Roe v Wade, the landmark decision that granted federal protections to abortion access, now opens the door for states to limit or ban abortion.
Kentucky implanted a trigger law in 2019 so a ban on abortion is now in effect in the Bluegrass State, reports Local 12 News.
Jenn Dye, PhD, director of the Theodore M. Berry Director of the Nathaniel R. Jones Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice, spoke with Local 12 News about what a partisan divide that will emerge with more conservative states opting to ban abortion or make it extremely hard to obtain.
Ohio could impose a ban before Election Day, reports Local 12 News.
“Predominantly red states moving to have special sessions to and enacting bills to ban it or to make it extremely difficult to get an abortion,” Dye told Local 12 News.
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Amy Poehler took a seat behind the camera once again for her first documentary, Lucy and Desi. Putting the spotlight on Hollywood icons Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, the film gives fans a deeper look at the lives of the legendary couple. The SNL alum described how the two superstars were “mavericks” in their industry.
Desi Arnaz was an example for other immigrants
When Ball and Arnaz launched their now-legendary sitcom I Love Lucy in 1951, they became trailblazers. Arnaz left Cuba at just 16 years old and headed to Miami, working odd jobs to pay the bills. Becoming such a studio and television presence as an immigrant was unheard of at the time.
“Lucy and Desi both were outsiders,” Poehler told The Hollywood Reporter. “He was a Cuban immigrant and people didn’t let Cuban men run a lot of things and they certainly didn’t let Latin men play sophisticated men of power on TV.”
In her documentary, Poehler interviews a writer from Cuba who shares how Arnaz set a positive example for him when there were so few in the spotlight he could relate to during his childhood.
“We have a beautiful Cuban playwright Eduardo Machado in the film who speaks to what it was like coming to America as a young child and seeing the character of Ricky on TV,” Poehler explained. “A man who was not a fool, who nobody made fun of his accent, who was in charge, beautifully dressed, and had a wife who adored him. That really meant something, especially when he, like a lot of people in the ’50s who came to the country, [were] not speaking the language.”
Lucille Ball was a genius on and off camera
“Everybody wanted to put Desi and Lucy in these boxes,” Poehler noted in an interview with UPROXX. “Lucy was of a generation that probably wouldn’t call herself a writer or director or even a feminist. Those were things that weren’t important to her and didn’t feel like when she tried them on they were right.”
Poehler continued, “With perspective, it’s like she was the first female head of any production studio and ran it really well. And whether or not she felt like that was her true essence, she did it really well.”
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz worked hard for their success
Arnaz’s immigrant status and Ball’s gender were usually deterrents for getting ahead in show business in that time period. Yet they became exceptions to the rule.
“I think a lot of people truly don’t understand how ahead of their time they were,” Poehler said, according to Deadline. “How they were true mavericks in a system that certainly wasn’t encouraging immigrants and people of color and women to run studios and to be the bosses and to be high status in the 1950s.”
The Lucy and Desi director also pointed out that Ball and Arnaz were brought up to view working as the top priority. And emotions and personal issues were swept under the rug.
“[Ball and Arnaz] came from a generation where their trauma was put in a suitcase and put in the attic and let’s get to work,” the Parks and Recreation alum remarked. “I mean, it’s very interesting how they both had these really interesting early lives, but used it. … My goal is that you walk away being reminded of them as people and not symbols or geniuses or icons.”
Lucy and Desi is available March 4 on Prime Video.
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3D Brain Project
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The temporal lobe is the location of the primary auditory cortex, which is responsible for interpreting sounds
The right temporal lobe controls the left side of the body and vice versa.
Primary function is controlling vision and visual processing
Helps us identify different objects that we look at
Helps us differentiate and understand different colors and shapes
Integration of different senses that allows for understanding a single concept
If the parietal lobe is damaged:
Ammonia (Inability to name an object)
Agraphia (Inability to locate the words for writing)
Dyslexia (Problems with reading)
Dyscalculia (Difficulty with doing mathematics)
By: Arturo, Naina, Josie, Tiana
The Entorhinal cortex is one of the brain's most important memory centers and is located in the medial temporal lobe
Anatomy of the Human Brain
The Human Brain
Part of the hindbrain; a "bridge" of sensory and motor nerves; contains part of the reticular formation that is involved in sleep
-The only lobe that you can live without!
-Parts of Speech
Largest lobe of the brain
You use your frontal lobe everyday.
You use it to make decisions, such as What to eat or drink, and how studying for a test
The frontal lobe is also where our personality is formed
-Back of the head
-Inability to see color, motion, or orientation
The part of the brain at the back of the skull in vertebrates. Its function is to coordinate and regulate muscular activity.
Pons is a portion of the hind brain that connects the cerebral cortex with the medulla oblongata.
The pons measure around 2 1/2 cm only but we cannot be fooled by its size because something so small is very important part of our brain's pathways.
Lower pons stimulates and controls the intensity of breathing, and the upper pons decreases the depth and frequency of breaths
An almond-shaped mass of gray matter. It is in each hemisphere of the brain, associated with feelings of fear and aggression and important for visual learning and memory.
People with bipolar disorders are seen to have larger amygdalae, which is why they are gripped by a lot of fear all the time
Activation of the amygdala has been shown to decrease trust (of others)
Relaying motor and sensory information
contributes to perception and cognition
Regulating breathing,taste,and autonomic functions
Coordination of voluntary movement
Fight or flight response
When you think of the amygdala, you should think of one word, fear. The amygdala is the reason we are afraid of circumstances outside our control. It also controls the way we react to certain stimuli, or an event that causes an emotion, that we see as potentially threatening or dangerous.
The cerebellum is important to the timing of rhythmic movements. A recent neuroimaging study by Brown and colleagues (2006) examined the neural basis of dance and found evidence of cerebellar activity during entrainment(synchronizing timing and movement with musical rhythm).
Interesting Cerebellum facts
Your body movements are synchronized and harmonized by the Cerebellum.
The Cerebellum makes up only 10% of the brain, but holds up to half the neurons in the entire brain.
The five senses relay information to the hippocampus via the entorhinal cortex, which also transmits messages between the hippocampus and the neocortex.
The Entorhinal Cortex plays a central role in memory. This region processes and combines memories and also utilizes sensory information
It is one of the first areas of the brain to be affected by the plaque buildup of Alzheimer's disease
Association with Damage to
About the size of a pearl. It directs a multitude of important functions in the body and it is the control center for many autonomic functions of the peripheral nervous system
Self-mutilation is a serious condition with many causes. Kuhn and colleagues (2008) describe a patient with severe self-mutilating behavior that followed traumatic brain injury. The patient's medical team used deep brain stimulation of the hypothalamus to successfully treat these symptoms.
Structure deep within the brain stem that receives sensory information from the nervous system and passes it to the cerebral cortex.
The curious case of Phineas Gage, a railway worker in the 1800s. An iron rod passes through his head, and he recovered almost fully in a matter of months! He survived for 12 years before eventually dying of severe seizures. He survived extensive lesions of the brain, undergoing personality changes to the worst.
For three years, little Cameron Mott's life was a nightmarish succession of violent seizures that consumed her days and threatened her life. Finally, doctors told her parents that the way to stop them was to remove right-half of her brain. Rasmussen's syndrome, a condition that causes the destruction of one side of the brain. The solution was radical. It was the right choice.
-Located behind the frontal lobe
-Understanding of spoken and written languages
-Ability to read and write
-Side of head above ears
-Increased Aggressive Behavior
-Short-term Memory Loss
-Face and Object Recognition
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From deep-sea divers at the bottom of the ocean, to astronauts on top of the world, Who We Were investigates the history and future of our unique species and celebrates the incredible capability of humankind to build a better world.
Who We Were observes the current state of the world, accompanied by six leading intellectuals and scientists who reflect on the majesty of the present and postulate about the infinite possibilities of the future.
Producer, director, and writer Marc Bauder follows his interviewees into the depths of the ocean, to the top of the world, and out into the far reaches of space. Together, they explore the incredible capabilities of the human brain, a global economic summit, the legacy of colonisation, and the feelings of a robot.
Who We Were is an intense encounter with six important contemporary thinkers and scientists: Alexander Gerst (astronaut), Dennis Snower (economist), Matthieu Ricard (molecular biologist and monk), Sylvia Earle (oceanologist), Felwine Sarr (economist, sociologist and philosopher) and Janina Loh (philosopher and critical posthumanist).
This inspiring look at our world offers a hopeful message for us all: Who we are is in our own hands, if we recognise our connectedness, our commonality, and the meaning of ‘we’.
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As bandwidth continues to decrease in cost and services utilizing that bandwidth continue to grow in robustness, companies are increasingly finding it worthwhile to move evermore critical business processes to the cloud. The level of flexibility, scalability, security and business continuity offered by hosted solutions is simply too good to pass up, especially considering the associated costs.
Meanwhile, the growing consumer mobility trend has employees clamoring for the ability to use their own personal mobile devices in the office. Businesses have been quick to oblige, with the prospects of increased employee productivity and reduced equipment costs. The BYOD (bring your own device trend) has thus taken off, and new technologies have emerged to help keep employee and corporate data both separate and secure.
These technologies have brought about a revolution in the way business is conducted. Of course, many of the businesses adopting these solutions are multi-location enterprises, with several branches, campuses, and other office buildings scattered throughout the country and even the world. Keeping cloud and BYOD services consistent and functional across such geographically disparate organizations can be a challenge. Fortunately, a technology known as multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) exists to help such companies maintain efficient network performance across their organization.
“MPLS is uniquely poised to respond to the challenges raised by [the cloud],” wrote AireSpring’s Jon Beadle in a recent blog post. “Thanks to its ability to mesh together multiple nodes, MPLS can easily provide connectivity to multiple offices and data centers. Additionally, MPLS VPNs offer increased security to protect important data, while offering more reliability and less traffic congestion.”
Essentially, MPLS is able to make a wide area network (WAN) operate and feel as if it were a local area network (LAN). The protocol forwards packets along predetermined paths based on application and routing information using label identifiers, which allow the network to differentiate between various types of network traffic. This traffic can then be routed along optimal paths for any given service. A global corporate network thus performs as if it were a singular, self-contained network.
This quality-of-service capability of MPLS also comes in handy when trying to manage a corporate BYOD environment. With a large number of mobile devices competing for bandwidth on a businesses network, MPLS can use class of service information to dictate BYOD traffic segregation, freeing up the rest of the network for more mission critical operations.
“This separation can also be used to provide added security by keeping BYOD devices separate from the corporate network where critical information is store,” Beadle notes “This reduces the risk of sensitive data leaking out if a device is lost or stolen. MPLS can also be used with mobile device management (MDM) solutions to ease the hassle of managing the many different types of devices that employees bring with them.”
Clearly, a company has a lot to gain from employing MPLS. Take AireSpring’s (News - Alert) MPLS Mesh service, for example. The solution is ideal for companies looking to link all of their sites to a single IP network or to create multiple secure networks to segment their data. Using MPLS, AireSpring can improve network efficiency with flexible addressing options and Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities, which enables an organization to prioritize traffic over a single infrastructure, optimizing voice, video and data and other services.
Those interested in learning more can meet with AireSpring at booth No.507 during the final day of ITEXPO at the Miami Beach Convention Center on Jan. 31.
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improving working conditions, improving the way of life, exposing
corruption, expanding democracy and making reforms was the main idea
of this period. Many of the citizens granted and demanded a change in
numerous areas such as business, labor, economy, consumers and an
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Roosevelt was also a big supporter of labor he tried almost
everything and anything to help the citizens of the United States.
Teddy set up child protection laws, which were used to prevent
children to work in factories, and it also reduced the amount of time
they worked. Roosevelt also set up workman's compensation, which is a
payment that employers had to pay employees who get injured on the
job. President Wilson also tried to help and improve the conditions
for workers he did this by adding and income tax. This type of income
tax is called a progressive or graduated which would rise with the
amount of money that a person makes. This really helped the poor
because they were taxed less than big business men were.
Wilson helped the economy by instituting a Federal Reserve
Bank. This bank was a system in which there would be twelve federal
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The current economic era is coming to an end, and over the next 30 or so years, the global economy is going to change massively, according to research from Deutsche Bank.
In the bank's latest Long-Term Asset Return Study, strategists Jim Reid, Nick Burns, and Sukanto Chanda argue that the current economic age, which began sometime in the 1980s, has been characterised by globalisation, and a huge change in the world's demographics, which has boosted growth and increased productivity.
However, that era is now at an end, and the world is staring down more than three decades of subdued growth, lower profits, higher inflation, and dwindling global trade as we adjust to a shift in demographics across the planet.
"It feels like we're coming towards the end of an economic era. Such eras often come and go in long waves," the report argues, continuing (emphasis ours):
"In the modern era it seems that ever since the beginning of the 1980s the global economy has been dominated by globalisation and also a complimentary and massive change in demographics. This has had a profound impact on the global economy at a macro and micro level. It’s also had a huge impact on asset performance. We will argue that this era is close to being over and the economic, political, policy and asset trends that accompanied it could soon start to reverse."
Essentially, Reid and his colleagues argue that the world has reached a demographic peak.
In the past 30 years a perfect storm of factors — China reentering the global economy in the 70s, the fall of the Soviet Union, and to some extent, the economic liberalisation of India — added more than a billion workers into the global labour market.
This, Deutsche notes "has coincided with a general surge in the global workforce population in absolute terms and also relative to the overall population, thus creating a perfect storm and an abundance of workers."
As the chart below illustrates, that combined with a surge in high earning, high spending workers to dramatically increase the global productivity ratio:
However, now we've hit peak, what stares the world down is a fundamental shift in our economy, moving away from the globalisation and the rapid expansion that characterised the pre-financial crisis years, and towards a steadier, far less exciting economy.
Here's more from Reid, Burns, and Chanda (emphasis ours):
"With demographics deteriorating it seems highly unlikely that the next couple of decades (possibly longer) will see real growth rates returning close to their pre-crisis, pre-leverage era levels. Obviously if there is a sustainable exogenous boost to productivity then a more optimistic scenario (relative to the one below) can be painted. At this stage it is hard to see where such a boost comes from – and even if it does, time is running out for it to prevent economic and political regime change given the existing stresses in the system."
The dominant themes, until the end of the next era in around 2060, will include lower GDP, higher real wages, higher nominal GDP (for most), greater controls on immigration, higher taxes for the wealthy, and lower levels of international trade.
Deutsche Bank however, is at pains to point out that this fundamental change of economic cycle is nothing new, and argues that since the middle of the 19th century we've seen several waves of economic change.
Here's the bank one last time:
"In relatively modern economic history we saw the first wave of globalisation between around 1860-1914; we then saw the interwar period which included an ill fated return to the Gold Standard between 1925 and various points in the 1930s depending on when individual countries subsequently left. Then post-WWII, we saw the Bretton Woods system that lasted around a quarter of a century (1945-1971); and this was followed by the high inflation period of the 1970s. You can break up economic history into alternative distinct periods but these broad eras have shaped economies, politics, policies and asset performance."
A changing global economy
Deutsche Bank is certainly not the only institution or individual suggesting that we're staring fundamental change in the global economy.
Soon after the UK voted to leave the EU, Barclays noted that the global economy is coming to a major crossroads, while Mohamed El-Erian, the former CEO of the Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO) and current chief economic adviser to Allianz, sees a major "T-junction" in the global economy within three years.
"The road we're on is coming to an end," El-Erian told reporters in London earlier this year.
There is also an increasing swell of feeling against the neoliberal economic consensus, that has dominated thinking since the years of Reagan and Thatcher.
In August, Nobel prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Business Insider that: "Neoliberalism is dead in both developing and developed countries." Stiglitz's view is one echoed by many within the IMF, traditionally a great bastion of neoliberalism.
Writing in a blog post in May, three economists from the IMF — long one of the greatest champions of the neoliberal consensus — questioned the efficacy of some aspects of it, particularly when it comes to the creation of inequality.
"The increase in inequality engendered by financial openness and austerity might itself undercut growth, the very thing that the neoliberal agenda is intent on boosting," Jonathan Ostry, Prakash Loungani, and Davide Furceri argued. "There is now strong evidence that inequality can significantly lower both the level and the durability of growth."
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The Council meets in the Environment Sector in order to make decisions on common policies and approaches in areas such as environmental protection, pollution, water quality management and waste management in a cross-border context.
The agreed work programme includes:
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- Information sharing and collaboration on environmental research activities.
- The establishment of data bases of environmental information.
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- Identification of strategies and activities which would contribute to a co-operative approach to the achievement of sustainable development.
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Watch the television premiere of "Blackfish," Thursday, October 24, at 9 p.m. EST on CNN.
The documentary Blackfish opened around the country on July 26, with more splash than usual for a small-budget production, thanks to a preemptive attack on the film by SeaWorld, the marine-park franchise, and the free publicity of the tempest that followed.
Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, the homicidal killer whale, and his most recent victim, Dawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld trainer he crushed, dismembered, and partially swallowed in 2010. The film is an indictment of SeaWorld, its safety practices, its animal husbandry, its mendacity, and its whole reason for being.
In the week before advance screenings in Los Angeles and New York, SeaWorld sent out a "Dear Film Critic" letter that castigated the documentary as "shamefully dishonest, deliberately misleading, and scientifically inaccurate." Journalists and bloggers around the world, never averse to controversy, pricked up their ears. If the film's producers ever worried about insufficient funds for advertising, they can lay that fear to rest.
In a theater a month ago, toward the end of a long series of trailers for movies my girlfriend and I resolved not to see, the Blackfish trailer began. I sat up in my seat. Within the first few frames, well before the identity of this particular "blackfish" came up on the screen, I knew which orca he would be. Tilikum is a whale whose career I have followed for 13 years. Like many familiar with his history, I had not been surprised by Dawn Brancheau's death. We all had wondered when Tilikum would kill again.
Good Twin, Evil Twin
Blackfish and its themes set me to thinking again about Orcinus orca, the killer whale, the sea's supreme predator, and our strange, ambivalent view of this animal and the narratives we impose on it.
Here's one: Tilikum had a sort of twin, Keiko, the killer whale who played "Willy" in the movies. Both were captured as two-year-old calves off Iceland, Keiko in 1979 and Tilikum in 1983; both were motherless males abused by other whales in Canadian marine parks; both were moved to facilities farther south; both, on maturing, suffered the collapse of the dorsal fin, the floppy trademark of all captive bull orcas.
One twin grew up to be the most famous whale in history, if you rule out Moby Dick and the whale that swallowed Jonah. This twin gave daily audiences to thousands of human pilgrims, played himself in his own documentary films, and was a regular on the television news. He was beloved by children all over the world, who sent him great stacks of misspelled mash notes, get-well cards, valentines, confidential personal updates, and whimsical, anatomically incorrect killer whale illustrations in crayon and poster paint.
Through intermediaries on his staff of 22 humans, this whale franchised "Free Willy" dolls, trading cards, music tapes, storybooks, and vinyl magnetic products. For sale in the gift shop of his $7.5 million Oregon facility—a palatial tank with adjoining offices, all built just for him—were Keiko toys, Keiko games, Keiko postcards, and Keiko clothing. A pilgrim, after shuffling in long lines up to the tank window for 10 or 12 minutes in the whale's presence, could buy Keiko Blend Coffee and Keiko clothing. The pilgrim's four-year-old, if she insisted, could finagle a "beautifully illustrated 100% cotton T-shirt with special ocean habitat pocket and an adorable, realistic, soft toy Keiko that lives in the pocket habitat or comes out to play!"
The other twin grew up to be the protagonist in a saltwater Othello, a tragedy in which the Moor weighs 12,000 pounds and Desdemona gets eaten.
I first encountered Tilikum, the evil twin, while doing fieldwork on the good one. I am Keiko's biographer. My 2005 book, Freeing Keiko: The Journey of a Killer Whale from Free Willy to the Wild, is an account of Keiko's life from his capture as a two-year-old through his Hollywood triumph to his semi-successful release to the wild. In the book I touch briefly on Tilikum.
Signs of Trouble
"Only once in history has a killer whale killed a human," I wrote. "That incident, in which Tilikum, a captive whale in British Columbia, pinned his trainer to the pool bottom, drowning her, is generally deemed to have been horseplay, just a misunderstanding, a simple failure of the whale to appreciate the difference between human breath-hold capacity and his own."
This was the explanation put forth by SeaWorld, which had bought Tilikum from Sealand of the Pacific after he killed that first trainer, 20-year-old Keltie Byrne. (Sealand, which immediately went out of business as a consequence of Keltie's death, needed to liquidate its assets. Its orcas Haida II and her baby Kyuquot went to SeaWorld San Antonio. Nootka IV and Tilikum went to SeaWorld Orlando.) I had sense enough to question the horseplay theory. SeaWorld is a multibillion-dollar enterprise entirely dependent on the draw of its killer whales—orcas with reputations as playful and lovable, not murderous. I had little doubt the story had heavy spin.
"There is strong circumstantial evidence that Tilikum may have killed again," I went on. "He was moved to SeaWorld Orlando, where a drunk climbed in over the wall one night and was found drowned in the whale's pool the next morning."
This second case, the 1999 death of Daniel Dukes, was more ambiguous, because there were no witnesses. The facility had cameras above and below water, but SeaWorld claims none captured the event. The SeaWorld theory was drowning and hypothermia. More details have come out since. This was a case of hypothermia in which the deceased was found the next morning draped over the back of Tilikum with his genitals bitten off.
The Veterinarian's Role
Most of what I know about the care of killer whales in captivity, and many of my insights into the culture at SeaWorld, I learned in interviews with Dr. Lanny Cornell, Keiko's physician. Back then, at the turn of the millennium, Cornell was in his mid-50s. For 14 years he had worked at SeaWorld, beginning as a veterinarian and rising through the ranks to senior vice president and zoological director, with responsibility for the entire animal collection in all of SeaWorld's parks. At the time, SeaWorld owned half the captive killer whales on the planet, and Cornell, until his departure in 1987, ministered to that flock. It was Cornell who, by intuition and experiment, had discovered the conditions and circumstances that would persuade orcas to breed in captivity, and he was obstetrician for the first birth. It was Cornell who had supervised SeaWorld's capture of orcas in Iceland.
Cornell had no love for the press, which swarmed all big Keiko events. No reporter's question irritated him more than a recurrent one: the suggestion that Cornell, as veterinarian, in restoring Keiko's health and fitness for a return to the wild, was doing some kind of penance. Was he making up, the reporter would ask, for all the orcas he had captured, all the orca families he had broken up? Cornell's features would freeze, and he would curtly dismiss this penance possibility and call for the next question.
But I wonder if it wasn't true. I can testify from listening to the deliberations of the Free Willy-Keiko Foundation that no one was more dedicated to the goal of returning Keiko to the wild than Dr. Lanny Cornell. The vet, who began as a horse doctor, is a strong, stocky man, handsome in an aquiline, weathered, Marlboro-cowboy sort of way, tough and gruff and sardonic and opinionated.
His opinion of public relations at SeaWorld was low. He was baffled by how poorly his former company—under siege, even then, by a large segment of the press and public—went about representing itself to the world. SeaWorld, Cornell pointed out, did good, altruistic work in sea-mammal rescue and rehabilitation. But nobody knew. Somehow the PR people never got the word out.
SeaWorld had helped Cornell save Keiko's life. In the Mexico City theme park where Keiko lived and Free Willy was filmed, the whale was confined to a tank too cramped and warm. He was in terrible health, scarcely moving so as not to overheat, his pectoral fins warty with papilloma virus. SeaWorld experts advised that chillers would help solve the problem, and they sent those down. From SeaWorld San Diego, on hearing Cornell's report that Keiko's diet was poor, they trucked down high-quality fish. "He was eating fish that were not really stored properly," Cornell told me. "They would cut the heads off and gut the fish and feed him the fillets. What he was missing was bone and all the vitamins and minerals that come from the liver and the organs of an animal. It's very important for a wild predator to eat everything."
Keiko was not SeaWorld's whale; there was no profit for them in their good deed—not even as a public-relations coup.
SeaWorld's Letter of Denial
Public relations at SeaWorld remain dismal. In the case of Blackfish, the PR sin has been not been omission, but commission. SeaWorld must have known the content of Blackfish since at least January, when the film screened at the Sundance Festival, but for months the company simply kept quiet—the smart thing to do, obviously. Why risk the "banned in Boston" effect? Why publicize the efforts of the enemy? Then at the last moment the company changed course, sending out its letter to film critics ("In the event you are planning to review this film, we thought you should be apprised of the following.").
This letter, SeaWorld's defense of itself and its attack on the integrity of the Magnolia Films documentary, is a tissue of obvious lies, detailed below.
Bullying: In its letter to film critics about Blackfish, SeaWorld challenges the implication that unlike killer whales in the wild, killer whales in zoos or parks—and specifically Tilikum, the whale involved in Dawn Brancheau's death—are routinely bullied by other whales. The word "bullying" is meaningless when applied to the behavior of an animal like a killer whale. Whales live in a social setting with a dominance hierarchy, both at SeaWorld and in the wild. They express dominance in a variety of ways, including using their teeth to "rake" other whales, in the open ocean as well as in parks.
Tilikum, for starters, was not just a whale involved in Dawn Brancheau's death. Tilikum was the whale that killed her. "Bullying" is not meaningless when applied to the behavior of killer whales. "Bullying" is the correct term to use whenever one animal "in a social setting with a dominance hierarchy" (whether that hierarchy is orca, wolf, chimp, or human) asserts dominance over another. The term, indeed, is used only in those circumstances. And there is an obvious difference between the bullying and tooth-raking by wild whales in the ocean and tooth-raking by captive whales in a tank. Every killer whale expert I consulted, when I recited this SeaWorld claim, laughed sourly and pointed out the obvious: In the ocean a whale can get away.
Social structures: The letter also challenges the accusation that SeaWorld callously breaks up killer whale families. SeaWorld does everything possible to support the social structures of all marine mammals, including killer whales, it says.
However, SeaWorld was built by breaking up killer whale families. Every orca colony in every SeaWorld facility began as a kind of orphanage. The founding fathers and mothers in each facility were plucked as calves from their pods, after long chases by aircraft and speedboats tossing bombs, with collateral deaths in nets of siblings and cousins. When Washington State banned SeaWorld from state waters for these practices, SeaWorld moved its collecting operation to Iceland.
Two of the Iceland captures, Tilikum and Keiko, on arriving as calves at their British Columbia and Ontario marine parks, were thrown in with orcas from the Pacific Northwest. The various tribes of orcas vocalize in very different patterns. The North Atlantic vocalizations of Tilikum and Keiko were as different from those of their Pacific tank-mates as Old Norse of Iceland is different from Haida or Tlingit or Kwakiutl. SeaWorld, says SeaWorld, "does everything possible to support social structures." What social structures? SeaWorld facilities hold scrambled nations and cultures of whales. The societies in these tanks are less like the intricate societies of wild orca clans than like the accidental assemblies you find in any drunk tank on Saturday night.
Training: The letter claims that SeaWorld has never used punishment-based training on any of its animals, including Tilikum, only positive reinforcement. And the behaviors it reinforces are always within the killer whale's natural range of behaviors.
SeaWorld, it's true, does primarily rely on positive reinforcement, though occasionally it resorts to punishment as a fallback, as former SeaWorld trainers testify in Blackfish, and as ex-trainers of my acquaintance have told me. Positive reinforcement works much better than negative, as the psychologist B.F. Skinner demonstrated long ago.
But the claim that the behaviors reinforced are "always within the killer whale's natural range of behaviors" is much more of a stretch. How is the "pec wave" within the natural range of orca behaviors? (The killer whale circles the tank on its side, waving its pectoral fin at the crowd.) How is the "bow" in any way natural? (The killer whale humps out of the pool onto the "slide-out" and curtsies by arching its back, the head flexed upward at one end, tailfin at the other.) Do orcas, somewhere along the spectrum of natural behavior, sometimes slide ashore and flex like Arnold Schwarzenegger to intimidate their victims?
And what is this all about, anyway, the Jungian meaning, this enormous, toothy predator trained to haul out and genuflect to an amphitheater full of Lilliputians? It's like a scene from Spartacus.
One behavior reinforced at SeaWorld is X-rated and never seen by the crowd, but Blackfish includes a somewhat expurgated version. It is video of Tilikum. He has been trained to lie on his back at the edge of the pool, extrude his penis, and donate sperm. Tilikum, the biggest orca in captivity, is also enormous in his equipment. The orca penis is not just big—it narrows to a tip that is prehensile and active. Aroused, the tip casts about, as if sniffing the water for clues. In the Tilikum video, the two female trainers struggling to manage the sperm donation seem to be losing a wrestling match with an anaconda.
