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Denton. The Little Chapel in the Woods is a chapel constructed mainly for meditation and prayer. It was built in 1939, on the Denton campus of Texas Womans University, and was dedicated by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Inside the chapel, there are many pieces of artwork, as well as stained glass windows. It was designed by regional architect ONeil Ford.
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781: Ahead Stop
Title text: They actually started the reversed-text practice in 1977 -- not for ease-of-reading reasons, but because too many people were driving backward down the highway blasting the Star Wars opening theme.
This comic refers to how, in some countries including the US, words or instructions written on the highway are always backwards from how you would read them. It seems that the "highway" engineers write the words as if you would read them as your car goes over them. Sometimes this approach works, other times (probably most of the time) it is terribly confusing. The sentence on the comic is: Highway Engineers Think I Read Backward. Adding the period is a perfectly hilarious touch, as there are probably not too many periods on the highways.
The title text is referring to how the words of the opening sequence of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (released in 1977) move from the bottom of the screen to the top so that it can be read by a normal human being. However, the image text says the engineers initially reversed the text because people were driving BACKWARDS down the highway trying to re-enact the opening sequence, so they started reversing the word order to get people to drive the "correct" direction.
The title of the comic ("Ahead Stop") is also a reference to this phenomenon because the common "Stop Ahead" instruction would be written on the highway as "Ahead" and then "Stop".
This could also be a reference to Top-posting in email threads and online discussion forums, as summarized in the following comedic signature line:
- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
- Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
- A: Top-posting.
- Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
- [Words are painted in white on a black road with green grass on each side and a gray sidewalk along the road to the left with a single flagstone going of from the sidewalk and out of the frame to the left. The words get smaller towards the top due to the perspective.]
- I READ
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How bad is it? Should I wear a bag over my head? :(
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no, black hair is fine.
however, when that wears out, you should NOT dye it again. your natural hair color is best, and here's why:
your hair color is based on genetics. so is the texture. so is your skin color and eye color. and they're all related. a person's natural hair color is in tune with their skin color. you'll notice that people with naturally light blond hair tend to have fair skin, same for people with orange hair, while people with dark brown or black hair will tend to have darker skin tones and brown or hazel eyes. there are exceptions.
also, when nature makes a mistake, it's obvious. things like conjoined twins, disfigurement, mental retardation... hair color is one that nature has perfected.
take pride in your genetics. for example: it's horrible when african people purposely straighten and dye their hair. there is nothing ugly about an african person the way that their genes have designed them. they have thick, kinky or wavy black hair, and it's beautiful.0
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I believe it provides contrast so we appreciate the light. What do you think?
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Let's light shine through! It is conducive for sleep, It is still and quiet time , of course starry skies, the heat is less so more cool and pleasant ,,,,,,,,,
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You can see the stars better when it is dark. It is usually quiet when it is dark. That's all I can think of.
I don't know if "Darkness" has a redeeming quality. I don't think it has any. We stumble in darkness.Evil hides in darkness. Nope no redeeming quality what so ever.
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United Nations Conference on Trade and Development | November 28, 2011
Preface to the report of the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to UNCTAD XIII
The World Turned Upside Down
1. In my report to UNCTAD XII, I warned that, despite an unprecedented global boom over the previous five years, significant risks and vulnerabilities threatened growth prospects and could undermine moves towards "a more equitable and effective global partnership for development." In particular, I argued that "putting liberalized markets and flexible prices at centre stage has proved to be insufficient in the light of the complex challenges that the new generation of globalization poses."
2. At that time, I was swimming against the tide of conventional thinking. Even though there were clouds on the economic horizon, notably the housing market in the United States and (closely related) concerns about global imbalances, the consensus forecast was for fair economic weather sustained by strong market fundamentals. Indeed, at the time that I was writing, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was raising its global growth projections.
3. With the benefit of hindsight, my report underestimated the seriousness of the global imbalances. Sharply rising food prices were an early indication that the world economy was out of kilter. The danger signs became apparent during the UNCTAD conference in Accra, when prices for cereals, soybeans and rice were all at historic highs. In the following months, further rises led to political unrest in several countries. There were also concerns about the price of oil, which had risen above $100 per barrel, raising inflationary worries along with the possibility of geopolitical tensions.
4. Financial turbulence hit in August 2007, and the collapse of Northern Rock in February 2008 and Bear Stearns in March 2008 revealed serious stresses in the financial markets. Concerns over subprime lending in the United States housing markets intensified in the middle of 2008. But it was the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in September that triggered a crisis that few had anticipated or even imagined possible, exposing the full extent of global financial fragility. Credit markets froze and equity prices collapsed. Leading financial institutions failed, while many others turned to their governments for support. The speed of contagion was breathtaking, and the sense of panic in the financial markets and among policymakers was palpable.
5. The first lesson to draw from the crisis is that leaving markets to regulate themselves is both ineffectual and costly. Bailing out financial institutions has already run into trillions of dollars, and despite unprecedented fiscal and monetary responses, the global economy experienced its first contraction since the Great Depression. An estimated 10 per cent of global output was lost between 2008 and 2010, and tens of millions of jobs were destroyed; according to estimates by the International Labour Organization, 200 million people are currently unemployed worldwide. The impact was felt even in those communities that had seen few benefits during the boom years: due to the crisis, the number of people living in extreme poverty jumped by between 50 and 100 million.
6. A second lesson is that when a large number of economies collapse so dramatically, there must have been underlying weaknesses and fragilities missed or ignored by policymakers prior to the crisis. No one doubts the creative impulse of market forces, but the private pursuit of short-term gain can sometimes result in insufficient productive investment and concentrate the rewards with the favored few. The risks are particularly pronounced when financial markets detach themselves from the real economy, tying wealth creation to the rapid accumulation of debt and rising asset prices rather than to steady productivity improvements and increasing incomes, and channeling innovation to financial engineering rather than to technological progress. Such a growth strategy is likely to be neither stable nor fair.
7. A third lesson is that when things do fall apart, the state remains the only institution capable of mobilizing the resources needed to confront large and systemic threats. The idea that the nation state had somehow outlived its usefulness in a borderless world was never very serious. Since the state is pivotal to establishing an inclusive social contract and strengthening participatory politics, it is both imprudent and unrealistic to reduce or bypass its role in managing economic development and change. The more worrying trend in recent years has been the growing influence of financial markets in bending public policy and resources to their own needs and interests—leading a former IMF chief economist to warn of a "quiet coup"—including in the post-crisis period.
8. Even as a tentative recovery has set in, the imbalances that arose during the previous boom, particularly in advanced countries, have proved very difficult to overcome. The private debt overhang remains a drag in many countries, while the combined effect of financial bailouts and recession has led to rising public deficits, triggering sovereign debt crises in some countries and stalling the recovery in others. Everywhere, employment creation has lagged behind, raising the threat of jobless growth and the spectre of protectionist responses. This provides a fourth lesson from the crisis, namely that in an interdependent world, countries cannot be expected to tackle destabilizing threats and imbalances on their own. And yet, to date, effective rebalancing strategies have not materialized at the multilateral level. The initial reaction to the food and financial crises was swift, with significant resources committed on both fronts, along with improved policy coordination; and protectionist responses have so far been kept in check. But the reforms required to prevent a repetition of the crisis have proved elusive. In the resulting interregnum, the burden of adjustment has been shifted onto overstretched public and household finances, with growing threats to the social peace and stability.
9. Neither IMF nor the World Bank, having abandoned their original raison d'être to the siren calls of unregulated financial markets, have been able to forge a vision of a postcrisis world economy consistent with changed economic and political realities. This failure points to a wider hiatus in global governance. The Doha Development Round is fast approaching its tenth anniversary, and its completion—as initially conceived—is still to happen. Progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions has stalled following the failure to reach a comprehensive deal in Copenhagen. Finally, even before the latest crisis, keeping the Millennium Development Goals on track was a struggle: their achievement by 2015 is now only a distant possibility. It is telling that even a small proportion of the resources used to save financial institutions deemed "too big to fail" could never be found in better economic times for social and economic development, infrastructure-building and social welfare, or to address environmental challenges.
A. Goodbye Finance-driven Globalization
10. It has become commonplace to view these developments as part of the inevitable stresses and strains of moving to a borderless world economy, and the price to be paid for the greater efficiency and dynamism of global market forces. Doing so requires a good deal of faith in the textbook logic of how markets work. In fact, the past 30 years have seen a persistent slowdown in global growth, weaker investment performance in many countries, and a sharp rise in income inequality almost everywhere. Moreover, describing the global economy as a natural system with a logic of its own ignores the policy choices underpinning it.
11. The extensive deregulation of the financial sector in the advanced countries, the dismantling of controls on cross-border financial activities, and the ensuing surge in capital flows marked a radical break with the post-war international policy framework. The rapid ascent of financial interests has eroded the checks and balances that had previously helped channel market forces into the kind of creative and productive activities needed for longterm growth, and has instead encouraged short-term, and at times destructive, behavior by banks, businesses, and households. Ideological support came from the efficient market hypothesis, which made the case for a hands-off policy approach applicable to all economic circumstances and challenges.
12. The crisis has put to rest the idea that there is a "one-size-fits-all" policy agenda. It has also been a considerable shock to the confidence of the developed world, and to the belief that economic disasters only occur in developing countries because of weak institutions, corruption and mismanagement. The former head of IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, was right to conclude that events since 2008 have "devastated the intellectual foundations of the global economic order of the last twenty-five years" and have shattered confidence in simple policy fixes to complex development challenges.
13. Since the early 1990s, against the grain of conventional economic wisdom, UNCTAD has been arguing that the risks from the premature liberalization of trade and capital flows are significant, that the benefits are not simply there for the taking, and that a more pragmatic approach to development strategy is essential. In 1993 UNCTAD warned of an emerging financial crisis in Mexico, in 1995 we flagged the systemic risk from growing derivatives markets, and in 1997 we were not only alert to the dangers of rapid financial liberalization in East Asia but also suggested that a combination of repeated shocks and growing inequalities could produce a backlash against globalization. We have consistently argued that, in the face of large and unruly capital movements, neither fixed nor flexible exchange rates can provide the macroeconomic stability needed to secure strong growth, and that capital controls should be a permanent part of the policy toolkit. We have warned that an undue emphasis on inflation targeting would likely fuel damaging boom-and-bust cycles, particularly in developing countries, arguing instead for greater fiscal space and a more balanced approach to demand management. Throughout the past decades, we have been warning that the build-up of private and public sector debt was feeding unsustainable imbalances at the household, national and global level, and that "bailouts" were neither an effective nor a desirable solution. In 2008, we argued that the financialization of markets of strategic interest to developing countries had reached dangerous levels, and that it had become a more significant influence on trade and development than real economic fundamentals.
14. With all this in mind, I have chosen the term finance-driven globalization (FDG) to characterize the dominant pattern of international economic relations during the past three decades. This is intended to convey the idea that financial deregulation, concerted moves to open up the capital account, and rapidly rising international capital flows have been the main forces shaping global economic integration since the breakdown of the Bretton Woods system. Financial markets and institutions have become the masters rather than the servants of the real economy, distorting trade and investment, heightening levels of inequality, and posing a systemic threat to economic stability.
15. The latest crisis has served as a further reminder that FDG is a political project and is, therefore, the subject of legitimate discussion and debate. To date, the response has largely been one of muddling through, with ad hoc measures to mitigate the damage from economic shocks, informal partnerships to tackle global imbalances, and impromptu alliances to push for greater market transparency. There has been progress: the G20 has added a new and more focused layer of coordination in international economic matters, and has helped to nudge the multilateral financial institutions towards (marginally) more representative governance structures and (slightly) less dogmatic advice. However, divisions have emerged among the advanced economies on how to reform the international financial system, with alarming signs of a reversion to "business as usual." Indeed, their financial sectors have already returned to many of the old practices, even as public finances deteriorate and the recovery stalls. Austerity measures are back on the agenda, and resistance to financial regulation has begun in earnest.
B. The Future Is Not What It Used To Be
16. Money and finance have dominated policy discussions and grabbed the headlines. However, there are other important trends shaping development prospects. Soon after UNCTAD XII in Accra, the United Nations concluded that the planet was now truly urban, with over half the world's population living in cities. This figure is expected to rise to over 60 per cent by 2030. Urbanization has long been seen as a progressive trend, closely linked to a series of cumulative processes raising economic and social well-being. However the links are not automatic, and considerable challenges lie ahead. Rapid urbanization, premature deindustrialization and a degraded public sector have led to speculations about a "hollowing out" of the middle-class, and, more dramatically, a "planet of slums." Where these trends have collided with the ambitions of a youthful population, economic frustrations have spilled over into political unrest, as witnessed recently in North Africa.
17. It would be equally amiss to ignore environmental challenges, and, in particular, what the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-HABITAT) has dubbed the "deadly collision" between urbanization and climate change. It is widely acknowledged that global warming is the unwelcome (and unpriced) result of successful development of today's advanced economies. But solving it will require a global policy response that brings about a new economic trajectory without compromising existing development goals. That will entail low-carbon, high-growth paths based around new technologies that can deliver an adequate supply of energy and rising incomes to a growing global population, with greatly reduced greenhouse gas emissions. A large investment push, with adequate financing and technology transfer from richer countries, is essential to this rebalancing challenge, and serves as a reminder of the interrelated nature of the challenges facing the international community. To date, the requisite economic incentives, degree of political will and appropriate partnerships have been noticeable by their absence.
18. The rise of new growth poles in the South also heralds a significant shift in the global economic and political landscape. China has already become the world's second largest economy and its largest exporter. India has now posted two decades of strong growth and is steadily climbing the export ladder. Growth in other large developing countries, such as Brazil and Indonesia, picked up in the second half of the last decade. Since the Accra conference, the share of developing countries in world income has risen by more than 3 percentage points, to 30 per cent. Trade and investment patterns have shifted accordingly, and new political alliances and groupings have emerged, suggesting that a new world order is already taking shape.
19. The resilience to, and rebound from, the crisis in parts of the developing world certainly marks an important break with the past and has raised hopes of a prolonged period of convergence ahead. UNCTAD has always looked to an emerging South as being key to a more balanced global economy. However, a degree of caution is warranted. To date, this shift has been uneven, with large differences between developing regions and among individual countries; many of the least developed countries (LDCs) have seen the income gap between them and other countries widen further during the past two decades, suggesting that polarization pressures continue to shape global economic relations. Moreover, many emerging markets remain dependent on the leading economies and vulnerable to changes in policy and in economic conditions there. The impact of the Northern debt crisis on developing countries will need to be monitored carefully. The emerging South is still work in progress, and new forms of cooperation and partnership will be needed to consolidate recent gains and to meet the challenges ahead.
C. Hello Development-led Globalization
20. Against a backdrop of economic imbalances and political tensions in interwar Europe, John Maynard Keynes called for "new policies and new instruments to adapt and control the working of economic forces, so that they do not intolerably interfere with contemporary ideas as to what is fit and proper in the interests of social stability and social justice." A new deal did eventually emerge, but only after a push for "business as usual" had left a trail of currency disorders, wasted resources and shattered communities. Today's global economic landscape bears some unnerving similarities to the interwar years; as then, neither muddling through nor a return to business as usual will get things back on track. The challenge is to rebalance economies in a way that is timely, sustainable and just.
21. This time around, rebalancing will need a global new deal that can "lifts all boats," in developed and developing countries alike. It is a basic truth that people everywhere want much the same thing: a decent job, a secure home, a safe environment, a better future for their children and a government that listens and responds to their concerns. UNCTAD has consistently suggested a battery of policy measures and institutional reforms at the national and the international level to support rising living standards in developing countries, build their resilience to external shocks, and help them pursue a balanced integration with the global economy. The challenge, as I outlined in my report to UNCTAD XII, was less about "getting prices right" and more about "getting development right," through a pragmatic, proactive and socially inclusive approach to macroeconomic, trade and industrial policies.
22. Finding the appropriate mixture of reflation, redistribution and regulatory measures to achieve these goals is now the urgent task of policymakers, at the international as much as the national level. I have chosen the term development-led globalization (DLG) to describe the principles, priorities and policies that need to be pursued to turn tentative recovery into an inclusive and sustainable future.
23. Reforming the financial system is the place to begin. Even before the crisis, it was clear that stable and inclusive development was incompatible with speculative market behaviour, boom-and-bust cycles, and the austerity programmes to which they invariably lead. It is telling that the emerging success stories from the South have, in large part, pursued policies that have avoided these dangers. Finance needs to get back to the business of providing security for people's savings and mobilizing resources for productive investment. Reforms are also needed to replace unruly and procyclical capital flows with predictable and long-term development finance, to regain stability in currency markets and to support expansionary macroeconomic adjustments. Surveillance and regulation will need to be strengthened at all levels, and new institutional arrangements may need to be considered. Regional financial cooperation, despite the current difficulties in the eurozone, will, in particular, have a much larger role to play in a more balanced international architecture.
24. Stable monetary and financial arrangements are a precondition for making trade and investment work for inclusive growth and development. But rebalancing requires that financial and other resources be channelled towards the right kind of productive activities. Industrial development remains a priority for many developing countries because of the opportunities it provides to raise productivity and incomes, and to get the most from international trade. But a wider sectoral approach, including a focus on the primary sector in many LDCs, is needed in order to ensure that measures to diversify economic activity are consistent with job creation, the security of food and energy supplies, and effective responses to the climate challenge.
25. Talk of "picking winners" has been given an unexpected boost by the exigencies of the financial crisis, but the real challenge is to make sure that industrial policy, broadly conceived, is properly aligned with other measures needed to build inclusive development paths. Since diversified economies are the building blocks of a dynamic trading system, it is essential that trade policies and rules—at all levels—support this agenda. Cutting through the Gordian knot of existing regional trade and investment agreements and building more productive forms of integration among neighboring countries offers a way forward for developing countries. There is also a case for new global rules in areas of particular interest to developing countries, including for commodity markets and the effective transfer of technologies.
26. An inclusive development agenda cannot depend on economic policies alone. Under FDG, the stresses and burdens of unregulated markets have, all too often, been shifted to individuals and households and, in countries where social welfare systems exist, to government budgets. In many cases, unprecedented increases in income inequality have gone hand in hand with underfunded public services and rising levels of household indebtedness. The resulting cost to economic security and social cohesion has been enormous. Even when growth has accelerated, as it did in many developing countries between 2002 and 2008, too many people were left behind. A balanced economy depends on a strong social compact which, in turn, requires a range of universal and targeted social policies, tailored to specific circumstances, to ensure that the benefits of growth are widely enjoyed and its risks are shared fairly.
27. The crisis has confirmed UNCTAD's long-standing insistence on the importance of policy space. Its role in building new and more inclusive development paths cannot be understated. This is needed to allow governments—particularly but not only in developing countries—to correct market failures, promote collaboration among enterprises in areas of long-term investment, manage integration with the global economy, and ensure that the rewards from doing so are evenly shared. In order to do so, states must forge a coherent and inclusive developmental vision and build a strong compact with different interest groups to better manage the conflicts and trade-offs that change inevitably brings. Effectiveness also hinges on a more integrated approach to policymaking which not only links macroeconomic, sectoral, trade and financial policies in support of growth and development, but also brings together economic, environmental and social policies, leading to sustainable and inclusive outcomes. Accordingly, in the full version of my report to UNCTAD XIII (with the symbol TD(XIII)/1), I stress the critical role of the developmental state in building balanced growth paths in an economy where the mobilization and allocation of resources relies on market forces.
28. This should not be taken to imply that states never fail. Indeed, accountability, transparency and the rule of law are just as important for making states sufficiently representative as they are for making markets sufficiently stable. However, when we compare success stories from North America to Scandinavia to East Asia, we find that market economies can operate within a wide spectrum of social and political arrangements, and that, beyond a few core principles, there is no single model of state–market relations for others to emulate. Each country must be able to experiment and discover what configuration of institutions and governance works best in its circumstances and in line with the expectations of its population.
29. Responsibility for the choice of policies to secure a prosperous, fair and stable future remains to a large extent with national governments, institutions and constituencies. However, in our interdependent world, a more secure and inclusive global economy requires strong international leadership and carries collective responsibilities. There are hard questions to answer about whether current arrangements can help to build socially inclusive alternatives to FDG, and what governance structures might support DLG. UNCTAD XIII in Doha provides an opportunity for the international community to discuss these challenges in a frank, open and constructive manner.
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nd I guess it is someone else stopping him from putting Free applications.
I know that at my old high-school, it was literally school board policy to not have any software installed that did not provide a license by which the board could defend themselves by.
Meaning, if the board bought X number of licenses for, say Dreamweaver or Photoshop, and the program caused many systems to crash and burn due to an unpatched memory leak, or something... then the school board would be able to whip around and sue for a faulty product impeaching the "security" of the students' personal information.
I couldn't stand my old high-school's admin though. The only time I ever saw him, were the times he went out for a smoke or lunch, or whenever he came to bust me for breaking through DeepFreeze and doing network-wide installs of Quake and Doom for LAN matches. It wasn't so much the fact that I was breaking the rules, but more the fact he wasn't learning from his mistakes. If this kid knows the password to DeepFreeze and pretty much the rest of the administrative programs, then change the bloody passwords.
I found out the passwords from the old sysadmin, who, much like myself, couldn't stand the new sysadmin. Hee hee, all the admin passwords were "greece", as the old admin was Greek.
LOL-thats good. I changed the visiting person's password at my (old) school (it was student for user, student for pass) and I entered the network as an admin and changed the password to like a 23 character password. ;-D
I set up an admin account for myself, and changed the vice principals password.
ya, there are only 2 linux users in my whole school, (me being one) who have both been accused of hacking (which we never did) walking down the hall together. People back away, and everyone in the tech department skips a heartbeat. Funny thing is, I haven't even done anything to my current school network...yet. Excluding taking Austrumi in and booting it, using the tech's internet (whose internet isn't filtered) and then they can't monitor me with their precious software. I tell them sometimes that the only reason they can monitor me, is because I let them. I just adjust the firewall, and they can't see it (clueless). Or, I unblocked sites their proxy blocked. Besides that, I'm a perfect law abiding student...
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To cope with the soaring population aging, the quarantine, and the shortage of medical instrumentations, to enable decentralized medical technologies that allow remote and personalized healthcare. Compared to current wearable devices that can only measure vital signals (e.g. heart rates, breathing rates, blood pressure, etc.), PERfECT is able to detect molecular indicators in the body fluid, which are more informative for fatal / chronic disease screening and monitoring.
“HKU PERfECT” is the first wearable platform that can simultaneously address three challenges.
1. Highly sensitive: By combing electrochemical technology with microelectronic technology, the highest sensitivity is reached.
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Ashtarak is a town and urban municipal community in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia, located on the left bank of Kasagh River along the gorge, northwest of the capital Yerevan. It is the administrative centre of the Aragatsotn province. Ashtarak is an important crossroad of routes for the Yerevan–Gyumri–Vanadzor rectangle.
The town plays a great role in the national economy as well as the cultural life of Armenia through several industrial enterprises and cultural institutions. It has developed as a satellite town of Yerevan. The nearby village of Mughni is part of the Ashtarak municipality.
As of 2016 official estimate, the population of Ashtarak is 18,000.
Ashtarak is a satellite of Yerevan and connected with the capital through the Ashtarak highway. The M-1 Motorway connects Ashtarak with northwestern Armenia, including the city of Gyumri, while the M-3 Motorway connects the town with northeastern Armenia up to the Georgian border.
Taxi services are available in the town while public vans locally-known as marshrutka, operate regular trips between Ashtarak and Yerevan throughout the day.
Ashtarak is one of the major industrial centre of Aragatsotn Province. The industrial sector of the town is based on food-processing, dairy products and beverages, mainly processing the domestic raw materials and grapes.
With several restaurants and recreation areas, the valley of Kasagh river -locally known as Ashtaraki dzor- is a major destination for visitors from Yerevan and other areas.
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Fenugreek is both a spice and a medicinal supplement commonly used in regions of the Middle East, Egypt and India. As a supplement, fenugreek has been used historically to treat stomach problems, bronchitis, arthritis and constipation. Fenugreek may also improve breast milk production in lactating women. In addition, this herb may also aid in blood sugar and cholesterol regulation. However, more clinical research is needed to examine the purported health benefits of fenugreek.
The amount of fenugreek you should take each day depends on a number of factors, including your weight, age and health status. Only your doctor can tell you how much fenugreek is appropriate for you. For this reason, consult your doctor for personalized fenugreek dosage recommendations before taking this herbal supplement.
The recommended daily dose of fenugreek is 5 to 30 g defatted fenugreek seed powder up to three times daily, according to health professionals with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. If you're taking fenugreek to help lower high triglyceride levels, your daily dosage may be closer to 25 to 50 g defatted seed powder each day. Usually, fenugreek is best taken before or during mealtime. Alternatively, you can take fenugreek as a tincture in a 3 to 4 mL dose three times each day.
After taking a dose of fenugreek, you may experience mild to moderate side effects. Stomach irritation is common and may result in bloating, gas or frequent diarrhea. You may also notice that your urine or sweat gives off an odor that smells similar to maple syrup.
Fenugreek may cause a severe and potentially life-threatening allergic reaction in people who are allergic to green peas, peanuts, chickpeas or soybeans. If you're allergic to fenugreek, exposure to this herb may cause vomiting, weakness, dizziness, hives, flushing, facial swelling, difficulty swallowing, wheezing, shortness of breath or fainting. A mild allergy to fenugreek may also induce nasal congestion or coughing. Contact an emergency medical provider immediately if you exhibit signs of an allergic reaction after handling or ingesting fenugreek. In addition, fenugreek may lower blood sugar levels and should be used with caution by people with diabetes. As a diabetic, it's important to check your blood sugar carefully -- especially if you're using fenugreek -- to ensure it doesn't fall to severely low, or hypoglycemic, levels. Hypoglycemia may cause dizziness, blurred vision, hunger, fatigue, sweating or headache. If such side effects arise, contact your medical provider for further care.
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Ostuni is a town in the province of Brindisi which has a population of about 32,000 people, but during the summer months this mushrooms to a massive 100,000 proving that Ostuni is a must see to any visit in Southern Italy.
Ostuni is also known as “White City” (Città bianca) because its historic center is entirely painted with white lime. It is a very popular tourist destination.
The origins of the city can be placed in the Paleolithic period (approx 50.000 – 40.000 years ago). The area was originally occupied by hunters who built their huts in the caves that characterize the territory of Ostuni.
Human presence in this area around that time was confirmed by the discovery of a skeleton belonging to woman later named as the “Woman of Ostuni”. The skeleton that was found in the cave of Agnano was of a woman who was pregnant at the time of death, her body was later dated to be about 25,000 years old.
Ostuni was occupied and inhabited by Messapi, Lombards and Romans but it was under the Spanish empire of Isabella of Aragon that the city reached its economic and cultural peak. It’s also in this period that the city witnessed an intense urban development; the Spaniards strengthened the fortifications walls of the city and built the towers of Pozzella and San Leonardo.
The towers were built in 1539 along all the shoreline, as protection against anticipated attacks from the Turks who controlled the Balkans. These towers (still existing, including Pozzella Tower, the Pylon, Villanova and others), were permanently garrisoned and communicated through fire beacons.
Today Ostuni is a city which bases its economy on agriculture and the processing and exporting of its products such as: olive oil, almonds and wine. Ostuni’s historical center is very distinctive; the roofs of the houses are painted with white lime.
Use of white lime originated in the Middle Ages as it was easy to find and gave more light to the small alleys that make up the historic center In addition, the white lime was a way to prevent the spread of the plague in the seventeenth century, this is how Ostuni gained its nick name ‘White City’.
There are many examples of the ancient architecture, among them to highlight the walls, the Cathedral and the Column of Sant’Oronzo. The Cathedral is situated on a hilltop surrounded and protected by the houses of the old quarter; it can be reached by walking along the only road that connects the Cathedral to Sant’Oronzo Square, a narrow and winding road but very characteristic and full of little shops / boutiques.
Scenic walks can be taken around the city along roads that offer exceptional views from the surrounding countryside to the coastline.
In the area around Ostuni there are also several Masserie. A Masseria was a fortified farmhouse typical in Southern Italy and in particular in Puglia. They were owned by wealthy families and landowners.
The farmhouses were sometimes occupied by landowners, but the large constructions also included the homes of peasants and in some areas even pitches, stables, stores and forage crops.
For further information please visit the website: www.borgostuni.it
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What is Zija, Really? Is It Good For You?
The “Buzz” has started. You’ve probably recently heard about Zija, the newest “miracle juice” to come along in the health and wellness industry. And if you’re like me, you’re probably asking yourself: “Why is Zija different?” “Why do I need it?” “Why am I only now hearing about Zija?” “Does this Moringa plant actually deserve the ‘Miracle Tree’ title ?” Well, folks, here are the FACTS!!!!
Zija is formulated for bioavailability and easy absorption in the body. Just one serving of Zija per day provides you with vital antioxidants, minerals, omega oils, and essential amino acids. Using science, not fiction, Russ Bianchi developed the proprietary Zija beverage to contain efficacious levels of 90 plus cell-ready nutrients. This patent pending formulation delivers multiple anti-aging and anti-inflammatory compounds that vitalize the mind and body. The science and quality control that goes into making Zija is the reason we have the premier natural beverage in the wellness industry today. Zija provides you with a balanced, convenient, approach to your nutrition. All products contain or are wholly substantiated by the plant, Moringa Oleifera. While it’s one of the newer discoveries to modern science, Moringa has been making strides in various societies for thousands of years. Moringa continues to amaze the scientific world with its amazing balance of antioxidants, minerals and amino acids. Ancient Indian writings, dating as far back as 150 B.C., refer to the Moringa plant and its uses. Early Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians prized Moringa for its therapeutic properties and also used it to protect skin, make perfume, and purify water for drinking. Now this humble plant, often called “the Miracle Tree,” is coming to the forefront through Zija, the Moringa company.
Dozens of humanitarian organizations now promote the use of Moringa in poverty-stricken areas to combat malnutrition and its adverse effects on the body. Groups such as Church World Service, Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, National Science Foundation, and others are reintroducing the different health benefits of this plant to malnourished people in various underdeveloped areas. While conventional treatments for malnutrition normally take months, healthcare professionals have discovered that people taking Moringa show improvement within days. Biochemists, natural scientists, and health-care workers are busy substantiating ancient claims of Moringa’s effectiveness in treating more than 300 conditions. Their research has led to the documentation of its astonishing range of natural vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients. Many people taking Moringa have reported rapid improvements in skin, digestion, eyesight, mental clarity, and overall well-being, plus a reduction in symptoms associated with fatigue, arthritic-like conditions, and aging to name a few. In addition to its wealth of vitamins and minerals, the Moringa plant provides a rich and rare combination of zeatin, quercetin, beta-sitosterol, caffeoylquinic acid, and kaempferol. We call this compound Z-Atin, and it’s found only in Zija. Z-Atin is the metabolic trigger for complete nutrient absorption and it guarantees that you get all the goodness of Moringa found in Zija.
“Ok…. Now I’m sold on Moringa…. How can I get Moringa IN MY BODY? Is Zija the BEST method for this?”
The Liquid Nutritionals
Zija’s Smart Drink is overflowing with cell-ready nutrients, antioxidants and vital proteins. Zija is the first—and only—company to channel Moringa’s dramatic nutritional properties into a refreshing, nourishing beverage for everyday use. The Smart Mix is a delicious, all-natural powder blended from a miracle plant called Moringa, considered by many to be the most nutrient-rich plant ever discovered. The Smart Mix is overflowing with cell-ready nutrients, antioxidants, minerals, omega oils and vital proteins. Zija is the first—and—only, company to channel Moringa’s dramatic nutritional properties into a refreshing, nourishing beverage to help you maintain a healthy, active lifestyle. The Smart Mix gives you balance and variety as nature intended. Our proprietary Smart Mix and Smart Drink are 100% natural, Halal and Kosher certified and contains over 90 nutrients and benefits in each serving. Our products are overflowing with vitamins, antioxidants, minerals, omega oils and vital proteins, most of which either can’t be found in today’s food or is found only in minute quantities.
In response to the current state of undernourishment and related conditions, Zija has developed the first efficacious, highly potent and naturally occurring Moringa-based beverage, containing dozens of essential nutrients from the remarkable Moringa oleifera plant. XM3 delivers real, all-natural metabolic benefits with none of the harmful neurostimulants, artificial ingredients, flavors, preservatives, stabilizers and sweeteners, of other so-called “energy drink” brands. In an energy beverage industry teeming with unsubstantiated claims and an overabundance of hype, many energy drinks simply offer “false” energy and can actually be harmful. XM3, on the other hand, works. Its energy enhancement, appetite suppression and nutrition all result from safe and all-natural ingredients.
The Weight Management System
Zija Weight Management promotes a lean body through appetite suppression. Our breakthrough formula is designed to enhance thermogenesis and weight control. Zija Weight Management is formulated to spark a natural energy release. It delivers a real, all-natural metabolic benefit with none of the harmful neurostimulants. Our research team has found a way to further enhance over three decades’ worth of research to create these new formulas. Years of research from our scientific team has produced a break through formula that raises the bar on weight management products. Simply put, when you combine the synergistic effects of Zija’s proprietary blend of Moringa, Vitamin B6, Minerals, Cocoa, natural Caffeine and Phenylethylamine to name a few—magic happens. One or two capsules should kick you into gear and turn off your hunger switch!
Zija’s Miracle Tea is a pleasant-tasting blend of traditional eastern and western herbs. This proprietary herbal combination aids in digestive cleansing and acts as a natural laxative, fat metabolizer, diuretic and appetite-suppressor. This premium formula is a mild and versatile product that is both nutritious and delicious! Zija’s Miracle Tea is an important addition to the Zija Weight Management System.
Inner Health, Outer Beauty
Genmskin care is based on careful science and enlightened research. Our goal was to unleash a powerful medley of natural botanicals and ingredients that promote healthy skin at consumer-friendly doses with real results. Keeping the underlying “inner health, outer beauty” philosophy in mind, Zija’s team of nutritionists, scientists and skin care experts have developed an efficacious line of next-generation skin care without last-generation ingredients. Zija developed and built Genmto bridge the gap for all generations’ anti-aging needs. Our skincare line is considered to be “light years” ahead of the competition. While most skincare products only penetrate four dermal layers of skin, Moringa based skincare lines penetrate all seven of the dermal layers to promote healthy skin from the bottom through the top!!! All our skincare products
- Are paraben and phthalate-free
- Are infused with Moringa extracts
- Use only earth friendly, botanically-based, natural ingredients
- Are free of chemical preservatives and sulfates
- Are free of artificial colors and fragrances
- Are cruelty-free
The solution to our “health crisis” is so simple that we are missing it completely. It is not better drugs, more testing, more doctors, or higher insurance premiums. The solution is taking personal responsibility for eating low on the food chain, and looking for business opportunities that enhance health rather than degrade it. Today’s society is fast paced. “Fast-food” and “fat foods” are NOT the answer!!!! We believe that God has created the perfect machine… a machine in His own image… and we believe that if you put the right “fuel” in the perfect machine, a healthier you should follow.
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Many of us carry fears within us. Fear of the dark, fear of failure, fear of losing our jobs, our homes, our lifestyle, our loved ones.
Or maybe you are afraid of facing each day without a drink or drugs or are fearful of your partner or that your life is spiralling out of control.
Controlling fear, moving through it and eliminating it is not a simple or easy task but it can be done, says former US assistant professor of psychiatry Harvey Wasserman, who moved to the Burren on retirement and now practises psychotherapy in Galway.
Writing in his new self-help book of true short stories and exercises called John Wayne and the Fierce Kuga Kugas - which he says is aimed at helping people heal early traumas, remove toxic attitudes and increase happiness - he claims that decreasing the control which fear has in your life by only 10 per cent improves your life’s quality by 100 per cent.
What are we afraid of? Loss and death, he says. We are scared of abandonment, embarrassment, shame and humiliation, also. He describes these as the “little deaths, the little murders”.
He says fear is meant for the survival of children, for adults it is “useless”. “There is nothing to be afraid of. There are certainly dangers to be dealt with. That’s different. Dealing is not fearing.”
‘Negative experiences, traumatic experiences, lay down fear pathways in the evolving brain that are much like ruts left like wagon wheels on a muddy road.’
He says it is very easy to drown our fear in alcohol. While the unpleasant sensation may go away the fear goes into hiding where it has “awesome power”, he warns.
“As children we are born without the ability to take care of ourselves or to understand what our world is all about. Negative experiences, traumatic experiences, lay down fear pathways in the evolving brain that are much like ruts left like wagon wheels on a muddy road. These pathways have no sense of time. What might have made some sense to be afraid of as a child no longer makes sense as an adult. But our minds react as if the fear was valid in the present time. This timelessness of fear gives it great power.”
While fear is “necessary” for children it is “totally unnecessary” in adult life, he insists. “Children don’t have judgment, knowledge or power. We as humans have such a long period of dependency and helplessness in learning about the world around us that there is much time for trauma and false learning to engrave a deep sense of fear.
“Imagine that there was a beam of wood on the floor of your living room and I ask you to walk across the living room balanced on that beam of wood. You are very likely to be able to do this. Now imagine the beam was suspended in the air over the Grand Canyon and I ask you to walk across it. You would probably fall off. Did your fear help you to survive? It did not. Fear in the face of danger very often decreases the flexibility and speed of your ability to protect yourself. The Inuit (Eskimos ) in their traditional culture learn to laugh in situations where we would feel afraid. Their environment is an extremely dangerous one.”
‘The more you face your fear, the more you eliminate fears, the more self-esteem you enjoy.’
Dr Wasserman says fear is one of the main culprits in human suffering and dysfunction. The more you allow fear to run your life, the lower your self-esteem will sink, he points out.
“The more you face your fear, the more you eliminate fears, the more self-esteem you enjoy. Decrease fear and your independence increases; your creativity and energy increase. Fritz Perls, the developer of Gestalt psychotherapy, defines fear as your life force, your life energy, that has gotten constricted by future fantasies of disaster.”
How can we conquer our fears? He says moving forward in the face of fear is certainly useful. However, it often will not make the fear go away.
“Exercise is extremely helpful. Thirty-five minutes of aerobic exercise four or five times a week will almost immediately drop your levels of fear and anxiety. Aerobic simply means huffing and puffing.
“Meditation has been known for thousands of years to decrease anxiety and fear. I have developed a form of meditation that is effective and simple. Instead of trying to control your thoughts you allow your thoughts to do whatever they will. Sit in a relaxed and comfortable position. Attempt not to move and attempt not to swallow (you don’t want to do this after eating ). Attempting not to swallow sounds rather strange but with a little practice it’s easy and comfortable to do. This is not an exercise in perfection so no self-criticism. If you move or swallow simply try not to move or swallow. Take 10 minutes now, attempt not to move and not to swallow. If you feel relaxed, increase meditation to 10/20 minutes twice daily.”
He says sometimes patients stop these exercises before they are healed. Why? “From the fear of all the possibilities that are now available and from the fear of moving away from a familiar though troubled lifestyle. That’s how fearful we can become.”
He offers the following guidelines to help people eliminate fear from their lives:
Getting to grips with fear
1. Admit that you are afraid. Many people bury their fears yet when we are unaware of our fear it can have “massive, powerful control” over our lives, he says.
2. Do not be judgmental about your fear. You need to accept it as part of your existence, as something you have to learn to deal with more effectively or to eliminate. No-one wants to be afraid.
“We all come by our fear naturally. If you beat yourself up, if you have contempt for yourself because you are afraid your energy goes into traumatising yourself, not into facing this fundamental life concern.”
3. Make a heartfelt decision that you will not allow fear to control your life. You will not allow fear to make the decisions that direct your existence. The courage to face your fears comes from fear wisdom. This is the belief that not facing fear is more dangerous than moving forward in the face of this unpleasant emotion.
4. Do anything you can to eliminate the fear that is within you. No-one gets through this life without fear. We all have to face fear if we are going to improve the quality of our existence.
