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OPINION19 July 2011
OPINION19 July 2011
In the first of a new series, The Behavioural Architects’ Crawford Hollingworth looks at examples of behavioural economics in action around the world. This week: voting and salt in the US and Argentina.
Over the last few years we have seen many governments around the world leveraging aspects of behavioural economics (BE) to nudge or steer citizens in the right direction. This can take many overt and covert forms, from playing with our default option – what happens if you do nothing – in pensions, to opt-out versus opt-in organ donation schemes. From a government perspective one of the attractions of BE is that it is very much about direct behavioural action versus more complex and often more time-consuming attitudinal change. And, if we are honest, the most powerful behavioural changes we have seen recently have been led behaviourally rather than attitudinally.
One of the most exciting uses of BE, which started ripples around the world, took place during the US presidential elections in 2008.
“The most powerful motivator for action is the suggestion that everyone is doing it, whether it’s getting hotel guests to reuse towels or National Park visitors to stay on marked trails”
The simple truth at the time was that the higher the turn-out at the polls the more chance Barack Obama had of winning the election. About two weeks before election day, when changing the campaign platform wasn’t really an option, Obama’s team got together a secret advisory group of 29 of the nation’s leading behaviourists (psychologists and economists) to develop the best ‘get out to vote’ script. Together they determined one sure-fire way of getting people to the polls. And it was this simple. All communication channels were fed with one simple message: “A record turnout is expected.”
The BE-savvy team knew that the most powerful motivator for action is the suggestion that everyone is doing it. Whether it’s getting hotel guests to reuse towels or National Park visitors to stay on marked trails, “People want to do what others will do,” says Robert Cialdini, author of the bestseller Influence. It’s a piece of behavioural genius. And it worked.
The other week in Buenos Aires we saw a fantastic example of a government changing the default setting. How many of you reach for the salt and sprinkle it liberally onto your food without tasting it first? Be honest, I know I do. Yet we all accept that there is a correlation between high salt use and hypertension. An estimated 3.7m residents of Buenos Aires suffer from hypertension, and on average consume 13g of salt per day, nearly three times the recommended limit.
So, how to change this behaviour? In a clever move, the local government decided to take the action out of our hands, so to speak. Restaurants in Buenos Aires now have to remove salt shakers from the tables – by law. If customers want salt they have to ask for it first. In other words, they need to opt in for salt, making it a very conscious decision. Simple and so clever, forcing people out of autopilot and probably making them taste their food first.
The agreement between the Ministry of Health for the Buenos Aires province and the Union of Tourism, Hotel and Food Service Workers was signed in June 2011. This makes me think we should change lots of default settings; maybe Diet Coke becomes the new original and the old original is renamed Coke Extra, making sugar-free the default option. Or imagine that in a cinema the default popcorn size is an old-fashioned small, and regular fries become what we call small fries today. Just imagine the positive impact. I can feel the pounds falling off.
Crawford Hollingworth is a founder of The Behavioural Architects
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Thursday, November 09, 2006
Learn from Comrade Lei Feng!
Lei Feng was a cheerfully selfless 22-year-old PLA soldier who in 1961 was accidently crushed to death by a telegraph pole. Or not. Nobody is really sure.
However, in 1962, the Great Helmsman, Mao Tse-tung, called on the entire Chinese nation to Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.
As a result Lei Feng became a synonym for "serve others," "volunteering," "whole-hearted dedication," "selfless generosity".
Since there is no point in letting a Unique Selling Point fade away, someone in China is now selling a condom called Learn from Comrade Lei Feng.
For more about Lei Feng and the condom (by Justin Mitchell): Asia Sentinel via EastSouthWestNorth
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Need help designing a construct to generate a transgenic mouse - (Aug/22/2006 )
This is the first time I have to design a expression construct to generate a transgenic mouse and I need a bit of help !
Basically I need to generate a mouse that expresses Dlp1 in a tissue specific manner. Since I'm going to have to assess the effects of the expression of this protein in several tissues I was thinking of making a construct with a ubiquitous promoter (CMV ?) followed by a STOP codon between two LoxP sites, then the cDNA followed by a poly A stretch (BGHpA).
However, I was told that when a mouse harbouring repeqted insertions of this construct was to be crossed with a Cre mouse, recombination would occur not only between the two LoxP sites arround the STOP codon but also between LoxP sites in adjacent expression cassettes. This would mean that I would most probably be left with only one copy of my cDNA being expressed .... which I don't think is going to be enough.
To go around that potential problem I thought of designing a contruct for the expression of a polycistronic transcript which would look like this
Do you think that this could work ? Will there not ne recombinations between the different cDNA sequences and excision of a region of the construct ? Is CMV a good choice of promoter ?
I thank you all for your patience in reading this and for your help.
All the best
From my limited knowledge, your origional idea might work. Some people end up using 3 lox sites for generating targeting construct for knockin (lox-homologous dna-lox-neo-lox). Then remove the neo by closing with cre mice. Some mice will be (lox-dna-lox) some will be (lox-neo-lox) and some will be (lox-lox -> no homologous dna or neo resistance). You would just need to screen the pups (but you would need to screen more pups than usual).
Another approach would be to use a double transgenic approach, such as tet-on or tet-off.
Or if you know of a tissue specific promotor, then you can use that instead of CMV in a single transgenic mouse.
Good luck and happy cloning.
Thanks for your reply. Would you by any chance know of good promoters for ubiquitous expression of a protein in mice, something like a beta actin promoter. Do you know of any other ?
All the best
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Lilies do so much more than just bring colour to your interior. They turn your house into a home. And you feel that the moment you step over the threshold. Instant happiness!
From soft pastels to strong colours, lilies come in an endless array of shades. Whichever you choose, your interior will come alive with a bouquet of lilies as a spectacular central feature. The flower buds open one by one, showing more and more colour!
Happy home, happy people
Isn’t it wonderful to see flowers when you come home, when you wake up, when you walk into a room…? Lilies are spellbinders that immediately catch the eye. Lilies in bright, intense colours, in particular, energise you; there’s nothing like them to cheer you up! If you take the time to study a lily flower carefully – prepare to be wowed by the shape and markings – its calming influence is almost tangible.
The enjoyment begins with deciding which bunch of lilies to choose, because there is simply so much choice. Display your bouquet in an elegant vase; a striking one is fine as it will be in keeping with the visually powerful shape of your lilies. Leave the stems nice and long or cut them off very short, for a change. This will do justice to the extravagant shape of the blooms. Arranging flowers fills you with joy!
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Conducting workplace investigations is an important but sometimes haphazard job of employers. Whether to address allegations of workplace misconduct or performance issues, employers need to approach complaints and investigations in a fair and objective manner.
Conducting thorough workplace investigations is simply good business practice. A proper investigation should be an exercise in fair and objective fact finding. The object of the investigation should be to discover all of the relevant facts and evidence to place the employer in a position to make the best decision for its business. With a thorough understanding of the facts surrounding a complaint, an employer will be able to fully assess the pros and cons of its decision, and also have the best chance of justifying its decision should the complaint lead to a hearing before a court, arbitrator or other tribunal.
Employers should gather all of the facts and evidence in a timely manner prior to taking any action on a complaint. Decisions to discipline or to terminate employees for cause should not be taken without undertaking a proper investigation, particularly for allegations of serious misconduct such as fraud or other criminal conduct. Failing to conduct a proper investigation exposes employers to the risk that they will not be able to justify their decisions to discipline or terminate. In the case of terminations, the courts have held that it is an implied term of every employment contract that an employer will act in good faith in the manner of dismissal. Conducting a proper investigation prior to termination for cause goes a long way towards discharging the employer’s obligations in this regard.
Employers should also remember that allegations of employee misconduct may have serious ramifications for the employee or employees involved. For instance, allegations of misconduct often lead to stigma for the subject of the allegations. Therefore, employers should treat any such allegations seriously. The more serious the allegations, the more important it will be for an employer to conduct a fair and thorough investigation.
There have been several recent cases where substantial damage awards have been issued against employers as a result of poor investigations into complaints of employee misconduct.
In Vernon v. British Columbia (Liquor Distribution Branch), a senior store manager with 30 years’ service brought an action for wrongful dismissal against her former employer in the B.C. Supreme Court. The employer unsuccessfully argued that it had just cause for dismissal based on alleged workplace misconduct, including claims of bullying and harassment.
The Court was very critical of the manner in which the employer conducted its investigation. It found that the investigation was flawed as being neither objective nor fair. As a result, the Court awarded 18 months pay in lieu of notice, special damages, aggravated damages of $35,000 and punitive damages of $50,000 against the employer.
The Court found that the investigation was flawed from the start. The person appointed to investigate was a labour relations advisor who had previously counseled the plaintiff regarding various employment issues, including matters relating to the complainant in that case. The investigator was not impartial and should not have been in charge of the investigation. Furthermore, the Court found that the investigation was conducted unfairly. The senior store manager was subjected to interrogation, without being given the opportunity to fully answer each complaint made against her. In fact, many of the complaints made against the store manager remained unproven by the time the employer had decided to terminate her employment. The report on which the decision to terminate was based did not mention that she had admitted to and apologized for some of her harsh manner and promised to improve it.
The Vernon case serves as a cautionary tale about the significant risks facing employers who do not conduct proper workplace investigations.
The following are some critical elements to every successful workplace investigation to help avoid common pitfalls:
Conduct investigations promptly:
The timing of an investigation is important because the failure to conduct it in a timely manner may be considered prejudicial to the employee and, furthermore, an employer’s credibility may be hurt for failing to address an issue promptly.
Investigations should be fair and objective:
Appoint an impartial investigator. An employer may wish to consider retaining an outside expert who can remain impartial throughout the investigation process. Employers must refuse the temptation to dispense with proper investigations, even where there appears to be overwhelming evidence against an employee. Seemingly clear cut cases may not turn out to be so if mitigating or exculpatory factors are later discovered.
Investigations are not fair if the subject of the complaint is not heard:
Investigations can involve many steps, including obtaining witness statements and conducting witness interviews. However, a key part of every workplace investigation is to allow the subject of the complaint to tell his side of the story. Fairness dictates that the subject of a complaint should receive proper and timely notification of each and every allegation made against him. The subject of the complaint should be given sufficient time to consider each allegation, and the opportunity to meaningfully respond.
Keep good records of the investigation:
Failure to keep good records may later hurt an employer’s chances at justifying any decisions respecting alleged workplace misconduct. Keeping a good record not only enhances the employer’s credibility but it may also be used later to impeach an employee’s position.
Employers are poorly served by those who conduct haphazard workplace investigations. Not only do they risk jeopardizing the effort and results of the investigation, resulting in time and resources lost, there are many legal ramifications for failing to conduct proper workplace investigations. Employers will be asked to account for their decisions down the road, and should be able to do so with confidence that a fair and proper workplace investigation has been conducted.
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The Mann-Whitney U test is essentially an alternative form of the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test for independent samples and is completely equivalent.
Define the following test statistics for samples 1 and 2 where n1 is the size of sample 1 and n2 is the size of sample 2, and R1 is the adjusted rank sum for sample 1 and R2 is the adjusted rank sum of sample 2. It doesn’t matter which sample is bigger.
As for the Wilcoxon version of the test, if the observed value of U is < Ucrit then the test is significant (at the α level), i.e. we reject the null hypothesis. The values of Ucrit for α = .05 (two-tailed) are given in the Mann-Whitney Tables.
Example 1: Repeat Example 1 of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test using the Mann-Whitney U test.
Figure 1 – Mann-Whitney U Test
Since R1 = 117.5 and R2 = 158.5, we can calculate U1 and U2 to get U = 39.5. Next we look up in the Mann-Whitney Tables for n1 = 12 and n2 = 11 to get Ucrit = 33. Since 33 < 39.5, we cannot reject the null hypothesis at α = .05 level of significance.
Property 2: For n1 and n2 large enough the U statistic is approximately normal N(μ, σ) where
Observation: Click here for proofs of Property 1 and 2.
Property 3: Where there are a number of ties, the following revised version of the variance gives better results:
where n = n1 + n2, t varies over the set of tied ranks and ft is the number of times (i.e. frequency) the rank t appears. An equivalent formula is
Observation: A further complication is that it is often desirable to account for the fact that we are approximating a discrete distribution via a continuous one by applying a continuity correction. This is done by using a z-score of
instead of the same formula without the .5 continuity correction factor.
Example 2: Repeat Example 2 of the Wilcoxon Rank Sum Test using the Mann-Whitney U test.
We show the results of the one-tailed test (without using a ties correction) is shown in Figure 2. Column W displays the formulas used in column T.
Figure 2 – Mann-Whitney U test using normal approximation
As can be seen in cell T19, the p-value for the one-tail test is the same as that found in Wilcoxon Example 2 using the Wilcoxon rank-sum test. Once again we reject the null hypothesis and conclude that non-smokers live longer.
Real Statistics Excel Functions: The following functions are provided in the Real Statistics Pack:
MANN(R1, R2) = U for the samples contained in ranges R1 and R2
MANN(R1, n) = U for the sample contained in the first n columns of range R1 and the sample consisting of the remaining columns of range R1. If the second argument is omitted it defaults to 1.
MTEST(R1, R2, tails) = p-value of the Mann-Whitney U test for the samples contained in ranges R1 and R2. tails = # of tails: t = 1 (default) or 2.
MTEST(R1, n, tails) = p-value of the Mann-Whitney U test for the sample contained in the first n columns of range R1 and the sample consisting of the remaining columns of range R1. If the second argument is omitted it defaults to 1. tails = # of tails: t = 1 (default) or 2.
MCRIT(n1, n2, α, tails, h) = critical value of the Mann-Whitney U test for samples of size n1 and n2, for the given value of alpha and tails = 1 (one tail) or 2 (two tails) based on the Mann-Whitney Table. If h = TRUE (default) harmonic interpolation is used; otherwise linear interpolation is used.
MPROB(x, n1, n2, tails, iter) = an approximate p-value for the Mann-Whitney test for the U value equal to x for samples of size n1 and n2 and tails = 1 (one tail) or 2 (two tails, default) based on an interpolation of the values in the table in Mann-Whitney Table, using iter number of iterations (default = 40) to calculate the approximation.
Note that the values for α in the table in Mann-Whitney Table range from .01 to .1 for tails = 2 and .005 to .05 for tails = 1. If the p-value produced by the MPROB function is less than .01 (tails = 2) or .005 (tails = 1) then the p-value in MPROB is given as 0 and if the p-value is greater than .1 (tails = 2) or .05 (tails = 1) then the p-value in MPROB is given as 1.
Any empty or non-numeric cells in R1 or R2 are ignored.
Observation: In Example 1, we can use Real Statistics functions to arrive at the same value for U, namely MANN(A6:B17) = 39.5. Also MCRIT(H5,I5,H9,H10) = MCRIT(12, 11, .05, 2) = 33 (the value in cell H12 of Figure 1). Finally note that the p-value = MPROB(H5,I5,H9,H10) = MPROB(39.5, 12, 11, 2) = 1 (meaning that p-value > .1), and so once again we can’t reject the null hypothesis.
If U had been 32, then p-value = MPROB(32, 12,11, 2) = 0.044 < .05 = α, and so we would reject the null hypothesis. This is consistent with the fact that U = 32 < 33 = Ucrit..
Similarly in Example 2, we can use Real Statistics functions to arrive at the same value for U, namely MANN(A6:H15,4) = MANN(A6:D15,E6:H15) = 486, as well as the same p-value (assuming a normal approximation described above), namely MTEST(A6:H15,4) = MTEST(A6:D15,E6:H15) = 0.003081.
Also note that the supplemental functions RANK_COMBINED and RANK_SUM, as defined in Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test, can be used in conjunction with the Mann-Whitney test.
Observation: The effect size for the data using the Mann-Whitney test can be calculated in the same manner as for the Wilcoxon test, and the result will be the same.
The effect size of .31 for the data in Example 2 is calculated as in Figure 2. Namely, the z-score (cell T17) is calculated using the formula =(T13-T14)/T16 and the effect size (cell 20) is calculated by the formula =ABS(T17)/SQRT(T6+U6).
Also note that the z-score and the effect size r can be calculated using the supplemental function MTEST as follows:
z-score = NORMSINV(MTEST(R1, R2))
r = NORMSINV(MTEST(R1, R2))/SQRT(COUNT(R1)+COUNT(R2))
Observation: The results of analysis for Example 2 can be summarized as follows: The life expectancy of non-smokers (Mdn = 76.5) was significantly higher than that of smokers (Mdn = 70.5), U = 486, z = -2.74, p = .0038 < .05, r = .31.
Real Statistics Function: The Real Statistics Pack also provides the following array function for the samples in ranges R1 and R2 where alpha is the α value (default .05) and tails is the number of tails (1 or 2 = default).
MANN_TEST(R1, R2, lab, tails, alpha, ties, cont): returns the following values in a 7 × 1 column range: U, alpha, tails, z, r, U-crit, p-value. If ties = TRUE (default) the ties correction factor of Property 3 is applied. If cont = TRUE (default) then the continuity correction is applied. If lab = TRUE then an extra column with labels is included.
If the size of the two samples is 26 or less, i.e. COUNT(R1) + COUNT(R2) ≤ 26, then an exact test will be performed. In this case, the output is a 9 × 1 column range (or a 9 × 2 range if lab = TRUE), including U-crit (exact) and p-value (exact).
For Example 2, the array formula =SRANK_TEST(B4:B33,C4:C33,TRUE,1,.05,FALSE) returns the following array for the one-tailed test with continuity correction but no correction for ties:
Figure 3 – Output from MANN_TEST
Real Statistics Data Analysis Tool: The Real Statistics Resource Pack also provides a data analysis tool which performs the Mann-Whitney test for independent samples, automatically calculating the medians, rank sums, U test statistic, z-score, p-value and effect size r.
For example, to perform the analysis in Example 1, enter Ctrl-m and choose the T Test and Non-parametric Equivalents. The dialog box shown in Figure 4 appears.
Figure 4 – Dialog box for Real Statistics Mann-Whitney Test
Enter A5:B17 as the Input Range 1 (although we could insert A5:A17 in Input Range 1 and B5:B17 in Input Range 2) click on Column headings included with data and choose the Two independent samples and Non-parametric options and click on the OK button. Keep the default of 0 for Hypothetical Mean/Median (this value is not used anyway) and .05 for Alpha. For this version of the test, we check Use continuity correction, Include exact test and Include table lookup but we leave the Use ties correction option unchecked.
The output is shown in Figure 5.
Figure 5 – Mann-Whitney test data analysis tool output
Both the one-tail and two-tail tests are shown. Also, three versions of the test are shown: the test using the normal approximation (range O18:P20), the test using the critical values (range O22:P23) from the Mann-Whitney Table and the exact test (range O25:P26) as described later on this webpage.
If we check the Use Ties correction in Figure 4 we would obtain the output shown in Figure 6.
Figure 6 – Mann-Whitney test data analysis tool with ties correction
In this case the ties correction of Property 3 is applied to the normal approximation (range U18:V20). As you can see there is very little difference between the outputs shown in Figure 5 and 6.
Note too that the ties correction (as well as the continuity correction) only applies to the normal approximation. The table and exact versions of the test do not apply the ties or continuity correction.
Real Statistics Function: The Real Statistics Pack also provides the following function to calculate the ties correction used in the data analysis tool.
TiesCorrection(R1, R2, type) = ties correction value for the data in range R1 and optionally range R2, where type = 0: one sample, type = 1: paired sample, type = 2: independent samples
For the Mann-Whitney test type = 2. The ties correction is used in the calculation of the standard deviation (cell U15 of Figure 6) as follows
Click here for a description of the exact version of the Mann-Whitney Test using the permutation function.
Confidence Interval of the Median
Click here for a description of how to calculate confidence interval of the median based on the Mann-Whitney Test.
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There are so many examples today that demonstrate the impact 3D printing is having all over the world, and in so many different areas of industry. But if you wonder what the true potential for the future of 3D printing technology is, just take stock of its biggest fans. While we report on many different innovations via NASA today, we also follow numerous stories regarding the uses of 3D printing in the military—often including the US Army.
It would seem that they have taken stock of and are ready to take advantage of nearly every benefit of 3D printing from the intrinsic affordability and self-sustainability in manufacturing out in field to the ability to make prototypes and parts not previously possible. This is evidenced by their interest in making everything from customized military meals to 3D printed grenade launchers—with 3D printed grenades, of course.
Now, the Army is releasing a report of how far they have progressed with 3D printing, and what they intend to do in the future. Their report begins by pointing out how important 3D printing can be to soldiers in remote areas, as they can make whatever they need, whether that is sustenance, a new gun, or perhaps even bioprinted cells to heal a wound or a severe burn.
They have created a plan for their 3D printing goals, known as the Additive Manufacturing Technology Roadmap. According to the Army, this was combined with the Department of Defense (DOD) Roadmap, outlining goals for all branches of the military.
“Additive manufacturing technology has the ability to improve the performance of Army weapon systems on the battlefield. Additionally, 3D printing gives the Army a tactical advantage by providing the ability to manufacture and produce items as close to the point of need as possible. This will not only lighten the logistics burden but also improve the efficiency of the acquisition process. By simplifying the process of repairing or producing spare parts, the Army will make critical gains in readiness,” states the Army.
“The DOD roadmap also identifies current and future capabilities that are needed to enable AM and areas for collaboration,” states the Army. “These common standards set out in the roadmap will enable the DOD, industry, and academia to effectively use AM.”
Their 3D printing plan has been implemented in three steps, beginning with 3D printing to make or replace existing parts. This has already been helpful for many parts of the military—even if they are just 3D printing temporary parts until the others can be received. 3D printing is also helpful in prototyping new parts. In the second part of their plan, they are eliminating multi-part assembly. The Army also plans to begin creating new parts that did not exist previously.They will also collaborate with the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force (REF) in the creation and managing of expeditionary laboratories. The Ex Labs will be deployed around the globe and are meant to support ‘forward-deployed Soldiers.’ The US Army will also be working with RDECOM on a system that offers ‘containerized’ 3D printing. It is already en route to Thailand and Japan where it will be used in the multi-national Pacific Pathways exercise.
“The Army relies on the manufacturing prowess of industry to keep our Soldiers the best-equipped in the world because having the best equipment, the right equipment in the right quantity when you need it is an essential component of making our Soldiers the safest and most effective in the world,” said Maj. Gen. Cedric T. Wins, commanding general, U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM).
Discuss in the Army forum at 3DPB.com.[Source: US Army]
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In Mark, the two members of Type A (Adam Ames and Andrew Bordwin) utilize their bodies to create drawings by establishing a difference, a common ground, and opposing territories. Shot overhead, Mark consists of three video segments depicting the two artists using chalk to delineate first a personal territory, then a shared territory, and finally the territory of the screen itself.
The first segment, consisting of each member drawing a circle based on his height, begins as a way to mark the difference in bodily dimension. Once the process is repeated, the disparity between the original markings, and consequently the significance of each member‟s individuality, becomes blurred. The second segment has each of them filling in the shared space between them with chalk marks, creating a form that represents a process that is cooperative from the start. In the third segment, the floor is completely filled with chalk, taking over the entire territory of the medium. In each instance, the territories are washed clean in the end. (New York, NY)
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"Ice dance cannot be taken seriously. They all have to be lined up at dawn ... we have to get rid of them all and start over."
-- Toller Cranston, 56
Widely acclaimed as the most influential figure skater of our time, Canadian legend Toller Cranston is also the most controversial.
Now living in Mexico where he produces hundreds of world-class paintings every year, the outspoken Hamilton native is displaying his work all week at Calgary's Artists of the World gallery.
In light of falling TV ratings and crowds of 6,000 at the world championships here this week, Sun sports columnist Eric Francis sat down with the flamboyant dean of skating to find out why the sport is in such a free fall. Not surprisingly, he had lots to say:
SPORT IS TOO WEIRD:
Cranston: "The popularity has dropped off because of its weirdness. You have people like Emanuel Sandhu and Johnny Weir at a very high level who are very good skaters but they're more weird than interesting. You have men skating around with lip gloss, eye shadow and chiffon scarves. Families in North America are going to say, 'My son is not going to figure skate.' People like Brian Orser, Brian Boitano, Elvis (Stojko) or Kurt (Browning) were role models and every family wanted their kids to skate."
SKATING ISN'T AS GOOD:
Cranston: "The reason the ice dancers were dropping like flies in Turin, falling on their a--es and being carried out in stretchers is because they can't skate.
"The emphasis is on all the wrong things. The dynamics are wrong. It has to be like modern dance on ice -- anything goes.
"Skating was as good as it gets at the Olympics in Calgary but the heyday of the sport's popularity was the Tonya Harding/Nancy Kerrigan showdown when figure skating was the second most popular sport in the world on TV. Today it's not in the top 10. The sport has become like Strictly Ballroom -- it can't be taken seriously."
TOO MANY RULES:
Cranston: "Now there's extreme paranoia that what happened in Salt Lake with (Jamie) Sale and (David) Pelletier can't happen again. So there's a gridlock of new rules. Do this and you get these points.
"The skaters are rendered impotent re: creativity and personality because it's driven by rules. When
I skated, it was a mixture of sport and art with a tremendous emphasis on individuality and personal touch. The personal touch can't exist if you have all these rules and certain criteria you have to meet.
"The marks used to range from one to six.
"Now there is no high-water mark -- no ultimate level to achieve because it can keep going up and up."
Cranston: "The demise of the former Soviet Union saw every serious Russian coach come to the U.S. to make money. They trained American skaters to become clones of Russians. Everyone was from the same cookie cutter."
TOO MANY COMPETITIONS:
Cranston: "When I competed, there were three big competitions: The Canadian national championships, the world championships and, every four years, the Olympics. There are now so many generic and utterly ridiculous competitions that nobody actually knows how they fit into the mix."
NO MORE 'IT' FACTOR:
Cranston: "If you do your triple-bipple and I only do my triple and not my bipple, you win. Something is wrong with that. It takes away that subjective element. That said, the heart is willing -- they want to fix it and I agree with that. But this new system -- the panacea is not easy to come up with. "
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Stakeholder Forum has undertaken an analysis of the submissions to the UN. This analysis identifies the insights to be found in the Zero Draft submission documents by creating a database of 97 key terms relevant to Rio+20 and determines which organisations have expressed interest in these terms.This analysis has three aims:
1. To aid the UN in developing subsequent drafts of a short, outcome-focused political document which is representative of all views.
2. An information tool to aid all the UN bodies, Member States and other stakeholders to:
- Identify other organisations which have common interests
- Identify potential conflicts; and
- Form clusters around key themes or partnerships for action at Rio and beyond.
3. Share information to increase the effectiveness of the Rio process through partnership-led working in order to improve the eventual Rio outcomes.
To view the entire analysis, click on the links below:
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Originally published: August 31, 2013
- I am a voracious reader
- I am an aunt
- I am a sister
- I am a genealogist
- I am a cost accountant
- I am a friend
- I am an animal lover
- I am an optimist
- I am a pessimist
- I am a criminology enthusiast
- I am a crocheter
- I am a knitter
- I am a mystery movie lover
- I am a romantic
- I am a cousin
- I am a family history researcher
- I am a blogger
- I am a cook
- I am a computer enthusiast
- I am a website designer
- I am a person
- I am a scrapbooker
- I am an amateur photographer
- I am an enthusiastic but not particularly successful gardener
- I am a crafter
The prompt for week 1 is a recognized psychology test
Ask yourself 20 times “Who are you?”
Each time you should give yourself a different answer, and if you can easily go beyond 20 then that is fine too. The last time I did this (December 2012) I came up with 26. This is the sort of prompt that you can re do at various stages of your life, perhaps after some changes or at the start of the New Year.
This prompt is about how YOU see YOU.
The Book of Me, Written by You is a real opportunity to explore your memories, thoughts, information from your life, things that you can remember, and perhaps the passing on of oral history.
This is a chance to explore yourself and create a legacy for future generations. This is truly a road of self discovery and exploration.
The prompts will be delivered each week from 31st August 2013 through until the end of December 2014 via Thomas at Geneabloggers and via the Anglers Rest blog. There is a Facebook group set up read for discussion. You can read all about the project and find out what it is all about and sign up to the Facebook page HERE
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Moises Bento Chipema is a 35 year old Angolan man who came to Britain in 2005.
Moises had suffered persecution and serious threats to his life as a result of a 2002 provincial conflict between a Diamond company (of which Moises was an employee) and the Chokwe tribe. The conflict led to the deaths of two close friends and the assurance that he would also be killed.
Subsequent raids of his house by local militia forced Moises into hiding, eventually fleeing through fear of his life.
Recently his appeal to stay in the UK was turned down which signalled the culmination of a five year campaign where Moises has been forced to relive harrowing and tragic memories. He is now in detention and set to return to a country where he faces real and dangerous threats.
Forcing him to leave the UK could be seen as a breach of the ‘freedom not to be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment’ granted to every human being under Article 3, and the ‘right to liberty and security’ granted under Article 5 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
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Author: R. Kent Dybvig
Publisher: MIT Press; 4th edition, 2009
Aimed at: Academic computer scientists
Pros: Comprehensive and authoritative
Cons: Dense, terse textbook style
Reviewed by: Mike James
Scheme is a language derived from Lisp and as such it is loved by academics who want to make use of its recursion and list processing and the fact that a Scheme program can be naturally treated as Scheme data.
As a language Scheme even looks complicated and advanced and this particular book does nothing to put the beginner at ease. Right from the word go we have an academic presentation with some concession to informal language. For example, from the section Typographical and Notational Conventions:
This book uses the words "must" and "should" to describe program requirements, such as the requirement to provide an index that is less than the length of the vector in a call to vector-ref. If the word "must" is used, it means that the requirement is enforced by the implementation, i.e. an exception is raised, usually with condition type Assertion. If the word "should" is used, an exception may or may not be raised, and if not, the behaviour of the program is undefined."
You need to keep in mind that this is on page 9 and none of the Scheme language has yet been introduced. This is fine in the sense that it is logical but it is hardly an approach that is likely to introduce Scheme to a wider audience. Of course if you want an academic approach and already have the basic idea of what Lisp like languages are all about it might even be a positive advantage.
From the introduction the book moves on to really introduce Scheme but even though the tone is more "when you type this you get this" it still tends to use and reference ideas not yet introduced. By the end of Chapter Two we have lists, car and cdr, recursion, lambda expressions and most of what you need to write programs. The explanations make some attempt at being reader-friendly but this is just a thin cover over the basically academic approach. I can't imagine that many would think that this is a fun read and it is unlikely to spread the enthusiasm for Scheme to a wider community but it is very suitable as a textbook for a computer science or AI course.
Chapters Three, Four and Five complete the Scheme course and take us up to advanced recursion, continuation, binding and control operations. Chapter Six deals with objects and from this point on the book is a collection of special topics – input/output, syntactic extension, records, libraries and exceptions.
The final chapter consists of extended examples – matrix multiplication, sorting, set construction, word frequency counting, scheme printer, formatting, meta interpreter for Scheme, fast Fourier transform, unification and multitasking. Some of the examples take us away from the usual areas that Scheme is generally applied to. Each chapter has exercises and some of these are answered in an appendix.
Overall this provides an authoritative treatment of Scheme which, as an academic text is comparatively easy to read – but Scheme for dummies it certainly isn't.
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Holly Reese Triumphs Over Fatal Disease in Memoir
One woman beats the odds with holistic healing in lieu of modern medicine.
Reese felt that Western medicine failed her when her doctors told her there was no cure and to expect only “bad days and worse days” for the rest of her life.
Author Holly Reese, MSOM, L.Ac., describes in her book “Rising from the Abyss: My Journey into and out of Chronic Illness” how she used a holistic lifestyle to battle a rare autoimmune disease called Mixed Connective Tissue Disorder. She initially submits herself to Western medicine and was offered no hope for a cure – only a list of medication to manage her symptoms. She then quit and decided to try out alternative medicine.