How this scene could possibly play out under the ocean and in the killer whale's natural range of behaviors is hard to imagine.
There is something disheartening about this video, something degrading to the majesty of the killer whale, whether Tilikum feels it or not. And something deeply disquieting. Why, the viewer wonders, is this animal a sperm donor? Samantha Berg, one of the former SeaWorld trainers interviewed in Blackfish, expresses this well. She points out that any pit bull with tendencies like Tilikum's would have been euthanized long before his third homicide, and certainly never would have become the star of a breeding program. Tilikum is the most prolific sperm donor in the history of orca captivity. Today more than half of SeaWorld's orcas have Tilikum genes. It is truly beyond comprehension. What sort of short-sighted greed and recklessness is this?
The ponytail defense: The letter disputes the documentary's assertion that Tilikum attacked and killed Dawn Brancheau because the whale was driven crazy by his years in captivity. SeaWorld claims that Tilikum did not attack Dawn. It says that all evidence indicates that Tilikum became interested in the novelty of Dawn's ponytail in his environment and, as a result, he grabbed it and pulled her into the water.
SeaWorld's contention that Tilikum did not attack Dawn Brancheau is their most craven and unforgivable claim of the "Dear Film Critic" letter. Nothing SeaWorld says in explanation of the attack is true. Dawn's ponytail was not a novelty. Ponytails are commonplace on orca trainers, both women and men—a convenient style for people always in and out of the water. Footage from Blackfish shows Dawn on other days with her hair in a ponytail, happily working with Tilikum and other orcas. The whale did not pull her in by the ponytail, anyway. Video from Blackfish shows Tilikum grabbing her left arm. In court proceedings in the aftermath of her death, as Blackfish makes clear, the "spotter" who thought he had seen Tilikum seize the ponytail retracted that impression. That SeaWorld continues to suggest, three years later, that "all evidence" points to the ponytail is astounding.
The whale did not see the ponytail, or any other part of Dawn, "in his environment." Tilikum's environment is not Florida. Tilikum's environment is the cold, windy, herring-filled seas of Iceland from which he was yanked as a calf. There is no record, in all history, of an orca ever having harmed a human being in that environment, or anywhere else in the ocean. That world, the ocean, is where all killer whales belong and should be. Where Tilikum saw Dawn's ponytail, if he noticed it at all, was in the tank at SeaWorld. The only place killer whales ever kill and injure humans is here, in the confines of tanks like these.
Tilikum became so interested in the novelty of Dawn's ponytail, SeaWorld would have us believe, that he scalped and killed her. The autopsy report points to some impulse rougher than curiosity. In the words of Dr. Joshua Stephany, associate medical examiner for Orlando, Florida:
"Blunt force injuries of the head and neck: Avulsion of the scalp and associated galeal and subgaleal hemorrhage. Lacerations of the right ear. Abrasions of the left cheek. Fracture of the mandible, with associated laceration and hemorrhage of the oral mucosa. Fracture of the 7th cervical vertebra, with associated hemorrhage of the paravertebral musculature, epidural hemorrhage, and softening of the underlying spinal cord. Blunt force injuries of the torso: Abrasions of the upper left back. Fractures of the posterior aspects of the 9th through 11th left ribs. Fracture of the sternum at the level of the 2nd rib insertion. Liver lacerations. Hemoperitoneum (500 ml). Blunt force injuries of the extremities: Abrasions, lacerations, and contusions of the extremities. Complete avulsion of the upper left extremity with associated fracture of the proximal left humerus. Dislocation of the elbow. Dislocation of the left knee."
By "complete avulsion of the upper left extremity," Stephany means that Tilikum tore off Dawn's left arm. What he does not say is that the whale then swallowed it.
The Sea's Most Powerful Predator
Reading the autopsy report, I suddenly remembered—and then could not forget—several seconds of chilling documentary footage shot at Punta Valdez in Argentina: A bull orca materializes in a wave just off the beach, coming in fast, a transparent curl of water planing off his head. He lunges entirely out of the water, slides high up on the sand, seizes the hindquarters of a terrified bull sea lion galloping inland—a desperate rocking galumph, just a little too slow—and yanks the lion back into the sea.
For a moment the sea's surface is calm, both predator and prey vanished. Then, as punctuation, the killer whale breaks the surface and hurls the 700-pound sea lion 30 feet in the air.
There is no carnivore on the planet half so powerful as this one.
Killer whale people, in pondering Tilikum and where he went wrong, seem to center their suspicions on a 20- by 30-foot steel box at Sealand of the Pacific. In this cell, through his nights and a good portion of his days, Tilikum was confined with the facility's other orcas, emerging sometimes with rake marks in the morning. (Sealand was just a floating net pen. The owner, worried that animal-rights activists in scuba gear would cut the mesh and free the whales, installed this night box, in a pen that was small to begin with.)
"Psychotic," orca researcher Ken Balcomb, of Washington State, says in a Blackfish interview, searching for a word to describe how Tilikum came out of this experience. Balcomb's colleague to the north, Paul Spong, was uneasy with that word when I ran it by him. For 43 years, Spong has run OrcaLab, on Hanson Island in British Columbia. A psychologist at the start of his career, he is leery of applying terms from that lexicon to creatures that diverged from us 60 million years ago.
Almost all students of orca believe that they are deranged by captivity, some more than others. Tilikum's record puts him at one end of a continuum. There have been dozens of attacks on trainers by an assortment of orcas in the marine parks around the world. Blackfish shows video from several of these episodes at SeaWorld.
The scariest is the ordeal of a trainer, Ken Peters, in the jaws of Kasatka, a female born off Iceland in 1977, the same year as Keiko. Cameras above and below water show Kasatka taking Peters down to the bottom of the pool, again and again, by the foot. With each brief respite at the surface, Peters hyperventilates, knowing he is going down again. Kasatka finally releases his foot. Peters slides back along her body. On reaching her flukes, he swims sprinting to poolside. She turns back to catch him, but too late.
These are not bad whales. They just come with all the instincts of predators. My good twin, bad twin story is just a fable, and I probably should never have invented it. Tilikum, his trainers agree, was a joy to work with for most of his career. And Keiko, the good twin: I remember one training session in his Oregon facility, and the fear and tension on the trainer's face when he came out of the water. "Kake" (as the trainers nicknamed the whale) was just in a weird mood today, the man said, and the afternoon session was canceled.
What is remarkable about Orcinus orca in marine parks is not these rare episodes. What is remarkable is their monumental forbearance.
Ken Brower writes about the environment and the natural world. He is a longtime contributor to National Geographic magazine and has written three books for the National Geographic Society, among them "Realms of the Sea." He lives in Berkeley, California.
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News Stories 2014
Patrick Molloy '15 is featured in the documentary "One Stroke Difference."
The Stephen McWilliams film follows the blind Muhlenberg College student who found his passion in golf.
The following is an excerpt from "Pillars of Support," a Winter 2012 original Muhlenberg Magazine article by Lindsey (Aspinall) Getz '04. For the full text, please visit Muhlenberg's magazine archives.
Part of the curriculum for his Spanish composition course, says Patrick Molloy ’15, includes writing essays and getting the professor’s feedback. Sounds pretty standard. But since Molloy is blind, the process posed a problem.
“Obviously I couldn’t read the corrections. So my professor and I decided to meet once a week and go through them line-by-line,” says Molloy. “That may make me sound like an exception but it’s actually what the professors here do for anyone.”
Patrick Molloy ’15 checks email in Seegers Union.
That’s a story disabled Muhlenberg students tell again and again, whether they have a physical or learning challenge – or just need extra help. Muhlenberg is a college that supports its students – whatever their needs may be.
“The fact is that Muhlenberg is known for its interactive and responsive teaching methodology,” says Christopher Hooker-Haring ’72, P’08, P’10, dean of admission and financial aid. “And that’s something that appeals not only to students with disabilities, but also mainstream students as well.”
But there’s little doubt that being a disabled college student poses special problems for both the student and the institution. And it’s becoming an increasingly significant challenge for Muhlenberg and for colleges and universities nationwide.
According to two longitudinal studies by research institute SRI International, 46 percent of young adults with disabilities were attending a college or university within four years of leaving high school in 2009. That compares to 26 percent in 1990. Today, the proportion of all college students with any sort of disability is now 11 percent, according to a report by the General Accounting Office.
The increase reflects population trends, to some extent. But it’s also a direct result of the Americans With Disabilities Act, passed by Congress in 1990 and reauthorized in 2008. That law prohibits educational institutions from discriminating against students who are disabled.
Muhlenberg was accommodating long before the law required it, says Dr. Daniel Wilson, professor of history, who has been on campus since 1978. Due to post-polio syndrome, he began using a scooter several years ago.
“In the ’80s, many individual faculty members would make adjustments on their own in order to aid students with disabilities prior to an institutional commitment,” he says. “There’s an attitude of caring here that’s always been obvious, and I think that does make it easier for people with disabilities to adjust.”
In fact, Molloy says that he visited numerous campuses in his college search and that ‘Berg was truly the friendliest of them all. “It really stood out in terms of having such a nice community of people,” he says. “That definitely helped make it a smooth transition here.”
Muhlenberg will be screening "One Stroke Difference" by Stephen McWilliams, Villanova University, in the Great Room on Thursday, February 27 at 4 p.m. The event is free and open to the public, but seating will be limited.
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Cricket undoubtedly calls the shots in terms of money and fame in India. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said about other sports in India. & #BANNER1 & # Come to think of it, are marketers half-as-enthusiastic to ride on hockey or tennis, as they are on cricket?
A recent study by Starcom's sports marketing wing Relay attempted to answer all these questions and more. Titled SportsMood, the study is a barometer to measure corporate India's confidence in sports and sports marketing, says Ravi Kiran, managing director, Starcom (India), west & south.
Into its first year, the study was conducted over email, with a sample size of 204 respondents from different sectors including FMCG, manufacturing, IT, banking, telecom and automobiles. Almost 25 to 26 per cent of the respondents were product and marketing managers with the balance comprising sales and general managers among others.
A bulk of the respondents, incidentally, were from Mumbai (40 per cent) and Delhi (30 per cent), followed by Bangalore (13 per cent), Kolkata (4 per cent), Chennai (4 per cent) and Hyderabad (2 per cent) respectively.
According to the study, tennis and motorsports were most likely to register a dramatic jump in popularity in the next three years owing in great part to the exploits of tennis star Sania Mirza and formula one driver Narain Karthikeyan. 53 per cent of the respondents voted in favour of tennis, while 22 per cent went with motor sports and 15 per cent with hockey.
"Sports sponsorships are used primarily to target prospective users of products & services," said 76 per cent of the respondents in reply to a question concerning the reasons for using sports marketing in their communication plans.
Almost 70 per cent of the respondents felt that cricket is "prohibitively expensive"; while 61 per cent felt that the share of sports in their company's marketing investment would not grow in the next three years.
Some 84 per cent of the respondents had played at least one sport actively during their college days, while the top three reasons given for the lack of development of sports in India were: Poor infrastructure (52 per cent), a perceived lack of career opportunities in sports, except cricket (49 per cent), and politics in sports associations and governing bodies (48 per cent).
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If you’ve spent time in Niger, you might have heard of Mahaman Sani Mati Admulmulah. Even if you haven’t heard of Mahaman Sani, you might have heard him sing, rap, or play traditional Nigerien music. Mahaman Sani is a musician well known throughout Niger. He is a performer, composer, and teacher of music, who instructs young people in traditional, modern, and fusion music at Niger’s Centre for Music Training and Promotion (CMTP). Mahaman Sani views himself not only as playing and teaching music, but as promoting traditional culture among young Nigeriens. He is also a social activist, having produced four albums that address issues such as children’s rights, peace, and marital violence.
Mahaman Sani is also a successful entrepreneur. When he noticed a gap in the market for electric versions of traditional Nigerien instruments that could be played at larger concerts, he created the first electric-acoustic gourimi, a traditional instrument that resembles a two-stringed guitar. After performing with the instrument, he received many requests from other musicians for an electric gourimi, and Mahaman Sani realised this could be a viable enterprise. He founded the Company for the Fabrication of Musical Instruments (CFIM), through which Mahaman Sani personally trains youth who might otherwise be unemployed to play, build, and sell this electric version of the gourimi. Through CFIM, Mahaman Sani is giving Niger’s youth new skills, creating employment opportunities for them, and keeping Niger’s traditional culture alive among young people.
Mahaman Sani demonstrating techniques in the construction of the gourmi
YAWWA, implemented in Niger from October, 2014 to October, 2017, identified entrepreneurs and social innovators like Mahaman Sani and supported them to scale up their enterprises to increase civic engagement and positively affect communities throughout Niger. The project identified young change-makers and youth organisations and connects them with the knowledge, tools, and resources they needed to transform their localised civic activities into socially beneficial enterprises that can now be expanded and replicated. The project also created a culture of entrepreneurship by connecting young innovators to share ideas.
In addition to the financial support YAWWA provided to Mahaman Sani, he also received financial and administrative training to help him formalise and professionalise CFIM. Working with YAWWA is the first time that Mahaman Sani had been trained in financial reporting and recording keeping.
Through the grant and support that Mahaman Sani received from YAWWA, he was able to scale up CFIM to engage youth in a two-month training programme. The students learned the theoretical art to instrument construction as well as hands-on construction of the gourimi. By the end of the training, each student had made his own gourimi.
Since Mahaman Sani founded CFIM, he has seen steady demand for the electric-acoustic gourimi, leading four of the students to remain at CFIM to assist with constructing the instruments. The students leaving CFIM will use the skills they have gained to launch their careers in building and selling instruments or pursue careers as musicians. Several students have already sold their first gourimi and are continuing to produce the musical instrument.
Mahaman Sani is also advocating for the preservation of art and culture through the national school system. He envisions the insertion of traditional instruments and music in classrooms across Niger in order to preserve this disappearing tradition and to contribute to a well-rounded education of Niger’s young people. He also plans to develop electric versions of other traditional instruments and to continue training more youth in the art of Nigerien music.
With support from YAWWA, Mahaman Sani is blending innovation in music and social entrepreneurship with Niger’s generations-old traditions, creating exciting new employment opportunities, and giving new skills to young people, in one of the country’s oldest art forms.
Two CFIM students practice playing gourimis that they built themselves
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Barbados Youth Leaders Participate In National Consultations On Development Of 2020 CARICOM Strategic Plan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, on Tuesday, 10 March 2020, hosted youth leaders to provide input for the development of the Results-focused Community Strategic Plan 2020.
The specially convened national consultation brought together youth leaders from the secondary level of the country’s education system; the University of the West Indies; Barbados’ CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, Chad Monerville and Tirshatha Jeffrey; and vulnerable communities, including the differently-abled.
The youths participated with energy and enthusiasm as they expressed their views on CARICOM affairs. The CARICOM Secretariat provided technical guidance and played a coordinating role in facilitating the consultation.
The youths were organised into focus groups to consider and propose issues that should be prioritised in the 2020 Community Strategic Plan. They recommended activities and actions that would assist in addressing the issues they highlighted, such as mainstreaming inclusiveness of all citizens including persons with disabilities, and other marginalised groups in public policy and strategy formulation and implementation, and representation of youth in governance at national and regional levels.
Other strategic issues discussed and highlighted by the young people included the development of harmonized data protection; a privacy and cybersecurity regional model policy; an integrated building code for the Community; improved communication and information sharing on the results of the required integration development agenda; annual publication and Community-wide dissemination of annual reports of the Regional Institutions; and greater democratization of information to enable timely and wide-scale sharing of Community policies, strategies, initiatives and outcomes to all citizens of the Community, utilising social media and other channels.
The interaction followed the national launch of Barbados ‘I AM CARICOM’ Campaign involving the nation’s youths on Wednesday 12 February 2020.
I AM CARICOM Campaign
The ‘I AM CARICOM’ Campaign was recognized as an important vehicle that will enable greater visibility and information sharing, increased understanding and participation in the CARICOM construct, governance, policies, strategies and plans of the Caribbean Community. The Campaign places citizens of the Community at the centre, and thus, has been personalized to not only reflect the lived experience of the people of the Region, but to increase understanding among Caribbean people that CARICOM is about all of us, our successes, challenges and progress.
The Campaign seeks to effectively and efficiently reach and engage all stakeholders, especially the general public, to create awareness and take ownership of the new Results-focused Community Strategic Plan for 2020, as well as to facilitate continuing dialogue between the Implementing partners and citizens of the Community where perspectives and information on the scope, issues, process, expected deliverables, and benefits and implications for citizens can be shared.
It is designed to utilise the channels of print media, television, radio, social media, popular entertainment artists and sports personalities and social media influencers to reach the primary target audiences of the general public throughout the Community. The Campaign also seeks to increase the involvement of citizens in the decision-making processes of the Community by, among other things, encouraging them to participate in the National Consultations now underway to inform the development of the Strategic Plan which identifies the priorities of the Community over the next implementing period. The Campaign will be implemented over the life of the New Community Strategic Plan as part of a sustained thrust to ensure that Community Stakeholders participate fully in efforts aimed at developing and implementing a results-oriented culture across the Caribbean Community.
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Bicycle sales worldwide have shot up over the past few years; and are predicted to reach nearly $80 billion by the end of 2015. The surge in bicycle sales can be attributed to a number of different things which make bicycles a favorable mode of transportation: riding a bicycle improves cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength and overall health. It’s a sustainable form of transport which helps to reduce green house gas emissions. And with an increase in petrol prices, it is one of the most affordable ways to get around.
If you want to give biking a go but don’t have much money to spend on a bicycle, a great option is to buy one second hand. New bikes can be expensive, but if you know where to look, and what to look out for, you can get a quality bicycle for a fraction of its original selling price.
Research is vital in finding a quality used bike which is still in useable condition. The first step is to identify what type of bicycle you are looking for. Make a checklist of the things you want in a bicycle, and keep in mind what it will be used for majority of the time eg: commuting to work, extreme bike racing, or weekend cruises along the beach, etc. You should have a clear idea of what you want; this will make it easier to find the right bike.
The next step is to determine where to get a quality used bike. These days, thanks to the internet, you can view a wide range of used bikes online. Check out your local online classifieds or auction sites like Quicksales and Craigslist. If shopping online is not your thing, local bike shops are a great place, as are thrift shops or car boot sales.
Once you have found the pre-loved bike you think you want to get, here are some things to look for in a used bike:
1. Make sure the bike is not stolen
To avoid purchasing a stolen bicycle, ask the seller several questions before making the purchase. Ask where they originally purchased the bicycle, how long they’ve had it, and what the frame number is. This serial frame number is usually located on the label of the bike, and you can check if it has been stolen by contacting your local police station, or searching on the National Bike Registry website. However keep in mind that if the bike does not have a serial number, it does not automatically mean it was stolen.
If buying online, check to see if the listing uses a genuine photo of the actual bicycle, or a catalogue or stock photo. Also keep a look out for anything that looks too good to be true – as it usually is!
2. Make sure the bike fits
Just because the bike has a good price does not mean it’s a good deal. Get on the bike and ride it. Is it comfortable? If it’s not comfortable, you won’t ride it, so it’s not worth getting.
3. Check the tires and the inner tubes
When buying a used bicycle, it is important to check that the tires are well inflated and barely give way when squeezed. If the tires have dry rot (which commonly occurs in tires which have been left deflated for a long period of time); and if the sidewalls are cracked and bald, the tires will need replacing. New tires and tubes are fairly cheap and easy to replace so replacing them is not difficult or costly, but it is something you should check when you purchase the bike as it may be a way to bargain on the price.
4. Check the frame
Make sure that the frame is not bent and has no dents or cracks. Patches and dents can be a sign that the bike has been involved in an accident or collision. Try to avoid purchasing a bicycle with a bent frame as it will usually need to be repaired and may cause safety problems in the future.
5. Check the wheels and rims
It’s vital that you make sure that the rims and wheels of the bike do not have rust. To check the wheels for any problems, simply spin a wheel and check if it wobbles, or does not spin at all. If this happens, it means the wheel will have to be replaced, which is expensive. Also, make sure the rims are not worn down – the braking surface should be flat rather than concave.
6. Check the brakes
It is vital that worn brake pads be replaced; the cables should not be frayed and rusty. In addition, make sure that the brake levers are not cracked or dented. Pull the brake levers to make sure the cables are sliding smoothly and bouncing back to position rapidly. Replacing brake cables is not that expensive or difficult if you can do it yourself, but the cost will add up quickly if you need to have a professional do it for you.
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Have you ever wanted to work in video games? Well that's what the guys at GameBizCo Inc. do. Literally.
Join the cast of Another Videogame Webcomic as we peek behind the curtain to see what exactly goes into bringing your favorite video games to the small screen. It may be a job in video games, but it's still a job.
Nintendo 3D Redux
A few weeks back, Nintendo stealthily announced
the existence of a 3D enabled handheld, tentatively called the Nintendo 3DS. I'm sure that most people don't remember Nintendo's original foray (a less than auspicious one, at that) into the third dimension, the Virtual Boy
. I'm sure that Nintendo is hoping that nearly 15 years of separation from their previous effort and their recent success with pushing the gaming industry in new and unexpected directions is enough to have people forget the disastrous "handheld".
But why now? 3D is certainly the new buzzword that's been thrown around in all forms of entertainment recently. With the advent of the home theater, people weren't going to the theaters as much as they used to. So to give moviegoers an experience they couldn't get at home, studios decided to add a third dimension beginning with James Cameron's well executed Avatar and then being slapped onto every major release following. 3D has been mainly used as a gimmick in television (though I have no complaints about Chuck's Yvonne Strahovski coming out of my tv) but at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, 3D tvs were showcased by nearly every television manufacturer... even though there isn't really any current programming that supports 3D viewing. And to bring it back around to gaming and Avatar, James Cameron's Avatar: The Game (still an unnecessarily long title) had a feature where it could be played in 3D (though most lacked the equipment to do so, myself included).
Gaming, moreso than any other form of entertainment, is about immersion. Making you feel like you're in the shoes of some powerful badass doing nearly impossible things. In that regard, 3D makes sense in gaming as another tool to make players feel more immersed in the game world. Instead of watching the game unfold on your tv, think of 3D as a means to transform your tv into a window into another world... another world that you just happen to be controlling.
But like all new technology, 3D has the potential to be implemented well and it has the potential to be implemented very, very badly. Take a look at Nintendo's own Wii motion controls. First party games almost always use motion controls in interesting ways and ways that actually make sense. But there's also a lot of shovelware for the Wii where you're shaking the controller like you've just suffered an epileptic seizure. 3D can easily succumb to similar pitfalls and has for as long as similar technology has existed, i.e. stuff is flying RIGHT! IN! YOUR! FACE! The challenge for game developers is really the same as the challenge with every other new emerging technology. To implement it in a way that enhances the game experience. For something that is essentially a visual enhancement, it seems like it would be a no-brainer. But past experience suggests otherwise.
A while back I reviewed James Cameron's Avatar: The Game and one of the major issues I had with the game was that playing as a Na'vi, it was hard to separate the things that I wanted to shoot from the background. What I hadn't realized was the game was meant to be played in 3D. Apparently in 3D viewing environment, enemies are more easily discerned from the environment around them. (A fact that I really only found out by watching/listening to Feedback on g4tv.com, which is a great weekly gaming discussion that I couldn't recommend more highly!) Which is all well and good, except that I'm not a millionaire and just have regular old HDTV. And many people out there are still playing on standard definition tvs. Where does 3D leave them? Sure there's the argument that a really good game might push people into buying new 3D technology, but gameplay should be the overriding attraction for every game. Not that the tiny tree in the back looks like it's further away from you than the big tree in the front. And my worry is that developers will begin to rely on the razzle dazzle of the third dimension instead of focusing on making a game that plays well.
With the release of Nintendo's touch controls on the DS (and all it's iterations) and the motion controls of the Wii, I think Nintendo has earned the benefit of the doubt (if anyone really could) when it comes to introducing new gaming technology to the rest of the industry. I'm intrigued to see what lessons they've learned from their last 3D gaming device and to see if they can really make it work like touch and motion controls. But only time will tell.
After the resurgence of multiplayer co-op, GameBizCo Inc. hired Player Two to be the Goose to someone else's Maverick. His workload isn't quite as heavy as most of the other people working at GameBizCo Inc. and as a result, he spends a lot of time in the break room or playing computer solitaire.
First Appearance: Another Videogame Webcomic?!? An Introduction
Player One is top dog at GameBizCo Inc. Nearly every game, from Pong to Mario Bros to Grand Theft Auto, requires Player One's expertise. His cocksure and sometimes inappropriate attitude is an annoyance to his coworkers but seeing as every game needs a first player, they make due.
First Appearance: Bonus Stage! Here comes Player One!
Damsel I. Distress
Whether it be a castle, a dungeon or mystical island, Damsel always needs to be saved... and she hates it. Damsel longs for the day when she's given the role of a strong female lead character who doesn't have huge breasts with hyper accurate physics.
First Appearance: LittleBIGPlanet
Underneath the huge brute that is Final Boss lies a timid creature who wouldn't hurt a fly. He puts on his "angry face" when throwing barrels down ramps or breathing fire but deep down he feels sorry for doing so. He's been known to throw a game or two in the player's favor.
First Appearance: World Record
John Minion, or Min for short, is the hardest working employee at GameBizCo Inc. Playing everything from Goombas to no name thugs, Min gets beat up on a daily basis but loves every minute of it. He always wanted to work in the gaming industry and was originally hired as an intern. After years of getting coffee, his big break came when someone called in sick... and the rest is history.
First Appearance: Watchmen: The End is Nigh
Middle Manager works in the Human Resources department. He runs staff meetings and interviews prospective employees. The other 90% of his time is spent playing Freecell on his computer.
First Appearance: Another Videogame Webcomic?!? An Introduction
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The Thames Valley BIM Region has been set up to facilitate the discussion and sharing of knowledge within a localised region of the south east. Covering Berkshire and surrounding areas, we aim to bring together the different disciplines from across the industry. Our region feeds directly into the South East Region which in turn feeds into the government’s UK BIM Task Group, meaning you can have an influence over how BIM is implemented within the UK. It also means we can disseminate all the latest information to our members to ensure you are fully informed of key developments.
What do we do?
The purpose is to try to answer all of those questions you have about BIM, to discuss the topic with your peers and to share non commercially sensitive information. We want to ensure our region is fully geared up to embrace BIM, something we can only achieve through collaboration with you. We plan to bring you regular seminars, forums and workshops where you can interrogate the experts. Each seminar will include a presentation from a guest speaker, followed by a more intimate discussion in smaller groups and a feedback session.
There are many questions surrounding the topic of BIM and we want to hear your thoughts and opinions;
– do you already deliver projects in BIM?
– do you intend to deliver projects in BIM?
– are you afraid of BIM?
– what does BIM mean for your discipline?
– what does BIM mean for your company?
We aim to help companies and individuals by facilitating discussions and workshops; bringing disciplines together to discuss what BIM means for you. We want to put you in touch with the experts so that we, as a region, can present an unrivalled and comprehensive strategy for the implementation of BIM and ensure our regional industry is well positioned to successfully compete for future work.
Across the region there are companies and individuals with varying levels of understanding and knowledge and we hope to ensure everybody has the opportunity to develop their understanding further in preparation for key government mandates in coming years.
Contact us now to find out more and we hope to see you at the next event.
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SEE THE WORLD AND SEE WORLD THEATRE
THE THEATRE OF APOLLO AT DELPHI
Today I utilized the knowledge and experience of a conducted tour, and as I had already seen the main Festival offering, Ibsen’s, An Enemy of the People, at the 2012 Melbourne International Arts Festival, I opted for a leisurely Greek taverna dinner with an Athenian friend in the evening.
The exceedingly well organized tour was headed by an exceptional guide who cheerfully imparted her wealth of historical, mythological and topical material. Leaving Athens, the bus took a 2 hr drive through its urban sprawl, fertile plains and seaports, into the dizzying heights of the mountains. Amongst the urban sprawl was the location of Marathon, the plains of Thebes, the Sanctuary of Olympia, the site of The Muses, and the Temple to Demeter, which is of great interest to me as it is the Temple associated with the Mysteries School.
In terms of Greek Theatre, David Wiles has devoted a good deal of scholarship to the notion of the significance of place. Indeed this was an element I engaged in my own Masters thesis in as much as a playwright will make reference to a place and by association, the audience will appreciate the deep meaning. Although associations of place had already been aroused in me, in view of actually passing through the places encountered in ancient literature, it is an area I would like to explore in my future studies of Greek drama texts.
The Temple of Apollo is located on Mount Parnassus. The extraordinary rugged beauty of the place in high summer belies its existence as a winter playground for cross country skiing and snowboarding and other snow activities I know nothing about!
