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"It took seven economists 11 months to decide what should seem obvious given all the foreclosures, bank failures and layoffs - the United States is officially mired in a recession." ,(San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 2, 2008). It has been months everybody is talking about the economic and financial situation before the U.S government can actually do something to lift it up. From 1960s up to now there has been 6 recessions sweeping through the States. And yet all of the "actions" the Government has taken are not enough to prevent it from happening or to lessen the results it causes to the nation.
The collapse of the housing market in December 2007 led to bank collapses in the US and Europe, causing the amount of available credit to be sharply curtailed. Many economists believe the current downturn could be the worst since the recession of 1980-1982, when the U.S.
unemployment rate soared above 10 percent. The nationwide jobless rate is currently 6.5 percent. Unemployment in California is 8.2 percent. The recession was suggested by several important indicators of economic downturn. These included high oil prices which led to drastic high food prices due to the extremely loose monetary policies and low interest rates of the U.S. Federal Reserve. And this condition occurs not only in the States but all around the world, which is the worst global recession in the last 20 years.
After a chain of banks filing for bankruptcy the Government finally bought the 'bad' assets and tried to stabilize the financial crisis. In the second half of 2008, the prices of most commodities fell dramatically on expectations of diminished demand. Oil price used to peak in the summer of 2008 now backed to low rate which seems to predict a better situation. The Emergency Economic Stabilization...
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I’ve written on several earlier occasions — e.g. here — about the delightful creativity of the good people at Crossway Books, who in my view don’t get the widespread love they deserve, and don’t get it simply because they publish a translation of the Bible, the English Standard Version (ESV), that some bien-pensant Christians denounce as too conservative. And maybe some of the choices those translators made are too conservative, but only a handful of passages are in dispute, and almost no one would notice any of them without prompting. The ESV is a fine translation and I find myself using it often simply because Crossway has created so many imaginative ways to engage with the text.
Consider, as examples, the two books pictured above, which I just purchased. The one on the left is the full text of the Gospel of Luke, printed like this:
The text is on the left page, with the right page reserved for annotation and commentary (something there’s never room enough for in a regular Bible). Note also the excellent typography, another element of book-making in which Crossway sets a standard few other publishers meet. I am very eager to begin a serious read-through of Luke with pen in hand.
The other volume is the Greek text of the three letters of John:
In this case we don’t have whole pages devoted to annotation, but rather widely-spaced lines so readers can make interlinear comments, a format ideal for noting distinctive Greek words. This one too I will soon start using.
These are simply fabulous resources for people who want to read the Bible in a serious way — a market that Crossway almost alone seems to have noticed and cultivated.
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Every decide to go through your Mac’s Trash before emptying it, only ti be frustrated because you can’t open any files while they are in the Trash to see what they are? Well, you can simply use Quick Look. Just select the file and hit the spacebar to see the contents. Most common file types are supported. Then you can use the arrow keys to move to the other files in the trash without closing the Quick Look window.
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Автор: Roderick J. McIntosh Название: Ancient Middle Niger ISBN: 052181300X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521813006 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8765 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The cities of West Africa's Middle Niger, only recently brought to the world's attention, make us rethink the 'whys' and the 'wheres' of ancient urbanism. The cities of the Middle Niger present the archaeologist with something of a novelty; a non-nucleated, clustered city-plan with no centralized, state-focused power. Ancient Middle Niger explores the emergence of these cities in the first millennium B.C. and the evolution of their hinterlands from the perspective of the self-organized landscape. Cities appeared in a series of profound transforms to the human-land relations and this book illustrates how each transform was a leap in complexity. The book ends with an examination of certain critical moments in the emergence of other urban landscapes in Mesopotamia, along the Nile, and in northern China, through a Middle Niger lens. Highly-illustrated throughout, this work is a key text for all students of African archaeology and of comparative pre-industrial urbanism.
Автор: Fuglestad Название: A History of Niger 1850–1960 ISBN: 0521101395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521101394 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4655 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This comprehensive history of Niger during the colonial period is a work based on primary research which attempts an overall appraisal of the colonial past.
Описание: Published in 1862, William Cole's journal records his experiences in the highly challenging circumstances of a trading expedition to Africa. Containing detailed descriptions of the dangers and difficulties he had to endure, and frequently displaying a wry humour, Cole's memoir paints a vivid picture of Africa during the mid-nineteenth century.
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Elsa Schiaparelli’s Wonderland: Fantastic Fashions of the Late 1930s and Early 1940s
November 27, 2013
A Designer of Dreams
Elsa Schiaparelli Butterfly Evening dress, circa 1937
With a matching parasol!
The iconic Elsa Schiaparelli butterfly dress is the perfect introduction to one of the most ingenious designers of the 20th century. Elsa was a butterfly herself: a metamorphosis out of the fashion conventions of the past and into a new, colorful world of her own fearless design.
Elsa Schiaparelli Seed Packet Dress, circa 1939-41
Elsa’s designs are playful. Always one to lighten the mood, Elsa’s collections often have distinct themes, often involving butterflies, mythology, the zodiac, and natural curiosities.
Elsa Schiaparelli Evening Dress with Plastic Flowers, circa 1938
The flowers adorning this dress are made of plastic. Elsa embraced new materials and loved to play with texture.
Elsa Schiaparelli Musical Evening Dress, circa 1939
This lyrical creation was worn by Millicent Rogers who was a big admirer of Schiaparelli’s imaginative fashions. Besides the bright musical notes applied to the dress itself, the belt buckle provided more music from a working music box built inside. Elsa’s belts are some of my favorite pieces. They are cheeky and very modern looking. Many of them would still be considered on the cutting edge of fashion today.
Elsa Schiaparelli Sequined Evening Blouse, circa 1938-39
Feeling a little bit of a 1980s flashback coming on? Elsa’s brilliant and over-the-top fashion designs featured padded shoulders, layers of embellishment, and the decorative use of zippers, studs, and buckles 50 years before “Power Dressing” for women became fashionable; she was like the Vivian Westwood of the 1930s and 1940s! Her fashions were considered quite daring–shocking even–and she collaborated with many surreal and dadaist artists throughout her career. For example, she collaborated with Salvador Dali to create the Circus Collection, which even by modern standards is considered avant-garde.
Elsa Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí Skeleton Dress, circa 1938
Elsa Schiaparelli Clasped Hands Belt, circa 1934
Elsa Schiaparelli High Heel Hat, circa 1937-38
Elsa played both sides of the fashion card: she would design swoon-worthy, romantic pieces, then mix in pieces with modernist angles and experimental shapes. Many people would find this seesaw rather jarring, but Elsa always struck a balance between old and new. She enjoyed change and was always looking for the next fashion adventure without abandoning what she already knew was beautiful.
Two Schiaparelli Pieces from the same Year and Season:
Elsa Schiaparelli Ivy Necklace, fall 1938
Elsa Schiaparelli Rhodoid Insect Necklace, fall 1938
What is truly wonderful about Elsa’s designs, however, is that as couture and over-the-top they are, they are still wearable. She doesn’t reach so far into surreality that function disappears. Many of her pieces would still be considered chic–even comfortable–by the women of today.
Elsa Schiaparelli Sweater, circa 1932-38
Elsa Schiaparelli Taurus Belt, circa 1938
Elsa Schiaparelli Jacket for Millicent Rogers, circa 1938-39
Sadly, the austerity of 1940s wartime and post-war fashion did not meld well with Elsa’s vision and she closed her fashion house in 1954 as Christian Dior’s “New Look” became the favored style. However, the beauty of her work has not diminished and her collections continue to inspire fashion designers, costumers, and artists around the globe.
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A year ago, I wrote this post for my other blog, Every Day is Awesome and, today, I thought I'd share it with you here. I wanted to remind myself (because, unfortunately, I need reminding) that today is not just a day off and, in fact, there are no days off from the world and how we choose to live in it. In the words of the man, himself :
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."Happy MLK Day.
A few years ago while we were driving home from Texas, we stopped in Memphis (a town I like very much). We spent the day sightseeing downtown and at the end of the day, we found ourselves just driving around. I took a right turn at a random corner and, unexpectedly, saw the Lorraine Motel standing right in front of me. I hadn't sought it out. I just took a turn and there it was. Still half a block away, I pulled to the curb and just stared at it, silent. It was the same vantage point I had always seen in the photographs.
There's nothing terribly impressive about the building, you know? It's just a motel, or was. There is a feeling you get when you look up at that balcony though. A terrible feeling. A feeling so strong for me, that I never got closer than that half a block away. Never took a picture. I just stood there, leaning on my car, until I started to feel my eyes well up. It was a reaction I didn't expect, being that I was only a year and a half old when Dr. King was shot, but life is strange like that, sometimes the idea of a person is so powerful that it can hit you just as hard as if you had known them.
Neither my friend or I said a word in the fifteen minutes that we spent staring at the building. Then we just slipped back in the car and left, quiet all the way back to our hotel.
Today, I heard a speech. It was not the "I have a Dream" speech that gets trotted out every January. It was a speech about the Vietnam war and poverty and racism that was given a year before King's death.
As I listened to that voice, I found myself wishing that his words would appear quaint to me. That, like clothing styles or hair-dos of the past, the speech would seem outdated because we would have moved so far beyond the concerns of his day and into the society that he once dreamt of. That, somehow by this point, we could have put a check mark next to the items that have darkened our country's character. But the truth is, if you substituted the word Iraq or Afghanistan for Vietnam, this speech could've been given yesterday.
Sobering, yes. But also hopeful in a strange way. Forty-two years later, a man's passion for justice still has the power to move us. His words still carry the weight of truth and, most importantly, he is still calling us to action. The fact that this speech is timeless is simultaneously sad and beautiful. I don't know if he thought we would have reached mountain top by now, but you can bet that he wouldn't have wanted us to stop trying.
Thanks to the Epic Change Blog for inspiring this post.
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Field Kit (assembled), Field Kit DIY Version
Our latest machine the Field Kit was funded through the community at Kickstarter and now available here on the KOMA website. Please note: units ordered here will ship earliest from mid May 2017 onwards!
The Field Kit is more fun with the right tools! When you would like to add an Expansion Pack (contact mics, motors, electro magnetic pickups etc.) you can find it here.
Please choose between an assembled version or a DIY version below.
Field Kit (assembled), Field Kit DIY Version
The new KOMA Elektronik Field Kit is the perfect tool for everyone who would like to experiment with electroacoustic sound. Use everyday objects, amplify them and use them to make sound, like our heroes John Cage and David Tudor used to do!
The Field Kit is optimized to process signals from microphones, contact microphones, electromagnetic pickups and able to run DC motors and solenoids. On top of that it can receive radio signals and convert signals from switches and sensors into control voltage!
We have finished development of the Field Kit, are ready for production and we need your support to make it happen!
It’s all about the things you connect to the The Field Kit! To get you started we decided to offer an Expansion Pack with a bunch of different sources that you can use and connect to create your own signature sounds.
The Field Kit boasts 7 separate functional blocks all focussed on receiving or generating all types of signals. They are designed to operate together as a coherent electroacoustic workstation or alternatively together with other pieces of music electronics with the ability to use control voltage signals.
The Field Kit is capable of doing a lot of different things! Let us run your through its functions, first there is the Four Channel Mixer:
The Four Channel Mixer is the beating heart of the Field Kit, providing a fully functional mixer with individual Gain, Mix Level and Tone control over each channel and individual Master- and Aux sub-mixes.
The level of the Master and Aux Channels can be set with the Master Volume and Aux Volume controls and the channels being sent to the Aux sub-mix can be set with dedicated Aux Select-buttons. The Aux sub-mix is pre-fader.
For the noise heads amongst you: the mixer can be used very well for feedback mixing and no-input mixing as well; there is plenty of Gain to play with and the Tone control is a passive Low/Hi Pass filter drastically changing the sound.
AM/FM/SW Radio with CV Search function
The CV Radio is a CV-controllable radio receiver capable of receiving radio frequencies on AM/FM and SW bands. Additionally it provides the ability to catch electromagnetic waves for further processing inside the Field Kit. The frequency of the radio can be set with a dedicated multifunctional Search-control which acts both as a manual CV-source and as an input attenuator for a CV-signal.
The Field Kit comes with three connectors to attach needed antenna’s for both FM and SW bands and a loop antenna connector for AM signals.
Envelope Follower with CV and Gate Out
The Envelope Follower in the Field Kit applies two functions to the waveform you send to the input: full-wave rectification (mirroring of negative portions of the waveform) and low-pass filtering (averaging). It can also be used for frequency doubling of a signal, which is a great tool to have in the electroacoustic domain.
In addition to the Envelope Out, the Envelope Follower inside the Field Kit also gives out a gate signal whenever the level of the input signal is high enough. The input signal level can be set with a dedicated Attenuation-control.
Low Frequency Oscillator (LFO)
The Low Frequency Oscillator generates periodically varying voltages to be used as control signals. The output waveform can be set with a three-position Waveform-control and gives out either a Square-, Triangle- or a mix of Square and Triangle waveforms.
The frequency of the LFO can be set together with a dedicated Frequency-control and a three-position Range-control. With the higher range-settings, the frequency of the LFO reaches into the audio-range so the LFO can also be used as a simple drone sound source, send this is into a delay effect and you can make trippy sounds for hours!
A very cool function of the Field Kit is the DC Interface. You can use its output voltages to run little motors, fans, solenoids, buzzers and control them with control voltage signals. You can pick up the vibrations and electromagnetic waves with the contact microphones and electromagnetic pickup.
The DC Interface can be used together with PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)- or Pulse-controlled devices. An example of a PWM-controlled device is a DC-motor of which the rotation speed can be set by varying the pulse width. A Pulse-controlled device can be a solenoid-motor whose impulse strength/distance can be set with the length of the control pulse. Other devices that can be used together with the DC Interface could be computer fans, LEDs, relay switches, etc.
Here are a few things you can use with the DC Interface:
The operation mode of the DC Interface can be set with a two-position Mode-switch and there is a multifunctional Intensity-control and a CV/Trigger-input whose functions are dependent on the mode of use and whether a jack is present at the CV/Trigger-input.
The Field Kit Expansion Pack comes with both a prepared DC-motor and a prepared solenoid-motor ready to be used together with the DC Interface or alternatively the user can prepare devices on his/her own.
The Signal Interface is a nifty toolset to transform the raw signals of a wide variety of sensors and switches into signals that can be used with the Field Kit or other gear. This means you can trigger or control sound by light, heat, humidity, distance, speed, acceleration, proximity, pressure, force, level, all depending on what type of switch or sensor you are using! Ideal for sound installations!
The Signal Interface consists of two parts, the Switch and the Sensor Interface.
The Switch Interface transforms signals from different switches like buttons, ball- or tilt-switches etc. into four different types of gate signals. It can output gates, inverted gates, ramp or sawtooth triggers of adjustable length (1ms to 1s). It has two outputs that can be used at the same time, so you could drive a motor and scan the CV Radio with the same switch! The output-voltage spans a range from 0V to about 8V.
The Sensor Interface is made to manipulate the output voltage of analog sensors, like light-, heat- or distance-sensors and convert their signals into control voltage. It can amplify or attenuate the incoming signal and add a DC-offset, so you can for instance set the motor to a constant speed and make it run faster by outputting a higher voltage from the sensor.
The maximum output-voltage is about 8V. It provides enough current to power an Arduino!
All audio has been recorded straight from the Field Kit, using a DC Motor, Solenoid Motor, a DC powered fan, Roland TR-8 and Berlin’s local radio station Antenne Brandenburg as audio sources.
Its all about the things you connect to the The Field Kit! To get you started we decided to offer an Expansion Pack with a bunch of different sources that you can use and connect to create your own signature sounds.
The Expansion Pack contains:
In the book and manual 50 Ways To Use The Field Kit that will be shipped with every Field Kit we will show you how you can make different sensors and input sources for your Field Kit, to experiment away!
You can get the Expansion Pack as a separate reward or get it in a bundle with the Field Kit.
MRSP Pricing Expansion Pack: 59,00 EUR (incl. 19% VAT)
Want to build a Field Kit yourself!? You can!
You can get the Field Kit as a ready-made device or you can get the DIY Version, which you have to put together yourself. When you want to build the Field Kit yourself, we will supply you with a board that has all the SMT components already soldered on, which means the hardest bit is done already, but you have to do the rest: solder on all the hardware parts and final assembly of the front panel and you are good to go!
The DIY Version will be shipped with the User Manual and build instructions, we will also record a very clear video as a step by step tutorial on how to build your own unit (and show some cool hacking tricks while we’re at it).
With every Field Kit we ship a little booklet called “50 Ways To Use The Field Kit,” which, besides being the official user manual, is exactly what you might think it is: a small book with examples of 50 different setups with the Field Kit to spark your imagination to experiment with the Field Kit on how for instance make a spring reverb, do radio feed backing, sense heat, water and light and make it trigger a sequence of sound and so much more!
It also includes a few ideas and schematics to make your own add ons for the Field Kit. A good way to get started!
You can easily interface the Field Kit with a Eurorack modular system. At the backside of the PCB you will find a power connector you can use to power the unit from your system. The total panel width will be 36HP.
The Field Kit is inspired by the electroacoustic research, compositions and performances by our heroes, experimenting away trying to find a new idiom and set of tools for sound generation.
Leading the way was John Cage, who with his pieces Imaginary Landscape (1939-1952) andCartridge Music (1960) used many audio sources like tin cans, conch shell, ratchet, bass drum, buzzers, water gong, metal wastebasket, lion’s roar and amplified coil of wire. In his classic piece Water Walk, he is using – you might have guessed it – mainly water:
Another innovator was the German composer Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, who composed many pieces with electroacoustic sounds in which “normally inaudible vibrations . . . are made audible by an active process of sound detection (comparable to the auscultation of a body by a physician); the microphone is used actively as a musical instrument, in contrast to its former passive function of reproducing sounds as faithfully as possible” (Stockhausen 1971a, 57).
One artist who mixes traditional instrumentation and objects we really like is Hauschka. When he performs he is using a ‘prepared piano’ to change and alter the sound of the strings, creating a new sonic world in which he can transform his instrument so that it loosely replicates the sounds of all sorts of others, whether bass guitar, gamelan or the hi-hat cymbal of a drum kit.
We experiment ourselves as well, here is our own Wouter Jaspers, performing at an event in the Netherlands back in 2010, using a battery of effects, milk foamers (for their motors) and dictaphones to create an immersive soundscape:
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Real-name policies won't end the introvert's experience of the Internet, but it might end the Internet's experience of introverts.
Have you ever posted anything online anonymously? You really should. There's nothing else quite like that gleeful feeling of endless possibility when speaking without identity. That sensation of shameless, reckless abandon, without the confines of guilt and the burden of history, is something that just doesn't exist in a public setting outside of the Internet.
After an infancy when anonymity or pseudonymity were the norm, the Internet has increasingly become a place where real names -- the main link between our offline and online identities -- have become a requirement. Identity is being reattached to online speech.
Our physical quirks, our mistakes, the inflection in our name, our proclivities and our tendencies, they all get rolled into a singular collection of traits that define who we are. And that collection is what people see first and foremost when they receive our personalities.
Without that identity, all anyone has to judge a person on is their words via the prism of objective reality. It only cares whether our views on organic chemistry or foreign policy are relevant. It separates the world of ideas from the filthy meatspace we are bound by.
Anonymity can be a positive force. The idea, as expressed by people like Google CEO Eric Schmidt, that "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to worry about," just doesn't hold up. It assumes an infinitely just world, and not simply in legal terms, but also in social norms and political interests. It ignores the fact that voicing opinions and unflattering facts can have consequences.
There are plenty of good examples. What kind of support would there be for gay rights, particularly the rescinding of Don't Ask Don't Tell, if every online supporter had to expose their identity? There is a reason voting is anonymous.
Online, there is another good reason for protecting the anonymous commons: it increases the diversity of people who speak up. To speak publicly is to take a risk. What if you say the wrong thing? What if you insult somebody? What if your words are misconstrued? Every spoken phrase could be measured up against your current and future employers, your friends, your family, your reputation. Only those without much guilt or shame - either by way of purity, nihilism, or sociopathic narcissism - are left to voice their opinions. They control the conversation. Whereas in the anonymous world, there is no ego to feed. There are no Sarah Palins.
The downside to anonymous speech, particularly the online variety, is that it can become a tumultuous hive-mind of surly, racist, misogynistic, pornographic filth and politically incorrect doggerel, but that messy breeding ground of the collective id is democracy at work.
People can, and regularly do, say horrible, horrible things with little empathy, but I would rather encourage more denizens to speak their minds and reveal themselves for who they are rather than to have them covet those beliefs in private. Anonymity tends to become a haven for introverts, particularly for those that are unnecessarily shy about discussing topics that, in actuality, aren't that controversial. The hope is that those introverts will emerge from this anonymous realm secure in their thoughts and ready, eager, and willing to enter the social fray, righteous and confident, without a desperate fear of what they think of as their identity.
Google and Facebook's enforcement of tighter links between speech and identity won't end the introvert's experience of the Internet, but it might end the Internet's experience of introverts. People who use social networking sites can choose to remove their profiles from public view or restrict what gets shown. The raucous conversation on the Internet will increasingly come to resemble our celebrity-driven, gridlocked national debates at precisely the time when we need something different.
Image: Alexis Madrigal.
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Top-shelf skincare that’s all results with zero plastic? It’s about time.
While you were busy doomscrolling and binging Netflix, Cary Lin and Angela Ubias, founders of the newly launched skincare brand Common Heir, built a zero plastic, low-impact 10% vitamin C serum during the pandemic.
With Angela’s extensive background in the product development space and Cary’s experience working at the award-winning Japanese beauty brand Tatcha, the duo is taking the beauty industry’s problem with sustainability head-on. Their goal to create top-shelf products that will benefit your skin and the planet.
Sustainability without the legwork
Common Heir focuses on honoring what is passed down to us, “whether it’s our skin that we are inheriting or the earth, we want to be really intentional with what we want to leave behind with our legacies,” Cary tells Very Good Light.
A shared destiny pushed the founders of Common Heir to take a look at why the beauty industry was falling behind with regard to sustainable packaging. Cary and Angela found consumers were willing to purchase sustainably made products, but had less will to do the dirty work when it came to actually recycling the product’s packaging.
“So it’s not about sustainability as a way to stress people out, but to be the ones to do all the legwork on the back end and to figure out where the chain is breaking,” says Cary.
Common Heir’s zero plastic outer packaging and biodegradable capsules that encase their silky-smooth, 10% vitamin C serum puts no burden on the consumer to recycle the product properly. It doesn’t matter if the product ends up in your trash can or recycling bin; either way, it will do no harm to the environment.
Why a vitamin C serum?
Vitamin C serums are easy to find in anyone’s skincare cabinet, which is why Common Heir decided to launch with their 10% vitamin C capsule serum.
“We wanted to start with a product that would be universal to as many people as possible,” says Cary.
Power, potency, and freshness were at the forefront of Angela and Cary’s mind when creating this vitamin C serum. Vitamin C is highly unstable when in the presence of sunlight and oxygen, which is why you have to store your vitamin C products in a dark, closed-off space. Common Heir solves the common oxidation problem vitamin C users run into by harboring the serum in a specialized, biodegradable capsule that blocks out oxygen and light exposure.
Vitamin C minus the irritation
Through her past vitamin C experience, Angela ran into constant burning and stinging.
“What I found was I had, what I like to call, the Listerine effect,” Angela tells Very Good Light. The ‘Listerine effect’ is the constant stinging and irritation from the use of vitamin C products, be it a cream, serum, or you name it.
This is where tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate (THD) comes in. THD is a vitamin C derivative that outdoes your traditional L-ascorbic acid in terms of pairing well with sensitive skin. Most Vitamin C derivatives need to be at low pH levels and high concentrations to properly penetrate the skin and deliver results, creating room for irritation and sensitivity.
With THD, this derivative can be used at a slightly higher pH, closer to the skin’s natural level, with lower concentrations, while penetrating the skin at a deeper level without the irritation factor.
Shifting the industry
Sustainability can be a tricky topic. For the consumer, there is a lot of work that goes into recycling products properly, and if a mistake is made, it could ruin the entire process and end up doing more harm than good. Common Heir is making a shift in the beauty industry by taking the guesswork out of sustainability and making the right decision for you.
“We are making conscious beauty and a conscious lifestyle just that much easier,” says Angela.
By launching with a single serum and building their brand with sustainability at the forefront of their product development process, Common Heir is a trailblazer in the skincare industry.
Not only is this silky formulation luxurious to apply to the skin, but the beautiful packaging pushes me to keep the product right at the front of my skincare shelf.
After cleansing and applying toner, I applied this serum to the skin every night for 4 weeks. The texture of the serum felt like a silk blanket gliding across the skin, quickly absorbing without leaving a sticky residue behind.
Not only was this serum successfully applied over my eczema breakouts without any irritation or sensitivity, but it reduced the dull, textured appearance of my damaged skin. After one month of usage, my post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation spot was significantly lightened, the texture of my skin was smooth, and my overall complexion was brightened from its original dull state.
Repurchasing isn’t even a question – once I run out of my last 30 capsules, I will be repurchasing this silky goddess of a vitamin C serum.
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Tamilnation > Tamil Digital Renaissance > Announcement of Tamil Linux Web Site
Dr. V. Venkataramanan
9 November 2000
We are glad to present a new website http://www.tamillinux.org .
This is an unifying effort of all Linux efforts toward localizing to Tamil language. The site is both from the developer and the user point of view. While we provide a platform for the Linux developers to discuss their work, we also make their work available to the common user. Simply put, we aspire to make this a one-stop resource point for all your Tamil Linux needs.
The site contains, as of now, a lot of introduction to Linux, user tips, how-tos, tutorials and other documents. It also has pointers to other Linux resources. We plan to build up on it. Also all Tamil Linux programs and utilities are available for the user from a single page (ftp access is also possible). This is expected to grow further. We plan to add discussions in the near future. All Tamil material are presented in dynamic TSCII fonts (no need to install any fonts).
Simultaneous to this, we are also setting up a Tamil Linux Project at SourceForge http://www.sourceforge.net ), this is a consortium of multinational IT companies such as VA Linux, HP, IBM, etc. This project space will be made use for all developments. Everyone is welcome to join this. The project related discussions are currently at www.egroups.com/tamilinux
Some of you may be aware; the recently released K Desktop Environment (KDE) for Linux and unix operating systems version 2.0 supports Tamil as one of the languages. This for the first time in any indic languages an operating system user interface is available. We are proud that Tamil leads the way here.
Mr. Sivakumar has planned and executed this project, with the support of some volunteers. Thus it is possible to do most of your daily computer tasks -like editing, drawing, web browsing, ftp, dial up connection, file management, in Tamil interface. Linux as you may be knowing is a powerful multi user, multi tasking, operating system - even Linux power operations like user and network management, task scheduling, etc. can now be done in Tamil. KDE also comes with an office suite (word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, illustration), siva and others are currently adding Tamil support to this also. An easy guide to setting up a working Tamil computer is presented in the site.
Another elegant and powerful desktop for unix-like systems, GNOME is also now starting to wear Tamil look. Mr. Dinesh Nadarajah is leading the group. Tamillinux.org houses both these projects. Mr. Sivaraj has written a powerful console support to Tamil. A few of us have also written documentation for these. We welcome you to use and enjoy all these.
Mr. Maniam of iDNS.com, Singapore has helped us in getting the domain name registered and ensured initial web support. Mr. P. Asokan of chennaionline (aaraamthinai) has provided additional web and ftp facilities. We are grateful to them. A voluntary initiative like this needs a lot of participation, even non technical volunteers can help in documentation and translation. We look forward to your support. Please convey your suggestions and opinions. Thank you.
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Cave Cay is positioned in the heart of the Exuma Cays immediately north of Musha Cay. Cave Cay is unique because of its very own deep-water harbour (12 feet at low tide) and private marina with 35 dock slips and a 2,800 ft private landing strip. Cave Cay is completely self-sufficient with all utilities underground, water, sewage and power supply. There are 5 diesel generators ranging in size from 85 KW to 375 KW. The power supply is hybrid being solar supported by generator power. Fresh water is stored in two tanks, 12,000 gallons and 14,000 gallons. Hot water is provided by solar panels. The fuel farm has a capacity to store 64,000 gallons of diesel and 13,000 gallons of gas. The water making facilities are capable of making 5,000 gallons per day being expanded to 20,000 gallons per day. The present owner/developer has thought of everything and gone through the tedious 2 year process to get all of the government approval and several years to dredge the harbour and build the runway. This is an opportunity for a developer to step in and take this special Island to the next level.
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CBD can also be used by breathing in the energetic ingredients released throughout evaporation of CBD oil.
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It is unrealistic and counterproductive to think you have to be
perfect in refraining from counterproductive thinking and behavior.
Demanding perfection from yourself will make you excessively nervous
and prone to anger and guilt. The way to bring about positive changes
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Why Everyone Should Plan for Long-Term Care
Research suggests that most Americans turning age 65 will need some form of assistance with everyday activities, known as long-term care, as they grow older. The amount of care needed will depend on many variables, including overall health, cognitive functioning and home environment.
Age is a strong predictor of the need for help, and because women live longer on average, they are more likely than men to require long-term care. Factors such as a disability, injury or chronic illness also increase the chance that long-term care will be needed.
Three simple steps can help you start planning for care you may need as you age.
1. Know what to expect
Most people know they should save for retirement, but many don’t know exactly what expenses to expect. An often overlooked area is long-term care, a broad set of supports for everyday tasks like dressing or eating. While most of this care is provided by family members and friends, sometimes older adults and their families get these services from providers like home health aides, area agencies on aging or residential providers such as assisted living or nursing homes.
Understanding long-term care is the first step in creating a plan. Key things to know include:
- A person who lives alone is more likely to require long-term care than one who can rely on a spouse or partner for help with daily tasks.
- Long-term care is expensive and represents a major uncovered risk to your retirement savings.
- Medicare does not pay for long-term care services or supports with some minor exceptions. Neither does your employer-based health insurance or Medigap.
- Most people prefer to receive long-term care at home; their odds of doing so may be improved by making home modifications to reduce the risk of falls.
- Many Americans say they do not want to rely on their children for care, but a lack of planning for paid care often leads to exactly that result.
2. It’s not just about you
A choice to plan or not plan will likely have a big impact on family and friends who may also be informal caregivers. Statistics show that most long-term care is provided by family members or other loved ones.
Take the time to make clear your preferences for what kind of help you value most and where you want to receive it. Family and friends will feel better knowing that you are thinking about your needs – and theirs – by planning for long-term care.
