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To the editor:
In February, the Journal-World published an editorial questioning the importance of recognizing the late William S. Burroughs and his connections and legacy with regard to Lawrence.
Burroughs is a significant figure in the history of modern American literature, specifically of what is called “The Beat Generation.” He was part of our community in his later years, and I think that it is in the best interest of our town and university to claim and to promote the creativity of his work both in art and literature.
A quotation of the late Allen Ginsburg stands out as a good summary of the importance of Burroughs and of his colleagues:
“This ‘Beat generation’ or ‘sixties’ tolerant worldview provoked an intoxicated right wing into denial of reality, and reinforced its codependency with repressive laws, incipient police state, death-penalty demagoguery, sex demagoguery, art censorship, fundamentalist monotheist televangelist quasi-fascist wrath, racism, and homophobia. This counterreaction seems a by-product of the further gulf between the rich and poor classes, growth of a massive abused underclass, increased power and luxury for the rich who control politics and their minions in the media. Prescription: more art, meditation, lifestyles of relative penury, avoidance of conspicuous consumption that’s burning down the planet.
“I think younger generations have been attracted by the exuberance, libertarian optimism, erotic humor, frankness, continuous energy, invention, and collaborative amity of these poets and singers. We had a great job to do, and we’re doing it, trying to save and heal the spirit of America.”
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Definition of Oradexon
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DT- Pema Chödrön-Welcoming the Unwelcome-ch 1 & 2
Tonight, I will begin a dharma talk series based on Pema Chödrön’s recently published book, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World. This title encapsulates challenges that so many of us are facing amidst the ongoing pandemic, divisive politics, economic stress, injustice, racism, and environmental destruction. Emotions of fear, anger and uncertainty are affecting us, our family and friends, our society, and our planet.
An American-born Buddhist nun, now in her 80s, Pema offers spiritual insights and pragmatic tools for finding peace and even joy by turning towards suffering. Her primary teacher was the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, who introduced her to Tibetan Buddhism. Since 1984, she has served as resident teacher at Gampo Abbey Monastery in Nova Scotia.
The first chapter, titled “Begin with a Broken Heart,” starts with the aspiration of her Mahayana Buddhist tradition: “Our aim is to fully awaken our heart and mind, not just for our own greater wellbeing but also to bring benefit, solace, and wisdom to other living beings.” This noble intention entails arousing bodhicitta. In Sanskrit, bodhi means “awake,” and citta means both “heart” and “mind,” which are considered connected.
Bodhicitta involves a commitment to free ourselves from unconscious habits that prevent us from being fully there for others. In order to learn who we really are, each of us must investigate our own heart and mind. Enlightened people like the Dalai Lama are awake to their true nature and so open-hearted and open-minded that they uplift all those around them.
Pema reminds us of the Buddha’s teaching that we are all innately good-hearted, but our confusion and habitual tendencies impede us from caring for ourselves and others. In order to awaken from our trance, we must learn to let go of impediments that block us from being of service in the world. The less reactive, fearful and stuck in old patterns we are, the more present we can be with those who need our support. By recognizing and accepting our own neurotic tendencies, we can show up for others who have similar tendencies. Even if we are still undergoing strong emotions inside, we can respond compassionately to someone in need.
When we feel anxious, unconfident and self-concerned, bodhicitta may seem inaccessible. Trungpa Rinpoche taught Pema a method for transforming the mind when it is contracted and doubtful. His suggestion was to “begin with a broken heart.” Let’s try it now:
*Bring to mind a poignant image or story that naturally warms your heart or connects you with the human predicament. You might be touched by a friend who is seriously ill or who is grieving. Perhaps you know someone who has been laid off from work or who is facing hunger and homelessness. Notice how your heart is affected by visualizing or having a felt sense of being with this person.
As Pema says, “Protecting ourselves from pain—our own and that of others—has never worked. Everybody wants to be free from their suffering, but the majority of us go about it in ways that [worsen our pain]. Shielding ourselves from the vulnerability of all living beings—[including our own]—cuts us off from the full experience of life. Our world shrinks. When our main goals are to gain comfort and avoid discomfort, we begin to feel disconnected from, and even threatened by, others. We enclose ourselves in a mesh of fear. And when many people and countries engage in this kind of approach, the result is a messy global situation with lots of pain and conflict.”
Even when we realize that it is counterproductive to try to protect our hearts from pain, it’s a hard habit to break. When we let ourselves experience our raw emotions without becoming lost in thoughts and stories about them, we can touch bodhicitta. For example, when I feel sad, rather than judging myself or fantasizing about someone cheering me up, I can simply stay with that sadness, exploring how it feels in my body, heart and mind. Finding bodhicitta in my own vulnerability, I sense that my sadness is no different from the sadness that every human being experiences. My heart opens with compassion for all who share that kind of heartache.
Trungpa Rinpoche attributed his strong desire to alleviate suffering to an incident that occurred when he was about eight years old. From a monastery roof, he watched helplessly as a group of boys in the street below stoned a terrified puppy to death. For the rest of his life, the memory of that innocent dog’s pain motivated Trungpa to be present with suffering.
Instead of viewing the boys’ cruel behavior as alien, can we search for its roots within ourselves and recognize aggressive impulses in our own hearts? If we can acknowledge our common human tendencies, we are better equipped to communicate with people who are acting aggressively.
Our motivations to help others are often mixed. Along with a genuine desire to be of service, we may try to impress others with our good works or stay busy to avoid feeling our own pain. Some helpers are driven by a need to control or a hope to be rewarded in this life or the next.
In 1985, Ram Dass co-authored How Can I Help? about skillful and unskillful ways to offer assistance. A little more than a decade afterwards, he had a major stroke and was forced to receive round-the-clock care from others. Once he adapted to using a wheel chair and to speaking haltingly, Ram Dass wrote, “What a gift the stroke has given me, to finally learn that I don’t have to renounce my humanity in order to be spiritual—that I can be both witness and participant, both eternal spirit and aging body.” Physical suffering deepened his capacity to be of service. Until his death last December, Ram Dass served as a spiritual mentor to many people, even officiating at the wedding of Jack Kornfield and Trudy Goodman.
Because it is based on understanding the origins of suffering, the motivation of bodhicitta leads to profound and durable results. Beneath any greed and aggression that harms others and ourselves lies ignorance about the basic goodness of our true nature and about our interconnection with all life.
The bodhisattva vow is to help every single living being awaken. Yet at any moment, countless people and animals are suffering, and we can neither prevent nor alleviate all of that pain. And what we can do to help is limited by circumstances beyond our control. Arousing bodhicitta is a long-term vision that requires ongoing effort and patience.
Pema concludes the first chapter with, “When we’re really in touch with the longing to help others, and when our lives are committed to that purpose, we can consider ourselves among the most fortunate people on this earth.”
My teachers, Koshin Paley Ellison and his husband Chodo Campbell, Zen monks and co-founders of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, are dedicated to service. They are clearly fulfilled by working as hospice chaplains, leading retreats for caregivers, and training students to bring caring presence to sick and dying patients. During the pandemic, Koshin and Chodo have been offering online classes to support people who are isolated or grieving. The steadiness of their dharma practice and the strength of their commitment to serve others inspires me. Their actions are deeply aligned with their bodhisattva vows.
In her second chapter, Pema argues that the way we act matters. Besides having external consequences, our actions affect our mind, sometimes making old habits more habitual and other times freeing us to experience life afresh. Whenever we catch ourselves on the verge of pursuing an unhealthy habit, we have a chance to interrupt the pattern and to establish new neural pathways in the brain. Pema quotes a familiar saying about karma: “If we want to learn about our past, we should look at our present circumstances for they are the result of our past actions. If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we’re doing now.” With mindfulness, we can create a better future to share with others.
It does indeed matter what we do, say and think. In Pema’s words, “Everything counts [and] leaves an imprint in our minds. But at the same time, there’s plenty of room for us to relax and appreciate what life has to offer.” While sheltering at home, I developed a habit of dawdling over the daily newspaper. When I realized that getting lost in upsetting news stories was sapping my energy, I cut back. This change in routine gives me more time to devote to productive projects and to relationships that I want to nurture.
Wisdom and kindness can guide how we choose to act. When the Buddha taught about the basic ethical precepts, he aimed to help people awaken from mental confusion that causes suffering. Each time we refrain from causing harm to ourselves and others, we create the conditions for a peaceful heart and mind.
Trungpa Rinpoche taught, “Any experience can be made into a further blockage or can become a way of freeing ourselves.” He used the simple example of a fly landing on your leg. If you slap and kill it, you strengthen aggressive and insensitive tendencies. Instead, you can choose to treat the fly in a friendly manner, either letting it be or placing a hand gently nearby to encourage it to move away. It is possible to transform the fly’s visit from an irritating event into an opportunity to sow seeds of kindness and appreciation for all forms of life.
Pema uses the Tibetan term payu, translated as “discernment,” “heedfulness,” “awareness,” or “attentiveness.” When we understand that there are consequences for everything we do, say or think, we are motivated to maintain payu. In order to wake up, we must change habitual patterns.
Unwelcome events jolt us and give us opportunities for change. We always have a choice about how we respond. Each time we catch ourselves heading towards a habitual rut, we have a chance to interrupt the momentum and to find a liberating new direction. Despite our tendency to resist, we can benefit from welcoming the unwelcome.
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City of Split through the EU project CitiEnGov set Green smart public lighting
The CitiEnGov project has enabled the City of Split to set up modern and energy-efficient, Green smart public lighting in Split, in the streets: Šetalište Petra Preradovića, Put Firula, Spinčićeva and Šetalište Kalafata. A total of 82 new LED lamps have been installed with the built-in control module for remote control of each lamp individually. The module communicates via a GSM network with a computer system that is available to city administration employees in charge of public lighting. The system is available through a computer, tablet or mobile phone 24 hours a day. It is also possible to display the state of the lights and the lighting position of the lights. The system allows centralized continuous remote and lighting control, group and individually, with unlimited number of changes overnight, light intensity control ranging from 0% to 100%, it has two-way communication on the status of a particular lamp, consumption information in the selected period for one or for the group of lamps and the current status of each lamp.
The value of the installed equipment and works are in total 72.500,00 €, with 85% of which is financed by the European Regional Development Fund, 9% by the Ministry of Regional Development and European Union funds and 6% by the City of Split. It is estimated that the annual savings by this project for 82 lamps will be about 8.000,00 €. There will also be a reduction of 11.5 tons of CO₂ per year in terms of the previous state, which is also very important in the environmental terms.
Built-in lamps conform to Croatian and European road lighting standards and have IP66 protection against atmospheric influences. They are also in compliance with the Law on light pollution protection, and the color temperature of the light is 3000K. Contracted service provider delivered 10-Year Warranty for delivered equipment, which also leads to reduced maintenance costs.
This project enables the City of Split to use energy efficiency and renewable energy sources as a step towards more efficient management of energy resources that Split has, as well as achieving energy savings through energy efficiency measures. It is also a new element added to the overall image of Split as a Smart City.
Links on City of Split web and Facebook:
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As the Space Shuttle era nears its end in 2011 we all remember the sacrifices and achievements of NASA and of our Astronauts. This graphic clock for iPad ...
As the Space Shuttle era nears its end in 2011 we all remember the sacrifices and achievements of NASA and of our Astronauts. This graphic clock for iPad is a reminder of some of their contribution to the exploration of space. To create a graphic clock we have resurrected the Mir Space Station circling the earth every 12 hours with its rotational axis in the hour position. The International Space Station is circling the earth in 60 minutes with its rotational axis at the minutes position. The Space Shuttle circles tirelessly in 60 seconds while the Hubble telescope remains rock solid capturing ultra deep field images of the cosmos (thanks in a large part to the Space Shuttle Hubble Repair and Service Missions). The space stations are continuously rotating so it's easy to determine the centers of rotations. Most enjoyable if you have Blue Danube playing, I imagine it was played often on the shuttle missions. version 1.0 review... "My kid is really into space (he actually was granted a wish by the Make-A-Wish Foundation to be an astronaut for a day...HE LOVES THIS APP!:) Pretty neat how they created it..." version 1.1 we added... Voyager 1 & 2 are over 8 billion mile away, traveling at nearly 40,000 MPH into the unknown. Could that unimaginable isolation and loneliness manifest itself as an apparition that returns to its home planet? It does, every 5 minutes for a flyby, in this Final Frontier collage. Note; We have taken liberties with scale & orbit altitudes to produce a visually pleasing clock. Tech Center Labs has no affiliation with NASA other than a deep admiration of their achievements.
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The potato is a near perfect food. Nutrient dense, it is an important dietary staple in over 130 countries.
The US Department of Agriculture has stated that “a diet of whole milk and potatoes would supply almost all of the food elements necessary for the maintenance of the human body.”
A single medium-sized potato contains about half the daily adult requirement of vitamin C, while other staples such as rice and wheat have none. The potato itself is 99.9 percent fat free. Boiled, it has more protein than maize, and nearly twice the calcium.
Potatoes can have 600-800 mg of potassium, about 40 percent more than a banana. Potassium is essential to the body because of its role in attaining optimal muscle performance and improving nerve response to stimulation. Iron, essential in helping the body convert food to energy as well as resist infection, is also found in potatoes.
One would expect potatoes to have minerals, as they spend their life underground. But potatoes are also a great source of vitamins, even supplying vitamin C, which is essential to help maintain healthy connective tissue and heal wounds. Potatoes are also good sources of B vitamins, helping the body make healthy red blood cells and amino acids.
An average potato (approximately 5.3 oz) with the skin contains:
45% of the daily value for vitamin C
as much (or more) potassium (720 mg) than either bananas, spinach, or broccoli
trace amounts of thiamin, riboflavin, folate, magnesium, phosphorous, iron, and zinc
only 100 calories
Potatoes with the skin on are an excellent source of fiber. At 3 grams of fiber per serving, a potato equals or exceeds that of many whole grain products, such as whole grain bread, whole wheat pasta, and many cereals.
Despite the popular notion, the majority of nutrients are in the potato itself, not in the skin. However, leaving the skin on potatoes makes them easier to prepare and retains all the nutrients.
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[DEVASTATED: A riot-victim grieves in Alutgama. (AP)]
By Secretariat for Muslims–
It is now two months after the anti- Muslim violence of Aluthgama and adjacent areas, and as is the case with most occurrences in Sri Lanka, media attention seem to have moved on now to other issues of importance. The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights investigation in to alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka has commenced its activities as of June this year, and the government has appointed its own panel of experts for its own inquiry. Marauding monks have found other avenues to vent their anger as witnessed at the invasion of the meeting of families of the disappeared at the Center for Society and Religion in Colombo. But the inhabitants of Aluthgama await the completion of the housing renovations and most Muslims in other areas live in constant awareness of what happened and in anticipation of what else may happen in the future.
Looking at our records of hate incidents prior to Aluthgama the signs of what is to come are ominous. There are many speeches by the Ven. Gnanasara that state that the BBS will “take matters in to their own hands” if steps are not taken by authorities to address their issues. And what seems most prescient is a statement to the fact that promises violence to Muslims “If they ever lay a hand on a robe.” The general deterioration of relation at all levels is illustrated by the manner in which a mother was refused entrance to a school in hijab by the school principal, and how the same school prevented two school girls from wearing the shawl and long trousers with their school uniform (as per Education Ministry circular). The manner in which the students were humiliated by being made to remove their trousers while in school, and further the manner in which the courts tacitly endorsed such an action by asking that the parents consider moving the children to a different school are a reflection of the deterioration of relations and the general acceptance of anti Muslim sentiment in the public sphere. News papers also reported that counsel for the respondents intended to challenge the correctness of a Supreme Court judgment delivered last year, which allowed Muslim girls to wear trouser and hijab in addition to the school uniform.
The bulk of the information recorded during this time refers to the BBS’s relentless campaign of press statements, interviews, and mass meetings during which hate sentiment together with a cultivation of paranoia about the loss of Buddhist numerical supremacy are asserted repeatedly.
Additionally during this time we saw the oft repeated government line in the form of both the categorical rejection of the idea that religious unrest is evident in the country, to the more nuanced dismissal of the accusations on the basis that the places that are attacked are either unregistered or illegitimate in some other way, and that the incidents were generally reactions of the communities of which they are a part.
In the two months since Aluthgama much has happened. There are several cases in court, several international bodies including the Organisation of Islamic Countries, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and three Special Procedures Mandate Holders have responded to the incidents. Today the military is rebuilding broken and burnt homes and business premises. The government’s speedy response in relation to rebuilding is worth recognizing especially since compensation claims approved after the 2006 riots in Aluthgama are still to be paid. Although hate activities seem to be continuing we hope that the government’s response acknowledges both the seriousness of what happened and the need to prevent anything of this nature occurring elsewhere.
We send out this list for your informed and considered use. We will continue to document such incidents in the aftermath of Aluthgama with the intention of providing accurate information on what is happening to the Muslim community during this difficult time. We do so in anticipation of a post war future for Sri Lanka that promises freedom and justice for all and an end to the consistent smothering of its ethnic and religious minorities.
Read the report as a PDF here:Hate incidents against Muslims January – May 2014
There were further developments to the case that are not covered by the news during this period. For more information on this issue see http://blogs.geegain.com/post/62594/the-failure-of-the-media-civil-society-and-the-moderates
Prof. G.L.Peiris stated to Nisha Biswal( US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs) that legal measures were taken with regards to some and others were sorted out amicably. While we agree with this statement we regret the suggestion that reportage is either blown out of proportion or is misrepresenting of the larger project being undertaken by Buddhist nationalist groups.
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Online forum to acknowledge seen, unseen disabilities
Note: This is the first story in a series related to National Disability Employment Awareness Month
For many people across the country, there is something empowering about having a rewarding job and being employed. From giving purpose to proving one’s skills, a job can provide a sense of worth and bring motivation and pride to many people.
This is all the more true for individuals with disabilities.
Throughout the month of October, the U.S. will observe National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the value and contributions individuals with disabilities can provide to a work place.
“People with disabilities are experienced problem solvers with a proven ability to adapt,” Office of Disability Employment Policy Deputy Assistant Secretary Jennifer Sheehy said in a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Labor. “Now more than ever, flexibility is important for both workers and employers. National Disability Employment Awareness Month celebrates the ingenuity people with disabilities bring to America’s workplaces.”
The year marks the 75th anniversary of NDEAM and the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, a landmark law that prohibited discrimination based on a disability and imposed accessibility requirements on public buildings.
Locally, Workforce Solutions Texoma has held a forum with area employers and experts on disabilities in the workplace. However, WST has chosen to convert the annual forum to an online event, which will take place at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 8. The event will see the return of attorney John Hagan, who spoke at last year’s forum about the legal aspects of employment for those with disabilities.
“He brings a lot to the table because he can talk about specific scenarios dealing with the disability issues in the work place,” WST Executive Director Janie Bates said.
Bates said there are many misconceptions about employing people with the disabilities. The first, and most prominent, is how rare disabilities are, Bates said.
“Most people have some form of issue,” Bates said. “If you were to ask most people about disabilities, the first thing they jump to are the physical disabilities but in reality we have a lot of invisible disabilities. Someone might have a learning disorder, for instance.”
“Many people don’t see these things as disabilities, but they really may be according the ADA,” Bates continued.”We always tell employers that you may think you have nobody with disabilities but chances are you have many people that do.”
Another misconception is that it is difficult or expensive to provide accommodations for people with disabilities. In many cases, these accommodations can be fairly inexpensive or cost nothing at all. As an example, Bates said someone with mobility issues may simply need furniture rearranged, or something as simply as raising a monitor.
In other cases, programs exist to help offset these costs, Bates said.
In addition to income, Bates said having a job is empowering to many people with disabilities, including herself.
For the past eight years, Bates has used an electric wheelchair for mobility. Despite this, Bates said she is happy to be go into work every day with the Texas Workforce Commission.
“It would have been a huge blow to me if I had to give up my job when I gave up my job,” she said. “I think having a job provides a purpose and that is what is important for a lot of people.
“I’ve had people ask me before why I don’t quit work and live on disability. Why would I want to do that? I love my job. I love to work.”
While the purpose of October’s events is to bring public awareness to the topic of employment for those with disabilities, Bates said she hopes to be able to send the message that jobs are out there for those who want them.
“I know there is a lot of people out there with disabilities who think no one would hire them,” she said. “I think it is important for people with disabilities to know there are employment options out there and employers who are friendly to workers with disabilities.”
Michael Hutchins is the local government reporter for the Herald Democrat. He can be reached at [email protected]
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A new report shows that while deaths from residential fires have been nearly cut in half from 4,500 in 1980 to 2,660 in 1998, those caused by candles have increased dramatically. Candle deaths increased 750 percent from 1980 (20 deaths) to 1998 (170 deaths). Reduce the chance of a fire, by following CPSC's simple safety tips."
- Keep matches, lighters and candles away from children.
- Never leave burning candles unattended.
- Keep combustible materials away from candles.
- Don't put candles in a location where children or pets could knock them down.
- Use only non-flammable candle holders.
- Always trim the wicks before lighting.
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Humansdorp was founded in 1849, and was named after Johannes Jurie Human and Matthys Gerhardus Human, who were joint founders of the Dutch Reformed Church congregation.
The town’s residential streets are lined with trees that were planted before the First World War by the then mayor, Ambrose Saffery.
It has grown from a small service centre for the flourishing farming community to a busy town with every kind of business.
Humansdorp lies at the foot of the Kouga Mountains and it is here that the well known Garden Route starts.
Local photographer https://web.facebook.com/clivewright229/ took this image of a sunset just outside Humansdorp.
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This is a very localised breeding bird in the UK; its main stronghold is the Nene Washes near Peterborough where c90% of the UK population is found, mostly on land managed by the RSPB which also has nesting Cranes and Corncrakes (and Snipe, Lapwing and Oystercatcher – the previous three blogs on song in this series). I’d normally be thinking of making a visit around now to hear and see this species, and lots of others, but not this year.
This is the quintessential meadow bird in the Netherlands where the largest European breeding population is found of the subspecies, Limosa limosa limosa, but the second largest is probably in Iceland (unless it’s in Russia) where the islandica subspecies nests.
I’ll miss hearing the wicka-wicka-wicka song this year and so here are recordings from the Netherlands, Iceland and of a captive bird in Norfolk (the best that xenocanto can do, understandably perhaps, for this rare, localised UK breeding bird);
A Dutch bird:
… and an Icelandic bird:
… and that captive bird from Pensthorpe, Norfolk:
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MIT President Susan Hockfield, at AAAS Forum, Envisions "Third Revolution" in Life Sciences
Researchers are fostering another revolution in the life sciences, driven by the convergence between those sciences and the physical and engineering sciences, Susan Hockfield, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told the recent AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy.
That convergence is producing new discoveries that hold promise in the fight against cancer, the search for new, more efficient batteries, the quest to better understand microbial life, and other challenges that can benefit from the collaboration of sharp minds from multiple disciplines.
"What began as a relationship of proximity and convenience has evolved into a strong, fruitful new synthesis," Hockfield said during a 30 April luncheon address at the Forum in Washington, D.C. "The seeds of a third revolution in the life sciences have certainly been sown, and in leading labs across the country, they already are beginning to bear fruit."
Nearly 600 leaders from U.S. and foreign governments, businesses, research centers and universities attended the opening day of the 34th annual AAAS Policy Forum, a two-day immersion in the issues and sometimes gritty political realities that dominate the nation's science and technology agenda. Meeting just blocks from the White House, the Forum is regarded as the largest and most important annual science and technology policy conference in the United States, focusing on federal budget and R&D issues; public- and private-sector research; education; innovation; and other high-profile domestic and international S&T issues. It is organized by AAAS Science & Policy Programs.
Hockfield noted that the 1953 discovery of the structure of DNA laid the foundation for two previous revolutions in biology: the development of molecular biology (which revealed how information encoded in DNA is translated) and the explosion of information in genomics (which has revealed the genetic blueprint for many organisms, including humans).
The Human Genome Project drew on mathematics and computational science as much as on powerful new gene-sequencing technologies, Hockfield said, and the interplay between the life sciences and the physical sciences is expected to become even more productive in the coming years. She cited several examples of that convergence on her campus and noted that comparable approaches are evolving at research institutions around the globe.
"At MIT, we are capitalizing on the vast potential of this third revolution in the fight against cancer by designing both a new organization and a new building," Hockfield said. At MIT's David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and elsewhere on the frontiers of cancer research, she said, "increasingly you see biologists and engineers, computational experts and chemists." At the MIT center, researchers are looking at the use of engineered nanoparticles as "smart bombs" for transporting anti-cancer drugs directly to malignant cells.
"Our biologists and engineers anticipate that nano-smart bombs could become clinical tools against cancer within a decade," Hockfield said.
On the energy front, MIT specialists are working with benign viruses that are genetically engineered to incorporate battery materials and then self-assemble into both the positive and negative sides of a lithium-ion battery. The resulting sheets look like plastic, Hockfield said, and have the same energy capacity and power performance as the state-of-the-art rechargeable batteries being designed for use in plug-in hybrid cars." The materials can be used to make clear, non-toxic, lightweight batteries. The team leading the research on "bio-fab" batteries consists of two materials scientists and two chemical engineers, Hockfield said.
MIT scientists also are collaborating on the use of genomics to analyze gene expression in complex and dynamic populations of ocean microbes. The microbes can be monitored for their responses to climate change. The research "also makes it possible to consider using the indigenous microbes much more broadly as in situ biosensors," Hockfield said.
While such research holds great promise for the future, Hockfield said, there is nothing inevitable about it. Society must find ways to encourage and accelerate the third revolution in the life sciences, Hockfield said, and she offered some suggestions.
Young people must be encouraged to be "bilingual" across disciplines, she said. Biologists, engineers, computer scientists and mathematicians should have a broad education, touching on common ground in disparate disciplines, so they are equipped "to talk and work fluently together." In her talks with incoming classes at MIT, Hockfield said, it is clear that the current generation of students is very comfortable with the idea of pursuing research that crosses the disciplinary boundaries of the sciences and engineering.
Hockfield called for the cultivation of new academic organizations (such as MIT's department of biological engineering) that make it easier for faculty and students to work across disciplines. Funding mechanisms also must be tuned toward boundary-crossing work, she said, and must provide more opportunities for young researchers. In 1990, she noted, the average age of first-time applicants for National Institutes of Health research project grants was 39. By 2007, it had climbed to 43. Perhaps more troubling, she said, the success rate for first-time grant applicants dropped from 29 % in 1999 to just 12% in 2007.
Hockfield also urged more connections across federal funding agencies. "Our system of decentralized science agencies, each pursuing particular mission areas, has great advantages," she said. But research that crosses disciplinary boundaries also must be funded in ways that cut across the specialized missions of individual agencies. She cited the National Nanotechnology Initiative, established at the end of the Clinton administration to coordinate federal nanotechnology research and development, as an example of such fruitful cooperation across agencies.
"In the early part of the 20th century, no one could have named the industries that would spring from the convergence of the physical sciences and engineering, yet the industries fueled by that convergence—the electronics, computer and information industries—have transformed life on earth," Hockfield said. "Today, we do not yet know the names of the industries that will grow from this century's convergence of the life sciences with the engineering and physical sciences, but those new industries will certainly transform our lives as powerfully."
Economists now generally agree that more than half of America's economic growth in the decades following World War II came from technology, Hockfield said. It is not the United States alone that appreciates the impact that research and development can have on innovation and growth.
"Countries all over the world have built the foundation for their own innovation economies," Hockfield said. "I like competition; it makes everyone better. But we need to play if we want to compete." She added: "It is now up to those of us who know the science, who know the engineering and who appreciate the nature of the challenges and their solutions to give policymakers and the public a picture of the results that sit only just beyond our reach today."
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William ADAMS & Emma DIXON - Masterton
WILLIAM ADAMS and Emma Dixon were the first white couple to be married in Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand
They married in 1854 and had 16 children - 8 boys and 8 girls, all born in Masterton.
I am still researching and adding these children
Emma arrived in New Zealand on the 'Arab'
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Info technology usually refers to all types of know-how used within the creation, storage, change and utilization of information, conversation and all multi-media types of communication. A 1958 article in Harvard Business Overview referred to information expertise as consisting of three primary parts: computational information processing, resolution help, and enterprise software program. Many enterprise minded persons even require that a resort provide web services in order that they can keep working while on the street.
IT groups rely upon a variety of specialised information and expertise expertise and information to support equipment, functions and activities. Cloud providers: Whereas IT outlets in the past maintained their own server farms for hosting e-mail and business databases, some have migrated to cloud computing environments where third-party hosting suppliers maintain the info.
Stands for “Information Expertise,” and is pronounced “I.T.”. It refers to anything related to computing expertise, similar to networking, hardware, software program, the Internet, or the people that work with these technologies. The technical course work from the College of Engineering gives a broad base of core, laptop-associated expertise and information — programming, networking, human computer interaction, databases and internet programs.
The Division of Information Know-how is pushed to attain excellence by means of the design, growth, and software of information technology in support of studying, educating, research, service, and the conduct of College business in keeping with TU’s mission.
These IT spectrums might be covered in many varieties of professional fields resembling Administration Data Techniques, Laptop Networking, and Software program Design. It defines an trade that makes use of computers, networking, software program programming, and different equipment and processes to store, process, retrieve, transmit, and shield information.
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IN THE RUNNING
In 1964, seventy-two year-old
William Willis ventured on a raft-
drifting journey from Peru to Australia,
covering 10,000 miles in 204 days.
Commented Mr. Willis, "I wanted to
show that a man past sixty-five is still
in the running if he wants to be."
Yes, Mr. Willis, every man and woman
is in the running for as long as they
choose to stay in the race.
And, of course, the race is not always
to the swift, but, to those...
who persist and persevere
who get their second wind
who continue to grow and go
onward and upward.
Age has little to do with staying
in the running.
Desire and will power...those are
(First published on August 25, 2012)
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Teaching your children to feed themselves without help can be a messy, difficult endeavor.
The lesson, which is comprised mostly of trial and error, often ends with more food on the floor than it does with food actually going into the toddler’s mouth. However, every parent must learn the patience of making their child self-sufficient. After all, we can’t feed our children their whole lives and ensure they’re always dependent on us.
However, one Mom must have the patience of a wizard when she taught her daughter, who was born without hands, how to eat with her feet. Despite her tiny toes, we’re sure this lesson was no small feat.
Mom, Elmira Knutzen who lives in Russia with her daughter Vasilina, posted the video to Facebook to be a source of inspiration. The video went viral and has now been viewed more than 57 million times.
The inspiring video shows us that we can achieve anything we set our minds to. You don’t need arms to eat with a spoon. Instead, any of us can learn how to do anything we desire, as long as we’re willing to adapt to the process.
Do you find this video inspiring? Please tell us your thoughts in the comments and SHARE this video with somebody who might need a little extra motivation.
[Featured Image: Elmira Knutzen]
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The goals of the American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund are:
- To support fundamental research in the petroleum field, and
- To develop the next generation of engineers and scientists through support of advanced scientific education.
The Doctoral New Investigator grants program aims to promote the careers of young faculty by supporting research of high scientific caliber, and to enhance the career opportunities of their undergraduate/ graduate students, and postdoctoral associates through the research experience.
Doctoral New Investigator Grants
Doctoral New Investigator (DNI) grants provide start-up funding for scientists and engineers in the United States who are within the first three years of their first academic appointment at the level of Assistant Professor or the equivalent. Applicants may have limited or no preliminary results for a research project they wish to pursue, with the intention of using the preliminary results obtained to seek continuation funding from other agencies. The DNI grants are to be used to illustrate proof of principle or concept, to test a hypothesis, or to demonstrate feasibility of an approach.
The DNI grants program is seeking investigator-initiated, original research across the spectrum of our mission. Original research is defined as being different from that performed previously by the PI as part of their graduate or postdoctoral studies. Excluded from consideration are proposals in which the ideas being presented are a mere extension of research from the PI’s graduate or postdoctoral experience. Research projects must be unique. Although a PI may send the same proposal to more than one agency, PRF will not support a project having overlap, or partial overlap, with research funded by another agency.
- Amount: $110,000 over 2 years
- Estimated number of awards: ~75 each year
Nature and Scope of the Research
ACS PRF Research Grants are made to non-profit institutions for regularly appointed scientists whose research may be sponsored in accordance with the PRF Transfer Agreement:
The recipient (ACS) shall use all funds exclusively for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the ‘petroleum field,’ which may include any field of pure science which in the judgment of (ACS) may afford a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field.
Note that fundamental research is required as opposed to applied research or methods development. When submitting an application, you will be asked to select a scientific discipline that PRF supports.
The DNI Grant Program is designed as a source of funds for young investigators who are developing their own independent research projects. The new investigator must demonstrate that the project is an original research direction and is independent of their graduate or post-graduate studies. Proposals deemed not “original research” will be denied without external review, or may be rejected by the PRF Committee.
All proposals will undergo a compliance check for the following required elements:
- Completeness and correctness of the application;
- Fundamental nature of the research topic;
- Relevance to petroleum or fossil fuels; and
- Extent to which the proposed research differs from prior graduate and postdoctoral research.
Regularly-appointed faculty members at U.S. academic institutions who are within the first three years of their first academic appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor or the equivalent are eligible to apply. In addition, applicants must meet the following criteria:
- The non-profit institution submitting the DNI proposal must certify that the individual listed as a principal investigator on the cover page qualifies as a principal investigator under the institution’s policies.