Arriving at the Temple of Apollo, and passing through the agora, one is seemingly greeted by the imposing columns of the altar at the entrance to the temple, and at which, supposed sacrifices took place prior to performances in the theatre.
Theatre, according to one source, http://www.coastal.edu/ashes2art/delphi2/sanctuary/theatre.html, was a sacred act with the priest of the temple officiating. Actors were also sacred and highly revered, and from my observations, this attitude seems to persist amongst modern Greeks.
The ampitheatre, which seats 5000, is well preserved and overlooks the The Temple. As the patron of Delfi, Apollo is the god of light, music, poetry, healing, prophecy and more, and is the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of hunting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo, gives an excellent account of Apollo’s duties as the Patron of Delphi/Delfi and also makes clear the positioning of Delphi as the navel of the world. Indeed the ancient ompholos is represented by a concrete replica on site with the supposed original ? or at least, another replica housed in the site museum.
Our guide explained that the site is exceptionally high in magnetic energy, which in turn, is associated with prophecy. I watched as a tourist carefully placed his hands on the concrete ompholos and I hope he was blessed with a suitable Delphic response.
When I asked the guide about contemporary use of the theatre, she informed me that several years ago, Vanessa Redgrave had performed Phaedre here. Wow! (even though it’s unsubstantiated.)
The visit to this site has revealed just how much more I want to learn about Ancient Greece. It is very inspirational. For my next trip, I intend to have expanded my knowledge and to have obtained a passable amount of basic Greek. For the most part, people working in museums and tourist places speak English, but everyone responds very well when you greet them with kalimera and acknowledge them with efpharisto.
Dinner in a back street taverna near Monastiraki was wonderful. Angela Makris ordered a wide range of local delicacies ranging from deep fried feta with honey and oregano, local salad, meatballs, and I can’t remember what else. Although I do remember the ouzo. I really enjoy the freshness and relative simplicity of Greek food and the taste of tomatoes and other salad vegetables is very different from Australian salad vegetables. Maybe Greek soil is magic!
Walking through the main streets of Athens at night was without incident and at no time have I felt unsafe.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless, poisonous gas created when fossil fuels (such as wood, oil, natural gas and kerosene) do not burn completely. CO is the leading cause of accidental poisoning deaths in the U.S. Since you can't see it, taste it or smell it, CO can kill you before you know it's there.
Exposure to lower levels of CO over time can be just as dangerous as exposure to higher levels for a few minutes.
- Sources of CO in Your Home
- Who is Most at Risk from CO?
- What are the Symptoms of CO Exposure?
- Should I Install a CO Detector in My Home?
- What Should I Do If My CO Alarm Goes Off?
- CO Safety Tips
In the home, dangerous levels of CO can occur if fuel-burning appliances are not working properly or are used with inadequate ventilation. Some common sources of CO around the home include:
- Furnaces and water heaters that burn oil, propane, or natural gas
- Fireplaces and wood stoves
- Gas ranges and ovens
- Gas dryers
- Generators that run on gasoline, propane, or natural gas
- Space heaters that burn fuels (especially kerosene)
- Charcoal or gas grills
- Automobiles, motorcycles, mopeds and other motor vehicles
- Yard equipment with gasoline-powered engines (including lawn mowers, snow blowers, and chain saws)
Chimneys, flues, and vents (used with furnaces, water heaters, fireplaces, wood stoves, etc.) also can cause dangerous levels of CO to build up if they are misused, poorly maintained, or otherwise fail to provide adequate ventilation for toxic gases.
Although anyone can suffer from CO poisoning, children and unborn babies, older people, and people with heart or lung diseases all are at greater risk from CO poisoning than other people. Also, if you have gas or oil heat, natural gas appliances, a fireplace, or an attached garage in your home your risk might be higher than individuals without such amenities.
Each year, hundreds of people die from CO poisoning in their homes. Thousands more become ill and require medical treatment. Some suffer lasting harm, including brain damage. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were 137 non-fire related CO deaths in 2000 associated with the use of various consumer products, excluding motor vehicles. The specific types of equipment involved were:
- Heating systems (including propane, natural gas, and oil furnaces, gas- and wood-burning fireplaces and stoves, and kerosene space heaters) (82 deaths)
- Engine-powered tools (not including automobiles) (27 deaths)
- Gas ranges and ovens (11 deaths)
- Charcoal grills (8 deaths)
- Gas water heaters (3 deaths)
- Camp stoves and lanterns (3 deaths)
- Other/multiple appliances (3 deaths) - Numerous other CO deaths and injuries also are attributable to fires (smoke inhalation) and to the improper use of motor vehicles.
The symptoms of CO exposure can vary greatly from one person to the next. The types of symptoms experienced, however, will generally depend on the concentration and length of the exposure as well as the general health of the person exposed. High concentrations of CO are dangerous for even brief periods. Exposure to lower levels of CO over several hours can be just as dangerous as exposure to higher levels for a few minutes.
CO is an insidious poison that works by displacing oxygen in the bloodstream of the victim. Its symptoms often are mistaken for the flu or other illnesses. At low levels, symptoms of CO poisoning may include:
- Tightness in the chest
- Trouble breathing
- At high levels, loss of consciousness, coma, and death can occur within a short time.
If you or any member of your household experiences symptoms consistent with CO poisoning you should:
- Get fresh air immediately - Everyone should get out of the building at once. Do not go back inside until any problems have been identified and corrected.
- Call for help - Dial 9-1-1 or your local emergency number from a nearby telephone.
- Seek medical attention right away - Get help even if you or others feel better after leaving your home. Blood or breath tests may be used to accurately diagnose CO poisoning.
- Have your home checked - Contact a qualified professional to inspect your home and correct any problems that may have resulted in an exposure to CO.
When properly installed and maintained, CO detectors can give you early warning of accumulating CO and provide an opportunity to escape before you experience symptoms or succumb to the poisonous gas. While many different models of CO detectors are available, we most highly recommend CO detectors that: 1) plug into a wall outlet, 2) have a battery backup, and 3) provide a digital display. Such detectors are easy to install, should function in the event of a power failure, and can provide useful information regarding concentrations of CO in the home.
As with smoke detectors, care should be taken in selecting and installing CO detectors in your home.
- Be sure to only use CO detectors that carry the label of an independent testing laboratory.
- Battery-powered CO detectors typically use 9-volt batteries as their source of power and can easily be installed by most homeowners. Certain models of CO detectors now also come with 5-year lithium batteries. These CO detectors are highly reliable and require less maintenance than other types of CO detectors.
- "Plug-in" CO detectors run on household current, and are easy installed by most homeowners. Certain plug-in CO detectors may use batteries as a back-up source of electricity during power outages. If your plug-in CO detector does not have a battery back up, you may wish to install at least one battery-powered CO detector in the home for protection in the event that household current is interrupted. Also, be sure that the outlet used is not connected to a light switch that could allow someone to accidentally turn off the power.
- If the required electrical wiring is provided in your home, hard-wired CO detectors can be used. Hard-wired CO detectors run on household current and should be installed by a qualified electrician. Certain hard-wired CO detectors may use batteries as a back-up source of electricity during power outages. If your hard-wired CO detector does not have a battery back up, you may wish to install another battery-powered CO detector in the home for protection in the event that household current is interrupted.
- For optimal safety, CO detectors can be installed on every level of the home. If, however, you are only going to have one CO detector, be sure to install it in or near the primary sleeping area of your residence. Placement of CO detectors near bedrooms is essential to ensure that they will be able to alert sleeping residents to the threat of accumulating CO. Follow all manufacturer's instructions and recommendations to ensure the proper installation and placement of your CO detectors.
- Combination Smoke/CO Detectors - Certain models of smoke detectors also function as CO detectors. Remember that unless you purchase one of these special detectors, your regular smoke detector will not alert you to the presence of CO in your home. Find out more about smoke detectors, please visit our Information About Smoke Detectors web page.
If your CO alarm goes off always assume that it is a genuine emergency. Quickly take the following steps:
- Operate the reset button to temporarily quiet the alarm. Do not wait to see if the alarm sounds again.
- Immediately seek fresh air. Get everyone out of the building as soon as possible.
- Call 9-1-1 or your local emergency number from a nearby telephone. Follow any instructions provided by the emergency operator.
- Don't go back in until any problems have been corrected.
With CO, prevention is always the best protection. By observing the following safety tips you can help keep you and your family safe from CO poisoning:
- When purchasing new heating and cooking equipment, select factory-built products approved by an independent testing laboratory. Do not accept damaged equipment. Have fuel-burning appliances installed by qualified professionals. Insist that all applicable fire safety and building codes are followed.
- Before enclosing central heating equipment in a small room, check with your fuel supplier to ensure that enough air is provided to support proper combustion.
- Maintain appliances according to the manufacturer's instructions. Have appliances checked regularly to ensure that they are working safely. Do not attempt repairs unless you have all the required training and tools.
- Have all fuel-burning household heating equipment (fireplaces, furnaces, wood stoves, and space heaters) inspected and cleaned each year before cold weather sets in. Make needed repairs before the equipment is used.
- Have all chimneys and chimney connectors checked and cleaned annually to ensure proper ventilation.
- When using a fireplace, be sure to open the flue completely to ensure adequate ventilation.
- Vent a gas range to the outside of your home. Crack a window and run the exhaust fan whenever you cook.
- Never use a gas range or oven to heat a room - even for just a short time.
- Due to significant hazards from both fire and CO poisoning, kerosene heaters are illegal in many jurisdictions. Always check with local authorities before buying or using a kerosene heater in your home. If you do use a kerosene heater, always remember to open a window slightly whenever fuel is burning. Also, be sure to refuel the heater outside, after the device has cooled.
- If you need to warm up a vehicle, remove it from the garage immediately after starting the ignition. Do not run a vehicle or other fueled engine or motor indoors, even if doors are open.
- Have your vehicle inspected for exhaust leaks, especially if you are experiencing any symptoms of CO poisoning.
- Lawnmowers, snow blowers, chainsaws, and generators that run on fuel all produce CO. Start all such equipment outside and never leave it running in or near the home.
- Never use a charcoal or gas grill indoors, or in a garage, enclosed porch, tent or camper. Opening a door or window or running a fan may not be sufficient to keep CO from building up.
Finally, keep an eye out for any signs of a CO problem in your home. Such signs include:
- The buildup of soot near fuel-burning appliances
- A burning smell or other unusual odors
- An appliance that keeps shutting off by itself
- Yellow or orange flames from gas appliances (a bright blue flame usually indicates that the appliance is functioning properly)
- Excess moisture inside of windows
For more information about CO, please call the City of Fairfax Fire Department, Office of Code Administration, at 703.385.7830 (TTY 703.293.7120).
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Archive for January, 2011
We haven’t had a special project in several months so are you ready to make some kid’s blocks and quilts?
For February and March we’ll be making blocks with Lime Green centers. These will utilize our standard HeartStrings guidelines but we’ll substitute LIME for the standard blue and red centers.
You can participate by
- Making blocks to send in for group quilts
- Making an entire top to send in for quilting – this can be 24 blocks, with or without a border OR if you prefer you can make a larger quilt using our standard 48 blocks because we all know that kids come in all sizes!
- Making the entire quilt and donating it locally
Here’s some inspiration to get you started.
In addition, for those of you without a stash of kid friendly scraps and strings; we are accepting Red/White/Blue blocks for Quilts of Valor for wounded or returning soldiers.
Finally, as always even during our special projects, we accept blocks made according to our guidelines using RED or BLUE centers.
Won’t you join us during February and March and make some HeartString blocks?
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LARB Radio Hour: Dolores Huerta and Peter Bratt, La Lucha Continua at 87; Plus, David Plante’s “Difficult Women”
By LARB AV – September 15, 2017
Director Peter Bratt and Dolores Huerta, the subject of his new documentary Dolores, talk with co-hosts Eric Newman and Medaya Ocher about the making of the film. But in the hands of Dolores Huerta, every moment is an organizing moment — the conversation flows across the central political issues of our time, much as the film tackles those from the past half-century and beyond. The message remains the same: everyone can take action to improve our lives and society, here’s how you do it. Also, Medaya recommends New York Review Books’ re-issue of David Plante’s classic (and controversial) Difficult Women: A Memoir of Three, which contains literary portraits of Jean Rhys, Sonia Orwell, and Germaine Greer.
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Wesleyan College is a private, liberal arts women's college located in Macon, Georgia, United States. The Wesleyan College Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 2, 2004.
The school was chartered on December 23, 1836, as the Georgia Female College, and opened its doors to students on January 7, 1839. The school was renamed Wesleyan Female College in 1843, while changing hands from the Methodist-Episcopal Church to the Church of the South. Later the college shortened to the present name Wesleyan College in 1917. Wesleyan has the world's oldest alumnae association, begun in 1859.citation needed Seniors are inducted into the association during a candle lighting ceremony on Alumnae Weekend. Wesleyan College is the birthplace of the first sororities: the Adelphean Society in 1851, now known as Alpha Delta Pi and the Philomathean Society in 1852, now known as Phi Mu. The two sororities together are referred to as the "Macon Magnolias". The school no longer has sororities (as of 1914), and instead uses a class system to assign all students with a class name. Incoming first years are assigned a class based on the outgoing seniors of the previous school year. The classes are the Green Knights, the Purple Knights, the Red Pirates (formerly the Tri-K pirates until the late 20th century), and the Golden Hearts. Further, each of these classes is paired with another: the Green Knights and Purple Knights are sister classes, and the Golden Hearts and Red Pirates are sister classes. The new freshman class of 2013 are the Pirates.
Founded in 1836 as the first college in the world for women, Wesleyan College offers an education that leads to lifelong intellectual, personal, and professional growth. Our academic community attracts those with a passion for learning and making a difference. The Wesleyan experience has four cornerstones
Catherine Brewer Benson, first woman to earn a college degree Neva Jane Langley, Miss America (1953) Kathryn Stripling Byer, poet and teacher; 2001 North Carolina Award in Literature and North Carolina Poet Laureate, 2005�2009 Toni Jennings, Lieutenant Governor of Florida The Soong sisters, significant political figures in early 20th Century Chinese history Phaedra Parks, Entertainment attorney and star of The Real Housewives of Atlanta Shanna Malcolm, YouTube comedy star known for her work on HeyYoShanna
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A new study finds a potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and the risk of vascular events.
Individuals who drink diet soft drinks on a daily basis may be at increased risk of suffering vascular events such as stroke, heart attack, and vascular death. This is according to a new study by Hannah Gardener and her colleagues from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and at Columbia University Medical Center. However, in contrast, they found that regular soft drink consumption and a more moderate intake of diet soft drinks do not appear to be linked to a higher risk of vascular events. The research appears online in the Journal of General Internal Medicine published by Springer.
In the current climate of escalating obesity rates, artificially sweetened soft drinks are marketed as healthier alternatives to sugar-sweetened beverages, due to their lack of calories. However, the long-term health consequences of drinking diet soft drinks remain unclear.
Gardener and team examined the relationship between both diet and regular soft drink consumption and risk of stroke, myocardial infarction (or heart attack), and vascular death. Data were analyzed from 2,564 participants in the NIH-funded Northern Manhattan Study, which was designed to determine stroke incidence, risk factors and prognosis in a multi-ethnic urban population. The researchers looked at how often individuals drank soft drinks -- diet and regular -- and the number of vascular events that occurred over a ten-year period.
They found that those who drank diet soft drinks daily were 43 percent more likely to have suffered a vascular event than those who drank none, after taking into account pre-existing vascular conditions such as metabolic syndrome, diabetes and high blood pressure. Light diet soft drink users, i.e. those who drank between one a month and six a week, and those who chose regular soft drinks were not more likely to suffer vascular events.
Gardener concludes: "Our results suggest a potential association between daily diet soft drink consumption and vascular outcomes. However, the mechanisms by which soft drinks may affect vascular events are unclear. There is a need for further research before any conclusions can be drawn regarding the potential health consequences of diet soft drink consumption."
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Universal basic income is about to arrive in America. Congressional Democrats’ $1.9 trillion stimulus bill provides for no-strings attached checks, limited only to parents of children under 18. This UBI for parents is billed as pandemic relief, but its real purpose is to put a stake in the heart of work-based welfare reform.
Supporters blandly describe their plan as “Child Tax Credit improvements for 2021.” It would replace today’s annual child tax credit, which tops out at $2,000, with more-generous “child allowances,” payable monthly. Those allowances are federal payments of $3,600 (or $300 a month) for each child under 6 and $3,000 ($250 a month) for older children. The current credit increases with income from work; the new one would provide the same large payments to all.
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/gpgme, GnuPG Made Easy
1.6.0nb1, Package name:
gpgme-1.6.0nb1, Maintainer: pkgsrc-users
GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) is a library designed to make access to GnuPG
easier for applications. It provides a High-Level Crypto API for
encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key
Required to run:
] Package options
Master sites: SHA1:
Version history: (Expand)
- (2015-09-25) Updated to version: gpgme-1.6.0nb1
- (2015-08-27) Updated to version: gpgme-1.6.0
- (2015-07-06) Updated to version: gpgme-1.5.5
- (2014-09-04) Updated to version: gpgme-1.5.1
- (2014-08-22) Updated to version: gpgme-1.4.4
- (2013-05-03) Updated to version: gpgme-1.4.1
CVS history: (Expand)
| 2016-02-26 10:41:07 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (32) |
| 2015-11-25 13:58:02 by Jonathan Perkin | Files touched by this commit (1) |
Remove mk/find-prefix.mk usage from the security category.
The find-prefix infrastructure was required in a pkgviews world where
packages installed from pkgsrc could have different installation
prefixes, and this was a way for a dependency prefix to be determined.
Now that pkgviews has been removed there is no longer any need for the
overhead of this infrastructure. Instead we use BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg
for dependencies pulled in via buildlink, or LOCALBASE/PREFIX where the
dependency is coming from pkgsrc.
Provides a reasonable performance win due to the reduction of `pkg_info
-qp` calls, some of which were redundant anyway as they were duplicating
the same information provided by BUILDLINK_PREFIX.pkg.
| 2015-11-04 02:18:12 by Alistair G. Crooks | Files touched by this commit (434) |
Add SHA512 digests for distfiles for security category
Problems found locating distfiles:
Package f-prot-antivirus6-fs-bin: missing distfile fp-NetBSD.x86.32-fs-6.2.3.tar.gz
Package f-prot-antivirus6-ws-bin: missing distfile fp-NetBSD.x86.32-ws-6.2.3.tar.gz
Package libidea: missing distfile libidea-0.8.2b.tar.gz
Package openssh: missing distfile openssh-7.1p1-hpn-20150822.diff.bz2
Package uvscan: missing distfile vlp4510e.tar.Z
Otherwise, existing SHA1 digests verified and found to be the same on
the machine holding the existing distfiles (morden). All existing
SHA1 digests retained for now as an audit trail.
| 2015-10-31 19:18:33 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) |
| 2015-10-31 19:17:11 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) |
match options.mk options and simplify a bit
| 2015-10-31 18:46:12 by Richard PALO | Files touched by this commit (1) |
add depends for appropriate gnupg according to options selected
ok tnn@ re: options.mk v 1.3
| 2015-10-22 21:18:34 by Tobias Nygren | Files touched by this commit (1) |
Add an option to toggle gnupg21 since people for unknown reasons still
want 2.0 to be the default, despite not supporting the latest crypto.
| 2015-09-25 01:33:08 by Ryo ONODERA | Files touched by this commit (2) | |
* Do not abuse buildlink3.
* Use GnuPG 2.0 explicitly.
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This tutorial will teach you how to boot your Nexus 10 tablet in stock or custom recovery mode.
Use this guide if you want to successfully learn how to properly boot Recovery mode and use its functions.
If your tablet uses a custom Recovery image than you already know what it does, but users that are beginners might not know that with this installed on their device they can basically gain access to tons of feature and functions. These are normally not available with a stock Recovery, but you can unlock them whenever you’re using a custom Recovery. In this post you can instructions on how to boot both Stock and Custom Recoveries such as CWM or TWRP.
The Stock Recovery for Nexus 10 tablet offers users the possibility to do the following actions: apply updates from ADB, wipe data and factory reset the tablet, wipe cache partition and rebooting the device.
Custom Recovery such as CWM or TWRP allows users to flash new custom ROMs such as CM, AOKP, Paranoid Android and others, allows custom kernel installations, format partitions, install themes, support for Nexus Toolkits, etc.
How to boot Stock Recovery For Nexus 10:
- Power off the tablet completely.
- Press and hold Volume Up, Volume Down and Power, all at the same time.
– keep the buttons pressed for a couple of seconds.
- Release all buttons when the Fastboot Mode menu appears.
- Use one of the Volume buttons and select the Recovery Mode option.
- Press Power when Recovery mode is listed in the upper part of Fastboot menu.
- You will see an Android robot laid on its back. Press and hold Power, then press once the Volume Up button.
- The Stock Recovery menu should now be displayed on your device.
That’s it, this is how you boot Stock Recovery for Nexus 10 tablet.
How to boot CWM and / or TWRP Recovery for Nexus 10:
- Power off the tablet.
- Press and hold Volume Up, Volume Down and Power buttons simultaneously.
- Release the buttons when the Fastboot Mode menu loads.
- Press Volume Up or Volume Down until you see the “Recovery Mode” text listed.
- Press Power to load Recovery Mode.
- The CWM / TWRP Custom Recovery menu will load and you’re free to apply any changes you wish.
If you have a rooted Nexus 10 tablet and you don’t want to reboot when the device is switched off, then you can always choose to install a Custom ROM that allows you add Reboot to Recovery option to the Power Controls menu. Alternatively you can choose to reboot to custom Recovery using an applications, learn how to do it below.
How to boot CWM Recovery for Nexus 10 with ROM Manager:
- Install ROM Manager app on your tablet — Play Store link.
- Launch the ROM Manager app on your device.
- Now you should press on the Reboot into Recovery option.
- CWM Recovery will reboot the phone and then boot to its main menu.
How to boot TWRP Recovery for Nexus 10 using GooManager:
- Install GooManager for Nexus 10 from Play Store — link.
- Launch GooManager on your device.
- Press the applications’s drop-down menu and select the ‘Reboot Recovery’ function.
- When the Nexus 10 boots in TWRP Recovery you will be done with the tutorial.
These were all the steps that you had to take in order to complete this tutorial. Now you can take whatever action you wish using the Recovery Mode. If you have any other questions, then you should ask for extra help in comments, we will try to come up with a viable solution for any problems you encounter while applying the tutorial.
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Why is low impact paintball a better option than traditional paintball? It’s a question we get asked a lot. Most people who have never played paintball before have their own ideas of what paintball is like. It seems like everyone knows somebody who has played paintball and they’ve drawn their perceptions of paintball around their friends’ experiences.
Why Low Impact Paintball Doesn’t Hurt
Low impact paintball was developed to make paintball easier for new players to enjoy. The size of the paintball was reduced by nearly 30%. The velocity of the paintball was also reduced, resulting in 60% less impact than a traditional paintball. Players as young as nine years old can enjoy paintball without worrying about the ouch.
If paintball has always looked fun to you or like something your young children would enjoy, but you’ve been worried about the pain, give the low impact paintball format a try. Invite a group of friends or come in with the whole family and make your reservation to check paintball off the bucket list! You’ll be glad you did.
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Self defense doesn't always look the way people expect. Let me give you a few scenarios and after you decide which of them are self defense I’ll give you the answers and you’ll see if you were right: First, you are walking to your car in the Walmart parking lot when an angry man approaches you. He shakes his fist and attempts to punch you in the head. You move out of the way, palm strike him in the nose, knee him in the chest and run to your car. In the second scenario the man approaches angrily and you begin to speak in a calm and monotone voice. You manage to calm the man down before it escalates further than words and no one ever has to throw a punch. In our third and final situation you’re walking out of the store and you notice a man halfway between you and your car. He looks frustrated and mad and doesn't look like he is thinking rationally. Aware of this you decide to take a roundabout way to your car rather than walk by this man.
Alright, have you decided which of these are self defense? The answer is all of the above!
As I said, self defense does not always look the way you might think. Self defense is simply stopping or avoiding the threat. Ideally self defense should never come to blows or shots. This brings me to the topic of this blog, de-escalation. De-escalation is when you talk down or talk yourself out of a situation. In the second scenario I gave you an example of this, you spoke in a monotone voice and talked the man down to a point of rational thought. The monotone speaking is a key factor to de-escalation. Picture the most boring teacher you've ever had and think about how they spoke when giving a lecture, that is what you’re going to emulate. Think about it, if you are fuming mad and yelling and someone and they start rationalizing with you in the flat tone of a teacher well past wanting to retire you'll probably start feeling a bit ridiculous for your outburst and begin to slow your role.
The next step in de-escalating is to empathize and clarify. Make sure you understand exactly what a person is mad about. If the situation they are mad about is your fault, apologize and do what you can to fix the problem. If they were waiting for a parking spot and you swung in without realizing they were there apologize and move your car, you never know the real mental state of a person, and a parking spot is really a petty thing to fight about anyway. However, if the situation is one in which you did not do the thing that the person is mad about and taking the blame would further escalate the problem, continue to empathize and calmly point out that the fault is not yours (such as their watch was taken and they think it was you but it was not). Empathizing and clarifying helps people calm down much faster than just saying “calm down”. Please understand that de-escalation is not weakness, it’s intelligence. Knowing what is worth fighting for and walking away from what is not is one of the most important things to keeping yourself and others safe.
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In 2011, democracy faces a major test as some of Africa's biggest countries hold polls. Madagascar, Nigeria, and perhaps Zimbabwe will allow voters to choose their leaders. In the case of Sudan, citizens will decide whether their country should remain unified or split in two.
In the Jan. 9 Sudanese referendum, citizens of the southern part of the country will choose whether to remain a part of a unified Sudan or seek independence. More than 3 million southern Sudanese, or more than 80 percent of the region's eligible voters, registered to vote. Most experts predict southerners will opt for secession, continuing a legacy of distrust after a 20-year civil war.
The vote is intended as part of a comprehensive peace agreement to be a final step in putting the civil war to rest, but it has the potential to unleash violence. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for human rights crimes and genocide during the Darfur conflict, has hinted that he might not accept the poll results if the south votes to secede. About 85 percent of the oil that Sudan produces comes from the south.
Presidential elections will be held in a number of countries, including Nigeria in April, a country that remains a major oil producer despite an insurgency in its oil region. Some of the countries holding elections are still emerging from conflict, including Liberia (October), the Democratic Republic of Congo (November), Chad (May), and Madagascar (July). Peaceful, credible elections could propel each of these countries toward normalization and greater prosperity for their citizens. Violence would do the reverse.
Human rights and justice is another major theme. The ICC continues to pursue cases of human rights violations against top African politicians. The trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor has already had a chastening effect on many African leaders, although perhaps not the one that was intended. President Bashir has evaded an ICC arrest warrant for his role in the war crimes in Darfur. Six prominent Kenyans charged for sparking postelection violence in the 2007 elections are scheduled to be put on trial in 2011 at the court's headquarters at The Hague.
Africa's natural resources will continue to hold the attention of global investors. Agriculture, in particular, is likely to draw more investment in a growing move to turn Africa into the world's breadbasket.
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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 15/July 1879/Pleased with a Feather
By Professor GRANT ALLEN.
A MURKY London winter afternoon is not exactly a good opportunity for the pursuit of natural history. The snow lies thick on the pavement outside, half melted into muddy slush; while the fog penetrates through the cracks in the woodwork, and the sun struggles feebly athwart the thick yellow sheet which shuts off his rays from the lifeless earth. If I wish to go on a botanical or entomological excursion to-day, I must perforce content myself with a "Voyage autour de ma Chambre." So I rise listlessly from my easy-chair; perambulate the drawing-room in a sulky mood; peer at the Japanese fans on the mantel-shelf; rearrange for the twentieth time those queer little pipkins we brought on our last vacation ramble from Morlaix; pull about my wife's old Chelsea in a savage fit of tidiness; and finally relapse upon the sofa with a fixed determination to be inconsolably miserable for the rest of the day. Evidently I am suffering from that mysterious British epidemic, the spleen, and I may be shortly expected to plunge incontinently over Waterloo Bridge.
Meanwhile, I find a momentary solace in the Indian cushion which lies under my head. A feather is just pushing its sharper end through the morocco-leather groundwork, between those gorgeous masses of gold, silver, and crimson embroidery; which feather I forthwith begin to egg out, by dexterous side pressure, with admirable industry, worthy of a better cause. My wife, looking up from her crewels, mutters something inarticulate about some one who finds some mischief still for idle hands to do; but her obdurate husband pretends inattention, and finally succeeds in catching the feather-end between his finger and thumb. Now that I have successfully pulled it out, I begin to examine it closely, and bethink myself of how, in brighter summer weather, I dissected a daisy for the benefit of such among the readers of the "Cornhill Magazine" as honored me with their kind attention. I shall take a closer look at this feather, and see if it, too, may not serve as a text for a humble lay-sermon concerning the nature and development of feathers in general, and the birds or human beings who wear them.