3. Better active than reactive
Be proactive. Staying at home is great, especially if it has been modified to help you avoid an injury and continue to care for yourself. However, it won’t happen without taking steps to ensure you can get the supports you need at home. Start thinking about ways to maintain your independence, safety and care needs.
For more information and resources to develop a care plan, visit longtermcare.gov.
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NASA's Aqua satellite captured an image of Koppu about 8 hours before its center made landfall, and revealed strong thunderstorms with very cold cloud tops as cold as -63F. Cloud top temperatures are important because they tell forecasters how high thunderstorms are, and the higher the thunderstorm, the more powerful. Those thunderstorms brought heavy downpours which led to minor flooding.
Prior to the Aqua's flight over Koppu at 8 p.m. EDT (4 a.m. local time, Hong Kong), Koppu had maximum sustained winds near 69 mph (60 knots), tropical storm strength. It was 75 miles southwest of Hong Kong, China and moving west-northwest near 14 mph. The Hong Kong Observatory had issued a "No. 8 Southeast Gale or Storm Signal, meaning that winds with mean speeds of 63 kilometres per hour (39 mph) or more are expected from the southeast quarter (of Hong Kong)."
At 2:45 a.m. local time (Hong Kong), the Hong Kong Observatory noted "the maximum sustained winds recorded at Cheung Chau, Chek Lap Kok and Kai Tak were 110, 75 and 71 kilometres per hour (68, 46 and 44 mph) with maximum gusts 131, 108 and 115 kilometres (81, 67, and 71 mph) per hour respectively."
Koppu is expected to weaken quickly to a tropical depression while continuing to move inland in a northwesterly direction.
Text credit: Rob Gutro, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
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Water - as the underlying driver of the Earth’s carbon cycle
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An important step towards a completely new experimental access to quantum physics has been made at University of Konstanz. The team of scientists headed by...
Yersiniae cause severe intestinal infections. Studies using Yersinia pseudotuberculosis as a model organism aim to elucidate the infection mechanisms of these...
Researchers from the University of Hamburg in Germany, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, have synthesized a new superconducting material by growing a few layers of an antiferromagnetic transition-metal chalcogenide on a bismuth-based topological insulator, both being non-superconducting materials.
While superconductivity and magnetism are generally believed to be mutually exclusive, surprisingly, in this new material, superconducting correlations...
Laser-driving of semimetals allows creating novel quasiparticle states within condensed matter systems and switching between different states on ultrafast time scales
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Among the general public, solar thermal energy is currently associated with dark blue, rectangular collectors on building roofs. Technologies are needed for aesthetically high quality architecture which offer the architect more room for manoeuvre when it comes to low- and plus-energy buildings. With the “ArKol” project, researchers at Fraunhofer ISE together with partners are currently developing two façade collectors for solar thermal energy generation, which permit a high degree of design flexibility: a strip collector for opaque façade sections and a solar thermal blind for transparent sections. The current state of the two developments will be presented at the BAU 2017 trade fair.
As part of the “ArKol – development of architecturally highly integrated façade collectors with heat pipes” project, Fraunhofer ISE together with its partners...
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Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports.
WASHINGTON – While Iran swears it doesn’t have nuclear weapons, the Western thinking that it’s working on such a program despite crippling sanctions of questionable results is having the effect of enhancing the Islamic republic’s international stature, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a signatory, gives members the right to enrich uranium for fuel reactors and use for medical research, among other civilian uses.
The NPT doesn’t preclude the possibility Iran or any other NPT signatory or member of the International Atomic Energy Agency could build the components to make a nuclear weapon, without actually putting the components together to make one.
The question of the existence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program – absent firm intelligence – helps Iran leave open the possibility that such a program exists and that it could possess the means to build a nuclear bomb rapidly, without actually having such a program, analysts say.
To these analysts, this approach has allowed Iran to rub shoulders with the “big boys” – the P5+1, or United Nations Security Council members of the permanent five of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China plus Germany.
In pressing its right under the NPT to enrich uranium despite sanctions, Iran actually has gained considerable concessions, and is able to meet with the members. It also has been successful at meetings to kick the proverbial can down the road – to get the P5+1 members to agree to meet again. This has bought Iran more time for developing its nuclear program – the West, including Israel, believe.
And this is where the U.S. and Israel disagree – the U.S., unlike Israel, doesn’t believe that Iran has achieved the technological breakthrough to make a nuclear weapon, let alone the capability of placing it on a missile requiring additional technology know-how that Iran isn’t yet assessed to possess. On the other hand, Israel believes Iran is only months away of such breakthroughs.
The heart of the problem, according to analysts, appears to be the exchange of rhetoric between Israel and Iran.
According to George Friedman of the open intelligence group Stratfor, Israel – and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular – looks on Iran as an irrational actor and that armed with a nuclear weapon it would act irrationally and make every effort to destroy Israel.
While Iran has expressed what Friedman says is irrational rhetoric, Iran actually has been cautious in its actions, “engaging instead in reckless rhetoric.”
Given this fundamental difference in perceptions, Israel believes it is intolerable for Iran to have nuclear weapons in a mutually assured destruction, or MAD, relationship, similar to what worked during the Cold War between the then-Soviet Union and the United States and its allies.
All of this assumes that Iran indeed is embarked on a nuclear weapons program. Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying that its nuclear development program is not intended to make a nuclear weapon.
Given Iran’s irrational talk about Israel’s destruction, however, Netanyahu firmly believes that such irrational Iranian talk means that the Islamic republic indeed is embarked on developing a nuclear weapon and actually intends to use it against Israel.
Israel, however, appears divided on this issue. Netanyahu’s view that Iran is an irrational actor is contrary to the assessment of his own military and intelligence chiefs.
Given Netanyahu’s prevalent thinking, the notion of MAD won’t work. Any actual Israeli military attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities, analysts suggest, actually could accelerate an Iranian effort to turn its nuclear program into developing nuclear weapons.
This prospect has been reinforced by separate research that showed the 1981 Israeli attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor actually pushed then-Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to try to make nuclear weapons.
Yet, Israel hasn’t taken action, claiming it is waiting for the U.S. to join it in destroying Iran’s nuclear sites.
In looking at a years-long rhetorical exchange between Israel and Iran, Friedman lays out their respective strategies in his recent article, “War and Bluff: Iran, Israel and the United States.”
“Up to this point, the Iranians have not even fielded a device for testing, let alone a deliverable weapon. For all their activity, either their technical limitations or a political decision has kept them from actually crossing the obvious redlines and left Israel trying to define some developmental redline.
“Iran’s approach has created a slowly unfolding crisis, reinforced by Israel’s slowly rolling response. For its part, all of Israel’s rhetoric – and periodic threats of imminent attack – has been going on for several years, but the Israelis have done little beyond some cover and cyberattacks to block the Iranian nuclear program. Just as the gap between Iranian rhetoric and action has been telling, so, too, has the gap between Israeli rhetoric and reality. Both want to appear more fearsome than either is actually willing to act.
“The Iranian strategy has been to maintain ambiguity on the status of its program, while making it appear that the program is capable of sudden success – without ever achieving that success. The Israeli strategy has been to appear constantly on the verge of attack without ever attacking and to use the United States as its reason for withholding attacks, along with the studied ambiguity of the Iranian program. The United States, for its part, has been content playing the role of holding Israel back from an attack that Israel doesn’t seem to want to launch. The United States sees the crumbling of Iran’s position in Syria as a major Iranian reversal and is content to see this play out alongside sanctions.”
Iran, however, has dispersed its nuclear program around the country to the point that any military attack may produce questionable results unless Israel uses some exotic weapon, such as an electromagnetic pulse from a high-altitude nuclear explosion over central Iran. That would affect all electronics not only in Iran but the entire Middle East.
This approach, analysts say, would allow Israel to proceed with bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities virtually without detection or resistance.
Separately, WND/G2Bulletin recently reported that an EMP attack is one option Israel is considering.
Friedman says that while Israel on the surface has been driving U.S. policy, he said the reverse may be true.
“Israel has bluffed an attack for years and never acted. Perhaps now it will act, but the risks of failure are substantial,” Friedman said. “If Israel really wants to act, this is not obvious.
“Speeches by politicians do not constitute clear guidelines,” he said. “If the Israelis want to get the United States to participate in the attack, rhetoric won’t work. Washington wants to proceed by increasing pressure to isolate Iran.
“Simply getting rid of a nuclear program not clearly intended to produce a device is not U.S. policy,” he added. “Containing Iran without being drawn into a war is. To this end, Israeli rhetoric is useful.”
Friedman sees Netanyahu’s rhetoric as actually aiding U.S. policy.
“Israel’s bellicosity is not meant to signal an imminent attack, but to support the U.S. agenda of isolating and maintaining pressure on Iran,” he said. “That would indicate more speeches from Netanyahu and greater fear of war. But speeches and emotions aside, intensifying psychological pressure on Iran is more likely than war.”
Or is it?
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Italian translation of decompose
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The crosses would rot and decay; the metal, rust and decompose.The Complete Stories Volume 2
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Translation of decompose from the Collins English to Italian Dictionary
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The great thing about an art show in a tattoo parlor is that it makes total sense. What else are you supposed to do while getting inked other than look around? In celebration of Women’s History Month, Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor is giving patrons and visitors something worth looking at: the work of 20 emerging local female artists.
The works, created in a variety of media, are hung salon-style on the gallery’s two temporary exhibition walls. On the day I went to check out the exhibit (admittedly my first time at Liberty), someone was getting a tattoo not 3 feet from where I stood. Like tableside restaurant flambé, the juxtaposition of artwork and someone being tattooed was kind of titillating. I walked carefully and quietly. As the tattoo gun buzzed, people were careful to speak in slow and relaxed tones.
Suzanne Edds, co-owner of Liberty, sourced the work through her connections in the community, making sure to reach out to artists of diverse disciplines and backgrounds. Ceramics, textiles, paintings and screen prints showcase the variety of the women making art in our community. Anna Cutsinger’s “The Two Horses” is a great example of Edds’ attention to curatorial detail and her commitment to representing women of all ages: Cutsinger is a mere 8 years old.
Displayed alongside Cutsinger’s ponies are artworks both serious and humorous. Maggie Peavler’s tiny dioramas in food tins, “Pigs in Space,” is a collection of visual tidbits, while Kristina Bowersmith’s “He Knows Skywalker” painting is a mod, “Star Wars”-inspired spoof reminiscent of John Wesley paintings. Tracy Parker’s stoneware “Eyepod” is a literal interpretation of the ubiquitous music storage device — this time depicted as a peapod full of human eyeballs. Edds’ own “Shed #1” is a seemingly bloody stack of clay knuckles on a wooden plaque. Scary, funny, confessional and decorative, the works show how open the 21st century art world is to women’s influence.
Admittedly, a women’s art show is an idea that many people dismiss as passé. Beyond the facts of biology, is there anything that a group of women has more in common than any other group of people? The answer is yes — they inherit the yoke of history as surely as their family names. This small show, however, seems to bypass that hurdle, with no particular political point to make and nothing in particular to prove to anyone — the ultimate sign of arrival.
As a business owner and artist, Edds is celebrating women’s history by spotlighting the possibilities for women to express themselves in whatever medium and manner they see fit, both as a birthright and the result of the struggles of our foremothers and fathers. Whether it’s art on your skin, or art on the wall, Liberty’s show celebrates women and their work in the world.
Women’s Art Show
Through March 31
Liberty Tattoo and Art Parlor
2801 S. Third St. • 637-4777
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Introduction Pseudocholinesterase (butyrylcholinesterase) is a drug metabolizing enzyme responsible for hydrolysis of the muscle relaxant drugs succinylcholine and mivacurium. Deficiency from any cause can lead to prolonged apnoea and paralysis following administration of succinylcholine and mivacurium. Case presentation Within the last two years we have had four patients who have had prolonged apnea following the administration of mivacurium. It was understood that one was congenital and the other three due to various reasons had enzyme-deficiencies. In all four of the patients, the prolonged blocks deteriorated. Conclusion Prolonged blocks may be encountered due to mivacurium use. The diagnosis of pseudocholinesterase enzyme deficiency can be given after a careful clinic supervision and peripheral nerve stimulator monitoring. A decrease in the activity of pseudocholinesterase enzyme and improvement in neuromuscular function will help verifying our diagnosis. Instead of pharmacological applications that may further complicate the situation, what should be done in such patients is to wait until the block-effect goes down by the help of sedation and mechanical ventilation.
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“You’ve been paid for by people who never even saw your face. Your mother’s mother, your father’s father. And so it behooves you to prepare yourself so you can pay for someone else yet to come. Whose name you’ll never know. You just keep the good thing going.”
In the summer of 2010, a young woman woke up from exploratory surgery at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital to the most devastating news possible: at the impossibly young age of 25, with no family history and no genetic markers, she had advanced ovarian cancer.
It was a defining moment in Darcel Fahy’s short life, and it would mark the beginning of her legacy. After that day, she set two goals for herself: that she would live the rest of her life to the fullest extent possible, and she would fight to help other women facing the same diagnosis.
She accomplished both.
Darcel left a lasting impression on all those who knew her, particularly Dr. Robert Edwards, who chairs Magee’s Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and is an investigator with Magee-Womens Research Institute specializing in gynecologic cancer.
The two formed a close bond, and Darcel doggedly participated in Dr. Edwards’ research, including two clinical trials. She donated heavily to a tissue and blood bank that he oversees. And she drove from her home near Windber, Pennsylvania — about 90 minutes from Pittsburgh — in pursuit of aggressive treatment that would extend her life and inform research for others.
Throughout her fight, she maintained her ornery spirit and sense of humor. When her uterus was removed, she gave Dr. Edwards a uterus-shaped pin and doll for keepsakes. She named her colostomy bag Stanley. She joked: “Oh. I guess you want another blood sample.”
She worked tirelessly to raise awareness, raise money, and speak out about ovarian cancer.
“She wanted ways to help people, and if not find a cure, find a way to detect it,” says her husband, Mike Fahy.
The five-year survival rate of patients diagnosed with Stage 3c ovarian cancer, like Darcel, is just 39 percent, according to the American Cancer Society. Darcel lived for 7½ years, and Mike Fahy credits her care under Dr. Edwards with extending her life. She died on Oct. 20, 2017; despite her weakness, even in the last few weeks of her life, she was still asking to participate in research.
In her honor, after her death, Mike — who has brewed beer both professionally and as a hobby — created a coffee milk stout called With You Always through Whitehorse Brewing in Berlin, Pennsylvania, where he once worked. In September 2019, he sold it as a fundraiser for ovarian cancer research at Magee. He also found love again in Kaitlin Martin, who helped him organize an event around the beer’s release with the blessing of Darcel’s family.
In May 2020, Kaitlin and Mike married. This year, they are again offering the stout as a fundraiser for Magee, supplemented by a virtual campaign. (More about the beer’s availability and the campaign can be found here.)
“I didn’t want to lose our traction, because we did so well,” Mike says. “It was really amazing how it brought people together. There was a lot of love in the air; it was a lot of people celebrating life.”
Unbeknownst to the Fahys, Darcel’s other wish was coming true in 2017, the last year of her life. On April 17, 2017, a woman she never met — Dr. Carolyn Kubik, a Magee-trained infertility specialist — learned that, like Darcel, she had advanced ovarian cancer. Her first call was to Dr. Edwards, whom she knew professionally.
Like Darcel, Dr. Kubik is a woman who faces challenges head on. When cancer came for her, she was determined to rule it.
Dr. Edwards surgically removed the cancer that had spread throughout her abdomen, then began 18 weeks of intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy at UPMC-Passavant, the same community hospital where Darcel eventually went. By Halloween, her ports were removed, and her tumor marker has been normal ever since.
The treatment via combination intravenous/intraperitoneal chemo was part of a protocol that Dr. Edwards has been researching and promoting both locally and nationally for about 20 years and continues to study. Though not yet universally accepted, three clinical trials have demonstrated its effectiveness compared to standard therapy, Dr. Edwards notes.
Among the women who contributed to those earlier clinical trials: Darcel Fahy.
Today, Dr. Kubik is cancer free and back to work helping couples eager to start a family. She expresses gratitude to the women like Darcel whose contributions helped to save her life: “That’s who I’m most grateful to, and that’s who I’m living for,” she says.
For Mike Fahy, knowing that Darcel’s fight bought more time for other women represents a victory for his late first wife: “I think for her, it would have made it all worthwhile. That was everything she ever wanted.”
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Some days Google seems like it’s more of a science fiction factory than a search engine, developing products like driverless cars, and augmented reality glasses. An academic project at Berkeley adds another element to the mix – Robots. Robots that can help pick up commonplace objects around your home, and put them in their proper places.
A paper submitted to the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany in May 2013, describes the role that Google’s visual search queries play in helping robots understand the objects that they might try to pick up before they do. In Cloud-Based Robot Grasping with the Google Object Recognition Engine, we’re told about cloud-based robots that can view objects, and send queries about them to a version of Google Goggles on the cloud to learn more about those objects and the best way to grasp them.
Google goggles is Google’s visual search app, which enables you to take photographs and send them to Google to potentially perform facial recognition searches, OCR searches for text in images, product and bar code recognition, recognizing landmarks and places and named entities, and more. I spent a few hours at my Mom and Dad’s house a couple of weekends ago taking pictures of almost every photo and painting they had on their walls, and seeing if Google Goggles recognized any of them.
Another feature that the visual search engine is capable of is recognizing objects, and the Berkeley team, with the assistance of James Kuffner of Google, appears to have achieved a goal that had eluded them in the past with the use of Google Goggles. From the paper’s introduction:
One as-yet unachieved goal of robotics and automation is an inexpensive robot that can reliably declutter floors, tables, and desks by identifying objects, grasping them, and moving them to appropriate destinations such as shelves, cabinets, closets, or trashcans.
Errors in object recognition can be costly: an old chocolate bar could be mistaken for a cellphone and moved to the charging station, or vice versa — a cellphone could be placed in the trashcan. The set of objects that may be encountered in an unstructured environment such as a home or office is essentially unbounded and dynamically grows as our increasingly capitalist global economy designs new products to satisfy demand from consumers (and shareholders).
The project used a customized version of Google Googles to perform object recognition, training the system on 15 commonplace objects that tend to be around a home, such as a bar of mustard, an air freshener, and a bar of soap.
When I was writing about the future of search being spoken and visual queries not long ago, I hadn’t anticipated that some of those searchers might not even be human.
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Explore the words cloud of the SYMCELLS project. It provides you a very rough idea of what is the project "SYMCELLS" about.
The following table provides information about the project.
|Coordinator Country||Germany [DE]|
|Total cost||2˙272˙485 €|
|EC max contribution||2˙272˙485 € (100%)|
1. H2020-EU.1.1. (EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC))
|Duration (year-month-day)||from 2017-06-01 to 2022-05-31|
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Many cells stably integrate microbes to gain ecological advantages for the organism. A remarkable example is the symbiosis between corals and algae, whose provision of photosynthetically fixed nutrients enables coral survival in nutrient-poor habitats. To establish symbiosis, coral cells acquire symbionts via phagocytosis, a process often used for pathogen clearance in other animals. Symbionts reside in phagosomes, and the prevailing view is that, similar to some pathogens, symbionts avoid destruction via phagolysosomal manipulation. Yet, unlike pathogens, symbionts provide nutrients to their host, and this may be key for intracellular persistence. Most research on nutrient translocation has focused on sugars, but surprisingly, sterols may be significant because cnidarians cannot synthesize cholesterol. However, little is known about the underlying molecular mechanisms of symbiosis establishment. Because corals are intractable cell biological models, I will leverage our unique resources and expertise to uncover fundamental aspects of symbiont acquisition and metabolic dependence using the emerging model anemone Aiptasia. To investigate symbiont acquisition (Objective 1), I will distinguish symbiont-phagocytosing cells, test candidate symbiont receptors by gain- and loss-of-function, record symbiont/cell interactions by live-imaging, and generate a symbiosis cell culture system. To understand the significance of symbiont-derived sterols (Objective 2), I will map cellular sterol utilization and identify the sterol transport machinery, test whether symbiont sterols can functionally substitute cholesterol, identify novel sterol-interacting proteins by pull-down assays, and explore symbiont persistence mechanisms using comparative phagosome proteomics. This proposal will for the first time provide a mechanistic understanding of coral-algal symbiosis establishment, a crucial process underpinning coral reefs, economically and ecologically important ecosystems.
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Marie R. Jacobovitz, Sebastian Rupp, Philipp A. Voss, Sebastian G. Gornik, Annika Guse
Dinoflagellate symbionts escape vomocytosis by host cell immune suppression
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.1101/864579
Victor A. S. Jones, Madeline Bucher, Elizabeth A. Hambleton, Annika Guse
Microinjection to deliver protein, mRNA, and DNA into zygotes of the cnidarian endosymbiosis model Aiptasia sp.
published pages: , ISSN: 2045-2322, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-34773-1
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Elizabeth Hambleton, Arnold Shivas Jones, Ira Maegele, David Kvaskoff, Timo Sachsenheimer, Annika Guse
Enhanced Stability of Non-Canonical NPC2 in the symbiosome supports coral-algal symbiosis
published pages: , ISSN: , DOI: 10.1101/399766
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A light beam to the heavens has appeared in the Mayan ruins. Experts say this proves we are all doomed in 2012!
Many people have questioned the Mayan prophecy that says the world will end on December 21, 2012, but there is evidence that God, (or Gods as the Mayans believe), disagree.
For the last several weeks, a colored beam of light has been seen shooting from the heavens into the Mayan ruins and then back again.
This has all happened in the ancient Mayan city of Chichen Itza at El Castillo, a pyramid that once served as a sacred temple to the Mayan god Kukulkan.
There are many witnesses who have seen the Mayan light beam come and go. Most say that dark clouds appear out of nowhere than it shoots down from the sky. It usually lasts for ten to fifteen minutes and many witnesses say they hear “angelic music” when the light first appears.
“It was amazing!” said one witness. “It made me so happy, and so sad. Happy because it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen and sad, because now I know I am going to die this year.”
Locals are convinced that the light beam is a sign from the gods — a warning about Dec. 21, 2012, the date that marks the end of the Mayan calendar cycle.
Better start getting your estate in order…
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Tax on Buying Shares
From a taxation point of view, share transactions can be an expensive business; both the buyer and the seller will be required to pay a duty. When you are buying shares you will have to pay one of two types of tax, depending on the way in which the transaction was conducted.
Stamp Duty Reserve TaxToday, stock transfers most frequently take place electronically. If you are buying shares through a stockbroker, it is almost certain that this transaction will use the CREST system. CREST, or Certificateless Register of Electronic Stock and Shares Transfer, has become the industry standard for electronic transfer, and results in a paperless transaction in which no certificate is issued. In these instances, the tax payable is known as Stamp Duty Reserve Tax.
Stamp Duty Reserve Tax, or SDRT is paid at a flat rate. This is currently set at 0.5%. It is important to note, however, that the amount of tax that you will pay is based on the price that you pay for the shares, rather than what they are actually worth. So, if you are given the shares and pay nothing in exchange for them, you will not be required to pay any tax. If you paid cash for them, however, you will be required to pay 0.5% rounded to the nearest penny. This means that any transaction in which you pay less than £1,000 for shares will still incur a £5 SDRT charge. Finally, shares are occasionally exchanged for goods or services; in these cases, your SDRT liability will be calculated as 5% of the equivalent cash value of whatever it is that was exchange for the shares.
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At Sigma Test and Research Center, we offer testing services for the pharmaceutical products and its ingredients. It is essential for pharmaceuticals to get the quality check done to ensure its credibility and safety in terms of its usage. Testing safeguards and makes sure that these medications do not contain harmful levels of microbes such as bacteria, yeasts and moulds.
Our well equipped laboratories provide services for testing the pharmaceuticals with the API analysis and characterization; organic and elemental impurity determination; polymer and plastics testing; biological sample testing; analytical testing in the support of pharmacokinetic, pre-clinical, and clinical trials; and stability storage and testing supporting its manufacturing and thereby certifying it for the consumption with compliance to the industry standards and regulations. The testing is carried out according to pharmacopoeia based on EP, USP, BP, JP or IP.
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These regulated procedures also ensure the drug safety which is major focus in a pharmaceutical industry. Pathogenic bacteria, yeasts, moulds and toxins produced by microorganisms are all possible contaminants of medicines although stringent and the risk could be minimal through these services.
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I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal on the rising instances of Melanoma, which is the most serious form of skin cancer. Since we’re heading into the summer months, I wanted to share some of the pertinent parts of the article.
While cancer rates for many forms of the disease are falling, melanoma rates are actually rising. In fact it’s now the most common form of cancer for adults 25 to 29 years of age.
Although only 3% of all skin cancers are Melanoma, this type of cancer causes over 75% of deaths from the disease. However, there is good news. If a tumor is caught before it actually penetrates the outer layer of the skin, the survival rate is about 99%. As you can see, early diagnosis and treatment are critical.
Dr. Darrell Rigel, a clinical professor of dermatology at New York University Medical Center has identified 6 factors (using data from 300 patients with the disease and 300 control patients) that can help predict melanoma risk. These include:
- Blistering sunburns as a teenager
- Outdoor jobs for 3+ years as a teen
- Red or blond hair
- Marked freckling on the upper back
- A family history of melanoma
- A history of “actinic keratoses” – are dry, scaly, lesions that are an early stage of skin cancer
Two or more of these risk factors increases your risk of melanoma 5 – 10 times over the general population’s.
The American Academy of Dermatology recommends checking moles using a tool dubbed the ABCDEs of melanoma:
- Asymmetry – one half is unlike the other half
- Border – irregular, scalloped or poorly defined
- Color – varies from one area to another
- Diameter – size of a pencil eraser or larger
- Evolving – changes in size, shape or color over time
If you think you have any of these signs, contact your primary care physician, or your dermatologist. They’ll be able to accurately diagnose and treat any skin cancer related issues. And, remember, sunblock is a necessity during the summer months.
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Donald Trump’s COVID diagnosis and hospitalization in October 2020 may have changed the minds of his far-right supporters who believed the disease to be a hoax, a new study has suggested.
During the study, researchers set out to investigate the role that the hospitalization of the former U.S. president might have had on levels of COVID skepticism.
As context, the researchers noted that people on the political right—Trump’s base—tended to be “more likely to downplay or deny the risks of the virus.”
A Pew Research poll in March, 2020 showed that Democrats were 26 percentage points more likely to say that the SARS-CoV-2 virus presented a major threat to the U.S. population as a whole than Republicans were at that time.
Another Pew Research poll in June that year found that 71 percent of U.S. citizens had heard of a conspiracy theory that the COVID outbreak had been intentionally planned, and that 34 percent of Republicans or Republican-leaning independents thought this was either probably or definitely true compared to 18 percent of Democrats or Democrat leaners.
Meanwhile Trump’s presidency itself was characterised by calls to keep the country as open as possible in the face of the virus, often to the extent that Trump clashed with top disease adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci who took a more cautious approach.
“It’s fading away. It’s going to fade away,” Trump said in June 2020, less than a month after he terminated the U.S. relationship with the World Health Organization (WHO). “Our Economy is roaring back and will NOT be shut down,” he said that same month.
Against that political context, researchers coincidentally happened to be collecting data on the extent to which U.S. citizens believed the coronavirus pandemic to be a hoax, and the study took place over a time period that allowed the researchers to look back and examine the potential effect that Trump’s COVID diagnosis might have had on the study participants by separating the data into ‘before’ and ‘after’.
Between September 24 and October 16, 2,140 study participants were recruited and asked how strongly they agreed or disagreed that COVID was a hoax.
They found that, amongst those who identified as more conservative or right-wing, endorsement of hoax claims was lower for those surveyed after Trump’s COVID diagnosis compared to before it.
Left-leaning participants, meanwhile, displayed little difference in their beliefs about COVID being a hoax after Trump’s diagnosis compared to before it.
“In the same way that those more likely to change their attitudes following Tom Hanks‘ COVID-19 diagnosis were participants who most identified with him, it seems likely that politically right-leaning participants in the current study identified more closely with President Trump making his exemplar more vivid and influential in their mind and hence having more influence on their beliefs, in line with previous literature on exemplars,” the study reads.
Trump tested positive for COVID on October 2, 2020, in the middle of the presidential election campaign and was admitted to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center that same day. He returned to the White House on October 5. Oscar-winning actor Hanks was diagnosed with COVID in March, 2020.
Adam Enders is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville whose research focuses on suspicion and conspiratorial thinking in American politics. He told Newsweek that while he considers the study’s conclusion to be “reasonable,” some nuance was necessary when interpreting these results.
“While the change in COVID hoax beliefs from the first wave to the second wave is statistically significant, it is substantively quite small,” he said. “Indeed, it looks like the difference is about 0.25 on a measure that ranges from 1 to 6. This isn’t much. It’s also worth noting that the average among conservatives in the first wave was about 2.30 or so––in other words, conservatives did not, on balance, believe COVID was a hoax in the first place (an average score of 3 would indicate neutrality).
“I think some nuance is necessary here. Conservatives did not, on balance, believe COVID was a hoax in September of 2020. When Trump was diagnosed, perhaps a few skeptics became less skeptical. On the one hand, this tells us that people can update their beliefs when confronted with evidence/reality.
“On the other, this update doesn’t seem to have affected folks all that much––partisan and ideological motivated reasoning is a powerful mechanism by which we strategically (albeit unconsciously) blind ourselves to reality. And that’s not a uniquely conservative phenomenon, though it was most applicable to conservatives in this instance.”
The study was published in the journal Royal Society Open Science on Tuesday (ET) August 2. Researchers were from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
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A report from “The Markup” indicates that Facebook uses “Meta Pixel” trackers to receive patient information from hospital websites.
Louise Matakis put together a guide on how to manage your online personal data, and figuring out who buys, sells, and barters it.
Personal data is often compared to oil—it powers today’s most profitable corporations, just like fossil fuels energized those of the past. But the consumers it’s extracted from often know little about how much of their information is collected, who gets to look at it, and what it’s worth. Every day, hundreds of companies you may not even know exist gather facts about you, some more intimate than others. That information may then flow to academic researchers, hackers, law enforcement, and foreign nations—as well as plenty of companies trying to sell you stuff.
A good guide as usual from Wired.
In a recent update, Numbers gained the ability to sort by category, so if you want to break down your budget by transaction type, say, you can do that really easily. The details are all here in today’s Quick Tip!
The teenager from Melbourne, Australia, who hacked in to Apple’s servers didn’t compromise any personal data, according to the iPhone and Mac maker.
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After spending years pressuring customers to give up their unlimited data plans, the cell carriers have come full circle and are offering unlimited data plans. Sorting out which carrier offers the best deal—AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, or Verizon—isn’t exactly straight forward, so we ranked each based on their features. Read on to see which comes out on top.