- In view of the long-standing policy of The ACS Petroleum Research Fund to give priority to support of students (undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral), each principal investigator must be eligible to serve as the formal, official supervisor of graduate students in graduate degree programs.
- The terms of appointment of the principal investigator must promise reasonable continuity of service. The appointment should continue at least through the period of funding requested in the proposal.
Generally the above criteria are automatically met by tenure-track principal investigators. If you are not tenure-track, attach a brief statement to your application describing your appointment and include a Department Chair’s letter affirming that you meet all three of the above criteria. Read more about Eligibility, Terms and Conditions for DNI Grants.
The PRF Committee makes relative rankings of proposals and recommendations for funding on the basis of the following criteria (in order of importance):
- Overall quality, significance, and scientific merit of the proposed research, including the extent to which it will increase basic knowledge and/or stimulate additional research.
- Extent to which advanced scientific education will be enhanced through the involvement of students in the research.
- Newness of the proposed research for the principal investigator.
- Impact of PRF funding the research, including the effect on the principal investigator’s overall research program.
- Qualifications or potential of the principal investigator(s) and adequacy of the facilities to conduct the research.
The PRF Committee requires at least 60 percent of the total budget be devoted to support the education and training of students (undergraduates, graduate stipends and tuition remission, and/or postdoctoral fellows). If you have any questions about allowable budget allocations, please contact the appropriate Program Manager before submitting a proposal. For proposals that are funded, the budget becomes part of the grant agreement. Revisions to the grant budget can only be made with prior approval of ACS PRF.
- Amount: Proposals request $110,000 for a two-year period. The total $110K budget may be divided among years according to the needs of the project. The normal ACS PRF budget year extends from September 1 to August 31.
- Excluded Charges: No overhead costs may be charged, which includes secretarial and/or administrative salaries. Funds may not be used to support laboratory technicians, contractors, consultants, or visiting faculty.
- Principal Investigator Stipend: Principal investigators may request a contribution to summer salary, not to exceed $8,000 per grant year, including fringe benefits, up to a maximum of $16,000. This limit does NOT change as a result of time extensions.
- Support of Students: Total student support must be at least 60% of the grant budget. Students are defined as graduate students, undergraduates, and/or postdoctoral fellows. Student support categories include stipends/salaries/benefits, graduate tuition, and Field Work. Field Work expenses may include transportation, lodging, etc. and must be described in the budget justification. Funds budgeted for a student at one of the three levels may subsequently be shifted to student support at a different level without prior approval from ACS PRF, but may not be shifted out of student support.
- Travel: A maximum of $2,000 per grant year, or $4,000 total, may be used for conference travel. This limit does NOT change as a result of time extensions. Support of student travel to scientific meetings is encouraged. There are no restrictions on foreign travel. Note that scientific work performed away from the home institution is considered field work and is budgeted separately.
- Capital Equipment: Requests for capital equipment on DNI grant proposals are discouraged. However, a limited amount of capital equipment funds (≤ $5,000) may be included in the proposed budget, with justification and description of institutional cost-matching (if any) in the budget justification.
- New investigators may submit only one research proposal for consideration per meeting and may not hold more than one active PRF research grant at a time.
- New investigators may have only three (3) DNI grant applications considered and/or one (1) DNI grant funded in their career. Thereafter, the new investigator may apply to the New Directions (ND) Grant Program.
- A principal investigator with an active PRF research grant, including a grant on time extension, may not submit an application for a new grant.
- Dr. Dean Dunn, Geology, Geochemistry/Geophysics, telephone: 202-872-4083, email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- Dr. Burtrand I. Lee, Surface Science and Materials Science, telephone: 202-872-6254, email: email@example.com
- Dr. Askar Fahr, Physical Organic Chemistry, and Chemical Physics/Physical Chemistry, telephone: 202-872-6207, email: firstname.lastname@example.org
- Dr. Thomas Clancy, Polymer Science, Engineering, Chemistry and Petroleum Engineering, telephone: 202-872-6093, email: email@example.com
- Dr. Nancy Jensen, Interim Assistant Director, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry, telephone: 202-872-6186, email: firstname.lastname@example.org
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In America you will encounter the occasional lucky horseshoe or four-leaf clover, but in Taiwan good luck charms are truly ubiquitous. There are literally hundreds of different ones, and Chinese New Year is the time they are especially featured.
|Large hanging charms of golden coins and yuan bao.|
Many of the charms represent money, which in turn symbolizes prosperity in general. After all, what could be luckier than money? These money charms often take the form of actual coins, usually the old Chinese cash which were round with square holes, as seen above. Even more common than coins are yuan bao, the hat-shaped objects which were the traditional Chinese form of gold and silver ingots.
|Traditionally gold or silver, yuan bao are also seen here in jade, amber, and crystal.|
|Jade bi, round jade discs with central holes.|
Jade bi (pronounced bee) like these were ritual objects in ancient China and pre-date coins. They are much used today, and because of their coin-like shape blend in well with other good-luck charms. Below some bi form a yuan bao, while others are printed to resemble coins.
|Strings of charms with yuan bao, bi, and coins|
|A Chinese money god holds a yuan bao and sits on a pile of golden coins and more yuan bao.]|
Many fruits and vegetables are lucky. A yellow or orange color symbolizes gold and money, while many seeds indicate abundance and prosperity. Although they never existed in ancient China, sweet corn and peanuts are now so popular that they are as familiar in lucky charms as they are to eat.
|The orange above represents prosperity and abundance, as do the ears of corn below.|
|If the peanut symbolism isn’t clear enough, these are additionally stamped with the words for happiness and luck.|
Chinese years work on a 12-year repeating cycle, with a special animal for each year: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat or Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. This year (Jan 23, 2012 – Feb 9, 2013) is a Dragon year, so I plan to cover dragons more thoroughly in another post. Whatever year you are born in becomes your special lucky piece. For example, if you are born in a monkey year, then you are considered a ‘monkey’, and will always want to wear or display monkey charms.
|Goat Year is long over, but this lucky goat charm continues to serve.|
|All the zodiac animals take part in this string of ceramic charms|
You likely noticed in several of the photos that the charms are tied with elaborate knots, usually with red string. These special lucky knots are a traditional Chinese craft, and some charms consist of knots all by themselves. A couple of major lucky symbols that I cannot omit are ruyi, a kind of good-luck scepter, and bats, already covered previously. Real firecrackers, useful in scaring away evil spirits, go off constantly during Chinese New Year, and fake firecrackers of all sizes are also seen everywhere:
|These firecrackers are one foot high not including the ‘fuses’.|
|The Taipei 101 building, for a while the tallest building in the world. (Photo from Wikipedia)|
|A close-up reveals pendant ruyi hanging above giant lucky coins, presumably symbolizing how much money you’ll need to shop in the boutiques inside|
These examples barely scratch the surface of Chinese good luck symbols. Let me know if you have a favorite good-luck charm of your own, either traditional or something that is your personal talisman. Here’s wishing all of you good luck and prosperity for the coming Dragon Year.
|The outer charms feature fish; the middle one with Guan Yin is especially made for use in cars, saying “Safety in Traffic” and “Leave happily, Return safely”.]|
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In this tutorial, we'll learn about the benefits and challenges of using adaptive learning with students who have disabilities. We'll begin by discussing some of the unique needs of students with disabilities. Then, we'll identify some benefits of using adaptive learning with these students. And, finally, we'll address some challenges of using adaptive learning with students who have disabilities. Let's get started.
Let's begin by discussing some of the unique needs of students with disabilities. Up to 20% of students in most K-12 classrooms may have some sort of disability. The most common type of disability is a learning disability, but others include intellectual disabilities, speech and language, or emotional and behavioral disabilities, and disorders on the autism spectrum.
A disability is a condition that impacts a student's ability to learn. This could be due to behavior challenges, cognitive ability, issues with information processing, or problems with expressive or receptive language. Often, we see that students who have disabilities have difficulty with reading and with understanding material that would otherwise be at their grade level. They may have challenges with written language and with mathematical computation and problem-solving.
So, let's identify some of the benefits of using adaptive learning with students who have disabilities. One clear advantage is the individualization that is built into adaptive learning technologies. Rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach, the adaptive technology creates a unique pathway for each student, based on their needs in regard to the specific content.
Another benefit of adaptive learning technology is the built-in support for students. Adaptive learning technology is able to identify when students need more instruction on a particular concept. The immediate feedback that is provided, along with the extra scaffolding built into the system, can benefit all students, especially those who have disabilities.
Another potential benefit is that learning is not limited to the classroom. It can occur anytime and anywhere as long as the student has internet access. If a student finds that their disability impacts them more during the school day than it does at home, this might be a nice fit, allowing them to access the adaptive learning technology outside of school.
Yet another benefit is the built-in ability to repeat lessons and review material as often as students feel the need to do so. This alleviates a potential worry about the teacher moving on before a student has mastered the content. Each student can progress forward at his or her own pace. Though there are numerous potential benefits to using adaptive learning with students who have disabilities, there may be some challenges as well.
First, students need to be instructed in the skills necessary to access and use the adaptive learning technology. In some cases, parents may need to be trained in this as well. Also, we may not be able to assume that all students have technology access outside of school. A lack of technology access would naturally limit the amount of time that a student can spend engaged in the learning technology outside of school.
In this tutorial, we explored using adaptive learning with students who have disabilities. We began by discussing the unique needs of students with disabilities. And then we identified some potential benefits of using adaptive learning technology with these students. Finally, we addressed a few potential challenges of using adaptive learning with these students.
Here's a chance for you to stop and reflect. Could you see adaptive learning technology benefiting the students in your classroom who have disabilities? As you reflect on how this new information can be applied, you may want to explore the additional resources section that accompanies this video presentation. This is where you'll find links to resources, chosen to help you deepen your learning, and explore ways to apply your newly acquired skill set. Thanks for joining me today. Have a great day.
(00:00 - 00:24) Introduction
(00:25 - 01:18) Unique Needs of Students with Disabilities
(01:19 - 02:41) Benefits of Using Adaptive Learning
(02:42 - 03:14) Challenges of Using Adaptive Learning
(03:15 - 03:34) Review
(03:35 - 04:03) Stop and Reflect
Leveraging Intelligent Adaptive Learning to Personalize Education
This report uses national data to illustrate current trends and needs in education, especially as they relate to technology-rich learning environments. Within the report are easy to read charts and graphs illustrating the impact of adaptive learning and personalization.
Technology Integration in K12 Education/Adaptive Technology in Special Education
This wiki provides an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of adaptive technology. In addition, the wiki gives an overview of some common types of adaptive technologies available for special education use, and provides active links to the technologies. Finally, the entry suggests the future direction of adaptive technology in the field of special education.
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Herpetologist Jamie K. Reaser
Many herpetologists claim to have loved reptiles and amphibians from the time they were young. It isn’t unusual to hear talk of discovering the wonders of nature by the age of 5. Few, however, can claim that a passion for amphibians actually helped them overcome paralysis and brain damage.
Jamie K. Reaser doing research on her 85 acre farm in Virginia
At 6 years old, Jamie K. Reaser experienced a severe mastoid infection. This ailment ultimately induced a grand mal seizure and coma. Even after she managed to regain consciousness, she had new challenges to contend with: brain damage and right-side paralysis.
Doctors encouraged her parents to indulge any intellectual fancy Reaser had. The hope was that her natural curiosity and desire to learn would help in the recovery of brain function and neuromuscular control. Soon after her release from the hospital, Reaser had a life-altering interaction with an American toad that had become trapped in a window well at her home. From that moment onward, herps, especially amphibians, became the passion that her parents were more than willing to accommodate.
The doctor’s advice worked. In literal pursuit of amphibians and reptiles, Reaser not only regained coordination, she also developed into quite the naturalist and scholar. In her teens, she volunteered for the Caretta Research Project and started conducting professional reptile and amphibian surveys. As a doctoral student in biology at Stanford University, she focused on questions related to the rapid decline of amphibians in the wild, investigating causes such as habitat loss, disease, pollution, climate change, radiation and roadkill.
Since that time, Reaser has primarily worked at the interface of conservation science and policy — taking on leadership roles for organizations such as the Declining Amphibian Population Task Force, Task Force on Amphibian Declines and Deformities, and Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation. Her work as a biologist, educator and international policy negotiator has enabled her to interact with herps and other herp conservationists around the world.
Reaser’s Tips For a Career in Herps
“Always remember what inspired your work in the first place. Work cooperatively rather than competitively. Stay grounded — keep at least one foot in the mud. Mentor young people at every opportunity.”
These days, Reaser’s professional relationship with amphibians and reptiles largely lives through her writing. Herps are featured in her book, Courting the Wild: Love Affairs with Reptiles and Amphibians, and make appearances in poems found in the collections Huntely Meadows: A Naturalist’s Journal in Verse and Note to Self: Poems for Changing the World from the Inside Out.
On a personal level, Reaser enjoys being an amphibian steward on her 85-acre farm in Virginia. To order a copy of her books, visit hiraethpress.com or Amazon.com. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.org. REPTILES
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Hart Rate Variability Biofeedback Increased Autonomic Activation and Improved Symptoms of Depression and Insomnia among Patients with Major Depression Disorder. Lin IM, Fan SY, Yen CF, Yeh YC, Tang TC, Huang MF, Liu TL, Wang PW, Lin HC, Tsai HY, Tsai YC1.
OBJECTIVE: Autonomic imbalance is considered a psychopathological mechanism underlying major depressive disorder (MDD). Heart rate variability (HRV) is an index for autonomic activation. Poor sleep quality is common among patients with MDD. HRV biofeedback (BF) has been used for regulating autonomic balance among patients with physical illness and mental disorders. The purpose of present study was to examine the effects of HRV-BF on depressive symptoms, sleep quality, pre-sleep arousal, and HRV indices, in patients with MDD and insomnia.
METHODS: In this case-controlled study, patients with MDD and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) score higher than 6 were recruited. The HRV-BF group received weekly 60-minute protocol for 6 weeks, and the control group who have matched the age and sex received medical care only. All participants were assessed on Beck Depression Inventory-II, Back Anxiety Inventory, PSQI, and Pre-Sleep Arousal Scale. Breathing rates and electrocardiography were also performed under resting state at pre-testing, and post-testing conditions and for the HRV-BF group, also at 1-month follow-up.
RESULTS: In the HRV-BF group, symptoms of depression and anxiety, sleep quality, and pre-sleep arousal were significantly improved, and increased HRV indices, compared with the control group. Moreover, in the HRV-BF group, significantly improved symptoms of depression and anxiety, decreased breathing rates, and increased HRV indices were detected at post-testing and at 1-month follow-up, compared with pre-testing values.
CONCLUSION: This study confirmed that HRV-BF is a useful psychosocial intervention for improving autonomic balance, baroreflex, and symptoms of depression and insomnia in MDD patients
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Worldwide spam levels have mysteriously dropped off over the past week, according to managed email provider SoftScan, possibly as a result of a major botnet going out of service.
Spam levels continued to rise in December, but crashed by 30 percent in the first week of January, SoftScan said on Tuesday. The company has seen nothing similar in the past, but believes the most likely explanation is that a botnet - a network of compromised machines - has temporarily lost control of its client systems.
The results are based on SoftScan's analysis of the email systems it scans for about half a million users, mostly international businesses, according to chief technology officer Diego d'Ambra.
"This is very unusual. For years spam has just been steadily going up and up, and now all of a sudden, levels are similar to where they were in the first half of 2006," he told Techworld.
He said a major botnet was almost certainly the cause of the fluctuation, since botnets are now the single biggest factor in spam generation.
D'Ambra said the Warezov worm - also called Stration - was single-handedly responsible for most of the rise in spam in the second half of 2006, a feat it achieved through silently invading systems and adding them to its botnet. The last few days' fluctuations could be related to Warezov, he said.
The only other events that could have had such a significant effect might be the Asian earthquake, which could have prevented spam from the region, or a mass replacement of infected systems by new PCs received as Christmas presents, d'Ambra said.
However, both are unlikely - the drop-off was not instantaneous, as it probably would have been if caused by the earthquake, and such an effect hasn't been seen in any previous post-Christmas period.
Spam levels remained high at 89.36 percent of all email in December, with a low point on 21 December of 84.95 percent.
The company said the extreme levels of spam are likely to prompt governments to take a harder line on anti-spam law enforcement this year, d'Ambra said.
Virus levels remained low in December, at 0.5 percent of all email scanned by the company, but this is largely because virus writers are seeking to quietly take control of systems rather than cause disruption.
"The longing for notoriety is a thing of the past," d'Ambra stated.
Sixty-nine percent of viruses were related to phishing, the company said.
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First glimpse of the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan
28 October 2004
First detailed global image of Titan taken by the VIMS spectrometer
Pasadena/Cologne/Berlin – Saturn's moon Titan features some strikingly different surface characteristics, as can be seen from this first global, richly detailed image from the VIMS (Visible and Infrared Imaging Spectrometer) on board the US/European space probe Cassini-Huygens. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin-Adlershof, is directly involved in this experiment through Dr Ralf Jaumann from the DLR’s Institute for Planetary Research.
A large methane cloud can be seen in the atmosphere over Titan’s south pole. The moon, which is more than 5000 kilometres across, is surrounded by an aurora (shown here in green) containing very fine methane droplets known as ‘aerosols’ in the stratosphere, reaching up to 200 kilometres into space. The question of how the different surface characteristics should be interpreted is currently being studied by the VIMS team at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr Ralf Jaumann from the DLR is a member of this team.
The enlarged square image shows roughly the area where the European landing probe Huygens is due to touch down on the surface of Titan on 14 January 2005. Huygens will separate from Cassini on 25 December 2004 and coast towards Saturn’s satellite on a ballistic trajectory, penetrating its cloudy atmosphere, its descent being slowed by parachutes before landing on Titan.
The data for this image were gathered during the Cassini-Huygens close fly-by on 26 October 2004 from a distance of between 100 000 kilometres and 140 000 kilometres. This was about two hours before the probe reached the closest yet point to the cloud-enveloped moon, just 1200 kilometres from the surface. The image shows the data recorded by three different infrared filters in the wavelengths 2.0 microns (thousandths of a millimetre), 2.7 microns and 5.0 microns. These wavelengths were then made visible to the human eye in the blue, red and green channels.
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In Zimbabwe: She Won't Be Stopped
| March 4, 2011
The focus of the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women this year, in annual meetings ending today, is to promote women’s and girls’ access to education, training, science and technology. Here is one woman’s story.
Taurai “Sandra” Chinyerere is a typical looking 26-year-old from Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe. Yet this young woman is anything but typical. She has traveled far from her homeland for the first time to New York City.
As a delegate representative to the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women, she has come to share her story on panels and workshops for the two weeks of the annual meetings, held this year from February 22 through March 4. As a youth leader in the United Methodist Church, she is the elected president of Zimbabwe Youth Council and the secretary-general of the Methodist Youth movement for 12 African nations. Her responsibilities include the planning and coordination of large annual conferences, organizing committees across countries and writing and presenting thoughtful speeches to inspire her peers. This diverse array of volunteer duties seems an overwhelming task for most young people but especially impossible without the use of a laptop or smart phone. Her only email access is at her place of work. And that is where the real story begins.
Sandra Chinyerere always has had a passion for information technology. Her older brother studied IT and inspired her to follow in his footsteps. Although in their culture as in many around the world technology is considered a man’s job and not a career suitable for a woman, she pursued five years of vocational training in the field of information technology. She was the only woman left standing in her graduating class and immediately sought work in her field of expertise. But no one would hire her because she was a woman. She accepted a position as a receptionist to get her foot into the door of a company where her abilities and superior skill set were slowly accepted.
But Chinyerere wants more. She now wants a university degree in information technology to acquire the skills to increase her income and create future employment opportunities. Her company offers scholarships to employees for educational training and advancement but when she told the managers she had been accepted into an IT program she was told they would not pay for her studies. IT was a career for men. They offered to pay for an advanced degree in administration, but she refused, explaining that her passion was in technology not administrative work.
Chinyerere's life has had other challenges. Her older brother, mother and father all were killed in an automobile accident that has left Sandra the head of her household with three younger siblings to care for and support.
But despite her personal setbacks she flies across the world to share her story and to inspire other young women not to give up their dreams. She is still holding tightly onto her plan to go to university and get her advanced degrees in information technology. In the meantime, she must pay her siblings' school fees—and for the time being, their needs supersede her own. She continues to seek grant opportunities for women in science and technology careers.
Sandra Chinyerere’s quiet and melodic voice hides the strength of an incredibly powerful woman. Determined to overcome the gender stereotypes in her culture, she is an inspiration to an entire generation of women watching her succeed against all odds.
The views expressed in this commentary are those of the author alone and do not represent WMC. WMC is a 501(c)(3) organization and does not endorse candidates.
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How do you know if your diet plan and/or workout plan is paying the efforts you’re putting? A question you should know the answer to, and that’s exactly what we are going to tell you in this article, so keep on reading.
Why Measure Progress?
Whether in fitness or not; measuring progress is one of the major components of any well planned process, measuring progress is important for:
- Knowing whether you’re getting the desired results of your training and diet.
- Avoiding wasting time and money invested in your plans.
- Taking the right decisions based on the progress you’re reaching, like changing the plan if it’s not working, or keep going with it if it’s paying off.
- To provide encouragement when you start seeing –hopefully- positive results.
To do that; here are some of the most commonly used ways to track progress.
How to Measure Progress?
The most obvious tool, but not necessarily the most accurate one; although scales –regardless of type- are the most common means to monitor changes in body weight, they are still subject to bias due to lots of factors that might affect your weight, such as time of the day, clothing, last meal eaten, menstrual cycle, in addition to that it doesn't tell you whether you lost –or gained- fat, muscles or water.
To take your body weight while avoiding bias as possible, follow these guidelines:
- Measure it in the morning, before eating and after defecation, if not in the morning then measure it at the same time of the day every time
- Wear the lighter clothes possible, shoes off
- Stand straight, without tension
- Don’t measure when having edema, or 2-3 days before and at the beginning of the menstrual period
- Don’t measure directly after exercise
2- Measuring tapes
Body circumferences are off great benefit in evaluating your progress, whether you want to have bigger biceps or smaller waist, just make sure to take the measure at the same place every time, not when there is edema and without compressing the skin while taking the measurement.
3- Skin folds caliper
Skin calipers are also a great tool to monitor progress, due to their low cost and ease of use; they enable you to compare changes in your skin folds that reflect fat and muscle content, plus they are used to calculate body fat percent.
Monitoring your body composition (i.e. fat to lean mass content), is one of the best way to track your fitness accomplishments, there are many ways to measure your body fat content, see them here and chose the way that best suits your needs.
Nothing is more convincing regarding body transformations than “before and after” image right!!
That’s why you’re advised to take images of yourself before and after to see changes. Your mobile cam is the easiest way to go.
5- Fitness tests
Since progress isn't always about weight and body circumferences; you better perform these fitness tests on regular basis to evaluate all aspects of your fitness, such as flexibility, strength and endurance.
6- Lab tests
If you’re exercising and/or dieting to overcome high blood sugar level, cholesterol, triglycerides or any other health-risks marker for medical reasons, lab tests are the most accurate way to tell you if you’re on the right path.
How often should you measure progress?
Well, if you are NOT seeing results out of your workout and diet plan at least on monthly basis, you need to reconsider your protocol. So, evaluating progress every month is recommended.
Don’t become obsessed with it though, since repetitive assessment before body changes can even take place might lead to frustration, add to that, that muscle gains –if that was your objective- takes longer time to notice than weight loss.
An easy way to track progress!
Want an easy way to record and track progress while implementing your fitness scheme? Such as body weight, circumferences, heavier weight you can lift, longer distance you can run, etc.? Use your smart body dashboard in your Fitnessyard profile.
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The Internet is a hub where virtually everything can be a commodity, and students with Web access have entry to a wealth of information. That same principle now applies to teachers.
Some argue that education is a learning tool that should be free nationwide, yet some teachers are starting to cash in on the same classroom lessons they teach, with help from an online education resource called TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT).
TpT offers a combination of free and premium memberships. Premium sellers pay a $59.95 annual fee and a 15 percent commission on all sales. Basic sellers have a free account and pay 40 percent commission on sales.
For some teachers, TpT sales have proven to be a big salary boost. According to the site, approximately 12 teacher sellers have become millionaires, while nearly 300 teachers have earned more than $100,000. Total earnings paid to teachers since the site's launch have been more than $175 million.
Founded in April 2006 by Paul Edelman, a former New York City public school teacher, TpT is the first and largest open marketplace where teachers share, sell, and buy original educational resources.
"We know that teachers don't have a lot to spend and we want to make sure every dollar is a dollar well spent," says Adam Freed, TpT's CEO, in an interview with CNBC.
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Our emotions work as our environmental navigating and security system. They indicate how we feel and, how our lives are going. Our emotions give us the power and fuel needed for manifesting. They control conscious and unconscious habits which, include the way we think. Our beliefs act like filters to what we feel emotionally and, our emotions have the power to affect the physical body.
During the day, every one picks up on the emotions, feelings, and thoughts of others. Because everything that exists is made of up energy. As to what you pick up that is not of your own creation, we collectively refer to them as “foreign energies.” .
The key is knowing when an energy, emotion you’re feeling, or a thought you’re having, does not belong to you, and knowing that you have the power to remove it and restore the balance of your aura at anytime. There are many modalities geared to clearing foreign energies.
Although all suffering originates in the mind, the residues of it can get stuck in etheric layer of our aura, the pain body. Intentionally and unintentionally, we allow these foreign energies to attach themselves to and within our aura. It’s part of being human. It is important to note- no matter how spiritually evolved you are, you will always have foreign energy attaching itself to your aura, This is especially true if you are highly empathic and sensitive (clairsentient), in which case, your very nature involves you sensing, picking up, and potentially carrying with you the emotions of those around you.
The problem with not clearing these energies is they build up over time and cause physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual imbalances. Negative energy attracts negativity into your life. By the Law of Attraction, like attracts like. Whatever vibration we radiate creates more of the same. This is still true whether we’re, aware or not of our unhealed beliefs. Until we release the causes of suffering, the residues of it attract and recreates situations and circumstances that reflect it over and over again. This is called karmic looping, which perpetuate the illusion of being separate from love, joy, abundance, creativity, and our own aliveness. They seem to veil the Life Force that we ARE.
Emotions like fear and anger change body constitution making the body very acidity. The constant release of these chemicals affect not just the body, but the mind, and spirit in everyone. Some Healing modalities to diffuse and release negative energy:
1. Chrom Essence- triggers the olfactory nervous system bringing up memories, feelings and emotions held within the pain body
2. Tuning Forks work on nervous system as well as our auric field where energy tends to get stuck
3. massage helps release trapped energy held within the muscle and tissue of the physical body. Energy held within the aura and nervous system eventually condition the physical body to hold tension. The tension is referred to as energy blocks and knots.
4. Emotional Freedom Technique to help Identify emotional and psychological hurts that we have detached from and now are unconscious to, but are still affecting our life.
5. journaling what you feel strongly about helps us not only identify, but helps us release it.
6. Try to be specific with what you are feeling
9. Spend time with friends
10. Give yourself permission to feel your feelings
11 Accept your feelings, physical move, or communicate them
12Forgive, we forgive to release ourselves from the person who hurt us.
13. Gratitude, Be thankful for what you have.
14. Use the pain to learn, so you do not repeat
Ask yourself the following questions:
A. Are my reacting?
B. Can I talk about the experience or situation with the person caused the upset?
C. Is a direct approach the best way to succeed?
D. Have an intention, a hope for how the discussion or problem will resolve.
E. Be realistic. Make sure you can be honest with the person or situation.
F. If you can not freely communicate with the individual do not entertain the idea of trying to find solutions to making the relationship work! REGARDLESS of whom they may be. Move on and learn from the situation.
All emotions are born from love and fear and, all thoughts trigger one emotion or the other. Some examples of how fear manifests: anxiety, anger, control, sadness, depression, confusion, guilt, shame, and inadequacy. Fear based emotions stimulate the nervous system and releasing chemicals that suppress the digestion and immune system. This is why people who repetitively experience undesirable life experiences or choose the wrong types of relationships often develop health conditions. As noted above, we all pick up energy throughout our day by the people and situations we come into contact with, but we have complete control over how that energy affects us.
If you or someone you care about is suffering from negative emotional energy do not wait until it manifests into imbalanced relationships or/and physical health imbalances! Get the help you need by working with a spiritualist, life coach or/and energy healer, it will not only upgrade your health and emotional well being, but has the power to affect the people who are in your life and bring better life situations, people and opportunities to enhance overall well being.
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Photographer Dennis Feldman may not consider himself a street style photographer, but in capturing Hollywood Boulevard in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he preserved the fashion and people of a very particular time and place—one that held special allure for him. "When I was a child growing up in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and Vine was a code word for glamour," Feldman explains. "I was attracted by the characters that I saw on the Avenue. At that time there were regulars, not tourists. From Highland to Vine there was a population attracted by the Hollywood myth." See some of the standout shots from "Hollywood Boulevard, 1969-72," available now.
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I had a bit of a chat a few days ago with Prof Lewis Lancaster. He’s one of the luminaries of modern Buddhist studies, and a pioneer in the area of digitizing the Chinese texts.
He mentioned some issues with the Chinese texts that I was not aware of so I thought I’d post them here. Perhaps some of our Chinese speaking users might have more to add on this.
Prof Lancaster said that when they printed the Taisho canon the fonts available to the printers did not have all the characters they needed to fully represent all that was in the manuscripts. So they kludged it to some degree, substituting modern versions of characters, or using the closest in form.
With the tens of thousands of Chinese characters, can you imagine what this job was like? Seeing a shape on a page—maybe blurry or indistinct—and trying to ascertain whether that exact form is in your font collection, and if not, which one is the closest substitute.
In most cases these variations won’t substantially affect the meaning. Nevertheless, it is still important to stay as close as possible to the original.
When the text was digitized, these kludges were not corrected. Moreover, at that time—over a decade ago—the Unicode specification was not as complete as today, and there were many characters missing. These are represented with special codes, or even with images.
Today the Unicode specification has expanded to represent a fairly complete view of Chinese characters (not so the Indic characters, but that’s another story). We have the excellent Noto fonts that can display the entire range of glyphs.
Yet the digitized versions of the Taisho are not yet completely updated to the new specification. According to Lewis Lancaster, the SAT version is more updated than the CBETA, which is the one we have adapted for SC.
(There is a further problem with the Taisho and derived digital texts, which is that while most of the texts are taken from the famous Tripitaka Koreana, not all of them are. Apparently the text did not identify these, and it was only recently discovered that they derive from an inferior privately printed edition. However, I think it’s unlikely that this affects any of the texts on SC.)
Clearly it would be better to sidestep these problems by using an edition that is based directly on the Tripitaka Koreana. Such an edition exists, it was digitized by Prof Lancaster himself.
However I can’t find it online. (Most of the links on the relevant Wikipedia pages are broken and outdated, a problem that infests most of the Buddhist text pages on Wikipedia.) All I can find is a site with the scanned images. (warning: flash plugin required!) Does anyone know anything about this?
According to Prof Lancaster, his edition is also not updated to the latest Unicode specification, and he said it was unlikely that he would do this himself. Nevertheless, it is still the most accurate digitized text.
Of course the Taisho edition is still the standard for referencing, so there’s no need to remove it. But it would be nice to update the site with the more authentic text if it is available.
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Mindfulness Can Ease PTSD Symptoms
There has been a lot of research in mindfulness meditation in the last decade. Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction has been shown to be extremely effective in a relatively short period of time. It has shown to be helpful with anxiety, stress and depression, as well as chronic pain and illness. Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy is another evidence-based practice that uses mindfulness skills to help individuals cope with depressive symptoms and has recently been shown to help veterans with PTSD reduce their symptoms.
People who practiced mindfulness meditation about half an hour a day for 8 weeks saw a change in several brain structures related to learning, memory, emotion, and the fear response. These are all things that play a role in post-traumatic stress responses.
Among parts of the brain impacted were the hippocampus and amygdala. After a mere 8 weeks, there was an increase in gray matter in these parts of the brain—the same part of the brain that sees a decrease after someone develops PTSD. So if PTSD is associated with a decrease in density in gray matter in the hippocampus and then there is increase in density after several weeks of practicing mindfulness, there is at least a basis for future research on how mindfulness can help reduce symptoms of PTSD.
The nearly universally agreed upon protocol requires some manner of exposure to, or processing of, the traumatic event itself. Therefore, mindfulness can’t yet be considered a stand-alone treatment for PTSD. That said, avoidance symptoms are a huge obstacle in being able to do exposure and processing. Mindfulness has been shown to help people increase their distress tolerance, which can then help them “stay with” memories and symptoms during treatment. My clients successfully learn and implement mindfulness skills in trauma therapy to prepare to process their trauma.
How to practice this yourself? Mindfulness just means being present, and there are a lot of ways to do this. A classic mindfulness exercise is to eat a raisin or an orange while completely engaged in the entire process. Absorb the sight, texture, smell and taste of the item. Fully experience preparing to eat it, placing it in the mouth, and finally, chewing and swallowing the fruit.
