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Seed Libraries Help Our Community
Northeast Ohio staple Dave’s Market recently announced the closing of its Euclid Beach location. While a new site will open about 10 minutes from the previous spot, this change will impact those who live near the family-owned market. Seniors who live in the residential high-rise buildings in proximity depend on Dave’s Market, due to both its food quality and convenient location. Access to fresh food is now a concern for the senior citizens in the North Collinwood area who could previously travel to Dave’s Market by foot or a short vehicle ride. If economic measures are not put into place to ensure grocer success, this transition could result in a food desert.
Food deserts are:
Urban neighborhoods and rural towns without ready access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food. Instead of supermarkets and grocery stores, these communities may have no food access or access only to fast food restaurants and convenience stores that offer few healthy and affordable food options (Cuyahoga County Board of Health, 2019, 4)
According to the assessment, approximately 59% of Cleveland residents live in a food desert. Of those 59%, 37.4% live more than one mile from a grocery store (CCBH, 2019, 12). This is especially problematic when residents in 20% of those households do not have access to a car. Grassroot organizations and food activists are executing long-term outreach projects to help close the gaps in produce accessibility.
One such organization is the Hummingbird Project. The Hummingbird Project supports “social justice by reconnecting people to the natural world and empowering community resilience through ecological regeneration and sustainable practices” (The Hummingbird Project, 2022). One of their initiatives includes the Cleveland Seed Library. This program empowers libraries to be involved in eliminating food inequality, restoring biological diversity, and developing a community of seed savers and gardeners by distributing open-pollinated seeds at no charge to the public. Ten of the twenty Seed Library locations are in Cleveland proper.
The Willoughby Public Library is proudly one of the libraries that offers free vegetable seeds through the Cleveland Seed Library. Patrons are allowed to “check out” five packs of seeds per month. No ID or library card required! Since Hummingbird Project volunteers dropped off the Seed Library, I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with several patrons from Lake and Geauga about why the library offers seeds, where the seeds are from (High Mowing Organic Seeds in Vermont), self-sufficiency, and the joys of gardening—a stress-reducing hobby in which over half of Americans, about 55% of the population (“Americans are growing”, 2020) now partake. Whether you are a curious beginner or highly versed in NEO cultivation, there is something for everyone.
Guest blog post by Mitz, Adult Services Librarian at the Willoughby-Eastlake Public Library
Americans are growing more than ever. (2020, June). Retrieved from https://www.miraclegro.com/en-us/library/americans-are-growing-more-ever
Cuyahoga County Board of Health (2019). Cuyahoga County Supermarket Assessment 2018 Inventory Update. Retrieved from https://www.countyplanning.us/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Cuyahoga-County-Supermarket-Assessment-2018-Inventory-Update-_FINAL-REPORT-030819.pdf
Hummingbird Project (2022). Retrieved from https://www.hummingbirdproject.org/mission-vision
Vandenberge, J. (2022, March 28). Announced closure of longtime Collinwood grocery store sparks ‘food desert’ concerns. News 5 Cleveland. https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/announced-closure-of-longtime-collinwood-grocery-store-sparks-food-desert-concerns
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A huge influx of information into businesses' data centres as a result of the Internet of Things (IoT) is set to fundamentally transform the way companies store, manage and analyse their data.
This is according to Gartner, which predicted that by 2020, there will be 26 billion items in use around the world that are able to generate data and by that time, IoT product and service suppliers will generate more than $300 billion in revenue.
Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner, said these deployments will create huge amounts of information, much of which will have to be processed and analysed in real-time.
He added: "Processing large quantities of IoT data in real time will increase as a proportion of workloads of data centres, leaving providers facing new security, capacity and analytics challenges."
As well as the physical and hardware challenges that this will create for businesses, the software tools firms use to manage their growing digital assets will need to be reviewed closely. For instance, database solutions will have to offer extremely fast performance and high levels of scalability in order to cope with the increased demands they will be under.
Because much of the information being generated by IoT items will be unstructured, how this is organised and managed within databases will also be a consideration that must be taken into account.
Taking advantage of technology such as cloud databases may also be highly useful for businesses, as Gartner suggested the amount of information could overwhelm traditional data centres and connectivity options.
Joe Skorupa, vice-president and distinguished analyst at the firm, said: "IoT threatens to generate massive amounts of input data from sources that are globally distributed. Transferring the entirety of that data to a single location for processing will not be technically and economically viable."
IoT is set for a major push in the next few years and it has the backing of several governments as a way to boost the global economy. Earlier this month, UK prime minister David Cameron announced his country would be investing £45 million of funding into research for the technology.
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(WESTERVILLE, OH — June 3, 2013) Oregon State University Associate Professor Dorthe Wildenschild, Ph.D., will offer two lectures in the National Ground Water Research and Educational Foundation's 2014 Henry Darcy Distinguished Lecture Series in Groundwater Science.
Wildenschild’s research focuses on physics, chemistry, and microbiology relevant to flow and transport in porous media.
The first of her two lectures is titled “What Happens in the Pore, No Longer Stays in the Pore: Opportunities and Limitations for Porous Media Characterization and Process Quantification Using X-ray Tomography.”
Wildenschild will provide an overview of the current state of imaging of porous media systems — and processes taking place within them — using x-ray tomography, a technique that allows for three-dimensional observation and measurement of variables internal to an otherwise opaque object. X-ray tomography has advanced to where it is possible to probe porous media in great detail, allowing for fully quantitative analyses of processes and mechanisms at the pore scale.
Also discussed will be technique limitations, as well as new potential advances that will allow for exciting new research in coming years. Applications of the technique to remediation of non-aqueous phase liquid in groundwater, the fundamentals of multiphase flow, and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide will be presented.
Wildenschild’s second lecture is titled “Optimizing Capillary Trapping as a Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Strategy: Pore-Scale Findings in Support of Larger-Scale Implementation.”
This lecture will examine how x-ray microtomography is being studied for possible use as a technique to optimize capillary trapping of carbon dioxide. Capillary trapping is a mechanism supporting carbon capture and storage, which is being considered as a mitigation strategy for emissions from concentrated sources such as coal-fired power plants.
Results so far indicate that carbon dioxide injection can be manipulated to facilitate optimal trapping of residual carbon dioxide.
Sites interested in hosting the Darcy Lecture are encouraged to complete the request form and submit it via e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.org by October 1, 2013. No other methods of request can be accepted.
NGWREF, founded in 1994 as an IRS-approved public charity, is operated by the National Ground Water Association as a 501(c)(3) public foundation focused on conducting educational, research, and other charitable activities related to a broader public understanding of groundwater.
NGWA, a nonprofit organization composed of U.S. and international groundwater professionals — contractors, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, scientists, and engineers — is dedicated to advancing groundwater knowledge. NGWA’s vision is to be the leading groundwater association that advocates the responsible development, management, and use of water.
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Popular Science Monthly/Volume 24/February 1884/Notes
Mr. Robert E. C. Stearns, in a paper read before the California Academy of Sciences, announces his conclusion, from his studies of the shells of the Colorado Desert and the region farther east (particularly from studies of Physa and Anodonta), that every item bearing upon the geographical distribution of the species indicates the mountain-lakes as the sources whence they are derived; points to their descent from northerly regions as well as from higher altitudes; and contributes additional testimony as to the antiquity of these widely spread though inferior forms of life.
General Richard D. Cutts, of the United States Coast Survey, died in Washington, December 13th, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He had been connected with the Coast Survey during the greater part of his life, and was at the time of his death first assistant superintendent of the service.
In a paper before the American Association on the "Serpentine of Staten Island, N.Y.," Dr. T. Sterry Hunt expressed himself in favor of the opinion of Dr. Britton, of the School of Mines, Columbia College, that the belt containing the mineral is a protruding portion of the Eozoic series. The appearance of isolated hills and regions of serpentine is common in other regions, and is by Dr. Hunt explained by the consideration that this very insoluble magnesian silicate resists the atmospheric agencies which dissolve limestones and convert gneisses to clay—the removal of which rocks leaves exposed the included beds and lenticular masses of serpentine. Similar appearances are seen in many parts of Italy, where ridges and bosses of serpentine are found protruding in the midst of Eocene strata, and have hitherto, by most European geologists, been regarded as eruptive masses of Eocene age. Mather, who described the Staten Island locality more than forty years ago, also looked upon the serpentine as an eruptive rock.
A curious instance of the kindling of a fire by means of the concentration of the sun's rays by a globular water-bottle through which they passed is related by a correspondent of "La Nature." The day was cold, but the sun shone brightly; the bottle, an "onion-shaped" flask, filled with water so as to form a perfect lens, sat upon the table. The starting of the fire, which would have caused great damage if the relater of the incident had not been present to extinguish it, was revealed by the smoke. A deliberate experiment was made on the next day, with complete success, in kindling a fire by this means.
The "Pall Mall Gazette" cites some more cases illustrating the quality of the learning furnished by the English board-schools. The study was geography. The children were able to give an accurate list of the exports of Norway, but could not recall the picture of a fiord. They knew that the latitude of Paris was 49°, but when asked, "What is latitude?" they were either dumb, or gave such answers as—"Latitude means lines running straight up"; "Latitude means zones or climate"; "Latitude is measured by multiplying the length by the breadth." Correct lists of imports were given, but customs duties were defined, by a girl, "Customs are ways, duties are things that we have to do, and we ought to do them"; by a boy, "Customers' duties are to go to the places and buy what they want, not stopping about, but go out when they are done."
According to tables prepared by Dr. Daniel Draper, of the New York Meteorological Observatory, Greenwich Observatory had 1,245 hours of sunshine in 1878, in a possibility of 4,447, while New York had 2,936 hours, in a possibility of 4,449; and in 1879, Greenwich had 977 hours, and New York 3,101 hours.
Professor Sven Nilsson, of the Lund University, Sweden, a distinguished zoölogist, died November 30th, at the age of ninety-seven years.
It is proposed to hold next year, in the building of the International Fisheries Exhibition at South Kensington, an exhibition illustrating the relations of food, dress, the dwelling, the school, and the workshop, with health. The exhibition will be divided into sections of education and health, and further into six principal groups: 1. Food-matters and their preparation; 2. Dress, with specimens of different styles and materials; 3, 4, and 5. What pertains to the healthful construction and fitting of the dwelling, the school, and the workshop; and, 6. All that relates to primary, technical, and art education.
Popular lore teaches several signs by which it pretends to determine from the weather on a particular day what the weather will be for a longer or shorter time in the future. M. A. Lancaster reports, in "Ciel et Terre" of Brussels, concerning a test he has made of one of these signs. It is that of St. Medard's day, or the 8th of June, concerning which a proverb is rife in the Continental countries that, if it rains then, it will rain for forty days afterward. M. Lancaster examined the record for fifty years, from 1833 to 1882, and found from it that, as a rule, it rained about as much and as often during the forty days following the 8th of June when it did not rain on that day as when it did. Taking the averages of all the years, there was a difference of 2·3 days, or less than one seventeenth, and of twelve millimetres (88·1-77·6) of rain in favor of the rainy St. Medard: not enough, certainly, on which to found a rule.
Mr. John Eliot Howard, F.R.S., a well known chemist and quinologist of London, died in November last, at the age of seventy-six years. His father, Mr. Luke Howard, F.R.S., was in his own day distinguished as a meteorologist.
Turgenieff, the great Russian novelist, recently deceased, had the heaviest brain that has yet been weighed—2,012 grammes. The average weight of the human brain is 1,390 grammes. The statistics of brain-weights so far gathered do not show that great intellects are marked by heavy brains. Cuvier's brain, 1,800 grammes, was considerably larger than the average, while Gambetta's was remarkably small. The brains of Raphael, Cardinal Mezzofanti, Charles Dickens, Lord Byron, and Charles Lamb, did not exceed the average, and only Mezzofanti's reached it.
Lieutenant Wissmann, a German explorer, is about to make another journey into Africa, the cost of which is defrayed by private contributions. His object will be to explore the Kaissai from Mukenge to its mouth into the Congo. The success of the expedition is likely to have an important bearing on the extension and development of trade on the Congo, and to contribute much to geographical knowledge; for the contemplated route will intersect the southern and unexplored part of the bend of the great river, probably in the middle,
The remains of Commandant Langle and other companions of the explorer La Pérouse, who were massacred by savages in the last century, have been discovered by the Roman Catholic missionaries on the Island of Tutuila, where the massacre occurred. A memorial chapel is to be built at the spot where they are buried.
The Italian traveler Sacconi, who was exploring the country of the Somaulis under the auspices of the Geographical Society of Milan, was murdered by the natives on the 12th of August. His death puts an end to one of the most important explorations of the day into a country concerning which many questions still remain to be settled.
Among the 20,000 articles of bronze belonging to the lake-dwellers so far found in Switzerland, about 30 per cent are rings, 17 per cent bracelets, 4 per cent knives, 3 per cent needles, 0·4 per cent hammers, and 0·2 per cent fibulæ.
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by Dr. Christoph Sühnel, frobas GmbH
The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is becoming the dominant approach for the verification of large digital designs. However, new users often express concern about the effort required to generate a complete and useful UVM testbench. But the practical experience collected in numerous OVM and UVM projects during the last few years shows a different view. The UVM is a very suitable methodology for any kind of design and implementation, i.e. ASIC and FPGA due to the availability of the UVM library and the well-defined testbench structure. This allows the automation of essential steps in employing the UVM.
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Milton Friedman Day
The London-based magazine The Economist is in the midst of a week-long web discussion celebrating his many contributions to the field.
Universities across the country are hosting a "Day of National Debate," and even YouTube is hosting a "Challenge the Status Quo" video contest in honor of the man that made a living doing just this.
John Stossel chronicled each of these events and more in his January, 24, 2007, column posted on TownHall.com.
PBS is to air a special this evening titled "The Power of Choice: The Life and Ideas of Milton Friedman." His discovery of the root causes of inflation (poor monetary policy), the connection between capitalism and political freedom, and his advocacy of an all-volunteer army are among the topics this 90-minute documentary intends to explore.
Loudon County, Virginia, went so far as to create a holiday for the famed economist, planning to celebrate his birthday every January 31st. “Loudoun County owes its success to the global economy that Friedman helped create,” Eugene Delgaudio, a county supervisor and sponsor of the resolution, said in a statement. “Without Friedman’s lifelong advocacy of greater individual freedom we would never know the quality of life we enjoy in both Loudoun County and United States.” (Wall Street Journal, Dec. 15, 2006)
Milton Friedman is nothing less than my intellectual hero. He essentially adapted the tenets of Adam Smith's invisible hand to the 20th Century and prevailed in a battle with those who thought the government had answers to all of societal ills. Bill Clinton's statement that the "era of big government was over" was nothing less than an exclamation point on Friedman's career pushing for this very goal. But the battle is far from over. Some of his ideas are still in the experimentation phase, including school vouchers and privatized social security. Others are sincerely threatened, particularly the notion of a global free market where we all benefit from specialization and comparative advantage.
In urge you to watch tonight's PBS special, read one of Friedman's wonderful works (Capitalism and Freedom, Free to Choose), and engage in a great debate over the fate of our national and world economy. Milton Friedman, a man of short stature, was nonetheless "the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th Centuary...possibly all of it." (according to The Economist) Thankfully, his ideas stand tall even though his mind left us to fend for ourselves.
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Simultaneous river clean-up in Central Visayas kicks off
MANDAUE CITY, Cebu, Philippines – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) launched a simultaneous river clean-up in 10 rivers in Central Visayas on Friday morning, February 22, 2019.
According to DENR-7 Director Gilbert Gonzales, the clean-up was done to address the problems of these Type C urban rivers which are already unsuited for drinking, bathing or swimming.
The 10 major rivers were the Abatan, Mananga, and Manaba rivers in Bohol; Bulacao, Butuanon, and Luyang rivers in Cebu; Banica, Panamang-an, and Sicopong rivers in Negros Oriental; and Señora River in Siquijor.
Gonzales led the launch at the Butaonon River view deck in Mandaue City, where at least 400 volunteers came to help in the clean up drive.
“This is to show the people and encourage them to protect our rivers and begin to handle their garbage responsibly,” he said.
Gonzales chose Butuanon as the launching area because of the ‘intensive’ rehabilitation program Cebu has done in the past years, including coordination with local government units and private establishments for the treatment of waste water.
“I want Butuanon to be an example on how agencies can unite to protect the rivers,” said Gonzales.
He admitted that there are still problems that are needed to be addressed with the Butuanon RIver but they are already working on it.
In Negros Oriental, at least 1000 volunteers attended the clean up-drive in the Sicopong River in Sta. Catalina town, Pinamang-an River im Bais City, and Banica River in Dumaguete City.
Jeanette Orcullo, the coordinator of Provincinal Environment and Natural Resources (PENRO) Negros Oriental, said via a phone call that she hopes the volunteers who joined Friday’s clean up can encourage others to take part of the upcoming activities on March and on April. /bmjo
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Speak Your Mouth: 5 Tips for Word-of-Mouth Marketing
Ted Wright knows a thing or two about marketing. The founder and chief executive officer of Fizz Corp., an Atlanta-based marketing firm, is an expert on the unlimited benefits of the seemingly infallible word-of-mouth marketing efforts. Wright explains that one of the most important things is to be interesting. “Make it really interesting or don’t do it at all,” he says. “Unless you’re going to be really interesting or relevant, they’re not going to show up.” Though it’s one of the oldest forms of marketing, Wright discusses five tips on how to capitalize on word-of-mouth marketing efforts that will build your brand while simultaneously identifying potential customers.
1. Know your influencers. “The reality is one North American customer tells the other nine what to buy in every category you can imagine,” Wright says. These influencers always are seeking out stories they can share with their friends, he explains. A bar owner needs to be tapping into this network. If this is done correctly, a bar or club will see a tremendous amount of growth. “Influencers have three particular traits,” Wright says. They like to try new things because they’re new, they love to share stories with their friends and they’re motivated more by experience than by money, he says.
2. Advertising, as we know it, doesn’t always work. “Advertising in the broad sense is ineffective,” Wright says, noting that doing the same type of advertising — whether it’s on taxis in New York, buying space in Time Out magazines or using the concierge at local hotels — “doesn’t work anymore.” Why? Because “everyone is doing it,” he adds. And when everyone is doing it, it becomes “undifferentiated.” You have to find your influencers so people will pay attention and recognize your message. Although times are changing and advertising is evolving, Wright advises bar and club owners not to get distracted. “Don’t worry if it doesn’t happen overnight,” he says. “There is no such thing as overnight long-term success. (It takes) work and time because stories spread at an organic rate.”
3. Be disciplined in your marketing efforts. Wright says the “cacophonous noise that has bled together (from outside advertisers) becomes white noise.” Venue owners should be using their regular patrons to draw in outside crowds. They’re your best avenue to attract new customers to your establishment. There’s a discipline to word-of-mouth marketing efforts, Wright explains. “What you have to do is ask yourself, ‘Is what I’m spending my marketing money against, will that create a conversation? Who will be interested in it? To those that are interested, who will they share that conversation with?’”
4. Every story has three compelling pieces. Wright says there are three crucial elements to every advertising story. It has to be interesting, relevant to customers’ friends or who they’re having a discussion with and authentic to how customers understand the category. Remember, he says, “your influencers are always seeking out stories they can share with friends” so, as a bar owner, you should come up with a story that is interesting, relevant and authentic. Wright reiterates that you have to have your story right, and you have to be tough about your story, especially in how relevant and authentic is it.
5. Guests are paying for an experience. “Every time someone comes into your bar, they’re having that experience. They’re coming in to have that experience their friends have,” Wright says. “If they’re coming into your bar, it’s a valuable experience to them, and they’ll pay to have that experience.” Part of having an unforgettable experience is about the story and the brand your bar is projecting. Wright says if you claim to have artisanal cocktails but sell Sex on the Beach cocktails made with well spirits, guests will feel hoodwinked and won’t pay $12 for a drink. People will spend money if they’re getting what they came for. If not, they will blacklist your bar, he says.
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Whales are in Whitby’s blood. From 1753, when the first ships left the east coast harbour for Greenland, Whitby men have braved the seas in search of some of the world’s largest and often most elusive creatures. At the height of the industry,
30 years either side of 1800, there were at least 55 boats bringing back the carcasses
of whales to be rendered in huge boilers on the quayside.
The men engaged in this bloody trade risked their lives every time they sailed. Their ships were threatened by mountainous seas and crushing arctic ice, as well as by the practicalities of grappling with an animal that was often much larger than
the ship they were on.
Now, whales swim free from the threat of Whitby sailors pointing a harpoon at them, but it’s still possible to sail from the town to shoot minke whales – with a camera – on board whale-watching boats run by Whitby Coastal Cruises.
Get close to whales
Two boats, Kerrera and Esk Belle III, currently take a
total of up to 60 passengers
for weekend whale-watching trips that last two-and-a-half hours and will go up to three miles offshore.
Another boat, Specksioneer, (a specksioneer was a whaling boat’s chief harpoon-firer) is currently being refitted and will return next season for longer excursions further off the coast.
In the autumn, whales move south along the east coast of Yorkshire, following the shoals of mackerel and herring. Robin Petch, local whale-watcher and chairman of the national charity Sea Watch Foundation, which works to improve the conservation and protection of whales, dolphins and porpoises in British and Irish waters, is one of the qualified skippers who will take visitors out in the boats. He and former trawler skipper Bryan Clarkson are both experts in finding whales off the Whitby coast. Minke whales, with their distinctive pointed heads and curved back fin, are spotted most often – they can be up to 10m (32ft) long. Other recent sightings have included sei, fin and humpback whales.
A shore thing
There can never be guarantees that whales will appear to order when you’re out at sea of course, though if you don’t manage to spot one there are other, smaller cetaceans to look out for – harbour porpoises and bottlenose and white-beaked dolphins also frequent the waters here. And it’s also possible to spot them from the shore; take your binoculars and head for a cliff-top – near Whitby Abbey on the town’s east cliff is ideal – on a day when the sea isn’t too rough.
After your whale-hunting adventure is over, head to Whitby Museum in Pannet Park on the west side of the town to learn more about the history of whaling. Founded in 1823, the museum retains a 19th-century air but is packed full of fascinating objects; look out for the harpoon gun and the many and varied lances, spears and knives, all with long wooden handles, that were used in the whaling industry.
Intricately detailed models of ships and examples of scrimshaw – bone or walrus ivory decorated by sailors in spare moments – rub shoulders with items collected from the Inuit peoples of the Arctic and products made from the whales themselves, including women’s stays stiffened with whalebone.
Finally, to get an idea of just how big a whale can be, head for the junction of East Terrace and North Terrace, overlooking the harbour, where the jaw bones of a bowhead whale are set up as an archway. They were donated by the people of Alaska (Whitby is twinned with the Alaskan capital Anchorage, along with six other places around the world) in 2002 to replace a set from Norway erected in 1963. The first jawbone arch was put up as early as 1853 and today serves as a reminder of the town’s controversial past.
HOW TO GET THERE
Whitby is 20 miles north of Scarborough on the A171,
on the east coast of Yorkshire. Northern Rail trains run from Middlesbrough to Whitby;
the Yorkshire Coastline
bus X40 runs from Leeds.
FIND OUT MORE
Whitby Coastal Cruises
The cruises leave from Brewery Steps in Whitby Harbour, close to the west end of the swing bridge.
Whitby YO21 1RE
14 Pier Road,
Whitby YO21 3PU
A Whitby institution, the famed Magpie has wonderful fresh fish served in a former Whitby merchant’s house.
Hudsons Bed and Breakfast
30 Hudson Street, West Cliff,
Whitby YO21 3EP
In Whitby’s conservation area, between the park and the harbour, Hudson’s is a welcoming and attractive B&B.
Abbey Lane, Whitby YO22 4JT
Climb the 199 steps to the ruins of the abbey on the east cliff to explore its long history and see the award-winning visitor centre.
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Guardians are essential to the success of the Honor Flight San Antonio (HFSA) program. Without guardians, we would not be able to provide the opportunity for our Veterans to see the memorials built in their honor.
Honor Flight San Antonio assigns every Veteran a guardian to accompany the Veteran for thetrip to Washington, D.C. From the moment the Veteran joins us at the airport until we return them to their family, guardians will be asked to treat these heroes as if they are family and ensure that every Veteran has a safe, rewarding experience.
Guardian responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Assist in boarding/deboarding the airplane and buses and going up/down stairs.
- Observe the Veteran for any signs of medical problems and contact the medical staff at the first sign of problems.
- Spending quality time with the Veteran throughout the day – listening to their stories and taking pictures.
- Spouses or “significant others” of Veterans traveling on the flight are not eligible.
- Must be between the ages of 18 and 69.
- Must be willing to assist all Veterans as needed.
- Must be physically capable of performing the guardian role, which includes assisting Veterans getting in/out of seats, Honor Chairs and up/down stairs.
- Must be able to push your Veteran in an Honor Chair for a minimum of one hour at a time to include up and down inclines.
- Must be able to carry approximately 40 pounds; Veteran and their backpacks.
- Must be capable of independent communication with Veterans, HFSA crew, and others.
- Must not require the use of canes, crutches, walkers, slings, have back issues, casts or other physical condition limiting strength and mobility.
- Must attend mandatory guardian training prior to the flight.
- Guardians donate toward the cost of their trip. The current tax-deductible donation is $500 and payable (preferably by check) the day of the guardian training.
- A completed guardian application must be submitted and received before the mandatory guardian training.
Because guardians are an integral part of our program, Honor Flight San Antonio reserves the right to disqualify anyone based on the requirements listed above.
Please print and complete the application and mail it to us at:
Honor Flight San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78247
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Thermal imaging scanners and software could be used to identify travellers who become agitated on the approach to airport customs, Immigration and Border Protection CIO Randall Brugeaud indicated yesterday.
Although the technology had been available for some time, "it hasn't been applied in a border clearance context where you're able to determine if somebody has an abnormally high temperature and then that may lead you to believe that they may be...nervous about what they're about to agree to," Brugeaud told fellow CIOs yesterday at the Gartner Symposium on the Gold Coast.
The technology will also be used for border protection officials to better target people showing symptoms of illness when they arrive into the country.
The scanners are one of a "combination of technologies that we'll be leveraging as part of our programme and attempting to leapfrog where we are now," Brugeaud said.
Thermal imaging scanners were used in Australian airports in 2009, deployed by the Department of Health and operated by the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service in response to the threat of swine flu arriving into the country. However, the technology has not been used to pick out arrivals that show signs of nervousness, or handled by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
The veracity of the technique to detect nervousness has been questioned. A 2010 study which scanned 51 passengers while being questioned at an undisclosed international airport concluded that it was doubtful thermal imaging would effectively improve airport security.
Warmelink et al wrote in the journal, Law and Human Behavior that it would "classify too many non-deceptive passengers as liars because they may be anxious for non-deceptive reasons...The assumption that liars are more nervous than truth-tellers is incorrect."
The initiative is part of a broader modernisation effort by Department of Immigration and Border Protection which absorbed the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service in July last year.
Other initiatives include biometric matching and human recognition technologies that track travellers through the airport, and pre-registration via a mobile app or kiosk so health and customs declarations can be submitted digitally.
The ambition, Brugeaud said, was to "become the world leader again".
"We've started to fall behind other countries," he explained, noting the continued use of Morpho SmartGates which were implemented nearly a decade ago. "What we're doing now is building a programme that will allow us to leapfrog most other countries globally."
That's being done alongside a major integration between the two merged agencies, bringing together two "disparate" technology sets featuring "virtually all of the big players", Brugeaud said.
George Nott travelled to Gartner Symposium as a guest of Gartner.
Join the CIO Australia group on LinkedIn. The group is open to CIOs, IT Directors, COOs, CTOs and senior IT managers.
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-What’s the difference between a blogger and a journalist?
-Bloggers read and respond to their readers’ comments, journalists don’t!
OK, please relax journalists, I understand that there are plenty of other differences such as a proper education and training in journalism, journalistic standards (properly citing sources, etc) and accountability. But there is a real point here – bloggers place far more importance on reader comments and interactions with their readers; journalists tend to adopt a more unidirectional approach.
I always like receiving comments on Eat Rio, but every so often something extra special comes in that stands out from the rest. And just such a comment appeared exactly a month ago.
It all started out quite unremarkably – someone called Tom left a comment on an old post about the chocolate milk drinks called Toddy and Toddynho. Tom was asking if anyone knew where he could purchase this chocolate milk in the US. But once the full story unfolded this turned into a rather heart-warming tale.
As you can see from the images at the top of this post, Toddy has been around for a long time. That creepy image on the left dates from 1939, at which point they were claiming that Toddy ‘closes the door on sickness’. The image on the right is from 30 years later when they were telling kids to drink Toddy chilled to grow big and strong like Daddy.
What I didn’t know is that back in World War 2, the US troops were given cans of Toddy as part of their rations! Tom’s father was one of those troops and brought back some of this precious chocolate drink for his kids.
Well, we all know what kids are like with chocolate – Tom loved it! And I suspect something about the specialness of this drink, the fact that it had been brought especially for him by his father, etched Toddy into Tom’s memory.
Well, the years passed and although Tom didn’t get to taste Toddy again, he never forgot that sweet, creamy, chocolate elixir. At some point, Tom found a supplier of the powdered version of Toddy, but was disappointed to find that it didn’t match his memories from all those years before.
Then, when browsing the internet one day, Tom stumbled across Eat Rio and my post about his beloved drink. He decided to leave a comment to see if anyone knew of a supplier in the US. Well, I put the question to the people following the Eat Rio Facebook Page.
Well, before long we had some suggestions. It turned out the the first suggested supplier had burnt down in a fire last summer, but then my friend Monika from Maní Pão de Queijo found it listed on Amazon! A few days passed and I wondered if another mishap had thwarted Tom’s long running quest to recapture that magical taste from his childhood. Then I received a new comment on the blog:
Mission accomplished! Tom was kind enough to send me some family photos and also the final shot of him enjoying the Toddynho for which he had waited 6 decades!
Now if that doesn’t warm your heart then you might want to check if you still have one! Now it just remains for me to thank Tom, Monika and all the other readers who helped with the hunt – we got there in the end!
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In our blog series, SOLIDWORKS 2017 Top 11 Features, we have highlighted several of our engineers’ favorite changes to SOLIDWORKS’ user interface. In addition to bringing back the classic icon colors and enhancing Selection Breadcrumbs, SOLIDWORKS 2017 also improved the user’s ability to customize configuration sort order.
What is configuration order?
Configuration order is the order in which configurations, or arrangements of elements, are listed in SOLIDWORKS’ ConfigurationManager. Anyone who has used SOLIDWORKS configurations knows that sorting through this list is time consuming and a headache, if even possible. Because of how configurations are randomly assigned part numbers, there was no easy way to filter through features.
But gone are the days of only being able to sort by configuration name. With SOLIDWORKS
2017 Configuration Sort Order, there are four options to sort by:
- Numeric: Order numerically
- Literal: Order alphabetically
- Manual: Order by dragging and dropping each configuration
- History-Based: Order chronologically
How does SOLIDWORKS 2017 Configuration Sort Order improve your workflow?
SOLIDWORKS 2017 gave users the power to change their Tree Order with the click of a button. Having the option to manually order configurations provides drastically more flexibility and can save companies a lot of time in their workflows. Understanding this new function can turn your ideas into finished products faster than before.
Download our Top 11 Features in SOLIDWORKS 2017 infographic to see how other enhancements can improve your workflow.
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WASHINGTON — Political leaders are beginning to review scenarios for surviving the fiscal cliff in the short term, as the likelihood builds that no budget deal will be reached over the next four days.
“I don’t know, time-wise, how it can happen now,’’ Senate majority leader Harry Reid, the Senate’s top Democrat, said Thursday of the elusive budget deal that could stop automatic tax hikes and spending cuts Jan. 1.
With diminishing hopes of meeting the deadline, President Obama’s Department of Treasury has bought the White House and Congress a political grace period: The Internal Revenue Service, a division of the treasury, has effectively delayed the economic impact of the automatic income tax hikes, which could give negotiators breathing room to keep trying for a deal beyond next week.
While income tax rate increases technically take effect immediately on Jan. 1, the IRS has not yet told employers to change the amount of income taxes they withhold from employee paychecks. As a result, most American workers are not expected to immediately suffer an increase in income taxes, even if political leaders fail to reach a deal.
The reprieve could last days or even weeks and would help insulate the economy, at least briefly, from Washington’s dysfunction.
“They are not telling employers to change anything with regard to withholding. They are telling employers to use the same withholding tables that you used for 2012,’’ said Lawrence A. Zelenak, a law professor and tax specialist at Duke University. “This is the kind of situation that the IRS has run into before, on smaller-scale issues, where they have strong political signals that there is going to be a change retroactively.’’
The risks of the cliff are great, to be sure. Another recession is likely in 2013, economists warn, if a gridlocked Congress still is unable to mitigate the negative economic impact.
Pushing back the deadline for withholding is a delicate matter for the IRS and the Treasury, which is gambling that Congress will succumb to intensifying political pressure after the Jan. 1 threshold is crossed and vote in January to keep tax rates at the same George W. Bush-era level for the vast majority of Americans.
An IRS spokeswoman requested written questions from the Globe. After receiving them, she declined to comment.
“Your questions are ‘if-then’ questions that are dependent on facts and circumstances that are not currently available. Any information I provided would be purely speculative,’’ said the spokeswoman, Peggy Riley.
Even if the IRS issues new withholding tables Friday or next week, there still would be a delay before employees see the effects of higher taxes in their paychecks, said Thomas E. Savino, a Massachusetts accountant whose business clients are watching events in Washington.
“It still takes time for employers or payroll service companies to change their computer software programs, and that could take several weeks for that implementation for take place,’’ he said. “People have to be very careful for the next few weeks. They will see their federal tax withholdings to be about the same for 2012, because employers do not have any guidance on what it should be for the new year.’’
The economic and political risks of going over the cliff — letting automatic tax hikes and spending cuts kick in — are still large.
With no impact on employee paychecks immediately, the earliest effects of a cliff dive likely would be a decline in consumer and business confidence, rising uncertainty, and Wall Street jitters. The government would soon begin cutting budgets, and some estimates have said hundreds of thousands of jobs could be shed by government agencies and contractors.
President Obama’s latest request to avert the automatic tax hikes and spending cuts has been to develop a small-scale plan to extend tax cuts for the 98 percent of taxpayers earning $250,000 or less, coupled with an extension of unemployment benefits. Obama has summoned congressional leaders to the White House for a meeting Friday to discuss the possibility of moving forward.
Outside of income taxes, there are a variety of other tax and spending issues that may or may not be part of any deal.
A temporary reduction in the Social Security payroll tax is scheduled to expire, meaning the rate will return to 6.2 percent, back from the 4.2 percent rate of the last two years. That will cost the average family about $20 a week.
Congress also is under pressure to apply a “patch’’ to the alternative minimum tax, an annual event that limits the tax so it applies to only about 4 million taxpayers.
Without the patch, as many as 30 million people could be subject to the alternative minimum tax, including individuals with incomes as low as $33,750. Despite the lack of action by Congress, the IRS recently told the House Ways and Means Committee that its computers were still set up as if the alternative minimum tax patch’ will be applied for 2012.
Congress still has more time to modify scheduled increases in estate taxes, long-term capital gains, and taxes on dividends — because those tax bills will not be tallied until 2014. Still, a lack of clarity early in 2013 affects decision-making for taxpayers subject to those levies, and the uncertainty can be corrosive.