“I wrote this book to show that chronic illness can be overcome, to restore hope and inspire others suffering from debilitating illnesses to embark on their own healing journeys,” said Reese. “I share my story as an example of the incredible feats we can accomplish, regardless of what anyone else says. It is possible to create wellness no matter where we are.”
Reese felt that Western medicine failed her when her doctors told her there was no cure and to expect only “bad days and worse days” for the rest of her life. She was bedridden and suffered from extreme pain until she sought help from her spirit guides who led her through a step-by-step intense energy healing. She then began to incorporate alternative medicine to her lifestyle and has not looked back.
Reese is an acupuncturist, herbalist, wellness coach, and now founder of the Inspire Wellness Center. The center provides holistic healing services, remedies, and educational tools that help nourish the mind, body, and sprit to better prevent, manage, and recover from chronic illness.
Reese believes her journey led her to discover her true destiny in life. Her story of rising from chronic illness will help inspire hope in others.
“Rising from the Abyss”
By: Holly Reese, MSOM, L.Ac.
Hardcover | 6 x 9 in | 364 pages | ISBN 9781452564036
Softcover | 6 x 9 in | 364 pages | ISBN 9781452564012
E-Book | 364 pages | ISBN 9781452564029
Available at www.barnesandnoble.com and www.amazon.com.
About the Author
Holly Reese is a California board-licensed acupuncturist and herbalist. She is the founder of the Inspire Wellness Center. She also holds certifications in medical qigong, acupressure, hypnotherapy and past life regression. Also, as a certified personal trainer and martial arts instructor, Reese has rigorously studied kinesiology, qi, energy work and meditation for more than 30 years. She holds two black belts, one in Tae Won Do and the other in Choy Lay Fut Kung Fu. She graduated from MIT with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. This is her first book.
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The CPU or Central Processing Unit is indeed the brains behind any computer system. Without the CPU chip, the computer simply can't do anything at all. The CPU has three sections, the Arithmetic Logic Unit, the Registers and its Control Unit. As these chips become faster and faster, the RAM (random access memory) must also keep up with the development and thus, become much faster as well.
1Determine which CPU is in your computer either by reading the start-up screen or using diagnostic software. You may also determine your CPU type and speed by removing the system unit cover and taking a good long look at the chip. Look at the label on the chip to determine its model, speed,and the manufacturer.
- Note: If a Heat Sink or a Fan is installed on top of the chip, you will have to remove these components to view the CPU label.
2Turn off and unplug the system unit.
3Disconnect any components that may be in the way of removing the system unit's cover.
4Remove the screws from the rear of the case and slide the cover away from the system unit case.
5Place the cover away in a safe place.
6Remove any and all electrical static charge from your clothes and body by touching a doorknob or any other grounded object.
7Locate the CPU Chip. The chip will be mounted onto the motherboard in a socket and depending on the type of computer you have, the socket may be shaped in various forms.
- Note: Some CPU chips are soldered onto the motherboard and can only be upgraded by removing and installing a new motherboard. This type of chip is referred to as the Proprietary CPU Chip.
8Check your computer's manual to see if the CPU is Proprietary before you consider upgrading to a more powerful processor. If the manual tells you to consult will the manufacturer if you want to upgrade the processor, it's mostly likely a propriety Central Processing Unit.
9Remove such components as the hard drive or an expansion slot to gain full access the chip if necessary. Newer Tower units allow easy access by removing a couple screws and sliding the panel with the motherboard down.
10Once the CPU is in plain view, grasp the lever on the Zero Insertion Force sockets and carefully but firmly pull the lever straight up. This lever is normally located on the side of the chip. Some chips may contain a clamp that must be removed as well. Check your owner's manual to see the components of your CPU.
- Note: Some chips are covered by a Heat Sink and/or a Cooling Fan. These components will have to be removed and set aside.
11Place the beveled end of the chip to match the beveled end of the socket when inserting the new chip. This was designed so that the chip can be installed in only one direction.
12Confirm that the chip you buy is compatible with your system and ask if you can return the chip if there are any problems. Be sure that the upgrade will perform what you want it to do. Your computer's performance will improve with a CPU upgrade but you may need to add more ram if you want to improve your Windows programs.
- Check to see if all connections are seated firmly and properly in their sockets. This is a must as these connections do tend to work themselves loose over time and cause problems you may blame on software.
- Note: If you have been working in your system unit recently and you noticed a fault manifesting itself, you want to go back and take a look at all connections you were near. Look to be sure your fingers did not press against other connections and causing then to work loose.
- Perform preventive maintenance on your computer and keep it clean regularly. It's a good idea to open up the system unit and remove all dust that have accumulated on the motherboard as well as all other boards from time to time.
- Be absolutely sure you have removed any and all electrical static buildup from yourself before working inside your computer and before touching any new circuit cards and chips. It would be a tragedy to purchase new memory only to short circuit them either before you installed them or during the process of installation.
- In some cases, the chip may not be compatible with the BIOS of your computer. Be sure to see what BIOS versions your chip is compatible with.
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Culture increasingly seen as path to economic growth
By Honor Mahony
With a little imagination and some creative interpretation of guidelines on how to spend EU aid, some cities and regions are pulling themselves up by the bootstraps and turning themselves into cultural - and money-making - hotspots.
Nantes is one of them. Twenty-odd years ago, the western French city had a huge industrial scar at its centre after the closure of its shipyard. The 15 hectare space on the Ile de Nantes was ugly, barren and a reminder of a busier past.
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Today, it is an artistic centre. Art projects, festivals and shows have put the city on the cultural map and boosted outside investment. The creative industry employs 5,600 people - a 200 percent increase since 1982. Visitor numbers have shot up, from 140,000 in 2006 to 220,000 last year.
The city's authorities got around €54 million from the European Regional Development Fund. They spent around €9 million of it just on culture-related investment in the city.
Valentina Montalto of KEA - a consultancy specialised in culture - and co-author of a *report looking into the use of EU regional aid for cultural projects, says this reflects better appreciation by local authorities of the importance of creativity.
"What is happening in European regional policies is that there is better understanding of culture. There is much less culture for culture's sake but seeing it as a tool to promote activity and innovation," she said.
There are many examples. Dundee on the east coast of Scotland is another city that has set about transforming itself.
The starting blocks were the same as those of Nantes - a city in decline after a more prosperous industrial past. In the early 1990s, city developers started to focus on culture and creativity. Now the city accounts for 10 percent of the UK's digital entertainment industry. It is home to 17 games companies employing over 400 people.
Arnhem in the Netherlands has focused on turning itself into a city that designers not only want to come and study in but also to stay afterward, while Estonia's Tartu is busy establishing itself as a cultural hub by encouraging cultural entrepreneurship.
But, according to Montalto, even if some urban developers are enlightened about the role of culture as a force for economic growth, this does not mean that a profound change has taken place.
The proposed new rules for cohesion policy (a bag of EU funds for regional development) give a less prominent position to culture. It is not mentioned in the 11 'thematic areas' where the European Commission wants money to be spent - although it is mentioned in less important strategic guidelines for the spending of EU aid.
"Even if the current reference is limited to cultural heritage, compared to the new one, it's still better," says Montalto of the proposed changes.
Helga Truepel, a German Green MEP, says that the parliament's culture committee will try to use the report to influence negotiations on the next budget.
"It is not about abolishing the intrinsic values of culture but seeing that it is a new part of economic development. It's a cross-over between culture and economic policies," said Truepel.
"Cities that have invested in culture have had more economic success than those that invested only in cars and airports. In the knowledge society, a lot of innovation - when you put it in economic terms - depends on creativity."
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The following is a statement from PennFuture President and CEO Jacquelyn Bonomo regarding the passage of Senate Bill 915 on May 27th.
“This common sense legislation represents an important vehicle for clean water in Pennsylvania. We applaud the Senate and leaders like Senator Yaw for passing Senate Bill 915, which seeks to reduce the levels of nitrogen and phosphorous that enter waterways across Pennsylvania,” said Jacquelyn Bonomo, President and CEO of PennFuture. “Thousands of miles of our rivers and streams are polluted with these nutrients, which drastically impacts water quality, aquatic life and recreation opportunities. This fair and reasonable legislation will improve water quality in Pennsylvania for decades to come.”
PennFuture is leading the transition to a clean energy economy in Pennsylvania, fighting big polluters with legal muscle, enforcing environmental laws, and supporting legislative policy that protects public health. PennFuture is engaging and educating citizens about the realities of climate change, and giving them the tools needed to influence lawmakers on the issues. Visit www.pennfuture.org for more information.
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Background: As preferred treatment options for superior labral tears continue to evolve, this study aims to describe the recent longitudinal trends in the treatment of SLAP tears in a sub-specialized practice at a single institution. We hypothesized that there was a trend toward biceps tenodesis over repair for Type II SLAP lesions. Methods: A retrospective review was performed using an institutional billing database to identify all patients with a SLAP tear who underwent surgical intervention between January 2002 and January 2016. Procedural codes associated with the surgery were analyzed to determine type of treatment each patient received. Results: Of the 6,055 patients who underwent surgery for a SLAP tear during the study period, 39.1% (2,370) underwent labral repair, 15.4% (930) underwent tenodesis without repair, and 45.5% (2,755) underwent arthroscopy without tenodesis or repair. Labral repair made up a significantly higher proportion of surgical interventions in 2002 (82.2%) compared to in 2015 (21.8%; P<0.001). Surgeon experience did not impact trends. Over the study period, the mean age of patients receiving labral repair decreased from 40.4 years (range: 16.2 - 63.9) to 32.6 years (range: 14.0 - 64.7; P<0.001). Conclusion: This study demonstrates that over the 14-year study period the rate of labral repairs for SLAP tears has decreased significantly and that these repairs have been directed towards a younger patient population.
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Low Levels Of "Love Hormone," Oxytocin, In Kids Linked To Substance Abuse Later On, University of Adelaide Study
3/24/2014 7:14:10 AM
Who can forget the adorable prairie voles whose male vasopressin levels beget such wonderfully enduring pair bonds of holy monogamy? Since Helen Fisher's work last decade, the so-called "science of love" has truly alarmed gestaltists by reducing man to machine — one whose basic instincts may be adjusted like an oil change or wheel balancing. Now, scientists say levels of another “love hormone” — oxytocin — in early childhood might influence later health as an adult.
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The pilgrim is well met; he will go to swell the contents of my vivarium.
It will look very different when it is in my vivarium, let me tell you.
The vivarium consists of eight immense arches two stories high, formed from blocks of travertine.
Day after day it wanders about the vivarium in company with the assassins.
One of the most important of these devices is the breeding-cage, which is sometimes called a vivarium.
The vivarium contains upwards of 430 living quadrupeds and birds.
Release the males and put the females in a vivarium with the potted plant.
The short conversation was interrupted by a loud roar which came from the vivarium, a place where the wild beasts were confined.
In this vivarium every kind of wild beast, and among others lions, began to roar from affright.
The base of the vivarium or breeding cage should never be made of tin, but always of zinc.
c.1600, "game park," from Latin vivarium "enclosure for live game, park, warren, preserve, fish pond," neuter singular of vivarius, from vivus "alive, living" (see vivid). Meaning "glass bowl for studying living creatures" is from 1853.
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In this article, we’ll be looking at the focus or object of logical analysis called arguments. You’ll learn how arguments are structured and the components that make up arguments. In future lessons, you’ll learn how to construct arguments and practice on your own.
Every science has a focal point or object of its study and the object of logic is arguments. Put another way, arguments are the way we structure our thinking.
We use the word argument in every day usage to usually mean a verbal fight. If you get in an argument with a friend, co-worker or family member, it usually means that you have some disagreement and you’re talking (or yelling) about your position and how it differs from the person you’re arguing with.
In logic, an argument takes on a much more specific purpose and has a formal structure. Specifically, an argument is a structured set of sentences designed to convince someone of something. The structure is very important. It’s so important in fact that logicians have given names to the parts of an argument. So here is a textbook definition of an argument:
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What is periodontitis?
Periodontitis is a very common serious gum infection that means inflammation of soft tissue around the teeth. It damages to soft bones and tissue supporting teeth.
All periodontal diseases, including periodontitis, effect on periodontium. This is an ongoing disease that occurs slowly and destroy the bone tissue around the teeth. Microorganism like bacteria, attach to the surface of the teeth and then multiply. Those patients with high immune system react them to inflammation.
Untreated periodontitis will lead to teeth loss, increasing the risk of heart attack or the other health problems.
Bacteria plaque (a sticky, colorless membrane that create over the tooth surface) is the most common reason of periodontal disease. Periodontitis is the knowledge of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of gum and structural disease that protect of teeth. Generally, there is 8 specialized fields in dentistry major, periodontics is one of them. If you want to do implant you should see a periodontics. Usually, periodontitis is predictable and occur due to inappropriate oral hygiene.
What is the difference between periodontitis and gingivitis?
Gingivitis occur before periodontitis and usually refers to gum inflation, while periodontitis is a disease that tissue and bones are destroyed. Initially, bacteria plaque collects on the surface of tooth and causes gum to become red and inflamed, in this case teeth may bleed during brushing. Although gums are stimulated and annoyingly but gingivitis is not leads to tooth loos and serious damage to bones and surrounding tissue. Read certainly: How plaques are formed on teeth? and scaling.
Untreated gingivitis leads to periodontitis and it causes to gums and bones loose and form large space between teeth. The small space between gums and bones gather debris and become infected that location. While the plaque is spread under the gum, immune system attacks bacteria and destroy bonds and surrounding gums that protect of teeth, it may lead to loos and fall out teeth. In simple words, periodontitis includes the irreversible changes of tissues surrounding teeth while gingivitis doesn’t have the same condition.
What is the cause of periodontitis?
Bacteria plaque is the cause of periodontitis. Plaque is a sticky substance that create on the surface of teeth a couple of hours after brushing. It is interesting to know that body reaction to bacterial infection makes most of the problems. Immune system’s cells when are trying to remove bacteria, produce a substance that causes inflammation, gum destruction, periodontal ligament or alveolar bone. This procedure, leads to swollen, bleeding gums, signs of gingivitis (that is the first stage of periodontal disease) and loosing of the teeth that is a symptom of sever periodontitis (the advanced stage).
It’s another issue if plaque create on tooth surface, it becomes hardened and calcified and turn into calculus that usually called tartar. Since calculus is rougher than tooth enamel or cementum (it is a layer that cover the tooth root), by continuing collection, more plaque will attach to tooth. Using a tartar control toothpaste can to reduce the collection procedure around the tooth. It doesn’t have any effect on those tartar that have already collected between tooth and gum spaces.
Healthy gums, are light pink color and accurately cover around teeth. The periodontitis signs and symptoms are as bellow:
- Swollen or puffy gums
- Bright red, dusky red or purplish gums
- Gums that feel sensitivity when touched
- Gums that bleed easily
- Gums that pull away from teeth and makes teeth to looks longer than normal
- Developing new space between teeth
- Making pus between teeth and gums
- Bad breath
- Loose teeth
- Painful chewing
- A change in the way that teeth fit together when biting
Periodontitis disease has several different types and the most commons types are:
- Chronic periodontitis is the most common type among adults, although kids can be affected, too. Increasing numbers of mouth plaque is the cause of this type and over the time cause to get worse and if doesn’t treat, leads to gums destruction, boons and teeth loos.
- Aggressive periodontitis usually begins in childhood or early adulthood and less people are affected by this disease. It mostly effects on family and if doesn’t treat, rapidly leads to progression of bone and teeth loose.
- Necrotizing periodontal disease is described by the death of gum tissue, tooth ligaments and supporting bone caused by lack of blood supply(necrosis), terminating in severe infection. Generally, those who have malnutrition or weak immune system (like HIV infection, cancer treatment etc.) are more expose by this disease.
Periodontal inflammation is unavoidable and can prevent of periodontitis and the progress of gum inflation by observing oral hygiene, alongside regular examination and tooth care.
Several important factors for considering mouth and teeth health are as bellow:
- Brushing surfaces and sides of the teeth twice a day (your toothbrush should have appropriate size and other characteristic of a good brush).
- Daily cleaning the space between teeth (where toothbrush bristles can’t reach) by dental floss and interdental brushes (depending on the size of space between teeth).
- Flossing should be used where teeth are close together and have less or no space while interdental brushes are suitable for larger space. Special care should consider to clean around crooked or crowded teeth, around filling, crowns and dentures because plaque easily gather in these places and it’s difficult to access.
- Antibacterial mouth washers are suitable supplement to brushing because release the bacterial growth and decrease inflammatory Mouth washers should be use after tooth brushing.
- In case of insufficient cleaning procedure, plaque deposits create on teeth and this gathering turn to hard and fixed substance (calculus, generally known as tartar) that can’t be remove by brushing. Dentist or periodontist during the regular dental checkup, distinguish the tartar deposits and through a professional procedure clean them. After removing deposits, tooth will be polished by special pastes in order to make a smooth surface and decrease possibility of plaque gathering.
What are the risk factors of periodontist?
There are several factors such as stress, some systemic disease like diabetes and smoking which are more important than the others ones, increase the risk of creating and developing periodontist.
Smoking and periodontist
- Mostly smokers are affected with periodontist than nonsmokers.
- The success probability of periodontist treatments (such as implant and gum or bone grafts) are less developed in smokers than nonsmokers due to slow cure procedure for smokers’ body tissues.
- The procedure of periodontist disease and even tooth loos are faster in smokers than nonsmokers.
- 90 percent of those who are not responded by periodontist treatment are smokers.
How is periodontist treated?
Usually by accurate assessment and appropriate treatment method, it’s possible to stop the periodontist progress. The key of a successful treatment is exercise and repetition of oral hygiene practices and removing bacteria plaque that are the main causes of disease progress.
- Oral hygiene guidance and recommendations
The point of treatment methods is to observe oral hygiene, reduce the numbers of mouth bacteria in order to decrease the level of tooth inflammation. Initially, dentist explain to patient the cusses of periodontist disease and then illustrate the exact method of considering and cleaning tooth and gums, such as training the most appropriate tooth brushing method, and the correct use of dental floss and interdental brushes.
All the tooth soft deposit can be cleaned from reachable areas and clean and brush tooth by fluoride. By considering the progress rate seen in mouth plaque control and gum health, further training and cleaning procedure will be done in later appointment in case of need. The next step is to illuminate all tartar and bacteria deposits from the root surface and gingival pockets by dentist.
In some cases, antibiotics are prescribed for active or persistent gum infection that are not treated by observing oral hygiene measurement or without microbiological test.
After several weeks, dentist or periodontist, will assess gums in order to assure of treatment procedure. Dentists use of a device that called probe or periodontal to record the depth of gum inflammation and prevent of gum bleeding. For untreated gum inflammation, some other treatment options like surgical therapy are recommended.
Corrective (surgical) treatment
Sometimes, a surgical procedure is recommended for removing the bacteria plaque and deposits that are created under the gun within periodontal pockets and on the root surface at the furcation. These areas are inaccessible for tooth brushing and tooth flossing and as long as bacteria are placed in these areas, inflammation is unavoidable. Under local anesthesia, gums are lifted away and roots surface are cleaned under the doctor’s accurate vision to ensure of destroying all bacteria. In some cases, can to treat the bone loss by this special technique. By the end of the surgery, again gums are attached on their location.
Aftercare-supportive periodontal therapy
Long term success of periodontal treatment depends on individual effort for observing oral hygiene and some ongoing assessment by a practice team to provide ordered care. After doing the first step of treatment, dentist should consider your gum condition and become sure of inflammation treatment. Regular checkup appointment is depending on diseases severity and the risk of disease progression. Usually these appointments are arranged for every three to six months.
Regular checkup appointments are very important because during these sessions doctor will ensure disease procedures is not continuing and if there is no symptom of diseases progress, it is possible to distinguish the inflammation location and treat them in early stages. Also the appropriate method of oral hygiene is trained to patient in order to prevent of inflammation.
Successful treatment of periodontal disease requires full cooperation of patient and observing oral hygiene and participate at regular checkup sessions.
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« BACK TO TREE TYPES
Pinus strobus L.
The largest pine in the U.S., the White Pine has soft, flexible needles and is bluish-green in color. Needles are 2½ - 5 in. long. White Pine's have good needle retention, but have little aroma. They aren't recommended for heavy ornaments.
Beginning with the British colonists, eastern white pine (or white pine) has proven to be one of the most important and most desirable species of North America. It is a truly magnificent tree attaining a height of 80 feet or more at maturity with a diameter of two to three feet. White pine is considered to be the largest pine in the United States. In colonial times, white pines above 24 inches in diameter were reserved for England to be used as ships masts. These trees were identified by blazing a broad arrow on the trunk. Because of the colonists general dislike of British rule, this "broad arrow" policy was one more source of friction between the two. Until about 1890, white pine was considered the species of choice for most commercial uses. It is the state tree of Maine and Michigan.
Leaves (needles) are soft, flexible and bluish-green to silver green in color and are regularly arranged in bundles of five. Needles are 2 1/2-5 inches long and are usually shed at the end of the second growing season. Both male and female flowers (strobili) occur on the same tree, with pollination occurring in spring. Cones are 4-8 inches in length, usually slightly curved and mature at the end of the second season. Cone scales are rather thin and never have prickles. Cones also have exudations of a fragrant gummy resin.
Bark on young trunks and branches is smooth and tends to be greenish-brown in color. On older trunks, the bark becomes dark gray and shallowly fissured. Limbs tend to persist, particularly on trees grown without severe competition.
White pine is intermediate in shade tolerance and is commonly associated with eastern hemlock and various northern hardwoods. It is found on many different sites including dry rocky ridges and wet sphagnum bogs, but best development is on moist sandy loam soils. Extensive logging has destroyed most of the original pine forests, but the species is aggressive in reproducing itself and may be found throughout its original range. Due to its desirability and relative ease of nursery production it has also been a major species for reforestation in the northeastern United States and Canada.
White pine is susceptible to white pine blister rust disease, which has alternate hosts of wild currants and gooseberries (Ribes). White pine weevil is the major insect pest, and one which deforms trees by killing the terminal shoots. White pine appears to be more sensitive to pollutants such as, ozone, fluorides and sulfur dioxide than are other species.
For Christmas trees, sheared trees are preferred, although some people feel shearing results in trees too dense for larger ornaments. Needle retention is good to excellent. White pine has very little aroma, but, conversely, is reported to result in fewer allergic reactions than do some of the more aromatic species. To produce a 6-foot tree requires 6-8 years on good sites.
White pine has a broad geographic range, growing from Newfoundland to Manitoba through the northern United States to northern and eastern Ohio and then southward along the Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia and South Carolina. It can be found from sea level in its northern range to 5000 feet in the Appalachian Mountains.
Most propagation is by seed, although the species grafts quite easily. Considerable variation in rooting ability has been observed. About 70 cultivars have been developed for commercial use.
White pine has historically been one of the most valuable lumber trees. It has soft, light wood which warps and checks less than many other species. The wood is adapted to a variety of uses to include cabinets, interior finish, and carving. Early native-Americans used the inner bark as food, with colonists later using the inner bark as an ingredient in cough remedies.
Seeds are eaten by birds such as red crossbills and chickadees. Rabbits may eat the bark of young trees as may porcupines.
Prepared by Dr. Craig R. McKinley, North Carolina State University
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Decentralization Creates Symmetry
Probably the most famous example of symmetry in art is The Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci: the painting is balanced and composed to draw the eye into the central figure of Jesus, and a medium capable of representing symmetry inevitably presents possibilities to symmetrical relationships between money, media, and art.
In this context, the incorrigible rise of NFT’s (non-fungible tokens) as the collectible of choice for expression of exclusivity and wealth through the desire to hold otherwise “useless art” becomes less irrational and incomprehensible.
This is because decentralization creates symmetry, creates art. Or perhaps art creates decentralization, creates symmetry, creates art — and if symmetry creates art, what’s to stop symmetry becoming causal to other things? The big question then being “what next!?”
Perceiving rationality and reason is challenging and provocative in this way, in the same tendency of the objective to art being uniqueness or originality in representation and aura of how it came into being in the first place.
If pseudonymity assumes agency of the human who creates the art, creating the decentralization, creating symmetry; then symmetry appears axiomatic to any human endeavour or game: for example in the contract, so both sides are balanced and in equilibrium to the terms of the bargain and how that bargain might be litigated on.
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Constant, Caroline, and Wilfred Wang. "E.1027." In An Architecture for All Senses, 92-117. Tuebigen,
Germany: Ernst J. Wasmuth Verlag, 1996.
The section of the book we used had a very good analysis of E. 1027 and compared it to different movements, buildings, and design, during that time period. It elaborated on what influenced Eileen and how she decided to incorporate this into her work.
Hecker, Stefan, and Christian F. Mueller. eileen gray. 2nd ed. Barcelona: Editorial
The book has many good photographs of E 1027, shows construction details,
and has a superb set of plans, sections, and elevations.
Monte Carlo Auction House, comp. Collection Eileen Gray, Mobilier, Objets
et Projets de sa Creation.
New York, USA: Sotheby Parke Bernet Monaco S.A., 1980.
This small booklet has a large variety of good quality photographs depicting
Eileen’s furniture. Adding to this, there are short descriptions explaining the
materials and composition of each piece of furniture.
Constant, Caroline. Eileen Gray. London: Phaidon Press, 2000.
Constant, Caroline. Eileen Gray. Reprint ed. N.p.: Phaidon Press, 2007.
The book covers all of Eileens architectural works and gives us a broad
overview of her projects. Her furniture and design are briefly mentioned and the
main emphasis is on the buildings.
Editions Albert Morance. "Eileen Gray Et Jean Badovici - Maison En Bord De Mer." L'Architecture
This is a copy of a documentary magazine published by Badovici concerning
E 1027. It has an in depth analysis of the construction, design, thought process,
and furniture of E 1027. This magazine was definitely the source of information
that helped the most during the case study.
DB City. Accessed December 4, 2012. http://en.db-city.com/
The website gave us information concerning the demography and geography of the Roquebrune-Cap-Martin area.
French Riviera. Accessed December 4, 2012. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Riviera.
This website was used to find out the general history of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin
and any other general information.
Friends of e1027. Accessed December 4, 2012. http://www.e1027.org/index.php?/about/a-brief-history/.
This website has many newspaper and magazine articles concerning Eileen Gray.
These supplied us with lots of information and also told us what people thought
of her work.
Adam, Peter. Eileen Gray Her Life and Work. Munich, Germany: Schirmer/Mosel, 2008.
This book covers all aspects of Eileen’s life and work, and was a great source for information and pictures. We used the book frequently and it was one of our main sources.
Adam, Peter. Eileen Gray: architect/designer: a biography. New York, USA: Harry N. Abrams, 2000.
This book summarizes Eileen’s life, her furniture, and her various design
and architectural works. However, we used this book mainly for the biography of
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History of Texas Trails Council
A meeting was held on May 14, 2002 at the Sweetwater Country Club in Sweetwater, Texas. The Council Key Leadership of the Buffalo Trail Council, Midland, TX; Concho Valley Council, San Angelo, TX; Chisholm Trail Council, Abilene, TX, met to explore the possibility of joining together to form one council. Comanche Trail Council, Brownwood, TX, was not invited to attend this meeting. Following this meeting, the Executive Board of the Buffalo Trail Council turned down the offer to consolidate into one council.
A second meeting was held June 19, 2002 at the First Coleman National Bank, Coleman, TX and Comanche Trail Council was invited this time to participate in the meeting along with Concho Valley Council and Chisholm Trail Council. Following this meeting the Concho Valley Council's Executive Board voted, by only one vote, not to participate further into discussions about consolidating the three councils into one.
A third meeting was then held on August 6, 2003 at Hendrick Hospital, Abilene, TX with ten selected Scouters from Chisholm Trail Council and Comanche Trail Council to form a "Program Review Study Task Force" to look into the pros and cons of the two councils consolidating into one council with a new name. The three task study groups reported back on Finance, Program and Administration. That group voted to proceed with further studies and to have Town Hall Scouter meetings in several different communities in the two councils with representatives of both councils present to answer questions and give the pros and cons about consolidation.
As reported in the Brownwood Bulletin, August 29, 2003, from the meeting held at the Council Service Center in Brownwood, "Some scout leaders expressed concern that being included in a huge council would cause area Scout leaders to lose a voice in council decisions. The prospect of aligning with a big city council (Ft. Worth) also brought concerns to the forefront that Comanche Trail Council and Chisholm Trail would lose their distinct West Texas culture."
Following the Town Hall meetings held in seven communities of the two councils, their respective Executive Boards and charter organizations voted on October 29, 2002 to combine the two councils into one council. A transition team of 20 members from both councils met on October 30, 2002 in Brownwood to discuss the upcoming changes. As Pat Leatherwood, stated at that meeting, "The decision was an emotional one." The new council would be based in Abilene.
Council Shoulder Patch
Another contest was held to select the shoulder patch for the new council and that selection was done in 2003. This new patch had two ghost symbols in the background. One of a buffalo head and one of the longhorn head. Some features of the former shoulder patches of the Chisholm Trail Council and the Comanche Trail Council patch was incorporated into the design. The first patches of 1,000 were made by Sunshine Emblems in Florida. The new council budget was to be about $750,000. Members of the Texas Trails Council, wear the patch of the council on their left shoulder. Symbolized on this patch is the colorful sunrise of a new Texas morning with an adventurer on the trail who is either coming or going. Designed to represent both, this patch shows an adventurer on a new Texas Trail AND an adventurer coming off the old trail of either the Historic Comanche Trail or the Historic Chisolm Trail.
The first Texas Trails Council event ever, the "TTC "Jam" began with an invasion of the Flat Rock Park area of Hord's Creek Park, located west of Coleman. The event was held the weekend of March 28-30, 2003. There was fellowship and displays of Scoutcraft presented by troops from all over the new council. Over 300 participants enjoyed the brisk, but sunny, weather, and several Cub Scout Packs turned up on Saturday to see the Scout skills on display. On Saturday, the Scouts built quail habitats to stimulate growth of the local bird populations.
A special campfire was held on Saturday night filled with skits, songs and stories. It became apparent to all who attended the weekend that the two former councils had indeed become one. On Sunday morning several individuals gathered ashes from the previous night's campfire to save as a memento of the new beginning of the Texas Trails Council. Aivars Junkis and Blair Haynie organized the weekend.
Cub Scout Stampede
Not to be outdone by the Boy Scouts, the Cubs held their first combined event for the new Texas Trails Council on the weekend of May 2-4, 2003, at Hord's Creek Park. It was a family campout with the entire family invited to participate. Packs did their own planning and preparing of meals which many felt brought the packs closer together. Webelos had a special program Friday night with Indian dancing, provided by the Otena Lodge of the Order of the Arrow, and Saturday morning with events such as knot tying, first aid, erecting of wall tents, and a 4 man tug of war.
The events for everyone on
Saturday afternoon centered around the theme of "Stick Horse Rodeo."
Events include Doc Holiday's Medicine, Jail Sheriff, Judge Roy Bean, The
Outlaw Josey Whales, Barrel racing, Egg racing, Rescue racing, Bronc riding,
Pole bending, Steer roping, Lead line, BB's, Archery, Arts and crafts,
and some Branding. The weather was perfect for the weekend and fun
was held by all 500+ participants both old and young alike. Pam Barnes
and Bob Rider were in charge of the weekend.