You can also practice mindfulness while walking, listening to music, doing the dishes, cooking, or just about any other activity. These are all types of informal mindfulness practices, and can often be easier to schedule and participate in than formal practice, which can seem intimidating and foreign to newcomers. If you want to learn more about how to practice these, a local Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction course can be a nice introduction to many different mindfulness practices, and has been shown to reduce stress, anxiety and pain in a number of studies. What kind of mindfulness will you practice today?
Staggs, S. (2013). Mindfulness Can Ease PTSD Symptoms. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 23, 2017, from http://blogs.psychcentral.com/after-trauma/2013/11/mindfulness-can-ease-ptsd-symptoms/
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Proclaimed by the president of the United States in 2011, Energy Action Month was created to bring attention to a topic that experts believe is becoming ever more important to the nation’s health, security and well-being. On Oct. 1, 2012, the Elk River City Council proclaimed October as Energy Action Month in Elk River.
During October, the Elk River Energy City Commission will organize and support activities and events throughout the city to help residents get involved and learn about the importance of energy. Events include:
•celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Elk River Landfill gas-to electric facility
•showcasing Energy City demonstration sites on Minnesota Renewable Energy Society’s Solar Tour
•a business education event
•Energy City tours
•offering energy education materials to local schools
•an energy conservation poster contest
The poster contest is open to all residents. Using the theme “You Have the Power,” people can create a poster that reflects how Elk River residents have the power to conserve energy. The contest includes prizes for the top three posters. The first place poster will be displayed throughout the city for the remainder of the month. For more information on the poster contest go to www.ElkRiverMN.gov/EnergyCity.
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Archaeologists dig up new picture of Mayans
Archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli is dwarfed by his discovery, a giant stucco face of an unknown Mayan deity.
Ancient society was hundreds of years older than thought. Thomas Maugh writes from Los Angeles.
Archaeologists excavating a 2500-year-old Mayan city in Guatemala have unearthed buildings and massive carvings, suggesting a royal metropolis of more than 10,000 people.
It was previously believed the Mayans were only simple farmers but studies at the Peten jungle site of Cival have unearthed the oldest known carved portrait of a Mayan king and two massive stone masks.
The discoveries indicate that the Mayans developed a complex and sophisticated civilisation hundreds of years earlier than previously believed.
The city of towering pyramids and sweeping plazas is also yielding other surprising artefacts, including jade and ceramic offerings to the gods that may mark the beginnings of the Mayan dynasties, according to archaeologist Francisco Estrada-Belli. The Mayan civilisation came into full bloom at cities such as Palenque and Tikal in the Classic Period, beginning about AD300. But other Pre-classic sites have been built over, often repeatedly.
Cival, for reasons that are not clear, was abandoned about AD100, "never to be occupied again", Mr Estrada-Belli said, and had lain relatively untouched ever since.
Because it was preserved, it was now clear that " 'Pre-classic' is a misnomer". The new evidence showed that "Pre-classic Mayan societies already had many features that have been attributed to the Classic Period: kings, complex iconography, elaborate palaces and burials".
The origin of the Mayan civilisation had to be found in the first part of the Pre-classic period, rather than the last.
Cival, about 40 kilometres east of Tikal, was originally discovered in 1984 by Ian Graham, of Harvard University. Most of the site was overgrown by jungle and it was thought to be a minor outpost.
Mr Estrada-Belli had been studying the nearby Classic Period city of Holmul and was using satellite imaging and GPS positioning to explore the surrounding area when he rediscovered Cival four years ago. The new technology showed that its ceremonial centre spanned almost a kilometre.
The most spectacular find at Cival occurred by accident. Mr Estrada-Belli reached into a fissure in a wall in the city's main pyramid and felt a piece of carved stucco.
Digging into the site from the other side of the pyramid, he discovered a 4.5-metre by 2.7-metre stucco mask.
More recently, the team discovered a second, apparently identical, mask. The eyes appear to be adorned with corn husks, suggesting the Maya maize deity.
- Los Angeles Times
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Frequently Asked Question
Which rice is better? White or brown?
Nutritionally, it basically doesn’t matter. It is often said that brown rice is less processed, contains more fiber and is therefore better. It has 0.6g per 100g more fiber, which is a negligible amount.
White rice varieties cook faster and are a bit easier to digest.
Try black or red rice if you want to maximize the nutritional value 🙂 Besides, it doesn’t matter.
Rice is not an explicitly nutritious food, but that does not mean that it needs to be removed from your diet. Especially if you have a sufficient intake of fruits or vegetables.
Are low-fat dairy products healthy?
I was also interested in this question. In the case of low-fat products, the fat must be separated from the proteins and sugars in the milk and are therefore more processed than the milk itself. Based on that we could assume that they are a worse choice for health than full-fat products. However, evidence for this conjecture is lacking, and the health benefits of low-fat products for body composition have recently been demonstrated.
You will find more in the comprehensive article: Low-Fat vs Full-Fat Dairy
Should I consume only raw fruits and vegetables?
Some food ingredients like vit. C is degraded during heat treatment, some on the contrary become better absorbable for us when cooked e.g. vit. A. Frozen vegetables retain even more vitamins because they are frozen shortly after harvest.
Consume vegetables in the form that suits you best. If you do not eat enough vegetables and fruits in general, it does not make sense to think about what form is the most nutritious. First and foremost, quantity is important.
It is recommended to consume 400g of fruits / vegetables per day.
Is “food for athletes” automatically more expensive? Can I eat the recommended foods, but buy the cheapest versions? Because in the case of various seeds, kernels or any bran, it is probably important how they are grown and how much they are treated and cleaned. So is quality important or is it enough that I eat them? Or should I not even bother to buy the cheaper ones?
The assumption that food for athletes is more expensive is wrong. This question is similar to whether it is better to eat fresh or cooked vegetables.
It is true that the nutritional value of food is declining (approximately 8% over the last 30 years). The consumption of vegetables and fruits rich in micronutrients is all the more important.
The “labels” that we give to food as organically grown or organic do not necessarily mean more nutritious foods, and in addition, the price-to-nutrient ratio is not better than with conventional foods.
Foods intended for athletes, like supplements, are mainly marketing.
Interestingly, studies that demonstrate the health benefits of fruits and vegetables are all on conventionally grown crops, not organic or organic crops.
It is said that cravings for chocolate is caused by a lack of magnesium. It’s true?
If we follow the narrative that when our body is deficient in magnesium, it craves food that is a source of magnesium, as is chocolate, we can come to this conclusion. However, this is an unconfirmed claim.
If it is magnesium that our body craves, why doesn’t the body “ask” for pumpkin seeds or another source of magnesium? Why chocolate? And what about people who don’t know chocolate – do they experience chocolate cravings that they cannot explain or they simply don’t lack magnesium? 🙂
The taste for chocolate is rather caused by inadequate diet, stress and food placement (you see chocolate, get enough taste for it). For example, if you don’t find time for a good meal during the day, in the evening you will lose your appetite for chocolate … and not for chocolate beans.
It is said that white sugar is not a healthy sweetener, but there are several alternatives. What to choose: honey, coconut sugar, birch sugar or maple syrup?
White sugar, brown sugar, maple syrup, or coconut sugar are almost identical. The main difference is in their use in cooking, taste, and price. Differences in their nutritional value are negligible at normal doses.
The most nutritious sweeteners are honey, chicory syrup, which contains a lot of fiber and is also suitable for diabetics.
Then we have calorie-free sweeteners like xylithol, which you can use to sweeten drinks and not worry about calories.
Is spirulina good for immunity?
Yes, it is. According to the study, it looks good for allergic rhinitis. However, if you just want to strengthen immunity, you need to reduce stress and eat enough protein, carbohydrates, fruits, vegetables. Low caloric intake also impairs immunity. Fruits and vegetables remain the first choice 🙂
Vegan & Vegetarian
After switching to a vegetarian / vegan diet, I feel more often cold, have mood swings, less energy.
The usual answer you will get to this question is that you lack vit. B12 or iron. It is possible, but our body can store years worth of B12 vitamin before depleting them. Inadequate iron intake will probably not show up in a week or two either. This problem is typical and in 90% of cases, it is caused by reduced caloric intake. Simply, when the athlete switches a steak with cheese for a mixed spring salad, they reduce their caloric intake dramaticaly.
Caloric deficit results in symptoms like irritability, mood swings, low energy, worse recovery and feeling cold more often.
After switching to a vegetarian / vegan diet, I do not have enough iron.
This is often associated with the previous problem – insufficient energy intake and secondly, the wrong choice of food. With any dietary changes, it takes us a while to get into new tracks, and in this case it means learning which foods are rich in iron and (lentils, tofu, spinach) and then eating them regularly in sufficient amounts.
How to get enough protein on a vegan diet?
Getting enough protein on the vegan diet is not complicated but it might take you a while till you get it.
Check the following resources:
Eating tips for traveling vegans?
Check the following resources:
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Innovative Features Driving Mobile Phone Usage By Students In Kenya
Richard K. Ronoh1, Samuel Mbugua2 and Franklin Wabwoba3
1,2,3 School of Computing and Informatics, Kibabii University, Kenya
@International Journal of Modern Trends in Engineering and Research 5(1):180-184
Mobile phone adoption and usage enjoyed drastic and exponential success as far as the history of technology adoption goes. However, there are indications that users are becoming overwhelmed by the unconstraint addition of features and services to the mobile phone guided by the assumption that “more is better”. Currently, mobile phone features present a range of innovations that are rarely useful to majority of users. The result is that many mobile phone features are never used and yet these features significantly contribute to power consumption and cost of the mobile phone. This study investigated innovative phone features that influence mobile phone usage patterns amongst university students in Kenya. In this descriptive analytical study 310 students were selected. Data was collected using a questionnaire and interviews. An average of 24% of respondents indicated that they used most of the features provided by their mobile phones. Provision of appropriate educational programs about beneficial use of mobile phone is quite crucial.
Keywords-Mobile phone features, usage patterns, feature clusters
Download Abstract: Innovative Features Driving Mobile Phone Usage By Students In Kenya
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New courts and pitches at the transformed Victorian home of netball and hockey are helping thousands of players – ranging from tiny juniors to towering national representatives – be their best.
The remade Melbourne Sports Centres - Parkville hosts more than 500,000 players and spectators each year – and 80 per cent of all participants are women and girls.
A $64.6 million Victorian Government investment has delivered six new indoor netball courts, a new indoor hockey pitch, hot and cold recovery pools, a creche for parents playing at the centre, and a high-performance strength and conditioning gym at the sports mecca formerly known as the State Netball and Hockey Centre.
With 64 lineal kilometres of timber sports flooring laid, the netball arm of the centre now has 11 indoor courts – creating greater capacity for year-round play. The new indoor hockey court similarly provides more opportunities and pathways for players.
With Netball Victoria, Super Netball’s Melbourne Vixens, Hockey Victoria and dozens of grassroots hockey and netball teams based at the centre, the new facilities will open up the venue for more community participation, high-performance excellence, competitions and major events.
The works have also created a new northern entrance, better connecting the centre to public transport.
More than 150 jobs were created during construction and the Victorian Government encouraged contractor Kane Constructions to maximise the female presence on the project. These efforts included a pilot program to encourage women and girls to consider a career in construction while half of Kane Constructions’ and Development Victoria’s project teams were female.
At the peak of construction, some 26,000 hours were worked by women, equal to 30 per cent of all contributing hours worked during that time. In total, 73 women worked on the redevelopment site in trade and support roles. About 93 per cent of labour and materials were sourced under the Government’s Local Jobs First Policy.
The expanded centre will also allow for more use by volleyball, basketball, futsal, badminton and table tennis players and will be home to the Women in Sport Leadership Centre.
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Cells lining the blood vessels secrete molecules that suppress tumor growth and keep cancer cells from invading other tissues, MIT scientists have discovered. This is a finding that could lead to a new way to treat cancer.
Elazer Edelman, professor in the MIT-Harvard Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), says that implanting such cells adjacent to a patient's tumor could shrink a tumor or prevent it from growing back or spreading further after surgery or chemotherapy. He has already tested such an implant in mice, and MIT has licensed the technology to Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc., which plans to test it in humans.
AdvertisementEdelman describes the work, which appears in the Jan. 19 issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine, as a "paradigm shift" that could fundamentally change how cancer is understood and treated. "This is a cancer therapy that could be used alone or with chemotherapy radiation or surgery, but without adding any devastating side effects," he says.
Cells that line the blood vessels, known as endothelial cells, were once thought to serve primarily as structural gates, regulating delivery of blood to and from tissues. However, they are now known to be much more active. In the 1980s, scientists discovered that endothelial cells control the constriction and dilation of blood vessels, and in the early 1990s, Edelman and his postdoctoral advisor, Morris Karnovsky, and others, discovered an even more important role for endothelial cells: They regulate blood clotting, tissue repair, inflammation and scarring, by releasing molecules such as cytokines (small proteins that carry messages between cells) and large sugar-protein complexes.
Many vascular diseases, notably atherosclerosis, originate with endothelial cells. For example, when a blood vessel is injured by cholesterol, inappropriately high blood sugar, or even physical stimuli, endothelial cells may overreact and provoke uncontrolled inflammation, which can further damage the surrounding tissue.
Edelman and HST graduate student Joseph Franses hypothesized that endothelial cells might also play a role in controlling cancer behavior, because blood vessels are so closely entwined with tumors. It was already known that other types of cells within tumors, known collectively as the tumor stromal microenvironment, influence cancer cell growth and metastasis, but little was known about how endothelial cells might be similarly involved.
In the new study, Edelman, Franses and former MIT postdoctoral fellows Aaron Baker and Vipul Chitalia showed that secretions from endothelial cells inhibit the growth and invasiveness of tumor cells, both in cells grown in the lab and in mice. Endothelial cells secrete hundreds of biochemicals, many of which may be involved in this process, but the researchers identified two that are particularly important: a large sugar-protein complex called perlecan, and a cytokine called interleukin-6. When endothelial cells secrete large amounts of perlecan but little IL-6 they are effective at suppressing cancer cell invasion, whereas they are ineffective in the opposite proportions.
The researchers theorize that there is a constant struggle between cancer cells and endothelial cells, and most of the time, the endothelial cells triumph. "All of us, every day, are exposed to factors that cause cancer, but relatively few of us exhibit disease," says Edelman. "We believe that the body's control mechanism wins out the bulk of the time, but when the balance of power is reversed cancer dominates."
The struggle also depends on a third player, the endothelial cells' extracellular matrix structural proteins that pave blood vessels and on which the endothelial cells reside. Endothelial cells only function properly when their extracellular matrix is stable and of the correct biochemical composition. Under normal conditions, if a cell becomes cancerous, the endothelial cell may then keep it in check. However, the cancer cell fights back by trying to destroy the extracellular matrix or change the endothelial cell directly, both of which hinder the endothelial cell's efforts to control the cancer.
"There is this three-way balance that needs to be achieved," says Edelman. The more aggressive a cancer cell, the more likely it is to overcome the endothelial cells and extracellular matrix, allowing it to spread to other tissues.
Several years ago, Edelman began using endothelial cells, grown within a scaffold made of denatured, compressed collagen (a protein that makes up much of human connective tissue), as an implantable device. The "matrix-embedded endothelial cells" served as a convenient unit that could be produced in bulk, tested for quality control, retained intact for months and implanted immediately when needed. This way, the healthiest cells could be selected to secrete all of the chemicals normally released by endothelial cells and placed in multiple locations in the body to control disease.
In clinical trials these implants were placed around blood vessels after vascular surgery and controlled local clotting and infection better than devices without cells. Significantly, because the endothelial cells were associated with a matrix mimicking their natural state, even cells from other people could be implanted without being rejected by the patients' immune systems. No major side effects were seen in the clinical trials,
"Blood vessels and endothelial cells are the perfect regulatory units and our synthetic device recapitulated these control units perfectly," says Franses. Blood vessels penetrate to the deepest recesses of tumors, and in doing so carry the powerful regulatory endothelial cells as close to cancer cells as possible. The extracellular matrix backbone of the vessels can keep the endothelial cells healthy and the healthy endothelial cells control nearby cancer cells. "This is what we mimicked with our devices," he says. "In a sense it is like putting a cellular policeman on the corner of every tumor neighborhood."
In one mouse experiment reported in the new paper, endothelial cell implants significantly slowed tumor growth and prevented gross destructive change in tumor structure. Another experiment showed that cancer cells that had been grown in the secretions of endothelial cells were less able than standard cancer cells to metastasize and colonize the lungs of mice.
The new findings could also explain why drugs that suppress angiogenesis growth of new blood vessels have shown only transient and moderate benefit for cancer patients thus far. "You starve the tumor of its blood supply, but you also damage tumor blood vessel endothelial cells, so when the tumor comes back, there's nothing to keep it in check. The vessels feed the tumor but their endothelial cells control the cancer cells within. Giving the endothelial cells without the blood vessels provides the best of both worlds and perhaps one day could provide new means of cancer therapy," says Edelman.
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Here’s what I wrote in 2016: “America isn’t a race or religion or language. America is a philosophy of government–a set of ideas about the relationship of the citizen to the state. Anyone can hold a set of ideas. So anyone can be an American.” We need to remember that when anyone talks of preventing immigration from “shithole countries.” That’s a fundamentally unAmerican idea and I’ll explain why.
The fact is, most Americans can trace their ancestry back to “shithole countries.”
In history, five waves of immigration went into the American melting pot
- 1607-1776–When immigrants consisted mainly of colonists from Great Britain and Africans brought forcibly as slaves.
- 1783-1861–When white Northern and Western Europeans, primarily Protestants came prior to the Civil War, though the Irish potato famine of the 1840s brought many Catholics.
- 1865-1914–Darker immigrants came from Eastern and Southern Europe including Italians, Greeks and Jews, the latter often fleeing Russian pogroms.
- 1919-1945–A lull in immigration due to preventive legislation, the Depression and then another world war.
- 1945-today–Immigrants from Latin America, Africa and South Asia, including the boat people from Vietnam.
Hungry immigrants make America what it is today
Each successive wave of immigrants faced religious persecution, economic discrimination, or language barriers. The Italians were called “dagos” by the Irish, who were called “micks” by the British. Jews and Italians, for years, were not welcome in country clubs, certain neighborhoods, Wall Street firms, etc. But whites have had an easier time assimilating than African-Americans brought here forcibly and still subject to hateful attitudes, as seen in Charlottesville, VA.
In the early 20th century, blacks fled the Jim Crow south during the Great Migration, as documented in the Pulitzer Prize winning book, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” by Isabel Wilkerson. Arriving in northern cities, they competed for jobs with unskilled immigrants who resisted their presence, often violently, Wilkerson writes. A series of riots during the Civil Rights movement resulted.
Leaving for the unknown
Parents, get your copy of The Wagon Train coloring book.
The people who leave their countries, or blacks who migrated north, were typically the most talented and the most courageous. It is hard to leave your place of birth for the unknown. Those migrants have made America great. In another post about America First, I explained my thinking that it’s not a zero sum game between America and other countries. The United States can look out for its own interests and also help others. It’s a false dichotomy to say these goals are in perpetual conflict.
Demanding a merit based system accepting immigrants only from countries judged as successful overlooks the fact that merit derives from struggle itself, not from where you come from.
The United States is about how a hungry and motivated group of people brought their talents, their diverse sets of religious beliefs and their willingness to work hard to a new country and made it prosperous and free.
That’s the idea, and the nation, that make America great. And it has nothing to do with the color of your skin or any dysfunction going on in your birthplace.
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Are you familiar with renewable natural gas (RNG)? RNG is a 100% renewable, carbon-neutral natural gas produced from decomposing organic matter. First, organic matter (like what you would put in your brown bin) is gathered and taken to a biomethanation plant to be transformed into RNG. Then, the resulting RNG is injected into the gas network and the energy is ready for use, in the same way as conventional natural gas (for transportation, heating, cooking, hot water, and more).
In order to be able to offer this renewable energy to our customers, local producers are indispensable. With its biomethanation facility, Coop Agri-Énergie Warwick will be Québec’s very first agricultural cooperative dedicated to producing RNG. This project, which involves a dozen agricultural producers, will allow RNG to be produced from manure, liquid manure and various organic waste from businesses in the region. This means that over 2 million m3 of RNG will be injected into the gas network each year. That’s enough to supply 1,000 homes with renewable energy! Énergir will purchase all the RNG produced by the Coop Agri-Énergie Warwick biomethanation facility to distribute it to customers wishing to take advantage of the environmental benefits of this energy.
Agricultural biomethanation is the process of converting organic waste, manure and liquid manure. It is commonly used elsewhere in the world, particularly in Germany, France and the United States. The resulting biogas is purified to 97%, becoming RNG.
Biomethane or RNG?
You may have already heard the term “biomethane” in a similar context. In fact, biomethane and renewable natural gas are synonyms. Both cases refer to a gas, methane, produced from fermented organic matter, that can be used as a renewable energy source.
A winning energy source across the board
Agricultural RNG makes it possible to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions not only by replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy but also by preventing methane emissions from the storage of manure and liquid manure. Coop Agri-Énergie Warwick’s biomethanation facility will reduce GHG emissions by 6,500 tonnes of CO2 annually, the equivalent of taking 1,500 cars off the road each year! This project will allow member agricultural producers to play an active role in the fight against climate change.
This type of initiative is in line with the energy transition initiated by the Québec government. RNG could help Québec attain its GHG reduction targets. In 2019, Québec set itself an ambitious RNG distribution target equivalent to 5% of the total volume of natural gas in the gas network as of 2025. It is also a preferred driver for energy transition in more advanced countries like Sweden and Denmark.
Moreover, in its environmental policy, the City of Warwick encourages biomethanation as a way of reducing the use of fossil fuels. Numerous agricultural regions in Québec have similar RNG production potential and other cooperatives of this type will hopefully be developed.
A project that is firmly anchored in the community
The biomethanation facility will be built on Route Kirouac in Warwick, Centre-du-Québec. The site was chosen due to the high concentration of dairy farms in the vicinity and its proximity to the gas network. It will provide the community with numerous benefits such as the following:
- Reduced odours from spreading manure
- An additional source of revenue for producers
- Waste recovery
- Creation of jobs that cannot be outsourced
- Economic spinoffs for the region
Coop Agri-Énergie Warwick is an agricultural cooperative that ensures the full participation of agricultural producers and a fair redistribution of wealth among members. The model offers producers of various sizes the opportunity to take part in a project that allows them to play an active role in producing a renewable and local energy source.
The Warwick biomethanation facility is the fruit of the contribution of numerous partners and collaborators, particularly Génitique and Coop Carbone. Their knowledge and expertise allowed for the creation of this economically, environmentally and socially promising project.
Developing a circular economy: a key concern
The biomethanation facility will also produce digestate, a high-quality, odourless fertilizer that will be returned to the cooperative’s member agricultural producers to be used on their land. What a great example of circular economy!
Construction of the biomethanation facility is set to begin in spring 2020, and commissioning is expected to take place at the end of the year.
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Seliaman, M. E. and Ahmad, Ab Rahman and A. Saif, Abdul-Wahid (2008) Production and inventory decisions in a multi-stage supply chain with transportation cost. In: 2008 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, ICTTA. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, 484 -489. ISBN 978-142441751-3
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4529993
In this paper we consider the case of a three-stage supply where a firm can supply many customers. This supply chain system involves suppliers, manufactures, and retailers. Production and inventory decisions are made at the suppliers and manufactures levels. The production rates for the suppliers and manufactures are assumed finite. In addition the demand for each firm is assumed to be known. The problem is to coordinate production, inventory and transportation decisions across the supply chain so that the total cost of the system is minimized. For this purpose, we incorporate transportation cost explicitly into the model and describe optimal solution procedure for solving the model.
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Slang term for simulation sickness, the barf zone occurs where the difference between the inner ear's idea of movement, and the virtual reality device's report that you have stopped moving is off just enough to make you feel nauseous, and throw up.
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The Matrix distorts when a freak corruption of data creates a no-physics zone in a thin layer paralleling the floor. An advanced replication of gravity warping accidents that happen in ActiveWorlds and Second Life, today.
A Twilight Zone episode from the late 1950s, comprising of a mix of substrate chauvinism, the psychology of loneliness, artificial intelligence, avatar psychology, and embodiment in one half hour long, blunt and honest package.
Sixteen Millimeter Shrine is an odd little episode of the Twilight Zone Very, very powerful in the way it handles the concept of escapism. Creating a new world to live in after the old, outside world becomes intolerable. Preserving the last shreds of sanity as all else falls apart. This episode speaks of the healing power of virtual worlds in all but name.
ActiveWorlds Gate 5.0 launched on November the 26th 2009, in readiness for the launch of ActiveWorlds 5.0 on December the 1st 2009. Here we see one of the rooms off of the main concourse, where the company nods politely to all the independent radio firms that operate within it's platform. Eight platforms are available. To hear the music, just stand in the column-shaped invisible zone on top of each disk, and the music will start streaming, assuming the radio station lives long enough of course. This location brings home another problem the platform is trying to hide - the steady decline of users.
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A pair of baseball-playing robots that can pitch and hit with incredible results have been developed in Japan.
The pitching robot, with its three-fingered hand, can throw 90 percent of its pitches in the strike zone, won't n...
Most drivers have experienced a traffic signal that turns yellow just as they approach an intersection, which makes it difficult for them to decide whether to stop or proceed through it. The wrong choice in this critical situation, known as...
NCsoft Europe have announced an expansion pack for City of Heroes. Forest of Dread will become available at no extra cost to existing subscribers in August 2005.
Forest of Dread features a thrilling new Zone for heroes to exp...
Israeli Defence Forces are deploying automated weapon robots along the border of the Gaza Strip to create a buffer kill zone to prevent any human crossing.
The system, called the "See-Shoot" system, is currently being inst...
Researchers from North Carolina State University have identified a gene that tells embryonic stem cells in the brain when to stop producing nerve cells called neurons. The research is a significant advance in understanding the development o...
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Happy Juneteenth from a Land Where Old Times Are Forgotten
By Jim Schutze – The Dallas Observer
An interesting story in The Dallas Morning News this week by Selwyn Crawford about growing national popularity for Juneteenth, a holiday originally thought to be strictly a Texas thing. Juneteenth marks the official emancipation of slaves in Texas in 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
My family just visited a part of the Old South, where we toured the home of a slave owner. Slavery was described by our tour guide in terms I took as morally neutral. The spiel focused on the wealth of the slave owner. In mid-19th century, steamy hot, coastal South Carolina, he could afford imported ice for his wine. The slave quarters were off-limits to visitors.
Crawford's piece accurately describes a debate over Juneteenth as strictly a black thing. Should Juneteenth be the big holiday, or does that overshadow and diminish the importance of Lincoln's historic proclamation?
I never have visited the Nazi death camps in Europe. I will someday. But I have read about the tours and watched films of them. My unmistakable impression of those tours is that the words spoken and sights seen all convey a mood of powerful solemnity, grief and, yes, horror, nothing like the tight-lipped neutrality I picked up in our tour of a slave owner's grand home.
As I say, the debate over Juneteenth is interesting. But it's black. For me, the question of how black people feel about slavery is less interesting than how white people feel. That's what I want to know.
On my Kindle some time ago I downloaded an abridged edition of Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery, compiled from 2,300 first-person accounts of former slaves interviewed in the 1930s by writers working for the U.S. Works Progress Administration under the direction of the famous folklorist Alan Lomax. I used that archive a long time ago for a book I was working on. I put it on my Kindle a year or so ago because it was a free download.
The slave narratives are compelling and convincing because the accounts are widely varied. Some former slaves describe horrific events and circumstances, but some say their treatment wasn't all that bad. And the narratives also are convincing because certain themes are incredibly consistent across 2,300 interviews.
One of those consistent themes is a particular kind of depravity that owning another human being can bring about in the so-called owner. After all, it was this depravity of whites that inspired the first white abolitionists. The Grimke sisters of South Carolina, for example, were driven to the cause by the animalistic cruelty of whites that they witnessed on their own family plantation.
You could say that the Grimke sisters were driven more by their concern for the white soul than compassion for the slaves. Maybe that's what I found missing in that house we toured. Anyway, here is an excerpt from the narratives, describing an event not unlike many others remembered by the former slaves:
I's Aunt Mary, all right, but you all has to 'scuse me if I don't talk so good, 'cause I's been feelin' poorly for a spell and I ain't so young no more. Law me, when I think back what I used to do, and now it's all I can do to hobble 'round a little. Why Miss Olivia, my mistress, used to put a glass plumb full of water on my head and then have me waltz 'round the room, and I'd dance so smoothlike, I don't spill nary drap.
That was in St. Louis, where I's born. You see, my mamma belong to old Williams Cleveland and old Polly Cleveland, and they was the meanest two white folks what ever lived, 'cause they was allus beatin' on their slaves. I know, 'cause mamma told me, and I hears about it other places, and besides old Polly, she was a Polly devil if there ever was one, and she whipped my little sister what was only 9 months old and jes' a baby to death. She come and took the diaper offen my little sister and whipped till the blood jes' ran -- jes' cause she cry like all babies do, and it kilt my sister. I never forgot that, but I sot some even with that old Polly devil, and it's this-a-way.
You see, I's 'bout 10 year old and I belongs to Miss Olivia, what was that old Polly's daughter, and one day old Polly devil comes to where Miss Olivia lives after she marries, and tries to give me a lick out in the yard, and I picks up a rock 'bout as big as half your fist and hits her right in the eye and busted the eyeball, and tells her that's for whippin' my baby sister to death. You could hear her holler for five miles, but Miss Olivia, when I tells her, says, 'Well, I guess mamma has larnt her lesson at last.'
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South Korea imposed Monday a 12-hour lockdown on poultry farms in three provinces to curb a spreading bird flu outbreak, banning the movement of animals, people and vehicles.
More than 640,000 poultry have already been slaughtered since the outbreak was first detected on January 16 at a duck farm in Gochang, 300 kilometres (187 miles) southwest of Seoul.
The H5N8 strain of bird flu has since been identified in 17 other farms, with tests being carried out in 22 others, and a further 810,000 poultry have been identified for slaughter.
The 12-hour travel ban on poultry farmers and other members of the industry, including vets, took effect at 6:00am Monday (2100 GMT Sunday) in Gyeonggi province—which surrounds Seoul—and the provinces of South and North Chungcheong.
The South Korean capital was not included in the lockdown.
During the 12-hour period, local officials will oversee disinfection operations at all farms in the region.
It is the first bird flu outbreak in South Korea since 2011, when more than six million poultry were culled at about 280 farms.
The lockdown comes amid fears that the mass movement of people during the coming Lunar New Year holiday will fan the spread of the disease.
Millions of people travel to their hometowns—many in rural areas—to meet relatives and pay respects at ancestors' graves during the traditional holiday, which this year lasts from January 30 to February 2.
"What holiday? I'm too busy protecting my ducks," one poultry farmer in Gochang told the local Maeil Business Newspaper.
"This catastrophe is overshadowing and unnerving the whole village. I told my children never even dream of coming home this year," another Gochang resident said.
Explore further: S. Korea culls ducks after suspected bird flu test
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Agents Used for Treatment of Anemia Associated with Increased Risk of Blood Clots, Death in Patients with Cancer
CHICAGO, Feb. 26, 2008—Treating anemia with a class of drugs known as erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) is associated with an increased risk of venous thromboembolism (blood clots in the deep veins of the legs or in the lungs) and death among patients with cancer, according to an article in the February 27 issue of JAMA.
The ESAs erythropoietin and darbepoetin are widely used to treat anemia in patients with cancer. Some studies have indicated that there may be a higher risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE) with these medications, but it has not been known if there is an associated increased risk of death, according to background information in the article.
Charles L. Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, and colleagues examined the rate of VTE and death associated with ESA administration for treatment of anemia among patients with cancer by conducting a review of phase 3 trials.
The researchers identified 51 clinical trials with 13,611 patients to examine survival. Analysis of the data indicated that the risk of death was significantly higher for patients with cancer who were treated with ESA vs. the control (placebo) group.
Venous thromboembolism was evaluated for 38 trials that included 8,172 patients. The researchers found that there was a significantly increased risk (57 percent) of VTE among patients treated with ESA (334 events among 4,610 patients treated with ESA vs. 173 events among 3,562 control patients).
"These risks are important given the prevalence of ESA use as a supportive care drug among patients with cancer as well as the dissemination of a series of safety advisories by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and ESA manufacturers," the authors write.
"Safety concerns account in large part for changes observed in
patterns of use, reimbursement policies, clinical guidelines, and
FDA-approved package inserts pertaining to ESAs in the oncology
setting. Our findings, in conjunction with basic science reports on
erythropoietin and erythropoietin receptors in solid cancers, raise
concern about ESA safety for patients with cancer."
(JAMA. 2008;299:914-924. Available pre-embargo to the media at www.jamamedia.org)
Editor's Note: Please see the article for additional information, including other authors, author contributions and affiliations, financial disclosures, funding and support, etc.
For More Information: Contact the JAMA/Archives Media Relations Department at 312/464-JAMA (5262) or email: firstname.lastname@example.org.
contact Charles L. Bennett, M.D., Ph.D., call Marla Paul at 312-503-8928.
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What Makes "Boarding Schools" a Boarding School?
Boarding school is a special and unique place. Based on Oxford Dictionary, a boarding school is a school where students reside during the semester. Boarding school students will live in the school area and can’t go home like ordinary students. If normal students can go home after they finish school, boarding school students only can come back home on long holidays, national holidays, or important dates depending on the school’s policies. They spend almost every day in the school area with their friends and teachers.