A tangentially related tax increase is scheduled for Jan. 1: a 0.9 percent increase in Medicare payroll taxes for people who earn more than $200,000 a year. That increase was part of President Obama’s 2010 healthcare overhaul; it is not part of fiscal cliff talks.
The “fiscal cliff’’ — which many economists say is a misnomer, preferring instead ``fiscal slope’’ — applies to $500 billion in combined income tax rate increases and “sequester’’ spending cuts that are scheduled to take their bite on Jan. 1.
Democrats hope Republicans will feel so much political pressure after Jan. 1 arrives that they will vote to reduce taxes on 98 percent or so of Americans and drop their insistence on lowering taxes for all taxpayers, including the wealthy.
Last week, citing lack of Republican support, Speaker John Boehner failed to bring to the House floor a bill that would have kept the lower rates for everyone except people earning more than $1 million a year.
That test demonstrated the determination of conservative House Republicans to oppose anything that would result in higher taxes for the wealthy.
Another complication in the New Year is the requirement to pass another increase in the nation’s debt ceiling, a pressure point that Republicans say they intend to use to extract more fiscal concessions from Democrats. Whether that would muddy the atmosphere on income taxes immediately after the fiscal cliff is crossed remains unclear.
Senators began trickling back into the Capitol on Thursday, but House members remained in their home districts. Leaders on all sides said they were waiting for someone else to float a new proposal.
Reid, speaking in a mostly empty Capitol, railed against Boehner for refusing to bring to the House floor a bill passed by the Senate last summer that would extend tax cuts for all families making $250,000 or less.
The Nevada Democrat said he does not expect the House to negotiate until after the new Congress is sworn in and leadership elections to be completed, late next week.
“John Boehner seems to care more about keeping his speakership than keeping the nation on firm financial footing,’’ Reid declared. “He is waiting to January 3d to get re-elected as speaker before he gets serious with negotiations.’’
In response, Michael Steel, a spokesman for the Ohio Republican, said, “Senator Reid should talk less and legislate more. The House has already passed legislation to avoid the entire fiscal cliff. Senate Democrats have not.”
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Super NES Programming/Graphics tutorial< Super NES Programming
This tutorial will cover how to map tiles to the SNES background.
In order to render background, program has to set few things for each background, remember to set this for every background you want to render:
- BG Mode (affects number of planes, bitdepth), set in register 0x2105
- Size of tile (8x8 or 16x16), set in register 0x2105
- Set background map
- Set background tileset
The map is a 2 dimensional array (32x32, 64x32, 32x64 or 64x64) of tile indexes. The SNES goes through the array and for each index in the map renders a tile specified in the array. Since tiles can be either 8x8 or 16x16 pixels, we can end up with background image dimensions ranging from 256 to 1024 pixels (size_of_map * size_of_tile).
A member of an array is a two bytes long structure(two bytes long = 16 bits):
High byte Low byte
- c is the index of a tile in the tileset (tileset is specified per BG), SNES will get the address of a tile as (base_tileset_bits << 13) + (8 * color_depth * tile_number)
- h: horizontal flip
- v: vertical flip
- p: palette number
- o: priority bit
Use registers $2107-$210A to set map for your background.
Structure of registers $2107-$210A
a: address of the map in VRAM. Multiply the number by 2048 (or shift 11 bits) in order to get the byte location of the map.
s: size of the map
* 00=32x32 * 01=64x32 * 10=32x64 * 11=64x64
If the map has a dimension greater than 32 (e.g. 64x32), array doesn't have 64 tile indexes per row, instead it will store two 32x32 maps right after each other in VRAM. The first map (32x32 tiles = 2*32*32 bytes) will represent the left part of the map and the second one (same size as the first one) will represent the right side of the map.
Tile is a small 8x8 or 16x16 image that is used to construct larger images.
To employ the SNES's PPU, one must understand exactly how it processes graphic data.
- Mode 0: 4 colors, 2 bit per pixel(bpp)
- Mode 1: 8 colors, 3 bpp (you may see this in some tile editors but the SNES doesn't display 3bpp graphics. They have to be expanded to the 4bpp format before being used.)
- Mode 2: 16 colors, 4 bpp
- Mode 3: 128/256 colors, 8bpp (only in Mode 7)
The tile data itself will consist of these bytes:
.db $00, $81, $81, $42, $C3, $24, $E7, $18, $E7, $18, $C3, $24, $81, $42, $00, $81
"How exactly does this correspond to that tile?" I hear you wonder.
Each row of pixels is represented by two bytes. Take the first row ($00, $81). It consists of the colors 2,0,0,0,0,0,0,2. In binary form:
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
Each of the bits in byte 0 are equivalent to bit 0 in it's corresponding pixel. Take the next row ($81, $42):
12000021 colors, 10000001 $81, 01000010 $42,
You may hear people refer to bitplanes. Those mean sets of bytes corresponding to bit ?'s of all the pixels, where ? is from 0 to the number of bits per pixel minus 1. Thus, in this case, bitplane 0 would refer to the odd bytes in the tile data($00,$81,$C3,etc.).
Does this make sense? I'm not so sure myself..
Colors for the SNES are 15 bits each, and stored in bgr format.
The color full green like this would be stored as:
Palettes are simply arrays of colors. The palette shown above would be stored in the ROM as (one color being "$xx, $xx"):
.db $EE, $00, $10, $02, $4A, $01, $00, $00
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A must-have paperback volume for anyone interested in ancient Egypt.
The British Museum has one of the largest and finest collection of antiquities from outside of Egypt and Sudan. Packed with information and insights, this classic book, now in paperback, contains over 200 of the most important objects and some lesser-known but equally beautiful pieces.
An introduction offers a brief history of the vast Egyptian collections of the British Museum. Each of the 200 objects has a short accompanying text and full page colour illustration.
Arranged in chronological order, these intriguing objects range from the earliest predynastic period through the 3,000 year rule of the pharaohs up to Roman Egypt, offering an overview of the art of ancient Egypt in a single volume.
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AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, POPULAR MECHANICS named The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (NYSE: GT) as a 2012 Breakthrough Award winner for their Air Maintenance Technology (AMT). The POPULAR MECHANICS Breakthrough Awards, now in their eighth year, recognize the innovators and products that have dramatically advanced the fields of technology, medicine, space exploration, automotive design, environmental engineering and more. Goodyear and other winners will be honored at an invitation-only conference and gala awards ceremony in New York City on October 4, and in the November issue of POPULAR MECHANICS, available on newsstands October 16. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121001/CL83984 ) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20050204/GTLOGO ) "We are honored to be named as one of POPULAR MECHANICS Breakthrough Award winners for 2012," stated Goodyear's Chief Technical Officer Jean-Claude Kihn. "Our Air Maintenance Technology will enhance driving performance, while having a positive impact on the environment through improved fuel efficiency, reduced emissions and extended tire life. This award highlights the innovative work of our engineers, as well as our efforts to bring a relevant product to market." Goodyear's Air Maintenance Technology will help ensure the optimum tire pressure is maintained and as a result could mean substantial savings at the fuel pump. According to government and industry research, underinflated tires result in between a 2.5 percent and 3.3 percent decrease in fuel economy. While the technology is complex, the idea behind the AMT system is relatively simple and powered by the tire itself as it rolls down the road. "We are once again excited to recognize this year's list of incredible honorees for their role in shaping the future," says James B. Meigs, editor-in-chief of POPULAR MECHANICS. "From a featherweight metal to the world's fastest and most electrically efficient supercomputer, this year's winners embody the creative spirit that the Breakthrough Awards were founded upon." A full list of winners can be found at www.popularmechanics.com/breakthroughawards. Past recipients of the Breakthrough Awards include James Cameron, genomics pioneer J. Craig Venter, efficiency expert Amory Lovins, inventor and FIRST Robotics founder Dean Kamen, and humanitarian engineer Amy Smith. POPULAR MECHANICS' Breakthrough Awards are given in two categories: innovators, whose inventions will make the world smarter, safer and more efficient in the years to come, and products, which are setting benchmarks in design and engineering today. Follow the 2012 Breakthrough Awards @PopMech, #BTA2012.
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Saga of Jaraah
Regular cloak with Continual Freeze cast on it
Lenwe Aldarion is the first known to pioneer this item by simply laying out cloaks in the freezing north and then casting the spell Continual Freeze on them. The cloaks are none the worse for wear, perhaps just a little stiff. Cloaks enchanted thus have vastly improved insulating properties. They also go a long way toward masking infravision signatures. Note, however, they are not “invisible” to infravision. Rather they appear cold (dark to infravision). In many circumstances this is effectively invisible, but should the wearer be in a hot ambient or be backlit by a strong heat source, then the character would cast a shadow perceivable by an infravision endowed observer. Of course observers might not fully understand what they are seeing until it is too late.
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In Einstein's theory of general relativity, the interior Schwarzschild metric (also interior Schwarzschild solution or Schwarzschild fluid solution) is an exact solution for the gravitational field in the interior of a non-rotating spherical body which consists of an incompressible fluid (implying that density is constant throughout the body) and has zero pressure at the surface. This is a static solution, meaning that it does not change over time. It was discovered by Karl Schwarzschild in 1916, who earlier had found the exterior Schwarzschild metric.
The interior Schwarzschild metric is framed in a spherical coordinate system with the body's centre located at the origin, plus the time coordinate. Its line element is
- is the proper time (time measured by a clock moving along the same world line with the test particle).
- is the speed of light.
- is the time coordinate (measured by a stationary clock located infinitely far from the spherical body).
- is the Schwarzschild radial coordinate. Each surface of constant and has the geometry of a sphere with measurable (proper) circumference and area (as by the usual formulas), but the warping of space means the proper distance from each shell to the center of the body is greater than .
- is the colatitude (angle from north, in units of radians).
- is the longitude (also in radians).
- is the Schwarzschild radius of the body, which is related to its mass by , where is the gravitational constant. (For ordinary stars and planets, this is much less than their proper radius.)
- is the value of the -coordinate at the body's surface. (This is less than its proper (measurable interior) radius, although for the Earth the difference is only about 1.4 millimetres.)
This solution is valid for . For a complete metric of the sphere's gravitational field, the interior Schwarzschild metric has to be matched with the exterior one,
at the surface. It can easily be seen that the two have the same value at the surface, i.e., at .
Defining a parameter , we get
We can also define an alternative radial coordinate and a corresponding parameter , yielding
With and the area
the integral for the proper volume is
which is larger than the volume of a euclidean reference shell.
The fluid has a constant density by definition. It is given by
were is the Einstein gravitational constant. It may be counterintuitive that the density is the mass divided by the volume of a sphere with radius , which seems to disregard that this is less than the proper radius, and that space inside the body is curved so that the volume formula for a "flat" sphere shouldn't hold at all. However, is the mass measured from the outside, for example by observing a test particle orbiting the gravitating body (the "Kepler mass"), which in general relativity is not necessarily equal to the proper mass. This mass difference exactly cancels out the difference of the volumes.
Pressure and stability
The pressure of the incompressible fluid can be found by calculating the Einstein tensor from the metric. The Einstein tensor is diagonal (i.e., all off-diagonal elements are zero), meaning there are no shear stresses, and has equal values for the three spatial diagonal components, meaning pressure is isotropic. Its value is
As expected, the pressure is zero at the surface of the sphere and increases towards the centre. It becomes infinite at the centre if , which corresponds to or , which is true for a body that is extremely dense or large. Such a body suffers gravitational collapse into a black hole. As this is a time dependent process, the Schwarzschild solution does not hold any longer.
Gravitational redshift for radiation from the sphere's surface (for example, light from a star) is
From the stability condition follows .
of a Schwarzschild metric's slice in three-dimensional Euclidean space. The interior solution is the darker cap at the bottom.
This embedding should not be confused with the unrelated concept of a gravity well
The spatial curvature of the interior Schwarzschild metric can be visualized by taking a slice (1) with constant time and (2) through the sphere's equator, i.e. . This two-dimensional slice can be embedded in a three-dimensional Euclidean space and then takes the shape of a spherical cap with radius and half opening angle . Its Gaussian curvature is proportional to the fluid's density and equals . As the exterior metric can be embedded in the same way (yielding Flamm's paraboloid), a slice of the complete solution can be drawn like this:
In this graphic, the blue circular arc represents the interior metric, and the black parabolic arcs with the equation represent the exterior metric, or Flamm's paraboloid. The -coordinate is the angle measured from the centre of the cap, that is, from "above" the slice. The proper radius of the sphere – intuitively, the length of a measuring rod spanning from its centre to a point on its surface – is half the length of the circular arc, or .
This is a purely geometric visualization and does not imply a physical "fourth spatial dimension" into which space would be curved. (Intrinsic curvature does not imply extrinsic curvature.)
Here are the relevant parameters for some astronomical objects, disregarding rotation and inhomogeneities such as deviation from the spherical shape and variation in density.
|White dwarf with 1 solar mass
|Neutron star with 2 solar masses
The interior Schwarzschild solution was the first static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solution that was found. It was published on 24 February 1916, only three months after Einstein's field equations and one month after Schwarzschild's exterior solution.
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LONDON — President Trump once offered a simple rationale for his hands-off approach to the case of Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post columnist killed at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul: “It’s in Turkey, and it’s not a citizen.”
But this week, as Mr. Trump declared that he was sticking by the Saudi crown prince despite accusations that he was behind the killing, an American citizen was languishing in the bowels of the Saudi prison system.
The citizen, Walid Fitaihi, a Harvard-trained doctor, hospital owner, television host and motivational speaker, has been detained without trial for more than a year.
Dr. Fitaihi, a dual citizen, is one of scores of businessmen, princes, clerics, scholars and activists rounded up at the orders of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman during a drive to consolidate his power. Many detainees have been subjected to torture and physical abuse, according to friends, family members and rights groups.
Mr. Trump has taken pride in fighting for the release of American citizens detained abroad, most recently imposing trade sanctions on Turkey in an effort to win the release of a pastor, Andrew Brunson. He has celebrated his success at securing the release of a dual citizen, Aya Hijazi, who had been held in Egypt, and of three American detainees in North Korea.
But in his statements about Saudi Arabia this week, Mr. Trump again made clear that he puts concerns about human rights abroad second to other American interests, including Saudi military contracts and oil prices.
Andrew Miller, deputy director for policy at the Project on Middle East Democracy and a former State Department official in the region, argued that the administration’s apparent lack of concern for Dr. Fitaihi “confirms what we all expected: Trump is willing to sell or forsake any person, regardless of whether they are an American resident or an American citizen, in the furtherance of narrow economic interests.”
A State Department official who declined to speak for attribution said: “We routinely request consular access to all American citizens that have been detained in Saudi Arabia. In cases where the detainee possesses both Saudi and United States citizenship, the host government often does not recognize United States citizenship and denies consular access.”
An official of the Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.
Born in Saudi Arabia, Dr. Fitaihi obtained American citizenship while studying and practicing medicine in the United States more than a decade ago.
After earning undergraduate and medical degrees at George Washington, Dr. Fitaihi completed a master’s in public health at Harvard and a residency in endocrinology at Harvard-affiliated hospitals. Massachusetts state records show that he was registered to vote while living at an address in Cambridge. He moved back to Saudi Arabia around 2006.
He was taken from his home in Jeddah in the middle of the night last fall as about 200 wealthy Saudis were swept up and detained inside a Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, in what the crown prince billed as a crackdown of corruption.
At least 17 other people arrested with Dr. Fitaihi were hospitalized, and at least one died as a result of abuse in detention.
Most detainees have now been released, often after signing agreements pledging large payments in exchange for their freedom. Many remain barred from leaving the kingdom and are required to wear ankle bracelets tracking their movements.
But Dr. Fitaihi is among dozens who were transferred to prisons for longer-term incarceration, even though they have not formally been charged with any crimes.
His family only reluctantly sought the assistance of the United States Embassy, after initially seeking to secure his release quietly for fear of incurring further punishment, his friends said.
Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and a friend of Dr. Fitaihi’s since his years in the United States, said mutual friends described the family as terrified. “Several family are banned from travel, their accounts were frozen, and they did not want to go public because they knew the backlash would be severe,” Mr. Awad said.
Female detainees appear to have suffered special abuse, according to two people familiar with several cases and reports this week from two rights groups, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. Two people familiar with the cases said this week that some women’s rights activists had been subjected to electrical shocks, whipping and verbal and sexual harassment.
A Saudi official who spoke only on the condition of anonymity said the kingdom “does not condone, promote or allow the use of torture,” whether “physical, sexual or psychological.”
The activists had risen to prominence for calling for the end of Saudi Arabia’s longstanding ban on women driving. Prince Mohammed lifted the ban this summer, but his government also arrested many of those who had called for the change, evidently to prevent them from taking credit or demanding more.
The Saudi government has not identified the detainees, saying only that a number were under investigation for vague charges of conspiring with hostile forces against the kingdom. ”
In interviews with The New York Times, two people familiar with the activists’ cases said some had arrived at meetings with their families trembling or with red marks on their faces, necks and limbs. Some had been deprived of sleep, the people said, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.
Dr. Fitaihi had no such record of political activism inside the kingdom.
He was the son and grandson of prominent jewelers, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the western region of Saudi Arabia, the Hijaz, home of Islam’s holiest sites.
While living in Cambridge in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he was an active member of the Islamic Society of Boston, sometimes leading prayers there and eventually sitting on its board. He and his father became major donors to the society. Others included the wife of Prince Bandar bin Sultan, who was then the Saudi ambassador to Washington.
After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Dr. Fitaihi, then teaching at Harvard, responded as an American. “There are Muslims who died, Christians who died, Jews who died — it’s a crime against humanity,” he told The Denver Post. “It’s a test for us as a nation.”
A few years later, in 2004, he was the center of controversy over anti-Semitic sentiments in columns he wrote for Arabic newspapers. He is reported to have called Jews “perpetrators of the worst of evils” and to have said they control “the power of the media.” The Islamic Society publicly disavowed his statements.
When he returned to Saudi Arabia, Dr. Fitaihi founded a private hospital, the International Medical Center. King Abdullah attended the opening and they had their picture taken together.
Building on the success of his hospital, Dr. Fitaihi took on other roles as a motivational speaker and television host. He eventually attracted as many as two million followers on social media.
In his speeches, he discussed the teachings of Islam but around themes of personal health, self-help and self-development that would be familiar to Christian or secular audiences.
“God gave you a gift,” one typical speech went. “First discover the thing that you are good at. There are so many multiple intelligences.”
Dr. Fitaihi’s private hospital does not appear to have derived income from the Saudi government, and the kingdom has not disclosed any allegations of corruption that might involve him. The Saudi authorities, in fact, have neither confirmed his detention nor announced any charges against him.
Dr. Fataihi was initially arrested in September 2017 but released under a travel ban. Then he was arrested again in November, in the sweep portrayed as a crackdown on corruption. He was transferred from the Ritz-Carlton to the Hair Prison outside the Saudi capital of Riyadh, where the kingdom jails criminals and convicted jihadists, friends said.
Mr. Khashoggi, another friend, once spoke out about the arrest.
“What has happened to us?” Mr. Khashoggi said on Twitter, not long after fleeing Saudi Arabia for Washington. “How can someone like Dr. Walid Fitaihi be arrested and what are the justifications for it?”
“Everyone is in a state of confusion and helplessness, there is no one you can go to,” Mr. Khashoggi said. “God help us.”
David D. Kirkpatrick reported from London, and Ben Hubbard from Beirut.
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SulfotransferasesSulfotransferases transfer sulfuryl groups in enzymatic reactions
Cells are master chemists. They perform all manner of chemical reactions to build and modify their molecules. One of the chemical tricks used by many cells is to add sulfuryl groups to a molecule. Under typical cellular conditions, sulfuryl groups carry a negative charge, and they have lots of oxygen atoms that accept hydrogen bonds from other molecules. This makes sulfurylated molecules much more soluble and easy to recognize. To build molecules with sulfuryl groups, cells use a diverse collection of sulfotransferases. These enzymes take a sulfuryl group from the convenient carrier molecule PAPS (3'-phosphoadenosine-5'-phosphosulfate), and transfer it to the target molecule.
Sulfonation in the Cytoplasm
In the cell cytoplasm, there are many different sulfotransferases that act on small molecules. These enzymes play several important functional roles. Some play a key role in detoxification. Many toxic molecules are small and insoluble, so sulfotransferases transfer a sulfuryl groups to these molecules and make them easier to eject out of the cell and ultimately out of the body. In some cases this system works perfectly. For instance, when we take acetaminophen for a headache, its effects wear off in a few hours because the molecules are sulfurylated in our cells, and then rapidly excreted. In other cases, however, the added sulfuryl may change a relatively harmless molecule into a powerful carcinogen, or in the case of minoxidil, may convert a neutral molecule into an active drug. Sulfotransferases also play a role in the normal trafficking of insoluble molecules around the body. For instance, the sulfotransferase shown at the top left (PDB entry 1aqu ) adds sulfuryl groups to estrogen, creating a soluble form that circulates through the blood. When it reaches target cells, the sulfuryl group is removed by another enzyme to form the active hormone.
...and in the Golgi
A different set of sulfotransferases are found in the Golgi, where they add sulfuryl groups to the proteins and carbohydrates that will be exported from the cell. These enzymes have a larger active site than the cytoplasmic sulfotransferases, since they act on much larger targets. These enzymes are very specific, creating a distinctive coding of sulfuryl groups on proteins and carbohydrates. The enzyme shown at top right (PDB entry 1t8u ) adds sulfuryl groups to heparin, a large carbohydrate that is found between cells in our body. The different arrangements of sulfuryl groups on heparin control its interaction with over 100 proteins as well as enhancing the solubility of the molecule.
An Exceptional Enzyme
Most sulfotransferases use PAPS as the source of the sulfuryl group, but as is often the case when looking at biology, there are exceptions. The bacterial sulfotransferase shown at the bottom (PDB entry 3ets ) transfers sulfuryl groups from a different carrier, such as p-nitrophenylsulfate, to its targets. It is found in the periplasmic space between the two membranes that form the cell wall of the bacterium. The exact function of this enzyme is not known, but may be important for the many sulfurylated molecules that are used in communication between cells.
Sulfate is commonly found in the diet as sulfate ions, which must be captured in PAPS before they can be used by sulfotransferases. Two enzymes perform this job. First, ATP sulfurylase attaches sulfate to the adenosine nucleotide, then APS kinase adds an additional phosphoryl group to create PAPS. In bacteria and yeast, these reactions are performed by two separate enzymes. Yeast ATP sulfurylase is shown on the left from PDB entry 1g8h , and APS kinase from Penicillium mold is shown in the middle from PDB entry 1m7g . In our cells, however, both of these enzymes are fused into a single protein chain, as shown on the right from PDB entry 1xnj .
Exploring the Structure
Most sulfotransferases transfer sulfuryl groups from PAPS to their target molecules. PAPS is a
very convenient molecule for this task, because it carries an activated form of the sulfuryl group,
and it also contains several phosphoryl groups that are easy to recognize and bind in the
active site. The structure shown on the left (PDB entry
contains PAPS bound to a
mouse sulfotransferase, along with two molecules that are ready to accept sulfuryl groups.
The bacterial enzyme shown on the right uses a different mechanism. It performs the
reaction in two steps. First, the sulfuryl group is transferred from a phenol carrier to a histidine
amino acid in the enzyme, then, it is transferred from the protein to the target
molecule. This structure (PDB entry
has captured the enzyme in the middle of this
process, with the sulfuryl group attached to the histidine.
You can use the "Ligand Explorer" to look at the interaction of sulfotransferase amino acids with PAPS and other ligands. Click here for an example.
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, host:
We've been hearing a lot about concussions, recently, most of it related to football players. Football teams have become more cautious about putting players back in action after theyve suffered a concussion. Now, brain injury experts are trying to take that approach from the football field to the battlefield.
NPR's Jon Hamilton reports that those experts also have made some surprising discoveries, about how energy from an explosion reaches the brain and causes damage.
JON HAMILTON: An enemy truck packed with artillery shells and gasoline caused Jake Mathers first concussion in Iraq. Mathers was in a firefight near Ramadi when the truck blew up.
Mr. JAKE MATHERS (U.S. Marine Corps): All I saw was sparks and then I went out like a light. And I woke up and my nose was bleeding, my ears was bleeding, you know, like my tear ducts were bleeding.
HAMILTON: Mathers' body was intact, though. So, he stayed with his Marine unit and suffered another concussion.
Mr. MATHERS: Oh, there were several. An RPG hit my truck one time. I got knocked out. And another time, we were going down this street called Ice Cream, probably the worst street in Ramadi, one of them. And one of the guys shot an RPG and it hit the hood of our vehicle and blew up.
HAMILTON: Mathers says he can't remember how many concussions he had during his seven-month tour. He has trouble remembering a lot of things, now that he's back home in Monroe, Louisiana.
Mr. MATHERS: I'll lose my pack of smokes like three or four times a day and I'll buy different packs of smokes 'cause I forget, you know, that I bought 'em. Or sometimes I'll be driving down the road and I'll forget where I'm going or lose my car keys, cell phone or...
HAMILTON: Then there are the headaches, the nightmares, the problems sleeping. David Hovda directs the Brain Injury Research Center at UCLA. He says Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a lot of people like Mathers - people who had multiple concussions in a short period of time. He says each brain injury is usually the result of a relatively small explosion.
Dr. DAVID HOVDA Brain Injury Research Center, UCLA): Which, when it occurs close to an individual, can produce a concussive wave, or a blast wave, that actually moves the head and body very violently and that can in fact cause a concussion.
HAMILTON: And Hovda says brain scans show that for days or even weeks after an injury like this, the brain's metabolism slows down, which leaves some cells starved for energy.
Dr. HOVDA: During the time when this metabolism is altered, the brain not only is dysfunctional, but it's also extremely vulnerable. So that if it's exposed to another mild injury, which normally you would be able to tolerate really well, now there can be long-term devastating consequences.
HAMILTON: It's the second hit or the third that often does the damage. So Hovda and others have been urging the military to act more like the NFL and order troops off the field when they've had a head injury.
That message seems to be getting through. A few months ago, Admiral Mike Mullen, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, announced a policy saying troops near a bomb blast MUST be removed from combat for 24 hours and must be checked for traumatic brain injury. Experts on brain injury say implementing this policy is important for several reasons. Hovda says one is that concussions often cause fuzzy thinking.
Dr. HOVDA: If you're going to call in a mortar strike, you have to do some fancy math and some really sophisticated calculations in your head, and you could create a problem if this isn't done correctly.
HAMILTON: Another reason to aggressively look for brain injury is that it's very hard to tell who might have sustained one. Ibolja Cernak studied brain injuries on the battlefields of Kosovo. Now she works at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. She says research in animals shows that shock waves from a blast can cause brain damage even if the head is completely protected. The shock waves compress the abdomen or chest wall violently, she says, transferring the bomb's kinetic energy to blood and other fluids.
Ms. IBOLJA CERNAK (Johns Hopkins Applied Physic Laboratory): So this kinetic energy now inside the body generates oscillating pressure waves which travel everywhere, to the organs, but also to the brain.
HAMILTON: Where they may kill or damage brain cells. Cernak says shock waves also can reach structures deep in the brain that control things like blood pressure, balance, and speech. And she says the blast can cause a breach in the so-called blood-brain barrier, which usually protects the central nervous system from substances that could cause dangerous inflammation.
Ms. CERNAK: These inflammatory molecules and mechanisms start to give irreversible damages and changes in the brain, very comparable to Alzheimer.
HAMILTON: Repeated injuries in a short period of time greatly increase the risk that will happen. Jake Mathers, the Marine, says people probably ignored concussions until recently, because they don't leave any visible scar.
Mr. MATHERS: It makes me a little mad. You know people are like, oh, well you seem fine. Well, you know, I'm not. And yeah, you know, it's not like I'm missing a leg. But I'm missing something that I can never get back.
HAMILTON: Mathers says he hopes his story will help protect the next generation of fighters.
Jon Hamilton, NPR News.
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Definition of Panic Disorder
Panic disorder is fairly common and affects about 2.4 million people in the U.S., or 1.7% of the adult population between the ages of 18 and 54. Women are twice as likely as men to develop the condition, and its symptoms usually begin in early adulthood. Often time panic attacks feel like heart attaches and strike without warning. These episodes can occur at any time, even during sleep. The fear and terror that a person experiences during a panic attack are not in proportion to the true situation and are a result of years of suppressing fears and worries.
- Signs and symptoms of Panic Disorder
Most people with panic attacks experience several of the following symptoms:
Feeling weak, faint, or dizzy
Tingling or numbness in the hands and fingers
Sense of terror, or impending doom or death
Feeling sweaty or having chills
Feeling a loss of control
- Treatment of Panic Disorder
Causes are not clear, however some people have biological vulnerability to panic attacks, and may be triggered by major life changes (such as getting married, having a child, starting a first job, etc.) and major lifestyle stressors. Treatment begins by identifying triggers and becoming aware of signs that an attack could be coming on. Panic attacks generally last less than 10 minutes, although some of the symptoms may persist for a longer time. People who have had one panic attack are at greater risk for having subsequent panic attacks and new research shows that discussing panic attacks can actually bring them on. In therapy we will label panic attacks as “episodes” and learn what to do during an episode. Once the attacks are under control we will begin peeling away layers of fear and anxiety to get to the root of the problem.
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The announcement is made to curb the Covid-19 spread in the UAE
Wearing a facemask in indoor places to curb the spread of Covid-19 in the country is mandatory. The UAE authorities and health experts said, face mask violators would be slapped with a AED 3,000/- fine.
The heath experts said, “We would like to recall that wearing masks in closed places is mandatory, as negligence in doing so is a violation and the perpetrator will be punished with a fine of up to Dhs3,000, according to Public Prosecution Decision No. (38) for the year 2020.
Effective today, 15th June this facemask mandate will be applicable to all age groups.
Students and the education sector have a mandate to wear facemasks from 20th June due to the association of exam period.
This will be tightened by the competent teams in the coming period.
Studies have proven that wearing masks is one of the most important factors in maintaining health and safety from the risk of infection with COVID-19.
The effectiveness of the mask lies in reducing the speed and strength of the spread of the disease, especially in closed and crowded places.
Because of the negligence and reckless behaviors in following the precautionary measures has let a rise of Covid-19 cases in the UAE.
The public must adhere to the below guidelines.
- Wear facemasks in public places
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- Take precaution while travelling
- Make sure of the SOP’s you need follow in the destination country
- Check the travel destination through the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Not to neglect periodic checks
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Girmit ideology, douglarization, and Kala Pani poetics
More theories of the Indian Labor Diaspora
Coolitude is not the only way that scholars have written about the Indian Labor Diaspora; in fact it is one of several. The others I will briefly outline below, citing major sources and outlining their tenets. They move from girmit ideology to douglarization to Kala Pani poetics, each one invested in locating a subjectivity that is both specific to the particularities of each new diasporic context. Each of these versions of theorizing the Indian Labor Diaspora fills in gaps where others leave off — for example, how does the idea of the “Coolie” as such include or exclude people of mixed racial heritages? Some balk at the idea of any kind of cultural and ethnic purity in favor of what they believe to be a more inclusive model. These frameworks are not necessarily at odds with Coolitude but enliven the discussion of the fraught ways in which we discuss ourselves and poetic interventions.
In The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary, Vijay Mishra makes distinctions between the “Old” and “New” Indian diasporas, where the Old diaspora refers to the Coolie trade that brought indentured laborers into European colonies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here “girmit” is a Fiji Hindi version (corruption) of the English “contract” or “agreement” of indentured labor. The South Asians of these old diasporic spaces of Fiji, South Africa, Guyana, Trinidad, Mauritius, and Surinam “occupy spaces in which they interact by and large with other colonized peoples with whom they have a complex relationship of power and privilege” (Mishra, 3).
According to Mishra, there are three component parts that inform what he terms the “diasporic imaginary.” These three parts are mourning/impossible mourning, travel and translation, and trauma. Mourning/impossible mourning is the condition wherein mourning never arrives due to its definition being rooted in absence. For Mishra this means “the traumatic moment may be seen as crystallizing that loss, as a sign around which memory gives itself to the past … referred to as “temporality of memory.” The (ideal) loss persists because there is no substitution for it in the “new object of love” (in the nation-state in the case of the diaspora) (8) which produces a feeling of melancholia. Travel and translation come from the journey across the sea. Trauma “creates a breach in a protective covering of such severity that it cannot be coped with by usual mechanisms by which we deal with pain or loss” (12), and this loss and pain, for Mishra, refers to the loss of a homeland/India and the grief of plantation life. (din cale kudārī rāt nīnd nāhi(m) āve) (12). This trauma “always arrives late … occurring after the event as a deferred experience” (109), is a repetition of this event, disrupting temporal flow.
Mishra’s girmit ideology is something he posits for an Old diasporic poetic in which he quotes the poet Sudesh Mishra as saying that the term girmit is “a singular subaltern plantation experience —designates a form of consciousness, a system of imaginary beliefs, and defines a ‘subaltern knowledge category; that grew out of the collective indenture ethos” (22). It centers the realization that the once-promised riches to be found in the colonies and return passage to India were indeed illusions (23), and the trauma of passage and plantation are tied to capitalism and labor exploitation (70). Mishra concludes that “in terms of the Indian diasporic imaginary the girmit ideology’s significance lies in the way in which it functions as a destructive crucible of unhappiness, and as a means of understanding the ways in which we have invested in our own unhappiness. For the people of the old plantation-Indian diaspora the girmit ideology is a ghost that reminds the son of the endless unhappiness of diaspora” (70).
Yet Miraim Pirbhai, in Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture, criticizes Mishra for his over-reliance on the “traumatic:”
similarly in his emphasis on the diaspora’s ethnocentrism as a compensatory drive to transplant and recuperate the motherland (the object of loss), Mishra also glosses over the local expressions of national and cultural belonging or the complex processes of syncretism, creolization, and indigenization that are evident in multigenerational communities in the Caribbean and other locations. (Pirbhai, 19)
She also indicated the cohesion of diasporic South Asian communities around versions of the Ramayana means an over emphasis on Hinduism in these cultural groups.
Shalini Puri, in her book The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-Nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity, indicates that hybridized identities are constantly expanding in a motion towards an evolving culture. Puri uses the terms creole, jibaro, mestizo, mulatto, and dougla to describe this ethnic hybridity. The term dougla comes from the Bhojpuri/Hindi term for mixed-caste, but in the Caribbean context it refers to an individual who is mixed-race Indian and Black in the Caribbean. The word dougla comes with racist and exclusionary connotations of belonging to the periphery or a state of unbelonging given both its sociopragmatic usage and etymology. She harnesses this velocity in order to reclaim and recuperate this word and “to articulate potentially progressive cultural projects delegitimised by both Afro-Creole dominant culture and the Indian ‘Mother Culture’” (Bragard, 55). Such syncretism in a poetic that relies on this framing of mixing of identities and cultures — a metaphor for Caribbean space — allows for questioning the nation-state in its purist model.
