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Deciding a Specific Issue
If your case is unlikely to involve a major dispute of fact then it may be better to use the alternative procedure known as the "Part 8 Special Procedure".
This is suitable for example, if you need the court to decide whether you can have access to certain medical records so you can start a claim for personal injury, or if you have reached an agreement with your opponent before starting an action and you just need the court to formalise that agreement in a "Consent Order". Or if you simply need the court to decide a specific issue before you start your action. You must use a Part 8 Claim Form.
Your Claim Form and an Acknowledgment of Service Form will be sent to the defendant. The defendant must return the Acknowledgment of Service Form, but no defence is required. (The defendant can also acknowledge service in an informal document, such as a letter.)
If the defendant believes the Part 8 Special Procedure should not be used he must say so in the Acknowledgment of Service Form.
- Small Claims Court
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Gas and acidity conditions have same causes. These problems usually occur due to certain factors such as consuming processed, oily and spicy foods, emotional factors, improper eating and drinking habits, smoking, etc. Gas is formed mainly because of constipation and indigestion.
The best remedy for these problems is practicing yoga regularly. Here are 4 Yoga poses to cure gastric problems.
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Croton Water Treatment Plant
Tully Construction Co., Inc. has completed the largest single construction contract ($1.3bn) in New York’s history, JV with Skanska Northeast. When the Croton water filtration plant entered service it brought an end to a long, and at times controversial, saga which began back in 1989. The plant represents a significant step in improving the water quality of the one million New Yorkers who rely on the Croton water system – the city’s oldest – which first began service in 1842. Being built entirely underground and requiring deep excavation and extensive rock boring to provide the necessary water tunnels, the fourstorey plant will ultimately treat around 1.2 million cubic metres a day. This represents roughly 10% of New York’s daily requirement – though the plant will be able to increase its throughput to supply around 30% in times of drought or severe need. The construction contract amount was for $1.3bn. By July 2009, excavation of the two treated water tunnels, concrete arrangement for lining the raw water tunnel and installation of mechanical piping and electrical work at the site were completed. Off-site work at the treated water shafts at one of the reservoirs of the Croton system, Jerome Park Reservoir, was also undertaken. Construction of the two treated water tunnels, with a combined length of 2.42km, and the 268m raw water tunnel was completed in February 2011. A tunnel boring machine was used to excavate the twin treated water tunnels, while the raw water tunnel was drilled through 268m of rock.
The water filtration plant
The processes to be used are largely conventional and well established, with water arriving at the plant undergoing the usual regime of pretreatment stages – mixing / coagulation, flocculation and chemical balancing. Flocculation will be a two-stage process, with a minimum 144- second period for each stage. Treatment itself will involve stacked dissolved air floatation (DAF) / filtration – the combination of a DAF loading rate of 50gpm and a dual media filter containing 60cm anthracite, 30cm sand being chosen to optimise particulate removal. DAF sludge skimmed solids will be dewatered by centrifuge before disposal. The filtered water is then disinfected by treatment with UV and chlorine. After treatment, the water will be chemically adjusted as required and subsequently dosed with orthophosphate for corrosion control and hydrofluorosilicic acid to add fluoride. The main construction houses the treatment plant itself, administration offices and an on-site laboratory, and additionally includes chemical storage and facilities for process residuals and backwash water, together with the necessary ancillary electricals, SCADA and piping. Associated work will provide a raw water tunnel from the New Croton Aqueduct, with a pumping station and wet well, corresponding pumping arrangements for treated water and a second tunnel linking to the city’s distribution network.
The whole system will call for the provision of ovation controllers, 12 workstations, four operator interfaces and a variety of ‘smart’ devices, including magnetic flow-meters, pressure and temperature sensor / transmitters and automatic chlorination analysers. To ensure the full integration of the whole facility, the contract also extends to providing the hardware, network design and maintenance of the administration buildings. The new plant is to be the first WTP actually located within New York’s boroughs, being constructed at a 12-acre site within Van Cortlandt Park beneath the Mosholu Golf Course in the Bronx – with ten acres being turned back into a municipal golf course on completion. This inevitably poses some serious construction challenges, including the need to drill, blast and excavate more than 730,000m³ of rock and soil. The final excavation will be 150m × 180m in footprint and lie 30m down in the underlying rock. The two treated water tunnels and a raw tunnel have been constructed to transport water into and out of the filtration system. Originally intended to filter and disinfect 1.1 million cubic metres daily, the additional 100,000m³ a day appeared as part of the latest contract.
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Check out Nakba Day-related events in the US below. To submit an event, please contact us.
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Detroit: Nakba Day: Jerusalem is (still) the Capital of Palestine!
May 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Join USPCN Detroit and PYM Michiganat the 70th Nakba Commemoration #NakbaDay70
WHEN: Monday, May 14th, 2018, at 7 PM
WHERE: Hart Plaza, 2 Jefferson Ave, Downtown Detroit
March 15th, 2018, marks 70 years of the ethnic cleansing of almost 800,000 Palestinians from their homes and lands, at the hands of zionist gangs. Now, the situation in Palestine is just as urgent.
Israeli colonial domination continues to entrench itself across all of historical Palestine, led by one of the most right-wing governments Israel has ever had. The Israelis have used unimaginable brutality in response to the #GreatReturnMarch in Gaza, using chemical weapons and murdering dozens of unarmed protesters, including members of the press. And of course, Gaza’s Palestinians are in their 12th year of living under a brutal siege that has made life there almost unlivable, according to the UN.
Across the West Bank, the Israelis continue to move towards de facto annexation of large swaths of land. The corrupt Palestinian Authority (PA) is pushing for a meeting of the Palestine National Council to grant legitimacy to Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies. In addition, the racist U.S. administration, backed by both parties, has announced that it will be moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem on Nakba Day itself! And Palestinians inside the 1948 territories have no equality in a racist, apartheid Israeli state that treats them like 3rd class citizens.
But our people continue to resist. The Palestinians of Gaza have inspired the world with their protests demanding the full Right of Return to their original homes and lands. The Palestinians of the West Bank continue to resist both Israeli occupation and the PA’s complicity. And the Palestinians of Jerusalem refuse to abandon their city, their holy sites, and our capital!
All Palestinians around the world, joined by our allies and supporters, continue to reject Trump, reject Netanyahu, and demand an end to Israeli colonization of ALL of historical Palestine.
Join USPCN and PYM for a joint discussion, rally, and demo followed by dabke and music.
Existence is resistance! Until Liberation & Return!
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2013 Gough Whitlam Oration
Image: Sally Tsoutas/
Let me say finally to Mr Tony Whitlam who is here this evening on behalf of the
Whitlam family: please pass on to the old man my warmest affection – nay, love –
and convey to him, notwithstanding that my words here tonight could not do his
public service proper justice, some sense of my belief that he is Australia's
greatest white elder and friend without peer of Indigenous Australians.
On the evening of 13 November Noel Pearson took the stage at the Riverside Theatres Parramatta to deliver the 2013 Gough Whitlam Oration. Those present were to witness an extraordinary address.
Mr Pearson's oration, The Reward of Public Life is Public Progress, opens with an exposition of life in Queensland for Indigenous Australians under Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen in laying out the impact of the Whitlam program: 'The Whitlam legislation meant freedom'. He proceeds to traverse a rich and complex landscape of law, culture, structural reform and personal agency culminating in an argument for Constitutional reform fulfilling the promise of Indigenous recognition and equality before the law. The case is argued with a lawyer's eye for detail and a poet's gift for language. It will engender debate and hopefully considered public conversation.
This is a memorable and eloquent oration which like the finest poetry deserves to be heard not merely read before delving more deeply into the text.
The Gough Whitlam Oration has become a significant national event hosted each year in the heart of Western Sydney.
Continuing that tradition, this year's Oration will be given by highly respected indigenous leader, lawyer and land-rights activist Noel Pearson, Chair of the Cape York Group. He comes from the Guugu Yimidhirr community of Hopevale on South Eastern Cape York Peninsula and has an honours degree in history and a laws degree from the University of Sydney.
Noel has been strongly involved in campaigning for the rights of Cape York Aboriginal people and played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Cape York Land Council in 1990. He has earned a national reputation for his advocacy on Native title cases including the historic WIK decision. The resulting High Court decision is recognised as one of the most important Native Title cases in Australian History.
This event was presented by the Whitlam Institute within the University of Western Sydney with the support of Riverside Parramatta.
7:00pm, Wednesday 13 November.
Riverside Theatres, Corner Church and Market Streets, Parramatta NSW
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In today's society there are many communities in need of assistance. The economy has left many families unable to pay for basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter. The Assembly of God Church in Atco, New Jersey provides assistance to anyone in need. The food bank at the church feeds approximately seventy families on a weekly basis however, the numbers are steadily increasing.
The food bank is in need of volunteers and donations. Volunteers are needed to spend up to three hours a week, three times a week helping others. Three hours of not watching television can provide a hot meal to several families.
Volunteering provides an opportunity to assess the communities various needs. The lower economic needs of the Hispanic and African American community can be vast. There is a wide range of health issues related to poverty. These groups have higher rates of Diabetes, Obesity and Hypertension. Volunteering provides an opportunity to work with a medically undeserved population.
Lack of a nutritious diet can lead to Obesity. A poor diet tends to be a high in calories and lack fresh fruits and vegetables. The weight increase from a high calorie diet creates a perfect opportunity to develop Diabetes and Hypertension.
The health issues that go along with poverty provide an opportunity to not only feed this group of individuals but, to educate them on diet and nutrition. This is only one step in the education process of poverty and diet.
Nutrition is paramount to health and survival, yet for many individuals and families they struggle to maintain a healthy diet, especially those with low incomes. Nearly 12.6 million or 11% of American households were "food insecure" during 2005. These people are without resources to feed themselves or purchase healthy foods according to the US Department of Agriculture. (Tracy...
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A Catholic prayer for healing is a powerful tool for curing ailments. Many people rely on this prayer for their physical and spiritual well-being. A prayer to Jesus, for example, asks the Divine Physician to heal them and help them overcome their suffering. Jesus was a popular healer in every town, and many people came to him for healing. Authentic faith in God and belief in the power of prayer inspired these people to believe that God could heal them.
Catholics have many prayers to call on their patron saints for healing. There are prayers for people with physical and emotional ailments, and for those battling cancer. Many people turn to St. Nicholas, who brings joy to children, when they suffer from illness. There is also a prayer for inner healing, which addresses bad memories and feelings of guilt and shame. Despite the many benefits of a Catholic prayer for healing, it is not suitable for everyone.
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The history of 43rd (Wessex) Division
The Wessex Division was a formation of the Territorial Force. It was formed as a result of the reforms of the army carried out in 1908 under the Secretary of State for War, Richard Burdon Haldane and was one of 14 Divisions of the peacetime TF.
The units of the Division had moved to their annual summer camp on Salisbury Plain in late July 1914 when War Office instructions arrived for precautionary measures to be taken. On 3 August the brigades moved to defended ports while Divisional HQ was established at Exeter. All units were mobilised for full time war service on 5 August 1914. Five days later the Division reconcentrated at Salisbury Plain and HQ moved to Tidworth.
On 22 September 1914 the Government of India agreed to send 32 British and 20 Indian regular army battalions to Europe in exchange for 43 TF battalions. Lord Kitchener proposed instead to send the Wessex Division. The entire Division was to go, with the exception of the staffs of the infantry brigades, the ammunition columns of the artillery brigades, the Royal Engineers, the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Hampshire Heavy Battery, RGA. All units assembled at Southampton on 9 October. Sailing via Malta and Suez, the main body of the Division went to Bombay, landing on 9 November, with three units (4th, 5th and 6th Devons) landing at Karachi two days later.
On arrival, the units reverted to peacetime service conditions but remained embodied for full time duty.
In March 1915, the 4th Hampshire Regiment and 5th Hampshire Howitzer Battery RFA left for service in Mesopotamia.
4th Hampshire Howitzer Battery RFA went to Aden in September 1915.
Large numbers of units were sent to Mesopotamia; they were replaced by Second Line TF and Garrison units coming out from England. These units, while taking over the roles, were not placed under Divisional command.
Three units left for Palestine and others went to Mesopotamia and Aden.
In 1919, some men being sent home from Mesopotamia were retained in India and formed into provisional battalions on account of local civil disorders. They were retained in India for the Third Afghan War. This aside, units were gradually reduced to cadres and sailed for England. The Wessex Division was reformed in England in 1920.
The order of battle of the 43rd (Wessex)Division
|128th (Hampshire) Brigade|
|1/4th Bn, the Hampshire Regiment||left March 1915 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/5th Bn, the Hampshire Regiment|
|1/6th Bn, the Hampshire Regiment||left September 1917 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/7th Bn, the Hampshire Regiment||physically left January 1918 (Aden) but remained under Divisional command|
|129th (South Western) Brigade|
|1/4th Bn, the Somerset Light Infantry||left February 1916 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/5th Bn, the Somerset Light Infantry||left May 1917 (Palestine)|
|1/4th Bn, the Dorsetshire Regiment||left February 1916 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/4th Bn, the Wiltshire Regiment||left September 1917 (Palestine)|
|130th (Devon & Cornwall) Brigade|
|1/4th Bn, the Devonshire Regiment||left February 1916 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/5th Bn, the Devonshire Regiment||left April 1917 (Palestine)|
|1/6th Bn, the Devonshire Regiment||left January 1916 (Mesopotamia)|
|1/4th Bn, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry||left January 1916 (Aden) then went to Palestine in February 1917|
|Divisional Troops||under direct command of Divisional HQ|
|Wessex Divisional Transport and Supply Column ASC||did not go to India (instead formed 29th Division Train and 27th Divisional Reserve Park in England)|
|CCXV (I Wessex) Brigade, RFA||left October 1916 (Mesopotamia)|
|CCXVI (Howitzer) (II Wessex) Brigade, RFA|
|CCXVII (III Wessex) Brigade, RFA|
|CCXVIII (IV Wessex) Brigade, RFA|
|Wessex (Hampshire) Heavy Battery, RGA||did not go to India|
|I Wessex Field Company||did not go to India (joined 27th Division in England)|
|II Wessex Field Company||same|
|Wessex Divisional Signals Company||same|
|Royal Army Medical Corps|
|1st Wessex Field Ambulance||did not go to India (joined 8th Division in England)|
|2nd Wessex Field Ambulance|
|3rd Wessex Field Ambulance|
There is no published history or memorial to the Division.
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FSU study: Better teachers help children read faster
And how did the researchers determine which teachers were better? By looking at twins assigned to different classrooms, according to this Associated Press story.
Researchers studied more than 550 first- and second-grade classrooms with at least one identical twin and more than 1,000 classes with at least one fraternal twin. Among the identical twins, 42 pairs out of 280 pairs showed significant differences in reading.
The FSU researchers said teacher quality was the biggest reason for the gap, though they conceded other factors may have played a role, such as the behavior of classmates.
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Warning: beloved cartoon fish potentially getting blended into mush
No, not Nemo, not Sharkbait.
Nothing gets environmental issues to hit home than the potential demise of a much-loved cartoon animal character.
Greenpeace Australia Pacific have launched a new campaign to save the Great Barrier Reef.
The outspoken and often controversial charity is fighting a proposal to build the largest ever coal mine in Queensland, Australia.
If this proposal is put into action, Greenpeace state in the video that three million tonnes of sea floor will be dredged and dumped in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage area to create a deeper channel for ‘thousands of new coal ships.’
Just don’t turn on the blender, we’ll do anything you want…oh wait, that’s how this advert works.
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Should pizza be used to motivate students to read more?
An Associated Press story about Pizza Hut's Book It program, which rewards young readers with free pizzas based on the number of books they read, says critics of the program are concerned that it contributes to poor eating habits and encourages kids to read lots of easy books, rather than fewer, more difficult ones.
Company officials claim that Book It is the nation's largest reading motivation program, reaching roughly 50,000 schools across the country, and turning many non-readers into readers. They also discount the idea that Book It is somehow contributing to the nation's childhood obesity problem.
It does seem that a couple of free pizzas is unlikely make a kid fat. So it's hard for me to buy that argument even if the program's use of the phrase "Mouthwatering Motivation" on its Web site seems to send the wrong message.
However, having watched my sons participate in this program, I can say that it did encourage them to read lots of short, easy books rather than longer, more difficult ones. My boys deliberately looked for as many easy books as they could find and plowed through them as quickly as they could. Not exactly the best approach for building smart, analytical readers.
But if pizza (extrinsic motivator) sparks a love of reading (intrinsic motivator), that would be a good thing, right?
What do you think? Is this an appropriate and effective way to motivate kids to read?
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Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he'll push for a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress if he's elected to the White House.
The proposal, announced at rallies in Colorado Springs and Grand Junction, came as the GOP nominee sharpened his focus on cracking down on government corruption. The Republican presidential nominee said he would propose a six-year limit for members of the House and a 12-year limit for members of the Senate.
"Decades of failure in Washington and decades of special-interest dealing, must and will come to an end," he said. "We have to break the cycle of corruption."
Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, served 12 years, or six terms, in the House.
In recent days Trump has added to a list of proposed ethics reforms, including prohibiting executive branch officials and members of Congress and their staffs from lobbying the government for five years after they leave office. He has also proposed expanding the definition of lobbyist and banning senior executive branch officials from lobbying on behalf of foreign governments at any time in their lives.
Trump has increasingly lashed out at congressional leaders, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, and criticized members of the GOP who have declined to support his bid.
Trump had previously said that he would "look into" the issue of congressional term limits, which came up occasionally during question-and-answer sessions over the course of his campaign.
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Two Minute Tips
If You Had One Tool for Reliability What Would It Be?
The practice of reliability has many tools, processes, and methodologies that can and should be implemented within a facility. Try as we may, it is usually not possible to implement and sustain all of them. So the challenge quickly becomes deciding which aspects of reliability to implement and in what order!
Implementation and enforcement of standardized work procedures is a very critical aspect of reliability and should be at the very top of your list of required reliability tools! Standard procedures focusing on fundamentals such as proper torquing, alignment, balancing, bearing installation, and equipment installation, should be in place. In addition, standard procedures for work request, work approval, planning, scheduling and work execution should be implemented as well.
Make sure that standard procedures are in place to execute the reliability methodologies at your facility. Otherwise, your site may always find it difficult to achieve sustainable and best practice maintenance and reliability.
Why? Unfortunately, people are usually the biggest obstacle we face in our jobs. People do not like to change, forget or misunderstand what needs to be done. Standard procedures will help ensure that reliability processes are routinely followed and things do not fall back to the unreliable way they have always been done. Additionally, it will provide the ability to track how well your facility or company is doing at implementing, executing and maintaining the reliability practices desired.
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It is official - Xmas is NP hard. See exactly how and appreciate the value of holiday algorithms.
If you like xkcd then you will like Abstruse Goose.
Not all of the cartoons you find there are about programming or computer science, but you should smile at quite a few that are about science, technology and, well just life the universe and ....
For example, if you are a computer scientist then there is no doubt that Xmas really is hard, NP Hard that is:
More cartoons worth seeing at Abstruse Goose.
Visit it now.
You won't regret it.
Arduino Back To Being One Company
After a long and heated dispute between the two original parts of the Arduino world, that resulted in the Arduino and Genuino brands being confusingly used in different parts of the world, everything [ ... ]
Formation of Partnership On AI
Amazon, DeepMind/Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft have announced the founding of a non-profit organization that to advance public understanding of artificial intelligence technologies and for [ ... ]
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There are a number of integrations with other components that make Gemini JPA play well with others.
Gemini JPA is integrated with the OSGi JDBC spec. In fact, the use of Gemini DBAccess to access a JDBC datasource is highly recommended. See the Using Gemini DBAccess section.
Gemini JPA can do a JNDI lookup to find an existing data source if an entry is supplied in the non-jta-data-source element in the persistence.xml descriptor. For example:
<persistence-unit name="MyPU" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"> ... <non-jta-data-source>jdbc/myDS</non-jta-data-source> ... </persistence-unit>
If the data source is available in the OSGi service registry and an OSGi JNDI provider is active then the OSGi JNDI syntax of osgi:service can be used to specify it. (The osgi:servicelist syntax is not supported.) The following entry could be present in the persistence descriptor to refer to a data source that was registered as a service, with a service property name defined by org.osgi.service.jndi.JNDIConstants.JNDI_SERVICENAME and a value of myDS:
<persistence-unit name="MyPU" transaction-type="RESOURCE_LOCAL"> ... <non-jta-data-source>osgi:service/myDS</non-jta-data-source> ... </persistence-unit>
Note that the service must be of type javax.sql.DataSource. It is not currently supported for them to be JTA data sources.
See the Configuration Admin section for details on how to use Config Admin with Gemini JPA.
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Automobiles, Motorcycles and Libertarian Politics
I mean, without the middleman.
Without having to go through a dealer?
You can buy almost anything else directly – including very big ticket items like a house. It’s not illegal, in any event, to buy most things this way. Buyer and seller. Just the two of you.
But with new cars, it’s different.
There are three of you. The manufacturer of the car, the dealership (a franchise of the manufacturer) and then you.
It is actually illegal in most states to buy a car directly from the company that made it. Laws exist that force you – if you want a new car – to buy it literally third-hand, from a dealer. Who did buy it directly from the manufacturer (the first owner) and who is now re-selling it to you, the prospective third owner, at a marked-up price.
This part – the marked-up price – is not unreasonable. The dealer has every right to make a profit, just like anyone else who sells something he owns. But he doesn’t – shouldn’t – have the legal power (as opposed to the moral right, which he lacks) to force you to do business with him.
It’s – incredibly – the law.
In most states, new cars may only be sold through authorized franchises of the manufacturer – i.e., a dealership. You can guess who saw to it that such laws were put into place.
Tesla – Elon Musk’s state-subsidized electric car operation – has been truly innovative in one area (electric cars are not innovative; they’ve been around for 100-plus years and still are beset by the same problems – high cost/not enough range/too-long recharge times – that beset them 100 years ago).
That area being Tesla’s attempt to sell its cars directly, without a dealer network.
Unlike state-subsidized electric cars, this is not objectionable. How could any reasonable person object? If you’re interested in a Tesla – or whatever – and want to buy one, why should you have to go through the dealer rigamarole? The ancient dog-and-pony show?
Why not just go online and order the thing? More precisely, why should you be legally forbidden from being able to do so?
Because it costs the established dealer mafia – and the car companies that collude with them – money.
Which, instead of spending on the Dealership Experience, you spend on just the car itself, under the direct sales model. Which because of this thing called the Internet no longer requires the Dealership Experience. You can go online and view the car. It’s brand-new, so there’s no need to physically inspect it (as you would probably want to do with a used car). Use the software to deck it out in the colors – and with the options – you like.
Click “buy,” once you’ve decided.
Then pick it up at (in Tesla’s case) a gallery or sales outlet. Tesla has even talked about having the car delivered – and why not? Unlike his penchant for milking the taxpayer, that would be genuinely cool.
Note also that direct buying doesn’t necessarily mean dictatorial “no haggle” pricing – which some critics of direct buying suggest it would. Many people like to haggle – understandably.
But why would direct buying preclude that?
People already haggle online over the price of used cars. Ebay, for instance. The seller can choose a minimum price subject to negotiation (offers) or “buy it now” at a pre-set price. The same model could work just as well for a new car. At least there’s no structural reason why it couldn’t. Only if it were made illegal – government’s finger in the free market pie again – could it be rendered not an option. Otherwise, market pressure would take care of things. Some car companies might adopt a No Haggle/One Price model but so long as others were not legally forbidden from offering online haggling, the availability of that option would be there and would also apply pressure on the One Price/No Haggle operations to keep things within reason.
Competition, you see.
Tesla has succeeded in getting laws changed in a handful of states to allow it to sell direct to the consumer. But – in typically Teslian crony capitalist fashion – the laws were adjusted to accommodate Tesla only. Because of PC orthodoxies about the necessity of “helping” Tesla’s “clean” electric cars succeed. The laws only permit the direct selling of cars powered by alternative fuels.
Other car companies – in particular, small start-ups like Elio – are out of luck. Because they are not politically correct. Because they sell very low cost internal combustion-engined cars.
Well, they hope to.
But laws forbidding direct sales make that harder. A dealership is no cheap thing. Millions of dollars or at least many hundreds of thousands of dollars are involved. You have to buy the lot and buildings (take out a loan) then fit it out and hire staff. Plus, pay whatever the costs are to become an “official” dealer of whatever the brand of car it is you’re selling. Then you buy the cars from the manufacturer (more loans) and hold the note for inventory carrying costs (plus interest) until you sell the car to someone.
An entire network of dealers is necessary, several in each state at the very least. Realistically, two or three in each major city. Otherwise it’s too much hassle and most people won’t bother.
Many beaks get wet this way.
Service costs are necessarily higher because of this, too. In fact, service mark-up costs are for many dealers the chief profit source. Not the selling of the cars themselves. But regardless, service costs are higher because the dealer has to find a way to offset the fixed costs of the dealership and everything that goes with it.
Direct buy eliminates almost all of this.
It is therefore opposed by dealers – who are heavily in hock, many of them. And those who are not, are making a lot of money being middlemen.
All of this is perfectly understandable.
What’s unconscionable is this business of using the government to enforce what amounts to a cartel operation.
Tesla – and others – are not demanding that traditional dealers be outlawed. They can continue to do business as they have been doing business. What Tesla and the others are arguing for is the right to do business differently. If people prefer the former – or the latter – the market will have spoken.
Which is much to be preferred over the government decreeing – and enforcing – for the profit of private interests.
Now if only Elon would champion the free market when it comes to building his electric cars… .
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Billion Hearts Beating Foundation is a not-for-profit organization and came into existence on 28th April 2010. It is a national platform that addresses some of the core issues pertaining to heart disease, and how it may be combated through a sustained program of awareness and action.
Billion Hearts Beating Foundation (BHB) has identified 22 old age homes in Delhi NCR till date, where medical needs are assessed.
BHB has been conducting health camps in old age homes across Delhi NCR and here, we also provide monthly medicines for the residents. However there are some requirement of Wheelchairs & Walkers to enable greater access and mobility to those in need.
And to provide Wheelchairs & Walkers to the elders, BHB require some contribution and to procure some of it, we have started its first campaign on Ketto (Online Funding Platform). Your donation may help us to distribute wheelchairs & walkers where it is required.
Wheelchairs will be mainly donated for the old and immobile who are unable to move on their own because of old age, paralysis or other diseases. For non-critical disability cases, Walkers are to be given to the elderly.
Please follow through the URL and contribute to the needy.
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For many of us, coping with getting dumped means chopping off our hair, spending days in bed watching movies about natural disasters, and telling anyone who will listen that we don’t even need sex anymore — it’s fine. But a recent study found that when it comes to getting over a broken heart, the key to moving on might just be simpler: All we need to do is trick ourselves into thinking we’re over it.
A team of University of Colorado Boulder researchers looked at the neurological and behavioral effect that placebos had on people who had gone through an “unwanted romantic breakup” within the past six months. Each of the 40 participants in the (small) study, which was published in the Journal of Neuroscience, brought a picture of their ex and a picture of a good friend of the same gender to a brain-imaging lab, where they were subjected to a hot stimulus on their left forearm, forced to look at the pictures, and asked to recall their breakup. (Yikes?)
During the process, the participants took a brief break to be given a nasal spray. Half were told it was a “powerful analgesic effective in reducing emotional pain,” while the other half was told it was just saline solution. The participants then went back into the brain-imaging machine. Those in the placebo group were found to feel less pain and feel better emotionally, and their brain responded differently when they saw the picture of their ex.
“Just the fact that you are doing something for yourself and engaging in something that gives you hope may have an impact,” study author Leonie Koban said in a statement. “Doing anything that you believe will help you feel better will probably help you feel better.”
So when it comes to trying to get over our broken hearts, rather than merely staying up all night stalking our ex’s co-workers on social media, the study suggests it might be a good idea to do something that might actually make us think we’re moving on … even if we really aren’t.
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As the years go by, things in your life start to change. Your dress sense; your hair styles, your skin care routine or do you find that you’ve stuck to the same skin care routine for the past 20 years?
It’s important that your skin care routine changes as you get older. Your skin is different when you are in your 20’s, 30’s, 40’s and 50’s and the products that you use should also change to reflect the age of your skin.
It’s only logical that as you evolve so does your skin care routine.
During your 20’s you may experience some discoloration to your skin from sun damage, the continuation of acne or noticeable acne scars and lifestyle factors such as lack of sleep and fast foods will all contribute to the appearance of your skin. Although your skin care routine doesn’t have to be as structured as when you’re in your 40’s; taking care of your skin now is definitely an investment in your future.
Choose a gentle foaming cleanser that will remove your make-up but won’t dry your skin out. When moisturizing your face make sure it contains a good sunscreen with UVA and UVB to protect your skin. If you suffer from problem skin such as adult acne then choose a product that contains alpha and beta hydroxy acids that will help prevent dead skin build-up.
During your 30’s the collagen and elastic fibers begin to reduce in your skin and it begins to sag and wrinkles can start to develop. You will be producing less of the nutrients your skin needs and it is less able to deal with the daily stresses that you put on it. This will be more noticeable when you reach your 40’s.
It’s a good idea to start exfoliating regularly because your skin only exfoliates naturally every 35 days instead of every 14 days when you are in your 20’s.
Applying products to your skin that contain strong chemicals will have a negative effect on your skin whatever your age. You must always use products that contain natural ingredients.
During your 40’s your estrogen levels begin to drop so your skin will automatically become dryer and wrinkles may become more visible. As your hormones begin to fluctuate you may experience some break outs, including adult acne. You will need to add more moisture to your face and that should include collagen building ingredients, including anti-aging peptides, antioxidants, and essential fatty acids.
During your 50’s your skin will experience loss of tone and sagging. The products that you should now be using are ones that slow down any damage that your skin may have occurred. They should contain peptides, retinoid, alpha hydroxyl or amino acids. Continued use of moisturizers and collagen agents will keep your skin looking smooth. Protection of the skin becomes more important during this age as your skin is more fragile and dry.
It’s never too early to start caring for your skin. In fact, it’s best to start young, when your skin is still healthy and able to adapt to a skin care routine. Ageing is an on-going process, you need to take care of your skin which will help to slow down the ageing process.
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The nation of Zimbabwe has suffered more than most countries in the world due to the corrupt and ineffective rule of its tyrant, Robert Mugabe. Millions have fled in search of jobs and food, over three thousand are dead of cholera and over 50,000 infected in a nation whose inflation rate is the highest in the entire world. Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) agreed to join a coalition government knowing full well it would be difficult working with Mugabe. One of his key aides, Roy Bennett was arrested at the airport and charged with treason. Key MDC leaders like Tendai Biti, with gritted teeth expressed their feeling, that the current disaster facing their society, “will make you take a lot of nonsense for their sake.”
The African Union stands to the side, the nation of South Africa remains quiet and the people of Zimbabwe suffer without real friends. No protests are heard in the streets of Paris or London for the African people of Zimbabwe. All one can do is cry for the beloved people of this nation.
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Chenming Mold Industrial is a Taiwanese company that creates handset chassis, which combine metal and plastic together. Supposedly, this company has received orders from HTC, for a new smartphone, according to sources close to the matter. Chenming chairman Mu-ho Lin declined to comment on this info for now.
The technology that combines metal with plastic is already certified by a couple of first grade phone vendors and will go to the mass market in July. Most of the metal chassis processing is done through the CNC lathe machines and the result is a tough material, that’s also pretty slim. In the past such technologies gave birth to thicker materials, due to the metal and plastic layers that were held together.
NMT (NanoMolding) technology is a simple process, with low costs, so expect other companies to also jump on board.
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By Dr. Mercola
Last spring in a scathing criticism of the U.S. healthcare system, bNet.com columnist Ken Terry predicted that "waste and cruddy medical care" will continue to drive up health care costs until policymakers address the prevalence of deadly medical errors and needless treatments.
The story was driven by statistics showing that physicians order tests and procedures that, in too many cases, are totally unnecessary.
The fact is, on your next routine medical checkup, you have a 43 percent chance of undergoing an unnecessary medical test.
Collectively, these additional tests cost the U.S. health care system a staggering $700 billion a year, with just three of them – X-rays, CT scans, and biopsies – costing an extra $47 million to $194 million a year.
What's most disturbing is that these unnecessary tests often lead to even more tests that lead to unnecessary procedures – and even surgeries – that ultimately could cause harm or death.
According to a physician interviewed by CBS News:
"It happens all the time. The patient has no symptoms and doesn't smoke, but he gets a routine chest X-ray. If there is a small shadow, doctors are obligated to look further. That X-ray becomes a CT scan. That may show a small little nodule. The next thing you know, the patient ends up with a cardiothoracic surgeon who wants a needle biopsy, or even an open surgery. In a lot of these cases he comes up with nothing; a benign nodule or something."
'A Drumbeat of Disheartening Reports'
These unnecessary tests are both crippling the American health care system and killing us – literally and figuratively – through its distorted way of addressing symptoms rather than the cause of disease. In 2007, the U.S. was paying roughly twice what Canada, France, and the United Kingdom were paying per capita for health care. And according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the method in which U.S. doctors get paid – something called "fee-for-service" – encourages them to order unnecessary tests and procedures.
Terry summed it up this way:
"In just one recent day, there were news stories about the widespread misdiagnosing of Alzheimer's disease, needless biopsies of patients suspected of having prostate cancer, cases of people contracting HIV during colonoscopies, and incidents in which babies received whole body irradiation instead of targeted X rays … There's a drumbeat of disheartening reports about the gap between theory and practice in medicine … The real shame of it is that so many patients are either harmed or not helped, diverting resources that could benefit others."
Your Chances of Getting Cancer from this ONE Medical Test is 1 in 250
A recent study showed that 83 percent of health care providers said the reason behind the extra tests they do is fear of being sued. But I believe there's another factor at work: in March 2011, the nonprofit group Public Citizen released a study showing that it's financial incentive, NOT fear of being sued that's driving unnecessary tests:
- Self-referring physicians (who have a financial interest in the testing procedures they refer patients to) are up to seven times more likely to order X-rays – although their interpretations are usually less accurate than regular radiologists'
- Self-referrers are also twice as likely to order other tests, and 40 percent more likely to order more complicated tests
- Use of one test – CT scans – increases by up to 300 percent when a physician has one of these machines in the office, or has a financial interest in one
Despite the well documented dangers and warnings that CT scans should be limited to life and death situations only, one in five Americans get this scan every year,.Statistics show that anyone who gets a CT scan has a 1 in 250 chance of getting cancer from it – the equivalent of a jumbo jet crashing every day.
How would you feel about flying if you knew a jumbo jet crashed every day, killing everyone on board? Is that really the kind of life-and-death situation you'd expect your health care provider to be putting you in? , Please take control of your health by avoiding these dangerous scans especially since their use scans has increased 330 percent since 1996.
Hospitals: Still the Most Dangerous Place
In her book, "Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer," Shannon Brownlee talks about the number of people who die in hospitals due to incorrect care, drug dosage or hospital-acquired infections. Even with new safety regulations in place, 180,000 hospitalized Americans still die every year from largely preventable causes – and the worst part about it, Brownlee says, is that as much as a third of that care does nothing to improve your health!
What happens is that you often get the tests we talked about above because of what your physician's specialty is, not because that's necessarily the test you need. For example if you have low back pain and see different specialists you will get different tests: rheumatologists will order blood tests, neurologists will order nerve impulse tests, and surgeons will order MRIs and CT scans..
But no matter what tests you get, you'll probably end up with a spinal fusion because it's one of the "more lucrative procedures in medicine," Brownlee says – even though the best success rate for spinal fusions is only 25 percent!
Angioplasties and certain types of chemotherapy with similar low success rates are just as prone to be ordered, Brownlee says, because that's where hospitals' investments lie. You see, they have all this equipment and they need to use it to get a return on it – but they also need to get you out of there as quickly as possible, so they can get the next patient in. What ensues is a type of aggressive patient therapy that can end in disaster: according to the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services, 1 in 7 Medicare recipients will be harmed every year as a result of the medical care they received in the hospital.
Classic Example of Why So Much Unnecessary Costs are Generated
Everybody agrees this needs to stop, including the New England Journal of Medicine, which recently used a fictional operating room joke to illustrate how unnecessary medical care drives up healthcare costs. The tale is about an orthopedic surgeon and an anesthesiologist who are scheduling the use of an operating room. "There is a fracture; I need to fix it," the doctor says. He's evasive with the details at first, but in the end he admits the "patient" is a 97-year-old woman who fell, broke her leg, went into cardiac arrest – and died. The macabre humor speaks to the problems of the medical system today – and one of those problems is defining the difference between need and want when it comes to medical procedures.
The fictional surgeon said he needed to fix the fracture. But the truth was, he only wanted to – and obviously, sometimes there's a big difference between need and want, with financial interests being the real deciding factor. That's why it's important that you, as a medical consumer, be your own advocate when it comes to health care decisions.
You can do this by:
- Asking questions when your doctor orders tests: what is each test for? Who will do the test? Are there any side effects? What if you don't get the test – how necessary is it to your care? Is the test "just to be sure," or is there a proven, scientific reason for doing it?
- If your doctor wants to do a procedure after the tests come back, ask the same questions all over again, including: Do you have a definitive diagnosis justifying the procedure? Are there any negative effects that I need to know about this procedure? What is the success rate of this procedure? What is the worst case scenario if we simply don't do it?
- If you go ahead with the tests and procedures, and your doctor wants to do a surgery or other type of intervention as a result, ask the same questions once more, and then:
- Ask, do I NEED these tests/procedures/surgery, or do you simply want them – and if so, for what reasons?
I admit some of these questions seem repetitive. But they NEED to be asked each and every time, for every single test performed on you. Remember, it's not only YOUR decision whether to get any or all of these tests and procedures, but your RIGHT to seek a second opinion somewhere else.
Natural is Better, and Less is More
Brownlee is adamant that the U.S. health care system can do better. Since the United States ranks 46th in the world in infant mortality and 49th in life expectancy, it's obvious that money doesn't buy health. The answer, then, to better health – and avoiding unnecessary tests and procedures in the first place – must be something else.
When it comes to figuring out what that "something else" is, I don't think there's anyone in the medical community anywhere who doesn't agree that simply changing your lifestyle can go a long way toward "fixing" a number of chronic conditions. As identified by the NIH, five life-changing factors that can do this are:
- Following a healthy diet
- Maintaining an optimal body weight
- Engaging in regular physical activity
- Not smoking
- Keeping alcohol use to no more than one drink per day for women, and two drinks per day for men
That's not an impossible list. You've been hearing it from me for ages, but I'm thrilled that health officials are finally joining in, and trying to help you stay out of the hospital by giving you advice that really works! The great thing about these behavior changes is that they don't cost extra money to do – and they're almost guaranteed to save you money in the long run. I would add a few things to this list, though.
What Constitutes a Healthy Lifestyle?
Of all the healthy lifestyle strategies I know of that can have a significant impact on your health, normalizing your insulin and leptin levels is probably the most important. There is no question that this is an absolute necessity if you want to avoid disease and slow down your aging process. That means modifying your diet to avoid excessive amounts of fructose, grains, and other pro-inflammatory ingredients like trans fats.
In addition to the items mentioned above, these additional strategies can further help you stay healthy:
- Learn how to effectively cope with stress – Stress has a direct impact on inflammation, which in turn underlies many of the chronic diseases that kill people prematurely every day, so developing effective coping mechanisms is a major longevity-promoting factor.
Meditation, prayer, physical activity and exercise are all viable options that can help you maintain emotional and mental equilibrium. I also strongly believe in using energy psychology tools such as the Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) to address deeper, oftentimes hidden emotional problems.
- Optimize Your Vitamin D Levels to between 50 and 70 ng/ml.
- Animal based omega-3 fats – Correcting the ratio of omega-3 to healthful omega-6 fats is a strong factor in helping people live longer. This typically means increasing your intake of animal based omega-3 fats, such as krill oil, while decreasing your intake of damaged omega-6 fats (think trans fats).
- Get most of your antioxidants from foods –Good sources include blueberries, cranberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, beans, and artichokes.
- Use coconut oil – Another excellent anti-aging food is coconut oil, known to reduce your risk of heart disease and Alzheimer's disease, and lower your cholesterol, among other things.
- Avoid as many chemicals, toxins, and pollutants as possible – This includes tossing out your toxic household cleaners, soaps, personal hygiene products, air fresheners, bug sprays, lawn pesticides, and insecticides, just to name a few, and replacing them with non-toxic alternatives.