Every boarding school has its own rules and regulations about room management, school curriculum, meals schedule, and other things. For example, a boarding school in Indonesia, Del Senior High School, only allows their students to go outside on weekends until 6 PM. The students managed to be together with 4 – 6 people in a room. They have many schedules for a day, such as cleaning the dorm at 5 AM, going to school at 7 AM, extracurricular at 5 PM, self-learning at 7 PM, and so on.
The boarding school students can’t go home as often as ordinary students. Thus, they need to manage everything by themselves besides regulated things. This condition could push them to be independent and have time-management ability. Since the school has regulations related to students’ routines, they could learn the time-blocked system and structured habits. The exclusive thing about being a boarding school student is friends. Friends are their mother, tutor, entertainment, story listener, and so on because they spend almost all their time with their friends. Mostly, the teachers and students have a special bonding since teachers are their parents and older people at boarding school. Therefore, it’s normal to find that students and teachers joke with each other, but still with politeness.
Based on several boarding school alumni experiences, they created many stories, such as exciting, sad, scary, humorous, and memorable. Since they lived together in a school dormitory, they didn’t have any television or smartphone to amuse themselves. Thus, they would watch a movie with their classmates and homeroom teacher. They would stay until 11 PM at the classroom to have dinner together, play games, watch movies, etc. The cleanness and neatness of the dormitory are on their hand so that they would have a schedule and task distribution to clean up their dorm. This routine grows the students’ self-awareness about cleanliness and teamwork.
Their friends are their tutors. This phrase best describes the condition in which they studied together until late at night for exams and helped each other on that subjects. The boarding school alumni said that they would have snacks to make them stay up until late at night. Several of them even needed to smuggle coffee because it’s prohibited. They had many tricks to make a cup of coffee secretly at their dorm. Moreover, a few students brew the coffee at the clothesline. This situation encourages them to study. Even though they aren’t in the mood for studying, they still can get knowledge by listening to their friends or asking questions to their friends. Compactness and collaboration are highlighted here.
Stories are common to be told from mouth to mouth among the students. Many stories would be circulated among them, such as funny, touching, fruitful, and horror stories. There was a story about a ghost in a room that always disturb the room occupants at night. Based on the story that spread among the students, the ghost afflicted occupant when she is sleeping. Not only about horror, but stories about fights and struggles used to be discussed, such as seniors’ achievements or friends’ grapple to achieve something.
A simple activity called Ngorbit among them is one of the best activities that only can be found in the dorm. Norbit is a designation for a walk around the school. They used to walk around together with their friends or even alone to have fun, kill time, share stories, and think about everything. They could do that as the school’s environment is still shady and leafy. Ngorbit could be the best activity used for “dating” as well.
Studying as a boarding school student is just amazing. It makes us experience many new things. “From those years in boarding school, we learn how to appreciate small things. There weren’t many things that you could see from that school, but there were many small things that could make us happy. Before I entered boarding school, I didn’t know that walking around the school could be that exciting. Before I entered boarding school, I didn’t know that simple snacks could be delicious and full of togetherness. Before I entered boarding school, I didn’t know that messages on sticky notes from friends, seniors, and juniors could be that precious,” said someone who is an alumnus from Del Senior High School, Indonesia.
Since the students live together in the dorm, they usually share their kinds of stuff. That’s why sharing is everything in boarding school. A person can’t always find everything by itself. However, friends could complete those missing things. For instance, if they don’t have stationaries (pencil, colour pencils, paper, etc.), they could borrow or ask for it from their friends. Finding novels or books is easy for boarding school students. They only need to knock the room besides, then ask for the book they want to borrow. They take sharing for granted because they’re sisters and brothers there. Even though there were fights and quarrels, it made their bond tighter.
The last thing that the students could find when they’re boarding school students is getting to know themselves better. They aren’t with their parents or house. Therefore, it’s a chance for them to dig themselves and get to know more about what they like, dislike, want to do, preferences, etc. There are a lot of opportunities for them to grow, such as competitions, organizations, soft-skills development, time management, social skills, and so on. Thus, the students have to seize that moment to make themselves grow.
Historical and Connectivity of Boarding Schools
The historical context of boarding schools established these educational institutions as selective, elitist, propounding knowledge on religious grounds. But like two sides of a coin, the viewpoint could be adjusted to unravel how these schools also made possible diversity and cultural integration and put into norm the all-around development of students integral to the conventions of schooling.
Boarding schools first emerged in middle-age Europe and hence British boarding schools set the base and model for most of the world’s prestigious boarding schools. Like the King’s School in Canterbury, England founded in the year 597, these were religious institutions to serve and educate students who would go on to serve as community priests or take up other positions in the church. Later in the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Boarding schools in Europe called public schools were intended for the children of the poor but eventually were replaced by rich paying students.
In other parts of the world, with a focus on ASEAN countries, boarding schools have become popular within the last few decades. One of the prime reasons for the popularity of these schools is the lack of accessibility of quality education in remote areas. Parents are then forced to send their children to boarding schoolsin metropolitan areas. In 1996, the Department of Social, Home Affairs, Education and Culture of Indonesia, as well as the Religion Ministries decided to provide financial aid and transportation for children living in remote areas or so that they could attend boarding schools.
Another important determinant of the spread of boarding schools in Asian countries is the influence of western culture. Boarding schools are an appealing option to many Asian parents because they want to provide their children with a Western-style education while keeping them close to home, also their school curriculum is viewed as a gateway into Western education methods, which differ from the Asian approach. Expatriate Westerners make up a large proportion of the student body at foreign-located boarding schools, hence local Asian students gain exposure to a culture and way of thinking that can help prepare them for college or a career abroad. Satellite boarding schools like Bromsgrove International School Thailand are also beneficial to the government. The country benefits from students’ tertiary education abroad and they reside in their home countries in their formative years.
Boarding schools offer a plethora of tangible benefits like smaller class sizes, more resources, more challenging curriculum, and a diverse range of extracurricular activities. But the choice between a regular day boarding school and a boarding school is not an objective one. It depends on the conditions and environment of the parents and children, their expectations and the resources available to them.
- Education and development – Boarding schools offer smaller class sizes and all-day access to the faculty. This ensures that enough attention is given to every student and their individual learning needs and time is kept in accordance with. Additionally, boarding schools are not limited to a six-hour textbook lesson timetable but extend to a multidisciplinary and multidimensional environment of learning. Students have all their time accounted for and are required to engage in co-curricular activities dispensed to them by the school. In comparison, day schools provide children with the flexibility to manage their day at their disposal. They can opt for extra classes and tuition for additional help in academics and extracurricular activities offered by the school and evening classes for their hobbies.
- Family relationships – For students who do not receive adequate family care or enough time from working parents, they may be able to receive better care and a better quality of life at school than they do at home, which may contribute to their healthy development. Nobody in the family interferes excessively in others’ affairs, and because you see each other less frequently, the time you do spend together is of higher quality. Furthermore, the child is not exposed to any family tension or stress that may be present at home. Living apart from family for years, with only a few visits home, can strain relationships without a strong base. Furthermore, children can experience homesickness, which can have a negative impact on their development in a variety of ways. When a child attends boarding school, parents are less involved in their upbringing. Parents give up many of the decisions they normally make as to what their child is and isn’t allowed to do, and the responsibility falls on someone else’s shoulders.
- Cost – Boarding schools cost significantly more than day schools. Even after considering the above head charges of tuition, boarding, meals, security, health and medical, labs, equipment and facilities etcetera, parents can still save a massive amount of money by enrolling their child in a day school and having them home every night.
- On other factors like inculcation of independence and discipline, socialising and teamwork, boarding schools take an edge over day schools however students in boarding schools are confined to a limited environment and lack touch with the outside world. They compete and thrive within the walls of their campus but may find it difficult to cope outside. Boarding schools may often lack diversity due to high tuition fees and rigorous selection criteria or, on the contrary, have a diverse group of individuals from across states and outside the country, thereby providing exposure to different cultures and fostering inclusivity.
Popular culture portrays an overly enthralling image of boarding schools with dorm life among growing teenagers who are finding their way through a transitory time in their lives in a setting where life-long friends are made. Some students are sent to elitist boarding schools with grandeur social hierarchies, some for magical reasons, a very prominent example being ‘Harry Potter’ and others were initially sent to boarding school as a consequence for acting out.
It is a myth that sending a spoiled child to a boarding school will solve the problem. Those with behavioural issues or deficits may find that boarding school, with the freedom and independence that it grants students, may exacerbate the problem. These are not correctional facilities and therefore shouldn’t be generally viewed as such.
Academic Tutoring and Management Influence on Boarding School
Boarding School Education has become a new form of platform for accessible education for students especially within the sectors of secondary and tertiary education respectively. In its widest sense, a boarding school system is a incredibly intensive form of academic education, where the student is required to live in the settings provided by the school which usually excludes interactions with parents or other students outside of the school for most of the time, to increase the best odds of coping mechanism and school studies orientation.
If the human interaction spectrum of a boarding school is visualized, you may see three clear sectors being ‘teachers’, ‘students’ and ‘studies’; a complete basic foundation of such a school. In this perspective, the teachers being the sole responsible entity who deal with dozens of students at a time coordinating different subject schedules and classroom habits are to be discussed and how these behaviors may have a significant impact on the students at the site.
The main concern of the boarding school is to maximize the time a student (youth) might be spending at home or outside of school with near – constant exposure to studies and academic performances. In this sense, the teachers who would be having the most interaction needs to be well – drilled with children psychology and behavioral control. Particularly in ASEAN Member States where cultural and traditional heritage overshadows societal dialogues, teachers are well – respected and in some cases, honored greatly.
The problem persists where the said teachers do not act appropriately to meet the needs of young children. There are several if not random objectives that may arise from these needs but some of the most prominent ones are –
- Religious Assistance and Respect
- Peer Pressure
- Lack of Exposure to Open Dialogues
- Compromised Classroom
Students in a boarding school may derive from a range of different religious backgrounds which may be directly different or at times have specific arrangements on cultural wear, monthly traditions and religious activities. Teachers from a particular geographic boarding school tend to be more familiar with the dominating religion in that area which may spark difficult commodity for the said student who has a different religion. An example would be religiously important days contradicting tutorials or tests. The teachers are thus required to be culturally linguistic to be able to accommodate the best needs of the students and not favor a comfort solution.
The lack of interaction with different people within a restricted ground makes a student’s behavior and personality traits disorder or at times alter completely. Having constant contact with the same set of people might be pleasing for those who are socially indulging but for a more introverted person, this is quite a nuisance. Cases where the student may feel bullied or harassed might be overlooked by a teacher for numerous reasons such as sexual or gender discrimination, academic performances discoloration and navigating to deliberately isolate a specific group of students or a student for personal objections. The teachers are then required to be extremely alert of these dangerous and sensitive changes that may be taking place sometimes right under the noses.
In cases where the teaching mechanism is strict and does not offer momentum of change, the environment starts to create a harsh and occupied platform for the students to interact with the teacher. For example, a female student at a boarding school may feel hesitant to discuss her health with a male teacher knowingly that the said teacher has had jokes or remarks on other associated topics that had made her uncomfortable before. Other times, the teachers may resort to being explicit and language offensively with the objective of maintaining order of control over the students. This may create an impression of inappropriate identity of the teacher, distancing herself or himself from the students. A lack of friendliness majorly focused on fear and respect might also be subject to this cause. Although in the short term, this might be beneficial for the teacher, in the long term, the student may not have positive feedback or instincts with the experience he or she has had.
Classrooms are also notoriously easy to be victim of compromising by the teacher. A compromise may occur in numerous forms but mostly through a systemic breakdown by the said teacher for specific goals and determinations. An example includes favoring a student who has ties close to the administration of the boarding school by offering the best seat of the room or punishing inappropriately to small flaws with big enlarged descriptions. When a classroom is compromised, it creates a disparity among the students themselves; those who are entitled to ensure the class remains in order out of fear to the teacher and those who are hurtful and resentful to the teacher’s actions. Both of these structures are not healthy for the overall condition of the class and without the teacher’s careful maintenance, may erupt to more complications and problems even towards the teaching mechanism itself.
These factors when add up along with other common aspects of daily life interactions which may seem normal for an outsider, could support more complications. These include eatery and dietary options and management by the school; which may prove a challenge to the student for religious reasons; consuming allergic products and lack of healthy meal plans. Coupled up, teachers at any boarding school surely pack more responsibilities than actually expected or rather demanded for its obvious reasons of more than just teaching.
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CSforAZ - Computer Science Initiative
"I recognize the importance of computer science education in all grade levels. In lower grades, computer science curriculum develops necessary critical thinking and problem solving skills. In high school, rigorous computer science coursework prepares the student for high-paying workforce opportunities in the high-demand technology sector. With the support of industry partnerships, we will strive to improve access to computer science education in our schools by increasing professional development opportunities for existing and new computer science teachers."
Governor Ducey, September 2017
Arizona Adopts Computer Science Standards
October 22, 2018
On October 22, 2018, Arizona's State Board of Education voted to adopt new K-12 Computer Science Standards. The process to develop new Computer Science Standards began in January 2017. Since that time, the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has collected public feedback on existing standards and convened working groups of educators, content experts, community members, and parents to create new standards.
Through the Arizona Computer Science Initiative & the Governor’s Partnership for K-12 Computer Science, Governor Ducey and Code.org have collaborated to advance computer science education statewide since 2017. In FY 2018, Governor Ducey proposed and received funding to advance the first phase of Arizona’s statewide computer science initiative through the development of computer science standards and professional development. The FY2019 budget included $2.5 million to expand the Governor’s Partnership for K-12 Computer Science pilot program and enable schools to offer high-quality, rigorous training for new computer science teachers.
Click here to find out more about Arizona's new Computer Science Standards.
Click here to download Arizona's Computer Science Standards.
NEW: 2018 State of Computer Science Education
In March 2017, a group of authors, including Code.org, published the State of the States Landscape Report, detailing each state’s status towards meeting the nine policies developed by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition. Since that report was released, 33 states have changed policies - 28 states changing policies just in 2018 alone. Furthermore, in states that have enacted more of these nine policies, a greater percentage of schools provide students access to K-12 computer science.
This report contains the status of computer science education policy across the nation and a first look at school-by-school data on the availability of computer science in high schools. Across 24 states, only 35% percent of high schools in the US teach computer science. In addition, Black and Hispanic students, students receiving free and reduced lunch, and students from rural areas are less likely to attend a school that provides access to this critical subject. It also includes includes updates on the national momentum and policy trends around computer science, maps showing states’ progress in enacting the nine policies, state-by-state summaries, and preliminary data on the percent of high schools teaching computer science from 24 states, including the relationship between policy adoption and implementation.
Computer Science Professional Development Program
The goal of the Computer Science Professional Development (CSPD) Program is for school districts and charter schools to train teachers in computer science instruction that will lead to the offering of a computer science course in the near future. The funds from the Computer Science Professional Development Program Fund are intended to ensure all students have access to high quality computer science courses.
A.R.S. § 15-249.12 established the Computer Science Professional Development Program Fund consisting of monies appropriated by the state legislature, in addition to grants, gift, devices, and donations from any public or private sources. Monies in the fund are continuously appropriated and are exempt from the provisions relating to lapsing of appropriations. Participation in the Computer Science Professional Development Program is limited to the following:
- School Districts and Charter Schools that offer instruction in grades 9 through 12 AND School Districts and Charter Schools that do not currently provide high school computer science instruction.
Applications for the Computer Science Professional Development Program open on September 5, 2018. Applications will be reviewed beginning the week of October 22, 2018 and will continue until all grant applications have been reviewed and/or all grant funds have been awarded. Applications are accepted, reviewed, and approved on a “first come, first-served basis.” It is anticipated that the initial applications that have been approved by the review panel will be presented to the State Board for approval at the December 2018 meeting. School Districts and Charter Schools that participate in the Computer Science Professional Development Program are required to submit an Annual Report by June 1, 2019.
In the FY2018 Budget, Governor Ducey included $1M for the creation of a computer science professional development program. To learn more about the FY2018 Education Budget, click here.
Arizona teachers trained to integrate computer science in their classrooms
July 23, 2018
Two years ago, the principal at Fountain Hills High School asked teachers if they were interested in teaching computer science.
With no background in computer science, Randy Bragg stepped up to the challenge.
“We would really be doing a disservice to the kids if we’re not preparing them for this,” he said. “So I said, ‘Yeah, this sounds like something I want to do.’”
He now teaches an Advanced Placement computer science principles class. He’s part of a growing number of Arizona teachers who are getting trained in computer science and are passing on what they learn to their students. (Read More...)
NEW: #CSforAZSummit Will Be Held June 12
CSforAZ, in partnership with Arizona Department of Education, the Governor’s office, the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at ASU, and CSforALL is inviting districts and charter organizations to apply for a one-day summit “Designing K-12 CS Pathways.”
The summit will be held on June 12, 2018 at Arizona State University, West Campus from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. (Click here for more information)
Governor Ducey Supports Computer Science Program For Native American Students
May 15, 2018
Governor Doug Ducey today signed SB 1505, providing $500,000 in funding to continue the Native American Code Writers Initiative Pilot Program. The program will expand opportunities for Native American high school students to learn computer coding skills and provide internship opportunities with industry partners, helping students develop their skills and identify future employment opportunities. The program will be administered through a collaboration between the Arizona Department of Education and the Native American Indian Advisory Council. (Read More...)
Computer science mania sweeps the United States
May 9, 2018
Throughout the United States, education leaders and policymakers are joining forces to bring computer science classes to our schools. Since January, 20 states from Alabama to Wyoming have passed laws and funded $49 million to expand access to and diversity in K-12 computer science.
Every student in every K-12 school deserves an opportunity to learn computer science. This gives students a chance to start on a pathway toward the highest-paying tech jobs; and because technology will impact every sector, computer science is foundational for any 21st-century career. The teacher-led movement for computer science now boasts 850,000 teachers, and education leaders and policymakers are responding to this grassroots support.
These 20 states passed new laws or initiatives to support K-12 computer science (CS) since January of this year:
- Alabama has adopted new CS education standards and funded nearly $1 million for CS
- Arizona is developing new CS education standards and has funded $1 million for CS
- Arkansas has renewed $5 million of funding for CS
- Colorado has funded $1 million for CS and a $1,000 per student incentive program for schools to offer AP Computer Science
- Delaware has adopted new education standards for CS
- Florida will require every middle and high school to teach CS
- Hawaii has funded $500,000 for CS, adopted new CS education standards, and will require every high school to teach CS by 2021
- Idaho has renewed $2 million of funding for CS and will require every high school to teach CS by 2020
- Indiana will require every school to teach CS by 2020
- Maryland has funded a $7 million, 3-year plan for CS and will require every high school to teach CS by 2021
- Mississippi has adopted new education standards for CS
- Missouri will require the development of new CS education standards and teacher certification rules, and now allows CS courses to count towards core graduation requirements
- Nevada has adopted new education standards for CS
- New Hampshire will require every school district to teach CS
- New Jersey will require every high school to teach CS by 2018
- New York has funded a 5-year, $30 million plan for CS
- Oklahoma has adopted new education standards for CS
- Pennsylvania has adopted new education standards for CS
- Utah has renewed $1.2 million of funding for CS
- Wyoming has adopted new education standards for CS and will require every school to teach CS by 2022
UA, Microsoft to Expand Computer Science Education
April 18, 2018
The University of Arizona has announced an expanded partnership with Microsoft Corp. to bring computer science education, through Microsoft's Technology, Education and Literacy in Schools, or TEALS, program, to more high school students in Tucson and southern Arizona, starting with the 2018-2019 school year.
Microsoft will fund and hire a new TEALS regional manager to grow the reach of the program in the region. The manager will recruit new high schools to host the program and volunteers to staff it. Through its STEM Learning Center, the UA will connect students with opportunities to volunteer in TEALS classrooms. (Read More...)
Code Writers Initiative
Created in concert with Intel Corporation and Cisco Systems, with participation from a number of partnering organizations, SFAz’s Code Writers Education Initiative will outfit partnering K-12 schools on the Navajo Nation with distance learning technology focused on introducing computer code writing curriculum from kindergarten through high school and community college, in addition to using engaging technology subjects like robotics and cyber security to attract and teach students about the exciting opportunities available through STEM careers.
“The Code Writers Education Initiative will blow away classroom walls and bring the world’s most sophisticated learning environment to the Navajo Nation,” said Science Foundation Arizona’s STEM Network Director Ken Quartermain, Jr. “By teaching this generation computational learning, we help unleash the power of these young minds, and allow them to transform their lives, their families and their communities.”
The education initiative is aimed at attracting and retaining more Native American youth to STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) subjects and eventual careers. Currently, the US is lagging in the number of STEM-trained individuals in the country’s workforce; this is just one of SFAz’s STEM education programs focused on preparing Arizona’s workforce to compete globally. (Read More...)
CS Standards Development Timeline
FY 2018 Budget: Computer Science
2.5 million announced to expand the Governor's Partnership for K-12 CS pilot program that will allow schools to offer high-quality, rigorous training for new computer science teachers
How Does Teacher Leadership Play a Role in Advancing CS?
The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and Infosys Foundation USA have announced the 2018 CSTA/Infosys Foundation USA Awards for Teaching Excellence. These awards celebrate the best computer science educators across the US and the world! The deadline to submit applications and nominations is January 22, 2018, and the awards are open to K-12 computer science teachers from around the globe. Hurry over to our sitefor more details on how to apply
Code.org Professional Learning:
Whether you are new to teaching computer science (CS) or have experience teaching other CS courses, the program is designed to promote growth by providing space for you to become comfortable with curricular materials, CS content, and pedagogy. Our curriculum provides a complete set of lesson plans that include inquiry-based activities, videos, assessment support, and educational tools. Learn more and apply here.
UPCOMING EVENT: Building Pathways to Teaching Computer Science (Google for Education)
December 16, 2017
Date: Saturday, December 16th, 2017
Time: 10am PST
How to Join: Watch the live event on the Google for Education on YouTube channel. The agenda, session descriptions, and speakers will be available in the coming weeks.
Spread the word: Share this event with your network using this message on social media.
Want to learn more about #CS professional development? Tune in on Dec 16th for Building Pathways to Teaching Computer Science online summit
Amazon's Alexa Skills Challenge
Ends January 10, 2017
Amazon's online competition for building Alexa skills that educate, entertain, and engage kids under the age of 13. Youth ages 13 through 17 who submit an eligible certified skill will receive a limited-edition Echo Dot, 20 finalists will win $5,000 and promotion in the Alexa Skills Store, and the grand prize winner will receive $20,000. There’s also a $10,000 high school team bonus prize! Submissions are open now through January 10, 2018. Find more details at alexakidskills.devpost.com.
Calling all computer science educators (K-12 and higher education), industry partners, and parents!
The process to develop new Computer Science Standards is scheduled to begin late January. We hope you will consider applying for the opportunity to participate in this important work. The Arizona Department of Education is looking for K-12 educators, higher education/post-secondary educators, and industry partners from across the state to serve on the computer science standards working groups. The standards review process will use an accordion model for committee selection; an individual might be selected to serve once or multiple times, depending on the focus of the work and their expertise. Working group members who are unable to serve for a particular meeting due to schedule conflicts or other concerns are still eligible to be selected to participate in future meetings.
The ADE will be collecting public feedback to help guide the development of K-12 Computer Science Standards. Please take the survey by December 15, 2017 to leave your feedback.
Governor's For CS Highlights #HourofCode with Governor Doug Ducey
Governor Ducey joins students in Arizona for an #HourofCode today to kick off Computer Science Education Week. (See More...)
GOVERNOR DUCEY JOINS STUDENTS IN CELEBRATING #CSEDWEEK
December 4, 2017
Governor Ducey visited students and staff at Phoenix Coding Academy on December 4, 2017 to participate in #HourOfCode activities and proclaim December 4-10 as #CSEdWeek. During his visit, Governor Ducey toured the PCA campus before joining leading tech industry partners to speak with students about the important opportunity computer science education provides them. The Governor also joined students in coding activities. (See more photos...)
ARIZONA COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT
The process to develop new Computer Science Standards is scheduled to begin late January. The Arizona Department of Education is looking for K-12 educators, higher education/post-secondary educators, and industry partners from across the state to serve on the computer science standards working groups. The standards review process will use an accordion model for committee selection; an individual might be selected to serve once or multiple times, depending on the focus of the work and their expertise. Working group members who are unable to serve for a particular meeting due to schedule conflicts or other concerns are still eligible to be selected to participate in future meetings. (Click here to find out more)
DEVELOPMENT OF K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS TO BEGIN
The Arizona Department of Education is seeking public comments to guide the process of developing K-12 Computer Science Standards. Please take the survey by November 30, 2017 to help inform and guide the development process.
The ADE is currently accepting applications from K-12 educators, higher education/post-secondary educators, business stakeholders, and parents/community members to serve on working groups and focus groups. We hope you will consider applying for the opportunity to participate in this important work. We would like to have representation from around the state. The standards review process will use an accordion model for committee selection; an individual might be selected to serve once or multiple times, depending on the focus of the work and their expertise. Members unable to serve for a particular meeting due to schedule conflicts or other concerns are still eligible to be selected to participate in future meetings. Applications will be accepted throughout the entire development process. Working groups will convene starting in January 2018.
Please visit ADE’s Computer Science Standards Development page to access the applications and for more information.
INCREASING ACCESS TO HIGH-QUALITY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATHEMATICS (STEM) EDUCATION
On September 25th in the Oval Office, joined by dozens of students, President Donald J. Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum expanding access to high-quality Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) and Computer Science education to K-12 students. Now more than ever, STEM and Computer Science industries are playing a huge role in the vitality of our economy which is why high-quality education in these fields is so crucial.
GOVERNOR DUCEY SECURES FUNDING FOR DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE STANDARDS & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
The Governor is proud to be involved with Arizona's computer science initiative through the Governor's Partnership on Computer Science- a Code.org collaboration.
As part of the FY2018 budget, Governor Ducey proposed and received funding to advance the first phase of Arizona’s statewide computer science initiative, CSforAZ, through the development of computer science standards and professional development for all teachers with the goal of having all AZ high schools offering a computer science course.
Click here to get more information on CSforAZ
NEW REPORT TRACKS POLICY PROGRESS ON EXPANDING K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION
A new report describing the progress of U.S. states in achieving 10 policy priorities for improving and expanding K–12 computer science (CS) education was released today at a national workshop led by Google, EDC, and the Massachusetts Computing Attainment Network (MassCAN) on Google’s Cambridge campus. The report highlights key strategies and issues state leaders must address regarding CS education.
A group of leading CS education organizations co-authored State of the States Landscape Report: State-Level Policies Supporting Equitable K–12 Computer Science Education, with funding from BNY Mellon. The group includes the following:
- Education Commission of the States
- NSF BPC Expanding Computing Education Pathways (ECEP) Alliance
- Massachusetts Computing Attainment Network (MassCAN)
- SageFox Consulting Group
Click here to read the full press release.
Click here to download State of the States Landscape Report: State-Level Policies Supporting Equitable K–12 Computer Science Education.
GOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP FOR K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computing is a fundamental part of daily life, commerce, and just about every occupation in our modern economy. It is essential that students be exposed to the field of computer science in our K-12 system—as it is foundational in transforming the way students think about the world. Computer science teaches them not only about technology, but also about how to approach problems differently. Computer science puts students on the path toward some of the highest-paying, fastest-growing jobs in America.
Governor Ducey recognizes the essential roles of state leaders in advancing policy and allocating funding to expand K-12 computer science in our states and the importance of working collaboratively and efficiently with other state leaders to identify challenges and share promising practices.
To that end, Governor Ducey has announced his participation in the Governor's Partnership for K-12 Computer Science to work toward the following policies that will help meet the goal of increasing access to K-12 computer science in Arizona. Governor Ducey joins co-chairs Governor Asa Hutchinson (AR) and Governor Jay Inslee (WA), along with Governor Gina Raimond (RI), Governor Branstad (IA), Governor Terry McAuliffe (VA), Governor Brian Sandoval (NV) and Governor Butch Otter (ID) to work toward the three following policy priorities:
- Enable all high schools to offer at least one rigorous computer science course;
- Fund professional learning opportunities so teachers can be prepared to teach these courses; and,
- Create a set of high-quality academic K-12 computer science standards to guide local implementation of courses.
Partnership members commit to work toward the three policy priorities listed above by engaging with Code.org and other partners to identify the appropriate institutions that have jurisdiction over these matters and creating plans for how to accomplish these goals. This may include creating task forces within the state that will be responsible for guiding the state toward these goals, working on legislative efforts, and including these items as a priority in the state budget.
The Partnership will also share best practices for computer science education reform, and advocate for federal policies that support the expansion of, and access to, K-12 computer science, including funding opportunities, flexibility, and policy change. The Partnership will raise awareness of state efforts to expand computer science education, focused on the 3 priority policy areas, both among Partnership members and to the public via the Partnership website. State plan development, task force creation, and other iterative steps in the policy and funding process will be reported as “working towards” goals in status updates. Legislative efforts, budget proposals, executive orders, and other policy advances will be tracked and shared, as well.
Code.org will provide the Partnership with resources related to best practices in policy and programs, and will facilitate collaboration among Governors and their staff, in person and virtually.
COMPUTER SCIENCE IN ARIZONA
• Arizona currently has 9,657 open computing jobs (2.8 times the average demand rate in Arizona).
• The average salary for a computing occupation in AZ is $85,165, which is significantly higher than the average salary in the state ($45,310).
• Arizona had only 484 university computer science graduates in 2014; only 15% were female.
• In 2016, 438 high school students in Arizona took the AP Computer Science exam; only 23% were female; 62 students were Hispanic or Latino; 4 students were Black; 1 student was Native American and only 1 student was Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
• Only 42 schools in AZ (13% of AZ schools with AP programs) offered the AP Computer Science course in the 2015-2016 school year. There are fewer AP exams taken in computer science than in any other STEM subject area.
SUPPORT K-12 COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION IN ARIZONA
Computer science drives job growth and innovation throughout our economy and society. Computing occupations are the number 1 source of all new wages in the U.S. and make up two-thirds of all projected new jobs in STEM fields, making Computer Science one of the most in-demand college degrees. And computing is used all around us and in virtually every field. It’s foundational knowledge that all students need. But computer science is marginalized throughout education. Fewer than half of U.S. schools offer any computer science courses and only 8% of STEM graduates study it. We need to improve access for all students, including groups who have traditionally been underrepresented.
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This document specifies a method for measuring productivity of digital copying devices and multifunctional devices with various copying modes and a single one-sided original. The document is applicable to digital copying devices and multifunctional devices. The document is intended to be used for black and white (B&W) as well as colour digital copying devices and multifunctional devices of any underlying marking technology. This document includes instructions for the creation of test charts, test setup procedure, test procedure, and the reporting requirements for the digital copying productivity measurements.
This document is not intended to replace manufacturer's rated speeds.
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How we change what others think, feel, believe and do
Burke's Five Elements of Dramatism
Language expert Kenneth Burke identified a method of analysing the semantic dimensions of language through a five-part 'dramatism pentad' that describes our living stories. Burke said that we choose words because of their dramatic potential, and that we each have preference for particular parts of the pentad.
Burke also noted how you can understand a story or speech by identifying how pairs interrelate, such as the scene-act ratio of Hamlet.
The scene is a 'container', the place where the action of the act occurs. This includes both physical location and the the contextual situation, occasion, event, time.
People who put emphasis here believe that changing the scene changes everything else.
The act is a motivated and purposeful action. It may be a simple, single action, such as moving or speaking, or may be more complex and compound.
The act is an important part of the meaning, thought it is not the whole meaning, even though it may sometimes be thought to be so. The other four parts of the pentad of course also contribute.
The act should align with the scene. A dance in a church, for example is not appropriate, though a wedding is.
In a persuasive sentence, the verb indicates the act.
The agent is the person or group of people who perform in the act. They are the characters in the story, the people who enact the meaning.
Motives, such as hatred, envy and love can also act as agents as 'they' are the moving force that acts. Countries and organizations can also act as agents.
People who focus here believe that you need strong individuals to make things happen.
Agency is the technique or method by which the agent achieve their goals. This may be a sequence of acts encompassed by an idea or principle.
People who focus on agency tend to be pragmatic in life.
The purpose is the reason that the agent acts, the outcome they are seeking from what they do. Sometimes it is obvious and in the open, at other times the agent's purpose may be covert and hidden. Purpose may be layered and distracting, for example where an apparent good purpose cloaks an underlying selfish motive.
And the big
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Destination: the Universe, immediate departure
How would you like to take a tour of an accelerator? The Passport to the Big Bang is an interactive circuit through which you can explore the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC is the world's largest particle accelerator. Its 27 km ring is buried 100 metres below the French and Geneva countryside.
What is the Passport to the Big Bang?
- Ten exhibition platforms located above ten key LHC points
- Riddles to solve with your family
- The LHC Mission challenge
- A cycle route
No reservation is necessary, and the platforms are freely accessible to the public all year round. So get on your bike and start the mission!
All platforms are working
Please contact us to report any problem on the Mission LHC platforms.
Caution: in case of frost or rain, the platforms' floor can be slippery.
Be careful, there is work on the Meyrin road near the ATLAS platform.
Once you have collected all the codes, click here to restart the particle accelerator.