Puri writes that “dougla:”
captur[es] the triple discourse of illegitimacy that has haunted Indo-Caribbean history: the colonial state’s policy not to recognize Indian marriages, which therefore deemed Indian children illegitimate (a policy from which several Creole constructions of Indians as outsiders with no legitimate claims upon Trinidad took their cue); independent India’s rejection of the requests of some Indo-Caribbeans for repatriation, which rendered Indo-Caribbeans illegitimate children of India; and finally Indo-Caribbeans’ own exclusionary and disciplining pejorative that demonizes the mixed descendants of Indo- and Afro-Caribbean as illegitimate. (Puri, 221)
Veronique Bragard, in Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures, claims that douglarization is a necessary means by which the tensions and similarities that arise from similar histories of bondage in the Caribbean are documented and explored poetically. For Bragard, however, “the term dougla somewhat restricts the scope [of Puri’s] analysis” (Bragard, 56) but is useful in that it exposes the spaces of contestation between a culturally hybrid space such as the Caribbean. Bragard claims that Puri approaches reading cultural productions through a Marxist framework wherein dominant ideological paradigms such as nation and race are addressed and challenged.
Kala Pani poetics
Another articulation of the Indian labor diasporic poetics comes from Brind Mehta who writes on Kala Pani poetics, which centers a female Indo-Caribbean subjectivity, previously unimaginable as a subject position. The Kala Pani of Mehta’s book Diasporic Dis(locations): Indo-Caribbean Women Negotiate the Kala Pani:
“The kala pani supplied [Indo-Caribbean women] with the necessary language and framework of reference to position Indo-Caribbean female subjectivity as an autonomous self-reflecting Caribbean experience by equating writing and pre-discursive modes of communication with a public declaration of one’s identity and right to claim creative agency” (Mehta, 5).
Based on what Mehta calls “Hindu belief,” the crossing of the Kala Pani would cost the voyager her caste — an unthinkable thing for Hindus and especially for women at that time. The fact of the crossing the ocean then becomes an act of enlivened agency whereby Indian women undo the abuse of patriarchal norms that leads to increased female autonomy. In centering this act, Caribbean hybridity is mobilized to provide a space of alignments with others with similar experiences and differing ethnicities. It also disaligns with the patriarchal constraints of the nation-state. Here the crossing of the ocean is centered in her approach to excavating Indo-Caribbean women’s cultural productions.
Works cited and further reading
Bragard, Véronique. Transoceanic Dialogues: Coolitude in Caribbean and Indian Ocean Literatures / Véronique Bragard. Bruxelles, Belgium: P.I.E. Peter Lang, 2008. Print.
Mehta, Brinda J. Diasporic (dis)locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani. Kingston, Jamaica: U of the West Indies, 2004. Print.
Mishra, Vijay. The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary. New York: Routledge, 2008. Print.
Puri, Shalini. The Caribbean Postcolonial: Social Equality, Post-nationalism, and Cultural Hybridity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Print.
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Future Agricultures Working Paper 114
Dawit Alemu, Seth Cook and Qi Gubo
The Government of Ethiopia’s (GoE’s) economic growth strategy, Agriculture Development Led Industrialization (ADLI, formulated in 1991), places very high priority on accelerating agricultural growth and achieving food security. Agriculture is also a main focus of the current GoE’s Growth and Transformation Plan, as was also the case for its predecessors. The effort to modernise the agricultural sector, the GoE has been heavily investing in agricultural education, research and extension. Linked with such investment, the GoE duly considers the importance of technology and skill transfer from all over the world.
This paper documents the role of the different acts of cooperation between China and Ethiopia in ensuring the transfer of agricultural technology and knowledge in the process of agricultural modernisation in the country. It specifically assesses how these interventions are aligned with ongoing public programmes; how they are perceived by both locals and Chinese; what challenges and opportunities are emerging in achieving the objectives set in their design, especially in support of the Ethiopian agricultural extension system’s improvement; and what implications can be drawn for other development partners engaged in support of the Ethiopian agricultural sector.
This paper is part of our project on China and Brazil in African Agriculture.
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February 19 - FIFA have announced today that goal-line technology (GLT) will be introduced for the 2014 World Cup, as well as this year's Confederations Cup, both to be hosted in Brazil.
The much-discussed goal-line technology has already been tested at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan last year and featured at Wembley Stadium for England's World Cup warm-up win over Belgium last June.
FIFA has invited tenders to provide the system, with the Sony-owned Hawkeye system, which is already implemented in tennis and cricket amongst other sports, likely to see its main competition in the GoalRef system, as these are the only systems currently approved by the International Football Association Board (IFAB).
"After a successful implementation of Goal-Line Technology (GLT) at the FIFA Club World Cup in Japan in December 2012, FIFA has decided to use GLT at the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 and 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil." said a statement from FIFA
"The aim is to use GLT in order to support the match officials and to install a system in all stadia, pending the successful installation, and pre-match referee tests.
"With different technologies on the market, FIFA has launched a tender today, setting out the technical requirements for the two forthcoming competitions in Brazil."
GLT will provide support to officials with the ability to confirm whether a ball has or has not crossed the goal-line completely.
The subject has been highly controversial in recent years, especially in the immediate aftermath of England's World Cup defeat to Germany in 2010 when Frank Lampard's shot, which would have equalised for England, was not allowed, despite clearly crossing the line.
The two approved systems, Hawkeye and Goalref use vastly different technologies in order to confirm whether a goal has been scored or not.
Hawkeye uses a series of high frame-rate cameras to determine whether a ball has fully crossed the line, and would most likely be implemented as a referral system if successful.
Goalref, which has been tested in the Danish Superliga, consists of a magnetic field around the goal, supplemented by plastic-coated antennas placed inside the goal, which is linked to software which sends an alert to the referee's wristwatch when it detects that the copper coils placed inside the ball completely cross the line.
Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]
December 2012: Goal-line technology money could be better spent, insists Platini
December 2012: Andrew Warshaw - The global clamour for goal-line technology is finally bearing fruit
December 2012: FIFA welcomes introduction of goal-line technology
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Maria Pimenova, sewing, felting and patchwork teacher:
The technique of patchwork is different from painting because we instantly make the picture come alive. We take fabric of all grades, density, brilliance, and texture. For example, snow banks look real when made by needlepoint, and smoke from a chimney jumps out of the sky when made from polyester batting. We also use beads, buttons, pompoms, yarn, ribbons, and sequins in order to give life and volume to the projects. Because of these efforts, you can feel how curly a mural man's hair is or how silky his shirt is.
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Some children can't even hold a needle when they come to the studio for the first time. We then begin the lesson by studying how to thread a needle. Next we have the children cut out fabric shapes and sew them onto a larger piece of fabric. Some children enjoy making little people the most, like our Mila. Another child, Masha, likes making little dogs the most. We also teach the children how to use sewing machines, if they haven't already learned at their orphanages. Besides creative fabric art, children also acquire skills which help them in their daily lives, such as sewing on a button and carefully measuring fabric. One of our children, Anton, loves to make dolls and puppets. It's amazing how he can make a new one in as little as two or three days. He names every single one.
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It was a long way to go to help, but that is the way the Red Cross works. A local couple is just back from Texas after aiding victims of Hurricane Ike. Claudia and Walt Holmes have volunteered with the Red Cross for more than 15 years. And even though they have helped out with recovery efforts like 9/11, Claudia said she was not prepared for they saw when they got to Texas. “I’ve never seen anything like this happen. It’s not something that they were really that prepared, they weren’t prepared for the enormity of the event.” But as soon as the couple was asked to volunteer they jumped at the chance. “We quick changed our schedules around and packed up and drove to Texas,” Walt Holmes said. Claudia heard about how high the water had risen during Ike, but could not believe it until she arrived in Texas and saw the evidence it left behind. “It was actually very interesting to see that the water lines on the houses were almost to the ceiling of the indoor of the house.” Walt said he was especially touched by what he saw on Galveston Island. “We got there the day before they let the residents back on the island, so we were there when they came back, which was quite a moving experience.” The couple stayed for about two weeks and helped provide food for many of the families that had lost their homes. The couple said they are happy they were able just to do what they could to provide support and comfort for those in need. Walt and Claudia say they were happy to help, and the Red Cross schedules 2 week volunteer periods. If you would like to help out like Walt and Claudia you can call the Cape Fear chapter of the Red Cross at 910-762-2683.
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These are my thoughts in response to a reporter’s request back in December for “social networking experts and real-life folks who can offer insights (and hopefully stats) about how social networking can help in a job search.” Thought I’d share:
I think social networks are increasingly becoming an essential career tool. We’ve heard all about the dangers social networks pose to your employment prospects but when used strategically as a career tool, they can provide you with a definite advantage in the marketplace.
- The more you give, the more you get. By filling out as much of your profile as possible at sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, you can demonstrate your experience and expertise. The more information you provide, the more connections you create. By filling out all of your applicable employers, you are creating a potential connection with everyone within that network who works or worked for your former employer. By filling out all of the schools you attended, you are creating a potential connection with anyone who also attended that school.
The more connections you have, the more likely it is that you’ll find someone or something in common with a potential employer or the person with whom you’ll be interviewing.
- By using the sophisticated search functions of most social networks, you can use them to research potential employers. You can find current and former employees of a given company and find out first hand what it’s like to work there. You can get a better sense of who you’d be working with. You can research your interviewer and see what you have in common or what mutual acquaintances you have.
- Recruiters use social networks heavily. By exposing yourself to them through social networks, you increase your opportunities exponentially.
- Who you know. By building your friends list with people who work within your industry, you are creating more chances that a potential employer will know one of your friends. The fact that someone is on your friends list is an implied endorsement of you; you gain prestige by that association. Try and find ways to create a connection with industry leaders.
- Social networks are a superb expert positioning tool. Through the use of the status update, you can demonstrate your expertise to your own network and to anyone who peruses your profile. Use the status update to showcase your knowledge by sharing thoughts about the industry, for example. Through Facebook’s Share A Link function, share articles that show you’re on top of your given field. Include books on your profile that show you’re reading the latest material within your industry. Participate in groups by sharing information and answering questions that demonstrate your expertise. Use LinkedIn’s Answers function to show off your knowledge. If you have a blog about your industry, include your RSS feed or share links to your blog that demonstrate your knowledge.
- But don’t be self-promotional 100% of the time. Take the attitude of trying to be helpful by sharing your knowledge and your expertise will shine through.
- Announce to your network that you’re in the market for a job, if appropriate. Your friends will likely keep that in mind and send opportunities your way.
- It is best to have your network in place before you need to use it for finding a job. Social networks are great relationship-building tools and relationships are a two-way street: You give and you receive. If you establish yourself as a valuable member of that community and a valuable “friend”, your network is far more likely to pay dividends once you ask for help. And people are far more likely to remember you and refer people to you, regardless of whether or not you ask.
- I believe the social networks that you bring to an employer–especially in “relationship” professions like public relations and journalism–will increasingly be seen as added value that you can bring to a company and will therefore make you a more attractive candidate than others.
This Computer World article has some good stats on how employers are using social networks:
- Open Source Employment
- Using Status Updates To Announce Your Unemployment – Interview Notes
- LinkedIn Best Practices For Business
- Social Media & Recruiting – Interview Notes
- Retail/Consumer & Social Networks
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Although outside the audible range, this interference modulates audio circuits, generating distortion in the audible band. Because this intermittent noise pollution is a foreign intrusion unrelated to the audio signal, it is subjectively perceived as more insidiously degrading, an opaque veil between you and the performance.
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In this tutorial we will learn how to create a hand grenade with the help of 3D modeling. This tutorial contains plenty of useful tips and description of manual techniques. Let's get started!
Let's start with creating a 3D model of a grenade. Take the Pen Tool (P) and create a half of a grenade shape.
Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create four circles of identical diameter and place them as shown in the figure below. The centers of the circles lie on the curvilinear outline of the hand grenade.
Select all the created elements (Command + A) and click on the Minus Front button from the Pathfinder palette.
Select the obtained shape and go to Effect > 3D > Revolve, and set the parameters in the dialog box as shown below.
We are creating a fragmentation grenade, so we need to divide its body into sections. Take the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a rectangle.
Keep the rectangle selected, go to Effect > Distort & Transform > Transform..., set the amount of horizontal displacement and number of copies in order to achieve the result shown in the figure below.
Drag the achieved result to the Symbols palette and save a new symbol.
In order to get access to the editing of the 3D model, open the Appearance palette and click on the function of the effect.
Hit the Map Art button in the open dialog window....
Choose Surface 3 and apply the created symbol to it.
Now click on the Scale to Fit button in the Map Art dialog box. Do the same actions with Surfaces numbers: 5, 7, and 11.
3D modeling is completed at this step, it is time for the manual work.
Let's proceed to the hand-tracing of the grenade model. Lock the under layer with the 3D model in the Layers palette, we will use it as a template. Use the following tools in this artwork: the Pen Tool (P) and the Ellipse Tool (L). It is convenient to set 50% Opacity for the newly created objects.
Paint the created objects in different colors, it will help you not to get lost in the abundance of shapes.
Use the Pen Tool (P) to create the sections of the body of the grenade.
As a result of your work you should have something like that shown in the figure below (Opacity was restored back to 100%).
Now proceed to the creation of the shapes of notches on the body of the grenade. First, take a look at the technique of creating edge notches. Take the Pen Tool (P) and connect the corners of the sections of the grenade in neighboring rows. Turn on the Smart Guides mode (Command + U) in order to hit the anchor points right.
Extend the created lines by using the Pen Tool (P), so they could go beyond the green outline of the ellipse.
Perform the same actions on the other side of the grenade.
Select all the created lines and the ellipse, then hit the Divide button from the Pathfinder palette.
Remove all the elements of the ellipse, except for the right and left segments.
Using this technique, create all the lateral notches of the grenade.
Proceed to the creation of the central notch shapes. Take the Pen Tool (P) and create two lines, as shown in the figure below.
Lock one of them in the Layers palette, and cut the other one at the intersection of lines using the Scissors Tool (C).
Lock the received segments in the Layers palette, unlock the second line and cut it at the intersection too.
Thus, we have four segments that converge to a single point. Select the lower segments, and lock the upper ones in the Layers palette.
Now select the area of intersection of the segments with the Direct Selection Tool (A), and go to Object > Path > Join (Command + J).
Lock the obtained angle in the Layers palette. Unlock the upper segments and also unite them together at the intersection.
Now take the Pen Tool (P) and close the outline of the upper notch as shown in the figure below.
All the points for creation of a horizontal notch in the central part of the grenades have been created, so it does not take much effort to create its shape with the help of the Pen Tool (P).
So, using the above described techniques, create the other shapes of the grenade notches.
Proceed to the coloring of the grenade elements, moving from top to bottom. To begin with, set the direction of light, I chose a front-mounted light source. Fill the flat end of the grenade fuse with a linear gradient that goes from white to a light gray color.
To fill the cylindrical part of the fuse, apply a linear gradient consisting of rotating colors, white and various shades of gray.
Let's proceed to the coloring of the grenade body. Fill the upper flat end of the shell with a linear gradient that goes from dark green to green. At this step, you have to determine what shades of green color the grenade will be painted in. These colors will be applied to the gradients of the grenade body.
Continue coloring the body, keeping in mind the location of the light source.
The notches of the grenade body also cut through the upper plane of the body. You can create cuts with the help of ellipses and Minus Front command from the Pathfinder palette.
Continue filling the sections of the grenade using the same colors and gradients. Remember where the light source is coming from?
When coloring notches on the body, use the Gradient Tool (G) to place gradient lines, as shown below. The shape of the upper notches should be extended to the upper flat end of the body. The Pen Tool (P) and the Direct Selection Tool (A) will be very helpful in that.
So, using only linear gradients, color the notches on the grenade body.
Due to inaccurate installation of objects, there can be some gaps.
In order not to do painstaking and time-consuming work to remove these defects, I recommend you do it in a different way. Select all the components of the grenade shell, copy it and paste it back (Command + C, Command + B). Keep it selected, click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder palette and fill the obtained shape with dark green. Now gaps are not visible. This professional technique is used by plenty of designers.
Now let's create a strap on the upper part of the grenade shell. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create an ellipse, as shown below.
Take the Scissors Tool (C) and cut it in the extreme left and right anchor points, then remove the upper part of the ellipse.
Now take the Pen Tool (P) and close the path, as shown in the figure below.
Copy and paste in front the conical part of the shell (Command + C, Command + F). Select the created shape and the copy of the conical part of the grenade, then press the Intersect button from the Pathfinder palette.
Fill the achieved shape with a linear gradient made of red shades and place the under layer with this shape below the upper flat end of the body, moving it in the Layers palette.
The lateral parts of the notches will be visible in the gaps on the flat end of the shell, create them using the Pen Tool (P) and gradient fills.
Proceed to the creation of the elements of the stem. Using the Pen Tool (P), create the shape shown in the figure below. The Gradient fill of this shape is similar to the fill of the striker string. You can copy it using the Eyedropper Tool (I) and adjust it by moving the slider of the gradient.
Now create the lateral surface of this element. Copy and paste it in back (Command + C, Command + B), move it a little bit to the right and up, and edit the shape using the Direct Selection Tool (A). Fill it with the gradient containing the lighter shades of gray color.
Create holes in the striker string. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create a black circle.
Duplicate this circle and paste it back, increase the size of the bottom circle by a few pixels and fill it with a solid light gray color.
Create two more holes using this technique.
Create a bracket to hang the ring. Take the Pen Tool (P) and create a straight line, as shown in the figure below.
Keep the line selected, go to Object > Expand and fill the resulting shape with a linear gradient.
Create the flat end of the bracket. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create an ellipse, rotate it as shown below and fill it with a linear gradient.
Start creating the ring. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create a circle without a fill, pick an approximate stroke width in the Stroke palette.
Keep the ring selected, go to Object > Expand and fill the shape with radial gradient as shown below.
Copy the ring and paste it back. Cut out and remove the part of the ring, using the Scissors Tool (C), and unite the cuts with the Pen Tool (P).
Create a shadow from the ring. Group up all the elements of the ring, copy and paste them back, now move the copy a little bit down. Keep the copy selected, click on the Unite button from the Pathfinder palette.
Remove unnecessary items of the shadow, using the Scissors Tool (C), and unite the cuts with the Pen Tool (P). Fill the shape with a neutral gray.
Set the Multiply Blending Mode for this shape in the Transparency palette.
The technique for creating the lever is common to the ones used to create the other elements of the fuse, the figures below show the steps for its creation.
Create the shadow from the grenade. Take the Ellipse Tool (L) and create two ellipses. Fill the smaller one with a dark green color and fill the bigger one with a light green.
Set 0% Opacity for the light green ellipse in the Transparency palette.
Select both ellipses, and go to Object > Blend > Make.
The grenade is ready. Now transform it into an antiwar symbol. Draw "XOXO" on it. Create the Art Brush. Take the Pen Tool (P) and create a horizontal line of gray color.
Keep the line selected, go to Object > Expand. Now go to Effect > Pixelate > Mezzotint... and choose the Medium dots option in the dialogue window.
With it still selected, go to Object > Expand Appearance and then Object > Live Trace > Tracing Options... Set the values shown in the figure below and click on the Trace button.
Keep the tracing object selected, go to Object > Expand. Replace the fill of vector objects with a white color and move the group to the Brushes palette. Save the new brush as an Art Brush.
Take the Paint Brush Tool (B) and let’s play Tic Tac Toe. Thanks to 3D modeling, you can create very complex objects. It only requires a little imagination and ingenuity.
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On a brisk November afternoon, the University community gathered on the lawn in front of Comenius Hall to rededicate the statue of John Amos Comenius, the great 17th-century Czech philosopher and Moravian bishop who’s considered the father of modern education.
Charles University in Prague first gifted the statue to Moravian College in 1960.
It was created by the renowned Czech sculptor Vincenc Makovsky. A copy of the same statue stands in Naarden in the Netherlands, where Comenius was buried in 1670. Another one is in the Czech city of Uherský Brod, believed to be Comenius’ birthplace.
Last Thursday, a delegation from the Czech community came to campus to rededicate Makovsky’s work. In the video above, Arnost Kares, the Consult General of the Czech Republic in New York, speaks about Comenius’ legacy, the statue of the philosopher behind him.
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Good character, Helen Keller once eloquently stated, often comes from facing and overcoming difficult times. It doesn’t take much to remain poised and even-tempered when life goes well. But a person’s real character shows when he’s faced with trials and tribulations. The hard days give us a chance to chisel away at our weaknesses and come out stronger in the end. Without struggles in life, we wouldn’t have much of a reason to develop ourselves.
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
So, how does positive thinking correlate with developing excellent character? You might feel as if it all boils down to the actions you take. However, anything that manifests in reality begins first inside the mind. Negative thinking easily defeats you. But if you can look at the bright side during even the fiercest battles, you can come out victorious.
No one accomplished anything worthwhile in history without having a determined, optimistic attitude. The mind tells our bodies what to do. So if you want to achieve a better reality, you must begin with correcting any defeating thoughts that creep into your brain. Not only does thinking positively help you accomplish more, but it makes you a better person. Below, we’ll explain more about how optimism can develop your character.
Therapists explain how good character and positive thinking go hand-in-hand:
If you go about life thinking bad things will happen at every turn, then you’ll likely experience precisely that. Our minds create our realities every second, so if you feel predominantly negative thoughts, you’ll start to have more unpleasant experiences. Simply put, people who approach life more optimistically tend to attract better experiences and have better health as a result of lower mental stress.
Studies prove the correlation between positive thinking and better health, citing the following benefits:
- Increased longevity
- Decreased rates of depression
- Lower levels of distress
- Lower rates of sickness from the common cold and flu
- Better mental and physical health overall
- Improved cardiovascular health and a far-reduced risk of death from cardiovascular diseases
- Better coping skills during hardships and times of stress
- Lower anxiety and stress levels
- Better quality sleep
As you can see, positive thinking comes with a plethora of mental and physical health benefits. If something as small as changing the way we think can impact our health so drastically, think of the vast implications, it could have on an even deeper level. Perhaps thinking differently could also make us better people and create a ripple effect on humanity as a whole. Let us explain a few ways that being positive could transform your life and give birth to a whole new you.
Positive thinking gives you the courage to face adversity.
Negative thinking doesn’t make for a very productive, fulfilling life because it stands in the way of everything you want to accomplish. It destroys your willpower and steals your joy. When you think that you’ll get through a situation no matter what, however, you tell your brain that failure isn’t an option for you. As we said earlier, a good character comes from facing challenges, but if you’ve already made up your mind that you’ve lost, then you don’t give yourself a chance to grow from the experience.
Positive thinking gives you the courage and strength to overcome anything that life throws at you. While it may take time to transform your mindset, you will start to see the effects in your life. Our brains are malleable, proven by something called neuroplasticity. We can change the operating systems in our minds anytime we want to and rewire our brains for better outcomes in life.
You start seeing others as equals rather than your competition.
Positive thinking also promotes community, because when you change your mindset, your compassion increases as well. If you live in a negative frame of mind, you likely only think about getting by and doing what you need to survive. From a positive point of view, you begin to see the beauty of life and how everything connects on an energetic level. As a result, you’ll start to honestly care about others’ well-being instead of treating them as your competition.
Positive thoughts help reduce cortisol and stress levels in the body, making it easier to connect with and relate to others. It takes down the walls we build around ourselves for protection and instead fosters a sense of comradery. Basically, when we feel good inside, we will want to share that joy with others. This happiness can have a ripple effect on others because smiles and cheerful attitudes are contagious.
If we can use positivity to unite us instead of promoting negativity that divides us, why would we consciously choose anything except the former? Just some food for thought.
Positive thinking promotes good character because it makes you more responsible.
When you have a negative mindset, you may tend to blame others for your problems. However, in a positive frame of mind, you know that you control your reality, and you assume responsibility for everything in your life. However, your life looks now like you’ve created it in one way or another. By thinking positively, you’ll have the willpower and drive to change anything you don’t like, and at the same token, feel gratitude for the good things.
In other words, positive people feel a sense of inner power because they know they can choose to experience something better whenever they choose. They write their story, and they don’t shift blame to anyone else. By owning up to their mistakes, they can analyze what went wrong and learn from it. When you blame others, you remain stagnant because you always have someone else to blame for your actions.
You are less likely to ruminate and will focus on solutions instead.
Negative people tend to mull over what went wrong, as studies prove. This lowers your immune system, creates unwanted stress in the mind and body, and in general, keeps you stuck. Positive people take the lessons they learned from unfortunate experiences and transform them into opportunities for the future. In other words, they remain even-minded in both good and bad experiences. They know that you can’t have light without a little darkness sometimes, and they don’t sweat the small stuff.
Focusing on solutions helps you build character because you know that nothing can bring you down for too long. You’ve made up your mind that you will overcome anything that stands in your way, and you’ve trained your brain to look for solutions. Positive thinkers make good leaders because of this personality trait as people look to them for answers to complex problems.
Unfortunately, humans focus more on negative than positive experiences because we needed to look out for threats in nature to survive. Our brains haven’t yet evolved from this primitive state to adjust to the modern world, so that is why we have to work so hard at reframing our thoughts. Below, we’ll go over a few science-backed ways to become more optimistic.
How to retrain your brain to think happy thoughts:
- Recite positive affirmations. A lot of the way you think comes from your self-talk. If you tell yourself defeating thoughts all the time, you don’t give yourself much of a chance to witness things in a positive light. Instead, tell yourself things like, “You have what it takes to get through this.” Or, you say, “You’re a strong, capable, amazing person.” As you recite these affirmations either silently or out loud, you’ll start to notice a change in your perspective after a while.
- Expect good things to happen. One way to trick your brain into thinking positively is to keep your attention on positive experiences. If you make it a point to re-focus more on positive events, the bad parts of life will start to take up less mental space.
- Think of obstacles as opportunities rather than burdens. When you look at everything that happens to you as a lesson, you become empowered and shift your experience. Instead of being a victim, you see yourself as an observer of what happens to you. You apply what you’ve learned and use it to build a better, more aware version of yourself.
In life, we always have an amazing chance to build on our experiences, and those who practice positive thinking know this. Therefore, they use negative experiences as simply tools to expand their awareness and chalk it up as important lessons learned. They give thanks to every person and situation they come into contact with because they just view life as a never-ending school, where we advance after we learn certain things. Positive thinking builds character because it shifts your mindset from that of a victim to a powerful creator of your own destiny.
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- DescriptionEuropean Television History brings together television historians and media scholars to chart the development of television in Europe since its inception. The volume will interrogate the history of the medium in divergent political, economic, cultural, and ideological national contexts.
- Author BiographyJonathan Bignell is Professor of Television and Film at the University of Reading (UK). Andreas Fickers is Assistant Professor for Television History at the University of Utrecht (NL).
- PublisherJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Date of Publication21/11/2008
- GenreFilm, TV & Radio
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- Country of PublicationUnited Kingdom
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There are many ways to lease aircraft. The type of lease you need depends upon the needs and capabilities of your company. Here are a few examples along with some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Under a standard operating lease, the lessor will be owner of the airplane. However, the rent payments likely will be reduced to offset the tax advantages retained by the lessor. The longer the lease commitment, the more likely that payments will be low because the lessor bears less risk regarding the residual value of the asset. With an operating lease:
Capital finance lease
A finance lease gives you some of the benefits of ownership while at the same time providing a way to finance all of the costs of acquiring the asset. Under a capital finance lease:
The off-balance sheet loan
Another alternative growing in popularity is the "off-balance sheet loan." The transaction is structured to capture some of the benefits of both the operating lease and the capital lease. The loan is structured as a lease and the lender is designated as the lessor, but the lessee is treated as the owner for some purposes. The lease usually has a fixed buyout at the end of the lease, usually at a value that is less than the true residual value of the aircraft. The buyout is optional for the lessee. Under an off-balance sheet loan:
There are specific features that the transaction must have in order to have the advantages described above. The transaction must be carefully structured. However, even with careful structuring, some accountants may be uncomfortable with use of this structure as a way of keeping debt off the balance sheet.
Choosing the best lease
Selecting the best type of aircraft lease for your company requires consideration of the company's cash flow, working capital, balance sheet, accounting, and tax needs. Experienced professionals can help you weigh the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different types of aircraft leases and can structure the transaction to satisfy relevant tax and accounting rules.
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She first appeared on television last year in Channel 4's The Bible: A History, suggesting that Moses did not exist. Her interviewer, devout Catholic Ann Widdecombe, appeared unimpressed.
Her three-part documentary, Bible's Buried Secrets, which begins on BBC Two tonight, is her first prime time series.
Dr Stavrakopoulou gained a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford and was a junior research fellow at Worcester College before joining the theology department at the university of Exeter, where she is currently a senior lecturer.
Although she was brought up "in no particular religion" by an English mother and Greek father, and remains an atheist, she became fascinated by theology as a schoolgirl.
"I was about 11 when I discovered Jesus was a Jew. I remember thinking, 'Wow! That's amazing. I thought Jesus was a Christian!' and that got me really interested in the relationship between Christianity and Judaism and in Judaism's ancient roots," she said in an interview with the Radio Times.
Her research is focused on the Hebrew Bible and she has published several books. She is currently writing a book about "the corpse and its social and religious impacts upon the living".
Dr Stavrakopoulou is secretary of the Society for Old Testament Study and a member of the European Association of Biblical Studies and the Society of Biblical Literature.
Bible's Buried Secrets begins tonight on BBC Two at 9.00pm
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Importing a Pajek Graph
- 1 PajekNetGraphGenerator Example Project
- 2 Contributors
- 3 PajekNetGraphGenerator and the STEM-related Format extension to Pajek
- 3.1 1. *Vertices n – n is number of vertices. In STEM nodes are the equivalent of vertices. Each vertex is described using following format (take care of the sequence of the parameters, additional and STEM-only parameters may be in any order):
- 3.2 2. *Edges – definition of edges. Format (take care of the sequence of the parameters, STEM-only parameters may be in any order):
- 3.3 3. *Arcs – definition of arcs. The same parameters as for edges can be used, see above.
PajekNetGraphGenerator Example ProjectSTEM allows users to create a custom graph using Pajek. ) uses a kind of standardized language for describing networks. Some examples might be found here: http://vlado.fmf.uni-lj.si/pub/networks/pajek/testdata.zip. A subset of this language is interpreted by the PajekNetGraphGenerator to import arbitrary graphs into STEM. The PajekNetGraphGenerator allows creating user-defined graphs (coordinates and shapes of nodes, type and rates of edges) for STEM and is based on the Pajek format.
An example project available for download may be found on the STEM website or a . This is a standard STEM project that you may import into your workspace. It contains a graph generated using the Pajek Graph Generator. It also contains examples of the original Pajek files used to create the graphs found in the project. The files are located in the 'Doc' directory of the project. Also in that directory you can find additional documentation. Read the PajekStem_Format.doc (or PajekStem_Format.txt) for further information about the modified Pajek format. The PajekNetGraphGenerator is available in the graph creation dialogue of STEM. Please see the page Creating a new Graph for information on using this dialog.
The archive contains the STEM project MultiPopulationExample_PajekGraphs, a modification of the STEM project MultiPopulationExample. The modification replaces the graph "3x3.graph" in the MultiPopulationNoVillageExample scenario with the imported graph "CC.graph" (that was imported with file CC.NET_2stem.net). Additionally, another Pajek file is added to the archive: 1.NET_2stem.net. The imported Pajek NETs were created with a simple Excel Macro (Pajek2STEM.xls). This macro allows the easy modification of Pajek NETs; it is not necessary, but makes things far easier - especially for complex graphs. The macro imports a Pajek NET, allows for modification and adding of additional parameters and exports a Pajek NET that is still compatible with Pajek. The usage of this macro is straightforward (be aware of the gray control buttons). It is generally applicable to all Pajek NETs.
Hint: Pajek allows (x,y,z)-coordinates between 0 and 1 only. STEM rounds coordinates to two decimal places. This might result in strange shapes of the nodes. This behaviour can be avoided if the coordinates are multiplied by a large factor (which is possible with the Excel macro). Be aware: the resulting file (with coordinates larger than 1) cannot be imported into Pajek.
The PajekNetGraphGenerator was created and developed by the department of Biological Safety of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment in Germany.
Armin Weiser, Matthias Filter Dept. Biological Safety Federal Institute for Risk Assessment 12277 Berlin Germany
firstname.lastname@example.org Italic text
The following reserved words are supported in the current Pajek Import implementation:
1. *Vertices n – n is number of vertices. In STEM nodes are the equivalent of vertices. Each vertex is described using following format (take care of the sequence of the parameters, additional and STEM-only parameters may be in any order):
- vertexnum label x y [z] [shape] [additional optional parameters]
- vertexnum – vertex number (1; 2; 3 : : : n). Successive numbering of vertices/nodes is obligatory. vertexnum itself is not used inside STEM after import.
- label – if label starts with character a..zA..Z or 0..9 first blank determines end of the label (e.g., vertex1), labels consisting of more words must be enclosed in pair of special characters (e.g., ”vertex 1”). The definition of a label is obligatory.
- x, y, z – coordinates of vertex. The z coordinate is ignored in STEM. In Pajek the coordinates have values between 0 and 1, for STEM the values are not limited. x and y coordinates are obligatory for STEM.
- shape – shape of object which represents vertex. The following shapes are supported by the PajekNetGraphGenerator: triangle, cross, ellipse, box, diamond. In STEM ellipse is represented as circle and box and diamond both are represented as box. box is the default value.
- Additional parameters:
- s_size – size of the node. The default size is given by the parameter “Default Area” within the PajekNetGraphGeneratorImpl dialog in STEM. For STEM the size of the node is not limited. Overlaps of nodes are not checked by the importer, they are allowed.
Example: 1 ”vertex one” 0.3456 0.1234 0.5 ellipse s_size 0.1
Parameters only valid in STEM (these parameters are ignored by Pajek):
- popid – identifier of a population of the node. This parameter may be used repeatedly.
- popcount – number of individuals living in the node. This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one.
Example: 1 ”vertex one” 0.3456 0.1234 0.5 ellipse s_size 0.1 popid human popcount 24 popid anopheles popcount 1000
2. *Edges – definition of edges. Format (take care of the sequence of the parameters, STEM-only parameters may be in any order):
v1 v2 [borderlength] [additional optional parameters]
- v1 – initial vertex number. The definition of v1 is obligatory. v1 has to be defined as node (see above: vertexnum).
- v2 – terminal vertex number. The definition of v2 is obligatory. v2 has to be defined as node (see above: vertexnum).
- borderlength – defines the borderlength for CommonBorderEdges
Edge Parameters only valid in STEM (these parameters are ignored by Pajek):
- popid – identifier of a population migrating on the edge. This parameter may be used repeatedly. If this parameter and additionally “rateab” or “rateba” is set at least once then a MigrationEdge will be specified in STEM, otherwise a CommonBorderEdge will be defined.
- rateab – fraction of the population in node v1 migrating over the edge to the terminal node v2 in a given time period (see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Transportation_Models#Migration_Between_Regions). This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one. The default value is 0.
- rateba – fraction of the population in node v2 migrating over the edge to the node v1 in a given time period. This parameter may be used repeatedly. The associated popid is the last mentioned one. The default value is 0.
Example: 1 2 popid human rateab 0.2 rateba 0.1 popid anopheles rateab 0.5 rateba 0.1
3. *Arcs – definition of arcs. The same parameters as for edges can be used, see above.
In the downloadable project, you will find some examples that may be imported into STEM. The filename extension “.net” is not mandatory for STEM:
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Dragos Ruiu first became suspicious when he was installing a new version of Apple’s OS X onto his MacBook. Unasked, his laptop also started to update its BIOS – which boots up the OS and choreographs use of disc drives and memory. In the three years since, Ruiu’s computers have continued to do strange things – even when unplugged and with the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth switched off. He now believes that hidden viruses on his machines are being controlled via ultrasound signals broadcast from one infected computer to another.