For the interesting point about a feather is really this, that it grew. It was not made in a moment, like a bullet poured red-hot into a mold: its little airy plumes, branched like a fern into tiny waving filaments, were developed by slow steps, piece after piece, and spikelet after spikelet. And what is true of this particular bit of down which I hold in my fingers, trembling like gossamer at every breath and every pulse, is also true of plumage as a whole in the history of animal evolution. To my mind that great fact, that everything has grown, throws a fresh and wonderful interest into every little object which we can pick up about our fields or our houses. The old view of creation, which represented it as single and instantaneous, made each creature or each organ seem like a mere piece of molded mechanism, with no history, no puzzle, and no recognizable relation to its like elsewhere. But the new view, which represents creation as continuous, progressive, and regular, teaches lis to see in every species or every structure a result of previous causes, an adaptation to preexisting needs. Thus we are enabled to find in a flower, a fruit, or a feather, innumerable clews which lead us back to its ultimate origin, and give delightful exercise to our intelligence in tracing out the probable steps by which this complex whole has been produced.
I often figure to myself the difference between the two ways of regarding natural objects, by means of the initial letters in an ordinary volume, and the initial letters which Mr. Linley Sambourne draws for us so cleverly in "Punch." Look at the big O of a newspaper leader—it is just a mass of metal, poured into a circular or oval type. But look at the big O which the ingenious artist tricks out for us with social allusions or political innuendoes, and what a world of amusement you will find if you take the trouble to spell out all its quaint devices! See how every curl has some playful hit at a noble lord or an honorable member; how every detail smiles with gentle satire at some passing event or some universal topic. Not a touch but has a meaning for those who will seek it; not a careless little smudge in the corner but brims over with deep purpose and infinite wealth of covert mirth. So it is, I think, with flowers, fruits, or feathers, when once we have learned to look for their hidden hints. This little twist points back to some strange fact in the past history of the species; that unobtrusive spur or knob is the clew to whole volumes of botanical or zoological lore. Not a detail but tells of the origin and development of the whole; not a tuft, a spot, or a streak but teems with information for the seeker who has found out the method of seeking aright.
Again, to vary our simile, let us visit some ancient British earthwork or Roman camp. If we go as mere rustics, we see in it all nothing more than a broken ridge of earth on the summit of a rolling down. We are not even sure whether it is really the handiwork of man, or some queer natural formation like the Devil's Dike, the Giant's Causeway, and the parallel roads of Glen Roy. But if we go under the guidance of some skilled archaeologist, what a flood of light he is able to throw over its history and its meaning! This row of strongholds, he tells us, formed the frontier line, say between the Welsh of Dorset and the Welsh of Devon. Here the Durotriges and Damnonii, the men of the water-vale and the men of the hills, faced one another from their opposite heights. Sweep round your eye in a semicircle along this series of points, overhanging the valley of the Axe, and you will find every higher summit crowned with a "castle," a rude earthwork raised by the men whom our fathers drove out of the land. That was their Balkan or Suleiman line, their cordon of border forts, their row of beacons to announce the approach of the hostile hill-men on the war-trail against their homes. Then our antiquary would turn to the work itself, and would point out the various parts, the mode of defense, the simple tactics of those primitive Vaubans. Or else he would show us the Roman detail of the later encampment; the square scar that marked the prætorian quarters; the regular succession of gates and defenses. All this he would tell us from the bare inspection of the existing remains, reconstructing the lost history from his stored-up knowledge of like instances elsewhere.
But I am wandering sadly from my London room and my little feather, this wintry afternoon. Let me look at it once more, and try to realize, in like manner, the story involved in its downy vans.
In the first place, this feather, as an anatomist would tell us, is "a dermal modification"—in other words, an altered bit of the skin. Every part of a plant or animal undergoes changes, our modern teachers say, just in accordance with the external influences which affect it. But the skin of an animal is naturally exposed to many more such surrounding agencies than its internal organs. Accordingly, we find that no structure exhibits such strange variations as the skin. Besides the regular modifications which we see in the scales or horny plates of fishes, the smooth coats or solid shells of reptiles, the feathers of birds, and the hair of mammals, numerous other minor peculiarities occur in almost every species. Such are the horns of cows and goats, the spike of the rhinoceros, the beaks, nails, claws, hoofs, and talons of beasts or birds, and the tail-plumes, ruffs, lappets, crests, and ornamental adjuncts of all the more aesthetic animals. In no class are these variations in the external covering more conspicuous than among the biped tribe whose spoils I am now holding in my hand as the text for our afternoon's discourse.
How birds first came to be winged and feathered we can hardly say as yet. To be sure, most of us have seen a picture, at least, of that strange oolitic monster, the pterodactyl, a saurian with a head like a crow, but having the fore-part protracted into long jaws, fitted with teeth not very dissimilar from those of a crocodile; while its legs were supplied, apparently, with a membrane, by whose aid the creature probably flew about in the same manner as a bat. These real flying dragons recall in many points the appearance of a bird, especially in the skull and the position of the eyes. Moreover, Professors Marsh and Huxley have shown that the earliest fossil birds resemble the pterodactyl and other reptiles in many important peculiarities of structure, far more than their modern representatives. Some of them even possess teeth set in their jaws after a reptilian fashion. Though the evidence still remains very fragmentary, we may regard it as probable that birds are descended from some early reptilian form, more or less like the itself. But perhaps it is premature to build with any confidence upon such dubious ground; and we may consequently accept the earliest birds on their own responsibility, without inquiring too curiously into their antecedents, or compelling them to produce a genealogical table of their ancestry., if not actually from that partially-winged saurian
The essential characteristic of a bird consists in the fact that it is a flying animal; and feathers are the kind of skin-covering best adapted to its special manner of life. In their nature and mode of development, feathers closely agree with the hair of mammals; but the differences between them are all of a sort which fit the bird for its aërial existence. We see this fact very clearly if we look at the instance of those birds which do not fly. Running species, such as the ostriches, have downy plumes, in which many of the essential characters of the feather are greatly obscured. In the emu, whose habits are more strictly cursorial, the plumage almost resembles hair. In the cassowary the likeness becomes yet more striking, while the wingless apteryx of New Zealand has not even the few bare quills which stand for wing-feathers in the former bird. So, too, among those sedentary marine birds, the penguins, where the wings have been converted into a sort of fins for diving, the feathers undergo a parallel change into scales. There is reason, indeed, to suspect, as Mr. Lowne has pointed out, that these marine species retain in many ways the primitive characters of the class; and we may perhaps regard them rather as birds in whom the pinions and plumage have never fully developed than as birds in whom they have assumed a new form.
On the other hand, the truest feathers—that is to say, those which exhibit the essential features of a feather in the most marked manner—are specially connected with the act of flight. The general surface of the body is covered with soft down, among which sprout the delicate plumes that form the common covering for warmth and protection; but only on the wings and tail do those long and stiff quills appear which, after all, are the feathers par excellence, the models and prototypes of all the rest. Now, it is quite obvious to every one that the wings are the organs of flight, and that the quills are the part by means of which the powerful muscles of the bird are brought to bear upon the sustaining atmosphere. As for the tail, its functions resemble those of a rudder, in directing the course of flight to right or left. The difference between these true flying feathers and the mere clothing of the back and breast is so striking that naturalists have given them separate technical names, as quills and plumes respectively.
From such facts, and others like them, I think we may arrive at an important conclusion—that feathers have been developed and selected through the habit of flight. Probably our monstrous friend the pterodactyl had only a membranous wing or bit of skin, extending from the elongated outer finger of his forearm to the leg. Such a parachute we still see among the so-called flying-squirrels and lemurs; while in the bats it has developed into a sort of webbed wing. But if any of the early birds happened to possess an altered hair-like or scale-like covering—the relic, perhaps, of some common reptilio-mammalian ancestor—which afforded them any extra grip upon the air through which they fell rather than floated, then those individuals would thereby gain an extra chance of catching prey or escaping enemies, and therefore of survival in the constant rivalry of species with species. The more perfect these organs became, the more closely adapted to the function of flight, the greater the advantage the bird would derive from their possession, and therefore the better the chance of survival which it would obtain. Thus, apparently, the most aërial birds have the largest and strongest quills, and the most quill-like plumes, while the running and diving birds have either never developed these adjuncts in their highest form, or else have lost them by disuse.
Let me take down one of the peacock's feathers, which stands on the mantelpiece in this Vallauris vase, and closely examine its structure. It consists of a long central shaft, horny and tubular at the lower end, and filled above with a soft, white, spongy matter; while a number of little barbed branches are given off on either side, curiously interlaced by means of tiny hooked filaments, whose myriad threads are far too numerous for the most industrious critic to count up. Everybody knows that this tubular structure combines in the highest degree the mechanical requisites of lightness and strength; and everybody has read that it is employed with the self-same object by human engineers, in such constructions as the great bridges which span the Menai Straits or the St. Lawrence at Montreal. Evidently this peacock's feather, though now converted to a purely ornamental function, was originally developed for the purpose of flight. If I doubt it for a moment, I need only look at the quill-pen in my desk over yonder. That flat blade, close-textured and strongly woven, clearly belongs to a flying organ; and this beautiful mass of green and golden waving plumelets is evidently modeled on the self-same plan. It is useless, or next to useless, now, for flight; but it still bears clear traces of its original function in the structure and arrangement of its shaft and barbs.
Next, let me look at the little downy feather I have abstracted from the Indian cushion. This is not a flying organ, nor did its representative on any early ancestor ever fulfill a similar office. Light, warm, soft, fluffy, its whole object is decidedly that of clothing against chilly weather, and protection against thorns or other rough bodies. Yet when I examine it closely, I see that the same general ground-plan still runs through it, as that which ran through the goose-quill and the peacock's tail-covert. "How comes this?" I ask myself; "here we have a small, delicate, almost fleshy shaft, instead of the horny quill; and a feeble set of downy barbs instead of the strong, well-woven blade: yet the main features remain unaltered, though the function is entirely different. How can I account for this resemblance?"
The case of the emu and the apteryx helps to throw light upon the problem thus disclosed. Where birds fly very little, their feathers never acquire or else soon lose the distinctive quill-like character; but where birds fly much, the quill-producing tendency becomes strong and pronounced. Primarily, this tendency ought to affect only those parts which are used in flight, namely, the wings and tail; and, as a matter of fact, we have seen that these are the parts which exhibit it in the highest degree. It would be almost impossible, however, that a change of such magnitude should be set up in some of the feathers, without to a lesser extent affecting all the rest. We might as well expect that the hair on a certain patch of some animal's skin would grow thick and spike-like, without any corresponding alteration in the rest of his body. True, natural selection does sometimes produce this result for some special purpose, when it is highly desirable that an acquired character should be confined to a small area. But, as a rule, when one part of the skin hardens, like that of a turtle or crocodile, the tendency to bony development shows itself in every part; and when certain hairs become converted into thick spines, like those of the hedgehog, the echidna, and the porcupine, a general bristly tone pervades almost all the coat. The scaly plates of the armadillo and the pangolin in like manner communicate a universal scaliness to the whole external surface of the animal. We may say in simple language that the body has got into the habit of producing certain structures, and that the habit extends to analogous parts in which it is not strictly necessary.
This is the case with the flying birds. Some of their feathers—modified scales or hairs—having become specially adapted for flying, all the rest follow suit to a greater or less extent. Indeed, we can hardly imagine how quills could come into existence at all, unless we allow that there must first have been an adventitious tendency toward the production of light-barbed shafts over the whole body. Those birds which exhibited this adventitious habit in the highest degree would become the ancestors of the aërial species, in whom it is still further developed by natural selection; while those birds which exhibited it in the least degree would become the ancestors of the diving, running, and scraping tribes, in whom natural selection favors rather such special adaptations as web-feet, fin-like wings, long and powerful legs, and ornamental plumage.
The æsthetic philosopher, however (if the reader will permit me to designate myself by such a periphrasis), is far more interested in the modifications which feathers undergo, after they have become feathers, than in those which they undergo before reaching that stage of their development. For the infinite variety of coloring, the exquisite tones of metallic sheen, the graceful arrangements of crests, tufts, plumes, and lappets, which render birds such conspicuous objects in our museums or gardens, are all of them due to the pigments or shapes of feathers, and all of them have apparently been produced by the voluntary choice of beautiful mates among the birds themselves.
The modifications of feathers thus originated form, of course, a clew to the tastes of the various birds which possess them; because each species will naturally select such mates as best satisfy its ideas of the beautiful, and so will transmit the admired qualities to its descendants. It is a remarkable fact that the tastes of many birds, indirectly disclosed in such a manner, coincide very closely with the tastes of mankind at large.
Not all birds, however, exhibit equally these æsthetic preferences. Some large families, like those of the hawks, eagles, owls, and nightjars, are noticeable neither for beauty of color nor for richness of song. Other classes, again, like those of our own English hedge-birds, seem rather musical than chromatically inclined in their tastes. As a rule, we may say that birds of prey and nocturnal birds are very deficient in aesthetic feeling, all their energies being apparently directed to swiftness of pursuit and skill in hunting; while, on the other hand, small seed-eating birds, and those which live on little insects or other minute animals, generally expend all their æsthetic sentiment on the faculty of song. But only those birds which live upon fruits, or the mixed nectar and insects extracted from flowers, usually possess brilliant colors.
I have already more than once pointed out to the readers of the "Cornhill Magazine" the probable reason for this peculiar connection. The eyes of fruit-eating or flower-feeding animals become specially adapted to the stimulation of colored light, and therefore the creatures become capable of receiving special pleasure from such sources. Accordingly, those among their fellows which displayed brilliant colors would prove most attractive, and would be chosen as mates for their beauty. I have instanced before, among the flower-feeding species, the numberless varieties of humming-birds, and the almost equal profusion of sun-birds, to which we may add a few other minor forms, such as the brush-tongued lories; while among the fruit-eaters, the parrots, macaws, cockatoos, toucans, barbets, nutmeg-pigeons, fruit-pigeons, chatterers, and birds-of-paradise, may stand as cases in point. But it will be more interesting here to glance briefly at the various modes in which these colors are produced than to extend the list of species which display them. The commonest method of exhibiting color is by means of pigments either in the external coating of the feathers or in their deeper layers. Cases of this sort are too frequent to need special exemplification; but some birds have brilliant hues otherwise displayed, as in the wattles of the common barn-door fowl, the fleshy appendages of the turkey, and the painted face of the carrier-pigeon. The wattled honey-sucker of Australia has two drooping folds of flesh which fall like bonnet-strings under his throat; the king-vulture has his head and neck covered with naked skin of every hue in the rainbow; and the cassowary (by far the most frugivorous of all the ostrich tribe) has the same parts of a brilliant red, variegated with melting shades of blue. In many other birds the beak becomes an ornamental adjunct; and this tendency reaches its furthest development in the bill of the toucan, whose colors almost vie with the humming-bird itself. But the most curious of all such aesthetic modifications is that from which the wax-wings derive their name. In these birds the shafts of certain wing-feathers are prolonged into small, horny expansions, bright scarlet in hue, exactly resembling, both in color and texture, little tags of red sealing-wax.
The metallic luster of feathers is generally due to fine lines on the surface of the barbules, like those which produce the iridescence of mother-of-pearl. Such luster occurs in the sun-birds and hummingbirds, and on many other less ornamented species. Sometimes gleaming like gold or bronze, sometimes fading away into jetty black, anon reappearing as glancing outbursts of crimson, azure, or exquisite green, it has gained for the birds on which it appears such poetical names as ruby-throated, topaz-crested, amethystine, golden, emerald, and sapphire. Not only does it occur upon the burnished neck of the dove, but it gives a passing splendor to the sable livery of the crow, and throws a thousand changeful hues over the glossy plumage of the mallard.
But besides the ornamental effects of color and luster, feathers appeal to the æsthetic taste of birds by their form, their arrangement, and their variety. Only the plainest birds have all their plumage exactly uniform and simply disposed. In an immense number of species certain feathers have been specially modified in shape so as to form crests, fan-like tails, lappets, and other ornaments. And just as a good architect lavishes his decorations chiefly on the constructive points of his building, the critical parts, such as arches, doorways, windows, and architraves, so do we find that birds have chosen to place their decorative modifications on the most important nodal points of their bodies, and that they generally lavish their richest coloring upon these ornamental adjuncts. This peacock's feather, for instance, formed part of a gorgeous semicircular fan, which composed, as it were, the background or reredos of the whole living picture when expanded, and the train of the majestic sultan when folded in repose. A plume from the neck or back, though still beautiful with golden green and faintly purplish blue, would not have exhibited those splendid eye-like spots which reflect the sunlight in a mingled mass of glory from this perfect tail-covert. Only in the most fitting positions for decoration do birds, as a rule, expend their choicest designs.
The feathers of the ostrich naturally occur first to the human investigator of æsthetic taste in birds. The quills of the wing and tail, here purely ornamental in their function, compose the well-known silky plumes of commerce. The common crane has also beautiful elongated wing-feathers, which fall on either side of the tail in graceful waving masses. If we may trust the doubtful pictures which have come down to us, that grotesque and gigantic pigeon, the dodo, possessed similar tufts of ornamental plumage. But the great order of gallinaceous birds, or the hen and turkey tribe, display the most magnificent tails of all, so familiarly known in the peacock and the pheasant family, as well as in the humbler denizens of our English farmyards.
Crests form another favorite ornamental device among birds, occurring independently in the most different orders. The graceful tuft of the gray heron must have attracted the attention of every observer. Among the pheasants similar decorative adjuncts are common; and the curassow shows this peculiarity in a very beautiful form. With parrots and cockatoos, crests are of frequent occurrence, and they make equally striking features among the humming-birds and sun-birds. Indeed, it may be roughly asserted that those birds which seek their food among flowers and fruits, and which consequently exhibit a taste for bright colors, are also the species in which ornamental tufts of feathers most frequently occur. But crests are also found even among the generally somber and inartistic birds of prey, being by no means unusual in the owls and hawks, while the serpent-eating secretary-bird derives his queer name from the fancied resemblance of his top-knot to a pen stuck behind the ear. Other well-known instances of crested species are the hoopoe, the wax-wing, the golden-crested wren, and many jays. But the umbrella-bird, a Brazilian fruit-crow, exhibits the fullest development of this particular ornament, having the whole head covered by a dome of slender, shining blue feathers, about five inches in length by four and a half in breadth. It may be added that almost all birds which possess these ornaments possess also the power of raising or depressing them at will; and that during the season of courtship the male birds constantly expand all their charms before the eyes of their admiring mates. We have all seen this ostentatious display ourselves in the case of the peacock, the turkey, and the barn-door fowl. It proves almost beyond a doubt the aesthetic purpose and function of such otherwise useless, inconvenient, arid vitally expensive excrescences.
Sometimes the crest is produced by some other means than that of a mass of plumes. Besides the well-known fleshy comb of our friend chanticleer, there is the horny helmet of our old acquaintance the cassowary, and the quaint protuberances on the beak of the jacana. Most eccentric of all is the device adopted by the hornbills, whose name sufficiently indicates their peculiarity in this respect. The beak in these birds is prolonged above into a single unicorn-like process, extravagantly disproportioned to the general size of its wearer.
On the other hand, it may be noted that most small singing-birds, or other species which live on seeds, grains, insects, and mixed small food, are destitute of tufted ornaments, as well as of brilliant coloring.
The lappets, frills, or other neck-pieces of so many decorated species must not pass entirely unnoticed in this review of æsthetic devices among birds. Beginning with the mere burnished breast-plumage of the pigeon, or the crimson stomacher of the robin, they become at last, in the humming-birds, sun-birds, and other tropical species, the most exquisite drapery of amethyst, topaz, emerald, or golden bronze. The so-called beard of the turkey is a special example of a very aberrant type. The ruff derives his English name from a similar peculiarity.
The birds-of-paradise unite all these modes of ornamentation in the highest degree, and with the most harmonious results. They join the graceful plumes of the ostrich to the dainty coloring of the sun-bird. Crests almost as largely developed as that of the umbrella-bird overshadow their beautiful heads; frills as full as those of the hummingbirds fall down in metallic splendor before their gorgeous necks. And, if any proof be wanting of the connection between the nature-of the food and the general beauty of the plumage, it may be found in the fact that these royally-attired creatures are first cousins of our own dingy crows and jackdaws; but, while the crow seeks his livelihood among the insects and carrion of an English plowed field, the bird-of-paradise regales his lordly palate on the crimson and purple fruits which gleam out amid the embowering foliage of Malayan forests.
Equally magnificent are the members of the genus Epimachus, inhabitants of the same brilliant archipelago. Their long, silky plumes float behind them in the same graceful curves; their burnished necks are adorned with the same glancing hues of ruby and emerald. Yet they are surpassed in one respect by their distant relatives, the lyrebirds, first cousins of our diminutive English wrens. Though destitute of brilliant coloring and metallic sheen, these curious birds exhibit in their long and beautiful tails the only undoubted example among the lower animals of a love for symmetrical patterns.
I have only bethought me now of a few among the countless modifications which feathers undergo, for the aesthetic gratification of their wearers, or rather of their wearers' mates, and the list might be almost indefinitely prolonged. But it will he better worth while, perhaps, to glance briefly at another set of facts connected with feathers—I mean their artificial employment by human beings for the exactly identical purpose of aesthetic decoration. Could any fact show more clearly the similarity of artistic feeling which runs through the whole animal series than this thought, that man makes use, for his own adornment, of the very self-same beautiful colored baubles which the birds originally developed to charm the eyes of their fastidious brides?
I need not recall by name the various kinds of plumage so employed—the feathers of the ostrich, the marabou, the bird-of-paradise, the emu, the pheasant, and the gull; the sun-birds and the hummingbirds mercilessly slaughtered by the million in the Malay Archipelago, Ceylon, and Trinidad to supply the bonnets of London and Paris; the swan's-down, the grebe, the widow-birds, the cockatoos, the parrots, the macaws, which decorate our wives and children with barbaric spoils. It will suffice to remember, in passing, that from the feather mantles ofkings, the feather kirtles of American Indians, and the feather mosaics of Mexico, to the plumes of our own court-dress, our own military uniforms, and our own quaintly surviving funeral processions, these same "dermal modifications" of birds have served an aesthetic purpose, better or worse, throughout the whole course of human history.
Nor does the resemblance stop here. Mankind employs tufts of feathers for decorative display in just the same manner as the birds who originally developed them. The Red Indian in his war-paint dressed out his head with a row of quills, arranged in exactly the same order as the top-knot of a hoopoe or a cockatoo. The feather collars of so many savage tribes recall to the letter the frills and lappets of the humming-bird or the epimachus. The ostrich-plumes of our English royal receptions, and the panache of our European officers' dress, are adaptations from the primitive idea of the crane and the umbrella-bird. Everywhere, the tuft of feathers is placed on some prominent part of the person—some "constructive point" in the human or avian system of architecture.
A ring at the bell warns me that a visitor is standing at the door. I throw my little feather hastily into the fire, and cut short my reflections to welcome my expected guest. But one last thought occurs to me before I close my afternoon's meditation. To be "pleased with a feather" appeared to the great metaphysical poet of the eighteenth century a mark of childish simplicity. Perhaps it may be so; but, after all, is there not some solace in that new philosophy which can enable one to pass a whole hour, this murky afternoon, in pleasurable contemplation of that tiny plume which seems no contemptible subject of human study to Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer?—Cornhill.
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Learn how to improvise in the style of rock on guitar!
This beginner’s guide will give you everything you need to get started with developing your rock improvisation skills.
Rock songs typically follow a standard four-chord progression of I- vi- IV- V (1st, Minor 6th, 4th then 5th chord of a particular key). Simple rock songs also tend to feature a steady backbeat, which makes it easier to get a feel for the kinds of rhythms you should think about improvising with. Both of these factors mean that rock is a relatively easy genre to navigate in the early days of building your improvisation skills.
This rock improvisation exercise will focus around the A minor pentatonic scale. If you’re not familiar with that yet, take a look at the transcription below and practise it until your fingers get used to the pattern.
Got it? Great! For this article, we’ll be using a basic I- vi- IV- V progression in the key of C.
C is one of the easiest keys to improvise in because it has no sharps or flats. This means that you can play any of the notes A,B,C,D, E, F or G anywhere on your guitar over a chord progression in C and not hear too much dissonance in your improvisation.
This rule has a few exceptions. Playing an F over a G chord for an extended period of time, for instance, might sound strange. This is because non-chordal notes that are situated near a chordal note in the scale tend to clash. For this reason, it’s always important to anticipate chord changes so you don’t get stuck on a non-chordal note for too long, or people might begin to react badly to the clashing tones.
So what are chordal notes? For the progression in C, chordal notes are as follows:
C: C E G
Am: A C E
F: F A C
G: G B D
Obviously, if you limit your creative playing by only using three notes every time a chord comes around in the progression, your improvisation is probably going to feel quite repetitive. That’s where passing tones come in. To deviate slightly, let’s have a look at passing tones in the context of a basic two-octave C major scale.
Jumps between chordal notes can still be used, but typically good improvisation will feature a mix of jumps and steps (using passing tones) to create well- phrased melodic ideas.The notes marked with a ‘C’ are your chordal tones. As you can see, if you only played these notes, you wouldn’t be left with much to work with. That’s why the other notes- the passing tones- can be used as transitional notes to prevent your improvisation from sounding overly jumpy.
So, now you understand the difference between chordal and passing tones, let’s revisit the A minor pentatonic scale and work towards improvising over the chord progression.
The great thing about this pentatonic scale is that you can play any of the notes over any chord within the C progression and it will sound perfectly fine. This is because it’s solely made up of the notes A, C, D, E, & G- all of which are featured as chordal notes at some point in the progression. So, even if you play the wrong note over a particular chord (eg. an A note over a C chord), the progression will eventually change to suit this note and allow you to blend those sounds together. There’s very little margin for error, so why not have a go now and see what you can create? Here’s that progression again:
To begin with, take the A minor pentatonic scale and, using only the notes of that scale, try to come up with a few of your own licks.
NB: Remember to focus on phrasing- you’ll want to create a mixture of long and short rhythms. Consider the song’s tempo and listen out for any drum fills to see if you can use these to enhance your licks. For some, the hardest part of improvisation can often be the actual creation of your own ideas. If your fingers seem stuck at first, try humming or singing something over the progression to generate a few melodic phrases. Then integrate those ideas into your playing.
Once you’ve played around with the pentatonic scale, start to consider using some passing tones (these would be any notes in between the notes of the scale). The main purpose of passing tones is to add some colour and variation to your melodic ideas. Try not to linger too long on any of these notes. In fact, you may decide that some notes (eg. A# on the 6th fret of the E string) clash a little too much. Recall that the C major scale doesn’t use any sharps or flats so there’s bound to be some dissonance if you play them over this chord progression.
Remember though, in improvisation, there aren’t any wrong notes. Often some of your best ideas will come from times when you’ve pushed your playing beyond your conventional understanding of ‘what works’ over any particular progression. The more you practise improvising, the more you’ll get a feel for the notes you prefer. Eventually, you should start to develop your own sound. Here are a few final tips for getting started:
1. Record what you play.
Even if you don’t own professional recording gear, grab your phone or any other recording equipment you might have and turn it on before you play. Improvisation is about coming up with new stuff, but that doesn’t mean you can’t reuse and develop a lick you’ve created in an earlier session. Recording what you play is a great way to reflect on what works and what doesn’t.
2. Learn new scales.
Even with the basic chord progression we’ve examined in this article, there are multiple scales you could take ideas from. Each will have a distinct sound that can further diversify your rock improvisation. For instance, try combining your A minor pentatonic licks with ideas from this A minor blues scale:
3. Know your fretboard.
Ever tried walking backwards, blindfolded in front of a crowd? As a performer, trying to improvise without knowing where any of the notes are on your guitar can be equally problematic. If you haven’t taken the time to learn yet, take a look at the diagram below and practise memorising note names. It might not seem important, but if you want to improve your rock improvisation, it’s probably best to know which notes are which!
4. Listen to Rock Music!
This one’s quite easy. If you don’t listen to rock music, how can you expect to play it? This applies to all aspects of your musical development. The more you listen to a particular genre, the more you’ll develop an inherent understanding of how to go about developing your own music within this genre. So go forth and listen to some more music!