* John Wayne and the Fierce Kuga-Kugas by Dr Harvey Wasserman is described by the author as a “book of healing and transformation”. It is published by Dog Ear Publishing and is available from www.amazon.com
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“As the Supreme Court reaffirmed just last week, the First Amendment protects not only the freedom to speak but also the freedom not to speak. It protects manufacturers from being required, as is being considered here, to include information on their product labels that is neither factual nor uncontroversial. ”
—Richard Samp, WLF Chief Counsel
WASHINGTON, DC—Washington Legal Foundation on July 3 urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) not to require manufacturers of highly refined food products (such as oils and sugars) to bear “bioengineered” labeling—even if the products were made from bioengineered ingredients. In formal comments filed at USDA’s invitation, WLF argued that including highly refined products within USDA’s labeling mandate would contravene Congress’s direction and would violate the First Amendment rights of food manufacturers.
“Bioengineered” food (also sometimes referred to as “genetically modified” or “GM” food) is food that contains genetic material that has been modified through in vitro recombinant DNA techniques. The vast majority of certain crops grown in the United States—including canola, field corn, cotton, soybeans, and sugar beets—meets the definition of “bioengineered.” However, when companies use those crops to manufacture highly refined foods such as oils and sugars, the genetic material is totally eliminated, or at least to such a great extent that the material’s presence can no longer be detected. Nevertheless, groups that oppose the use of bioengineered foods have been lobbying USDA to require manufacturers of highly refined products made from bioengineered food to bear bioengineered labeling.
The issue arises because Congress in 2016 adopted legislation (Subtitle E of the Agricultural Marketing Act (AMA)) directing USDA to establish rules governing bioengineered labeling. WLF’s comments asserted that the AMA does not authorize a labeling requirement for highly refined products because it expressly limits labeling to food product containing the requisite genetic material. Although labeling proponents insist that highly refined products do, in fact, contain trace amounts of genetic material, WLF argued that labeling is not authorized by the AMA unless there is laboratory evidence that genetic material is present. WLF also argued that labeling would violate the First Amendment by compelling manufacturers to utter speech that is neither factual nor uncontroversial.
Celebrating its 41st year, WLF is America’s premier public-interest law firm and policy center advocating for free-market principles, limited government, individual liberty, and the rule of law.
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Last Monday, Lou Kohlman did a remarkable thing: He talked openly about a 17-year-old East Baltimore kid who committed suicide and the Baltimore office of the Department of Juvenile Services, which never got around to helping him while he was alive.
Last Tuesday, the Department of Juvenile Services also did a remarkable thing: It suspended Lou Kohlman without pay for three days.
"What I told you was the truth," Kohlman, a 16-year veteran Juvenile Services caseworker, said yesterday about his remarks of last week, which appeared here.
"It was insubordination," said Juvenile Services public relations person Diane Hutchins. "He failed to follow policy regarding contacts with the media."
In other words, Kohlman didn't go through channels. When he was telephoned about a kid who'd burned himself out sniffing paint and glue and then hanged himself, Kohlman spoke openly instead of directing any questions to his department's public relations person.
What would the public relations person have done?
A) At best, contact Kohlman for a first-hand explanation of the case and then relate Kohlman's own words to a reporter.
B) Worse, call Kohlman for an explanation and then call high-level bureaucrats in the state agency to put the proper "spin" on the story.
C) Worse yet, refuse any comment.
Dealing strictly through public relations people is common practice in government circles these days. Government officials claim it's a way for their bureaucracy to speak with one voice. Reporters worry that it's a way to cover up unpleasant truths by making honest people keep quiet.
In Kohlman's case, he had some troubling things to say here last Tuesday: about the 17-year-old kid who'd been assigned to him last December -- but who still hadn't been brought in nearly three months later -- and about a Department of Juvenile Services he described as undermanned, overburdened, underfunded and "going crazy."
He was asked for comments after the father of the deceased youth gave the go-ahead for him to talk.
The day Kohlman's remarks appeared here, he was called to a meeting of three Juvenile Services officials: Harry Langmead, assistant secretary for field services; Wadsworth Robinson, juvenile counselor supervisor; and Moses McAllister, regional administrator.
When he walked out of the meeting, he'd been given his suspension.
Yesterday, Harry Langmead's office said he would be unavailable for comment all day.
Wadsworth Robinson said, "I'm not going to discuss it with you. Call Moses McAllister."
Moses McAllister also refused to talk.
"Who told you we suspended Kohlman?" he asked.
"Kohlman did," he was told. "Why was he suspended?"
"We have a procedure to deal with you," McAllister said. "Talk to our media person."
"But you were there when Kohlman was suspended."
"I'm not talking about it."
"Is there anything Kohlman said that was untrue?"
"I'm not talking about it."
This leaves it to Diane Hutchins, the department's public relations person, who said Kohlman's suspension was based on "failure to follow policy regarding contacts with media."
"In other words," she was told, "because he talked to a reporter."
"No," Hutchins insisted, "because he failed to follow policy."
"Which is: No talking to reporters."
"No," she said again. "It's because he didn't follow policy."
"Is there anything Kohlman said," Hutchins was asked now, "that wasn't true?"
"This is a fine time to ask," she replied. "Why didn't you ask me last week?"
"Because," she was told, "Kohlman was the proper source. He was working the case, and not you."
Asked again if he'd said anything that wasn't true, Hutchins replied:
"I don't know all of the specifics."
A week ago, Kohlman lamented the number of juvenile clients per caseworker, the crowded conditions at various juvenile facilities and the lack of juvenile services funding.
Asked specific questions about these issues, Hutchins did not know specific answers.
And this is precisely the point: Questioning public relations people is a waste of time when you can talk to people directly involved.
So why didn't Kohlman go through prescribed channels?
"When you asked me questions," he said the other day, while sitting out his suspension, "it simply wasn't on my mind. I was just thinking of the kid who died."
Did Kohlman appeal the suspension?
"No," he said, "but I told them it didn't make sense. We've got too many kids and not enough case managers now. When they suspended me, I told them I'd go to work without pay. They said no. They said not to go on the premises."
So the question remains: Was Kohlman suspended because he didn't go through channels, or because he spoke unpleasant truths?
"I'm not allowed to talk about that," said Kohlman. "You'll have to go through channels for that."
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issued an opinion in another case involving the Fort Bend County dog handler. Much like the last case I posted about, the dog handler was used to match a murder suspect's scent with the scent of certain evidence from the crime scene. This time, however, the scent lineup evidence did not even make it to the trier of fact. After hearing the views of competing experts, the trial judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible as unreliable. Some of the flaws in the dog handler's methodology that the court noted were:The trial court had excluded dog scent evidence as unreliable - good for District Judge Clifford Vacek - and and the First Court of Appeals upheld his ruling. The trial court also made the following conclusions of law:
On appeal, the State argued that the trial judge abused his discretion in refusing to admit the evidence. The First District upheld the trial judge's ruling, holding that it was reasonable for the trial court of conclude that the scent lineup evidence was unreliable.
- He carries around his "blind" non-supect scent samples (called foil samples) in ziplock bags;
- His foil samples are old samples, while the scent sample of the suspect is fresh;
- He does not do negative runs where the sample of the suspect is excluded;
- He uses multiple dogs during each test rather than allowing the dogs to work alone; and
- He is mostly self-taught and his methodology is something he created.
1. The science of human scent identification and/or comparison is not sufficiently reliable to be admitted in evidence in a criminal trial. See Kelly v. State, 824 S.W.2d 568, 573 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992).
2. Human scent identification by a canine is not sufficiently reliable to be admitted in evidence in a criminal trial. See Nenno v. State, 970 S.W.2d 549, 561 (Tex. Crim. App. 1992).However, the First Court ruling (pdf) stops short of issuing those words from Justice Jane Bland's own pen, but she agrees that the record supports the trial court's findings of fact and upholds decision to suppress dog-scent evidence. Regular readers will recall that dog scent lineups had already been discredited at the Court of Criminal Appeals, which may soon be asked to rule on suppressing dog-scent evidence altogether if the state (as I hope) chooses to appeal the First Court's ruling to the state's highest criminal court.
What does this mean for the 2,000 or so past cases where Texas courts already allowed this now-deemed unreliable testimony? On that the jury is out. For now we know for sure the evidence won't be allowed in criminal trials henceforth in Texas' First District, and especially since Deputy Pikett has retired and no one else in the state performs the procedure, possibly this may be the beginning of the end for the use of dog-scent lineups in Texas.
For more background on dog scent lineups see this public policy report (pdf) from my employers at the Innocence Project of Texas, published while I was furloughed from the group for reasons of fiscal austerity.
See prior, related Grits posts:
- Time to ban junk science from the courtroom
- Dog scent lineups discredited at Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Texas needs process to vet cases based on forensic hokum
- Deputy famous for dog-scent lineups to retire
- More detail on scent-lineup case headed to Texas CCA
- Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will hear arguments on dog scent evidence
- More litigation, disapprobation for dog-scent lineups
- 'Scent lineup' evidence may be used in Anthony Graves capital case
- CNN profiles cop wrongly accused by dog scent lineup
- A 'scent lineup'? Rover in the witness box
- DNA exoneration indicts Rover in the witness box
- 'Scent lineups stink to critics'
- 3 false convictions relied on dog-based scent lineups in Florida
- Scent lineups by dogs don't pass the smell test
- Texas Innocence Project vetting dog scent lineup cases
- Evidence mounts against dog handler, scent lineups
- Texas Innocence Project report discredits dog 'scent lineups'
- More innocent people accused by dog 'scent lineups,' but FBI now using technique
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WASHINGTON -- During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
"We need earmark reform," Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
President Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot next week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that's riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks -- loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress -- were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the campaign trail, House and Senate members -- Democrats and Republicans -- were slapping them into spending bills.
"It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it," said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst. "He'll say they're left over from the Bush years, and he as to say that next year the bill will be clean."
Experts agree most earmarks are legitimate. Cary Leahey, senior economist with Decision Economics in New York, said the nation's economic crisis is a contributing factor to the plethora of earmarks. Lawmakers can argue that for a relatively small price they've helped boost the economy.
"One congressman's earmark is another legislative way to fix a serious problem in his district," Leahey said.
Kenneth Thomas, a lecturer in finance at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business, agrees.
"I generally believe that the priority is getting money into the system sooner rather than later, especially if it's for projects that will use local contractors and create jobs," he said.
Still, it wasn't supposed to be this way. Earmarks have come under fire because of those that seem to provide what Maya MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, calls "laugh lines," such as Alaska's "Bridge to Nowhere" or North Dakota's Lawrence Welk Museum.
Obama pledged to take a hard hand on earmarks and warned lawmakers in a Feb. 3 letter from Budget Director Peter Orszag not to decorate the recently signed $787.2 billion stimulus bill with them.
Democrats declared the bill earmark-free. Republicans disagreed.
"While this bill does not include traditional earmarks, we should all understand that there are earmarks in this bill," said Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo. "There is $850 million ... to bail out Amtrak, a $75 million earmark for the Smithsonian, a $1 billion earmark for the 2010 census."
Democrats have been trying to revamp the earmark process for about two years. In 2007, they instituted a system that required members to explain the contents of each earmark, as well as a justification for why it was included in the legislation that way. They claimed this led to a reduction in earmarks by as much as 43 percent.
But critics contended the system still had problems. Simply making information more available, they said, didn't address the major criticism: That such projects should go through the regular legislative process, subject to detailed hearings and bipartisan votes.
Not only does this mean the public has no chance to challenge questionable spending, but too often powerful interests who know how to work the system get favorite measures inserted.
For instance, Congressional Quarterly reported recently that more than 100 House members got earmarks for clients of the PMA Group, a lobbying firm with close ties to Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who heads the powerful defense spending subcommittee. The CQ Politics analysis said in the 2009 defense spending bill, which Congress approved last year, PMA clients got about $300 million.
The CQ study came after reports the FBI is investigating the possibility of illegal campaign contributions by PMA to Murtha and other lawmakers. A Murtha spokesman said earlier this month the FBI probe has nothing to do with Murtha. A PMA spokesman declined to comment on the probe.
Appropriations committee chairmen say they are on track to reform the earmark process beginning in fiscal 2010 by requiring members to make public their requests early, so the public can scrutinize them and presumably contact lawmakers.
The change, though, doesn't apply to the 2009 funding Congress will consider this week.
Several experts believe that dramatically reducing the number of earmarks, while a laudable goal, is almost impossible. But others contend earmarks aren't that big of a problem.
"Earmarks get more attention than they deserve," said MacGuineas. "The problem is that they cause a loss of confidence in the whole budget process."
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Today in this post we will tell you How You Can Use Free Internet on Airtel Sim in your Android Mobile. Mostly everyone in this era is using internet and it is becoming the basic need of us. So if in this case you will get Free Internet on Your Smartphone then this will be very helpful because you don’t have to pay a single penny and you can access Free Internet on Your Android Smartphone. So just a look at How To Use Free Internet on Airtel Sim in Android Mobile. Below is the step by step guide on How To Use Free Internet Using Airtel Sim
How To Use Free Internet on Airtel Sim in Android Mobile
To enjoy Free Internet on Your Android Mobile or Smartphone it is important that you should own an Airtel Sim in your mobile. Because mostly all the tricks worked correctly with this network.
Step-By-Step Guide to Use Free Internet on Smartphone
- First you have to open Play Store in your mobile and search DroidVPN and its icon looks like this:
- Then Install this app, it is a very small app not more than 2mb. So you can easy install it on your mobile. After installing the app, open it and you will see a screen like below:
- Then register your self and create a new account in DroidVPN by using any email-id and password. Make sure when you are connecting to DroidVPN you are using Wifi connection or any other data service. And do avoid Airtel data in this process if you want to Use Free Internet on Mobile Using Airtel Sim. After the registration you will a screen like below:
- After your DroidVPN screen shows this screen then choose your mobile data to Airtel and make sure you don’t have talktime balance in your SIM so that you don’t be charged of your mobile balance while using internet. Then open the settings tab of DroidVPN and go to the connection protocol settings. Like Below:
- After opening connection protocol > select TCP. Then Open HTTP Headers in DroidVPN settings > Enable it and type this :-
- At last go to the home screen of DroidVPN > Choose Random Servers in Server Option, then connect DroidVPN. Go to the browser and you will see internet is working without mobile data and balance. Make sure your mobile data is ON and you have selected Airtel as your primary mobile data and you will get the speed depends on your network whether it is 3G or 4G.
Hope you have learned How To Use Free Internet on Airtel Sim in Android Mobile. If you have any doubt comment below !… Thank You !
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The “cult of celebrity,” social media, and antiquated machismo ideals have men across the pond embarrassed to admit they are dieting. In a study conducted by the UK’s Canadean Custom Solutions (CCS), researchers found that one third of British males were on a diet—nearly 10 million. Out of that large swath, CCS found only 21 percent of the dieting men felt confident buying weight loss products at grocery and health stores. The feeling of shame was bloody-well present in the 18-24 demographic, where 67 percent of young men felt emasculated while dieting.
Young Brits have good reason to diet—17 percent of them are obese. But the manner in which weight loss products are being branded doesn’t speak to young men. Michael Hughes, Research Manager at CCS, said, “The dieting market is predominantly associated with females because of the way in which products are positioned and the celebrities used to endorse products, brands and dieting regimes.” He claims that if pro athletes were used to market diet products, males would be more likely to purchase them, as that strategy has worked to encourage guys in the UK to get regular health screenings.
Social media is having a negative affect on the self esteem of men in the UK. On a platform in which everyone tends to project their most idealized selves, males in the UK are especially unlikely to share dieting stories. “[Social media] means consumers social lives are more exposed than ever before, exacerbating concerns about appearance and body weight,” said Michael. He believes that social media creates even more pressure for young men to look a certain way, and sharing those feelings of insecurity “compromises their masculinity.”
A network in which people feel comfortable to share in an open dialogue about weight loss is vital to a dieter, so the radio silence is hindering a healthy approach.
Though Hughes claims, “Young US men will also feel particularly embarrassed about being on a diet,” our country’s tendency to encourage sharing—some would call it over-sharing, seems to paint a different picture. It’s no secret we’re fighting an obesity war in America, and there’s no shame in attacking it proactively. It starts small, with one person—male or female—implementing healthier eating and fitness behaviors. Because what’s more embarrassing, disliking yourself and being too scared to do anything about it, or taking productive steps to feel better?
Hughes mentioned the “retro-style views” UK men have about “proper male behavior” discouraged sharing diet stories. Healthy vulnerability is the new black and machismo is passe—here’s hoping men and women everywhere continue to do whatever it takes to shape a healthier self.
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One of the first contests we had in Japanese Plus was the mascot competition. The class was divided into groups and we had to come up with a mascot design to represent the program. However, it had to display different virtues of a Japanese Plus student via a list we had made previously in class. Every group had their own contender in the battle for the best mascot. After a long debate to decide the winning mascot, which we accomplished by taking a vote, we all finally came to a consensus. Despite all the AMAZING creations that we formed from the creative juices of our minds, the winner was a totally KAWAII (very, very kawaii-desu), pink jelly holding two flags, made by Ana Nguyen.
Inspired by the cute mascots from Japan, jello and the Pokémon ditto, punipuni was born. I wanted to make our mascot have a “kawaii” look, similar to the mascots of Japan but also simple so that it’s easy to remember and recognizable. While doodling on homework, I sketched several nameless forms along with a few cats and punipuni was born. Punipuni is holding the DC and the Japan flag in its hand representing Japanese Plus. It’s the only program in DC that offers Japanese to students and the mascot represents how we’re integrating more Japanese culture into DC students. The pink, formless blob represents how this program can take any shape because of the students in it.
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I’ve been thinking about product bundles and the way that we treat customers that only want to buy broadband. Service providers everywhere are reporting that there are more customers every year who only want to buy a broadband connection. And yet a large number of ISPs have policies that make broadband-only customers feel unwelcome.
I will use the example of my experience with Comcast in trying to buy broadband-only. But Comcast is not unique and a lot of carriers have similar policies. Comcast had two separate policies which are definitely not broadband-only friendly.
When I first asked for service I wanted to buy a 50 Mbps broadband product, and nothing else. I was told that the broadband-only product at ‘higher’ speeds was not available as a standalone product and that, at a minimum I’d have to buy basic cable in order to get the faster speeds. They would have allowed me to buy a slower speed, which was probably around 15 Mbps without the cable product add-on.
We have a broadband intensive household, so I bought the higher speed and got saddled with a basic cable product that is completely unused in our home. We’ve never even connected the settop box or watched one minute of broadcast TV in three years. Meanwhile Comcast has doubled my data speeds to 100 Mbps, but I’m still saddled with a cable product that I don’t really want or use. And that means I am paying a huge premium for the broadband by paying for a service and a settop box I don’t have any need for. That makes my broadband very expensive, over $90 per month for a 100 Mbps connection. It also means that I would jump ship in a second for another provider that could offer me the fast speed I want without the extra cost. This one policy has ensured that I will dislike Comcast for life since it’s probably cost me $1,000 extra over three years.
If I had elected to instead take the slower speed then I would have run into the second Comcast policy which works against broadband-only customers. Comcast (and a lot of other providers) charges more for the broadband if you buy it alone. In this case they wanted $10 more for the standalone broadband than if I had also bought something else.
This is all due to the way they handle the bundling discount. What their pricing says is that if you buy more products you get an overall discount, and I can appreciate that. But many carriers do this in such a way as to antagonize the broadband-only customer. In advertising Comcast and others advertise only the lowered bundled prices, and so when somebody comes to buy just broadband they find they are facing a higher price than what is advertised. This is particularly an issue for somebody who drops down to broadband-only since their monthly rate for the data product increases.
Not every carrier does it the same way. Many of my clients have a single price for broadband, and if you then add on more products you get an overall discount. Under that pricing strategy the broadband-only customer feels like they are paying the same base price as everybody else, and they fully realize they could save money on additional products if they want them.
To some degree this second policy is a matter of perception. When I am told I have to pay a higher price than what’s advertised I am automatically unhappy with the ISP. It’s not hard for a company to do this without antagonizing customers.
This is an issue that every ISP needs to look at because more and more customers want to buy standalone broadband. Households have abandoned landlines and are starting to abandon cable and thus standalone broadband is going to be a more common product. I know cable companies are worried about becoming nothing more than data pipe providers – but that is what a lot of customers want from them.
The FCC probably has it within their purview to tackle the first issue. The agency required telcos many years ago to sell ‘naked’ DSL and could require the same 0f cable companies now that they are under Title II regulation. But the second issue is strictly a marketing issue and I think carriers need to get attuned to the fact that customers want to buy only data connections and they don’t want to feel taken advantage of while doing so.
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To some of you this may be old news, but I’ve been noticing a change in designer skill sets required by companies. The old way relied on a designer that had great sketching, innovation processes, and communication/presentation skills. This individual would spend most of their time sketching. Then, once a direction was picked, the designer would spend the rest of their time guiding a digital/traditional model maker. As you can see this relies on two people who each know one and a half “languages.” The designer is proficient in the language of 2D and somewhat familiar with 3D. The modeler, on the other hand, is well versed in 3D and lacking in 2D. Together they battle back and forth trying to communicate, eventually producing the final product.
Today’s valued designer is bilingual, well equipped in both 2D and 3D languages. This has two benefits.
1. It produces a cost savings by reducing head-count.
2. It shortens the translation time between languages.
If you’re still in school and find yourself gravitating towards one language, be sure to dedicate some of your time to the other. If you are a design professional, look for opportunities to gain other languages. Maybe you’re already proficient in 2D and 3D, looking for a third skill could only make you more valuable. What other languages have you picked up, and how have the benefited you? Feel free to share.
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By Candy Pilar Godoy, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Torrential rain and landslides devastated the mountainous region known as Região Serrana in the State of Rio de Janeiro in January 2011, creating the worst natural disaster in Brazil’s history. Still recovering, as of late March, 916 bodies have been recovered, 345 people remain missing, and thousands more are homeless.
Yet humans were not the only ones affected by the heavy rainfall. Thousands of animals, mostly dogs and cats, were left homeless, injured, and starving in the wake of the deadly floods. Luckily for our four legged friends, a number of both local and international NGOs, paired with teams of loyal volunteers, committed to lending a hand.
The Brazilian branch of the international organization Sociedade Mundial de Proteção Animal (World Society for the Protection of Animals), or WSPA, is one of the many NGOs that came to the rescue. Working in conjunction with local university UNIFESO, a WSPA team of veterinarians, disaster relief experts, and volunteers deployed to affected areas, along with experts from WSPA offices in Costa Rica.
An emergency operations center in Teresópolis was opened to organize search and rescue parties, aid efforts, and to compile food and supplies for distribution. “We talked to people every day who lost almost everything. It’s gratifying to see that we can bring a little happiness to them and their pets,” said Wendy Castro Correia, a resident of Teresópolis and WSPA volunteer.
WSPA’s large global network and years of experience have allowed them to coordinate smaller local NGOs to work together, creating a task force of help and support. Aid workers ventured to critical locations to provide medical care and search for survivors.
In the end, there were more than 5,000 silent victims which, in addition to dogs and cats, included ducks, chickens, goats, pigs, rabbits, horses, and songbirds. “Our objective is to make sure that all those that are still with us find a new home” said Carla Freire, coordinator of the Office of Animal Welfare.
In the flood’s aftermath, NGOs were quick to recognize that beyond immediate relief, long term help was necessary to ensure the welfare of those displaced and abandoned. Great strides were taken to continue rescue services and veterinary treatment, as well as to reunite lost pets with their owners and arrange adoption events.
Recognized as an adviser to the UN and the Council of Europe, WSPA is the largest federation in support of animal welfare in the world. The Brazil branch first opened its doors in São Paulo in 1991 and has since moved its headquarters to Rio. Their rapidly expanding network has affiliates present in 22 states and the Federal District.
Yet their efforts were not singular. Many organizations, as well as kind-hearted people and volunteers, were present in the face of disaster. Their combined efforts were necessary to allow for the rescue and treatment of so many.
Hundreds, especially adult dogs and cats, are still in dire need. To help, donate, or adopt, please contact veterinarian Andrea Lambert at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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BY: Dr. Elaina George, Host & Contributing Health Editor
PUBLISHED: September 22, 2018
Does the Healthcare System Serve the Patients First?
Dr. Kris Held joins me to discuss the safe harbor law which is the real reason why drug and healthcare costs are so high.
About Dr. Kris Held
Kristin Story Held, M.D. is a board-certified ophthalmologist and ophthalmic surgeon. She is a Phi Beta Kappa Graduate from the University of Texas at Austin and received her medical degree from the University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio where she was elected to AOA. Following her internship in internal medicine and residency in ophthalmology, Dr. Held joined the faculty at the Univ. of TX Health Science Center at San Antonio where she taught residents and medical students and served as Director of the County Ophthalmology Clinic. She maintains an academic affiliation as a Clinical Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology. For the past 20 years, she has been in private practice in San Antonio.
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As the coronavirus spread in Wuhan, China, health-care providers did not have enough beds for all the people who needed them. In the worst-hit regions of Italy, hospitals are being pushed to the limits of their capacity — having to make decisions about who will receive lifesaving care and who won’t.
The United States is nowhere near this situation, yet, but academic modeling has long shown that even a moderate viral pandemic can quickly lead to a need for resources — including intensive-care beds and mechanical ventilators — that surpasses our health system’s capacity. If that happens, hospitals will be forced to make harrowing decisions about how to allocate scarce lifesaving care.
Although some states — including New York and Minnesota — have plans for how to decide which patients will get scarce ICU beds and other resources if rationing becomes a grim necessity, many do not. And there is no national plan that serves this purpose. Many health-care institutions are working ardently to develop response plans for covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. But it’s not enough for doctors and other officials to be planning for this terrible contingency: The best plans will fail if the public has not been involved and is unprepared. No system will work if patients and their families reject as unjust life-or-death decisions that seem arbitrary, imposed on them by experts without justification.
For this reason, after the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, in a calm between emergencies, we and other collaborators engaged the Maryland public in a discussion of ventilator rationing during a pandemic. Over the course of 18 months, we hosted 15 day-long forums across the state with over 300 participants (both laypeople and health-care professionals) to encourage in-depth conversations about the brutal challenges that rationing presents — and about the community values that should guide allocation.
In the end, participants embraced a system that took two chief factors into consideration. First, they wanted to make sure that the people who were most likely to survive if they got a ventilator got one. Second, they wanted to consider, in some way, the prospect of longer-term survival. On this latter point, people were wary of the concept of long-term survival rates, arguing that prioritizing it could lead to discrimination against people with chronic conditions such as diabetes or high blood pressure (who may have had limited access to care); it might therefore exacerbate existing social inequality. They agreed, however, that it would make sense to consider the likelihood of survival for one year after the medical intervention.
If it turned out that doctors’ ability to predict differences in survivability among ICU candidates were proving insufficient, people said that a shift to a more “blind” system such as a lottery would be appropriate.
As a follow-up to these discussions, a group of experts in health care, ethics and disaster planning formalized these principles into a triage scoring system so that it could be adopted by Maryland or other states and implemented by hospitals. First, a trained triage team made up of doctors and nurses would assign critically ill patients a score of 1 to 4, based on how likely they would be to survive if given a ventilator (using well-established algorithms for rating respiratory problems). Second, you’d have three points added to your score if you had an underlying illness grave enough that you’d be unlikely to live more than a year after the assessment. After the ratings, patients with lower scores would be prioritized over those with higher scores. The expert panel also recommended that the state set up an official committee that would review and monitor triaging decisions.
In general, study participants were wary of considering people’s ages when allocating care, but in the event of a tie on this seven-point scale, they were willing to grant the advantage to people in younger cohorts, who potentially have more life ahead of them.
Just as important as understanding people’s thoughts about rationing was the process through which we did so. We presented them with extensive factual information as well as access to a range of experts, and they were able to debate these extraordinarily difficult issues among themselves in small groups.
In each session, participants were presented with a set of four ethical principles that could be used for allocating mechanical ventilators (or, in theory, any necessary lifesaving equipment). These were: 1) saving as many lives as possible, 2) saving as many years of life as possible, 3) giving priority to people who have lived through fewer “stages of life,” and 4) prioritizing people whose expertise could provide a service to the community in a crisis. The group also discussed using two simple rules instead — “first come, first served,” or a lottery.
We encouraged community members to consider the pros and cons of each approach, how they might combine them and what other considerations they deemed relevant.
People recognized good moral reasons for prioritizing people with valuable skills for pandemic response — emergency-medical technicians, say — but quickly found that it would be difficult to apply this approach fairly. For one thing, those who are sick enough to need a ventilator during a pandemic would face a long recovery and probably wouldn’t be able to reenter the workforce during that crisis. And defining who might be considered important to the pandemic response could engender unresolvable debate. (Politicians? Police? Anyone who keeps a hospital running?)
Participants worried whether officials would maintain objectivity and fairness in applying any decision-making framework; stating the policy in advance, and sticking firmly to it in an emergency, would help, they thought. They also recommended time-limited mechanisms for appealing decisions.
They rejected “first come, first served” on fairness grounds; people who have inadequate or no health insurance may delay going to a hospital, or their trip there might be slowed if they relied on mass transit instead of their own cars.
Lotteries in general struck people as too arbitrary. But again, in cases where two patients had an identical score, and an identical “life stage,” a lottery might be appropriate, they thought.
Not surprisingly, everyone who participated in the forums proposed fixes that would let them bypass tough calls: Why not build more hospital rooms, for instance, or stock up in advance on ventilators? But participants came to agree that, depending on the severity of the pandemic, shortages can be inevitable. If rationing of ventilators becomes a reality, the best we can hope for is, perhaps, the least bad outcome. Rationing will be traumatic for all involved — but it will be even more traumatic if the public is utterly unprepared for this contingency.
Health officials and politicians need to walk a communications tightrope: Our best chance at a successful public health response to this crisis requires public order, not panic. It is appropriate and accurate to reassure the public that most people who contract covid-19 will recover fully on their own. At the same time, the public needs to be prepared for the possibility of more dire scenarios. Our participants were adamant that politicians, and health officials, be transparent and honest about the prospect of and plans for the rationing of ventilators and other equipment. In health emergencies, experts often ask the public to heed the advice of public health professionals; in the case of planning for situations involving scarcity, it is equally important that the experts heed the advice of the public.
All states should have policies in place already to deal with the awful prospect of rationing, but many don’t. It’s not too late to start the crucial conversation.
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1. The defendants are the appellants in these eleven second appeals. The suits were brought on behalf of Sri Subramanyaswami temple at Kunnakudi one of the five temples collectively known as Anjukoil of which the dharmakarthaship belongs to the Pandarasannadhi of Tiruvannamalai Mutt. The suits were originally brought by a receiver during the pendency of litigation as to the person entitled to the office of Pandarasannadhi of the Mutt and as such of the office of dharmakartha of the temples. After the litigation ended in 1920 by the Privy Council decision reported in Nataraja Thambiran v. Kailasam Pillai . the person declared entitled to the offices was substituted as plaintiff. The suits were brought for the possession of various plots of land in a hamlet called Muruganendal in the village of Uyyakondan belonging to the temple which had been alienated by a permanent cowle, dated 1st April, 1865, by the then dharmakartha in favour of the dharmakarthas of two other independent temples from whom the various defendants had obtained transfers of their several plots and either erected house and other permanent structures or built walls with a view to constructing such structures. The plaintiff urged in the alternative that even if possession could not be given in defeasance of the cowle the defendants were entitled under it only to rights as agricultural tenants, and have no right to change the character of the land or to erect permanent structures and walls, and prayed for an injunction for their removal or for compensation.
2. The defence as to the cowle was that it was beneficial to the Devasthanams and valid, and that even if it was invalid the cowledar and the defendants had by adverse possession acquired a valid title to a permanent tenancy. As to the right to put up buildings the defence was that the lease was not agricultural, that the use of the land for erecting houses was in no way an infringement of the conditions, that the houses had been built a very long time before the suit and that the plaintiff is not entitled either to an injunction for their removal or to compensation.
3. Most of the seventeen issues framed were not referred to in the; argument before us and are now immaterial. The District Munsif found that the cowle was not proved to have been granted for any beneficial purposes binding on the Devas-thanam, but he held that the suit to recover possession was barred by limitation and adverse possession. As to the nature of the cowle he held that it was not a purely agricultural lease and that the defendants were not prevented from building on the property. On these conclusions he dismissed the suits. The learned Subordinate Judge also held that the permanent cowle was beyond the power of the dharmakartha and not beneficial to or binding on the Devasthanam. But he differed from the Munsif on the question of limitation and relying on the decision of the Privy Council in Vidya Varuthi Thirtha v. Balusami Aiyar , he held the suits not governed by Article 134 and also that the defendants had not pleaded or proved any title: by adverse possession under Article 144. The logical consequence of these findings was that the plaintiff became entitled to a decree for possession. But the learned Judge having held that the defendants had not acquired title to a permanent lease by adverse possession went on to consider the case; also on the footing that they had acquired such title. On that footing he held that the cowle was an agricultural lease and that the erection of permanent structures on agricultural land was improper and that by that act the defendants had forfeited the lease and disentitled themselves to retain possession. But he held that it would be too harsh to enforce the forfeiture by ordering delivery of possession and by way of relief he considered that it would be sufficient if the buildings and walls were ordered to be removed. He accordingly while refusing the plaintiff's prayer for possession awarded him a mandatory injunction ordering the defendants to remove the walls and buildings in their respective holdings in three months and to restore the lands to their former condition and raise cultivation on them as stipulated in the kararnama or counterpart Ex. B.
4. The defendants have appealed to this Court. The plaintiff did not file any memorandum of cross-objections within the time allowed against the refusal of his prayer for possession.
5. But a memorandum was filed on 18th July, 1927. Unless the delay is excused and the memorandum admitted the only question in the appeals would be whether the injunction for removal of the buildings and walls can be upheld. But the learned Advocates have argued the question whether on the finding that the cowle was invalid and not binding on the Devasthanam the suits for possession are barred by limitation under Article 134, or 144. They have also argued the question whether if possession cannot be ordered, the injunction to remove the buildings can stand. These are the two questions for decision which we will deal with in that order.
6. As the original cowledars the dharmakarthas of Iravathes-warar and Alaginachiamman temples were not made parties to-these suits, the original cowle which must be in their possession has not been produced. But Exs. A and B produced by the plaintiff prove the existence of the cowle and the terms thereof. Ex. A is the application, dated 26th January, 1865, by the cowledars stating that the wet and dry lands in Murugan-endal were lying in a ruined condition overgrown with bushes as the tank bund had breached and had been out of repair. The applicants stated that if the endal be given to them on perpetual cowle, they would spend the Rs. 500 necessary for repairing the tank and' reclaim the nanja and punja and not only pay the rent for ever but also utilise the income from the reclaimed lands (melwaram) equally for the worship of the two temples of which they were the dahrmakarthas. Ex. B, dated 21st April, 1865, is the kararnama or counterpart of the cowle which was subsequently granted. It states the boundaries of the endal and then states that out of the lands within the said boundaries 7 mahs is fit for nanja cultivation, 15 kulies is fit for punja cultivation and 20 kurukams is the water-spread of the tank. It states that the lands and the tank are lying waste incapable of yielding any Income and overgrown with bushes and recites the application for the cowle. It then states that by order of the Athinam No. 165, dated 21st of the current month, a cowle has been granted for kattuguthagai at Rs. 20 per year for the entire nanjas, punjas, topes, thoravu, vacant ground, etc., situated within the four boundaries. For the first three years the rent was fixed at 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4, respectively, of the full rent in consideration of the time the reclamation would take. From the 4th year (fasli 1278) and thereafter for ever the rent was to be Rs. 20 per year. The cowledars agreed to spend the money required for the reclamation and improvement of the nanjas and punjas themselves and to cultivate them and utilize a moiety of the melwaram for the worship of Iravatheeswarar temple and the other moiety for the worship of Alaginachiamman temple and they further agreed that whether they cultivated the endal, uanja and punjai, or laid them waste, they would for ever pay the agreed rent in the Kunnakudi temple and obtain receipt therefor.
7. It is clear from these documents that the whole area within the four boundaries was granted, that the grant was permanent, that the grant was made in view of the contemplated reclamation and cultivation of the area computed to be cultivable which was but a fraction of the whole, that though reclamation and cultivation of the cultivable part was contemplated, the grantees were bound to pay the full rent from the fourth year whether they reclaimed and cultivated or left the land waste; and that the rent was from the fourth year to be unvarying whether the land was cultivated more or less or not at all. What has happened apparently is that the district has become far more valuable as house sites than it can be if cultivated and therefore the lessees have parcelled out the land in plots to various people for building houses and probably derived much profit thereby. The Kunnakudi Devasthanam has therefore made repeated attempts to avoid the cowle of 1865 and to get back possession. Thandavaraya, the dharmakartha who died in 1902 and whose name appears in Nataraja Thambiran v. Kailasam Pillai . executed a fresh lease of the endal to one Raman Chetty and with his lessee brought several suits in 1900 against some of the persons in occupation which ultimately failed. (See para. 12 of written statement.) Between Thandavaraya who became dharmakartha in 1893 on the death of Arumuga and Deivasikhamany the grantor of the cowle of 1865 there were it seems 2 or 3 Pandarasannadhis. They never questioned the cowle though they must have been aware of the assertion by the cowledars of their permanent tenancy and possession under it and indeed must have accepted rents on the footing of the existence of such right. Thandavaraya actively sought to repudiate the cowle by his lease to Raman Chetty and the suits of 1900. The present suits were brought in 1918. If anything depends on the, intention of the defendants to assert a title of permanent occupancy tinder the cowle adversely to the plaintiff's Devasthanam and on the knowledge of that Devasthanam that such assertion was being made, there can be no doubt that from at least 1902, i.e., for more than 12 years before the suit, the defendants have been asserting such right to the knowledge of Thandavaraya and his successors, whoever they were. If the period of limitation for these suits began to run in or at any time before 1902 it is clear that the running of time against the plaintiff would not be suspended by the fact that after the death of Thandavaraya in 1902, the office of Pandarasannadhi and dharmakartha was in litigation from 1905 between Nataraja who set up claims to the office and those who disputed his claim and that it was only in 1920 that Nataraja was finally declared by the Privy Council not to have been validly appointed.
8. The appellants concede that the cowle of 1865 being a permanent alienation of temple property at a fixed rent was in the circumstances unjustified by any necessity or benefit to the temple and therefore beyond the power of the dharmakartha and invalid: Palaniappa Chetty v. Sreemath Devasikamony Pandora Sannadhi . But they contend that the suits instituted in 1918 to recover possession of property held under it is barred either under Article 134 or Article 144. The respondents contend on the contrary that a dharmakartha is not a trustee within the meaning of Article 134 and as to Article 144 that limitation for recovery of possession of lands improperly alienated by a dharmakartha runs not from the date of the alienation but from the death of the alienating dharmakartha and of every succeeding dharmakartha who assents to the alienation so that a new cause of action accrues on the assumption of office of every succeeding dharmakartha. For this the decision of the Privy Council in Vidya Varuthi Thiriha v. Balusami Aiyar is relied on. Further, the respondent's learned advocate has gone to the length of contending that it is impossible for a title to a permanent lease to be acquired by adverse possession and that so long as rent is paid under the invalid permanent lease, possession cannot become adverse to the owner even to the extent of the lease alleged if it should be alleged to be permanent. The argument on these matters has ranged over a wide field involving-reference to a great number of decisions; but we will confine ourselves to those necessary for the decision.