The incredible claims made by Ruiu, a respected computer security researcher from Vancouver, Canada, have sparked a row in the world of cyber security. Some doubt this sonic “backdoor” can be genuine – no one has yet tracked down computer code that can generate the audio. Although Ruiu’s claim remains unproven, others say that audio-based malware is a very real possibility.
The row started on 15 October when Ruiu posted on his Google+ page that a high-pitched whine in his home sound system was not, as he’d suspected, being caused by electrical noise from his home wiring. Instead, his tests showed it was probably being caused by interference from ultrasonic audio being transmitted between the loudspeakers and microphones of nearby computers. He also found that the ultrasound broadcasts ceased when the receiving computer’s microphone was disabled.
“We have recorded high-frequency audio signals between our computers and have seen the computers mysteriously change their configuration even when they don’t have network connections, Wi-Fi cards or Bluetooth cards,” Ruiu told New Scientist. “And we ran them on batteries so they were not receiving anything though the power lines.”
Mind the gap
If Ruiu is right, it means that malware, which he has called “badBIOS”, has somehow been installed in one of his computer’s chips, only to lie dormant until an audio signal wakes it up. No malicious code has so far been found on Ruiu’s “infected” machines. “This is all conjecture until forensic analysis finds something,” he admits. Whether or not a virus is found this time, it raises the disturbing prospect of audio controlling malware between “air-gapped” computers – those with no electronic or wireless connections. Until now, most people thought this was an ultra-secure way to operate.
“Malware, as well as legitimate software, can use any kind of signals and inputs to activate and modify its operation, so that would certainly extend to audio inputs,” says Ralph Langner, who is based in Hamburg, Germany, and discovered how the Stuxnet worm attacked Iran’s nuclear fuel enrichment facilities.
But making audio malware would be far from simple because of its “unreliable” transmissions through the air and walls, says Boldi Bencsáth of the CrySys security lab in Budapest, Hungary. He says the widely varying specifications of sound cards would make it hard to ensure malicious instructions were received by all types of computer. “Maybe it could work for slowly sending a few bits per minute, but it won’t work for downloading terabytes,” he says. But that might be all it needs to send control information.
Orla Cox, security operations manager with antivirus firm Symantec’s lab in Dublin, Ireland, agrees that audio control of malware between computers is theoretically possible. “You’d only use this for sophisticated attacks to get into somewhere that was highly secured. It would probably need a sophisticated, well resourced attack. It would also require a lot of skill – and most people out there are not that skilled.”
Stuxnet, Cox says, is thought to have jumped the secure air gap at Iran’s Natanz nuclear plant by using a mix of social engineering and Windows vulnerabilities: infected USB sticks distributed locally were picked up and used by off-duty staff – and a Windows autorun function ran Stuxnet when the sticks were later plugged into PCs inside the nuclear plant.
It would be a “big deal”, Cox says, if Ruiu is right. “If badBIOS can jump air gaps with audio it would be the most sophisticated piece of malware we have seen. Stuxnet is the only other piece of malware that has jumped air gaps before.”
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|Dongshan Island Campaign|
|Part of Chinese Civil War|
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Dongshan Island Campaign (traditional Chinese: 東山島戰役; simplified Chinese: 东山岛战役; pinyin: Dōngshān Dǎo Zhànyì) was a series battles fought on the Dongshan Island, Fujian between the Nationalists and the Communists during the Chinese Civil War when the nationalists unsuccessfully attempted to retake the island from the Communists. The campaign was the last (and the largest) land battle between two sides since the Nationalist withdraw to Taiwan, the last and largest Nationalist counterattack against the mainland. After this defeat, the nationalists realized that it was never practical to launch any large scale counterattack against the mainland on a similar scale again. Instead, the nationalist strikes against the mainland were reduced into small scale infiltration / insurgency / skirmishes. The nationalist failure marked the end of operations of this kind.
Order of battle
- Attackers: nationalist order of battle (more than 10,000 men):
- Two army divisions
- One paratroop division (with two brigades totaling 2,000 men)
- 13 naval vessels
- 30+ motorized junks
- Defenders: communist order of battle
- The 80th Public Security Regiment and militia (1,200 men)
- The 272nd Regiment of the 31st Army
- A regiment of the 28th Army
- A regiment of the 41st Army
- The 91st Division of the 31st Army
Shortly before dawn on July 16, 1953, the nationalist commander Hu Lian (胡琏) commanded his troops totaled two divisions in 13 naval vessels and more than 30 motorized junks sailed toward Dongshan Island, Fujian, attempting to retake the island from the communists who took the island from the nationalist three years earlier in the Battle of Dongshan Island. In addition to the two army divisions, an elite paratroop division totaling 2,000 in two brigades was also deployed for the mission, and the total nationalist force committed was just over 10,000. The nationalists had hoped to turn the island into another strongholds at the enemy’s doorstep and use it as a steppingstone to launch strikes against the mainland, but many capable nationalist commanders included the commander of this operation, Hu Lian, remained highly doubtful this would ever succeed, and after fierce debate, a compromise was reached: a much more moderate objective of striking the island to gain a political and morale boost and then a quick withdraw before the enemy could reinforce the island, and when the situation permitted, turn the island into a stronghold like the original plan.
The communists depended on the captured equipment from its nationalist adversary, included the radio communication gear, and since both sides used the American built communication gear, the communists were able to intercept the nationalist radio communications and deduct a rough general idea of the nationalist intentions with the help of other intelligence sources. When the communists reached the correct conclusion of the nationalists planned attack and retake of the Dongshan Island, there was not enough time to reinforce the island in a timely manner. The local defense consisted of the 80th Public Security Regiment and militia totaling 1,200 men, obviously not enough, so the communist commander Ye Fei instructed the local garrison to decide what was best for itself, including withdraw if necessary, and attempt to retake the enemy later.
However, the local commander You Meiyao (游梅耀), the staff officer of the Chen Yi during the Second Sino-Japanese War, refused to withdraw because that would allow the nationalists to utilise the communist fortifications on the island, making future attempts to dislodge the nationalists from the island very difficult. Instead, You Meiyao suggested while the reinforcement was organized as fast as possible, the local garrison would utilise the advantageous landscape and fortifications on the island to slow the enemy down by inflicting as many casualties as possible, and once the attackers were exhausted, the defenders would counterattack with reinforcements. The suggestion of You Meiyao was accepted and praised by Ye Fei and plans were made accordingly.
The first shot of the campaign was fired at 5:00 AM on July 16, 1953 when a nationalist division landed on the island. After three hours of fierce fighting, the enemy’s first line of defense was breached, and the nationalists succeeded in forcing the enemies into their second line of defense. By the end of the day, the nationalist had successfully taken the largest port on the island and controlled most of the island. Due to the rapid advance, the nationalists were optimistic and declared the island was taken. Despite taking most of the island, the enemy’s resistance in the few remaining isolated pockets proved to be much stronger than the nationalists had anticipated. After fierce fighting, only two isolated pockets of enemy resistance remained, but the nationalists were unable to eliminate them.
The enemy’s heavy mortar platoon had taken the highest point of the island and the largest port taken by the nationalists were directly within the range. The accurate enemy mortar fire not only badly damaged the port facilities including the pier, but also scored direct hits on three large landing ships. Although the mortar rounds themselves were not powerful enough to completely destroy the landing ships which carried heavy weaponry and ammunition, the secondary explosions triggered by the direct hits by the enemy heavy mortars were enough to sink all three landing ships. The damaged port required huge manpower to repair, which the nationalists had done very successfully, but in doing so, large number of troops was tied down, unable to support other units in assault the remaining enemy strongholds on the islands. Furthermore, the nationalists failed to realize the seriousness of the problem of the sinking of three large landing ships that blocked the waterway. Since the motorized junks with shallow draft were not severely effected by the wreckage, nationalists were still able to transport personnel onto the island via these junks, but ships carrying heavy weaponry were effectively blocked due to greater draft. The nationalists, however, did not consider the problem to be serious because the enemy was mostly light infantry anyway, a mistake that they would later deeply regret. In addition of failing to realize the problem caused, the nationalists were not able to take the highest point of the island from the enemy and although most of the enemy heavy mortars were knocked out with air support, the surviving ones did not stop shelling the nationalists until the very last round of ammunition had been exhausted. The nationalists] in turn, decided that it was not worth to take the enemy position after the shelling had stopped because the enemy was out of water already and only armed with light weaponry, and thus no longer post any threat, and all the nationalists had to do was simply stay out of the range.
The only enemy’s stronghold left on the island was in the region of Eight Feet Gate (Ba Chi Men, 八尺门), which faced the mainland, defended by a single company of communist naval infantry. The strongly fortified position included a pier and thus was the critical steppingstone for the enemy reinforcement from the mainland. The nationalists had correctly identified this serious threat and had also correctly decided to eliminate this threat early on, so entire American trained paratroop division which reached the island first was devoted for the mission. However, the lightly armed paratroopers proved to be no match for the enemy in heavily fortified positions on the terrain that strongly favored the defenders. After repeated extraordinarily but totally futile assaults, no only the elite paratroopers failed to achieve their original objective, but also suffered heavy loss, with several hundreds killed. The lack of heavy weaponry was the main cause of the nationalist failure to take this very important position, which paved the way for the eventual nationalist defeat in the campaign. Unable to take either of the two remaining enemy strongholds on the island, the battle reached a stalemate.
The enemy units on the mainland reacted rapidly by mobilizing all available vehicles to transport troops to the front. The communist 272nd Regiment of the 31st Army at Zhangpu County was first to respond: by 5:50 AM, less than an hour after the first shot of the campaign was fired, the advance guard of the regiment was already on its way to the front in the extremely few military vehicles available, while the rest of the regiment stop every civilian vehicles on the road to have the needed rides. By 9:00 AM, the entire regiment had reached the Eight Feet Gate (Ba Chi Men, 八尺门) pier of the Eastern Mountain (Dongshan, 东山) Island, with the help of newly arrived reinforcement, the communist naval infantry company at Eight Feet Gate (Ba Chi Men, 八尺门) managed to force the attacking nationalist paratroopers into retreat. A regiment of the communist the 28th Army and a regiment of the communist the 41st Army soon arrived afterward and the communist commander You Meiyao, riding on the initial success of driving back the attacking nationalist paratroopers, decided to immediately counterattack before the arrival of any other reinforcement so that the nationalists would not have the time needed to regroup, and successfully disrupted the nationalist defense and redeployment. As the nationalists were forced back by the counterattacking enemy in the ensuing battles, the communist 91st Division of the 31st Army landed on the island under the commander of the 31st Army, Zhou Zhijian (周志坚), the nationalists’ fate on the island was thus sealed.
The nationalist commander of the operation, Hu Lian, initially did not believed that the enemy could reinforce the island in such large scale in such short time, since the vital bridge, the Nine Dragons Bridge (Jiulongjiang Daqiao, 九龙江大桥) was already destroyed by the nationalist air force and the nationalist intelligence analysis had concluded it would take at least two days to repair the bridge, but the aerial reconnaissance did not lie. Realizing that his force possessed neither technical nor the numerical advantages, Hu Lian wisely chose to withdraw before anymore enemy reinforcement arrived in order to avoid total annihilation. The enemy, in turn, seeing that what they sent was enough already to drive the attacking nationalists away from the island, did not pursuit and stopped sending further reinforcement. The campaign came to an end on July 18, 1953 after the island was secured by the defenders after the nationalist retreat.
Dongshan Island Campaign was the last large scale nationalist counterattack against the mainland, and after this failure, the nationalists realized that it was never practical to launch any large scale counterattack against the mainland in similar scale anymore, and instead, the nationalist strikes against the mainland were reduced into small scale infiltration / insurgency / skirmishes. The nationalist cadavers recovered by the communists on land and in the coastal waters totaled 2,664, and another 715 were captured alive, while the number of wounded was uncertain because most of them were successfully evacuated by the nationalists themselves. In addition, two tanks were destroyed, three landing ships sunk and two aircraft were also lost. The communist casualties were relatively low in comparison, totaling 1,250. The nationalist failure was caused by a series blunder committed, with some of the critical ones committed before the campaign had even begun.
In order to maintain the secrecy of this surprise attack, the nationalist simply went too far in that even their own troops were not informed about the mission until they were already on their way to the island. Many captured nationalist officers did not feel it was a fair fight because they were not informed, and had they been better informed, they would postpone the attack to better train their troops and the outcome of the campaign would certainly be quite opposite, and this view was echoed by many of those who successfully withdrew to Taiwan in their memoirs. In fact, due to the poor inter-service communications caused by the overly excessive secrecy, the two nationalist aircraft lost during the campaign might very well be shot down by their own ground force on the island. One plausible explanation was that due to the rapid advance of the nationalist attackers in the initial phase, the positions previously occupied by the communists to fire at the nationalist aircraft were taken by the nationalist ground force, which was attacked by their own aircraft which was unaware the rapid development of the battlefield, and the nationalist ground force under aerial attack naturally assumed that these were the enemy’s aircraft, and fired back, shooting down two of their own.
The poor inter-service communication caused by the overly excessive secrecy also resulted by nationalist three landing ships after taking the largest port on the island, which was directly within range of the enemy’s heavy mortar positions at the highest point of the island. The slow landing ships loaded with heavy weaponry became sitting ducks as they were being unloaded, and in addition to three being sunk, the pier was also badly damaged by the accurate enemy fire. Although the enemy’s heavy mortars were eventually silenced, the damage was already done and despite the fact that the casualties were low, the lost of heavy weaponry and the need to repair the pier were two most significant factors that caused the nationalist defeat. In fact, the last enemy heavy mortars that survived the nationalist fire did not finally stop until all of the ammunition had run out.
Another serious blunder committed by the attacking nationalist force included attempts to cut the communication link between the defenders and the mainland. Despite the fact that every single telephone line pole was cut down, nobody bothered to cut the actual line, or to wiretap the enemy’s telephone line. As a result, the defenders were able to maintain perfectly good communications with the mainland and the enemy commanders were much better aware the situation than their nationalist counterparts, thanks to a telephone squad with encryption devices. In contrast, the communists’ radio equipment were captured from the nationalists, who did not have the luxury of using telephones, but must rely on radio communications during the campaign, and thus the enemy was able to listen in on the nationalists, obtaining valuable information on the nationalist moves and plans.
The other serious blunder committed by the attacking nationalist force was the grave underestimation of the enemy strength. Although the nationalist order of battle included three divisions, none of them were fully manned, and in fact, the paratroop division only included two brigades totaling 2,000, which was only the strength of a single brigade. Furthermore, due to the sinking of three landing ships at the port and the destruction of the port by enemy heavy mortar fire, most landing forces became light infantry which did not enjoy superior technical advantage over the enemy. This problem was further compounded by the incorrect use of the paratroopers by ordering them to attack the strongly fortified enemy positions at Eight Feet Gate Pier, resulting in more than 500 paratroopers killed, a staggering 25% of the total paratroop force devoted to the campaign. In addition to the loss of technical superiority due to the lack of heavy weaponry, the nationalists also lacked the numerical superiority, which inevitable caused the final collapse of the offensive and the eventual failure.
In addition to underestimating the enemy strength, the nationalists also committed another serious blunder in underestimating the enemy capacity to repair damages inflicted by the opposing side. The nationalist intelligence calculated that after the air strikes that destroyed the vital Nine Dragons Bridge (Jiulong Jiang Daqiao, 九龙江大桥), it would take at least two days for the enemy to repair the bridge, but in reality, the enemy had the bridge repaired in only two hours. As the news reached the surprised nationalists, it was obvious that the mission was over and in order to avoid complete disaster, the nationalists wisely chose to give up the fighting by withdrawing the surviving forces and abandoned the island.
The island was isolated from the rest of friendly bases and there was simply no way for the nationalist to permanently hold it, as demonstrated three years ago in the Battle of Dongshan Island, and though the campaign three year later might have been a relatively successful strike, any attempts to turn the island into a permanent base would certainly result in the same outcome as the battle three years earlier in which the nationalists were forced to abandon the island, as shown in this campaign once again.
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The most promising drugs in the pipeline for primary care
By Stacey Butterfield
MIAMI —The FDA approved more than 50 new drugs in 2008. But not one is really new or relevant to primary care, said Gerald W. Smetana, MD. In fact, to prepare for his update on new drugs at the annual meeting of the Society for General Internal Medicine, he had to dig through the literature and find some not-yet-approved drugs.
An attendee of the annual Society for General Internal Medicine meeting listens in on a scientific session.
“These are the drugs that are novel, relevant to us, and not me-too drugs the ones that I thought are the most important drugs in the pipeline,” he explained to attendees at the May meeting. (Dr. Smetana reported no conflicts of interest with the drugs he discussed.)
The most exciting of these new therapies, and the most likely to hit the market soon, is rivaroxaban, a medication to prevent postoperative venous thromboembolism (VTE). “If you’re paying attention to the major journals, it’s hard not to notice rivaroxaban. There’s been a flurry of reports,” said Dr. Smetana, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.
From those reports, it appears that rivaroxaban may be a good alternative to current therapies, said Dr. Smetana. “Unfractionated heparin requires a hospital stay, low molecular weight heparin requires injections and is very expensive, warfarin has a very narrow therapeutic range and requires frequent monitoring.”
Rivaroxaban, a factor Xa inhibitor, corrects many of those problems. It can be given as a once-daily medication, and has rapid onset, a half-life of about five to nine hours and a predictable anti-coagulant response, so it doesn’t require monitoring.
Several large trials have been conducted comparing the new drug to enoxaparin in patients receiving hip and knee replacements. In all of the trials, rivaroxaban resulted in decreased postoperative VTE rates (between 31% and 79% lower) and similar incidences of bleeding (Lancet 2008; 372:6).
“If this drug proves to be effective for a variety of indications, this could really change everything. It could eliminate warfarin clinics,” Dr. Smetana said.
Although firm evidence for the new medication comes from trials of VTE prophylaxis, there are suggestions that it could be useful for other anti-coagulant purposes. A non-inferiority trial compared rivaroxaban to low molecular weight heparin for the treatment of deep vein thrombosis, and found it to be more effective (Blood 2008; July 18 e-pub). “It’s tantalizing. It suggests there might be a similar beneficial effect, but we don’t have the data,” he said.
Atrial fibrillation could be another potential application, but clinicians will have to wait for more trials to see how rivaroxaban fares in that condition. They likely won’t have to wait long for the drug itself, though, because it could be approved within the next few months.
The cost is still unknown, but an anti-coagulant treatment that eliminated the need for monitoring could prove very cost effective, Dr. Smetana noted.
Physicians and patients will have to be a little more patient in their wait for the latest in migraine therapies. Telcagepant has been through Phase III trials, but has not yet been submitted to the FDA, so it won’t have the potential to hit the market for at least a year or two, Dr. Smetana said.
Telcagepant targets the neurogenic inflammation associated with migraine, specifically, calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). As a CGRP receptor antagonist, the drug has the potential to treat migraines without the side effects of some current therapies.
“The CGRP antagonists have no direct vasoconstrictive properties so it’s possible that they have potential for no cardiovascular side effects. In that regard, they’re different from the triptans,” said Dr. Smetana.
“If you’re paying attention to the major journals, it’s hard not to notice rivaroxaban.”
Trials have compared the new drug with rizatriptan and found it to have similar effectiveness. In a Phase III trial of healthy adults with moderate to severe migraines, 300 mg of telcagepant resulted in 26.9% of patients being pain-free in two hours, compared with 31.3% of those taking zolmitriptan. Less than 10% of those taking a placebo got relief.
Telcagepant had similar rates to placebo for side effects (about 30%) while about half of patients taking the triptan reported side effects (Lancet 2008; 372:2115). “The rationale for developing this drug was that if it’s equally effective for acute treatment of migraine, with fewer side effects, it might be an attractive option,” said Dr. Smetana.
More data, particularly on long-term safety, are still to come but are expected to be good, he noted. “It’s unlikely there are going to be unanticipated side effects in my view because this is given as a single-dose treatment rather than long-term daily therapy.”
If approved and priced reasonably, telecagepant could make sense as a second-line treatment in patients for whom non-steroidals don’t work, Dr. Smetana said. It could be particularly useful in patients who don’t tolerate triptans or have cardiovascular risk factors.
Cardiovascular risk is the target of the third and final drug that Dr. Smetana covered in his lecture. Anacetrapib is a cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor. Torcetrapib was the first CETP inhibitor to show promise in increasing HDL levels, but it also turned out to increase cardiovascular morbidity.
“This was very disappointing because there was a lot of hope,” said Dr. Smetana. “The question is why would there be increased cardiovascular morbidity in a drug that raised HDL?”
Researchers are hoping that the answer is an off-target effect. Studies showed that torcetrapib decreased serum potassium levels and increased systolic blood pressure consistent with an aldosterone like effect. So far, trials of anacetrapib have indicated that it offers the benefits, but not the downsides, of torcetrapib.
In Phase II studies, higher doses of the drug resulted in over 100% increases in patients’ HDL levels. It was compared against and combined with atorvastatin and there did not appear to be any adverse effect on blood pressure (Am Heart J 2009; 157:32).
“We don’t, however, have any studies looking at hard cardiovascular endpoints from this drug,” said Dr. Smetana. Further trials, which would be needed for FDA approval, should answer some of the questions about the cardiovascular effects of the drug, and help physicians judge its value.
“I’m suggesting great caution with this medication. We really need much larger Phase III trials that are going to look at cardiovascular endpoints before making a decision,” Dr. Smetana said. Sounds like a potential topic for next year’s update.
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In April of 2005 I was busy waiting tables and preparing to finish my undergraduate degree. Mike Dodaro was already thinking deeply about art and liturgy, and doing some writing about it. His blog, Alienated in Church, is a treasure trove of insight about the status of worship, and much of his work has proven to be prophetic. Mike recently shared this post with me in response to my own recent post, and I found it to be an incredible treatment of the issue of form and meaning as it relates to worship. I share it here with his permission. Check out his other posts, as well.
A guest post by Michael Dodaro.
Discussions of art in the ministries of the church tend to draw a line between artistry and abstract theological content that supposedly transcends form and is the meaning communicated by music, liturgy, or the visual arts. If pop music is used in worship, it is claimed that it is the message that is important, not musical style. Simplistic praise choruses may be artistically bland and the texts of little theological substance, but, it is claimed there is conviction, faith, and true worship in the hearts of worshipers so engaged. It seems common sense to err in favor of earnest spirituality rather than reverence for art. Elegance in liturgy is getting to be a rarity, and it is considered stifling in many places. It also seems pointless, on the face of it, to argue about whether we will have guitar strumming or choral music by Palestrina. Occasionally, we consider whether art may have meaning in and of itself and how this meaning might aid worship or detract from it. Most people have some sense of the power of art to elevate the mood or arouse the passions. Plato thought that art that evokes passion was unsuitable in a rationally ordered republic. What might be latent in states of mind induced by the sensory stimulation of the arts?
Stimulation of the senses does seem a strange method, if communication of abstract meaning is the objective in liturgical art. Liturgy means literally “work of the people.” Why not let readings from the scriptures or the homily explicate the substance of our faith in plain language? If we want to be perfectly clear, why do we sing our texts and adorn our sanctuaries with symbols? Christians have created art from earliest times, even while enduring persecution. Paul and Silas sang hymns in jail. Believers hiding underground from the Roman authorities painted on the walls of the catacombs. We know they encouraged one another in plain language as well, because some of their writings are now canonical. But the Bible is not in the form of a theological discourse. The artistry of scripture conveys mysteries more profound than an abstract presentation of ideas or a paraphrase. Meaning in art cannot be a paraphrase. There may be no text. J. S. Bach dedicated his works to God’s glory, but how could one paraphrase one of his organ preludes?
A picture, they say, is worth a thousand words. We might add that an artistically rendered work of art communicates more than a thousand diagrams of the sort found in gospel tracts. The liturgical forms of the medieval church are in fact sacred music dramas. Opera began as a teaching ministry of the church. The defense of male clergy in liturgical churches is based on a reasoned anthropology in which the priest in the mass acts in the role of Jesus at the consecration of the Eucharist. This is drama of the most serious kind. The early history of musical drama in the church is summarized well by an excerpt from a 1993 book by Carl Gerbrandt. (Gerbrandt, Carl; Sacred Music Drama: A Producer’s Guide; Prestige Publications, 1993)
The historical evolution of the church’s liturgy and development of the Mass is in itself an example of ceremonial music drama. The Mass contains nearly all the ingredients of a music drama with members of the clergy serving as the solo performers and the congregation becoming the responsorial chorus. The varying rituals, the choreographed physical movement, the chanting, and the text are all in place to create a drama.
From about the tenth to the late thirteenth century, a form of liturgical music drama occupied an important place in the church’s worship activities. Various personages, at first only members of the clergy, were selected to portray the characters represented in the scripture reading of the service. Thus, a very simple scene was visually dramatized in the midst of the liturgy. The most commonly enacted scenes were taken from the Gospels and centered on seasonal events such as the Marys’ visiting the tomb of Christ and the activities and characters surrounding the birth of Jesus.
By the fourteenth century, cycles of such scenes known as mystery plays were being performed which covered the entire range of Biblical history from the creation to the last judgment. With few exceptions, these plays grew into something of an elaborate entertainment with lavish scenery, costumes and large casts.
With liturgical drama so entwined with the development of Western music, it is hard not find theological meaning in music, even in grand opera. A great deal of what we think of as the Western canon in literature has been explored in musical settings. When literary works are sung, another dimension is added to their meaning, whether the drama is enacted or simply becomes the text of an oratorio or choral setting. The controversy surrounding the influence of various kinds of music has a long history. Many theorists have argued that music has an effect on character formation. For a history of this discussion from Plato to Nietzsche, refer to Carson Holloway’s book entitled All Shook Up; Music, Passion, and Politics; Spence Publishing.
Though the theological rigor of creeds and confessions is never entirely adequate to delineate the topography of faith, it is still true that theologians, not artists, govern churches. Those inclined to formal statements of doctrine are apparently more decisive in action than common folk who gaze on parables in stained glass or the artists who create them. Effective preachers do recognize the power of anecdotes and stories, especially when they are vividly represented in sensory images. The theoretical writings of Jonathan Edwards argue that preaching must stimulate the senses.
Communication through the senses–the stock in trade of art–is not just a concession to human limitations. It is recognition of the physical nature of being human. We are created by God from the dust yet beloved in our earthly humanity to such a degree that God, at a critical stage in history, took on human flesh to fully participate in our world. Considered in light of the Incarnation, the sensory and physical aspects of art gain immeasurably in importance. It begins to seem as if it may be missing the point entirely to say that only the content of our worship matters, regardless of form. An analogy can be drawn between the historical error known as Docetism and the now popular misconception that form is unimportant if what we sing, or the meaning we intend by our art, is sincere. Docetism is a heresy that maintains the Incarnation of God in human flesh was an illusion or a temporary phase. A parallel fallacy is the claim that sincere worship can take any form. It verges on something outrageous. Imagine, for the sake of comparison, claiming that God could have communicated the forgiveness of sins just as well through announcements of amnesty in the news media as through the Incarnation of Jesus Christ. These days it is claimed in all seriousness that the church is the same “in content” regardless of whether it observes traditions forged in the furnace of history or “contextualizes” the gospel in rock and roll idioms.
If we learn anything from advertising, we should know that how something is presented determines its impact, and, it must be acknowledged, a share of the meaning of what is communicated. Unfortunately, the wrong lessons are being taken from commercial art, and we end up marketing the gospel. The result is often just what the connotations of the word marketing imply—selling church at a price the traffic will bear and to the largest buying constituency. Sure, we can use methods from advertising and advanced technology. We can try to imagine Jesus as a radio talk-show host if we wish. But we should be cognizant of the messages that lay between the lines of our verbal communication and, most certainly, those that are latent in the images of our art. When there are resonances with pernicious cultural influences in our music, we are communicating something alien to the faith delivered to the apostles. The interesting thing about Martin Luther’s alleged superimposition of Ein Feste Burg on a tavern song is not that he contextualized Reformation theology for Heidelberg pop culture, but that classically trained composers soon harmonized this contraband melody in settings fit for church. Now we take perfectly serviceable Christian hymns and transliterate them into the vernacular of the tavern. The pastor of nearby church likes to kid me about such things. “That’s a nice tune,” he’ll say about some hymn standard, “Now can’t we tattoo it!”
How long, oh Lord! These reflections are being written during a day of seemingly endless waiting as I serve a term on jury duty. Civic responsibility and compulsion have prevailed over practicality this week. No telling at this point whether the lost time will have been a minor inconvenience or something that will set me back weeks or even months and take a toll from my family commitments and finances. A few observations are in order. First, though I didn’t want to do this, I should do it, nonetheless. Jury trials and jury duty are necessary in a just social order to apply the law with human comprehension of the subtleties and contradictions inherent in all legal codes. That is to say, we apply the law in a manner that might be compared to the nuances of art in worship as opposed to didactic and often tedious preaching conventions. Jesus, of course, had quite a lot to say about religious dogmatism and the privilege that attends those who are in positions to practice it. That many religious authorities are now the ones urging us in a direction that indiscriminately increases the numbers of trend followers in the church should not come as a shock. Preaching has come to be synonymous with simplistic reductionism and lack of subtlety or nuance. But, my second observation on jury duty is that in court there is a rigorous attempt to hear all sides of a given case before making judgment. This argument is an attempt to gain a hearing for a perspective on art that has been notably lacking both in advocates of pop music in church and church leaders who will hear the merits of persisting against the trends in favor of historic art and culture.
We began with what seemed to be a common sense opinion that art is not so important if sincere worship is our goal. Maybe it begins to intrude that “sincere” worship that ignores or is simply ignorant of the greatest expressions of Christian culture and liturgical forms that have endured for millennia is perhaps not really very sincere given the education and levels of affluence in American churches. Is it worthy of the God who reveals Himself in history for college-educated Christians to worship in ways that are so little informed by the traditions through which the faith has endured and been handed down to them? If it is ignorance that is at the root of this casual disregard of tradition, then the church has an obligation to teach. Where are the scholars who can explicate liturgical forms and give their students the understanding to embody theology in worship that sounds like the church of the ages instead of a lounge show or hootenanny? Most of the talk about new wine and old wineskins is misguided, as if the metaphor had always been applied to contextualization and not a distinction between law and gospel. If not ignorance of excellence in art, but willful abnegation from the magisterial succession that brings the church militant into the company of the church triumphant, then adopting contemporary anti-culture in church is probably something resembling the arrogance of youth. A callow self-assurance does seem to permeate the mood and music in our sanctuaries lately.
How many centuries did it take for the chanting heard in synagogues, monasteries, and even now in Eastern Orthodox Churches, to be molded by practitioners of the musical craft into the masterpieces of Victoria, Josquin, and Tallis, the baroque masterpieces of Bach and Handel, or the joyful vigor of Mozart, until even an agnostic like Brahms ordered his deepest sentiments in the musical idioms of Christians who preceded him? Blood was spilled in recurring iconoclastic controversies. Do we have to relearn the lesson that what we take from “pagan” culture must be things of beauty that are consistent with the transcendent ideals God has implanted in creation, not sensuality or worse, idolatry? The answer to these rhetorical questions is, of course, that it took as many centuries for the church to develop the forms of worship that molded the standards of Western art as it did for Christian theology to permeate Western culture. The noblest art does not come out of the minds of people working with the skills they have acquired in a few years of study, especially when their efforts have been mainly in an entertainment milieu. Great art is the result of centuries of development that builds on what has been learned through many cycles of study and innovation. In brief it comes out of a tradition like that of music in Western standard practice. If pagan Rome was not built in a day, how can we abide the folly that tries to justify pop art in a church that has outlasted Rome by a thousand years? If we made the same argument for contextualization of doctrine as we do for dressing up theology like a drag queen in contemporary art, we would have to throw out the Bible, the creeds, and the confessions. We would demolish thousands of magnificent buildings. Protestations that the “content” of our worship is unchanged hardly conceal the alien motive to fill our churches without really being the church.
If it is not pragmatism that impels us in the direction of swine the demons sent stampeding over a cliff, what is it? A senior statesman where I go to church reminds me that the big-band music of his youth was never imported wholesale into church. One of the demons of our own time is cultural relativism. It has so penetrated our thinking that inner-city ministries earnestly teach children African drumming without ever asking if the children under their tutelage can read or do basic arithmetic, these being skills valued by a dominant culture of dead white European males. Diversity is like a mantra chanted in every sector of public life. In church the response comes back, “Contextualization.” If it is conceded by our leadership that we should have good music, in the next instant the objection is raised, “But what is good music?” It’s sophistry like that of the Pharisee who asked Jesus, “But who is my neighbor?” Try to answer and contemporizers will dispute that there are even premises upon which the question might be decided. In antiphonal fashion we hear, “Diversity, Contextualization, Diversity, Contextualization.” Then amplified guitars drown everything in an undistinguished droning and somebody with a microphone who can’t sing wails amen.
No doubt the church will sound different in Los Angeles than in Boston or Butte, Montana. The high liturgy of Boston may not be feasible in Butte on a regular basis. But don’t bet on it. In Montana in the nineteen fifties in a town of eleven thousand people where I grew up, there were half a dozen churches with better choirs than most large urban churches can muster today. Many people can remember when quality mattered more than excitement. It isn’t for lack of the way that we don’t accomplish now what was done out in the boondocks years ago. It’s lack of the will. Easier just to let a juvenile mentality take over. The loudest music wins. To hell with the old people.
In the Christian tradition, the question of what is good music has largely been settled. Contextualization, if there is anything in it at all, should not be about debasing all points of reference, but translating, as in mission work, Christian truths into images that mean the same thing as the original gospel narratives. How do you communicate a theology of redemption from sin through the passion of Christ in easy listening harmonies? Maybe in evangelism raucous noise like a hell from which we wish to be delivered can describe the crucifixion, but to worship in the vernacular of a rock concert is like a dog returning to its own vomit. The church has only been in Borneo for a hundred years. Maybe it has been in parts of India since the twelfth century. But it has been the dominant cultural force in the West for nearly two millennia. The Biblical culture has been extant since Abraham left Ur. When Jesus said a little leaven leavens the whole lump of dough, he could not have used a more apt metaphor for the pervasive influence the Biblical world-view would have on culture. What we now refer to as a culture war is in reality a revolt against normative formal order in the infrastructure of Western Civilization, an order that is Judeo-Christian to the core. Contributions of Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Africans, and a few others in art, in science, and in governance, have been evaluated and interpreted under the auspices of the church in light of Judeo-Christian moral premises. It should not surprise anybody, when revolutionaries are denouncing the ethics and epistemology in our “canonical” texts, that cultural accommodation in church leads to scorn for “robed choirs” who can still sing our best music.
Art is not in essence self-expression. Art is an embodiment of culture that teaches on a very profound level as it inspires, or ravishes, the whole person. When schmoozey praise choruses, and now even hard rock, drive historic music from the sanctuary, it surely says something about the substitution of subjective values for the rootedness of faith in history and in fact. These cautions are often diverted by the argument that disputes about musical style are trivial. Usually this is a shameless ploy to keep decision-making about the arts in private conferences. Your questions are old stuff, now just let us decide. In court, at least, the defense has an opportunity to cross-examine. But those inclined to sell the birthright for a mess of pottage know their ideas won’t stand up to open investigation of the issues.
