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3D beamforming in reconfigurable intelligent surfaces-assisted wireless communication networks
Paper i proceeding, 2020
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) or Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) are metasurfaces that can be deployed in various places in wireless environments to make these environments controllable and reconfigurable. In this paper, we investigate the problem of using 3D beamforming in RIS-empowered wireless networks and propose a new scheme that provides more degrees of freedom in designing and deploying the RIS-based networks. In the proposed scheme, a base station (BS) equipped with a full dimensional array of antennas optimizes its radiation pattern in the three dimensional space to maximize the received signal to noise ratio at a target user. We also study the effect of angle of incidence of the received signal by the RIS on its reflecting properties and find a relation between this angle and the BS antenna array's tilt and elevation angles. The user receives the signal from a reflected path from the RIS as well as from a direct path from the BS which both depend on the BS antenna array's tilt and elevation angles. These angles and also the RIS element's phase shifts are jointly numerically optimized. Our simulation results show that using RIS-assisted 3D beamforming with optimized phase shifts and radiation angles can considerably improve the performance of wireless networks.
Tilt angle optimization
Smart radio environment
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS)
3D Beamforming (3DBF)
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
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Washington says Colombo is moving too slowly in probing alleged war crimes. Colombo reacts predictably
Colombo has accused Washington of “polarizing” the country after a U.S. State Department official said the world was losing patience with Sri Lanka’s failure to achieve adequate reconciliation and accountability since the ending a civil war more than four years ago.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Nisha Biswal, said Saturday that the U.S. will sponsor a third resolution at the U.N. Human Rights Council demanding that Sri Lanka address the issue.
Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Ministry immediately condemned what it said were “reckless and irresponsible statements without evidence,” AP reports.
The ministry said the criticisms raised by the U.S. only served “to polarize the communities” that had been affected by the 25 year-long war between the government and Tamil insurgents. The war ended in 2009.
In two previous resolutions at the U.N. human rights body, the U.S. called on Colombo to probe alleged war crimes on both sides. Sri Lankan troops have been accused of targeting civilians and hospitals during the conflict, while the rebels face allegations that they used civilians as human shields, recruited child soldiers and killed civilians trying to flee.
U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay has said that the Human Rights Council should launch its own investigation if the Sri Lankan government does not show sufficient progress on post-war reconciliation before the bi-annual session of the council in March.
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By Nathan Jones
Can the United States of America be found in Revelation 12?
Dr. David Reagan and I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Mark Hitchcock on the show Christ in Prophecy. Mark is a leading Bible prophecy expert, prolific author who has penned over 20 books on the end times, senior pastor of Faith Bible Church located in Oklahoma, and adjunct faculty member of the Dallas Theological Seminary. He is also a much in demand speaker at Bible prophecy conferences all over the nation.
Dr. Hitchcock was invited to answer questions based on his book The Late Great United States. The subtitle of Mark's fascinating book — What Bible Prophecy Reveals About America's Last Days — states the purpose. The book digs deep into the Bible, mining for any textual nugget that might reveal some value as to the United States' future as an end time player.
The US in Revelation 12?
Dr. Reagan: Revelation 12 foretells there is going to be a great war in the middle of the Tribulation. Satan will be cast down to earth. He will come down in great wrath. He is going to posses the Antichrist and motivate him to destroy and annihilate the Jewish race. Revelation 12:14 says that as he begins to come against the Jews they will flee into the wilderness on the wings of a great eagle. People read this and say, "Uh-huh, there we are, there is the United States in Bible prophecy, because the symbol of our nation is an eagle. Therefore, we are going to provide the end time airlift for the Jewish people."
Dr. Hitchcock: I would see that reference of "the two wings of a great eagle" there as the fleeing Jewish people are given protection by God who gives them speed and swiftness to be able to flee into the wilderness and be protected.
To me, if someone is going to build a whole case that America is in Bible prophecy just because of the mention of an eagle, then they will have to go to the other places in the book of Revelation. Revelation 8:13 also says there is an angel like an eagle flying in the mid-heavens proclaiming the gospel. Is that eagle the United States as well?
Revelation 12 is an even more tenuous evidence that the United States is in Bible prophecy than making the young lions of Tarshish in Ezekiel 38:13 refer to America.
Dr. Reagan: I would agree. When you come to symbolic phrases like "the wings of an eagle," the best thing to do is to search with a concordance or computer on that term. You'll find the exact same words in Exodus 19:4 and in Deuteronomy 32:11 where it says that the children of Israel came out of Egypt on the wings of a great eagle. All it means is that they are coming out under the protection of Almighty God.
Dr. Hitchcock: That is right. With speed and with swiftness they are coming out.
People tend to just grab onto very small statements in the Bible and build a whole doctrine around them. That is a warning I think, a good warning to all of us to be careful about not doing that.
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The Zered River is believed by most to be Wadi al-Hesa. There are some difficulties with this identification, but most follow it. It is 35 miles (55 km) long and 3.5 to 4 miles (5.5 to 6.5 km) wide, and drains into the Dead Sea near the southeastern corner. The Zered forms the southern border of Moab and the northern border of Edom. The Israelites crossed the Zered 38 years after they first left Kadesh Barnea (Deut 2:13-14).
Bozrah, Capital of Edom
The modern city of Buseirah preserves the name and location of ancient Bozrah, the ancient capital of the Edomites (cf. Isa 34:6; 63:1; Jer 49:13). The earliest significant remains at Buseireh are from 800 B.C. It has the largest Iron Age buildings found in Transjordan, among which was perhaps the king’s palace.
The term “Sela” is used 65 times in the Hebrew Bible, usually meaning “rock,” but 6 times it is used as a place name. Four or five of the references are apparently to a site that preserves this name near Bozrah. As part of a condemnation of Edom, Obadiah 3 states, “The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock [Sela], in your lofty dwelling, who say in your heart, ‘Who will bring me down to the ground?’” (ESV).
Beidha, Neolithic Site
Beidha is one of the oldest excavated Neolithic villages. Much has eroded, but remains are preserved from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic period (c. 7200-6500 BC). The earliest houses were round and built partly underground. Slots in the walls held wooden beams which supported the roof. After the site was destroyed by fire, it was rebuilt with rectangular and circular houses. The site was abandoned in 6500 B.C. and never again inhabited.
Because of its resemblance to Petra, this site is often known as “Little Petra.” It is entered through a narrow, winding canyon (“siq”) known as the “cold Siq” (Siq al-Barid) because the high walls prevent sunlight from entering the canyon and warming it. The Siq is 350 meters long with three wider areas inside. Like its larger neighbor to the south, carved into the sandstone of Siq al-Barid are residences, storage areas, and tombs.
Via Nova Traiana, King's Highway
Two highways ran north to south through Edom and Moab: the King’s Highway (shown here) and the Way of the Wilderness. The advantage of the King’s Highway was the accessibility of water and food, but its disadvantage was difficult crossings of deep canyons. The Israelites wanted to pass through Edom on the King’s Highway, but the Edomites forced them to go around, utilizing the Way of the Wilderness (Num 20:17-18; Deut 2:1-8).
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Selling technology in Europe: new rules, new opportunities
March 01, 1998
by Teresa Acklin
A European expert explains “CE labeling” for grain handling and milling equipment.
By Ralf Noack
Manufacturers of electric devices, machines and plants who have exported their products to Europe know the dilemma of the past: import requirements differed from country to country. For example, a machine that could be exported to France might not be admitted into the German market, while Italian admission requirements might differ still.
Since 1997, the differing trade restrictions are no longer applicable, and the market is united. Once a product is admitted for export to Europe, it may be exported within all of the European Union.
To gain this unlimited access, all technical products (as well as other products such as toys, safety devices and medical products) must be affixed with a “CE” label before being sold to Europe. “CE” is an abbreviation of the French word for European Community and it is written in special letters.
A Product “Passport.”
The CE label on a technical product (or even on a complete plant) can be considered as its “passport” and allows the seller of that product to export it to any European country except Switzerland and Norway. The manufacturer is responsible for putting the CE label on most types of technical products, machines and plants. By doing so, the manufacturer promises the product has gone through the CE certification procedure and fulfills all requirements of European safety standards relevant to that product.
In this context, the manufacturer must sign the “Declaration of Conformity,” meaning the product is made in conformance with European safety standards. Exceptions exist for special “dangerous products,” such as woodworking machinery, plastics-spraying machinery and some others. The complete list of “dangerous machines” can be found in Appendix IV of the “Machinery Directive,” which is one of the most important directives for selling technical products to Europe.
Compliance with the CE label requirements relies on the marketplace. In our experience, a manufacturer's competitors in the European market keep a very close eye on all competing products. If competitors perceive there is nothing to support the affixation of the CE label, they will report the circumstance to local authorities.
Failure to comply with the CE label requirements can result in the assessment of a fine and a general sales prohibition for that manufacturer throughout the European market. Fines and the sales prohibition also mean a severe loss of reputation.
Today, three European Community directives concerning the safety of the technical product itself are relevant for manufacturers of technical products, machinery and plants to be exported. Also, several other E.C. directives on workplace safety are relevant for employers who have a factory or a plant where workers use machinery.
In this context, it is important to consider each directive as a type of general law outlining broad safety requirements. All technical details concerning the safety requirements can be found in the European standards (E.N.), which were implemented to carry out the directives. The E.N. standards can be changed according to technical developments.
The first directive guiding CE labeling of products is E.C. Directive 89/392/EWG, or the “Machinery Directive.” This safety regulation covers the mechanical safety and proper technical documentation of technical products.
The procedures leading to CE certification of technical products under this directive consist of the following:
the manufacturer must find out which E.N. standards are relevant to his product;
machines and plants must be designed and constructed according to those specific E.N. safety standards;
all relevant standards must be listed and documented;
a hazard-analysis must be done for the product;
all documents in regards to the relevant product (such as all drawings, plans, calculations and so on) must be maintained;
all labels on the machines inside the plant must be in the language of the operator;
noise emission must be measured; and
a User's Manual in the language of the operator must be delivered with the machine/plant.
This last point is very important. The manual must contain special chapters and certain statements and information according to C.E. requirements. The manual is considered “as a part of the machine/plant.”
The second law pertaining to machinery/plants is E.C. directive 89/336/EWG, or the E.M.C. directive for machines. This regulation concerns electromagnetic compatibility (E.M.C.); machinery or plants and all electrical equipment must not exceed a certain limit of electromagnetic emission and must have a certain electromagnetic immunity.
Certification procedures are outlined as follows:
measurements must be taken to make sure the machine's electromagnetic emission (such as electric fields, magnetic fields or high-voltage-peaks) does not exceed a certain limit as provided in the relevant E.N. standard; and
measurements must be taken to demonstrate that a machine can withstand a certain amount of electromagnetic disturbance (electric or magnetic fields, surge, burst, high voltage peaks), a level known as the electromagnetic immunity.
One exception to this law exists for complete plants. According to section 5, paragraph 5, Satz 1 E.M.V.G., the manufacturer of complete plants has to measure neither the electromagnetic emission nor the electromagnetic immunity when every machine and every electric component inside the plant is marked with the CE sign or when the manufacturer is in possession of the CE Declaration of Conformity for all those components.
The third law relating to machinery is E.C. directive 73/23/EWG, or the low voltage directive, a safety regulation specifically for the electric safety of machinery/plants as well as all electrical equipment.
Under this regulation, measures must be taken to make sure the entire machine or plant is safe from electrical hazards. This directive covers electrical systems such as wiring, all electrical equipment, all control components and all emergency stop devices. Further details can be found in E.N. standards such as the DIN E.N. 60204, which is very similar to the international standard I.E.C. 204-1.
After following these procedures, the manufacturer or the importer of the machine or plant signs the Declaration of Conformity and assures that the CE label is affixed on a centrally visible place.
It is recommended that manufacturers or engineers use only those parts (or machines to be integrated in the machine/system) that are marked with the CE sign. Also, the manufacturer should tell all his suppliers to provide either the Declaration of Conformity (in case of electrical components or in case of complete machines that could run independently of the whole system) or the Declaration of the Manufacturer (in cases where a manufacturer is buying complete machines that are to be integrated in the system and cannot run independently).
Two other E.C. directives are relevant for employers who have a factory or plant where machinery is used. The first is E.C. directive 89/391/EWG, which covers the safety of all workplaces. Under this directive, the employer is directly responsible for worker safety, and effective in August 1997, the employer must make written hazard analyses for every single place of work in the factory.
The second regulation is E.C. directive 89/655/EWG, which covers the safety of machines older than five years. Effective this July, all machines built before 1993 must be upgraded to a higher safety standard according to Appendix I of this directive. One of the major points of this directive is that the employer is not allowed to have machines on a site where free access is possible to moving parts (no transmissions without covers).
Finally, another safety regulation is E.C. directive 93/44/EWG, governing hygiene in all technical processes producing food, including flour. In the near but as yet indefinite future, food manufacturers will be responsible for product purity. With the help of the written “Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point” method, the manufacturer must describe all efforts to prevent impurities in his products.
Although these regulations seem to make exportation of technical products to the European Union rather complicated, compliance will facilitate entry into the European market. The regulations provide equal safety requirements for new products, free trade to and within Europe and increased safety for European workers at every single workplace.
Ralf Noack is a specialist on European law regarding the export of technical and medical products to Europe. His engineering company, ARANO GmbH, Wetzlar, Germany, provides consulting services for CE certification, European technical standards, documentation and hazard analysis.
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"I have completed my search for the records of William Faunt.
I began by searching the Regimental Returns of Births. The only birth registered to this name was a child called William, who was born in Belfast in 1867. His father served with the 3rd of Foot and the reference is volume 776, page 37. There is no way of knowing for certain if this is William's child without ordering the actual certificate.
I then searched the discharge papers of the 3rd of Foot, East Kent Regiment, for the period 1855-1872, held in WO 97/1391. I am pleased to say that William’s papers were in place. There were also papers for a Patrick Faunt, which I have also filmed, as it would seem most likely that he was a relative. Patrick and William were both born in Fethard, Tipperary. Patrick enlisted as Private No 830 into the 2nd battalion of the 3rd Foot on 12th November 1857. He discharged in 1865 and his intended place of residence was Fethard.
William Faunt enlisted into the same battalion in Cahir as Private No 400 on 8th October 1857 and was aged 18 at the time. He served with the regiment for 9 years and 361 days, of which 6 months was spent in Malta. William’s conduct was classed as Good and he was in possession of 4 Good Conduct Badges. His name had been entered twice in the Regimental Defaulters’ Book.
William discharged on 12th November 1867 as he was suffering from necrosis and partial anclylosis of the right shoulder joint. The disease arose as a result of a strumous diathesis and was not caused by the service. He had a piece of dead bone in the upper part of his humerous which was causing stiffness and left him unable to perform any movement above shoulder level. It was considered that his disability would materially influence his ability to make a living. His condition had not been aggravated by vice or interference.
William was aged 28 upon discharge. He had been a nailer by trade prior to his army service. Upon discharge he was 5 feet 7 ½ inches tall with a fair complexion, hazel eyes and light brown hair. His intended place of residence was Belfast.
I then went on to search for William’s pension record, which I found in WO 116/94. I also searched the final muster roll in which he appeared, WO 12/2183, to see if it contained a Married Roll, which it did. However, there were no soldiers by the name of Faunt on the roll. This does not mean that William was not married at the time, but that his wife was not accompanying the regiment.
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John, a college English instructor friend, introduced me to a book that recently became available in paperback:Â Damp Squid: The English Language Laid Bare by Jeremy Butterfield. I bought a copy (no freebies here!) and have to agree that it's a fascinating read for anyone who loves words and wordplay like I do.
The book offers a "corpus" that contains a recently-compiled list of the 100 most popular words to appear in English writing. As expected, most of the words are short, one-syllable terms like "of" and "a" and "that." In fact, the corpus contains exactly one seven-letter word (#93 on the list) and one six-letter entry (two closely-related words, combined as #57 on the list). Think about it for a bit, and then...
Name these two words (or all three, if you can).
Here are the ANSWERS.
the seven-letter word: BECAUSE
the six-letter words: PERSON / PEOPLE (either is correct)
Let us know what words you came up with by posting them in the comments. Thanks!
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The author of the book: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 1.65 MB
Date of issue: 11 June 2010
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Parents should get involved as school year begins
Well, last week started a brand new school year for our students in Berkeley County! Just think … a brand new year, just like a brand new slate. Parents, I beg of you … please get on board this year and make this be your child’s best year ever! Make sure that they have breakfast either at home or at school (this may require you and your child to get up a few minutes earlier), but the results will be a well-fed brain ready to learn.
Please check their planners and backpacks every day to see any communications from the school. Missed deadlines and missed opportunities should never occur if this simple check is done.
Put aside some time in your busy schedule to see what homework they have, and make sure they are understanding the work that is given. If this is done on a regular basis, you will be able to see the areas in which they might be having problems and catch it quickly.
Most schools have after-school homework help or at least peer assistance to minimize the chance that your student will fall behind. These resources are there to help and are very valuable.
Having a daily bath or shower is always a good idea, after a hard day running, playing and trying out for sports this is something that will keep them clean and usually relaxes them so that they get a better nights sleep.
Clothes don’t have to be new, but they should be clean and neat so that the chance for your child getting picked on is lessened (we all know that some kids are mean that way)
Finally, I would suggest for you to try as hard as you can to get them to have a regular bedtime, this is important in so many ways. I feel certain that employing these strategies, you and your child will have a wonderful year ahead. Cooperate with your child’s school as you both have their best interest at heart.
Thank you and have a great year!
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I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be done researching my great uncle Dale Stewart. Dale’s life has been and continues to be, a source of constant fascination for me. He’s like a puzzle I want to solve. Frequent readers and family might recall that Dale was quite the failed bank robber and I’ve documented his trail across the USA by the places he spent time in prison. Dale is just fascinating to me as a cautionary tale in nature versus nurture. I think he’d have made a great case study for someone in the field of psychology.
A few weeks ago, I had to go back to Ohio before my father passed away and while there, I took time to stop at the cemetery and visit the grave of Dale’s father, William H Stewart, and his grandparents, John and Minerva Stewart – which is a funny story for another day. After visiting their graves, my thoughts began to wander back to Dale as they do from time to time.
A while back I ordered Dale’s full military jacket from NARA and one of the things that jumped out at me was an April 1942 letter Dale sent to the Marines asking for a replacement certificate of discharge to show his time in service. It had always bothered me that the return address was Florence, Arizona but he stated that the parole board in Los Angeles was asking for this certificate so that’s why he needed a replacement. Florence to LA is over 6.5 hours by car today so why was he living in one place but another place so far away was asking him to provide his military service certificate?
I started poking around some vintage photos from the 1940s of Florence, Arizona, and found that there was a good-sized state prison there. I had a hunch and I groaned to myself as I started searching for more info on the prison. The Arizona prison system had a historical prison register online and when I searched, of course, Dale was there. Why wouldn’t he be? It was just inevitable that he would be.
The register indicated you could order copies of the records so I sent away for them. While the details are scant as to what he actually did or where in Arizona the crime was committed, Dale was convicted on 7 April 1941 for Grand Theft and sentenced to 1.5 to 3 years starting on 25 March 1941. I have not found a corroborating news article describing any theft on his part even though I searched his known aliases. Of course, he could have used another one that I’m not aware of! On 16 July 1942, Dale applied for and was granted parole to begin 25 September 1942. So that means, Dale was in jail in April 1942 when he sent the letter to the Marines and BEFORE he was given parole.
Dale died by suicide in the Olive View Sanitarium in Los Angles on 23 January 1943. The occupation on his death certificate says he was a gardener and I have always wondered if he was a staff gardener that lived on the property or if he was an actual patient of Olive View. Had Dale found a job in Los Angeles that prompted his application for parole? And having secured a job, is that why the LA draft board was requesting a copy of his service certificate?
Dale’s Arizona prison record gave me another glimpse into his mindset at the end of his life. At the time of arrest, he wrote “surgical nurse” as his occupation, and at first, I thought the outright lie was sort of funny but then it hit me how incredibly sad that really was. Was this the proof that Dale had some mental issues going on? Frankly, Dale wasn’t educated enough to be a surgical nurse. There is no way he had the proper training to perform that job – he was in jail more than he was ever out in the real world. His education while in the children’s home system in the early 1920s was hardly adequate by any standard. I would turn to his military career for vocational training but he enlisted as a drummer and was discharged as less as desirable for desertion in 1927. I can’t even fathom where he would have attained any sort of medical training to remotely claim a surgical nurse occupation when he was crisscrossing the country and spending stints in jail wherever he went.
Throughout the years, I’ve had lots of conversations with my family and with other genealogists who had serial jailbirds in their family tree, about what could have possibly motivated Dale to commit the series of crimes that he did. Dale drank, and apparently, he drank a lot. As I mentioned previously in other posts, his niece remembers him coming to Ohio to visit and that he and her father (his brother) was drunk the entire time. One of his most “interesting” robberies was when he was skunk drunk and going the whole finger gun in the pocket thing to hold up a post office in San Diego. Witnesses laughed at him for staggering around and didn’t really take him serious at all. I wonder if at the end of his life, was Dale suffering the effects of long-term drinking on his brain? Another genealogist had asked if I knew Dale’s sexual orientation – I did not – and suggested, that in a time when living openly gay was not acceptable, perhaps prison afforded him a chance to (for lack of a better term) live within a world where gay sex did happen. My husband believes that Dale was one of those prisoners who did not know how to function outside of prison on his own, given that he was orphaned and grew up in a system that did not prepare him or give him skills that would ensure his success as an adult. Perhaps during the Great Depression, finding himself inside the walls of a prison where he was given regular meals, a bed to sleep on, and was out of the elements and not on the streets was the best solution he could come up with. I’m not sure I’ll ever really know his motivations but I still feel bad knowing he died alone and in such a horrific manner in a world so far removed from his Ohio roots.
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Next week I am continuing teaching the thinking strategy of asking questions during my reading workshop; specifically, finding the answers to our questions. My students have been expects at paying attention to their thinking and asking questions before, during and after reading. No we are digging in and looking at ways we answer our questions. Seattle has inspired me to pull out my Seattle books and use these to help my students learn ways to answer their questions (in the text, making an inference, schema & connections). Here is a list of my favorite Seattle books:
There is an entire Larry series, includind Larry Gets Lost in Chicago, Larry Gets Lost in New York and Larry get Lost in Texas!
This story is my favorite, about an adorable big foot who is trying to find some peace and quiet!
Now for the Free part! In order to get your own copy of Wheedle on the Needle, all you need to do is comment about your favorite books for teaching Questioning or an activity you use for teaching your students the thinking strategy of asking questions.
On Friday, April 1st I will choose a lucky winner.
I cannot wait to read all your ideas!
Be sure to check back in on Tuesday, I will have a list of my top ten things from Seattle!
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Read or write faults can occur during the operation of a systemtap script, if the script causes dereferencing of a pointer that turns out to be invalid. This can be caused by using context variables that do not happen to have valid values, or perhaps references to memory that is unavailable at that moment due to paging.
These fault conditions are benign because they are caught by the systemtap runtime, which cleanly terminates the script. If quick termination is not desired, consider using the --skip-badvars or --suppress-handler-errors or -DMAXERRORS=NN stap options, or wrapping relevant parts of the probe handlers in a try/catch block.
It may be possible to adjust the target program, to make it more likely that needed context variables are paged in when systemtap looks for them. Consider adding some lightweight processing on the key variables, like a strlen(foo) for a string, or iterating across elements of an array or linked list, or touching a few bytes of a heap-allocated block. The idea is to trigger any page faults in the target program, before systemtap would need to (but can't).
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The kakadu plum, also called the gubinge, the billygoat plum, or the murunga, is a flowering plant native to Arnhem Land in northern Australia. Despite their name, the fruits of the kakadu plum plant – simply called kakadu plums – are more closely related to the almond than the plum, and they are unusual for fruits insofar as they remain on the plant after ripening. Australian Aborigines have treasured the plums for thousands of years due to their medicinal properties, although the fruits are not well-known outside of their native country.
List of Health Benefits
World’s highest vitamin C concentration – Undoubtedly the kakadu plum’s greatest claim to fame is that it contains the highest vitamin C concentration of any food on Earth. Indeed, a report by the Australian Government’s Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation demonstrated that kakadu plums contain between 1,000 and 5,300 milligrams of vitamin C per 100 grams. This is approximately 100 times the vitamin C concentration of blueberries and oranges! Vitamin C is an important antioxidant that improves brain function and fortifies the immune system.
Phytochemical content – Kakadu plums contain rare phytochemicals such as ellagic and gallic acid. According to a study published in the March 2006 edition of Toxicological Sciences, gallic acid contains significant anti-inflammatory properties and can be used to treat inflammatory allergic diseases. Moreover, a study published in the January/February edition of Anticancer Research showed that ellagic acid can kill cancer-causing cells and lower estrogen’s role in contributing to breast cancer.
Skin benefits – Despite their relative obscurity as a whole food, kakadu plums (or rather, their extracts) are starting to become more common in international cosmetic products. This is because the fruits contain a large amount of trace minerals and antioxidants that nourish and invigorate the skin, including vitamin E, zinc, iron, folate, lutein, and the aforementioned vitamin C. Antioxidants like vitamins C and E are especially important for skin health because they neutralize cell-damaging free radicals, thereby guarding us from the premature aging effects associated with such damage.
Rich in calcium and magnesium – Kakadu plums contain respectable amounts of calcium and magnesium. The importance of calcium for building bones and teeth is well-known, but most people don’t realize that we also need magnesium to help us absorb that calcium. Since these fruits contain both, they are an excellent guard against osteoporosis and other bone-related conditions.
Natural laxative – Kakadu plums are rich in dietary fiber, a plant food that clears accumulated waste from the colon and induces intestinal peristalsis. This makes kakadu plums – like most fruits – a superb natural cure for constipation. Also, since fiber absorbs water from the colon, it also contributes towards a feeling of fullness. This fact, coupled with kakadu plums’ low calorie and fat content, makes them an effective weight loss food.
Research into Kakadu Plums Is Limited
Much like the Amazonian camu camu berry, with which this fruit shares a similar nutritional profile, research into the health benefits of kakadu plums is somewhat limited. Studies are few in number, and precise nutritional data on the fruit is difficult to find. Nonetheless, it’s pretty clear from the information we currently have that these plums are special. Let’s hope that, in time, the natural health world finally starts to take notice of this Australian superfruit.
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In this article, we will discuss
creating clustered VMs on the VMware’s ESX 3 Server. There are several options for
doing so. You can create a cluster on a single ESX host. This is generally the
easiest way of doing things. However, you might want to test and spread your
nodes out across ESX hosts. That is possible as well. Or, if you do have a test
or development RAC on physical hardware and are willing to move your RAC to a Virtual
Infrastructure, you can go on and add another node; but this time just on the
VI3 stack. By gradually deleting nodes from the physical infrastructure and
adding nodes to the VI3 infrastructure, you will migrate your RAC to VI3!
Clustering: Application Clustering vs. VirtualCenter Clustering
We won’t delve too much into
clustering concepts here; you basically use cluster technology in order to
achieve high availability or/and scalability. We can cluster nodes by the
means of software and hardware clustering solutions. Typical applications like
Oracle RAC come to mind when thinking of cluster-aware applications. A typical
clustering setup would be a couple of nodes, sharing the same disk, much like
our Oracle RAC, mail servers, etc. The shared disks (LUNs: Logical Unit Number)
must reside on a SAN using Fiber Channel (FC). Usually you have an extra
network connection for cluster heartbeat traffic, much the same as Cache Fusion
for Oracle RAC.
Also, you have traditional
clustering against the Virtual Center Clustering. VMware’s HA (High
Availability) option is a cold way of clustering nodes within the Virtual Center
clusters. Traditional clustering uses a hot standby node while the Virtual
Center HA is a cold stand by approach.
Clustering Options in VMware ESX 3 Server
Oracle RAC’s installation and even doing a demo to the audience at a client
site is fine, but if you want to try migrations, upgrades or patches, it is
advisable to use ESX Server. In fact, most of my readers are ESX users, and DBAs
who want to learn their RAC are increasingly deploying Oracle RAC in their
test, development and even staging environments. Production environments are
not yet running RAC on ESX but I won’t be surprised if there are environments
that have Oracle RAC on VMware’s ESX. I have seen a reasonably intensive single
node Oracle on ESX. Moreover, the OS was Windows!
back to the types of clustering for your Oracle RAC options:
1. Clustering Oracle RAC on single ESX host
2. Clustering Oracle RAC across several ESX hosts
3. Clustering Oracle RAC across ESX and physical nodes
Clustering RAC on single ESX host
steps are simple here. We first create our first node.
Start your VI
client and log on to the Virtual Center or the ESX Host itself.
Create new machine
and select “custom”.
pool: If you want your RAC to run within a specific pool that has high CPU
shares then you will use this to create your VMs.
could be on your SAN (Storage Area Network) or DAS (Direct Attached Storage).
For Linux/Unix, I usually create two disks. One 10G and the other with 4G for
Choose your OS.
CPU: You can
choose up to 4 vCPUs.
can allocate up to 16G per VM.
create two NICs. One for public and the other for private.
OS (Operating System)
10. Add additional nodes for shared
depending on your clustering preferences it will look like this after the first
The final picture might look like this; do note that we
created virtual switches in the ESX that allow for high speed interconnects
while staying totally disconnected from the physical NIC of the ESX server. The
public virtual switch connects the nodes to the application via the hosts NICs
As you see, this is not hard to achieve. Following simple
tasks you can have your virtual machines up and running in no time. You create
and customize your first node, create the second node, add storage (including
shared storage) and configure the IP addresses.
How to create shared disks on the ESX host?
This isn’t that hard either. Just execute the following steps on the
Logged into ESX as root on the
remote secure shell, you could use putty on windows or simple ssh command on
your Linux OS.
Create and Zero out the disks using the following command:
vmkfstools -c <size> -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/<mydir>/<myDisk>.vmdk. Example: vmkfstools -c 10Gb -d eagerzeroedthick /vmfs/volumes/RACShare/asm01.vmdk
Zeroing out an existing disk can
be done : vmkfstools [-w |–writezeroes] /vmfs/volumes/<mydir>/<myDisk>.vmdk
Open edit settings for node one
and select add existing disk; browse to the datastore and create a new SCSI
device by choosing SCSI(1:0)
Upon adding your first shared disk
you will notice that a new SCSI controller is created.
Add all the vmdk’s you created: ocr.vmdk,
votingdisk.vmdk, spfileasm.vmdk, asm01.vmdk, asm02.vmdk (for Oradata),
asm03.vmdk, asm04.vmdk (for Flash Recovery Area)
Repeat these steps on all of the
Select the SCSI controller , in
the edit settings pane, check if the controller type is set to LsiLogic
In the same panel set the SCSI bus
sharing to Virtual (as illustrated)
* : In the Solaris 10 installation for the Oracle RAC 10g R2 testbed, I encountered a funny problem. After having installed the OS and configuring all of the memory limits, ssh equivalency, I then moved on to cloning my VM (which was fully prepared) on the Virtual Center. Then I added shared storage and upon restarting the OS, I lost my vmxnet0 NIC. This happened because I added another SCSI controller for the shared disks and the PCI slots shifted, making the OS to assume that the NIC was removed. So in Solaris RAC on ESX, make sure that you add all of the disks while creating the VM and then proceed to install the OS.
Strangely enough, even after
checking the type LsiLogic, you get a warning (per shared disk on that
controller) regarding the type. Click yes to all of them.
Use Virtual Center to clone the fully ready node and save configurations, which you
can always fall back on should things go wrong.
If you don’t have Virtual Center, then use VMware Converter to make a backup copy and also create online
clones on the ESX machine.
In the next installment, we will explore the Shared Storage considerations across the ESX
hosts and also Oracle RAC clustering between VM on ESX and on an Oracle node on
a physical host.
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November 15-16, 2010
Goddard Space Flight Center
Registration Deadline: Friday November 5, 2010
Foreign Nationals, please register early.
The Fermi launch in 2008 has ushered in a new era of high-energy gamma-ray astrophysics by providing observations with over an order of magnitude greater sensitivity relative to previous missions in this energy range. Studies of previously established gamma-ray emitters are being carried out with unprecedented detail. The expected emergence of new classes of gamma-ray sources means that gamma-ray astronomy will now encompass an expanded range of contemporary astrophysics and thus engage a broad portion of the astrophysics community. For information on the Fermi mission refer to http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc.
The next Fermi Guest Investigator Cycle is rapidly approaching: proposals are January 21, 2011.
In order to facilitate greater community wide participation in Fermi science, the Fermi Science Support Center and the Fermi Project are hosting a series of regional workshops. The workshops are open to all members of the scientific community, but registration is required (there is no cost). Note: This is one of several regional workshops planned for the coming months.