- Avoid prescription drugs – Pharmaceutical drugs kill thousands of people prematurely every year – as an expected side effect of the action of the drug. And, if you adhere to a healthy lifestyle, you most likely will never need any of them in the first place.
Incorporating these healthy lifestyle guidelines will help set you squarely on the path to optimal health and give you the best shot at living a much longer life. Remember, it's never too late to take control of your health. And when you do go to the doctor, know that it's OK to ask questions and opt for less medical intervention while choosing a more natural way of healing your body – you should NEVER think that you're not supposed to, or can't, ask questions of the person you've entrusted with your body.
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On bleak winter days, salads can bring both color and nutrients to your plate. Dark leafy greens such as spinach and winter citrus are a good combination for taste, health and appetizing eye appeal.
Spinach may be used raw in salads or cooked and used as a vegetable or as part of an entree. Fresh spinach that has been picked recently has the most folate, an important B vitamin that may help prevent cancer and heart disease. Romaine lettuce is also a good source of folate. Raw spinach also is a good source of vitamin A, and provides lutein and other carotenoids linked to eye health. It also is a rich source of iron and vitamin C.
Some varieties of spinach have curly leaves. Baby spinach, however, is a flat-leaf variety. It has tender leaves, a mild flavor and is often sold pre-washed, making it perfect for salads. Mature spinach can be very gritty and should be thoroughly rinsed.
Fresh spinach is available year-round. Choose leaves that are crisp, dark green and smell fresh. Spinach can be refrigerated in a plastic bag for up to three days.
The dark green of spinach leaves is a nice contrast to the bright orange of Clementines, the smallest of the small mandarin oranges that most Americans call tangerines. Clementines require nothing but a flick of the thumb to release them from their skins. They used to be called kid-glove oranges because it was said a lady could eat the fruit without taking her gloves off.
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Clementines are so fragrant they have been used to scent body care products. Their flavor is so intense that the Corsicans make clementine wine. They are used in desserts, salads and stir fries.
These tiny orange fruits have always been popular in Europe but have come to the U.S. fairly recently. We get most of our Clementines from Spain, but the U.S. industry is growing. Thousands of acres of Clementines have been planted in California.
Citrus fruit is a good source of flavonoids, natural substances found in many fruits, vegetables, tea and wine. They are powerful antioxidants that researchers believe help protect against heart disease and cancer.
Celery and walnuts give this salad crunch, and red onion and dried fruit add even more color and texture.
Spinach & Clementine Salad
Makes 8 servings
- 2 lb. Clementines (8-12)
- 2 lb. baby spinach, washed and dried
- 4 celery stalks, cut into thin diagonal slices
- 1/2 cup walnuts pieces, toasted
- 1 cup red onion, sliced thin
- 1/4 cup dried cherries or cranberries
- 2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
- Pinch of sugar
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp. Dijon mustard
- 1 small clove garlic, minced
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Peel Clementines, removing all white pith. Separate segments. Put in a large salad bowl with spinach celery, nuts, onions and berries. Mix well.
- Whisk together remaining ingredients in a small bowl. Drizzle over salad and serve.
Nutritional Information Per Serving:
12 g. total fat,
1 g. saturated fat,
19 g. carbohydrate,
6 g. protein,
6 g. dietary fiber,
120 mg. sodium
Diabetic Exchanges: 2-1/2 Vegetable, 1 Fruit, 1 Lean Meat
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On Jan. 7, activists of the French grassroots political movement the Gilets Jaunes — Yellow Vests — announced a bank run via social media, essentially hoping to meet their goals by destabilizing the local financial system.
Dubbed the “Collectors’ Referendum,” the movement’s latest demonstration calls on supporters to withdraw their savings from financial institutions on Saturday, Jan. 12. While the political action does not mention cryptocurrencies, it seems that such a run on the banks could hypothetically affect the crypto market — and vice versa.
What’s a bank run?
A bank run entails a lot of people withdrawing their money from a given bank. It normally happens when investors start to feel that their bank may cease to operate in the near future.
As a result, a fractional-reserve banking system — in which banks keep part of their assets locally, usually at least equal to a fraction of their deposit liabilities — becomes challenged, while people start opting for other assets instead of fiat: for instance, bonds, precious metals or, theoretically, cryptocurrencies, as their decentralized structure might guarantee more independence from financial institutions.
There have been numerous bank runs throughout history, namely during the Great Depression and the 2007-08 financial crisis. However, according to academic research on bank runs, they tend to occur naturally due to panic and rumors among depositors rather than voluntarily, which makes it harder to assess the potential effectiveness of the Yellow Vests’ plan.
Brief introduction to the Yellow Vests movement and their bank run plan
The Yellow Vests movement started in November 2018, when various posts on social media suggested blocking roads and using yellow, high-visibility vests as a symbol of solidarity and support (hence the name). Mass protests across mainland France followed, with the immediate cause being the carbon taxes on petrol and diesel introduced by the French President Emmanuel Macron. Consequently, the activists have demanded lower fuel taxes, the reintroduction of the solidarity tax on wealth, a higher minimum wage and Macron's resignation.
Another crucial point for the Yellow Vest movement is the Référendum d'initiative Citoyenne (Citizens Initiative Referendum – RIC), the proposal for a popular referendum in which citizens could propose and repeal laws, amend the constitution or remove an elected representative. Essentially, it is a form of direct democracy akin to the one employed in Switzerland.
Over a few weeks, the protestors caused the French government to put its plans for fuel taxes and increased electricity tariffs on hold. Moreover, Macron has since introduced more measures to restore peace: namely, a minimum wage increase, a U-turn on a planned tax increase for low-income pensioners, and tax-free overtime payments and end-of-year bonuses. Nevertheless, the protests are still ongoing. The latest series of demonstrations, dubbed “Act VIII,” brought even more skirmishes onto the streets of France on Jan. 5.
“Act IX,” in turn, is scheduled for next Saturday, Jan. 12. And, according to some posts on social media, it is going to be accompanied by a bank run on top of more traditional demonstrations. Thus, speaking in a video uploaded to Facebook on Jan. 7, an activist named Tahz San says:
"For Act IX, we will scare this state legally and without any violence [...] through the Référendum des percepteurs [Collectors' Referendum]. [...] We all know that the power of a country is not in the hands of the government but in those of the banks. If the banks weaken, the state weakens immediately. [...] On Saturday, at 8 a.m. we will all vote by withdrawing our money [...] till the RIC won’t imposed.”
It doesn’t matter the sum that will be withdrawn, and it is advised either to spend it at some artisan local shop or save at home “under mattresses, as did our grandparents,” according to San. In case of failure, the operation should be reproduced the following month.
The very same idea was soon voiced by Maxime Nicolle, also known as "Fly Rider," a popular spokesperson for the grassroots movement. "Many people will withdraw their money from banks. Many, many, many," he said while discussing the so-called “Tax Collectors’ Referendum” in a live broadcast on Facebook. “We are going to get our bread back. [...] You’re making money with our dough, and we’re fed up.” The video has since amassed around 1 million views.
Therefore, the bank run’s advocates hope to force the French government to meet their demands through a nonviolent way. In other words, the Tax Collectors’ Referendum could be compared to the recent Proof of Keys event organized by entrepreneur Trace Mayer among members of crypto community. Timed to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, the event aimed to motivate Bitcoin users to remove all coins stored with trusted third parties and take back control of their private keys.
How popular is Bitcoin in France?
The extent to which the demonstrators appear to support cryptocurrencies has not been measured, but some photos of an alleged protestor wearing a yellow vest saying “buy bitcoin” on the back has gone viral among crypto-oriented blogs. Additionally, similar vests are currently being sold on Amazon.
Image source: Twitter, @ydemombynes
Moreover, for the 10th anniversary of the Bitcoin genesis block, French graffiti artist Pascal Boyart unveiled his wall mural titled “La liberté guidant le peuple 2019,” based on Eugene Delacroix’s famous painting of the French Revolution, but featuring people in yellow vests. According to Boyart, he hid more than $1,000 worth of BTC in it. The wallet address of the prize is public, with entrepreneur Alistair Milne encouraging Bitcoin users to donate to the project to further increase the size of the treasure.
Image source: www.pboy-art.com
There are more definite signs that Bitcoin is enjoying mainstream recognition in France, however. In November 2018, the local tobacco federation (Fédération des Buralistes) obtained permission to sell Bitcoin (BTC) at tobacco shops starting from January 2019.
In a deal with French cryptocurrency wallet provider KeplerK, up to 4,000 small shops will sell Bitcoin vouchers in denominations of 50, 100 and 250 euros, which customers can then exchange for cryptocurrency on KeplerK’s website when they open a wallet.
However, in response to the news about the crypto-friendly license, the French stock market regulator, the Autorité des marchés financiers (Financial Markets Regulator), jointly issued a warning with the country’s central bank and French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) recalling the risks associated with “speculative” crypto assets.
Interestingly, a privately owned French radio network, Europe 1, insisted that the ACPR had “no choice” but to approve the sales due to the rate at which cryptocurrency was entering mainstream consumer consciousness. Despite the uncertainty, several tobacco shops in Paris have reportedly already started selling Bitcoin for fiat.
Overall, France has delivered mixed messages on cryptocurrency at the state level, mostly calling for international regulatory efforts. On the other hand, the head of French government’s cryptocurrency working group, Jean-Pierre Landau, has argued that over regulation would deliver a “three-pronged danger.”
“The danger is three-pronged: that of freezing the rapid evolution of technology in legislation, that of failing to grasp the real nature of the object we intend to regulate and that of pushing innovation towards regulatory avoidance. On the contrary, regulation should be technologically neutral, and in order to become so, address the actors and not the products themselves.”
So is the bank run likely to succeed, and what could it mean for crypto?
As the French magazine Capital states, the potential disruptive element of the upcoming bank run could technically be considerable: When banks start to collapse due to their inability to cover the costs of operating, the whole sector is likely to fail altogether. However, it also highlights the voluntary nature of the Yellow Vests’ bank run, noting that the eventual turnout is likely to be low enough so as to not initiate a crisis.
Capital also notes that the average amount withdrawn each day in France is 342 million euros, while around 126,000 people marched in France in support of Yellow Vests on Dec. 8. Consequently, at least 100,000 of them would have to withdraw around 3,400 euros to reach such an amount. Additionally, there are daily withdrawal limits tapped between 300 and 500 euros on debit cards for regular users, which would make the whole process more complicated.
Christopher Dembik, head of macroeconomic research at Saxo Bank, also seems skeptical about the movement’s ability to shatter the banking system. He told Capital:
“Triggering a bank run requires huge queues at the counters, very honestly I think the strike force of yellow vests is too weak to destabilize the sector even at the margin."
As of November 2018, banks in France have a reserve of 449.7 billion euro in deposit accounts available for withdrawal overnight, according to data from the European Central Bank.
Still, fiat bank runs have contributed to the appeal of Bitcoin before, with Cyprus’s financial crisis in 2013 appearing to boost the price of the cryptocurrency.
According to a report by the largest French bank, BNP Paribas, the impact of the Yellow Vests’ movement on the French economy could be significant, but temporary. Banque de France estimated the impact on the economic growth in France would decrease in the fourth quarter 2018, from an expected 0.4 percent to 0.2 percent, due to the Yellow Vests crisis.
Thus, one can only speculate about the effects a French bank run could have on the crypto market and whether cryptocurrencies could also streamline the protest. For instance, Max Keiser, host of the RT show “Keiser Report,” believes:
If every French person converted 20% of their bank deposits into #Bitcoin (and got a Bitcoin debit card to use for day-2-day stuff), French banks and the government would collapse and a lot of bloodshed could be avoided. #jilletsjaunes #JeSuisSatoshi pic.twitter.com/stKqKHYHWl— Max Keiser, tweet poet. (@maxkeiser) December 9, 2018
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Stem Career Interest Questionnaire
A stem career interest questionnaire takes into consideration the STEM fields, which comprise of 4 important fields of study i.e., science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. A stem career interest questionnaire helps an individual to understand the various stem career options that they have and how they can use their skills to achieve stable growth in their stem careers. Some of the most popular stem careers include computing, physical sciences, traditional engineering, life sciences, systems analysis, and mathematics.
Sample Stem Career Interest Questionnaire:
Name of the Participant: _____________________________
Address: ______________________________________ City:_______________
State: __________________ Zip: ________________
Phone Number: ____________________________
- Do you like to develop user-friendly machines?
a) Strongly like
e) Strongly dislike
f) I don’t know
- How interested are you to pursue a science based career?
a) Extremely interested
b) Very interested
f) Not very interested
g) Not interested at all
- Which of the following study areas interest you the most?
c) Nuclear Physics
f) Actuarial Science
g) Computer Science
k) Civil Engineering
l) Mechanical Engineering
m) Electrical Engineering
n) Computer Engineering
- o) Chemical Engineering
p) Aerospace Engineering
u) Others: _______________________ (Please Specify)
- Have you completed any Pre-Stem programs in college or after?
- Which of the following job profiles interest you the most?
c) Software engineers
d) Information and Technology specialists
e) Computer programmers
f) Medical technician
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I'm new in AngularJS. I use Drupal as Backend for APIs.
So this is my problem:
When the user is logged-in, Drupal saves automatically the SessionNAME = SessionID in the cookie to keep the user logged-in so on refresh the user is still logged-in but i loose the userId, the username, his email, his favorite movies...
My solution was: sending a request to the server in
Here's the practice I follow and is usually used:
create session on server -> store the user object and important info in localstorage e.g.
Refresh Page (check session) check session(if logged in) -> get the user data from localStorage and use it e.g
UserService.user = localStorage.getObject("myApp_user");
MoviesService.movies = localStorage.getObject("myApp_movies");
close session call on server->remove cookies->remove data from localStorage.. e.g.
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Kerala Board 10th Class Time Table 2017, Kerala Board SSLC Date Sheet 2017 Download
Kerala Board 10th Class Time Table 2017, Kerala Board SSLC Date Sheet 2017 Download, Kerala Board SSLC Exam Routine 2017, Kerala 10th Board Exam Schedule 2017, Kerala 10th Exam Time Table PDF Download, Kerala SSLC Scheme 2017
Kerala Board of Secondary Education conducts Secondary examinations in Kerala provides all the information regarding the Admit Card, Date Sheets and results regarding the secondary exams. Kerala Board also conducts Revaluation and Supplementary Exams for the students for all the subjects.
Kerala Board 10th Class Date Sheet 2017
Students regular or private who are affiliated to Kerala Board of Secondary Education must have a look at this article. Here on this page we are providing information regarding the Kerala Board SSLC Date Sheet 2017. Kerala Board is all set to announce the official Time Table for the final examination of the 10th Class in Kerala for every school. Candidates from all the subjects are eagerly waiting for the Kerala 10th Exam Date Sheet 2017 because exams are very near. Candidates regular or private who are willing to appear in the final examinations will require Kerala Board 10th Exam Schedule 2017 so that they could get to know about the date and time of the 10th class final examination. Students can check the final time table for all the subjects like Mathematics, Science, English, and Hindi etc from the official web portal of Kerala Board for the preparation for the final examinations.
Check Also: Kerala Board 10th Class Result 2017
Kerala 10th Exam Time Table 2017
Kerala Board SSLC Exam Routine will be uploaded on the website of the Kerala Board www.keralapareekshabhavan.in. Students who want to sit in the final examinations and want to check the date and time for the exams of 10th Class Kerala Board, can head on to the official website of the board, which is mentioned above, and check the Kerala 10th Exam Schedule 2017 online. Students can also visit our website regularly to check if the Date Sheet has been updated or not. We are here to help all the students who require the Kerala Board SSLC Date Sheet 2017 so we are providing here a direct link to the Timetable as soon as it will be announced on the official website.
Kerala Board 10th Exam Time Table 2017
There is very good news for all the candidates of 1oth class who are affiliated to Kerala Board and are willing to attend the Kerala 10th Class final examination, Kerala is all set to declare the Kerala Board 10th Exam Routine 2017 on their official website. Yet the board has not announced the fixed date for it but it could be announced any time soon on the official website of the Kerala Board. After the official announcement all the affiliated candidates can access their result from official website. Waiting students of all subjects need to login to official website in order to check Kerala SSLC Exam Time Table 2017.
How to get Kerala SSLC Exam Schedule 2017
- Visit the official website –keralapareekshabhavan.in
- Search for “SSLC Exam time table 2017” link
- Click on the link
- Choose the subjects or Class
- Time Table will appear
- Save it and take a print out
Kerala Board 10th Class All Subject Date Sheet 2017
Kerala Board of Secondary Education will upload the Kerala SSLC Time Table 2017 on the official web portal and if you are looking for the time table for the final examination of 10th class you can head in to the official website. You can also visit our website we will also provide all the latest information regarding the examinations.
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We provide all the information regarding the the Admit card, Date Sheet and Results of the Exams on our website. Students just need to visit our website regularly to stay updated regarding all the information for the exams.Kerala Board SSLC Exam Time Table 2017
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There were plenty of tasty tidbits packed into the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee report that came out back in February.
As we reported, the panel of nutrition experts that wrote the report said it was OK to eat an egg a day. The scientific evidence now shows it won't raise the amount of LDL cholesterol – the bad kind of cholesterol — in your blood or raise the risk of heart disease.
The panel, which advises the government on how to update the Dietary Guidelines every five years, also pushed the envelope a bit by recommending a plant-focused diet — not only because it promotes health, but because it's also more environmentally sustainable.
But as two leading nutrition researchers argue in an opinion piece out this week in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, there was another, even more important recommendation in the committee's report that's largely been overlooked: It's all about fat.
For many years, the government has put a cap on how much fat we consume – recommending that we get only 20 to 35 percent of our daily calories from this nutrient.
What the new report advised instead was to "put the emphasis on optimizing types of dietary fat and not reducing total fat." The advice to limit total fat to prevent obesity was also gutted.
This is a subtle but powerful change, Dariush Mozaffarian and David Ludwig write: "With these quiet statements, the DGAC report reversed nearly four decades of nutrition policy that placed priority on reducing total fat consumption throughout the population."
Dariush Mozaffarian is dean of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, and David Ludwig is a professor of pediatrics and nutrition at Harvard University and the director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children's Hospital. They've both authored research that has, over the years, done a lot to help shift the thinking on both macronutrients – like carbs and fat – and patterns of eating.
But let's back up a second. When and why did fat become such a big villain? As Allison Aubrey has reported, it started back in the 1970s, and with the first set of dietary guidelines for Americans in 1980. The message was: Decrease fat and you'll decrease saturated fat.
Back then, scientists were mostly concerned with saturated fat. And indeed, the latest evidence shows that saturated fats can raise levels of artery-clogging LDL cholesterol. But demonizing all fat set off the fat-free boom, and a big increase in carbohydrate and sugar intake followed, which led to Americans becoming even fatter.
And, as Mozaffarian and Ludwig point out, another problem with telling people to limit total fat is that people end up eating fewer monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats – the kind found in nuts, vegetable oils and fish – which are really healthful.
Now, it seems, the government has an opportunity to set the record straight on fat. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services are now reviewing the committee's report and will update the guidelines later this year.
Penny Kris-Etherton, professor of nutrition at Penn State and the chair of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee, says she thinks it's unlikely that lifting limits on total fat intake will be much of a sticking point. "There is a pretty solid consensus now that it's the type of fat that's really important," she tells The Salt.
The American Heart Association still recommends "selecting fat-free, 1 percent fat and low-fat dairy products" on its website. But Kris-Etherton says that advice is out of date. "They need to change that," she says.
Kris-Etherton says that in practice, the association isn't defending the low-fat position anymore. The AHA's new lifestyle guideline implies that it's best to substitute polyunsaturated fats — found in things like almonds and avocados — for saturated fats.
"A lot of people still look at how much fat [is in foods], and we're now saying don't focus on that: Look at the quality of fat you're consuming," she says.
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SANTA CLARA, CALIF. — The first of the so-called Google phones is controlled using a method that's finally gaining momentum in mobile computing: swiping a finger across the screen.
The touch sensors in T-Mobile's G1 phone, which hits the market Oct. 23, are made by Synaptics Inc., a little-known but influential Silicon Valley company co-founded in 1986 by a Caltech professor.
For the two decades since, Synaptics has championed the use of the finger as a navigation tool for computers. It develops many of the sensors behind laptop touch pads, digital media players and high-end remote controls.
But touch screens were rarely seen in cellphones -- that is, until Apple Inc.'s iPhone hit the market in June 2007.
For The Record
Los Angeles Times Friday, October 03, 2008 Home Edition Main News Part A Page 2 National Desk 1 inches; 29 words Type of Material: Correction
Touch screens: An article in Wednesday's Business section about touch screens in cellphones said T-Mobile's G1 phone would hit the market Oct. 23. It goes on sale Oct. 22.
The Apple device lets users scroll through pages of text or photos and type on an on-screen keyboard with one finger, or expand or shrink files with two fingers.
Analysts who have taken apart the iPhone don't think Synaptics' technology powers the innovative touch screen. Apple and Synaptics won't say. But the device's growing popularity helped Synaptics' mission of bringing touch screens to the mainstream.
Over the last six months, the firm has launched four phones with its touch-screen technology. And another prominent one is coming soon: The T-Mobile G1, which is made by HTC Corp. and runs Google Inc.'s Android operating system for mobile phones.
Putting touch technology on cellphones wasn't widely embraced at first. That has all changed, said Andrew Hsu, a product marketing manager at the company, adding that Synaptics no longer has to sell hardware manufacturers on the value of incorporating a touch screen.
The number of cellphones with touch screens is expected to triple by 2010, to 362 million from 120 million last year, research firm ISuppli Corp. said. In comparison, cellphones without touch screens are expected to increase by only 6%, to 1.12 billion from 1.05 billion.
Synaptics is hiring accordingly. The company has added 120 people since the beginning of the year to bring the total to 443, with new employees working on a variety of products, including mobile phones. Half the employees have an engineering background.
The company was co-founded by Carver Mead, a professor emeritus at Caltech, and Federico Faggin, a former Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corp. engineer who worked on the design of the first microprocessor.
Synaptics found its niche in the early 1990s, when it began supplying the touch pads for laptops. In 2000, it began selling touch technology for digital media players.
As early as 2005, Synaptics began putting its touch technology in mobile phones. But it had trouble convincing cellphone manufacturers that a touch screen had clear benefits for customers.
"The idea that you could use your phone to do anything other than make phone calls was foreign," Hsu said.
In 2006, a year before the iPhone was unveiled, Synaptics demonstrated a concept phone called the Onyx, a remote-control-looking device navigated by the fingertip. In January 2007, the LG Prada, with Synaptics technology, became the first touch-screen cellphone to reach the market, but it didn't catch on the way the iPhone did six months later.
Last year, when Google started encouraging companies to join the Open Handset Alliance to collectively develop a new cellphone software platform, Synaptics signed up. Hsu said cellphones with touch screens become more useful if the software takes advantage of the technology.
"The Google people understood the software side and worked on applications from the get-go, rather than bolt things on at the last second," he said.
The G1 and future Android-powered phones are aiming for the same smart-phone consumer market dominated now by Research in Motion's BlackBerry phones and the iPhone.
Besides the touch screen, the G1 is also controlled by a track ball and a keyboard.
It's unclear how the new touch-screen cellphones will sell. Synaptics said its mobile-phone business made up 13% of its $361 million in revenue in fiscal 2008, which ended in June. The company's shares gained 48 cents to $30.22 on Tuesday and are up 10% since the beginning of the year.
Industry analysts say that although Synaptics has been a big beneficiary of the recent excitement around touch technology for cellphones, its long-term success is uncertain.
"More and more competitors will be coming quickly in the coming months because the handset opportunity continues to grow," said Jeff Schreiner, a research analyst with San Diego-based Capstone Investments.
He said those competitors, from places such as Taiwan, would try hard to offer sensors at lower prices and cut into Synaptics' business.
But Hsu said that Synaptics was ready to do battle with any newcomers and that projects such as the G1 show off the technology it's been working for decades to perfect.
"Google has the ability to revolutionize the cellphone industry like the IBM personal computer changed the landscape of the PC industry," he said. "What's exciting for Synaptics is that our technology becomes part of this new platform."
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After becoming a part of USF family, the fondest memories of school and college are those which takes the Shalinis beyond the confined zones of a classroom, and which etches the fondest memories of fun and participation in their personal development.
Mentoring being the key component, developing a rapport and building trust is an important phase/ aspect in this journey starting from humble backgrounds to making it all the way to reach the pinnacle of one’s achievement. This calls for committed hours of social work, outdoor trips and camps, and workshops that help broaden the mindsets and transform the girls as capable individuals. A chance to explore the social milieu and the extensive interaction with peers enhances the analytical and out of the box thinking capability. The aim of holistic development is to provide the opportunity to widen their horizon of knowledge on various fields like career choices, social issues and personality development.
Keeping in mind the felt and assessed needs of our Shalinis from each CENTRE. The Udayan Shalini Fellowship plans several activities through the year focusing on the overall development, giving Shalinis the opportunities for exposure +which they may not have had so far.
• Residential Camps are organized on a per year basis wherein the girls from different chapters get a chance to bond with each other and develop qualities such as self-awareness, team-work, self-confidence and leadership.
• Workshops are conducted at every quarter and on a monthly basis as well in smaller groups. It provides the girls with a chance to build their self esteem and explore a career path of their interest with the career counseling that is provided in these workshops.
• Educational Tours are also organized to build the confidence and knowledge of the girls.
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Piracy-related news seems to surface all too often these days, with the phenomenon gone rampant and giving massive headaches to game and console makers across the industry. While Nintendo's profits are soaring thanks to record numbers of games and consoles sold every month, the company still estimates it lost close to $1 billion worldwide in 2007 due to piracy.
It's no surprise, then, that following the recent release of a Wii firmware update that prevents owners from playing imported discs, Nintendo is now switching its focus to the DS and has decided to file a lawsuit against five Japanese firms for selling a device that enables illegal game programs to be played on their handhelds.
The device in question, the R4 Revolution, is essentially a firmware override and MicroSD adapter for the Nintendo DS that is used for running both homebrew and pirated games. The lawsuit is led by Nintendo, but supported by over fifty other publishers and developers, and is aimed at stopping the manufacture and sale of this device in Japan - no word on whether Nintendo's other local subsidiaries will take similar legal action.
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BSL Sign Language Dictionary
Search and compare thousands of words and phrases in British Sign Language (BSL). The largest collection online.
How to sign: a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
Similiar / Same: Greece, Hellenic Republic
Categories: Balkan country, Balkan nation, Balkan state
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The murder of Labor MP Jo Cox has ignited the fire hidden inside the EU referendum voters who are already aware of what to vote for and where to stand regarding the notion.
Tommy Mair, 52, grotesquely killed the MP by continuously stabbing and shooting her. The heinous act, according to surveys, might has not affected the EU referendum procedure but it had impacted the morale of the people. The man while murdering the Member of Parliament, shouted, “Put Britain First.” The words uttered indicated that the reason behind Cox’s murder was her firm support for Britain’s retention of position in the EU referendum.
Ignoring to discover the brighter side of the unity of the EU and the UK, some people are busy unleashing the darker impact of Britain’s EU bonding on the world. It was this negative mindset that led to the death of Cox. Brexit will definitely pose vital impacts worldwide but the most prominent effect will be thrown at the United Kingdom and the European Union as a whole.
The 5 facts that might be considered as positive or negative for the European nations are as follows:
It is expected that if the European Union does not get Britain’s support, foreign companies will hardly seek interest in investing into the EU ventures. The EU fears that if Britain exits, foreign companies might shift headquarters to other parts of the world. Express UK reported that Woodford Investment Management founder, Neil Woodford said that those who are pro-EU referendum believe that the economy would hardly be hampered if the UK leaves the EU.
Pro-EU people think that the bonding between the two, the UK and the EU, would lessen the immigration burden. With the increasing number of refugees hitting EU border, the Europeans have tightened the immigration policies, which the people who back Britain’s position in the EU referendum, support.
Loss of jobs
The 28-nation group, according to the fxcm.com, believes that breakup of the Britain’s tie-up with the EU will directly affect the job market negatively.
Impact on oil prices
The oil industry is also under super pressure, fearing the thought of Britain leaving the EU. However, the industry aces are sure that the changes, even if the tie between the two breaks,will take a few years to be implemented. Capital Economics’ Chief Global Economist Julian Jessop, according to Proactive Investors UK, claimed that even the Leave group has indicated that the changes would not take place before 2020.
Britain’s outstanding bill
According to the rules, if Britain chooses to quit the EU referendum, it will not have to pay the amount it is responsible for paying every year for the EU budget. The Guardian states that the share of Britain is 12.5 percent.
The result of the EU referendum voting is long awaited by the Europeans and hopefully, will prove beneficial for Europe and its economy as well as the world in general.
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For the longest time, #gaming has largely been seen as a contributor to the mass worldwide obesity problem. With the pastime promoting a sedentary lifestyle, gamers of all levels spend hours, sometimes days, sitting in front of a TV screen or monitor, playing as a character who performs extraneous physical activity. Yet these gamers will often neglect partaking in any physical activity themselves.
However, with the introduction of physical-activity-based gaming equipment and games, this behavior has begun to change in recent years. In contrast to the stereotypical image of gaming in relation to #fitness, it has now become one of the avenues that has the potential to help you stay in shape.
The Rise Of Motion-Based Gaming
It all started in 2006 with the release of the #Nintendo Wii. With the requirement of moving the #Wii Remote to make any sort of progress on screen, the Wii helped revolutionized the way many people looked at gaming, as it encouraged players to engage in physical activity to play a game.
Shifting more than 100 million units worldwide, the Nintendo Wii was the best-selling console of the previous generation, largely due to its wide appeal to different demographical groups. The console's ease of use and movement-based gaming style made it easy for most people to operate, and allowed for fun-filled social activities for groups of people.
These sentiments were echoed in reviews of Wii Sports, the third most popular video game of all time. Although the title's impressive sales numbers can largely be attributed to the fact the title was bundled with the console at launch, there is no denying that the social aspect associated with the title helped drive the popularity of the console.
However, it was only after the release of Wii Fit that people began to examine how gaming might be able to improve fitness. Released in 2008, Wii Fit was an exercise-based video game that aimed to get gamers up and moving in a fun, social way.
Despite the title receiving criticism for most of the exercise programs being low intensity, Wii Fit did garner praise for being a capable source of rehabilitative physical therapy for those recovering from injury as well as helping improve the posture of the elderly.
It is important to note that the success of the Nintendo Wii did not go unnoticed by influential people within the gaming industry. Such was the success of the console and its movement-based gaming system that market competitors #Sony and #Microsoft later introduced motion-sensing peripherals for their own consoles, in the form of PlayStation Move and Kinect, both released in 2010.
Since the introduction of the Nintendo Wii, movement-based gaming has become a natural part of console gaming as a whole, with plans to expand the capabilities thereof as the limits of virtual reality gaming are also explored.
Expanding Motion-Based Gaming To Mobile
Movement-based gaming, however, is not only limited to consoles. #Mobile gaming is, perhaps, the most lucrative market within the gaming industry at the moment, due to the fact that in this day and age, owning a smartphone is largely becoming a necessity.
If estimates are to be believed, there are a total of 1.5 billion smartphones currently in use worldwide, which means 1.5 billion potential consumers for mobile game developers. One only has to look at past mobile games that have gone viral, such as Flappy Bird or Candy Crush, to really understand the potential of this market.
Recently, there has been one mobile game in particular that has worked in getting the masses excited to increase their step count in order to progress the game: Pokémon Go. Although it is debatable whether people actually download Pokémon Go with the intention of using it to stay in shape, there is no denying that it has worked in engaging people in physical activity in the hopes of hatching an egg or capturing a new or rare #Pokémon.
Despite only being released in July 2016, studies have estimated that the combined total of Pokémon Go players' steps has surpassed 100 billion, and the game had increased the general physical activity levels of most of the players who downloaded it.
While users generally do not download Pokémon Go with the intention of using it to get fit, this does not mean that there aren’t mobile games that have purposely been crafted to help users increase their workout intensity levels.
With the recent rise of fitness-tracking-focused technology such as Fitbit, mobile game developers have been looking at creating several different apps that attempt to "gamify" workouts by making use of these trackers. With regard to these types of apps, there seems to be two different categories.
The first category is that of an actual game that attempts to help improve the intensity of the user's workout without actually making these attempts obvious. An example of such an app is Zombies, Run! The mobile game connects to the user’s fitness tracker and at random intervals will simulate a zombie chase experience through your headphones as you listen to music, prompting the user to speed up. There are more than 200 levels to complete and users are able to compare their performance with that of other users around the globe.
The second category consists of more general fitness apps, such as Runkeeper and Strava, that allow you to log your performance and also compare your results with that of other app users, thus introducing a social and competitive element to working out.
These apps seem to have effects much like that of listening to music when you work out, as they subconsciously increase the intensity of the user’s workout. The user works harder without consciously pushing to do so.
The Benefits Of 'Gamifying' Workouts
If anything is to be learnt from games such as Wii Sports and Pokémon Go, as well as fitness-based mobile apps, it is that they bring new facets to workouts for many people by introducing social and competitive elements. In turn, these elements make users less apprehensive about engaging in physical activity.
With the global obesity levels as high as they are, it is easy to understand that there are many people who approach regular workout routines with some sort of trepidation, and not always necessarily because the routine is difficult.
Many people tend to quickly lose interest in a fitness routine because they perceive it to be a boring or monotonous experience. Staring at the back of someone's head while pounding the treadmill in a gym is not exactly the most stimulating experience, regardless of the health benefits it may reap. The perception of a workout being as exciting as watching paint dry can and does lead to many people quitting their routines soon after starting them.
Some may point out that much of the research into the benefits of fitness-based video games, such as Wii Fit, has concluded that the physical activity generated is often not enough to be considered an adequate workout routine. But it is important to note that these types of #videogames do work in getting people used to regular exercise routines.
Sometimes, it is only the effort of beginning a regular exercise routine that prevents people from ever actually starting them. Mobile apps are a good way to help users who have already managed to maintain regular exercise regimens from stagnating, as they are continuously pushed to achieve more.
It seems as if the days of gaming being seen as the antithesis to physical activity are gone, as some gaming developers look to craft experiences that are both fun and beneficial to one’s health. So say goodbye to the idea that the dinosaur treadmill and its fitness friends are the only way to stay in shape, because there are many other new, fun gaming activities out there that will provide you with the same health benefits, and then some.
Have video games ever helped you get active? Please feel free to share in the comments down below.
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JESUS DID not stay long in the village of Ephraim.
He went down the mountains to the river Jordan, crossed it, and began preaching in the land of Perea, going to the places where his seventy messengers had given the news of his coming.
Everywhere the people thronged in great crowds to see him and to hear him. The rich and the poor met in the crowd, the rulers and the common people, the Pharisees who were his enemies, and the publicans or tax-collectors who had been leading lives full of sin. There was a great desire among the people to listen to the Teacher and Prophet from Galilee, of whom they had heard so much, and whom they had not seen before. Many went to see him because they believed that he was the long-looked-for Christ, who was at last on his way to Jerusalem to sit on his throne and rule all the lands. So great were the crowds to see and hear Jesus that it is said that the thousands trod on each other around him.
While he was speaking in one place to a great multitude of people, a voice was heard from the throng.
“Teacher,” cried out a man, “tell my brother to divide with me the property which belongs to our family.”
This man supposed that Jesus, being the King of Israel, would rule in all matters of difference between the people. But Jesus answered him :
“Man, who made me a judge or a settler of disputes over your affairs?”
Then he added, “Take care to avoid the love of money; for no matter how rich one may be, his true life does not depend on what he owns.”
And he gave to them the parable or story of “The Poor Rich Man.” He said :
“There was once a rich man whose farm gave him very large crops. He began to ask himself, `What am I to do? I have no room to store the grain and fruits that have grown on my land. This is what I will do. I will pull down my old barns and build larger ones in place of them. There I shall store all the fruits from my orchards and the grain from my fields. And then I will say to myself, “Now you have plenty of good things stored up to last for many years; take your ease, eat, drink and have a good time.”‘ But God said to him ‘Fool! this very night your life is taken away; and who will have all that you have stored up?’ So is it with everyone who lays up money for himself, instead of gaining the riches of God.”
And Jesus said again to his disciples some of the things that he had already taught them in his great. “Sermon on the Mount”; for he often repeated the same teachings, over and over, until the disciples knew them by heart, so that after he should be taken from them, they in turn could tell them to others. At this time he said :
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life here on the earth, what you can get to eat, nor what you can get to wear. Life is something more than food and the body is more than its clothes. Look at the crows flying through the air! They neither sow nor reap; they have no storehouse nor barns; and yet God gives them food. How much more are you worth to God than are the birds? And however anxious you may be, can you add one minute to your life? And if you cannot do even this, why be anxious about other matters?
“Look at the lilies, and see how they grow. They neither spin nor weave; and yet, I tell you, even King Solomon in all his splendor was not dressed like one of these. Now, if God so beautifully clothes the grass in the field, which blooms today, and tomorrow will be thrown into the fire, how much more will he clothe you, O men, who trust God so little?
“So do not worry about food and drink and clothes; these are the things for which the nations of the world who know not God are seeking after, and you should not wish to be like them. Besides, your Father in heaven knows that you have need of these common things. Only seek the kingdom of God, and your heavenly Father will see to it that you have these things. Do not be afraid, my little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you a place in his kingdom.”
At this time some people brought to Jesus the news that Pilate, the Roman governor, had killed in the Temple some men from Galilee, while they were worshipping at the altar, so that their blood was poured out with the blood of their offerings. This act of the governor had terribly shocked the people.
“Do you suppose,” said Jesus, “that because those Galileans suffered these things, that they were worse sinners than the rest of those living in Galilee? I tell you, no; unless you turn from your sins and seek God, you will all perish as they did.
” Then, too, think of those eighteen men in Siloam, just outside of Jerusalem; those men on whom the tower fell and killed them all; do you suppose that they had been worse than all the other people living in Jerusalem ?
No, I tell you; unless you turn to God, you will all perish as they did.”
Then Jesus gave to the people the parable of “The Fruitless Fig Tree.” He said
“A man who had a fig tree growing in his garden came at the time when figs were ripe, looking for fruit, but found on it not a single fig. So he said to the gardener, `Here I have come for three years looking for fruit on this tree, without finding any. Cut it down! Why should it take up room and rob the soil?’ But the gardener answered him, `O please, sir, leave it one year more. I will dig around it and enrich the soil; then it may bear fruit next year. If it does not, then let it be cut down.’ ”
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By Bhaskar Roy.
When Sri Lanka’s new President Maithripala Sirisena recently visited China he was literally squeezed by the Chinese leaders not to review the Chinese investments and infrastructure projects in his country and secure Chinese interests.
Sirisena had little room to manoeuere Sri Lanka is in a difficult financial situation. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) rejected a request from the Sri Lankan government for a US $ 4 billion loan to restructure debt payment on Chinese loans.
Obviously, Sri Lanka has been caught in a Chinese debt trap. Parts of the country seem to have been mortgaged to China to assist Beijing in its advance into the Indian Ocean (see Robert D. Kaplan’s article in March 2009 issue of the Foreign Affairs magazine).
In writings on Chinese capture of strategic infrastructure projects one that has missed attraction is the Lotus Tower in Colombo. The tower funded by the Chinese Exim Bank, is 26 meters higher than the Eiffel Tower. This US $ 103 million tower is being built by the China National Electronic Import and Export Corporation (CNEIEC) and the Chinese Aerospace Long – March International Trade (CALMIT).
A brief look at the background of these two Chinese Companies reveal facts that the previous Sri Lankan government, led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa should have examined. According to CNEIEC’s profile, the company is involved in defence electronics system integration, construction of defence electronics system, integration of public security responding to international anti – terrorism demand among others.
The CALMIT is involved in the aero – space industry, according to its company profile. It also specializes in export and import of defence equipment, technology and services, export of anti – terrorism, anti – riot equipment, technologies and services among other activities.
It is, therefore, intriguing that these two companies which are involved in military and quasi – military business are building South Asia’s tallest tower in Sri Lanka, covering the gut of the Indian Ocean on the one side, and India on the other. There is no doubt that the Lotus Tower is an electronic surveillance facility.
It may be argued that nothing like that is visible to the naked eye on the tower. That would be challenging the advancement that technology instruments are imbedded, and Sri Lanka does not have the technological capability to locate such hidden assets, which are known as “assassin’s mace” weapons. The tower, if allowed to complete construction will be a threat to the security of the Indian Ocean and South Asia.