Yes, art in worship must be accessible. Yes, classical musicians are often snobs. But it is important to remember that “classical” is by definition that which has been proven accessible and viable in diverse cultural contexts over countless generations. Palestrina and Mozart are much more universally accessible than any of the derivative pop being touted as the way to reach our generation for Christ. American Revival era music was roughly the equivalent of the sentimental fluff we’re hearing today, but fortunately, immigrant churches kept European traditions alive, and many converts of the revivalists, or their children, found their way into tradition-honoring churches. The Catholic Church has had digressions of its own to contend with, but some semblance of traditional liturgy has prevailed. Even down in the Bible-Belt, the musical culture was not bad until the boomers took over. Out in places like Oklahoma and Texas they used to listen to Texaco-sponsored broadcasts from the New York Metropolitan Opera. The lion’s share of contributions came from radio land. I don’t know if this is still true. Texaco has abandoned the project, perhaps to have its name associated instead with music coming out of Nashville. The church should have more commitment to its heritage.
To the hundreds of ethnic groups now living in American cities, the suburban values imbedded in the Gospel According to Jive are not more accessible than Gregorian Chant. A Korean church, not more that ten minutes from two local megachurches, does Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, etc. on a regular basis. The tenor soloist there was involved in an operatic production under the direction of Gian Carlo Menotti at the Olympic games in Seoul. Missions managed by church-growth specialists in the two-thirds world are running into an instructive backlash. At a conference in 1999 sponsored by the World Evangelical Fellowship based in Singapore, church leaders and missiologists from fifty-three countries gathered in Brazil. As Christianity Today editor David Neff reported, “Attention came to focus on American paternalism in the form of pragmatic marketing paradigms.” Peruvian missiologist Samuel Escobar criticized an “anti-theological” statistical approach that “has no resources to cope with suffering and persecution”. Joseph D’Souza, chair of All-India Christian Council indicted missiological trends that “have tended to turn communication into a technique where we market a product called salvation.” The large numbers of people from the two-thirds world living in American cities make this criticism applicable here. The best American church music came out of suffering, not pop culture. Black gospel and spirituals are still viable forms, though spirituals are being supplanted by “gospel” music not much better than that in the mainstream. And even in black spirituals, the influence of European Classicists is evident. Dvořak’s New World Symphony was written after a sojourn here. His copyist and protégé was none other than Harry Burleigh, one of the big three composers of spirituals. Dvořak taught him how to transform the folk music of slaves into something that conveyed their suffering and their faith to people all over the world. Marian Anderson was an early ambassador for civil rights. And don’t even begin to suggest that black Christians don’t appreciate Handel and Mozart.
A lot of nonsense in the dispute over worship styles can be boiled down to enthusiasm opposed to tradition. Edmund Burke’s prototypical essays are still among the best statements of the case for cultural stability maintained by tradition. His argument was intended to avert in England a debacle like the French Revolution. The state, he maintained, is like an organism, and any living thing grows in such a way that its health and vitality is not likely to be improved by revolutionary innovation. Trying to reinvent the church to evangelize every generation or subculture may add numbers to the rolls of the church in some places, but a church in revolt against itself is not the church. Burke also wrote that, in the final analysis, “Manners are more important than laws”, because manners precede and inculcate morals. The religious right is as unsophisticated in its understanding of the “two kingdoms” theory of Augustine as church-goers are becoming in their understanding of music. Using political power is not, in the long run, as effective as molding culture. If we can’t maintain the cultural ethos inside our buildings, why do we argue in public that our Judeo-Christian heritage needs to be preserved? Western Civilization is, in addition to regenerated lives, the best evidence we have that the gospel preached by the apostles was not mythology born of cognitive dissonance after Jesus’s crucifixion. A tree is known by its fruit. Let us not consign the high art that goes with the moral advances of the West to the dustbin of history in the name of cultural neutrality. Neutrality is impossible when we’re talking about basic ideals by which the church either thrives or languishes. Rooms full of enthusiasts who have no grasp of the historical revelation in which salvation is embodied do not by virtue of their numbers constitute an argument for dismissal of the best of Western art. There probably is, as we are being told, a place for pop art in some of the ministries of the church, but not when it drives out sublime art that has been created through the patronage of the church and Christian people through so many centuries.
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Dying Girl With Cancer Wins Supporters With Bucket List Blog
Alice Pyne may not have a lot of time, but she’s determined to make the most of what she has.
Alice is a 15-year-old British girl with terminal cancer who is made waves with a bucket list she’s posted online.
Perhaps Alice’s biggest wish is “everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor.”
She has been besieged by people sending her well wishes, writing, “Thank you so much for all your lovely messages to me. I don’t sleep very well and I sat up all night reading them as they came in from all over the planet, every single one, and they have made me smile so much so that is a good thing.”
Alice has some pretty interesting items she’s hoping to check off, including swimming with sharks and to go to Kenya.
Give the young girl credit for her bravery. As she says, “I know that the cancer is gaining on me and it doesn’t look like I’m going to win this one.” Despite the long odds she added, “Mum always tells me that life is what we make of it and so I’m going to make the best of what I have.”
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It is the process of providing psychiatric assessment and treatment from a distance through technology primarily through secure video conferencing platforms.
Telepsychiatry can involve providing a range of services including psychiatric evaluations, medication management, individual and family therapy as well as group therapy.
Telepsychiatry services are offered via intermediary companies or by individual or group providers.
A growing body of research data clearly demonstrates that psychiatric treatment that is provided via telemedicine can be as effective as when delivered via traditional outpatient services.
What is telepsychiatry? by the American Psychiatric Association
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2016 Senior British Open Infographic
A look at the best homegrown talent on show at the 2016 Senior British Open
Posted on Jul 21, 2016 by British Seniors
Sep 29, 2014 by British Blog
Do you imagine that you've seen all that London has to offer? Don't give up just yet - you're only just beginning.
For instance, in the financial powerhouse that is the City of London, hear the story of the Bank of England, from its foundation in 1694. At its fascinating free museum, see banknotes from the late seventeenth century onwards, including an extensive collection of forgeries, plus coins produced by the Royal Mint since its beginning. The timeline in "Walk through Time" reveals events on twenty seven key dates in the Bank's history, and there are activity sheets for children.
For a more general history of the capital from prehistoric times, try the Museum of London on London Wall, or its Docklands branch, both free apart from special exhibitions. Also in the Square Mile, discover the second largest conservatory in London, within the Barbican Centre. This tropical wonderland, open on Sundays in the arts complex on the Barbican Estate, contains thousands of species of plants, as well as birds, fish and terrapins.
A much older garden is the Chelsea Physic Garden, one of the biggest botanical gardens in the UK. Founded in 1673 by the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, for apprentices to study the medicinal benefits of plants, it grew into an important resource for botany, and for the exchange of plants. This walled haven of tranquillity closes in winter, but opens some Sundays when the snowdrops are blooming.
Eltham Palace, built by the Courtauld family in the 1930s, is another place where you can get away from it all. Standing next to the remains of a medieval palace that was the childhood home of Henry VIII, it's one of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the country. Its picnic-friendly gardens are also important for their 1930s design.
Swap the crowds at larger attractions for the free Grant Museum of Zoology, housed in University College, Bloomsbury. Its home to sixty two thousand skeletons, mounted animals, and specimens preserved in fluid. Many are now endangered or extinct, such as the Tasmanian tiger, Quagga and Dodo. Or explore the Royal Artillery Museum in North Woolwich. Its impressive arsenal of old guns is matched by state-of-the-art multimedia exhibitions - feel the intensity of battle with the shaking floor and smoke machines of the "Field of Fire" show.
Board a long boat for a leisurely journey along the Regent's Canal, from Little Venice to Camden Lock, passing London Zoo. Stop to browse Camden Market, but for a change from London's better known street markets, head for Maltby Street, close to Borough Market. Here, you'll find local producers of home-made food, cocktails mixed with locally distilled gin, and artisan coffee, side by side with antiques and vintage clothes.
Finally, for real peace and quiet, visit Highgate Cemetery, where wildlife flourishes among some of the best funerary architecture around. Find the graves of Karl Marx, George Eliot, and Christina Rossetti, and or look for those of former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm Mclaren, comedian Max Wall, and Radclyffe Hall, author of The Well of Loneliness.
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Bulbs: The Hidden Treasures of your Garden
Workshop With Cathy Newing
Date: Saturday 25th June
Time: 10:00am – 3:00pm
Your day will begin with an introduction to different bulbs and how to care for them.
You will take a walk around the garden to see bulbs growing and talk about the top bulbs for each season, plus some extra special ones!
After a break for lunch you will be getting your hands dirty! Working with some bulb plants on site you will learn how to propagate bulbs by division and get more out of your plant.
You will take home an info pack that recaps the key learnings from the course.
Cathy has been working with bulbs for over many years, and as a renowned horticulturist her knowledge is second to none!
Inclusions: Coffee or tea, day entry to Alowyn Gardens, Course by Cathy Newing on utilising bulbs through the seasons, exploration of growing conditions and propagation, Lunch: locally sourced personal grazing box.
(GF/V/VE options available).
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TOP TEN(10) FASTEST DEVELOPING AREAS IN THE SOUTH EASTERN REGION OF NIGERIA.
Nigeria has six geo-political zones.
The Southeastern zone or region has five beautiful states,namely;
Anambra,Abịa, Ebonyi,Enugu and Imo state.
Each of this states is beautiful and amazing in its own pace, but in this article we would be focusing on the top ten fastest developing cities in all of this states.
1. Onitsha, Anambra State
Onitsha, also known as Ọ̀nị̀nchà Mmili or just Ọ̀nị̀nchà, is a city in Anambra State, Nigeria, on the eastern bank of the Niger River.
Onitsha, a large city, is renowned for its river port and for being a center for business, industry, and education.
It is home to the Onitsha Main Market, which is the biggest market in Africa in terms of both geography and merchandise volume.
Onitsha’s estimated city proper population in 2016 was 1,080,000.
In early 2022, Onitsha’s population was predicted to be 1,553,000.
Onitsha’s are native Igbos and are speakers of the Igbo language.Ndi Onicha is the name given to the Onitsha People.
2. Owerri, Imo State
Imo State’s capital, Owerri, is located right in the middle of Igboland and is called Owèrrè in Igbo.
It is also the biggest city in the state, ahead of Orlu, Okigwe, and Ohaji/Egbema.
Owerri, which is made up of three local governments—Owerri Municipal, Owerri North, and Owerri West.
Owerri had an estimated population of 1,401,873 as of 2016. Its total area was roughly 100 square kilometers (40 square miles) as of 2016.
The Otamiri River and Nworie River both abut Owerri on its eastern and southern sides, respectively.
The motto of Owerri is Heartland.
Because of its abundance of roomy hotels, high-end casinos, production facilities, and relaxation hotspots, it is now known as Nigeria’s entertainment capital.
Miss Heartland and Miss Adanma, two yearly beauty pageants, are held there.
3. Nnewi, Anambra State
Southeast Nigeria’s Anambra State contains the economic and industrial city of Nnewi.
It is situated in the southern region of Anambra State and is the second-largest and second-most populous city in the state.
Nnewi North is the only local government area that makes up the metropolis of Nnewi.
There are four quarters in Nnewi North: Otolo, Uruagu, Umudim, and Nnewichi.
The first entirely Made-in-Nigeria motorcycle, the “NASENI M1,” was produced in Nnewi, as was the country’s first auto manufacturing facility.
According to the Nigerian census, Nnewi’s population was predicted to be 391,227 as of 2006.
Over 900,000 people live in Nnewi, according to the 2019 population estimate. The metropolis in Anambra State covers more than 200 square miles (520 km2).
Nnewi is larger than all other units in terms of dimensions because it was recorded in the 1953 census as the largest inland town in the Eastern states of Nigeria.
With an expected 5.18 percent increase between 2020 and 2025, it is predicted to be the tenth fastest growing city on the continent of Africa.
4. Abakaliki, Ebonyi State
The state capital of Ebonyi State is Abakaliki, which is situated 64 kilometers (40 miles) southeast of Enugu in southeast Nigeria.
Igbo people make up the majority of the population. Before the Southeastern State was founded in 1967, it served as the provincial capital of Ogoja.
As in the past, Abakaliki is a major trading hub for agricultural goods such yams, cassava, rice, and both palm oil and palm kernels.
Additionally, it is well-known for its nearby lead, zinc, salt, and limestone quarrying. They have several hotels and a golf course.
915,438 people were living in Abakaliki at the last count (year 2019). This represented 0.253 percent of all Nigerians. In Abakaliki, it is predicted that there will be roughly 1,179,280 people living there in 2022, assuming that the population growth rate will be the same as it was from 2006 to 2015 (+15.31 percent/year).
Abakaliki has an amazing network of good roads,it has the highest rate if good roads in the state and it’s environs,a lots of flyovers and other beautiful infrastructures.
The night view is more like a tourist attraction.
Below is the famous Mrs Margaret Umahi international market.
5. Aba, Abia State
The capital of Abia State and located in the southeast of Nigeria is the city of Aba. Aba was split into two local governments, Aba South and Aba North, at the creation of Abia state in 1991.
The capital and beating heart of Abia State in southeast Nigeria is Aba South. On the Aba River is where it is situated.
A number of villages from Ohazu, including Aba-Ukwu, Eziukwu-Aba, Obuda-Aba, Umuokpoji-Aba, and others, amalgamated to become Aba for administrative reasons.
The Ngwa tribe of the Igbo people of Nigeria founded Aba as a market town, and the British colonial government later constructed a military garrison there in 1901.
It is situated at the junction of roads heading to Port Harcourt, Owerri, Umuahia, Ikot Ekpene, and Ikot-Abasi along the west bank of the Aba River.
Following the British-built railway’s passage through the city to Port Harcourt, it turned into a hub for the collection of agricultural goods.
Aba is a significant urban area and a key commercial hub in a region that is surrounded by minor towns and villages.
The Ngwa are the native inhabitants of Aba. Aba, the most populous city in South Eastern Nigeria, is well recognized for its artisans. A 2016 estimate put the population of Aba at 2,534,265.
“God’s own State” is the motto of the state.
6. Awka, Anambra State
The Igbo word for Awka is Ọ́kà.It is the capital of Anambra state. After the establishment of Anambra and Enugu state, which transferred the capital from Enugu to Awka, the city was proclaimed capital on August 21, 1991 (an administrative center since pre-colonial times).
According to a 2018 estimate, there are more than 2.5 million people living in the city, up from an estimated 301,657 in the 2006 Nigerian census.
The city is situated in the center of South East Nigeria’s highly populated Igbo heartland, 199.1 kilometers (123.7 miles) straight north of Port Harcourt.
Awka is connected to other significant towns like Oko, Ekwulobia, Agulu, Enugwu-Ukwu, Abagana, and Nnewi by the West-East Federal Highway and a number of local roads.
Benin City, Asaba, Onitsha, and Enugu are also connected to Awka via this route.
Awka was strategically chosen as the administrative hub for the colonial rulers and is still the base for the Anambra State government because it is situated halfway between two important cities in Northern Igboland, Onitsha and Enugu.
It is also the seat of the prestigious Nnamdi Azikiwe University popularly known as UNIZIK.
7. Enugu, Enugu State
Enugu, the Nigerian Enugu state capital (Igbo: Énugwu) is located in the southeast of Nigeria.
The 2006 Nigerian census found 722,664 people living in the city. The two Igbo terms “Énu and gwu”, which translate to “hill top” and indicate’s the city’s mountainous topography, are the source of the name Enugu.
The Nike subgroup of the Igbo people have lived in the area where the modern-day Enugu is today since the 17th century; one of Enugu’s neighborhoods still goes by the name of the original hamlet, Ogui.
The colonial government of the British Empire founded the Southern Nigeria Protectorate in 1900.
Over 8,000 coal miners worked in Enugu in 1958. There were no substantial coal mining operations in the city as of 2005.
Enugu’s first colonists’ discovery of coal led to the establishment of what was at the time known as the Enugu Coal Camp, which was called after the adjacent community of Enugu Ngwo, where coal was originally discovered.
The neighboring Port Harcourt, which is situated 243 kilometers (151 miles) south of the camp, was built with the intention of exporting this coal. People from all over the area came to Enugu for the opportunity to mine coal, which formed the nucleus of the first urban community that is now known simply as Enugu.
One of the few West African cities totally shaped by European contact is Enugu.
Following Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Enugu was made the capital of the Eastern Region. Subsequent territorial changes in 1967, 1976, and 1991 made Enugu the capital of what is now Enugu State.
Enugu is referred to be the “capital of Igboland” because it was designated as the short-lived Republic of Biafra’s capital on May 30, 1967. The Biafran capital was relocated to Umuahia when the Nigerian military seized Enugu.
The urban market and the bottling industry are among the city’s industries. Enugu serves as one of the main shooting places for directors in the “Nollywood”-style Nigerian film industry. The Akanu Ibiam International Airport serves as Enugu’s primary airport.
8. Umuahia, Abia State
The state capital of Abia State is Umuahia, which is located in southeast Nigeria. Umuahia is situated alongside the train line that connects Enugu City to the north and Port Harcourt to the south.
359,230 people were counted in Umuahia in the Nigerian census of 2006. Umuahia’s native people are Igbo.
Traders and farmers from nearby towns come to Umuahia to sell their goods, including yams, cassava, corn (maize), taro, citrus fruits, and palm oil and kernels. Umuahia is known for being a railway and agricultural market center.
Its economy is supported by a number of businesses, including a brewery and a palm oil processing facility.
The National Root Crops Research Institute of Nigeria is located in the nearby town of Umudike.
The state capital of Abia State is Umuahia, which is located in southeast Nigeria. Umuahia is situated alongside the train line that connects Enugu City to the north and Port Harcourt to the south. 359,230 people were counted in Umuahia in the Nigerian census of 2006. Umuahia’s native people are Igbo.
A number of colleges are also located in Umuahia, such as Trinity College (theological), Government College Umuahia,along with facilities like the Federal Medical Center, Umuahia, Umuahia Government College, Holy Rosary Girls Secondary School, and Trinity College (theological), Umuahia (formerly Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
Umuahia is divided into Umuahia North and Umuahia South, two local government areas. Clans like those in the Umuopara, Ibeku, Olokoro, Ubakala, and Ohuhu villages are also represented in these local administrations.
9. Orlu, Imo State
With 420,600 residents, Orlu is the second-largest city in Imo State, Nigeria.
It has a lengthy history and was crucial in serving as the Organization of African Unity’s (OAU) and aided the organizations’ main offices during the Nigeria-Biafra Civil War.
The city is home to the British Cheshire Home’s Nigerian headquarters.
After Owerri, it is the second most developed city in Imo state.
10. Abiriba, Abia State
A historical Igbo-speaking region in southeast Nigeria, Abia State is home to the ancient Enuda kingdom of Abiriba.
It is located in the Ohafia local administrative region.
The Abiriba people are renowned for their diligence in both trade and crafts; nonetheless, their desert environment makes it difficult for agriculture to thrive.They became well-liked among Nigeria’s Igbo people as a result.
Ameke, Amogudu, and Agboji are the three primary settlements that make up Abiriba.
A monarchical system of government is in place in Abiriba. Enachioken refers to the “Eze,” also known as the monarch or king.
Because of Abiriba’s remarkable layout and its distinctive mansions’ thoughtful placement inside the village, it has earned the moniker “Small London.”
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This morning the New York Times is running a story about a MTA savings proposal that will result in service cuts in bus service for a number of major holidays including Thanksgiving, Christmas, & New Year’s. The proposal also calls for the elimination of all elevator operator positions in 5 stations in Upper Manhattan. Here is the entire article courtesy of the New York Times:
Straphangers could be forgiven if they see something Grinchlike about the Metropolitan Transportation Authority this holiday season.
The authority’s board will vote on a proposed fare increase on Dec. 19. And just five days later, on Christmas Eve, a little-noticed proposal to reduce bus service on holidays could take effect.
Budget documents released this week show that the authority is planning to reduce the number of buses operating on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King’s Birthday, Thanksgiving Day and the day after Thanksgiving, one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
“I guess we’re getting the coal in our stocking,” said Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a rider advocacy group.
The service change will save an average of $250,000 per day, amounting to $1.8 million a year. It is part of a series of budget cuts that includes removing all elevator operators from five subway stations in Upper Manhattan. The number of operators staffing the elevators has been a contentious issue in the past amid worries about crime and safety. Because the stations are deep underground, all passengers must use the elevators.
The board will vote on the proposed cuts the same day it takes up the fare increase, which would raise the cost of subway and bus rides. The $2 base fare would not go up, but unlimited ride MetroCards would.
The holiday service change would take effect immediately. The removal of the elevator operators would occur next year, but officials did not give a date.
Three of the days scheduled for cuts — Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day — already have limited service but would apparently have further reductions. Others, including Martin Luther King’s Birthday, the day after Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve, have operated under normal weekday service schedules in the past.
“I think on certain holidays it may be justified, but the day after Thanksgiving, when everyone is out shopping and out and about, it isn’t justified,” said Andrew Albert, a member of the authority’s board who represents transit riders. It was not clear from the documents how many buses would be taken off the streets. The budget said the authority would provide an “intermediate level of service, sufficient to meet ridership demands.”
Transit spokesman Paul Fleuranges said the changes should not be viewed as cuts at all.
“It’s not a service cut,” he said. “It’s matching service with the number of riders we have.”
Barry Feinstein, the chairman of the transit committee of the authority’s board, said that although the changes would cause some riders to wait longer for buses, service would be sufficient to avoid overcrowding.
Asked about starting the cuts within days of voting on a fare increase, he said, “Any money we save now will save us more money later on.”
The bus schedule changes are noteworthy because the authority’s new administration, which took over this year, has been adamant about not cutting service at a time of growing ridership.
The move also contrasts with an effort in 2005, when the authority encouraged holiday ridership with a special MetroCard discount program.
Both the bus and elevator changes were quietly inserted into a revised budget hundreds of pages long. It said the elevator operators would be removed from five stations with deep platforms that can be reached only by elevator: 191st Street, 181st Street and 168th Street on the No. 1 line and 190th Street and 181st Street on the A line.
The elevators at those stations were once run with operators stationed inside, but the authority removed many of them in 2004. Many subway riders protested, and the authority agreed to keep one elevator in each station staffed at all times.
Mr. Feinstein said removing the elevator operators had not resulted in an increase in crime.
But some straphangers said removing them altogether would make them feel less safe.
“It’s good to have someone have an eye on things if anything fishy happens,” said Andrew Thompson, 41, a Washington Heights resident.
I will briefly say that at first glance this does not sound like a good idea. The thought of cutting some service on a few of those holidays does not sound pretty. However before I fully establish my position on the issue, I would like to dome some research into what the actual cuts would be. As far as the elevator operator jobs are concerned, I can see the points of both sides in what has always been a lively debate between the two points of view.
xoxo Transit Blogger
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The Department of Science and Technology (DST) has developed an air purifying technology developed by a company based at Science and Technology Park, Pune. This technology could offer an effective solution to fight against the coronavirus COVID-19 contagion by reducing the viral load of the infected areas.
The DST has released a sum of ₹1crore to manufacture and scale up the product titled ‘Scitech Airon’ and that 1,000 units of this new air purifier would soon be ready for installation in various hospitals across Maharashtra.
The technology has been developed under the ‘Nidhi Prayas’ programme initiated by the Department of Science and Technology (DST). Another city-based company, J-Clean Weather Tech, is manufacturing the product.
“The negative ion generator titled ‘Scitech Airon’ helps to control the virus, bacteria, and other fungal infections in a closed environment and could help purify the air and disinfect areas around COVID-19 positive cases and suspects. Hence it could ensure the wellbeing of the staff, doctors, and nurses who are working round the clock in quarantine facilities by enhancing their disease-resistance power and ability to fight the virus,” said the DST release.
According to Dr. Rajendra Jagdale, Director General of STP, a single hour of operation of the ion generator machine, which costs around ₹40,000 including GST, has the potential to reduce viral load within a room by 99.7% depending upon its size.
The air purifier is compact in form, weighing a mere 9kg and barely 1.5 feet in height, a foot wide and ten inches deep, rendering it highly convenient for use in enclosed spaces like hospitals, clinics, flats and other spaces like railways, airports and theatres to make them “virus-free” zones, the release said.
The ionizer machine generates negatively charged ions at approximately hundred million per eight seconds (10 ions per sec).
The negative ions generated by the ionizer form clusters around microparticles such as airborne mould, corona or influenza viruses, bacteria among other pollutants and renders them inactive through a complex chemical reaction by creating highly reactive hydroxyl radicals and atmospheric detergents (hydroxyl groups are composed of one hydrogen atom bonded to one oxygen atom and denoted as -OH or HO-).
The detergent property thus generated by the ion generator aids the breakdown of the outer protein of the allergens, viruses and bacteria, thus checking airborne diseases and increasing the body’s resistance to possible infections, the release said.
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My colleague, Alex Christoforou, has written a fine piece drawing attention to the fact that today is the anniversary of one of modern Europe’s tragedies, which however the governments and media of the West dislike being reminded of. That is the Turkish invasion and subsequent partition of Cyprus.
This is for me a particularly distressing episode, not just because as a Greek I share in the tragedy of the Greek people of Cyprus who were the victims of the invasion but because as a Greek I feel guilt and shame for the role my country – Greece – played in the affair.
The pretext for the Turkish invasion (though not the real reason) was a fascist military coup that took place in Cyprus and which overthrew the democratically and constitutionally elected government of Cyprus’s President, Archbishop Makarios.
This coup did not have its origins in Cyprus itself. Instead it was ordered from abroad by Dimitrios Ioannides, leader of the fascist military government of Greece, which had seized power in Greece in 1967 by way of a US backed coup. By 1974 the fascist government in Greece sensed power was slipping away as it faced popular protests in Greece and was itself becoming subject to internal divisions and infighting. As a way to bolster its support in Greece it used certain fascist Greek army officers seconded to the Cypriot army to carry out a coup in Cyprus with the eventual aim of uniting Cyprus to Greece.
It is important to stress that the coup in Cyprus was only a pretext for the Turkish invasion. The coup had almost no support in Cyprus and was overwhelmingly opposed by the Cypriot people. Anyone who knows Cyprus and its people at all well knows that they are not the sort of people to take a coup lying down. For historic and cultural reasons they are also highly organised and in 1974 were also well-armed. In the 1950s they fought a highly effective insurgency against the British army. It would have been just a matter of days or weeks at most before the coup appointed government would have faced overwhelming resistance and would have collapsed.
This was a fact fully known by all the outside powers that mattered: the US, the UK (the former colonial power which to this day still has bases on the island) and Turkey. In fact the only government that did not understand it was the extremely stupid and ill-informed fascist government in Greece.
The coup nonetheless provided Turkey with the perfect pretext to invade Cyprus to protect the Turkish minority on the island, as it duly did.
The sequel was that the Turkish army occupied 40% of the island (what was historically the richest and most fertile part, closest to Turkey, in the island’s north), the Greek population was driven from there, and a Turkish controlled statelet was created there, with Cyprus for the first time in its long history partitioned on ethnic and sectarian lines. Alex Christoforou in his article sets out the details. The Turkish occupation of northern Cyprus and the resulting division of the island continues to this day, making Cyprus Europe’s oldest frozen conflict, though one that the Western powers would prefer we all forget.
As for Greece, the debacle in Cyprus caused the collapse of the fascist government there and led to the restoration of democracy. In other words the price of restoring democracy in Greece was paid for in blood and ruin by the people of Cyprus. As a 13 year old exile in London I followed closely all these events, filled with guilt and shame.
I would make one final observation. In 1974 Turkey, a US friend and NATO ally, did in Cyprus what Russia is falsely accused of doing in eastern Ukraine: invade another country on the pretext of protecting people of its own nationality supposedly threatened by an ultra-nationalist government brought to power through an unconstitutional coup.
Turkey has however never faced much criticism in the West for what it did in Cyprus in 1974. Of course any idea of any sustained Western boycotts or sanctions of Turkey because of its invasion of Cyprus were and are out of the question. Turkey continued to be the US’s friend and NATO ally after the invasion took place, and remains so – at least in theory – to this day. By contrast the Western campaign against Russia has been hysterical and relentless.
No one need look for any logic or consistency here. Nor, I suspect, will that absence of logic or consistency surprise anyone.
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The Walking Miracle
November 12, 2013 | By Adam Sprecher
Spina bifida is a medical condition that affects the spine and nerves for newborn babies like James Christophersen, now 26, and about 1,500 babies each year.
Doctors told James’ mother that she should end his life before it began. If allowed to survive, they said, James would not walk on his own or even live to adulthood.
Now, more than two decades later, James is a conservative leader fighting against the very same mindset in today’s medical community.
James works at Students for Life of America as the director of Med Students for Life and Law Students for Life.
James connects physicians who understand the sanctity of life with thousands of med students at more than 100 campuses across the country.
“I hope to abolish abortion by eliminating the lazy attitude which allows physicians to casually discard children they are afraid they cannot help, and to inspire those same physicians to instead acknowledge the humanity of those children,” James said.
He works as a director of the National Pro-Life Physician Speaking Tour, the flagship program of Students for Life of America. This program allows doctors to speak to students about the importance of “giving children a chance” and “taking on the hard cases,” as James puts it.
Before working at Student for Life, James worked for almost three years as the executive director of the Judicial Action Group, an organization that works through accountability, appointments, and prayer for the return of the judiciary to its proper, and noble, role of deciding cases and not legislating from the bench.
“By returning the judiciary to its proper role of deciding cases and not legislating from the bench, the Judicial Action Group will re-empower Congress, the States, and the People to make laws that favor life, marriage, decency, private property, religious freedom, and other vital American values,” their website states.
James attended the Leadership Institute’s High-Dollar Fundraising School in September of 2011 and several LI events and networking activities in the past several years. The LI fundraising training focused on the importance of building coalitions to advance the candidates and causes of each attendee’s choice, and for James, the pro-life cause.
The faculty taught attendees to think past previously-established boundaries and to find unlikely allies to advance their particular cause or campaign.
“This principle (of identifying unlikely allies) helped separate me from many in the political movements I have formerly participated in,” James said.
Learn these techniques and others at LI’s next High-Dollar Fundraising School February 18 and 19. So register now by contacting Carol Wehe.
“The Leadership Institute is widely known as the place for conservative political candidates and non-profit employees to up their game,” James said.
Please congratulate James Christophersen on his work to advance the pro-life cause among physicians, and please applaud him for receiving the Leadership Institute’s Conservative Leader-In-Training Award.
To nominate a Leadership Institute graduate or faculty member for the Conservative Leader Award or Conservative Leader-In-Training Award, please contact LI's Director of External Affairs Lauren Day, at Lauren@LeadershipInstitute.org.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
WHILE Iranians have no pity for the Iraqi leadership, Tehran is not fanning the unrest reportedly spreading in southern Iraqi cities, say Iranian diplomats at the United Nations. ``Iran does not have any role in what is happening, and we are not contemplating any involvement. We respect the decision of the Iraqi people on their future government,'' says Javad Zarif, Iran's charg'e d'affaires at the UN.
Sympathy does exist for the suffering of the Iraqi people - and concern over the presence of Western armies, which are virtually on Iran's border, the diplomats say.
Iran is also very concerned, says Mohammad Jaafar Mahallati - Iran's former ambassador at the UN and now a visiting scholar at Columbia University - about the possible disintegration of Iraq, which he says would cause great instability in the region for a long time to come.
The other major preoccupation of Iranian authorities, Mr. Mahallati says, is the question of security arrangements in the Gulf region. First, he says, Iran - which has over 50 percent of the Gulf's coastline - must be included in any discussions. Second, no viable arrangement can be conceived without Iraq - or with Iraq, so long as it is led by Saddam Hussein. Third, states not bordering on the Gulf should be excluded from the arrangements.
Iranian leaders have repeatedly called for the withdrawal of foreign forces as soon as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait was reversed. But the government has also given signs there was some benefit to allowing foreign forces to check the power of Saddam, who is held responsible for dragging Iran into an eight-year war.
``The government has taken a much more flexible position than expected vis-`a-vis the coalition,'' Mahallati says.
The lack of US-Iranian relations has clouded the question of foreign troop presence. Contacts between the two governments take place only through the mediation of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.
Diplomats agree that the proximity of US forces now occupying Iraq makes Tehran nervous about US intentions, given the degree of US-Iranian estrangement. But there have been indications Iran could easily accept a US presence at the level that existed prior to the 1987 operation to reflag Kuwaiti ships. If there were a prospect of improved ties even two to three years hence, Iran might even cope with a somewhat larger US presence.
Some Iranians say they took heart from a statement made by President Bush explicitly acknowledging Iran's worry about US forces remaining in the Gulf for an extended time - and offering reassurance that this would not happen.
In addition, the US notified Iran a few hours before the ground operation began, according to a well-placed source. The message asked Iran to maintain neutrality, and again promised that the US would not prolong its presence in the region.
Iranian and European diplomats point to President Hashemi Rafsanjani's offer to mediate between Iraq and the US on the eve of the UN Security Council's Jan. 15 deadline for Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait. The diplomats say the offer was intended to avoid the outbreak of war - but add that it was the first time the Islamic Republic had publicly offered a kind of negotiations with the US.
``That was quite a risky step, in view of some opinion in the Iranian majlis [parliament],'' a European representative says.
An Iranian newspaper, Salaam, published by Hojatolislam Musawi Khoeniha - who led the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran - strongly criticized Mr. Rafsanjani's move. The paper recalled that former Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan was brought down after shaking Zbigniew Brezinksi's hand at a meeting in Algiers.
Some Iranians have also criticized the normalization of relations with Iraq, suggesting that if the government had only waited a few months, it would never have had to deal with the regime that caused so much devastation in Iran.
At the same time, arguments are also quietly being made, informed sources say, that if Iran could deal with Iraq, it should be able to deal with the US.
Iran's opposition to Iraq's occupation of Kuwait, its efforts to cultivate ties with Arab neighbors across the Gulf, and its dealings with Iraq ``made our people believe for the first time that we have a foreign policy, and that boosts morale,'' he adds.
Iran's seizure of Iraqi aircraft taking refuge in Iran brought praise from Bush and Secretary of State James Baker III, who said Iran had behaved responsibly.
``We are responsible and serious whether Secretary Baker states it or not,'' says Zarif. ``But the admission of fact by a US Secretary of State is always welcome.''
The diplomat adds: ``Iran did play an active role in securing Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait. Unfortunately, it did not bear fruit at the time we had hoped ... But Iran can now play a significant role in bringing hostilities to an end, and on establishing permanent security in the region.''
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This paper is about real time estimation and calibration of a brushed wound-pole dc motor parameters, experimantally. An Electrical Machines Test Bed (EMTB), a dc motor with a driver and a data acquisition card (DAQ) installed computer is used in the experiment setup. The software application is developed on Matlab-Simulink platform using Real-Time Windows Target library. Firstly, motor parameters are estimated by using ODEs. Then estimated parameters are simulated within the model and compared with real motor behaviour. Finally, parameters are calibrated with Mat lab-Parameter Estimation tool and linear model of the dc motor is acquired according to velocity output.
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The Girls' Guide to AD/HD
Don't Lose This Book!
Having Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) is not a girl’s fault, but it is her problem. This accessible book, written specifically for girls in grades six through twelve, presents AD/HD as something to deal with, not to be ashamed of.