The first issue of the Texas Trails News was published in February 2003. The eight-page paper included stories on the new leadership of the council, the various events of the old Chisholm and Comanche Trail Councils, as well as promotion for the two summer camps, Camp Tonkawa and Camp Billy Gibbons. The editor was Aivars Junkis, who also agreed to serve as the webmaster for the council's web site "texastrailsbsa.org." The newsletter was scheduled to come out quarterly, and starting with the second issue in May 2003. The newsletter also started appearing on the council's web site. You can view all past issues of the newsletter at: http://www.texastrailsbsa.org/Council/texas_trails_news.htm
Texas Trails e-News
First Annual Recognition Banquet
Scout Shop Closed in Brownwood
The Scout Shop was due to close for the Christmas holidays on December 23, 2004, but due to circumstance of losing the employee that ran the office, the Scout Shop actually was closed on December 15th. All the merchandise and some office equipment was moved to the office in Abilene following a formal inventory taken on December 28, 2004.
Kent Brown served as the
first Scout Executive of the Texas Trails Council from 2003 to September
9, 2009. David Angle became the second Scout Executive of the Texas
Trails Council on January 2, 2010.
Scouts | Spirit of the
Eagle Award | Silver Beavers |
Star Award | District Award of
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In his report, submitted to the council on Monday, Mr Annan declined to make any formal judgement on whether Mr Milosevic had adequately responded to the latest UN resolution on Kosovo calling for an end to the eight- month conflict. But his text included several references to cruel repression of ethnic Albanians carried out since the adoption of the resolution on 23 September.
Britain, the holder of the UN presidency, sought to underline Mr Annan's harsh words, which may guide a pending decision on whether Nato makes air strikes against Serb military targets.
"We didn't ask Mr Annan to take a line," one British source said. "We asked for a narrative and that is what we got. And it makes very alarming reading."
However, no further action was expected last night from the council, which remains deeply divided.
The text of the latest resolution could be seen as at least an orange light to military action. It stops short of authorising the use of "all necessary means" to ensure enforcement - the UN code for such a step.
In his report, Mr Annan said he was "outraged by reports of mass killings of civilians in Kosovo, which recall the atrocities committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina". Underscoring the "deep trauma and despair of displaced populations" in Kosovo, Mr Annan said he was concerned that the "disproportionate use of force and actions of the security forces are designed to terrorise and subjugate the population".
Mr Annan went on: "The Serbian forces have demanded the surrender of weapons and have been reported to use terror and violence against civilians to force people to flee their homes or the places where they had sought refuge, under the guise of separating them from fighters of the Kosovo Albanian paramilitary units."Reuse content
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This interview was originally broadcast on Jan. 9, 2008. Gilpin is featured in PBS's American Experience called Death and the Civil War. It premiered Sept. 18, the day after the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam, the deadliest day in American military history.
Historian Drew Gilpin Faust writes that Civil War deaths — both their number and their manner — transformed America. Her book is This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.
The Civil War death rate was six times that of World War II, when adjusted against the size of the American population, Faust points out.
"For those Americans who lived in and through the Civil War, the texture of the experience ... was the presence of death," she writes. "At war's end this shared suffering would override persisting differences about the meanings of race, citizenship, and nationhood to establish sacrifice and its memorialization as the ground on which North and South would ultimately reunite."
Faust is the president of Harvard University, where she also holds the Lincoln Professorship in History.
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The very nomenclature of ’48 Palestinians and ’67 Palestinians shows how the Nakba remains at the root of Palestinian fragmentation. Roads function as a prime instrument of separation between the two. By Amahl Bishara Israeli policies preventing Palestinians from entering Israel and limiting Palestinian movement within the occupied territories have shaped Palestinian society, and the economy and politics in the West Bank and Gaza Strip for decades. What Israel terms “closure” is made material not only in checkpoints and roadblocks but also in the green license plates of cars registered to holders of Palestinian Authority identity cards (’67 Palestinians). However, less often explored are…Read More...
An Israeli bus driver refused to take Palestinian passengers on board, was ordered to do so by police, and took his revenge by forcing them off the bus at the entrance to a settlement. The bus company: "The driver acted exactly as expected of him." Tel Aviv Central Bus Station, Thursday, two weeks ago: a bus driver on the 286 line that goes to the settlement of Ariel refused to allow a group of Palestinian workers on board who wanted to get back home to the West Bank. After a short argument the driver called the police, asking for the…Read More... | 36 Comments
Racked by guilt for having exposed a modicum of the truth regarding Israel’s policies towards the Palestinians, Judge Richard Goldstone does an about-face and becomes a spokesperson for the Israeli right wing. Is Goldstone the new Benny Morris? By Omar Rahman and Abir Kopty Richard Goldstone could give those guys at AIPAC a run for their money. So misleading was his recent whitewash in the New York Times on the apparent slander “Israeli Apartheid,” that hasbara peddlers everywhere were taking his picture off their dartboards and putting them on their mantles. It was incredibly telling that the words "settlement" and…Read More... | 34 Comments
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Sales and marketing manager for Cornelder, the terminal operator of the port of Beira in Mozambique, Felix Jaime Machado, has said there is still a long way for Malawians to use the much-touted Nsanje World Inland Port.
Machado in an interview on Wednesday said making large vessels navigable on the Shire-Zambezi Waterway would be a complex exercise.
“The task to make big vessels navigate on rivers is so cumbersome and not easy as the two governments of Malawi and Mozambique put it, there is still a long way to make the dream come true,” Machado told a group of business journalsts on a media tour to Mozambique.
The Malawi Government secured funding from the African Development Bank for a feasibility study on the navigability of the Shire-Zambezi Waterway.
Although Machado did not specify how much it would cost to make river Zambezi and Shire navigable for larger vessels, he indicated that the exercise would be expensive.
He suggested that Malawi should explore the potential of the Nacala Railway line which currently is undergoing rehabilitation.
Once completed, the Nacala corridor will open up Malawi’s direct access to the Sena Corridor which is directly connected to the strategic Beira Port. This is the port through which much of Malawi exports and imports pass through.
Nsanje World Inland Port is a brainchild of former president the late Bingu wa Mutharika who said if put to use, the port would reduce Malawi’s transportation costs by over 40 percent.
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I am working on the posts about the All-Russia Census and farm names, but as a warm-up to get in the spirit of the blogging world again, I’m also going to participate in The Accidental Genealogist‘s “Fearless Females: 31 Blogging Prompts to Celebrate Women’s History Month”.
I’ve realized that on this blog I talk a lot about my male ancestors, so I hope that by participating in this blogging prompt month that I can highlight some of the women in my family tree, as well as educate about Latvian women throughout history, both “big event” history and home and community life.
Today’s prompt: Do you have a favorite female ancestor? One you are drawn to or want to learn more about? Write down some key facts you have already learned or what you would like to learn and outline your goals and potential sources you plan to check.
I can’t say I have a favourite female ancestor, but the one I want to learn more about right now is Ieva Līcīte, one of my great-great-grandmothers. All I know of her so far is that she was living on the Līcīši farm in Sērenes parish in 1866, when she had my great-grandfather, Brencis, out of wedlock. She may have had a second son, Krišjānis – my great-aunt remembers meeting her uncle Krišjānis when she was a little girl, but it is unknown whether he was Brencis’ full brother or half-brother, and if half-brother, then through which parent, since while Brencis’ father might not have been officially recognized on the birth record, they probably did know who it was.
My great-aunt and grandmother do not recall meeting Ieva, their paternal grandmother, so it is possible that she passed away before they were born. I have searched the marriage records for both Seces congregation and Jaunjelgavas congregation (the congregations where people in Sērene parish were most likely to have their life events recorded), but have yet to find any trace of a marriage or death record for Ieva. There are several other nearby congregations that I could check as well, such as Zalve and Sunākste. I will also begin searching for her birth record – chances are good that she was born in Sērenes parish as well, since she lived in “Līcīši”, which is the farm name version of her surname. I would like to learn more about her and her family, since this branch of the family is the one that I know the least about.
Having children out of wedlock was not uncommon in 19th century Latvia – in the records I’ve looked at, there are at least four or five every year, sometimes more. Often there were times when children were conceived out of wedlock, but quick marriages would take place before the child was born. In the time period when German barons and lords still owned most of the land, it was not uncommon for these barons and lords to involve themselves with the young women who lived on their estate. If a pregnancy resulted, the baron or lord would quietly ask one of the young men on the estate to marry the girl, and if he did so, he would receive his own land, and sometimes a position of prestige.
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On July 21, the Coalition Against Discriminatory Car Rental Excise Taxes—which includes car rental and car-sharing companies as well as travel industry, consumer, limousine and truck leasing organizations—announced its opposition to an $2.50 car rental excise tax currently pending in the Michigan Legislature.
This new tax, proposed to help underwrite the Michigan Promotion Fund, is just one several that the Coalition has recently opposed. Last month, the Coalition opposed Wisconsin’s recently enacted car rental excise tax.
Journalist and consumer advocate Christopher Elliott expressed similar doubts about the Wisconsin tax on his Web site: “...a fly-by-night approach to raising taxes on drivers, many of whom can't vote and may not benefit from the mass transit projects, is the wrong way. This issue deserves its own debate, far removed from the chaos of Wisconsin's budget bill.”
In addition, the Coalition—along with the New Jersey Business and Industry Association—has publicly opposed a pending New Jersey car rental excise tax earmarked for local economic development projects. The new tax will add another surcharge on top of the existing state car rental tax and the standard sales tax on car rentals.
“This type of arbitrary tax singles out just one group of consumers to fund otherwise worthwhile projects or programs that benefit our communities overall,” stated Ray Wagner, vice president of Government and Legislative Affairs for Alamo Rent A Car, Enterprise Rent-A Car and National Car Rental. “That's why our coalition continues to speak out on behalf of car rental customers who are unfairly targeted by zealous legislators.”
The number of U.S. car rental excise taxes has doubled during the past decade, with more than 100 currently in place in 43 states and the District of Columbia—and more than $7.5 billion collected since 1990. Moreover, the National Consumers League has noted that car rental excise taxes are regressive because they fall disproportionately on local low-income residents, many of whom must rent cars because they do not own a vehicle. This is particularly true for Enterprise Rent-A-Car customers—nearly one in four earns less than $40,000 annually; one in 10 earns less than $30,000; and one in 20 earns less than $20,000.
“Zeroing in on our customers artificially raises the cost of renting a vehicle in this challenging economy, which in turn impacts auto manufacturers and inflates insurance rates,” explained Wagner. “These excise taxes are harmful for consumers as well as businesses.”
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) agrees that car rental excise taxes are fundamentally unfair. “Our research indicates that the majority of NBTA member companies spend at least half of their car rental budgets in their home markets,” stated NBTA President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Maguire.
The Coalition has publicly acknowledged that local government authority not only is the cornerstone of U.S. democracy, but that local leaders obviously are struggling to fund many worthwhile programs, including the Michigan Promotion Fund. However, as municipalities, counties and states carry out their critical role in protecting consumer and citizen rights, it is important they extend that protection to all constituents, including car rental customers.
In fact, public finance economist Kim Rueben wrote the following last summer to the Philadelphia Daily News: “...more than half of all cars rented in the U.S. are rented locally, either for personal or business use; thus most rental excise taxes are paid by local taxpayers. So, Philadelphia's so-called 'tourist tax' has been paid largely by local consumers and businesses.
“But there’s a larger issue here: Regardless of who pays them, such excise taxes represent a discriminatory, arbitrary and inequitable policy, whether the car rental is for an hour, a day or a week... Like other excise taxes, they also fall disproportionately on those who can least afford to pay them—including local residents who rent cars on weekends at discounted rates because they simply cannot afford to own a car. In short, all car rental taxes unfairly burden one group of consumers, often to pay for projects and programs that have no direct connection to renting a car.”
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A Russian court demanded on Thursday that the U.S. Library of Congress hand back seven precious Jewish texts to Moscow - and, in a tit-for-tat ruling, said it should pay a massive fine for every day it delays.
The so-called Schneerson collection, claimed by both Russia and the New York-based Hasidic Chabad-Lubavitch group, has become a bone of contention in Russia-U.S. ties, at their lowest for decades due to the Ukraine crisis.
The Library of Congress has seven books of the collection, Interfax reported. Russia has 4,425 texts, including editions of the Torah and the Talmud, some of them dating back to the 16th century.
A Moscow arbitration court ruled that the Library of Congress should pay $50,000 in fines for every day the seven books are not handed over. Moscow reacted angrily when a U.S. judge ruled last year Russia should pay $50,000 a day for failing to send the rest of the collection to the United States.
“Moscow’s arbitration court on Thursday upheld the claim by the Russian State Library and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation against the U.S. Library of Congress,” Interfax reported.
Ties between Moscow and the United States have deteriorated to their lowest point since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, as the West adopts sanctions against Moscow because of its annexation of Crimea.
The seven books in question were loaned to the United States in 1991 for 60 days, but never returned, Interfax reported.
A portion of the collection in Russia has been put on display in a Moscow museum of Jewish culture, a move President Vladimir Putin said he hoped would end the spat over ownership.
“I hope that moving the Schneerson library to the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center … will put an end to this problem once and for all,” said the former KGB spy, who has sought to portray Russia as country of religious tolerance while fostering close ties with the Russian Orthodox Church.
The collection spent World War One in a warehouse in what is now western Russia’s Smolensk province, before being found by the Bolsheviks and later moved to the Russian state library.
Another part of the Schneerson collection rests in Russia’s military archive, after being confiscated by Soviet troops in Nazi Germany during World War Two.
Those papers had fallen into Nazi hands after their last private owner, the late Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi Yosef Schneerson, fled the Soviet Union in late 1920s and wandered eastern Europe in search of safety.
The Chabad-Lubavitch community originated in the Tsarist Russian Empire and Yosef Schneerson was born into it in 1880. He set up the collection to bring together religious books and writings of his kin before moving to New York where he died in 1950.
Up to a million Jews remain in Russia after the population dwindled in Tsarist-era pogroms, Soviet oppression of religion and emigration in recent decades.
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FC: Nicole Brown and Gaby Torres | 2nd Period
2: FDR Was a Damned Good Man | I was born in the old country -- Italy -- 41 years ago and came over here when I was 3 months old. Things have certainly changed a lot in forty years. . . . I can get a job today even if we got a depression. I don't mean that I wasn't on relief when things got tough because there was a time when everything was shut down and I had to get on relief for a job. It isn't so long ago I was working on WPA. Believe me it was a big help. But it wasn't the kind of a job I should have had because this town is Republican and I am a Republican and I was a good worker for the party -- making voters and helping a lot of people out -- getting their taxes rebated (abated). Getting jobs for them. When it came my turn that I needed help the politicians told me that I had to go on relief -- well, when I did I was handed a shovel and pick. . . .Roosevelt is a damn good man -- you take all these young fellows and you can't talk to them like in the old days to swing them over. Today all these kids are satisfied on WPA and the NYA . My son works there and gets 44 cents an hour. . . .When I was a young fellow, not that I am very old now, I used to have a lot fun going around singing and to friends but you don't see that nowadays. I guess everybody just don't care anymore. Of course the depression is the fault. When the pocket book is sick the whole body is sick also. You know they call this a depression. Well I think it is a sickness that won't go way. Ten years is a long time to suffer it seems to me that if the government wanted to stop it they could. Not that Roosevelt isn't a good man because whoever get in there things will be the same old story. The money men control everything and the unions most of them are crooked. . . . I believe in education and I always wish that I had one -- but today the man who knows a trade, especially a machinist trade is the baby that can get along. There are no depression for him and furthermore how many of these college students after they graduate get on the top? Let me tell you that when I was on the WPA I met some of these college men working in the ditches and damn glad to do it. Well this brings us right back to where we started. It's just like a circle. Somebody is got the key and we're all trying to get out. Suppose we get out then what? We get right in again. Because the capitalist almost controls everything. To-day if a person is getting along fine - along comes something like the depression or some screwy laws and down in the ditch you go. . . . In the nine years of this depression even though I didn't feel it much because I always gave myself a push but think of the others who are weak -- what about them? You know there shouldn't be a depression in this country. You know we have everything -- even the most money but all you hear today is the same old baloney -- the Democrats are in power and the Republicans won't let loose with the money. Well I say that the money men started this thing and I believe the government should make laws to force these capitalist to bring back prosperity. They can do it if they wanted to. But all you hear nowadays is lets balance the budget. I don't believe this budget has been balanced since the indians were here so why the hell do it now. I don't mean that we should go overboard on everything and start spending money left and right because I am against chislers and flukey jobs but lets get down to business and start manufacturing things and sell them to everybody who got the cash -- and to those who haven't the cash give them enough credit and a job so that they can pay.
3: You know sometimes I wonder what way we are drifting -- some of the laws that was passed in the last few years were very good for the people and I guess you know what happened. You take the N.R.A. I think that was very good -- it gave everybody a chance except those who are misers and are never satisfied if they make 100 dollars a week. This other law the Social Security I believe is the best. The only fault I find is that a man has to reach the age of 65 before he can collect. Well how many do? [?] They tell you nowadays that a person lives longer - well they used to before this depression but[,?] hell[,?] today you worry your god damn head off on how to meet both ends and that makes your life much shorter. You see what I mean that this government wants to do something good for the people and does but damn it they put strings to it. Tell me how many reach the age of 65? Very few. Why the hell don't they give a person a break and say at 56 years old you should retire from work and enjoy life instead of waiting until he is almost dead they give him a few dollars a month. I think the whole shooting match is wrong. And unless we get the crooks and chislers out of Washington we'll remain the same. | Summary of "FDR Was a Damned Good Man | These paragraphs is about a man describing his experiences during the depression and expressing his opinion on a way to stop it. The man starts out talking about his experience in the Republican Party and how when it came for him to do a job he was handed a shovel and pick. (On relief) Then he starts to talk about how there was no money and people that used to hangout with their friends didn't even bother calling anymore. After that, he talks about how even an educated man doesn't have a bright future because there are no positions for him to fill. Finally, the man gets frustrated and complains about politics and starts to say how it should be fixed. He finished the article by talking about social security and how people barely make it to that age nowadays.
4: Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Unionism | Mr. Silverman is the publicity director for the ACA. He is a tall, good looking guy about 28, breezy, informal, tactful and extremely co-operative. Promised to round up all available material, to assist in making contacts, to publicize the project in the Union Newspaper, to help in any way possible. . . .I'll tell you about the stand up the workers pulled when the Union was negotiating with Postal Telegraph. You've heard of the sit down. Well this was a stand up. Here's the way it happened. Around November 1937, we were negotiating with Postal for recognition and other demands. Things were going slow and then this action was organized which clinched the contract. Here's how it worked. The workers called it the Iron Ring. Now here's a map of the United States. Now if you draw a line through theses cities, you'll see what was meant by the Iron Ring. It looks something like this . . .WASHINGTON, PHILADELPHIA, PITTSBURGH, DETROIT, NEW YORK, BUFFALO, in these cities, stand up meetings were held simultaneously for three hours. All messages going East, West, North or South have to be relayed through one of these points. When the workers stood up at their machines and the action was [85%?] successful, well, it stopped the work. It stopped 85 to 90 percent of the traffic throughout the country. Things happened during those stand up meetings. The workers tell stories about it. They wrote songs about it, their own songs. There's no record who wrote them. Ten or fifteen people got together and composed them. They send them during the stand up and they're still being sung today. Almost everybody remembers them. Here's how the action took place. Nobody knew just when and where it would start, not even the executive committees in the shops. But the workers had voted the National Office the power to call this action. At exactly 10:19 the organizer stepped into the Pittsburgh shop and he was supposed to blow a whistle which would begin the action. He had the whistle with him and he tried to blow a terrific blast. Nothing came up. That was hot. Finally the damn thing did let out a squeak and as soon as the Pittsburgh workers heard the whistle they flashed this message at the end of whatever message they were sending. STOP STOP STOP ACA STAND UP FOR BETTER CONDITIONS, and they stood up. The workers receiving the message sent it on and did the same. In a minute the action was flashed all over the country and the Stand Up meetings were on. When the three hours were over, someone flashed the word and in the same way they resumed work. It was that action that broke the back of Postal and they signed up. Here are some of the songs that were born during the time. The [song] is called the Postal Soup Song. It goes to the tune of My Bonny Lies Over The Ocean: “All my lifetime I worked for the Postal. Until I was near ninety-nine; And when I was laid off they told me "We'll give you something that's fine," Chorus : Sou-up, Sou-up. They gave me a bowl of soup. sou-up, Sou-up. They gave me a bowl of soup. I had fourteen kids and a wife, Who were hungry and ragged and cold. And when I asked for a raise, Here is what I was told. Sou-up, Sou-up. We'll give you a bowl of soup. Sou-up, Sou-up. We'll give you a bowl of soup. “ Here's one to the tune of Tipperary which was sung when the Union was organizing Western Union. “It's a good thing to join the union. It's a fine place to go. It's a good thing to join the union And march with the CIO. Good bye to the speed up, Hello union pay, Rally Western Union workers for the ARTA.”
5: Summary of “Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) Unionism” | This article starts out by talking about the iron ring, and how the workers for the Postal held meetings in these cities that formed a ring on the map. Then it talks about how works stood up during these meetings and told stories and wrote sings about the percent of traffic throughout the country. Then it talks about a plan they devised for all the workers to stand up at 10:19. A whistle was blown in Pittsburg that notified the workers and flashed a message that signified the start of the stand up meetings. The article is finished with a song wrote about the situation. One of these songs described the years of hard work for the union that turned into being laid off and having their families suffer. The second song talked up the Union and how great it was. | Eugenia Martin and the WPA | "I am the offspring of Thomas and Lucy Collier. Their parents were slaves. Mother and father were also slaves. . . ."Mother and father have died. He did, however, live to see some of his dreams realized. For he lived to see some of his children through college and see the race enjoying some of the things for which he had worked, and prayed. Also eight of my brothers and sisters have died. Some of them died rather young and others later in life. . . ."I married a young man who was a minister in the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church. I entered heartily into this new life - a minister's wife. I took an active part in his church work, helping wherever possible. I worked from one place to another in the church. Sometimes I was a prayer leader in class meetings; other times I was working with the Missionary Society, or with the choir as organist. . . ."The annual conference, of which husband was a member, was in session and he left home just three weeks before Christmas to be present at the conference roll call. He was stricken ill soon after reaching the conference and died before he was able to be brought home . . . and so he was brought back to me a corpse. . . ."When we first came to Atlanta husband had a home built, and at his death he hadn't finished paying for it. I had to take hold and try to pay for it for I didn't have any children or anyone to help me; the job was mine. I had the notes readjusted and they were cut down to $36.00 a month. [this?] was as low as I could get them because the house cost a lot and when he lived he was able to keep up the high notes. His salary was good and being a general officer of the church he was paid regularly. With notes on the home of $36.00 plus my living expense and the general upkeep of the house I found it next to impossible to live. Of course husband left me a little money, very little however, at his death and this was soon exhausted. I then tried to get work to maintain myself. I made every attempt to get work in private industry and being unsuccessful, I was compelled to get work on WPA. I was reluctant at first to go to WPA, for heretofore it had seemingly been the consensus of many that only the shiftless, lazy and lower types resorted to relief agencies. The need of work was so great that this barrier was soon eradicated. Of course, as many, many others, I'm sure, I experienced the humilities that go with the process of securing this work and it was disappointing at times but I was
6: growing more and more in need and this caused me to keep on trying. I finally succeeded in being certified and then was later assigned to work."I was assigned to a project known as the Survey of White Collar and Skilled Negroes. This was a most interesting work. We first went out and found all the white collar and skilled workers among the Negroes here in Atlanta. This was done through a house to house canvas. These workers were interviewed as to their father's occupation, their schooling and their occupation. We found those who had followed their father's occupation and those who had deviated. We checked on how many who had migrated from rural to urban localities, occupations trained for and whether they were engaged in those occupations or whether because of employment conditions they were forced to work at occupations not trained for. I enjoyed it so much. After we got all of the information together, it was then compiled in tables and put in book form. "I worked hard every day and went to school at night where I took a two-year commercial course. I completed the course as prescribed by the Board of Education, City of Atlanta. "After that project ended I was sent to the sewing project and here too found the work interesting. I had a knowledge of sewing and because of this experience I was put over a group of women as 'floor woman', and like the former project I enjoyed it much. After this work I was transferred to the Housekeepers Aid Project. This was a most unusual experience for me. I had worked in the church, coming in contact with the poor and needy, the sick and suffering but it was nothing compared with that which I found or experienced on this project. I never realized before just what was out there in those alleys, in the slums, the poverty and illiteracy that existed there. I am glad I have had the opportunity to work on WPA, first because it has provided me a livelihood and second for the experience I've gotten, which I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. It enabled me to keep up my notes on my home. I haven't been able to save anything since working on WPA but it enabled me to carry on. I simply could not have held out this long had it not been for WPA. The experience caused me to care for the sick and the old age pensioners and performing their household work which they were unable to do. In fact, all sorts of human suffering has been witnessed in my work. In working in the latter job, where I worked until the recent law was passed that all workers who have done 18 months service on WPA be released, I was able to learn much about the families and some of their backgrounds. . . . "I have looked forward to being reassigned to WPA or getting work in private industry and something must come up soon for me or I don't know what will happen. The notes on my home are getting behind. See, I haven't been able to pay anything since I've been out of work. The holder of the notes gave me four months grace and I have been off three months already. I have made every effort to secure work that I may not have to go back to WPA but I have failed. There seems so little work for Negroes. We have so few places and they are all overcrowded. I am beginning to get afraid for I had only my earnings to depend on but I guess I'll be able to carry on somehow but something will just have to turn up for me soon. It must, I just can't give up here. Each new day brings me new hope and courage for that day and I can feel the presence of a good spirit with me, and so I go on like that each day."
7: Summary of “Eugenia Martin and the WPA” | Eugenia Martin was an African American woman whose husband died and she went to seek work through the WPA. She had a house with the husband who had recently passed and when he died he hasn't finished paying for it, so she had to finish the job herself. She was assigned to the “Survey of White Collar and Skilled Negroes” who found all white collar and skilled African Americans in the area to work for them. She was then sent to another project in which she was asked to sew, and she was the leader of these women. Then she was put into the Housekeepers Aid Project in which she worked in the church to help the needy, poor, and sick. There she got to see how truly bad everything was and how impoverished and illiterate the people here were. The WPA gave this woman many different and interesting opportunities and ways to make money that she enjoyed and that were also helpful to others. She got to care for people who needed it and help people out who couldn't even help themselves, and she also got to learn so much about the people in her close neighborhoods and their backgrounds. It was difficult to find work without the WPA because there is little work without the WPA helping.
9: This photograph is of men waiting in line at a soup kitchen. These men are in old tattered clothing, they are thin, and they are getting free or lower priced food. During the Great Depression people would stand for hours on end in lines waiting for this food, some lines wrapped around blocks. These men sometimes had to decide what was more important, getting food for their families or finding a job to support their families. | Soup Kitchen
10: Dust Storm | This is an example of a Dust Storm. The disaster is about to rip through this city, wreck homes, and hurt people. It was caused by over-production of land and extreme drought. The Dust Bowl was a period of time in the thirties when the soil dried, turned to dust, and had nothing to hold it down in the ground. Homes like the ones pictured here were filled with dust and were impossible to keep clean. Also winds blew so hard that they flipped over vehicles and the dust the winds carried buried many things.
11: Migrant Mother | This is a photograph of a young 18 year-old mother living in a shantytown. She sits on the chair in front of her makeshift home looking depressed and worried about the future. Her child sits on the dirty dusty ground becoming filthy and playing in the filth. Many people couldn't afford their homes, so they sold them (or were kicked out) and made a shantytown their new home. This was the sad and depressing truth of the Great Depression and this picture is worth 1,000 words in showing how much the people struck by the economic failure were struggling.
12: Political Cartoons
13: This political cartoon is representing the fact that Hoover was considered to be a Lameduck because he was nearly useless as present. The poster on the wall says “Hoover train to prosperity – Sidetracked. Next train – Roosevelt special.” It is saying that prosperity for the country coming from Hoover isn't ever happening. The country needs to wait for Roosevelt's presidency until their country is back on the right track.
14: This cartoon is depicting the government controlling the farmers and the businessmen to fight to be able to make a living. The Second New Deal was becoming more pro-labor (favoring the farmers) and anti-business (being against business men). Franklin Roosevelt is being shown as being a puppet master and pitting these two classes against each other while everyone else is watching this battle go on. The inspiration for this cartoon came from the Wagner Act to protect labor organizations.
15: This is a picture featuring a young Franklin Roosevelt talking to Uncle Sam. It is Christmas Eve and his stockings labeled with the programs of the New Deal are empty. He is hoping that he will get something out of his New Deal plans. He wants to rebuild the financial aspect of America and he is hoping to bring prosperity through the New Deal. He also wants American to have brighter days instead of being in this gloomy depression.
16: WPA Posters
17: This poster is to promote the reconstruction and redevelopment of buildings in the cities. The buildings were falling apart, unsanitary, and unfit to live in. Children, infants, and the elderly were dying in these conditions. This poster is to encourage the cities to rebuild buildings with better structure, interior, and utilities in order to support the health of the people. The building of better houses is not only helping people in that time, but it is helping people in the future who will be living there.
18: This poster is to encourage education in the United States. It is for people who are foreign born to get a good education especially fitted for them. The classes encourage bilingual teachings, for you to learn English and also be taught in your own language as well. The people who created this poster wanted to attract the parents to learn the language that their children born here already knew. They wanted people to be educated in order to be able to make it easier living in the United States.
19: The Board of Education and the WPA created this poster to support adult education. They wanted people to learn trades and skills in order to be able to work and support their families. It was also to decrease the amount of unemployment in the United States. It is to allow men and women over the age of 17 to be able to fend for themselves in the world. It is also to help out their communities by building roads, buildings, and many other things.
21: Franklin Roosevelt took over and then tried to fix this country after President Herbert Hoover’s presidency was over after being blamed for the Great Depression. Franklin Roosevelt started a set of programs in order to try to improve the United States’ economic situation. Even today the Great Depression and New Deal still affect us. Some programs are still running today. Social Security is still aiding the elderly, the disabled, the sick, and the needy as it did during the Great Depression. Also soup kitchens and establishments for low priced or free meals are still available today to help those in need. The Federal Deposit Insurance Company that was created after the Great Depression to prevent terrible economic devastation at that level from ever happening again in this country. The FDIC insures the money in your bank account so if a bank goes under you do not lose every single penny you own. The things created or restored by the Works Progress Administration's projects are still being used today. Even today our very own President Obama is trying to boost our economy through methods like Roosevelt's. The Fair Labor Standards Act, which was a part of the New Deal still regulates child labor laws, minimum wage, overtime pay, and recordkeeping of hours worked and money paid to these people.. Today the Tennessee Valley Authority is still active today and is doing things like trying to restart nuclear reactors, maintaining rivers, creates energy through many different means like fossil fuels, hydroelectric energy, nuclear energy, combustion turbine energy, and gas-fueled energy. The Tennessee Valley Authority also has a lot of property saved for recreation and preservation in which they have public parks, national parks, wildlife refuges, and many other areas. Because of the Great Depression the government wanted to have a better relationship and responsibility with the people of their country. During the Great Depression a constant decline in the Stock Market led to people losing a whole lot of money and led to a decline in spending as well, much similar to today. Today many of people are facing foreclosure and are being forced to live out on the streets or find somewhere else to live. The rate of foreclosures and rate of homelessness may not be as severe as it was during the Great Depression, but it is still there. Just as it was during the Great Depression, loans were given to people who eventually couldn't pay them off. These people then filed for bankruptcy, the banks were never paid their money, so the banks went under with everyone else's. Today and during the Great Depression people and businesses were just struggling to stay afloat. The lay off rate now isn't as high as it was then, but it is still negatively affecting the country. The DOW plummeted very much then as it did now. The differences in today and during the Great Depression is that there is much more debt in the country today than there was back then. The dollar is valued at less now then it is now. There is no restriction in how much money could be created today as there was back during the Great Depression.