9. If the limitation applicable to these suits were to be determined according to the provisions of the Act as they now stand, the decision would be easy enough as the case would be governed by Article 134-B introduced by Act I of 1929. But the decision must be on the Act as it stood in 1918. To state our conclusion shortly, it is that while we think Article 144 is the one applicable, it is immaterial in this case from which date adverse possession is held to run, the date of the cowle or some subsequent date, as in either case the suits are barred. We cannot agree with the learned Subordinate Judge that the plea of acquisition of permanent tenancy by adverse possession was not raised in the case and indeed his own decision rests on the basis that the defendants have by long and adverse enjoyment acquired the cowle rights which according to him are those of agricultural tenants and which they must not violate by erecting permanent structures. We cannot also agree with the respondents' contention that it is impossible so long as any rent is paid or received for a title to a permanent lease to be acquired by adverse possession in India. The contrary has been held in many cases and must be held now to be beyond possibility of dispute: Sankaran v. Periasami I.L.R. (1890) 13 M. 467. Parameswaran Mumbannoo v. Krishnan Tetigal I.L.R. (1902) 26 M. 535. Icharan Singh v. Nilmoney Balidar I.L.R. (1908) 35 C. 470, Ram Rachhya Singh v. Kumar Kamakhya Narayan Singh I.L.R. (1924) 4 Pat. 139, Subbayya v. Madduletiah (1907) 17 M.LJ. 469 and Narsaya Upada v. Venkataramana Bhatta : (1912)23MLJ260 But it was urged that no tenant of lands in India can obtain any right to a permanent tenancy by prescription and the decision of the Privy Council in Nainapillai Marakayar v. Ramanathan Chettiar was cited. What that decision means is that a tenant who has entered into possession under a valid lease which is not permanent cannot by his own assertion or act during the tenancy enlarge his rights into a permanent tenancy. That is not applicable when possession is held without valid tenancy or after a tenancy has terminated. If therefore the cowledars in this case and their transferees who admittedly got no valid right to any permanent tenancy from the dharmakartha have been in possession in open assertion of that right from 1865 and if it appears that from 1902 at the latest the dharmakarthas knowing of the asserted right have allowed the defendants to be in possession under such right till 1918 we fail to see how the defendants' possession could be anything but adverse so far as the permanent tenancy is concerned or how they can be evicted after 12 years of such adverse possession. In the case cited their Lordships say:
A permanent right of occupancy in land in India is a right subject to certain conditions of a tenant to hold the land permanently which he occupies, It is a heritable right and in some places it possibly may be transferable by the tenant to a stranger. That permanent right of occupancy can only be obtained by a tenant by custom or by a grant by an owner of the land who happens to have power to grant such a right or under an act of the Legislature.
10. Custom was not proved. The statute pleaded did not support the plea. There was no grant of any permanent occupancy and all that was proved to be granted was nothing higher than a tenancy at will. Here there is a grant of a permanent cowle though an invalid one being in excess of the dharmakarthas' powers. As to the effect of such grants their Lordships say:
In the case of a shebait a grant by him in violation of his duty of an interest in endowed lands, which he has not authority as shebait to make, may possibly under some circumstances be good as against himself by way of estoppel but is not binding upon his successors.
11. It is to be noted that their Lordships were not considering the effect of possession under an invalid grant continued not only during the lifetime of the granting shebait but also during the lives of several of his successors against whom the grant was not binding and for more than 12 years after one or more of these successors have repudiated it.
12. The respondent attempts to meet this difficulty in the following way. A dharmakartha is not a trustee in the English sense as no property vests in him but in the idol. Alienations by him in excess of his powers may be good for his lifetime. Every succeeding dharmakartha has a fresh period of limitation after his accession to office to acquiesce in or repudiate: an invalid alienation of temple property by any of his predecessors. If he does not repudiate it, it remains good for the period of his own office but not beyond. If he repudiates it but does not succeed in recovering the property for the temple, still the idol to whom the property belongs is not affected by limitation as it is in the position of a perpetual minor. The result of this argument if accepted would be that there is no period of limitation to recover temple property improperly alienated by a dharmakartha. For this chain of argument Vidya Varuthi Thirtha v. Balusami Aiyar (1921) L.R. 48 IA. 302 : I.L.R. 44 M. 831 : 41 M.L.J. 346 (P.C.) and Rama Reddy v. Rangadasan I.L.R. (1925) 49 M. 543 are principally relied on. We may at once dispose of the argument based on the perpetual minority of an idol that no limitation or adverse possession can run against it except in favour of a person who trespasses on the temple property. In Rama Reddy v. Rangadasan I.L.R. (1925) 49 M. 543, there are passages which lend support to this view. See pp. 549 and 550. One of us was a party to this decision. On reconsideration we beg respectfully to point out that though it may be convenient to speak of an idol as a minor for certain purposes, e.g., for the purpose of determining the powers of the manager of temple property, Prosunno. Kumari Debya v. Golab Chamd Baboo and Abhiram Goswami v. Shyama Chiaran Nandi and though by an easy extension of language the idol may be spoken of as a perpetual minor, it is illogical to extend to idols the privileges as to limitation of actions conferred on minors in the Limitation Act. The minors dealt with in that Act are; human beings, not juristic persons like idols and corporations who being themselves the creatures of a legal fiction can only hold property in an ideal sense. The acquisition, protection and loss of property by juristic persons can result only from the acts of natural persons and there is the highest authority for the view that notwithstanding the; figurative minority attributed to idols, they are affected through the act of their managers by the rules of limitation and adverse possession. The possession and management of dedicated property belong to the shebait in whom and not in the idol is vested the right to sue when necessary for the protection of the property. Therefore the minority which may affect limitation in such cases is of the shebait and not of the idol. (Jagadindra Nath Roy v. Hemanta Kumari Debi , Damodar Das v. Lakhan Das and Chitar Mal v. Panchu Lal I.L.R. (1925) 48 A 348.)
13. If then limitation and adverse possession of temple property against the manager or dharmakartha may affect the idol and it is possible to acquire by adverse possession a title to a permanent lease the question is whether in respect of an invalid permanent lease of temple property under which property is held by the alienee, limitation should be held to run from the date of the alienation or from some subsequent date such as the death, resignation or removal from office of the alienating dharmakartha and of all his successors who have assented to this alienation. In the Lower Court the defendants contended that the suits fall under Article 134 of the Limitation Act and to this the answer was that the Privy Council decision in Vidya Varuthi Thirtha v. Balusami Aiyar . has held that dharmakarthas are not trustees within the meaning of that Article. This was-accepted by the learned Subordinate Judge. The case itself was of a permanent lease by a Matadhipathi of part of the general endowment of a Mutt which was not the subject of any specific trust. The points before the Court were whether a Matadhipathi was a trustee within the meaning of Article 134 and whether adverse possession could be claimed by a permanent lessee from a Matadhipathi under Article 144. The judgment of their Lordships dealing with the first point contains an elaborate discussion of the legal position of not only Matadhipathis but dharmakarthas and managers of temples and other Hindu and Mahomedan religious foundations. The conclusion was that they were not 'trustees' within the meaning of Article 134 nor were the general endowments 'conveyed in trust' to them so as to attract the application of Article 134. This decision was pronounced in 1921, three years after these suits began. It was in fact in consequence of doubts created by this decision and by later decisions of their Lordships and of the Indian Courts which were not always uniform as to its true meaning and effect, that in 1929 the new ArticleS 134-A, 134-B and 134-C were added. So far as the defendants rested their case of limitation on Article 134 this decision is conclusive against it. But the decision on the second point dealt with, i.e., whether adverse possession under Article 144 could be claimed by a permanent lessee from a Matadhipathi and if so from what date, that is not applicable to this case. It was in terms confined to unauthorised alienations by a Mahant or Matadhipathi and proceeded on the ground that a Mahant could, by reason of his personal interest in the income of the Mutt property, apart from any question of necessity of the Mutt, part with possession of the Mutt property for his own life, and his successors could also do likewise. Each Mahant, who allowed possession under the invalid alienation, must: be held to have authorised a new tenure for his own life during which period the alienee's possession would not be adverse to the Mutt. Prima facie, this reasoning has no application to alienations by a temple dharmakartha like the one who granted the cowle in this case who has no personal interest for life or otherwise in the income of the temple property and to whom therefore no intention to part with possession of that property during the currency of any such interest can be attributed. For, a dharmakartha is literally and no more than the manager of a charity and his rights, apart in some circumstances from the question of personal support, are never higher than those of a mere trustee: Srinivasa Chariar v. Evalappa , Mudaliar. But decisions on the point have varied. Even in the case of alienations by Mahants their Lordships of the Privy Council recognised in Lalchand Marzwari v. Mahanth Ramrup Gir that there may be some in which adverse possession runs from the dates of the wrongful alienations or at any rate from the date of final abandonment of office of the alienating Mahant and not only from his death. As to temple dharmakarthas there are in this Court on one hand the decisions in Rao Bahadur Govinda Rao v. Chinnathurai Pillai : AIR1926Mad193 affirmed on another point in Chinnuathorai Pillai v. Rao Bahadur Govinda Rao : (1927)53MLJ306 and Rama Reddy v. Ramadasan I.L.R. (1925) 49 M. 543 already referred to which apply the decision in Vidya Varuthi Tirtha v. Balusami Aiyar and on the other Kuppuswami Mudaiiar v. Samia Pillai (1921) 42 M.L.J. 1. Khaji Mir Majavath Alli v. Khaji Mir Mujafar Alli : (1923)45MLJ791 . and Vadlamudi Sastrulu v. Thalluri Venkataseshayya (1927) 110 I.C. 894. which hold that that decision does apply to dharmakarthas and leaves untouched the case of Gnanasambanda Pandora Sannadhi v. Velu Pandaram and the other Privy Council decisions in Abiram Goswami v. Shyama Charan Nandi , Damodar Das v. Lakhan Das and Ishwar Shyam Chand Jiu v. Ram Kanai Ghose . In Vadlamudi Sastrulu v. Thalluri Venkataseshayya (1927) 110 I.C. 894 Mr. Justice Phillips who gave judgment in Rao Bahadur Govinda Rao v. Chinnathurai Pillai : AIR1926Mad193 was a party. It was held by Ramesam, J., that the decision in Vidya Varuthi Thirtha v. Balusami Aiyar as to adverse possession must be confined to the case of a Mutt and that in the case of a sale by a manager of a temple or chatram it does not matter whether he can be properly described as a trustee. For if Article 134 does not apply, Article 144 would apply from the date of the sale. In the case of a permanent lease also seeing that a temple manager has no beneficial interest which he can lawfully convey, the adverse possession would run from the date of lease, if as a question of fact it is found that the lessee asserted his rights to the knowledge of the dharmakartha adversely to the temple. To this Phillips, J., assented adding that the decision in Vidya Varuthi Thirtha v. Balusami Aiyar must be confined to its own facts--alienations by Mataclhipathi. We think that this opinion is right. Whether the proper date from which. adverse possession generally runs in cases of permanent lease by dharmakarthas be taken as the date of the alienation or some subsequent date as the death of the dharmakartha or his resignation, or removal from office we have no doubt that on the facts of this case adverse possession began from before 1902 and that the suits for possession were therefore barred under Article 144.
14. The next question relates to the right of the defendants to erect buildings on the property and whether the injunction against them can stand. Owing probably to attention being concentrated on the main part of the case at the trial, the evidence as to facts necessary to be proved on this part of the case is practically non-existent. There are before us 11 cases of different persons in possession of different plots. There is practically no evidence as to what are the buildings erected by the several defendants on their several holdings and their nature and how long ago and under what circumstances each was built. The learned Judge in para. 13 of the judgment says:
I find that the use of the lands for purposes other than agriculture disentitles the defendants to retain possession of the lands. But the remedy as (by way of) forfeiture is an extreme remedy. As the defendants have not erected pucca constructions on the suit property but only raised compound walls here and there relief by way of injunction to remove the buildings and restore the lands for being cultivated would satisfy the ends of justice.
15. In the decretal part he awarded the plaintiff an injunction ordering the defendants to remove the walls and buildings raised on the plaint lands in three months. There is much confusion here as to whether it is buildings or walls or both that have been erected. In the absence of clear evidence the learned advocates have referred us to the allegations in the several plaints from which it is seen that in four cases compound walls and tiled structures of some kind exist including in one plot a rice mill, in five other cases only compound walls exist, and in two, there are neither walls nor buildings but stones have been collected.
16. The learned Judge fell into another error in concluding that because there were some areas in the endal which were cultivable and intended to be cultivated, the lease; as a whole was purely agricultural and the tenant was bound to use the whole of the property demised either for raising wet crops or to leave it waste for ever. He is wrong when he says that the whole endal, within the boundaries mentioned is not included in the cowle. That it so included is clear from Ex. B. He says that no commission was issued to find out the total extent of the endal. Without doing so and finding out the particular spots intended for cultivation in Ex. B, it was imppssible to say whether the several plots used for buildings by the defendants are or are not included in the cultivable area. The result is that there is no evidence on which it can be said that any of the defendants have built on area which was reserved for cultivation. On this ground, if on no other, the decree for injunction cannot stand.
17. The learned Judge was also in error in thinking that the defendants had incurred forfeiture of the tenancy by building on the land. Assuming, what is not proved, that any of the buildings or walls are on land intended for cultivation at the time of the cowle, the tenants cannot incur forfeiture thereby. The provisions of the Transfer of Property Act are not per se applicable to agricultural leases nor to this cowle which is of the year 1865. In Noyna Misser v. Rupikun I.L.R. (1882) 9 C. 609 a tenant of an agricultural holding planted it with mango trees to the knowledge but without the consent of his landlord thus changing the character of the land. More than three years afterwards the landlord sued for a mandatory injunction to have the mango trees removed. Wilson, J., delivering the judgment of the Bench said:
No authority has been cited to us, nor any reasoning satisfactory to our minds tending 'to show that where a tenant has been guilty of a breach of duty in the use of his land such as making a tank in it, building on it improperly, or changing the character of the cultivation this operates necessarily as a forfeiture and renders him liable to be evicted.
18. Even in cases to which Section 111 of the Transfer of Property Act applies forfeiture is incurred only by breach of an express condition entitling the lessor to re-enter or for denial of the lessor's title and in case the lessor should give notice of his intention to terminate the lease. (Parameshri v. Vitappa Shanbaga I.L.R. (1902) 26 M. 157 : 12 M.L.J. 189 and Maharaja of Jeypore v. Rukmini Pattamahdevi. (1919) L.R. 46 LA. 109 : I.L.R. 42 M. 589 : 36 M.L J. 543 (P.C.) There is no such ground in these cases.
19. Lastly it is urged that no lessee is entitled with the lessor's consent to erect permanent structure on the land except for agricultural purposes and that the plaintiff is entitled to an injunction on that ground. Section 108 (p) of the Transfer of Property Act is relied on. Having regard to the utter want of evidence as to the nature of the buildings and when they were ' erected it is impossible to give any effect to this contention even if it were otherwise valid. In Noyna Misser v. Rupikun above referred to, there was a prayer for an injunction to uproot and remove the mango trees. This was refused as the landlord had stood by for more than three years and allowed the tenant to spend his labour and capital upon the land without taking any action and in such circumstances under Section 56 of the Specific Relief Act the Court would not grant an injunction. From the evidence of the only witness which was referred to at the hearing, house building in the endal began about 1897 and there are about 35 buildings in the portions of the endal sold by the cowledars. It was about some of these buildings which Thandavaraya went and saw in 1898 that he brought suits in 1900. In fact the place has become a small residential colony. The rice mill erected by the defendants in S.A. No. 169 was erected in 1916 or 1917. The compound wall in S.A. No. 164 was erected in 1915 or 1916 and that in S.A. No. 173 between 1908 and 1911. On this evidence this suit for an injunction must in some cases at least be barred by limitation under Article 32. In any case having in view the principles on which the Court will act in awarding mandatory injunction to remove structures already completed the plaintiff has utterly failed to show that he is entitled to this remedy which would be discretionary even if he were entitled to prevent buildings being put up. (Ulagappan Ambulant v. Chidambaram Chetty : AIR1926Mad193
20. But in cases like the present which are not governed by the Transfer of Property Act, the law applicable would be the English Law. See Maharaja of Jeypore v. Rukmini Pattamahdevi. According to that law, the tenant may lawfully erect buildings which improve the value of the land. (Jones v. Chappel and Meux v. Cobley. In this Presidency a tenant who has a permanent right of occupancy in agricultural land within a zamindari may be prevented from erecting buildings which are unsuitable: for agricultural purposes. (Ramanadhan v. Zemindar of Ramnad I.L.R. (1893) 16 M. 407 : 3 M.L.J. 185 and Orr v. Mrithyunjaya Gurukkal. I.L.R. (1900) 24 M. 65. That is because: the tenant is not entitled to change the character of the holding so as to endanger the interest of the landlord who is entitled to a rent which may vary according to the nature and extent of the cultivation. It can have no application to a case like the present where the rent is fixed and not liable to increase or decrease and is payable whether the land is cultivated or left waste. In a permanent lease of the present character at an unvarying rent it cannot be said that the character of the holding will be changed or the landlord's interest imperilled by the erection of buildings. On the contrary the tenant being entitled in the absence of any express prohibition to use the land in any way not inconsistent with the purpose of the letting and the interests of the landlord, the erection of houses would appear only to increase the landlord's security.
21. For these reasons we think that the injunctions granted by the learned Judge must be refused.
22. In the result the second appeals are allowed and the suits dismissed with costs throughout.
23. The memorandum of objections is dismissed. No order as to costs.
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The changes to this chapter reflect legislation permitting same-sex marriage in England and Wales from March 2014 and in Scotland from December 2014. Friends understand marriage to be equally available to same-sex and opposite-sex couples.
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Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
- The act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong; censure; blame; disapprobation.
- The act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty, unfit for use, or forfeited; the act of dooming to punishment or forfeiture.
- The state of being condemned.
- The ground or reason of condemning.
- The process by which a public entity exercises its powers of eminent domain.
- (act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong): praise
- (act of judicially adjudging guilty): acquittal
- (ground or reason of condemning): acquittal, justification
act of condemning or pronouncing to be wrong
act of judicially condemning, or adjudging guilty
state of being condemned
- The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Help:How to check translations.
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The Coalition’s climate change strategy
Watch a recording of the event
The Federal Government and Opposition agree that Australia must reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to 5 per cent below 2000 levels by 2020. They disagree strongly, though, on how to do it. This public discussion explored the Opposition’s policy with the Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Greg Hunt.
“A Coalition Government will implement a climate change strategy based on direct action to reduce emissions and improve the environment. Under the Direct Action Plan, a reverse auction will be used to buy back carbon at the lowest price, such as through revegetation, soil carbon, capturing gas from land fill and energy efficiency. Our policy will deliver significant environmental outcomes without the need for a damaging, economy-wide tax, that no other country has implemented.” Shadow Minister for Climate Action, Greg Hunt.Tweet
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U S Army traing films demonstrated the penetration power of the .30 carbine under normal conditions, and it seems to have worked quite well against the German helmet. The same helmet would stop a .45 ACP (from a pistol) at medium ranges.
Its not unlikely that some Chinese troops wore captured U S Doron flak jackets or captured Japanese armor from WW2 occupying troops. I've seen photos of Japanese officers in China wearing metal breastplates. The Soviets had also developed Manganese steel breast plates during WW2, and those were likely available to the Red Chinese.
The .30 Carbine was in part prefered by some to the Thompson because the .30 bullet would penetrate the heavy vests worn by Imperial Marine machinegun crews while the .45 would not. The Japanese helmet was also noted for stopping pistol bullets but not the .30 Carbine bullet.
Round nose FMJ bullets of all calibers of 8mm or less had a poor rep for stopping power, even the .303 MkVI and 7x57 174 gr round nose had little stopping power unless they struck bone. Through and through chest wounds seldom stopped a charging enemy if his blood was up.
During the 1905 war between Russia and Japan the Russians issued thousands of sets of body armor to officers.
The breastplate was of nickel steel and under this was a thick quilted tunic of many layers of silk. The Japanese bullets flattened or broke up on the steel and whatever got through was caught up in the silk.
There were numerous types of body armor available by the begining of WW2 but cost per unit prevented any significant use , other than air crew flak jackets, till late in the war.
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LOS ANGELES — A much-hailed law that restricted the opening of new stand-alone fast-food restaurants in one of the poorest sections of Los Angeles did not curb obesity or improve diets, a new study found.
City lawmakers passed the zoning ordinance in 2008 that limited the opening or expansion of fast-food outlets in a 83-square-kilometre area that struggles with high obesity rates and other health problems.
The law, believed to be the first effort of its kind by a major city to improve public health, did not ban new eateries in strip malls.
The research by the Rand Corp. think-tank found that obesity rates in South Los Angeles continued to rise after passage of the law.
“It had no meaningful effect,” Rand senior economist Roland Sturm said.
Health experts said a single intervention would not reverse the obesity problem. People also have to exercise and make lifestyle changes, they said.
“It’s not just about limiting unhealthy food, but increasing access to healthy food,” said Alex Ortega, a professor of public health at the University of California, Los Angeles, who had no role in the study.
Rand researchers reviewed permits issued by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, which inspects food outlets. There were no licences for stand-alone fast-food restaurants, but chains opened 17 new outlets in strip shopping centres and food courts in South Los Angeles from 2008 to 2012.
Almost half of the new food permits were for convenience stores that sell soda and junk food, the study found.
Researchers also compared obesity rates in South Los Angeles and other parts of the county using surveys that asked residents to report their weight and eating habits.
Before the fast-food ordinance, 63 per cent of South Los Angeles residents reported being overweight or obese compared to 57 per cent in other parts of the county. Three years after the ordinance went into effect, 75 per cent of South Los Angeles residents reported being overweight or obese compared to 58 per cent in other parts of the county.
Supporters said the ordinance worked because it prevented chains from opening new restaurants at major intersections with their own drive-thru windows and parking lots. They acknowledged it will take some time to see health gains but noted that the area has seen farmers markets and community gardens in recent years.
“We never said this ordinance was the silver bullet” to solving the obesity problem, said Gwen Flynn of the Community Health Councils.
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School:Florida Institute of Technology
Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship
The Florida Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Melbourne, Florida. The university has 5 academic divisions, focusing mainly on engineering, science and mathematics. Over the past year Florida Tech has begun to focus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, bringing in faculty with an I&E background, as well as starting up a student business incubator last year. Currently the student business incubator has 12 student start-ups and is still growing. Currently most of the innovation and entrepreneurship work is being done in the college of business, but Florida Tech is working on involving the engineering school and get more engineering students and faculty involved.
Florida Tech also has dedicated educational programs at graduate and undergraduate levels for Innovation and Entreprenuership. More information abou those programs can be found here
Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Florida Institutew of Technology has multiple faculty members across many disciplines who have a history of actively practicing and encouraging Innovation and Entreprenuership.
Dr. Beshoy Morkos
Beshoy Morkos is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Florida Institute of Technology where he directs the STRIDE Lab (SysTems Research on Intelligent Design and Engineering). His engineering design research focuses on developing computational representation and reasoning support for managing complex system design. The goal of Dr. Morkos’ research is to fundamentally reframe our understanding and utilization of system representations and computational reasoning capabilities to support the development of system models which help engineers and project planners intelligently make informed decisions at earlier stages of engineering design. On the engineering education front, Dr. Morkos’ research explores means to integrate innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering education through entrepreneurially-minded learning, improve persistence in engineering, address challenges in senior design education, and promote engineering education in international teams and settings. Dr. Morkos’ research is currently supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN), and NASA JPL.
Dr. Morkos received his Ph.D. from Clemson University in the Clemson Engineering Design and Applications Research (CEDAR) lab under Dr. Joshua Summers. In 2014, he was awarded the ASME CIE Dissertation of the year award for his doctoral research. He graduated with his B.S. and M.S in Mechanical Engineering in 2006 and 2008 from Clemson University and has worked on multiple sponsored projects funded by partners such as NASA, Michelin, and BMW. His past work experience include working at the BMW Information Technology Research Center (ITRC) as a Research Associate and Robert Bosch Corporation as a Manufacturing Engineer. Dr. Morkos was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Engineering & Science Education at Clemson University performing NSF funded research on engineering student motivation and its effects on persistence and the use of advanced technology in engineering classroom environments. Dr. Morkos’ research thrust include: design automation, design representations, computational reasoning, systems modeling, engineering education, design education, collaborative design, and data/knowledge management.
Dr. Chiradeep Sen
Dr. Sen is an Assistant Professor of Design at Florida Institute of Technology. He teaches a series of courses in the area of design and manufacturing, including courses in advanced design theory and methods, design for manufacturing, creativity and innovation, artificial intelligence in engineering, and computer-aided design automation. His current research explores the mental models and cognitive processes of innovative design and creativity. Dr. Sen received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Design from Clemson University’s CEDAR Lab, and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Jadavpur University in India. He received the 2011 ASME Best Dissertation Award for his doctoral dissertation on the formal representation and reasoning on mechanical functions, a mental model used in innovative design for modeling complex systems in the absence of the knowledge about their components and structure. Dr. Sen has a total of 14 years of experience in new product development in a variety of industries around the globe, including six years as a consultant, where he helped companies develop computer-supported processes for their innovative and routine designs. The companies and business verticals he served range from consumer product design and manufacturing, tools and dies, large industrial energy equipment, automotive, and medical equipment. At Florida Tech, Dr. Sen directs the Research in Information Science for Engineering (RiSE) research group.
Dr. Scott Benjamin
Dr. Scott Benjamin is a successful entrepreneur turned academic whose passions include helping students create and launch business ventures. He received his undergraduate degree in entrepreneurship and real estate from the University of Miami and his masters of business administration from the University of Maryland. After 20 years of business ventures including real estate development & investment, continuing medical education, hospital supplies and restaurants, he earned his doctorate degree in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management from the University of Maryland.
In addition to currently serving as a principle for Signature Properties, he is actively involved the development of several companies providing a range of products including software, consulting services and apparel development. As time allows, Dr. Benjamin consults for several companies on strategic management issues, business plan review and negotiation training.
In August 2012, Dr. Benjamin came to Florida Tech as the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Development. His first initiative was to launch the Incubation Station at Florida Tech. This innovative center provides physical space, resources, capital and mentoring services to student entrepreneurs seeking to launch a new venture. At the center, students learn to not only conduct the research necessary to develop the business plan but actually engage in the step of generating revenue for their businesses.
In his spare time, he coaches youth soccer, and plays anything that involves a ball or a puck.
Dr. Carlos Otero
Carlos E. Otero, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at Florida Institute of Technology. He has been a tenure-track faculty in the College of Engineering at University of South Florida, Tampa, and the University of Virginia, Wise. Prior to that, he worked for 11 years in private industry as a computer software engineer for military computer systems, including satellite communications, command and control, wireless security, and unmanned aerial vehicle systems. His research interests are in computer systems engineering, with particular emphasis on the design, performance evaluation, and optimization of systems and processes across a variety of domain areas (including wireless, intelligence, and big data systems). Dr. Otero is a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Abram Walton
Dr. Abram Walton is an Associate Professor of Technology Management and Innovation at Florida Tech. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Technology and Innovation Management from Purdue University. Before his academic life, he was a Fire Fighter and EMT, and he later held leadership positions as a Manager of Wal-Mart Stores. He is a co-founder of the International Journal of Innovation Science, an academic journal cited by most major indexing organizations and available at thousands of libraries throughout the world. Dr. Walton has authored numerous publications, conference proceedings, and his textbooks on Leadership and Management have sold over 15,000 copies. Dr. Walton serves on the Executive Committee for the Board of Directors for the International Association of Innovation Professionals. He is the Director of the Center for Lifecycle and Innovation Management at Florida Tech, as well as for the Center for Ethics and Leadership, and was instrumental in launching the new B.S. and M.S. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
In addition to his academic pursuits, he is the Principal of a boutique technology commercialization consulting firm, serves as a Senior Consultant of Systems Engineering to the COO of a DOD firm specializing in counter-IED technologies, and enjoys dabbling in real estate investments. He has recently been a Fellow for the National Intellectual Property and Knowledge Management Task force and serves as a consultant for an Intellectual Property and Patent Management Organization (PMO). He frequently consults on a variety of topics, including leadership, lean process improvement, six sigma, innovation strategies, technology commercialization, product lifecycle management, and new product development. He has successfully helped launch several new technology ventures and works with companies on early-stage technology commercialization efforts, new product development, and leadership development.
As an Associate Professor of Technology and Innovation at the Florida Institute of Technology, his research efforts focus on impacting technology-sensitive industries by creating sustainable, lean business models through the deployment of innovative continuous improvement methodologies. He takes a unique systems-thinking approach to innovation and technology, lean, healthcare, and product lifecycle management, which has cultivated multi-disciplinary collaborations, generating research and scholarship on innovative organizational strategies and best practices for engineering and innovation initiatives.
Program Chair of M.S. in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Director of Center for Lifecycle and Innovation Management
Director of Center for Ethics and Leadership
University Technology Transfer Function
Florida Tech's University Technology Transfer Function (http://www.fit.edu/research/committees/ipc/) is handled under the umbrella of the office of Research. The current value of Research Sponsored Projects is over $94 million. The number of Florida Tech faculty who serve as principal investigators has also doubled in the last three years to 90—four of which have received prestigious NSF Career Awards. University faculty expended $16.5 million to buy equipment, support students, pay salaries and to cover general expenses. In addition to over a dozen research centers, five new interdisciplinary research institutes were initiated that are the focal point for Florida Tech undergraduate and graduate research. These new research university institutes include: Human Centered Design Institute, Institute for Energy Systems, Institute for Marine Research, Institute for Materials Science & Nanotechnology and Institute for Research on Global Climate Change.
Florida Tech has a lot of collaboration with Harris Corporation (http://harris.com) The main collaboration between Harris and the University is the Harris Institute for Assured Information(http://harris-institute.fit.edu/) The Harris Institute for Assured Information is an interdisciplinary center that focuses on high-risk disruptive work aimed at helping us trust the information that we so often rely on. Founded in 2009 by a grant from Harris Corporation, the Harris Institute brings together computer science, psychology, business and biology to carry out cutting-edge research in computer security. Our goal is lofty: to change the way we think about the information that flows around us, and to help drive a fundamental shift in how we protect it.
Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts
Currently Florida Tech is working on forming more regional and local economic development efforts, but the main one currently in place is (http://weventure.fit.edu). The vision of weVenture at Florida Institute of Technology is to help women and men become entrepreneurial leaders and thinkers and to successfully achieve economic independence through entrepreneurship. weVenture at Florida Institute of Technology is a community organization that provides business coaching, mentoring, training programs and seminars, and networking opportunities to assist startup and second stage entrepreneurs in Brevard, St. Lucie and Indian River Counties with starting, growing and sustaining their businesses.
Florida Institute of Technology
Fall 2015 Leadership Circle
Spring 2016 Leadership Circle
Spring 2017 Leadership Cirlce
2017 UIF PItch: Panthers for Progress Youtube Link:
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Unanswered: Clicking on value in combo box and going straight to that record
I've set up a combo box, with a list of Name values from another table (I used the wizard to do this). Now I need to figure out how to either:
a) Have the user click on their chosen name in the list and then the corresponding record will immediately appear;
b) Have the user click on their chosen name, then click on a button that will, when clicked, make the corresponding record appear.
Any suggestions? I realise that it would require coding, and most likely in an OnClick control, but I just don't know quite how to do it myself. Any help or alternative suggestions are much appreciated.
Check below, I rigged up a sample db for you to check out with just what you asked about. Mind you I did it fast but it should help. Look behind the scenes and check it out. Later tonight I will write the step by step process of how I did it if you still need help. It opens up to the form to use right away and is based on 2 tables. Didn't use the query this time, but did use the query on the other form in the program. Well, time to get outta here and hope this helps you out. Also, check your earlier posts as I try to give you short helper examples of what you are trying to accomplish, rather than just tell you. Also, try posting samples here to get your particular situation resolved much sooner. Someone on here will surely be able to help.
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2001 Roster of
The A.J. Muste Memorial Institute acts as the fiscal sponsor
for a number of organizations dedicated to nonviolent activism for social
justice, by directing tax-deductible contributions and foundation grants
to the educational work of these groups. Our 2001 sponsored projects are
listed below. The Muste Institute also makes direct grants and administers
two donor-advised grant funds, the International Nonviolence Training
Fund (INTF) and Sheilah's Fund East (SFE). (Grants are listed on a separate
roster at www.ajmuste.org/grants2001.htm.)
Separate guidelines are available for fiscal sponsorships,
general grants and INTF
Africa Nonviolence Project
Brooklyn, NY: $9,500
For promotion of the book Guns and Gandhi in Africa, about the role
of nonviolence in African independence movements, and for speaking events
by the authors, Bill Sutherland and Matt Meyer.
Coalition for the Human Rights of Immigrants
New York, NY: $3,372.50
For efforts to promote immigrants' rights and build opposition to anti-immigrant
Colorado Campaign for Middle East Peace
Denver, CO: $4,607.50
For efforts to build public opinion toward ending the US government's
ongoing embargo and military aggression against the people of Iraq.
International Peace Bureau
Geneva, Switzerland: $39,915
For educational work promoting disarmament and worldwide peace.
Kairos/Plowshares New York
New York, NY: $14,169.25
For educational work on issues of nonviolence, militarism and the dangers
of nuclear and conventional weapons.
Dili, East Timor: $29,032
For efforts to monitor the activities of international institutions
in East Timor and facilitate greater East Timorese participation in
the country's reconstruction process.
New York, NY: $190
For speaking and writing on peace, nonviolence and social change.
Nicaragua Solidarity Network of Greater New York
New York, NY: $4,085
For educational materials promoting demilitarization and economic justice
in Latin America.
Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death
Philadelphia, PA: $40,612.50
For statewide organizing efforts to build public opinion against the
Right of Way
New York, NY: $1,163.75
For efforts to raise awareness of vehicular violence and promote safe
and sustainable forms of transportation.
War Resisters International
London, England: $14,246.20
For educational activities promoting nonviolence and disarmament, particularly
for the Nonviolence and Social Empowerment project.
War Resisters League
New York, NY: $53,837.80
For educational activities and publications addressing the root causes
of war and promoting nonviolent activism for social justice.
War Resisters League/New England
Norwich, CT: $6,003.05
For educational activities and organizing around issues of nonviolence
and social justice.
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom-NY
New York, NY: $9,685.25
For WILPF NY Metro's programs addressing racial justice, economic globalization
and peace and disarmament.
Total 2001 sponsored distributions: $ 230,419.80
The Muste Institute also operates the Freeman
Internship Program, providing a stipend to interns working in the
War Resisters League national office. This program was established through
a generous bequest from Ruth and Harrop Freeman. Distributions to interns
in the program during 2001 totaled $6,000.
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Does The Discovery of ‘Lost’ Materials Help Or Harm The Archival Field?
About the only times audiovisual archiving and preservation gets mentioned in the news is when there is a re-release of a newly restored film or album, or when some amazing discovery of a ‘lost’ work is revealed (which is usually tied to the bigger story of its re-release or sale). The auctioning of the early Walt Disney film “Hungry Hobos” and the unveiling of a 1973 David Bowie performance on the BBC are just a couple recent examples. Admittedly, this is probably due at least in part to the fact that lots of archiving work is detail-oriented, quiet, technical, and repetitive at times. These are all just nice ways of saying the work is dull (at least from a news story standpoint). Most people assume that I get to watch/listen to great content all day or ask what things I have unearthed from obscurity. This makes me uncertain about whether the news stories drive their perception or if the news really is just delivering what non-archivists care about. Whatever the case, I typically (over)emphasize to people that I don’t get the opportunity to access the content I work with; it’s all about the physical objects. Boxes and boxes and boxes and shelves and shelves and shelves of objects. And drawers. And pallets. And piles on the floor.
I do have a discovery story, but I don’t really like to refer to it as such. Why? During a summer internship at the NYU Library Preservation Lab, the Tamiment/Wagner Archive received the Communist Party USA papers, a massive collection of paper, memorabilia, film, video, audiotape, and more dating back to the early 20th century. As part of a first pass at ingest, a fellow intern and myself were tapped to go through the films to looks for any major condition problems and get a very high level inventory to help with prioritization. We were excited because there was a lot of 35mm, much of it in old metal shipping containers labeled in Russian. Turns out, though, the CPUSA merely screened or distributed acceptable Soviet films, because reel after reel were prints of Russian history or war epics from the 60s and 70s, sometimes two or three copies of each. It was my first exposure to Orwo filmstock, but I’m not sure if even I am hardcore enough to have gotten really pumped about that.
But there was one particular metal box… There were some others like it, but they hadn’t had anything special in them. But this one stunk real bad-like when we opened it. I tried it first and quickly decided to attack a different box. The other intern tried later, but it was the end of a long, dusty, chemically day…and there was one more non-stinky box left for her. So after I finished what I was working on, I put on the gloves and the mask and said goodbye to my nose hairs and some brain cells. As I started pulling out reels, I noticed that the stench was more complex than a vinegar smell, that what appeared to be rust inside the can was all over the film, and that the solidification and bubbling gunk I could see through the projection reels was not typical behavior of acetate from the 1970s, whether the East Germans had made it or not. Nope, this was nitrate, and luckily most of the reels were heads out with the title cards for the reel visible. Passaic Textile Strike Reel 2. Passaic Textile Strike Reel 4. Passaic Textile Strike Reel 5. And so on.
After the nitrate excitement died down, my colleague began searching for the title online and found that the Library of Congress had a print, but two reels were considered lost, including reel 5. Things moved fast after that. Somebody called a contact at LOC. The head of the department and the Tamiment archivist were called in. We had to find someone with nitrate shipping certification. And soon the films were out the door to LOC. They were pretty seriously decayed, but that’s where all that slow, detailed, technical (dull) work comes in to play to do the restoration work.
Exciting stuff, but not ‘my’ or ‘a’ discovery. There were a lot of people involved in the overall process, and I was just the one to physically pull the reels out of the box and look at them. Also, the film was not truly lost or discovered. It was sitting there in a box, not caring one way or the other. It couldn’t be lost because no one was missing it. Anyone at anytime could have peeked in the box and wondered what was on those reels.
In fact, it should have been someone else. If an organization or an archive truly cares about the materials they create or collect, if they care about the investments made in creating and storing those materials, if they care about the longevity of their organization and fulfillment of organizational goals then, plain and simple, they should take care of their stuff. #tcys and whatnot.
To be clear, I’m not picking on archives here — this diatribe refers to the whole enterprise. Either you have pride in your work or you don’t, and that institutional attitude or support for it starts at the top. This doesn’t mean that the organization absolutely must care about those assets, but to market them based on quality of the content/materials or the institution’s history/dedication would seem to require a certain degree of commitment to those expressed ideals in order to retain any level of validity.
And that, my friends, is polemics (I minored in it in college). Do you agree in total? Do you reject it outright? Do you agree in principle but not in practical reality? I’d like to know, but, I feel, save for the derailment, the gauge of my original track is true. ‘Lost’ films are not the result of inevitability (unless you believe that humans will inevitably mess things up), but are lost through our own decisions at action or inaction. The celebration of their discovery turns irresponsible behavior into an applauded activity. This approval, and subsequent social/monetary benefit, promotes hoarding, negligence, and other high risk behaviors enabled by the belief that 1) the ultimate payoff will be great and 2) the material will always be recoverable.
One has to assume that, given human and corporate nature, the potential for benign neglect as a preservation strategy would become the default position in most cases. After one assumes that, one has to ask, has the line between benign and malignant ever been sufficiently delineated so as to ensure that action occurs before it is crossed, and what extra cost is incurred if that line is ignored, despite the potential capability of recovering the content? Perhaps, in this arena, we need to better document our less direct failures and losses in order to counter the distracting jubilation of films grasped from the ravages of decay, to fully delineate the real costs and risks so that we take care of our stuff in the first place or accept the decision not to.
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The shipping industry handles the majority of world trade. It can transport a variety of goods to most locations worldwide. Today, most big corporations rely on shipping companies to transport their goods to consumers. Different types of vessels pass through several shipping routes to reach their destination. As technology continues to advance, the shipping industry is adopting new technologies to make each trip safer and more efficient. This article discusses four major roles of the shipping industry that affects global trade.
1. The shipping industry is responsible for almost 90% of world trade.
The shipping industry handles a whopping 80 to 90% of global trade annually. More than 80% of trade by volume is carried by cargo ships to various ports around the world. Think of all the consumer goods you receive through different courier services. Most of these goods were likely shipped to you by overseas manufacturers via the shipping industry.
Furthermore, an estimated 70% of world trade by value is transported by sea. Cargo ships carry high-value imports and exports daily. Global manufacturers are all over the world, and they rely on the shipping industry to reach their consumers on all continents.
Imagine a world without the shipping industry. You won’t be able to enjoy goods that originate from other continents! The globalization of trade has contributed to a resurgence in world economies. The trade experienced a 4% growth rate in 2017 and continues to be on the rise today. Thus, without the shipping industry, global economies will decline.