Add to this the Colombo port city, the Colombo port and the Hambantota container port, three other strategic Chinese encroachments in Sri Lanka, and a much larger picture emerges. China’s 21st century maritime Silk Road is calculated as very important, if not central, to the success of this project. This Silk Road is projected as a commercial and developmental enterprise with a win-win situation for all. But what China is doing in Sri Lanka questions the ultimate design of the Silk Road.
China has suggested to the Sri Lankan president and foreign minister a trilateral arrangement between China, Sri Lanka and India for the development of Sri Lanka. Sirisena appears to have given a nod to the Chinese suggestion when he was in China. But India has to be brought in.
How would this work? China is aware of India’s concerns about its activities in Sri Lanka some of which are perceived as a security threat to India. What role would China like India to play in such a trilateral arrangement? Should India look aside when it builds a listening tower in Sri Lanka, have its submarines visit Sri Lanka, and finally turn the country into a dual use platform for civilian and military use? This sounds like a trap, pushing Sri Lanka to work on India. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be acutely aware of it when he visits China in May.
(The writer is a New Delhi based strategic analyst. He can be reached at e-mail [email protected])
Paper No. 5911 Dated 10-Apr-2015 – SAAG
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Last time, we looked at a problem that turned out to be far easier for hacking a PC game than a console one. Today, we’re looking at a problem that is really only an issue for PC games.
These older game consoles tend to have specialized graphical hardware that works in terms of sprites and tiles, so their graphics are stored in a similar way from game to game. The PC-98 is a business computer that’s really good at displaying high-resolution text, but graphics-wise, programmers had to roll their own solutions for everything. As a result, pretty much every developer created and used their own proprietary format for storing graphics. E.V.O.’s developer, Almanic, used a format called .GDT.
E.V.O. has 9 title-card images composed entirely of Japanese text:
These don’t have any relevance to the gameplay – they’re not interface elements or anything. So, I wasn’t even sure it was necessary to edit them. A lot of projects will include non-essential image translations in the accompanying readme file. This seemed like a pretty safe option, but I wanted the additional polish of having it look like a full, legitimate English release. Plus, everyone said it would be really hard, so I wanted to try it.
When you boot up the game, as soon as you interrupt the opening cinematic, the first thing that shows up is TITLE1.GDT. This allows for some quick experimentation. You can take any other image and rename it to TITLE1.GDT, then see it as soon as you start the game.
To try to figure out the format, I tried to look at GAMEOVER.GDT, a tiny (0x233 bytes) and simple text image that’s mostly empty black void. I renamed it to TITLE1.GDT and stuck it in the disk.
From Bytes to Shapes
It seemed like the first thing to do was to open it up, delete large portions of the bytes from the end, and see what happens to the resulting image. Here are a few results of that, in reverse chronological order, with the length of the file at each point:
From this, you can get a general idea of what order the pixels get drawn. The screen fills in from left to right, in columns from top-to-bottom. In several images (100, 1A7, 1D4) you can see a hard edge after an 8-pixel-wide segment of a letter has been completed. So the columns are probably 8 pixels wide, written one line at a time.
Now, let’s focus in really close and try to highlight the exact byte when each individual line is drawn. For these, I’ve blown up the images by 400% and re-enabled scanlines, since E.V.O. only writes to every other line anyway. Here’s a little sequence where each byte appears to be responsible for one line each, in the middle of the M. Look really closely:
You can see the lower legs of the M being formed here, one line at a time. Now, what does the byte have to do with the line that is created? Let’s look really close at each line that’s created, in terms of which pixels are blue and which are not. We’ll call the blue ones “1” and the black ones “0”. Y’know, just as shorthand.
Well, I guess we chose the right shorthand – that’s exactly what is going on. A byte is 8 bits, and each bit here determines whether or not one pixel is turned on in blue.
From Bytes to Colors
That’s just one how one color gets drawn, though, and E.V.O. uses a palette of eight. The game reserves three areas of VRAM as the red, green, and blue color planes. The data in each color plane determines which pixels onscreen have a component of that color. With three components that can be either completely on or off, that means there are eight possible colors.
Can we use this to explain that hint of magenta from earlier?
At different stages in the rendering process, parts of the image go from black to blue, to magenta, to white. Magenta might not be a particularly significant color to you. But if we put this in terms of HTML color codes, the progression of colors goes like this:
#RRGGBB ------- Black: #000000 Blue: #0000FF Magenta: #FF00FF White: #FFFFFF
Each byte adds on another layer of color, not in RGB but in BRG (blue, red, green) order. Every column is drawn one color plane at a time, so at position 4D it has drawn the blue and red plane, and is in the middle of drawing the final green plane. That’s where the magenta comes from.
When to Ask for Help
At this point, I had the basics figured out, but I was missing a few parts. My attempts to write an encoder were producing results that weren’t quite right, and usually turned to garbage after a few lines. At SkyeWelse’s suggestion, I went to the Heroes of Legend forum, a place with a lot of Falcom translation projects going on, including last year’s Brandish 2 Renewal translation. A hacker named M_bot graciously took up the task the same day I posted it. He figured out a lot of the rest of the format. Here are the key parts I was missing:
- Whenever you want to write a byte pattern where the two nybbles are equal (like 00, 11, 22, … FF) the next byte determines how many times in a row to write that pattern. FF 03 writes “1111 1111” three times; 00 40 writes nothing sixty-four times. This is a popular simple compression method called run-length encoding (RLE). Since equal-nybble bytes (particularly 00 and FF) are much more common than different-nybble ones, this is a good compromise – you save space in the most common cases, but you don’t spend extra space writing “01” after every uncommon byte.
- The sequence “FF 8N” means to repeat the next binary write N times. So, there’s your way to repeat unusual sequences if really needed.
- .GDT uses several different encoding modes, which it can switch between at every new color plane. This is all just the mode introduced by the byte 04. M_bot and I each figured out a few of the other modes independently.
Once those were cleared up, there was enough information to write a much better encoder. M_bot quickly built one into his CompileTools package. It was meant to be a base, and only implemented the 04 encoding mode I’ve been describing so far. This was quite enough for encoding all of the chapter title cards, but there was one last pesky image to encode: AV04B.GDT, the title screen.
It’s the coolest and most prominent image, and the one most important to get right. When encoding it, it would get cut off towards the end:
I couldn’t figure out why. But at some point, I had all the .GDT images in a folder together, and sorted them by size. It turned out that AV04B.GDT was the largest image in the game, and it was 16 KB. And how big was my encoded version? 16.8 KB. What if the image is just too large? 16 KB is a nice, round (power of two) number, so maybe that’s how much space was allocated in memory for the image.
To shave off that last few hundred bytes, I implemented some other encoding modes which M_bot had figured out (mode 10, which copies the previous plane, and mode 8N, which copies the Nth previous block), but that still wasn’t quite enough. The original image was already letterboxed a bit, so I was able to crop the top and bottom of the image until it fit into 16 KB.
Anyway, that’s the dark secret of our E.V.O. logo – it’s oh-so-slightly cropped. But the additional letterboxing makes it even more cinematic, right?
Thanks again to M_bot who made the image encoding even possible! You can see the full encoder/decoder code is available as part of his CompileTools package on GitHub.
I spent at least a few months of the E.V.O. project time reverse-engineering this format, and I still couldn’t do it alone. But it’s not always a horrendous ordeal. In future articles I’ll write about some image formats that were at least as complex as .GDT, but not so much of a problem once I was a better reverse engineer.
Next week: Decompressing all the data in Rusty.
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Common Core: Indoctrinating Fourth Graders about ‘White Privilege’
October 28, 2013
by Izzy Lyman
Kyle Olson of EAGnews, an education reform non-profit based in Muskegon, recently published a video exposing the content of the curriculum that will be used by fourth grade teachers for the Common Core national standards in English. Olson takes issue with the use of a children’s book called “The Jacket.”
Olson explains, “The story centers around a young white boy named Phil who wrongly accuses an African-American student of stealing his brother’s jacket.
This is a fun little book about racism and white privilege – a left-wing concept that teaches students the values of an American society are actually designed to benefit white people.”
The video speaks for itself, especially the presentation by multicultural educator, Dr. Marguerite Parks of the University of Wisconsin. Take a listen.
As you probably heard, the Michigan Senate decreed, by voice vote last week, to authorize adoption of the nationalized standards.
Opponents of Common Core, in the Mitten State, have often expressed concern over the age appropriateness of the content, but it seems like Michigan senators either don’t care or don’t know.
The House votes next. One can assume that those lawmakers who vote “yes” agree that nine-year-olds need to be subjected to junk social science masquerading as literature.
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Port Republic, village, NW Va., on the South Fork of the Shenandoah River. During the Civil War, on June 8–9, 1862, the last battle of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson's successful Shenandoah valley campaign was fought nearby.
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Sometimes it appears that everybody in Washington yearns for an action-hero president to make them feel important. That’s never more apparent than during a crisis like the Syrian civil war President Obama stands accused of “dithering” about.
Of course, his chief journalistic accusers are columnists Maureen Dowd and Charles Krauthammer, of the New York Times and Washington Post respectively. Dowd turns everything into a movie scenario. She wrote a column about George W. Bush’s 2003 “Mission Accomplished” aircraft carrier stunt that’s almost too embarrassing to quote.
“Out bounded the cocky, rule-breaking, daredevil flyboy, a man navigating the Highway to the Danger Zone,” Dowd wrote. “He flashed that famous all-American grin as he swaggered around the deck of the aircraft carrier in his olive flight suit, ejection harness between his legs, helmet tucked under his arm, awestruck crew crowding around.”
Sure, there was mockery in Dowd’s Top Gun take on Bush’s “joystick politics,” but hero worship too. Here’s how her imaginary flyboy summed up America’s adventure in Iraq: “Aggression breeds patriotism, and patriotism curbs dissent. Aggression has made Democrats cower, the press purr and the world quake. Aggression—you mark my words—will not only save humanity, but it will soon color all the states Republican red.”
So how did that work out?
Ten years later, Krauthammer thinks things would have worked out better if the U.S. still had troops occupying Iraq—the better to menace Iran and Syria too, formerly Saddam Hussein’s job. Obama, he opines, “simply does not understand that if America withdraws from the scene, it creates a vacuum that invites hostile outside intervention. A superpower’s role in a regional conflict is deterrence.”
Also known as perpetual war in the Middle East.
Even Bill Clinton famously piled on, which is what set Dowd off. At a public forum in New York, he explained that Obama risked looking “like a total wuss” if he blamed opinion polls showing that 80 percent of Americans oppose U.S. intervention in Syria for his own indecisiveness. Clinton said that presidents sometimes have to act, “and hope to God you can sell it.”
It’s not clear that Clinton spelled out exactly what a take-charge guy like himself would be doing in Syria—which may be a good thing, given his wife’s key role in the Obama administration’s wait-and-see policy.
Indeed the former Secretary of State’s pronouncement at a 2012 conference in Istanbul that dictator Bashar al Assad needed to leave Syria contributed mightily to the White House’s predicament. Taking sides in a sectarian civil war while refusing to get involved wasn’t terribly clever. That Clinton reportedly urged Obama to arm anti-Assad Sunni rebels makes the diplomatic blunder no less egregious.
Now that the Syrian dictator, with Russian and Iranian assistance, seems on the verge of defeating his enemies, President Obama has agreed to provide small arms to rebel groups—something unlikely to prove decisive.Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2013 The National Memo
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Savonia University of Applied Sciences (Lead partner)
University of Forestry - Sofia
Vilnius College of Technologies and Design
Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava
National Resources Institute Finland
Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry
Bio and Circular Cluster
Kuopio Health Co-op.
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Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Max. funding Phase 1
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ILCA unites four higher education institutions (HEIs) and two research organisations under the theme of climate.
The project has three objectives:
- strengthen human capital in climate innovation and entrepreneurship by training and mentoring students, academic and non-academic staff in systemic problem solving;
- advance multi-disciplinary climate and social innovation capacity by establishing climate innovation laboratories, and involving ecosystem actors in the design of climate innovation projects;
- support the preparedness and competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in climate transition and digitalisation.
In Phase 1, the project will develop and test a training and mentoring programme with two research institutions as full partners and associate partners from regional ecosystems who are close to the working life.
The other action will be value-flow mapping and engagement of the actors in climate ecosystems by identifying shared purposes and motivations. In this phase, the project will also start developing the climate innovation laboratories. As part of its third objective, the project will run a survey among SMEs to identify their needs and create a portfolio of support services that will be tested.
In Phase 2, each HEI will further develop the training programme according to its subject area. At the end of the project, the consortium will develop ‘climate microcredentials’ that fully comply with the Common Microcredential Framework.
The climate innovation laboratories will develop research-and-innovation (R&I) projects based on pre-defined impact/mission areas for climate actions. Meanwhile, the organisational model (actor’s role, protocols of collaboration and communication channels) of innovation laboratories will be developed and continuously adapted through feedback loops.
The project will have the following outcomes:
- Capacity building: At least four HEIs will adopt the ‘climate micro-credentials’ that were developed, tested, and improved during the project.
- Ecosystem integration and engagement: At least eight climate and social innovation projects will be developed in at least four different smart-specialisation-based innovation ecosystems.
- Regional growth and competitiveness: At least 32 start-ups and scale-ups will improve their capacities for climate transition and digital transformation, as well as their overall competitiveness and growth.
- Institutional change: At least one multidisciplinary organisational mechanism and incentive system will be implemented to enable the integrative and systemic nature of HEIs’ education and R&I activities.
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Neoclassical economic theory rules out systematic errors in consumption choice. According to the basic view, individuals know what they choose. They are able to predict how much utility an activity or a good produces for them now and in the future and they can maximize their utility. This implies that behavior reveals consistent preferences. This approach makes it impossible to detect and understand sub-optimal consumption decisions, due to problems of self-control and the misprediction of utility. We propose the economics of happiness as a methodological approach to study these phenomena. Based on proxy measures for experienced utility, it is, in principle, possible to directly address whether some observed behavior is sub-optimal and is therefore reducing a person's well-being. We discuss recent evidence on smoking and eating habits, TV viewing and commuting choice.
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Peppers Ghost: Rough prototypePaul Bourke
The illusion know as "Peppers ghost" stems back to the mid 1800's when Henry Dircks and John Pepper first demonstrated the principle. It has been used over the years as the basis of many magic tricks and ghostly effects, most noticeably perhaps the haunted house in Disneyland. The basic principle is that with a half silvered mirror one can see the superposition of two scenes, the dominant objects being the brightest, or most highly illuminated. The mirror surface used goes by a few different names, half silvered mirror, one way mirror, and two way mirror. The basic principle is simply that the the surface transmits and reflects light, normally 50% of each.
The early forms of this illusion would employ two rooms, the objects in one superimposed on the other. In more modern times there is a twist to this illusion that involves using a display or projected image rather than a second room. This allows a virtual object or space to be superimposed with real objects. Many of the companies trying to promote this effect seem to need to called it holographic which of course it is not. However in a darkened space the appearance of the virtual objects can appear to have depth. This depth arises from other depth cues such as motion and shading because of course there is no real depth being projected with the digital image.
Products misleadingly referring to themselves as "holographic" displays
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Hello Aspirants ! Is there any doubt in your mind regarding the tittle? Let me clear myself. Sports Questions are equally important as the other sections to crack the competitive exam of any government job. All you need is to stay updated with the latest affairs. Here, we are providing you some questions from sports section of General Studies. Read it down and yeah, here you can also download the PDF of these questions for future reading. Sports MCQ General Knowledge Question. Read it down.
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∗Former Australian captain Mark Taylor has had several nicknames over his playing career. Which of the following was NOT one of them?
∗Track and field star Carl Lewis won how many gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games?
∗Which was the 1st non Test playing country to beat India in an international match?
∗Who did Stone Cold Steve Austin wrestle at the 1998 edition of “Over the Edge”?
∗Who is the first Indian woman to win an Asian Games gold in 400 m run?
∗In the match between India and Pakistan at Jaipur on 02-10-1983, Which new rule was introduced?
No-balls & wide were debited to bowlers analysis
Over throw runs were batsman’s score
The rule of field restriction was taken.
Limit of overs was reduced to 50 overs
∗Which NBA player scored 8 points in the final 7 seconds of a game to lead his team to victory?
∗Which two counties did Anil Kumble play for?
Nottinghamshire & Lancashire
Nottinghamshire & Leicestershire
Northamptonshire & Leicestershire
Northamptonshire & Lancashire
∗How many times did Geet Sethi win the lBSF World Billiards title?
∗In which year did Milkha Singh win the first National title in the 400 m race?
∗What Major League Baseball player holds the record for all-time career high batting average?
∗What do African-American football players Ernie Davis, Archie Griffin, and Tony Dorsett have in common?
They all played for Pittsburgh
They all won the Heisman Trophy
They all led to Super Bowl titles
They don’t have any similarity
∗Which cricketer died on the field in Bangladesh while playing for Abahani Club?
∗Who did Shawn Michaels beat to win his first Intercontinental Title?
∗Former Australian captain Allan Border was sometimes known as “Captain Grumpy”. What was his other nickname?
∗What Australian player was known as ‘Fruitfly’ among the rest of the team?
∗Pravin Amre and Vinod Kambli played for which province in South Africa?
∗Which track and field star overcame childhood polio to become one of the greatest athletes of her time?
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What does it mean to be "against expression"? Usually, books that announce that they are "against" a topic stake out a clear rhetorical position. Jonathan Baron's Against Bioethics (2006), Eavan Boland's Against Love Poetry (2001), John Ellis's Against Deconstruction (1989): a person immediately has a sense of what these author oppose. In the case of Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith's anthology Against Expression, however, the goal is less obvious. How can a book take on something as ill defined and capacious as "expression"? The subtitle does not help much either: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. What kind of writing do the editors have in mind? Short stories? Autobiography? Lyric poetry? Instruction manuals? And doesn't all writing, except perhaps the purest nonsense verse, convey or rely on concepts?
One could explain the book's title by situating it in relation to recent literary history. After 9/11, many assumptions and practices that defined the late twentieth-century American, British, and Canadian poetic avant-gardes—above all, the rampant use of aberrant or disjunctive syntax—began to appear outmoded, even defanged. With grammar-mangling, fragment-spouting George W. Bush on television every night arguing for war, how could a leftist poet in good conscious continue to advocate anacoluthon, solecism, and other varieties of non-normative English usage as tools to achieve utopian ends? One literary movement to emerge in this new aesthetic climate was conceptualism. Among its key players are Against Expression's coeditors, Dworkin and Goldsmith, as well as Christian Bök, Robert Fitterman, and Vanessa Place, all of whom appear in the anthology. Their work involves the appropriation and recycling of large amounts of text; prolonged mindless labor, especially transcription, copying, and retyping; a fascination with what happens when data is transposed from one medium to another; and a de-emphasis on close reading in favor of analytical attention to larger formal patterns and higher orders of information organization. The conceptualists challenge readers to rethink what constitutes a literary text, how literature operates as an institution, and what role if any it plays in public life. In this context, the title Against Expression could serve as shorthand for one of the movement's favorite harangues. Down with the cult of personality! Away with weepy self-revelations, tawdry public confrontations, and [End Page 5] Jonathan Franzen-sized egos! The hour has come to rethink from the ground up the nature and function of authorship.
The over 130 works represented in Against Expression do not, however, add up in any straight-forward way to a polemical argument for or against any single mode of composition. On the contrary, the book's contents are extraordinarily diverse. Some are by canonical literary figures (Samuel Beckett, Denis Diderot, Stéphane Mallarmé). Others are by art world luminaries (Vito Acconci, Joseph Kosuth, Andy Warhol). One will also encounter postmodern novelists (Walter Abish, Kathy Acker, J. G. Ballard); Dadaists and surrealists (Louis Aragon, Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara); and Oulipians (Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau). In addition, although the majority of figures are American, Canadian, or British, Goldsmith and Dworkin also include writers from Finland (Leevi Lehto), Japan (Shigeru Matsui), and Norway (Monica Aasprong, Paal Bjelke Andersen). Other authors have more complex affinities, such as Caroline Bergvall (France and Great Britain); Mónica de la Torre (Mexico and the US); and M. NourbeSe Philip (Trinidad and Canada). In short, the table of contents is aggressively transnational, cross-period, and multigeneric. Unlike earlier, more pronouncedly clique-centered endeavors such as Dworkin's UbuWeb Anthology of Conceptual Writing, Against Expression strives to be eccentrically unpredictably omnivorous, including big surprises (Hart Crane's retro-romantic "Emblems of Conduct") and omitting figures one would assume to be de rigueur in a collection of this kind (Gertrude Stein).
And the texts themselves! Against Expression is a marvelous compendium of "what ifs." What if I wrote a novel using only the letter T? What if I selectively deleted large chunks of Shakespeare's Sonnets? What if wrote down bibliographic information for absolutely everything I ever read, from product labels to scholarly articles? What if I rewrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) in a Yorkshire dialect? What if recorded every word I spoke for a week? What if I tried to describe in exhaustive detail the opening scene of the film Apocalypse Now (1979)? What if I compared the first lines of every English translation of Dante's Inferno (1321) in the British Library? What if I collected and alphabetized every response to a Rorschach inkblot test in a stack of old psychology textbooks? What if I paid a bunch textbooks? What if I paid a bunch of people five bucks each to write down fifty words of their choice?
These thought experiments often lead to curiously compelling results. Claude Closky's The First Thousand Numbers Classified in Alphabetical Order (1989) delivers exactly what its title promises:
eight hundred and four, eight hundred and fourteen, eight hundred and nineteen, eight hundred and ninety, eight hundred and ninety-eight, eight hundred and ninety-five, eight hundred ninety-four, eight hundred ninety-nine, eight hundred ninety-one, eight-hundred ninety-seven, eight hundred and ninety-six.
At first Closky's text is viscerally frustrating. It feels just plain wrong, for instance, for ninety-five to precede ninety-four or ninety-seven ninety-six. Then one begins to get the hang of it and starts guessing what the next few terms in the series are going to be. After a while, this jump-around, counterintuitive sequence of integers begins to provoke more wide-ranging speculations. What is going to come after "eight hundred" in this skewed math? Where would "one thousand" occur in the work as a whole? Halfway through? Three quarters? What is going to be the final number? Which is more fundamental to the way an adult thinks, counting or spelling? How and why?
If entries such as Closky's estrange the very fundamentals of the reading process, other pieces in the anthology, such as Alexandra Nemerov's "First My Motorola," are efforts at updating conventional genres, in this case the lyric poem. She purports to list "every brand she touched over the course of a day in chronological order":
First, my Motorola
Then my Frette
Then my Sonia Rykiel
Then my Bulgari
Then my Asprey
Then my Cartier
Then my Kohler.
Although the method of composition here might appear wholly impersonal, Nemerov ends up revealing quite a bit about herself. One can easily reconstruct her movements and actions based on the spray of proper nouns. "First, my Motorola": Motorola, of course, is synonymous with cell phones, and since it is the first thing she touches once awake, she must be using it as an alarm. She throws aside her covers (Frette makes fine linens) and puts on a designer outfit, probably knitwear, since that is Sonia Rykiel's trademark. Next, it is time to put on her jewelry and perhaps a watch (Bulgari, Asprey, Cartier), and, fully dressed, she now heads to the bathroom (Kohler). Anyone else who tried to replicate this exercise would likely reveal an entirely different set of morning rituals. I, for one, would be wholly at a loss concerning the brand of sheets I own—I removed the labels long ago—and any clothing I mentioned would likely be from Kohl's, not Sax. But I would never have dreamed up this "what if" scenario in the first place. The most illuminating thing about "First My Motorola": Nemerov herself has chosen this manner of cataloguing a day. The unfurling anaphoric list and the proliferation of brand names conveys the sense that careful creative consumption and artful display provide her life with stability and structure. Significantly, much-desired stability and structure. Significantly, the narrow column, from the opening "my Motorola" to the final line's "finally, my Motorola" (time to set the alarm so it can all begin again tomorrow!), looks eerily like a backbone.
If my description of Nemerov's poem has begun to make it sound, well, expressive, that is par for the course. Many of the works included in Against Expression—among them an extract from Jen Bervin's Nets (2004), Harryette Mullen's "Elliptical," and a few pages from Ariana Reines's The Cow (2006)—contain idiosyncratic original passages that are hard to describe as anything other than out-and-out lyrical. Presumably, the editors could have used the front matter of the anthology to explain their criteria for inclusion, however unconventional or expansive. Unfortunately, though, the two essays at the beginning of Against Expression do not do an ideal job of introducing the anthology or explaining its key terms.
The first of them, Goldsmith's preface, argues that the widespread use of digital technologies has fundamentally altered both what authors write and what readers demand. He offers, however, no solid proof. One could call the piece a manifesto, but the tone is wrong. The writing is too deadpan to stir the blood or fire the imagination. Moreover, while it does provide insights into Goldsmith's own appropriation-based writing from Soliloquy (2001) to Sports (2008), it also directs readers to think about a topic, the advent of the Internet, that later proves only intermittently helpful as readers confront the wild array of writing practices on exhibit in the anthology, many of which predate the first IBM mainframes.
As if acknowledging that he, too, finds Goldsmith's arguments incomplete or troublesome, Dworkin provides a second, supplementary preface that pursues an entirely different tack. His intent is reasonable and laudable. He seeks to provide a literary- and art-historical genealogy for the texts collected in Against Expression. More specifically, he explores links between contemporary "conceptual writing" and the varieties of word-based art, also called conceptual, associated with the sixties and seventies. Ultimately, he stresses rupture over continuity. Today's conceptualists, he maintains, generally amass and showcase the raw undigested stuff of writing, whereas artists a generation ago tended to assert the aesthetic superiority of generative ideas over any possible physical realization.
If encountered in a scholarly journal, Dworkin's essay would represent a first-rate piece of criticism. Here, however, it doesn't quite fit. It provides a high level of detail, and the academic to-and-fro about the originality of conceptual writing will probably perplex the uninitiated. Yes, there are haters who habitually announce that the avant-garde is absolutely positively most sincerely dead and haughtily dismiss any attempted revival as derivative pale neo-avant-gardism. (When obliged to endure these tirades, one cannot help but wonder whether the same critics would also kvetch about, say, Italian restaurants in North Beach claiming to serve pizza when all they could ever hope to produce would be neo-pizza, an ersatz imitation of the tomatoey goodness and savory crunch of the original nineteenth century pizza napoletana.) Dworkin chooses to stand at the blackboard and rebut the opposition when the best policy might have been to usher readers swiftly to their tables and let the feast begin.
Is Against Expression worth reading? Absolutely. Few literary collections have left me so breathlessly excited. But one should get to know it by flipping around in it randomly, paying limited attention at first to the title, the headnotes, and other scholarly apparatus. What probably began as a coterie venture somewhere along the way turned into an abundance of riches containable under no single label. It has the potential to serve as an unofficial textbook for a generation of young writers looking to strike out into new territory. What if I tried this? Or did this? What if I threw caution to the wind? It gives permission to forget all the rules that you ever internalized and start over. While it might not contain any work by Stein, Against Expression, in the tradition of her How to Write (1931), issues a call for readers and writers to begin again and again and see where their ingenuity can take them. [End Page 6]
Brian M. Reed teaches at the University of Washington and is the author of Hart Crane: After His Lights and the forthcoming Phenomenal Reading: Essays in Modern and Contemporary Poetics.
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“Viet Nam has made great progress against HIV. But big challenges remain. It is critical for Viet Nam to focus precious national resources on three things: the right people, the right places and scaling up the most effective interventions,” said Dr. Kristan Schoultz, Country Director of UNAIDS Viet Nam.
“The right people are key populations at higher risk of infection: people who inject drugs and their sexual partners, people who buy and sell sex and men who have sex with men. We need to reach out to these populations in high-burdened areas of the country with interventions that make the biggest difference: condoms, sterile injecting equipment, HIV testing and antiretroviral treatment,” said Schoultz.
Viet Nam has made significant strides in scaling up HIV treatment and reducing the rate of new HIV infections; as a result, the epidemic appears to be stabilising. However, high levels of HIV persist among key populations.
In some cities, more than half of men who inject drugs were living with HIV by the end of 2012. The national rate for men having HIV among those who inject drugs was estimated at 11 per cent. National HIV prevalence among female sex workers was 2.7 per cent. Current evidence also indicates that HIV prevalence is increasing among men who have sex with men, a population that will account for an increasing proportion of future HIV infections.
The epidemic was still prevalent in mountainous and remote areas, said Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and people living with HIV/AIDS continued to face significant discrimination—making it harder for them to access health services.
Decreasing support, both technical and financial, also presented an obstacle, Phuc added.
As donor funding for HIV response declines, the United Nations was encouraging the country to expand initiatives that focus on earlier diagnosis and getting people on treatment as soon as possible in order to maximise the returns and impact of national investment.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) also called on Viet Nam to make greater efforts to improve access to prevention, treatment, care and support services for key populations. This could be achieved through strengthening the partnership between the Ministry of Health and communities, promoting more proactive, simplified HIV testing and counseling strategies and maximising the treatment and prevention benefits of antiretroviral treatment.
“HIV response in Viet Nam is at a pivotal juncture. The scaling-up of innovative approaches is required to maintain momentum and build upon past achievements,” said WHO Representative in Viet Nam Dr. Takeshi Kasai.
“We now know that HIV treatment can prevent transmission of HIV. By further supporting early access to HIV diagnosis and treatment, Viet Nam will be able to reduce new HIV infections and deaths caused by AIDS,” added Kasai.
Deputy Prime Minister Phuc said the Prime Minister had approved a project to ensure funding for HIV/AIDS control and prevention activities for the 2013-2020 period.
A meeting with the theme “Towards no more new HIV infected people” was organised by the Viet Nam Red Cross Society in collaboration with the Viet Nam Youth Network on HIV/AIDS Prevention on Saturday in Ha Noi. Free consulting and HIV testing services were available alongside art and cultural performances and information aiming at preventing the disease and eliminating the stigma associated with it. — VNS
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Diversity is still a hot topic and worth leaders' attention in many ways. However, diversity in recruitment. If you can achieve this as a leader, you will considerably contribute to the growth and prosperity of the business. An opportunity and gateway to level up the company diversity and inclusion over time and build a culture for contributors. A resonant company.
Although I'm sure you're an expert on this subject, let's start this post with a discussion on diversity recruitment strategies. What exactly is a diversity recruitment approach? Well, to me diversity recruitment approach refers to implementing an overall talent management strategy to increase the representation of people from underrepresented areas of society. These strategies vary widely in their scope and emphasis.
There are several strategies such as expanding the number of personnel with relevant skills. Additionally, it involves hiring from economically, educationally, culturally, socially, and scientifically diverse racial, ethnic, or cultural backgrounds. Furthermore, it recruits from areas not traditionally associated with high-paying jobs and expands access to higher education. Some approaches aim to promote access to high-paying jobs through recruiting from lower economic status groups, increasing access to health care, and assisting employees with financial requirements.
These strategies are difficult to implement, but pioneers believe diversity recruiting is indeed essential despite the many challenges, and "81% have a diversity recruiting strategy, according to report from diversity in the workplace. It demands hard work and of course, it is challenging. According to (SHRM) statistics, two of the most significant impediments to diversity recruiting are "indifference" (33%) and "lack of top-level commitment" (22 %).
A few months ago, when researching recruitment diversity and inclusion for the first time, I received an unexpected call from an HR buddy. And I asked her without hesitation what the purpose of implementing a diversity recruitment strategy is? "It's not worth it to spend much time on this." she said. How insignificant it is when diverse teams outperform individual decision-makers up to 87% of the time while making business decisions. So what do you think is the purpose of this strategy?
Strategy aims to assist managers in increasing company performance by attracting the most talented individuals while maintaining a tolerant, fair, and equitable work environment. The method enables managers to recruit and retain people with diverse backgrounds, experiences, skill sets, and cultures. A comprehensive diversity recruitment plan considers and evaluates the influence of shifting demographics, workplace habits, and the company's financial results. It focuses on attracting and retaining a diverse workforce that reflects various ages, educational achievements, ethnicity, gender, and culture. The goal is to ensure that everyone in the workplace has access to and builds a happy and healthy working environment based on the company's business results.
The larger pool of candidates a firm has, the better chance of finding qualified and talented employees. When a company has more diverse applicants, the individuals considered for a position can range from highly experienced executives to entry-level staff. Hiring the right people at the right time and in the right seat can make a real difference in the growth and success of a business. In addition, the diversity in a pool of potential candidates can help level the culture of growth. According to Harvard Business Review, more diversified Companies had 19% higher innovation revenues. Well, this is wonderful, isn't it?
Now let's see what role diversity and inclusion strategy will play in the growth of a business. Diversity is a broad category that encompasses a broad spectrum of differences. It also implies a commitment to equality, so putting a diverse and inclusive hiring team together is one of the most important decisions a company can make. A successful recruiting culture help employees feel welcomed and join the cause and emerge with the value proposition. There are many other factors to consider when hiring individuals who exhibit these traits, skills, and cultures.
Companies may need to have an open mind when it comes to diversity and inclusion. This doesn't necessarily mean that they have to actively seek out employees who don't fall into biases. This means you've gone out of your way to find a person with skills and talents who have shown interest and openness to change. According to Deloitte, inclusive teams outperform their peers in team-based assessments by an average of 80%.
Diverse workforce improvement potential areas:
Women offer various unique skills and personalities to the workplace that can be useful to a diverse workforce. As a woman, I enjoy writing this. If a large percentage of employees are women, they will become an integral part of the company's diversity and effort.
According to McKinsey statistics, companies with more than 30% female executives outperform those with 10% – 30% female executives. Additionally, according to another McKinsey study, companies' earnings and share performance can increase by about 50% when women are well represented in senior leadership roles. So if you want your business to grow significantly, pay more attention to hiring us, women.
The numbers are quite attractive when it comes to the profitability results in companies with diversity in ethnicity.
"In the case of ethnic and cultural diversity, our business-case findings are equally compelling: in 2019, top-quartile companies outperformed those in the fourth one by 36 percent in profitability, slightly up from 33 percent in 2017 and 35 percent in 2014. As we have previously found, the likelihood of outperformance continues to be higher for diversity in ethnicity than for gender."
Another reason that diversity in recruitment is vital is the chances employees grow and expand in their roles are higher. Diversity brings in new perspectives and understanding that can help a company grow and mature as they go. Additionally, diversity can help companies make effective changes, such as major strategic or leadership changes. When diversity is brought in on a full-time, seasonal, or even hourly basis, the ability to change and adapt to paradigm shifts are way higher.
Another answer to the question is it centers around the fact that a diverse workplace promote a work environment that is tolerant, open, and honest. When you have people who accept no matter their differences, you balance the workplace and the forces. Communication improves once people speak up and share the ground space. This is significant for employees, as data indicate 75% of employees believe their workplace needs more diversity.
Diversity in recruiting will boost employee growth and development while also increasing the credibility of the employer brand. According to Deloitte, 23% of respondents indicated they had already left the firm due to the lack of inclusivity.
As one of the leaders in an organization dedicated to implementing comprehensive diversity policies and programs, I am often asked how to create a strong unbiased recruiting strategy. An initial step is to examine the current climate within the company, specifically, in recruiting and talent acquisition department. What can we do to attract and recruit people who share our values?
In my opinion, there are three essential components to a comprehensive diversity program. They are (in no particular order): a complete and transparent written policy, specific and detailed workplace orientation training, and designing a comprehensive and inclusive career and employment path. Once we have addressed these three elements, we will be well on our way to creating a truly diverse and balanced workforce.
To answer the question, how to create a substantial diversity recruiting station, one must first understand the different types of positions that entail hiring decisions. In addition, some positions are far more challenging to recruit for than others. Positions such as software engineers, product management, data scientist, DevOps engineer or technical recruiters tend to be very competitive.
Documenting your diversity and inclusion program, your approach, audits, intervals, Dos and Don'ts can boost the company transparency and trust within the workplace and place to refer to once a condition arises.
Conducting a comprehensive recruiting process doesn't end with ensuring that every candidate is aware of their job duties, skills, and worth. Every employee should be provided with a personalized career plan detailing what the organization expects and what offers. This should include information about what kind of work they will be doing (administrative, sales, etc.), the salary range (including overtime and competitive compensations), their career progression (to anticipate their future roles), as well as any extra-special benefits that may be included.
The next step is to conduct comprehensive employee orientation training for every employee, including formal training, delivered in-house and informal employee referral events (i.e., company social hours or employee discounts at local businesses).
The recruitment process should include a detailed evaluation of an applicant's job skills, experience, and personal traits. cognitive ability and interests. In addition, an applicant's competence should be assessed through their resume, references, co-workers, and interaction with the organization in general. Finally, applicants should undergo an interview or phone screening process to make sure that they match the organization's hiring standards.
However, you may need a sequential pipeline to engage passive candidates upon their profile and the cohort they classified in your candidate pool.
Get the best out of AI sourcing tools instead of obsolete search strings to vast your reach and source high potential passive candidates. Only 11% of firms are utilizing AI technology to find hard-to-reach candidates, according to SHRM, and 63% of companies aren't employing AI in any phase of the hiring process.
Conduct background checks and reference checks as one of the steps in your recruiting pipeline. These checks should include a thorough review of an employee's criminal history, including felony, misdemeanor, and record of arrests. This type of background check serves two purposes. Not only can it provide valuable information that will be reviewed during the recruitment process, but it can also prevent future risk underneath. In addition, a thorough background check can help ensure that the employee can do the job correctly and contribute to the business's success.
Assessing the outcomes of a diversity hiring practice is relatively as crucial as setting one. Anonymous surveys, questionnaires or focus groups to gather information about workplace culture and how successful the workplace is when it comes to attracting and retaining diverse applicants. However, according to Harvard Business Review, diversified organizations are 70% more likely to conquer new markets than companies with little diversity.
Well, I came to the end of the article, and I hope you do not get tired of reading this. As usual, I want to have an overview of today's topic before leaving. Conducting an effective recruitment process goes beyond simply determining which applicants are best qualified for a position. It also involves developing a workplace climate where people can speak up, take part in decision making process while providing security and any workplace misconduct isn't tolerated. Creating a work environment supportive of diversity and cultural awareness can go a long way toward reducing discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Conducting an effective recruitment and employment office culture requires creativity, flexibility, and knowledge.
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For displaced persons, memory and identity is performed, (re)constructed and (re)negotiated daily. Forced displacement radically reshapes identity, with results ranging from successful hybridization to feelings of permanent misplacement. This compelling and intimate description of places of pain and (be)longing that were lost during the 1992–95 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as of survivors' places of resettlement in Australia, Europe and North America, serves as a powerful illustration of the complex interplay between place, memory and identity. It is even more the case when those places have been vandalized, divided up, brutalized and scarred. However, as the author shows, these places of humiliation and suffering are also places of desire, with displaced survivors emulating their former homes in the far corners of the globe where they have resettled.
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Along with the new buildings in Pump Square there are some very nice looking old buildings but it is what you can't see that is much more interesting.
The history of Pump Square is veiled in mystery, it is not mentioned by that name before 1600 but it was a place of importance long before that date. An old tradition says that a prison once stood there and that in this prison there were two dungeons below the ground level, one three steps lower than the other. It is said that in the floor of the lower dungeon a spring of water flowed continuously and the most difficult prisoners were confined in this cell where they had to pump up water for the inhabitants of the town, the punishment being that if the prisoner ceased from his work his cell would flood and he would be more uncomfortable. The two cells are in existence, they are arched and have groined roofs and were opened out for examination many years ago.
There are other reasons that seem to prove that Pump Square was a centre of some importance in the early years of Boston's history. Just as all the roads and lanes entering the town open into the Market Place, so all the narrow lanes east of the Market Place (Still Lane, Dolphin Lane etc.) lead into Pump Square along with the narrow lanes of Bargate (Mitre Lane, Silver Street) and Main Ridge.
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Toner Cartridges Help University Cut Printing Costs
Using recycled toner cartridges has helped an Australian university save around £1 million after it implemented eco-friendly printing solutions.
The University of New South Wales (UNSW), which has nearly 40,000 students, integrated its print and mail operations into one single centre, called P3, FutureGov Asia Pacific reports.a
In an effort to lower the carbon footprint of the school, the university has started to use recycled toner cartridges, completely recycled paper and environmentally-friendly printers.
UNSW's collective student population produce, on average, a staggering 668,000 printed documents every day.
Jenny Denman, head of UNSW's facilities management, told FutureGov Asia Pacific: "P3 was designed according to workflow: starting from receipt of jobs, to digitisation of hardcopy, printing to any connected printers, then followed by finishing and binding."