There will be two distinct workshops, each lasting for one full day (from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm). The Hands-On Data Analysis workshop will emphasize hands-on data analysis tutorials. The Fermi Science and Proposal Support workshop will consist of view-graph presentations and discussion covering past, current, and future Fermi science, plus information on how to prepare and submit a Fermi Guest Investigator proposal.
Registration for these workshops is free of charge. Since space will be limited for the Data Analysis workshop, approval will be on a first- come first serve basis. There is no limit for attendance to the Science and Proposals workshop.
A portion of this workshop will consist of viewgraph presentations and group discussion, but the main emphasis will be on hands-on use of the analysis tools. In order to facilitate as much one-to-one interaction as possible with the workshop staff, we anticipate accommodating no more than about 25 for this session.
Prerequisites for participation are:
In addition, it desirable that you 1) have an installation of the HEADAS software tools on your computer and 2) that you've read our basic introductory documentation prior to the workshop, and ideally, you've already tried a few analysis examples beforehand.
We will describe Fermi's capabilities and performance, the data products, and guest investigator support opportunities. In addition, we will have sessions exploring potential scientific studies with Fermi. One of the goals of the workshop is to help connect people locally who have common science interests. Attendee contributions on any Fermi-related science topic are welcome; we simply ask that you contact us in advance of the workshop.
Topics at this workshop will include:
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The High Definition Multimedia Interface aka HDMI, is the defacto standard for transmitting uncompressed digital audio and video. HDMI cables which superseded DVI and VGA connectors are the mainstay of HDTVs, laptops, DVD players, decoders, gaming consoles, cameras, and more. Buying the right HDMI cable can be confusing, given that you can’t tell one cable from the other. You also have to contend with other factors, one of which is your reasons for purchasing an HDMI cable. Well then, without much further ado, here’s what to keep in mind when buying an HDMI cable:
HDMI cable types
- Premium High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet
- Premium High Speed HDMI cable
- High Speed HDMI cable with Ethernet
- High Speed HDMI cable
- Standard HDMI cable with Ethernet
- Standard HDMI cable
Premium High Speed HDMI Cable and Premium High Speed HDMI Cable with Ethernet transmit data at a maximum bandwidth of 18 Gbit/s, incorporating a newer HDMI 2.0 standard. Premium High Speed HDMI cables offer HDR and a much high frame rate of 60 Hz for 4K resolution.
As is the case with the rest, High Speed HDMI cables come in two variants, inclusive of, and without Ethernet. Notwithstanding their theoretical advantages, Ethernet-via-HDMI devices are few and far between right now. If the price is right, by all means buy High Speed with Ethernet, but if you can’t, it’s no biggie either way. High Speed HDMI cable supports video resolutions of 1080p, 4K (at 30 Hz), 3D, and deep color.
Standard HDMI cables transmit audio and video at 1080i and 720p. The Standard cables with an Ethernet channel provide internet connection sharing and device networking. The above capabilities start from HDMI 1.4 specification onwards.
///When buying an HDMI cable, any of these will do, depending on your needs. A Standard HDMI cable will do for someone not overly concerned with crystal clear quality. Unless you have devices supporting Ethernet-via-HDMI, you shouldn’t concern yourself with these. Your best bet would be the High Speed or the Premium High Speed HDMI cables.
HDMI cable Length
Buy an HDMI cable of a length suitable to your needs. Excess wire for devices that will stay in the same place for the foreseeable future is a waste. Too short a wire is a inconvenience too if you intend to use your devices further apart. Cable length starts from 1 foot, 3 feet, 6 feet to over 50 feet. Camcorders/cameras, decoders, DVD players and the like which you don’t need to move around can work with 3 feet of cable.
It goes to reason that a 1080p TV will only show a 720p video resolution if at all that’s the maximum output your source device can manage. For this reason, buy an HDMI cable with the features supported by both your source and output device. A Standard HDMI cable will handle your 720p and 1080i resolution on devices with corresponding features just fine. A High Speed HDMI cable will take advantage of 1080p, 4K, 3D, name it.
HDMI cable price
Here’s a trade secret: Cheap and affordable HDMI cables work just well as overpriced cables. Premium High Speed HDMI cables are relatively new on the market. As for price, Premium and plain High Speed HDMI cables go for roughly the same amount as do Standard HDMI cables. for this reason, it figures you might as well buy the High Speed HDMI cables or the newer Premium HDMI cables. Don’t you worry about the Ethernet bit, as Ethernet-over-HDMI has not yet seen substantial adoption among devices on the market. A 2-pack 6 feet High Speed Amazon Basics HDMI cable goes for a pocket-friendly $7.96 as of writing this post. That ought to be enough for most of your HDMI needs.
Featured image: Amazon
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Director, User Experience, Digital Home Group, Intel Corp.
Bell, 39, is a native Australian whose ethnography work helps translate insights about human behavior into technology for
“Our office working spaces are framed by ideas of efficiency–saving time, money, energy–and we’ve often applied that to the home. We’ve tried to make the home more rational, all that language from the ’30s and ’40s about ‘domestic science’ and ‘home economics.’ But we actually spend more time doing laundry now than in 1945, which is staggering. You used to have to chop wood to do it! Why? Technology has changed our standards of cleanliness; now you don’t wear the same thing twice. The machinery has made us more efficient on one level, but it also has made more work. The most popular and beloved technologies in the home haven’t made us more efficient–TV, for example. So the challenge for technology companies isn’t to see the home as another place where we can rationalize production.
The digital home is never going to be about technology–it’s about the people who live there. We have slow-moving cultural paradigms, and ‘home’ means something in our imaginations. In England and America, you say, ‘My home is my castle.’ In India, people talk metaphorically about their homes as ‘pure’ and the outside world as ‘polluted.’ In Indonesia, home means grace, modesty, and simplicity.
The things that people care about aren’t changing– we’re curious, we want to be socially connected and spiritually inspired. The home is not a blank slate waiting for technology to arrive.”
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Drive through almost any neighborhood or even commercial areas with recreation facilities, and you’ll notice a common item: basketball hoops. Many kids grow up casually shooting hoops in the driveway or playing a pickup game with friends. Even kids who don’t know the rules of the game have probably played a variation of Knock-Out or H-O-R-S-E during P.E. or day camps. Special needs kids may feel unwanted and inadequate during these games, whether friendly or competitive in nature. Special needs basketball is a great way to give these kids a chance to try something new in a safe environment as well as receive guidance and instruction, develop social interactions, and gain confidence in their own abilities.
Try Something New
We’ve all been there: you’re out in public and someone calls your name: “Hey, Joe! Come over here and give this a whirl!” Whether it’s joining a game you’ve never played, tasting a new dish, or attempting a never-before-seen stunt on a bicycle, unfamiliar territory tends to make each of us uneasy. “What if we fail? What if we don’t like it? What if we break it? What if . . .?” So if trying something unfamiliar makes able-bodied adults and kids uncomfortable, how much more stressful is it for special needs kids? In a safe environment, basketball set-ups designed for special needs kids allow them to participate and have fun in a very common sport without the risk of public failure. A special needs program’s basketball court also provides a place for kids to realize that they are not alone. They will get to learn and develop these new skills together.
Special needs kids have a wide variety of developmental needs, and basketball programs for these kids are usually designed with certified teachers and coaches who can work closely with each child to teach him or her the fundamental skills of the game. From basics like dribbling to more advanced skills like blocking and free-throws, special needs kids will be met at their level and aided in progressing through skills on the court. In some cases, special needs kids are paired with a peer or staff mentor who can demonstrate by example and provide even more individualized support. Rules of play are modified to fit national guidelines, such as the National Wheelchair Basketball Association’s set of rules, which provides needed accommodations and enables fair play while still teaching the fundamentals of the sport.
Many special needs children are unable to take part in most schools’ team sports. An environment where these kids can actually join a team and learn how to be a team player provides a positive setting for verbal interactions, friendly play, and general social development. Basketball in particular sets up a fantastic opportunity for verbal and physical teamwork as every member of the team learns together to navigate their way down the court. Players learn how and when to indicate that they are open, to receive the ball, and to communicate with verbal calls or nonverbal signs to whom they intend to pass the ball. Kids will also learn to work together when not on the court, especially in areas such as encouraging their teammates, good sportsmanship, and respect for others: their own teammates, coaches, referees, and other teams’ players. Learning social and teamwork skills will benefit kids in a multiplicity of settings.
In any sport, a so-called “good player” will demonstrate knowledge of the game, coordination, depth perception, a sense of timing, and a sense of confidence in himself. That confidence actually results from having a grasp on these other “good player” abilities. Special needs individuals can greatly enhance self-esteem and confidence as they learn the rules of the sport and receive patient instruction that develops their coordination and senses. Basketball provides development in hand-eye coordination as well as both gross and fine motor skills. With basketball hoops so prevalent in our neighborhoods and recreation areas, an understanding of the basic rules of basketball paired with confidence in basketball skills can level the court and open the door for positive interactions with kids of all abilities.
Be the Best Sport recognizes that fun, guided play and one-on-one instruction can give each person the chance to succeed at basketball! With a creatively designed program that includes both on-court practice through drills and games as well as carefully supervised real-game play, our certified coaches work closely with kids to develop basketball skills, physical health and athletic ability, positive social interactions, and a personal sense of accomplishment.
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Universal Seating Company specializes in creating unique and exciting environments in Schools (k-12) and Colleges
The reason students aren’t getting a healthy, nutritious
USDA-approved meal today is that they won’t go into
a cafeteria that looks like a prison! This is a tragedy
for your kids - in not getting a healthy meal - and
for school districts in lost revenue.
You can lead a horse to water, but
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If your answer is NO, then why do you think
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exciting Food Courts, student participation increases
from 25% to 100% of previous amounts.
That’s a whole lot of extra kids eating a healthy
meal - instead of junk. Plus, the dining program can
be completely self-sustaining without losing money
for the school board.
Here are six reasons changing your school dining rooms
can help your Program:
- Today, kids are exposed to fast food restaurants and
they expect the places they eat in to look the same
- Remember your school dining room experience? Why do
you expect your kids to like it better?
- Kids don’t mess up McDonald’s! Discipline problems
in your dining room are reduced.
- When the students are involved in designing their
new Food Courts, they have “ownership” and pride in
- Fast food restaurants have spent millions of dollars
to attract your students. Don’t fight it - COPY IT!
- When you change the environment, you change the perception
of the School Food Program. It’s not the yucky cafeteria
anymore, it’s the “Raider’s Cafe” (and the food tastes
Below are some exciting Before/After images
Click on images below to enlarge
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I have asserted all along that Bollywood and cricket have a very close relationship, and this song proves just that. For the ICC World Cup 2011 theme song has been composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy (SEL), a Bollywood trio of music makers.
For the benefit of the uninitiated, SEL comprise Shankar Mahadevan, Ehsaan Noorani and Loy Mendonsa, who have been among major music producers for Bollywood movies in the last decade.
Their best and most successful work has been heard (and seen) in movies such as Mission Kashmir, Dil Chahta Hai, Kal Ho Na Ho, Bunty Aur Babli, Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna, Taare Zamin Par, Wake Up Sid, My Name Is Khan, Karthik Calling Karthik, and Housefull, among several others.
The song is titled "De Ghuma Ke" which is an exhortation to players to give it all they've got, in other words, "Sock it to them",an apparent reference as to the competitiveness of sport and the desire to win.
Three versions of the song have been rendered, in Hindi, Sinhalese and Bangla, the languages of the co-hosts of the tournament, India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
I hope you like the composition, because with 50 days to go for the tournament, you are going to be hearing this song again and again, and that's the understatement of 2011, on the first day of the year!
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January 15, 2017: Kanuma, Sankatahara Chathurthi
January 16, 2017: Mukkanuma, Tyagaraja Aaradhanotsavams
Kala Sarpa dosha plays an important role in the native's life. If a native is under the influence of Kala Sarpa dosha, the native may face sudden rise and fall in the life. He faces most evil effects that may lead even to death. This dosha may cause the native to be separated from his family life, loss of huge wealth and fame, sudden danger to life, and even the native may also indulge in unlawful and unethical activities.
Kala Sarpa dosha is generally believed that one of the karmic dosha that may run across the generations. The best example to the best of knowledge is Jawahar Lal Nehru's family that we witnessed. A combination of remedies and ethical, simple living on the part of natives can overcome the dosha.
Regular performance of santi pooja on Shahsti Thithi and chanting the 108 names of Lord Nataraj and occasional visits to temples like Sri Kalahasti in Andhra Pradesh and Tirunageswaam may help the native.
A holy dip in river in Rameswaram and offer oblations to ancestors will help in removing the curses of piturs if that is the reason for the dosha running in the family.
Do not do any harm to snakes and other reptiles and chanting the names of 9 major dynastical heads of serpents 21 times on Shahsti Thithis will be a powerful remedy. Do leave a snake in the forests on Amavasya day. If possible, install a five-hooded Sarpa Raja made of silver, offer turmeric mixed raw rice, chant the mantras, and keep the same in Lord Subramanyeswara Swamy temple.
Worship of Maanasaa Devi is a powerful remedy for any dosha arising out of curse of serpents.
1. Japam has to be performed separately for Kuja, Rahu and Ketu.
2. Visit Rahu Temple situated In Tamilnadu Tirunageswram and perform milk abishekam in Rahukalam after performing this, visit Vaideeswaran koyal (Kuja Temple) and then Ketu temple in Peroambare and perform pooja.
3. It is advisable to visit Srikalahasthi, Andhra Pradesh, India and perform pooja for Kalasarpa Dosha Nivarana and perform Pooja to Goddess Gyana Prasunamba with kumkum.
4. Those who are not financially sound may perform pooja to Lord Subramaneswara Swami temple for a minimum of seven Tuesdays.
5. Ware a ring made of silver in the form of Sarpa. The same should be worn to the point finger. Purohits at Triambkeswar near Nasik are renowned for remedies to Kala Sarpa Dosha.
6. Wear Gomedika or Vaiduryam (cats eye) made of silver and wear the same in Middle finger.
7. Naga padaga made of silver and donate it to a Brahmin in Lord Siva Temple after performing Ekadasa Rudrabhishekam to reduce negative effects.
The following mantras have to be chanted for 21 days regularly
The idol of snake may be gifted with new clothes, betel leaves and other auspicious items to a Vedic Brahmin at the sixth consecutive Shahsti Thithi pooja will overcome all curses due to the Naga dosha or Kala Sarpa dosha.
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HD photographs of Melpomene statue on Aile de Flore at Musee du Louvre - Page 666
This time while we were at the Musee du Louvre we took these high definition photos showing a statue called Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy, which is located on the Aile de Flore and was sculpted by Gustave Crauk.
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Here you can see the statue of Melpomene, which is an allegory depicting the Muse of Singing, however, she became more well known as the Muse of Tragedy, which is why Melpomene is often sculpted holding a tragic mask like you can see in this HD photo.
Now, as you can tell, this allegorical statue of Melpomene is located above a balcony on the second level of the Aile de Flore wing, and when you are looking at this facade of the former Palais du Louvre from the Cour du Carrousel courtyard, you will see this statue positioned in a niche, fourth from the right hand side.
So this close up image shows the detailing that went into producing this sculpture of Melpomene including the tragic mask she is holding, which was produced by Gustave Adolphe Desire Crauk, sometimes spelt Crauck, who was born in Valenciennes in 1827 and entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1845 studying to become a French sculptor.
Gustave Crauk won the Prix de Rome in 1851 and after this started to receive several orders from the French state and the City of Paris with several for The Louvre, numerous busts that can be found at the Chateaux de Versailles and other works for churches and different tourist attractions.
And he had a very successful, long career, donating several works to his home town in order to set up a museum, which was inaugurated in 1903, but Gustave Crauk did not pass away until 1905 and his name still lives on, although his works have now been combined with another famous French sculptor at the Fine Arts Museum in Valenciennes.
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When you’re working on something important and have a lot of tabs open in your web browser, things can get messy really fast. You might lose your place when searching for something. You might accidentally close a tab and have to go through a bunch of menus to find it.
But if you struggle with tab overload, we’ve got good news: There’s a simple solution in some web browsers that can help you solve these problems and a lot more. It’s a feature known as vertical tabs.
With vertical tabs in Microsoft Edge, you’re back in control of your own web browsing, and you can stay organized. Here’s a look at three reasons why every browser should have them.
They fit your natural web browsing flow better
When browsing the web, you’re naturally scrolling or moving your mouse up and down and never really scrolling left or right. That’s where vertical tabs come to the surface.
In a browser that has the feature — like Microsoft Edge — vertical tabs flow better with the way you’re already working or learning on the web. When activated, vertical tabs move your list of tabs out from the top bar of your browser and into a neat, organized column on the left sidebar.
That’s right across from where you’re already scrolling and where your eyes naturally go as you read through a webpage. Plus, the list of websites is tiled up and down rather than left and right, which makes it easier to click through and switch between tabs as you see fit. You also can fit more tabs this way, without shrinking down the tab names.
Without the feature, you need to drag your mouse all the way to the top of the screen and move left and right to choose between tabs. Why not do it more naturally, with a better fit for the 16:9 aspect ratio of your laptop screen?
It puts the most important info front and center
Another common behavior when browsing the web is paying attention to the title bar of your open window, partially so you see which tab is active. It’s something that you’re familiar with doing in programs like Microsoft Word, where the title bar shows you the name of the document as well as whether your recent changes have been saved. But did you ever think your web browser could do this too?
On Windows 10 with Microsoft Edge, that’s exactly what vertical tabs can do for you. Instead of staring at a screen with a long list of tabs as you’re working, with vertical tabs you’ll have the active tab front and center in your title bar. You’ll see the full title, the favorites icon, and the name of that tab and that tab only.
All other inactive tab information moves out of your way and to the sidebar. That can be critical when you have a lot of tabs open and are working on a research project or something else that requires a lot of your attention.
It’s a cleaner way to organize tabs
Tab hoarding, or having a lot of tabs open, is a common behavior when web browsing, and this is what vertical tabs are designed to accommodate. With the feature, you can more easily align your tabs in an order that you see fit.
Instead of shrinking down tab names as you open more and more tabs, vertical tabs let you see the full tab name in a cleaner list. In addition to feeling more natural, as we mentioned earlier, this allows you to click and drag your tabs from top to bottom in an order you see fit.
It is quite the clean experience, allowing you to expand the bar outward so you always see your tabs or keep it compact, showing just the favorites icons for your open websites. Again, this is useful for situations where you might be doing a research project, comparison shopping at different online retailers, and so on.
Add it to your browser with an extension
Vertical tabs are a native feature and work best in the new Microsoft Edge, but if you want to add them to your current web browser, you can with a workaround. This is accomplished through extensions. On Firefox, you can try the Tab Center Reborn extension, which uses Firefox’s Sidebar API to move tabs vertically. On Google Chrome, you can use the Vertical Tabs extension.
Just be aware that, on Chrome, most of these extensions will not change the new tab bar. You’ll have both the vertical tabs and the usual horizontal tabs. However, since Microsoft Edge is based on Google Chrome’s open-source Chromium engine, there is hope that one day vertical tabs might end up in the world’s most popular web browser.
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By customising tiny 9gm tags usually used for birds, scientists have been able to track a group of 4-6 month old turtles. The turtles were released in Palm Beach. Prof Wyneken of Florida Atlantic University said "The turtles varied a lot in their movements, more so than we expected. They're likely doing much more than just paddling straight to the deep water and riding the current."
Now if we could only raise £32,000 we could tag one of our own little loggerheads!
Read the full story here.
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Stress Management Counseling Services
Counseling for stress management will help you learn how to decompress and reconnect with others and yourself.
Often, people underestimate the impact of constant stress. Taking time for yourself when you are already feeling stretched to the max may feel counterproductive but learning to manage your stress and care for yourself is critical to ensuring you can continue tackling all the other commitments in your life.
Taking time to learn how to manage your stress can help to avoid exhaustion and burnout. Managing stress even helps prevent physical illness.
We’ll help you see the impact of taking time to rest. Doing so can help you feel renewed and better able to respond to the barrage of tasks always at hand.
We understand that everyone handles stress differently
How we’ll use the strength-based approach to help you form techniques for managing stress in all aspects of life:
- Focusing on internal strengths and resources and less on weaknesses or shortcomings to make changing behaviors and improving your life easier.
- Defining sources of stress that have had both long-term and short-term impacts. By identifying your strengths, we’ll develop ways to deal with those stressors.
- Empowering you to develop productive ways to cope with work, school and in other settings where stress can appear.
- Learning to develop realistic habits that will help you take care of yourself physically, socially, and emotionally.
- Restoring balance and setting intentions for personal growth.
What to expect from counseling for stress management
We create a unique counseling process that is tailored to each person’s strengths and experiences.
Counseling is meant to be a time of self-exploration and growth. Your clinician will tailor treatment to your specific needs based on your goals and what you would like to achieve. Counseling has the potential to be short-term or long-term based on your individual needs.
Sustained progress can be made in as few as 8 weekly sessions, but most people find that they need treatment for a minimum of several months. We encourage you to attend weekly sessions, as this allows you to establish a close working relationship with your clinician and to make progress more quickly. Our hope is for you to reach your goals sooner rather than later so that you can live the life you desire.
Both before and during your first session, you will be asked to provide information about yourself and your reasons for seeking counseling. During the first session, your clinician will briefly review Restorative Counseling’s policies so that you are aware of your rights as a client and can ask any questions you may have. The primary focus of the intake process is to discuss your personal, social, family, and educational history to help give your clinician an overall picture of who you are. Goals for treatment will be discussed and your clinician will provide insight into how they conduct counseling sessions.
In addition to learning about you, the Intake process is a time for you to learn about your clinician. It is important that you feel they are the right fit for your style and needs. We encourage you to ask questions so you can be clear on what to expect from your clinician.
The intake session(s) typically lasts 55-60 minutes.
Working with you, your clinician will help you explore the sources of your difficulties and develop helpful strategies to address your concerns. Your clinician will provide a space for you to identify your strengths and difficulties. You will be empowered to decide what works best for you and what changes you are ready to make.
Ongoing sessions are 45-53 minutes, depending on your insurance plan.
As you move through the counseling process, you and your clinician will discuss your progress. Once it has been decided that you have achieved your goals, you and your clinician will discuss terminating services. These final few sessions will focus on reviewing the progress you have made and how you can continue to maintain these changes moving forward.
Working together, we will help you restore balance and set intentions for personal growth.
Our clinicians offering stress management counseling services:
Jordan Meehan, LCSW
I provide a safe environment where you can develop insight into your experiences, behaviors, and relationships, as well as build healthy coping habits, self-care skills, and positive self-regard.
Together, we’ll come up with ways to manage stress in a healthy and productive way
It is important to understand the sources of stress so we can work on better managing those stressors. Learning effective techniques to manage stress, both proactively and reactively is an integral part of the work we will do together.
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FRIDAY, July 21, 1972 was one of the most notorious dates in the violent history of the troubles.
Nine people died and many more were injured in what later became known as Bloody Friday, when the IRA detonated 27 bombs in just three-and-a-half hours in Belfast.
Panic-stricken shoppers ran from one to location to another hoping for safety as bombs went off around them.
Four Ulsterbus employees and two soldiers died when a car bomb exploded at Oxford Bus Station - Belfast's biggest depot.
Another car bomb at a shopping centre in Cavehill Road in north Belfast killed two women and a 14-year-old schoolboy.
The bombing was seen a major setback to the IRA.
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The legislative proposals will come courtesy of a number of government ministries and the central bank, as well as various other authorities.
Cryptocurrency regulation is a hot topic for former Soviet bloc states this year. Neighboring Kazakhstan last year signalled its desire to copy Singapore’s Blockchain permissiveness, while Belarus has also announced it wishes to create a hospitable environment for the innovative financial technology.
The dedicated Blockchain skill center will be hosted the Mirzo Ulugbek Innovation Center in the Uzbek capital Tashkent.
On the agenda, sources report, will be “formulating conditions for the use of Blockchain’s potential, increasing professional ability and supporting native developers in its uptake.”
The center is due to begin its official activities on July 1.
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Web based gaming has become a fundamental piece of the Internet as children everywhere on the world sign on and look for new wellsprings of amusement. Internet gaming has advanced to satisfy this need, making games somewhat more intuitive and allowed to test, if you pursue a record. These days youngsters can discover pretty much any sort of game they need on the web, even ones that imitate their #1 TV programs and motion pictures. Here is a current rundown of online locales that offer free internet gaming for youngsters.
The animation network online site is a phenomenal asset for web based games for youngsters. The actual organization has around 58 unique shows, which the organization has put together a significant number of their games with respect to. You can discover games with your number one TV characters and take them through various dream levels. To empower game play, the animation network has made an arrangement of extraordinary identifications that are offered out to players that accomplish specific point’s connected objectives during the game. Each game has various identifications to gather. Anyone can pursue a free record on the site as long as they have a functioning email.
This online children webpage likewise offers many age suitable games for offspring, everything being equal. Youngsters can assume through part messing เว็บแทงบอล around, arcade style games, puzzle, creature, experience and occasional games to browse. Moreover, games with a large number of similar characters included on the well known TV network are additionally accessible, for example, SpongeBob square jeans.
Bakugan measurements online depend on the mainstream Japanese import arrangement. The show follows a gathering of teenagers that partake in a game, which actuates little animals to life. The online rendition of the famous show follows this pattern, taking gamers through a wide range of universes and provoking them to fight others and gather certain things. It is very mainstream and has kids everywhere on the world taking part in the activity. Every world you visit has an alternate arrangement of things to gather, testing the gamer to go up against others on the web.
This site highlights games for offspring of more youthful ages, TVOkids has games with schooling turn. A portion of the areas are riddles and science, math and science, wellbeing and sports, craftsmanship and music. Gamers will test their online abilities just as their psychological capacities intended to make learning a good time for kids outside of school.
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The astonishing amount of antibiotics prescribed by Doctors on a daily basis has led to a new superbug. In my post ‘Why won’t my Doctor give me antibiotics’ I discussed how this may come about. But to refresh your memory I will summarize.
When we overuse antibiotics, the bacteria evolve and develop new ways to fight off our antibiotics. For example, they may evolve tougher cell walls, or a pump on their surface to pump out the toxic antibiotics. This has resulted in some bacterial infections becoming ‘resistant’ to certain classes of antibiotics. And the worrying thing is, our design and development of new antibiotics is not keeping up with bacterial evolution.
In the US recently a superbug has been discovered that is resistant to last-resort antibiotics! This is more than bad. If you have ever wondered why our ancestors had such short life spans (less than half of our current life span), the answer is infection. We are running out of antibiotics and this could have devastating consequences for humanity.
The responsibility does not solely fall to the doctor; patients also own a piece of responsibility and it’s time for you to take control. Unless you have a suspected bacterial infection, stop asking your doctor for antibiotics. They will not help!
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BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — Germany's latest World Cup victory over England will be remembered not for any of the brilliant goals but for the one that didn't count.
Ask anyone — players, coaches, thousands of fans in the stadium and millions watching on television — and there's little question that Frank Lampard put a shot in the net late in the first half that would have tied the score.
But referee Jorge Larrionda waved play on, and Germany used two second-half goals by Thomas Mueller for a 4-1 victory Sunday.
The Germans are headed to the quarterfinals against Argentina. The English are shaking their heads in disbelief.
"It's incredible," England coach Fabio Capello said. "We played with five referees, and they can't decide if it's a goal or no goal. The game was different after this goal. It was the mistake of the linesman and I think the referee, because from the bench I saw the ball go (in)."
Germany coach Joachim Loew couldn't argue that point: "What I saw on the television, this ball was behind the line. It must have been given as goal."
"The goal was very important," Capello said. "We could have played a different style. We made some mistakes when they played the counterattack. The referee made bigger mistakes."
Larrionda and assistant referee Mauricio Espinosa were not made available to comment. FIFA said it "will not make any comments on decisions of the referee on the field of play."
Soccer's rules-making panel agreed in March not to pursue experiments with technology that could help referees judge goal-line decisions.
Germany went up on goals by Miroslav Klose and Lukas Podolski before England's Matthew Upson made it 2-1 in the 37th minute.
Lampard's nongoal came a minute later. After the ball landed across the line, it spun back into the arms of Germany goalkeeper Manuel Neuer.
Capello initially celebrated what he thought was an equalizer by clenching his fists and shaking his arms. But his face changed when he realized the goal had not been given.
As the players headed off the field at halftime, England's Wayne Rooney walked over to a linesman and gestured with his hands how far he thought the ball crossed the goal line.
In 1966, England and Germany were 2-2 in extra time in the World Cup final when Geoff Hurst's shot struck the underside of the crossbar, bounced down and spun back into play. That time, the referee consulted his linesman, who awarded the goal.
Hurst went on to score a third goal in England's 4-2 win at Wembley.
This time, it was Mueller getting two goals.
"We heard that the ball was behind the line, that we were fortunate," Mueller said of Lampard's shot. "Before the last two goals, the game hung in the balance; England was putting on the pressure."
The German forward finished two quick counterattacks within three minutes to sink England's hopes. It was the most lopsided England loss in a World Cup.
"I think if you look back at the game as a whole, we've been beaten by the better team," England captain Steven Gerrard said. "At 2-1, if Frank's ball had stayed, I think it would have been a nice turning point in the game."
Notable: British Prime Minister David Cameron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel apparently had bigger concerns than just the world economy at the G-20 summit of world leaders in Toronto. The pair ducked out of formal economic talks to watch the second half of the match.
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Treatments and solutions designed to bring you relief.
Northwest Institute for Digestive Surgery offers top of the line surgical solutions for diseases and ailments related to the stomach. The stomach is a muscular, hollow, dilated part of the gastrointestinal tract that functions as an important organ in the digestive system. The stomach is located between the esophagus and the small intestine. It secretes digestive enzymes and gastric acid to aid in food digestion.
Gastric ulcers are breaks in the lining of the stomach. The most common symptom is upper abdominal pain. The pain is often described as a burning or dull ache. Other symptoms include belching, vomiting, weight loss, or poor appetite. Complications may include bleeding, perforation, and blockage of the stomach. Common causes include the bacteria helicobacter pylori and nonsteriodal anti-inflammatory drugs.
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is a procedure where a flexible tube with a light and camera at the end, called an endoscope, is used to examine the lining of the esophagus, stomach, and first part of the small intestine.
A computerized tomography (CT) scan combines a series of X-ray images taken from different angles and uses computer processing to create cross-sectional images of the inside of your body. CT scan images provide more detailed information than plain X-rays do.
For a gastric emptying study, a patient eats a meal in which the solid component of the meal, the liquid component of the meal, or both, are mixed with a small amount of radioactive material. A scanner is placed over the patient's stomach to monitor the amount of radioactivity in the stomach for several hours after the test meal is eaten. As the radioactively-labeled food empties from the stomach, the amount of radioactivity in the stomach decreases. The rate at which the radioactivity leaves the stomach reflects the rate at which food is emptying from the stomach.
PillCam® uses a miniaturized camera contained in a disposable capsule that naturally passes through the digestive system, allowing us to directly view the small bowel, without sedation or radiation. With PillCam® we have the ability to quickly and efficiently detect and monitor abnormalities throughout the GI tract.
The SmartPill Capsule Motility Procedure is an exciting advancement in gastrointestinal healthcare. Once ingested, the SmartPill Capsule collects pressure, pH and temperature data from your GI tract and wirelessly transmits that information, allowing your physician to analyze. With just one capsule, we are able to obtain the information needed to better evaluate your condition.
Laparoscopy is a surgical diagnostic procedure used to examine the organs inside the abdomen. It is a low-risk, minimally invasive procedure where only small incisions are made. This procedure allows our doctors to see inside your body in real time, without open surgery.
Endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) is a specialized endoscopic technique used by our doctors to diagnose and remove large areas of early cancers arising in the gastrointestinal tract, including the esophagus, stomach, small intestine and colon. EMR has become a safe alternative to surgery for the treatment of early cancer arising from conditions including Barrett’s esophagus.
Laparoscopic partial and total gastrectomy are procedures in which part or all of the stomach is surgically removed. This may need to be performed for a number of reasons, including stomach cancer, esophageal cancer, stomach ulcers, gastroparesis, and non-cancerous tumors.
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- 1 Who is the first Catholic saint?
- 2 Is there a saint Carlos?
- 3 Who is the patron saint of dieting?
- 4 Why is Charles Borromeo a saint?
- 5 What does Borromeo mean?
- 6 Who is the most beautiful saint?
- 7 Who was the first female saint?
- 8 Who is the oldest Saint ever?
- 9 Who was made a saint in 2020?
- 10 Why did Carlo Acutis die?
- 11 Can you be a saint while alive?
- 12 Is there a saint for anxiety?