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In a new report from Zebra Technologies, 66% of hospitality guests said that they have a better experience when hotels use the latest technology. Mobile phones and location technology are at the forefront of technology developments in hotels. Smart phone uses range from unlocking rooms, to receiving text notifications about room readiness, to receiving location based offers. The report found that 40% of guests currently use hotel apps and 70% of guests want to use technology to speed up the service they receive.
In these videos four experts discuss upgrading experience with technology:
For a long-time, hospitality businesses have been seeking to create more personalised experiences for guests through technology. The results of Zebra’s 2016 Hospitality Vision Study suggests that guests today are interested in receiving personalised treatment across the room, entertainment, and concierge elements of their stay. 86% say they are interested in having a room selected based on personal preferences such as room/window location and bed configuration. 81% say they would like to receive a personalised list of restaurants/ activities and directions, and 70% say they would be interested in receiving location based coupons and specials.
Hotels are starting to look at what they can do when they have the ability to track their guests’ locations. 74% of surveyed hotels/resorts are planning to implement location-based technologies within the next year. They would be able to track a location when the guest has a hotel app on their phone that they give permission to access their location data – in the same way that a map app uses the phones location to show a route. Then the hotel can send messages and offers that are more relevant to the guest at the time, and would know whether the guest is inside the hotel or out-and-about.”
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The average Sanitation Worker makes $28,754 in the United States. The average hourly pay for a Sanitation Worker is $13.82. The average entry-level Sanitation Worker salary is $24,000.
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However, most sanitation workers are members of robust public unions and have correspondingly strong workplace protections, benefits, and wages. Particularly for those with an interest in using their work and labor to actually benefit society, a career in sanitation may be a strong choice.
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The average salary for a sanitation worker is $15.86 per hour in California.
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Sanitation workers are hired by private companies or the city’s sanitation department. They might also work at a recycling center or a garbage drop-off site. Their responsibilities include: Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood in a community and collecting waste.
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Garbage collectors need a variety of skills to succeed on the job. You should have good customer service skills if you are interacting with the public at all. Physical strength and stamina are also necessary, as you work on your feet and may lift heavy objects most of the day.
This includes “manual scavengers”, but also people who work as sweepers, are employed to clean streets and open spaces, collect solid waste, and clean open drains and public toilets. Another commonly used term is “Pourakarmikas” which includes manual scavengers, sewer workers, sanitation workers.
Drives a sanitation vehicle and collects and disposes of solid waste from containers. Collects and disposes of yard waste and large, bulky items when assigned to hand pick up. Travels to and from the landfill in order to dispose of waste materials.
The most common important skills required by employers are Cardboard Boxes, Vacuuming, Food Processing, Food Production, Baking, Sweeping and Mopping.
Typical work activities listed on a Sanitation Worker sample resume are emptying trash cans, transporting waste, disposing of trash, respecting environment protection guidelines, and assisting residents with discarding large items.
The average salary for a garbage collector in New York is around $59,440 per year.
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And what are some of the college degrees needed? Can you still be hired if you have a pending felony charge ? Well no long as you have your proper paperwork.
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It is a strenuous job that can build a great physique if you’re already in good shape but can damage any body suffering from preexisting problems. This is not an easy job. Garbage collectors are very hard working and they go home exhausted.
The average pay for a Garbage Collector is $41,877 a year and $20 an hour in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The average salary range for a Garbage Collector is between $32,122 and $49,887. On average, a High School Degree is the highest level of education for a Garbage Collector.
In this page you can discover 12 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for sanitation, like: disinfection, hygiene, cleanliness, asepsis, science of public cleanliness, sanitization, sanitisation, irrigation, drinking-water, water supply and sewage disposal.
The Sanitation Officer supervises the overall cleanliness of the vessel areas allocated to the Food & Beverage operation and Housekeeping operation.
Collectors generally work 8-hour shifts starting at 5 or 6 a.m., though longer shifts are not uncommon. They may also work on holidays or weekends as needed. Refuse Collectors usually wear protective clothes that their company provides, but may still get dirty.
*A job as a Sanitation Worker falls under the broader career category of Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners.
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A bull bar is a heavy-duty, protective device that is attached to the front of a vehicle. It is designed to protect the vehicle and its occupants from collision damage, and also to provide a measure of protection against animals.
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Pajero Sport bull bars are made specifically for the Pajero Sport, and they offer an extra level of protection for this vehicle. If you are looking for a way to improve the safety of your Pajero Sport, then installing a bull bar is a great option.
1. Start by removing the front bumper. This will give you easy access to the mounting points for the bull bar.
2. Attach the bull bar to the frame using the provided brackets and bolts.
3. Reattach the front bumper, making sure that it lines up correctly with the new bull bar.
Tips for installing a pajero sport bull bar
1. Make sure that you have all the necessary tools and supplies before starting the installation. This includes a drill, screwdriver, and wrench set.
2. It is also important to read the instructions carefully before beginning the installation process. This will help ensure that you do not make any mistakes during the installation.
3. When installing the bull bar, start by drilling pilot holes into the bumper where the brackets will be mounted. Then, use the screws and bolts provided in the kit to secure the brackets in place.
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Stephen Wolfram generously gave me a two-hour demo of Wolfram Alpha last evening, and I was quite positively impressed. As he said, it’s not AI, and not aiming to be, so it shouldn’t be measured by contrasting it with HAL or Cyc but with Google or Yahoo.
At its heart is a formal Mathematica representation. Its inference engine is basically a large number of individually hand-engineered scripts for tapping into data which he and his team have spent the last several years gathering and "curating". For example, he has assembled tables of historical financial information about countries’ GDP’s and about companies’ stock prices. In a small number of cases, he also connects via API to third party information, but mostly for realtime data such as a current stock price or current temperature. Rather than connecting to and relying on the current or future Semantic Web, Alpha computes its answers primarily from his own curated data to the extent possible; he sees Alpha as the home for almost all the information it needs, and will use to answer users’ queries.
In an important sense, Alpha is a logical extension of Mathematica: it extends the range of types of information for which significant power can be gained by manually, and exhaustively, enumerating a large set of cases: airplane designs, cities, currencies, etc. I.e., Alpha extends what Mathematica has done previously for things like chemical compounds, geometric surfaces, topological configurations, arithmetic series, trigonometric ratios, and equations. In the new cases, as Mathematica did in those abstract math cases, Alpha excels at not just retrieving the stored data but performing various appropriate numeric calculations on the data, and displaying the results in beautiful graphs and easily comprehended tables for the user.
The resulting mosaic covers a large portion of the space of queries that the average person might genuinely want to ask, in the course of their day. The interface is not exactly natural language, but can be treated by the user as though it were — just as users of browsers can treat them as though they parsed sentences even though they don’t. A better way to think of it is a DWIMM ("do what I might mean"), so if you type in something like "gdp France / Germany", it calculates and returns a graph of the relative fraction of France’s annual GDP to Germany’s GDP, over the last 30 years or so. If you just type in "gdp", it looks up your local host and (in my case) displays the GDP of the USA over the last 30 years, plus various pieces of information about what gross domestic product is, from a mathematical formula perspective but not from a semantic one. It does not have an ontology, so what it knows about, say, GDP, or population, or stock price, is no more nor less than the equations that involve that term. One vulnerability that this engenders in Alpha is that errors in the data may go unnoticed for a long time; a positive way of saying this is that one could align Alpha’s terms to an ontology and knowledge base, and use it to catch some fraction of errors as outright implausible violations of basic knowledge (e.g., Miami’s population dropping by exactly a factor a ten during the month of October, 2006.)
Another example of DWIMM occurs if you type in a complicated mathematical formula, sloppily, with run-on variables, parenthesis errors, typos, etc. In those cases, Alpha does a great job of guessing what you could possibly have meant by that, something close to what you typed in which would be a nontrivial graph, and displays that graph. If you type in a string of letters that’s parsable only as a chemical compound, it assumes that you want information about that compound. If you type in IL where it expects a state, it will interpret that as Illinois; where it expects a country, it will interpret that as Israel.
For those who are familiar with and enamored by Mathematica’s powerful theorem prover, it should be mentioned that that is, for the moment, turned off, for reasons having to do with computational cost — i.e., response time — and also to prevent "explosions" of less and less relevant answers from being produced. Cautiously, conditionally, at some time in the future, expect to see that theorem prover come into play.
There are two important dimensions I want to discuss about Wolfram Alpha, besides the remarks I’ve already made here. (1) What sorts of queries does it not handle, and (2) When it returns information, how much does it actually "understand" of what it’s displaying to you? There are two sorts of queries not (yet) handled: those where the data falls outside the mosaic I sketched above — such as: When is the first day of Summer in Sydney this year? Do Muslims believe that Mohammed was divine? Who did Hezbollah take prisoner on April 18, 1987? Which animals have fingers? — and those where the query requires logically reasoning out a way to combine (logically or arithmetically combine) two or more pieces of information which the system can individually fetch for you. One example of this is: "How old was Obama when Mitterrand was elected president of France?" It can tell you demographic information about Obama, if you ask, and it can tell you information about Mitterrand (including his ruleStartDate), but doesn’t make or execute the plan to calculate a person’s age on a certain date given his birth date, which is what is being asked for in this query. If it knows that exactly 17 people were killed in a certain attack, and if it also knows that 17 American soldiers were killed in that attack, it doesn’t return that attack if you ask for ones in which there were no civilian casualties, or only American casualties. It doesn’t perform that sort of deduction. If you ask "How fast does hair grow?", it can’t parse or answer that query. But if you type in a speed, say "10cm/year", it gives you a long and quite interesting list of things that happen at about that speed, involving glaciers melting, tectonic shift, and… hair growing.
This brings up the final issue I wanted to discuss: how much of what it returns does it understand. At one extreme is, say, Google, which responds to almost anything like a faithful puppy bringing in the morning newspaper without understanding much of anything it’s fetching (recognizing words in what it returns, often leading to amusing or hair-raising inappropriate "ads" being displayed, and leading to tons of false positives and false negatives). At the other extreme is, say, Cyc, which only can answer a small fraction of user queries, but can answer ones that require common sense (not just common sense queries like "Do surgeons often operate on themselves?", but ones where the logical application of such knowledge is required to correctly disambiguate and parse the user’s query containing pronouns, elisions, ambiguous words, ellipsis, and so on) and where every piece of the query and every piece of the answer is as deeply understood as, say, arithmetic. Wolfram Alpha is somewhere around the geometric mean of those two extremes. It handles a much wider range of queries than Cyc, but much narrower than Google; it understands some of what it is displaying as an answer, but only some of it — e.g., the above example about it displaying the fact that hair grows 10cm/year if you ask for things that happen at 10cm/year but not if you ask how fast hair grows; or being able to report the number of cattle in Chicago but not (even a lower bound on) the number of mammals because it doesn’t know taxonomy and reason that way. If the connection between turbulent air and plane travel isn’t represented via an equation, it isn’t represented at all. As with many of these sentences, I want to add "…yet", because Dr. Wolfram is very much aware of the limitations of his system, and has plans for addressing many of them as Alpha continues to develop.
The bottom line is that there are a large range of queries it can’t parse, and a large range of parsable queries it can’t answer even when it can answer the constituents out of which they should be answerable, but it handles a huge range of numeric and scientific queries correctly even in its current state. And Dr. Wolfram and his team are chipping away at the natural language blocks, at the holes in the curated data repository, and at increasing the type and depth of logical combination of constituents, one by one, in priority order, just as they should. I went in to the demo concerned that this might be a competitor to Cyc, given its "hand-curate knowledge and engineer it, versus let anyone add anything" philosophy, but came out of last night’s demo and discussion seeing Alpha as a complementary technology. I would invest in this, literally and figuratively. If it is not gobbled up by one of the existing industry superpowers, his company may well grow to become one of them in a small number of years, with most of us setting our default browser to be Wolfram Alpha.
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Narrow Your Investigation To Make Informed Decisions?All | Demographics | Education | Geography | Economic | Housing | Government | Taxes | Weather | Crime
Everyone needs shelter in rented housing or individually owned homes. Each community, including zip code 60606, is different from the rest based on overall architecture, appearance, occupancy, average housing square footage, average home value, and average home age.
Percentage of Family Households in Zip Code 60606: 30.3%
Percentage of Family Households in Illinois: 65.8%
Median Household Income In 2000 (60606, IL): $100,377
Median Household Income In 2000 (Illinois): $46,590
Median House/Condo Value in 2000 (60606): $267,000
Median House/Condo Value in 2000 (Illinois): $127,800
Median Gross Rent in 2000 (60606): $1,373
Median Gross Rent in 2000 (Illinois): $605
Utility Gas: 81.5%
Bottled, Tank, Or Lp Gas: 1.5%
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Build a new query that contains the fields you want to search, but with no criteria entered.
Open the Query menu and choose Delete Query.
The design grid changes to include a Delete row. Set the query's criteria to return the records you want to delete (here, all records containing a Painting entry in the Product Type field).
Suppose that you want to delete a certain product type from your inventory. Rather than deleting each instance of that product type in your database, you can use a delete query to both select the records to be deleted and then delete them.
Click the Save button on the Standard toolbar in the main Access window to save the query.
Click the Run button.
Access displays a message explaining that records will be deleted from the table. Click Yes to delete the records.
You cannot undo this action, so be sure that the query you create will return the correct records and that you do, in fact, want to delete those records. If not, click No when prompted to confirm the deletion.
Other Query Types
You can also create queries to update records in a table. For example, you might use a query to update the price of a product instead of manually changing each record. You can also create a query to append (add) records to a database table. This is useful if you are working with multiple tables.
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両側性筋突起過形成を伴った第1第2鰓弓症候群の1例 A case of first and second branchial arch syndrome in a patient who had jaw deformity with bilateral hyperplasia of the mandibular coronoid process
We reported a case of first and second branchial arch syndrome in a patient who had jaw deformity with bilateral hyperplasia of the mandibular coronoid process. The patient was a 16-year-old girl. She visited our maxillofacial orthognathic department because of masticatory insufficiency and muscular contracture in 1989 (when she was 6 years old). She had an asymmetric face, deformed ears, and a small mandible. Panoramic X-ray examination revealedbilateral hyperplasia of the mandibular coronoid process. Orthodontic treatment was started in the same year. In 1999, the patient visited our dental surgery department to undergo orthgnathic surgery. Excision of the mandibular coronoid processes was performed to relieve the muscular contracture in the same year, and sagittal split ramus osteotomy was performed to improve the mandibular deformity in 2000. Both the muscular contracture and dental occlusion improved thereafter. The patient has been under long-term observation by the two departments.
日本口腔外科学会雑誌 52(3), 179-182, 2006-03-20
Japanese Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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Eugène Chavant was the founder of the French resistance organisation France Combat in 1942 and a prominent member of the French resistance. His nom de guerre was Clement, hence the "dit Clement" on the memorial to him in Grenoble. He was a member of the CDLN (Departmental Committee for National Liberation) for the département of Isère during the war. He was also a decorated war hero of the First World War.
Eugène Chavant was born on 12 February 1894 at Colombe, Isère, the son of a shoe-maker. He was a student at the village school before becoming a mechanic in a factory, during which time he followed the distance-learning programme of the Ecole du Génie Civil which allowed him to become a master tradesman.
World War 1
In 1914, he was mobilised in the 11th Dragoons, then transferred to the 20th Battalion of Chasseurs where he was made a sergeant and platoon leader. Gassed near Soissons in 1918, he refused to leave the front. His attitude led him to receive the Médaille Militaire and the Croix de Guerre with four citations.
In Grenoble, he is commemorated by the tram-stop (lines A and C) Chavant.
- Commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur
- Compagnon de la Libération
- Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite
- Médaille Militaire
- Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 (4 citations)
- Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
- Médaille de la Résistance
- (in French) Entry on ordredelaliberation.fr
- The majority of this article was translated from the French source text there.
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These remarks were delivered as part of a panel, “Those we impact”, at the Conference of International Investigators, Montreux, Switzerland, September 30, 2015.
I understand that many of the fraud and corruption investigators here today are former police officers. Human rights activists like me usually go out of our way to avoid talking to the police, let alone answering your questions. But I was asked to address human rights as it relates to corruption in development aid, and over the past few days, I’ve had the opportunity to hear many investigators here describe the same challenges that human rights advocates share. In fact there’s a lot of overlap between corruption and human rights abuses, and in what some agencies are doing to address both.
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Just as experts encourage businesses to develop plans for future growth in a changing environment, the same recommendation is made for communities who want strong economic development. With that in mind, the Raleigh City Council unanimously passed on Oct. 7 the Raleigh 2030 Comprehensive Plan, crafted after two years by the city’s planning department along with hundreds of residents who contributed their input into envisioning the way they want to see the state capital city appear in 20 years.
The plan addresses all aspects of Raleigh’s quality of life, emphasizing neighborhood preservation, a strong economy, ample parks and recreation, improved mobility for all modes of transportation, and the protection of the City and region's natural resources and environmental quality. Sustainability is the cornerstone of its vision for the future, which focuses on the interdependent relationships of environmental stewardship, economic strength, and social integrity.
In terms of economic development, the plan includes as three co-equal goals the attraction of new business, retention and expansion of existing business, and creation of conditions for productive investment in areas of the city that have suffered from disinvestment or a lack of investment. It will use incentives to promote mixed-use zoning development, encourage niche office space development, and expand and enhance creative industries. It also identified 18 areas that demonstrate a need for economic development intervention and that also present opportunities for economic development.
The plan takes effect on Nov. 1 and can be viewed here. We urge you to take a little time and read it over. Its goals are bold, but if they are properly implemented and achieved, Raleigh will be a model for economic competitiveness that other cities will envy. Because of its prominence, that will be good news for the economic future of Wake County as well.
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What is the difference between user variables such as
TMP, etc. and system variables?
I accidentally deleted the user variable
PATH. What am I supposed to do?
Right-click My Computer and go to Properties->Advanced->Environmental Variables...
What's above are user variables, and below are system variables. The elements are combined when creating the environment for an application. System variables are shared for all users, but user variables are only for your account/profile.
If you deleted the system ones by accident, bring up the Registry Editor, then go to
HKLM\ControlSet002\Control\Session Manager\Environment (assuming your current control set is not
ControlSet002). Then find the
Path value and copy the data into the
Path value of
HKLM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment. You might need to reboot the computer. (Hopefully, these backups weren't from too long ago, and they contain the info you need.)
Environment variables are 'evaluated' (ie. they are attributed) in the following order:
Every process has an environment block that contains a set of environment variables and their values. There are two types of environment variables: user environment variables (set for each user) and system environment variables (set for everyone). A child process inherits the environment variables of its parent process by default.
Programs started by the command processor inherit the command processor's environment variables.
Environment variables specify search paths for files, directories for temporary files, application-specific options, and other similar information. The system maintains an environment block for each user and one for the computer. The system environment block represents environment variables for all users of the particular computer. A user's environment block represents the environment variables the system maintains for that particular user, including the set of system environment variables.
Environment variable (can access anywhere/ dynamic object) is a type of variable. They are of 2 types system environment variables and user environment variables.
System variables having a predefined type and structure. That are used for system function. Values that produced by the system are stored in the system variable. They generally indicated by using capital letters Example: HOME,PATH,USER
User environment variables are the variables that determined by the user,and are represented by using small letters.
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Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) is soon going to launch cheaper Windows 10 laptops in the market to compete with the ever-growing sales of the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Chromebooks. Report suggests that the company is going to launch Windows 10 machines for as little as $149 or Rs. 10,000.
Microsoft is expected to launch this notebook with the low power Intel Bay Trail platform, and with an 11.6-inch screen. Chromebook, however, comes in two different sizes, 13-inch and 15-inch for almost the same price. Recently, Google even bumped the specifications of the existing Chromebooks that work on the Intel Celeron processors. Chromebook offer free 100 GB of cloud storage for the users to upload their files and access them anywhere.
Google Chromebooks might have worried the Microsoft, however, it cannot be considered a bigger threat to the Redmond giant as the company already has a large Windows user base. However, Microsoft $149 can put more competition in the realm of cheaper laptops.
Microsoft sub $150 laptop can now become a serious issue for the Chromebooks, as these Google laptops run on an operating system, which is light years behind the Windows operating system. Chrome OS is more of a cloud OS and works similar to an Android smartphone. You can find the same store to download the apps and a cloud connectivity. To use a Chromebook, one need to be connected to the Internet all the time.
However, in the case of Windows, the operating system offers more productivity and expandability options. Windows operating system is best known for its support, user interface and powerful kernel. It is an operating system that runs on more than 90% of the computers worldwide and is designed to handle any task that is thrown at it.
Microsoft makes the Windows stand out of the crowd with the different set of applications such as Microsoft Office and more for the achieving higher productivity; Chrome OS is still not there with it.
We believe that Microsoft with its Windows 10 is going to push the limits, and will set bar for the other operating systems in the industry. Redmond giant is less likely to fail, however if it fails then the company might lose its market to other competing giants, including Google.
Microsoft is already putting a lot of effort by adding industry grade features, and is going to launch several versions that will even run on the open source hardware such as Raspberry Pi. With Pi running the ARM build of the Windows 10 — that is totally free of cost, company is expected to expand the reach and availability of Windows 10. Not only it will attract more users but will also help schools and institutes in remote areas with advanced technologies and friendly environment of Windows to learn more about computers.Tags: Android, Chromebook, Google, Microsoft, Windows 10
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If you're interested in someone romantically, you might flirt with them, which means to chat them up or tease them in a playful way.
Flirting is an indirect and fun way to let your crush know you're interested, like a seductive line or a few coy words. Or if there's a girl you've had your eye on, you might make a point of walking by her desk and saying hello every morning. But even if you don't have a love interest, you can still flirt. Driving carelessly is flirting with disaster: it's almost like you're toying with the idea of getting into an accident.
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Farmland more than doubled in value between 1998 and 2007, from $974 per acre to $2,160 per acre, according to the USDA Land Values and Cash Rents Summary. Not only is adding farmland to one’s portfolio potentially lucrative, but it can aid with diversification and increased cash flow can be realized by leasing the land to capable tenants.
The annual return on investment (ROI) for leasing farmland has been at about 5 to 6 percent, not including property appreciation, since 1999, according to Iowa State University’s Agricultural Extension. It is important to note that different lease arrangements may provide different returns.
Three main methods of farmland leasing are available: cash rent leasing, crop share leasing, and custom contracts.
Farmland leasing overview
Farmland has been in a bull market for more than 20 years, and the historical returns on farmland are negatively correlated with stocks but tend to track inflation, according to Forbes. Investors whose tenants grow corn are betting on continued artificial inflation from ethanol subsidies.
“Land has been a good investment,” Gary Schnitkey, farm management extension specialist at the University of Illinois, said in an e-mail interview. “Over a [long] time period farmland returns are competitive with other assets of similar risk.”
Since ancient times, savvy landowners have offered their land to tenants in return for a share of the crops and profits. This is a crop share leasing arrangement, and divides the risk between landowner and tenant. Crop share leases require more administrative oversight than cash rent leases, including calculating necessary supplies and determining who is responsible for payment on inputs of fertilizer and crops, among other things. Crop share leases may require landowners to be more involved in the day-to-day decisions than cash rent arrangements.
Cash rent leasing is an arrangement in which the tenant pays the property owner a lump sum per year—often per acre—for use of the farmland and any other resources the landowner chooses to supply. Tenants typically provide their own equipment, labor and materials.
Some investors may choose to use flexible cash rent arrangements to avoid the self-employment taxes often required in a crop share lease while still benefiting from potential profits. Flexible cash rents can be altered by price ratios, upward and downward pricing adjustments, the cropland’s yield or a combination of these factors. Flexible cash rents transfer more of the risk onto the landowner than traditional cash rent arrangements, but allow investors to profit from unexpected windfalls.
In Iowa, 54 percent of farmland was leased in 2004, with 37 percent in cash rents and 16 percent in crop share leases, according to a 2004 Iowa State University survey of cropland leasing practices. “Statewide the percentage of land that is cash rented has increased while the percent of land in a crop share agreement has decreased,” Timothy Eggers, a field agriculture economist with Iowa State University, said in an e-mail interview.
Some investors may also consider custom contracts in which the tenant supplies all labor, equipment, planting, pest control, harvesting and storage of crops, and the owner pays for all other expenses. In these cases, the tenant usually receives a fixed payment per acre or per operation performed from the owner.
Farmland investors should have several exit strategies, since many investors eventually seek to sell their land to other farmers, to their long-term tenants or to developers.
Investors intending to eventually sell to developers should buy land within easy driving distance of a major metropolitan area. Farmland in Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois can be bought for $2,800 to $6,000 an acre and is being purchased for development at about $7,000 per acre, according to Forbes.
But, because farmland leasing can be a relatively low-maintenance investment with good cash flow potential, some investors may instead opt to hold their farmland and lease it indefinitely.
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Distance Between Englewood Cliffs, NJ and New York, NY
How many miles?15 Miles or 24 Km
How much does it take?37 mins
Distance, Gas Consumption and Emission Notes
Distance from Englewood Cliffs, NJ to New York, NY is 15Miles or 24 Km. You can get this distance about 37 mins. If you want to planning travel with plane for 13 Miles or 20 Km, You can get this distance about 31 mins .
A car with an average MPG will needs 0.69 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Englewood Cliffs, NJ and New York, NY is $1.57.
During the route, an average car will release 13.52 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.9 pounds of CO2 per mile.
* Average US MPG used for calculations is 21.6 MPG.
* Average US gas price used for calculation is 2.27 per gallon.
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Choosing what to display
The Library Browser has several features for decluttering your view by hiding assets that aren’t relevant to your purpose. No matter how numerous your media files, the combined power of these techniques can greatly speed your browsing.
Most importantly, each location tab corresponds to a different selection on the Asset Tree. Like web browser tabs, location tabs are readily defined (by clicking on the ‘+’ icon at the right end of the tab list), and come in handy for keeping track of multiple things simultaneously.
Clicking within the Asset Tree sets the location for the current tab; conversely, clicking another tab transfers you to its saved location on the tree. Only the assets within the chosen location are displayed in the Browser. If the location has subfolders, however, their contents will be included. To keep things simple, choose a location as near the bottom of the folder hierarchy as possible.
Other controls let you restrict the display further by filtering out some of the assets in the chosen location. Each location tab maintains its own set of filters, so any change of filtering settings affects the current tab only.
Filter by rating
The Filter by rating control at the top of the Library hides all assets that don’t have at least the specified rating from one to five stars (zero stars means ‘unrated’). To use the filter, simply click on the star that represents the minimum rating you want to bother with. The default filter setting is to show all assets regardless of rating.
See Inadvertent filtering for instructions on switching off all filters at once. To deactivate just the rating filter click the last selected star or double-click any star.
In this close-up, three stars are highlighted, meaning that only assets with ratings of three stars or better are on display. The mouse is poised to click the fifth star, which would set the rating filter to hide all but five-star assets.
Filter by tags
Another way to narrow the field of displayed assets is with filtering by tags. Tags are keywords that you can assign to assets as you work. Once tags have been defined, you can use them in several ways to control which assets are displayed by the Browser. See Tags for detailed information.
At the top right of the Library is a search field that gives one further way to filter the display. As you begin entering your search term, the Browser continually updates the view to include only those assets with text that matches your search term.
Even when multiple terms are separated by spaces, partial-word as well as whole-word matches are allowed in each term. A dropdown list lets you choose whether the search will be satisfied if even a single search term matches the asset text, or if all terms must match for the asset to be accepted.
The three filtering types can be combined at will. Should you leave any of the filtering types switched on when you don’t need it, it’s likely that some assets will be hidden that should be displayed. When an item is unexpectedly missing in the Browser, verify that filters are inactive.
The Browser guards against the possibility of inadvertent filtering by displaying a ‘filter alert’ that remains visible as long as any filter is in use.
A filter alert like the one shown here is displayed at the top of the Browser whenever filtering is in force. Click the x icon at the right-hand end to clear all filtering at once.
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Newswise — Fewer than one in two children and young adults treated for anxiety achieve long-term relief from symptoms, according to the findings of a study by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and five other institutions.
Results of the federally funded research, to be published online Jan. 29 in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, underscore the importance of vigilant follow-up and rigorous monitoring of symptoms among anxious children, teens and young adults — even when they seem to be on the mend — the investigators say. The results also point to the need for better long-term management of a condition estimated to affect one in five children in the United States, and one that can lead to depression, substance abuse and poor academic performance well into adulthood, the research team says.
“Our findings are encouraging in that nearly half of these children achieved significant improvement and were disease-free an average of six years after treatment, but at the same time we ought to look at the other half who didn’t fare so well and figure out how we can do better,” says lead investigator Golda Ginsburg, Ph.D., a psychologist at the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center and professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
The study, believed to be the first long-term analysis of children treated with a variety of therapeutic approaches, involved 288 patients, ages 11 to 26, diagnosed with and treated for anxiety for three months, then followed for an average of six years thereafter.