2. The shipping industry transports different types of cargo.
The shipping industry can transport all types of cargo. These include luxury cars, jewelry, precious stones, and electronics. They also include fast-moving consumer goods such as food supplies and necessities. That is why it has now become easier to buy high-value items overseas and have them shipped to your location.
When transporting different goods, different types of vessels are also used. These include the following:
- Bulk carrier ships for bulk solid loads such as cement, wood, and grains. These ships can also carry bulk liquid loads including cooking oil and petroleum.
- Gas carriers for liquid gas.
- Oil tankers for raw oil.
- Container vessels for fast-moving consumer goods such as clothing, electronics, and documents.
- Livestock vessels for live animals.
- Reefer vessels for perishable goods, usually vegetables, fruits, fresh food, and temperature-sensitive medicines.
3. The shipping industry can impact the flow of global trade and shipping costs.
Major players in the shipping industry can affect the amount of trade traversing through each port daily. They can also affect the cost of shipping to and from each port. But how does this happen?
There is currently an imbalance in global trade. Some countries have a large volume of exports, while others rely on imports. For example, China has a massive export system that they rely on for economic growth. Chances are that a lot of the goods that you have purchased come from a Chinese factory.
But, China doesn’t have a huge store of raw materials such as minerals and grains. Raw materials such as coal are more available on the American continent. Thus, China must rely on the importation of raw materials to be able to produce their export goods.
In the same way, some third-world countries have massive stores of raw materials but no capacity to develop them. So, they rely on exporting raw materials such as minerals while importing finished products such as electronics.
This export-import imbalance affects the costs of shipping, which major shipping companies dictate. For instance, ships carry cargo to a certain port. But on their return trip, the ships are empty because that port didn’t have any goods to load for exportation. One-way trips like this lead shipping companies to charge a higher shipping cost. If an empty ship travels to a certain port to collect cargo, this will also entail higher costs. Thus, shipping rates vary depending on the origin and destination of the goods.
4. The shipping industry can speed up global trade through technology.
The shipping industry handles most of the global trade, and there is a need to adopt new technologies. Gone are the days when ships would take months to reach their destination. Shipping companies now apply new techniques with the use of big data and route optimization. This results in faster travel time, better ship routing, and ease in port congestion.
The Bottom Line
The shipping industry plays a major role in global trade. Not only does it carry the majority of goods around the world, but it also affects trade flows. The industry can also impact the speed and cost of each shipment.
Shipping companies are now implementing corporate sustainability goals. These goals allow ships to continue to transport goods while managing carbon emissions. As engineers continue to develop innovations in ship technology, the future of the industry is in automation and efficiency, which will further enhance global trade.
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For a man who has played a mascara-sporting pirate, a kooky confection mogul, and a tea-guzzling hatter, there is no film role that is out of the question. It is thus not much of a surprise to hear that Johnny Depp will be taking on the role of a mad scientist whose brain is uploaded to a supercomputer in an upcoming movie about the singularity.
Depp’s character, Will, is assassinated in the movie early on (this is not a spoiler), but his brain survives just long enough for his wife to transfer it to a supercomputer. Will is then able to continue his life virtually, which only accelerates his research.
The film, to be titled Transcendence, will perhaps be the first mainstream look at what the world could be like once the ability exists to merge humans with modern technology.
Scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes that the singularity — the point at which computers reach super-human levels — will occur around 2045. He has also made the bold prediction that the human brain will be reverse-engineered in the 2020s, making it possible for computers to have human-like intelligence. The book is partially based on his work, though as a fully fictionalized account.
To people who don’t follow Kurzweil’s work, this kind of concept still sounds like wild movie plots from the past century. Transcendence will no doubt try to capture that same kind of eerie sci-fi tone, but with the even more unsettling backdrop that what happens on the screen might be real life in just a couple decades.
The screenplay is being written by a Hollywood newcomer, Jack Paglen. The cast seems to be quite impressive, though. Depp’s presence as the main character will ensure huge box office figures, and Christopher Nolan has also signed on as the executive producer.
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Unformatted text preview: Ready for a change? Open | Close Your ad here. Buy Media Now All Articles Products Column Courses VirtuaLabs Webinars Login | Register Welcome Guest Embedded.com Deadline Monotonic Analysis Ken Tindell This article presents a technique for analyzing the worst-case response times of tasks in a system and shows how the results of this analysis can be used to ensure the proper timing behavior of a system A common misconception is that "hard real-time" means "very fast." This might explain why Microsoft claims that their upcoming v. 3.0 release of Windows CE will be a hard real-time OS. (CE v. 3.0 will reportedly allow nested interrupts and, hence, achieve sub-millisecond interrupt latencies.) However, hard real-time is better described as "when it absolutely, positively has to be done on-time." Or, put another way, "a late result is a wrong result." Another misconception is that "hard real-time" means "safety critical" and that because a system cannot kill someone there's no need to worry much about meeting deadlines. However, a hard real-time system is one where the consequences of missing a deadline are serious. To be sure, if injury or death can result from a missed deadline then this is serious and we have a hard real-time system. But lots of systems exist where the consequences of missing a deadline even occasionally are economically unacceptable. In high-volume industries it's important that systems operate correctly because the costs of even trivial failures are high. For example, in an automobile, the instrument panel computer might apply a timeout to a regular RPM message from the engine management system. If the message doesn't turn up on time, the instrument panel assumes a failure and lights a "check engine" lamp. It is important to do this because if the engine management system isn't talking properly on the network then there might be some serious faults, and the driver should take the automobile to a workshop to check for a wiring fault. But if the vehicle systems haven't been designed to meet hard deadlines, and occasionally the RPM message turns up a little late, the timeout will trigger and the garage mechanics will find no actual fault. If this kind of overrun occurs even once in a million hours then, with the millions of hours of operation of a particular vehicle type every day, there will be thousands of "no fault found" warranty claims each year. This could cost millions of dollars, not to mention the damage to a corporation's reputation for reliability. Clearly, the economic consequences of missing deadlines can be severe. It's clear that if we want to build a hard real-time system then we have to be able to determine, before the system is deployed, whether deadlines could be missed or not. One common way to try to find out the worst-case timing behavior of a system is via Embedded.com Career Center The ITRS process roadmap and nextgen embedded multicore SoC design Dive in to C++ and survive Why C++ is a viable alternative to C in embedded...
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Distance from Hajnowka to Kluczbork
Distance from Hajnówka to Kluczbork is 419 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 260 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Hajnówka and Kluczbork is 419 km= 260 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Hajnowka to Kluczbork, It takes 0.46 hours to arrive.
Hajnowka is located in Poland.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||52° 44´ 35.8080'' N |
23° 34´ 52.3920'' E
Hajnówka Distances to Cities
|Distance from Hajnowka to Gorzow Wielkopolski||564 km|
|Distance from Hajnowka to Sierpc||264 km|
|Distance from Hajnowka to Lubon||456 km|
|Distance from Hajnowka to Lubin||527 km|
|Distance from Hajnowka to Krakow||391 km|
Kluczbork is located in Poland.
|GPS Coordinates||50° 58´ 22.1160'' N |
18° 13´ 5.3760'' E
Kluczbork Distances to Cities
|Distance from Kluczbork to Katowice||98 km|
|Distance from Kluczbork to Gryfice||386 km|
|Distance from Kluczbork to Czechowice Dziedzice||130 km|
|Distance from Kluczbork to Klodzko||125 km|
|Distance from Kluczbork to Belchatow||91 km|
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Network Working Group
Request for Comments: 1942
This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents with generic semantics that are appropriate for representing information from a wide range of applications. This specification extends HTML to support a wide variety of tables. The model is designed to work well with associated style sheets, but does not require them. It also supports rendering to braille, or speech, and exchange of tabular data with databases and spreadsheets. The HTML table model embodies certain aspects of the CALS table model, e.g. the ability to group table rows into thead, tbody and tfoot sections, plus the ability to specify cell alignment compactly for sets of cells according to the context.
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Microsoft today released updates to plug a whopping 123 security holes in Windows and related software, including fixes for a critical, “wormable” flaw in Windows Server versions that Microsoft says is likely to be exploited soon. While this particular weakness mainly affects enterprises, July’s care package from Redmond has a little something for everyone. So if you’re a Windows (ab)user, it’s time once again to back up and patch up (preferably in that order).
Top of the heap this month in terms of outright scariness is CVE-2020-1350, which concerns a remotely exploitable bug in more or less all versions of Windows Server that attackers could use to install malicious software simply by sending a specially crafted DNS request.
Microsoft said it is not aware of reports that anyone is exploiting the weakness (yet), but the flaw has been assigned a CVSS score of 10, which translates to “easy to attack” and “likely to be exploited.”
“We consider this to be a wormable vulnerability, meaning that it has the potential to spread via malware between vulnerable computers without user interaction,” Microsoft wrote in its documentation of CVE-2020-1350. “DNS is a foundational networking component and commonly installed on Domain Controllers, so a compromise could lead to significant service interruptions and the compromise of high level domain accounts.”
CVE-2020-1350 is just the latest worry for enterprise system administrators in charge of patching dangerous bugs in widely-used software. Over the past couple of weeks, fixes for flaws with high severity ratings have been released for a broad array of software products typically used by businesses, including Citrix, F5, Juniper, Oracle and SAP. This at a time when many organizations are already short-staffed and dealing with employees working remotely thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Windows Server vulnerability isn’t the only nasty one addressed this month that malware or malcontents can use to break into systems without any help from users. A full 17 other critical flaws fixed in this release tackle security weaknesses that Microsoft assigned its most dire “critical” rating, such as in Office, Internet Exploder, SharePoint, Visual Studio, and Microsoft’s .NET Framework.
Some of the more eyebrow-raising critical bugs addressed this month include CVE-2020-1410, which according to Recorded Future concerns the Windows Address Book and could be exploited via a malicious vcard file. Then there’s CVE-2020-1421, which protects against potentially malicious .LNK files (think Stuxnet) that could be exploited via an infected removable drive or remote share. And we have the dynamic duo of CVE-2020-1435 and CVE-2020-1436, which involve problems with the way Windows handles images and fonts that could both be exploited to install malware just by getting a user to click a booby-trapped link or document.
Not to say flaws rated “important” as opposed to critical aren’t also a concern. Chief among those is CVE-2020-1463, a problem within Windows 10 and Server 2016 or later that was detailed publicly prior to this month’s Patch Tuesday.
Before you update with this month’s patch batch, please make sure you have backed up your system and/or important files. It’s not uncommon for a particular Windows update to hose one’s system or prevent it from booting properly, and some updates even have been known to erase or corrupt files. Last month’s bundle of joy from Microsoft sent my Windows 10 system into a perpetual crash state. Thankfully, I was able to restore from a recent backup.
So do yourself a favor and backup before installing any patches. Windows 10 even has some built-in tools to help you do that, either on a per-file/folder basis or by making a complete and bootable copy of your hard drive all at once.
Also, keep in mind that Windows 10 is set to apply patches on its own schedule, which means if you delay backing up you could be in for a wild ride. If you wish to ensure the operating system has been set to pause updating so you can back up your files and/or system before the operating system decides to reboot and install patches whenever it sees fit, see this guide.
As always, if you experience glitches or problems installing any of these patches this month, please consider leaving a comment about it below; there’s a better-than-even chance other readers have experienced the same and may chime in here with some helpful tips. Also, keep an eye on the AskWoody blog from Woody Leonhard, who keeps a reliable lookout for buggy Microsoft updates each month.
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Nowadays, everyone I meet—friends and colleagues, even strangers at dinner parties—keeps asking me some variation of the same question: “I had this conversation today and it just didn’t work. What do you think I did wrong?”
The headmaster of a school wondering how she could better handle hard conversations with the powerful and wealthy parents of her students. A CEO trying to navigate decisiveness with prudence. A mother in anguish because her daughter’s anorexia has turned the family dinner table into a war zone. A board meeting that went wrong over a single word. A senior member of a police force struggling to talk with her officers about ethics.
Constructive conversation is one of humanity’s first and most powerful tools. Conversations built our first communities and helped emerging civilization progress. Public discourse was the foundation of democracy and has been the underpinning of all aspects of government and governance throughout history. And whatever we may feel about our handheld devices and pinging social media accounts, technological “progress” arose from constructive conversations. Creative collaboration was what put humans on the moon and what still keeps us in the digital ether.
Without intending to, I’ve become a kind of expert in the design of conversations. At the design firm Ideo, where I built an architecture practice, I tackled large-scale, systemic issues, such as income inequality, gun violence, and healthcare, by bringing together diverse stakeholders in conversations that could be incredibly fraught. I’ve learned that when conversations are well designed, they can be more meaningful and effect real change. Here’s how.
Why You Want to Design a Conversation
When we think of those who can make hard conversations happen, we tend to think of professionals with sophisticated, even extreme, tools: facilitators, mediators, psychologists, hostage negotiators. But approaching dialogue as a designer means that you treat dialogue as something that you create, something that you design, not something that you facilitate. It’s tremendously liberating. There are new possibilities, if you can begin to think about how you influence the structure and feel of a conversation by design rather than by pure force of will. It relies not on your interpersonal skills but a different skill set: the ability to spot opportunity and design for it in order to shape outcome and impact.
More important, for many of us these tools allow us to assert creative control over a conversation. Think of creativity as a benevolent power you can exert when conversations start to go astray. The most powerful thing about applying creative constructs to the conversations that you make is that they can help balance power, protect from inequities, and do it in a way that’s built into the very structures that govern the conversations. We can make conversations that feel more equitable without requiring us to police the language or the room.
The Conversations That Matter
The first step is to ask: What are the conversations that matter most? And how do we recognize conversations that really require and can benefit from a creative approach?
The conversations that matter, the ones we want to center on, are a substantive and intentional form of engagement. They typically have three things in common.
First, there is difference. For many of our hardest conversations to make change, there needs to be difference in the room. The people there can’t be all alike or in agreement.
Be careful, though, about what you consider difference to be. Sometimes it’s obvious: It will look like a different generation, a different gender, race, or ethnicity.
But often it will be the people who appear similar that end up having very different perspectives and agendas, and the most disruptive points of difference can be disguised. I’ve been in powerful rooms of all white, affluent European men and women where the difference in politics feels insurmountable. Likewise, I’ve been in the dining room of a self-described ideal family, where the family dinner, every family dinner, becomes a battleground.
Second, it feels difficult. You can gather all kinds of people in a room and have a discussion about what movie they want to see, but that’s not what this kind of conversation is about. If it feels like it’s simple and easy, then it’s probably not the conversation that needs to be designed. Conversations that matter are about grappling with hard issues. These conversations will often be about strategy, political issues, or emotionally charged topics.
Third, something is made, besides conversation. Too often, we experience a kind of “conversation fatigue,” which emerges from the fact that so little seems to come of it. More often than not I hear things like: “We had a great conversation, there was so much agreement and good ideas, but then nothing happened.” This is the greatest risk: that little comes of it. A creative conversation must move us forward. It must help us shift from thinking and talking into the act of doing. Agreement cannot be enough; action is required.
So the purposeful burden that I place on the term conversation is that it must work to resolve differences, explore hard issues, and be aimed toward a positive outcome.
When Conversations Go Bad
We all know that feeling when a conversation is starting to founder. Three of the most common symptoms are:
There’s an evident imbalance in the power dynamics. These may be explicit based on hierarchy or inequality among the people in the room, or implicit where the expertise of a few individuals far exceeds that of the collective. It can be evidenced by a few overpowering voices or the silence of others.
There’s a lack of certainty about purpose. Gathering people to discuss a topic is not the same as making sure people understand what the goals are for that gathering. Without purpose there’s no way to guide a conversation forward. Some may be trying to solve while some are trying to explore, and neither may be the right stance for the conversation.
There’s a collapse into critique. Often this arises from the conditions listed above, where a small subset of participants in a conversation turn from the topic of the conversation to the critique of the conversation itself. It’s the most common and most dispiriting end of a conversation, invalidating it altogether.
There are seven essential components, what I think of as the Seven Cs, of a creative conversation: Commitment, Creative Listening, Clarity, Context, Constraints, Change, and, ultimately, Creation.
Commitment: Most of us go into conversations with only one goal: convincing everyone else we’re right and they’re wrong. And why shouldn’t we? Sticking to our beliefs makes us feel safe and powerful. But creative conversations are very different. They’re about open-ended exploration. Letting go of our own ideas, or at least not holding on to them so tightly. Committing to the conversation itself. Committing to the people we’re in conversation with. It’s always an act of courage and optimism, and it’s just about the hardest thing in the world. So, ask yourself: Am I committed?
Creative listening: Most people aren’t good listeners, and few of us actually enjoy it. We treat it like a chore, nodding along, keeping dutifully silent, waiting for our turn to talk. Truly, listening can be a creative act—generative, satisfying, and pleasurable. With creative listening, we can learn to help people tell us better stories; to test perspectives other than our own; to embrace our own reactions and judgment. When we listen in this way, we are actively searching for the clues for creation.
Clarity: Conversations rely on their most basic element: words. But words are fraught with misunderstanding. There is complex or technical jargon not everyone understands. There are words we use every day that we believe have shared meaning but do not. As a result, so many conversations get lost in the gap between the words we hear and the meaning behind the words someone else is using. But if we begin a conversation by seeking clarity and definition of the words and terms we use, we can build a common language and even uncover common values. The right words unite us and show us our way forward together.
Context: Where you have a conversation has a huge influence on how the conversation goes. The space, literally, sets the script: Some rooms give conversations extra energy and life, some turn dialogue inert. We’ll learn how to choose the spaces for the conversations you want to have. Sometimes this means rearranging an available space or moving to another. Sometimes just a subtle shift in position can have a huge impact on the kinds of conversations that are possible.
Constraints: Every conversation has rules. But too often the rules are unstated, arbitrary, or unfair. As a result, everyone gets frustrated, nothing feels equitable or productive, and the loudest voice ends up dominating, reducing the dialogue to their own monologue. But constraints, as any designer will tell you, can fuel creativity. Rules can set us free. First, we have to reject someone else’s rule book and start designing better constraints for the conversations we want to have and the communities we want to build.
Change: All creative conversations require a moment of change—when a group of individuals becomes a community intent on creation. This moment of collective change is what allows us to imagine moving a conversation forward and inspires the potential for action. The best tools for this can actually be found in some of our oldest and most sacred practices. Familiar and sacred texts, vows and promises that allow us to forge community and authentic connection have always been central to the human experience. They can provide rhythm and thoughtful interruption; they can offer intuitive—if not obvious—paths forward.
Creation: When do we stop talking and just start doing? So many impactful conversations yield remarkable ideas and so many of those ideas never leave that room. Creation is about moving from actionable ideas to just plain action. Creation means getting real about whether the people in the conversation are the ones who can make the ideas real. Creation is about finding the courage to recommit. Creation is about taking that conversation out into the world.
When a conversation seems hard, when it makes you nervous, when you feel at risk or on edge, remember this core lesson: Conversation is always an act of creativity. We don’t have to just be participants in, or victims of, conversations. We can be the makers of the conversations that matter most.
Fred Dust was a senior partner and global managing director at Ideo. This article was adapted with permission from his new book, Making Conversation: Seven Essential Elements of Meaningful Communication (Harper Business, 2020). Buy it here.
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The San Mateo County Mosquito and Vector Control District (SMCMVCD) detected adult mosquitoes carrying West Nile Virus (WNV) collected on August 28, 2014, from the 94063 ZIP code area. In an effort to prevent human cases of WNV, the District will conduct a truck-mounted mosquito fogging treatment around the detection site. Weather permitting, the ground fogging is scheduled for the night of Tuesday, September 2nd, between 9:00 pm and 5:00 am.
The fogging area, which is primarily industrial, is approximately bounded by Highway 101 and the Bay and Kentfield Avenue and Jefferson Drive.
Residents with additional questions can call the District at 650-344-8592 Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 4:30 pm.
Mosquitoes will be collected in the area after the fogging is complete. If post-treatment mosquito samples are carrying West Nile Virus, the District may fog the area again.
West Nile Virus is transmitted through the bite of an infected mosquito. The primary hosts are birds. Humans, horses and other animals can become infected with WNV if bitten by an infected mosquito. It cannot be spread person to person. Reports of dead birds are an early indication that the virus is circulating in the environment. Residents are encouraged to help by reporting fresh carcasses of birds or tree squirrels to the West Nile Virus online hotline or by phone at 877-WNV-BIRD (877-968-2473).
For assistance with a mosquito problem in San Mateo County, contact the District at 650-344-8592. For more information on West Nile Virus and other district services, visit the District website.
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[by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.]
Four years after graduating from Tougaloo College, the young Anne Moody published Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968). It is noteworthy that this autobiography has been “in-print” and acclaimed since its initial publication. Similar life histories of civil rights workers, both autobiography and biography, have come and gone, getting enthusiastic receptions when they first appear. But after a few years, enthusiasm wears thin. The eagerly received life histories age rapidly and virtually disappear.
Moody’s autobiography escaped this fate.
The title tipped its hat to anthropology, and Moody’s vernacular prose is quite readable. Moody exploited the dramatic possibilities of first-person voice and perspectives. She charmed a nation of readers who wanted to know what growing up female and black in Mississippi entailed. Some of us who had been her classmates were slightly alarmed by her minimal love for our alma mater, but we had to affirm the rightness of how she saw Civil Rights Movement people and events in Mississippi and in New Orleans. Coming of Age in Mississippi had staying power. It is a keeper of memories that some post-civil rights writers would be happy to have disappear. Certain forms of “truth” may hibernate, but they refuse to disappear and give aid and comfort to fickle tastes.
In Black Women Writing Autobiography: A Tradition Within a Tradition (1989), Joanne M. Braxton suggests that Moody’s book belongs to the tradition of Ida B. Wells’ Crusade for Justice and that Moody, like Richard Wright and Maya Angelou, had intimate knowledge of Southern racial horror. It is also probable that what Zora Neale Hurston theorized about women’s forgetting and remembering in the opening sentences of Their Eyes Were Watching God opens a special window on how Moody speaks from a multi-gendered space that entrapped women (and men) in Mississippi rather than the dream space Hurston constructed in her novel. Moody provides rich details about the critical turning points in her life up to 1968. She records the names, particulars, and dates of all that happened to her as the daughter of sharecroppers in a part of Mississippi located around Woodville and Centreville, as a person who began working at a very young age to keep herself and her siblings in school.
Moody’s autobiographical voice often has the exactness of discourses in cultural anthropology; it justifies the echoing title of Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa. Moody makes a “thick description” of her life, layering detail upon detail, working out a full description of her Self as vulnerable and subject to be denied opportunities if she did not fight to control her destiny. Readers must ponder what Moody says in Chapter 11 about the origin of her misanthropic tendencies in 1955. Readers who piece together what is not in the autobiography, what Moody chose not to say in another book about how miserable life can become once a person achieves fame, will note that misanthropy sponsors nightmares, mental imbalance, and death of the spirit as a preparation for death of the body.
Moody’s life story from 1955 to 1964 is the record of how she sought through education at Natchez Junior College and Tougaloo College and through her work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Council of Federated Organizations, and the Congress of Racial Equality to control the resentment, the anxieties, and the self-hatred that was her legacy from Mississippi. Her descriptions of place are intimately connected with political activity or the people who at various times were comrades in struggles. When she closes her story from a bus headed to COFO hearings in Washington, D.C., her feelings about Mississippi and what the freedom song “We Shall Overcome” proclaims are ambivalent. As the autobiographical narrator listens to the heart-gripping words —-“We shall overcome, We shall overcome, We shall overcome someday”—, she whispers skepticism into the charged air: “I wonder. I really WONDER” (348).
The contemporary conditions of life in American and in Mississippi justify the doubts Moody had in 1964. Much has changed. Social and political changes have been at once blessings and curses. It is obvious that the day of overcoming is still waiting for Godot. As we remember and honor the bravery of Anne Moody and read her partial record of her combat with life, we find ourselves chanting “We wonder; we really wonder.”
Jerry W. Ward, Jr., February 21, 2015 PHBW BLOG
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Law and order is maintained by the police and just imagine how insecure you would have been if they were not around to protect you. The police force has the extra responsibility to prevent crime and keep you safe. They receive special training for their job however when it comes to them as people they are like anybody else- normal human beings with families!
Bradley Sterling is an experienced police officer and has been in the field for many years. He says that when he received an offer to join the police force he was happy to oblige. He had grown up in the locality and joining the police meant he could give back to his community as a grown up. When he first thought about the police force and joining, it did seem scary. He had heard stories about how dangerous and risky the job was. Every day he would be dealing with anti-socials and other criminals. He later faced his fears and finally enrolled for training. This is one of the best decisions he has made in life, he says
Invaluable experience and knowledge
When it comes to experience and knowledge about the police department, many aspiring candidates approach him for advice. He has been in the police force for two decades now and is happy to be of service even after retirement for guiding and mentoring youngsters. The first piece of advice he gives them is that you should be mentally and physically fit. During your tenure you should not resort to smoking and drinking. Mental and physical fitness is a must especially when you are fighting crime in the area. Like every profession, there is stress and you should embrace responsible means to combat it. You should not be foolish and take recourse to substance abuse in case you feel pressurized. There will be days when you will face the pressure of work. It is important for you to be prepared for this when you join the police force.
Healthy eating habits with rest
In the police force he says you must have healthy eating habits. This means when you are on duty ,ensure you do not skip your meals. You should be sensible when you are snacking. At the same time, it is very important for you to keep yourself hydrated at all times. It is prudent for you to drink lots of water and ensure you have whole fresh fruits in case you do not have a bottle of water all the time. Whole fruits are better than juices as you get complete nutrients and feel full at the same time.
Bradley Sterlingsays exercise and flexibility are also important when you are in the police force. Ensure that you work out and are fit. The job entails a lot of chasing and criminals are smart. This is why you should ensure you exercise daily and go in for stamina training as well. If you can abide to all of the above steps effectively, you are sure to become an amazing cop he says!
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We have put Frequently Asked Questions on this page and regularly update it. If you can’t find you answer here please drop us an email – we would love to hear from you.
why choose hands on science?
Our philosophy is different. We want to inspire future generations of scientists.
Our stating point is to be engaging and fun.
We know children learn best by doing.
That’s why you won’t find us at the front of the hall, performing demonstrations.
Instead we work in your classrooms, encouraging every child to be a hands on scientist.
You have a choice from over 100 workshops.
You can choose a different workshop for every class.
There’s plenty of equipment and resources to go around, and lots of time for investigations.
Where do you work?
From Truro to John O’Groats and all schools in between.
Our nationwide team of workshop leaders work right across the UK.
How do I book with Hands on Science?
All you need to do is to drop us an email with as much information as you have.
We try to respond in 24 hours of your email – including over weekends.
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Use our Workshop Search tool. You can search for Curriculum and Enrichment Primary Workshops, workshops which fit with Whole school Themes and KS3-4 Challenges.
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If you have a last minute problem – don’t panic. Get in touch – we promise to do everything we can to help.
We also take bookings well into the future. The diary already has bookings for next year’s British Science Week
What are the Fees?
Full information on fees can be found here. There is a small range in the fees to handle long distance travel.
Every child who takes part in a workshop will do lots of hands on scientific investigation.
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Kick start the day with an assembly, if timetables allow.
…The rest of the time you will find us in the classroom doing experiments with your children.
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We will invoice you after the event. Up to that point all our focus will be on delivering your science day.
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Every workshop has been tried, tested and risk assessed.
All our workshop leaders have current DBS certificates.
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We operate in partnership with schools and organisations and promise to look after you the very best we can.
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WiSe 12/13: Governance in the Information Age - Digitizing Gender and Empowerment Politics (EN)
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Für Studierende des OSI ist die Veranstaltung ein Hauptseminar!
In the past 20 years we have seen dramatic changes in the media and information landscape. The Internet has expanded its reach. Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace play a growing role ... Lesen Sie weiter
In the past 20 years we have seen dramatic changes in the media and information landscape. The Internet has expanded its reach. Social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace play a growing role in the conduct and management of personal, societal, and political relations. Satellite imagery has become commercially available to anyone with a credit card, and enabled a wide range of geospatial applications. These new information technologies empower individual and collective actors such as NGOs and activist groups. At the same time, traditional regulation and information systems such as the nation-state and broadcast media systems are becoming increasingly dysfunctional, while being confronted with policy problems that are increasingly transnational and complex in nature.
How can transnational problems be regulated, and which role does information capacity play in this process? This course looks at the political implications of new information and communications systems for questions of governance in transnational issue areas such as public health, nuclear non-proliferation, human rights, and humanitarian affairs. It will trace the opportunities and limitations traditional and new actors in international relations face in gathering, managing, and applying information, as well as developing governance capacity. While looking at concrete case studies in various issue areas, the course will inquire into the link between information systems and emerging governance patterns in theoretical terms.
The working language of the course as well as most of the assigned literature is in English. Students will be required to actively participate in class.
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- Far too many rural North Carolinians lack adequate access to medical care
- Physician shortages in rural counties is a primary cause
- Eliminating restrictions on Advanced Practice Registered Nurses would go a long way toward alleviating the problem
Most observers would readily agree that two major issues confronting health care in North Carolina are the rising cost of coverage and care and the limited access to care facing most of our rural populations.
But what if there was a simple way to address both of those problems, basic legislation that has already proved to be effective in more than a dozen states?
Rural North Carolina counties face a significant doctor shortage. Access to care for our state’s rural population has become so acute that a new legislative study committee was formed to develop policies to address the issue. The Committee on Access to Healthcare in Rural North Carolina held its first meeting in January. Legislators heard testimony from health and economic experts about the problems facing healthcare in rural parts of the state.
As reported in North Carolina Health News, the experts informed legislators that “Rural areas have a shortage of almost every type of provider. In North Carolina, 20 counties do not have a pediatrician; 26 counties do not have an OB-GYN; and 32 are without a psychiatrist, according to the interactive North Carolina Health Professions Data System.”
Some of the alarming statistics discussed at the committee meeting included:
- Nationally, only 11 percent of physicians choose to practice in rural areas
- 70 of 80 rural counties in NC are currently designated “medical deserts” for their lack of primary care availability[i]
- 79 North Carolina counties are designated as “primary care health professional shortage areas”[ii]
- A decade later, only 3 percent of North Carolina medical school grads from the class of 2008 are currently providing primary care in rural areas[iii]
Expanding Nursing Scope of Practice
Like many professional restrictions and licensing practices, limiting the scope of practice for nurses harms consumers, drives up prices and is designed to benefit specific incumbent professionals. Current North Carolina law restricts the scope of care that registered nurse practitioners, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants can provide, while also requiring a certain level of supervision by a licensed physician.
With so few licensed physicians choosing to practice in rural areas, laws restricting the ability of highly-trained medical care providers to provide much-needed care are devastating to rural populations.
“Our nurses are our best source of practitioners in our rural areas,” Senator Ralph Hise (R-Mitchell) said in a 2016 Joint Health and Human Services Oversight Committee meeting examining a bill to loosen regulations on registered nurses. “You want the most likelihood of someone practicing in a rural area? It’s someone who attends a community college in a nursing program and even goes on to higher degrees that is most likely to serve in a rural area.”
Why maintain a decades-old restriction on nursing scope of care, when freeing them to perform many of the basic evaluation and treatment functions — currently limited to physicians — would drastically improve rural populations’ access to health care?
Those favoring the status quo may invariably bring up safety concerns, but those are misguided at best. Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) are highly-trained professionals that require masters-level education. As North Carolina Nurses Association President Mary Graff argued, “Nursing is the most trusted profession in the country, but opponents to this bill imply that nurses can’t be trusted to practice to the full scope of their training and education. That simply doesn’t add up.”
Not only would increasing the scope of care for APRNs increase access to care for rural patients, it would generate significant healthcare savings and create thousands of jobs in the healthcare industry.
Dr. Chris Conover, a health economist at Duke University, explained in that 2016 committee meeting that APRNs are being underutilized due to restrictive regulations. Conover discussed the findings from his research which showed that expanding scope of practice for APRNs could not only improve quality and access to care but also save more than $433 million per year in North Carolina.
Further, Conover’s research estimated that at least 3,800 jobs would be added to the economy statewide.
The increased competition for patients – mostly in rural areas – would help to drive down costs, while breaking the shackles of restriction would enable and attract more APRNs to practice across the state.
Who would oppose a measure to expand rural access to medical care while driving down healthcare costs? The primary opposition would come from the licensed physicians, who want to see continued restrictions to competition, which work to drive up the prices they can charge.
A Recipe for Success
A growing number of states are recognizing the advantages to expanding the scope of care for APRNs. Since 2010, twenty-two states have removed their physician supervision requirements, while 14 have moved to “full practice authority” for APRNs, nurse practitioners and nurse anesthetists.
When Arizona removed the physician supervision of nurse practitioners, the number of nurse practitioners serving rural areas jumped by 73 percent within five years.[iv] North Carolina can do the same for nearly 15,000 advanced practice nurses and physician assistants.
Indeed, a 2010 Institute of Health study declared “Now is the time to eliminate the outdated regulations and organizational and cultural barriers that limit the ability of nurses to practice to the full extent of their education, training, and competence.”
The study also found alleged safety concerns to be baseless, concluding “States with broader nursing scopes of practice have experienced no deterioration of patient care.”
In a 2015 presentation to Pennsylvania legislators on this topic, Duke University researchers in concert with the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, pointed out that “The National Governors Association has reported that nurse practitioners have been shown to provide comparable quality care to physicians and recommended that states consider easing scope-of-practice restrictions and modifying reimbursement policies to encourage greater NP (nurse practitioner) involvement in primary care.”
The presentation also called legislators’ attention to the fact that the Federal Trade Commission has emphasized concerns that “scope-of-practice laws may deprive consumers of quality and cost benefits by placing unnecessary or overbroad competition restrictions on the primary care market.”
The presentation highlighted research analyzing what impacts on access, quality and cost of health care Pennsylvania could expect from expanding scope of practice in their state. Their findings suggested that “Full Practice Authority could benefit Pennsylvanians by increasing access to comparable or higher quality health care and it could lower costs in the process. Reform would save Pennsylvanians at least $6.4 billion over a decade, increase the statewide nurse practitioner workforce by 13%, and improve the overall quality of primary care.”
Similar benefits no doubt would materialize in North Carolina if state lawmakers were to take the prudent step of expanding the scope of practice for APRNs.
Lack of access to medical care in North Carolina’s rural areas is an urgent problem, causing unneeded suffering and arguably higher death rates for our rural populations. While not a cure-all, eliminating the restrictions on scope of practice for Advance Practice Registered Nurses would go a long way toward reducing this problem.
State legislators should recognize the significant benefits in terms of access to care, job growth, and cost savings such a measure would bring to rural North Carolinians. The highly-trained, and highly-trusted APRNs are fully capable of alleviating the urgent problem of doctor shortages in rural areas. It’s past time to break down the barriers preventing them from doing so.
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Featured in the current edition are a statewide Nevada Day photo gallery, as well as Part III of author and historian Ron Soodalter's eight-part series on the history of the Silver State. Soodalter explains how bombastic journalists such as Mark Twain, the rise of the railroads, and the birth of Nevada’s university system all merged to make Nevada prosperous in its early years of statehood. The issue is also the third of eight Sesquicentennial Special Editions that Nevada Magazine will produce through November/December 2014.
Photo: Matthew B. Brown
Also featured in the January/February 2014 issue is a cover story about the icons of Nevada, including the Capitol, bighorn sheep, Hoover Dam, the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign, and more.
The Southern Nevada riverside town of Laughlin, the historic Techatticup Mine in Eldorado Canyon, a number of influential black leaders from Nevada’s past and present (to celebrate Black History Month), and the ghost town of Metropolis are also highlighted in the pages of the current issue.
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Ayurvedic healers consider Himalayan shilajit to be an anti-aging substance, which can also help men with hormonal imbalances. Researchers at the J. B. Roy State Ayurvedic Medical College and Hospital in India gave shilajit to infertile men, and observed that their fertility and testosterone levels improved as a result.
In the mountains of the Caucasus and Altai, and in the Himalayas, healers collect shilajit, a largely organic substance containing humic acid and with a low molecular weight. One of the main components of shilajit is fulvic acid, and the structure of the base molecule is shown below.
Locally shilajit is known as 'blood of the mountain' or 'rock sweat', and healing properties are attributed to it. In the Ayurvedic system of medicine shilajit is considered a rasayana, a rejuvenator. In India shilajit is traded as a libido and fertility-enhancing supplement. Supplements companies claim that fulvic acids can clear the body of heavy metals.
The researchers were curious to know whether the latter property could be demonstrated in a scientific study. They gave 28 infertile men aged between 30 and 45, all of whom had a low sperm count, 200 mg of a purified shilajit extract every day for 90 days. The 200 mg dose was divided over two intake moments, and the men took the supplement after meals.
The table shows that during the supplementation period the men's sperm count rose. The cells were also more motile and healthier. Oxidative stress decreased and the testosterone level rose by 23.5 percent.
The researchers suspect that shilajit components reduce damage from free radicals in the testes, and thus boost the production of testosterone and sperm. The reduction in numbers of one type of white blood cell in the men suggests that some at least were suffering from an infection, and that the shilajit helped fight this.
The study was financed by the American company Natreon, which produces standardised Ayurvedic preparations. [natreoninc.com] Natreon produces a number of substances including the shilajit extract PrimaVie.
Andrologia. 2010 Feb;42(1):48-56.
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Stretching of DNA molecules helps to resolve detail during the fluorescence microscopy of both single DNA molecules and single DNA-protein complexes. To make stretching occur, intricate procedures of specimen preparation and manipulation have been developed in previous studies. By contrast, the present study demonstrates that conventional procedures of specimen preparation cause DNA stretching to occur, if the specimen is the double-stranded DNA genome of bacteriophage φ29. Necessary for this stretching is a protein covalently bound at both 5′ termini of φ29 DNA molecules. Some DNA molecules are attached to a cover glass only at the two ends. Others are attached at one end only with the other end free in solution. The extent of stretching varies from ∼50% overstretched to ∼50% understretched. The understretched DNA molecules are internally mobile to a variable extent. In addition to stretching, some φ29 DNA molecules also undergo assembly to form both linear and branched concatemers observed by single-molecule fluorescence microscopy. The assembly also requires the terminal protein. The stretched DNA molecules are potentially useful for observing DNA biochemistry at the single molecule level.
- Concatemer DNA
- Fluorescence microscopy
- Single-molecule microscopy
- Thermal motion
- Understretched and overstretched DNA
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Redesigned to coordinate with our Bicentenary materials, this flag, proclaiming the Names and Station of Baha’u’llah, can be used to decorate your home, Baha’i Center or literature display year-round.
Now 24×32″ they are big enough to attract attention, but not so big they overpower a room. They have a wide pocket hem at the top and a narrower one at the bottom to put a dowel rod or curtain rod through for hanging.
The Names of Bahá’u’lláh flag is inspired by the “Names of Christ” posters that you may have seen in Christian homes and businesses. The sky blue background is like adding a window to your wall, while the Names inspire reverence and an appreciation of Bahá’u’lláh’s place in religious history. I obviously couldn’t include all of them in one poster and keep it readable from a distance, so I asked friends to share their favorites. The ones I chose are:
The Manifestation of God for Today
The Return of the Spirit of Christ
The Day-Star of the Universe
The Pen of the Most High
The Speaker on Sinai
The Blessed Beauty
The King of Kings
The Fifth Buddha
The Most Great Name
The Desire of the Nations
The Founder of the Bahá’í Faith
The Glory of God
These should spark some interest from a wide variety of people, especially if you hang it behind a literature table. It was actually designed with this use in mind as well. The blue sky and cloud design is based on the cover of our popular booklet “Tell Me about Bahá’u’lláh” and matching teaching cards, so people who are intrigued by it at a literature table will be drawn to the appropriate literature.
Satin fabric has a beautiful sheen. You will want to iron it before use on the reverse side using the lowest setting that creates steam.
Note: the original version included a plastic rod and string for hanging. By removing these, I’ve been able to lower the price and allow for international shipping.
This image is also available for digital download so you can use it on local invitations.