Join the Large Hadron Collider’s treasure hunt! Click here for more information.
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A Beginner’s Guide to DYOR (Do Your Own Research)
Doing your own research is not only heavily advised, but it can also save you from investing in projects doomed to fail. But how do you conclude an effective research on a cryptocurrency?
Firstly, the DON'TS:
#1 – Don't believe any YouTubers with surprised or hyped faces and video titles such as "AMAZING OPPORTUNITY 🚀 1000X POTENTIAL COIN 😲". They usually just buy heavy bags of low market cap coins, pump them in videos, then dump it when all their viewers bought in as well. Rinse and repeat.
#2 – Don't invest in a cryptocurrency based on one source. Always double or triple-check everything, and take every opinion with a pinch of salt.
#3 – Don't fall for Pump and Dump schemes. They usually involve organized shilling on Reddit, Youtube, Discord, Telegram, etc., claiming to know the next moonshot that will make everyone rich. They do the same as Youtubers, buy bags of a certain coin, "announce" it to everyone involved, and sell their coins when the price is high enough. All the others are left with heavy losses, and the organizers just pick the next coin afterwards and repeat the process the next day.
#4 – Don't ignore math behind cryptocurrencies. What I mean here is we see many newbies come here and say they bought XX,XXX coins because the price was $0.001, and what if it moons and reaches $1,000? Yeah, so prices doesn't work that way. /u/Lovinglyhandmade created a great website to help you better understand market cap potential of alt coins. The website's name is The Coin Perspective, and it helps you with calculating the price of many coins if they had the market cap of a different coin such as BTC, ETH.
Secondly, what to DO:
#1 – You need to understand the basic terminology of cryptocurrencies first. For example, what is a blockchain? What are alt-coins? What's the difference between a smart contract platform and a DeFi project? If you know these, then great, you can move on to step 2. If not, I suggest you start by researching these terms, and try to understand how crypto works in general. If you can find the time, I'd also suggest reading bitcoin's whitepaper.
#2 – After you know which coin you are researching (and what type of cryptocurrency that is), you need to dive in and start reading and watching content. A lot. Also, don't forget fact-checking, this is crucial. One other thing you should do is list its competitors (for example, if you are researching Ethereum, its competitors include Cardano, Polkadot, Cosmos, etc.), and COMPARE the cryptocurrency you're researching with its rivals.
#3 – (I'd like to quote /u/LargeSnorlax here:)
"Look at what's wrong with the coin you're looking at and understand its weaknesses, not just the strengths that the weird minions tell you about all the time.
- Does it lack adoption? How long will that adoption take to come? What are the barriers regarding that?
- Is the technical protocol incomplete? What are the plans regarding that? How long will it take to have a version that fulfills the project's goals?
- Is it decentralized? If not, is there a plan to make it so? When will that plan be complete and what will the protocol sacrifice in order to get there?
- Is the project liquid? Will the developers lose interest if the price does not increase and move on to another project?
I find it's always best to consider the bad things about the project rather than the good things. It's easy to sell someone on the good of a project, and much harder to talk about the bad and how to fix that.”
#4 – Google “[insert coin name] scam” just to make sure nothing serious comes up. If you happen to find something that might indicate your researched crypto is a scam, make sure to get to the bottom of it.
#5 – Do a background check on the Dev team. Can you find them on social media? Are these real people? (Real photos, real posts, real connections, etc.)
#6 – Do research on people who're already invested in the project. What about the community behind this cryptocurrency? Are they cult-like shillers, talking about nothing but the price of the coin? Conversely, do they talk about tech and its possibilities? Are they optimistic about future updates and developments?
#7 – Check the Nakamoto Coefficient to see whether your researched crypto is decentralized (enough) for you to invest in it.
Hopefully, I could help some of you with your research. As always, if you have any other good tips, make sure to share it with us in the comments! Special thanks to /u/Lovinglyhandmade, /u/LargeSnorlax and /u/ReloDD for inspiring this post.
Thanks for reading! 🙂
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Port Blair, Nov 30: The Directorate of Disaster Management in coordination with the Department of Education, Health, A&N Police Fire Services and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) has conducted Disaster Management Exhibition and Mock Drills on 30.11.2018at Govt. Ravindera Bangla Vidhyalaya(RBV), Port Blair and Govt. Secondary School, Junglighatto generate adequate and appropriate awareness amongst the children and youths on the basics of disaster management and to enhance the capacity of school community to tackle disaster situations.
The Mock Drills started at GSS, Junglighat & RBV with the issuing of warning alarm and all the students carried out “DUCK-COVER and HOLD” position for few minutes in their respective classes for earthquake safety and then safely evacuated and assembled at identified safer places. The SAR teams rescued the missing/injured students using Search & Rescue techniques from the classes and provided medical first aid by MFR Teams. The Mock drills has conducted as per School Disaster Management Plan to test and check the efficacy and readiness of School Response System during any catastrophe and observed all the activities of Mock Drill in overall supervision of Shri Deen Mohammed, Safety Officer, Shri Janik Ram, Asst. Director (Admn.), DDM and officers of NDRF at GSS, Junglighat and Shri Gyan Singh, Asst. Director (Log.) and officials of DDM, NDRF, DHS and A&N Police Fire Services at RBV, Port Blair.
The Disaster Management Exhibition was inaugurated by Shri Ashim Kumar Biswas, Principal, RBV, Port Blair wherein displayed exhibits i.e. IEC materials, SAR Equipment, Fire Extinguishers, MFR Kits were briefed to the students of RBV, Port Blair by DM Officials, NDRF Team, Police Fire personnel and Medical officials.
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How to teach children self-regulation and how to remain calm at times of temper tantrums is something that is very important to many parents.
In my home, instead of punishing temper tantrums or using the traditional time outs and the minute per year of age, we have established a calming chill out corner where dimples (my son) can go to re-center, calm down or chill out. It’s a bit like a thinking corner I guess, with a positive twist, nothing like time out or the naughty corner.
The basic idea is that it will help diffuse situations before they escalate into chaos. Even if this doesn’t happen often young children can get overwhelmed by big emotions in their tiny bodies, whether its frustration or anger or sadness and this provides him an appropriate outlet for these because we all know big emotions can escalate into yelling, shouting, name calling, lashing out, tantrums and even physical attacks which we do not want.
Here are some ideas of things that can go into a calm space or a chill out corner and what we have included in ours.
1. Music: Calming music is a good stress release that aides in relaxation. Soft tranquil nature sounds, classical or calming noises that you can find on mediation Cd’s or baby toys do wonders for the mind. If this isn’t something that appeals to your child, many people feel that dance or “dancing it off” to fast up beat music you can groove and move to is a great physical release for pent up energy.
2. Colours: Blues, Greens, Purples and Greys are said to be calming colours. Notice they are all on the cool side of the colour spectrum. Light and neutral colours that aren’t overwhelming and will help calm the soul are great to have in your calming space. It has been said that warm colours, such as yellow are stressful and can even cause distraction and agitation in children.
Use your colours in your chill out area through storage boxes, materials, cushions, curtains or a theme.
3. Sense of Smell: Lavender has long been known to aide in stress relief. You can use smell by adding it in diffusers, Room spray on the cushions or materials, clean the room with lavender carpet deodoriser, or use lavender in pillows, pot pouri or in teddies with the stuffing. Have a look at the Scented sensory bottles we made and our Dyed rice soaked in lavender like the lavender Zen garden we did here in our Relaxing Mini Zen Garden Using Lavender Dyed Rice.
4. Sensory Tactile Objects: These objects require focus and attention and have been used in calming activities with children for a long time. Occupational therapists utilise sensory activities and things that they call “fidget toys” for children who have adhd, autism and sensory processing disorder but for all children these types of toys can provide a release of energy in a highly attentive manner where they require a re-focus of cognitive ability and a distraction from the spaces surrounding them. This helps them self-regulate their emotions, calm down, re-centre, settle the mind/body and provides a stress-release (much like the adult stress balls I am sure you’ve seen before).
5. Deep Breathing: Most children don’t know how to calm their body down and self-regulate so they need to be taught this skill. Asking them to close their eyes and take deep breathes can help but for younger children there are fun little activities that can help that require deep breathes. Tell them to take a big breath before entering the chill out corner and to use their breath in pinwheels, balloons, soft whistles and bubble blowers.
6. Reading, Drawing and Art Therapy about feelings: This gives a child the opportunity to distinguish their feelings through pictures and discuss how they might feel without directly talking about it. Art therapy is often used with older children to release negative energy and express inner feelings but for younger children just doing a big hard scribble can be a great release, ask them to draw how they feel and see what they come up with. Whether it is a picture a scribble or a bunch of hard lines doesn’t matter as long as they feel they can openly let out how they feel in an appropriate way. The idea is that it is OK to feel angry or upset, emotions are normal but what you do with them is even more important.
7. Ripping and Scrunching appropriate Objects: If it is strong emotions relating to aggression, frustration and opposition that a child experiences you can provide them with safe objects to take their feelings out on. Ripping and tearing up paper or scrunching it releases physical stress and can give the child a sense of control that they feel angry and are allowed to show it but not projected onto their self or others. Another great physical release for pent up negative energy is pounding play dough. The child can’t hurt them self and often the act of letting it out physically will release their stress and cheer them up.
Will it work for you?
The idea of our chill out corner is that children can go there when they need to calm down or when you can see they’re getting worked up or not coping with strong emotions. Once they do this and feel calmed down there is opportunity to discuss what happened and what helped improve the situation. This tool is a form of prevention and an opportunity to learn how to self-regulate, it is not a form of punishment or a ‘Naughty Corner’.
These tips are relatively broad and can be used in many areas, it doesn’t have to be a corner, you could employ some of it in a feel good box or apply it to an entire play room.
The other concept of our chill out time is that it’s for ME TOO. It is important to set a good example, children learn by observation and imitation so if they see that everyone, even adults get agitated or frustrated and that its ok to do that but important to calm down or “chill out” they will follow what they see. For that reason I will be using the chill out corner to, if I need to re-centre and calm down I will go do what calms me down a sketch or a drawing, or play with the meditation balls.
If you would like to see even more ideas and pictures for a chill out corner, visit the “chill out Post” at Adventures at Home with Mum!
Chill out & Happy Adventures
Renee from Adventures at home with Mum
-Portions of this post were previously published at Adventures at home with Mum-
In what positive ways do you help your child deal with strong emotions?
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7 General government transactions included in the calculation of data presented in this release relate to those transactions which have been classified to 'GPC 04 – Education'. There are some issues, however, relating to the structure and application of the GPC that should be considered when interpreting the data. Nurse education carried out in hospitals is included in 'GPC 05 – Health' because of the difficulty in separately identifying these expenditures in the accounts of hospitals.
8 In addition, differences in institutional structure and accounting practices make it difficult to implement the GPC in a way which leads to fully comparable statistics between the states. For example, in some states expenditure on the education of disabled children (which should be classified to special education) is included under primary and secondary education because data are not separately available. These differences need to be taken into account when comparing the statistics between states and over time.
9 Users interested in the definition of the various GPC groupings used in this release should consult Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5514.0.55.001) electronic version or (cat. no. 5514.0) pdf version.
10 From 2008–09 onwards, Australian Accounting Standard Board 1049 Whole of Government and General Government Sector Financial Reporting (AASB 1049) has replaced Australian Accounting Standard 31 Financial Reporting by Government (AAS 31) as the standard Governments should follow in the preparation of their financial statements. Information on AASB 1049 is available from the Australian Accounting Standards Board website <http://www.aasb.gov.au>.
11 A key feature of AASB 1049 is the requirement that where the Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5514.0) differs from the accounting standards, a reconciliation to the key GFS aggregates and an explanation must be presented. The key fiscal aggregates are the net operating balance, net borrowing / lending, cash surplus / deficit, and net worth. A functional statement of expenses should also be reported. AASB 1049 covers General Government and Whole of Government, but does not apply to individual government agencies. Whole of Government for each jurisdiction is referred to as Total public sector in GFS.
12 There are a number of known differences between AASB 1049 and Australian System of Government Finance Statistics: Concepts, Sources and Methods (cat. no. 5514.0). These differences include the treatment of provisions for doubtful debts and constructive obligations, treatment of dividends payable by Public Corporations, tax effect accounting, treatment of coins issued by government, measurement of concessional loans, and the treatment of finance leases.
13 Data presented in this publication may differ from data published by Treasuries if:
PRIVATE EXPENDITURE ON EDUCATION
14 Expenditure on education by the private sector (as recorded in the National Accounts) consists of household final consumption expenditure on education services and gross fixed capital formation mainly by private educational institutions.
15 Household final consumption expenditure on education services is estimated as:
16 Expenditure on such items as school books, uniforms, etc. and expenditure by parents’ associations on school equipment are not included in household final consumption expenditure on education, but are treated in the Australian System of National Accounts (ASNA) as household final consumption expenditure on other goods and services (such as clothing, books, etc.). Fares paid by students travelling to and from educational institutions are not counted as part of household final consumption expenditure on education, but are included in transport services in ASNA.
17 Private gross fixed capital formation in the field of education is estimated in ASNA from statistics of the value of work done on new building and major additions to buildings of private educational institutions.
18 It is important to note that estimates of government expenditure on education and of private expenditure on education cannot simply be aggregated to derive an estimate of total expenditure on education. This would result in double counting of some expenditures as transfers between governments and private education institutions would not be eliminated.
19 The current price estimate of GDP is used in Table 19. Current price GDP is obtained by reflating the average chain volume estimate, derived from the three independent approaches, by the implicit price deflator derived from the expenditure–based estimates. GDP is as published in Table 43, Expenditure on GDP, Current Prices in the December quarter 2011 issue of Australian National Accounts: National Income, Expenditure and Product (cat. no. 5206.0) pdf version.
20 GFS data are revised on an annual basis. For this reason differences can occur between equivalent aggregates published in earlier years.
21 Users may refer to the following publications which contain related information:
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It's that time of year again: graduation season! The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) estimates that more than 1.8 million relieved, exhausted, and exuberant college students are gearing up for graduation day this year. However, transitioning from college into the "real world" can leave many new grads feeling uncertain, lost, and a bit frightened as they take their first, tentative step in their lives as career professionals. If you're a new grad looking for a little guidance in what the heck to do now, here are four great ways to prepare for success.
College can be a fun and exciting time, but what happens when your parents cut you off financially and it’s time to pay your own bills? Have no fear, OnlineCollege.org has the post-grad finance cheat sheet you’ve been praying for, to get your finances under control and aligned with your long-term goals.
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Environment Canada has ended the tornado watches issued for 18 Saskatchewan communities. However, as of late Wednesday night, the risk of thunderstorms remains for much of southern Saskatchewan.
The severe weather is associated with a low pressure system and advancing warm weather from Montana pushing into the south of the province.
What to do in a tornado warning
- In a house with a basement: Avoid windows and take shelter in your basement under something sturdy like a table or work bench.
- In a house without a basement, apartment or office tower: Avoid windows, head to the lowest floor and head to a central room, under a stairwell or an interior hallway. Crouch down to the ground and keep yourself as covered as possible.
- In a vehicle: Cars are extremely risky in tornadoes. If a tornado is visible and far away, you may be able to drive out of its path by moving at right angles to the tornado. Seek shelter in a building if possible. If not, park the car as quickly and safely as possible and leave your seat belt on. Cover your head with your hands and any blankets or cushions you can. Avoid seeking shelter under bridges.
- If outdoors: Seek shelter in a building. If that is not possible, lay flat and face down to the ground, protect the back of your head with your arms. Get as far away from cars and trees as you can; they may get blown into you by the tornado.
- In a public building: Do not panic. Move quickly to an interior bathroom, storage room or interior hallway. Crouch down and protect your head with your hands.
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With today’s fiscally constrained environment, there are several cost-effective techniques that state and local authorities can use to reduce congestion. Last month I wrote here how synchronized traffic lights are a cost-effective way to reduce congestion on arterials. This month I want to detail how shoulders are a cost-effective way to reduce congestion on interstates or other expressways. States have an opportunity to convert shoulders to travel lanes during rush hour or twenty-four hours a day. Due to the high cost of acquiring land, converting shoulders to travel lanes is often a better choice than traditional expansions of urban and suburban expressways. These conversions are cost-effective and can be very effective in reducing congestion.
There are two types of shoulder conversion and three different uses. Most states convert shoulders to travel lanes during peak-periods. On Virginia’s I-66 shoulders are used inbound to D.C. from 6:15 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and outbound from D.C. from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Some states have converted shoulders into travel lanes 24 hours a day by restriping the highway and narrowing general travel lanes from 12 feet to 11 feet. Los Angeles and San Francisco Expressways are good examples. Many states have 12 to 14 foot wide lanes that are unnecessary for today’s vehicles.
There are three shoulder conversion types. First, the extra lane is often used as a High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) or High Occupancy Toll (HOT) lane where none existed before. One important goal of transportation planning is to offer cost-effective transportation options. HOV or HOT lanes allow vehicles with a minimum number of people or vehicles that choose to pay a small fee to use the lane. Buses and Vanpools can also use the lane for free.
Second, the extra lane is occasionally used as a busway. Busways are lanes that can only be used by buses. Typically HOV or HOT lanes are better options than busways because they handle more vehicles. However, in cities with existing HOV/HOT facilities, and/or a very high number of buses, and/or where a HOT/HOV lane is not appropriate, busways can be good fits. Busways also significantly improve transit service.
The third option is to convert the shoulder into a general-purpose lane. This is best in markets with existing HOT/HOV lanes or in cities with insufficient travel for a HOT/HOV lane. These general-purpose lanes can significantly reduce congestion and increase travel speeds.
What is the difference in costs between converting shoulders and building new lanes? Costs to retrofit existing highways to use the shoulder range from $250,000 to a million dollars per mile. The cost to build a new lane is $4,000,000 per mile or more in urban areas. Retrofitting existing highways is between one twelfth and one quarter the cost of building a new lane. An entire network of new lanes could be converted for the cost of adding one lane on one road.
Why are there not more shoulder conversions? Many states are wary of converting shoulders for safety reasons. However, several studies have shown no increase in crashes in any type of shoulder usage. A Federal Highway Administration study by The Transportation Research Board found no increases in crashes. Accidents on one part of the highway increased while accidents on the other part of the road decreased. This was due to decreased congestion on the highway. The increase in accidents was likely not caused by the additional lanes. The National Cooperative Research Project 369 found no significant increases overall in conversions in California, Virginia, and Washington. An ITE survey found accidents declined in a Virginia conversion project. That same study did show a 10% increase in accidents on one section of I-5 in California. Since this is the only statistically significant increase, it may be an outlier. This California section is a very short conversion with multiple weaving points. Highway sections with similar characteristics may not be good candidates for conversions.
Several states including California, Texas, Virginia and Washington now use shoulders as travel lanes at least part-time. Several other states are currently studying the idea.
States that have not converted shoulders should examine whether converting shoulders is appropriate. Every interstate highway in the country has a shoulder. While not every section of interstate or expressway is appropriate for conversion because of location or safety issues, converting a small fraction could improve mobility in a big way.
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Cephalophyllum rigidum is a compact succulent perennial growing prostrate branches. The succulent leaves grow in opposite pairs, somewhat triangular in cross-section from a deep keel, but slightly rounded towards being sub-cylindrical.
The stalked flowers grow solitary, the petals spreading, angling up over the five sepals. The petals in picture have pale colouring near the base, darkening into coppery and pinkish purple towards their rounded tips. A large cluster of stamens in the centre bears tiny, dark anthers. Below them, the feathery stigmas are surrounded by nectar glands.
These flowers were photographed in August, the plant growing in the open in sandy soil. The capsules have many locules with big covering bodies, opening during rain and releasing the small brown seeds.
The species, a South African endemic, is found in the Northern Cape. It is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century (Smith, et al, 1998; iNaturalist; http://redlist.sanbi.org).
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“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait till oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
We found the quote at the end of a great article on the New York Times Magazine website in its Current Thinking column, that was current thinking from 2007! It’s still worth a read.
You hold in your hand (on your smartphone, tablet or desktop) the fourth edition of our Guide and the current thinking remains we’d put our money on solar energy, but also wind, tidal, wave and geothermal. And nuclear?
Recently the UK government decided it would put our money on nuclear with the Hinkley Point C after months of dithering, perfectly illustrating everything that is wrong with government strategic thinking and energy policy. The wrong technology, with the wrong partners at the wrong price.
Which is why we’re delighted to have contributions from Tidal Lagoon Power, Abundance Energy, Bristol Energy Cooperative and the excellent investment organisations (Alliance Trust, Foresight, Impax, Triodos and WHEB) that are putting money into distributed clean energy and storage – the right technology, with the right partners at the right price.
And we also have an article about nuclear fusion – a technology which divides the environmentally minded. We don’t have a strong opinion on nuclear fusion and wanted to just present the technology. We believe you are more than capable of forming your own judgment.
We hope you enjoy the guide.
Click here to read it as a single page spread
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You can download pdf of the guide using the links above and clicking on the cloud icon in the bottom right of the screen, if however you are having any issues with that, you can also download a pdf version here (4mb version) and here (12mb version)
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KYZEN is pleased to announce that it will present at the Toronto SMTA Expo & Tech Forum, scheduled to take place Thursday, May 21, 2015 at the Hilton Toronto/Markham Suites Conference Centre in Markham, ON. Dr. Mike Bixenman will present the paper titled “How Clean is Clean Enough?”
Highly dense assemblies with small gap distance between adjacent leads or interconnects increase the electric field and potential for leakage currents from contamination sources. Bottom terminated components soldered onto the PCB have flux residue trapped between the component body and board. Ionics in flux residue can exacerbate contamination levels under the component.
Dr. Bixenman will discuss Surface Insulation Resistance testing and how it can be used to test the resistance between the anode and cathode. When there is ionic contamination present, resistance drops. An improvement to SIR testing was introduced at the IPC/SMTA High Performance Cleaning and Coating Conference. The method places sensors under component terminations in an effort to measure resistance of the residue at distances close to and away from the pad termination.
The theory behind this new test method is to provide a method for accurately measuring resistance of the contamination at the specific area under the component. The purpose of this research is to use this new test method to measure the resistance on non-cleaned and cleaned test boards using a low residue, rosin and water soluble solder pastes under a series of bottom termination components.
Dr. Mike Bixenman, CTO of KYZEN, has more than 20 years of experience in the design of electronic assembly cleaning materials and process integration. He was the chair of the 2008 IPC/SMTA Cleaning Symposium and is the current chair of the IPC Cleaning Handbook Task Group. Dr. Bixenman holds four earned degrees including a Doctorate in Business Administration.
KYZEN® is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries.
KYZEN is a global leader in providing environmentally responsible, RoHS compliant precision cleaning chemistries for industries ranging from electronics and advanced packaging to metal finishing and aerospace applications. Since its founding in 1990, KYZEN’s innovative cleaning technologies, scientific expertise and customer support have been repeatedly recognized with the industry’s most prestigious awards. For more information, visit www.kyzen.com.
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Ground control to Major pilot, smile for the camera, you are cleared for takeoff.
Taking an airplane from one destination to another can be a visually boring trip. Inside the cabin, there’s often no chance to take in the scenery as you’re soaring through the sky, especially if you don’t have a window seat. Even if you are lucky enough to snag one, often the view is blocked by an engine, wing or inclement weather. Some flights kindly offer a live video feed for takeoff and landing, but everyone knows that the best view can be seen at the very front of the plane: in the cockpit.
ANA旅のつぶやき【公式】 (@ANA_travel_info) September 12, 2016
Unless you’re a pilot, you won’t be seeing that lovely view, so the official ANA Twitter page posted a time-lapsed in-cockpit video for us. Flying from Haneda Airport to Oita Airport, through rain, clouds and sunshine, you really get a sense of what it’s like piloting an aircraft. From this point of view, takeoff and landing seem a bit intense, but it’s also blissfully serene just flying through the sky.
Many fans of aviation have asked ANA to create and share a time-lapse video for destinations like Okinawa, Nagasaki and Hokkaido as the scenery should be breathtaking from such a unique vantage point. We really hope they take people’s suggestions and film more of these videos, because they certainly help cure our wanderlust as we are stuck in the office on a work day!
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DOG TAGS- personal means of Identification, no longer metal, these are made of highly durable tranparent smart plastic which stores all the soldiers relevant medical data readable in any computer with a bar code reader. Also issued is a Military I.D. card, which also serves as a debit card.
FOOT LOCKER- your standard footlocker, used for storing the personal belongings and extra gear.
LARGE DUFFEL (LAUNDRY) BAG- your standard military carry bag, these haven't changed much.
WINTER AND SUMMER WEAR BDU'S (2 EACH)- The standard battle dress uniform, available in a variety of cammo patterns, as well as olive drab, gray and black. This is the most commonly seen uniform in the military and serves both as combat clothing and general wear. Comes with a hat and belt. (The BDU pants have 2 regular front pockets + the small change pocket, 2 large leg pockets, and 2 buttock pockets + blousing straps, the jacket has 4 pockets on the front)
T-SHIRTS- 2 pair each of green, brown, white, black, (for female soldiers, sports bras are also available)
DRESS UNIFORM- includes shirt, jacket, pants, belt, shoes, hat, tie and gloves. This is for formal situations and officers in non-combatant roles. Varies for service branch.
SOCKS- 2 pair each of warm socks and dress socks
COMBAT GLOVES- STRONG RUGGED GLOVES
BOOTS + 2 PAIR SHOELACES- Strong steel toed boots, with separated metal plates in the soles, to provide protection while maintaining flexibility.
PACK- The standard field backpack, for carrying the following
SMALL TENT- just barely large enough for one
HAMMOCK/SLEEPING BAG- with removable liner
MESS KIT- includes knife, fork, spoon, sectioned plates and cup, made of metal for heating purposes
HEXAMITE STOVE- small folding stove, about the size of a pack of cigarettes, comes with 10 fuel cakes (smokeless, fireless)
SMALL TOOL KIT- wire strippers, a variety of screwdrivers, pliers,
2 WEEKS MRE'S- taste like shit, but its better than starving, and its a damn site better than kibble
IR/RAIN PONCHO- Fully protects against body heat emission, as well as adverse weather
CUTTING TORCH- a small hand held cutting torch, with enough fuel for 10 minutes constant use
SMALL MEDKIT + 2 CANS OF SPRAYSKIN, bandages, 2 hypo's each of morphine and atropine,- capable of handling most first aid situations.
20 ft ROPE- Just enough to let you realize you need more
ENTRENCHING TOOL- standard folding shovel/hatchet,
COLLAPSING MINE DETECTOR- Collapses even smaller than the entrenching tool, and meant to be used while crawling on your belly
4 SMOKE GRENADES- 1 each of blue, red, white, green,
WARM SOCKS- 2 extra pair
BEARING EQUIPMENT- this is the military web gear, used for
comfortably carrying the following equipment:
BLACK ELECTRICAL TAPE- the uses a soldier finds for this tape are mind boggling.
FLASHLIGHT- Comes with 3 extra sets of batteries and 2 extra bulbs, + 3 extra lenses (red, reflective, black)
UTILITY KNIFE- the classic swiss army knife, with all available options
LEATHER TOOL- yet another device with too many purposes to list here
MAGAZINE POUCH- Holds 2 extra magazines for the soldiers assault rifle
Grenades- 2 frag, 2 incendiary, 2 flashbang,
SHOTGUN SHELLS- 6 standard 12ga. rounds (although many soldiers supplement them with various specialty rounds)
HEAVY BELT- The standard military carry belt, used to carry the following equipment:
COMBAT KNIFE- (SEE BELOW FOR INFORMATION)
CANTEENS- 2 1 liter canteens, made of plastic
POUCH 1- 6 25MM FRAG GRENADES
POUCH 2- Smart goggles w/ thermograph, ir, anti-dazzle, low light, tele-optics, and smartgun link, this is very compact, making the most of miniature electronic technology, and attaches directly, and fastly to the helmet
POUCH 3- 3 semi-automatic handgun magazines (For special forces, the suppresser for the SO-COM will be stored here in place of 1 magazine)
POUCH 4- can be used for anything (for special forces this pouch is replaced with a pouch for holding 2 32 round magazines and the suppresser for the Uzi 2020 or MilitechViper)
POUCH 5- 6 glowsticks
POUCH 6- used for personal non-military items
HOLSTER- for either the Colt AMT, or the SOCOM 2020.
MI9A3 GAS MASK- this is contained in its own pouch, with adjustable waist and leg strap
LEG WEB GEAR- stores 2 magazines for the soldiers sidearm, and
a combat throwing knife (to be used as an alternative to the gas mask
TORSO ARMOR- (SP:
18) provides full protection
for the torso as well as shoulders. This armor incorporates buckles for attaching load bearing straps directly to the armor, the straps attach at the shoulders and hook to the heavy belt of the soldier.
ARMOR- (SP: 10) protects the soldiers groin, while somewhat
this is perhaps the most popular piece of armor among the soldiers.
NECK ARMOR- (SP: 10) an armor plate gorget that protects the wearers throat
SHIN/KNEE GUARD- (SP: 10) protects the wearers legs
HELMET- (SP: 20) features separated plates on the back to protect the neck, and features a video camera w/ 2 hours recording time and built in detachable short range radio and a smart gun fold down optic.
GUNNERS ARMOR (SP: 18)- this torso plate is actually built into
the support for the gyro stabilization mount for the heavy machine
gun. It doesn't cover as much area as the standard armor, but it
is slightly less constraining. The built in gyro-stabilization
mount can accept virtually any heavy machine gun, but is most used with
GASIUM K-5 ARMOR- Used by special forces for situation where you need to carry more equipment than is allowed with therm-optic camouflage, yet need to present a smaller target and maintain more agility than you would with ORC armor (SEE MASAMUNE SHIROW CONVERSIONS for info)
THERM-OPTIC CAMOUFLAGE- Used by Special Forces when Stealth is of the utmost importance. Unfortunately due to the nature of the suit, very little equipment may be carried while wearing the suit. US forces use either the Militech Ghost suit (Chrome Book 2) or the Seburo model (SEEMASAMUNE SHIROW CONVERSIONS for info)
ORC ARMOR- used by Special Forces for fast and hard assaults (SEE MASAMUNE SHIROW CONVERSIONS for info)
FLIGHT SUIT- worn by most of the pilots in the United States Military. It consists of a water/air tight g-suit, flexible torso and shoulder plates (kevlar wrapped steel plates woven into a flexible harness SP: 15 torso / SP: 10 shoulder) and a state of the artflight helmet (SP: 20) equipped with the most state of the art technology available, including Low Light, thermograph, Image Enhancement, and tele-optics. The helmet also features a small hatch on the back that allows full cyber interface. For hands on action the helmet also comes with a flip down targeting scope and full visor.
METAL GEAR- (sp: 25) (ev: 2) Like most things in the U.S. military, the US standard issue Metal Gear is much more utilitarian and functional than it's european counterpart. The same suit is worn by all branches of the U.S. military, so any additional options are easy to install, such as thrust units for E.V. duty or swimmer options for underwater operations. As standard the suit is air tight, able to withstand depths of up to 500 feet, and is equipped with its own cooling/heating system with 4 hour battery. The helmet features full optics suite with (IR, THERMOGRAPH, Targeting Scope, Low Light, and Anti-Dazzle).
SCUBA GEAR- The standard underwater breathing apparatus, lightly armored (sp: 10) with a 120 minute air supply. While the suit features an extraordinary insulation system, it remains thin enough for full dexterity and agility.
MILITECH M-402 STEALTH SCUBA GEAR 16,350eb- USING THE SAME TECHNOLOGIES AS THE MILITECH M-73 MIRAGE GEAR (see Chrome Book 2), THE M402 provides the wearer with ultimate stealth capabilities both below and above the waves.
MILITECH ARCTIC SURVIVAL GEAR 200eb- For use in cold weather situations, this suit provides maximum warmth while remaining lightweight and flexible. The ARCTIC SURVIVAL GEAR PROVIDES NO ARMOR, BUT IS BAGGY ENOUGH TO WEAR OVER THE STANDARD ARMOR, AND PROVIDES FLAPS FOR EASY ACCESS TO THE WEB GEAR WORN UNDERNEATH. It also features a hood and a white back pack cover to maximiZe stealth in the snow.
"THOMPSON" LONG RANGE
RADIO 27950eb- The latest full feature military mobile
unit. 200 MILE RANGE, FULL SHIELDING, JAM AND SCRAMBLE
AND ANY OTHER FEATURE YOU COULD THINK OF ARE ALL INCORPORATED INTO THIS
UNIT. It also features a detachable full military cybermodem, THE
Microtech CAD-4 Commando (see Rache Bartmoss's Brainware Blowout for
info) and a removable military version of Teletronics "Black Book"
microcomp (see Rache Bartmoss's Brainware Blowout for more info).
BIO-CHEM SUIT- folds up into a small puch, fully sealed, 5-7lbs,
fit into a 3 cu-foot bag and are about 1" in thickness, made of layers
of filter material and activated charcoal. Extremely tear resistant,
to be worn over clothes. (Note this suit will not stand up to
agent attack for more than a few minutes, most other hazards and the
will work for days under constant attack.
Standard parachutes and the HALO variety. Both models are
to radar and feature the regular backup in case the primary fails.