Recently, technology firm Ultraspeed said environmentally-friendly office equipment in the workplace is set to become more widespread, as employees will increasingly demand it of their managers.
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Fund, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding.]
1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes.
2. To place in a fund, as money.
3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt.
1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.
2. Investing in the public funds.
Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt.
n 1: financial resources provided to make some project possible;
"the foundation provided support for the experiment"
[syn: support, financial support, backing, financial
2: the act of financing [syn: financing]
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All most all of patients with diabetics are living with foamy urine. Although foamy urine does not cause any pains to patients, it may underlying severe symptoms to patients. Therefore, patients need to make it clear that why do diabetic have foamy urine and how do patients relive foamy urine with diabetes? Now, this article will explain it in details.
Why do diabetic have foamy urine?
Our body digest the protein we eat from foods, which create wastes products and useful substances. In our kidneys, there are millions of tiny blood holes and capillaries acting as filters. When blood flow through blood vessels, small substances, such as creatinine and urea will be eliminated out of body in the form of urine and then the useful substances, such as proteins and red blood cells are too big to pass through the kidneys and they will be kept in blood vessels. However, high levels of blood sugar will makes the filters fill too much substances. All these extra work make the kidneys can not to work well. Over years, the kidneys can not fulfill its function. As a result, proteins and red blood cells begin to leak into urine and large amount of wastes products build up in the body.
Is there anything to help diabetics eliminate foamy urine?
Since foamy urine is manly caused by high levels of blood sugar, the primary treatment for controlling foamy urine is to control blood glucose levels and high blood pressure through lifestyles changes and taking certain medications, such as ARBs and ACE inhibitors, while these are not fundamental way to help patients control proteinuria. Attention for controlling proteinuria should be paid to repair the diesease inherent cells and tissues. Micro-Chinese Medicine Osmotherapy, is developed by a great excellent renal doctors from Shijiazhuang Kidney Disease, have been proved to be very effective in treating kidney disease. By promoting blood circulation and dilating blood vessels, sufficient blood and oxygen can be delivered to the kidneys, thus providing a health external environment to help the diseased inherent cells repaired. Only by this way can foamy urine relived fundamentally.
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Hampton Bays, NY -- (SBWIRE) -- 01/17/2014 -- Ask any woman, and they’ll tell you – they’ve been promised the earth, by diet book after diet book, all with different plans, potions or ‘secrets’.
It’s no surprise then, that many women get tired of the constant onslaught of misinformation and have no idea where to turn to find out the truth about their health and how they can age without feeling sick, tired, fat or all of the above.
“The problem is all of the lies out there, to put it bluntly,” says Gregory Anne Cox, author of new book ‘Your Genes Do Not Determine the Size of Your Jeans’. “Women are told – well, you have to eat only sprouts. You can’t eat butter, and you must exercise for 3 hours a day! It’s exhausting for people to try to sort through what’s real and what’s not.”
‘Your Genes Do Not Determine the Size of Your Jeans’ is full of Cox’s uncommon advice and born from her years as a nutrition expert, women’s health coach and former chef. Drawing from her work with clients and medical professionals, Cox blows the lid off of many preconceived ideas about health and wellness, while still maintaining a sense of humor.
“The tone is conversational – I want readers to feel as if they’re sitting and chatting with me over a cup of coffee,” says Cox. “Each chapter is a myth, for example, ‘Calories In = Calories Out’ and ‘Cholesterol is the enemy and statin drugs are the answer.’ I take each myth apart and give readers the reasons why. They are then presented with the facts with a view towards improving their health, helping them lose weight, and age in good health, disease free.”
Were you out of the room when they passed out the manual on midlife?
Are you confused by the conflicting information out there on what's healthy and what's not, what kind of exercise works and what doesn’t, what to eat at midlife and beyond to keep--or get--a body you can love? The answers is are here in this book.
Listen up, disease is an inevitable part of aging and Your Genes Do Not Determine the Size of Your Jeans proves that it's not!
This book busts 10 of the common myths around food, aging, diseases, and drugs.
You'll learn why all calories are not created equal and which ones will sabotage your weight loss efforts.
Are you afraid of cholesterol in your food? Do you take a drug to keep it low? Find out why the lies about cholesterol are especially damaging to women.
Has anyone ever dismissed a concern you had with "This is what happens at your age?"
Kick this and other limiting thoughts to the curb. Health and vitality are possible at any age.
If you are exercising for hours but not getting the results you want or simply don't have that much time you'll want to read chapter 10 and find out the truth about exercise.
Sugar, sleep, hormones, and habits are looked at in detail with the latest science weighing in. Best of all, this information is practical and easy to understand.
We must imagine the life we want no matter what age and then go get it. Often that takes a whole new way of thinking. This book will teach you how to start.
If you want to live a healthy and delicious life and you'd like a manual to follow, this is your book.
Cox knows there is a lot of misinformation out there, especially when it comes to women’s health, and her mission is to rid the industry of false promises and the distortion about certain foods.
“The world is awash in old science, like the low cholesterol theory and it is keeping people fat, frustrated, and feeling like crap,” says Cox. “The biggest health organizations are kept alive by the food companies that sugar coat-- literally in many cases - the contents and consequences of their products.”
Continuing, “’Itchy, bitchy, fat and frazzled’ are the first 5 words of the introduction and it's where I was when I started researching how to feel like myself again, and stay that way rather than going down hill. Feeling bad is not a guaranteed by product of aging. This book is for people who don't believe that.”
Since its release, Cox’s book has generated glowing reviews.
“Greg puts complicated science in simple language, sharing practical information from credible sources along with real-life examples and personal stories, all delivered with her special brand of spunk, spirit and humor,” wrote islandgirl1957.
Kat Tansey was equally as enthusiastic, writing: “I urge you to get this book, tell your friends about it, devour it, talk about it. I guarantee you will change at least one habit as a result of this book, and then if you keep going back to it you will change another, and then another. And this is what counts. Knowing is nice. Choosing to change is nice. Actually changing is the real game, and Gregory Anne Cox is, in my humble opinion, put on this earth to help us win this game.”
‘Your Genes Do Not Determine the Size of Your Jeans’ is available now from Amazon: http://amzn.to/1am5X0g
About Gregory Anne
As a lifestyle evangelist and wellness warrior Gregory Anne is intent on igniting a radical health revolution that transforms the way we do food and health in this country. She is first and foremost a health coach and life mentor and she speaks on the absurdities of the drug culture and processed food world we live in. What's on the end of our fork is way more powerful than anything on a prescription pad when it comes to looking and feeling our best and Gregory is on a mission to get the word out about that.
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Part Number : 29F32G08C
Function : 32GB, NAND Flash Memory
Package : TSSOP 48 Pin Type
Manufactures : Micron
NAND technology provides a cost-effective solution for applications requiring highdensity solid-state storage. The MT29F2G08AxB and MT29F2G16AxB are 2Gb NAND Flash memory devices. The MT29F4G08BxB and MT29F4G16BxB are two-die stacks that operate as a single 4Gb device. The MT29F8G08FAB is a four-die stack that operates as two independent 4Gb devices (MT29F4G08BxB), providing a total storage capacity of 8Gb in a single, space-saving package. Micron NAND Flash devices include standard NAND features as well as new features designed to enhance system-level performance.
• Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) 2.1-compliant1 • Multiple-level cell (MLC) technology • Organization – Page size x8: 4320 bytes (4096 + 224 bytes) – Block size: 256 pages (1024K + 56K bytes) – Plane size: 2 planes x 2048 blocks per plane – Device size: 32Gb: 4096 blocks; 64Gb: 8192 blocks; 128Gb: 16,384 blocks; 256Gb: 32,768 blocks • Synchronous I/O performance – Up to synchronous timing mode 4 – Clock rate: 12ns (DDR) – Read/write throughput per pin: 166 MT/s • Asynchronous I/O performance – Up to asynchronous timing mode 4 – tRC/tWC: 25ns (MIN) • Array performance – Read page: 50µs (MAX) – Program page: 900µs (TYP) – Erase block: 3ms (TYP) • Operating Voltage Range – VCC: 2.7–3.6V – VCCQ: 1.7–1.95V, 2.7–3.6V • Command set: ONFI NAND Flash Protocol • Advanced Command Set – Program cache – Read cache sequential – Read cache random – One-time programmable (OTP) mode – Multi-plane commands – Multi-LUN operations – Read unique ID – Copyback • First block (block address 00h) is valid when shipped from factory. For minimum required ECC, see Error Management (page 108). • RESET (FFh) required as first command after poweron • Operation status byte provides software method for detecting – Operation completion – Pass/fail condition – Write-protect status • Data strobe (DQS) signals provide a hardware method for synchronizing data DQ in the synchronous interface • Copyback operations supported within the plane from which data is read • Quality and reliability – Data retention: 10 years – Endurance: 5000 PROGRAM/ERASE cycles • Operating temperature: – Commercial: 0°C to +70°C – Industrial (IT): –40ºC to +85ºC • Package – 52-pad LGA – 48-pin TSOP – 100-ball BGA Note: 1. The ONFI 2.1 specification is available at www.onfi.org. PDF: 09005aef836c9ded Rev. F 12/09 EN 1 Products and specifications discussed herein are subject to change by Micron without notice. Micron Technology, Inc. reserves the right to change products or specifications without notice. © 2008 Micron Technology, Inc. All rights reserved. Micron Confidential and Proprietary 32Gb, 64Gb, 128Gb, 256Gb Asynchronous/Synchronous NAND Features Part Numbering Information Micron NAND Flash devices are available in different configurations and densities. Verify valid part numbers by using Micron’s part catalog search at www.micron.com. To compare features and specifications by device type, visit www.micron.com/products. Contact the […]
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Many Minnesota companies utilize interns because it can be cost-effective for the employer and beneficial for student interns in gaining real-world skills. There are legal risks, however, that companies should guard against prior to hiring interns -- especially if the internship will be unpaid. For example, companies might misclassify interns as non-employees rather than employees, and they could be exposed to claims for unpaid minimum wage and overtime pay, liquidated damages in an equal amount, and an award of attorney’s fees and costs under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Increasing media attention on unpaid internships and the rising number of class action lawsuits filed by former interns should alert companies that preventative legal advice can be extremely valuable. Additionally, the U.S. Department of Labor warns that there are very narrow circumstances under which private for-profit employers can utilize unpaid interns.
The federal wage and hour statute, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 201 et seq., requires that covered, non-exempt employees be paid at least the federal minimum wage for each hour worked and receive overtime pay at one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked over 40 in a workweek. Many unpaid interns will fall under these requirements and companies should carefully consider whether they must pay interns minimum wage and overtime. To learn more, visit our Wage and Hours Laws page.
Non-Profit and Government Agencies
The FLSA minimum wage and overtime requirements generally do not apply to volunteered services to nonprofit charitable organizations or government agencies; thus, unpaid internships in these agencies are generally permissible under federal law. To learn more, visit our Non-Profit Organizations page.
Private For-Profit Companies
Unlike non-profit and government agencies, interns in the for-profit private sector typically must be paid in accordance with the FLSA. The U.S. Department of Labor, however, has recognized that there are some circumstances where an employer may not be required to compensate an intern because no employment relationship exists under the FLSA. To learn more, visit our For Profit Companies page.
Minnesota Intern Law Initial Legal Consultation
your company currently works with unpaid interns or is thinking about
implementing an unpaid internship program in the future, you may wish to
seek legal advice regarding the legality of your program and assistance
in structuring your program to minimize the risk of litigation. To
learn more, Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. offers a two (2) hour initial legal consultation
regarding your Minnesota intern law questions for the flat fee of $500.
To schedule your initial consultation, please read the Terms & Conditions and contact Legal Assistant Joni Spratt at 612-455-0500 or email@example.com.
© 2013 Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A.
The Minneapolis internship and employment attorneys of Trepanier MacGillis Battina P.A. in Minneapolis, Minnesota represent employers regarding unpaid internship law, wage and hour law, overtime, unpaid wages, and unpaid commissions. Our Minneapolis internship and employment attorneys represent clients in Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Cloud, Rochester, Duluth, Albert Lea, Apple Valley, Brainerd, Eagan, Eden Prairie, Edina, Elk River, Mankato, Maple Grove, Minnetonka, Moorhead, Richfield, Stillwater, Twin Cities, and other cities within the State of Minnesota (MN) (Minn.).
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Life is Not About Money, But About People
While I respect Dr. Thorp as Chancellor, I was very frustrated listening to his interview regarding the Northside community, a traditional African-American part of Chapel Hill. He seemed to be on the side of the African Americans whose have lived there for generations but made no effort to defend their right to stay there, whereas Jim Heavner was promoting the area as a less-expensive rental market for students. I am horrified the way that area is being made inaccessible to the people who have called Northside home and are being pushed out if it.
Where are they to go? Many work for the university at not very high wages, and can’t afford transportation and time if they have to live further out, whereas the students have more living opportunities provided by the university, apartment complexes and investors with rental properties. How must the African American community be feeling at the destruction of their community?
Greenbriar is a disgrace, a true blot on the landscape, and now they are being invaded by short-term students who don’t give a hoot about their neighbors, and trash the area. We all, including Dr. Thorp and Jim Heavner, should be ashamed of the way these people are being and have been treated (as well as those in the Rogers Road community), just for the sake of some careless students, who have a life ahead of them undreamed of by many of the African-American community. Life is not all about money, but about people.
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In the previous EIT article, I shared several warmers that you can use in your next lesson. This time around, I’m providing a few lead-ins, activities that preview the topic, grammar or vocabulary of your lesson.
Related and Unrelated Vocabulary
Choose 5 words that are related to the topic of your lesson, and think of 5 more that are unrelated. Write these up on the board in random order. Put students into pairs and ask them to guess which 5 words have something to do with the day’s lesson. After they’ve discussed a couple of minutes, call on several pairs to read out their guess. Finally, reveal the answer by erasing the 5 unrelated words.
Play a song that relates to the topic of your lesson. If your class has a projector, you might want to play a version on YouTube that features lyrics, if one exists. Play it once, and then ask students for their reactions.
Chorus of Words
Before class, choose an important sentence from your teaching material (one that includes vocabulary or grammar you want students to focus on). The sentence should be between 9 to 12 words. Write each word on a separate card. In class, invite one student to leave the classroom for a couple of minutes. Give each student a card, and tell them to say the words in different ways (whispering, shouting, singing, slowly, quickly, etc.) when the other student returns. They should say the words over and over several times, and they should talk over each other. Bring the student back into class. Ask him to listen to the words and try to write the correct sentence on the board.
Write the topic of your lesson in the middle of the board. Draw a circle around it. Ask a student to give you a word that relates to the topic. Write it on the board, draw a circle around that word, and draw a line back to the circle in the middle of the board. Continue this process, adding new words until you have about 14 or 15.
Hall Houston teaches at Kainan University in Taoyuan County, Taiwan. His articles have been published in periodicals such as It's for Teachers, Modern English Teacher and English Teaching Professional. He has written 3 books: The Creative Classroom: Teaching Languages Outside the Box, Provoking Thought: Memory and Thinking in ELT, and The ELT Daily Journal: Learning to Teach ESL/EFL.
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Through her work as a journalist, former BBC World News anchor, and especially her films, the Emmy award-winning director Carla Garapedian knows how to shine a white hot light on issues that might otherwise go unnoticed by the world. Utilizing the music of Grammy award-winning rock quartet System of a Down and exploring the main thesis from Harvard professor Samantha Power’s Pulitzer prize winning book “A Problem from Hell”: America and the Age of Genocide, Garapedian’s latest documentary Screamers is a film that explores the reasons why genocide continues to happen and why the US government continues to remain neutral.
It’s nearly impossible to remain the same after watching Screamers. The movie is challenging on several levels but most of all it compels—making the controversial topic accessible via the excellent use of SOAD’s music—and appropriately puts the focus on the individual to act, giving you the same feeling and aftereffect of watching the film Hotel Rwanda.
Hrant Dink, John Dolmayan, Daron Malakian, Shavo Odadjian, Serj Tankian
Very limited release: 8 Dec 2006
Garapedian was the movie’s first convert. During our talk via phone from Los Angeles where the film debuted, Carla explained that her perception of the younger generation—the film’s main audience—was changed from cynical to hopeful, with even tough government critics responding well to her film. Most of all, as an Armenian herself, she wants to join the legacy of past “screamers” (people who are so compelled about issues like genocide that they can only “scream” for action to be taken) and give the world an opportunity to become aware of genocide and take action against it.
You’ve made several films about controversial issues. What have you learned the most about your previous films that helped you make this one?
Most of my films have been about one event but this one was about several events. But my films are always centered around exposing a lie by using pictures and with Screamers I wanted to do the same thing but this time I was combining more music with the pictures to get people to take action against genocide.
What got you into doing the type of work you do?
It is about being Armenian I guess. Not that all Armenians do the kind of work that I do but I’ve experience great injustice through my family history that hasn’t been rectified. And, in an indirect way, through my work, I’ve been able to rectify the terrible injustices that were done to my family. I also wanted to give the sufferers of the Armenian genocide a voice because they didn’t have one.
In Samantha Power’s book she tells the story of other screamers who fought to end genocide and it seams as though you are carrying on the legacy.
I carry that book around like it’s my bible for telling my story. There’s so much in there that I find something new each time I read it. She points out each person who has become a screamer has failed because no genocide has been stopped that we know in our modern history. So you ask yourself, “What’s the point?” But on another level they do succeed because they kept the fight going.
I think what George Clooney and people like him are doing are great, but it’s frustrating on a certain level. Because I wonder why does it take a George Clooney to do something about genocide. It’s because we pay attention to celebrity in the US and unfortunately that’s the way it is. He might be called a failure because it hasn’t stopped but at least he’s bearing witness and doing something with his celebrity status.
How has the film been received?
Even though it’s about a tough subject, it’s still been well received. It’s been very gratifying that people who have seen the film have connected with those pictures and get what it is we’re trying to say. I believe the only way to stop this is to touch people at some very basic level. We can’t wait for politicians to do something because they’re not going to do something unless there is some sort of movement at ground level and that’s where System of a Down comes in. They’re not just a political band, but they just want to raise awareness and they let people do what they want, but they definitely want to educate their fans and then let their fans make their own decisions.
System of a Down
How did you meet System of a Down?
I met them in 2004 at the annual concert for the Armenian genocide that occurred in 1915. A bunch of other bands and other human rights organizations were there set up outside the concert area and handing out leaflets to their fans about Darfur, the Holocaust. So I was there representing The Armenian Film Foundation. I wasn’t really that familiar with their music beyond knowing that they were a very popular band. Fans were coming up to the table and the most interesting thing for me was that the fans knew about the Armenian genocide and they were very educated about Darfur. I was amazed that SOAD was doing more to raise awareness about the Armenian genocide than the Armenian community in the US for the last 50 years.
So the fans you met were learning about the Armenian genocide primarily from SOAD’s music?
Yes, but at first I wasn’t sure if they were attracting kids who were just generally more politically aware or if the kids were becoming aware via the band’s music. I think it was more the latter case.
Meeting SOAD didn’t all come together at the concert and they were approached by many artists and there are a lot of people who wanted to work with them. Michael Moore did a music video with them. SOAD had to first look at my films and my background. So we met in 2004. Serj Tankian wanted to do a film about all genocides and not only focus on the Armenians. He wanted to raise awareness about that. If I was going to do that then he was willing to cooperate.
Was it difficult to approach the scope and purpose of the film being a journalist and having such a close personal connection to genocide?
I’ve made other films and covered stories in other countries about human rights and I had originally shied away from doing a film about the Armenian Genocide because there were already a few made that were well done. I didn’t see what value I could add, and the subject is very personal to me because I’m a grandchild of the genocide survivor. And like the band, the issue is part of my DNA. I’ve grown up with it and it’s been a very familiar presence in my life. And when I saw SOAD and learned how they were bringing the issue into the current political debate I saw how the film could be different than previous film on the topic.
This story was unique in that I chose to tell it partly through Serj’s grandfather who is still living. His grandfather actually came from a village where my family was from, so it was pretty eerie and haunting to go back there and film. That’s the place where they were forced out and sent on the death marches. There were a lot of parallels to my family. And everybody has these very unique stories. And with Serj’s grandfather I had access to six hours of previous interviews. His telling reminded of the similar method, how the stories of people in domestic violence situations where the person tells of the events in a very monotone way until they get to a family member dying—then they will cry or show emotion. The only way to recall those moments is to detach yourself. In those interviews Serj’s grandfather was able to recall the worst things but when he got to the death of his two brothers and grandmother it really got to him.
With the message of your film being woven in and through the music of SOAD there seems to be a possibility that fans, namely the young ones shown screaming in the front rows at the concerts, might miss the point. What concerns you about the message getting lost in the music?
Most of the fans are not there for political reasons—that much I understand—but my take on it is that SOAD has told me that their music is not just about politics. And I know that’s true. Their lyrics are about many things and sometimes they hard to understand.
The way I see it is that I’m hoping to tie in the message with the rage and anger side of the band and start from there because I know that many of their fans first become interested in the emotion of the music and then take interest in the lyrics. That’s how I became interested in their music. Rage and anger and passion are needed to tell this story because if we don’t feel outrage about genocide then who are we as people? I didn’t understand the music at first because I’m in my 40s and I wasn’t in to that type of music. I was more into Beatles and Elton John. So I had real trouble at first but I heard the music and then went back to the lyrics and it made me want to learn more about what they were talking about.
There’s a sequence where you use the song “Chop Suey” in a very interesting way?
My editor and I really struggled with portraying that moment in the film since the film’s subject was so dark and we were showing the kids rocking out and having fun. But we decided that the band is not just about being serious. Their music is about celebrating life just as much as being political. I wanted to show a complete and balance portrayal of who SOAD is.
There are scenes where you show Serj taking care of his grandfather and Serj confronting Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert. You really see a different side of him that you normally don’t get if you only listen to the music.
Absolutely. Serj is such a soft-spoken person and that grandfather and Hastert scene is a great representation of how the band preaches tolerance and understanding and they don’t want to incite violence in any way, even though on stage you see them jumping around. The film’s contrast is something I wanted to show. As I spent time with them I found it interesting to see them more than just what you see on stage.
How hard was it to trust that your message wouldn’t be dismissed as just an angry rant, seeing as a band like SOAD can get misunderstood at first listen or seeing them on stage for the first time.
It was hard but I did have a lot of trust. But I also looked at the flip side. I’m lucky their music was heavy metal. Because if it had been something like Coldplay or Barry Manilow [laughs] the message wouldn’t have the same impact. And I’m grateful that I had that going for me. It’s really important to have the force of a SOAD song behind what genocide really means, because genocide has been going on for so long and somewhere along the way we lost the connection to what genocide really means. For some reason at some point it became optional for us to intervene and I don’t think it’s the fault of the ordinary person—it’s the fault of our foreign policy. Our foreign policy has been very consistent that we remain neutral in the face of genocide. We explore one of Samantha Power’s points that it’s not a valid excuse for the US government to say we didn’t know what was going on in 1915 or during the Holocaust. But she explains that there were several people reporting what was going on. But the US and British governments opted not to pursue the evidence. They didn’t say, “Oh, let the Jews die”—they were just indifferent to the evidence. So that means that we probably could have saved a couple hundred thousand by bombing a railway line. But because of other reasons and some anti-Semitism going on in the US and Europe they just didn’t want to look deep into what was going on.
How crucial is it that the US government deals with the guilt of being indifferent to the Armenian genocide and other genocides? The US government could admit and then resolve what happened to the Armenians. If that were to happen it seems it would being closure to the emotions suffered by people like you who come from those that suffered, but also create other problem with our country’s past?
Interesting question. SOAD drummer John Dolmayan poses the question well by saying, “The US response to what happened to the 25 million Native Americans and is, ‘Oh, that’s too bad.’” I had to look that static up because I thought it was large but when I looked it up that number was in the median average. So congressman are worried that if we admit to genocide here in the 21st century than it might open up our past—that it might bring Native Americans living today to also to begin demanding reparation.
For me, the big issue is that US foreign policy has been based on its alliance with Turkey and the genocide was very well documented in newspapers and public records. So it’s not that they didn’t know it was happening. It was that US government didn’t want to anger Turkey because Turkey was a crucial ally. So the issue of guilt is dictated by public opinion and this is where young people get involved.
Things change based on the perception of what the public wants. Look at the Tsunami in Indonesia. People saw how terrible it was and dug deep into their pocketbooks. So I believe if Americans see what really happened, and really felt and saw the pictures of genocide, things would change.
Another example is Hotel Rwanda. That film brought a massive amount of awareness, but it was too late and if people saw what is going on in Darfur everyday—the slaughter of women and children—they would pressure the US government.
But the problem with genocide is that it’s hard to document when it’s happening because the perpetrators do their best to keep foreigners out. And our news media is left in the dark in covering these issues long term, financing it over a period of time so you’re not going to get coverage of it. Even with the BBC, who I worked for, it’s hard for them to get in there and get coverage of Darfur. So how do you get the awareness without the pictures, because politicians want to stay out of it. The Bush administration has called it genocide but they don’t want to go the distance and do something about it.
What do you think will put the issue over the top and move the ordinary person to act?
When I saw An Inconvenient Truth, where people were buying an energy-saving light bulb that was much more expensive than a traditional one, I saw people changing their behavior because they’re scared ... With the genocide, it starts at the university level and people asking, “Where is our money going?” and it is a very grass roots campaign.
Do you think the older generation and our government take the audience (the younger generation) of the film seriously when it comes to taking action on social causes like genocide?
There’s been some surprising twists. I’ve met some older people who said they didn’t like the music at first but then they realized the energy is amazing. Then they feel not a direct connection to the music but more importantly a connection with the younger generation who is connecting with the music of SOAD. Even for me, I struggled with being cynical towards this younger generation and thought they were only focused on getting jobs and being much more materialistic than my generation. But I discovered that’s not true. I realized that they do care about many issues. Serj said to me one time that we start off thinking the right way—it’s just that we get more cynical as we get older and that’s why he’s working with young people. For him, it’s the way forward.
We had congressmen come to a screening at the Library of Congress with their staffers and think tankers. I cranked the volume because I really wanted them to hear it. And afterwards one of their spokes person came up and said, “Do you know how unusual it is for them to actually sit through it?” They may feel uneasy about the music and the physical aspect of the music and message, and it may scare them to see the kids like that because they don’t fully understand or control it.
Do you think they feel threatened by the youth?
I don’t know. But I do know that after going to several concerts I now get SOAD. I now totally understand what their music is all about. It’s about being part of the experience. It’s very tribal with everyone getting into the music. And that communal concert experience brings our conversation full circle. That same universal feeling you have at a concert or about a band is what I want to create to get people involved to stop genocide. [It is] part of the universal connection I’m trying to get people to feel to that country, those people far away who people we think we don’t care anything about. And at a concert it doesn’t matter who you are; you feel connected to that person you’re headbanging with. I felt and I was only supposed to feel filming it. Just think what we can do if we can tap into that connection and apply it to the issue of genocide.
How does taking action fit with the film’s audience’s current behaviors, interests and trends?
Let’s face it. The Internet is where it’s happening and it’s there that people feel free to talk and discuss. I may not be able to stop what’s going but if I can get people talking then I’ve done my job. But beyond just asking questions there also has to be a demand for answers and that’s how we can change things.
You haven’t used music as such a central aspect in your previous films. Did you look at other bands—past or present—to get an idea of how you wanted to use music as a part of the movie?
I’m dating myself but when I was growing up it was Bob Dylan, Woodstock, and the anti-war movement and how music became involved in it. Music is a good place to start when trying to access the emotions, but it shouldn’t be done in a sentimental way. Most people have a very deep connection to music and the artist and you feel the humanity of the situation. Music is really the only medium that can have that effect. I associate the ‘60s with Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Rolling Stones, and Joni Mitchell and I also associate the idea of “I want to change the world” with their music.
As a musical culture what do you think we learned the most about when it comes to using music during the anti-war movement of the ‘60s and how does that facture into your film?
I’m more familiar with the world music than the heavy metal scene but I’ll use SOAD as an example. Their music is a commentary on our times,but they also bring with them their history and their music sounds like their Armenian roots and here they are trying to make their ancestors and their culture survive through their music. And even though the Turks tried to wipe out a whole race of people, they failed and the evidence of that is in the music. It’s about the culture surviving as much as the individual, and that give me hope. All it takes is for four guys in a band to be extremely popular and every time I hear their music I say, “This is our culture surviving.”
At the end of the Harvard screening a gentleman who was from Darfur said that the film made him feel paralyzed by the whole situation, but he ended by saying that the film is doing something very important in taking the first step of making people aware. It’s so important to at least give people a chance to know. Without that the situation is hopeless. You have to educate people first and know the facts, then take political action.
What is the next step to take in fighting genocide?
STAND (Student Taking Action Now on Darfur) is helping out with getting people involved. The DVD will also prolong the life of the film. Schools are also getting involved and teachers are looking at including the film in curriculum. Our government won’t do anything unless we rattle the cage. Right now it starts with taking action on Darfur. Since box office numbers are still important, going to see Screamers is important to furthering the cause. At the very basic level, I want to at least get antennae up so you don’t look at the news the same way or you at least start to ask some of your own questions. I also know that most people are not quite the same after they see the film.
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|Block Island, Rhode Island|
|Island (for town, see New Shoreham, Rhode Island)|
|Nickname(s): Manisses meaning Manitou's Little Island (used by Narragansett people)|
Block Island, shown in red, off the coast of the State of Rhode Island.
|• First Warden||Kim Gaffet|
|• Land||9.734 sq mi (25.21 km2)|
|Time zone||EST (UTC-5)|
|• Summer (DST)||EDT (UTC-4)|
|Area code(s)||401 Exchange: 466|
Block Island is part of the U.S. state of Rhode Island, named after the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block. It is located in the Atlantic Ocean about 14 miles (23 km) east of Montauk Point, Long Island, New York, and 13 miles (21 km) south of the coast of mainland Rhode Island, from which it is separated by Block Island Sound.
The United States Census Bureau defines Block Island as Census Tract 415 of Washington County, Rhode Island. As of the 2010 Census, the island's population of 1,051 lived on a land area of 9.734 square miles (25.211 km2). The island is part of the Outer Lands region, a coastal archipelago theoretically made by the recessional and terminal moraine that resulted from the Wisconsonian Laurentide glacier retreat about 22,000 years ago, according to some theories.
The Nature Conservancy added Block Island to its list of "The Last Great Places"; the list consists of twelve sites in the Western Hemisphere. About 40 percent of the island is set aside for conservation. Presidents Bill Clinton, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Ulysses S. Grant have visited Block Island. Other famous visitors include Amelia Earhart and Charles Lindbergh, who each made separate trips to the island in 1929.
Block Island is coextensive with the town of New Shoreham. The island is a popular summer tourist destination and is known for its bicycling, hiking, sailing, fishing, and beaches. The island hosts two historic lighthouses: Block Island North Light, on the northern tip of the island, and Block Island Southeast Light, on the southeastern side. Much of the northwestern tip of the island is an undeveloped natural area and resting stop for birds along the Atlantic Flyway.
Every summer the island hosts Block Island Race Week, a competitive, week-long sailboat race. On odd years, the event is held by the Storm Trysail Club, and on even years by the Block Island Race Week. Yachts compete in various classes, sailing courses in Block Island Sound and circumnavigating the island.
Other popular events include the annual Fourth of July Parade, celebration, and fireworks. During these times, the island's population can triple over the normal summer vacation crowd.
The Niantic Indians called the island "Manisses" (meaning "Manitou's Little Island"), or just "Little Island". Archaeological sites indicate that these people lived largely by hunting deer, catching fish and shellfish, and growing corn, beans, and squash, presumably with the Three Sisters technique. They migrated from forest to coastal areas to take advantage of seasonal resources. Artifacts found in the area suggest that American Indians may have visited the area as far back as 8000 BC and possibly as a permanent settlement since 500 AD, initially supporting up to 600 inhabitants.
In 1524, what later became known as Block Island was sighted by Giovanni da Verrazzano who named it "Claudia" in honor of Claude, Duchess of Brittany, queen consort of France and the wife of Francis I. However, several contemporaneous maps identified the same island as "Luisa," after Louise of Savoy, the Queen Mother of France and the mother of Francis I. Verrazano's ship log stated that the island was "full of hilles, covered with trees, well-peopled for we saw fires all along the coaste." In 1614, Block Island was charted by Dutch explorer Adrian Block, who named it for himself.
The growing tensions among the tribes of the region in this time caused the Niantic people to split into two divisions: the Western Niantics, who allied with the Pequots and Mohegans, and the Eastern Niantics, who allied with the Narragansetts.
In 1632, Indians (likely Western Niantics associated with the Pequots) killed English traders John Stone and Walter Norton, and the Pequots of eastern Connecticut were blamed. A Pequot delegation presented magistrates in Boston with two bushels of wampum and a bundle of sticks representing the number of beaver and otter with which they would compensate the English for the deaths. They sought peace with the English and also requested help establishing concord with the Narragansetts, who bordered them to the east. The English, in turn, demanded the Indians responsible for killing Stone and Norton, a promise not to interfere with English settlement in Connecticut, and 400 fathoms of wampum and the pelts of 40 beaver and 30 otter.
In 1636, John Gallup came across the boat of trader John Oldham, a noted troublemaker. Oldham had flirted with impropriety since the day that he landed on American soil. Not long after arriving in Plymouth in 1623, Oldham "grew very perverse and showed a spirit of great malignancy," according to Plymouth Colony Governor William Bradford. Oldham was later accused of religious subversion and responded with impertinence, hurling invective at his accusers and even drawing a knife on Captain Myles Standish. He was banished from Plymouth and fled to Massachusetts Bay, settling first in Nantasket, then Cape Ann, and finally Watertown, where he continued to indulge his penchant for mayhem. Despite his unsavory reputation—or perhaps because of it—Massachusetts Bay sought Oldham's extensive knowledge of the New England coast when they asked him to retrieve a hefty ransom on the colony's behalf. It was on this mission that Oldham was murdered and dismembered, and Gallup came across his boat.
Without consulting the Connecticut colonists, Massachusetts sent ninety men in August under John Endicott on a punitive expedition for Oldham's murder to Block Island with instructions to kill every Niantic warrior and capture the women and children, who would be valuable as slaves. The expedition was ordered by Massachusetts Governor Henry Vane to "massacre all of the Native men on the island". The English burned sixty wigwams and the corn fields. They also shot every dog, but the Niantics fled into the woods, and the soldiers only managed to kill fourteen of them. Deciding that this punishment was insufficient, Endicott and his men sailed over to Fort Saybrook before going after the Pequot village at the mouth of the Thames River to demand one thousand fathoms of wampum to pay for the murder of John Oldham. They took some Pequot children as hostages to insure peace, and these incidents are seen as the initial events that led to the Pequot War.
Massachusetts Bay Colony claimed the island by conquest. In 1658, Massachusetts Bay sold the island to a group of men headed up by Endecott. In 1661, the Endecott group sold the island to a party of sixteen settlers led by John Alcock, who are today memorialized at Settler's Rock, near Cow's Cove. In 1663, island settler Thomas Terry sold the island's largest fresh pond and its surrounding area to four "chief sachems". Their names were recorded as Ninnecunshus, Jaguante, Tunkawatten, and Senatick. The sachems called this pond Tonnotounknug. In 1664, Indians on the island numbered somewhere from 1,200 to 1,500. By 1774, that number had been reduced to fifty-one. A Dutch map of 1685 clearly shows Block Island, indicated as Adriaen Blocks Eylant ("Adrian Block's Island").
In 1699, Scottish sailor William Kidd visited Block Island, shortly before he was hanged for piracy. At Block Island, he was supplied by Mercy (Sands) Raymond, daughter of mariner James Sands. The story has it that, for her hospitality, Kidd bade Mrs. Raymond to hold out her apron, into which he threw gold and jewels until it was full. After her husband Joshua Raymond died, Mercy moved with her family to northern New London, Connecticut (later Montville), where she bought much land. The Raymond family was thus said to have been "enriched by the apron".
History since colonial times
The new settlers had an allegiance to Rhode Island on several levels. Block Island was incorporated by the Rhode Island general assembly in 1672, and the island government adopted the name "New Shoreham."
During the War of 1812, Block Island was briefly occupied by the British Navy under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy. British vessels included HMS Dispatch, HMS Terror, HMS Nimrod, HMS Pactolus, and HMS Ramillies. Hardy took the fleet to Block Island in search of food and to establish a strategic position at the mouth of Long Island Sound. The British were enraged to discover that nearly all Block Island livestock and food stores had been transferred to Stonington, Connecticut in advance of their arrival. On August 9, 1814, Hardy and his fleet departed Block Island for Stonington Harbor in part to lay claim to the Block Island food stores and livestock. Hardy's pre-dawn raid on August 10 was repulsed with damage to his fleet in a battle that has since become known as The Battle of Stonington.
In 1829, the original North Lighthouse was built, but it was replaced in 1837 after it was washed out to sea. The ocean claimed the replacement lighthouse also, and the lighthouse that can be seen today was constructed only in 1867. Construction began on Block Island's Southeast Lighthouse a few years later in 1873.
Block Island has no natural harbors; breakwaters were constructed in 1870 to form Old Harbor. Block Island's New Harbor was created in 1895, when a channel was dug to connect the Great Salt Pond to the ocean through the northwestern side of the island.
The Island Free Library, Block Island's only public library, was established in 1875.
Block Island was devastated by the 1938 New England hurricane. Many islanders and tourists lost their lives during storm surge flooding.
During World War II, several artillery spotters were located on the island to direct fire from the heavy gun batteries at Fort Greene in Point Judith that protected the entrance to Narragansett Bay. Lookout positions for the spotters were built to look like houses. The US government offered to evacuate the island, as it could not be effectively defended from enemy invasion. However, the islanders chose to stay. Days before the war against Germany ended, the Battle of Point Judith took place 7 miles to the northeast of the island.
The island's airport was opened in 1950 and remains open today as a general aviation airport. In 1972, the Block Island Conservancy was founded. The Conservancy and other environmental organizations are responsible for protecting over 40% of the island from development. In 1974, Old Harbor Historic District was declared a National Register historic district. Discussions of Block Island's old buildings, native islanders, history, and ongoing efforts to conserve the land are found in four books, together with a collection of 800 period photographs of the island spanning the 1870s to the 1980s: "Block Island—The Sea", "Block Island—The Land", and Volumes 1 & 2 of "The Block Island History of Photography", all by historian Robert M. Downie.
Block Island School
Block Island's school was built in 1933, replacing 5 one-roomed schools. Today, the Block Island School educates about 120 students, kindergarten through senior year. A regular school day, Monday through Thursday, runs from 7:50 am – 2:50 pm. Every Friday, school dismisses at 12:22 pm to allow student-athletes to travel for sporting events either on or off the island. The Block Island Hurricanes compete in three main sports, each played during different seasons. In the fall, the BI Canes have both a junior high soccer team which consists of 6th, 7th, and 8th graders, and a varsity soccer team which consists of high school students. Both soccer teams are co-ed. This year (2014-2015), the Block Island Hurricanes finished as the first seed in the Coastal Prep League and went on to win the 2014 CPL Championship against Oxford Academy.
During the winter, the Block Island School students play basketball. There is a Junior High Girls, a Junior High Boys, a Varsity Girls, and a Varsity Boys basketball team. Each of the three teams experienced some extent of success throughout the 2014-2015 season. The junior high teams showed promising talent that will later help the varsity teams in future years. The varsity girls produced one of their most impressive seasons in recent school history. This included senior Kiley Hall being named a 2014-2015 Rhode Island Interscholastic Basketball League All-Star for Division III basketball. During this same year, she also became the third player in school history to achieve 1,000 career high school points. The first and second students who did this were Ross Draper and Derek Marsella. As for the Block Island Varsity Boys basketball team, they achieved total success in their season. They experienced an undefeated season (in league) and went on to win the 2014-2015 coastal prep league championship for boys basketball. With only seven players on the roster, every one of them affected each game. This is the first time in school history that the Hurricanes have won the championship in two different sports during one year.
The BIS students also compete in baseball and softball in the spring. There are junior high and varsity teams for both baseball and softball. Male, spring athletes take part in baseball events while female athletes compete versus other softball teams. The varsity softball team worked well during the 2015 season winning more than half of their games. During the 2015 season, the boys varsity baseball team showed dominance. They only lost one league game and went on to win the coastal prep league championship for baseball. This marked history once again representing the first time that students have won the championship in each sport in one year. Because of the small number of students on the little island, six student athletes competed on all three championship winning teams: Timothy O'Neill, Mason Littlefield, Griffen Hall, Richard Conant, Ryan McGarry, and Jameson Brown-Padien. They are known as the "Silent Six".