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The Temple Made in Heaven
Menachos 65-71 -- Issue #126
21-27 Tamuz 5756 / 8-14 July 1996
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The Temple Made in HeavenChadash - new grain - was forbidden to be eaten before the Omer Meal Offering was made in the Temple on the sixteenth day of the Month of Iyar. This was usually done no later than midday so even those who lived far from Jerusalem could assume by that hour that the Omer had been offered and it was safe to eat from the new grain.
In post-Temple times daybreak of the sixteenth day marks the time that new grain is permitted by the Torah. The Torah teaches that when the Omer cannot be offered the ban on Chadash is in effect only until the beginning of the sixteenth. But Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai instituted a decree to prohibit Chadash the entire sixteenth day. His reasoning: We look forward to the Temple soon being rebuilt and the Omer being offered. If we permit eating Chadash this year from the beginning of the day, people will say that they can eat Chadash next year from daybreak as well, when in truth they must wait for the Omer to first be offered.
In Mesechta Rosh Hashanah (30a) this point is expanded upon. If the Temple will be built on the sixteenth no problem will exist, for daybreak already made Chadash permissible. If it will be built before the sixteenth then the Omer will have been offered by noon. Why then was the decree for banning Chadash all day long? The answer is that Rabbi Yochanan was afraid lest the Temple be rebuilt just before sunset of the fifteenth (the first day of Pesach) or the night of the sixteenth, which would not allow enough time to reap the barley and process it into flour before the end of the sixteenth.
Rashi, however, raises the question as to how the Temple could be built on a holiday or at night when we know from Mesechta Shavuos (15b) that these are times when such construction may not take place? His answer is that only a Temple built by human effort has this restriction. The Temple of the future, however, will descend from Heaven.
Plowed in the Cloud
If barley descended from the clouds it could be used for the Omer Meal Offering on Pesach because the Torah does not specify that it must be brought from Eretz Yisrael. But if wheat thus came down from Heaven a question arises as to whether it could be used for the Two Loaves offered on Shavuos.
Does the Torah's directive to use wheat which comes "from your dwelling place" only exclude lands outside of Eretz Yisrael, but not the clouds - or does this exclusion extend to clouds as well?
This question remains unresolved, but there is an interesting discussion in the commentaries as to how the grain came down from the clouds.
Rashi explains that the clouds over the ocean swallowed a ship filled with grain which later came down from those clouds along with the rain.
Tosefos challenges this explanation. If the source of the grain was Eretz Yisrael why should it become disqualified by being absorbed into the clouds? And if the source was a field outside of Eretz Yisrael what reason is there to assume it might be eligible simply because it entered the clouds?
His own explanation is that the grain in question never grew on earth and came from the clouds in miraculous fashion, just as we find (Sanhedrin 59b) that Rabbi Shimon ben Chalafta's prayer for meat to feed the hungry lions that roared at him was answered by two large slabs of meat descending from Heaven.
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Building Soil Health: Using Mulch, Leaves, and Cover Crops to Revitalize Your Soil
Learn the basics of soil structure, organic fertilizers, soil-amendment secrets, the underworld critters that abound, and the importance of organic matter and composting for healthy soil. We discuss what to do with leaves, the benefits of mulching, and which cover crops will protect and improve your garden's soil.
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Sorry, we are no longer accepting registrations for this course. Please contact our office to find out if it will be rescheduled, or if alternative classes are available.
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Rothballer on the net.
The Rothballer software can also be used on medical retailers’ networks. When several computers are used –at one location or in several branches –all current information can be found by any device.
- Common data path via VPN or local network: The Rothballer software uses existing network structures, which means that customer data is stored on a central computer and all the computers access this data.
- The transmission buffer helps when the Internet connection is slow. It collects the orders from the branch and sends them to the headquarters at the push of a button. When the data is input there, it is compared with the existing customer master data.
- A terminal-server solution via the DataRemote software connects the branch locations.
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Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, announced Wednesday that the government would attempt to cut government debt by taking money from its citizens’ private pension funds. Poland currently has a two-fold pension system: mandatory contributions are made to the state pension fund and then to private funds. It is the state funds, known as ZUS, that the Polish government plans to “transfer” money from. According to Reuters:
…Prime Minister Donald Tusk said private funds within the state-guaranteed system would have their bond holdings transferred to a state pension vehicle, but keep their equity holdings.
He said that what remained in citizens’ pension pots in the private funds will be gradually transferred into the state vehicle over the last 10 years before savers hit retirement age.
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Washington, Sept 10 : Women who consume high levels of daily calcium supplements during pregnancy show a marked reduction in lead levels in their blood, according to a new study, which suggests that calcium could play a critical role in reducing fetal and infant exposure.
The study at the University of Michigan shows that women who take 1,200 milligrams of calcium daily have up to a 31 percent reduction in lead levels.
Women who used lead-glazed ceramics and those with high bone lead levels showed the largest reductions; the average reduction was about 11 percent, said Howard Hu, chair of the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the School of Public Health.
The study is available online in Environmental Health Perspectives, the official journal of the U.S. National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences.
Hu, who is also affiliated with the University of Michigan School of Medicine, said this is the first known randomized study examining calcium supplementation on lead levels in pregnant women.
"We and others have previously shown that during pregnancy, mothers can transfer lead from their bones to their unborn -- with significant adverse consequences--making maternal bone lead stores a threat even if current environmental lead exposures are low," Hu said.
"This study demonstrates that dietary calcium supplementation during pregnancy may constitute a low-cost and low-risk approach for reducing this threat," the researcher added.
Lead exposure is a great concern for pregnant and lactating women, especially in developing countries where lead exposures have been high until recently, and for women with occupational exposure.
The study showed that reductions in blood lead levels were more evident in the second trimester at 14 percent than in the third trimester at 8 percent.
The most compliant group of women in the study (those who consumed greater than 75 percent of the assigned 1,200 milligram doses of calcium per day) showed a 24 percent decrease. omen in the most compliant group who also reported using lead glazed ceramics and had the highest bone lead levels saw the greatest reduction of 31 percent.
Researchers analyzed 557 women recruited from the Mexican Social Security Institute prenatal clinics, which treat the low to moderate income population of Mexico City. ll were in their first trimester; roughly half were assigned calcium and half a placebo.
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Boating Speed Limits in New Hampshire
As Lake Winnipesaukee becomes New Hampshire’s test case for boating speed limits, stay up to date on current boating speed limit news around the state.
The provisions of the new speed restrictions:
- 25 miles per hour during the period from one-half hour after sunset to one-half hour before sunrise; AND
- 45 miles per hour at any other time
- No person shall operate a vessel at a speed greater than is reasonable and prudent under the existing conditions and without regard for the actual and potential hazards then existing
- In all cases, speed shall be controlled so the operator will be able to avoid endangering or colliding with any person, vessel, object, or shore
The speed of any vessel in excess of the limit specified in this subparagraph shall be prima facie evidence that the speed is not reasonable or prudent and that it is unlawful The NH Marine Patrol is posting signs to make boaters aware of the new law in high traffic areas around the Lakes Region, including public docks, public launch ramps, marinas, hotels and restaurants.
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Crabby hates clutter…
[the King gestures to the window] King of Swamp Castle: One day, lad, all this will be yours. Prince Herbert: What, the curtains? King of Swamp Castle: No, not the curtains, lad, all that you can see stretched out over the valleys and the hills! That’ll be your kingdom, lad.
–from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
What does it take to create a “college-going culture” for students who haven’t grown up in one? Classrooms and hallways with pennants and posters? Getting lanyards, buttons, pencils, and other tchotchkes from colleges and universities? Visiting college campuses…when they’re in third grade? Does the detritus of college marketing efforts truly inspire non-privileged kids to heights of achievement that will enable them to enter and succeed in college, or does it simply make them better consumers of the images and messages colleges want to project?
What does “creating a college-going culture” mean, anyway? At its best, it should mean building respect for learning, creating enlightened self-awareness, building one’s ability to read and write clearly and carefully, manipulating figures and ideas, and aspiring to always higher standards of achievement. It means questioning authority, looking at the world with a critical eye, making intelligent judgments, and being aware of one’s place in the world in order to act upon it. Being educated and college-bound also means always creating options for yourself, now and in the future.
These things cannot be communicated through college-branded objects or “let’s all be smart” exhortations, testing prep or test pep rallies, or being able to name colleges. Too many schools make the mistake of presenting the image of college as the real thing, inspiring a kind of magical thinking that makes a college-branded magnet a talisman designed to eventually get that student into the college it represents.
This kind of activity is shallow and circumstantial. While it may have the immediate effect of exciting kids (especially younger ones) the way Santa does, it doesn’t further their awareness of college as a place for continuing their educations. Taking third graders on a field trip to a lush college campus does little to help them understand what college is, nor does it provide anything but a “nose against the department store window” experience as they marvel at the lawns and the buildings. How will it serve them over time? Will they be better students for it?
The only way to create a college-going culture for students who haven’t grown up in it is to give them the kind of education that kids who grow up in college going cultures get. Pennants and posters and “faculty wear your college colors to work” days are decorative and may inspire curiosity and questions from students, but if you then return to classrooms where worksheets, deadly boring textbooks, following endless instructions, and test prep are the rule, you’re not helping. (For an eye-opening look at how classroom techniques differ among working, middle, and upper class schools, see Jean Anyon’s Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work.)
One of the things I notice most when I work with non-privileged high school students in community settings is how little they know about the idea of college or what a good college education is, even when they are clearly bright. They have workbooks that break essay writing down into a Taylorism-inspired nightmare, with each step so minutely described it would bore a sloth to death. They seem never to have been asked what they think about something or to discuss an idea or observation. Throughout their lives they’ve been told what to do and made to follow directions, and then they are introduced to “college” and asked to switch gears to thinking mode by being shown a pennant or a sweatshirt. This will not do, people.
In our rush to recreate the middle class’s immersion in college going attitudes for non-privileged students, we’ve adopted the surface, not the substance. College going attitudes play constantly in the background for middle class students; they’re there when parents bug kids about their homework and they sign up for AP classes. They’re there when mom and dad go to their reunions with the baby and kids in tow. It’s entwined in everything they do. But (ideally) it all promotes hard work and studying, aspiration and choice. It’s more than just a sweater with a College ® logo.
Acquiring college “stuff” without supplying the rationale behind it is really a type of consumerism training, not an expansion of students’ educational horizons. It also demonstrates an assumption we make as middle-class college educated people that college attendance is a good thing on its face. It doesn’t really need to be explained to our students. But it does. Over the last few years as I’ve worked with non-privileged kids I’ve learned not to ask where they want to go to college but what they think and know about college. Even those from “pennant academies” often don’t have a clue what it’s all about except that their teachers and principals want them to go there.
I currently tutor an African American junior who attends a Catholic school here in Chicago. He’s a smart kid and seems to be doing well, but his penetrating questions about college tell me that all the exhortation in the world hasn’t really helped him make the connection between where he is now and where he might be headed. “Aren’t there good jobs you can get without college?” is one question he’s asked; “Why did you go to college?” is one he surprised me with, before he then asked, “What did you get out of it?” That question, of course, contains the real question, “Why should I go to college?” Our discussions have been intense and invigorating. I don’t know yet if he’s had the academic preparation to get into a good college, but I know he has the potential, and I’ve never given him so much as a college pencil.
So look, everyone, go ahead and decorate with posters and wear your college colors, but don’t forget the substance of college preparation. If you want to teach your students how to write a business letter, have them research and write about issues that affect them and their neighborhoods and send the letter to their mayor, councilman, senator or representative. If you want your kids to be college ready, make sure they write and read a lot and have debates in class, and tackle tough problems in science and math. Develop their willingness to take positions and defend them and be sure they know how to do research and ask questions without embarrassment. Give them depth–have them do something substantial and meaningful instead of just grasping for shiny objects.
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Sihanoukville Municipal Court has charged seven farmers with illegally clearing more than 10 hectares of protected mangrove forest in Prey Nob district, officials said Monday.
Officials from the municipal agriculture department’s fisheries office arrested the seven on Feb 11 as they were allegedly clearing the mangrove forest in Andoung Thmor commune to use for farm land, said fisheries office chief Duong Sam Ath.
“They have been charged with destroying more than 10 hectares,” said Deputy Prosecutor Chhun Ngorn, adding that they were charged the same day. “The court charged them at the fisheries office’s request,” he said.
An investigating judge has been assigned to the case, he said, and the accused are now in pre-trial detention.
High-ranking government officials hire locals at between $24 and $37 to cut down the forest, which is a crucial spawning ground for fish, Duong Sam Ath said. He declined to identify the officials.
The fisheries office has so far only been able to make low-level arrests, he added.
People are frequently told not destroy the protected forests, Duong Sam Ath said. “We often educate them but still they continue.”
His office fears the mangrove forest, which acts as a natural barrier to sea winds, could be lost altogether if strong actions are not taken.
Prey Nob Deputy Governor Nob Phean agreed.
“We already have land for farming,” he said. “But they still clear the protected forest. It will be a disaster if we don’t stop it.”
Por Try, Ministry of Agriculture secretary of state, said the ministry is working hard to protect both salt- and freshwater flooded forests.
“We’re working with the Justice Ministry on this issue. These are natural resources nobody can encroach on. These are state lands,” he said. “If we don’t protect them, where will the fish spawn?”
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Presented by Robyn Holmes to the Australian Society of Archivists 2013 Conference: Archives - The Future!
The replacement of analogue with digital technology and the rise of new technologies have been both friend and enemy of records and archives. The mind-boggling quantity of content in play (e.g. 90 billion photos on Facebook alone) combined with the falling cost of storage represent one of innumerable contradictory trends.
It is now far more difficult than 30 years ago to control the creation, capture, documentation, security and integrity of records, yet the fundamental issue of archival appraisal remains. On the other hand, new processes tools and services such as digitization, crowd sourcing, e-research, web 2.0 collaboration, online publication and ingesting have helped enable archival institutions and archival programs to be more efficient, known, informed and manageable.
If the digital underpinning of everything today is both problem and solution, how in fact should archivists and recordkeepers respond? What is to happen to all that which is not digitised and unlikely to ever be digitised? One doesn’t have to be a genius to realise that answers start with a better understanding of what is, and might be, happening. So where can we look for help with reading the future, with the world already awash with former Next Big Things?
Robyn Holmes: Senior Curator, Pictures & Manuscripts, NLA
We have been asked to comment on reading and planning our future as archival organisations and professionals confronted by the challenges of the overwhelming mass of digital documentation, content and information and the pace of ever changing digital technology. I cannot begin to predict social and business trends 20 years hence, any more than Antony or any of us can, though I remain more optimistic about the future of libraries and archives than he suggests.
Far from concluding that people have an obsessive and passive relationship to technology, I see daily evidence of the reverse, as we open and democratise our research libraries, archives, repositories and tools for e-learning and scholarship to so many more people through digital means. We speak of ‘to google, to tweet, to facebook, to trove, to interact’: active verbs representing both individual and collective human activity. Sure, online has replaced the conversations in our back-yard: but vast masses of people are seeking dynamic, active, enriching, collaborative and social human experiences online, just as they always have in their physical spaces.
Similarly, from all the statistics and impact we are measuring, people in increasing numbers are seeking to engage with the special and the unique collections of which we are custodians: differentiating these sources of knowledge from the vast world of ubiquitous information as a means to enrich their experience or understanding. So, in the context of our kind of organisations, digital technology seemingly remains in the service of the human spirit, the means and not the end to discovery and wonder. The opportunity that the digital presents for people to discover, access, make choices and create new meanings from the mind-boggling morass of data and information gives me hope in the future for our roles as stewards and organisers of the records, collections and artefacts that document our living culture, our past and our future.
To find some guidance and direction for my thinking, I have sought lessons from history and drawn on an analogy from the discipline in which I was trained: music. By a century ago, Western music tonality had reached breaking point, with the very fundaments, axes and elements of the musical system losing their differentiated value and system of hierarchy. All tonal possibilities were equally available to the composer: but such freedom, as Igor Stravinsky famously asserted, represents no freedom at all. Rather, he said, we must impose our own order and constraint, drawing on the values, foundations and traditions passed down to us! He recalled this experience in 6 famous lectures at Harvard in 1947:
Will I ... have to lose myself in this abyss of freedom? What shall I cling to in order to escape the dizziness that seizes me before the virtuality of this infinitude? ...What delivers me from the anguish into which an unrestricted freedom plunges me is the fact that I am always able to turn immediately to the [very] concrete [elements] that are ...in question. I have no use for a theoretical freedom. Let me have something finite, definite!... In art as in everything else, one can build only upon a resisting foundation...The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self of the chains that shackle the spirit.
Tradition is entirely different from habit, even from excellent habit, for habit is by definition an unconscious acquisition and tends to become mechanical, whereas tradition results from a conscious and deliberate acceptance. A real tradition is not the relic of a past irretrievably gone; it is a living force that animates and informs the present. Far from implying the repetition of what has been, tradition presupposes the reality of what endures. It appears as an heirloom, a heritage that one receives on condition of making it bear fruit before passing it on to one's descendants.
So, I want us to refocus on the values inherent in archiving that have the authority of a ‘real tradition’: not the practices, however excellent, that form our archiving habits, but those ‘resisting foundations’ that endure and will continue to animate the future. We must ask ourselves a different set of questions that go to the heart of our foundations:
Why are the records of our society valuable? Do we believe that the documents and records our culture creates have value intrinsically? Does that value justify the cost and the habits of appraising, arranging, describing, preserving and storing them, or do we retain records "just in case" someone might need them? Do they have value as records regardless of what is in them? Or does a record have value only because of its content, whether a profound artistic truth or a record of corrupt behaviour?
If we approach the future from the viewpoint of the question ‘What is the value of a record?’, then the information and technology explosion is irrelevant. Those concepts relate to how much information we are creating and how we create and store it, and how much we choose to preserve – our habits – but they DON'T relate to the VALUE and meaning of the record – our tradition.
And from this perspective flows a second set of questions:
Who gives the record its value and meaning? I would argue, those who can and do use the record. If our society assumes that there is value in our records, how do we manage this and measure this ‘use’ value? How can we use technology in our service to measure this kind of impact? Does this give us a lead as to how to reanimate a sustained value of the archival tradition into the future?
Perhaps, indeed, when faced with an infinitude of digital content and possibilities, people will need us even more as their ‘resisting foundation’: providing the limits, the means of order and constraint, the pathways to anchor themselves and create meaning from a sea of records and knowledge. Our capacity to sort, organise, create or document structures within the morass of documentation and records of our culture, whether digital or not, becomes MORE and not less valuable. Just that the changing scale, pace, form and content means that our habits of how we physically and intellectually control such records may well need to be different. But who is best poised to problem solve, design and effect such changes of habits? We ourselves are.
But while we can anchor and organise, while we can provide gravitational axes or tools to help people create sense and meaning out of the information mass, we cannot assume to know how they will interact with it, nor direct their information needs and journeys by our habits. So, we must provide both the infrastructure and adaptive, malleable and flexible means for people to navigate and create their own journeys: the means to engage, select, access what they want and share, for their purposes, and not for ours.
Far from commercialism and consumerism, we can provide ‘non-commodity’ value into the future that Antony describes where information is increasingly becoming a commodity. For it is the human value and human activity in what we acquire, collect, make available and organise where the value resides: in doing so, we revalue the record, in so much as it continues to represent human endeavour. What we have to learn to do anew is our stewardship in a digital world, where we continue to preserve and make our records organised and accessible but allow people to create order, value and meaning through long-term access. If we focus on the why, that is where we will find meaningful answers to our habits, and we ourselves can find the answers and solutions to the what, the how and how much we keep. In doing so, we will keep our ‘real tradition’ alive.
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Collections are at the heart of a museum. A museum’s exhibitions and research are built from its collections. The significance of collections means it is important to acknowledge those who have contributed.
Te Papa’s Botany collection of plant specimens has recently seen notable milestones for two of its biggest contributors: Research Fellow Patrick Brownsey and Research Associate Peter Beveridge.
Peter Beveridge – past 5000 collections
Peter volunteers his time and expertise to help Te Papa develop its collections. In his retirement, he has become expert with mosses and liverworts. Few New Zealanders are knowledgeable about these individually tiny but ecologically significant plants. Te Papa (and the nation) is fortunate to have his help.
Since 1999, Peter has collected a whopping 5552 specimens (and the total is ever-growing). This includes over 4000 specimens of mosses, representing more than 400 species. There are also more than 1200 specimens of liverworts, representing more than 300 species. Peter has collected the fifth most plant specimens for the museum (about 2% of the total), and the third most by a non-staff member.
Peter apparently has an inordinate fondness for the moss Sematophyllum amoenum, which he has collected 49 times. Other popular species – all mosses – are Camptochaete arbuscula (42), Zygodon intermedius (40), Macromitrium gracile (39), and Fissidens leptocladus (38).
In 2013, Peter co-authored a scientific paper describing a liverwort – Lejeunea hodgsoniana – that had been first found by others. Subsequently, he has worked on papers describing several new species of liverworts that he has discovered.
Patrick Brownsey – past 10 000 collections
Pat has worked for the museum since before the year dot. He was a Botany Curator, but now works as a Research Fellow, fulltime on externally funded research.
Pat’s research focuses on ferns, and he has described at least 14 new species or subspecies. He has authored or co-authored over 100 scientific publications, including the book New Zealand ferns and allied plants. Pat is now working on the fern component of the electronic Flora of New Zealand.
Pat has over 2500 collections of more than 500 different species of ferns and lycophytes. But the majority of Pat’s collections are mosses, with nearly 7000 specimens representing more than 450 species. Popular ferns for Pat are the spleenworts Asplenium gracillimum (51), Asplenium hookerianum (34), and Asplenium flaccidum (33). His most collected mosses are Thuidium furfurosum (83), Sematophyllum amoenum (79), Achrophyllum dentatum (78), Bryum billardierei (77), and Cyathophorum bulbosum (72).
The only people with more (databased) plant collections in Te Papa than Pat’s 10 214 are Walter Oliver (13 598), director of the museum 1928-1947, and Donald Petrie (11 408), a school inspector from Otago who donated his personal collection to the museum in 1922.
Other collection details
Te Papa has some 300 000 collections of plant specimens, give or take 10 000 or so. (Cataloguing of the collection is ongoing.)
Between them, Pat Brownsey and Peter Beveridge have collected 30% of Te Papa’s nearly 37 000 moss specimens. The rest have been contributed by some 560 different collectors.
Te Papa’s natural history collection, spanning plants and animals, is estimated to include some 1 400 000 “lots”. (Each lot is a single specimen, or multiple specimens of the same species collected at the same time.)
The people with the most databased lots in Te Papa’s natural history collection are:
- Pauline Mayhill (c. 22 000) – mostly snails.
- Treaton Price (c. 21 500) – mostly fossil vertebrates.
- Walter Oliver (c. 17 000) – mixed, including plants and birds.
- David Roscoe (c. 14 000) – mostly snails.
- Trevor Worthy (c. 12 000) – mostly fossil vertebrates.
Of the above, only Walter Oliver was a staff member of the museum. Among the current natural history staff, Patrick Brownsey and Alan Tennyson (c. 7500, mostly fossil vertebrates and birds) have the most (databased) collections.
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Prepared by Rabbi Aaron Alexander
Please note that this is not an official responsum of the CJLS.
The custom of Tashlikh, which is often observed on the afternoon of the first day of Rosh Hashanah (or day two if day one is Shabbat, can be treated with flexibility primarily because it isn’t an obligation that must be fulfilled. Therefore there are no specific time parameters that constrain it, and no definitive prohibitions on what kind of water may be used. In fact, this custom does not appear in Jewish literature until the late 14th century. The custom appears to have three features, either performed together, or independently: 1) performed at a natural body of water, 2) fish are present in the water, and 3) tossing of bread (or the like) symbolizing our sins into the water. The ceremony of Tashlikh is based on the words attributed to the prophet Micah (7:19):
וְתַשְׁלִיךְ בִּמְצֻלוֹת יָם כָּל־חַטֹּאותָם:
You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea.
The Levush (Rabbi Mordechai Jaffe, 1530 - 1612) mentions the custom of walking to natural water, but doesn’t mention the tossing of pieces of bread. (O.H. 596)
ורגילין לילך על הנהר זכר לעקידה, משום דאיתא במדרש [ילקוט שמעוני וירא רמז צט] כשהלך אברהם אבינו ע"ה לעקוד את יצחק בנו, הוליכו השטן עד שבא עד צוארו במים, ואמר אברהם הושיעה יי' כי באו מים עד נפש וניצול.
ורגילין לילך למקום שרואין שם דגים, לזכור שאנו משולים כדגים חיים הללו שנאחזים במצודה, כך אנו נאחזים במצודת המות והדין, ומתוך כך נהרהר יותר בתשובה:
It’s normal to walk to a river as a remembrance of the Akeidah, for it is found in a midrash (Yalkut Shimoni, VeYeira, 99): That when Abraham went to sacrifice his son, Satan became a deep stream (to prevent the sacrifice) and Avraham was up to his neck in the water. Avraham prayed: “Save me, God, for the waters have reached my neck.” And he was saved.
It was normal to go to a place that has live fish. To remember that we are like these live fish, who are ensnared suddenly in a net. So are we ensnared in the abyss of death and judgement. And in doing so, we will contemplate repentance more.
When thinking about the custom of Tashlikh this year, the “idea” behind it, and its potential for meaning, will likely provide the answer as to when, where and how a community might make their decision.
In fact, it has already become custom in many communities over the past several years to hold their tashlikh ceremony after Rosh Hashanah, but before Yom Kippur -- not on yom tov. So in planning when a synagogue/community will hold their ceremony, know that the appropriate timing is driven by the overall function of Tashlikh and part of the teshuvah/atonement process embedded in the Aseret Yemei Teshuvah. Here are a few options for how this may be done:
- Synagogues/communities may provide a do-it-youself manual for individuals/households who have access to a body of water. (A ceremony is included in the Lev Shalem Mahzor)
- For some communities, a physically-distanced meet-up at a natural body of water may work just fine, following the strict protocols of the local guidelines.
- Some may wish to create a home ritual, whereby using the principle of the halakhic definition of natural body of water (mayyim hayyim), which includes melting ice--a household may fill a container with ice, let it melt, and then drop their object symbolizing sin into that vessel. One potential idea for communities offering online services for the High Holidays would be to ask each participant to prepare their “mayyim hayyim” at the close of the service, and have everyone throw their piece of bread into a bowl together, at the same moment, led by clergy on screen.
- Some folks may have water features in their home yard, or access to fish ponds, etc. These would certainly qualify to meet the overall function and intent of the ritual.
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Pretzel-shaped pods reach to the sky atop tall, vining cowpea plants. First introduced commercially in 1893 by W. Atlee Burpee, under the name Rams Horn Bean, it was considered a curiosity. As a dry bean, it is a good and productive black-eyed pea and it fixes nitrogen into the soil.
This species was domesticated in West Africa. It was first documented in Greece in 300 B.C., and must have spread through Southern Europe from there, taking on new forms as it traveled over the centuries from village to village.
Days to maturity: 65
Seeds per pack: 30
Germination rate: 85% on 03/26/2021
Planting / harvesting notes
Direct sow black-eyed peas safely after frost, any time between late May and mid-July. This is a climbing vine crop, so it needs to be planted next to a structure or trellis. Plant 1" deep with 3" spacing, either in 1 row on each side of the net trellis or in another arrangement if using a different kind of trellis, like a pole or garden sculpture. Being a legume, it does fairly well in and adds nitrogen to poor soil.
Seed keeping notes
Black-eyed peas are self-pollinating, though it is best to isolate different varieties of V. unguiculata (including black-eyed peas, southern peas, cowpeas, and long beans) at least 20 feet, if not much farther to avoid unwanted cross-pollination. Allow beans to dry fully into a brown crispy state. This is when they are ready to harvest for seed. If necessary, lay them out to dry a little longer in their pods.
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Michael Gordon, MD, MSc, FRCPC, Medical Program Director, Palliative Care, Baycrest Geriatric Health Care System, Professor of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
The prevalence of dementia appears to be increasing in most western countries. That when coupled with the increased average age of the older population has leads to an expectation that projections of financial costs to individuals, families and to society will grow over the next few decades. The current study, out of the United States, based on a number of robust data bases coupled with in-depth interviews has resulted in projections of the current true costs of caring for elderly people living with dementia. It also allowed for the projection of future costs over the next three decades. The results are quite mind-boggling: "We found that dementia leads to total annual societal costs of $41,000 to $56,000 per case, with a total cost of $159 billion to $215 billion nationwide in 2010. Our calculations suggest that the aging of the U.S. population will result in an increase of nearly 80% in total societal costs per adult by 2040."
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|Where Can I find info on x86 simulators and assemblers? firstname.lastname@example.org (Wakan) (1998-08-10)|
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|Keywords:||8086, question, assembler, comment|
I'm preparing an exam called Elaboration Systems.
The target is to build an 8086 simulator, but first I have to build an
Assemblator by myself, that reads a restricted assebler most possible
near to the real 8086 assembler, and convert it in virtual machine
code, that's the input for the simulator. My question is: where can I
find documentation about these two problems : the construction of an
assemblator and of a 8086 simulator?
[For 8086 machine specs, there are PDF files on Intel's web site. For
assembler building, there's a few books around but none I can think of
that are currently in print. -John]
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A man who stabbed an Orthodox Jew in Geneva was found unfit to stand trial in Switzerland because of his clinical paranoia and “irrational fear of an international conspiracy.”
A court in Geneva earlier this month found that the 22-year-old man, who was not named, was too “mentally ill” to stand trial for stabbing and seriously wounding a 32-year-old French Jew in 2011, the Tribune de Genève daily reported.
The attack occurred in the parking lot of Geneva’s Natural History Museum while the victim, a citizen of France from Aix-les-Bains, was putting a baby carriage in the trunk of his car. His attacker stabbed him four times in view of the victim’s family. The victim arrived in the hospital in critical condition and spent several weeks there recovering.
The defendant, who grew up in Britain, was arrested a year after the attack in the Netherlands and extradited to Switzerland at the end of what the CICAD, a Swiss watchdog on anti-Semitism, termed “a long investigation by the police.”
The court declared the attacker unfit to stand trial based on a psychiatric evaluation that said he was a “paranoid schizophrenic suffering from visual hallucinations as well as hallucinated voices and fears of an international conspiracy.” He will be locked up in an institution for mentally ill people who pose a serious risk to their environment, the paper said.
Johanne Gurfinkel, the secretary general of a CICAD, told JTA the defendant belonged to far-right circles. “The perpetrator of this act may have suffered from mental problems, but he clearly attacked his victim out of anti-Semitic hatred,” Gurfinkel said.JTA
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The Argentina Ministry of Health of the Nation reports that a 8-year-old girl who lived with her family in the Futaleufú department, in the province of Chubut, died of hantavirus. The confirmation of this endemic event in the region was made from the Pediatric Service and the Laboratory of the Hospital Zonal de Esquel.
The Epidemiology Directorate of the province of Chubut notified the national Epidemiology Directorate of the case and reported that the girl had started with abdominal pain, fever and vomiting on July 8 and was taken to a consultation with a local effector.
Given the persistence of abdominal pain and fever, on July 12 a consultation was held at the Esquel hospital where she was admitted to the intensive care unit. There she had a first test with positive results for hantavirus and she was confirmed the next day by molecular tests in the Esquel hospital laboratory. The patient presented an unfavorable evolution and she died on July 13 in the morning.
The provincial epidemiology team is conducting epidemiological investigations to control the focus and identifying close contacts in order to implement control measures.
Since the beginning of 2022 and to date, 32 cases of hantavirus have been confirmed in the provinces of Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (case with a history of travel to Esquel, Chubut), Chubut, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, Salta and Tucumán , of which five of them were deceased.