Design by Justice St Rain
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Fixed Assets Classification
Fixed Assets are classified into two categories: Capital Outlay or Inventory.
Capital Outlay Assets are defined as:
1. Having a unit cost of $5,000 or more
2. Will last two years or more
3. Retain its original shape and appearance with use
4. Is Non-Expendable (i.e., if the asset is damaged or some of its parts are lost or worn out, it is usually more feasible to repair it than to replace it with a new one)
5. Does not lose its identity through incorporation into a different or more complex unit or substance
6. Purchased with Account have an Object Code of 663X
Inventory Assets are defined as:
1. Having a unit cost between $200 and $4999
2. Will last one year or more
3. Purchased with Account have an Object Code of 6397
Other items with a unit cost less than $200 will also be classified as inventory such as:
1. Technology related equipment (i.e., monitors, tablets, printers)
2. Audio/Visual related equipment (i.e., digital/video cameras, projectors, TVs, DVD players)
If several parts or components are purchased to assemble into one item or unit, the Total Cost determines if the item is a Fixed Asset.
All Assets will be Tagged with a label showing the following information:
PROPERTY OF EDINBURG C.I.S.D.
(DO NOT REMOVE TAG)
Barcoded ECISD Number
Purchase Order Number
Acquired Month and Year
All Fixed Assets are subject to Internal and External Audits.
Central Receiving for Purchased Assets
All items purchased with accounts having an Object Code of 6397 or 66xx (Capital Outlay) must be delivered to the Fixed Assets Warehouse (Dept. # - 732):
921 E. Schunior St.
Edinburg, TX 78541
Exceptions may be made for large orders, heavy items, specialty items, etc. Deliveries made to campus/department must be approved by the Purchasing and/or Fixed Assets Departments. Either department may be contacted for assistance with the deliver location. If a Purchase Order is approved to be delivered to a campus/department, the Fixed Assets Department must be notified as soon as the items are received. These items will need to be tagged for inventory purposes. Fixed Assets personnel will tag them on-site.
Delivery of Purchased Assets
As Capital Outlay Items are received at the warehouse, they will be tagged and prepared for delivery to the campus/departments. Campus/departments must be ready to receive (have space available) the items purchased as soon as the Purchase Order is placed. Because of limited storage space, delivery of purchased items must be done as soon as possible. Partially received orders will not be delivered unless requested by the campus/department.
In order to avoid traffic congestions at school campuses, deliveries will be made Monday – Friday, between 8:30 AM and 2:30 PM (3:30 PM for Secondary Campuses). Deliveries may resume at 4:00 PM for Elementary campuses.
Returns for Purchased Assets
If an item needs to be returned/exchanged, the campus/department must contact the vendor and make arrangements for the item to be picked up. The campus/department will be responsible for any costs associated with this process. If the item needs to be returned from the warehouse, notify the Fixed Assets Department and provide the necessary information and documentation (i.e., Return Labels) for the return service. Once notified, the Fixed Assets personnel will pick up the item from the campus/department and ensure that they are ready for shipping. If the exchanged item is received at the campus/department, the serial number must be provide to the Fixed Assets Department so that inventory information can be updated. The replacement item will need to be Tagged.
Campuses/Departments having Equipment and Furniture no longer needed at their location must complete a Transfer Form. All information requested on this form must be provided to ensure inventory information is properly updated. Transfer of Technology related equipment must be approved by the Campus Technology Contact and the Computer Specialist assigned to the Campus/Department by the Technology Department. The completed form must be emailed or faxed to the Fixed Assets Department. The original form must be provided to the staff picking up the equipment and/or furniture.Items to be picked up must be placed in a secured area until the Fixed Assets Department can schedule the pickup. Do not place in hallways, stages, or any other areas where someone could get hurt. Also, do not place in areas used for instruction or other school related functions because the Fixed Assets Department may not be able to schedule a pickup for several weeks.
Equipment and Furniture no longer of any use to the district will be Auctioned off as per Board Policy. Campuses/Departments must follow the Fixed Assets Transfer Procedures to have Equipment and Furniture picked up for disposal.
Copy Paper for Immediate Purchase
The Fixed Assets Department will purchase letter size copy paper (8 ½ x 11) and store at the Warehouse for school district use. Campuses/Departments can purchase the copy paper from the Warehouse by following the Purchase Order Procedures. Use Vendor #23247 (ECISD Warehouse) when generating a Purchase Requisition for copy paper. Obtain the current price for a case of paper by calling the Fixed Assets Department. Order only the amount of cases that can be stored at your Campus/Department. Due to limited storage space, it is very difficult to hold cases of paper in the Warehouse for all Campuses/Departments.
Campuses/Departments needing any other type or size of paper must order it from an approved vendor for Office Supplies.
Campuses/Departments having records that need to be stored at the Warehouse must notify the Fixed Assets Department to schedule a pickup. Records stored at the Warehouse must be placed in Storage Boxes measuring 10"H x 12"W x 15"D. Boxes must be labeled with the contents, date range of records, department, and a destruction date (example). The more information used to label the boxes, the easier it will be to locate a record when needed. The Fixed Assets Department can help with determining the destruction date by using the approved Records Retention Schedule. Once the records have met the required retention period, they will be destroyed by an approved vendor for Document Destruction.
Campuses/Departments having Records/Documents that need to be destroyed must notify the Fixed Assets Department to schedule a pickup. The Records/Documents will be stored at the Warehouse until they can be destroyed by an approved vendor for Document Destruction.
Fixed Assets Inventotry Workflow
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Current Affairs Today 6 July 2022, we gathered all the current affairs of 6 July 2022 and put them in a single post. Important Questions and answers relevant for government exams including topics such as “Naari Ko Naman scheme, Financial Action Task Force, GST revenue collected in June” among others.
Current Affairs Questions for UPSC/ IAS Exams
Current Affairs Article of CurrentAffairsMcqs.com aims to help every competitive exam aspirant revise the day at ease. we gathered all the current affairs of 6 July 2022 and put them in a single post.
Important Questions and answers relevant for government exams including topics such as” India’s merchandise exports rise, Legislative Assembly to reduce VAT on fuel, BBB” among others.
Current Affairs MCQs
1. Which Indian state has launched a new scheme named ‘Naari Ko Naman’?
B. Uttar Pradesh
C. Himachal Pradesh
Ans: Himachal Pradesh
2. Who discovered Sodium?
A. J.J Thomson
B. Humphry Davy
C. Karl Benz
D. William Henry Fox
Ans: Humphry Davy
3. Which Union Minister stresses India should be the number one ecosystem for startup in the world?
A. Rajnath Singh
B. Amit Shah
C. Piyush Goyal
D. Nirmala Sitharaman
Ans: Piyush Goyal
4. Who is the new President of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?
A. Urjit Patel
B. Subash Chandra Garg
C. T Raja Kumar
D. Viral Acharya
Ans: T Raja Kumar
5. India and which country sign MoU on High Impact Community Development Projects?
- Current Affairs of 9 July 2022
- Current Affairs of 8 July 2022
- Current Affairs of 7 July 2022
- Current Affairs of 6 July 2022
- Current Affairs of 5 July 2022
6. What is the total GST revenue collected in June 2022?
A. Rs 1.15 Lakh Crore
B. Rs. 1.20 Lakh Crore
C. Rs 1.30 Lakh Crore
D. Rs 1.45 Lakh Crore
Ans: Rs 1.45 Lakh Crore
7. India’s merchandise exports rise by _______ to USD 37.9 billion in the last months?
A. 12.5 percent
B. 13.1 percent
C. 16.8 percent
D. 18.9 percent
Ans: 16.8 percent
8. Which CM assures Legislative Assembly to reduce VAT on fuel?
A. Uttar Pardesh
D. West Bengal
9. Which Assembly passes Salary, Allowances, and Pension Amendment Bills 2022 on a two-day Special Session?
C. Tamil Nadu
D. West Bengal
10. Which country’s inflation hits a two-decade high of 78.6 %?
11. PM Modi to visit Varanasi on __________?
A. July 5
B. July 6
C. July 7
D. July 8
Ans: July 7
12. Veteran Bengali director Tarun Majumdar passes away at the age of _________?
13. Poush Mela displays local artists displaying folk dance, music, food, and culture of ________?
C. West Bengal
Ans: West Bengal
15. Which new body has been approved to replace the BBB?
A. Banks Appointment Bureau (BAB)
B. Banks and Insurance Companies Bureau
C. Financial Services Institution Bureau (FSIB)
D. Financial Institutions Bureau (FIB)
Ans: Financial Services Institution Bureau (FSIB)
One Current Affairs Question For You
Q. In which city is the forest Research Institute of India located?
A. New Delhi
Ans: If you know the answer, tell me in the comment box.
The Answer Of Previous Day Current Affairs MCQ
- The answer to the 5 June question is: Humphry Davy
We hope this (Current Affairs Today 6 July 2022) article will help you. All the best, have a Great Day 🙂
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Rubber type Rail Mounted container Gantry Crane is a mobile device used to move and stack storage containers. Similar to the traditional Gantry crane, which operates on a railway system, the rubber tyred Gantry crane is commonly found in stockyards and other locations where box-shaped storage containers are used. In the U.S., the term is spelled rubber-tired Gantry crane.
Rubber type Rail Mounted container Gantry Crane works on the same principle with the exception that the complete rig is mobile from one location to another and the crane that sits atop the rig is mobile, as well. This type of mobile gantry crane is useful in cases of emergency response or for temporary container storage yards. Due to the mobility of the rubber tyred Gantry crane, it can be moved to a remote location and used to load or unload inter modalshipping containers,with stable performance, high efficiency and ease maintenance having proper safety instructions and overload protection devices to maximizely ensure the safety of operational personnel and equipment.Rubber type Rail Mounted container Gantry Crane is divided into tire type and track type. The tire type has good mobility and small sensitivity on the surface roughness. This kind of crane using diesel generators for power supply can work under low temperature with its oil and hydraulic system has heating device. The crab of rail type can rotate and the over crab can pass the gantry legs making the scope of operations wide and flexible.
Rubber type Rail Mounted container Gantry Crane feature:
Automatic rectify deviation control
Weight overload protection device
Top quality polyurethane buffer
Lifting limit switch
Cross traveling limit switch
Long traveling limit switch
Voltage lower protection function
Emergency stop system
Current overload protection system
Light and alarm system
Container Gantry Cranes are equipped with our Active Load Control technology, which improves the crane operator’s control over the positioning of the spreader and container on the truck chassis, in the cell or on the deck. Dwell times decrease substantially. You can substantially boost the productivity of your quayside operations.SMF can tailor our cranes for your specific operation. We deliver them in different sizes and configurations including zero outreach and outreach from both sides.
Brand: SMF Heavy Industry (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org email@example.com
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How many thousands of bluebells have been picked this week? The withered flowers are scattered along all the country roads which lead to the stations, dropped from weary, hot, and grimy hands; but there are far more which have reached their intended destinations, and brighten many an otherwise flowerless city room. It hurts us to see the discarded flowers, gathered but wasted, yet the very act of picking did the children good; they were attracted by and gathered beautiful things in beautiful places, and, best of all, in the open air. All the thousands which have gone have made no appreciable difference to the supply; the woods and banks where they grow are just as bright a blue as at the end of last week.
The tough shroud of the pupa case has been split by soft but swelling bodies, and the white butterflies have crept out of their prisons and allowed their crumpled wings to grow and burden. They are not like the tortoiseshells, awakened sleepers after a winter rest, but for the first time are enjoying freedom as perfect adult flies. So, too, the roof-winged alder-fly has left its aquatic home of immaturity, and whirrs on new-found wings as a creature of the air. It swarms alike around mere or tiny pond.
"W.W." - The shrub is from one of the small-leaved forms of the barberry.
"Wyre Forest." - Thanks for date of arrival of night jar.
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Dr. Wanda Cassidy discusses cyberbullying
On Wednesday November 20, 2013, the Government of Canada introduced new cyberbullying legislation that includes the prohibition of sharing sexually explicit images without the consent of the person/people in the images. As well, police will receive tools to investigate online crime that don't compromise privacy.
Associate Professor Wanda Cassidy, an expert on cyberbullying, discusses the new legislation with Ian Jessop from radio station CFAX 1070 and on CBC's The National.
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You’re free to move about your country, as Montana becomes the 18th state to abolish its concealed carry permit requirement. According to the NRA, the other states with permitless carry are:
- New Hampshire
- North Dakota
- South Dakota
- West Virginia
Every state that borders Montana now has permitless carry. With the signing by Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah of his state’s permitless carry bill, Montanans can now carry from the Canadian border, all the way to the Mexican border in Arizona without a permit. The Intermountain West is now not only a “growth corridor,” but is also a freedom corridor.
Montana and the states around it are a great place to live like a billionaire while you build an island of safety for you and your family. Putting space between you and your neighbors, and between politicians and your freedoms, should be a priority for every patriotic American. It’s quickly becoming a red state paradise.
Interestingly enough New Hampshire, my favored RED STATE New England paradise is bordered by Maine and Vermont. All three have permitless carry. They’re not quite as big, and not quite as red, as the Intermountain West, but there’s plenty of room in the far Northeast to build your island life.
The only state in the Deep South with permitless carry is Mississippi, but Florida’s gun laws are friendly to gun owners, and the state has distinguished itself with the nation’s best approach to COVID-19. Jennifer Cabrera reports for the Alachua Chronicle, that Florida’s response has outperformed that of the “lockdown states.” She writes:
According to data released today by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ office, Florida is outperforming lockdown states like California and New York on all metrics. Florida has lower per-capita mortality, higher availability of in-person education, and a lower unemployment rate.
- Compared to Florida, 34 states had a higher rate of all-cause mortality from 2019 to 2020, per capita. Higher-than-average increases indicate that states probably had extra deaths resulting from lockdown policies, not just from COVID-19.
- Compared to Florida, 38 other states rank higher for per-capita COVID-19 mortality among seniors 65 and older.
Florida has fewer pediatric COVID-19 cases while having the highest rate of in-person instruction offered.
- Schools have been open in Florida, and Florida still has fewer COVID-19 cases among kids when compared to other large states on a per capita basis. (New York is not included because they don’t make pediatric cases publicly available).
From the beginning, Governor DeSantis has emphasized nursing homes and protecting the most vulnerable.
- California and New York had significantly higher rates for new COVID-19 cases per 1 million compared to Florida.
- California and New York had significantly higher hospitalizations per 1 million compared to Florida.
- Governor DeSantis acted early in the pandemic to protect the state’s most vulnerable, and his actions saved lives:
- Governor DeSantis established 23 COVID-19 dedicated nursing facilities across the state to prevent spread within long-term care facilities, help with hospital decompression, and protect long-term care patients. The Governor also required hospitals to test all individuals discharged to long-term care facilities and required these facilities to transfer COVID-19 positive residents if the facility was not equipped for appropriate care.
- Governor DeSantis issued an executive order putting Seniors First and prioritizing seniors 65 and older to receive the vaccine. To date, 40% of Florida’s nearly 4.5 million senior population have received a vaccine.
- Governor DeSantis deployed Florida National Guard and Florida Department of Health Strike Teams to nursing homes and assisted living facilities for testing throughout the pandemic, and now for vaccine distribution.
- Governor DeSantis launched a pilot program for homebound seniors, including Holocaust survivors, WWII and Korean War veterans, and anti-communist Bay of Pigs veterans, to prioritize and protect our Greatest Generation.
Florida’s economic recovery is leading the nation.
- Florida leads the nation’s most populous states in unemployment rate for December 2020, and Florida was well below the national average.
While Red States are working hard to maximize the freedom of their citizens, in blue D.C., the Biden administration is working hard to reward illegal immigrants first. Anna Giaritelli reports in the Washinton Examiner on Democrats’ disastrous plan for immigration amnesty. She writes:
Democrats are introducing an extensive immigration bill Thursday that has the backing of the White House and the potential to overhaul decades of existing policy while creating an“earned roadmap” to citizenship formillions of people who are illegally residing in the United States.
Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey and Rep. Linda Sanchez of California unveiled the sweeping piece of legislation Thursday as the Biden administration grapples with a mounting crisis on the southern border as thousands of migrants are turned away or released into the U.S. each day.
The bill was first announced hours after President Biden’s inauguration. Its debut in Congress will begin a set of challenges in getting through a gridlocked Congress, where Democrats will need 10 Republicans in the Senate to back the bill and every party member in the House to support it. Menendez said his colleagues will not know if the bill can pass the Senate until they try and vowed against making concessions “out of the gate.”
Individual Democratic lawmakers have already introduced piecemeal versions of the bill if pushing through the main package proves too difficult. Administration officials told reporters in a call Wednesday night that Biden is open to negotiating on the details and breaking it down into smaller bills.
The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 would create a new system to manage and secure the border, keep immigrant families and U.S. communities safe, and address root causes that prompt irregular migration surges in the Western Hemisphere so that fewer people would attempt to seek asylum in the U.S.
“It’s our vision of what immigration reform should look like,” Menendez said in a virtual press briefing Thursday morning. “It will modernize our system, offer a path to citizenship for hardworking people in our communities, reunite families, increase opportunities for legal immigration, and ensure America remains a powerhouse for innovation and. a beacon of hope to refugees around the world.”
Contrasting the exemplary performance of Florida’s Gov. Ron DeSantis, is the possible criminal activity of Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York. You may remember Cuomo from the fawning media coverage he received in the early days of COVID-19 panic. What Americans didn’t know then, was that Cuomo was shuffling sick elderly folks off to nursing homes, where they infected others and caused a wave of deaths. Now even Democrats are coming around to the idea that the man they idolized is actually not so great after all. The New York Times reports:
The Democratic leaders of the New York State Senate are moving to strip Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of unilateral emergency powers granted during the pandemic, setting up a remarkable rebuke for the governor from members of his own party.
The Senate’s measures, which could be voted on as soon as next week, underscore the deepening division between Mr. Cuomo and state lawmakers since the governor admitted to intentionally withholding critical data on virus-related deaths from the Legislature.
The moves came even as it emerged that the F.B.I. and the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York had opened an inquiry into the Cuomo administration’s handling of nursing homes during the pandemic. It was not known whether the inquiry, which was confirmed by three people familiar with the matter, was focused on Mr. Cuomo or any individual, only that it was in its earliest stages.
The inquiry was another clear indication of how the climate has shifted dramatically for Mr. Cuomo since March, when he emerged as a prominent voice in the health crisis, using his daily briefings and invocations of his family to inform and calm a nation of viewers who turned to him as the virus began to spread. Now, much of that good will has evaporated.
Cuomo isn’t the only Democrat governor who went wild with power and is now facing the consequences. California’s Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall for his mishandling of COVID-19 restrictions. And Biden administration nominee for Commerce Secretary, Gov. Gina Raimondo of Rhode Island, is facing a barrage of criticism for mishandling her state’s vaccine rollout. The chickens are coming home to roost.
Action Line: Find your Red State paradise and build your island life. Look for a better America, today.
Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.
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The West has historical dementia because it can. It has wealth and power. It doesn’t need memory. And the Rest knows it. So limited and myopic is the prog that he imagines he is building his global village with the same goals in mind as the “diverse” world. It never occurs to the Taker (older Whites) — because it will not harm him—that the Other is moving in a completely different direction, a traditionalist one that follows the historical norm. The Others, frankly, aren’t buying the West’s stated ideals, nor is there any respect for a civilization of spoiled kids sacrificing their own grandchildren’s future. What is important to understand is that the Other is against you: that’s just how it goes when you’re a traditionalist. In the fashion of centuries, you work against your Other. But that’s not the end of the problem, because now your own civilization is also against you.
First, let us remind ourselves of the critical issue of power and what it means for the West. True success is the ability to remove yourself from harm’s way. Accomplishing this for many decades, this bubble-world life has produced progressivism thriving where peace is most taken for granted. The prog forgets, or doesn’t want to acknowledge in the first place, that his is an exceptional identity that can survive only in a period achieved through the hard knocks of history. Elevated above the world’s people, the prog is able to imagine the world in his own way, and yet still wield power. In this delusion, he can believe that his isolation is unique and his culture and ideas are universal.
In the prog’s mind, to the extent that he does actually think about it, he needs progressivism to present a harmless face to the world and to give the impression that he means well. It could be that like all good hypocrites he is just really good at fooling himself. He has faith in his cult, but he is also buried under unspoken laws that prevent his speech. Corruptissima re publica plurimae leges (“the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws”).
Instead of perceiving traditionalism as a strength and the historic origin of power, and progressivism as the end of it—as any mature person would—for him it is just out with the old and in with the new. From now on what the West is fighting to uphold is not its own identity as a White patriarchal society, as it used to be when it was needed to get to the point of power which serves him so well, but its new identity as a “diverse” society. To the extent that this is working it is because it thrives under the supervision of hard power (through science) inherited from history (a time when there was no diversity). The Anglo-Saxon race above all others is who built America; it was never the “rainbow nation” that we are taught to think of today. The power that continues to hold it together has more to do with Nazi scientists from Operation Paperclip than it does with Crayola “Colors of the World” skin tone demographics. By almost any reckoning, America was never stronger than in the immediate post-war period, right at the time progressivism was just starting to develop.
The prog is so confident that he throws caution to the wind. As long as the West is not dramatically overthrown in a shooting war the world of many cultures is not a threat to the multicultural village. To the extent that the West might perceive hostility, he dismisses it as “primitive” and concludes, based on what he has learned by his personal contacts with people from all over the world within Politico-rectopia, that what everyone really wants is the same thing. If he is working in the Other’s own best interests, it is simply the right thing to do for Others to return the favour. He cannot imagine, knowing the power and quality of life of the West, that anyone would even want to retreat for security in to the embrace of their own “tribalism,” let alone that they would have the independence of action to be able to do so. He is positive and sees only improvement, because he sees “diversity” in his own world as working, and he thinks it is the whole world that he is seeing. He says: “They are other cultures, so how can they be against multiculturalism?”
As a case in point, there is never any pick-up of the subtleties of another culture when language comprehension is nil. The Western man’s understanding of another culture through its language goes about as far as to point out how nice and polite they all seem when speaking (in a language he doesn’t understand!). The prog has this notion that if we all just are nice to each other there is every reason why we should be living side by side. It escapes the prog that politeness in Japan does not mean the people are nice, which is often how Whitey perceives it; rather it is how interaction in life is managed for a people who just under the surface may not be so friendly. A smile does not necessarily mean the same thing. It never occurs to the prog that his own preconceptions and cluelessness might actually be causing less understanding.
As long as they speak English (and there’s no reason why they might not all learn to speak it) and to some degree practice common law and cherish property rights, there is no reason why the West cannot become entirely Chinese. After all, North America doesn’t belong to the Anglo-Saxons; unless, of course, it is to point out how thoroughly Anglo North America was when it was enslaving Blacks and killing Indians.
Opposite the sycophantic world of the West, in Asia communication is not cuckoldry. There is a tendency for people to say what you want to hear, and it is “troublesome” and time consuming for them to try and explain something to outsiders, and almost traitorous to give anything away. The prog, who interacts perfectly with the Other in his own language only and on his own home turf, draws the conclusion that Others are just the same as him. “Communication” occurs in Politico-rectopia not just between two people but between two peoples, too! In this “one-world” of his, communication goes both ways, information is passed freely just as you think it should be in the West. As Marshall McLueless (Marshall McLuhan) points out, due to new technologies, we couldn’t withhold information even if we wanted to. Really, it is about the prog “connecting” as far as his mind allows. “The Man” has power, as Saul Alinsky would understand it; he doesn’t have to understand the world.
Communication for the Globaleftist is just his type. It is impossible for him to imagine a White man switching back into a “male voice” in his own country after speaking in a voice of “equality” (to women and those younger than himself) somewhere else, which is what many Asians do. For Asia, where people accept as a fact of life the difference between what is said and what is meant, this is hardly a problem of conscience. To the extent that any of this Asian behavior is appreciated as duplicity, male chauvinism, “two-faced,” or anything else “negative”; where it should be brought forward and criticized; it is quietly avoided and assumed that everything is still moving towards Western ideals. The Koreans and the Japanese will tell you to your face that the Japanese are two-faced, but God help you if you should try to pass on this information to the Cultural Studies department at a Canadian university! Anyway, it is our burden, we think, to keep quiet about embarrassing truths.
The West is now more different from the Rest than it has ever been. The British used to be very nearly as homogenous as the Japanese. But then the kids got bored and fed up and decided “fa-la-la-la-la-la live for today,” meanwhile the rest of the world can only dream and pursue a different course. Looking at the oxymoronic West from their vantage, it appears increasingly to be a weak and decadent system. It looks unreliable and childish—dishing out passports to anyone who can afford it. They see a culture that is happenstance and dangerous with power— it must be if it is so ruthless as to abandon its own identity for the material gain of a few.
Remember, unity as a single people is something that the Other has and uses, because their ethno-group is always aware that it is seeking something that it does not have, and it is always in the posture towards it. We can understand it as a consciousness or morality of the group, not something restricted to the individual. It is no coincidence that traditional old world values of kinship remain standing where there is a struggle for existence. The Other wants power not to join the global village, but to save itself. As one of Malaya’s first political leaders put it, “Under the Japanese I learnt that an Asian is just as good as a European… (The Japanese) were brutal, true, but they inspired us with a new idea of what Asia might become.” As Dato’ Sir Onn bin Jaafar knew, this entails building actual material power and knowledge, not just a music industry.
What is not lost on the Japanese is that no matter how the West’s complexion changes, it has power and they do not. They know the prog religion is only possible with power. Anyone who has lived in Asia knows that respect (whatever precisely it means) is the one thing Asians want, and that respect usually comes with power. This can be observed, despite laughing off current trends, in their admiration and careful regard for the West, on at least some level. This is confused in the West with acceptance of Western dogma. Incidentally, they would expect the same grovelling respect for themselves when they have the Power. They are behaving towards power when they appear to be polite, as that is how they believe that anyone must naturally act towards power: show respect while at the same time artfully working against it and towards your own power. Whatever the “West” appears to be makes no difference. The advanced Realism of the rest of the world, which sees the temporality of the prog cult, means that they are going to pursue their own ends.
You’re not going to change a destiny you’ve been working on since you quarantined Dutch sailors on an island five hundred years ago. The samurai businessman is not out to build an imagined “community,” and neither is he even there just to fill his own pockets. Contact with the outside world is to accumulate the power for independence. Life simply is what it is: conflict. The world is tanin, a land of strangers, and everyone is either a competitor or the enemy. All is conflict outside of the group. A culture must be deeply conservative and patriarchal to maintain this attitude: maturity. It was America that defeated China and Korea’s enemy, Japan, but that is not good enough when you have never wanted a partnership and you do not view the foreigners’ actions as altruistic but as in pursuit of self-interest.
From the perspective of the rest of the world, not only is Western power clearly present but there is no less violence since the West’s “change of heart.” As much as the prog would like to hide it, Arabs are still being bombed even if it is less White men that are doing it. The liberal imagines that a Black president is a green light for even more violence. As in the movie Pacific Rim, it is the multi-culti Jaeger robots versus the Kaiju monsters. Instead of White Power it is now “Global Village Power.”
A traditionalist with real power will win in this combat, and the “right thing” has nothing to do with it. Power tends to love a vacuum, as illustrated during the end of the eighteenth century when the strong and populous Anglo Saxonculture saw the North American wilderness as easy pickings and an “empty land” which could not be resisted, and conquest happened. Allusions to morality and “stop the hate” are a joke because the Other can see that the West only speaks that way now when it has power. Its so-called progressive narrative is ephemeral. From ten thousand feet the Other perceives survival of the fittest as the Reality— the West doesn’t because it has forgotten its own history. Where were the secular and religious “humanitarians” before the closing of the American frontier? History, as much as it might escape the West’s attention, does not escape the Other’s.
Is it any wonder that this situation exists when the West is not after its own survival? Its own White identity is the enemy, not the Other. The goal posts have moved much farther apart on your side. The new Western man, the Taker, is fighting for the new immigrant! The West “getting it all wrong,” as I have explained it, isn’t really because what was wrong is now right. The White man fights for the prog, and the prog fights for himself and the Rest.
It may appear irrational and counter to thousands of years of history, but from the perspective of the born-at-the-right-time Taker it is not. He has decided that in order to beat them he asks that they join him. It is stupidity only to the extent that in his misperception of the outer world he himself would end up losing power… which he doesn’t. For example, a few Takers, who otherwise do not see a problem, might show some alarm that Red China will indeed be a threat when they get to the advanced aerospace industry—a barometer of having truly arrived on the scene with the “advanced nations.” Yet we need not worry, he tells us, because it will be a very long time before China is able to succeed in this very complicated, safety-first industry. What he is saying is it need not be a concern during HIS lifetime, but it likely will be during yours. The world becoming “us” is how the West sees victory, the end of you.
What I am outlining here is obvious and plain to see. In Japan, boys wear nineteenth century Prussian military uniforms to school. Canadians are becoming hewers of wood and drawers of water. Nortel, the telecommunications company, is broken up, replaced by China’s Huawei. The pursuit of power is not the occasional cheerleading for a new war in the Middle East. It has purpose over long periods of time.
The “West” is now configured in such a way that it is odd to even talk of you in the same breath, where it used to be taken for granted. By being weak, you are fitting the place that he has made for you because he “means well” towards everyone else.
In the future, when the good times of the Taker are gone and your country is a different place (to say the least) and the Chinese Imperium is breaking the horizon, you will be the one who will have to come up with answers. The liberal only has answers as long as everyone appears to be getting along. For now, though, you cannot use your real identity as a source of strength and a weapon against your foreign and domestic enemies. For now, just be aware of this.
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Nursing has always been a challenging and fulfilling field. That hasn’t changed, but nurses’ roles have expanded in some ways. There are several factors at work here; together, they explain why more is being required of nurses.
What Has Changed?
Healthcare teams still work to provide patients with the best care, but the way the teams work has changed in several ways. For one thing, physicians are mandated to work fewer hours in many states; the result is that nurses are increasingly being asked to take on duties that had previously been the physician’s responsibility.
In addition, hospitals are understaffed, budgets are tight, the population is aging, disease rates are increasing, and a greater portion of the population has access to care. As if all of this weren’t enough to account for why more is being required of nurses, there is another factor to consider: nursing isn’t just becoming a broader field, it’s also becoming a deeper field. Nurses can pursue medical specializations and delve into complex multifaceted issues that impact our health care system and our nation.
What Does This Mean?
The ramifications of all of these changes are tremendous. Far from being overshadowed by doctors, nurses are becoming the frontline providers of health care. Over time, they are assuming important roles in the provision of managed care, and they will be responsible for coordinating and continuing the care outside traditional health care facilities.
This is not just possible, theoretical, or futuristic. It’s reality, and nurses are meeting the challenges every day. An emergency room nurse, noting the wide variety of conditions she had treated in a given day, commented that it blew her away how much influence nurses have on serious treatment decisions.
BSN and Beyond
The emergency room nurse, above, was quoted in an article about evolving educational requirements for nurses. This evolution is not surprising, given how duties have evolved in recent years. As a result of the additional challenges for nurses, many people in the health care field believe the BSN preparation, as the standard for entry-level practice, would better prepare nurses for these roles.
Some nurses go beyond the BSN: it’s been suggested that one group of medical professionals might help pick up the slack – nurse practitioners, who are registered nurses with graduate degrees and an additional 500 hours or more of supervised clinical work. The choice is individual to each nurse; although some prefer to pursue a nurse practitioner degree, others prefer to continue working as RNs.
Rising to the Challenge
At 365 Healthcare Staffing Services, we specialize in the recruitment and placement of healthcare professionals in per diem, travel, and permanent assignments in healthcare facilities across the country. As all nurses know, nursing is a challenging field, but it’s also incredibly rewarding. If you are seeking a new challenge, give us a call at 310.436.3650 today.
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September 24, 2004
Working Words Into Images, Artists Become Storytellers
| "Causeway, Part I" by Nancy Jackson, part of "Talespinning."|
At storytelling, writers and speakers can't claim a monopoly. Artists do it, too, although their methods are odder, and they often dig into the work of writers for material. (But then, writers mine the work of other writers.) And there's a bonus: their work can take off in visual flights of fancy.
From its continuing Viewing Program, in which in-house curators choose for exhibition the work of artists unrepresented by New York galleries, the Drawing Center has come up with 14 "talespinners," whose imagery flirts with narrative. Some actually manipulate words and even books; others play with fairy tales and folklore; still others base figments on literary characters; and a few address social, political and otherworldly topics. In short, the narrative category here is — well, porous. Still, it exposes some intriguing talents.
One of them is a Canadian artist, Nancy Jackson, whose fairy-tale landscapes in gouache suggest territories seemingly untrodden by human foot, evoking the crisply expressive terrains of northern European Renaissance artists like Albrecht Altdorfer.
While suggesting the unseen presence of ogres, dragon slayers, hobbits and mythical heroes, they also give delicate worm's-eye views of wilderness flora and fauna. In short, while visionary, they are also of the earth.
Among offerings with political and societal implications, the miniature ink-and-pencil drawings of Ricardo Lanzarini, a Uruguayan, are a standout. Filling tiny books of cigarette rolling paper, they comment on the vicissitudes of (his) daily life in a time of global uncertainties and displacements. He maneuvers — with the precision and élan of the 17th-century French miniaturist engraver Jacques Callot — a flock of oddball people and situations: workers, protesters, exhorters, despairers, disgruntled crowds, partially dressed in medieval-looking garb.
Often his characters wave what appear to be banners, weapons or parasols, actually made of shavings from the pencils he uses to draw them. And — carefully teased out — they spill from the tiny cigarette books into the exhibition case, even climbing on the gallery walls. Despite their size, they have a swarming mob energy.
Another approach to political commentary is made by Amy Wilson, whose series of pencil and watercolor drawings, "A Glimpse of What Life in a Free Country Can Be Like," takes its title from remarks made in 2003 by President Bush on the war with Iraq. In cartoony panels reminiscent of those by the outsider artist Henry Darger that depict innocent-looking girls at devious games, she puts quotations from right-wing and left-wing sources into cartoon blurbs mouthed by sweet young things in a pastoral setting.
But her sympathies are not so easily discerned: thoughts from both sources are melded into a stream of patter that covers multiple viewpoints. Her intent is to show that political language is not simple to construe and that "complex similarities exist in supposedly diammetrically opposed lines of reasoning."
Some of the artists engage texts and books quite directly. Alice Attie takes quotes from Faulkner, Joyce and others, working their literal words into abstract images. From Franz Kafka's "Burrow," for example, she has produced an incredibly complex calligraphic maze of thready lines and shaded areas, entirely composed of the author's words. More concerned with the book as object is a Japanese artist, Noriko Ambe, who cuts dynamically contoured topographies deeply into the pages of atlases and newspapers, making them into sculptural entities that somehow relate what she calls her own "emotional geography" to that of the earth.
Art as a form of obsession is also apparent in the work of Eung Ho Park, whose enormous drawing in ballpoint ink appears at first glance to be a gray silhouette of a jug. (He sees it as a head.) Examined closer up, it's a network of thousands of minuscule roots, meditatively drawn by the artist. He was prompted by thoughts of gnarled, exposed ginseng roots he had seen in his native Korea and of a baobab tree in Brooklyn that evoked his own human vulnerability, and also suggested the system of roots that unites human life from generation to generation.
Obsession, too, seems to motivate the work of Catharyne Ward, an English artist who draws tangled, convoluted masses of hair, the kind a pre-Raphaelite artist would revel in. Braids, curls, waves and knots of the stuff surge across her scratchboard surfaces, occasionally interrupted by small symbols like a heart or a cross. Hair, of course, fetishistically figures in myths and fairy tales. (In fact, these drawings somehow suggest a primordial tale like "Lord of the Rings.") So what better place for them than in a narrative show?
Newspapers are a potent source of reworkable imagery for Geoff Grogan, whose giant, complex collage formed from scraps of newsprint, "The Kicker," suggests a slam-bang action episode from a comic book or sci-fi film.
In a bit of a stretch, the show includes two artists who produce handmade signs. Alejandro Diaz, a Conceptual artist, reproduces snippets of language by hand on crude pieces of cardboard that echo the ambitions and imperatives of everyday life, like "Looking for Nice Upper-East Side Lady With Clean Elegant Apartment. Must Have Cable." He is the strategist, too, behind a luxuriant mass of auburn hair that lies on the floor next to a sign, "Back in 5 min."
Tucker Nichols's work also uses handmade signs to record the vernacular: clichés like "The Way Things Used to Be," fragments of overheard conversation like "Let Me Tell You a Secret" and other mundanities, like "Tell Me More." If you like cute, it's here, too.
"Talespinning" is an uneven show but, as is usual at the Drawing Center, one in which discoveries are likely. The center's willingness to take risks with its choices is one strong reason why it remains a rewarding place to visit.
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|Irish: an Cuach|
Looking towards the village, from the County Londonderry side
Coagh shown within Northern Ireland
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Coagh (//, from Irish: Cuach, meaning "a round hill") is a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, situated five miles (8 km) east of Cookstown. Part of the village also extends into County Londonderry. It had a population of 545 people in the 2001 Census. It owes its existence to George Butle Conyngham of Springhill, and was founded in 1728 when King George II of Great Britain granted Conyngham a market charter allowing the village to host four fairs per year. It is situated within Mid-Ulster District.
The village nestles among gentle, low-lying land between the Sperrins and Lough Neagh. The main feature of the village is Hanover Square, which was named after the reigning Hanoverian George II by Conyngham. The village has been an ancient settlement for several thousand years; overlooking Coagh is Tamlaght Stone, a [Mesolithic]] dolmen erected c. 4500 BCE. The settlement was initially pronounced "co" - the Irish dialect - but this was adjusted to "coke" in accordance with the soft drink in the late 20th century.
See The Troubles in Coagh, which includes a list of incidents in Coagh during the Troubles resulting in two or more fatalities. On 3 June 1991, Provisional IRA members Lawrence McNally (38), Peter Ryan (37) and Tony Doris (21) were killed in an ambush by an SAS unit. The British Army stated that the PIRA members had been intercepted on their way to an attack. Over 200 rounds were fired at the car.
- Coagh United Football Club, which plays in the IFA Championship
- CLG Ogra Colmcille
- Coagh Angling Club
19th century population
21st century population
Coagh is classified as a small village or hamlet by the NI Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) (i.e. with population between 500 and 1,000 people). On Census day (29 April 2001) there were 545 people living in Coagh. Of these:
- 20.9% were aged under 16 and 20.4% were aged 60 and over
- 48.3% of the population were male and 51.7% were female
- 26.4% were from a Catholic background and 72.8% were from a Protestant background
- 2.3% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.
For more details see: NI Neighbourhood Information Service
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Coagh.|
- List of villages in Northern Ireland
- List of towns in Northern Ireland
- List of townlands of County Tyrone
- "Coagh". Place Names NI. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
- "BBC ON THIS DAY | 3 |1991: IRA volunteers shot dead by British Army". BBC News. 1991-06-03.
- "Census of Ireland 1851". Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- "Census of Ireland 1891". Enhanced Parliamentary Papers on Ireland. Retrieved 22 March 2013.
- "Townlands of County Tyrone". IreAtlas Townland Database. Retrieved 19 March 2013.
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Australia’s Mutuals, Members Suffer from Floods
CUFA to Coordinate WOCCU Support
A lone wallaby is stranded on a hay bale outside the town of Danby, Queensland, a victim of the worst flooding in Australia's history. (AP Photo/Anthony Skerman)
BRISBANE, Australia — Continued flash flooding, including what has been described as an "an inland tsunami" bearing down on Brisbane, has saturated Queensland, Australia. After three weeks of rain, communities are underwater, homes have been destroyed and the personal toll stands at 78 missing and 30 presumed dead.
Massive service disruptions have hit Queensland's mutuals, including credit unions and building societies, which are dealing with operational challenges as well as attempting to help members cope with what authorities have described as the worst floods in Australia's history. Heritage Building Society, based in Toowoomba, has closed multiple branches and enacted hardship provisions for its members, including postponing loan payments and adjusting credit contract terms, according to Bill Armagnacq, the assistant CEO.