FULL FIELD MEDKIT- Everything you could possible need, for everything from simple first aid, to full blown combat surgery is included in this kit. It includes: First Aid Systems for eating/Preventing: CPR - with CPR Lifesaver Pack with CPR Microshield and smelling salts, Fractures/Dislocations/Sprains - with Sam Splint and Elastic Bandage, Hypoglycemia/Insulin Shock - with Glutose Paste Dehydration and Oral Rehydration Salts, Dental Problems - with Dentemp Temporary Filling Mixture, Snake Bites & Bee Stings - with Sawyer Extractor and assorted antivenins, Wounds - with Irrigation Syringe & Scrub Brush, Blisters - with Spenco 2nd Skin and Molefoam, Burns - with Aloe Vera Gel, Trauma - with Trauma Dressings, Wound Closure Strips, 4 cans spray skin, and Triangular Bandages, Allergic Symptoms - with Antihistamines, Virus Transmission - with Infectious Control Pack, a full assortment of trauma drugs and painkillers (10 doses speedheal, 10 doses morphine, 10 doses Trauma, 5 anesthetic slap patches, Eye Wash, 30 minute can of oxygen, and 6 vials of other assorted drugs), plus the following Medical Instruments: EMT Shears, Splinter Picker Forceps, Hypothermia Thermometer, Hyperthermia Thermometer, Scalpel, dermal stapler, 4 inflatable casts, medscanner, airhypo, auto-medic, Blood Pressure Cuff, Stethoscope, Mini Mag Head Light, 18-guage Plastic Catheter,
RAPPELLING GEAR- (See Autumn Blade for Info)
WUTANI MOTION SENSOR- (See Chrome 4 for info)
DATATEL MAPMAKER- (See Chrome 1 for info)
MILITECH MILITARY BINOCULARS 870eb- The most powerful binoculars available, with built in range finder, Low Light, image enhancement, thermograph, and attachable laser target aquire system.
FULL DEMOLITIONS GEAR- Includes 4kg of C-6, various other explosives, and all the tools you could possible need for any demolitions work that might come up, including disarming enemy devices.
WORLDSAT COMMUNICATIONS FLOPSCREEN- (See Chrome 2 for info)
ARASAKA MORITA- this assault rifle HAS BEEN ISSUED IN LARGE NUMBERS TO US military personnel serving in Africa as an ongoing field test in Arasaka's bid to win the Military Assault Weapon contract. Most troops prefer it to the Militech Ronin, as it is a superior weapon, and its built in underbarrel shotgun/25mm grenade launcher provide for more diversity, and its more powerful ammo actually seems to be at least partially effective against armor. Comes in 3 varieties, Standard (featuring the underbarrel shotgun), Officers (shortened weapon, no shotgun, also popular with commandoes), and Sniper version with x500 Low Light and Themroptic scope. (see AUTUMN BLADE for more info)
MILITECH RONIN- THE STANDARD ASSAULT RIFLE OF THE US MILITARY
COLT AMT- Standard military sidearm (see Blackhands Streetweapons for more info)
UNIFED BUSHMASTER COMBAT KNIFE 360eb
MEL - 0 - J - P - 2D6 - N/A - N/A - VR
The most advanced combat knife of all time, the blade itself is solid D-2 steel, affixed the edge of the weapon is a second mono-filament blade, this means that even if the mono-edge shatters the knife itself will still be completely combat effective. The handle is half hollow, and includes: compass, wire cutters, 12 matches, 2 band aids, snake bite kit, fishing line with 4 hooks and sinkers, wire saw w/ handle rings, can/bottle opener, sharpening stone, small animal snare, emergency flashlight,
MILITECH KRV BOOT KNIFE 40eb
MEL - 0 - J - P - 1D6 - N/A - N/A - VR
A standard boot knife, double edged and perfectly balanced.
HAND GRENADES- as above, the American combat soldier has access to virtually every type of hand grenade available. (See Blackhands Streetweapons for more Info)
LAW- the disposable anti-tank rocket launcher. (See Blackhands Streetweapons for more Info)
BARRETT M-90- Heavy sniper rifle, often Snipers will take it upon themselves to electrothermally enhance this weapon. (See Blackhands Streetweapons for more Info)
MILITECH M-212 GRENADE LAUNCHER- 8 shot rotary drum fed 40mm grenade launcher. (See Blackhands Streetweapons for more Info)
SO-COM 2020- The semi-automatic handgun specifically designed
special forces work. (see AUTUMN
BLADE for more info)
MILITECH M-701 235eb
P - +2 - P - C - 2d6+3 (10mm) - 18 - 1 - R
Standard sidearm for military pilots and USAF personel, featuring an integrated scope and laser sight. This is an extremely reliable handgun, it has to be, it is a pilots last desperate hope in the event of a crash. Militech mass produces this weapon solely for the United States Military. The weapon comes with detacheable scope and stock, and a 35 round magazine is available.
M-240 FLAMETHROWER 790eb
FLM - +3 - N - R - SPECIAL (flame) - 1 1/2 min. - 1 1/2 min. - ST
The standard military flamethrower. Features a large armored fuel supply, self lighting pilot. Not popular with many soldiers, even the ones using it, because flame weapon damage is so horrifying.
MILITARY CYBERNETICS are for the most part implanted only in circumstances where there are no alternatives, and are usually the most basic model available, such as standard cyberlimbs and optics etc..... The one exception that all military personnel receive are neuralware processors, Chipware Socket and the following chips:
WORLD EVENTS (3)- these chips are replaced and updated on a regular basis, and provide basic information on what's happening throughout the world, especially military movements and political situations.
Language chips (3)- for the country a soldier finds himself operating in.
Local Culture and history (3)- gives a basic knowledge on customs of the local peoples, and what is acceptable and non acceptable behavior. It also provides a basic history (detailed on last 6 months, basic for last 100 years. (+1 culture rolls)
Local Geography (3)- Provides a soldier with the layout of the country he finds himself in as well as possibly the countries surrounding, or at least the border areas.
LOCAL HAZARDS (3)- PROVIDES INFORMATION ON ANIMAL, VEGETABLE AND GEOGRAPHIC AREAS IN THE COUNTRY A SOLDIER FINDS HIMSELF IN. For example, it will tell you if the snake that just bit you is poisonous, if theberries that look so good will kill you if you start snacking, if this stretch of land is known to be mined, filled with quicksand etc..., or if the town you are about to enter into has a history of hostility towards the USA.
PROPAGANDA (3)- This is a genius pr move, and the one chip that every soldier hates. It aids the soldier in knowing exactly what to say to civilians to make the USA appear to be just and fair, and out to help them. Of course this usually means lying through your teeth. Provides a +2 to persuasion rolls when trying to convince the local people that you are there for their own good, and that they should be grateful for your presence because everyone else is the enemy.
PRIMARY MISSION OBJECTIVES (5)- This provides detailed information on the mission a soldier finds himself on. Upon removal the chip self destructs and becomes unreadable, and after the information is implanted to memory the chips are removed.
SECONDARY MISSION OBJECTIVES (3)- Provides a list of secondary targets, otherwise it is the same as above.
When it comes to upgrading your cybernetics, the military will provide virtually every conceivable piece of cyber you can think of, at a reduced cost, and you will not be able to be discharged unless the cyber is removed, or you have finished paying it off.
can choose to be a test subject for R&D. This means you
get the latest cyber for free, however if it glitches, or there are
problems that occur in the field you can find yourself in serious
real fast. And absolutely any case which results in Full conversion
automatically results in the soldier becoming a "volunteer" for
of course the alternative is dying or living life as a pile of meat in
a bed. Also, when any soldier undergoes full conversion, he is
the special designation of Limited Duty Officer (LDO), while he retains
his full rank and pay, he is almost always stripped of all authority,
situations may vary. They are usually placed back in their
squad to help alleviate the stress of their transformation, and while
are technically under the command of the team leader, they are also
under the command of the Cybernetic Warfare Division (CYWARD).
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE U.S. MILITARY, PLEASE SEE THE FOLLOWING:
HOME OF THE BRAVE
SOLO OF FORTUNE 1&2
FIRESTORM: STORMFRONT AND SHOCKWAVE
BLACKHANDS STREET WEAPONS
RACHE BARTMOSS'S BRAINWARE BLOWOUT
CHROME BOOKS 1-4
AUTUMN BLADE WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT, AND ITS UPDATE
Weapons & Equipment of Counter-Terrorism
OCEANPUNK: GEAR AND EQUIPMENT
(Written by Deric "D" Bernier, special thanks to Scott Edwards for his invaluable expert military advice. Images from Ghost In The Shell, Halo, Metal Gear Solid, Aliens, Starship Troopers, Southern Cross, Space: Above and Beyond, Nightmare Armors, Briars Armory, Star Wars Chick, Matsuo, Sgt. Burton, Chris Chulamanis (AKA FNG USCM) , private prop collectors (special thanks to the members of Mastucorp, Aliens Legacy, the RPF, and BBC), Soldier, Wildstorm, Metal Men, Star Wars, and Deric "D" Bernier.)
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CEN - EN 13245-3
Plastics - Unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-U) profiles for building applications - Part 3: Designation of PVC-UE profiles
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This European Standard establishes a system of designation for profiles made of cellular unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-UE) intended to be used for building applications.
This part is applicable to light coloured and coloured mono-extruded PVC-UE profiles, co-extruded profiles consisting of a core made of PVC-UE and a skin layer of non-cellular unplasticized poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-U), and PVC-UE profiles with laminated foil or lacquered-coating.
It specifies test methods and test parameters.
This method of designation is intended to be used in product specification when the application is specified.
NOTE It is recommended to use this method for the designation of PVC-UE profiles for information related to technical literature of the manufacturer, not for the marking of the products.
Profiles for the management of electrical power cables, communication cables and power track systems used for the distribution of electrical power, profiles for windows or doors and profiles for guttering are not covered by this European Standard.1)
1) Profiles that are excluded are in the scopes of standards prepared by CEN/TC 33, CENELEC/TC 213 or CEN/TC 128.
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Is Messaging for the Sake of the Giver or the Receiver?
We start this post with the provocative question: Are you communicating for your own benefit or that of the recipients of your message?
The answer to that question may seem obvious, depending on your perspective. But is it really?
If your objective is to broadcast a message, it follows that it is your prerogative to determine the content and approach. After all, you are the one trying to get something across, so how could your audience determine that message?
However, if your communication is marketing-related, it behooves you to “have your ears to the ground” and “survey the playing field” for the types of messaging that truly resound with your target audience. From that perspective, your audience would profoundly influence the message given.
Furthermore, suppose your audience plays a leading role in your messaging. What is the point of delivering it at all, since in that case, one would assume that your audience is already informed about what you are communicating?
But hold on, maybe we are getting ahead of ourselves. In seeking to deliver genuinely effective messages, you need to go back much further than that.
Assertive communication has several essential aspects, and before you can effectively and influentially communicate, you need to establish a few things.
This single, short article will certainly not be exhaustive in addressing such a mammoth subject, but allow us to put forth a few trigger ideas to help you formulating and fine-tuning fantastic messages.
Phase One: Determine your Target
As the saying goes, “If you aim at nothing, you are sure to hit it.” All too often, we communicate based on our own perspectives and fail to consider that this may not represent our audience. You need to know who you are talking to, why you are talking to them, and what they want to hear.
Phase Two: Determine Your Objectives
What is it that you want to accomplish? Are you trying to get a message across regarding, let’s say, a social, economic, or political issue? Are you trying to sell something? Are you trying to raise your profile or create a professional portfolio? Communication is a vehicle. It is not the journey itself (unless, of course, your product is content-based in itself, like a book, a course, a news outlet, etc.)
Phase Three: Research
Once you know your target and objective, it is wise to inform yourself more about them. What resounds with your target audience? What are their fears, their dreams, their issues? What do they like, and what do they hate? How have others effectively achieved objectives similar to yours? In what ways have others failed? Are you seeking to follow trends or break trends/create new trends?
Phase Four: Determine Your Approach.
You have gotten past the most significant elements of your target audience and the objective of communication, so now you should determine how to best link the two. Furthermore, you now have valuable data through research. From here, you are much more strongly positioned to effectively communicate your objective to your target audience. And your approach to this is largely dependent upon those two initial elements. Do you want a shocking approach? Well, that might work well with a young audience and not so well with older professionals. Are you marketing luxury products and services? If so, a sophisticated style might work better than either an overly laid-back or too in-your-face approach.
Phase Five: Develop Your Message
Now you are equipped to formulate your actual message. Here are some tidbit tips for that:
4.1 Be familiar. Look for commonality with your audience with references they feel at home and secure with.
4.2 Be unique. Contrast that comfortable feeling with newness and uniqueness. Bait them with less familiar themes and concepts. You don’t want to give them a sense of having “heard it all before.”
4.3 Impact emotions. The old adage of “make ‘em mad, sad, or glad” still rings true. Evoke a response through connecting with emotions.
4.4 Be provocative. Challenge the audience a bit. Don’t be afraid to shock them sometimes and “ upset the applecart.”
Phase Six: Deliver the Message
Beyond what is being said, another important factor is where it is said. There are various communication channels available today, and this behooves us to look into what channels are appropriate for our audience and objective. Is it Facebook? Is it YouTube? Is it mainstream media? Online or Offline?
Despite how great, well-formulated, and targeted your message is, you may share the all too familiar frustration of inability to truly connect with your target audience because it simply gets lost in all of the online static and chatter. PepPartner provides you with smart and efficient tools to actually organically reach your audience and target messages effectively. Our gamification tool creates authentic word-of-mouth endorsement and engagement with you and your message.
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Revealed: How Hollywood Stunt Crews Flip Cars in Movies
For all the CGI-filled blockbusters hitting the movie circuit every summer, nothing beats a good ol’ fashioned car crash. Action films these days might not be rivaling the sheer quantity of stunt crashes like those in The Blues Brothers, but their extreme executions are becoming increasingly impressive.
If you’ve ever wondered how stunt crews launch automobiles into the air, flipping side-over-side in the midst of fiery explosions, Car and Driver took an intriguing, in-depth look at the methodology behind how mechanics flip cars in movies.
State of the Art: Winner of Best Car Tech at CES 2015
Award-Winning Machine Flips Cars in Movies
John Frazier, 11-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner for special effects on 2004’s Spider-Man 2, has been in the movie business for half a century and has been the special effects supervisor on over 100 films. Studios know his shop in Los Angeles, FXperts, Inc, for its revolutionary pneumatic car flipper. He and his colleagues–Clay Pinney and Chuck Gaspar–even won a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for their device in 2014.
The machine consists of a sturdy steel plate attached to a steel lever, with hydraulic accumulator bottles, a heavy valve on the cylinder, and modified hydraulic rams. Using bottled nitrogen gas nearing 2500 psi, it can flip cars in movies up to 20 feet in altitude and spin in any sort of way, depending on where the device is placed–without modifying the original vehicle. It uses hydraulic parts because traditional pneumatic systems conserve pressure carefully, while the car flipper needs a lot of pressure all at once.
“We sometimes have to weld in a 1/8th-inch steel plate under the unibody cars,” Frazier explained to Car and Driver. “We don’t always have heavy, full-frame cars to flip anymore. But the plate is usually enough to keep the flipper from going through the floorboard.”
How did filmmakers flip cars in movies before the pneumatic device was invented? Vehicles were equipped with a “cannon,” a pole mounted in the car that shot against the ground after an explosive charge, which was both loud and required reinforcement. During production of Michael Bay’s Armageddon, Frazier’s SFX crew needed to stage car stunts quickly and cost efficiently. With a brilliant idea, Frazier’s crew built and used the first pneumatic car flipper. Now his shop has two-dozen machines available for Hollywood studios to rent.
Imagine what blockbuster movies would be like today without the incredible pneumatic car flipper!
Fast Machines: The fastest Hyundai models ranked
News Source: Car and Driver
- Aaron WidmarSenior Editor
Aaron is unashamed to be a native Clevelander and the proud driver of a 1995 Saturn SC-2 (knock on wood). He gleefully utilizes his background in theater, literature, and communication to dramatically recite his own articles to nearby youth. Mr. Widmar happily resides in Dayton, Ohio with his magnificent wife, Vicki, but is often on the road with her exploring new destinations. Aaron has high aspirations for his writing career but often gets distracted pondering the profound nature of the human condition and forgets what he was writing... See more articles by Aaron.
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BIHW: Does caffeine increase risk for osteoporosis?
Dr. Heaney: A moderate amount of caffeine isn’t harmful to bone health as long as people also consume enough calcium.
Controlled clinical studies show that although caffeine ingestion results in a small, temporary increase in calcium excretion, it has no effect on 24-hour urinary calcium loss. Studies have also shown that although caffeine can cause the intestine to absorb slightly less calcium when calcium intake is also low, this effect can be fully offset by as little as one to two tablespoons of milk. This helps explain why the epidemiological studies regarding caffeine and bone health are mixed. All the observations in studies linking caffeine intake to osteoporosis were made in populations with calcium intakes far below recommended levels. In studies where dietary calcium intakes were higher, at least 800 milligrams per day, caffeine intake has an almost negligible effect.
BIHW: Some people believe that sparkling soft drinks, particularly colas, adversely affect bone health. Is this true?
Dr. Heaney: No. A few observational studies have found an association between high carbonated soft drink consumption and either increased fracture risk or decreased bone mineral density, and the usual explanation given has been that one or more constituents in these beverages, such as caffeine or phosphoric acid, increases urinary calcium losses. But, this theory didn’t hold up under experimental studies done in my lab using carefully controlled calcium-metabolic methods. We found that the net effect of carbonated soft drinks, including colas, on calcium retention was negligible. As a result, it seems likely that colas’ prominence in observational studies is due to their prominence in the marketplace. For example, 27 out of 30 subjects in our study reported being cola drinkers.
The real issue is that people who drink a lot of soft drinks also tend to have an overall diet that is low in calcium and other important nutrients bones need. And, it’s the poor diet and low calcium intake impacting skeletal fragility that need to be addressed – not whether or not they drink soft drinks per se.
BIHW: Could you explain your study on the impact of carbonated soft drinks on calcium in more detail?
Dr. Heaney: In 2001, we published a calcium metabolic study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition that compared the impact of four different soft drinks, plus water and milk, on urinary calcium in adult women who normally consume soft drinks. Because that study evaluated a caffeine-free and a regular cola, both of which contained phosphoric acid, and a caffeine-free and a caffeinated citrus-flavored soft drink, neither of which contained phosphoric acid, we were able to evaluate the impact of soft drinks overall, as well as the individual and combined impact of these ingredients, on calcium balance. Our results showed that the effect of soft drinks on calcium losses, including those with caffeine and colas with phosphoric acid, is negligible.
Specifically, we found that phosphoric acid had no impact at all: The caffeine-free cola did not increase urinary calcium losses. In addition, although both the caffeinated cola and caffeinated citrus soft drink caused a small increase in urinary calcium loss, it was about equal to that previously found for caffeine alone.
However, since the body can compensate for the small impact of caffeine by reducing calcium losses later in the day, we determined that soft drinks, including colas with phosphoric acid and those with caffeine, have essentially no impact on calcium balance.
BIHW: Why do concerns over phosphoric acid in colas seem to linger? Is there something unique about phosphoric acid or phosphorus that negatively affects bone health?
Dr. Heaney: No. The common myth that the phosphoric acid in colas draws calcium out of the bones is likely linked to a theory that an acidic diet causes minerals to be drawn from the bones to neutralize the impact of the acid on blood pH. But, as I explained earlier, our calcium-metabolic study found that the phosphoric acid in cola had no net impact on urinary calcium losses. Now, I must admit that this finding was initially unexpected, but perhaps it should not have been, considering the body normally produces 50 to 100 mEq of acid a day during the metabolism of food. The acid load imposed by a 20-ounce cola is only about 4.5 to 5.0 mEq, or substantially less than the amount produced by eating even a moderate protein breakfast.
There is also no plausible evidence that phosphorus in the diet is harmful to bone health in humans. This theory began with studies showing a harmful effect in animals and the findings were extrapolated to humans. But the animal diets contained amounts of phosphorus up to five times the amount in a typical human diet, so the findings aren’t applicable to humans. And, although phosphorus is widely believed to form insoluble complexes with calcium and is often listed as a potential anti-absorber on web sites, studies conducted more than 25 years ago in my lab and others showed that varying phosphorus intakes have little or no effect on overall calcium balance.
Phosphorus is actually quite plentiful in the food supply. For example, depending on the brand, 8 ounces of cola contains 25-40 milligrams of phosphorus, in the form of phosphoric acid, which is used as the acidulant. The same amount of orange juice has 27 mg of phosphorus and milk has 232 milligrams in 8 ounces. To put these amounts into perspective, national dietary surveys in the U.S. show that the highest level of phosphorus intake among individuals who don’t take supplements is about 2500 mg per day, which is well within the safe limits established by the Institute of Medicine. The safe limits for phosphorus established by the Institute of Medicine are 4,000 mg (4 g) per day for individuals between the ages of 9 and 70 and 3,000 mg (3 g) per day for those over 70 and between the ages of 1 and 8.
Phosphorus Content of Common Foods and Beverages
Cola (8 oz): 25 - 40 mg
Orange Juice (8 oz), unfortified: 27 mg
Peanuts (1 oz), shelled: 113 mg
Chicken breast, roasted: 124 mg
Cheddar cheese (1 oz): 145 mg
Milk (8 oz), 1%: 232 mg
BIHW: Does the carbonation in soft drinks harm bones?
Dr. Heaney: No. In fact, research has shown that carbonated waters rich in calcium and other minerals can actually improve measures of skeletal metabolism in postmenopausal women with low calcium intakes. And, as for carbonation in soft drinks, our calcium-metabolic soft drink study also exonerated carbonation when we determined that caffeine-free soft drinks had no net effect on urinary calcium loss. This isn’t surprising since the amount of carbon dioxide absorbed from a soft drink is relatively very small compared to the amount our cells continuously produce as a byproduct of energy production.
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A museum of Coney Island history is making moves to ensure that it will be part of Coney Island’s future.
The booth-size Coney Island History Project, which pays homage to the supposed glory days of the beach-side neighborhood, will close its facility at the base of the Cyclone on Surf Avenue and open a new exhibition center near the landmark Deno’s Wonder Wheel two blocks away.
History Project Executive Director Charles Denson said that the museum’s five-year lease at the 83-year-old coaster has expired, and that he was worried about getting evicted after the city selects a new operator for the landmark attraction.
“We were offered the space by Wonder Wheel Park and were happy to take it because the Cyclone is going through a transition,” Denson said. “Things are uncertain there and this was a good opportunity for us.”
Denson said that he has not decided how big the new facility will be, but Wonder Wheel co-owner Dennis Vourderis said that he is prepared to offer the History Project two storefronts: one near the entrance at the corner of Jones Walk and Bowery Street and another on West 12th Street near the Boardwalk. Construction on a new History Project booth will start in the coming weeks and will be completed in time for the spring, Vourderis said.
“We’ve been wanting to host the Coney Island History Project for a long time,” said Vourderis, whose father bought the massive Ferris wheel — itself a city landmark — in 1983. “We’re proud to have them here.”
The History Project started in 2004 as a mobile Boardwalk display booth and opened under the Cyclone three years later. Its main exhibit is a model horse from the legendary Steeplechase ride, but it also shows off old-time photos and recorded testimonies by notable Coney figures. The Project even posts downloadable audio/visual walking tours on its web site.
Denson considers the Cyclone-based History Project a success, as its free exhibitions draw hundreds of people every weekend, but he was worried that a future Cyclone operator would feel differently. The Parks Department announced in October that it would replace Carol Albert, whose family has operated the iconic wooden coaster since 1976. The goal is to make the Cyclone a revamped, year-long amusement attraction.
By renting a new space near the Wonder Wheel, the History Project will avoid the fate of eight Boardwalk businesses that were evicted last year as part of the city’s push to remake the main amusement area in Coney Island.
But Denson denied that the plight of the evicted “Coney Island Eight” influenced his decision to leave. He merely said that “the move is right for our business now.”
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Where is the Synaptics control panel?
Typically, you will find the dedicated Synaptics tab in the Mouse settings right next to the Hardware tab.
How do I download Synaptics drivers?
1) Go to Synaptics Resources Center. 2) Scroll down, you should then see the TouchPad Driver Support under Drivers pane. 3) Find Windows 10, then click Download. 4) Un-zip the downloaded zip file to find and install the driver for your Synaptics touchpad.
How do I enable Synaptics driver?
To get started, right-click the Synaptics or ELAN touchpad device under the “Mice and other pointing devices” category in Device Manager, and then select the “Update driver” command. Click the “Browse my computer for driver software” option.
How do I enable Synaptics touchpad in Windows 10?
When the Control Panel opens, go to the Mouse section. Now navigate to Device Settings tab. Select your touchpad from the list and click on the Settings button. Now locate the Tapping section and make sure that you disable Double tap to enable or disable touchpad option.
What is 12c HID device?
The HID I²C driver enables devices and system manufacturers to reduce the total number of drivers they have to develop to support common device types like keyboards, touchpads, touch screens, sensors, and so on. The HID I²C driver is available on all client SKUs of Windows and is included in WinPE.
How do I start my Synaptics touchpad?
If the option is not available on the Mouse Properties window, click Settings to open the Synaptics Control Panel. On the Click tab, uncheck Double Tap to Enable or Disable TouchPad. Click Apply, and then click OK.
Where can I find Synaptics driver?
Open Device Manager. Scroll down and expand Mice and other pointing devices > Synaptics Touchpad. Right-click on Synaptics Touchpad and select Properties. Select the Driver tab.
Do I need Synaptics touchpad enhancements on startup?
PSA 2: You can turn off synaptics enhancements for better battery life (Precision Touchpad enabled models only) HP switched some of their laptops over to precison touchpad drivers, which means that the synaptics drivers aren’t necessary to be running (primarily their touchpad enhancements).
How do I use Synaptics touchpad driver?
35.41 (or later).
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Act in Faith
And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform. — ROMANS 4:21
When the pastor said, “Amen,” I said in faith, “Thank God, it’s gone.” What does it mean to say something in faith? It means to call those things that be not as though they were. Many honest Christians are afraid to act because they don’t know what faith is.
Someone might ask, “Well, was the paralysis gone?”
“No, the right side of my face was still dead.”
“You were lying, then,” someone might respond. No! I was acting on the Word.
After the service, everyone rushed up to me. They said, “Did the Lord really heal you when Pastor laid his hands on you and anointed you with oil?”
I said, “He sure did.”
“Well, you don’t look any different. Do you feel any different?” they asked.
“Not that I can tell,” I said.
They said, “If you don’t look any different and you don’t feel any different, what makes you think the Lord has healed you?”
I said, “I don’t think He has; I know He has.”
What was I doing? I was acting in faith. I dare you to do it. We used to say in Texas, “I double-dog dare you!” I challenge you to act on the Word. Are you afraid that maybe God lied? No, He didn’t lie. You have to be convinced in your own spirit, though. It won’t work just out of your head. It won’t work trying to do what I did. I didn’t try it. I did it!
Confession: I act in faith. No matter what I see with my eyes, no matter what I feel in my body, I act on the Word in faith. I believe that I receive when I pray.
Source: Health Food Devotions by Kenneth E. Hagin. Excerpt permission granted by Faith Library Publications. Copyright © 2002, 2007 Rhema Bible Church aka Kenneth Hagin Ministries, Inc. All rights reserved.
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I think it's really important to use the first day of class to set expectations and get students excited. I try to teach it as a typical class so that they know what to expect. However, I have learned over the years that for community service learning courses, it is a good idea to ease into things, to take one step at a time, to use class time to tie up the many loose ends this kind of pedagogy can create.
I usually post my lesson plans on the UIUC Spanish Community Service Learning Facebook Page. Why? Because I post a lot of links that we then use during class for information and analysis. I also often have students write responses to my posts as a way to share their analyses, questions, etc. So look for the blue picture above that will accompany my lesson plans for this semester.
With that in mind, here are my lesson plans for the first week of SPAN 332 Spanish and Entrepreneurship: Languages, Cultures and Communities.
Week 1, Day 1: Presentación del curso
Conocer a tus compañeros de curso.I put students into pairs and gave them five minutes to talk to each other, to find out why they are in this course, to learn a little bit about the other person. Then I told them to go to our Facebook page, and: ¨Haz clic en el botón azul de esta página que dice ¨Send Message.¨ Sube una foto de tu grupo con algunas frases sobre ustedes.¨ This was fun! And since it was a message, it was private. After I got back to my office after class I read and replied to them all.
This exercise introduced them to our Facebook page, where I post lots of useful information, it showed them the importance of getting to know each other and learn each other´s names, and hopefully it got them excited about the ways that they can be active learners in this class.
Ver los tres pasos en el proceso de emprendimiento.
I wanted to give students just a quick peek into the content we will study this semester. I gave one student a marker and asked her to write the first step as I said it, she gave the marker to another student who wrote the second step, and that student gave the marker to a student who wrote the third step. (I like to get students involved, and yes, writing on the board is actually an important tool, I think.) Anyway, here are the three steps.
- Reconocer oportunidades.
- Buscar recursos.
- Crear algo de valor.
Empezar a pensar en la comunidad donde vas a trabajar 28 horas para este curso.
The local Latino community where they will work is full of complexities, and we have to guard against stereotypical or superficial projections onto what they will soon observe. I projected the Radio Ambulante website and told them: Vamos a escuchar algunos minutos del último episodio de Radio Ambulante, "Recién llegados¨.
We listened to a little more than seven minutes of the episode, and then I put the students to into pairs. I asked them comment on why listening to that is important for this class and what they should take away from it. They gave very interesting, good answers.
Lamentablemente, la universidad nos pide que les mostremos este video sobre qué hacer en caso de emergencias: http://police.illinois.edu/emergency.../run-hide-fight/.
Choosing a place to work is a big deal! Students are often a little hesitant, a little apprehensive. They want as much information as possible. They might be afraid of making a mistake. Or they´re not sure how they can get there and back in the time they have between classes. It´s complicated. And today´s class is meant to help them decide--to take the step and make their decision. We need them to decide and move on so that they don´t fall behind.
Escuchar a estudiantes de otros semestres
First, we´ll just watch and listen to these students say very brief things about where they work and what they do.
Familiarizarse con el wiki
Then we´ll move on to the course wiki. I´ll assign an organization to each student and give them time to read the information, explore the website, look on Google maps, etc. Then they´ll present the organization to the class.
Finally, students will make their decisions and sign up on the wiki. The screencast below explains how to do that.
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3 edition of [Records of the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1914-1944] found in the catalog.
[Records of the Communist Party of the United States of America, 1914-1944]
Communist Party of the United States of America.
1999 by Rossiĭskiĭ t︠s︡entr khranenii︠a︡ i izuchenii︠a︡ dokumentov noveĭsheĭ istorii in [Moscow, Russia] .
Written in English
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MCCULLOCH, HENRY EUSTACE
MCCULLOCH, HENRY EUSTACE (1816–1895). Henry Eustace McCulloch, early pioneer, Texas Ranger, and Confederate officer, son of Alexander and Frances (LeNoir) McCulloch, was born in Rutherford County, Tennessee, on December 6, 1816. Although he played an important role in military affairs in early Texas, he received fewer accolades than his more famous cohorts John S. (Rip) Ford, John C. (Jack) Hays, and his older brother, Benjamin McCulloch. In the 1830s Ben and Henry McCullochs carried on several economic enterprises. They traveled the Mississippi River on log rafts to various markets, and by the end of the decade they had moved to Gonzales to survey and locate lands. In 1839, in the political struggles at Gonzales, Henry McCulloch shot and killed Reuben Ross, after the latter, intoxicated and obnoxious, drew his pistols. The angular-featured, gentle-looking McCulloch joined the Texas Rangers in the heyday of their role as citizen soldiers against Indians and Mexican troops. In the battle of Plum Creek in 1840 against the Comanches, he scouted, fought with distinction, and was wounded. In addition, he served as a lieutenant in Hays's rangers in their military operations against the Comanches and Mexican nationals. In 1842 in the attack on San Antonio and retreat by Mexican troops, McCulloch scouted, infiltrated enemy lines seeking information, and participated in the battle of Salado Creek.
For the next two decades he mixed his military career with other ventures. In 1843 he was elected sheriff of Gonzales and began a merchandising career there. The following year he moved his business to Seguin. During the Mexican War and afterward, he served as a captain of a volunteer company guarding the Indian frontier. He became especially adept at organizing regular ranger patrols in intervals from different camps to cover a designated area. In the early 1850s McCulloch served in the state legislature (both houses) from Guadalupe County, and at the end of the decade he accepted an appointment as United States marshal for the Eastern District of Texas. He served as a high-ranking Confederate officer during the Civil War. As Texas left the Union, he assumed command of the posts on the northwestern frontier from Camp Colorado to the Red River and used Texas secessionist troops to accept the surrender of federal forces. Given the rank of colonel by the Confederate Congress, McCulloch organized the First Regiment, Texas Mounted Riflemen, in 1861. This body of troops slowed down penetration of the western frontier by Indians through a system of patrols and small-scale engagements. After promotion to brigadier general, McCulloch commanded the Northern Sub-District of Texas from 1863 to the end of the war. In this role he faced the threats of Indian raids and the movement of Union forces. He also had to deal with the activities of draft dodgers, deserters, and bushwhackers. At one time he tried unsuccessfully to arrest William Quantrill for robbery and murder. With the war ended, McCulloch went home to Seguin with an armed escort for protection against deserters, who swore to take his life.