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In one of the first public appearances of his post-presidency, Barack Obama will accept the Centennial John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award this spring for a career of "grace under pressure" and "exceptional dignity and courage," receiving the honor on the special occasion of the 100th anniversary of Kennedy's birth.
The 44th president was selected by a 14-member bipartisan committee at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation comprised of figures in politics, media, and business, including Republicans Sen. Jeff Flake, former congressman Bob Inglis, and Viacom's Shari Redstone. The committee is chaired by Bloomberg View columnist Al Hunt.
According to Hunt, the award will go to Obama not for one particular legislative or political act, but for an "entire life that was really a testament to courage," he said.
Established in 1989 by the Kennedy family, the annual award is meant to honor the 35th president's birth — and specifically offer a tribute to Kennedy's Pulitzer Prize–winning book, Profiles in Courage, a 1957 account of eight US senators throughout history who put principle above politics. Each year, the Kennedy Library Foundation picks a lawmaker who demonstrates the same willingness to, as a foundation official put it, take a stand for good in spite of political consequences.
Obama will be the third former president to receive the award. In 2001, Gerald R. Ford was honored for his 1974 decision, widely vilified at the time, to pardon Richard Nixon. In 2014, George H.W. Bush received the award for raising taxes, breaking with his own major campaign promise in order to address a deficit crisis.
Unlike past honorees, Obama will not receive the award for any one decision. To mark the centennial of Kennedy's birth, the committee wanted to "do something different this year if we could," Hunt said. "We thought, 'OK, this is different.'"
After a "lengthy discussion," said Hunt, the committee was in "total agreement."
Obama will deliver a speech at the special centennial event, a ceremony on May 7 at Boston's John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Former ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and her son, Jack Schlossberg, will present the award.
The former president has kept a low profile since leaving office in January, very rarely weighing in on political developments. He is expected, however, to become a key player in a new redistricting effort led by his friend and former attorney general, Eric Holder. The National Democratic Redistricting Committee, or NDRC, will work to reverse the Democratic Party's historic state and local electoral deficits and help regain an advantage over Republicans when it comes to district-drawing.
Obama, Holder told reporters this week, is "ready to roll."
After attending Donald Trump's inauguration, the newly retired president took an extended vacation in Palm Springs, Calif., and on the private British Virgin Islands estate of billionaire Richard Branson. He was seen last week with daughter Malia and adviser Valerie Jarrett at a Broadway showing of Arthur Miller’s The Price, and this week signed a lucrative deal for a forthcoming book.
The May 7 appearance in Boston offers Democrats a prominent opportunity to hear from their former president just more than 100 days into what has so far been a tumultuous Trump administration and a challenging time for the opposition party.
The decision to honor Obama, said Hunt, "had nothing to do with Trump’s election."
In a statement, Schlossberg outlined the ways in which Obama personifies the opening lines of Profiles in Courage: "This is a book about that most admirable of human virtues — courage. 'Grace under pressure,' Ernest Hemingway defined it."
During his two terms as the first black president, Schlossberg said, Obama "represented all Americans with decency, integrity, and an unshakeable commitment to the greater good” amid "unrelenting political opposition."
The committee received submissions for this year's award nominee from a record 30,000 people — up 5,000 from the year before, a foundation official said.
In a statement provided by the Kennedy Library Foundation, Obama said he is "deeply humbled" to receive the Profile in Courage Award. The late Kennedy, he said, "asked us to cast aside our narrow self-interest and take up the chase of a greater ambition: our collective capacity to do big things, especially when it’s hard."
"Amidst the noisy and too often trivial pursuits of the politics of our time," Obama added, "it’s a summons to service that rings as loudly as ever."
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an urban ruffian; lower-class town or city dweller, esp Glaswegian
[keel-lis] /ˈkil lɪs/ adjective 1. having no , as a ship.
[keel-hawl] /ˈkilˌhɔl/ verb (used with object) 1. Nautical. to haul (an offender) under the bottom of a ship and up on the other side as a punishment. 2. to rebuke severely. /ˈkiːlˌhɔːl/ verb (transitive) 1. to drag (a person) by a rope from one side of a vessel to the other through the water under […]
[kel-suh n, keel-] /ˈkɛl sən, ˈkil-/ noun, Nautical. 1. any of various fore-and-aft structural members lying above or parallel to the keel in the bottom of a hull. /ˈkɛlsən; ˈkiːl-/ noun 1. a longitudinal beam fastened to the keel of a vessel for strength and stiffness n. also kelson, 1620s, altered (by influence of keel […]
[kee-loo ng] /ˈkiˈlʊŋ/ noun, Older Spelling. 1. . /ˈkiːˈlʊŋ/ noun 1. another name for Chilung
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Total quality management strategies for small and medium industries in Malaysia : a critical systems approach
A great amount of effort has been given to the development of Malaysian Small and Medium Industries (SMIs) in the last 25 years. 13 Ministries and more than 30 agencies have been involved in these efforts. A large amount of money and other resources were also allocated for their development. These initiatives were clearly shown in all the 7 Malaysia Plans. However, the success of these efforts has been negligible. With 25 years remaining in which to achieve Vision 2020, the question is, are we going to make no more progress than in the past 25 years? Sustained economic growth is the key to obtaining the objectives of the Malaysian Vision 2020 which requires an average 7 percent growth per year for the next 25 years. This growth target is to be met, largely, from the manufacturing and services sector according to the time frame of the Second Outline Prospective Plan (OPP2), which emphasized the supportive and complementaiy role played by SMIs in contributing towards a more dynamic and competitive industrial sector.Many believed and still hope that SMIs will assume a pivotal role in Malaysian's industralisation process towards the year 2020. Their role as suppliers of parts and components to the big industries for the production of final products is crucial in the process of widening and deepening industry.As quality and productivity among SMIs develop as a result of the application of quality initiatives and the undertaking of quality programmes, including Total Quality Management (TQM), and their production capacity increases to supply the requirements of the local industries, their excess capacity can be utilised to produce parts and components for the export market. This will not only replace the dependency of local industries on imported parts and components, but will also reduce the outflow of foreign exchange.The Government has promised to devise appropriate assistance schemes and will seek to raise the level of management expertise, technological know-how and skills of the employees in this very important and, in many ways, neglected sector of the economy. SMIs will be one of the primary foundations for Malaysia's future industrial thrust. The Government is fully committed to their healthiest development. Now, it is up to SMIs to take up the challenge.This study focuses on the evaluation of TQM Strategies for SMIs in Malaysia. Data acquired from a survey in Selangor and Federal Territory, Kuala Lumpur and the Prime Minister's Quality Award are used to establish the background of the quality models and initiatives undertaken by Malaysian SMIs and the quality standards requirements for Malaysian companies, their attributes and the interrelationship between various quality programmes practiced by the industries. Besides, the interdependency of the SMIs, the Development Agencies, Government Policies, the environment and related quality management approaches are identified. These findings can be useful for the development of an integrated quality system approach leading to social, quality and environmental balance.In addition, a structural organizational model for the SMIs is presented and the purpose of quality initiatives and the proper understanding of quality practices and its areas of concentration are discussed at length, in order to give a better guide to SMIs as to how to determine the selection of approaches to achieve the maximum results on their quality initiatives and programmes.Finally, information on various quality initiatives, quality training, quality programmes and the effect of government subsidies highlighted in the study, could be used to aid the formulation of a quality policy for Malaysian SMIs and achieve better management and procedures in this area.
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Department for Aging
The mission of the Department for Aging is to enable seniors (60+) to maintain an independent and self-directed lifestyle by providing the highest quality of supportive services to seniors, their families and caregivers.
To support a comprehensive system of services, we provide services directly and through contracted agencies and individuals. The programs and services include: information and assistance; congregate meals and home-delivered meals; nutrition counseling; adult day care and in-home health services; caregiver support programs; transportation; legal services; health insurance counseling; health and wellness programs; employment training; and volunteer opportunities. For more information, contact the Albany County NY Connects line at (518) 447-7177.
The Aging Network
The Albany County Department for Aging is one of 59 Area Agencies on Aging in New York State and part of the national aging network which supports and implements comprehensive in-home and community services. Our programs and services are made possible through funding from Albany County, New York State Office for the Aging, Administration on Aging, participant contributions and volunteers who generously donate their time.
We are committed to working to increase access to a comprehensive and coordinated system of services for seniors (especially for those with the greatest social and economic needs). Click here to view our 2017 Services Plan.
We welcome your questions, input and suggestions. Contact us by phone at (518) 447-7198 or by email: email@example.com; or write us at: Albany County Department for Aging, 162 Washington Ave., 6th Floor, Albany, NY 12210.
Be a Planner, Not a Gambler! The Elder Preparedness Self-Assessment Tool
The Elder Preparedness Self-Assessment Tool (TEPSAT) is an on-line, interactive, performance-based tool that will help you measure how prepared you are for the elder years. The higher your score, the higher your level of preparedness. As you "take the test," TEPSAT directs you to valuable tools and resources that will help you further prepare for decision-making in those later years. Learn More
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The Capital Region Caregiver Coalition (CRCC)
The Capital Region Caregiver Coalition is an informal group of professionals dedicated to educating caregivers about the resources available to them in New York's Capital Region. See their website for upcoming events and current newsletter
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Situation in Numbers
3,200,000 children in need of humanitarian assistance (OCHA, 2020 HRP, July 2020)*
*Will be updated with 2021 HRP
196,386 COVID-19 laboratory confirmed cases and 2,117 deaths (WHO, 30 April 2021)
1,300,000** Children and adolescents enrolled with access limitations to learning continuity due to COVID-19 (Education Cluster 2020)
**Estimates for pre-school, primary and secondary, public, and private schools.
On 10 April, the Venezuela Government made effective more than 50 per cent of the first down payment to the COVAX facility. In addition, the country shifted from a committed to an optional vaccine purchasing modality.
During April, 5,504 pregnant women, including some 1,696 pregnant adolescents, were treated during their first prenatal consultation, while 10,874 women, including 1,244 adolescents, and their new-borns (5,616 boys and 5,258 girls) received care in UNICEF-supported delivery rooms and obstetrics services across 128 health centres, including outpatient health care centers, comprehensive diagnostic centres, and hospitals.
Preventive and curative nutritional services were provided nationwide to 9,949 children under five (4,734 girls and 5,215 boys), including 124 indigenous children and 29 children with disabilities.
In Zulia state, rehabilitation works of Zanzibar water treatment plant and Puerto Cuervito water pumping station, located in the indigenous municipality of Guajira (border with Colombia) were completed, providing access to safe water for the first time after 10 years out of service, to 15,000 persons (10,277 adults, 2,375 girls, and 2,349 boys).
UNICEF distributed learning kits to 127 schools, benefiting 29,321 students (14,241 girls and 15,080 boys), including 335 children from indigenous populations and 83 children with disabilities.
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Antique Mughal Northern Indian Islamic Brass Ewer Aftaba 18th Century India
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Mexican Hand Painted Wood Concho Belt
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The serious impacts of climate change and the depletion of fossil fuels have increased the need for environmentally-friendly energy sources. One potential energy source that has come into prominence recently is geothermal energy. This will be examined at Informa’s 4th annual Hot Rock Energy Conference to be held on the 4-5 June at the Grand Hyatt Melbourne.
Geothermal technology involves producing power from underground heat beneath the Earth’s surface. With recent research by scientists showing an abundance of hot dry rock in Australia, it is hoped it will supply five per cent of the country’s energy requirements by 2020.
David Taylor, who will be presenting at the conference, is a geologist at Victoria Department of Primary Industries and says the advantage of geothermal technology is its reliability and ability to provide base load electricity with very little greenhouse gas emissions.
“As fossil fuels become depleted and more expensive, then the scope for geothermal energy to provide base load power will increase,” he says. “The massive scale of planet Earth basically means there is almost unlimited geothermal energy available for harvesting.”
The cost of geothermal technology is difficult to forecast because many renewable energy sources are still maturing.
However, Mr. Taylor says technological advances would reduce costs and the risks of exploiting geothermal resources and this would encourage its uptake.
“The ability to locally generate power from geothermal resources is another attractive factor beyond economics,” he says. “This local sourcing means that States and Nations can achieve energy security, rather than relying on a import supply chain that could be at risk of disruption or wild price gyrations “
In his presentation, he will be focusing on two main areas concerning geothermal exploration and research in Victoria.
“First, a regional summary of the various geothermal provinces, their geological characteristics and what this means for their geothermal potential. Second, a brief summary of the exploration activity and likely production pathways that are currently being undertaken by the various exploration companies that hold permits in Victoria.”
The Hot Rock conference will also cover the latest technological changes that are driving geothermal energy and inform attendees on how they can take advantage of the commercial opportunities.
Other speakers will include Joe Reichman, Managing Director of Clean Energy Australasia Pty Ltd; Mark Miller, Managing Director of Greenearth Energy Lt; Mark Schneider, Specialised Funds and Investments, Investec Bank; Dr Paul McShane, Chief Research Officer of Monash Sustainability Institute; and Stephen Biggins, Managing Director of Southern Gold Limited.
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Gewerbliches Sozialversicherungsgesetz, GSVG#
Gewerbliches Sozialversicherungsgesetz (Social Insurance Act for Self-Employed Persons in Trade and Industry), enacted in 1957, governs the health and pension insurance of self-employed persons in industry and trade. Compulsory insurance for all members of the economic chambers, partners in general commercial and profit partnerships as well as partners/managers of limited-liability companies to the extent that they are not covered by the General Social Insurance Act. In addition, the Act also governs pension insurance for public accountants, dentists, full-time free-lance journalists, artists and veterinarians. The managing institution is the Social Insurance Institution for Industry and Trade (Sozialversicherungsanstalt der gewerblichen Wirtschaft), with headquarters in Vienna.
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Helping people with computers... one answer at a time.
Wireless routers contain both a router and a wireless access point. I'll review your options if you're not planning on using the wireless component.
I followed your suggestion and purchased a router (Netgear 3400 N600), even though I only have one computer. See? Some people actually take your advice. My question is, not having any wireless equipment to use with this router, should I deactivate the wireless radio options or just leave it running? Also, is there any other feature that I should shut down that one computer doesn't use? The manual for this unit just makes me realize how ignorant I am about computer science. I will take your word that I am now getting the benefit of a remote firewall for my system.
Good on you for taking the steps to make your computer more secure. A router as a firewall is usually the first one I list.
That you happened to get a router than included a wireless access point is probably common, and that's what leads to your question. There are actually three ways to proceed ... although to be honest, you've already progressed beyond one alternative.
It's not really a problem, though.
Because your router includes a wireless access point, it's important that it be secure. Most access points come pre-configured to be open and unsecured. Just like the coffee shop down the street that offers free WiFi, anyone with a wireless laptop or other device can connect to your router if they're within range.
That's incredibly easy to fix. Simply go into your router's configuration and change the WiFi mode to be WPA2 (or WPA). A quick look at the setup manual for your router took me to this quote from Netgear:
The wireless Security Options are set to None by default. NETGEAR strongly recommends that you use wireless security. You can select a different Security Option and a different passphrase for each wireless network. For the highest performance of the 2.4GHz wireless network and the most secure encryption, NETGEAR recommends that you use WPA2-PSK as your security option.
I agree. The setup manual will show you how to get access to the configuration options and walk you through the settings. Be sure to select a passphrase that is both secure and something that you'll remember. Someday, you might find yourself with a wireless device, and you'll be all ready to go.
Turning off the wireless is often another option. I couldn't quickly find it in the manual for your device, so I'm not 100% certain that it can be turned off.
The process to do so is similar to setting up wireless security - connect to your router's configuration interface and locate the settings for the wireless access point. There may be an option to enable/disable or turn on/off the access point entirely.
If not, then I recommend sticking with the first option and simply setting a wireless password.
Heck, I recommend that anyway, because with the way that the industry is going, it's likely that you'll end up with a wireless device at some point in the future. That way, you'll be ready.
This is the step that you've already passed by, but I want to mention it for completeness.
Routers and wireless access points are actually two separate things. There are most definitely routers available that don't have any wireless capability at all; they simply act as routers on completely wired networks.
With wireless devices becoming so common (my television set connects to my network wirelessly!), router manufacturers simply combined the functions of a router and a wireless access point into a single box, the wireless router.
You don't necessarily need to have a combined device. Separate routers and access points work great. For various reasons, that's exactly what I have here at Ask Leo! world headquarters.
Wireless access points can be added to your wired network as you need them. Once again, they are then separate devices that connect via a network cable to your router and provide wireless access to the network.
That way, if you don't have a need for wireless capability, you don't need to even have the hardware.
All of that being said, if you're ever in doubt about what to purchase - it's safe to get a combined device, a wireless router, as long as you take steps to secure the wireless network.
Wired or wireless? There are definitely additional steps to securing your router. How do I secure my router? lists the steps.
Follow those steps and you'll be much more secure whether you use the wireless or not or whether you leave wireless enabled or not.
Comments on this entry are closed.
If you have a question, start by using the search box up at the top of the page - there's a very good chance that your question has already been answered on Ask Leo!.
If you don't find your answer, head out to http://askleo.com/ask to ask your question.
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(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) 5Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;
2 Corinthians 10:4-5
In the day of God’s almighty power, through the preaching of the Gospel, God pulls down the strong holds of our natural religious thoughts (Prov. 16:25). By God-given faith and repentance, those born of the Spirit turn to the Lord as their one strong hold (Nahum 1:7), in repentance turning away from their former imagined strong hold which stood in opposition to the “knowledge of God” as He is. No one knowingly believes in a lie – an “imagined” stronghold or false refuge. But 2 Corinthians 10:5 is instructive in helping to identify imaginations that would stand against or opposed to the knowledge of God as He is revealed in the face, the Person and work, of the Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor. 4:6).
That last phrase, “…and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” is quite telling. The sense here is that any imagined way of salvation that would stand opposed to the knowledge of God would be manifested by our thoughts on this subject – mistaken thoughts that salvation is (at least in some way or to some degree) based upon something other than (or in addition to) the “obedience of Christ.” Notice that “every thought” is brought into submission or captivity to Christ’s obedience – His obedience as a Substitute for all those He came to save – as the scripture describes it, His obedience “even unto the death of the cross” (Phil. 2:8). Christ perfectly satisfied God’s holy justice by rendering (as a Substitute for His people) a perfect righteousness whereby God manifests or reveals who He is – how He can be both a just God and a Savior (Isa. 45:21).
Has your every thought as it concerns the basis of your acceptance before God (as in this context pertaining to the strong hold of your salvation) – have they been brought into subjection or captivity to the obedience of Christ alone – His finished work of righteousness? If you presume to be saved based upon anything other than the merits of Christ and His righteousness, His work of obedience unto death on your behalf, then know that would identify your strong hold to be imaginary – an imagined (not real) way of salvation that must be pulled down. Praise God that by the blood-bought gift of faith, the thoughts of all who are eternally blessed in Christ are at some point brought captive to His obedience!
--- Randy Wages
THE PURPOSE, PERSON AND WORK OF CHRIST
"Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world" (1 John 4:2-3). With so many voices being heard in the religious world, how can one determine who speaks for God and who does not? Here is the issue: what does a man say about the purpose, person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ? Be assured of this: every true preacher of the gospel will set forth the everlasting counsel of the Lord that gave birth to the salvation of chosen sinners by the sacrifice of the eternal Son enabling God to be "a just God and a Savior" (Isaiah 45:21). He will proclaim the deity and humanity of Jesus of Nazareth declaring that One born of a virgin to be "Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us" (Matthew 1:23). He is the Son of God and the Son of Man, "God manifest in the flesh"
(1 Timothy 3:16). The Lord’s servants will uncompromisingly assert His absolute sovereignty, eternal suretyship, successful sacrifice, perfect righteousness, intercessory work, quickening grace, preserving power and glorious second coming. Every false preacher will either oppose or in some way diminish the Savior’s everlasting purpose of salvation, His marvelous identity or His effectual work of redemption. Those who declare a salvation that is ultimately dependent upon or conditioned upon the sinner, do not set forth the Christ of the Scriptures. Our Savior is the triumphant Redeemer of Whom it was written, "He shall not fail" (Isaiah 42:4). Failure is an impossibility with God and our Redeemer is "the mighty God" (Isaiah 9:6). His name is Jesus. What does that glorious name mean? It means just this - "He shall save His people from their sins" (Matthew 1:21).
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Without a little stress in your life, you might not go to work to pay the bills. You might choose watching Modern Family over encouraging your son to study for his algebra test. Or you might not be quick enough to steer out of the path of a lane-drifting semi on a dark road. The stress response is the body’s way of preparing us, quickly, for a threat.
Acute stress keeps us sharp, motivated and safe. Chronic stress, however, is detrimental to good health. Doctors have long known that constant mental stress can trigger anxiety disorders and clinical depression.
Here are some ways you can reduce chronic stress in your day-to-day routine.
Stress Trigger: There is too much on your plate, and you are feeling overwhelmed.
Stress Buster: Prioritize. “Make a list of the things that are important in your life and note the things that bring you happiness,” suggests William Pollack, Ph.D., associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and author of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. “Shuffle your commitments based on your answers.”
Stress Trigger: You’re feeling tired and unmotivated but need to appear upbeat for a meeting or public event.
Stress Buster: Cue up Bruce Springsteen. Research shows that listening to your favorite music can lift your mood and ease stress.
Stress Trigger: You’re stuck in traffic, and an aggressive driver cuts you off.
Stress Buster: Relax your jaw. Stress increases as your control over a situation decreases. If you’re behind a slow driver or stuck in a traffic jam, avoid tensing your muscles — especially clenching your teeth. Practice deep breathing and loosen your grip on the steering wheel.
Stress Trigger: Your flight was delayed … again.
Stress Buster: Since you can’t fix this problem, be ready with a backup plan. Put the forced “free time” to good use by catching up on work. Or, better yet, use the time for self-improvement. You can find hundreds of enlightening college lectures or instructional videos on iTunes, YouTube or lynda.com. (Or what
about finally completing that Scout leader training you’ve been putting
off at my.scouting.org?)
Stress Trigger: Your Scout is overscheduled and hasn’t picked an Eagle service project yet, and homework and grades are suffering, which makes him (and you) stressed.
Stress Buster: Prioritize what’s important — and that includes family time, according to the National PTA. Ask your child to write down all his or her assignments and activities, and rank them by importance. Help him or her select one or two less-crucial items on the list to temporarily eliminate. This gives your child a sense of control, which will ease feelings of stress and tension.
Stress Trigger: You can’t sleep because you’re thinking about the next day’s tasks and deadlines.
Stress Buster: A cuppa tea. Chamomile tea has been the go-to calming beverage before bed, but there’s actually very little scientific evidence proving it enhances sleep. If it’s not working for you, try valerian and lemon balm teas, both of which have been shown to be effective in European studies. Lemon balm and valerian root have long been used as mild sedatives.
(Don’t forget: You should always check with your doctor before trying herbal supplements, which might interact with prescription medications.)
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Chapter XXXIII.—Monks of Syria and Persia: Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbo, Lazarus, Abdaleus, Zeno, Heliodorus, Eusebius of Carræ, Protogenes, and Aones.
Let us pass thence to Syria and Persia, 1501 the parts adjacent to Syria. We shall find that the monks of these countries emulated those of Egypt in the practice of philosophy. Battheus, Eusebius, Barges, Halas, Abbos, Lazarus, who attained the episcopal dignity, Abdaleus, Zeno, and Heliodorus, flourished in Nisibis, near the mountain called Sigoron. When they first entered upon the philosophic career, they were denominated shepherds, because they had no houses, ate neither bread nor meat, and drank no wine; but dwelt constantly on the mountains, and passed their time in praising God by prayers and hymns, according to the law of the Church. At the usual hours of meals, they each took a sickle, and went to the mountain to cut some grass on the mountains, as though they were flocks in pasture; and this served for their repast. Such was their course of philosophy. Eusebius voluntarily shut himself up in a cell to philosophize, near Carræ. 1502 Protogenes dwelt in the same locality, and ruled the church there after Vitus who was then bishop. This is the celebrated Vitus of whom they say that when the Emperor Constantine first saw him, he confessed that God had frequently shown this man in appearances to him and enjoined him to obey implicitly what he should say. Aones had a monastery in Phadana; this was the spot where Jacob, the grandson of Abraham, on his journey from Palestine, met the damsel whom he afterwards married, and where he rolled away the stone, that her flock might drink of the water of the well. It is said that Aones was the first who introduced the life apart from all men, and the severe philosophy into Syria, just as it was first introduced by Antony into Egypt.
Again, presumably, from Syrian biographies. Theodoret, H. E. iv. 28, has but one identical name; and the same is true of his Historia Religiosa. Battheus, Halas, and Heliodorus are repeated in the following chapter.370:1502
Cf. Basil, Ep. cclv.
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ABC is reporting that Susan Rice, a former member of President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council and a former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, is about to be named US Ambassador to the United Nations in the Obama Administration. Why is this of note? Rice is extremely close to Obama, and has been for years. Mark Goldberg, of UN Dispatch, is jazzed about what that means for the future of US-UN relations:
This is great news. The fact that President-elect Obama is entrusting US diplomacy at the United Nations to such a close adviser is a sure sign of the high priority to which the new administration will place US-UN relations. Deeper still, her background as a regional Africa expert will come in handy. About 2/3rds of all discussions at the Security Council are about situations in Africa.
More broadly, Rice is known in foreign policy circles as an innovative, forward thinking foreign policy wonk who pays special attention to the connectivity of today’s threats and challenges. As a diplomat, I expect her to be fairly sharp-elbowed, which is not a bad quality for Turtle Bay!
I suspect this is a sign that Obama will be involved in (or his administration will be a full partner in) worldwide efforts to bring stability to places like Darfur and Somalia. That’s great news. And just take a moment to consider the difference between the Obama Administration and the Bush one. Bush named to this same post John Bolton, a man who believes force is always the right option and is so hostile toward the United Nations that he once said wiping out 10 floors of UN headquarters wouldn’t make a “bit of difference.” And now we have someone who has spent years studying how to engage in the world in order to reduce conflict. The democratic transfer of power is a remarkable thing.
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Economic problems lead to more gardeners
Posted April 11, 2009 5:41 p.m. EDT
Updated April 11, 2009 11:51 p.m. EDT
Raleigh, N.C. — The struggling economy, coupled with high energy and food prices, is pushing many people to grow their own food, instead of buying it.
At Logan's Trading Company, at 707 Semart Drive in Raleigh, seed sales are up 300 to 400 percent.
“The hot item is anything you can eat,” said Joshua Logan, of Logan’s Trading Company.
Logan said the business has seen a 900 to 1,000 percent increase in sales for everything from soil to supplies.
“We’ve actually got a waiting list,” he said.
The National Gardening Association estimates a $500 return per year on a vegetable garden.
Gardener Ray Hinnant uses his garden to save money on tomatoes and other items.
“It’s usually very easy. All you gotta do is get some good soil and plant the plant,” Hinnant said. “The plant will do the rest.”
The trend has even made it to the White House. First Lady Michelle Obama planted her own vegetable garden with the help of some young students.
A lot of garden centers offer "how to" classes for beginners.
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After looking at the biggest 20 stocks in the US market, there are some that will continue to dominate and others that may lose their place in years to come, observes Roger Conrad of Personal Finance.
You know them. Chances are you buy their products. And if you own a stock mutual fund or exchange traded fund, odds are overwhelming they're in your portfolio, whether you know it or not.
They're America's biggest companies by market value. Reaching that rarified air means each one of them is a phenomenal business success story as well.
All have rewarded their shareholders with massive returns in the past. The question now is whether they'll continue to grow and add value for their shareholders.
Corporate history is littered with the bones of former colossi that, like ancient Rome, were eventually overrun. Only one member of the original Dow Jones Industrial Average is still a company today. More than half the current 30 companies were added in the 1990s or later.
There's little doubt some of today's top 20 will lose their lofty perches. Others will stay dominant for decades to come, and as such will reliably keep building wealth for investors. Here's our view of which companies will wax and wane in the years ahead.
Each of these companies owes no small measure of success to being able to make bigness work for them. Conversely, size stopped being an advantage for companies that have fallen from the top ranks over the years.
Some giants fall from grace due to management miscalculation. Despite operating one of the world's most dynamic engineering franchises, for example, General Electric (GE) was nearly dragged into bankruptcy in 2008 by its GE Capital division, the brainchild of once-lauded former CEO Jack Welch.
Technological change is another great equalizer. The US Big Three auto companies circa the 1980s still dominated global sales. But size lost its advantage when consumers demanded more efficient cars, allowing Toyota (TM) to storm the American market and reap the spoils. Today, Toyota's $148 billion market capitalization is nearly twice that of General Motors (GM) and Ford Motor (F) combined, but ironically it's the latter two that are gathering market share.
Not surprisingly, the five companies on the list from the Information Technology sector are at greatest risk to disruptive technologies. IBM (IBM) is a rare case of a tech sector leader that's been able to bridge generations to stay ahead with its products and services. The others have yet to be so tested, but continue to grow sales and markets.
Conversely, Chevron (CVX) and ExxonMobil (XOM) are least at risk to technological change. Their dominance stems from holding vast reserves of oil-still the most important commodity in the modern world-backed by financial power that bests that of most countries.
The rest of the companies on the list are somewhere between utility-like revenue security and tech-like volatility. AT&T (T) and Income pick Verizon Communications (VZ), for example, face a host of competitors in the US wireless and broadband communications industry, as well as sometimes hostile federal regulators. But their ability to spend $20 billion-plus a year on networks continues to widen their advantage.
As they become bigger in size, pharmaceutical companies such as Growth pick Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Merck (MRK), and Pfizer (PFE) launch more treatments to build revenue streams. But they also face fierce global competition when their patents expire and regulatory threats from cost containment.
For Wells Fargo (WFC) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM), staying healthy during the financial crisis of 2008 moved them miles past the competition. The same is true for Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) in the insurance business. The debacle of 2008 also proved, however, that the biggest financials always fall hardest.
There's certainly nothing essential about what Coca-Cola (KO), Growth pick Philip Morris International (PM), and Proctor & Gamble (PG) sell. Rather, they depend on advertising to sell their American brand names to ever-changing generations of global consumers.
Buys and Sells
So which of these companies will stay on the Top 20 list? My best guess is most will for years. That includes GE, which appears to have rediscovered its roots just when the world needs engineering solutions more than ever.
The real question is whether they're the best place for your money now. The answer is some are, while others aren't.
Definitely on the buy list are Income picks Chevron and Verizon, as well as Growth recommendations Johnson & Johnson and Philip Morris. The quartet dominates markets and increased dividends a collective 10.6% over the past 12 months.