In addition to Toowoomba, credit unions and building societies in the cities of Warwick, Maleny and Gympie also have struggled with flooding, protecting branches with sandbags and in some cases closing them in the face of the rising waters. Fortunately, no credit union staff have been injured or killed during the disaster; however, conditions are expected to worsen now that Brisbane is in the path of the massive wave.
World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) member Abacus Australian Mutuals, which serves the country's 104 credit unions and nine building societies, has taken steps to help its member institutions. The Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, part of WOCCU, has also stepped in and will work with Credit Union Foundation Australia (CUFA) to channel funds to mutuals under siege. WOCCU will make a donation from its own disaster relief funds and invites interested individuals and credit unions to contribute to Australian credit union rebuilding and relief.
"Credit unions comprise a global movement and, as such, stand together in the face of disaster," said Brian Branch, WOCCU executive vice president and COO. "We know that the strong leadership of Abacus and the support of CUFA will make a significant difference in the recovery of Australia's credit unions and building societies."
WOCCU will be sending its donation directly to CUFA. Those interested in making a contribution to Australia's relief effort can send their donation via check, credit card or wire to:
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, 5710 Mineral Point Rd., Madison, WI 53705, USA
Donations may be made online with a credit card at www.woccu.org/give. For wire transfer information, contact: Valerie Breunig, Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions, +1-608-395-2055, or firstname.lastname@example.org. Please indicate that your donation is for Australia Disaster Relief.
World Council of Credit Unions is the global trade association and development agency for credit unions. World Council promotes the sustainable development of credit unions and other financial cooperatives around the world to empower people through access to high quality and affordable financial services. World Council advocates on behalf of the global credit union system before international organizations and works with national governments to improve legislation and regulation. Its technical assistance programs introduce new tools and technologies to strengthen credit unions' financial performance and increase their outreach.
World Council has implemented more than 290 technical assistance programs in 71 countries. Worldwide, 60,500 credit unions in 109 countries serve 223 million people. Learn more about World Council's impact around the world at www.woccu.org.
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Organization: World Council of Credit Unions
Phone: (608) 395-2000
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Today’s digital landscape is full of games that require players to strategize, react quickly, and make split-second decisions. From strategy games like Chess to interactive social experiments like Truth or Dare, there are so many different ways to test your mettle. And while some might view them as a waste of time, the truth is that these types of games can be beneficial in improving your response time and strategic thinking skills. Not to mention, they’re also fun! So if you want to step up your game (no pun intended), check out this ultimate guide on how to win at any online game.
Step 1: Understand the game’s objective
Most games are designed to be played until someone wins. But to win, it’s important to first understand what the game’s objective is. Let’s say you’re playing an MMORPG. While some players might choose to grind for hours to collect more in-game currency, others may be trying to finish the game’s main storyline. If you don’t know what the game’s objective is, you’ll be at a disadvantage from the get-go—even if you’re a pro at each game mechanic. Once you’ve narrowed down the objective of the game, make sure to practice enough to hone your skills to achieve the best results.
Step 2: Learn as much as you can about every character and item
As you play the game, try to figure out what every character and item is capable of, and how they can be used to your advantage. You can do this by asking yourself questions such as, “What are this character’s strengths and weaknesses?” and, “What items work best with this character?” By doing this, you’ll be able to apply this information to your game plan, and know exactly how to use each character and item to your advantage. While you’re figuring out how each character and item works, try to also figure out which ones you should use. If you don’t know where to start, you can ask yourself questions such as, “Which character would be best in a team setting?” and, “Which character would be best in a 1v1 setting?” By doing this, you’ll be able to start to narrow down your choices.
Step 3: Build a strategy based on what you’ve learned
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Special Commission of inquiry into the Greyhound Racing Industry
In March 2015, the Special Commission of Inquiry into the Greyhound Racing Industry in NSW was established by the Governor of NSW, at the request of the NSW Premier. This followed the airing of a report by ABC's Four Corners which exposed the illegal practice of using live animals to train greyhounds – "live baiting" – by prominent greyhound trainers and industry participants in NSW, Queensland and Victoria. Former High Court Judge, the Honourable Michael McHugh AC QC, was appointed as Commissioner, with the Crown Solicitor assisting and Stephen Rushton SC and David Kell briefed as Counsel Assisting.
Under its Terms of Reference, the Commission is required to identify issues relating to the governance, integrity and animal welfare standards of the greyhound racing industry in NSW and to evaluate whether those issues are able to be appropriately addressed to permit the continuation of a greyhound racing industry in NSW that is sustainable and provides an ongoing economic and social contribution to the State.
The Commission was formally opened on 10 June 2015, with the first round of public hearings commencing on 26 September 2015. The Commissioner's opening remarks and Senior Counsel Assisting's opening address can be read at the Commission's website (www.greyhoundracinginquiry.justice.nsw.gov.au) along with transcripts of the evidence given by greyhound trainers and other industry participants, former employees of the regulatory body, Greyhound Racing NSW ("GRNSW"), former members of the GRNSW Board, and GRNSW's current interim Chief Executive.
The Commission heard evidence from trainers that they had participated in live baiting and that the practice was widespread within the industry. The Commission also heard evidence from GRNSW's interim CEO that, historically, from a welfare and regulatory perspective, the governance of the industry had been deficient; with inadequate or completely immature practices and procedures, an absence of coherent strategy compliance, and no meaningful welfare strategies in place.
Another significant animal welfare issue identified by the Commission is the over-breeding of greyhounds and the killing of many healthy dogs which have been purpose bred to race, but which retire or are otherwise deemed unfit for racing (known in the industry as "wastage"). In October 2015, the Commissioner released an "Issues Paper on Over Breeding and Wastage" by which it invited constructive and considered responses in relation to the elimination or substantial reduction of wastage by the industry.
On 17 November 2015, the Commission commenced a second round of public hearings, again focussing on animal welfare but with an emphasis on the life of a racing greyhound, injuries and veterinary care. Evidence was heard from industry participants together with a number of expert veterinarians, including the Chief Veterinary Officer of GRNSW and from RSPCA – Australia, on the topics of socialisation, adoption and re-homing, injuries, on-track veterinary care and the euthanasia of greyhounds.
In December 2015, the Commissioner issued an "Issues Paper on Governance and Social Contributions" by which it seeks input about two key issues: first, if the industry is to continue, whether its current governance structure is appropriate or an alternative model should be adopted; and second, the social contribution that the greyhound racing industry is said to make to the lives of participants and communities in NSW.
The Commission's deadline for reporting to the Governor is 31 March 2016. While investigations and research continues, the Commission's legal team is busy reviewing and analysing approximately 120,000 pages of documents (and counting) which have been produced in response to Orders to Answer Questions and Produce Documents. In addition, the Commission is engaged in the ongoing process of reviewing the 1900+ submissions that have been received by the Commission and Committees which have previously considered the greyhound racing industry's operations and the relevant legislation.
For more information please call Cheryl Drummy, A/Special Counsel on (02) 9224 5201.
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We Use Many Names and Acronyms to Describe the Simple-Yet-Powerful Tool Called Demand-Side Management. It is not uncommon to find demand management, demand-side management, demand response and energy efficiency used interchangeably. Term confusion is common when we describe the features and functionalities of the intelligent grid.
CLEARING UP THE CONFUSION
Demand management requires that we consider both demand response and energy efficiency — activities that require extensive interactions between the customer and the utility. Lighting and temperature control account for almost 50% of the electricity consumed by end users. The Energy Information Administration's (EIA) “U.S. Household Electricity Report,” issued in 2005, reports that heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) accounted for 365 TWh, or 31% of the electricity consumed by U.S. households; electric water heating accounted for 100 TWh, or 9% of the electricity consumed; and another 2.5% is consumed with pool pumps, filters, hot tubs and pool heaters. Combined, the three categories are 42.5% of the consumption. Throw in lighting at 8.8%, and the total electricity consumption is 51.3%.
Commercial and industrial loads also consume a large percentage in these categories. Given the large percentage, it is readily apparent why there is a lot of interest in energy efficiency in demand-side management programs. Increasing efficiency by just a few percentage points brings about great savings in the need for new generation and delivery systems. Make it non-invasive and automatic to the point the end user is not aware, and it becomes very successful, which is where the advanced technologies are taking demand management.
Demand response influences the customer's use of electricity, allowing the utility to move from “knee-jerk” load shedding to dynamic real-time load shaping. Demand response is now a true demand-management tool. Our electrical infrastructure was built to meet the demands of that mythical July afternoon, which represents something like 10% of the maximum peak demand. Numerous studies have identified this time frame to be roughly 100 hours out of a yearly total of 8760 hours, or about 1% of the total year. We spend a great deal of our resources for that 1% of the time when the aggregate customer's demand exceeds the system's ability to meet that demand. We must think and act intelligently if we are to properly manage that peak demand.
MANAGING THE PEAK DEMAND
Historically, we addressed periods of insufficient generation by load shedding with selected brownouts, followed by rolling blackouts. This approach is a holdover technology from the 20th century. Today's customers and regulators do not easily tolerate this “dump-the-load” response — especially now that we have tools that enable us to take another path.
Consider how we handled the potential power crisis during the California wildfires in 2007. The fires wreaked havoc with power supplies in Southern California when major transmission lines were lost. The San Diego Union-Tribune quoted Debra Reed, president and CEO of San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E), saying, “SDG&E came within minutes of having to curtail customer power.” Restoration of transmission lines combined with Web-based demand-response programs allowed the utility to avert shedding load. Chris Hickman, president of the Energy Services division of Site Controls (Austin, Texas, U.S.), recalls, “California issued an urgent call for emergency energy conservation. Site Controls responded, working collaboratively with its customers to reduce the strain on the grid by over 3 MWh in the affected area via Web-based technology with no or very low consequence to those businesses taking part.”
On the national plane, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) recently published its “2007 Assessment of Demand Response and Advanced Metering,” which reported that in 2006 the peak demand was roughly 851 GW. FERC credits the use of demand-response programs as being necessary for the reliable operation of electric markets during peak hours.
DEMAND RESPONSE IMPACTS SUMMER PEAKS
The long hot summer of 2006 broke peak load records across the country and stressed the system's ability to supply electrical power to customers. Demand reductions played a key role. These reductions were obtained with reliability-based demand-response programs, which include emergency demand-response programs, with capacity market programs, and with interruptible and curtailable rate incentives.
According to the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) in its “2007 Summer Assessment,” these programs accounted for something like 21,900 MW in 2006. EIA reports that actual peak reductions in 2005 amounted to 25.7 GW. EIA breaks that down into 15.4 GW through energy efficiency and 10.4 GW by load management. This is a large amount of electricity controlled by demand-response programs that can no longer be ignored. Contrast that to the days when a utility made announcements over the media for customers to reduce consumption. As we move forward, expect to hear terawatts creep into our vocabularies as we look for more customer solutions to our energy problems.
Changes in real-time pricing of electricity are driving the evolution of demand-response consumption patterns. FERC breaks demand response down into two primary categories: incentive based and time based. Incentive-based programs offer customers some form of monetary reward to reduce their electricity usage during periods of system need or stress by direct load control, by interruptible rates and by emergency-response programs. Time-based demand-response programs offer the customer varying rates for the time-of-day usage, which could be financially motivated as well. The customer saves money by selecting times other than prime time to consume power, rather than to curtail the use of power for a fee.
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Demand-response programs take advantage of innovative technologies. Today, it is possible to audit a business's facilities and determine non-essential loads available for curtailment such as lighting, pumps, thermostats and HVAC equipment. Once identified, Web-based technology can be set up to control consumption. For instance, Hickman reports, “Site Controls can control more than 400 MW of peak load with over 220 MW characterized as immediately dispatchable with this generation-quality energy resource available on demand.”
EnerNOC (Boston, Massachusetts) is another company that participates in demand-response markets in New England, New York, Pennsylvania/New Jersey/Maryland, California, New Mexico and Florida. EnerNOC recently announced a 25-MW load-reduction agreement with Tampa Electric (Tampa, Florida) and a five-year agreement for 160 MW of load reduction with Southern California Edison (SCE; Rosemead, California). Partnering with Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E; San Francisco, California), SCE and SDG&E, EnerNOC is providing customers a voluntary, penalty-free load reduction called the Negawatt Network. Participants are given high-incentive payments to curtail usage when requested by the utility. Companies like Site Controls and EnerNOC focus on commercial buildings. Office buildings, grocery stores, discount stores and others participate in demand-response programs by reducing noncritical loads. They receive payment from the utilities for the value of the electricity they didn't use as calculated by computer algorithms developed for this purpose.
FERC STRESSES ENERGY EFFICIENCY
Energy efficiency is another tool showing great promise as demand management evolves. FERC Commissioner Jon Wellinghoff, addressing the 2007 Grid Wise Interoperability Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., commented that if we could get a 5% improvement in energy efficiency, we would not need to build 50 coal-fired generation plants. Energy efficiency reduces energy consumption both on and off peak through a more effective use of electricity. The message being sent is that every megawatt saved is a megawatt that doesn't need to be generated. Many would argue that reducing demand provides more value than increasing the supply, considering that no pollution or greenhouse gasses are produced.
Peter Kelly-Detwiler, senior vice president of Energy Technology Services for Constellation NewEnergy, said that new power plants cannot be built fast enough to meet the demand for power in some areas. Kelly-Detwiler sees the next technology revolution coming from the customer side of the meter. The greater the cooperation between utilities and the end user in reducing demand, the longer grid operators can postpone costly new additions to infrastructure. One can create a virtual power plant by essentially substituting more efficient energy-using equipment and smarter consumption strategies in place of new supply options. This is a more economically efficient approach as well, creating more economic output per dollar of input. With advanced technology, utilities can maintain or improve existing levels of services with less energy being consumed.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) International Energy Agency (Paris, France) reports that electricity consumption globally for artificial illumination is roughly 8.9% of the total electricity consumption (about 970 TWh annually). It also accounts for 8% of the carbon dioxide emissions. OECD tells about an incandescent light bulb replacement program in South Africa (one of seven countries taking part in the World Bank's Efficient Lighting Initiative). The South African utility Eskom took part in this program as part of its demand-side management program to reduce the need for new generation. In three years, more than 10.6 million compact florescent light bulbs (CFL) were distributed. Five million of those CFLs were distributed through a door-to-door free exchange program. As of 2006, the CFL program has resulted in a savings of approximately 193 MW on Eskom's system. Because CFLs consume one-fourth to one-fifth the electricity of incandescent bulbs, lighting initiatives worldwide would provide huge energy savings.
ENERGY EFFICIENCY AVAILABLE NOW
“There is a lot of low-hanging fruit in the energy-efficiency arena,” says James Lee, president and CEO of Cimetrics (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.). Buildings consume more than 40% of the total energy in the European Union and the United States. Lee points out that there are about 5 million commercial buildings accounting for about 15% of the total energy consumption in the United States. Only about 10% of the commercial buildings now have direct digital controls. Integrating information technology, building automation, energy management and power distribution into one backbone system would allow our commercial facilities to react intelligently to energy consumption.
Lee mentions the 450 Golden Gate Building project, the first large-scale commercial building automation and control networks (BACnet) demonstration project, proving the concept actually works. The 22-story 1.4 million-sq ft (130,000-sq m) Phillip Burton Federal Building and Courthouse in San Francisco has been in service for about 10 years using zone levels for energy management of lighting, HVAC systems and more than 9000 data points. In the process, the project is responsible for an estimated annual energy savings of $500,000.
REWARDING CUSTOMERS FOR REFRAINING
Austin Energy is using the Comverge SuperStat programmable thermostats in a demand-management program called Power Partner. The idea is to cut Austin's summer peaks while keeping the customers comfortable. Roughly 21,000 single-family residential participants, 25,000 multiple family participants and 4000 small commercial participants are enrolled in Power Partner. Customers are saving 15% on their heating and cooling bills with this program. Austin Energy reports that Power Partner accounts for roughly 45 MW of peak capacity.
Gulf Power's GoodCents Select program is one of the oldest customer choice programs in service. Gulf Power and Comverge teamed up to provide customers with smart thermostats and incentive rates. Gulf Power reports that customers taking part in the program have reduced their summer electricity consumption by about 2 kW, while winter reductions have averaged 4 kW. In addition, customer surveys reported that 85% pay more attention to their electricity consumption and 81% say they have not significantly adjusted their lifestyle.
Comverge also offers other demand-response programs such as the virtual peaking capacity (VPC) program to utilities. Recently, Comverge announced it has been awarded VPC contracts with PacifCorp, SDG&E, ISO New England, Public Service Company of New Mexico and PG&E. Overall, these contracts represent roughly 495 MW.
The customer demand for electricity appears to be unquenchable. EIA reports the 2006 summer peak was 4% higher than the summer 2005 peak, which was 12.1% higher than the summer 2004 peak. In addition, the utilities are infrastructure challenged. The advanced technologies of the intelligent grid have solutions, but they require a shift in the way we think and do business, not to mention large capital expenditures. Demand management with demand response and energy efficiency is changing the dynamics in our industry today and far into the future.
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FLORENCE – Career pursuits don’t necessarily end when a person gets older.
“Older workers are one of the fastest growing segments of the workforce – with many choosing to work long past the age of 65,” said Kristin Danley-Greiner who does public relations work for Home Instead Senior Care in Florence. “They continue working for a variety of reasons, but many are looking for careers that will provide them with both an income and the opportunity to help others.”
This is certainly true, according to Home Instead senior caregiver Judy Hicks, 72, of Verona.
“I like to be able to help others enjoy their life better,” she said. “I love my clients they’re funny and sweet. I enjoy learning about their lives and hearing their stories.”
Hicks, who has worked for Home Instead for almost 7 years, said she gets a lot in return.
“It’s very rewarding to make someone laugh and to help them however I can to make their lives easier and so they can stay at home.”
This year, Home Instead is looking for others like Hicks, seniors who want to make a difference in the lives of other seniors. The organization plans to hire 55 additional caregivers by the end of the year. Home Instead serves seniors in Boone, Campbell and Kenton counties.
“We’re looking for compassionate and caring individuals who enjoy helping others,” Home Instead general manager Les Murphy said. “These people help to improve the lives of families in our communities which can be very satisfying. For recent graduates, job hunters or employed individuals looking to make a change, a career working with seniors can be a very rewarding experience.”
According to Murphy, becoming a professional Home Instead caregiver is a great option for seniors looking for a job with a flexible schedule and no medical skills or training required. Not only are caregivers able to maintain a healthy work-life balance, they also often develop a personal connection with the seniors and families they support.
“Working with Home Instead allows senior workers to make great connections,” he said. “Having senior caretakers is also good for our clients. They have similar life experiences, and can relate to the physical and mental changes our clients are going through.”
While training is not a requirement to be hired, once hired individuals participate in the Home Instead’s training program. They will learn skills necessary to help enhance the quality of life of seniors by providing support that enables them to remain in their homes.
Caregivers provide non-medical care, such as companionship, light housekeeping, meal preparation, and running errands and taking clients to appointments.
For more information on how to apply, visit www.homeinstewad.com or call 859-282-8682.
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After another restless night in Ferguson ended with tear gas and rubber bullets fired at protesters, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon unilaterally decided to send in the National Guard to help keep the peace Monday. Apparently, Nixon made this decision without much discussion with police on the scene and didn’t even give President Obama a head’s up before making the announcement. Nixon did state that due to these additional resources being deployed, Ferguson will not be under a curfew Monday evening. However, the addition of 80 National Guard troops to Ferguson is yet another band-aid that’s been applied that will do nothing to cover up and heal the wound that’s been created by the Mike Brown shooting.
The fact is that the protests would quickly simmer down if a handful of actions were taken, none of which involves SWAT teams, tear gas, riot gear, assault rifles or armored vehicles. The moment Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson gets charged with the murder of Mike Brown, the city of Ferguson won’t find itself overtaken with protests, rallies and marches. We are now 9 days past the shooting of an 18-year-old unarmed black man at the hands of a white police officer, and no charges have been filed. There have been two autopsies performed and the federal government is doing a third one. Yet, Wilson remains a free man, and until recently, was able to keep his name and identity a secret.
While looting, violence and police reactions have been taken up much of the media attention surrounding Ferguson, the fact remains that people started demonstrating and lashing out in the community due to the senseless killing of Mike Brown. They feel that the police departments and administrative offices in Ferguson and St. Louis County are not going to provide them justice. Therefore, with each passing day that Brown’s killer is not charged with his crime, people will take to the streets and protest in Ferguson.
Besides hitting Wilson with a murder charge, there are other actions that can be taken politically and administratively that can provide some relief to the city of Ferguson and bring calm to the community. First off, Ferguson police chief Tom Jackson needs to be removed from his position. Whether he resigns of his own accord or is fired, the vast majority of Ferguson residents do not trust him one bit. The way he has handled the shooting and its aftermath has been beyond abysmal. Many of his comments and actions, such as releasing a video of Brown taking part in a minor robbery minutes before he was killed while simultaneously releasing Wilson’s name, have served to antagonize and anger the residents of Ferguson. It seems as if he takes delight in pouring gasoline on fire.
Another thing that likely needs to happen is that St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch has to be removed from investigating this case. McCulloch’s objectivity has been called into question due to a number of factors, least of which is that his father was a police officer who was killed in the line of duty when McCulloch was twelve. His dad’s killer was black. Also, McCulloch publicly criticized Governor Nixon’s decision to remove command of law enforcement overseeing the situation in Ferguson from Jackson and St. Louis County police chief Jon Belmar and hand it to Missouri Highway Patrol Captain Ron Johnson. The move was universally lauded and seen as a necessary step that was needed in building back trust within the community. McCulloch’s criticism makes it appear as if he’s too close to the police departments and cannot be objective when potentially trying one of the officers.
Beyond that, other things that can be done include releasing the initial autopsy done by the St. Louis County coroner, the mayor of Ferguson being more visible and publicly apologizing to the residents for allowing institutional racism in the town to go unchecked and the hiring of more officers of color to the Ferguson police department (there are currently only 3 among a force of 53). But, more than anything, Wilson needs to be charged with a crime, and that needs to happen sooner rather than later. Anger and frustration will only continue to build upon itself as long as Wilson isn’t staring down a murder charge..
The people of Ferguson, and Mike Brown’s family, want justice for Brown. They want to feel like they are going to see progress in their community. Until then, it doesn’t matter what strategic band-aids are put in place, such as making the burned down QuikTrip off-limits, people will continue to hit the streets and voice their rage
Justin Baragona is the Managing Editor at Politicus Sports as well as Senior Editor at PoliticusUSA. He was a political writer for 411Mania.com before joining PoliticusUSA. Politically, Justin considers himself a liberal but also a realist and pragmatist. Currently, Justin lives in St. Louis, MO and is married. Besides writing, he also runs his own business after spending a number of years in the corporate world. You can follow Justin on Twitter either with his personal handle (@justinbaragona) or the Sports site’s (@PoliticusSports).
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Probably the best site for Armenian Gull, Scops Owl, Rosy Starling, Grey-hooded Bunting, Crimson-winged Finch and Eurasian Crag Martin are also present. Ali Safak is a birdwatching guide in Turkey (mostly in Aladag and Tourus area). They have a tractor and a 4-wheel drive vehicle for the tours.
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How to transfer money from an unemployment card to a bank account?
An employment card works the same way as any other debit card. The only difference is that it is provided by the state Unemployment Office, which sends you payments if you don't have a job every month to support you. As with any other debit card, you can transfer these payments to your bank account using a direct deposit transfer to make the management of this money more convenient. This is an indispensable option, especially if you need to pay bills and other debts. For receiving such a card, you need to make sure that you fit the category of people who can get it, then claim for it and wait for a couple of weeks until you can receive it.
How many banks can you have accounts with?
There is no existing limit for you in the number of banks, as well as in the number of bank accounts. You can have as many as you wish or need. Another thing is that after a certain amount, banks can charge you a fee for having so many. That is why you need to put some thought into deciding how many is enough. The general number would be 4, where one pair is for general spendings, such as bills and everyday purchases, and another one is for savings. You’ll need a separate account for emergency conservations and for other means, such as investing or college funds.
What do i do if my bank account is negative?
I believe that most people have experienced this problem when you forget the balance of your bank account, buy something and suddenly find yourself with a negative account. So what to do in this situation? Firstly you have to stop using your account because otherwise, bank fees will only grow. The second step is to transfer money to the account to make it positive. Here you can use your savings account or bring cash to the bank. Also, it is worth talking to a bank manager because some banks wave fees for the first overdraft.
How to find bank accounts in your name?
Nowadays, this is a frequent case when a person has several accounts ascribed to one name - different accounts might serve different purposes, and this is a smart and convenient solution. However, this situation might lead to the fraudsters trying to create accounts in your name or getting access to your already existing accounts. That is why it is useful to know how many and of which type you do have accounts in the banks.
To find it out, you should pay attention to your credit report. A credit report is a sort of summary of the account-related information connected with a certain name. Thus, if you are interested in finding out which accounts are attached to your name, a credit report is the first thing you have to check.
How to open a student bank account?
Opening a student bank account is not a complicated task. It requires just a few documents. Here’s what you need: any form of photo ID (either a passport or a driver’s license), any proof of address (bring your last utility bill or a monthly bank statement), a document proving that you are a student (any official correspondence from a particular university, student ID, etc.). Mind that most banks will ask you to submit original copies rather than photocopies. Visit a bank located near your house and ask the bank’s staff for assistance. Do not forget to give your new account details to your university.
What does pending transaction mean on my bank account?
A pending transaction is a kind of operation that cannot be done simultaneously. When purchasing something with your card, in most cases, it would become a pending one at first. The reason behind this is that it takes time for the company in which you did shopping to check that your account is valid and has enough money for the deal made. In some cases, it can even take up to 3 working days to complete the transaction. In situations when the merchant, for some reason, decided not to take the money from you, it will be given back within seven days.
What is a routing number in a bank account?
This is a nine-digit code that is used to identify a bank in the United States of America. It is needed to complete a transaction between banks. If you need to find out your bank number, you can look at your personal check. Most often, it is located in the lower-left corner. You can also find out this information by contacting the bank via the hotline or using the website. Do not forget to check the entered data several times before making a transaction. If you make a mistake in this number, then the money may simply not find the required bank, and the operation will be rejected.
How to find a bank by account number?
If you are trying to answer the question of how you can find the bank using your account number, the answer might not satisfy you. Unfortunately, an account number is hardly useful when it comes to identifying the bank where it was opened.
To find out to which bank a certain bank account belongs, you should rather use a routing number. A routing number is the raw of digits, usually placed right before the account number. It helps to find out where the bank is located and to which financial institution the account belongs. Not to confuse these two types of numbers, you can use the following hint: check which number is a couple of digits longer. The shorter one is the one you are interested in.
How to open a bank account for a minor?
As a rule, banks do not allow minors to create a bank account without an adult’s involvement. In most cases, a joint owner is represented by the child’s parent or guardian. Once you have decided to develop the kid’s financial habits, specify the exact procedure you need to go through. Some banks will require visiting a local branch in person; others (modern ones) will ask you to install their app and fill out an online application form. You will have to prepare a documentation package including your SSN, driver’s license (or passport), your child’s birth certificate, or school ID (contact a bank representative over the phone for more precise information). In most cases, after you complete the application process, you have to deposit a certain amount of money into the new account. If it is not a custodial account and the kid has access to it, the bank will issue a card that the child can use to make purchases and manage funds at an ATM.
How much money do i have in my bank account?
This process is now very easy. You don't even have to go to the bank branch to do this. Although, of course, you can do that. But the fastest way is to use a banking app. With its help, you can not only check your account but also transfer money at any time. There are also other options:
Online banking is almost the same as the application, only every time you need to log in and enter your username and password.
ATM - insert the card and select the required service
Set up online alerts about your account status
Call the bank, answer security questions and find out the necessary information
How do i stop automatic payments from my bank account?
The easiest way would be to go to the website of a company and cancel any further payments in your personal account, or call them and tell them the same thing. But there’s also a bit trickier way, which is to call your bank and ask them to stop automatic payments to a certain company. In this case, for some banks, oral notification is enough, but others would also ask to fill in the form. If they do, make sure to send a copy to the company on which you are canceling. In some cases, calling up your bank maybe not be enough.
How to deposit cash into a bank account?
There are plenty of ways to deposit cash into your bank account, but some require you to have a card. For instance, if you prefer to make bank processes online, you should have a card. Also, one of the methods to do this operation is to find an ATM, but not all of them perform the depositing function. You can check all available functions of the ATM online on the website of your bank. Besides, visiting the office of your bank is the easiest solution to all of the problems connected to the usage of your bank account. Managers of the office will help you to deposit cash into the account. For this purpose, you should prepare the deposit slip where you should put your name, number of bank account, and depositing amount.
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History and Future of AR Vision
above picture, 35 years of AR Vision: Mann's Digital Eye Glass 1978-1980 and GoogleGlass 2013
This and the other pictures on this page are released under Creative Commons and GFDL: Feel free to use them...
The 35 year convergence of wearable cameras, wearable computers, and wearable displays into the "Digital Eye Glass"
(Generation-4 Digital Eye Glass, also known as "Laser EyeTap")
Digital Eye Glass up-to-the-present-day:
Future directions, e.g. Meta-view, 7ense, etc.:
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The sacrifice of Isaac; an angel touching the hand of Abraham, with drapery on a tree at r
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
Height: 382 millimetres
Width: 271 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Lit.: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 146; B. Py, 'Everhard Jabach Collectionneur (1618-1695), Les Dessins de l'Inventaire de 1695', Paris, 2001, no. 712, pp. 173-4
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The drawing corresponds so far as it goes, in the same direction and on a slightly larger scale, with Franco's etching B. xvi, p.118, 1. The main differences are that in the etching the composition is rectangular and ends just below the feet of the figures (in the drawing the shape of the lower part of the composition suggests that it was to be enclosed in some kind of octagon); there is a fire in the r foreground, more of the tree, and a thick cloud surrounding the angel; and Abraham's head is turned the other way so that he is looking upwards over his r. shoulder.
1946,0713.342 is a smaller, earlier sketch for the sarne composition, also in the same direction, containing the same elements in the same relative position but with more differences of detail (e.g. in the poses of Isaac and the angel, and the position of Abraham's legs).
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
Py suggests that this might be the drawing in the c. 1640 inventory of Paolo Coccapani (1584-1650) bishop of Reggio: 'Il Sacrificio d'Abramo, del Simoleo. D.O. 1/2' (G. Campori, 'Raccolta di cataloghi ed inventarii inediti di quadri, statue, disegni, bronzi, dorerie, smalti, medaglie, avorii, ecc. dal secolo XV al secolo XIX', Modena, 1870, p. 158
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Standing in front of Gomes Tire and Auto, at the corner of International and 50th St., Oakland, CA.
If you go to the Peet’s Coffee on Fruitvale, right across from Farmer Joe’s Market, you will probably see this brother. You’ll see him holding court at a corner table, surrounded by people listening intently to his theories of hidden global networks and wide-reaching social change.
After noticing him for more than a year, I finally approached him and ask him if I could do a portrait. We didn’t speak for more than 10 minutes, but it was one of the most interesting conversations I’ve had in a while.
The man in this drawing told me I should refer to him as American Sultan, Dr. Bey. Dr. Bey is an unrepentant conspiracy theorist. But while most conspiracy theorists I’ve encountered lean toward the negative, Dr. Bey has an optimistic vision to share. He believes that recent events—like the activism surrounding the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the changes in the Congress, and shifts in leadership and migration worldwide–are ushering in a new era of positive social transformation. In our relatively brief conversation, Dr. Bey told a tale that wove the campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Hilary Clinton, the waves of migrants leaving North Africa, and the leadership of Germany and France into a sweeping vision of a coming golden age; and he did all of this at a time when the most optimistic and progressive thinkers have lost all sense of hope.
Since I spoke with Dr. Bey, I’ve returned to Peet’s coffee several times. He’s always there, wearing his fez and surrounded by a diverse group of admirers. As curious as I am to hear his theory of the moment, I am usually in a hurry; and to really have the true Dr. Bey experience, you need to take your time.
I love doing portraits of the peopleI see at Oakland’s main post office. It’s one of those places where you can encounter a true cross-section of the Black residents of the city. This drawing was months in the making. I did the outline sketch in Decemer 2015; but I didn’t get around to adding color and a background until last week.
The man in this drawing was easily the tallest person in a long line customers that extended almost to the door; he was also, the most striking. He was under-dressed for the weather, in short sleeves and no jacket; and he handled the two large cardboard boxes he’d come to mail like they were nearly weightless. Among the rest of us tired-looking, box-lugging folks, he positively emanated energy and life.
In creating the drawings in this series, I’ve had to think a lot about male beauty, and especially Black male beauty. I’ve given a lot of thought to question of what makes a man beautiful, above and beyond physical qualities like symmetry or an impressive hairline (think Grey’s Anatomy). I think the Post Office patron in this drawing exemplified the substance of male beauty–confidence, effortlessness, energy, and comfort in your own skin.
James Baldwin has an amazing quote about old black men, from his essay, “Letter from the South”:
An old black man in Atlanta looked into my eyes and directed me into my first segregated bus. His eyes seemed to say that what I was feeling he had been feeling, at much higher pressure, all his life. But my eyes would never see the hell his eyes had seen. And this hell was, simply, that he had never in his life owned anything, not his wife, not his house, not his child, which could not, at any instant, be taken from him by the power of white people. And for the rest of the time that I was in the South I watched the eyes of old black men.
I ran into the subject of this portrait at Dr. Comics and Mr. Games, on Piedmont Ave. We didn’t actually speak, but we passed each other several times in the aisles and acknowledged each other in the way that Black people do when they encounter each other in unexpected places (with a smile and “the nod“).
I didn’t know much about this fellow shopper, but I could see in his eyes an abiding hope and openness to possibility, tempered by an awareness of the kinds of hurts the world can visit upon young Black men. I’ve met young Black people in whose eyes there is the sadness, anger, and distrust that comes from having experienced those hurts first hand; but the young man in this picture appeared to have been, from the most part, sheltered from that level of bigotry. In his eyes there was both the hope he would never have to confront other people’s hatred of Black men and the fear of what might happen if he did.
I crossed paths with this brother at Farmer Joe’s Market, where he was narrating his way through the produce section. He wasn’t talking to himself; he was sharing his opinion on the price, the quality, and the uses of all the fruits and vegetables with whoever seemed willing to listen. I smiled and nodded politely as he picked up a large red bell pepper and said to me, “Now that’s what I call a vegetable!” Around the corner, I saw him waving a bundle of lemongrass at an elderly couple, saying, ” This is good with everything. You wouldn’t think so, but it is.” As I moved into the dairy section, I could still hear him behind me, telling someone that he’d always thought cauliflower looked like brains.
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Terminal emulator with packages. Termux combines powerful terminal emulation with an extensive Linux package. Enjoy the bash and zsh shells. Edit files with nano and vim. Access servers over ssh. Compile code with gcc and clang. Use the python console as a pocket calculator. Termux is a terminal emulator for Android with a Linux environment. A minimal base system is installed automatically and additional packages are available using the apt and dpkg package management, similar to Debian or Ubuntu. Termux is only available on Android 5.0 or later. 64 bit Android 4.4.2 for x86 platform. 64 bit android 4.4.2 for x86 platform. Compiled for Haswell architecture. This is the latest version of Android ( 4.4.2) ported on Intel x86 platform with UEFI support. This project includes live.img, a binary installer for 64 bit haswell device. Other x86 devices not tested using this release.
Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app that works directly with no rooting or setup required. A minimal base system is installed automatically - additional packages are available using the APT package manager.
Secure. Access remote servers using the ssh client from OpenSSH. Termux combines standard packages with accurate terminal emulation in a beautiful open source solution.
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Feature packed. Take your pick between Bash, fish or Zsh and nano, Emacs or Vim. Grep through your SMS inbox. Access API endpoints with curl and use rsync to store backups of your contact list on a remote server.
Customizable. Install what you want through the APT package management system known from Debian and Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Why not start with installing Git and syncing your dotfiles?
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Explorable. Have you ever sat on a bus and wondered exactly which arguments tar accepts? Packages available in Termux are the same as those on Mac and Linux - install man pages on your phone and read them in one session while experimenting with them in another.
With batteries included. Can you imagine a more powerful yet elegant pocket calculator than a readline-powered Python console? Up-to-date versions of Perl, Python, Ruby and Node.js are all available.
Ready to scale up. Connect a Bluetooth keyboard and hook up your device to an external display if you need to - Termux supports keyboard shortcuts and has full mouse support.
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Tinkerable. Develop by compiling C files with Clang and build your own projects with CMake and pkg-config. Both GDB and strace are available if you get stuck and need to debug.
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BEIJING (AP) — Mothers and fathers aren't the only ones urging adult children to visit their parents. China's lawbooks are now issuing the same imperative.
New wording in the law requiring people to visit or keep in touch with their elderly parents or risk being sued and facing penalties came into force Monday, as China faces increasing difficulty in caring for its aging population.
It remains to be seen how much the amended law changes the status quo, however. Elderly parents in China already have been suing their adult children for emotional support, and the new wording does not specify how often people must visit or clarify penalties for those who do not.
In the first ruling since the new wording, a court in the eastern Chinese city of Wuxi ordered a couple to visit the woman's mother or face possible fines — and even detention.
One of the drafters, Xiao Jinming, a law professor at Shandong University, said the new law was primarily aimed at raising awareness.
"It is mainly to stress the right of elderly people to ask for emotional support. ... We want to emphasize there is such a need," he said.
Cleaning lady Wang Yi, 57, who lives alone in Shanghai, said the new law is "better than nothing." Her two sons work several hundred kilometers (miles) away in southern Guangdong province and she sees them only at an annual family reunion.
"It is too little, for sure. I think twice a year would be good," she said. "We Chinese people raise children to take care of us when we are old."
Later Monday, the court in Wuxi ruled that a woman and her husband must visit her 77-year-old mother — who lives 40 kilometers (25 miles) away — at least once every two months in addition to mandatory holiday visits, or face possible fines and detention, according to the state-run People's Court Daily.
China's legislature amended the law in December following frequent reports of elderly parents neglected by their children. It says offspring of parents older than 60 should see that their daily, financial and spiritual needs are met.
Although respect for the elderly is deeply engrained in Chinese society, three decades of market reforms have accelerated the breakup of China's traditional extended family, and there are few affordable alternatives, such as retirement homes.
Xiao said even before the Law of Protection of Rights and Interests of the Aged was amended, there were several cases of elderly parents suing their children for emotional support. Court officials generally settle such cases by working out an arrangement for sons or daughters to agree to visit more frequently. Typically, no money is involved.
The number of people aged 60 and above in China is expected to jump from the current 185 million to 487 million, or 35 percent of the population, by 2053, according to figures from the China National Committee On Aging. The expanding ratio is due both an increase in life expectancy — from 41 to 73 over five decades — and by family planning policies that limit most urban families to a single child.
Rapid aging poses serious threats to the country's social and economic stability, as the burden of supporting the growing number of elderly passes to a proportionately shrinking working population and the social safety net remains weak.
Zhang Ye, a 36-year-old university lecturer from eastern Jiangsu Province, said the amended law was "unreasonable" and put too much pressure on people who migrate away from home in search of work or independence.
"For young people who are abroad or work really far away from their parents, it is just too hard and too expensive to visit their parents," she said. "I often go to visit my parents and call them ... (but) if a young person doesn't want to, I doubt such a law will work."
AP researchers Flora Ji in Beijing and Fu Ting in Shanghai contributed to this report.
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Latches in Digital Logic
Latches are basic storage elements that operate with signal levels (rather than signal transitions). Latches controlled by a clock transition are flip-flops. Latches are level-sensitive devices. Latches are useful for the design of the asynchronous sequential circuit. Latches are sequential circuit with two stable states. These are sensitive to the input voltage applied and does not depend on the clock pulse. Flip flops that do not use clock pulse are referred to as latch.
SR (Set-Reset) Latch – They are also known as preset and clear states. The SR latch forms the basic building blocks of all other types of flip-flops.
SR Latch is a circuit with:
(i) 2 cross-coupled NOR gate or 2 cross-coupled NAND gate.
(ii) 2 input S for SET and R for RESET.
(iii) 2 output Q, Q’.
