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Read more on this subject: Science, Medicine and Technology
News Story Source: https://newatlas.com by Nick Lavars
An international team of researchers has succeeded in whittling this process down to mere minutes, demonstrating a new technique where they not only form quickly, but do so at room temperature.
Although the idea of creating diamonds in a laboratory in just a few minutes would be an appealing one for jewelers, rappers or those looking to pop a certain question, that's not quite the aim of this type of research.
Artificial versions of this famously hard material could find use as new cutting tools to slice through ultra-hard materials, new kinds of protective coatings or other industrial devices where hardness is a desirable attribute. And recently we've seen some promising techniques developed that can turn fossil fuel molecules into pure diamonds, or make them from carbon nanofibers with the help of superfast lasers.
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ATTENTION: To run this application properly, you need to have flash player installed on your device
"Big Animated Origami Tutorial" is unique application, that allows you to quickly learn how to make dozens of origami.
Every origami is animated, you can pause any step, rewind movie or increase/decrease speed as well as engage reverse playback.
Origami (from ori meaning "folding", and kami meaning "paper"; kami changes to gami due to rendaku) is the traditional Japanese art of paper folding, which started in the 17th century AD at the latest and was popularized outside of Japan in the mid-1900s. It has since then evolved into a modern art form. The goal of this art is to transform a flat sheet of material into a finished sculpture through folding and sculpting techniques, and as such the use of cuts or glue are not considered to be origami. Paper cutting and gluing is usually considered kirigami.
The number of basic origami folds is small, but they can be combined in a variety of ways to make intricate designs. The best known origami model is probably the Japanese paper crane. In general, these designs begin with a square sheet of paper whose sides may be different colors or prints. Traditional Japanese origami, which has been practiced since the Edo era (1603–1867), has often been less strict about these conventions, sometimes cutting the paper or using nonsquare shapes to start with.
With help of this application, You can fold great christmas, new year, valentine's day gifts and presents and as well just simply have a good, happy time and impress your friends and family.
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Watchdog slates ministers over voter fraud
Published: 4 February 2007
BRITAIN'S sleaze watchdog has launched an outspoken attack on the government for failing to tackle electoral fraud, warning that there are now serious risks to the forthcoming local elections, writes Robert Winnett.
In an article for The Sunday Times, Sir Alistair Graham accuses ministers of being in denial about the "real and potent threat" facing the electoral system.
Graham, chairman of the committee on standards in public life, urges the government to delay pilot schemes for internet and telephone voting because of the risks of fraud.
He says in the article: "It is time to end the denial and complacency about the dangers facing our electoral system. Electoral fraud is a real and potent threat to our democracy. Can we be sure that these important elections in May will be free, fair and secure? Regrettably my answer is no."
At the moment, the system for electoral registration has few ways
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The Surinamese parliament will almost certainly adopt an amnesty law granting President Desi Bouterse immunity from prosecution for his part in the killing of political opponents in 1982 – ‘the December murders’. The bill has been put forward by fellow party members of the former army commander and will probably be supported by almost all the coalition parties in parliament.
The Surinamese parliament is not keen on drafting bills and passing them. There are scores of important proposals that have been waiting to be dealt with for many years: an anti-corruption bill, environmental bills, bills on land use, traffic and housing bills - to name just a few.
So it was highly unusual that, when the amnesty bill was announced two weeks ago, it started going through the assembly immediately. There has been criticism about the speed at which it is being rushed through parliament. It seems that caution is of secondary importance. And its timing is no coincidence either, as the court martial for the December murders is drawing to an end.
On 8 December 1982, 15 political opponents of the de facto government were taken from their homes to Fort Zeelandia and executed under the political responsibility of the then coup leader and army commander Desi Bouterse.
The murders have cast a long shadow over Suriname for the last 30 years. It was only in 2007, 20 years after democracy had returned to the country, that a court case against the suspects began. The main suspect is Desi Bouterse.
The trial did not prevent Bouterse getting elected president in 2010. He has been convicted of drugs smuggling by a Dutch court and still has the prison sentence hanging over him. However, young voters, in particular, don’t pay much attention to his negative image.
“We are young and we want stability in the country. And besides, we were not around when the December murders happened,” says Melvin Bouva, a member of Bouterse’s party and one of the authors of the amnesty bill. “The outcome of the trial could plunge us into a deep adventure. It will be a disaster if the president cannot govern the country. We want to know the truth too, but we can do that without Bouterse going to prison. Amnesty is the best solution for the country.”
Up until three weeks ago, Bouterse was Suriname’s most popular politician according to an opinion poll. Within one and a half years, he had put the country back on the map in the region and attracted investors. Both friends and foes, including the United States and France, have praised his drive. Even his former political opponents have been forced, albeit reluctantly, to admit that things are not going badly under the former coup leader. But within a couple of days, he has gone from being given the “benefit of the doubt” to being seen as a “leopard that never changes his spots”.
There is also a lot of criticism of the bill abroad. International lawyers believe that amnesty cannot apply to human rights violations and that an ongoing trial cannot be torpedoed by new legislation. In the meantime, France and the US are urging for true democracy to be introduced: the separation of judicial and political powers.
But criticism will probably never override Suriname’s ever-present political pragmatism. Principles are quite a luxury in Surinamese politics. The bill needs the support of at least one of the coalition partners. Both Paul Somohardjo of Pertjajah Luhur (PL) or Ronnie Brunswijk of the Interior Party ABOP, want to stay in power. And being on good footing with Bouterse is extremely useful, not least because of an imminent cabinet reshuffle. And it is these two parties which have most to lose.
It stands to reason that, if the two parties show their loyalty to Bouterse, the reshuffle will not be quite as drastic as looked probable just a couple of weeks ago.
Meanwhile, the trial is coming to an end. On 13 April, the public prosecutor will sum up his case. The judge will hand down a sentence in May. At least, that is how a trial is meant to go, according to international law. But the question is whether the court martial judge will have the guts to reconvene the trial after the amnesty act has been adopted. The perpetrators are likely to be let off anyway, regardless of the verdict.
The next few weeks will see a power struggle between Suriname’s judicial and political powers. It will not be surprising if - in spite of international pressure – Suriname’s politicians win over the judges.
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MS is a complex disease where both genetic and environmental factors contribute to disease susceptibility. The substantially increased risk of developing MS in relatives of affected individuals gives solid evidence for a genetic base for susceptibility, whereas the modest familial risk, most strikingly demonstrated in the twin studies, is a very strong argument for an important role of lifestyle/environmental factors in determining the risk of MS, sometimes interacting with MS risk genes. Lifestyle factors and environmental exposures are harder to accurately study and quantify than genetic factors. However, it is important to identify these factors since they, as opposed to risk genes, are potentially preventable. We have reviewed the evidence for environmental factors that have been repeatedly shown to influence the risk of MS: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, ultraviolet radiation (UVR) exposure habits /vitamin D status, and smoking. We have also reviewed a number of additional environmental factors, published in the past 5 years, that have been described to influence MS risk. Independent replication, preferably by a variety of methods, may give still more firm evidence for their involvement.
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What Is Wrong with My Air Conditioning?
CAUTION: Only qualified/licensed mechanics should work on A/C systems. Refrigerant gases are under high pressure and can cause injury if not handled properly!
The Air Conditioning system is comprised of two main systems:
- Control System—Control panel (control module), electrical wiring, sensors, and the temperature/airflow controls
- A/C Refrigerant System—A/C compressor, evaporator, condenser, refrigerant, and the A/C hoses
Air Conditioning Is Not Blowing Cold Air
As the temperature outside warms up, this is the most common complaint about air conditioning systems. There are many causes for the A/C to stop working and we are going to address some of the more common ones here. To have an understanding of how the A/C system operates.
If the airflow from the vents is okay, but the air is not cold, you might have a leak in the refrigerant system. One way you can verify this is by listening to the A/C compressor. You should hear an audible click from the engine area when the A/C is turned on—this is the A/C compressor clutch engaging, which allows the compressor to operate. When a system is low on refrigerant, the compressor will cycle on and off frequently. If the system is very low, the compressor will not turn on at all. The system must be checked for leaks—any leak found should be repaired and the system recharged.
How to find a leak:
- Listen for a hissing sound from the A/C system
- Look for oil residue from or around A/C hoses and pipe fittings
- Inspect the condenser for road damage (in front of the radiator)
- Use a special tool that can detect A/C refrigerant gas
- Use an infrared light to detect ultraviolet dye in the refrigerant (if previously added)
These methods can all be used but the size and location of the leak will likely determine which will be most effective.
Compressor Off, Refrigerant Level Okay
The A/C compressor must turn on for the A/C system to work. The A/C compressor belt and the electrical circuit to the compressor must be in good condition. If the belt is okay, the mechanic will check for proper power supply to the compressor. If that checks out, then the compressor has likely failed and may need replacement.
If the power supply is not present, the problem might be:
- Defective wiring or fuse
- Bad pressure switch
- Bad control module
- A/C operation criteria has not been met:
- Low refrigerant pressure (low refrigerant or low pressure switch)
- Outside temperature too low (ambient temperature sensor)
- High refrigerant pressure (engine temperature too high/blockage in refrigerant system)
- Engine at full throttle (throttle position sensor)
Something Is Wrong with the Airflow from the Vents
Air flow is directed through passageways in the dashboard by using flaps and doors. These flaps and doors are controlled using a few methods:
These control systems are quite simple. You have a lever or knob, a cable, and a cable controlled door/flap. When you move the lever or knob, the cable opens and closes the door, changing the direction of the airflow. The problem is usually broken cables, but the controls can break as well.
These systems use vacuum to operate a vacuum motor (or diaphragm), which in turn operates a door or flap. The controls can be mechanical or electronic, but the system will use vacuum hoses to transmit vacuum to the vacuum diaphragms. Most of the time, the problem is a vacuum leak. Typically, when these systems lose vacuum, the airflow is automatically directed to the windshield—this may be constant or it can occur when you are driving only.
