text
stringlengths 181
608k
| id
stringlengths 47
47
| dump
stringclasses 3
values | url
stringlengths 13
2.97k
| file_path
stringlengths 125
140
| language
stringclasses 1
value | language_score
float64 0.65
1
| token_count
int64 50
138k
| score
float64 1.5
5
| int_score
int64 2
5
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A hen laid eggs for the first time. She was so happy about it that she began to crow loudly again and again. This is the way she showed off her joy and excitement.
A frog was living in a nearby pond. It could not bear this horrible crowing of the hen. It seemed to be a great nuisance. The frog said to the hen, “Oh proud hen, why do you make such fuss about your eggs? Your harsh crowing is too horrible to bear”.
The hen replied, “You can’t bear me expressing my joy through my crowing? At least there is a reason for my crowing, yet you croak everyday without any reason what so ever. you croak continuously day and night and yet we have to tolerate your croaking!”.
|
<urn:uuid:8a3fcade-cb68-4bd4-95ee-a0397762f9ba>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://www.universallearningacademy.com/the-hen-and-the-frog-moral-stories-for-children/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00147-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.968139
| 167
| 2.1875
| 2
|
NEW ORLEANS -- Recent guidelines from the American Heart Association on the management of stroke risk in pregnant women differ significantly from guidelines issued by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), maternal-fetal specialists said here.
Leaders of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) were reluctant to openly criticize the American Heart Association (AHA), but president Brian Mercer, MD, told reporters at the SMFM meeting that the AHA guidelines appeared to be based on data that came out before ACOG's 2013 guidelines were issued.
In the SMFM's official statement, leadership danced around the issue that the AHA guidelines could potentially put pregnant women with hypertension at serious risk through outdated methods of management.
The ACOG and AHA guidelines have "different diagnostic criteria for pre-eclampsia, differing recommendations for the use of low-dose aspirin for the prevention of pre-eclampsia and the threshold for initiating antihypertensive medications for pregnant patients with chronic hypertension," according to the statement.
The SMFM statement also noted disparity among guidelines for "treatment of acute-onset versus chronic hypertension during pregnancy."
Mercer confirmed that SMFM experts had not been consulted for the AHA guidelines.
He said SMFM will continue to evaluate the AHA guidelines. In addition, the society will work with other associations to address the discrepancies between the two guidelines.
"In the November ACOG statement, the criteria for diagnosis of pre-eclampsia, and recommendations for treatment of hypertension during pregnancy were established by a large multidisciplinary group. And [the AHA], as stated in their document, were using information published before that time, so they didn't have the benefit from this additional perspective," Mercer said.
"Education is key. When there's confusion in the literature, in research, you often see publications that come up with discrepant results or differing conclusions. We're going to work to help educate our providers and understand the issues so they can provide the best care to their patients," Mercer said.
Both AHA and ACOG guidelines are currently under close review by SMFM leaders, and Mercer commented that "I think we need to move forward and take advantage of both perspectives."
"We [SMFM and AHA] are aligned in the importance of treating hypertension that pre-exists for women coming into pregnancy -- for treating hypertension that occurs during pregnancy -- because untreated hypertension in pregnancy can have significant effects on pregnancy outcomes and long-term health," he added.
Mercer stressed that the management of "broad spectrum" hypertension in pregnancy requires a nuanced approach.
"It's hard to articulate in a guideline that nuanced approach. One issue that's important is to differentiate chronic, stable hypertension from hypertension that is changing acutely and ... hypertension that is severe. One needs to balance the importance of treating the mom and the potential beneficial and negative impacts ... on the unborn child," he said.
"The important aspect of treating with aspirin in pregnancy is to identify those women who have the best potential to benefit, because any treatments that one gives has the potential for side effects. It's important to have a nuanced approach," Mercer told MedPage Today.
As of today, the AHA had not commented on the SMFM statement.
|
<urn:uuid:2d734c9a-bae8-43ca-929e-611687f611aa>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/SMFM/44235?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-02-11&eun=g563278d0r&userid=563278&email=aela.h.mass@gmail.com&mu_id=5689782
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00272-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.965643
| 674
| 1.890625
| 2
|
A provirus is a strand of autosomal DNA that was inserted by a virus once upon a time and got lost in our genome as junk DNA, not being anymore active (would it remain active it'd be a retrovirus). Such insertions are thought to be unique phylogenetic events.
New research has identified a provirus* (HERV-K-Ne1 = HERV-K-De6, inserted in Chromosome 5) shared by Neanderthals and Denisovans but not Homo sapiens. This is consistent with the previous data that placed their autosomal DNA closer to each other than to Homo sapiens.
Lorenzo Agoni et al., Neandertal and Denisovan retroviruses. Current Biology, 2012. Freely accessible (letter with supplementary material) at the time of writing this.
It must be noted however the mitochondrial DNA, inherited by pure matrilineage, is much closer among our species and Neanderthals than either one with Denisovans, what to me suggest that Denisovans are no new species but a hybrid of Neanderthal and Homo erectus. A theory not yet fully testable for lack of DNA from Asian Homo erectus.
Interestingly Denisovans have also several proviruses not found in Neanderthals, what could well support my theory of hybridization. The detected provirus could hence have migrated from Neanderthals to Denisovans in the hybridization episode (along with lots of other autosomal DNA), while the rest could have been retained from the H. erectus ancestors by the maternal line.
However as the article is both very technical and succinct, I can't be sure right now of how strongly or weakly can this info support the hybridization model (founded opinions welcome).
In total the researchers detected three Neanderthal proviruses and 12 Denisovan ones, one of which is shared between both nominal species. It is convenient to remind that while the Denisovan genome was very well preserved and sequenced almost completely, the Neanderthal genome is only known in fragmentary form, amounting to about 60% of the actual genome.
|
<urn:uuid:3c0d4019-9b1e-4e2f-b527-9b4c5623bd8b>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://forwhattheywereweare.blogspot.com/2012/06/denisovan-and-neanderthal-proviral-dna.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00113-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.944539
| 435
| 3.28125
| 3
|
How to Create a slideshow in Dreamweaver CS4 without coding
Are you a Dreamweaver user who's looking to build a slide show? Whether you're presenting a nice slide show of your cats, or your dogs or maybe a 1973 Camero re-build, this tutorial will get you up and running in no time. Check out this video and learn exactly how to create your project. Plus, you'll see that Flash can create a slide show for you with lots of automation. And the best part? You won't need to hunt for your slide projector, slide tray, slide screen AND, you'll never need to worry about your projector bulb burning out.
|
<urn:uuid:3cc1b2e8-0fcc-4864-9b46-5068dd401c31>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://dreamweaver.wonderhowto.com/how-to/create-slideshow-dreamweaver-cs4-without-coding-424176/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00337-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.929255
| 135
| 1.835938
| 2
|
The Tracy Morgan Apology
Tracy Morgan was forced to apologize for portions of his stand up routine delivered at a comedy show at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in 2011.
Although there was no transcript, audience member Kevin Rogers posted a Facebook critique describing the routine:
He said if his son was gay he better come home and talk to him like a man and not [he mimicked a gay, high pitched voice] or he would pull out a knife and stab that little N (one word I refuse to use) to death...(Tracy Morgan) informed us that the gays needed to quit being pussies and not be whining about something as insignificant as bullying. He mentioned that gay was something kids learn from the media and programming, and that bullied kids should just bust some ass and beat those other little f*ckers that bully them, not whine about it... Tracy then said he didn't f*cking care if he pissed off some gays, because if they can take a f*cking d*ck up their *ss... they can take a f*cking joke.
Fred Sainz, Vice President (Communications) of The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) stated:
Hateful remarks that mock youth suicides and the very real emotional and sometimes physical bullying LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) kids face on a daily basis have no place in a comedy routine. I'm shocked that Tracy Morgan would find humor in so viciously attacking our youth. If these allegations are true, Tracy Morgan must immediately accept responsibility and apologize. His employer, NBC Universal, also must come forward and condemn these atrocious comments.
The Tracy Morgan Apology
He apologized in a written statement:
I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville. I'm not a hateful person and don't condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was not funny in any context.Tracy Morgan
Later in a press conference organized by Gay & Lesbian Alliance against Defamation (GLADD), Tracy Morgan issued another apology:
I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe that people should be bullied or just made to feel bad about who they are. I totally feel that in my heart. I really don't care who you love, same-sex or not, as long as you have the ability to love. That's the important thing here. So, now at this point in my life is an opportunity to make a difference. I don't really see gay or straight, I just see human beings now. I pride myself on 20 years, 18 years of standup, using it to heal people and not hurt. That was my whole thing and I hurt people with this. So, from the bottom of my heart, I apologize to everybody who I offended with my words on stage in Nashville and anywhere else. I just apologize to you. To err is human, but to forgive is divine. These young people here forgave me , I just want to take this opportunity to help and not hurt.Tracy Morgan
Tracy Morgan Apology Evaluation
Fred Sainz (HRC) believes Tracy Morgan
needs to go further than his apology and correct the record: no one should feel ashamed because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender and they should definitely not become a victim of violence. Words have consequences and Tracy Morgan should be held to a higher standard. Until he does something meaningful, his brand will remain tarnished.
Jody Huckaby (Executive Director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays) issued a similar statement following Morgan's apology:
At a time when bullying and harassment of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth is at an all-time high and when kids are being assaulted, are dying, to joke about committing violence against a child is outrageous and reprehensible. As a celebrity, Mr. Tracy Morgan needs to understand that his words have power; inciting violence against gay and lesbian kids in the name of comedy stating that he would stab his own son to death if he was gay is absolutely unconscionable. A simple apology is not enough. Mr. Morgan must take meaningful action to prove the sincerity of that apology.
Tracy Morgan Apology Rating
In light of the statements by leaders of organizations who clearly understand the impact of homophobic laced hate speech, it is clear that Tracy Morgan needs to do more than a simple apology and press conference.
It is unclear at this point whether this important element of the perfect apology has been satisfied, and only time will tell whether Morgan will retain what has always been a major part of his stand-up routine.
Until he does, or clearly conveys a commitment to be a little more proactive in fighting for these causes, the overall rating is tentative.
APOLOGY RATING → 5/10
Read more reviews of celebrity apologies.
|
<urn:uuid:1f190059-f7c0-401c-9c73-b57de239eb02>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.perfectapology.com/tracy-morgan-apology.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00479-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.968415
| 1,037
| 1.726563
| 2
|
The principle of GSDIM microscopy
The key to overcoming the diffraction limit of ~200 nm with GSDIM microscopy is the sequential shutting on and off of fluorophores and consequently their temporal separation. In this context, electrons of a fluorophore accumulate in a metastable, non-fluorescent dark state (triplet state and others) by application of a high-power laser beam . From the dark state, molecules return stochastically to the ground state to enter fluorescence cycles which are detected by the microscope – the so called "blinking". These fluorescent events are then captured over time. To get a high-resolution image, the diffraction-limited events are read out by applying a fitting algorithm. Eventually, the ultimate high-resolution image is reconstructed by plotting the measured positions of thousands of recorded events (Figure 1).
Factors affecting localization precision: the interplay of the fluorophore and the embedding medium
With the GSDIM technique a lateral resolution down to 20 nm can be achieved . In practice, the final resolution depends on the localization precision of an individual fluorophore, which is in turn determined by the properties of the fluorophore and the embedding medium. The following equation shows that the localization precision is dependent on the number of collected photons emitted by one individual fluorophore:
Δr denotes the diffraction limit of the microscope/objective, n the number of photons emitted by an individually localized fluorophore and Δrsms the localization precision of the distinct fluorophore.
Ultimately, the aim of achieving the best localization precision is directly linked to the effort of a) maximizing the number of emitted photons per fluorophore/event and b) maximizing the number of fluorescence cycles (= minimizing photobleaching). These characteristics are basically influenced by the interplay of the fluorophore's properties and the surrounding embedding medium affecting the dark state and thus the blinking performance.
Higher demands in 3D GSDIM
In the 3D GSDIM system a cylindrical lens is introduced into the light path of the microscope. The resulting optical astigmatism leads to an ellipticity of those blinking events which are not in the focal plane . The point-spread-function (PSF) of events which are above the focal plane is elongated vertically, whereas the PSF of those events which are beneath the focus is elongated horizontally. The software finally correlates each blinking event with a distinct z-coordinate. It is evident that this approach requires a well calibrated acquisition of each blinking event and high localization precision. Accordingly, impressive three-dimensional data can be obtained with an optimized embedding method (Figure 2).
2A: Microtubules GSD
2B: Mitochondria GSD
Fig. 2: 3D GSDIM high-resolution image of microtubules and mitochondria
Microtubules of COS-7 cells (A) and mitochondria of MDCK cells (B) in false color code indicating the z-position 0–800 nm. Cells were stained against αTubulin or ATP5B, both with AlexaFluor®647, and embedded in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS. For comparison, widefield images are depicted above the respective 3D super-resolution image. Scale bar 10 µm.
Embedding media in GSDIM microscopy – advantages and limitations
The most important step in GSDIM microscopy is to get nearly all fluorophores into the long-lived dark state, which is dependent on special embedding media. Some of the currently known media, like glucose-oxidase-mix or polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), tend to decrease the amount of molecular oxygen in the specimen. Oxygen acts as a triplet state quencher and thus reduces the amount of fluorophores in the triplet state. This is absolutely counterproductive in GSDIM, as the triplet state is an important pathway to the dark states. Accordingly, the decrease in the population of triplet state fluorophores leads indirectly to a loss of localization precision and final resolution, because more fluorophores are in the “on” state interfering with the super-resolution image acquisition process.
In contrast to other high-resolution techniques, the big advantage of GSDIM microscopy is the usage of standard fluorophores and conventional staining protocols which are employed in common light microscopy methods. Only the combination of fluorophore and embedding medium leads to limitations. However, the currently used GSDIM media already allow the application of a very wide range of different fluorophores and even fluorescent proteins. Nevertheless, all of them have their advantages and disadvantages (Figure 3). The most frequently used medium Cysteamine or β-Mercaptoethanolamine (MEA) for example is applicable for a large variety of fluorophores, but unfortunately the medium must be used freshly and its efficiency drops significantly after six hours of usage, leading to a reduced blinking performance. The search for other embedding media and suitable fluorophores is therefore an important step to fully tap the great potential of this super-resolution microscopy method.
Vectashield® – an alternative embedding medium for 3D GSDIM microscopy
In this context Olivier et al. were able to identify the mounting medium Vectashield® (Vectorlabs™) as an adequate embedding medium for dSTORM microscopy . Here we tested if this new embedding method could be adopted for 3D GSDIM microscopy and searched for advantages compared to currently used media. In addition, we performed a systematic screen for other fluorophores working in combination with Vectashield®.
Notably, we found that the fluorophore pair AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®555 (Life Technologies™) showed outstanding properties in this embedding medium with an excellent blinking performance for highest localization precision in 3D GSDIM. This is in line with the findings of Olivier et al. . With AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®555 we were able to generate impressive 3D GSDIM data (Figure 5). In combination with Vectashield®, AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®555 even exhibited a superior blinking performance compared to currently used fluorophore pairings like AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®488 in MEA or glucose-oxidase-mix. This can be visualized by the comparison of two blinking images of the lists of events performed with Vectashield® or MEA respectively (Figure 4) and underlines the great potential of this embedding medium.
Indeed, the blinking properties of the fluorochrome pair is not the only great advantage of this medium: Specimens treated with Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS can be stored for months at 4 °C without any loss of their excellent blinking properties (Figure 6).
Drawbacks like its relatively strong autofluorescence and resultant background, especially in the 532 nm laser range, can be diminished by mixing Vectashield® with a buffer containing glycerol and 50 mM TRIS pH 8 at a ratio of 1:10 . The so-called backpumping laser with 405 nm wavelength, which is used to augment the number of fluorescent cycles of the fluorophore, is not usually required for either AlexaFluor®647 or AlexaFluor®555 because of their excellent blinking properties in Vectashield®. This also prevents background formation.
In our further studies to identify other suitable fluorophores, we found, interestingly, an acceptable blinking performance of the fluorescent protein EYFP comparable to the performance in glucose-oxidase-mixture.
Unfortunately, we were not able to find other fluorophores, especially not in the 488 nm range, where AlexaFluor®488 and Atto®488 did not show the expected blinking performance. Regarding the great number of still untested candidates and the increasing number of fluorophores which are specially designed for super-resolution microscopy, the drawback of a limited number of fluorophores will certainly be diminished in the future. As in the case of MEA, the list of blinking fluorophores in combination with Vectashield® is sure to grow with time and ongoing testing.
Tab. 1: Verified fluorophores (also compare Olivier et al. ). The listed fluorophores were tested by immunostaining of ATP5B and αTubulin in COS-7 cells embedded in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS (1:10). Their blinking behavior was evaluated with the Leica SR GSD 3D system.
Fig. 4: Comparison of single-frame images of MEA and Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS embedded specimens. Single-frame images of the list of events of AlexaFluor®488 stained ATB5B specimens in 100 mM MEA in PBS pH 7.4 (A) and AlexaFluor®555 stained ATB5B specimens in 1:10 Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS (B). Compared to (A), AlexaFluor®555 in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS (B) exhibits a high number of bright and distinct, non-overlapping blinking events. This is a precondition for a high localization precision.
5A: GSD (right)/Widefield (left) Comparison
5B: GSD (left)/Widefield (right) Comparison
Fig. 5: 3D GSDIM high-resolution image – dual staining of mitochondria and microtubules. COS-7 cells were stained against αTubulin and ATP5B with AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®555 respectively. The specimens were embedded in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS. Comparison of GSDIM and deconvoluted widefield 3D stacks. Microtubules (αTubulin) are displayed in green and mitochondria (ATP5B) in red.
Fig. 6: 3D high-resolution image comparison: fresh (A) vs. two months old (B) specimen. (A) 3D GSDIM images of microtubules in green and mitochondria in red or in false color code respectively, indicating the z-position. As in Figure 5, the specimens were embedded in Vectashield/Glycerol-TRIS. (B) The specimens used in Figure 5 and Figure 6A were stored for two months at 4 °C and then imaged again, still embedded in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS.
COS-7 cells were cultured for one day on precision coverslips (Marienfeld-Superior™) and then fixed with ice-cold methanol. After a block with PBS containing 1 % milk powder for 1 h, cells were incubated for 2 h with the primary antibodies directed against ATP5B (Santa Cruz™) and α-Tubulin (Sigma™) in a ratio of 1:100 in PBS/milk powder. To label the primary antibodies with AlexaFluor®647 or AlexaFluor®555 respectively, secondary antibodies were incubated for 1 h in a dilution of 1:200 in PBS. Each step except the block with milk powder was accompanied by four washing steps with PBS.
As depicted in Figure 7, cells were embedded in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS-buffer (Vectashield® and Glycerol-TRIS-buffer in a 1:10 ratio; glycerol with 50 mM TRIS pH 8) as follows: 75–100 µL medium was placed upon the cavity of the depression slide. Then the coverslip was positioned on the depression slide with the cells facing the medium and the depression. In this step it is important to avoid any air bubbles. An excess of medium has to be removed by filter paper to ensure that the two-component silicone Twinsil® is able to dry correctly. The yellow and blue components of Twinsil® were mixed 1:1 and then applied to the edges of the coverslip. After 10 minutes, the silicone was hardened and the specimen was ready for GSDIM imaging.
Breaking the diffraction barrier by regional or temporal separation of single fluorescent events has revolutionized light microscopy. In the future, there will be no more resolution constraints due to the diffraction limit, but the development of microscopes with ever-decreasing limits in resolution reveals new challenges such as labeling or embedding media in the case of GSDIM microscopy. As mentioned earlier, the critical step in all super-resolution methods is to get fluorophores on the dark side, which is the basis for good localization precision. In GSDIM microscopy, this process is mainly influenced by the presence of the embedding medium. Here, the interplay between the embedding medium and the properties of the fluorophore is the decisive factor for successful high-resolution imaging.
Nowadays, we have powerful fluorophore pairings like AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®488 in MEA or AlexaFluor®647 and AlexaFluor®555 in Vectashield®/Glycerol-TRIS which allow the acquisition of impressive 3D super-resolution images in two colors. In the near future our repertoire of efficient fluorophores in combination with the embedding medium Vectashield® is sure to be expanded by ongoing tests and practical experience. Together with other high-resolution techniques like STED microscopy, this will give us a completely new view of cellular life and its biochemical regulation.
- Olivier N, Keller D, Gönczy P and Manley S: Simple buffers for 3D STORM microscopy. Biomed. Opt. Express 4 (6): 885–99 (2013).
- Fölling J, Bossi M, Bock H, Medda R, Wurm CA, Hein B, Jakobs S, Eggeling C and Hell SW: Fluorescence nanoscopy by ground-state depletion and single-molecule return. Nature Meth. 5: 943–45 (2008).
- Thompson RE, Larson DR and Webb WW: Precise Nanometer Localization Analysis for Individual Fluorescent Probes. Biophysical Journal 82: 2775–83 (2002).
- Huang B, Wang W, Bates M and Zhuang X: Three-Dimensional Super-Resolution Imaging by Stochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy. Science 319: 810–13 (2008).
|
<urn:uuid:15544357-008c-48e0-badd-6a1f39bc5491>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.leica-microsystems.com/science-lab/the-force-of-the-dark-side-embedding-media-for-gsdim-super-resolution-localization-microscopy/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.890918
| 3,051
| 2.8125
| 3
|
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Enrollment in health care plans on the federal government’s website spiked in Utah in December as thousands who previously were stuck in the pipeline got signed up, government figures released Monday show.
About 18,600 people had signed up for plans in Utah by Dec. 28. That’s more than 10 times the total at the end of November.
The spike occurred across the country as people scrambled to beat enrollment deadlines. Nearly 2.2 million had signed up nationwide through late December, more than six times the November total.
The online federal marketplace that went live in October was plagued by glitches, leading to a slow start for enrollment.
In addition to those who already have chosen their plans, thousands more in Utah are in the process of getting enrolled. The new federal figures show nearly 32,000 people have completed their applications but have yet to choose a plan. Nationally, 4.3 million people are in the pipeline.
Utah’s enrollees are significantly younger than those in most of the rest of the country, according to the administration’s breakdowns on those who signed up for government-subsidized private insurance through the federal and state markets.
Twenty-nine percent of Utah residents enrolled are young adults ages 18 to 34. That’s a higher percentage than all but two states: Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, which have far fewer total enrollees. Nationally, 24 percent of enrollees come from that age group.
Like the rest of the country, adults ages 55 to 64 were the most heavily represented age group in Utah. But, this age group accounts for just 25 percent of total enrollees in Utah, a lower percentage than every state except Kentucky, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia.
Utah also is among the states with the highest percentage of people 25 and under with new health care plans, alongside North Dakota, Arizona and Idaho.
The numbers aren’t surprising considering Utah has the country’s lowest median age. University of Utah research economist Pam Perlich said Utah’s youthful population is due to two factors.
The first is the prevalence of members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which puts a high value on having children. The youthful population was reinforced by a wave of immigrants who came to Utah starting in the mid-1990s until the recession of 2007, Perlich said. Many of them came in their 20s, when people often have children, and many were Hispanics, who tend to have larger families.
At least one Utah health organization made an effort to court young people for health care plans. In December, Take Care Utah launched a social media campaign with ads it posted on Twitter and Facebook. They included ads that showed people snowboarding, rock climbing and biking.
The snowboard ad said, “The only thing riskier than catching big air in Utah? Not having health insurance.” The goal was to encourage a group known as the “young invincibles” to sign up.
The breakdown of men and woman in Utah mirrors the national trend. In Utah, more women than men have signed up: 53 percent to 47 percent. Nationally, 54 percent of those who signed up were women, a slightly higher proportion of women than in the population.
Like the rest of the country, about four out of five who signed up in Utah received financial help with their premiums.
The most popular coverage option in Utah was a so-called silver plan, which covers about 70 percent of expected medical costs. Slightly more than half of the people signed up have chosen that plan, compared with about three out of five people nationally.
The gold plan, which most closely compares to the typical employer plan, has been much more popular than around the country. Nearly three out of 10 people have signed up for this plan in Utah, compared with only about one out of 10 nationally.
|
<urn:uuid:cb330c02-62e3-4ca1-af5c-69069b19e413>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://ksn.com/2014/01/13/health-care-enrollment-spikes-in-utah-in-december/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00489-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.979898
| 805
| 2.125
| 2
|
Public Information Notice: IMF Concludes 2001 Article IV Consultation with Kiribati
September 21, 2001
|Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.|
On June 25, 2001, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Kiribati.1
Real GDP growth slid in 1999-2000, and real per capita income declined. Growth averaged ¼ percent per annum, well below the population growth of 2 percent. This outturn partly stemmed from adverse external shocks (for example, the onset of La Niña, which affected fishing; and a drought and lower world copra prices, both of which hurt the copra sector). Inflation remained subdued in 1999-2000, owing to the weakening of economic activity and the easing of supply problems.
The fiscal position weakened significantly in 1999-2000. Total revenue and grants dropped by 34 percentage points of GDP, owing to a fall in fishing license fees and external grants. Development expenditure declined in line with lower external assistance, but current expenditure rose slightly in both years because of increased support to public enterprises and copra producers, and higher spending on goods and services. The overall budget balance swung from a surplus of 19 percent of GDP in 1998 to a deficit of 7 percent of GDP in 2000. The government financed the deficits by drawing down deposits in the Consolidated, Development, and STABEX Funds.
The external position also deteriorated. The current account deficit (excluding official grants) increased, owing to a larger trade deficit and lower fishing license fees. The trade deficit worsened, due to weaker exports of fish and copra, coupled with increased imports occasioned by major construction projects. The overall surplus halved from $A 33 million in 1998 to $A 17 million in 2000.
Despite the external and fiscal deterioration, official international reserves remain comfortable. Kiribati's reserves, which are mainly held in the Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF), amounted to $A 677 million at end-2000 (equivalent to seven years of imports or nine times GDP). Notwithstanding the fiscal deterioration, the government contributed $A 5 million to the RERF in 1999 and has made no drawdowns since 1997. Public external debt remained low, and was on highly concessional terms.2
The depreciation of the Australian dollar--Kiribati's legal tender--since mid-1997 has improved external competitiveness. The real effective exchange rate (REER) in 2000 was 13 percent below the average for 1994-97. However, the major items in the balance of payments (fishing license fees, external grants, and investment income) are not sensitive to changes in price competitiveness.
The National Development Strategy for 2001-03, which was considered by the National Assembly in November 2000, focuses on the need to reduce the role of the public sector while encouraging private sector-driven growth. However, progress in implementing reform has been slow. Meanwhile, the government is set to expand its role in the economy through several new ventures, including an expansion of the operations of Air Kiribati and the state-owned fishing company; the setting-up of a copra mill; and the extension of telecom services to the outer islands.
The near-term outlook is continued slow growth, low inflation, and a deterioration in the fiscal and external positions. Real GDP growth is projected to average 2 percent in
2001-02. The continuation of unfavorable fishing conditions is expected to be offset by increased government spending. With fishing activity projected to remain below the high levels of 1997-98, the current account is projected to worsen. Meanwhile, the budget deficit is expected to increase further, reflecting lower fishing fees and external grants, higher domestically financed development expenditure, and increased support to public enterprises and copra cutters.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors commended Kiribati's record of macroeconomic stability and its success in maintaining a substantial cushion of external reserves to counter shocks and safeguard the welfare of future generations. At the same time, Directors observed that unfavorable external conditions, fiscal slippages, and the lack of structural reforms since the end of 1998 have led to a weakening in the country's external and fiscal positions, which needs to be reversed. They considered that the main policy challenge was to achieve a sustained increase in the growth rate. However, Directors recognized that geographical remoteness and a narrow resource base pose significant challenges in this regard, and that the preservation of social cohesion must be a central concern in policymaking.
Against this backdrop, Directors welcomed the adoption in November 2000 of the National Development Strategy for 2001-03 to encourage private sector activity, human resource development, and economic diversification.
Noting the prospective widening in the fiscal deficit in 2001, Directors regarded fiscal retrenchment as an urgent priority. They noted that fishing license fees and external grants are projected to decline in the medium term. Directors considered that, in order to maintain fiscal balance and preserve external assets, the authorities should curb spending, especially on wages, subsidies--including to copra producers--and lending to state-owned enterprises. They should also redirect outlays to education, health, and environmental protection. On the revenue side, Directors considered that the authorities should broaden the tax base. They welcomed the authorities' ongoing efforts to increase the accountability and transparency of fiscal management.
Directors commended the authorities' prudent management of the Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund (RERF), and urged them to continue to use the resources judiciously to ensure the RERF's long-term viability, and to frame their macroeconomic policies accordingly.
Directors emphasized that public enterprise reform and rationalization of the civil service are key to successful structural reform. Public enterprise reform should include improving management, promoting joint ventures, and privatizing enterprises to the extent possible. Civil service reform would help contain budget spending. They recognized the authorities' concern, however, to avoid undue hardship on personnel released from the public sector, primarily by ensuring the expansion of private sector activity, including through the provision of support for new commercial enterprises.
Noting that foreign direct investment is low, Directors recommended streamlining and making more transparent the relevant procedures, as well as reducing other barriers to investment. They welcomed the passage of new land legislation, which clarified land ownership rules in South Tarawa and promoted secure land transactions. Directors also urged the authorities to explore innovative solutions to ease the restrictions on foreign ownership of land in order to facilitate investment and credit growth. They particularly encouraged the authorities to explore ways to develop tourism and fishing.
Directors noted that they use of the Australian dollar as legal tender has served Kiribati well by providing a framework for macroeconomic discipline, low inflation, and a liberal exchange regime.
Directors noted that surveillance of Kiribati has been hampered by weak data and irregular reporting. They urged the authorities to provide more resources to the National Statistical Office and to supply a set of core data to the Fund on a regular basis.
It is expected that the next Article IV consultation with Kiribati will be held on the 24-month cycle.
|Kiribati: Selected Economic Indicators|
|(In millions of Australian dollars)|
|Output and prices|
|Nominal GNP 1/||93.0||119.1||142.4||137.8||141.0||136.9|
|Real GDP growth (percent change)||4.1||1.6||6.6||2.1||-1.7||1.5|
|Real GNP growth (percent change)||-5.1||29.8||14.2||-4.7||1.2||-5.3|
|(In percent of GDP)|
|Central government budget|
|Total revenue and grants||75.0||125.2||143.6||118.2||109.3||92.9|
|Total expenditure and net lending||110.6||118.9||125.0||123.1||115.9||122.3|
|(In millions of Australian dollars)|
|Financial sector 2/|
|Net foreign assets||68.3||92.7||94.8||104.6||112.2||120.0|
|Domestic credit, net||9.7||10.5||10.2||8.0||10.6||10.0|
|Balance of payments|
|Current account balance||-17.5||4.8||28.1||13.0||8.3||3.4|
|(In percent of GDP)||-27.1||7.5||39.0||17.4||11.2||4.4|
|Official external assets (end of period)||379.1||478.0||602.7||625.3||677.0||692.5|
|(In years of imports of goods and services)||4.7||5.5||7.0||6.0||6.8||6.8|
|Of which: Revenue Equalization Reserve Fund||371.8||458.8||570.1||601.4||658.0||692.5|
|External debt (end of period)||12.6||12.4||12.3||14.2||14.2||14.7|
|U.S. dollar per Australian dollar (period average)||0.783||0.744||0.629||0.646||0.582||...|
|Nominal effective exchange rate 3/||97.7||97.4||87.2||88.3||83.5||...|
|Real effective exchange rate 3/||104.3||104.0||95.2||96.8||89.5||...|
|Sources: Data provided by the Kiribati authorities; and IMF staff estimates and projections.
|1/ GDP plus investment income, seamen's remittances, and fishing license fees.|
|2/ Comprises Bank of Kiribati, Development Bank of Kiribati, and Kiribati Provident Fund.|
|3/ Data from Information Notice System; 1990 = 100; period average.|
1 Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. A staff team visits the country, collects economic and financial information, and discusses with officials the country's economic developments and policies. On return to headquarters, the staff prepares a report, which forms the basis for discussion by the Executive Board. At the conclusion of the discussion, the Managing Director, as Chairman of the Board, summarizes the views of Executive Directors, and this summary is transmitted to the country's authorities. This PIN summarizes the views of the Executive Board as expressed during the June 25, 2001 Executive Board discussion based on the staff report.
2 No data are available on private sector external debt, but it is likely to be small, given the modest size of the private sector.
|
<urn:uuid:0f783367-a42d-4c51-a6b2-ea3a064bf672>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/pn/2001/pn0196.htm
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.904434
| 2,393
| 1.90625
| 2
|
Lives of Young Koreans in Japan
Japan exercised colonial rule over Korea from 1910 to 1945 and many Koreans emigrated to Japan during this period. Today, these Korean migrants and their descendants, who are referred to as Zainichi Koreans, constitute one percent of the total population making them the nation's largest ethnic minority. Culturally different from both Korean nationals in Korea and majority Japanese, the young second and third generation Korean residents have developed a complex ethnic identity through their struggles with Japanese racism. Based on 'life-history interviews' with a number of young Zainichi Koreans in Japan, this study identifies their five broad types of ethnic identity: the pluralist, nationalist, individualist, naturalizing, and ethnic solidarity types. The study also presents case studies of young ethnic Korean women living within Japanese society. Pointing the way towards the eradication of racism, Fukuoka's book will appeal to anyone interested in contemporary Japan or minority studies.
Publication Date: 9/1/2000
|
<urn:uuid:a235526f-2246-428e-ab66-aac2ab8c6a97>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.isbs.com/products/9780646391656
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.936409
| 200
| 3.3125
| 3
|
OSHA News Release - (Archived) Table of Contents|
OSHA Trade Release
U.S. Department of Labor
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Office of Communications
For Immediate Release
Trade News Release
August 7, 2006
Contact: Frank Meilinger
Phone: (202) 693-1999
WASHINGTON -- The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is offering a new publication, Fire Service Features of Buildings and Fire Protection Systems, that will help increase the safety of building occupants and emergency responders by streamlining fire service interaction with building features and fire protection systems.
¿Our new booklet offers practical and important information that can help save lives,¿ said Edwin G. Foulke, Jr., Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA. ¿Fire service can be very dangerous work and our new manual is one more resource that can be used to help keep firefighters and other emergency responders safe.¿
Fire service operations take place in stressful and time sensitive environments. Decisions are often made in unfamiliar settings and without vital information, such as what is burning, where the fire is spreading, or the location of occupants. Poorly located fire hydrants, inaccessible fire department connections, confusing zone information, unmarked valves, or improperly designed standpipes are examples of features that can slow fire service operations. Delays, however brief, can dramatically affect an operation and its outcome.
OSHA¿s new manual explains how fire service operations can be influenced by different building features and offers considerations for design professionals that can help facilitate these operations. The manual includes chapters and narratives on building and site design, sprinkler systems, standpipe systems, fire department connections, fire alarm and communications systems, as well as various firefighting systems.
The material in Fire Service Features of Building and Fire Protection Systems is appropriate for all fire service organizations, including fire brigades and fire departments. Many of the discussions can help during responses for other emergencies such as hazardous material releases, emergency medical care, non-fire rescues and terrorist events.
The new booklet can be downloaded from OSHA¿s web site on the publications page or by calling OSHA's publications office at (202) 693-1888.
Under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, employers are responsible for providing a safe and healthful workplace for their employees. OSHA¿s role is to assure the safety and health of America¿s working men and women by setting and enforcing standards; providing training, outreach, and education; establishing partnerships; and encouraging continual process improvement in workplace safety and health. For more information, visit www.osha.gov.
This news release text is on the Internet at http://www.osha.gov. Information on this release will be made available to sensory impaired individuals upon request. Voice phone: (202) 693-1999.
|OSHA News Release - (Archived) Table of Contents|
|
<urn:uuid:08d475fe-0778-4076-9162-56d35adea318>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_table=NEWS_RELEASES&p_id=12356
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00028-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.916655
| 606
| 2.25
| 2
|
As we age, driving can become more difficult – even scary. The Providence Driving Assessment can help determine if it is safe for someone to continue driving. An occupational therapist works with each client to determine driver safety. The assessment includes:
- Review of the client’s driving history
- Visual screening
- Physical screening to measure range of motion, strength and coordination
- Cognitive and perceptual screening
- Evaluation of functional mobility
An on-the-road driving test is not part of the evaluation. This assessment measures a person’s ability to drive safely. It can ease concerns about drivers who experience health-related incidents or declining health but who wish to continue driving.
After illness, injury or disability, people in our community turn to Providence Rehabilitation Services
for help in regaining strength and independence. Last year, Providence Rehabilitation served more than 86,000 adults and children.
|
<urn:uuid:b50d8c90-d5c9-42dd-b480-cd3fff65d779>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://oregon.providence.org/our-services/d/driver-assessment/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.939261
| 181
| 2.109375
| 2
|
Snoring can be a big stress for your relationship. In a study more than 50% of couples admitted that snoring leads to serious arguments and is affecting their relationship. 80% of them said that sometimes they have to sleep in the other room for a sound sleep. Snoring affects your relationships as it is frustrating situation for both the partners. Since snoring disturbs your sleep it directly leads to situations that can diminish affection amongst the spouse.
[Read: Snoring Cure Discovered]
According to the Franklin Institute Resources for Science Learning, adequate sleep is as important for brain as food, water and air. Your snoring keeps your partner awake and even if he/she manages to adjust and manage to sleep the quality of sleep is not the same. Continues lack of sleep leads to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation leads to inability to focus and uneasiness that can directly affect your relation.
Even though in most of the cases snoring is not the direct reason for dispute between the couples but its impact on partners do contribute in other disputes. Lack of sleep makes the snores and their partners less patience thus leading to problems in relationship. The worst part is that they don’t realise that they are not able to resolve issue due to sleep deprivation. For instance, a small problem can turn to disaster after disturbed sleep and can even lead to divorce and breakup.
[Read: Treatment of Sleep Apnea]
It is seen that with the passage of time the mind and body of non-snoring partner adjusts even to loud snoring of their partners. This is because when someone sleeps next to snoring partner the hearing sensitivity is reduced. For instance, a couple married for long period are not affected by the snoring of their partner. According to an article published in New York Times, spouse of snoring partner develop hearing loss over time.
Fortunately, there are many ways of dealing with the snoring problem. If you and your partner are facing this problem then you must visit a doctor and determine its underlying cause. If you are overweight then losing some weight would help and if you snore loudly then it is time to get tested for sleep apnea. Treatment may vary from simple change in lifestyle to a small surgery but in either case you will be able to save your sleep and beautiful relation.
Read more articles on Relationship Help.
|
<urn:uuid:86f40648-ea8e-455a-a8da-4a7445df6d1d>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.onlymyhealth.com/how-snoring-affects-your-relationships-1303813482
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00020-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.958885
| 475
| 1.6875
| 2
|
What parents need to know
Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that though the pace is rollicking and sometimes chaotic, there are no dangerous or dark elements in Mary Poppins. Melodic music, fancy dancing, and cartoon segments will engage even the youngest viewers.