Participants received medication, cognitive-behavioral therapy or a combination of the two. Some 135 (47 percent) of the 288 were free of any anxiety six years after the initial treatment, the study found. Nearly 70 percent required some type of intermittent mental health therapy in the years following the original treatment, a finding that Ginsburg says underscores the chronic nature of the disorder. Only sustained watchfulness, she adds, can help spot early signs of anxiety and prevent the re-emergence of a full-blown disorder.
“Just because a child responds well to treatment early on, doesn’t mean our work is done and we can lower our guard,” Ginsburg says.
The type of treatment received did not predict relapse risk, the study found, suggesting that the three therapies are similarly effective — an encouraging finding that highlights the variety of therapeutic options available to patients.
Family dynamics and gender were the two most powerful predictors of long-term anxiety risk. Stable families with clear rules and greater trust who spent quality time together diminished a child’s risk of relapse, as did being male. Girls were nearly twice as likely to relapse as boys, a finding that requires further study of hormonal, social and environmental factors, all of which may fuel sex differences in outcomes and can inform gender-based treatment approaches, the investigators say.
Anxiety is the result of a complex interplay between genes and environment, the researchers say, and while there’s not much to be done about one’s genetic makeup, controlling external factors can go a long way toward mitigating or preventing anxiety.
The research was funded by the National Institutes of Health under grants MH064089, MH64092, MH064003, MH063747, MH64107 and MH64088.
Other Johns Hopkins investigators included Courtney Keeton, Ph.D.
Other institutions involved in the research included the University of Pittsburgh, University of California Los Angeles, Columbia University Medical Center, Duke University and Temple University.
Related on the Web:
Trickle-Down Anxiety: Study Examines Parental Behaviors that Create Anxious Children
Children of Adults with Anxiety Disorder May Need Help Too
Founded in 1912 as the children's hospital of the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center offers one of the most comprehensive pediatric medical programs in the country, with more than 92,000 patient visits and nearly 9,000 admissions each year. Hopkins Children’s is consistently ranked among the top children's hospitals in the nation. Hopkins Children’s is Maryland's largest children’s hospital and the only state-designated Trauma Service and Burn Unit for pediatric patients. It has recognized Centers of Excellence in dozens of pediatric subspecialties, including allergy, cardiology, cystic fibrosis, gastroenterology, nephrology, neurology, neurosurgery, oncology, pulmonary, and transplant. For more information, visit www.hopkinschildrens.org.
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In most cases, your issue will be related to linetype scale (LTSCALE) as it relates to Paper Space linetype scale (PSLTSCALE). However, you may have your measurement units mistakenly set to Metric when your drawing is meant to be in Imperial units (or vice versa), which can also affect the appearance of dashed lines.
Why can’t I see dashed lines in AutoCAD?
Most likely your line type scale is set too low. Select your line you want dashed and open the properties on it. Mostly likely it will be 1.0… increase it to around 30 and see how that looks.
How do you make a dashed line visible in AutoCAD?
To adjust the scale, open the Linetype manager through Format > Linetype. Change the Global scale factor. Changing it from 1 to 0.5 will make your dashed line twice as dense. You can also change it using the command LTSCALE.
How do I edit dashed lines in AutoCAD?
With PSLTSCALE set to 1 (default), set the current linetype to dashed, and then draw a line in a paper space layout. In the layout, create a viewport with a zoom factor of 1x, make that layout viewport current, and then draw a line using the same dashed linetype. The dashed lines should appear to be the same.
What is Psltscale?
When a drawing is viewed in a layout the lines are displayed relative to the viewport scaling factor. Setting the PSLTSCALE system variable allows to maintain the same linetype scaling for objects displayed at different zoom factors in a layout and in a layout viewport.26 мая 2020 г.
How do you show hidden lines in AutoCAD 3d?
To show hidden lines in the current viewport
- Select the viewport in which you want to show hidden lines.
- Click Window menu > Properties Inspector.
- On the Properties Inspector, Misc area, Shade Plot list, select As Displayed.
How do I change the scale of a layer in AutoCAD?
To Change the Linetype Scale for All Objects
- Click Home tab Properties panel Linetype Find drop-down list., and choose Other.
- In the Linetype Manager, click Show Details to expand the dialog box.
- Enter a new value for Global Scale Factor.
How do I change hidden lines in AutoCAD?
Change the Display Properties of Hidden Lines
- At the Command prompt, enter HLSETTINGS.
- In the Hidden Line Settings dialog box, change the settings and click OK.
How do I change the centerline spacing in AutoCAD?
Many of the center mark and centerline settings can be modified in the Properties window. Click on a center mark or centerline to view and set general properties such as color, layer, linetype, linetype scale, plot style, lineweight, transparency, and so on.
Where is Format menu in AutoCAD?
Do one of the following:
- At the top-left of the application window, on the right end of the Quick Access toolbar, click the drop-down menu Show Menu Bar.
- At the Command prompt, enter MENUBAR. Enter 1 to display the menu bar.
What should Ltscale be set to?
Our recommended settings are: LTSCALE = 1 for the drawing template. Our Scale (Plot Scale) tool will adjust this setting as needed when run in Model Space. Layout space sheets should be in separate drawings to keep LTSCALE as 1 in Paper Space.
What is AutoCAD Cannoscale?
Sets the name of the current annotation scale for the current space. Type: String. Saved in: Drawing.
How many linetypes are there?
When you first start AutoCAD, the default template has only one linetype is available. This is the continuous linetype. AutoCAD has many more available, but only loads in one to start with in order to keep the drawing file size smaller. If you need a different linetype, you must load it into your current drawing.
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Motivation – from the Latin word movere; means ‘to move’.
It is the way in which we drive ourselves to ‘move’ or take action, to meet a need or achieve a goal. It is that energy that helps us to achieve our goals despite challenges. Motivation is influenced by 2 factors – intrinsic and extrinsic.
Intrinsic is internal factors – like our basic biological needs and psychological needs.
Eg. one wants to achieve a goal, because it provides satisfaction and stimulation.
Extrinsic is where motivation to achieve is dependent on external factors – like money, fame, Success etc;
In the upcoming Infinum Evenings session, our topic of discussion is
Motivation – Achieving Goals despite Challenges
On Sunday, 19th June, 2022; 5pm to 6.30pm India time.
Join Our Hosts –
Ragini Rao – Psychotherapist & Trainer; Teaching & Supervising Transactional Analyst (TSTA)
Nisha Rao – Educator, Counsellor & Life Coach;
to explore your own Motivation factors.
We will explore by answering the following questions:
1) What works better – intrinsic or extrinsic motivation? Bring awareness to what motivates you .
2)What is the link between Motivation and Happiness (Maslow’s theory)
About Infinum Evenings
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- A safe space to think, express, question, learn and together explore different aspects of Emotional Wellbeing.
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Someone on the radio the other day mentioned this great concept (the Talent Myth… which was touted a few years ago) that actually works in two kinds of negative ways! The speaker made a comment that many people in the banking world are living a talent myth, constantly reinforcing that they have special skills that only they possess and should therefore be rewarded handsomely for. We’re not fully sure about the evidence to back this up, however, he did go on to say that very few people could actually do what Wayne Rooney did at the weekend and score 4 goals at the highest club level of football – and therefore, we can be sure that whatever Mr Rooney is being paid, it can be defended that very few people on the planet can actually do what he is capable of doing. Therefore, the talent pool is very small and therefore has a justifiably high value. However, people in less specialised worlds see themselves as equally talented, hence the talent myth concept.
In the same way that some people may think they have special talents that others don’t possess, creating their own talent myth, the majority of performers we see create a talent myth that actually limits their view of themselves. Having not taken the time to really evaluate and appreciate their talents (they typically just take talents for granted), they often conclude that they wouldn’t be able to do something that they see others doing. A resolution to this kind of self-limiting thinking will often come from simply taking some time out to do a full evaluation of your talents – all of your talents though! When thinking of talents, make sure you think about talents as fully as possible. Don’t just go for the obvious talents around your technical and tactical talents, but think more widely to include such things as your mental skills, concentration skills, thinking skills, problem solving skills. Equally you might have great talents for persevering, thinking laterally, getting on with people very quickly or communicating with passion. Really spend the time identifying and valuing your varied talents… and ask others who know you well what they’d put on the list for you. Once you can identify the talents and you value how you’ll use them, then start expecting to see them cropping up more and more, across more and more situations.
With the right amount of time spent on this, you can make sure that you don’t end up creating an unhelpful talent myth of your own that is holding you back from finding out just how good you can be.
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Baha'I fosters community involvment
Junior youth groups facilitated by trained youth “animators” help youth to develop their latent capabilities and contribute to meaningful service in the community. The groups engage in learning, socializing, arts, sports and service activities. Attention is given to enhancing their powers of expression, recognizing the moral issues underlying everyday decisions and the moral implications of their speech and actions, developing friendships, withstanding negative peer pressure, building unity and enhancing global citizenship.
One of the main objectives of junior youth groups is to empower the young people to be able to contribute to the advancement of world civilization. Individual and social transformation go hand in hand, there is a great need to encourage young people to better their environment through service. It is impossible to change just the individual or society, it must be a dual process to be effective.
The area focused on for the service project was and is the Pago Bay Area along the coastal lines of Pago Harbor. The junior youth empowerment group is composed of youth from the ages of 11 and up (multi denominational) and is under the guidance of the Baha'is of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Pago Pago. We tend to keep up with all our service projects and hope to utilize the agencies that are able and available to help assist us in anyway possible.
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With a bright aliens and space theme, set on the faraway planet of Mathematis, your child has to save the peaceful Mathematians from the bombs of their evil nemeses, the Innumerators, by solving math problems. For every math question solved correctly, a Mathematian’s spaceship escapes their war-torn planet; get a question wrong, and the ship is grounded.
The game is suitable for kids aged 4+ and has customized settings so that your child can play at their correct level whatever their age. For young kids, set a low limit on the answer range to make sure they’re getting easy question. Increase the limit as your child’s skills improve.
I really like the game’s bright graphics and the built in “Do Over” mode which let’s kids have another go at questions they skipped or got wrong. There’s also a parent page where you can track your child’s progress.
Mathematis is a great app for practising arithmetic skills. It doesn’t teach kids how to work out the answers, so is best used as an app to reinforce and improve your child’s mental math recall. The audio on the game is also really loud, and you’ll need to go into your phone’s settings to make it quieter, which isn’t so great for us parents with sensitive ears, but the developer assures me he’ll make the sound adjustable in the next update!
Maths Insider is giving away 3 free app store codes for Mathematis. To grab your free coupon code for Mathematis, email me at email@example.com with the subject line “I want Mathematis”
I’ll pick 3 people at random after 9am GMT Wednesday 12th June 2013.
Competition now closed. Congratulations to Ada, Chloe and Maryam who won a free app store code each for Mathematis!
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Estimated read time: 1-2 minutes
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
Sandra Yi ReportingWe all know identity theft is a fast-growing crime, but adults aren't the only targets. Thieves are stealing information from children younger than 12-years old. The Attorney General's Office knows of nearly 2 thousand kids in Utah who are victims.
One Ogden couple was careful to keep their daughter's information private. But that didn't keep it from getting into the hands of identity thieves. For most of her short life, Bailey Smith has shared her identity with someone else. And it's not by choice.
Scott Smith: "She doesn't know what to make of it. She's only five."
According to social security records, Bailey works at a steak restaurant in Provo.
Kelly Smith, Bailey's Mother: "So she drives from Ogden every day, 80 miles both ways, to go to work. So we told her she needs to start paying rent (laughs)."
The family can make light of it. But investigators say identity theft among children has become a widespread problem.
Ron Ingleby, Office of Inspector General for the SSA: "Here in Utah there are probably tens of thousands of incidents, and most parents don't know it's happening."
Bailey's parents had no idea it was happening to her, until they were notified by the Attorney General's Office.
Scott Smith, Bailey's Father: "This was not a situation of dumpster diving, finding documents I her name. These were obviously downloaded from a master list somewhere that we have no control over."
Mark Shurtleff, Utah Attorney General: "Right now your social security number can be purchased on the street for as little as $20."
The AG's office announced that five people have been charged with stealing and forging social security numbers belonging to children. More than 200 cases are pending. It's part of a multi-agency investigation.
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Dir. Abby Ginzberg
South Africa, 2014, 86 minutes
South African activist Albie Sachs has fought for racial equality since he was a teenager. Sachs was a prime target for the pro-apartheid regime. He was imprisoned in solitary confinement and was car-bombed in Mozambique. This film captures Sachs’ incredible dedication to the fight for justice and his role in transforming South Africa. Peabody Award Winner 2015.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) --Is there an electric car in your future? Bay Area transportation officials are hoping so. They're staging events designed to get people plugged into the idea. ABC7 News takes a look at what it will cost you.
In the future, many of us maybe plugging in, not filling up our cars, but for now electric vehicles are a bit of a mystery. Even mechanics to work on them have questions.
"The cars are so new, we don't know what their longevity is going to be. It's all speculative," Carolyn Coquillette from Luscious Garage said.
Coquillette has opened her shop for this showcase of electric cars -- BMW, Cadillac, fiats to name a few.
The Bay Area Transportation Commission wants more people to experience electric to reduce emissions on the road.
"Your cost of operating are about one-fifth of those of a gasoline-powered vehicle," John Goodwin from the Metropolitan Transportation Commission said.
Most of these electric cars cost about $10,000 more than the same gas powered model and have an average range of about 100 miles on a full charge.
Then it was my turn to drive an electric car for the first time. I thought it was hard to get over how quiet the car is, but I can't take my eye off the gauge that tells you how much battery life is left.
Charging the car may increase your power bill about 20 percent per month, unless you have solar like electric car owner Angelo Festo. He told ABC7 News, "My electric bill was $15 for the whole house and charging car every night."
If you want to check these cars out, they'll be on display this Saturday on the Marina Green in San Francisco.
Experience Electric - The Better Ride
San Francisco to Host First Free Electric-Vehicle Test Drive Event
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At Corpus Christi, we value people who believe in themselves and others. There are many opportunities to develop leadership skills at Corpus Christi, including the Student Leadership Team, Student RE Team and Student Child Safe Team. Every student has the opportunity to lead school liturgies, assemblies and school events throughout the year.
Good leaders at our school will strive to:
- Enable people to feel comfortable and safe
- Look presentable and take pride in their appearance and school
- Be confident in themselves and encourage confidence in others
- Be a positive role model
- Generate and listen to ideas that will improve teaching, learning and safety at Corpus Christi
- Stand for Justice
- Treat every member of the school community with respect and fairness
- Be a good listener.
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This summer, kids can make their letter C mini-book with just a single piece of paper. This mini-book has five different versions. Each version has room for drawing and handwriting lines (different for each grade). Kids are encouraged to find summer words starting with the letter C, draw a picture, and write a sentence about this word. This summer activity with the letter C is excellent for preschool to 4th-grade students. Summer words can be camp, canoeing, cap.
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South Korea says a senior Chinese official will visit North Korea to try to persuade the Stalinist state to return to nuclear talks.
South Korean Unification Minister Chung Dong-young said Friday, the Chinese official plans to visit the North some time after next week's Lunar New Year holiday. Mr. Chung did not identify the communist official.
The minister also says South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon will visit Washington February 14 the discuss the talks with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The two Koreas, the United States, China, Japan and Russia have held three rounds of talks aimed at dismantling the North's nuclear weapons program.
Pyongyang has said it will assess President Bush's policy towards it in his second term before agreeing to further talks.Some information for this report provided by AP and Reuters.
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This quilt is reminiscent of the 1930s, but with a modern flair. Learn to accurately cut and construct complex shapes and place them strategically, allowing the fabric to visually construct itself into flower-like shapes. This pattern is packed with many tips which are easily applicable to other similar projects. In memory of my grandmother Ana Elisa who always had bright flowers around her house. Will make a 53″x74″.
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Law practice, legal marketing, & legal technology.
New attorneys can often be easily intimidated. Here are some tips on how young attorneys can effectively deal with bullying from opposing counsel.
A new survey shows that current lawyers expect new lawyers to have far more than just traditional legal skills when they are starting out.
In an effort to avoid conflict, many attorneys say yes more often than they should. Learn to say no to clients, opposing counsel, and the court.
Experienced attorneys frequently resort to intimidation when dealing with a young attorney. If you are a young attorney, have faith in your case---and don't let opposing counsel dictate their view of the case and your client.
The nuts and bolts of putting together a CLE: first, pick a topic that won’t make established attorneys wonder “who does she think she is?”
Teaching a CLE can be a lot of work, but new lawyers will reap benefits when they do, including public speaking experience and networking exposure.
Young attorneys need to carefully consider the source and content of advice when making a critical decision.
The legal profession holds infinite legal and networking events. If you can have fun at legal events, you'll leave feeling energized, not drained
Lawyers need to be careful to avoid giving casual legal advice and causing more problems than they are fixing.
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White Lotus Day (May 8) commemorates the death of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, the primary founder of the Theosophical Society. On this day Theosophists around the world celebrate her life and work. Her teachings have some remarkable parallels with the ancient wisdom of China, particularly the Confucian BRRT principles: Brotherhood, Regularity, Reciprocity, and Trying. In her early writings, Blavatsky was less sympathetic to the work of Confucius than in her later years. She came to recognize that Confucianism has a profound system of ethics similar to Theosophy. In this program, David Bruce delivers this talk for John Algeo, who had written the lecture but was unable to make this White Lotus Day appearance due to unforeseen circumstances. 53 minutes. 2009.
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Do you like you like me? (circle one)
How would you assess your dating life? With Valentine’s day this month, many people find themselves reflecting on their relationships. If yours isn’t where you’d like it to be, you may be feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, and frustrated with love and dating. You’re not alone.
This disconnected, unconscious pattern of dating and flowing in and out of relationships can feel like you’re throwing darts at a dartboard, merely hoping for the best. Every now and then you’ll hit a bullseye but not without putting many holes in the wall and getting burnt out on the game.
So, how can you avoid this dating burnout? Through “conscious dating.” Conscious dating requires awareness and preparation, thoughtfulness and intentionality. It means being aware of how you show up in relationships, a thoughtfulness about the kind of partner you’re looking for, preparation in the sense of being okay with rejection, and intentionally setting boundaries to ensure you’re getting your needs met.
Unconscious and conscious dating can sound like:
Unconscious dating: “I need to be sure this person likes me and commits to me.”
Conscious dating: “I need to be sure to get to know this person and see if we’re a good fit for each other.”
Unconscious dating: “It’s more important to know that my relationship with my significant other appears perfect in our posts on social media.”
Conscious dating: “It’s more important to know that my significant other and I can navigate big emotions and life events together.”
Unconscious dating: “I want to fix this person.”
Conscious dating: “I want to grow alongside someone who is also willing to do the work.”
Unconscious dating: “I put my partner’s needs first, so I will hide or minimize many of my thoughts, feelings, and needs.”
Conscious dating: “I know that my needs are equally valuable to my partner’s, so I communicate my own thoughts, feelings and needs.”
When people date unconsciously, they often cycle through relationship after relationship and never really find what they’re looking for. We’ve put together some tips for how to begin new patterns of dating consciously and intentionally, where you are as connected to yourself as you are to your partner.
Set goals for your dating life. To avoid scrolling mindlessly through dating apps or dating someone out of convenience, set a goal for the outcome of your dating experience and envision in detail what it will look like when you’ve accomplished that goal.
This means being specific about what you’re looking for and who you believe you would be most compatible with. Not just who your “type” is, but your deeper, essence-based preferences that help you identify the kind of person that would help you feel known, excited, connected, and cared for.
This is a good time to also set specific goals about the kind of person you’re striving to be in your next relationship.
What do you want to work on to be your healthiest and ensure you show up authentically and consciously in your relationship?
Be yourself not just who you think your partner wants you to be. Remember, in conscious dating, your focus is on finding someone who is a good fit for you, not just someone who will stick around. This intentionality can surface in the way you construct your dating profile, choosing photos and prompts that accurately reflect your personality and interests so that you’re attracting the right people and not just the most people.
Being yourself also means being self-aware about the work you need to do to be the best partner you can be. This means that you’re responsible for doing the hard work of learning important relationship skills, reflecting on your attachment style and the way you show up in relationships, and committing to changing things for the better. This is what conscious dating is all about. Unsure about how your attachment style affects the way you show up in relationships? Check out this article on pursuers and withdrawers!
Know your non-negotiables and set firm boundaries. Decide how you want to be treated and don’t accept anything less. Doing so will help to promote your well-being and self-esteem. Reflect back on the goals you set for yourself and your dating life. Ask yourself, “Am I in the relationship that I envisioned for myself or am I ignoring potential red flags?
Boundaries include emotional and physical boundaries. An emotional boundary can be something like, “I will only take responsibility for my own emotions and actions.” An emotional boundary like this helps maintain your personal identity in the relationship. A physical boundary could be, “It’s best for me to only spend x amount of time with my partner right now” or “I really want to focus our time doing x activities instead of y activities.” It’s all about the time you spend together and how you spend it. Are you choosing activities that help you get to know each other and your interests better? Are you comfortable with the pace in which you’re increasing intimacy?
Be mindful. Pay attention to your thoughts and feelings and allow them to help guide you and your decision-making. If you have a gut feeling, check in with it and be curious about what it’s trying to tell you and what it may signal about your needs. Notice if you’ve primarily been acting and making decisions about your relationships from a place of fear or from a place of peace and self-confidence.
Communicate and take your needs seriously. As you’ve likely heard, communication is key in relationships. It helps your partner understand your experience and your needs. If you don’t take your own emotions and needs seriously by communicating them, you can’t expect the other person to take them seriously by reflecting and making changes, either. It’s not always easy and requires safety, respect, and vulnerability, but is vital for shaping the kind of relationship that we want to be in. (Need some tips? check out these five strategies for better communication).
Accept and normalize rejection. It happens. Not everyone will be a match and while having an emotional reaction to rejection is natural and normal, it doesn’t mean there is something wrong with you or that you necessarily need to do anything differently next time. Instead of taking it personally or diminishing your hope about finding a relationship, view it as a positive step away from a dead end and towards someone who will actually be a good match for you.
Be uncomfortable. Relationships require vulnerability and that is going to feel uncomfortable at times, but it doesn’t mean it’s not a valuable experience. Don’t be afraid to take the risk required to reach your dating and relationship goals!
If you struggle with a lot of discomfort surrounding your dating life and protecting your personal identity in relationships, you may want to increase your resources by reaching out to a therapist. Individual therapy focused on relational issues can help you unpack and understand your dating history, attachment style, and stuck patterns, increase your comfort level with taking relational risks, and become a more conscious partner in relationships. Click here for more information and to get set up with a therapist today.
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Alexander Payne is a master of the American dramedy. In films noted for their acerbic dialogue and grounded sense of place, Payne’s acutely observed characters struggle to make sense of the commitments in their lives. In Citizen Ruth (1996), Payne explored the challenges of parenting; in Election (1999), of civic responsibility; in About Schmidt (2002), of familial responsibility; and in Sideways (2004), of friendship. His latest (2011) film The Descendants, adapted from a novel of the same name by the Hawaiian writer Kaui Hart Hemmings, won Payne his second best-adapted-screenplay Oscar. What sets this film apart from his previous work is how Payne has heightened the stakes of his protagonist’s actions. In The Descendants, Matt King has responsibilities as husband, parent, son-in-law, friend, neighbor, citizen of Hawaii, descendant, and even as a member of creation. Never before has Payne drawn such a complex, interconnected, moral landscape.
Matt (played by George Clooney) has a lot on his plate. His wife Elizabeth (Patricia Hastie) has been in a boating accident, leaving her in a coma from which she will never recover. Matt is left to care for their two daughters, ten-year-old Scottie (Amara Miller) and seventeen-year-old Alex (Shailene Woodley)—a real challenge since Matt confesses via narration that he has always been “the back-up parent, the understudy.” Matt also needs to share the news about Elizabeth’s imminent passing with the family and friends who love her. One of these persons, Matt discovers, is Elizabeth’s lover. On top of all of this, Matt is the trustee of his family’s 25,000 acres of untouched, pristine Hawaiian land, and while the family needs to make a decision about selling the land, Matt has the final say.
This would be a lot of responsibility for anyone to handle, but it is even harder for Matt because he has isolated himself emotionally, leading an imbalanced, self-centered, workaholic life. Matt admits to this when he pleads with his comatose wife, “If you’re doing this to get my attention Liz, it’s working. I’m ready now. I’m ready to talk. I’m ready to change. I’m ready to be a real husband and a real father. Just wake up.” Matt has been in denial about his commitments to spouse and children, but the denial bleeds into other commitments— to extended family, neighbor, country, and natural world. Throughout the film, Matt struggles to reconcile the differences between his identity and his actions. As Charles Taylor suggests, modern identity “is defined by the commitments and identifications which provide the frame or horizon within which I can try to determine from case to case what is good, or valuable, or what ought to be done, or what I endorse or oppose. In other words, it is the horizon within which I am capable of taking a stand” (1989, 27). The Descendants is the story of a man moving out of an isolated, autonomous existence to embrace life as interconnected and relational. Matt broadens first to understand how his identity is shared with his family, then with his wider circle of acquaintances, and eventually with the entirety of creation.
It is clear from the beginning that Matt is disconnected from his wife Elizabeth. Matt explains via narration at his wife’s bedside, “When I heard about the accident and about the coma, I wasn’t even in town. I was on Maui on business and we hadn’t spoken in three days. In a way, we hadn’t spoken in months.” Matt does not get a second chance to be a husband to Elizabeth, but he does get another chance with his daughters. At first, he flounders in the role of parent. When Scottie exhibits inappropriate behavior in school, the school counselor asks Matt, “Have you been engaging Scottie in really talking about everything that is going on? Encouraging her to express her feelings?” He nods, half listening, and then, walking out of the school with Scottie, instead of trying to learn something about her feelings, he barks at her, “What’s the matter with you?” No moment is more telling than when Matt asks Alex what to do with Scottie. She responds insightfully—to spend more time with her, to go camping with her—but Matt cuts her off. Instead of listening to Alex’s good advice, he decides now is the time to tell Alex about her mom’s condition. Matt’s road with his daughters is not an easy one. Throughout the film, he struggles to communicate openly with them. Although he does not seem to make much progress in this regard, he is at least trying. The final image of the film, of Matt and his daughters covered with their mother’s blanket, suggests that Matt’s loving presence is the most important gift he can give them.
Beyond the challenge of reconnecting with his daughters, Matt also struggles to deal kindly with the type of people that many of us would rather not have in our lives at all: those who challenge and frustrate us. His stepfather Scott (Robert Forster) belittles and guilts him; his daughter’s friend Sid (Nick Krause) is insensitive and annoying. It would be easy for Matt to dismiss these people, to put them in boxes: to label Scott, as Sid calls him, “a prick,” or to label Sid “an idiot” or “a stoner.” Matt agrees with Sid’s labeling of Scott behind Scott’s back and shows contempt for Sid to Sid’s face; however, Payne never lets Matt off the hook. Peering through the open door of Elizabeth’s hospital room, Matt sees Scott grieve over his daughter, affectionately caring for her, kissing her. We see Scott mouth the words, “I love you” to her. Scott is not just “a prick”; he is a loving father. During a late night conversation with Sid, Matt finds out that Sid has just lost his father a few months ago. Though Sid wears a weak smile as he shares the news, Sid’s pain lingers underneath the expression. Sid is not “an insensitive idiot”; he is a grieving son. Drawn as emotionally complex human beings with their own feelings and needs, Scott and Sid show Matt that they deserve his respect and care.
Perhaps the most challenging person that comes into Matt’s life is Brian Speer (Matthew Lillard), the man with whom his wife was having an affair. Late in the film, Matt finds himself face to face with Brian. He has enlisted Alex to help him with the confrontation. They have discovered that Brian has a family, a wife and two boys. While the rest of Brian’s family is occupied, Matt and Alex trap Brian. First they speak to each other about their first impressions right in front of him. With venom in her voice, Alex asks Matt, “This is him? Why would she go for him?” As the two lay it on, we naturally side with Matt and Alex against Brian; however, Payne complicates this situation too. Brian seems like a sincere guy when he apologizes. There is no soundtrack to direct our interpretation of what is happening. When Brian looks back at his wife in the kitchen, we realize the effect this confrontation might have on his family. It becomes clear that Brian loves his wife and family. Matthew Lillard, usually known for his comedic roles, effectively draws a picture of this complicated family man—honest, sensitive, devoted to wife and children, yet confused, conflicted in his actions in keeping a secret life.