The highest-yielding stock on the list, AT&T is a buy as America's other dominant telecom. And ExxonMobil's global franchise makes it a buy as well.
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The Full Guide to Turmeric Supplements and How They Can Improve Your Wellness.
What is Turmeric?
Turmeric extract is a flavor made use of in many Indian and also Eastern recipes to add a refined taste, yellow shade, and earthy fragrance. It additionally has antioxidant properties that can assist safeguard the body’s cells from unsafe totally free radicals. Turmeric supplements are commonly considered their health advantages however may have some undesirable side effects.
What are turmeric supplements?
Turmeric Supplement Makes Use Of and Profits
Some researches recommend that turmeric extract may also assist with weight-loss, however extra research study is needed to confirm this claim.
Turmeric has actually been shown to have advantages for weight-loss, swelling, and also a number of various other problems. One of the most notable advantages of turmeric extract is its ability to reduce joint pain in individuals with joint inflammation. It likewise helps to lower swelling in those with injuries or post-surgery.
This section will certainly check out the various ways that turmeric can be eaten, along with its possible benefits for wellness and also wellness.
Medically Checked and Accepted
Turmeric can not only stop your discomfort rounds, however it is beneficial in numerous means, which have actually been shown federal government bodies around the world. It can additionally offer several other wellness benefits that can inhibit the problems leading to sharp pain. These problems may encompass heart disease and also osteoporosis.
Turmeric has accepted as one of the most vivid as well as reliable herbal remedies to a number of disorders which we create as a result of wrong lifestyle and consuming habits. The list of avoidable diseases is larger than the ones which you could have reviewed and also understood from numerous sources. The turmeric consists of solid antioxidants that safeguard your body from the free radicals.
Oxidation is entirely an all-natural as well as inevitable process, however it can be decreased, to a particular level. This is one of the ways nature maintains a track of points as well as keeps the cycle of life from new to old and after that back once again. Nonetheless, whereas this oxidation is an all-natural method of points, it can be decreased to reduce the process of early aging.
Anti-aging Active ingredient
Among the best ways to prevent early aging and also establishing disease is to incorporate the best quantity of antioxidants in your normal meal. It will certainly keep at bay the oxidation procedure, and also you may result in a healthy and balanced and also fruitful life.
This is just possible when you make sure that you take the best foods with adequate exercise and hrs of rest.
Turmeric-Best Multivitamin Supplement
Apart from above-mentioned ideas, you must likewise make certain to ingest a multivitamin supplement each day. This multivitamin supplement needs to have natural extracts, which will offer you right dosage of antioxidants needed to slow down oxidation process bring about aging as well as conditions.
Much to your surprise, there is a supplement which contains all types of herbal extractions which your body can promote to preserve the protection that it needs against cost-free radicals.
The most effective thing about this herb is that it is rich in numerous other nutrients. This new easily located natural herb can offer you with anti-inflammatory as well as anti-bacterial benefits also.
Exactly How Do You Pick The Most Effective Turmeric Supplement?
With so many various options on the market from numerous various manufacturers, just how do you select the most effective Turmeric Supplement?
Ever since the first turmeric supplement came onto the market, there has been a constant push on the part of supplement makers both large as well as little to make the most effective product feasible.
The most significant problem with a turmeric supplement to take into consideration is exactly how well it is taken in and used by the body.
This action is called bioavailability and determines just how valuable the cornerstone in turmeric extract, curcumin, is at doing what it’s intended to do within you. Specifically, reducing swelling, securing your nervous system as well as helping to prevent persistent, inflammatory and also autoimmune illness.
Usually, curcumin has a reduced bioavailability which suggests that most of what we ingest is pushed out of the digestive system with really little entering the blood stream. Nevertheless, studies recommend that the percentage that does continue to be in the bloodstream is still enough to set off cell death in cancer cells as well as “old” cells.
Among the ways that bioavailability is increased in a turmeric supplement is by integrating it with fat. Curcumin is not water soluble yet is fat soluble and coupling it with an excellent quality fat increases absorption in the tummy. Some good choices consist of fish oil, lecithin, dark delicious chocolate (85% or higher), flaxseed oil, almond butter (or any high quality nut butter other than peanut which is a highly inflammatory food) or coconut milk.
If you are out to stay healthy and also dynamic, there is no better multivitamin supplement than those consisting of turmeric extraction. If you integrate such multivitamin supplements in your life, there is absolutely nothing that would be required to supplement your various other dietary demands as turmeric itself is special and total in all sense. So, don’t neglect to incorporate turmeric extract in your normal dish and also appreciate the difference.
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A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides
Taylor & Francis, 29. sij 2018. - Broj stranica: 151
For the past twenty to thirty years, control theories of crime have been at the center of theoretical development in criminology. Key to the control theory perspective is the notion that crime is an inherently individual act, and its explanation requires that we focus on the characteristics of individuals who commit crimes. Consequently, control theory focuses on such issues as self-control and social control.The contributions to this volume explicate and extend the application of control theory. It is divided into three general areas. Part 1 focuses on key assumptions and components of control theories. Contributors discuss the notion of learning, or socialization, in the context of control theory and the effects that families, peers, and the criminal justice system have on self-control, social ties, and criminal behavior. Part 2 applies control theory to areas typically assumed to be out of the domain of self-control theory and social control theory, such as gender differences in crime, domestic violence, and group crime. Considering control theory's emphasis on explaining individual criminal acts, these chapters suggest an interesting area of development by highlighting the possibility that differences in crime across or within groups may begin with individual characteristics and then making inferences about groups and group processes.Part 3 approaches the explanation of crime cross-nationally and at the macro-level. Although the authors take different approaches, they all illustrate that a theory of crime does not require culture-specific elements in order to be a valid cross-cultural explanation. Contributors to this volume include: Robert Agnew, Todd Armstrong, Leana Allen Bouffard, Augustine Brannigan, Chester Britt, Barbara Costello, Maja Dekovic, Matt DeLisi, Michael Gottfredson, Henriette Haas, Kelly H. Hardwick, Travis Hirschi, Marianne Junger, Martin Killias, Helen Mederer, Kevin Thompson, and Alexander Vazsonyi.
Što ljudi govore - Napišite recenziju
Na uobičajenim mjestima nismo pronašli nikakve recenzije.
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Antihistamines are commonly used to alleviate the symptoms of allergies. If you’ve ever suffered from hay fever, you’ll know these drugs can be effective at reducing itchiness and sneezing. But antihistamines may also reduce PGD2 levels and inflammation – both of which are linked to hair loss. This has led some hair loss sufferers to try out antihistamines in an attempt to beat baldness. One antihistamine – cetirizine – is particularly popular online for this purpose. But does it really work for hair loss?
Dihydrotestosterone (DHT): it’s been blamed as the cause of hair loss ever since Dr. James Hamilton’s pioneering research in the 1940s. Yet despite Hamilton himself casting doubt on this theory, mainstream medicine has left this hypothesis mostly unchallenged. And while there is good evidence to support the link between DHT and hair loss, there are a number of problems with this explanation. So is DHT really the cause of hair loss? Or is it time for a new theory? Continue reading DHT and Hair Loss: Is It Really The Main Cause?
Have you ever noticed how bald men’s scalps often look shiny? How the skin appears harder and more tight compared to skin elsewhere on the body? It’s not a coincidence. In fact, these characteristics provide valuable insights into the causes of pattern hair loss. Most importantly, though, they could provide the key to reversing androgenetic alopecia and regrowing a full head of hair.
Like many medical discoveries, this one was made by accident. JAK inhibitors – a class of drugs used to treat conditions such as bone marrow cancer and rheumatoid arthritis – have been hailed as a miracle cure for hair loss. However, the truth is a little more complicated than headlines would suggest. Nevertheless, these drugs have great potential to help understand and even cure many forms of hair loss.
If you haven’t heard about it yet, CB0301 (brand name Breezula) is a topical anti-androgen that is being trialled for hair loss. It’s just finished phase 2 dose-ranging testing and shows promise. So does it work? When will it be available? Let’s take a look at this exciting future hair loss treatment.
Propecia, the 1mg finasteride pill approved by the FDA to treat hair loss, may be far stronger than necessary. Numerous studies have shown doses as low as 0.2mg reduce DHT by the same amount as the prescribed 1mg tablet. So is such a high dose necessary to prevent hair loss? Is there a lower risk of side effects when taking a lower dose? In this article we’ll take a look at what the optimal finasteride dose for hair loss prevention is.
As if going bald wasn’t bad enough! Research suggests pattern hair loss is more than just a cosmetic issue. Numerous studies have identified links between androgenetic alopecia and a range of diseases. Perhaps most worryingly, bald men are statistically more likely to suffer from heart disease. The good news is that identifying the common cause could prevent heart problems – and even stop hair loss.
It’s popularly touted as a natural hair loss treatment – but does it actually work? Rich in polyphenols, vitamins and minerals, olive oil is often recommended as both a topical therapy and a dietary addition to prevent hair loss. So what does the evidence say? Is olive oil good for hair loss?
We all know how healthy colorful fruit and vegetables are. And quercetin – the flavonol that gives many of these foods their color – is gaining recognition for its impressive list of health benefits. It’s too early to draw definite conclusions, but quercetin shows promise as a preventative treatment for certain types of cancer, heart disease, and may even promote DNA repair. Now, evidence suggests it reduces PGD2 levels – something that may make it an effective treatment for pattern hair loss too.
If it sounds too good to be true, it normally is! Onion juice is a popular home remedy for hair loss online. And there is also some research to suggest it may be effective for specific types of hair loss. But could curing hair loss really be this simple? Let’s take a look at the evidence.
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Ten-foot-tall prehistoric 'terror bird' had a fearsome bite
Andalgalornis, a prehistoric, flightless, carnivorous bird that lived in South America, subdued its prey using a repeated attack-and-retreat strategy, landing well-targeted, hatchet-like jabs with its massive beak.
Ancient giant predators known as "terror birds" may have fought like boxer Muhammad Ali, scientists now suggest.
Instead of wading into the fray like a feathered Joe Frazier, terror birds may have been more surgical with their strikes like Muhammad Ali.
Terror birds were giant flightless carnivores that may have stood up to 10 feet tall (3 meters) and were armed with massive, fearsome skulls. Scientifically known as phorusrhacids, some 18 known species of these predators evolved about 60 million years ago in South America, confined to what once was an island continent until the last few million years.
Feeding on a diversity of strange, now-extinct mammals and competing with the likes of saber-tooth cats and marsupials, terror birds became top predators wherever they roamed. At least one gigantic terror bird, Titanis, eventually invaded North America about two to three million years ago, but the animals disappeared from Earth shortly after.
Competition with new mammalian predators once the land bridge between North and South America opened up might have played a role in their extinction, but the number of terror bird species "was few and decreasing before these mammals came to this continent," said researcher Federico Degrange, a paleontologist at the Museo de La Plata/CONICET in Argentina. The competition terror birds faced from new mammals might have been the final blow, "but certainly wasn't the cause that started their gradual extinction," he added.
Biology of terror birds
Since these now-extinct giants have no close analogs among modern-day birds, their life habits have been shrouded in mystery. Now, a multinational team of scientists has performed the most sophisticated study to date to reconstruct how terror birds killed, using X-ray scans and advanced engineering methods.
"We need to figure out the ecological role that these amazing birds played if we really want to understand how the unusual ecosystems of South America evolved over the past 60 million years," Degrange said.
"We're trying to understand the history of life on our planet, and understanding the biology of terror birds and how they might have interacted with animals in North America when the land bridge opened up between it and South America could help [us] understand how they shaped the predators we have today," added researcher Lawrence Witmer, an anatomist at the Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Midweight terror bird
The scientists investigated a terror bird called Andalgalornis, which lived in northwestern Argentina about 6 million years ago. It was a mid-sized terror bird, standing about 4.5 feet tall (1.4 meters) and weighing some 90 pounds (40 kg). Like all terror birds, its skull was enormous relative to its body (spanning 14.5 inches, or 37 centimeters, in length), with a deep narrow bill armed with a powerful, hawk-like hook.
Witmer ran a complete skull of Andalgalornis through an X-ray CT scanner, giving the team a glimpse into the inner architecture of the skull. The scans revealed that Andalgalornis was unlike other birds, because it had evolved a highly rigid skull.
"Birds generally have skulls with lots of mobility between the bones, which allows them to have light but strong skulls," Witmer said. "We found that Andalgalornis had turned these mobile joints into rigid beams. This guy had a strong skull, particularly in the fore-aft [front-to-back] direction, despite having a curiously hollow beak."
From these X-rays, biomechanist and paleontologist Stephen Wroe at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, assembled sophisticated 3-D engineering models of the terror bird. They also developed models of two living species for comparison — an eagle, as well as the terror bird's closest living relative, a South American bird known as the seriema.
Computer simulations using these models compared their mechanics as the virtual birds bit straight down, as in a killing bite; pulled back with their necks, as in dismembering prey; and shook their skulls from side to side, as one does when thrashing smaller animals or dealing with larger struggling prey.
When they looked at how such behaviors stressed the skulls of these birds, "relative to the other birds considered in the study, the terror bird was well-adapted to drive the beak in and pull back with that wickedly re-curved tip of the beak," Wroe said. "But when shaking its head from side to side, its skull lights up like a Christmas tree. It really does not handle that kind of stress well at all."
Terror bird bite
To see how strong the terror bird's bite might have been, the researchers worked with zookeepers at the La Plata Zoo to get a seriema and an eagle to chomp down on their bite meter.
"Combining all this information, we discovered that the bite force of Andalgalornis was a little lower than we expected and weaker than the bite of many carnivorous mammals of about the same size," Degrange said. "Andalgalornis may have compensated for this weaker bite by using its powerful neck muscles to drive its strong skull into prey like an axe."
Altogether, these findings suggest Andalgalornis was no slugger like feathered Joe Frazier. Its skull, though strong vertically, was too weak from side to side, and the hollow beak was in danger of catastrophic fracture if the bird grappled too vigorously with large struggling prey.
Instead, the researchers found that if Andalgalornis tackled large prey, it needed an elegant style more like Muhammad Ali, using a repeated attack-and-retreat strategy, landing well-targeted, hatchet-like jabs. Once killed, the prey would have been ripped into bite-sized morsels by the powerful neck pulling the head straight back or, if possible, swallowed whole.
"Our team is just beginning our studies of terror birds," Witmer told LiveScience. "We're also looking at what is going on inside the skull, to get insights into their brains and sensory systems. One thing we're finding is that their brain structure suggests they had all the tools to be active pursuit predators. Sometimes others have thought they might have been scavengers, like giant vultures, but what we're seeing suggests they could have been fairly adept and agile."
The scientists detailed their findings online Aug. 18 in the journal PLoS ONE.
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Israel Capable of Producing 250 Billion Barrels of Oil (INN) ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS) By Ben Bresky 03/20/12)
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Dr. Harold Vinegar of Israel Energy Initiative Ltd. in Jerusalem is
optimistic about Israel´s potential in the oil industry. He spoke to
Israel National Radio´s Goldstein on Gelt show with Douglas Goldstein
about energy independence and the "black gold" that is underfoot.
Dr. Vinegar was the chief scientist of Royal Dutch Shell until his
retirement in 2008. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and recently
made aliyah. Now, he is the chief scientist of Israel Energy
Initiative Ltd. in Jerusalem, which is developing Israelís
unconventional oil reserves.
Douglas Goldstein: What are unconventional oil reserves?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Conventional oil is what everyone imagines. You
drill a well and oil comes out of the well under the natural forces
in the ground and you basically have an oil and gas well, but thereís
a whole other class of oil called ďunconventional oil.Ē This means
that when you drill those wells, the oil will require some special
treatment in the sub surface in order to get it to move.
There are two classes of unconventional oils. One is the heavy oils
in tar sands such as you find in Canada. These are extremely viscous
molasses-like oils that need heating in the sub surface in order to
get them to move, and the other class is the oil shales of the world,
and these have the organic matter that makes up the carriage. Itís
solid and it requires heating to a high enough temperature so that
the solid basically becomes a liquid in the sub surface and then gets
produced as conventional oil once itís been heated. Those are the
unconventional sources of oil.
Israel has oil shale. It doesnít have much heavy oil, but its oil
shale resources are world class, one of the largest and best in the
Douglas Goldstein: Why are we only finding out about this now? Whatís
the history of oil in Israel?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: The oil shales were basically not developed in
Israel for two reasons. The first is that basically for as long as I
can remember the real price of oil was $130 per barrel, going way
back in my career. Itís always been roughly $20 to $25 per barrel in
inflation-adjusted terms. Thatís just not high enough for the capital
cost required to produce unconventionals. You need something of the
order of $30 per barrel and starting around 2003, the price of oil on
the marketplace started rising and itís been going up continuously
since then and probably will continue to go up. Right now, we see
Brent Crude at about $120 per barrel. The time has come that
unconventionals are actually economic to develop and this plays in
Israelís favor because it has enormous quantities of this oil shale.
Douglas Goldstein: When you say enormous, what are the specs of that?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Our company has mapped over 250 billion barrels
of recoverable oil in Israel and thatís a conservative estimate. To
put that in perspective, Saudi Arabia has about 250 billion barrels
of conventional oil reserves in the ground.
What has happened with time is conventional oil has gotten more
expensive and unconventional oil has gotten less expensive because
thereís a small amount of conventional oil left in the world. Its
price is driven by scarcity and as it becomes scarcer, the price goes
up. Whereas unconventionals have enormous reserves, they swamp the
amount of conventionals. Orders have more magnitude but their cost is
driven by technology and if technology improves, the unconventional
gets cheaper. Starting a few years ago, theyíve crossed over. The two
supply curves have crossed so that marginally the conventional oil
that the companies are going after in the Arctic, deep offshore, are
actually more expensive than the development of the unconventional,
such as the tar sands in Canada and the oil shales in Israel. Itís a
flip. Things have changed.
Douglas Goldstein: One of the big complaints that people have about
oil shale is that the technology to get it out of the ground can have
some bad environmental effects. Is this true or are there ways of
dealing with that?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Itís true that oil shale has to be heated in the
subsurface in order to convert it to oil and gas. One has to be
careful in terms of the technology thatís deployed and the local
geology to be sure that there are not any negative environmental
effects. Israel is blessed by having a geological and hydrogeological
situation where the aquifers are far below the oil shale and
separated from it by 200 meters of impermeable rock, so that there
will not be any environmental issues associated with the Israeli oil
shale. Thatís different than some of the other oil shales in the
world, where the aquifer actually flows through the oil shale. Then
you have to be very careful about what technology is used to develop
it. Israel is in a very good situation that way, enormous reserves,
very high quality oil, and very safe environmental issues.
Douglas Goldstein: Why is this not being actively pursued?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Weíre starting up our program here. The first
thing that has to be done of course is to appraise the resource. Is
it really there? You have to convince yourself that itís as large and
of high quality as Iíve indicated. Our company has been doing an
appraisal program. We drilled six appraisal wells in the Shfela
Basin, taken thousands of feet of core, and it really is a world
In the laboratory, weíve heated the oil shale up and we produced the
oil from it. Itís very light. It almost looks like a rosť wine. The
thickness of the resource is 300 meters thick. Itís enormously rich
and has a very small surface footprint, which is the characteristic
of oil shale in general. Itís the densest fossil fuel resource in
the world so that projects that are done in oil shale donít have a
very large surface footprint compared to conventional oil.
Douglas Goldstein: Are we seeing companies like Royal Dutch Shell
come in with tens of billions of dollars of investment to get the oil
out of the ground?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Youíre not seeing Royal Dutch Shell coming into
Israel, but they are in the sister deposit in Jordan. During the
cretaceous period, about 70 million years ago, Israel and Jordan both
were under the sea and they both had simultaneous deposition of the
oil shale. They both have equivalent and sister deposit
characteristics, and Royal Dutch has been drilling in Jordan for the
last few years. They have drilled hundreds of wells and Jordan also
has extremely rich oil shale.
What youíre not going to see in Israel is any of the major integrated
oil companies coming here. When you do a lot of business in the Arab
world, itís just not advisable for these companies to enter the
Israeli market, but the smaller independent oil companies that arenít
doing business there are definitely interested and weíve had a lot of
interest in our company. Weíre traded on the New York stock exchange
under Genie GNE and our particular company is valued at $250
Douglas Goldstein: Does your company do the research?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: We are a RND and exploration company focused on
oil shale and other unconventionals in Israel and other countries of
the world. Itís the only pure play that I know of in the oil shale
domain. A lot of major oil companies have very small roots in the big
companies that work on oil shale, but we are the only company thatís
focused entirely on oil shales. We have a lot of intellectual
property here. Weíre doing research on improving the technology for
developing the oil shales and weíre searching for oil shales that
meet the characteristics where the technology will be effective and
Douglas Goldstein: How can people follow your work or follow whatís
going on in the Israel shale oil area?
Dr. Harold Vinegar: Our company has a website, http://iei-energy.com,
and you can read about our developments here. I think the takeaway
message that I would like to give is that Israel has an extremely
bright energy future. The growth of the natural gas discoveries and
the Mediterranean as well as the enormous oil shale deposits on shore
means that Israel is going to be a major oil and gas exporting
country in the future. Things are really exciting here.
Douglas Goldstein, CFPģ, is the director of Profile Investment
Services and the host of the Goldstein on Gelt radio show (Monday
nights at 7:00 PM on www.israelnationalradio.com. He is a licensed
financial professional both in the U.S. and Israel.
For past episodes of Goldstein on Gelt click here.
Disclaimer: This document is a transcription and/or an educational
article. While it is believed to be current and accurate, divergence
from the original is to be expected. The original podcast can be
heard at https://sites.google.com/site/goldsteinradioshows/. All
information on this website is purely information and should not be
used as the sole basis for making financial decisions. The opinions
rendered herein are those of the guests, and not necessarily those of
Douglas Goldstein, Profile Investment Services, Ltd., or Israel
National News. Readers should consult with a professional financial
advisor before making any financial decisions. (IsraelNationalNews ©
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Hit TV shows Graceland and Law and Order support UNODC's Blue Heart campaign against human trafficking with special broadcasts
15 August 2014 - On 17 August, USA Network will broadcast a 10-episode marathon of popular TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit under the "End Human Trafficking" banner, in order to raise awareness about this crime. The series of broadcasts will be accompanied by information and resources provided by UNODC and its Blue Heart Campaign against Human Trafficking, calling on viewers to support the UN Trust Fund for victims of this modern-day slavery.
Additionally, on 20 Aug, the final episode of a Graceland series dealing with human trafficking will be aired. The show will be complemented by new public service announcements featuring two of the show's stars, Daniel Sunjata and Serinda Swan, who supported the campaign by making the hand heart symbol. The actors will encourage viewers to donate to the UNODC-managed Trust Fund for Victims of Human Trafficking.
Social media efforts will be reminding viewers to tune in to both shows, which come shortly after 30 July, the first ever World Day against Human Trafficking. On that day, UNODC received massive support and social media response through the #IGiveHope hashtag across the world, which helped bring to the fore the plight of human trafficking victims and the ways in which concerned individuals, organizations, the media and others can contribute to eradicating this crime.
UNODC, as a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime, includes in its programmes and campaigns tools and resources to assist Member States in their efforts against trafficking in persons. In 2010, the UN General Assembly established the United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund for Victims of Trafficking in Persons. The Trust Fund supports grassroots non-governmental organizations that directly assist victims and survivors of human trafficking in countries around the world.
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© Copyright 1986-2008 by the University of Washington. Written by Joseph Felsenstein. Permission is granted to copy this document provided that no fee is charged for it and that this copyright notice is not removed.
This program carries out the Fitch-Margoliash and Least Squares methods, plus a variety of others of the same family, with the assumption that all tip species are contemporaneous, and that there is an evolutionary clock (in effect, a molecular clock). This means that branches of the tree cannot be of arbitrary length, but are constrained so that the total length from the root of the tree to any species is the same. The quantity minimized is the same weighted sum of squares described in the Distance Matrix Methods documentation file.
The options are set using the menu:
Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips, version 3.69 Settings for this run: D Method (F-M, Minimum Evolution)? Fitch-Margoliash U Search for best tree? Yes P Power? 2.00000 - Negative branch lengths allowed? No L Lower-triangular data matrix? No R Upper-triangular data matrix? No S Subreplicates? No J Randomize input order of species? No. Use input order M Analyze multiple data sets? No 0 Terminal type (IBM PC, ANSI, none)? ANSI 1 Print out the data at start of run No 2 Print indications of progress of run Yes 3 Print out tree Yes 4 Write out trees onto tree file? Yes Y to accept these or type the letter for one to change
Most of the options are described in the Distance Matrix Programs documentation file.
The D (methods) option allows choice between the Fitch-Margoliash criterion and the Minimum Evolution method (Kidd and Sgaramella-Zonta, 1971; Rzhetsky and Nei, 1993). Minimum Evolution (not to be confused with parsimony) uses the Fitch-Margoliash criterion to fit branch lengths to each topology, but then chooses topologies based on their total branch length (rather than the goodness of fit sum of squares). There is no constraint on negative branch lengths in the Minimum Evolution method; it sometimes gives rather strange results, as it can like solutions that have large negative branch lengths, as these reduce the total sum of branch lengths!
Note that the User Trees (used by option U) must be rooted trees (with a bifurcation at their base). If you take a user tree from Fitch and try to evaluate it in Kitsch, it must first be rooted. This can be done using Retree. Of the options available in Fitch, the O option is not available, as Kitsch estimates a rooted tree which cannot be rerooted, and the G option is not available, as global rearrangement is the default condition anyway. It is also not possible to specify that specific branch lengths of a user tree be retained when it is read into Kitsch, unless all of them are present. In that case the tree should be properly clocklike. Readers who wonder why we have not provided the feature of holding some of the user tree branch lengths constant while iterating others are invited to tell us how they would do it. As you consider particular possible patterns of branch lengths you will find that the matter is not at all simple.
If you use a User Tree (option U) with branch lengths with Kitsch, and the tree is not clocklike, when two branch lengths give conflicting positions for a node, Kitsch will use the first of them and ignore the other. Thus the user tree:
is nonclocklike, so it will be treated as if it were actually the tree:
The input is exactly the same as described in the Distance Matrix Methods documentation file. The output is a rooted tree, together with the sum of squares, the number of tree topologies searched, and, if the power P is at its default value of 2.0, the Average Percent Standard Deviation is also supplied. The lengths of the branches of the tree are given in a table, that also shows for each branch the time at the upper end of the branch. "Time" here really means cumulative branch length from the root, going upwards (on the printed diagram, rightwards). For each branch, the "time" given is for the node at the right (upper) end of the branch. It is important to realize that the branch lengths are not exactly proportional to the lengths drawn on the printed tree diagram! In particular, short branches are exaggerated in the length on that diagram so that they are more visible.
The method may be considered as providing an estimate of the phylogeny. Alternatively, it can be considered as a phenetic clustering of the tip species. This method minimizes an objective function, the sum of squares, not only setting the levels of the clusters so as to do so, but rearranging the hierarchy of clusters to try to find alternative clusterings that give a lower overall sum of squares. When the power option P is set to a value of P = 0.0, so that we are minimizing a simple sum of squares of the differences between the observed distance matrix and the expected one, the method is very close in spirit to Unweighted Pair Group Arithmetic Average Clustering (UPGMA), also called Average-Linkage Clustering. If the topology of the tree is fixed and there turn out to be no branches of negative length, its result should be the same as UPGMA in that case. But since it tries alternative topologies and (unless the N option is set) it combines nodes that otherwise could result in a reversal of levels, it is possible for it to give a different, and better, result than simple sequential clustering. Of course UPGMA itself is available as an option in program Neighbor.
The U (User Tree) option requires a bifurcating tree, unlike Fitch, which requires an unrooted tree with a trifurcation at its base. Thus the tree shown below would be written:
If a tree with a trifurcation at the base is by mistake fed into the U option of Kitsch then some of its species (the entire rightmost furc, in fact) will be ignored and too small a tree read in. This should result in an error message and the program should stop. It is important to understand the difference between the User Tree formats for Kitsch and Fitch. You may want to use Retree to convert a user tree that is suitable for Fitch into one suitable for Kitsch or vice versa.
An important use of this method will be to do a formal statistical test of the evolutionary clock hypothesis. This can be done by comparing the sums of squares achieved by Fitch and by Kitsch, BUT SOME CAVEATS ARE NECESSARY. First, the assumption is that the observed distances are truly independent, that no original data item contributes to more than one of them (not counting the two reciprocal distances from i to j and from j to i). THIS WILL NOT HOLD IF THE DISTANCES ARE OBTAINED FROM GENE FREQUENCIES, FROM MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERS, OR FROM MOLECULAR SEQUENCES. It may be invalid even for immunological distances and levels of DNA hybridization, provided that the use of common standard for all members of a row or column allows an error in the measurement of the standard to affect all these distances simultaneously. It will also be invalid if the numbers have been collected in experimental groups, each measured by taking differences from a common standard which itself is measured with error. Only if the numbers in different cells are measured from independent standards can we depend on the statistical model. The details of the test and the assumptions are discussed in my review paper on distance methods (Felsenstein, 1984a). For further and sometimes irrelevant controversy on these matters see the papers by Farris (1981, 1985, 1986) and myself (Felsenstein, 1986, 1988b).
A second caveat is that the distances must be expected to rise linearly with time, not according to any other curve. Thus it may be necessary to transform the distances to achieve an expected linearity. If the distances have an upper limit beyond which they could not go, this is a signal that linearity may not hold. It is also VERY important to choose the power P at a value that results in the standard deviation of the variation of the observed from the expected distances being the P/2-th power of the expected distance.
To carry out the test, fit the same data with both Fitch and Kitsch, and record the two sums of squares. If the topology has turned out the same, we have N = n(n-1)/2 distances which have been fit with 2n-3 parameters in Fitch, and with n-1 parameters in Kitsch. Then the difference between S(K) and S(F) has d1 = n-2 degrees of freedom. It is statistically independent of the value of S(F), which has d2 = N-(2n-3) degrees of freedom. The ratio of mean squares
[S(K)-S(F)]/d1 ---------------- S(F)/d2
should, under the evolutionary clock, have an F distribution with n-2 and N-(2n-3) degrees of freedom respectively. The test desired is that the F ratio is in the upper tail (say the upper 5%) of its distribution. If the S (subreplication) option is in effect, the above degrees of freedom must be modified by noting that N is not n(n-1)/2 but is the sum of the numbers of replicates of all cells in the distance matrix read in, which may be either square or triangular. A further explanation of the statistical test of the clock is given in a paper of mine (Felsenstein, 1986).