What's the story?
In 1910 Britain, a British family seeks a new nanny for young Jane and Michael, and in flies magical MARY POPPINS (Julie Andrews, in an Oscar-winning performance). She's not at all what proper Mr. Banks was looking for, but precisely what the children ordered! Mary takes control and takes the children on glorious adventures. The kids also frolic with Bert (Dick Van Dyke), a one-man-band, sidewalk artists, and chimney sweep. Wonderful singing, dancing, and animation bring the story to life as somehow this unusual nanny helps Mr. Banks show love to his children, and the whole family appreciate each other all the more.
Is it any good?
Rarely does a movie manage to be so much fun while delivering a simple, heartwarming story. While songs in today's Disney's musicals, though sometimes good, only serve to explain the characters' emotions or intentions, the best songs in Mary Poppins use the feelings of the characters as starting points from which to take off and explore, often in wildly whimsical directions.
The story follows suit, using small plot events to take viewers to many unexpected places. The end result is one of the all-time great family movies.
Families can talk about...
Families can talk about how Mary Poppins get her messages across? What's easier to hear, a command or a song? How does Poppins get respect from others?
Why is it important to spend time together? What happens if people get too busy sometimes to "go fly a kite"?
|Theatrical release date:||August 29, 1964|
|DVD/Streaming release date:||December 14, 2004|
|Cast:||David Tomlinson, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Andrews|
|Studio:||Walt Disney Pictures|
|Genre:||Family and Kids|
|Topics:||Magic and fantasy, Book characters, Music and sing-along|
|Character strengths:||Communication, Compassion, Empathy, Gratitude, Integrity|
|Run time:||140 minutes|
|
<urn:uuid:32701228-3b3f-4066-92dc-b2295650093c>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/mary-poppins
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00485-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.900206
| 505
| 2.328125
| 2
|
Darnit and the Old Goat
by Al Campbell, Rapid City, S.D.
When the Ford Motor Company announced the arrival of their new series of
pickup trucks designed to counter the popularity of the Dodge Ram, Darnit
Stammer decided he just had to buy one. Being a Ford man from way back,
Darnit decided to get one of the first models off the assembly line.
The big day finally dawned, Darnit's new Ford had arrived, so Darnit took the
morning off and rushed to the dealer's showroom to pick up his new vehicle.
Although he was in a hurry to drive away with his new toy, the dealer insisted
on pointing out the unique features of the newest and most advanced pickup in
the world. Since Dodge had the Ram name, Ford decided to call their new
model the Mountain Goat.
"This is the Mountain Goat; the most advanced pickup in the world" the salesman
began. "It has the new 'Ultimate Sportsman Package' installed from the factory. This
feature package is so advanced; no other company has been able to approach it.
We refer to it as artificial intelligence integrated with sporting tools."
"Dang it man tell me what that means in real people terms," Darnit said. "What does
that mean to me- the ultimate sportsman."
The salesman continued, "What that means to you is a pickup that caters to your
every need. It has every tool a sportsman might want built in for your convenience.
Ice augers, automatic boat launchers, fully automated deer tracking devices and
even a fully automated deer retrieval system that will drag your deer back to the
truck and load it for you. Every 'Ultimate Sportsman' feature is voice operated,
so all you have to do is command the Mountain Goat to do your bidding, and it
does it automatically."
"Alrighty then," Darnit yelled, "Tell me how it works."
"First Darnit" the salesman started, "You must name your new Mountain Goat pickup.
The name must include the word 'Goat' and be a name no other person has used.
That way your new truck and the 'Ultimate Sportsman Package' will recognize its
name and respond to your voice commands. Then you just tell the Mountain Goat
what you want it to do, and it'll do it for you."
After a flurry of names (all of them used), Darnit finally found a label that hadn't been
used, so Darnit's new Mountain Goat truck with the 'Ultimate Sportsman's Package'
had a name. From now on, this particular vehicle would be called the "Old Goat."
To demonstrate how to use the built-in features, the salesman had Darnit drive the
'Old Goat' up to Deerfield Lake and drill some ice fishing holes. It only took a
voice command, and the 'Ultimate Sportsman Package' drilled a dozen holes in
the ice as Darnit relaxed to the sound of the Ultimate Stereo and sipped fresh
coffee brewed by the Ultimate on-board coffee machine. Merely whispering
a command produced immediate results. "Hey, Old Goat, drill a dozen holes
spaced six feet apart. Hey, Old Goat, brew two cups of coffee, black, one
cube of sugar. Hey, Old Goat, pure country music, extra loud." The Mountain
Goat pickup and 'Ultimate Sportsman Package' responded to every command
After a demonstration of how well the new Mountain Goat pickup could hitch
and un-hitch Darnit's boat trailer, and a few imitation deer retrievals using an old log,
it was time for Darnit to show off his new wheels to his co-workers. He would be
the envy of everyone he worked with. It was the perfect match; the ultimate
sportsman with the ultimate sportsman's vehicle.
Back at work, Darnit was describing the features of his new vehicle. "Yep, all
I has to do is tell the Old Goat what to do and she does it fer me." (Darnit had
already ascribed the female gender to his new truck.) "If'n I needs ice fishin' holes,
I tell the Old Goat to drill 'em and sit back sippin' coffee whiles she drills 'em fer
me. If'n I shoots a deer, I tell the Old Goat to fetch it fer me an' sit back sippin'
a cool one I grabbed from the Ultimate Console Cooler, while's she fetches an'
loads that deer fer me. Ya boy; anythin' I wants, the Old Goat, she does it fer me."
About that time, someone in the doorway said "WELL!" Darnit turned around
to see his wife, Thrill, standing in the doorway. She wasn't amused. In his rush
to show off the features of his new wheels to his co-workers, Darnit had failed to
explain even the slightest details to his wife. It wasn't going to be easy trying to
explain them now.
While Darnit rushed down the hallway trying to repair things with Thrill, everyone
could hear him pleading. "Now Thrill, it ain't the way it sounds. I were telling 'em
'bout my new truck, not you. Honest, I named my new truck the 'Old Goat'.
Thrill, come back, I weren't talkin' 'bout you. Honest!"
Back in the office, Karlan Stackmore looked concerned, but Donner Oxear and
Pert Dingoose were busting a gut. After a few minutes Darnit returned all upset.
In fact, he was so upset Wild Willie Meltdown (also known as Wild Will, Wild
Bill, Billy The Kid . . . Hmm, that's another story) . . . Anyway, Wild Will had to
give Darnit the afternoon off so he could try to patch things up with Thrill. I was
hoping it would work, but I'm not sure he succeeded. This morning I spotted
this in the classified ads.
FREE TO A GOOD HOME; NEW FORD MOUNTAIN GOAT TRUCK
WITH THE ULTIMATE SPORTSMAN PACKAGE. THE ONLY CONDITION
IS YOU MUST ALSO ACCEPT CUSTODY OF ITS CURRENT OWNER.
THIS MAN IS HOUSEBROKEN, BUT IS KNOWN TO HANG AROUND
WITH REPROBATE DOGS, SMELLY FISHERMEN AND DERELICT
HUNTERS. THIS IS ALSO THE MAN WHO RECENTLY STARTED
CALLING HIS WIFE AN OLD GOAT. STOP BY ANYTIME TO PICK
THEM UP. HE WON'T BE IN THE HOUSE. ~ Al Campbell (AC)
Lighter Side Archive
|
<urn:uuid:44214fc1-9efb-4951-88d9-38d73c7e3247>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://flyanglersonline.com/lighterside/part128.php
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00106-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.961754
| 1,469
| 1.65625
| 2
|
Definitions of mossy
superl. - Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.
superl. - Resembling moss; as, mossy green.
The word "mossy" uses 5 letters: M O S S Y.
No direct anagrams for mossy found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after mossy (in bold), or to mossy in any order:
e - moseys myoses i - myosis t - mysost
Shorter words found within mossy:
mo mos moss my om oms os oy so som sos soy soys yo yom
List shorter words within mossy, sorted by length
Words formed from any letters in mossy, plus an optional blank or existing letter
List all words starting with mossy, words containing mossy or words ending with mossy
All words formed from mossy by changing one letter
Other words with the same letter pairs: mo os ss sy
Browse words starting with mossy by next letter
Previous word in list: mosso
Next word in list: most
Some random words: foal
|
<urn:uuid:87dd9b0e-e6f5-4cb2-a362-61ff2136c843>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.morewords.com/word/mossy
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.766917
| 256
| 1.53125
| 2
|
The natural history of protein domains.
Ponting CP., Russell RR.
Genome sequencing and structural genomics projects are providing new insights into the evolutionary history ofprote in domains. As methods for sequence and structure comparison improve, more distantly related domains are shown to be homologous. Thus there is a need for domain families to be classified within a hierarchy similar to Linnaeus' Systema Naturae, the classification of species. With such a hierarchy in mind, we discuss the evolution of domains, their combination into proteins, and evidence as to the likely origin of protein domains. We also discuss when and how analysis of domains can be used to understand details of protein function. Unconventional features of domain evolution such as intragenomic competition, domain insertion, horizontal gene transfer, and convergent evolution are seen as analogs of organismal evolutionary events. These parallels illustrate how the concept of domains can be applied to provide insights into evolutionary biology.
|
<urn:uuid:ceb1e6d2-a81c-4290-9b8c-06966f1c02df>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/publications/109580
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.904524
| 194
| 2.5625
| 3
|
Observations of the Children’s Ombudsman with respect to the written replies of the Government of Sweden concerning the list of issues (CRC/C/Q/SWE/3) raised by the Committee on the Rights of the Child in relation to the consideration of the third periodic report of Sweden.
Ställd till: FN:s Barnrättskommitté
A. Data and statistics
4. Children with disabilities
There is no data on the total number of children with disabilities. The Children’s Ombudsman has at various occasions called for the collection of such data. The Children’s Ombudsman has also suggested that this data should be disaggregated by type of disability.
6. Child abuse
There is no data available on victims of child abuse aged 15 to 17 years of age. In the view of the Children’s Ombudsman, the fact that the statistical data on crimes against children 15 years of age and older is not separated from the data concerning adult victims makes the monitoring of the implementation of some of the rights contained in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (hereinafter “the CRC”) difficult. The Children’s Ombudsman considers that this data should be further disaggregated, in particular by gender.
11. Number of children involved in sexual exploitation
There is some data on the possible number of children who have been victims of sexual exploitation in Sweden that has been reported by the Committee on knowledge concerning sexual exploitation of children in Sweden (SOU 2004:71, pp. 60-61). Although it is difficult to get a precise picture of the extent of the problem, in the view of the Children’s Ombudsman more efforts should made to identify the number of children affected in Sweden.
B. General Measures of Implementation
1. Previous Concluding Observations of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
According to the survey conducted by the Children’s Ombudsman in 2003 involving all municipalities in Sweden, 18 % replied that they have a co-ordinating function for the implementation of the CRC. In the previous survey, conducted in 2001, the corresponding figure was 19 %. On the positive side, 43 % of the municipalities in the 2003 survey replied that they had some kind of general function for the monitoring of issues concerning children and young persons. (This question was not asked in the previous survey). The results are difficult to compare, as different municipalities have varying ways of working with and co-ordinating the implementation of the CRC within their fields of competence. These and other results from the Children’s Ombudsman’s 2003 survey of the implementation of the CRC at the local level do however show that, although the CRC now is very well known in the municipalities, the progress in its implementation has not been as strong as the Children’s Ombudsman would have liked. In the opinion of the Children’s Ombudsman, more precise nation-wide goals for the implementation of the CRC at the local level should be identified and particular attention should be paid to child-impact assessments.
Independence of the Children’s Ombudsman:
In the short run, the fact that the Children’s Ombudsman does not have the possibility to pursue individual investigations allows the Ombudsman to concentrate on working on a general level with the aim of promoting the effective implementation of the CRC at the national, regional and local levels. In the long run, however, the Children’s Ombudsman believes that there will be a problem of legitimacy if the Ombudsman will not be able to pursue individual investigations concerning children’s rights, as there is no complaints mechanism in Sweden that is especially designed for children. The fact that childhood is not a “discrimination ground” does not need to be an obstacle. For instance, the Consumer Ombudsman investigates individual cases, although being a consumer is not considered a “discrimination ground”.
Children of illegal immigrants (“children in hiding”) do not have the right to education in Sweden, although they now enjoy the full right to health care (with the exception that this right is regulated in an agreement between the Government and the regional councils, while it is regulated by law as concerns children who have permanent residence permit in Sweden).
Racism and xenophobia:
According to figures presented by the Living History Forum and the National Council for Crime Prevention in October 2004, eight percent of pupils in grades eight and nine expressed high levels of intolerance towards Muslims and six percent towards Jews. 2.2 percent of pupils with a Swedish background and 6.6 percent of students with an immigrant background reported that they had suffered physical violence because of their background. Forty percent of pupils born abroad replied that they at some point had been insulted because of their origin. 10 600 randomly selected pupils participated in the survey.
The proposals contained in the inquiry report (SOU 2004:50) quoted by the Government, although a step in the right direction, will, in the view of the Children’s Ombudsman, regrettably make it possible for the municipalities to – simply by means documentation – escape any responsibility for failure to resolve cases of bullying at school.
The Government presented a bill to parliament in November 2004 concerning revisions to the criminal code regarding sexual offences. If adopted by Parliament, the bill will lead to important improvements with respect to the protection of children against sexual exploitation as it, inter alia, provides for the elimination of the “dual criminality requirement” for extraterritorial jurisdiction regarding a number of crimes against children. In the view of the Children’s Ombudsman, however, the proposition does not provide sufficient protection for children over 15 years of age and, although the new bill makes a distinction some sexual crimes against children and those against adults, the sentences stipulated for these crimes against children are, as a rule, not harsher than those committed against adults.
Furthermore, the Government bill does not address the inconsistency between the definition of child pornography in the Criminal Code and the definition of the child in the CRC and of “child pornography” in the optional protocol to the CRC. According to the Criminal Code, the term “child” in the meaning of child pornography is a person who is not sexually developed or who, when it can be determined on the basis of the image and the circumstances surrounding the image, is under 18 years of age. In practice this has led to a situation in which a man who had produced pornographic material by filming two girls, whom he knew were minors, was acquitted by the court of appeal from charges of production of child pornography.
3. Individual complaints mechanisms for children
There are many complaints mechanisms in Sweden that in principle are available to individual children. However, most of these mechanisms may only issue recommendations concerning the issue at stake. In most cases, an effective remedy can only be obtained through a court procedure. As a rule, however, only the legal custodian(s) of a child can initiate legal proceedings on behalf of the child. Furthermore, as the Government notes in its written replies, there are no mechanisms that are especially designed for children. As a consequence, in practice only those children, whose parents are willing and able to complain on their behalf, have an effective remedy to possible violations of their rights.
6. Dissemination of the of the CRC
The Children’s Ombudsman has, with the support of the Government, produced two information publications on the CRC to children, one for children aged 5 to 9 years and one for children aged 9 to 13 years, along with a teachers’ manual and a CD-ROM. 50 000 of the publications for children, 2800 teachers’ manuals and 1200 CD-ROM have been distributed. Funding for a third publication, for children aged 13 to 16 years, has been received from the Government in autumn 2004.
1. The implementation of the CRC
A survey conducted by the Children’s Ombudsman in 2003 among all 88 public authorities at State level shows that the progress that was evident between the two earlier surveys has slowed down. The Children’s Ombudsman is also concerned, that according to the replies to the survey, 13 public authorities, among them Statistics Sweden, the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish National Rural Development Agency, do not find the CRC to be of particular relevance to their field of responsibilities. The Children’s Ombudsman considers that the Government should issue more precise instructions to State authorities with respect to the requirements of the CRC.
7. Adolescent health
The waiting periods of children and young persons for medical and psychiatric services continue to vary significantly in different parts of the country. In late 2004, the longest waiting period in Sweden for psychiatric services for children was two years and the shortest less than one week. In many parts of the country, the waiting periods were over six months. The longest waiting period for medical services was two years and the shortest less than one week. In most parts of the country, the waiting periods were six to twelve weeks for medical services. All these numbers concern children who do not have acute medical or psychiatric problems that would give them priority.
A survey, presented by the National Agency for Education in December 2004, shows that more than half of the pupils aged ten to twelve years feel that only rarely or occasionally do they have peace and quiet so that they can focus properly on the education.
10. Juvenile justice
Contrary to paragraphs 72 to 74 of the United Nations Rules for the Protection of Juveniles Deprived of their Liberty (UNGA res. 45/113 of 14 December 1990) there are no fully independent inspectors who conduct regular inspections of the facilities run by the National Board of Institutional Care. For children placed in other foster care institutions than those run by the National Board of Institutional Care, there is an independent supervisory mechanism, but, contrary to paragraph 73 of the UNGA res. 45/113, there is no general right of juveniles to talk in confidence to an inspecting officer.
11. Asylum-seeking children
The Children’s Ombudsman is concerned that effective measures to improve the situation of asylum-seeking children who arrive to Sweden without being accompanied by an adult have not yet been adopted. As explained in the Government’s written replies (p.6) there have been 124 registered cases of disappearances of asylum-seeking children in Sweden in 2004 (in some cases one child can be the object of two or more registered disappearances). A parliamentary inquiry concerning this problem presented its proposals already in May 2003, but the Government still has not presented a bill concerning this issue.
|
<urn:uuid:f509beca-1252-42ed-beff-5c322e9a19ef>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.barnombudsmannen.se/barnombudsmannen/vart-arbete/skrivelser/20041/2004/12/observations-with-respect-to-the-written-replies-of-the-government/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.959343
| 2,169
| 2.5625
| 3
|
Death is at all times
solemn, at all times wonderful, often beautiful. If the life has
been beautiful then so is the death. In the mad whirl of affairs
that engulf us, we are apt to regard death as merely a natural
phenomenon and to lose sight of the fact, that when a Christian crosses
the bar the touch of the Divine Hand is always discernible.
But it was not to
last. The ever watchful, loving and merciful eye of a tender
Father was over her. To Him it was plain that the task was too
great, so he wisely relieved her frail body of the burden.
When it was first known that she was seriously ill and that her life
was hanging in the balance, we all felt that for the sake of her father
and the others dependent upon her, it would be best for her to
live. But when we turned to the other side of the picture and saw
her future with its duties, its perplexities that only a mother's
company would relieve, its sorrows and disappointments that do not
kill, but unmercifully leave us suffering, then we knew that for Emma's
sake it was best that she go.
Because of her reserved, sensitive nature, it was necessary to live
very near to her to know her. We are too prone to pass unnoticed
many charming and noble traits of character until death brings them
more prominently into view, yet to all who were in daily contact with Emma Howell
, the mention of her virtues will bring no surprises.
During the few months in which I had an opportunity to know her as a
student, I was enabled to penetrate the quiet exterior of her manners
and to find within a most beautiful nature, patient and loving.
To all commands she yielded an unquestioning obedience. No matter
how long the lesson or how hard, she simply smiled and went bravely to
work with no thought of complaint. She seemed to understand that
a teacher's path is not all roses, and she realized that "small service
is true service while it lasts." The weariness and heartache of
many a long day were lessened by her sunny little smiling "goodbye" at
the top of the stairs.
her companions also recognized her helpfulness. The new student
entering an unfamiliar room for the first time, always found Emma ready
to show the way. The tired child with a puzzling problem often
found Emma beside her deftly removing the tangles.
Deeds like these are not lost among children. On the morning of April 1st when news came that Emma Howell
was dying, the ache in many a youthful heart was apparent. The
dainty affectionate little girl, and the big fun loving boy full of
feeling never-the-less, all felt that something dear was going from us,
but that we had all been happier because she had lived.
During the few weeks of her illness the sense of responsibility never
left her. Her conscious hours were filled with thoughts of
others; of anxiety for her father and brother who were then almost as
near the Valley of the Shadow as she. Her gratefulness to her
nurses and her affection for them was touching. When her
fever-racked body was tossing in delirium, her thoughts were of the
children and their needs. Belle
must be kept in school and the baby brother must be cared for.
Nothing was forgotten, and when the icy hand was closing over her, her
feverish lips framed the petition that she would have uttered many
times had she lived. "Mama, come to me, I need you so
badly." The mother could not come; the daughter went.
Just one month from the day she bade her mother adieu she too was laid
to rest. Then Burnet witnessed the loneliest most pathetic
funeral for years. Of her own family only the sobbing little
, stood by the
grave and realized what was happening. The younger children
viewed the little white casket and the flower strewn mound that hid it
from view, and wondered what had become of Emma.
Kind friends and loving relatives performed the last sad rites and left her to sleep till the great awakening.
"Sleep soft, beloved, we sometimes say,
But have no tune to charm away
Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep,
But [remainder of line unreadable]
Shall break the happy slumber when
He giveth his beloved sleep."
|
<urn:uuid:798eceef-c2c6-48a6-b235-3709f819965b>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txburnet/HowellEmmaEObit.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.978021
| 954
| 1.554688
| 2
|
March 9, 2014 § Leave a comment
What fraction of this square region is shaded? Stripes are equal in width, and the figure is drawn to scale.
Ss1 — I don’t have the exact answer, but I know it’s more than 1/2. I visually drew in grid lines.
Ss2 — I mentally drew in grid lines like Ss1 did. It’s a 6×6 square, so 36 square units. Starting in the left corner, I saw 1 white square. Diagonally from there, I notice these are consecutive odd numbers. I just added the white parts to get 15. Subtract 15 from 36 gives 21. So, 21/36 is the answer.
Ss 3 — I got 7/12. I split it up into smaller squares too and got 36 because it’s sides are 6 each. There are 21 shaded squares, 21/36 simplifies to 7/12.
What is the equation for the number of green dots in this pattern?
Ss1 — I see the diagonal, then 3 groups of n on the outside, then the bottom group. My equation is D = (n+2) + 3n + (n+1)
Ss2 — I have the exact same equation as Ss1, but I saw it differently, like this:
Ss3 — Left and right, each is n. Top and bottom, each is (n+2). The leftover dot is 1 less than n. My equation: D = 2n + 2(n+2) + (n-1).
Ss4 — I saw these 4 in the right corner in every step. My equation is D = 4 + 2n + 2(n-1) + (n+1).
Can you figure out the rule: 2, 4, 8, …?
I had fun watching this video from Veritasium, so I posed the question to the kids. The quickest answer came from a 6th grader, and he even used the word “ascending” in his rule!
What is the equation for the number of blue rods in this pattern?
Ss1 — I see top and bottom as 2 groups of (n-1). The middle has (n+1) by (n). My equation isR = 2(n-1) + n(n+1).
Ss2 — I move one rod from the bottom row to the top to make it a complete “rectangle” of (n+2) by (n). The leftover rods on the bottom row is (n-2). My equation is R = n(n+2) + (n-2).
Three corn dogs cost $5.25. How much does one corn dog cost?
I asked this question because Justin Lanier shares how he and his friend had done this math problem mentally.
Ss1 — I just divided like I normally would on paper. Yea, I just set it up in my head because it’s not too bad.
Ss2 — I knew that if the price had been $6, then each corn dog would cost $2. But it costs 75 cents less than that, so 75 divided by 3 is 25. I subtracted 25 cents from $2 to get $1.75 for each.
Ss3 — I knew each must cost at least $1. Then I split up the leftover $2.25 into thirds: three 25-cents are not enough, three 50-cents are still not enough, so I tried three 75-cents, and that added up to $2.25.
Ss4 — I used the divisibility rule to see if $5.25 is divisible by 3: 5+2+5 = 12, and 12 is divisible by 3, so I knew the amount is divisible by 3. I just tried some numbers and $1.75 works.
Ss5 — I changed $5.25 to 21 quarters. 21 divided by 3 is 7 — 7 quarters is $1.75.
Ss6 — I tried $1.50 first, that got me $4.50 for 3 corn dogs. I tried $2, and that’s $6 total. So I tried the middle number of $1.75, and it worked.
When I shared with the students how Mr. Lanier had done the problem, they said they would never have guessed that! I said to them, “Math Munch people are just cool like that.” 🙂
|
<urn:uuid:67689a20-dd51-4522-9495-ee876a18cc7c>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://msmathtalks.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/week-12/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00277.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.961142
| 972
| 3.921875
| 4
|
Pirate Tour Kicks off Battle of New Orleans Commemoration
New Orleans, the rich port city that the British attempted to invade in 1814 at the tail end of The War of 1812, is conducting a lavish dress rehearsal for an international bicentennial event to be held in two years. On January 8 the Chalmette Chapter of the US Daughters of 1812 will lay a wreath in Jackson Square. Then, on Thursday, January 10, The Hotel Mazarin will host a dinner attended by the British General Pakenham who lost his life on the battlefield.
Last week, however, the focus was on Jean Lafitte, the pirate who supplied the arms and a third of the soldiers to help Jackson defeat Pakenham. From left to right, Gray Line Pirate Tour guide Lori Dowden, Pat Gallagher, Louisiana Society State President of Daughters of 1812, Nadine Meyer, Jerry Songy and Lea Martin, State Chairman of the Chalmette Battlefield.
The Pirate Tour leaves at 4:30 daily from the Jackson Brewery. For information on General Pakenham’s “Final Supper,” go to www.neworleanshotelcollection.com/1812. For more information on the Daughters of 1812 and other War of 1812 events, log onto www.usdaughters1812.org.
|
<urn:uuid:916bc241-5bb8-4e8e-a11f-d2f3d1220ebd>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.graylineneworleans.com/news/pirate-tour-kicks-off-battle-of
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.915243
| 280
| 1.789063
| 2
|
Dazzle in contrasting earthtones. Crafted from polished rhodium over sterling silver, this ring features one round checkerboard cut 13mm cognac quartz in a prong setting accented down the shank in rows with 36 round cut 1.5-2.0mm peridot stones and 18 round single cut 0.8mm white diamonds in pave settings.
Part of the Gem Insider® Collection. Made in China. All weights pertaining to diamond weights are minimum weights. Additionally, please note that many gemstones are treated to enhance their beauty. Click here for important information about gemstone enhancements and special care requirements.
Sterling silver, also called fine silver, is a beautifully lustrous cool-toned precious metal favored in fine jewelry among other products. The most reflective of all metals (excluding mercury), sterling silver looks stunning by itself and brings out the best hues in an array of colorful gemstones.
Sterling silver can be polished to a higher sheen than platinum. In fact, Ag, the chemical symbol for silver, comes from a word that means “white and shining.” The surface of silver can boast that shiny, polished appearance, or can be brushed, satin, matte, sandblasted, antiqued or oxidized (chemically blackened).
In order to be called sterling silver, a metal must be made up of a minimum of 92.5% pure silver and 7.5% alloy (meaning other metals), including but not limited to copper and nickel. The alloy is added to pure silver to make the metal more durable, tougher and harder. Sterling silver is designated a fineness of “925.” Pieces with sterling silver may be marked “sterling.”
Finishes on Sterling Silver
Finishing, or plating, is a common treatment with sterling silver. Popular types of plating are rhodium plating, gold plating and anti-tarnish plating. Plating is used to extend the life and sheen of the jewelry. After sizing or buffing a piece of jewelry with a machine, it must be re-plated to restore the finish.
Caring for Sterling Silver
Sterling silver becomes tarnished as the result of a natural chemical process that occurs when sterling silver is exposed to chemicals in the air, rubber, wool and latex. Humidity also plays a role in accelerating tarnishing. It's easy to keep your sterling silver sparkling, though, by taking a few steps to prevent tarnish and other wear and tear.
Peridot features a lively yellow-green color that is transparent with an oily luster. The iron that creates peridot’s color is an integral part of its structure, so the gem is only found in various shades of green. It is most prized in lime hues, but Italian peridot is a rich olive color and popular American peridot is a beautiful light yellow-green. The Romans called peridot “evening emerald” because its exquisite green color was said to glow at night. This is perhaps because the stone exhibits double refraction, meaning that when looking through the stone, objects appear double. So when looking into a faceted peridot, the number of bottom facets appears to be double the actual number, creating a glittering sensation.
Pronounced PEAR-A-DOE, the word “peridot” comes from the French word meaning “gem.” It is the gem variety of the mineral olivine and ranks a 6.5-7.0 on the Mohs Scale.
Born in cauldrons of fire, peridot is considered the “volcanic gem,” since small crystals of it are often found in the rocks created by volcanoes. In fact, Hawaiian legend called peridot the divine tears wept by Pele, goddess of the volcano. The island of Oahu even has beaches made out of olivine grains, but they are much too small to cut into peridot. Samples of the gem also have been discovered in meteorites that have fallen to Earth, many of which are more than a billion years old.
Peridot traces its jewelry roots to 3,500 years ago. The stone was first mined by the ancient Egyptians on the volcanic island of Zebargad in the Red Sea. Known as the “serpent isle,” it was infested with poisonous snakes that interfered with mining activity until one Pharaoh had them all driven into the sea. Today, Native Americans mine most peridot on the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona. Interestingly, a lmost all peridot sold in Hawaii is from Arizona, despite the fact that peridot is produced by Hawaii's volcanoes. The gemstone is also found in Norway, Brazil, China, Egypt, Italy, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. An exciting new deposit was discovered in Pakistan in 1994, yielding some of the finest peridot ever seen, including one stone that weighed more than 300.00ct.
Peridot is among the oldest known stones and has been mined as a gem for thousands of years. As early as 1575 to 1350 B.C., the ancient Egyptians used peridot beads in their ceremonial jewelry. In fact, it is believed the stone was one of the favorite gems of Cleopatra and that some of the “emeralds” she wore were actually peridot.
Ancient Egyptians also carved small drinking vessels out of large chunks of peridot. Priests would drink soma from them in rituals, believing the soma would put them in touch with the nature goddess, Isis. Legend has it that King Soloman traded cedar trees from Lebanon for 12 soma drinking cups and 144 liters of soma. The Egyptians made this trade for ramp logs to build their pyramids at Gisa, while King Soloman was said to have been enlightened by drinking soma from the peridot cups. Today, Mexican hill tribes still drink soma from green glazed cups to put them in touch with nature and their ancestors’ spirits. Additionally, some Native American Indians in Arizona use tea made from peyote ground with peridot crystals in their rituals.
Peridot has also been important to other cultures throughout history. Late in the Ottoman Empire (1300 to 1900), peridot was a highly prized gem and Turkish Sultans amassed some of the world’s largest collections of the gemstone. It is mentioned in the Bible under the name of “chrysolite,” and was used to decorate medieval churches with samples that were most likely carried back to Europe by the Crusaders. Large stones weighing more than 200.00ct adorn the Shrine of the Three Magi at the Cologne Cathedral in Germany.
Throughout the ages, peridot has been believed to hold mystical powers of protection and healing. The ancients regarded the stone as a symbol of the sun and wore it in amulets to prevent nightmares and drive away evil spirits. It was even favored by pirates to protect them against evil. Peridot was said to be useful for calming raging angers, curing nervous afflictions and promoting quiet sleep. It was also believed to strengthen any medicine drunk from goblets carved from the stone. South American Shamans used peridot to ward off snakebites and the evil spirits who have taken the form of mosquitoes who bring the sleeping sickness. They also say the heating of magic mushroom tea by peridot takes them on trips to the ancestor heavens.
Today, peridot is believed to bring the wearer success, peace and good luck. To be most powerful, it is said that the stone should be mounted in gold and surrounded with small diamonds. With powers that are thought to bring protection and health, modern folklore also says it can be used to attract love and calm anger while soothing nerves and dispelling negative emotions. T he gem is believed to protect the wearer from bad dreams when set in gold.
Peridot is considered the birthstone of August. Given as a symbol of fame, dignity and protection, this gem is also traditionally given to couples celebrating their 16 th wedding anniversaries.
With its uniquely mystical appearance, quartz was the “rock crystal” used in ancient times to make crystal balls. It was believed to attract energy and is still considered to be spiritual today. The gemstone was once believed to be a compact form of ice. In fact, the Greeks originally named quartz “krystallos,” meaning ice, but this terminology soon applied to any type of crystal.
Often identified by its six-sided prism shape, quartz is the most common mineral on Earth, found in nearly every environment throughout the globe. With a ranking of 7.0 on the Mohs Scale, it is a component of almost every rock type and occurs in virtually every color imaginable. Quartz has a great amount varieties that are well-known by other names, including amethyst, citrine, ametrine, rock crystal, agate, druzy, chalcedony, tigers eye and many more. There are also several varieties that hold the name “quartz,” including rose quartz, smokey quartz and rutilated quartz.
The pale pink color of quartz is known as rose quartz, the traditional gift for couples celebrating their 2 nd anniversary. It is a delicate powder pink color that ranges from transparent to translucent. Transparent rose quartz is quite rare and is usually so pale that it does not show much color, except in large sizes. The translucent quality of rose quartz is much more common and is used for jewelry and carvings.
Rose quartz is probably one of the most prized stones for its mystical properties. Known as the “Heart Stone,” it is believed to have incredible powers to balance emotions and open the heart. Folklore says rose quartz can comfort brokenhearted people, bringing healing and clarity to the heart and allowing the wearer to learn to trust again. The stone is also said to foster happiness and the joy of life by bringing about contentment in love and filling one with optimism, tenderness and gentleness.
In addition to helping with romantic love, rose quartz is believed to enhance all other forms of love as well, including self-love, platonic and maternal. Its loving, nurturing energy is said to take away fears, resentment and anger and replace them with feelings of higher self-esteem and confidence. This soothing stone is also thought to balance emotions and heal emotional wounds. It is said to be especially powerful in times of stress or loss, bringing peace and calm to the wearer.
Ranging in color from nearly black to smoky brown, smoky quartz is transparent and owes its warm earthen hue to exposure to natural radioactivity. Care must be taken since its rich color will fade in the sun. Spelled either “smoky” or “smokey,” this variety of quartz is often incorrectly called “smoky topaz.”
Smoky quartz is believed to help dissolve negative energy and release stress. It is said to be a mild sedative with a relaxing effect that calms, soothes and restores balance and harmony. Folklore says the gem can embrace dark areas with light and love and therefore clear and cleanse the body both physically and emotionally. Smoky quartz is thought to be a warm, friendly and down-to-earth gem.
Rutilated quartz is a type of transparent rock crystal that contains long, fine needles of rutile crystals (titanium dioxide). These highly valued inclusions form a landscape of shining gold needles in an array of patterns that is breathtakingly beautiful. These golden inclusions are also known as Venus hair, Cupid’s darts and fleches d’amour (“arrows of love”). There is a less well-known variety called tourmalinated quartz that, instead of golden rutile, forms black or dark green tourmaline crystals.
Although rutilated quartz is usually cut as a cabochon, it can be a difficult stone to attain a smooth surface without pits. This is because rutile ranks a 6.0 on the Mohs Scale , while quartz ranks 7.0. The difference in hardness between the two materials, and because of the way rutile forms inside, causes problems when cutting. Each final cut piece is unique, with no two being exactly alike. Modern folklore says rutilated quartz brings forth each person's strengths, originality and ability to relate to others.
Tourmalinated quartz is a clear form of quartz with silver-tone filaments and threads of black tourmaline running through it. Because tourmalinated quartz is a combination of quartz and tourmaline, it has influences and characteristics of both these gems.
All quartz rock that is absent of color is deemed rock crystal. This category of quartz has the clarity of pure water, without as much as a hint of pigment. While this colorless quartz is too common to be considered a precious gemstone, it is still beautiful, as well as affordable. Rock crystal is commonly used in decorative carvings, figurines and chandeliers. It is also easy to cut, making it well suited in the creation of eye-catching jewelry.
Phantom quartz is a variety of quartz which, over the course of millions of years, forms over existing rock crystals. It takes its name from the particular structure of the trigonal crystals that form within its shape, known as the phantom. Found mostly in Austria, Brazil, Madagascar, Switzerland and the United States, phantom quartz can also be found in smoky quartz, citrines and amethysts. These phantoms, or the inner crystals, are usually composed of other minerals such as chlorite, goethite, hematite or even other kinds of quartz like the smoky and milky quartz.
Mention of phantom quartz is found in 2000-year-old texts where it was believed to have formed on ice hidden in dark caverns for millions of years. This ice, when exposed to extreme cold, got encased with the quartz, thus trapping the phantom within. Perhaps because of their elusive beginnings, phantom quartz are sometimes referred to as ghost crystals, specter crystals or even shadow crystals.
|
<urn:uuid:552b9f9d-d41f-42bc-bdc7-b16e170691e2>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.evine.com/Product/128-303
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00518-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.960302
| 2,960
| 2.09375
| 2
|
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
In the ongoing battle to see who can be the more innovative, Microsoft is pulling ahead of Google in the maps arena by launching 3D maps. Currently, Virtual Earth 3D only covers 15 cities including San Francisco, Atlanta, and Boston. To get the best experience, you'll need a speedy broadband connection to load the extremely detailed image layers.
Don't be surprised if while flying over your city of choice, you see noticeable billboard ads. The ads are much more detailed than the satellite imagery so they stand out.
You'll need to download a setup file and be using Internet Explorer to view the 3D maps.
Virtual Earth 3D
|
<urn:uuid:737509c3-28c7-40a8-a949-2a048af76f33>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.digitalalchemy.tv/2006/11/microsoft-virtual-earth-3d-is-live_07.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00244-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.885328
| 137
| 1.601563
| 2
|
Store It Online
If you don't have a Web site and don't want to create a peer-to-peer connection, an Internet-hosted "hard drive" is a good way to go. Such services, like Xdrive, provide a simple interface and a set amount of disk space, based on your purchase plan, for you to upload and store files. To share them with your friends, let the service know who should have access to your account. It will then e-mail a link to your friends. Files are encrypted on the site, and users need a password for access and decryption.
Xdrive lets users share entire folders or individual files. With shared folders, recipients can upload their own files, depending on the permissions you grant. You can use the service's Web interface or install Xdrive's Desktop application. With Desktop, users have access to Xdrive through Windows Explorer for drag-and-drop file management and can schedule automatic backups. Business clients should check out Xdrive's workgroup capabilities. (Xdrive Inc., www.xdrive.com. )
Yahoo! Briefcase is a 30MB freebie, with the option to buy more space. The free account, like other Yahoo! functions, is ad-driven. You can upload five files at a time. To share content, select the files and click to e-mail them; you can add up to ten addresses to each file. Recipients get an e-mail from Yahoo! with links to your files. (Yahoo! Inc., http://briefcase.yahoo.com. )
Iomega iStorage is similar to Xdrive. Start with the 30-day trial; paid plans start at $2.49 a month for 50MB of storage. With the iStorage desktop application, an ActiveX-based page, you can drag and drop files from Windows Explorer or MyComputer. Files are encrypted online.
