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For the past five years, AIDS.gov has hosted the Facing AIDS photo sharing initiative for World AIDS Day, December 1. We thank you for the thousand of photos you have uploaded. If you have a large batch of photos you need help uploading, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org. If you haven’t participated this year, it’s not too late to Write. Snap. Share.
The goal of Facing AIDS is to reduce HIV-related stigma and promote HIV testing. At AIDS.gov we advocate learning from our peers and listening to the social media conversation. As we conclude the fifth year of Facing AIDS, we have seen the many photo-sharing campaigns that address HIV stigma. Today we are highlighting some of those campaigns.
Let’s Stop HIV Together
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Let’s Stop HIV Together” campaign uses social media and traditional advertising to give a “voice to people living with HIV from all walks of life, alongside their friends and family members.” The ads feature real people living with HIV, along with a loved one who supports them. Showing that people who are HIV-positive are also family members, friends, and partners helps to reduce stigma. The campaign uses video as a form of digital storytelling where participants share that being HIV-positive does not define who they are. You can see the ads in local communities and airports in six cities. They also house photos from community events on their Facebook page . For World AIDS Day, they released a new Facebook app where you can create your own story.
Greater than AIDS
Greater than AIDS is a multi-faceted collaboration of community, private and government partners. One segment of the campaign is the “Deciding Moments” photo sharing campaign. It acknowledges that people from all walks of life make daily decisions that impact their risks for contracting HIV. To spread their message, the campaign hosts photo booths all over the United States at conferences and community events. They invite people to write a message and take a photo and share their “Deciding Moment.” These messages are shared with their 283,000 followers on Facebook . This year for World AIDS Day, the photos were repurposed into a billboard in Times Square, New York City.
A Day with HIV
On September 21, 2012, Positively Aware magazine asked people to submit a photo about living with HIV. “A Day with HIV” campaign put together 44 of the 170 photos submitted to present a photo essay that “ tells the collective story of the trials and triumphs of living with HIV.” Each photo is time stamped with a short caption that talks about what is going in each person’s life that moment. The photos are presented on a website as a timeline to reinforce the diverse lives of those living with HIV and the hurdles they overcome .
These are just three of many examples. To get involved, you can join an existing campaign or you can use social media on your own to share how you are addressing HIV stigma. For a quick and easy way to lend a hand, participate in the AIDS.gov Facing AIDS photosharing initiative. Take a photo and write a message using our app or your digital camera. How are you using social media to address HIV stigma? Let us know in the comments.
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I saw this discussion going on here at SUFA during the day yesterday and decided I would wade into these waters with my own thoughts. I won’t spend hours writing, but I will simply offer up what I think and allow the debate to grow from there. There were some who claimed that voter fraud wasn’t as rampant as reported. I am unable to prove that claim right or wrong, although I think that it is clear that there are cases of voter fraud out there. Do they have a significant impact? I think that they can. I also think that in certain races and certain voting precincts that there have been those who fully exploited the system to create a big enough impact. But I will focus only on the concept that has been put forth, primarily by the Democrat party, that to require ID at the voting booth disenfranchises the poor. I find this to be an utterly ridiculous claim. And here is why…
Let’s start with the claim. According to pundits on the left, somewhere between 10% and 15% of voting age Americans do not have a valid form of government issued ID with which to prove their identity at the polls. Take this excerpt from a NY Times article:
Of course the Republicans passing these laws never acknowledge their real purpose, which is to turn away from the polls people who are more likely to vote Democratic, particularly the young, the poor, the elderly and minorities…
There is almost no voting fraud in America. And none of the lawmakers who claim there is have ever been able to document any but the most isolated cases. The only reason Republicans are passing these laws is to give themselves a political edge by suppressing Democratic votes.
The most widespread hurdle has been the demand for photo identification at the polls, a departure from the longstanding practice of using voters’ signatures or household identification like a utility bill. Seven states this year have passed laws requiring strict photo ID to vote, and similar measures were introduced in 27 other states. More than 21 million citizens — 11 percent of the population — do not have government ID cards. Many of them are poor, or elderly, or black and Hispanic and could have a hard time navigating the bureaucracy to get a card.
So where did that number come from? Nearly every single article I can find that lists a source links back to a survey from the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. In other words, nearly every single person citing such statistics is operating on info released from a very heavily left leaning source. If we are going to base the claims all on one study, I thought it pertinent to look a little closer to what the survey entailed, because they would have you believe the survey simply asked “do you have an ID?” But that is not what they asked. Here is what they asked in their poll of 2000 people:
1) Do you have a current, unexpired government-issued ID with your picture on it, like a driver’s license or a military ID?
2) If yes, does this photo ID have both your current address AND your current name (as opposed to a maiden name) on it?
3) Do you have any of the following citizenship documents (U.S. birth certificate/U.S. passport/U.S. naturalization papers) in a place where you can quickly find it if you had to show it tomorrow?
4) If yes, does [that document] have your current name on it (as opposed to a maiden name)?
So think about what is being asked. Think about how many people have an ID that would work just fine, but they still had to answer “no” when put under the strict questioning above. For example, I for many years (as a member of the US Army) had a Driver’s License with a picture of me at 16, with my hometown address, and that had expired 3 weeks after I entered the military. I didn’t renew my license until ten years later when I exited the military, because we were not required to do so as long as we were on active duty. After that, my driver’s license has often had the wrong address on it, because working in my last company I moved around A LOT. Mrs. Weapon went three years with her maiden name on her driver’s license after we were married.
Additionally, Mrs. Weapon didn’t renew her passport to her married name until 6.5 years after we were married. Regardless of any of that, ask her if she could find her passport on one day’s notice, and her honest answer would be no. It’s here somewhere, we go on the search each time we realize we will have to use it to leave the country on a trip.
In short, both Mrs. Weapon and myself would have been counted as part of the 10% (that was the actual number from the survey, not 11-15) that do not have ID. Yet we have both voted in every election and under every single proposed voter ID law in the country, we would still be able to vote by providing a utility bill to verify address, a marriage certificate to verify maiden name change, or a passport if we were given more than a day or two notice of when election day will be (since these are widely known, why was this kink thrown into Brennan’s survey, I wonder).
So what does this show us? It shows us that the survey questions were written in a way that causes a drastic inflation of the percentage of voting age Americans who do not have ID. I will leave it up to you to decide whether this was an intentional effort to bolster liberal arguments or whether the folks at NYU are just inept in producing valid data. Regardless of which it is, the fact remains that the data is flawed.
And the conclusions derived from that data are even more flawed. This is from yet another NY Times piece:
Republicans have been pushing these changes for years, but now more than two-thirds of the states have adopted or are considering such laws. The Advancement Project, an advocacy group of civil rights lawyers, correctly describes the push as “the largest legislative effort to scale back voting rights in a century.”
Anyone who has stood on the long lines at a motor vehicle office knows that it isn’t easy to get such documents. For working people, it could mean giving up a day’s wages.
A survey by the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law found that 11 percent of citizens, 21 million people, do not have a current photo ID. That fraction increases to 15 percent of low-income voting-age citizens, 18 percent of young eligible voters and 25 percent of black eligible voters. Those demographic groups tend to vote Democratic, and Republicans are imposing requirements that they know many will be unable to meet.
My favorite part of this was: Anyone who has stood on the long lines at a motor vehicle office knows that it isn’t easy to get such documents. For working people, it could mean giving up a day’s wages. I guess it is OK for the (according to the Brennan numbers) other 90% of the voting public to do, but asking that remaining group to do this is not practical. What a ridiculous statement to make. But I digress…
How do we know that these types of conclusions are flawed? Because they fly in the face of all the other claims made by the same groups. You see, these same folks who claim we will be disenfranchising these voters regular fall on the side of providing more government aid as well. According to their claims, blacks are disproportionately poor, the poor (of any race) are only surviving because of all the government assistance. But what do we know about these wonderful programs of government assistance that overwhelmingly help minorities and the poor?
We know that these programs require ID in order to qualify:
- You need ID to get welfare.
- You need ID to get unemployment.
- You need ID to get food stamps.
- You need ID to qualify for government assisted housing.
- You need ID for Medicare
- You need ID for Social Security
- You need ID to cash a check (including a welfare check)
I think you get the point. All of these programs designed to help those same poor potential voters require that you have a government issued ID in order to use them. And why is it that those programs need an ID? To eliminate fraud, of course. Makes perfect sense to me. Yet the claim is that those same people using ID to access these programs, don’t have ID in order to vote. Further, I don”t hear the left clamoring about that requiring an ID to qualify for welfare is an undue burden on the poor who require it. After all, if they want the assistance, they will get the ID.
Voter ID is not some vast conspiracy by the right to take away the voting rights of millions of poor or minority voters. It is the common sense step to take when we are seeing so many instances of voter fraud (whether you deem them “significant” or not). The only reason to oppose Voter ID is because you wish the fraud to continue, as disenfranchisement is a made up rallying cry using the most effective unprovable claim in modern politics (racism and discrimination).
Further, the concept of Voter ID has been upheld by the Supreme Court’s 6–3 decision in 2008, authored by Justice John Paul Stevens, that upheld the constitutionality of Indiana’s tough ID requirement. Voter ID is constitutional, it is easy to accomplish, it is necessary, and there isn’t really a valid argument against it that I can see. But I will wait to see what the rest of you have to say…
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Gay as Self-Reinvention
by Joseph Nicolosi, Ph.D.
I would like to propose a socio-analytic view of the formation of gay identity. This view is based upon the perspective I have gained from the clinical treatment of over 400 homosexually-oriented men during eighteen years as a practicing psychologist.
"The gay identity" has been portrayed as a civil-rights and self-determination issue. We Americans, who love freedom, have loved it too much and have lost our moorings. Our most influential institutions--professional psychology and psychiatry, churches, the education establishment, and the media--have fallen to the gay deception. Because gay is, I am convinced, a self-deceptive identity.
"Gay" is Not "Homosexual"
First, let's begin with the understanding that I will not be speaking about the person who struggles with same-sex attraction, but rather the gay-identified person--which is to say, that person who is ego-invested and personally identified with the idea that homosexual behavior is as normal and natural as heterosexual behavior.
Secondly, I wish to clarify my belief that there is no such thing as a gay person. Gay is a fictitious identity seized upon by an individual to resolve painful emotional challenges. The man who recognizes that he has a homosexual problem and struggles to overcome it is not "gay." He is, simply, "homosexual."
To believe in the concept of a gay identity as valid, a person must necessarily deny significant aspects of human reality. The foundation typically begins with a significant denial of human reality during early childhood.
I'd like to propose a three-step, psycho-social model for the development of a gay identity--first, beginning with the prehomosexual child and his gender distortions; second, with his later assimilation into the gay counterculture, which fosters those same distortions about self and humanity; and finally, concluding by describing how the gay community's self-deception has expanded into the further deception of a large portion of society.
Early Gender Identity
Let's begin with the child. At a critical developmental period called the gender-identity phase, the child discovers that the world is divided between male and female. Which one is he going to be? He is personally challenged to assume maleness or femaleness -- "Am I a boy? Or am I a girl?" We'll be talking primarily about boys, because there are some more complex variations for the lesbian.
Confronted with the reality of a gendered world, male and female, and forced to make a choice, the child may first resort to an avoidance strategy--regressing into an androgynous phase: "I need not relinquish the benefits of either sex. I can be both male and female." However, reality pushes in and language now enters, and he hears "he" and "she," and "his" and "hers."
Both sexes are first identified with the mother, the "first love object"--but the boy has the additional developmental task of disidentifying from the mother to move on to the father. We must make no mistake about this: masculinity, as Robert Stoller said, is an achievement. The child--especially the boy--has to work not only for the acquisition of identity, but for the acquisition of gender. Every culture that has ever survived understands this matter of the "achievement" of gender, and will support and assist the boy through rites of passage and male initiation.
Increasingly today, we are abandoning support of our boys' formation of masculine identity; particularly the support needed from the parents. For the boy, the father is most significant in the identification process. If he is warm and receptive and inviting, the boy will disidentify with mother and bond with father to fulfill his natural masculine strings. If the father is cold, detached, harsh, or even simply disinterested, the boy may reach out, but eventually will feel hurt and discouraged and surrender his natural masculine strivings, returning to his mother.
There is no convincing scientific evidence of a "gay gene," but certain boys do seem especially vulnerable to homosexual development. Clinical experience tells us that the boy who is sensitive, passive, gentle, and esthetically oriented may be most susceptible to retreat from the developmental challenge to gender-identify with his father. A tougher, bolder, thicker-skinned son may well succeed in pushing through an emotional barrier. The sensitive son seems to decide, "I can't be male, but I'm not completely female either; so I will remain in my own androgynous world, my secret place of fantasy."
And, as we shall see, this quality of androgynous fantasy endures into adulthood: in fact, it is a fundamental feature of gay culture. This fantasy contains within it, not only the narcissistic refusal to identify with a gendered culture, but also the refusal to identify with the human biological reality upon which our gendered society is based. In fact, gender--a core feature of personal identity--is central to the way we relate to ourselves and others. It is also a central pathway through which we grow to maturity.
A host of studies confirm the correlation between childhood gender nonconformity, which is suggestive of gender-identity confusion, and later homosexuality. Not all homosexuality develops this way, but this is a common developmental pathway. We hear echoes of this theme over and over in gay literature--the repeated story of the prehomosexual boy who is isolated and "on the outs" from male friends, feeling different, insecure in his masculinity and alone, disenfranchised from father, and retreating back to mother. Camille Paglia, a lesbian activist, says she struggled with a "massive gender dysfunction" throughout childhood. Andrew Sullivan, the gay author of Virtually Normal, was asked by a young classmate, "Are you a girl or a boy in there?"
Because gender was such a source of pain in childhood, the annihilation of gender differences is, not surprisingly, a central demand of gay culture. Gays often call their attitude "an indifference to gender." Daryl Bem, a gay psychologist, describes his version of utopian society as a "non-gender-polarizing culture" in which everyone would potentially be anyone else's lover. Other gay writers insist on an "end to the gender system."
Detachment from Self and Others
So we see that the man who accepts the gay label in adulthood, has typically spent much of his childhood emotionally disconnected from people, particularly his male peers and his father. He also was likely to assume a false, rigid "good little boy" role within the family.
One of my clients said, "I was a non-entity. I didn't have a place to feel." Another man said, "I always acted out other people's scripts for me. I was an actor in other people's plays."
One client said, "My parents watched me grow up"; and hearing this, another client added, "I watched myself grow up." Do you hear that quality of detachment from self? -- "I watched myself grow up." No wonder the pre-homosexual boy is often interested in theatre and acting---" Life is theatre. We are all actors. Can't reality just be what we wish it to be?"
In the absence of an authentic identity, it is easy to self-reinvent. Oscar Wilde (who probably was the first person to give a face to "gay"), said, "Naturalness is just another pose."
Without domestic emotional bonds to ground him in organic identity, the gay man is plastic. He is the transformist, a Victor-Victoria, or the character from "La Cage Aux Folles." He is pretender, jokester--what French psychoanalyst Chasseguet-Smirgel calls "the imposter." He is what the gay, Jungian psychotherapist Robert Hopcke calls "the outsider, the trickster, the androgyne--the person who breaks the boundaries in our society."
Freud said, "The father is the reality principle." Father represents the transition from the blissful mother-child, symbiotic relationship into harsh reality. But the pre-homosexual boy says to himself, "If my father makes me unimportant, I make him unimportant. If he rejects me, I reject him and all that he represents." Here we see the infantile power of "no" -- "Father has nothing to teach me. His power to procreate and affect the world are nothing compared to my fantasy world. What he accomplishes, I can dream. Dream and reality are the same."
Rather than striving to find his own masculine, procreative power...moving out into the world, trying to impact it...he chooses, instead, to stay in the dreamy, good-little-boy role. Detached, not only from father and other boys, but from maleness and his own male body--including the first symbol of masculinity, his own penis--an object alien even to himself. He will later try to find healing through another man's penis. Because that is what homosexual behavior is: the search for the lost masculine self.
Since anatomically grounded gender is a core feature of individual identity, the homosexual has not so much a sexual problem, as an identity problem. He has a sense of not being a part of other people's lives. Thus it follows that narcissism and preoccupation with self are commonly observed in male homosexuals.
The Identity Search is Felt as Homoeroticism
Now in his early teenage years, unconscious drives to fill this emotional vacuum--to want to connect with his maleness--are felt as homoerotic desires. The next stage will be entry into the gay world.
Then for the first time in his life, this lonely, alienated young man meets (through gay romance novels from the library, television personalities, or internet chat rooms) people who share the same feelings. But he gets more than empathy: along with the empathy comes an entire package of new ideas and concepts about sex, gender, human relationships, anatomical relationships, and personal destiny.
Next he experiences that heady, euphoric, pseudo-rite-of-passage called "coming out of the closet." It is just one more constructed role to distract him from the deeper, more painful issue of self-identity. Gay identity is not "discovered" as if it existed a priori as a natural trait. Rather, it is a culturally approved process of self-reinvention by a group of people in order to mask their collective emotional hurts. This bogus claim to have finally found one's authentic identity through gayness is perhaps the most dangerous of all the false roles attempted by the young person seeking identity and belonging. At this point, he has gone from compliant, "good little boy" of childhood, to sexual outlaw. One of the benefits of membership in the gay subculture is the support and reinforcement he receives for reverting to fantasy as a method of problem solving.
The Fantasy Option
He is now able to do collectively what he did alone as a child: when reality is painful, choose the fantasy option. "I have merely to redefine myself and redefine the world. If others won't play my game, I'll charm and manipulate them. If that doesn't work, I'll have a temper tantrum."
For that lonely child, what awesome benefits of membership he receives by assuming the gay self-label! He receives unlimited sex and unlimited power by turning reality on its head. He enjoys vindication of early childhood hurts. Plus as an added bonus, he gets to reject his rejecting father and similarly, the Judeo-Christian Father-God who separated good from bad, right from wrong, truth from deception. Oscar Wilde said, "Morality is simply an attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike."
Next, we move on to look at the third level: "How has this group of hurt boys and girls--now known in adulthood as the gay community--managed to promote their make-believe liberation not only to popular culture but to legislators, public-policy makers, universities, and churches?
There are a number of ways, but three such avenues stand out for mention.
The first is the civil-rights movement, probably the single most influential force in forming the collective consciousness of American society in this century. Gay apologists have used authentic rights issues as a wedge to promote their redefinition of human sexuality and, essentially, human nature. And one powerful tool that has been used time and time again is the Coming Out Story. It is that same generic story that has been repeated almost verbatim for thirty years now--from the committee rooms of the American Psychiatric Association in 1973, to the Oprah Winfrey Show.
I have seen religious clergy warmly applauding coming-out stories. And why not? Because "finding oneself" and "being who one really is" are popular late-twentieth-century themes which have a heroic and attractive ring to them. Certainly the person telling the story is sincere. He means what he says, but the audience rarely looks beyond his words to understand his coming-out in the larger context.
A second factor is that sexuality itself is in crisis, with fundamental changes now taking place in our definition of family, community, procreation, marriage, and gender. All of these changes have occurred in the service of an individual's right to pursue sexual pleasure. But historically, although the gay- rights movement followed along on the coattails of the civil-rights movement, it continues to draw its ideological power from the sexual-liberation movement.
There is at this time, a cultural vulnerability to gay-lib rhetoric. Chasseguet-Smirgel says the "pervert" (in the traditional psychoanalytic sense of the term) confuses two essential human realities: the distinction between the generations, and between the sexes. In gay ideology, we see just this sort of obliteration of differences.
Similarly, Midge Decter tells us we are a culture that treats our children like adults (we have only to look at sex education in elementary school), at the same time that adults are acting like children.
Ours is a consumer-oriented society, and consumer products shape our views of ourselves. Marketing strategists are all-too-ready to target consumer groups. Gay couples are called "DINKS"--dual income, no kids. And that means expendable income. Merchants have always been ready to cater to gay clientele, and merchant-solicitors have given the gay community the face of legitimacy. Today, nearly every major corporation offers services specially tailored to homosexuals--corporations like AT&T, Hyatt House, Seagrams, Apple Computer, Time-Warner, and American Express. Alcohol and cigarettes are popular gay items. We see gay resorts, gay cruises, gay theatre, gay film festivals. Gay magazines, movies and fiction give face and theme to individuals whose essential problem is identity and belonging. Luxury items--jewelry, fashions, furnishings, and cosmetics are ready to soothe, flatter, and gratify a hurting minority. But beyond material reassurance, these luxury items equate gay identity with economic success-- "The gay life is the good life."
Yet "gay" remains a counter-identity, a negative. By that I mean it gets its psychic energy by "what I am not," and is an infantile refusal to accept reality. Through justification offered through today's liberal-arts education, it is easily rationalized by the arguments of deconstructionism.
Deconstructionism and the gay agenda are perfectly compatible. They conform to a number of corresponding, modern movements, including the trend against "species-ism"--promoting the idea that man must lay no claim to being above animals. Animal liberationist and founder of PETA Ingrid Newkirk says that "a rat... is a pig...is a dog...is a boy."
There are also movements to break down the barriers between the generations, evidenced by psychiatry's recent loosening of the diagnostic definition of pedophilia, and the publishing of the double Journal of Homosexuality issue, "Male Intergenerational Love" (an apologia for pedophilia). There are popular movements (primarily gay and feminist) to deny any mental and emotional differences between the sexes, and--even more alarmingly--nature-worship movements which resymbolize the instincts as sacred.
The founder of the deconstructionist movement is Michel Foucault, a gay man whose philosophical views emerged out of his own personal struggle with homosexuality. Foucault actally had the outrageous plan to deconstruct the distinction between life and death; in his later years, he was obsessed with the idea of simultaneously experiencing death and orgasm. He eventually succeeded, as Charles Socarides says, in "deconstructing himself" (he died of AIDS in a sanitarium).
And so through deconstructionism we see animal confused with human, sacred confused with profane, adult confused with child, male confused with female, and life confused with death -- all of these, traditionally the most profound of distinctions and separations, are now under siege through modern deconstructionism.
"Gay" in Film Mythology
In the recent animated Disney film, the Lion King, we see the age-old generational link in the proud and loving relationship between the father Mufasa, king of the lions, and his little son Simba, the future king. They live in the balanced, ordered world of the lion kingdom. Now we also have this other character Scar, the brooding, resentful brother of the king, who lives his life on the outside and is full of envy and anger. It has been argued that Scar is a gay figure.
In the film, it is Scar who ruptures the father-son link between the generations. He kills the Lion King while aligning himself with a scavenger pack of hyenas. Thus Scar turns the ordered lion kingdom into chaos and ruin. But before all this occurs, we hear a brief, light-hearted dialogue between the young male cub, Simba, and his uncle Scar.
Laughingly Simba says, "Uncle Scar, you're weird."
Meanfully, Scar replies, "You have no idea."
The Way Out
And so we have seen that gay is a compromise identity seized upon by an individual, and increasingly supported by our society, in order to resolve emotional conflicts. It is a collective illusion; truly, "the gay deception." But I have seen more men than I can count in the process of struggle, growth and change. The struggle is a soul-searing one, challenging, as it must, a false identity rooted in one's earliest years.
As adults, these strugglers have looked into the gay lifestyle and returned disillusioned by what they saw. Rather than wage war against the natural order of society, they have chosen to take up the challenge of an interior struggle. This is, I am convinced, the only true solution to an age-old identity problem.
Chasseguet-Smirgel, Jeannine (1984). Creativity and Perversion. New York, New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Disney Press (1994). The Lion King. New York, New York.
Miller, James E. (1993). The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York, New York: Simon & Schuster.
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More than 235,000 people have fled from their homes in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province over the past days, as the Assad regime and Russia escalate their campaign of aerial bombardment. A report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states that Ma’arrat An Nu’man and other towns in the province are now “almost empty,” while internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in the extreme northwest of the province are rapidly swelling. “Displacement during winter is further exacerbating the vulnerability of those affected,” the report states. Perversely, the renewed offensive comes days after Russia and China vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have extended cross-border aid convoys into Idlib from Turkey for another year—essentially condemning many of those not directly killed by the bombs to death by starvation and exposure. (BBC News, Al Jazeera, The New Humanitarian, France24)
More than 300,000 had already been displaced by bombardment in Idlib this year before the new escalation, and many of those now fleeing are being displaced for a second or even third time. Nearly half of Idlib’s 3 million people are themselves displaced persons who fled parts of Syria now held by the regime. When the city of Aleppo fell to regime forces after a long siege and months of aerial bombardment almost exactly three years ago, thousands of residents were evacuated to Idlib.
Amid all this comes the incredibly heartening news that new protests have broken out in Nafaa town in Daraa province, once a cradle of the revolution but now controlled by the Assad regime. The demonstrations are protresting both the bombardment of Idlib, and ongoing detentions of those suspected of opposing the regime. (Syria Call)
The protests follow reports that 174 men who had accepted relocation from the Rukban IDP camp in southeast Syria, near the Jordanian border, have been detained. The opposition Syrian Association for Citizen’s Dignity reports that rather than being re-integrated into Syrian sociey, as promised, the men were taken from shelters in Homs and “transferred to ‘terrorism courts’, despite having previously received security clearances from the regime.” (EA Worldview)
The Assad regime has detained hundreds of thousands over the past year, and is accused by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights of carrying out a mass “extermination” of prisoners.
Donations for the displaced in Idlib can be made through the Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees.
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Man above a river - level 3
A French tightrope walker has defied gravity by balancing 25 metres above the Seine River.
Denis Josselin crossed the 150 meter-long rope without a harness or safety net, but police boats were on hand in case he lost his balance.
This didn’t bother the acrobat though, as he’s found a way of overcoming his fear, saying he focuses on positive energy and positive thought, trying not to think about falling.
He even tempted fate by covering his eyes halfway through the walk, as Parisian crowds watched on and cheered.
Josselin, who has been performing for 28 years, claims to be the only tightrope walker to have walked above the Seine River, and this is the second time he’s done it.
Difficult words: defy (challenge), harness (safety rope), on hand (near), tempt fate (do something dangerous).
Do you like acrobats?
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|Product Description||Rabbit Polyclonal antibody to Laminin gamma 2 (laminin, gamma 2)|
|Background|| Laminins, a family of extracellular matrix glycoproteins, are the major noncollagenous constituent of basement membranes. They have been implicated in a wide variety of biological processes including cell adhesion, differentiation, migration, signaling, neurite outgrowth and metastasis. Laminins are composed of 3 non identical chains: laminin alpha, beta and gamma (formerly A, B1, and B2, respectively) and they form a cruciform structure consisting of 3 short arms, each formed by a different chain, and a long arm composed of all 3 chains. Each laminin chain is a multidomain protein encoded by a distinct gene. Several isoforms of each chain have been described. Different alpha, beta and gamma chain isomers combine to give rise to different heterotrimeric laminin isoforms which are designated by Arabic numerals in the order of their discovery, i.e. alpha1beta1gamma1 heterotrimer is laminin 1. The biological functions of the different chains and trimer molecules are largely unknown, but some of the chains have been shown to differ with respect to their tissue distribution, presumably reflecting diverse functions in vivo. This gene encodes the gamma chain isoform laminin, gamma 2. The gamma 2 chain, formerly thought to be a truncated version of beta chain (B2t), is highly homologous to the gamma 1 chain; however, it lacks domain VI, and domains V, IV and III are shorter. It is expressed in several fetal tissues but differently from gamma 1, and is specifically localized to epithelial cells in skin, lung and kidney. The gamma 2 chain together with alpha 3 and beta 3 chains constitute laminin 5 (earlier known as kalinin), which is an integral part of the anchoring filaments that connect epithelial cells to the underlying basement membrane. The epithelium-specific expression of the gamma 2 chain implied its role as an epithelium attachment molecule, and mutations in this gene have been associated with junctional epidermolysis bullosa, a skin disease characterized by blisters due to disruption of the epidermal-dermal junction. Two transcript variants resulting from alternative splicing of the 3' terminal exon, and encoding different isoforms of gamma 2 chain, have been described. The two variants are differentially expressed in embryonic tissues, however, the biological significance of the two forms is not known. Transcript variants utilizing alternative polyA_signal have also been noted in literature. [provided by RefSeq]|
|Synonyms||B2T antibody, BM600 antibody, CSF antibody, EBR2 antibody, EBR2A antibody, LAMB2T antibody, LAMNB2 antibody, MGC138491 antibody, MGC141938 antibody, LAMC2 antibody, nicein subunit gamma antibody, kalinin subunit gamma antibody, CSF 140 kDa subunit antibody, BM600-100kDa antibody, laminin B2t chain antibody, laminin subunit gamma-2 antibody, large adhesive scatter factor 140 kDa subunit antibody, epiligrin subunit gamma antibody, cell-scattering factor 140 kDa subunit antibody, ladsin 140 kDa subunit antibody, laminin, gamma 2 antibody|
|Cellular Localization||Secreted , extracellular space , extracellular matrix , basement membrane |
|Immunogen||Recombinant protein encompassing a sequence within the center region of human Laminin gamma 2. The exact sequence is proprietary.|
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Data quality factors for marine UXO surveys
Detecting unexploded ordnance (UXO) at sea is a demanding task. UXO survey data is acquired using a set of different sensors in different configurations and can cover large areas. To ensure that the resulting highly complex data set is fit for purpose, a well-defined workflow is crucial. Researchers in the BASTA project are therefore developing quantitative data quality factors to indicate how survey data should be acquired for the detection of a specified reference object.
Ammunition or unexploded ordnance (UXO) at sea poses a threat during offshore work such as the construction of pipelines or platforms, as well as to the marine environment. If UXO detection and remediation activities are performed incorrectly, mismanaged, or even omitted, UXOs can threaten the lives of construction workers, the construction schedule, marine life and the public image of the parties involved. . In response to these challenges, Frey (2020) developed the Quality Guideline for the Disposal of Explosives and Ammunition at Sea (EOD). The directive addresses the four phases of DOE: (I) a preliminary investigation of historical data records, (II) a technical field investigation, (III) an investigation of suspect UXO sites, and (IV) elimination and elimination of UXO. Other guidelines on UXO marine surveys or hydroacoustic mapping that are relevant to ammunition surveys have been published by OWA (2020), IHO (2020), NOAA (2019) and IOGP (2009). All of these documents largely consist of a qualitative description of the workflows of marine geophysical surveys and, to some extent, of UXO campaigns. GEOMAR and EGEOS are currently working on a method to quantitatively describe a survey by defining data quality factors. Using such quality factors in the workflow can improve data processing, as more time can be spent analyzing and interpreting the data. As multi-sensor datasets become larger and more complex, a well-defined workflow and consistent threshold criteria for data quality will increase project transparency and confidence in the results. In addition, clear definitions will improve communication between all partners involved in UXO projects, from the project manager to surveyors and data analysts.
BASTA researchers apply the following steps to define data quality factors:
- A literature review of all existing guidelines. Based on this information, a first table of data quality factors for the reference object and for the various relevant sensors (multibeam echosounder, side scan sonar, sub-bottom profiler, magnetism) could be developed.