Block Island's weather is greatly influenced by the surrounding ocean and prevailing winds that generally blow offshore. The climate is oceanic (Köppen Cfb), a rarity on an east coast in the Northern Hemisphere. Because the ocean stays cold during the spring and summer months, Block Island stays cooler than the mainland during this period. Summers are also cooler than the mainland; July and August average in the mid-and upper 70s instead of low and mid-80s that New York and southern New England experience. Block Island's record high temperature is 95 °F (35 °C) on August 26 and 27, 1948 and the record low is −7 °F (−22 °C) on January 16, 1994. The lowest high temperature on record was 8 °F (−13 °C) on December 31, 1962 and January 8, 1968, and the highest low temperature on record was 76 °F (24 °C) on August 2, 1979. Block Island stays warmer than the mainland during the fall and winter months when the ocean remains relatively warmer than the mainland.
|Climate data for Block Island, Rhode Island|
|Record high °F (°C)||62
|Average high °F (°C)||39.8
|Average low °F (°C)||25.4
|Record low °F (°C)||−7
|Average precipitation inches (mm)||3.87
|Average snowfall inches (cm)||6.1
|Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in)||7.9||7.7||9.7||9.9||9.8||7.4||6.2||6.2||6.5||7.9||8.8||9.1||97.1|
|Source #1: NOAA (normals, 1981–2010)|
|Source #2: Western Regional Climate Center (extremes 1927–present)|
There are seventeen miles of beach on Block Island. Crescent Beach can be viewed from the Pt. Judith Ferry and the New London Express Ferry on the way to the island. It contains five smaller beaches, Fred Benson Town Beach (still popularly known as State Beach due to its former status as such), Surf Beach, Scotch Beach, Mansion Beach, and Baby Beach all of which are located on Corn Neck Road. State Beach and Ballards Beach are the only beaches on the island with on-duty life guards. State Beach has a pavilion with food and beach rentals. Baby Beach, called by locals, begins near the Beachhead Restaurant on Corn Neck Rd. Scotch Beach is located just north of Fred Benson Town Beach, Mansion Beach is located north of Scotch Beach, and Surf Beach starts at the Surf Hotel and ends around the Beachhead Restaurant. . North of Mansion Beach are Clayhead and Pots & Kettles. Clayhead is a set of cliffs which can be seen from the ferry in from Point Judith or New London. This area is rocky and contains iron-rich clay deposits, and is a popular area for shell and rock hunting.
Cow Cove, Settler's Rock, and Sandy Point make up the northernmost point of Block Island. Here lies the North Lighthouse and the postcard sunsets. Settler's Rock is located at Cow Cove, where the settlers landed and swam to shore bringing with them the island's first cows, which they pushed off the boats and forced ashore. Attached to the rock is a plaque naming the original settlers of Block Island. This beach is not ideal for swimming on the ocean side, especially at the point, due to strong rip currents. On the other side, however, is Sachem Pond, fresh water and good for swimming.
On the south side of the island, Black Rock Beach is widely regarded as the best beach for surfing on the island due to its high surf. However, the beach tends to be very rocky and has a reputation for being a nude beach, despite laws against nudity on Rhode Island's beaches. It is located near the Mohegan Bluffs and Southeast Lighthouse.
Coastguard Beach is situated between the Great Salt Pond and the ocean on the north west side of the island. It is a popular beach for fishing and walking, but not particularly good for swimming due to the large number of boats traveling nearby.
Ballard's Beach is on the southern side of the Block Island Ferry Dock and jetty. Set right in front of Ballard's Restaurant and Inn, popular with boaters and with the young crowd. There are cocktail waitresses on the sand, and daily live music outside. There's also a busy volleyball court with daily games and tournaments. There are lifeguards on duty at Ballard's Beach.
Bluffs Beach is set at the bottom of Mohegan Bluffs. It can be accessed from its small parking lot down the 144 stairs to this rocky area, known for its spectacular view. At the foot of these steep wooden stairs are big rocks leading to the beach.
Fourth of July Parade
One of the most iconic celebrations on the island is the Fourth of July Parade. On the Fourth of July weekend causes the island to exponentially jump to almost 15,000 people and they all gather for a parade on the streets of the island. Anybody can enter parade float into the parade if they wish, as long as it coordinates with the theme of that respective year. For example, this past year (2016) the theme was sports and recreation. In addition to the parade, all of the islanders gather on the beach on the night of July 3 to watch a fireworks show put on by the locals and prepared by professionals. The fireworks show consists of many colors, including a majority of red white and blue, of course. The parade is the next day, on the fourth, and is judged by officials which give out one honorable mention, one 3rd place, one 2nd, and one 1st. They do this for three categories, family floats, company floats, and overall floats. They also give out one extra prize for the overall category which is the grand prize, consisting of $500. This event happens every year and has grown exponentially every year seeming as all of the docking space and moorings are taken and nearly every parking space in Point Judith (Where tourists and residents park on the mainland while they take the ferry to the island) is taken.
Southeast Lighthouse is located at the southeast corner of the island on the Mohegan Trail. The lighthouse was constructed in 1875 and remains to this day an active US Coast Guard navigational aid. The lighthouse was moved in 1993, in danger of falling off the bluffs due to erosion. In addition to offering tours of the tower, the lighthouse has a museum that is open during the summer season.
The Mohegan Bluffs are located a short distance to the west of Southeast Lighthouse. The bluffs are the site of a pre-colonial battle between the invading Mohegan, and the native Niantic in which the Mohegan were driven off the edge of the tall cliffs to their deaths on the beach below. A long staircase of over one hundred stairs leads to the bottom of these clay cliffs and looks out over the Atlantic. On clear days, Montauk, New York can be seen in the distance from the southern and western sides of the island.
Rodman's Hollow is a 230-acre (93 ha) glacial outwash basin, near the southern shore of the island. The hollow has several walking trails. Horseback rides through Rodman's Hollow are also offered.
North Lighthouse is located at Sandy Point on the northern tip of Block Island. The North Lighthouse warns boaters of a sandbar extending from this end of the island. The surrounding dunes are part of the Block Island National Wildlife Refuge, home to many species, including the piping plover and American burying beetle. A short walk away from the North Lighthouse lies the tip of the island, with ocean on both sides of a thin strip of land.
The Block Island Historical Society Museum is located near the downtown area and contains a broad array of Block Island artifacts.
The Block Island Wind Farm, the first offshore wind farm built in the United States, is located 3 miles (4.8 km) from south-east of the island. The five turbines, each 600 ft (180 m) high, will come on line in the fourth quarter of 2016.
The island has at least 50 restaurants, but most are closed outside of tourist season; mainland restaurants use New England Airlines to deliver food to the island.
The island is connected year-round by a ferry to Point Judith, and in summer to New London, Connecticut; Montauk, New York; and Newport, Rhode Island. The traditional ferry takes about an hour to reach the island from Point Judith.
It is possible to bring a car over to the island on this ferry, but all vehicle reservations must be made and paid for in advance over the phone. Travelers are advised to arrange for summer month vehicle transport early in the year. A high-speed ferry on the same route takes 35 minutes. Another high-speed ferry from New London, Connecticut to Block Island takes just over an hour. During the summer season, travelers wishing to bring their cars usually have to book reservations months in advance.
New England Airlines offers regularly scheduled 12-minute flights to Block Island State Airport from Westerly, Rhode Island. The ferry services or private water transport are the only transportation options to and from Block Island when inclement weather prohibits flying to the Block Island Airport.
Besides New England Airlines, the island airport is used mainly by small, privately owned aircraft, with a huge increase in activity at the airport during the summer months when many of the grass areas around the aprons and taxiways are used to park aircraft. The airport is officially called Block Island State (code: BID) and has a single, paved 2,501-foot-long runway, in an east–west orientation. The airport elevation is 108 ft (33 m) above sea level and the terminal is about one mile from the town center.
There have been several fatal air crashes over the years on Block Island. On August 26, 1995, a Cessna 185 seaplane carrying four people crashed while attempting to land for the third time in the waters off of Old Harbor Beach, an area not normally used for seaplane landings. The plane cleared a dune but hit a power line causing it to crash into a restaurant, G.R. Sharkeys, and hitting a car at the islands only gas station. All four people on the plane perished as well as one person on the ground. Nobody was hurt at the restaurant, which was destroyed by the impact of the plane and resulting fire, but a woman was killed sitting in her car as it was being fueled. The plane severely damaged the gas station when it crashed but the two pumps did not explode. On July 5, 2006, a plane carrying three people crashed about ½ mile west of the airport during bad weather. The aircraft had just taken off and was on its way to White Plains, New York, and carried a prominent surgeon, his wife, and mother.
The area around Block Island has been the site of numerous shipwrecks, including the Steamer Larchmont in 1907 . The 1738 wreck of the Princess Augusta (also known as the Palatine ship) was later immortalized by John Greenleaf Whittier in his 1867 poem "The Wreck of the Palatine":
Circled by waters that never freeze,
Beaten by billow and swept by breeze,
Lieth the island of Manisees.
- Kenneth Bacon (1944–2009), Department of Defense spokesman who later served as president of Refugees International
- Elizabeth Dickens (1877–1963), "the Bird Lady of Block Island", writer and naturalist
- Jens Risom (b. 1916) Danish-American furniture designer
- William Stringfellow (1928–1985), attorney and radical Anglican theologian
- Christopher Walken (b. 1943), American actor, and Georgianne Walken (b. 1944), casting director, own a vacation home on the island
- Richard Parsons (b.1948), an American business executive, former chairman of Citigroup and the former chairman and CEO of Time Warner.
- Tad Devine (b. 1955), American political consultant. Senior adviser in Al Gore's 2000 and John Kerry's 2004 Presidential campaigns. Currently senior adviser for Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.
- Steven Wright (b. 1955), American comedian, writer and actor
The Nature Conservancy
The island is home to one of the locations of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) which is dedicated to conserving the land and species of the island, as well as around the world. One of the main contributors to the TNC is island resident Scott Comings. TNC also declared Block Island under its top twelve sites in the Western Hemisphere, and a large portion of the island is legally protected and set aside for conservation.
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As a high achiever, I have always had this blueprint or set of checkboxes that I needed to hit or “check off” in my life and career. Can you relate
Here are some examples of the checkboxes I’m talking about.
• Get a degree.
• Get my first job.
• Advance in my next job.
• Advance some more.
• Get a management job.
• Get a bigger management job.
• Get married.
• Have children.
• Have scheduled birthday parties for my kids every few years.
• Schedule play dates for my kids, including swim lessons and sports.
• Be the family’s event planner and general touchstone for everything.
• And the list goes on.
In this episode, we explore where these checkboxes came from and what we can do about them to allow ourselves some much-needed rest. If we give ourselves a break from checking these boxes, we will be better for it.
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Efforts to grant tribes more authority are met with resistance from non-tribal lawmakers
The extent of sovereignty for Native American tribes has long been like a tug-of-war between tribal and non-tribal governments in the United States. Wyoming Public Radio’s Irina Zhorov reports that the issue of sovereignty trickles down to everything, even the issuance of traffic tickets, and lawmakers are moving nowhere fast to fix problems caused by disagreements over self-government for tribes.
New Northern Arapaho Business Council resolves to fix tribe’s poor financial management
The Northern Arapaho Tribe is a mess, financially. They’re behind on their audits, past audits have not been flattering, and change has been slow to come. Wyoming Public Radio’s Irina Zhorov has been looking into why the audits are less than ideal and the status of the Tribe’s future financial solvency.
The Wind River Casino is doing well, but some tribal members expect more
The Northern Arapaho Tribe opened the doors to its full-scale casino in 2005. Wyoming Public Radio’s Irina Zhorov reports that eight years into the venture, the casino is making money but some wonder where it’s going.
UW’s Native American graduates are important to the Wind River Reservation
In the mid 1990’s the University of Wyoming made a conscious effort to attract more Native American students to the University. Over the years recruitment and retention of students from the Wind River Reservation has been challenging. New efforts could change things and many believe that will be important for the long term health of the Reservation.
Arapahoe School Superintendent leaves after pivotal school year
The once-faltering Fremont School District 38 in Arapahoe turned a complete 180 since Superintendent Jonathan Braack took the helm in January 2012.
New peer mentoring program aims to keep kids away from substance abuse and in touch with tribal heritage
Substance abuse is a concern for most school districts across the country, but on the Wind River Indian Reservation, it’s a red flag for especially high crime and suicide rates. Tribes have been trying – with mixed success – to keep kids from abusing alcohol and tobacco… But a new program from the Eastern Shoshone Department of Juvenile Services is working to train a league of student mentors to help their peers avoid risky behaviors. Wyoming Public Radio’s Rebecca Martinez filed this report.
Lander native reflects on his family history and relationship with the Eastern Shoshone tribe
Kit Freedman is a graduate of University of Wyoming, who did his thesis research on the Wind River Indian Reservation. In this essay he reflects on his family’s multi-generational history in Lander.
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A system bringing heavy rain will linger over Long Island through Saturday morning, bringing scattered showers, stretches of downpours and potential flooding, the National Weather Service said.
"The bulk of the precipitation will be late Friday afternoon and night, and into late morning Saturday," said Lauren Nash, a meteorologist at the service's Upton office.
Nash said the forecast Thursday calls for scattered showers as a warm front approaches and then lifts.
For Thursday afternoon and into the evening, there's a 30 to 40 percent chance of "pop up" showers -- light and "very scattered," Nash said.
Minor coastal flooding is likely Thursday night as southeasterly winds coincide with astronomical tides along Nassau's and western Suffolk's north and south shores, according to a coastal flood statement. Tides could run from half a foot to a foot and a half above astronomical levels, with the higher levels along the South Shore, the statement said.
An incoming cold front extending from the Great Lakes to the Gulf Coast states slowly passes through Friday night and moves out of the area by Saturday.
That means rain, up to about 2 inches, for most of Long Island into Saturday morning. A flash flood watch is in effect from Friday afternoon to late Friday night for Nassau County's north and south shores, the weather service said, with heaviest rainfall expected to coincide with high tide. One to 2 inches of rain is expected, possibly up to 3 inches in localized spots.
Also, patchy fog is expected during the early morning and late evening hours, from Thursday to Saturday, the service said.
The weather was causing arrival delays at LaGuardia Airport of an average of about 90 minutes, and more than an hour at Kennedy Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.
Some departures were also being delayed, according to the FAA, which advised travelers to check with their airlines.
In its hazardous weather outlook, the service also warned of minor coastal flooding, and flooding of roads and low-lying areas because of heavy rain.
The arrival of a warm front sent temperatures Thursday to the low- to mid-70s. Temperatures will be around 70 Friday, when "a dousing of rain" is expected to start in the midafternoon and last through midmorning Saturday, said Tim Morrin, also a meteorologist with the Upton office.
Look for steady rain, at times heavy, with an occasional thunderstorm, he said.
Saturday and Sunday look to be partly to mostly sunny with highs near 70.
But don't look for "a sustained transition to fair weather," Morrin said, as "the atmosphere is a little unsettled" and there's a chance of more showers on Monday.
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http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/archives/4699 Since yesterday afternoon, Louis Fick of Friedewil Farm in Lions Den,
Chinhoyi, has once again been unable to enter his farm because the Deputy
Governor of the Reserve Bank, Mashwiringwani, is intent on forcing the South
African national to share two of his remaining pig pens with settlers who have
seized 98% of his land to date. Fick has attempted to live peaceably with the invaders and maintained viable
production of 4000 pigs up until last year. But in April 2008 he was besieged
by the same reserve bank official and made a decision to drop his production to
1000 pigs. When the small gang of thugs was brought on to the farm yesterday afternoon,
the senior workers were forced to flee in fear of their lives. The police were
called, but refused to respond as they declared it was a political issue. A
further 50 to 60 reinforcement thugs were then brought on to the farm. Since
then the police have visited once to prevent further violence. Fick was told by the police that he must attend a meeting to discuss sharing
the contended pens, but is unwilling to lose any more of his decimated
business. The cattle on his property have also been moved by the thugs on the
farm in to a fenced area and are also not being tended to. Fick has tried every avenue to help his starving animals. The piglets will
soon die, and a pig should drink at least 40 litres of water per day. They have
received no water since yesterday afternoon. Last year Fick’s workers entered the besieged farm by leopard crawling under
the fence at night to feed and water the distressed animals. But the farmer now
feels that he cannot endanger the workers lives in this manner. He called the MDC Minister of Home Affairs, Giles Mutsekiwa, but his calls
went unanswered. Lovemore Kudindi of Jomic was also called, and his response was
that Jomic are planning to tour the Chinhoyi area in two weeks time and they
will discuss the issue then. The Prime Minister is currently engaged in
discussions with his executive on the way forward. It is high time the MDC finally did something to remedy the threatened food
reserves in this starving nation. The South African embassy has also been deafeningly quiet once again and has
done nothing to assist this South African national. As a South African he is
meant to be protected under the SADC Tribunal ruling that they be allowed to
remain on their land. The rule of law, food security and 98% unemployment seem to be no
consideration in Zanu PF’s ongoing attempts at deflecting blame for the collapse
in our nation. TAKE ACTION Call or sms the Deputy Governer of the Reserve Bank, Mr Mashwiringwani, on
+263 (0)11 800582 and tell him that the world is watching and
shocked by his unlawful actions. Request that he gives the farmer access to the animals to prevent them from
dying. Advise him that you are contacting your governments in your countries and
will be doing all you can to call attention to this shameful state of affairs.
Then please do just that. Please be calm, polite and factual when calling.
Since yesterday afternoon, Louis Fick of Friedewil Farm in Lions Den, Chinhoyi, has once again been unable to enter his farm because the Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank, Mashwiringwani, is intent on forcing the South African national to share two of his remaining pig pens with settlers who have seized 98% of his land to date.
Fick has attempted to live peaceably with the invaders and maintained viable production of 4000 pigs up until last year. But in April 2008 he was besieged by the same reserve bank official and made a decision to drop his production to 1000 pigs.
When the small gang of thugs was brought on to the farm yesterday afternoon, the senior workers were forced to flee in fear of their lives. The police were called, but refused to respond as they declared it was a political issue. A further 50 to 60 reinforcement thugs were then brought on to the farm. Since then the police have visited once to prevent further violence.
Fick was told by the police that he must attend a meeting to discuss sharing the contended pens, but is unwilling to lose any more of his decimated business. The cattle on his property have also been moved by the thugs on the farm in to a fenced area and are also not being tended to.
Fick has tried every avenue to help his starving animals. The piglets will soon die, and a pig should drink at least 40 litres of water per day. They have received no water since yesterday afternoon.
Last year Fick’s workers entered the besieged farm by leopard crawling under the fence at night to feed and water the distressed animals. But the farmer now feels that he cannot endanger the workers lives in this manner.
He called the MDC Minister of Home Affairs, Giles Mutsekiwa, but his calls went unanswered. Lovemore Kudindi of Jomic was also called, and his response was that Jomic are planning to tour the Chinhoyi area in two weeks time and they will discuss the issue then. The Prime Minister is currently engaged in discussions with his executive on the way forward.
It is high time the MDC finally did something to remedy the threatened food reserves in this starving nation.
The South African embassy has also been deafeningly quiet once again and has done nothing to assist this South African national. As a South African he is meant to be protected under the SADC Tribunal ruling that they be allowed to remain on their land.
The rule of law, food security and 98% unemployment seem to be no consideration in Zanu PF’s ongoing attempts at deflecting blame for the collapse in our nation.
Call or sms the Deputy Governer of the Reserve Bank, Mr Mashwiringwani, on +263 (0)11 800582 and tell him that the world is watching and shocked by his unlawful actions.
Request that he gives the farmer access to the animals to prevent them from dying.
Advise him that you are contacting your governments in your countries and will be doing all you can to call attention to this shameful state of affairs. Then please do just that.
Please be calm, polite and factual when calling.
President Robert Mugabe, sprightly and smiling, welcomed the European
Union delegation "with open arms and great expectations" to State House, near
the centre of Harare. Two stuffed lions observed proceedings from either side of the red carpet.
This is the first such visit by the EU in seven years - and there is much
talk here of "thawing" and "icebreaking" and, in the words of one European
official, "re-injecting dynamism into the relationship". But behind the optimistic talk looms a mountain of scepticism and mistrust.
President Mugabe made it clear his priority was the lifting of targeted EU
sanctions against him and more than 200 of his political allies and related
businesses. He and his Zanu-PF party have for years loudly argued that these
measures are directly responsible for Zimbabwe's economic collapse. But the EU does not buy that argument, and is not even putting the sanctions
issue on the negotiating table at this stage. Fragile partnership Instead, the delegation - led by Sweden's International Development Minister
Gunilla Carlsson and Karel De Gucht, Europe's Commissioner for Development and
Humanitarian Aid - focused on their concerns about the power-sharing agreement
between Mr Mugabe and his political rivals from the Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC). The deal, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), is a year old now.
But Zanu-PF's commitment remains in question. Economically, Zimbabwe has undoubtedly started to improve under the new unity
government's watch. But politically, things remain very murky. The EU raised concerns about continuing human-rights violations, the arrest
and harassment of MDC MPs, the rule of law, governance, property rights and the
media. Although the EU is already spending some $90m a year on humanitarian and
development projects here, far bigger sums will not be forthcoming until the
political climate improves. 'Still young' After their talks, President Mugabe seemed to acknowledge that the
power-sharing agreement was not always being conducted in the right "spirit" but
he insisted these were minor issues and that "we have done everything we've been
asked to do under the GPA". So what happens now? This visit was never likely to produce any major
breakthrough. Instead the EU is talking of its determination to show "flexibility" in what
will, inevitably, by a long and difficult process of re-engagement. After the delegation had left State House, President Mugabe turned and
strolled back inside, past the two stuffed lions. Standing in a scrum of journalists on the red carpet, I asked him if he felt
any responsibility for all Zimbabwe's troubles. He shook his head. And did he have any plans to retire? "That is a regime change question," he said to loud laughter. "I am still
BBC News, Harare
Assets freeze and travel ban on some Mugabe allies, arms-sale ban
Trade ban against 250 Zimbabwean individuals and 17 companies
Canada, Australia and UK among nations to have imposed their own targeted sanctions
President Robert Mugabe, sprightly and smiling, welcomed the European Union delegation "with open arms and great expectations" to State House, near the centre of Harare.
Two stuffed lions observed proceedings from either side of the red carpet.
This is the first such visit by the EU in seven years - and there is much talk here of "thawing" and "icebreaking" and, in the words of one European official, "re-injecting dynamism into the relationship".
But behind the optimistic talk looms a mountain of scepticism and mistrust.
President Mugabe made it clear his priority was the lifting of targeted EU sanctions against him and more than 200 of his political allies and related businesses. He and his Zanu-PF party have for years loudly argued that these measures are directly responsible for Zimbabwe's economic collapse.
But the EU does not buy that argument, and is not even putting the sanctions issue on the negotiating table at this stage.
Instead, the delegation - led by Sweden's International Development Minister Gunilla Carlsson and Karel De Gucht, Europe's Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid - focused on their concerns about the power-sharing agreement between Mr Mugabe and his political rivals from the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The deal, known as the Global Political Agreement (GPA), is a year old now. But Zanu-PF's commitment remains in question.
Economically, Zimbabwe has undoubtedly started to improve under the new unity government's watch. But politically, things remain very murky.
The EU raised concerns about continuing human-rights violations, the arrest and harassment of MDC MPs, the rule of law, governance, property rights and the media.
Although the EU is already spending some $90m a year on humanitarian and development projects here, far bigger sums will not be forthcoming until the political climate improves.
After their talks, President Mugabe seemed to acknowledge that the power-sharing agreement was not always being conducted in the right "spirit" but he insisted these were minor issues and that "we have done everything we've been asked to do under the GPA".
So what happens now? This visit was never likely to produce any major breakthrough.
Instead the EU is talking of its determination to show "flexibility" in what will, inevitably, by a long and difficult process of re-engagement.
After the delegation had left State House, President Mugabe turned and strolled back inside, past the two stuffed lions.
Standing in a scrum of journalists on the red carpet, I asked him if he felt any responsibility for all Zimbabwe's troubles.
He shook his head. And did he have any plans to retire?
"That is a regime change question," he said to loud laughter. "I am still young."
Saturday, 12 September 2009 22:34
BULAWAYO - President Robert Mugabe yesterday claimed that he met his
side of the bargain in the Global Political Agreement (GPA) as the MDC -T
gathered here to review its participation in the inclusive government.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is under pressure from hardliners in
his party to pull out of the troubled coalition over frustration by Mugabe's
reluctance to reform and fully implement the September 15, 2008 agreement.
Sadc's failure to thrash out the outstanding issues that include
Mugabe's unilateral appointment of Johannes Tomana and reappointment of
Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono at its DRC summit last week raised
temperatures in Tsvangirai's party.
The MDC-T national executive was last night still locked in a marathon
meeting to discuss the "status and health" of the unity government and
"fashion a way forward".
A meeting of the national council meeting will also be held ahead of
the party's 10th anniversary celebrations at White City Stadium today.
But a defiant Mugabe told journalists after meeting senior European
Union officials in Harare that he did not understand why there was a fuss
about outstanding issues.
"They (the EU delegation) thought things were not working, yet we did
all the things we were asked to do under the GPA, timeously even," he said.
Mugabe said he established a good rapport with the EU delegation
during the meeting at State House in Harare yesterday.
"We established a good rapport," he said. "There was no animosity."
But Mugabe also told the BBC that he bore no sense of responsibility
for anything that had gone wrong in Zimbabwe - blaming Western governments
and international sanctions, which he said should be lifted soon.
Mugabe, 85, added that he had no plans to step down, saying he was
The EU team expressed satisfaction with the talks, stressing these
were not negotiations but discussions.
The EU team pointed out the problems with the current situation,
complaining to Mugabe about the slow pace of political reform and about
human rights violations and the rule of law.
While the team described the visit as an attempt to re-open political
dialogue with Zimbabwe, it said it was not appropriate to lift sanctions at
the moment or for major aid to start.
De Gucht said he hoped Mugabe realised the need for "more
understanding between the three principals himself, the Prime Minister and
the Deputy Prime minister".
The first high-level EU delegation in almost a decade to visit
Zimbabwe consisted of EU commissioner for development and humanitarian aid
Karel de Gucht, Swedish International Co-operation Minister Gunilla Carlsson
and a representative from Spain, which takes over the EU presidency next
In Bulawayo, Tsvangirai said there were "serious challenges" in the
implementation of the GPA.
"We discussed the EU-Zimbabwe dialogue. We said there are issues in
the GPA," he told a press conference after meeting the EU delegation.
"We want to see the full implementation of the agreement and that is
why we have taken the issues to SADC.
"However there has to be progress. The pace of the GPA has been slow
but I'm sure the three political principals will be able to sit down and
solve the issues."
Carlsson who led the delegation said the EU, which imposed sanctions
on Mugabe's inner circle for violating human rights said the block was
prepared to re-engage Zimbabwe.
"We would like to engage with the government of national unity in
Zimbabwe. But of course, we are concerned by the fact that there has been no
progress on some issues included in the global agreement," she said.
"These specifically refer to governance issues."
Meanwhile, the World Bank has refuted allegations that it is helping
Tsvangirai to set up "parallel government structures".
The state media has been waging an onslaught against the Prime
Minister after Tsholotsho North MP, Jonathan Moyo started making claims that
the World Bank was among some donors financing extra salaries for MDC-T
ministers and workers in Tsvangirai's office.
But the bank said the Zimbabwe Multi-Donor Trust Fund (MDTF) was only
supporting the placement of "qualified policy and programme specialists in
key government agencies to assist with the collection an analysis of data
which can provide sound policy options for ministers, permanent secretaries
and stakeholders to consider".
"The World Bank procedures stipulate that contracts are of a
short-term nature for a maximum of 150 days."
BY NKULULEKO SIBANDA
Saturday, 12 September 2009 22:28
ZANU PF suffered a body blow yesterday after a member of its politburo
and former women's league chairperson Thenjiwe Lesabe defected to the
Lesabe's defection, announced during a meeting to discuss the Zapu
constitution in Bulawayo, will rock Zanu PF to its core especially in
Matabeleland as she was one of the heavyweights who remained when others
ditched the 1987 Unity Accord in May.
She was among those being considered for the late Vice-President
Joseph Msika's vacant post because of her seniority in the liberation
Zapu led by former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa said it was
pulling out of the accord because Zanu PF had reneged on almost all the
commitments it made before the signing of the pact that ended the massacre
of villagers in Matabeleland and the Midlands.
"I am coming back home. You will remember that we signed the Unity
Accord with Zanu PF and formed a government," Lesabe told journalists on the
sidelines of the meeting.
"I represented Zapu in that government.
"I served in the government and I believe now is the time I should
come back home and work with my fellow colleagues in reviving Zapu."
The former cabinet minister held several posts within Zanu PF and the
government after the Unity Accord.
But she fell out with Mugabe after a group in Zanu PF linked to
Emmerson Mnangagwa lobbied for her to replace Msika in a "plot" that was
described by the ageing leader as a coup attempt.
However, she was not dragged before a disciplinary hearing alongside
six provincial chairpersons who were subsequently expelled from Zanu PF.
Some of the prominent casualties of the purge that ensued after the
"plot" now known as the Tsholotsho Declaration was uncovered are former
Information and Publicity Minister Jonathan Moyo, July Moyo (the Midlands),
Mark Madiro (Manicaland) and Phillip Chiyangwa (Mashonaland West).
Jonathan Moyo has applied to re-join Zanu PF.
Yesterday Lesabe, who revealed that a hand-delivered resignation
letter had been sent to President Mugabe, said she did not want to discuss
what pushed her out of the former sole ruling party.
"I might have things that I feel were not done well. Those are my
reasons and I shall keep them to myself," she said. "All I can say at the
moment is that I am back in Zapu and I am here to work for the development
of the Zapu agenda and ideologies."
Dabengwa said many former Zapu cadres still in Zanu PF including some
who were holding influential positions were ready to jump ship.
"Several of them said they were keen to join or they shall be
re-called as per party resolution," he said. "We talked to them and they
have said they shall join us later."
Meanwhile, analysts have warned that more senior Zanu PF figures from
Matabeleland could follow Lesabe if Mugabe re-admits Moyo into the party.
The former government propagandist apparently made enemies with almost
all senior Zanu PF figures in Matabeleland during his short stint in the
Judgement in a case where he is suing Zanu PF chairman John Nkomo for
linking him to the Tsholotsho Declaration is also pending before the courts.
Analysts said Moyo was likely to keep his Tsholotsho North seat for
now because the laws on floor crossing do not affect independents but he
will certainly not return to parliament on a Zanu PF ticket.
"There are some people who have been complaining that he was a sell
out and were wondering where he belonged following news that he has been
busy suing opposition officials and castigating them in the press," said
Tsholotsho Agenda chairperson Pastor Edson Dube.
"Such people are likely to be disappointed by his decision and rightly
so because it is wrong for anyone to be voted in on one card and then to
sell the people's vote to another party."
The MDC-T did not challenge Moyo in last year's polls because he was
"a friendly force". Nelson Chamisa, the MDC-T spokesperson could not be
reached for comment yesterday.
University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer John Makumbe said
Moyo had finally shown his true colours.
"I think that is a good move really given that it can guarantee him
ownership of his farm," Makumbe said. "In fact, that guy never left that
"We just hope that his experience in the wilderness has made him
mature a little bit so that he can contribute more positively to national
development than preoccupying himself with criticising the Prime Minister.
"But he should be kept out of government completely as he will not be
able to work with the young MDC ministers."
But he dreaded the prospect of Moyo reclaiming his old post saying his
track record of repression should never be repeated.
BY NKULULEKO SIBANDA & JENNIFER DUBE
Saturday, 12 September 2009 22:25
THE Zanu PF faction led by Presidential hopeful Emmerson Mnangagwa
yesterday emerged from the party national youth conference stronger after
its candidate won the most powerful post that was under contest. Mnangagwa
loyalist Edison Chakanyuka from the Midlands was voted the deputy secretary
for youth beating Shurugwi South MP Anastancia Ndhlovu who is linked to the
The secretary for youth is appointed by President Mugabe when he
selects members of his politburo.
Chakanyuka automatically becomes a member of the Zanu PF politburo.
The Midlands had accepted the post of deputy secretary previously held
by Savious Kasukuwere but rejected Ndhlovu as their candidate.
Ndhlovu eventually landed the less influential post of secretary for
Ndhlovu's name was missing from the original list of new office
bearers and she was seen consulting Mnangagwa before her name was included.
All the candidates from Mnangagwa's faction from Masvingo,
Matabeleland South and North, the Midlands and Manicaland secured posts in
the new youth leadership.
Other members in the new team are John Mushai, Lesley Ncube,
Khumbulani Mlilo, Bekezela Sibanda, Kudzani Chipanga, Cleopas Magwizi and
Joshua Sacco became the first white to hold a position in the Zanu PF
youth league. He was elected deputy secretary for production.
However, the Mujuru camp landed influential posts after Obert Mutasa
from Mashonaland Central was elected secretary for finance and Mike Gava
from Mashonaland West became secretary for the commissariat.
Kasukuwere's younger brother, Tongai, was elected deputy secretary for
However the factionalism that reached fever pitch ahead of the
conference came to the fore as the angry Harare Province delegates who were
accredited as observers sang derogatory songs as they sought to get their
way into the City Sports Centre.
But Zanu PF chairman John Nkomo remained steadfast and refused to let
them in. Didymus Mutasa, the party's secretary for administration failed to
silence the agitated youths.
They were only allowed into the venue after the elections but a few
seats were reserved for them.
President Robert Mugabe officially closed the conference and repeated
his attacks against the European Union, a few hours after he met a
high-powered delegation here to re-open dialogue with Zimbabwe.
"Instead of talking about sanctions, they (EU delegation) were talking
about (Gideon) Gono and (Johannes) Tomana. They said this was in the spirit
of the GPA and I told them to go and listen to our brothers from SADC," a
defiant Mugabe said.
Officially opening the conference on Friday, Mugabe lashed out at
Western sanctions against him, condemning "bloody whites" for meddling in
BY VALENTINE MAPONGA
Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:26
BULAWAYO - Father Felix Thomas yesterday formally took over from
Bishop Pius Ncube as the Catholic Archbishop of Bulawayo in a low-key
ceremony. Ncube, who attended yesterday's ordination ceremony, was forced to
resign in September last year after he was embroiled in a sex scandal.
Unlike Ncube's ordination as the first black bishop of the archdiocese
in 1997 which was attended by President Robert Mugabe, politicians were not
invited for the event held at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF)
The Pope's representative in Zimbabwe Pro Nuncio George Kocherry
presided over the ceremony graced by Catholic bishops from other parts of
Father Nigel Johnson, a spokesperson for the church said politicians
were not invited this time around because "this was a religious event" and
the "church does not want to be tangled in politics".
Archbishop Thomas was born in 1960 in Vallamchira in the archdiocese
of Changanacherry in India.
After elementary school, he entered the minor seminary of the Divine
Word Missionaries in Changanacherry and took his final vows in 1987.
On May 7, 1988 he was ordained as a priest.
He has served as a missionary in Zimbabwe since 1989 where he has held
various posts in the church including that of regional superior to the
Society of the Divine Word Missionaries in the country.
In addition to his missionary experience, Archbishop Thomas has a
background in economics, having studied it at university.
He holds a degree in economics and political science and has pursued
administration and management studies with the Zimbabwe Institute of
Since 2001, he has been the Caritas ex-officio advisor to the Catholic
Development Commission (Cadec).
He has been the director of Cadec, the Catholic Church's agency
responsible for supporting feeding schemes, health and education.
The archdiocese of Bulawayo was established on January 1, 1955 and
comprises 14 civil districts.
It is home to more than 116 000 Catholics, 40 parishes, 87 priests,
and 11 religious orders.
Bishop Giovanni Matteo Konings was the first bishop of the diocese and
was appointed in 1926. He died in 1929. After that, several others followed
until October 1997 when Ncube took over.
Meanwhile, Ncube who is now based at the Hwange Diocese in
Matabeleland North wrote a letter to South Africa's national catholic
weekly, The Southern Cross, asking for prayers.
He said state agents were following him everywhere and at one time
planted a bomb in his official car. Before falling from grace, the former
archbishop was known internationally as one of President Mugabe's most vocal
At one time he controversially prayed for Mugabe's death. Shortly
afterwards he was caught allegedly having a sexual relationship with a
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:25
LUPANE - The condition of the armoured car seized from Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai by police ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off
election continues to deteriorate because of neglect. In early June last
year police detained Tsvangirai, who was the front runner in the March 2008
polls, for nine hours and seized the BMW X5, which his party said was
necessary for his security.
The car has been kept at Lupane police station in Matabeleland North
despite frantic efforts by its original owner a South African businessman
Adrian Espag to recover it.
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials want the car forfeited to
the state because they say it was not being driven by Espag at the time and
that this amounts to violation of the Customs and Excise Act.
On Thursday, a shocked Tsvangirai lashed out at the police for
neglecting the car when he made a surprise visit to the station.
The car is parked in the open and the browning grass around it shows
it has not been moved for a long time.
"This is a very expensive car," said Tsvangirai. Why did you remove it
from under a shed and expose it to the sun like this?"
"You should learn to have a heart for other people's property. Surely,
this is unacceptable." the prime Minister said.
Some police officers said it was moved away from the shed to make way
for cars belonging to their bosses.
Espag's lawyer, Job Sibanda of Sibanda and Associates in a recent
interview said they were still battling to have the vehicle released.
"We are making frantic efforts to have the vehicle released into the
custody of my client. If at all the case has to be taken further, we are
prepared to do so," Sibanda said.
BY NKULULEKO SIBANDA
Saturday, 12 September 2009 18:19
TWO old men walked out timidly as soon as the huge wooden prison door
was opened on Friday morning. They could not hide the joy carved on their
wrinkled faces as several cameras dazzled their eyes while relatives waited
to welcome them back into the real world.
They were free men after spending more that two decades each behind
"It's like a dream. I cannot believe I am out," 63-year-old Lovemore
Bvuno remarked as he strolled out of the high walls.
Clad in a grey suit, his jail mate 64-year-old Christopher Piyo
Munyoro, pleaded with society to accept him back as he is now a "reformed
The two who were serving life sentences for murder are among the 147
prisoners released from Harare Central Prison on Friday under the blanket
Nine of them, though pardoned, were not released because of health
Over 2 239 prisoners were released from the country's 42 prisons on
the same day in a bid to ease congestion in the crowded jails that have
become known as "death camps".
Bvuno and Munyoro - the two "lifers" as prison officials called them -
had served 24 and 23 years respectively.
It was evident so many things had changed since they last saw the sun
setting down from the outside.
It was their first time to see and handle the US dollar, one of the
multiple currencies now being used in the country since the dollarisation of
the economy early this year.
"I have never seen this. Is this real money?" asked Bvuno as a
well-wisher handed him a US$1 note for bus fare.
At the time Bvuno was jailed in 1985, the highest denomination note in
Zimbabwe was Z$10, which was discarded ages ago.
Narrating how he ended up in jail Bvuno, a former soldier then
attached to the military police, said he killed his wife's lover after he
found them in a compromising position at his home in Masvingo in 1985.
He regrets taking the law into his hands. "If I had not killed I would
not be in this position," he lamented. "Mhuri yangu yakaparara (My family
The father of four said he does not know where his children are since
they never visited him during his incarceration. His wife is dead.
The only other relative he knows works for a local company in the city
but he has no idea how to get to his workplace. Streets have changed names,
high rise buildings have been built while others were demolished.
"I don't know how I can get to Haddon Motors (in Eastlea). That is
where my relative said he worked," he said.
Luckily, Munyoro had his young brother, Isaiah, who was waiting to
take him home. The brother pledged to help him start his life afresh.
During his 24 years in jail, Bvuno studied several courses including
plumbing, Bible knowledge and he had become a peer educator.
Bvuno said life in prison was very hard as at one time there was not
enough food, blankets and clothes. Prisoners would fight for the little
resources available, he said.
"It was survival of the fittest," Bvuno said.
Diseases such as cholera, tuberculosis, measles and pellagra killed
several hundreds of inmates especially in the past three years, he said.
This was corroborated by another beneficiary of the amnesty, Toendepi
Mahaso (40), a lawyer by profession, who was convicted of fraud.
He had served 14 months of his two-year jail term.