Iomega WhaleMail makes it easy to e-mail stored files. Choose one or more files from your online folder and add recipients and comments; your friends get an e-mail with a link to your iStorage file. WhaleMail links are good for 14 days or five downloads. (Iomega Corp., www.iomega.com/istorage. )
MagicVortex is a service just for moving large files. With its "facilitated streaming," you can transfer files of up to 2GB, depending on your pricing plan. Files are saved temporarily at MagicVortex's site, so you can upload even when your recipient isn't online.
With the 30-day trial, you can transfer up to 30MB at a time. You can either use the MagicVortex client software or do a Web-based transfer. Paid plans start at $9.95 a month for up to 100MB of transfers. When you upload a file, MagicVortex sends the recipient a link to retrieve it. The recipient can click a link to send you a confirmation of the download. The recipient doesn't need MagicVortex to receive files. (Sage Analytic Technologies LLC, http://magicvortex.com. )
If you are armed with the right info, transferring large files isn't difficult. You can send that PowerPoint file with ease, and that promotion should be in the bag.
|
<urn:uuid:f1903070-c0a4-48b9-9836-5c519c25c6ee>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1573645,00.asp
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00118-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.920371
| 683
| 1.585938
| 2
|
In accordance with ND Century Code 15-10-19.1, para 2.d., a "resident student" for tuition purposes means:
- A full-time active duty member of the armed forces;
- A member of the North Dakota national guard;
- A member of the armed forces reserve component stationed in this state; or
- A veteran, as defined in NDCC 37-01-40, is a North Dakota resident and US Citizen who has served on continuous federalized active military duty for;
- One hundred eighty days; or
- The full period for which the individual was called; or
- Ordered to active military duty for reasons other than training; and
- Was discharged or released under other than dishonorable conditions.
- A discharge reflecting:
- "Expiration of term of service"; or
- "Completion of required service"; or
- Words to that effect qualifies the shorter term of service as making the individual a veteran.
|
<urn:uuid:31603ea5-c7fe-4246-b8bb-1c6eb8edd840>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.veterans.nd.gov/veteranservice-member-resident-status
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00077.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.933959
| 203
| 1.9375
| 2
|
The Technical Resources Hub is designed to provide engineers with comprehensive advice and training to support every stage of new product design.
Innovation in IoT and Industrial IoT technologies is accelerating rapidly as the push toward greater automation and interconnectivity becomes a focal point for many critical industries. Engineers can now drill deeper into the different areas of IoT design and Industry 4.0 on the Technical Resources Hub with the addition of a ‘How To’ content series covering all stages of designing and implementing systems through to enabling integration via the cloud.
The ‘How To’ series features several short, instructional articles, teaching engineers how to design-in specific technologies and develop skills associated with implementing Industry 4.0 as well as more general IoT based designs. Instructional articles recently added to the Technical Resources Hub cover topics from ‘How to Implement different types of edge computing for Smart Factory applications’ to ‘How to establish control access to shop floor systems via gateways’ and much more.
Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technical Marketing, Farnell said: “Our new Technical Resources Hub is designed to share inspiration and knowledge, support component selection and enable upskilling with essential learning modules and resources. We are committed to providing maximum support to our customers through our online tools that accelerate the design process to bring products to market much faster.”
The Farnell Technical Resources Hub features a comprehensive range of technical articles and application notes, whitepapers, webinars and podcasts, projects and training modules, videos and eBooks. Visitors can access innovative information on a number of technologies and applications along with valuable calculators, conversion charts and online component selection tools.
For easy navigation, the hub also includes pages focused on specific technologies, such as wireless, sensing, power management, motor control, lighting and display; alongside complementary application pages covering the IoT, transportation, medical, maintenance, safety and more.
|
<urn:uuid:3730ba2b-e39a-41ea-8dfb-e9b3e1987f0f>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://lifeink.in/farnell-expands-technical-resources-hub/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00667.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.923144
| 388
| 2.125
| 2
|
Indonesia Political and Economic Outlook 2011-2015
This hub examines the political and economic outlook of Indonesia for 2011-2014. Before one travels to or decides to do business in a foreign country like Indonesia, it is wise to learn a little about that country in terms of its cultural background, and its political and economic outlook in the near term. Through the country intelligence data obtained by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Country Watch, and CultureGrams, this hub introduces the potential traveler or global business leader to Indonesia and what they could expect in the near future concerning Indonesia's Political and Economic Outlook for 2011-2014.
EIU Overview of Indonesia Political and Economic Outlook for 2011-2015
According to a country intelligence report filed by the Economist Intelligence Unit for December 2010, the following are important highlights of Indonesia's political and economic outlook for 2011-2015:
- The president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, has a strong mandate to pursue
his reformist policy agenda, having won re-election comfortably in July 2009,
but his reforms are encountering resistance from vested interests.
- Indonesia will elect a new president to succeed Mr Yudhoyono in 2014. A
requirement of the election law means that the next president is likely to be
the nominee of one of the country’s three main secular political parties.
- Bank Indonesia (BI, the central bank) will raise interest rates in early 2011.
There is a possibility that it will expand recently imposed capital controls
aimed at slowing the appreciation of the rupiah.
- The fiscal deficit will narrow in the forecast period, to the equivalent of 0.2%
of GDP in 2015, from 1.6% in 2009, owing partly to the inability of the civil
service to utilise fully the sums allocated to it for capital expenditure.
- The Economist Intelligence Unit forecasts that real GDP growth will accelerate
to an average of 6.3% a year in 2011-15, driven mainly by private consumption
and fixed investment.
- EIU researchers expect the current account to record an average surplus equivalent to
1.3% of GDP in 2011-15. The income account will remain in deficit, owing to the
repatriation of earnings by foreign-owned companies.
Indonesia Political Outlook 2011-2015
According to the Economist Intelligence Unit December 2010 report, Indonesia's political outlook for the immediate short-term seems relatively stable. Due to successfully leading his country through the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, President Yudhoyono retained the confidence of the voters and was re-elected for a second term in the 2009 election.
This result does not mean that Indonesia's political scene is without controversy. In order to retain his position, President Yudhoyono had to piece together a six-party coalition. However, one year into his second term, there are signs that the six-party coalition is not working well together and that they are divided on many reform issues.
Moreover, the first anniversary President Yudhoyono's second-term was marked by student-led protests due to a controversy involving conservative members of his coalition and the exit of Sri Mulyani Indrowati from her cabinet post. Ms. Mulyani, who now works with the World Bank, was one of Indonesia's most popular reformers. Evidence seems to indicate that Mulyani was ousted by her more conservative opponents including Mr. Aburizal Bakrie, a rich ethnic-Indonesian and managing chairman of the coalition government. Mr. Bakrie seemed to oppose Mulyani because she would not allow the stockmarket to be manipulated in his favor and she began to investigate alleged tax evasion by mining firms owned by the Bakrie family.
According to the EIU report, Yudhoyono's backing of the conservative members of his coalition does not bode well with his stated commitment to democratic reforms. If he continues to give way to those who vested interests like Mr. Bakrie "the prospects for a strengthening of democracy and an improvement in standards of government are likely to diminish." If however President Yudhoyono and other reformers continue to confront vested interests like Mr. Bakrie then there is a real possibility that conflict could erupt within the ruling coalition.
Indonesia Economic Outlook for 2011-2015
According to the EIU's Indonesia country report filed for December 2010, Indonesia's economy was affected less severely by the global recession than other neighboring Asian countries. This was mostly due to the fact that exports make up a relatively small portion of the country's economy.
Due to less need to recover from the global economic downturn, the EIU forecastors reported that Indonesia's real GDP accelerated to 5.9% for the first three quarters of 2010 and believed the whole year figure would also come in at 5.9%. Beyond, 2010 EIU forecasts real GDP growth to be around 6% in 2011, 6.4% in 2012; and an estimated 63% from 2013 to 2015. After an increased demand of various commodities by China in 2010, Indonesia exports are expected to slow in 2011, but should expand by an annual rate of 8% from 2012-2015.
EIU researchers reported the following downside risks to their forecast including the possibility of fiscal austerity programs leading to a sharper slowdown in global growth than expected and loose monetary policy stance of Western central banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve which has led to heavy flows of capital into Asian countries. These heavy flows led to wide fears that asset price bubbles could develop in the Asian countries because such bubbles create risks particularly if assets are used to back higher levels of borrowing.
According to the EIU report, Indonesia was one of the recipients of strong flows of foreign finance in 2010 and will probably continue to attract funds in 2011. However, Indonesian companies and households are not highly leveraged and so the price asset bubble may be less of a factor and a period of mild borrowing could work to further stimulate the economy in the near future. This would be particularly helpful if the funds were spent on infrastructure improvements.
Map of Indonesia
Indonesia Key Data
CountryWatch highlighted the following fun facts about Indonesia
Tropical with hot and humid conditions; more moderate conditions in highlands
Bahasa Indonesian (Official)
local dialects including Javanese
Independence Day is 17 August (1945), Kartini Day is 21 April
City Population Estimated
Jakarta 8,431,302 2010
Surabaya 2,328,055 2010
Bekasi 1,774,340 2010
Average Daily Temperature
25.80°C / 78.40°F
26.30°C / 79.30°F
1821mm / 71.7"
Indonesian Cultural Dance and Art
Indonesia Brief History
Country Watch also provided the following synopsis of Indonesian history:
The Indonesian archipelago is the largest island complex in the world, stretching for more than 3,000 miles east to west. During the first millennium C.E., the islands of Java and Sumatra had developed into a society of advanced civilization, with goods being shipped overseas and navigable rivers bringing the Indonesian hinterland into touch with distant markets.
From the seventh to 14th centuries, Buddhism flourished on the island of Sumatra. In eastern Java, Hinduism prevailed in the 14th century, and in 1364, the Hindu empire conquered most of what is now modern Indonesia and much of the Malay Archipelago. Islam arrived during the 12th century and dominated Hinduism in Java and Sumatra by the end of the 16th century. In the 16th and 17th centuries, both Christian and Islamic proselytizing took place in the eastern archipelago, and both religions have large communities on the islands today. On Bali, Hinduism still endures.
During the 17th century, Indonesia gradually slipped under the control of the Netherlands, except for East Timor, which remained controlled by Portugal until 1975. Under Dutch rule for 300 years, Indonesia was developed into one of the Netherlands' richest colonies in the world.
In early 20th century, an independence movement began in Indonesia, led by young professionals and students, some of whom were educated in the Netherlands. A small group of Indonesians led by independence leaders Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta established the Republic of Indonesia on Aug. 17, 1945, three days after Japanese who had occupied the nation in World War II surrendered to Allied forces. The Dutch were struggling to regain control of Indonesia but were met with strong resistance from the Indonesians.
In 1949, after four years of war and negotiations, the hostilities between the Netherlands and Indonesia ended, with the Dutch transferring sovereignty to the federal Indonesian government. In 1950, Indonesia became a member of the United Nations. After its independence, Indonesia adopted a new constitution providing for a parliamentary system of government, however, in 1959, the 1945 constitution was revived allowing for borad presidential powers. "Mostly free" elections would not be held until the late 1990s. Indonesia's territorial integrity -- a legacy of the country's history and colonial relationships -- would become a significant issue in the years following independence.
At the time of independence, the western half of New Guinea in Indonesia remained under control of the Netherlands, and the region was permitted some measure of self-government and independence. To gain control of the region, Indonesia negotiated with the Netherlands but failed, then fought the Dutch in 1961. In August 1962, an agreement was reached between Indonesia and the Netherlands for Indonesia to assume administrative responsibility for Irian Jaya on May 1, 1963. In 1969, under United Nations supervision, the Indonesian government conducted an "Act of Free Choice" in Irian Jaya, and 1,025 Irianese representatives of local councils agreed to remain a part of Indonesia. After that, the United Nations General Assembly confirmed the transfer of sovereignty of Irian Jaya to Indonesia, followed with small-scale guerrilla activity opposing the Indonesian control of the region. Since the late 1990s, there have been more explicit expressions within Irian Jaya of desire for its independence.
Meanwhile, from 1958, Indonesia has seen rebellions on Sumatra, Sulawesi, West Java and other islands. Conflict between the authorities in Jakarta and nationalists in Aceh were involved in a conflict lasting over 30 years. Several peace deals aimed at ending the conflict fell apart. In 2005, the Indonesian government and the rebels in Aceh forged their most recent peace agreement with hopes that it charted the course for lasting peace after 30 years of conflict.
For its part, East Timor had been a Portuguese colony from 1524 to 1975. In 1976, Indonesia declared East Timor its 27th province. Following the declaration, there was small-scale guerrilla activity in the region by those opposing the Indonesian rule, however, Indonesian dominion prevailed. After United Nations involvement in January 1999, Indonesia agreed to allow the people of East Timor to choose between autonomy and independence through a direct ballot. In August 1999, the East Timorese voted overwhelmingly for independence. A bloody conflict, which included the devastation of the East Tmorese capital city of Dili followed before United Nations intervention facilitated East Timor's passage into sovereign and independent status, separate from the Republic of Indonesia.
Indonesia - Religion
According to CultureGrams, Indonesia is home to the world's largest Muslim population; the majority consider themselves only moderately religious accounting for about 86 percentthe country's population. However, in practice, Indonesians have largely adapted the religion to their culture—Hinduism, Buddhism, and animism have influenced beliefs and practices. Muslims believe the Qur'an (Koran) contains the word of Allah (God) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. Devout Muslims express their faith through the Five Pillars of Islam: professing the name of Allah and Muhammad as his prophet; praying five times daily; fasting during the holy month of Ramadan; donating to the poor; and making a pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, if they can afford it.
Besides the Muslims, about 9% of the rest of the population consider themselves Christians and another 2% adhere to Hinduism.
More by this Author
This hub takes a look at the political and economic outlook of Malaysia for 2011 to 2014. The main source of this outlook is the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). According to the EIU report filed for October 2010, the...
From 1999 to 2009, Cambodia was hailed as one of the world’s fastest growing national economies, second only to China in the Asian region. In 2012, Cambodia's annual GDP was projected to slow but still outpace...
The President of the United States of America is the one of the top political positions in the world. In 2016, the USA citizens will elect a new President. This hub discusses the main qualifications.
|
<urn:uuid:1014bf81-ef84-4b0d-a5b9-7c7e0cdb1d08>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://hubpages.com/politics/Indonesia-Political-and-Economic-Outlook-2011-2014
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00059-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.950853
| 2,630
| 1.703125
| 2
|
EZ Reusable Objects (EZRO) is a Web application that can be used by non-technical staff to manage content as "objects." Content objects containing text, video, and audio can be shared, modified, and re-styled to appear via a traditional Web site, an on-line course, an innovative "Coach," or as a community of interest site. It is highly scalable and can be used for public Web sites, secure environments, and private intra/extranets.
Elektra is a universal hierarchical configuration store, similar to GConf and the Windows Registry. It allows programs to read and save their configurations with a consistent API, and allows them to be aware of other applications' configurations, leveraging easy application integration. While architecturally similar to other OS registries, Elektra does not have most of the problems found in those implementations. Elektra includes a library, an API, and commandline and GUI tools for administration tasks.
Elixir is a declarative layer on top of SQLAlchemy. It is a fairly thin wrapper that provides the ability to define model objects following the Active Record design pattern, and using a DSL syntax similar to that of the Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord system. It does not intend to replace SQLAlchemy's core features, but instead focuses on providing a simpler syntax for defining model objects when you do not need the full expressiveness of SQLAlchemy's manual mapper definitions.
EmPy is a system for embedding Python expressions and statements in template text. It takes an EmPy source file, processes it, and produces output. This is accomplished via expansions, which are special signals to the EmPy system and are set off by a special prefix (by default the at sign, '@'). It can expand arbitrary Python expressions and statements in this way, as well as a variety of special forms. Textual data not explicitly delimited in this way is sent unaffected to the output, allowing Python to be used in effect as a markup language. Also supported are callbacks via hooks, recording and playback via diversions, and dynamic, chainable filters. The system is highly configurable via command line options and embedded commands.
Fivebit is a Python 3 compression library for short text strings. It compresses short strings of text into five bit encoding, which yields a 37.5% reduction for lowercase ASCII. There is also a dictionary for the 1024 most common English words (3 letters or longer). Punctuation, digits, and normal symbols will usually take up 10 bits each, and oddball Unicode characters will take up more space again.
|
<urn:uuid:6bb7e48a-1376-4f21-b29f-db99c43a76d8>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://freecode.com/tags/python-modules?page=6&sort=name&with=&without=
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.900416
| 532
| 1.914063
| 2
|
4 Ever Best Friends Dolls
Auto Shop Manuals
Auto Shop Manuals 2
Bibles and More
Crochet Rag Rugs
Games, toys, furniture...
Disney Pin Trading Bags
Prison Pen Pals
Solar Battery Chargers
Vintage Car Signs
Vintage Knitting Patterns
Vintage Topsy Turvy Dolls
When and How Will the World End seahorse Live Coral sea horse Depression and Its Cure
The Complete Guide to Dwarf Seahorses in the Aquarium
|Seahorses resemble a swimming upright horse and you can imagine a mermaid riding these little horses through
They have become extremely popular for the tropical fish saltwater aquarium enthusiast. They belongs to the Syngnathidae family, which includes pipefish and sea dragons. They are found in the warmer waters all over the Pacific, Atlantic and Indians oceans. They can range in size from the dwarf, which is only 1 inch to a foot long specimen found around Nova Scotia.
These tiny undersea ponies can turn bright colors in unusual surroundings. By unusual it might mean you could try different colors or features in your salt water aquarium to produce these results. Nano reef Aquariums like to include the seahorse.
One unique feature is that it is the male sea horse that becomes pregnant. The female deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. And depending on water conditions and the type of sea horse, they can carry the eggs from 9-45 days until the fully developed tiny seahorses emerge. The parents don't take care of their young so the babies are on their own from day one.
Keeping them in saltwater aquarium can be challenging and before you try it you must read up on the subject and be completely ready before ordering any. Captive-bred sea ponies do a lot better then ones taken from the wild because the wild ones become stressed, which makes them prone to disease.
Live Seahorses for Sale
|seahorse||Seahorse Books, DVD's, Supplies|
The tank mates of seahorses should be chosen carefully or they should be kept in a tank by themselves so others don't pick them on. They can live with shrimp and some bottom feeders but be aware that they eat really slow and other tank mates might leave them with nothing. Undersea ponies tend to like hunting shrimp and other prey while hiding in their seaweed and waiting for the food to come within grabbing distance.
Sea dragons are close relatives but are larger and have leaf-like appendages so they can hide better among the seaweed. It will be harder to find sea dragons for your salt water aquariums but sometimes you can find one for sale if you are willing to pay the higher price.
The photo with this article shows them in an aquarium. However you need to do your research before buying any of these delicate sea creatures. One day someone emailed me and told me her seahorses were dying. She had just purchased them and didn't know what to do. Since I don't sell them myself I couldn't be much help except to be sympathetic and encourage her to do her research before getting more. Just one time have I seen these in a pet store. This tells me that they are not easy to keep. However many do keep and sell them as you can see from the ones on this page so it is very doable. Just research and get some books on them first.
Link to my webring page for this topic
|
<urn:uuid:6abf7739-b30b-4d71-ab89-a024b9f033ad>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.goldmedal100.com/seahorse.htm
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00549-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.944977
| 709
| 2.140625
| 2
|
Needs analysis can give you a better idea of what kind and how much insurance would be the optimum for your business. Of course, buying liability, property and health insurance, in addition to Workmen's Compensation, can be quite expensive, so assessing your business' needs and what kind and how much insurance can be crucial.
Evaluating Your BusinessThe first consideration when using needs analysis for deciding on an insurance policy for your small business consists of accurately analyzing the different liabilities and assets which directly affect the business. These include:
- Property - this includes equipment, real estate and other assets.
- Business Volume - the amount of accounts receivable and the average cash flow of the business.
- Salaries - how much you pay yourself and however many employees the company has.
- Overhead - the cost of running the business including rent, utilities and other miscellaneous expenses.
- Future Trends and the Local Economy - how future trends and the state of the local economy will affect the business in the future.
The second consideration for your insurance needs involves estimating your business's potential for losses. This includes fire, theft, property damage, an employee's legal action or losses due to economic hardship.
Getting the Right Amount of InsuranceOnce you have evaluated your assets and liabilities, you will be much better prepared to determine how much insurance your company will need. You will want adequate coverage for your assets so make an accurate assessment of potential risks to your property to get adequate coverage.
Remember, a high premium will provide a higher amount of coverage so be aware of potential risks and make sure your business is covered for any high risk factors. Also, if you choose a higher deductible, you will probably pay less for your policy. Make sure you get the right amount of insurance depending on what your company can afford. By law, your business will need Workers' Compensation insurance. Consult with your company's lawyer or advisor on how much your company may need and what type of package would be optimal for you and your employees.
Comprehensive coverage might be optimal for your business if you have several employees and own the business property. Group health and life insurance along with disability, property, flood and fire insurance can often be included in your policy.
Choose a Reliable CarrierA reliable insurance company and an experienced agent can be an important element to obtaining the right amount of insurance for your business. A knowledgeable agent can help you perform your needs analysis, and can sometimes speed up the claim process, if you need to make one.
Also, choosing an insurance company with a good reputation and solid finances will give you greater peace of mind if any unfortunate event befalls your business. The last thing you need if you have to make a claim is an insolvent insurance carrier.
Finally, have your business appraised periodically to gauge how much insurance you will need on an ongoing basis. Since business finances and assets change over time, the amount of insurance you might need can also change.
|
<urn:uuid:e3647937-c67e-47ec-9c60-7cca3e6e4658>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.businessdictionary.com/article/633/selecting-insurance-plans-using-needs-analysis/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.953265
| 600
| 1.65625
| 2
|
photo : L Wilson
This Sunday is Mother’s Day – a time to celebrate women who in the early days of the 20th century made a stance against war; women who strive to do their best for their families; and the wonderful horses that tie them all together.
If you live in countries like Great Britain, Russia, Norway or Thailand, you’re probably thinking the date for Mother’s day is wrong. For your country, maybe it is – but in many of the 46 countries around the globe that celebrate Mother’s day, it isn’t!
In Austria – like America, Canada, India and Japan to name a few – the second Sunday in May is when motherhood is celebrated. Mother’s day is quite distinct from ‘Mothering Sunday’, which in the Christian church falls within the period of Lent and is associated with the ancient spring festival to celebrate Brigid, the Celtic goddess of inspiration and healing. In Catholic countries, reverence for the Virgin Mary is more central to Mother’s day celebrations.
Mother’s day is a relatively ‘modern’ concept, with its roots in the anti-war movement of the 19th century, rather than ancient history and mythology.
War and Women
In 1872 Julia Ward Howe – an American activist and lyricist of the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’, which is widely recognised as the patriotic song of America – appealed to women to rise against war and initiated a ‘Mother’s Peace Day’. Many years later, Anna Jarvis – another American – lobbied for an official Mother’s Day holiday, which stemmed from her desire to fulfill a wish of her own mother (to see a commemorative day for mothers).
The idea took hold and in 1914 President Woodrow Wilson (no relative of mine!) signed a Resolution designating the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day. Many other countries also adopted this date.
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. – Hamilton Wright
Nowhere is this seen more clearly than at the Piber Federal Stud in Steiermark, where young colts are raised to the highest standards to perform at the Spanische Hofreitschule (Spanish Riding School) in Vienna. The wonderful Lipizzan horses perform Haute École (High School) dressage, which is characterised by movements above ground that originate in in the training and preparation for battle of cavalries from ancient times. The movements take years for horse and rider to master.
Mother’s Day Gala
Just as Mother’s Day has become a tradition across the globe, so Piber Federal Stud has its own celebratory extravaganza – the marvelous Mother’s Day Gala (this year May12th from 12:00).
Broodmares – the equine equivalent of Wright’s mothers who strive to encourage the very best from their offspring – will be in attendance along with their colts, many of which will be bound in due course for the Spanische Hofreitschule.
There’ll be a cavalcade of choreographed carriages to add to the excitement as the 2012 season gets underway. Definitely not an event to be missed if you happen to be lucky enough to be on an Austrian alpine holiday in Styria!
|
<urn:uuid:db6c186d-40a0-45c1-8d4d-c76432085017>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://en.paperblog.com/war-women-and-wonderful-horses-224065/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00032-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.948535
| 723
| 2.890625
| 3
|
Commercial, public benefit, and military use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are not authorized in the National Airspace System without an FAA certificate of authorization (COA) that grants special permission to conduct operations. The exceptions to this requirement are agreements that the FAA has entered into with the Department of Defense and the Department of Interior to allow small UAS operations at low altitude over U.S. Army military installations and Department of Interior lands.
To date, more than 600 certificates of authorization have been issued nationwide. With a few exceptions, all of the certificates of authorization have been granted to the military, law enforcement, universities, and other public-use aircraft. Commercial certificates of authorization have been issued to an oil company in Alaska and a movie studio consortium in California. There are more than 40 commercial certificates of authorization under review as of Oct. 1, 2014. A certificate of authorization mitigates safety concerns and can cover a single flight or multiple flights. Certificates of authorization have an expiration date (varying from a week to a year or more). Certificate of authorization details are not published.
UAS typically operate in low-altitude airspace or above FL180. Currently, flight path information is not available from any government or public source.
To integrate UAS into the National Airspace System, the FAA must implement rules and procedures that ensure UAS are operated safely and compatibly with other users of the National Airspace System. As a general policy, UAS should:
AOPA has long held concerns about the impact of UAS operations on general aviation. The association’s biggest concerns are safety and the possibility that the FAA would implement special-use airspace for exclusive use by UAS, impacting GA access.
In 2004, AOPA formally requested that the FAA task an advisory committee with developing consensus standards for small UAS operations (UAS that weigh 55 pounds or less). In response, the FAA established the committee. AOPA actively participated, and the consensus recommendations reflect the association’s stated policy on small UAS integration. The FAA accepted the consensus standards in 2007, but has yet to release a proposed rule.
In 2011, the FAA established a UAS Aviation Rulemaking Committee and tasked it with developing UAS rulemaking recommendations for large UAS. The committee will have recommendations completed by June 2015. AOPA is on the committee.
In 2012, Congress passed legislation that requires the FAA develop a plan and integrate UAS operations into the National Airspace System by 2015. The FAA subsequently issued its UAS National Airspace System Roadmap that outlines a general plan for integrating UAS into the NAS by the year 2022.
In June 2014, the FAA published an interpretation of rules for model aircraft, which provides further guidance for model aircraft operators and distinguishes between commercial UAS operations and model aircraft operations by hobbyists. The interpretation was accompanied by a list of “Dos and don’ts of flying safely.”
Updated Tuesday, December 23, 2014
|
<urn:uuid:216e168d-e632-43fc-a710-bf7dd8b83e92>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/advocacy-briefs/regulatory-brief-unmanned-aircraft-systems
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.945297
| 610
| 2.609375
| 3
|
On the passivity-based power control of a doubly-fed induction machine
Tipus de documentArticle
Condicions d'accésAccés restringit per política de l'editorial
In this paper the stator-side power regulation control problem of DFIM is approached. It is shown how a passivity-based controller can deal with this problem establishing a viable solution from both a dynamic performance perspective and a practical implementation point of view. The evaluation of the presented scheme is carried out by considering typical operation conditions, namely: active power generation with demanded or delivered reactive power. Special interest is given to the rigorous establishment of the stability properties of the closed-loop system, which allows for achieving remarkable dynamic responses, in terms of convergence rates as well as the region of attraction of the equilibrium point defined by a given operation regime. From a practical viewpoint, the usefulness of the scheme is concluded by realizing that the requirements imposed concerning the structural features of both the generator by itself and the power converter required for its operation, can be fulfilled by commercially available off-the-shelf devices.
CitacióLópez-García, I. [et al.]. On the passivity-based power control of a doubly-fed induction machine. "International journal of electrical power and energy systems", 01 Febrer 2013, vol. 45, núm. 1, p. 303-312.
|On the passivity.pdf||1010.Kb||Accés restringit|
|
<urn:uuid:2cb958fc-bc03-49a1-8d47-e503d050d9c5>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2117/22060
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00560-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.770868
| 314
| 1.648438
| 2
|
Must-Read: I agree with Antonio Fatas here. The BIS is using model-building 0% as a discovery mechanism and 100% to advance reasons for policy conclusions that have been set in stone in advance. The problem is that the various BIS models do not appear to codify any form of knowledge–for as their predictions are proved false by time the responses not to adjust the framework to reality but to put forward to a new framework. The latest such:
BIS Redefines Inflation (Again): “An interview with Hyun Song Shin…:
…reminds us of the strange and heterodox views that the BIS (and others) have about the behavior of inflation… a very special and radical view on what determines inflation… supported by a unique reading of the data…. Here is a summary of the new BIS theory…. 1. Inflation is a global phenomenon, not a national one. Monetary policy has very little influence on inflation…. 2. The idea that monetary policy affects demand and possibly inflation is a ‘short-term’ story that is too simple…. 3. Deflation is not that bad…. 4. While central banks are powerless at controlling domestic inflation, they are very powerful at distorting interest rates and rates of returns for long periods of time (decades). 5. Central banks have a problem when inflation is the only goal (they end up creating distortions in financial markets). 6. Monetary policy is a cause of all China’s problems (he admits that there are other causes as well).
In summary, central banks are evil. Their only goal is to control inflation, but they cannot really control it, and because of their superpowers to distort all interest rates they only end up causing volatility and crises. And this is coming from an organization whose members are central banks and its mission is ‘to serve central banks’. Surreal.
We see this more and more with economists who try to come over to macro from modern finance. They base themselves not in Mill-Malthus or Wicksell-Keynes or Bagehot-Minsky or Fisher-Friedman, but evolve some approach of their own which usually seems to combine the errors of the early Say and of Hayek to produce sub-Econ-1-level fallacies…
|
<urn:uuid:2ff9b192-be6e-4932-bbcf-2971a563730f>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/must-read-antonio-fatas/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00046-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.94591
| 474
| 2.046875
| 2
|
How can a brand effectively cut through the competition and succeed in the China market F & B? From the scandals of national milk 2008 and the trough scams oil 2010, a mysterious floating pigs last year in Shanghai, saying it has been a challenge for some years the market for food and beverages in China is an understatement . issues of food security aside, there are also complexities of marketing in China. Because of the long history of Chinese food is intertwined with regional flavors and very different cultures, it can be a difficult task for brands to reach a wide appeal of their products with such different geographical preferences. An expert of the Market conducted a series of research studies consumer food thoroughly to extract conclusive data and reveal the top positive triggers that respond to consumers in China. The forward trend report 2014 Food is based on interviews with more than twenty experts recognized throughout the country food and a survey of Chinese consumers more than 750 adults.
Here are 5 tips to help you to market your brand in China:
Natural productsPromote natural options The importance of living a healthier life will have a greater influence on decision-making purchase of food and beverages this year. 41% of Chinese consumers say they are paying more attention to additives to make a choice club, ranking it as their number one concern ahead of fat (30%) and salt (13% ). Consequently, the research reflects this sentiment with consumers indicating that seasonal products (65%) and local products (55%) are important motivators in buying groceries. Over 55% of consumers surveyed said they buy organic food often or always do. This is especially pronounced for products aimed at mothers, where more than 62% say they inspected the labels of additives and ingredients before buying. The bottom line here is that if the product contains beneficial organic or other natural ingredients it is best not only to promote this in the usual channels of communication, but also on the front labels and back of the product.
Do not forget ecommerce
Like shopping e-commerce continues to gain popularity among consumers in China, marks that might have previously relied solely on traditional retail channels should consider strategies to promote and sell their products online. The most often purchased online are non-perishable products, such as cookies and chips, with four out of five buyers (80%) say online buy snacks. However, the market size for perishables almost half (47%) choosing to buy dairy products line and no slouch. For foreign products, there are several specialized websites oriented food import and tootoo.cn and yiguo.com that can be used to reach audiences special niche. Therefore, selling products on e-commerce web can be a great strategy to not only increase the amplitude of availability but also to provide further brand credibility and drive more online retail. The star power of celebrities and opinion leaders (KOL)
Trust is the key in F&BAlthough not all brands in China will be able to recruit a celebrity A-List to become its ambassador, the importance of defense factor of influence among the top positions high in building a marketing strategy. The popularity of the defenders remains extremely strong among Chinese consumers with nearly three out of four respondents (73%) say they are more likely to buy a product or visit a restaurant endorsed by a celebrity spokesman or other advocate, such as KOL . More than half (56%) of respondents say that these endorsements influence to buy food or visit the restaurants two to three times or more per month. Strengthen food safety claims through alternative methods. When you start to have a brand that consumer doubt about it, you are almost dead. For example this online Supermarket in this forum
check these videos it is uggly
As food security issues remain at the top of the minds of Chinese consumers, buyers are looking for multiple sources of information for their purchasing decisions. For foreign food manufacturers, the good news is that the origination is at the top of the list with 84% saying that the origin is extremely important in the choice of foodstuffs. However, discussions on social media reveal that there are some suspicions about the authenticity. Therefore ensure the safety of import channels is as important as the promotion of safety at the source. Second, the approval of the inspection government agency was also considered important by more than half (56%) relying on government inspections, so that any promotion of national certificates of inspection and approval can help increase trust in a brand. Finally, as recommendations from friends (34%) and online reviews (26%) were also significant considerations for consumers to make decisions about food safety has never been more crucial to have a strong online presence and build a social community of fans and followers.
Link to the lifestyle, traditions and family
70% say that cooking and eating out are extremely important for social life, therefore, communication of how a brand can help reunite friends and family as part of a social campaign and lifestyle oriented can be very shocking. Moreover, family traditions remain a driving force for consumers when they take decisions about what and where to eat. Almost three quarters (74%) of all respondents agree that approval by traditional recipes is very extremely important. Therefore links to traditional Chinese recipes and foods can help increase behaviors and buying interest.
|
<urn:uuid:d5779fd4-20dc-4342-a627-0f70b025c2d4>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://china-market-research.blogspot.fr/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719468.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00528-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.959159
| 1,035
| 1.640625
| 2
|
SAVING is about putting money aside somewhere safe but where you can get to it if you need it.
It should provide you with a cushion if something goes wrong - if you lose your job.. You should try to have three months' income in savings.. This probably seems like an enormous amount. The answer is to start small and build up slowly.
Here's a five-step plan:
1: Work out how much you can afford to save each month. Aim for five per cent of your take home pay.
2: Open a high-interest savings account. You can find details of the accounts with the highest interest ratesfrom www.moneyfacts.co.uk
You can put your money in a bank or building society account, National Savings, ISA (Individual Savings Account) or fixed-term account or fixed-rate bond.
3: Set up a standing order from your bank account to your new savings account for a day or two after payday.
4: Don't touch it.
5: It can make sense to open a number of accounts to spread your savings. If one underperforms, you have others which might do better.
|
<urn:uuid:be0b8856-4a3d-4d17-8421-ce7bfce4c2a0>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/start-small-build-up-your-3540462
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.933873
| 239
| 2.53125
| 3
|
At the northern edge of Jerusalem, on the main road to the Palestinian city of Ramallah, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms.
When construction at Qalandiya is completed in the coming weeks, the remaining gaps in the 8m (26ft)-high walls will close and those still permitted to travel between the two cities will be channelled through a warren of identity and security checks reminiscent of an international frontier.
The Israeli military built the crossing without fanfare over recent months, along with other similar posts along the length of the vast new “security barrier” that is enveloping Jerusalem, while the world’s attention was focussed on the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon’s removal of Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.
But these de facto border posts are just one element in a web of construction evidently intended to redraw Israel’s borders deep inside the Palestinian territories and secure all of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and to do it fast so as to put the whole issue beyond negotiation. As foreign leaders, including Tony Blair, praised Mr Sharon for his “courage” in pulling out of Gaza last month, Israel was accelerating construction of the West Bank barrier, expropriating more land in the West Bank than it was surrendering in Gaza, and building thousands of new homes in Jewish settlements.
“It’s a trade off: the Gaza Strip for the settlement blocks; the Gaza Strip for Palestinian land; the Gaza Strip for unilaterally imposing borders,” said Dror Etkes, director of the Israeli organisation Settlement Watch. “They don’t know how long they’ve got. That’s why they’re building like maniacs.”
At the core of the strategy is the 420-mile West Bank barrier which many Israeli politicians regard as marking out a future border. Its route carves out large areas for expansion of the main Jewish settlements of Ariel, Maale Adumim and Gush Etzion, and expropriates swaths of Palestinian land by separating it from its owners.
In parallel, new building on Jewish settlements during the first quarter of this year rose by 83% on the same period in 2004. About 4,000 homes are under construction in Israel’s West Bank colonies, with thousands more homes approved in the Ariel and Maale Adumim blocks that penetrate deep into the occupied territories. The total number of settlers has risen again this year with an estimated 14,000 moving to the West Bank, compared with 8,500 forced to leave Gaza.
Israel is also continuing to expand the amount of territory it intends to retain. In July alone, it seized more land in the West Bank than it surrendered in Gaza: it withdrew from about 19 square miles of territory while sealing off 23 sq miles of the West Bank around Maale Adumim.
Israel’s strategy is to “strengthen the control over areas which will constitute an inseparable part of the state of Israel”, the prime minister said after the Gaza pullout.
Last month, he told a meeting of his Likud party allies that it was important to expand the settlements without drawing the world’s attention. “There’s no need to talk. We need to build, and we’re building without talking,” he said. A few days later, one of the prime minister’s senior advisors, Eyal Arad, publicly advocated “a strategy of unilaterally determining the permanent borders of the state of Israel”.
The greatest impact of recent Israeli actions has been in and around Jerusalem, as Israel stepped up construction of the wall along the most controversial part of its route.
“What we are seeing is an acceleration of construction of the barrier,” said David Shearer, head of the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Jerusalem.
“Because of the barrier, Jerusalem is being sealed off from the rest of the West Bank. Movement in Jerusalem will be with a magnetic card and a sophisticated system of gates. The access the Palestinians have enjoyed to their places of worship, to some of the best schools, to hospitals is now going to be severely restricted.”
The concrete wall through Jerusalem carves out Arab enclaves in the city, restricts the growth of non-Jewish neighbourhoods and separates some 200,000 Palestinian residents from the occupied territories.
East Jerusalem will be further isolated from the rest of the West Bank by moves to link the city with Maale Adumim settlement using the barrier to mark out a boundary. The effect will be to entirely surround the Arab areas of Jerusalem with large Jewish neighbourhoods and to push Israel’s frontier almost half way across the West Bank, virtually severing the north and south of the Palestinian territory at its narrowest point.
Organisations such as the International Crisis Group say it could have potentially explosive consequences. “Current policies in and around the city will vastly complicate, and perhaps doom, future attempts to resolve the conflict by both preventing the establishment of a viable Palestinian capital in Arab East Jerusalem and obstructing the territorial contiguity of a Palestinian state,” it said in a recent report.
“The measures currently being implemented are at war with any viable two-state solution and will not bolster Israel’s safety; in fact, they will undermine it, weakening Palestinian pragmatists, incorporating hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the Israeli side of the fence, and sowing the seeds of growing radicalisation.”