After the Civil War he remained in the limelight. In 1874 he assisted the newly elected governor, Richard Coke, in removing Edmund J. Davis from the executive offices. Early in 1876, as a reward for his years of service, McCulloch was given the superintendency of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum (later the Texas School for the Deaf ). Here his lax and inept administration brought about a legislative investigation that made him resign his position in 1879. He was married to Jane Isabella Ashby in 1840. He died on March 12, 1895, in Seguin, and was buried in San Geronimo Cemetery.
Donaly E. Brice, The Great Comanche Raid (Austin: Eakin Press, 1987). Thomas W. Cutrer, Ben McCulloch and the Frontier Military Tradition (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993). James K. Greer, Colonel Jack Hayes: Texas Frontier Leader and California Builder (New York: Dutton, 1952; rev. ed., Waco: Morrison, 1974). William J. Hughes, Rebellious Ranger: Rip Ford and the Old Southwest (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1964). David Paul Smith, Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1992). Walter Prescott Webb, The Texas Rangers (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935; rpt., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982).
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People who want to freshen up their houses with a sweet-smelling plant have several easy-to-grow choices. Some are typically found outside, but they thrive indoors when provided with appropriate conditions and care. In addition to providing scents---from the rich and exotic to the subtle and clean---they also make beautiful decorations to adorn the household.
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EVERYTHING ABOUT A MOVIE?
|BRIDGE AT REMAGEN, THE (director: John Guillermin; screenwriters: story by Roger Hirson/Roger Hirson)/Richard Yates/William Roberts; cinematographer: Stanley Cortez; editors: William T. Cartwright/Harry V. Knapp/Marshall Neilan Jr.; music: Elmer Bernste in; cast: George Segal (Lieutenant Phil Hartman), Robert Vaughn (Major Paul Kreuger), Ben Gazzara (Sergeant Angelo), Bradford Dillman (Major Barnes), E.G. Marshall (Brigadier General Shinner), Hans Christian Blech (Capt. Carl Schmidt), Peter Van Eyck (General von Brock); Runtime: 115; MPAA Rating: PG; producer: David L. Wolper; United Artists; 1968)|
film is similar to most NBA games, you could
have watched only the last ten minutes and not
missed a thing."
Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz
John Guillermin ("The Towering Inferno"/"Shaft in Africa"/"Death on the Nile") helms this heavy-handed message war drama that tells us "war is insane" and uses the bridge as a metaphor to thump us over the head that it was sheer stupidity for both sides to fight over the bridge and risk so many casualties when the war was just about over.
The dreary WW II action drama is based on a true story that concerns the fight over the insignificant Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen—the last crossing across the Rhine into Germany during the final days of the war in March of 1945, where the Germans made their last stand. It's based on the story by Roger Hirson and the thin plot is written by Hirson, Richard Yates and William Roberts. The Cliché-ridden story plods along until the action packed climactic battle over the bridge. The acting was stale, the explosions are loud and frequent—which should waken those nodding out during the lulls in action—and, for most, it's predictable if they only have the ability to recall who won the war. Maybe history buffs would find this war drama more worthwhile than others, even though the facts are sketchy.
It was filmed in Czechoslovakia in 1968; but when Russia invaded, to complete the film, the location was changed to Austria and Italy.
Lieutenant Phil Hartman (George Segal) is the grizzled American platoon leader of the 9th Armored Division pushing ahead to blow up the bridge at Remagen before the Germans and thereby trap 50,000 retreating German soldiers before they can cross it. Hartman's roguish Sergeant Angelo (Ben Gazzara) is a scavenger who searches for valuables on the bodies of the dead German soldiers, and brings a sense of comic relief in between explosions. Brigadier General Shinner (E.G. Marshall) is the leader who is willing to sacrifice his men if it means possibly shortening the war, as he decides not to blow up the bridge but save it for his own troops to cross. Major Barnes (Bradford Dillman) is the dutiful officer who commands Hartman to take the bridge, knowing the Germans are prepared to blow it up as soon as the Americans approach. The Major promises Hartmen a medal if he succeeds, which makes the lieutenant furious.
General von Brock (Peter Van Eyck) is the disillusioned German commander in charge of the area, who receives orders from his top command to destroy the bridge. But he delays carrying out that order rather than abandon his 50,000 soldiers to the attacking American soldiers, and places the aristocratic Maj. Paul Kreuger (Robert Vaughn) in charge with instructions to hold the bridge as long as possible.
The American victory, at a heavy price to both sides, becomes meaningless, however, when ten days later the bridge collapses.
This film is similar to most NBA games, you could have watched only the last ten minutes and not missed a thing.
REVIEWED ON 3/13/2009 GRADE: C
Dennis Schwartz: "Ozus' World Movie Reviews"
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On May 10, the Republican governor of North Dakota, Doug Burgum, announced his state would stop paying out federal COVID-19 unemployment insurance (UI) benefits effective June 19.
“These programs have accomplished their goals but are now counterproductive,” Burgum said of his decision, which made North Dakota one of the first of 26 states — 25 of which are led by Republican governors — that cut off pandemic-related jobless aid over the past two months, slashing benefits for more than four million people nationwide several months before the programs were set to expire in September.
But Burgum, a former Microsoft executive who sold his software business to the company for $1.1 billion in 2002, had already been told cutting the UI programs would mean tearing apart the safety net and cutting off aid to people harmed by the pandemic — in materials prepared by his administration.
The COVID-19 jobless aid “provides [a] safety net to almost all ND citizens,” North Dakota unemployment officials noted in a slide deck prepared for the governor a few days before his announcement. That fact was mentioned almost as an aside in the document, which also noted the program was providing “continued funds into [the] ND economy” to the tune of $9 million a week.
In the same presentation, officials at Job Service North Dakota (JSND), the state agency that provides workforce and unemployment services, noted that if the governor were to go through with the cuts, “Individuals directly impacted by the pandemic, medically or otherwise, will likely not be able to receive any benefit via the UI program.”
But JSND listed many more talking points for ending the benefits, such as “some claimants will choose to remain on UI rather than return to work,” and a warning that the state would “remain a target for criminals targeting federal programs through fraud.”
They further noted, “Employers and a large portion of the citizen base do not believe the programs should continue,” but then added as a caveat: “(No official survey completed, so somewhat anecdotal, however many employers have been very vocal about the programs hindering their business operations.)”
The internal documents, provided in response to an open records request by The Daily Poster, reveal the crass political calculus used by officials to justify terminating unemployment benefits that have kept millions of Americans afloat during a historic deadly pandemic. And the records offer a reminder that, for all of their talk in public about protecting small businesses, politicians who cut off jobless aid knew it would punish people devastated by the pandemic and take money out of the economy.
“North Dakota officials made a clear-eyed decision to lose federal funding that was a lifeline for their unemployed residents and their families and provided millions of dollars per week in economic benefits, because of ‘somewhat anecdotal’ data,” said Lindsay Owens, an economist and executive director at the progessive activist group Groundwork Collaborative.
And while Burgum framed ending these benefits as a way to send job applicants to state businesses that were “facing an unprecedented labor shortage as they attempt to recover,” his staff knew the effort wouldn’t help fill every opening.
As JSND executive director Bryan Klipfel had noted in an email to the governor’s policy director, “Even if we ended the federal UI programs, we still would not have enough applicants for the 16,400 open jobs on [the] JSND site.”
In response to questions, Burgum’s spokesperson, Mike Nowatzki, wrote in an email that the governor considered both the “pros and cons” of cutting the unemployment programs.
“Employers Are Not Providing Safe Work Environments”
On May 4, Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte (R) became the first governor to announce his state would cut off federal unemployment benefits early. One day later in North Dakota, Jace Beehler, Burgum’s policy director, asked JSND to look into following Montana’s lead.
“You likely have seen the actions taken by the Montana governor yesterday,” Beehler wrote to Klipfel. “Can your team determine the process and results of ND considering similar actions, with the consequences of those actions?”
JSND’s presentation to the governor’s office a few days later featured a range of business talking points.
“Employers are reporting that generous federal benefits are negatively impacting their ability to hire,” noted the slide deck. “Individuals are applying for jobs to meet UI requirements, but not returning calls, failing to show for interviews, and refusing offers of employment.”
But according to a recent analysis of census data by Arindrajit Dube, an economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, states that terminated federal unemployment payments early saw no uptick in employment in June and July. They did, however, see an increase in financial hardship among their residents.
In JSND’s presentation for the governor, officials included several reasons why some unemployment beneficiaries didn’t want to return to work, including:
- “Fear of returning to the workforce due to the virus.”
- “Note a need to remain out of the workforce to care for at risk-family members.”
- “Note that employers are not providing safe work environments.”
The day after that bill’s passage, Burgum signed a sweeping coronavirus liability shield law to protect businesses from lawsuits. The law, which was made retroactive to January 2020, bars civil actions over COVID exposure unless they involve “an act intended to cause harm or an act that constitutes actual malice.”
North Dakota has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, and the state, like much of the country, has recently seen a surge in deadly Delta variant cases.
Landis Larson, president of the North Dakota AFL-CIO, said that most people who aren’t returning to the workforce won’t do so “because of pandemic reasons, such as fear of contracting the virus, caring for someone susceptible to the virus, or lack of safety in the workplace.”
As he concluded, “A large amount of money will be taken away from the North Dakota economy, and even if every person who is collecting unemployment insurance could safely return to work, we would still have unfilled jobs. This will do more harm than good.”
A Higher Standard Of Living
JSND’s slide deck emphasized the employer-side take on why people weren’t going back to work, but officials also made clear that it was probably in some people’s best interest to stay on unemployment.
“Federal benefits have allowed individuals to forego child care expenses and receive benefits that have a reduced tax rate,” they noted in the presentation. “This allows for a standard of living equal to or greater than experienced while working.”
While Burgum said in May that “it’s difficult for employers to compete” with the federal programs, JSND’s presentation showed that people on unemployment were earning substantially less than the average worker in the state.
JSND wrote that North Dakota’s average working wage was $54,945. The average unemployment benefit, with the $300-a-week add-on, came out to $38,220 annualized, they wrote.
On the other hand, a person would have to work more than 100 hours a week to earn that much on North Dakota’s minimum wage of $7.25.
An April memo from JSND noted that the federal program adding $300 to claims each week “makes it lucrative for some claimants, particularly low wage earners, to remain on unemployment insurance.”
Nowatzki, the governor’s spokesperson, noted: “Gov. Burgum believes wages should be driven by market conditions, not artificially inflated by government programs. With more than 18,000 online job openings in North Dakota in June (up 58.5% from the same month one year ago, according to JSND), employers are offering higher wages, hiring bonuses and other incentives to attract individuals to the job market.”
After weighing the pros and cons of ending the jobless aid, JSND officials recommended ending most or all of the federal aid programs.
If the governor chose to preserve any of the aid programs, officials advised he keep pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA), a program for self-employed workers who don’t qualify for state jobless aid. State officials wrote in April that the PUA program was having little impact on employment, writing that “many of these individuals were not previously in the workforce and have no intention of entering the workforce when federal program availability ends.”
Not long after JSND’s presentation, Burgum announced he would be terminating all of the federal unemployment programs.
“While the number of individuals who could potentially return to work may have been smaller in the PUA category than in [other programs], every pool of potential workers is important,” said Nowatzki. “According to [JSND], many PUA claimants had work experience in fields with significant demand.”
The paper trail behind the governor’s announcement lays bare the shallow motivations leading up to his decision, said Owens at the Groundwork Collaborative.
“This slide deck makes clear what we’ve long known about how officials make decisions about the social safety net,” she said. “The cruelty is, and always has been, the point.”
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After you’ve stuffed yourself with Christmas dinner, you can further speed grandma’s afternoon slumber by telling her that your dinner represented something called “commensality” — the social context of eating and drinking. Yes, yawn! But bear with me.
Because food is such a basic and powerful symbol of human existence, its use as a symbol of social, religious, and political ideology is widespread. As one scholar notes, food and drink represent “a peculiarly powerful semiotic device,” something that can powerfully “[bear] the load of everyday cultural discourse.” Because food is so mundane, its role as a semiotic device transcends class and culture. But precisely because it is mundane we sometimes forget the meanings carried by food. A humble family meal, Thanksgiving dinner, fast food, ritual feasting, State banquets: all settings where food symbolizes something more than just nutrition.
The ancient Near East (my intellectual home) provides many examples of commensality. In the Mesopotamian “Early Dynastic” period (ca. 2900-2350 BC), for example, royal commensality — mega state feasts — was used to support the elite classes’ position in society: by emphasizing and elaborating social distinctions, reinforcing intra-group bonds, and distinguishing the elite group from others. Just such a mega-feast is shown on the famous Royal Standard of Ur.
Politically-motivated commensality probably seems like a world away from the experiences with food that exist in the lives of most contemporary Mormons. Mormons may be vaguely aware of ritual feasting in some biblical contexts (such as the annual Israelite festivals or the Last Supper, and of course the Jewish kashruth laws and the Word of Wisdom remind us of the religious dimension of food), but we make a mistake if we expect “ritual” feasting to carry overtly cultic signifiers. The diners at the court of Ur were probably not entirely aware of their participation in a social “ritual.” In the same way, Mormons are probably ignorant of the power of food and commensal rituals in their own religious lives.
Elite commensality in the ancient Near East served to reinforce a social hierarchy. In the New Testament and Early Christianity, commensality appears to be more egalitarian, at least superficially. Communal eating was a feature of the Corinthian church, one designed to be shared by rich and poor Christians alike (although as 1 Cor 11 demonstrates, this did not always work out). The Lord’s Supper has covenantal value among believers who come together as rich and poor, black and white, male and female, to seal a renewed compact with Christ. Thus, Christian commensality seems of a different kind to the conspicuous consumption of the Near Eastern court.
And yet if we dig a little deeper we see that the Holy Communion (the Mormon “Sacrament”) does in fact draw borders between groups in a way akin to royal feasting. The uninitiated and the unworthy are not supposed to partake, and if they do, they do so with the realization that this is a ritual that is not rightfully theirs. The simple act of partaking of bread and wine (water) becomes a symbol of a spiritual “elite,” binding believers together and to God, and separating them from “the world.” It is also an act of redistribution, something the Mormon sacrament prayers make clear. God — the king at this banquet — is presented with gifts by his court (the believers): they promise to always remember him and to keep his commandments. He then promises to let them “have his Spirit to be with them,” the greatest of all Christian gifts. His glory becomes theirs: “this is my work and my glory, to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man” (Moses 1:39).
Of course, Mormon commensality is often much less lofty than this, but no less meaningful. The family table becomes the family altar, the place of communion for the “basic unit of society.” The Ward Social, complete with pot-luck dinner, is a delightfully low-brow assertion of Mormon community. Even the staple foods — jello and funeral potatoes — whilst often mocked, have become fond symbols of Mormon culture, the culture of a “peculiar people,” “not of the world.” Food strengthens groups bonds and demarcates it from others. It’s as old as Ur.
Family reunion picnics, post-Priesthood Session ice-cream socials, and Thanksgiving dinners are further symbols of social communion. Food has even become a historical (and thus for Mormons, religious) hobby. Pioneer food is held in great reverence and Pioneer cookbooks grace many Mormon homes. The consumption of Pioneer food may make the Mormon closer to his literal or spiritual ancestors. And interesting recipes involving cracked-wheat ready one’s belly for the coming day when survival will rely on the consumption of one’s prophetically-commanded food storage. Cracked-wheat parties as a Ward social? The anthropologists lick their lips.
A more formal, much expanded version of this stuff — complete with crazy Akkadian words — is being submitted to a volume on Mormon perspectives on ritual.
1. Meditations on Mormon food include Linda Hoffman Kimball (ed.), Saints Well Seasoned (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book), and James Hill and Richard Popp, “Toward a Mormon Cuisine,” Sunstone, May 1988, 33-35.
A somewhat related topic are the food and feasting metaphors contained in Mormon scripture. See Richard Rust, “Taste and Feast: Images of eating and Drinking in the Book of Mormon,” BYU Studies 33/4 (1993), 743-752.
2. See Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard, “Mealtime, Family Time,” Ensign, Sept. 1998, 22. President Ezra Taft Benson said, “mealtime provides a wonderful time to review the activities of the day and to not only feed the body, but to feed the spirit as well, with members of the family taking turns reading the scriptures, particularly the Book of Mormon” (“Strengthening the Family,” Improvement Era, Dec. 1970, 51).
3. In 1973, the youth of the church were shown how they can even reverently eat as Joseph Smith ate (Mary K. Stout, “From a Nauvoo Pantry,” New Era, Dec. 1973, 42). Recipes include potato pancakes and rusk.
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While members of the 99 percent made New Year’s resolutions to shave a few bucks off the grocery bill, turn the heat down, or maybe donate a few dollars to a local food bank, the titans of finance are throwing around some of their newfound booty to game the system even more in their favor. Their 2012 resolution involves a new transatlantic fiber-optic cable specifically designed to give its owners and users a five-millisecond market jump on their competition. In the hyperkinetic world of global trade, a one-thousandth-of-a-second jump on receiving financial news is worth, according to an estimate in the London Telegraph, about $100 million per year to a typical hedge fund. When you do the math, this five-millisecond advantage will translate to billions of dollars per year in profits for clients using the new cable, thus rendering the $300 million dollar cost of construction negligible. And of course, since this money has to come from somewhere, it also translates into a monumental loss for institutions whose trades are based on toxic, last-millisecond data.
To help wrap our minds around this, let’s go back for a second to Nicaragua in 1989, when the country suffered a hyperinflation rate of about 1,600 percent. Back then, an overnight currency revaluation would translate into a two-thirds drop on the cash in your wallet, and a tripling of prices at the market. Hence, the beer that cost me 6,500 córdobas on a Thursday night would cost me 20,000 córdobas the next afternoon.
I was working in Nicaragua helping guide a group of liberal guilt-trip tourists around the country to see the Sandinista revolution firsthand. My job was to wake up before dawn each morning and exchange just enough cash to get us through the day, knowing that our money could lose most of its value if we kept it overnight. On one morning, a major currency revaluation meant I had to carry two shopping bags of currency in order to buy the day’s meals for the group. That morning we traveled to a remote village market, where word of the devaluation had not yet arrived. Hence, everything in the market was selling at one third of the new currency value. When we got there, shortly after the market opened, there were a few hippies loading a weathered Winnebago with hammocks and other resalable goods. They apparently traded their money in Managua at the break of dawn, then hightailed it to the boonies, getting there ahead of the day’s financial news—in essence robbing the market—and pulling away just as we got there.
I bring up this story because it offers an easy analogy to help understand the international commodities market. A global hedge fund in New York, hitting the currency or commodities trading market in London before news of a currency or commodity revaluation, is essentially pulling the same scam as a bunch of weathered gringos in an old Winnebago ripping off a remote hammock vendor in the boonies of Nicaragua—but on a much more grandiose scale. Instead of scoring a dozen hammocks at 10 bucks off the going rate, a snaky hedge fund could score billions of dollars by hitting the currency market one millisecond faster than news of a devaluation. With all transactions computerized and automated, a millisecond might as well be an eternity, with fortunes being made and lost in this relative aeon of time.
The new cable achieves its five-millisecond advantage by following a new route, scoped out by a team of survey ships measuring the ocean floor, which cuts 310 miles off the 4,051-mile route followed by other transatlantic fiber communication cables. With light in fiber-optic cables traveling at 62 miles per millisecond, the new, shorter cable shaves about five milliseconds off of the transmission time for a computer-generated message, such as “Buy 50 billion yen now.”
The new cable, being built at a cost of $300 million, essentially will provide five milliseconds of what I can only term insider information to clients willing to pay to play on this gamed roulette wheel. Of course, insider information, like when Martha Stewart gets a phone call telling her to buy or sell a stock, is theoretically illegal. But in this case, somewhere in the lawless zone between the continental shelf and the British Isles, everything magically becomes copacetic, as if blessed by a transnational elite immunity.
The cable, called “Project Express,” is being built by Hibernia Atlantic, ostensibly a communications infrastructure company, whose chairman, Ken Peterson, is also CEO of Columbia Corporate Ventures of Vancouver, a director of the Washington Policy Center (a “think tank” and lobbying group for corporate and financial industry interests), and a director of American Capital Strategies, which is the largest US publicly traded private equity fund, specializing in funding corporate buyouts. Other corporate players, who Hibernia Atlantic coins “Express Partners,” will also have access to this inside track—at about 50 times the going cable message rate. Financed primarily financed by the China-based Huawei Marine Networks, Project Express promises to rewrite the rules for international trade. If this insider information is indeed legal, then the market would dictate that everyone who wants to stay in the game would have to pay Project Express tolls in order to play. No doubt other fast cables will soon sprout their tentacles across the ocean, in an ever growing web.
This social waste of spending $300 million to build what is essentially a redundant, albeit infinitesimally quicker, fiber-optic cable raises a plethora of questions. The whole notion of Project Express exposes the reality that financial companies do not “make” money in any real sense of the word “make,” but instead get rich simply by “taking” money that already exists on someone else’s balance sheet, using whatever advantages a gamed system offers.
Hence, spending $300 million to game the system, essentially to know what number the roulette ball will land on while your opponents still sees nothing but a spinning wheel, is a legitimate investment in a global trading system where capital moves as fast as lightning. Counting cards will get you busted in Vegas or Atlantic City, but not in the global currency market where entire national economies rise and fall with the flash of light.
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Bronisław Komorowski emerged today with a relatively narrow lead from the first round of voting to elect Poland’s president.
One exit poll published after polling stations closed at 8pm CET put Komorowski on 40.7%, just five points ahead of Jarosław Kaczyński, his nearest rival in a ten-man field. Another opinion poll, however, gives Komorowski 45.7%, with Kaczyński trailing on 33.2%.
Whichever poll proves more accurate, the result marks a major success for the Kaczyński campaign team, as he had trailed behind Komorowski in opinion polls by up to 18 points for much of the campaign.
There had been indications of a late surge in support for Kaczyński, the brother of the previous president, Lech Kaczyński, whose death in a plane crash in Russia on 10 April precipitated the elections.
Nonetheless, some polls had suggested that Komorowski remained within reach of a first-round victory.
Komorowski entered voting day with two principal advantages: he represents the governing coalition party, the centre-right Civic Platform (PO), and he has been acting president since 10 April, when a plane carrying President Lech Kaczyński crashed, killing scores of leading figures in Poland’s public life.
Komorowski, who became acting president in his capacity as speaker of parliament, also had the benefit of having started campaigning before Lech Kaczyński’s death, in anticipation of presidential elections in the autumn.
The polls suggest that Jarosław Kaczyński has largely managed to overcome these advantages. He has benefited from public sympathy in the wake of the crash. But he has also changed style, easing the abrasive rhetoric and tough persona associated with both Kaczyński brothers and with the party Jarosław leads, the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party.
Jarosław attributes this change in tenor to the impact of the crash. Other observers see in it an attempt to reach out to attract voters previously wary of the Kaczyński brothers and the PiS’s brand of conservative politics. His softening in tone towards Russia and Germany also echoes one of the major features of the foreign policy adopted by the PiS.
The run-off will be in two weeks’ time, on 4 July.
Komorowski can expect to gain some votes from liberals and Poland’s small electorate of left voters. However, there is speculation that the start of the July holiday season may benefit Kaczyński, whose supporters are typically less wealthy.
The presidency is a constitutional, rather than an executive, position, but the president can exercise his powers – such as the right to veto legislation – to have a significant influence on the political scene. Komorowski has promised to be less activist in the role, if elected, than Lech Kaczyński was.
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UN MONDE EN TOC
GENRE Literary Non-Fiction, LANGUAGE French
Introduced by Francesca Barrie
RINNY GREMAUD was born in Busan in South Korea, in 1977. As a young girl, she and her mother moved to Switzerland, and she now lives in Lausanne and works as a journalist. In a World of Tat is her first book.
PHOTO © Eddy Mottaz
Around the world via five of the globe’s most colossal shopping malls, from the iconic West Edmonton Mall in Canada, to the new young pretender malls in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai and Casablanca, Rinny Gremaud explores five capitalist utopias (or dystopias), temples to globalisation and consumerism, meeting the people who manage them, the people who clean them – and the shoppers who spend their days in them.
In an age where you can order a Starbucks “Caramel Latte Double Espresso Grande” wherever you happen to be on the planet, Gremaud embarks on a very personal journey through these “cities within cities”. She spent a month living in five vast shopping complexes, where you can eat, sleep, swim, ski, and take selfies in front of enormous water fountains, ice statues, aquariums, and even see a professional mermaid. These malls vie to be the biggest, the busiest, the best, the most spectacular, attracting millions of tourists every year.
Taking an ironic and probing approach to these creations that “anaesthetise the middle classes across the world”, Gremaud starts in the 1980s classic West Edmonton Mall, taking in its premium attractions as well as lesser visited, dusty corners. She meets its characters: a woman who frequents the mall every single day of the year, and a Lebanese geologist who relocated his gem and fossil store from the town centre in the 1980s to the Mall, and whose wares include a real triceratops horn.
As her journey progresses, Gremaud investigates the surrounding communities and economies as well as the malls themselves, and tries to place them in their local context. In Edmonton, the mall acts as a major tourist lure, as well as an annual pilgrimage spot for families flocking from isolated areas to stock up for the year. In Casablanca, the luxury price tags and enforced dress code are deeply at odds with the shanty towns that surround the mall, and even middle-class locals can only afford to window shop. She also delves into the history of these places, and the often-humble origins of the founders of these modern market towns made of glass and concrete.
Gremaud is a clear-eyed and sensitive guide, bringing the journey to life with her own reflections and impressions in evocative, lucid prose. She is quick to highlight the ironies and absurdities she encounters, including the follies and wilful denial of investors and corporate consultants, with their growth strategies and improbably inflated visitor numbers – despite unfilled units, and the growing threat of online shopping. She doesn’t emerge unscathed from her month in these sterile, sometimes soul-eroding spaces. At several points, she is left disconsolate, as the stark realities of global inequality are made visible, most notably in Dubai, with its juxtaposition of dazzling luxury and the plight of the workers imported to sustain it.
This original travel book grapples with our rapid evolution into a world of consumers, and our bottomless desire to shop – and what this reveals about us.
This book would be a pleasure to translate thanks to Gremaud’s personal investment in this unusual – somewhat crazy – journey that tells us as much about human nature and the forces of globalization as the malls themselves. Her voice brings a literary sensibility to this piece of travel writing.
TITLE Un monde en toc
PUBLISHER Seuil, Paris
PUBLICATION DATE March 2018
TRANSLATION RIGHTS Martine Heissat, email@example.com
“And so designer labels and luxury cosmetics act as lodestars – beacons in a sea of commodities, for those who no longer belong anywhere.”
Francesca Barrie works as an editor at Wellcome Collection in London and has translated two graphic novels from French – Notes on a Thesis by Tiphanie Rivière, shortlisted for the Translation Association First Translation Prize, and Freedom Hospital by Hamid Sulaiman. Her other languages are Italian and Welsh.
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MEDEIROS-SOUZA, Patrícia; SANTOS-NETO, Leopoldo Luiz dos; KUSANO, Liana Tieko Evangelista and PEREIRA, Maurício Gomes. Diagnosis and control of polypharmacy in the elderly. Rev. Saúde Pública [online]. 2007, vol.41, n.6, pp.1049-1053. Epub Nov 01, 2007. ISSN 1518-8787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0034-89102006005000050.
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The project will raise awareness among local and regional authorities and citizens on the presence of the inland port as a positive asset. National and European organisations must also be aware of the economic and environmental performance of inland ports. Ports will be encouraged to make further efforts to reduce their impact on the city in terms of land use, noise and pollution. Strategies will also be jointly developed, for the sustainable development of inland ports, that are acceptable for citizens and authorities. This means that port development must be sustainable, physically integrated in the urban fabric and that all stakeholders (citizens, local and regional authorities) must be involved.
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The Knysna Oyster Festival is a household name in South Africa. But just how did the Festival start, and why is it called the Knysna Oyster Festival?
It all started as the “Winter Festival” in 1983 to bring business to town during the quiet winter period, and since then it has grown to a 10-day Festival that attracts thousands of people to Knysna.
FROM WINTER FESTIVAL TO OYSTER FESTIVAL
Oyster farming started in the Knysna lagoon at the beginning of the 80’s and it was not long before it was named “The Knysna Oyster Festival”, about 30 years ago.
The cultivated oysters were popular with locals and visitors alike, but the operation was never really viable financially, socially, or environmentally. Conditions in the lagoon were not exactly suitable for oyster farming and oyster beds often silted up, and when permits were not renewed in 2010, all cultivated oysters were removed from the lagoon.
There may not be any oysters in the Knysna lagoon anymore, but the coastline around Knysna have ample coastal oysters – born and bred in the Knysna area! “Salty, sweet, buttery, briny” – there are many ways to describe an oyster. Tasting one can be a life changing experience – you either order another 12 immediately, or you decide “never again”. In Knysna, and certainly at the Knysna Oyster Festival, we always order “12 more please”! It is a mecca for oyster lovers – these days they come with delectable toppings – oyster ceviche, Asian oysters, Sushi oysters, Panko fried oysters – gourmet oysters for the oyster gourmands!
And cultivated oysters? They are still available, and most are brought in from Port Elizabeth and Agulhas. Thousands of oysters are sold during the Knysna Oyster Festival and cultivated oysters are key to ensure the sustainability of the wild oysters along our coastline.
So, when in Knysna, keep on trying both. And celebrate the KNYSNA OYSTER FESTIVAL in all its glory, whether its sport with oysters on the side, or oysters with sport on the side! Or even – heaven forbid – no oysters! We’re joking! Maybe.. 😊
See you in Knysna in July!
The 2022 Festival
1 – 10 July
Cycle – Trail Running – Running – Golf – Art – Fun Activities
Schedule of events – www.knysnaoysterfestival.co.za
Facebook: @KnysnaOysterFestival Instagram: @knysnaoysterfestival Twitter: @oysterfestival
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Amy Poehler, Sarah Silverman, and Maya Rudolph
In a 2014 video directed by Adam McKay, three cartoon alpacas — voiced by Poehler, Silverman, and Rudolph — help explain income inequality in the United States. The video, released by We the Economy, features the alpacas entering the workforce after graduation. The alpaca whose father works at the lollipop company is given a six-figure management position, while the other two are told there aren't job opportunities for them with the company — at least, not in their country.
"The rich pay lower tax rates than ever, but minimum wage hasn't kept up with inflation," Poehler's alpaca says in the video. The clip also features a lollipop explaining how the U.S. economy has changed since the 1970s — check it out for yourself, above.
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γ-Secretase proteolyzes a variety of membrane-associated fragments derived from type I integral membrane proteins, including the amyloid β-protein precursor, involved in Alzheimers disease, and the Notch receptor, critical for cellular differentiation. This protease is composed of four integral membrane proteins: presenilin, nicastrin, Aph-1 and Pen-2. Assembly of these four components leads to presenilin autoproteolysis into two subunits, each of which contributes one aspartate to the active site of an aspartyl protease. The protease contains an initial docking site for substrate, where it binds prior to passing between the two presenilin subunits to the internal water-containing active site. The extracellular region of nicastrin also interacts with the N-terminus of the substrate as an essential step in substrate recognition and processing. Modulation of APP processing without interfering with Notch signaling is an important therapeutic goal, and allosteric sites on the protease allow such selective modulation. A better structural and mechanistic understanding of γ-secretase should ultimately allow structure-based design of more potent and selective modulators.
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There has always been an interplay between services and expectations; everybody wants to give the best service they can and with it, expectations always grow. When combined with developing better techniques and understanding the fundamentals, a feedback loop is created. This can be seen throughout almost every industry, and with orthodontic care, it certainly has made itself known.
Orthodontic treatment simply means the moving of teeth. It was first referred to in Greek medical manuals that suggested finger pressure over many hours could change tooth location, which is technically true, but it’s pretty inefficient. This has led to lots of tools and gadgets to apply that pressure constantly.
Celebrity standards setting the curve
In the 60s, The Beatles may have been an icon but not for their teeth. Teeth just were not the priority as the free love countercultures defined celebrity! The change may have been gradual, but as pearly whites that were straight and symmetrical became signs of status, it was celebrities that led the way. By the 90s, it was obvious that you could not get away as a celebrity without near-perfect teeth. Some may have taken it one step too far with phosphorescent standards of boy bands and Simon Cowell.
2020’s standards of dentistry amongst celebrities have levelled off albeit at the very top end of what is possible with a healthy dose of photoshop and video editing to boot. Many of these dental goals have moved down to the rest of society, leading people to wonder what they can do to improve the appearance of their teeth; whitening became part of their normal routines, and more adults considered an orthodontist Liverpool more than ever.
Covert treatment options
One of the biggest factors limiting adult orthodontic care, particularly when focused on static goals, is the appearance of wearing braces. Considered infantile and unflattering, many patients simply do not wish to or cannot afford to go through the process of reducing appearance temporarily to reach and assist goals. The obligations of adult life are simply not as flexible as those of high school or full-time education.
Changes in orthodontic practice
Over the same time period from the 60s to today, there has been a big shift in tools from heavy-handed headgear to lighter and thinner braces, with bulky steel archwires being superseded with thin titanium-nickel alloy. With the length of treatments sinking, orthodontic treatment extending more than 2 years was very rare, but historically it was not unheard of.