Characteristics of the disease
Hantavirus disease is an emerging zoonosis caused by RNA viruses belonging to the Bunyaviridae family. It is transmitted to humans by wild rodents, natural reservoirs of the infection, which present a chronic asymptomatic infection with persistent viremia and eliminate the virus through urine, saliva and feces.
Hantaviruses are transmitted primarily by inhalation of aerosols loaded with viral particles from the feces, urine, and saliva of infected rodents. Other possible routes of transmission are contact with the conjunctival, nasal, or oral mucosa of infected mice with excrements or secretions, or the bite of the infected rodent.
Transmission to humans generally occurs by entering the habitat of rodents in suburban areas and rural environments, mainly in peri-domiciles and during the development of work, recreational activities, or in closed places such as sheds or warehouses infested by rodents.
There is also evidence of person-to-person transmission, and therefore secretions and other human fluids should be considered potentially dangerous.
The first symptoms are similar to flu: fever 38°C, muscle aches, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea without upper airway involvement.
• Avoid living with rodents and contact with their secretions.
• Prevent rodents from entering or nesting in homes.
• Cover holes in doors, walls and pipes.
• Clean floors, walls, doors, tables, drawers and cupboards with one part sodium hypochlorite and nine parts water (leave for 30 minutes and then rinse). Moisten the floor before sweeping to avoid raising dust.
• Locate orchards and firewood (30 cm high) more than 30 meters from the houses, cut grass and weeds up to a radius of 30 meters around the home.
• Ventilate for at least 30 minutes before entering places such as homes and sheds located in rural and/or wild environments in endemic areas that have been closed for long periods. Cover your mouth and nose with an N95 respirator or mask before entering.
• Take special care when starting up fans and air conditioners whose filters or ducts may have come into contact with contaminated dust, rodents or their droppings. If you have to do it, do the proper cleaning beforehand and cover yourself with a respirator or N95 mask.
• When camping, do it away from weeds and garbage dumps. Do not sleep directly on the ground; consume drinking water.
• If a live rodent is found: use traps to capture it (do not try to touch or hit it). Consult and get advice in the municipality with technicians in comprehensive pest control.
• If a dead rodent is found: spray it with sodium hypochlorite together with everything that may have come into contact with it and wait a minimum of 30 minutes. Then pick it up wearing gloves and bury it more than 30 cm deep or burn it.
• Rodent control is not feasible in the wild due to the ecological impact, however, it should be applied in urban areas. Consult the municipality for comprehensive pest control.
• Isolation of close contacts of confirmed cases of hantavirus due to Andes virus or those who have acquired the infection in the Surandean region is indicated.
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The history of the village of Woodstock may be traced back nearly one hundred years. During this time the village
has lived a quiet and unpretentious life, never aspiring to metropolitan honors, never attempting to delude itself
with the idea that it would be more than a village, never holding itself up as an example of a model community
center, but during all these years living the life of the ordinary hamlet. Like all villages it has had its ups
and downs, its share of lean years and its share of fat years; it has seen many worthy people go out from its precincts
and many other worthy people make their homes within them; it has been proud of its school and cherished its churches;
it has patronized its home industries as far as possible; in all things it has been true to the genuine village
It has, like unto all villages, had its "firsts" in everything. There was the first proprietor, the first
settler, the first blacksmith, the first physician, the first school house, the first church, the first saloon,
the first mail line, the first hotel - and the first of everything which has been part of its life. In order to
give the village its proper setting it is necessary at the outset to set forth its geographical relation to the
county and the state at large; how it came into existence; who was responsible for its appearance and, in short,
to set forth the facts concerning its entry into the history of the county.
The land on which it is located is a part of Virginia Military Survey No. 7822, and was taken out in the name of
Anthony Walke. He never lived on the land and as far as is known never knew of such a place as Woodstock. While
the village itself did not have a plat recorded until March 28, 1834, yet there were settlers on its site for several
years prior to that date. It seems that about 1819 this survey was purchased from the original proprietor by a
number of New Englanders, mostly from Vermont and New Hampshire. The part including Woodstock and a substantial
part of Rush township was bought by four Smith brothers (Sylvanus, Samuel, Lester and Dexter), David Holt, Levi
Churchill, William Gifford and Benjamin D. Sibley. In 1820 this little group of settlers was augmented by Hezekiah
Ripley, Joseph Meacham, James Webb, John McDonald, Harvey Cushman and James Parkhill.
Thus during 1819 and 1820 the present site of Woodstock and the immediate community received about a dozen families,
which, added to a few families who a short time previously, had located to the west of the settlement, made a very
respectable community. Those in addition to the families already mentioned, were the Corbets and Lanes, about a
mile west of Woodstock; also Thomas Irwin and William Wright. Irwin and Wright were Virginians and did not have
any particular affection for the Vermonters and consequently sold out in 1835 to Philip Smith, a brother of the
Smiths who had settled in the community in 1819 and 1820. Randall Willard secured part of the tract owned by the
Virginians and, as soon as they had sold, they left this section of the country for a more congenial climate.
The period from 1820 to 1834 found Woodstock gradually adding to its scattered population, but it was not until
the latter year that an effort was made to have it platted. During this period of fourteen years most of the many
"firsts" of the village made their appearance, and they may be noticed at this point.
THE FIRST PHYSICIAN.
Every community of several families had a physician early in its history and Woodstock was no exception. But
the village had an unusual physician as its first healer; she was a woman, Mrs. Sophia Sumner fink, not a regular
practicing physician, but withal, one who traveled far and wide in response to requests for her services. She was
distinctly a "yarb doctor" and many stories are told of the wonderful concoctions, decoctions, infusions,
etc., which she prepared and administered. So unique was her system of therapeutics, so distinctly feminine, that
an explanation of her method of procedure is worthy of record.
"Doctor" Holt must have been a sartorial curiosity; her raiment was of a piece with her other idiosyncracies.
In her practice she traveled the roads astride an old white mare - that is, the old mare was white when she left
the stable, but the farther her mistress traveled the less this color was evident. On the horn of her saddle the
good old lady had a big pasteboard box full of roots, herbs, peppers, spices and medicinal plants of every description.
Arriving at the home of her patient she proceeded to fill him full of the hottest mixture she could concoct, and,
so it is recorded, internal spontaneous combustion was sometimes narrowly avoided. In modern parlance she would
undoubtedly have been called a "hot" doctor. One man whom she had treated in this heated manner declared
afterwards "that her stuff had made him so hot that his clothes smelled like burnt rags for a month."
Following this initial process of getting the patient to the proper temperature she put him in a sweat box "to
extract all the juice out of his anatomy possible, then sponged him off with cold water, and wound him up in a
woolen blanket to get well or die."
And here comes the strange, but true, part of the story. Her husband was the undertaker of the community, also
the coffin maker, while - that nothing might escape - the good old lady herself was fully competent to preach a
funeral sermon. Such another combination and co-ordination of interests it would be hard to find. So if the patient
lived, she got her fee; if he died - well, he would be taken care of. According to local historians, the doctor-preacher
did not hesitate in her funeral sermons to consign her subject to Heavenly bliss, if she felt that was his proper
place; nor, on the other hand, if he was not a suitable subject for the heavenly kingdom "she passed him down
the trail to the next station, a locality where climatic conditions are good for cold feet." The good old
lady has long since dosed her last patient on this earth, but, if as some believe, we follow her earthly vocation
in the world to come, the good old lady is still digging herbs, and, to quote from the local historian of her earthly
home, "she will have a long time in which to pull herbs and dig roots."
THE FIRST CHURCH.
The first church was of the Christian denomination, a branch of the church of this name founded by Elias Smith;
but this church, while the first of the community, was about five miles east of the village of Woodstock and about
one mile west of the ancient village of Homer, in Union county. The first church in the village proper was a Universalist
church and dates from about 1828. Rev. Asher A. Davis was the first minister, a lad of nineteen with a wife of
fifteen, and the pair were possessed of about as much ability to run a home in the wilderness as a pair of "babes
in the woods." He was, notwithstanding his youth, an eloquent preacher and his wife proved to be just as useful
as ornamental. They were so genial and gentle that the rough old settlers took kindly to them and the young couple
were really a wonderful blessing to the community. For four years Davis preached, and then it seemed that he began
to introduce too much Universalist doctrine into his sermons. Remonstrance on the part of his parishioners did
not stop him and finally the young couple were fairly driven out of the community. Strange to say they came back
two years later on a visit and by this time the people seemed to have had a change of heart. He delivered a Universalist
sermon in Sibley's grove, where a few years before he had preached a Christian sermon - and he held the audience
spellbound for two hours. The very people who drove Davis and his wife from the community on account of his espousal
of Universalism were the very ones who organized the first church of this denomination in Woodstock.
THE FIRST SCHOOL HOUSE.
The first school house was built in the village in 1823 on a lot later owned by Dan Fox. The lot was a generously
sized one of an acre and was given by Samuel Smith. This first temple of learning was a log structure and about
its only recommendation was its cheapness. An old citizen, Warren D. Sibley, recalled a few years ago that one
of the diversions of the boys in this school house - and he was one of them - consisted in pulling out of their
pants the splinters which found their way to the boys from the seats on which they had to sit. A word may be said
about this first school house of Woodstock as it was described by Mr. Sibley a few years ago.
At the age of four years I was sent there to school to spend six hours each day eo receive instructions about that
number of minutes. The rest of the time I spent in plnning slivers off a rough slab sent, without any back, and
so high that my feet could not reach the floor without sliding partly oft; which I occasionally did; but if discovered
in this position by the teacher, I was certain to get a thump on the head, accompanied by a command to "Crawl
back on your slab." There were six little human cubs on this slab and when the teacher could think of nothing
meaner to do he would slide his foot along the row tipping us all over backwards. We sat facing a great yawning
fireplace sufficiently large to take in one half a cord of wood and topped out with a stick chimney large enough,
if laid on the ground, for a good sized mule to puss through. And how the wind would roar and swirl down that chimney,
filling the room with smoke, fire and ashes, and then to vary the discomfort, to have a stream of melted snow spout
down from the loft and strike a lad in the neck, and drift along down his spinal column, producing a sensation
for which no sane boy would banker for a second application.
The description which the foregoing writer gives of a school house in Champaign county in the twenties is typical
of most of those in use at that time. The added description which Sibley gives of the management of the school
by the teacher may also be taken as typical of teaching methods in the county during the twenties and thirties
- and even later. To continue quoting from Sibley:
When the teacher planted himself at his desk to close the school for the day, I was so overjoyed with the prospect
of being turned out of that prison that I must have been rather demonstrative and noisy, for the teacher tucked
me under his desk and put his foot on me to keep me still, and when my name was called I answered "Here."
"Yes, my lad," the teacher said, "You wouldn't be here if I hadn't my foot on you," which was
very true, for when a lad of my dimensions was flat on the floor with a foot on his back and that foot hung to
a leg about the size of a salt barrel, his chance of being anywhere else is pretty slim. That teacher weighed three
hundred and flftyseven pounds, and it was gross in more ways than one. This, my first teacher, was David Ripley,
the most popular teacher in Champaign county. As it seemed to me he was subject to tits of cyclonic wrath at the
least violation of the rules of the school during school hours, yet at recess, he was a boy among boys and engaged
in all boyish sports with avidity. Called the champion of the Darby plains, it was said when he got a fair whack
at the ball the surest place to find it would be in the next county.
One essential qualification for a male teacher at that time was his physical ability to lick the biggest boy in
the school. Without this qualification the applicant for a school was quite sure to be turned down. The methods
in use at that time to punish refractory pupils I felt, as a youth, were an outrage to childhood; and at mature
age I know that they were extremely cruel and vicious. Every device that the vile ingenuity of man could invent
was adopted to enforce obedience in the school and seemingly the only object to be accomplished was to break down
and destroy every particle of independence and self respect that the pupil possessed by nature. The rod, the ferrule,
the dunce block, standing on one foot with a book elevated above the head, split quill placed astride the nose
and various other methods, equally as humiliating, were in vogue, none of which were calculated to give sensitive
boys and girls a very exalted opinion of themselves or any too much self respect.
Apparently the pupils had no right that the teacher was bound to respect. To pet a boy and spare the rod was considered
a sure method of sending him down the broad road that leads to death, and the rougher and harder a boy was used,
the better his chance of becoming a good and useful citizen here, and a winged pauper in the New Jerusalem.
The school house just described stood from 1823 to 1829, but by the latter year it was deemed necessary to provide
a new building. Although Thomas Irwin got the contract for building the new brick building and agreed to have it
done by the following December, there were only a few loads of brick on the ground by that time. The new building
was to be on the old site and the old one was to be used for school purposes until the new structure was ready
for occupancy. During the summer of 1829 the wife of W. D. Sibley taught the summer term in her own home. During
the winter of 1829-30 there was no school, and it was not until the first Monday in December, 1830, that the new
building was open for school purposes, with Eliphas Burnham as the first teacher. Old settlers unite in calling
him a very conscientious, kind hearted and capable teacher.
BEGINNING OF THE VILLAGE.
The history thus far recounted deals with Woodstock before it was platted in 1834. A word should be said at
this point concerning the several names which have been applied to the village. The first official plat on record
is dated March 28, 1834, and bears the title of "Hartford alias Woodstock." This implies that both names
were in current use in 1834 and by inference it would seem that Woodstock was applied to the place at a later date.
It would seem that the local historian, Sibley, would have the best information on the nomenclature of the village.
Here is what he says: "An attempt was made at first to call our village Smithville; this, however, did not
seem to become popular. It was called New Albany for a while, then Hartford. About 1837 or 1838, a horde of Vermonters
came and called the village after the old Woodstock, Vermont. It was sometimes called by people outside the village
Sibley is incorrect in stating that the name of Woodstock was not applied before 1838, since the plat of 1834 carries
the name of Woodstock. Another local authority states that the town was called Woodstock because, when it applied
for a postoffice, it was found that there was already a postoffice by the name of Hartford in the state and this
made it necessary to select a new name - hence Woodstock became the name of the postoffice and gradually the old
name of Hartford was supplanted by the name of Woodstock. Undoubtedly the name was applied because so many of the
first. settlers came from the vicinity of Woodstock, Vermont.
The actual platting of the town was done on March 17 and 18, 1834, by John Arrowsmith, county surveyor. The
official plat states that it is the "southwest part of survey No. 7822, Anthony Walke, original proprietor,
for Sylvanus Smith and Phebe Smith." There were originally forty two lots laid out in a very irregular fashion.
The platting of the town was evidently the means of stirring up considerable trouble. While it is impossible to
follow the thread of events in 1834, yet the appearance of the first plat, laid out in such an irregular manner,
bears witness to the fact that the owners of land adjacent to the crossroads were not working together in harmony.
There were four owners of the four respective corners: Sylvanus Smith had the northwest corner; Phoebe Smith, the
northeast; B. D. Sibley, the southeast; Isaac Marsh, the southwest corner. The first plat shows that the Smiths
were the only ones to have any of their land platted, and according to local authorities Sibley and Marsh refused
to have anything to do with the Smiths in regard to laying out the proposed village, on the ground that the latter
would not consent to have the streets straightened so they would cross at right angles. Other local authorities
aver that the Smiths were responsible for the town being laid out in such an irregular manner.
Whatever the reason may be for the haphazard platting of the town, it has had no effect on its prosperity, and
it may be said that it even adds a certain piquancy to the little village. Before a year had elapsed Sibley had
a, change of heart and decided to plat an addition and on January 28, 1835, he recorded a plat of ten lots on his
corner the southeast; then, of course, Marsh had to follow suit. On September 5, 1836, he laid out eight queerly
shaped lots on his corner the southwest. Subsequent additions have been made by Elias Smith (November 15, 1865,
seven lots), and E. M. Bennett (August 5, 1867, ten lots), both being in the southwest corner.
There was only one house standing on the site when the plat of the village was recorded in 1834. Phoebe Smith's
house happened to fall on lot 24 and must therefore be recorded for all time to come as the first house erected
in Woodstock. This same house was later the property of Joseph Chamberlin and within its homelike precincts was
opened the first saloon in the village. The first house erected after the platting in 1834 was erected by David
Fl. Hall on lot No. 3 and in it he opened the first shoeshop. William B. Line11, a blacksmith, built the second
house on lot No. 2 and put up his shop on lot No. 15. By 1837 houses had been erected on lots Nos. I, 4, 5 and
16. On lot No. I stood a combined store and dwelling house, the property of Ira Johnson, who was also the first
postmaster. The blacksmith, Linell, became converted at one of the revivals, sold his shop to Erastus Martin and
became a regularly ordained minister in the Universalist church.
CHRISTENING THE FIRST HOTEL.
One other "first" remains to be noticed. In 1835 Harvey Cushman built a hotel adjoining the present
new bank building and for several years conducted the only hostlery in the village. In those days the ceremony
of "raising" a house was attended with the consumption of vast quantities of whiskey; in fact, few farmers
would have had the courage to invite their neighbors to a house raising or log rolling without providing an ample
supply of genuine corn whiskey. On the day that the framework of the Cushman Hotel was raised every man present,
except Sylvanus Smith, was drinking and most of them were decidedly under the influence of the liquor.
When the framework was finally up it was decided to christen the future hotel in some such manner as battleships
are christened. Accordingly, a bottle of whiskey was provided and the soberest man of the drunken crew was delegated
the task of taking a drink and then throwing the bottle, dripping its contents enroute, over the building, and
thus was christened Woodstock Hotel. The question of spelling the word hotel was the cause of considerable warm
feeling: some said it should be spelled with one "1" and some insisted that two were needed. Sylvanus
Smith, being the only sober man in the crowd, was asked to decide the momentous question. Smith looked at the building
and then at the motley crowd around him and then pronounced his decision: "If this day is a sample of what
the hotel is to be, it should be spelled 'Hot-hell.'" And according to the best authority, "it proved
to be a hell of a place for three or four years." To continue the description of this gin shop the local historian
says: "Hoodlums gathered there from various localities on Saturday afternoon and continued their bacchanalian
orgies in the village, frequently until midnight, terrifying the people by their demoniacal yells, fighting, and
running horses on the street."
Fortunately eggs were not as high in price then as now or the following story would not be told. The older and
soberer men of the community encouraged the non drinking young men to form a vigilance committee and rid the community
of the doggery. Each young fellow gathered two or three dozen eggs of uncertain age and on the next Saturday night,
following their plan of campaigns they lay in wait for the revelers. When the drunken mob emerged from the saloon
and began to disport themselves on the street the egg laden conspirators turned loose a volley of eggs. A man has
to be pretty drunk not to resent an aged egg greeting him face to face and the young men in charge of the egg brigade
must have engaged in practice, since it was only a matter of a few minutes before the drunken mob, was ready to
beat a retreat. The hotel came in for a share of the omelet and next morning presented a grotesque appearance.
This charge of the egg brigade put an effective stop to these weekly orgies, and had a sobering effect on both
the proprietor and his customers. The proprietor decided to confine his liquor sales to travelers, and as a result
his caravansary became a very respectable tavern.
EARLY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES.
It is impossible to trace the growth of business enterprises of the village for the eighty years that it has
been in existence, but a few of the more important merchants may be mentioned. The first storekeeper, Ira Johnson,
has been mentioned. The second store was opened by the firm known as Franklin, Fairchilds & Company, Samuel
Franklin furnishing the capital, Deranzell Fairchilds being head manager and Lockwood, a member of the company,
serving as clerk. The latter withdrew in 1840 and Franklin & Fairchilds continued the store until about 1850.
This firm did an enormous business and of a most peculiar character. It did not matter to them whether their customers
paid cash of not, all they wanted was cash in January of each year of notes - and they got mostly notes. These
notes the proprietors traded for horses and for upwards of fifteen years Fairchilds collected each spring fifty
to sixty head of horses and actually drove them all the way to Connecticut, where he sold them. Then he stopped
off at New York on his way back, bought his goods for the following year and came on home. Fairchilds was "Doc"
to everybody and was one of those jovial fellows who make life worth living. His partner, Franklin, was also of
a jovial disposition and was reputed to he able to laugh the "loudest and the longest and the most completely
of any man who ever lived in the county." He was "Uncle Sam" to the whole community.
There is usually in each community, and especially in the community the size of Woodstock, one man who may be
said to be responsible for its prosperity during a long period of years. Such a man in Woodstock was Erastus Martin.
Born in Randolph, Vermont, in 1811, he learned the blacksmith trade in New York City when a young man and drifted
West, eventually finding himself in Mexico, where he accumulated a goodly sized fortune in a short time. Martin
came to Woodstock about 1840, being drawn thither by the fact that many of his neighbors in Vermont had located
there. He continued to make Woodstock his home until his death in 1891, and in the course of more than half a century
in this community it is not too much to say that for many years of the time he was the most influential factor
in its industrial life. He was a natural financier, and anything to which he turned his hand proved successful.
At one time or another he actually owned every lot in Woodstock and North Lewisburg, securing them in the course
of his many business transactions. He engaged in farming, blacksmithing, real estate business, dealt in imported
Norman horses and French sheep, and for many years engaged extensively in the slaughtering business. He slaughtered
thousands of hogs and sheep annually and hauled his pork and mutton overland to Toledo. He was responsible, more
than any other man, for the Pennsylvania railroad going through Woodstock rather than through Mechanicsburg. In
short, he was the moving spirit in Woodstock as long as he was active in business affairs.
WOODSTOCK'S SERVICE DURING THE CIVIL WAR.
In the decade before the Civil War, the village boasted of two general stores, a grocery store, drug store,
wagon shop and two blacksmith shops. Smith & Sprague were the proprietors of the general store which stood
on the southeast corner of the square, while a man by the name of Harback occupied the southwest corner with his
store. Edward Clark was on the northeast corner with a grocery and T. Burnham had his drug store on the northwest
corner. The blacksmith shops were owned by Elder Marsh and James Conner, while the wagon shop was located over
the blacksmith shop of Elder Marsh, and was run by Charles Marsh and N. P. Hewitt. Joseph Chamberlin operated the
village hotel in the brick building built by a man by the name of Ganter.
The Civil War came on apace and the business industries of the town suffered as a result. The part Woodstock and
Rush township took in the Civil War is told in the military chapter, and need not be treated here in detail. Woodstock
claimed to have furnished more men for service, according to its population, than any other village or city in
the state. On the day the first call was made, eight young men enlisted; fifteen answered the second call; five
went at the next; and others from time to time until the close of the war. The complete summary of Woodstock's
service will be seen in the chapter above mentioned. At the opening of the war the village had a fine brass band,
most of its members being married, and when the war opened nine members at once enlisted. More than fifty soldiers
are buried in the local cemetery.
Upon the breaking out of the Spanish-American War the following young men enlisted from Woodstock: W. C. Gifford,
Charles Bailey, Daniel Poling, Charles and Arthur Cushman, Guy Clark, John Overfield, Guy Weatherhead, Perry Sessions,
David Hanley and Simeon Martin. Two other young men, William Griswold and Thomas Linehan, both of whom were former
residents of Woodstock, served in the war and reached the front. The nine young men from Woodstock got no farther
than Florida before they were called back. The present European War finds one young man at the front in June, 1917.
Vivian Crawford, who is with an ambulance corps.
[Forward to Part 2 of Woodstock, Ohio history.]
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Queen Victoria - 12 pence 1851 - Canadian stamp
- Quantity: 51 000
- Issue date: June 14, 1851
- Printer: Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson
- Paper: Laid paper
- Scott: #3
Queen Victoria - 12 pence 1851 prices and values
The value of a Queen Victoria - 12 pence 1851 stamp depends on several factors such as quality and wear, supply and demand, rarity, finish and more. Values in the section are based on the market, trends, auctions and recognized books, publications and catalogs. This section also includes information on errors and varieties and characteristics.
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The first postage stamp issue of the Province of Canada featured the beaver on the 3-pence, H.R.H. Albert, husband of the queen, on the 6-pence denomination, and Queen Victoria on the 12-pence. These stamps were produced on laid paper without perforations. Rawdon, Wright, Hatch and Edison, the New York security printers, received the contract to print Canadian postage stamps, producing all the requirements until 1st May, 1858. On that day the company name changed, following amalgamation, to the American Bank Note Company with headquarters remaining in New York City. The new firm continued the former printing contract until Canadian Confederation in 1867.
This portrait of Queen Victoria was reproduced from a contemporary engraving of a full-length painting by Alfred Edward Chalon. Although this work of art portrays the young Queen in her robes of state, merely the head appears in various British colonial postage stamp designs. On the occasion of Queen Victoria's first visit to the House of Lords, she commissioned Mr. Chalon to paint this portrait as a gift to her mother, the Duchess of Kent. The memorable event was the prorogation of Parliament on July 17, 1837, the year of the Queen's accession to the throne.
Based on a painting by Alfred Edward Chalon
Portrait engraved by Alfred Jones
Alfred Edward Chalon, "Queen Victoria", 1837
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The values on this page are in Canadian dollars (CAD).
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I discussed the first take of my OBJ exporter last week, still lacking colour support.
Adding colours turned out to be more complex than I had expected, and the result as it currently stands includes a couple of kludges, I'm afraid.
Still, for a quick hack it does a decent job of getting a rough idea across. For instance, here is the result of exporting the basic sample project rac_basic_sample_project.rvt included in the Revit product distribution:
The resulting OBJ file size is 363 KB, and here is the element count for that export operation:
I added code to access the element category's material and colour, as well as the material and colour of an individual face of the solid, in case it has been overridden. I also added support for a default colour, in case my algorithm produced nothing useful.
Some of the places I looked to learn about OBJ materials were the OBJ file format, a very detailed MTL format description and a shorter one including pointers to sample MTL files. Unfortunately, the specific link of greatest interest to me, to definitions of simple primary color materials, does not work.
Just like the vertices, the colours also need to be added to a lookup table in order to avoid duplication. For an OBJ model, colours are defined by materials, which are specified in a separate material library file with the extension MTL, so the exported no created two parallel files. For simplicity's sake, I just defined the ambient and diffuse colours for my materials and named them using the hexadecimal representation of the Revit colour byte values. The first couple of entries in my material file look like this:
newmtl C0C0C0 Ka 0.75 0.75 0.75 Kd 0.75 0.75 0.75 newmtl DBDBDB Ka 0.85546875 0.85546875 0.85546875 Kd 0.85546875 0.85546875 0.85546875 newmtl 453B2C Ka 0.26953125 0.171875 0.23046875 Kd 0.26953125 0.171875 0.23046875 newmtl 7F7F7F Ka 0.49609375 0.49609375 0.49609375 Kd 0.49609375 0.49609375 0.49609375 newmtl 000000 Ka 0 0 0 Kd 0 0 0 newmtl A7CAE4 Ka 0.65234375 0.890625 0.7890625 Kd 0.65234375 0.890625 0.7890625 newmtl DCCBAA Ka 0.859375 0.6640625 0.79296875 Kd 0.859375 0.6640625 0.79296875
In the OBJ file, I start out by specifying the material library with this initial statement:
The usemtl statement specifies which material to use, followed by faces referring to the vertex indices:
usemtl DBDBDB f 210 212 310 f 310 212 311 f 311 312 313 f 311 313 310 f 314 315 211 f 211 209 314
Here is ObjExport.zip including the entire source code, Visual Studio solution and add-in manifest for the OBJ exporter in its current state.
I would be glad to hear from you if you find this useful, and even more so if you discover possible enhancements to it.
The next step will be to explore how to make the model view ubiquitously available to mobile devices.
One tool for cloud-based access to 3D content that I just heard of is Sunglass, supporting integration of desktop CAD and storage utilities such as Dropbox and, especially interesting for developers, including API access.
Addendum: Do not use the obsolete ObjExport code provided above, since it does not handle multiple solids in the way required for a valid and complete export. Please refer to the updated version 2 supporting multiple solids per element instead.
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Donald Duck is a Disney cartoon character, an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. Easy to follow, free, step-by-step instructions on how to draw animals, plants, and popular cartoon characters. Step 10: Below the torso, on the right side, draw a big U-shaped line as a guide for the first leg. Halloween 2020 Halloween Ideas Halloween Costumes Duck Costumes Duck Bill Cutting Files Costume Ideas Diy Gifts Diy And Crafts More information ... People also love these ideas See more ideas about drawing tutorial, animal drawings, easy drawings. In this drawing lesson we’ll show you how to draw a Duck in 8 easy steps. Jul 6, 2020 - Explore Marvin Todd's board "drawing birds", followed by 531 people on Pinterest. Jan 10, 2017 - Today I'll show you how to draw the cutest little cat of kitten playing with yarn in kawaii / chibi style. Step 8 Now we draw the upper and lower lip by extending the lines in curvy shape but not too far.. How to Draw Anthro Animals. 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World's Worst Tourists
Bangalore: Americans themselves are of the opinion that they are the world’s worst tourists. A new LivingSocial survey conducted by Mandala Research among more than 5,600 respondents in five countries discovered that Americans think they are the worst tourists. The survey revealed that Americans, Canadians and Australians all gave U.S. tourists that doubtful distinction, while the Irish identified their British neighbors as the worst, and the British called out the Germans for bad travel behavior.
Americans voted themselves as the worst tourists with 20 percent of votes. They were followed by China with 15 percent, France on position three with 14 percent. Japan and Russia were on position four and five with 12 and 11 percent respectively. They were followed by Korea and India with 9 percent each. Germany, Spain, Britain and Canada followed India with 5 percent votes each, while Italy and Netherland had 4 and 3 percent each. Ireland, Switzerland and Australia had a 2 percent votes each on the world’s worst tourist list.
The survey also found that 78 percent of Americans have visited at least one foreign country while 61 percent have visited multiple countries and 36 percent have traveled to four or more foreign destinations. Thus, average number of countries visited was more than four.
Americans also admit to having sticky fingers. Four in ten U.S. travelers (39 percent) admit to having stolen something from a hotel during a visit. The most common items pilfered were towels, bathrobes, batteries, pillows, remote controls, sheets, bibles, and umbrellas.
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- Core personal consumption expenditures prices, excluding food and energy, rose 4.7% from a year ago, slightly less than expected.
- Headline inflation remained strong, rising 0.6% on the month and holding near the highest level since 1982.
- Disposable income and inflation-adjusted spending both declined on the month.
- Weekly jobless claims totaled 231,000, a slight decline from the previous period.
Inflation held at stubbornly high levels in May, though the monthly increased was slightly less than expected, according to a Commerce Department gauge closely watched by the Federal Reserve.
Core personal consumption expenditures prices rose 4.7% from a year ago, 0.2 percentage point less than the previous month but still around levels last seen in the 1980s. Wall Street had been looking for a reading around 4.8%.
On monthly basis, the measure, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased 0.3%, slightly less than the 0.4% Dow Jones estimate.
Headline inflation, however, shot higher, rising 0.6% for the month, much faster than the 0.2% gain in April. That kept year-over-year inflation at 6.3%, the same as in April and down slightly from March's 6.6%, which was the highest reading since January 1982.
In addition, the report reflected pressures on consumer spending, which accounts for nearly 70% of all economic activity in the U.S.
While personal income rose 0.5% in May, ahead of the 0.4% estimate, income after taxes and other charges, or disposable personal income, declined 0.1% on the month and 3.3% from a year ago. Spending adjusted for inflation fell 0.4%, a sharp drop from the 0.3% gain in April, though it was up 2.1% on a year-over-year basis.
"The rising cost of living absorbed all of the increased spending power from added jobs and higher wages in May," said Bill Adams, chief economist for Comerica Bank. "Americans are running faster just to stay even. No wonder consumer confidence is in the pits."
Goods inflation rose 9.6% while services prices were up 4.7%, both up 0.1 percentage point from April.
The personal saving rate edged higher, rising to 5.4%, up 0.2 percentage point from the previous month.
Fed officials are watching the data closely as they seek to control runaway inflation. Central bank policymakers generally watch core inflation more closely because they believe monetary policy is less effective at controlling the ups and downs of gas and grocery prices.
However, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has said in recent days that he also is watching headline numbers closely as well as gas prices average about $4.86 a gallon.
The consumer price index, which measures a broad range of goods and services and is more closely watched by the public, rose 8.6% in May, its highest level since late 1981.
In other economic news Thursday, the Labor Department reported that jobless claims edged lower to 231,000 for the week ended June 25. That was a decline of 2,000 from the previous period though 1,000 higher than the estimate.
Continuing claims, which run a week behind the headline number, totaled 1.33 million, a slight decline from the previous week.
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This book … is luminescent. I bet other reviewers have used that word because, well, the cover of the book glows in the dark. I tried it in the dark closet. The book glowed. Which is perfectly in tune with the theme of Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout about the life and work of Marie Curie.
I’m not sure how to categorize this book by artist/writer Lauren Redniss, and maybe I shouldn’t bother. With a mix of some amazing artwork that uses chemicals and light (she explains her process at the end of the book) and an evocative narrative that shifts from Marie Curie’s life, and loves, to the impact of her work on radium and other radioactive elements in the modern world (hello, atomic bombs), this book is packed with insights and information that could be a neat mentor for non-fiction writing.
Like many, I knew of Marie Curie’s name in the field of Science and I was familiar with some of her work, but Radioactive gave me the fuller picture of a woman struggling against the confines of the male-dominated society, and how her love and partnerships with her husband — and then later, her lover — gave her freedom to change the way we see the world. Her children and many of her grandchildren, and others down the family line, apparently continue to work in the fields of science.
One of the saddest parts of this story is near the end of her life, as Marie Curie suffers from radiation exposure from her years touching and studying isotopes. She wanders through her lab like a ghost, nearly blind and in pain, touching tubes and checking equipment, and making lab notes on her slow cancerous death like the scientist she is. Her spirit inhabits this book, and now my mind. She lives on.
Peace (glowing with wonder),
PS — thanks to Andrea Z for recommending this book on Twitter. What a find. I borrowed it through my library, as the cost seemed steep to me. But it is the size of a textbook.
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England and Wales need a statutory framework, new legislation, codes of practice and an ethics board for the use of biometric data in public services, according to a new independent legal review.
It adds that the use of live facial recognition by the police forces should be suspended until these are in place.
The Ryder Review has been written by Matthew Ryder QC and published by the Ada Lovelace Institute in response to the increasing use of biometrics and a sense that legislation in recent years, including the General Data Protection Regulation – has not provided sufficient clarity to regulations.
There has also been increasing concern over use of facial recognition technology by police forces, as recently expressed by the biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner in response to a professional practice document.
“In order to protect our fundamental rights, particularly our data and privacy rights, this revolution in biometric data use will need to be accompanied by a similarly ambitious new legal and regulatory regime,” Ryder says in the review’s foreword.
“That regime will need to be put into effect by firm, assiduous and proactive lawmakers and regulators. This is vital to ensure that we do not allow the use of biometric data across society to evolve in a flawed way, with inadequate laws and insufficient regulation.”
Framework of processes
Ryder outlines 10 recommendations, including the development of a technologically neutral, statutory framework of processes to be followed in using biometrics, and considerations that must be taken into account before the technology is deployed against members of the public.
This should be accompanied by legislation on the use of biometrics for unique identification of individuals, and for categorisation, along with sector- and/or technology-specific codes of practice, including a legally binding one for the use of live facial recognition.
The review also calls for the use of live facial recognition to be suspended until these are in place.
In addition, it calls for the setting up of a national Biometrics Ethics Board with a statutory advisory role for the technology’s use in the public sector. This could build on good practice developed by the London Policing Ethics Panel and West Midlands Police, and its advice should be published.
There is also a need for the regulation and oversight of biometrics to be consolidated, and for further work on how the data is used in the private sector, the review says.
It adds that the research has brought up two counter-intuitive features. First, strong law and regulation will not hinder progress in the practical use of biometrics; and second that the practical effect of transparency and public consultation has not always been positive, as it is often influence by a partial understanding of consent and an ill-defined assessment of public opinion.
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A United Nations human rights envoy says Burma's transition to democracy cannot begin until the ruling military releases political prisoners.
Speaking in Bangkok, Thailand (today / Monday), Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said Burma's military must release all political prisoners, especially elderly members of Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, whose average age is 80.
The Brazilian diplomat said eight members of the NLD executive committee are under house arrest and a ninth, U Tin Oo, is in prison.
Mr. Pinheiro said Burma's military leaders told him during a six-day visit to Rangoon last week that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is not being held under any security law.
The envoy said that when visited the Nobel Peace prize laureate at her home, the pro-democracy leader said she would not accept any liberties for herself, until all her supporters detained five months ago are released.
Mr. Pinheiro said Burma's government told him they have set free eight of 35 senior NLD members detained during a crackdown on the party.
About 150 NLD members were taken into custody after a clash May 30th in northern Burma between NLD supporters and government groups.
The Brazilian diplomat called the incident a significant setback in the efforts to bring democratic reforms to Burma.
Mr. Pinheiro will present a report about Burma to the UN General Assembly later this week.
Information for this report is provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.
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Why should I love my liver?
- Liver stores and regulates blood. It is responsible for circulation and nourishing every cell in our body. Every part of the body depends on blood from the liver for nourishment and sustenance.
- Liver helps the body to digest food, absorb nutrients, and eliminate toxic substances.
- The amount of sugar in our blood is carefully controlled by the liver.
- Liver is connected to proper eye function. Diseases involving the eye are closely related to a liver imbalance.
- Liver also regulates emotional and mental state. A healthy liver ensures patience, endurance and the ability to maintain a strong spiritual center.
How does my liver communicate to me that it is not nourished?
When the liver is overworked or under pressure, it generates too much heat within itself. One might feel hot and sweat excessively. When there is heat in the liver, the eyes are likely to be bloodshot, or feel a painful or burning sensation. When the liver blood is deficient, you might experience blurry vision, color blindness or dry eyes.
If liver is stagnant, we feel down or even depressed; it is hard to get started in the morning. Liver is responsible for anger. People with tired liver are quick to anger and have so called “short fuse”.
A weak liver expresses itself in deep insecurity, irritability, frustration, anger, excitability, and stubbornness.
Sometimes we can read right on our face if our liver is too tight – it manifests by deep vertical lines from nose going up between the brows.
How can you love your liver?
Get good night sleep
Liver likes to have a good night sleep on empty stomach. Liver rests and rejuvenate between 1:00 am and 3:00 am. In order to nourish your liver, it is best to go to bed no later than 11:00 pm. It gives you 2 hours to get to the stage of deep sleeping.
Do not eat late at night
Eat your last meat by 7:00 pm. Late night dinners, especially with hard to digest foods like meat and chicken, will send our liver to work most of the night. You might find yourself tired when you wake up in the morning and not willing to get out of the bed. Your mood in the morning also could be not the brightest.
Torah tells us that it has to pass 6 hour after eating meat before one can eat dairy. 6 hours is time it takes to digest meat.
Eat healthy and do not overeat
Eat plenty of organic vegetables and beans. Add complex carbs to your daily menu ( whole grains ). Minimize consumption of processed food, fruits, honey and sugar which contain 50% of fructose. Just like alcohol, fructose is metabolized directly into fat. So eating fructose is really like eating fat—it just gets stored in your fat cells. Healthy liver can process no more than 25 grams of sugar a day.
Liver likes sour taste – lemons, Granny Smith apples, cranberry, sour cherries. If you crave sour taste, that might be your liver is talking to you.
In return, your nourished liver gives you bright happy energized mornings; handles your stressful situations; maintains fit body, radiant young-looking skin, healthy eyes, nails, and well-circulated, oxygen-rich blood.
Your liver would be happy if you chose this dessert to complete your early dinner 🙂
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PARIS — In retaliation to U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs, the European Commission adopted on Wednesday rebalancing measures that target a list of products worth 2.8 billion euros, including fashion, beauty goods, footwear and jewelry. The hike in duties levied on certain U.S. imports at the EU boarder, which ranges from 10 to 50 percent, goes into effect on June 22.
“By putting these duties in place the EU is exercising its rights under the World Trade Organization rules,” the European Commission said in a statement.
Its 15-page list of goods include — at a 10 percent increased duty rate — hair lacquers and non-industrial diamonds unworked or simply sawn.
At a 25 percent higher tax level are the likes of cotton, wool, fine animal hair and man-made fiber T-shirts, singlets and other vests; trousers and breeches in cotton denim or cotton; shorts in cotton; eye-makeup, lip-makeup, manicure and pedicure preparations; makeup and skin-care powders, and some specific shoe types. Certain articles and parts of jewelry are to be taxed at a 25 percent higher rate, too.
A 50 percent increased tax will be levied on a variety of items, including trousers and breeches in cotton and cotton-cut corduroy.
“We did not want to be in this position. However, the unilateral and unjustified decision of the U.S. to impose steel and aluminum tariffs in the EU means that we are left with no other choice,” said the EC commissioner for trade Cecilia Malmström in the statement. “The rules of international trade, which we have developed over the years hand-in-hand with our American partners, cannot be violated without a reaction from our side. Our response is measured, proportionate and fully in line with WTO rules. Needless to say, if the U.S. removes its tariffs, our measures will also be removed.”
The WTO had already been notified of the full list of products to be taxed higher. On June 6, after the U.S. application of the full tariffs on EU steel and aluminum products the list was endorsed by the EC college of commissioners. Subsequently, EU member states unanimously supported the approach.
“The EU will rebalance bilateral trade with the U.S. taking as a basis the value of its steel and aluminum exports affected by U.S. measures,” the EC said. “Those are worth 6.4 billion euros. Of this amount, the EU will rebalance on 2.8 billion euros-worth of exports immediately. The remaining rebalancing on trade valued at 3.6 billion euros will take place at a later stage — in three years’ time or after a positive finding in WTO dispute settlement if that should come sooner.”
The EU rebalancing measure, which was outlined earlier in 2018, is part of a three-pronged response to the U.S. steel and aluminum tariffs. The other prongs include the launch on June 1 of legal proceedings against the U.S. in the WTO and a safeguard action to protect the European market from disturbances stemming from the diversion of steel from the U.S.
A safeguards investigation was instigated on March 26, and the commission has nine months to decide whether safeguard procedures are needed. If it’s decided that quick action is necessary, the decision could come by summer.
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The collection comprises six games (Inverse, Boyard, Egghead, Reversi, Trifler and Yahoos), each of which promotes and can simply serve development of memory, attention, logic an occasion for a break in work.
Minesweeper with tons of boards, game modes, customizable colors and more.
Classic minesweeper gameplay featuring over 100 boards, 7 game modes, special effects, sound effects, and customizable colors. Boards include various patterns of squares, hexagons, and other intricate shapes and designs.
Eczetris is a small form factor Tetris clone with an online highscore table.
Eczetris is a small form factor Tetris clone. It features an online highscore table that players can upload their scores to and then view the list to see if they beat the top highscore. Other features are multiple music track and configurable input.
Start your quest for treasures in this modern remake of well known classic game.
Start your quest for treasures in this modern remake of well known classic game. You can play as one, and together with friend. Action of game occurs in picturesque interiors of ancient castle, on a background of vaults and treasures filling them.
Hexagon is a game and your task is to put various balls on hexagon field.
Hexagon is a game and your task is to put various balls on hexagon field, but you must obey some rules such as not to put two balls with the same color one next to another and to avoid placing a ball with the same color as the surrounding border.
Generates mathematical puzzles, that can be solved by thinking logically
Arithmogriph generates mathematical puzzles, that can be solved by thinking logically. You can save and load your game sessions. Print Arithmogriph puzzles to solve away from your computer! You can also play against other people over a network.
Intresting game for all ages. Combines tetris and picture puzzles.
Place Polyomino pieces in picture-like grid shapes.The polyomino pieces are introduced at a rapid pace, so you have to be quick and accurate in placing the pieces. When you successfully complete fill the picture with pieces you win.
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Definition - What does Data Integrity mean?
Data integrity, in the context of networking, refers to the overall completeness, accuracy and consistency of data. Data integrity must be imposed when sending data through a network. This can be achieved by using error checking and correction protocols.
Techopedia explains Data Integrity
It's pretty simple -- if the data received isn't the same as the data sent, you've got a problem! Much of networking involves working to improve data integrity.
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2.6. Infection bioassays
Exposure bioassays with Aspergillus spp. can potentially be carried out, using in vitro reared larvae (Fig. 9), caged bees or colonies, due to its ability to infect larvae, pupae and adults. A bioassay with in vitro reared larvae has been conducted showing that stonebrood and chalkbrood had opposite temperature-dependent responses in virulence. Chilling of chalkbrood exposed larvae increased the pathogen virulence; whereas chilling of stonebrood exposed larvae increased larval survival (Vojvodic et al., 2011a). For infection of in vitro bee larvae with Aspergillus spp. the same precautions must be taken as described in paragraph 1.5.1. for A. apis.
Few experiments with caged bees have been conducted (Gilliam and Vandenberg, 1997). Infecting individual larvae while still in the brood frame is possible by placing the spore suspensions to be ingested in front of the larvae (Vojvodic unpublished).
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Reflective tapes and die-cuts – self-adhesive tapes and elements cut out from top quality reflective foils the modern technology of which guarantees a high level of the retro reflection coefficient even at a large angle of observation. Reflective diecuts are used, above all, for marking mechanical vehicles to ensure safety of road users. In closed rooms they are used for marking hazardous places and escape routes. Reflective key rings and bands for children, bike helmets are only some of the examples of the application of self-adhesive reflective diecuts in daily life.
- resistant to weather conditions
- high-level reflective properties for many years
- perfect visibility at night in unfavourable weather conditions
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The effective date for EPA to issue general permits for certain pesticide uses under the Clean Water Act is Oct. 31, 2011. Under a 2009 Sixth Circuit Court ruling, pesticide users – which include farmers, ranchers, forest managers, state agencies, city and county municipalities, mosquito control districts and water districts, among others, would have to obtain a duplicative permit under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for certain uses of pesticides which result in pesticide applications into, over, or near U.S. waters.
Agricultural groups, including the NCC, believe that pesticides applications already are highly regulated under the Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and that this permitting is a paperwork exercise that will provide no additional environmental protection.
In March of this year, the House passed a bipartisan bill, H.R. 872, which amends both the CWA and FIFRA to prevent such redundant regulatory burdens. Sens. Boxer, D-Calif., chair of the Environmental and Public Works Committee, and Cardin, D-Md., have put a hold on the bill.
Sens. Stabenow, D-Mich., and Roberts, R-Kan., of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry Committee are insisting on a two-year moratorium on the permits; however, Sen. Boxer is pushing a broad study of pesticide impacts on waters, which has stalled the negotiations. Last minute efforts by agricultural groups are ongoing to restart discussions among the Senate committees.
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Community Builder: New food service in NY Mills School
Students in New York Mills might notice that something's different about their school this year: the district recently opted to contract dining services through Chartwells Food Service.
The school district decided on the change, said Superintendent Todd Cameron, in an effort to meet the new upgrades to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutrition standards for school meals. The changes were announced in January of this year.
The new changes add more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free and low-fat milk to school meals.
Chartwells, Cameron said, will provide new menu options that help bring the school closer to being in compliance with the new standards.
Meeting the standards just with school staff alone would have been difficult, Cameron said, because of the high cost of food. Chartwells, which is one of the largest buyers of food in the country, will help the school district save money.
"Chartwells estimated that our food savings would be nearly $30,000," Cameron said. "That's a significant food cost reduction."
According to the company's website, Chartwells provides dining services for more than 550 public school districts and private schools, made up of more than 5,000 separate elementary, middle and high schools nationwide.
Cameron also said that there have been discussions about Chartwells forming a nutrition/menu planning committee after the start of the school year. The committee would then report back to the school board on a monthly basis.
Additionally, Chartwells will also help with fundraising or catering events that take place at the school throughout the year, just as the NY Mills Dining Service has done in the past.
"Chartwells will continue to provide that services that the community expects," Cameron said.
The cost of meals in NY Mills will stay about the same. Breakfast remains free for preschool students through sixth grade, and lunch increases by 5 cents.
For families that need to apply for free/reduced lunches, an application will be included with the school calendar that will be released in the next few weeks.
Like other new changes in NY Mills, Cameron said that he's excited about the new set up.
"We're looking forward to providing good quality, nutritious meals," he said.
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Closely linked to, or a follow-on course from, 3D Modelmaking – Concept to Construction, this fascinating 12-week hands-on course focusses on the creation of fantasy creatures. It offers the opportunity to discover many aspects of creature design and maquette fabrication.
You’ll receive demonstrations in armature making, massing out your sculpture, posing your creature, painting, and many other techniques. Alongside these demonstrations you'll begin to develop your own designs, with full support from your tutor and on the spot guidance in all areas of the process to allow you to create and complete a body of work.
This course is ideal for anyone wishing to enter this specialist field of modelmaking in the industry or with academic aspirations to apply to study BA (Hons) Modelmaking.
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AUSTIN, Texas - Once the pandemic hit, it didn’t take long for Diana Anzaldua and Jason Rubio to see the toll the life-threatening virus had on their family and the community. COVID-19 brought to light health disparities in both the black and brown communities.
In Travis County, Hispanics accounted for at least 70% of COVID-19 hospitalizations back in June. Meanwhile, only 33%of people identify as Hispanic in Travis County.
Many factors play into why Hispanics are disproportionately impacted such as underlying health conditions, limited access to health care, and people living in multigenerational households.
“We decided we need to do something to help people, help people stay home and healthy,” said Anzaldua. “The Latinos are often forgotten and invisible even though our majority of essential workers are Latino.”
In order to prevent further spreading the life-threatening virus, health officials advised the public to social distance, stay home, and limit contact with others. Rubio noted there are not enough errand services like Instacart or Grubhub available in Spanish.
The couple created a Facebook page called “Ayuda” or 'help' in Spanish and within the first week, 500 members joined. Families who needed errands posted or directly messaged Ayuda and the couple paired them up with an approved helper who could assist.
“All of our stuff is offered in English and Spanish because it’s 2020 and we realize there are not very many services targeted towards the Spanish population which we thought was odd,” said Rubio.
Over time, the page developed into a resource hub for the Latino community in Austin. “Resources like hey there’s free food here, Austin ISD is doing this or there are different things happening for COVID testing, PPE giveaways,” said Rubio. “We have been a part of a lot of the local things and people know when they see it on Ayuda this is something they can trust.”
The couple developed a website to list local resources available to the public soon there will be an app as well.
Ayuda has been so successful Rubio and Anzaldua have shared their concept with other cities in the U.S and other Spanish speaking countries. “We’ve gotten a lot of emails from people saying thank you so much for doing this,” said Anzaldua. “It seems like for the first time there’s something for Spanish speakers.”
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I run regressions against various purchase, visitation, and social activities. My goal is to identify when an activity should trigger a marketing tactic. You learn some interesting things when you do this (your mileage will vary):
- Old-School Catalog orders have a half-life of maybe 24 months.
- E-Commerce orders have a half-life of maybe 20 months.
- In-Store retail purchases have a half-life of maybe 16 months.
- A click through an email campaign may have a half-life of 2 months.
- A visit to a website may have a half-life of 2 weeks.
- A social media action may have a half-life of 2 days.
Again, your mileage will vary. But it's your job to know the half-life of all activities! If a customer visits your website on December 13, but purchased in a retail store on December 1, it is quite likely that the retail transaction will carry more weight ... any triggers you plan are focused more on the retail transaction than the website visit.
Know the half-life of all customer activities.
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Sorry, the book that you are looking for is not available right now.
We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.
From the award-winning author of The Coke Machine comes the fascinating story of an infamous map thief and the famous maps he had stolen.
"The Map Thief isn't just a perceptive, meticulously researched portrait of an exceedingly unlikely felon. It's also a tribute to the beautiful old maps that inspired his cartographic crimes---and shaped our modern world." ---Ken Jennings
Format: MP3 CD
Published: 29th May 2014
Country of Publication: US
Dimensions (cm): 19.0 x 13.5 x 1.5
Weight (kg): 0.09
Edition Type: Unabridged
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C. hermaphrodita Turra
Name[change | change source]
The Spanish name emborrachacabras (that is, getting goats drunk) refers to the leaves' effect on goats that eat them. The French name (redoul) and Catalan name (roldor) come from Latin Rhus tyrius (Syrian or Tyrian sumac), referring to the leaves use in the traditional tannery industry.
Description[change | change source]
C. myrtifolia is a shrub to 2–3 m tall without hairs and with shiny leaves like the leaves of the myrtle (myrtifolia means "leaves like the leaves of the myrtle"). It produces small greenish flowers in spring (April to June) in racemes (a kind of inflorescence).
It produces fruits in early summer. The fruits look like berries but they are small nuts (achenes) protected by enlarged and colored petals; it is the same of all the species of the genus Coriaria. Fruits cannot be eaten because their seeds are very poisonous.
Where it grows[change | change source]
- Southern Portugal.
- Spain, along the Mediterrean coast and mainly in Catalonia. In the Balearic Islands, it appears only in Ibiza.
- Southern France
- Italy, in the region near to France.
References[change | change source]
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kews. "Coriaria myrtifolia". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=47220. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- Tien-lu Ming and Anthony R. Brach. "Coriariaceae" (PDF). http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/mss/volume11/Coriariaceae.pdf. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- The Free Dictionary. "Coriaria". http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Coriaria. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- "Coriariaceae". Frankia & Actinorhizal Plants. http://web.uconn.edu/mcbstaff/benson/Frankia/Coriariaceae.htm. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- Montserrat, Pedro (1958). "Root Nodules of Coriaria". Nature 182 (475). doi:10.1038/182475a0. http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v182/n4633/abs/182475a0.html.
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
ZERO CONSCIENCE IN “ZERO DARK THIRTY”
December 14, 2012
At the same time that the European Court of Human Rights has issued a historic ruling condemning the C.I.A.’s treatment of a terror suspect during the Bush years as “torture,” a Hollywood movie about the agency’s hunt for Osama bin Laden, “Zero Dark Thirty”—whose creators say that they didn’t want to “judge” the interrogation program—appears headed for Oscar nominations. Can torture really be turned into morally neutral entertainment?
“Zero Dark Thirty,” which opens across the country next month, is a pulse-quickening film that spends its first half hour or so depicting a fictionalized version of the Bush Administration’s secret U.S. interrogation program. In reality, the C.I.A.’s program of calibrated cruelty was deemed so illegal, and so immoral, that the director of the F.B.I. withdrew his personnel rather than have them collaborate with it, and the top lawyer at the Pentagon laid his career on the line in an effort to stop a version of the program from spreading to the armed forces. The C.I.A.’s actions convulsed the national-security community, leading to a crisis of conscience inside the top ranks of the U.S. government. The debate echoed the moral seriousness of the political dilemma once posed by slavery, a subject that is brilliantly evoked in Steven Spielberg’s new film, “Lincoln”; by contrast, the director of “Zero Dark Thirty,” Kathryn Bigelow, milks the U.S. torture program for drama while sidestepping the political and ethical debate that it provoked. In her hands, the hunt for bin Laden is essentially a police procedural, devoid of moral context. If she were making a film about slavery in antebellum America, it seems, the story would focus on whether the cotton crops were successful.
After some critics called Bigelow a torture apologist, she defended the fairness and historical accuracy of her movie. “The film doesn’t have an agenda, and it doesn’t judge. I wanted a boots-on-the-ground experience,” she told my New Yorker colleague Dexter Filkins, who interviewed her for a Talk of the Town piece. At a Los Angeles press junket, the film’s screenwriter, Mark Boal, complained that critics were “mischaracterizing” the torture sequences: “I understand that those scenes are graphic and unsparing and unsentimental. But I think that what the film does over the course of two hours is show the complexity of the debate.” His point was that because the film shows multiple approaches to intelligence gathering, of which torture is only one tactic, and because the torture isn’t shown as always producing correct or instant leads, it offers a nuanced answer to the question of whether torture works.
But whether torture “worked” was far from the most important question about its use. I’ve seen the film and, as much as I admired Bigelow’s Oscar-winning picture “The Hurt Locker,” I think that this time, by ignoring the full weight of the dark history of torture, her work falls disturbingly short. To begin with, despite Boal’s contentions, “Zero Dark Thirty” does not capture the complexity of the debate about America’s brutal detention program. It doesn’t include a single scene in which torture is questioned, even though the Bush years were racked by internal strife over just that issue—again, not just among human-rights and civil-liberties lawyers, but inside the F.B.I., the military, the Justice Department, and the C.I.A. itself, which eventually abandoned waterboarding because it feared, correctly, that the act constituted a war crime. None of this ethical drama seems to interest Bigelow.
To establish a baseline of moral awareness, she shows her heroine—a C.I.A. counterterrorism officer called Maya, played by Jessica Chastain—delicately wincing as she hands the more muscled interrogators a pitcher of water with which to waterboard a detainee. Maya is also shown standing mutely by when the detainee is strung up by ropes, stripped naked, and forced to crawl in a dog collar. In reality, when the C.I.A. first subjected a detainee to incarceration in a coffin-size “confinement box,” as is shown in the movie, an F.B.I. agent present at the scene threw a fit, warned the C.I.A. contractor proposing the plan that it was illegal, counterproductive, and reprehensible. The fight went all the way to the top of the Bush Administration. Bigelow airbrushes out this showdown, as she does virtually the entire debate during the Bush years about the treatment of detainees.
The lone anti-torture voice shown in the film is a split-second news clip of President Barack Obama, taken from a “60 Minutes” interview, in which he condemns torture. It flashes on a television screen that’s in the background of a scene set in Pakistan; the movie’s terrorist-hunters, who are holding a meeting, barely look up, letting Obama’s pronouncement pass without comment. “By this point in the film,” as the CNN national-security analyst Peter Bergen wrote recently, “the audience has already seen that the C.I.A. has employed coercive interrogation techniques on an al Qaeda detainee that produced a key lead in the hunt for bin Laden. In the film, Obama’s opposition to torture comes off as wrongheaded and prissy.”
Bigelow has portrayed herself as a reluctant truth-teller. She recently described the film’s torture scenes as “difficult to shoot.” She said, “I wish it was not part of our history. But it was.”
Yet what is so unsettling about “Zero Dark Thirty” is not that it tells this difficult history but, rather, that it distorts it. In addition to excising the moral debate that raged over the interrogation program during the Bush years, the film also seems to accept almost without question that the C.I.A.’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” played a key role in enabling the agency to identify the courier who unwittingly led them to bin Laden. But this claim has been debunked, repeatedly, by reliable sources with access to the facts. As the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent first reported, shortly after bin Laden was killed, Leon Panetta, then the director of the C.I.A., sent a letter to Arizona Senator John McCain, clearly stating that “we first learned about ‘the facilitator / courier’s nom de guerre’ from a detainee not in the C.I.A.’s custody.” Panetta wrote that “no detainee in C.I.A. custody revealed the facilitator / courier’s full true name or specific whereabouts.”
The Senators Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat and the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have undermined the film’s version of events further still. “The original lead information had no connection to C.I.A. detainees,” they wrote in their own letter, revealed by the Post last year. Feinstein and Levin noted that a third detainee in C.I.A. custody did provide information on the courier, but, importantly, they stressed that “he did so the day before he was interrogated by the C.I.A. using their coercive interrogation techniques.” In other words, contrary to the plotline of “Zero Dark Thirty,” and contrary to self-serving accounts of C.I.A. officers implicated in the interrogation program, senators with access to the record say that torture did not produce the leads that led to finding and killing bin Laden.
Top senators on the Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have amplified that position in additional interviews this week. Speaking with the Huffington Post, Feinstein said of the movie’s narrative, “Based on what I know, I don’t believe it is true.” Republicans, too, criticized the movie’s plot. “It’s wrong. It’s wrong. I know for a fact, not because of this report—my own knowledge—that waterboarding, torture, does not lead to reliable information … in any case—not this specific case—in any case,” said John McCain, the top Republican on the Armed Services Committee, who was himself tortured during the Vietnam War. The Huffington Post also quoted South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, another Republican member of the Armed Services Committee, saying, “I would argue that it’s not waterboarding that led to bin Laden’s demise. It was a lot of good intelligence-gathering from the Obama and Bush administrations, continuity of effort, holding people at Gitmo, putting the puzzle together over a long period of time—not torture.”
As Scott Shane wrote in the Times on Thursday, so little is publicly known about the C.I.A.’s erstwhile interrogation program that it is nearly impossible for outsiders to assess the facts with total confidence. But for the past three years, Democratic staffers at the Senate Intelligence Committee have been compiling six thousand pages of records related to the secret program, and in doing so they have found little to celebrate. It is hard to understand, then, why the creators of “Zero Dark Thirty” so confidently credit the program.
In addition to providing false advertising for waterboarding, “Zero Dark Thirty” endorses torture in several other subtle ways. At one point, the film’s chief C.I.A. interrogator claims, without being challenged, that “everyone breaks in the end,” adding, “it’s biology.” Maybe that’s what they think in Hollywood, but experts on the history of torture disagree. Indeed, many prisoners have been tortured to death without ever revealing secrets, while many others—including some of those who were brutalized during the Bush years—have fabricated disinformation while being tortured. Some of the disinformation provided under duress during those years, in fact, helped to lead the U.S. into the war in Iraq under false premises.
At another point in the film, an elderly detainee explains that he wants to coöperate with the U.S. because he “doesn’t want to be tortured again.” The clear implication is that brutalization brings breakthroughs. Other ways of getting intelligence, such as bribing sources with expensive race cars, are shown to work, too. But while those scenes last only a few minutes, the torture scenes seem to go on and on.
The filmmakers subtly put their thumb on the pro-torture scale, as Emily Bazelon put it, in another scene, too. A C.I.A. officer complains that there is no way for him to corroborate a lead on bin Laden’s whereabouts now that the detainees in Guantánamo all have lawyers. The suggestion is that if they are given due process rather than black eyes, there will be no way to get the necessary evidence. This is a canard, given that virtually all suspects in the American criminal-justice system have lawyers, yet their cases proceed smoothly and fairly every day.
Bigelow has stressed that she had “no agenda” when she made “Zero Dark Thirty.” Unsurprisingly, though, those who have defended the brutalization of detainees have already begun embracing the film as evidence that they are right. Joe Scarborough, the conservative host of MSNBC’s show “Morning Joe,” said recently that the film’s narrative, “whether you find it repugnant or not,” shows that the C.I.A. program was effective and “led to the couriers, that led, eventually, years later, to the killing of Osama bin Laden.” My guess is that this is just the beginning, and that by the time millions of Americans have seen this movie, they will believe that, as Frank Bruni put it in a recent Times column, “No waterboarding, no bin Laden.”
Perhaps it’s unfair to expect the entertainment industry to convey history accurately. Clearly, the creators of “Zero Dark Thirty” are storytellers who really know how to make a thriller. And it’s true that there are no rules when it comes to fiction. As Boal, the screenwriter, has protested in recent interviews, “It’s a movie, not a documentary.” But in the very first minutes of “Zero Dark Thirty,” before its narrative begins to unspool, the audience is told that the story it is about to see is “based on first-hand accounts of actual events.” If there is an expectation of accuracy, it is set up by the filmmakers themselves. It seems they want it both ways: they want the thrill that comes from revealing what happened behind the scenes as history was being made and the creative license of fiction, which frees them from the responsibility to stick to the truth.
Knowing the real facts—the ones that led the European Court of Human Rights to condemn America for torture this week—I had trouble enjoying the movie. I’ve interviewed Khaled El-Masri, the German citizen whose suit the E.C.H.R. adjudicated. He turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, an innocent car salesman whom the C.I.A. kidnapped and held in a black-site prison for four months, and who was “severely beaten, sodomized, shackled, and hooded.” What Masri lived through was so harrowing that, when I had a cup of coffee with him, a few years ago, he couldn’t describe it to me without crying. Maybe I care too much about all of this to enjoy it with popcorn. But maybe the creators of “Zero Dark Thirty” should care a little bit more.