What to do with Brian Speer? What is a proper moral response? Matt doesn’t react well to him; in fact, on the way out he kisses Brian’s wife, Julie (Judy Greer). While we want to give Matt the benefit of the doubt, it is hard not to see this action as childish and unwarranted, especially considering that Julie is also a victim of Brian’s secret life. Do we want Matt to forgive Brian at this point? Perhaps it is too much to expect such a selfless act. Yet our growing sympathy toward Brian poses the question: how can I honor and care for my neighbor when my neighbor has hurt me? Matt could tear this family apart. Further, Alex and Sid are looking on as Matt makes decisions about what to do with Brian. Alex and Sid are learning how to act in such confusing situations. Are they learning from their father that revenge is an appropriate response to being hurt?
Matt’s sense of responsibility toward the natural world is tested by the decision he must make about his family’s land. As the trustee, Matt holds the final say. In one scene, Matt, Alex, Scottie, Sid, and one of Matt’s cousins survey the family’s land from a lookout point on Kauai. They discuss the potential sale and wax nostalgic about time spent camping on the land. Matt drops a comment about giving the land up: “Everything has its time.” The comment has a ring of wisdom to it until one thinks about how it depends on one’s perspective. What does Matt know about time? What does any human know about time as it plays out in nature? Cutting to a long shot above the group, Payne leaves their conversation; he slowly swings the camera away from their vantage point and out over the land—a valley framed by rugged hills, verdant trees, and the ocean. The sounds of the wind and of birds singing swallow up any further conversation that the family might be having. This land knows about time better than any human does. This change of perspective leads us to ask a question: What right do the Kings have to give up this land to people who would exploit it?
Payne does his best to slow down the pace of his human drama by inserting a number of transitional shots of nature between emotionally charged scenes. Take, for example, the two shots placed after an emotional hospital scene where Scott shows affection for his daughter. One is of the sun peeking through the clouds to shine on a forested hillside. The other is of green plants reaching up to the sky as stormy clouds are on the move above. It is a reflective time allowing viewers to take in the full weight of the narrative, or perhaps briefly to forget narrative altogether. These transitional shots are reminiscent of a type of shot used by the Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu called “pillow shots.” These are shots that, like their corollary “pillow words” in Zen Buddhist poetry, do not lead out of or into the whole of the film but give a place of rest, a pause. Human figures and human stories are dislocated from the center of the universe for a brief moment. In their stead, oceans, trees, clouds, and rivers move into the fore. This is nature for nature’s sake; God’s creation having worth on its own terms, not in terms of what it does for us. Given this de-centering, we are invited to take a broader perspective on our place within the natural world. We are not above creation; we are part of it.
Payne’s The Descendants is a needed corrective to our American culture. As Carolyn T. Brown suggests in her essay on reimagining the American Dream, there is this rut, this gap “so many of us experience between who we are and what we do,” which testifies to “conditions embedded broadly in the contemporary experience” (2005, 54). Many forces in our society—political, economic, religious—pit us against one another and turn us inward. Americans prize economic autonomy and emotional independence; however, as Americans, and as family members, friends, neighbors, and as created beings made in the image of God, we are caught in a network of commitments and identifications in which we are called to take a stand. Perhaps the most helpful thing Payne can do is offer up Matt’s life as a mirror to our own. As Matt’s many moral dilemmas unfold, we begin to see how his actions have consequences, first on an intimate familial level, then moving outward to acquaintances and the natural world. The first step is awareness. Though Matt does not always do the right thing, Payne does not let us judge him. Instead, we are called to examine our own lives. We are not alone.
Tyler Beane is currently pursuing an MDiv at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Brown, Carolyn T., “Footprints of the Soul: Uniting Spirit with Action in the World.” In Deepening the American Dream: Reflections on the Inner Life and Spirit of Democracy, Mark Nepo, ed. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2005.
Taylor, Charles. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1989.
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Is providing broadband over power lines economically feasible? PCPC, a Houston-based IBM Business Partner, is quickly making people involved in the technology say "yes."
CenterPoint Energy, Houston's largest electric utility, has been exploring the possibility for more than a year. While the technology to provide broadband Internet access to CenterPoint customers seems to be falling in place, missing from the equation was the customer-service and network-integration capabilities necessary to launch the company into the broadband game.
"When this project came up, we saw an opening for us," said Bryan Joiner, the PCPC account executive on the CenterPoint project. PCPC had been a secondary vendor to the power company, with most of its product purchases going through IBM direct, Joiner said. "CenterPoint had decided what they wanted to do, but they didn't know how."
CenterPoint first partnered with Idacomm, a telecommunications company in Boise, Idaho, with expertise in building broadband over power- line networks, then tested the concept in about 250 homes in the Houston area, said Chuck Hackney, CenterPoint's manager of telecommunications services and broadband over power lines program manager.
But if CenterPoint was to attain it sgoal of rolling out broadband service over power lines, it needed a partner that could handle marketing, installation, technical support and help-desk services for potentially thousands of customers in the Houston area, Hackney said.
CenterPoint first went to Armonk, N.Y.-based IBM to solve the problem. "But [we] felt it was worthwhile to work with an IBM Business Partner who does this type of work on a daily basis rather than go within IBM," he said.
PCPC, which focuses on commercial accounts, viewed the individual engagements with home customers in aggregate as a huge business opportunity. In the initial test phase of 50 customers, PCPC offered to supply the test equipment, consisting of a Lenovo ThinkPad or ThinkCentre PC, at no cost. PCPC then did the installations at the customer site. "We offered to do that so we could be in on the front end to make sure the project was a success," Joiner said. "We stuck our neck out."
PCPC worked with both Idacomm and CenterPoint engineers to iron out technical issues, he said. "It's not quite right [for broad deployment], but it's getting close," Joiner said. "That's why we wanted to get in early. If there are issues, we can be part of the solution. We have the expertise in installing PCs to networks and getting the systems up and running; that's expertise no one else had."
If the project takes off as expected, Joiner says PCPC will not only benefit from the services revenue, but also by offering the utility customers a way to buy a Lenovo PC as part of a turnkey broadband solution.
What's more, Joiner is hoping that PCPC's willingness to help make the broadband over power lines effort work will result in more partnerships with Idacomm in similar initiatives it is involved in throughout the West.
As it stands, however, the solution provider is well on its way to forging a significant new business niche with CenterPoint.
"I give credit to the success of this program to PCPC's expertise and competency in dealing with the customer one on one," Hackney said.
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UPSIDE FOR THE VAR
PCPC will reap services revenue and hopes to ink more partnerships with telecommunications company Idacomm. It also is on its way to forging a significant new business niche.
THE CUSTOMER VIEW
CenterPoint knew a rollout required partner to handle installation, tech support for thousands of customers. It first went to IBM but saw the value in using an IBM Business Partner.
In the initial test phase of 50 customers in the Houston area, PCPC supplied the test equipment at no charge, consisting of Lenovo ThinkPads and ThinkCentre PCs.
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January 14 2014
Patrice J. Lee
The Administration released updated numbers on ObamaCare enrollment through the end of 2013 and this time was more forthcoming about demographic data. We’re getting a better picture of the kinds of people enrolling in ObamaCare and one fact is clear: young, healthy Americans are bypassing –instead of buying into– ObamaCare.
Only one in four in the 18-34 age group is signing up for ObamaCare, and that is far below the targets.
Just under a quarter of Obamacare sign-ups so far have been in the critical 18-to-35-year-old age range, the Obama administration revealed Monday, the first time officials have given demographic data about health plan enrollees.
The administration had set a goal of around 38 percent to 40 percent of the enrollees in that age bracket by the time the sign-up season ends March 31.
The administration’s monthly enrollment update showed 2.2 million people had picked health plans in the federal or state health exchanges from Oct. 1 through Dec. 28. It’s not yet clear how many have paid their first monthly premium, a requirement before coverage can begin. An additional 3.9 million people have been deemed eligible for Medicaid.
More than half of those who have signed up are between 45 and 64, an age range that tends to be sicker and costlier to cover, according to the enrollment figures released Monday by the Department of Health and Human Services.
Young adults signing up in sufficient numbers are critical to keeping premiums reasonable and the health insurance market stable. The Administration originally identified 2.7 million, or 39 percent, as the enrollment target for 18-34 year olds. This mix of young (presumably healthy) creates balance against old (and sicker) Americans, preventing a “death spiral” for ObamaCare which would make costs skyrocket and destabilize the system. In short, young healthy Americans must pay for older sicker Americans.
While some like the Kaiser Family Foundation suggests the Administration can get away with young adult enrollment as low as 25 percent, insurers are less confident. National insurer Humana, for example, raised concern with investors that the projected enrollment mix is more adverse than expected and that was just before these numbers were released. The head of Kaiser admitted that by the end of March if enrollment of young people doesn’t pick up, “there would be some cause for concern.”
The takeaway here is that despite the Administration’s taxpayer-funded PR efforts, which include celebrities, brosurance and ho-surance ads, and the infamous Pajama Boy, young Americans aren’t convinced that ObamaCare is best for them.
ObamaCare is expensive. On average a 30-year-old would see his health insurance costs rise in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. ObamaCare represents an added burden on the shoulders of a generation that faces 16 percent effective unemployment and high student loan debt.
The Administration is banking on the stereotype that young adults are procrastinators and will wait until the last minute sign up. The problem isn’t procrastination but that ObamaCare is a bad deal!
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Japan's military has entered a new era with its dispatch of non-combat troops to Iraq and logistical support for coalition navies in the Persian Gulf region. The expanded role is not without controversy.
The decision to dispatch Japanese troops to Iraq prompted protests in the streets of Tokyo and in the chambers of Japan's parliament.
As recently as 1991, during the first Gulf War, it would have been unthinkable for politicians to debate such a dispatch seriously. At that time, Japan chose to send billions of dollars instead of hundreds of soldiers as its contribution to coalition efforts, a decision that drew international criticism.
Now, with Japan confronting global terrorism, neighboring North Korea eyeing the nuclear option, and a Chinese military buildup, a comfortable majority of lawmakers supports modifying Japan's pacifist constitution to give the military an expanded role.
The constitution was imposed on a defeated Japan after World War II by the American occupation administration. It severely restricted Japan's ability to create a military with any sort of offensive capability.
Instead, Japan created Ground, Maritime and Air Self Defense Forces, which kept a very low profile, occasionally visible at the scene of natural and man-made disasters, but appearing overseas only on the movie screen to fight Godzilla.
Slowly and quietly the Self Defense Forces have matured, and now enjoy one of the five-largest military budgets in the world.
General Hajime Massaki, the ground force's chief of staff, admits that many Japanese used to consider the agency a waste of taxpayer money.
He says a law allowing Japan to join a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Cambodia in 1992, and similar activities in East Timor more recently, changed public perceptions. Now, he says, Japan's forces are at a turning point.
That has some Japanese concerned. Tatsuya Yoshioka is a director of the non-governmental organization, Peace Boat.
"We can cooperate with the United Nations," said Tatsuya Yoshioka. "But, at the same time, I really doubt about that normalization of Japanese military forces. It is still a very controversial issue. Quite a lot of Japanese has a very strong doubt of the existence of the Japanese Defense Force."
The 550 Japanese soldiers currently stationed in southern Iraq are pushing the envelope even further.
Although they are limited to humanitarian relief and reconstruction, many Iraqis see the troops as partners in the U.S.-led military occupation of their country.
That belief may have prompted the abduction of five Japanese civilians in Iraq this month, with one group of kidnappers threatening to kill their hostages if the Self Defense Forces did not pull out.
Japan's three chiefs of staff, at an unprecedented joint news conference this week, agreed Japanese and Iraqi attitudes toward the dispatch would probably soften if the United Nations were to take a leading role in Iraq after sovereignty is handed back to the Iraqis on June 30.
Even without a larger U.N. role, few political analysts in Tokyo expect Japan to follow Spain and withdraw its troops - even if the situation deteriorated in Iraq or Japan were to become the target of a terrorist attack.
The reason, they say, is that Tokyo needs to maintain close military ties with Washington, to offset a growing threat from North Korea, and a challenge from a fast-developing China.
Koichi Furosho, chief of staff of the maritime force, says it is essential for Japan to share the hard work overseas if it is to have access to critical intelligence.
Admiral Furusho says that new, non-conventional threats mean that what is most important now is the sharing of information. He wants Japan to have a permanent place at the table with other navies and coast guards.
Japan's expanding role and desire to increase military cooperation is winning praise in Washington, as comments by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld illustrate.
"This evolution in Japan's security policy is creating new opportunities for our two countries to work together, to modernize our alliance and to transform our capabilities, and to strengthen our ability to deal with the new challenges of the 21st Century," said Donald Rumsfeld.
That modernization includes a state-of-the-art missile defense system to be built and deployed in and around Japan with American technology and support - a defense against North Korea.
The shift in the military's role is making some Asians nervous, especially in China and the Koreas, where memories of Japan's brutal occupation of much of the region before and during World War II remain painful.
Peace activist Yoshioka says preserving the pacifist element of the constitution would help alleviate fears of Japanese militarism.
"For the security and also stability of Northeast Asia I think Article Number Nine of the Japanese Constitution is working as a kind of conflict-prevention system," said Tatsuya Yoshioka.
Asians worry that the Japan has never come to terms with the misery it caused, and that lack of Japanese reflection - combined with an expanding and more powerful military - could set the stage for a repeat in the future.
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1 Department of Clinical Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Københavns Universitet2 unknown3 Department of Clinical Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Københavns Universitet
AIM OF THE STUDY: To explore the concept of debriefing bystanders after participating in an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation attempt including (1) bystanders' most commonly addressed reactions after participating in a resuscitation attempt when receiving debriefing from medical dispatchers; (2) their perception of effects of receiving debriefing and (3) bystanders' recommendations for a systematic debriefing concept. METHODS: Qualitative study based on telephone debriefing to bystanders and interviews with bystanders who received debriefing. Data was analyzed using the phenomenological approach. RESULTS: Six themes emerged from analysis of debriefing audio files: (1) identification of OHCA; (2) emotional and perceptual experience with OHCA; (3) collaboration with healthcare professionals; (4) patients outcome; (5) coping with the experience and (6) general reflections. When evaluating the concept, bystanders expressed positive short term effect of receiving debriefing and a retention of this effect after two months. Recommendations for a future debriefing concept were given. CONCLUSION: Debriefing by emergency medical dispatchers to OHCA bystanders stimulates reflection, positively influencing the ability to cope with the emotional reactions and the cognitive perception of own performance and motivates improvement of CPR skills. Importantly, it increases confidence to provide CPR in the future. Implementation of telephone debriefing to bystanders at Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres is a low complexity and a low cost intervention though the logistic challenges have to be considered.
Resuscitation, 2014, Vol 85, Issue 11, p. 1504-1511
Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees - Lesson 20: City Directories and Newspapers
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City Directories may be one of the most overlooked of genealogical resources, but they can be valuable for genealogical research.
Your Guide to Finding Ancestors in City Directories
Some examples of information you might find in city directories and a guide to finding and using them to your best advantage.
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Greg Stier: The Surprising Secret to a Successful Youth Ministry
An image from the Bible has a lot to say about your ministry.
I love the Bible’s obsession with rocks. In Genesis 28:18 Jacob used a rock as a pillow of sorts and then anointed it with oil as a memorial to his God-induced vision/dream the night before. Then there’s the pile of rocks that Joshua had the Israelites stack up in Joshua 4:19-24 as a commemoration of the crossing of the Jordan river into the Promised Land. And, of course, all of us remember that single, smooth rock hurled from the sling of David that took out a giant in 1 Samuel 17:50. God loves to use everyday, ordinary objects (like rocks) and everyday, ordinary people (like David) to accomplish extraordinary missions.
But that’s not the point of this blog (although the Bible’s consistent allusions to stones and rocks as metaphors and illustrations are interesting to me.) No, the point of this blog is that rocks are the secret to a highly effective youth ministry.
Allow me to explain.
The late Dr. Stephen Covey gave a powerful illustration in his wildly successful book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. And it had to do with, you guessed it, rocks!
Here is the illustration in his own words:
One day this expert was speaking to a group of business students and, to drive home a point, used an illustration I’m sure those students will never forget. After I share it with you, you’ll never forget it either.
As this man stood in front of the group of high-powered over-achievers he said, “OK, time for a quiz.” Then he pulled out a one-gallon, wide-mouthed, mason jar and set it on a table in front of him. Then he produced about a dozen fist-sized rocks and carefully placed them, one at a time, into the jar.
When the jar was filled to the top and no more rocks would fit inside, he asked, “Is this jar full?” Everyone in the class said, “Yes.” Then he said, “Really?” He reached under the table and pulled out a bucket of gravel. Then he dumped some gravel in and shook the jar causing pieces of gravel to work themselves down into the spaces between the big rocks.
Then he smiled and asked the group once more, “Is the jar full?” By this time the class was onto him. “Probably not,” one of them answered. “Good!” he replied. And he reached under the table and brought out a bucket of sand. He started dumping the sand in and it went into all the spaces left between the rocks and the gravel. Once more he asked the question, “Is this jar full?”
“No!” the class shouted. Once again he said, “Good!” Then he grabbed a pitcher of water and began to pour it in until the jar was filled to the brim. Then he looked up at the class and asked, “What is the point of this illustration?”
One eager beaver raised his hand and said, “The point is, no matter how full your schedule is, if you try really hard, you can always fit some more things into it!”
“No,” the speaker replied, “that’s not the point. The truth this illustration teaches us is: If you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all.”
What’s true of rocks in a jar is true of priorities in a youth ministry. If you want to make prayer a bigger priority in your youth ministry you must program it in first. It must be on your calendar and in your weekly youth ministry programming. The same is true with relational evangelism, student discipleship and leadership development.
Too often our youth ministries are full of the sand and gravel of goofy games, fun videos and massive pizza parties. As a result, we have little room left for the bigger rocks that can make a deeper impact. Don’t get me wrong—pizza is fine and games are fun but without the big rocks programmed in first the weighty stuff of youth ministry can easily get left out of the programming jar.
Our proclaimed values are either true youth ministry priorities or empty platitudes depending on whether or not they get programmed. I’ve seen this with youth ministries across the country, especially in the area of evangelism.
While many youth leaders say that evangelism is a big priority, it’s often not reflected in their weekly programming. Perhaps they do a quarterly outreach meeting, but our biggest priorities get programmed into our weekly meetings, not our quarterly ones. If I tell my wife that she is a priority, but only talk to her once a quarter, then she’s not a priority at all. If I say that evangelism is a priority, but I only push it once a quarter, then it’s not a priority at all.
If you’d like to learn how you can make evangelism (and six other rocks) a bigger priority in your weekly youth ministry programming, then click here to download a free e-resource that will help you do just that. Also take time to download this free PDF filled with practical ideas from youth leaders across the country to help you advance the Gospel and put the big rocks in first!
Let’s start programming our biggest priorities into our weekly meetings!
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Curriculum Integration is one of many research paper topics that Paper Masters provides. Use this topic suggestion as a guide on how to write a paper or order your own custom research paper.
Teachers use curriculum integration to teach students about several subjects at once and show them how to apply the things they learn to real-world situations. For instance, an educational strategy of learning how to play music can also teach a student about the fundamental aspects of math. By reading whole, half, quarter, and eighth notes, the student gains a better understanding of fractions. He or she can then apply this knowledge by playing a song, improving the outcome of learning.
Curriculum integration not only provides support that encourages children to apply skills, it also helps students learn in a way that engages them. Many students get bored when they study math, chemistry, and other subjects from books. Curriculum integration helps avoid boring lectures and reading by showing students that what they learn has value in the world, which is certainly not a new educational philosophy. That value could come from using math and chemistry to construct a scale model of a volcano that will excite students when it explodes, or it could come from using geometry and woodworking skills to make a useful household item.
The ultimate goal of curriculum integration is to challenge students in both the primary and secondary grades with interesting tasks that use skills from more than one discipline. In many cases, the students do not even recognize that they are mastering abstract concepts by applying them to real-world scenarios. This helps more students pay attention and remain interested in what they learn at school.
Curriculum Integration and the Student
The most important facet of curriculum integration that distinguishes it from the conventional whole-group model is the participation of the students as active owners of their own learning. Through extensive group work, students are empowered to explore topics that are integrated, although they are guided by the parameters of the learning goals set forth in their whole-group discussion time.
It has been argued that according to the principles of curriculum integration, the students that fall between gifted and the special needs student on the learning spectrum as ‘normal’ experience or the typical management of a classroom, an injustice because it implies the common assumption that they are all similar in some fundamental way. To the contrary, recent studies have indicated that there are as many styles of learning and levels of ability as there are students in the typical elementary classroom, and current standards of instruction do not adequately address this fact. Needless to say, it would be impossible to develop a viable instructional method that could address the minute fluctuations in learning style and ability that distinguish each child in the elementary learning environment. However, researchers have also noted that several broad categories of curriculum integration has emerged from these studies, and using only slight modifications, most extant curriculums can be adapted to these categories so that students will be afforded the greatest degree of access to learning material possible, thereby maximizing the degree of retention and assimilation they can achieve, within national education standards.
Contemporary Education and Curriculum
In recent years, a number of social and economic factors have contributed towards a sharp increase in the number of school systems that have chosen to organize their curriculum design around the principle of inclusion, that is, the incorporation of students at all levels of ability into a single learning unit or classroom. This type of learning environment is not completely unheard of within the context of:
- American contemporary public education system is not set up to integrate curriculum.
- The era of the one-room school house still prevails because teachers are placed in the position of having to adapt their curriculum to be engaging and appropriate for students at an extremely wide range of ability and age. (Although this analogy is apt, it must be recognized that the educational period characterized by the one-room schoolhouse was considerably different from the current-day situation, and inclusive classrooms were then an outgrowth of necessity and limited resources, rather than a strategy grounded in research.)
- Both schools and students continue to operate on the tenets of the exclusionary principle that engenders competition and isolation and minimizes true diversity.
Instead, by unconsciously adhering to exclusionary notions, educators and students view students with different abilities as intrusive problems. Many difficulties involved in developing a truly integrated curriculum program is establishing one that meets the needs of older students. Because many of the early successes reported in the literature were modeled in primary grade environments, the particular challenges of upper-grade and secondary inclusion programs have not yet been adequately addressed.
In planning curriculum integration and mixed-group learning environments for older students, the unique characteristics of the curriculum differences and teaching methods often used to instruct these groups must be fully considered. According to
research, the higher the grade, the less likely it is that any type of differentiated instruction occurs on a regular basis.
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What are antidepressants?
Antidepressant medications are most commonly used to help relieve the distress of depression or anxiety. They are also used to help with other conditions, such as bulimia and chronic pain.
These medications help many people with mental health problems. However, they don’t work for everyone, and even when they do work well, they can only do so much. They often work best when they are combined with talk therapy, support from family and friends, and self-care, such as regular exercise, a nutritious diet and getting enough sleep. Learning how to live well in spite of your distress is also important.
Antidepressant medications can take up to several weeks to be fully effective. Early signs that the medication is working include improved sleep, appetite and energy. Improvement in mood usually comes later.
Do I need treatment?
We all experience depression and anxiety at some level, and because of this, severe problems are sometimes trivialized. People who are severely depressed or anxious for a long time may feel they should be able to shake it off, and so don’t seek treatment. Some people live this way for years.
If you are distressed for more than two weeks by feelings of sadness, despair and hopelessness, or by excessive worry that is hard to control, see a doctor for an assessment of your symptoms and situation and to discuss treatment and support options. Many people who are treated for depression or anxiety recover and never require treatment again. Early treatment can help to ensure treatment success.
Be sure your doctor knows if you have had times where you felt a reduced need for sleep in combination with an unusual amount of energy, or where your mood changed from feeling depressed to feeling unusually happy or irritable. Antidepressants can cause some people to switch from depression into mania. Mood stabilizer medications may be more suited to your needs, either on their own or in combination with antidepressants.
Medications are only one way of treating depression and anxiety; talk therapies, such as interpersonal therapy and cognitive-behavioural therapy can be just as effective. Depression and anxiety are often a signal that change is needed. These psychological approaches may help you to make the changes you need to make in your life. Peer support, school and job counselling and housing and employment supports can also help to deal with problems that may trigger or worsen depression or anxiety.
What do antidepressants do?
Antidepressant medications increase the activity of certain chemicals, known as neurotransmitters, in the brain. Increasing the activity of the neurotransmitters serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine seems to help lessen depression and anxiety. However, the brain is a very complex organ and the reasons why these drugs work are not yet fully understood.
We do know that these drugs help to relieve symptoms of depression and anxiety in up to 70 per cent of people who try them. This rate is even higher when people who don’t get relief with one type of antidepressant try a second type.
Do antidepressants have side-effects?
All medications can have side-effects. Some people experience no side-effects. Others may find the side-effects distressing. In most cases, side-effects lessen as treatment continues.
Treatment is usually started at a low dose, to minimize side-effects, and then slowly increased until the ideal dose is found. The ideal dose is one that provides the greatest benefit with minimum side-effects.
One of the main reasons why people stop taking these medications is the side-effects. Check the information given to you by your doctor or pharmacist on the specific effects of any drug you have been prescribed. If side-effects are not mild and tolerable, it is best to continue taking your medication as prescribed and let your doctor know as soon as possible. Your doctor may:
- encourage you to wait a little longer for the side-effects to fade
- adjust your dose
- you take the medication at a different time of day
- prescribe other medications to help control side-effects
- change your medication
- stop medication treatment and suggest a different type of treatment approach.
Side-effects vary depending on the type of medication. More information on side-effects is included for each type of types of antidepressant.
Do antidepressants increase the risk of suicide?
One of the symptoms of depression is suicidal thought and behaviour. When starting medication treatment for depression, people may be at an increased risk of suicide. One possible explanation is that it may be related to the increase in energy that comes early in treatment, before improvement in mood. In other words, antidepressants may give some people the energy to act on their suicidal thoughts.
Antidepressants can also cause feelings of agitation, restlessness and detachment. These feelings may resemble symptoms of anxiety and may add to, rather than relieve, feelings of hopelessness and despair. Some people may become suicidal or violent. This reaction to antidepressants is thought to occur in about four per cent of people who take them, with the risk being highest in the first few weeks of treatment.
Before starting treatment, it is important to prepare for the possibility of feeling worse before you feel better. Know what supports are available to you and who you can call. When you begin treatment, monitor your thoughts and moods, and communicate any thoughts of hurting yourself or others with your doctor, a crisis line or the emergency department.
If you experience an increase in suicidal thinking or anxiety, your doctor can help you decide if you should stop taking the medication or if you should try to be patient and give the medication a chance to work.
What are the different types of antidepressant medications?
- SRIs—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
- SNRIs—serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
- NDRIs—norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors
- NaSSAs—noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressants
- MAOIs—monoamine oxidase inhibitors
There are several classes of antidepressants; within each class there are many individual medications. While all antidepressants work well overall, no drug or type of drug works equally well for everyone who takes it. You may be advised to try more than one type of antidepressant or to use a combination of antidepressants to seek relief from your distress.
The different types of antidepressants are listed below in the order in which they are most commonly prescribed.
SSRIs—selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
This group of drugs, including fluoxetine (Prozac), paroxetine (Paxil), fluvoxamine (Luvox), citalopram (Celexa), escitalopram (Cipralex) and sertraline (Zoloft), is usually the first choice for treatment of depression and anxiety problems. These medications are known to have milder side-effects than some other antidepressants. Buspirone (Buspar) is similar to SSRIs and has been found to help with anxiety but not depression.
Common side-effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, weight gain, dry mouth, headaches, anxiety, sedation and a decrease in sexual desire and response. This group of drugs may also cause a jittery or restless feeling and sleep difficulties, such as problems falling asleep, waking in the night, vivid dreams or nightmares.
SNRIs—serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors
This class of medications includes venlafaxine (Effexor), duloxetine (Cymbalta) and desvenlafaxine (Pristiq). These drugs are used to treat depression, anxiety problems and chronic pain.
Common side-effects include nausea, drowsiness, dizziness, nervousness or anxiety, fatigue, loss of appetite and sexual problems. In higher dosage, these medications may increase blood pressure.
NDRIs—norepinephrine and dopamine reuptake inhibitors
The medication available in this class is bupropion (Wellbutrin, Zyban). When used to treat depression, it is often given for its energizing effects, in combination with other antidepressants. It is also used to treat attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and as a smoking cessation aid.
Common side-effects are jitteriness and insomnia.
NaSSAs—noradrenergic and specific serotonergic antidepressants
Mirtazapine (Remeron), the medication available in this class, is the most sedating antidepressant, making it a good choice for people who have insomnia or who are very anxious. This medication also helps to stimulate appetite.
Common side-effects are drowsiness and weight gain.