The program uses a similar tree construction method to the other programs in the package and, like them, is not guaranteed to give the best-fitting tree. The assignment of the branch lengths for a given topology is a least squares fit, subject to the constraints against negative branch lengths, and should not be able to be improved upon. Kitsch runs more quickly than Fitch.
The constant available for modification at the beginning of the program is "epsilon", which defines a small quantity needed in some of the calculations. There is no feature saving multiple trees tied for best, because exact ties are not expected, except in cases where it should be obvious from the tree printed out what is the nature of the tie (as when an interior branch is of length zero).
7 Bovine 0.0000 1.6866 1.7198 1.6606 1.5243 1.6043 1.5905 Mouse 1.6866 0.0000 1.5232 1.4841 1.4465 1.4389 1.4629 Gibbon 1.7198 1.5232 0.0000 0.7115 0.5958 0.6179 0.5583 Orang 1.6606 1.4841 0.7115 0.0000 0.4631 0.5061 0.4710 Gorilla 1.5243 1.4465 0.5958 0.4631 0.0000 0.3484 0.3083 Chimp 1.6043 1.4389 0.6179 0.5061 0.3484 0.0000 0.2692 Human 1.5905 1.4629 0.5583 0.4710 0.3083 0.2692 0.0000
7 Populations Fitch-Margoliash method with contemporary tips, version 3.69 __ __ 2 \ \ (Obs - Exp) Sum of squares = /_ /_ ------------ 2 i j Obs negative branch lengths not allowed Name Distances ---- --------- Bovine 0.00000 1.68660 1.71980 1.66060 1.52430 1.60430 1.59050 Mouse 1.68660 0.00000 1.52320 1.48410 1.44650 1.43890 1.46290 Gibbon 1.71980 1.52320 0.00000 0.71150 0.59580 0.61790 0.55830 Orang 1.66060 1.48410 0.71150 0.00000 0.46310 0.50610 0.47100 Gorilla 1.52430 1.44650 0.59580 0.46310 0.00000 0.34840 0.30830 Chimp 1.60430 1.43890 0.61790 0.50610 0.34840 0.00000 0.26920 Human 1.59050 1.46290 0.55830 0.47100 0.30830 0.26920 0.00000 +-------Human +-6 +----5 +-------Chimp ! ! +---4 +---------Gorilla ! ! +------------------------3 +--------------Orang ! ! +----2 +------------------Gibbon ! ! --1 +-------------------------------------------Mouse ! +------------------------------------------------Bovine Sum of squares = 0.107 Average percent standard deviation = 5.16213 From To Length Height ---- -- ------ ------ 6 Human 0.13460 0.81285 5 6 0.02836 0.67825 6 Chimp 0.13460 0.81285 4 5 0.07638 0.64990 5 Gorilla 0.16296 0.81285 3 4 0.06639 0.57352 4 Orang 0.23933 0.81285 2 3 0.42923 0.50713 3 Gibbon 0.30572 0.81285 1 2 0.07790 0.07790 2 Mouse 0.73495 0.81285 1 Bovine 0.81285 0.81285
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Maintaining serviceable roads through prudent use of tax dollars is one of the most basic responsibilities of state government. So Georgia taxpayers and motorists can be excused for wondering how it is that state Department of Transportation officials said last week the agency had run $445 million short of needed funding, forcing postponement of a number of road maintenance and safety projects, including some resurfacing work planned for Athens-area roads.
More shocking still is the DOT's projection that it will face a $7.7 billion shortfall in revenue available for planned projects in coming years, a problem that already has prompted the agency to bump a number of projects more than five years into the future, to at least 2014. In the interim, of course, the roads currently slated for repairing or upgrading will deteriorate even further, and the costs of the labor and materials needed for the work could increase substantially, likely pushing the cost of the planned work higher and higher, depending on the length of the delay.
A state transportation board Web site, www.whatsthebigidea.us, spells out a troubling future for the state if additional revenue for road projects isn't found, and found quickly. The site notes that, "Today, 63 percent of Georgia's roads are rated as excellent or good. Only 37 percent of our roads are rated fair, poor or bad. If we continue on this path, in just six years, roadway conditions will be completely reversed! By 2013, 84 percent of our roads will be rated fair, poor or bad."
Obviously, the state transportation board is interested in maximizing road construction and maintenance revenue, and the Web site, which also notes that Georgia "has the 4th highest number of traffic fatalities in the nation," is clearly a red-flag-waving, hyperbole-laden attempt to ensure that outcome.
But, even given the board's vested interest in painting the bleakest possible picture of Georgia's road woes, the Web site and DOT officials are outlining a problem this state will ignore at its peril.
Good roads are central to attracting quality economic development, and as long as this state is going to remain focused on paving its way out of its transportation problems, good roads are essential to managing traffic congestion and ensuring motorists' safety.
Clearly, then, this is an issue that should attract the attention of Georgia's legislators, and it appears to be one that should be on the top of their agenda when they convene in Atlanta early next year.
A host of options - from development of alternative transportation strategies, including rail and bus, to further exploration of the role public-private partnerships can play in meeting real transportation needs instead of merely profitable needs, to better use of the tax revenue streams generated by fuel sales - should be on the table.
The road to Georgia's future simply must be a well-paved one.
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In December 2016, former House Speaker John Boehner compared then President-elect Trump to the 26th President of the United States, Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt. The former House Speaker said Trump’s confident persona resembles that of the Progressive Era reformer, Teddy Roosevelt. The mainstream media heavily criticized Boehner’s comparison, but there is more than just a kernel of truth in his statement.
Like Trump, Teddy was a Manhattan millionaire with a bombastic personality who burst on the American political scene with a fiery populist message that Washington was corrupt, Wall Street had forsaken and forgotten Main Street, and “he” was the only person capable of restoring America to past greatness. The former Rough Rider confounded the establishment of the Republican Party and refused to toe the party line. Sound familiar?
Compared to past presidents, Trump and Teddy share the most striking similarities specifically in their upbringing. Both leaders were born in New York City to prominent families with successful businesses, and both were motivated by great ambition. Teddy set his sights on politics early on, and Trump sought to expand his family business build a brand beyond Queens. Both men stood on the shoulders of their family’s success to become something greater.
Personality wise, Trump and Teddy have been both described by observers as “straight talkers” and share a mutual disdain for political correctness. We all know Trump’s greatest hits like “Lyin [sic] Ted,” “Little Marco,” “Low Energy Jeb,” and of course, “Crooked Hillary.” Teddy also had his repertoire of insults.
Teddy once boldly described his predecessor, William McKinley, as having “no more backbone than a chocolate éclair.” He also had a few choice words for Woodrow Wilson and called the former President a “Byzantine logothete backed by flubdugs and mollycoddles.” Obviously, Trump and Teddy would have had a few laughs trading barbs.
Policy wise, both men also have similarities. President Trump made immigration a central issue to his presidential campaign , and to this day, he is lampooned by the media for being “anti-immigrant,” but by the media’s standards, so was Teddy. Teddy famously said that “we cannot have too much immigration of the right sort, and we should have none whatsoever of the wrong,” and that during the vetting of immigrants, the only factor that should be considered is “a man’s fitness for citizenship… the individual quality of the individual man.”
Teddy’s position nicely aligns with President Trump’s view that immigrants to the Untied States must accept and adopt the American culture. Save to say if Teddy were alive today, he would be called “an intolerant racist” by the left. To be accurate, Teddy inspires different opinion among Conservatives.
READ MORE AT WOMEN’S VOICES MAGAZINE
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29 Jul Four reasons you need a business plan
“A goal without a plan is just a wish”. These were the wise words of the infamous French pilot and 1930s writer, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. But today, in the business world, this is also a great mantra to follow.
Whether selling home-grown produce from your driveway, or planning to take over the world with your latest patented innovation, if you’re starting a business then you’ll have some type of goal – financial or other – that you want to reach. However, despite your best intentions, you may quickly find that your goals aren’t coming to fruition successfully, or at all, without a business plan.
A business plan helps set out future objectives, as well as how you’re going to get there from your starting point. It is usually broken down into subsections for you to follow as you progress along your business journey, and ultimately, evolve to where you want to be.
So why is it so important to spend some time at the outset drafting a business plan?
Get motivated to get moving
First and foremost, a business plan will help you set out clear, tangible targets to keep you motivated and on track, and define what kind of support you need along the way. Maintaining this momentum and energy is the key to driving your business forward and encouraging your staff or other support channels (suppliers, contractors and even your customers) to play their part in ensuring your company’s success. Put simply, if you’re not motivated, the people you depend on won’t be either.
Being motivated is all well and good, but it’s important not to become so enthusiastic that you lose sight of your original goals. Your business plan will help keep you focused in the right direction, and will prompt you to continually consider new opportunities or changing market trends, and decide whether they fit with your end goal for the business. As such, it’s a great way of evaluating your particular business strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. For more on how to do this, check out our recent blog on SWOT analysis.
Managing the load
The thought of implementing a business plan can be daunting initially. However, the whole point of a plan is to break down seemingly insurmountable goals down into bite-size, step-by-step actions that help you reach your targets slowly but surely. Tackling tasks one at a time will soon help you to feel good about your achievements as your business evolves.
Keep calm and carry on
Even if your goal is to stay the same size, retain the same customer base, and keep doing what you’re doing, a business plan is crucial in achieving this. You’d be surprised how easy it is to expand when you don’t mean to, or to go down a different path than you originally planned. And while these outcomes may not always pose a problem, incorporating these changes as part of your plan helps you constantly reassess your objectives and help you decide whether you want to grow, or indeed, stay the same.
So how do you go about drafting a business plan? Firstly, it doesn’t have to be reams of pages full of minute detail and analysis. A simple One Page Business Plan – FREE DOWNLOAD is a great way to start your business planning and get you thinking about the ways in which you can best achieve your goals, depending on the individual nuances of your business. It’s also the perfect size for pinning above your desk, or anywhere in your workspace, reminding you where you want to go and what you need to do to get there.
So remember, without a sound business plan, your goal for your business is just a wish! If you’re struggling for inspiration or need some guidance when filling out your plan, give us a call today, for free, friendly advice.
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Importance of pet identification:
Each year, hundreds of lost or abandoned animals are sheltered by the Humane Society of the Palouse. Many of these companion animals are reunited with their loved ones. Some however, an owner is never found. Those who arrive without identification are less likely to be reunited with their owner.
We recommend having a collar with up to date identification tags as well as a registered and up to date Microchip.
Even though collars can come off, there is a good chance that they won’t. Having up to date and legible identification tags on your pet will help aid in getting your pet home faster. Avoiding the stress of a visit to our shelter is what is best for you pet. We do love making new furry friends, and we do our best to keep them as comfortable as possible during their stay, but at home with you is where they would much rather be. Using a collar with tags in addition to a microchip just further ensures their and your comfort in being reunited.
Microchipping is your pets permanent form of identification. Every companion animal that arrives as a stray to any humane society or vet clinic is scanned for a microchip. Microchipping offers pet owners the security and peace of mind that comes from the only permanent pet identification technology. Microchips are a safe, secure and permanent way to reunite you and your pet.
What is a Microchip?
A microchip is the size of a grain of rice and is a radio-frequency identification transponder made up of just a few components encased within a slender capsule of bioglass, which is used extensively for implants in both humans and animals. Microchips are the only form of identification that cannot fall off, be taken off, or become illegible and it lasts your pets entire lifetime.
The microchip comes preloaded in a sterile applicator and is injected under the loose skin between the shoulder blades. The process takes only a few seconds, and your pet will not react any more than he would to a vaccination.
If your pet becomes lost and is taken to a vet clinic or animal shelter, your pet will be scanned for a microchip to reveal his unique ID number. That number will be called into the pet recovery service, and you will be contacted using the contact information on file with your pet’s microchip.
**It is vital to keep your contact information up to date so that you can be reached.
All animals microchipped by HSoP are registered with HomeAgain microchips.
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The US-American Olympic Committee recently warned athletes’ private sponsors against using hashtags such, as #Rio2016 #TeamUSA #Olympic #Olympian and #GoForTheGold on social media. The German Olympic Sports Association has since confirmed that they reserve the right to take legal action against non-Olympic sponsors who, without authorisation, use #Rio2016 illegally.
The term "Rio 2016" was registered as a Community trademark by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2010. It is, therefore, also protected as a trademark in Germany. Howev-er, not all use of #Rio2016 is legally inadmissible under German law. Infringement of this trademark occurs under German law when it is used in a way that third parties would likely perceive it as an indication of commercial origin of goods and services protected under the trademark.
#Rio2016 permitted when used in a descriptive way
Using the term as a trademark must be distinguished from using it in a descriptive way, which is generally permitted under German law. Descriptive usage occurs, for example, when the trademark is used in a purely communicative context, as opposed to an economi-cally driven one.
If a company supports or roots for an athlete who is sponsored by the company or if a com-pany expresses its excitement for results achieved during the Olympic Games by adding #Rio2016, under German law the term is merely used in a descriptive way with no infringe-ment of the trademark resulting. In these situations, the hashtag will be understood as a reference to the Games, not as an indicator of origin of the company posting it.
In Germany, a company should not, however, advertise for prize draws or its own products by using #Rio2016 as this could be regarded as commercial usage. The IOC has previously sought extensive protection of the trademark regarding a variety of goods and services, in-cluding advertisement, entertainment for or in relation to sports events, and online gam-bling.
Generally unproblematic are cases, in which an individual uses #Rio2016 in posts on his or her private Twitter account, as this situation lacks a commercial act.
Validity of the registration of #Rio2016 is disputable
In Germany, trademark infringement in the case of #Rio2016 is not a clean-cut case; in 2006, the German Federal Court held that the German word mark "Fussball WM 2006" ("Football World Cup 2006") lacked distinctive character and refused its continued registration, causing the owner to surrender its trademark. Whether "Rio 2016" could have been registered as a trademark in the first place, despite presumably lacking distinctive character, is questionable.
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Vantage Learning To Strengthen Student Writing
with MY Access! and Write Across America
YARDLEY, PA (February 26, 2014) Last year, education leader Vantage Learning, launched Write Across America, an initiative designed to improve student writing throughout the US. Utilizing the company’s award-winning MY Access! writing tool, students across the country saw their writing scores increase by more than 18% after just three uses. Now, Write Across America is back as Vantage offers MY Access! to schools for the rest of the school year for only $1 per student. It’s an offer the company thinks concerned schools and parents won’t be able to resist.
Through the use of artificial intelligence paired with patented linguistics technologies, MY Access! enables students to write to prompts their instructors select or create. After submitting their essays, the program then gives the student a score and feedback from improvement. That’s when the fun starts as students become engaged in how they can improve their writing and increase their scores. On the flip side, because MY Access! scores the technical aspects of student essays, teachers can save hours per week grading papers.
“While MY Access! is not a game, it does become game-like because we see students editing their essays in order to improve their scores,” reports Elena Cupingood, MY Access! Product Manager, “Students like the immediacy of the response and that they can keep improving to get better grades. Students and teachers love it!”
For more information about the program, visit www.vantagelearning.com/WriteAcrossAmerica.
About Vantage Learning
A recognized leader in online assessment and instruction, Vantage Learning creates Adaptive Learning Environments® to support student achievement and school improvement. Formed to meet the needs of the ever-evolving education industry, Vantage provides educators with sophisticated knowledge and immediate feedback solutions to enhance and support a continuous learning process. Its exceptional technology, including artificial intelligence, natural language understanding and web-based learning objects, provides adaptive resources for individualized instruction and professional development.
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We are nearing the end of National Fire Prevention Week, but that certainly doesn’t mean in any way, shape or form that the dangers of wildfire is gone. If fact, there is no time to be more vigilant about stopping the cause and spread of wildfires. Nothing makes me more upset to see people being careless with either an open flame, cigarette butts tossed out of moving cars or campfires that aren’t properly extinguished.
As the weather changes and becomes more arid, the already dry leaves and grasses are perfectly primed for fires. It doesn’t take much to start a fire and have it burn uncontrollably in mere minutes. Remember Bastrop? Of course you do! That fire was a careless mistake and jumped a 100 yard wide river and continued it’s devastating burn on the other side. It burned millions of dollars worth of property, hundreds of livestock were consumed and it quickly became the source unbearable anguish for many people it left in its fiery wake.
There’s not much more I can really say in regards to preventing wildfires that I haven’t already said in the past. It is clearly your responsibility to make sure that you are careful with any flame you are using at your campsite. One stray spark can literally destroy thousands of lives, acres and wildlife. Fire prevention is everyone’s responsibility. That means making sure that you have fire extinguishers on your RV and you obey all open flame laws. If there is a burn ban in effect, use your head, don’t fire up the grill. I for one, never want to see anything like the destruction in Bastrop, TX again. The really sad part is that I know I will.
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Detecting Photographic Composites of People
6th International Workshop on Digital Watermarking, Guangzhou, China, 2007
The compositing of two or more people into a single image is a common form of manipulation. We describe how such composites can be detected by estimating a camera’s intrinsic parameters from the image of a person’s eyes. Differences in these parameters across the image are used as evidence of tampering.
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written by: John Samuel•edited by: Brian Nelson•updated: 6/28/2011
Filter is one of the hosts of powerful features offered by Gmail. When correctly set, filters could make your inbox uncluttered, organized and keep unwanted emails making their way to inbox. Learn to filter out emails from your boss and spouse or delete spam emails right away.
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How to create a Gmail Filter?
The following steps explain how to create a basic Gmail filter.
Sign in to your Gmail account. Click Create filter link on the top right of the screen.
Choose search criteria. Tell Gmail what to do when emails arrive. In the From text box, type the email address of the person whose email you would like to filter and in the To text box, type your email address. Fill up other details such as Subject, Has the words and Doesn't have in respective text boxes. Gmail uses these details to search and identify the emails you want to filter. It is important to test the search criteria you have provided. You may test the search criteria by clicking Test Search. If you are happy with the results click Next Step.
Select an action that suits the purpose of creating the filter. Suppose, if you would like to forward it to another email address, check Forward it to and enter the email address.
You may also wish to apply the same action on the emails already in your inbox which matches your search criteria (which are shown right under). In that case check the Apply filter to conversations below and finally click on the Create Filter button. You have successfully created your filter!
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How to Create Advanced Filters?
Booleans are used in Gmail filters just as in search. You can add search terms such as AND or OR or NOT in all search fields. If you want to create a filter to delete all spam mails sent from different email address, you may include email addresses separated by OR in "From" text box. For example it may look like this: (firstname.lastname@example.org) OR (email@example.com) OR (firstname.lastname@example.org). The Boolean search term OR successfully replaces the need to create separate filter for spam mail sent from different email addresses.
Search operators such as hyphen (-), quotes (""), parenthesis ( ) and search terms like "has:", "is:", "filename:", "label:" and other terms would also be used to groove up the Gmail search. Get complete list of search operators here at Using advanced search.
Google labels are of great help to separate email and organize your inbox. Gmail labels and filters go hand in hand. You can set action to put the mails arriving to your email address directly to these labels.
You can use the Gmail filters and labels to send spam directly to trash; separate emails which has attachments, media and blog comments; delete old mails; create back up of your inbox and so on. There are limitless possibilities.
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Figure 2. Verapamil enhances cell viability and delays cellular senescence. (A) Viability of MRC-5 cells in the absence (Ctrl) or presence of verapamil (Ver) at different concentrations. (B) SA-β-Gal staining of MRC-5 cells and quantification of SA-β-Gal-positive cells at a late passage (P31). Verapamil (3 μM) delayed the senescence of MRC-5 cells (*P < 0.05). Metformin (100 μM) was used as positive control (*P < 0.05). An unpaired t-test was used to calculate the P-values and error bars represent SEM.
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Apart from the Roman colosseum, the sights of El Jem are still covered by sand. And the city of El Jem is a sleepy place without much character. But the colosseum is great, almost as big as the one of Rome, and in better condition. It is 148 metres long by 122 metres wide, with tiers up to 35 metres. There is nothing missing which takes away its grandeur. One area of the walls is gone, and this was done in 1695 when a big hole was shot in the wall of the colosseum, in order to uncover the hiding places of dissidents against the Ottomans.
The colosseum was constructed between 230 and 238 CE by the command of the Imperial official Gordian. It’s believed to have given room for as much as 30,000 spectators, some estimates set it at 45,000. This in the town of Thysdrus with only 30,000 inhabitants. But was a wealthy town, probably eager to impress its visitors.
The building process is even more impressive considering that the stones were quarried 30 km away at Salakta. In 238 Gordian committed suicide after an unsuccessful rebellion against Rome, where he had claimed to be emperor. With this, the construction of the amphitheatre ended. It was never completely finished, but was of course used.
Around El Jem there are more to be found, not by today’s tourists, but by the archaeologists of the future. Another, but smaller amphitheatre, can be seen around a kilometre away. And aerial photos indicate another and bigger one close to El Jem.
Inside the amphitheatre
The arena is 65 metres long and 39 metres wide, large enough to host more than one show at a time. Note inside the amphitheatre that the decorations are rather crude. This was because the stone used was too soft for fine sculpture. The upper part of the tiers were used as a sort of VIP tribune, where roofed rooms allowed hiding from the hot sun.
Inside the colonnades
Inside the colonnades
Walking the colonnade of the amphitheatre is really impressive, and you will see more travellers than yourself leaning their heads backwards while walking around it all. Much of it cannot have served any practical purpose, and the construction was clearly intended to impress its visitors.
Underneath the arena run two passageways. This was the place where animals, prisoners and gladiators were kept, just until the moment when they were brought up into the bright daylight to perform what was in most cases the last show of their lives.
The tunnel out
Looking onto the streets below
Walking the top
Good connections in either [URL=’http://tunisia.com/community/wiki/sousse/’]Sousse[/URL], [URL=’http://tunisia.com/community/wiki/kairouan/’]Kairouan[/URL], or [URL=’http://tunisia.com/community/wiki/sfax/’]Sfax[/URL] directions. Choose between shared taxis (faster) and buses (cheaper).
If you want the amphitheatre all to yourself, arrive before 8 o’clock in the morning, before the big tour buses start to arrive.
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At the 2012 Degrowth conference in Venice one of the highlights for me was the talk by Arturo Escobar (my notes from which can be found here). He is the author of Encountering Development and Territories of Difference, among others. His talk looked at how Transition might look in the context of the Global South, and held many fascinating insights. Here is the interview I did with him, first as an audio file, and below as a transcript.
So, Arturo, could you tell us a little bit about yourself please?
My name is Arturo Escobar, I was born and grew up in Colombia and I teach in the US, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. I teach anthropology and most of my work as an anthropologist is also in Colombia, especially the rainforest region, the Pacific region of Colombia, with African descendant movements and communities.
So Arturo, you gave a presentation yesterday about what Degrowth would look like in the context of the developed world and the developing world, the Global North, the Global South. Could you set out what you see as the prime motivation in each of those places – what’s distinct between those two?
OK. One of the points that I was trying to make is a parallel between the Degrowth movement as a set of ideas and political projects and social projects for transformation or transition in the Global North, especially in Europe and the US, especially in Europe, the US is still way south as you probably know better than me.
The parallel movement in the US, in Latin America at least, maybe not so much for the Global South as a whole but for Latin America in particular, which is the region of the world that I know the best because I am from there and I’ve been working there for a long time as an anthropologist and ecologist, as an activist, is what I call ‘Alternatives to Development’.
When you talk about Degrowth, I think one of the speakers today referred to that, I think it was Marcelo the theologian who referred to that in our session. When he speaks about Degrowth in Brazil people laugh at him: “why do we need Degrowth with all this poverty and all these problems and all these possibilities for growing? We Brazilians are growing like crazy, Degrowth doesn’t make any sense”.
I think that’s a mistaken perception of what Degrowth is in Latin America, because people who have looked at Degrowth and Transition Town initiatives in South America, including some environmentalists, they find it appealing and they find that it’s not sufficient for tackling issues in South America.
One of the main ones – and he might be a great person for you to also interview – if I wanted to point you to one single source in the South American debates on Transition and alternatives to development and Buen Vivir, would be this Uruguayan ecologist whose name is Eduardo Gudynas. He knows about Transition Towns, he’s read your books, he has a great outfit in Montevideo, but he spends most of his time in the Andean region, specifically Nicaragua, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia.
Not Chile, not Brazil, not Venezuela, especially the four countries in the Andes. The other person who is really focussing on this is an Ecuadorian whose name is Alberto Acosta, who was the president of the constituent assembly that wrote the new constitution for Ecuador, where there is a huge section on Buen Vivir, and rights of nature, and both of them have been writing about alternatives to development and about the other concept that I didn’t get to explain yesterday which is transitions to post-extractivist model of society and economy.
What they find is that Degrowth – and they have some differences with Degrowth – they say here in Latin America we still have to grow in some ways. People’s livelihoods have to improve, and it’s difficult to do that without some growth. Health, education, housing – there are some sectors where the economy still has to grow.
But the second point they say is that growth has to be subordinated to a different vision of development, which is the Buen Vivir.
Could you tell us a bit more about what that is?
Yes, the Buen Vivir is a concept that has been coming out strongly over the past 10 years, especially in South America, in the context of the emergence of the left-leaning regimes in many South American countries, almost all South American countries with the exception of Colombia and Peru now, well it’s difficult to say what Peru’s current regime is.
In that context, it is the search for a different way of thinking about development and pushed by indigenous peoples and to some extent by peasants, by African descendents, and in collaboration with ecologists, sometimes feminists, sometimes activists from different social movements. They started to say that for this model of development, this is the moment to change our development model, from a growth-oriented and extraction of natural resources oriented model to something that is more holistic, something that really speaks to the indigenous cosmo-visions of the people in which this notion of prosperity based on material well-being only and material consumption does not exist. What has been traditionally cultivated among indigenous communities, is not even a notion of development, that is the key, because people are saying Buen Vivir is the new theory of development.
No, it’s not a theory of development. It’s a theory of something else that is not development. People translate it as ‘the good life’. I prefer to translate it as collective well-being. But it’s a collective well-being of both humans and non-humans. Humans, human communities and the natural world, all living beings.
And what does that look like in practice? What are the elements of it?
That’s the key question, the practice, the implementation of the Buen Vivir. That’s the struggle, especially in Ecuador and Bolivia that have governments that have been put in power mostly by coalitions of social movements, especially indigenous movements, which over the past 6 years since they were elected in 2006, and they were elected with the promise that they were going to carry out this mandate of the Buen Vivir in the constitutions of both Bolivia and Ecuador, with different notions of Buen Vivir in both constitutions.
That said, the goal of state policies should be to promote Buen Vivir which involves social justice, a new notion of rights that includes the rights of nature, ecological sustainability, the elimination of poverty or the reduction of poverty. The reduction of poverty and the protection of nature are the two main dimensions of that.
So there are two sides to the Buen Vivir, which is the social and economic political side, and the rights of nature which is the ecological side. So the aims of the constitutions and development plans, I’ve looked at the development plans of both governments and they are very contradictory, because they say “we have to carry out this mandate”. But they keep falling back to the old ideas about growth and extraction of natural resources and planning as a top-down exercise, and we the experts have decided the plan for the Buen Vivir, but communities feel excluded.
So they clash now in both countries. This is like, so in southern Colombia, southern Mexico, Chiapas and Oaxaca is between indigenous, and peasant, and black movements on the one hand, movements that are for the Buen Vivir, that are for a different vision of development, and the state approach which still is what Gudynas and Acosta in particular call ‘neo-extractivists’.
They are neo-extractivit because they are still based on the extraction of natural resources: oil, natural gas, lithium, soy beans, sugar cane, agro-fuels of all kinds, gold, minerals. They are Left regimes that are transacting with corporations, Canadian, American, European, South African, Chinese, corporations to take out natural resources. They are not traditional extractivism because, like the older Venezuelan regimes for instance, where there was so much oil, but the oil benefited only a small elite.
Now the idea of these Left regimes, which is a very good idea obviously, is they are going to be using the revenues which are far larger than in the previous regimes that basically gave everything to the corporations. They are going to use the revenues for social redistribution, to reduce poverty and to reduce inequality and to some extent they are doing it. But in the process, they have become this neo-developmentalist development models, pretty much the same as in the past but with a better social policy.
It’s interesting that the starting point was the idea of social justice and linked to environmental protection whereas in England at the moment, for example, the British government there are basically saying we have to go for economic growth at all costs, and environmental protection is optional. It’s interesting to see how with Buen Vivir, that’s been there from the beginning.
Exactly, and that is happening in the US as well, with policies like hydro-fracking which has been given carte blanche all over the place.
So in Transition we get asked about what Transition should look like in the Global South, and we say it’s about building resilience in both places, that the process of globalising food production has reduced food resilience in the Global North because we’ve become so dependent on imports and moving stuff around, and in the Global South it’s about the destruction of small farming and so on and so on. What’s your sense of that balance of how we build resilience in both places? Also what Transition groups who are working in the Global North can do through their actions to support what’s happening in the South?
I think the concept of resilience is very good and I know that you emphasise it from the very first book, the concept of resilience. I think it is a concept that could cut across Global North and Global South. I would have to go and look more carefully to see if it is being used now in Latin America, but it is a very fruitful concept, and actually that would be a very good question for Eduardo Gudynas who is a very good friend of mine, so I am going to ask him the question.
There are some parallels that I think could be thought about for both the Global North and the Global South in principle. In practice they would have their own specificities as you yourself said yesterday in your presentation on the first night, because every town basically has its own specificities. Local food, I think is a very important one in the Global North. It is increasingly important in the Global South, under a different umbrella.
The different umbrella is that of food sovereignty, food autonomy. In Colombia for instance, movements prefer to use autonomia alimentaria (food autonomy) which is somewhat different to food sovereignty. Food sovereignty tends to put the emphasis on the national level, so a county might say we basically produce food for the population blah blah blah, that’s not good enough. There has to be food autonomy locally, regionally, nationally.
So peasant movements like Via Campesina that is a very important movement in Latin America and worldwide is focussing on food sovereignty, and food autonomy to a lesser extent. So the question of food is crucial as an entry point to Transition.
Energy? Energy is so important to the Global North, I see it as less important to the Global South, and that doesn’t necessarily mean something good. We should be thinking more about energy, and that’s actually one of Gudynas’s co-workers now that I recall, who has a programme on energy, in particular for South America. He talks about the transformations that have to take place on the level of energy for transitions to take place.
The people in the Global North who say ‘oh, you can’t talk about local food because if you talk about local food you’re condemning farmers in Kenya and Chile to poverty and unemployment. How do you respond to that argument?
I don’t think it makes any sense! If you look carefully, sure, there’s a lot of food being grown in Africa, Asia and South America for the European and American markets, but who’s benefiting from that? Most times it’s not local peasants. It ceased to be local peasants at least two or three decades ago.