- This first table of data quality factors was transformed into a questionnaire and sent to 125 experts in the field of marine UXO surveys. An updated table was then created based on the responses.
- Digital workshops for stakeholders were held to discuss data quality factors and cut-off values ââthat define whether the data is fit for the purpose of detecting a specified reference object. Two workshops for each of the magnetic and hydroacoustic sensors were organized and 29 experts participated in the discussions. The workshops resulted in final agreement on 57% of the data quality factors discussed, while the rest is still under discussion. Again, the table of data quality factors has been updated.
- In a last event, which will take place during Kiel Ammunition Clearance Week 2021, other quality factors, not yet agreed, will be discussed in more detail.
Data quality factors – Preliminary results
We distinguish between the data quality factors of the reference object and the data quality factors of the sensors. In the process described above, these were identified by answering the following questions:
- Reference object: What data quality factors of the reference object should be provided after preliminary investigation and before sensor selection?
- Sensors: What factors of sensor data quality are important in determining whether the survey data is suitable for detecting a specified reference object?
Once these questions are answered, a standardized UXO survey workflow based on transparent data quality factors could be developed. A preliminary version of the workflow for multibeam surveys is shown in Figure 1.
The organization chart shows that the historical study and the documentation of the site conditions are the main contributions to the definition of a reference object. It is the smallest object that should be detectable in survey data and is typically defined as a result of a threat or risk assessment. All the quality factors of the reference object are therefore a result of the preliminary investigation (phase I). Note that not all the quality factors of the reference object are relevant for multibeam systems, because the reference object must be defined (and therefore its quality factors determined) before the start of the survey planning. .
The reference object and its properties are the input data of the technical study (Phase II), in which the measurement methods are defined and then reviewed and revisited by the client and the contractor during the call for tenders. and the definition of the method statement for the study. In addition, a number of survey parameters define how the survey process itself is performed. The method statement must therefore balance the data quality requirements with the survey feasibility requirements. Knowledge of all data quality factors is relevant for subsequent data processing and interpretation processes.
Similar workflows have been prepared for all sensors commonly used in UXO detection surveys and are available on the BASTA project site. These include the multibeam echosounder, side scan sonar, underwater profiler and magnetometer (Frey 2020). More recent techniques such as electromagnetism, synthetic aperture sonar and possibly chemical sensors will be defined in the future.
For the quality factors of the sensor data, threshold values ââmust be defined for the sensor. These act as an objective and theoretical requirement for the detection of the specified reference object. Since the data quality factors of the reference objects are the input to the technical investigation, they act as control variables for many threshold values ââof the sensor data quality factors. Table 1 shows the preliminary data quality factors for an example reference object as well as the resulting threshold values ââfor multibeam data quality factors, which must be defined before a survey can begin. Some quality factors in Table 1 have already been agreed during expert discussions (green),
while others are still under discussion (white). Detailed tables of data quality factors for all sensors considered so far are available on the BASTA project website.
Figure 2 shows an example of a multibeam dataset from the German landfill site of Kolberger Heide and a subsequent AUV camera survey. Several different UXO objects can be identified in multibeam data, but how do you know if all UXO objects on the seabed have been detected, or if some smaller objects have been missed? This question is particularly difficult to answer for datasets that cover large areas with varying water depths and seabed conditions. However, defining well-defined reference object quality factors and sensor data quality factors can help answer this question. Figure 3 illustrates the data quality factors calculated on the same real multibeam dataset for two UXO objects of different sizes. The quality factors are calculated against the cut-off values ââdefined in Table 1. The dataset seems generally sufficient for the detection of an air bomb (left column: GP 550 lb M64). On the other hand, the calculated footprints indicate that the smaller object (right column: 155mm BL Mark VII shell) would likely be missed in large parts of the study area (please note that this working example is intended to illustrate the idea). Similar threshold values ââcan be calculated for the other sensors listed in the workflows. Once the data quality factors are finalized, the calculation presented in this article will be available as features through AmuCad.org and TrueOcean.io.
A well-defined workflow and commonly accepted data quality factors for geophysical survey data can improve project transparency for UXO surveys, as shown in the example. For complex data sets in particular, which include many sensors that must be understood by multiple parties involved in a project, these tips can facilitate communication between stakeholders. Since acceptance by industry experts is crucial for the future application of the data quality factors presented in this article, their definition is facilitated by a stakeholder-driven process. The results presented here are preliminary and will be finalized in a discussion workshop to be organized during Kiel Munition Clearance Week in September 2021.
Frey, Torsten (2020): Quality guideline for explosive ordnance disposal at sea. 1st Editing. Berlin, Zurich, Vienna: Beuth Verlag GmbH.
OHI (2020): OHI S-44 Standards for Hydrographic Surveys, 6e Edition, Monaco: International Hydrographic Organization.
IOGP (2009): Guidelines for Conducting Offshore Drilling Hazard Investigations, Version 2.0, London: International Association of Oil and Gas Producers.
NOAA (2019): Hydrographic Survey Specifications and Deliverables, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
OWA (2020): Geophysical Survey Guidelines for UXOs and Rocks Supporting Cable Installation, Offshore Wind Accelerator.
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During his address, the mayor noted that the “T” in T-School represents many elements, including “Taipei,” “Technology,” “Talent,” and “T-shaped Talent.” The school’s vision highlights the values of exploration and freedom. It seeks to develop education methods customized for each student. The curriculum also emphasizes integration of digital technologies and personalized in-depth learning to unlock students’ potentials.
Ko noted that there are elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools in Taipei City with experimental curriculums. He believes that Taipei’s most competitive area in the field of education is smart education, with 236 local schools equipped with campus fiberoptic network and free Wi-Fi in classrooms. Numerous classrooms are equipped with 85-inch touch screen displays, and schools implement the policy of “one-tablet-per-student.” All these factors provide Taipei City’s students with a convenient e-learning environment. The recent outbreak of COVID-19 also resulted in the rapid growth of remote learning, which could be seen from the number of users taking advantage of Taipei’s CooC Cloud.
The mayor added that it is still too early to tell what kind of students the experimental high school will nurture and educate, much like how Columbus set sail towards a new frontier. He expressed his hope that T-School will teach its students to be independent and to develop a healthy appetite for learning. He doesn’t expect each student to be the same, but rather encourages each to realize his or her own potentials.
Principal Chen Chih-yuan, who is also the acting director of the T-School Preparation Office, remarked that the institution offers students with customized resources for learning and respects learning differences among individuals. Every student at the school can develop their own curriculum, and the school puts more weight on individual’s learning motivation instead of relying solely on grades. Ultimately, the school hopes to nurture students who are interested in lifelong learning and possess a global perspective.
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The Persistent Appeal of Tradition
By Tom Wachunas
“No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead.” ― T.S. Eliot, from The Sacred Wood
“Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.” ― Gustav Mahler
EXHIBIT: ALLIED ARTISTS OF AMERICA – 100 YEARS, at the Canton Museum of Art (CMA), 1001 Market Ave. N, Canton, THROUGH JULY 19, 2015
As a student of both art history and studio painting in the early 1970s, I was intrigued to learn that somewhere along the labyrinthine journey of 20th century Modernism, the subject matter of visual art had become liberated (some would say rudely so) from representations of the visible or natural world. My studio classes had become increasingly less instructional in the actual craft or technique of painting as our critique sessions had morphed into heady discussions (at times diatribes) about aesthetics.
One significant result of my collegiate painting experience was not so much learning how to paint per se, but rather how to see, which in turn evolved into my own explorations of non-objective abstraction. Along the way, I confess to “going through a phase” of real disdain for the formal conventions of rendering “irrelevant” subjects such as landscape, still life, and portraiture. Mea culpa. But time wounds all heels, and my youthful disparagements of “old fashioned” art were eventually quelled by a renaissance of favorable attitude regarding traditional contents and techniques. Suffice to say I can appreciate a Rothko and a Rembrandt, a Pollock and a Poussin, a de Kooning and a da Vinci with equal fervor.
I tell you this not as part of a critical “review” as such, but rather as a subjective backdrop to my deep appreciation of the overall scope of this stunningly mounted CMA offering. It was conceived by Gary Erbe (see my review of his concurrent show posted here on May 5), president emeritus of Allied Artists of America, among this nation’s most prestigious visual art societies now celebrating its 100th year. While appropriately subtitled “A Dazzling Celebration of Contemporary American Art,” it would be a mistake for viewers to expect a comprehensive state-of-the-American- visual arts survey. There are simply too many trends and bold, complex experiments (many of dubious worth) afoot in today’s art milieu to make that claim.
I do find it interesting that of the more than 60 member artists represented here from around the country, there’s nary a piece that could be called wholly non-objective, though there are works in varying stylistic degrees of abstraction. That said, the reigning spirit in this impressive gathering of paintings, drawings and sculpture is one of sublime, even jubilant homage to accessible (i.e. recognizable) realities. Think of it as a spectacular tribute to representational imagery by a group of eminently accomplished artists. They’re clearly engaged in an elevated remembrance of, and dialogue with, historic – indeed precious - values of superior craft, exquisite formal and compositional sensibilities and, yes, remarkable beauty.
Allied Artists of America. Here’s to their next 100 years of upholding such traditions.
PHOTOS, from top: Absolutely Free, pastel by Peter Seltzer; Portrait of Autumn, graphite, by Yuka Imata; Vases and Vessels, pastel by Leslie Lillien Levy; Last Light of Day, oil by Thomas Valenti; Mixed Emotions, watercolor by James Toogood
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—n. Cell Biol.
a smooth sac within the cell, formed by or fused with coated vesicles that shed their clathrin, in which ligands are separated from their receptors and from which the receptors are returned to the cell surface.
Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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Young people from the Cape Flats attended a workshop designed to inspire their future.
The event was hosted by Tina Kempshall from the Basileia Foundation at Cedar High School in partnership with the school, Unchain the Plain and the South African Police Special Task Force – whom the young people engaged with to find out how the members came to be part of the task force.
The workshop covered the impact on their lives, their loved ones and the community, of the decisions they make every day, as “Decisions determine Destiny,” said Juven Rittles from Unchain the Plain.
Ms Kempshall said their foundation focused on emotional wellness of adults and school pupils, with whom they work through their Hero Project.
“Those who are successful in the community are called in by us to encourage young people to show them that they are not defined by their circumstances but if they change their mindset, they can strive to do and be anything. They need to make better choices as they grow older, change their way of thinking, and be more confident. We encourage this behaviour,” she said.
“The task force is an elite group of men. They protect those in our country. For them to take time out to speak to the young people, it was an inspiration to see. We are grateful to our superheroes,” said Ms Kempshall.
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The Department of Immigration and Citizenship Services has deported 123 Ethiopian nationals to their country. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) supported the return of the illegal immigrants back to their native country.
According to Immigration’s Deputy Public Relations Officer, Wellingtone Chiponde, the group is among 134 irregular migrants, including 13 unaccompanied minors, from Ethiopia who were detained after being found stranded in the borders of Malawi between November 2020 and March 2021.
“When IOM learnt about the plight of the migrants, it offered to assist their voluntary return to their country of origin,” he said.
Of the 134 Ethiopians, 123 have left the country on chartered flight facilitated by IOM, he said.
The remaining 11 migrants will be flown out through traditional commercial flight as the charter could not accommodate all the 134 migrants, he said.
He added that IOM has been working closely with the Ministry of Health to facilitate PCR tests for COVID-19 and other health assessments to determine the migrants’ fitness to travel.
Immigration formalities subjected the migrants to a verification exercise of authenticating their nationalities which was facilitated by IOM and conducted by the Department of Immigration and officials from the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, he said.
Malawi experiences high volumes of irregular migrants mainly from the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region who uses Malawi as a transit country enroute to other Southern African countries to search for greener pastures.
Chiponde observed that the majority of these migrants are either smuggled or victims of Trafficking in Persons.
Despite the country’s porous borders, he said, the Department of Immigration is applying multifaceted approaches to curb the influx of irregular migrants into the country.
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Mahabharata: All about Trigunas
This work is a compilation of essential material on Trigunas. Trigunas constitute a central or key concept in adhyatma shastra and its clear understanding is essential to a scholar as well as to a sadhak.
The contents are taken from,
- Bhagavad Gita (The main source)
- Mahabharata, mostly from Mokshadharma parva which appears in Shanti parva
- Sri Aurobindo’s work ‘Essays on Gita’
Special feature of Sri Aurobindo’s work is that for several aspects he describes what happens at the culmination of Sattwa, the point of transformation for going beyond trigunas.
You can send your feedback on this, if any, to gh.visweswara (at) gmail.com
Download PDF here: (1.1 MB; 56 pages)
For other Topic based compilations from Mahabharata see under Menus ‘Mahabharata’ and ‘More Compilations’
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Panel sizing saw for sandwich panel (SIP) processing with automatic feeding conveyor and cutting angle adjustment
A professional standard sandwich panel cutting saw is equipped with a rotating forced beam with a circular 800-900 mm saw blade. The saw is able to provide sandwich panels cutting with 0-45 degrees cutting angle.
Cutting inclination can be adjusted from the operator panel. The machine is designed to be used with OSB, MGO, fiber cement, green board, chipboard SIP sandwich panels with core materials, which are made of EPS, XPS, polyurethane, PIR.
The working table of the machine is equipped with a holding system to keep the panel stable during the cutting. The feeding zone is equipped with a belt conveyor and an automatic measuring and positioning system.
The machine's cutting beam is made in a form of complex multilayers welded construction, which eliminates any type of vibrations and deviations during the cutting.
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Elm comes with an index of publicly-usable open-source packages. Using packages from this index can substantially improve a developer’s experience. Learn how to find a package through the index, understand its API through type annotations and documentation, download it, and use it in a project.
Here, I've got a fake little shopping cart, and my goal is to change this header to say one item or two items or three items depending upon how many items I actually have in the cart. I don't have a function already to pluralize this name according to the number of items that I have, but I bet you there's something available on the Elm package index.
Let's go take a look by navigating to package.elmlang.org. Now here, I've got a search box. Question is how do I go about finding something like this? Let's just take a look for a string since we know we're going to want to do something to a string.
Let's just take a look at this Elm string extra library. It looks like it might have some functions around strings that we can go explore, see if somebody's already done this.
Over here on the right-hand side, we have the sub packages of this whole package, we'll go click on string.extra, and now, we get a listing of the functions that are available in this library, capitalize which we're not looking for. But the second function in the list is called "pluralize." It looks like what we want. Let's take a quick look at the arguments here.
It takes a string and a string and a number and it will return a string. Let's look at the example. It looks like you can give it the singular form and then the plural form, and then the number, and it'll return the appropriate pluralization of that string.
Let's give it a try. In order to start using this package, we should take note of this name right here, the user name, the user who published the package, and the name of the package itself.
Once we remember those things, we can go over to our terminal and open up a new shell even while the Elm active server is running. Here, we can type Elm package install and then the user name, no red ink/and then the package, Elm-string-extra, then hit enter.
It's going to ask if we want to add that to the Elm package.JSON as a dependency and we do. Then, it'll give us a summary of the things that it wants to install..
We approve of that too, and now, we're set to use it. Let's go back to our editor and we can import string.extra exposing pluralize.
Now down here with the H1 instead of just calling text items, we can call the function pluralize to pluralize this string, which we'll do by putting in a pair of parentheses since we're about to call a new function and we don't its arguments to get confused with other arguments.
We're going to call pluralize and the first thing we pass in it item, because that's the singular form, and then items as the secondary form. And then, we can pass in but in parentheses again, because we're going to call another function, list.length items, and we'll delete this extraneous string and go to the browser, reload. It looks like it's working.
It is now pluralized to two items. Let's remove one of these items and see if it still works. It does. Here, we've seen a need that we didn't have a function for already, in this case, pluralizing a string, and we thought we might be able to find that on the Elm package index.
We went to package.elmlang.org, found a package that looked like it might accommodate what we were needing, found the function we needed, installed the package with Elm package install and then used it in our project.
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We have been thrilled with how much our children have gained from their Little River experience. They come home filled with descriptions of what they have learned and are eager to keep on learning.
- Students help direct their own education with the support of staff
- All ages working together
- Students develop self-reliance and confidence and self-motivation rather than being motivated by external rewards
- Community involvement
- Hands-on activities
- Each student has an individualized curriculum set by the student, parents and teachers together
- Opportunities to study at home
- Appreciation of the natural world around us
- Students learn how to problem-solve and make decisions as well as take responsibility for their actions
- Commitment to nonviolence and nondiscrimination
- Students learn at their own pace
Tuition is the primary source of income for the school and is supplemented with fundraising. Little River has a fee structure that keeps the family in mind. There are reduced rates for two or more children within a family.
Tuition and Fee Schedule 2022/2023
- Full-Time Student $5895 per year or $655 per month
- Each Additional Student From the Same Family $3950 per year or $439 per month
- Satellite Students (@ 1 day per week) $1474 per year or $164 per month
- Each Additional Student from the Same Family $1106 per year or $123 per month
- Additional Days $41 per day
- Additional Days for Students from the Same Family $41 per day
- Application Fee $50 per family
- Supply and Transportation Fees $30 per student per month
- High School Fee (added to tuition) $415 per year or $46 per month
- Yearbook $10 per family (due May 1)
- Late Payment Fee $25 added to month's payment
The first and last month's tuition, plus enrollment fee is due upon enrollment. The rest of the tuition is divided up into seven payments, due on the first of each month from October through April.
Returning families only need to pay the last month's tuition in advance.
Tuition is the primary source of funding for Little River Community School. Each family has a different financial situation and some may need tuition aid. Little River strives to make tuition affordable for families that share our concerns and responsibilities in making the school all it can be for as many children as possible.
Families who feel that they are unable to pay full tuition may apply for tuition aid. The aid is based on family income and availability of funds.
Work-in-Lieu of Tuition
Work-in-lieu of tuition is intended to help families that may need a reduced tuition rate. There are a limited number of jobs at the school available to families in need. Please call the school if you are interested in work-in-lieu of tuition to find out what options there might be to find out what options are available.
Little River Community School does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, gender orientation, national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admission policies or tuition assistance programs.
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This Lecture is about Political Economy of International Trade. The international trade to protect the interest of politically important groups or promote the interest of key domestic producers. When government intervene, they often do so by restricting imports of goods and services into their nation. while adopting policies that promote domestic production and exports. Normally their motives are to protect domestic producers and jobs.
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Electronic Resource Collection Development Policy
TEXSHARE Collection Development Statement
TexShare is founded on the belief of Texas State officials and librarians that citizen health and well being is furthered by efficient information exchange in all communities and institutions where quality teaching, research excellence, and lifelong learning are valued. The TexShare database program seeks to help meet the information needs of the citizens of Texas, whether they are currently attending the state's colleges and universities or seeking information from their public libraries. TexShare programs contribute to the intellectual productivity of Texans at the participating institutions by emphasizing access to rather than ownership of documents and other information sources.
TexShare Core Databases
TexShare enables community colleges, universities, libraries of clinical medicine, and public libraries to broaden the range of materials and services available to their patrons. TexShare’s electronic full-text magazine and journal articles supplement resources on the local level. Given the diversity of Texas libraries, the program may not meet all of the electronic information needs of all TexShare member libraries. The TexShare electronic resources collection will provide access to broad multi-topic authoritative full-text content for both advanced scholars and the general public. When possible within budgetary constraints, additional specialized resources in the areas of literature, business, current affairs, science, history, and genealogy are selected which serve the broadest range of citizens.
The TexShare Electronic resources are selected through recommendations of the Electronic Information Working Group (EIWG), which reviews products for the TexShare program, and solicits and reviews input from member libraries. Membership in the Working Group is representative of TexShare member libraries. EIWG decisions are guided by these criteria when making decisions:
- Membership Surveys
- Usage Statistics
- Database Content
- Vendor Reliability
- Best Value
Individual Libraries can participate in the database selection by:
- Sending comments and recommendations to the EIWG
- Sending recommendations about databases to TexShare staff (all comments are forwarded to the EIWG)
- Filling out and submitting database surveys
- Sending comments throughout the statewide database trial period to the EIWG and the TexShare staff
The TexShare collection of ebooks is selected through recommendations of the Electronic Information Working Group (EIWG), which reviews products for the TexShare program, and solicits and reviews input from member libraries. Ebook purchases are made on a subject basis and not title-by-title. Reconsiderations are governed by local library policy and practice. Ebook selection guidelines are developed each year based on:
- Usage statistics
- Areas of subject need not met by other electronic resources
- Established subject areas of collection strength
- Titles available for consortial purchase from publishers
- Publisher licensing which advances each library’s efficient sharing of ebooks and allows libraries to provide reasonable access with platform neutral loan capability
TexShare electronic resources are supplemented through the selection of resources to be included as TexSelect products. TexSelect enables the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to utilize the aggregated purchasing power of the state to leverage the use of local funds to purchase databases at discounted prices.
Recommendations for TexSelect products will be made using similar criteria and procedures as for the TexShare Core Databases. Selection practices for TexSelect will accommodate selections that appeal to a smaller number of member libraries that are highly motivated to subscribe to specialized content. TexSelect products should be useful in more than one type of library, or provide unique content/indexing, and include commitment from the vendor for renewal of TexSelect discounts in future years. Additional criteria are:
- Significant subscription discounts
- Content that supplements what is available in the core databases
Statement of Responsibility
The TexShare Core Databases offer access to a wealth of material that is personally, professionally, and culturally enriching to Texans of all ages Professional librarians select the TexShare core databases by a process involving a statewide effort over an extended period of time. The purchase of electronic databases and ebooks by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission does not constitute an endorsement of the ideas or opinions expressed in the content of those databases and ebooks. Use of all library resources is governed by local library policies and procedures.
As is required by 1 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 213, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission complies with the State of Texas Accessibilities requirements for Electronic and Information Resources.
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission requires all vendors providing bids for Electronic and Information Resources to submit a Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT). Once received, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission reviews for compliance with the State of Texas Accessibility requirements (based on the federal standards established under Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act). Those not in compliance must provide a timeline for correction.
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Researchers at the University of Waterloo, Canada, have built the world’s most sophisticated artificial brain to date.
Although Spaun currently exists in the simulated world inside a computer, it is one of the most advanced models ever created by scientists to understand how the human brain functions.
Unlike previous brain models, such as the 'million processor computer', which feature large networks of neurons with generally limited functions, Spaun’s 2.5 million neurons are designed to mimic our own brain’s structure with a prefrontal cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus that allow it to ‘think’ about its environment and respond to the patterns it encounters.
"It has been interesting to see the reactions people have had to Spaun," says Chris Eliasmith, a professor in the department of philosophy at Waterloo University.
Even seasoned academics have not seen brain models that actually perform so many tasks. Models are typically small, and focus on one function."
A collaboration between neuroscientists and software engineers, Spaun receives its visual input via a 784 pixel digital camera this is relayed to its ‘thalamus’ which performs the same function it would in a human brain: processing the data it receives.
Once processed, the data is stored in Spaun’s neurons and directed to its basal ganglia which selects the appropriate action it should perform. Using this system, Spaun has been able to perfom well in a variety of IQ-testing tasks, including a test which demonstrates its understanding of numerical concepts.
However, Spaun’s mental abilities are not something to get too worried about just yet. As Eliasmith explains, they’re still a long way off being able to replicate anything like the sorts of tasks the human brain is able to perform.
"People are enormously more complicated," he says, "[Spaun] is nowhere near as intricate or sophisticated as human brains…it’s miles away."
It is hoped, however that Spaun could provide insights into what happens when parts of the brain become diseased and stop functioning. The researchers have already looked at what happens when you ‘kill’ some of the synthetic neurons.
"There are not only deep philosophical questions you can approach using this work — such as how the mind represents the world – but there are also very practical questions you can address about the diseased brain," Eliasmith said.
I believe that critical innovations are going to come from basic research like this. I can’t predict what specific industry or company is going to use this work or how — but I can list a lot that might."
The study is published in the current issue of the journal Science.
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Modeling individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of recurrent infections : an application to parvovirus B19
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
Biostatistics. - Oxford
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University of Antwerp
In recent years, it has been shown that individual heterogeneity in the acquisition of infectious diseases has a large impact on the estimation of important epidemiological parameters such as the (basic) reproduction number. Therefore, frailty modeling has become increasingly popular in infectious disease epidemiology. However, so far, using frailty models, it was assumed infections confer lifelong immunity after recovery, an assumption which is untenable for non-immunizing infections. Our work concentrates on refining the existing frailty models to encompass complexities of waning immunity and consequently recurrent infections while accounting for individual heterogeneity. Univariate and shared gamma frailty models, frequently used in practice, and correlated gamma frailty models that have proven to be a valuable alternative are considered. We show that incorrectly assuming lifelong immunity when applying frailty models introduces substantial bias in the estimation of both the baseline hazard and the frailty parameters, and consequently of the basic and effective reproduction number. We illustrate our work using cross-sectional serological data on parvovirus B19 (PVB19) from Belgium for which the link with varicella zoster virus is exploited.
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HS-ESS2-6 Develop a quantitative model to describe the cycling of carbon among the hydrosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, and biosphere.
HS-LS2-5 Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.
HS-PS1-6 Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium
Carbon dioxide properties - investigations
- Carbon Dioxide and combustion - Mix vinegar and baking soda in a container and wait for the bubbling to slow down or cease. Carbon dioxide is released in this reaction. Gently pour the carbon dioxide gas onto a lit candle which is in a beaker.
NaHCO3(s) + CH3COOH(l) → CO2(g) + H2O(l) + Na+(aq) + CH3COO-(aq)
- Release of carbon dioxide from limestone- Place dilute hydrochloric acid on limestone (calcium carbonate) and observe the carbon dioxide bubbles that are produced. (Carlsbad Caverns)
2HCl(aq) + CaCO3(s) → CaCl2(aq) + CO2(g) + H2O(l)
- Capturing carbon dioxide - Add Alka-Seltzer to water in a flask and capture the carbon dioxide in a balloon. Compare the speed that the carbon dioxide balloon falls relative to one filled with air.
- Carbon dioxide and pH - Put a couple drops of phenolphthalein indicator in a flask of dilute (.01M) NaOH. The fluid should turn pink, indicating the presence of hydroxide ions. Using a straw, blow into the flask until the pink color disappears. What affect dos carbon dioxide have upon the pH of the solution?
CO2 + H2O → H2CO3 → H+ + HCO3-
- Carbonation - Measure the pH of carbonated water vs un-carbonated water. Record the pH of fresh carbonated water vs. flat carbonated water that has been left to set out for some time. Watch carbonation (movie)
- What properties does carbon dioxide have? Enter your observations in the quickwrite as instructed by your teacher.
Carbon Dioxide & Climate Change
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a colorless and odorless gas vital
to life on Earth. Carbon dioxide exists in Earth's atmosphere as a trace gas at
a concentration of about 0.04 percent (400 ppm) by volume. Natural sources
include volcanoes, hot springs and geysers, and it is freed from carbonate rocks
by dissolution in water and acids. Carbon dioxide is soluble in water, and
occurs naturally in groundwater, rivers, lakes, ice caps, glaciers and also in
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution around 1750, we
have been adding substantial amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other
greenhouse gases (such as methane, nitrous oxide, and fluorinated gases) to the
atmosphere. Greenhouse gases trap infrared radiation in the atmosphere, which
makes the Earth warmer. Observe historic trends.
Seasonal Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide concentration
Yearly Trends in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration
A carbon footprint is "the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person." Greenhouse gases can be emitted through transport, land clearance, and the production and consumption of food, fuels, manufactured goods, materials, wood, roads, buildings, and services. For simplicity of reporting, it is often expressed in terms of the amount of carbon dioxide, or its equivalent of other GHGs, emitted. (Source: Wikipedia). See Vocabulary.
Mapping Greenhouse Gas Production
- Locate a large greenhouse gas producer near you. Determine the amount of greenhouse gasses released annually. (Source: Environmental Protection Agency). Enter the value in the Quickwrite
- Compare the Greenhouse gas production of various counties or states using the EPA Flight. You wil want to plot the amount produced by various sectors (power plants, refineries, etc.)
- EPA learning activity
- EPA Carbon Dioxide monitoring
- Enter your findings in the quickwrite provided by your instructor
- Review World Trends on Carbon Dioxide Emissions (Gapminder). How does your carbon footprint compare with the average carbon footprint of other Americans? How does it compare with the carbon footprint of Haitians? (Haiti is the poorest country in the western Hemisphere)
Visualization of a metric ton of carbon dioxide
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Art, particularly on a Sunday, draws the crowds as readily as its rivals: shopping, sport, garden centres and getting stuck on the North Circular. If the Tate Gallery is extraordinarily popular - the doors have to be closed during opening hours on many Sunday afternoons to prevent overcrowding - this has as much to do with the fact that it is there (like Mount Everest or the Queen) as it does with the gallery's annual re-hangs, the perennial controversy surrounding the Turner Prize or the dramatic spectacle of exhibitions like the current "Rites of Passage", in which the artist Mona Hatoum takes us on a journey into her interior world via each and every orifice, disgusting some, exciting others and surprising all.
Major city art galleries have become, without doubt, a vital and buzzing junction box on the leisure and tourist circuit, generating considerable income while rivalling the latest whizz-bang electronic technology that is bringing us, among other novelties, virtual reality theme-parks (already established in Japan) and an ever increasing number and variety of "let's escape from reality" experiences for a fiver on what would otherwise be a dull Sunday afternoon. The new Tate at the former Bankside power station will be a more complex junction box than this, plugged into a high-voltage circuit of flats and houses, shops and cafes at the hub of a revamped transport system. Here is the art gallery as urban regenerator.
Does it need to fit so closely into the jigsaw of the city, or could it survive perfectly happily and in less than splendid isolation like any of Britain's degenerate, yet immensely popular out-of-town superstores?
The answer could be no, but only if the current boom in gallery-going is thought of as a short-term aberration that will dissipate as other forms of cultural entertainment win over a fickle and promiscuous public. But while superstores will soon be looked on as absurd architectural, ecological and retail dinosaurs, art is unlikely to wither in the coming decades, no matter how immune we become to the visual pranks and the hype that too often laps around the work of contemporary artists.
Viewed in the long term, ambitious cultural projects like the Tate Gallery of Modern Art can only enhance the fame and fortune of the cities they stimulate and, at best, grace. The new Tate promises to be the most important stimulant in reviving a run-down London borough (Southwark) and a bridge linking the fortunes of central London north and south of the Thames.
The Tate's decision to house its modern art gallery within the promethean walls of Bankside power station in Southwark on the other side of the Thames from St Paul's Cathedral encouraged developers to jump into a borough they have, to date, studiously avoided. Imagining (no doubt rightly) that the idea of living in a Soho-like loft next door to the Tate with views of the Thames is a particularly attractive one to the cultured and wealthy. Manhattan Lofts, developers of New York-style warehouse apartments, snapped up a big redundant warehouse for conversion into prime-site flats the moment the Tate decided to make a play for the old power station.