- 13 Who is the patron saint of love?
- 14 Can I pray to lose weight?
Who is the first Catholic saint?
So, the answer the question literally and as written, the first Catholic saint was St. Udalric, who was canonized by Pope John XV in 993.
Is there a saint Carlos?
Carlo, who lived in Milan, was beatified, or declared “blessed” by the pope, on Saturday after a miracle was attributed to him earlier this year. The ceremony, in Assisi, Italy, was the second-to-last step before Carlo can be canonized as a saint.
Who is the patron saint of dieting?
Saint Charles Borromeo is the Patron Saint of Obesity and Dieting.
Why is Charles Borromeo a saint?
He is the patron saint of bishops, cardinals, seminarians, and spiritual leaders. Borromeo received a doctorate in civil and canon law from the university of Pavia in 1559. When the council closed, Borromeo served in executing its decrees and was largely instrumental in bringing out the Roman catechism in 1566.
What does Borromeo mean?
Spanish: habitational name from the Borromean Islands in Lago Maggiore, Italy, borne by St. Carlo Borromeo (16th century). Similar surnames: Borne, Terrones, Borre, Borom, Cotroneo, Berrones, Morrone, Borrello.
Who is the most beautiful saint?
Rose of Lima
|Saint Rose of Lima T.O.S.D.|
|Born||Isabel Flores de Oliva April 30, 1586 Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru|
|Died||August 24, 1617 (aged 31) Lima, Viceroyalty of Peru|
|Venerated in||Catholic Church Anglican Communion|
|Beatified||April 15, 1667 or 1668, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement IX|
Who was the first female saint?
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, née Elizabeth Ann Bayley, (born August 28, 1774, New York, New York [U.S.]—died January 4, 1821, Emmitsburg, Maryland, U.S.; canonized 1975; feast day January 4), first native-born American to be canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is the oldest Saint ever?
Chronological list of saints in the 1st century
|Pope Clement I||Rome||100|
|John the Apostle||Bethsaida, Galilee||100|
|Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilla||100|
|Prosdocimus||Antioch, Asia Minor||100|
Who was made a saint in 2020?
The pope is on it. Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old Italian boy who died in 2006 and is set to be beatified in October 2020.
Why did Carlo Acutis die?
Acutis died of acute leukemia on Oct. 12, 2006. He was put on the road to sainthood after Pope Francis approved a miracle attributed to Acutis: The healing of a 7-year-old Brazilian boy from a rare pancreatic disorder after coming into contact with an Acutis relic, a piece of one of his T-shirts.
Can you be a saint while alive?
For starters, the type of saint we’re talking about is a heavenly being, so according to the church, you can ‘t be canonized while you ‘re alive (normally the process doesn’t start until at least five years after death). Martyrs are people who died because of their faith.
Is there a saint for anxiety?
Patronage. St. Dymphna is the patron saint of mental illness and anxiety.
Who is the patron saint of love?
|Patronage||Affianced couples, against fainting, beekeepers, happy marriages, love, plague, epilepsy, Lesvos (for Catholics)|
Can I pray to lose weight?
Yes, it is possible to lose weight, get fit and healthier through prayer. I know prayer works with weight loss and health challenges: I’ve lost 150 pounds and maintained it almost 20 years only by the grace of God, eating more healthfully and through “re-creation.” Without God’s help, I would have been dead long ago.
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In Ayurveda, herbal medicine is an important branch of medicine. Herbalism is often used in conjunction with diet, exercise and lifestyle to help address doshic imbalances. Although Ayurvedic herbal medicine is a complex subject, there are some basic tenants that create the foundation.
How Ayurvedic Herbal Medicine Works
Firstly, it’s important to understand that according to Ayurveda, every herb and ingredient is classified and used according to its gunas, virya, vipaka, and rasa. Each of these qualities have an effect on our doshas. Understanding these effects is the first step towards understanding Ayurvedic herbal medicine.
In Ayurveda, there are 10 pairs of opposing gunas. Each guna either increases or decreases the three doshas (Vata, Pitta and Kapha).
- Heavy vs Light
- Slow-dull vs Sharp
- Cold vs Hot
- Oily vs Dry
- Smooth vs Rough
- Dense vs Liquid
- Hard vs Soft
- Static vs Mobile
- Subtle vs Gross
- Cloudy vs Clear
The virya refers to an ingredient’s potent energy and the immediate effect on agni (digestive fire). It is either:
The vipaka refers to the post digestive effects of an ingredient. This is either:
The rasa refers to taste. The rasa of herbs can sometimes be the opposite of what they are after digested, which makes Ayurvedic herbology very specific in its treatment. The rasa of herbs can be:
- Sweet: Increases kapha, decreases vata and pitta. Promotes the growth of tissues, soothes the senses and organs, and calms the mind. It is nourishing, revitalizing, tonifying, and rejuvenative. Rice, mango, and shatavari are examples of this.
- Sour: Increases kapha and pitta, decreases vata. Kindles the digestive fires and stimulates the mind. Examples of this are yogurt, lemon, and rhubarb. Sour remedies are rare but effective.
- Salty: Increases kapha and pitta, decreases vata. Promotes digestion, reduces stiffness in joints, increases appetite, and acts as a mild sedative. It is not necessarily found in herbal remedies, but can be added to increase the “saltiness” of herbal preparation.
- Pungent: Increases vata and pitta, decreases kapha. The pungent taste is stimulating, increases the appetite, is a diaphoretic, expectorant, and kills parasites. It helps to purify the blood and reduce issues with obesity and excess fluid in the body. Cardamom, ginger, and black pepper are examples.
- Bitter: Increases vata, decreases pitta and kapha. Highly effective in viral infections or reducing inflammation. Bitterness detoxifies, is antibacterial, reduces fevers, and cleanses the blood. Neem, aloe, and bitter gourd are examples.
- Astringent: Increases vata, decreases kapha and pitta. With powerful anti-inflammatory properties, astringent rasa aids in stopping diarrhea, promotes healing, and is an effective and natural sedative. Examples include pomegranate, chickpeas and green tea.
Putting it together
Once you understand the gunas, virya, vipaka, and rasa of an ingredient, you can begin to understand its effects. For example, Ashwagandha has a rasa that is bitter and astringent. It also has a warm and heating virya, however, after metabolic digestion, its vipaka becomes more sweet and unctuous, which is why it is suitable as a Rasayana for the muscles, fat, and reproductive tissues, and best for Vata balancing.
Another example would be dried Ginger with its pungent rasa, and with a virya which is hot. After digestion, its vipaka is pungent and sweet, which makes it suitable for Kapha and Vata types, and is helpful in reducing adipose tissue.
The best way to determine the right Ayurvedic herbal medicine is to consult with your Ayurvedic physician or Ayurvedic practitioner. But, if you’re looking to start incorporating Ayurvedic herbs now, a fantastic place to begin is with Chyawanprash. Chyawanprash is one of the most widely prescribed formulas because it contains all six rasa, meaning it is suitable for all constitutions, and is made up of over 30 powerful herbs and natural ingredients that nourish the entire physiology and revitalize the system.
Ceanna Saatsaz is a Licensed Master Esthetician, Certified Ayurvedic Practitioner, and Certified Professional Herbalist from Seattle, WA.
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As a small business person you rely on email. Your messages contain requests for work, invoices, client questions, and more. It's only natural that you would spend a good portion of your time working with your email messages.
But some of that time you spend on email messages could be better spent. How many times have you searched your Gmail inbox to find a lost message? Have you ever placed an email message in the wrong label? Maybe you've even accidentally deleted an important message. If you waste time dealing with all these email chores, you're not alone.
What if you could learn to spend less time on your email and accomplish more at the same time? With Gmail, you can organize your inbox to be more effective. You can improve your email inbox so that you can find your messages quickly. You'll never have to worry about a lost message again.
Everyone's email needs are slightly different. Once you understand how Gmail works you can pick and choose the features that work best for you.
What You'll Learn in This Gmail Inbox Organization Tutorial
In this tutorial, I explain how to organize your Gmail inbox for maximum efficiency. I'll start by going over some basic email concepts like folders, labels, and tabs. Then I'll provide you with detailed instructions on how to use your Gmail inbox effectively by using labels and tabs.
Before we begin, you may also wish to learn more about how to filter and block unwanted emails in Gmail or review this helpful email prioritization tutorial:
Difference Between a Label, a Folder, and a Tab in Gmail
Before you can make the best use of your Gmail inbox, you need to understand some basic concepts. Folders, Labels, and Tabs in email have some similarities. But they also have some important differences. Let's look at each concept separately.
1. What is a Folder?
Many email systems are folder-based. You create folders that work much like physical cardboard folders that you might have in your office filing cabinet. In a folder-based email system, you can use folders to store related messages.
Much like the cardboard folders in your office, once an email message is placed in an email folder that is the only place it can be. Gmail is not a folder-based email system.
2. What is a Label?
Gmail is a label-based email system. Nearly everything you would normally consider a folder in other email systems is a label in Gmail. That includes your Inbox, Trash, Spam, and Draft folders, which are technically labels in Gmail.
Labels appear to the left in your Gmail screen. They also appear to the left of each Gmail subject line in a closed Gmail message and below the subject line in an open Gmail.
Labels are like folders in that they can be used to group related messages. An important difference between folders and labels is that a message can have more than one label.
Gmail labels have some handy features. They can be color-coded, for example. Later, I'll show you how to use that feature to organize your Gmail inbox.
There is also a way to use Gmail labels like a folder. I'll also explain how to do that as well.
3. What is a Tab?
The final concept you need to understand before you can organize your Gmail inbox is Tabs and the corresponding category labels. Categories appear on the left side of your Gmail screen with the other labels. Tabs appear across the top of your Gmail screen.
Gmail provides you with pre-defined tabs for five categories:
- Primary - This is where you will receive most of your messages. When you open your Gmail, this tab is open.
- Social - If you have social media notifications turned on or use other social sites, those messages go here.
- Promotions - Promotional email messages go into this tab and sub-category.
- Updates - Messages that are notifications such as receipts and confirmations go here.
- Forums - If you have forum notifications turned on, those messages go here along with messages from discussion boards and mailing lists.
When you receive a message that fits one of these five categories, Gmail automatically sends that message to the appropriate tab and category label.
The message is also filed in the Categories label under the appropriate sub-label.
By default, messages sent to a tab bypass your Primary message tab and your Inbox. So, if you want to see these messages check your other tabs regularly.
Now that we understand what each component of your inbox is, let's learn how to use them so that you can organize Gmail.
2. How to Use Labels
Step 1. Create a Label
You can find the Label tools beneath the Circles label on the left sidebar of the Gmail screen. You may need to click More to see it.
To create a new
label, click the Create new label
option. The New Label box displays.
Type the name of the label you are creating in the Please enter a new label name field. If you wish to nest the new label under another label, click the check box next to Nest label under. Click on the arrow to the right of the field and select the name of the label from the drop-down menu. Click the Create button to create your new label.
Step 2. Apply a Label to an Email
To apply an existing label to a new email, first open the email. Click the Label icon (it looks like a label) at the top of the email to open a drop-down label menu.
Click the name of the label you want to apply to the email. You can also click the Create new option to open the New Label box and create a new label for the email.
Step 3. Color Code a Label
A great way to organize your inbox is to apply color-coding to the labels you create yourself. This allows you to quickly see how messages are labeled at a glance.
As you pass your cursor over the right of the label you want to apply color coding to, you'll notice a small down arrow.
In the example above the new label, Project Merger, hasn't been color coded yet. To color code it, I click the arrow to bring up a drop-down menu. Click the arrow to the right of the Label color option to open the Label color palette.
Click the color of your choice to apply it to the label.
Step 4. How to Manage Gmail Labels
At the bottom of the Labels sidebar you will find
the Manage Labels option. You may need to click More to see it.
If you click this
option, the Labels Settings screen displays. (You can also access the
Label Settings screen by clicking the Settings icon and then clicking
Settings>Labels or by clicking on the Labels icon at the top of an
open email message and clicking the Manage Labels option.)
Use the scroll bar on the right
side of the screen to scroll through the list of labels.
At the top of the Label Settings screen you'll see the System labels. These include labels the Gmail system has defined for you such as your Inbox, Sent Mail, Drafts, Spam, and Trash.
Below the System labels you'll find the Categories labels. If you use Google+ social media, your social circles appear below that. At the bottom, you'll see the labels you've added yourself.
Beside each System label you'll see two or three options beneath the heading Show in label list. The first two options, show and hide, allow you to decide whether the message label appears in the label list on the Gmail sidebar. If show is selected, the label is visible in the list. If hide is selected, it is not. Some labels have a third option, show if unread.
The Categories labels, Google+ circles, and the labels you've added yourself also have a column for Show in message list. You can show or hide messages with those labels. In addition, the labels you've added yourself have an Actions column that allows you to remove a label or edit the label (rename it).
Step 5. How to Use Gmail Labels Like Folders
Some labels are already set up somewhat like folders. The Spam label, for example, bypasses your Inbox and Primary tab.
For most other
labels, use the Move to icon (it
looks like a folder) to use it like a folder. Start with an open message. Click
the Move to icon to display the Move to drop-down menu.
Select the label you want to move the message to from the list. This moves the message from your Inbox and Primary tab and into the label you chose.
Note: If the message has two labels the message will still appear under that
second label even though you used the Move
to drop-down menu to move it. In the example above, the message is labeled
Project ABC and Project Merger. If I use the Move to option to move it under Project Merger, it will still
appear in the Project ABC label. However, it will not appear in your Inbox.
Step 6. Optimizing Your Gmail Inbox with Labels
Now that you understand how to use labels, you can better organize your Gmail inbox by incorporating the following features:
- Add new labels to group messages together.
- Color code important message labels to make them easy to find.
- Hide message labels that you don't need to see.
3. How to Use Tabs
Step 1. Disable a Tab
You don't have to use the five default tabs in your Gmail inbox. If you don't like them, you can disable them. (The only tab you cannot disable is the Primary tab.)
To disable a tab, click on the Settings icon (it looks like a gear) in the upper right corner of the Gmail screen. From the drop-down menu, click Configure inbox. The Select tabs to enable window displays.
To disable a tab, uncheck the
checkbox next to the tab and click the Save button. For me, it makes sense to uncheck the
checkbox next to the Forums tab. I don't have any forums notifications set up
and that tab is always empty.
Be careful, though. If you
disable a tab that is full of messages, those messages will display in your Inbox under the Primary tab.
To enable a tab that you've disabled, return to the Select tabs to enable window and recheck the checkbox next to the tab name. Click the Save button again.
Step 2. Show Starred Messages from Tabs
You can also use the Select tabs to enable window to display starred messages in your Inbox under the Primary tab. This can keep you from missing an important message that you want to follow up with.
To activate this feature, click the checkbox next to the Include starred in Primary option. Click the Save button. De-activate the feature by unclicking the checkbox and clicking the Save button again.
Step 3. Optimizing your Gmail Inbox with Tabs
How can understanding tabs help you configure your Gmail inbox?
First, you can disable any tabs you aren't currently using for a less cluttered inbox. Some users dislike the tabs feature and disable all the tabs except for the Primary tab.
Next, you can use the Show Starred Messages feature to mark messages that you want to follow up with. Once the feature is enabled, starred messages appear in your Inbox where you are less likely to forget about them.
4. How to Use Inbox Settings to Convert to a Classic Inbox
If you are used to an inbox without tabs, you can use the Inbox Settings screen to set one up in Gmail.
Caution: If you're not used to a classic inbox, you may wish to skip over this section.
Step 1. Access the Inbox Settings Screen
To access the Inbox Settings screen, start from the main Gmail screen. Click the Settings icon on the right. From the drop-down menu, click Settings > Inbox. The Inbox Settings screen appears.
As you can see, the default includes the five default tabs.
Step 2. Change Inbox Type
To restructure your inbox type, click the down arrow next to the word Default. A drop-down menu displays.
All the options on the drop-down menu other than Default do away with the five default tabs.
Many classic inboxes display unread messages at the top of the inbox. If this is what you want, click the Unread first option and click the Save Changes button.
The Unread messages display at the top of your inbox in chronological order from newest to oldest. Below that is an inbox section called Everything Else. Your email inbox is effectively split into two sections.
The other non-default options also split your inbox. Here is what you will see with each of those options:
Important first - At the top you will see
messages Gmail thinks are important. At the bottom, you will see Everything else.
- Starred first - At the top you will see Starred messages. At the bottom, you will see Everything else.
- Priority inbox - This option divides your inbox into four sections. At the top you will see Important and unread messages. Next you will see Starred messages. The third section is left empty for you to customize. At the bottom, you will see Everything else.
If you decide to return to the Gmail default view, select Default from the drop-down menu and click the Save Changes button.
Step 3. How Inbox Settings Can Help You
Moving away from the default inbox settings can help you to use your inbox more effectively, especially if you don't typically receive messages that would fit under one of the default tabs.
messages that you haven't moved under a label are visible in your inbox, reconfiguring
the settings can help you find messages that might ordinarily have accidentally
been sorted into one of the tabs.
Reconfiguring your inbox is probably not the best way to organize your email if you are on lots of mailing lists, receive lots of social media notifications, or receive lots of promotional emails.
5. How to Archive Files
One way to keep your email inbox uncluttered is to archive old messages. Here's is what you need to know about archiving messages in Gmail.
Step 1. Archive a Message
Archiving a message is easy. Start from the main Gmail screen. Click the checkbox next to the message or messages you want to archive.
A menu displays above the messages. Click the Archive icon (it looks like a box). The selected message is archived.
Step 2. Find Archived Messages
There are two ways to find an archived message:
- Use the Gmail Search Function - Gmail search results include archived messages. To learn more about Gmail search, review this tutorial, How to Search Your Emails in Gmail Like a Pro.
- Look in All Mail Label - The All Mail label is exactly what it sounds like. A label that is applied to all email.
The All Mail label is usually at the bottom of your label list. To find your archived message in the All Mail label, go to the bottom of your Gmail sidebar. You may need to click More to see it. Click All Mail. Scroll through the messages until you find the one you are looking for.
Step 3. Unarchive a Message
If you accidentally archive a message, you can return it to your inbox.
Open your All Mail label. Find the messages you want to return to your inbox. Click the checkbox beside each message. Click the Move to inbox icon above the messages.
When you look at a conversation in All Mail after moving it to your Inbox, note that an Inbox label (grey) has been applied to the messages.
You can organize your Gmail inbox using Tabs and Labels. You can also configure your inbox in a way that works best for you.
As a small business person who uses Gmail, it's important to understand both the Gmail system and your own email needs. Once you understand how Gmail works, you'll know how to organize your Gmail so that it is most efficient for your needs. Learn more in our Ultimate Beginner's Guide to Using Gmail.
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A national pollster has found that Mississippi is home to the largest percentage of self-identified political conservatives among the states in the U.S., with a slim majority identifying their political views as conservative. Alabama, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming come close to the 50% conservative identification mark, according to Gallup’s latest poll on the subject. The report from the poll said that “Mississippi is the first state to exceed 50% conservative identifiers in the three years Gallup has compiled ideological identification at the state level.”
Vermont, Rhode Island, and the District of Columbia showed the greatest percentages of self-identified liberals, according to the survey. It was no surprise to learn that the most conservative states are typically in the South and West. The least conservative states are in the Eastern part of the country and on the West Coast. The top ten rankings make clear that “conservative identification” is much more common than “liberal identification,” with each of the top ten conservative states at or above 45% identification and only the District of Columbia exceeding 31% liberal identification.
The report reveals that Americans nationwide are about twice as likely to identify as conservative as they are to identify as liberal. It also reports that Americans are more likely to say they are conservative than moderate, a trend that displays the power of political propaganda transmitted through the mass media to influence public opinion over time. Not surprisingly, then, conservatives outnumber liberals in every state. Only in the District of Columbia do liberal identifiers exceed conservative identifiers (41% to 18%). Vermont (30.7% conservative to 30.5% liberal), Rhode Island (29.9% to 29.3%), and Massachusetts (29.9% to 28.0%) have the closest state-level division between conservatives and liberals. Gallup concludes:
The conservative political label continues to prevail by a significant margin in most of the U.S. states. Additionally, ideological identification has been largely stable in recent years even though there has been greater change in party affiliation at the state level.
The 2010 elections brought more politicians who label themselves as “conservative” into office at the state level. Some of the results are evident in the approaches state governments are taking to deal with their biggest challenges, such as attempts to cut pay or benefits of unionized state workers to address revenue shortfalls and budget deficits. It has always amazed me that working men and women, as well as retired workers, support candidates who sponsor or support programs that benefit only the folks who are among super rich and huge companies in Corporate America. Voting against their own interest appears to have become a pattern in some states over the past ten years.
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Stefanie Hjalmervik, Learning Specialist, talks about teaching during the pandemic lockdown and in person.
“I’ll never forget that day,” said Stefanie Hjalmervik, Learning Specialist, about March 13 when the pandemic lockdown was announced. “We were standing in the Library and Dr. Gordon said the school would close at the end of the day. I was stunned.”
Even though she knew it was coming, the reality of the lockdown still caught her by surprise. “I thought, OK, this will be a bit like time at home for snow,” she said. It turned out to be a much different experience. “There was an incredible learning curve for me. My normal teaching methods are all hands-on with heavy use of manipulatives. All of a sudden, I was in a situation where I couldn’t review a student’s work as they were doing it or look over their shoulder to see if they needed any help. I had to find a way to coach students in a totally different way.”
Stefanie Hjalmervik before the pandemic. The use of visual aids and
manipulatives are central to her work as Learning Specialist.
Mrs. Hjalmervik began researching ways to overcome the teaching obstacles. “I researched best practices and there was a great deal of trial and error as I tested out new tools and methods to find the ones that worked best,” she said. Even her students were trying new things and finding ways to make it work. “I was constantly updating my curriculum and approach to teaching and this continued until the end of May last year. There were lots of late nights.”
Like many teachers during remote learning, Mrs. Hjalmervik held online office hours, and the demand for her time was significant. “Office hours would regularly extend to 6 pm,” she said.
Some students just needed to talk to hear that everything would be OK.”
By September, after teaching Summer Academy classes,” she had found her stride and was ready for the new school year. “Summer Academy helped to reinforce what I had learned about teaching online,” she said. “As long as I had a system and routine, everything was good.”
This confidence and level of organization served her well this year as she took on a heavier workload supporting bimodal students in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. “There were many bimodal students in my group at the beginning of the year,” she said, “but the numbers have slowly fallen off as students have come back to school. I still have three.” Teaching bimodal has been in addition to her regular Learning Specialist duties.
Immediately before the pandemic lockdown in March 2020,
Stefanie Hjalmervik collaborated on a Study Skills podcast.
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Congressional students have also had to adapt to the new and changing circumstances due to the pandemic. Mrs. Hjalmervik believes they have taken everything in stride. “There was a high level of anxiety, to begin with,” she said, “especially with the masks, but now they’re used to it. They’ve really learned their strengths and weaknesses,” she said.
The pandemic has pushed teachers to find new ways to use technology, especially after teaching remotely for so long. “Teachers have learned to bring technology into their classrooms in meaningful ways,” said Mrs. Hjalmervik. “These technologies can have big benefits for some students who need the tools to aid their learning.”
As for silver linings, Mrs. Hjalmervik has positive takeaways both at work and at home. “The pandemic has forced me to manage my time more than ever,” she said. “I’ve had to think ahead for my students. It also got me doing things I wouldn’t normally do, like build a deck with my husband,” she said proudly showing a picture of the finished product. “I also paid attention to the wildlife outside of my window and spent precious time with my family.
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Korean Jindo Dog Breed Information Center – A Guide To The Jindo Dog
The Korean Jindo breed originated from Korea and was first brought to Japan during the Meiji era (1868). Since then, it spread throughout Asia. Today there are around 1 million jindos living in over 40 countries worldwide. They have been bred for many reasons including obedience, hunting skills, companionship and other qualities such as good with children or pets. There are two main types of jindos: the small and large type.
The smaller ones weigh between 25-35 pounds while the larger ones weigh up to 80 pounds. All jindos have a dark coat with white markings. Their eyes are black, but their pupils may be yellow or brown depending on which color of fur they prefer to wear.
Jindos are considered one of the most intelligent breeds. They are known to be very loyal and affectionate towards humans and other animals. They love playing games, such as fetch, tug of war, hide-and-seek and more. They enjoy being petted and cuddled. Some jindos like to sleep on a regular basis; others prefer sleeping all day long!
Jindos bond strongly with their owners and have a tendency to cry when they are left alone. Jindos are known to be good with children and can be trained to participate in agility and obedience events.
Jindo Dog Care
Jindo dogs need lots of attention and exercise. They can get bored quite easily, which can lead to destructive behavior around the house, such as chewing on furniture or rugs. They will need to be walked on a leash several times a day and given enough space to run around in. Jindos are prone to getting sick if they do not have good living conditions. If you live in a small apartment or are gone for long periods of time, a jindo might not be the right dog for you.
If you are a student or stay at home all day, you must make sure you have time to take your dog out for a walk. Jindos should be walked at least twice a day and they enjoy spending time outside. If you do not give them the exercise they need they tend to get bored and start chewing on things around the house. They can also become destructive if left alone for too long. They need human contact and crave your attention.
When you are back from being out for a walk with your dog don’t forget to praise them or give them a treat to reward their good behavior.
Jindo Dog Walking
If you are having a dinner party or some other type of social gathering at your house it is important that you make sure your jindo stays downstairs or in another room. They are known to be very jealous and will bark or growl if they think your attention is on someone else. This could ruin a special moment in somebody’s life. Also, due to their tendency to wander and their strong hunting skills it is important that your dog is kept on a leash while in public.
Jindos do not get along with other animals, especially cats. They will usually chase them and may even kill small ones due to their strong hunting instincts. If you own a cat it is best to keep your dog and cat separated at all times. If you do want to socialize your pet with cats it is best to start when they are a young puppy.
Jindos are great guard dogs despite their small size. They will bark at anyone that comes near your house. They will usually bark when they hear a noise that they do not recognize. If someone is walking or running towards your house, they will bark to let you know. Some dogs will chase after strangers but this is rare and can be trained out of them if it happens.
Jindo Dog Health
The average life span of the jindo is between 11 and 15 years. They are prone to health problems such as gastric torsion, bone fractures, and eye problems. It is important that you make sure they eat food that is high in protein and fat, but low in grains.
The jindo is a small hunting dog that lives to please its owner. If you have the time to train it and can afford to take care of such a dog, then it may very well be the perfect pet for you.
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Behavioural reactivity of the Korean native Jindo dog varies with coat colour by YK Kim, SS Lee, SI Oh, JS Kim, EH Suh, KA Houpt… – Behavioural …, 2010 – Elsevier
Melanocyte-stimulating hormone receptor (MC1R) genotype and its effects on coat color in Korean Jindo dogs by KW Hong, SW Kim, HC Jang, SM Yang, YB Shin… – … -Australasian Journal of …, 2009 – ajas.info
Behavioral reactivity of Jindo dogs socialized at an early age compared with non-socialized dogs by YK Kim, SS Lee, SI Oh, JS Kim, EH Suh… – Journal of Veterinary …, 2010 – jstage.jst.go.jp
Suitability of AFLP markers for the study of genetic relationships among Korean native dogs by KS Kim, HW Jeong, CK Park, JH Ha – Genes & genetic systems, 2001 – jstage.jst.go.jp
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|Title: ||Hepatitis B and C infections in HIV-1 and nonHIV infected pregnant women in the BrongAhafo Region, Ghana|
|Authors: ||Frempong, Margaret T.|
Annani-Akollor, Max Efui
Owiredu, William K. B. A.
|Issue Date: ||19-Jul-2019|
|Publisher: ||Public Library of Science|
|Citation: ||: Frempong MT, Ntiamoah P, AnnaniAkollor ME, Owiredu WKBA, Addai-Mensah O, Owiredu E-W, et al. (2019) Hepatitis B and C infections in HIV-1 and non-HIV infected pregnant women in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Ghana. PLoS ONE 14(7): e0219922. https://doi.org/10.1371/ journal.pone.0219922|
Hepatitis B (HBV) or hepatitis C (HCV) virus co-infections in HIV are alarming during pregnancy
due to the risk of vertical transmission and the eventual adverse effects on neonates.
This study was conducted to ascertain the sero-prevalence of HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV coinfections,
evaluate the effect of the co-infections on the immunological and virological characteristics
and assess the association between some demographic and lifestyle characteristics
and risk of HBV, HCV, HIV/HBV and HIV/HCV co-infections among pregnant women
living in the Brong-Ahafo Region of Ghana.
This comparative cross-sectional study was conducted at the anti-retroviral therapy (ART)
clinics of the St. Elizabeth Hospital and the Holy Family Hospital, Brong-Ahafo Region,
Ghana. A total of 248 consecutive consenting pregnant Ghanaian women, 148 diagnosed
with HIV [HIV (+)] and 100 who were HIV negative [HIV (-)], were recruited. Validated questionnaire
was used to obtain demographic and lifestyle data. Venous blood samples were
obtained and HCV status, HBV profile, CD4+ T cell count, and HIV-1 RNA load were
The sero-prevalence of HIV (+) /HBV, HIV (+) /HCV, HIV (-)/HBV, and HIV (-)/HCV infections
were 22 (14.9%), 6 (4.1%), 10 (10.0%), and 12 (12.0%) respectively. HIV-1 viral load
was not significantly different between HIV/HBV, HIV/HCV co-infection and HIV mono-infection.
However, CD4+ T lymphocyte count (364 vs 512 vs 514 cells/μl; p = 0.0009) was significantly
lower in HIV/HBV co-infection compared to HIV/HCV and HIV mono-infection respectively. There was no significant association between demographic and lifestyle characteristics
and risk of HBV and HCV infections in HIV positive and negative subjects except
for late diagnosis of HIV and history of sharing razors blades and pins, where increased
odds of HIV (+) /HBV and HIV (-)/HBV infection were observed.
The prevalence of HIV (+)/HBV (14.9%), HIV (+)/HCV (4.1%), HIV (-)/HBV (10.0%), and
HIV (-)/HCV (12.0%) are high among pregnant women in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana.
HIV/HBV is associated with reduced CD4+ T lymphocyte count but not HIV-1 viral load.
Early diagnosis of HIV and intensification of routine antenatal HBV and HCV are essential to
abate the risk of maternal to child transmission.|
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How to create a keyboard shortcut for a program in Windows XP
This article was previously published under Q310417
This article has been archived. It is offered "as is" and will no longer be updated.
This article describes how to create a keyboard shortcut for a program in Windows XP. Note that this feature works only with program shortcuts on the desktop or the Start menu. This feature does not work if the desktop shortcut is a shortcut to another shortcut.
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Creating a keyboard shortcut
- Right-click the desktop shortcut, and then click Properties.
- On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut Key box.
- Press the keyboard combination that you want to use to start the program. The shortcut combination must consist of one character (a letter, number, or symbol) plus at least two of the following three keys: CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT.
- Click OK.
- The default combination is CTRL+ALT; if you press only a character key, Windows XP automatically adds CTRL+ALT. To use other combinations of the three required keys, press those keys before you press the character key.
- A keyboard shortcut does not work if it conflicts with a keyboard combination that is used in the program that is currently active.
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Make a Back to School Calendar
Get fired up for the new school year with a “Back-to-School Calendar" you and your child can make at home. It's a great way to get those wheels turning again as the school year starts up, while helping your child develop important organization skills that will help her throughout the years to come, both in and out of school! You and your child can pencil-in important dates and events for the school year, keep track of when assignments are due and impress the teacher prepared with how prepared you are. This is a tool you'll use throughout the whole year and it may even become a back to school tradition in your family!
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Security vulnerabilities in widely used Intel processors made over the last two decades could affect computers, mobile phones and cloud servers.
While Meltdown has been found to affect Intel chips, researchers say Spectre could affect most modern processors.
Responding to early reports of the threat, Intel said in a statement that the issue affected many chip vendors and denied it was a "bug".
"Recent reports that these exploits are caused by a 'bug' or a 'flaw' and are unique to Intel products are incorrect," the company said.
"Based on the analysis to date, many types of computing devices — with many different vendors' processors and operating systems — are susceptible to these exploits."
Researchers said almost every processor made by the company since 1995 could be affected.
This has significant implications for multiple laptop and hardware brands, given the common usage of Intel's technology.
What is the vulnerability?
According to one of the report's authors Dr Yuval Yarom, researcher at the University of Adelaide and Data61, the exploits could allow computer programs to access data they should not be allowed to see.
"Programs can, for example, find passwords that are stored in other programs," he said.
In another scenario, when users visit a website, that website could potentially run programs on their computer that view more information than it should be able to, putting sensitive data at risk.
Here's how it works.