In recent years, both sides have generally accepted that a negotiated agreement would leave the main settlement blocks close to Jerusalem in Israeli hands. Last year, Mr Bush wrote to Mr Sharon assuring him that Israel would not be expected to return to the 1967 borders “in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli population centres”.
But Daniel Seidemann, an Israeli lawyer fighting legal cases over the barrier, said the government has worked to make those realities on the ground as extensive as possible while foreign governments shied away from criticism of Mr Sharon for fear of jeopardising the Gaza pullout.
“It’s clear what’s happening. It’s clear the wall is used to designate the border that Sharon thinks he can get with the Americans,” he said.
Mr Sharon appears to be counting on continued silence from America and European capitals because he faces a general election next year that Washington would like to see him win over his main challenger on the far right, Binyamin Netanyahu.
The Palestinian leadership believes Mr Sharon has little incentive to negotiate because the Palestinians will not agree to surrender their claim to East Jerusalem or the large areas of land he wants to annex.
But Yossi Beilin, a former Israeli cabinet minister and a peace negotiator, said that a lack of pressure from Washington and other members of the Quartet overseeing the “roadmap” peace plan leaves Mr Sharon free to redraw Israel’s borders.
“The commitment to the roadmap is a big joke. It’s hot air all the time,” Mr Beilin said.
“I’m very pessimistic. I see the big gap between the speeches — how high the roadmap is on the agenda and how foreign governments say they have to deal with it — and nothing is happening on the ground. Nothing. Sharon just does what he wants.”
This article appeared in The Guardian, Oct. 18, 2005.
|
<urn:uuid:a77d91c0-8cc0-419a-8709-315c5d4534de>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/israel-redraws-the-roadmap-building-quietly-and-quickly-by-chris-mcgreal/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00344-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.946849
| 1,568
| 1.804688
| 2
|
Racism, one of the many types of discrimination, is the belief that different races have unique abilities or qualities that make them superior to another. Racism can be overt or covert, expressed through words, beliefs and/or actions.
International students face many types of discrimination when studying abroad. This includes comments such as being told to go back to their home country or even derogatory comments about where they’re from.
So, what are the types of discrimination international students may face when abroad and how can it be handled?
First on our list of different types of discrimination is linguistic discrimination, or ethnic-accent bullying. This happens when a person is treated differently based on his or her accent. For example, a foreign student may often be “‘heard,’ ‘seen,’ or ‘imagined’ speaking ‘bad’ or ‘low proficient’ English irrespective of their actual high-level in English”.
Joy Nath, a sophomore at Oklahoma University from India, shares his experience: “People will be like, ‘Oh my God, your English is so good’, and I’m like, ‘Did you expect it to be bad?,” Nath told OU Daily.
Students can play a role in combatting linguistic racism by acknowledging that international students come from different backgrounds and thus, have different accents; actively stand up for those who are singled out because of their accents, use the power of social media to raise awareness and call bullies out, and to be aware that any action, however small, helps.
What can professors do? Get to know their students’ different language backgrounds, assess them on what they’re actually being taught, provide those students with the chance to write in their own voice, work harder to understand multilingual students, encourage this behaviour to other students and raise awareness on campus when needed.
Second on our list of the different types of discrimination faced by international students are racial microaggressions.
Racial microaggressions can be described as “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioural, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative racial slights and insults toward people of colour”.
Marissa Naclerio, a senior at the University of Connecticut, experienced this first-hand. Naclerio claimed that her professor suggested that the only way to pass environmental legislation was to have a benevolent dictatorship, according to the Hartford Courant.
Naclerio, whose mother is Nicaraguan — a country that has an actual dictatorship — raised her hand and asked him not to use this term so lightly. Racial microaggressions tend to reinforce white privilege or systemic racism, and the best solution is to increase awareness of it.
There are several ways to deal with racial microaggressions: let it go, respond immediately or respond later. Harvard Business Review notes that the decision to respond immediately can be risky.
“Immediacy is an important component of correcting bad behaviour. But this approach can be risky. The perpetrator might get defensive, leaving the target feeling like they somehow ‘lost control,'” it said.
The decision to respond later is “A more tempered response is to address the perpetrator privately at a later point to explain why the microaggression was offensive,” said HBR.
Students can consider assessing their situation before choosing how to respond using “an effective dialogue”.
Since COVID-19, there have been reports of an uptick in racism towards individuals of Asian descent.
Why? COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China back in 2019. Since then, there have been countless reports and media accounts of assaults, verbal harassment and bullying towards individuals of Chinese descent in countries such as France, Russia, the UK and the US.
Zacky, an Indonesian student in Germany, experienced this first-hand when someone said, “Hey Chinese, Asian, why are you here?” while he was walking down the street in Berlin.
Puspa, an Indonesian student at the University of Bonn, claimed that she was walking home from a friend’s house on New Year’s eve when “someone threw a firework at me”. She was “pretty sure” it happened because she was wearing the hijab, reported DW.
If you’re faced with verbal abuse, try to stay calm. A verbal assault can escalate to physical violence, so if you feel your physical safety is threatened, find a safer place to be, such as a public place or even a police station. Sometimes, calling out on a verbal abusers’ inappropriateness can help.
Steve Whitehead notes on EMS1.com: “Try a response like, ‘That’s a very hurtful thing for you to say,’ or ‘Those remarks are highly inappropriate,’ or ‘I’m not going to engage in a conversation that’s profane or hateful’”.
If you witness a threat of violence, get a teacher or a person of authority to step in immediately.
|
<urn:uuid:d10c2d5d-3a55-467b-b991-5ca9e7ced0d4>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://studyinternational.com/news/types-of-discrimination-students/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00678.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.949938
| 1,098
| 3.78125
| 4
|
Cubbies will help you create great storage in record time. Putting together these open-faced boxes to build shelving for any room in the home can be an enjoyable project. Once a design is sketched and drawn to scale for a particular space, it's easy to buy or make products for quick assembly. Premade units come in a wide range of materials, ranging from mahogany to plastic. They work well in formal spaces to hold flowers, art objects or books, as well as providing effective clutter-control storage in utility rooms and garage spaces.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Challenging
Other People Are Reading
Things you need
- Closet remodelling magazines
- Organising-the-home magazines
- Sketch pad
- Graph paper
Design clothing-closet space for cubbies. Use graph paper to draw each closet interior. Draw space for cubbies to fit around defined space for hanging clothes on rods. Plan room for units of cubbies to hold stacks of sweaters, T-shirts and blouses, for example. Use cubbies in units of 12 to 25 sections to hold shoes. Get ideas from closet remodelling magazines and magazines devoted to organising home storage.
Measure bathroom space for storage shelves. Install three or four large cubbies, attached to the wall, to hold towels or art objects. Create a neat look in a bathroom with all-white walls by installing white vinyl cubbies, for example. Place a section of cubbies near the floor area to hold baskets or bins for soaps or supplies. Design cubbies to fit in a bathroom closet on the back wall facing the closet door. Install the shelving on the top half of the closet only, leaving the bottom section for a clothes hamper.
Organise the kitchen and pantry area with cubbies. Build a small system of cubbies on a kitchen wall to hold small indoor plants or vines. Use cubbies that match the finish of the kitchen cabinets. Install open shelving units of cubbies in a pantry room just off the kitchen for stackable canned goods or kitchen towels. Plan to add units of cubbies in a pantry room to organise pots and pans. Store individual pots, pans and large bowls in cubbyholes so they are easy to find during cooking.
Use cubbies to make the family room neat. Buy units resembling bookcases with defined sections for items such as books and media equipment. Stack DVDs or CDs in the shelving so that labels are easy to find. Create a shelf of cubbies to organise books and magazines, dedicating one cubbie to each family member to make it easy for everyone to locate personal reading materials. Use a deep basket tucked into a unit of cubbies to store small toys or playing cards.
Develop a storage system in the garage. Buy plastic cubbies and stackable bins to store clutter. Use a row of shelving with cubbies at floor level for garden boots and pet supplies, and another row on top of the first to store small cans of paint, car washing supplies and house cleaning products. Provide labels for each bin, so that family members can help maintain the neatness. Use a section of cubbies for storing newspapers to recycle or items to donate to charity.
Tips and warnings
- Buy cubbies made of smooth materials, such as finished wood or fabric-covered particle board, for clothes closets. Make sure the surfaces will not snag clothing.
- 20 of the funniest online reviews ever
- 14 Biggest lies people tell in online dating sites
- Hilarious things Google thinks you're trying to search for
|
<urn:uuid:478f5fdd-9468-4494-a0c2-07b9a7177cd2>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.ehow.co.uk/how_7666805_design-own-storage-shelves-cubbies.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00291-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.930477
| 738
| 2.078125
| 2
|
While the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has taken a toll on the global economy and job markets across many fields, Saint Leo University is helping students with valuable career support this month.
A Week of Making Valuable Connections
During the week of Oct. 19, the university is proudly hosting 'Serious Business: Connecting to What's Next.' This fully virtual event will feature a variety of practical sessions on career-related subjects. These include sessions on resume writing, the job interviewing process with mock interviews, and even opportunities for Saint Leo students to connect with employers through a virtual career fair.
Dr. John Lax, an assistant professor of marketing in the Donald R. Tapia College of Business, has been involved in organizing the event as he has done for several years.
"The 'what's next' part of the theme here is the important piece," Lax explains. "Even if things turn around with the pandemic sooner than expected, the job market is still going to be challenging for a while. That's why we wanted to build this unique event for all students."
A marquee session of the event is the virtual career fair. As of this writing, about 20 employers across multiple industries are planning to attend the online career fair. These include the Federal Highway Administration, Pasco County government, the New Orleans Police Department, Enterprise Holdings, Paychex Inc., and Vector Marketing.
"At this event, it's important to have a variety of employers attending so that students can meet employers relevant to their career goals," Lax explains. "We offer over 100 degree programs in a number of disciplines, so we want to make sure everyone can make at least some sort of relevant connection."
According to Susan Mickey, the executive director of Saint Leo University's Career Services office, the employers were selected based on several factors.
"Several of these employers have hired Saint Leo alumni before or have expressed interest in the high-quality alumni we produce," Mickey says.
She says her team has been running at full speed to make more headway in connecting Saint Leo students to prospective employers. One initiative launched in 2018 was Handshake, an online platform through which employers can list job and internship opportunities specifically to Saint Leo students.
"Since we launched Handshake, we've really worked hard to make more connections with employers across all fields," Mickey says.
Transforming Saint Leo's Business Week Events
Lax says big names like Jeb Bush and Tucker Carlson have attended these types of events in the past. But his goal was to start making the event more relatable to students.
"We've tried to make them more relevant to our students," he says. "We want them to walk away feeling more confident in their career search."
In the future, his goal is to include some type of pitch-style competition like the concept of ABC's hit TV show Shark Tank in which students would be pitching business ideas.
Virtual Experiences with Employers
According to Lax, the virtual format of this semester's event is more relevant than ever for students.
"Things may begin to normalize eventually, but companies are selling their office space, and many will likely move to remote workforces permanently since they've discovered the possibilities of this during the pandemic," Lax says. "That's why this virtual event is such a great opportunity for our students to get some experience interacting with employers virtually."
He cites the social work field as just one example in which many mental health professionals have moved to conducting remote therapy sessions with their clients. Saint Leo offers both undergraduate and graduate social work degree programs.
Career Services Events
Mickey's team has been planning three events for the week – a resume review workshop, mock interviews, and the virtual career fair. She explains how her team came up with these topics.
"The resume gets you in the door and the interview gets you the job," she says. "The mock interviews will help students get a feel for doing virtual interviews which are certainly different than in-person interviews."
She says that while many job interviews have gone virtual both before and during the pandemic, preparation is still critical.
"The importance of students being prepared for interviews has never changed and will always remain. The only difference is how the interviews are conducted," Mickey says.
In addition, she believes that Saint Leo University's core values can help job candidates stand out.
"Our core values align with the eight nationally recognized core values by many employers," she says. "This is why these values can be a big differentiator because if one of our students or alumni goes into an interview with them, the candidate will stand out more."
Connecting with a Successful Saint Leo Alumnus
Jorge Burgos, a 2007 Saint Leo alumnus and member of the Lions baseball team, will speak during the event as well. Burgos, who has become a YouTube sensation, is a highly successful international entrepreneur who runs a salsa and bachata dance studio and online video seminar firm.
"When he was a business administration major at Saint Leo, Jorge and his roommates started a barbershop in their residence hall which they ran for two years," Lax says. "We have many students who want to be entrepreneurs, so I know he will be a great fit for this event and is a fantastic example of how someone used their Saint Leo degree to go on to do great things."
Other Engaging Events During the Virtual Presentations
In addition, the Women in Business Student Club will host a panel with successful female business leaders from Tampa General Hospital, Rockwell Financial Group of Raymond James, and other local companies. Dr. Diane Monahan, an associate professor of communication and chair of the Department of Communication, Hospitality, Marketing, and Sport Business, helped organize the group in 2019 as the faculty advisor. Its current president is communication major Emily Prengaman. The group's mission is to provide a safe space for discussion on the female experience in the workplace and foster more opportunities for women in business.
Plus, there will be a student-led roundtable discussion hosted by the Dean's Student Advisory Council. This presentation will feature current students and recent graduates who have been involved in various student organizations within the College of Business. They will offer insight on which groups were most beneficial to them to help point other students in the right direction.
Finally, Dr. Kenneth Embry, an associate professor of communication, will facilitate a virtual networking event separate from the career fair through which students can mix and mingle with employers, faculty, and fellow students.
Advice on Landing Gainful Employment
Aside from attending this event, Lax offers up some wise words for students hitting the job market in the near future.
"The important thing for all students to realize is that it's a very competitive marketplace for jobs out there. As you walk across the stage – either in person or virtually these days –so are thousands of others across the southeast and of course many more around the country. If you want a job, it's not only what you know but also about those professional relationships you've made and will continue to develop."
How to Participate in the Business Week Event
All Saint Leo students, including those at University Campus, Education Centers, and online, are invited to participate in this Business Week event. Students should log in to their student Okta account and make sure they are registered with a Handshake account.
The career fair, mock interviews, and resume reviews will be held via Handshake. The networking event, Women in Business roundtable, student-led roundtable, and event with Jorge Burgos will be held via Zoom. Links will be emailed to all students, faculty, and staff in advance of the events.
Students who register in advance for appointments at the career fair, resume review, or mock interview sessions and complete their appointment will be entered into a drawing for door prizes.
IMPORTANT: Students must register for the career fair starting on Thursday, Oct. 15 to have the opportunity to book appointments with their employers of choice for one-on-one meetings. Log in to your Handshake profile from your Okta portal, click on the Students tab, and select the Handshake icon). Click on Events from the menu bar at the top and use the search bar to find the 'Business Week Virtual Career Fair' event. Select that event, then click on 'Join Event' to RSVP and to receive the latest updates on the event. After you RSVP, make sure to register to meet employers in information sessions or for one-on-one appointments.
For questions, contact email@example.com.
|
<urn:uuid:440ba113-c93f-4189-843e-221d1edc323c>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.saintleo.edu/about/stories/blog/saint-leo-hosts-unique-virtual-career-event-during-week-of-oct-19
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00273.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.967864
| 1,775
| 1.671875
| 2
|
How Our Government Is Trying to Scare Us into Submitting to Corporate Dominance
Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being monitored by the federal government. She knows this because when she read FBI documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through the Freedom of Information Act, she was startled to see a redaction that could only be referring to her. McLeish’s story is the story of hundreds of thousands of people—perhaps more—whose lives are being invaded by the state. It is the story of a security and surveillance apparatus—overseen by the executive branch under Barack Obama—that has empowered the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to silence the voices and obstruct the activity of citizens who question corporate power.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, said in a written statement about the released files: “This production [of information], which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI’s surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protesters organizing with the Occupy movement. These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America.”
The FBI documents are not only a chilling example of how widespread this surveillance and obstruction has become, they are an explicit warning by the security services to all who consider dissent. Anyone who defies corporate power, even if he or she is nonviolent and acting within constitutional rights, is a suspect. These documents are part of the plan to make us fearful, compliant and disempowered. They mark, I suspect, a government attempt to end peaceful mass protests by responding with repression to the grievances of Americans. When the corporate-financed group FreedomWorks bused in goons to disrupt Democratic candidates’ town hall meetings about the federal health care legislation in August 2009, Eric Zuesse of the Business Insider notes, “there was no FBI surveillance of those corporate-organized disruptions of legitimate democratic processes. There also were no subsequent FreedomWorks applications for Freedom of Information Act releases of FBI files regarding such surveillance being used against them—because there was no such FBI campaign against them.”
The combination of intimidation tactics by right-wing fringe groups, which speak in the language of violence and hate, with the state’s massive intrusion into the personal affairs of the citizen is corporate fascism. And we are much farther down that road than many of us care to admit.
“When activists took up relatively long-term residence in Zuccotti Park in New York City on Sept. 17 [in 2011], their message of outrage was a mirror to my own after we bailed out the banks with our tax dollars, then watched them get off scot-free without even a token attempt to help fix the wreckage they’d created,” McLeish told me over the phone when I called her home. “I personally lost considerable income and my retirement with the economic collapse, as well as more than half the value of my home. I could see the people around me struggling, too. I have friends, neighbors and family members that the banks refused to help, who lost their homes or were forced to pay for costly attorneys to defend themselves against fraudulent foreclosure attempts. People couldn’t sell their homes, as they were worth so much less than what they’d paid for them. Homes all over the area, including in my neighborhood right near the downtown [of Ormond Beach, Fla.], were abandoned due to the foreclosure crisis—and left to rot by the banks. Strip malls were emptied as businesses went bankrupt and closed their doors. More and more homeless people were wandering through the neighborhood—people you could tell had never been homeless, just by virtue of what and how much they carried with them. Families were sleeping behind big-box stores, and my area was featured on national news repeatedly for the number of homeless families."
"These are some of the things that prompted me to create a Facebook page for Occupy in my area in solidarity with the courageous activists camping in Zuccotti—the only group to fully give voice to what I saw as the issue: the corruption of pretty much everything from the economy to the environment to our social safety nets to our democratic system of governance due to corporate greed,” she said. “The message of OWS [Occupy Wall Street] resonated deeply and moved me to action.”
The FBI documents obtained by the PCJF show that government security services began to monitor the activities of Occupy activists before the Zuccotti Park encampment was established. They revealed that when McLeish met with about 40 other activists in Daytona Beach, Fla., several undercover law enforcement officers were present.
“None of them identified themselves as law enforcement to meeting attendees, though a Homeland Security agent approached me afterward, probably because I facilitated the meeting,” McLeish said. “When the agent approached me after the meeting, it was pretty unnerving. I decided the best way to deal with it was head on. I responded with, ‘I’m so glad you’re here! There’s a group making threats against us. I assume that’s why you’ve come.’ I think he was surprised. I don’t think he acknowledged knowing about the threats from an online gun group. He said he wanted to make sure we weren’t infiltrated by troublemakers. He asked if we’d meet with law enforcement to find out what we were allowed to do. I said I’d be happy to do so. He said he would check into the threats. He said he would put me in touch with someone from the Daytona Beach Police Department.”
“I can’t remember exactly when we met with Daytona Beach Police Department the first time,” she said. “It could have been the next day or the day after. There were about six or seven of us, and I think it was three officers: Deputy Chief Ben Walton, who is now retired, and two other high-ranking officers. If I remember correctly, I pretty much began the discussion by stating that we were aware of our right to protest. We would be glad to coordinate as much as possible to make the Police Department’s job easier, but not to the point of infringing upon our rights.”
“We agreed upon very low police presence—one to a few officers—on the basis of the threats made by the online gun group, but not for surveillance on citizens engaged in peaceful protest,” she said.
The daylong event she and the other activists held on Oct. 15, 2011, was attended by more than 300 people. The past president of the local NAACP chapter spoke, as did a leader in the teachers union who was also a member of the school board, a couple of members of the postal union, the leader of a homeless coalition who was homeless himself, and a member of the Daytona State College Environmental Club. A female uniformed officer was present. McLeish noticed a man with a professional camera taking photographs of individual protesters in the crowd. She saw him later the same day amid several police officers. One officer confirmed that the photographer was with law enforcement but would not give more information, McLeish said.
Daytona-area activists during the fall of 2011 continued to organize events, including sidewalk marches to banks. In most cases they notified the police in advance. At one big event, men in plain clothes and standing with folded arms surrounded a seated group as it held a teach-in.
“It was extremely intimidating, not to mention the effect on people walking by who might have joined us if it weren’t for these heavy-handed tactics,” McLeish said.
The local activists set up an Occupy encampment every weekend in December 2011.
“There were no incidents of any kind,” McLeish said of the camp in Daytona. “No one spoke aggressively to an officer at any time. No one drank or used drugs. We had clearly posted rules to that effect at the camp. There was no violence whatsoever, verbal or physical—as was the case with any event we organized, and we had quite a lot of them. Further, we clearly expressed that while we would act in accordance with our rights, we would not violate any laws.”
“Given the lengths we went to, you can imagine my dismay as I saw Daytona repeatedly mentioned in national news as one of the main areas under surveillance by the FBI, Homeland Security, as well as some unknown ‘private partner’ agency,” she said. “We were being investigated, according to the released FBI documents, as if we were a ‘terrorist’ group engaged in ‘criminal activity.’ I checked the released pages to see what could only be references to me—my name, age, and phone number. Though redacted, they indicate that any search of people connected with domestic terrorist groups is likely to turn up my name.”
Since the spring of 2012 McLeish has co-hosted a morning radio show called “Air Occupy” (also streamed online) with Liz Myers and Jerry Bolkcom. They have interviewed, among others, Alexa O’Brien, the organizer of US Day of Rage, and Carl Mayer, the lead attorney in the case Hedges v. Obama, a challenge to the indefinite detention clause of the National Defense Authorization Act. Immediately after “Air Occupy” posted on YouTube the interview about the lawsuit against the NDAA, YouTube permanently banned the radio show on the ground of “violating community standards”—a ban that usually is imposed for graphic, violent or gory images or pornography. According to YouTube’s guidelines, a poster is allowed three “strikes” before an account is terminated. “Air Occupy” had received no notice of “strikes” or warnings of any kind from YouTube.
McLeish worries about how being a target of FBI attention will affect her life. “Can the inclusion of my name and information on a federal law enforcement domestic terrorist watch list impact my ability to make a living and provide for my children?” she asked. “Can I be subject to retribution of some kind through the NDAA’s new provisions or to federal surveillance due to interviewing other activists or in addition to my involvement in Occupy protests? I can’t afford an attorney to protect myself.”
“What does such surveillance and militarized response mean for our democratic system of governance as more and more people in our country and abroad struggle to survive and are moved to protest stark economic inequalities, mass unemployment and unfair working conditions, and impoverished living conditions?” she asked.
|
<urn:uuid:079fa2a4-e4f7-49b6-884d-231a23623c0d>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.alternet.org/2013/01/how-our-government-trying-scare-us-submitting-corporate-dominance/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00276.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.979099
| 2,332
| 1.695313
| 2
|
The prevalence of dynamic-content web services, exemplified by search and online social networking, has motivated an increasingly wide web-facing front end. Horizontal scaling in the Cloud is favored for its elasticity, and distributed design of load balancers is highly desirable. Existing algorithms with a centralized design, such as Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ), incur high communication overhead for distributed dispatchers.
We propose a novel class of algorithms called Join-Idle-Queue (JIQ) for distributed load balancing in large systems. Unlike algorithms such as Power-of-Two, the JIQ algorithm incurs no communication overhead between the dispatchers and processors at job arrivals. We analyze the JIQ algorithm in the large system limit and find that it effectively results in a reduced system load, which produces 30-fold reduction in queueing overhead compared to Power-of-Two at medium to high load. An extension of the basic JIQ algorithm deals with very high loads using only local information of server load.
|
<urn:uuid:00d6a4e1-9758-4e13-849c-41e2242b86c8>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/join-idle-queue-a-novel-load-balancing-algorithm-for-dynamically-scalable-web-services/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.927938
| 209
| 1.851563
| 2
|
Yeshimbra Assa -- Ethiopian Chickpea "fish" and Sauce
This is traditionally served during Lent with a lentil salad and injera.
SERVES 4 -6
For the fritters
- 3 cups chickpea flour
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 1 teaspoon white pepper
- 3/4-1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons finely grated onions
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped garlic
- vegetable oil, for frying
For the sauce
- 2 cups finely chopped onions
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup berbere
- 1 tablespoon finely chopped garlic
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 teaspoon salt
Sift the flour, 2 teaspoons of salt and the white pepper into a deep bowl.
Make a well in the centre and combine 3/4 cup water, the onions and garlic in the well.
Gradually stir the dry ingredients into the water and onions and, when blended, beat vigorously with a spoon or knead with your hands until the dough is smooth and can be gathered into a ball.
If the dough crumbles, add up to 1/4 cup water, 1 teaspoon at a time, until the dough comes together.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough until it is about 1/4 inch thick.
With a small sharp knife, cut the dough into fish shapes about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide. If you like, you can use the point of the knife to decorate the top of each "fish" with scales and fins.
Pour oil into a deep fryer or a large, heavy saucepan to a depth of 2-3 inches.
Heat until it reaches 350 F and fry the "fish" for 3-4 minutes, turning them frequently until they puff slightly and are golden brown.
As they brown, transfer them to paper towels to drain.
Once you are done the fish you can make the sauce.
In a heavy 10-12 inch wide pan (it's best if it's non-stick), cook the chopped onions for 5-6 minutes until they are soft and dry.
Pour in the 1/4 cup oil and when it's hot add the berbere and garlic and stir for a minute.
Pour in the 1 1/2 cups water and cook until the sauce is slightly thickened.
Season with salt and then place the "fish" in the skillet and baste them with the sauce.
Lower the heat, cover the pan and simmer for 30 minutes.
To serve, arrange the "fish" on a platter and pour the sauce over them.
|
<urn:uuid:44043fb1-46f4-4caf-ad86-69da820ad805>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://ivu.org/recipes/african/yeshimbra.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00444-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.897959
| 549
| 1.664063
| 2
|
We have a duty to the reach out the hand of humanity to the Rohingya
Rohingya ethnic migrants in the Ujong Blang Beach area in Lhokseumawe, September 7, 2020, Aceh Province, Indonesia | PA Images
Four years after the Myanmar military unleashed a wave of violence against Rohingya civilians, there is still much more to be done by international governments to support and protect them
The suffering of refugees throughout history has been among the most cruel and persistent evils of humanity.
In the world today 65 million people are refugees or internally displaced, the largest number in recorded history. The situation could get even worse as global inequality becomes greater, and the climate emergency leads to more climate refugees.
Amongst the many refugee crises across the world, there are some that we seldom hear about on the news, and one of these - despite it being among the largest and fastest movements of people in recent history - is the Rohingya refugee crisis.
Four years after the Myanmar military unleashed a wave of violence against Rohingya civilians, killing thousands and burning entire villages to the ground, there are millions of Rohingya still displaced across the region. It is estimated that there are over 1.2 million in Bangladesh, over 100,000 in Malaysia, 200,000 in Pakistan and between 100–200,000 in India.
Whilst Bangladesh is hosting a million refugees, sadly, governments in countries such as Thailand and Malaysia have been very hostile to Rohingya refugees.
The scale of the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded in Myanmar is unprecedented.
According to UNICEF, an estimated 30 % of children living in the camps suffer from chronic malnutrition, and over 11% suffer from acute malnutrition. An entire generation is growing up without access to education, and babies under 6 months are among the most vulnerable and have malnutrition rates near 50%.
It is also deeply concerning that, sexual abuse, human trafficking, exploitation of children and violence against women have all been reported within the refugee camps.
There are also serious concerns regarding the fencing being erected around the camps, and it restricting the Rohingya’s legitimate freedom of movement and access to services. The UK should urge the Bangladesh authorities to urgently review their approach to security.
International efforts to support the government of Bangladesh, the UN, and international agencies in providing assistance must be scaled up and expanded to protect refugees.
Furthermore, the UN, partner organisations, host countries and the international community must increase its efforts and support to ensure that the human rights of the Rohingya are respected, and that this already vulnerable group are not left to go from one unsafe and dangerous environment to another.
The origins and the solutions to this crisis lie in Myanmar. The UK government recently imposed sanctions against two Myanmar military generals, which is a very important symbolical measure, especially for the victims. However, further and more meaningful action must be taken. The UK government should, for instance, prevent British companies from trading with companies in Myanmar that are connected to the military.
Until conditions that will allow for the refugees' eventual voluntary return in safety and dignity are met, the UK government must continue and increase its support towards the Rohingya, and intensify its efforts to bring a peaceful solution to their plight.
The UK government must also engage with UN, and the governments of both Bangladesh and Myanmar to stress the importance of including the Rohingya in discussions about their future. These governments have been largely excluded from high level discussions about their group’s future, which will not help bring about a resolution.
We have a duty to reach out the hand of humanity, to support and offer friendship to people who are going through the most disastrous time of their lives.
Jeremy Corbyn is Labour MP for Islington North
Get the inside track on what MPs and Peers are talking about. Sign up to The House's morning email for the latest insight and reaction from Parliamentarians, policy-makers and organisations.
|
<urn:uuid:38c68d01-12d4-4cb0-b601-62902e3f45bf>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/we-have-a-duty-to-the-reach-out-the-hand-of-humanity-to-the-rohingya
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00667.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.955057
| 793
| 2.75
| 3
|
In the Anglican tradition, to which we are heirs in the Episcopal Church, the pipe organ is the foundation. From prelude to postlude, the pipe organ leads Anglican liturgy. It draws the congregation into song with grand tones. With just a few pipes, it leads a delicate canticle at Morning Prayer or a meditative Sanctus at the Eucharist. An air-breathing instrument, the pipe organ's music humbles yet exalts us.
Martin Pasi of Pasi Organ Builders has designed designed and built the Opus 17 especially for optimal sound in the Trinity space. Everything to make all the parts in the organ, from casting the pipes to building the casework to carving the bone for the keys, was done in Mr. Pasi's shop. Opus 17 has 3 divisions, the Great (lower keyboard) Swell (upper keyboard; volume of this division is regulated by opening and closing swell louvers) and Pedal. There are a total of 27 stops (plus the Zimbelstern, a surprise gift to Trinity by Martin Pasi). Our organ has a mechanical action (keys directly connected to the pipes, like piano keys are to the hammers) with detached console, allowing for the organist to conduct the choir from the keyboard. The blower and bellows are located in the attic of the Sacristy, and are essentially silent. Mechanical (tracker) action provides the most sensitive, stable, maintenance free design, and has been used by the virtuoso builders of the great organs of Europe, many of which have survived for centuries and are still in use today.
Builder: Pasi Organ Builders
32215 8th Avenue South Roy, Washington
Dedication: May 2006
1 3/5' Terz
1 1/3' Mixture IV
8' Chamade (treble)
1 3/5' Tierce
1' Mixture IV
8' Octave *
8' Trumpet *
• Normal Couplers
• 58 note manual keyboards
• 30 note pedalboard
• Suspended, mechanical key-action, self-compensating for seasonal changes
• Electric stop-action with solid state combination system
Trinity first began to study the possibility of a pipe organ in 1994, when a group of interested parishioners began to look into the possibility of a small pipe organ in the original Sanctuary (now the Chapel). After the fire of 1998, the concept of a pipe organ as the foundation for Trinity's music program continued to develop as part of the Vestry's plans to rebuild Trinity Church, and the Pipe Organ Committee was formed to look into this in a more formal way. Knowing that the acquisition of a the pipe organ would not be possible until some time after the challenges of rebuilding the Church were met, the Committee recommended installing a Walker electronic organ for interim use in the new sanctuary. This instrument would eventually be moved to the Chapel to replace the Allen electronic organ that was lost in the fire.
Design and Fundraising
After completion of the new sanctuary in 2000, the Pipe Organ Committee began its work in earnest. Martin Pasi of Pasi Organ Builders in Roy, WA was selected as the designer and builder of our two-manual-plus-pedal mechanical tracker action organ. We signed a contract and made the down payment in September of 2001, anticipating delivery in mid-2007; this long lead time, necessitated by Pasi Organs' many commitments, was later shortened to delivery in early 2006. The Pipe Organ Campaign went into full swing in September of 2004, and raised all the funds needed to keep to the project payment schedule.
Birth of Opus 17
Tim Harrell and several parishioners traveled to Pasi's shop in Roy for the initial playing of the partially assembled organ on Thanksgiving Day, 2005, after which the organ was disassembled and packed up for transport to Trinity. The semitrailer truck arrived in Solebury on January 30, 2006, and the final on-site assembly of Pasi Opus 17 by Martin and his crew began (click here for the slide show). By Sunday, February 12, only a few stops were available, but organist Tim Harrell was able to began using the organ in the liturgical services. By March 26, nearly all the pipes were installed and voiced, and the organ will be complete in time for Easter services in April. The formal inaugural concerts and dedication are set for May 5, 6 and 7, 2006.
|
<urn:uuid:90bdcd46-e043-4dc3-a38f-bf7c25534a69>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.trinitysolebury.org/organ.php
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.956876
| 927
| 2.109375
| 2
|
Summary and Analysis: <i>The October Country</i>
The Man Upstairs""
Douglas has watched his grandmother clean, dress, and stuff chickens for her boarding house guests so many times that he imagines he can almost do it himself. He is quite interested in the sizes, shapes, and uses of a chicken's internal organs and wonders if he looks like they do inside. His life is merry until Mr. Koberman rents the upstairs room. One morning, Douglas observes Koberman through the multicolored glass window in the upstairs alcove and, for a moment, believes that he can see inside him. What he sees staggers his boyish imagination. When Koberman catches him spying, he gestures angrily at Douglas with his umbrella. Koberman obviously fears being observed through this glass, for he breaks the colored window and manages to blame Douglas for the accident. Later that day, after Koberman goes to his room, Douglas sneaks in, carrying with him bits and pieces of the broken window. He examines Koberman with a discerning eye. Then, with the same meticulous skill that his grandmother demonstrates with chickens, Douglas performs exploratory surgery on Koberman with a large kitchen knife. He discovers strange shaped and marvelously colored gelatin-like objects within Koberman's body, all of which he takes to grandmother for identification. Strangely enough, though, Koberman's death does not result from the removal of his "parts." Instead, it is the "stuffing" that Douglas uses, the six dollars and seventy cents worth of silver coins that he sews inside Koberman's chest that causes him to die.
Bradbury feels strongly that a writer is never able to write well about anything with which he is unfamiliar. He advocates writing from personal experience, and such is the case in "The Man Upstairs" because Bradbury considers this story a eulogy of sorts to his grandmother whose culinary skills were always a delight to him.
"The Man Upstairs" is another of Bradbury's macabre tales in which the normal world with all of its rules and behavioral patterns is confronted with a creature whose actions are antithetical to the norm. Bradbury's love of the carnival and his great delight in Halloween surely must have merged here to create Mr. Koberman. He is, indeed, not the normal kind of boarder at Grandmother's boarding house, but Douglas is the only one to realize this due to his childhood perceptiveness. Koberman refuses to use the table silverware, he carries nothing but copper pennies in his pockets, and his working hours are at night rather than in the day. Even the surgery that Douglas performs does not end Koberman's life, for just as in the deeply steeped tradition of vampire legends, Koberman dies from silver implanted in his chest.
The analogy between Grandma and her chickens and Douglas and the man upstairs adds a light touch of humor to this story and therefore prevents Douglas's surgical murder of the vampire-boarder from ever becoming heavy-handed horror, typical of many of the other stories in The October Country.
|
<urn:uuid:a5ae32e3-f10f-471b-b1ca-1c3a8db54fed>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/b/bradburys-short-stories/summary-and-analysis-the-october-country/the-man-upstairs
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.974545
| 644
| 2.3125
| 2
|
Central Agricultural University
The Central Agricultural University has been established by an act of Parliament, the Central Agricultural University Act, 1992 (No.40 of 1992). The Act came into effect on 26th January, 1993 with the issue of notification by the Department of Agricultural Research and Education (DARE), Govt. of India. The University became functional with the joining of first Vice-Chancellor on 13th September, 1993. The jurisdiction of the University extends to six North-Eastern Hill States viz., Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim and Tripura, with headquarters at Imphal in Manipur.
Like other Agricultural Universities, Central Agricultural University, Imphal has integrated programmes of teaching, research and extension education.
As per the mandate, the university has established different constituent colleges, namely: College of Agriculture (Imphal, Manipur), College of Fisheries (Agartala, Tripura), College of Home Science (Tura, Meghalaya), College of Horticulture & Forestry (Pasighat, Arunachal Pradesh), College of Veterinary Sciences & Animal Husbandry (Aizawl, Mizoram), College of Agricultural Engineering and Post Harvest Technology (Gangtok, Sikkim), and College of Post-Graduate Studies (Umiam, Meghalaya). Except for the College of Agriculture (erstwhile Manipur Agricultural College, Imphal), other constituent colleges of University came into existence after the establishment of University
|
<urn:uuid:ab2fc572-2354-453f-85a9-c26f37bc52c4>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.cau.ac.in/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.908336
| 310
| 2.296875
| 2
|
Respect the Green Line!
by Uri Avnery — Gush Shalom
The most incisive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have ever read was written by the Jewish-Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher. It consists of a single image.
A man lives on the upper floor of a building, which catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of a window and lands on a passerby in the street below. The victim is grievously injured, and between the two starts an intractable conflict.
Of course, no metaphor is completely perfect. The Zionists did not choose Palestine by chance, the choice was based on our religion. The founder of the movement, Theodor Herzl, initially preferred Argentina.
Still, the picture is basically valid, at least until 1967. From then on, the settlers continued to jump across the Green Line, with no fire in sight.
There is nothing holy about the Green Line. It is no different from any other border line around the world, whatever its color.
Most borders were drawn by geography and the accidents of war. Two peoples fight for the territory between them, at some point the fighting comes to an end, and a border is born.
The land borders of Israel — known for some reason as the “Green Line” — were also established by the accidents of war. A part of that line was the result of a deal between the new Israeli government and the king of Jordan, Abdallah I, who gave us the so-called Triangle as a baksheesh, in return for Israel’s agreement to his annexation of most of the rest of Palestine.
So what’s so holy about this border? Nothing, except that it’s there. And that is true for many borders throughout the world.
A border is established by accident and confirmed by agreement. True, the United Nations drew borders between the Jewish and the Arab states in its 1947 resolution, but after the Arab side started a war in order to thwart this decision, Israel greatly enlarged its territory.
The 1948 war ended without a peace treaty. But the armistice lines established at the end of the war were accepted by the entire world as the borders of Israel. This has not changed during the 68 years that have passed since then.
This situation prevails both de facto and de jure. Israeli law applies only within the Green Line. Everything else is occupied territory under military law. Two small territories — East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights – were unilaterally declared to be annexed by Israel, but nobody in the world recognizes this status.