Meanwhile, under the forward-looking aegis of Jeremy Fraser (leader of Southwark council) and Fred Manson (the borough's director of environment and regeneration), new local planning regulations will ensure that buildings converted here in the wake of the Tate will include shops, cafes and other social facilities at street level. This will overcome one major problem from which the area suffers - single-use buildings that exist as if in a vacuum and have little or no relevance to the lives of local people. In fact, the Bankside quarter of Southwark is home to a plethora of dreary and secret new buildings in which latter-day clerks process cheques and bills and dream of going home as early as possible to the suburbs, as far from Bankside as possible.
Mixed-use buildings will help to overcome this particular form of urban dysfunction. So, too, will an influx of students. The London School of Economics opens a big student hostel this autumn in the former CEGB offices at the back of the future Tate. Meanwhile, the Globe Theatre is thatched and almost ready for action. The long-awaited Southwark Tube station (designed by MacCormac Jamieson and Prichard and possibly to be named Bankside when it opens in 1998) is on schedule, while the pedestrian bridge that may yet link Bankside to St Paul's and the City of London looks increasingly likely to spring into life.
Investment in low-cost housing for rent in the area is planned to balance the potential influx of arty-smarties with their modish clothes, frou- frou shops, private art galleries, novelty restaurants, cars and strident voices. The Tate plans to be very much a part of the local scene, not just in terms of being a great place to meet (which it will be if the architectural plans being developed by Herzog and de Meuron in Zurich turn out to be as coolly glamorous as they promise to be), but also in terms of being highly involved in local arts and education.
The vast spaces of the power station that the Tate will not occupy in its first years may well be given over to other cultural activities and institutions, so that Sir Giles Gilbert Scott's solemn temple of power becomes a powerhouse of contemporary arts from music and theatre to film, photography and architecture as well as the Tate's own artworks.
Open late at night, the Tate will be an integral part of the local cityscape and not isolated from it. It has the potential to draw millions of people and even more millions of pounds to this Dickensian patch of London. It will prove, in every sense, that art is not a plaything of the splendidly isolated wealthy, but a vibrant and lucrative catalyst in generating new life in old cities.
Oddly, the Tate has yet to hear from the Millennium Commission whether or not its bid for pounds 50m of National Lottery money has been successful. For here is a case of lottery money being used as a major, long-term investment in a run-down area and, at the same time, helping to create a world-class modern art gallery that will also serve to bring the arcane world of art down from Parnassus to the marketplace. And, in the process, create the most exciting and elegant brick box in Britain.Reuse content
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Does your life seem out of control at times? Do you need a plan for what is going on in your life? God likely has a plan for you.
We humans often try to make plans for our day or for our lives without considering what God’s plans may be. Religious leaders and the people in the time of Jesus had their ideas of what the Messiah should be like. However, God had other plans . . . .
What does it mean to love another person in a relationship? What are some guidelines to help make the relationship successful?
A passage about love in I Corinthians 13 in the Bible is often used in weddings. However, what does it really mean to love? What does that look like? And what does “love” look like when it is misused? Also, do you know what the numbers are for the Domestic Violence and the Child Abuse hotlines? They are listed in this blog – along with the location for the Power and Control diagram. Love is important in our lives. Let’s learn what it is as we share our lives with others.
We talk about love – love for our parents, for our spouses, for our friends – but what is love really? What does it look like in the everyday processes of life? A passage in the Bible is often used in weddings, but do the participants know what it truly means to love?
How difficult is it to love someone else when you don’t love yourself? What does it mean that Christ loves the church? What does it mean that a husband is to love his wife like Christ loved the church? Read on. . . .
In the last blog, we looked at the role of the wife in the couple’s relationship. Today we will begin to examine the husband’s role – the first part anyway. What does love look like?
There is so much strife among believing couples because they don’t understand their individual roles in the relationship. How can we develop positive relationships?
How can you understand the Bible? What are some guidelines for helping you as you read the Bible and its meaning? Here are five steps to help you understand what you read in the Bible.
Marriage is important, but what does the Bible actually say about marriage? What does the Apostle Paul say about marriage? No, not what others say he says, but what he means when he writes. The purpose of today’s blog is to point the reader to next week’s beginning of a study on marriage from Ephesians 5.
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The high likelihood of a gap-filling thrust earthquake in the Alaska subduction zone within this decade is indicated by two independent methods: analysis of historic earthquake recurrence data and time-to-failure analysis applied to recent decades of instrumental data. Recent (May 1993) earthquake activity in the Shumagin Islands gap is consistent with previous projections of increases in seismic release, indicating that this segment, along with the Alaska Peninsula segment, is approaching failure. Based on this pattern of accelerating seismic release, we project the occurrence of one or more M???7.3 earthquakes in the Shumagin-Alaska Peninsula region during 1994-1996. Different segments of the Alaska-Aleutian seismic zone behave differently in the decade or two preceding great earthquakes, some showing acceleration of seismic release (type "A" zones), while others show deceleration (type "D" zones). The largest Alaska-Aleutian earthquakes-in 1957, 1964, and 1965-originated in zones that exhibit type D behavior. Type A zones currently showing accelerating release are the Shumagin, Alaska Peninsula, Delarof, and Kommandorski segments. Time-to-failure analysis suggests that the large earthquakes could occur in these latter zones within the next few years. ?? 1994 Birkha??user Verlag.
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Daily Report for Executives provides in-depth coverage of unfolding legislative, regulatory, and judicial news from the nation’s capital, the states, and around the world. This daily news service...
By Steff Thomas
July 19 — Pedestrians and bicyclists want to be part of the conversation once cars start talking to each other.
Federal regulators shouldn't forget about pedestrians and bicyclists when they roll out guidelines later this summer for the use of vehicle-to-vehicle communications and driverless technology, advocacy groups such as the League for American Bicyclists say. Several companies, including Honda, Toyota and Google, are already testing technology that would use microchips in cell phones to allow autonomous vehicles to communicate with pedestrians and bicycle riders.
Ken McLeod, state and local policy manager at the bicyclists league, said the development of self-driving vehicles that can communicate with other vehicles and the highway infrastructure has the potential to make sharing the roads safer—if the mistakes of past generations are not repeated.
“The biggest problem for bicyclists and pedestrians is that connected and automated vehicles lead to roads designed exclusively for connected and automated vehicles, as we saw over the last century where roads were designed exclusively for motor vehicles and people outside of motorcycles were an afterthought,” McLeod told Bloomberg BNA. “The shift to connected and autonomous vehicles has the potential to be the defining shift for transportation over the next century and it would be a shame if we did not learn any lessons from the auto-centric policies of the last century.”
Pedestrians and bicyclists understand that initial guidelines the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is expected to roll out this summer will focus mainly on vehicle-to-vehicle technology, McLeod said (See previous story, 06/30/16).
“The hesitancy to prescribe a specific solution should not be taken to mean that the safety of bicyclists, pedestrians, and other non-occupants should not be a high priority for government agencies, manufacturers and technology companies,” McLeod said. “But most people feel it is premature to make specific recommendations about regulations or technology that should be required to protect bicyclists and pedestrians.”
NHTSA has not yet released specifics on the forthcoming guidelines, but notes from the agency’s public meetings have addressed a need for crash-avoidance capability as well as technology that would allow autonomous vehicles to identify and avoid pedestrians and other road users.
“Unprotected road users are always a focus of our safety mission, so it’s absolutely fair to say that they will continue to be considered in future policies and regulations,” NHTSA Communications Director Bryan Thomas told Bloomberg BNA (See previous story, 07/06/16).
Honda Research and Development Americas Inc. has been working with the University of Michigan's M-City team to test cell phone technology, the Honda unit's Chief Engineer Jim Keller told Bloomberg BNA. Students at the Ann Arbor campus have been asked to participate in the study by testing microchips built into LG Electronics and Verizon Communication phones.
Keller said the chips would be programmed to warn both the pedestrian or bicyclist and the vehicle when a collision was imminent, instructing the car to use the automatic braking system already installed in many Honda vehicles.
“We are still trying to understand what the limits of the [vehicle-to-pedestrian] technology are and unfortunately with cell phones, the GPS accuracy is not as precise as it is with vehicles,” Keller said. “So we are conducting research and experiments that will help us understand the true potential, as well as limitations, of this possible lifesaving technology and whether it holds the promise that we think it does.”
Keller said the cell phone chips would operate within a slice of the broadcast spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission set aside in 1999 for auto safety technology.
Bicycle and pedestrian groups are mainly worried about three things: possible technology failure during the transition, the inability to communicate with automated cars and an undermining of efforts to promote biking and walking as equal modes of transportation, McLeod said.
Keller said Honda will ensure that while even its standard vehicles in the future will come with the vehicle-to-vehicle technology, use will be optional.
“It is not our intention to push any technology on drivers that are not ready,” Keller said. “It's still research-level, but we've been pretty aggressive compared to our competitors by working with a whole suite of technology that keeps the driver in the loop.”
Despite enthusiasm for automated technology, some bike and pedestrian advocates worry that connected vehicle technology could shift responsibility away from cars and their drivers should something go wrong.
More than 60 percent of pedestrians and bicyclists who responded to an informal, unscientific survey that the League for American Bicyclists conducted using social media in 2014 said they would support self-driving vehicle technology if it reduced the likelihood of being struck by a car. But 43 percent of the 357 self-selected respondents said they didn't have enough information to know whether connected vehicles would make them safer or more vulnerable.
“Autonomous vehicles offer us an opportunity to invert our current road safety paradigm that presupposes drivers will be drunks and fools, and as such that our vehicles and roadways must be engineered to be forgiving of mistakes,” Mark Plotz, program manager at the National Center for Biking and Walking, told Bloomberg BNA.
“The corollary is our most vulnerable road users—walkers and bikers— are on their own and are expected to be smarter than everyone else if they want to live,” he said.
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This box for electronics serves to store the electronics of any type of 3D printer, open source. It has been created to provide a closed space to save the electronics of those printers that do not have a system to store it.
The idea of this product is based on having better organized and closed cables, connections and electronics. Just by opening the top acrylic lid of the box, we can change the components that can be damaged over time. And allows easy transport of the whole. So when a problem occurs it will not be necessary to transport the entire printer.
The connection between a 3D printer and the box is very simple, made through some connectors that are located on the back of it. In this way we can connect and disconnect a very fast printer, being able to move or transport it better.
Also included is a switch with light to power the electronics with a single button and thus forget to connect and disconnect the power cable.
This box is designed to be able to install a raspberry and thus be able to benefit from its benefits in a practical way and without generating more space.
The kit is compatible with the 2004 LCD screen or Full Graphic screen. Inside the kit there are two different front panels according to the screen that will be used.
Inside the electronic box you can install all the necessary components to put a 3D printer into operation:
Documentation available for assembly at Docs Thingibox
To make a step, you may need a soldering iron and tin.
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Government advises that good planning and good design are inseparable; this course focuses on urban design as a part of town planning. Our approach to urban design emphasises the continuing nature of planning responsibilities (as opposed to the contractual nature of most design professions) and focuses on the everyday use of places and spaces.
- Site project work
Initial modules contextualise ideas of urban design and its evolution. The core of the course is project work on sites where there are current urban design issues and we have established links with the planning authority or a client. We have worked on the hinterland of Bankside, Great Yarmouth Sea Front, and Central Hackney.
The Field Trip module (a compulsory part of the MA and PgDip) prepares you for work in unfamiliar places. Field trips offer our students a unique learning experience. We think of the trips as visits to living laboratories where you'll learn through active, hands-on experience. Beyond your studies, you'll also have the opportunity to develop and enhance their self-confidence and leadership skills. Recent field trips have involved postgraduate planning students visiting Barcelona, Spain; Ruhr Valley, Germany; and Venice, Italy. For all new entrants the field study visit fees are included in the tuition fees.
The dissertation is a research-based urban design project which engages with critical thinking, such as Chris Jones' concept of urban design as 'bringing about change in a man-made world'.
See the website http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/courses/course-finder/urban-planning-design-ma
- Planning history and theory
This module examines the history of planning and the evolution of the theories and ideas that have underpinned the various attempts to intervene in the natural and built environment through the institution of state-led planning systems. It stresses the concept of theory as understanding, the interlinked nature of history and theory and the importance for the development of planning practice.
- Urban design- the heart of planning
The module will focus on the future of an area of London that has undergone radical change in recent years and is the subject of complex and intense pressures for development. The area will have a number of constraints such as being in a Conservation Area and including listed buildings and part of the work will be to assess the balance to be struck between the parts that are of historic value, the parts that are to change and the form of new development, in an area that is complex culturally, socially and economically. The underlying theme to the module is the belief that planners must be able to visualise possible futures for sites in such a way that is positive.
- Urban design project
This project based module provides you with the opportunity to extend and develop your urban design skills in a practical context in relation to the planning process and the urban context for design. You'll also review theories and approaches to urban design in the context of real projects and places in use as well as your own work. Whenever possible the module will be linked to 'live' projects and areas and cases of current interest.
- Sustainable places (with EU field study visit)
This module examines sustainability issues and challenges and the initiatives and responses from spatial planning and related agencies, institutions and organisations in the context of a European field study visit. The module will provide you with a detailed knowledge and understanding of the different forces at work within a region or city context. You'll develop your understanding of sustainability issues and the impact of climate change; recognise the processes of change and identify issues and mechanisms that allow an area to develop to fulfil its potential as well as respond to environmental and related challenges.
- Everyday life: place and performance
On this module you'll focus on the importance of 'the user' and the part spatial planning and urban design play in shaping the settings for the events of everyday life. You'll be introduced to theoretical standpoints from literature, history and other precedents for this approach and will have the opportunity to apply and develop practice in a way that is both innovative and practical, focussed on 'planning' but also multidisciplinary. Each year the module will have a different location and focus to gradually build up a range of materials for research and documentation.
- Planning in London
You'll examine the planning context of London as a World City, as a centre for financial industries and as a home to millions of people. You'll find it particularly useful as an introduction to town planning in the UK and for understanding how a major city functions.
On this module you'll engage with a substantial piece of research and writing which is self-initiated and supported by a specified academic supervisor. This is a double-weighted module that runs over two semesters and is an intensive piece of student-devised learning which normally includes empirical research. You'll choose your own research topic, which must be in the field of your chosen specialism. You can expect this to be a most rewarding experience and the academic high-point of your degree.
Part-time mode taught one day per week, with one or two modules being taught in each semester plus the dissertation being completed by the end of January in the third year.
Modules are assessed by a range of coursework, design and practice-based projects, presentations and a dissertation. There are no exams on this programme
There is a national shortage of qualified town and environmental planners in the UK so the demand for our postgraduate courses is particularly high.
Qualifications in the planning and housing sectors can lead to a wide range of careers. Many of our past and current students hold key positions in their organisations and professional bodies, often as senior managers and business owners.
Graduates have used urban design on the planning courses at LSBU to focus on the relationship between planning and design and several now hold key posts in urban design in private consultancy or public authorities.
LSBU Employability Services
LSBU is committed to supporting you develop your employability and succeed in getting a job after you have graduated. Your qualification will certainly help, but in a competitive market you also need to work on your employability, and on your career search. Our Employability Service will support you in developing your skills, finding a job, interview techniques, work experience or an internship, and will help you assess what you need to do to get the job you want at the end of your course. LSBU offers a comprehensive Employability Service, with a range of initiatives to complement your studies, including:
- direct engagement from employers who come in to interview and talk to students
- Job Shop and on-campus recruitment agencies to help your job search
- mentoring and work shadowing schemes.
The project work for the course is closely integrated with current issues and problems and each year a new site is chosen and new contacts made, visits undertaken and visiting speakers address the students.
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The American consumer drives the U.S. economy. Consumer spending generally makes up around 70% of the nation's GDP. So when spending grows, the nation grows. But when spending slows, so does overall growth. Unfortunately, spending growth wasn't as strong in the first quarter of 2011 as it was in the final quarter of 2010. That's one of the big reasons why the U.S. economy grew at a weak rate of just 1.8%.
Due to the major role consumer spending plays in the U.S. economy, it's one of the most important components of GDP to monitor. Here's how it has increased or declined over the past several years. GDP is also included for comparison:
As you can see, the rates of change of these components don't always match up. The big outlier is the fourth quarter of 2009. GDP growth soared while consumer spending growth actually declined a bit. Obviously, there are other components affecting GDP besides just consumer spending. In that quarter, exports and business spending drove GDP growth higher.
But there's one pretty interesting observation to make here. At no point over this six-year period has consumer spending fallen without GDP also falling. So as consumer spending growth slows, there's reason to worry about overall GDP. If weakening economic confidence is causing Americans to grip their wallets a little more tightly, then GDP growth will likely begin to contract.
The good news, however, is that consumer spending growth wasn't really all that weak in the first quarter. At the quarterly annualized growth rate of 2.7%, that's still the second strongest rate of growth since the fourth quarter of 2006 -- before the recession began. Considering that gas prices rose significantly during the quarter, the resilience of consumer spending looks even more impressive. So the nation's economic growth may have slowed, but the American consumer doesn't appear to be pulling back much just yet.
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To Acad. E. P. Kruglyakov,
Acad. V.L. Ginzburg
Russian Academy of Sciences' (RAS)
Commission on fight with Fraud
in Science, Pseudoscientists
and Torsion Fields.
1. Fraud means:
A. an act of criminal dishonesty, for example: to get money by fraud;2. Torsion: Torsion had been used by F. Frenet since 1847, then from 1895 by G. Ricci (to describe rotation as an analytical expression of what we call torsion), later by R.Weitzenbock from 1923-24, E. Cartan from 1926-27, A. Einstein from 1927-28.Unfortunately, your scientific advisors did not inform you of the origin of the term torsion, before your team attempted to make it a trade-mark term for your pseudoscience campaign.Your Initiative resembles the Pseudo genetics campaign from Nikita Khrushchev's time, which threw the USSR backwards for many years. Do you intend to repeat it with pseudo torsion related to physics? If not, then ask your advisors to update you.The world is encountering technologies, created by vacuum metric engineering of warp. Professionals will be lost, if they do not know about Ricci rotation of local space, Riemann local space time curvatures, the properties of vacuum, etc. So should Russian scientists learn from foreign scientists again?!Please, do not repeat such dramatic mistakes for Russia and do not mislead the talented scientists, who wish to and have to study the truth about nature, energy, matter, etc. Do not mislead gifted engineers, who need up-todate knowledge to enhance their inventions. The real scientist is he who is searching for the truth about nature and about the laws of the universe. If a scientist stops his study, he stops being a scientist. Luckily, there are more discoveries forthcoming:
B. False science.i) Shipov has never received money by fraud as it was claimed by members of Your commission: his research is privately funded and done with good will. Can you provide the proof that Dr. Shipov received money by fraud?C. Do you have any serious objection to the above?
ii) Concerning scientific verification: please, have a look at his website http://www.shipov.com/science.html: Dr. Shipov's fundamental theory, validated by experimental results; articles, lessons, video clips of experiments are on his website together with working model, which is available for viewing in his laboratory at any time.Objectively, the desired breakthroughs might be impossible to achieve. Reciprocally, history has shown that breakthroughs tend to take the pessimists by surprise - Mark Millis.3. Dear Acad. Kruglyakov, why have you chosen this anonym character, Prof. A. Konkretny, to be the spokesman for the RAS Commission on fight with Fraud in Science, Pseudoscientists and Torsion Fields? How can an anonym lead a campaign for a national organization such as the Russian Academy of Sciences, that represents the intellectual and scientific frontier of a significant country?
4. Our brief analysis of Prof. A.K.'s identity.A. Teamwork:* Amazingly prolific in writing for a single person: number of subjects, volume of work, etc.B. Strategic methods:
* Too much presence: he participates at many chats, websites, etc.
* His pen-styles vary too much: from good English to lowest Russian jargon.* Targets too many talented scientists at the same time.C. Multiple personalities:
* Likes to humiliate his victims and to harass them psychologically.*One day — he fights, another day — he wishes to become our ally, on a third day he asks us to slap his face, see the original: From Prof. A.Konkretny: Commission on fight with Fraud in Science, Pseudoscientists and Torsion Fields, etc. (Translation: Seriously speaking, in your place, I would slap the face of such a character as Konkrentny, as well as others).D. Social activities:* ·He claims that he has met with such prominent foreign scientists as A. Krish, A. Troutman, etc.Recently, several people were disturbed by Prof. A.K.'s harassing activities, and initiated an investigation into his true identity. The discovery had been stunning: 90% of Prof. A. Konkretny's e-mails had been launched from Khrunichev's Research Institute of Space Systems (KRI SS), — our partners to be. No comments!
Some considerations:* ·KRI SS has replicated Dr. Shipov's prototype of the 4-D Gyroscope in 2002 to study his works.The above is not the only case of plagiarism against hard working Dr. G. Shipov (I admire his patience!) Another RAS's shameful experience:
* ·In 2003 KRI SS released a book Propulsion Systems Without Rejection of Masses (the title was derived from Shipov's former work), the content of which has been principally based upon Dr. Shipov's fundamental research (up to 40%), without seeking his permission. Dr. Shipov has not even been included as one of the authors of this book?
* ·Recently, in November 2004, KRI SS made an announcement http://www.polarmar.ru/seanews/119.shtml that they are going to build a new type of propulsion system without rejection of masses. But they say they are working with the fields of unknown nature. Meanwhile, earlier in 2003, as above, they had published their book Foundation of the Propulsion Motion Without Rejection of Mass, based upon Dr. Shipov's foundation for the motion without refection of mass, Theory of physical vacuum, his experimental results, that explains the nature of the fields, they are working with.* ·Dr. N.N.Popov simply copied a chapter A 4 Geodesic Equations from Theory of Physical Vacuum and published a new monograph About one approach in the theory of calibrating fields (RAS, Moscow, 1997) under his own name — N.N. Popov!The conclusion: an anonym mask was required to hide Shadows of the Mind tactic — to morally destroy Dr. Shipov and to consume Intellectual results of his works?! http://www.kirsoft.com.ru/intell/KSNews_68.htm
* ·In 2002 Dr. N.N. Popov again copied ideas and geometry from Dr. Shipov's Theory of physical vacuum and released his next book New ideas about space time and the problem of geometrization of the matter (URSS, Moscow, 2002) without any references.
* ·Since 1991 RAS Dr. V.I. Panov had been working with Dr. Shipov, borrowed a lot of materials, prototypes, designs, etc, as his pupil. Nowadays Dr. V.I. Panov announced himself an inventor of a device that works due to the fields of unknown nature without any references to Dr.Shipov's works.
5. Dear Acad. Ginsburg,
You are an outstanding physicist and belong to the elite scientific team on Earth, who has received honors, because they have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind' as specified in the will of Alfred Nobel You have mentioned, that during your more than sixty years of practical work you do not know of an instance where a truly valuable work or idea in the field of physics has not been published in your magazine.Seeking to be published in your magazine, Dr. G. Shipov had sent you his first work on General relativistic electrodynamics with tensor potential (Izvestia VUZOV, Physics, 10,1972, p 98-104) in August of 1972, followed by another attempt in 1992 with his book Problems of Elementary interactions in physics (Moscow, MSU, 1979, 146 p), then thirdly, jointly with Prof L. Keldysh, his scientific supervisor, you were given Dr. Shipov's next monograph Program of general relativity and theory of vacuum (VINITI, N Moscow, 1988, 131 p).
All three times his works had been lost from your office table.Recently Dr. Shipov has completed an impressive work. His theoretical articles, lessons, experimental results are available at http://www.shipov.com/science.html as well as working models in his laboratory.Now you may be glad to congratulate a colleague, who achieved really significant results.During World Year of Physics 2005, when the entire world celebrates top achievements in physics, all Russian physicists will be looking for your enlightening advice and wise support that may contribute to a better future and greater prosperity of the country.
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We’ve finally reached the end of our series on the Minor Prophets. It seems that the people of Israel reached the end of their rope. After centuries of waiting to regain their status in the region, after watching Assyria, Babylon, and Persia fall, yet failing to become autonomous much less regain control of their Promised Land, the Israelites decide to wait for God to come back around. I wonder if they thought they had done everything they could do.
As I read the prophets, it seems that they had a couple of major critiques. First, there was a problem with cultic practice. It wasn’t in the right place or done by the right people or done the right way. Whenever these issues are raised, for the most part, Israel repents. They consolidate worship to Jerusalem, they rebuild the temple. However, when the problem brought up by the prophets is justice, I don’t see any stories of repentance. For taking bribes and stealing land and selling people into slavery, we do not repent. So when judgment does, in fact, come, when another empire is at the gates, all they have are thoughts and prayers.
When we look at the seemingly intractable problems of our day – racism, sexism, gun violence, climate change; the list goes on and on – there is a hopeless acceptance that sets in. This is just the way it is. Our responses are not that different than the people Israel. Faced with school shootings, we’re willing to build something, to turn our schools into fortresses, but we’re not willing to beat our AR-15s into plowshares. When we look at an impoverished neighborhood, we’ll build a couple of bridges costing nearly a billion dollars, but we won’t enact policies to ensure that the people who have been suffering in that neighborhood for decades can afford to stay and reap the benefits of economic development. Instead, we’ll push those people, mostly people of color, farther south and east, perhaps even to a different city. Then we’ll ask, What more could we have done? Our thoughts and prayers are with them, but little else.
Jesus took up the job of the prophets, pronouncing judgment on the leadership of Israel. But he did more. Rather than wait for the powers to respond, he began a mission of realpolitik, actually meeting the needs of the people who were suffering. He fed them and healed them. He gave them hope, not in some future reward, but in the here and now, organizing together to confront the powers directly. This time, when this prophet spoke to the rulers of his day, he had thousands of people at his back.
The prophets called their representatives, but the representatives had no reason to listen. Just as we can’t rely on the fleeting energy of the protest, we can’t rely on electoral politics to make change. When we call our representatives, they have to understand that an engaged electorate is more powerful than money. The electorate becomes engaged when their needs are met. We can move from the prophetic moment to the Jesus Movement, a movement that seeks justice and peace for everyone, if we endeavor to meet the needs of the people who are suffering.
I think the people of Church in the Cliff are uniquely suited to do this – though we are certainly not unique and not alone. When the people of Israel chose to build a building instead of create justice, it was because they forgot who they were. They were slaves once. They were strangers. The memory of that faded. Most people at Church in the Cliff have the experience of being marginalized in some way, even if only in standing with those who were. That memory is fresh. For many of us, our hearts are still broken. Let us endeavor to keep those hearts open with compassion and not hardened by bitterness. The opportunities to speak prophetically will never cease, but more is required from those who remember. Like Jesus, we may not eat from the garden we plant, but someone will, someone who is now as we once were.
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Today in Food History
• National Banana Split Day (The banana split was supposedly invented in 1904 at Strickler's Drug Store in Pennsylvania).
• National Whiskey Sour Day
• Feast of St. Louis IX, patron of distillers.
• [World Water Week] (Aug 23-Sept 1, 2022 - annual Aug or Sept) World Water Week is organised by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) and takes place in Stockholm, Sweden. It has been the annual focal point for the globe’s water issues since 1991. (Water Trivia & Facts)
On this day in:
1718 New Orleans was founded by French colonists. The city was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time.
(Louisiana Food Trivia & Facts)
1810 Peter Durand was granted the first patent for preserving food in tin cans, English patent No. 3372. (A similar method developed earlier by Nicolas Appert in France used only glass containers). Durand worked only with tin cans, although his patent mentions glass, pottery, tin or other metals.
(History of Canned Foods)
1840 Joseph Gibbons of Adrian, Michigan received a patent for a 'Grain Drill,' the first practical seeding machine.
1906 Max Eyth died (born May 6, 1836). German engineer and inventor working with agricultural machinery in England and Germany. He founded the German Agricultural Society (1884).
1910 Arnold Neustadter was born (died April 17, 1996). Inventor of the Rolodex rotating card file.
1916 The U.S. National Park Service was created as an agency of the Department of the Interior.
1935 Curtis Fletcher Marbut died. American geologist and one of the founders of modern soil science. He was with the U.S. Bureau of Soils for 25 years.
1936 Ralph W. Kerr receives U.S. patent No. 2,052,308 for Odorless Cornstarch. It will not turn rancid, and will remain odorless for a long period of time.
(Cornstarch Cooking Tips)
1949 'Father Knows Best' debuted on NBC radio, sponsored by General Foods. The show moved to television in 1954.
1958 Momofuku Ando, founder of Nissin Foods, markets the first precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen).
1959 Golden Grain Macaroni Corp. registered ‘Rice-A-Roni’ trademark (first used 1957).
1968 Rachael Ray was born. American celebrity chef, cookbook author and cooking show host (Rachael Ray; 30 Minute Meals; etc.). [Website: www.rachaelray.com/]
2001 In Oslo, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway married former waitress Mette-Marit.
2006 The movies 'Beerfest' and 'How to Eat Fried Worms' opened in U.S. theatres.
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Gonorrhea could also be a standard Sexually Transmitted Disease caused by a bacterium called gonococcus and it is often very stubborn to treat, and it affects mostly the moist areas of the body.
A person may develop noticeable symptoms for several weeks while some men may never develop symptoms, but this post will expose you to a special method by which you will be ready to use to treat gonorrhea naturally, by using natural crops like garlic or turmeric.
The first symptoms of gonorrhea in men are often feeling of burning or pain during urination., while afterward, greater urgency of urination and a pus-like discharge from the private part and afterward pharyngitis.
And for the women, it’s hard for them to notice once they catch it, though the primary symptoms can appear very almost like common vaginal yeast or bacterial infections. Then the later symptoms, are watery or colorful discharge from the private, pain or burning sensation while urinating, and urge to urinate most frequently.
Also feverish conditions and heavier periods or pharyngitis and also pain during intimacy and sharp pain within the lower abdomen.
See How to use turmeric as a cure
One way to cure it is to make a tea out of raw turmeric, just cut a base of turmeric in pieces, make sure you wash it well, add some boiling water to it. Later the turmeric will sink down and make sure you drink all through the whole day, it has a nice taste without any sugars.
See How to use garlic as a cure
Garlic has a strong smell and it is likewise known for the antibacterial properties it has, so it is majorly a regular usage for many home solutions which have bacterial complications.
Just pick three of four raw pieces of garlic and take them this way like this one when you wake up in the morning and one in the evening. The dosage is just to take 2 all through the day, make sure you are touching your privates and exercising it, and continuously swallow it with water.
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New Energy Star Specifications for Commercial Dishwashers and Ice Machines
Release Date: 07/31/2007
Contact Information: Enesta Jones, (202) 564-4355 / firstname.lastname@example.org
(Washington, D.C. - July 31, 2007) Today EPA is announcing specifications for two new commercial food service products -- dishwashers and ice machines -- that will earn the Energy Star label. More efficient commercial kitchen equipment can save restaurants and food service facilities from 10 to 30 percent on commercial kitchen energy consumption.
"Energy efficiency is a top priority among restaurant owners and operators," said Bob Meyers, EPA's principal deputy assistant administrator for Air and Radiation. "We are pleased to deliver more options to save on energy costs and help protect the environment through two new commercial food service products earning the Energy Star."
The specifications cover several types of machines in both categories, requiring them to meet maximum energy and water efficiency savings. Other Energy Star commercial food service products include fryers, steam cookers, hot food holding cabinets, and solid door reach-in refrigerators and freezers.