Both Meltdown and Spectre take advantage of a common function of processors — the central technology that drives a computer.
To improve performance, most processors try to guess what the computer program is going to do in the future. This is known as "speculative execution".
If the processor guesses incorrectly, they do not apply the changes and continue from where they began, but traces of what the processor was trying to do remain.
"From these traces, we can find out some information about the data that it was processing," Dr Yarom explained.
"Both Spectre and Meltdown are ways of exploiting this behaviour."
In its statement, Intel tried to downplay the effect of these exploits, saying they "do not have the potential to corrupt, modify or delete data".
David Glance, director of the Centre for Software Practice at the University of Western Australia, said the vulnerabilities could be particularly significant for public cloud-based servers such as those you might use on Microsoft's Azure, and the companies that rely on them.
"You run your machine as if it's your machine, but it's in fact running on a server where other companies can be running their own processes," he said.
"We assume that's secure, but what this shows is that we can't necessarily make those assumptions."
On Wednesday, Microsoft said the "majority" of Azure infrastructure had been updated to deal with the vulnerability.
How will it affect you?
The research report said there are patches against Meltdown for Linux, Windows and OS X, and technology companies are reportedly issuing updates to fix the problem.
Intel advised users to check with their operating system vendor or device manufacturer, and to quickly apply any available updates.
Google said in a blog post that it discovered the security flaw in 2017 and began mitigation.
It supplied a full list of affected Google products, adding that Android devices with the latest security updates are protected.
An Amazon spokesperson directed customers to a statement detailing its security patches.
Apple and Microsoft have been contacted for comment.
However for some variants of Spectre, Dr Yarom suggested changes would need to be made to processor chips themselves.
"Some of [the variants], I cannot think of a way to fix them short of fixing the processor design and replacing the processor."
Technology site The Register reported that the software patches necessary to secure devices could slow device performance, even up to 30 per cent.
Dr Yarom agreed that software fixes for Meltdown could cost devices in performance speed.
In its statement, Intel said performance impacts would depend on the device's workload.
"For the average computer user, [it] should not be significant and will be mitigated over time," the manufacturer added.
Dr Glance described the situation as serious but not "hopeless".
"You can never reduce risk down to zero, you can only mitigate it and there are trade-offs," he added.
"One is in cost and in performance."
Dr Yarom said the discovery of Meltdown and Spectre would have a lasting impact on global computing.
"I think that the effect will last for several years," he speculated. "I think it will affect the way that processors are designed."
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Whether you’re remodeling an old kitchen or building one from scratch, the countertop plays a big role in changing the area’s entire aesthetic appeal. But choosing which material to use can be overwhelming and daunting because of the myriad of options you have on the market nowadays. Some of the most popular countertop surfaces you can choose from include:
- Solid Surface (made of acrylic and polyester)
- Stainless Steel
Out of all these materials, stainless steel proves to be the most durable. Although it is found mostly in restaurants and other high-traffic kitchens, it is starting to slip into vogue in the last few years.
If you’re still on the fence about using a stainless steel countertop, take a look at its pros and cons to know whether it is the right one for you.
List of Pros of Stainless Steel Countertops
1. Virtually Indestructible
What makes stainless steel countertops widely used in almost all commercial kitchens is that it is extremely durable. You don’t have to worry about heat, stain or even bacteria. Metal is a nonporous material, so no liquid of any kind will be able to seep through it or damage the surface. For places that need to comply with health and safety standards, like restaurants, using countertop surfaces made of stainless steel will help them keep their cooking areas free from germs and microbes that can spoil their food. Therefore, you can say that keeping them clean or hygienic won’t be a problem at all.
2. Easy to Clean
In restaurants, spillage is very common. Some substances can stain countertops. But with stainless steel surfaces, you won’t have to deal with hard-to-get stains from oil, juice or wine. In fact, wine stains look harmless when spilled on top of stainless steel. All you need to do to get rid of dirt is to wipe it with a damp cloth.
3. Cool to the Touch
This is very useful in high-traffic kitchens where lots of fresh-from-the-stove pans and pots are scattered on every counter. With all the people using such cooking areas, getting burned can’t be avoided sometimes. But stainless steel surfaces do not conduct or spread heat to other parts of the counter. Because of this, you also don’t need to worry about damaging your counter with hot cooking equipment.
4. Elegant with Tailored Look
Stainless steel counters may look cold and unappealing, but it you have them custom-made, your kitchen can look elegant and professional. This is because steel is flexible enough to be designed any way you like. Stainless steel counters can also be perfect for a contemporary kitchen. They can be sleek and fashionable to complement a modern home.
Another advantage of stainless steel over other materials is that it can be bent into shape so you can fit it into any surface. It can be made into a backsplash for a unified look, or an integral sink.
6. Create the Illusion of Space
Because steel is shiny, it reflects different parts of your kitchen, making the room seem bigger and brighter. Thus, it makes your cooking area cozier and more inviting.
List of Cons of Stainless Steel Countertops
1. Dent and Scratch Over Time
If not used with care, or if you drop something heavy on top of your counter, which can have a substantial thrust, then the steel surface can have dents on it. Sharp objects can cause scratches and dents, too. Also, you should be careful in dragging heavy or pointy objects over your steel counters. These are normal, though. Even marble, quartz and especially, tiles can have dents and scratches the longer you use them.
2. Increases Noise Level
This is especially true if you do a lot of cutting, chopping and handling many appliances and utensils on top of your kitchen counter. The noise may be a concerning factor. But if you use protectors or pads underneath your electronics when dragging them across the counter or chopping boards when slicing or cutting food, then you can minimize the noise. Nevertheless, noise isn’t unique to stainless steel counters; other materials can have the same problems.
3. Retain Fingerprints and Other Marks
When cooking, your hands will always be wet, which can leave marks and prints on your counter. But a simple wipe can get rid of them instantly.
4. Have a Cold and Uninviting Appeal
For some people, steel can look cold and unappealing. Mixing and matching steel with other materials, like resin, natural stone and wood will do the trick. In fact, it can give your kitchen a modern vibe.
5. Can Be Expensive
Normally, stainless steel counters will cost you $75 – $150 per square foot, plus, a few hundred more for professional installation. And if you prefer to have one custom-made, you should be prepared to shell out more. But for something as durable, low maintenance and resilient as stainless steel kitchen surfaces that can last a long time, you’ll get great value for your money. In other words, steel counters are a good investment. Just make sure to buy them from a reliable vendor to get your money’s worth.
Aside from that, stainless steel countertops are also quite in-demand nowadays, which means that they can add significant resale value to your home. Besides, any kitchen that has been painstakingly designed and maintained will make any homebuyer want to have it right away.
There are many advantages of stainless steel countertops. In fact, they overcome the disadvantages. As for the price, any homeowner would want to invest in something that will not only last for a long time, but will also improve the look and feel of their home. However, stainless steel isn’t for everyone. But if you want a kitchen that’s not only functional, but also very stylish, then steel countertops are for you.
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Sunday November 13th, 2016 – Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Some of his disciples were remarking about how the temple was adorned with beautiful stones and with gifts dedicated to God. But Jesus said, “As for what you see here, the time will come when not one stone will be left on another; every one of them will be thrown down.”
“Teacher,” they asked, “when will these things happen? And what will be the sign that they are about to take place?”
He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them. When you hear of wars and uprisings, do not be frightened. These things must happen first, but the end will not come right away.”
Then he said to them: “Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be great earthquakes, famines and pestilences in various places, and fearful events and great signs from heaven.
“But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. They will hand you over to synagogues and put you in prison, and you will be brought before kings and governors, and all on account of my name. And so you will bear testimony to me. But make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict. You will be betrayed even by parents, brothers and sisters, relatives and friends, and they will put some of you to death. Everyone will hate you because of me. But not a hair of your head will perish. Stand firm, and you will win life. Luke 21:5-19
The Gospel reading today is pointing us toward the end of time and the culmination of salvation history. It is good for the preacher to point out that the themes about the second coming, in these final Sundays of the liturgical year, will blend smoothly with the first part of Advent, when the theme is likewise the second coming of the Lord.
The reading today conveys conflict on many levels – within oneself, in families and communities, between Church and state, between nations, and in the heavens. Although God is almighty, He allows good and evil to conflict with each other, and allows His people to choose sides. Once we choose, we have to fight for what we have chosen, and even when we are on God’s side, it will not be easy. There is always a price to pay for doing what is right, because evil is always fighting against the good.
This is the overall context in which the Church’s defense of human life in our day needs to be understood, and in which our own acknowledgement of the sanctity of life needs to be understood. It is never enough just to be content with acknowledging to others the beauty of life and presenting that beauty. Some, in doing this, consider themselves exempt from the full-scale war that has been launched against the sanctity of life in our day.
John Paul II’s encyclical “Evangelium Vitae” (The Gospel of Life) makes it clear that nobody is exempt from this war. Some pay a higher price than others for their conscientious objection to the forces of death – for example, medical professionals who refuse to take part in actions that take or endanger the very lives they are committed to serve. Our suffering may, on the other hand, simply be the ridicule or misunderstanding of family, friends, or fellow Christians when we take a strong stand against abortion or euthanasia.
We have to be ready to fight, both as individuals and as a Church community. We have to be fearless in the face of laws and public policies which contradict the Gospel of Life and challenge them. In the end, “not a hair on your head will be destroyed.”
My One Regret: “My abortion is definitely the one thing I regret. There will always be remorse and sadness. The feeling of the loss of a child will always be there. I wish I could have known then what abortion was all about and its devastating effects on the woman. So many women feel that if they had more support and truth during their crisis pregnancy many lives would have been saved.” – from the Silent No More Awareness Campaign post-abortion testimonies here: www.AbortionTestimonies.Com.
This Lectionary Life App installment first appeared in November, 2013. It was authored by Rev. Frank Pavone, Priests for Life’s National Director and Pastoral Associate of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign co-sponsored by Anglicans for Life and Priests for Life.
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Chapter 7—The Law of Heredity
“The Word was made flesh.” (John 1:14)
“When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman.” (Galatians 4:4)
“And the Lord hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all.” (Isaiah 53:6)
We have seen that in His being made of a woman, Christ reached sin at the very fountain head of its entrance into this world and that He must be made of a woman to do this. Also there was laid upon Him the iniquity, in the actual sins, of us all.
Thus all the sin of this world, from its origin in the world to the end of it in the world, was laid upon Him—both sin as it is in itself and sin as it is when committed by us; sin in its tendency and sin in the act: sin as it is hereditary in us, uncommitted by us; and sin as it is committed by us.
Only thus could it be that there should be laid upon Him the iniquity of us all. Only by His subjecting Himself to the law of heredity could He reach sin in full and true measure as sin truly is. Without this there could be laid upon Him our sins which have been actually committed, with the guilt and condemnation that belong to them. But beyond this there is in each person, in many ways, the liability to sin inherited from generations back which has not yet culminated in the act of sinning but which is ever ready, when occasion offers, to blaze forth in the actual committing of sins. David’s great sin is an illustration of this. (Psalm 51:5; 2 Samuel 11:2)
In delivering us from sin, it is not enough that we shall be saved from the sins that we have actually committed; we must be saved from committing other sins. And that this may be so, there must be met and subdued this hereditary liability to sin; we must become possessed of power to keep us from sinning—a power to conquer this liability, this hereditary tendency that is in us to sin.
All our sins which we have actually committed were laid upon Him, were imputed to Him, so that His righteousness may be laid upon us, may be imputed to us. Also our liability to sin was laid upon Him, in His being made flesh, in His being born of a woman, of the same flesh and blood as we are, so that His righteousness might be actually manifested in us as our daily life.
Thus He met sin in the flesh which He took and triumphed over it, as it is written: “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh.” (Romans 8:3) And again: “He is our peace,… having abolished in His flesh the enmity.” (Ephesians 2:14, 15)
And thus, just as our sins actually committed were imputed to Him that His righteousness might be imputed to us, so His meeting and conquering in the flesh the liability to sin and in that same flesh manifesting righteousness, enables us in Him, and Him in us, to meet and conquer in the flesh this same liability to sin and to manifest righteousness in the same flesh.
And thus it is that for the sins which we have actually committed, for the sins that are past, His righteousness is imputed to us, as our sins were imputed to Him. And to keep us from sinning His righteousness is imparted to us in our flesh as our flesh, with its liability to sin, was imparted to Him. Thus He is the complete Saviour. He saves from all the sins that we have actually committed and saves equally from all the sins that we might commit dwelling apart from Him.
If He took not the same flesh and blood that the children of men have with its liability to sin, then where could there be any philosophy or reason of any kind whatever in His genealogy as given in the Scriptures? He was descended from David; He was descended from Abraham; He was descended from Adam and, by being made of a woman, He reached even back of Adam to the beginning of sin in the world.
In that genealogy there are Jehoiakim, who for his wickedness was “buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem” (Jeremiah 22:19); Manasseh, who caused Judah to do “worse than the heathen” (2 Chronicles 33:9); Ahaz, who “made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the LORD” (2 Chronicles 28:19); Rehoboam, who was born of Solomon after Solomon turned from the Lord; Solomon himself, who was born of David and Bathsheba; there are also Ruth the Moabitess and Rahab; as well as Abraham, Isaac, Jesse, Asa, Jehoshaphat, Hezekiah, and Josiah: the worst equally with the best. And the evil deeds of even the best are recorded equally with the good. And in this whole genealogy there is hardly one whose life is written upon at all of whom there is not some wrong act recorded.
Now it was at the end of such a genealogy as that that “the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us.” (John 1:14) It was at the end of such a genealogy as that that “He was made of a woman.” (Galatians 4:4) It was in such a line of descent as that that God sent “His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.” (Romans 8:3) And such a descent, such a genealogy, meant something to Him, as it does to every other man, under the great law that the iniquities of the fathers are visited upon the children to the third and fourth generations. It meant everything to Him in the terrible temptations in the wilderness of temptation, as well as all the way through His life in the flesh.
Thus, both by heredity and by imputation, He was laden with the sins of the world. And, thus laden, at this immense disadvantage He passed triumphantly over the ground where at no shadow of any disadvantage whatever, the first pair failed.
By His death He paid the penalty of all sins actually committed, and thus can justly bestow His righteousness upon all who choose to receive it. And by condemning sin in the flesh, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, He delivers from the power of the law of heredity and so can, in righteousness, impart His divine nature and power to lift above that law, and hold above it, every soul that receives Him.
And so it is written: “When the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.” (Galatians 4:4) And “God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for [on account of] sin, condemned sin in the flesh: that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.” (Romans 8:3, 4) And “He is our peace,… having abolished in His flesh the enmity,… for to make in Himself of twain [God and man] one new man, so making peace.” (Ephesians 2:14, 15)
Thus, “in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren.… For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted.” (Hebrews 2:17, 18)
Whether temptation be from within or from without, He is the perfect shield against it all; and so saves them “to the uttermost that come unto God by him.” (Hebrews 7:25)
God sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, Christ taking our nature as our nature is in its sinfulness and degeneracy, and God dwelling constantly with Him and in Him in that nature—in this God has demonstrated to all people forever that there is no soul in this world so laden with sins or so lost that God will not gladly dwell with him and in him to save him from it all and to lead him in the way of the righteousness of God.
And so certainly is His name Emmanuel, which is, “God with us.”
(To be continued)
(This article was taken from pages 40-44 of the book, The Consecrated Way to Christian Perfection, by Alonzo T. Jones. Some editing has been done for this publication. Editor)
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Kids Summer Journal
Get kids crafting and exploring this Summer with this Paper bag Journal! It is a fun kids activity that will keep kids feeling creative this summer. If you are looking for more boredom busting ideas check out all our summer crafts and activities ideas to keep kids active and entertained this summer! The best craft bloggers are sharing fun kids crafts! From making DIY Tic Tac Toe Game to Wire Flowers with Washi Tape you will find fun creative ideas!
Hi Skip to My Lou readers! This is Amber from Crazy Little Projects here and SO happy to be posting with this Summer Craft Camp Series!This project today makes me really happy. It was fun for ME to make and my kids ate it up! My 10 year old boy spent over an hour working on his and was just in absolute heaven doing it. It’s a perfect project for summertime because your kids will enjoy making it AND will have a fun way to remember summer! It’s a Paper Bag Journal. It’s so easy to make and turns out so cute!
Paper Bag Journal Tutorial:
I made these journals with the girls at church recently (these are a great project for young women activity nights) and when my boys saw them they wanted to try too, so I figured it would be a perfect project for summer! It’s a simple, very easy to make journal that they can stick ticket stubs or pictures, things they collect from the summer in and they can write or put pictures in as well. And seriously-this is easy enough that you can get them started and they can totally finish it themselves!
Here’s how my 10 year old’s turned out:
He is SO proud of it!
- 4-5 brown paper lunch bags
- glue, tape, glue dots, etc.
- scrapbook paper, stickers, crayons, markers, ribbon, buttons, brads, and whatever else you want to embellish with
Grab your brown bags and fold them each in half. Put them all together with the folded side to the left and staple them several times along the edge:
Let the kids decorate!
You can put scrapbook paper inside to create pages:
You can add ribbon to embellish.
You can use the pockets to put keepsakes or pictures in. Just make cute pages that pictures can be added to later:
Just have fun with it! So easy right?!
Here’s a few of my favorites:
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Equity Mutual Funds Become Another Stock Investment Alternative for Beginners
Choosing a stock mutual fund as your first stock investment can make your first stock investment step even easier. You don’t need to bother screening and checking the one by one stock portfolio you want. With equity funds, your money will be managed by the provided investment manager. If you want to start investing in stocks, you have to find the right place. You can get it by visiting www.alphabetastock.com.
Many beginner investors believe that when stock prices have fallen, that’s when you should avoid buying stocks. Actually, such an understanding is not completely wrong, but it is not completely true either. Because there are many cases of buying when the stock price falls and then the price returns to normal or high. With this method, of course, you can get the maximum benefit. But, don’t just apply this method to every falling stock price. There are several other aspects that you should consider. So be careful and always be wise.
Before buying, it’s a good idea to read the portfolios of each company whose shares you are looking for. Perform careful screening and filtering and choose the best financial fundamentals. By choosing a company with good financial fundamentals, you can reduce the possible losses as much as possible so that you can get more and more profits.
Long-term stock investment is safer and more profitable. In addition, as previously mentioned, the stock investment will be more profitable if it is treated like saving with more profits. With this concept, at least the dream of living comfortably with stable finances in 10-15 years can be realized or other things that you want to achieve. In addition, long-term investments also have lower risks and by choosing the right company, the benefits that can be obtained can reach not only 100% but also many times.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, which is an annual campaign to increase awareness of the disease. Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Latinas. Even though Latinas have lower breast cancer rates than white women, they are more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage, when the cancer is harder to treat.
As a reminder starting at age 40, women should have mammograms every 1-2 years. However, women at any age can request a mammogram based on family history and if you find any unusual bumps during self-examination.
In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I wanted to share some awesome products that are helping to raise funds and awareness.
– Avon.com is supporting Avon Foundation Breast Cancer Crusade
– Jergens & Bioré is supporting Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure®
– Smashbox Cosmetics’s limited-edition shade of ‘Be Legendary‘ Lip Gloss and Clinique Pink With A Purpose Long Last Lipstick ‘Power With Pink‘ is supporting The Breast Cancer Research Foundation
– Essie 2014 Breast Cancer Awareness Collection is supporting City of Hope
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Most Canadians Upbeat About Owning a Home—RBC
Is Home Ownership A Good Investment?
The Royal Bank of Canada’s 18th Annual Home Ownership Study indicates that:
- 90% of Canadians "are confident about real estate in Canada as an investment"
- "85% feel they are doing a good job or excellent job of paying down their mortgage"
- 73% "believe that they or their family are well-positioned to weather a housing drop"
- 40% "feel the current housing market is balanced equally between buyers and sellers, a rise of five points over 2010
A Healthy 6.96% of Consumers Plan to Buy within 12 Months
Compared to 2010, the study does show a 2-point drop in interest in buying. Overall, however, it remains high as “29% say its likely they will buy” over the next two years. Among those likely to buy, 24% percent say they plan to buy over the next year. This indicates that approximately 6.96% of consumers overall will be looking to buy over the next 12 months, a healthy indicator.
Canadians Believe in Value of Ownership
"Canadians believe in the long-term benefits of owning a home including the value it can provide, both personally and as a long term investment," said Marcia Moffat, RBC head of home equity financing. "Last year's survey showed that people were looking to buy ahead of rising costs. This year marks a return to more normal levels of purchase intentions and recent housing data reflects this move to a more balanced market."
So what are the major concerns about buying a home?
A little over one quarter list rising home prices as their number one concern and about 22% quote rising mortgage rates.
How have home prices faired over the last two years?
- 7 in 10 Canadians feel their home increased in value,
- 20% believe their price has stayed the same and
- 10% believe their home's worth decreased
Where do Ontarians Sit in All of This?
46% of Ontarians feel that the market is currently balanced, the highest percentage in the country. As well, only 28% of Ontarians plan to buy within the next two years. Of those intending to buy, 80% plan to buy within the next 12 to 24 months, again the highest in the country. According to Patrick Tremblay, VP Mortgage Specialists, Ontario, Royal Bank of Canada, “Ontario’s housing market has experienced quite a bit of volatility over the past two years so buyers are being a little more cautious.”
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Jewel was developed by Jewel Changi Airport Trustee Pte Ltd, a joint venture between Changi Airport Group (CAG) and CapitaLand, through its wholly owned shopping mall business, CapitaLand Mall Asia.
Who designed the jewel?
A consortium led by Safdie Architects, helmed by world-renowned architect Moshe Safdie, developed the design of Jewel.
Who designed Singapore Changi Airport?
Jewel Changi Airport is the latest addition to, and centrepiece of, Singapore’s world-renowned Changi Airport. Designed by Safdie Architects, this highly anticipated dome-shaped attraction houses a dynamic mix of retail, leisure, garden and hotel amenities, as well as airport operations.
When was Jewel Changi built?
Opened in 2017, Terminal 4 was the result of a collaboration between SAA Architects, one of the most important architectural groups in South-East Asia, and Benoy, a design group operating at an international level. The goal of the two studios was to make airport traffic fast, comfortable and safe.
Why is it called Jewel?
In part from the English word jewel, a precious stone, derived from Old French jouel, which was possibly related to jeu “game”. It is also in part from the surname Jewel or Jewell (a derivative of the Breton name Judicaël), which was sometimes used in honour of the 16th-century bishop of Salisbury John Jewel.
Who is the architect of Marina Bay Sands?
World Architecture Festival 2014: architect Moshe Safdie spoke to Dezeen about his two best-known projects: Singapore’s Marina Bay Sands development, which hosted this year’s WAF; and Montreal’s Habitat 67 building which, he revealed, was modelled using pieces of Lego (+ interview + slideshow).
Who designed Singapore?
Designed by Moshe Safdie of Safdie Architects, Jewel is coming up on a 3.5 hectare space outside Terminal 1. The 76-year-old Safdie is an Israeli-Canadian based in the US.
Is Jewel a Terminal 4?
From Terminal 4
From Terminal 3, Jewel is a 5 to 10-minute walk via a link bridge from its Departure Hall (level 2).
Is Jewel under CapitaLand?
Jewel Changi Airport is a world-class multi-dimensional lifestyle destination in Singapore. Jointly developed by Changi Airport Group and CapitaLand, Jewel is located at the gateway of Changi Airport.
When did Jewel airport open?
Instead, a top-down construction method was adopted for Jewel. Excavation and construction works were done one level at a time, moving downwards, while all adjoining structures around Jewel were monitored round the clock to ensure they are not adversely impacted throughout the development works.
How long did it take to build jewel?
How long did it take to build Jewel? About five years since Changi Airport Group broke ground for Jewel in 2014.
Is T4 closed?
The T4 Visitor Pass Office will be closed. The Visitor Pass Office at T1 and T3 will be open.
What is the Singapore airport called?
Singapore Changi Airport (IATA code: SIN), is Singapore’s main international airport and one of the busiest passenger hubs for south east Asia. Changi Airport has won Skytrax’s ‘airline of the year’ award every year since 2013.
Is Terminal 4 a budget terminal?
Singapore Changi Airport Terminal 4 is the fifth passenger terminal at Singapore Changi Airport and opened on 31 October 2017. It sits on the former Singapore Changi Airport Budget Terminal and cost S$985 million and took about 2 years to construct.
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Each SFC program may have one or more "child programs". Child programs are written in SFC and are started (launched) or stopped (killed) in the actions of the father program. A child program may also have children. The number of hierarchy levels should not exceed 19.
When a child program is stopped, its children are also implicitly stopped.
When a child program is started, it must excplicitly in its actions start its children.
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The Wombarra house project began with a dilapidated timber structure on a steep block of coastal land with an above ground swimming pool on the northern boundary.
The owners wanted to retain the pool, so the design was built up around both this and the expansive views over the Pacific Ocean.
Conceived as an open platform for living that flows out to the ocean, the simple skillion roof and the wall of glass to the north are oriented to bring in the winter sun, warming the main slab and providing a natural heating source.
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Social workers and other professionals are being encouraged to
undergo specialist training as primary mental health workers to
improve child and adolescent mental health services. The new role
aims to bridge the gap between mainstream children and families’
services and specialist Camhs. This follows government, research
(1) and campaigns by charity YoungMinds and Community Care that
highlighted the urgent need for improved Camhs.
These new postgraduate courses have been developed with the
Department of Health as it seeks to achieve a comprehensive Camhs
by 2006. But there are concerns that the expansion of the Camhs
workforce is going to place unrealistic expectations on primary
mental health staff.
Courses for the new role are unlikely to attract enough students
to begin to address the shortfall in numbers already
highlighted.(2) It has been estimated that as many as 900 primary
mental health workers are needed in England to achieve a minimum of
four in each local Camhs in England by 2006.3 No reliable evidence
has been used to substantiate this number. Previous studies have
showed that existing Camhs were understaffed in health authorities,
although the level of demand was a fraction of the actual need for
services in the community.
Existing Camhs staff who are eligible to become primary mental
health workers are usually already well-qualified. For them there
is little incentive in undertaking post-graduate training.
The number of staff with the required experience – plus a degree
– is likely to be smaller than the number needed to hit the 2006
target. Also there is no formal national accreditation or career
structure for primary mental health worker roles. This means
individual universities can vary the content of their courses or
build on existing ones, while employers in primary care trusts or
social services can design their own job descriptions. The result
will be uneven national service development especially as Scotland
and Northern Ireland have not been covered by this programme.
Expectations being placed upon the new role seem unrealistic.
The National Camh Support Service (NCSS) set up to help develop
better services has produced guidance and a definition of the role
of the primary mental health worker. There are seven key components
to the role:
Liaison: The liaison role anticipates the
primary mental health worker “facilitating collaboration between
all agencies… to enable the definition of the best approach to
meet the mental health needs of the child”.
Words in the guidance such as “networking” and “being a
catalyst” are used without much explanation of their meaning, or
how much of the practitioner’s time is expected to be devoted to
this and the other six roles.
Consultation: The role of consultation is also
poorly defined and replicates some of the tasks mentioned in the
roles of supervision and intervention.
The term consultation is open to multiple interpretations and
will mean different things to different professional staff.
The potential for tension or confusion or both being generated
between line managers and primary mental health workers seeking to
offer advice and support is high, particularly where there are
child protection concerns.
Training: The training role is likely to become
a focal point of pressure given the predicted shortfall in
workforce numbers. The guidance from the NCSS suggests “regular
multi-agency training programmes should be offered to the range of
professionals working with children… enabling them to recognise
and manage child mental health problems at an early stage”.
So how are primary mental health workers going to be trained to
train others and what controls will be in place to measure the
effectiveness of this training. There are staff eligible for
undertaking the job of primary mental health worker who may be put
off undertaking training if by doing so they are going to feel
burdened with unwanted extra responsibilities and work.
Supervision: The aim of the supervision role is
to “improve tier one staff skills and knowledge base to achieve
early intervention, preventive work and aid assessment”. Yet the
skills of supervision are complex, with different models. There
will be a lack of fit between individual primary mental health
workers’ supervision experiences and methods of working, and
between the various professionals at tier one.
Intervention: The guidance states that the
intervention role can be provided on two levels – through joint
work with tier one staff or direct work with children and families.
Each of these tasks is labour intensive. Joint work requires time
and planning, the building of trusting relationships and
negotiation of roles and appreciation of different working
practices. In addition with the enormous waiting lists in tier
three together with demand in the community it is expected that
primary mental health workers will initially be subjected to
considerable pressure to undertake large volumes of work.
Strategic planning: The guidance suggests that
strategic planning “includes the development and agreement of joint
agency protocols for pathways of intervention, treatment or care…
and contribution to the development of inter-agency structures to
ensure joint planning and collaborative working relationships”.
These strategic, time-consuming tasks will be unattractive to
many prospective primary mental health workers.
Research and development: Finally, the role of
research and development envisages “identifying service needs and
gaps across agencies with regards to children’s mental health and
obtaining users’ views and involving users in the design and
delivery of accessible Camhs provision”.
The implications of this are profound. Needs assessment and
analysis are notoriously difficult to implement but produce
statistically robust data. Involving children in service
development is also difficult as it raises tricky ethical
There is anecdotal evidence that new posts are being filled by
poaching staff working at tier 3 who face the stress of long
waiting lists and entrenched complex caseloads.
The prospect of moving to tier 2 with a light touch preventive
role is attractive especially as many staff will earn the same
money. In the short-term there will be no overall net increase in
the workforce just re-badging of existing staff.
The aim of building workforce capacity and improving the quality
of Camhs over the next two years as specified in the children’s NSF
is looking more unrealistic.
The National Service Framework for Children has specified
improvements in staffing child and adolescent mental health
services. New primary mental health worker posts are proving
attractive to social workers seeking to develop their special
interest in child and adolescent mental health. This article sets
out some of the prospects and problems for these new jobs and
suggests they carry an unrealistic burden of expectation.
- S Walker, Social Work and Child and Adolescent Mental Health,
Russell House, 2003
- YoungMinds, Briefing on the National Service Framework for
Mental Health, YoungMinds, 2001
- DfES/DoH, NSF for Children, Young People and Maternity
Services, HMSO, 2004
Contact the Author
Steven Walker has worked in child protection and child
and adolescent mental health services. He is currently Camh
programme leader at Anglia Polytechnic University and is the author
of Social Work and Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and Working
Together for Healthy Young Minds, Russell House
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London is the setting for an overwhelming amount of the stories in classic British fiction, but until now this hasn’t had an overwhelming effect on the landscape of the city.
However, yesterday, as part of Books About Town, a literacy campaign by the National Literacy Trust and Wild In Art, fifty benches were unveiled across the capital, all decororated to represent a major landmark in literary history. These ranged from the profound, like Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species, to the delightfully youthful We’re Going On A Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
And of course, the organisers couldn’t leave this fellow out, what with an imminent film and everything:
Other benches have appearances from James Bond, Bridget Jones, Sherlock Holmes, Alice in Wonderland, Mary Poppins, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway. You can see more of them at the Books About Town website.
Books About Town deposited the benches in various prominent London locations, including Bloomsbury, Riverside, the City and over the river in Greenwich.
These will remain in position for two months, and then will be auctioned off on October 7, to raise funds for the National Literacy Trust.
Cressida Cowell, author and illustrator of How To Train Your Dragon, told Radio Times: “I am so excited to have designed a How to Train Your Dragon BookBench and to be part of the National Literacy Trust’s Books about Town campaign to celebrate the wealth of writing and illustrating talent in this country. I am hoping that Books about Town will remind Londoners on the streets of the joy of reading books.”Read More
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Philippines: Typhoon Haiyan Situation Report No. 19 (as of 28 November 2013)
· According to the National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Council (NDRRMC), the current death toll stands at 5,560, with another 1,757 people still missing. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) estimates that the number of displaced people is now 3.62 million, of whom an estimated 224,177 are living in 1,104 evacuation centres.
· The Multi-Cluster/Sector Initial Rapid Assessment (MIRA) are now available and the priority needs identified are 1) Immediate need to provide ongoing food assistance and access to water to all affected communities; 2) Urgent and extensive shelter requirements; 3)
Recovery of livelihoods, including farming, fishing and the service industry; and 4) Restoration of WASH, education, health, protective and other community services, and management of displacement.
· Rebuilding homes is one of the top requests from those affected by the Typhoon. However, shelter materials in the local market are scarce, and in some places prices have doubled.
To learn more about OCHA's activities, please visit http://unocha.org/.
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Adding about 10% more global forest using Empress Splendor trees would offset all of the CO2 generated by human civilization each year. The US and Canada have 3.2 billion acres of forest (1.3 billion hectares).
Forests cover 31 percent of the world’s land surface, just over 4 billion hectares (10 billion acres). This is down from the pre-industrial area of 5.9 billion hectares. We can plant and grow trees on an additional 2-3 billion acres without removing buildings and other construction.