"I thank God I managed to survive because I saw many of my colleagues
dying of cholera last year," said Mahaso, a former senior partner in a law
Mahaso, who said he would contest his conviction, was happy with his
"Justice sometimes has to have a human face and this is it," Mahaso
Though relieved at his release, Mahaso feels sorry for those that
were not so lucky.
"I feel the number of inmates released is too low. There is still
congestion inside there," said Mahaso, who said he practised law for 14
years before his conviction.
He urged the government to increase food rations, clothes, and
blankets and avail drugs to the inmates as well as refurbishing the
The crisis in prisons was exposed in April when documentary video
footage showed half-naked and skeletal inmates wasting away because of
hunger and diseases.
Prisons had run out of money for rations and drugs.
The situation, the released prisoners confirmed, improved after donor
organisations started supplying food, drugs and other essentials to jails
ZPS acting public relations manager Elizabeth Banda said the release
would relieve pressure on the country's crowded jails.
Banda urged society to accept and assist the released prisoners
reintegrate into the community.
The amnesty applied to all prisoners who had completed a quarter of
their sentences, those in open prisons and life inmates who had served 20 or
Amnesty International secretary-general Irene Khan said during a visit
in July that prison conditions were "deplorable and not fit for humans".
It also revealed that 1 000 prisoners had died in the first six months
of this year.
Most of them succumbed to hunger-related diseases and cholera.
BY CAIPHAS CHIMHETE
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:59
THE scale of squalor, poverty, overcrowding and dilapidation in Harare
City council's flats in Mbare is frightening. The condition in which the
families live not only presents a fire hazard, but it is also a health time
bomb, whose scale of devastation could eclipse the loss to last year's
Despite their hard work to earn a living through informal trading,
families in the Matapi area of Mbare say poverty is a permanent feature here
due to neglect by council.
While the city fathers are splashing millions of American dollars on
luxury vehicles for top council officials, residents of Mbare, like Rosemary
Madamombe, are living from hand to mouth in the deplorable conditions at
"I wake up everyday at 4am to go to the market to buy vegetables for
resale. I am a hard worker but no matter how I try things just don't
balance," said Madamombe, a mother of three.
After losing all her belongings in a fire that destroyed the whole
block 5 of Matapi flats in January, Madamombe and eight other families have
been staying in an open hall at Shawasha flats.
To give some semblance of privacy the families partitioned the hall
with cardboard boxes.
The adults sleep in the compartments while about 20 children of
varying ages all sleep at the centre of the hall, their only privacy being
the separation of their blankets. "We have been living in this hall since
January," lamented Madamombe.
"We have no privacy. Our children have no privacy. A girl child sleeps
next to a boy child who is not related to them. In winter they even shared
blankets because it was very cold. How can we blame them when they become
naughty? Council told us this was a temporary set up but we are still here
several months later."
In the same hall Getrude Chanakira, her husband and four children
share space with Madamombe.
Chanakira also lost all her belongings including a sewing machine -
which was her only source of income - in the fire.
Since then life has been a "nightmare." "In this hall we have two
stoves. We cook together and share everything because that's the only way we
can survive," Chanakira said.
As these women struggle each day to eke out a living for their
families there has been a new addition to their problems: they are facing
eviction from these premises over unpaid rentals.
The nine families who are all still recovering from the losses
received bills from the city council back dated to January and ranging from
US$150 to US$900.
These families are among many recipients of letters of final demand
from the city council for rates and rentals in Mbare and other Harare
The city council wants residents to pay the outstanding amounts in
seven days or risk eviction from their homes.
"The rentals are just too high for us and we are barely making ends
meet. I don't know where the city council thinks we will get that kind of
money," said Gladys Dzarevashe who owes council US$276.
Dzarevashe also stays at Shawasha Flats. She is a widow and takes care
of her four children through a vegetable stall.
On Thursday morning Dzarevashe was also one of the many parents whose
children were sent home from Gwinyai Primary school for non-payment of fees.
Her daughter brought back home a letter saying the school authorities
had now handed over her case to Medco Debt Management.
The debt collectors wanted her to pay US$30 within 24 hours. "My
vegetable stall can only give me US$10 on a good day," Dzarevashe said.
"I am only making enough to keep my family alive. It's not that I don't
want to pay the city council but I just don't have the money," Dzarevashe
But the city council appears to be in a fighting mood and has turned a
blind eye to the pleas of the residents for more time.
Last week council officials attempted to evict tenants at some of the
flats but faced resistance from angry residents.
The council officials fled with the residents in hot pursuit.
Residents say council has become insensitive to the suffering of many
Zimbabweans who have endured years of economic collapse.
They are also angry that the city fathers are demanding high rentals
and rates for the flats that are in a state of collapse.
The state of breakdown in infrastructure and overcrowding at these
dwellings is shocking.
Families of about five people each share single rooms and all pay
council rentals individually for each corner of the room they occupy.
The dirt and poor sanitary conditions in the communal toilets,
kitchens and outside the flats is suffocating.
Green flies swamped heaps of uncollected garbage and raw sewerage.
"They want us to pay high rentals for living like animals. That mayor
(Muchadeyi) Masunda must be really mad. He should come and see how we are
living here first before anything," fumed Madamombe.
According to the Harare Residents' Trusts (HRT), a pressure group, if
the council is allowed to go ahead with the evictions more than 5 000
families living in Mbare hostels will be rendered homeless.
But Harare City Council spokesperson Leslie Gwindi said there would be
no negotiations on the impending evictions. He said anyone who cannot afford
the rentals should vacate the council flats.
BY BERTHA SHOKO
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:53
GWERU - The 14-year-old girl that Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Chebundo
is accused of raping had sex several times, a doctor who examined her
testified last week. On Monday, when Chebundo's trial opened the girl who is
now eight months pregnant said the alleged rape on January 5 was her first
She was speaking during cross-examination by the defence team led by
Advocate Happias Zhou.
But the doctor who cannot be named for professional reasons said he
examined the girl from Kwekwe on May 21 and found out that her hymen was
torn in three places.
However, he said it was difficult to ascertain if the girl was raped
because the examination was done almost five months after the alleged
Chebundo pleaded not guilty to the rape charges.
He said the girl might have been used by her sister with whom he
alleges they had an affair.
The MP said he ended the affair after realising that the complainant's
sister, who is a former child MP had a number of boyfriends.
There is also a possibility that the girl was being used by his
political rivals, his defence team pointed out.
His lawyers said there was no reason for him to rape the girl if he
wanted sexual favours because he enjoyed a close relationship with her
Under cross examination, the former child MP said Chebundo was only
creating the story about the affair to escape the rape charges.
She only got to know him in 2003 when she became child MP, she said.
The court heard that the former Form II student who has since dropped
from school because of the pregnancy was raped once at Sebakwe River Bridge
along the Kwekwe-Harare road allegedly by Chebundo.
Her pair of torn pants was produced in court as an exhibit. She
claimed that on the fateful day, Chebundo had given her a lift to Harare to
see her sister who was not feeling well.
According to the State, she was raped on her way back from Harare.
After the alleged rape, the court heard that the girl travelled with
Chebundo to Harare again in April.
The girl says she only reported the matter in May because the MDC-T
legislator constantly threatened her with death.
She also claimed that a mysterious voice stopped her from committing
suicide following the sexual abuse and only realised that she was pregnant
after a medical examination at Kwekwe Hospital.
This was after she made a police report.
It also emerged that after Chebundo was arrested, police took the girl
to the crime scene in the absence of the accused.
Chebundo's lawyers also said the fact that the girl was made to write
several statements that were consolidated into one which she ultimately
signed also raised a lot of questions.
Testifying on the same day the investigating officer, Chief Inspector
Paul Dheka told the court that there were two visits to the crime scene.
He said he only got to know that the Victim Friendly Unit police had
also visited the scene.
The trial resumes on October 21 when the defence will call witnesses.
BY RUTENDO MAWERE
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:50
THE audit of the country's civil service whose results were expected
this month is still in its preliminary stages and the results are only
expected in November, a Cabinet minister has said. The government was
compelled to undertake the audit of employees following discoveries that
some of the workers were not genuinely engaged by the government, amid
reports that some youth militia aligned to Zanu PF were receiving monthly
salaries from the government.
Public Service Minister Eliphas Mukonoweshuro last week said they had
underestimated the work that is involved in the preliminary stages of the
"The actual audit has not started," said Mukonoweshuro. "At the
moment, we are involved in the actionable governance indicator survey, which
is a preparation to the audit itself.
"It is executed as a platform to the audit itself."
This stage, he said, involves looking at the operations of the civil
service itself and its structure.
Mukonoweshuro said once the preparatory stage was completed, the
actual census of civil servants would take about a month to complete.
"The count itself is not a problem but it is these steps that are so
intricate and time-consuming that are delaying us. As things stand, we now
expect the results in November."
The Public Service Minister disputed reports that the audit, which he
initially said would only take two months to complete, was being hampered by
lack of funds.
"While lack of funds is a shared misery of the inclusive government, I
cannot say that's a problem. At the moment we are working with a budget of
US$4 million which can be revised after this preliminary exercise," he said.
Starting February, civil servants were receiving an allowance of
US$100 each a month regardless of grade.
They started getting actual salaries in July, although this is about
US$150 a month each person.
Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister Senator David Coltart is
also on record saying the government might be paying millions of dollars in
foreign currency to thousands of ghost teachers.
The country's teachers' unions say they have 60 000 members on their
books while Coltart said records in his ministry showed 90 000 were on the
In July, Mukonoweshuro said the government was spending about US$526
million a year on civil servants, pensioners and staff under grant-aided
The MDC has on several occasions alleged that over the past few years,
Zanu PF recruited its party militia from the notorious youth training
centres into government structures.
BY CAIPHAS CHIMHETE
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:47
ZIMBABWE'S long-suffering school children are once again caught in the
war of attrition between the country's political rivals. An estimated 80% of
schools remained shut when the crucial third term began a fortnight ago
after the biggest union, the Zimbabwe Teachers' Association (Zimta) called
for a national job boycott.
Zimta says it is not happy that the seven-month old inclusive
government has failed to improve on the US$155 salaries it started giving
teachers in July.
However, Zimta's cause has been discredited by the decision by small
unions, the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) and the Zimbabwe
Teachers' Union (ZTU) not to take part in the strike.
The two unions say Zimta, which enjoyed good relations with President
Robert Mugabe's previous administration is being used by Zanu PF elements
desperate to discredit the inclusive government.
Education officials last week said the unions' positions regarding the
on-going strike were shaped more by their political inclination than by the
desire to see the plight of teachers being addressed.
Hopes for the revival of the sector had been pinned on the inclusive
government but such optimism is being dampened by the unions' endless
This, the officials said, is being worsened by the fact that the
inclusive government is broke and the critical shortage of teachers, most of
whom skipped the country for better salaries.
"The bickering by the unions mirrors the internal strife in the
inclusive government," said one official who requested anonymity.
The once "docile" Zimta seems to have suddenly found its voice
following the formation of the inclusive government in February.
It says 80% of schools in the country are closed because of the
Surprisingly the usually militant PTUZ, which widely is seen as
sympathetic to MDC-T led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has urged its
members to ignore the strike.
The union says it cannot be used to fight a war "that is not ours".
"We want government to understand that teachers' concerns are genuine
but we are not going to accept to bring back the anarchy and chaos of
yesteryear under the guise of trade unionism," said PTUZ secretary general
He denies being an "auxiliary" of any political party but sees a
hidden hand in the on-going strike.
Until last term, the militant PTUZ had been leading crippling teachers'
"This strike is not a strike. Look at what is happening and you will
see a hidden hand. We cannot be part it," he declared.
The PTUZ claims that it received reports that Zimta officials were
distributing circulars countrywide urging teachers to go on strike using
Mahindra and CAM vehicles without registration number plates.
The same types of vehicles were used by state security agents in last
year's violent elections in which at least 200 MDC activists were murdered.
The militant union also claimed that Zimta officials, working in
cahoots with rowdy war veterans, were chasing away teachers who are
reporting for work, particularly in the rural areas.
The Standard heard that teachers are being told to go on strike or
"else we will do what we did to you last year".
Several teachers were brutally assaulted for allegedly supporting the
MDC last year.
"Where was Zimta when teachers were being butchered in last year's
violent elections? Where was Zimta when teachers were earning R2 a month?"
But Zimta acting chief executive officer Sifiso Ndlovu dismissed
claims that his union was fighting a Zanu PF cause.
"It's an unfounded statement, unfortunate and scandalous," Ndlovu
Ndlovu said Zimta, formed in 1942 before the birth of Zanu PF 21 years
later, was "genuinely representing the interests" of teachers.
Teachers earn US$150 a month. They want their salaries to match the
poverty datum line (PDL) estimated at about US$500 a month.
"This is a bread and butter issue which has nothing to do with the MDC
or Zanu PF," Ndlovu said. "Such statements from our colleagues are meant to
distract us from solving real issues affecting teachers."
Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace (CCJP) director Alouis
Chaumba believes the strike was being sponsored by people determined to see
the collapse of the inclusive government.
"I believe someone is fuelling this," he said. "I smell a rat. There
are people throwing spanners in the works of the new government."
But he could not give names.
Contacted for comment Education, Sport, Arts and Culture Minister
Senator David Coltart referred The Standard to a letter he wrote to Zimta
and copied to all unions on next week's National Joint Negotiating Committee
In the letter Coltart said: "It is of deep concern to me that the
strike has not ended yet.
"I am increasingly concerned about the deleterious consequences for
children, especially those writing public examinations in the next few
The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) said while it was
cognizant of the teachers' plight, it was essential to put the interests of
"While as Unicef we fully respect the need for teachers to be paid a
living wage, we are very conscious of the fact that the last academic year
was lost and we call upon all partners to put the best interests of children
first," said Unicef representative in Zimbabwe, Peter Salama in a statement.
The fund dismissed reports that it intended to directly provide
teachers with a salary package of any sort.
Parents last week lambasted teachers for putting their interests ahead
of children's future.
Amon Sigauke, whose son is in Form IV at a school in Marondera, said
teachers were being inconsiderate.
"Every other civil servant is getting such little amounts of money
because the government has no money. Why do teachers want to be special and
get much more?" Sigauke said.
Chaumba urged teachers to return to work in the interests of children
who are supposed to write end-of-year of examination in November.
"They are demanding from a source that cannot produce it," he said.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said the government has no money to
increase teachers' salaries before the end of the year.
Last year, at the height of the country's political problems
educationists say children spent an average of 22 days at schools due to the
BY CAIPHAS CHIMHETE
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:45
BULAWAYO - The country's second largest city is running out of burial
space for senior citizens owing to high mortality. According to a recent
report of the council's Health, Housing and Education Committee, the little
space left at the Lady Stanley Cemetery is too rocky.
"Due to demand for space at Lady Stanley cemetery more space was
allocated near the old site and burials had continued up to now," reads the
"However, on the little space now available it is becoming very
difficult to dig graves because of the rocky nature of the ground."
The cemetery located near Mpilo Hospital along Athlone Avenue is
reserved for senior citizens and prominent people.
A number of national heroes from PF Zapu such as Zipra commander,
Lookout Masuku, Isaac Nyathi, Lizati Sibanda and Masala Sibanda were buried
at the cemetery after government dithered on their status.
Sikhangele Zhou, the chamber secretary said in the meantime the local
authority had found space to accommodate 600 graves only within the adjacent
West Park Cemetery. Council says it is also fast running out of space at the
Luveve Cemetery, which can now only accommodate less than 300 graves.
Burial space is fast running out in many cities countrywide with
health experts blaming the HIV/Aids pandemic for the high number of deaths.
About 3 000 Zimbabweans die every week due to HIV/Aids related
illnesses and the situation is exacerbated by the shortage of
life-prolonging Anti-retroviral drugs (ARV's).
Meanwhile, the cash-strapped city council wants the government to
speed up the setting up of municipal courts that will have powers to try
Council, which is owed a staggering US$14 million says it has issued
65 letters of demand to ratepayers who have failed to pay US$22 025.
According to a report by the city treasurer Middleton Nyoni tabled at
a recent full council meeting, the establishment of the municipal courts
will see council avoiding the tedious route of pursuing debtors through the
Nyoni said the Urban Councils' Association of Zimbabwe (UCAZ) has
"approached central government on the need to establish municipal courts but
the matter has not yet been finalised".
The local authority was also owed US$593 000 by government departments
and thousands more by private businesses as of March 31.
"Total cash collected from February 2009 to July 2009 amounted to US6
248 183," reads Nyoni's report.
"Therefore ratepayers and consumers owed council US$14 million.
"Responses to reminders sent out to industry and commence indicated
that some were resisting the tariff increases and therefore were not paying
BY NQOBANI NDLOVU
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:54
THE Centre - an organisation founded by the late HIV/AIDS activist
Lynde Francis to offer psycho-social support to people living with the virus
15 years ago - has re-opened its doors. This was after it suspended
operations in 2007 in a cloud of uncertainty due to financial and
Women's University in Africa founder, Hope Sadza said she was happy
Francis' dream will live on. Her sentiments were echoed by Keith Goddard,
the director of the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe who said The
Centre had been revived by people who cherished Francis' dream.
"It would have been sad to just let Lynde Francis' dream just go to
waste like that," he said.
Speaking at the same event, Hivos Regional Co-ordinator for HIV and
Aids, Sarah Musungwa urged The Centre's board members to work hard to ensure
that it does not close down again.
Francis died in March this year after she developed a brain tumour.
She had been living with HIV for more than 23 years.
While it will continue with previous programmes, an immediate area of
focus for The Centre will be on HIV counselling and support groups.
BY OUR STAFF
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:53
THE World Bank will provide seed maize to 300 000 communal farmers for
the 2009/2010 agricultural season in a move that will bolster efforts to
help the country regain its bread basket status in the region.
The inputs are provided under a US$7 million Zimbabwe Emergency
Agricultural Input Project grant designed to help households to meet their
grain consumption requirements. The bulk of the funding came from the
David Rohrbach, the bank's senior agricultural economist said on
Friday each household will receive a 10kg bag of maize seed and at least
50kg of top-dressing fertiliser.
The programme should be running by mid-November and Rohrbach said the
seed availed to the households will be enough to put half a hectare under
crop and will produce at least 600kg to a tonne.
A household of six requires a tonne of grain to meet their consumption
needs for the year, Rohrbach said.
The project will be implemented by GRM International and most of the
seeds will be distributed to farmers by up to 20 Non-Governmental
Under the revival plan, Short Term Emergency Recovery Programme
(STERP) government envisages to support 800 000 vulnerable farmers with
inputs and Rohrbach said the organisation considers its support as a
But he said the programme was a one-off thing. "It's an unusual
programme for the World Bank. We don't involve ourselves in inputs handouts.
It's a one-off programme in our books," he said.
The inputs support scheme was launched in Malawi last year and the
country registered a surplus in food production.
He said local seed companies will be considered to supply the seed and
one of the conditions was that the seeds are readily available.
"There is enough seed in the country or waiting at the border," he
Last month the Zimbabwe Seed Trade Association - a body of 12 seed
companies - told a parliamentary portfolio committee on Agriculture said
government requires 18 081 tonnes of hybrid and open pollinated maize seed
from the Sadc region to meet the projected annual consumption for the
Zimbabwe requires 40 000 tonnes of seed for the coming agricultural
season. The annual production of maize has been on decline since 2000 when
farm invasions disrupted agriculture.
For the past nine years, the country has been importing grain after
failing to meet the annual 2.4 million tonnes of maize due to shortage of
skills and inputs.
BY OUR STAFF
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:49
THE Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) poured a damper on
premature celebrations by the country.
KPCS chair, Bernhard Esau, has said a decision on continued membership
of the scheme by Zimbabwe will only be made after a full report from the
review team that visited the country at the end of June and beginning of
Esau said his recent visit to Zimbabwe had created the impression that
the KPCS had already reached a decision not to suspend Zimbabwe from the
"This is not correct," he said. "The recent visit to Zimbabwe by the
KPCS chair was not a review mission but a bilateral visit for informative
Esau said the KPCS appointed a team to conduct a review mission. It
visited Zimbabwe from June 30 to July 4.
"The team provided the KPCS and Zimbabwe with an interim update in
July but is yet to produce its final report. Any decision by the KPCS as to
Zimbabwe's KPCS membership will be taken in the light of that final report
on which Zimbabwe will have an opportunity to comment and in compliance with
the agreed KP rules and procedures," he said.
"No final decision has yet been taken. The chairman has not made any
unilateral decision on Zimbabwe and there was no attempt to pre-empt KPCS
Both the chair and the review mission visited Chiadzwa diamond fields
in Marange, Manicaland to examine the security and exploitation of the
natural resource, as well as allegations of human rights abuses especially
by security forces.
The KPCS report came on the same day two weeks ago that Gorden Moyo,
the Minister of State in Prime Minister's office said the government was
failing to fully exploit the Chiadzwa diamonds because of fierce resistance
from powerful but corrupt but government officials. Among these he
identified the military forces.
In a presentation during a Mass Public Opinion Institute discussion
forum in Harare, Moyo spoke of wide scale looting.
BY OUR STAFF
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:45
FISSURES between the Ministry of Finance and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
(RBZ) have widened amid revelations the apex bank is against the proposed
amendments to legislation governing its operations.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti, with the blessings of Cabinet, is
pushing through Parliament amendments to the RBZ Act that are designed to
ensure that the RBZ concentrates on its core business: inflation control and
financial sector stability.
The draft RBZ Amendment Bill 2009 was gazetted last month.
RBZ has been accused of fuelling inflation by engaging in activities
that should have been catered for by the national budget.
But Gono says RBZ interventions were a response to an extraordinary
situation obtaining in the country and his actions were sanctioned by the
Standardbusiness heard last week the latest battle between Gono and
Biti is the proposed takeover of RBZ assets by government in the reforms
contained in the amendments to the RBZ Act.
"Subject to Subsection 2, all the shares held by the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe in any company incorporated in Zimbabwe in which it has a majority
shareholding are hereby transferred to and vested in the State, and the
shares shall be held on behalf of the state, notwithstanding anything
contained in the memorandum and articles of association of the company in
question, by the head of the ministry to whom the company in question is
assigned," reads the Bill.
RBZ has interests in Carslone Enterprises (mining); Fiscorp (Pvt) Ltd,
Homelink (Pvt) Ltd (property development) and the Export Credit and
It also has shares in listed companies - Tractive Power Holdings,
Astra Industries and Cairns Holdings, which are controlled by the Finance
Trust of Zimbabwe, RBZ's investment linked vehicle.
According to the proposed bill, RBZ would retain control in Fidelity
Printers and Refineries and Aurex, a jewellery concern.
The bone of contention in this latest "war' is the proposed takeover
of RBZ assets without catering for the central bank's liabilities.
Correspondence seen last week show that Gono wrote an Advisory Note to
Biti notifying him on the adverse implications of the proposed legislation.
Gono says while it is noble for RBZ to focus on its core business,
direct takeover of the apex bank's investments would be akin to government
taking over depositors' money.
RBZ operates a Retail Banking Unit that runs accounts for embassies,
diplomats, non-governmental organisations, banks and other corporates.
These are the funds that are invested in order to generate income
"To simply pass a law that takes over the assets (investments) without
that same law indicating how the deposits (liabilities) would be covered
will, therefore, be a serious omission with unprecedented repercussions for
the financial sector as a whole," Gono said.
"This will also have adverse spill-over effects on the country's
foreign affairs relations given that by law the RBZ is mandated to be a
banker to foreign missions among other entities."
Gono said when RBZ made investments into such projects as Homelink,
SIRTECH, Transload (Bio-diesel project) it was using the funds which did not
necessarily belong to the bank.
"In banking, prudential requirements are that to remain afloat, a bank
must diligently deploy depositors' funds lodged with it in lucrative areas
of investment so as to preserve and grow financial value, whilst at the same
time being able to pay out such deposits when the owners of the money want
it," he said.
Gono said for every investment that RBZ holds the liabilities were not
government equity but funds the central bank owes to "legitimate depositors
and other direct lenders".
He said government's equity in RBZ amounts to only Z$2 (old
Gono said taking over assets would be feasible to the extent that
government recapitalises RBZ.
He advised Biti to set aside the intended takeover of RBZ assets
unless government pays the central bank its equivalent investment value "to
enable the bank to settle its obligations to its bona fide depositors in the
banking operations arms of the institution".
"Doing otherwise will be akin to government walking into a commercial
bank and simply taking over bank assets without saying how the depositors'
money will be settled," Gono said.
"Hon. Minister, please kindly take note that the investments done by
the RBZ did not necessarily use government money but rather pooled funds
belonging to RBZ's depositors and in some cases statutory reserves held in
trust for commercial banks."
Despite Biti and Gono dismissing their long-running feud as a creation
of the media, the duo has been engaged in a battle for the control of the
In the run up to the harmonised election last year, Biti blamed Gono
for the collapse of the economy and likened him to "an economic saboteur,
terrorist and number one Al-Qaeda who deserves to be shot by a firing squad".
Gono alleges that Biti's onslaught is to divert attention after RBZ
discovered that a law firm in which the finance boss is a partner was
BY NDAMU SANDU
Saturday, 12 September 2009 12:23
ZIMBABWE is still one of the worst places to do business despite
change on the political and economic fronts, according to a report released
on Tuesday by the World Bank.
The report, Doing Business 2010: Reforming Through Difficult Times,
ranks Zimbabwe 159 out of 183 countries used in the study during the period
June 2008 to May 2009.
Although its ranking is one place better than last year, authorities
say the country has reformed so much that it merits a better ranking.
Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIA) chief executive officer, Richard
Mbaiwa believes the report does not portray a correct picture of what is
happening on the ground.
"I would expect that we would be below 100 on the rankings," Mbaiwa
"We are not taking time to process projects; the maximum time is two
weeks. For company registrations, the maximum time is 24 hours."
Singapore maintained its position at the top for the second
The new ranking places Zimbabwe poles apart with its regional
neighbours South Africa, Zambia and Botswana.
Mauritius at 24 is the best placed country in Africa while South
Africa is a few rungs lower at 34.
Namibia (66) and Zambia (90) are some of the southern African
countries in the top 100.
The 2010 report is seventh edition of annual reports investigating
regulations that enhance business activity and those that constrain it.
On starting a business Zimbabwe was placed 145 on the ladder and it
performed dismally in dealing with construction permits to merit 178th
Zimbabwe fared badly on the employment of workers and was ranked 142
but better in registering property where was placed at 84.
On getting credit and protecting investors, Zimbabwe was placed 113
and 119 respectively. Empowerment legislation has rattled foreign investors
who fear losing their businesses.
Zimbabwe performed better on the enforcing contracts category where it
is ranked 78 while on paying taxes and trading across borders, the country
was placed 130 and 167 respectively.
BY OUR STAFF
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:38
PERHAPS, some day, a folk story will be narrated to the children of
Zimbabwe. They will gather around the fire, deep into the night, listening
to the storyteller telling the tale of the lion and the zebra.
She will talk about the lion called Muchadura (Mucha) and the zebra
who answered to the name Tichaona (Ticha). She will describe how many years
past the two lived happily side by side as great friends in the shadow of
the great Gandamasungo Mountain.
Mucha hunted his prey whilst Ticha grazed peacefully in the lush green
fields of the land, which they shared. It was a beautiful friendship. Each
looked after the other and their children played together in the fields.
Then one year the rains did not come as normal. The land was dry. The
great Save River which once flowed effortlessly was filled with sand and
debris. Things were hard and Mucha, Ticha and their families suffered
greatly. Mucha who was the chief grew paranoid and thought the world was
against him. He grew suspicious of Ticha. The two friends blamed each other.
Mucha's children cried for food but he found it hard to provide for
them. Then one of his children asked, "But father, why do we suffer when we
have so much food in our land?" He was pointing to Ticha and his children.
"Why can't we eat them? They are food aren't they?" he asked his father.
So Mucha and his children began to devour Ticha's children one by one.
They would go silently in the dark and devour them in secret.
Then Ticha noticed that something was wrong. His tribe was getting
smaller by the day. His children were scared and others ran away to far off
lands. He discovered what Mucha was up to and he decided to put up a fight
for his tribe. But Mucha was too powerful and he devoured even more of Ticha's
Ticha saw that he had little power against his old friend. So he
decided to take his case to the elders in neighbouring lands. He told his
story and how his friend Mucha had broken his promise of everlasting
friendship. The elders listened and then they called Mucha to a big meeting
The elders said what was happening was not right because Mucha and
Ticha were old friends whom everyone had respected for years.
They said they were embarrassed by what was happening and feared this
would cause the gods to get angrier. If they got angrier they would stop the
rains for many years to come and they would all suffer. For his part, Mucha
said that Ticha was to blame for the lack of the rains because he had gone
against the customs of the land.
In the end, the elders managed to talk to both Mucha and Ticha. They
asked them to accommodate each other so that they could live happily
They promised to share some of their food so that Mucha and Ticha's
familes would not have to go hungry and fight each other again.
Ticha wanted them to come make sure everything was alright but the
elders said they were adults and they could now go back and try to work
together. Mucha promised to behave and treat Ticha fairly. They ate, drank
and they were all happy at the end of the meeting.
When Mucha and Ticha returned home all seemed to be going well for a
while. But Mucha's relatives did not stop their ways. Ticha tried hard to
put up a brave face.
He humbled himself and pretended everything was going well. He thought
Mucha and his children would soon change. He wanted them to change. When his
children cried that things were still not good, Ticha said, "Don't worry, my
kids. Zvichanaka chete" (Things will get better).
Ticha tried hard to make Mucha happy and comfortable, always hoping
for the best. But Mucha remained wary and kept a vigilant eye on Ticha. He
was convinced that Ticha was out to seek revenge.
He never trusted Ticha, however hard the latter tried to embellish his
image to the wider world. Mucha did not keep to his promises. He kept
dilly-dallying and delaying. Ticha grew frustrated. His children were
looking to him but he realised Mucha would not budge.
Feeling powerless yet again, Ticha travelled to meet the elders once
more. He told them that Mucha was back to his old ways. He reported that
Mucha had simply ignored all the promises that he had made and that he
feared that his children were still at risk. He begged them for help. The
elders asked him to be patient and said they would do something about the
They called Mucha and Ticha again to Mutungagore where they were
meeting. Mucha warned the elders that they should not forget who they were;
that he, Mucha was one of them and they were different from Ticha.
The fact that Mucha had lived side by side with Ticha and agreed to
accommodate him did not make him one of them. He was still a zebra and they
were lions. He warned that if they listened to Ticha too much they would
soon be in big trouble. He advised them that he was well aware that Ticha
was busy mobilising his friends and relatives from other lands against all
of them. If they were not careful, they would be wiped off the face of the
The elders then called Ticha and said to him, "Look here, Ticha. We
have listened to you and Mucha. We have also sent inspectors to see for
themselves what's going on in your land. We think there is progress there
and we think it's quite satisfactory. Do they not say Rome was not built in
day? Things will get better. Just be patient"
"But Mucha will not change unless you get a bit tougher with him, my
elders" pleaded Ticha.
But the elders replied, "Now, now, you do not get it do you, Ticha?
Remember that you are a zebra and Mucha is a lion. Do you look at us and see
any zebras here? You have to count yourself lucky that you can sit here
among our tribe. Remember lions eat zebra.
We are different tribes. But we have been nice to you. We have told
your old friend to give you some space and he has promised to do that. For
your part, you have to behave and know your limits. Never forget that you
are a zebra and we are lions. Be grateful, young fellow, for the little that
you have got.
There are many others in your position who have nothing. Go home and
work with your chief. Try and make the most of what you have got now which
others can only dream of. We will deal with Mucha our way, the way of the
And with that Ticha went away. He felt dejected and vulnerable. He
wanted to cry but he knew his children were watching so he put up a brave
face. It dawned on Ticha that try as he might, he would never be a lion and
that also he would never understand the language of the lions and they in
turn would never understand him. He sat with his children, contemplating the
The storyteller will see that the children are getting excited. She
will as they all do, tell them to come back the next evening, to hear what
So she will say, ndipo paparera sarungano (the story ends here, for
now). The children will be sad not to get to the end of the story.
They will probably spend the rest of the night and the next day
thinking about Ticha and his children, wondering if there is a happy ending.
But they will have to wait. They will know this is how stories go, in
fiction, as in real life. Sometimes the boundary is just too thin to be seen
And so it is that the story of Zimbabwe will go on. I wonder what
happened when Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and President
Robert Mugabe met the leaders of SADC at the recent conference in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). I wonder what Ticha, the zebra would
have made of it.
Alex Magaisa is based at, Kent Law School, the University of Kent and
can be contacted at email@example.com or firstname.lastname@example.org
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:35
THE whole world is watching helplessly as Zimbabwe's education sector,
especially students suffer from the effects of a past and continuing
onslaught against academic freedoms. The outrageous fees, for example, are a
thorn in the flesh and such injustice is institutionalized by grossly
undemocratic anti-students legislation.
The background of this aggression is to accomplish what was the then
government's major objective since it took power in 1980- - to silence all
opposition and curb all intellectual and academic freedoms the exercise of
which tended to inconvenience it.
Historical evidence has shown that over the years that the government
has been trying to create an atmosphere for abrogation of the fundamental
rights of the university community generally and students in particular.
Since 1990 the methodology of accomplishing these sordid goals was
tactically switched from the open and blatant use of strong arm tactics
alone to silence dissent, to mixing it with oppressive legislation.
Why change of tactics? The government was getting widespread
condemnation from society over its use of organs of coercion like the police
to silence dissent.
Thus there was a switch to repressive legislation which is more subtle
and which usually not everyone in society understands easily. Parliament
enacted one of the most timidly and hastily enacted pieces of legislation -
the University of Zimbabwe Amendment Act, the Ordinance 30 and the carefully
worded Education Act.
These concentrated power in three people - the Minister of Higher and
Tertiary Education, the University's Vice-Chancellor appointed by the
President, and the President as the Chancellor.
Evidently, this cocktail of laws is a recipe for dictatorship. Power
must be devolved and other players, like parents, students and civic society
allowed on board.
The government has on many occasions tried to use the legal machinery
and laws to thwart student dissent.
It is embedded in recent history that on all these occasions the
government has failed. Dismissals and withdrawals of state cases against
students show that there was no merit in the state cases.
Nevertheless, the cases show the legislation being used as mere
mechanisms for open and blatant victimization of the student fraternity.
Why has there been so much confrontation between the government and
the students? Why was there no such confrontation in the first half decade
Zanu PF had been in power? Why have the intellectuals been drawn into such
an uncomfortable relationship with a "democratically" elected government,
led by what some people term the most educated leader in Africa (at least
that's what the papers show).
Does this mean the current generations of students, dating back from
the 1988 demonstrations, suddenly became rowdy and ill-behaved and are less
wise than the previous 1980-85 students?
One has to bear in mind that students come from a wide spectrum of
society. They are thus in a better position and are endowed with the
requisite intellectual tasks to make an informed dissection and assessment
of ills and evils in society. They reflect and articulate the ills of
Thus all scenes of unrest at the 10 universities in Zimbabwe can be
traced from the September 29, 1988 demonstration against political
manipulation of academic freedoms. Of course in all these unpleasant scenes
the government of Zimbabwe has always taken an offensive and
Government has gone on to use its diabolic legislation to suspend
students and shut down Student Unions. Currently the University of Zimbabwe
has no Students' Union, the last elections having been held in 2006.
The President, the Prime Minister and other ministers should come to
universities and explain on how the country is being run and so allow
simmering emotions to come out rather than to wait for a demonstration
first. Do not make the previous regime's mistake of thinking that its
offices were too big and could not be seen talking to "small people"- the
students. Accept that government's record in universities is unacceptable.
The Prime Minister has addressed South African universities and to
appeal to him to do the same here is not really out of place. Let's break
the convention of controlled and stifled learning. The anti-students
legislation in Zimbabwe dismisses dialogue as a means of resolving
university problems. It is a disastrous setting that has made sure that
every problem that arises in the university marks the offensive state being
countenanced by resisting students. There will never be a common position.
The GNU should rectify the anti-students law it inherited and depart
from the retrogressive and detested oppressive order.
Saturday, 12 September 2009 17:29
OPERATION Murambatsvina remains one of the greatest man-made purges
ever to blight this country. Scores of those rendered homeless haven't even
fully recovered from that loss even though the government claimed it
launched Operation Hlalani Kuhle/Garikai to shelter them.
The threats by the Harare City Council to evict residents of the
hostels in Mbare are remarkable for their insensitivity. In January council
hostels in the suburb were burnt leaving them uninhabitable. Families lost
much of their property. Many are still recovering from the setback.
The victims of the January fire sought alternative accommodation in
the area. That has resulted in unprecedented overcrowding. The risk of
disease outbreaks and fire has increased as a result.
Yet instead of addressing these threats, the council wants to evict
the affected families. The housing crisis after Murambatsvina and worsened
by the fire at the hostels in Mbare remains unattended.
The hostels in Mbare are a legacy of settler administration. They were
built for single men. Today, there are families living in the hostels.
Nearly thirty years after independence the government has done
absolutely nothing to change the appalling conditions in hostels in Mbare.
The squalid conditions are a disastrous health time-bomb waiting to explode.
The timing of the eviction threats by the city council is remarkable
and reckless. With the rainy season about to start, the consequences of the
actions of the city fathers could spell a crisis of a scale similar to last
year's cholera epidemic.
The proper course of action for the council should have been to
renovate the hostels affected by fire first and get the families back.
Renovating the hostels would enable the local authorities to reconfigure
them into proper units designed for single families and not the situation
that obtains in the council hostels at present.
The hostels have generally been places associated with squalor and
anti-social conduct. What the city council should be doing is a gradual
transformation of the hostels into safe rented accommodation for families.
The tragedy is that local authorities have been contented with
collecting insignificant revenues, when more could be realised if more is
done to convert the hostels into proper places for families.
Both council and central government have abdicated their
responsibility for providing shelter to the poor among society.
But what is striking about the families in the hostels is their
apparent support for Zanu PF. Every compartment that families call "home" is
adorned with the party's 100% total empowerment banners and posters of
President Robert Mugabe.
Whether this is a measure of the support Zanu PF enjoys or the extent
to which families will go in order to protect themselves is anyone's guess.
But the question begs: what has support for Zanu PF brought them?
Every weekend the residents of the hostels are compelled to attend the party's
rallies. It is time the residents related the frequency of the forced
meetings to the squalor to which they are banished.
If other parties are prepared to go beyond lip-service, Mbare hostels
are a fertile ground for recruiting membership. The families there have for
far too long been taken for a ride.
They need to begin to find and reclaim their power. When authorities
neglect residents but push them far, there is need to draw a line and say:
enough is enough. What exactly is the point of having elected
representatives in the midst of such neglect?
Civil society organisations must rally to the side of the threatened
families and force, the councillors for the area and the MP to do what the
voters elected them to do: represent interests of the electorate.
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Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America
- Samuel H. Scudder
That creatures so minute and fragile as insects, creatures which can so feebly withstand the changing seasons as to live, so to speak, but a moment, are to be found fossil, engraved, as it were, upon the rocks or embedded in their hard mass, will never cease to be a surprise to those unfamiliar with the fact. "So fragile," says Quinet, "so easy to crush, you would readily believe the insect one of the latest beings produced by nature, one of those which has least resisted the action of time; that its type, its genera, its forms, must have been ground to powder a thousand times, annihilated by the revolutions of the globe, and perpetually thrown into the crucible. For where is its defense? Of what value its antennae, its shield, its wings of gauze, against the commotions and the tempests which change the surface of the earth? When the mountains themselves are overthrown and the seas uplifted, when the giants of structure, the mighty quadrupeds, change form and habit under the pressure of circumstances, will the insect withstand them? Is it it which will display most character in nature? Yes! The universe flings itself against a gnat. Where will it find refuge? In its very diminutiveness, its nothingness."
The pages and plates of the present volume bear testimony to the fact that our tertiary strata have preserved remnants of an ancient host, so varied in structure, so closely also resembling their brethren of to-day, that nearly or quite every prevalent family-group in the entire range of the insect-world has already been demonstrated to have then existed. While often fragmentary and crushed, sometimes beyond recognition, a not insignificant number are sufficiently preserved for us to repopulate the past; sometimes, too, are they preserved in such a wonderful manner that in tiny creatures with a spread of wings scarcely more than a couple of millimeters one may count under the microscope the hairs fringing the wings.