I elaborate on these well-known facts because the settlers in the occupied territories have lately started to taunt their critics in Israel by bringing up a new argument: “Hey, what’s the big difference between us?”
You too sit on Arab lands, they tell us. True, before 1948 the Zionists settled on land they bought with good money — but only a small part of it was bought from the fellahin who tilled it. Most of it was acquired from rich absentee landowners, who had bought it cheaply from the Turkish sultan when the Ottoman Empire was in dire financial straits . The tillers of the land were driven out by the Turkish, and later the British, police.
Large stretches of land were “liberated” during the fighting of 1948, when masses of Arab villagers and city-dwellers fled before the advancing Israeli forces, as civilians do in every war. If they didn’t, a few salvos of machine-gun fire were enough to drive them out.
The inhabitants who were left in Jaffa after the town was conquered, were simply packed on trucks and sent to Gaza. The inhabitants of Lod (Lydda) were driven away on foot. In the end, about 750 thousand Arabs were expelled, more than half the Palestinian people at the time. The Jewish population in Palestine amounted then to 650 thousand.
Some inner voice compels me at this point to mention a Canadian-Jewish officer named Ben Dunkelmann, then 36 years old, who commanded a brigade in the new Israeli army. He had served with distinction in the Canadian army in World War II. He was ordered to attack Nazareth, the home-town of Jesus, but succeeded in inducing the local leaders to surrender without a fight. The condition was that the local population would not be harmed.
After his troops had occupied the town, Dunkelmann received an oral order to drive the population out. Outraged, Dunkelmann refused to break his word of honor as an officer and a gentleman, and demanded the order in writing. Such a written order never arrived, of course (no such orders were ever put in writing), but Dunkelmann was removed from his post.
Nowadays, when I pass Nazareth, a thriving Arab town, I remember this brave man. After that war, he returned to his native Canada. I don’t think he ever came back here again. He died 20 years ago.
Honest disclosure: I took part in all this. As a simple soldier, and later as a squad leader, I was a part of the events. But immediately after the war I wrote a book that disclosed the truth (“The Other Side of the Coin”), and a few years later I published a detailed plan for the return of some of the refugees and the payment of compensation to all the others. That, of course, never happened.
Most of the land and the houses of the refugees were filled with new Jewish immigrants.
Now the settlers say, not without some justice: “Who are you to despise us? You did the same as we are doing! Only you did it before 1967, and we do it now. What’s the difference?”
That is the difference. We live in a state that has been recognized by most of the world within established borders. You live in territory that the world considers occupied Palestinian territory. The state of Texas was acquired by the USA in a war with Mexico. If President Trump were now to invade Mexico and annex a chunk of land (why not?), its status would be quite different.
Binyamin Netanyahu — some now call him Trumpyahu — is all for enlarging the settlements. This week, under pressure from our Supreme Court, he staged the removal of one tiny little settlement, Amona, with a lot of heartbreak and tears, but immediately promised to put up many thousands of new “housing units” in the occupied territories.
Opposite political extremes often touch each other. So it is now.
The settlers who want to wipe out the difference between us and them, do it not just to justify themselves. Their main aim is to erase the Green Line and include all the occupied territories in Greater Israel, which would extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River.
A lot of Israel-haters want the same borders — but as an Arab state.
Indeed, I would love to chair a peace conference of Israel-haters and Palestine-haters. I would propose to decide first on the points they all agree on — namely the creation of a state from sea to river. I would leave to the end the decision whether to call it Israel or Palestine.
A world-wide movement called BDS now proposes to boycott all of Israel, in order to achieve this end. I have a problem with that.
Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace organization to which I belong, takes great pride in being the first to declare a boycott on the products of the settlements many years ago. We still uphold this boycott, though it is now illegal under Israeli law.
We did not declare a boycott on Israel. And not only because it is rather awkward to boycott oneself. The main object of our boycott was to teach Israelis to differentiate between themselves and the settlements. We published and distributed many thousand copies of the list of companies located and products produced outside the Green Line. Many people are upholding the boycott.
The BDS boycott of all Israel achieves the exact opposite: by saying that there is no difference between Israel within the Green Line and the settlers outside, it pushes ordinary Israelis into the arms of the settlers.
The settlers, of course, are only too happy to get the assistance of BDS in erasing the Green Line.
I have no emotional quarrel with the BDS people. True, a few of them seem to be old-school anti-Semites in a new garb, but I have the impression that most BDS supporters act out of sincere sympathy for the suffering of the Palestinians. I respect that.
However, I would urge the well-meaning idealists who support BDS to think again about the paramount importance of the Green Line — the only border that makes peace between Israel and Palestine possible, with some minor mutually agreed adjustments.
Israel is there. It cannot be wished away. So is Palestine.
If we all agree on that, we can also agree on the continued boycott of the settlements — and of the settlements only.
~ ~ ~
These announcements are interactive. Click on them for more information.
|
<urn:uuid:53388d78-c098-4da6-b628-0574e96a83e2>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
http://www.thepanamanews.com/2017/02/avnery-respect-the-green-line/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00670.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.978034
| 1,883
| 2.421875
| 2
|
A lump in the armpit can be quite daunting for some people. The growth of an armpit lump can indicate a few different things. Lymph nodes are tiny, oval shaped lumps that are present under your arm and throughout your body.
They assist with managing the functioning of your immune system. There is concern, however, when these lymph nodes start to grow in size.
The growth may simply be an infection from using deodorant; it could also be the result of an allergic reaction, or irritation from shaving or cysts. But there are occasions when a lymph node can mean something much more serious, such as cancer.
Causes of a Lump In the Armpit
As we mentioned, there are several conditions that may lead to armpit lumps. Most of the causes are harmless, but if the armpit lump becomes larger and doesn’t go away, or if you don’t feel any pain in armpit when touching the lump, then it’s important to have it checked out by a medical professional.
A lump in the armpit can have many causes, including:
- Bodily infections (e.g. mono or herpes)
- Viral, fungal or bacterial infections
- Reaction to vaccines or medications
- Cancers (i.e. lymphoma, leukemia, or breast cancer)
- Abscesses under the skin
A thorough examination by a doctor should provide you with an accurate diagnosis of the cause of your armpit lump.
What Armpit Lumps in Women Indicate
Armpit lumps can appear in both men and women. For women, a lump under the arm might indicate breast cancer. It is advised that women conduct monthly checks for lumps or growths on their bodies; preferably a few days after the menstrual cycle since non-cancerous lumps can sometimes appear during the menstrual cycle.
Recognizing Armpit Lumps
The first line of defense to treating an armpit lump is to recognize it. Being aware of your body and knowing when something doesn’t feel right is important. If you feel a lump under your armpit that wasn’t there a day before, then take that as a sign. That lump needs to be monitored daily.
If the lump doesn’t go away, or if it is growing, it is imperative to see a doctor for a full body examination. At this point your doctor will be able to have a better idea as to whether or not the lump requires treatment.
As previously mentioned, a lymph node can be harmless, but your doctor may also recommend to either have the lump removed or to send you for further testing. Testing could include an allergy test, a biopsy, or a mammogram.
Treating Lumps in the Armpit
Treatment for your armpit lump depends on the cause:
- Oral antibiotics: If the lump is the result of allergies or a bacterial infection, your doctor may prescribe oral antibiotics to make it go away within a few days.
- Treat the source of the allergy: If your lump is associated with allergies, it should disappear once you treat the source of the allergy.
- Home remedies: Try placing a warm compress over the lump to help ease discomfort—this is especially helpful for non-cancerous lumps. If your armpit lump is cancerous, treatment will likely involve surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.
When to See a Doctor
Armpit lumps may initially seem insignificant, but they can in fact be cancerous and require immediate medical attention.
Call your physician if you notice an unexplained armpit lump. Your doctor will gently touch the lumps and ask you a few questions about your current state of health and medical history to determine the cause. Questions you may be asked include:
- How long has the lump been present?
- Are you pregnant?
- Do you use antiperspirant?
- Does the lump hurt when it is touched?
Don’t attempt to self-diagnose the causes, speak to your doctor first about your concerns.
Source for Today’s Article:
Moore, K., “Armpit Lump,” Healthline web site; http://www.healthline.com/health/armpit-lump#Causes2, last accessed January 6, 2016.
“Armpit lump,” U.S. National Library of Medicine web site; https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003099.htm, last accessed January 6, 2016.
|
<urn:uuid:bbf19cb6-238b-4b89-bb91-254bcbfa3fc4>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.doctorshealthpress.com/general-health-articles/treating-lump-in-armpit/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00268.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.927834
| 976
| 2.5
| 2
|
Slang dictionary gibsmedat or gibs me dat [gibz-mee-dat] Published March 21, 2019 What does gibsmedat mean? Gibsmedat is a disgusting, derogatory term for social welfare programs and the people who need them. It is often used by racists to refer to black people. Related words moon crickets, Moon Man, manosphere, ignant, nawf, ratchet Where does gibsmedat come from? iStock Gibsmedat stereotypes a poor black pronunciation of give me that. It comes from a racist view that black people seek out handouts (à la “welfare queen”), as if they are demanding the government to “give [them] that” money. Gibsmedat can also disparage black people as feeling entitled to reparations for slavery. The term emerges online as early as March 9, 2011, when two people tweeted the term, one specifically citing it as a “black people word.” Great black people word… "gibsmedat" — Adam (@GreccoAdam) March 9, 2011 New favorite terms #gibsmedat and #dickin — Mike Johnson (@MRJTRKNG) March 9, 2011 Gibsmedat soon gained some traction on Twitter, also characterizing millennials as entitled, and the IRS as greedily demanding taxpayer money. After reading the child-like demands, I think "entitlement generation" should just be changed to "gibsmedat generation." #OccupyWallStreet — Leroy (@PixyJunket) October 5, 2011 @AnthonyCumia IRS = #GibsMeDat!! — Jarrod Ellis (@iJarrio) May 6, 2011 Gibsmedat spread in 2012 on explicitly racist internet websites like Chimpania to disparage both welfare users and black people generally. That year, a racist definition for the term was entered on Urban Dictionary. By 2015, gibsmedat was common on the controversial 4chan forum Politically Incorrect (/pol/), frequented by white nationalists. The term continues to be used on social media among white nationalists and racists. Gibs is stuff people want for free. As in "give me that." Also known as "gibsmedat" or the "gibsmedat industrial complex." — David Duke (@DrDavidDuke) June 29, 2017 Examples of gibsmedat you mean spics and blacks? they're liberal about gibsmedats but hate gay people for some odd reason. Anonymous, 4chan, October 2016 All forms of gibsmedat are only precursors to rioting and looting. Appeasing them is like getting rid of ants by pouring sugar in your house @MarkTimms, August 2017 Ben Garrison / Grrraphics.com SEE MORE EXAMPLES Who uses gibsmedat? Occasionally, gibsmedat sees some innocent use—as far as we can tell—as a playful and colloquial form of give me that. Gibsmedat 100 followers — I’m finna halfway there! — Randbot2020 (@randbot2020) February 3, 2019 However, gibsmedat is much more commonly used by racists who wrongly think that black people, Latin American immigrants, and poor people more generally are lazy, welfare freeloaders. As such, gibsmedat can refer to social welfare programs (e.g., gibsmedats) and their users. It's more rewarding. You never see any gratitude from the 'minorities' that you have to subsidise. Just more requests for 'gibsmedat'. — Sam Sheridan (@SamSheridan16) February 4, 2019 Any 'talks' in South Africa has one single memo on the agenda: gibsmedat whitey — Steve Hofmeyr (@steve_hofmeyr) September 6, 2018 Dear LiberalsTake your anger up with the DNC. They're the ones that stole the nom your gibsmedat candidate. Stop destroying our country. — Marie François 🐸 (@DeplorableMarie) November 12, 2016 Just Added grandfluencer, frito pie, walking taco, .5 selfie, pinkwashing Note This is not meant to be a formal definition of gibsmedat like most terms we define on Dictionary.com, but is rather an informal word summary that hopefully touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of gibsmedat that will help our users expand their word mastery.
|
<urn:uuid:b3e50045-cc77-44a7-83b4-0b0bcb0d83d6>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/gibsmedat/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00474.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.918179
| 935
| 2.15625
| 2
|
Your email account is an essential component of your online identity and yet it’s often the one left completely unguarded by most people. An email message may only be virtual but if it falls in the wrong hands, the consequences and damages can be very fatal. If you’re anything like me, you may have come across situations when you needed to send something very confidential but wondered if email is a secure enough channel. If you want to make your email message much more secure Virtru can help you out. It’s a small browser add-on and mobile app that lets you send secure emails using your existing email account and supports Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Gmail and other major email providers. Any message you send through your email address can only be viewed by intended recipients. Details after the jump.
Virtru is a multiplatform service. It currently supports Firefox and Chrome, while Internet Explorer and Safari versions are also on their way. Apps are available for Android and iOS, both of which give you many of the same options as their web browser counterpart. Getting it up and running is also a very straightforward process, as you can begin download directly from Virtru’s website.
I took Virtru’s Chrome app for a test drive and it worked like a charm. After grabbing it from the Chrome Web Store, and after signing in to my Gmail account, Virtru immediately asked me to activate the service when composing a new message. Upon clicking the activate button, it requires Google app permission after which you can begin using it. The good thing is that you can turn Virtru On and Off on the fly from within the compose message window.
When you send email through Virtru, it automatically encrypts your email message and transfers it through its own server instead of that of your email provider. The original email message is replaced with a link to the Virtru website where that message can be accessed.
Virtru has few additional options up its sleeves. The most interesting of which is the ability to set an expiry date for the message. It allows you to specify expiry time in minutes or hours etc., after which the message no longer remains accessible to anyone. Furthermore, you can disable message forwarding which prevents the user from sending the message to further recipient(s).
When Virtru is enabled, the ‘Send’ button in Gmail will be replaced by ‘Secure Send’ indicating that the service is currently active. This is also useful in a sense that you can specify which messages should be sent securely via Virtru.
Clicking ‘Secure Send’ begins encrypting the message and delivers it to the intended recipient.
You can visit Virtru via the link below and install it to your desired platform. And if you have anything to say on this review, leave your feedback in the comments.
|
<urn:uuid:b2158b0a-167d-49fc-b1e4-27a3b6ccc4e5>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.addictivetips.com/web/virtru-lets-you-send-secure-emails-from-gmail-outlook-and-yahoo-mail/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.922509
| 580
| 1.695313
| 2
|
Although LloydsTSB were mainly in the news yesterday for yet another of those glitches that seem so common these days, I was sampling some of their online ‘service’ while it was going on. There were glitches galore, but none of them were technical. The main problem was that the service was poor per se, and the people on the ‘Help’ lines were robotic to an almost worrying degree.
The automation of customer ‘service’ remains one of the great cons of the 21st century, but because the British people are so averse to activism in any shape or form, the risible level of online supplier responsibility continues…no doubt to the sound of raucous laughter in their boardrooms. Such behaviour also gets a big thumbs-up in the City, where knee-jerk neocons quote increases in productivity, falling costs, rising profits and happy shareholders as the reason why doing this makes sense.
It only makes any economic sense in a culture where most customers are so supine, some of these bandits could get away with anything; and the “whatever” culture we have right now in the UK is close to that level of indifference. But in a social sense, the cutting of jobs to make higher profits makes no sense at all. Today I want to try and explain why I think this – without leanings towards either Left or Right.
If you cut bureaucracy costs in the government/public sector of an economy, our experience to date shows that quite a large percentage of those laid off find work very quickly – and (if the economy is in reasonable health) they will almost all be absorbed into the private sector in due course. But we’re not talking about that – either in the UK or the US. Indeed, neither nation has done anywhere near enough to slim down some ridiculous levels of over-staffing in the public sector. What we are faced with today is neocon private sector economics using the spurious ‘efficiency’ argument to justify an approach likely to backfire on every level. To take the process stage by stage, using service automation as the example:
* Making service increasingly remote also increases the corporate temptation to display less customer responsibility, and has within it the potential to keep quietly and gradually over time making the service more and more skeletal in its nature.
* Automation of private sector service means jobs are lost that will never be replaced. They will never be replaced because the mercantile globalist model insists on non-stop cut-throat competition. These are lost jobs, period: and those laid off as a result of it will, in the end, lose hope – as Ben Bernanke has already articulated, despite President Obama’s disgraceful attempts to hide that reality.
* Lost hope has three results: increased welfare costs, increased policing costs, and community/familial breakdown. One can, in fact, interrelate all three factors by using the words dependency, alienation and innate criminality. Other unhappy byproducts include falling property values and rising extremism.
* As the cost of welfare and policing rises, so too do taxes. As taxpayers balk at this, police and welfare levels are cut. Not only does the social degeneration therefore increase, consumers paying higher taxes on less disposable income are less and less able to kick-start an economy in trouble. So QE is required to do that for them.
* It is at this point in the process that the Romneys of this world rail behind closed doors against the idle poor, while at the same time demanding more tax cuts to restart the economy. Convinced that they’re paying more and more for less and less, high earners turn to aggressive tax-avoidance schemes. Then when they run for President to keep this insane vortex turning, they try to hide how much they have stashed away, out of the reach of government.
* QE will, in the end, at first compromise and then destroy the currency’s value. Another vortex now swirls into view, in which rising raw material costs increase the price of added value exports, while increasing the cost of imported and home-made goods to the consumer, who therefore has less real disposable spending power, and thus is even less likely to restart growth. So we need more QE – and the killer-twister gets increasingly vicious until, in the end, it can’t be stopped at all….and hyperinflation ensues.
* More and more jobs are lost offshore, more and more draconian welfare and social order laws are created, more and more credit is taken on by the sovereign, producing higher and higher bond yields, and more and more unbelievable annual deficits. But squeezed-middle taxpayers become increasingly likely to vote for neocon snake-oil salesmen.
There is only one way that sort of blood, toil and sweat is going to end up: in tears.
I would be reassured if I felt the factory-standard Keynesians and Socialists in our varietal political elites had the answer, but they don’t: as blinkered in their own ways as the Friedmanite disciples, their ‘solutions’ are guided not by empirical analysis and the changed structure of our economies, but by polemics that should’ve been deemed archaic forty years ago.
I was asked by a long-standing American friend three months ago exactly who I would like to see running for President. Without much hesitation I answered “Elizabeth Warren and Ron Paul”. Not on the same ticket, but against each other. He laughed, obviously thinking the answer a confirmation of arch contrarianism. But to my mind, I’d be happy if either won, for these simple reasons: they are infinitely more concerned with the contentment of the populace, a life of personal responsibility, and the analysis of policy success than they are with the empty rhetoric that always accompanies ‘Party loyalty’.
Above all, they are both scrupulously honest and dedicated to the practical idea of a fair society.
There are several ways to stop the dystopian vortex process I outlined a pew paras ago, but unfortunately they all sit in the ‘difficult to very difficult to do’ spectrum. And as we all know only too well, that place is a stranger to the current crop of pols beneath whom we toil pointlessly. But to Hell with that, because at the very least we need to have some reasonably clear idea of what we’re going to demand of them…as and when things get desperate enough to radicalise every type of responsible citizen.
So taking the most difficult bits first, the underlying reasons why the West can’t get out of its spiral at the moment are as follows:
1. Monetarist global mercantilism is seen as the only game in town, and there is no powerful (or socio-commercially relevant) opposing view being put.
2. The idea of diversifying the means of financing capitalism away from near-total bourse dependence isn’t on anyone’s radar screen, and is too complex an issue for most voters to understand.
3. Sovereign government is busy selling out to the banking/multinational maniacs, because it lacks both the balls and the money to rebuff them.
And most crucial of all:
4. Everything that used to happen is seen as incapable of adaptation. Yet everything going on now is presented as the only possible alternative. But nobody has any creative ideas at all about how we can take the best of the past, reject the worst of now, and adapt to a future where nothing will be as it was. (I’m not being patronising, but you may well need to examine this summary of the adaptation/rejection/invention construct carefully and slowly. It took me five years to get to it, so I don’t expect everyone else to catch on immediately).
Let me give you a simple example of the last points there at 4. above. Any ideas about self-sufficiency for a sovereign or local community will be ‘framed’ by neocons in boo-terms such as siege-economy, open-toed sandals, retards, radical Greenpeace, and Piscean-dreamer bollocks. Whereas in reality, the idea adapts the agrarian economy to reduce import costs, rejects the idea of production-volume global price competition, and thus invents a new construct in which trade is important, but not deadly – or indeed highly likely to start World War III. (It would also, I might add, get a shedload of otherwise idle labour back on the land and out of the urban sprawl).
In the more immediate term – and some of these may sound longer term blue-sky stuff, but they needn’t be if we start a serious debate rather than getting bogged down in the ‘news’ headlines – here are some practical suggestions for the UK:
5. Stop immigration dead, right now – today, without exceptions. Tough and unfair, but vitally important. Withdraw from the EU entirely.
6. Slash Whitehall and local government headcount by 50% at least. Put a time limit of three months on its achievement.
7. Devise a headcount-to-profit formula for all banks and multinational businesses based in the UK. Lay out a level of personal (remote) service for any large organisation dealing with the public. Make it illegal to offer any mainstream internet service without clearly giving the option of talking to a human voice by phone or skype.
8. Do a ‘Domesday Book’ on every available square metre of land in the UK viable for dairy, wheat or vegetable farming, and bar any access to it for property developers.
9. Mutualise the NHS, and remove its management entirely from central or local government.
10. Offer massive tax breaks to any company of any size that trains a formerly unemployed person and invests in new plant and/or new product development.
11. Exempt every SME from local taxes.
12. Cut off any and all contact between monied interests, the police, and politics. Fund all political Parties through the State: this last I know sticks in every craw, but if you don’t want more of the same vile corruption forever, it has to be faced.
13. Make obliteration of Britain’s trade gap the sole focus of economic policy until such time as the country is earning a net living in real time.
* * * * * * *
Three interrelated considerations apply to all of these thirteen changes in policy direction: self-sufficiency, cutting unproductive costs, and withdrawal from global volume trade. For an island of our size that has foolishly cut itself off from Commonwealth goodwill over the last 42 years, they all represent what The Slog continues to call Radical Realism – in the absence of a better encapsulation.
I spent 35 years advising and guiding on marketing and brand communications. For anyone with even a third of that experience, it is obvious what the product brand ‘Britain’ needs to do: create an export niche for itself, and employ its spare population capacity on doing things at the moment done by those not of these islands. The exact remedy for the US is different in scale, but the same in essence.
What both countries suffer from is a tendency in recent years to believe in the smoke and mirrors of accountancy and finance, and the impracticality of cutting government-sponsored employment.
My answer to neocon and socialist critics of radical reappraisal is this: never, ever let blind belief override the need for real relief. Don’t let the ramblings of Marx convince you that nationalisation is good; and don’t let the largely untried theories of Friedman persuade you that wealth will trickle down. Instead, go off somewhere quiet and the results of seventy years of social anthropological study.
Our goal should not be the love of a convenient human trading invention called money, nor indeed the chimera of equality. The name of the game for sane human beings has to be the contentment of our species – alongside the survival of those familial, social, and planetary dictates that can enable such contentment.
|
<urn:uuid:89eca1b0-dfac-415d-b646-b8bb709ab511>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/the-saturday-essay-the-sovereign-shareholder-vs-citizen-contentment/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00231-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.949141
| 2,531
| 1.5
| 2
|
Abstract Problems and the latest achievements in the theory of spin-polarized quantum systems are briefly discussed. The current agreement with the experimental data is quite good, but the further improvement of the accuracy of theory is hindered by fundamental problems of the kinetic theory. One of the main goals was to go beyond the simplest Boltzmann equation and a rederivation of the improved versions of this equation for different polarized systems with the emphasis on virial, non-local and non-exchange terms. Some specific applications and boundary effects are presented. The basic problem for polarized dense Fermi-liquids is an applicability of the Landau theory to transverse phenomema. For dilute degenerate systems (e.g., low-temperature liquid mixtures of helium isotopes) the problem is how to go beyond the lowest approximations in density/interaction. Most of the attempts in this direction, especially with regard to superfluid transition in helium mixtures are still unconvincing; this transition remains one of the most intriguing problems of (ultra) low-temperature physics.
|
<urn:uuid:b66b26ef-10d7-4f8a-a309-9c090b562d3f>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/256f9f8a1361f599e8ea5599ddaf52da
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00064-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.914564
| 224
| 1.710938
| 2
|
6 Week Study Plan for CLAT
Day (1 – 7) Start your preparation
- The hindu newspaper(Continue till the end of exam)
- GK(Art and literature, Economics, Environment, Geography)
- Legal(Constitutional Law, Criminal Law)
- Current Affairs(Starting from June 2017)
Day (8 – 14) Complete GK and Legal Aptitude
- GK(History, Science, UN and International organization)
- Legal(Contract act, Law of tort, Legal Maxims)
Week 3, 4
Day (15 – 21) Logical Reasoning
Blood relation, Analogies, Direction Problem, Logical Puzzle, Fact, Inference and Judgement; Syllogism; Clocks and Calendar; Logical deduction; Coding and Decoding; Assertion and Reasoning; Cause and Effect; Strengthening and weakening arguments; Statement, assumptions and Conclusions.
Day (22 – 28) Verbal Ability
Reading comprehension, Basic grammars, Direct and Indirect Speech, Cloze Test, Idioms and Phrases, Jumbled Paragraphs, Active and Passive voice, Fill in the blanks Sentence fillers, Error spotting, One word substitution, Sentence improvements)
Day (29 – 35) Quantitative Aptitude
Basic Math, Age Problems, Averages, Ratio and Proportions; Speed and Distance and Time; Fraction and percentage, profit and loss, TIme and Work, Simple and Compound interests)
Day (36 – 42) Start Revision and Solve Past Papers
- Solve Past Papers.
- Revise GK and Legal Aptitude.
- Memorize math Formulae.
Day (43 – 49) Practice Mock Tests
- Attempt 3 Mock Test Every day.
- Analyze the performance in the test.
- Focus on improving score in each test.
- Revise all concepts.
- Continue this for last 1 week.
|
<urn:uuid:0e6b61f2-2044-404d-8461-e17c2b290bf4>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.delhilawacademy.com/home/online-clat-coaching/study-plan-clat-entrance-exam/6-week-study-plan-clat/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00478.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.757074
| 427
| 2.71875
| 3
|
People do not always recognise the signs of dementia
People suffering from memory loss need to act more quickly in seeking medical advice, experts warn.
The Alzheimer's Society said up to two-thirds of people in England with dementia are never diagnosed as they do not recognise the symptoms.
The charity is giving GPs in England posters and leaflets to raise awareness about the issue and a toolkit to support diagnosis.
It is estimated by 2025 over 1m people in the country will have dementia.
The Department of Health is backing the Alzheimer's Society campaign to raise public awareness of symptoms and the importance of an early diagnosis.
Health Minister Ivan Lewis said: "Dementia is now one of the most significant health challenges facing our society.
"That is why we are determined to bring dementia out of the shadows."
Currently 700,000 people in the UK live with the disease and one-in-three people over the age of 65 will die with it.
WHEN TO SEEK HELP
Do you struggle to remember recent events while finding it easy to recall things that happened in the past?
Do you find it hard to follow conversations or programmes on TV?
Do you regularly forget the names of friends or everyday objects?
Do you find it difficult to recall things heard, seen or read?
Do you struggle to make decisions?
Do you repeat yourself in conversation or lose the thread of what you are saying?
Do you have problems thinking and reasoning?
Do you feel anxious and depressed or angry about forgetfulness?
Do other people comment on your forgetfulness?
There are more than 100 different types. Alzheimer's disease is the most common type, affecting 62% of those diagnosed. Others include vascular dementia and mixed dementia.
For those who do report their symptoms to the GP, it takes an average of nearly three years for a diagnosis from first noticing symptoms, the Alzheimer's Society said.
Neil Hunt, its chief executive, said: "There is an acute lack of awareness and understanding of dementia.
"By encouraging people who are worried about their memory problems to seek medical advice sooner than they might have done, we hope more people with dementia can get care early on, giving them a greater chance to live life as well and as fully as possible."
He added that people could reduce their risk of dementia by cutting down on salt, eating lots of fruit and vegetables, keeping active and watching their weight.
A recent study by the National Audit Office found only 30% of GPs feel that they have enough basic information and training to diagnose and manage the disease.
Professor Steve Field, chair of the Royal College of GPs, said it could be hard to diagnose dementia but patients would be encouraged to visit their GP if they had concerns.
"There are treatable causes of memory loss and GPs are always happy to see patients who are concerned and we can reassure them and if not we can offer treatment and support."
|
<urn:uuid:e8172fe3-5240-470e-9d3b-df3e9d8d4823>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7423975.stm
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00199-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.960949
| 599
| 2.71875
| 3
|
One of the signs of a great leader, to me, is when someone isn’t afraid of admitting their mistakes. When they can be real, open and honest instead of trying to hide behind their title or position as if it exempts them from being human.
We all make mistakes. We all fall short sometimes. It’s natural.
But when we do, we should fess up to it. That means doing so proactively as well. Not just waiting, hoping no one will notice but instead being forthright even before the cat gets out of the bag.
Admitting mistakes isn’t a sign of weakness or incompetence, unless you find yourself admitting the same mistakes over and over.
It’s a sign of humility and strength.
When we admit our mistakes we’re also building trust with those who we serve.
No one likes to hear bad news or that something didn’t go as planned but the hard truth is far better than the cowards lie.
|
<urn:uuid:62bf050e-b50f-4b64-b1c5-af4c7e91a561>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.danieldecker.net/real-leaders-admit-mistakes/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00243-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.953166
| 208
| 1.539063
| 2
|
Dimensions: 20.3cm x 17.7cm
Join Darrell Rivers and her friends as they work hard and play harder while studying at Malory Towers boarding school. This collection brings together all 12 books in the classic series, which was written by Enid Blyton (the first six books) and continued by Pamela Cox.
Darrell starts studying at the prestigious boarding school by the sea and it's not long before she's forming close friendships and working and playing hard. These charming novels follow Darrell from her first term all the way to her last term.
With beautifully traditional cover artwork and a superb slipcase, this exclusive collection follows Darrell as she makes new friends and enemies, gets up to all kinds of mischief and prepares for a Christmas concert.
- New Term at Malory Towers
- Fun and Games at Malory Towers
- Winter Term at Malory Towers
- Summer Term at Malory Towers
- Last Term at Malory Towers
- In the Fifth at Malory Towers
- First Term at Malory Towers
- Second Form at Malory Towers
- Upper Fourth at Malory Towers
- Third Year at Malory Towers
- Goodbye Malory Towers
- Secrets at Malory Towers
|
<urn:uuid:39aa239e-c8ee-4154-86cd-d903cf98016e>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://littlebookworm.com.my/bestselling-books-for-ages-8/enid-blyton-s-malory-towers-collection-12-books
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00673.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.93165
| 268
| 1.53125
| 2
|
Keysoe Mill stood at Brook End, and is shown on the Bryants map 1825/26. The photograph was taken in 1931. The mill had an unusual fox weathervane, with its brush to the wind. A mill is recorded in 1765 on the same site. It is possible the earlier 13th and 14th century mills were also on this site.
Edward Peacock owned the mill in 1848. James Green was miller in 1864, followed by his son Frederick Green, 1890-1906, who was also tenant at Riseley Mill at the same time.
John Filsell took over the mill about 1915, and was still running it in 1931. Soon after that it was blown down during a storm.
|
<urn:uuid:0a29e594-b9b7-4f61-aecd-09af535701a7>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://colmworthhistory.org.uk/keysoe-mill/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00468.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.991509
| 152
| 1.90625
| 2
|
Support a West Side Linear Trail
Did you know? The City of Bozeman wants to connect Fowler Avenue with Davis Street through pristine areas filled with old-growth trees and wildlife. This road could be as large as 5 lanes that will destroy quiet neighborhoods, decimate natural habitats, and tank property values.
Instead of a noisy, dangerous road, let's use this land to connect the Regional Park with Bozeman Ponds and beyond with a west side version of the Gallagator- an outstanding connector with limited vehicle intrusion.
The west side Gallagator could connect us to existing grocery stores, restaurants, and the post office. It could also be the framework from which other important destinations can be planned for in the future, such as a designated space for a farmer's market. Residents of the west side won't need to always drive to the east side for these amenities- they can walk or bike along our beautiful Fowler Trail!
In short, let's make a commitment to walkability and livability for ALL of us and set a precedent that the people of Bozeman are willing to stand up for what's right and good for people, the animals, and the climate. Let's have a better vision for growth.
You can help by:
- Signing this petition
- Attending the Transportation Board Meeting on Wednesday, July 27, 6 pm at the City Hall Building: 121 N Rouse Ave (we need a lot of people to let them know this is important to many residents!)
- Attending the City Commission Meeting on Tuesday, August 2nd, 6 pm at the City Hall Building: 121 N Rouse Ave
|
<urn:uuid:6dce9e5d-f12b-4f6b-9afc-1abe3ca3962f>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/support-a-west-side-linear-trail
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00264.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.951745
| 333
| 1.734375
| 2
|
THE OFFIX'S COMMITMENT TO GDPR
Control over personal data is a fundamental right of every individual. With organizations across the world collecting customer data to enable them to provide services, it becomes important that companies manage data in a transparent manner with the customer’s consent.
GDPR, stands for“General Data Protection Regulation”. It is one of the most important changes made to data privacy regulations in the last two decades. It establishes a new framework for handling and protecting the personal data of EU-based residents and is in effect since May 25, 2018. It provides the citizens of the EU greater control over their personal data and assures them that their information is protected.
DOES GDPR AFFECT YOU?
Although GDPR is a data protection framework for the citizens residing in the EU, it also applies to all companies that handle personal data of individuals from the EU. This means that almost every major corporation in the world had to be ready when GDPR came into effect. If you or your organization stores and processes personal data in connection to services or goods offered in EU, then the laws applies to you as well. Also, in the the event of infringement of these laws, you can face fines and penalties from 10million to 20 million dollars or 2% to 4% of the annual revenue of the organization depending upon whichever is higher.
OUR COMMITMENT TO GDPR
We are fully GDPR compliant since the 25th of May 2018. Over the past few years, multiple internal teams have been working towards making sure that we are aligned to the GDPR framework. Also, we’ve built product features for greater privacy and data control. As an organization, The Offix has always implemented and practiced processes which ensure that customer data is stored and processed in ways necessary only to serve our customers in the best possible way. Our privacy, security and data storage policies are also streamlined with the GDPR goals and objectives.
OUR INITIATIVES TO BE GDPR COMPLIANT
The Offix is committed towards upholding the underlying principles of GDPR and here are some of the initiatives we’ve undertaken.
Customers' personal data with The Offix
Privacy by design and default
Programs, projects, and processes at The Offix are aligned to Privacy Principles right from the inception of an idea or project, thereby supporting Privacy by Design and Default principles.
Right to be forgotten
The Offix lets you delete customer data permanently.
Right to portability
The Offix supports export request from customers.
In case you have any GDPR and/or privacy related questions, please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org.
|
<urn:uuid:001d3145-75d3-4ccb-bb06-be7f99560b4f>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://lobbipad.com/en/gdpr
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00070.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.917087
| 711
| 1.6875
| 2
|
What is Hatha Yoga: Unfortunately, in the western part of the world, if you pronounce the word “yoga”, people think you have to turn yourself around like rubber bands or stand on your head. Yoga is not a form of exercise. The word “yoga” means union. Today, modern science has proven that the whole existence is only energy.
So if all this is energy, why don’t you enjoy it? If you break the boundaries of the illusion that you are separate and begin to experience the oneness of existence, it is yoga. The world’s religions have always talked about God being everywhere. Is it different if you say that God is around or that everything is energy?
The same reality. When it is deducted mathematically, we call it science. If you believe it, we call it religion. If you find a way to get there, we call it yoga. So what is yoga, what is not yoga? There is no such thing.
The Meaning of Hatha Yoga
Hatha yoga has not changed for thousands of years. However, our thinking and feeling about it are there. Language is a powerful thing, and different cultures may have other definitions for the same word. Throughout the evolution of Yoga practice, the same name – Hatha – also refers to different things.
In the popular thought ‘in the West’ (now the most common expression), Hatha Yoga balances body and mind. ‘Ha’ refers to the deep sun and ‘tha’ to the moon. The practice of Hatha Yoga aims to join, yoke or balance these two energies.
A yoga class described as ‘hatha’ usually includes body postures (yoga poses) and breathing techniques. These are typically practiced much slower and with a more stable posture than the Vinyasa flow or Ashtanga class. We describe our Hatha Yoga classes in Befitness Hub.
However, Hatha means ‘power’ and is traditionally defined as ‘yoga of power’ or ‘methods of attaining yoga status through power’. So Hatha Yoga can be considered anything you can do with the body,
- Asana – yoga postures (practised in any style of ‘yoga’)
- Pranayama – breathing techniques
- Mantra – chanting or reciting
- Mudra – hand gestures
- Shatkriyas and Shatkarmas – cleansing techniques
Mark Singleton, the author of ‘Yoga Body’ and a senior research member at the University of SOAS London, spoke at a lecture I attended. He noted; “It simply came to our notice then. It doesn’t matter what one does, isn’t it all normal?”.
How Hatha Yoga is different from other styles?
Hatha Yoga is an ancient yoga practice, with many variations on other modern yoga styles:
- Asanas are placed evenly for 1-5 minutes. Most of the modern techniques are dynamic, and the grip is only brief.
- Metabolism slows down compared to other yoga styles.
- In Hatha, the focus of the asanas is on the internal organs and spine, while in other styles the focus is on the muscle groups and joints.
- The body goes through less wear and tear compared to other styles.
- It requires less oxygen compared to other styles.
- In Hatha, more emphasis is placed on peace of body and mind than movement.
Top Hatha Yoga Books:
There are many books on the subject, but the most popular are:
- Hatha Yoga Pradipika
- Patanjali Yoga Sutras
- Hatha Yoga for Teachers & Practitioners
- Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga
10 Best Hatha Yoga Poses:
There are 84 traditional Hatha Yoga poses. Most Popular Poses:
- Headstand Shirshasana
- Sarvangasana (shoulderstand)
- Halasana Plow Pose
- Matsyasana Fish Pose
- Gomukhasana Cow Face Pose
- Paschimottanasana (seated forward bend pose)
- Bhujangasana Cobra Pose
- Mayurasana Peacock Pose
- Natarajasana Dancer Pose
- Vrikshasana tree pose
Swami Sivananda Hatha Yoga
In per-independence India, the practice of yoga asana was practiced only by monks and nuns. In 1936, Swami Sivananda wanted to make the practice of Hatha Yoga accessible to the general public. Thus they can improve physical and mental health. Swami Sivananda taught a simple yoga asana sequence, popularly known as the ‘Rishikesh sequence’, with relatively short grip and simple postures.