Restaurant and commercial kitchen owners and operators will be able to purchase Energy Star qualified commercial dishwashers starting Oct.11, 2007 and ice makers starting Jan. 1, 2008. Over the next five years, these new Energy Star products are expected to save restaurants $100 million in reduced energy and water costs. These products will help improve the energy intensity of food service buildings, which consume roughly 2.5 times more energy per square foot than other commercial buildings.
Energy Star was started by EPA in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency. In 2006 alone, Americans with the help of Energy Star saved $14 billion on their energy bills and reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those of 25 million vehicles.
New specification for commercial dishwashers: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=new_specs.comm_dishwashers
More on Energy Star-qualified commercial dishwashers: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=comm_dishwashers.pr_comm_dishwashers
New specification for ice machines: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=new_specs.ice_machines
More on Energy Star-qualified ice machines: http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=comm_ice_machines.pr_comm_ice_machines
Energy Star is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy designed to save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.
Energy Star: http://www.energystar.gov
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov
U.S. Department of Energy: http://www.energy.gov
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We have a choice of spending our holidays either by going into a slumber without even caring for a sweet dream or by getting out and seeking adventure. An outing on a 26 mile trail for four days to start with and a grandeur visual treat to end with; would be the best emprise in the offing. “The Ruins of Machu Picchu“, being the best choice, is a pre-Columbian Inca site located on a mountain ridge above the Urumbamba valley in Peru and “The Inca Trail” to reach this site adds to the excitement. Listed among the Seven Wonders of the World by the Swiss based “New7Wonders Foundation”, Machu Picchu (“Old Peak”, as it translates to English) has one of the most picturesque views in the world. A city built by the Incas, the largest empire of pre-Columbian history, around 1430 AD and abandoned a hundred years later (for unknown reasons) stands at 8000 ft above sea level. Often called “The Lost City of the Incas”, this majestic city epitomizes the lost civilization and has been conferred as a UNESCO world heritage site.
The journey breaks down into smaller sojourns, you will first land at the International Airport in Lima, the capital city of Peru, and head towards “Cusco” (the closest city to Machu Picchu with an airport) by air, bus or rail depending on the Soles (local currency) you are willing to shell out. The view from the plane towards Cusco adds to the much-needed hype and just about optimal temperatures in the month of July rejuvenate you from the tired journey you have made so far. Cusco, one of the most beautiful cities of Peru, also listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, has its own treat to offer and again depends on your budget to pay a visit. Though there are other means of reaching Machu Picchu, such as bus, train or helicopter, the journey on foot along the Inca Trail gives a better experience. The local government issues 200 passes per day to be purchased for the trail, and apart from this you can purchase trail package services from local trekking firms.
The Inca Trail built by the Incas as a part of the road system to Machu Picchu is rated among the five best trekking experiences in the world. One has to be fit and take proper precautions before starting on this trail. People often affected by altitude sickness are recommended to have “mate de coca”, which a form of tea considered to be a local remedy. The trail passes through “The Andes” mountain range and you get a chance to experience various surroundings, like the cloud forests, alpine tundra etc. Most part of the trail is of the original Inca construction and has small permanent settlements adjacent it. As you walk along these settlements you would envy them for being a part of a place you wish was in your backyard. The heights to be scaled and the dips to be tripped leave your heart pounding with excitement and a sense of joy prevails. As you walk along the cloud forests your body feels the levitation as if you were among angels, living in clouds high above in the sky. You will live out of tents, eat packed food, drink water in ration and experience altitude sickness but all the pain is worth the experience. At the end of the trail you get a glimpse of the city of Machu Picchu through the “Sun Gate” at about noon, leaving you gaping with your mouth wide open and you feel like you travelled all along to step into heaven through the “Sun Gate”.
At the city of Machu Picchu, currently stand the ruins of an erstwhile civilization. Separated into three areas – agricultural, urban, and religious – the structures are arranged so that the function of the buildings matches the form of their surroundings. The agricultural terracing and aqueducts take advantage of the natural slopes; the lower areas contain buildings occupied by farmers and teachers, and the most important religious areas are located at the crest of the hill, overlooking the lush Urubamba Valley thousands of feet below. As you walk along the ruins, it creates a kind of camaraderie, leaves you appreciating the planning and the grandeur of the place. The Temple of the Sun, Intihuatana (an instrument to ‘tie up the sun’), the corridor of three warriors and the main temple stand as major architectural wonders among the ruins. The greenery of the place blends along with mountain ranges that surround, the fact that you are on earth would sink in after hours of tiresome wandering in this place. Alike a seven course meal, just when you think it’s done you see a mouth-watering dessert being served; “The Huayna Picchu” or the second hill is the dessert on this course and offers the best view of the Machu Picchu site. The tip of this peak gives you the zenith of this journey with a gentle breeze caressing your face and a tired but enthralled eyes gazing down the valley. You can stay in the lone hotel at Machu Picchu, but considering the rarity of the situation, the price you end up paying is almost double of what you would pay at “Aguas Calientes” (a nearby village). Aguas Calientes offers an atypical tradition of hot springs for which it was originally named; as you walk along the streets you find these baths. Though not in a bad shape, they give a feel of a public pool and can get crowded at times, but it would be a good choice to drain off the four-day Inca trail sweat you might have mustered. This town offers a gamut of pizza restaurants and gives a plethora of choices to eat. The market place along the Machu Picchu gives you ample choice to pick up souvenirs.
As you start your journey back, leaving a place that co-existed in the same world but gave you an out of the world experience would be disappointing but gives you a sense of achievement. This holiday will easily make it to the once in a life time list and will leave you with memories to last a life time.
Ikshwak Kandi Reddy
[Image courtesy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bit-ramone/2578836205/]
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Do you want to help make a difference and conserve our precious water resources while saving money on your school’s water bills?
Would you like access to easy to use technologies that let your students get involved and learn about in monitoring, managing and saving water?
Becoming a Flowd, water smart school today, can help conserve water and save money.
Flowd technologies allows schools to have easy access to up to date data on their water use. This helps you to keep an eye on how much water your school is using and when you are using it.
You can use this information to make sure you are on track to conserve water and help reduce those ever-present water bills.
We also help to make sure that you don’t have a hidden water leak somewhere, slowing causing damage behind walls, for example, that might cost your school a small fortune to fix later on.
Once your school’s Flowd Smart Water Meter is installed, it communicates at half-hourly intervals with the Flowd Smart Water App, offering real-time data on water usage, directly to your fingertips, through your mobile phone, desk-top or tablet.
This tells you how much water your school is using and at what time of the day, every day of the week.
Because the Flowd App is registering water usage at half-hour intervals, it can detect if there is abnormal or excess water usage at your school.
Imagine all of the areas where there could be a dripping tap, or a concealed water leak somewhere within all of your schools facilities.
The App can be configured to provide you with an automatic alert if there is a leak or excess usage, enabling you to address the issue straight away so that it doesn’t become a bigger problem, or expense, later on.
An optional part of our services are the Flowd Stop-Cock leak protection valves for all of the braided hoses at your school (normally found under sinks). These valves offer an immediate leak protection mechanism.
Installing the Flowd smart water system gives you complete piece of mind that your school is being protected from water leaks and excess usage, 24 hours a day.
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Discovery assessments: time limits, the staleness concept, and Finance Bill changes
Newsletter issue - November 2021
The discovery assessment provisions in s. 29 of TMA 1970 permits HMRC to make an assessment for underpaid tax in certain situations. The time limit for raising the assessment depends on the behaviour that led to the underpayment. The standard time limit is four years from the end of the relevant tax year, but this increases to six years in cases of carelessness. Where there has been deliberate behaviour leading to an underassessment, the time limit is 20 years.
A discovery assessment is a valuable tool in HMRC's arsenal, as these time windows are considerably longer than those for raising enquiries. However, it is important to understand that s. 29 gives HMRC the power to raise an assessment, not to open an enquiry outside the window.
In the case of Raymond Tooth (R), a number of aspects of the legislation were considered that are important to understand in practice. A discovery assessment can only be made if there is a genuine "discovery" of an inaccuracy leading to an underpayment of tax (this can include an omission of income). R had entered into a tax planning arrangement that involved employment losses. A disclosure was made in the additional information pages, and the losses were recorded in the partnership pages of the return due to limitations with the software used.
HMRC opened an enquiry, but were later informed that they had done so under the wrong statutory provision. Being out of time to open a valid enquiry, a discovery assessment was raised. Due to the length of time that had elapsed since the end of the relevant tax year, HMRC needed to show there was a deliberate inaccuracy in order for the s. 29 assessment to be valid.
The case progressed all the way to the Supreme Court, via both tax tribunals and the Court of Appeal. All four courts found in favour of R, but for slightly different reasons on each occasion.
On the matter of whether there was a deliberate inaccuracy, the Supreme Court stated that a "deliberate inaccuracy" means one that is deliberately inaccurate, rather than a deliberate statement which transpires to be inaccurate. The difference is subtle, but important. The Court held that for a statement to be deliberately inaccurate "there will have to be demonstrated an intention to mislead the Revenue on the part of the taxpayer as to the truth of the relevant statement or, perhaps, (although it need not be decided on this appeal) recklessness as to whether it would do so".
The Court decided that there was no inaccuracy, due to the quantum of the figures being correct when looking at the return as a whole - albeit some were in the wrong place. Had R simply included the figures on the partnership pages with no explanation, the decision may have gone the other way - which underlines the importance of making a disclosure in the white space whenever there is any potential for confusion. In any case, the judges also said that even if the use of the "fudge" did constitute an inaccuracy, they were not convinced it would have been deliberate, meaning the shorter time limit applied and HMRC would have been out of time with the assessment anyway.
The Upper Tribunal had found that there was no valid discovery because HMRC had taken the view that there was an inaccuracy five years prior to raising the assessment (for the reasons explained above). The discovery was therefore "stale" due to the time that elapsed. This view was upheld by the Court of Appeal. The Supreme Court dismissed the concept of staleness, pointing out that there is no mention of it in the statutory provisions or in previous case law. The judges' view was that there is no need for such a concept, as the taxpayer is already protected by the statutory deadlines.
It is important to understand that this represents the opinion of the judges, but as it was not essential to the crucial facts of the case in hand, it is merely an observation made "in passing", so it does not set a legal precedent. However, it does indicate the likely way that a case that did rely on an argument of staleness would go if heard.
Finance Bill changes
The Finance Bill 2021/22 contains clauses to bring the High-Income Child Benefit Charge (and certain other charges that are collected via self-assessment but are not directly attributed to income or gains) firmly within the remit of s. 29. This follows the Upper Tribunal decision of Jason Wilkes, which held that there was no legal right under s. 29 only to collect these charges.
Controversially, the provisions will be retroactive - a move which is very rarely popular, though HMRC's argument is that the change is merely a clarification of the law. The forthcoming Court of Appeal decision will consider the matter in detail based on the existing law.
The legislation will not apply retrospectively to those individuals who previously received a discovery assessment and:
- who submitted an appeal to HMRC, on the basis of the arguments considered by the upper tribunal, on or before 30 June 2021(the date at which the Upper Tribunal handed down its decision in the relevant case.); or
- whose appeal, made on or before 30 June 2021, has been stood over by the Tribunal pending the final outcome of the relevant litigation.
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Artists / Stavropol Regional Museum of Fine Arts
Stavropol Region Museum of Fine Arts is one of the greatest on the North Caucasus and the only one collection of artistic values in Stavropol Region consisting of antique, classic European art divisions, Russian pre-revolution period with the collection of icon-painting divisions. The modern art division with the biggest part of the collection of Stavropol painters and decorative art division are also presented in the exposition of the Museum.
The Museums collection chronologically covers the period from the 5th century BC to the 90s of hte 20th century. It gives the opportunity to see the common indications and national peculiarity of the art and culture of the different countries. The collection of the Museum allows to present to the visitors the technics and materials, different types and genres of the art and the history of its development.
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NEW DELHI - New Delhi Municipal Council, the city planning body of India's capital, will introduce a fleet of taxis with women drivers next month, in a bid to check the number of crimes against women on buses and in taxis.
The cab service called 'Shakti' - which means Power in Hindi - will cater to areas within the NDMC jurisdiction. The project was initially aiming to flag off on March 8 on International Women's Day but got delayed, the Indian Express newspaper said quoting sources.
The initiative comes amid a growing number of rape cases reported against women in the capital region after the horrific gang-rape of a physiology student on board a bus in Delhi in December 2012. Two years later, a 25-year-old woman, returning home from work, was allegedly raped by the driver of the Uber cab she had hired.
The Shakti project had aimed at launching 100 taxis but it was limited to 20 for lack of funds.
"The service will have a fleet of 20 taxis.. but the modalities of the scheme are still being worked out," a senior NDMC official said.
The official said the women drivers will be trained at an institute run by the NDMC. The council plans to introduce the service at tariffs which are in tune with those put out by the Transport department.
The civic body has also decided to recruit women drivers for all buses ferrying children. "Since children are easy targets for crimes such as molestation, we decided to ensure their security in this way. The women drivers with commercial licences have been already selected and they will also begin working from next month," the official said.
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, NAIROBI, Kenya, Jul 26 – President Barack Obama has taken a jibe at the Opposition, saying he found it odd that they would want the US to interfere with Kenya’s internal affairs, but took the opposite stand when in power.
Speaking at a forum with the civil society, Obama said he met with the Opposition earlier Sunday and told them there was a legally elected government and the US would work with the current regime.
“But we are also always going to be listening to all elements of the Kenyan society. It’s funny though that one of the Opposition leaders – I won’t mention who – was saying we really need you to press the Kenyan government on some issues and I had to say to him, I remember when you were in government kept on saying why are you trying to interfere with Kenya’s business? You should mind your own business.
He said everyone wants the US to be very involved when they are not in power but when in power want the super power “to mind its own business.”
He said America would continue to be honest and to promote the kinds of policies and interests they believe in.
He reminded participants at the event that Kenya’s prosperity its freedom, opportunity and strength of its democracy depends on its people.
“There was a time post-colonial; cold war when the big major powers were constantly interfering and determine what was happening in other countries and sometimes the US was involved on deciding who should be in charge of countries but that honestly has changed.
He said the US policy was to respect the sovereignty of nations and who leads them.
He however made it clear that the US would not apologise for believing in certain values and ideals.
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10 Things Every Reader Should Do in 2017
Everywhere you look, there's someone trying to give authors advice. What to do, what not to do, how to behave, how to use social media, the best way to engage readers, etc. However, all of that only works if someone is reading your books. Simply put, there is no writer without readers. Sure, you can write your novels and get them published, but if no one's reading them, you might as well become best friends with that famous tree that keeps falling in the forest when there's no one around to hear it crash. With that in mind, and as a bizarre sort of thank you note for your time and support, this one goes out to you, fellow readers. Here are ten things every reader should do in 2017:
1. Read outside your comfort zone
Maybe you love hardcore horror and think that anything else will be too tame for you. Well, there's plenty of gritty crime fiction out there that is as dirty, violent, and gory as some of the best novels hardcore horror has to offer. Similarly, if you like fantasy, for example, it would be worth your time to look into bizarro fiction. The point is that the dividing lines between genres are getting blurrier by the day, and saying you don't read something because you don't think you'll like it is a very easy way of missing out on some outstanding work. When someone tells me they hate poetry, they're usually talking about the kind of poetry that is published in reviews that feature a bird or a cloud on the cover and have ties to MFA programs. To cure them, I read them a few poems by Justin Grimbol, who writes the most heartfelt poetry about things like butts and minivans. If all readers learned to challenge themselves that way, their reading horizons would expand, and that is always a good thing.
2. Read multiple books at once
I could tell you that reading more than one book at a time is a great way to enjoy a variety of genres, that it prevents you from becoming bored, or that you will probably end up reading more books that way. However, I will not tell you all that. Instead, I will tell you that I have spent a lot of time reading jargon-filled neurological studies and have boiled down the results for you here: reading multiple books simultaneously is like doing push ups for your brain. Having a jacked brain is a good thing. Get on it.
3. Leave reviews
Forget the mysterious world of Amazon algorithms; the point is that other readers like to know what folks who have read a book think about it. A single line will do. Authors love reviews, and they don't even have to be positive. I have read 1-star reviews on Amazon that have made me immediately purchase a book. The point is that a review on Amazon, Goodreads, your own blog, or wherever else is the best way to thank an author for a book you enjoyed or to insult them if you thought it was a waste of time. It'll only take a minute out of your day and it'll probably make an author's day, so do it.
4. Protect your eyes
Sure, it sounds silly. At least it sounded silly to me until I slashed my cornea. Your eyes are liquid-filled sacks open to the elements. We use them for reading and sometimes abuse them with hours of television, computer scree, and nore reading. That won't change, but at least stop scratching them once in a while and put some lubricating drops in there. Your eyes will thank you.
5. Share what you love and forget what you hate
Why focus on the negative all the time? I already know you hate Fifty Shades of Grey. That's cool. I haven't read it and I hate it, too! However, I'd rather tell you about some fantastic reads I've enjoyed recently. There's a lot of awful stuff out there, so try to focus on shining a light on that which you consider worthy of someone else's time and money.
6. Become an advocate
Sadly, a lot of people don't read. In the past, I judged these people. Now, I realize that life follows a different path for everyone and some individuals only need to be exposed to something in order to change their views. Talk to folks about what they like to watch on television, for example, and you'll quickly find a way to recommend some reading material. Feel free to use comics and graphic novels as gateway drugs. Sometimes excitement is contagious, and the more passionately you talk about books and reading, the higher the chances of helping someone take that first step and crack open a book. Give books away. Give books to people on their birthdays. Buy books for kids and teach them early on that reading is a way to live a million lives and go on a million adventures.
7. Accept once and for all that reading is reading
Is some literature better than others? That's a tricky question, but the answer can be simple: yes. That being said, reading is reading. I don't read YA, but I don't make fun of adults who do because they're enjoying themselves and, more importantly, they're reading. The same goes for fantasy and romance and horror and whatever else: people who love those genres are reading, and your opinion regarding their genre of choice is better left unspoken if it's negative because the bottom line is that they are part of your tribe despite their tastes.
8. Listen to John Waters
"If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them!" - John Waters
10. Support indie lit
Read Stephen King and James Patterson is you want. That's fine. However, there is a lot of outstanding, unique, brave fiction and nonfiction you'll be missing out on of you only pick up books that appear on best-seller lists. Go out there and support indie presses and their authors because in indie lit lies the future of literature. Some of the most talented living authors are being published by indie presses, and the more attention they get, the more opportunities open up for them as well as for others. Need some recommendations? You know where to find me. Now go read.
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ILOILO CITY - Iloilo City's participatory approach to addressing issues on urban housing is among the five finalists in the 2021-2022 World Resources Institute (WRI) Ross Center Prize for Cities from among the 260 applications from 155 cities in 65 countries.
Iloilo City joined four other finalists from India, France, Colombia, and Pakistan, which were announced virtually during the World Urban Forum in Katowice, Poland on the evening of June 29 in the Philippines.
The "Participatory Housing and Urban Development in Iloilo City" showcases the collaboration of urban poor communities under the Iloilo City Urban Poor Network and the city government to respond to issues of informal settlers that "scaled up citywide", regional coordinator of the Homeless People's Federation Philippines, Inc. (HPFPI) - Western Visayas, Sonia Cadornigara, said in an interview on Friday.
"We are (a) partner of the city government in all development process(es), particularly affecting homeless people and those in need of basic services, including their livelihood component," Cadornigara said.
The network is composed of the HPFPI, Iloilo Federation of Community Association, and the Iloilo City Urban Poor Federation.
Their engagement ranges from assistance with land acquisition, community upgrading, provision of housing materials, and construction of houses for the urban poor.
No fund was sourced from the local government but grants were coming from various international agencies, according to Cadornigara.
The city government provides technical assistance through its Iloilo City Urban Poor Affairs Office (ICUPAO).
The network is also among the partners of the city government in the beneficiary selection and validation of recipients for housing projects intended for informal settlers and those that will be displaced by government priority projects.
She added that the HPFPI has a non-negotiable requirement of a community savings program where they have to set aside a certain amount every week.
About 400 families benefitted from the construction of new houses, while they also helped build transit housing for victims of Typhoon Frank in 2008 aside from its ongoing housing materials assistance for urban poor communities.
"In all aspects of the housing project, the (urban) poor community is involved," Iloilo City Urban Poor Federation president Benfred Tacuyan, said in a separate interview.
The federation has about 11,000 individual members from various associations in relocation sites and in other communities that are faced with issues regarding the security of land tenure.
"The local government, as its major strategy, has involved the urban poor sector in implementing major projects, especially in clearing the project areas. The impact on affected families is different when the concerned sector, together with the local government, is reaching out to them," he added.
The grand winner, to be announced in December, will receive USD250,000, while the four runners-up will get USD25,000 each.
The WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities is a global award that celebrates and highlights transformative urban change. (PNA)
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A rise in interest rates still appears some way away after minutes from the Bank of England's latest rate setting meeting showed the voting remained unchanged on the previous month.
Seven members of the Monetary Policy Committee voted to keep rates unchanged, while two said they wanted rates to rise, the same pattern as in June.
Spencer Dale and Martin Weale remain in the minority with both wanting rates to rise by 0.25% to 0.75%.
Adam Posen was again a lone voice in wanting the Bank's programme of quantitative easing increased by £50 billion to give the economy a boost.
Explaining the reasons behind the decisions, the committee said that the economy had been weaker than expected and would persist for longer than originally anticipated.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (cebr) said the surprise fall in inflation, from 4.5% in May to 4.2% in June, gives the Bank of England room for manoeuvre in keeping rates stable until the economic recovery gains a stronger foothold.
"Overall, we think the MPC's majority view on monetary policy is about right," said the think tank.
"With the Eurozone on the brink of a potential meltdown amidst the ongoing sovereign debt crisis, the possibility of another recession in the Western economies remains a distinct possibility.
"Tightening monetary policy against this background could prove a major policy error.
"A sharp weakening in the UK economic outlook could warrant further quantitative easing - we may actually see a further loosening in monetary policy before interest rates start rising again."
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It’s in our basic nature to reach for a large portion when hungry. Therefore, workouts apart, it’s a must to keep high-satiety food options available at hand, simply for the times when you feel those hunger pangs.
With all the energy you devote to shedding kilos, you might actually know very little about the why most diets fail — hunger pangs. It’s never easy to resist that third serving of pizza even if you are bursting out of your seams. The guilt always strikes after the damage is done. Know the signs of hunger, the cues for stress eating, and what triggers your cravings to tame yourself when hunger strikes.
You’ve been working since 10 in the morning and consistently thinking about the deadline. Too busy to eat, there is a chance you would suffer from starvation. "Hunger is your body’s cue to eat. Due to habits such as erratic timings and long gaps between meals, hunger cues get out of sync, leading to severe hunger pangs," says clinical wellness expert Namita Jain.
A simple solution
Firstly, understand your body clock. Know the difference between actual hunger and stomach contractions. Also, at times you may be misguided by people around you. "You may feel that eating less is better but it isn’t true," says John Gloster, fitness expert. "Starvation is never a great survival strategy. Eat less but eat more often," he adds.
Is it hunger or thirst?
Figure out whether you are hungry or thirsty? Sometimes your body can send off signals to the brain that you are hungry. This is because food has lots of fluid contained within it. However, you don’t want to be confused with taking on-board unwanted calories when you simply haven’t had enough to drink. The key is to ensure you keep your fluid intake up over the course of a day.
What to eat and when
If you’re following a particular diet, you will always prefer to carry a lunch box to work. A wheat bread sandwich, idlis (four to five), unpolished rice ( a bowl) and curd, a roti roll filled with vegetables or two to three fruits are apt options for the day. For mid-night hunger pangs, foods like salad sandwich are a big no-no. You would certainly not wish to sleep with a heavy stomach that leaves you restless all night. Instead, eat a fruit and drink a glass full of water over it.
To make sure you don’t experience hunger pangs when on a diet, use top quality meal replacement drinks like coconut water, green tea and butter milk and get your hands on whatever snacks are allowed in the diet programme like soy nuts or energy bars. Eat a healthy balanced meal that doesn’t leave you feeling hungry, and this way you’ll get to snack on some treats when you want to!
To avoid severe hunger pangs
- Skipping breakfast is a sin. Don’t skip breakfast, or you’ll be starving and cranky by mid-morning. A breakfast with complex carbs and low fat protein will help stave off snack attacks.
- Plan ahead. Make sure that you have low calorie snacks and drinks with you. Take note of what times of day you become hungry and plan your meals and snacks accordingly. If you always cave in around 4 pm, schedule a snack for 3.30 and drink a big glass of water, too.
- Your body requires a certain amount of fat. Choose healthy fats, like olive oil. Mediterranean people include a lot of olive oil in their cooking and they have famously low rates of obesity and heart disease.
- Do not take drastic steps. Cutting your calories too drastically will make your metabolism slow down and cause you to be plagued with hunger all of the time.
- Eat volumes of low-cal food. Broccoli, cauliflower and veggie salads will fill you up and help stave off hunger.
- Stay away from sugary snacks and simple carbohydrates like sticky buns, cake and donuts. If you eat them your blood sugar will soar, and then crash and you’ll find yourself irritable, jittery and famished.
- Eat sufficient protein. Scientific studies show that protein leaves people feeling full longer than carbohydrates.
To keep those hunger pangs at bay, distract yourself and divert your mind from food by getting involved in a task or a hobby you enjoy doing the most.
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Historically, Marks & Spencer has made statements in support of Zionism. Lord Sieff, chairman and founder of M&S who died in 2001, made several statements in support of Israel’s military policies. In 1941, Sieff said that "large sections of the Arab population of Palestine should be transplanted to Iraq and other Middle-Eastern Arab States" (Jewish Chronicle, 21/09/1941). In 1990, Sieff, in a book entitled On Management: The Marks and Spencer Way, wrote that one of the fundamental objectives of M&S was to "aid the economic development of Israel."
There have been no reports of M&S openly showing ideological support for Israel since 2004. The retail company has repeatedly asserted that "[it has] no 'special' relationship with any government, political party or religious group" but accepts that M&S does "make representations to governments in support of [its] commercial aims." M&S management has not, to our knowledge, commented on Lord Sieff's remarks in support of Zionism and has not made a statement as to whether the current management stands by them.
In 1998, Sir Richard Greenbury, then CEO of Marks & Spencer, received the Jubilee Award from Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. In 2000, the Jerusalem Report stated that "M&S supports Israel with $233 million in trade each year."
In October 2000, the Jewish Chronicle reported that the British-Israel Chamber of Commerce (B-ICC) had held meetings at Marks & Spencer's offices in Baker Street. However, in 2008 the store claimed that M&S "do not host meetings on our premises for the B-ICC." Nevertheless, in December 2004, Stuart Rose, CEO of Marks and Spencer at the time, was a listed speaker at the annual dinner of the B-ICC.
When questioned in correspondence about the sale of Israeli goods in M&S stores in 2008, an M&S spokesperson said that the company buys "from Israel as… from 70 other countries…" and went on to state that the company would continue to do so. The letter continued to say that, "[w]e always put the country of origin on the products we sell. Where we buy Israeli products we label them as products of Israel."
M&S stocks Israeli grapes, lychees, figs, plums, dates, fresh herbs, sweet potatoes, potatoes (Maris Piper, Desiree, Jacket, Marfona, and King Edward). Many of these products are imported through Carmel-Agrexco, a company part-owned by the Israeli state.
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If you and your spouse own a business together, you are supposed to file a partnership tax return with the IRS. There is no tax due at the partnership level, the profit or loss flows out on a Schedule K-1 to your individual income tax return where it is combined with other sources of taxable income and deductions then ultimately taxed.
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However, what usually happens is that one spouse claims the income and expenses from the business on Schedule C of Form 1040. Because there is only one slot for a Social Security number on Schedule C and Schedule SE, only one spouse receives funding to his or her Social Security and Medicare accounts. The other spouse is shortchanged for all those years of hard work.
For tax years beginning after Dec. 31, 2006, the Small Business and Work Opportunity Tax Act of 2007 (Public Law 110-28) provides that a “qualified joint venture,” whose only members are a husband and a wife filing a joint return, can elect not to be treated as a partnership for Federal tax purposes. Your business qualifies for this election if:
- the husband and wife are the only two partners;
- both spouses materially participate;
- the spouses file a joint tax return;
- both spouses agree to the election.
A qualified joint venture, for purposes of this provision, includes only businesses that are owned and operated by spouses as co-owners. A business held in the name of a state law entity, including a limited partnership or limited liability company, does not qualify for the election.
Note also that mere joint ownership of property that is not a trade or business does not qualify for the election. We’re talking rental real estate for the most part. The spouses must share the items of income, gain, loss, deduction, and credit in accordance with each spouse's interest in the business. Note that, except as provided in section 469(c)(7), rental real estate income or loss generally is passive under section 469, even if the material participation rules are satisfied, and filing as a qualified joint venture will not alter the character of passive income or loss.
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The meaning of “material participation” is the same as under the passive activity loss rules in section 469(h) and the corresponding regulations (see Publication 925, Passive Activity and At-Risk Rules).
If the election is made, both spouses file a Schedule C declaring their percentage of income and expenses. The profit then flows out to separate Schedules SE where the self-employment tax is calculated and credited to each spouse’s Social Security and Medicare accounts.
There may be legal reasons to not make the election. Perhaps your attorney has advised that you maintain a bona fide partnership and file partnership tax returns. Check with your attorney and tax pro before deciding whether or not to make the election. Also note that you may or may not save a bit in tax preparation fees. You may escape partnership tax return preparation fees, but don’t think you’ll necessarily save any money. After all, It may require more work and therefore be more expensive for your tax pro to manually allocate the income and expenses according to the partner percentages and prepare two Schedules C. Preparing a partnership return is far simpler. You input the data and the partners’ percentages and the tax software allocates accordingly.
No EIN (Employer Identification Number) is required for sole proprietorships. But If you have an EIN and have been filing partnership income tax returns then make the election, you will likely receive a letter from the IRS asking for your Form 1065, partnership income tax return. Simply call the number on the notice or write a letter to the address listed and inform them that you have made the election and have filed two Schedules C. The EIN remains intact in case there are years in which you do not qualify under the election.
Once you make the election, it can only be revoked with the permission of the IRS.
Bonnie Lee is an Enrolled Agent admitted to practice and representing taxpayers in all fifty states at all levels within the Internal Revenue Service. She is the owner of Taxpertise in Sonoma, CA and the author of Entrepreneur Press book, “Taxpertise, The Complete Book of Dirty Little Secrets and Hidden Deductions for Small Business that the IRS Doesn't Want You to Know." Follow Bonnie Lee on Twitter at BLTaxpertise and at Facebook.