Most newer vehicles have an electrically controlled system, which uses electric motors to change the door position. A control module will send a voltage signal to the appropriate electric motor, which opens and closes the door accordingly. Some vehicles can have problems with the motors, while others have control module issues. Whatever the cause, these systems take electrical diagnostic skills to be able to diagnose and repair.
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JF Ptak Science Books Post 1561
Athena--the Greek goddess of wisdom, and of civilization and of course warfare, and of strength and strategy, and of justice and craft and clever thought--was the first daughter of Zeus, whose mother was Metis, a Titan and equal of her father. The story of her birth has been told in many different ways, but the basic element of it was that Zeus had laid with Metis, yada yada yada, and then feared that their offspring might be his equal, or greater, and so to quench his appetite for his consort, Zeus ate Metis (on the advice of Uranus and Ge), swallowing her, whole. But as these things go, Zeus hadn't planned that Metis was already pregnant, and that being the case, gave birth to Athena inside of Zeus. Zeus knew nothing of this--being busy--except that after a while he developed a headache so intense that other gods came to his rescue and forced open his head to release the pain--and from his forehead came his daughter, Athena, already clad for war and armed with gifts from her mother.
John Milton evidently employed this (or similar) image of springing-from-the-forehead for his own incantation of sin coming from the forehead of Satan, in his Paradise Lost. Satan (renamed from Lucifer) has been sent to Hell after his attempted terrorism in Heaven, and while there his daughter, Sin, springs from his head. He of course falls in rapturous lust with her and they produce a baby, Death, which eventually devours Sin. Oh Happy Days!
There seems to be some fair amount of spring-from-the-forehead-of business in the history of story telling: Saraswati (another goddess of wisdom) springs from Brahma's forehead, Thoth comes from Seth's forehead in Egyptian mythology, and a parallel Athena/Zeus story appears in Roman mythology with Palla and Jupiter.
This seems a long way to get to this headdress of Luchinus (or Luchino I Visconti, who shared in the rule of Milan from 1339 to 1349, found in Paolo Giovino's Abbrege de l'Histoire des Vicomtes et Ducz de Milan, publihed in Paris in 1553), which was either real or not, but the image of the consumed man springing from the crowned head of the ruler was too much to pass up. I am assuming that the man is going into the snake/dragon, rather than the other way around.
On Athena and Zeus--
Hesiod, Theogony 886 ff :
"Zeus, as king of the gods, took as his first wife Metis, and she knew more than all the gods or mortal people. But when she was about to be delivered of the goddess, gray-eyed Athene, then Zeus, deceiving her perception by treachery and by slippery speeches, put her away inside his own belly. This was by the advices of Gaia (Earth)
and starry Ouranos (Sky), for so they counseled, in order that no other everlasting god, beside Zeus, should ever be given kingly position. For it had been arranged that, from her, children surpassing in wisdom should be born, first the gray-eyed girl, the Tritogeneia Athene . . . but then a son to be king over gods and mortals was to be born to her and his heart would be overmastering; but before this, Zeus put her away inside his own belly so that this goddess should think for him, for good and for evil."
Hesiod, Theogony 924 ff :
"[Zeus], apart from Hera, had lain in love with a fair-faced daughter of Okeanos and lovley-haired Tethys, Metis, whom he deceived, for all she was so resourceful, for he snatched her up in his hands and put her inside his belly for fear that she might bring forth a thunderbolt stronger than his own; therefore the son of Kronos . . . swallowed her down of a sudden, but she then conceived Pallas Athene, but the father of gods and men gave birth to her near the summit of Triton beside the banks of the river. But Metis herself, hidden away under the vitals of Zeus, stayed there; she was Athene's mother; worker of right actions, beyond all the gods and beyond all mortal people in knowledge; and there Athene had given to her hands what made her supreme over all other immortals who have their homes on Olympos; for Metis made that armor of Athene, terror of armies, in which Athene was born."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 20 :
"Zeus slept with Metis, although she turned herself into many forms in order to avoid having sex with him. When she was pregnant, Zeus took the precaution of swallowing her, because she had said that, after giving birth to the daughter presently in her womb, she would bear a son who would gain the lordship of the sky. In fear of this he swallowed her. When it came time for the birth, Prometheus (or Hephaistos, according to some) by the river Triton struck the head of Zeus with an axe, and from his crown Athena sprang up, clad in her armour."
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Career Development is a lifelong process and an individual must allow for changes over time.
A student must be:
- Focused and flexible about what you want
- Practical and magical about what you do
You might take Career Assessments to assist you in clarifying self-concept or efficacy. Assessment tools measure of your Interests, Values, Skills/Abilities, and Personality Preference.
Next, relate your new self-knowledge to occupational information. Exposure to a narrower range of career options will allow you to consider personal lifestyle implications and consider course relevance.
Following extensive occupational research, create a Career Focus. Your career focus
may involve levels of job titles based on shot-term, mid-range, or long-term educational
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Look into possible education majors related to your career focus. Once you have made a decision, make an appointment with a Counselor in the Counseling Department, Disabled Student Services or EOPS to create your academic plan at Grossmont College.
REMEMBER to remain flexible and creative with your career development process. Nothing is linear anymore and we must be prepared to manage changes over time in the 21st Century Workplace.
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A. W. Tozer was born April 21, 1897 and died at age 63 on May 12, 1963. He was a Preacher, a writer, a speaker and a mentor to many. This article, in which he refers to the popularity of pragmatism at the beginning of the century thus isn’t talking about this century but the last one. Pragmatism is, in a nutshell, doing what works and it is very popular today among many of the churches in our nation, among many of the writers, speakers and preachers who regularly pour out their words either verbally or on paper. Men such as Rick Warren and many, many others. Thus it is the daily and/or weekly diet of millions of professed Christians in this nation. Sadly it is the wrong approach as what matters in spiritual issues isn’t that we are doing what works but that we are doing whatever it takes to please God. Mr. Tozer knew that and thus he wrote what you read here:
It is not by accident that the philosophy of pragmatism around the turn of the century achieved such wide popularity in the United States. The American temperament was perfect for it, and still is.
Pragmatism has a number of facets and can mean various things to various people, but basically it is the doctrine of the utility of truth. For the pragmatist there are no absolutes; nothing is absolutely good or absolutely true. Truth and morality float on a sea of human experience. If an exhausted swimmer can lay hold of a belief or an ethic, well and good; it may keep him afloat till he can get to shore; then it only encumbers him, so he tosses it away. He feels no responsibility to cherish truth for its own sake. It is there to serve him; he has no obligation to serve it.
Truth is to use. Whatever is useful is true for the user, though for someone else it may not be useful, so not true. The truth of any idea is its ability to produce desirable results. If it can show no such results it is false. That is pragmatism stripped of its jargon.
Now, since practicality is a marked characteristic of the American people they naturally lean strongly toward the philosophy of utility. Whatever will get things done immediately with a maximum of efficiency and a minimum of undesirable side effects must be good. The proof is that it succeeds; no one wants to argue with success.
It is useless to plead for the human soul, to insist that what a man can do is less important than what he is. When there are wars to be won, forests to be cleared, rivers to be harnessed, factories to be built, planets to be visited, the quieter claims of the human spirit are likely to go unregarded. The spectacular drama of successful deeds leaves the beholder breathless. Deeds you can see. Factories, cities, highways, rockets are there in plain sight, and they got there by the practical application of means to ends. So who cares about ideals and character and morals? These things are for poets, nice old ladies and philosophers. Let’s get on with the job.
Now all this has been said, and said better, a few dozen times before, and I would not waste space on it here except that this philosophy of pragmatism has had and is having a powerful influence upon Christianity in the middle years of this century. And whatever touches the faith of Christ immediately becomes a matter of interest to me and, I hope, to my readers also.
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Bumble bees are an important part of the ecosystem as pollinators of food crops, trees, and flowers. Have you ever wondered what their life cycle is like or if they sting? Here are 13 facts about the bumble bee.
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Fact #1: Bees require a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or higher to fly easily without using up all of their nectar stores. But they prefer it hot: 80-90 degrees.
On a cool morning I’ve noticed bumble bees asleep inside a squash blossom, underneath a flower, or generally looking lazy.
Fact #2: Bees sleeping outside the nest will sleep under a flowerhead or inside a deep flower like a squash blossom where the temperature can be up to 18 degrees warmer close to the nectar source.
Fact #3: The bee asleep in the flower on a cool morning may be a female forager who got caught outside the nest when the temperature decreased rapidly. Her job is to forage for nectar and pollen and she stores it in (yellow) pollen baskets on her hind legs to take back to the nest.
Fact #4: Or the sleeping bee may be a male, for most males leave the nest just a few days after hatching, and do not return. Their job is to drink nectar all day and chase queens for mating. They spend the day marking objects in their territory with their scent to attract a female queen. Since they don’t return to the nest, they do not have pollen baskets on their hind legs.
Bumble Bee Reproduction
Fact #5: The queen gets to choose whether to fertilize eggs or not. She mates with a male, and stores his sperm in something called the spermatheca over the winter. The following year she can choose whether to fertilize the eggs she lays (which become worker females) or leave them unfertilized (which become males).
Do Bumble Bees Produce Honey?
Fact #6: Bumblebees create honey, but it is not substantial enough for cultivation.
Do They Sting?
Fact #7: Bumblebees are generally very docile, but they should still be given space and respect.
According to BumbleBee.org, a bee will stick up a middle leg if it’s annoyed by your presence, which means “back off!”. Otherwise they are docile to the point that you could usually handle one without negative consequence.
Fact #8: Only the females will sting, and they may be more aggressive if you find yourself near their nest. Bumble bees can sting repeatedly and will not die afterwards, since their stingers are not barbed and won’t dislodge from the body.
The honey bee on the other hand can only sting once because of the barbed stinger, and usually dies thereafter.