AD/HD is a neurological disorder affecting between six and nine percent of all Americans. According to the author, girls with the disorder behave differently than boys who have it. Girls are more likely to fidget rather than run around, and to whisper to a classmate rather than yell out. They are more likely to be day-dreamy in their distraction and get depressed instead of angry with people who don’t understand that they are not lazy or unfocused.
The first-time author, who is the mother of a girl with AD/HD, narrates her book in the voice and mannerism of a teenage girl named Maddy (and her friends Bo and Helen, who also have AD/HD). Walker has captured the essence of teen speech, while providing research-based information. “People with AD/HD don’t focus or pay attention the way other people do,” says Maddy. “I pay attention. It just isn’t always what I’m supposed to be paying attention to.”
As Maddy, she often goes off track, which is a wonderful way to demonstrate how the mind of someone affected by AD/HD works. She never strays too far, though, and keeps her discussions short so that her attention-challenged audience can stay with her. Graphics, varied fonts, and bold headlines maintain visual interest.
The book follows a safe, logical progression. Walker starts with general facts about the disorder, including the chemistry of the teenaged brain and various treatments; then she carefully makes the conversation more personal by delving into how AD/HD affects family dynamics, friendships, school, and romances. Since AD/HD is not recognized in many girls, they often develop self-esteem problems by the time they are teens. Girls with AD/HD can also have trouble sustaining friendships, adding to their potential depression. They are often late, interrupt a lot, aren’t very good listeners, and have trouble picking up social cues. The author gives specific suggestions for how to make (and keep) friends.
AD/HD in girls is severely under-diagnosed. Some researchers estimate that as many as seventy-five percent of girls with AD/HD aren’t diagnosed. As more educators, parents, and girls become more aware of it, they will need books like this one, which offers hope, humor, and the latest research to help girls feel good about who they are.
Throughout the volume, Walker reminds her readers that there are benefits to having AD/HD, including deeper empathy, charm, energy, and lots of great ideas. Maddy will feel like new friend to readers, one who will like them, not in spite of their AD/HD, but because of it.
Disclosure: This article is not an endorsement, but a review. The author provided free copies of his/her book to have his/her book reviewed by a professional reviewer. No fee was paid by the author for this review. Foreword Reviews only recommends books that we love. Foreword Magazine, Inc. is disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission’s 16 CFR, Part 255.
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Motion controller gives old presses new life
Case study: Retrofit controller on four hydraulic presses used a new programmable logic controller (PLC) to control the moving platen and the levelling cylinders would be controlled by a new electrohydraulic motion controller.
A recent retrofit project at a manufacturer and rebuilder of hydraulic presses involved the upgrade of the press controls on four older hydraulic presses before installing them at a truck component manufacturing plant in Monterrey, Mexico. The 2,340-ton presses, originally manufactured by Hoesch in Germany, use two main cylinders (1,170 tons each) for the moving platen and four leveling cylinders (125 tons each) to mold and in-mold coat large glass fiber body parts for trailer truck cabins (see Figure 1).
Before arriving at Macrodyne Technologies Inc. of Concord, Ontario, for refurbishing, the presses had been disassembled and all electrical controls were removed. Macrodyne could choose what control system to use in the press rebuild. The moving platen would be controlled through a new programmable logic controller (PLC), and the levelling cylinders would be controlled by a new electrohydraulic motion controller.
The press control upgrade included:
- Moving platen to bolster parallelism control during pressing and motion profiles (to allow uniform flow of fiberglass material).
- Leveling system force control to achieve precise, total resistance force. During the operation, the moving platen and bolster (visible in Figure 2) are kept parallel through velocity and force profiles and also through the injection of IMC for even part coating.
Selecting a motion controller
For the retrofit, Macrodyne selected motion controllers from a supplier used for more than 10 years (Figure 3). Easy integration was a goal, noted Jeremy Neil, executive vice president of Macrodyne. “You don’t need to be an expert in motion controls to use them,” and they worked well with two major PLC brands.
“We have experience with other motion controllers,” added Daniel Sion, Macrodyne electrical controls engineer. “Compared to other products we’ve tried,” the motion controllers selected are “easier to interface with PLCs and provide more functionality and flexibility.” They also are capable of more precise positioning and force control.
To provide position information, the four leveling cylinders were fitted with linear magnetostrictive displacement transducers that have synchronous serial interface (SSI) connections to the motion controller. To provide force information, each cylinder is instrumented with two pressure transducers, one connected to each cylinder port.
Virtual gearing, dual loop control
To keep the cylinders level throughout the cycle, the motion controller is programmed to perform virtual gearing. This is a command from the motion controller that causes each of the four leveling cylinders to precisely follow the motion of a master axis. While the position of each cylinder is being controlled, the force each cylinder applies is also being controlled. This arrangement supported by the motion controller is called dual loop position-force control.
Three sequential steps
The press operation consists of three sequential steps, with the motion controller driving the four leveling cylinders through three position and force control profile sequences. The three steps are:
- Velocity force: While being pushed down by the moving platen, the leveling cylinders hold parallelism and act to oppose the velocity of the moving platen until it closes on the glass fiber material.
- Resistance force: During the curing profiles, some of which also involves coating the glass fiber material, the leveling cylinders must hold parallelism and oppose the force being held by the moving platen to ensure parallelism control.
- Stripping force: At the end of all cure profiles, the moving platen will decompress and let its weight be carried by the leveling cylinders. The leveling cylinders will start a closed-loop position move while limiting the stripping force.
Programming the motion
Programming the motion is done using a software interface from the provider of the motion controller. It’s a “user friendly programming and commissioning tool,” Sion said. Most motion operations can be programmed by selecting functions from pull-down menus and inserting parameter values into fill-in boxes, but sometimes there’s a need for special function programming, math calculations and event triggers. The Macrodyne engineers took advantage of this “user program” feature to tailor the motion controller functionality to respond to PLC events.
“Tuning proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers can be difficult,” Sion said. “In particular, when multiple cylinders are connected to the same slide it creates tuning problems.”
To solve the problems, the Macrodyne engineers used tuning wizard software from the motion control vendor. The wizard develops a mathematical model of the system being controlled and uses the model to predict the correct gains for the control loop parameters. Some additional tweaking may be required, but the tuning wizard software can develop an optimal or close to optimal solution.
New life for old presses
Macrodyne’s experience designing and manufacturing new presses enables them to retrofit older machines. Older presses that are structurally sound can be given new life, and, in many cases, new levels of functionality and precision can be achieved with significant cost savings compared to buying new presses by upgrading the core hydraulics and the press control system.
KEYWORDS: Hydraulic retrofit, motion control
Large presses can be retrofit with new motion controls.
Wizard-based software helps with application development and optimization.
Retrofits save money compared to new press purchase.
What retrofits could increase performance among your applications?
Original content can be found at Control Engineering.
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The Historical Museum dedicated an internet project to its 150th anniversary Automatic translate
On the eve of the 150th anniversary, the Historical Museum launches the Internet project “First. Russian. Historical ”, which will present rare archival materials and photographs.
On September 3 (August 20), 1875, a solemn ceremony of laying the foundation stone for the building of the Historical Museum took place. For almost a century and a half, Moscow’s Red Square has been adorned with a majestic building erected specifically to house the main museum of Russian history. The richest collections of the State Historical Museum have been studied quite widely, but the history of the creation of the museum itself remains known only to historians and a narrow circle of specialists.
On the eve of the 150th anniversary, the Historical Museum launches the Internet project “First. Russian. Historical ”, within which it will present archival materials, photographs related to key events and people who laid the foundations of the main museum of Russian history.
How the Historical Museum could look like and what role the future Emperor Alexander III played in its creation; where it was originally planned to place the national treasury and when the masterpieces of Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci were hidden under the arches of the museum on Red Square; who offered to demolish the building of the museum and how the eagles-weather vane on the towers of the museum are arranged - many interesting facts about the largest Russian museum are collected on the pages of the Internet resource.
“The history of the museum, which has repeatedly found itself on the brink of destruction, deserves a separate story. Thanks to the efforts of the founding fathers of the museum, its trustees, directors and rank-and-file employees, who by their selfless labor have preserved and augmented priceless collections, today the State Historical Museum is rightfully considered one of the most significant world ancient storage facilities, ”says Alexei Levykin, Director of the Historical Museum.
The project was implemented with the support of the Russian Historical Society and the Fatherland History Foundation.
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Maxlargo.jpg 2,128pages on this wiki Add New Page Edit History Talk0 No higher resolution available. Maxlargo.jpg (200 × 200 pixels, file size: 14 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) About File History Metadata There is no description yet. Add a description. Appears on these pages of Maximillian Largo Maximillian Largo is a fictional SPECTRE operative and main antagonist of the 1983 unofficial... See full list > File history Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment current18:15, July 18, 2012200 × 200 (14 KB)AndyTGD (wall | contribs) Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details may not fully reflect the modified file. Software used Picasa Exif version 2.2 Read more Nicole Hunter Emilio Largo (Adolfo Celi) Aris Kristatos Retrieved from "http://jamesbond.wikia.com/wiki/File:Maxlargo.jpg?oldid=12540" Ad blocker interference detected! Wikia is a free-to-use site that makes money from advertising. We have a modified experience for viewers using ad blockers Wikia is not accessible if you’ve made further modifications. Remove the custom ad blocker rule(s) and the page will load as expected.
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Run Predict will show you equivalent running times for your run
Age Graded equivalent running times
An Age Graded Equivalent time is the time that someone else of a different age and/or gender, but with an equal performance, would run the same distance as you.
It is calculated by using the 'Age Graded Percentage' result for your run and then calculating equivalent performances for all ages from 5 up to 100 years old and for both genders.
How can I use these results?
The results allow you to compare your running performance with anybody else's regardless of their age or gender.
They also allow you to compare your current performance with your past performances or to predict your future performances.
The screenshot below shows some of the equivalent running times for a 53 year old male who has run 10K in 41:22
Run Predict shows equivalent results for both male and female for all ages from 5 years old up to 100 years old.
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Velocity is a notion that helps calibrate a plan by tying broad statements of effort into elapsed time. Velocity is a statement of how much stuff a team (or a person if it's personal velocity) gets done in a time period. You should usually determine velocity by measuring how much got done in past periods, following the principle of YesterdaysWeather. A typical approach is to average the velocity the past three time periods to determine velocity for future time periods. Velocity was originally formed as part ExtremeProgramming but has since spread and is now used widely in agile software development of all flavors.
For example, a team is working in two week iterations and estimates effort for stories using StoryPoints. In its first three iterations its velocity was 22, 30, and 27. We would then say the velocity of the team is 26. To use this for future forecasting, we might add up all the stories we hope to complete for the first release, let's say that's 330. We can then say we forecast that, given the current plan, we will be able to release in 26 weeks time. (330 / 27 => 13 iterations).
Velocity is a tool for calibrating estimations for YesterdaysWeather, it is not a measure of productivity. Different teams will use different baselines for their velocity units, so it's stupid to compare teams based on their velocities: there's no such thing as StandardStoryPoints. Similarly velocity is a team measure, not an individual measure. Using velocity as a productivity measure kills agility.
Velocity is commonly used with fixed iterations, but you can use the same idea with Kanban based planning. The amount of effort you get done in the last few weeks can be extrapolated the same way to come up with a forecast for future effort.
Velocity is a useful tool for estimation, one that's considerably less complicated to use than techniques I observed in the 80s. However, as with any estimation technique, it can be misused - you must always think about the PurposeOfEstimation.
I wrote a first version of this bliki entry in 2004-05-10.
Most books on agile development will talk about planning and thus mention velocity. The tasteful green book has an early, in-depth descrption of velocity from Kent and me. The ThoughtWorks ebook on estimation covers how velocity can be used with story points and story counting.
You can still find our initial explanation of XP planning terminology on the wiki.
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Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme
The Parliament enacted an Act No. 42 of 2005 called the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act. The Act provides a guarantee for rural employment to house holds whose adult members volunteer to do un-skilled manual work not less than 100 days of such work in a financial year in accordance with the scheme made under the Act
The scheme is different from the earlier wage employment programmes in different ways:-
focus of the scheme shall be on:-
for Guaranteed Rural Employment under
Registration to be made at the level of Gram Panchayat for issuance
of job cards.
Duty of the Gram Panchayat to
issue the job card after making such
an enquiry as it may deem fit.
The registration for not less than 5 years and to be renewed
from time to time.
Every job card holder entitled
to apply for unskilled manual work under the scheme.
All registered persons
belonging to a house hold entitled to employment in accordance with
the scheme for as many days as each applicant may request, subject to a
maximum of 100 days per house hold in a given financial year.
Such job to be provided within a period of 15 days of the receipt
of an application or from the date he/she seeks work in case of advance
application which ever is later.
features of Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme.
The focus of the scheme shall be on the following works in their
order of priority:-
Water conservation and water harvesting.
Drought proofing (including afforestration and tree
Irrigation canals including micro and minor irrigation
Provision of irrigation facility to land owned by
house holds belonging to the scheduled Castes/Schedule Tribes or to land
of beneficiaries of land reforms or that of the beneficiaries under
the IAH of Govt.l India.
Renovation of traditional water bodies including
desilting of tanks.
Flood control and
protection works including drainage in water logged areas.
Rural connectivity to provide all weather access and
Any other work which may be notified by the Central
Government in consultation with the State government.
Creation of durable assets and strengthening the
livelihood resource base o f the rural
poor shall be an important
object of the scheme.
The works taken up under the scheme shall be in rural
The state council shall prepare a list of preferred works for different areas based on their
ability to create durable assets.
The scheme shall be subject to appropriate
arrangements as may be laid down by the State Government under the rules
issued by it for proper maintenance of the public assets created under the
Under no circumstances shall the labourers be paid
less than the wage rate, notified by the State Government.
When wages are directly linked with the quantity of
work, the wages shall be paid according to the scheme of rates fixed by
the state government for different types of work in every years, in
consultation with the state council.
The schedule of rates of wages for unskilled labourers
shall be so fixed that a person working for 7 hours would normally earn a
wage equal to the wage rate.
The cost of material component of projects including
the wages of the skilled and semi skilled workers taken up under the
scheme shall not exceed 40% of the total project costs.
It shall be open to the programme officer and Gram
Panchayat to direct any person who applied for employment under the scheme
to do work of any type permissible under it.
The scheme shall not permit engaging any contractor
for implementation of the projects
As far as practicable, a task funded under the scheme
shall be performed by using manual labour and not machines.
Every scheme shall contain adequate provisions for
ensuring transparency and accountability
at all levels of implementation.
Provisions for regular inspection and supervision of
works taken up under the scheme shall be made to ensure proper quality of
work as well as to ensure that the total wages paid for the completion of
the work is commensurate with
the quality and quantity of work done..
The District Programme Coordinator, The Programme
Officer and the Gram Panchayat implementing the scheme shall prepare annually a report containing the facts and figures
and achievements relating to the implementation of the scheme within his
or its jurisdiction and a
copy of the same shall be made available to the public on demand and on
payment of such free as may
be specified in the scheme.
All accounts and records relating to the scheme shall
be made available for public scrutiny
and any person desirous of obtaining copy
or relevant extracts therefrom may be provided such copies of
extracts on demand and after paying such fee as may be specified in the
A copy of
the muster rolls of each scheme or project under a scheme shall be made
available in the office of the Gram Panchayat and
Programme Officer for inspection by any person interested after
paying such fee as may be specified in the scheme.
CONDITIONS FOR GUARANTEED RURAL EMPLOYMENT UNDER A SCHEME AND
MINIMUMENTITLEMENTS OF LABOURERS
adult members of every household who-
(I) reside in
any rural areas; and
willing to do unskilled manual work,
their names, age and the address of the household to the Gram Panchayat at
(hereafter in this Schedule referred to as the Gram Panchayat) in the
of which they
reside for registration of their household for issuance of a job card.
It shall be the duty of the Gram Panchayat to register the
household, after making such enquiry as it deems fit and issue a job card
containing such details of adult members ofthe household affIXing their
photographs, as may be specified by the State Government inthe Scheme.
The registration made under paragraph 2 shall be for such period as
may be laid inthe Scheme, but in any case not less than five years, and
may be renewed from time to time.
Every adult member of a registered household whose name appears in
the job cardshall be entitled to apply for unskilled manual work under the
All registered persons belonging to a household shall be entitled
to employment inaccordance with the Scheme made under the provisions of
this Act, for ashlany days as eachapplicant may request, subject to a
maximum of one hundred days per household in a givenfinancial year.
The Programme Officer shall ensure that every applicant referred to
in paragraph 5 shall be provided unskilled manual work in accordance with
the provisions of the Schemewithin fifteen days of receipt of an
application or from the date he seeks work in case ofadvance application,
whichever is later:Provided that priority shall be given to women in such
a way that at least one-third ofthe beneficiaries shall be women who have
registered and requested for work under this Act.
Applications for work must be for at least fourteen days of
There shall be no limit Qn the number of days of employment for
which a person mayapply, or on the number of days of employment actually
provided to him subject to theaggregate entitlement of the household.
Applications for work may be submitted in writing either to the
Gram Panchayat or tothe Programme Officer, as may be specified in the
The Gram Panchayat and Programme Officer, as the case may be, shall
be bound toaccept valid applications and to issue a dated receipt to. the
applicant. Group applicationsmay also be submitted.
Applicants who are provided with work shall be so intimated in
writing, by meansof a letter sent to him at the address given in the job
card and by a public notice displayed atthe office of the Panchayats at
the district, intermediate or village level.
As far as possible, employment shall be provided within a radius of
five kilometersof the village where the applicant resides at the time of
A new work under the Scheme shall be commenced only if-
(a) at least
fifty labourers become available for such work; and
labourers cannot be absorbed in the ongoing works:
Provided that this
condition shall not be applicable for new works, as determined by the
State Government, in hilly areas and in respect of afforestration. .
In cases the employment is provided outside such radius, it must be
within the Block, and the
labourers shall be paid ten per cent. of the wage rate as extra wagesto
meet additional transportation and living expenses.
A period of employment shall ordinarily be at least fourteen days
with not more than six days
in a week.
In all cases where unemployment allowance is paid, or due to be
paid, the Programme Officer shall inform the District Programme
Coordinator in writing the reasons why it was not possible for him to
provide employment or cause to provide employment to the applicants.
The District Programme Coordinator shall, in his Annual Report to
the State Council, explain as to why employment could not be provided in
cases where payment of unemployment allowance is involved.
Provision shall be made in the Scheme for advance applications,
that is, applications which may be submitted in advance of the date from
which employment is sought.
Provision shall be made in the Scheme for submission of multiple
applications bythe same person provided that the corresponding periods for
which employment is sought do not overlap.
The Gram Panchayat shall prepare and maintain or cause to be
maintained such registers,
vouchers and other documents in such form and in such manner as may be
specified in the Scheme containing particulars of job cards and passbooks
issued,name, age and address of the head of the household and the adult
members of the household registered with the Gram Panchayat.
The Gram Panchayat shall send such list or lists of the names and
addresses of households and their adult members registered with it and
supply such other information to the concerned Programme Officer at such
periods and in such form as may be specified in the Scheme.
A list of persons who are provided with the work shall be displayed
on the notice board of the Gram Panchayat and at the office of the
Programme Officer and at such other places as the Programme Officer may
deem necessary and the list shall be open for inspection by the State
Government and any person interested.
If the Gram Panchayat is satisfied at any time that a person has
registered with it by furnishing false information, it may direct the
Programme Officer to direct his name to be struck off from the register
and direct the applicant to return the job card: Provided that no such
action under this paragraph shall be directed unless the applicant has
been given an opportunity of being heard in the presence of two
If any personal injury is caused to any person employed under the
Scheme byaccident arising out of and in the course of his employment, he
shall be entitled to, free of charge, such medical treatment as is
admissible under the Scheme.
Where hospitalization of the injured worker is necessary, the State
Government shall arrange for such hospitalization including accommodation,
treatment, medicines and payment of daily allowance not less than half of
the wage rate required to be paid had the injured been engaged in the
If a person employed under a Scheme dies or becomes permanently
disabled by accident arising out of and in the course of employment, he
shall be paid by the implementingagency an ex gratia payment at the rate
of twenty-five thousand rupees or such amount as may be notified by the
Central Government, and the amount shall be paid to the legal heirs of the
deceased or the disabled, as the case may be.
The facilities of safe drinking water, shade for children and
periods of rest, first-aid box with adequate material for emergency
treatment for minor injuries and other health hazards connected with the
work being performed shall be provided at the work site.
In case the number of children below the age of six years
accompanying the women working at any site are five or more, provisions
shall be made to depute one of such women worker to look after such
The person deputed under paragraph 28 shall be paid wage rate.
In case the payment of wages is not made within the period
specified under the Scheme, the labourers shall be entitled to receive
payment of compensation as per theprovisions of the Payment of Wages Act,
1936 (4 of 1936).
The wages under a Scheme may be paid either wholly in cash or in
cash and kind provided that at least one-fourth of the wages shall be paid
in cash only.
The State Government may prescribe that a portion of the wages in
cash may be paid to the labourers on a daily basis during the period of
If any personal injury is caused by accident to a child
accompanying any person who is employed under a Scheme, such person shall
be entitled to, free of charge, such medical treatment for the child as
may be specified in the Scheme and in case of death or disablement,
through an exgratia payment as may be determined by the State Government.
34. In case of every employment under the Scheme, there shall be no discrimination solely on the ground of gender and the provisions of the Equal Remuneration Act, 1976 (25 of 1976), shall be complied with.
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Pie or Doughnuts?
Pie charts are one of the most common and easily understood graph types. They are used to plot relative percentages among categories of a given variable. The circular “pie” is the whole — the total value of all categories — and each category is a “slice” whose percentage of that whole is proportional to the length of its projected arc.
Doughnut charts (aka “Donut” charts) are an extension of pie charts. The doughnut chart allows the presenter to combine the information of multiple “pies” into a single graphic, thus producing gains in both economy of space and of ease with which the viewer can spot trends over time. On the other hand, multiple pie charts may be preferable when the presenter needs to draw attention to relative proportions, as the ring structure of the doughnut chart emphasizes the outer plots and de-emphasizes the inner plots.
Fresh Doughnuts, Refreshed Pie
Doughnut charts are one of several new plot types added for Origin 2020. Considerable effort went into making Origin’s doughnut chart highly customizable. In the process, Origin’s familiar pie charts got an overhaul and gained a whole slew of customizable new properties. In this blog post, we’ll showcase a handful of the new pie and doughnut charts and highlight some key customization options.
Previously, Origin shipped with two built-in pie chart templates — the 2D Black & White Pie Chart and the 3D Color Pie Chart. The two were cousins: You could create a 2D B&W Pie Chart from a 3D Color Pie Chart or vice versa, using the controls in Plot Details . I mention this because the old 2D B&W Pie Chart is out for Origin 2020 and is replaced by a 2D Color Pie Chart. If you liked the old 2D B&W chart with hatch patterns, you can easily recreate that template by customizing the new 2D Color Pie and saving it to your User Files Folder with a new name (e.g. “2DBWPie.otpu”).
As mentioned, there are many new properties and several new pie chart templates for Origin 2020. You’ll find them in the menu under Plot: 2D Basic, alongside the new doughnut charts. Here are some examples that you can find in the Learning Center (press F11):
Pie of Pie, Bar of Pie, and Doughnut of Pie
- Combine Wedges by Percentage, by Value or Custom (you pick manually).
- Show Combined as Pie, as Column or as Doughnut.
Pie with Different Radius
- Increment Radius using data values in a worksheet column of your choice.
Doughnut with Total
- Set Wedges Total by Percent or Value and specify the quantity that will equal the whole (as the following example shows, it does not have to be 100%).
- Plot Remainder as Wedge and specify the color to represent the remainder.
- Labels tab, Format = Categories.
- Format = Decimal: 1000 and Decimal Places = 1.
Note: This graph uses 2 X columns of categorical data — one with the major categories (inner ring), the other with subcategories (outer ring). Constructing this plot requires a little extra effort. To see how it is made, press F11 in Origin 2020 and look for it by searching Graph Samples > All Plot Types for keyword = “2020”.
So, this is a broad rundown of the new doughnut and updated pie charts, for Origin 2020. Please look for these plots and more when Origin 2020 is released in the Fall of 2019.
Thank you for reading!
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Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
This is a lively picture book retelling of the popular fairy tale. Goldilocks was always told, “Don't go into the forest. It's full of big scary bears.” But Goldilocks went into the forest anyway...The simple and engaging text is accompanied by the colourful illustrations of Mike and Carl Gordon, taken from the popular “First Reading” series. It is a wonderful gift to be shared again and again.
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Heparin's Influence on ROTEM® Analysis
Coagulopathy with transfusion requirements is frequent during cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary Bypass. Rotational thromboelastrometry (ROTEM®) is a viscoelastic whole blood point of care test used to assess the patient's coagulation status.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of ROTEM® analysis in the presence of very high heparin concentrations as seen during cardiopulmonary bypass.
Coronary Artery Disease
|Study Design:||Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:||Evaluation of the Feasibility of Rotational Thromboelastrometry During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Using a Heparinase Modified ROTEM® Assay|
- Change from baseline ROTEM® measurements after the administration of heparinBaseline ROTEM® measurement will be compared to ROTEM® measurements after the administration of heparin, at the end of cardiopulmonary bypass and after the administration of protamine.
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
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|Study Completion Date:||September 2011|
|Primary Completion Date:||September 2011 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)|
coronary artery disease
patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting using cardiopulmonary bypass
The Society of Cardiothoracic surgeons suggest that 50% of patients undergoing cardiac surgery have a blood transfusion.
Several studies indicate an increase in morbidity and mortality related to blood transfusions.
Traditionally, the coagulation tests are performed in the hematology laboratory.
Rotational thromboelastrometry is a useful method of assessing perioperative coagulation function in patients undergoing cardiac surgery.
The presence of significant amounts of heparin in blood samples during cardiopulmonary bypass induces artifactual errors when thromboplastin is used as a reagent. For this reason, whole blood coagulation monitoring with ROTEM® has not been feasible during cardiopulmonary bypass with heparin anticoagulation. Recently recombinant thromboplastin has come available. It's stability is guaranteed by the manufacturer for plasmatic heparin concentrations up to 5UI/l .
Three of the available ROTEM®-tests are EXTEM (activation by recombinant thromboplastin), INTEM (activation by elagic acid) and HEPTEM. In the latter, heparinase, added to the INTEM reagent, eliminates heparin to reveal underlying coagulopathies.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the feasibility of ROTEM® analysis in the presence of very high concentration of heparin and to evaluate whether heparinase could reverse heparin's effect on EXTEM and INTEM during cardiopulmonary bypass.
Arterial blood samples were drawn for analysis after induction of anesthesia (T0),10 minutes after the administration of heparin (T1), at unclamping of the aorta (T2) and after heparin reversal with protamine (T3). The following tests will be performed: EXTEM, INTEM, HEPTEM and a heparinase modified EXTEM. For the latter, recombinant thromboplatin instead of the elagic acid is used in the HEPTEM test. Heparin concentrations are measured at T1 and at the end of bypass (T2). HEPCON® was used for heparin management.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01455454
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But when John Broom was so near the ground as to be safe, the farm-bailiff turned wrathfully upon his son, who had been gazing open-mouthed at the sight which had so interested his father.
“Ye look weel standing gawping here, before the leddies,” said he, “wasting the precious hours, and bringing your father’s grey hairs wi’ sorrow to the grave; and John Broom yonder shaming ye, and you not so much as thinking to fetch the perch for him, ye lazy loon. Away wi’ ye and get it, before I lay a stick about your shoulders.”
And when his son had gone for the perch, and John Broom was safely on the ground, laughing, bleeding, and triumphant, the farm-bailiff said,—
“Ye’re a bauld chiel, John Broom, I’ll say that for ye.”
INTO THE MIST.
Unfortunately the favourable impression produced by “the gipsy lad’s” daring soon passed from the farm-bailiff’s mind. It was partly effaced by the old jealousy of the little ladies favour. Miss Betty gave the boy no less than four silver shillings, and he ungraciously refused to let the farm-bailiff place them in a savings bank for him.
Matters got from bad to worse. The farming man was not the only one who was jealous, and John Broom himself was as idle and restless as ever. Though, if he had listened respectfully to the Scotchman’s counsel, or shown any disposition to look up to and be guided by him, much might have been overlooked. But he made fun of him and made a friend of the cowherd. And this latter most manifest token of low breeding vexed the respectable taste of the farm-bailiff.
John Broom had his own grievances too, and he brooded over them. He thought the little ladies had given him over to the farm-bailiff, because they had ceased to care for him, and that the farm-bailiff was prejudiced against him beyond any hope of propitiation. The village folk taunted him, too, with being an outcast, and called him Gipsy John, and this maddened him. Then he would creep into the cowhouse and lie in the straw against the white cow’s warm back, and for a few of Miss Betty’s coppers, to spend in beer or tobacco, the cowherd would hide him from the farm-bailiff and tell him countryside tales. To Thomasina’s stories of ghosts and gossip, he would add strange tales of smugglers on the near-lying coast, and as John Broom listened, his restless blood rebelled more and more against the sour sneers and dry drudgery that he got from the farm-bailiff.
Nor were sneers the sharpest punishment his misdemeanours earned. The farm-bailiff’s stick was thick and his arm was strong, and he had a tendency to believe that if a flogging was good for a boy, the more he had of it the better it would be for him.
And John Broom, who never let a cry escape him at the time, would steal away afterwards and sob out his grief into the long soft coat of the sympathising sheep dog.
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Power Development in Kerala
ENLARGED AVAILABILITY of electric power is a crucial factor in the promotion of rapid economic development.1 This note discusses the major economic aspects of power development in Kerala prior to 1956, the year in which the present state came into being by the union of the former princely states of Travancore and Cochin, and addition of the Malabar district of the Madras presidency.
In 1950, on the eve of the first five year plan., Kerala was not far from the top of the league in availability and use of electricity. In installed capacity (per 1000 of population) Travancore-Cochin, as it then was, stood behind only five states out of sixteen in the Indian union. For electricity generation (per 1000 people) and annual per capita consumption, only four states were ahead of it: Delhi, Bombay, West Bengal and Mysore in that order.
Random references to the working of thermal plants are contained in the administration reports o'f Cochin state from 1916-17 onwards.2 Such plants supplied electrical energy to royal residences and government offices primarily for lighting purposes. The first attempt at generation on a commercial scale was made in 1935-36 when the Government of Cochin issued a licence to the Cochin State Power and Light Corporation for electrification of the towns of Ernakulam and Trichur and the suburbs.3
Subsequently were installed thermal power stations with diesel engines at Ernakulam, Trichur and Mattancherry, the distribution in Mattancherry being done by another private licensee, the Cochin Electric Company. Supply from the Pallivasal hydro-electric project in Travancore began in 1942, and by 1945-46, the entire requirements of Ernakulam and Mattancherry were met from this source.
Even though the development of hydro-electric power had attracted attention of the Cochin government as early as 1929-30, when a special staff of surveyors was deputed to conduct detailed surveys at Peringalkuthu, the project was launched only in 1946 and completed after considerable delay in 1958 when a 24,000 KW plant was commissioned.
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If you have an HVAC system installed in your home, you have probably heard the term ‘‘heat pump’’ used. What exactly is a heat pump? Using technical jargon, a heat pump is defined as a refrigeration system that works on a mechanical-compression cycle and is used to either heat up or cool down a controlled space. The installation of a heat pump consists of two main parts, an indoor unit, aka an air handler, and an outdoor unit that is similar to an air conditioner. A compressor is used to circulate a refrigerant that absorbs then releases heat as it moves from the indoor to the outdoor unit.
How Does a Heat Pump Work?
A heat pump works by either heating up your home when it’s cold or cooling it down when it’s hot. When the air temperature inside your house drops too low, the heat pump removes heat from the outdoors and uses it to heat the house. The opposite action is completed when the air temperature indoors becomes too high. A heat pump does not generate its own heat, but merely transfers it from one place to another. This results in a more efficient operation. The pump is powered by electricity or gas. Heat pumps are much more efficient at heating homes when compared to other commonly used methods. A Trane model XL20i heat pump for instance is highly regarded in the HVAC industry and has a SEER rating of 19 with 9.00 HSPF.
Heat pumps work best in moderate temperatures. In very cold areas, it is usually necessary to install supplementary sources of heat since warm air from the outdoors may not exist. There are two main types of heat pumps from which one may choose an electric heat pump and a gas absorption heat pump.
Electric Heat Pump vs. Gas Absorption Pump
- The major components of an electric heat pump are the condenser, compressor, expansion pump, and evaporator.
- The electric heat pump uses electrical energy to run the compressor.
- The evaporator absorbs from or gives off heat to the surrounding air or water.
- To measure the efficiency of electric heat pumps, C.O.P. (coefficient of performance) is used. This is a measure of the ratio of heat energy supplied to the electrical energy consumed. Many heat pumps have a C.O.P. of about 2.5. A heat pump with a C.O.P. of 2.5 will supply 2.5 kWh of energy for every 2.5kWh of electricity consumed.
- The higher the temperature difference between the condenser and the source of the heat, the higher the efficiency of the electric pump is bound to be. The pump becomes deactivated and its performance suffers when the air temperature is between -2 and 2 degrees Celsius.
Gas Absorption Pump:
- The major components of a gas pump are a generator, condenser, absorber, and restrictors.
- A gas absorption pump uses natural gas or LPG in its generator.
- The gas absorption pump absorbs from or gives off heat to the surrounding air or water.
- The efficiency of the gas absorption pump is denoted by G.U.E (Gas Utilization Efficiency).This is the ratio of heat energy supplied by the pump to the heat energy the burner consumes. Many gas absorption pumps have G.U.E’s of approximately 1.5.This means that the gas pump will supply 1.5kWh of heat energy for every kWh of gas energy it burns. These pumps can tolerate much lower temperatures than electric heat pumps, and can continue to operate even when outside air drops to as low as -20 degrees Celsius.
Heat pumps supply more heat energy to the air than what they consume. This is one huge advantage over other heating devices.
Snyder Heating & Air Conditioning is a family-owned Jacksonville, Florida heating and air conditioning company offering top-notch installation, repair, and maintenance of their HVAC systems. If you need a heat pump installed or need repairs completed on your existing heat pump, call us today. We will gladly be of help to you.
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Pink Flag Raised For Breast Cancer Awareness
Kadlec Regional Medical center raises its flag for breast cancer awareness month today.
This is their 7th year raising the flag.
The hospital says it really kicks off breast cancer awareness month.
Hospital staff say its symbol of hope to those battling breast cancer right now.
They say when people drive by they hope the flag is an inspiration but its also a reminder of all those that have lost their battle with cancer.
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Failure is not an option, because...success is the only option!
Our mission is to cultivate and develop the entire school community so that all students are college-and-or career ready. With foci on all populations of children, teachers will engage collaboratively to ensure accelerated student learning through reflective practice and professional learning experiences. A guiding philosophy of all adults in the school community is that every student deserves an effective teacher, and we work tirelessly to seek out opportunities that will advance this belief.
Our goal is to increase the number of level 3 and 4 students by 10% in English Language Arts and Mathematics.
Dear Parents/ Guardians & Families:
Happy New Year!
We are excited and eager to kick off the new year in our building and get back to our routine. We want to keep the focus on learning and setting goals for the 2nd half of the year. Together we will prepare our students/ children to compete in this ever-changing world. We here at IS 339 wish you a flourishing and successful year.