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Rania Mankarious, CEO of CrimesStoppers Houston, detailed a list of actions parents can take to ensure the safety of their children at school following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, this week that left 19 children and two teachers dead.The nonprofit, which has been active for 42 years, has a mission to “solve and prevent crime in partnership with citizens, media and the criminal justice system,” with a particular focus on school safety, Mankarious told Fox News Digital.Recognize the possibility of dangerWhile parents have witnessed “the evolution of safety” procedures in schools following the Columbine, Sandy Hook and Parkland school shootings, CrimeStoppers Houston has found that “a lot of … families just don’t think this will happen where they are,” Mankarious explained.Shootings in places like Uvalde, Newtown and Littleton take both families and elected officials by shock because tight-knit communities “don’t think this can happen in their local small towns or local big towns because they think they’re in a great community.” But, as history has shown time and time again, shootings can happen anywhere.
Hinojosa McKenzie, 28, fourth from left, prays for her cousin Eliahana Torres and other victims, at a memorial site for victims killed in the Robb Elementary school shooting, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.
(Wong Maye-E)”We’ve got to stop and we’ve got to transition into thinking not that this won’t happen here, but this very well can happen wherever my child is — elementary, middle and high and high school,” Recognizing said. “What are the policies? What are the procedures? And what are we doing to make sure that they are actually enforced? That requires getting parents involved. And that, to me, is one of the biggest missing pieces.”Read the handbook”How many parents at the start of the year, when they get that first parent handbook, actually sit down and read it?” Mankarious, a mom of three, asked. “I’m guilty of this myself. But many of us get that handbook and file it away…if we ever need it.”TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTING: LIVE UPDATESSchool handbooks often detail policies and safety procedures a school or district has in place in case of a threat. Handbooks often detail how schools investigate threats, how they discipline those who make threats and what information parents will be afforded in the event of a threat.There are “a lot of privacy laws when it comes to children,” but handbooks can give parents “an idea what measures the school is taking to investigate a threat,” the Houston CrimeStoppers CEO explained.
A state trooper places a tiara on a cross honoring Ellie Garcia, one of the victims killed in this week’s elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas Saturday, May 28, 2022.
(Jae C. Hong)In the event that parents are not happy with the information, or lack thereof, a handbook provides on potential threats, parents can take their concerns to school boards and draw attention to where taxpayer funds are being spent in school districts.”I cannot tell you how many parents will call me and say, ‘Security’s the last — if not smallest — line item … on the school budget,” Mankarious said. “Well, you need to look at that because it’s the parents that will go to the school board and say, ‘We demand more money spent on security,’ and that security will look different depending on where you live. It might be an armed officer. It might be…vestibules with protective layering. It might be that they want all doors locked or a buzzer installed with cameras. There are a lot of different options. But until parents get involved, and involved aggressively and with solutions, a lot of districts are very overwhelmed, and, sadly, following the … path of least resistance.”TEXAS MASS SHOOTING: UVALDE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD SECURITY MEASURES IN PLACE PRIOR TO TRAGEDY Talk to kids about the internetAll parents have “a duty and an obligation” to monitor their children’s changes in behavior, aggressive speech at home and their online activity, Mankarious said.The CrimeStoppers CEO wrote a book titled, “The Online World: What You Think You Know and What You Don’t,” which discusses what dangerous communities children can get involved in online and how parents can address appropriate online behavior with their children.
Twenty-one empty chairs are seen outside of a daycare center as a memorial for the victims killed earlier in the week in the elementary school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, May 27, 2022.
(Dario Lopez-Mills)”There’s a massive disconnect between the lives our children are living online and then what families — what parents who love them and care for them and invest in [them] — understand to be really happening. … Where there is a disconnect, parents need to be monitoring what their children are doing online. They need to understand what spaces there, and they need to understand what they’re exposed to do, and they need to be actively working to combat it. They must,” Mankarious said.She added that while it can be exhausting for parents who “feel out of touch” with the latest technology, she has outlined how parents can discuss these issues with their children and monitor their online activity in her book.PHOTOS: FAMILIES, VICTIMS OF TEXAS SCHOOL SHOOTINGParents need to be tapping into the issue of mental health, red flags, changes in behavior and online posts that “can change threats.”Don’t get complacent Mankarious calls it the “three-week cycle” — the three weeks it takes for people to stop talking about a major tragedy like the Uvalde shooting after it occurs.While certain politicians and organizations have championed school safety as a priority, “everybody moves on,” which is “very hard for the victims’ families,” Mankarious said.
Crosses with the names of Tuesday’s shooting victims are placed outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, May 26, 2022. The 18-year-old man who slaughtered 19 children and two teachers in Texas left a digital trail that hinted at what was to come. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)
(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)”It’s hard for those of us who are in this space all the time. It’s frustrating. But at the same time, we appreciate any discussion on it because it always pushes progress. Always. Ultimately, we’ll make steps forward following this horrific tragedy,” she explained.CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District (UCISD) says on its website that it has a number of safety proponents in place to curb or eliminate threats, including, but not limited to, security vestibules and outside buzz-in systems; a locked classroom door policy; four school district officers; partnerships with local law enforcement agencies; security staff that patrols door entrances and parking lots at secondary campuses; social media threat monitoring; a visitor management security system; canine detection services; motion detectors and alarm systems; perimeter fencing at Robb and other schools; and a threat reporting system. Victor Escalon, Texas Department of Public Safety on Thursday said the alleged shooter is believed to have entered Robb Elementary on Tuesday unobstructed — possibly through an unlocked door — without confronting a school resource officer, as previous statements suggested.
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Falling Fruit is an all-volunteer 501(c)3 nonprofit based in Boulder, Colorado, USA. All proceeds from sales of our mobile app help pay to keep our servers and website online. Purchasing the app is itself a tax deductible donation, and we greatly appreciate your support in keeping Falling Fruit online!
Our global map of edible plants is not the first of its kind, but it aspires to be the world's most comprehensive. While our users contribute locations of their own, we comb the internet for pre-existing knowledge, seeking to unite the efforts of foragers, foresters, and freegans everywhere. Imported datasets range from small neighborhood foraging maps to vast professionally-compiled tree inventories. So far, this amounts to over 1,200 different edible types (most, but not all, plant species) distributed over nearly one million locations. Beyond the cultivated and commonplace to long-forgotten native plants and the exotic flavors of foreign plants, foraging in your neighborhood is a journey through time and across cultures.
Falling Fruit is not associated with Fallen Fruit. Fallen Fruit can be found at fallenfruit.org.
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Improved location tracking error handling
- Fixed a problem preventing photo uploads (iOS only)
Ratings and Reviews
Great concept but app is nearly unusable
Registration is weird because it stops you from retyping the password in any field after you make a mistake once. Then when you finally get in, the ability to filter fruit types just plain does not work. Also despite the name, people have submitted a ton of non-edible trees! So I see hits all over my neighborhood, but on closer inspection they are actually an oak, Madrone, dogwood, hawthorn or any number of other trees that are obviously not fruit and, with the exception of acorns if you are extremely desperate, not even edible. Considering that this app costs money, I was expecting it to actually do the basic things it says. But the addition of non-fruit trees that cannot be filtered separately from fruit trees makes it worse than useless.
UPDATE-Having attempted to use the app more, indeed it has many flaws that make it pretty useless :-c
Began using this app on Sep 25, 2021. Due to the well-written negative reviews I was hesitant to buy the app, but I really wanted to support the concept so I figured 4$ was worth the risk. Fortunately, SO FAR, everything is working as intended. The initial registration email took a bit longer to arrive than modern expectations allow patience for but it did arrive within the hour and I signed into the app without issue. The map content, for me living in a densely populated city, could leave something to be desired, but that isn’t the app’s fault since it’s user sourced content-if you want the app to have UTD local content, don’t complain others haven’t served it to you; get out there and participate. The content is only as good as we make it!
So much promise. But severely lacking
You can tell this app is someone’s side hobby. Someone with limited app development skills. Super bugged, extremely tedious. Always resets to Boulder Colorado upon opening. Has a filter by fruit search that never works so there are often dozens of tags that you have to click on to find your fruit of interest and even when you find something, you can’t save that tag for future reference. Almost not useful features. I would hope that since it’s a paid app, some of that money would go into development. Overall a great concept that is unique and in need, but barely usable due to poor app design.
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- Falling Fruit
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Ah, conspiracy theories and urban legends. They lure us in with the promise of dark plots and amazing events--even as our rational minds suggest they're likely not true.
Now the ultra-efficient Volkswagen XL1 economy car, the highly aerodynamic two-seat diesel plug-in hybrid we drove last fall, has become the subject of a conspiracy theory.
A circulating Internet story suggests that the Federal government has banned the XL1--a "normal production car"--because "it is too efficient for the American public to be made widely aware of, and oil profits are too high in America with the status quo in place."
Luckily, there's Snopes.
The popular website investigates urban myths and conspiracy theories, fact-checking the assertions and referred to numerous sources (including, in this case, this very site) that provide facts to counter the conspiracy ideas that catch readers' attention.
In a calm, reasoned manner, its Monday post demolished the various paranoid assertions of a "freelance journalist" named Jim Stone.
He had asserted that 2,000 units of the "$60,000" XL1 were being made, and that it got "300 mpg"--without stressing the important differences between the European test cycle and U.S. testing.
Nor was it clear that such a rating blended both operation on diesel fuel and operation on battery electricity charged by plugging in the car.
Snopes corrected these points, noting that only 200 copies of the XL1 are being built, that the car wasn't designed to comply with U.S. vehicle standards in the first place, and that its price is more than $100,000.
The post concludes, "As in so many cases, what is attributed to furtive conspiracy is more easily explained away as wishful thinking colliding with the hard, cold realities of economics."
Especially if you haven't read any Snopes posts before, it's worth going through this one to see how fact-based reality can overcome mistakes, delusions, and paranoia.
But be careful scanning Snopes at large; the variety of wacky ideas it calmly analyzes can prove addictive.
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UNITED NATIONS, Jun 20 2019 (IPS) - Sexual violence is still all too common and continues to threaten peace and security worldwide. How can we do better? Put survivors at the centre.
Marking the International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, on Jun. 19, United Nations officials as well as government and civil society representatives convened to address sexual violence and stressed the importance of a survivor-centred approach.
“[This] is an opportunity to not only raise awareness of the need to end conflict-related sexual violence, but also to stand in solidarity with and pay homage to the survivors—women, girls, men and boys—who despite the horrors they have endured, show the determination, resolve, and unflinching courage to stand up and speak out against this scourge,” said Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict and Under-Secretary-General Pramila Patten during a panel discussion at the U.N.
Also in attendance was Amanda Nguyen, CEO and founder of Rise, a non-governmental civil rights organisation, who echoed similar sentiments, stating: “It is the most fundamental, moral responsibility of a nation to listen and to offer justice to the most vulnerable people within it. And it is the most fundamental, moral responsibility of the international community to come together and to do the same.”
“Global leaders must take sexual violence seriously, and must look at all sexual violence survivors as humans with full human dignity,” she added.
The U.N. estimates that approximately 35 percent of women—or 1.3 billion people—have experienced sexual violence. Other studies puts that figure as high as 70 percent along with numerous other men and children.
In April, the Security Council passed Resolution 2647 which recognised the need for a survivor-centred approach to prevent and respond to sexual violence with regards to non-discriminatory services and access to justice.
But how do we employ a survivor-centred approach?
Patten noted the need for survivors to have tailored assistance that meets their specific needs.
“The plight of all survivors should be the moral compass that guides our actions…survivors are not a homogeneous group. Sexual violence has many victims,” she said.
While the story of thousands of Yazidi women who experienced sexual slavery at the hands of the Islamic State (IS) made international headlines, lesser known are the cases of such violence against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) communities.
In 2015, the U.N. found that attacks against LGBTI individuals took place as a form of “moral cleansing” by armed groups in Iraq.
The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights found that 88 percent of LGBTI asylum-seekers and refugees from Honduras, El Salvador, and Nicaragua were subjected to sexual and gender-based violence in their home country.
Such violence in Central America has driven migration to the north—among the first people to reach the United States in the widely reported migrant caravan in November 2018 were 85 LGBTI people.
However, specific services and attention to LGBTI communities are still sorely lacking.
Nguyen highlighted the need for access to justice and to include survivors in the drafting of legislation.
“Peace is not the absence of visible conflict. In order for there to be true peace, survivors must have access to justice. Their lives are the invisible war zones that corrode human potential and hold back the promise of a just world. Their powerlessness is our shame. This is a peace we can all help deliver,” she said.
“Nothing is more sacred than the universal right to human dignity,” she added.
After learning about the complexities in seeking justice for survivors in the U.S., Nguyen helped pass support for the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights which includes the right to not pay for a rape kit examination—which can cost as much as 2,000 dollars—and the right to not have one’s rape kit destroyed before the statute of limitation expires.
Since then, her organisation Rise has put survivors at the forefront, helping them “pen their own civil rights into existence.”
“Change happens when we decide, and we can decide to uphold the principles of fairness, equality, and justice. We can decide that no one is powerless when we come together. We can decide that no one is invisible,” Nguyen said.
Patten highlighted the transformative nature of a survivor-centred approach, stating it: “is one that gives voice and choice to the survivors, restores their agency, builds their resilience, and enshrines their experience on the historical record….by shifting power dynamics in this way, a survivor-centred approach can also be a profoundly transformative approach that reaffirms the status of the survivor as a holder of rights.”
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Both Idaho and the federal government have passed laws that prohibiting discrimination on the basis of particular protected characteristics. In Middleton, government and private organizations can be held liable for discrimination, depending on what type of trait the unfair treatment was initially based on.
How Does Employment Discrimination Occur?
Employment discrimination occurs when an employer treats you wrongly because of your membership in a legally protected class. Employers can not base their evaluations of you on particular traits including religion, race, age, gender, national origin, and familial status. In order for a claim of employment discrimination to be successful, a Middleton, Idaho plaintiff must show that his (or her) employer actively intended to treat him differently because of his protected status.
How can Employment Discrimination be Proven in Idaho?
This can be shown if the employer has a history of mistreating people of the same status, or if individuals testify regarding the employer's particular statements that a reasonable person would conclude are biased. Additionally, employers may be held liable for firing someone or retaliating against them because they brought a discrimination lawsuit.
The procedure for pursuing an employment discrimination claim is complicated, since it involves filing a claim with certain agencies. An attorney in Middleton, Idaho can help you in filing on time, as well as pursuing other remedies that are available to you while your claim is pending.
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Introduce about glass and glass technology in society.
ÃÂ. If marble and stone symbolize Renaissance architecture, glass is the DNA of the new modernity. In the hands of special talent, glass transcends utility and the mere act of the building.ÃÂ (Hyatt, P2004, page 1).
This paragraph can be introduction paragraph. It uses other materials to emphasize ÃÂglass materialÃÂ as ÃÂDNA of the new modernityÃÂ.
Glass is among the few solid which transmit light in the visible region of the spectrum. Glasses provided light in our homes through window and electric lamps. They provide the basic elements of virtually all optical instruments. The world wide telecommunication system is based on the transmission of light via optical waveguides. The esthetic appeal of fine glassware and crystal chandeliers stems from the high refractive index and birefringence provided by lead oxide, while the magnificent windows of many cathedrals exits only because of the brilliant colors which can be obtained in glasses.
Modern glass technology increasingly relies on the application of non-traditional optical effects such as photosensitivity, phototropism. Light scattering, Faraday rotation and a host of other. (Shelby, J1997, page 195).
The effect of glass technology in our lifestyle, this is also a summary of the development of technology glass.
What glass made fromÃÂSand is the most important raw material for glass. Almost halp the earthÃÂs solid surface consist of silicon dioxide (SiO2) , a main component of various sand and rocks.ÃÂ . Raw material for the manufacture of glass is ÃÂsoda ash, glauberÃÂs salt, potash, lime, alumina, lead oxides, barium oxide, boron compounds, and coloring agents.ÃÂ(Pfaender, H1996, page26)ÃÂGlass is arguably the most remarkable material ever discovered by man. Made from the melting and cooling of the earthÃÂs most abundant mineral, it provides a substance that is transparency and rock hard, and so chemically inert...
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Quotes, aphorisms, famous sentences
In these pages you can find a collection of 8295 quotes and aphorisms. You can search for a specific word using the form below, or surf among the categories. If you find errors, please let me know! Have fun!
While the admission of a design for the universe ultimately raises the question of a Designer (a subject outside of science), the scientific method does not allow us to exclude data which lead to the conclusion that the universe, life and man are based on design. To be forced to believe only one conclusion--that everything in the universe happened by chance --would violate the very objectivity of science itself. Anonymous
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Holy GodPredominantly Jews thought of God as holy—totally different and separated from humans. His purity is so intense and severe that it will not tolerate any contamination. Approaching the holy Presence was punishable by death (Ex. 19:11-13). Though Moses is described as the man who conferred with God face to face (33:11), when Moses asked to see God’s glory he was told that he would not be able to survive seeing God in all His glory, and so God would show him only His retreating glory (vv.18-23). From generation to generation Jews thought of God as the Most High God who was so fearfully unapproachable that they dared not even take His Name even though God had given it to Moses and was written in their Scripture. Into this Jewish world, Jesus entered. His life spoke for God. “Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory—the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father… No one has ever seen God. The only one, himself God, who is in closest fellowship with the Father, has made God known” (John 1:14, 18, NET). In Moses’ day anyone straying onto the mount of God’s presence was punished with death, but in Christ ordinary folks got to gaze on His holiness and jostle God and they lived to tell of it, and His enemies even got to “manhandle” Him without being struck dead immediately (1 John 1: 1-4).
In Moses’ day anyone straying onto the mount of God’s presence was punished with death, but in Christ ordinary folks got to gaze on His holiness and jostle God and they lived to tell of it.While the essential thrust of Christ’s teaching was about growing aware of the Kingdom of God being “next door” (“at hand”, KJV) to where we are in life and about the need to bring ourselves into alignment with the rule of God while we still have the choice, He did what He could to dispel the ignorance and/or the misconceptions about God.
SpiritOne definitive statement about God that Jesus made is that “God is spirit” (John 4:24). In line with this, Jesus taught that what God was interested in is the state of the heart-life of people. He emphasised that scrupulously keeping the letter of the law was not the kind of morality that God wanted. People shouldn’t break the laws of God in their hearts. Not enough that a person desists from murder, but he mustn’t even harbour hatred in his heart. It wasn’t enough that a person didn’t commit adultery, he shouldn’t even have lust in his heart (Matt. 5: 21-32). Jesus also ridiculed the Jews for their practice of showing off how religious they were by conducting their devotional life in public view. He said that whenever anyone did that, the only thing the person really wanted was human approval and he would surely get it. But if a man wanted God’s approval then he had to do all his praying, fasting and charity only for God’s exclusive viewing pleasure (6: 1-18).
When the great Sikh ruler of the Punjab, Maharaja Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) heard that an American missionary has…
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American Geophysical Union Elects NCDC Scientist to Board
Dr. John Bates, NCDC Principal Scientist, is one of three candidates elected this year to the 15-member Board of Directors of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). Its directors are elected every two years and serve a two-year term. AGU has more than 61,000 members from 148 countries. An AGU member since 1986, Bates previously served as Chairman of its Meetings Committee and was a member of the AGU Council in 2010–2012.
Dr. Bates' technical expertise lies in atmospheric sciences, and his interests include satellite observations of the global water and energy cycle, air-sea interactions, and climate variability. He has authored over 45 publications and has been involved in major national and international programs devoted to the study of meteorological science. Bates received his Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology in 1976 at Florida State University. He received his Masters of Science degree in meteorology in 1982 as well as his Doctor of Philosophy in meteorology in 1986 at University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The full results of AGU’s elections can be viewed at http://sites.agu.org/elections/.
Congratulations to Dr. Bates on this honor!
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Hands Off Ireland.
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Broadside advertising a demonstration to be held in Southwark Park, to demand the right of self determination for The Irish people. Speakers: Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington, Cathal O'Shannon, Dr. Alfred Salter, J.P.
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Earlier this week, West Elm introduced the Pratt Home Office collection of eco-friendly and affordable furniture. Created in collaboration with The Pratt Institute, the five-piece set includes items made with FSC certified wood, non-toxic glues, water-based stains, and powder-coated steel that can be recycled. There's also a clever LED task lamp in the mix and, although some pieces are on sale now, prices range from $99 to $299.
Update: See the completed Passive House retrofit in California!
This is the first Passive House in California and the first retrofit Passive House in the entire country, according to a press release issued by Solar Knights Construction earlier this week. The airtight retrofit was accomplished with, among other things, superior insulation, triple-glazed windows, and an energy recovery ventilation system.
If you're in the market for an Old World look, Fontenay makes vintage flooring from reclaimed wine barrels. The Cooperage collection has stamps and markings from the barrel head; the Wine Infusion collection comes from the inside of the barrel and is naturally stained by the wine; and the Stave collection is made with the outside of the barrel and shows markings from the hoops. Pricing starts at $32 per square foot.
This is the first certified Passive House in the “South,” and it’s located in Lafayette, Louisiana. What’s interesting about the home – other than that it illustrates the use of the Passive House standard in a hot and humid climate – is the fact that the low-energy home, with the help of rooftop solar laminates, is a net zero energy prototype for the future.
I imagine you've seen some of the 10 "insanely" green sheds in a recent publication of Popular Mechanics. I read the article and was captured by the Eco-Shed, a structure that cost owner and author James Glave about $100,000 to build. With the help of Dan Parke of Salal Architecture, Glave put together an incredible low-impact writing studio. Check it out.
This is Casa Dominguez, a new multifamily development in Los Angeles County. It’s actually the first LEED Platinum multifamily project in the county, according to non-profit developer and architecture firm Abode Communities. Located in East Rancho Dominguez, the project features a blend of one- to four-bedroom green apartments suited for low-income families.
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The number of Internet users in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region reached 2.03 million at the end of 2013, a local official said Friday.
This means 67.5 percent of Tibet's 3 million population have access to the Internet, according to Qunggyi, head of the Tibet Communications Administration.
Many of Tibet's Internet users are surfing the network through their smartphones. So far the number of 3G network subscribers in Tibet has reached 964,000. The new-generation 4G network will be promoted in 2014, he said.
So far 665 townships of the plateau region have been connected with optical cables, covering 97.5 percent of all townships. As many as 3,231 villages have access to broadband Internet, covering 61.4 percent of the total number of villages, according to the bureau.
Tibetans have also enjoyed the convenience the Internet offers.
On last year's Singles Day (Nov. 11) shopping spree at China's largest online purchasing platform Taobao, Tibetans spent more than 47 million yuan (7.7 million U.S. dollars), almost double that of 2012, according to taobao.com, a key sales platform under Alibaba.
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Cape of San Agustin
From Wikipilipinas: The Hip 'n Free Philippine Encyclopedia
Cape of San Agustin lies between the Mati and Governor Generoso, St. Francis Xavier supposed to have said his first mass in this area. A lighthouse was erected in the site for the aid of the ships that would past by.
- "Global Pinoy". http://www.globalpinoy.com/travel/province/davaoori.php
(accessed on Aug. 14, 2007)
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- Research article
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Clinical efficacy of adalimumab in Crohn’s disease: a real practice observational study in Japan
BMC Gastroenterology volume 16, Article number: 82 (2016)
There are few reports of the efficacy of adalimumab (ADA) for clinical remission and preventing postoperative recurrence in Crohn's disease (CD) in Asian real practice settings. We conducted a Japanese multicenter retrospective observational study.
We evaluated patients with CD who were treated with ADA at 11 medical institutions in Japan to investigate the clinical efficacy of remission up to 52 weeks and the associated factors to achieve remission with a CD Activity Index (CDAI) < 150. The effects of preventing postoperative recurrence were also evaluated.
In 62 patients, the remission rates were 33.9, 74.2, 75.8, 77.4, and 66.1 % at 0, 4, 12, 26, and 52 weeks, respectively. Although 10 patients discontinued treatment due to primary nonresponse, secondary nonresponse, or adverse events, the ongoing treatment rate at 52 weeks was 83.9 %. Comparison of remission and non-remission on univariate analysis identified colonic type and baseline CDAI value as significant associated factors (P < 0.05). In 16 patients who received ADA to prevent postoperative recurrence, the clinical remission maintenance rate was 93.8 % and the mucosal healing rate was 64.3 % during a mean postoperative follow-up period of 32.3 months.
ADA effectively induced remission and prevented postoperative recurrence in patients with CD in a real practice setting.
Crohn's disease (CD), an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), is an intractable disease of unknown etiology . CD is progressive and markedly impairs patient quality of life due to its associated symptoms such as diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever, and surgery [2–4]. Although there is currently no cure for CD, the inflammatory cytokine tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) is involved in clinical condition , against which anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody (anti-TNF-α antibody) is highly effective [6, 7]. For the treatment of CD, infliximab (IFX), a chimeric antibody and infusion drug, first appeared as an anti-TNF-α antibody, followed by adalimumab (ADA), a fully humanized antibody and subcutaneous drug. IFX and ADA were highly effective in large-scale studies and have already been widely used worldwide [8–15].
Although the clinical features of CD in Asia is relatively similar to that of North America or Europe, there are some differences such as a higher prevalence of males and ileo-colonic type, less familial clustering, extra-intestinal manifestations, and surgical rates. As for genetics, nucleotide oligomerization domain-2 (NOD2) variants and autophagy-related 16-like 1(ATG16L1) variants, which have been firmly associated with CD in the West have not been detected in the patients with CD in Asia . Taking account of these differences, the data from Asia is important in spite of the numerous data from West. However, ADA received approval later in Asian countries including Japan than in the Europe and US; therefore, there are limited reports on its efficacy in Asian real practice settings [17–20]. Watanabe et al. reported that clinical remission rate at week 4 in the induction therapy was 33.3 %. Seventy percentage of patients achieved decrease in CDAI ≥ 70 points and the rest was unresponsive at week 4 in the induction therapy . Furthermore, intestinal resection is commonly required in patients with CD and often leads to repeated surgery; thus, it is important to prevent postoperative recurrence [21, 22]. Recent reports indicated that IFX and ADA effectively prevent postoperative recurrence [23–26]. However, no report to date has demonstrated the ability of ADA to prevent postoperative recurrence in Asia. Under these circumstances, we conducted a multicenter observational study in Japan to evaluate ADA efficacy and safety as well as its ability to prevent postoperative recurrence in patients with CD in real practice settings.
The Nagasaki observational study of adalimumab is a multicenter retrospective observational study of patients with IBD receiving ADA treatment at a total of 11 medical sites including Nagasaki University Hospital and its related facilities. This study was reviewed and approved by the Nagasaki University Hospital Ethics Committee before its initiation.
The study included all patients who received ADA for the treatment of CD at a total of 11 study sites including Nagasaki University Hospital and its related facilities between November 2010 and January 2014. Patients who failed to complete 52 weeks of follow-up due to relocating were excluded from the analysis.
ADA was administered at an initial dose of 160 mg and a second dose of 80 mg with a 2-week induction interval. Thereafter, ADA 40 mg was administered every other week as maintenance therapy. ADA dose intensification was not included in this study because it is not currently approved in Japan.
A shared common database was used to collect demographic and clinical data. Data collected at baseline were sex, age, disease duration, disease extension, history of operation, smoking habits, concomitant fistula or anal lesion, previous infliximab therapy, concomitant medications or elemental diet at baseline, C-reactive protein (CRP) levels, and the Crohn’s disease activity index (CDAI) . Clinical activity was evaluated using the CDAI after 4, 12, 26, and 52 weeks of treatment. The date of and reason for ADA discontinuation, requirement of further rescue therapy, and adverse events were also recorded.
We defined remission as a CDAI < 150. Non-remission was defined as discontinuation due to a lack of efficacy, adverse event, or other reason. In addition, we evaluated the ability of ADA to prevent postoperative recurrence in patients with any recurrence risk factor such as smoking, penetrating disease, history of prior resection, and short disease duration (<10 years) after intestinal resection. Clinical remission was defined as a CDAI < 150, and mucosal healing was confirmed by a Rutgeerts score of i0 or i1 .
The primary endpoints of the study were rates of clinical remission at 4, 12, 26, and 52 weeks in the intention-to-treat (ITT) population, and the proportion of patients still receiving ADA therapy at the end of the first year. The secondary endpoints included the maintenance rate of clinical remission and mucosal healing in the patients who received ADA treatment for the prevention of postoperative recurrence.
All efficacy analyses were performed on an ITT basis. Statistical analysis was performed with a Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test for categorical data and Student’s t-test or the Mann-Whitney U-test for continuous variables. Factors identified as having significant differences on univariate analysis were further assessed by multivariate analysis with logistic regression. P values < 0.05 were considered statistically significant.
Of 71 patients who received ADA treatment during the study period, 62 were included in the analysis set, while the other nine were excluded: three who failed to complete follow-up due to transfer to another hospital before 52 weeks, five who missed the CDAI evaluation, and one who intentionally withdrew from treatment due to pregnancy (Fig. 1). The baseline characteristics of the 62 patients are shown in Table 1. The mean age was 33.1 years, 74.2 % of the patients were men, the median disease duration was 96 months, and 32.3 % of the patients had a disease duration < 2 years. Prior treatment consisted of IFX in 53.2 % of the patients; of them 33.3 % were on a double IFX dose (10 mg/kg). The mean baseline CDAI was 185.1 points, and 33.9 % of the patients had a CDAI < 150 before ADA treatment, including those who required a medication switch due to IFX intolerance.
In all 62 patients, the remission rates were 33.9, 74.2, 75.8, 77.4, and 66.1 % at 0, 4, 12, 26, and 52 weeks, respectively (Fig. 2a). In the 41 patients whose baseline CDAI was ≥150, the remission rates were 63.4, 70.7, 75.6, and 56.1 % at 4, 12, 26, and 52 weeks, respectively (Fig. 2b). Of the 62 patients, 10 discontinued treatment due to primary nonresponse (PNR) (n = 1), secondary nonresponse (SNR) (n = 2), or adverse event (n = 7). The ongoing ADA treatment rate at 52 week was 83.9 % (Fig. 3).
An univariate analysis was performed to compare 41 patients who achieved remission at 52 weeks of ADA treatment (remission group) with 21 patients who failed to achieve remission with a CDAI ≥ 150 or discontinued ADA treatment before 52 weeks (non-remission group) (Table 2). Significant differences between groups were detected only for the colonic type (P = 0.0387) and baseline CDAI (P = 0.0236). The remission group had a slightly lower median disease duration and included more patients with a disease duration < 2 years, but the difference was not statistically significant. A multivariate analysis was performed for the two factors, colonic type and baseline CDAI, identified significant differences from the univariate analysis, but both were not found to be significant (Table 3).
Prevention of postoperative recurrence
The baseline characteristics, presence of risk factors, clinical remission after ADA treatment, and mucosal healing by endoscopy of the 16 high-risk patients who received ADA treatment for the prevention of postoperative recurrence after intestinal resection are shown in Table 4. Each patient had an average of 2.1 of four recurrence risk factors including smoking, penetrating disease, previous resection, and disease duration < 10 years. The maintenance rate of clinical remission up to the last observation period (a mean of 32.3 months) was 93.8 % (15/16 patients). Endoscopy was performed in 14 patients at a mean 25.3 months, and mucosal healing was confirmed in 64.3 % (9/14 patients). Clinical remission was confirmed in four of five patients who experienced endoscopic relapse. Of the three patients whose relapse was confirmed with a Rutgeerts score of i3 or i4, two had experience with nonresponse to IFX treatment, while the patient with a Rutgeerts score of i4 had all four risk factors.