A Wake-Up Ritual
We happened to be watching some of our ‘Autumn Joy’ sedum flowers one weekend morning. They are full of Argiope aurantia spiders, and we like to watch the drama of predator-prey unfold on the flower heads between the spiders, the bees and moths.
At that moment some of the bumble bees that had been sleeping underneath the flower heads woke up. The sun must have just warmed the flowers to the right temperature at that very moment. When they crawled out from under the flowerhead, they did a little 1-minute dance to warm up and clean themselves from head to tail (so to speak), using their legs, much like a cat uses its paw to clean its head. It looked like windshield wipers when the bee was cleaning its back with its legs!
I didn’t catch the whole dance on video, unfortunately, because I didn’t have my phone on me. But this was too good, so I ran to get my phone and videoed the last 30 seconds of the cleaning ritual for you to see.
How to Help the Bumble Bees
Fact #9: Like other wildlife, bumble bees have to work harder than ever to find food and shelter due to habitat loss and the overuse of pesticides.
Fact #10: In the springtime, a queen emerges from solitary hibernation, and must have the energy to find food (flower nectar), build a nest, forage for nectar and pollen, and lay eggs. She expends an enormous amount of energy to get a nest going, and springtime flowers are really important if she is to survive.
Fact #11: Help provide spring nectar for the bumble bees. Try planting crocuses, virginia bluebells, comfrey (Here’s my post about comfrey), California poppies (Here’s the kind I buy), or columbine flowers.
Currant bushes (Here’s my post about growing currants), spicebush (I plan to plant lots of spicebush on my new homestead!), and hawthorn trees are popular spring bloomers, too.
Fact #12: In the fall, bumble bees need plenty of nectar sources so they can store enough for winter hibernation. The trouble is, most gardens are dying out by the time fall rolls around, and food is scarce.
Fact #13: Plant fall blooming flowers so the bumble bees have enough to forage from.
Fall blooming flowers to grow:
- lavender (I like English lavender)
- salvia (I like scarlet sage)
- wild geranium
- anemone (the pinks are my favorites)
- chives (Check out my 5 reasons to grow chives)
- cilantro (After they’ve bloomed, save the seeds!)
Have you found bumble bees asleep around your garden? What sources of early and late nectar have you provided for them?
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Blood Tests Identify Patients on Dialysis at High Risk for Death from Cardiovascular Disease
For immediate release: July 15, 2003
Routine blood tests given to people suspected of having a heart attack can also reliably measure the risk of heart disease in people on dialysis awaiting a kidney transplant, even though they have no symptoms of heart disease. That's according to a team of researchers led by a University of Maryland cardiologist. Their study is published in the July 16, 2003 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The tests, which measure troponin T and C-reactive protein, appear to detect silent, small heart attacks and coronary artery disease. The results may make it possible, for the first time, for doctors to gauge the risk of heart disease in patients on dialysis who do not have cardiac symptoms, and determine which patients need additional treatment to address their underlying cardiovascular disease.
Despite advances in dialysis, death rates of people with end stage renal disease remain as high as 23 percent each year, with cardiovascular problems causing nearly 45 percent of all deaths. Cardiac events continue to take their toll even after kidney transplantation, accounting for half the deaths in the first 30 days following transplant, mainly from heart attack.
"This could be a simple, cost-effective way to screen the nearly 300,000 people on dialysis in the United States, a high risk group that has been difficult to test for heart disease in the past," says lead author, Christopher deFilippi, M.D., a cardiologist at the University of Maryland Medical Center and associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. "Those found to have these cardiac risk factors may need further tests or interventions such as bypass surgery before undergoing a kidney transplant, for the best outcome," says deFilippi.
The study of 224 patients with end stage renal disease was initiated in 1998 at five hemodialysis centers in the Houston-Galveston region of Texas. Patients in the study were on kidney dialysis for more than 30 days, were at least 18 years of age, and were free from any acute coronary event for more than four weeks.
Blood samples were taken from each patient to measure two powerful predictors of acute coronary syndromes, cardiac troponin T and C-reactive protein. The patients were then followed for 3? years to investigate any association between the test results and the long-term risk of cardiac problems and death.
To analyze whether the blood tests were reliable predictors of death, investigators divided the patients into one of four groups, based on whether their test results fell at, above or below the medians for troponin T and C-reactive protein. Patients with elevated levels of both troponin T and C-reactive protein were at very high risk. When both levels were negative and below the median, the chances of survival were better.
According to Dr. deFilippi, "The risk of death was two and a half times greater for patients who had high levels of both troponin T and C-reactive protein, compared to those having low levels of both." Further, using x-rays to detect coronary artery disease, the researchers found that the patients with high levels of troponin T had a three times greater risk of multiple blockages, even in the absence of symptoms.
During the follow-up period, 117 patients died? 62 from cardiac causes.
Troponins are regulatory molecules found in muscle tissue. They control how muscles relax and contract. Troponin T is specific to the heart and is usually released in the blood after a heart attack, but could be released following any type of cardiovascular injury. The troponin T test is frequently given to people with chest pain or a suspected heart attack in hospital emergency departments.
C-reactive protein is a non-specific marker of inflammation. According to Dr. deFilippi, levels of this protein may identify and potentially contribute to the environment within blood vessels that makes hardening of the arteries more severe. "I think just the process of going on dialysis, having your blood drawn across a dialysis membrane and the fact that many patients on dialysis have chronic infections raises levels of this marker," says Dr. deFilippi. The senior author of the study, William L. Henrich, M.D., professor and chairman of medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and chief of medicine at the University of Maryland Medical Center, says the data from the study clarifies the importance and relevance of troponin T to people who are on dialysis.
"The major surprise is that these very low levels of troponin carry such important prognostic implications," says Dr. Henrich.
Among the benefits Dr. Henrich anticipates from this study for patients is the fact that there is now a marker that can be followed over time. "In the follow-up of patients, we can ascertain when a patient has changed from one risk group to another and take appropriate action." Also, he says a patient without cardiac symptoms who has an elevated troponin T level could receive earlier treatment for coronary disease. "This early intervention may correct a problem before there is irreversible damage."
There has been confusion in the past over the interpretation of troponin tests in patients undergoing dialysis. "Clinicians weren't sure what to make of results that suggested the presence of cardiovascular problems in patients who had no symptoms," says Dr. deFilippi. Normally, the kidneys clear troponin after a minor cardiovascular injury, but could be detected in the blood at elevated levels for up to two weeks following a large heart attack. However, clearance could be delayed in a person with impaired kidney function on dialysis. Dr. deFilippi theorizes that since the troponin molecule is too large to be cleared by the membrane used in dialysis, it remains detectable in the blood for a long time, or may build up slowly.
"There are probably other processes in dialysis patients that account for some cardiac injury," he says, "like direct toxicity from uremia (excess urea and other chemical waste products in the blood) or the dialysis process itself. But we think the association we have shown with severe atherosclerosis is a major player."
Co-investigators in the study include Steven Wasserman, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine, and Robert Christenson, Ph.D., professor of pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine; Salvatore Rosanio, M.D., Ph.D., and Monica Tocchi, M.D., Department of Cardiology, San Raffaele University Hospital, Milan, Italy; Eric Tiblier, M.D., Barry Uretsky, M.D., Matthew Smiley, M.D., John Badalamenti, M.D. and Heidi Sperger, B.S., Department of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston; Judith Gold, M.D., Renal Care Group, Angleton, Tex; Henry Muniz, M.D., Renal Specialists, Houston, Tex; and Charles Herzog, M.D., Department of Medicine, Hennepin County Medical Center, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis.
This study was funded by an investigator-initiated grant from Roche Diagnostics Corporation, the manufacturer of the cardiac troponin T test.
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Schistosomiasis, caused by a blood fluke, is a chronic, morbid and 'neglected'disease affecting as many as 700 million people globally. Ensuing anemia, abdominal pain, impaired physical and cognitive development degrade individual and societal productivity. Infection also elevates the risk of acquiring HIV, making treatment of schistosomiasis a priority for HIV-prevention. Treatment and control of schistosomiasis relies on just one drug, praziquantel (PZQ). Apart from concerns over possible drug resistance, PZQ has a number of failings. First, the standard oral dose of 40 mg/kg is rarely completely effective, with reported cure rates anywhere between 50 and 90%. Second, PZQ primarily kills adult parasites allowing immature worms to escape that upon maturation go on to generate morbidity. Third, PZQ is rapidly metabolized to a series of metabolites of which only one is partially as active as the parent molecule. In addition, the drug has a repellent taste and is marketed as a large 600 mg tablet making compliance, especially for children, difficult. The World Health Organization encourages the discovery and development of new drug candidates. The UCSF Center for Discovery and Innovation in Parasitic Diseases (www.cdipd.org) has identified commercial anti-hypercholesterolemia statin drugs - inhibitors of HMG-CoA reductase (3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl-CoA reductase or HMGR) - as potent schistosomicidal compounds. Statins first came to our attention during phenotypic whole-organism screens designed specifically to identify potential therapeutics for the schistosome parasite, screens that have now been adapted to quantitative, high-content imaging platforms. In advance of a detailed structure-activity lead optimization program to develop specific anti-schistosomal statins, we propose two Specific Aims. First, in partnership with an industry leader in statin drug development (Merck Sharp &Dohme Corp. ("Merck")), we will employ quantitative and 'targeted'phenotypic screening of privileged statin libraries to obtain a preliminary understanding of the structural determinants of statin analogs that kill the parasite in vitro, including those that improve killing activity over commercial statins already tested. Secondly, we will optimize and standardize the recombinant expression of active Schistosoma mansoni HMGR, which will be central to deriving the kinetic and crystallographic data necessary to prosecute a subsequent lead optimization program to identify candidate molecules for treatment of schistosomiasis. The engagement of a large pharmaceutical company like Merck represents a watershed moment for schistosomiasis R&D since the discovery of PZQ 40 years ago. The combination of Merck's expertise in statin chemistry and UCSF's parasitological/screening expertise will short-list novel and more potent anti-schistosomal molecules. The proposed research activity is in advance of a collaborative and longer-term lead optimization program that will continue to utilize the tools employed or developed herein.