Swami Sivananda developed the five practices of yoga without explaining the profound philosophical aspect of yoga. Together, these points lead to a balanced and yoga lifestyle:
- Proper Exercise: A healthy body is essential for balance in mind. The practice of yoga looks consistent and comfortable; it is the perfect way to work on strength, endurance and flexibility. When practicing according to ancient principles, we simultaneously (equally) balance the nervous system as well.
- Proper breathing: The mind can be controlled through conscious breathing. Therefore, there is a wide range of breathing techniques in yoga. When mastered, the whole breath is effortless.
- Proper relaxation: It is essential to rest the body regularly, allowing it to recover from the effort. Vacation involves not only the body but also the senses.
- Proper diet: Healthy nutrition is essential to provide energy to the body and mind. It should be adequate, but not disturbing or harmful. The yogic diet is mostly vegetarian because it can be prepared without unnecessary violence.
- Positive Thinking and Meditation: The way we think affects our mind. Therefore, the practice of positive thinking and meditation is very important to develop balance in mind.
What to Expect in a Hatha Yoga Class?
While Hatha Yoga is an all-encompassing word, you can still find Hatha-appointed classes for all levels and skills in yoga studios, and you can pick up the title to understand that this is a well-rounded practice, says Rideaux. Compared to fast-paced acrobatics classes and slow-paced, in-depth stretching classes, Hatha Yoga classes are a fun medium, injecting elements from various styles.
“I think Hatha Yoga allows the teacher a little more freedom to play with what they offer in that space,” he says. For example, one Hatha Yoga instructor may suggest unobstructed, but gentle, movement between the asanas. At the same time, another may insist on holding each posture for a few breaths for the next one.
No matter how relaxed or energetic it is, every 60 to 90 minute Hatha Yoga class has a curve similar to your regular one day. When you start your morning with a strong cup of coffee, Hatha Yoga classes begin to lift the body with asanas such as baby pose, cat-cow pose and spinal twists. Keep the body warm and relaxed by sun salutations, forward folds or downward-facing dogs, towards the most challenging posture of the day (think: warrior, tree pose or vice versa).
After hitting that peak, you begin to cool the body and mind with asanas such as sitting forward folds and bound angle pose, eventually ending the procedure with a savasana (corpse pose), Rideaux explains. If you are worried about the idea of having to put your head behind your head or do a handstand vigorously, take a deep breath as those seats are reserved for intermediate and advanced classes, he adds.
As the asanas vary from class to class, breathing will always be emphasized, and the instructor will guide you through each breath, ensuring it is in sync with your movement. Not only does this attachment help to awaken the muscles, but it also acts as a moving meditation for the body, and helps to calm your mind even after you roll your mat, says Rideaux.
“If I can learn to breathe in the challenging forms presented on the mat, all of a sudden it starts to follow me off my mat,” he says. “Next time I’m in a difficult situation in my life. Hopefully, I know how to breathe through it and be with it.
What are the health benefits?
Some research focuses specifically on the benefits of Hatha. However, most of those studies use the term umbrella for Hatha (i.e., focusing on slower pace and alignment) than yoga.
- Less anxiety: The results of the 2016 meta-analysis of 17 studies (501 patients) provide preliminary support for Hatha as a treatment for anxiety.
- Better balance: A small 2014 study involving 34 men found that those who completed a five-month hatha yoga program were able to better their postural control. Based on those results, the teachers conclude that Hatha yoga practice can improve physical balance.
- Fitness improvements: A 2015 study of Chinese adults discovered that a 12-week hatha yoga program positively affected several fitness components, including cardio endurance, muscle strength and endurance, and flexibility.
And beyond these studies, there’s a ton of research on the benefits of Yoga in general, including data that suggests its ability to treat pain, lower BMI and blood pressure, reduce menopausal symptoms, help manage chronic diseases, improve mental health, and more.
It also can impact your endurance. “Yoga makes you very movable and very capable. You get to be strong in not just one direction, but everything you can imagine doing in every direction without tiring,” says co-founder of Strala Yoga Michael Taylor in mbg’s Complete Guide to Yoga class.
Guidelines for your Holistic Hatha Yoga Practices
How can you translate these principles into your Hatha Yoga asanas practice and get the maximum benefits from this ancient science? One of the primary (and sadly often forgotten) principles today is the principle of the sthira sukham asanam. This definition of asana says that an asana is a pose in which you experience comfort and stability in each pose.
It is often said in our modern practices that asanas should be practiced with a goal in mind. We have to be deep in a posture, or we have to fill our balance. But when we understand the ancient science of Hatha Yoga, we know that in all yoga practices we should return to “Sthira Sukham Asanam” or “Asana is a stable and comfortable pose”.
Purpose and Relief:
This simple phrase is about how we should observe our asanas and how we can move on in life. We need to be consistent in our practice and our purpose in our lives and be comfortable with who we are. Yoga can be the greatest gift the world has to offer right now: the opportunity to be at ease with who we are and our place in the world. Balance and compassion can only grow from this place of acceptance.
To achieve comfort and ease in a pose, it is essential to adjust your practice skills. In terms of strength, it means you can gradually increase the loads. This also applies to flexibility. Therefore, each pose has different steps and options. When you hold a pose for a long time, you may move on to the next stage or the next stage of difficulty. It transforms Hatha Yoga into a gradual transformation process.
Ahimsa – the principle of kindness in Hatha Yoga
Philosophical Principles from the Yamas:
Ahimsa, or non-violence, is beautifully reflected in such a transformative practice. You have to be more discriminating with the help you render toward other people. Instead of focusing on the shape and forcing your body into the pose, it is better to make sure your body is still comfortable enough. Practicing patience for a long time can take you to a place where you feel comfortable in a more advanced pose. But remember: this advanced pose is not the goal!
In the end, unlike the image of yoga that dominates today, yoga is not just about poses. Its roots can be found in ancient philosophy, which focuses on self-realization. Correspondingly yoga practice can lead to mental, physical and spiritual balance. Ultimately, Hatha Yoga is a discipline that aims to develop an understanding of the true self.
|
<urn:uuid:1cd9490c-973f-47d1-9f36-9bb1a71e19d8>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://befitnesshub.com/what-is-hatha-yoga/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.938426
| 2,606
| 2.375
| 2
|
January Meeting Recap
SBE held its Board meeting January 13 and 14, and discussed rulemaking, basic education reporting, the upcoming legislative session, mastery-based learning, graduation pathway options, and more. You can find documents from the meeting on SBE’s Simbli page. Find links to recordings (streamed by TVW) on SBE’s meetings page.
Basic Education - The Board approved of 212 districts for compliance with minimum basic education requirements at its December Board meeting. The remaining 77 districts were approved at the January Board meeting.
- Exhibit A: Approval of Basic Education Compliance for the 2020-2021 School Year
Districts have resolved several compliance concerns during the basic education reporting process that include provision of:
- Minimum 180-day school year
- Minimum instructional hour requirements and how they were calculated
- At least two credits of laboratory science
- At least three credits of science
- Total of at least 24 credits
- Electronic High School and Beyond Plan tool
- Approval by Chair of Board and Superintendent
- Other requirements outlined in the reporting form and certification
Several new questions yield interesting information about the number of instructional hours and school days required, mastery-based learning, reopening plans, High School and Beyond Plans, and subject area graduation requirements.
Rulemaking - The Board adopted final permanent rules for Chapter 180-19 WAC (Charter Schools) and Chapter 180-16 WAC (Support for Public Schools). See the following adopted exhibits:
- Exhibit B: Adoption of Chapter 180-16 WAC: State Support for Public Schools - Final Permanent Rules
- Exhibit C: Adoption of Chapter 180-19 WAC: Charter Schools - Final Permanent Rules
Student Panel - Association of Washington Student Leaders (AWSL) members presented ideas for improving the education system. SBE Board members Margarita Amezcua and McKenna Roberts were joined by AWSL student leaders Shreya Mehta and Thien Nguyen.
Legislative Session Kick-off - Staff provided an update on the status of the State Board of Education's legislative requests, what to expect for the remote session, committee membership, and other updates. Find the 2021 legislative platform, as well as information about SBE’s request legislation here: www.sbe.wa.gov/waleg.
Mastery-based Learning - The Mastery-based Learning (MBL) Work Group has examined opportunities to increase student access to relevant and robust mastery-based academic pathways aligned to personal career goals and postsecondary education, and reviewed the role of the High School and Beyond Plan (HSBP) in supporting mastery-based learning. The group’s recommendations are highlighted in the 2020 report, submitted December 1. SBE members discussed these recommendations and the implications they have for SBE’s future work on graduation requirements. Find an abbreviated, graphic version of the report on SBE’s web page about MBL.
- Video presentation given to the Educational Opportunity Gap Oversight and Accountability Committee by Career- and College-Readiness Manager, Alissa Muller
Graduation Update/Pathway Options Research - The Board heard about graduation data from spring 2020 from Dr. Deb Came, Assistant Superintendent for Assessment and Student Information, OSPI. On behalf of the Board, Strobel Consulting will conduct the survey of districts about graduation pathway options (required by Legislation). In addition, the 2021 research on graduation pathway options will include follow-up to the previous 2019-2020 survey of stakeholders.
- Video presentation about Strobel Consulting Year II Work Plan
- Student Board member remarks on graduation (video)
- OSPI data presentation (PDF)
- OSPI data presentation (video)
Upcoming Board meeting
The next meeting is scheduled for March 10-11, 2021. The agenda and materials will be posted one week in advance of the meeting on SBE’s meetings page.
PDF version of this recap: January 2021 Board meeting recap.
|
<urn:uuid:c65fd1b6-3b04-4df4-8ffc-fca75e3c8718>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://sbe.wa.gov/news/january-meeting-recap
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00075.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.924342
| 853
| 1.757813
| 2
|
Freeze different liquids to demonstrate the effects with your primary students. From the Catalyst Primary Science series. For more videos, and hundreds of chemistry teaching and learning resources from the Royal Society of Chemistry, visit http://www.rsc.org/learn-chemistry.
Questions about Primary Science Demonstrations: Intriguing Ice
Want more info about Primary Science Demonstrations: Intriguing Ice?
Get free advice from education experts and Noodle community members.
|
<urn:uuid:d856fa29-39cf-4693-abc4-ebdad8dd7f5a>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.noodle.com/learn/details/82602/primary-science-demonstrations-intriguing-ice
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.849189
| 96
| 2.796875
| 3
|
While a good vocal singing voice can be a great begin for a singing job, the voice alone does not make a great singer. Fitting with the tunes you are singing will certainly receive regards to your self confidence. Keep in mind that even successful singers have discovered some strategies that is why they had the ability to preserve well-modulated singing voices. Vocal singing isn’t all based upon skill. Lose all your inhibitions. Karaoke vocal singing is a fantastic way to entertain yourself and also the others.
When singing songs that are up tempo you do not require the technical capability it is much more entertainment like karaoke. A good option of song can make his efficiency much better because the vocalist fits with the song. Doing so, he ‘d be able to provide the notes much better, and 마사지알바 also really feel the track best. A beautiful performance of a song is kept in mind the majority of the times, not due to the fact that the singer has sung it well, however he did it with the appropriate feelings overflowing. Doing so, he would certainly have the ability to supply the notes much better, and also really feel the tune best.
Expert vocalists practice all the time, if you exercise you will certainly be amazed just how you’re breathing as well as voice enhances when vocal singing and also making different tones. Vocalists have the capability to know how to take a breath appropriately when singing. When vocalists find out exactly how to sing they do not sing from the throat they sing from the abdomen, the factor for this is since the abdominal area is a huge and strong muscle compared to the throat. Do not restrict on your own to instructors near home or work. Working with a trainer that can bring out the best in your voice is the objective. While a great vocal singing voice can be a great beginning for a vocal singing occupation, the voice alone does not make a good singer.
Many people think they can sing as well as they don’t require voice lessons, the choice to go on as well as admit that lessons are needed is a big and also vital step. Once you educate your voice it will come to be solid and also vibrant and also your voice will boost gradually because you recognize the fundamentals. It will deserve the added range. Find an environment where you can reveal on your own openly as well as one that supplies open communication so training can be customized with your changing rate of interests.
Singing is one functional means of revealing one’s sensations. Having a ability in vocal singing is likewise a great method of getting over shyness and acquiring positive self-image. Vocal singing is, undoubtedly, among one of the most rewarding interests in the market today.
Daily, a vocalist is birthed to the music market. It isn’t enough that you have actually been trained by the best music school or that you can change from one music genre to one more. Understanding the singing high quality of a vocalist will certainly enable him to choose tracks that are appropriate for his vocal singing voice. When an proper song has actually been selected, the singer ought to take some time to develop his very own style. He should not attempt to pick a hard song which will certainly simply showcase his lack of vocal singing prowess. A excellent option of tune can make his efficiency better since the vocalist fits with the song. The voice produces sound; the technical description is that the chords called singing chords vibrate which in turn creates noise. Singers make use of these vibrations to make different noises at various regularities which enable them to make variation of notes.
With all the skills readily available for the taking, making it big in the recording sector can be associated more to a excellent manager instead of on pure talent alone. Therefore, vocalists should never examine the importance of getting professional assistance to enhance their vocal singing occupations. Thinking about the appeal of vocal singing talent searches, excellent vocalists can really make a successful profession in the show business.
|
<urn:uuid:e71bf540-c931-468e-8399-aa3b189c5d9e>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://clickrivieramaya.com/exercise-as-well-as-come-to-be-a-specialist-vocalist/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00475.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.971853
| 824
| 2.390625
| 2
|
Journal of the American Chemical Society vol:128 issue:50 pages:16113-16121
The ability of foldamers to adopt a secondary structure in solution has been exploited to organize peripheral functionality. Our previously reported poly(ureidophthalimide) foldamer proved to be an excellent scaffold for the chiral organization of peripherally positioned oligo(p-phenylenevinylene) (OPV) chromophores. Facile high-yielding synthesis gave access to the required OPV-decorated building blocks. A condensation polymerization provided polymers of sufficient length to allow construction of a helical architecture comprising several turns. Short and long chains were separated by chromatography. Circular dichroism studies in THF of the longer chains indicate the presence of helically arranged OPVs. However, such an effect is not observed in CHCl3. Remarkable are the measurements of the OPV foldamers in heptane. A bisignate Cotton effect is observed in heptane of a sample with a THF history. No Cotton effect is observed in heptane of a sample with a CHCl3 history. In this example of supramolecular synthesis, the solvent dictates the expression of supramolecular chirality in a secondary structure. The short-chain oligomeric fractions that are unable to create a full turn revealed on scanning tunneling microscopy analysis the presence of circular architectures at the graphite/1-phenyloctane interface. This is in full agreement with the proposed conformation of the decorated foldamers.
|
<urn:uuid:cd7e5349-2b6c-425a-bf91-67081d1b9a99>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/30244
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00034-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.901707
| 323
| 1.632813
| 2
|
New 'Guide to Relays' article now in our Knowledge Centre section.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013 | Admin
We've added a new article to our Knowledge Centre and this time we explore the humble, but important relay.
Have you ever wondered what a relay if for and how it works? Well this month we attempt to explain all (or at least most) in our latest Knowledge Centre article. Our Relay Guide gives you an insight into the workings of relays, why they are used in vehicle electrical systems and the different types available, as well as providing you with some examples to use in your own projects.
We've got more articles in the coming weeks so bookmark our Knowledge Centre page and check back soon to see what's new.
|
<urn:uuid:7c85ee61-f0ac-4a5b-a755-9bab0f6a66f5>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.12voltplanet.co.uk/news/new-guide-to-relays-article-now-in-our-knowledge-centre-section.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.929547
| 152
| 2.578125
| 3
|
In every bit of honest writing in the world, there is a base theme. Try to understand men, if you understand each other you will be kind to each other. KNOWING A MAN WELL NEVER LEADS TO HATE and nearly always leads to love. There are shorter means, many of them. There is writing promoting social change, writing punishing injustice, writing in celebration of heroism, but always that base theme. TRY TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER!
George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.
I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.
A water snake glided smoothly up the pool, twisting its periscope head from side to side; and it swam the length of the pool and came to the legs of a motionless heron that stood in the shadows. A silent head and beak lanced down and plucked it out by the head, and the beak swallowed the little snake while its tail waved frantically.
I see hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads. Hundreds of them. They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ‘em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ‘em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out there. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody never gets no land. It’s just in their head.
Lennie rolled off the bunk and stood up, and the two of them started for the door. Just as they reached it, Curley bounced in."You seen a girl around here?" he demanded angrily.George said coldly, "'Bout half an hour ago maybe.""Well, what the hell was she doin'?"George stood still, watching the angry little man. He said insultingly, "She said--she was lookin' for you."Curley seemed really to see George for the first time. His eyes flashed over George, took in his height, measured his reach, looked at his trim middle. "Well, which way'd she go?" he demanded at last."I dunno," said George. "I didn't watch her go."Curley scowled at him, and turning, hurried out the door.George said, "Ya know, Lennie, I'm scared I'm gonna tangle with that bastard myself. I hate his guts. Jesus Christ! Come on. There won't be a damn thing left to eat.
I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.
They come, an' they quit an' go on; an' every damn one of 'em's got a little piece of land in his head. An' never a God damn one of 'em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head.
A guy sets alone out here at night, maybe readin' books or thinkin' or stuff like that. Sometimes he gets thinkin', an' he got nothing to tell him what's so an' what ain't so. Maybe if he sees somethin', he don't know whether it's right or not. He can't turn to some other guy and ast him if he sees it too. He can't tell. He got nothing to measure by.
This is just a nigger talkin', an' a busted-back nigger. So it don't mean nothing, see? You couldn't remember it anyways. I seen it over an' over-a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference.
Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong no place. They come to a ranch an’ work up a stake and then they go inta town and blow their stake, and the first thing you know they’re pound-in’ their tail on some other ranch. They ain’t got nothing to look ahead to.
Curley's wife lay with a half-covering of yellow hay. And the meanness and the plannings and the discontent and the ache for attention were all gone from her face. She was pretty and simple, and her face was sweet and young. Now her rouged cheeks and reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. The curls, tiny little sausages, were spread on the hay behind her head and her lips were parted
|
<urn:uuid:9acfb0a3-ef57-4dfe-94d4-011f74e30274>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://jgdb.com/quotes/book-of-mice-and-men
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00266.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.981273
| 1,288
| 1.984375
| 2
|
Turkish bank blames 70 percent inflation on energy costs, supply issues
Turkey’s central bank said a worldwide spike in the price of energy and commodities, along with global supply disruptions, were largely to blame for an acceleration in annual inflation to 69.97 percent last month.
Consumer price increases were spread across sub-groups, but the most obvious contribution came from energy products, electricity, water, food and furniture, the central bank said on Thursday in its Monthly Price Developments report, which it publishes the day after monthly inflation data is announced.
Turkey has the sixth-highest inflation rate in the world after the central bank bucked a global trend of tightening monetary policy and cut interest rates late last year, acting on the orders of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. It lowered borrowing costs to 14 percent from 19 percent in the final four months of 2021 and has kept them unchanged since despite a surge in prices.
The price of fresh fruits and vegetables, which was almost flat in March, displayed a high increase in April, the central bank said.
Turkey’s government is also blaming the jump in inflation, which has reached a two-decade high, on global inflationary pressures. Erdoğan, who has sacked three central bank governors in three years, has opposed hikes to interest rates, saying higher rates cause inflation and that his Islamic beliefs prevent him from supporting such increases.
Some independent assessments of prices in Turkey estimate that annual changes are exceeding 100 percent. Inflation accelerated to 156.9 percent last month, the ENAGGroup, a research group set up by Turkish academics to calculate inflation, said on Thursday.
|
<urn:uuid:ec0ca456-10fb-402d-a535-eb4be8ae251f>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://ahval.me/turkey-inflation/turkish-bank-blames-70-percent-inflation-energy-costs-supply-issues
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.968768
| 329
| 2
| 2
|
Acrobatic Gymnastics could be described as an infusion of choreography and complex acrobatic skills performed in partnership on a standard gymnastics floor area. Balance, Tempo and Combined routines are performed to music. The floor area is 12x12 metres; Duration of the routines is 2 minutes 30 seconds.
Great Britain is one of the most respected nations in Acrobatic Gymnastics and has achieved success at World and European level with medals in all categories.
Men’s Pair, Women’s Pair, Mixed Pair, Women’s Trio, Men’s Four.
Gymnasts work in harmony and trust, each responsible for their partner or partners. It is a true and testing examination of human relationships. Routines impose on gymnasts a need for strength, agility, flexibility, balance and acrobatic skills. The results are spectacular, intricate balances performed on partners, exciting multiple somersaults and twisting somersaults with partners being pitched and caught. A requirement, and opportunity to express their artistry and individual gymnastics skills makes this a delight for spectators, and a tremendous feeling of attainment for gymnasts.
This discipline is extremely spectacular and requires dynamic reactions, spatial awareness, co-ordination, power, strength and courage. The action takes no more than a few seconds but requires years of hard work.
The gymnast gains speed and power by running along a 25- metre track and performing a series of somersaults and twists. Top class tumblers perform no less than two double somersaults in one run, the best of them three, with twisting elements in addition.
Straight Run (somersaults/saltos); Twisting Run (twists), Final Runs (both somersaults and twists)
Tumbling was a competitive sport at the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles. The name of the first (and last! so far) Olympic Champion is Roland Wolf (USA). The first National Championships were held in 1922 in Russia. In the 1960’s and 70’s tumbling was most popular in Eastern Europe and then gradually went on to spread strongly in Western Europe, the USA, Asia and Australia.
|
<urn:uuid:8bd14700-5f9f-47f8-950b-e9d8117ccdac>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.british-gymnastics.org/west-midlands/acrobatics
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00466.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.932824
| 460
| 2.625
| 3
|
Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation."A beggar cannot renounce wealth," Master would say. "If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole.
The private ownership of great art, its seclusion from the general view of men and women, let alone from that of interested amateurs and scholars, is a curious business. The literal disappearance of a Turner or a Van Gogh into some Middle Eastern or Latin-American bank vault to be kept as investment and collateral, the sardonic decision of a Greek shipping tycoon to put an incomparable El Greco on his yacht, where it hangs at persistent risk — these are phenomena that verge on vandalism.George Steiner
It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.thomas jefferson
We have?fought for our place in the sun and have won it.It will be my business to seethat we retain this place in the sun unchallenged.Kaiser Wilhelm II
Management Science [Journal] also strives to stimulate research in emerging domains created by economic globalization, public policy shifts, technological improvements, and trends in management practice. Its audience includes academics at business and engineering schools and managers open to the application of quantitative methods in business.
For a woman as for a man, marriage might enormously help or devastatingly hinder the growth of her power to contribute something impersonally valuable to the community in which she lived, but it was not that power, and could not be regarded as an end in itself. Nor, even, were children ends in themselves; it was useless to go on producing human beings merely in order that they, in their sequence, might produce others, and never turn from this business of continuous procreation to the accomplishment of some definite and lasting piece of work.vera brittain
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy.stephen colbert
Napoleon said Britain is a nation of shopkeepers and a shopkeeper is an entrepreneur he or she is a small business person. That’s exactly what we are.
The UFO research and investigation business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps of corrupt ideology run free, agenda dictates, delusion is rampant and ignorance prevails. The infestation of wrongful motivation and the beggarly depths of belief reign supreme amidst a universal disregard for truth and factual actuality... where good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side . . .kenny young
Schumpter's daring and dashing entrepreneur is now a legendary figure from the distant past - if not from the mythology of capitalism - or is to be found only in the demimonde of business, founding new ice cream parlors or "deep freeze subscription clubs".paul a. baran
We mean by "politics" the people's business the most important business there is.adlai stevenson
Advertise your business. Do not hide your light under a bushel.
The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance.theodore roosevelt
The true entrepreneur is one who thinks laterally, about how to make a second business out of the first.
est was developed from the beginning as a well-organized business enterprise, structured to maximize profits and minimize tax liabilities. Its major corporate arm, Transformational Technologies, is an extreme example of the rationality that pervades some such movements that have as a major goal the maximizing of profit. By 1988, it had trained nearly 400,000 people, all of whom had taken the two-weekend, 60-hour training session, paying a sizable fee ($400 per person) for so doing. est grossed some $30 million dollars in 1981, and it was claimed that one of every nine San Francisco Bay Area college-educated young people had gone through the training.
The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) stood up, i.e. on the day of Badr, and said: Uthman has gone off on the business of Allah and His Apostle, and I shall take the oath of allegiance on his behalf. The Apostle of Allah (peace_be_upon_him) then allotted him a share, but did not do so for anyone else who was absent.
The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?Bible (Apocrypha)
While the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it insures the survival of the fittest in every department. We accept and welcome, therefore, as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment, the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few, and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential to the future progress of the race.Andrew Carnegie
Men, some to business, some to pleasure take; But every woman is at heart a rake: Men, some to quiet, some to public strife; But every lady would be Queen for life.Alexander Pope
Curse on the man who business first designed,And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!john oldham
If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you would need very little in the way of a margin of safety. So, the more vulnerable the business is, assuming you still want to invest in it, the larger margin of safety you'd need. If you're driving a truck across a bridge that says it holds 10,000 pounds and you've got a 9,800 pound vehicle, if the bridge is 6 inches above the crevice it covers, you may feel okay, but if it's over the Grand Canyon, you may feel you want a little larger margin of safety...warren buffett
In most cases the favorable price performance will be accompanied by a well-defined improvement in the average earnings, in the dividend, and in the balance-sheet position. Thus in the long run the market test and the ordinary business test of a successful equity commitment tend to be largely identical.benjamin graham
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart .William Butler Yeats
Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul this unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the ?rst task of statesmanship.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.George Bernard Shaw
|
<urn:uuid:3187af76-8aba-4a92-b6f8-33efbc2041a6>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://quotes.yourdictionary.com/business
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00076.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.952023
| 1,625
| 2.03125
| 2
|
The etymology of the name is uncertain. It is said to come from the Latin vallis-polis-cellae, that means “valley of many cellars”, or from the Greek polyzelos, “land of many magnificences”, or it may simply derive from ancient local toponyms that have evolved to the actual name. What we know for certain is that this valley was appreciated for its beauty already in Roman times. It was also well known as a suitable area for viticulture and perfect for human settlement. Actually, in this area, wonderful villas, parishes and churches were built.
Valpolicella – enclosed by the river Adige on the west, the city of Verona on the south and Lessinia montains on the north side – is the land of some among the best Italian red wines. The three chief valleys of Fumane, Marano and Negrar, form the central area of wine production, which gives identity to Valpolicella Classico.
|
<urn:uuid:6d313796-82b3-46c3-8ba8-90d2c65ed099>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.fidorawines.com/en/valpolicella-classica/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00069.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.967129
| 215
| 2.546875
| 3
|
Take an eight-week journey that will lead from crippling low self-esteem to the freedom of hope. Based on the Journey to Freedom Manual, this study guide is about learning to break free from physical and emotional issues that can lead to depression and a myriad of addictions. Like the other study guides in the Journey to Freedom series, this study will focus on enhancing people's self-esteem, while helping them change the things in their life that keep them from fulfilling their purpose and living their life to its fullest potential.
Other books in the series include:
The Journey to a New Beginning After Loss: Freedom from the Pain of Grief and Disappointment 978-1-4185-0771-8
The Journey to Healthy Living: Freedom from Body Image and Food Issues 978-1-4185-0769-5
The Journey to Living with Courage: Freedom from Fear 978-1-4185-0772-5
|About the Contributor(s)||Scott Reall
Scott Reall's passion for helping people break free from life controlling issues began while serving as Senior Wellness Director for the Green Hills YMCA in Nashville, TN. Though his primary role was consultation with members regarding their fitness goals, he recognized other personal challenges including depression, loneliness, substance abuse, eating disorders, and codependency. In 1994, Scott began facilitating a recovery group at the Green Hills YMCA similar to the Twelve Step recovery group of ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS®. Six years and hundreds of participants later, Scott collaborated with the Middle Tennessee YMCA system to expand the Twelve Step groups into other YMCAs and out of this partnership emerged Restore Ministries. Scott and his wife are the parents of three grown children.
|Publish Date||Apr 15, 2008|
|Who It's For||Men, Teen Boy 13-17, Teen Girl 13-17, Women|
|Series||Journey to Freedom|
|
<urn:uuid:5a129c1f-db34-4705-9961-5e978ce8cd77>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.churchsource.com/journey-to-a-life-of-significance
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00429-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.891784
| 401
| 1.617188
| 2
|
If you can't manage to login and you're using AutoFill (your password/username is automatically stored on your internet browser) click here to see how to resolve the issue.
If you can't manage to login and you're not using AutoFill, there are a few things you can try to login successfully.
The golden rule associated with your credentials, is that you'll always be able to login if you successfully enter in your credentials.
Usernames and Passwords are Case Sensitive. The details you enter when trying to login, need to match exactly, the Username, Password, and CompanyID you use.
Watch out for these common mistakes:
Entering in your username incorrectly
Your username needs to be entered in correctly. If your username is 'Admin', you need to enter in the username with a capital 'A' and lowercase 'dmin' with no extra spaces
Incorrectly entering in a password
Passwords follow the same rules as usernames, where they need to be entered 100% correctly for you to login. If you need to reset your password, click here to learn how.
Entering in an incorrect Company ID
If you enter in an incorrect Company ID you may be told that your details are incorrect or that your account has expired.
If you receive an account expired message, or you've been told your details are incorrect, enter in your credentials, including your Company ID again.
Once you've added in the correct credentials, you'll be able to successfully login.
If you've closed down your account previously and are trying to login, you'll need to contact Support to reactivate your account.
|
<urn:uuid:7b738f26-20aa-4a37-924b-ab2ecf3d7ffd>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://help.simplesalon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014730613-I-can-t-login-
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00674.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.946655
| 340
| 1.53125
| 2
|
A Formal Architectural Design Patterns-Based Approach to
Software Understanding ?
P.S.C. Alencar, D.D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz, and C.J.P. Lucena
Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ont, Canada N2L 3G1
Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to significant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we present a formal approach for (distributed) software understanding based on abstraction hierarchies represented by architectural design patterns. This approach allows us to model the distributed software applications through a formal model representing the underlying structure. The representation uses instances of architectural design patterns which can hide details that may be irrelevant in specific situations. The formal models which are produced could be used as a basis for reasoning, code generation, and measuring the "goodness" of a design.
Complexity is a substantive barrier to program and system understanding, which becomes even more significant when we consider distributed applications. Many of the features of distributed applications, including the complex interprocess interoperability and communication mechanisms, parallelism, nondeterministic execution, lack of global components such as clock and memory, communication delays, and sheer size, contribute to the difficulty of understanding. In addition, the fact that the trace of a thread of execution of a system of interconnected objects is complicated by the callback-driven flow of control add extra dimensions to be considered.
In this paper we present a formal approach to distributed software understanding based on formal architectural design patterns [1, 2] in order to manage
?The work described here has been supported by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the National Research Council of Brazil (CNPq), and WATCOM.
the underlying numerous challenges. This formal topdown approach to software understanding emphasizes thus that abstraction hierarchies are used to minimize the complexity involved. In this context a software application is viewed at a very high level of abstraction and, in the course of the understanding process, more difficult or interesting parts of the application are isolated and examined at a lower level of abstraction. Related tools aim to reduce the complexity of the distributed application by grouping processes into process clusters represented by formal distributed architectural design patterns. Process clusters represent subsystem structures, exposing the overall architecture of the subject system, and are invaluable in recovering the original design decisions. The formal abstractions can be automatically derived from the structuring concepts provided by a programming language.
We adopt the view that automatic process clustering can be based on reverse engineering ideas: the reconstruction of a possible design of an application by using the given software system as the only information source. The reconstructed abstract view does not necessarily correspond to that of the application designer, although it is in fact a plausible analysis of the application. This makes reverse engineering particularly valuable in case of a mismatch between specification and implementation. In fact, this is part of our view of the software construction process as we shall discuss later. We are based on the tested hypothesis that reverse engineering tools can be powerful enough to construct abstract hierarchies from a given source [3, 4].
In this way we consider a catalogue of simple and basic sub-structures or recurring high-level patterns for software construction and organization in-the-large (architectural design patterns) as the main vehicle for representing and understanding the software applications. Recent work that emphasizes the effort in deter-
|
<urn:uuid:58f59607-b2e1-4e37-b9d8-6611c7ec3942>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00---off-0cstr--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-0-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-00&cl=CL1.15&d=HASH39899383262879db67557c.1&hl=0&gc=0>=0
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00488-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.927532
| 698
| 1.539063
| 2
|
Space Telescope Science Institute's Astronomical Database Named for Sen. Mikulski
This is a view of the many computers that are part of the Barbara A. Mikulski Archive for Space Telescopes (MAST), located at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Md. The archive is named in honor of the United States Senator from Maryland for her career-long achievements and becoming the longest-serving woman in U.S. Congressional history. MAST is NASA’s repository for all of its optical and ultraviolet-light observations, some of which date to the early 1970s. The archive holds data from 16 NASA telescopes, including current missions such as the Hubble Space Telescope and Kepler, a space-based observatory hunting for planets around other stars. At present, the archive contains nearly 200 terabytes of data. Senator Mikulski is at picture center, STScI Director Matt Mountain at her right, and STScI Deputy Director Kathryn Flanagan at her left. The plaque to image right is a photo of Supernova Milkuski, an exploding star that the Hubble Space Telescope spotted on Jan. 25, 2012. It was named in honor of the Senator by Nobel Laureate Adam Riess and the supernova search team with which he is currently working. The supernova, which lies 7.4 billion light-years away, is the titanic detonation of a star more than eight times as massive as our sun.
› Larger image
Image Credit: STScI
› NASA Science Chief Statement on Naming of Space Telescope Science Institute's Astronomical Database for Senator Mikulski (04.05.12)
|
<urn:uuid:4e49b10f-1f46-44e4-95b7-2f5ea46fceee>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/news/mikulski-database.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00298-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.929909
| 340
| 2.71875
| 3
|
New Delhi: A fifty per cent hike in cigarette prices would lead to about 450 million years of life gained across thirteen middle-income countries, including India, from smoking cessation, a new study has claimed.
The study published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) also said that "India in particular, will gain about 45 million life years from this increase."
For the study, researchers developed a simple compartmental model to assess health gains, financial protection, and tax gains for governments from a large increase in the market prices of cigarettes across income groups in these countries with a total of 500 million male smokers, the BMJ said in a statement today.
Researchers from the Global Tobacco Economics Consortium led by Professor Prabhat Jha from St. Michael's Hospital under the University of Toronto, and Patricio Marquez, lead public health specialist from the World Bank, set out to predict the effect of a 50 per cent increase in cigarette prices.
"Higher prices of cigarettes provide more health and financial gains to the poorest 20 per cent than to the richest 20 per cent of the population.
"Higher excise taxes support the targets of the sustainable development goals on non-communicable diseases and poverty, and provides financial protection against illness," according to the study.
Thirteen middle-income countries in Latin America and Asia, with a total of two billion men were selected for the study. For the compartment model, the countries were chosen based on the prevalence of smoking, population size, and availability of data.
"A 50 per cent increase in cigarette prices would lead to about 450 million years of life gained across the 13 countries from smoking cessation, with half of these in China," the study said.
Using the World Bank income definitions, out of the 13, six countries are classified as lower middle-income (India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Armenia) and seven as upper middle-income (China, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Colombia, Thailand, and Chile).
"Across all countries, men in the bottom income group (poorest 20 per cent of the population) would gain 6.7 times more life years than men in the top income group (richest 20 per cent of the population," according to the study.
The average life years gained from cessation for each smoker in the bottom income group was 5.1 times that of the top group, it said.
"We focused on male smokers, as they comprised about 90 per cent of all smokers in these 13 countries," according to the study.
Researchers used a model to measure the impact of quitting by age and income group on life years gained, treatment costs averted, avoiding catastrophic medical costs and poverty, and additional tax revenue.
"The Indian subcontinent has a sizeable number of bidi (small, locally manufactured cigarettes) users as well as oral tobacco users. In this region, smoking patterns are changing, with cigarettes increasingly substituting bidis, particularly in those on low incomes and young people," according to the researchers.
The BMJ said that based on current patterns, smoking will be responsible for "about one billion deaths in the 21st century, most of which will be in low and middle-income countries, such as India".
"Effective tobacco control could avoid hundreds of millions of early deaths, and tobacco taxation is the single most effective measure to increase quit rates and deter young people from taking up smoking.
"However, no studies have yet assessed the impact of higher tobacco taxes on health and financial outcomes across a range of countries," the statement said.
|
<urn:uuid:4edf0531-dd4a-49d0-af06-d1c0db38a025>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://health.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/diagnostics/50-pc-hike-in-cigarette-prices-would-add-450-mln-years-of-life-across-13-nations-study/63744055
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00069.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.951745
| 724
| 2.3125
| 2
|
ADRIAN WILLIAMS (DE)
Williams’ immersive collages act as mind maps, cartographing the world in his head or visualizing “what dogs hear”. His pieces break the wall between imagined and physical spaces.
Through his mixed media works Adrian Williams’ extensively explores and searches. He draws majorly out of his imagination, the only anchor to the outside world being a philosophical question or poetic thought expressed through the title.
Williams uses a wide array of mediums to lay out his intricate imagery. Drawings in ink and pencil are accompanied by collaged elements made from stained paper, old books and found wood pieces. Woodstains and varnishes add an extra layer of colour to his narrations.
He organises sound and thought into a cartographic landscape, mapping out the unfamiliar in the form of streets, corners, stairways and odd angles. With all their details, geometric shapes and unpredictable patterns, they invite the viewer to take a step forward and look closely, scan the picture and try to orientate themselves. Williams wedges together whole neighborhoods, allowing the attentive explorer’s eyes to trace pathways for hours.
The resemblance to maps is not just formal but also applies conceptually. Williams’ images act as maps to his mind, enfolding and visualizing what is invisible to all other people. While being radically subjective in his choice of subjects and stories, Williams images allow a dialogue due to their formal clarity. They organize his thoughts, despite looking chaotic from afar. Adrian William’s works transplant a piece of the inner world into the outside, into the general public. They are portals to another dimension. Because of this mediating function, scale and surroundings of the paintings play an important role. Especially William’s larger pieces act more as windows into another world than as images that lay is placed on a wall. Putting up one of his wall filling works changes the way a room is perceived. Like the expectations when opening up a box, it’s here rather as if one wall was torn down to reveal the mysterious microcosm of thought and contemplation that always lies hidden within the physical world. The different elements form patterns and structures, making the work visually stimulating from a distance as well as up close. Utilizing mixed media and many different shapes, the artist still manages to keep a balance, formulating one final harmonious experience.
What Dogs Hear The Whole in My Head
|
<urn:uuid:438a4dbc-98df-462e-a705-1ee78d40748b>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://berlin.heike-arndt.dk/adrian-williams-de
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00476.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.948562
| 500
| 1.921875
| 2
|
These were played outdoors on ice under the name “hockey” in England throughout the 19th century, and even earlier under various other names. In Canada, there are 24 reports of hockey-like games in the 19th century before 1875 (five of them using the name “hockey”).