It’s the start of a new year and nearly the halfway point in this school year. So it’s a good time to take stock and make any needed adjustments. Spend some time talking with your child about how the school year is going. If the two of you set learning goals at the start of the year, review those goals now. Is he or she making progress? How can they make the rest of the school year even better?
IS 339 encourages open communication with parents and the community. We want you to be informed throughout the school year, your child’s teacher and I will be making a specific effort to stay in touch with you. We will keep you informed of your child’s progress and of school activities. Look for literature coming home each day, newsletters, invitations, updates, tips and reminders. We want you to know that our door is always open for you.
Parents it’s very important to spend time reading. We are raising the bar making sure that all our students are reading for 45 minutes everyday at home. There is no skill that will help your child more in school. Reading like other skills gets better with practice. Encourage your child to read, and don’t worry about what they read. Let them read about sports, her or his favorite TV star or an inspiring person.
The mandatory uniform policy is intended to promote a more effective learning climate; foster school unity and pride; improve student performance; foster self-esteem; eliminate label competition; simplify dressing and minimize costs to parents. Our school uniform consist of the Official Tech Tiger polo shirt:
- 6th Grade: White shirt and khaki pants
- 7th Grade: Red shirt and khaki pants
- 8th Grade: Navy blue shirt and khaki pants
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About two months ago, husband and wife design team Greg and Jill Henderson launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the Hendo Hoverboard, a levitating skateboard they hoped to make available by October 2015. The campaign was a huge success, doubling its original goal of $250,000, and it’s been named one of TIME Magazine’s 25 Best Inventions of 2014.
What Is The Hendo Hoverboard?
The Hendo Hoverboard is exactly what it sounds like: a gravity-defying skateboard that hovers about an inch off the ground — no wheels necessary. It’s the world’s first real hoverboard, and it’s awesome.
So awesome, in fact, that legendary skateboarder Tony Hawk stopped by to take it for a spin, and loved it:
Because there’s no friction, a ride on the Hendo Hoverboard is smoother than any ride on wheels. It seamlessly integrates with your natural body movements so you have full control, and its numerous safeguards make for the safest possible experience.
How Does It Work?
The Hendo Hoverboard’s underlying technologies are all things that existed previously — but until now no one has been able to align them to produce a hoverboard.
On the Kickstarter page, the company provides this simplified explanation of how it works:
The magic behind the hoverboard lies in its four disc-shaped hover engines. These engines induce an opposing magnetic field in the surface substrate below that provides lift, levitating our board off the ground.
To dig a bit deeper, the technology depends on Magnetic Field Architecture (MFA), which is Hendo’s term for magnetic levitation.
Magnetic levitation is already used in the freight industry to suspend, guide, and propel high-speed trains for faster, quieter, and smoother transit. It works by reducing or eliminating the friction between the train’s wheels and axles and the rails. But the Hendo Hoverboard is unique in that it doesn’t depend on a track. It moves freely over a copper-plated surface.
Why copper? Well, as Greg Henderson told Live Science, copper is an inductor — a non-magnetic metal:
When you put a magnet near such a metal, an electric current starts to flow in the metal. This current, in turn, causes a magnetic field to develop outward from the metal. If the magnetic field that develops is strong enough, it can levitate the magnet. If it’s really strong, it can also levitate any object that happens to be attached to the magnet, including a hoverboard.
What Henderson and his team call “hover engines” are really electrically charged magnets, which create the device’s “primary magnetic field.” When positioned over an inductive copper surface, a strong repulsive magnetic field is produced, pushing the magnets upward and levitating the board.
One roadblock often encountered in the quest to build a hoverboard is the lack of stability. To solve that problem, the Hendo Hoverboard uses four electromagnets instead of one, which Henderson compares to the difference between trying to balance a unicycle versus a car.
The Whitebox Developer Kit
Until the hoverboard is within everyone’s reach (financially and supply-wise), the company is offering the same technology in a smaller form factor with what they call the Whitebox Developer Kit. It’s designed to be tinker-friendly — take it apart, explore it, and analyze it at will.
It will ship with the following (approximate) specs:
- Dimensions: 10″ x 10″ x 5″ (25cm x 25cm x 12cm)
- Individual Engine Dimensions: 4.5″ diameter x 2″ high (11.5cm x 5cm)
- Hover Height: 1/4″ – 1/2″ (1cm – 1.5cm)
- Battery Life: 10-15 min
- Charge Time: 1-2 hrs
- Weight: 10-12 lbs (4.5 kg)
- Payload: ~ 5 lbs (3 kg)
The Whitebox will be significantly more affordable than the hoverboard, as the team wants to get the technology into as many hands as possible.
Here it is in action:
Beyond The Hoverboard
The hoverboard is an amazing product in itself, but it’s only the beginning. The real potential lies on the road ahead.
“The Hendo Hoverboard is just the first step,” Henderson said. “It’s a proof of concept — the simplest path for demonstrating our new technology in a way everyone can understand.”
Hendo’s technology is completely scalable, meaning it can be used to hover objects of all shapes and sizes. “We’re able to turn, move, drive around in any direction, go up and down slopes, or do it all at once if you like,” said Henderson.
Imagine a vehicle that could move as freely as a car and as efficiently as a high-speed train. Long-term, this could give the wheel a serious run for its money.
Today, it’s a hoverboard. Tomorrow, it may be something far more — something world-changing.
Would you give the Hendo Hoverboard a test ride? What do you think of the technology? Share your thoughts in the comments section below!
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Yoga Positions for Chair Yoga are not just sitting on a chair and stretching.
Gentle Chair Yoga stretches, postures and breathing techniques will improve your quality of life no matter how old you are.
If you cannot get down on a mat, you may want to try out a class that uses a chair as a prop.
Often times the chair is used as something to hold onto when standing Yoga positions for Chair Yoga are being practiced, The chair assists with balance and provides more confidence when attempting the different poses.
I look forward to my class once a week. I go there feeling slouched over in pain, and leave there feeling taller and more at peace. Chair Yoga is a gift I give to myself.
I continue the stretches at home but I benefit more from being with my instructor and group of friends. I love the social atmosphere and the meditations that we close our sessions with. Being at home, I find it difficult to just sit by myself for twenty minutes and be introspective. I think I will make that a resolution for the new year, try to sit still for twenty minutes and clear my mind!
Though Yoga positions for Chair Yoga vary a bit because participants do sit down for part of the class, they are not completely separate exercises from traditional Yoga – just modified.
According to the University of Michigan Health System, people are fit when they can do physical activity with energy and a sense of well-being.
Chair Yoga improves your ability to twist, bend and move around. While it does not directly prepare you for intense physical activity, it allows you to keep up with your daily life and generally improve basic routines. They cite flexibility as one of the key components of fitness and many of the postures strengthen muscles, too.
The Mayo Clinic reports that practicing Yoga may help with sleep problems, fatigue and mood, which in turn could have positive effects on a variety of health conditions such as high blood pressure, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), vertigo, depression, and chronic syndromes such as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and Fibromyalgia (FMS).
Practicing Yoga is also ideal for people suffering with Arthritis because it reduces the pressure placed on joints, while still offering opportunities for stretching to increase flexibility and range of motion.
For me, living with CFS, FMS and Arthritis, Chair Yoga has been instrumental in controlling pain. I am also able to sleep soundly when I return home from my evening class.
The report also stated that Yoga can help with stress management. Some of the poses are discrete enough to be done while at work in the office, in a wheelchair, or in a plane, such as simple spinal movements, deep breathing techniques and wrist or ankle rotations.
Some of the modified Yoga positions for Chair Yoga are Downward Facing Dog, or assisted balance poses, such as Tree or Dancer.
One pose that I recommend to be practiced daily is Angel Breaths. This is one that you can start your day with: Begin with your hands at your heart center (breast bone), palms together in prayer pose.
With an inhalation, sweep your arms above your head, you can tilt your head back and look up. (if you have neck issues, keep your chin parallel to the floor). As you begin to exhale, sweep your arms back out to the skies and return your hands to your heart center. Repeat several times. Your body will let you know how many is enough.
As you are reaching up, feel the rib cage lift up and the lungs expand with your breath. As you come back down, use your abdominal muscles to help expel the used air.
You may want to state your intention. It may help to set the tone for the rest of the day. Doesn’t it feel wonderful to breathe deeply?
This pose may be done sitting or standing. If seated, sit well in your chair with your back away from the back of the chair, feet planted firmly on the floor. If standing, be sure your body is well aligned with your feet planted firmly, hip distance apart.
When you feel ready to end, sit for a few moments with your hands at your heart center, your head gently bowed forward, and your eyes closed. Listen to your breath. Feel the new energy moving through your body and mind. Let yourself be calm and quiet in preparation for your day ahead. Namaste.
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Guest Post by: Garry Froehlich | Jellybean Tunes
Grow fruit, do puzzles and read a bedtime story. The 52nd app report brings you the latest news and product announcements from our network of family-friendly app developers. If you have news to announce, or simply want to get a sneak peek at next week's news, visit the Product Announcements forum.
Please take a moment to read the full app descriptions, and to screen the apps you download, in order to fully understand the features and elements in the app. If you find an app you like, please write a review.
- Garry Froehlich | Jellybean Tunes
|In the Spotlight with Patrick Larsson of Happi Papi Melissa Northway interviews Patrick Larsson of Happi Papi where he talks about the Teacher App Evaluation Program he set up that helps put free apps into the hands of teachers as well as provide developers a chance to get their apps into the educational market.|
Apps for Little Ones
|Educational Wooden Puzzle Collection by Alexandre Minard: Have fun with 78 educational wooden puzzles on 6 different themes: Alphabet, Numbers, Animals, Circus, Toys and Aliens. By purchasing these six puzzles at once, you are saving over 50%! (Watch Video) iPhone and iPad: $4.99|
|Peekaboo People starring Richard Scarry's Busytown by Night & Day Studios, Inc.: Richard Scarry's Busytown characters join the Peekaboo series! An elevator inside an office building opens to reveal your favorite Busytown characters demonstrating different types of jobs. Catch a Carpenter hammering, a Doctor listening to Huckle's heartbeat, and a Dancer's arabesque! Toddlers will love playing peekaboo with these busy worker-bees, as they familiarize themselves with the names, sounds, and actions of each profession. iPhone and iPad: $1.99|
|Baby Plants Fruits2 by chen yibin: Children plant with their own hands and experience plants growing process from seeding to harvest. It's an opportunity to learn natural science. What's more, the app is drawn in both Chinese and English versions. Children will learn not only English words but also plants encyclopedia and Chinese pronunciation and their writing. iPhone and iPad: Free + $1.99 In-App Purchase|
|Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! - Dr. Seuss by Oceanhouse Media: Young Marvin K. Mooney has overstayed his welcome and the narrator has no shortage of ideas of how Marvin could go. "You can go on stilts. You can go by fish. You can go in a Crunk-Car if you wish." Perfect for bedtime or anytime, this simple story and humorous illustrations are sure to bring laughs to the whole family. iPhone and iPad: $2.99 (introductory price), Google Play: $2.99|
|DC Super Friends: Haunted Heroes by ScrollMotion: The local Halloween festival is underway but the children think the haunted house is full of real ghosts! It's up to the Super Friends to investigate, but are these heroes haunted by something more sinister? iPad: $4.99|
|Now for iPhone Gerry the Giraffe by PicPocket Books: Gerry the Giraffe wants to join the volleyball team but they think he's too small and not strong enough. Upset because he isn't invited to summer volleyball camp, he finally realizes what he has to do. Over the summer, while the team is away, something amazing happens from Gerry's hard work. iPhone: $1.99|
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Surprise, surprise. China’s GDP growth for the third quarter came in bang on the consensus estimate of 7.4%, the slowest rate of growth in years. But the market liked it because on a quarter-on-quarter basis growth was 2.2%, up from 2% in the prior quarter. So on an annualised basis, the Chinese economy grew at a fast 8.8%.
Or did it?
We mentioned yesterday that the published numbers are a farce. They tell you what the Chinese Communist party wants you to know — that they are in control and everything is going according to plan.
For example, here’s the introduction to China’s GDP release from the National Bureau of Statistics of China:
‘In the first three quarters of 2012, faced with the complicated and volatile economic environment at home and abroad, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council committed to the general tone of progressing steadily, correctly handled the relationships among steady and comparatively rapid economic development, the adjustment of economic structures and the management of expectation on inflation, paid more attention to maintaining steady growth, carried out the proactive fiscal policy and prudent monetary policy, and made great efforts in policy presetting and fine tuning. As a result, the overall national economy realized steady development with some positive changes: the economic development stabilized; structural adjustment speeded up and people’s livelihood continued to be improved.’
So there you have it, The Party has it all under control…nothing to see here, go about your business.
And the bluster seems to have worked. Based on yesterday’s data release, everyone now seems to think that China’s growth rate has ‘bottomed’ and it’s back to business as usual from here. John Garnaut’s article in The Age nicely encapsulates this cosy little world view.
Garnaut’s reporting from China is normally good, but here he just reports the ‘facts’ as dished out by China’s central planners. To really get a grip on what’s happening in China you have to look behind the facts. So as a counter to the mainstream view, which is one that the media will no doubt run with for the next few days, have a read of this. It’s analysis from one of our favourite China watchers, operating out of Hong Kong.
The gist of the analysis is that the numbers really don’t make sense. That there are other important indicators that suggest China’s GDP growth should (or could) be much lower. For example electricity consumption growth is nearing 0% year-on-year.
So the task of today’s Daily Reckoning is to show you why China’s supposedly better-than-expected data is not what it seems. And especially for Australia, it means the ‘pain’ has only just started.
Allow us to explain.
The whole point of this ‘engineered’ Chinese slowdown is to rebalance the Chinese economy. That is, rebalance away from property and ‘fixed-asset’ related investment, and more towards domestic growth. The third quarter China’s GDP data suggests that is not happening at all. In other words, the rebalancing has not even started.
For the three months to September, fixed asset investment grew at an annualised rate of 17.6%. That’s slower than annualised growth for the first three quarters of the year of 20.5% but it’s still very robust and much faster than overall growth. This means that fixed asset investment as a percentage of GDP is still growing — exactly the opposite outcome of what China says it’s trying to achieve.
Or take real estate investment. In the first three quarters of the year, real estate investment grew at an annual rate of 15.4%. That’s a big slowdown from the same period last year (when annualised growth hit 32%) but it’s still in excess of overall GDP growth, which means property investment as a percentage of China’s GDP still remains stubbornly high.
In other words, China’s rebalancing has not even started. The process of rebalancing is underway, in that growth rates for real estate and fixed asset investment are coming down, but they need to slow much more for actual rebalancing to occur.
China can spur growth again easily if it wants…but it will be unstable growth. It will cause even greater transition problems down the track.
This is the issue that most people don’t understand about China. That is, rebalancing the economy requires much, much slower growth in the commodities intensive sectors of fixed assets (roads, railways, empty cities, etc) and real estate, and much faster growth in domestic consumption.
Given that much of China’s household wealth has actually financed the investment boom, turning off the funding tap (to encourage spending instead of saving) would prove disastrous.
Xiao Gang, Chairman of the Bank of China, recently wrote an op-ed piece for China Daily that focused on this financing of the investment boom. Much of it occurs through China’s ‘shadow banking system’, which consists of ‘Wealth Management Products’. They are off-balance sheet vehicles sold by the banks to households and could be as large as nearly US$2 trillion. Gang writes:
‘Chinese banks work closely with trust companies or other entities by packaging trust loans into WMPs, offering investors a higher yield than conventional bank deposits can. These products are mainly sold by commercial banks either at their branches or online. Many of the funds that were obtained through these channels went into real estate development, infrastructure projects, the manufacturing sector and local government financing vehicles. Banks are playing the role of “middlemen” between the recipients and investors.
‘There are more than 20,000 WMPs in circulation, a dramatic increase from only a few hundred just five years ago. Given that the number is so big and hard to manage, China’s shadow banking sector has become a potential source of systemic financial risk over the next few years. Particularly worrisome is the quality and transparency of WMPs. Many assets underlying the products are dependent on some empty real estate property or long-term infrastructure, and are sometimes even linked to high-risk projects, which may find it impossible to generate sufficient cash flow to meet repayment obligations.
‘Moreover, many WMPs are not even linked to any specific asset, rather, just to a pool of assets, whose cash inflows may often not match the timing of scheduled WMP repayments.
‘China’s shadow banking is contributing to a growing liquidity risk in the financial markets. Most WMPs carry tenures of less than a year, with many being as short as weeks or even days. Thus in some cases short-term financing has been invested in long-term projects, and in such situations there is a possibility of a liquidity crisis being triggered if the markets were to be abruptly squeezed.
‘In fact, when faced with a liquidity problem, a simple way to avoid the problem could be through using new issuance of WMPs to repay maturing products. To some extent, this is fundamentally a Ponzi scheme. Under certain conditions, the music may stop when investors lose confidence and reduce their buying or withdraw from WMPs. The rollover of a large share of WMPs could weigh heavily on formal banks’ reputations, because many investors firmly believe that banks won’t close down and they can always get their money back.’
They’re some pretty strong words from a bank Chairman currently enjoying the benefits of the Ponzi. It just goes to show the deep-seated natures of the problems unleashed by a credit boom. We explained how it all came to pass in our China’s Bust report.
The thing to keep in mind when looking at headlines about China’s so-called ‘revival’ is that this is a long term problem. More importantly for commodity exporters like Australia, China’s economic adjustment has not even started in earnest.
As is the nature of these long term trends, there will always be a short term counter-trend or argument to deal with along the way. But don’t be misled. Keep your eye on the big (underlying) picture, because worries about China’s growth trajectory will surface again…maybe later this year…maybe in early 2013.
If you want some specific investment ideas about how to avoid the fallout from this structural change in China’s (and by implication, Australia’s) economy, check out Dan Denning’s latest report on the subject.
The bottom line here is that if you’re betting on China, you’re betting against history. No nation in history has ever had such unbalanced economic growth (that is, investment accounting for around 50% of GDP). In the instances that came close (the notable examples are Japan in the late 1980s and the US in the late 1920s) the aftermath was not too pretty…
Have a great weekend!
for The Daily Reckoning Australia
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Gnocchi for breakfast? It’s a pasta lover’s delight.
Eggs, tomatoes, pesto and cheese create an Italian breakfast bake‚—so good and versatile that you can serve it for lunch and dinner, too (photo #1).
We bought ours ready-to-cook, but here’s a gnocchi recipe to make without the kit.
Whatever meal you choose, serve the gnocchi bake with a side salad, lightly dressed in vinaigrette.
Ingredients For 4-6 Servings
1. PREHEAT the oven to 375°F and grease a 9-by-9-inch square pan.
2. BRING a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook the gnocchi according to package directions. Drain and set aside.
3. WHISK together the eggs, milk, salt, and pesto. Place the gnocchi in the prepared pan and cover with the egg mixture. Drop heaping spoonsful of ricotta onto the mixture, placing them as evenly as possible throughout the pan.
4. PLACE the tomatoes between dollops of ricotta. Sprinkle with the parmesan and bake until the eggs are completely set and starting to brown, about 30 minutes.
A classic Italian pasta, these pillowy potato dumplings (photo #3) delight many pasta lovers.
The word “gnocchi” (pronounced N’YAW-kee) has an unknown origin, but it may have derived from the Italian word nocca, meaning knuckle.
Another possibility is the Italian word nocchio, meaning a knot in wood.
Gnocchi has been a traditional type of Italian pasta—the shape is probably of Middle Eastern origin—since Roman times. It was introduced by the Roman legions during the expansion of the empire into the countries of the European continent.
In Roman times, gnocchi were made from a semolina porridge-like dough mixed with eggs [source].
Gnocchi were the perfect peasant food, both filling and inexpensive. Before the potato version was created, gnocchi were made with ingredients such as breadcrumbs and squash.
The use of potato is a relatively recent innovation, occurring after the introduction of the potato to Europe in the 16th century (it was one of the food discoveries in the New World).
Potato gnocchi originated in Northern Italy, where the colder climate was better for growing potatoes than grain. (In fact, a lot of heartier Italian cuisine, including polenta and risotto, originated in Northern Italy.) [source]
Introduced to different regions of Italy, gnocchi became made variously of semolina, potato or sweet potato; with optional cheese or eggs added to the dough; and optionally flavored with basil, saffron, spinach or tomato. Today, pumpkin is an option.
The most common way to prepare gnocchi today is to combine mashed potatoes with flour, although modern variations add different cheeses—goat, gorgonzola, ricotta, Parmigiano-Reggiano. In addition to the flavors noted above, creative chefs make gnocchi in beet, butternut squash, carrot, sweet potato and other flavors.
They can be served mixed with vegetables (asparagus, broccoli rabe, cherry tomatoes mushrooms, peas, spinach, etc.) and proteins (chicken, clams, ham, pancetta, sausage).
Depending on their flavor, gnocchi pair with many sauces, from simple butter and parmesan or tomato to oxtail or pork ragù. One of our favorites is brown butter with crispy fried sage.
Is it time to expand your gnocchi horizons?
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Medical researchers in Spain say an experimental vaccine against HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, has produced a 90 percent immune response among a small group of healthy human test subjects. The promising results pave the way for further clinical trials on HIV-infected volunteers.
Researchers at the Spanish National Research Council's National Biotech Center say their MVA-B vaccine is made with bits of non-infectious HIV genetic material and is designed to train the body’s immune system over time to detect and fight different components of the virus. Lead scientist Mariano Esteban likens the vaccine's effectiveness to showing an HIV picture to the immune systems’ “soldiers,” so they will recognize it and be ready to attack if it appears again in the future.
The researchers conducted the clinical trial on a group of 30 HIV-free volunteers to test whether a healthy immune system is capable of reacting to the vaccine. The researchers say 85 percent of those who received the vaccine maintained their strong immune response to the virus for at least one year. Six of the 30 volunteers received a placebo instead of the vaccine. The test subjects were safe from accidentally contracting the virus because the four HIV genes used in the vaccine cannot self-replicate.
Esteban says he hopes the vaccine will eventually reduce HIV to "a minor chronic infection." Improved drug therapies have enabled people infected with HIV to live longer, but the disease remains incurable and new infection rates remain high in many parts of the world.
The United Nations World Health Organization estimates that more than 33 million people worldwide are infected with HIV.
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"When you wake up in the morning, do you want to use a tanning bed or booth? Do you try without success to cut down on the time you spend tanning? Did tanning ever cause you to miss a work engagement or social activity?
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London paramedics will learn about a pilot project that has their counterparts making house calls and engaging doctors
It's been the paradigm since red lights first flashed over ambulances: Paramedics took patients to hospital.
That paradigm is changing.
Swamped with 911 calls from people who are serial visitors to the ER, London paramedics hope to create a safety net in the community for patients who'd otherwise end up again and again in hospital.
Next month they'll go to York Region to learn about a pilot program there that has paramedics making house calls, engaging family doctors and making sure those who provide care in the community and the home can help people who otherwise are chronic callers of 911.
"If we have (repeat callers) it's a strain on the system," said Neal Roberts, chief of Middlesex-London EMS. "That's an area we are trying to look at."
The need is pressing: In the past 10 months, the 10 heaviest users of city emergency rooms totalled 801 trips, and two-thirds of the time they were taken there by paramedics.
Roberts would like to target two groups of users for community intervention -- those with mental illness and addiction and those frail with chronic health problems.
He hopes to tap into $6 million in funding announced by Ontario Health Minister Deb Matthews to set up two pilot programs, one in the city, the other in the county.
Among the initiatives that have piqued Roberts' interest:
* Talk to the family doctors of patients they serve, as is done by York paramedics.
* Identify frail and elderly people who need home care or need more frequent care arranged by Southwest Community Care Access Centre.
* Create interdisciplinary teams that visit homes of frequent 911 calls to help them better manage their care, without needing to go to an ER.
All those initiatives require resources and Roberts says that poses a challenge -- his crews are already stretched to the limit responding to emergencies.
"There's not a lot of excess capacity here," he said.
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Primary-key columns were discussed in the preceding lesson.
Primary-key columns contain values that uniquely identify a record within a table.
Sometimes a single column does not contain sufficient information to distinguish one record from every other record in the table.
Consider the Line Item table:
No single column contains enough information to set a record apart from every other record in the table, though OrderNo and CDNo are the most likely prospects.
The problem is, an order can contain more than one CD and a CD can be part of more than one order.
It is possible to create a CDOrderID column, but there is an easier solution:
Create a concatenated primary key.
You should create a concatenated primary key
based on the existing columns in the database table.
A concatenated primary key
is a primary key made up of two or more columns.
In the case of the Line Item table, each record is uniquely identified by the combined values of
the OrderNo and
columns located at the extreme left of the table.
We are assuming a particular CD will not occur more than once in an order.
Concatenated primary keys need to follow two additional rules:
They should contain the smallest number of columns required to uniquely identify each record.
The columns should not contain
You may need to break this rule on occasion, but those circumstances are very rare.
The next lesson describes all-key relations
An All-key relation is a relation in which every field is a member of the relation's primary key.
Before moving on to the next lesson, click the Quiz link below to check your understanding of key columns and primary keys.
Primary Key - Quiz
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CHAPLIN, W. J., ELSWORTH, Y., HOWE, R., ISAAK, G. R., MCLEOD, C. P., MILLER, B. A. and NEW, R. (1997). Techniques used in the analysis of data collected by the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) .2. Frequency domain analysis & data merging. Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 125 (1), 195-205.Full text not available from this repository.
The Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network (BiSON) consists of 6 solar observatories dedicated to the collection of full-disc solar Doppler velocity data - these data are sensitive to the lowest spatial degrees of oscillation (0 less than or equal to l less than or equal to 4). In Paper I of this series, we described the calibration of raw data from the BiSON instruments to produce solar velocity residuals representing the oscillations of the Sun's surface. In this paper, we discuss the combination of velocity residuals into time series - including a thorough discussion of the treatment of data overlaps between sites - and the analysis of the power spectra computed from such time series to derive the characteristics of the acoustic modes.
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MANILA, Philippines - (UPDATE) A replica of the Spanish galleon which plied the Manila-Acapulco route centuries ago docked in Manila on Wednesday, October 6 in celebration of the Dia del Galeon Festival.
"Andalucia" is a replica of a 17th century galleon that figured in trade activities between Asia, Europe, and the Americas a long time ago.
The galleon arrived at Pier 13 of the South Harbor in Manila to a warm welcome from government officials, the diplomatic community, cultural workers, students, and the general public.
"Ibinabalik lang nito sa alaala ang panahong Maynila ang sentro ng komersyo sa Asya," said Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim.
Officials from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Mexican embassy were present at the welcome ceremony.
"Andalucia," the wooden galleon replica, was made by the Nao Victoria Foundation. Its sails were made in Ilocos. The galleon was docked in China for the World Expo 2010.
The public can board "Andalucia" and view the traveling museum on board. Entrance is free from October 6 to 9. Viewing hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on October 6 to 8, and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 9.
On opening day, students couldn't wait to board the galleon. "Excited po para makita ng personal 'yung bahagi ng kasaysayan," said Vianca Vargas, a 4th year high school student.
"Dapat pumunta dito 'yung mga estudyante dahil iba 'yung matututunan nila," said Alvin Santos, a high school teacher.
The 30-strong Spanish crew on board was also excited to visit the Philippines. "I know that Spanish and Philippine culture have so much in common and I want to experience it," said Monica, one of the crew members.
Dia del Galeon aims to preserve the fruitful relations of the countries linked by the galleon trade centuries ago. -- Report from Francis Faulve, ABS-CBN News
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Dracaena is a genus of plants that includes about 40 species, including Dracaena marginatas, of which magentas are a common variety. Magenta plants are evergreen trees or shrubs native to the tropics and are similar in appearance to palms. They are commonly grown as houseplants, and with their variegated leaves and reddish edging, can add an exotic style to your home.
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Maintain room temperature above 15.6 degrees Celsius -- between 21.1 to 26.7 degrees Celsius is ideal. Never allow temperatures to dip below 2.78 degrees Celsius or exceed 32.2 degrees Celsius. Dracaenas prefer mostly shady conditions. If the leaves begin to yellow, reduce exposure to direct light.
Keep the soil moist from spring until fall. Water thoroughly so the water drains out the bottom of the pot. Reduce watering during the winter, allowing the soil to dry out between waterings.
Mist leaves two or three times a week, especially if the plant is near a heat source or near a draft where drier air is more likely. Ideal humidity levels for Dracaena plants are between 60 and 100 per cent relative humidity.
Fertilise monthly with a houseplant fertiliser that has an nitogen-phosphorous-potassium ratio (N-P-K) of 3:1:2 or 3:1:3. Follow the dosing instructions on the label based on the size of your plant and exact fertiliser used.
Treat disease and pests immediately. Take a sample of a damaged leaf to a nursery or cooperative extension office for diagnosis and treat as recommended. For example, if your Dracaena magenta plants are pale and have green transverse veins, it may be a magnesium deficiency, which should be treated with a manganese chelate spray.
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It is an efficient assembly unit to extract coconut oil from copra. Coconut Oil Refinery Machine. This is a small complete oil refining unit for edible oil production, based on batch type refining process. The main components includes heat conduction oil furnace, steam generator, deodorizing pot, decoloring pot, refining pot and leaf filter.
Small Coconut Oil Extraction Production Machine Starts
Oil Yield Rate of Various Oil-bearing Seeds & Oil-Rich Plants. Small coconut oil extraction machine can be used to produce vegetable oils from a variety of oil-bearing seeds and oil-rich plants, including canola, peanut/groundnut, palm kernel, sesame seed, sunflower seed, castor seed, cotton seed, camellia seed, moringa seed, niger seed, black cumin seed and more.
coconut meat oil extract machine almond cooking oil making
Small Almond Oil Extraction Machine/peanut Cooking Oil Making. 1.Cooking oil making machine,light oil color, rich nutrition, pure natural oil, save refining cost. 2.Energy saving and labor saving.press 3.Import dual-core,Intelligence chip 4.High speed of oil extraction 5.Energy saving and labor saving.
Coconut Oil Mill Refining Process – Oil Extraction Machine
The refined coconut oil is processed using the organically approved methods of physical extraction and refining. For the coconut oil mill refining process, the coconuts are firstly broken into pieces and the coconut meat is allowed to dry, and once it is dried, the meat or flesh of the Coconut is hydraulically pressed at 100 – 130 degrees to
Small scale virgin coconut oil extracting machine for VCO
Process Remarks of virgin coconut Oil Extracting machine: 1.）From the beginning of the meat Extraction to the finish of drying process,the meat`s temperature is controlled below 75℃,and time duration no long than 4 hours. 2.）The temperature of the oil and meal is below 60℃ during the Oil pressing stage;
Coconut Oil Mill Refining Process – Oil Mill Machinery
Coconut oil mill refining process consists of a series of refining procetures. the coconuts are at first cracked into pieces while the coconut meat is allowed to be dried. When it is dried, the coconut's meat or flesh is hydraulically pressed at 100 – 130 degrees in order to extract the oil.
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This beautifully-constructed creation is the work of serial bloggee Senator Chinchilla and it is, as any fan of ’90s Japanese cars will know, Mazda’s legendary final-generation RX-7.
Powered by a Wankel rotary engine the RX-7 was just 1.3 litres in capacity, yet with twin turbo chargers the tiny unit made well over 250bhp. And this was back in the early 1990s too.
Production of the RX-7 ended in Japan in 2002 as Mazda geared up for the more usable RX-8 which followed it, and – fingers crossed – Mazda is readying the RX-8’s rotary-engined successor as we type. In the meantime you can check out this brilliant recreation of RX-8’s predecessor by visiting Senator Chinchilla’s photostream – click here to make the jump.
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Together, we will empower 4.4 million people by supporting improved and resilient livelihoods and providing recovery loans to those negatively impacted by shocks like COVID-19 and natural disasters.
You can’t end extreme poverty without prioritizing the smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs who make up the vast majority of the poor.
Of the 689 million people who live in extreme poverty, most are smallholder farmers whose livelihoods are vulnerable to economic uncertainties, weather, and shocks like natural disasters. Millions of small business owners also face shocks that can destroy their way of life.
Because there are no jobs to be had, most of the extreme poor run their own small farm or business. Two thirds are subsistence farmers with very small plots of land. Their farms barely meet the family’s minimum food needs. At least half of those farmers are women.
Far too many have a dependency mindset that is cultural, social, and spiritual — which prevents them from proactively solving their own problems. To make matters worse, the economic effects of COVID-19 have pushed an estimated 97 million more people into extreme poverty.
We work directly with farmers and small entrepreneurs through our unique livelihoods model—Transforming Household Resilience in Vulnerable Environments (THRIVE)—and Recovery Lending for Resilience (RLR).
THRIVE starts with empowerment through a powerful training based on a biblical view of identity and accountability —that all people are created in the image of a loving and redeeming God who has made each of us accountable for ourselves, for others and for God’s creation.
Then, we help farmers embrace savings groups, new agricultural techniques, and improve their access to markets and finance; enable communities to steward natural resources like soil, water, and forests; and prepare families on how to cope with shocks, disasters, and changes.
Our microfinance subsidiary, VisionFund International (VFI), is an expert in responding through recovery lending. By giving loan access to people whose economic well-being has been severely affected, VisionFund equips families to rebuild farms and businesses and get back to work.
A recent external study of our THRIVE model revealed game-changing results for participating farmers. And Recovery Lending helped more than 400 thousand entrepreneurs —7 of 10 female—keep their businesses open and families afloat through the pandemic.
Farmer households in Tanzania who participated in THRIVE were 40% more food secure than the control group
95% of THRIVE households are avoiding negative coping strategies such as taking children out of school; sending children to work for money; reducing food intake; or selling off land, equipment, or livestock
$2.7 million USD was saved by 3,433 active savings groups as of December 2021 Learn how savings groups work
$231 million in recovery loans were made to VisionFund clients from the start of RLR (July 2020) through the end of FY 2021 - 7 of 10 female
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We are blessed to partner with hundreds of Christian philanthropists and couldn’t do this work without them. And we’re able to reach more people because of our highly collaborative local and global partnerships within private and public sectors.
“We met a Rwandan woman farmer...she said, 'I thank God, World Vision, and this project because with what I have been taught, and what I know now, I am not in poverty anymore, … and I will never go back!”
“I think one of the things that really touched us was these people. They don't want a handout. They want to be able to work for what they have. We believe in a hand up not a handout.”
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A crash back in April, between a truck and a bus, resulted in an inferno when the vehicles caught on fire and burned on the side of the road. Nine people lost their lives in the crash, which took place in Northern California. The reports have now come back in the wake of the accident, and the coroner has revealed that the majority of those who were killed did not actually die from the impact, but from inhaling smoke after they were trapped in the burning bus.
Of the nine who were killed, only two appear to have died from causes other than smoke inhalation.
The crash involved a truck being driven for Fed Ex, which was pulling two trailers, and each one was 28 feet long. It was on the 5 Freeway, going south, but it left those lanes, drove over 58 feet of median, and jumped up into traffic in the northbound lanes.
There, it struck a small sedan that was thrown out of the way. After pushing through that, it rammed into the charter bus, filled with high school students and their chaperons. Five of the students were killed.
After the wreck, those with injuries were taken to the hospital. One more person died there, bringing the total toll from the crash up to ten.
In the wake of a truck accident, those who have lost loved ones or suffered injuries may want to know what rights they have to seek financial compensation. They should also know if they have a right to seek it from the company for which the truck was being driven, if that truck caused the crash.