Even some of the agro-fuels that are touted as big solutions environmentally and so forth, like African palm which I know very well because it has been planted in Colombia all over the place. It’s being done at the expense of local communities, local ecosystems, by large Colombian capitalists or by large corporations.
I know that in parts of Africa and the Middle East it’s mostly German and European corporations that are planting food in these countries, with local cheap labour, to be exported to European markets. So on the contrary, I think local food in the north is going to be good for local food in the south. It’s going to stop this idea that the south will have to grow luxury crops for the Global North.
So if a Transition initiative in the Global North is actively working to localise its food supply, to reduce its carbon footprint, to put in place renewable energy infrastructure, localise it’s economy, is your sense that by default that that is helping the movement towards alternative development in the Global South or could they be doing something more mindfully, more intentionally to support that struggle at the same time?
I think that the first option that you outlined is the better way to think about it. That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t do it thinking about the Global South as well, and how the Global South is affected. There might be cases in which particular groups in the Global South might be hurt by practices that emerge in the Global North around Transition initiatives, for instance one of the speakers this morning, Antonella Picchio, a feminist economist, who says we should always think from the perspective of women.
In principle that’s very good. How do we ask the question – how might our activities in Transition initiatives in the Global North benefit, or hurt, particular vulnerable groups in the Global South. Women, indigenous peoples, black peoples, ethnic minorities and peasants in particular. I think that’s always a very good question to ask. It’s not such a huge question to answer, you sort of follow the threads of the actions.
But as a whole I would tend to think Transition activities in the Global North would tend to contribute if not immediately, at least at some point, to alternatives to development and local autonomies in the Global South to the extent that they continue to erode corporate power, which is what unites and which is really screwing up everybody, including people in the Global North.
My Finnish and Canadian friends tell me that the same corporations that have been screwing up the Global South for so many decades are now doing the same in northern Canada and Finland. So it’s not even going to be the north that’s going to be spared anymore. In that sense I think the alliances have to be built. The conversations between Transition activists in the north and Transition activists in the south have to be cultivated. They will be somewhat difficult conversations and I think the questions you are asking are the ones we have to start with.
The concept, the practice of Transition that we use for different parts of the world, we have to take into account that they will be inter-cultural conversations, inter-epistemic conversations, different knowledge is going to be involved, and those require translation. Translation across knowledges, across cultures, across histories, across different ways of being negatively affected by globalisation, across levels of privilege and so forth.
Is just applying the concept of localisation, going to generate sufficient employment to create the kind of employment that these countries need?
Probably not. I think it has to be a level, certainly a lot of emphasis on local actions, local solutions, but there has to be also some degree of thinking and policy implementation at the regional level and at the national level. The state has to become more part of the solution than part of the problem that it is now. Now it is much more of the problem.
With some of these progressive regimes it has tried to become part of the solution as well in terms of connecting with social movements, but the give and take between social movements that are pushing more for the local autonomy, the protection of territories, the preservation of cultural and biological diversity on the one hand, and the state, who has the national or transnational level in mind, is going again really tight, and ruptures are beginning to happen, even in countries like Bolivia and Ecuador where there has been more closeness between the state and the movements.
What’s the role of technology here? There are some people who would say if we could do open-source genetic modification then that would have a role. There are all these technologies like nuclear power, these kinds of things. In your take on alternatives to development what constitutes good technology and what constitutes a technology that doesn’t have a place?
I think technology is super important. I think Buen Vivir indigenous communities, Afro-descendant communities, peasant communities, they are not opposed to technology per se. If they can be connected to the internet, if they can have technologies that improve the productivity of the land, if they can have technologies that improve their living standards, that’s all great.
What they are opposed to is having those technologies coming in at the expense of their autonomy, at the expense of their territories, at the expense of their cultural traditions, at the expense of their world-views and ways of living. But when you read – and I think this is a misconception – that the Buen Vivir, because it has been promoted mostly by indigenous movements and intellectuals is something about going back to the past – it’s not at all. It’s not about going back.
Someone said that here today too, that Degrowth is not about going back, it’s about moving forwards. The same with indigenous communities, it’s about moving forwards, but how? The difference is “how?” The way in which we’re moving forwards today on the basis of growth and instructivism and profit and the dominance of one particular model which is capitalism and modernity, for many communities and in the movements, that is the end and that has to stop.
But it’s not anti-technology and it’s not anti-modern. For me the criteria is to weaken or lessen the dominance of the growth model, the hi-tech model, the conventional economic neo-liberal model and the dominance of one particular cultural framework which is the cultural framework of modernity, and to allow for many different world-views and frameworks.
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[Darkroom] Granite Counters
chrisnoisebridge at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 12:12:10 PST 2010
I was suggesting direct contact because of the weakness of the ray
dropping to infinity over the distance of an inch or two. Gamma or
not, I'm pretty sure it's just too weak.
A more practical concern for granite is that it's heavy and expensive.
Any old counter will work in a darkroom in my opinion. If holography
is on the agenda, then we would need/want a more specialized optics
table. This would be far more interesting to me than a traditional
darkroom (as I've pretty much gone all digital).
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 6, 2010, at 11:29, Jasmine Strong <jasmine at electronpusher.org>
> You'd be surprised just how radioactive some granite countertops
> are. Some of it can be over 200 microroentgen/hr. That's easily
> enough to fog sensitive films in just a few hours. Since much of
> the radiation comes from radium daughters, there's a hefty gamma
> component and it doesn't even need to be in contact with the material.
> On 6 Feb 2010, at 10:58, Chris Murphy wrote:
>> This is just a guess, granite is nowhere near radioactive enough to
>> be a concern around film. The exposure time with direct contact to
>> granite would probably be months with high speed film. Again, I'm
>> just guessing.
>> As a boy, I measured the radioactivity of granite buildings and
>> found no significant levels above cosmic and solar background
>> radiation. Smoke detectors contained americanium and were much more
>> interesting to measure.
>> Apparently old lenses contain thorium and yttrium and even those
>> would take several weeks to expose ISO 100 film.
>> We could intentionally expose ISO 6400 film to granite in a light
>> tight photo paper box and see what happens vs a clipping of the
>> same roll that has not been exposed. A Geiger counter could be used
>> to calculate a proper exposure time?
>> Sent from my iPhone
>> On Feb 5, 2010, at 16:30, Jasmine Strong
>> <jasmine at electronpusher.org> wrote:
>>> I'd be touchy about granite for a darkroom on the grounds that it
>>> be surprisingly radioactive and that this can fog film over time.
>>> On Feb 5, 2010, at 3:46 PM, John Magolske wrote:
>>>> * Kelly <hurtstotouchfire at gmail.com> [100205 15:37]:
>>>>> Well, just to be clear on our options here, what are our
>>>>> for a counter surface? (Ben?) What are our other price options?
>>>>> -Stainless steel (also not cheap)
>>>>> -Formica (cheapest option--price estimate?)
>>>> I've heard soapstone is ideal for chem-lab counter tops (more inert
>>>> than granite, etc.). I'm not suggesting we should hold out for
>>>> but if there happens to be a big slab of it laying around
>>>> It's also easy to cut.
>>>> John Magolske
>>>> Darkroom mailing list
>>>> Darkroom at lists.noisebridge.net
>>> Darkroom mailing list
>>> Darkroom at lists.noisebridge.net
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Advertising Letters - Part I
We often see the term "advertised" associated with a cover from the mid-19th century. In that era home delivery was the exception and mail was held until the addressee called for it. In the mostly rural society of the times, people did not regularly make a trip to "town" where the the post offices were located. Further, since letters were often sent without prepayment of the postage, mail would go uncollected.
Provisions were made to deal with the accumulated undelivered mail. "Advertised" is the term used to identify letters which had been unclaimed at the destination post office for a relatively long period and had then been "advertised" in an attempt to make delivery. The Regulations for the Government of the Post Office Department included in Postal Laws and Regulations for the Government of the Post Office Department published in 1847 summarized the law regarding advertising letters as follows:.
203. At the end of every quarter, all letters then on hand, and which have not been already advertised, are to be entered alphabetically in a list, and advertised. If there is a newspaper published near the office, and the publisher will insert the advertisement three times, at the rate of two cents for each letter mentioned in the advertisement, it is then to be published in such newspaper. If there is no newspaper that has much circulation in the neighbor hood of the office, or if the publisher will not advertise the letters for the price abovementioned, then the manuscript lists of them are to be made out, and posted at such public places in the town and neighborhood, as shall appear best adapted for the information of the parties concerned.--Act of 1825, sec. 26.
204. The newspaper of the town or place where the office may be situated having the largest circulation in the vicinity, or usual delivery of the office, must be selected by the postmaster to advertise the uncalled for letters: Provided, The editor or publisher shall agree to insert the same, at the above rate.
205. In case of question or dispute, as to the circulation of any paper claiming the advertisement of the uncalled for letters, it shall be the duty of the postmaster, on the first day of July in each year, to receive evidence, and decide upon the fact; and such decision shall remain for one year, unless for good cause, the Postmaster General shall otherwise order; and the evidence upon which the postmaster decides to give the printing to a particular paper, shall always be open to inspection.
Like many other things involving government, this provision included a small subsidy -- in this case for newspapers. In many instances, newspapers sought selection to advertise letters. The profit opportunity led to competition. Section 205 led ultimately to the practice of printing ownership and circulation notices in periodicals. Reliable circulation figures were important to advertisers as well.
To be continued.
Posted June 7, 2000
Editor's Note: Modern philatelists are indebted to Theron Wierenga who republished this volume in 1980. Italics follow the original.
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Kenny Schachter / ROVE Gallery presents “Power & Beauty” a major exhibition of large?scale new paintings of actresses, dictators, and leaders by Jasper Joffe. Power and beauty are contrasted in over 30 paintings made over the last two years in what is Joffe’s largest ever London show.
Look into the eyes of 19 leaders of the 20th and 21st Century including Gaddafi, Thatcher, Stalin and Reagan. See Hitler in colour next to Saddam Hussein in mauve.
Actresses are represented by Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Kristen Stewart, and Zhang Ziyi. Beautiful women who are photographed and gazed at incessantly are painted against abstract backgrounds, which compete to attract us.
Also shown is the artist, brush and palette in hand, 10 feet high, caught in the mirror wearing only his pants from Peacocks.
About Jasper Joffe
Joffe, born 1975, studied at The Royal College where he was taught by Peter Doig and Rose Finn?Kelcey. He has a reputation for his alternative art performances, extravagant initiatives and controversial paintings. Jasper Joffe came to media attention with his performance at the Chisenhale gallery ’24 paintings in 24 hours’ in 1999, in which he questioned the relation between time and artistic integrity. He founded the wildly popular Free Art Fair in 2007, which took place during Frieze Week and sensationally sold a candy?coloured portrait of the Nazi Heinrich Himmler to Charles Saatchi in 2008. In 2009 he sold all his possessions at the Idea Generation Gallery in London. And in 2010 he exhibited 21 Great British Jews of the 21st Century in a synagogue in Kaunas Lithuania.
His most recent work has included collaborations with artist Harry Pye such at The Tate Modern in a dry cleaner, their own handmade 99p shop, and ‘Joffe et Pye’, Ekow Eshun on Radio 4 said of the show: ‘Intense feelings about love, loneliness and fear, anxiety desire and hope and ambition all come into play into these paintings. Very powerful I thought. What could have been fey, arch or game playing was actually very warm.”
“There’s no artist on earth other than Jasper Joffe who would have painted Himmler this way, using these brush strokes and candy colours”. Charles Saatchi, Sunday Times 2008
About Kenny Schachter / ROVE
In 2001 Kenny Schachter conTEMPorary opened on Charles Lane, New York in a space designed by the Vito Acconci Studio and inspired by Frederick Keisler’s ‘Art of this Century Gallery’, hosting shows from the likes of Mary Heilmann, Dennis Oppenheim, Kenny Scharf, and Acconci himself. In October 2004 Kenny Schachter ROVE opened in London with an inaugural group show announced by Richard Woods’ temporary ‘Country Style’ facade for the building. Committed to showcasing work that extends the traditional boundaries of the visual arts and bridges the historical divisions between art, architecture and design, ROVE presents exhibitions that draw on an international selection of designers and artists including Brendan Cass, Arik Levy, Zaha Hadid, Graham Gillmore, Vito Acconci, and William Pope.L.
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Home to the World’s Deepest UNESCO World Heritage Site
The Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) of the Republic of Kiribati is an ocean treasure-trove that lies in the heart of the Pacific Ocean, roughly halfway between Fiji and Hawaii and is one of the most remote island chains on Earth. PIPA encompasses Kiribati’s eight islands: Kanton, Enderbury, Birnie, Rawaki, Mackean, Orona, Nikumaroro and Manra.
The Phoenix Islands hold the key elements to mankind’s battle with global warming and climate change. Its marine environment is exceptionally diverse-spectacular turquoise lagoons with huge coral heads and clams, pristine and colorful reefs surrounding atolls, low reef islands and reefs running down the slopes of seamounts to the ocean floor. What is amazing about PIPA’s Ocean environment, is its isolation from the world that has allowed coral reefs to develop heat resistance. PIPA holds heat resistant coral reefs that are the key to replenishing the world’s coral population. Because of its remoteness, Phoenix islands are one of the world’s last relatively unspoiled atoll and reef island archipelago.
PIPA is Kiribati’s Okai (traditional store house): a Noah’s Ark of global significance that allows marine and terrestrial treasures to rest and multiply. PIPA is an okai that will strengthen food security for Kiribati and the rest of the world through allowing the preserved richness of life to grow and overflow.
In 2010, PIPA made history as it was inscribed into UNESCO’S list of World Heritage Sites. At the time, PIPA was the world’s largest and deepest UNESCO World Heritage Site. Today, it still holds the title of the world’s deepest UNESCO World Heritage Site. The many seamounts, 14 now identified, are amongst the deepest and tallest in the world. They hold the secrets to sustaining a variety and abundance of marine life.
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Linearity Requirement for Patterns
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
17 Mar 2001 07:43:10 GMT
Fri, 16 Mar 2001 23:14:17 -0500, Dylan Thurston <email@example.com> pisze:
> > If that were the reason, then to be consistent, there would be no
> > literals in patterns, as these are tested using equality.
> Only numeric literals actually use the '==' operator, correct?
Yes. This is a hack which allows viewing numeric types as algebraic
types with many constructors, assuming that (==) definition is sane.
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^^ SYGNATURA ZASTĘPCZA
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Cost to Buy a Pet Monkey at First Typically, a pet monkey costs between $4,000 and $8,000. The age, rarity, and disposition of the monkey will all play a role in this, however. More expensive monkeys tend to be younger, rarer, and friendlier.
Similarly, What states are legal to have a pet monkey?
There are now 17 states where it is legal to keep a monkey as a pet without any limitations. Washington, Nevada, Montana, North Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Arkansas, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina are among these states.
Also, it is asked, Is having a pet monkey expensive?
Although it is not recommended to keep monkeys as pets since it may be difficult, expensive, harsh, and hazardous, it is simple to buy them from private breeders. Lemurs, tamarins, and marmosets cost between $1,500 and $2,500; rhesus macaques, baboons, and spider monkeys may cost between $3,500 and $6,000.
Secondly, How much does it cost to keep a pet monkey?
$200 to $1000+ monthly The kind of monkey you have will have a significant impact on the precise monthly payment. For instance, bigger apes may need hundreds of dollars in food each month only due to their size. However, the feeding expense for smaller-sized monkeys is just $100 a month.
Also, How long can a monkey live?
Black howler: ages 15 to 20 20 years for Mandrill 20 years, lion-tailed macaque 27 years old Japanese macaque 35–45 years for a guinea baboon
People also ask, How much is a tiny monkey?
Price ranges for finger monkeys in 2021 range from $4,500 to $7,000. The little finger monkey, sometimes known as a “pocket monkey” or “pygmy marmoset,” is only around 5″ to 6″ tall. One of the few monkey species that may be kept as pets in certain jurisdictions is the capuchin.
Related Questions and Answers
Can I buy a monkey in the US?
Currently, there are no laws prohibiting the keeping of monkeys as pets in the following states: Washington, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio, Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
Do monkeys make good pets?
Monkeys are just not made to be pets since they need a lifetime of complete devotion. They never develop into adults and mature as young people do. They basically spend their whole lives as perpetual toddlers who need continuous care and attention.
Do baby monkeys stink?
Monkeys stink, I’m sorry if that offends you. Particularly marmosets have a musky aroma that is highly repulsive to people. Keeping them indoors is not even an option. All of this is typical behavior for a wild animal, and they will create a huge mess while doing it and toss poop and urine all over the home.
How much is a chimpanzee monkey?
Be ready to spend at least $50,000 if you buy a chimp from a breeder. The costs to adopt one vary greatly.
What does a monkey eat?
The majority of monkeys are omnivores; they consume both plant-based meals like fruits and nuts and certain animal products like lizards and bird eggs. Seasonal changes might affect a monkey’s nutrition.
Can monkeys eat human food?
A monkey’s capacity to naturally acquire food in the wild is reduced every day that they are reliant on a person for it. As this goes on, the monkey’s ability to exist alone becomes exceedingly risky.
Why monkeys are not good pets?
They’ll get irrational, hostile, dangerous, and difficult to control, often biting and scratching even their favorite caregiver. Any amount of training won’t be able to tame or stop a wild animal from establishing their dominance.
Are finger monkey legal in the US?
No. 8 Monkeys 19 states, including California, Connecticut, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, do not allow the possession of monkeys.
Can I adopt a baby monkey in the US?
Through our adoption program, you may help the adorable monkeys at our primate sanctuary have a better future. For $52 a year or every month, you can adopt one of our very unique monkeys from our collection. Adoptions enable us to feed, rehabilitate, and care for these worthy monkeys.
How can I get a finger monkey?
Finger monkeys are wild creatures that should not be kept as pets. Instead, they need other Finger Monkey pals and a full-sized cage that resembles their native environment. Finger Monkeys do not make good pets for common pet owners.
What states can you own a gorilla?
Gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans, and gibbons are not subject to state licenses or registration requirements; but, since these species are protected by the Federal Endangered Species Act, some operations involving these animals may need to get federal permissions.
How much is a elephant?
Meet the ecologists crunching numbers. Ralph Chamihas of the International Monetary Fund calculated that each forest elephant is worth $1.75 million in services, which is more than the $40,000 a poacher may get for killing the animal for its ivory.
Can a monkey live in a house?
Primates are not good house pets because they need space, company, and mental stimulation, none of which can be provided in a person’s living room. Similar to marmosets, monkeys leave huge scent trails across their territory.
Do monkeys eat their poop?
Japan’s KYOTO — Like many other wild animals, chimpanzees exhibit a variety of behaviors that most people would find repulsive. It is known that wild chimpanzees would search through excrement for seeds and re-eat them. In reality, chimpanzees kept in captivity have been known to consume their own or other people’s waste.
Is it cruel to keep a pet monkey?
Despite the best efforts of many pet owners, it is cruel to confine monkeys in environments that are almost completely unsuitable for their way of life.
What is the friendliest monkey?
The Northern Muriqui Monkeys are the most peaceful primates in the world. They live in unusually egalitarian communities where male-female interactions are devoid of violence and are instead characterized by plenty of embraces.
Why do monkeys throw poop?
For chimpanzees, flinging feces or other things serves as a means of communication as well as a means of emotional release. The group’s communication improves as the chimps grow better at striking the goal.
Why do monkeys kidnap babies?
For the purpose of having fresh offspring, female monkeys abduct other newborn monkeys. The guys will try on, touch, and eventually steal newborn newborns. This is a behavior that is common among high-ranking female monkeys as well as low-ranking mothers and their young.
Can I own a monkey in Florida?
Class I animals cannot be kept as pets in Florida. Smaller carnivores and primates like monkeys, wolves, and coyotes are class II creatures.
The “pet monkey for sale” is a common question that is asked by many people. The price of a pet monkey can range from $50 to $5,000.
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Solid Form to Be Observed by Other Essay
- Length: 5 pages
- Sources: 5
- Subject: Law - Constitutional Law
- Type: Essay
- Paper: #90272655
Excerpt from Essay :
solid form to be observed by other people. The power of idea should be that it should mobilize the efforts of the people and should bring changes in system or society or at least the life of some. The military ideas are often very lifesaving and they are based on a detailed background analysis. The ideas are analyzed by many means like comparison and feedback.
Any military or administrative idea can be conceived by observing how the enemies or the friends do the same processes. England is a relatively small country as compared to America. Yet the gun control in England can be an indication for the newly elected President of America that a strict administration is needed to control the movement, acquisition and use of guns.
Rational Action Model
Many idea implementation models are synthesized to help translate idea into an action. One of these is Rational Action Model or the Rationalism. The steps involved in the model are defining problems, Establishing Goals and Objectives, Generating all possible alternatives, considering consequences, evaluating consequences, choosing an Alternative and finally implementing the idea.
1. Defining Problems:
The gun control program in USA is as important as difficult it is. The youth and the underground people in America can easily get access and control on the weapons that develops risks of misusing weapons in the country (Swanson, 1999). The idea implementation starts from defining the problem. This means that the ides should be defined in facts and figures. The guns are so much penetrated in the American society that out of every 10 American citizens, 4 are found to have a gun and about 30% have a personal gun (Carroll, and Poll, 2005). The problem is that often these guns are used in purposes other than self-defense that can harm the society.
2. Establishing Goals and Objectives
The people in England are not openly allowed to keep guns. Even the British police do not display guns in public. Thus the culture of the country is such that the guns are not used as a symbol of power and authority. In the United States, you can declare that it is your constitutional right to bear arms. But in the UK, you need to spend hours filling in paperwork and proving to police officers that you are not a danger to society (Casciani, 2010). The people need to be certified to own to use a gun. The people cannot simply buy a gun and get license for it but they need to first apply for gun ownership that needs them to pass several different layers of administration and check (Casciani, 2010).
3. Generating All Possible Alternatives
The ideas and the facts need to generate possible alternatives that can solve the problem. The possible alternatives of the gun control can be:
The government can make plans to issue new guns as well as require the old guns to register with a gun control panel.
The taxation on keeping guns should be introduced and these taxes should be high to discourage keeping guns.
The guns can first be collected form the society in an organized manner and then given back after check and control.
New guns should be issued only to a few certified people and not to more than two family members in a home can own a gun.
Cutting the display of guns in the police and the media.
4. Considering Consequences
There are serious costs and time concerns involved in this gun control alternative. The guns can be retrieved from the system but this will need a lot of time doing so. The people may also agitate if they have already legally applied to get the guns, they will not be willing to hand over the guns and get them after the new registration (Ivan, 2012). The costs of cleaning the existing system of guns can be very high but this can be very useful at the same moment.
5. Evaluating Consequences
The consequences of retrieving all the guns from the system can be overwhelming. The new guns registration option is more convenient as well as hassle free than the immediate take back of all the guns from system. The evaluation of the alternatives will be much critical since the result depends on it.
6. Choosing an Alternative
The model tells that it is better to focus on the registration of new guns yet the old guns in the system cannot be over looked. Thus the new guns plan will be implemented immediately while the system will not ignore to count and register the existing guns in the system. The legislation, judiciary and executives can lay guidelines about what is important in the system and what costs the system can bear and what costs cannot be borne.
The gun control will be implemented in America by first cutting the display of guns in the police and the media. Thus the system will not be promoting the increased use or the misuse of the guns. After that, the policies for having new guns will be introduced that will be far more strict than the old ones.
Steps to pass
The policy makers at different level of American government will be using these steps to come up with the final policy against the issue of gun control. There is a separate job of each of the component of United States government.
The executives, the president and his cabinet's role are more active in decision making. They will be informed about the alternatives and briefed about the consequences of each of the alternative. The executives are finally responsible for the decisions they make and have to take the responsibility of the consequences too.
The legislative bodies evaluate if the alternatives are legally valid or not and how they can be translated into a bill. The elected members of the congress represent their states and tell what will be the impact of the law in their state and how the people of that area will be affected. Thus the President should take consult from the legislation so that the representation of all the states is ensured (How It Works: The Federal Process, n.d).
The legislation has the advantage of being directly in touch with the people thus they know the needs as well as the response of the citizens in advance. The president thus needs to take the legislation in confidence and to ask them to conduct solid surveys via their staff and committees to give an overall idea of how sever is the problem and what do people want in order to control violence and accidents occurring because of the gun use in the system.
The President will seek help from the Judiciary to design new penalties for the violations of the law (How It Works: The Federal Process, n.d). The law will be ensured to affective in terms of stopping the penetration of guns in the system as well as discouraging the use of existing guns in the system. The law will be applied on the public, civil servants as well as the police. Nobody will be allowed to display excessive weapons in the public or media otherwise it will entail legal actions or cancelling of the hard earned license of the gun.
Gun Control Implementation
The gun control implementation is a 360 degree idea and it needs the efforts of all the elements of the system. The people and the administrators are equally important in making a policy successful. The President should realize this and thus believe that everyone has a role to play as well as everyone will be directly or indirectly affected from the gun control policies. There is anticipated regulation and peace in the society as a result of gun control.…
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Turbulent mixing in stably stratified flows
Abstract (Summary)High resolution direct numerical simulations are used to investigate the dynamics of turbulence in flows subject to strong stable stratification, which are common in natural settings. Results are presented for two categories of simulations, uniform and non-uniform density stratification. For all simulated flows, the density stratification was held constant in time, and there was no ambient shear. Flows with uniform density stratification are first analyzed to help provide clear insight to physical processes, followed by flows with non-uniform density stratification which better represent the stratification occurring in nature. Areas of non-uniform density stratification include thermohaline staircases and atmospheric layer transitions. For uniform density gradient flows, it is observed that the Froude-Reynolds number scaling developed by Riley and de Bruyn Kops is similar to the buoyancy Reynolds number, Reb = ε/νN2 . This supports the use of two dimensionless parameters obtained from dimensional analysis to predict turbulence in a density stratified flow. Also, due to the intermittent nature of density stratified flows, an auto-correlation length scale may be more appropriate than the typical advective length scale L a = [Special characters omitted.] . Finally, the common assumption that kinetic energy dissipation rate ε can be approximated by the vertical shear is shown to be valid only when Re b ⤠[Special characters omitted.] (1). Non-uniformly stratified flows are often characterized simply by the average density change with height, which may not adequately describe the flow. For simulated wake flows with the same average density stratification, but altered vertical stratification profiles, the flow dynamics are seen to depend on the ratio ξ = δu /δ Ï , where δu and Î´Ï are characteristic wake and stratification vertical length scales. When ξ is monotonically increased from 0.01 (near linear stratification) to 2 (wake height is twice stratification height), typical stratified flow behavior is observed, such as reduced decay of kinetic energy and inhibited vertical motion. In contrast, when ξ > 2, a transition occurs and the flow demonstrates non-stratified qualities, including rapid decay of kinetic energy and minimal inhibition of vertical motion. In addition, a method for calculating available potential energy in non-uniform density stratified flows has been developed. It will be shown that mixing of available potential energy Ï is confined to the stratification layer, which supports the observation of large mixing in regions of salt fingering found by St. Laurent and Schmitt and Schmitt .
School Location:USA - Massachusetts
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Date of Publication:01/01/2007
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Tax Lawyers in Grant
To pay for general services like police, schools, firefighters, libraries, and hospitals, the government of Grant, Minnesota collects taxes.
In Grant, Minnesota, taxes are derived from different sources. Regardless of where a specific tax comes from, it is always collected in an amount dictated by law. Most often, taxes are calculated as a percentage of income, sales, or property value. Sometimes, typically in the context of licensing fees or car registration fees, taxes are set at a flat rate.
Paying your taxes in Grant is not optional. It is obligated by law. If you don't pay your taxes, you could face stiff fines, and even jail time.
Sources of Tax Dollars in Grant, Minnesota
Taxes can come from a wide number of sources in Grant, Minnesota, such as sales tax, administrative/licensing fees, and tolls.
Sales Tax: Mostly cities in the U.S., as well as most states, charge a sales tax. In Grant, the sales tax is calculated as a percentage of the sale price of most goods and services. The rate varies from state to state, and city to city.
Licensing Fees: The government of Grant issues licenses for engaging in a wide number of different activities. Most often, they issue business licenses, which business owners must obtain before operating any type of business in city limit. The most important of this process is usually paying a fee. While these taxes are called "fees," instead of "taxes," they are functionally identical, and serve the same purpose (namely, raising revenue).
Bridge/Road Tolls: Some larger cities have tolls set up on every main highway that enters the city. Effectively, this amounts to a fee that you have to pay in order to enter Grant, if it imposes such a toll. The idea is that visitors from outside the city enjoy many of the protections provided by the city government while they're there (such as protection by the police), and should pay at least a token sum to contribute to those services.
How Can a Grant, Minnesota Tax Attorney Help?
In Grant, Minnesota, many different laws and regulations govern taxes, making the theoretically simple task of determining one's tax liability pretty confusing. On top of that, there are many different breaks and exemptions that apply to specific types of groups and individuals, further complicating things.
Thus, it's essential that you obtain the counsel of a qualified tax lawyer in Grant, Minnesota if you think that you might need help with your local taxes.
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Discover More About Our Products
The Bushmills Original is produced by the Bushmills, a distillery so important for the Northern-Irish industry that its image was included in the new banknotes of this country as a tribute to its 400 years of existence. In 2010, this whiskey was the winner of multiple awards which testify of its high quality. Since 1608, when King James I gave the founder Sir Thomas Phillips the license to distillate, this company has not stopped sharing with the world a bit of its cultural tradition. More than whiskey, each bottle of Bushmills contains a bit of the richness and traditions of its home region.
TASTING NOTES of Bushmills Original :
- Colour: golden brown
- Odour: Mild, it leaves creamy aromas of vanilla and crème brûlée. Floral and fruity hints.
- Taste: Pleasant on the palate with notes of honey, vanilla and fresh fruits. Creamy texture.
PRODUCER: Old Bushmills Distillery
COUNTRY: Northern Ireland
PRODUCTION DETAILS: it is a blend of single malt and single grain whiskey. It aged a minimum of five years in oak casks that are specially selected to bring out the golden hue and light. When mature this grain whiskey is blended with a single malt whiskey to balance the flavour.
Bushmill's history starts in 1608, when King James I. granted Sir Thomas Phillips - landowner and Governor of Antrum - a license to distill. In 1784 the distillery is registered and the Pot Still becomes its trademark. The first big difference adds in the 1850's, when a malt tax is introduced. Because of this tax many distilleries changed their recipes, while Bushmill's didn't. The brand was unstoppable, although many obstacles - such as a big fire, prohibition and World War II - made life hard and decreased or even stopped production for a while.More about the Producer
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|Application number||US 08/096,237|
|Publication date||Nov 22, 1994|
|Filing date||Jul 26, 1993|
|Priority date||Jul 26, 1993|
|Publication number||08096237, 096237, US 5367136 A, US 5367136A, US-A-5367136, US5367136 A, US5367136A|
|Inventors||Daniel C. Buck|
|Original Assignee||Westinghouse Electric Corp.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (6), Referenced by (110), Classifications (9), Legal Events (7)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
1. Field of Invention
The present invention relates to microelectronics; and more particularly, to a microelectrostatic voltage controlled cantilever switch.