NHS treatment: then vs. now
It can be easy to forget that the NHS was founded in the late 1940s, and it took a long time to establish the services that many have come to take for granted today. Dentistry was one of the later services; therefore, it is entirely possible for an adult in the 1960s, depending on their economic background, to be completely denied dental care at the most critical stages of their life.
In the more general improvement and, therefore, higher expectations of tooth alignment, there is an expectation of having access to good quality dental care regardless of economic background throughout childhood.
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Who would have thought a long time ago in a warehouse somewhere in Van Nuys, California the title sequence to the 1977’s Star Wars: A New Hope which was painstakingly hand-crafted by title designer Dan Perri, would provide the total premise for Rogue One nearly 40 years later, or has Gareth Edwards said “This film is born out of a crawl. The thing that inspired this movie was a crawl and what was written in that,”
“It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
During the battle, Rebel spies managed to steal secret plans to the Empire’s ultimate weapon, the DEATH STAR, an armored space station with enough power to destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire’s sinister agents, Princess Leia races home aboard her starship, custodian of the stolen plans that can save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy….”
It was this title sequence crawl that set the tone of that 1977 film, as well as introduce audiences to the fantastic world envisioned by George (The Maker) Lucas, it certainly operates as a classic title sequence. But the Star Wars main title sequence is so much more than that. It has simultaneously become one of the most iconic pieces of film branding ever created and one of the most indelible moments in all of cinema. In 1977 it was, quite simply, unlike anything our planet had ever seen..and one which gave John Knoll his idea for Rogue One 35 years later,
Knoll’s idea for Rogue One was borne from contemplating the opening crawls of the Star Wars films. The text for the original trilogy which had been painstakingly shot on film with a camera dolly system; the monumental crawls for the prequel trilogy were personally made by him, entirely digitally, on his own computer. “Just a fun project to tackle,” he says .) But this got him thinking about those never-seen covert spies, Knoll began conceiving of a story that, compared to the sprawling space opera of the trilogy films, would be fast, focused, gritty and jam-packed with the ‘WAR’ in Star Wars.
Who wouldn’t be inspired by this opening sequence as it starts after a thunderous Twentieth Century Fox fanfare and Lucasfilm logo, the movie then begins with a phrase suitable for any tale of Good Vs Evil: ”A long time ago…” The Lucasfilm text was tinted light blue in order to make the subsequent main title reveal all the more dramatic. Fade out and let the magic begin. Composer John Williams’ triumphant overture blasts the title card into frame and off to infinity as the crawl rolls into view…Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic Empire.
George Lucas describes the opening titles in his screenplay:
A vast sea of stars serves as the backdrop for the main title.
War drums echo through the heavens as a roll up slowly crawls into infinity.
The typography was inspired by sci-fi serials like Buck Rogers, highlighting certain names and places in all caps to emphasize their importance to the narrative. Like the rest of the Lucas’s script, this text went through countless iterations before it could be put to film. Fox initially opposed the idea of an opening crawl altogether, suggesting that a narrator could convey the same information more effectively, but the studio relented after Lucas’s friend, filmmaker Brian De Palma, helped the writer/director rewrite and streamline the clunky exposition.
But lets not forget that oh-so-recognizable Star Wars logo? The classic branding loomed large not just in the film’s opening titles, but on posters, t-shirts, lunch boxes, and every imaginable type of merchandise. Designed by artist Suzy Rice under the direction of Lucas, the logotype was then adapted for use in the opening. Rice’s logo design, originally created for the film’s studio presentation brochure and other print materials, was ultimately chosen for the movie’s main title sequence after being revised by ILM’s Joe Johnston. After Star Wars hit theatres though, Rice’s logo design became standard on nearly all merchandise and marketing materials.
All these elements combined for us fans experiencing those opening moments of Star Wars was like finding a key in our childhood, unlocking a hidden door to our future creativity and what can be achieved.
But beyond all my Star Wars nostalgia, beyond all the hype, that original Star Wars opening is quite simply great filmmaking. It’s a potent combination of music, typography, and sheer cinematic scale. As awesome as those screen-sized titles first appear, they are quickly dwarfed — both on-screen and in our imaginations — by the galaxy that was about to unfold, both then and now with Rogue One.
Inspired by Union Pacific (1939)
Reference Material : Art of the Title Sequence
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Official Romanian Version of December Events
This telegram from the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sent on December 19, comes two days after the shooting of demonstrators in Timisoara and informs Romanian ambassadors abroad of the government's official position on the crisis and how they should handle questions from their foreign hosts about the "so-called events" taking place in their country. Ambassadors were instructed to deny any knowledge of what happened at Timisoara and to strongly emphasize the principle of state sovereignty as a warning against foreign intervention in Romanian domestic affairs. This stance reflected the paranoia of Nicolae Ceausescu's government as well as its increasingly isolated position in the region. In an attempt to downplay the situation, Ceausescu had ostentatiously left for a state visit to Iran on December 18 to underscore his lack of concern with the unfolding events. But the official information embargo ended up heightening the frenzy of speculation already building in the international press, and leaving foreign governments scrambling for clues on how to react to developments in this last bastion of communist dictatorship in the region.
Aurel Duma to Romanian Embassies, telegram, 19 December 1989, trans. Mircea Munteanu, Cold War International History Project, Documents and Papers, CWIHP (accessed May 14, 2008).
Telegram from the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Bucharest) to all Embassies
19 December 1989
Cde. Chief of Mission,
In case you are asked during the exercise of your diplomatic attributes (we repeat: only in case you are asked) about the so-called events taking place in Timisoara, reiterate, with all clarity, that you have no knowledge of such events. After this short answer, and without allowing you to be drawn into a prolonged discussion, resolutely present the following:
We strongly reject any attempts to intervene in the internal affairs of S.R. Romania, a free and independent state. [We reject] any attempt to ignore the fundamental attributes of our national independence and sovereignty, any attempt at [harming] the security interests of our country, of violating its laws. The Romanian [government] will take strong actions against any such attempts, against any actions meant to provoke or cause confusion, [actions] initiated by reactionary circles, anti-Romanian circles, foreign special services and espionage organizations. The [Romanian] socialist state, our society, will not tolerate under any circumstances a violation of its vital interests, of the Constitution, and will take [any] necessary action to maintain the strict following of the letter of the law, the rule of law, without which the normal operation of all spheres of society would be impossible. No one, no matter who he is, is allowed to break the laws of the country without suffering the consequences of his actions.
Instruct all members of the mission to act in conformity with the above instructions. Inform [the Minister of Foreign Affairs] immediately of any discussions on this topic.
Aurel Duma [Secretary of State, MFA]
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(ORDO NEWS) — In China, archaeologists have published the results of the next stage of excavations, which are being carried out at the site of the historical monument of Wadian. Remains of ritual sacrifices from the early Xia Dynasty and an unusual ceremonial structure have been found there.
According to CGTN, the finds were made during archaeological research at the Wadian site in Yuzhou, Henan province in central China. There is a large sacred complex here, which, presumably, was built around 2000 BC.
Earlier, archaeologists unearthed the remains of large ritual buildings, according to which they managed to date the complex itself.
Approximately 4,000 years ago, a decisive period began in the formation and development of the early Chinese state.
The Xia dynasty ruled in those days, and the city of Wadian was its capital. It was probably one of the largest and most important political, cultural and economic centers in the region.
New finds were made on the northwestern terrace of the settlement. Archaeologists have discovered a large rammed earth structure of a very unusual shape.
Its length along the north-south axis is 31 meters, along the west-east axis – 26 meters. The researchers note that it has a zigzag shape and covers an area of about 800 square meters.
At the base of this strange object, archaeologists unearthed the remains of rich sacrifices, in particular the skeletons of various animals, as well as numerous mussel shells. Perhaps these shells are the remains of one or more feasts that were associated with ritual ceremonies held here.
The Wadian archaeological site was discovered in 1979. It covers an area of about one square kilometer. The study of the history of its settlements is part of a large-scale project to study the origin of the entire Chinese civilization.
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Why am I not seeing results?
One of the most common questions I get asked is 'why am I not seeing results?'. I totally understand, because feeling like you are getting nowhere can be SO frustrating, especially when you feel like you are doing everything right. But more often than not, I see people self-sabotaging their results without even realising it. So, here are the most common ways you may be standing in your own way when it comes to achieving your goals.
- Adherence: Are you actually adhering to your plan? Not just on weekdays, but on weekends too? If you're 'writing off' your weekends, eating out frequently, or deviating from your plan often, then this is probably why you're not seeing results. Adherence is number 1 when it comes to achieving your goals, so make sure you have this in check before you assume that you're plateauing or that your plan isn't working.
- Sleep and recovery: These are SO underrated when it comes to achieving your health and fitness goals. If you're not getting enough sleep, your hunger hormones, mood, training intensity, ability to recover, mental health, and immunity are compromised. Start prioritising your sleep and recovery as much as you do your training and nutrition, and you will see big improvements.
- Stress levels: This is a big one. Stress impacts a lot of things, and can make us retain a lot of water and feel more inflamed. If you're not seeing a drop on the scale, this could be why. Start being proactive with your stress management, and make time for things you enjoy.
- Nutrition quality: It's one thing to hit your macros, but another to make sure you are getting enough micronutrients as well. Be sure to eat enough fruits and veggies, as well as hitting your protein and overall calorie target.
- Movement: Simply moving more can be a great way to increase your energy expenditure throughout the day. This is why I love aiming for a step target! Before adding in excessive cardio or more training sessions, make sure you simply moving enough first and hitting a consistent step target.
- Time: This is the biggest one of all. Make sure you actually give yourself enough time to see results! It won't happen overnight, so make sure you are staying consistent for at least 2-3 weeks before you look at making adjustments.
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If you are like a lot of people online, you are skeptical about whether or not these photographs below are of real eyes. It almost looks like detailed artwork created with some sort of colored powder, like makeup maybe. However, I can assure you these are real eyes. If you click over into this post featuring the eye photography of Suren Manvelyan, you’ll see that although it’s taken from a different perspective, this is what our eyes actually look like. It’s truly spectacular. It’s hard to believe that one small part of our body is full of so much magic and mystery.
It turns out that they eyes in the collection below called Eyes That Tell Stories aren’t just any eyes. They are the eyes of famous people including a well-known chef, an Olympic swimmer, a filmmaker and a popular radio DJ. This exhibition is by the Singapore Eye Research Institute to create awareness about eye research. Did you know that every minute a child goes blind? 80% of all blindness is avoidable.
You can see more of these photographs and get the names of the famous people on Behance, you can learn more about this project on the Singapore Eye Research Institute website, and there are even more interesting eye photos on the Eyes That Tell Stories flickr. If you only glance quickly, these photographs below look very similar. If you take a closer look though, you’ll see they are as different and unique as the people they belong to. It makes me want to get a magnifying glass and explore my own eyes.
This image isn’t part of the collection, but it just so cool. I found this on Maniac World.
Via: [This Is Colossal]
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Odessa has a population of 90,943 and is located in Ector county.
For Texas residents, the average tuition for all Odessa engineering schools for the 2009 - 2010 school year was $2,346.00. For non-residents, the average tuition for Odessa engineering schools was $6,450.00.
Books and supplies for engineering schools in Odessa cost an average of $1,155.00. Students living on campus at engineering schools in Odessa paid an average of $4,554.00 for room and board during the 2009 - 2010 school year. Students living at home incurred costs of $3,104.00. Students have a choice of one engineering college in Odessa to attend. 0 students were reported to have graduated from engineering programs in Odessa in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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An Easy Way to Make Your Life Better
At the start of a New Year we usually find ourselves taking stock of life and, perhaps, making a few resolutions. Most likely, a couple of days later, the promises are ignored and we tell ourselves we will do better ‘next year’.
Too often, when making our resolutions, we fail to take into consideration the actual realities of our lifestyle and commitments. We tend towards ‘goals’ rather than ‘needs’.
Here are three ways to try a different approach in 2019.
Do something you’ve never done before
It could be as simple as learning a party trick that will impress all generations at a family gathering. The focus should be on something that gives you pleasure and a degree of personal satisfaction. It does not have to be as radical as Jenny Murphy who began an undergraduate degree at Carleton University at 72 years of age but her choice does illustrate that anything is possible. She was one of the seniors featured in last year’s Show a Little Heart video competition that examined interactions between different generations and challenged some of the stereotypes associated with getting old. To see Jenny’s story, click here.
Look for a new hobby
Often hobbies are regarded as a solitary task but there are lots of activities that are much more fun when they become shared activities. For example, in Ennismore, Ontario every Monday afternoon, seniors meet to take part in the town’s knitting and crochet club. It was grown from a few friends into a year-round event that has two significant outcomes. Firstly, it is an important social gathering for the local seniors. Organizer Marylyn Gerhardt affectionately describes the group as a family. Secondly, the clothes, toys and blankets made by the seniors are distributed to people who are less fortunate during the Holiday Season. To view the story of the knitting group, click here.
According to author Michael Pollan: High-quality food is better for your health. This simple message is universally understood but it’s not always easy to follow, particularly for seniors.
All of us benefit when our daily routine includes a good diet. For breakfast, that should involve protein and fibre. According to the Heart to Home Meals consultant dietitian, Andrea Olynyk, a boiled egg, a piece of wholegrain toast and a half cup of raspberries is a combination that will satisfy your hunger and keep your digestion moving.
Between meals it is easy to snack on junk, if it is readily available, therefore adopt the mantra:
see no evil, eat no evil. Instead, stock up with healthy snacks that can satisfy your cravings and make you feel better about doing it.
And as with eating, it is a similar story with drinking. Water covers 71% percent of the earth’s surface and the human body is 55-75% water. It is something we need every day. Try to drink between 1.5-2 litres a day. It may be tasteless but it matters.
Improving your diet is not an easy or quick fix and Andrea concedes there will be setbacks but she stresses the goal is a healthy lifestyle where you feel good about yourself. So, while there’s no magic solution, success is possible through a lot of minor alterations over a long period.
A lot of people will be starting 2019 thinking about losing weight and it is easy to latch on to the latest diet fad. Maybe the one being suggested by a celebrity, or a friend or someone at the grocery store who mentioned it in passing as you were waiting at the checkout. But remember: Fads don’t work and there is no quick fix.
Instead, look at simple ways to improve your health by making some small alterations to your lifestyle. This could include decreasing consumption of certain foods and perhaps increasing your exercise routine. Both can make a difference and assist you towards a memorable 2019 with family and friends.
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WAGON TRAIN TO OREGON 1846
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The branch of the Boone family that emigrated to Oregon was led by Daniel's Grandson, Alphonso Boone. Moving West seems to have run in the family, as Alphonso "westerned" at least three times in his life. In 1841, he set up shop in Independence, MO. outfitting fur traders and caravans on the Sante Fe Trail. From 1843 to 1845 he cashed in on a new source of business; emigrants bound for Oregon and California. in 1846 he headed West with 7 of his children, his Sister, Panthea Boone Boggs and her Husband, Liburn W. Boggs, former Govenor of Missouri.
(BOGGS, Lilburn W.: m'd BOONE, Panthea; brother-in-law of Alphonso Boone; served as gov of MO; started on Southern Route at Imlay with Thornton but turned around in September and went on to CA; were not part of the Donner party as is stated in at least one reference BONNEY, Family: on Bancroft Oregon list for 1846; the family was actually part of the 1845 emigration and cutoff for CA, they then moved up into Oregon in 1846)
The Boones with their eleven wagons joined a California bound wagon train which they expected to stay with to Fort Hall. Lilburn Boggs wanted to be the captain of the train, but he lost the election by a landslide to one, William H. Russell.
(BOONE, Chloe Donnely: m'd 1848 CURRY, George Law; d/o Alphonso Boone; taught school the first winter; lived in Oregon City after marriage BOONE, George Luther (1826- ): did not emigrate with family in 1846, came to OR in 1848)
(BOONE, Jesse Van Bibber (1824-1872): m'd 1851 FUDGE, Elizabeth; s/o Alphonso Boone; operated ferry established by his father until his death)
(BOONE, Mary Elizabeth: m'd NORRIS, Thomas; d/o Alphonso Boone BOONE, Panthea: m'd BOGGS, Lilburn W.; d/o Jesse Boone, sister of Alphonso; started, with husband, on Southern Route at Imlay but they turned around in mid September and went on to CA; were not part of the Donner party as stated in at least one reference)
(BOSWORTH, John H.: m'd LOONEY, Susan)
On August 8th at Fort Hall the Boones met a man promoting a new route, this one leading to Oregon's Willamette Valley. Boone decided to take a chance on the new road known as the Southern route or the Applegate Trail. This proved to be a mistake. The Indians were extremely hostile to the overlanders.
As winter set in and threatened to strand the travelers, the emigrants began throwing away everything they could to lighten their wagons. They cached everything of value in hope of returning later but the Indians dug up and stole everything but a few items of clothing. The Boone's lost everything that they couldn't carry out including a compass and surveying instruments belonging to Daniel Boone.
It was Christmas time when the Boones finally reached the settlements in the Willamette Valley. The Boones established a ferry on an old Indian trail.
When word of the gold strikes in California reached Oregon in 1848, Alphonso and his boys headed South to make their fortune in the gold fields.
On Feb. 1, 1850, Alphonso died at Long Bar's of an illness he contracted in the gold fields. The Ferry established by the Boones operated for 107 years, being shut down in 1954.
BOGGS, Lilburn W.: m'd BOONE, Panthea; brother-in-law of Alphonso Boone; (served as Gov. of MO;) cutoff for CA and became part of Donner Party:
BOONE, Alphonso D. (1796-1849): m'd 1822 BOONE, Nancy Linville; d/o Jesse and Chloe (VanBibber) Boone; g-grandson of Daniel and Rebecca (Bryan) Boone;
"when they reached the Cow Creek Canyon the family cached their goods (including Daniel Boone's compass and surveying instruments) and waded about twelve miles through the water and over big boulders. The emigrants went back the next spring but the Indians had found the things cached and there was nothing left. They packed one oxen with clothing and got into the Willamette Valley at the crossing of Mary's river on Christmas day. "; went to CA mines in 1849 and drowned in Feather River Canyon, CA 28 Nov 1849; wife had died (1838) in MO as had five children; established Boone's Ferry which continued to run for 107 years (it was taken out of service in 1954 when a bridge was built across the Willamette).
BOONE, Chloe Donnely: m'd 1848 CURRY, George Law; d/o Alphonso Boone; taught school the first winter; lived in Oregon City after marriage.
BOONE, George Luther (1826- ): did not emigrate with family in 1846, came to OR in 1848
BOONE, James C.:
BOONE, Jesse Van (1824-1872): m'd 1851 , Elizabeth; s/o Alphonso Boone; operated ferry established by his father until his death.
BOONE, Mary Elizabeth: m'd NORRIS, Thomas; d/o Alphonso Boone
BOONE, Panthea: m'd BOGGS, Lilburn W.; d/o Jesse Boone, sister of Alphonso; accompanied husband to CA and became part of Donner Party.
BOSWORTH, John H.: m'd LOONEY, Susan
BOUNDS, Amanda (1833-aft 1880 ): m'd 1850 MCCARTY, Edward Wilburn (1827-1895) BOUNDS, Eliza Ann (1840- ): *SR: BOUNDS, James M. (1844-aft 1880 ):
BOUNDS, John Armstrong (1837-1915): m1. 1858 MCBRIDE, Nancy Jane (1839-1870); m2. 1872 HOWELL, Nancy Ann (1852-1939)
BOUNDS, John Bird (1800-1846): died on trail 13 Nov 1846, (c1801 -1869): m1. 1850 LOVELADY, Elizabeth; m2. BRINK, Martha Ann (widow of Thomas McBride); John was a brother of Amanda Mary Bounds
BOUNDS, John Bird: m'd 1850 LOVELADY, Sarah
BOUNDS, Jesse L. (1829- ): m'd 1853 , Sarah Jane
BOUNDS, Nancy: m'd LINVILLE, Harrison
BOUNDS, Sarah E. (1842- ): m'd 1856 LEWIS, Jesse B.
BOUNDS, Thomas L. (1824- ): m'd 1852 , Elizabeth
VAN BIBBER, Lazarus (1806-1896): m'd , Martha
NOTE: They were on the Southern Emigrant Route, now commonly known as the Applegate Trail. BOTH ARE BURIED IN THE KING'S VALLEY CEMETERY, BENTON CO. OREGON.
ZUMWALT, Abigail (1831-1853): d/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Adam F. (c1826-1856): s/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Andrew Rev (1789-1867).: m'd FRAZIER, Elizabeth; settled in Polk Co; deacon in the Methodist church
ZUMWALT, Andrew Jackson (1845-1912): s/o Isaac and Sarah (Crow) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Commodore Perry (1842-1910): s/o Isaac and Sarah (Crow) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Isaac (1815-1891): m'd 1837 CROW, Sarah; s/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Isaac K. (1842- ): s/o John M. and Lucinda (Kent) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Jerome (1833-1894): s/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, John Andrew (1840- ): s/o John M. and Lucinda (Kent) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, John Martin (1817-1858): m'd KENT, Lucinda; s/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Lewis Sande (1843-1927): s/o Isaac and Sarah (Crow) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Mary Lucinda (1835-1903): d/o Solomon and Lucinda (Kent) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Matilda Jane (1840-1877): d/o Isaac and Sarah (Crow) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Nancy Ann (1828-1901): d/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Sarah A. (1838-1852): d/o John M. and Lucinda (Kent) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Thomas M. (1845-1879): s/o John M. and Lucinda (Kent) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, Thomas Rhodes (c1824-c1851): s/o Andrew and Elizabeth (Frazier) Zumwalt
ZUMWALT, William Henry (1838-c1909): s/o Isaac and Sarah (Crow) Zumwalt
THE DISCOVERY OF ALPHONSO BOONE:
SON OF CHLOE VAN BIBBER AND JESSE BRYAN BOONE,
On Sept. 7, 2002 the gravesite of Alphonso Boone received a proper tombstone brought about by the efforts of many caring relatives and friends. Alphonso died in 1850, of the fever, at Long's Bar on the Feather River near Oroville, California while prospecting for gold with his sons.
One hundred and fifty years later the President of the Wilsonville-Boone's Ferry Historical Society, John Smith, in a telephone call to the Historian, Jim Lenhoff of Butte County, was told there was a small cemetery with 5 gravesites but only 4 grave markers.
With research done at the Oregon Historical Research Library it was determined the 5th gravesite was Alphonso as described by two of his sons in letters written after they had returned to Oregon.
Sixteen friends and three generations of grandchildren of Alphonso participated in the ceremony held up in the golden hills above Feather River. The dedication was climaxed by sharing "Dried Apple Fruitcake" a family recipe brought over the Oregon Trail by Alphonso's daughter, Mary Boone Norris.
Source: Arlene Curry Buschert -- 2nd great granddaughter of Alphonso Boone.
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Introduction: In high-income countries, vomiting often impedes oral rehydration therapy, leading to intravenous rehydration fluid administration to children with acute gastroenteritis. Ondansetron administration reduces vomiting and intravenous fluid administration in this population. We evaluated whether ondansetron is similarly effective when employed in Pakistan. Methods: In this 2-hospital, double-blind, placebo-controlled, emergency department-based, randomized trial, we recruited children aged 0·5 to 5·0 years, without dehydration, who had diarrhea and 1 episode of vomiting within 4 hours of arrival. Patients were randomly assigned (1:1), via an internet-based randomization service, using a stratified, variable block randomization scheme, to receive a single dose of oral ondansetron or placebo. The primary endpoint was intravenous rehydration (administration of 20 ml/kg over 4 hours of an isotonic fluid) within 72 hours of randomization. All randomized children were analysed. Results: From July 3, 2014, to January 12, 2017, 626 children were randomized. Intravenous rehydration was provided to 10.8% (34/314) and 10.3% (27/312) of children administered placebo and ondansetron, respectively (OR: 0.946; 95% CI: 0.564, 1.587; P=0.834). A regression model fitted with treatment group and adjusted for antiemetic administration and vomiting frequency in the preceding 24 hours, yielded similar results; OR=0.952; 95% CI: 0.570, 1.589; P=0.850. There was no evidence of interaction between treatment group and age (P=0.974), 3 diarrheal stools in the preceding 24 hours (P=0.983) or 3 vomits in the preceding 24 hours (P=0.554). During the 4-hour study observation period, 24.0% (75/314) and 19.6% (61/312) of children in the placebo and ondansetron groups vomited, respectively; OR: 0.774; 95%CI: 0.528, 1.133; P=0.187. Conclusion: Ondansetron administration did not significantly reduce intravenous rehydration use, suggesting that in children without dehydration, ondansetron administration does not significantly alter the disease course and should not be administered to this group of children.
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Nagahama was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Sengoku period. It was his first castle and its town. During the Edo period, it became the post town of Hokurikudo that connects Nakasendo and the side of sea of Japan.
There are many traditional buildings that is still used for shops, restaurants and cafe. It offers you the walking around the Edo period.
Nagahama Castle is located east side of Lake Biwa. It was built Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1573. This castle was the first land for Hideyoshi given by Nobunaga. He spend three to four years to built this castle. Castle used lots of stone walls, and there is a port so that ships could enter this castle directly. There is a reconstructed castle which built in 1983.
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In an earlier post in this series, we have mentioned a bit about SVG’s pitfall with old browsers and using Raphael.js to serve the graphic as an alternative solution. In this post we will take a look at this matter further.
The idea is simple, we will still be using SVG elements as the primary way to deliver graphics on our webpage, but at the same time we will also provide a fallback function so that it can be still rendered in unsupported browsers.
Recommended Reading: Scalable Vector Graphics series of posts
Sure, there are many paths we can take, but we will only look into to two solutions that I think is a better generic solution. So, let’s see how we can do it.
Using Object Element
Apart from putting it directly into an HTML document, there are several ways to embed SVG. For instance, if we store the graphic in
.svg file, we can use the
For the demonstration purpose, we have added an Apple logo with SVG to our webpage. However, the unsupported browsers will remain empty. To solve the problem, we can serve a Bitmap graphic, as follows;
<object data='images/apple.svg'> <img src='images/apple.png'/> </object>
This way, supported browsers will still be taking the
.svg, while the unsupported browsers will carry the Bitmap graphic. We have added the “png” mark below the Apple logo to track which graphic is being delivered.
However, as we have mentioned in the other post, Bitmap graphics are not as flexible and scalable as SVG. So, let’s take a look at another solution.
.svg file into a Raphael-supported format with this tool, ReadySetRaphael.js, and save the output in a separate
.js file; let’s name it
Include the Modernzr.js in the HTML document, like so:
And for the other two files,
svg.js, we will load it conditionally, only when it is viewed in unsupported browsers.
With Modernizr we can detect the browser capability, in this case we will detect whether the browser is capable of rendering SVG, and if it is not we will serve the script:
Now we only need to add the HTML markups, as follows;
<svg version="1.1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px" width="500px" height="280px" viewBox="0 0 500 280" enable-background="new 0 0 500 280" xml:space="preserve"> <path fill="#333333" d="M296.908,120.622c-8.77,6.201-13.158,13.676-13.158,22.41c0,10.458,5.425,18.479,16.262,24.076 c-2.908,8.435-7.122,15.764-12.65,22.009c-5.516,6.243-10.553,9.368-15.11,9.368c-2.147,0-5.075-0.718-8.794-2.133l-1.782-0.687 c-3.646-1.416-6.854-2.133-9.656-2.133c-2.641,0-5.535,0.555-8.679,1.665l-2.237,0.807l-2.818,1.154 c-2.218,0.884-4.468,1.326-6.725,1.326c-5.328,0-11.208-4.387-17.642-13.161c-9.273-12.567-13.905-26.264-13.905-41.085 c0-10.538,2.886-19.02,8.678-25.46c5.78-6.432,13.446-9.658,22.979-9.658c3.566,0,6.897,0.653,10,1.958l2.129,0.865l2.238,0.92 c1.992,0.84,3.601,1.264,4.825,1.264c1.569,0,3.316-0.364,5.231-1.094l2.929-1.151l2.19-0.804c3.483-1.262,7.34-1.896,11.555-1.896 C282.777,109.183,290.814,112.996,296.908,120.622z M273.238,82.575c0.108,1.344,0.167,2.378,0.167,3.102 c0,6.628-2.412,12.442-7.237,17.443c-4.823,5-10.438,7.494-16.837,7.494c-0.189-1.493-0.29-2.563-0.29-3.212 c0-5.635,2.239-10.924,6.726-15.864c4.482-4.939,9.671-7.838,15.575-8.678C271.754,82.787,272.395,82.696,273.238,82.575z"/> </svg> <div id="applelogo"></div>
In the code snippet above, we have added the SVG directly into the HTML document and a
div to accommodate the Raphael code. Once again to be able to notice which graphic is being delivered easily, we have also put some text below the logo inside the SVG element.
<text x="210" y="250"<This is SVG</text>
So, here is what we will get in the browsers.
To see it more clearly, you can view the demo from the links below and make sure you try it in different browsers; we would suggest IE8/7 and Google Chrome.
Alright, these are just a few examples, in particular cases they might not be that effective. But in general, these should do a favor to solve the problem on serving SVG in unsupported browsers. Lastly, if you have something to add that we’ve missed in this post, feel free to share it in the comment box below.
Thanks for reading this post and we hope you enjoyed it.
You may also be interesting in the following posts:
- Scalable Vector Graphics – The Basic
- Scalable Vector Graphics – Styling with CSS
- Scalable Vector Graphics – Working with Text
- Scalable Vector Graphics – Animation
- A Look into: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- Working with Text in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
- A Look Into: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Animation
- Styling Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) with CSS
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By Dennis McKenna Publisher/Editor in Chief Revolutions can be rough on existing institutions and their staffs. According to a recent study by Deloitte & Touche, as many as 450,000 U.S. banking jobs - and half of all bank branches - may disappear in the next decade as customers increasingly turn to electronic banking. The results of this study, as reported by the Associated Press, say a great deal about the challenge government leaders confront as they move their organizations into the digital age. Technology offers tremendous opportunities to redesign service-intensive public sector functions. The director of one large state data center, for example, noted that over 50 percent of all government services could be delivered through electronic kiosks or by home computer. This has profound implications for the size and shape of the government work force as it is currently deployed. Today about 10 percent of the U.S. work force - over 15 million people - work for a city, county or state government. Add federal employment and the total comes to more than 20 million people. The question then becomes: Do we as a society have the political and cultural fortitude to make the dramatic institutional changes required to honestly capitalize on the promise of today's information technology? For more than seven years, Government Technology has been reporting on the role of information technology in improving government. We have written more about the innovative and effective applications of computer and telecommunication technologies in state and local government than anyone. Even as recently as four years ago, computer systems were fine for automating existing processes. But high costs and hardware and software limitations made these systems incapable of supporting - much less instigating - radical redesigns in business processes. But computing capability continues to accelerate. Today for example, it is technically possible to build an enterprisewide justice/public safety information system linking city, county, state and federal departments - courts, law enforcement, corrections and probation - into a seamless networked system. The same could be done in human services, taxation, administration and many other areas. These integrated systems, tied into the national information infrastructure, would help reduce costly redundancies and existing inefficiencies in service delivery. They would also begin to blur the traditional "turf" between departments and even levels of government. The net result of all this, from a purely information and communication technology standpoint, is that government could undergo as radical a change in its service delivery - and its need for people and places - as is predicted for the banking industry. Thus the "technology decisions" facing government leaders in the immediate future have more to do with managing the nature of institutions, their cultures and politics, than with computer systems. How prepared are leaders in state and local government to make these decisions? New sets of skills and resources are required of these managers. Serious and innovative planning is likewise required in how to re-engage and re-train thousands of individuals into new, productive endeavors as one of the largest sectors of America's work force moves further into the digital age.
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As a junior at Leesville, I have finally gained the knowledge and confidence to feel comfortable in high school. Everyone wants to thrive and feel like they belong to a group of people they can depend on in high school. Some students find a sense of belonging in sports or academia; I find mine in chorus. Ever since my first chorus class freshman year, I have found a community of friends united by a love of singing.
At the beginning of my journey into the chorus program, I had no idea what I was getting into. I was still discovering my social identity and felt a general anxiety over how to succeed in chorus.
What I could not have predicted was the casual and fun community. The bond and camaraderie created through making music together with a group of people is unlike anything else in the world.
Elena Mulligan, senior and member of intermediate choral, shared her chorus experience. “It’s become like a second family. Even if you don’t particularly like someone in the program, you still care for them on some level,” said Mulligan.
Mulligan feels that LRHS chorus create a safe place for students to connect and form friendships through music. She also believes that the work chorus students put in to reach the same goal unifies the class.
“In chorus it doesn’t matter who your friends are or how much money you have. We are all striving towards one goal: to be the best possible music ensemble. The sense of accomplishment after perfecting a piece of music, or blending voices perfectly is indescribable.”
Now in my third year of chorus, I reflect on how lucky I was to enroll in a course that creates long lasting friendships and memories far beyond that of a typical classroom. Surviving high school is possible because of the support and guidance chorus provides.
The passion, love and community of music in Leesville’s chorus nurtured my personal growth and achievement. Covington tells her students that once you learn a piece of music, it stays with you forever. My chorus experience will undoubtedly be the same because I have gained experiences and skills necessary to survive as a member of a small group in a much larger group.
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