Under normal conditions, both the input remains 0. The following is the RS Latch with NAND gates:
Case-1: S’=R’=1 (S=R=0) –
If Q = 1, Q and R’ inputs for 2nd NAND gate are both 1.
If Q = 0, Q and R’ inputs for 2nd NAND gate are 0 and 1 respectively.
Case-2: S’=0, R’=1 (S=1, R=0) –
As S’=0, the output of 1st NAND gate, Q = 1(SET state). In 2nd NAND gate, as Q and R’ inputs are 1, Q’=0.
Case-3: S’= 1, R’= 0 (S=0, R=1) –
As R’=0, the output of 2nd NAND gate, Q’ = 1. In 1st NAND gate, as Q and S’ inputs are 1, Q=0(RESET state).
Case-4: S’= R’= 0 (S=R=1) –
When S=R=1, both Q and Q’ becomes 1 which is not allowed. So, the input condition is prohibited.
The SR Latch using NOR gate is shown below:
Gated SR Latch –
A Gated SR latch is a SR latch with enable input which works when enable is 1 and retain the previous state when enable is 0.
Gated D Latch –
D latch is similar to SR latch with some modifications made. Here, the inputs are complements of each other. The letter in the D latch stands for “data” as this latch stores single bit temporarily.
The design of D latch with Enable signal is given below:
The truth table for the D-Latch is shown below:
As the output is same as the input D, D latch is also called as Transparent Latch. Considering the truth table, the characteristic equation for D latch with enable input can be given as:
Q(n+1) = EN.D + EN'.Q(n)
DIGITAL ELECTRONICS – Atul P. Godse, Mrs. Deepali A. Godse
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Beat the Clock Essay Writing
- Janice Campbell Home School Enrichment
- 2009 5 Mar
There was a sharp crack, and I turned in time to see the softball streaking for the outfield and the runners taking off from the loaded bases. I watched as the center fielder raced toward the ball, glove stretched high. It looked as if he would make the catch, but the ball skimmed past his glove, over the fence at the edge of the field, and bounced on the other side. If it hadn’t been for the fence, the outfielder could have made a spectacular catch and been the hero of the day. As it was, his team was now down 4-0.
The fence that stopped the outfielder is a lot like the deadlines you’ll encounter in timed essays on the SAT, AP, CLEP, and college exams you’ll soon be taking. It doesn’t matter how many great ideas you have or how fast you’re going; once the allotted time is up, you must immediately stop writing. However, if you know what to expect in the exam, and if you have a game plan, you’ll have a good chance for success on the essay.
There are other uses for the skills you’ll practice while writing timed essays. Imagine how much time you could save if you were able to write rough drafts for your other academic subjects in just a half hour! Being able to think quickly is a skill that will help you in college as well, because many instructors, especially in the humanities, give essay exams for some or all of their tests. Take time to learn the skills now, and you’ll be glad you did.
If there is an SAT, AP, or CLEP essay in your future, there are three primary things you need to know and do before you take the test:
1. Know what to expect: You need to become familiar with the type of essay that evaluators are seeking, the types of essay prompts you’ll encounter, and the criteria by which the essays will be judged.
SEE ALSO: How to Eliminate Perfectly Parsed Piffle
2. Know how to use your time: You must learn time management techniques so that you can make the best strategic use of each moment.
3. Know the Beat-the-Clock process by heart: You need to practice the timed writing process until it becomes easy and automatic.
First, it’s important to understand exactly what an essay is. It’s not a dry reporting of facts such as you would find in a research paper on Bolivia. Instead, it’s a position paper—a paper in which you take a position (express your opinion) about a subject. In most standardized tests with an essay component, you are provided with a topic, often presented as a quote. You must answer a specific question on the assigned topic and provide sound reasoning to support your answer.
SEE ALSO: Why Does My Child Hate to Write?
There are three primary sections in any essay—the introduction, the body, and the conclusion. The introduction contains the thesis or main idea of the essay; the body contains supporting points that more completely explain the thesis; and the conclusion wraps up your argument, providing a satisfactory close for the reader.
The timed essays you write should contain all three sections, with supporting points or examples taken from your life—from the subjects you’ve studied, literature you’ve read, history, politics, current events, or sports. You may choose one major supporting point and develop it deeply over two or three paragraphs, or you may use the basic five-paragraph essay format with three supporting points, each developed in its own paragraph. Because you are offering your opinion, it is acceptable to write in the first person, that is, to use the pronoun “I.”
The Essay Prompt
Most of the essay prompts you will encounter on standardized tests will consist of one or two brief passages or quotations from an existing text, followed by an essay assignment. The assignment is designed to help you focus on and write about the issues raised in the quoted text. The quotes are there to orient you to a perspective on the issue, and they sometimes contain a question. Make no mistake, however—the only question you need to address is the one in the assignment portion of the prompt.
The test makers have done their best to create prompts that deal with abstract concepts, such as truth, labor vs. leisure, or responsibility, that should be understandable by students from a wide range of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds. They provide most of the necessary information in the quotes and assignment, but it’s the student’s responsibility to apply critical thinking and take a position on the issue.
For the best possible score, students need to be able to think abstractly and metaphorically. For example, one of the more unusual prompts I’ve heard provided the following quote and assignment:
“‘Every cloud has a silver lining.’ Do you agree or disagree, and why?”
For a student who is able to think metaphorically, it’s clear that the quote is suggesting that there is a positive benefit to every seemingly bad situation. A student who has not been taught to think metaphorically may be confused, and end up writing an essay about the weather. Although this may seem unlikely for students at the high school level, at almost every Beat-the-Clock workshop in which I’ve talked about this prompt, there have been one or more students who simply did not understand it until we discussed it and translated the metaphor.
There are five specific areas the essay readers will evaluate:
Content and Ideas:
• The ability to develop and adequately support a point of view.
• Evidence of critical thinking.
• The ability to think abstractly or metaphorically.
• The ability to organize information logically and present it coherently
• Writing that speaks directly to the reader.
• An active voice that anticipates and answers questions.
• A tone that is appropriate for the audience and the topic.
Sentence Structure and Word Choice:
• The creation of strong sentences of varying lengths.
• A wide, appropriately used vocabulary.
Conventions or Mechanics:
• The proper use of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Essay readers are instructed to evaluate each paper holistically—not weighing one factor above another or comparing one paper with another. Although handwriting is not supposed to be evaluated during the grading process, common sense makes it obvious that readers can evaluate positively only if they are able to read your writing. So write legibly!
You may visit the College Board Web site to see samples of graded essays and take a sample exam. Reading essays written by other students can be a big help in understanding what is expected of you, but don’t use them for examples of how to write well. Instead, read high-quality essays by writers such as the syndicated columnists found in the editorial pages of your local newspaper. Many editorials are nothing more than persuasive or argumentative essays, and you will likely find it helpful to study the ways in which professional writers present and support their positions. If you will be taking the ACT, visit the ACT Web site at www.act.org to see sample questions and evaluations.
You will have 25 minutes for the SAT, 30 minutes for the ACT, and 45 minutes for a CLEP essay. In this brief time, you must read the essay question, go through the pre-writing process, which includes thinking on paper and organizing your ideas, and finally, you must write your essay. Can you do it? The answer is—YES! You can do it, as long as you have a plan.
Plan to divide your time like this:
• 25% Pre-writing
• 75% Writing
This means that for a 25-minute essay, you should spend approximately 6 minutes pre-writing and 19 minutes writing. Don’t stress over the fractions of a minute—just follow the formula as closely as possible.
At the very end of the alloted time, be sure to glance back over your paper to make sure it’s as clear and well-organized if it needs to be. If you need to make corrections or move paragraphs, just cross out words or draw arrows to indicate the changes. Never waste time erasing—the evaluators like to see evidence of thought and self-editing, and erasing is a complete waste of valuable time.
The Beat-the-Clock Writing Process
• Read carefully through the question. Be sure you know exactly what it says, because if you don’t take time to fully understand the question and answer it specifically, you will earn zero points on this portion of the test! You may find it helpful to copy the assignment portion of the prompt at the top of the page of your test booklet (but not on the lines where you’ll be writing the essay).
• Start thinking on paper. This process is known by various terms, including brainstorming, mind-mapping, or clustering. However you do it, this is a very important part of the process and must not be skipped. The reason that you must think on paper, rather than brainstorming mentally, is that ideas that can be seen are easier to organize. If you don’t think on paper, you run the risk of losing your best ideas or your train of thought as you write. During the exam, you won’t have any scratch paper, so you may use all the available white space in the essay section of the test booklet (not the answer booklet!) to write down ideas as you think about the question. Give yourself approximately four minutes for this step. Write down every idea that comes to you, even if you are not sure it is usable. Feel free to use abbreviations and short phrases—just put down enough to help you remember the essence of the thought.
• Organize ideas. When you have several ideas written down, start organizing them. Select the strongest idea as your thesis, then choose up to three other ideas that offer vivid examples that will support the main idea. You can rank ideas by simply numbering your concepts in the order you want to use them, or if you have time, you can quickly list them. You may use the remaining 1-2 minutes of the pre-writing time for this step.
• Write your first paragraph, using your main idea to answer the question and create the thesis. You may introduce the supporting points as reasons for your answer in this paragraph.
• Build a supporting argument. Write one or more paragraphs for each supporting point. Use vivid vocabulary and sentences of varying lengths.
• Conclude gracefully. Write a conclusion paragraph that wraps it all up. Summarize your supporting points and finish with a recap of your thesis.
• Evaluate: Finally, glance back over the essay to see if you’ve left out anything important.
• Finish! When time is up, you must turn to the next section, and you may not return to make changes after this point.
Practice Makes Perfect
Well, maybe not perfect, but at least competent! I recommend that you practice writing timed essays at least once a week until you take the exam. That will give you a chance to encounter a variety of prompts and to become familiar with the timed writing process. You’ll find one sample test on the College Board Web site and many more in the books listed in the resources sidebar. These useful guides also contain sample essays that have been graded.
For additional practice, you can invent your own writing prompts by selecting one or two quotes from a book of quotations, then creating an assignment that addresses the subject. Sometimes, your assignment can simply be the question, “Do you agree or disagree? Why?” When used with a good quote, this is usually focused enough to result in an interesting essay.
The more you practice, the faster and better you’ll become at writing timed essays. If the outfielder in the softball game had practiced vaulting the fence or located a nearby gate before that ball sped by, he might have been able to enjoy his moment of glory. Similarly, you have a chance to prepare thoroughly for the timed essay exam—will you be ready when the challenge comes?
Published on March 6, 2009
Janice Campbell, who homeschooled her four sons from preschool into college, is author of Transcripts Made Easy, Get a Jump Start on College, Evaluate Writing the Easy Way, and Excellence in Literature, a classics-based, college-prep English curriculum for homeschoolers. She is the creator of the Beat-the-Clock Essay Workshop and also directs the National Association of Independent Writing Evaluators (www.NAIWE.com). Visit www.Everyday-Education.com to learn more and to sign up for her free e-newsletter!
This article was originally published in the Jan/Feb ’09 issue of Home School Enrichment Magazine. Get more great homeschooling help by downloading our FREE report entitled “The Secret to Homeschooling Freedom” by visiting http://HomeSchoolEnrichment.com/resources/report.htm
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Openness and innovation are major trends in contemporary education, influencing the whole spectrum of education institutions across the globe. Technological advancement and breakthroughs are bringing about a paradigm shift in contemporary education. Modes of learning and teaching are becoming more open and innovative in terms of time, space, curriculum contents, organization, pedagogical methods, infrastructure and requirements. This change happens virtually in all institutions (offering conventional, online and/or open courses). With this background, the OUHK organizes the annual conferences on open and innovative education with the following aims to:
Accepted full papers will be included in the conference proceedings (with an ISBN). Selected papers will be recommended for consideration to an edited book. Also, special issues of the following journals will be devoted to selected papers of the Conference. The journals include Interactive Technology and Smart Education (ESCI and Scopus listed), International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation (Scopus listed), and “Innovation and Technology in Education” Section of SN Computer Science.
Papers on all topics related to open or innovative education are welcome. Papers on related topics will also be considered.
The Conference will be conducted in English.
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Papers may also be written in Chinese and presented in Putonghua. In such a case, an English version of the abstract should be submitted together with the Chinese version.
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About excursions in Cyclades, Greece
The islands of Cyclades are the most popular holiday destinations in Greece. With their distinctive architecture and relaxing atmosphere, they attract millions of tourists every summer. Most of them choose to hop from one island to the other for their holidays in order to see as much as they can from these wonderful places. But even if they stay in one single island, they will certainly find many places to explore. Excursions in Cyclades are many and ideal for all preferences, either you are looking for beaches or for archaeological sites.
Island hopping to Cyclades islands
Island hopping is the best way to see the unique islands of Cyclades. As each island is different, getting from one island to the other is a great way to discover them. The most usual combination in Cyclades is island hopping from Mykonos to Santorini, the two most popular Greek holiday destinations.
Another popular combination is island hopping from Mykonos to Paros and Naxos, as these three islands are only a short ferry ride away. The islands of western Cyclades, such as Milos, Sifnos and Serifos, are also convenient to visit at once because ferries run regularly between them.
Popular tours in Cyclades
Tours and excursions in Cyclades are many. Very popular is the boat tour to Delos island, an uninhabited place that serves as an open archaeological site. This island was considered the sacred island of god Apollo in the ancient times, as god was born there according to the myth. This is why a large sanctuary to Apollo had been constructed there and Delos became an important religious center. Tours to Delos depart from the old port of Mykonos from May through September. Occasionally, they also depart from other islands, like Paros and Naxos.
Other famous tours take place in Santorini, the top holiday destination in Greece. The boat tour to the volcano of Santorini is the most popular, departing daily from the old port of Fira. Some of these volcano tours continue to the hot springs, the island of Thirassia and the picturesque village of Oia, where they arrive at sunset time. Bus tours also run in Santorini, covering places from Minoan Akrotiri and the Red Beach till the monastery on top of Mount Prophet Elias and the archaeological site of Ancient Thera.
Excursions in Cyclades can be combined with activities and sports. A very popular activity in Cyclades is diving because of the reefs, the uninhabited islets and the old shipwrecks at the bottom of the Aegean Sea. In fact, there are many diving centers in the Cyclades islands that offer courses and organize diving trips.
Windsurfing and kite surfing are also two popular sports, especially in the islands of Paros, Naxos and Mykonos. Very good surfing spots in Cyclades are Mikri Vigla Beach in Naxos and New Golden Beach in Paros. Every island also offers chances for various organized activities. For example, horse riding can be practiced in Mykonos and Naxos and in fact particularly popular are the sunset riding and beach riding tours.
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Alzheimer’s: A Public Health Crisis
02/18/2021 | 26m 46s | Video has closed captioning.
Alzheimer’s disease is an under-recognized public health crisis. Not only does Alzheimer’s come with a tremendous cost to our healthcare system, it takes an emotional toll on families as they care for their loved ones, while watching them slip away. Leeza Gibbons shares her experience as a daughter and a caregiver to her mom who was diagnosed with this devastating illness.
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Minas Ithil falls to the Nazgûl
Event Type: General
Age: 3rd Age - The Kings
An event in the Fall of Minas Ithil — Third Age; see that entry for an overview:
Under [the Sorcerer-king of Angmar's] leadership the Úlairi took Minas Ithil, and made it their city and stronghold, from which they were never expelled.
The Peoples of Middle-Earth, HoME Vol 12, Part 1, Ch 7, The Heirs of Elendil: The Southern Line of Gondor: The Anárioni
[It] was not until 2000 that [the Nazgûl]... laid siege to Minas Ithil. This they took in 2002, and captured the palantír.... They were not expelled while the Third Age lasted....
The Return of the King, LoTR Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers: Gondor and the Heirs of Anárion
[They] took Minas Ithil for their abode; and they made it a place of such dread1 that none dared to look upon it. Thereafter it was called Minas Morgul....
The Silmarillion, Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age
1 Paler indeed than the moon ailing in some slow eclipse was the light of [Minas Morgul] now, wavering and blowing like a noisome exhalation of decay, a corpse-light, a light that illuminated nothing. In the walls and tower windows showed, like countless black holes looking inward into emptiness; but the topmost course of the tower revolved slowly..., a huge ghostly head leering into the night.
The Two Towers, LoTR Book 4, Ch 8, The Stairs of Cirith Ungol
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The fruit of Aurore ripens early in the season between late August and early September. Although the vine is resistant of many mildew diseases, is productive and vigorous; the fruit suffers susceptibility from bunch rot and bird attack.
From balancing blood sugar, improving blood health, relieving congestion, fighting inflammation and cleansing the kidneys to protecting eyesight, brain function and fighting Leukemia, carrot juice benefits can help nearly every part of your body!
Gluten Free Corn Flour is 100% stone ground on our slow-moving stone mill in our dedicated gluten free facility. This golden flour is a coveted secret ingredient for many gluten free bakers and produces beautiful whole grain, gluten free cornbread.
Cucumbers are now known to contain lariciresinol, pinoresinol, and secoisolariciresinol—three lignans that have a strong history of research in connection with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease as well as several cancer types, including breast, uterine, ovarian, and prostate cancers.
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“If we are to bring the broad masses of the people in every land to the table of abundance, it can only be by the tireless improvement of all our means of technical production.” – Winston Churchill, MIT, 1949.
Little could Churchill predict how timeless his comment was, or perhaps he could. He probably would be amazed at how that insightful comment would show up in the technological creations of today.
This year software companies are talking a lot about convergence, and Autodesk is no different in that respect. What is different is that the software company is making a significant investment in the “make” side of things, which it has promised for the past few years. This focus is moving into the building side of things with many technologies that we have traditionally thought of as strictly manufacturing.
AECCafe is here in Las Vegas this week (December 1-3) for the Autodesk University 2015 Conference held at the Venetian Hotel.
“As if It Were Already There” – sculpture by Janet Echelman in Rose Greenway Park
Autodesk will be demonstrating its new technologies and conducting classes on various topics.
You can visit us at our booth #28 and/or contact Sanjay Gangal for video interviews at email@example.com 408-221-0982. I will be covering the conference and conducting regular interviews for the blog. Susan.firstname.lastname@example.org 505-501-2478
France will chair and host the 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21/CMP11), from 30 November to 11 December 2015. The conference is crucial because the expected outcome is a new international agreement on climate change, applicable to all, to keep global warming below 2°C, a level that would ensure safety of the planet’s fragile resources. If that level is not achieved, it could have devastating consequences on world populations and survival.
One of the challenges of the Paris agreement, where heads of state will all gather, will be to establish a periodic – ideally five-year – review mechanism to raise the ambition of each Party and progressively improve the collective effort toward keeping global warming below 2°C.
Each country represented will obviously have reasons to participate but also issues, largely economic and political, that may create a climate of resistance to the review mechanism.
Royal Insight from Prince Charles
Prince Charles of the UK, The Prince, a tireless climate change campaigner for the past four decades, will deliver a keynote speech at the opening of COP21 next Monday.
He gave an exclusive interview to Sky News three weeks ago (well before the Paris attacks) about his ongoing concerns about climate change, saying he believes there is evidence to suggest that the reason for the Syrian conflict and resulting terrorism was drought. “We need to deal with the problem of the movement of people as a result of not being able to survive,” he said.
Kevin Lea, Product Manager, A&D Solutions, Tekla, a Trimble Company and Andrew Norman, Tedds Product Manager, Tekla, a Trimble Company talked about the recent release of the new version of Tekla® Structural Designer software that enables structural engineers to analyze and design steel and concrete buildings efficiently by combining analysis and design into a single, seamless process. And new features for its Tekla® Tedds 2015, a software that enables structural engineers to automate repetitive civil and structural calculations.
Matt Mason, director of software development with IMAGINiT Technologies, of Rand Worldwide, answered some questions for AECCafe Voice about the release of the new version of IMAGINiT Clarity, Clarity 2016.1. The new release includes new features in IMAGINiT Clarity, IMAGINiT Clarity Connect, IMAGINiT Clarity Connect LT and the newly released IMAGINiT Clarity Owner Data Portal (ODP), designed to aid AEC firms in capturing information from BIM models and to facilitate the transition from construction to building operations.
About a month ago I attended a press briefing on the new Autodesk Revit 2016 R2, a release that builds on product performance and makes Revit perform faster. The release looks at how to empower architects and engineers to embed design intent in their model by building smarter tools. It has a lot of professional productivity enhancements, and product managers believe it’s their best Revit yet.
Revit 2016 R2 updates room, space, HVAC zone, duct, and pipe color fills using multiple CPUs. Image courtesy of Autodesk.
Evan Casey, National Director of Business Development at ARC Document Solutions, document solutions provider for the construction industry. spoke this week with AECCafe Voice about SKYSITE 2.0, the next generation of its cloud-based application for construction communication. The latest version of SKYSITE adds new features such as Request-for-Information (RFI) administration, photo management and punch lists to its capabilities in managing and distributing construction documents and information.
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Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Print version ISSN 0365-0596On-line version ISSN 1806-4841
PEREIRA, José Marcos. Telogen effluvium after contact dermatitis in the scalp. An. Bras. Dermatol. [online]. 2006, vol.81, suppl.3, pp.S288-S289. ISSN 0365-0596. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962006000900007.
A case of a patient with alopecia areata treated with diphencyprone, which produced contact dermatitis in the scalp, with later total regrowth is presented. After 4 months, patient presented a very intense hair loss compatible with telogen effluvium. The author calls attention for the possibility of telogen effluvium after contact dermatitis, once the production of the contact dermatitis is one of the choice treatments for alopecia areata.
Keywords : Alopecia; Hair; Dermatitis.
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Examples of stilton sentences. ESL students, professors, and those who would like to gain additional insight into the meaning of words may find this page particularly useful. The lines of text below use stilton in a sentence, and provide visitors a sentence for stilton.
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The twilight of film photography.
Fade to Black
The twilight of film photography.
BY DOUGLAS GANTENBEIN
Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:01 a.m.
Weston Naef sounds almost misty-eyed when discussing Kodak Tri-X, a black-and-white 35mm film first made in the 1950s and a staple of photojournalism for decades. "It was a wonderful 400-speed film," says Mr. Naef, curator of photography for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, referring to Tri-X's ability to capture an image in low light, known as its "speed." "And then it could be 'pushed' [chemically altered during development] to 1200, or even 2400"--meaning it could be used in even lower light.
Tri-X--along with Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujicolor and all those other mellifluously named films--and the Nikon, Minolta and Canon cameras long used by amateur and professional photographers alike are becoming anachronisms. According to the Photo Marketing Association, digital cameras are likely to account for 90% of all cameras sold in 2006. In January Nikon, one of the most revered names in photography, announced it was largely abandoning the film camera business. Days later Minolta (now known as Konica Minolta) followed suit. Kodak now earns more from digital photography than film, although so far it hasn't profited from that trend.
Film was magic--the process of pushing a button to open the shutter, forming an invisible image on a strip of coated plastic, then making that image visible by bathing it with chemicals and projecting it onto a sheet of paper that in turn was soaked in more chemicals and sometimes rubbed and massaged to manipulate the image.
Now, I still press a button on the Canon PowerShot I often carry. But it's a digital image that appears instantly on the camera's LCD screen, and in a few seconds I can transfer it to my Dell computer, to crop and change it in seconds with Photoshop, then email it anywhere.
The sentimentalist in me wants this to end, everyone to go back to film, and to hell with Photoshop. The practical person in me asks, where would I set up a darkroom these days? And when would I use it? Besides, notes Mark Federman, who teaches at the University of Toronto's McLuhan Program, there's no point in labeling a change such as film-to-digital as "bad" or "good." It's just a change.
Which isn't to say this particular change is without damaging impacts, despite digital's obvious win in the marketplace. Mr. Federman, who thinks often about how societies "remember," sees digital photography as a disaster for historians. People delete pictures from their cameras' memory cards. Hard drives crash. PCs end up in the dump, photos still on board. And CDs full of pictures will become unreadable when their surfaces deteriorate (you heard that right--CDs are incredibly unstable). With all that, says Mr. Federman, we're on the verge of losing billions of pictures. "We will not have a record of the individual stories that are told by families from one generation to another through pictures," Mr. Federman says. "That is a wealth of human history that will simply be lost."
Look at it another way: When survivors of Hurricane Katrina returned to their devastated homes in New Orleans or Mississippi, almost without fail they sought family photographs--that one tangible link with their past. Today we're ensuring that in the future those photographs won't even exist. True, prints made from digital photos can now last as long as their film equivalent, but that's still only a few decades compared with the hundreds of years a black-and-white negative might last.
Mr. Federman is even-handed, though, and says that while we lose something we gain something else. A decade ago, photography beyond the Instamatic or Polaroid stage was fairly complex, and merely loading film could sometimes flummox a picture-taker. Today digital photography really is point-and-shoot. So we're democratizing picture-taking, and with a digital camera (or even camera phone) and a PC just about anyone can produce a high-quality photo (technically, if not artistically) and publish it however they see fit, via an Internet blog or one of the digital photo services such as Snapfish.
As for the aesthetics, let's for now call it a wash.
Some photographers continue to insist that film yields a better result than digital. "I still think a beautifully exposed [transparency] is more beautiful than a digital image," says Lisa Quinones, a New York-based commercial photographer. "Digital always seems to be missing something--there isn't quite as much depth to it."
Mr. Naef of the Getty notes that film photography has elements of human error and accident that sometimes can result in surprisingly beautiful results not possible in the mechanically precise digital world. "Digital cameras produce a massively predictable result," he says. "And for amateur photographers, we see fewer of the 'delightful mistakes' that could yield such wonderful pictures."
Mr. Naef likes to cite, on behalf of film, a series of photographs taken in 2001 by California photographer Robert Weingarten. Every day that year, at 6:30 a.m. sharp, Mr. Weingarten took a picture from exactly the same spot, aiming in the same direction, with a Hasselblad camera loaded with color transparency film. The results, seen in a gallery show called "6:30 AM" and now in a book of the same name (Hatje Cantz Publishers, $49), are a revelation: the early morning light of Santa Monica shifting from luminous oranges and reds to muted blues and grays, clouds either etched in brilliant sunlight or suffused into formless fog.
Not only are the images beautifully captured on film in a way that digital might not achieve, says Mr. Naef, but they prove the ineffable beauty of nature. No digital manipulation here--the camera (and film) literally did not lie.
"For '6:30 AM' it was important to use film, in part because of the aspect ratio [the shape of the picture as recorded by the camera--the Hasselblad shoots geometrically neutral square images] and because, with digital, there is always a question of authenticity," Mr. Weingarten says. "And in some cases curators would ask to see the originals, just to ensure there was fidelity to the prints that were displayed." But for the photographer, who is 64 years old, "6:30 AM" was perhaps his last all-film project.
Mr. Weingarten has converted completely to digital for his new "Palette Series," which opens March 15 at the Marlborough Chelsea Gallery in New York and consists of close-ups of paint palettes of artists such as Jasper Johns and Chuck Close. For his part, Mr. Weingarten doesn't dispute Mr. Naef's assertion that film can yield results that are surprising and wonderful. He simply believes that digital has too many advantages to pass up. "My cameras were like old friends," he says. "But with digital I find the tones are better, the subtleties are more, the depth of what you can do is much deeper." He has donated his beloved Nikon F5 film camera to the George Eastman House in Rochester, N.Y., to reside forever as a museum piece.
Film isn't dead yet--one billion rolls of the stuff will be used this year--but it's on the way out, save for the odd fine-art photographer, the technophobe, or a sentimentalist like me. But even I have to admit that my Canon PowerShot is always on my desk and ready to go; my Canon film cameras rest in a camera bag in the attic, along with boxes of old slides and negatives. All history. But maybe that, eventually, will be their salvation.
Mr. Gantenbein is a writer and photographer living in Port Townsend, Wash.
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Being that we are all involved in social media by being good Buxrites, read this fascinating story its power and unintended consequences--a few times over!
As a result of an Australian oil spill in 2000, wildlife conservationists developed a sweater that would help oil soaked penguins. They put out the word to have volunteers make some, hoping for 100. They received over 15,000. A 2011 New Zealand oil spill renewed the sweater movement.
Read the new updates at the end of the story for all the newest plot twists. Somebody out there is thinking!!!
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Evaluation of health disparity in bacterial vaginosis and the implications for HIV-1 acquisition in African American women
There is a health disparity for both bacterial vaginosis (BV) and human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in African American women that may be linked. The evidence that BV predisposes women to higher risk for HIV infection is well documented. The underlying mechanisms to support the epidemiological connections will require further investigations. This review explores the risk factors for BV disease with implications for HIV-1 acquisition in the context of race as a potential driver of the 20-fold increase in HIV-1 acquisition for African American women compared to white women. Specifically, it explores (i) disparities for BV in African American women, (ii) racial disparity for HIV-1 acquisition in African American women, (iii) common factors associated with BV and HIV acquisition in African American women, and (iv) potential mechanisms of the enhancement of HIV-1 transmission by BV.
- Epidemiology and Determinants of Health
- Determinants of Health
- Ethnoracial communities
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It may never have occurred to you to wonder why it is that the 5% of the world’s population who live in the US get to use around a third of the world’s production of natural resources and industrial products – certainly it never seems to occur to most Americans to wonder about that – but the economics of empire are the reason.
A century ago, in 1910, it was Britain that had the global empire, the worldwide garrisons, and the torrents of wealth flowing from around the world to boost the British standard of living at the expense of everyone else’s. A century from now, in 2110, if the technology to maintain any kind of worldwide empire still exists – and it can be done with wooden sailing ships and crude cannon, remember; Spain managed that feat very effectively in its day – somebody else will be in that position. It won’t be America, because empire is the methamphetamine of nations; in the short term, the effects feel great, but in the long term they’re very often lethal. Britain managed to walk away from its empire without total catastrophe because the United States was ready, willing, and able to take over, and give Britain a place in the inner circle of US allies into the bargain; most other nations have paid for their imperial overshoot with a century or two of economic collapse, political chaos, and social disintegration.
That’s the corner into which the United States is backing itself right now. The flood of lightly disguised tribute from overseas, while it made Americans fantastically wealthy by the standards of the rest of the world, also gutted America’s domestic economy – the same economic imbalances that funnel wealth here also make it nearly impossible to produce goods or provide services at home at a cost that can compete with overseas producers – and created a culture of entitlement that includes all classes from the bottom of the social pyramid right up to the top. As always happens, in turn, the benefits of empire are failing to keep pace with its rapidly rising costs, and in addition, rising demands for imperial largesse from all parts of society are drawing down an increasingly straitened supply of wealth. Meanwhile other nations with imperial ambitions are circling like sharks; the wisest among them know that time is on their side, and that any additional burden that can be loaded onto a drowning empire will hasten the day when it goes under for the third time and they can close for the kill.
Meanwhile, our media distract us with missing white women, whether Angelina and Brad are splitting up, and "reality" tv. Maybe we should bomb Iran.
I will say that I differ with Greer only concerning his optimism that various states, such as China, will win out over large multi-national corporations. I suspect that things may work out in quite the opposite direction, but the overall difference may be rather less important than we suppose.
I'm a woman, a Witch, a mother, a grandmother, an eco-feminist, a gardener, a reader, a writer, and a priestess of the Great Mother Earth. Hecate appears in the
Homeric Ode to Demeter, which tells of Hades who caught Persophone
"up reluctant on his golden car and bare her away lamenting. . . . But no one, either of the deathless gods or of mortal men, heard her voice, nor yet the olive-trees bearing rich fruit: only tenderhearted Hecate, bright-coiffed, the daughter of Persaeus, heard the girl from her cave . . . ."
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Paper No. 6
Presentation Time: 9:15 AM
GPR Evidence of the Influence of Vegetation and Structure on Subsurface Flow in An Epikarst Limestone, Edwards Plateau, Texas
Three-dimensional multicomponent ground-penetrating radar (GPR) reflection data and horizontal GPR transmission profiles were acquired and analyzed to better understand the infiltration and subsurface flow at a hydrologic experimentation site. Previous researchers conducted a set of shallow (< 2.5 m) subsurface hydrology experiments during simulated rainfall events within a small plot (7 x 14 m) on the fractured and karsted limestone of the Edwards Aquifer region near San Antonio, Texas, USA, to better understand the influence of Juniperus ashei brush control on the local hydrology. At a trench located on the down slope side of the site, lateral subsurface flow was observed emanating from open joints, bedding planes, karst features, and root systems occupying these spaces. Tracer experiments showed a high degree of variability in tracer recovery, advection speed, and concentration depending on the location of the application of the tracer. Both 3-D multicomponent GPR reflection images and coherency, and inversion of GPR horizontal transmission profiles were utilized to identify the main conduits of flow within the experimentation site in order to explain the observations of the experiments and to show a correlation of brush to these conduits. Inversions of the horizontal transmission profiles indicate that some conduits are filled with soil while others have no fill. This information helps explain the high spatiotemporal variability in the tracer data. Additionally, the GPR and hydrologic experiments suggests that Juniperus ashei significantly impacts infiltration by redirecting flow towards its roots with hydrophobic litter and stemflow. This study demonstrates that GPR provides a noninvasive tool that can improve future subsurface hydrologic experimentation.
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Literacy-Based Interventions for Preschoolers With Speech Sound Disorders
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Phonological awareness is a foundational skill for successful reading and spelling. Preschoolers with speech sound disorders are at risk for deficits in phonological awareness, and this risk is multiplied by factors such as language disorders and low socioeconomic status. Focusing on orthographic (printed) cues, this session discusses intervention techniques that improve speech intelligibility in preschoolers while simultaneously building phonological awareness.
This course is a recorded session from the 2019/2020 online conference “Innovative Methods for Preschool Assessment, Collaboration, and Treatment.”
You will be able to:
- implement strategic interventions that build phonological awareness and remediate speech sound disorders concurrently
- explain the role of the reading processors (orthographic, phonological, meaning, and context) in literacy development
What is Included?
You'll get online access to all the course content, including the full video, handouts, and references so you can access it from anywhere!
Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.
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This month’s issue is a compilation of two pieces. The piece “Timing” is a commentary on the timing of global economic collapse and the fraught nature of accurately predicting when this will occur. This is followed by the new Post Carbon Manifesto which is being released this week. The manifesto sets out the new direction of Post Carbon Institute and its role in helping individuals, families, businesses, communities, and governments understand, prepare for, and manage the transition to a post-carbon world.
Download printable pdf version here (PDF, 244 KB).
The general picture is clear enough. A combination of peak oil, climate change, and the bursting of the mother of all economic bubbles will result in a collapse of the global economy, perhaps of civilization itself. If we are still to avert the worst of a crisis that could eventuate in untold death, destruction, and tragedy, we need to restructure the world’s energy systems and money systems immediately.
This message (in one form or another) is issuing from scores of independent writers, environmental organizations, and economic analysts. Indeed, even before anyone had ever heard of a Credit Default Swap, going all the way back to the early 1970s if not earlier, similar warnings were periodically heard.
But forecasting global catastrophe can be a tricky business, because everyone wants to know just when it will happen. And there’s the rub. As a card-carrying member of the Cassandra Club, I’ve found this a perennial briarpatch. There have been so many variables at play that about all one could say with absolute confidence is that industrial civilization will run out of rope “sometime in the first two or three decades of the 21st century.” But most people consider that too vague, and institutional leaders have shown repeatedly that they are likely to respond only to definite warnings about fairly imminent catastrophe.
This puts an unfair onus on those in the business of waking the world up to the impending crunch. Jump the gun and you wind up sounding silly; make a conservative forecast for some bland-sounding disruption sometime in the distant future and you fail to motivate anyone to change course.
Some recent readings have highlighted these pitfalls in fascinatingly different ways, leading me to draw a fairly striking conclusion (which we’ll get to in a moment) regarding the current global economic crash.
One of these readings is Paul Ehrlich’s 1968 The Population Bomb. There is still much to admire in this book, over 40 years since its publication. Here is mention of the greenhouse effect, along with good analysis of ecosystem degradation, pollution, and the fragility of industrial agriculture. However, the author famously forecast events that didn’t happen within the timeframe he thought they would (I say “famously,” because pro-growth PR trolls have made a cottage industry out of bashing Ehrlich ever since). Granted, these “forecasts” were presented only as likely scenarios, but many readers came away anticipating enormous famines in the 1970s—which, of course, never occurred (or were they merely postponed?).
Another wonderful book from decades past (in this case, 1978) by Warren Johnson, titled Muddling Toward Frugality: A Blueprint for Survival in the 1980s, is a reminder of lost opportunities.
Muddling is one of the classics of a genre that also includes William Catton’s Overshoot. Johnson begins the book with “An Ecological View of History” that manages, in 25 pages, to tell the story of our species about as concisely and clearly as anyone has managed to do (I have a particular fondness for encapsulated cultural-ecological histories—and offered my own version in the first chapter of The Party’s Over—so I know a good one when I see it). He goes on to explain the inevitability of the coming ecological-economic-demographic crisis, again with lucidity. The remainder of the book is a discussion of how we can “muddle through” the tough times ahead toward a way of life that is more localized and less consumptive of energy and resources.
The book is suffused with the aura of its time. In 1978 the world was reeling from soaring energy prices and was in economic turmoil. Johnson assumed that those high prices would continue, and that gradually society would adjust. It would all be rather painful, but we would eventually figure out, through trial and error, how to accommodate ourselves to scarcity, giving up on economic growth and learning to live within limits. Reading this in 2009, it’s pleasing to learn about the relatively shock-free future we can look backward to.
Johnson does note that a few potholes could get in the way of successful muddling. For example, if climate change accelerates, if the economy collapses, if there is geopolitical conflict over remaining resources, or if (as a result of any of these problems) political institutions become destabilized, then muddling just won’t cut it.
Tellingly, most of these scary developments have come to pass.
One possibility Johnson didn’t discuss: What if energy prices fall? Well, in that case there would be no pressure to adapt, and society would go back to its old bad habits of growing and consuming. Then the crunch, when it finally did arrive, would be much worse, making muddling impossible.
That, of course, is exactly what has occurred in the interim. Oil prices plummeted in the mid-1980s, stayed low through the ’90s, the SUV was born, and here we are.
Another recent read: Australian politician and foreign correspondent Colin Mason’s The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe, published in 2003. The book’s thesis was recently supplemented by Jonathan Porritt’s essay, “Avoiding the Ultimate Recession”: both writings hinge on essentially the same forecast for a giant economic-environmental crunch in about twenty years as a result of converging circumstances that include oil depletion, overpopulation, climate change, food and water shortages, and (in Mason’s analysis) a breakdown of international law.
Mason paints a dire picture of life two decades hence, and then in the rest of his book helpfully details 100 priorities for immediate action to avert the new Dark Age. It’s all great stuff. But the question that leapt to my mind the moment I saw the book’s title was: Do we really have until 2030?
Porritt, to be fair, says all of this could happen as soon as 2020. But still, the essential notion both authors share is that we have one bounce left before the splat, a period of business-as-usual that we must use wisely as a time for rapid proactive re-engineering of society to avert catastrophic climate change, environmental collapse, and resource depletion.
Mason and Porritt understandably don’t want to make Ehrlich’s or Johnson’s mistakes. Porritt tellingly titles his essay “Avoiding the Ultimate Recession.” He’s saying (paraphrasing now): “Hey folks, what we’re seeing currently may be bad, but we’ll get over it. What happens in a decade or two when climate change kicks in will constitute a Depression from which there is no recovery. So let’s get ourselves in gear to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
But the enormity of the current economic meltdown raises the question: Is this really just a hiccup, or is it the beginning of the end (not of the world, perhaps, but certainly of life as we have known it for the past decades)?
It’s still a judgment call, at this point.
Maybe Geithner and Bernanke can pull off a miracle and stabilize the economy. In that case, with energy demand having fallen so far below its level of just a year ago, it might take as long as five years from no—who knows, maybe even seven—for depletion and decline to cause oil prices to spike again, giving the economy the coup de grace. At that point, there can indeed be no recovery, only adaptation. That’s the best-case scenario I can imagine (in terms of preserving the status quo).