Empress trees provide hardwood lumber in 7 to 10 years. The World Tree Carbon Offset Program is taking planting the Empress Splendor tree. The Empress tree is a wet wood which makes it naturally fire and insect resistant. It is a non-invasive, hybrid species, that can grow in many parts of the United States and Canada, where its primary use is lumber.
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The ancient City of Choquequirao ''Cradle of Gold'' was built by the Incas in an impossible mountaintop, overlooking the beautiful landscapes of the Peruvian Andes. This trek navigates the region's lush cloud forests and snowcapped mountains. During the 5-day trek, you may see less than a dozen trekkers every day making this place a unique, quiet retreat and will very soon become Peru's hottest destination. Explore the best of Cusco City and surroundings to later start a Magic expedition to the 2 most famous Lost Cities of the Incas.
- Free airport Pick up and drop off
- Travel Assistance 24/7 for any questions or recommendations
- Live history shows: our new way to teach you Inca history full of Fun Spiritual ceremonies performed by our Andean healers
- Cooking lessons and PACHAMANCA demonstration
- Enjoy our hot showers after a long day of hike
- Learn and interact with our native Tour Guides
- Meet our multicultural team including women Porters and Chefs
- We promote gender equality and Women's empowerment
- 2% of the price you pay goes to support our Social Projects
This trip is completely customizable
The itinerary for this trip can be customized to suit your needs from your accomodations to what gear you need for the day.
This adventure is not instantly bookable at this time.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, we recommend connecting directly to the operator via our messaging system, to create your ideal itinerary customized for your dates.
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Write an essay (suggested length of 2–4 pages) in which you discuss each of the following in the context of language arts development in elementary-aged children:
6. Visually representing
Learning to read and write is a critical skill that will dictate a student success in school. Reading and writing is an early predictor of functionality in school and in life. Reading and writing develop together and it is important that a teacher understands the relationship between the developing reading and the written products.
In the first years of elementary school the number of words a student can read and spell increases dramatically. Students can increase development of this skill by practicing at school and home. The development of language increases as the student listens and talks with adults. Students will begin to decode the written language as they sound out words, identifies them and understands their meanings. Students will develop the tools for reading the written word starting in elementary school. Students will start to recognize “sight words” and will develop strategies for figuring out words as they read them. Once they have sufficient practice they will be able to read easy books by themselves. Continued talking and listening will aid in new vocabulary and knowledge development that will help in understanding reading. Phonics becomes an essential part of teaching language arts. The
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To commemorate the centenary of stylist Zuzu Angel (she was born on 06/05/1921 and was murdered in 1976), Itaú Cultural transformed the exhibition “Ocupação Zuzu“, which took place physically in 2014, into a large virtual tour with the right to new content , as an entry in the Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia.
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
Report taken from the site: https://www.lilianpacce.com.br ›moda› stylists-brands To commemorate the centenary of stylist Zuzu Angel (she was born on 06/05/1921 and was murdered in 1976), Itaú Cultural transformed the exhibition “Ocupação Zuzu“, which took place physically in 2014 (remember here), into a great virtual tour with right to new content, such as an entry in the Itaú Cultural Encyclopedia. In addition, she has conversations with Virginia Siqueira Starling, who is writing Zuzu's biography, and the Minas Gerais stylist Ronaldo Fraga, who paid her tribute to the stylist in two editions of the SPFW, in 2001 and 2020. One of the first to export Brazilian fashion, Zuzu turned clothing into an instrument of resistance during the military dictatorship (1964–1985) in Brazil. Born in Curvelo, Minas Gerais, she married the American Stuart Angel. After living in Bahia, they moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she opens a studio at home, already separated from her husband and with three children. There she is close to names like First Lady Sarah Kubitschek (1908–1996) and gains a local society with her work, gaining the international market with the help of actress Joan Crawford. His collections brought elements of national culture, such as the outlaw couple Lampião and Maria Bonita, at a time when Paris predominated as a reference. In 1971 everything changed with the death of his son, Stuart Angel, aged 26, a target of the military dictatorship. Zuzu then finds in fashion a way to denounce Stuart's disappearance. In the virtual occupation, it is possible to get a closer look at Zuzu's brilliant work, his revolutionary posture and the story of a mother in search of justice for her son. To access the content, just click here - and also enjoy watching a video about a stylist on my YouTube channel with a touching interview with his daughter Hildegard Angel! Source: https://www.lilianpacce.com.br ›moda› stylists-brands
No próprio sábado, será inaugurada em Curvelo, cidade natal de Zuzu, em Praça Pública, uma grande exposição ao ar livre, contando sua história, através de imagens do arquivo pessoal e da sua moda. A curadoria é do Ivan Penna,
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What Does Clemency Mean? The American Constitution wields the executive the power of clemency. This includes the power to pardon a federal convict.
As with federal executive, the state laws also give the governors the power of executive clemency to pardon persons convicted of state offenses.
Simply put, a presidential pardon connotes ‘forgiveness.’ Hence, persons who claim innocence may not get an executive pardon.
A pardon neither vindicates a criminal nor expunge or erase your conviction records. A pardon request is but an appeal to reinstate your good name.
Before granted pardon, you must show that you’ve been a law-abiding citizen and have made significant efforts to lead a good life after your conviction.
Offenders who receive pardon have their citizen rights reinstated – including the right to serve on a jury and right to vote.
Before completing his tenure, Bill Clinton, then president of the United States, granted his brother, Roger, pardon. Roger who was pardoned in 2001, had been doing time for a drug-related crime.
Donald Trump in his first year in office, pardoned Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff who had been incarcerated for flaunting a Judge’s order to cease racial profiling of arrestees.
Past executives have taken advantage of this constitutional power to grant mercy. The history dates back to 1975 when George Washington pardoned two offenders linked to the infamous Whiskey Rebellion.
For many, a pardon strikes off punishments for federal convictions, but soon, a few may realize how the convictions still stick on the records even after an executive ‘forgiveness.’
SO, what are the effects of clemency? What are the limitations of a presidential pardon? What are the presidential pardon rules?
This article seeks to explore these and other concerns related to presidential clemency.
Constitutionally, what does the presidential pardon entail?
According to Article II, Section 2 of the United States’ constitution, the presidents can grant reprices and pardons for federal offenses, except for impeachment cases.
Over time, the courts and the former executives have created a clearer picture of what clemency entails.
Since the constitution specially mentions “offenses against the United States,” this limits the presidential pardon power to federal convictions only, just as the governor’s clemency powers do not exceed the state’s legal boundaries.
In the 1866 Ex Parte Garland case, the Supreme Court challenged President Andrew Johnson’s (a former Confederate soldier).
The court, in its opinion, exerts that the constitutional power touches every crime recognized by the law and can be exercised at any point after the offense is committed – whether before court proceeding, during the trial or after judgment.
Presidents also have rights to pre-emptive pardons. This entails a pardon for crimes committed or charged with.
Also, the President can order conditional pardons (such as doing a lesser term) commutations or remission of forfeitures, fines, and respites (sentence delay) with his clemency power.
No one has a right to being pardoned, but rather, as with presidential clemency, a gubernatorial pardon is an unmerited act of forgiveness shown by the state governor.
It is within the governor’s absolute and exclusive discretion to grant pardon. Offenders have no right to appeal or overturn a governor’s decision to grant clemency – except where some illegal conditions are spotted in the pardon.
For such illegalities, the court may review pardon conditions, not the governor’s decision to pardon.
While some states give power to governors, many states establish ‘pardon boards.’ These bodies recommend to the executive, or where the law permits, make the pardon decisions independently.
In both cases, the governor either belongs to the board, makes the appointment of board members or does both.
Note that the board must not have a unanimous decision to grant a pardon – a simple majority, based on the state law though, maybe enough.
Pardon limits the federal and states constitution and builds some limitations on presidential and gubernatorial pardoning powers, respectively.
Only the federal and state constitutions can limit the powers of the executive to pardon – not the legislature nor the judiciary.
The procedural rules on how and when to apply for pardons vary across states. However, while rules and laws that interfere with an executive’s clemency power are considered unconstitutional.
That said, here are some pardon limitations across jurisdictions
U.S and State
Typically, pardons apply to crimes spelled out in the federal and state constitutions. The president and state governors do not have the legal powers to grant mercy to municipal convictions.
Where a city’s law authorizes, the may grant pardon to violators of city ordinances.
Of course, one person cannot be granted pardon twice – except otherwise, on a majority vote by the supreme court.
Most states do not allow pardon until after court conviction.
In some jurisdictions, certain criminal cases cannot be pardoned. Impeachment, treason, and prisoners on death row are typical cases.
Types of Clemency (What Does Clemency Mean?)
- Full Pardon
Full Pardon clemency restores a citizen’s rights, removes all resultant disqualification or collateral consequences caused by the conviction without restrictions of conditions. This type of pardon, however, leaves the conviction on your criminal record.
- Partial Pardon
For partial pardons, an offender is given restricted relief and may come in various forms, based on the circumstances surrounding individual applicants.
Unlike a full pardon, the partial pardon does not offer a complete relief package from the consequences of a conviction. A partial pardon may include the restoration of rights, though.
- Commutation of Sentence
Just like pardons, the president may also express his clemency authority to convicts through commutations.
Commutation is, however, different from pardons as it does not offer formal forgiveness for crimes nor restoration of whatever the convicts must have lost during the period – such as the right to possess firearms and rights to vote.
Commutations only stop the offender’s sentence. However, commutations are less popular for federal pardons.
A reprieve is a clemency act given to an offender to offer them an opportunity to request a modification of a court-imposed sentence. This clemency is granted only after passing the sentence.
Pardon Application Process
Typically, those who seek presidential clemency are required to apply through the Pardon Attorney’s Office, a unit under the Justice Department answerable to the deputy attorney general.
The case goes through the pardon attorney for review. The review process may entail the request of a background check report from the FBI as well as opinions from the judge and prosecutors.
If everything looks good, the deputy attorney may then send a recommendation to the white house. Typically, the recommendation goes from a staff attorney, through the pardon attorney, then to the deputy attorney general, associate white house counsel, white house counsel, and then the president.
However, the president may not necessarily obey this line of authority. He can bypass all processes and grant pardon to whoever he wishes.
How Does One Qualify for a Pardon?
To be considered for federal pardon, one must:
- Be a criminal convict of a federal crime. State offenses can only be considered for pardon by state governors.
- Ensure five years have passed since your release from incarceration. Or five years after conviction, for those who weren’t incarcerated.
- Be ready to give relevant information about your life — like a civil lawsuit, credit scores, and related legal excesses — after conviction.
- Have character references — at least 3 —willingly to vouch for your impeccable character after conviction.
Effects of Pardon
Again, a pardon does not vindicate a criminal, neither do they expunge convictions.
However, a pardon restores one’s civic rights lost to a conviction. Generally, here’s what a pardon does:
- Restores one’s right to vote and hold public offices
- Reinstates one’s right to firearms possession
- Restores one’s right to become a juror
- For deportable offenses, a pardon may avert deportation.
Note, however, that civil consequences for crimes may remain even after a pardon.
For instance, a person who gets pardoned for murder may still face a lawsuit for criminal killing.
Also, license suspension and related administrative effects of a crime hold even after the pardon.
Can a president pardon himself?
Whether an executive can grant pardon to themselves have been a topical concern among legal scholars over the years.
While the constitution remains silent on the executive’s right to pardon self of federal convictions, it only mentions “impeachment” as a limiting condition for granting pardon.
That said, a pardon request and an eventual pardon, in itself, connotes a clear admittance of guilt.
Hence, any move by the president to grant self-pardon will most likely spark off a constitutional uproar and may lead, in the least, to impeachment inquiries.
If presidents are freely allowed to grant self-pardons, a tyranny which the constitution Framers were wary of, could come starring as the provision may rid the executive of criminal liabilities for acts – both official and unofficial – and criminalities they got involved in before they assumed office.
What is the basis for a pardon decision?
The decision whether or not to grant pardon ought to be inspired by public welfare and the event of any wrongful judgment the court may not be able to reverse.
However, since the president’s decision is neither reviewed nor under any oversight, only him knows what influence his decision – except where he wishes to explain.
That said, pardon revocation is not possible, except before they granted and accepted.
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After the UAE commissioned Lebanese designer Nada Debs to renovate the Arab League Hall, she created a design that overflowed with Arab culture, marking a new era for design, dialogue and unity.
In 1955 the modernist Egyptian architect Mahmoud Riad constructed the Arab League Hall which hosted many critical moments in history over the course of decades. By 2015, the Ministry of Presidential Affairs of the UAE commissioned Lebanese designer Nada Debs, founder of Beirut based Studio Nada Debs, to renovate it, and the result was a smoothly textured design that is overflowing with geometry, coining the term ‘Neo-Arabian’.
“Each nation in the Arab world has its own identity and yet we’re all connected through geometry,” Debs tells SceneHome. A sense of liveliness has been brought to the forefront through the subtle movements of walnut wood used in the hall. The central circle is now accentuated with a rhombus that is relevant to Islamic architecture and considered a symbolic element that unifies all Arab states.
“My take was to create an environment that is contemporary and peaceful, but still relevant to our Arab culture and identity, in order to enhance unity and progressive thinking,” Debs says. After being built by Cairo-based Modern Interiors Construction, the four-year project was unveiled at the 153rd meeting of the Council of Arab Foreign Ministers in March 2020, marking a new era for design, dialogue and unity.
Looking to modernise traditional elements while maintaining the essence of the Middle Eastern identity and celebrating its craftsmanship, Debs created a reflection of the modern Arab identity that is represented through orderly arabesque patterns and geometrical accents. While plush Poltrona Frau chairs offer light beige comfort for the presidential delegates and an uplifting blue-green colour scheme showcases the significant fertility of the Arab region and the opulence of its land.
“As a symbolic colour which is used as an amulet of the evil eye, it also serves to protect us and bring us good Karma,” Debs adds. Keen on creating a flow of continuity and consistency she used the main colour on the carpet and complemented it with noble materials such as travertine, Guatemala marble and walnut wood, fashioning coherent surfaces that cover the space from floor to ceiling while superior lighting and acoustic design on the ceiling intermingle.
“All the features stand to resemble a renewed alliance of the Arab states which remain united in their mission to usher in a period of peace, prosperity and harmony,” Deb explains. To achieve that, honourable gentlemen and ladies engage in prolonged discourses and frankly, even heads of states need a break. In the hall’s lobby the studio further demonstrated their bespoke propensity towards craftsmanship.
A constant play between shadow and light is dictated by a latticed window, creating a transitory mood in the lobby. An arabesque chair along with an octagonal table take after the hall's wood as dazzling mosaic patterns add an air of oriental drama. Excellence, however, lies in the mother of pearl accents used on the azure sofa. Here, heads of states can relax and socialise. Some may argue that most of the decision making is done in leisure spaces such as these.
While the studio did preserve historically relevant features such as the scriptures above the main stage along with the wooden wall panels, they effectively didn’t leave any detail for chance as their design scope delved deep enough to reach the desk sets that are used in proceedings. In essence, Debs - who is commonly referred to as a ‘craft custodian’- captures the power of the human hand to tell stories that touch the heart; she calls this approach ‘handmade and heartmade’.
The Lebanese designer grew up in Japan and then studied design in the United States. Spending significant portions of her time travelling the world, Debs finds connections between different cultures and kneads those narratives to transform, elevate and create contemporary objects and spaces. Which made her an ideal candidate to take on a design project of this scale and stake.
“As an Arab woman and design educator, I was honoured to receive the invitation to lead the design renovation of such a significant structure,” Debs says. The Arab League Hall resonates with her design ethics of preserving tradition and creating a contemporary Arab identity. One that is relevant to the times and reflective of our heritage, displaying unity and solidarity, and is based on peace, tolerance and a progressive mindset.
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Grouping of early Knox County, Tennessee documents relating to the Militia, and Revolutionary War soldier signed deeds from Knox County, Governor Willie Blount signed land grant, and other documents signed by historical Knox County individuals from the early 19th century. 1st item – 1810 Signed Tennessee Governor Willie Blount (1768-1835) land grant awarding 300 acres to Nathaniel & Thomas Graham in Knox County, TN. Willie Blount's half brother was William Blount. He was elected as one of the judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity in 1796. Blount was elected to the 7th Tennessee General Assembly in 1807 and served until he was elected Governor in 1809. He was re-elected in 1811 and 1813. Blount ran for Governor later in 1827, but was defeated by Samuel Houston. 2nd item – Settlement account for the 10th regiment of the Tennessee Militia. Beginning date of December 1812 and ending May of 1814. The header reads, "John McMillan (?sp) Judge Advocate". Listings include dates and entries. Sample entries "1813 April the 7th attended drill and batallion muster at Con. Ramseys $3", "1814 January 13th Notifying the officers of the tenth Regiment to attend at John Caines to hold Court marshal to try the deliquents that did not attend the rundivuse at Camp Williams the 10 Day of January". 3rd item – Tennessee Militia document dated March 1815, Camp Pleasant – James Reynolds a private in Capt. Prices Co. of mounted volunteers is order to return home in consequence of his bad health and will report himself to his commanding officer when he returns to the State of Tennessee and Henry Clear(sp?) is directed to accompany him home to take car of him. By order, ??illeg. Adj." 4th item – Tennessee Militia document dated 1805 of a Captain Jones (?sp) leveling fines of one dollar and fifty cents for the following men being unarmed at a company muster on March 30th, 1805 – John Smith, Benjamin Deewit, English Crawford, Peterson, Peter Holland, and John Kirk. 5th & 6th item – Two 1822 Knoxville Register newspapers – May 21, 1822 and May 28, 1822. The May 21, 1822 issue contains a long article on an Army nominations from the U. S. Senate. Mr. Williams of Tennessee from the Committee of Military Affairs is referenced. The May 28, 1822 contains a lengthy article on the act for establishing a territorial government in Florida. Each newspaper 4 pages. 7th item – Flag of the Union, Henry Clay of KY newspaper published Knoxville, TN August 1, 1844. The content is for the "advancement and the permanent establishmnet of the great principles advocated by the Whig party…". 4 pages. CONDITION: Toning, some old stains, fold lines on all documents. The May 28th, 1822 Knoxville Register has losses to the middle crease at the top margin from insect damage. Both Knoxville Registers with minor holes from insect damage.
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The Chinese Lunar New Year begins today, as communities around the world prepare for the colourful festivities of the Year of the Dog. Here are just a few of the cities around the world where the celebrations will be going off.
Unsurprisingly, Beijing is the place to be if you wish to witness the mother of all Chinese New Year celebrations. The city hosts a huge series of festivals, parties and worship ceremonies, with a special emphasis on family and historical tradition not seen as much in overseas celebrations. The many historical buildings and temples just add to the atmosphere. And of course, on the eve of the Lunar New Year, the skies are lit up by spectacular fireworks.
San Francisco, California
Outside of China, San Francisco boasts one of the oldest and largest Chinese New Year festivals. It's been celebrated in the city's Chinatown since the 1860s, with new immigrants sharing their culture with other residents. The festival includes an illuminated night parade, featuring over-the-top floats with beautiful designs, performers on stilts, marching bands and fireworks. It ends with a huge golden dragon, which takes 100 people to hold up.
You needn't travel too far for an epic and authentic celebration - Sydney's large Chinatown precinct explodes in colour for the occasion. This year's celebrations include Lion Dances every Sunday, a Lunar Lanterns trail, and the biggest dragon boat regatta in the southern hemisphere. Restaurants around the city will also be presenting special New Year feasts - so don't forget your doggy bag. The festivities are topped off with a big fireworks display over the harbour.
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Thailand's biggest Chinatown is located in Bangkok, so naturally it's home to the biggest lunar new year celebration, drawing millions of visitors. The local Chinese community take the day off work in order to pray and pay tribute to ancestors - but also to head into town to set off firecrackers, watch dragon dancers and of course, feast on delicious food. Local Chinese businesses also offer plenty of special discounts and even free feng shui advice for customers.
Hong Kong, China
The ancient festival gets a unique makeover in Hong Kong. The city's annual parade has been sponsored by Cathay Pacific for 20 years and features intricate floats, international and local performers and street parties. There are also special New Year horse races and football games on offer for keen punters. While there is usually a spectacular fireworks display over Victoria Harbour, this year it has been cancelled out of respect for the victims of the recent Tai Po bus accident.
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March 1, 2018
A brief history of literary violence
by Ian Dreiblatt
This week, while international headlines have been preoccupied with exhaustive coverage of the man with red sauce on his face who has been charged with meatball theft, a more literary—and even more sinister—story made the rounds from Dublin — of forty-year-old John Paul Mulready, charged with stabbing and biting his neighbor, one Dermot Byrne, “because of ‘poetry recited incessantly’ from upstairs.”
In fact, a quick historical review reveals literary violence as a phenomenon that has long plagued humanity. Just a few years ago, we wrote about two friends whose argument over whether poetry or prose was better escalated to the point of murder. Ernest Hemingway’s occasional fisticuffs were the stuff of legend (just ask Andy Rooney). And of course, as we’ve also written before, Verlaine shot Rimbaud (’cause he loved him so).
There are other examples, too. In Names of the Lion, his translation of a tenth-century Arabic list of euphemisms for lions, poet and translator David Larsen tells the story of a fight between the list’s compiler, Persian grammarian Ibn Khalawayh, and the poet Abu ’l-Tayyib al-Mutanabbī. After arguing about a fine point of Arabic grammar, Mutanabbī told Ibn Khalawayh, “Watch it. You’re no Arab.” Whereupon Ibn Khalawayh stabbed him in the fucking face with an iron key.
The earliest known lit crime was the public conflict in the Roman Forum between Marcus Pedicabus and Lucius Irrumabus. Reportedly, the two were exchanging quotations from Sappho, when a stray olive pit spit out by a wandering centurion struck Pedicabus in the forearm, inciting his legendary temper. “Dinkus maximus!” the patrician is said to have exclaimed. “I just had this toga washed.” Whereupon it seems that Irrumabus stomped his sandal and bellowed, “You recite hendecasyllables like a cursed Syracusan!” Both men were condemned to the Colosseum, though Tacitus would later write in vindication of Pedicabus, praising his “legendary shade.”
Notorious to centuries of English jurists is the fourteenth-century case of Unferth v. Manciple, in which a rowdy coppersmith in the hillside town of Flopshamshire “outraged the good character, and made attacks upon the barrels, of a fellow townsman,” causing “a pestilential humor to flower in his person, and the spilling of ale to a quantity of two-thirds of a barrel.” The two men had apparently been arguing over “which Canterbury tale ruleth moste hard,” when tempers got the better of them. Today, law students read it for its articulation of the well-known Four Pig Principle, by which a convict could resolve any criminal charge against them by bringing four pigs to the home of the local magistrate.
Finally, let us consider the case of the nineteenth-century poet Secundo Strozzapreti, who got into an argument with his court rival, Cosimo Mafaldine, over whether the Tuscan or Neopolitan dialect was more perfectly “that sweet lyre of earthly music plucked by the poet’s tongue.” Local gendarmes were forced to ply both men with several tankards of wine, simply to keep the party pleasant.
There are countless instances of more general literary criminality, too — there’s the case of Ivan Prestupnetz and Vladimir Nakazan, who were jailed in 1862 for attempting to secure a loan in Nikolai Gogol’s name. There’s François Villanelle, the poet who spent weeks in a Parisian jail for shaving the moustache off his rival, Jean-Jacques Rondeau, while he slept. The Norwegian novelist Kjell Uendeliggrå was at some point revealed to have been behind a string of late-night maritime arsons, to which he apparently responded, “Eh, there’s not much to do up here.”
We can only wonder what the future holds for the world of literary wrongdoing.
And with that, we return you to the developing story of Manwithredsauceonfacegate, already in progress.
Ian Dreiblatt is the director of digital media at Melville House.
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FRACTAL COMPRESSION ppt.
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Developments in information storing and transmitting.
Communication links have grown fast.
Compressing data saves space and faster communication.
Efforts for new compression algorithms.
Proposed by M Bransley.
Contemporary compression techniques use DCT algorithm eg: JPEG,MPEG
New technique used for image compression known as fractal compression.
Properties of fractals are used.
High compression rate.
Why Fractal Image Compression
How does it work?
Why fractal compression
Different type of compression scheme worth exploring
Takes advantage of similarities within an image
Advanced detail interpolation
High theoretical compression rates
Fast decompression times
Term coined by Mandelbrot.
Natural objects - fractals include clouds, mountain ranges, cauliflower.
A point has dimension=0
A line has dimension =1
A plane has dimension =2
Objects live in spaces.
Dimension of a space is related with degrees of freedom of the space.
Dimension of natural objects
Dimension of a leaf.
Dimension of a fern.
Dimension of a cloud.
Fractals are geometrical objects with fractional dimension.
Started with Michael Barnsley, and refined by A. Jacquin
Try and find a set of transforms that map an image onto itself.
The key is the Collage Theorem
States that if the error difference between the target image and the transformation of that image is less than a certain value the transforms are an equivalent representation of the image.
Iterated function systems
An IFS is the collection of contractive affine transforms
Partitioned iterated function system
Proposed by Arnaud Jacquin (1988).
Image is not the collage of copies of entire image but of smaller copies of itself.
For encoding of images.
It is divided into domains and ranges.
Binary images can be represented using simple affine transforms because there are only two values.
Color images are combination of grayscale images. In addition depth also comes.
Encoding - How does it work?
Take a starting image and divide it into small, non-overlapping, square blocks, typically called “parent blocks”.
Divide each parent block into 4 each blocks, or “child blocks.”
Compare each child block against a subset of all possible overlapping blocks of parent block size.
Determine which larger block has the lowest difference, according to some measure, between it and the child block.
Calculate a grayscale transform to match intensity levels between large block and child block precisely.
Upper left corner child block, very similar to upper right parent block.
Compute affine transform.
Store location of parent block (or transform block), affine transform components, and related child block into a file.
Repeat for each child block.
Lots of comparisons can calculations.
256x256 original image
16x16 sized parent blocks
241*241 = 58,081 block comparisons
Decoding - How does it work?
Read in child block and tranform block position, transform, and size information.
Use any blank starting image of same size as original image
For each child block apply stored transforms against specified transform block
Overwrite child block pixel values with transform block pixel values
Repeat until acceptable image quality is reached.
Fractal vs jpeg
JPEG is better at low compression ratios, and Fractal Compression is better at high.
Crossover point at 40:1
The fractal compressed images have a much more natural looking noise than JPEG.
Same decompression time as JPEG, sometimes faster.
Fractal compression much slower compression time than JPEG.
Can zoom on the fractal image and the image will stillhave a natural look -> higher effective compression ratios.
Greatest weakness is time for encoding
Possible speed ups
Order transform blocks into domains based off of average intensity and variance
Only search through blocks with similar structures
Do not search all possible blocks
Reduce number of child blocks
Quality and Compression Improvements through
Quadtrees or HV Trees
Rotations of Transform Blocks during comparison
Improved grayscale transforms
So why isn't everyone using Fractal Image Compression ?
Fractal Image Compression is still under development.
new algorithms to reach shorter encoding time
Fractal Image Format is not standardized.
currently no public domain documentation available.
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If your doctor were to recommend a jab or a pill that will prevent you getting some cancers, would you? Its surprising, but not everyone would take it up!
The truth is that there are quite a few readily available and relatively inexpensive ways which have been proven to prevent some cancers.
Take for instance stomach cancer, the second most common cause of death among cancer-sufferers. It is now known that a cause of stomach cancer is a bug well-known for causing stomach and duodenal ulcers, called Helicobacter pylori (H pylori). Now, researchers have shown that if they were to eliminate this bacteria from those suffering from early stages of this cancer, they were able to effect a cure. Read more of this here. Eliminating H pylori from the stomach involves swallowing a 2-week course of antibiotics.
Primary liver cancer, the fifth most common cancer in the world, is a deadly cancer for which the outlook is bad as, by the time someone has symptoms, the cancer is far-advanced and has spread to other organs. Again, a bug – the hepatitis B virus-has been identified to be the cause in 50% of primary liver cancers aka hepatocellular carcinoma, aka hepatoma. To prevent the virus from entering your body, one needs to immunise oneself by receiving three jabs of the Hepatitis B vaccine.
Latest research on prostate cancer seems to indicate that taking finasteride(Proscar) may prevent this cancer.
There are many other ways that specific cancers can be prevented, some of them anecdotal. Heard of the complementary herbal medicine, the Chinese mushroom, Lingzhi ? I met a cancer survivor last night who swears this herb provided the cure and not the treatment at Sloan-Kettering! As to whether daily consumption of this herb will actually prevents cancer..well,there’s no strong evidence at the moment, for sure. The role of foods too must not be dismissed.
However, my attention was recently drawn to a news report about high-risk women who refused to take a pill a day known to be effective in preventing breast cancer. A woman is considered to be at high risk for breast cancer if she is over 40 and has a mother, sister or daughter with the disease, or has a history of atypical cells on a breast biopsy. A pill, tamoxifen, has been proven to be effective in preventing breast cancer in such women, but there are many who will not take it for fear of the side-effects (which are many but not as serious as actually getting the cancer). See here.
In cases like this, human psychology is to be blamed – people are more concerned about losing a little bit than they are about gaining something more.
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Beats headphones are causing something of a kerfuffle at the World Cup in Brazil. After several top soccer stars, including Brazilian sensation Neymar, have been spotted wearing the chunky, brightly colored headphones, FIFA, the game's governing body, has banned the headgear from inside the stadiums, according to Reuters.
Why? Because Beats is not an official sponsor of the games -- Sony is.
While it may seem that FIFA is being a bit harsh on the headphones that soccer players prefer to don, it appears this isn't the first time that Beats has caused a stir at a world sporting event.
During the London Olympics last summer, Beats sent thousands of free headphones to the world's top athletes, according to Reuters. The International Olympic Committee, with its rules to protect official sponsors, had to ban the earphones since Beats wasn't a sponsor. Also, Olympic athletes are forbidden from wearing gear from their personal sponsors -- the same goes for World Cup players.
It's unclear if Beats gave Neymar his headphones for free or if the soccer star bought them. It seems most likely the headphone company gave them to Neymar, considering the fact heearlier this month titled "The Game Before the Game." CNET contacted Beats for comment, and we'll update the story when we get more information.
Beats wasfor $3 billion last month. During the acquisition Apple said that Beats has "become the brand of choice in the music and sports worlds" and "has quickly become part of pop culture."
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Mindful of the American public’s sharply declining enthusiasm for squandering more blood and treasure on his failed Iraq enterprise, President Bush is once again adopting his administration’s preferred prophylactic strategy for spinning the slow moving disaster. Thus, his warning on Wednesday that insurgent violence will increase ahead of next month’s constitutional referendum. Just as he warned that it would increase before the handover of sovereignty to Iyad Allawi last year, and also in the runup to January’s election. Perfectly true, of course, but that’s not the point: The purpose behind the spin is, firstly, to convey a message to the American public that although the situation looks out of control, it is, in fact, evolving according to expectation. There may be bloody chaos breaking out all over Iraq, but we told you it would. More importantly, this particlar trope of spin subtly suggests that reaching the said political milestone — handover of sovereignty, election, referendum — will somehow turn the tide against the insurgency and end a military mission that costs America $5 or $6 billion a month, as well as scores of dead and hundreds of wounded. And therein lies the basic fallacy of not only of the spin, but also of the U.S. exit strategy in general. That much has been proved at each of the previous “turning points,” after which violence actually increased, and it’s simply wishful thinking to imagine that holding the referendum — even if the bulk of Sunnis vote in it — will end the insurgency.
No wait, say the administrations Pollyannas, led by Condi Rice: Look, the Sunnis are starting to participate in politics. Of course they are; they’re participating in politics, also, when they build Improvised Explosive Devices and detonate them alongside U.S. convoys. You’d have thought the Secretary of State might be familiar with Clausewitz’s dictum that war is the continuation of politics by other means. Administration spinners might like to spin the insurgency as the work of religious nihilists without any political agenda, but it’s widely accepted among even U.S. military analysts that the al-Qaeda element makes up no more than 5 percent of the insurgency, while its main leadership are Baathist operatives who certainly have a political agenda — which they have attempted to negotiate over with the Americans — and who are engaged in a marriage of convenience with the jihadists as long as their interests coincide, but whose long-term objectives are quite different.
So, Sunni nationalists are certainly calling on their supporters to register and participate in the referendum, but to do so in order to reject the new constitution. In other words, the Sunni political parties are asking their supporters to take the same message to the polls as the Sunni insurgents take to the streets with the tools of violence — a rejection of the new, U.S.-authored Shiite-dominated order in Baghdad. Indeed, the Baathist insurgent commanders have actually offered, in secret talks, to negotiate a new political arrangement with the Americans, on the basis of their long-term shared interest in curbing Iran’s influence.