Schistosomiasis is a tropical parasitic disease afflicting as many as 700 million people. Current therapy relies on just one drug and new drugs are needed. The current project is an academic-industrial partnership between UCSF and Merck Sharp &Dohme Corp. that will explore whether anti-hypercholesterolemia statin drugs and their derivatives are suitable for developing novel schistosomicidal drugs.
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Each young man will understand that Jesus Christ is his Savior and will strive to be more like Him.
Copies of the scriptures (each young man should bring his own).
Picture 15, Jesus at the Door (62170; Gospel Art Picture Kit 237).
Pencils for marking scriptures.
Suggested Lesson Development
Scriptures and discussion
What do these scriptures teach about the way we obtain salvation?
What has the Savior done to provide salvation for us?
Explain that this lesson will teach the young men more about the Savior so they can love him more and strive to be more like him.
Jesus Christ Is Sometimes Called the Father
Scripture and discussion
Explain that a father is one who gives life. Heavenly Father gave us life as his spirit children. The scriptures explain in what way Jesus Christ can be considered our Father.
Ask the young men to read Mosiah 5:7–8.
What do you think King Benjamin meant when he said that we can be spiritually born of Christ?
Explain that the covenant King Benjamin mentioned is the covenant of baptism. The Savior has taught us that we should have faith in him, that we should be baptized, and that we should be worthy of the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost to guide us. As we do these things, our hearts are changed so that we desire to become more like the Savior and do not desire to participate in sin.
The process of having our hearts changed so that we become like the Savior is called being spiritually born of Christ. When we are spiritually born of him, we become his sons and daughters.
Scripture and discussion
Explain that the young men in your class have already been baptized. But not everyone who has been baptized has also been spiritually born of the Savior. Ask the young men to consider the questions that Alma asked to a group of Church members.
Ask the young men to read Alma 5:14–16.
Suggest that the young men consider privately how much like the Savior they are becoming. They may want to consider these questions:
Do I have a great desire to do good?
Am I losing any desire for sin?
Do I have great faith in the Savior and his promises of eternal life to the faithful?
Explain that another reason Jesus Christ is sometimes called the Father is because his will and the will of the Father are identical. Jesus Christ “received all power, both in heaven and on earth” (D&C 93:17) from Heavenly Father. He speaks and acts in the same way that our Heavenly Father would speak and act.
Scripture and discussion
Ask the young men to read John 14:7.
Why do you think Jesus said that we know the Father if we know his Son, Jesus Christ?
Jesus Christ Desires Everyone to Come unto Him
Picture and discussion
Show picture 15, Jesus at the Door.
What is different about this particular door? (There is no handle on the outside of the door.)
If Christ is to come in, what must happen? (We must each open the door from our side and invite him in.)
Ask the young men to locate 3 Nephi 9:14. Read, mark, and discuss the passage with the quorum.
Help the class members understand that Christ has personally invited each of us to come to him. But we must make the decision to do so.
Story and discussion
Read the following experience:
“The prospect of two years without warm sand and blue-green waves ahead of me sent me surfing with my friend Gaven. At the end of the summer I’d be leaving for my mission in Iceland.
“As Gaven and I carried our surfboards down a steep slope, we saw that an offshore wind was shaping six-foot waves into smooth, hollow barrels, beautiful to surfers’ eyes.
“At the foot of the hills, cliffs dropped 50 feet down onto a narrow beach. We followed an eroded gully down the bluffs and easily climbed the last ten feet to the sand. Leashing our surfboards to our legs, we paddled out through kelp beds to the distant surf line.
“I got in some of the best surfing of my life that day. The air and water sparkled clear and warm, and salt spray felt fresh on our faces. Seabirds wheeled and cried constantly, and the rides were long, fast, and perfect. Gaven and I stayed until after sunset.
“As the twilight began to fade, my friend caught a last ride to shore. I looked at the horizon, which promised yet another set of extra-large waves, and waited for one more. I was rewarded by a last long, pounding ride.
“I began the long paddle back, but a current pulled against me, and light faded to almost nothing. I finally reached the cliff’s base and discovered that the tide had risen much higher than I’d expected and now covered the beach. Waves rolled in and crashed directly against the cliff I had to climb. At first I shrank from the foaming water and tried in vain to discover an easier way; then I finally got up the courage to try.
“The climb up was nothing like climbing down had been that afternoon. Then the cliff had been dry and high above the surf. Now it was slick as sushi, and white water roiled around me as I climbed.
“Just short of the safety of the gully, I could go no farther. One last handhold lay just above my right hand, but I couldn’t reach it. That hand held my heavy surfboard, which a leash still attached to my leg. If I dropped it to the water, the waves would catch it and pull me off the rock. I needed my left hand to hold me in place. I was truly stuck.
“Gaven, who had already reached the cliff top, suddenly appeared above me. For a moment, my foolish pride told me not to accept the hand he offered. ‘I’ve come so far on my own,’ I thought. ‘I can make it myself.’ But then I gratefully handed him the surfboard that burdened me, and with my right hand freed, I grasped the last handhold and reached the top.
“Summer ended, and I found myself flying off to Iceland. The weather was atrocious, the work was hard, and after the first cold, wet month, I was overcome with discouragement.
“I tried to save myself by concentrating on work and studying more, but my confidence continued to sink.
“One dark day, when the Icelandic police required everyone to stay inside because of Arctic cold and high winds, I sat on the couch in our apartment. Running through my cross-referenced collection of memories, I stumbled across the image of myself clinging to the cliffs at home. I looked at the blizzard outside and realized I was once again in just that position. I’d swum to the cliff and done all that I could, but my own strength could carry me no more.
“I remembered the scripture in Matthew that said, ‘But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me. And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him’ (Matt. 14:30–31).
“My confidence in myself exhausted, unable to climb farther, I had no choice but to humble myself and reach for the Savior’s hand. My mission president gave me a priesthood blessing that I would find the assurance I sought. I trusted him. Although I saw no angels or pillars of light, and although the storms continued, I discovered that I had received the gift of strength I needed.
“I know that my Savior lives and that he will lift us all above the waves. The hand that was extended to me is extended to all” (Thomas J. Eastman, “Saved from the Surf,” New Era, Apr. 1994, pp. 12–14).
How does this story make you feel about the Savior?
Is it necessary to be totally free from sin to have a strong personal testimony of Christ?
Explain that our Savior wants us to come to him as we are. We do not have to be perfect to go to him.
Scripture and discussion
Have someone read Mark 2:17.
What do you think the Savior meant when he said this?
Explain that the Lord does not ask us to heal ourselves of our imperfections before we approach him. As we come to him with those imperfections and a desire to repent and overcome them, he will help us.
Emphasize that each of us can know the Savior of the world and feel his power and influence in our lives. He does not require that we be perfect, but he does require that we do all we can to be like him.
Have the young men find and read Doctrine and Covenants 88:63. Ask them to look at the words describing what we must do in order to find the Savior: “draw near unto me”; “seek me diligently”; “ask”; “knock.” Explain that these words make clear that we must put forth great effort if we are to draw near to the Savior.
Write on the chalkboard, How can I draw closer to the Savior? Ask the young men to consider this question; then write the answers that you receive. They may include repenting of our sins, keeping the commandments, seeking to draw close to the Savior through prayer, and striving to serve others as the Savior did.
Explain that if we do love the Lord and draw near to him, we will receive the promise recorded in Doctrine and Covenants 88:67–68. Have the young men read these verses and discuss their meaning.
Testimony and challenge
Testify that Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer. He came to earth and lived and died for us. We draw near to him as we do all we can to become like him.
Challenge the young men to try throughout the coming week to act as much like Jesus Christ as they can. Suggest they pray for the Holy Ghost to guide them as they try to become more like Christ.
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Myanmar Leader Hails Suu Kyi, Says Transition ‘Complex’
Myanmar President Thein Sein saluted top dissident Aung San Suu Kyi in a speech to the United Nations that dwelled on the difficulties facing his nation as it is “ushering in a new era” of democratic rule.
As the first Myanmar head of state to address the UN General Assembly, Thein Sein acknowledged Suu Kyi to an audience of world leaders and said that “the transformation process” in Myanmar “would be a complex and delicate one that requires patience.”
“As a Myanmar citizen, I would like to congratulate her for the honors she has received in this country in recognition of her efforts for democracy,” he said in New York yesterday.
Myanmar’s peaceful shift to democracy followed bloody uprisings in the Arab world last year that felled authoritarian rulers in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Since taking office last year, Thein Sein has freed hundreds of political prisoners and held talks with Suu Kyi, who won a seat in Parliament in April by-elections and is also in the U.S. on a 17-day tour.
“They are on the same page now and they want to move ahead,” Thaung Tun, a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, said of Thein Sein and Suu Kyi. “If they work together, they can bring in investment and make a difference to the lives of the people.”
While Democratic reforms have prompted Western nations to ease sanctions and led businesses to consider investing in Myanmar, thornier issues still left to untangle include the plight of ethnic minorities such as the Rohingya Muslims.
The president devoted much of his speech to the obstacles.
“While the government is resolutely pursuing political, social and economic reforms, some unfortunate and unexpected issues have come up in our way,” Thein Sein said.
He said his government would respect the human rights of all people as the nation seeks a solution to unrest in a border area with Bangladesh, where fighting between Muslim Rohingyas and local Buddhists has killed about 90 people and displaced more than 70,000 others. UN official Ashok Nigam called on authorities to resolve citizenship issues regarding the Rohingyas at a meeting in Myanmar earlier this week.
“The issue at hand cannot be solved overnight,” Thein Sein said. “It will be resolved by taking short-term and long- term measures through a multi-faceted approach taking into account political, economic and social aspects.”