In the assessment of up to 52 weeks, adverse events were reported in a total of eight patients: pancytopenia, sepsis, lupus-like reaction, hepatic function disorder, recurrent upper respiratory tract infection, ss-DNA antibody positive, catheter infection, and rash in one patient each. ADA treatment was discontinued due to adverse events in all seven patients except the one with the rash. All events were resolved under observation after ADA discontinuation or with treatment. There was no report of malignant tumor development or death.
ADA has been demonstrated effective against CD in the CLASSIC I , CLASSIC II , GAIN , CHARM , and EXTEND placebo-controlled double-blind studies. In Japan, its clinical efficacy was also demonstrated in a placebo-controlled double-blind study , and ADA has been available for clinical use since October 2010. However, limited reports to date are available on usage data in real practice settings in Japan and other Asian countries. Ishida, et al. and Miyoshi, et al. reported results from a single center study with limited sample sizes of 28 and 45 subjects, respectively. Therefore, we investigated the results of ADA treatment for CD in real practice settings in this multicenter observational study. The remission rates from 4 to 52 weeks were similar to those reported by Ishida, et al. and Miyoshi, et al . ADA was more effective in real practice settings than in a clinical study with limited patients based on various exclusion criteria and a CDAI of 220–450 .
This study identified CD location and baseline CDAI as factors associated with ADA efficacy at 52 weeks. A study by Cohen, et al. also indicated a slightly higher nonresponse rate in patients with the colonic type but with no significant difference. To our knowledge, only the current study demonstrated lower ADA efficacy in patients with the colonic type. We believe that the effects of TNF-α may be greater in patients with lesions in the small intestine, but no significant difference was detected on multivariate analysis, so this issue requires further investigation. Other factors including previous IFX treatment [31, 32] and disease duration [33, 34] are reportedly associated with ADA efficacy, but this study did not show a significant difference in these factors. This may be due to an insufficient sample size and the fact that more patients had fewer disease activity events such as intolerance with previous IFX treatment. The combined effect of immunomodulator and ADA has yet to be confirmed because of conflicting reports [35–38], and no difference was noted in this study either. Thus, prospective comparative studies of ADA like the IFX SONIC study [39, 40] are needed. The combined effect of an elemental diet and IFX has also been reported [41–43], but no difference was observed in this study. Serum ADA concentration and involvement in efficacy of anti-adalimumab antibody (AAA) have been highly reported recently [44–49], but we could not evaluate these parameters in the current study.
We also investigated the ability of ADA to prevent postoperative recurrence. Several reports have been published to date in Europe or the US [25, 50–52], but there are few reports from Asian countries. This study confirmed that ADA effectively prevented postoperative recurrence in a small sample of 16 patients. While a meta-analysis indicated the efficacy of anti-TNF-α antibody for preventing postoperative recurrence , the use of anti-TNF-α antibody has a cost-benefit performance issue and is recommended for patients at high risk and those in whom relapse was observed in postoperative monitoring . The POCER study recently reported on the usefulness of postoperative risk factor–based therapeutic stratification, endoscopic monitoring, and therapeutic intensification . However, in the POCER study, thiopurine was used as the first-line treatment even for high-risk patients, while the active care group with endoscopic evaluation and therapeutic intensification had a relatively high recurrence rate. A greater number of risk factors was associated with a higher relapse rate. Our study also indicated more risk factors in patients who showed endoscopic recurrence with a Rutgeerts score of i3 or i4. Therefore, positive use of anti-TNF-α antibody may require consideration for high-risk patients. Recent studies reported the usefulness of fecal calprotectin as a parameter in postoperative monitoring [56, 57]. Postoperative monitoring and therapeutic optimization as considerations of the burden of examination and cost-benefit relationship are required.
This study has several limitations. First, it had an insufficient sample size of unselected patients with heterogeneous baseline characteristics in a real practice setting. Therefore, it was difficult to determine the efficacy-associated factors. Second, the assessment of prevention of postoperative recurrence was made only in a small group of 16 patients, the timing of ADA introduction and endoscopic examination was inconsistent, and endoscopy was not performed for some patients. Therefore, further larger-scale studies with strict evaluation methods are required to validate our results.
Even with the above-mentioned limitations, we concluded in this study that ADA effectively provided clinical remission and prevented postoperative recurrence of CD in real practice settings.
AAA, anti-adalimumab antibody; ADA, adalimumab; anti-TNF-α antibody, anti-TNF-α monoclonal antibody; CD, Crohn's disease; CDAI, CD Activity Index; CRP, C-reactive protein; IBD, inflammatory bowel disease; IFX, infliximab; PNR, primary nonresponse; SNR, secondary nonresponse; TNF-α, tumor necrosis factor-α.
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FT participated in the study design, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript drafting and revision processes. DY, SH, TM, HO, MI, HM, KM, HM, YA, NY, KO, and HI participated in the data collection process. MU participated in manuscript drafting and revision process. KN gave final approval of the manuscript to be published. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Takeshima, F., Yoshikawa, D., Higashi, S. et al. Clinical efficacy of adalimumab in Crohn’s disease: a real practice observational study in Japan. BMC Gastroenterol 16, 82 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12876-016-0501-9
- Crohn’s disease
- Preventing postoperative recurrence
- Japanese patients
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What of the police, in all this? Plymouth had garnered a huge share of the police market by making ready-made cars with heavy-duty equipment, carefully developed by engineers working with officers across the country. The result was extra-tough cars that could handle and stop well, with premium engines chosen for a mix of performance, low maintenance, and thrift.
Plymouth fielded three 1976 sedans with the police package: the small A-body Valiant, the midsize B-body Fury, and the large C-body Gran Fury. In the past, police had generally insisted on the larger cars, the Gran Fury size, but the midsize Fury (and its Dodge twin) quickly became the most popular police car in America—and why not? The interior of the Fury was more than big enough, while its speed, handling, and maneuverability were better than the four-inch-longer, 2-inch-wider Gran Fury.
The Valiant should have been the cornering king of the three (and indeed the later M-body Diplomat/Gran Fury were about the same size as the Valiant), with nineteen inches less length but only 7.5 inches less wheelbase; the wheels were closer to the corners of the car, though there was still an immense amount of overhang.
All the Mopar squads came with 65-amp or 100-amp alternators, quite strong at a time when a typical car had a 30-40 amp alternator. On every car but the Valiant, disc brakes were standard (manual discs, too, except with the 360, 400, and 440 engines). The Volare is listed as being available, but doesn't seem to have had a police package—or perhaps it was just not ready yet when our fact sheet was prepared.
Engines ranged from the slant six (except on the Gran Fury) to the E86 440 high-performance edition with twin exhausts and catalytic converters. The police were advised to get the 360 four-barrel, 400 four-barrel, or 440 four-barrel; and with the police package, these included an engine oil cooler. The 360 four-barrel was sold on the Valiant Pursuit, the largest engine the Valiant could have; it would later also be used on Volare Pursuits and then on Diplomat/Gran Fury cars. (Precious few Valiant police cars were sold; indeed, few 1976 Valiants were made.)
There was a special handling package for the small-block V8s that included special sway bars, torsion bars, rear leaf springs, control arms and pivots, and shock absorbers. Even the 225 slant six had a heavy duty suspension, using heavy duty torsion bars, rear leaf springs, front sway bars, and shock absorbers. Special firm-feel police chucks, to be in high demand at junkyards and dealer parts stores, were used with the V8s when they had power steering, which one would imagine would be nearly always. The police bias-ply tires were good up to 100 mph; above that, the company warned that buyers absolutely need certified high-speed radial tires with fabric belts, standard on all their V8 sedans with police packages, and optional on the wagons and slant sixes. The rear sway bar was left out of the wagons and six-cylinder Valiants.
Heavy-duty vinyl seat covers with heavy-duty springs were also part of the package; personal experience revealed the vinyl to be almost invincible over 150,000 miles, while the extra-firm seat springs made sitting on the front seats like sitting on a park bench, with about the same amount of support around fast turns.
The police packages included numerous additional welds, making for a stiffer, longer-lasting body; the handling of the police cars was greatly improved by this alone, the heavier-duty suspension parts and brakes pitching in to make them more than a match for pretty much any evildoer on the road, even with a less powerful engine than crooks might have. Heavy duty and special handling packages were standard on the police packages—except in the Chrysler Newport wagon.
The 225 slant six was rated at 100 horsepower, with 170 pound-feet of torque; many city police departments found this to be all they needed. The 318 two-barrel was a jump up to 10 horsepower and 255 pound-feet; going to the 360 added just 20 horsepower and 25 pound-feet. The 360 was the base engine for the Gran Fury.
The real performance engines started with the four-barrel 360, at 220 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque—not quite up to today’s Pentastar V6; this was the top Valiant engine, only available on the Valiant.
The first big-block V8 was the tame 400, with 175 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque—not a huge leap over the 360, but drinking more fuel. Two four-barrel versions were available, the E64 with Lean Burn (210 hp/305 lb-ft) and the E68 without it (240 hp/325 lb-ft); the E68 was the first engine with dual exhaust, other than the 360 four-barrel. The E85 440 four-barrel was only used on Gran Fury wagons; the E86 440, with a four-barrel, dual exhaust, and dual cats topped the range at 255 horsepower and 355 pound-feet of torque.
California numbers were lower, across the board—around 5 to 10 horsepower was bled off with extra emissions equipment, at that time still rather crude (internal engineers, including the head of engine tuning, were already asking for fuel injection to solve these woes and all the drivability issues of the day). Torque was down as well, by about the same amount. Most of the engines were available in California; they also had a single-exhaust 360 four-barrel, with the same power and torque ratings (175/270). No two-barrel 360 or 400 was available in California.
It was an interesting time for police cars; the Volare would soon have its own police package, a fairly rare item (used by, among others, military police and the movie Strange Brew) which was likely a good fit for many departments. Within a few years, the Dodge Diplomat and Plymouth Gran Fury, based off the Volare, would start dominating police cars—which they continued to do until their final year, 1989. Police cars may have been downsizing, but Plymouth was on top of the trends, and Mopar engineers were making every car that fit the bill, fit for law enforcement.
More on the police Valiants at Valiant.Org
This site is copyrighted © 2021-2022 Zatz LLC and is meant to cover Chrysler / Mopar car history.
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How many times have you foraged to the bottom of the peanut butter jar only to find that you can't get that last half teaspoon-full? It's a problem as old as peanut butter itself. Shouldn't there be a 21st century design solution?
The designer of the Easy PB&J Jar, Sherwood Forlee, may have created the perfect jar design: a container with completely round, slick walls and caps at each end. Now when you make it to the bottom of the jar, you won't have to search for every appliance in your silverware drawer to find the right fit. Simply unscrew the bottom and go from there.
But the genius is a little shallow, once you start thinking more deeply about the product. While the design may boast re-usability and may save a couple tablespoons of peanut butter, the jar is also far more resource-intensive. Just think: For each one, two lids have to be made, and the energy required to mine and produce that metal almost certainly far outstrips the meager savings on unwasted food.
If you're worried about food waste, go for it. But if you're more concerned about big-picture ecological impact, it might be wiser to stick with your hopefully frustrating store-bought brands.
Still, you gotta think something like this would be a marketing coup—which is one reason we wouldn't be surprised to see something like this on shelves soon.
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(Dr. sc. Doris Kilias; Doris Galuhn [Geburtsname]; Doris Erpenbeck [1. Ehe])
born on July 22, 1942 in Masuria (Poland)
died on June 1, 2008 in Berlin
German translator and Arabist
Obituary by writer Jenny Erpenbeck for her mother, translator Doris Kilias:
They must think he writes in German!
Two and a half shelves are filled with the books that my mother translated during her lifetime. Now they will move to me. My mother has died.
Back when she carried the big blue clay pot from East Prussia, at the age of three, at the end of the war, protected by her grandmother and older siblings, or later, when she went to school in Bernau over the rampart, with big bows in her hair, and also when she received an award, for raising the most money for the construction of the high-rise building on the Weberwiese in Berlin - back then, no one could have imagined that this girl from Bernau, daughter of a machine knitter and an accountant, would one day go out into the whole wide world, leave the melancholy small-town Sundays behind her and study a language that no one in this country understood at the time: Arabic, a language that would carry her out to cities with fabulous names - to Cairo, to Damascus and Beirut.
If it hadn't been for the Bernau public library, where she read, read and read, and then came across a book entitled: “Bent over ancient manuscripts”, if it had not been for the teacher who gave her the idea of learning this language that the foreigners spoke at the union college, and if it had not been for the school principal who accused her of immaturity when she expressed the desire to study this subject, then perhaps her defiance would not have awakened and her stubbornness, then the wanderlust that drove her from the small town to Berlin and from there to foreign lands would not have been so great.
But so my mother enrolled in Arabic and Romance studies at the Humboldt University, learned throat sounds, learned to write from right to left and to turn pages from back to front. Her German handwriting was gradually joined by her second, Arabic, in which she would note, for example, what Christmas presents she wanted to get, a very familiar but never decipherable cipher. In the subway, when Arab men would communicate in their language about the pretty blonde student sitting across from them, this student would say goodbye with a casual “Maas salam” as she got off the train!
When she was offered to go to Cairo for an additional year of study, but on the condition that she leave me, then just five months old, behind in the GDR as a pawn, she knew it was the chance of a lifetime. On the wall of her Cairo room she hangs the plan with the meals to be given to the infant in Berlin, outside in the Egyptian everyday life she learns the Arabic colloquial language, begins to interpret and gets together with young authors whose life's work will later also become her life's work. Back in Berlin, she works for Deutsche Welle radio, at the Weimarer Beiträge, and eventually returns to Humboldt University for her research. While still in the GDR, she began working for the Zurich publishing house Unionsverlag, and from then on translated year after year at least one book by the future Nobel Prize winner Nagib Machfus, as well as works by Mohamed Choukri, Gamal Al-Ghitani and many others.
When in 1995, in the course of the evaluations at the HU, a section for Arabic Studies was not established, she was dismissed despite her extensive knowledge. From then on, she started her own business as a translator. From then on, she sits at her desk for eight hours a day. She manages a maximum of two or three pages a day and gets paid as much as a plumber for a trip, but that never diminishes the obsession with which she pursues the words. She leafs through dictionaries, searches for original sources for quotations, draws floor plans for the apartments in which the novels are set, family trees for the families of the main characters, she grapples with customs and terms that seem untranslatable because the concept of God, the rituals, the things of everyday life, food, clothes, simply everything is different from Prussia or Switzerland. Did the father at the beginning of the book also already have five children or four? Was there already cement in Cheops' time? Is Allah God? She writes lists of questions for the authors, meets with native speakers who can justify a political allusion to her, sends versions back and forth, corrects flags, she discusses turns of phrase that she always insists on being translated in the gestural sense, not just from word to word.
While she sits in her very quiet Berlin room, she lives in the alleys of Cairo's old city, lives in Bedouin tents, in Algiers or Riyadh - lives in her books. And it always annoys her when reviews praise the language of the authors she translates without mentioning her name: “They must think he writes in German!” As a translator, she leads a shadowy existence, slipping into the writer's mind, taking a back seat to the author's name, and yet she gives her passion, her life experience, her very own language for that of the other. If she is asked what the most beautiful thing about translating is, she will say: to be someone else for a while.
Text from 2008, translated (alas!!) with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version). Translation edited by Luise F. Pusch.
Author: Jenny Erpenbeck
Literature & Sources
Numerous pictures, links, and detailed literature references can be found on the German Kilias page (click top right).
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I originally wrote this entry a year ago, and was thinking about this very subject this week when my son and I were having a philosophical discussion on “how do you know when you know yourself?” In trying to put down in words what we were discussing, I got myself into knots, and deleted the whole thing, when I suddenly had the impulse to look at articles I’ve written but not yet published. And there, right at the top, was this! Serendipity at work! Enjoy….
This is a local secondary school’s motto near where I live, and it always gets me shaking my head.
I can’t say too much about this other than to say that the children really don’t get time to know themselves! But what I wanted to think about today is how this short phrase applies to each of us individually. Do we really know ourselves?
There are certain things I know about myself because of how I feel in certain situations. For instance, I have an intense dislike of confrontation and will sometimes not stand up for myself or seek to turn a conversation to avoid confrontation although these days I would not go so far as to compromise myself or my principles. But the flip side to this is that I have a very active (or overactive) sense of fair play. If someone else is suffering an injustice, I leap in to defend them even at the risk of personal injury! Now how does that equate?? In Homer SImpson’s immortal words – Doh!!
Why do I do that? Is it a sensible thing to do? No – usually not! But somehow I can’t seem to help myself! Choices. No-one can say whether any choice is right or wrong. We have laws and social codes but they are only guides, and they can change over a period of time as society itself changes. We each live by our own personal codes, so we can only judge each other seen from our own standpoint. Also our own perspective changes as we mature (age!) and we can choose (if we wish) how to react to any situation. When we are born we seem to be hard-wired with one disposition or another but as we get older we can sometimes develop into the opposite of that.
So I’m back to where I started. And how do we get to know ourselves?
For me, it’s spending time on my own. Lots of time. Thinking. Reading. Weaving. Thinking some more.
Also it’s spending time with other people. Lots of different people in different situations. Watching. Listening. Talking. Listening some more.
I’m not a social animal by nature. However, give me a group of people with the same interests – weaving, philosophy, travel, readers, writers, music, theatre – and I’m as gregarious as anyone else. It’s like heads and tails, chalk and cheese. And I don’t think I’m alone in this. I cultivate what I’d like to become – so I don’t watch violent movies. I read to expand my mind and my soul. I travel to learn more and experience more about the world. I walk with my dog and examine closely the nature I see around me. I weave because I love art, and weaving and experimenting fulfils my soul.
I don’t know if what I do really helps me to know myself. All I do know is that I like doing these things and I feel that I’m getting to know myself. And perhaps that’s all any of us can aspire to.
The words and music from The King & I, “Getting to Know You”, are running through my head now. Perhaps it is more about getting to know others and finding through that that we get to know ourselves. Hmmm. I’d be interested in your thoughts……
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The following editorial appeared recently in the Kansas City Star:
Poorly paid Third-World workers are dying — literally — to produce low-cost clothing that's sold at leading retailers around the United States and the world.
The latest tragedy to strike the low-wage garment industry in Bangladesh was also one of the most horrific in years. Almost 400 people were killed when an eight-story building collapsed last week. Just five months earlier, a fire in a garment factory killed more than 100 people in that nation. In both cases, employee safety was an afterthought of the buildings' owners.
Last Wednesday morning, more than 3,000 people were inside Rana Plaza when some workers saw cracks in the building. But its owner — who is politically well connected — claimed: "There is nothing serious. It will stand for a hundred years." Instead, it soon fell down; police caught the owner Sunday as he tried to flee to India.
Unfortunately, owners of many overseas garment factories are more interested in squeezing extra money out of their operations and less inclined to take worker protection seriously. So the profitable Western retailers that buy all of this low-cost clothing must more aggressively promote employee safety.
The companies should conduct more on-site visits to these factories. They ought to insist on higher levels of worker protection and wages for employees. Retailers should reject buying from factory owners who don't meet stricter safety standards.
Many Bangladesh citizens are outraged by last week's disaster. Rightly so, they expect their government officials to insist on more humane working conditions.
The concerns of these citizens and garment industry workers must be taken seriously, not just in Bangladesh but in corporate boardrooms around the globe.
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Signs of heat illness
It can be hard to tell where heat exhaustion ends and heat stroke begins. Both can be mistaken for a summer "flu," at least at first. Be on the lookout for:
•Nausea or vomiting
•Disorientation or confusion
If you think you are having heat-related problems, or if you see signs of them in someone else, getting to an air-conditioned space and drinking cool water are the most important things to do. If these don't help or the symptoms persist, call your doctor or go to a hospital with an emergency department.
While there's little evidence to support a switch to a "caveman" diet, there are some important nutrition lessons we can learn from our ancient ancestors about healthful eating patterns:
•Move plant foods - whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices - to the center of the plate. Although our ancestors may not have used plates, their bodies benefitted from eating large amounts of a variety of plants.
•Add omega-3s, to your diet, from fish and seafood or plant-based sources. Our ancestors may have eaten seafood more frequently, but due to our current environmental concerns over mercury-contaminated seafood we must limit our fish and seafood consumption to no more than twice per week. Walnuts, flax seeds and chia seeds are great plant-based sources of omega-3.
•When selecting meat, choose lean meats, grass-fed when possible. Corn-fed conventionally raised farm animals tend to be higher in saturated fat and do not have as high a polyunsaturated fat content as grass-fed (including those heart-healthy omega-3s).
•Choose whole over processed foods - both whole foods and whole grains. If it has been highly processed and manufactured, swap it for something closer to Mother Nature.
•Use nutritious plant-based fats. Vegetable-based oils, seeds, nuts and avocados are great options.
•Lower your consumption of saturated fat. Saturated fat intake - from dairy and animal products - was significantly lower in ancient days than our current consumption. Choose moderate amounts of lean meat, skinless poultry and low-fat dairy products.
•Move more. Sitting all day at a computer, driving to and from work and finishing the day in front of the TV didn't exist for our ancestors. Try walking to the store or biking to work. Instead of television, end your day with a stroll.
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- Newspaperman William Randolph Hearst first brought zebras to California for his private zoo.
- When his zoo fell into disuse during the Great Depression, the zebras managed to escape and wander into the countryside.
- They not only managed to survive but thrive. As of 2022, their herd is 151 strong.
Nearly every day, dozens of drivers pull up on the side of Highway 1 in San Simeon, California to make sure their eyes are not deceiving them. In utter disbelief, they stop and stare at what look like zebras, grazing peacefully along the shores of the West Coast.
James R. and his family had just visited an elephant seal sighting spot when they encountered the iconic animals. “I accused my daughter, who was driving at the time, of having taken a wrong road,” James, who is South African, wrote to a local newspaper called Noozhawk. “I thought we were back in Africa.”
These zebras did not escape from a nearby zoo. Nor are they part of a safari park whose confinements are so large they seem invisible. Believe it or not, they used to be the personal property of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. When Hearst died and his estate fell into disarray, the zebras were let loose into the Californian countryside where, thanks to a legal loophole, they were allowed to stay.
Making a new home for themselves in the grasslands of San Simeon, Hearst’s zebras managed to survive. Actually, they thrived. Thanks to some unexpected similarities between the ecosystems of the West Coast and the African savannah, the state of California now houses the largest wild zebra herd outside of Africa.
Life at Hearst Castle
William Randolph Hearst was an American businessman and newspaper publisher. He was infamously caricatured in the film Citizen Kane, made by Orson Welles. The film was not far off. Like his fictional counterpart, Hearst rarely let morals get in the way of his pursuit of power. He approved of sensational, often unfounded news stories to increase readership and even start armed conflict, ushering in the so-called age of yellow journalism.
Like Charles Foster Kane, Hearst liked to make a display of his unfathomable wealth. He collected medieval armor and Gothic artwork. Later in life he retreated into a Xanadu-esque estate christened Hearst Castle. Located in San Simeon, halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, the Castle is fitted with both indoor and outdoor swimming pools, lush gardens, tennis courts, a movie theater, and an airfield.
It also used to include the world’s largest private zoo. Initially this zoo consisted of buffalo, elk, and deer, animals that Hearst may have inherited from his father, who owned the land before he did. To this collection, according to Ben Procter’s William Randolph Hearst: The Later Years, 1911-1951, the tycoon added lions, giraffes, wildebeests, kangaroos, camels, ibexes, emus, and — fatefully — zebras.
The zoo closed down in 1937, when Hearst ran into financial trouble as a result of the Great Depression. According to Hearst Castle’s official website, most of the animals were sold or donated to commercial zoos in California, Oregon, and Washington. Hearst did keep his zebras, which remained in their enclosures until a winter storm knocked down the fencing.
Why California’s zebras are thriving
The fences were never put back up. A 1976 issue from Sports Illustrated states the zebras briefly roamed the ruins of the zoo before migrating out into the 77,000-acre ranch that surrounds the property, which is also owned by the Hearst family. Though the ranch’s staff keeps a small herd of cattle along its southern borders to prevent the zebras from entering neighboring land, interaction between the two parties is virtually non-existent. Aside from sharing a bit of cattle feed in dry seasons, the zebras are left to fend for themselves.
The zebras of Hearst Castle owe their newfound freedom to a loophole in a California law that concerns the restriction of equids, the taxonomic family that includes zebras as well as horses and donkeys. “Because zebras are not on the state’s list of restricted species,” the aforementioned article from Noozhawk explains, “they are not regulated by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW).” Put differently, no one can force Hearst Castle to put the animals back in their cages.
Hearst’s zebras did not just survive out in the wild; they thrived. Their numbers grew from 126 in 2020 to 151 in 2022. That last estimate comes directly from Ben Higgins, the Director of Agricultural Operations at Hearst Communications. “They almost exclusively reside in the southwestern corner of the property,” he tells Big Think when asked about their migratory patterns. “They presumably prefer this area as it offers ample feed and water [and because] the coastal terraces are relatively flat and open — giving them excellent visibility.”
Justin Brashares, who teaches wildlife ecology and conservation at the University of California-Berkeley, is not surprised at their success. “Most equids, and certainly zebras, are quite adaptable thanks to the ability to gain nutrients from a variety of plants, including pretty low quality grasses,” he adds. “They achieve this by eating a lot (called ‘bulk feeding’) and processing it quickly. This approach allows them to survive the dry season on Hearst Ranch.”
Lions and humans and cars, oh my!
The zebras of Hearst Castle are in for a bright future. “The central coast climate,” Brashares continues, “is well within their climate tolerance (zebras occur from hot scrub-desert habitat to cool mountain grasslands in Africa) and they will probably only do better with global warming, as long as forage availability isn’t too impacted.”
Though San Simeon is considerably less dangerous than the African savannah, the zebras are not without threats. Brashares says there have been cases of young zebras being eaten by mountain lions which, though critically endangered, can still be found in California. Being so close to Highway 1, the zebras also stand a much bigger chance of being struck by cars.
Last but not least, the zebras have to contend with humans. In 2011, two zebras were shot by neighboring ranchers after the animals entered their property. “The shootings,” the Orange County Register reported, “sparked outrage for many residents and observers near San Simeon, especially after it was learned the ranchers apparently opted to have the animals’ hides tanned and turned into rugs.”
The ranchers, in turn, are annoyed that these wild animals can freely interact with cattle. Their attitude mirrors that of pastoralists in Africa, who go to great lengths to protect their crops from being trampled. That said, studies have shown that allowing wild and domesticated animals to mix could actually benefit both. Domesticated animals protect wild animals from ticks and other pests, while wild animals prevent overgrazing. Perhaps a similar truce can be reached in San Simeon.
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The Beehive State is no stranger to the Mountain West Conference. Since its inception in 1999, the conference has undergone major changes both to the delight and chagrin of college sports fans in Utah.
The conference spun away from the Western Athletic Conference began with eight charter members: Utah, BYU, Wyoming, Air Force, San Diego State, Colorado State, New Mexico and UNLV. It expanded to nine when TCU joined in 2005
The University of Utah received an invite to the Pac-12 conference in 2010 and departed in 2011. At the same time that Utah entered the BCS fold, fellow charter member BYU embarked upon their own independent journey. TCU also departed for the Big East, then the Big 12.
Over the last three years, five members of the Western Athletic Conference have joined the MWC in all sports, with Hawaii joining as a football-only member, bolstering football membership to 12. Every school currently in the MWC at one time or another was a part of the old WAC.
A regional conference, the MWC is one of the most respected basketball conferences in America. The conference also enjoys six different college football bowl tie-ins.
Though it has been affected, the Mountain West has been a relative island of stability in an ocean of conference realignment and change.
Kraig Williams is a 2010 Utah State University graduate and regular Deseret News sports blogger. He can be followed on Twitter @DesNewsKraig.
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Research and common sense both say that our brain doesn't go to sleep or switch off when we stop doing brain things (thinking, problem solving e.t.c.). And I am sure we all know that. The part most of us hardly consider is that: what then is our brain doing when we are sleeping? That's the question that will form the foundation of all I am going to share with you.
Our brain is constantly working. It is using all the information/education/smartness you have acquired to help you consciously come up with solutions and plans during your waking conscious hours, the same way, too, it is using those very resources to come up with plans and solutions when you are asleep (or at your unconscious mind level). The only difference is that the plans and solutions it helps us come up with during our conscious moments we claim as ours and are not surprised by them, but when it comes during our unconscious moments we call them "gut feeling" and "intuition".
In essence, the difference between your strategic deliberate plans and your gut feelings is at what moment you received them. One came during your conscious moments and the other maybe when you were not 100% controlling your mind. But the processes and resources used are the same.
Garbage in, garbage out. If you make terrible deliberate plans because you are not well educated or feed yourself inadequate useful information or not smart, then your gut feeling will be a fountain of horrible ideas. But if you improve the quality of resources your mind has access to and build up the capacity of your mind to think critically, your gut feelings will be excellent quality.
If you want excellent and breakthrough-triggering intuition, you should feed your mind with good quality resources and train your mind to think productively deep. And that is how you improve your gut feeling.
All the best!
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Bearded Dragon Diet TipsBearded Dragons are Omnivorous. They are not completely carnivorous as some would have you think. Nor are they vegetarians by any stretch of the imagination. They eat a wide variety of things both in the wild and in captivity.
Bearded Dragons will eat mostly insects if you let them. This, however, is not the best thing for them. The number one best thing you can do for a juvenile or baby Beardie is to make them eat their veggies every day BEFORE you put in the live insects. When they are really hungry they will eat the greens and other veggies. If you should feed the insects first they will surely fill up on them and eat hardly any vegetable material. Actually many Dragons relish their greens.
Vegetable PortionI feed all my Dragons the same diet as my Green Iguanas eat every day. (Loosely based on Melissa Kaplan's Iguana Diet, where there are even some pictures of some of the food items) The "salad" consists of two parts; the Greens portion and the Mix portion. The greens may include on any given day:
NEVER feed your Dragon iceberg or head lettuce! It is mostly water and has nearly no nutrients. Romaine lettuce can be used occasionally in a pinch but should not be a main source of food.
The "mix" portion generally contains some or all of the list below finely minced (in the food processor):
Insect PortionCrickets and Superworms (Zophorbus sp.) are the staple food item at my house. My adults seem to vary back and forth on preferring either crickets or supers.
When you bring crickets or superworms (aka King Worms) home it is important to feed them something good before they are fed to your Dragons or to any lizard for that matter. "You are what you eat" holds true for reptiles too! Check out my cricket care document for details. I don't have my own superworm care guide yet but here are some basic requirements:
There are other insects you can feed your dragons. Waxworms, regular mealworms (Tenebrio molitor), silworms, Trevo Worms (Butter worms), even various cockroach species if you are so inclined.
Other Dragon Diet PagesBearded Dragon Care and Feeding | Kathryn Tosney's Diet Info
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Am Govt Homework 5 Answers - Student Eight
MadisonT Answer the first five questions, and then two of the remaining three:
What is your favorite part of the Bill of Rights? Explain.