Subsequently, where did hockey get its name? The name hockey—as the organized game came to be known—has been attributed to the French word hoquet (shepherd’s stick). The term rink, referring to the designated area of play, was originally used in the game of curling in 18th-century Scotland.
Moreover, what country came up with hockey? The modern game of hockey emerged in England in the mid-18th century and is largely attributed to the growth of public schools, such as Eton. The first Hockey Association was formed in the UK in 1876 and drew up the first formal set of rules.
Additionally, what is the original name of hockey? Hurling was an ancient Irish stick-and-ball game that was originally played on the ground and resembled modern field hockey (it later evolved into the aerial game played today). In Scotland, people played a similar game called shinty (variations include shinny, schynnie and chamiare).
Similarly, where was hockey invented in Canada? Beginning in Nova Scotia in the early 1800s, hockey began to evolve into the team sport we know today. Today, Canada remains the country most closely-associated with hockey. The development of the modern version of organized ice hockey played as a team sport is often credited to James Creighton.Its true origins are murky. But Canada, beginning in the 19th century, gets credit for modernizing—and popularizing—the game we know today. The origins of ice hockey may date to stick-and-ball games played during the Middle Ages or even ancient Greece and Egypt.
- Did Canada invent hockey?
- Who introduced hockey game in Nigeria?
- How many countries play hockey in the world?
- Who introduced hockey in India?
- Which country made football game?
- Which game is originated in India?
- Who invented badminton?
- Did Vikings invent hockey?
- Where is hockey most popular?
- What is a hockey game called?
- How did hockey started in India?
- Why is hockey 3 periods?
- What came first hockey or ice hockey?
- Is hockey played in Nigeria?
- What is the history of table tennis in Nigeria?
- What European countries have hockey?
- Do all countries play hockey?
- Is hockey born in India?
- When did India start playing hockey?
- Who invented cricket?
- What country created basketball?
- Who introduced sports in India?
- What is the name of international game?
- Which is America national game?
- Who invented tennis?
Did Canada invent hockey?
The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875. Some characteristics of that game, such as the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, have been retained to this day.
Who introduced hockey game in Nigeria?
The Hockey game, which had spread through the British empire largely due to activities of the British army had been introduced in Nigeria in 1928, four years after a Hockey Federation was formed to standardize the game internationally. In its cruder form the game was played in ancient Egypt.
How many countries play hockey in the world?
The sport is played in over sixty countries and has a worldwide following. Roller hockey was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics.
Who introduced hockey in India?
However, the first version of modern-day field hockey was developed by the British sometime between the late 18th and early 19th century. It was introduced as a popular school game then and made its way to the Indian army during British rule in the 1850s.
Which country made football game?
Modern football originated in Britain in the 19th century. Since before medieval times, “folk football” games had been played in towns and villages according to local customs and with a minimum of rules.
Which game is originated in India?
Detailed Solution. Followings games Originated in India:-Chess. One of the most ancient games that originated in India, Chess was initially called ‘Ashtapada’. Other games include Judo, Karate, Polo, Ludo, Snakes and Ladders, Kho-Kho, Kabaddi, Badminton.
Who invented badminton?
In 1873 the duke of Beaufort introduced the sport at his country estate, Badminton, from which the game derives its name.
Did Vikings invent hockey?
Canadian sports fans are in shock and Canada 150 celebrations have been thrown into a state of turmoil after a recent archeological discovery determined that hockey, a centrepiece of our cultural and national identity, wasn’t invented in Canada but rather brought here by Vikings from Denmark, who landed in northern …
Where is hockey most popular?
Countries ranked by number of ice hockey players 2020/21 In the 2020/21 season, the United States had the most registered ice hockey players with almost 454 thousand, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation.
What is a hockey game called?
field hockey, also called hockey, outdoor game played by two opposing teams of 11 players each who use sticks curved at the striking end to hit a small, hard ball into their opponent’s goal.
How did hockey started in India?
The history of hockey in India dates back to the rule of British regiments in India. Calcutta was the first city to organise a hockey club in 1885-86, followed by Bombay and Punjab. In 1908, the Bengal Hockey Association became India’s first hockey association.
Why is hockey 3 periods?
Before 1910, they used to play 2 halves of 30 minutes each. But at the end of each half, the ice was so rutted and covered with snow that it slowed the game way down. So they changed it to 3 periods of 20 minutes each to give them a chance to clean the ice one more time. It also gave the players more time to rest.
What came first hockey or ice hockey?
Modern field hockey pre-dates ice hockey by a few years in the mid-19th century. Precursors to hockey have been recorded by a number of ancient civilizations, dating back as much as 4,000 years.
Is hockey played in Nigeria?
The Nigeria Hockey Federation (NHF) is the governing body of field hockey in Nigeria. It is affiliated to IHF International Hockey Federation and AHF African Hockey Federation. The headquarter of NHF is in Abuja, Nigeria.
What is the history of table tennis in Nigeria?
And in 1951, the Nigeria Table Tennis Association was formed, headed by an Englishman – Jack Farnsworth. The first ‘national’ competition was held in the same year, and the champion was Alaba Vaughan. Table tennis was a popular participation sport all over the island and mainland of Lagos.
What European countries have hockey?
- Finland – SM-liiga.
- Slovakia – Slovak Extraliga.
- Sweden – Swedish Hockey League.
- Czech Republic – Czech Extraliga.
- Germany – Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
- Austria – Austrian Hockey League (with clubs from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy and Slovenia)
Do all countries play hockey?
Approximately 80 countries are currently playing this sport and 74 countries participate in the championship leagues and are being indicated in the picture below. According to IIHF survey of players, the participating countries are highlighted based on the number of players in that region.
Is hockey born in India?
Drawings of what looks to be hockey have been found in an Egyptian tomb that was 4000 years old. Hockey is a popular game in India and Pakistan. It was played for hundreds of years before other countries like England modernised it. Hockey is similar to an ancient game played in Scotland called shinty.
When did India start playing hockey?
In 1928, the team won its first Olympic gold medal. From 1928 to 1956, was the golden period for the Indian Hockey team.
Who invented cricket?
Early Cricket (Pre 1799) There is a consensus of expert opinion that cricket may have been invented during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England.
What country created basketball?
The history of basketball began with its invention in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football. Naismith was a 31-year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.
Who introduced sports in India?
India has a great tradition of sports, and is greatly influenced by the British presence in India in the 18th and 19th century. Cricket is undoubtedly the most popular sport, but in such a large and populous country there are many other sports that are played by a lot of people.
What is the name of international game?
Answer: Football, Cricket , Kabaddi, Hockey, Badminton and many more.
Which is America national game?
Detailed Solution. Option 4 is correct: Baseball is the national game of the USA. Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two opposing teams who take turns batting and fielding.
Who invented tennis?
Who invented the game of tennis? The inventor of modern tennis has been disputed, but the officially recognized centennial of the game in 1973 commemorated its introduction by Major Walter Clopton Wingfield in 1873. He published the first book of rules that year and took out a patent on his game in 1874.
|
<urn:uuid:d5cef164-154f-4993-87e2-f3e4bfd61125>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.dnaofsports.com/hockey/what-country-made-its-name-with-the-sport-of-hockey/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00067.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.974692
| 2,071
| 3.25
| 3
|
What is the right to a fair trial?
The right to a fair trial guarantees fair court proceedings. A fair trial means that the court follows all procedures correctly and treats all parties equally, so that the trial itself is fair and effective, regardless of the decision and outcome.
The right to a fair trial encompasses requirements for the court and its constitution as well as procedural guarantees during proceedings.
This right applies to different kinds of proceedings: criminal, civil and administrative.
Requirements for the court
The right to a fair trial demands that the court be established by law and its judges be independent and impartial. “Established by law” means that there is a law explaining how the court functions and which rules and procedures it follows when hearing a case. “Independence of judges” means that the judges only follow the law and are not influenced by anyone else. Moreover, “impartiality” requests that the judges cannot be personally interested in the outcome of the case, or be prejudiced or biased.
The right to a fair trial encompasses a number of important procedural guarantees which help to ensure the fairness of the court proceedings. The following guarantees apply to all kinds of proceedings:
- A public hearing
- Consideration in reasonable time
- Equality of arms
- Access to a lawyer or an opportunity to represent oneself
- A reasoned decision
In the context of criminal proceedings, this right implies that the accused person shall be presumed innocent until proven guilty.
In addition to the above, the accused in criminal trial have the following guarantees:
- To receive information about the nature and the cause of the charge
- To be present at the trial
- Adequate time and facilities to prepare a defence
- Protection against self-incrimination
- To examine witnesses
- Free assistance of an interpreter if necessary
Who protects this right?
The State is the main guarantor of human rights and thus needs to ensure that everyone has access to independent and impartial courts which consider cases and follow the appropriate procedural guarantees. Where a person’s rights are violated, the State can be held responsible and must grant compensation. But, a trial can only be fair and efficient if participants also fulfil their duties within it. For example, appear for the hearing and respect procedural deadlines.
International recognition of this right
The norms protecting the right to a fair trial were formulated after the end of the Second World War when the international community decided to set a common standard for protecting fundamental rights.
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted, which reads in Article 10:
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.
This right was later incorporated in international and regional human rights conventions.
|
<urn:uuid:1d001a28-81c9-40f7-9597-3e3ecd4468cf>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.inimoigustegiid.ee/en/rights/right-to-a-fair-trial
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00670.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.950127
| 581
| 4.15625
| 4
|
- 1 Is Bali ruined by tourism?
- 2 Why is tourism important to Bali?
- 3 What are the environmental impacts of tourism in Bali?
- 4 What’s bad about Bali?
- 5 Why is Bali so cheap?
- 6 What is the biggest problem associated with tourism in Bali?
- 7 Why is Bali so special?
- 8 What are the negative impacts of tourism?
- 9 What are the positive social impacts of tourism?
- 10 What are the social impacts of Bali?
- 11 What should I avoid in Bali?
- 12 What places to avoid in Bali?
- 13 Can unmarried couples go to Bali?
Is Bali ruined by tourism?
Tourists have not yet destroyed the central economic and agricultural activity of the Balinese, although to be sure, there have been and continue to be many threats to rice farming. While hotels are not allowed in the villages, commercial shops, restaurants and other tourist-traps are permitted.
Why is tourism important to Bali?
Tourism contributes 4.1 percent to Indonesia’€™s GDP and employs 6.9 percent of the workforce. Tourism provides much needed jobs and growth, and is therefore strongly encouraged by the Balinese and national government. The Indonesian government has gone to great lengths to push the Indonesian tourism industry forward.
What are the environmental impacts of tourism in Bali?
In recent years, Bali has seen growing environmental problems such as pollution and freshwater scarcity. Popular tourist destination Kuta beach is regularly covered in waste. Most of this is plastic that washes ashore during the rainy season. The island’s garbage dumps are reportedly overflowing,.
What’s bad about Bali?
Way too touristy Number one on this list of bad things about Bali is the sheer amount of tourism. Bali has to be the most tourist-populated destination we’ve ever been to in our lives; even more so than the popular islands in Thailand. It’s safe to say, Bali sadly suffers from over-tourism.
Why is Bali so cheap?
Bali is extremely cheap because daily expenses are way lower than in other countries. Meals, hotels rooms, shopping, transport fees, and every other expense are all much cheaper. Basically, the most expensive thing you will need to buy is a ticket to get to Bali.
What is the biggest problem associated with tourism in Bali?
Not only are previously unspoiled beaches rapidly developing for tourism, Bali is now also suffering from waste and water management, infrastructure development and power deficiency problems, which many point to tourism as the main culprit.
Why is Bali so special?
Beyond stunning beaches and magical temples, Bali has virtually every kind of natural beauty. Glorious mountainous areas with lush greenery, scenic lakes, gorgeous waterfalls, iconic rice fields, flower gardens, gushing sacred rivers and secret canyons all make up the island’s landscape.
What are the negative impacts of tourism?
Tourism often puts pressure on natural resources through over-consumption, often in places where resources are already scarce. Tourism puts enormous stress on local land use, and can lead to soil erosion, increased pollution, natural habitat loss, and more pressure on endangered species.
There are many social benefits of tourism, demonstrating positive social impacts. These might include; preserving the local culture and heritage; strengthening communities; provision of social services; commercialisation of culture and art; revitalisation of customs and art forms and the preservation of heritage.
Another negative impact is the social development of Bali. There are constant conflicts between local villagers and developers who want the land for hotels and attractions like golf courses. These social impacts have led to a loss in culture and heritage.
What should I avoid in Bali?
13 Big mistakes to avoid in Bali
- 13 Big mistakes to avoid in Bali.
- 1 – Wearing a cross body bag.
- 2 – Having anything on show in the monkey forest.
- 3 – Trusting the weather apps.
- 4 – Visiting popular waterfalls like Tegenungen in the middle of the day.
- 5 – Staying in Kuta.
- 6 – Not venturing out of the southern part of Bali.
What places to avoid in Bali?
Who knows, maybe the areas I would avoid actually sound like your dream Bali holiday!
- Places to avoid in Bali. 1.1 Tanah Lot & surroundings. 1.2 Seminyak. 1.3 Kuta.
- Less touristy places to discover in Bali. 2.1 North Bali. 2.2 Cepaka.
- Touristy but cool areas of Bali. 3.1 Ubud. 3.2 Nusa Dua.
- Where to stay in Bali.
Can unmarried couples go to Bali?
Is it safe for an unmarried couple to visit the island? The answer is yes. As foreigners, there should never be anything to worry about when visiting Bali. The only thing you have to remember is to respect their norms at all times.
|
<urn:uuid:2b7e68d1-277a-458f-8ead-75833e2c8a9c>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://balisee.com/bali/quick-answer-how-has-tourism-affected-bali.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00679.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.925987
| 1,083
| 2.09375
| 2
|
After writing a cover story heralding Barack Obama as the “First Gay President,” conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan went on “The Chris Matthews Show” to talk about what Obama’s personal endorsement of gay marriage meant to him.
A lot, apparently:
“It’s hugely important, and to tell you the truth I didn’t realize how important it would be until it happened. Beforehand, I was kind of steeled. I was like, ‘I don’t care, he’s going to disappoint us again.’ And then I sat down and watched our president tell me that I am his equal, that I’m no longer outside, I’m fully part of this family and to hear the president who is in some ways a father figure speak to that, the tears came down like with many people in our families, to be included.
“I never understood the power of a president’s words until that day, really. I thought, all that matters is the states and the Congress and the Defense of Marriage Act and I had all this in my head and suddenly this man saying, ‘I’m with you, I get it, you’re like me, I’m like you, there is nothing between us, we are the same people and we are equal human beings and I want to treat you the way you treat me.’ That—that was overwhelming. That’s all I can say. I was at a loss for words.”
The general reception from Democrats and LGBT activists has been rather cynical, with a chorus of “it’s just a political decision designed to drum up votes and money, which perhaps will fail spectacularly and end up losing us key swing states in November.” So it’s nice to see someone as influential as Andrew Sullivan take the positive approach on this monumental moment, which, removed from the political spin-game, is culturally groundbreaking.
Yes, perhaps Obama is playing politics. He always is, because he’s the President of the Free World. But he’s also becoming part of our family, and in that way the whole United States of America could be considered our first, second (or distant) cousins.
Which level of proximity you and your gay friends want to take all depends on how often you want the breeders over for dinner with their yappy bratty kids.
|
<urn:uuid:abc56bf8-6c73-4e0d-8bcb-30853e15617b>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://www.queerty.com/andrew-sullivan-tears-up-on-tv-calling-obama-a-father-figure-to-gay-family-20120514
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00130-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.97714
| 513
| 1.546875
| 2
|
St. Matthew (apostle),
born as Levi son of Alphaeus (Gospel by St. Mark), is traditionally believed
to be the author of the first Gospel. Before his vocation he was a tax
collector in Capharnaum. After the scattering of the apostles, St. Matthew
preached in Ethiopia. There he unmasked two magicians, who were worshiped
as gods, triumphed over the magicians' dragons and resurrected the daughter
of King Hegesippus, who was thus converted. He was executed for protesting
against the marriage of King Hirtiacus with his niece Iphigenia, by beheading,
burning at the stake or stoning. Matthew is the patron saint of bankers
and tax officials.
See: Caravaggio The Martyrdom of St. Matthew, The Calling of St. Matthew, St. Matthew and the Angel.
Benozzo Gozzoli. St.Matthew. The Four Evangelists.
Jan Sanders van Hemessen. Jesus Summons Matthew to Leave the Tax Office.
Jacob Jordaens. The Four Evangelists.
Georges de La Tour. St. Matthew.
Pontormo. St. Matthew the Evangelist.
Nicolas Poussin. Landscape with St. Matthew.
Rembrandt. St. Mathew and Angel.
The Book of Saints: The Lives of the Saints According to the Liturgical Calendar by George Angelini, Victor Hoagland (Editor). Regina Press, Malhame & Company, 1986.
365 Saints: Your Daily Guide to the Wisdom and Wonder of Their Lives by Woodeene Koenig-Brick (Author). Harper SanFrancisco, 1995.
Twelve Who Followed Jesus by Landrum P. Leavell. Broadman Press, 1975.
The Galilean Dialogues: On the Road With the Master and the Twelve by Joe F. Tarpley. Vantage Press, 1994.
Prophets & Apostles of the Last Dispensation by Lawrence R. Flake. Deseret Books, 2001.
Voices from Ancient Bethlehem: A Dialogue With Jesus and the Twelve Apostles by Scribe. Jodere Group, 2003.
Twelve Ordinary Men by John MacArthur (Author). W Publishing Group, 2002.
The Twelve: The Lives of the Apostles After Calvary by Bernard Ruffin. Our Sunday Visitor, 1998.
|
<urn:uuid:bee87155-dda0-4cf1-9c3c-f75f2aae174c>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.abcgallery.com/saints/matthew.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00160-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.849707
| 503
| 2.28125
| 2
|
Comfrey, True (Symphytum officinalis) root crown cutting, organic
Family: Borage (Boraginacea)
Hardy in Zones 4 to 8
Herbaceous perennial native to Europe. True Comfrey is the original herb as detailed in all the ancient literature. Traditional usage (TWM): used externally to speed healing. Source of allantoin, which proliferates cell growth, making things grow faster, which is one of the reasons it is so often employed in an orchard and garden context–it is the quintessential all-around companion plant. True Comfrey prefers full sun and regular garden soil. Good drainage is helpful (add sand and organic matter to clayey soil) and frequent watering is also helpful. To plant a true comfrey root, find a spot with good sun and rich soil. Plant the root with root down and crown up, burying the crown by at least an inch of soil. Water the spot. The Comfrey will soon send leaves up through the soil surface and… you’re off! After the plant reaches the late flowering stage, simply cut it back and lay the leaves back down on the crown. It will regrow through its own mulch.
Crown Cutting, Certified Organically Grown
|
<urn:uuid:2e8fed83-4315-40d8-9872-9763ee7f73b2>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://strictlymedicinalseeds.com/product/comfrey-true-symphytum-officinalis-crown-cutting-root-organic/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00270.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.920358
| 265
| 2.484375
| 2
|
I've planted sedums in the Silver and Green garden, near our kitchen. It is shallow, sandy, dry soil, and the sedums tolerate it well.
Fat bumbleebees hover and then land on the thick flowers. I've seen two distinct types of bees: black and yellow honeybees, and larger, fatter, orange and black ones.
This sedum, pictured left, is called Strawberries and Cream, and the bees certainly feast on it like it's dessert. Another which provides great colour - green flowers fading to pink - is the slightly taller variety, 'Autumn Joy', pictured below.
|
<urn:uuid:3ea49b6c-c889-4767-b09b-d8c5617a7f9e>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.neatshomegarden.com/seasonal-blog/bumble-bees-sedum
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00070.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.921668
| 131
| 1.921875
| 2
|
En español | Grieving the loss of a loved one is a deep and difficult challenge at any time. But the holiday season can magnify your sense of loss and mourning. Family gatherings and seasonal events can be painful reminders of the absence of a loved one. At the same time, they can also be comforting rituals where you spend time with family and friends, focusing on good memories and trying to recapture your sense of joy. If you are mourning a loss of a loved one this year, here are some important things to keep in mind.
1. Only do what feels right. It's up to you to decide which activities, traditions or events you can handle. Don't feel obligated to participate in anything that doesn't feel doable. Grieving takes time. You are very vulnerable right now, so all you need to do is get through the day or week or season — in a healthy way. Try not to think much beyond that.
2. Accept your feelings — whatever they might be. Everyone takes his or her own path in grief and mourning. Some may try to avoid sad feelings; others will be bathed in tears. Some feel bad that they aren't up for enjoying a holiday; others feel guilt because they are feeling joy. However you feel, accept it. And accept the inevitable ups and downs: You may feel peaceful one moment and gut-wrenchingly sad the next. Try to stay in tune with your own highest truth and you will know how to get through the holiday without judging yourself or others.
3. Call on your family and friends. Talk with loved ones about your emotions. Be honest about how you'd like to do things this year — if you want to talk about those who have passed, then do so, and let others know it's OK. Take a buddy to events for support and create an "escape plan" together in case you need to bow out quickly. Read books about getting through the holidays after loss, and seek out support groups, lectures or faith-community events. Seek professional support from a therapist. Stay in touch with others who are grieving via online groups and connections with friends.
4. Focus on the kids. Many holidays place special attention on children, and it often helps to focus on their needs. Realize that your choices around getting through the holidays may affect the children in your family. If you withdraw, they may not understand why you don't want to join family festivities. Perhaps you can participate in the family rituals or gatherings that are most important to the kids, and excuse yourself when you reach your limit.
5. Plan ahead. Sometimes the anticipation is worse than the actual holiday. Create comforting activities in the weeks approaching a holiday so that you have something to look forward to rather than building up a dread of the pain the holiday could bring. New activities might be easier, but familiar traditions might be comforting as well — do what feels best for you. Surrounding yourself with positivity can be very helpful.
6. Scale back. If the thought of many holiday activities feels painful, overwhelming or inappropriate this year, cutting back may help. For example, you might opt for minimal decorations at home and take a break from sending holiday greetings, or try e-greetings instead of the more time-consuming task of mailing greeting cards. You could limit holiday parties to small gatherings with your closest friends and family. Do whatever feels safe and comfortable to you. Create realistic expectations for yourself and others, but above all be gentle with yourself.
7. Give. It's amazing how in times of grief, sometimes the biggest comfort is to give to others. We often feel paralyzed by the sheer emotion — sadness, feelings of helpless or hopelessness. In times of loss, we often want to do something that will make a difference. Consider these options:
- If you've lost a loved one, gift-giving at holiday times may be a challenge. Shopping for gifts and seeing the perfect gift for someone you know you will never be able to give a gift to again can be devastating. Shopping online may be a better option for you.
- You might purchase something that symbolizes the person or time before your loss and donate it to a needy family. Or make a donation in a loved one's name to a charity or cause he or she cherished.
- Negative circumstances may surround the loss you have experienced, and it's so easy to fall into a focus on the sadness, horror or anger. Try channeling your energies in positive ways to create good in the world, rather than perpetuate the negative. Volunteer to help people in some way that is related to that which has caused such anguish. Give of your time and talents or make a donation to a related charity.
8. Acknowledge those who have passed on. When we are grieving a loss of someone very close to us, it can be helpful to participate in a related holiday ritual in his or her memory. Some ideas: lighting candles for them, talking about them, buying children's toys or books to donate in their name, dedicating a service to them, planting a tree, making a card or writing a letter, displaying their picture or placing an item of theirs among holiday decorations.
9. Do something different. Acknowledge that things have changed; indeed, the holiday will not be the same as it was ever again. Accepting this will help manage expectations. Plan new activities, especially the first year after the loss. Go to a new location for family celebrations, change the menu or go out to eat, volunteer, invite friends over, attend the theater, travel … create new memories. Many families return to their usual routines and rituals after the first year, but some enjoy incorporating their new experiences permanently.
10.Skip it. If you feel that it will be too much for you and you'd like to simply opt out of participation in a holiday, let family and friends know. But plan alternative comforting activities for yourself and let someone know what you will be doing. It's a good idea to make sure someone checks in with you on that day.
Also of Interest
- 4 things you should never say to your aging parents
- 5 most commonly misdiagnosed conditions in the ICU
See the AARP home page for deals, savings tips, trivia and more
Discounts & Benefits
Next ArticleRead This
|
<urn:uuid:430b6a5e-cfd9-4e85-bf26-b0ec88e1cbff>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-12-2012/death-loss-christmas-holidays-goyer.html?intcmp=AE-HF-RELBOX
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.958949
| 1,296
| 2.4375
| 2
|
Another Alpha Problem
by John Wahoo on Apr 21, 2013 at 12:45:50 pm
this should be very straight forward.
I have a a material with different Maps (color, specular, normal, and displacement) and want to add an alpha channel.
I used the original color map that had an alpha channel as well as a black and white image, but both give me a thin black line on the top of the plane, where the material is applied to (see image attached)
|
<urn:uuid:e9b81633-17dc-4d50-b398-46cd995948d4>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/19/881426
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00539-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.937343
| 103
| 1.53125
| 2
|
The passing of Steve Jobs came in as an instant shock that morning as I was reading the news on my phone. While it wasn't as much of a surprise as when MJ passed away, mainly because I had seen that one photo of Steve wearing a black gown coming back from the hospital, something inside me felt empty. When many flooded the social media and TV with messages of condolences and looking back at his achievements, I just watched not sure how I should express the loss.
So after about a week later, when I was asked if I can do a talk on Steve Jobs for Refresh Colombo, I immediately and almost impulsively said YES! But I still wasn't sure what I wanted to say. One thing I did know was that I didn't want to recap his life or accomplishments like I knew the guy.
Soon after accepting the talk, the next thing I almost instantly realized was that I needed to get Chanux in as a co presenter, not because we've recorded so many episodes of a podcast together but due to his reaction to Steve's death, which surprised me even more than Steve's death itself.
Why the majority of the people reacted the way they did will probably take a book to investigate, rather than a simple blog post, but I suspect it's complicated. So rather, I asked myself, what is it about Steve Jobs that I'm mostly going to miss. The keyword here being mostly, I realized I was going to miss his persona, his insight, his principals and his approach to doing things. And so that is what I decided the talk should be about - what made Steve great, or rather insanely great!
Myself and Chanux started doing brain dumps of Steve quotes which captured his philosophy just from the top of our heads. The way I saw it, if we couldn't really remember a particular quote and had to research on the Internet then it hasn't really had much of an impact on us personally. And so except for looking for some great images of which suited the slides, we didn't much go looking for his quotes. Consequently this probably means we might have not got the quotes in verbatim accuracy.
What follows is our presentation slides which we delivered last week. By highlighting these tidbits, we hope that it will inspire you to think differently about what you are currently doing before it is too late. Because our time on this planet is quite limited and even if we believe we're coming back it doesn't matter when it takes a new form factor with a completely new UI and Operating System!
|
<urn:uuid:372214af-c2ac-45b5-9a8f-1c3fb8678878>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.geekaholic.org/2011/10/remembering-steve-jobs.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.990639
| 514
| 1.554688
| 2
|
Thus said the bumper sticker placed on the classroom wall by a teacher in a public high school. At another public high school, also in Los Angeles, with the principal’s permission, 600 Fairfax High School students walked out of the school at noon and took to the streets to protest America’s possible war on Iraq. The students clearly considered the upcoming United Nations report by Hans Blix irrelevant, as the students planned the protest days in advance. According to a police spokesperson, the walkout caught the force flat-footed, with some student protesters throwing rocks and other debris.
Wait ’til they get to college.
On college campuses across America, teachers influence students by running down America, demeaning capitalism, exaggerating “oppression” against minorities and women, and denouncing Republicans in general and George W. Bush in particular. In “Showdown: Confronting Bias, Lies and the Special Interests That Divide America,” my new book, I argue that leftists dominate campus teaching. University of California Los Angeles education Professor Peter McLaren, in a recent UCLA Daily Bruin article, attacks my “right-wing libertarianism” and denies the charge of liberal bias, asserting, “The claim that leftist professors and teachers have taken over universities is palpably misguided.” Really?
American Enterprise magazine examined the political registrations of professors in 20 colleges and universities. The study divided the registrations into those belonging to a “party of the left” – either Democrats, Greens, or some other liberal political party; and a “party of the right” – either Republican or Libertarian. Take, for example, Professor McLaren’s UCLA. Of the 31 English professors with a registered political affiliation, 29 belong to a party of the left. Of the 56 history professors, 53 belong to the party of the left. Of 13 journalism professors with an affiliation, 12 belong to a party of the left. Of 17 political science professors with a registration, 16 belong to a party of the left. And of the 33 women’s studies professors, 31 belong to a party of the left.
What about Cornell University? Of the 12 anthropology professors, 11 are registered to a party of the left. Of 13 economics professors, 10 are with a party of the left. Also on the left, 35 out of 36 English professors. All 29 out of 29 history teachers are registered with a party of the left. Of the 17 political science teachers, 16 registered to the left. Psychology professors totaled 25 to the left out of 26. Sociology managed a 7 registered to the left out of 7. Women’s studies was 33 to 0 to the left.
Stanford University? Anthropology, 15 of 16 to the left. Economics, 21 of 28. English, 31 of 33. History, 22 of 24. Political science, 26 of 30. Psychology, 20 of 20. Sociology, 11 of 12. Women’s studies, 5 of 5.
Pollster Frank Luntz, last year, surveyed the political affiliations of Ivy League humanities professors. Fifty-seven percent called themselves Democrat, and only 3 percent Republican. When asked to identify the best United States president in the last 40 years, they named, by the largest plurality, Bill Clinton. And while only 11 percent of Americans support reparations, 40 percent of professors approved.
This tracks the leftward tilt in journalism. A 1995 poll by the Roper Center for the Freedom Forum showed that 89 percent of Washington reporters polled voted for Bill Clinton, vs. 43 percent for the general public. And only 9 percent described themselves as right of center. But at least most journalists profess a goal of nonpartisanship. Elaine Povich, former Capitol Hill reporter with the Chicago Tribune, insisted, “One of the things about being a professional is that you attempt to leave your personal feelings aside as you do your work.”
Do college professors teach their politics without providing alternative points of view? Must they?
The American Association of University Professors’ general secretary, Mary Burgan, insists that professors labor under no such obligation. “It would be impossible to do that,” said Burgan, “given how many opposing viewpoints there are. It is the job of the faculty to decide which critical, relevant and commanding ones to concentrate on in the classroom.” University of California San Diego Provost David Jordan agrees, “Why should I teach a point of view I don’t agree with? I should teach what is useful to the student. I don’t know that I have a responsibility to teach somebody’s view that is benighted or irrelevant.” Don’t tell that to UCLA Professor Robert Hennig, who says, “If you just present your views, you are doing a disservice to your students.”
Question: To what extent do professors’ leftist views affect their students’ worldview, ideology and voting patterns? UCLA political science Professor Thomas Schwartz, a Republican, says, “It has to.”
In other words, if teachers teach ineffectually, why bother going to class?
|
<urn:uuid:74a28fb8-d67b-4dd6-afd9-47ed2f3cb181>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.wnd.com/2003/01/17002/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.925968
| 1,064
| 2.046875
| 2
|
In Canada, 7 out of 10 youth drop out of organized sport by age 13, largely due to
"I am very proud that myself and Sport Calgary are very supportive of Dare to Care and its programs. We understand the importance of mental health and confidence, and we know that sports can play a huge role in helping to strengthen that side. Dare to Care helps integrate the students, athletes, and the entire community so that our youth will be healthy in body, mind, and spirit."
Catriona Le May Doan
2 Time Olympian
Double Gold Medalist
Bullying is a societal problem that is impacting individuals in all areas of school, work, sport, and home life. In the sporting world, there is a fine line between competitive play and bullying. Whether it’s from parents, players or coaches, disrespectful behaviour has become a growing concern in our gyms, swimming pools, rinks and on our playing fields.
In North America, 7 out of 10 youth quit organized sport by age 13. The number one reason for this mass exodus, according to youth, is the continuous yelling and criticism they must endure from their coaches and parents. The ‘fun’ in sport has been replaced by a ‘win at all cost’ attitude. Sadly, the cost of this attitude is an increase in dropout rates, an increase in childhood obesity, and an increase in youth mental illness. The correlation between a child’s participation in sports and a child’s overall well-being, whether it be at a recreational level or competitive level, is undeniable. We need to bring the fun back into organized sports, and the first step is to eliminate the stressors that are causing kids and families to drop out in the first place.
BE ABOUT KIDS
AND THEIR PASSION, NOT PARENTS AND THEIR GOALS
|
<urn:uuid:338565e7-b965-44a0-9d64-492875f2a212>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://www.daretocare.ca/sports
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00677.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.957059
| 395
| 2.5625
| 3
|
The Prime Minister will address the House of Commons on Wednesday in a statement which responds to the independent report, chaired by James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool.
Mr Cameron will speak with a tone of regret, a source said, but because he was not due to see the report until after the weekend, it remains unclear whether he will issue a full apology to the families of the victims.
The source said: "It's hard to be more definitive until we have seen the report – and we haven't yet."
Although the tragedy happened during an FA cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest in 1989, Mr Cameron would not be alone in apologising for events which occurred long before he took office.
In 2006 Tony Blair expressed his "deep sorrow" for Britain's role in the slave trade, while in 2010 Gordon Brown formally apologised to tens of thousands of British child migrants forcibly shipped to commonwealth countries between 1920 and 1967.
Mr Cameron himself apologised for the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland after the publication of the Saville Report in 2010. Families of the 96 who died at Hillsborough hope he will make another full apology on Wednesday.
The new report into the Hillsborough disaster will accompany the publication of thousands of official documents related to the incident for the first time.
Some of the papers are being released under the 30-year rule, while others have been taken from the archives of 80 organisations including the Government, Sheffield City Council, the South Yorkshire coroner and local police, ambulance and fire services.
Families of those who died will be the first to see the 400,000 pages of documents when they are made available on Wednesday morning. A statement to MPs will be made later in the day.
The accompanying report is expected criticise police for shirking responsibility for the tragedy and for attempting to shift the blame onto drunken football fans.
A previous report into the incident by Lord Justice Taylor, published in 1990, established that a failure of "police control" was the main reason for the disaster, but campaigners are still unhappy no individual or organisation has been held accountable.
Margaret Aspinall, chairwoman of the Hillsborough Families Support Group, whose 18-year-old son James died at Hillsborough, said: "The myth started from day one. I do believe there were things going on behind closed doors to put the blame mostly on the fans.
"This is what the families and the fans have been fighting for 23 years. Without the truth you cannot grieve and where there is deceit you get no justice."
The Hillsborough Independent Panel, headed by the Rt Rev Jones, was set up three years ago on the 20th anniversary of the disaster to oversee the "maximum possible" disclosure of information on the incident.
Liverpool Walton MP Steve Rotheram, who was in the stands as the tragedy unfolded, said: "Bishop James Jones is a man of the highest integrity and I've put my faith and trust in him and the panel.
"They have had to trawl though nearly half a million documents. Some of them may appear to be superfluous and of no real relevance, but they may help us understand the bigger picture and perhaps explain the chain of causation and some of the things that happened at a government level and in the aftermath of the tragedy."
|
<urn:uuid:b3800726-3198-4ca2-8b78-16a5e25e5254>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/9532048/Cameron-to-express-regret-over-Hillsborough.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.968286
| 671
| 1.523438
| 2
|
Although not a mandatory part of the admissions process, the college interview offers a prime opportunity to enhance a prospective student’s overall application profile. The college interview allows both student and school to learn additional details about each other. It generally is a casual event, not so much evaluative as it is informative for both parties. College interviews help to reinforce demonstrated interest in a particular school, another chance to reveal how a school represents the proper fit. For students debating whether or not to sit for a college interview, the swift answer is do sit!
Part and parcel to preparing for the interview is to complete a thorough evaluation of the merits of a particular college in relation to one’s preferences. This vital step elevates the conversation and enhances one’s enthusiasm for participating in the interview. Recognizing personal interests, goals for higher education and commitment to a particular program helps to convey enthusiasm for what a college seeks in their students. While interviews are often guided Q and A sessions that do not try to (intentionally) corner students or pin them down on esoteric topics, it is prudent to anticipate the type of questions typically included (sample list follows). Scripted responses sound artificial and limit the authenticity of one’s answers. However, it is good to go in with concise and cogent answers to the customary questions to illustrate your desire to attend.
With each successive interview that a student takes, there is a sense of accomplishment, that one has fulfilled an important step in their quest to gain admission to a preferred college. Furthermore, the interview acts as a guide post to refer to in drawing conclusions and impressions about the college itself. As a matter of course, it is good to keep a journal of college visits and to include the takeaways gathered from the interview experience. Once applications have been submitted and students await admissions decisions, it is often the positive impressions gained from experiences like the college interview that reveal a student’s top priority school.
Sample College Interview Questions:
- Why do you want to attend our college?
- What can you contribute to our campus community?
- What do you want to get out of your college experience?
- What courses have you enjoyed most?
- Are your grades an accurate reflection of your potential?
- Which of your activities is most rewarding and why?
- What has been your biggest achievement/accomplishment? Why?
- How did you spend last summer?
- How would you describe yourself to someone who did not know you?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
- What do you want to do after you graduate from college? Ten years from now?
- What’s the most difficult situation you’ve faced?
- If you could change one thing about your high school, what would it be?
- How do you define “success”?
- Who do you count as your role model(s)?
- What about you is unique?
- What is the best book you have read? Why?
- If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- If you are accepted into our school, what activities would you like to participate in?
|
<urn:uuid:3042cd73-0801-43ed-8cfc-bf735c86f7f4>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://universitycollegeadvisors.com/blog/preparing-for-the-college-interview/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00074.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.959633
| 667
| 2.40625
| 2
|
"School Choice International knows that your company's success depends on instant productivity when you relocate employees, and School Choice International delivers peace of mind by ensuring that the family transition goes smoothly."
Liz Perelstein, Founder and Chair
The only web-based resource for families to understand and compare educational systems across the globe
Developed by School Choice International, the world’s leading education consulting firm, Global Education Explorer 2.0 TM is the only web tool of its kind that enables families to quickly compare school curriculums, assessments, schooling and customs between countries. What’s more important than a child’s education? Parents understandably worry about their children’s education and adjustment to a new country and culture, which are major stressors in international relocation or repatriation. Accurate country specific ‘what parents need to know’ information, on schooling and educational customs can make all the difference to a successful transition.
Easily research and answer questions like:
- Are local schools an option?
- How are special needs children accommodated?
- What is the difference in math taught between the home and host destinations?
- What tests have to be taken for school admission?
- How do children get to school?
- As a self serve, low cost tool to assist relocating families in understanding and comparing global education choices
- In conjunction with traditional educational consulting services to reduce costs and supplement information
- As a resource for employees during pre-decision, while on assignment and upon repatriation.
- To supplement corporate benefits with educational information for everyone in your organization.