2. Discussion of Related Art
Microelectrostatic voltage controlled switches are used to conduct RF current in applications that involve the of antenna phase shifters, and RF shutters for the protection of radar arrays, for example. Typically these switches comprise a conductive cantilevered beam mounted on a silicon substrate wherein the cantilevered beam has an unsupported portion or free end that overhangs a contact pad. When in an open position, the free end of the cantilevered beam is spaced from the gold contact pad. In response to a DC pull-down voltage applied to the pull down electrode, the substrate coulomb forces cause the free end of the cantilevered beam to engage the surface of the contact pad, thus, resulting in the flow of current from the cantilevered beam to the contact pad.
It has been found that these switches are capable of conducting RF current through approximately ten million switching cycles without failure. After operating in excess of the approximately ten million cycles, the free end of the cantilevered beam tends to stick to the contact pad, which at best decreases the opening speed of the switch, and at the worst causes the switch to remain in its closed position.
Although ten million switching cycles without failure is acceptable for many switching applications, this failure is unacceptable for uses where reliability is paramount over periods of time, such as applications in outer space, for example.
In light of the foregoing, there is a need for microelectrostatic voltage controlled switches that are able to be manufactured at a cost commensurate with and operate effectively as those heretofore developed, but which are also without failure for a substantially greater number of switching cycles.
Accordingly, the present invention is directed to a microelectrostatic cantilever switch which substantially improves the switching cycle lifetime of the described previously developed switch.
Additional advantages of the invention will be set forth in the description which follows, and in part will be apparent from the description or may be learned by practice the invention. The specific advantages and other objects and advantages of the invention will be realized and attained by the apparatus particularly pointed out in the written description and claims hereof as well as the appended drawings.
To achieve these and other objects and advantages in accordance with the purpose of the invention, as embodied and broadly described herein, the microelectrostatic cantilever switch of the present invention comprises a substrate, a pull down electrode, a contact pad, having a planar surface, mounted to the substrate, a cantilever beam fixedly mounted at one end to the substrate and having a free end overhanging the pull down electrode and the planar surface of the contact pad, the free end of the cantilever beam having a planar surface opposing the contact pad, and the pull down electrode, an insulative layer deposited on at least one of the cantilever beam and the contact pad planar opposing surfaces, the opposing insulated surface of the contact pad being spaced from the opposing surfaces of the cantilever beam to provide an air gap therebetween when the switch is in an open position; and means for applying a voltage across the cantilever beam and the pull down electrode to pull the opposing surface of the cantilever beam toward the pull down electrode to close the air gap between the cantilever beam and the contact pad when the switch is operated to the closed position, the space between the opposing surfaces in the open position and the thickness of the insulative layer in the closed position being dimensioned to provide a capacitance in the closed position that is at least two orders of magnitude greater than the capacitance in the open position.
It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory and are intended to provide further explanation of the invention as claimed.
The accompanying drawings, which are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate one embodiment of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a highly magnified fragmentary view in perspective of the cantilever beam and contact pad arrangement of a microelectrostatic cantilever switch according to one embodiment of the invention;
FIG. 2 is a highly magnified fragmentary longitudinal view in elevation of the embodiment of FIG. 1 showing the switch in the open position; and
FIG. 3 is a fragmentary view similar to FIG. 2 with the switch in the closed position.
Reference will now be made in detail to a preferred embodiment of the invention, an example of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing. Whenever possible, the same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts.
The switch of the present invention comprises a substrate. As herein embodied and referring to FIGS. 1-3, a microelectrostatic switch, generally referred to as 10, has an insulating substrate 12, which is preferably silicon, but may also be quartz, glass, teflon, or other smooth insulating electronic substrate, for example. Substrate 12 has an upper surface 13 which may be a surface of a layer of silicon oxide or a polysilicon or polysilicon nitride layer (not shown), for example.
The switch has a cantilever beam fixed at one end to the substrate and having an elongated unsupported portion overhanging the substrate, said unsupported portion terminating at a free end.
As herein embodied, a cantilever beam 16 has an end 18 fixed to surface 13 of the substrate 12 and an unsupported length 20 that extends a distance L between the fixed end. 18 and a free end 22.
The switch of the present invention also includes a pull down electrode fixed to the substrate between the substrate and the cantilever beam.
As herein embodied, a pull down electrode 24 is deposited on the substrate 12 beneath a portion of the beam 16 adjacent free end 22. The switch of the present invention preferably includes a metallic contact pad fixed to the substrate between the substrate and the cantilever beam, the cantilever beam being spaced from the contact pad with the switch in the open position.
As embodied herein, between the fixed end 18 of the cantilever beam 16 and the free end 22, and spaced from the pull down electrode 24 is a contact pad 26. Contact pad 26 preferably may be of a material, such as gold, and pull down electrode 24 preferably may be made of a material, such as gold. The substrate 12 may have a ground connection 32 connected to the fixed end 18 of the cantilever beam with a voltage source 30 directly at the pull down electrode 24, for example. For a detailed description of the method of making an electrostatic switch of the type described herein, reference is made to U.S. Pat. No. 3,539,705 issued in Nov. 10, 1970.
In accordance with the invention, an impermeable oxide layer is deposited on at least one of the opposing surfaces of the free end of the cantilever beam and the contact pad.
As herein embodied, an impermeable oxide layer 28, which may be an oxide of chrome or alumina is deposited on surface 34 of the contact pad 26. The minimum thickness of the insulative layer 28 is preferably in the range of between 0.1 and 0.5 microns; i.e., at a thickness that will prevent metal to metal contact between opposing surfaces of the contact pad 26 and cantilever beam 28 for substantially in excess of ten million switching cycles. The maximum thickness of the insulative layer 28 is preferably in the range of between 0.5 and 2 microns depending on the parameters desired for a specific application.
In one exemplary implementation of the electrostatic switch of FIGS. 1-3, the contact pad 26 is assumed to have a dimension opposing the surface of the cantilever beam of ten microns by ten microns, which provides an area of insulative layer 28 of one hundred square microns. The thickness of the insulative layer 28 is within the above minimum range, and there is a space of one to twenty-five microns between the layer 28 and the opposing surface of the cantilever beam. The unsupported length L of the cantilever beam 16 is in the range of between one and two mils, a thickness D for the unsupported portion 20 of one micron, and a width W of ten microns.
With a switch having the dimension as above set forth the RF current density with the switch in the closed position can be as high as 100,000 or more amperes per square centimeter, which metal migration effects may occur. Thus, without the benefit of the present invention, this metal migration resulted in the sticking of the metal cantilever to the metal pad.
As shown in FIG. 3, the microelectrostatic switch of the present invention does not have metal to metal contact in the closed position, thus, eliminating metal migration and the resultant, sticking of the cantilever beam in the closed position. As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, the microelectrostatic switch of the embodiment of FIG. 1 has a capacitance between the opposing surfaces of the contact pad and the cantilever beam in the closed position of 0.8 Pf, and in the open position a capacitance of 0.001 to 0.01 Pf including stray capacitance. This would provide a series resistance at the point of contact of approximately 0.2 of an ohm, which will provide a switching cut off frequency of about 1012 Hz.
Thus, the non-contact closed position of the switch as shown in FIG. 3 would be suitable for long usage applications where the switching times would not be less than one nanosecond depending on the metal of the cantilever. The driver power for pulling down the cantilever beam 16 is virtually zero since the cantilever beam has no final metal to metal contact area when the switch is closed. When the switch is in the open position as shown in FIG. 2, the cantilever beam 16 is not necessarily precisely parallel to the surface of the contact pad 26. However, in the closed position, the insulated surface 28 and the opposing surface of the cantilever beam 16 are in physical engagement with each other providing exact parallelism between the surfaces provided by the uniformity of the impermeable oxide layer 28. The parallelism of the gap in the closed position, which is obtained by complete contact of the opposing surfaces and uniformity in the thickness of the layer permits the large ratio of capacitance/closed to capacitance/open, feasible. The uniform insulative layer 28 may be deposited on the contact pad in any well known manner.
Having described the presently preferred embodiment of the invention, additional advantages and modifications will readily occur to those skilled in the art. Specifically, although exemplary materials are set forth herein, the substrate, layers, cantilever beam and contact pad may be made of any material that is suitable for a microelectrostatic switch that is structurally and operatively similar to those described or referenced herein. Accordingly, the invention in its broader aspects is not limited to specific details, representative apparatus, and illustrative examples shown and described. Departure may be made from such details without departing the spirit or scope of the general inventive concept as defined by the appended claims and their equivalents.
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It’s important to select unique, non-competitive keywords for your site. If you try to compete for traffic by using more popular keywords, you will be drowned out by the big players that already have a large readership. Aim for a unique niche to draw in the most readers.
Let your readers post comments on your blog posts, and reply to those comments. This allows readers a chance to feel like they’re part of your site’s community and develop relationships with you and other readers. If readers see you reply to viewer comments, they will come back to your site hoping to read a response.
If you want to maintain your reader base, you need to post new content on a regular basis. Because blogs come and go, you must stay consistent in order to maintain your readers. Except for a few days, like Christmas or Easter, readers expect to hear from you on a very regular basis, so make sure to give them what they want when it comes to keeping a blogging schedule.
Focus on your content when writing your blog. Be sure content is inspirational, informative and interesting. When you have honest, personal, quality content, readers are more likely to return.
When making a longer blog post, remember to use subheadings to separate the article into smaller reading blocks. This makes the blog more readable and helps increase your readership. This is a simple way to create a better blog.
A topic that excites your interest and passion is particularly important when you make a blog. If you are passionate about your topic, that will come across in your posts. This makes it easier to connect with your followers, which in turn will improve the overall quality of your blog!
As far as blogging goes, it is not wise to use simple approaches. Your blogging efforts should change over time as you learn new information and begin to view your blog as a business. Learn from other bloggers, and use the different techniques and strategies that you learn as you go. Continuously improve and learn about new blogging methods that will help you move forward.
Social networking sites are a great way to promote your blogs. Do not overlook the power of social media as the latest and best way on the internet of connecting you with the people you want reading your blog. If you want to post your blog to Facebook or even Twitter, you can get lots of new visitors to make your blog a success.
Increase readership of your blog with social media sites. This is the newest way to connect with people over the Internet. If you skipping this, you are not getting as many viewers as you can. Connecting your blog to your Facebook and Twitter accounts will really contribute greatly to the success of your blog.
Your blog should have a contact page that is easy to find. That will enable your blog readers to contact you anytime they have a question or idea. A wide variety of people are bound to visit your blog or website, and you could build interesting relationships and get important feedback from those that contact you.
A new homepage could be just what your blog needs. A custom homepage has much more flavor than a simple list of posts. This is particularly important because your blog will probably be discovered through search engines or links.
Keep long blogs from dragging on by inserting clear divisions. A long blog can be a lot to take in for a reader. Therefore, it is very important to the success and readability of your blog that you divide large text into more pleasant sections for your viewers.
Promotions and giveaways are a great way to attract new readers. Who doesn’t like getting something for nothing? You don’t have to give away anything expensive. If you give out free stuff as often as you can, you’ll see some very big results. If people anticipate frequent giveaways, they are likely to check your blog on a regular basis.
Make sure that you always try to interlink your blogs within your contents. This will make your site more easy to navigate and will keep your readers happy. Since the purpose of a link is to provide your readers with an easy way to reach your webpage or specific features of your website, avoid losing readers and potential customers through links that don’t work or that require additional navigation in order to reach a specified location.
Use a font that is a comfortable size for most readers when blogging. This is vital to your success. The text in your posts is the heart of your content, so it’s critical that the text is easy to read. You need to strike a balance; text that is too big will make readers scroll endlessly, while readers will need to grab the magnifying glass to read tiny microtext.
Many people online are lazy, so your content must stand out. This can be accomplished in a number of ways using creative and eye-catching headers and putting the relevant areas of interest in bold type. You can also make bullet lists to get your readers’ attention.
Blogging is social, so don’t forget this aspect. This requires you to be very accessible to your base of readers and followers. You should also actively network with other bloggers in your niche. If you do nothing, it is very unlikely that your blog will be successful. Take an active role in your blog’s success!
Blog Posting conferences are a great source of information if you can afford to attend them. You can use the valuable information provided by these conferences to improve your own writing a blog skills. Conventions also give you a chance to network with other successful, and influential, bloggers.
Since most web surfers are lazy and don’t like to read a lot of content, you need to make your blog articles stand out. You can do this, and hook readers in, by making eye-catching titles and headings, as well as bolding your keywords. Bullet points are also a great way to break up long articles and express key points.
Consider putting your recommended articles into tabbed zones. Use the hot spot located right in front of your side bars. Sort the important articles linked to in your tabbed zone by categories that are relevant to your blog. Tabs increase your page’s usability and increase the probability of your reader clicking on the tabbed material.
Blogging conferences often yield very useful information and skills. These conferences can provide you with a lot of valuable knowledge that will improve your blogging skills. They are also a great place to network with other successful bloggers. Who knows, some of their success may rub off on you.
As you work to create fresh content, look at current news stories for relevant information. Find stories that are relevant to your blog. For example, if your blog is about hair design, an article on an up and coming hair stylist expo would be very suitable to post. Your readers are likely to find this kind of information interesting.
Pick a topic that responds well to search engine optimization methods. Your blog will attain higher ranking with major search engines and it will also run much smoother. Readers want to visit blogs which load swiftly, and they won’t return to a site which doesn’t. Return visitors are your bread and butter, so cater to their needs.
Incorporate a link-building feature as part of your blog. This is a simple way to increase traffic and help you to make more money with your blog.
Think about search engine optimization when you choose a topic and theme for your blogs. This will improve search engine rankings for your blog, and will help the site run without excessive glitches. Today’s readers expect instant gratification both in message and in design. If so, the reader is likely to head back a page and find another resource.
Hard data, such as graphs, statistics, and poll results, should be incorporated into your blog at every opportunity. This can increase your blog quality and create more topics of interest for readers. This is a simple method for improving the individuality of your blog.
Your blog is public and the entire world has access to it, don’t forget! You can’t know who you may affect with your writing. Have this on your mind as you blog, since only one word or sentence could change the whole world. Because of this, blog posting is usually enjoyable.
All of the important parts of a site should be at the top of your webpage so that people see it while the screen is loading. Tweaks like these give viewers an easier time navigating, which can only mean more viewers.
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The annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar will be held Oct. 27 at USC’s Doheny Memorial Library.
The bazaar is an excellent way to become acquainted with the astounding number of libraries and historical societies across the city and their amazingly diverse collections. As any experienced researcher will tell you, historical material on Los Angeles is not always in a logical place, and tracking it down is often a treasure hunt — to cite my favorite examples, the records on the early history of USC’s medical school are at UCLA; most of the Herald Examiner photos on the Black Dahlia case are not at the Los Angeles Public Library with the rest of the Her-Ex photos, but in the John Gilmore material at UCLA.
This year’s bazaar includes several interesting panel discussions:
–Start Your Engines: How L.A. Became the Center of Car Culture.
–CSI Los Angeles: Archival Case Study investigation, which sounds especially interesting.
–Wish You were Here: Los Angeles in Postcards.
–Southern California Ranchos and Homesteads.
There will also be a presentation by Natalie M. Fousekis, head of Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Oral and Public History, on getting started with oral history.
And a documentary by Lev Anderson and Chris Metzler on the 1980s band Fishbone.
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From A Compendium of Irish Biography, 1878
Drelincourt, Peter, LL.D., Dean of Armagh, son of the well known Charles Drelincourt, a Huguenot pastor in France, was born in Paris, 22nd July 1644. He came to Ireland as chaplain of the Lord-Lieutenant, the Duke of Ormond. In 1681 he was appointed Precentor of Christ Church, Dublin; in 1683 he was collated to the further preferment of Archdeacon of Leighlin, which he resigned 28th February 1690-1, on being appointed Dean of Armagh. The only work published of this eminent divine was A speech to the Duke of Ormond and the Privy Council, to return the humble thanks of the French Protestants arrived in this Kingdom, and graciously received (Dublin, 1682). He died 7th March 1722 [1720, aged 76] and was buried in Armagh Cathedral, where a handsome monument has been raised to his memory, surmounted by a life-like representation of him in a recumbent posture, executed by Rysbrach. His widow founded the Drelincourt Charity School in Armagh, in 1732.
118. Ecclesiae Hiberniae Fasti: Rev. Henry Cotton: Indices by John R. Garstin, M.A. 5 vols. Dublin, 1851-'60.
323b. Tomb Stones and Monuments.
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Information Systems Security is an important and rapidly growing sector. Be a part of it!
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Starting in the 2021/2022 academic year, the MISAM and MISSM programs will change from 60 credits to a more flexible 33 credit program. This will enable you to choose between either a research or a capstone track. We recommend that you complete the 33 credits in 4 semesters to maximize your success in the program.
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In your future career as a security and assurance professional, you will value the skills developed through these programs as you build your research skills, enhance your communication and writing skills through proposal submissions, and advance your presentation and implementation skills.
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As the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan continues to spread, the country’s appointment to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights prompts an American walkout
THE cries of “hypocrisy” were as predictable as they were depressing. On Tuesday May 4th, Sudan was re-elected as a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights, despite government-backed atrocities in the western region of Darfur. This prompted the American envoy to walk out, saying that his nation could not participate in the “absurdity” of confirming Sudan's place on the body. The Sudanese ambassador responded that America was shedding mere “crocodile tears”, citing inhumane treatment of prisoners by American troops in Iraq (see article) and the deaths of civilians during American raids on Fallujah.
Human-rights groups claim that around a million people from Darfur have been displaced from their homes, with over 100,000 fleeing across the western border into Chad. By one estimate, over 10,000 have been killed, and refugees report frequent mass rape. Mounted militias known as janjaweed have committed the worst atrocities, but the UN accuses government forces of aerial bombardment of villages, arming and co-ordinating the militias, and a “strategy of systematic and deliberate starvation”. In one camp housing some 1,700 displaced Darfurians, eight or nine children are dying each day, according to UN monitors who visited in late April. If the crisis continues through the rainy season, which begins in May, the resulting meagre harvest could lead to famine among Darfur's 6m people. The UN's humanitarian co-ordinator, Mukesh Kapila, has described the situation in the region as "the worst humanitarian and human-rights catastrophe in the world".
The Darfur crisis is another episode in the frequent conflicts between Sudan's largely Arab rulers and the blacks in the west and south of the country. A long-running and deadly civil war in the south has led to peace talks in Kenya, and there was some optimism that the worst could be behind Sudan. Then Darfur flared up. Black locals, mainly settled farmers, complained that nomadic Arab groups had repeatedly encroached on pastures and livestock. The government did little to stop them. As a result, two rebel groups formed in early 2003: the Sudanese Liberation Army and the Justice and Equality Movement. Indirect peace talks have yielded little, and human-rights groups charge that despite a nominal ceasefire, government-sponsored brutality continues.
Until recently there was no clear picture of that brutality—most of the UN's knowledge came from interviews with refugees in Chad. After much stonewalling by the Sudanese government, the UN's fact-finders were finally allowed into Darfur last month, but human-rights groups claimed that this timing was merely intended to blunt criticism of Sudan by the Commission on Human Rights during its recently ended annual six-week session. A critical report based on the interviews in Chad was kept out of official proceedings (pending the results of the UN mission to Sudan itself), and only a mild resolution was passed against Sudan on April 23rd, to America's frustration.
Sudan was re-appointed to the human-rights commission on Tuesday without opposition. Under UN rules, each region of the world is allotted a number of places on the body. The African group merely nominated four countries for its four slots: Sudan, Kenya, Togo and Guinea. The American envoy, Sichan Siv, proclaimed himself “perplexed and dismayed” that the African group would put forward “a country that massacres its own African citizens” (which Togo and Guinea also do, incidentally).
Mr Siv was no doubt referring to recent statements, by the likes of South Africa and Nigeria, that Africans should do more to address African problems. This new push for African responsibility has included the creation in 2002 of the African Union, which is supposed to foster economic and social development across the continent. Sadly, the appointment of Sudan to the human-rights commission this week seems to indicate that Africa is united in doing nothing serious about Darfur.
The tussle over Darfur will give ammunition to American critics of the UN. This is not the first time that the Commission on Human Rights has been at the centre of controversy. Libya was appointed to chair the body in January 2003, prompting hoots of derision from the UN's American detractors; and America walked out of the commission's membership vote last year when Cuba was elected. An ongoing investigation into alleged fraud in the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq has further fuelled criticism that the organisation is ineffectual at best, corrupt at worst.
Awkwardly, this all comes at a time when President George Bush is seeking more help from the UN in Iraq, hoping that the world body will take a role in selecting and legitimising a caretaker government after the handover of sovereignty on June 30th. The American walkout over Darfur will do little to help reconciliation between the superpower and the UN—though it may at least bring the horrific abuses being perpetrated in Darfur to the world's attention.
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US allies' lax computer security puts cyber info sharing at risk
- By Defense Systems Staff
- Apr 13, 2012
International initiatives aimed at developing better tools and methods to prevent cyberattacks is being undermined by poor computer security among U.S. allies, a senior Pentagon official said April 10, reports The Washington Post.
Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, director of intelligence at the U.S. Cyber Command, said sharing cybersecurity information with a friendly country that operates computer systems susceptible to penetration creates opportunities for adversaries to steal the data.
“[You] don’t go against the hard target," Cox said at a conference on cybersecurity held at Georgetown University, referring to how intelligence gathering works. "You go against the weak one and work your way in there.”
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Clifford Orin Waller was born 1896 in Griffin, Georgia to John W. Waller and Susan Jarrett Lynch Waller. He enlisted on 8 June 1918. He was wounded in action on 1 November 1918, on the right leg and arm and was transferred to SOS Hospital in France. He was initially buried at the American Cemetery 555, Chatrices, Marne, France.
- Rank: Private
- Date of birth: 3 August 1896
- Date of death: 3 November 1918
- County: Hamilton
- Hometown: Chattanooga
- Service Branch: Marine Corps
- Division/Assignment: 73rd Company, 6th Regiment
- Theater: Europe
- Conflict: World War I
- Battles: Meuse, Argonne
- Location In Memorial: Pillar III, Middle Panel
- Contact us to sponsor Clifford O. Waller
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Glycerin and glycerol are two different products although they can be confused as being one and the same. Glycerol is the byproduct of the manufacture of biodiesel, which is made from animal fat or soybeans. In its raw state, glycerol can be converted into vegetable glycerin. If the glycerin is approved by the U.S. Pharmacopeia, it is typically used in beverages and food.Continue Reading
Glycerin is used extensively as a sweetener in chocolate filling, cookies and cakes. The colorless compound also serves as a humectant in soaps and lotions. Glycerin-based remedies treat such skin issues as rashes, acne, burns, psoriasis, bites and calluses. Glycerin soaps treat fungal and yeast infections and soften and ameliorate dry skin. Cough syrups and dietary supplements are also manufactured using glycerin. Adding the ingredient to weight-loss products prevents dehydration during exercise and enhances physical stamina. The ingredient is also added to toothpastes and mouthwashes to kill bacteria.
Used in supplements and weight loss products, glycerol improves performance and replenishes water during exercise. Healthcare providers use the ingredient in IV applications to reduce pressure within the brain and to treat such conditions as encephalitis, stroke, meningitis and central nervous system traumas. The liquid is also used to reduce corneal fluid buildup during an eye exam.Learn more about Chemistry
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Manual Chiropractic Treatment
What is a chiropractor? These are doctors that use alternative methods to treating patients. Unlike the average medical doctor, they do not rely on medicines and prescription drugs to solve the problem. They believe that every problem you experience (whether it be a headache, stomach ache, or the common cold) is caused by the poor alignment of your spine.
The most common method used to treat patients is the manual method. This means that they will lay you down on a special table and do a type of massage therapy. When you are a bystander looking in it almost makes you worry that they will snap off someone’s neck. Despite how it looks this is a great method and people feel a lot better physically and even mentally when they leave.
A chiropractic activator is a machine that the chiropractor will sometimes use to more easily re-align the bones in your body. This was created to replace the manual massage therapy because of how accurate it was. When the doctors are trying to realign the spine by hand they can run into problems because they are forcing the patient to move around a lot.
However, with this instrument the process is more simpler and accurate than ever before. The activator is 20 cm. long and has a rubber foot at the end of a spring tensioner. When the activator is pushed down it will release a ‘shock’ to the necessary area and adjust it properly.
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In my posting several days ago, I cited Ivone Gebara's Out of the Depths: Women’s Experience of Evil and Salvation, trans. and intro. Ann Patrick Ware (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2002), on the ways in which various male-dominated religious traditions reduce women to silence, make them voiceless, deprive them of any means of expressing their spiritual insights in language that makes sense to them as women. Gebara's analysis of this reduction of women to silence goes further: she emphatically depicts these effects of patriarchal culture and religion as a form of violence against women.
In a previous posting, I noted that Gebara makes the following observation about how male-dominated cultures and religions institutionalize violence against women by incorporating into their very fabric social arrangements designed to exalt men at the expense of women, who are degraded by these arrangements: she states,
Institutionalized violence against women is not just one specific act of violence but a social arrangement, a cultural construct geared to degrade one pole of humanity and exalt the other (81).
In Gebara's view, women's training in submission--specifically, their training in submission to male violence--begins right in the home, in the family circle, from the time they are little girls:
Females live first as girls under the violence of their mothers, then as women under their husbands or companions (104).
Violence of this enculturated, taken-for-granted, "normal" form is woven right into the fibers of religion itself, Gebara insists, contra those who see religion as always unambiguously standing against violence:
Some may object that religion has not often been a place of violence. On the contrary, in view of the patriarchal characteristics of the main religions of the world, religion has been not only an arena for violence but the ultimate justification for violence launched against all kinds of people and both men and women, but especially women (104).
In the main religions of the world, "religion has been not only an arena for violence but the ultimate justification for violence launched against all kinds of people": this is a powerful claim, one that roots the persistent violence enacted by religious groups against targeted, maligned minorities (Jews, heretics, women, witches, indigenous people, homosexuals, etc.) in what might be called the aboriginal arrangement of violence: the subjugation of women to men, propped up by religious warrants and strictures throughout the main religions of the world.
The graphic: Käthe Kollwitz's woodcut "The Mothers" (1922-3), from the Brooklyn Museum.
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Every business requires someone to contact existing customers, find new prospects, explain product features, answer questions, negotiate prices and book orders. This is the job of a manufacturer representative. Though the work can be stressful and sometimes requires significant travel, it can be a very lucrative profession. Earnings are usually a combination of salary, commission and bonuses.
Most manufacturer representatives are responsible for the entire sales process. They work to identify initial prospects through trade shows, conferences, business directories, existing clients and through networking. They call on prospects to discover their needs and determine which products can be of benefit. Existing customers are regularly contacted to monitor their satisfaction and make them aware of new offerings. Manufacturer representatives negotiate prices, sales terms and service agreements, prepare sales contracts and submit orders.
A day in the life of a manufacturer representative varies depending on the industry, the type of company they work for and their position within the organization. Outside sales representatives often have large physical areas to cover and travel a lot, spending days or weeks away from home. Inside representatives spend virtually all their time on the phone, video conferencing and using the Internet to contact clients, take orders and solve customer problems. In either case, the work is often stressful since income and job security are almost always based on results. Even if income is not based on commission, they usually must meet their sales quotas.
Education and Training
The type of product a manufacturer rep sells dictates what type of education is required. Industrial equipment, medical instruments and pharmaceuticals usually require a bachelor's degree in a relevant field, while other products may only require a high school diploma. Regardless of their educational background, most manufacturer representatives need on-the-job training to become familiar with their products. Large corporations have formal training programs that can last up to one year, while smaller companies usually match new employees with seasoned veterans for a shorter period.
Earnings & Outlook
Manufacturer representatives, working where significant technical or scientific knowledge is required, earn substantially more than those employed in other industries. Bureau of Labor Statistics May 2011 data show that manufacturer representatives of technical and scientific products earn between $52,630 and $106,270 yearly, with a median wage of $74,750. Manufacturer representatives in all other fields, by comparison, earned between $37,630 and $76,850 yearly, with a median wage of $53,540. Overall, these sales representatives can expect demand for their services to keep pace with growth in the general economy. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that job growth of 16 percent is expected from 2010 to 2020, roughly equal to the average for all occupations.
- U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Occupational Outlook Handbook; Wholesale and Manufacturing Sales Representatives
- O*NET: 41-4011.00 - Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- O*NET: 41-4012.00 - Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
- U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products
- U.S. Department of Labor: Bureau of Labor Statistics; Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
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Connecting African women with IT is good for growth
Getting women in Africa access to information technology (IT) like smart phones is not just about closing the usage gender gap, experts say it is also a major driver of economic growth across the continent. That was the main theme Thursday at a panel discussion on women and IT during the 50th Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) in Abidjan.
There is serious cash to be made around the world, said Shireen Shantosham of Groupe Speciale Mobile Association’s Connect Women Program. “170 billion over five years,” she said, and “Sub-Saharan African represents 30 billion of that.”
Shantosham, along with representatives from Google, Intel, OXFAM and Côte d’Ivoire’s Minister of Post and Information Communications Technology, Kone Bruno, all said their organizations are working towards inclusion, but agree there are some major barriers to access for women. Shantosham said her organization did one of the few surveys on the issue. She said cost, network quality, personal security, technical literacy and confidence are the main areas that hold women back.
“Women are getting harassed by strangers on the phone.” Shantosham said. It happens when men randomly dial a number, find a woman and repeatedly call her. “That can lead to suspicion in the house” and even restricted or revoked access by a male family members, she said.
Côte d’Ivoire is ahead of the game when it comes to breaking down some of those barriers. Bruno said there are 22 million mobile subscribers in the country and that the ratio of men to women is roughly 50:50, which is a major achievement compared with other nations on the continent. He added that the government has a five-point plan to ensure technology reaches the masses and it involves regulation, connectivity and access to equipment, content and training. In addition, Bruno said his country has formulated cyber protection laws, and is the process of launching access programs and getting rural areas online. He said there are also cyber centres in 3,000 rural communities.
“All governments should follow Côte d’Ivoire,” said Assiatou Sow of Intel. She said internet access has had a tremendous impact on lifting countries out of poverty. For Intel’s part, the company has a program called “Intel Women Connect” that focuses bringing more connectivity to women and girls.