My favorite part of the Bill of Rights is the first amendment, because it includes the freedom of speech. Speech is used diversely every day, all the time, and because there is freedom in speech, it can be easier to speak freely everyone you want to talk to.
- Excellent. Good choice.
2. Explain which amendments in the Bill of Rights primarily protect the rights of defendants.
Amendments V and VI were written to protect the rights of defendants.
- Right. You could also add the Fourth and Eighth Amendments.
3. Should federal courts apply all of the Bill of Rights, including the Establishment Clause, against state and local government? Discuss.
Yes, all courts should include all of the Bill of Rights in their actions, but they should not give exceptions that will give a chain reaction for more uncalled for exceptions.
- Your answer is slightly off, because the question asked about courts applying the Bill of Rights against state and local governments. (-1) Otherwise your answer is fine.
4. Suppose the police entered your home without a warrant, despite your objection, and searched your house. Which part of the Constitution did the police violate (unless there was an exception, like an emergency)? Explain briefly.
The police would be violating Amendment IV, which states “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” This action by the police would be completely contradicting this amendment.
5. Is there any new amendment that you would like to see in the U.S. Constitution today, and what is the customary process for adding it?
I do not think that I would like to see any new amendment added to the U.S Constitution. I think that the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Constitution has everything in it that is needed.
- Very good.
7. Do you think stare decisis should prevent the U.S. Supreme Court from overturning Roe v. Wade?
No, I do not think that the stare decisis would do that.
- OK, but further explanation would be better. (-2)
8. Is it too easy or too difficult to amend the U.S. Constitution? Explain, while mentioning the example of the ERA.
It is not too easy or too difficult to amend the U.S Constitution, but it is perfectly right.
- Good, but a bit incomplete. (-2)
Extra credit (answer two of the following five questions):
"It is better for 50 guilty men to go free than for one innocent man to be unjustly convicted." Do you agree? Discuss.
I disagree with this quote. I think that the 50 guilty men that are freed can do what they were guilty of again, thinking that they would have the same treatment as the time before. On the other hand, if one innocent man was unjustly convicted, the man will know that he was innocent, and can have peace with himself.
- Interesting answer. You make good points in explaining your position.
- Total score: 65/70. Good work.--Andy Schlafly 20:06, 23 October 2012 (EDT)
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New method of preserving blood discovered
Research at the University of Warwick has shown a way of preserving blood for longer than the present limit of 42 days.
Currently, blood donations can only be refrigerated for 42 days at -20°c until passing its use-by date, as after this time the ice crystals would thaw in a way that tears blood cells apart, rendering it ineffective.
Scientists have discovered that a polymer can be used to adapt the behaviour of the crystals, allowing blood to be frozen for longer. This will benefit people with rare blood types, of which there is rarely enough donated. Large scale refrigeration trials will begin within the next twelve months.
Ensure that issues over temperature don’t affect the quality of your stored material.
Abacus Guardian wireless temperature monitoring allows you to remotely monitor the temperature of any room, cabinet or storage area. If the temperature drops or rises beyond the parameters that you have set you will automatically be alerted.
Call us today on 01582 52 80 82 for more information.
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Location: Southern Oregon, near Ashland
Rogue River rafting seems too good to be true: illustrious rapids, green gorges and golden hillsides, historical sites at every bend and arguably the best wildlife viewing of all the western rivers. It’s no wonder people began running this river way back in the 1920s-in wooden dories no less. Its their history, along with the Native Americans who first inhabited the land and a handful of settlers, hardy enough to carve out a living in the Rogue wilderness, whose stories make this river simply steeped in human lore. Novelist Zane Grey felt the draw of the area as well-he wrote many of his books in a cabin which still stands at the Rogue’s riverside.
Go Rafting with A Commercial Outfitter in Oregon
Northwest Rafting Company is an award-winning group of professional, well-trained guides that lead people down the most beautiful rivers in the world.
Visit their website for more information about Rogue River Rafting.
Level of Difficulty: Class III / Intermediate
The Rogue River is the perfect river for families, with 34 miles of Class II and III rapids, long flat stretches for swimming, and a few more exciting rapids such as Mule Creek Canyon. No prior experience is necessary and paddlers can either sit in the raft and enjoy the scenery, participate in a paddle boat, or try out navigating the river on their own in an inflatable kayak.
The Canyon: Wild and Scenic
The Rogue River draws its water from the Cascade range near Crater Lake in southwest Oregon and travels nearly 200 miles west to meet the Pacific. Before it converges with the ocean, it flows through the Coast Range. Here the river has created famous rapids like Rainie Falls, Upper and Lower Black Bar Falls and Class IV Blossom Bar. The entire course of the Grave Creek stretch is lined with a walking trail just above the riverside on river right so hiking to side creeks and hidden swimming pools is easy and the views are inspiring. After the spring melt, the Rogue flows higher than it does in the summer months when the water is also unusually warm.
The Rogue’s wildlife population is legendary as well, especially its notable black bear constituents. Rafters have been known to count on two hands the number of bear they spied during the course of their 34-mile trip from Grave Creek to Foster Bar. River otter, bald eagles and osprey are amazingly plentiful as well. Fishing on the Rogue is a reason all on its own to raft the Rogue River-its healthy population of steelhead and salmon is famous. In 1968, when the government wrote a list of eight rivers it wished to deem “Wild and Scenic” and protect forever from development, this Rogue River section was at the top of the list.
Season: May – October
The Rogue is a dam-controlled river with consistent flows all summer long. In the fall, the salmon and steelhead runs make for great fishing trips. In the summer, the water is warm and perfect for swimming.
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Ep. 20: “Mucosal Immunology” Featuring Dr. De’Broski Herbert
Dr. De’Broski Herbert is an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania. The Herbert lab is exploring the immunoregulatory and regenerative mechanisms operating at the mucosal interface. He discusses his recent paper on IL-33 sources and secretion, his postdoctoral fellowship in South Africa, and the M1/M2 macrophage paradigm.
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The Immunology Science Round Up
TREM-2 and T Cells in SARS-CoV-2 – Researchers showed that triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 2 (TREM-2) expression was increased on T cells in patients with COVID-19.
Neutralizing the Omicron Variant – mRNA vaccine boosters may increase SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibody titers.
T Cells Still Recognize the Omicron Variant – Early data suggest that existing CD8+ T cell responses from previous SARS-CoV-2 infection or vaccination will likely recognize the Omicron variant of concern.
A Nasal Vaccine for Influenza – An intranasal flu vaccine enhanced immunoglobulin A responses through lung-resident memory B cells, plasmablasts, and plasma cells in mice.
Mucosal Antibody Responses to SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination – Mucosal immunoglobulin A responses to mRNA vaccination depend on pre-existing immunity.
An Alternative Approach for Anthrax – Scientists used capsule depolymerase to remove the Bacillus anthracis bacterial capsule and promote phagocytosis and killing by human neutrophils.
Image courtesy of Dr. De’Broski Herbert
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Please see below for Bill Wright's letter: Commentary on Funding Local Roads and Bridges
I read with interest the commentary by Lucius Riccio and Dan Feldman (Done Right, Gas Tax Hike Means Jobs) describing a public inclined to support tax increases to pay for vital state services.
Messrs. Riccio and Feldman rightfully point out that the key to this public support, particularly as it relates to a tax increases at the pump, is for state officials to “link the tax increase to a specific service the public wants and needs.”
County highway officials agree and advocate strongly for additional state resources to get the job done on our local roads, bridges and culverts so as to maintain the system in a state of good repair. And gasoline taxes need to be primarily, if not exclusively, dedicated for transportation and largely spent on our local system. Forty-eight percent of vehicle miles traveled in New York are on local roads, yet less than 12 percent of the fees and taxes paid by these drivers goes to maintaining these local systems. Because gas taxes are paid by motorists, motorists should be the main beneficiaries of these levies.
As Riccio and Feldman point out, in order to be popularly supported, a gas tax hike would need to be linked directly to a specific purpose. There is currently a state sales tax on motor fuel that generates about $950 million per year for the state, none of which is dedicated to transportation. This must change in order for local highway departments to keep up with ever rising costs of maintenance, repair, rehabilitation and reconstruction of our roads, bridges and culverts for a safe, economic and convenient integrated transportation system for the benefits of the driving public.
Gas taxes for roads and bridges. Not many of us drivers would disagree with that.
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According to the Federal Trade Commission, 9 million people are victims of identity theft annually. Money Matter$ provides links to important information that includes steps to prevent identity theft and help if you find yourself a victim.
National Resource for Identity Theft - This is the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) home page for ID theft. Links include a course of action if your identity has been stolen, consumer information, and ID theft statistics.
Take Charge: Fighting Back Against Identity Theft - An in-depth publication created by the FTC that covers all aspects of identity theft issues. Information includes privacy rights, victim recourse, fraud, federal and state laws, and an ID theft affidavit.
Misused - The Department of Education created this web site to help college students avoid credit card fraud and other forms of identity theft.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse - This is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating consumers as well as fostering research and advocacy for the enforcement of privacy rights.
Identity Theft Resource Center - This is a national non-profit organization that focuses exclusively on identity theft.
Opt Out Prescreen - Opt out of receiving pre-screened credit card offers for five years or permanently. Visit this site or call 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (1-888-567-8688).
Seattle University School of Law provides these links as a courtesy to its students. These sites are not endorsed by Seattle University. Some of these sites require personal information. We urge you to use your discretion and be careful when disclosing this type of information. We encourage you to explore your options using various resources so that you can make well informed decisions about your current and future finances.
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German architect. A pupil of Schinkel, he also spent some time in Paris where he absorbed influences from the works of Percier and Fontaine. With Knoblauch and others he helped to consolidate the style of Berlin's domestic architecture in a series of exquisite villas built in the 1840s and 1850s. He also used brick to considerable effect, taking his cue from Schinkel's Bauakademie (1831). Most of his buildings have been destroyed, including the Kronenberg Palace, Warsaw (1866–70—on which he published a monograph in 1875), and the Börse, Berlin (1859–64—also the subject of a monograph, in 1867).
Börsch-Supan (1977);Hitzig (1850–9, 1867, 1875)
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“When we get freedom for all, you’ll do as you’re told!”
It’s an old joke, and its origins have got lost somewhere along the line. It may have been a trade unionist who said it first, or an anarchist. Or maybe even a feminist, because we are not immune to that unfortunate disease of oppressed groups – occasionally, we turn our oppression in and allow ourselves to repeat the patriarchy’s mistakes on smaller minority groups within our own ranks.
That is not how feminism should work. More specifically, feminism should not have a prescriptive stance on female sexuality, that subject of so much debate both outside and within the feminist movement. Feminists discuss and question; we frequently disagree and agree to differ; we debate assumptions and challenge stereotypes, but prescriptivism should not be on our agenda.
There was a heated debate among lesbian feminists in the 1970s and ’80s about the use of strap-ons during sex between women. One group argued furiously that women did not need phallic toys for pleasure, and that using strap-ons was a sign that we had not yet thrown off the shackles – and the symbols – of the patriarchy. Another side of the debate held that sometimes a sex toy is just a sex toy, and if they feel good, why should they not use them?
In more recent years, a middle ground has been reached. Women now are able to consider whether or not they are turned on by phallic sex-toys, and what that says – if anything – about their dependence on men. That choice is now seen as an individual one and few women will argue strenuously on the point. In more recent years, we have become more able to take a live-and-let-live attitude to these issues, and feel less inclined to police the grey areas of feminist discourse and female sexuality.
It is surely a mistake for anyone within the feminist movement to sit in judgement on another woman’s sexual preferences
Clearly, some issues are not up for discussion and feminists take a united stand on them. Consent is an absolute requirement of sexual interaction, and the louder that is insisted upon the better. Feminists are more than aware of the cloudy concepts of consent held by many people, and make a point of clarifying those boundaries and arguing for them to be clearly enshrined in law and the public consciousness. Consent is essential.
In addition to consent, though, a feminist view of sexuality must put value on mindfulness – on an awareness of the political impact of personal choices. This is the issues the lesbian feminists of the ’70s and ’80s raised, and it is a vastly important one.
In a society where women, and particularly women’s sexual desires, are policed, obfuscated and subjected to constant re-writing by male ‘experts’, how much is a woman’s desire her own, and how much does she draw from the society around her telling her how to think and behave?
Female sexuality is a rich and varied tapestry, and there are many things which lie within the boundaries of consent, but are not universally appealing. Some women enjoy cross-dressing, wearing corsets, sex outdoors, using strap-ons and a whole astonishing range of activities. We live in a place and an age where these are accepted variants, and this is to be celebrated. Given this, it is surely a mistake for anyone within the feminist movement to sit in judgement on another woman’s sexual preferences? Discourse and discussion are essential to raise awareness and start the questioning process, but it is a matter for the individual to consider her desires, and to decide how far they may be informed by the patriarchal society around her.
Having nailed my non-prescriptive colours to the mast, I intend to disentangle a particular set of issues I have an interest in – the BDSM subculture. BDSM is an area which will raise the hackles of many feminists. It carries some strong negative associations. In particular, female submission can look like a minefield of dubious consent, manipulation and abusive behaviour. It is understandable that many people cannot reconcile the concept of being both a feminist and a submissive, but I am convinced that kink as it is practised, in consensual and responsible ways, by thousands of women and men, is entirely compatible with feminism.
BDSM is an umbrella term, standing for Bondage and Discipline, Domination and Submission, and Sado-Masochism. The overlapping acronym is a good indication that it is many things to many people.
At its broadest, BDSM is about power exchange. One person takes on a certain amount of physical or sexual power over another, for the pleasure of both. There is often a lot of power symbolism involved – for example, a submissive partner may wear a collar, or the dominant partner may be called by a title. It can involve verbal domination, physical pain such as whipping and restraint, or sexual domination.
To the gaze of any critical feminist, this looks worryingly like a ritualised version of the routine subjection and subjugation that we fight so hard against. However, there are important differences. The first, and most crucial, is consent.
On an individual level, no scene responsibly played is without a framework of consent. All responsibly-played scenes contain a safe-word – a codeword indicating ‘stop’. There are variations and elaborations on this – some people simply use ‘stop’, some work with the more complex ‘traffic light code’ – but anyone new to the scene learns from every resource they look to that the safe-word is essential. The websites I spent my first year as an apprentice domme perusing, while they differed widely on almost everything, were unified in stating that the safe-word is an essential part of any scene.
When I was newly involved in the subculture, I found it very refreshing to meet people whose concept of consent as an absolute requirement, with no space for grey areas, was similar to my own view drawn from my feminism
The BDSM community as a whole makes a huge effort to emphasise this point. The first time I went to a Munch (a meet-up of a local BDSM community), I was astonished and pleased by how concerned and responsible they were. Compared to the culture of mainstream dating, where one is sent off to meet people with a mixture of common sense, misinformation and scare stories to guide you, the BDSM community clearly takes the safety of individuals very seriously. I was told the safest places to meet new partners, how to set up a safe-call with a friend and how to avoid dangerous situations. Both the Munch organiser and a visiting organiser from another area relayed this advice with genuine concern and earnestness.
While the nature of BDSM is likely to attract a few people willing to abuse it, by and large the BDSM community appears safer and more concerned with consent than the wider community. The stakes are higher within a BDSM scene, and consequently the boundaries are made very clear. When I was newly involved in the subculture, I found it very refreshing to meet people whose concept of consent as an absolute requirement, with no space for grey areas, was similar to my own view drawn from my feminism.
On a more individual level, though, what goes on in a BDSM scene?
It is just that – a scene. It is a piece of acting, geared to the enjoyment of both participants, but ultimately an artificial performance. In the same way that sexual fantasy is a drama generated from the imagination, for the imaginer’s own enjoyment, a BDSM scenario can be invented, elaborated and acted out by two or more people for their mutual enjoyment. Once the safety net of a safe-word is in place, the participants can explore their fantasies and desires in a safe space.
The boundaries between dominant and submissive are by no means fixed for either sex and many, if not most, dom/mes have ‘switched’ at some point and experienced submission
These scenes do not happen by chance or without preparation. The power exchange is carefully negotiated and considered beforehand. It is paradoxically true that the submissive is more in control of any scene played than the dominant partner. Dom/mes take on a controlling role because they are interested in the sub enjoying the scene. They may also get an erotic thrill out of the scene they are performing, but the submissive controls the direction of the scene through negotiation and holds the ultimate veto, the safe-word, if the scene does not work out. The power-play is illusory.
It is also worth noting that most dom/mes have at some point been involved in a scene as a submissive. The boundaries between dominant and submissive are by no means fixed for either sex and many, if not most, dom/mes have ‘switched’ at some point and experienced submission. This is a very valuable experience, particularly for men, who may learn a great deal from being placed in a position of submission within the safe space of a scene, and it is often recommended to a new dominant as a vital part of learning how to make a scene work.
This brings me to the question of gender dynamics within a scene. While people of every orientation and gender are involved in BDSM, the scenes in which heterosexual couples interact, and particularly those in which a woman takes the submissive role, are of particular interest in the context of female sexuality.
In taking on control of a female submissive during scenes, dominant men appear to be enacting all that is worst about male privilege and control. The use of tying and restraints, physical punishment and sexual domination, all ring alarm-bells for the feminist viewer.
It is regrettably true than a few of the male doms one encounters within the BDSM scene – particularly the online community – are using the context of power-play to attempt to abuse the women within the scene. Some men are attracted to BDSM precisely because of the dynamic of control which, they feel, gives them easier access to women.
These men are the minority that get the rest a bad name.
It is a personal matter for a woman to question and analyse her own sexuality, but it is, in my view, a highly desirable exploration
From what I have seen, within the BDSM community, and within individual scenes, consent, negotiation and mutual respect are seen as a standard and required part of sexual interactions, by men as well as women. Most male doms are aware of, and respect, the mutual dynamic in which the submissive holds real-life control over a scene, and are attentive to the needs and wishes of their partner. While there are a few exceptions, the subculture as a whole could teach many of the people involved in mainstream dating a few lessons.
And the mindfulness of social context which I have been arguing for? Within BDSM, women are able to discuss and negotiate their needs within a safe space, and that can only be a good start.
It is a personal matter for a woman to question and analyse her own sexuality, but it is, in my view, a highly desirable exploration. Awareness of the social context of personal desire is a part of defining oneself and, for feminists particularly, the questioning of self is a part of one’s political make up. It is often impossible to reach the ‘right answer’, but an increased awareness of the issues is hugely helpful in making choices.
And this is where I must leave the debate and ask my reader to take up the question for herself. Having, I hope, made it clear what BDSM is and is not about, I will return to my first point, and say that feminism is not a prescriptive school of thought. No movement so diverse and discursive could be. On issues of grey areas, of personal tastes and desires, of the strengths and weaknesses and compromises and choices of women – feminism does not prescribe. It is not a feminist’s business to tell people to think like her, only to tell them to think.
Kit Roskelly is a genderqueer bisexual with masochistic tendencies and a very new blog
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Posted on Steps to Recovery on December 30, 2012
I read an article today that set me spinning. Literally made my head and stomach feel woozy. In the wake of my best friend’s kindergarten age son’s teacher telling her that he needs to be medicated (for normal 5 year old behavior) this struck my core. Very scary stuff. From the New York Times on October 9, 2012….
CANTON, Ga. — When Dr. Michael Anderson hears about his low-income patients struggling in elementary school, he usually gives them a taste of some powerful medicine: Adderall.
The pills boost focus and impulse control in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Although A.D.H.D is the diagnosis Dr. Anderson makes, he calls the disorder “made up” and “an excuse” to prescribe the pills to treat what he considers the children’s true ill — poor academic performance in inadequate schools.
“I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”
Dr. Anderson is one of the more outspoken proponents of an idea that is gaining interest among some physicians. They are prescribing stimulants to struggling students in schools starved of extra money — not to treat A.D.H.D., necessarily, but to boost their academic performance.
It is not yet clear whether Dr. Anderson is representative of a widening trend. But some experts note that as wealthy students abuse stimulants to raise already-good grades in colleges and high schools, the medications are being used on low-income elementary school children with faltering grades and parents eager to see them succeed.
“We as a society have been unwilling to invest in very effective nonpharmaceutical interventions for these children and their families,” said Dr. Ramesh Raghavan, a child mental-health services researcher at Washington University in St. Louis and an expert in prescription drug use among low-income children. “We are effectively forcing local community psychiatrists to use the only tool at their disposal, which is psychotropic medications.”
Dr. Nancy Rappaport, a child psychiatrist in Cambridge, Mass., who works primarily with lower-income children and their schools, added: “We are seeing this more and more. We are using a chemical straitjacket instead of doing things that are just as important to also do, sometimes more.”
Dr. Anderson’s instinct, he said, is that of a “social justice thinker” who is “evening the scales a little bit.” He said that the children he sees with academic problems are essentially “mismatched with their environment” — square pegs chafing the round holes of public education. Because their families can rarely afford behavior-based therapies like tutoring and family counseling, he said, medication becomes the most reliable and pragmatic way to redirect the student toward success.
“People who are getting A’s and B’s, I won’t give it to them,” he said. For some parents the pills provide great relief. Jacqueline Williams said she can’t thank Dr. Anderson enough for diagnosing A.D.H.D. in her children — Eric, 15; Chekiara, 14; and Shamya, 11 — and prescribing Concerta, a long-acting stimulant, for them all. She said each was having trouble listening to instructions and concentrating on schoolwork.
“My kids don’t want to take it, but I told them, ‘These are your grades when you’re taking it, this is when you don’t,’ and they understood,” Ms. Williams said, noting that Medicaid covers almost every penny of her doctor and prescription costs.
Some experts see little harm in a responsible physician using A.D.H.D. medications to help a struggling student. Others — even among the many like Dr. Rappaport who praise the use of stimulants as treatment for classic A.D.H.D. — fear that doctors are exposing children to unwarranted physical and psychological risks. Reported side effects of the drugs have included growth suppression, increased blood pressure and, in rare cases, psychotic episodes.
The disorder, which is characterized by severe inattention and impulsivity, is an increasingly common psychiatric diagnosis among American youth: about 9.5 percent of Americans ages 4 to 17 were judged to have it in 2007, or about 5.4 million children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The reported prevalence of the disorder has risen steadily for more than a decade, with some doctors gratified by its widening recognition but others fearful that the diagnosis, and the drugs to treat it, are handed out too loosely and at the exclusion of nonpharmaceutical therapies.
The Drug Enforcement Administration classifies these medications as Schedule II Controlled Substances because they are particularly addictive. Long-term effects of extended use are not well understood, said many medical experts. Some of them worry that children can become dependent on the medication well into adulthood, long after any A.D.H.D. symptoms can dissipate.
According to guidelines published last year by the American Academy of Pediatrics, physicians should use one of several behavior rating scales, some of which feature dozens of categories, to make sure that a child not only fits criteria for A.D.H.D., but also has no related condition like dyslexia or oppositional defiant disorder, in which intense anger is directed toward authority figures. However, a 2010 study in the Journal of Attention Disorders suggested that at least 20 percent of doctors said they did not follow this protocol when making their A.D.H.D. diagnoses, with many of them following personal instinct.
On the Rocafort family’s kitchen shelf in Ball Ground, Ga., next to the peanut butter and chicken broth, sits a wire basket brimming with bottles of the children’s medications, prescribed by Dr. Anderson: Adderall for Alexis, 12; and Ethan, 9; Risperdal (an antipsychotic for mood stabilization) for Quintn and Perry, both 11; and Clonidine (a sleep aid to counteract the other medications) for all four, taken nightly.
Quintn began taking Adderall for A.D.H.D. about five years ago, when his disruptive school behavior led to calls home and in-school suspensions. He immediately settled down and became a more earnest, attentive student — a little bit more like Perry, who also took Adderall for his A.D.H.D.
When puberty’s chemical maelstrom began at about 10, though, Quintn got into fights at school because, he said, other children were insulting his mother. The problem was, they were not; Quintn was seeing people and hearing voices that were not there, a rare but recognized side effect of Adderall. After Quintn admitted to being suicidal, Dr. Anderson prescribed a week in a local psychiatric hospital, and a switch to Risperdal.
While telling this story, the Rocaforts called Quintn into the kitchen and asked him to describe why he had been given Adderall.
“To help me focus on my school work, my homework, listening to Mom and Dad, and not doing what I used to do to my teachers, to make them mad,” he said. He described the week in the hospital and the effects of Risperdal: “If I don’t take my medicine I’d be having attitudes. I’d be disrespecting my parents. I wouldn’t be like this.”
Despite Quintn’s experience with Adderall, the Rocaforts decided to use it with their 12-year-old daughter, Alexis, and 9-year-old son, Ethan. These children don’t have A.D.H.D., their parents said. The Adderall is merely to help their grades, and because Alexis was, in her father’s words, “a little blah.”
”We’ve seen both sides of the spectrum: we’ve seen positive, we’ve seen negative,” the father, Rocky Rocafort, said. Acknowledging that Alexis’s use of Adderall is “cosmetic,” he added, “If they’re feeling positive, happy, socializing more, and it’s helping them, why wouldn’t you? Why not?”
Dr. William Graf, a pediatrician and child neurologist who serves many poor families in New Haven, said that a family should be able to choose for itself whether Adderall can benefit its non-A.D.H.D. child, and that a physician can ethically prescribe a trial as long as side effects are closely monitored. He expressed concern, however, that the rising use of stimulants in this manner can threaten what he called “the authenticity of development.”
“These children are still in the developmental phase, and we still don’t know how these drugs biologically affect the developing brain,” he said. “There’s an obligation for parents, doctors and teachers to respect the authenticity issue, and I’m not sure that’s always happening.”
Dr. Anderson said that every child he treats with A.D.H.D. medication has met qualifications. But he also railed against those criteria, saying they were codified only to “make something completely subjective look objective.” He added that teacher reports almost invariably come back as citing the behaviors that would warrant a diagnosis, a decision he called more economic than medical.
“The school said if they had other ideas they would,” Dr. Anderson said. “But the other ideas cost money and resources compared to meds.”
Dr. Anderson cited William G. Hasty Elementary School here in Canton as one school he deals with often. Izell McGruder, the school’s principal, did not respond to several messages seeking comment.
Several educators contacted for this article considered the subject of A.D.H.D. so controversial — the diagnosis was misused at times, they said, but for many children it is a serious learning disability — that they declined to comment. The superintendent of one major school district in California, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, noted that diagnosis rates of A.D.H.D. have risen as sharply as school funding has declined.
“It’s scary to think that this is what we’ve come to; how not funding public education to meet the needs of all kids has led to this,” said the superintendent, referring to the use of stimulants in children without classic A.D.H.D. “I don’t know, but it could be happening right here. Maybe not as knowingly, but it could be a consequence of a doctor who sees a kid failing in overcrowded classes with 42 other kids and the frustrated parents asking what they can do. The doctor says, ‘Maybe it’s A.D.H.D., let’s give this a try.’ ”
When told that the Rocaforts insist that their two children on Adderall do not have A.D.H.D. and never did, Dr. Anderson said he was surprised. He consulted their charts and found the parent questionnaire. Every category, which assessed the severity of behaviors associated with A.D.H.D., received a five out of five except one, which was a four.
“This is my whole angst about the thing,” Dr. Anderson said. “We put a label on something that isn’t binary — you have it or you don’t. We won’t just say that there is a student who has problems in school, problems at home, and probably, according to the doctor with agreement of the parents, will try medical treatment.”
He added, “We might not know the long-term effects, but we do know the short-term costs of school failure, which are real. I am looking to the individual person and where they are right now. I am the doctor for the patient, not for society.”
So medicating a child with highly addictive stimulants to achieve better grades becomes a parenting choice? OR the choice preferred by schools to increase funding? Well, I guess, like they say starting in Kindergarten these days…It’s never too soon to start thinking about college.
Would you feed your child drugs to help them get better grades?
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Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1967-Jun
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National Conference on Campus Safety (14th, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, June 26-28, 1967).
Green, Jack N. Ed.
Presentations made at the fourteenth National Conference on Campus Safety. The topics dealt with include--(1) Provisions for Safety in Design of Campus Buildings, (2) Disposal of Chemical And Radioactive Waste, (3) Fire Prevention, (4) The Human Factor in Accidents, (5) Public Liability through Design, (6) A Professor's Views on Safety, (7) Disaster Preparedness, (8) University Fleet Operations and Concomitant Safety Procedures, (9) Farm Safety, and (10) Safety Manuals. (FS)
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Agricultural Safety, Design Requirements, Emergency Programs, Fire Protection, Laboratory Safety, Radiation Effects, School Safety, Traffic Safety
Campus Safety Assoc., National Safety Council, 425 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611 ($1.80)
Publication Type: N/A
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Authoring Institution: National Safety Council, Chicago, IL. Campus Safety Association.
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WordPress has emerged as a dominating website development platform globally that now powers 39.5% of websites on the internet in 2021 than 34% previously. It is the most popular open-source content management system that has a huge user base. WordPress started in 2003 as a blogging platform but soon it evolved into a fully-functional content management system and today captures almost 64% of the CMS market in the world.
Many entrepreneurs are attracted to WordPress website development due to the increasing popularity of this content management. Nowadays, you can launch virtually every kind of website be it a blog, corporate site, or an eCommerce store using WordPress.
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But there are lots of pre-built themes available on the official WordPress market as well as online marketplaces like ThemeForest. You can find themes for different industries and different businesses that may also fulfill your own requirements.
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A custom WordPress theme is created as per the unique requirements of a business that provides an edge over competitors. While pre-built themes have the same design, custom themes are created according to the requirements of different businesses. Hence custom themes are important when you need a unique site.
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Websites are composed of pages that include varied elements like text, images, videos, graphics, and so on. And, today many developers or entrepreneurs prefer to design their websites first using tools like Photoshop and then convert them to WordPress. Indeed, PSD to WordPress conversion has become a popular method to create attractive websites. WordPress offers an easy way to manage media elements like videos and images. So, adding, modifying, and deleting media elements is quite easy on WordPress.
This is the most alluring benefit of WordPress. Since it is an open-source and free content management system, anyone can use it freely to develop websites and to modify them. The development and maintenance of websites are cheap with this platform. You can develop different websites, even an eCommerce site using the WooCommerce plugin
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Although the market abounds in lots of content management systems, three of them are at the top position. Here is a brief comparison table for the top 3 CMSs that are WordPress, Joomla, and Drupal.
|CMS Type||It is open-source (Free)||It is open-source (Free)||It is open-source (Free)|
|Market share||Nearly 64%||Nearly 3.9%||Nearly 2.6%|
|Easy to use||Easy for beginners (5/5)||Little easy for beginners (4/5)||Needs coding skills (3.5/5)|
|Installation method||Offer one-click installation/manually installation in 5 minutes||Offer one-click installation/manually installation within 10 minutes||Offer one-click installation/manually installation within 10 minutes|
|Themes/templates||FREE Official Theme are 7,707+ and Premium Themes available at ThemeForest are 11,000+||No official templates are available and|
Premium Templates available at ThemeForest are 1,100+
|Official themes are 2,897+ and Premium themes available at ThemeForest are 500+|
|Plugins/extensions||FREE Official Plugins are more than 56,884||Official Extensions are more than 8,000 (They include both FREE and Paid)||Official Drupal Modules are more than 45,861|
As you can see in the above comparison table, WordPress offers more themes and plugins than the rest of CMSs that means it offers more customization opportunities. Also, WordPress outperforms both Joomla and Drupal in terms of ease of use with a rating of 5/5. The user base of WordPress which is around 64% tells us about the immense popularity of this content management system.