Corporate subscriptions: allows companies to purchase a set number of licenses with unlimited access throughout the year. For more information and pricing please contact us.
|
<urn:uuid:c2364b41-a662-46c4-a97b-0b70eaa88b17>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.schoolchoiceintl.com/what-we-do/web-based-services/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.937419
| 359
| 1.765625
| 2
|
The angel provides revelation concerning aspects of the woman (Rev. Rev. 17:15-18+) and the beast with the seven heads and ten horns (Rev. Rev. 17:8-14+, Rev. 17:16-17+). The remainder of the chapter is devoted to these two topics.
Carries is βαστάζοντος [bastazontos] , indicating that the beast supports or bears her, used of animals used for riding,1 but also used figuratively: Mat. 20:12).2 Although the Beast carries her for a season, ultimately he and his ten kings turn upon her and consume her (Rev. Rev. 17:16-17+) bringing about Gods judgment upon her. Perhaps her ride upon the Beast is eventually seen to be too burdensome so he throws her off. She may ultimately prove to be a liability and a competition in his eventual bid for all attention and worship (2Th. 2Th. 2:4).
seven heads and ten horns
See commentary on Revelation 17:3.
1 Frederick William Danker and Walter Bauer, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 137.
|
<urn:uuid:48e1b26a-202b-4f2d-b10c-83c0ae505faf>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.biblestudytools.com/commentaries/revelation/revelation-17/revelation-17-7.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00548-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.923365
| 262
| 2.390625
| 2
|
The European Union takes the final step towards approval of the Data Governance Act
The Data Governance Act (DGA) aims to establish robust mechanisms to facilitate the re-use of certain categories of protected public sector data, increase trust in data brokering services and encourage data altruism across the European Union.
This is an important component of the EU’s data strategy, which aims to boost the data economy. The new rules will apply 15 months after the entry into force of the Regulation.
What does the EU intend to achieve with this regulation?
The DGA will complement the 2019 Open Data Directive, which does not cover this type of data.
In this sense, the DGA creates a framework to foster a new business model – data brokering services – that will provide a secure environment in which companies or individuals can share data.
For companies, these services can take the form of digital platforms, which will support data sharing between businesses and facilitate compliance with data sharing obligations established not only by this law, but also by other legislation, whether at European or national level. By using these services, companies will be able to share their data without fear of misuse or loss of competitive advantage.
In the case of personal data, these services and their providers will help individuals to exercise their rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This will help individuals to have full control over their data and allow them to share it with a company they trust. This can be done, for example, through novel personal information management tools, such as personal data spaces or data wallets, which are applications that share such data with others, based on the consent of the data subject.
Introduction of the figure of data intermediaries
The Data Governance Act provides for the creation of so-called data intermediaries, new entities in charge of storing and processing data, to offer an intermediary service between data subjects and those entities that want to use the data, whether they are in the public or private sector.
Data brokers must guarantee the security, availability, integrity and usability of the data, that the data will only be used for their intended purpose and that they will not be sold to other entities for financial gain.
Data brokering service providers must be registered, so that their clients know that they can trust them. Furthermore, they may not use the shared data for other purposes, nor may they profit from the data, e.g. by selling it. However, they may charge for the transactions they carry out.
Other aspects included in this regulation
The DGA also makes it easier for individuals and companies to make data available on a voluntary basis for the common good, such as medical research projects.
Entities wishing to collect data for general interest purposes can apply for inclusion in a national register of recognised data altruism organisations, and registered organisations will be recognised throughout the EU. This is intended to provide the necessary confidence to encourage individuals and businesses to provide data to such organisations so that it can be used for the wider social good.
Furthermore, the DGA creates safeguards for public sector data, data brokering services and data altruism organisations against unlawful international transfer or government access to non-personal data. And for personal data, the European Union already has similar safeguards in place under the GDPR.
Letslaw es una firma de abogados internacionales especializada en el derecho de los negocios.
|
<urn:uuid:eb82d129-9790-4474-99ed-059cefc7a4a9>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://letslaw.es/en/the-european-union-takes-the-final-step-towards-approval-of-the-data-governance-act/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00676.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.914352
| 706
| 2.4375
| 2
|
The Future of Innovation is a collaborative project where over 350 leading thinkers from business, government, consulting and academia from around the globe share their thoughts, experiences, visions, concerns, and passions around The Future of Innovation, providing with insights into tomorrow’s innovation agenda.
According to Dr Bettina von Stamm and Dr Anna Trifilova, project leaders, “The Future of Innovation” is a little bit like a ‘Wikipedia’ for the next frontier of innovation. It is a must-have for everyone in the field of innovation, a snapshot of different view points, one of the most exciting innovation initiatives, the most wonderful journey, and even an innovation in itself. The Future of Innovation, book and website, has something in store for each of you:
- For the academics amongst you we hope that the book will provide you with some insights into where you might like to focus future research;
- For those of you in industry we hope that the book and website provide you with starting points for your innovation agenda, and introduce you to new models, frameworks and ways of thinking around innovation;
- For the consultants among you we believe that here you can find the seeds for exciting new fields in which to create new areas of expertise;
- For those of you from the public sector this website and the book can alert you to leading edge advancements and thinking that you may want to take into consideration for the development of policies, infrastructure and support.
Visitors are invited to join to the community by commenting on individual contributions, communicating directly with contributors, and submitting their own thoughts and dreams for The Future of Innovation.
- 192 Views
|
<urn:uuid:ba231957-aab0-4478-96e6-94e25b96d312>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.urenio.org/2009/07/09/the-future-of-innovation/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.937923
| 336
| 1.726563
| 2
|
A scientist has claimed that Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was not actually original.
Dr. Michael Weale stated that Patrick Matthew, a Scottish landowner and fruit farmer, a little-known antecedent of Charles Darwin, was under-appreciated even though he described the idea of large-scale evolution by natural selection decades before Darwin did.
AdvertisementHowever, some of his ideas were different from Darwin's but are equally valid.
Weale further added that Darwin used detailed, methodical force of argument to convince the world of evolution by natural selection, but Matthew's reasoning was brilliant in a different way, a concise piece of deduction that was well worth reading even today.
The study is published in the Biological Journal of the Linnean Society.
PMale Baboons Chose Females Based on Their Menstrual Cycles After Child Delivery Out Of 17,000 Drug Samples Collected Globally, 41% Failed To Meet Quality Standards M
You May Also Like
|
<urn:uuid:78739793-d218-4a5f-a0c1-9fc93d1b4a21>
|
CC-MAIN-2016-44
|
http://www.medindia.net/news/charles-darwins-contribution-to-evolutionary-theory-may-not-be-original-claims-scientist-148453-1.htm
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.950065
| 202
| 2.984375
| 3
|
Clinical Updates in Infectious Diseases
Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Rhone-Poulenc Rorer
Volume IV, Issue 4 - November 1998
Diagnosis and Treatment of Serious Antimicrobial-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Infection
Although strains of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to penicillin have caused infections for many years, isolates resistant to methicillin, oxacillin, and other ß-lactams have become predominant-primarily in the last 20 years. Strains resistant to ß-lactams and other cell-wall-active agents fall into several categories (Table 1).
Methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains were first described in England in 1961, shortly after methicillin became available for clinical use. They have subsequently spread throughout the world and are an important cause of nosocomial infections in many geographic areas, including the United States. Data from the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System reveal MRSA accounts for up to 40% of nosocomial S. aureus infections in large hospitals and 25% to 30% of such infections in smaller hospitals.
The vast majority of MRSA infections are acquired in hospitals or long-term care facilities (LTCFs). In a few cities, MRSA has been acquired in the community by intravenous drug users. Several recent reports have suggested MRSA may occasionally be transmitted in other community settings, particularly among preschool-age children, some of whom have attended daycare centers. Further studies are needed to determine if transmission of MRSA in community settings is becoming more common or is limited to a few geographic areas.
Classification of S. aureus
MRSA is of special concern because it is resistant not only to methicillin, oxacillin, and nafcillin but also to all other ß-lactams, including cephalosporins, imipenem and meropenem, and aztreonam. All MRSA strains contain a mecA gene and regulatory sequences that encode for production of a low-affinity penicillin-binding protein (PBP-2´) not present in methicillin-susceptible strains of S. aureus.
Most strains of MRSA are multidrug resistant. Resistance to erythromycin and clindamycin are very common and many strains are resistant to gentamicin, tobramycin, and ciprofloxacin. In some geographic areas, resistance to co-trimazole and rifampin are also common. Many strains are susceptible to minocycline. Recently, strains resistant to methicillin and oxacillin but susceptible to many non-b-lactam agents such as clindamycin and gentamicin have been recovered from a few patients who appear to have acquired the organism outside of healthcare settings. Such strains have been confirmed to possess the mecA gene, and will grow on oxacillin-salt screening plates. Clinicians need to be aware that these relatively "sensitive" MRSA strains can be confused with strains that do not contain the mecA gene.
Some strains of S. aureus that over-produce ß-lactamase appear resistant to oxacillin with routine disk diffusion susceptibility tests but are mecA-negative. Such strains usually have "borderline-resistant" minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) to oxacillin but are susceptible to nafcillin and many non-ß-lactam antibiotics. A few strains with decreased susceptibility to beta-lactam antibiotics have been shown to possess modified PBPs (but not PBP-2´).
Detection of Resistant S. aureus in the Laboratory
Many MRSA isolates are heterogeneously resistant to ß-lactams, i.e., only 1 daughter cell out of 104 to 106 cells appears phenotypically resistant when routine antimicrobial susceptibility tests are performed. For this reason, methicillin or oxacillin resistance is not detected well by some susceptibility testing systems (Table 2). The gold standard for determining if a strain of S. aureus is MRSA or not is to test the isolate for the presence of the mecA gene using polymerase chain reaction methods. However, this technique is not yet widely available in hospitals. Other reliable methods for detecting MRSA include oxacillin-salt screening plates containing 6 µg/mL of oxacillin plus 4% NaCl, broth microdilution tests with 2% NaCl, and agar dilution tests with 2% NaCl. Disk diffusion tests detect most MRSA but may not classify some heterogeneously resistant strains correctly. The above tests should be incubated at 35°C for a full 24 hrs. Most automated susceptibility testing systems reliably detect MRSA. Occasionally, methicillin-susceptible strains of S. aureus may be misclassified as MRSA by certain automated susceptibility testing systems, which may lead to inappropriate management of affected patients. Accurate detection of resistance to most non-ß-lactam antibiotics is not a problem for most clinical laboratories. S. aureus isolates with "borderline resistance" to oxacillin seldom, if ever, yield growth on oxacillin-salt screening plates, a trait that helps differentiate them from true MRSA isolates.
Epidemiology of MRSA
The prevalence of MRSA in hospitals varies considerably from one region to another and among hospitals in the same city. In some hospitals MRSA accounts for <10% of all S. aureus isolates, whereas in other facilities, they account for up to 65% of S. aureus isolates. MRSA is also reasonably common in LTCFs, especially those located near hospitals with high prevalence rates. In LTCFs affiliated with hospitals where MRSA is endemic, from 25% to 35% of residents may be culture-positive for MRSA at any given time. Although residents are often colonized, outbreaks of MRSA infections have seldom been reported in LTCFs.
The main reservoir of MRSA in hospitals is patients colonized or infected with MRSA. Although colonized patients have no signs or symptoms of infection, they can still serve as a source from which transmission may occur. Colonized personnel and contaminated environmental surfaces can also serve as reservoirs, but are not as important as affected patients. Presumably, MRSA reservoirs in LTCFs are similar to those in hospitals.
MRSA is most frequently transmitted from 1 patient to another via personnel who have not washed their hands between patients. Healthcare personnel who have persistent nasal colonization can transmit the organism to patients, especially if they develop a concomitant viral upper respiratory infection or MRSA sinusitis. Personnel with dermatitis colonized or infected with MRSA have also been responsible for outbreaks of MRSA infection. Transmission via contaminated articles or environmental surfaces may occur but this is a less important source. Airborne transmission is uncommon but may be a problem in special units housing patients with burn injuries or extensive dermatitis. Risk factors associated with acquisition of MRSA are shown in (Table 3).
Like other strains of S. aureus, the body site most commonly colonized with MRSA is the anterior nares. Other body sites that may be colonized with MRSA include open wounds, the respiratory tract, perineum, upper extremities, umbilicus (in infants), urinary tract, and axilla. Some patients remain colonized for only a few weeks and then become culture-negative without any specific therapy. However, patients with serious underlying diseases that require repeated hospitalization may remain colonized for more than 3 years.
About 40% to 60% of hospitalized patients colonized with MRSA develop an overt infection. In LTCFs, only 5% to 15% of colonized residents eventually develop an MRSA infection. The clinical criteria used to differentiate colonization from infection are the same as for other common bacterial pathogens. The most common infections caused by MRSA include surgical site infections (28%), bacteremia (21%), and other skin and soft tissue infections including omphalitis (21%) and lower respiratory tract infections (15%). Urinary tract infections, suppurative arthritis, and osteomyelitis are less common.
MRSA infections are of special concern for several reasons. These infections are associated with prolonged hospital stays and increased hospital costs, and few therapeutic options are available to treat affected patients. For example, 1 study showed that patients with serious MRSA infections stayed in the hospital an average of 12 days longer, and had average hospital costs of $5100 greater than comparable patients with methicillin-susceptible S. aureus (MSSA) infections. Fatality rates among patients with MRSA infections are not significantly higher than those observed among patients with infection caused by MSSA.
Treatment of MRSA Infections
Vancomycin continues to be the drug of choice for treating most MRSA infections caused by multidrug resistant strains. Clindamycin, co-trimoxazole, fluoroquinolones, or minocycline may be useful when patients do not have life-threatening infections caused by strains susceptible to these agents. For serious infections caused by strains that test susceptible to rifampin, adding this agent to vancomycin or a fluoroquinolone may contribute to improved outcomes. For example, a recent study found patients with S. aureus infections related to orthopedic implants had a better response rate if treated with a ß-lactam or vancomycin plus rifampin for 2 weeks, followed by 3 to 6 months of high-dose oral ciprofloxacin plus rifampin. Rifampin should not be used alone to treat MRSA infections because S. aureus strains easily develop resistance to this agent. For individuals with MRSA sinusitis, consider using a 2-drug combination that includes agents that penetrate well into nasal secretions, such as co-trimoxazole, rifampin, or minocycline. Test the infecting strain for susceptibility to these agents before committing patients to a course of therapy. Infections caused by non-MRSA isolates with borderline resistance to oxacillin may be treated with nafcillin. Treatment with vancomycin and special infection control precautions are not necessary for such patients.
Eradicating MRSA Colonization
Patients with serious underlying diseases often remain colonized in the anterior nares for a prolonged time, often several years. Such patients occasionally develop invasive MRSA infections after remaining colonized for months. For this reason, consider eradicating MRSA nasal carriage. Eradication of MRSA carriage can also eliminate the need for colonized patients to be placed in isolation when they are readmitted to acute care hospitals. Currently, the agent of choice for eradicating MRSA nasal carriage is calcium mupirocin ointment. Application of a small amount of ointment the anterior nares 2 to 3 times a day for 5 days is often effective. Longer treatment periods are not indicated. Follow-up nasal swab cultures should be performed 1 or more weeks after decolonization therapy, since nasal colonization will not be successfully eradicated in all patients. Those with wounds, ulcers or tracheostomy sites colonized by MRSA are not as likely to respond to topical intranasal therapy.
Eradicating MRSA from decubitus ulcers or other chronic wounds is difficult and there is controversy about the value of decolonization therapy in such patients. Any attempts to eradicate MRSA from such wounds using topical mupirocin should be limited to a 10-day course. Longer courses of topical mupirocin administration to such wounds has been associated with development of mupirocin-resistant strains of MRSA. Strains with both low-level and, to a lesser extent, high-level mupirocin resistance are being seen with increased frequency in the United Kingdom, where mupirocin has been used widely for several years.
Glycopeptide-Intermediate S. aureus
Most strains of S. aureus, including MRSA, are inhibited in vitro by vancomycin concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 2 µg/mL. Accordingly, it was of particular concern that in 1996, a strain of MRSA with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin (MIC=8 µg/mL) was isolated in Japan from a patient who responded poorly to vancomycin therapy. The isolate was found to have reduced susceptibility to another glycopeptide, teicoplanin, and therefore has been referred to as a glycopeptide-intermediate S. aureus (GISA). Since mid-1997, 3 patients with serious MRSA infections caused by similar GISA strains have been identified in Michigan, New Jersey, and New York and one case was reported from France.
All 4 patients had received preceding therapy with glycopeptides. Several had received repeated courses of vancomycin for many weeks before GISA was isolated from clinical specimens. In several instances, patients had infections related to indwelling vascular or peritoneal dialysis catheters that had not been promptly removed. Such infections are likely to be seen with increasing frequency, particularly among patients who receive prolonged (and sometimes inappropriate) courses of vancomycin therapy for MRSA infections.
Clinicians need to be aware that GISA strains are not detected by routine disk diffusion susceptibility tests. Broth dilution, agar dilution, and E-test methods appear to be reliable if the laboratory incubates susceptibility tests for a full 24 hrs. The Vitek system usually classifies GISA strains as having vancomycin MICs of 4 µg/mL (which is very unusual among S. mec isolates). Alternatively, isolates can be screened for reduced susceptibility to vancomycin by inoculating the organism onto agar plates containing 6 µg/mL of vancomycin. In patients with MRSA infections that appear to respond poorly to vancomycin, repeat cultures should be obtained from infected sites, and isolates should be tested using one of the methods mentioned above. Any confirmed GISA isolates should be promptly reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The first patient identified with a GISA infection responded to a combination of ampicillin and sulbactam plus arbekacin, an aminoglycoside available in Japan. Two patients in the United States have been treated with various regimens. To date, optimal therapy for GISA strains has not been established. Preliminary evidence from a rabbit model of infective endocarditis suggests a combination of vancomycin plus a ß-lactam may be effective against GISA infections. Investigational antimicrobials with in vitro activity against GISA strains include quinupristin-dalfopristin, linezolid, LY333328, and everninomycin.
Because GISA strains do not respond to treatment with vancomycin and are often resistant to many other antimicrobials, the Hospital Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee has issued guidelines for preventing the spread of GISA strains. Recommended measures should be implemented immediately if a GISA isolate is recovered from any patient, whether colonized or infected.
John M. Boyce, MD
Professor of Medicine
Providence, Rhode Island
Dr. Boyce currently has a research grant from Eli Lilly to study Staphylococcus aureus isolates with subpopulations that have reduced susceptibility to vancomycin. This research may also include looking at new investigational agents being developed by Eli Lilly.
- Clin Infect Dis 1997;24:S131-S135.
- JAMA 1998;279:593-598.
- J Antimicrob Chemother 1997;40:135-146.
- MMWR 1997;46:813-815.
- J Clin Microbiol 1998;36:1020-1027.
- MMWR 1997;46:626-635.
National Foundation for Infectious Diseases / 4733 Bethesda Avenue / Suite 750 / Bethesda, MD 20814 / (301) 656-0003
Published by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine / Englewood, CO / (800) 423-3576
Copyright © 1998. All rights reserved.
|
<urn:uuid:4189105f-10b7-4563-8da5-3681d477462b>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.nfid.org/content-conversion/idarchive/staph.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.924133
| 3,428
| 3.125
| 3
|
This Roasted Curry Cashews recipe is so easy to make and you are going to love the delicious, addictive flavor of this snack! It is a great party appetizer!
Feast your eyes on these beautiful, roasted, curried cashews:
I 100% adore curry spiced cashews. When I was in college, I lived in this awesome little house with 4 other people and 1 bathroom. Granted, we had intermittent ant/mice/opossum issues, but I did love that place.
The best part was there was this little store right across the street that had just about everything a college student would need. It had a little produce section with all of the essentials, toilet paper and shampoo, a whole wall of drinks, and a nifty little bulk foods section.
One day while I was picking up some milk, I noticed curry cashews in one of the bulk containers and decided to give them a try.
A love affair started that day.
I mean, cashews are already delicious in their plain, raw form. And you guys know all about my curry obsession. It’s a match made in heaven, right?
Did you know that cashews are low in sugar and rich in fiber, heart-healthy fats, and plant protein? They are also a good source of copper, magnesium, and manganese. These nutrients are important for energy production, brain health, immunity, and bone health.
Did you know that cashews are really not nuts? Botanically, a nut is a dry fruit that has a hard shell that covers a single seed. Examples of true nuts include acorns, chestnuts, and hazelnuts.
The fruits of the cashew, almond, and pistachio plants are not nuts, but are rather classified as drupes. What are drupes you ask? Drupes are fruits that are fleshy on the outside and contain a shell covering a seed on the inside. The cashews that we eat are these seeds.
Okay, back to the recipe.
I made a huge batch of these and brought in a container to work to share with my office mates. There were quite a few curry-stained fingers around the office that day!
This curry cashew recipe is really easy to make, and it comes together in about 15 minutes. Perfect for last minute guests or a dish to bring to a party!
Make a batch for your next get together and see how fast they disappear!
Ready to get snackin’?
Here’s the Roasted Curry Cashews Recipe!
Roasted Curry Cashews Recipe
- 1 lb. raw cashews
- 1/8 cup. coconut oil
- 1 Tablespoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper - optional
- Preheat your oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
- Place cashews on a large baking sheet and arrange in a single layer. Roast 7 to 9 minutes, until slightly golden brown.
- Meanwhile, melt the coconut oil in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Once melted, turn off the heat and stir in the spices.
- Place the roasted cashews in a large bowl. Pour the spiced coconut oil over the cashews and toss well to coat. Serve warm or at room temperature.
|
<urn:uuid:efae8632-974a-4007-abab-a48593988555>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://thewanderlustkitchen.com/curry-roasted-cashews/
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00672.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.959235
| 689
| 1.53125
| 2
|
Mitt Romney’s criticism of President Obama’s foreign policy has been unrelenting. The Republican presidential nominee has said Obama has let US dominance fall by the wayside, botched military withdrawals, let Iran move closer to nuclear capability, coddled China, and mishandled the Arab revolutions.
Obama, in turn, has suggested that Romney is a foreign policy novice who is posturing on Iran. Romney, he says, risks dragging a war-weary nation into another conflict, will sacrifice domestic programs to spend an extra and unneeded $2 trillion on defense, and will let a band of neoconservatives from the George W. Bush administration regain power.
Thus the stage is set for a fierce collision when the two meet Monday night in Florida for a foreign policy debate — the last debate to be held before Election Day — in which the positions of the candidates on war and world affairs will be on center stage in a way that hasn’t yet occurred in this campaign.
While the campaign has recently been consumed over questions about whether Obama misstated the reasons for the attack on a US consulate in Libya, the debate is likely to focus on a far larger question dividing the candidates when it comes to foreign policy: How far should the United States go in exerting its military might and geopolitical influence around the world, and at what cost?
Analysts said the candidates have surprisingly similar policies on some key foreign issues, such as the 2014 withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. But Obama and Romney have projected a starkly different view of how American power should be used in the future.
“Even if it turns out they agree point for point on America’s role in the world, there can be tremendous disagreement on how you implement that,” said Nora Bensahel, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, a nonpartisan national security think tank in Washington.
It is telling, analysts said, that the shadow of George W. Bush administration hangs over the foreign policy of both candidates. Obama has spent much of his term extricating the United States from wars that began under his predecessor, while Romney’s advisers include some of Bush’s most hawkish former aides, raising questions about whether the nominee is planning for a renaissance of neoconservative policy.
In the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden, foreign policy has been perceived as one of Obama’s greatest strengths. But Romney’s recent attacks on the president have helped close that gap. A poll conducted earlier this month by the Pew Research Center found that Obama is viewed as a better foreign policy leader than Romney by a four-point margin, compared with a 15-point advantage one month earlier.
Obama generally prefers a coalition approach and has strived to keep US ground troops out of new conflicts.
“President Obama came in and took a very different approach to US leadership than the Bush administration, which Romney seems to want to go back to,” Michele Flournoy, Obama’s former undersecretary of defense for policy, said in an interview. “The first term of Bush was threatening the use of military instruments and often being out front and alone.
“This president has said US leadership is about leveraging our alliance and partnerships to bring the international community together for more effective action. Yes, obviously we will take unilateral action when vital interests require it, i.e., [killing] bin Laden. But the preferred and more effective strategy is to lead others to the table. That is a fundamentally different approach in philosophy and style.”
Romney often has been bellicose, saying that he would be more willing to use American power to shape the world. But some of his charges have raised questions about how he would follow up if he becomes president. Romney, who has accused Obama of being too soft on China, has said he would declare the country a currency manipulator, a move that some fear could set off a new trade war, while Obama has said Romney is “the last person who is going get tough with China.”
One of Romney’s most controversial foreign policy statements came when he said that Russia is the “No. 1 geopolitical foe” of the United States, evoking memories of the Cold War.
“I’d like to know where the devil he gets that idea. It’s preposterous,” said Leslie Gelb, former president of the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations. Gelb, like a number of analysts, said that Romney has both “realists” and “neoconservatives” among his advisers, and he said the latter appear to have pushed him to excoriate Russia.
The Obama administration counts its “reset” of relations with Moscow as a major accomplishment that smoothed the way for Russian cooperation against Iran, including the cancellation of a large sale of defense equipment to Tehran. But Romney has called for a tougher stance, and says he would not normalize trade relations with Moscow until Congress passes a law targeting human rights abusers in Russia.
Alex Wong, the Romney campaign’s foreign policy director, defended the characterization of Russia as the nation’s primary foe, accusing Moscow of watering down sanctions against Iran. “This relationship has actually deteriorated over the last four years, and on every front Russia has been working to frustrate American interests,” he said.
One of the major questions about Romney is what brand of adviser would have the most influence if he becomes president. For example, former World Bank president Robert Zoellick, who comes from the more moderate realist camp, is running Romney’s national security transition team, while Dan Senor, widely considered to come from the more hawkish neoconservative camp, is a top adviser to Romney and running mate Paul Ryan.
Wong, asked if Romney considers himself a neoconservative, “Governor Romney’s foreign policy doctrine is he will do whatever it takes to make America stronger.”
Analysts said that, notwithstanding some harsh rhetoric, the two candidates have more in common than may be widely realized on issues regarding Iran, Israel, Afghanistan, and Libya.
In a recent speech at the Virginia Military Institute, for example, Romney said Obama “has failed to lead in Syria.” But much of Romney’s policy mirrors that of the president. Both men have opposed using US air power to create no-fly zones or safe havens, rejecting a proposal from Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican. Romney has said that he wants to help get arms to rebels, with the major caveat they must “share our values,” a vague condition that may be hard for a president to implement.
A key Romney adviser and leading neoconservative, former US ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, has said rebels who are “truly secular” should receive arms. (Bolton did not respond to a request for comment.) The Obama administration has said it won’t send weapons directly to the rebels, citing concern that they might get into the hands of terrorists, but has encouraged the shipment of some lighter arms via other countries.
On Afghanistan, the policy differences are nuanced. Romney backs the administration’s plan for withdrawing troops by 2014, but has also attacked Obama for publicizing the date in advance, arguing it would embolden terrorists who could simply wait out the next two years. The administration counters that setting a firm date is necessary to convince the Afghan government that it must step up to take responsibility for its security.
The White House says that international sanctions against Iran are working but that all options including military force are on the table to stop the country from getting a nuclear weapon. But despite pressure from Israel, the administration has declined to specify under exactly what conditions it might take military action.
Romney has given shifting explanations for when he would use force against Iran. He said during a visit to Israel this summer that he would not allow Iran to gain a “nuclear weapons capability.” In an interview with ABC News this fall, though, Romney appeared to raise his threshold from simply gaining a capability. “My red line is Iran may not have a nuclear weapon,” he said, a stance that appeared to mirror the president’s policy.
The clearest difference between the two candidates, though, may be on defense spending. Obama has proposed paring back planned expenditures by $487 billion over the next 10 years, while Romney has promised to increase spending on the basic military budget until it reaches 4 percent of GDP, up from a projected 3.5 percent in the 2013 budget. That would translate into about an additional $2 trillion over the next 10 years. He has not accounted for how all the extra money would be spent, and critics have questioned the idea of basing military spending on a percentage of GDP.
“There’s no strategy behind it,” Flournoy, of the Obama campaign, said at a Thursday debate in Washington with a Romney foreign policy adviser. “How in the world are you going to pay for it, especially if you are not willing to increase taxes for the wealthiest Americans?”
Romney adviser Dov S. Zakheim, an undersecretary of defense in the George W. Bush administration, responded at the debate that defense spending is not a major part of the debt problem. “The problem is entitlements,” he said, referring to programs such as Social Security and Medicare. “It is not defense. Defense is practically a rounding error. So if you want to go ahead and trade defense as a hostage for the issues that have to be dealt with, go right ahead. But the only people you will be helping are the Iranians, North Koreans, the Venezuelans, and others like them.”
Obama last week jokingly previewed what doubtless will be one of his key debate talking points on Monday night. “Spoiler alert,” Obama said. “We got bin Laden.”
|
<urn:uuid:841d63e9-a790-4780-85c7-4cdb3026d2f6>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://archive.boston.com/politicalintelligence/2012/10/20/mitt-romney-and-president-obama-share-key-foreign-views-but-have-different-visions-american-power-the-future/fIH5cUE94aSMlG2FupZlPP/singlepage.html
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00132-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.965965
| 2,061
| 1.726563
| 2
|
HOW I STOOD UP FOR MY WORDS WITHOUT BITCH SLAPPING ANYONE
Or the Art of Anger Management For Writers
Let’s talk about anger.
I was alerted by a friend on the by now famous incident that happened during the Oscars. Chris Rock, the host, made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head and how he was looking forward to GI JANE 2, the movie. Whether or not Chris was aware that Jada, Will Smith’s wife, suffered from a medical condition known as alopecia that causes hair loss, is not clear. But Jada did not like the joke. In response, Will Smith went up on stage and right in front of a worldwide audience, bitch slapped Chris Rock.
The slap ricocheted around the world.
So let’s talk about Anger.
And how once…
I Nearly Bit Off A Finger
I was giving notes to a director who showed me the first cut of an episode of a sitcom series. As a head writer and co-executive producer of a series, it was my job to view the director’s cut, give notes, and then the director would work with the editor on the next cut. This was necessary as the head writer overlooks the story arc of the entire season, and has to ensure each episode fits nicely into the overall narrative arc.
This particular first cut had problems.
The scene was set in a living room and the conversation was between five characters. For some reason, the director had each actor stand up every time the character delivered a line. When comedy depends heavily on the rhythm of dialogue, timing is everything. Add two seconds between a setup and a punchline and it’s as good as amputating the legs from a joke, causing it to fall flat. And that was what the director did, every time he made each actor stand up to deliver the line. When I inquired, very gently, why he was doing that, as it was not written in the script, the director sprang to his feet, his face livid with rage, and began to rant about how it was a boring scene, and that he was trying to inject humor because apparently, I did not understand comedy. Here, he thrust his right forefinger in front of my face mere inches from my philtrum, which is the space between your upper lip and nose, to emphasize — I DID NOT UNDERSTAND COMEDY.
When someone points a finger, and delivers a scathing insult to your philtrum, there are really only three responses.
First response? Stand. Retort — YOU don’t know SHIT about comedy. And counter thrust your finger at the philtrum opposite yours.
Second response? Bite that accusing finger. Hard.
Third response? Keep calm. And tell the director, sorry but this cut isn’t working, we’ve to sit and make it work, together.
I decided on the third response as it was absurd to have a meltdown over a bloody sitcom.
Since you can’t keep standing and pointing as you look like a silly twat, the director did the only thing he could do. He stormed off in a hissy fit. It was my first time I’ve seen a director pull off an act of hissy-fitting in front of me.
Now, looking back, I realize my response could so easily have been retaliatory. Like Sean Connery said in The Untouchables, when the director brought a knife to the fight, I could have brought a gun. I am no Will Smith on Oscar night, but I remembered the quickening of my pulse as my temper rose to a bite-finger level. I didn’t know how I managed to mentally step away.
Perhaps I was channeling what Seneca advised.
Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher in ancient Greece. He wrote an essay titled On Anger, which is still relevant to this day. You can check out the entire essay in How To Keep Your Cool, translated by James Romm, published by Princeton University Press.
Anger is a brief madness. In equal degrees, it is unable to govern itself, forgetful of decorum, ignorant of friendships, obstinate and intent on finishing what it begins, deaf to reason and advice, stirred up by empty provocations, unsuited to distinguishing what’s just and true, and resembles nothing so much as a collapsing building that breaks apart upon that which it crushes.
Seneca then went on to suggest some ways to avoid giving in to anger.
He recommended spending time with those who are most easy going and calmest, as we tend to take on the natures of our associates. The drunkard instils a love of hard drink in his fellows, Seneca says, and how as greed spreads its contagion to those who come near it, so do virtues follow the same principle in their own way. A better crowd benefits unsteady minds. Just as we should draw near to calm people, we should avoid and run far from those who we know are going to stir up our anger. The arrogant will offend you with their scorn. The acerbic with their insults. The impudent with their slights. The spiteful with their malice. The boastful and false with their vanity.
All these could be summed up in that director who pointed his finger at my face and belittled my writing ability. Seneca described the effects of anger on your temperament, and even though he lived hundreds of years ago, his words still ring true.
Just as there are warning signs of an impending storm, there are advance signals of anger. Your vision dims, you feel a nervous trembling, your head whirls.
I did feel anger and outrage. But I was able to stand outside myself and see those emotions for what they were. Instigators for me to lose my reason. And so I stood my ground. And the director walked away.
What else did Seneca advise?
Angry people should let their minds be given over to enjoyable arts. Pythagoras played the lyre to resolve troubles of the mind.
Woody Allen played jazz. Me. I play for the umpteenth time my classical guitar. And re-watch my favorite comedies, Cheers, Mash, and Silicon Valley.
Save for that one finger pointing incident, the experience of working on that show was great. Contrast that with my experience of writing…
The First Episode Of Under One Roof, The Most Successful Sitcom In Singapore
I was starting out as a writer. It was my first sitcom episode. I was attempting to write a monologue to be delivered by an actor. A monologue that not only had to summarize the theme of the entire episode, but tell a funny story on its own. I remembered lying on my bed at three in the morning, penning the story on paper, crossing out words, mouthing out loud the sentences, crossing out more words, and finally, at 430 am, typing up the story and delivering it to the team.
It was a story of how the char siew pau or pork dumpling got its red dot. I sat in on the rehearsals. I was open to any feedback from anyone, especially the actor, Moses Lim, who would be performing this monologue. I had gone through the lines so many times in my head that I was numb. I did not know if the story was funny anymore. I was filled with dread.
Until Moses Lim performed.
He spoke every word as written. He used his body, hands, and face, to service the words and the story. And boy, did it work. I learnt two things then.
1. Moses Lim was a gifted comedic actor.
2. I could write comedy.
More importantly, I could write comedy because someone performed my words exactly as written, and the words worked.
And knowing that boosted my confidence and taught me that….
A Writer Must Be Precious About His Words
It’s not to serve a writer’s ego. It’s so that the writer can tell that what he has put into flesh, can walk. And any director, or producer, who changes the words, resulting in a scene that does not work, does a disservice to the writer’s education. You, as the writer, would not have learnt anything other than the fact that your words were changed and what was changed did not work. And not knowing if your scene construction had worked, means you continue to live in Doubt’s shadow. You can’t bring your experience as a writer to the next project because in the previous project, you did not know if your writing was any good.
Because you did not stand up for your words.
As a writer, you’re the first audience to any story. After you have gone through several drafts of your script, you’re now ready to present your work to the world. Whatever happens next, whether your words and the order in which you put them, has conveyed accurately the emotion and the story, will depend on the audience. The audience will teach you and bring you to another level as a writer. And for that to happen, YOU, the writer, must always be doing the writing. Not the director, not the producer, not anyone else.
In your career in the creative arts, you will come across all kinds of personalities, who will sling arrows at your words, and find ways to wound your enthusiasm. Arrogant directors. Unreasonable network executives. Incompetent producers. Jealous writers. Before you let the urge to punch/bite/slap hijack your brain, remember to step back, and consider the words of wise Seneca.
Anger is a brief madness.
Stand up for your words.
But do it with quiet fortitude.
But stand up for your words.
|
<urn:uuid:678382b9-44f8-4fa0-9fe7-a235f131c678>
|
CC-MAIN-2022-33
|
https://andrewcm-ngin.medium.com/how-i-stood-up-for-my-words-without-bitch-slapping-anyone-4b9340198dc2?source=read_next_recirc---------3---------------------79623da3_2da3_4164_9bdb_38c07f9aa3d2-------
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00666.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.977529
| 2,076
| 1.671875
| 2
|
“I don’t want to go to war for Hitler, I’ll admit it, but I don’t want to go against him, for the Jews,” Louis-Ferdinand Céline ranted in 1937. He turned his attention to the French prime minister, Léon Blum: “I’d prefer a dozen Hitlers to one all-powerful Blum. Hitler, at least, I could understand, while with Blum it’s pointless, he’ll always be the worst enemy, absolute hatred, to the death.”
Such vile lines—there were many others—cast a dark shadow over a man who, in a universe devoid of context, would have been celebrated as one of the greatest French writers of the twentieth century, second, perhaps, only to Proust. After the war, he had to flee Paris—where, after the fall of the Vichy regime, he was tried in absentia as a collaborator with the Nazis—and hide out in Denmark until he was pardoned in 1951. Even death put no end to Céline’s shame: Just this week, Jewish community activists successfully petitioned culture minister Frederic Mitterrand to remove Céline’s name from an annual list honoring major figures in French history.
Céline—who died of an aneurysm in 1961, a broken 67-year-old—would, most likely, have taken no end of perverse pleasure in the decision to deny him his just merits. One of his favorite themes, in his prose and correspondence alike, was the laurels denied him—a few real, most imagined—for his anti-Semitic opinions. And nothing, of course, thrills a paranoid man more than proof that he is being chased. But the decision also shows how little we’ve learned from the old debate about learning to separate the artist from the art.
Céline’s great novel, Journey to the End of the Night, as well as his lesser works (most notably the wild, chaotic, and heartbreaking Death on the Installment Plan), still speak much louder than his petty pronouncements and hate-filled screeds. Choosing to hear the latter and not the former, and focusing our attention on the politics of the man and not on the permanence of the art, makes us not purer but poorer. It is time—it was time a long time ago—that we stopped with such nonsensical bits of identity politics.
“I can’t help suspecting that the only true manifestations of our innermost being are war and insanity,” Céline wrote in Journey to the End of the Night. Add to that narrow-mindedness, and the nightmare is complete.
|
<urn:uuid:9d4e3ebf-998b-4c5e-b918-59f60d6c170e>
|
CC-MAIN-2017-04
|
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/56872/leave-celine-alone
|
s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00352-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz
|
en
| 0.970401
| 577
| 2.125
| 2
|
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.