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Since it’s introduction in 1999, Invisalign has been providing a clear alternative to metal braces that uses a series of virtually invisable aligners that gradually move teeth over time. Recently they celebrated reaching a new milestone, 2 Million Invisalign Smiles.
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The United States Geological Survey (USGS), in collaboration with the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), conducted a two-year study of the beach and nearshore coastal processes for the City of Carpinteria and adjacent beaches. The work was performed in response to and worked directly with the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Project Management Plan (PMP) for the City of Carpinteria:
* Carpinteria Shoreline, Santa Barbara County, California PMP (June 2003)
The City of Carpinteria has experienced significant erosion and storm damage over the last decade (Figure 1.1). A USACE reconnaissance survey has shown shoreline retreat rates that approach 2 m/yr in some locations. The goals of this project are to analyze historical trends/changes in the beach and nearshore environment, document local wave and tidal currents, and assess current beach and nearshore conditions in terms of grain size, beach size and shape, seasonal changes, and nearshore bathymetry. In summary, this work serves to quantify sediment sources, transport and sinks throughout the study area to support USACE and the City of Carpinteria coastal management activities.
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“Go and sell everything you own and follow me.”
In today’s story of the rich young man, who comes to Jesus full of good intentions, there are some simple words that speak so clearly to our own age: when Jesus tells him to sell everything and give it to the poor, “his face fell at these words, and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth.”” How sad it is that such a keen (he runs up to Jesus), and by all accounts good young man (whom Jesus loves) could not free himself from the one thing that was holding him back – his dependence on money. Jesus’ words “How hard it is…” perhaps indicate his own sadness that the young man could not free himself from this. Jesus’ teaching was new ‑ as the disciples’ reaction shows. In Israel at the time, riches were thought to be a blessing from God. But as Jesus knew and taught, holding on to anything that passes away can distract us from holding on to things that are eternal.
Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart. Lord, relent! Is your anger for ever? Show pity to your servants. In the morning, fill us with your love; we shall exult and rejoice all our days. Give us joy to balance our affliction for the years when we knew misfortune. Show forth your work to your servants; let your glory shine on their children. Let the favour of the Lord be upon us: give success to the work of our hands.
First Reading: Wisdom 7:7-11
Second Reading: Heb 4: 12-13
Gospel Reading: Mark 10:17-30
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Unitary (Local) Authority Monmouthshire
Old County Monmouthshire
Type of Site TRAMWAY EMBANKMENT
Broad Class Transport
Period Post Medieval
Site Description Grosmont Railway opened 1818-19 from Llanvihangel to Llangua as 3ft 6in (110 cm) plateway. It was engineered by J Hodgkinson. At Monmouth Cap, the site of the end-on junction with the Hereford Railway, the tram road stables survive. The name of the location comes from the necessary tavern at the horse-changing point and commemorates the County's long-time major industry.
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Source: A Guide to the Industrial Archaeology of South East Wales, AIA, 2003
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Video Gallery – Rootwell Products Inc.
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Rootwell – Royal Oak Field Study
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Rootwell Overview by ProArbor Tree Care, Virginia
ProArbor Tree Care specialists of Northern VA provide an overview of the Rootwell.
Rootwell installation by ProArbor of Northern VA
ProArbor Tree Care of Northern VA installing the Rootwell at the base of the tree.
ProArbor explains Rootwell with Dr. John on PBS
ProArbor with Dr. John on PBS. Ferris Crilly explains Rootwell for healthy trees and roots.
Introduction to the Rootwell
Introduction to the Rootwell deep water and aeration units. See a growing a world of difference including the Davey Tree Company’s 18-month study of Rootwell. See a growing world of difference.
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A great number of people survive spinal cord injuries in this country each year. These spinal cord injuries can be caused by car accidents, falls, violent altercations, sports, and medical errors. Though survivors of these types of injuries are lucky, as many spinal cord injuries are fatal, survival often means the need for extensive and ongoing medical care and rehabilitation, which equates to significant expenses. Though most people think of medical expenses when they think of expenses related to injuries, medical expenses are just the tip of the iceberg. If you or a loved one sustained a spinal cord injury in an event caused by another person’s negligence, it would be beneficial to obtain an accurate portrait of what is to come and to talk to a Rockford spinal cord injury attorney regarding your next steps.
Though the cost of a spinal cord injury varies depending on the exact nature and severity of your injuries, you should expect medical expenses to be well above $1 million. Common reasons for those sky-high costs include the following:
According to the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation, newly paralyzed individuals can expect to pay out the following in medical and living costs in the first year of injury:
The costs tend to go down after the first year. Each subsequent year, a person with high tetraplegia can expect to incur approximately $184,000 in medical expenses annually, while those with low tetraplegia can expect to incur about $113,000 annually. Paraplegia costs the average person $69,000 annually, compared with just $42,000 a year in medical expenses for those with incomplete motor function.
Medical expenses, as mentioned above, are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to costs associated with SCIs. Sadly, within one year after the injury, just 11.7% of all persons living with spinal cord injuries are employed. Fortunately, that figure goes up at the 20-year mark, with 35.2% of injured parties maintaining gainful employment. However, it is not uncommon for those with SCIs to earn significantly less than their non-injured counterparts. According to a 2012 survey, the median wage for persons with spinal cord injuries was $26,000. Assuming that a person gets injured at 25 and would have worked until 65, this equates to a lifetime loss in earning potential of more than $1 million dollars.
Even those who are able to go back to work still have to take significant time off to recover. Most employers cannot afford to pay an employee for the duration of the recovery time typical of SCIs.
If you plan to pursue a personal injury claim for yours or your loved one’s spinal cord injury, it is imperative that you work with an experienced spinal cord injury lawyer. As a newly injured person, you may focus only on the sky-high medical costs and lost earnings, but there is a good chance that your life will be irreparably changed post-accident. You may discover that you have to travel out of town to meet with specialists, which requires you to pay for airfare and hotel for yourself and a loved one who is to care for you. You may also discover that you have to remodel your home to accommodate your new needs, or that you need to purchase a wheelchair accessible van. Some other hidden costs associated with spinal cord injuries include the following:
If you plan to sue the liable party for damages, contact Brassfield & Krueger, Ltd., to discuss your case and to get an accurate assessment of what your claim is worth. It is not wise to just sue for immediate expenses such as medical fees and equipment costs. An experienced attorney can help you look to the future and negotiate for compensation that will be more than enough to cover all potential costs. Some damages our attorneys will strive to help you recover include the following:
Unfortunately, the ramifications of a spinal cord injury extend far beyond the physical. Let our attorneys work with you to recover the compensation you need to pay for the existing and anticipated future cost of your injuries so that, at the very least, you do not have to worry about finances. Contact our Rockford spinal cord injury attorneys today.
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Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous
Since the last edition of flooding around the world, flooding along the Mississippi River has mostly subsided, but flooding continues along the Missouri River and in China. Several new flood wetspots have also popped up, as the image below from The Flood Observatory (at the University of Colorado) depicts.
The big stories are flooding in China, along the Missouri River, and on the Souris River in Saskatchewan and North Dakota. The best summary I’ve seen is by Jeff Masters of Weather Underground, who gets straight to the story in his headline: “Floods overwhelm North Dakota levees; floods kill 175 in China”. The Flood Observatory also has a handy table that includes flood cause, duration, and a snippet of recent news for each of the flood events pictured on the image above.
Flooding continues in central and southern China’s Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan and Guangdong provinces, and in parts of the northwest Gansu Province (though drought is still the more dominant threat there).
- What’s happened?: As of June 20 (the last time there were major overview news articles on the situation): More than 170 people dead, 5 million affected, $4.9 billion in damages, dikes barely holding, and more rain on the way (Al Jazeera, CNN)
- What’s happening right now? China prepares for more flooding: rainy season has already brought misery, but new problems are expected, including typhoons and further inundation (22 June) from Al Jazeera English; Tropical Storm Meari drenches east China (including Shangai), while drought plagues northwest (People’s Daily, 26 June) and a similar story from Bloomberg (26 June)
- Dramatic photos:In Focus at The Atlantic, the Sacramento Bee’s “The Frame”, and the International Business Times’ “Picture This.”
- The view from space: NASA’s Earth Observatory has a couple of images from flood-stricken areas in China. They’ve been plagued by cloudy weather for much of the last couple of weeks (very much related to the cause of the flooding!), but they have created an event page where you can look for updates.
The Souris River and Minot, North Dakota
More than 11,000 people have been evacuated and more than 4000 homes inundated in record-breaking flooding in Minot, North Dakota and surrounding communities. Levees in Minot were over-topped, even after emergency preparations by the Corps of Engineers. The river crested yesterday about 2 m above major flood stage, but will remain extremely high for a few more days.
- Where is the Souris River? It is not part of the Missouri basin. No, as the map below shows, the Souris is part of the Assiniboine River River watershed. The Red River, which flooded earlier this year also drains to the Assiniboine, but the currently flooding Souris doesn’t have the same lake bottom geologic history as the Red.
- Why is there flooding?The seeds of the record floods along the Souris and Missouri Rivers were sown beginning last summer, with persistent heavy rains (that lead to flooding), a wet fall, a snowy winter, and then another very wet spring.
- What’s it like in Minot right now?The city is effectually split in half by the flooding, with 1 in 3 residents is evacuated. It is unclear whether the municipal water supply of Minot and a nearby Air Force base has been contaminated, so the city is under a boil water order. (CNN wire report, 26 June). Residents in unflooded portions of town and surrounding areas are doing what they can to shelter the evacuees and take care of the belongings they got out before the flood arrived. (AP, 26 June)
- Are there problems anywhere else on the river?Yes, the flood has displaced hundreds in southeastern Saskatchewan, upstream of North Dakota (CBC, 20 June). Floodwaters in that area are now receding (Montreal Gazette, 25 June). Downstream of North Dakota, residents along the Souris River in Manitoba are working to build up their defenses, because the flood will be there in less than two weeks. (Toronto Sun, 25 June). This new flooding arrives on top of already a record-breaking year for floods for the province, with $1 billion in damages already and 3 million acres of farmland still soaked and unplantable (UPI, 22 June).
- Are there any good pictures of the flooding?The Sacramento Bee had a striking collection of photos on Friday, 24 June. A lot of the news stories linked to above have photos, NASA’s Earth Observatory has an event page with four sets of images so far, and I’d be really surprised if the other big photo news blogs didn’t have a set of images at some point in the next few days.
Record flooding continues to move downstream in the Missouri River system. Heavy snowpacks and a lot of rain in the Upper Missouri have forced unprecedented releases of water from the dams along the river in the Dakotas. Right now, the biggest flood problems seem to be in Missouri and Iowa, but high water and evacuated areas are stretched all along the river, and the flood won’t fully recede for months. The National Weather Service has a flooding information page set up, with regular updates.
- How has the flood been affected by the dams along the Missouri River? There’s a lot of public debate over whether the Corps of Engineers management plan for the river favors upper basin states’ desires to keep their reservoirs full over the flood-control needs of downstream states. (KC Monitor, 25 June) People are asking why the Corps didn’t release more water earlier this year, in order to prevent such massive releases now. But, flood prediction models couldn’t have forecast the week after week of heavy rain that fell this spring. Still, I expect people and politicians (especially in the lower basin) to keep talking about this as long as the flood and its cleanup lasts. Here’s an editorial from the Des Moines Register (25 June) that tries to put things in perspective.
- How are the levees? “A total of four levees in Missouri have been breached along the Missouri River, according to officials with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Kansas City. The epicenter of the flooding in Missouri is located in Holt County, where two levees have been overtopped and two levees have been breached by raging water flowing down from a reservoir in South Dakota. ” (KC Monitor, 25 June) There have also been levee breaches in multiple places on the Iowa side of the river (Reuters, 25 June).
- What about the nuclear plants? Two Nebraska nuclear plants are in the path of Missouri flood waters, but emergency levees are 0.6 m higher than the expected crest at the Fort Calhoun plant (Omaha World-Herald, 17 June) and 2 m higher than the expected crest at the Cooper station (Chicago Tribune, 25 June). [Update: 6:30 pm 26 June: While I was writing this post, news wires reported than a temporary berm around the Fort Calhoun plant breached last night. Two feet of water now surround reactor buildings, but the reactor systems were unaffected and inside water-tight buildings. (Reuters)] Charmingly, residents near the plants are unconcerned, according to the Chicago Tribune story.
- What does the flood look like from above? NASA’s Earth Observatory has 9 satellite images of the flood, so far. There’s also a nice video taken on 9 June from a low-altitude airplane, by KETV news.
Please use the comment thread below to add links to updated news stories, videos, or imagery about any floods that are occurring in the next few weeks. I’ll write another flood update in mid-July. If there are particular floods you are interested in, or if you’d like me to delve more into the hydrological details, please let me know.
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President Obama made his firmest public comments to date calling for regime change in Egypt in remarks late Tuesday afternoon, warning President Mubarak, who said earlier Tuesday that he will not seek a fresh term, that the transition to new leadership "must begin now." Obama's full remarks:
Good evening, everybody. Over the past few days the American people have watched the situation unfolding in Egypt. We've seen enormous demonstrations. We've borne witness to the beginning of a new chapter the history of a great country, and a longtime partner of the United States. My administration has been in close contact with our Egyptian counterparts in a broad range of the Egyptian people, as well as others across the region and across the globe. Throughout this period we've stood for a set of core principles.
First, we oppose violence, and I want to commend the Egyptian military for the professionalism and patriotism that it has shown thus far in allowing peaceful protests while protecting the Egyptian people. We've seen tanks covered with banners and soldiers and protesters embracing in the streets. Going forward, I urge the military to continue its efforts to help ensure that this time of change is peaceful.
Second, we stand for universal values, including the rights of the Egyptian people to freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and the freedom to access information. Once more, we've seen the incredible potentially for technology to empower citizens and the dignity of those who stand up for a better future. Going forward, the United States will continue to stand up for democracy and the universal rights that all human beings deserved in Egypt and around the world.
Third, we have spoken out on the need for change. After his speech tonight, I spoke directly to president Mubarak. He recognizes that the status quo is not sustainable and that a change must take place. Indeed all of us who are privileged to serve in political positions of power do so at the will of our people. Through thousands of years Egypt has known many moments of transformation. The voices of the Egyptian people tell us this is one of those moments; this is one of those times.
Now, it is not the role of any other country to determine Egypt's leaders, only the Egyptian people can do that. What is clear and what I indicated tonight to President Mubarak is my belief that an orderly transition must be meaningful, it must be peaceful, and it must begin now. Furthermore it also must include a broad spectrum of voices and opposition parties. It should lead to elections that are free and fair, and it should result in a government that's not only grounded in democratic principles, but is also responsive to the aspirations of the Egyptian people. Throughout this process, the United States will continue to extend the hand of partnership and friendship to Egypt, and we stand ready to provide any assistance that's necessary to help the Egyptian people as they manage the aftermath of these protests. Over the last few days, the passion and the dignity that has been demonstrated by the people of Egypt has been an inspiration to people around the world, including here in the United States, and to all those who believe in the inevitability of human freedom.
To the people of Egypt, particularly the young people of Egypt, I want to be clear. We hear your voices. I have an unyielding belief that you will determine your own destiny and seize the promise of a better future for your children and your grandchildren. I say that as someone who is committed to a partnership between the United States and Egypt. There will be difficult days ahead. Many questions about Egypt's futures remain unanswered, but I am confident that the people of Egypt will find those answers. That truth can be seen in the sense of community in the streets. It can be seen in the mothers and fathers embracing soldiers, and it can be seen in the Egyptians who linked arms to protect the national museum. A new generation protecting the treasures of antiquity. A human chain connecting a great and ancient civilization to the promise of a new day. Thank you very much.
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Dorothy Ashby was an American jazz harpist, one of the very few who used her instrument to play credible jazz and bebop. First studying as a pianist at Wayne State University and later, in 1952, switching to harp. She recorded eleven albums for different jazz labels, like Savoy and Prestige. Dorothy also guested as a studio player on albums with Bill Withers, Stevie Wonder and many more.
In 1969 the studio album Dorothy’s Harp was released on Cadet Records. On the album she covered songs from Jimmy Webb (‘’By The Time I Get To Phoenix’‘), Burt Bacharach & Hal David (’‘This Girl’s In Love With You’’), John Lennon & Paul McCartney (‘’Fool On The Hill’‘), and others. The record also includes the two Brazilian styled compositions ’’Reza’’ and ‘’Canto de Ossanha’’ and two songs written by Dorothy Ashby herself, displaying her craft on the harp with some great bongo work.
In the 90s and beyond, the album started to be sought after by hip hop artists. Pete Rock (from Pete Rock & CL Smooth), Rahzel (from The Roots) and Ugly Duckling were notable for sampling music from Dorothy’s Harp.
Highly in-demand, finally this rare harp jazz album is available again! The first 750 copies of the Music On Vinyl re-issue are individually numbered and pressed on blue vinyl.
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Hope for the Future: The State Plan for Educating Homeless Children and Youth. [Revised.]
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento.
This publication details components of California's statewide plan for educating homeless children and youth. Revisions of the original plan were based on data derived from statewide surveys of school districts and shelters conducted in 1988, 1989, and 1990. The 1990 amendments to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 focus more on what is happening or should be happening locally to ensure that homeless children are able to attend and remain in school. A particular concern is the lack of awareness that prevents homeless children from receiving the same educational opportunities as their peers. Following the preface, the introduction describes the basis and purpose of The State Plan for Educating Homeless Children and Youth. The next five sections present information and recommendations for state- and local-level responsibilities. Information is presented on developing and implementing the plan; resolving disputes about placement; eliminating barriers to educating homeless children and youth; providing equal access to educational programs and services; and promoting, implementing, and monitoring the plan. Appendices contain the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, a legal advisory on applying residency requirements to homeless children, and lists of advisory committee members for 1988-89 and 1990-91. (LMI)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Admission Criteria, Admission (School), Agency Cooperation, Compliance (Legal), Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Opportunities, Elementary School Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People, Nondiscriminatory Education, Residence Requirements, Secondary School Students, State Legislation, Statewide Planning
Bureau of Publications, Sales Unit, California Department of Education, P.O. Box 271, Sacramento, CA 95812-0271.
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento.
Note: For 1989 edition, see ED 314 528.
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Having dry skin in ears is nothing anyone would want to have especially if the skin is itchy, flaky and crusty i.e. dry flaky itchy. Learn more about what causes itchy ears and dry skin in the ear canal.
Have you been noticing some dry skin inside your ears lately? Wondering what this means and what causes it? Does the dry skin flake, or is it accompanied by the urge to scratch? We have heard similar complaints before from people suffering itchy ears.
What you may be experiencing are symptoms of a dry ear. It is not a life threatening condition, but living with the signs and symptoms can be a bother.
We went out and looked for more information on what causes dry skin inside the ear canal. Read below to understand flaking in the ear better from what causes, to do’s and don’ts when your ear is itching, and finally treatment with home cures.
Dry ears causes – Reasons you could have itchy ears inside canal
There are several causes of dry skin in the ears. If you follow them though, they will lead us back to abnormal skin dryness. The ear has a layer of natural oil to protect against dryness, the inner ear has wax to help keep the moisture in. This natural protection in the form of a waxy layer is depleted due to certain habits, infections or because for some reason it is not being produced at all. This will result in scenario where the ear canal itches.
We can safely say that dryness and itching in the ear is caused by the excessively dry skin in the ear canal. Dryness is the culprit for that inner ear itch.
But what causes this dryness? Why is it happening to some but not others? Listed below are probably causes of the skin in your inner ear drying out.
1. Skin Conditions
Skin conditions that typically cause the skin to dry out on other parts of the body could also affect the ears. You may see some dry skin coming out of your ears or feel your inner ear canal itching if you have one of the following conditions.
a. Ear Eczema
In some people , eczema can also occur in the inner canal and can be extremely irritating and uncomfortable. In such cases, the itching may be on a number of areas, say the ears and nose. Or ears and scalp.
In a few cases, eczema may occur only in the ear and may be difficult to self diagonise as the redness, rashes will be in inside the ear canal. Itching and maybe some discharge may be the only symptoms one can see of eczema in the ears. Other forms of dermatitis, like contact dermatitis which occur when one has an allergic reaction to certain products applied on the skin surface may also cause itching and the appearance of dry skin in the ear canal.
b. Ear Psoriasis
This auto immune condition affects the scalp and neck commonly but is also know to occur in the outer ear. The skin cycle in people with psoriasis accelerates causing dead skin cells to pile up over the skin forming white scaly patches. It is no different when it happens in the case of the ear. People with this form of psoriasis will have dry flaky skin in the ears. Underneath the crusty patches one may also notice some redness. People with psoriasis may also have dry skin behind ears too as the condition can spread from the ear to the rest of the face and neck. The opposite is also true.
c. Sebhoerric Dermatitis
This condition could affect the ears the same way it leaves skin dry and flaky on other parts it affects say the scalp. In some instances, sebhoerric dermatitis or dandruff as it is commonly known may affect, the ears and eyebrows at the same time. You may therefore see flaking skin on your face and ears.
2.Over cleaning the ears
Sometimes, being too thorough about cleaning your ears frequently may strip your ears of natural oils. The production of
Wax may not be able to keep up with how fast one is removing it and the skin in the ears may become dry and start peeling. It may cause itching inside the ears.
Hearing aids may rub against the skin in the ears causing some dry skin in the ears.
Itchy Ears Treatment or How to get rid of dry skin in ears
The best treatment for dry skin inside ears will depend on the cause. In other words, what causes ears to itch is what needs to be addressed first in itching ears treatment.
For example if your hearing aid is the one to blame for the itching in the ear, then having the mold checked and probably changed will solve the itching ear.
Dry scaly ears as a result of a skin condition will also cure once the specific skin condition is treated. It is advisable to see a dermatologist to prescribe the best treatment for ear eczema, ear psoriasis or dandruff in the ear.
It is important that you do not use cotton buds or q tips often on your ears as you may strip them of natural lubrication. If wax build up is a real concern for you, it is safer to approach an ENT specialist who can carry out a professional clean up. He will also recommend how often you will need a cleanup.
Some people scratch their ears out of nervousness and anxiety. This may irritate the skin in the ear, or on the lobe and one may end up with some scabs if the scratching is frequent and vigorous. To avoid this, make a conscious effort to not scratch your ears, or poke objects into them.
Home remedies to cure dry skin inside ear
The following remedies will cure dry crusty ears.
Garlic and Olive Oil
By know the whole world knows garlic is a powerful natural antibiotic. In this remedy, we are relying on its antibacterial properties to combat dry skin in ears. Crush some garlic cloves and mix in a tablespoon of olive oil. Heat this mixture gently till you see it begin to bubble then leave to cool.
Use this remedy as natural ear drops for itchy ears by applying with a dropper inside the ear.
In cases where the ear is not producing enough wax, you can use olive oil to act as the natural lubricant and ease the dryness. Apply two drops of pure olive oil using a dropper every time you feel the dryness.
Dilute vinegar mixed with some rubbing alcohol has been used as an effective ear dryness treatment.
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Riyadh was the capital of Saudi Arabia.
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia the Special Council met in a minor office complex on the outskirts of the city. The leader of the Council, Prince Fedallah said that the King, whom he was a close advisor to, had set them a special task: to give America a supply of oil to safeguard their kingdom. Whilst some of the members of the council believed that it would be a bad idea to help the people who wanted to attack them, Fedallah was adamant that the King's will should be carried out.
Later, at 12:00 p.m. CBT, at the House of the Green Fountain, Imam Omar of the Special Council was enjoying the festivities of a joyous celebration to honour a man who was planning to martyr himself in association with the Cloak of Night, the codename for the oil exchange with the US planned by the Special Council.
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Download the book Volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010 Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote a volume of poetry with her sisters (Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, 1846) and in short succession she wrote two novels. Agnes Grey, based upon her experiences as a governess, was published in 1847. Her second and last novel, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall appeared in 1848. Anne's life was cut short with her death of pulmonary tuberculosis when she was 29 years old. She published under the androgynous pen name Acton Bell. Please note, at the time of this poetry project, the Gutenburg index was mis-interpreted and this poem was mistakenly attributed to Emily Brontë / Ellis Bell. The recorded LibriVox introductions will reflect this mistake.
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Easter is traditionally the most significant holiday in the Christian world. It celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, who was crucified on Good Friday and raised from the dead the following Sunday. However, many of the customs of Easter have little to do with Jesus or Christianity. RFE/RL correspondent Don Hill finds that in Prague the day is becoming a major commercial event.
Prague, 12 April 2001 (RFE/RL) -- The Czech Republic is one of the least religious nations of Europe. However, in the Czech capital Prague, the celebration of the Christian holy day, Easter, involves virtually the entire population and swarms of tourists in what is becoming a world-class commercial event.
Christians of the world celebrate Easter 2001 next Sunday (15 April). This year is one of the rare occasions when Orthodox Christians, using the ancient Julian calendar, and those of Roman Catholic and Protestant denominations, using the modern Gregorian, celebrate their holiest of days on the same date.
Christians believe that Roman soldiers executed Jesus by crucifixion near Jerusalem on Good Friday, and that he rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. However many of the customs of Easter -- colored eggs, the Easter bunny, new spring wardrobes and the name "Easter" itself -- have nothing at all to do with Jesus Christ.
This is evident in Prague. Known as the city of a thousand spires because of its many churches, it also could be called the city of thousands of unbelievers because it has so few actual churchgoers. Tourists and residents have been thronging the city for more than a week to celebrate a non-religious kind of Easter.
Jan Buergermeister, the mayor of Prague's first district, the city center, tells our correspondent in an interview that the loveliness of Prague in the spring and the joy of Easter just seemed natural partners.
"Easter is a very happy time for tourists. At this time of the year Prague is at its best as long as the weather turns out to be good. And this period is also a welcome time for three or four days of holiday-making for tourists. Prague is well-prepared for this."
Buergermeister says that neither City Hall nor any one person planned to make Easter a Prague event. The crowds started coming in the 1990s, soon after the fall of communism, and enterprising vendors responded to the opportunities. There has been no official effort to promote the event.
"I think Prague actually is becoming overcrowded from the time we were able to open up to the world. I don't think there is any [need] for an increase of people. I don't think it's possible to fit in any more."
In Prague's Old Town Square, a village of vendors' huts now forms each Easter season. It is reminiscent of the Christchild's markets in major German cities at Christmas. Vendors offer trinkets and souvenirs, and crafts, especially gaily colored hand-painted eggs.
Prague native Eva Kralova is one of the vendors.
"This fair at Old Town Square has been here for eight or nine years, I think. So it is already a tradition."
Kralova says she guesses that the tradition has grown each year to the dimensions it now has reached, perhaps because of a combination of the attractions of Prague in the spring and the market and other festivities and customs.
"I think that there are probably more customers [each year], and especially the number of foreign tourists is growing. Prague is becoming more interesting and maybe more affordable too."
The tourists throng to the Easter market, and that's good for business, Kralova says. She adds wistfully that she is saddened by the diminishing importance of the old traditions of family fun, special foods, and celebration. At least in the market area, the event has become crass business and commercialization. She is unsure how this happened.
"I cannot judge. I see it from my viewpoint as a vendor, but I would say that this whole thing has become mainly business, and I guess the traditional in it is disappearing."
Mayor Buergermeister concurs with Kralova's viewpoint. City Hall, he says, has tried to limit the merchandise to genuine Czech crafts and souvenirs and to control the exuberant multiplying of vendors, but the event has a momentum all its own.
"Our main aim is to set guidelines by issuing permission for the range of goods and also the numbers of stalls and the locations for those stalls."
The flood -- both of tourists and entrepreneurs -- has overwhelmed all controls, he says.
In many places in the world, Christian believers still flock to their churches to celebrate the risen Christ. In the more formal churches, they greet each other with the declaration, "Christ is risen!" and the response, "He is risen, indeed!"
Throughout the world, however, the season is also greeted with customs far older than Christianity. Many cultures have celebrated from ancient times the spring rebirth of life. The name Easter itself derives from the same root as the direction 'east' from which the sun rises. The Scandinavians named a goddess Ostra and the Teutons, Ostern or Eastre. In each case, she was the embodiment of spring and fertility.
When Christianity came along, with its scriptural account of the death and resurrection of Jesus, its season coincided not only with that of the Jewish Passover but also with that of many ancient observations.
Modern Easter customs involving eggs and rabbits, symbols of fertility, evidently sprung from these earlier pagan associations. Coloring of Easter eggs is a custom wherever in the world Christians gather, but the craft has reached an elevated form in Eastern Europe. In Russia, Romania, Hungary, Prague, and elsewhere, hand-decorated eggs have emerged as an art form sought after, not only by tourists, but also by collectors.
Kralova, the vendor in the market at Old Town Square, customarily sits in her stall painting eggs as she waits for customers.
"I, personally, my specialty is dried-flower arrangements. And painting eggs has been my hobby since childhood. I start preparing for Easter about two or three months before the holiday."
Hand-painted eggs sell at Old Town Square from prices less than one U.S. dollar to several dollars, depending upon their complexity and the method used. Our correspondent asked Kralova if all her work was worth it at that price.
"If it weren't worth it [to me] I wouldn't be here, but first of all it is my hobby, as I said. And I like being with people and watching life from a different perspective than I would have if I were painting eggs at home."
This custom, it seems, is also big business elsewhere. Customs officials in Hungary said last week that they had detected a trucker seeking to smuggle 570 painted eggs from Romania via Hungary to England. A customs spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Miloje Bunyevac, said the eggs would have brought good money in London flea markets.
In Hungary, alone, he said, 50 million decorated eggs are sold in the days before Easter.
(Magdalena Sebestova and Dora Slaba assisted with this feature.)
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NOAA Okeanos exploration of Mariana Trench comes to a close
NOAA’s deepwater exploration of the Mariana Trench with the Okeanos Explorer, a former Navy surveillance vessel, has wrapped up with some wild and weird new discoveries. Many new species never seen before as well as the discovery of a WWII B29 bomber wreck on the seafloor. The Mariana Trench contains the deepest spot in the ocean at 36,037 feet and is located in the Pacific Ocean off the Mariana Islands.
Norbert Wu’s Favorite Images: Shark Diving in San Diego
Norbert Wu presents the next in his series highlighting his favorite images from his career. He takes us to California in the late 1980s and the very early days of diving and photographing with blue and mako sharks off San Diego. Also included are some very salient thoughts for aspirant professional photographers along with the text of an article he wrote describing his first assignment which required him to photograph a menacing shark near a diver.
Paper describes apparent grieving behaviour among whales
US Congress considers banning shark feeding
Southern Fried Science reports that a bill is currently being passed through the US Congress that would ban the use of food to attract sharks withn US waters. This would include using chum, or feeding underwater in any form. Perhaps ironically, Section 3 of S. 3099, the “Access for Sportfishing Act of 2016,” specifically states that shark feeding would be banned “for any purpose other than to harvest sharks.”
Join Wetpixel for the 2017 Sailfish Safari!
Join Wetpixel for the 2017 Sailfish Safari! We will be in Isla Mujeres from 16 to 22 February 2017, snorkeling, photographing and filming these amazing charismatic animals and the stunning baitball action that results when they hunt the sardines (Sardinella aurita) that are in the waters surrounding the island during the winter.
1,000 images combined to create one underwater photograph
Photographer Catharine Nelson’s digitally manipulated underwater photograph, Submerged Number 1, took two months and 1,000 images to make. Swirling stalks of lily pads, fish and the surface backdrop were painstakingly composited together to create this final image. The subject of the image is a backyard pond in Ghent, Belgium where Nelson lives.