But I have a hard time picturing that. A much more likely scenario, in my view: We will see a few months of fairly gradual economic deterioration (slowed by the mighty efforts of the Bailout Brigade), followed by a truly ugly global economic meltdown. The result will be a general level of economic activity much lower than the world is accustomed to. Efforts to right the ship will include protectionist legislation (that will provoke international confrontations), the convening of world leaders to create a new global currency and financial system (which probably won’t succeed, at least not the first time around), and various populist uprisings that will lead to political instability around the globe. Energy demand will remain low, but energy production will fall dramatically due to lack of investment. Carbon emissions will therefore fall too, so the world’s attention will be diverted from tackling the greenhouse gas issue, even though climate impacts from previous carbon emissions will continue to worsen.
But here’s the crux of the matter: unlike the situation the world faced in the 1970s, there is no prospect for another cheap-energy bounce this time. It’s too late to muddle. We have run out the clock on proactive adaptation. From now on, collective survival will hinge on the strategies we adopt for emergency response. Some strategies will make matters worse, while others will lay the groundwork for better times to come. This is what it has come to. One doesn’t wish to sound shrill, but there it is.
The closer we have gotten to the crunch, the smaller the margin of error in predicting it. There really isn’t that much difference between Porritt’s most pessimistic date for catastrophe (2020) and my most wide-eyed optimistic one (2016). But perhaps the closer we get to the event horizon, the less discussions over timing really matter, because the whole conversation makes sense only as a way of motivating coordinated action prior to the crunch. Once the unwinding has begun, no more preparation is possible. Our strategy must change from crisis prevention to crisis management.
That’s where we are right now, in my view.
So what we desperately need to be talking about are ways to manage crisis that will minimize human suffering while preserving the environment and laying the groundwork for a sustainable way of life for future generations.
It’s a new conversation, so it will take a while to re-orient ourselves to it. But let’s not take too long. One thing we can say about the timing that I think just about everyone would agree with: it’s speeding up.
The second part of Richard Heinberg’s MuseLetter is the Manifesto of the Post Carbon Institute which is available here.
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Microsoft's phone business is struggling: Sales of its flagship Lumia brands are down 72% over the same time last year.
But Microsoft has been urging calm, dropping lots of hints that the long-rumored Surface Phone, said to be due in 2017, will change everything. Microsoft has even said that it could put Apple and the iPhone on the defensive.
It's a nice idea.
But Intel, one of Microsoft's oldest and best partners, is having its own difficulties breaking into mobile. As a result of those troubles, Intel might have made a decision that could sink the Surface Phone and its rumored best feature — the ability to run standard Windows desktop software — before it's even officially announced.
This week, Intel revealed that it won't release its next-generation Atom chip for mobile devices, which was code-named "Broxton." Competitors like Qualcomm and ARM have all pushed Intel out of the growing mobile market, and the chip titan just can't compete.
Meanwhile, Microsoft has been pitching a feature called "Continuum" as a killer app for the Windows 10 Mobile phone operating system. Basically, if you're using a Lumia 950 or 950XL flagship phone from Microsoft, Continuum lets you plug a phone into a monitor, a mouse, and a keyboard and use it kind of like a desktop PC.
That feature is very cool, and potentially game-changing for places where smartphones are more affordable than PCs, like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's childhood home of India. It's something that neither Google nor Apple can currently match.
But in its current form, and with the Lumia 950 running on a Qualcomm processor, Continuum is extremely limited.
First, the Lumia is clearly limited to the apps only on the Windows Store market, which is not as well stocked as Apple's App Store or the Google Play Store. Second, an app has to specifically support Continuum, and so far it's mostly Microsoft's own products, like the Edge browser and the Office suite, that have taken the plunge.
Intel could help
Intel could help Microsoft address all of those problems with Continuum. With an Intel chip, rather than a Qualcomm one, the would-be Surface Phone could more easily be rigged up to run legacy Windows software in Continuum mode. It would make that phone a much more viable and interesting PC-replacement option, with a much wider base of software.
Indeed, as The Register points out, Microsoft is said to have been planning on placing an Intel Atom chip into the Surface Phone.
The low-powered Atom would be ideal for cutting down on power consumption while still allowing for Windows software to run. It would take the novelty that is Continuum today and turn it into a real competitive advantage for the Surface Phone and Windows 10 Mobile.
With Intel jettisoning the next version of Atom, Microsoft could be in a pickle.
Maybe they'll figure out some way to cram a desktop PC's Intel chip in there, or maybe they have some kind of deep sorcery that will let them run Windows software on a smartphone processor.
But without that killer Continuum feature, it's going to make it much harder for Microsoft to make that promised dent in the smartphone market.
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Turning The Pages showcases some of the oldest and most magnificient books in the British Library. You can virtually turn the pages on Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks, beautifully illustrated medieval texts, and the first atlas of Europe — among many others.
That’s neat in itself. What’s even better for English Language Learners is that each page in each book has a short text description with audio support. Much of the text would be accessible to high Intermediate English Language Learners.
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Name: Ali Sifton
Issue: Infrastructure/Transit: How to make it easier to get around Toronto
What’s the big idea: What if we used the GO trains to move people in the city as well?
How will the big idea work: By adding a couple of quick city stops on an existing GO line we can make our transit infrastructure work harder. For example, if during peak hours the Barrie line stopped at Dundas or Liberty Village, it would help provide relief on other transit systems (streetcar), remove some cars from the road and only add a couple of minutes to commuters’ journeys. The added stop would also allow for additional services on the line (right now just five trips each way per day). Users would pay as they would for TTC - $3 a trip or with a TTC card.
How much will your big idea cost, and how would it be funded: Funded by the governments, all that is needed is the addition of a platform, at least in the short term.
How will you implement your big idea: Sending it to you guys.
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"We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.
Who has not been the embarrassed guest at family meals where the father or mother treated their grown-up offspring with an incivility which, offered to any other young people, would simply have terminated the acquaintance? Dogmatic assertions on matters which the children understand and their elders don't, ruthless interruptions, flat contradictions, ridicule of things the young take seriously - sometimes of their religion - insulting references to their friends, all provide an easy answer to the question "Why are they always out? Why do they like every house better than their home?"
Who does not prefer civility to barbarism?
If you asked any of these insufferable people - they are not all parents of course - why they behaved that way at home, they would reply, "Oh, hang it all, one comes home to relax. A chap can't be always on his best behaviour. If a man can't be himself in his own house, where can he? Of course we don't want Company Manners at home. We're a happy family. We can say anything to one another here. No one minds. We all understand."
Once again it is so nearly true yet so fatally wrong.
Affection is an affair of old clothes, and ease, of the unguarded moment, of liberties which would be ill-bred if we took them with strangers. But old clothes are one thing; to wear the same shirt till it stank would be another. There are proper clothes for a garden party; but the clothes for home must be proper too, in their own different way. Similarly there is a distinction between public and domestic courtesy. The root principle of both is the same: "that no one give any kind of preference to himself."
C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
Civility is a certain ease of behavior, a tolerant awareness and acceptance of the commonalities of the human condition, supported by kindness.
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|Publication number||US5643191 A|
|Application number||US 08/381,690|
|Publication date||Jul 1, 1997|
|Filing date||Jan 26, 1995|
|Priority date||Jan 26, 1995|
|Publication number||08381690, 381690, US 5643191 A, US 5643191A, US-A-5643191, US5643191 A, US5643191A|
|Inventors||Gerald D. Buckberg, Russell A. Heimstaedt, John M. Taylor|
|Original Assignee||Sorin Biomedical Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (20), Non-Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (20), Classifications (16), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
Reference is made to our co-pending application, Ser. No. 08/379,393 filed on even date herewith entitled Apparatus And Method Of Cardioplegia Delivery which is hereby incorporated by reference.
This invention relates to apparatus and methods used in the administration of blood and cardioplegia solutions during cardiac surgery. More particularly, the invention is directed to a cardioplegia delivery device which may be used to deliver warm cardioplegia fluids and a method of converting to the delivery of cold cardioplegia fluids during the surgery.
During open-heart surgery the blood of the patient is bypassed to an extracorporeal support system which supplies the pumping function of the heart and the oxygenation function of the lungs. This effectively isolates the heart enabling the surgeon to make the necessary repairs to the heart. During the surgery it is desirable to arrest the beating/pumping action of the heart. It is also important during the time that the heart is isolated from the blood supply circuit that the heart be protected from ischemia or lack of blood flow which can result in permanent damage to the heart.
It is well known that the heart may be protected during open heart surgery by utilizing a technique commonly known as cold cardioplegia. This involves administering to the heart a cooled cardioplegia fluid which may consist of a crystalloid chemical solution containing potassium and other additives or a mixture of the crystalloid solution with blood. Use of a cooled cardioplegia fluid comprising a mixture of oxygenated blood and crystalloid solution is known to be effective in keeping the heart arrested while at the same time keeping the heart oxygenated. The cardioplegia fluid is cooled by utilizing a cardioplegia delivery system which includes a heat exchanger.
In addition to the cold cardioplegia technique described above, some heart surgeons have more recently begun utilizing a technique called warm continuous blood cardioplegia. In this technique the cardioplegia fluid is not cooled and, consequently, it is not necessary to use a heat exchanger in the cardioplegia delivery system. This technique involves supplying a cardioplegia fluid mixture of warm oxygenated blood and cardioplegia solution throughout the cardiac surgery. This technique has gained acceptance among some surgeons as a safe and effective means of arresting and protecting the heart during surgery.
Whether warm cardioplegia or cold cardioplegia is prescribed by the physician, the manner of administration of the cardioplegia fluid during surgery is similar. Cardioplegia delivery systems include components which supply blood and cardioplegia solution, mix the desired ration of blood/cardioplegia solution and then supply the mixture to the patient's heart. A specific ratio of oxygenated blood with cardioplegia solution containing potassium and other additives, is delivered to the coronary arteries. The term cardioplegia fluid, as used herein, shall mean any ratio of blood to cardioplegia solution and shall include 100% blood or 100% cardioplegia solution. Once the heart is arrested, the delivery system continues to supply the cardioplegia fluid to keep the heart arrested and to deliver oxygen to the myocardium. Pressures and temperatures are monitored to avoid damage to the heart. At the end of the bypass procedure, 100% blood is commonly administered to flush the cardioplegia solution out of the myocardium allowing the heart to be returned to its normal sinus rhythm.
During the process of cardioplegia delivery several problems can arise. First, air bubbles can be created in the cardioplegia fluid. Second, if a line is clamped during the procedure the cardioplegia delivery system may become over pressurized. Thus, it would be highly desirable to provide a cardioplegia delivery device which is able to eliminate air bubbles which are inadvertently admitted into the cardioplegia fluid. It would also be advantageous to provide a cardioplegia delivery device which is able to safely and efficiently react to over pressurization of the system without damaging the components of the system or resulting in loss of losing the patient's blood or cardioplegia solution.
Further, when warm cardioplegia is indicated and prescribed by the physician it is desirable to use a cardioplegia delivery device which does not include a heat exchanger. This results both in a cost savings and in a reduction in priming volume. However, using present delivery devices it is difficult to reconnect the delivery circuit to include a heat exchanger during the course of the surgery if it becomes necessary to cool the heart with the cardioplegia fluid. Therefore, it would be desirable to provide a cardioplegia delivery system that can be used initially without a heat exchanger if warm cardioplegia is indicated and later be converted quickly and easily to include a heat exchanger if cold cardioplegia is indicated during the surgery.
In accordance with the present invention there is disclosed a cardioplegia delivery system for delivering cardioplegia fluid to the heart of a patient. The system includes a first delivery unit having a housing with cardioplegia fluid inlet and outlet ports. The cardioplegia outlet port is adapted for connection in a manner allowing delivery of the cardioplegia fluid to the patient. The delivery unit further includes an air removal element within the housing. The air removal element may include a membrane positioned at the top of the housing with a one-way valve located above the membrane. The membrane is adapted to allow air to pass through the membrane and to block the passage of fluids at normal operating pressures of the device. Air is allowed to escape through the one-way valve located at the top of the housing when the pressure reaches a predetermined air pressure based upon the design of the one-way valve. The air removal element may further include a screen positioned in the cardioplegia fluid flow path between the fluid inlet and fluid outlet.
The delivery system includes a second delivery unit having a housing defining a cardioplegia fluid flow path having cardioplegia fluid inlet and outlet ports at opposite ends of the flow path. The outlet port of the second delivery unit is connected to the inlet port of the first delivery unit. The second delivery unit may include an air removal element similar to that contained in the first delivery unit. The second delivery unit includes a heat exchange element positioned adjacent the cardioplegia fluid flow path which provides a means to control the temperature of the cardioplegia fluid. Either or both of the first and second delivery devices may also incorporate an integral pressure relief valve for diverting cardioplegia fluid should the pressure in the interior of the housing exceed a predetermined value based upon the design specifications of the pressure relief valve.
The invention may also comprise a method of converting the delivery of warm cardioplegia fluid to cold cardioplegia fluid during open heart surgery. The method comprises providing a first cardioplegia fluid delivery unit having a cardioplegia fluid inlet and a cardioplegia fluid outlet and further having an air elimination element. The method includes connecting the outlet of the first cardioplegia delivery unit to tubing in a manner that provides delivery of the cardioplegia fluid to the heart of the patient and connecting the cardioplegia inlet of the first cardioplegia delivery unit to a source of cardioplegia fluid which may comprise blood, a blood and cardioplegia solution mixture, or pure cardioplegia solution, or any combination thereof. The warm cardioplegia fluid is delivered to the patient for the duration of a first time period during which warm cardioplegia is indicated and prescribed by the physician. The method further includes disconnecting the cardioplegia fluid source from the cardioplegia fluid inlet of the first cardioplegia delivery unit after the duration of the first time period and providing a second cardioplegia fluid delivery unit having a cardioplegia fluid inlet and a cardioplegia fluid outlet. The second cardioplegia fluid delivery unit has an air elimination element and a heat exchanger for controlling the temperature of the cardioplegia fluid. The method includes reconnecting the cardioplegia fluid source to the input of the second delivery unit and connecting the output of the second delivery unit to the input of the first delivery unit and delivering a cooled cardioplegia fluid to the patient from the output of the first cardioplegia fluid delivery unit. Either the first delivery unit or the second delivery unit or both may include a pressure relief valve for diverting cardioplegia fluid from the delivery units should the interior pressure exceed a predetermined value which is dependent upon the design specifications of the pressure relief valve.
The foregoing and other aspects of the present invention will be best appreciated with reference to the detailed description of the invention which follows when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a schematic view of a cardioplegia delivery system which includes a cardioplegia delivery device in accordance with the present invention.
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a cardioplegia delivery device with an integrated heat exchanger for use in cold cardioplegia delivery.
FIG. 3 is an exploded view of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 2.
FIG. 4 is a top view in cross-section of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 2 illustrating the cardioplegia fluid flow path.
FIG. 5 is a cross-sectional view of the air chamber portion of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 3.
FIG. 6 is a cross-sectional view of the pressure relief valve utilized in the present invention.
FIG. 7 is a cross-sectional side view of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 2 showing the flow paths of the cardioplegia fluid and heat exchange fluid.
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a cardioplegia delivery device utilized in the administration of warm cardioplegia.
FIG. 9 is an exploded view of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 8.
FIG. 10a is a cross-sectional side view of the cardioplegia delivery device of FIG. 8 illustrating the flow path of cardioplegia fluid and FIG. 10b is a magnified view in cross-section of the inlet of the delivery device.
FIG. 11 is a schematic view of a cardioplegia delivery device utilized after the conversion from warm cardioplegia to cold cardioplegia delivery.
FIG. 12 is an exploded perspective view of the multi-position disconnect valve used in the present invention.
FIG. 13 is a side cross-sectional view of the valve of FIG. 12.
The cardioplegia delivery system of the present invention can be understood generally with reference to FIG. 1. The cardioplegia delivery system includes cardioplegia delivery device 10 which, in this embodiment includes an air chamber 12 and a heat exchanger 14. Cardioplegia delivery device 10 will be discussed in more detail with respect to FIGS. 2-7. In this embodiment heat exchanger 14 is incorporated with air chamber 12 into a single integral unit. Heat exchanger 14 and air chamber 12 may be bonded or affixed together in any conventional manner resulting in a fluid tight seal. Heat exchanger 14 includes an inlet 16 and an outlet 18 which, in operation, are connected to a source of heat exchange fluids (not shown) such as cold water. Although the embodiment of the cardioplegia delivery device 10 illustrated in FIG. 1 includes heat exchanger 14 the system shown may also be used with the cardioplegia delivery device shown in FIGS. 8-10 which is used for warm cardioplegia and does not include a heat exchanger.
The cardioplegia delivery system of FIG. 1 includes at least one cardioplegia solution source 20. In the embodiment disclosed two cardioplegia solution sources 20 are used. The sources may contain identical cardioplegia solution or one source may contain a cardioplegia solution having a higher concentration of potassium than the other. The higher concentration may be used initially with the lower concentration source being used after the heart has been arrested. The perfusionist may allow cardioplegia solution to flow through solution line 28 by opening shunt 30. Oxygenator 26 provides a source of oxygenated blood which is pumped through blood line 32 by roller pump 34 to the inlet 36 of cardioplegia delivery device 10. The delivery circuit may be provided with a shunt 38 which allows the perfusionist to supply pure blood to the cardioplegia delivery device 10.
Depending upon the size of the tubing and the activation of the various shunts in the delivery circuit the perfusionist is able to supply cardioplegia fluid to the inlet 36 of delivery device 10 in varying mixtures. It will be apparent that as the cardioplegia solution and blood are pumped through pump 34 they are mixed at a Y connection 40 prior to entering inlet 36 through cardioplegia fluid line 41. The cardioplegia fluid passes through heat exchanger 14 and air chamber 12 and exits the device through an outlet port 42 as better seen in FIG. 2. Outlet port 42 is connected to a patient return line 44 through which the cardioplegia fluid is delivered for perfusion of the patient's heart. Air chamber 12 includes a pressure monitor port 46 (as best seen in FIG. 4) which may be connected to a pressure transducer 48 for display of the internal pressure of the air chamber at pressure gauge 50.
Air chamber 12 also includes a pressure relief valve 52 as best seen in FIGS. 3-6. Pressure relief valve 52 is connected by tubing 54 to a cardiotomy reservoir 56. As will be discussed in more detail hereafter this allows cardioplegia fluid to be recirculated back to the cardiotomy reservoir if the internal pressure of the system exceeds a predetermined level.
The cold cardioplegia delivery device 10 shown in FIG. 1 is set forth in more detail in FIGS. 2-7. As best seen in FIG. 3 device 10 comprises two distinct components, air chamber 12 and heat exchanger 14. Heat exchanger 14 includes a heat exchanger housing 58 and an end cap 60. A pleated heat exchange element 62 is contained within housing 58. Element 62 is comprised of a chevron-grooved, closely packed, pleated stainless steel sheet bent in an accordion fashion to create separate vertical channels. Cardioplegia fluid flows through the channels on one side of the stainless steel sheet while heat exchange fluid, typically water, is pumped into the unit through inlet 16, through the channels on the other side of heat exchange element 62 and out of the heat exchanger through outlet 18. By controlling the temperature of the water, one is able to control (heat or cool) the temperature of the cardioplegia fluid. The finned arrangement of the heat exchanger is designed to channel blood into a thin film for gentle mixing and efficient heat exchange yet allowing for ease of priming the unit without trapping air.
The flow paths of cardioplegia fluid (arrows 63) and water (arrows 65) through the heat exchanger are illustrated in FIG. 7. The flow paths are counter current thus providing for greater heat exchange efficiency. The flow paths on either side of the pleated fins are bounded at the top and bottom by potting material. The unit is constructed so that the fins extend through the potting material on both the top and bottom of the unit reducing the possibility of a water to cardioplegia fluid leak. Any fluid leaking through the potting material will leak to the atmosphere instead of the other side of the fin.
Air chamber 12 includes a one-way air elimination valve 64 and a temperature port 66 as best seen in FIG. 5. Air chamber 12 includes a membrane 68 positioned at the top of the air chamber. In the preferred embodiment membrane 68 is comprised of a hydrophobic PTFE material with a pore size of 0.45 microns, a thickness of 0.01 cm and a surface area of 4.1 cm2. Such a membrane will pass air but not fluids up to a pressure of 1300 mmHg. This is known as the water entry pressure of the membrane. Membrane 68 is supported by a plurality of support struts 71 which hold the membrane in place and prevent the shape of the membrane from distorting under pressure. Valve 64 prevents air from flowing back across the membrane into the cardioplegia fluid path in the event a negative pressure were created inside the air chamber. Valve 64 is a one-way umbrella check valve. In the preferred embodiment, valve 64 is comprised of silicone rubber and will release internal air pressure when it reaches 5 mmHg. The valve reseals when the internal pressure falls below 3 mmHg thus preventing outside air from flowing back into the air chamber. The one-way valve 64 is protected on top of the device with a vented plastic cover 70.
To further enhance the air elimination capacity of air chamber 12 a bubble screen 72 is included. Screen 72 is positioned in the cardioplegia fluid flow path just above the cardioplegia fluid outlet 42. Screen 72 serves two useful purposes. First, it deflects air bubbles in the cardioplegia fluid to the top of the air chamber where they can be eliminated across membrane 68. Second, the screen functions as a filter to remove solid particulate from the cardioplegia fluid before it is delivered to the patient's heart. In the preferred embodiment the screen is comprised of a 105 micron polyester mesh molded into a support structure of ABS plastic.
Potential over pressurization of the device is prevented by pressure relief valve 52 which is mounted in the upper portion of air chamber 12. The specific construction of pressure relief valve is illustrated in FIG. 6. Valve 52 can be seen to comprise a molded disk cup 74 held between back housing 76 and front housing 78. Back housing 76 is securely fixed as by bonding or by other suitable means to air chamber 12 so that valve 52 is held securely in place. Under normal operating conditions disk 74 rests against disk seat 80 preventing the flow of fluid from the air chamber. However, the pressure relief valve 52 is designed to open to relieve internal pressure when the internal pressure reaches 600 mmHg or greater. When the pressure in the air chamber exceeds 600 mmHg the valve opens to divert fluid until the internal pressure falls to below 600 mmHg, at which time the molded disk cup 74 reseats and stops the flow of fluid. Pressure relief valve 52 eliminates the potential of rupturing the device or other circuit components or of reaching the water entry pressure of membrane 68. It should be appreciated that although a specific configuration has been illustrated for valve 52 other known valve configurations could be utilized within the scope of the present invention. Additionally, it is possible to select valves or valve material which will cause the valve to open at different internal pressures depending on the specific design criteria used.
As previously mentioned, the cardioplegia delivery device 10 shown in FIG. 1 may include a heat exchanger (as shown) for cold cardioplegia delivery or it may consist of a device having no heat exchanger when warm cardioplegia is desired. Such a warm cardioplegia delivery device is shown in FIGS. 8-10. Cardioplegia delivery device 10' utilizes an air chamber which is identical to that utilized in the cold cardioplegia device described previously and, for purposes of clarity, like reference numerals will be used to identify the air chamber of the warm cardioplegia delivery device and its components.
As shown in FIG. 9 warm cardioplegia delivery device 10' is comprised of air chamber 12 which is securely bonded to a warm unit adapter 110. Warm unit adapter 110 includes an inlet into which the upper portion 116a of a valved connector 116 is attached. Upper portion 116a includes a spring 118 and a shut off valve 120. As best seen in FIG. 10a, when the upper portion 116a of connector 116 is not locked into position with the lower portion 116b, the base of shut off valve 120 is seated against O-ring 122 which blocks the flow of fluids through the connector.
Warm cardioplegia delivery device 10' is used when warm cardioplegia is desired. The method of use is identical to that described in connection with FIG. 1 except that no heat exchanger is provided to either cool or heat the cardioplegia fluid. The flow of cardioplegia fluid through warm cardioplegia delivery device 10' is shown in FIG. 10 by arrows 132.
Although cold cardioplegia device 10 may be used to deliver warm cardioplegia if the heat exchanger is not used there are certain disadvantages to doing so. First, the price of device 10 is higher because of the inclusion of the heat exchanger. Second, the heat exchanger increases the priming volume of the unit. These disadvantages may be overcome by utilizing the warm cardioplegia delivery device disclosed in the present invention if warm cardioplegia is prescribed. By using this device it is possible during bypass surgery to convert from warm cardioplegia delivery to cold cardioplegia if the physician determines it is advisable to cool the heart. The conversion is accomplished by connecting cardioplegia device 10' in series with cardioplegia device 10 as shown in FIG. 11.
If warm cardioplegia is prescribed a delivery circuit such as that shown in FIG. 1 is used and cardioplegia delivery device 10' is used in place of delivery device 10. If at some point during the bypass surgery temperature control becomes necessary delivery device 10 with heat exchanger 14 incorporated therein may be connected in the circuit in series with device 10' in the manner depicted in FIG. 11.
Cardioplegia device 10' is provided with multi-position valved disconnect 116. A valved disconnect 116 suitable for use in this invention is shown in detail in FIGS. 12 and 13. It should be understood that the upper portion 116a of the disconnect which is shown fitted at the inlet of warm unit adapter 110 has been modified to allow its attachment as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10. Valved disconnect 116 allows the operator to quickly disconnect the fluid line without discharging fluid. Disconnect 116 includes mated upper portion 116a and lower portion 116b. Upper portion 116a includes a connector stem 134 against which is seated a spring 136. Spring 136 biases a shut off valve 138 against an O-ring seal 140 to block the flow of fluids when the upper and lower portion of the valve are not in their final locked positions. Similarly, lower portion 116b has a connector stem 142, spring 144, shut off valve 146 and O-ring seal 148 which perform the same function. The upper and lower portions are mated together by twist locking them into place. The locking mechanism has two positions. The first locks the portions together but does not open shut off valves 138 and 146 to allow fluid flow. The second, locked, position is reached by further twisting the portions. This results in sections 150 and 152 being engaged with each other causing shut off valves 138 and 146 to be moved away from O-Ring seals 140 and 148, respectively. This opens the fluid flow in both portions of the valve. In the locked position O-ring 154 is seated on lip 156 preventing the valve from leaking. Device 10 is provided with tubing 126 extending from its outlet to the lower portion 116b of a valved disconnect 116. The inlet 36 of device 10 is connected to the upper portion 116a of a valved disconnect 116.
In use during the surgery the conversion from warm cardioplegia to cold cardioplegia may be made quickly and without spillage of cardioplegia fluid. It is anticipated that warm cardioplegia unit 10' will be supplied with a tubing pack which includes a multi-position valved disconnect 116 at its inlet. The cold cardioplegia unit will be supplied both as a stand alone unit meant for use if cold cardioplegia is desired or as an add on unit meant to be used to convert warm cardioplegia to cold cardioplegia. The add on unit shown in FIG. 11 will be supplied with a tubing pack which includes outlet tubing connected to the lower portion 116b of a disconnect valve 116 and inlet tubing connected to an upper portion 116a of a disconnect valve 116. Therefore, if during use of a warm unit 10' it is determined that cold cardioplegia is desirable the perfusionist need only disconnect the valve 116 at the inlet of unit 10' which closes the fluid flow valves in both the upper and lower portions of the valve. The add on unit is then inserted into the circuit by connecting the mating valve portions supplied with the add on unit to the upper and lower valve portions of the valve which has been disconnected. Once the connection is completed the flow of cardioplegia fluid is resumed.
Since cardioplegia devices 10 and 10' are both provided with similar air elimination mechanisms it is not necessary to prime the circuit before continued use. The membrane and one-way valve combinations in both devices will purge the units of air and prevent any air from being pumped to the patient.
From the foregoing detailed description of specific embodiments of the invention, it should be apparent that an improved cardioplegia delivery device has been disclosed. Although particular embodiments of the invention have been disclosed herein in detail, this has been done for the purpose of illustration only, and is not intended to be limiting with respect to the scope of the appended claims, which follow. In particular, it is contemplated by the inventors that various substitutions, alterations and modifications may be made to the embodiments of the invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as defined by the claims. For instance, the choice of materials or variations in the shape of the air chamber, heat exchanger or the components thereof or the substitution of disconnect valves of different configuration are believed to be a matter of routine for a person of ordinary skill in the art with knowledge of the embodiments disclosed herein.
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GEORGE H. JEROME was born at Pompey, Onondaga Co., N. Y., Oct. 23, 1819. His parents, Ira and Irene (Cass) Jerome,
were both of American birth and English extraction. The family tme spreads wide and high on Pompey Hill, which
has now become classic ground,_an inland Pilgrim Rock, to which statesmen, poets, and merchant princes are proud
to trace their genealogy.
With sinews toughened in this bracing air and a mind inspired in the old academy, George went to Hamilton College,
where he graduated in 1842. Hp then entered upon the study of the law. July 9, 1846, he married Miss Charlotte
L. Dana, daughter of Eleazer Dana. of Owego, N. Y., and sister of the late Cyrus Dana, of Niles, an accomplished
lady of a noted family, including among its members Charles A. Dana, of New York. Soon after his marriage, Mr.
Jerome removed to Niles, in the State of Michigan, and entered upon the practice of his profession; but, he soon
accepted a magisterial office, which he found more lucrative and pleasant than a practice at Berrien, the remote
county seat. As a magistrate he soon achieved the lasting friendship of his brethren of the bar, and the confidence
and respect of all his fellow citizens.
In 1851 the growing greatness of Chicago attracted his attention, and he abandoned a profitable business and the
most agreeable social relations and cast his fortunes in the’ whirl of that city. He remained in Chicago until
1856, engaging in real estate operations with his proverbial success, when, through some accidental circumstances,
he removed to the capital of Iowa, and became the proprietor and managing editor of the Iowa City Republican, which
from the oldest then became the ablest political journal of the State. While in this commanding position Mr. Jerome
was also for several years chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, and made himself felt in the affairs
of the State, and in the policy of his party in the first years of the war. As an express recognition of his services
in this behalf; at the personal instance of President Lincoln, he was appointed assessor of internal revenue for
a district embracing twelve counties, a position which he filled for four years in the most creditable manner,
and then voluntarily resigned in favor of a meritorious and disabled colonel of the Union army. At this period
of his life, feeling a desire to withdraw from public employments and engage in rural pursuits, he recollected
the enchanting valley of the St. Joseph, for which, although he had wandered so far, he still retained an affection.
Returning to Niles lie selected a home "Sabine Farm” in the southern suburb, overlooking the city and river
and the magnificent highlands of the Pottawattamie reservation. Here, like a Roman patrician, he established his
villa and tower, and, in great part with his own hands, embellished the surroundings with gardens, vineyards, cascades,
and fountains. Reposing from his toils in the shadow of his broad oaks and gorgeous maples, he studied philosophy
and the arts, and entertained the friends who sought him with elegant hospitality. Few men have a more extensive
personal acquaintance, and none a more attractive retinue of personal friends, embracing men of almost every political
opinion and religious creed, for, although firm and positive in his own views and convictions, he is always considerate
and tolerant of opposing opinions. Politically, he is a Democratic Republican. He was a delegate from Iowa to the
National Republican Convention at Philadelphia in 1856, and has adhered to that party ever since. In’ religious
association he seems inclined to the Congregational Church, possibly because his wife is a member of that body.
It is quite probable that he does not attach much importance to sectarian distinctions, but rather regards honesty
and uprightness of life as the essential elements of Christianity. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and
perhaps of some other civic societies. Mr. Jerome is eminently social in his habits and tastes; always affable,
animated, and cheerful, he infuses vitality wherever he goes. Expert in all games and pastimes, it is a positive
pleasure to be the victim of his superior skill. Indomitable energy, ceaseless activity, and executive ability
are his distinguishing qualities, adequate to every occasion. If by chance he is called upon to address the grangers
at a county fair, he showers upon them wisdom and wit in glittering profusion; or when a centennial jubilee occurs,
and he is pushed to the front, he astonishes the assembled thousands of his fellow citizens with a sunburst of
In 1873, Mr. Jerome was, as unexpectedly to his friends as to himself; appointed commissioner of State fisheries.
He seemed reluctant, but his friends urged him to accept, not dreaming, however, that he had either knowledge or
taste in the direction of its duties, but rather regarding the office as a sinecure and the commission as a compliment.
Governor Bagley, however, in urging his acceptance, seems to have had a more serious purpose and a better understanding
of the fitness of the appointment, for it is as a fisherman that Mr. Jerome is destined to go down to posterity.
No matter what honors or distinctions he may hereafter achieve in other directions, his fate is fixed. The smell
of the salmonidea is on his garments.
Once installed as superintendent of State fisheries, he entered upon his duties with his accustomed energy and
zeal. Throwing aside the pruning hook, he grasped the trident of our inland seas, where, like Neptune, “ He climbed
the chariot seat and rode upon the waves. The whales came forth from their deep haunts and frolicked round his
way; they knew their king.”
Addressing himself sedulously to his task, he soon made himself not only master of the science of ichthyology but
an expert in all the details of fish culture. Abounding in fish of the choicest varieties in all her vast waters,
Michigan had hitherto given no care to their culture or preservation. The field was an open one, and success or
failure depended upon him. He had great ends to accomplish with limited means. In glancing over his reports one
is amazed at the magnitude of his labors and the economy of his expenditures.
It is too soon to estimate the exact value of what he has accomplished, but it is undeniable that he has placed
Michigan in the front rank of fish growing States, and reared for himself a monument more enduring than brass,
a fame as a naturalist not to be forgotten as long as trout, white fish, or grayling swim in the blue waters around
the beautiful peninsula.
History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan
With Illistrations and Biographical Sketches
of Its Prominent Men and Pioneers.
D. W. Ensign & Co., Philadelphia 1880
Press of J. B. Lippincoff & Co., Philadelphia.
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Eurasian Collared Dove
|Copyright: Eyal Bartov (bartove)
|Date Taken: 2012-09-04|
|Exposure: f/8, 1/2000 seconds|
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|Photo Version: Original Version|
|Date Submitted: 2013-01-05 10:32|
|[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note|
|It is a medium sized dove, distinctly smaller than the Wood Pigeon, similar in length to a Rock Pigeon but slimmer and longer-tailed, and slightly larger than the related Turtle Dove, 30–33 cm long from tip of beak to tip of tail, with a wingspan of 47–55 cm, and a weight of 125–240 g. It is grey-buff to pinkish-grey overall, a little darker above than below, with a blue-grey under wing patch. The tail feathers are grey-buff above, and dark grey tipped white below; the outer tail feathers also tipped whitish above. It has a black half-collar edged with white on its nape from which it gets its name. The short legs are red and the bill is black. The iris is red, but from a distance the eyes appear to be black, as the pupil is relatively large and only a narrow rim of reddish-brown iris can be seen around the black pupil. The eye is surrounded by a small area of bare skin, which is either white or yellow. The two sexes are virtually indistinguishable; juveniles differ in having a poorly developed collar, and a brown iris.|
It is closely related to the Island Collared Dove of southeast Asia and the African Collared Dove of sub-Saharan Africa, forming a superspecies with these. Identification from African Collared Dove is very difficult with silent birds, with the African species being marginally smaller and paler, but the calls are very distinct, a soft purring in African Collared Dove quite unlike the Eurasian Collared Dove's cooing.From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is an amazing shot! You got a completely frozen action shot with great detail - right down to the water ripple and drops. Really nice capture.
I would rather have read about how you got this shot and what you were thinking, than the wikipedia bird description.
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No Child Left Behind Turns 12 Today. Now What?
Flashback, twelve years ago: President George W. Bush travels all the way to Hamilton, Ohio to put his signature on a law that was supposed to forever change the nation's schools by giving the federal government far more say over accountability, particularly for poor and minority children. In exchange, schools were supposed to get vastly more federal resources.
"Our schools will have higher expectations," Bush said at the time. "We believe every child can learn. Our schools will have greater resources to help meet those goals. Parents will have more information about the schools, and more say in how their children are educated. From this day forward, all students will have a better chance to learn, to excel, and to live out their dreams."
Of course, even at the bill signing, some folks at the school privately expressed doubts about the law's vision. Today, if you threw a rally to keep NCLB the way it is, no one would show up, as Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo, likes to say.
Why Hamilton High? It was in the district of Rep. John A. Boehner, then the chairman of the House education committee, and a major author of the NCLB law. Today, of course, Boehner is speaker of the House. He recently helped shepherd a bill that largely undid the federal accountablity system at the center of the NCLB law through the GOP-controlled chamber.
NCLB is undergoing another milestone on its 12th birthday. The law hits its dozen-year mark during the school year in which it specifies that, technically, all children are supposed to be proficient in reading and math. And a child who entered the first grade—and just beginning to learn to read—when NCLB passed is now a senior in high school, taking the SAT and sending off college applications.
Of course, the deadline comes with a big asterisk, as the law has some built-in breathing room so that not every kid actually has to score proficient, as long as the major at-risk populations continue to make gains.
And it's really (mostly) academic at this point. Nearly every state has a waiver from the NCLB law, and as part of that process the Education Department allowed states to set "ambitious but achieveable" achievement targets. States can choose, for instance, to cut the achievement gap between subgroup students (such as racial minorities) and other students in half in six years. What's more, bills under consider in Congress to reauthorize the law would amount to a significant watering down of its key provisions, putting states largely in the driver's seat.
Congress hasn't officially reauthorized the law (and may not do so anytime soon), so it's likely waivers will remain the law of the land until the end of the Obama administration. After that ... who knows?
Plus, there are eight states that don't have waivers yet—which means that they are still subject to the law as it used to be. It's an open question how strictly the department will enforce the law on those states, which are supposed to intervene in all schools that miss their achievement targets. (Waiver states are told to focus greater attention on a smaller number of schools. So far they are having mixed success.)
In the middle of all of this, other than the first few years of implementation, Congress didn't come anywhere close to providing the promised boosts to the major fomula programs in NCLB.
Bottom line: Nearly everyone agrees the law is due for a makeover, and seeing this highly publicized deadline come and go with little fanfare just seems to make that case stronger. But there is little agreement in Congress on what structure the new law should have, and there's almost no chance for new resources (the usual sweetener for reauthorization), so it's difficult to see a road forward.
So what's your take on the NCLB law on its birthday? Comments section is open.
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For the Elfalak family, this would forever be a September to remember as their 3-year-old son, diagnosed with autism, was miraculously found alive and healthy after spending three days in the woods.
Parents love to pay close attention to their growing kids, especially when they are between ages 0-5. Children sometimes wander off, put things in their mouths, or do the most unimaginable things, living their lives oblivious of consequences.
Now, this is part of the perks of being a parent, being present and attentive. However, when dealing with a child diagnosed with autism, one must exercise more patience, caution, and consciousness, as they must be handled specially.
The three-year-old boy with autism who spent three days in the woods | Photo: twitter.com/nswpolice
A few hours ago, reports reaching the news mills revealed that a couple in Sydney were looking for their child who went missing over the weekend.
The pair, Anthony and Kelly Elfalak, reside in a rural area in Putty around New South Wales, Australia, where their non-verbal son diagnosed with autism disappeared from. When they found out that he was missing, the worried parents reached out to authorities on Friday.
Without wasting time, they launched a search team with other volunteers from emergency service and other agencies including the Volunteer Rescue Association, State Emergency Service, Rural Fire Service, and the New South Wales Ambulances.
On Monday, the NSW Police Force released a clip via their official Twitter account, reporting that the missing child was found. It showed a clip of a helicopter scouting the woods, with voices relaying messages. The post read:
"A three-year-old missing on a rural property in the Hunter region since Friday has been located following a large-scale search."
Many other Twitter users who shared their excitement were stricken with overwhelming joy at how the boy survived alone for three days.
The toddler, AJ, was found wearing a sweatshirt, kneeling by a small body of water, cupping his hands to feed himself a drink. When the authorities reached him, they tried to comfort him with a sweet touch.
Simon Merrick, the Chief Inspector of the NSW State Emergency, recounted the touching scene to reporters. He explained that the young man displayed a wide and genuine smile across his face, one that would remain in the mind of the rescuer.
When he heard his mother's voice, he looked at her, appearing excited to be reunited with his folks, before closing his eyes to sleep in the ambulance.
He was found with a diaper rash, a few bites, and abrasion. The 3-year-old was evaluated by paramedics before being taken to the hospital for a broader observation.
It was unbelievable how AJ survived his time in the woods. His parents labeled the experience a miracle and added that they were hopeful their son would be found alive.
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