Thein Sein also pledged to make peace with rebel armies among the country’s ethnic minority groups, particularly the Kachin Independence Army. Noting that the government signed 10 cease-fires with ethnic minority armies so far, he said “peace negotiations will then continue to reach a final peace agreement that would completely end the armed hostilities.”
Thein Sein previously addressed the General Assembly in 2009 as prime minister, when he served as the public face of a military junta headed by Than Shwe. He took full control following 2010 elections that were boycotted by Suu Kyi’s party and denounced as a sham by the U.S. and European nations.
Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner who spent 15 years under house arrest, last week told reporters that she shared a “common goal” with Thein Sein.
“I am happy that sanctions are now being lifted,” she said on Sept. 21. “It is time now that the Burmese people took responsibility for their democratization of the country.”
In his speech, Thein Sein highlighted moves to ease restrictions on Internet freedom and allow people to organize, including the formation of independent trade unions. The U.S. and European Union have eased sanctions on Myanmar in recent months, prompting companies such as Coca-Cola Co. (KO) and Visa Inc. (V) to seek a presence in the country.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week said the U.S. would ease a ban on imports in place since 2003. The move follows an announcement by President Barack Obama in July to allow new investments in Myanmar for the first time in 15 years.
Total trade last year between the U.S. and Myanmar reached $49 million, all in exports, an amount equivalent to half what America trades with neighboring Thailand in a single day, government statistics show. A decade ago, U.S.-Myanmar commerce was seven times greater.
Myanmar’s economy may grow as much as 8 percent annually if policy makers keep prices under control, increase trade and attract investment, the Asian Development Bank said last month. About a quarter of the population has access to electricity, while mobile-phone and Internet usage is among the lowest in Southeast Asia, the ADB said.
“Myanmar is making progress on her democratic path,” Thein Sein said. “But this has not been an easy task.”
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Peter Hirschberg at firstname.lastname@example.org
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Copyright © 2010-2021 New Frontier Mobile Diagnostics. All rights reserved.
April is National Minority Health Month, and New Frontier is celebrating minority voices and bringing awareness to the healthcare disparities faced by minorities in the United States.
As we highlighted in the post explaining our mission, “Imaging for Everyone,” access to quality, affordable healthcare is one of the largest barriers affecting the equitable distribution of healthcare services in the United States, causing over 31 million uninsured in 2020.
In a 2019 study, high health insurance coverage costs were cited by 74% of uninsured adults, and three in ten uninsured adults went without medical care due to cost. A study released by the CDC in 2020 showed that 13% of white Americans live in families that have problems paying medical bills, but those numbers jump to 15.6% and 20.6% for Hispanic and African American families, respectively.
Cost is just one factor affecting health equity, though. Availability of services, location, cultural acceptability, and appropriateness of care all factor into healthcare disparities that result in real-life health consequences for minorities.
A 2018 study by the CDC showed that African Americans were 30% more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites. In addition, African Americans are 40% more likely to have high blood pressure but less likely to have it under control.
Echocardiograms are the first “look” that a physician receives of a patient’s heart in motion, showing the size, function, and rhythm of the heart in an effort to diagnose a condition. That’s where we come in.
New Frontier believes that everyone deserves quality, affordable imaging, so we’re offering a discount on Echocardiograms for patients at participating practices.
Contact your physician today and ask them if you can get an Echocardiogram from New Frontier Mobile Diagnostics. They can contact us at (913) 428-9488 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
“Key Facts about the Uninsured Population,” Kaiser Family Foundation; Jennifer Tolbert, Kendal Orgera, Anthony Damico; Nov 6, 2020; https://www.kff.org/uninsured/issue-brief/key-facts-about-the-uninsured-population/
“Problems Paying Medical Bills, 2018,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Amy E. Cha, Robin A Cohen; February 2020; https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db357.htm
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Impressions of: Mau in "Birds With Skymirrors"
Possessed by Shadows
Samoan choreographer Lemi Ponifasio believes that darkness opens our eyes.
Darkness makes us wary. Sharpening our vision, we strain to pierce the shadows that drape familiar objects and we gaze into the unknown. Darkness changes the rules. It undermines our confidence that we are masters of the world.
That’s the point, perhaps, of Birds with Skymirrors, the hair-raising work that Ponifasio’s Mau company, from New Zealand, performed at the Howard Gilman Opera House, on Nov. 19, making its BAM debut.
Keenly aware that rising sea levels associated with global warming are inundating the small, island nations of the Pacific and destroying his home, Ponifasio has a less than sanguine view of humankind’s ability to subjugate nature. Perhaps it is not darkness that deceives us, but all the light---the electricity buzzing 24/7 in the modern world to keep our fears at bay. This artificial daylight blinds us to our limitations, and to our true relationship with nature. So, as if it were a traditional Samoan house, Ponifasio keeps his stage open. He wants us to experience midnight.
To the average person accustomed to the comfort of reaching out and turning on a lamp, this embrace of darkness makes Birds with Skymirrors a scary place to be. The dance occupies a middle plane between the floor and a “ceiling” of plastic panels. These surfaces gleam dully, reflecting designer Helen Todd’s weak but carefully calibrated illumination, which strikes the set indirectly. At times a mysterious band of light like the edge of a brush-fire glows at the front of the stage, while the interior displays a colorless spectrum that ranges from dingy gray to jet-black. The space seems desolate and uncaring, with nothing but a tilted beam, like a fallen girder, propping up the sky. Its inhabitants live in a state of permanent eclipse, and risk falling into oblivion.
Birds with Skymirrors recalls other pieces in which darkness plays an important role. Merce Cunningham’s creaky Winterbranch comes to mind, as does Eiko and Koma’s Water, performed outdoors after sundown. Yet while Ponifasio’s work is modern it is also based in the native traditions of Polynesia. The stage is a meeting ground where rituals take place; and our connections to the people, the animals and the supernatural beings who appear there may offer a kind of comfort stronger even than our ability to switch on a bulb. We are less vulnerable when we band together, remembering our dead, and Ponifasio invites us to become part of the network of creation. Similarly time seems to grow in Birds with Skymirrors, where the action is slow and irregularly paced. If not boundless, the passage of time here is certainly grander than the niggling minutes and portions of an hour that we typically measure out for ourselves to live by.
At first the outline of a man’s shoulders is barely visible amid the gloom. Gradually we can see more, as a transparent stream seems to wash over his body. In reality, it is his torso that moves undulating with terrific strength beneath a sheath of light. The man’s body is tattooed, as if the surrounding shadows had possessed him.
The action passes to the other side of the stage, where a bare-breasted woman takes up after the man, adding sharp gestures with a pointed finger or toggling her flattened palm. She squawks, making a piercing sound like an alarm in reaction to the ominous rumbling in the background. Later, she or another woman will sing a plaintive song.
Translated in the program, the poetry in Birds with Skymirrors recalls the origins of the world in darkness, and describes a society in which the living converse with past generations. Movingly the astronauts of Apollo 11 are a part of this extended family, too, and we hear a recording of their voices as they descend to the surface of the moon. We are left to ponder what the 1969 moon landing — arguably our greatest technological achievement — signifies now, at a time of looming catastrophe.
At different moments in Skymirrors, the dancers may expose themselves or appear in costumes that, like the lighting, offer varying degrees of transparency. Men scurry about wearing monastic robes. Later they are bare-chested, sitting in a line and swaying to a rhythm that they accent by slapping themselves.
This seated dance may be the highlight of the piece for some viewers. Apparently rooted in a traditional prayer to the dead, the men’s beautiful arm movements are sharp and round by turns; and they perform them with a sense of ownership. Their style is not something put on for the occasion but seems part of their identity. The movement dives and surfaces buoyantly, seeking equilibrium.
While the three women in the piece make some of the same gestures, their aspect is fiercer, their eyes wide and staring. Toward the end, they appear dangling small white globes the size of Christmas-tree ornaments. At this moment, they might be spirits holding the moon on a string. It later develops that the globes are bags filled with ashes, which will be shaken out to coat the floor.
Birds with Skymirrors has an ecological message to impart. Ponifasio was inspired to make the piece after he saw birds in flight carrying shiny strips of videotape in their beaks. During the piece, the image of a pelican struggling in the surf returns intermittently. In case we miss the point that pollution and a warming climate will kill us, too, a dancer appears wearing a bird mask —- half-man, half-animal.
Ponifasio is not optimistic about our chances. Even more than “Requiem,” the piece he presented at the Lincoln Center Festival in 2008, Birds with Skymirrors feels like closing time in a world without sanctuary. Would the choreographer have gone to the trouble of making this piece, though, if he had given up?
Maybe it is still not too dark for us to see.
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People who support our government engaging in “stimulus” activities are fools. While it sounds good to “stimulate” the economy and there are supposedly jobs created and saved with stimulus dollars, the truth is that these government programs are at best very wasteful, and at the worst downright fraudulent.
Look at the stimulus numbers in general. In Wisconsin, for example, federal stimulus money was reported to have “saved” 8,284 jobs. That sounds impressive, until you find out that 75% of those jobs were government jobs. (And no, I don’t belive the government report that the jobs saved were “essential.” That’s a smokescreen, plain and simple. There are plenty of tax dollars to fund “essential” services, and the reason governments are “broke” is because they’re using tons of tax money to fund non-essential things that they should not be doing!)
What’s my beef with saving government jobs? We should not be trying to “save” government jobs! Those jobs should only exist to provide the most basic and necessary functions of government. We should want smaller government, not larger. Our government is wasting our money to “save” jobs which are wasteful.
Our federal government is reporting that the stimulus saved 650,000 jobs, yet there is clear evidence that their numbers are phony.
And here’s a specific example of why the government should not engage in stimulus activities to influence the market. They screw it all up and cost taxpayers tons of money.