In attempting thus to restore the past world of our insects, two or three general features have been forced upon my attention, which may well be mentioned here. One of them is the rernarkable fact that in hardly a single instance has the same species been found at two distinct localities. These localities, it is true, are in some instances separated by hundreds or even thousands of miles, and analogy with the present distribution of insects would lead us to expect more or less profound changes in passing from one to another. But at other times the distance is not great, or at any rate not great enough to make this a satisfactory reason. It is more probable that the beds in which they occur are not altogether synchronous; and we are led to believe that in the separation of horizons insects will give more precise and definite distinctions than may be gained by the study of the plant remains of the same beds. The data at our disposal are not yet sufficiently varied to enable us to speak with any confidence, but when the other groups of Florissant insects, not considered in the present volume, are worked out, and the new material that is at hand from the other principal localities have been fairly studied, it may be found that we are armed with a new weapon of attack in solving the immediate succession of the Tertiary series of the West in their finer subdivisions.
Another point to which attention may be drawn is the very considerable number and quite extraordinary proportion of species which so far are represented by a single specimen. Leaving out of consideration certain marvelously prevalent forms in the beds of Florissant, such as certain Formicidae, Alydina, etc., one working these beds, from which many thousands of insects have already been taken, may confidently expect that every third or fourth specimen will prove something new. A quite similar statement can be made of all, or all but one, of the other localities where insects have been found in our Tertiary deposits: it surely indicates that with all the rich results of the explorations so far undertaken we are only upon the threshold of our possible knowledge. We find a richness of fauna far exceeding anything before supposed possible.
The interest of the Tertiary fauna is further enhanced by the discovery that no inconsiderable proportion of the species in this fauna must be referred to genera not now extant. Granted that our knowledge of the subtropical forms of this continent (with which as a whole at least our Florissant fauna seems to be akin) is much too meager to be of great service; granted also that in many cases we are forced to establish new genera upon what would be regarded among recent animals as too slender grounds : it is nevertheless true that an unexpectedly large number of forms can not be forced into modern genera already established; in many cases, throughout whole groups, kindred differences from modern types are found which indicate considerable changes of structure in the intervening epochs along parallel lines. In illustration of this we would call special attention to the differences observed in the genera of plant-lice, and, in several places among other Hemiptera as well as among the Coleoptera, to the decided differences in the relative length of various members of the body. My own belief, which springs from the comparisons instituted in the study of this fauna, is that a much larger proportion of genera should really have been founded, and that, for every type which may turn up in Central American explorations of the near future identical with those now established upon the fossils alone, it will be necessary to separate from the familiar surroundings in which I have placed it some other of the insects from the same beds.
It should be stated that the larger part of the plates in this volume were engraved before the insects were studied, except in a cursory manner to separate the species; the insects are therefore not always properly grouped, and the legends upon the plates are in part inaccurate.
In the enumeration of the specimens at the end of the specific descriptions the numbers of the obverse and reverse of the same specimen are always connected by "and" without any intervening comma, and this typographical method is employed only for expressing this relation.
In the study of these extinct insects much assistance has been received from friends, to whom my cordial thanks are due; for valuable suggestions from the late Dr. J. L. LeConte, from Baron R. von Osten Sacken, Edward Burgess, Esq., and Drs. G. H. Horn and H. A. Hagen; for the open collections of the late G. D. Smith, Esq., and of Messrs. E. P. Austin and Samuel Henshaw; and for important aid in obtaining typical series of modern insects in various groups by Messrs. E. P. Austin, P. R. Uhler, E. P. Van Duzee, Edward Burgess, Dr. A. Forel, and most especially Mr. Samuel Henshaw.
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A month ago, Howard Shultz, president and CEO of Starbucks, announced his company would pay a whopping $620 million to buy Teavana Holdings Inc., a publicly traded loose tea retailer. If you live in the U.S. chances are good you’ve seen a Teavana store awash in color and fragrance at your local mall. You may even have been sucked in with a free sample of Guava Papaya Passion White Tea.
The press release was all business. The deal (it was cash) paid $15.50 a share (a 54 percent premium on the closing price of the stock) and gave Starbucks (which already owns Tazo, a new-agey tea subsidiary) a “two-tiered” position in the domestic tea market. To read the document, one might think this was a move to define the hot beverage industry for years to come.
In an interview after the announcement Shultz offered the kicker, “We can create very unique brewed teas,” he said, “customized hot and cold beverages analogous to the espresso bars we introduced in the mid-’80s—and do for tea what we did for coffee.”
Let us, for a moment, gloss over the fact that Shultz modified the absolute (remember, always, Strunk and White’s “unique eggbeater”), and take the second proclamation. What has Starbucks done for coffee, after all, but burn the crap out of it, drown it in syrups, and make it synonymous world over with free wireless, acceptable seating, and a dearth of electrical outlets?
It’s easy to hate on Starbucks as a harbinger of Americanization, as a global pusher of the expensive and mediocre, as a brand for squares. But all of this ignores the fact that Starbucks’ domination brought coffee culture to the masses—that, as a company, Starbucks can take credit for enlightening consumers and intriguing the palettes of coffee drinkers on six continents, ushering in as it did so a whole new movement in the industry.
Starbucks has secured coffee’s position as the American drink, cementing the bean as a top global commodity. And it has, in the inevitable backlash, created a market for the small-scale, hyper-local response.
To quote Jonathan Gold in LA Weekly:
The first wave of American coffee culture was probably the 19th-century surge that put Folgers on every table, and the second was the proliferation, starting in the 1960s at Peet’s and moving smartly through the Starbucks grande decaf latte, of espresso drinks and regionally labeled coffee. We are now in the third wave of coffee connoisseurship, where beans are sourced from farms instead of countries, roasting is about bringing out rather than incinerating the unique characteristics of each bean, and the flavor is clean and hard and pure.
In other words, without Starbucks, without the people who grew to hate it, I’d have nowhere to drink locally roasted coffee. Which is why I’m so excited they bought Teavana.
Cards on the table: My family started The Little Red Cup Tea Company just under a year ago, so I’ve got skin in this game. We’re small, and pretty well locally focused, but this kind of market movement makes me sit up and listen. I attended the World Tea Expo in Las Vegas in June, and there the declaration of growth potential practically reverberated from the walls of the convention center.
Tea is up, in the U.S. especially, in several key categories. Bottled tea (Ready-to-Drink, jargonwise, or RTD) sales are reportedly hot and companies are scrambling to present consumers with thirst-quenching, antioxidant-rich, soft drink alternatives. Or, iced teas that taste just a little bit more like tea than they have traditionally. According to the most recent Euromonitor “RTD Tea in the U.S.” report, the segment grew 7 percent in value during 2011, and it’s forecast to grow 24 percent by 2016. “This growth,” writes the report, “parallels the increase in health awareness among consumers in the U.S. As such, they are looking for alternatives to high-calorie carbonates and RTD teas offers a unique refreshment beverage with lots of natural health benefits but very few calories.”
If Starbucks is willing to do the heavy lifting, willing to suggest to a populace that Chinese teas are more than a complement to General Tso’s chicken, willing to point out the difference between an oolong and a pu-erh, I will be much obliged.
Specialty teas are booming too, though exact numbers are hard to pin down. Premium teas account for nearly 60 percent of the industry, according to World Tea Media, though in other documents Kim Jage, sales and marketing director for the organization suggests that tea sellers are “still a bit behind here.” Many accounts suggest that premium teas are second only to RTD products in terms of growth, and it is into this category that Teavana falls.
Teavana’s loose teas span the spectrum from Monkey Picked Oolong ($25 / 2 oz) to Pineapple Kona Pop Herbal Tea ($7.20/ 2 oz). That is, from high-grade traditional teas grown in China, Japan, and India to blended concoctions worthy of our good friend’s young daughter Clara, who, seeing no reason to compromise, was a “kitty cat fairy princess” for Halloween two years ago.
The tea industry as a whole has seen remarkable market growth in the last few years. According to the Tea Association of the USA, the domestic market has grown from $1.84 billion in 1990 to $8.2 billion in 2011. That’s conservative: the Sage group suggests the domestic tea market is three times larger. Whatever your metrics, this is a good time to be in tea. Palates are developing, and good tea is valued enough in the United States to make importing it a worthwhile endeavor. At the same time, blended teas, hardly new to the market, have grown in popularity. They are a canvas for self-expression, an opportunity for western tea purveyors to claim craftsmanship.
With U.S. tea markets opening up so rapidly, Starbucks’ acquisition makes total sense. Teavana has a huge operation built up already, a supply chain, and a distribution network. And they know tea. Starbucks can use what it has learned about global domination, and start serving $4 specialty tea drinks. The company has already proved adept at selling coffee to the Chinese (no longer a “when pigs fly” situation); I have every confidence they will be able to sell astounding amounts of what Teavana has called “nature’s most delicious resource.”
Since I’m in the business, this is great for me.
Our teas are all traditional Chinese varieties, and we’ve kept the original names out of deference to a verbal tea culture dating back to the 700s. But offering friends a cup of “green eyebrow” has raised a few. We’ve done well with people who already know they’re a fan of Keemun-style black teas, but if we are to succeed, that population has to grow.
This is to say: If Starbucks is willing to do the heavy lifting, willing to suggest to a populace that Chinese teas are more than a complement to General Tso’s chicken, willing to point out the difference between an oolong and a pu-erh, I will be much obliged.
I don’t know if one can say that the Teavana acquisition means we are seeing the Second Wave of American tea culture. Surely Lipton tea can be equated with Folgers coffee, but then I’m no marketer. The same cannot be said of Schultz. On the subject of his company’s rise: “We would take something old and tired and common—coffee—and weave a sense of romance and community around it. We would rediscover the mystique and charm that had swirled around coffee through the centuries.”
If nothing else, Teavana’s acquisition stands as proof that Americans may be ready to rediscover tea. We once felt strongly enough on the subject, remember, to black our faces with coal and riot over a tax. Perhaps we’ve been tea people all along.
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We hope these stories are an inspiration to take action and seek treatment for a substance use disorder, or help a loved one in need.
Albion, MI (PRWEB) August 14, 2013
Narconon Freedom Center executives and staff are planning activities and events for the 24th annual National Recovery Month (Recovery Month) observance in September. Recovery Month is sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
An alcohol and drug rehab facility, Narconon Freedom Center embraces the Recovery Month initiative that raises awareness about the mental and substance use disorders that affect millions of individuals, as well as their families, and celebrates those in recovery. The initiative also recognizes the contributions made by those who work in the behavioral health field.
The 2013 theme, “Join the Voices for Recovery: Together on Pathways to Wellness,” represents the many ways that people can prevent substance use disorders, seek treatment, and sustain recovery as part of a commitment to living a mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy life. The theme also highlights that people are not alone on their journey to seek total health every day. Family, friends, and community members can support individuals throughout the entire recovery process.
“We are planning many activities for Recovery Month that include delivering drug prevention education, celebrations for students in our drug rehab program who are progressing on their road on recovery, and sharing the stories of graduates and their families so they can join the voices of recovery,” said Brian Kuehne, Executive Director Narconon Freedom Center.
“While every situation and individual is unique, the stories we have collected all illustrate this year’s theme by showing that there are many pathways to wellness, each with positive outcomes for individuals, families, and communities. We hope these stories are an inspiration to take action and seek treatment for a substance use disorder, or help a loved one in need,” said Kuehne.
For more information on how to help a loved one struggling with an alcohol or drug addiction get on the road to recovery visit http://www.freedomdrugrehab.com or call toll-free 877-362-9682. All calls are confidential.
About Narconon Freedom Center
Narconon Freedom Center, Albion, Michigan, is a non-profit alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility licensed through the state. The program has been helping those struggling with substance abuse and alcoholism for over 47 years. William Benitez founded the Narconon program in 1966 with the drug-free rehabilitation education researched and developed by American author and humanitarian L. Ron Hubbard. The drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility also provides drug prevention education to schools and community outreach programs. To schedule Drug Education in a school, youth program or community civic group contact the center at 572-269-8661.
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Please note there is currently strictly NO ACCESS through from Burton Green to Berkswell until further notice due to a bridge health & safety issue.
“The Greenway, as well as being a linear Country Park, is a permissive bridleway which means that it can be used by pedestrians, cyclists and horse-riders. Kissing gates have been installed to prevent unauthorised access by motorbikes, and horse-riders will need to obtain an annual permit (see below) to ride on the Greenway.
The track is segregated with a natural grass track for horses and a firm track – made from recycled materials and Derbyshire limestone – for other users. Access has been improved where the Greenway crosses roads or joins other routes. A new bridge has been installed over the A429, and the next stage is access from there to the centre of Kenilworth and works to provide a bridleway link across to the University land.”
CYCLISTS AND HORSERIDERS – please note that there is NO exit at Berkswell end of the Greenway.
At a glance
There are no toilet facilities on this Greenway
Please phone 02476 305 592 for more details.
There are no dog waste bins at this Greenway. Dogs in the countryside.
Barbecues and fires
Barbecues and fires are not allowed, but picnics are welcome.
The railway branch line from Berkswell to Kenilworth Junction was opened in 1884. It effectively provided a short cut avoiding Coventry for freight trains heading south. Rumour has it that it was used in the war for the transport of munitions and the siding at Berkswell, left when the track was lifted in the 1960s, was used for ‘parking’ the Royal Train when the Queen visited the area. Later, even the siding was removed to make way for a station car park.
Left to itself, the old railway became a wildlife corridor. Hawthorn, birch and other plants quickly took hold and softened the edges, animals and birds found cover for dens and nests. People also found a traffic free route to and from Crackley Wood where, if you were quiet, you might see a fox.
Warwickshire County Council took ownership of the route in the 70’s but apart from work to clear a wider path, it was left to the walkers and the wildlife.
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After the infamous police killing of Eric Garner, his daughter, Erica Garner, dedicated her life to getting justice for her father along with leading young people in a movement condemning police violence. Garner died Saturday, Dec. 30, after suffering a heart attack. She was 27.
Reports indicate that Garner had an asthma attack a week before she had a heart attack. She was taken to Woodhull Hospital in Brooklyn where she was placed in a medically induced coma. Her family reported that she suffered major brain damage from a lack of oxygen while in cardiac arrest. She had an enlarged heart after the birth of her son.
“Her heart was bigger than the world. It really, really was,” Garner’s family said in a statement on her Twitter account. “She cared when most people wouldn’t have. She was good. She only pursued right, no matter what. No one gave her justice.”
Born in Brooklyn, Garner was the oldest of four children to her father and mother, Esaw Snipes. Garner gained prominence after her father died from a police chokehold caught on cellphone video on Staten Island in 2014. A Staten Island grand jury decided not to indict the NYPD officer involved, Daniel Pantaleo.
“She was a fighter, she was a warrior and she lost the battle,” Garner’s mother said in one report. “She never recovered from when her father died.”
Garner led marches twice a week for a year on Staten Island following her father’s death and started the Garner Way Foundation in his honor. She was notable for campaigning to have the transcripts of the grand jury into her father’s death made public.
Her quest for justice wasn’t confined to New York; Garner became one of the faces of the Black Lives Matter Movement leading marches and rallies across the nation. During the 2016 presidential race, she supported Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders.
“I had the honor of getting to know Erica and I was inspired by the commitment she made working toward a more just world for her children and future generations,” Sanders tweeted. “She was a fighter for justice and will not be forgotten.”
In 2017, after a meeting with the U.S. Justice Department, Garner spoke out about the department’s lack of answers to her family’s questions.
“I’m just trying to figure out if they saw the video yet and how long that takes,” she said on Twitter. “No debate…It’s a tape!”
In 2016, Garner got a private meeting with then-President Barack Obama after a town hall meeting hosted by ABC News on the two-year anniversary of her father’s killing. During the meeting she asked Obama about her father’s case. He replied that because of politics, he couldn’t put pressure on the Justice Department.
“I feel like no matter who ‘investigates’ the murder of my father, no one will go to jail in the end,” Garner said in 2016. “I use Freddie Gray, Tamir Rice and Mike Brown as my examples.”
In a statement, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Garner worked tirelessly to bring awareness about and justice for her father despite being so young.
“Many will say that Erica died of a heart attack, but that’s only partially true because her heart was already broken when she couldn’t get justice for her father,” Sharpton said. “Her heart was attacked by a system that would choke her dad and not hold accountable those that did it.”
During an interview, Garner said that the justice system had failed her and her family and will continue to fail Black Americans unless there is change.
“Until there is full transparency, accountability and an end to the 13th Amendment, Black lives will continue to be worthless in the eyes of the law,” she said.
A vigil to honor Garner was held on Staten Island Wednesday night at Eric Garner’s Memorial Site on Bay Street.
Garner’s funeral service was held Monday at First Corinthian Baptist Church in Harlem.
She is survived by her two children; her mother, Esaw Snipes; four siblings, Eric, Emery, Legacy and Emerald; and her grandmother, Gwen Carr.
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This article is from the Spring 2000 AFRMA Rat & Mouse Tales news-magazine.
By Nichole Royer
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It’s a chore we all do. Like it or not, our critter’s cages have to be cleaned. Most of us have a method that we like, and that seems to work well. We all know there is more to cleaning cages than just changing the litter, but have you ever stopped to think just how “clean” your cages really are?
In researching this topic, I looked to the food service industry. They deal with cleaning surfaces, similar to what we have, on a regular basis. I figure if it’s good enough for me to eat off of, then it’s probably clean enough for my animals to live in.
First we should note that there is a difference between cleaning and sanitizing, and both are very important. Cleaning is the process of removing dirt and other types of soil from a surface. Sanitizing involves reducing the number of microorganisms on that surface to a safe level. In order to produce a truly clean cage, both must be accomplished.
Ideally, cages should be first cleaned and then sanitized. This is a two step process. Cleaning cages involves removing all particulate matter. This can be accomplished manually in large part through the use of water under high pressure and a stiff scrub brush. There are several kinds of cleaning agents that can make this process easier. Simple detergents (dish soap is commonly used) contain surfactants. These reduce the surface tension between the soil and the detergent which allows the detergent to penetrate and soften the soil. For particularly soiled and difficult to clean cages a solvent cleaner may be used. These are often also called degreasers, and they are alkaline detergents that contain a grease dissolving agent. Some of the best to use on metal cages are those designed for washing cars. With all detergents, a high water temperature will make them more effective. Detergents should be completely rinsed off of cages along with the dirt they are removing.
Once they are clean, cages can be sanitized. This is the process of killing germs and bacteria on the surface of the cage. In laboratories heat is often used; however, this is not a practical solution for most pet owners or fanciers. Even household dish washers do not get hot enough to truly sanitize. This leaves the chemical sanitizers as our best option. Chemical sanitizing is done in two ways: either by immersing a clean object in a specific concentration of sanitizing solution for the required period of time; or by rinsing, swabbing, or spraying with a specific concentration of sanitizing solution.
Since most cages are large, it is impractical to use the immersion method. Spraying on a sanitizing solution is much more efficient. The very best (and least expensive) sanitizing solution is good old chlorine bleach. Scented or oxygen bleaches are not good choices. Many people who use bleach tend to use much more than is required (or safe). One-half tablespoon per gallon of water is all that is needed for non porous surfaces like metal and glass. You should NOT be able to smell the bleach. This solution can be sprayed on, left wet for two minutes, and then either wiped or allowed to air dry. You do not need to rinse this solution. Porous surfaces like wood, rubber, and soft plastic require a stronger solution: 1 tablespoon per gallon of water is recommended. This should be sprayed on, left for two minutes, rinsed, then allowed to dry.
Water bottles, feeders, and smaller toys present their own cleaning problem, and the immersion method works best for making sure they are properly cleaned and sanitized. Our rats and mice put their mouths on, eat from, and drink from these objects many times during the day. Of all parts of the cage, these are the ones that present the highest possibility of passing something dangerous along to the critters. Because of this, special attention should be paid when cleaning and sanitizing these objects. The best way to do so requires at least two or three buckets/tubs/sinks and a well drained spot that items can be air dried.
This 5-step method can also work well for small cages and aquariums. It is ideal for sanitizing laboratory cages.
If this all sounds like rather a long drawn out process for weekly cage cleaning, you are probably right. While feeders and water bottles do require special attention, truthfully it is not really necessary to go through all of this every time your cages are cleaned. The best alternative is to use a product that combines both cleaning and sanitizing into one step. A good choice is a detergent containing an antibacterial component. These are inexpensive and available at most grocery and drug stores. Sanitizers are also available which contain cleaning solutions. Parvosol and Roccal-D are two examples of excellent products which can be purchased through many pet supply outlets. These are diluted per the directions on the bottle, and sprayed onto cages once all the particulate matter has been removed. They should be allowed to remain wet for 2 minutes, then can be wiped dry and immediately put into use. While neither of these methods kill as many germs and bacteria as the full two-step cleaning and sanitizing does, they have both proven more than adequate for day to day use. Many fanciers still like to completely sanitize all their cages either monthly or several times per year, and most do so when changing their occupants.
Cage cleaning is not an exact science, not by a long shot. Most of us do not live under totally sanitized conditions; however, we are not usually restricted to a relatively small amount of living space where germs and bacteria are likely to collect. Because most of us do confine our critters to cages of one sort or another, it’s important we are aware that this can happen. So, how clean are your cages?
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This book focuses on the complex ways in which architectural practice, theory, patronage, and experience became modern with the rise of a mass public and a reconfigured public sphere between the end of the seventeenth century and the French Revolution.
Presenting a fresh theoretical orientation and a large body of new primary research, this book offers a new cultural history of virtually all the major monuments of eighteenth-century Parisian architecture, with detailed analyses of the public debates that erupted around such Parisian monuments as the east facade of the Louvre, the Place Louis XV [the Place de la Concorde], and the church of Sainte-Genevieve [the Pantheon].
Depicting the passage of architecture into a mediatized public culture as a turning point, and interrogating it as a symptom of the distinctly modern configuration of individual, society, and space that emerged during this period, this study will interest readers well beyond the discipline of architectural history.
'This book succeeds admirably in clarifying an architectural culture with plenty of original points of view and exciting ideas that place eighteenth-century French architecture in a new perspective, and open new ways to assess and appreciate architectural writing and historiography.' – Freek Scmidt, CAA Reviews
Introduction Part I: The Academy and the Public 1. A Network for Debate 2. The Aestheticizing Discourse of Print 3. Architecture and Civic Ideals Part II: Architecture, Politics, and Public Life 4. The City as Critical Allegory 5. The Debate on the Place Louis XV and the Louvre Part III: The Impact of Public Debate 6. Marigny's Program 7. A Public for Architecture 8. A New Paradigm for Publicity: 1759-1763 Part IV: The Crisis of Architectural Representation 9. Sainte-Geneviève and the Unravelling of a Tradition 10. Politics and Monuments under Louis XVI 11. Private Interest and the Rhetoric of Public Good 12. The Disrepute of Architecture Conclusion: The Image of Unity
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Online learning platform
The new method for teaching in the midst of the pandemic right now is through an online platform. Online classes are a popular type of flexible learning that are now being used. The future of education is mobile learning, whether a student chooses to take online classes or learn in a modular fashion. The use of online platforms is significant and comes with both advantages and disadvantages. Although it is difficult, pupils nevertheless manage to finish and move on to the next level.
Everyone had to make the best adjustments they could to online learning, regardless of their starting point. Every student needs access to an online class or platform in order to complete their education and avoid wasting time during pandemics. Additionally, it gives you the chance to learn a lot about a particular subject and enables you to study through videos, images, and music. With the aid of the internet, one can even take live exams and tests. Students who take online classes have simple access to ask their family and friends for help or questions when they need it.
First of all, The use of an online platform has benefits for students. Everything is provided to a student, making it convenient. You may access notes, review assignments, take practice tests, talk with other students, discuss questions, and study whenever you like. You set your own pace for completing the course requirements, except from specific deadlines. Additionally, online schooling expands access to education. You don’t have to get up early to go to school. You can travel with your technology while attending lessons or while on vacation.
In addition, The use of an online platform has disadvantages for students. Students have a tendency to put things off, therefore everything in online classes needs to be completed by the deadline for each assignment, quiz, and test. When taking online classes, you must pay attention. It necessitates personal time management skills development. In addition to adding to your stress levels, studying alone for an extended amount of time with nothing but your computer or other gadgets as company can be intimidating. Online instructor, fellow classmates and friends are sensitive to this problem and some of them overcome those feelings.
In conclusion, online classes/platform has an important role in students and offers an advantages and disadvantages. Students that are courageous and motivated enough to begin and conclude the school year will not care about online classes or platforms. Online learning requires taking a chance, so do it. To successfully complete the module in one week, you must be determined. What matters is how a student thinks, not just what kind of learning method they are using.
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Beverly Kaye, an internationally recognized authority on career issues and retention and engagement, points out in an article in AMA’s Handbook on Leadership that leaders may agree on the importance of developing potential leaders in their organization, but they often don’t do anything about it, arguing about a shortage of time.
Kaye goes on to write, “Leaders take their top performers for granted. The focus is on the task at hand and the factors impacting the organization’s productivity, with attention to people often taking a backseat. This is a natural response to tough times; after all, there’s only so much time in a given day, and those hours have extended way beyond what they once were.
“Sadly,” she continues, “the truth is that when the going is tough there is even more reason to focus on talent in the organization and to continually collaborate with employees on their development and growth. Great leaders know that they absolutely cannot put the development of the next generation of leaders on a back burner. This investment in the future is one that no organization can afford to ignore.”
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Scientists have built robots that mimic cockroaches and even implanted electronics to remote-control these bugs. Now researchers have devised DNA nano-robots that prowl around inside cockroaches, the first time such DNA robots have found use in living animals.
DNA origami nano robots could one day carry out complex computer programs in the human body, helping to deliver cancer-killing toxins only to cancer cells while leaving the rest of the patient unharmed, according to their paper in Nature Nanotechnology.
How to Build a DNA Nanobot
By designing a DNA sequence just right, scientists can get the resulting floppy strand to stick to itself and bend into just about any shape they desire. The result is DNA origami, which creates 3D structures that are only nanometers in size. These creations hold their shape because the building blocks of DNA—adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine—cling only to specific partners.
These folded creations aren't just sculptures to look at: Researchers have found ways to make DNA origami act as nano robots. For example, imagine a DNA nano robot shaped like a clamshell that is held closed by two shoestrings tied in a knot. Each shoestring is a strand of DNA known as an aptamer that can detect a specific target, like a protein linked with cancer. If both shoestrings detect their respective proteins, the knot unties, the clamshell opens, and voila—the robot delivers its payload, a cancer-killing antibody protein.
"The original application that motivated this work is cancer therapy," says researcher Daniel Levner, an expert in bioengineering at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University. "The problem with many current cancer therapy drugs is that they are not very targeted. Some kill any cell trying to divide, and since cancer cells divide more frequently, they are affected the most. But other cells divide too, like the ones in hair follicles, which is why hair falls out during chemotherapy. Scientists would like to develop therapies that recognize and kill only cancer cells."
Nanobots Working Together
These first DNA origami nano robots behaved much like computer science logic gates—specifically AND gates, which activated if and only if, say, both protein X and protein Y were present. But Levner and colleague Ido Bachelet of Bar-Ilan University in Israel realized "that while the AND function is great, it isn't able to reach the more complex decision making we were hoping for," Levner says. However, he says, they thought that if they created the DNA version of an exclusive-OR (XOR) gate, "you can essentially perform any computer program."
An XOR logic gate would activate if either protein X or protein Y was present, but not both. "We tried to make single nano robots more complex to behave like XOR gates, but that didn't turn out well," Levner says. "We then had the insight that instead of making a single complicated robot, we could take a group of different simple robot types that, when they interacted together, generated something more complex, an XOR gate."
To make this work, the researchers started with nanobots that behaved like AND gates. They then added two new kinds of nanobots—call them P1 and P2—designed to open the AND nanobot in response to protein X and Y, respectively. This allows the AND robot to open in response to protein X alone, protein Y alone, or both protein X and protein Y. This emulates an OR gate. Finally, they added another kind of nanobot, called N, which activates only if the proteins X and Y are present. When N bots activate, they close the AND gates. All these tiny DNA machines working in concert form an XOR gate.
The logic might be hard to decipher, but the importance is not: "We can get these nano robots to perform all kinds of complex tasks that simple drugs can't—we can potentially get them to carry out complex programs," Levner says. "For instance, if a cell has protein X and protein Y on its surface, but doesn't have protein Z, we know it's a particular kind of blood cell and not, for instance, a kind of cancer cell."
In their new study, the researchers successfully deployed their cocktails of DNA nano robots in living cockroaches and used those nanobots to release an antibody that recognizes the insect's hemocytes, which are analogous to human white blood cells.
"This is a huge step forward," says molecular technologist George Church of Harvard University, who did not take part in this research. "This is the first time DNA-based computing was used in a living animal. This is also a great step forward to complex DNA-based computing systems."
To Church, this kind of bio-nano—nanotechnology based on biological materials—is better suited to biomedical applications than nanotechnology based on inorganic materials. "If you want to have a 'Fantastic Voyage' type of scenario where you have a small device that is moving around rather than just implanted, you want to be on the order of 5 microns or less," he says. "You also want low power consumption, and logic gates for biological systems can be five orders of magnitude less energy-consuming than an electronic circuit. And also, if you make your device out of the same materials the body is used to, you can have the advantage of compatibility with the body's immune system."
Still, there are problems standing in the way of using DNA nanobots in humans. One reason Bachelet's team did these tests with cockroaches is because their bodily fluids are low in nucleases, enzymes that break apart DNA. "Cockroaches make for a good system for the initial testing of DNA-origami-based technologies in living animals," Levner says. By contrast, the bodily fluids of mice, humans, and other mammals are much higher in nucleases, which helps fight infections, but poses a problem in using DNA robots in therapies.
However, a number of potential solutions exist to protect DNA robots in the human body. For instance, scientists might encapsulate the DNA robots in structures that protect them, attach chemicals that make the DNA more difficult to cleave, or even replace the DNA with molecules known as LNA that are similar to DNA but more resistant to attack, Levner says.
"There is more to be done before DNA nano robots could be used to treat human disease," Levner says. "However, seeing the nano robots perform a complex task within a living animal is a very important step in that direction, a result which we hope will motivate additional work towards this goal."
And as for your fears that DNA nanobots will become self-aware and malevolent, Levner says not to worry.
"A concern for some readers may be an association with the evil nano robots of sci-fi, which go on to take over the world," Levner says. "The DNA origami robots that we developed are not at all able to replicate themselves and could never pose the sci-fi threat. The DNA in our nano robots is a powerful building block, but otherwise it is no different than any other synthesized drug molecule."
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CEM publishes a wide array of publications on various topics in Ecosystem Management. Please find a selection of our most recent publications below, or go directly to the Ecosystem Management Series or Publications on Nature-based Solutions.
Helping nature help us : transforming disaster risk reduction through ecosystem management
Monty, F., Murti, R., Furuta, N
This publication documents the importance of biodiversity in disaster risk reduction and makes a case for the implementation of integrated approaches that benefit both biodiversity conservation and risk reduction. Building up on regional experiences on Eco-DRR, the report also highlights the opportunities and entry-points to scale-up integrated approaches in 6 regions.
Technical guidelines for the design and management of participatory connectivity conservation and restoration projects at the landscape scale in Latin America
This document recounts the authors’ experience in participatory conservation processes that seek terrestrial biodiversity connectivity. It synthesizes at least a decade of research and practice. Its documentation of this experience hopefully can contribute to the conservation and restoration of ecological connectivity in other parts of Latin America and the world.
This report has been prepared as part of an effort by IUCN to define its position on Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and plan for future work to advance this concept and support effective implementation of NbS to enhance ecosystem services provision and address societal challenges. The report proposes a definitional framework for NbS, including a set of general principles for any NbS intervention. The report also defines the scope of NbS as an umbrella concept embracing a number of different ecosystem-based approaches. English version
Restoration of Forest Systems and Rural Livelihoods: A Partial Resilience Assessment of a Work in Progress. English version
This study presents some lessons from a selection of IUCN interventions in dryland areas that have adapted to a greater or lesser extent to the conditions of drylands, notably focusing on water management to deal with scarcity and variability. The study is intended as a means of capturing lessons learned from these interventions on the challenges and opportunities for improving water development in drylands. It is primarily a learning document compiled by the IUCN Secretariat, with technical advice from the Dryland Ecosystems Thematic Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management. The document will also be shared with IUCN members and partners to catalyse deeper thinking and more effective action on water interventions in drylands as a first step in establishing improved systematic approaches and tools for influencing policy and investment regarding water management in drylands. English version
Principles and Guidelines for Integrating Ecosystem-based Approaches to Adaptation in Project and Policy Design
Ecosystem-based approaches to reduce social vulnerability are a promising option for sustainable and e cient adaptation to climate change. Ecosystem based Adaptation (EbA) is part of overall adaptation, and takes into account multiple social, economic and cultural co-bene ts for local communities. EbA encompasses adaptation policies and measures that take into account the role of ecosystem services in reducing societal vulnerability, through multi-sectoral and multi-level approaches.
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Mindanao, Philippines – A week after Typhoon Bopha slammed into the southern Philippines, its deadly effects continue to plague the region with nearly 700 people dead and 900 missing.
Survivors have been left with nothing other than tales of horror, as the storm’s 175-kph winds and raging rainwater washed away island residents and their homes. Search-and-rescue operations are underway for the missing, but many areas remain unreachable.
Out of more than 302,500 people displaced, nearly 133,900 are now packed into 172 evacuation centres. What little aid getting through is being fought over by survivors.
On Monday, the Philippines and the United Nations launched a $65m global appeal to help victims of Bopha.
According to Luiza Carvalho, the country officer for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the funds would initially help 480,000 people in the worst-hit areas.
Rapid needs assessments indicate a dire shortage of water, food, shelter, medicines, and generators in the areas of Davao Oriental, Compostela Valley and Agusan del Sur.
Philippine President Benigno Aquino – who recently declared a state of national calamity to allow for price controls on basic commodities and the quick release of emergency funds – said the government is doing everything it can to prevent the spread of disease in evacuation centres.
At the same time, authorities said they’re ready to file criminal charges against local officials who neglected their duties during the devastation Bopha wrought.
The government said it aims to begin rebuilding infrastructure damaged by the typhoon this week.
Benito Ramos, the head of the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council, said 647 bodies had been found and 900 people were still missing, including hundreds of fishermen.
Rescuers continued searching for bodies or signs of life under tonnes of fallen trees and boulders in the worst-hit town of New Bataan, in the Compostela Valley.
“We had a good livelihood going. Now, what will we do with our land? Nothing will grow on it. Our coconut trees all were uprooted,” said survivor Buboy Francisco.
Typhoons are rare in this part of the country, and people are trying to make do as best they can, even putting salvaged items from the debris up for sale to earn money.
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Two Ways of Subduing Evil
Bereishit, 32:23: And he got up that night and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok."
Rashi, Bereishit, 32:23, sv. And his eleven sons: And where was Deena? He put her into a chest and closed it over her, so that Esau should not set his eyes upon her. For this Yaakov was punished; because he withheld her from his brother although she might have returned him to virtuous conduct. And she fell into the hand of Shechem [as a punishment to Jacob].
When Jacob returned to face Esau he brought along all his sons with him, however he hid Deena in a box because he feared that Esau would want to marry her. The Sages strongly criticize Yaakov for not letting Deena marry Esau, because had she done so, she may have caused him to repent.(1) The Nachalat Yaakov points out a seeming contradiction with a comment of the Sages on an earlier episode in the Torah. The Midrash tells us that Leah knew that she was destined to marry Esau. She did not want to marry him and through her tears and prayers she was spared from this fate.(2) Yet we do not see anywhere that Leah was at fault for her unwillingness to marry Esau. Why was this the case; in the same way that Deena could have been a good influence on Esau, wasn't it possible that the righteous Leah could also help him repent?!
The Nachalat Yaakov answers that Deena was more mesugal (adept) to influence Esau positively than Leah. He suggests a proof for this from the fact that Deena did indeed seem to have a positive influence on the far-from-righteous Shechem, as he was willing to convert after he abducted her. According to this answer, Jacob must have recognized Deena's natural ability in rectifying evil and therefore was held responsible for not giving her the opportunity to positively influence Esau. It is possible to further support this answer by more closely analyzing the background of the birth of Deena.
The Gemara in Brachot tells us that when Leah was pregnant with her seventh child she came to a startling realization: She knew that twelve tribes were destined to be born from Yaakov. She already had six boys, and the two maidservants, Bilhah and Zilpah, had two each. Rachel, at this point had no children and Leah realized that if she were to have a seventh boy, then Rachel would have less boys than the maidservants. In order to save Rachel from this embarrassment, Leah prayed that she should have a girl, and indeed the fetus was miraculously transformed from being a boy to a girl. Thus, Leah gave birth to Deena and Rachel soon after gave birth to her first son, Joseph.(3) The Targum Yonatan goes even further in connecting the births of Deena and Joseph. He says that Leah was in fact pregnant with Joseph, and Rachel was pregnant with Deena, but due to Leah's prayers that she have a girl, the two fetuses were actually swapped - Deena entering into Leah, and Joseph into Rachel.(4)
It seems that there is a profound and significant ramification of the connection between Joseph and Deena that may have been brought about in their sharing the same wombs. The Sages reveal to us one of Joseph's unique qualities right at the time of his birth. Jacob had been staying with his devious uncle Lavan for many years up to that point, and had refrained from returning to the land of Israel because of his fear of his antagonistic brother, Esau. However, as soon as Joseph was born, the Torah tells us that Yaakov demanded of Lavan that he let him and his family return to Israel.(5) The Midrash and Gemara explain based on a verse in the Book of Obadiah; "The House of Jacob shall be a fire and the House of Joseph a flame and the House of Esau for straw." (6) A fire cannot destroy straw unless it has a flame with which to spread the fire. Accordingly, Joseph is compared to a flame in that Jacob alone is not able to overcome Esau unless he has the 'flame' of Joseph to spread his own power to the extent that Esau can be overcome. The Gemara then proves that on all the occasions that the Jewish people overcame Esau's descendants, Amalek, in battle, it was only with the aid of Joseph's descendants.(7) We also see this in the fact that Joshua, a descendant of Joseph through Ephraim, overcame Amalek in war. The Midrash stresses that it is the descendants of Rachel in particular who have this ability.(8) And ultimately we know that there will be a Mashiach ben Yosef (a Messiah that descends from the Tribe of Joseph). His role will be to destroy our enemies and pave the way for Mashiach ben David to complete the positive actions of ending the Exile and rebuilding the Temple.
Thus we have seen that Joseph, through his mother, Rachel, had an inborn ability to conquer the evil descendants of Esau. Where do we see the quality of fighting evil in Rachel? It has been suggested that this is demonstrated in Rachel's actions with regard to her idol worshipping father, Lavan. When Jacob and his family escaped, Rachel stole Lavan's idols in an attempt to prevent her father from idol worship.(9) This demonstrates a propensity to removing evil. This form of Avoda (service) is normally described as 'sur merah', based on the verse in Psalms that says, 'sur merah v'aseh tov' which means that one should leave evil and do good.(10) This is explained to refer to two approaches in spiritual growth: one is to avoid and overcome one's negative traits and the other is to focus on improving our good traits. Leah was more inclined to the 'aseh tov - do good' aspect, and therefore was less empowered to overcome evil than Rachel. In turn, Rachel's descendants, more than those of Leah, were able to defeat Amalek, the ultimate symbol of evil.
We can now understand why Deena was more likely than Leah to be able to positively influence Esau. Deena, despite being born from Leah, was also influenced by her initial mother, Rachel. In the same way that Rachel had a propensity to overcome evil, so did Deena. However, the way that she could do this was not the same as Joseph: Joseph's ability was to eliminate evil by destroying it, whereas Deena's was to remove evil by reforming it as she did with Shechem. In this vein it has been suggested that when Deena went out to visit the local girls of the land her intent was to bring them closer to God. We can now more deeply appreciate why Yaakov is criticized for not allowing Deena to marry Esau, but Leah is not taken to task for not wanting to marry Esau herself.
One lesson we learn from here is that historically there were two approaches in how to overcome negativity that surrounds us; destroying it or reforming it. In this day and age, the more conciliatory approach tends to be far more appropriate in most situations. Accordingly, whilst it is clear that the Torah outlook is that there is absolute morality and certain modes of conduct are incorrect, nonetheless, an aggressive approach to such behavior is generally unsuccessful and often demonstrates a lack of ability to understand other people. As the great Chazon Ish wrote, nowadays the way to reduce negativity in the world is to lovingly demonstrate the truth in such a way that people will come to recognize its value.