This older group includes amitriptyline (Elavil), maprotiline (Ludiomil), imipramine (Tofranil), desipramine (Norpramin), nortriptyline (Novo-Nortriptyline) and clomipramine (Anafranil).
Because these drugs tend to have more side-effects than the newer drugs, they are not often a first choice for treatment. However, when other drugs do not provide relief from severe depression, these drugs may help.
Common side-effects include dry mouth, tremors, constipation, sedation, blurred vision, difficulty urinating, weight gain and dizziness. Because cyclics may cause heart rhythm abnormalities, your doctor should give you an electrocardiogram (ECG) before you take this medication.
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors, or MAOIs, such as phenelzine (Nardil) and tranylcypromine (Parnate) were the first class of antidepressants. MAOIs are effective, but they are not often used because people who take them must follow a special diet.
A newer MAOI, moclobemide (Manerix), can be used without dietary restrictions; however, it may not be as effective as other MAOIs.
Common side-effects include a change of blood pressure when moving from a sitting to a standing position (orthostatic hypotension), insomnia, swelling and weight gain.
You can help to control possible side-effects on your own by:
- getting regular exercise and eating a low-fat, low-sugar, high-fibre diet (e.g., bran, fruits and vegetables) to help prevent weight gain and constipation
- using sugarless candy or gum, drinking water and brushing your teeth regularly to increase salivation and ease dry mouth
- getting up slowly from a sitting or lying position to help prevent dizziness.
* Medications are referred to in two ways: by their generic name and by their brand or trade names. Brand names available in Canada appear in brackets.
How long should I take antidepressants?
When you start a new antidepressant, the first step is to decide whether you can tolerate the side-effects; this should become clear within a few weeks. The next step is to decide whether the drug helps with your depression or anxiety; for this, you will need to take it at full dose for at least six weeks.
If the medication does work for you, your doctor will advise you to continue taking it for at least six months after you start to feel its beneficial effects. People who stop taking antidepressants too soon risk having the symptoms of their depression or anxiety problem return. Most people who take antidepressants need to take them for at least a year. People who experience depression that keeps coming back may need to take them for a longer term.
Are antidepressants addictive?
Drugs that are addictive produce a feeling of euphoria, a strong desire to continue using the drug, and a need to increase the amount used to achieve the same effect. Antidepressants do not have these effects.
Antidepressants do, however, have one thing in common with some addictive drugs—they can cause withdrawal effects when you stop taking them. When you take antidepressants for months or years, your body adjusts to the presence of the drug. If you then stop using it, especially if you stop suddenly, you may experience withdrawal effects such as muscle aches, electric-shock-like sensations, dizziness, headache, nausea, chills and diarrhea. These effects are most commonly reported with paroxetine (Paxil) and venlafaxine (Effexor); however, they can occur with any antidepressant. Some people find these effects distressing and have difficulty withdrawing from these drugs.
How do I cut down or stop taking antidepressants?
Whether you want to cut down your dose or stop taking a medication, the same rule applies: go slowly. Sudden changes in your dose can greatly increase your risk of having another mood episode.
The first step is to ask yourself if this is the right time. Are you feeling well? Is the level of stress in your life manageable? Do you feel supported by your family and friends?
If you think you’re ready, talk to your doctor. If your doctor doesn’t agree, find out why. If you are not satisfied with his or her reasons, you may want to see another doctor for a second opinion.
If your doctor does agree, he or she will advise you not to skip doses but to reduce your dose gradually—usually by about 10 per cent at a time—with at least two to three weeks between each reduction. This process of cutting back will take several months. Using a pill cutter can help you to cut your dose down in small amounts.
If you want to stop taking more than one medication, your doctor will usually suggest that you lower the dose of one drug at a time.
As you cut down, if you start to feel unwell, let your doctor know. He or she can help you determine whether you are experiencing withdrawal effects or signs that symptoms are returning. Don’t be afraid to go back up with your dose. Find the dose that works best for you.
Will antidepressants interact with other medications?
Antidepressants may interact with some other types of medication, even over-the-counter medications, such as cold or allergy tablets or cough syrups, and some herbal remedies, such as St. John’s wort. Always ask your doctor, dentist or pharmacist about potential drug interactions with the medication you are taking before you take other medications.
What if I drink alcohol or coffee while taking antidepressants?
Drinking alcohol can worsen symptoms of depression or anxiety. Alcohol can also worsen some side-effects of antidepressants, making you more sleepy, dizzy and lightheaded. However, if you have been taking antidepressants for more than a few weeks, and you are feeling well, having a drink or two on occasion should be okay—but remember that one drink could have the effect of two or even three drinks.
The caffeine in coffee and other beverages can cause problems if you struggle with depression or anxiety. Depression disrupts sleep and caffeine, a stimulant, can make the problem worse. It is better to drink decaffeinated coffee and beverages or to decrease the amount you drink.
What if I use street drugs while taking antidepressants?
If you’re taking antidepressants, chances are you’re trying to get relief from symptoms of depression or anxiety. You want to feel well. While street drugs such as marijuana or cocaine may have some effects that seem to make you feel better for a while, mixing the effects of these drugs with your symptoms may make your situation worse. Street drugs may also interact with your medication, for example, by interfering with its effectiveness or by worsening side-effects.
Will antidepressants affect my ability to drive safely?
Depression itself can lead to fatigue and concentration problems, affecting your ability to drive. Antidepressant medications may also cause drowsiness, especially in the early stages of treatment, before your body has adjusted to the medication. If you feel drowsy, do not drive a car or operate machinery. Alcohol, sedatives and antihistamines (cold and hay fever medication) will worsen the problem. It’s never wise to drive after drinking alcohol, and it’s even more important to follow this rule when taking antidepressants.
Will antidepressants affect my sex drive and function?
Both depression and the drugs used to treat it can decrease people’s desire for sex. Antidepressants, especially those that increase serotonin activity, can also negatively affect sexual function. Sexual side-effects of antidepressants can include delayed ejaculation and the inability to experience an orgasm.
Many factors affect your sexuality. When antidepressants bring relief from the distress of depression or anxiety, this may help you to focus more on your partner and to feel more desire. If you think your medication affects your sexual function, your doctor may be able to help by changing your dose, switching medication or adding other medications.
Is it safe to take antidepressants while pregnant or breastfeeding?
Each woman’s situation is unique and should be discussed with her doctor. For any pregnant woman with a history of depression, the question of whether to take antidepressants during pregnancy usually comes down to a risk-benefit analysis. Depression can affect prenatal care and a mother’s ability to parent her newborn child. When treatment with an antidepressant helps to avoid a relapse or to reduce distress, the benefits of continuing the medication may outweigh the risks.
Antidepressants are relatively safe to use during pregnancy. When they are used close to delivery, newborns may be restless and irritable, and may have sleeping, feeding and breathing difficulties. These problems resolve within three days to two weeks. Antidepressants do not increase risk for birth defects.
The amount of antidepressant passed through breast milk is very small and is not considered to be a risk to the baby, especially when weighed against the benefits of breastfeeding.
If you decide to stop taking medications during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, it is a good idea to see your doctor more often, to help you monitor for a return of symptoms.
Is age an issue when taking antidepressants?
The effectiveness and risks of an antidepressant can vary depending on the age of the person taking it.
Can children and teens use antidepressants?
Most antidepressants are not officially approved for use by children and teens. The first line of treatment with this age group should always focus on resolving issues in the young person’s life and on counselling. However, when distress is so severe that non-drug approaches are not possible, or when they do not work, antidepressants may be considered. Studies of children and youth who take antidepressants suggest an increased risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviour, but not death by suicide.
Can older adults use antidepressants?
Antidepressants are an effective treatment for depression in adults over 65 and are known to decrease the risk of suicide in this population. However, due to the increased sensitivity of the older body, older adults are more vulnerable to side-effects. As older adults often take multiple medications, they are also more vulnerable to drug interactions.
Copyright @2009, 2012 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Where can I find help, treatment and support?
Treatment from CAMH
Help for Families from CAMH
Ontario Mental Health Helpline(open 24/7 for treatment anywhere in Ontario
Support groups in your area: call 211 or check online at www.211Ontario.ca
Where can I find more information related to antidepressants?
For more information on medications, contact your doctor, nurse or pharmacist.
For information on using medications while pregnant or breastfeeding, contact MotherRisk at 416 813-6780 or visit www.motherisk.org.
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“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.” ~ Gore Vidal
A 2013 International Monitory Fund (IMF) working paper prepared by Christian Ebeke and Dilan Ölçer established that in Low-Income countries elections have negative impact on a country’s fiscal discipline during the election year and two years following those elections. The paper finds that during elections period “government consumption significantly increases and leads to higher fiscal deficits.”
The paper further added that “during the two years following the election fiscal discipline takes the form of increased revenue mobilisation in trade taxes and cuts to government investment, with no significant cuts in government consumption.” The paper concludes that elections not only lead to macroeconomic costs when they take place in Low-Income countries, such as Malawi, but elections also trigger a painful fiscal adjustments in which public investment largely sacrificed.
Those who closely follow Malawi political process and governance cannot really dispute against this conclusion. Of course it is a gloomy indictment democracies in Low-Income countries. Yet, doing away with democracies is not an option. Afrobarometer statistics indicate that over 70% of Malawians still prefer democracy to other forms of government. This is an overwhelming majority, it be underestimated. No Malawi President has ever won elections with this majority in history of Malawi democracy.
The point is to make democracy work for Malawi and its people, large and small; rich or poor; educated and uneducated; urban or rural. In relation to the findings of the IMF working paper, regulating campaign funding and political spending would be a good place to start electoral and political reforms.
Politicians and political parties spend a lot of money during campaign period with the aim of recovering the money at citizens expense once elected into office. The estimated amount of money spent by candidates to get into office is colossal. I do not believe that we have politicians among us that spend money for the love of Malawi and its people. Such spending is clearly about power and financial rewards. This is why electoral defeat is very difficult to accept in Low-Income countries.
Blessings Chinsinga of University of Malawi’s Chancellor College earlier this year wrote in The Sunday Times that contesting for a parliamentary seat is not getting cheaper. According to him, “conservative projections indicate that it took a minimum MK 5 Million to win a seat in the May 20 2014 polls.”
He further added:“In a country where per capita income is as low as MK 152,000 per annum, MK 5 Million is pretty much a fortune. Consequently triumphant candidates do not immediately focus on their triple mandate of representation, legislation and oversight. They instead, get preoccupied with how to recoup the investment made in campaign which includes courting the attention of the president for ministerial position.”
Thusly, it is not surprising that among the very first things that MPs and cabinet ministers do once in office is to demand their own pay increase. The State President feel obliged if not mandated to ‘look after’ people that helped them win elections. This contributes to unnecessary public spending because the president ends up with a bloated cabinet, a community of ‘advisors’ and often costly, unlawful sacking and replacing of officials in public institutions.
You only need to look at Joyce Banda and Peter Mutharika’s presidency (so far) to see these examples at play. This fully supports the 2 years post elections public spending stated in the IMF working paper’s findings.
There is a say that in Low-Income countries people join politics if they want to make quick money, while in developed countries folks go and work in financial institutions if they want to achieve the same. Malawi is certainly living up to this stereotype. Democracy itself is not a bad thing and it is not true that it is not suited to other cultures and traditions. Like anything that is not properly regulated, democracy is open to abuse. Like I suggested earlier, Malawi politics needs to be regulated if its democracy is to be meaningful and work for the benefit of the country and its people.
One of the starting points is to have politicians and political parties publicly declaring their sources of funding. Politicians’ pay must be relative to the country’s per capita income, and the country must have a limit on political campaign spending. For this to happen, the country needs commitment and political will to establish necessary institutions, reduce the massive presidential powers and adhere to separation of powers between the three arms of government.
Enhancing separation of powers means that, among other crucial things, no parliamentarian should be a cabinet minister because this brings conflict of interest, as the two arms of government need to check on each other. Kenyans have successfully changed their constitution to achieve this. Doing this would go a long way in dealing with what Chinsinga described as “incentive structures”, which is what fosters political greed.Follow and Subscribe Nyasa TV :
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Labor-management training programs established and funded through collective bargaining agreements at firms employing 1000 or more persons
Hensley, Stephen Michael
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Throughout the United States, workers are participating in training programs jointly established by their union and their company. These joint training programs have emerged as a significant innovation in employee training programs during the past fifteen years and are helping workers learn new technical skills, develop Better basic skills, and enrich their personal lives. These programs share unique characteristics including their contract language, funding arrangements, programmatic content, educational approach, and shared governance. Unfortunately, comprehensive information regarding these programs' origins, distribution, governance, organization, structure, operation, and management has been reported only using anecdotal approaches. This research void has constrained policy, pedagogical, and technical application of these programs' principles. This study used content analysis methodology to systematically collect and analyze information regarding 798 existing joint training programs that were established and conducted through the collective bargaining process. In addition, the study synthesized the existing literature regarding joint training programs including information from three previous studies. Specific research questions were used to analyze four types of existing joint labor-management training programs: skills training, apprenticeships, tuition assistance, and educational leave programs. Information regarding these programs' governance, organization, structure, operation, and management was also collected, analyzed, and reported. Selected findings and conclusions from the study include: 1. Current joint training programs for active workers are oriented toward providing technical skills needed in today's workplace rather than building the individual worker's basic skills. Over 90% of the agreements included in this study supported training workers in currently required job skills, general job skills, and new technology implementation. 2. Though popular literature indicates that reading, writing, and mathematics skills are becoming more important skills for today's workers, companies appear inclined to believe that these skills only obliquely impact their profitability or, more likely, see these activities as the individual workers' responsibilities. Among the agreements included in this study, support for career counseling, personal development courses, or high school diploma completion programs was limited to relatively few companies, unions, and standard industrial classifications. 3. Apprenticeship programs are the most common joint training program model and are found in all industrial classifications. This training process is not, as previously reported, overwhelmingly dominated by the construction industry. Apprenticeship provisions at companies in construction oriented standard industrial classifications represented just 39% of the total agreements with apprenticeship provisions. This percentage is only slightly higher than these agreements' representation within the study population as agreements with construction oriented companies represented 34 % of the agreements included in the study.
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The soaring, vertical lines on the jacket of this enormous and enthralling book represent the twin towers, viewed in uncharacteristic close-up. Few, back in their day, would have called these buildings beautiful; Jonathan Glancey offers little more than a nod towards their demise, while producing a neat image for the way in which they performed the role of twin anchors, seeming to hold the southern tip of Manhattan securely at berth.
Glancey pins his own romantic colours to the mast in the introduction to Lost Buildings, where he writes about the dreams in which familiarity with the plans of William Beckford's faux-medieval fantasy, Fonthill Abbey, allow him to imagine climbing the staircase of this preposterously hubristic building, to gaze up the interior of Fonthill's 270ft (80m) tower, fated to collapse, for the final time, back in 1825. Given the opportunity - on purely aesthetic grounds - either to resurrect Fonthill or to set the World Trade Center back in place, it's easy to guess Glancey's preference.
The 100 buildings - they include a city or two - that Glancey has selected for us to regret (the wonderful Iranian mud city of Bam, shivered to pieces by an earthquake; the great temple of Artemis, whose wanton destruction by a Christian mob deprived us of a shrine in which St Paul once preached; and to yearn for (the splendid Norman Foster design for the BBC at Langham Place, turned down in favour of a tacky box at Shepherd's Bush), are described with a passionate enthusiasm that is hard to resist.
Glancey is an enthusiast, but he does not write in a didactic spirit. Lost Buildings is more likely to be enjoyed as a Christmas gift (the price is reasonable, the illustrations are gorgeous) than as a formidable argument for conservation. This is a shame. Despite the fluent and conversational tone, Glancey's stimulating opinions merit serious consideration. (The reason I got to bed late last night was that three friends and I were huddled over the book, each arguing the case for a vanished building that had deserved to survive.)
Not all architectural losses - as the author makes clear - are to be mourned. Few tears need to be shed because we will never again see the prison walls of Portsmouth's (demolished) concrete shopping centre, the Tricorn. The splendidly domed Old Bailey (1901) proves more cheerful to the eye than did its predecessor on the site, George Dance's austere Newgate Prison. The seven wonders of the world are surely more fun to imagine than to resurrect (fancy sailing into Rhodes harbour between the vaulting thighs of a stone Colossus).
Other architectural wonders, while we can regret their vanished status, might be short of an active role were they to rise again. Glancey provides an enchanting account of the lost minarets, pagodas, waterside walks and fake marble bridges of White City in London, an ebullient mish-mash of architectural styles erected as an exhibition centre in 1908. It's sad that the great, blank shopping block of Westfield has engulfed the last traces of this derelict pleasure-ground - but what use, now, would it be to have a dated version of the Alhambra sitting out there, just beyond Holland Park?
It's distressing to read that Columbia Market (once as imposing a Victorian edifice as St Pancras) has been demolished; on the other hand, street-traders always hated it, and Baroness Burdett-Coutts's plan for using the upper floors of this fake cathedral to house east London's industrious poor doesn't ring too sweetly in modern ears.
"Demolition" is the word that brings Glancey's blood to the boil. He has two vivid examples to cite. Both date from the early 1960s, a period when Britain and America were addicted to the concept of progress, and - tragically - to the destruction of anything that paid homage to the (necessarily unenlightened) past.
Thus, in New York, beautiful Penn Station, modelled on the great Roman baths of Caracalla, got pulled down, to be replaced by a dismal subterranean building which (Glancey quotes the characterisation of a fellow historian) compels the passengers who once entered the city like gods to scuttle into it like rats. (I've been one of the rodent visitors, and he's right.)
London suffered just as badly when a decision was taken to modernise Euston Station and to get rid of the magnificent Greek-revival arch which formed its approach, soaring above the wasteland of London's ugliest road. Harold Macmillan played the (classically educated) villain in this story; fortunately, the then PM's determination to bury the evidence of his philistine decision hasn't prevented the arch's original stones from being identified (they were buried deep in the River Lea). Plans to revamp the station may yet see the arch, too, being rebuilt. Let's hope.
Not every section of Lost Buildings carries equal force. It's hard to rue the loss of buildings that never existed (Toad Hall; Gormenghast; the Tower of Babel). And Fritz Lang's Metropolis need not be mourned when the imagined city has been brilliantly recreated in the smoke-and-mirrors world of Berlin's Institute for Film and Video Art.
It isn't entirely clear whether Glancey approves of the dedicated rebuilding of Dresden, or the resurrection of many traditional Russian buildings that were destroyed under Stalin's orders. And a chapter about visionary architecture that includes both Le Corbusier's skyscraper-dominated design for a new Paris and the absurd giant tower with which Philip Tilden proposed to crown Selfridges store can't be taken altogether seriously.
The choice of a mere 100 buildings must have been difficult. Certain omissions do cause regret. Georgian Dublin (largely destroyed) deserved more than a brief mention; Coleshill is the lonely stand-in for the hundreds of beautiful historic houses that have vanished from view - and almost from memory - during the past 80 years. But my one real grief is that no space was found for that gorgeously opulent Atlantic City hotel, the Marlborough Blenheim, deliberately blown up, splendid rotunda and all, in 1978.
The demolition took just two minutes.
• Miranda Seymour's In My Father's House is published by Pocket Books.
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With the likes of Draw Something going from strength to strength, and alternatives arriving by the barrel-load, it seems that almost any activity can be made a social experience with nothing more than a smart device and an Internet connection.
Now, Drawp is throwing its hat into social drawing ring, with a neat kid-focused iPad app that lets young ‘uns share their doodles only with those in their parent-approved network.
The founders say they created the app to help address “the need for parents, family, and friends to remain involved and responsive in all aspects of a child’s life.”
Ana Albir and Kunal Jham, the good folks behind Drawp, point to a report from AARP, that says around half of grandparents live more than 200 miles from their grandchildren, which is one factor that makes them believe Drawp is plugging a real gap.
How it works
When you first launch the app, you’ll be invited to sign-in or create an account, neither of which are essential to start drawing, though if you’re looking to unlock the app’s full social features you will need to create an account.
It’s actually a very nicely put-together app, and is responsive to the touch…which is obviously what the iPad is all about. Swipes and taps are the order of the day here, with a revolving palette letting you change color with ease.
Kids can choose their own profile, while parents can decide who to add to their network.
Once a sketch has been finished, they simply drag it to whoever they wish to share it with, and the recipient receives a notification.
This isn’t just a one-way process though – remember, it’s a social drawing app. As such, the parent/friend/grand parent can add color to a drawing, and even record an audio snippet, before sending it back to the creator. And a key addition here is the ability to email pictures too – which opens it up to all those folk without an iPad.
While the app itself is free, in-app purchases open up a slew of new painting tools, letting kids use Mega Pixels, Mess Monsters, Rainbow Ribbons, Retro Mix and more to mix things up a little bit. These range from $0.99 to $1.99 each, or you can buy the full suite of add-ons for $12.99.
In addition, the app also works offline, which is good news for kids in transit or any scenario sans Internet connection.
So, if you’re comfortable handing your iPad to your kid(s) to keep them amused, then Drawp could be a good addition to your armory of apps.
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The Necessity of Quality Sleep
Adequate and fulfilling sleep is a key component to women staying healthy and living a long and happy life. Our bodies typically require a minimum of 7-8 hours of sleep per night to function normally. Studies show that women who sleep 6 or less hours have reduced reaction time when driving, increased mood swings, and in some cases serious damage to the body due to lack of adequate sleep. Women are also twice as likely to experience insomnia-related symptoms as their male counterparts.
There is a higher occurrence of obesity in individuals who are sleep deprived by as little as one hour each night than those who sleep adequately. The hormones leptin and ghrelin monitor and control feelings of hunger and satiation and are directly affected by sleep deprivation. A lack of sleep may lead to weight gain in many women.
Research shows a link between increased estrogen levels found during pregnancy and the occurrence of Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) in women. RLS is described as a strange “creepy-crawly” sensation or an urge to move the legs when at rest and can be very uncomfortable.
Sleep apnea is of major concern during pregnancy due to the amount of weight gained by many women as part of a healthy pregnancy. The risk for developing preeclampsia increases in women suffering from sleep apnea, as does the risk of developing gestational diabetes. The baby can also be affected by the mother’s sleep apnea as low birth weight is common in women diagnosed with untreated sleep apnea.
Menopause & Beyond
Menopausal women experience a drastic change in hormonal function and experience more severe snoring which may be symptomatic of sleep apnea. Numerous studies link sleep apnea to increased blood pressure which can lead to stroke and heart disease. It is estimated that 50% of patients with high blood pressure also suffer from sleep apnea. Hormonal deficiencies, night sweats and other menopause-related issues interfere with sleep.
Can you identify with any of these statements?
“I just can’t seem to find the time to sleep properly.”
“My kids keep me up most nights with their needs.”
“I can’t turn off my mind to fall asleep and sometimes wake up worrying about things I have to do.”
“My partner tells me that I am snoring at night.”
“I often feel sensations in my legs when trying to sleep and the only way to relieve it is to get up and walk around.”
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“My hot flashes or other menopausal symptoms make it impossible for me to sleep.”
If you can relate to any of these statements, speak with your doctor or contact us for more information about possible sleep disorders. Treating sleep disorders dramatically improves overall health and quality of life.
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After May 2009 a youth from the Tamil Community has taken his life for a ‘cause,’ according to Tamil politicians and Tamil media. Rajeswaran Senthuran, a 17-year-old student of Kokkuvil Hindu College in Jaffna had allegedly committed suicide by jumping in front of an express train from Colombo on November 26, a sentimentally important day for many Tamils in the north, since LTTE leader V. Prabhakaran’s birthday falls on that day.
A note had reportedly been found in Senthuran’s school bag containing a demand for the immediate release of the Tamil political prisoners, a hot topic in Tamil media these days and a comment supportive of the carving out of a separate Tamil State. Despite doubts raised by the police as to who had written the note and how it had crept into the boy’s bag, the general perception that now prevails among the Tamil people is that he died for a cause – getting political prisoners released.
The nationalistic emotions were high among the northern people next day, November 27 as the cremation of the boy coincided with the LTTE’s “Maveerar Day” which was commemorated in many places in the province. For several days prior to the “Maveerar Day” Tamil media, especially the newspapers had been carrying articles and comments by politicians, venerating and glorifying the LTTE leaders and the cadres with emotionally charged wordings, but without any coherent analysis of the past. Most probably this might have affected the equilibrium in Senthuran.
There are no reports about any of the boy’s family members being among the political prisoners over whose plight he was said to have laid down his life. He had taken such a drastic decision at a time when the incumbent government had been acting in a manner more considerate of the issue at hand than the manner in which the previous regime had handled it. The Mahinda Rajapaksa government had never taken any policy decision on the release of detainees under the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), apart from the one to release through a so-called rehabilitation process more than 11,000 LTTE cadres who had surrendered to the security forces after being entrapped in the Puthumattalan area, during the last days of the war.
However, following the recent fast by the prisoners demanding their release, President Maithripala Sirisena had intervened and some prisoners were released on bail last month. The government had agreed to prepare a programme for the release of the rest of the prisoners, except for those against whom serious charges have been framed, through a rehabilitation process.
Hence, unless for the highly emotional Tamil media hype over the Tamil political prisoners and the “Maveerar Day” Senthuran’s decision to take his life either with a view to draw attention of the authorities through societal pressure or due to frustration seems to be illogical and irrational. Senthuran can be the tip of an iceberg; he cannot be the only youth emotionalized by the lethargic attitude of the government as well as Tamil media hype over the Tamil prisoners and the “Maveerar Day” on the other.
The Mahinda Rajapaksa government, that boasts about ending the war, miserably failed in winning over the Tamil people. It is true that winning the hearts and minds of the Tamil people by a Sinhalese led government that ruthlessly crushed a Tamil rebellion is a gigantic task; particularly against the backdrop of an extreme Tamil nationalistic political and media campaign against the successive Sinhalese led governments existing for more than six decades. However the previous government was very lethargic in addressing the basic needs of the northern people after the war.
For instance, more than six years into the end of the war many people displaced by the war are yet to be resettled.
Leaders then were so rude in dealing with Tamil politicians that they were not agreeable even to appoint a civilian Governor for the Northern Province, something that could have been done just with a stroke of a pen, despite repeated requests by the Tamil leaders. This situation helped the Tamil nationalism that was already on the rise to mount further and the LTTE was openly glorified at the Northern Provincial Council election even by the former Supreme Court judge C.V. Wigneswaran who was elected to the post of Chief Minister.
“Maveerar Day” and the “Mullivaikkal Day” are now commemorated in public. This was the background that created a situation for Senthuran to take his life in the name of political prisoners. One cannot blame his concern over the political prisoners, but the extremism or the radicalism in his action is something that has to be concerned about both by the government and the Tamil leaders.
Although this is an isolated incident for the moment, the country has not forgotten the much-feared suicide bombers and the cyanide capsules introduced by the LTTE. When Urumpirai Sivakumaran took a cyanide capsule to end his life when he was surrounded by the police after the attempted People’s Bank robbery on June 4, 1974 and when the first “black tiger Miller” crashed a lorry laden with explosives into the Nelliyady Central College where an army detachment was established on July 5, 1987, they too were considered as isolated incidents.
These incidents were then venerated and glorified to be turned into a trend and then into a suicide culture within the Tamil separatist struggle. However, the excessive use of suicide bombers even for the killing of innocent civilians and respected Tamil leaders such as Dr. Neelan Thiruchelvam made the suicide culture lose its sentimental value.
People have the right to respect the dedication of those who laid down their lives for their community, but venerating the actions such as suicides and blindly promoting the ideals of the groups such as the LTTE is dangerous. During the LTTE’s “Maveerar Day” this year some politicians used a modified LTTE motto “Emathu thagam, Thamileela thayagam” (The Tamil Eelam motherland is our thirst).
Prabhakaran ended his annual “Maveerar Day” speech with the slogan “Thamilarin thagam Thamileela thayagam” (The Tamil Eelam motherland is Tamil’s thirst.) Those who still promote the concept of Tamil Eelam must be considered as ones blinded to the geo-political situation. India would never allow Sri Lankan Tamils to carve out a separate Tamil State which would definitely be a launching pad for the Tamil Nadu separatists.
Far back as 1988 former Indian Foreign Secretary S.K.Singh made it clear when he attended the SAARC summit held in the Pakistani capital Islamabad that India would never support any move by the Sri Lankan Tamils that would help create a “Tamil Eelam” in India.
This is the reality that Prabhakaran failed to understand. After the three decades of disasters befell on the Tamil community and on the country in general, Tamil politicians and the media should refrain from pushing the youth towards unrealistic political ends.
– See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/98053/message-of-the-kokkuvil-suicide#sthash.PL03Sq5M.dpuf
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