Take the Cash For Clunkers program. Car buyers got $4,500 from the government to purchase new cars. Essentially, you and I (those who didn’t buy new cars in the program) helped buy our neighbors new cars. (And quite frankly, I’m not interested in kicking in any money to help you buy a new car!)
What did this program add to our economy? NOTHING! Most who had the need and ability to buy new cars would have done so anyway. They may have postponed those purchases a little, but they would have made the purchases without government intervention.
Edmunds.com is reporting that of the 690,000 cars that were purchased under Cash For Clunkers, 565,000 of the buyers would have purchased a car anyway. So what did we accomplish? We got 125,000 people who wouldn’t have bought new cars to do so. (And I’ll suggest that many of those couldn’t afford to do so, and had no business making those purchases anyway!)
So our government spent $3 billion to spur the purchase of 125,000 cars. That’s a cost of $24,000 per car. Our government wasted $3 billion of our money in order to cause the sale of extra cars (above then normal demand) at a cost of $24,000 per sale. No one in their right mind can possibly suggest that this was a worthwhile way to spend tax dollars.
And our government doesn’t want you hearing about this obscene waste of taxpayer money. They’re going to do everything in their power to shut up those who would expose the frauds being perpetrated on the taxpayers. So now the United States Retribution Czar is maligning Edmunds.com for daring to clue in the taxpayers.
The bottom line is that our government should not be propping up certain companies and industries with our tax dollars. (Yes, I‘ve been against all bailout and stimulus-type activities from the very beginning of the financial meltdown!) It’s a waste of money which belongs to the hard working taxpayers who earned that money (and who have almost no say-so in the creation and administration of these programs).
Our government has never been efficient and effective in administering anything. And they should stay out of our economy and let the free market work for itself.
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Turns water into a spadeable solid. By turning watery sludge into a solid you can save money on disposal costs. Pay for solid waste and not liquid waste disposal.
10kgs of Desap will turn 1,000 litres of water into a spadeable waste.
Desap is a non toxic cross-linked acrylic polymer with super absorbent properties.
Water and other fluids that come into contact with the polymer are absorbed into small spaces within the polymer resulting in rapid swelling.
Desap is used to solidify sludges thus allowing them to be taken to land fill instead of liquid waste.
Desap will solidify water (not salt water) at a rate of 100:1. Ten Kilos of desap will solidify to spadeable 1,000 litres of water.
Desap will break down over time into ammonia, carbon dioxide and water.
Non toxic, LD50/oral/rat > 2000mg/kg
Acrylic acid polymers are non toxic and are used extensively to retain large quantities of water and nutrients in agriculture, horticulture, forestry and mining soils.
Easy to use:
Desap comes in 10 kg bags. If it is being used in conjunction with a sucker truck the polymer is premixed in a drum of water and sucked up into the truck. This is repeated until the required volume of Desap has been added to the water component of the sludge.
In other applications it is either premixed or added directly to the water/sludge to be solidified.
In most states the cost of dumping waste as a prescribed land fill is far less than at a liquid waste facility.
By using Desap to eliminate liquid waste disposal, the cost of dumping sludges and other liquids can be reduced by as much as 50% (after including cost of Desap) depending on local dumping costs.
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So much for moving forward. The small country of Brunei has become the first East Asian nation to adopt sharia law. Under the harsh Islamic penal code, certain crimes will be punishable by flogging, dismemberment, and death by stoning, CNN reports.
During a ceremony Wednesday morning, the Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, announced the commencement of the first phase of the sharia-based penal code, according to the government's official website. […]
Most parts of the new Islamic code will apply to both Muslims and non-Muslims, affecting people from the Christian and Buddhist communities. Around 70 percent of people in Brunei are Malay Muslims, while the remainder of the population are of Chinese or other ethnic descent.
The Sultan, who is also the Prime Minister, first announced the law in October 2013. As per its provisions, sexual offenses such as rape, adultery and sodomy will be considered punishable acts for Muslims. Consensual sex between homosexuals will also be criminalized, with death by stoning the prescribed punishment.
In announcing the implementation of sharia law, the government website quoted the Sultan as saying that his government "does not expect other people to accept and agree with it, but that it would suffice if they just respect the nation in the same way that it also respects them."
The international community has, for obvious reasons, strongly condemned the move, which Amnesty International’s Rupert Abbot said will “take the country back to the dark ages.”
“Brunei Darussalam’s new Penal Code legalizes cruel and inhuman punishments. It makes a mockery of the country’s international human rights commitments and must be revoked immediately,” Abbot said in a statement.
The United Nations also expressed their concern over the country’s implementation of sharia law last month. "Under international law, stoning people to death constitutes torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment and is thus clearly prohibited," said Rupert Colville, spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.
The criminal law will be implemented in three phases. Phase one began on May 1, with the harsher forms of punishment to be brought in gradually over a three-year period.
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Dozens of pubs across Bristol have been identified as being so special they’re officially of historical importance.
The pubs have been put on a Local List, which is made up of buildings that have not already been identified as listed by Historic England or the National Trust.
They have been identified by Bristol City Council and chosen because of their architectural quality, townscape value or historical interest.
The public houses make up a small fraction of the list, which includes nearly 500 buildings, structures, parks, gardens and open spaces
There are some well-known places on the list - such as the M Shed, the Aardman Building, in Gas Ferry Road, and The Arches in Cheltenham Road.
But there are also some surprises on the list including an 1882 flood warning post and Montpelier Railway Station.
Being locally listed does not automatically introduce greater planning restrictions. But it does allow for greater recognition during the planning process.
Here are the 21 pubs that made it onto the list:
Cambridge Arms, Westbury Park
Highbury Vaults, Cotham
The George, Shirehampton
The Gryphon, Colston Street
The Portwall Tavern, Portwall Lane
The Shakespeare, Lower Redland Road
The Cottage Inn, Baltic Wharf
The Barley Mow, East Street, Bedminster
The Hare, North Street, Bedminster
The Avon Packet, Coronation Road
The Post Office Tavern, Westbury Hill
The Mouse, Waters Lane, Westbury
Lebeqs Tavern, Stapleton Road
The Rhubarb Tavern, Barton Hill
Quinton House, Park Place
The Mall, Clifton
The Coronation Tap, Sion Place, Clifton
The Merchants Arms, Merchants Road
The Mardyke, Hotwell Road
The Hole in the Wall, near Queen Square
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Just been on a space video kick lately and am pretty ignorant about most of it.
One thing I see a lot of these videos saying is that the expansion of the universe seemed to be slowing down until around 5 billion years ago.
How can we tell that it was slowing down 5 billion years ago if it started speeding up afterwords? Like how do they map out the universe and say “yeah it was slowing down until this time.”
Is it just a theory or is this something commonly accepted as fact? Appreciate any info and thanks! :)
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A multi-ingredient, pre-workout supplement is apparently safe in healthy males and females
Background: Pre-workout supplements (PWS) have become increasingly popular with recreational and competitive athletes. While many ingredients used in PWS have had their safety assessed, the interactions when combined are less understood.
Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the safety of 1 and 2 servings of a PWS.
Design: Forty-four males and females (24.4±4.6 years; 174.7±9.3 cm; 78.9±18.6 kg) from two laboratories participated in this study. Subjects were randomly assigned to consume either one serving (G1; n=14) or two servings (G2; n=18) of PWS or serve as an unsupplemented control (CRL; n=12). Blood draws for safety panels were conducted by a trained phlebotomist before and after the supplementation period.
Results: Pooled data from both laboratories revealed significant group×time interactions (p<0.05) for mean corpuscular hemoglobin (MCH; CRL: 30.9±0.8–31.0±0.9 pg; G1: 30.7±1.1–30.2±0.7 pg; G2: 30.9±1.2–30.9±1.1 pg), MCH concentration (CRL: 34.0±0.9–34.4±0.7 g/dL; G1: 34.1±0.9–33.8±0.6 g/dL; G2: 34.0±1.0–33.8±0.8 g/dL), platelets (CRL: 261.9±45.7–255.2±41.2×103/µL; G1: 223.8±47.7–238.7±49.6×103/µL; G2: 239.1±28.3–230.8±34.5×103/µL), serum glucose (CRL: 84.1±5.2–83.3±5.8 mg/dL; G1: 86.5±7.9–89.7±5.6 mg/dL; G2: 87.4±7.2–89.9±6.6 mg/dL), sodium (CRL: 137.0±2.7–136.4±2.4 mmol/L; 139.6±1.4–140.0±2.2 mmol/L; G2: 139.0±2.2–138.7±1.7 mmol/L), albumin (CRL: 4.4±0.15–4.4±0.22 g/dL; G1: 4.5±0.19–4.5±0.13 g/dL; G2: 4.6±0.28–4.3±0.13 g/dL), and albumin:globulin (CRL: 1.8±0.30–1.8±0.28; G1: 1.9±0.30–2.0±0.31; G2: 1.8±0.34–1.8±0.34). Each of these variables remained within the clinical reference ranges.
Conclusions: The PWS appears to be safe for heart, liver, and kidney function in both one-serving and two-serving doses when consumed daily for 28 days. Despite the changes observed for select variables, no variable reached clinical significance.
Keywords: caffeine; hematology; toxicity; nitrates; sports supplement
(Published: 16 June 2015)
Citation: Food & Nutrition Research 2015, 59: 27470 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/fnr.v59.27470
Authors retain copyright of their work, with first publication rights granted to SNF Swedish Nutrition Foundation. Read the full Copyright- and Licensing Statement.
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Swine Virus More Directly Lethal than Seasonal Flu, Says Scientist
PARIS ~ People who die after getting swine flu are 100 times more likely, compared to seasonal flu, to have been killed by the virus itself rather than secondary causes, a top French researcher said this week.
The findings – published on a research-sharing platform, PLoS Currents: Influenza, vetted by flu experts – could help health officials manage critical care resources if infection rates climb in the autumn and winter.
It could also provide important clues as to the new swine flu’s potential virulence, said author Antoine Flahault, a leading epidemiologist and director of France’s School for Advanced Studies in Public Health.