1. Bereishit Rabbah, 76:9, quoted by Rashi, Bereishit, 32:23.
2. Bereishit Rabbah, 70:15, quoted by Rashi, Bereishit, 29:17.
3. Brachot, 60a.
4. Targum Yonatan, Bereishit, 30:21. The Maharsha in Chiddushei Aggadot, Niddah, 31a says the same explanation, in the name of the Paaneyach Razi
5. Bereishit, 30:25.
6. Ovadiah, 1:18.
7. Bava Batra, 123b.
8. Bereishit Rabbah, 73:7.This would help explain the fact that King Shaul, a descendant of Benjamin, not Joseph, was also able to overcome Amalek in war - he was a descendant of Rachel through Benjamin.
9. Bereishit, 31:34.
10. Tehillim, 34:15.
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Today I am going to repeat a post I wrote a few years ago, modified to help you as you move into teaching online when neither you nor your students signed on for this kind of delivery.
… a sense of presence is “being there” and “being together” with online learners throughout the learning experience. It looks and feels as if ….the instructor is accessible to the learners and that the learners are accessible to the instructor and each other, and that the technology is transparent to the learning process.
Lehman, R.M. and Conceição, S.C.O (2010) Creating a Sense of Presence in Online Teaching, Jossey-Bass, p. 3
Online presence is about engaging with your students in your online course . This could be as simple as saying “hello!” or answering questions posted in a discussion forum, or posting reminders in the News tool. Remember that while you may go into your online course frequently to read postings and grade assignments, your students can’t see you there unless you “talk” to them. And if you don’t talk to them regularly, they will begin to think you are not there at all.
While we normally talk about establishing your presence in an online classroom as part of how you design your course, I know you simply don’t have time for considering design in the way we would normally recommend. So, in the short term,
- Set expectations immediately (for yourself and for students), and place this information in easy-to-access locations.
- Adjust the tone of your writing voice so you sound like you’re speaking to students. Writing your course notes in a style that mimics how you would talk to your students in a face-to-face class will help bring you to life even without audio or video.
- Post daily messages in the News tool in D2L – and I do mean every day, even over the weekends. I know normally you might not check-in with students on a weekend, but they may very likely be very nervous about being abandoned in their online course.
- Let your students know immediately where they can expect to hear from you during the course (i.e., is there an Instructor Messages forum they should be checking? Will you be using the News tool to send regular messages?), as well as how often (i.e., will you be checking the site daily? In the morning? Evening? How often will you be replying to student questions, etc.?) Once you’ve established your plan, stick to it. And if it has to change for some reason, let your students know.
In this time of Crisis
- Integrate messages of care to your students – they are also adjusting to a life online they were not expecting, and may also be caring for children, parents, and themselves.
- Reiterate in the News tool where they are in the course – what content should they be reviewing, what they should be doing with it, etc. and explain what is coming up
- Set up places in the course where they can ask questions, or just post messages to each other (for example, using the Discussions tool for Course Questions and a Coffee Shop Topic)
- Repeat expectations and keep letting them know where they can get help with technical issues, etc.
- Let them know when they will hear from you next, and stick to your plan. If you cannot make any deadlines yourself, make sure to tell them!
This is just the beginning – once you establish your presence, you will need to maintain it. While I am recommending communicating with your students daily, don’t burn yourself out either. The expectations you set should be for both them and you – it’s ok to let them know what is going on for you in your life right now as well. We are all human in this!
For more help with ideas on how to engage with your students online, contact an instructional designer in eLearning (by emailing email@example.com).
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Robots that walk like human beings are common in science fiction but not so easy to make in real life. The most famous current example, the Honda Asimo, moves smoothly but on large, flat feet. And compared with a person, it consumes much more energy.
But researchers at Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Holland's Delft University of Technology have built robots that seem to more closely mimic the human gait -- and the Cornell robot matches human efficiency. The researchers' inspiration: simple walking toys that fascinated children in the 19th century.
"Already our robot seems to be at least 10 times more efficient than anybody else's," says Andy Ruina, Cornell professor of theoretical and applied mechanics. The Cornell robot consumes an amount of energy per unit weight and distance comparable to a human walker. In contrast, they estimate that the Honda Asimo uses at least 10 times as much energy as a human. The MIT and Delft robots, though not built deliberately to be energy-efficient, also use much less energy than the Asimo. More important, the researchers say, is that their robots provide a more realistic model of how humans walk.
Ruina, his former student Steven Collins, MIT postdoctoral researcher Russ Tedrake and Delft postdoctoral researcher Martijn Wisse describe their new robots in the latest issue of the journal Science (Feb. 18, 2005). They are presenting a press briefing on their work at 10 a.m. today (Feb. 17) at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.
Cornell's robot equals human efficiency, Ruina explains, because it uses energy only to push off, while other robots needlessly use energy to absorb work, for example in moving the limbs forward more slowly than they would naturally swing under gravity power. "In other robots the motors are fighting themselves," he says.
Researchers at each of the three universities have built walking robots, differing slightly but based on the same principle. They are an extension of several years of research into "passive-dynamic walkers" that walk down a shallow slope, very much like simple walking toys that have been around since the 1800s and developed more scientifically starting in 1988. These downhill walkers were developed further in Ruina's lab, leading to a two-legged version with articulated knees built by Wisse during a visit to Cornell. Collins further refined that and then built the first Cornell powered model, while Wisse returned to Delft and developed other unpowered and powered robots.
For the robots being described in Science , the researchers at all three institutions have simply substituted small motors for gravity power. Ruina says the research followed the example of the Wright Brothers, who carefully researched gliders, then simply added a motor to achieve powered flight.
The robot work was done primarily to study the biomechanics of human locomotion, but it could have applications in practical robotics. Collins, now at the University of Michigan, already is applying some of what he has learned to the design of a powered prosthetic foot for amputees. "It's not exactly the same thing, but certainly the mode of thought comes from thinking about robots," he says. Information gained from studying walking robots should be of use to the rehabilitation community, he adds. The researchers note in their Science paper that gravity-powered walkers have been considered irrelevant to human walking by some because humans don't always walk downhill, but that these new machines demonstrate that there is nothing special about gravity as a power source.
Gravity-powered walking toys work by swaying from side to side, allowing first one foot and then the other to swing forward. Human beings minimize the swaying and bend their knees to allow the moving foot to clear the ground, and two of the three new robots do the same. All three robots have arms synchronized to swing with the opposite leg for balance.
The Cornell robot supplies power to the ankles to push off. When the forward foot hits the ground, a simple microchip controller tells the rear foot to push off. During the forward swing of each leg a small motor stretches a spring, which is finally released to provide the push.
The Delft robot uses a pneumatic push at the hip, and the MIT robot uses electric motors that directly move the ankle. Control programs in the Cornell and Delft robots are extremely simple, while the MIT robot uses a learning program that allows the robot to teach itself to walk, which it can do in about 600 steps.
The fact these robots can walk with a humanlike gait with very simple control programs "suggests that steady-state human walking might require only simple control as well," the researchers say in their paper. "The success of human mimicry demonstrated here ... strongly suggests an intimate relationship between body architecture and control in human walking."
The Science paper is titled "Efficient bipedal robots based on passive-dynamic walkers." Copies are available to reporters from the AAAS Office of Public Programs, (202) 326-6440, email@example.com . The work in Ruina's lab was funded primarily by a National Science Foundation (NSF) biomechanics grant. The work continues under an NSF robotics grant.
Related World Wide Web sites: The following sites provide additional information on this news release. Some might not be part of the Cornell University community, and Cornell has no control over their content or availability.
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The age at which one is considered a legal adult in the US is typically 18. What defines a legal adult is ability to legally work, participate in contracts, vote, marry, give sexual consent, and join the military. Being a legal adult under 21 does not give one the right in most states to purchase alcohol, however.
The age one becomes a legal adult in the US is largely the age at which most children are considered adults in the world. A few countries set this age lower, but in most of the Western world, one is considered an adult at 18.
In some cases, a child under 18 is a legal adult especially for the purposes of marrying or signing contracts, prior to 18. This is rare and tends to occur if a child sues his or her parents for emancipation. An emancipated child is still a “minor,” however, and may not vote until he or she turns 18.
For many parents the term legal adult does not mean their children possess certain adult characteristics. For example, being an adult implies being able to make mature decisions, participate in civic matters, have self-control, and be responsible. Some 18-year-olds simply lack these characteristics and need further time to develop them. It concerns some parents that an 18-year-old can make life-altering decisions, like marrying early or joining the military, which may not have been made with significant forethought.
There is very little that parents can do to rectify such a situation. Many deplore that they no longer have any type of control over their young legal adult children. Ironically, for the child, perhaps, is that this type of control inherent in being an adult, essentially means a parent has no further legal responsibility to care for you.
Even if a newly legal adult is still in high school, a parent is under no legal pressure, frequently, to continue to provide housing or care. Some exceptions to this rule have been proven, particularly in cases of divorce where a spouse still claims child support, or help with payments for college. Some parents feel that continued financial support really attests to the fact that the child is really not quite an adult yet, regardless of age.
The issue of legal adulthood is a very sticky one for children in foster care. At 18, they essentially age out of the system and the state no longer has the burden of supporting them. In some cases, foster parents will continue to parent a child who is technically an adult. However, some children find themselves adrift at the point when they could most use the help and support of kind adults.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 8:25 by Denis Chabrol
University of Guyana Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith has warned new students against stealing other people’s works and reproducing it as theirs to help create a culture of honesty as the country is poised to earn huge revenues.
Addressing an orientation for the freshmen and women at the George Walcott Lecture Theatre on Monday afternoon, he warned them against plagiarism which is a global problem. “You are not allowed to plagiarise. Taking somebody else’s work, putting your name on it…That is not habituating excellence where you earn it so the value you want to practice is the value of integrity,” he said.
The Vice Chancellor called on the new batch of students not to buy papers or ask previous students to assist you with their papers. “Everyone here has to practice the value of integrity. You are not allowed to go buying your paper to get an ‘A’. That is not practising the value of integrity. It’s not going to be a recipe for success,” he said.
Griffith did not have any statistics about the number of reported cases of plagiarism. He said the institution has been using technology, such as https://www.turnitin.com/ to intercept and penalise plagiarists in an age where it is easy to copy other’s works from Google.
“Technology makes it easy for people to plagiarise and so what we have begun to do now is to use technology to help to combat that plagiarism issue but it is partly an educational process,” he said, adding that the Library has been cautioning students against stealing other people’s works.
The Vice Chancellor stressed that it was important to stamp out stealing other people’s works and passing them off as theirs as part of efforts to reduce temptations to steal oil industry-related wealth. “For me, particularly in a society where we are coming into some big money; if we don’t practice some values, integrity you can get carried away with just doing one illegal thing- taking somebody’s work- then you feel ‘ok’ to do something- take somebody’s money- so for me…this university needs to be practising some values and integrity is one of the values,”
The Vice Chancellor urged the students not to be satisfied with partial success in some subjects. “Habituation of excellence is a value you want to be able to practice if you want to be successful,” he said. “It matters if you embrace and practice certain values that allow you to be successful,” he added.
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About Pompano and jack Edit
Pompano fish is a part of genus Trachinotus, Carangidae family and they can be found in warm water across the world. Jack fish is part of Carangidae family and they can be found in tropical and subtropical seas. Jack’s dimensions can very from thirty centimeters and five hundred grams to one meter and a half and forty five kilograms. Jack are insatiable predators and they usually travel and attack on schools. The predominant color of jack’s is silver but they can also have a yellowish color. Generally jacks feed on smaller fish. There are one hundred forty species belonging to jack’s family. Pompanos dimensions can vary from forty five centimeters and three kilograms to ninety one centimeters and thirteen kilograms. Pompanos generally live on the bottom of warm water and feed on small crustaceans such as shrimps and sandy fleas. There are numerous species of pompano such as palometa, great pompano and round pompano. There are species of pompano which are very attractively colored such as palometa which has a bluish color on top and a silvery color on the lateral.
This saltwater fish is found in waters off South Atlantic and Gulf States. Its succulent, fine-textured, moderately fat flesh has a mild, delicate flavor. Pompano is considered by many to be America's finest fish-one reason, no doubt, that it's so expensive. It's marketed whole and in fillets, both fresh and frozen. Pompano may be prepared by almost any cooking method. The most famous dish made from this fish is pompano en papillote, where it's baked in Parchment Paper with mushrooms and a Veloute Sauce.
Pacific pompano is a variety of Butterfish.
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22 states and D.C. sue HHS over rollback of transgender health care protections
22 states and Washington, D.C., are suhing the Department of Health and Human Services over a rule finalized in June that would make it easier for doctors, hospitals and insurance companies to deny transgender people health coverage.
The big picture: The states and D.C. argue that patients won't seek medical care if they are afraid of discrimination. Many Americans are already avoiding doctors' visits during the coronavirus pandemic for financial reasons or fears of catching the virus, the New York Times reports.
Catch up quick: The agency's rollback rescinds an Obama-era rule that protected against discrimination on the basis of "gender identity" as well as sex — which allowed transgender people to be protected when seeking health care.
- The rollback also removes language that protected those who terminated a pregnancy from sex discrimination.
- Lambda Legal and the Human Rights Campaign launched separate lawsuits against the rule in June.
What they're saying: The lawsuit argues that delaying care for trans people could result in higher medical costs later — some of which would fall on the states themselves in the form of "higher government-funded health care costs and increased costs of care for uninsured patients by public hospitals."
- The lawsuit also argues that the rollback will harm women and those seeking reproductive health care, as it rescinds language under the Affordable Care Act that said sex discrimination includes pregnancy-related conditions.
The other side: "The gender identity and termination of pregnancy provisions of the 2016 rule were held unlawful and unenforceable by a federal court in December 2016 and a court vacated that language in October 2019," HHS Civil Rights Chief Roger Severino said in a statement to Axios.
- HHS did not comment on how the new rule could affect LGBTQ people seeking health care as the COVID-19 pandemic persists.
Meanwhile: Advocates say that a proposed Housing and Urban Development rule, obtained by Vox last week, would harm trans and cisgender women seeking housing in federally funded homeless shelters.
- The proposed rule would allow those shelters to "judge a person’s physical characteristics, such as height and facial hair, in determining whether they belong in a women’s or men’s shelter," Vox reports.
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Separation of Church & state to remain intact – Russian Patriarch
“The Church is protecting its own freedom because it is sure that only its independence gives her an opportunity to be a fully-fledged spiritual authority. Any form of merger between the state and the Church is dangerous for God’s cause. A sermon sounds loud and convincing only when it is delivered by a free church,” Patriarch Kirill said in an interview with the Smolenskiye Novosti newspaper.
The patriarch reminded that the internal regulations of the Russian Orthodox Church strictly forbid the clergy from assuming any powers among secular authorities. The state, in turn, has no direct leverage to influence the church’s policies, he added.
Russia’s top cleric noted that the repressions against the Church that took place in Soviet Russia in the first half of the 20th century were largely a result of “the enslavement of the church by the state,” possibly hinting at the exclusive part the Russian Orthodox Church played during in the Russian Empire.
On the other hand, he said that the country was still experiencing the consequences of adopting atheism as its official ideology in Soviet times.
“To cure the spiritual wound inflicted by the godlessness we all must help the people to walk the path of the spiritual revival. I believe that the Lord is with us on this way,” Patriarch Kirill told the newspaper.
In addition, the Patriarch explained that the Church was not pursuing an objective of influencing state policies, but only attempts to address the community and every person individually. The goal of the clerics is “to deliver a spiritual axiom that life without God is meaningless and useless.”
Less than a week before the interview senior Russian MP Elena Mizulina suggested including a preamble on the exclusive role of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Constitution. The move gained support from MPs representing major parliamentary caucuses, including parliamentary majority party United Russia and the Communists.
The public discussions about the strengthening ties between the Church and the state in Russia have become especially vocal after the introduction of the law on the protection of believers’ feelings. The law, signed into force in July this year, makes deliberate and public insults aimed at religious sentiments, as well as the desecration of holy sites, a criminal offence punishable by up to three years in prison.
The arguments soon drew attention to numerous scandals involving Russian clergy whom the mass media accused of living a life full of excesses and using the officials’ protection in various problems.
The Patriarch called all such reports “a concentrated attack against the Church” in
a public speech, but did not directly name those who were behind
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Date updated by JeromeWetzelTV on 2012-12-18 22:14:17
With Christmas upon us, everyone's thoughts turn towards the holiday. It's hard even for those not celebrating Christmas to be immune to the season, with stores bustling, selling huge amounts of merchandise, and decked out with various festive decorations.
This extends to our favorite television programs, with a great many of them, especially on the broadcast networks, going for a Christmas-themed episode. Hollywood may be full of Jews, but even (some) Jewish characters put up a tree these days. Or maybe not just these days, since the very Jewish Irving Berlin wrote the classic song "White Christmas."
There are a lot of ways to do a Christmas episode, though some have become cliche. Here are some of the most obvious scenarios, and if you're writing for a television show, please try not to do them any more. Unless you have a new, fresh twist on an old idea. Which, admittedly, maybe be hard to judge when writing it.
These come in quite a few different forms. Some are parodies, others copy the film's story, and some barely touch on more than a couple of themes. Often, episode titles make the connection obvious.
The most commonly used one, of course, is It's a Wonderful Life, in which a character falls into a coma or has a dream, and imagines what life would be like were a different choice made, or circumstances varied. Glee did it this year, albeit for only one act. But many, many other series have done it in the past.
It's a nice idea, getting to see familiar characters in a different light, acting ways they normally would not. And yet, it has been done to death. Some shows have tried moving this bit away from Christmas, but is still obvious what is being done. Unless there is a good reason, plot-wise, to show this, or one hundred percent effort is put into making it the best it can be for pretty much the entire length of the installment enough is enough.
A close second is A Christmas Carol, in which a grumpy puss decides to be nice. Everyone hates a Scrooge, but they love a tale of redemption. The change won't last, of course, so it's merely comfort food, rather than serious development. The story is classic for a reason, and these episodes do resonate with us. But they've been done. Move on.
How many times have you been watching a holiday episode when the plot takes the characters to a dire place? Maybe their gifts have been stolen, maybe someone is missing, or maybe there's just a grinch in their midst who is ruining everyone else's good time. Whatever the setup, things are bad, and the characters cannot do anything to help themselves or others.
And then Santa Claus, or a man who looks very much like our stereotypical portrait of the jolly old elf, swoops in and saves the day. There is a happy ending, but not one that really makes sense to the story, or even has been hinted at all prior til that moment. He'll bring the presents or warm a heart, and basically make everything better. It's the Christmas version of dues-ex-machina.
This trope sucks because it's weak storytelling. Can our favorite characters not solve things themselves? Do they really need some supernatural being to fix their problems for them? If it's a sci-fi/fantasy genre series, and people with abnormal powers already exist in the universe, it almost sort of works. But most of the time, Santa pops up in sitcoms, not among the superheroes.
Yes, I admit, being grouchy about Santa is a humbug thing to be. It feels cruel to pick on this device too much. However, I know there are plenty of television writers out there who can come up with something original and brilliant, so the dissatisfaction is merely disappointment at an easy out, rather than a condemnation of the season.
For some reason, families on television are always dysfunctional. Although many viewers enjoy warm exchanges with beloved relations, that premise doesn't make for interesting television, so drama is tossed into the mix, arguments ensue and lead to huge, blown-up exchanges, until a central character finds a way to bring everyone back together for a peaceful meal in the end. Unless it's funnier not to.
This one, I am not going to pick on too much. I prefer seeing parents and siblings to friends hanging out during the holidays because it seems more realistic. Some people don't see their families all that much outside of these special occasions, and so it makes sense for family, not friends, to be the holiday focus.
I just wish, however, there would be more lead-up to the family gatherings. Can't they spend at least one episode talking about, or preparing for, the celebration before the actual episode? Family Christmases are a marathon, not a sprint. They deserve more than 20 minutes.
When families are not available, or travel is prohibitive, so all the main series characters find a way to celebrate together, even though they are not related. I'm sure this does happen sometimes in real life. And yet, it's far from the norm, which you would not get if your total understanding of the holiday experience stems from television.
Now there are exceptions to the rule. If the characters are working in a hospital, for instance, they may not be able to get Christmas off. Should they find the time to gather at work or late at night, that actually works pretty well, and can be sweet. But it is easy to forget the times this device works because of all the times it doesn't.
Normal Episodes That Just Happen to Take Place at Christmas
I am a fan of these, mostly because they keep the momentum of the show going. A lot of serial shows might ditch their larger arcs in favor of a one-off Christmas celebration, but those that don't do themselves a favor. Life doesn't stop from late November through early January. Nor should the stories of these characters.
Of course, we could go into what makes a brilliant Christmas special, as some shows have achieved (Community!), but that could be a topic for a whole other column. Plenty of series deliver good Christmas episodes, even among the others that fail.
Here's the dirty little secret though, that the television industry totally gets: we don't care if Christmas episodes are bad. Make them schmaltzy, ridiculous, and over the top. We're so occupied with our own good will and holiday feelings, that we'll overlook a weak script, or maybe even praise it because it piles on what we're already feeling.
This means that no matter what fans of good television everywhere think, the trend won't stop anytime soon. Even few critics care to complain, falling victim to the same good will as everyone else. I can sit at my computer today and pick things apart to my heart's content, but that doesn't mean that I'm not going to smile and watch more of this same stuff later today, enjoying every minute of it. Thank goodness, in the name of quality, that Christmas only comes once a year.
And also, thank goodness that there is a time of year where we can embrace pure, unadulterated happiness, and forget to be so cynical. That's why the Christmas episodes work, because they remind us of that childhood joy, before we had the stress and wisdom of age. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss, and this is never truer than at Christmas. Should we complain about the simple-mindedness of such special, or rejoice that they take us back to innocent experience of being a kid? Obviously, most people think that latter, and who am I to argue?
So I wish you and yours plenty of cheer, and will join you in continuing to watch these Christmas episodes. Why not? It's called finding the holiday spirit. Otherwise, you're just a grinch, and no one likes a grinch.
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Article first published as Christmas episodes on Blogcritics.
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Cleaning the IonFlow air purifier is extremely easy and only takes a few minutes.
Cleaning the collector
1.) Remove the collector from the ion generator and clean it with washing-up liquid, water and a soft sponge or dish brush 2.) Dry the collector with a dishtowel. 3.) Put the collector back on the ion generator according to instructions in the manual.
If you have followed all the above instructions but the collector is still not clean, try the following: 1.) Spray universal cleaning detergent all around the collector and let it work for 5 minutes. 2.) Use a damp sponge and rub any remaining spots until they disappear. 3.) Dry the collector with a towel and place it back on the ion generator according to instructions.
Cleaning the ion generator, corona needles and acrylic stand
1.) Occasionally you may need to carefully clean the fragile corona needles. Use a small brush (e. g. a toothbrush) and carefully brush away the thin layer of white lime scale and dirt which may have attached to the needles. Do not use pressure or water when you clean the needles. 2.) Clean the ion generator and the acrylic stand with a damp cloth or sponge when needed. Wipe clean and rub away any remaining dirt. Dry with a towel. Do not allow the top and bottom to come into contact with water and be careful with the corona needles on the ion generator.
Do NOT wash the collector in the dishwasher. Do NOT use cleaning products that contain alcohol solutions, ammonia or alkaline substances, as these products may damage the air purifier. Always unplug the transformer before cleaning the air purifier.
How often do I need to clean the IonFlow air purifier?
How often you need to clean the collector depends on how polluted the environment is where it is placed. In general the collector should be cleaned approximately once every two weeks, but may require more frequent cleaning if used in highly contaminated environments.
How does a dirty collector look like and how fast will it become dirty?
The collector has a strong positive charge that effectively attracts the particles in the air. It will be dirty on the outside. At first you may experience it as a change in color as the particles are extremely small and fixed evenly over the surface of the collector. After a while it will however become visible. When, depends on how polluted the environment is where the air purifier is placed. In the city centre of middle sized town the collector will be visibly dirty in just a few days. Below you see a clean collector vs a dirty collector.
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Woods Meets Metal in this Cool PC Mouse
Computer gadgets get more complex as technology becomes more advanced. This wood and metal PC mouse, however, is an ideal example of how a simple design can still make a huge impact.
This intricate PC mouse by Slava Saakyan has a body made of wood, and left and right buttons made of metal. Between the two buttons is a scroll key which is operated via wheel-belt mechanism. A fascinating feature of this design is how the left and right metal buttons seem to be floating on air.
According to the creator, he designed this PC mouse with two different materials to emphasize how harmony can be possible. The metal parts of the mouse represent coolness, while the wood is for warmth. Metal also symbolizes the mouse’s technological side, while the wood brings forward the biological aspect of the device.
It’s like mechanics and life coming together. The Yin and Yang idea kind of makes you think about other awesome steampunk designs, doesn’t it? It’s more like a past meets future kind of theme, too. Either way, this PC mouse concept will surely make tedious office work a pleasure. Or you can leave it on your desk on its own and turn it into a fascinating ornamental piece.
Just when you thought PC mice can’t look any cooler, think again. Browse on over to these other samples: This felt mouse by John Roth explores the use of eco-friendly materials, while this cool pointer-shaped mice by Art Lebedev are interesting to have at the office.
Speaking of Lebedev, his studio has been featured on Walyou for their pieces like the retractable gun dog leash, among others. In fact, this wood and metal mouse’s creator, Slava Saakyan has actually collaborated with Lebedev on other industrial design projects. What will they come up with next? Walyou will surely have it covered.
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A California police department’s use of a fake news release in an anti-gang operation has drawn warnings that the tactic undermines police and threatens trust with the public, the Guardian reports. Santa Maria police chief Ralph Martin said the tactic was necessary to protect the lives of two men from a gang that wanted to kill them. The fictional news release was found in court documents by the Santa Maria Times, nearly 10 months after the paper and television stations had reported the story as fact. Police had said officers had detained two cousins on charges of identity theft and had given the men to immigration authorities. The police lied. For weeks, the department had been running a surveillance operation on a gang called MS-13. Listening to MS-13 conversations on wiretaps, the police learned that the cousins, members of a rival gang, were targeted for murders. Detectives took the cousins into protective custody, removing them from their home where the men and their family might have been targeted by the hitmen.
As a cover, the police wrote a fake news release to deceive the MS-13 assassins. When the would-be killers returned to look for the cousins, police eavesdropped on a phone conversation and heard the hitmen talking about local news reports of the arrests. Martin said that the investigation, Operation Matador, was able to continue thanks to the ruse, and that police eventually arrested 17 gang members for 10 murders. The police chief said he would not rule out fabricating another story to protect lives and investigations. Press experts warned that Martin’s argument of a greater good was outweighed by the damage the fake report did. The Santa Maria police may have threatened their ability to do their work in a practical sense, said Gregg Leslie of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. “This immediately and almost permanently undermines the credibility of an entire police department,” he said. “Not only in the eyes of the public, but even the gang members won’t believe them in the future.”
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SEACHANGE - NEW COASTAL RESIDENTS
The beach holds an iconic status in our culture. Coastal regions have long been a favourite place for Australians to take their holidays and relax. More recently, researchers have identified an increasing tendency for people to live near the coast.
For an analysis of who in the population is moving to the coastal regions, refer to the ABS publication Australian Social Trends 2004 (ABS cat. no. 4102.0) feature article Seachange - new coastal residents
The analysis is based on the 2001 Census of Population and Housing and examines the characteristics of people who moved to a high growth coastal region during the year before the 2001 census.
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Fruit Drop and Hand Thinning
This article was published originally on 5/19/1995Gardeners are often surprised when small apples and other fruit drop prematurely to the ground. However, premature fruit drop is relatively common on apples and other fruit trees. The home gardener shouldn't be alarmed if the fruit tree appears healthy. The fruit drop may simply be nature's way of reducing a heavy fruit load.
Two fruit drop periods commonly occur on apples. The "first drop" occurs shortly after petal-fall and may continue for 2 to 3 weeks. The fruit that falls during this period is pea-size and may be the result of poor pollination. Most apple varieties are considered self-unfruitful. These fruit varieties will produce little or no fruit when pollinated with their own pollen. Another variety (cultivar) is required for cross-pollination and fruit set. 'Jonathan' and 'Yellow Delicious' are two apple varieties which are notable exceptions. Each will produce a fairly good crop without cross-pollination. A lack of pollination may also be due to poor weather. Most fruit trees are pollinated by bees. They are most active on sunny, warm days. There is little bee activity during cool, rainy weather. Cool, rainy weather during the bloom period reduces bee activity, results in poor pollination, and may lead to fruit drop. Exposure to freezing temperatures during flower bud development and bloom may also cause fruit drop.
The "second drop" usually occurs in early June. (This is commonly referred to as "June drop.") The fallen apples are approximately 1/2 to 1 inch in diameter. The second shedding of fruit is often due to the competition among the developing fruit for food, water, and nutrients. This natural thinning removes excess fruit and allows the remaining fruit to develop properly. Hot, dry weather in late spring will contribute to fruit drop.
While the number of fruit which fall to the ground as a result of natural thinning may seem quite high, additional thinning may be necessary. Trees overloaded with fruit need additional thinning to (1) obtain large, high quality fruit at harvest; (2) allow development of flower buds for next year's crop, thus overcoming the tendency for some fruit trees to bear fruit in alternate years; and (3) prevent limb breakage. Hand thinning of apples should be done within 6 weeks of full bloom. Leave the largest apple in a cluster unless it is damaged. After thinning, the apples should be spaced about 8 to 10 inches apart on the branch. Pears, plums, and apricots may also require hand thinning. Fruit should be spaced about 6 to 8 inches apart on the branches following thinning.
Year of Publication:
IC-470(12) -- May 19, 1995
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Portrait of Tom Akers
Tom Akers is an American astronaut who was born on May 20, 1951 in Missouri.
Before he was an astronaut, Akers was a park ranger, teacher, and Air Force
pilot. He has flown 25 different types of aircraft.
Akers became an astronaut in 1987. He has flown four flights and has logged
over 800 hours in space. In 1990, he flew aboard STS-41, where he helped put a
probe into space. In 1992, he flew aboard the new shuttle, Endeavour and made
In 1993, Akers flew on the STS-61 mission where he helped repair the Hubble Space
Telescope. Akers broke a U.S. record by spending 29 hours and
40 minutes in spacewalks on a single flight.
In 1996, Akers flew aboard the STS-79, where he visited the Mir space station.
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driver-less" car. Automakers and even tech giants like Google are working on their own versions of cars that pilot themselves, and claim that they could be ready in the next 10 years. Hop in, tell it where you want to go, and watch in amazement as the vehicle drives you to your destination. Sounds like science fiction, right? Would you trust a computer system to make all of your driving decisions?
Toyota's chairman Takeshi Uchiyamada, who was one of the pioneers of the original Toyota Prius, has a different opinion– he believes that we should maximize advances in hybrid technology first. Before autonomous cars (or even simply all-electric cars) take over, Uchiyamada says "there are still many more gains we can achieve with hybrids." For example, the current 3rd generation of the Prius has 10% better fuel efficiency than the previous one, at a combined MPG of 50. Mr. Uchiyamada is confident they can improve that number even more when the 4th generation is developed.
His game plan? To sell 5 million hybrid vehicles in the U.S. by the end of 2016 and achieve mileage standards set forth by the Obama administration. “It’s only when we put ourselves under the same kind of intense
pressure we faced in developing the Prius that we can achieve great
goals. That’s what it takes. I want our industry to achieve this goal," he said.
Toyota's continued work with hybrid technology is actually more in line with what I think is best for all of us, as drivers. Rather than moving on from hybrids and only focusing on self-driving vehicles, they're slowly adding more self-driving features in future vehicles and getting us comfortable with using them. Two examples immediately come to mind: the first is the advanced technology package available on the Prius V, which offers a parking assist option where the driver uses a camera to find a suitable spot for the vehicle. Once located, the vehicle automatically guides itself into a parking spot.
The second is the Yaris Hybrid-R, a concept vehicle capable of 414 horsepower. It utilizes multiple motors, with a gas engine to power the two front wheels, and two electric motors that specifically power the rear wheels, giving the car all-wheel drive traction. While unlikely to ever hit the showroom, elements of its design may make their way into future cars.
In addition to both of these technologies, Toyota is also working on sensors that would allow a vehicle to apply brakes and control the steering wheel on its own. According to Mr. Uchiyamada, they want to eliminate driving fatalities on the highway, but believes that drivers need to be in control of their vehicle for the foreseeable future.
Do you agree that we're not yet ready for a world where cars drive themselves?
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Found this on the Bibleworks Facebook page:
BW9 takes a giant leap forward in terms of opening up the world of textual variants and text criticism. A new database lets users access the major variants in every verse of the Greek New Testament. The manuscript witnesses for each variant are laid out in a chart displaying the manuscript’s approximate date and type (that is, uncial, miniscule, etc.) for instant analysis of the witnesses.
Even more exciting, the transcribed texts of the major uncial witnesses can be selected as display versions. I can read the critical text, Sinaiticus, Alexandrinus, Vaticanus, and others side-by-side, such that the historic witnesses come alive as real texts, and not just as symbols at the bottom of the page of the print edition of the critical text. These are also accessible through a new “manuscripts” tab in the analysis window, together with photographic images of select manuscripts.
The introduction of the fourth window dramatically enhances ease of use. Now I can have the window displaying multiple versions, the analysis window displaying lexical resources, and a browse window showing the verse in its full literary context all displayed across the screen. A new “use” feature provides gives me an instant book- or canon-wide concordance of any word under the cursor. That feature is an amazing time-saver.
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Professor Hubert Alyea would be 110 years old today, if he were still among us. (He passed away in 1996 at the ripe age of 93.) LIFE magazine called him the science teacher you wish you had for his engaging (and often explosive) chemistry demonstrations. He was called an "international grand master of lecture demonstrations" by Bassam Shakhashiri, noted chemist and author of several books on chemical demonstrations.
I had the immense good fortune to attend one of his lectures. As he prepared his equipment, he casually popped a piece of dry ice in his mouth. (DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.) You can see a demonstration at the start of this video:
Somebody asked, "Professor Alyea, how can you handle dry ice like that?"
He spit out the dry ice and replied, "Oh, I'm not handling it. I'm putting it in my mouth."
Here is a VHS recording of his lecture Lucky Accidents, Great Discoveries and the Prepared Mind.
The lecture concludes at 25:15 with a series of reactions, culminating in his signature demonstration. The colors don't show up well in the video, so you'll have to trust that they are what he says they are.
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Things to Know About Income Tax Withholding
As to how you can double-check your income tax withholding and much more is what you are going to view here. By getting to know how you can double-check your income tax withholding, this information would be beneficial to you since you will able to learn about how payroll works hence protecting yourself from such mistakes that would happen on your paycheck. In this website, you will be able to find out more on what events in your life should trigger you to make an adjustment to your withholding amount. About tax withholding, the definition of this and which is information that you should know is that this would basically be the amount set aside from your gross pay that the individual who would have hired you and who would then give it to the government.
You should take note of this point as well in this homepage and this is that as to what else you would need to know in this situation where you would be looking to learn about income tax withholding is that for the money that would be taken out from your check, as to what this would do is that it would then serve as a credit for the income taxes that you would then owe after you have filed your tax returns. With regard to this, as to what you should also know is that you would have fewer of these income taxes withheld for each pay period at the time where you would be having a lot of allowances. The other thing that you should more about income tax withholding that you should is that the number of allowances that one would be allowed to claim would depend on a variety of factors as listed below.
Among these factors that would have a huge influence on the number of allowances that you would be able to claim would include as to what the number of dependents would be, your job and marital status, as well as your filing status. This other point that you will read about would be eligible for independent contractors and this is that it would be possible to go about keeping track of their tax withholdings with much ease by online producing their pay stubs. You should take note of this other point as well and this is that among the content that makes up this article is how income tax withholding is calculated. The initial step that you would need to know on how you can calculate your income tax withholding would be for you to add up the amount that you would expect to have taken out for the year.
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While the torment that originates from sports wounds can shift in force, odds are you’re anxious to recoup rapidly. Seeing a certified orthopedic expert is the least demanding approach to do this. Not exclusively will they analyze your game’s injury and start treatment, yet they will likewise assist you with learning about the best possible stretches and activities, on the off chance that important, the orthopedist will also instruct you about expected medical procedures. While making these contemplations is significant, it’s likewise essential to keep up a legitimate eating routine. Having the correct eating routine while recouping from a game injury can limit your recuperation time, and assist you with arriving at your objective sooner than you anticipated.
1. Nourishments That Contain Plenty Of Protein
Protein is liable for building up the muscle tissue in your body. When you endure a game injury and can’t move a specific body part, this body part loses mass. Eating the suggested measure of protein can bring down the potential for a significant misfortune in bulk.
Along these lines, concentrating on taking in the correct measure of chicken (with the incidental aiding of hamburger) is vital. Fish can likewise be a significant wellspring of stable protein. What’s more, non-meats like beans, tofu, and nuts can be a consistent piece of your eating regimen too. Protein admission is particularly significant when you start to retrain your body, as it can improve muscle advancement. An orthopedist acquainted with your recuperation plan can give explicit counsel about suggested protein consumption.
2. Foods Grew From The Ground With Vitamin C
One of the fundamental objectives in recouping from a game’s injury is to diminish aggravation. This is significant for improving the scope of movement and restoring the body part to the former state. Nutrient C can assist you with accomplishing that.
Nutrient C has mitigating properties, which can diminish (or forestall) aggravation. The collagen that nutrient C creates additionally improves the body’s capacity to look after bone, muscle, and ligaments. The conspicuous spot to begin is with organic citrus products, similar to oranges and grapefruits. Ringer peppers, spinach, broccoli, tomatoes, and kiwi likewise convey a lot of nutrient C.
3. Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Sports wounds like a hyper-extended lower leg can cause loads of irritation in the influenced territory. Nourishments with Omega-3 unsaturated fats can help control this aggravation.
In case you’re hoping to start consolidating omega-3 unsaturated fats into your eating routine, solid nibble nourishments like pecans and chia seeds are the best spot to begin. Fish, which additionally give protein, likewise contains a lot of Omega-3 unsaturated fats. In any case, ingesting an excessive number of Omega 3 unsaturated fats could also have the contrary impact. Thus, instead of taking nutrient or powder supplements, make sure to eat genuine nourishments that contain these supplements.
Omega-6 fats, which are regularly found in oils, likewise lower irritation. Canola oil, sunflower oil, corn oil, and other comparable items are extraordinary to cook and can give this advantage. Coconut oil is additionally a typical path for individuals with joint pain to diminish irritation. Talk with a dietician or qualified orthopedist for more data about Omega 3 unsaturated fats in your eating routine.
4. Zinc-Rich Foods
Like protein, zinc is pivotal in helping your body to recuperate injured tissue. Furthermore, as indicated by specialists, neglecting to take in enough zinc can defer the mending procedure.
Primary instances of zinc-rich nourishments incorporate meat, fish, shellfish, and entire grains. Nuts are additionally an extraordinary decision. In any case, make sure to avoid zinc supplements. While they are probably the ideal approaches to present a lot of zinc, this can likewise cause a copper insufficiency. In case you’re interested in how to find some harmony, contact an orthopedist.
5. Nutrient D/Calcium
Calcium assumes a significant job in helping broken issues that remain to be worked out. Notwithstanding, it’s additionally urgent for assisting the mind into flag nerves and agreement muscles appropriately. A few instances of calcium-substantial nourishments incorporate broccoli, almonds, okra, and, obviously, dairy items.
While there are hardly any nourishments that contain typically happening nutrient D, it can likewise be useful for your recuperation. Nutrient D improves the body’s capacity to retain and use calcium for recovery, notwithstanding helping all alone. Nutrient D is a standout amongst another regular torment of the board cures. What’s more, these supplements are likewise useful in forestalling sports wounds in youngsters.
6. Nourishments Rich In Fiber
To recuperate from most wounds, the orthopedist by and significant suggests immobilizing the body part. This forestalls extra aggravation. All the while, notwithstanding, it could prompt extra muscle versus fat in case you’re not cautious. That is the reason devouring nourishments that contain a lot of fiber is significant.
Fiber-substantial nourishments will assist you with feeling full before and keep you from indulging. This will push you to control your eating routine, usually. Furthermore, fiber-substantial nourishments will, in general, convey a lot of different supplements too.
In this way, make sure to incorporate a serving of broccoli or spinach with your supper. As opposed to eating potato chips as a bite, decide on an organic product. While it is imperative to control your body weight and food consumption, it’s additionally significant not to undereat. Approach an orthopedist for more exact directions about the eating regimen and legitimate segments.
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