What is the fate of WordPress Website Development?
WordPress is becoming more and more popular and it shows no signs of halting. It has left many web development platforms behind and has become the king of the CMS market. Moreover, WordPress is considered to grow and more users will be using this platform. WordPress has beaten many platforms including Magento and Wix when it comes to eCommerce website development. You can see the Wix vs WordPress comparison now more.
You will rarely find any static website today because this is the era of dynamic sites. And, WordPress is a preferred choice for developing dynamic sites. Indeed, those who have static sites are now opting for HTML to WordPress conversion to create dynamic websites.
WordPress has been dominating the world of content management systems for a long time and has emerged as a popular choice for website development. Dozens of reasons contribute to the success of this CMS around the world. We have discussed these reasons to help you understand why different entrepreneurs are using it. So, this is the reason why everyone is going behind WordPress website development.
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Learn from our property management experts!
If you have recently purchased a historic or older home with the intention of renting, you have made an excellent investment! But before you are ready to welcome your first tenant, you may need to make a few updates to ensure the home is safe and meets all modern standards. Here are eight tips when preparing to rent a historic home.
Start With the Top and Bottom
Your first focus areas should be the exteriors, specifically the roof and foundation. These areas are highly susceptible to weather damage and will age quicker naturally. Once you have made any updates such as replacing roof tiles and fixing leaks, you can set out to assess the structural integrity of the details in between including walls, ceilings, tile, HVAC, and more.
Inspect the Electrical
Depending on the age of your home, electrical wiring may have been added after it was built or very early during the era of electricity. For this reason, the home may not be built to withstand our modern needs and can become overheated, making it a potential fire hazard. The best way to prevent this is to have a professional electrician assess the electrical system and make recommendations based on his or her findings.
Peruse the Plumbing
Copper, galvanized steel, and cast iron plumbing have a lifespan of about 80 to 100 years. If your home was built around this long ago, it is probably time to update the plumbing to prevent serious leaks and water or sewer damage. Corrosion buildup can also negatively affect water pressure and even cause rusty or brown water. For the health, safety, and happiness of your residents, it is best not to wait for a plumbing emergency and replace pipes in advance.
Test for Lead Paint
Lead paint was extremely common in homes and only became illegal for residential use in 1978. Most homes built prior to that year will have some level of lead paint. Although it is not toxic when dried, if it cracks or crumbles into dust it can cause serious health concerns. Children under 6 are most susceptible to the effects, so if you plan to rent homes to families, you may want to take additional measures to remove it. Test for lead paint and consult a professional EPA-certified contractor if you plan to remove or sand down any walls with lead paint.
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Increase Efficiency, Not Size
Older homes in historic neighborhoods are often smaller than the new builds of today. When updating your home for a modern family to rent, it could make sense to change some of the layouts rather than springing for a full addition or renovation. Perhaps a kitchen island can be added for more storage space if there is no pantry, or a compact washer and dryer can be added in a basement. By increasing the efficiency and storage capabilities, your residents will feel satisfied in their charming historic home while still being able to access amenities.
You may elect to leave all the materials and finishes as-is to keep the original aesthetic of the home intact, or you may choose to update certain features that are outdated or need replacing. Common updates include switching out synthetic flooring or countertops for natural materials, changing light fixtures, and replacing handles and drawer pulls. These updates do not have to be costly, and they can go a long way in attracting residents to your rental property.
Once you have set your home up for safety and success, it is vital to ensure that it is still maintained regularly. Using a property management company allows you to have your own team of professionals available to address maintenance concerns, process monthly rental payments, and ensure no damage is done to the home. You have invested a lot of personal time and energy into this property, and a rental management group can help keep the historic property in perfect condition for many years to come.
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The wildfire in Arizona that claimed the lives of 19 elite firefighters has been the deadliest day for firefighters since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, where 343 rescuers lost their lives.
The only wildfires with a higher firefighter death count than Arizona's were when a fire in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park killed 29 people in 1933 and when 86 died in The Great Fire of 1910 that burned through Washington, Idaho and Montana.
Here is a look back at some of the deadliest days for firefighters in recent history:
- Sept. 11, 2001 - 341 firefighters and two paramedics died during the rescue efforts at the World Trade Center's twin towers.
- Aug. 20, 1910 -- The Great Fire of 1910 burned about 3 million acres in Washington, Idaho and Montana, taking with it the lives of 86 firefighters.
- Oct. 3, 1933 -- The Griffith Park wildfire in Los Angeles killed 29 firefighters.
- April 16-17, 1947 -- 27 firefighters killed after fires and ammonium nitrate explosions aboard two ships docked in Texas City, Texas.
- Dec. 22, 1910 -- 21 firefighters killed at a stockyard and cold storage warehouse in Chicago.
- June 30, 2013 -- 19 members of an elite crew are killed in a fire northwest of Phoenix that lit up the night sky in the forest above the town of Yarnell. The fast-moving blaze fueled by hot, dry conditions is the deadliest wildfire involving firefighters in the U.S. for at least 30 years.
- July 29, 1956 --19 firefighters killed at the Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp. refinery in Sun Ray, Texas.
- July 9, 1953 -- 15 firefighters killed in a wildfire in the Mendocino National Forest in California.
- July 9, 1953 -- The Rattlesnake fire in Southern California took the lives of 15 firefighters battling a blaze in Mendocino National Forest.
- July 6, 1994 -- A blaze near Glenwood Springs, Colo., killed 14 firefighters who were overtaken by a sudden explosion of flames. The lightning-sparked Storm King Mountain blaze roared through shrubs as the firefighters scrambled uphill. Thirty-five firefighters on the mountain that day survived.
- March 10, 1946 -- 13 firefighters were killed when a roof collapsed at the Strand Theatre in Brockton, Mass.
- Aug. 5, 1949 --The Mann Gulch fire near Helena, Mont., killed 12 smokejumpers and a forest ranger after they were overrun by flames.
- Aug. 5, 2008 -- 9 people killed when a helicopter crashed shortly after taking off with a load offirefighters heading back to camp in Northern California. Seven of the dead were firefighters with Grayback Forestry Inc. The crew was fighting a forest fire on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest outside Redding, Calif.
- June 17, 1972 -- 9 firefighters killed in a collapse at the Hotel Vendome, Boston.
- Aug. 24, 2003 -- 8 contract firefighters who had spent two weeks fighting an Idaho wildfire were killed on their way home when their van collided with a tractor-trailer and exploded into flames outside Vale, Ore. The firefighters, all men, worked for First Strike Environmental, a contract firefighting company and all were from Oregon.
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Rochester musician composes pieces for Mayo yoga classes
Most music composers would probably not appreciate their pieces being called background noise. Mike Terrill, the songwriter behind Fires of Denmark, composed a 45-minute piece to be played during restorative yoga sessions.
Most music composers would probably not appreciate their pieces being called background noise.
Mike Terrill, the songwriter behind the band Fires of Denmark, composed a 45-minute piece to be played during restorative yoga sessions.
However, neither Terrill nor Chris Armstrong, the restorative yoga instructor who commissioned the piece, would describe the composition as background noise. The piece adds to the yoga class.
Restorative yoga is a practice that combines comfortable positions, controlled breathing, and meditation. The practice is designed to help reduce stress, lower blood pressure and lower heart rates of participants. Armstrong teaches the class as part of Mayo Clinic’s medical education program and holds public classes at the Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center. She said she wanted a piece to help participants feel comfortable.
"Even just having a custom piece of music hopefully makes (students) feel taken care of," Armstrong said.
That presented a challenge for Terrill.
"How do I make it interesting without being distracting?" he said.
Part of the key is repetition.
"Anything you hear that’s repeated, your brain picks up on it and you start to hear music," he said.
Taking a cue from classical music naming traditions, Terrill titled the piece, "A Moment No. 4, Opus 2."
Armstrong said the piece was exactly what she had hoped for.
"This is the song (restorative yoga) teachers want but can never find," she said.
Terrill said he only worked on the piece when he was in a meditative mood. He would listen to it from the beginning and then make changes if something pulled him out of his state of mind.
The commission didn’t take Terrill too far from his comfort zone.
"I’m always making weird stuff for my own entertainment — spaced-out, stuff that no one wants to listen to," he said.
For Armstrong, it was a chance to have something that fit the class. Most of her choices for music or audio during the class were either repetitive loops or something from a music subscription service that didn’t fit the class or the room.
Some people respond to physical relaxation cues. Others need visual cues (the studio has a view of west downtown Rochester and the surrounding valley). Some participants need auditory cues to relax. The composition was a needed piece of the total experience, Armstrong said.
Terrill, before recording the piece, performed live for another meditative yoga class last year. Armstrong liked what she heard.
"You could tell he was interacting with the energy of the room," Armstrong said. "It was like a conversation between the music and the energy of the people in the room."
That gave him a foundation for the piece. He also included the room’s air circulation fans to make sure none of his composition clashed with the sound.
The song is available on Spotify and iTunes.
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One More TED Talk As Final Source of Inspiration
Lesson 6 of 12
Objective: SWBAT decide on a topic for their final writing assignment by looking at a good model and brainstorming.
I let students know we are watching one last TED talk today for some final inspiration before jumping into our final speech/talk. They very much enjoy TED talks so this works as a nice treat before tackling their final, arduous assignment. I add that they are also engaging in a final brainstorming session and that they are expected to have decided on a topic before the beginning of the period tomorrow.
The other TED talks I shared with students earlier in this unit, were from teens that clearly qualify as super stars. I want to share a talk by a teen whose performance feels more within the reach of my students’ skills. It is difficult to find such TED talk, as their purpose is to select pretty brilliant thinkers, but I did manage to find one by a young woman who shares struggles she faced in her earlier life, before becoming the super star TED picks up. I communicate this to students to ease the urge to take in the talk as an unattainable product they can learn little from.
Here is a link to this TED talk
When we finish watching the talk, I ask students to turn to their elbow partner and share their initial thoughts and questions about this talk. This is an open-ended task meant to get them to process what they just watched. They are done with this task within two minutes. I then give them a more specific task, which is to discuss what worked well in the talk and what they can imagine borrowing from it when they begin to work on theirs. I give them a few more minutes to discuss this one. I then ask them to share with the entire class. Students express appreciation for the details of her life growing up. They remember learning about Joseph Kony’s child soldiers and they were able to identify with the speaker’s desire to do something about it. Also, they agree that this talk feels more attainable than the previous two I shared.
Last Brainstorming Session
I have engaged students in a few quick writing sessions to help them brainstorm a topic for their speech/talk, mainly in this lesson. We do it once more today. This is to help them make a final decision on a topic by tonight.
Like before, I let them know I will be timing them and they must not take the pencil/pen off the paper they entire time. This is the process and directions I give them for these free writes.
I take a final poll where I ask students to raise one finger if they are positive about their topic and two fingers if they are still giving themselves tonight to decide. The results are about 60 and 40, respectively. I let students know they must have decided on a topic by the beginning of the period tomorrow. I acknowledge that the instructions for these free writes allow them to wallow in writer’s block, but I insist that they must have something by tonight, otherwise they will start falling behind and there is practically no time to catch up.
One final point of concern is that students may be drawn to write about controversial topics, such as abortion. I do ask students to stay away from these because they have written about extensively, people have taken a clear side, and it will be very difficult to add anything new to the discussion.
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Welcome to New Dimensions Radio!
We spend a bulk of our time in a very boisterous world of noise. We are in a constant deluge of information and chat whether it is from our email and social media, or the 24-hour news cycles with its constant announcements of breaking news. Even our households can be filled with noise. Despite 40 years of mindfulness trainings, we’ve yet to be successful in getting beyond the noise in our own heads. Studies have shown that noise has ramped up to ever higher decibels and we can all agree there exists a deficient of silence in our noise-soaked lives. Here we explore how to lessen both the exterior and interior noise in order to be able to hear our own intuition and tune in to our creative gifts. Zorn says, “Silence is more than the absence of noise; it's the absence of unwanted distraction, unwanted interference in our ears, on our screens, and in our thoughts…So much in the world is colonizing our attention, making claims on our consciousness…Silence is the place where nothing is making claims on our consciousness…We’re in a place of presence where nothing is interfering with our perception or our intention.” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)
Justin Zorn has served as a senior advisor for Policy and Strategy at the Center for Economic and Policy Research. He has also served as a meditation teacher in the U.S. Congress and is a Harvard-and-Oxford-trained specialist in the economics and psychology of wellbeing.
Leigh Marz is a collaboration consultant and leadership coach for major universities, nonprofit coalitions, and federal agencies.
Marz and Zorn are the cofounders of Astrea Strategies whose purpose is to help businesses, nonprofits, and leaders find creative and enduring solutions in living beyond the noise.
They are the co-authors of Golden: The Power of Silence in A World of Noise. (Harper Wave 2022)
To learn more about the work of go to www.astreastrategies.com.
Topics explored in this dialogue include:
Host: Justine Willis Toms Interview Date: 6/30/2022 Program Number: 3763
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Opening Essay: Track 01 OverlandMusic Break 1: Track 06 Blue TroutMusic Break 2: Track 05 Clockwork
Music Break 3: Praises for the World (excerpt)Jennifer Berezan – Praises for the World
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What is a Mentally Healthy Workplace?
Many of my clients say that having a mentally healthy workplace sounds like a good idea, yet they struggle to know what exactly this looks like. So let me explain ...
Perhaps it's easiest to start with what a mentally healthy workplace is not.
- It most certainly is not having all staff seeing counsellors on a regular basis.
- It does not mean managers need to ‘fix’ an employee’s mental health condition.
- It's definitely not a workplace that merely provides fresh fruit and free yoga classes for all the staff.
A mentally healthy workplace is an environment where everyone can thrive and be at their best.
It's about employees knowing that if they are struggling, they can put their hand up and ask for help without fear of discrimination or judgement.
A mentally healthy workplace is one where people want to come to work. A place where people look after themselves and look out for others in the workplace.
A mentally healthy workplace has a positive culture that supports people with mental health conditions appropriately, minimises workplace risks related to mental health and one where stigma and discrimination are reduced – even eliminated.
Consider for a moment that when we talk about a physically safe workplace, we're not just providing a workplace that accommodates physical disabilities and illnesses.
Similarly, a mentally healthy workplace is not one that is just designed just for people with mental health conditions.
Most importantly a mentally healthy workplace is one where there is no distinction made between physical and mental health.
In the same way that an employee would most likely not feel embarrassed to return to work and tell people they had had their appendix removed in surgery, a mentally healthy workplace is one where no one would be embarrassed or ashamed to say they are currently struggling with an anxiety condition.
How mentally healthy is your workplace?
It's vital the employers understand the psychosocial risks to mental health and that they are doing their utmost to provide a psychologically safe workplace for all employees.
If you want to know how psychologically safe your workplace is, click here to access your free copy of my Workplace Psychological Safety Assessment Tool.You may just save a life.
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Brand: Design Originals
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Release Date: 01-07-2021
Details: Product Description Crafting with nail polish is fast, easy, and fun! 20 step-by-step projects, each simple enough for beginners, with no special artistic skills required Inexpensive crafts use materials you already have: your nail polish stash and the items you want to embellish Decorate phone cases, kitchenware, glasses, hair accessories, shoes, flowerpots, paper, wood, and more Learn marbling and several other painting techniques to apply nail polish to a variety of objects Have you ever thought about what you can do with nail polish, aside from the obvious? Easily available in almost every color imaginable, crafting with nail polish is fast, affordable, and enjoyable for everyone—no artistic skills required! Inside this must-have craft guide, you'll learn how to marble with nail polish, adding fantastic flair to coffee mugs and dishware, giving splashes of color to sunglasses and phone cases, and embellishing jewelry, planters, home décor, holiday decorations, and so much more. Opening with a chapter on the basics and different painting techniques—from marbling and paint pouring to masking and stenciling—with this book, you'll be ready to create amazing and easy nail polish projects. From authors Sandra "Chica" Vogt and Tabitha "Jo" Dotson, Chica and Jo Craft with Nail Polish features more than 20 fun, budget-friendly projects that can each be accomplished in just minutes. You'll find clear step-by-step instructions and coordinating photography for painting techniques on a wide range of surfaces—from wood and paper to glass and plastic—so you can have fun with nail polish in new and unexpected ways! Also included are helpful tips on tools, troubleshooting, wash-safe seals, and more. These easy, exciting, and inexpensive craft ideas come with super simple tutorials that anyone can accomplish in minutes, even if you aren't an artist. Just bust out your nail polish stash and anything you want to decorate—from a favorite dish to your iPhone case to a multitude of household objects—and discover that the possibilities are endless! Easy instructions will help you get started in this popular and playful trend that's perfect for everyone: using nail polish in ways that have nothing to do with painting your nails! Use the supplies and materials you already own, pick your favorite colors, find something to paint, and let the crafting begin! Projects include: Faux Terrazzo Drawer Knobs Polka-Dot Sunglasses Floral Wedding Headpiece Starburst Mandala Rocks Jewel Tone Trinket Bowls Candy Cane Swirl Ornaments Valentine Stationery Faux Resin Bracelet Chic Pumpkins for Halloween Monogrammed Mugs And more! Grab a bottle and get painting! You'll be inspired to paint everything you own in every color of the rainbow, with Chica and Jo Craft with Nail Polish! "Skip the manis and pedis with your gal pals and instead invite them over for a nail polish craft night with this book as your guide!"—Amy Buchanan, DIY blogger, AttaGirlSays.com "Chica and Jo will inspire you to haunt thrift stores for jewelry pieces to upstyle, paint every knob in your house, create stunning faux resin bracelets, and more, all with this versatile, candy-colored lacquer!"—Mark Montano, author of The Big-Ass Craft Book series, syndicated "Make Your Mark" columnist, and TV host from While You Were Out on TLC Review A well-illustrated how-to that will add glitz to certain wearables, gifts, and household decor and items...The projects take advantage of polish's possibilities, like marbling, stenciling, and masking.--Booklist From the Back Cover "Skip the manis and pedis with your gal pals and instead invite them over for a nail polish craft night with this book as your guide!"—Amy Buchanan, DIY blogger, AttaGirlSays.com Grab a Bottle and Get Painting! Aside from the obvious, have you ever thought about what you can do with nail polish? Chica and Jo Craft with Nail Polish is here to show you the endless possibilities! Opening with a chapter on the basics and dif
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South Africa has been called the ‘rape capital’. Is this label accurate? What do South Africans think they know about rape? South Africa has a complex relationship with rape. Pumla Dineo Gqola unpacks this relationship by paying attention to patterns and trends of rape, asking what we can learn from famous cases and why South Africa is losing the battle against rape. Gqola looks at the 2006 rape trial of Jacob Zuma and what transpired in the trial itself, as well as trying to make sense of public responses to it. She interrogates feminist responses to the Anene Booysen case, amongst other high profile cases of gender-based violence. Rape: A South African Nightmare is a necessary book for various reasons. While volumes exist on rape in South Africa, much of this writing exists either in academic journals, activist publications or analysis pages of select print media. This is a conclusive book on rape in South Africa, illuminating aspects of South Africa’s rape problem in South Africa, illuminating aspects of South Africa’s rape problem and contributing to shifting the conversation forward. It is indebted to insights from available research, activism, the author’s own immersion in Rape Crisis, the 1 in 9 Campaign and feminist scholarship. Analytically rigorous, it is intended for a general readership.
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Holocaust Images by Soviet Jewish Photographers
University of Colorado professor David Shneer has come out with a new book, ?Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War, and the Holocaust,? in which he introduces readers to a group of Jewish photographers whose names might be new to people in the West. These are Soviet Jews who, remarkably, took some of the most compelling and endearing photos of the Holocaust.
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While some athletes prefer the structure of organized sports, others opt for the freedom of extreme sports. Extreme sports include a multitude of activities, including skateboarding, snowboarding, surfing and BMX. When choosing an extreme sport to get involved with, you'll first need to consider the advantages and disadvantages associated with the specific riding discipline.
Just because extreme sports athletes are not part of an organized team doesn't mean they can't make lasting connections with fellow riders. Getting involved with an extreme sport is a great way to meet friends who share similar interests. Many skateboarders, snowboarders and BMXers alike band together to create their own clubs and groups. Riding with your new-found friends will allow you to progress in your riding skills while learning new and more difficult tricks and maneuvers.
Getting involved with an extreme sport is a great way to have fun while maintaining a healthy body weight. Regardless of the extreme sport you participate in, with regular riding practices you'll be able to burn excess calories and tone a multitude of muscles. Performing aerial jumps on a BMX bike will allow you to strengthen your bicep and triceps. Riding your snowboard down a mountain slope will target your quadriceps and lower leg muscles.
While every sport has certain dangers, extreme sports athletes are at an increased risk of serious injuries. Back-country snowboarders are known for riding on an unpredictable terrain where avalanches are commonplace. While these off-piste riders don't ride on a groomed slope, hazards such as large boulders and fallen trees can be easily hidden under large deposits of newly fallen snow. Even the smallest misstep can plummet big wave surfers more than 30 feet below the breaking ocean waves. According to "Thrasher Magazine," skateboarders often subject themselves to bone-crunching falls while attempting to grind down steep handrails.
While many extreme sports athletes have designated training facilities to master their craft, others prefer to take a more adventurous approach. Street riding is a prominent discipline among skateboarders, snowboarders and BMX riders alike. Street riding often takes place on urban obstacles, including stairs and handrails. A major disadvantage of street riding is that most of the spots are private property. According to Transworld Skateboarding, skaters often get tickets for street riding that entail a costly fine. Extreme sports athletes also are commonly prosecuted for defacing property and trespassing.
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For years, the Congolese warlord Thomas Lubanga allegedly sanctioned massacres, pressed children into military service, and institutionalized mass rape. Now he is the first defendant being tried by the recently created International Criminal Court, seated in Holland. His trial is seen as a major landmark by Western human-rights activists, and it is being publicized extensively in Congo, where the fog of war still lingers. What do the Congolese make of Lubanga’s trial? Will it deter other would-be war criminals? Is justice even possible for the most heinous of crimes?
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If you’re keen to develop your seasonal gardening skills and you want to maintain a year-round garden, you’ll have two main activities to focus on in Autumn. The first activity is planting your cold-season plants such as shrubs, trees or hardy perennials and annuals. The second activity is that planning ahead for spring blooms by sinking in your fall bulbs.
Do remember that you may only have a short window of opportunity to do this as planting needs to take place before the ground hardens or becomes too waterlogged.
It’s critical to prep your garden for Autumn, before you begin planting. An important step is to remove any signs of disease and pests. If any diseased plant matter is left in your garden, the diseases can recur in the spring and threaten your new bloom i the spring and summer.
Here are my top three tips on how to prep your garden for Autumn and start your autumn planting:
Clean and Nourish Soil: Start by digging through your beds and thoroughly removing all dead plant matter, leaves and weeds. Once all the debris has been removed, you can start to nourish and condition your soil for a healthy and abundant spring growth. You can use organix compost to feed microorganisms. Dig and rake the soil well, to allow for ample oxygenation.
Plant Bulbs ready for spring: This is the time of year to plant bulbs that will bloom in the spring, because the ground is still warm enough for roots to take hold before the frost hits. You will need to work backwards from the estimated frost date as Bulb roots need six weeks to take hold. Once you’ve prepared your soil, you will need to space your bulbs three to six inches apart and sink them in a partial to full-sun location.
Choose Colorful Cold Season. There’s a huge variety of plenty of cold season perennials or annuals that offer continual colour and bloom well into Autumn. So that your garden can be interesting during the colder months you can fill in landscaping gaps with a mixture of perennials, shrubs and trees that produce colorful winter berries.
You can simply focus on maintenance, once you’ve finished your planting for Spring. As the season changes and moves towards with frost-covered mornings, plants prepare to go dormant ahead of winter. During Autumn and Winter, here’s still lots of activity happening within the soil. It’s this activity that you want to promote, as it encourages healthy growth in the spring, which is what winter gardening is all about.
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Last Friday Area six salmon fishing rules changed from two fin clipped 22-inch or bigger Chinook to just one fish. When the WDFW sent out their press release, they noted that anglers had already reached 71% of allowable “encounters.”
In a nutshell, every time an angler has an encounter with a Chinook, either releasing a wild Chinook or undersized Chinook it counts toward the 2,586 encounters by sports anglers. The state relies heavily on fish counts at local marinas and boat launches. So, every time someone “encounters” a fish checker and brags about their fishing prowess, which may or may not be accurate, each fish verbalized to the checker counts against our Winter Blackmouth season. Honesty then, can hurt or help our Chinook seasons depending on the angler. While not advocating dishonesty about “encounters” I would suggest anglers be more wise while fishing and while at dock, speaking to fish checkers. First off, don’t use teeny, tiny lures — they catch more sub-legal fish. Target bigger fish with bigger lures. You won’t get as much action, but that’s the point. When you get a bite it will likely be a keeper sized fish over 22-inches. Lures should be at least 4.5 to 5 inches in length. Fast trolled plugs also help to avoid short salmon.
When speaking with the fish checkers use common sense and be honest about your catch.
WDFW FISHING RULE CHANGE
Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091
January 28, 2016
Anglers limited to 1 Chinook per day in Marine Area 6
Action: The daily catch limit for Chinook salmon in Marine Area 6 (East Juan de Fuca Strait) will be reduced to 1 fish, with a 2 salmon limit. All wild Chinook salmon must be released.
Effective Date: Feb. 5 through April 10, 2016.
Species affected: Chinook salmon.
Location: Marine Area 6 within Puget Sound.
Reason for action: Before the salmon fishing season started, WDFW and tribal co-managers agreed to a limited number (2,586) of Chinook encounters – retaining or releasing fish – anglers are allowed in Marine Area 6. Preliminary estimates indicate that anglers have reached 71 percent of those encounters. The fishery is being modified to control impacts on stocks of concern.
Other information: WDFW will continue to monitor and evaluate the fishery in order to help maximize fishing opportunity is available for Marine Area 6. Anglers are reminded that they must continue to release all wild chinook.
Information contact: Ryan Lothrop, (360) 902-2808.
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A favicon is a tiny image with a .ico extension and sized to 16 pixels by 16 pixels. The favicon is displayed alongside the URL in the web address bar of your browser.
Creating the image
The first thing you need to do is to create the image that you want to use as favicon. Don’t make your image too complex because small detail tend to get lost when resized to a tiny 16 by 16 pixels.
If you want to easily draw your own favicon, there is a great online tool called Favicon.cc. It lets you draw your own icon while the Favicon in the browser updates in real time to reflect your changes. If you use this tool you can skip the next step as the tool will handle the conversion to .ico as well.
Converting your favicon to .ico format
If you draw your image with Photoshop or any other editor, you will need to convert your file to .ico format. Modern web browsers will generally let you get away with using a png, gif or even a jpeg for your favicon, but to be compatible with older version of internet explorer and Firefox, you’ll have to convert the image to .ico format.
To convert your image, you can also use the Favicon.cc website, only this time, click the “Import Image” button on the left side of the page and upload your image. The tool will convert your image to .ico format and let you download the final product.
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Then make sure you store/save your favicon icon inside your WordPress Theme images folder. For example /patagonia/images/favicon.ico.
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Just copy that line and paste it in the header.php. In patagonia theme, you can paste this line right after the <link rel=”pingback”…> line.
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Every employer knows the impact that labor costs have on their bottom line. Yes, labor is a legitimate cost of doing business. However, today's advanced analytics tools can help employers identify where they are wasting money through means such as better scheduling and staff planning.
Lisa Disselkamp is a Director in Deloitte’s HR Transformation practice. Her work focuses on workforce management (WFM) business practice and technology design including timekeeping, labor scheduling, leave management, and labor optimization analytics. She has authored three books on workforce management systems: Workforce Asset Management Book of Knowledge; No Boundaries: How to Use Time and Labor Management Technology to Win the Race for Profits and Productivity; and Working the Clock.
Disselkamp joins All Analytics Radio on May 10 at 2 pm to discuss how predictive analytics can help employers manage their labor costs and avoid "payroll leakage" without resorting to staff reductions.
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Chatbots, AI, virtual reality, machine learning, and more will be featured as leading edge technologies for retailers attending the NRF Annual Convention and Expo in New York City. But many retailers are still getting their arms around advanced analytics.
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ANALYSIS: Analysis of sentiments expressed on social media showed how viewers’ reactions tipped in favour of Hillary Clinton as debate progressed
A year after we worked with big data analytics company ICG Solutions to see how the contestants were faring in the primary debates, the process starts again with the Sept. 26 debate between the two candidates for president of the United States, Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump.
As in the past, we measured the sentiment as expressed by users on social media while the debates were in progress and during the hours immediately after the debates we studied a social media sentiment analysis provided QSocialNow, a consumer trend analyst company based in Argentina, which uses a somewhat different approach.
In addition, we confirmed the accuracy of the social media measurements by comparing them with a new set of polls taken by Politico and Morning Consult, two Washington, DC, news organizations that have begun publishing fast-turnaround polls.
What’s important on the highest possible level is that all three measures agreed that Democrat Hillary Clinton came out on top of Republican Donald Trump in Sept. 26 debate.
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One significant difference between the three measurements is that while both the QSocialNow social media sentiment analysis and the Morning Consult/Politico polls report the outcome of the debates as a moment in time, the ICG big data analysis tool, LUX2016 tracks the event over time during the debates as well as reporting the overall outcome.
What this meant was that LUX was able to show the changes in sentiment as debate played out.
“What we noticed is that during the first 30 minutes of the debate we had a hard time seeing any real sentiment gap between the two candidates,” said Louis Lyons, chief operating officer of ICG Solutions.
Lyons said that the measurements using LUX2016 revealed that the volume of social media activity from backers of both sides in the debates was approximately the same, which is something that was not the case in the primary debates a year ago, when Trump was far ahead in social media engagement.
Lyons said that after the first 30 minutes of the debate, Clinton began to pull ahead of Trump in positive voter sentiment. “We felt that it was a pretty an even match in the first 30 minutes, but then it went in her direction across parties, genders and ages,” Lyons said.
He noted that the personal attacks by one candidate against the other had little if any effect on the overall sentiment, although the more Trump attacked Clinton, the more his positive sentiment among voters declined.
Lyons also said that the results revealed a positive voter response when the debates went back to covering issues and moved away from personal attacks.
The results from QSocialNow were less specific, but that’s because the data was sampled differently. Pam Baker, author of Data Divination: Big Data Strategies, who was my co-presenter for a presentation on big data analysis at a recent Excellence in Journalism conference along with Lyons, explained what was going on.
Originally published on eWeek
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Do you know the Christmas carol The Three Wise Men? If you do not know this Christmas carol, here is the LETTER of the Christmas carol 'The three kings'.
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