“The direct lethality due to viral pneumonia probably gives the best estimate of an influenza strain’s virulence, since it may vary from strain to strain and is not due to a country’s level of health development,” he said.
With regular seasonal flu, which claims up to 500,000 lives each year worldwide, most deaths are attributed either to secondary bacterial infections such as pneumonia, or pre-existing chronic conditions that boost vulnerability.
Only about one-in-a-million infections result in death due to a rare condition known as acute respiratory disease syndrome (ARDS).
“ARDS is frighteningly lethal – it is like drowning,” Flahault said. The condition requires intensive-care treatment for an average of thee weeks. “Statistically, only one in two patients survive.”
Both seasonal influenza and the new A(H1N1) virus that has swept the globe since May appear to have roughly the same mortality rate of one-to-five per 1,000 infections, though figures for the swine flu remain very sketchy.
Experts also caution that the pandemic flu could become more lethal as it continues to mutate.
But preliminary analysis of infection and mortality statistics from the French territory of New Caledonia and the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius suggest that the new A(H1N1) virus directly caused an ARDS fatality for every 10,000 cases, Flahault said.
In New Caledonia, local health authorities have reported 30,000 infections and two deaths attributed directly to the pandemic virus.
Flahault said that some 70,000 persons have been infected in Mauritius, with seven reported deaths from ARDS, five of them confirmed.
“These surveillance data allow for a first estimate of direct lethality due to H1N1 of one-per-10,000 infections, about 100 times more than regular seasonal flu,” he said.
Flahault cautioned that these are only “preliminary and rough estimates,” and acknowledged that his findings – based on a limited number of cases on two isolated islands – may not extend to much larger, continental countries.
“But we have a terrible lack of data,” he said.
“It may be useful to deliver such estimates … as early as possible so health authorities can check availability of intensive care units and artificial ventilation devices in case of a wave of similar virulence this fall in the northern hemisphere,” he said.Filed under: Health
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Cut them as you normally would for cooking, a good idea is to run a potato peeler down the sides of the freshly picked pods as if they are even very slightly stringy they will seem worse after freezing..
Spread them out on a clean tea towel.
Fold in the sides and roll them up.
Place them in the freezer for 12 hours.
Take them out of the freezer, move them around with your fingers to ensure they are separate.
Roll them up again and put them in the freezer for 48 hours.
Take them out of the freezer and put them in the portion sizes you would normally eat and put these into either a freezer box with freezer paper between the portions, or put each portion into a plastic freezer bag.
Return them to the freezer.
When you are preparing them for cooking, bring slightly salted water to the boil and put the frozen beans straight into the water – don’t allow them to thaw.
This is called dry freezing and the runner beans will taste as though you have just picked them
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Restless Leg Syndrome can produce an unpleasant and agonizing life. Nevertheless, with correct treatment Restless Leg Syndrome does not have to rule your life. Continue reading to discover the causes and symptoms, along with management procedures for restless leg syndrome.
Those who have restless leg syndrome, also called RLS, discover that their legs feel as though they can never sit still. This is especially true when in a sitting position or when lying down. Considering that the individual can usually not be still, this is likewise considered a sleep condition, as it can disrupt sleep. Those who have RLS can establish this at any age and as an individual ages, they generally discover that the RLS becomes worse. Those who handle this day in and day out commonly find that they are drowsy throughout the day which they have problems with traveling. Fortunately is that there are numerous methods which an individual can assist to make sure that RLS is not managing their lives.
Symptoms of Restless Leg Syndrome
Those who have restless leg syndrome often find that they experience awkward sensations in their legs. These feelings are normally referred to as pins and needles, a scratchy feel or even as though something is crawling up their legs. When an individual is resting, is when these symptoms are even worse, hence the name of the syndrome. Those who do have these symptoms can have a moderate or severe case, it really depends upon the individual. Those who have severe symptoms are commonly pestered with sleep conditions as well, as their legs keep them awake throughout the night, or simply does not enable the individual to get comfortable enough to actually sleep.
What Causes Restless Leg Syndrome?
It is estimated that around 10 % of the United States population experiences restless leg syndrome. More women than men are influenced, nevertheless, it can influence anyone, at any age. Though, older adults are typically more prone to this. The good news is that once RLS is diagnosed, it can be treated with success. The causes for RLS can vary.
- One of the most typical causes is hereditary. Those who have moms and dads who have this are at an increased chance of having this themselves.
- Women who are pregnant can establish RLS, which is most typically seen in the last trimester. Nevertheless, most women after giving birth discover that the RLS is no more a problem.
- There are a couple of medical conditions that can be accompanied by RLS or make RLS worse. For example, iron shortage can make RLS even worse or be the cause of RLS. While, peripheral neuropathy and kidney failure can also be the reason for RLS.
Can Restless Leg Syndrome Be Diagnosed?
There is no set test that is used to identify RLS, thus diagnosis can take a couple of journeys to the doctor. However, medical professionals will eliminate other reasons for these symptoms with blood tests. Most doctors diagnose a patient based on the symptoms they are experiencing and their household history. Medical professionals likewise look at medications to make sure that this is not the result of something that a person may be taking. When being diagnosed with this, it can take several other tests to eliminate other concerns, while the doctor thinks about all the symptoms that an individual is feeling.
How to Treat Restless Leg Syndrome
There are several ways in which RLS can be treated. Lots of people discover that they can use home remedies to treat this on their own and suffer less from restless leg syndrome. While others find that they have to go to their doctor to obtain prescription medications.
- Adopting great sleep routines such as getting a set variety of hours of sleep each night and preventing any kind of stimulants such as chocolate, sugar or coffee.
- Having the right exercise regimen throughout the day that is not overworking the leg muscles and is not too late in the day, given that either can make symptoms even worse.
- Taking over the counter pain relief in order to help with the twitching and pain related to RLS. Things such as Ibuprofen which can assist to decrease the sensitivity that the individual may be feeling are handy.
- Making use of warm and cool packs and rotating these for the very best impact.
- Learning to unwind the body through using meditation or yoga as stress has been shown making RLS worse in numerous patients. Knowing the best ways to unwind the muscles with a warm bath and/or massage.
- Eliminating or cutting down on alcohol use, as this has been revealed to increase the symptoms of RLS. Not smoking as this can influence how bad the syndrome actually is.
- Taking a good multivitamin can assist to ensure that the RLS is not caused by vitamin deficiencies in the body.
- Avoid sitting in the very same position for too long as this can make the symptoms even worse.
Natural Treatments for Restless Leg Syndrome Video (dr.Axe)
There are likewise medications that can be taken, which is what an individual has to do if they find that changing their lifestyle has not assisted. The medications which can be help are listed below:
- Iron supplements can be taken if it is found the person has low iron which might be causing the RLS.
- Dopaminergic drugs which work on the dopamine neurotransmitters in the brain. Such drugs would be Mirapex, Neupro and Requip, all which have actually been authorized by the FDA to utilize in RLS patients.
- Benzodiazepines are likewise offered to those with RLS who are having problem with sleep.
- Pain relievers are given to those who are having intense pain connected with RLS.
- Anti-seizure drugs, known as anticonvulsants, are given to aid with the tremors that a person might feel in the legs. Common types of these drugs are Tegretol, Nuerontin, Lyrica and Horizant.
It is necessary to note that not every medication is going to assist an RLS patient. In reality, what assists a single person may not do anything for someone else who has the same issues. Medical treatment is commonly a trial and error procedure to find which drugs will assist to decrease the symptoms and help the person to sleep.
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Underwriting Factors: Life Insurance(redirected from Life Insurance Underwriting Factor)
Underwriting Factors: Life Insurance
The factors that a provider of life insurance considers before issuing a policy and determining how much the premium should be. Underwriting factors in life insurance are used to estimate how likely a potential policyholder is to die before issuing the policy becomes profitable for the insurer. Factors include age, gender, whether or not the potential policyholder smokes, and so forth. See also: Underwriting Factors: Health Insurance.
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One week before Allen Williams began his undergraduate career, Michael Brown—an unarmed, Black teenager—was fatally shot by a police officer in Williams’ hometown of Ferguson. The riots and protests that ensued after Brown’s death shaped Williams’ experiences at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He became involved with the African American Student Union and focused on social justice issues.
During that time, Williams, a first-generation college student, realized he wanted to pursue a career in higher education to better understand the impact of equitable leadership and mentorship on college students. He wondered: “How do we commit to creating equity-minded leadership at all levels of higher education?”
He completed his master’s degree in higher education management at the University of Pittsburgh. Shortly thereafter, he found the perfect position as a program coordinator and coach in UB’s Intercultural and Diversity Center (IDC), where he contributes to its mission of celebrating cultures and identities, providing cross-cultural educational opportunities and advocating for social justice.
Williams considered this role to be a period of exploration, allowing him to focus on the areas most important to him: developing programs and events that foster equity and inclusion for students on college campuses. “We embrace culture and traditions through food, music, arts and crafts … It’s an explosion of culture, connections and community,” he said.
Working in the IDC reaffirmed his interest in confronting the social justice issues facing college students. “I think about the progress we’ve made in some areas but also about the queer folks, trans folks of color and undocumented students—and the big issues and challenges that they still face,” he explained. “How do we continue to push forward to think about folks in the margins?”
Grappling with these questions gave him the momentum to enroll in GSE’s higher education PhD program.
A standout moment: his doctoral seminar course with Margaret Sallee, associate professor of educational leadership and policy. “It was an opportunity to reckon with what higher education currently is, but also to reimagine what it can be,” said Williams.
After his first year in the program, Williams remains committed to his goals. He hopes to establish more equitable infrastructures in higher education to increase the achievement outcomes of all students.
While he may not realize it, Williams is already achieving this objective through his work in the IDC. He recently helped expand the center’s hours to better serve students unable to visit during regular business hours. As a result, attendance has significantly increased.