It may well be that the Sunni nationalists choose to wage this battle on two fronts — at the polls, and in streets. (Or more than two, actually, because they’re also a lot stronger on the diplomatic front than might be obvious, with most of the Arab League states hostile to the prospect of a Shiite-dominated polity in Iraq.) They may also decide, however, that the terrain of electoral politics is too skewed against them given the short time available to register their supporters and organize a consensus in their ranks, and also the slim chances available to them to stop the process via the ballot box, in which case they might simply order another boycott. But even if they participate and the referendum passes the new constitution, the Sunni nationalists are unlikely to accept it as the last word.
The political process is not the binary opposite of civil war. Instead, the same conflicts are played out in the legislature as are waged by the gunmen of the various militias. The dominant political voices in politics are those of communal nationalists, from each of the three major communities, who are pursuing communal rather than national political interests first and foremost. And each of these retains an armed capability to pursue the same objectives — the Sunni insurgents fight the Americans, the new Iraqi security forces and often Shiite and Kurdish civilians; the only really effective units of the new security forces are essentially militias of the Kurdish and Shiite parties loyal to their party leaders rather than to a new state; and rival factions among these main elements have also been known to trade fire — Iraqi insurgents against foreign fighters in some instances, or Moqtada Sadr’s Mehdi army vs. SCIRI’s Badr corps, and so on. There is quite simply no national army. And there is no significant “national” Iraqi army ready to replace the role being played by the Americans — the U.S. general in charge admitted in Congress this week that the number of Iraqi units capable of acting independently of U.S. support had actually fallen from a pitiful three battalions to only one.
So, President Bush is correct that violence will intensify in the coming months. But he’s wrong that the referendum will somehow turn the situation around. The new constitution has actually sharpened the division among Iraqis, and the referendum can’t alter the basic political arithmetic of the new, Shiite-dominated order in Baghdad, which the Sunni nationalists find intolerable. The insurgents has very successfully sabotaged Iraq’s reconstruction, and they know that elections can’t do much to hamper their ability to maintain that success. Successful elections may in the minds of the Bush administration be a moral repudiation of the insurgency, but they’re unlikely to constitute even a tactical, never mind a strategic setback. The Bush spin relies on the public and/or gullilble journalists accepting the idea of a basic opposition between people engaging in a political process and people engaging in low-intensity warfare. Instead, what you have in Iraq is a contest over the distribution of political power, which is being waged with ballots and with bullets.
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Feng shui is the best decorating style for any room, especially for children’s room. Feng shui is about inner peace and productivity and it provides a child with all the meaningful ideas a child has to know in life. When thinking of decorating the kids’ room, you might feel a bit uncomfortable as you already forgot what it means to be a child. Make it a lovely experience for your children by involving them in the decorating process, discuss their likes and dislikes and how they would love to have their room like.
Feng shui dislikes dark colours for children rooms, they are gloomy and depressing. Although a Spider Man themed room might appeal to your kid, it is advisable to go with lighter and more vibrant colours.
Align your kid’s bed in the wider area of the room, this will enhance his sense of freedom and imagination. It is not recommended to place the bed in front of the door, place it where your child have a view of the door and the whole room. Avoid placing the bed next to a wall that is shared with a bathroom as this is likely to cause health issues for your kid.
Feng Shui style is about freedom in space, no more clutters of furniture, no more messy drawers aa this all is believed to block the flow of energy through the room. Images with water or aquariums or even the sound of water is thought to be unhealthy and distracting for the little ones so instead of having such accessories in the kids room, try making a corner for his accomplishments. Accomplishments include his paintings, trophies, teachers’ letters and other stuff which are dear to you both and at the same time will act as decorations for the room.
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Canterbury Golf Club
Tenth hole, 360 yards; Strong originally had a par three as the tenth hole and it was located in such a manner that golfers needed to walk through the clubhouse to get to it. In addition, it was the first of three one shotters on the back. Head Golf Professional Way changed it to a downhill par four with a tee only fifty yards left from the ninth green. Hepner has helped make this hole look and play like it belongs on a Strong design. He writes, ‘The quick fix for the tenth hole was very simple. Correct the mowing lines of the green and fairway. Then the most important fix was the trees. There were pines on the right down by the stream that blocked a view of the green even when you were in the right side of the fairway. There also was a group of spruces located on the outside of the dog leg. The spruces gave the golfer a sense of containment that would turn the hole, so golfers would comfortably blast their drivers right into them and be in their pocket. We removed all the pines and freed up the design so that golfers could think about their tee shot. If executed, they would be rewarded with an open look at the green. Because of the open look through the turn of the hole, many golfers now just cut a nice 3 wood down to the bottom of the hill. They now have a chance to think. The hole isn’t spectacular, it is just good golf.’
Re-designed in the early 1930s, the tenth now plays as the shortest par four on the course.
The wedge approach shot needs to avoid the only green-side water hazard on the course. The open
look of the approach has helped make the hole look like it belongs on a Strong design.
Twelfth hole, 370 yards; Another example whereby the drive must carry the crest of a hill. From there, the fairway and green follow the natural slope of the land, which is to stay that the green too slopes from front to back. Hepner admires how fairways such as this one continually make the good golfer make slight adjustments to his stance as the golf ball is invariably one or two inches above or below his feet. Similarly, while riding the course the year before the 1996 U.S. Senior Open, Judy Bell, then president of the USGA, commented to Bonar that she was impressed with the natural undulating fairways and almost lack of a level lie.
Looking back up twelfth hole, the golfer appreciates that getting close to a forward hole location such as
this one takes some doing as the green does nothing but feed an approach to the back.
Thirteenth hole, 490 yards; The golfer now enters the most rambunctious part of the property and indeed from here in is a roll-a-coaster ride. A good drive leaves the golfer at or just past the crest of the hill with a most engaging long downhill approach shot. The slope of the terrain fifty yards and in feeds approach shots nicely onto the putting surface. As such, the golfer never tires of trying to judge his approach to land just so and release toward the hole. Though Golden Age courses frequently featured such appealing ground game options, it is worth noting that the next four holes all require aerial approach shots, a sign that Strong was intent on fulfilling the request for a rigorous championship test by the Cleveland businessmen that hired him.
The view down to the thirteenth green, which is ringed by seven bunkers. At, 4,000 square feet, this
green is one of the smallest targets on the course and the long narrow nature of several of
the back bunkers can leave the golfer with awkward recovery shots.
Fourteenth hole, 385 yards; Golfers in the modern era of power golf rarely are forced to shape their tee balls. Not unlike the first, this fairway richly rewards the golfer who can move his tee ball from left to right. Only in that manner will a tee ball stay in the fairway, which is important as the elevated green makes for a difficult target from the rough. According to Bonar, ‘The fourteenth is my favorite hole because no one has ever suggested any changes to it, which is saying something after all the events that we?ve hosted, visits by tour agronomists and the USGA Turf Advisory Service and Master Plans by two architects.’
There wasn’t the need for many fairway bunkers at Canterbury, such was the excellent quality of
the rolling topography. Here at the fourteenth, fairway bunkers would have been superfluous
on this blind drive over the crest of the hill.
Golfers who don’t shape the ball to the right frequently approach the fourteenth green from the left rough,
which is guaranteed to provide a poor lie and an awkward angle to the plateau green.
Fifteenth hole, 365 yards; This is both Canterbury’s most dramatic and photographed hole. The tee ball feeds downhill to a wide, bunkerless fairway that runs out 260 yards from the tee where a stream crosses. However, it is the forty foot embankment that the golfer must scale with his approach shot that gives the hole its fearsome visual appearance. Especially in the days of hickory golf, this hole was a bear for the typical member. These days, the hole’s primary challenge comes at the green. At thirty five yards, it is the course’s deepest green. A distinct ridge that runs through its middle makes for several mean hole locations and judging one’s approach from so far down below in the fairway is always difficult.
The view from the fifteenth tee perhaps leaves the golfer feeling that he is in New England where such
abrupt landforms are more commonplace. Not surprisingly, Strong was sure to incorporate the
embankment, which is the property’s single most dramatic feature, into his routing.
An interesting aspect to the fifteenth involves just how far to drive one’s ball. A 220 yard drive leaves
this approach from approximately 140 yards and the flag (though not the green) is clearly visible.
A drive another thirty yards forward leaves a blind (though shorter) approach.
Sixteenth hole, 610 yards; Famous for over eighty-five years, this original par six (!) is made by Strong’s brilliant routing over the rolling topography. Indeed, no bunkers were required tee to green, so good is the land. In general, a classic par five – par three – par four finish provides the ultimate in variety and the one here at Canterbury is one of the finest such sequences of closing holes anywhere. If played well, the last three holes yield respectively a short iron, a long iron/wood, and a mid iron into three wildly different green complexes. In short, ideal.
The thrilling view from the elevated sixteenth tee encourages the golfer to make a bold positive
swing. The bunkers in the far background ring the back of the green.
Finding the fairway off the tee is important as otherwise the golfer is unlikely to be able to advance
the ball 200 plus yards to the crest of the hill seen above, which is 130 yards from the green.
Two good shots leave this manageable pitch to the sixteenth green. Of course, if something
goes wrong on either the first or second shot, the approach shot becomes blind and
much more difficult to gauge.
Seventeenth hole, 230 yards; Modern golf course architects frequently try too hard coming down the stretch. Pete Dye for instance has created more than one par three seventeenth with water that didn’t necessarily fit with the rest of the course. To be fair, television and the demands for an ‘exciting’ finish put pressure on Dye to do so. Fortunately, Strong preceded the need for such artificial contrivances and one of the reasons that Canterbury’s finishing holes are so well regarded is that they never resort to trickery that was out of keeping with the rest of the holes/course. Having said that, the seventeenth is a brute with its long narrow green being a difficult target to find, especially as the penultimate green when the pressure is on.
Though full of good golfing qualities, the seventeenth hole sits peacefully upon the land with features
that don’t look contrived or out of place. What better compliment is there for
any architect’s work to receive than that?
Eighteenth hole, 440 yards; Starting at the thirteenth, the golfer goes on quite a walk with all the non-one shotters (i.e. every hole but the seventeenth) going up or down at least thirty feet in elevation. As such, the golfer needs to make sure he doesn’t make a swing with tired legs here at the last as it plays uphill all the way. Canterbury was largely treeless when the course first opened and the approach into this green, which is an extension of the fairway and is open in front, would have enjoyed a links feel to it. The tiny size of some of the bunkers that ring the green’s sides and back are unique to Strong and act as a distinctive reminder that one has just finished a course from one of the masters of the Golden Age in golf course architecture.
Bigger fairway bunkers down the right by Cornish give way to eight smaller Strong bunkers
that ring the sides and back of the Home green.
Reflecting on one’s round, the golfer can’t help but appreciate several facts. Though he might not see where nearly half of his drives finish due to how the holes fall over the land, Canterbury is a first rate test of shaping one’s tee ball and finding the canted fairways. In addition, the greens taken as a set provide one attractive target after another one. In general, on one’s approach, the golfer is afforded a clear sense of what to try and accomplish. In that manner, he feels like he is in a continual chess match with Strong. Finally, though the greens don’t have the wild interior contours of an Oakland Hills for instance, they remain full of character thanks to their tilt with a premium always on staying below the day’s location.
Ultimately, Canterbury falls in same category as Merion Golf Club in that the golfer struggles to think how this property could have yielded a better design. Though the property wasn’t great per se (i.e. not on sandy soil by a large body of water), the course is. For the golfer that gets out of position (ask Gary Player about his 84 in the final round of the 1973 PGA Championship), the course can bear its teeth. Yet, it never does so based on artificial water hazards or other silly devices employed by architects since Strong’s day. Indeed, the one thing for sure about Canterbury and its apparent simplicity is that it will make you wonder why modern architects with their visual eye candy and the correlating bloated maintenance budgets have senselessly deviated from the standard set here at Canterbury by Strong.
Eighty-five years after Strong delivered one of his best designs, Canterbury still
reigns near the top of classic American parkland courses.
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Content delivery networks (CDNs) are an important part of Internet infrastructure that are frequently used without a full understanding of what’s happening behind the scenes. You’ll hear people saying, “oh, we put that on the CDN” or “make sure static assets go on the CDN,” when they have only a rudimentary idea of what CDNs are and how they work. As with most pieces of technology, CDNs are not magic and actually work in a pretty simple and straightforward manner.
When a web browser makes a request for a resource, the first step is to make a DNS request. Making a DNS request is a lot like looking up a phone number in a phone book: the browser gives the domain name and expects to receive an IP address back. With the IP address, the browser can then contact the web server directly for subsequent requests (there are actually multiple layers of DNS caching, but that’s beyond the scope of this post). For your simple blog or small commercial web site, a domain name may have a single IP address; for large web applications, a single domain name may have multiple IP addresses.
Physics determines how fast one computer can contact another over physical connections, and so attempting to access a server in China from a computer in the United States will take longer than trying to access a U.S. server from within the U.S. To improve user experience and lower transmission costs, large companies set up servers with copies of data in strategic geographic locations around the world. This is called a CDN, and these servers are called edge servers, as they are closest on the company’s network to the end-user.
When the browser makes a DNS request for a domain name that is handled by a CDN, there is a slightly different process than with small, one-IP sites. The server handling DNS requests for the domain name looks at the incoming request to determine the best set of servers to handle it. At it’s simplest, the DNS server does a geographic lookup based on the DNS resolver’s IP address and then returns an IP address for an edge server that is physically closest to that area. So if I’m making a request and the DNS resolver I’m routed to is Virginia, I’ll be given an IP address for a server on the East coast; if I make the same request through a DNS resolver in California, I’ll be given an IP address for a server on the West coast. You may not end up with a DNS resolver in the same geographic location from where you’re making the request.
That’s the first step of the process: getting the request to the closest server possible. Keep in mind that companies may optimize their CDNs in other ways as well, for instance, redirecting to a server that is cheaper to run or one that is sitting idle while another is almost at capacity. In any case, the CDN smartly returns the best possible IP address to handle the request.
Edge servers are proxy caches that work in a manner similar to the browser caches. When a request comes into an edge server, it first checks the cache to see if the content is present. The cache key is the entire URL including query string (just like in a browser). If the content is in cache and the cache entry hasn’t expired, then the content is served directly from the edge server.
If, on the other hand, the content is not in the cache or the cache entry has expired, then the edge server makes a request to the origin server to retrieve the information. The origin server is the source of truth for content and is capable of serving all of the content that is available on the CDN. When the edge server receives the response from the origin server, it stores the content in cache based on the HTTP headers of the response.
Yahoo! created and open sourced the Apache Traffic Server, which is what Yahoo! uses in its CDN for managing this traffic. Reading through the Traffic Server documentation is highly recommended if you’d like to learn more about how cache proxies work.
For example, Yahoo! serves the YUI library files off of its CDN using a tool called the combo handler. The combo handler takes a request whose query string contains filenames and concatenates the files into a single response. Here’s a sample URL:
yui.yahooapis.com is part of the Yahoo! CDN and will redirect you to the closest edge server based on your location. This particular request combines two files,
array-extras-min.js, into a single response. The logic to perform this concatenation doesn’t exist on the edge servers, it only exists on the origin server. So if an edge server receives this request and has no content, a request is made to the origin server to retrieve the content. The origin server is running the proprietary combo handler (specified by
/combo? in the URL) and so it combines the files and returns the result to the edge server. The edge server can then serve up the appropriate content.
What does static mean?
I frequently get confused looks when I describe systems similar to the combo handler. There is a misconception that CDNs act like FTP repositories, where you simply upload static files so that others can retrieve them. I hope that it’s clear from the previous section that this is not the case. An edge server is a proxy, the origin server is the one that tells the edge server exactly what content should be returned for a particular request. The origin server may be running Java, Ruby, Node.js, or any other type of web server and, therefore, can do anything it wants. The edge server does nothing but make requests and serve content. So the YUI combo handler exists only on the origin server and not on the edge servers.
If that’s the case, why not serve everything from the CDN? The CDN is a cache, meaning that is has value when it can serve data directly and not need to contact the origin server. If an edge server needs to make a request to the origin server for every request, then it has no value (and in fact, costs more than just making the request to the origin server itself).
Yahoo! performance guidelines specify that static assets should have far-future
Expires headers. This is for two reasons: first, so the browser will cache the resources for a long time, and second, so the CDN will cache the resources for a long time. Doing so also means you can’t use the same filename twice, because it may be cached in at least two places and users will receive the cached version instead of the new one for quite a while.
There are several ways to work around this. The YUI library uses directories containing the version number of the library to differentiate file versions. It’s also common to append identifiers to the end of a filename, such as an MD5 hash or source control revision. Any of these techniques ensures that users are receiving the most up-to-date version of the file while maintaining far-future
Expires headers on all requests.
CDNs are an important part of today’s Internet, and they’re only going to become more important as time goes on. Even now, companies are hard at work trying to figure out ways to move more functionality to edge servers in order to provide users with the fastest possible experience. This includes a technique called Edge Side Includes (ESI) which is designed to serve partial pages from cache. A good understanding of CDNs and how they work is key to unlocking greater performance benefits for users.
Update (29 Nov 2011): Added information about DNS resolvers based on Philip’s comments.
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Expand Tax Breaks for Jewish Schools
The fate of the tax cuts enacted during George W. Bush’s administration will be decided by the end of this year. Deep inside the tax package is a program that the Jewish community should mobilize to save.
Here’s why: A day school education is the single best way to ensure that Jewish children not only know, but also understand the nuances of their religion and heritage, and there are constitutional ways that the federal government can help.
As a day school graduate, I believe that it was my Solomon Schechter education that prepared me for Harvard, as well as for living Jewishly as an adult. And I have always wanted to share a Jewish education with the next generation; however, it’s cheap to express my wishes and more expensive to fund them.
Consider Boston, where we lived previously, and Washington, where we live now. For the 2011–2012 school year, tuition for kindergarten through sixth grade at Washington’s Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School is $20,490. In Boston, the tuition for kindergarten at the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Boston will be $21,725 next year; for sixth-graders it’s $24,695.
These schools and Jewish federations are working to make day school more affordable. Yet costs remain sufficiently high to push day school beyond the financial reach of many American Jews. So while I applaud those who have challenged Jews to accept school vouchers, I wonder why no one has been talking about Coverdell Educational Savings Accounts.
We learned about Coverdell accounts last spring, when I was pregnant with Lila. Lila’s impending arrival focused our minds on how we would finance her education, and my husband and I began researching day school costs. After the initial shock, we began investigating ways to make tuition less prohibitive. We decided to open both a 529 Plan, which allows us to save tax-free for Lila’s postsecondary education, and a Coverdell account, which allows us to save tax-free for Lila’s primary, secondary or postsecondary education.
The striking difference between these two savings accounts is that the 529, which has 18 years to grow, has a $13,000 annual cap per parent (or $26,000 total). Meanwhile, the Coverdell maxes out at $2,000 per child per year. For a day school family, that Coverdell money may have only five years to blossom, and $2,000 is a pittance when compared with annual day school tuition.
This imbalance is illogical. Asking Congress to raise the annual maximum allowable contribution in this already existing program would help families that are undecided about day school more likely to seriously consider — and choose — that option, without infringing on the rights of families that prefer public schools.
This is also the ideal time to ask Congress for consideration, because Coverdell contribution limits are scheduled to be pruned back to $500 per year in 2013, unless Congress acts. The number of families eligible to participate will also be sharply reduced. At present, Coverdell’s income cap for married joint filers is $220,000, but it is scheduled to drop to $160,000 next year.
Jewish organizations should spend this spring and summer seeking partners among other religious groups that sponsor their own parochial schools, as well as creating a broad religious coalition. That coalition should work to raise the maximum annual allowable contribution for Coverdell accounts to $13,000, creating parity between Coverdell accounts and one parent’s annual allowable contribution to 529 accounts.
If we want to promote Jewish continuity, it’s important that Jewish education be a real, viable financial option. Wealthy families already have a school choice; they can vote with their dollars and send their children anywhere they like. Protecting and expanding the Coverdell program would simply expand the range of educational choices available to more taxpayers.
Sending Lila to a parochial school wouldn’t harm any other child or family. My family will be legally required to pay school taxes wherever we live, and if Lila is lucky enough to attend day school, the local public schools will benefit from both having my tax dollars and not having to spend that money on Lila.
The federal government has already accepted the notion that education is a valuable investment that is worth encouraging people to save for and spend on. This is one more iteration of that idea — enabling more Jewish families to confidently choose a Jewish education.
Melissa Langsam Braunstein served as a speechwriter at four federal agencies, most recently the U.S. Department of State. Her recent writing can be found at www.melissabraunstein.com
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By Anav Silverman
Tazpit News Agency
Amid a shaky and uncertain ceasefire with Hamas, Israelis did not celebrate in the streets as Hamas and the people in the Gaza Strip did with fireworks and rifles shot in the air. As long as the force behind the rocket fire and a massive underground tunnel terror network remains in power and is backed by Qatari funds, Israelis remain wary.
An article published in the Institute for Palestine Studies two years ago by The Economist reporter, Nicolas Pelham, thoroughly examines the development of Gaza’s tunnel phenomenon over the past 10 years – a network described as “an underground city,” according to an Israeli military spokesman, Capt. Eytan Buchman in July.
“Much to the misfortune of the people of Gaza, Hamas has invested far more resources in “underground Gaza” than in “upper Gaza” wrote Shlomi Eldar in an article for news source Al-Monitor. “The change and reform that Hamas offered its voters was invested in its tunnels at the expense of the people of Gaza.”
While Hamas’s tunnel infrastructure was once utilized exclusively for smuggling weapons, funds, good and terrorists into the Gaza Strip, Operation Protective Edge revealed that Hamas has expanded its extensive tunnel network into Israel – to attack and kill IDF soldiers and Israeli civilians living in communities on the border.
The IDF estimates that today Hamas invests more than $1- $10 million into the excavation and maintenance of every tunnel, which equals 350 truckloads of building supplies. It goes without saying, that with those materials, Hamas could have invested into the welfare of its own people, using that money to build medical clinics, homes, mosques and schools. Instead, with Israel discovering and demolishing 36 tunnels during the war, Hamas wasted over $90 million with its underground terrorist infrastructure.
Indeed, Hamas has been engaged in the tunnel industry for the past 14 years since its rise to power in 2007. Prior to Operation Cast Lead, the Islamist movement of Hamas oversaw a sophisticated and complex underground tunnel program, utilizing Google Earth to map routes and to stay on course. Each tunnel dug cost anywhere from $80,000 to $200,000 to build. According to Pelham’s published report in 2012, mosque preachers praised the commercial tunnel ventures as “resistance” activity and hailed workers killed on the job as “martyrs.”
“Private investors, including Hamas members who raised capital through their mosque networks, partnered with families straddling the border. Lawyers drafted contracts for cooperatives to build and operate commercial tunnels, which detailed the number of partners, the value of respective shares and the way to distribute shareholder profits,” wrote Pelham.
These ‘partners’ comprised of all sectors of Palestinian society. Pelham cites Abu Ahmad, a taxi driver who invested $20,000 of his wife’s jewelry to partner with nine others in a tunnel ‘venture.’ Within a month, a trade tunnel under joint-partnership could generate revenue to cover its initial construction costs, with Gazan and Egyptian partners and owners splitting earnings equally.
From a few dozen factional tunnels in mid-2005, Hamas’s takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007 ensured that by December of 2008 during Operation Cast Lead, the tunnels now numbered to at least 500. According to Penham’s article, the tunnel trade revenue in 2005 stood at an average of $30 million per year. But after Hamas entered the picture, the tunnel revenue increased to $36 million per month. Meanwhile, the Gaza Strip has remained in poverty with the per capita income in 2011 listed at $1,165.
The Hamas Interior Ministry even established the Tunnel Affairs Commission (TAC) in 2009 following Operation Cast Lead to oversee and regulate tunnel activities as well as ensuring safe working conditions, particularly when 160 children used by Hamas as child laborers, were killed digging underground tunnels.
Following Operation Cast Lead, donations for cement were needed to rebuild new and damaged buildings in Gaza. However a report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center this August revealed that significant priority was given to rebuilding Hamas military infrastructure. A substantial amount of cement was allotted to building the extensive system of attack tunnels and smuggling tunnels under Gaza’s urban landscape. Hamas also utilized the cement to build most of its military infrastructure in densely-populated territory as part of its combat strategy.
Palestinian military sources told Al-Monitor that the tunnel discovered by Israel near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha from Gaza in October 2013 cost an estimated $10 million and required 800 tons of concrete. Over 100 diggers worked on the tunnel for more than two years, equipping it with a communications network and electricity as well as stockpiles of cookies, yogurt and other foods that would last for several months. During the war itself, the IDF discovered within the terror tunnels, AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and motorcycles.
Hamas recently indicated to international press that it would continue building up its underground network while restocking arsenal, rockets and other weaponry. As one Hamas fighter told a Reuters news reporter last week who visited an underground tunnel in Gaza, “In peace we make preparations, and in war we use what we have readied.”
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The Supreme Court ruled today that an Idaho couple can bring a civil action against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to challenge a compliance order, instead of waiting for the EPA to initiate a court action. Federal courts had previously rejected the couple's claims for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
In 2007, Mike and Chantelle Sackett began filling their plot of land near Priest Lake in Idaho with dirt and rock to prepare to build a house. The EPA took note, and issued an administrative compliance order against the Sacketts. The compliance order alleged that the plot was a wetland subject to the Clean Water Act (CWA) and that the Sacketts violated the CWA by filling the property without a permit.
The compliance order required the Sacketts to remove the fill material and restore the parcel to its original condition, or face civil and administrative penalties. Government attorneys later conceded before the Supreme Court that the fines could have been as high as $75,000 per day.
The Sacketts tried to challenge the EPA. They hired scientists to refute the wetland claim, and show that their landlocked plot in an already-developed neighborhood was not a wetland, reports Reason. When the EPA continued to assert CWA jurisdiction over the lands, but refused to grant the Sacketts a hearing, the couple sued in federal court.
The courts, however, responded that they didn't have subject matter jurisdiction to review the compliance order because the EPA had not filed a lawsuit enforce the order. Since the EPA must prove a violation to a judge for the court to assess fines, the courts claimed that the Sacketts had to wait for the EPA to go to court before they could challenge the order.
Not so, the Supreme Court ruled today.
In a unanimous opinion by Justice Scalia, the Court ruled that the Sacketts can sue the EPA under the Administrative Procedures Act to challenge the compliance order. According to the opinion, the agency's decision was final and the Sacketts had no other adequate remedy in a court, so they could file their lawsuit, reports CNN.
Mike Sackett was understandably pleased with the decision, telling CNN, "The Supreme Court has come to our rescue and reminded the EPA -- and everyone -- that this is still America, and Americans still have rights under the Constitution."
- Sackett v. EPA (FindLaw's CaseLaw)
- Supreme Court Allows Idaho Couple to Challenge EPA on Wetlands Ruling (The Washington Post)
- How Will Sackett v. EPA Affect Administrative Compliance Orders? (FindLaw's Supreme Court Blog)
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|Publication number||US4671913 A|
|Application number||US 06/771,129|
|Publication date||9 Jun 1987|
|Filing date||30 Aug 1985|
|Priority date||31 Aug 1984|
|Also published as||DE3576795D1, EP0173337A2, EP0173337A3, EP0173337B1|
|Publication number||06771129, 771129, US 4671913 A, US 4671913A, US-A-4671913, US4671913 A, US4671913A|
|Inventors||Endo Gen, Tatsu Saneharu, Hirokazu Hori, Yoshihiro Kawata|
|Original Assignee||Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (13), Referenced by (48), Classifications (46), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates to a process for producing a colored and embossed two-layered thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer on one surface. The thermoplastic resin sheet is useful particularly as interlayer of a laminated glass.
Laminated glasses heretofore used in windowpanes of traffic facilities such as motor vehicles and aircraft, and buildings are composed of two glass sheets and an interlayer of a plasticized polyvinyl butyral resin interposed therebetween so as to secure high strength and avoid scattering of glass fragments in the event of breakage. Generally, minute raised and depressed portions are formed by embossing on such interlayers in order to prevent blocking during storage and secure degassing property during the production of laminated glasses. Embossing is usually carried out immediately after extrusion molding of a resin sheet.
On the other hand, to restrict the transmission of light through the laminated glass and to obtain a glare reducing effect, a colored layer, for example a layer colored blue green, is very frequently formed on one surface of the interlayer. In the case of an interlayer used for automobile laminated glasses, such a colored layer is formed not entirely, but in a tape-like shape along one long side of a nearly rectangular interlayer film.
Such a colored layer is formed, for example, by a method described in Japanese Patent Publication No. 45793/1974 in whicn a molten non-colored thermoplastic resin and a molten colored thermoplastic resin are associated in a die for extrusion molding, and extruded from an extrusion opening. For the purpose mentioned above, it is the general practice to emboss the surface of the resulting interlayer to form minute raised and depressed portions on the surface.
The embossed two-layered interlayer film having a colored layer obtained by the above method frequently has color non-uniformity because of providing the colored layer. Hence, a laminated glass produced by using the interlayer film. Hence, a laminated glass produced by using such an interlayer film has a markedly impaired merchandize value in regard to appearance and antiglare effect. It is known to age the interlayer at high temperatures in order to remove the color non-uniformity, but a relatively long perrod of time is required for the aging, and an extra energy is required to economic disadvantage.
It is an object of this invention to provide a process for producing a thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer, which can omit the aging step because there is very little or no occurrence of color non-uniformity.
Based on the finding that the development of color non-uniformity is attributed to the roughening of the surface of a thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer and to the disturbance of the interface between two thermoplastic resin layers having different colors, the present inventors have succeeded in solving the above problem by selecting the surface roughness of the thermoplastic sheet and the temperature during embossing within a specific range.
Thus, according to this invention, there is provided a process for continuously producing an embossed thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer which comprises associating a molten thermoplastic resin A and a molten thermoplastic resin B having a different color from the resin A within a die for extrusion molding, extruding the associated mass through an extrusion opening to form a two-layered thermoplastic resin sheet, and thereafter embossing the sheet, wherein the temperature T (° C.) of the thermoplastic resin sheet immediately before the embossing and the surface roughness R (micrometers) of said sheet immediately before the embossing expressed by a 10-point average roughness in accordance with ISO-R467 are selected so as to satisfy the following relation 1.2R+T≦145 (1).
Examples of suitable theremoplastic resins used as the thermoplastic resins A and B include polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polycarbonate, vinyl chloride resins, nylon resins, polyvinyl acetal, acrylic resins, polyacetal resin and polyester resins. The resin A and the resin B are preferably of the same kind. The resins A and B, however, may be of different kinds if the two resins have similar flow characteristics such that when they are associated within a die for extrusion molding of sheets, the associated mass forms a laminar flow. A plasticizer, a filler, etc. may be incorporated in the thermoplastic resins A and B. Usually, a dye is included in the resin B. When the resulting sheet is to be used as an interlayer of a laminate glass, a plasticized polyvinyl acetal resin, paricularly a polyvinyl butyral resin containing about 20 to 60% by weight of a plasticizer, is conveniently used as the resins A and B.
Conventional plasticizers may be used for this purpose, and examples include polyhydric alcohol esters such as triethylene glycol di-2-ethyl butyrate, aliphatic polybasic acid esters such as adipates (e.g., dihexyl adipate) and sebacates (e.g., dibutyl sebacate), and aromatic polybasic acid esters typified by phthalates such as dioctyl phthalate.
Polyvinyl butyral preferably has a degree of butyralization of 55 to 80 mole % and a degree of polymerization of 500 to 3,000.
In the process of this invention, the molten resins A and B are associated within a die for extrusion molding, and the associated mass is extruded through an extrusion opening to obtain a two-layered sheet having a colored layer of the resin B. It is not always necessary to provide the colored layer on all over the surface of the sheet. For example, for use as an interlayer of a laminated glass, the colored layer is formed in a tape-like shape having a width of about 1/4 of the length of the short side of the sheet, which is nearly rectangular, along one entire long side of the sheet.
The two-layered sheet immediately after extrusion from the extrusion opening is usually fed between a pair of cooled rolls to be cooled and molded into a sheet having a suitable thickness, and thereafter continuously subjected to embossing. If required, the sheet may be immersed in a water tank during the embossing step in order to cool it.