Kayakers experience humpbacks feeding in San Francisco Bay
A small group of kayakers experienced a rare sight this past sunday when they encountered a group of humpback whales feeding in San Francisco Bay. Lyrinda Snyderman and Dick Mallory from Petaluma, California were kayaking in the bay when they spotted a group of feeding seabirds and went to investigate. What they encountered was a group of feeding humpback whales, an encounter not often experienced in San Francisco Bay.
Norbert Wu: Fins for Underwater Image Makers Part 2
Underwater image maker, Norbert Wu, has updated his guide to fins for underwater photographers. Expanding on his original article for Wetpixel, Norbert has added tests of a few more fins. It should be stressed that Norbert’s results are based on the performance required by underwater photographers and filmmakers specifically.
- Panasonic releases paid-for firmware update version 2.4 for GH4 (via )
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What does “natural” mean? The nature of this notoriously vague label is once again reaching the courts, this time in a lawsuit filed by two Californian women against General Mills. The plaintiffs claim, according to the New York Times, that General Mills has deceptively marketed its Nature Valley products as natural when they contain highly processed ingredients, and therefore the company is liable for false advertising and anticompetitiveness.
This case is the latest in a number of lawsuits that have been filed lately against General Mills, accusing the company of using deceptive advertising for its products. In addition to the legal questions, this series of lawsuits brings other questions to mind – for example, does the label under debate violate the company’s commitment to ethics and integrity? And what does it mean for a company that prides itself on being responsible, or as its CEO puts it: “our approach to global responsibility is straightforward. It’s all about living our values – one of which is “We do the right thing, all the time.”?
This case is also important because it helps once again to bring to the public attention the debate around the “natural” label. Currently there are no legal requirements or restrictions for using the label “natural” on foods, and it can be a meaningless marketing term, but consumers nevertheless tend to value it. For some reason, as some surveys show, they even value it more than they value “organic” labels. Under these circumstances, is it any wonder that the “natural” label became so popular?
In the current lawsuit (which, according to Marc Gunther hasn’t even been filed yet), the plaintiffs explain they bought Nature Valley’s products because they believed they were all-natural and therefore healthier, only to find out later that “they contain non-natural, highly processed ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), high maltose corn syrup (HMCS), and maltodextrin and ricemaltodextrin (together, Maltodextrin).”
What gave them the impression that the products they bought were all-natural? The packages of the products, the plaintiffs explain. For example, “on the front and back of both Chewy Trail Mix Granola Bars’ boxes, the phrase “100% Natural” appears immediately beneath the Nature Valley logo. The back of the Chewy Trail Mix Dark Chocolate & Nut Granola Bars’ box states: “100% Natural. 100% Delicious.” Given this type of language, they were expecting to buy all-natural snacks, not ones that contain HFCS, HMCS, and Maltodextrin.
As mentioned, this is not the first lawsuit against General Mills with this sort of allegations. Last October, Annie Lam of California filed a lawsuit against General Mills, claiming it is incorrectly describing the ingredients of its fruit snacks, citing strawberry-flavored Fruit Roll-Ups that contain “pears from concentrate,” but no strawberries. Lam also said, according to Reuters, that the packaging “was likely to deceive consumers into believing the snacks are healthful and natural, rather than a combination of artificial, non-fruit ingredients.” In May U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti in San Francisco allowed Lam’s lawsuit to go forward, noting that reasonable consumers might be misled by packaging that claimed the snacks are “made with real fruit,” and would not read the fine print.
According to AdWeek, that was the second lawsuit General Mills has faced for its Fruit Snacks. On June 2011, a woman sued the company for $5 million for misleading consumers about the health and nutrition qualities of Fruit Roll-Ups. The case was voluntarily dismissed a month later by the plaintiff, who decided not to pursue the case.
Another consumer lawsuit against General Mills was filed by Minneapolis law firm Zimmerman Reed, accusing the company of violating the FDA’s standard of identity for yogurt and knowingly mislabeling its Yoplait Greek yogurt because it includes milk protein concentrate (MPC), which isn’t listed by the FDA as an ingredient acceptable for use in yogurt. The use of MPC makes Yoplait Greek yogurt “neither Greek yogurt, nor yogurt,” the suit claimed.
All of these examples are from the last year, but it seems like General Mills had to face these issues even before that. AdWeek, for example, reported that in 2009, the FDA forced the company to discontinue misleading cholesterol and cancer-prevention claims on its Cheerios packaging.
While we’ll leave the courts to decide what’s legal and what’s not, we can certainly see a pattern here of providing consumers with information on the products’ packaging that apparently makes it difficult for them to fully understand the exact nature of the product they’re buying. Of course consumers should do their research and carefully read the list of ingredients, but isn’t it also the responsibility of the company to provide information in a way that will minimize the chance for mistakes to a minimum?
This is even more important with vague terms like “natural” that are not backed up by clear standards and regulation, but are still valued by consumers. Currently every company comes up with its own definition for “natural,” which is I guess inevitable. Yet, companies like General Mills that pride themselves on being responsible should make sure their definition, no matter what it is, clear, understandable and visible on their products. Consumers, after all appreciate transparency and integrity no less than they appreciate products that are 100% natural.
Raz Godelnik is the co-founder of Eco-Libris, a green company working to green up the book industry in the digital age. He is an adjunct faculty at the University of Delaware’s Business School, CUNY SPS and the New School, teaching courses in green business and new product development.
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Basic Tortellini Pasta
See my recipes for tortellini fillings--these are what I've used to fill this pasta.
- Ready In:
- Mix flour and salt in a bowl.
- Create a well with the flour and salt.
- Whisk together the three eggs, oil and water thoroughly.
- Add wet ingredients little by little to center of flour well, mixing gradually until dough becomes a ball.
- Turn onto a lightly floured surface, and knead until ball is smooth and elastic.
- Add more water if necessary.
- Allow to rest for thirty minutes in a lightly oiled bowl, covered with plastic wrap.
- After thirty minutes, cut dough into circles that are approximately 2 inches in diameter.
- Place 1/2 to 3/4 tsp of filling in center of dough circle, fold over into a half moon shape, and then join edges around your finger, forming a circle shape.
- Cook tortellini in 2-3 batches, in hot salty boiling water for 6 minutes or until firm.
- Drain, and then add to sauce!
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Worked out great! Thank you, Spatchcock! <br/><br/>I would recommend this recipe to anyone wanting to try making a filled pasta. This recipe was very easy, and the other reviews have great tips as well.<br/><br/>As others have stated the dough was really resilient! I also was able to cut out the circles and then recombine the remaining pieces over and over, and when I let my dough get a little dry by accident, I added a little more water and it came right back together. I let it get too wet at one point, so I added a little more flour and it came right back together. <br/><br/>I made 32 thinly rolled shells. It took some practice, but after awhile you'll get the hang of how much filling you need (do not try to overfill them), and the perfect thickness for the dough circles.
This is a really easy recipe and the dough was really resilient! I was able to cut out the circles and then recombine the remaining pieces over and over and the dough never got hard or dried out. Like any pasta recipe, you have to really get it paper thin so it isn't overly thick when you cook it (I think mine was a little too thick) but it was easy to make! It looks like legit tortellini--my in-laws asked where I had bought the pasta which I took as a sign that it felt very authentic and given that I had never made it before I was impressed.<br/><br/>My only note is that I used olive oil. Great recipe, will add to my regulars!
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This section describes food safety issues associated with fish and shellfish that may be harvested from fresh waters or near shore marine waters with elevated levels of pollutants like PCBs or pesticides. Information that primarily focuses on how recreational anglers can select and prepare products to minimize risk is provided.
PCBs and Dioxins
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dioxins are organic pollutants that can accumulate in the food chain, mainly in the fatty tissue of animals. Some studies have suggested that PCBs and dioxins are cancer-causing agents and may have immune or nervous system effects. Sources of exposure to PCBs and dioxins in the diet include meats, dairy products, seafood and vegetables. Most commercial species of fish are well below federally established limits for PCBs and dioxins. Ocean species that spend their entire life far from the shore are less likely to accumulate organic pollutants than those that stay in near-shore areas.
A pesticide is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain types of plants or animals that are considered to be pests. Pesticides are widely used in agriculture and people are exposed to low levels through their diets. Ongoing exposure to pesticides may be harmful to the nervous and immune systems and evidence suggest that children are more susceptible to adverse health effects from exposure. Like PCBs and dioxins, pesticides can accumulate in the fatty tissue of animals and they may be present at low levels in many different types of foods, including meats, dairy products, vegetables, and fish.
Who should be concerned?
Concerns with regard to environmental pollutants in seafood are primarily for fresh waters, estuaries, and near-shore coastal waters rather than the open ocean. Recreational and subsistence anglers, pregnant women, and children who eat large amounts of sport fish and shellfish caught from contaminated waters are at greatest risk. Exposure from fish can be lowered by up to 40% by removing the skin and trimming the fat. State and tribal environmental programs and departments of health test local waters and issue fish and shellfish consumption advisories. Before eating recreationally–caught seafood, check with your State Health Department for advisories or go to epa.gov/waterscience/fish/states.htm.
Additional guidelines to help individuals concerned about man-made pollutants
- Eat a variety of different fish and shellfish.
- Avoid eating excessive amounts of any single type of fish or shellfish.
- Avoid eating the internal organs of fish, the tomalley of lobsters, and the mustard of crabs. They can contain significantly higher amounts of contaminants than the flesh.
- When catching your own fish, check and follow all applicable health advisories. Advisories are available from local and state health departments, as well as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (epa.gov/waterscience/fish/states.htm).
- If you choose to eat sport fish that may contain elevated levels of contaminants trim away the fatty areas and use cooking methods like baking or broiling, which allow fats and juices to drain away.
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Marine Forecast Charts
Welcome to the latest version of Supercharts! A dynamic marine forecast charting tool based on GRADS software and data from NOAA's WAVEWATCHIII wave models, NOAA's Global Forecast System (GFS) and North American Mesoscale (NAM), a variety of charts can be created for any point on the globe. Here are the features of the system:
- Marine forecast charts can be centered anywhere in the world.
- The domain of the charts can be changed by the zoom in/out controls.
- Dynamic Animations: Any chart you see can be animated.
- Create your charts and save them in your own customized menu. The charting system is now available from your region home page.
Marine Forecast Chart Types:
Significant Wave Height
Significant wave height provided by the wavewatch model is the average of the highest 1/3 waves. Be aware this is just an average. Individual waves in a storm can be 1.5 to 2 times greater than the significant height.
10 Meter Winds
10-Meter Winds (about 33 feet above the ground) correspond to typically measured winds at weather stations. Gusts can be up to 1.5 times the wind reported.
The interval between wave crests measured in seconds. Large, short period (<12 sec) swells can mean danger to small craft. Long period swells mean opportunity for surfers. You can see swells coming and going in the data by watching step changes in period. Each step means a new swell has become primary.
RH is a good predictor of cloud location and thickness. Areas of RH < 60% generally are clear or have partly cloud skies. Areas of 60-80% are generally overcast or mostly cloudy. Areas greater than 80% are overcast with a high likelihood of precipitation as RH approaches 100%.
Convective Available Potential Energy
CAPE represents the amount of energy a parcel might have if it were lifted. Often this reflects the strength of updrafts within a thunderstorm. CAPE values of greater than 2000 represent enough energy to produce thunderstorms. A value greater than 3000 represents enough energy to produce strong thunderstorms. Values < 1000 denote a relatively stable atmosphere.
The LI field shows instability in the atmosphere. Where LI's are < 0 , thunderstorms are possible. The lower the number, the more unstable the atmosphere is and as a result, the stronger the thunderstorms could become. Values of -4 or lower indicate areas where severe thunderstorms are possible. Values > 10 indicate areas of stable weather where skies are generally clear.
2 Meter Dew Point Temperature
The dewpoint field shows the amount of moisture in the atmosphere. The higher the dewpoint, the higher the moisture content. Dewpoint temperatures are decent indicators of potential low temperatures. The morning temperatures will rarely drop below the dewpoint. where moisture is significant enough to fuel thunderstorm development. 59 F or 15 Celsius is a cutoff for strong thunderstorm development. Areas of dewpoints greater than 20 C can generate air mass thunderstorms which often aren't reliant on low level convergence for initial development.
2 Meter Above Ground Temperature
The temperature field shows the location of warm and cold air near the surface of the earth and can be used to locate surface fronts or estimate high and low temperatures. It should be noted, these are rough temperatures are won't reflect exact surface temperatures that would be reported at station locations.
Sea Level Pressure
Sea level pressure will detail the location and strength of high and low pressure systems as well as locate warm, cold and stationary fronts. The pressure contours or isobars are drawn every 4 millibars. Cold fronts generally follow the pressure trough flowing south and west from the low pressure system. Warm fronts can be located at times as pressure troughs going east out of a low but are generally hard to find. Surface winds are related to the packing of the pressure contours (isobars). The tighter the packing, the stronger the winds are.
Precipitation shows estimated 3 hour precipitation (liquid equivalent) for the 3 hour period prior to the valid time.
500 mb Vorticity
The vorticity field shows small eddies in the atmosphere that generally are not detectable on the standard height field. Values of 14 or higher highlight those eddies. The higher the vorticity, the higher the eddy. These eddies can help strengthen surface low pressure systems and induce precipitation and are often used as a predictive tool. Positive (or negative in the Southern Hemisphere) vorticity at 500 millibars is associated with cyclones or storms at upper levels, and will tend to coincide with troughs in the geopotential height field. Negative (positive in SH) vorticity is associated with calm weather, and will tend to coincide with ridges in the geopotential height field.
500 mb Height
The 500 mb level is often referred to as the steering level as most weather systems and precipitation follow the winds at this level. The winds follow the height contours and generally run from 30 to 100 knots. This level averages around 18,000 feet above sea level and is roughly half-way up through the weather producing part of the atmosphere called the troposphere.
500 mb Wind Vector
The vector field shows wind direction and speed. Often this can be used to qualitatively show areas of convergence and divergence. In the middle and upper levels of the troposphere, this can be an indicator of existing upward (from divergence) or downward (from convergence) air motion.
Precipitable water is the total depth of liquid water that would result if all water vapor contained in a vertical column of air could be "wrung out", leaving the air completely dry. It indicates the total humidity of the air above a location, and is a good indicator of the amount of moisture potentially available to supply rainfall.
Multi Channel Sea Surface Temp
The Naval Oceanographic Office operationally processes real-time Global Area Coverage Advanced Very-High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) data from POES NOAA-14 and NOAA-15. Over 300,000 global Multi-Channel Sea Surface Temperature (MCSST) retrievals are generated and distributed daily in less than 5 hours from the time the satellites acquire the data. Global match-ups of satellite retrievals with drifting buoy measurements of sea surface temperature consistently maintain a global root-mean-square difference error of less than 0.7 oC.
NOAA WAVEWATCH III AND GFS MODEL INFO
The operational ocean wave predictions of NOAA/NWS/NCEP are performed using the wave model WAVEWATCH III using operational products of NCEP as input. The wave model suite consists of global and regional implementations. Buoyweather wave forecast products are currently based on the global(NWW3) 1.25 X 1.0, the regional Western North Atlantic(WNA) .25 X .25, the regional Eastern North Pacific(ENP) .25 X .25. The models provide data for ocean regions only.
Global Forecast System (GFS), previously AVN & MRF, provides global data on a 1.0 X 1.0 degree grid. It covers everywhere in the world including land points.
The global NWW3 covers everywhere in the world between latitude 78 north and 78 south. The NWW3 grid points are only along whole latitudes and longitudes are spaced at 1.25 degree intervals.
The WNA Atlantic data covers the US east coast, Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean, and Central America from latitude 50 north to the equator and out to 30 west.
The ENP Pacific data cover the US west coast, Mexico, all Central America, and out to the Hawaiian Islands. It goes from 60 north to 5 north and extends out to 170 west.
Caution: The model may not provide valid data sometimes for large water areas inside barriers, such as reefs (e.g. Great Barrier Reef in Australia), coastal islands etc. Many small islands are invisible to the model. If you are on the leeward side of an island, forecasted winds and swell may be blocked. If you are in waters at risk of tropical storms, you cannot rely on this weather model for your storm forecast. Many tropical systems and squalls are too small to be picked up by the global model. Always use the text tropical storm outlooks from NOAA and the US Navy.
All the WAVEWATCH and GFS data updates 4 cycles per day. New data is available at (UTC) 08:00, 14:00, 20:00, 02:00. Buoyweather will occasionally have problems getting data from NOAA servers. These problems are beyond our control when their servers are down. Data updates are closely monitored. If the data hasn't updated, it means it's not available.
We've created some charts on the menu to get you started. You can adjust them to suite the needs of your location.
You should read the Guide to WAVEWATCH written by Hendrick Tolman, its creator. It tells you what you need to know about the WAVEWATCHIII model variables.
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The Salvation Army is an international Christian organization that began its work in Canada in 1882 and has grown to become one of the largest non-governmental direct provider of social services in the country. The Salvation Army gives hope and support to vulnerable people today and everyday in 400 communities across Canada and more than 130 countries around the world.
The Salvation Army offers practical assistance for children and families, often tending to the basic necessities of life, provides shelter for homeless people and rehabilitation for people who have lost control of their lives to an addiction.
When you give to The Salvation Army, you are investing in the future of marginalized and overlooked people in your community.
As the largest non-governmental direct provider of social services in Canada, The Salvation Army provides unprecedented support to society’s most vulnerable.
Social and community service programs focus on nurturing the capacities, skills and strengths of individuals rather than just meeting their needs.
With the public’s generosity, in 2019 in Canada:
The Salvation Army provided 5,500 shelter, addictions, detox and mental health beds for vulnerable men, women and families in Canada
The Salvation Army served 3.3 million free meals
The Salvation Army assisted 1,320,000 persons with food, clothing or practical assistance
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Everyone from supermodels to soccer moms get cellulite. Often, it appears on the thighs and bottom as an orange peel-like texture. Once it develops, it can be difficult for women to treat it. Cellulite treatments vary in efficacy and cost. For the best techniques to treat cellulite, use some of the following tips to determine what works and what does not.
What is Cellulite?
The human body is naturally supposed to contain fat. Unfortunately, too much fat can lead to cellulite. Underneath the skin’s surface, fat deposits can start to push upward through tendons in the skin. This condition occurs in about 8 percent of women and can lead to divots along the skin surface. If cellulite becomes worse, it can cause ripples along the skin or noticeable pits. Although women of every ethnicity tend to get cellulite, men seldom have it. This is because the septae in the skin are organized differently among the genders. In men, the septae are formed in a crisscross pattern that make it difficult for fat to push upwards. Since women have vertical septae, the fat can easily push toward the surface of the skin.
Although cellulite is more likely in larger women, it occurs in slender and overweight ladies. Although losing weight can help cellulite, it can occasionally make it worse. Fat loss that takes place too quickly does not allow the skin to bounce back, when the skin is looser, it can make cellulite more obvious. Over time, the skin will tighten and cellulite will ultimately disappear.
Treating Cellulite with Exercise
Exercise can reduce cellulite in some cases, but not all. The reason cellulite occurs is because of how the skin is structured. Since it is not just a fat issue, losing weight will not always help. Individuals can try to exercise more and it will reduce the amount of fat in the body. It can also increase circulation in different parts of the skin. Unfortunately, this is not always enough to deal with cellulite. Collagen levels may remain lower and the septae within the skin will still allow fat deposits to appear. Until the skin is improved and collagen levels are increased, cellulite will remain. Despite this negative report, exercise can improve the overall body image and help increase blood circulation.
Many anti-cellulite creams contain ingredients like caffeine. When consumed or applied on the body, caffeine operates like a diuretic. At the same time, it can increase circulation. Since low circulation sections of the skin are prone to cellulite, caffeine can help. It lowers the amount of cellulite and fluid in the body while increasing the body’s natural circulation. Despite these benefits, it will only help cellulite slightly. Caffeine may lower water retention, but fat will still move toward the surface of the skin. Instead of using a topical product that just contains caffeine, find one that also uses capsaicin. Known as the active ingredient within chili peppers, capsaicin can help increase circulation in the blood and lymph nodes.
Liposuction and Surgical Options
Although it seems logical, using liposuction is not going to help with cellulite. Normal liposuction procedures tend to move fat that is located farther beneath the skin surface. Due to this, the fat that actually causes cellulite near the skin surface remains. Fortunately, a new type of liposuction that uses lasers is showing some promise for cellulite treatment. These procedures can target cellulite more effectively and essentially liquify fat. After treatment, patients leave with less cellulite and a better sculpted body.
Laser Treatment Options
In the past, the FDA hesitated to approve cellulite treatments for cellulite. Cellulaze is now the first treatment that is approved by the FDA. It starts by melting large pockets of fat in the body. Afterward, it stops the fibrous tissues in the skin from pulling down the skin surface erratically. The last step in the process is to increase collagen in the skin. This helps to increase the elasticity of the skin and prevents the cell walls from dimpling or puckering over time. Once the treatment is complete, patients are encouraged to wear shapewear that supports the treated area. Although this procedure is effective, it tends to costs thousands of dollars and may require multiple treatments.
Diet and Healthy Eating
One of the main reasons that women get cellulite is due to a lack of collagen. Collagen is required by the body to keep the skin elastic and prevent wrinkles. Amino acids found in eggs, nuts and beans can help to increase collagen naturally. Likewise, cayenne can increase blood circulation in the body. In addition to increasing collagen levels, a healthy diet can also help with weight loss. Lowering body fat levels can help improve the overall physique and appearance of the body.
This treatment is frequently advertised by spas as a method of increasing circulation. With a natural bristle brush, individuals can use dry brushing at home. They should use circular strokes along affected areas of the body and repeat the treatment once a day. Through consistent use, this treatment can help to stimulate the flow of blood throughout the body.
Anyone who has applied makeup indoors and outdoors knows the difference light quality can make. Certain types of light can make cellulite and dimples more obvious. By evening out the skin tone, individuals can counteract this effect. A self-tanner can help improve the appearance of cellulite. Although it will not treat cellulite, it will make it less obvious.
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Almost half of middle class parents now fear that their children will be worse off than they are, a stark new assessment of family life Britain is to warn.
The report due to be launched this week by Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, concludes that parents are more pessimistic now than at the height of the recession.
It shows that a growing majority of people are convinced that family life is harder than it was 20 years ago.
And the report, compiled by the charity 4Children, highlights how middle class parents are more fearful for their children’s future even than those from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.
It echoes a warning in a report by the Coalition’s social mobility tsar, Alan Milburn, the former Labour Health Secretary, that many children growing up now will have a lower standard of living than their own parents because of the costs of living and issues such as exclusion from the property market.
Mr Milburn and his deputy, Baroness Shepherd, the Conservative former Education Secretary, said the current generation of children could be the first for at least a century not to be better off than the one before.
The new report will argue that modern Britain – from its workplaces to its public spaces – has failed to keep up with sweeping changes in family life in recent decades.
It is expected to set out a list of demands for politicians ahead of the next election to make life in Britain more “family friendly”.
Proposals will deal with issues such as childcare and protections for cherished public spaces such as parks as well as ideas such as special support networks for grandparents who now shoulder an increasing share of childcare.
Polling for the report found that 52 per cent of adults believe that family life now is more difficult than 20 years ago. When the same question was asked five years ago, less than half said they thought life had got more difficult.
Among parents, the proportion saying that family life has got tougher was almost six out of 10.
Meanwhile more than a third of parents said they thought their children would be less well off then themselves with only a quarter convinced the next generation would fare better.
But when the results were broken down by social background, those whose incomes were judged to be average or higher were almost twice as likely to believe their children would be worse off than they were to expect them to enjoy a better standard of living.
Overall 42 per cent of those in the group were pessimistic about their children’s chances against only 22 per cent who were hopeful.
Among those on lower-than-average incomes, only 37 per cent were pessimistic while 25 were hopeful.
Wales and the North West of England had the most pessimistic parents while those in Northern Ireland were the most hopeful.
“It is deeply worrying that a third of today’s parents believe that their children will have a worse life than theirs as it goes against the natural instinct of all parents to hope for better,” said Anne Longfield, the chief Executive of 4Children.
“Parenting today can be really hard, juggling the increasing pressures of modern life with the demands of family life. So parents need public services that work with them not against them, allowing them to fulfil their family responsibilities.
“If the Prime Minister is serious about his vision of making Britain the best place to raise a family, then he needs to make sure that all families are able to flourish, with help available when needed from services that empower and support parents to be the best that they can be.”
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Part 3, Note 7
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Colorado County District Court Records, Minute Book A, p. 1; Colorado Citizen, October 22, 1889. The date of the session is given as "April term 1837." Williamson, as judge of the Third Judicial District, was required by law to conduct court twice a year in six different counties over a six week period, beginning his circuit on the first Mondays in March and September. Colorado County was the fifth stop on the circuit, meaning that Williamson should have been there on the fifth Monday of his tour, or April 3 (see Gammel, comp., The Laws of Texas 1822-1897, vol. 1, pp. 1258-1259). Many writers have stated that the first session of court was held under an oak tree, however, the above cited issue of the local newspaper states that it was held "in a log house near the river, long since gone to decay." Since it is known that there was a schoolhouse near the river as early as 1833, and since it probably contained the space that the court needed, it is likely that this, the earliest account of the session that mentions a location, is correct.
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It’s hard to believe the Google Pixelbook was only launched in October 2017. Before the launch of the Pixelbook the Chromebook market had gone flat. However, the launch of the Pixelbook set the new standard and since then we’ve seen some pretty decent Chromebooks come onto the scene.
Before the launch of the Pixelbook, we did not really have many decent Chromebooks to choose from. The majority of us went for the Asus C302, which was purposely built for the introduction of Android Apps on the Chromebook. The Asus C302 was and still is, a great Chromebook, but that is where it ended.
Chrome OS demanded better Chromebooks
The launch of Android Apps on the Chromebook was an absolute game changer. It made such a huge impact on the Chromebook. There was a lot of rumours at the time on how it would work in practice because Android Apps were essentially designed for mobile phones.
However, Google already had a solution to the problem. Google knew changing Android Apps for the Chromebook market would interfere with Android mobile, so future Chromebooks would need to come with a touchscreen display. This was the ideal solution to make Android Apps work with the Chromebook without impacting Android devices.
Manufacturers were slow to release new Chromebooks
The problem was apart from Asus with the Asus C302 flip. None of the other manufacturers were introducing Chromebooks with touchscreen capability. We were still seeing brand new Chromebooks being launched without a touchscreen.
This did not make much sense and it was causing confusion to people who were new to Chromebooks. People were purchasing the latest Chromebooks thinking they would be able to use Android Apps. Then being let down when realising Android Apps are worthless unless you have a touchscreen device.
Manufacturers were making attempts at launching Chromebooks with a touchscreen display, but most of these were at such a low entry level. What was the point of having a Hybrid Chromebook with touchscreen capability, but using an Intel Celeron processor and 2GB of RAM?
This is why the Asus C302 was so successful because it was the only device that could take advantage of Android Apps. The problem was there was very little choice when choosing a new Chromebook. Google knew something had to be done.
The Google Pixelbook was launched
In October 2017 Google launched the Pixelbook and it was an instant hit. Yes, it was definitely not for everyone because it come with a hefty price tab. However, it served its purpose of showing off the capabilities of Chrome OS and Android Apps.
This was much needed because the Chromebook market had gone stagnant. Apart from the Asus C302 most of the other Chromebooks being launched were simply not taking advantage of what Chrome OS and Android Apps could offer.
The Pixelbook made Chromebook manufacturers sit up and take notice. For a Chromebook to take full advantage of the software it had to be a 2 in 1 device with touchscreen capability.
The new standard of Chromebooks
Since the launch of the Google Pixelbook we have seen a number of Chromebooks enter the market. It’s great to see that we now have a good range of Chromebooks to choose from. This is all thanks to the Pixelbook that pushed the Chromebook into the next generation of Chromebooks.
The Chromebooks we see launched today are far superior in quality than we have ever seen before. This is great because it shows manufacturers are confident the Chromebook is here to stay.
We no longer have to settle for second best anymore when choosing a new Chromebook. There was always a floor when buying a Chromebook. Whether that was the display, keyboard, memory or processing power. The new Chromebooks we see today have removed most of these floors.
- ChromeOS 104 update – The new features for your Chromebook
- The Lacros browser on ChromeOS will boot up faster in the future
- How to backup your files before a Powerwash on your Chromebook
- Chromebooks to get Wi-Fi hotspot capability in the future – Why?
- ChromeOS tablet Vs Hybrid Chromebook
Choosing a new Chromebook has got a little bit harder
Choosing a Chromebook today is much harder than it was previously. This is definitely not a bad thing. It just means there is a lot more choice. Previously, there were possibly only two models that were really worthwhile purchasing. If you were looking to buy a Chromebook today. Well, there are at least eight different models to choose from that offer all the specifications you need.
The future of the Chromebook is looking good and it was the Pixelbook that had to get the ball rolling.
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For 25 years, DuPage Chidren's Musem has been drawing visitors not just from DuPage, but from 60 counties throughout Illinois. And it all started with two suburban grandmothers with a dream.
At DuPage Children's Museum, learning comes naturally. Their mission has stayed the same since the beginning.
"It was to stimulate curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem-solving skills in young children," said DuPage Children's Museum CEO Susan Broad.
The museum started with humble beginnings. The two grandmothers who founded it were also early childhood educators.
"They really felt as grandparents they were aware of and able to improve the learning opportunities out here in the western suburbs," Broad said. "So, they started a children's museum, doesn't everybody?"
Despite being told how difficult it would be, in 1987, Louis Beem and Dorothy Carpenter, started the museum by taking traveling exhibits around in a station wagon.
"They went from different places in the county to government buildings. They quickly attracted a following," said Broad.
After a few more stops, a pilot musem debuted in Wheaton, Ill., in 1992. Nearly 10 years later, the permanent location opened in Naperville, currently serving more than 300,000 visitors every year.
To the little kids who come to the museum, it just feels like a giant indoor playground, but everything they touch here is designed to help them learn and grow.
"We have a great process of developing exhibits. We start by interviewing children," said interdisciplinary arts specialist Marcia Macrae. "We know children are going to play, motivated to play, in that play they're going to be discovering."
From water to bubbles to blocks, children discover on their own how math, science and art intersect, and that learning happens with little fanfare, just as the founders intended.
"One of my favorite stories is a kid who was sawing in the construction house. Someone said, 'What are you making?' He looked at her like she was crazy, and said, 'Two pieces.'"
To help celebrate their anniversary, the museum launched a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of math, art, science for kids, or MASK. So, more than 100 celebrities like Halle Berry, Tom Hanks and Chicago Blackhawks players have signed masks to be auctioned off. There's even one signed by the ABC7 Chicago morning news team! The artwork on that one is from Sue Sklansky of Wilmette. She said she was inspired by the design because she watches ABC7 every morning with her cup of coffee.
Anyone can bid on the mask.
For more information, visit www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org
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Hundreds of tourists take the opportunity to get to Uluru, a world-famous red-rock formations in Australia, to be with him. As of Saturday, to apply a permanent ban to the climbers. That is, it is set up, after a dozen years of struggle of the indigenous people in order to be able to make it.
The Anagu people consider the rock a sacred place, and the reason is that it’s been around since 1985 and is a klimverbod are trying to accomplish. “The climb is a violation of Nature and the rights of Aboriginal people,” says a spokesman for the Anagu.
Uluru is 340 metres high and it is on the world heritage list of the UNESCO world heritage list. The rock, which used to be Ayers Rock (uluru) was named, in spite of the remote location of Alice Springs in central Australia is a popular tourist destination. In the morning, there was already a long queue of people waiting to get in the rock of the mountain. The climb is made more difficult by strong gusts of wind.
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