Source: Los Angeles Times, Most Orland bus crash victims died of smoke inhalation, coroner says” Joseph Serna, Jul. 22, 2014
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Anymore, lack of availability is really no longer a viable reason for not buying local, organic or otherwise ethical food in the upper Midwest. You may have your complaints about price, regulation or philosophy, but those who grumble that such good food is nowhere to be found are most often displaying their own lack of effort to find it.
In Rockford alone, we have at least three functional farmers markets where I can buy the freshest foods directly from the person who grows it. There are more in surrounding towns. We have the nations largest community-supported agriculture (CSA) farm, Angelic Organics, only minutes away in Caledonia. We have stores devoted specifically to whole and natural foods, like Choices Natural Market on Riverside and the 320 Store on Court Street downtown. Supermarkets such as Woodmans on Perryville are continuously expanding their organic selections, and very few conventional grocery stores dont carry at least a few organic products, even in nearby small towns. Even some restaurants, such as Kiki Bs and Octane, are testing the waters of the local and organic food scene. Good food is out there, you just have to go and get it.
Even if you dont have access to Rockford or a similar populated area, we are well into the information age, and those who are willing to adapt with the times have a virtually limitless source of food information right at their fingertips. Recently, there has been a profusion of Web sites devoted to locating all of that farm-fresh food right outside your doorstep. These services can help you locate farms, farmers markets, CSA farms, restaurants, groceries, food co-ops and online retailers of wholesome foods. In the Illinois-Wisconsin stateline area, try the following sites:
If you are reading this in another part of the U.S., try going to http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/localfood_dir.php first. This is a listing of all the local food directories in the 50 states. If you would prefer to search a national directory of value-added food services, try http://www.localharvest.org/. With this directory alone, I can find 126 direct market farms, 33 CSAs, and 150 farmers markets in Illinois. You must be close to one of them! Using the locality-specific directories, I bet you can find even more.
Well, I hate to say it, but, for the time being, this is going to be the last regular edition of Farm Fresh Perspectives. By the time you read this, I will have already begun classes at Iowa State University in business management and sustainable agriculture. If we want to see new alternative farms become truly sustainable ventures, then farmer-entrepreneurs have to have as much business and marketing savvy as they do skill in the field or the pasture. I want to be part of that. The good food movement is growing, and ecological farmers are going to have to innovate and cooperate to meet the demand with a system that is more equitable to every link in the food supply chain. By pursuing a bit more training now, I hope to be more instrumental in this agricultural and culinary revolution down the road.
Even after Im no longer reminding you every week, remember that eating can indeed be a political act and that every dollar you spend on food is a vote. So vote for what you believe in! If you want to support local farms and organic agriculture, eat that way. And, if you can, do a little campaigning to inform others why you are voting the way you do. Education is a critical component of improving the overall sustainability of our food and agriculture system. If you have questions or need reasons to support local and sustainable food or farming, University of Illinois Extension can certainly still help. As of Aug. 16, Deborah Cavanaugh-Grant will become state Extension Specialist in small farms and sustainable agriculture. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org, or by calling your nearby Extension office.
As for me, the position may be different, but the goal will be the same. We can improve our planet and the small farms on it simply by opening our minds and opening our mouths to what can best nourish us. And Ill end the same way I began: think global, eat local.
Andy Larson works with the Initiative for the Development of Entrepreneurs in Agriculture in University of Illinois Extension. He can be reached at (815) 397-7714 or email@example.com.
From the Aug. 2-8, 2006, issue
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1. Apply where: Marriage Bureau at the District of Columbia Courts
2. Minimum Age: 18, or 16 with parental consent
3. Cost/fees: $45
4. Identification: driver's license, state-issued identification, passport, military identification
5. Blood test / Physical Test: No
6. Residency Requirement: No
7. Witnesses: No
8. License Valid: Does not expire
9. Waiting Period: No
10. Same-sex marriage: Yes
11. Marriage between cousins: Yes
12. Divorce/Widow: Yes, with disclosure of prior marriages
13. Proxy Marriage: No
14. Common Law Marriage: Yes
What do you have to do to get married?
To get married in the District of Columbia, at least one member of the couple or a designated representative must visit the Marriage Bureau at the District of Columbia Courts to fill out a marriage license application. Both members of the couple must meet certain age requirements, provide photo identification, and pay a fee. Once the application is complete, the marriage license is issued the same day. Your officiant will fill out the marriage license and submit it to the required government authorities. A certified marriage certificate will be provided once the marriage is officially recorded.
How do I get a marriage license in the District of Columbia?
Either a member of the couple or a chosen representative must complete the application at the Marriage Bureau Office. Both members of the couple must meet the age requirement, present a valid photo identification, and pay a fee.
How much does it cost to get a marriage license in the District of Columbia?
The marriage license fee in the District of Columbia is $45. This cost also includes a certified marriage certificate once the ceremony has occurred.
How old do you have to be to get married in the District of Columbia?
You must reach the minimum age of 16 to get married in D.C. Individuals who are between 16 and 18 must have parental or guardian consent to get married.
Can you get married under 18 in the District of Columbia?
Yes. Individuals between 16 and 18 can get married in the District of Columbia with parental consent. This requires both parents or guardians to be present during the application process. If one parent or guardian cannot be present, evidence must be supplied to explain their absence.
Do you need a blood test to get married?
No. There is no legal requirement for a premarital blood test or physical exam in order to get married in D.C.
Who can legally marry you in the District of Columbia?
The District of Columbia allows a wide range of officiants for wedding ceremonies, including religious authorities and government officials such as judges, clerks, and the mayor. Temporary officiants can perform marriages with an application and fee, and the couple can self-solemnize the marriage with a separate application and fee.
Do you need a witness to get married?
No. The District of Columbia does not require a witness for a marriage ceremony to be valid.
How long does it take to get a marriage license in the District of Columbia?
There is no waiting period to get a marriage license. You can receive your marriage license on the same day that you apply.
What can you do when your marriage license expires?
Marriage licenses do not expire in the District of Columbia.
What if you or your spouse were previously married? Widowed or divorced?
In the District of Columbia, individuals who have been married previously must disclose any prior marriages and provide the date, reason for the marriage ending, and the location for previous marriages. This information can be found on official certified divorce decrees and death certificates.
Can you get married by proxy?
No. Marriage by proxy is not permitted in D.C. However, a third party can submit a marriage license application on behalf of the couple.
Is same-sex marriage legal in the District of Columbia?
Yes. Same-sex marriage is legal in the District of Columbia.
Can you marry your cousin?
Yes. It is legal to marry your first cousin in the District of Columbia.
Is common law marriage recognized in the District of Columbia?
Yes, the District of Columbia recognizes common law marriages.
How do you change your name after getting married?
You will need to present your marriage certificate to several government entities, including the District of Columbia local government, the District of Columbia Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to receive a new license, the Social Security Administration (SSA) to update your Social Security Card, the U.S. Department of State to receive a new passport, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). Some government agencies may require a valid marriage certificate. You may also need to provide a marriage certificate to change your name on your insurance, bank accounts, utilities, and with other companies.
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Mobility has rendered the long scrolling web page the design standard for modern websites. But does it work? By work I mean does it provide a good user experience for your visitors and do people actually scroll down to that 3rd, 4th, 5th panel and beyond? Even as someone that is creating scrolling sites, I've had a gut feeling that few visitors venture "beneath the fold," just as few Google visitors venture past page one of Search results. So I did a little research to either support my instincts or cause me to reflect on my dinosaur delusions.
I found plenty of useful research providing real data around people's scrolling habits. Not surprisingly my research began with conflicting reports, Chartbeat found that “66% of attention on a normal media page is spent below the fold.” In contrast, the Nielsen Norman Group showed that “users spend 80% of their time looking above the fold.” Usability expert Jakob Nielsen says that while people today are comfortable with scrolling, "you shouldn't ignore the fold and create endless pages for two reasons:
- Long pages continue to be problematic because of users' limited attention span. People prefer sites that get to the point and let them get things done quickly. Besides the basic reluctance to read more words, scrolling is extra work.
- The real estate above the fold is more valuable than stuff below the fold for attracting and keeping users' attention."
What I surmise from these reports and Jakob Nielsen's observations is that scrolling is now an accepted way of providing information but the general impatience of users has put the onus on we designers to make all content — especially that below the fold — visually compelling enough to entice the user to continue their journey.
This dovetails nicely with another article that suggests that the most effective way to design for scrolling is by employing “cut-off” design so the reader knows that the content continues because you can see it is getting cut-off, which is in essence a prompt to scroll down. Our recent sites for AirStrip and Connance are examples of this approach.
That web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold is supported by the analytics for our own website and that of several clients. Our practice is to make much, if not all of the content below the fold also findable via top navigation. The advantages of also providing that content below the fold on a scrolling homepage are:
- If done right with images, graphics and short, digestible copy, a scrolling layout can encourage scanning, which is how people consume information today.
- We can use the additional real estate to visually tell a more continuous brand or business story and increase the chances that content will be seen and will resonate. It's a valid and valuable design approach to take, while never losing site that the top "panel" of your homepage is top dog.
- It will keep the area above the fold less cluttered as many last generation websites were.
Finally, while placing the most important content on top, don't forget to put a nice morsel or call-to-action at the very bottom.
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The acclaimed national news program PBS Newshour highlighted UC Davis Cancer Center Friday on Public Broadcasting System stations, including in the Sacramento area on KVIE Channel 6.
In the segment, the second in a two-day series, Newshour health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser focused on two research programs that illustrate how UC Davis Cancer Center is breaking barriers to beat cancer: the comparative oncology program, in which cancer treatment for dogs is providing new insights for human cancer therapies; and a program in which patients' tumors are removed then grown in mice to help determine the best drug treatment to use against a patient's specific cancer.
The segment was part of an in-depth look at the "War on Cancer," 40 years after it was declared by President Richard Nixon. The news crew, which spent two days at UC Davis in December, also visited Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford and interviewed Michael P. Link, president of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. The first segment focused on pediatric cancer care.
"We are proud that such a fine national news organization like PBS Newshour chose UC Davis Cancer Center to illustrate the important innovations in cancer diagnosis and treatment developed since the War on Cancer was declared," said Ralph deVere White, cancer center director and renowned urologist. "It was a wonderful opportunity to showcase how people in our local community can now access leading-edge treatments provided by a center that has been designated by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
DeVere White and David Gandara, a lung cancer specialist and special advisor for experimental therapeutics at the cancer center, were both interviewed for the PBS story, as well as Jane Coyne, a lung cancer patient of Gandara's. Coyne's tumor has been engrafted in a mouse that is housed at JAX West, a UC Davis Cancer Center research partner that is also designated by the NCI. Filming also took place at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's Center for Companion Animal Health.
In addition to the television segments, the Newshour is running several website features, including one in which deVere White suggests a different metaphor for the "War on Cancer."
"I think we should look at this like a wildfire," deVere White told the Newshour. "The first thing you do in a wildfire is contain it … We need to increase our efforts to make sure we're maintaining that containment and at the same time try to learn more about the fire so we can put it out."
For more information about PBS Newshour, visit http://www.pbs.org/newshour/.
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Famous television director and broadcaster Agha Nasir died here in Islamabad on Tuesday. He was 89.
His Namaz-e- Janaza would be held in Islamabad after Namaz-e-Asr today.
Agha Nasir was one of the Pakistan’s legends and one of the oldest directors and had been associated with the Pakistan television for a long time.
He was born on 9th February 1937 in Mumbai, India.
He started off as a broadcaster for the Pakistan Radio in 1955, and by the time television came to Pakistan in 1964, he had already made known for himself as a radio writer, broadcaster and producer.
Agha Nasir has directed different Pakistani movies and has worked with Pakistani stars including Waheed Murad and Talat Iqbal.
Apart from direction, he was also a much-admired writer.
His cultural pieces were very prominent, and he also used to write poetry.
Agha Nasir also contributed in the design of the logo of PTV. Agha also produced drama serials, such as Girah and Pani Peh Naam.
One of his directions, Taleem-e-Balighan, is considered as one of the best stage dramas ever to have aired on PTV. He also received President Pride of Performance Award.
PM grieved over Agha Nasir’s death
Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed deep grief and sorrow over the death of renowned broadcaster Agha Nasir.
“Pakistan has lost a great asset. His contribution in the field of arts, culture and especially in establishing Pakistan Television would be remembered for all times to come,” the Prime Minister said in his condolence message.
The Prime Minister prayed for the eternal peace for the departed soul and commiserated with the bereaved family.
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Religion & Animals
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1995:
The 83-member Union Hill Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, of Limestone County,
Georgia, raised $2,500 by hosting the February 18
Bigfoot Hollow Coonhunt. “It’s reaching the young
people with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus,” said the
Reverend Charles Hood, oblivious that Jesus never
in any way endorsed killing for sport.
Losing popularity to the Catholic
Church, the only major nongovernmental institu-
tion in Cuba, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has
reportedly encouraged a revival of Santeria,
because, as Newsweek recently put it, “It has no
institutions to rival the state.” However, livestock
for Santerian sacrifice are in short supply.
Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali
K h a m e n e i on February 16 ruled that contrary to
previous teaching, Moslems may eat shark meat,
which had been forbidden because sharks don’t
have scales. Khamenei declared, contrary to biolo-
gy, that they do. His predecessor, the late
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini similarly lifted bans
on eating sturgeon and caviar.
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Divorce lawyers have been surprised by the Government's abandonment of reforms giving cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples. Law firm Lanyon Bowdler reports.
The Government has announced that it does not, for the time being at any rate, intend to proceed with reforms to the law that would have given cohabiting partners similar rights to married couples or civil partners on the breakdown of their relationship.
This unexpected announcement was made by Justice Minister Bridget Prentice and is all the more surprising given the inconsistency of rulings made by the courts in this problematic area.
The Law Commission had spent two years working on proposals to give protection to couples who live together. If introduced, these would have set out the respective rights of cohabitees as regards the financial arrangements on the termination of a relationship.
The number of people who are living together in a relationship but who are neither married nor civil partners continues to rise. Many of these people are probably completely unaware that they have few rights in the event of a break-up of their relationship and that such rights as they do have centre around any children of the relationship.
The problem stems from the fact that, contrary to popular belief, in law there is no such thing as a ‘common law spouse’. Couples who live together do not acquire legal rights and there are no set rules for how their assets should be divided if they split up. With over 2.5 million people currently living together informally, the courts are seeing a flood of disputes about who owns what when such relationships end.
One common problem is where partners have lived together for a long time but the property they share continues to be held in the name of only one of the couple. If the couple then split up, this may give rise to a claim that the property should belong to both parties. The issues involved are often complex and such disputes can be very expensive to resolve in court. In some cases, people who have made a very substantial contribution to the financing and improvement of a shared home have been left with little or nothing for their efforts.
The review of the law in this area was intended to create more certainty in such cases, but the Government has chosen instead to wait to see what are the effects of planned reforms to the law in Scotland before any changes are made to the law in England and Wales.
Meanwhile, the position of cohabitees is best protected by having a formal written ‘living together agreement’, which should be made with the benefit of independent legal advice on both sides. This is particularly important where the assets involved are substantial, so that in the event that the relationship founders, a drawn out and acrimonious dispute can be avoided.
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The relaxing days of summer vacation are coming to an end, meaning it is time to start thinking about going back to school. Students across the country are scrambling to gather all of the school supplies necessary to get them through the year. That being said, incorporating some of the latest technology into a back-to-school shopping budget will help make the school year significantly easier for students. Whether it is a laptop, a smartphone, or some other smart device, technology can simplify everyday tasks and organization, helping students have the successful school year they deserve.
The Smart Outlet is one of the innovative technological devices that students should make sure they add to their arsenal of back-to-school supplies. Whether it is a college dorm or apartment, having control over lights and outlets from the touch of a button on a smartphone will make life so much easier. The ConnectSense Smart Outlet has two internet-enabled electrical sockets that enable users to be able to control any device that is plugged into it with Siri voice commands. This device can control any device, such as a fan or light, allowing students to be able to relax after a long day of class as they have complete control over their electronics from their phone. The Smart Outlet is one of the best technological devices for students wanting to prevail in their academic journey.
Read the full article: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/gadgets/top-tech-gadgets-back-school-college-n625346
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On the Ibuildings blog, Ian Barber has a reminder to PHP developers out there used to their servers "just working" because of the popularity of LAMP. He recommends digging a little deeper to the "behind the scenes" of how the server is configured.
PHP programmers generally know what a good systems architecture should look like, but it is often a reality of development that they will have little input on the system itself until the last minute. In fact, it's far from uncommon for a developer to be faced with an off-the-shelf dedicated LAMP server, and left up to their own devices.
He recommends getting to know things like the package manager for your distribution (apt, yum, yast, etc), stripping down the modules your installation is using, check that all of the packages in use need to be enabled and ensure that the network connection is set up correctly and is what you need for the site.
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Service monitoring is the art and also scientific research of taking care of the resources of a business. It includes preparation, organizing, managing, as well as directing organization operations to guarantee success. Successful monitoring requires constant interest to details and a commitment to excellence. The adhering to are some pointers to assist you handle your service. They should be followed to the t:
Social abilities: Manager need to have the ability to communicate with employees and also bridge the interaction void. They need to also be proficient at assessing scenarios and also making prompt choices. Besides interpersonal skills, supervisors need to have a clear understanding of interaction. They ought to know the appropriate use of body movement, tone, as well as faces. Last but not least, they must have the ability to make quick decisions in demanding circumstances. In other words, business administration calls for a manager to be flexible and also versatile.
Planning: Efficient company management involves creating a strategy to figure out the organization’s future requirements. The strategy after that produces activity strategies to meet those needs. Business structure motivates the best use of readily available sources. This is the structure for wanted productivity. This procedure must be accompanied by complete evaluation. It must additionally consist of regular examinations of the macro-economy and also atmosphere. The objectives of the different markets should be evaluated to determine their toughness and also weak points.
Skills: Service monitoring graduates can go after professions in a number of markets. In most cases, companies prefer staff members who have a degree in service administration. A bachelor’s degree in bookkeeping, money, or advertising and marketing might additionally be a property. Certificate training courses can likewise aid candidates land a job. An MBA is additionally an advantage. As a manager, you will need to demonstrate logical abilities as well as have the ability to foresee problems as well as services. These skills will certainly allow you to be more effective in a business environment.
Abilities Needed: Manager are responsible for planning, managing, as well as performing organizational activities. They have to understand advertising and marketing and also audit techniques in order to make reliable choices. Skills in this field is high, so it is vital to gain a degree in company administration, advertising, or both. It’s not a very easy career selection, yet you can locate plenty of possibilities. So, do not wait. Begin researching organization management today. You’ll rejoice you did!
Company monitoring is a broad term that refers to the self-control of handling services. The self-control requires many different skills. From organizing general service tasks to taking care of certain business processes, a manager is accountable for making a company grow as well as thrive. Besides being accountable for implementing particular organization procedures, manager additionally manage brand-new workers. A supervisor might have a number of direct records in a business. He or she have to oversee and develop new workers in order for the organization to attain its goals.
Efficient organization administration is necessary for the success of any kind of enterprise. The program covers preparation, organizing, leading, managing, as well as assessing service activities. Through company monitoring, students learn what makes a business effective in the worldwide economic climate. This knowledge can be put on any kind of business, despite size or sector. They will certainly be able to make tactical choices and also improve general service performance. So, whether you run a small company or a huge company, you make sure to accomplish success.
Graduates with a business administration level have lots of job chances in any kind of market. They are very sought after by companies and are capable of operating in almost any sector. Whether you intend to help a big company or run a small company, an organization administration degree will aid you create the essential skills as well as individual high qualities to succeed in this field. And also as the globe’s economic situation continues to expand, business managers are in need. There’s never ever been a far better time to begin an occupation in company administration.
Service management degrees are versatile, so if you’re uncertain concerning your job path, a service monitoring degree is a great choice. The training course will certainly assist you create your business abilities, prepare you for success in any kind of industry, and aid you start an organization of your very own. This is a fantastic method to develop your entrepreneurial abilities, examination your service ideas, as well as satisfy possible service companions. As well as, it will help you gain beneficial hands-on experience in your selected industry.
While business management and service monitoring share some similarities, they are different. The former focuses on a calculated, tactical view of service goals, while the last focuses on daily monitoring. In addition, a service monitoring level concentrates on effective management. While the previous highlights administration skills, the latter is a more diverse instructional course that can bring about a profession in a details area. For instance, a business administration degree may concentrate on advertising and marketing, money, global company, or medical care management.
The benefits of an organization management degree are numerous. Entrepreneurs can utilize this degree to introduce their own services. In addition to developing the skills needed to start their own service, graduates will have the expertise and also sensible abilities to do well in an occupation in service administration. They’ll have the abilities to successfully handle any kind of dimension company. And also as long as they understand how to communicate efficiently, they’ll have a competitive advantage. There are numerous occupation options as well as possibilities for manager in business today.
In organization, administration is the process of guiding resources towards business objectives. Managers are responsible for establishing as well as carrying out the management procedure. Managers have four primary features: preparation, organizing, leading, and also managing. They use these functions to optimize performance among staff members, processes, and jobs. Managers are the leaders of an organization, as well as they must utilize sources sensibly to fulfill the goals of the business. A business management level is vital for any aspiring magnate or entrepreneur. View website
Trainees with a Bachelor’s level in service administration normally obtain a wide understanding of business fads and also have a hands-on experience in a variety of locations. The program consists of core subjects such as audit as well as marketing, but it likewise emphasizes the human side of running a service. For instance, training courses on interaction and also human resources are frequently consisted of in this degree program. An academic degree in business management will aid trainees to come to be a far better leader.
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The facts are hard to face, but here they are:
- One in every 88 American children, including one in 54 boys, are now affected with an autism spectrum disorder.
- (Did you know that when Matthew was diagnosed in 1991, it was 1 in 10,000?)
- Eleven new cases of autism are being diagnosed every day in California and two-thirds of all new cases that are presently entering the regional center system now involve autism spectrum disorders.
- Although the Regional Centers presently serve about 75-80% of individuals who are diagnosed with full spectrum autism, it is estimated that these consumers reflect only about 20% of all Californians who have some form of this disorder.
- The number of regional center consumers in California with autism spectrum disorders continues to skyrocket. In 1993 the regional center clients numbered 4,700; presently there are almost 40,000 consumers diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders.
Since 84% of all regional center consumers with autism are under 22 years of age, the state faces a virtual “tsunami” of young adults who will be transitioning into community-based settings during the next decade. The impact and significance of this “aging out” population is further underscored by the following statistics:
More individuals with developmental disabilities are living in the home of a parent or guardian (73% in 2006 as compared to 65% in 1996)
- The cost for housing and services for individuals with ASD are expensive; individuals with ASD are more than twice as likely to be in the most expensive 5% of consumers. Service costs are typically double the cost of serving consumers without ASD.
- Regional center costs for ASD increase dramatically with the age of the consumer and average about $9,800 annually for children but rise to over $36,600 annually for adults.
- The unemployment rate for regional center consumers who are adults is over 85%; for autism it exceeds 90%. The average salary for those adults who are employed averages $4,824 annually.
- California ranks 34th in the employment rate of adults with disabilities and special needs.
- Regional center costs for transportation average of $181 Million annually and involve 7.6% of the total budget. These costs will increase significantly as more children with ASD are “aging out” and transitioning to independent living situations in a community setting.
A very exciting new project is taking shape in Sonoma to address this dire situation–the brainchild of parents like me who had the courage and energy to face the future.
The project, Sweetwater Spectrum, is an innovative and pioneering new model for meeting the residential living needs of young adults with autism is taking shape near the heart of downtown Sonoma.
Sweetwater Spectrum, a non-profit organization, was founded by Bay Area families with children with autism who joined hands with other invested community members and professionals to bring the project to life.
It has won enthusiastic support from Sonoma city leaders, accolades from leading authorities on autism and recognition from the California State Senate for foresight and innovation in housing, and construction on the $9 million project is nearly complete.
The Sweetwater Spectrum model responds to the extraordinary unmet need for appropriate housing for adults with autism. Parent founders toured the country and selected the best elements of existing residential options to design a compassionate, pragmatic and ambitious community with choices for adults with autism. It’s a model that can be replicated in communities around California and the U.S.
The project will create a 2.8 acre supported living community designed for the unique everyday living needs of adults with autism. At the same time, Sweetwater will encourage ways for residents to participate in the larger community through engaging in the town’s activites, jobs or day programs. The concept reinforces Sweetwater Spectrum’s mission of helping adults with autism live a “life with purpose”, both at home and in their communities.
Deirdre Sheerin, a Sonoma resident with a history of accomplishment in both non-profit leadership and work with children with autism, is CEO/executive director of Sweetwater Spectrum and is providing onsite direction for turning the Sweetwater concept into reality.
“I have really high hopes for the Sweetwater model being a solution to a huge problem we are going to have to face as a nation,” said Sheerin,who began her career as a special education teacher and taught in private and public schools in Missouri, New York, Massachusetts and California. “An incredible amount of research, innovation and compassion has gone into designing it. I’m a builder, and now my job is to take all this brilliance and build it into a real community.”
The residential community is being buit four blocks west of the city’s historic downtown plaza. It will include four 4-bedroom homes for sixteen residents, with the ability to expand in the future.
A single-level, 2,300-square-foot community center will include a teaching kitchen, an exercise studio, a library and an area for art and music.
An urban farm will include a 1.25-acres of organic vegetables, fruit orchards and an energy-efficient greenhouse to provide opportunities for physical skill development and healthy eating. Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects has designed the development specifically for the needs of adults across the entire autism spectrum, ensuring safety and accounting for considerations such as sensitivity to light, sound and movement.
The effort behind Sweetwater Spectrum began in 2005 when a group of San Francisco Bay Area families came together to grapple with the idea of how to provide acceptable housing for their “aging” children with autism as they became adults. They are not alone in facing that dilemma: In the coming decade, as many as half a million children with autism in the United States will become adults, and very few residential options exist to care for them.
The Sweetwater founding families and professional advisors toured the country and selected elements from existing residential options for persons with developmental disabilities to create a comprehensive new model for those specifically with autism. This led to the development of a comprehensive model that aims to provide residents a compassionate and pragmatic program of life choices.
“As the model evolved, our mission has changed quite a bit,” said Mark Jackson, who was one of the original parents and is president of the board of Sweetwater Spectrum. “Originally, it was about finding acceptable housing. It has evolved into creating community and fulfilling lives for our future residents. This has been the ultimate labor of love for our team.”
Their efforts have been supported by an advisory board that draws from some of the nation’s leading advocates, physicians and professionals in the field of autism.
One of its advisers is Dr. Bryna Siegel, director of the Autism Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco. She describes Sweetwater as “a model that families all over the U.S. will want to see and learn from: A carefully considered residential live-and-work community reflecting great sensitivity to personal needs of residents and their families, and an intelligent application of learning and growth. Its homes, programs and community integration will support and enhance its residents’ quality of life and independence.”
Past Sonoma Mayor Laurie Gallian said she believes the Sweetwater project will be a tremendous asset to the Sonoma community. “This is another important way the city can move forward with its commitment to supporting diversity in housing, whether it is affordable housing, senior housing, sweat-equity housing and now an appropriate living opportunity for adults with autism.”
She said Sweetwater was also a good fit for Sonoma because it is a community with a lot of engagement from non-profit organizations and an active core of volunteers who can help make the project a success.
For the founding families of Sweetwater Spectrum, such a community is a far cry from what they were finding as they first looked into existing options for their children. Board chairman Jackson said when his son turned 18 three years ago, “his caseworker politely said there was no appropriate residential placement for him in Northern California. The other families have similar stories. That really lit the fire under us to create Sweetwater.”
In their travels to look at available models, the founding families came to the conclusion that community integration was critical, said Carolyn Klebanoff, whose 19-year-old daughter has autism. “So we decided we wanted a site within walking distance of grocery stores, movies, cafes. And we wanted to create a community of peers larger than what one would see in individual homes, to maximize opportunity for social interaction.”
Now, said Jackson, the families can see a future in which their adult children are part of a “happy, engaged group of residents who are truly part of their local community.”
That, Jackson said, is what he envisions success looking like at Sweetwater. But that’s only part of it. “Success also means helping the many other parents facing these same challenges across the country in pursuing their dreams for a life with purpose for their children.”
Learn more about Sweetwater Spectrum HERE.
ALSO: The Marin and North Bay Autism Lecture Series starts Sept. 19. (more about that soon) but CLICK HERE to learn more and register.
Got autism questions? Need resources? Email me here email@example.com and I will do my very best to help.
In case you wondered, I’m happy to talk to your group.
GO HERE to learn more.
Read the first three chapters of A REGULAR GUY: GROWING UP WITH AUTISM here.
You’ll be hooked.
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Fraser, James Stuart (DNB00)
FRASER, JAMES STUART (1783–1869), of Ardachy, Inverness, general in the Indian army, was youngest son of Colonel Charles Fraser of that ilk, a scion of the house of Lovat, who fought as a marine officer under Admiral Hawke, and afterwards entered the Madras army, and died a colonel in command of a division at Masulipatam, 5 May 1795. Charles Fraser married Isabella Hook, and by her had six sons and three daughters; the eldest son, Hastings Fraser, who afterwards distinguished himself as a king's officer in India, died a general and colonel 86th Royal County Down regiment in 1854.
James ‘Stewart’ Fraser (as his baptismal register has it) was the youngest child, and was born at Edinburgh 1 July 1783. He was at school at Ham, Surrey, and afterwards at Glasgow University, where he showed a predilection for languages and astronomical studies. A Madras cadet of 1799, he was posted as lieutenant to the 18th Madras native infantry, 15 Dec. 1800. He served as assistant to Colonel Marriott on an escort conveying the Mysore princes to Bengal in 1807, and was aide-de-camp to Sir George Barlow [q. v.], governor of Madras, at the time of the mutiny of the Madras officers. He became a regimental captain 6 Nov. 1809, and private secretary to the government of Madras 9 May 1810. He accompanied the Madras division in the expedition against the Isle of France (Mauritius) in the same year as deputy-commissary, and was on the personal staff of Colonel Keating, H.M. 56th regiment, in the landing at Mapou and advance on Port Louis. He was appointed barrack-master at Fort St. George, 29 March 1811; town-major of Fort St. George, and military secretary to the governor, 21 May 1813; and commandant at Pondicherry 28 Oct. 1816. He was employed as commissioner for the restitution of French and Dutch possessions on the Coromandel and Malabar coasts in 1816–17. This duty was facilitated by Fraser's literary and colloquial familiarity with the French language—a rather rare accomplishment among Anglo-Indians of that day—and he was specially thanked and commended by the government of India for ‘the marked ability and conciliatory disposition’ which had ‘distinguished his conduct’ throughout every stage of the long and tedious negotiations. He became major 10 Dec. 1819, and lieutenant-colonel 1 May 1824.
While commanding at Pondicherry Fraser married, at Cuddalore, 18 May 1826, Henrietta Jane, daughter of Captain Stevenson, admiralty agent for the eastern coast of India, and grand-niece of General Stevenson, who commanded the nizam's subsidiary forces at Assaye and Argaum. This lady, who was twenty years his junior, bore him a numerous family and died in 1860.
In 1828 Fraser was deputed to discuss the claims of the French at Mahé, and the same year was appointed special agent for foreign settlements. He became brevet-colonel 6 Nov. 1829. He was appointed secretary to the government in the military department 12 Feb. 1834. He was present in several actions during the conquest of Coorg, and carried out the negotiations that brought the war to a close. He was appointed resident at Mysore and commissioner of Coorg 6 June 1834, and assumed charge of the Mysore residency in October following. On 26 Sept. 1836 he was appointed regimental colonel 36th Madras native infantry, his previous regimental commissions having all been in his old corps, the 18th native infantry. He was appointed resident at Travancore and Cochin 5 Jan. 1836, and officiating resident at Hyderabad 1 Sept. 1838. Fraser ‘repeatedly received the thanks of the government of Madras, the governor-general of India, and the court of directors of the East India Company for his eminent services. He appears, however, to have interfered in the disputes of the Syrian christians at Travancore and afterwards, and so to have incurred the dis- pleasure of the Madras government’ (information supplied by the India Office). On 28 June 1838 Fraser became a major-general, which was regarded as an exceptional case of rapid promotion by seniority. On 31 Dec. 1839 he was appointed resident at Hyderabad, and was vested with a general superintendence over the post-offices and post-roads of the nizam's dominions. While there in 1842 Fraser ‘received the thanks of the government in council for his temper, decision, and energy on the occasion of the insubordination of certain native troops at Secunderabad’ (general order, 12 April 1842). The court of directors in their despatch dated 3 Aug. 1842 referred to this affair, and stated that his ‘conduct in the difficult and trying circumstances in which he was placed was such as they should have expected from the well-known judgment, temper, and energy of that distinguished officer and merits the highest approbation’ (information supplied by the India Office).
At Hyderabad, which he regarded as being, for good or evil, the political centre of India, Fraser remained fourteen years, his residence ending before the enlightened administration of that state by Sir Salar Jung. For details of this period reference must be made to the bulky volume published by Fraser's son, Colonel Hastings Fraser, Madras staff corps, under the title, ‘Memoirs and Correspondence of General J. S. Fraser’ (London, 1885), 8vo, which is largely devoted to Hyderabad affairs. Fraser appears again and again, without much success, to have urged on the supreme government the need of taking a firmer tone with the nizam. ‘Intrigue, corruption, and mismanagement are not to be corrected by whispers and unmeaning phrases,’ he wrote in 1849, and in 1851 he drafted a letter of remonstrance, which was never sent from Calcutta, couched in the strongest terms (Mem. pp. 327–9). But latterly he dissented from the high-handed measures of Lord Dalhousie, then governor-general. His strained relations with Dalhousie led Fraser to resign his appointment at Hyderabad in 1852 and return to England. He revisited India more than once afterwards, but held no public appointment. He became lieutenant-general 11 Nov. 1851, and general 2 June 1862. Except the war-medal he received no mark of distinction for his long and distinguished services.
In person Fraser was tall, standing over six feet three inches, and spare-built. A photograph, taken late in life, forms the frontispiece to his son's memoir of him. He was a good rider, a keen sportsman, and a man of some general culture. A tried official, his acts appear to justify the character given of him by his son as ‘a man of scrupulous integrity and unsullied honour, firm and faithful in all trials, and generous to a degree.’ Fraser, who for some time had been totally blind, but otherwise retained all his faculties, died in his eighty-seventh year, at Twickenham Park, 22 Aug. 1869.[Information furnished by the India Office; Burke's Landed Gentry; Hastings Fraser's Mem. and Corresp. of General J. S. Fraser (Lond. 1885); critical notices of the latter in the Times, 29 Aug. 1885, and in Athenæum, 1885 (i.), 244.]
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Newbie to electrics needs direction
I have been into RC'ing for well over 15 years now but have ALWAYS had nitro's, trucks, planes, and heli's. I was always under the impression that the nitro's had more power than the electrics so I really never messed with them, but I can see now, I was wrong. I just received my first electric a few days ago, a 1/16 E-Revo. To my complete surprise, this thing is a little powerhouse. And now, as we always do, I am ready for some upgrades. My only problem is, I KNOW NOTHING about electrics. My question is, can anybody recommend a good webpage or article so i can better acquaint myself with electrics, mainly motors and esc's. Brushed, brushless, motor sizing, turns, what does it mean? Ive done some searching but really haven't found what I'm looking for. If anybody could point me in the right direction, I would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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