According to this invention, the temperature and surface roughness of the resin sheet immediately before it is subjected to embossing are selected so as to satisfy the expression (1). The surface roughness R is expressed in micrometers by a 10-point average roughness in accordance with ISO-R468 of International Organization for Standardization. The 10-point average roughness in accordance with ISO-R468 is determined as follows:
First, with regard to a standard length L of a sample, surface unevenness is measured by a suitable method (such as a contact needle method) to obtain a sectional curve as shown in FIG. 4. The standard length L is set at a specific length by ISO-R468 according to the degree of surface unevenness. In the present invention, the standard length is set at 8 mm. Within the range of the standard length L, the difference between the average value of the heights of five hills from the highest hill to the 5th highest hill and the average of the depths of five valleys from the deepest valley to the 5th deepest valley is defined as the 10-point average roughness Hz. In FIG. 4, the heights of hills or valleys measured from a properly set reference line X is Hi (i is an integer of 1 to 10), Hz is calculated in accordance with the following equation. ##EQU1##
The surface unevenness of the resin sheet immediately before it is subjected to embossing can be measured, for example, by a needle contacting method with respect to a test piece sampled from this sheet and then cooled, and based on the result, the 10-point average roughness Hz can be determined.
The temperature (° C.) of the resin sheet immediately before embossing can be measured during the production by, for example, a radiation thermometer.
The surface roughness of the sheet during embossing is preferably as low as possible because if it is too large, color non-uniformity tends to occur. A sheet having a low surface roughness can be obtained, for example, by maintaining the rotating speed of the extrusion screw relatively low and decreasing the amount of extrusion. In actual operation, a certain level of the amount of extrusion should be ensured for industrial production. Accordingly, the sheet to be embossed generally has a surface roughnesss, measured by the 10-point average roughness, of 3 to 30 micrometers.
If the temperature of the resin sheet having the colored layer which is to be embossed is too low, fine raised and depressed portions cannot be sufficiently formed. If it is too high, the interface between the thermoplastic resin A and the thermoplastic resin B having a different color tends to be disturbed and develop color-nonuniformity. Accordingly, the temperature of the resin sheet to be embossed is usually 90° to 150° C., preferably 100° to 140° C.
Preferably, the surface roughness R (micrometers) and temperature T (° C.) satisfy the above expression (1) and are individually within the aforesaid ranges.
It is usual practice to extrusion-mold a resin sheet so that the surface roughness of its upper surface becomes nearly equal to that of its under surface, and it is sufficient to measure the surface roughness of only one surface. If, for some purpose, a resin sheet having different surface roughnesses between its upper and under surfaces is to be molded, the larger of the 10-point average roughnesses of the upper and under surfaces should be used as R in expression (1).
A pair of emboss rolls are preferably used to emboss the thermoplastic resin sheet containuously. Calender rolls and die rolls may also be used.
According to this invention, an embossed thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer free from color non-uniformity can be obtained by embossing the extrusion-molded resin sheet having a colored layer under conditions which satisfy the expression (1). No clear reason has yet been assigned to this result. The present inventors have found that the development of color nonuniformity is attributed to the roughening of the surface of the thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer and to the disturbance of the interface between the thermoplastic resin A and the thermoplastic resin B having a different color. It is presumed that color non-uniformity occurs not only when the roughening of the sheet surface and the disturbance of the interface are remarkable, but also when the two are superimposed and reach a certain level.
On the other hand, the surface roughness R is considered to be a measure of the degree of roughening of the sheet surface, and the sheet temperature T at the time of embossing is considered to be a measure of the degree of the disturbance of the interface mentioned above.
Based on a number of experiments, the present inventors have found that by limiting the value of 1.2R+T to 145 or less, color non-uniformity presumably attributed to the roughening of the sheet surface and the disturbance of the interface is drastically reduced.
The process of this invention will now be described in detail with reference to one example of an apparatus preferably used in practicing the process of this inventon.
FIG. 1 is a longitudinal sectional view showing one example of an exrusion molding die and an embossing device used in the practice of the process of his invention;
FIG. 2 is a cross sectional view showing a part of the molding die and the extrusion device shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 is a sectional view in the width direction of a resin sheet produced in accordance with the process of this invention; and
FIG. 4 is a sectional view of a sheet surface for illustrating the 10-point average surface roughness.
With reference to FIGS. 1 and 2, the reference numeral 1 represents an extrusion device for kneading and melting a thermoplastic resin A. The non-colored thermoplastic resin A fed from a hopper (not shown) is heated within a cylinder 2 and kneaded by a screw 3, and melted. A feed device 4 is provided for feeding a colored thermoplastic resin B. The colored resin B fed into a cylinder 5 is kneaded and melted by the driving of a screw 6 in the feeding device 4. The reference numeral 7 is a die for extrusion molding, and a resin flow inlet 8 connected to the extrusion opening of the extrusion device 1 and an enlarged flow passage 9 are formed in the die 7. The enlarged flow passage 9 communicates with a land 10 which is narrower than the passage 9. An extrusion opening 11 is formed at the forward end of the land 10. The clearance of the extrusion opening 11 is microadjustable by a vertically movable lip die 11'. The reference numeral 101 is a boundary line between the enlarged flow passage 9 and the land 10.
An opening portion 12 opened into the enlarged flow passage 9 is connected to the feeding device 4 for the colored resin B through a feed passage 13 for the resin B. The colored resin B melted in the feed device 4 passes through the feed passage 13 and reaches the opening portion 12 from where it is extruded into the enlarged flow passage 9. Thereafter, it is associated with the flow of the non-colored thermoplastic resin A which is spreading in a direction at right angles to the sheet extrusion direction. The associated mass flows while spreading widthwise within the enlarged flow passage 9, and reaches the land 10. While being moled into a sheet form, it passes through the land 10, and extruded in sheet form from the extrusion opening 11.
The reference numeral 14 represents a thermoplastic resin sheet having a width of 0.5 to 2.5 m and a thickness of about 1 to 7 mm immediately after being extruded from the extrusion opening 11 of the die 7. The hatched portion in FIG. 2 shows a portion colored with the colored thermoplastic resin B associated in the opening portion 12.
FIG. 1 more clearly shows the relative positions of the opening portion 12 opened into the ennlarged flow passage 9, the enlarged flow passage 9, the land 10, and the extrusion opening 11 which is narrower than the enlarged flow passage 9.
In FIG. 1, the reference numerals 15 represent cold press rolls in which cold to warm water at a temperature of about 20° to 50° C. is circulating. Raised and depressed portion having a roughness of 10 to 40 micrometers are formed on their surfaces, and a mold releasing agent is coated on them. These rolls send the sheet 14 to guide rolls 16 and 17 accurately in a stable condition. Cold or warm water is circulated also in the guide rolls 16 and 17. By controlling the temperature of the circulating water in the press rolls 15 and the guide rolls 16 and 17, the temperature T of the sheet immediately before being fed to emboss rolls 18 can be controlled.
The emboss rolls 18 have an arithmetic average surface hardness of 10 to 60 micrometers as a result of shot blasting and are coated with a mold releasing agent. Steam at a temperature of about 100° to 150° C. are circulated within the embossing rolls 18. The rotating speed of the rolls 18 can be adjusted independently of the cold roll. Instead of the pair of emboss rolls 18, two pairs of rolls one of which is a smooth roll may be used to emboss each side of the sheet 14.
Guide rolls 19 and 20 having cold or warm water circulating therein are also provided.
The process for producing an embossed thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer using the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described below. From the resin flow inlet 8 of the die 7, the molten thermoplastic resin A is forced into the die 7 by the extrusion device 1, passed through the enlarged flow passage 9 and the land 10 of the die 7, and extruded in sheet form from the extrusion opening. In the meantime, the molten thermoplastic resin B is fed from the feed device 4, passed through the resin feed passage 13, and extruded from the opening portion 12 of the enlarged flow passage 9. Thus, the resin B is associated with the thermoplastic resin A which is spreading widthwise within the enlarged flow passage. The associated mass is caused to flow within the enlarged flow passage in this state, passed through the land 10, and extruded in sheet form from the extrusion opening 11.
The two-layered thermoplastic resin sheet 14 having a colored laeyr thus extruded are cooled by the cold press rolls 15, and fed through the guide rolls 16 and 17 to the embossing rolls 18 where it is embossed under such conditions that the surface roughness (micrometers) and temperature (° C.) of the sheet immediately before embossing satisfy the expression (1) given hereinabove.
The temperature of the sheet immediately before being fed to the embossing rolls 18 can be measured, for example, by using a radiation thermometer. Its surface roughness can be measured, for example, by using a contact needle method with respect to a test piece sampled from the sheet immediately before embossing and then cooled.
The surface roughness of the resin sheet is determined by the amount of the resin extruded, the resin temperature and clearance at the die extrusion opening 11, and the surface roughnesses of the press rolls 15 and the guide rolls 16 and 17. On the other hand, the temperature of the resin sheet is determined by the amount of the resin extruded, the resin temperature at the die extrusion opening 11, and the surface temperatures of the press rolls 15, and the guide rolls 16 and 17.
Accordingly, the surface roughness and temperature of the sheet can be controlled by controlling these factors. In particular, the temperature of the resin sheet can be controlled as desired during the sheet formation by controlling the temperatures and amounts of the water circulating through the press rolls and guide rolls.
FIG. 3 is a sectional view in a widthwise direction of one example of an embossed thermoplastic resin sheet having a colored layer produced by the process of this invention. The reference numeral 21 represents a non-colored portion; and 22, a colored portion. On both surfaces of the sheet, minute raised and depressed parts of the desired depth are formed (not shown), but no color non-uniformity occurs.
As shown in the drawing, the colored layer 22 has a constant thickness from one side end portion of the sheet to an inside point way from the side end portion by a predetermined distance, but further inwardly, the thickness changes continuously. Hence, the color density is uniform from be side end portion to the inward point at a predetermined distance, but becomes gradually lower further inwardly. The resin sheet which is colored so that the color density contiuously changes is especially useful as an interlayer of automobile laminated glasses.
By using the apparatus shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, an embossed polyvinylbutyral resin sheet having a colored plasticized polyvinylbutyral resin layer was produced.
A composition composed of 100 parts by weight of polyvinyl butyral and 40 parts of triethylene glycol di-2-ethylbutyrate was fed into the extrusion device 1. A composition of the same components as above but further comprising 0.1 part of a dye was fed into the feed device 4. In accordance with the procedure specifically described hereinabove, a polyvinyl butyral resin sheet having a blue green layer with a continuously changing degree of coloration was formed. It was embossed by using embossing rolls 18.
The 10-point average surface roughness R (micrometers), the temperature T (°C.) and the 1.2R+T value of the sheets in each run are shown in Table 1.
The 10-point average surface roughness was measured by using a contact needle-type surface roughness tester (SURFCOM 1210A supplied by Tokyo Seimitsu K. K.), and the temperature T was measured by an irradiation-type thermometer utilizing infrared radiation.
The widths of the resulting sheets were 100 to 200 cm (the widths of the colored layers 20 to 40 cm).
The color non-uniformity of each of the resulting resin sheets was evaluated as follows:
A laminated glass was produced by using the resin sheet as an interlayer. Blue sheets (made by Mitsubishi Rayon Co., Ltd.; Acrylite, cobalt blue #302, thickness 0.5 mm) were stacked on the glass one by one until the color non-uniformity of the resin sheet could not be perceived with the naked eye. The number of the blue sheets so stacked was defined as a color non-uniformity rank. The smaller the value, less the color non-uniformity. When the color non-uniformity rank is 4 or below, the sheet does not require aging.
The results are also shown in Table 1.
It is seen from Table 1 that in any of these examples, the resulting sheets had only slight color non-uniformity and did not require aging.
TABLE 1______________________________________ Color non- T uniformityExample R (μm) (°C.) 1.2 R + T rank Aging______________________________________1 5 100 106 2 Not required2 5 125 131 3.5 "3 10 100 112 2 "4 10 110 122 3 "5 10 125 137 4 "6 20 100 124 3 "7 27.5 100 133 4 "______________________________________
In Comparative Examples 1 and 2, a polyvinyl butyral resin sheet having a colored layer was formed by extrusion molding and then embossed in the same way as in Examples 1-7 except that R and T in expression (1) were changed as shown in Table 2.
In Comparative Examples 3 and 4, the cold press rolls 15 and the guide rolls 16 and 17 in FIG. 1 were not used, and the extruded thermoplastic resin sheet was immediately conducted to the emboss rolls 18 and embossed. The distance between the sheet forming die 7 and the emboss rolls 18 was adjusted to three times that between the die 7 and the cold roll 15 in the above Examples. The results are shown in Table 2.
It is seen from Table 2 that the resins obtained in Comparative Examples 1 to 4 had a color non-uniformity rank of at least 5, and as shown in the right end of Table 2, required aging for a long period of time (aging temperature 40° C.).
TABLE 2______________________________________ Color non- AgingComparative T uniformity periodExample R (μm) (°C.) 1.2 R + T rank (40° C.)______________________________________1 20 125 149 5 20 days2 5 150 156 6.5 25 days3 10 150 160 7 30 days4 20 150 174 8 60 days______________________________________
According to this invention, an embossed thermoplastic resin sheet having little or no color non-uniformity can be produced with good productivity by forming a two-layered thermoplasstic resin sheet having a colored layer by extrusion molding and successively embossing it under the conditions satisfying the expression (1). The aging step required in the prior art can therefore be omitted in this invention. Accordingly, the process is simplified, and the time and the cost of energy can be saved.
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The story of Gateshead FC starts with a team called South Shields Adelaide Athletic, formed in 1899 by Jack Inskip. After spending a few years in minor competitions the club dropped the ‘Athletic’ from its name and made a move to a higher level, the Tyneside League in 1905. They turned professional in 1907, playing in green and red quartered shirts with white shorts at the Stanhope ground. Facilities were all but non-existent and the acquisition of a well-equipped enclosed ground was of paramount importance.
The start of the 1908/09 season coincided with a new home venue at Horsley Hill Road. In 1910 the ‘Adelaide’ was dropped to become plain South Shields but the nickname ‘The Laides’ stuck. When the club entered the Football League after the First World War they adopted royal blue shirts and white shorts. By the late Twenties South Shields were in dire straits and the idea was first mooted regarding a move to hopefully a better-supported base. Rumours abounded of a proposed re-allocation to a Newcastle suburb, to an area more responsive to a Football League club. The 1929/30 season was to prove the last for the club at Horsley Hill under the South Shields name. By mid-March it was announced that a move to Gateshead was definite. The area chosen to lay out a football pitch was the site of the future Redheugh Park, then locally known as the ‘Clay Hole’.
The formal name change to Gateshead was approved by the FA in July 1930 and the newly formed club kicked off their campaign at Redheugh Park clad in claret shirts with light blue sleeves and white shorts, inspired by the famous Aston Villa. Seven of the players who took on Doncaster Rovers had played the last match at Horsley Hill and brought with them the ‘Laides’ tag. Under their new name the club almost won promotion to Division Two when they finished runners-up to, on goal average, Lincoln City in 1931/32. But after a prosperous start it took only four seasons to bring the club to the brink of extinction and in a position South Shields had been in almost a decade earlier: low gates, financial problems and supporters dissatisfaction with the selling of the best players. Serious doubts were expressed regarding Gateshead’s continuing existence.
As was the case with so many other clubs Gateshead changed colours in an attempt to change fortunes at the instigation of Bill Tulip, the club’s lifelong benefactor. He always wore a white orchid in the buttonhole of his black suit at matches and this inspired the arrival of white shirts and black shorts. Gateshead also later sported black and white striped shirts and white shirts with a large black ‘V’.
The greatest moments in the clubs history came during their 1953 run in the F. A. Cup when Gateshead beat Liverpool in the 3rd round and progressed to the last eight before losing to a Nat Lofthouse goal against eventual winners Bolton Wanderers. Despite having a reasonable record in the Football League the club were voted out at the end of the 1959/60 season, being replaced by Peterborough United, although finishing above two other teams. After Gateshead were voted out of the League in 1960 they applied, unsuccessfully, to join the Scottish League.
The club then joined the Northern Counties League and eventually became founder members of the Northern Premier League in 1968. In 1970 they were thrown out of the League in favour of Bradford Park Avenue. The club spent a season in the Midland League before it came to the end of the road and was wound up. A new club known as Gateshead Town played a season in the Northern Combination before history repeated itself and South Shields, members of the Northern Premier League, moved to the International Stadium and became known as Gateshead United. Amazingly this club only lasted three years before hitting the rocks. The present club Gateshead F. C. was formed from the wreckage.
Throughout all their years of ups and downs until finishing their exploits in the Football League in 1960 Gateshead’s icon has been the portcullis taken from the council’s coat of arms. The goat’s head in the crest refers to the old derivation of the name Gateshead, rendered by the Venerable Bede as ad caput capreae, while the gateway tower in the shield indicates its modern interpretation. The portcullis hanging from the neck of the goat is an heraldic difference, probably chosen as an allusion to the first syllable in Gateshead’s name. The water in the shield indicates the town’s situation on the river Tyne. The crosses indicate that it was anciently part of the Palatine of Durham and therefore under the patronage of St Cuthbert.
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Washington (CNN) - The number of Americans who blame President Obama for the recession has nearly doubled, according to a new national poll. But the USA/Today Gallup survey also indicates that more people still blame former President George W. Bush for the nation's economic problems.
Twenty-six percent of people questioned in the poll say Obama deserves a great deal of blame for the tough economic times, nearly double the number of people who felt that way last July. The survey also indicates that half of the public says the president deserves at least a moderate amount of blame over the economy.
According to the poll, 42 percent blame Bush, which is basically unchanged from the amount of people who last summer said Obama's predecessor in the White House deserved a great deal of blame for the nation's economic problems.
Economists say the country sank into recession in December 2007.
The USA/Today Gallup poll was conducted March 26-28 with 1,033 adults questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus four percentage points.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday indicates that 44 percent of Americans approved of how Obama is handling the economy, with 55 percent saying they disapprove. The 44 percent approval on the economy is down 10 points from last September, with disapproval up 10 points.
Follow Paul Steinhauser on Twitter: @psteinhausercnn
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Until the other day, we thought there were only two things to remember when buying a new computer: Get one with an Intel Core i5 or i7 processor and get at least eight gigabytes of RAM. Here’s a third tip: Get one that’s easy to restore to its original factory settings. We learned this lesson after attempting to replace Bob’s nine-year old HP machine with a Lenovo.
This is important. Nothing makes a computer as fast as bringing it back to the condition it was the day you bought it. With many brands, you hit a key during boot up to get to the restore page. Lenovo asked us to create a boot disc first. Since it was all solid state and has no disk drive, we had to plug in an external flash drive. That was easy enough, but we got nothing but error messages when we used it to bring the computer back to its original state.
Why did we buy it in the first place? Because a reader wrote us to say he had read (somewhere else) that the Lenovo computer with flash drive storage (no disk drive, just chips) was full of what is not so politely called “crapware.” This is a common thing with new computers and a common phrase. It refers to inserting all kinds of ads and free trials that the makers hope you will end up buying. We never accept any of them. But to return to the point, in testing the reader’s complaint we found no ads or free trials and everything worked fine.
We decided to return it only because we’re going to wait for Windows 10 this summer. It turned out that the only real flaw we discovered with the Lenovo M73 (an impressive little box the size of an ordinary book) was the difficulty in returning it to its original factory state. It took Joy almost an hour to get this done. A quirky thing, since normally it would take just minutes.
We did this for the sake of the next buyer; there would be nothing untoward on the drive and no changes to the system. But this can also be a good thing to do even if it’s your own computer and you’re keeping it. For most people, who use a computer for web surfing, email, photo editing and Office documents, restoring a computer to its original state is far better than repeatedly buying a new one. It will be lightning fast again and you can reload any software you really need. And, of course, it’s free.
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Have you ever felt a little cold after sitting inside a blue coloured room? Colours are linked physically, mentally and emotionally to the human body. Even our moods are affected by colours and vice versa. Our body is affected by seven important colours, the colours that are part of the white light – Violet, Indigo, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange and Red. Each colour influences the body’s various aspects. Thus, Colour therapy is always part of the Vaasthu Sastra to bring out the positive energy flow and eliminate the negative energy. Given below are the colours that are suitable for the bedroom of every house. Let’s discuss them one by one.
Pink is the most perfect colour for a bedroom. Pink symbolizes joy, happiness, and pure feelings, and is essential for a happy life. Pink colour can not only be used for the walls of the bedroom but can also be used in bed sheets and pillow covers. This is especially suitable for the newlyweds for a marital bliss.
Green is the next choice after Pink when it comes to colouring the bedroom. Green symbolizes peace and harmony. Green colour is usually used in children’s bedroom because green colour induces concentration. Black coloured furniture is mixed with it to encourage deeper thoughts.
Also, green matches with any colour making it colour neutral.
Blue is colour of the sky and water. Blue symbolizes peace, calm and tranquility. It is an ideal colour for the bedroom and for that matter, any room where you want to just relax. But you also have to be cautious because using too much of Blue produces a melancholic feeling and it can be quite depressing when used in excess. Though, green is the preferred colour for a kid’s bedroom, a more aggressive kid’s room should be painted blue.
According to Vaasthu, the rooms are constructed keeping the direction in mind. Thus, it is always appropriate to construct master bedroom in the south-west direction. As south-west direction is ruled by Rahu, blue is usually the preferred colour.
Yellow is the colour that causes a soothing effect. Hence, the bedroom of elderly people should usually use colours of yellow as they spend most of their time in their bedroom.
The ceiling of the rooms should always be in white. White colour reflects light and brightens the room. Also, as the ceiling temperature should be less than the body temperature, white is the preferred colour for ceilings.
Also read how to keep your home cool naturally
COLOURS TO AVOID
Red stimulates more energy. So, if you are looking for a relaxed and sound sleep, this is not the colour for your bedroom. You can limit the use of red to candles, cushions and other accessories which doesn’t have large splashes of that colour.
Surrounding yourself with black makes you feel more depressed. You will feel low when you get up in the morning.
Limit using white to the ceiling. White, if confined, bounces light and energy, thus, making it difficult to take rest.
Brown represents immovable energy. It is not advisable for bedroom.
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COVID-19 Infant Feeding Research Interest Group firstname.lastname@example.org group email for the COVID-19 Infant Feeding Research Interest Group (CIF-RIG) allows members to share and disseminate resources, news and announcements, and research findings related to infant feeding practices and COVID-19.
As an active member of the CIF-RIG, USAID Advancing Nutrition hosts this email group and the web platform for the COVID-19 Infant Feeding Research Interest Group. Register for our monthly RIG meetings using the sign-up form.
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Arab unions denounce trade liberalization as '\'danger'\' to workers
An organization of Arab trade unions on Sunday, September 16, called the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) trade liberalization policies a "danger" to workers, ahead of the global body's meeting in Qatar.
"Globalization and multinational companies are a danger for the working class," said the secretary general of the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, Hacene Djemam, quoted by Syria's official SANA news agency. Djemam, an Algerian, was addressing a special meeting to discuss the WTO meeting in Doha scheduled for November 9-13.
SANA reported that Arab union representatives at the meeting said the WTO and its accords to liberalize world trade were "eliciting growing popular condemnation because of their negative effects on workers."
The federation based in Damascus groups unions from several Arab countries, although not Qatar which bans union activities and where most workers are expatriates, mainly Asians. ― (AFP, Damascus)
© Agence France Presse 2001
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Roadside Safety Inspections: FAQs
The following information is general in nature, and intended for motor carriers who have questions about how the roadside safety inspection program works.
Q. What Happens When A Vehicle and/or Driver is Inspected?
Your driver and vehicle can be inspected by state, county and local officers trained to conduct motor carrier safety inspections. The inspection can include a check for safety violations, such as defective brakes, overloading, and the like. A driver may also be checked for proper licensing, accurate log entries, and other documentation. Any vehicle or driver may be checked at any time of day, to assure compliance with CV laws and regulations.
Q. What does the term "out-of-service" mean?
"Out of service" indicates your vehicle or driver may be taken off the road for violations so severe they may present an imminent hazard to the motoring public. If this happens, the officer will fully explain the situation to the driver. If a vehicle is placed out of service, it may not be driven again until all necessary repairs are made. In some cases, the vehicle may be towed a garage for immediate repair. If a driver is placed out-of-service, he or she cannot operate the vehicle until violations are corrected.
Q. What happens after an inspection?
After an inspection is completed, the officer will give the driver a copy of the Driver Vehicle Examination Report, with instructions to give this copy to the carrier. The carrier then has 15 days from the date of the inspection to sign the report, verifying that all required repairs have been made, and return it to the Department of Transportation, according to instructions on the report. If no violations are found, the form need not be returned. You are required by federal regulations to keep copies of inspection reports on file, for auditing purposes.
Q. What happens if a driver gets a ticket after being inspected?
The responsible party must enter a plea on the citation and return it to the court listed on the face of the ticket. Depending on your plea, the court will notify the defendant what further action is required, along with any applicable penalties.
Q. What happens to the information inspectors collect?
Inspections and crashes involving your company's vehicles and drivers are entered into the SAFETYNET database used to record your company's safety record. This information is available to the public. If you are an interstate carrier, this information is collected wherever your drivers and vehicles travel.
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Big Data may be risky, but it’s cheap enough to learn on the job, says Peter Judge
Big Data is growing – and some people see it as the future of enterprise computing. But what if it takes off too fast?
It’s now nearing the top of the Gartner hype cycle – the iconic graph from the analyst firm, which tracks new technologies up to a peak when expectations are at their highest, and then down the other side when people get disillusioned with them, before climbing the steady incline of real exploitation.
Hype or transformation?
Accusations of hype are easy to make, especially when a technology appears in the product plans of every large company, but in a mere handful of case studies.
Hadoop creator Doug Cutting told TechWeekEurope last week that, whether or not Big Data is being hyped, it is not a bubble: the technology provides real benefits in exactly the areas where IT can help business most.
Automation is the way to increase profits in any field, and Big Data promises quick responses working with the masses of data which automation provides, Cutting told us.
But if the excitement really spreads, and everyone decides they have to do Big Data, what then? Where will the experts come from?
That was the most interesting strand of discussion at an IBM event last week. A report from Oxford’s Said Business School said organisations are keen to do Big Data, but have little understanding of what that means.
“There will be a skills gap, because the market cannot wait,” said independent analyst Martha Bennett. In that situation, we are likely to see a host of hasty Hadoop projects set up – but if they don’t have enough people on them who know what they are doing, there must be a real danger of a rash of Big Data disasters.
Could we see a backlash against Big Data, if that happens? If the first projects fail to deliver, then the concept might suffer reputational damage, and everyone might start to look the other way.
Certainly, earlier business analytics approaches, like the corporate dashboard, the data warehouse and the decision support system were laughably hyped and under-delivered massively on their first iteration.
Why Big Data might get it right
Big Data could be different, for a few reasons.
Firstly, the risks and losses in any failed Big Data project could actually be quite small. Underlying technology such as Hadoop is open source, and the concept runs on low-cost hardware – most likely operating in the cloud. This means that the actual resources committed to Big Data projects can be quite low, and the concept can get a thorough testing before anyone signs an enterprise-grade contract for it.
In previous generations of analytics, the big firms actually had lots of money to throw at the problem, and proceeded to throw it, at whatever sounded best, with predictably mixed results.
This time around, there’s less money sloshing about, so people are actually going to be careful.
Secondly, the industry is aware of the issue, and taking steps. People with SQL skills can retrain, and there’s plenty of people who can see the market opportunity in that.
Cutting’s firm Cloudera trains about 1500 people a month in the use of Hadoop and related tools. The Said Business School is adding Big Data to its MBA programmes. It’s pretty clear that some Big Data training could be a good investment – and there seem to be places to get it.
There may well be people who think Big Data is just a case of downloading a free package and filling it with some data, but most people will find out pretty quickly there is more to it than that. You do need to understand at least some of the science behind it.
But while Big Data may produce some failures in its earlier stages, the dynamic of the market is such that they will not be spectacular, and will produce learning rather than losing millions.
I may be wrong of course, and would be interested to be proven wrong. So do let me know your Big Data experiences, both positive and negative.
TechWeekEurope is still backing Tech Success in our awards scheme and elsewhere, but big failures can be instructive.
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Students Rally for MLK Day of Service
Service: it’s a way of life at Bluefield College, a time-honored core value, a part of the school’s mission statement, and integrated heavily into students’ overall academic experience.
January 24, 2014
Bluefield College students assemble decorative baby bottles for the Abel Crisis Pregnancy Center as part of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service.
BC students move furniture as part of a clean-up project at the historic Sanders House, one of four sites where students volunteered a day of service.
That’s why when the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Day of Service comes around every year, there is no question BC students are involved. This year, 42 Bluefield College students took part in a day of service at four separate locations in the community, designed not only to fulfill the BC mission to be in service to God and the community, but also to pay tribute to the legacy and service of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A central core value of Bluefield College is that, ‘We are a compassionate, globally-minded community that serves to transform the world,’” said BC president, Dr. David Olive. “Our intention is to show that compassion every day, but especially on this day as we serve local non-profit organizations throughout our community.”
Sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service and the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia, the annual MLK National Day of Service is designed to mobilize thousands of non-profit groups, faith-based organizations, schools and businesses in a nationwide day of service to others. Additionally, the event helps keep Dr. King's legacy of service alive and challenges individuals to make service a part of their everyday lives.
“It’s a tremendous opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others,” said Dr. Olive, “while also making a statement to our community that we care and are engaged in making our community a better place for everyone.”
The 42 BC students volunteered their time at the Bluefield Union Mission, the Abel Crisis Pregnancy Center, the Historic Sanders House, and the campus of Bluefield College. Katilyn Duggins, a community service advocate for BC who organizes the annual MLK Service Day, said the motivation behind the students’ efforts comes from scripture in Ephesians that says, “we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Completing those “good works,” she added, brings “JOY” to the students.
“We’ve always been taught not to be selfish and to live more like Christ,” said Duggins, a 2012 BC graduate, “and to give to Jesus, Others, and then Yourself (JOY).”
At the Bluefield Union mission, students made sandwiches and bagged food for what turned out to be an unusually large group of visitors to the Mission’s charity kitchen.
“We’ve been going strong all day long,” said Craig Hammond, executive director of the Union Mission. “The demand for food has been incredible. With the weather the way it is, you wouldn’t think there would be that many people in here to get a meal, but boy, we’ve had them all day long.”
At the Abel Crisis Pregnancy Center, students helped assemble and decorate dozens of baby bottles used in the agency’s annual money bank fundraiser.
“The softball team decided to volunteer together,” said Madison Fielder, a sophomore from Tazewell, Virginia, and a member of the Lady Rams softball squad. “It’s nice that we’re getting familiar with the community where we go to school while helping with projects that need to be done.”
At the Sanders House in Bluefield, Virginia, students took down, boxed and stored Christmas decorations. They also cleaned floors, walls and furniture in the house. For senior Jahlisa Harvey of Pompano Beach, Florida, and many other students who volunteered, it was their first time in the historic museum and community center.
“The school does a lot of community service projects, and for the MLK National Day of Service, we just thought it was important to reach out to the community,” said Harvey. “Being a senior at Bluefield and living here for four years, I know what an impact the students can have on the community. And, I had never been in the Sanders House, so Ithought this would be a great place to come and help out.”
On campus, students cleaned atheatre stage. All in all, the students helped members of the community achieve more in one day than they ever could have achieved alone.
“Working with the Bluefield College students was a joy,” said Joyce Johnston and Lynn Harman from the Sanders House Board of Directors. “We accomplished in an hour what would have taken us days to achieve on our own. This is a community-based house, so these students really are helping the community.”
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Customer Service Essentials
Customer service is about how a company deals with its consumers before, during and after a purchase of a product or use of a service. It is a series of activities designed to enhance the level of customer satisfaction – that is, the feeling that a product or service has met the customer expectation. A combination of knowledge, attitude, techniques and skills are essential for the customer service professional to provide a holistic and quality customer experience.
In this training employees will be able to deliver professional customer service to external paying customers as well as internal customers.
This course is ideal for anyone seeking training in customer service and customer care. The majority of participants attending our customer services courses are in customer facing or customer support roles, who want to develop their customer service skills and behaviours.
We are also experienced at providing bespoke training courses in customer services, as well as longer term programs to meet specific organization goals and service standards.
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When trying to get your child into a particular school, your first port of call should be living in the appropriate catchment area.
But what if you’re already settled somewhere else? Some parents may still have the need to enroll their children into a specific school.
Siblings and Daycare
You’ll find it easier to get into a given school if your child has a sibling who also attends.
Nobody wants to fight through traffic to drive kids to two different schools, and thankfully this is generally seen as an important factor. If your child has enrolled in childcare within the catchment area that can help when applying for elementary schools.
Other categories of people who are considered, according to the Vancouver School Board, are students living in the district, and British Columbia residents who don’t reside in the Vancouver district.
Schools are commonly put into categories, as a Richmond School District document shows.