Content is another area for growth, Amy O’Donnell of OXFAM said. “Ninety percent of content is generated outside the continent” of Africa. Helping to create content that will bring African women into the fold is a huge part of bringing them online, she said.
That is also an avenue for a new employment sector, Deme Tidjan of Aid Google Africa said. “We need to create businesses and seize the financial opportunities.” But he also added that the best way to find out what is needed is to continue to generate the research that will lead to solutions and he encouraged organizations including the AfDB to fund it.
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or fortuity is good or bad fortune in life caused by accident or
chance, and attributed by some to reasons of faith or superstition,
which happens beyond a person's control.
are many signs and symbols from around the world that are seen as
lucky. Others are thought to bring good fortune to the people that
posess them. Some believe these symbols can grant wishes or even heal
the sick. There are also several symbols for warding off evil and
views of luck vary from perceiving luck as a matter of random chance to
attributing to luck explanations of faith or superstition. For example,
the Romans believed in the embodiment of luck as the goddess Fortuna,
while the atheist and philosopher Daniel Dennett believes that "luck is
mere luck" rather than a property of a person or thing.
symbols are popular worldwide and take many forms.
are some of the most popular good luck symbols.
Leaf Clover-is a
renown symbol that means good luck to the person who finds one. What do
the leaves symbolize?
One leaf is for FAITH...The second for HOPE... The third for LOVE...
And the fourth for LUCK! In Irish tradition the Shamrock or Three-leaf
Clover represents the Holy Trinity: one leaf for the Father, one for
the Son and one for the Holy Spirit. When a Shamrock is found with the
fourth leaf, it represents God's Grace.
horseshoe is considered
very lucky and used to be hung in many homes to protect and attract
good fortune for the family residing inside. Horseshoes were also
considered lucky because they were made by blacksmiths, which is also
considered a very lucky trade. Because they worked with elemental fire
and magical iron, they were thought to have special powers.
Related Good Luck
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Rabbits and hares were considered very lucky animals as they were
associated with spring and the return of flowers and other plants.
Spring was also a time of fertility and so rabbits were considered good
luck to be seen running through the fields. To see a rabbit running
through your yard meant that it would be a good year to have children
or that your garden would be especially fertile this year.
The manner in which
rabbits run gave birth to the superstition about rabbit's feet.
Apparently their unusual stride makes the back feet touch the ground
ahead of their front feet and so the back feet were considered
Penny-Lots of superstitions
around money. Almost all forms of currency have at least one
superstition associated with them. The most common superstition heard
today, with respect to the penny, is the rhyming verse: "Find a penny,
pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck."
have become a common tradition
at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter dinners. The general rule is that
the wishbone is saved from the turkey or chicken dinner and dried
overnight. The next day, two people snap it while making a wish. Each
person uses their pinky finger to pull on an end. After the bone has
broken, the one with the larger bit is granted their wish.
- Blessing, Good Fortune, Good Luck
Fu is one of the most popular Chinese characters used in Chinese New
Year. It is often posted upside down on the front door of a house or an
apartment. The upside down fu means good luck came since the character
for upsite down in Chinese sounds the same as the character for came.
It used to mean official's salary in feudal China. Fengshui is believed
to be the Chinese way to health, wealth and happiness. If you are
interested in Fengshui, you may check out the book 'The Feng Shui Kit.'
Shou also means life, age or birthday.
- wealth, money
Chinese often say money can make a ghost turn a millstone. It is to say
money really can do a lot of things.
- lucky, auspicious, propitious
Hope all is well.
Goldfish - Throughout the different cultures all over the world, goldfish are considered the harbingers of prosperity, growth, wealth, power, long life, wisdom and peace. They are kept in bowls or ponds to bring good luck in homes and work places. As one of the 8 sacred symbols of Buddha, goldfish are symbolic of abundance, fertility and harmony in life. The ancient Egyptians believed them to be lucky omens that brought positivity in domestic situations, while the ancient Greek domesticated them to enhance good luck in relationships and marriages. The Chinese and Japanese also associate goldfish with growth and preservation of wealth and success.
|Acorn luck symbol
- The acorn is
considered to be an emblem of good luck, prosperity, youthfulness and
power, the acorn is a good luck symbol. The acorn may often also
represent spiritual growth. The Norse believed that acorns displayed on
a windowsill would protect a house from lightening. This may seem
somewhat trivial to many of us today but back in the day it was a
widely accepted idea.
|Keys - Three keys
worn together symbolise the unlocking of the doors to health, wealth
|Rainbow - Rainbows
are considered lucky by many people, because most people know that if
we find the end of the rainbow, we will find a nice big pot of gold.
mursunsydan ("heart of the walrus") is an ancient symbol used in
Northern Europe. It was especially popular in Lapland. Some say it was
used on Lappish shaman drums. The symbol originates from prehistoric
times and incorporates a swastika.
tursaansydän was believed to bring good luck and
protect from curses, and was used as a decorative motif on wooden
furniture and buildings in Finland. During the 18th century the simple
swastika became more popular in Finnish wood decoration than the more
considered lucky by many peoples around the world, including the
Ancient cultures of Greece, Sumer, Egypt, and Rome. For Christians and
Native Americans, the dolphin is a symbol of protection, and it`s image
is said to bring good luck. The belief comes from the known fact that
ancient sailors who spent several months or years away from land, found
that seeing dolphins swimming around their ships to be the first clear
sign that land was near.
|Feathers are an
ancient charm for bringing good luck and they represent the journey of
the soul to the other realm.
have long been
considered lucky in chinese astrology. The tiger is also considered a
protector against several evils, including being robbed and fires.
the Native American culture, are considered to be good luck, because
they catch the negative parts of our dreams.
the aura, and also balances the yin and yang. It attracts compassion,
protects against evil influences, accidental injury and brings good
- The Hand has been a good luck symbol in a number of cultures all over the world,
including the Incas, Native Americans, Israelis, Greeks and Arabs. Charms shaped as the human
hand have been considered to be very potent heralders of good fortune. The symbol is seen
as representative of domination, strength, protection and spiritual power. Ancient Europeans
believed that holding hand up could protect against the evil eye (leading to the popular
adage ‘talk to my hand’). In Islam, The Hand of Fatima (daughter of Muhammad) is a good luck
charm, with the five fingers symbolic of faith, pilgrimage, prayer, fasting and charity. The Jews
believe that The Hand of Miriam charm would bring good fortune to the wearer.
Ladybug is a universal emblem of good luck and different cultures all over the world have long considered it to be a harbinger of prosperity. It is believed that landing of a live ladybug on you or wearing a ladybug talisman will free you from all problems and make your wishes come true. Moreover, it is said that bad luck befalls the one who kills a ladybug.
In the days of yore, farmers especially regarded the ladybug as a lucky omen and symbol of protection because it helped control the harmful pest population.
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Small business is the engine that powers the American economy, and small-business success stories are powerful inspiration for future entrepreneurs. We want to give small-business owners the chance to tell the world how they launched their business.
Washington, D.C. (PRWEB) February 04, 2013
The nation’s leading small business association, NFIB, is offering national exposure, a $5000 prize and one-year memberships to small-business owners who submit a video detailing how they started their businesses.
“Small business is the engine that powers the American economy, and small-business success stories are powerful inspiration for future entrepreneurs,” said Mark Garzone, NFIB Senior VP of Marketing. “We want to give small-business owners the chance to tell the world how they launched their business.”
Throughout February, entrepreneurs can visit http://www.nfib.com/videocontest and submit a video about how they built their business. Each week, a panel will pick three winners who will have their video posted on NFIB.com and receive a free one-year membership to NFIB. At the end of four weeks, NFIB.com visitors will vote for their favorites from the 12 weekly winners, with the winning business owner receiving $5000 cash.
The contest is open to any independently-owned business of less than 500 employees incorporated or organized in the United States. Entries will be judged based on creativity and originality.
NFIB advocates for its small-business membership in Washington, DC and in every state capital. NFIB members also have exclusive access to vital business resources and member benefits on shipping, financial services, maintenance supplies, insurance and more.
Celebrating its 70th year, NFIB is the nation’s leading small-business association, with offices in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. Founded in 1943 as a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, NFIB gives small and independent business owners a voice in shaping the public policy issues that affect their business. NFIB’s powerful network of grassroots activists send their views directly to state and federal lawmakers through a unique member-only ballot, thus playing a critical role in supporting America’s free enterprise system. NFIB’s mission is to promote and protect the right of members to own, operate and grow their businesses. For more information visit NFIB online.
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A smaller version of Debian known as 'squeeze' had been used to run Raspberry Pis but the dedicated Raspbian OS has been in development since March 2012 and is now available for download.
Raspbian provides more than just the operating system and comes with over 35,000 pieces of user software ready to use on a Raspberry Pi.
"We are pleased to announce the release of our first SD card image based on the Raspbian distribution. This is the result of an enormous amount of hard work by Alex and Dom over the past couple of months, and replaces the existing Debian squeeze image as our recommended install," Eban Upton said on the official Raspberry Pi blog.
He pointed out that the Raspbian OS was the first software to take full advantage of the Raspberry Pi's floating point hardware, which would - among other things - allow much faster web browsing.
"Users who are still using Debian squeeze will definitely want to switch to this, as it contains numerous tweaks and performance improvements to the firmware, kernel and applications," Upton said. "Those who are using the recent Debian wheezy beta will also see a very worthwhile, but somewhat smaller, improvement."
Upton thanked Mike Thompson and Peter Green from the Raspbian project, Simon Hall for his work optimising the ARMv6 chip, as well as Edgar Hucek, whose accelerated media player is preinstalled with Raspbian and Sergio Conde for his work on packaging it for distribution.
New users can learn about how to install Linux on their Raspberry Pi by visiting the 'Absolute Beginners' forum.
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JACKSON — Companies spend a lot of money these days defending themselves against discrimination charges, but it seems Vangela M. Wade has found a way to lessen — if not eliminate — such situations.
Wade is president and chief consultant of the new Jackson-based Wade Group, which provides training and consulting services, organizational assessment, retreats, symposiums and workshops. Her mission is to provide effective and creative training in the areas of diversity awareness, sensitivity, fair employment practices and understanding of cultural differences.
“I figured if companies were spending as much as they were defending charges and complaints that their money would be better spent paying for training and getting a better workforce,” Wade said.
Wade practiced law with Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC for three years before opening The Wade Group Sept. 1, 2001, but her career in law did not begin there.
After graduating from Mississippi State University in 1984 with a degree in political science, Wade worked for the Department of the Army as a budget analyst assistant at the National Training Institute at Ft. Erwin in California. She later worked for the Army Air Force Exchange Service as a department manager. Her career in the Department of the Army continued at the military hospital at Ft. Erwin where she served as social services assistant, coordinating special family programs for military family members.
Wade first became familiar with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) at Ft. Erwin when she worked as an EEOC assistant for the Department of the Army. Later she moved to Atlanta to work for the Decatur/DeKalb Housing Authority as a housing advisor, and in 1993 she entered law school at the University of Mississippi. She received her JD in 1996 and then clerked for the Mississippi Court of Appeals. Soon she became an assistant district attorney in Madison County. About four years ago, she took the job with Butler, Snow where she practiced labor and employment law.
“I can’t get away from my legal practice, and I don’t want to because I think employers are better served by those with knowledge of the legal practice,” Wade said. She routinely looks to current case law and the EEOC for guidance with regard to diversity in the workforce.
Wade also believes she is better suited to consult and train companies than others because of the 10 years she spent in the workforce before receiving her law degree.
“I think that gives me a well-rounded perspective when I’m looking at the workforce,” Wade said. “I’m not someone who went straight from the books trying to train people. I can call on those experiences as well as my legal experience.”
Wade began thinking about opening The Wade Group about a year ago. She found the nature of the lawsuits that Butler, Snow was defending and case law was similar, and she came to believe that a number of the EEOC complaints and charges against businesses were the result of ineffective training or a total lack of training, understanding of the law and insensitivity toward other employees.
Diversity issues won’t go away
“Diversity is a hard issue for people to delve into and a lot of times employers won’t, thinking the issues in the workplace will go away,” Wade said. “But research has shown that it will not go away, whether it’s race, gender or otherwise.”
While looking at an organization’s culture with regard to diversity and fair employment practices is important, a company must decide whether the existing culture of the organization can actually support the training. She compared this assessment to the root, trunk and branches of a tree.
“If you’ve not done what is necessary to nourish the roots of a tree it won’t support the changes above the roots,” Wade said. “This is similar to the way diversity works. Based on the existing culture, practices, norms and traditions in a workplace, training may not work. It may be a waste of money. Organizations must determine if the existing cultures hinder diversity or any type of training.”
Wade helps companies decide what type of training is needed and what would be most effective for the group of employees they’re going to train. Afterward the plan is implemented. Depending on the results of the assessment, training can last half a day or more. All training is interactive.
“A lot of people think diversity means only race and gender issues, but it extends far beyond that,” Wade said. “I think when you have a workforce and a society like we do, you have to realize that it includes intergenerational differences, educational differences, varying goals and differences such as a person’s tenure on a job, physical appearance and economic status. When you have people bringing these differences into a workplace you may sometimes have tension and may not know where it’s coming from if you aren’t aware of the extent of diversity. Through training, employers can use these differences to increase productivity, decrease liability and increase employee loyalty and retention.”
Wade believes diversity management, fair employment practices and effective training in both is “just good business sense.”
Martha Holloway, EEO program assistant at G.V. Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center in Jackson, said the diversity training Wade did for one of the medical center’s services was excellent.
“It just kept our attention,” Holloway said. “She is just a really good trainer.”
Robert Langford, executive director of Operation Shoestring in Jackson, also said the organizational training Wade provided for the management of his organization was excellent. Langford was especially impressed that Wade was able to integrate the ideas and concerns of staff members into her presentation.
“She didn’t just drop a template on us,” he said. “There are a lot of people who bill themselves as team development trainers or providers and it’s indeed tough to find the perfect marriage between your organization and the skills of trainers. For us it (The Wade Group) was a good fit. I would encourage folks who are looking at doing staff training or development to look at who the consultant is to make sure there’s a real good fit.”
Contact MBJ staff writer Elizabeth Kirkland at email@example.com.
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Nearly one million Pennsylvania Medicaid recipients received a letter from the state last week notifying them of a major change to their health plan. As a result of the state’s new HealthChoices contract, which determines statewide health plan eligibility, 900,000 affected recipients will be required to select a new health plan by August 16th, or risk having the decision made for them. This comes on the heels before the anticipated end of the public health emergency declaration, which will impact Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans.
“Four of every 10 children in Pennsylvania receive Medicaid – and this enrollment change represents an opportunity for families to ensure their children have the best access to quality healthcare that addresses not only their medical needs, but their families’ ‘whole’ health needs,” said Highmark Wholecare’s spokesperson John Pepper, who attributed Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children.
Highmark Wholecare is a community-based, mission-driven health care organization that has served Pennsylvanian’s most vulnerable residents for over 30 years. Last week, they doubled down on their funding of frontline nonprofits, dedicating $500,000 in community grants to food banks and organizations that help socio-economically disadvantaged families receive adequate housing, transportation and mental health access. In addition, HW President and CEO Ellen Duffield has challenged employees to implement community outreach strategies to assist the thousands of members who will lose Medicaid health when the public health emergency declaration ends.
President and CEO Ellen Duffield
Highmark Wholecare President and CEO Ellen Duffield is available to speak to:
- Trends in Medicaid enrollment, which increased by nearly 15% from 2022 to 2021.
- What a recipient should do to see if this will affect them, and if so, how they can avoid a change to their health plan
- How the end to the public health emergency declaration will change or eliminate Medicaid coverage for millions of Americans
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Limnophila sp slender (3 stems)
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Scrophulariaceae Limnophila Sp is a very rare aquatic stem plant with little information known about it. Very similar to Limnophila Mini Vietnam, Scrophulariaceae Limnophila Sp is a low-growing aquatic stem plant that does not grow tall like most aquatic stem plants such as Rotala and Ludwigia species. This unique growing pattern makes this aquarium plant suitable for mid-ground placement in a planted aquarium tank. Although Scrophulariaceae Limnophila Sp does not grow tall and out of control, it will still need adequate aquarium led lighting, CO2 injection and nutrient dense aquarium soil to grow well. Consistent trims will yield a bushy effect that is sought after by planted tank enthusiasts.
We recommend this plant for aquarists looking for a unique aquatic stem plant. Pruning is simple and can be done by replanting trimmed stems into quality aquarium soil.
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Researchers in South Africa used the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India to discover something strange in the distant universe, so bizarre that is not explained by the current cosmological models and theories.
The images revealed a cluster of supermassive black holes in a faraway region of the universe, all spinning out radio jets in the same direction like compass needles. What is even strange the galaxies they occupy are aligned across distances of billions of light years. This is first-of-its-kind discovery, the occurrence should be impossible.
Astronomers report their findings in a new study published in the journal Monthly Notices Letters of the Royal Society. Initially, astronomers looked for the faintest radio signals in the universe and then they seized black holes’ bizarre alignment.
GMRT is one of the largest and most sensitive radio telescope arrays in the world, but we really need MeerKAT to make the very sensitive maps, over a very large area and with great detail, that will be necessary to differentiate between possible explanations,
Andrew Russ Taylor explained in a news release.
It opens up a whole new research area for these instruments, which will probe as deeply into the and as far back as we can go — it’s going to be an exciting time to be an astronomer.
Astronomers don’t know for sure why all these black holes’ jet point in the same direction but this mean something, the only way for this alignment to exists is that supermassive black holes are spinning in the same direction.
Since these black holes don’t know about each other, or have any way of exchanging information or influencing each other directly over such vast scales, this spin alignment must have occurred during the formation of the galaxies in the early universe.
This latest revelation may give astronomers clues about the structure of the earlier universe when black holes formed, it also may improve our models and simulation of universe’s early evolution.
We’re beginning to understand how the large-scale structure of the universe came about,
starting from the Big Bang and growing as a result of disturbances in the early universe, to what we have today, and that helps us explore what the universe of tomorrow will be like.
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[JURIST] Thousands protested the proposed liberalization of Spain's abortion laws in Madrid on Sunday. The changes, proposed earlier this month [JURIST report], include allowing abortions up to week 14 of pregnancy for any reason and lowering the age required for an abortion from 18 to 16. These reforms are in sharp contrast with the current law, established in 1985, which allows women over the age of 18 the right to abort only up to 12 weeks in cases of rape, up to 22 weeks in cases of fetal malformation, and at any stage where there are serious health risks to the mother. In protests organized by pro-life groups Derecho a Vivir, Hazte Oir, Medicos por la Vida and Provida Madrid [advocacy websites, in Spanish], demonstrators chanted "no right to kill, right to life" and urged the government not to adopt the proposed changes [AFP report]. Similar demonstrations [El Pais report, in Spanish] took place in cities throughout Spain on Sunday.
The panel tasked with investigating changes to Spanish abortion law was formed in September [JURIST report] at the request of Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero as part of a series of social reforms including the legalization of same-sex marriage [JURIST report] and streamlined divorce proceedings. Since the committee was formed, the conservative Popular Party [official website, in Spanish] has repeatedly expressed the opinion [El Pais report, in Spanish] that relaxed abortion laws would stand in opposition to Article 15 of the Spanish Constitution [text, in Spanish], which guarantees the right to life.
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China’s Chang’e mission in December
July 2019 is a special year for space history. Other than it being the successful launch of Chandrayaan-2 into earth orbit, it also marks the 50th anniversay of the famed Apollo 11 mission of July 1969 that for the first time saw humans land on the moon.
However, there’s widespread enthusiasm and conmercial interest in several countries for moon missions. The most high-profile is a proposed December mission by China’s Space Administration. This is the Chang’e 5 mission and will be China’s first sample return mission, meaning it aims to come back with least 2 kg of lunar soil and rock samples back to the Earth. The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has outlined plans to send humans back to the moon by 2024 but proposes to do it in collaboration with private companies as well as the European Space Agency. As a precursor companies have been given contracts to develop payloads that can be sent and successfully landed on the moon.
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Civil Constitution of the Clergy, French Constitution Civile Du Clergé, (July 12, 1790), during the French Revolution, an attempt to reorganize the Roman Catholic Church in France on a national basis. It caused a schism within the French Church and made many devout Catholics turn against the Revolution.
How did the church respond to the French Revolution?
The Revolution and the Church. In August 1789, the State cancelled the taxing power of the Church. The issue of Church property became central to the policies of the new revolutionary government. … On 13 April 1791, the Pope denounced the Constitution, resulting in a split in the French Catholic Church.
What was the role of Church in French Revolution?
Answer. Answer: The French Revolution initially began with attacks on Church corruption and the wealth of the higher clergy, an action with which even many Christians could identify, since the Gallican Church held a dominant role in pre-revolutionary France.
How did religion affect the French Revolution?
Religious practice was outlawed and replaced with the cult of the Supreme Being, a deist state religion. The program of dechristianization waged against the Christian people of France increased in intensity with the enactment of the Law of 17 September 1793, also known as the Law of Suspects.
How did the separation of church and state affect the French Revolution?
The conflict between the French Revolution and the Catholic Church over such issues as the abolition of the tithe (August 1789), the nationalization of church lands (November 1789), and the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (July 1790) resulted in the supremacy of the state.
What problems led to the outbreak of a revolution in France?
In general, historians agree on several different causes of the French Revolution, including: the history of the estates-system, resentment towards the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI, the impact of the Age of Enlightenment, the weather conditions before 1789 and the economic crisis that France faced under Louis XVI.
How did the French respond to threats to the revolution?
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How was church responsible for the French Revolution 5 points?
Answer. church was responsible for the revolution because the church also took their share from the third estate due to this share, they were very rich and the condition of third estate members was terrible . Thus this made them to revolt.
How many died in French Revolution?
Under this system, at least 40,000 people were killed. As many as 300,000 Frenchmen and women (1 in 50 Frenchmen and women) were arrested during a ten month period between September 1793 and July 1794. Included in these numbers were, of course, the deaths of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Which event was responsible for causing the French Revolution?
A popular insurgency culminated on July 14 when rioters stormed the Bastille fortress in an attempt to secure gunpowder and weapons; many consider this event, now commemorated in France as a national holiday, as the start of the French Revolution.
Is France Catholic or Protestant?
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What was the impact of the revolution on the church?
The French revolution wiped out all the religious signs and estates which affected the churches who were so far dominating the French scene . The cult of the supreme being was now chosen for the spirituality of the people.
What were Effects of French Revolution?
10 Major Effects of the French Revolution
- #1 End of Bourbon Rule in France.
- #2 Change in Land Ownership in France.
- #3 Loss in power of the French Catholic Church.
- #4 The Birth of Ideologies.
- #5 The Rise of Modern Nationalism.
- #6 The Spread of Liberalism.
- #7 Laying the Groundwork for Communism.
Does France separate church and state?
“France is an indivisible, secular, democratic and social Republic, guaranteeing that all citizens regardless of their origin, race or religion are treated as equals before the law and respecting all religious beliefs” states the Constitution of 1958.
Who advocated the separation of church and state in France?
4: Voltaire. Voltaire was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher, who attacked the Catholic Church and advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.
Why was the Catholic Church targeted for reform in the French Revolution?
The National Assembly completed a new constitution, the Constitution of 1791, which set up a limited monarchy. Explain why the Catholic Church was targeted for reform. Because the Catholic Church was seen as an important pillar of the old order, it, too, was reformed.
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Interviewer: Rachel A. Austin
Person Interviewed: Douglas Parish
Location: Monticello, Florida
Douglas Parish was born in Monticello, Florida, May 7, 1850, to Charles and Fannie Parish, slaves of Jim Parish. Fannie had been bought from a family by the name of Palmer to be a “breeder”, that is a bearer of strong children who could bring high prices at the slave markets. A “breeder” always fared better than the majority of female slaves, and Fannie Parish was no exception. All she had to do was raise children. Charles Parish labored in the cotton fields, the chief product of the Parish plantation.
As a small boy Douglas used to spend his time shooting marbles, playing ball, racing and wrestling with the other boys. The marbles were made from lumps of clay hardened in the fireplace. He was a very good runner, and as it was a custom in those days for one plantation owner to match his “nigger” against that of his neighbor, he was a favorite with Parish because he seldom failed to win the race. Parish trained his runners by having them race to the boundary of his plantation and back again. He would reward the winner with a jack-knife or a bag of marbles.
Just to be first was an honor in itself, for the fastest runner represented his master in the Fourth of July races when runners from all over the country competed for top honors, and the winner earned a bag of silver for his master. If Parish didn’t win the prize, he was hard to get along with for several days, but gradually he would accept his defeat with resolution. Prizes in less important races ranged from a pair of fighting cocks to a slave, depending upon the seriousness of the betting.
Douglas’ first job was picking cotton seed from the cotton. When he was about 12 years of age, he became the stable boy, and soon learned about the care and grooming of horses from an old slave who had charge of the Parish stables. He was also required to keep the buggies, surreys, and spring-wagons clean. The buggies were light four-wheeled carriages drawn by one horse. The surreys were covered four-wheeled carriages, open at the sides, but having curtains that may be rolled down. He liked this job very much because it gave him an opportunity to ride on the horses, the desire of all the boys on the plantation. They had to be content with chopping wood, running errands, cleaning up the plantation, and similar tasks. Because of his knowledge of horses, Douglas was permitted to travel to the coast with his boss and other slaves for the purpose of securing salt from the sea water. It was cheaper to secure salt by this method than it was to purchase it otherwise.
Life in slavery was not all bad, according to Douglas. Parish fed his slaves well, gave them comfortable quarters in which to live, looked after them when they were sick, and worked them very moderately. The food was cooked in the fireplace in large iron pots, pans and ovens. The slaves had greens, potatoes, corn, rice, meat, peas, and corn bread to eat. Occasionally the corn bread was replaced by flour bread. The slaves drank an imitation coffee made from parched corn or meal. Since there was no ice to preserve the left-over food, only enough for each meal was prepared.
Parish seldom punished his slaves, and never did he permit his overseer to do so. If the slaves failed to do their work, they were reported to him. He would warn them and show his black whip which was usually sufficient. He had seen overseers beat slaves to death, and he did not want to risk losing the money he had invested in his. After his death, his son managed the plantation in much the same manner as his father.
But the war was destined to make the Parishes lose all their slaves by giving them their freedom. Even though they were free to go, many of the slaves elected to remain with their mistress who had always been kind to them. The war swept away much of the money which her husband had left her; and although she would liked to have kept all of her slaves, she found it impossible to do so. She allowed the real old slaves to remain on the premises and kept a few of the younger ones to work about the plantation. Douglas and his parents were among those who remained on the plantation. His father was a skilled bricklayer and carpenter, and he was employed to make repairs to the property. His mother cooked for the Parishes.
Many of the Negroes migrated North, and they wrote back stories of the “new country” where “de white folks let you do jes as you please.” These stories influenced a great number of other Negroes to go North and begin life anew as servants, waiters, laborers and cooks. The Negroes who remained in the South were forced to make their own living. At the end of the war, foods and commodities had gone up to prices that were impossible for the Negro to pay. Ham, for example, cost 40¢ and 50¢ a pound; lard was 25¢; cotton was two dollars a bushel.
Douglas’ father taught him all that he knew about carpentry and bricklaying, and the two were in demand to repair, remodel, or build houses for the white people. Although he never attended school, Charles Parish could calculate very rapidly the number of bricks that it would take to build a house. After the establishing of schools by the Freedmen’s Bureau, Douglas’ father made him go, but he did not like the confinement of school and soon dropped out. The teachers for the most part, were white, who were concerned only with teaching the ex-slaves reading, writing, and arithmetic. The few colored teachers went into the community in an effort to elevate the standards of living. They went into the churches where they were certain to reach the greatest number of people and spoke to them of their mission. The Negro teachers were cordially received by the ex-slaves who were glad to welcome some “Yankee niggers” into their midst.
Whereas the white teachers did not bother with the Negroes except in the classroom, other white men came who showed a decided interest in them. They were called “carpetbaggers” because of the type of traveling bag which they usually carried, and this term later became synonymous with “political adventurer.” These men sought to advance their political schemes by getting the Negroes to vote for certain men who would be favorable to them. They bought the Negro votes or put a Negro in some unimportant office to obtain the goodwill of the ex-slaves. They used the ignorant colored minister to further their plans, and he was their willing tool. The Negro’s unwise use of his ballot plunged the South further and further into debt and as a result the South was compelled to restrict his privileges.
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The Town of Strathmore has officially opened discussions regarding the 2023 budget process, which was introduced during a special meeting of council on June 22.
Budget timelines for 2023 were initially presented to council at the Committee of the Whole meeting on June 8 and was further adopted as part of the council agenda the following week.
Brenda Hewko, acting as a subcontractor supporting the Town’s finance team, presented a workshop to council during the special meeting to discuss the process of how municipal budgeting is operated and what kinds of considerations go into establishing the Town’s budget.
According to the Municipal Government Act (MGA), the Town must plan for a balanced budget and can not plan to run a deficit.
The Town of Strathmore operates primarily on four primary financial policies, as described by Hewko. These include the overall budget, cash and investment management, operating and capital reserves, and the Town’s long-term financial plan.
“The purpose of the budget policy is to make sure that we are aligning and funding … the various different activities, expenses (and) everything that we’re looking to do so that it is in the budget,” said Hewko. “The cash and investment management policy is looking at purchasing power, liquidity and maximizing returns that investments would earn and conform to the MGA.”
Hewko explained that the operating and capital reserve policy focuses on the long-term financial stability and flexibility of the town.
The long-term financial plan though is treated differently in process than the Town’s other policies, still it must be approved by council before being implemented by the Town’s finance department and is thus introduced similarly to other financial policies.
Also included among the Town’s finance department’s considerations within the budget are Town personnel, local debt, loans, intergenerational equity, and records of financial transactions.
Regarding the growth cycle of the town, Hewko referred to the municipal development plan, which estimates how the town is going to grow from a literal standpoint, and where such developments are likely to occur.
“When we look at the growth cycle, you start at the municipal development plan, which is, what do we think the town is going to do in the next 20, 25 or 30 years,” said Hewko, who explained that those developments tend to be oriented more towards long term financial gain for the town based on area structure plans and what physically will be built to grow the town.
In the short term, as properties such as residences are constructed, there are one-time payments from sale of property, followed by the onset of reliable, regular revenue based on property taxes and utilities.
Summarizing the financial plan process, the proposed timeline presented by Hewko indicates varying stages which will progress into December, when final budget plan decisions will be made.
The infographics and presentation put forward to council on June 22 is available for public reference.
John Watson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Strathmore Times
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