As explained, Category A schools in Richmond are the most oversubscribed, and Category C the least. Therefore schools put into Category A are likely to restrict siblings from elsewhere, as well as international students being enrolled – while Category C schools tend to be more accepting.
Richmond School District publicly lists the schools which sit in the three categories, so depending on your district it’s worth looking to see where you stand with your chosen school. Schools often deny cross-boundary enrollment due to overcrowding.
How to Apply
When looking to get your child into a school you firstly have to register at your normal catchment area before submitting a cross boundary application.
The Surrey School District website details how you’ll be required to submit documentation like a birth certificate, passport, proof of guardianship, proof of citizenship and proof of residence. Then you have to complete a cross boundary application form.
The Vancouver School Board stipulates that applications are accepted between the first school day in February and the last, with the school letting you know of your status by March 31.
Before applying, it is worth seeing if your chosen school details its cross boundary policy on its website, so you’ve got an idea of how likely it is the child will be accepted.
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Whether accurate or not, most people have a mental picture of what a drug abuser might look like —that image is rarely their grandma or grandpa.
According to research by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the percentage of Americans age 50 to 59 who reported abusing illicit or prescription drugs doubled from 2002 to 2009 from 2.7 percent to 6.2 percent.
Dr. David Lott, medical director of the Addiction Treatment Program at Linden Oaks at Edward in Naperville, says they see older adults with prescription drug addictions often.
"I want to emphasize that this is a growing problem," Lott says of prescription drug abuse among all ages. "It's alarming and staggering how much it's going up."
The problem, according to projections by NIDA, is expected to grow as the number of people 50 and older increases.
"It is our experience and experience around the country and epidemiologic studies show there will be a significant increase in the next one to two decades," Lott says.
How did this happen?
Dr. Martin Gorbien, director of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, points out that a prescription for a narcotic or opioid pain medication does not make someone a drug abuser.
"Is it OK to take narcotic drug medications? Yes it is. It's not just acceptable, for some it is necessary," he explains. There are any number of conditions that cause severe and chronic pain that may require the help of narcotics or for some it is a short-term need following surgery.
But for more and more older adults the relief and even euphoria offered by the medication can be alluring.
While narcotic pain medications can have positive effects for someone in pain, they are depressants and can cause depression, Gorbien says.
Older adults are more likely to be on more than one prescription medication as well.
When a person has a history of long standing use of narcotic pain medication a physician should always dig deeper, Gorbien suggests.
"Often there's more to the story," he says.
Lott says dynamics associated with aging, such as retirement or an empty nest, can contribute to the problem. Additional time to focus on pain or depression coupled with a lack of supervision, create a dangerous situation.
Is there a problem?
Drug abuse and the behaviors associated with it, Gorbien says, have commonalities across all age groups.
"The difference is we are less suspicious of older people," he says.
There are signs to look for, Gorbien says, such as a change in the person's character or that they are always looking for their medication. Other indicators can be fatigue, memory loss or the medication tolerance.
"Often the problem is very insidious," Gorbien says. "(These narcotics) have a dulling effect. They're not necessarily drunk or high. They may think other people around them can't see anything."
If someone doesn't seem like themselves it's worth the time to find out what might be going on.
From a physician's perspective it takes time and a trusting relationship with the patient to determine there is a problem, explains Gorbien. In the beginning of a doctor/patient relationship you never question someone's pain, he says.
"If someone says they are in pain, they are," Gorbien says.
Doctors look at the situation — are they post surgery and their pain may be short term? Or do they have a condition such as diabetic neuropathy and the pain is ongoing?
Doctors, Gorbien says, should look for patterns and responses to suggesting it's time to take a break from a medication.
He says doctors perform tests to look for causes of physical pain or for signs that the person is self-medicating because of an underlying problem such as depression.
"It's acceptable to say 'my back hurts,' but not so acceptable to say 'I'm sad.' This is not a generation comfortable with that," Gorbien says.
Unfortunately, he adds, doctors don't always take the time or have the tools to fetter out an addiction or depression. Before prescribing, many doctors check with the patient's pharmacy to see if other doctors are prescribing for the same patient, but addicted patients can be clever using multiple pharmacies and multiple doctors and there is not a system in place to detect duplicate prescriptions.
It isn't easy to approach anyone with the possibility of a drug dependency — especially if the person has a doctor's prescription to use medication.
It does need to be handled with care and not ignored, Gorbien says. Dismissing the problem because the person does experience pain or is older is not helpful.
"You might say 'what's the big deal if she's taking three or four pain pills a day?' It's like saying 'she's 80 years old are we going to take away her two cocktails a night?'" Gorbien says. "Well, if she's falling or forgetting or failing… ."
If someone suspects an older adult may have a prescription drug dependency it should be treated no differently than if they had a problem with alcohol or heroin and loved ones should be asking questions.
Loved ones can turn to treatment centers, doctors and even public agencies for tips on how to approach the subject or stage an intervention. Many older adults are not comfortable sharing about difficult topics or don't want to air their dirty laundry so loved ones can stress that there are ways to handle the issue discretely.
Once a need for help is established a doctor can be a starting place or a center or hospital program dedicated to addiction recovery.
Lott says they see a steady flow of older adults coming in to Linden Oaks. While most are in their 60s and 70s there are some who are into their 80s as well.
It is a mix of those who have had substance abuse problems in their past as well as those experiencing it for the first time, he says.
The patients who are new to addiction are often prescription drug abusers.
"They are at an age where they have more health issues, more pain, surgery, they have more exposure (to narcotics)," Lott says.
So what does treatment look like? It varies for each person and each situation, he explains. While some facilities do have programs specifically geared toward older adults, Linden Oaks typically treats patients in similar age groups when possible.
As with many medical-related issues for older adults finances can be a challenge. Medicaid does not cover recovery programs and many insurance programs don't cover them either.
"We work very hard to be a liaison with insurance companies and to find out what is covered as much as we can," Lott says.
Additional options include programs like Narcotics Anonymous (NA), which are widely available, and there are sometimes resources through employers.
At Linden Oaks they offer a 24/7 help line (630-305-5500) and specialists are available to answer questions and get more details
"They can say 'This is what we think we can do' but eventually we want to see them and decide what they need," Lott says.
For some, group counseling might be fine. For older adults with physical issues or hearing loss a one-on-one program may be more effective. Lott says often they will need to determine a path for detoxification whether that's monitored through an outpatient program or through admission in a hospital.
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Words by Josue Ramirez
Edited by Abigail Vela
One thing Juan Carlos Lopez remembers about growing up during the ’80s in McAllen, Texas, was the lack of ramps. Lopez uses a wheelchair and recalls how many of his childhood experiences were limited by the inaccessible built environment of public spaces such as parks.
“I was young, so my mom would talk to the city officials that took care of the making of the ramps, it was a back and forth,” he describes. According to Lopez, sensitivity training for speaking with a person with a disability was not something officials were educated on. “Some would not even approach me. So I would just have to go to another park, but back then, there were hardly any ramps at any of the parks, so I would not go,” he mentions over the phone.
As a teenager, the historic signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26th, 1990, marked a shift for his future and that of many other Americans. The expansion of civil protections came only after continued direct, radical action and advocacy by people with disabilities.
Judith (Judy) Heumann is a lifelong advocate for the rights of people with disabilities. She is considered “the mother of disability rights.” Digital illustration by Josue Ramirez.
The Fight for Dignity
The Civil Rights Movement and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provided a foundational framework for the laws that would impact people with disabilities. Along with the movements for racial and social justice of the time, people with disabilities became more visible as soldiers returned home as victims of the violence of the Vietnam War.
The topic arose as a priority issue for the country. The Rehabilitation Act – a replacement of the pre-existing federal laws on funding for vocational rehabilitation services and the government’s responsibilities to individuals with the “most severe disabilities”- was key to advocates’ efforts. Particular interest was in Section 504, which states, “[N]o otherwise qualified handicapped individual… shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be…subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”
Despite the Nixon administration’s opposition via Veto, direct actions like the blockage of Madison Avenue in New York by organizations like Disabled in Action led by Judy Huemann resulted in the signing of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. While significant, the victory was the start of a four-year uphill battle to develop, implement and enforce regulations.
On April 5th, 1977, after years of organizing, advocates began the historic 504 Sit In that took over San Francisco’s United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare building. The goal of the protest was to have Secretary Joseph Califano sign the Sec. 504 regulations. Over 500 disability advocates began the occupation, which continued for 26 days. It is the longest lasting sit-in in American history. On April 28th, 1977, the regulations were signed. They gave some rights to people with disabilities, including access to public services like education and housing, as well as a private right of action.
Years after the 504 Regulations were signed, the continued grassroots organizing and direct actions by groups like ADAPT (Americans Disabled Attendant Programs Today) would once again be required to push for federal protections for people with disabilities. In a striking demonstration on March 12th, 1990, 60 activists left their mobility-assistance devices and crawled up the 83-step staircase that led to the Capitol. Known as the Capitol Crawl, the action created nationwide support.
Four months after, on July 26th, 1990, President H.W Bush signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): a civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities in all areas of public life, including jobs, schools, transportation, and all public and private places that are open to the general public. The ADA ensures that people with disabilities have equal rights and opportunities as everyone else. The law is divided into five titles of public life:
The fight for disability rights united people of all walks of life in their efforts against discrimination and exclusion
for people who are differently abled. Illustration by Josue Ramirez
THE ADA LEGACY
“Ever since the ADA came into effect, it has had a great impact on my life because now I can go anywhere that I want,” he laughs, “I know there is a lot to be done, but there is still a lot of [good] because of the ADA,” Lopez mentions his service dog as another example. He sees the ADA as a stepping stone for the disability rights movement, “It is a great law that protects people with disabilities and gives us the right to form our own opinion.”
Now, as a 43-year-old, Lopez recalls what it was like to live without that law. Not only is it easier to get around the city now, but the ADA requirements allow him access to positive and affirming assisted-living services like those provided by the Valley Association for Independent Living (VAIL).
VAIL is a center for independent living that serves people with disabilities in the greater Rio Grande Valley and South Texas through four primary services: information and referrals, independent living skills, individual and systems advocacy, and peer counseling. They are committed to enabling persons with disabilities to “gain effective control and direction of their lives in the home, in the workplace, and in the community.”
“VAIL is a great center where we can express our wants and needs in our own particular ways, and they help us,” Lopez says enthusiastically, “I have difficulty with speech, but the staff at VAIL is very patient, kind, and open-hearted in teaching us different coping mechanisms with our day to day activities.”
Lopez serves as a board member of VAIL and as a Peer Support Specialist for the Peer Advocacy and Leadership (PAL) program they host. “We learn about self-advocacy about having pride in our disabilities and helping other people with disabilities by giving them emotional support and teaching basic skills like math, where to go when they need assistance, and just being a support system for other people with disabilities who do not have those systems,” Lopez describes.
He credits the VAIL counseling program with helping him overcome personal family situations with sick loved ones and other challenges like anxiety and public speaking. “I am glad what VAIL does for us. They especially keep their mind focused on the ADA Law. They preach it cold-heartedly in their classes, to stay constantly aware about our rights and responsibilities as a citizen, even though we have disabilities we can contribute to society,” Lopez mentions.
ADA laws give Lopez confidence and great access to go around the Valley and fight the injustices that he sees within the public for people with disabilities. “With the ADA in place, if I go to a park and there are no ramps, I use the power of the ADA to ask the city where I live in that they must follow ADA rules and provide me with that ramp that I need. If not, I could invoke my right to use an attorney to get that done.”
While the RGV is a great place to live, according to Lopez’s experiences, it also has significant shortcomings, “We don’t get the same funding as other areas do, but we are working to bridge those gaps by using the tools of education.”
Creatives have long discussed their role in shaping the information they communicate, but do we consider where and for who creatives choose to share their talents with? As creatives, we must ask ourselves what role we play in the narratives surrounding us.
Piñatas are a staple for many Latinx communities, but they are not just associated with childhood anymore. The craft carries the deep cultural significance of a practice that has endured from indigenous times, sustained generations of families, and continues to be a staple of our visual identity.
Trucha in collaboration with Carla Hughes Studios are proud to welcome Souther Recio as the inaugural resident artist for the Rio Grande Ceramics Residency (RGCR). Learn more about what Recio has planned and follow her process.
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Bone, Joint and Muscle Conditions
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Symptoms and Diagnosis
Symptoms of Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis
Symptoms of SCFE include:
- Problems walking
- Mild pain in the hips, groin or around the knees
- Severe pain that makes children stop putting weight on the leg that hurts
- Stiffness in the hip
- Less movement than usual in the hip
Children may not have had any injury before the pain starts.
Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis Diagnosis
Grading severity of SCFE.
When your child comes to our clinic, we examine them. We look for any problems your child has moving their legs and hips, including having pain and less motion than is usual.
Next we take X-rays. If the X-rays look normal, we may ask your child to have an MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) scan of the hip to give us more information.
If your child does have SCFE, we will ask them to stop putting weight on the leg that is affected, even if it does not hurt. This will help lower the chance of more slipping. In most cases, we will have your child stay in the hospital for surgical treatment.
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|OSTROW LUBELSKIE: Lubelskie|
Alternate names: Ostrów Lubelski [Pol], Ostrova [Yid], Ostrov, Ostrov Lubelski, Ostrów Podlaski, Ostrów. 51°30' N, 22°51' E, 21 miles NE of Lublin. 1900 Jewish population: ~1,000. Yizkor: Sefer-yizkor Ostrow-Lubelski - Yisker-bukh Ostrow-Lubelski, (Israel, 1987). This town in Gmina Ostrów Lubelski in Lubartów powiat, Lublin Voivodeship near three lakes: Miejskie Lake, Kleszczów Lake and Czarne Lake in an agricultural area. The gmina contains the following villages having the status of sołectwo: Bójki, Jamy, Kaznów, Kaznów-Kolonia, Kolechowice Drugie, Kolechowice Pierwsze, Kolechowice-Folwark, Kolechowice-Kolonia, Rozkopaczew (sołectwos: Rozkopaczew I and Rozkopaczew II), Rudka Kijańska and Wólka Stara Kijańska. [June 2009]
CEMETERY: The Jewish cemetery established in 1700 is located by the road to Bojk where today noo trace remains of the 1.5 hectare cemetery. [June 2009]
US Commission No. POC0000190
Located in Lublin Province at 51º30N 22º52E, 40 km from Lublin. Present population is 1000-5000 with no Jews. The cemetery is in the N part of town, by the road to Bojki.
The earliest known Jewish community was established in 1634. 1928 Jewish population was 1763. The unlandmarked cemetery was established at beginning of 17th century with last known Orthodox Jewish burial in 1942. The isolated formerly suburban, now urban, flat land has no sign or marker. Reached by turning directly off a public road, access is open to all. Before WW II, the site was 1.5ha., now reduced to 0.8 ha due to industrial and commercial development. No gravestones are visible. Many removed stones were incorporated into the road to Lubartow. Adjacent properties are commercial or industrial---a sawmill, school and forest. The present owner of the site is unknown. Private persons rarely visit. The cemetery was vandalized during World War II. Major problems are security, incompatible nearby and planned development. The area is not fenced; the square in front of the sawmill is intended for development.
Pawel Sygowski, ul. Kalinowenzyzna 64/59, 20-201 Lublin tel.772078 completed survey in Dec. 1991. Pawel visited the site May 1990.
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We know that our computers use energy, and if we think about it, we recognize that all those servers that enable our e-mails to reach South America or Japan require plenty of power, too. But what we probably haven't envisioned is how much energy it takes to power the data centers that keep the Internet running. It's an estimated 152 billion kilowatt hours yearly, says an article in New Scientist magazine by Duncan Graham-Rowe.
That translates into approximately 2 percent of human-caused C02 emissions, or about the same as produced by the aviation industry. And the amount is likely to escalate in coming years as Internet traffic grows – one estimate is an increase of emissions by 280 percent by 2020.
According to a study conducted by Rich Brown, an energy analyst at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab in California, and commissioned by the US environmental protection agency, "US data centers used 61 billion kilowatt hours in 2006, which is 1.5% of the entire electricity usage in the US," reports redOrbit.
This has led to calls such as: Web providers must limit Internet's carbon footprint, say experts. "In an energy-constrained world, we cannot continue to grow the footprint of the internet … we need to rein in the energy consumption," said Subodh Bapat, vice-president at Sun Microsystems."
But the news isn't all bad. Computers are getting more energy-efficient and data centers are greening up.
And we assume that such Net staples as video conferencing help the environment by keeping people off planes and out of cars and in their offices instead. Whether that's true or not isn't known, though, says Jonathan Koomey, an energy expert at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Oakland, Calif. Maybe video conferencing could actually increase C02 emissions?
Does this remind you of the recent spate of stories about the carbon footprint of spam?
Just as not everyone agreed with the conclusions of that report, this one has its naysayers, too. A commenter on the New Scientist site points out that the Net enables greater efficiencies in carbon use – not using cars to drive several different places to find what you want, more information available digitally rather than in print form, etc.
And generally, equipment can be made more energy-efficient.
Hmmm, that could be sung to the tune of "You Are My Sunshine":
You are my Internet,
My only Internet.
You make me happy
E'en when carbon soars.
You'll never know, dear,
How much I love you.
Please don't take my Internet away.
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The Chapter Of Opening The Tomb To The Ba-Soul And The Shadow And Of Coming Forth By Day, And Of Having Mastery Over The Two Legs
The Osiris the scribe Ani, whose word is truth, saith:- The place which is closed is opened, the place which is shut (or sealed) is sealed. That which lieth down in the closed place is opened by the Ba-soul which is in it. By the Eye of Horus I am delivered. Ornaments are stablished on the brow of Ra. My stride is made long. I lift up my two thighs [in walking]. I have journeyed over a long road. My limbs are in a flourishing condition. I am Horus, the Avenger of his Father, and I bring the Urrt Crown [and set it on] its standard. The road of souls is opened. My twin soul seeth the Great God in the Boat of Ra, on the day of souls. My soul is in the front thereof with the counter of the years. Come, the Eye of Horus hath delivered for me my soul, my ornaments are stablished on the brow of Ra. Light is on the faces of those who are in the members of Osiris. Ye shall not hold captive my soul. Ye shall not keep in durance my shadow. The way is open to my soul and to my shadow. It seeth the Great God in the shrine on the day of counting souls. It repeateth the words of Osiris. Those whose seats are invisible, who fetter the members of Osiris, who fetter Heart-souls and Spirit-souls, who set a seal upon the dead, and who would do evil to me, shall do no evil to me. Haste on the way to me. Thy heart is with thee. My Heart-soul and my Spirit-soul are equipped; they guide thee. I sit down at the head of the great ones who are chiefs of their abodes. The wardens of the members of Osiris shall not hold thee captive, though they keep ward over souls, and set a seal on the shadow which is dead. Heaven shall not shut thee in.
RUBRIC: If this Chapter be known by the deceased he shall come forth by day, and his soul shall not be kept captive.
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Allan, Julia and Farquharson, Barbara and Choudhary, Carolyn J and Johnston, Derek W and Jones, Martyn C and Johnston, Marie (2009) Stress in telephone helpline nurses: research protocol for a study of theoretical determinants, physiological aspects and behavioural consequences. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65 (10). pp. 2208-2215. ISSN 03092402
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Aim. This is a report of a research protocol to assess level, determinants and consequences of stress in NHS-24 telephone helpline nurses. Background. Nurses working in traditional hospital settings report high levels of occupational stress. Many nurses now work in call centres, environments with their own inherent stressors. Stress in nurses has been linked to reduced physical and psychological health, reduced job satisfaction, increased sickness absence and turnover, and poorer job performance. In this study, we will use multiple methods, including real time data collection to assess stress in telephone helpline nurses. Design. During 2008/09, NHS-24 nurses will (a) report general stress and call-by-call stress over two working shifts, (b) complete measures of theoretical determinants of occupational stress (demand, control, effort and reward), (c) have their concentration and attention tested before and after two shifts, (d) have their heart rate monitored over two shifts, (e) report job satisfaction, absenteeism and intended turnover and (f) allow the research team to retrieve related call data and performance indicators. Relationships between the variables will be assessed using regression and multi-level modelling. Discussion. Data will be analysed to examine the relationships between reported stress, physiological aspects of stress, call type, workplace attributes, cognitive performance, job satisfaction and absenteeism. The analysis will test models of occupational stress and assess the effects of stress on multiple work outcomes. The results will inform theoretical understanding of nurse stress, its determinants and possible methods of management. The practical challenges of conducting such a comprehensive study in a clinical environment are discussed.
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Stretch marks are visible lines on the skin surface, with an off-color hue. Stretch marks are mainly found in the abdominal wall, but can also occur over the thighs, upper arms, buttocks and breasts.
Sometimes stretch marks can cover large areas of the body. While pregnancy is the main cause behind stretch marks, other reasons can be sudden gain or loss in weight, rapid growth, heredity factors, stress and changes in physical conditions.
You have to put efforts to remove these stretch marks. Here are some home remedies to help you with your task.
1. Apricot Mask to Remove Stretch Marks
Many people use apricot scrub for rapid removal of stretch marks from their skin. However, I am giving you the recipe of a mask made from apricot that you have to apply on your stretch marks daily for at least a month or more.
Get these things:
• Apricots- 2-3
• Lukewarm water- enough to wash off your skin having marks.
• Cut open the apricots and remove their seeds.
• Crush the fruits to get their paste.
• Apply this apricot paste on your stretch marks.
• Leave for about 15-20 minutes.
• Now wash off with warm water.
• Repeat everyday (you may initially do it twice a day) for a month.
2. Aloe Vera to Remove Stretch Marks
Benefits of aloe vera are now very popular among the fans of home remedies. This herb has in it the plant collagen which excellently repairs human skin too. Use, as far as possible, the fresh aloe gel taken from the leaves instead of using store bought gel.
• Aloe vera leaf
• De-thorn the aloe vera leaf and remove its outer skin.
• Take out the sticky gel from the inside of the leaf.
• Apply this fresh aloe gel on your stretch marks.
• Now forget it for two hours.
• Wash off with water after this couple of hours.
3. Oils to Remove Stretch Marks
Natural oils are excellent emollients and they have these capacity to treat all scalp and hair problems as also skin issues including stretch marks. You just need to identify the right type of oil for the very purpose. You should ideally gently massage your skin having stretch marks with oil for about half an hour daily. However, just applying oils to the marks (something near to soaking them in oil) can also do wonders. If doing so, you need to apply oil for about three to four times a day. Olive oil, with all its antioxidant properties and loads of nutrients, is considered one of the best oils for removing stretch marks but there are many other oils that you can use. They too are good when it comes to curing stretch marks. Here is the list.
• Olive oil
• Lavender oil
• Rose oil
• Geranium oil
• Helichrysum oil
• Chamomile oil
The best thing will be to mix certain oils and then apply to the marks. Here’s the recipe.
• lavender oil- ½ tsp
• Chamomile oil- ½ tsp
• Almond oil- 2 tsp ( you can use any other carrier oil like avocado oil, jojoba oil etc. in place of almond oil)
• Mix lavender, chamomile oils with almond or the other carrier oil that you are using.
• Mix them well.
• Apply this oil mix to your stretch marks daily.
• Do this preferably thrice or four times a day.
4. Potato Juice to Remove Stretch Marks
This is the cheapest and one of the rapid home remedies for stretch marks. Potato is a super food due to its many components like essential fatty acids and a variety of phytochemicals, like carotenoids and polyphenols. It also has loads of vitamins and minerals including Vitamin-C, B-complex, potassium, magnesium, calcium, phosphorus and zinc. Because a potato is capable of stimulating collagen and elastin synthesis, it can effectively restore skin cells fading away your stretch marks.
• Potato- 1 (medium sized)
• Knife- to cut potato
• Lukewarm water- to wash off
• Cut the potato into thick sized slices.
• Take a slice and rub it gently over your stretch marks. Ensure to apply its juice all over your marks.
• Leave it for 5-10 minutes.
• Wash off with lukewarm water.
5. Lemon Juice to Remove Stretch Marks
Lemons have been recognized as fine natural bleaching agents beyond doubt. The alpha hydroxy acids (AHA) and vitamin C in lemons can efficient;y remove the dead skin and make your stretch marks disappear fast.
• Lemon- 1
• Warm water- to wash off
• Cut the lemon into 2 halves.
• Take a half piece of lemon and gently rub it on your stretch marks.
• Feel it’s juice soaking into your skin.
• Do this for at least 10 minutes.
• Then wash off with warm water.
To make it a superfast remedy for stretch marks, you can mix lemon juice with other ingredients in equal quantities (for example 1tbsp lemon juice with 1 tbsp other juice):
• Lemon juice with cucumber juice
• Lemon juice with potato juice
• Lemon juice with tomato juice.
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As we make our way through the spring semester, we find ourselves in a bit of a rut. We’re not quite done with classes — there’s still another full month of papers, projects, exams and other obligations — but we’re past our early-semester stage of perfect grades and attendance. We might still be doing well in our classes, but not as well as we did in January, when we started putting our resolutions into practice. It has gotten harder and harder to drag ourselves out of bed in the morning and stumble over to our early classes, and we have more and more difficulty choosing our academics over our social lives.
Therefore, this month’s Freshman 15 is all about getting back into the swing of things after Spring Break! Let’s get back into motion with 15 time management tips for college students. (Tweet this!)
The Freshman 15: Time Management Tips
1. Office supplies are your new best friends.
I’m not just saying this because of my weird fascination with spiral notebooks and post-its. In general, it is important to keep track of your dates as thoroughly as possible so that you never overbook yourself. In my case, that means keeping my zebra datebook in my backback, updating the calendar on my phone regularly, and recording important dates on the colorful dry-erase calendar in my room. If you aren’t as crazy as I am, I suggest at minimum a day planner with calendars and a page for each week, so that you can schedule your days more accurately. Office Max has a few examples.
2. Maintain a weekly checklist.
This is something I started doing last summer that has worked miracles for me. At the end of each week, I create a checklist of every school task, appointment and club meeting that I have coming up the following week. Then, as I complete those tasks, I check them off. Having this list is a great way to not lose track of certain assignments or obligations.
3. Maintain a daily checklist.
This may be a bit of an overkill, but if you write down a list each day of what you wish to accomplish, it will help keep you on pace. In the mornings, I create a list on my dry-erase board next to my desk, and then as I complete each task, I erase it. That way, the less writing there is on my board, the more productive I have been. Again, having so many lists may seem a bit extreme, but for the busiest of us, it can be a lifesaver. This gives you multiple reminders so that you can’t make any excuses.
4. Learn to multitask.
Sometimes, there just aren’t enough hours in the day. While we certainly have a lot more free time when we’re doing things efficiently, we still have to realize that the clock is ticking regardless. Because of this, it is important to learn to multitask whenever possible. Take advantage of the time as best as you can. If you have to read for tomorrow’s class but you also have to go to the gym, for example, bring your book and rest it in front of you as you work on the elliptical. If you need to clean your room but you really want to catch up on last night’s episode of Bones, do both. If you know you are going to be sitting around in a waiting room for a while, take study materials with you and prepare for next week’s exam. Find ways to kill two birds with one stone (but not literally, because killing isn’t a nice thing to do).
5. Sacrifice some of your social life.
Sure, you may want to hang out with your friends tonight, but if you have a paper to write, then you need to say no to your friends. It might sound like a simple concept, but people struggle with this concept all the time (myself included). Realize that you have to come first from time to time, and don’t feel guilty about not joining in on dinner plans. There will always be other social gatherings in the future.
6. Shut down electronics.
I’m no statistician — in fact, I don’t even play one on TV — but I’d venture to guess that at least 85 percent of U.S. college students have procrastinated at one point or another because of their participation in social media (*cough* Facebook! *cough*) or other Internet activities. The resolution? Turn off your computer. Silence your phone. Get away from all the action (ie: tweets and Facebook status updates) and worry about your homework. I promise you can catch up on the virtual world later. (Editor’s Note: … But please continue reading this blog!)
Maybe on Thursdays you’re ambitious. You want to tackle as many things as possible at once, so your list for the day is twice as long as that of any other day. Of course, some tasks on the list are more important and time-sensitive than others, so you can mark those tasks in some way to designate their high priority. For example, you will probably want to finish making flash cards for this week’s exam before you take on an ambitious cleaning project.
8. Don’t overbook yourself.
If you enroll in 18 credits of classes, take part in several organizations, intern during the week and have a job on the side, you are probably biting off more than you can chew. Of course, this may be a bit of an exaggeration, but I know several people who spread themselves thin in college, and it wore them out. Seize the day – take advantage of those clubs and opportunities that interest you most – but don’t fill up your calendar too quickly, either. Make sure you have enough time to do everything you have committed yourself to do, and be able to do it well.
9. Break things up.
Large assignments can be daunting, so one of the best ways to approach them is to split them into parts. When I have a book to read for my literature class, for example, I count the number of pages in the book in total, then divide that by the number of days I have to read the book itself. That way, I can take on a little bit every day, and not become too overwhelmed by one book. The same goes for projects — do a portion of it daily so that you aren’t saving some heinous assignment until late on Sunday night.
10. Keep up with the essentials.
If you aren’t eating regular meals or getting enough sleep, you won’t be able to effectively complete your work or meet all of your obligations. Regardless of what is going on around you, you have to make your nutrition and sleep patterns a priority. Otherwise, your body will hate you later and you will be completing your work even less effectively than before.
11. Be wary of online classes.
Online classes can be a huge gift in the sense that they give you the freedom to work at your own pace (more or less) and allow you to complete your assignments in the comfort of your own home/dorm. However, online classes are easy to forget about because you don’t have a set time to attend, and you don’t have a professor that you meet with face-to-face to discuss your progress or upcoming assignments in the class. Therefore, only choose an online class if you consider yourself a disciplined person or if you are willing to figure out a specific time every day to complete the classwork so that it may feel like a regular class.
12. Change your location.
Because it feels quite dull to sit in your dorm room all day studying, it becomes easy to find distractions – books, unnecessary cleaning projects, television, etc. – so choosing a new location can be a great way to get a new perspective and forget about looking for other things to do. Bring your books outside on a sunny day, or visit the library, computer lab or a student lounge. Finding a new place to go will make it more difficult to become distracted by your own personal items in your surroundings.
13. Don’t save your assignments for the morning.
As bad as all-nighters are, half-nighters are even worse. When you stay up late and then resolve to complete your assignment early in the morning (most likely three or four hours later, anyway), you sleep less restfully and you always lose time in the morning. Trust me, you’re never up as early as you plan to be in those situations, and you end up racing the clock when you do finally get started on things. Get a head start on your work early so that you don’t end up in these late night situations — your decision-making is never very good at that point, anyway!
14. Take a well-deserved break.
Workaholics, when you do get time to relax, please do it wisely. Don’t spend all of your free time in planning mode or else you will go insane. Find a hobby or interest that allows you to rest and do that when you have the chance. You will be much more efficient and lively once you do return to your work if you take breaks when you need to (no more, no less).
15. Know thyself.
Realize that different tips will work for different types of people, and know that you may be the exception to some of these rules. Maybe you have a better way to manage your time, or maybe these tips don’t work as well for you as you would like them to. These are just a few pieces of advice that will hopefully help you to improve your time management, but there is always something for everybody. Recognize the type of person you are and how your mode of operation affects the way you get things done.
Questions for readers:
– What is your biggest time management struggle?
– What tips would you offer to those who have trouble with time management?
– What other college topics would you like to see in future Freshman 15 articles?
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The battle of brains and brawn, where the winner is determined by either knockout or checkmate, was contested at the Boston Dome, in Tufnell Park, northwest London.
Players Andy "The Rock" Costello, an English former cage fighter, and Italian Gianluca "Il Dottore" Sirci competed in the first European heavyweight championship final.
And despite The Rock landing more punches during the boxing rounds, Il Dottore's chess game was the difference between the two, with the Italian defeating The Rock via checkmate in the ninth round.
As the name would suggest in Chessboxing, rounds of chess are alternated with rounds of boxing. They take turns over 11 rounds with four minutes of chess and three of boxing. The action takes place in the ring in full boxing gear, although the gloves are removed for the chess. The competitors also wear earplugs and headphones during the chess rounds to help with concentration.
If there is no winner after 11 rounds of punching and castling, victory is awarded to the fighter with the most points in the boxing ring.
Chessboxing was created in 2003 by Iepe Rubingh, a Dutch artist. "I got the idea from a Serbian comic," he told The Times. "It looked great. I wanted to see if it would work." The first match then took place, in a church, in front of 800 people. The sport has now attracted more than 150 professional competitors.
Tim Woolgar, who founded The Chess Boxing Organisation in August 2008, said: "If you get a guy to box, it teaches him self-respect. But if you get teach him something like chess as well, you teach him a whole new set of skills. And those are skills which can be put to practical use when it comes to finding jobs."
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