What’s next for Williams? He will continue working to achieve equity and inclusion on college campuses, but the exact plan is not yet determined.
“I’m like Natasha Bedingfield,” he said. “The rest is still unwritten.”
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Ben Jonson is one of the great unknown geniuses of the English theater and of western literature. Ian Donaldson’s new biography of the playwright/poet successfully makes the case that he deserves to be better known.
By Bill Marx
The set-up has been far too neat: William Shakespeare is the man of mystery, while the hard-drinking, ornery satirist/classicist Ben Jonson, the second banana of Elizabethan theatrical genius, is conveniently easy to peg. The Bard contains multitudes; Jonson must be a one-trick wonder. The see-saw scenario guarantees one-dimensional evaluations of the latter’s plays and poetry. In his magisterial new biography, Ben Jonson: A Life (Oxford University Press), Ian Donaldson successfully argues that Jonson was a far more enigmatic, more protean personality than has been previously thought –- and that understanding the multiplicity of the conflicting roles that Jonson played sheds light on his neglected brilliance as a dramatist. Move over Shakespeare, Jonson is a fascinating cipher as well.
As a longtime lover of Jonson, especially his plays, this is welcome (and in some instances, even for me, surprising) news, worth reading not only by those interested in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, but those who care deeply about theater and literature. Jonson’s tragicomic view of the world as a stage of competing desires — the Big Bang of nascent Capitalism envisioned as the acceleration of unlimited hucksterism, a concatenation of swindles worked by carnivorous bullies large and small — has been an underground influence on English drama through the centuries. There are Jonsonian elements in the plays of the Restoration and George Bernard Shaw, in the struggles for alpha male bragging rights in the scripts of Harold Pinter, Peter Barnes, and David Mamet.
Jonson remains a peculiarly contemporary playwright. In his chapter ‘Money 1614-1617,’ Donaldson claims that the plays anticipate “the modern financial world of collapsing investment schemes, absconding financiers, and plummeting global markets.” He is right: few artists diagnose the grimy metaphysics of scam artistry as acutely or as hilariously.
Donaldson contributed an exclusive piece to The Arts Fuse about the weird characterization of Jonson in the Shakespeare conspiracy movie Anonymous. I emailed him with questions about how his approach to Jonson in the biography (which has received splendid reviews in England) illuminates our understanding of the author and his writing, as well as positing the $64,000 question — if Jonson’s plays are so great, why are they studied by scholars but rarely staged? Why no Royal Jonson Company?
Arts Fuse: After 400 years and a number of previous biographies, it would be too much to expect new revelations about Ben Jonson, but will readers familiar with Elizabethan period find out new things in Ben Jonson: A Life?
Ian Donaldson: I hope even those who know the period well will meet with a few surprises. I talk (for a start) about some recently discovered texts by and about Ben Jonson that came to light during the preparation of the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson, another venture with which I’ve been engaged with my friends Martin Butler and David Bevington while writing the biography.
Perhaps the most intriguing of these is a document recently found by my colleague James Loxley in the Cheshire and Chester archives: a diary kept by an as-yet unidentified, young man who accompanied Jonson on his long walk from London to Edinburgh in 1618, which records details of places and people encountered on the journey. Having lived myself for some years in Edinburgh, I’ve long been fascinated by Jonson’s expedition on foot to Scotland and back, that took him away from London for nearly a year at the height of his fame. I begin the Life with an account of this journey, drawing in part on the intriguing new document. Jonson has always been seen as a great Londoner, but he was eager also to explore other parts of the kingdom, an experience which (as I argue) had a profound effect on his later writings. A big man, 280 pounds in weight, he undertook this long walk partly—so I suggest—as a wager, having bet on his chances of successfully completing the journey.
There are other features of the Life that will be new, I think, to many readers: Jonson’s connections during the last years of Elizabeth’s reign with the Earl of Essex’s circle, for instance, and his deep involvement with members of the Catholic community in the years that followed. His association with these two networks hasn’t been closely studied before now, but I believe they helped in an important way to shape many of his life-long beliefs and friendships.
I argue too that his relationship with Shakespeare, his greatest contemporary, was more intimate, more mutually affectionate, more creatively significant to both men than we’ve been taught to think. This will perhaps come as a surprise to some.
AF: Early in the book you suggest that Jonson is like William Shakespeare, in the sense that he is “everywhere and nowhere” within his dramatic work. How does that change the way we read Jonson’s poetry or stage his plays?
Donaldson: Most people know how difficult it is to tell from Shakespeare’s work what kind of man he was. As Borges suggests in his marvelous fable, “Everything and Nothing,” Shakespeare may in some sense be expressed through all of his own dramatic characters, and yet in the end he’s none of them: like God, he’s everywhere present but nowhere to be found. It’s curious to find some readers of Ben Jonson’s work, on the other hand—even highly intelligent readers, such as the great Edmund Wilson—assuming that Jonson’s dramatic characters must reflect the author’s own personality more or less directly, and that his poems likewise offer a fairly transparent window on to the personal circumstances of his life.
“We have merely to put these pieces together,” wrote Wilson confidently of Jonson’s dramatic characters, “to get Jonson, with little left over.” I believe, on the other hand, that the characters of Jonson’s plays, along with his poetic self-portraits, are carefully constructed artefacts that don’t reveal his life in any simple way and usually don’t reveal it all. I’m something of a skeptic in these matters, distrustful of positivistic approaches such as Wilson’s, but intrigued none the less by the complex and often mysterious relationship between an author’s life and his creative work.
AF: You posit that Jonson inhibited a metaphorical “border country,” “the debatable land that lay between conformity and dissent.” How do you think questions of politics and survival shaped his volatile personality?
Donaldson: Jonson was a passionate man who held strong and dissenting views on many political issues. He was also however a pragmatist, aware that he lived in dangerous times and needed to develop strategies for survival. Though he served as the principal writer of masques and entertainments at the Stuart court and was often obliged to act as a propagandist for royal policies, he found himself also in constant trouble with the authorities. He was jailed after the staging of one of his early (now-lost) plays, The Isle of Dogs, and quizzed by Elizabeth’s chief torturer, Richard Topcliffe. He was brought more than once before the Privy Council to answer charges of slander, libel, and sedition. He was accused of “popish” tendencies in his writings. He’d converted to Catholicism in 1598 and kept close company with the Gunpowder conspirators on the eve of their would-be coup in 1605.
With his colleagues George Chapman and John Marston, he made reckless jokes about the Scots in a comedy called Eastward Ho! and infuriated James’s Scottish councilors. He and Chapman were promptly imprisoned and told their ears and noses would be cut. Jonson seems at times to have been an almost willfully outspoken man. He once told the eminent, French scholar, Cardinal Duperron, that his translation of the Aeneid was “naught.” It’s doubtful that Jonson could actually read French at this stage of his life, but he evidently thought this an insult worth offering.
Yet he also knew when to hold his tongue. He learnt to shake off spies, to parlay with his adversaries, to work with an uncongenial patron such as Robert Cecil. He remained close friends with radical members of the Mermaid Club while continuing to work at the troubled court of James and later of Charles.
There’s a wonderful contradiction about Ben Jonson the legendary lover of wine and conversation, the passionately opinionated talker, writing so gravely in his commonplace book about the need to cultivate the arts of silence. It’s suggestive of a larger contradiction between impulsiveness and restraint that was (I believe) very central to his character.
AF: As a moralist, Jonson asserted his “steadfastness and unity of purpose,” but you believe that the writer, “like his own creation Volpone, moved with the agility of a player from one role to the next.” Unlike Volpone, he sometimes seems to have taken roles that worked against his best interest. How adept a performer was Jonson?
Donaldson: He pretended of course that he wasn’t a performer at all, he was always simply “himself,” in some worthy, dependable, stoical, never-varying way.
Yet as his great comedies show, he must in some sense also have been dazzled by the quick-change artistry, the moral suppleness, of schemers and tricksters such as Brainworm and Face and Subtle, Mosca and Volpone and Voltore and Sir Paul Eitherside, who “change a visor swifter than a thought.”
There’s another more creditable sense, however, in which Jonson himself was a great performer. He was astonishingly versatile in his creative life. The closer you look at the range of his friendships, activities, and associations, at what he was actually doing in any one year or month or week of his working life, this versatility grows more and more apparent.
Jonson tried his hand at more kinds of writing than Shakespeare ever attempted and was more variously employed. He was a dominant figure in many different sectors of society: not just in London theatrical world but at Whitehall, the Inns of Court, in the City of London, in the Catholic community, amongst printers and booksellers. He was in regular touch with humanistic scholars and natural philosophers at Oxford, Cambridge, London, and in Continental Europe. Even at the height of his career, he continued to pay his dues to the Tylers and Bricklayers’ Guild and to devise entertainments for the livery companies. He received commissions from aristocratic patrons, prepared entertainments for them, lodged at their estates, tutored their children.
The sheer extent of his activities helps to explain why Jonson was so well known in Britain throughout his lifetime and the century following his death and why his fame at this time outstripped even that of his somewhat more focused friend, William Shakespeare.
AF: A good biography overturns stale assumptions. Jonson’s later years are usually seen as a period of creative exhaustion, the writer having fallen out of literary fashion and royal favor. What led you to question that narrative?
Donaldson: I learnt much from conversations with the late Edward Said during the final year or two of his life, as he was writing his own last book, Late Style—a book that (significantly) he never did quite finish, though the near-to-completed manuscript was later published. I was particularly taken by Said’s idea that a late style may sometimes be awkward, angular, even a bit irritable, not necessarily harmonious, composed, and forgiving.
That seems to fit with Jonson’s case. There’s an occasional tetchiness in Jonson’s late works, alongside an extraordinary readiness to try new forms of writing that he might have disdained in his youth.
He remained phenomenally busy throughout those final years and restlessly curious about the world. He wrote some wonderful late poems, such as the Cary/ Morison ode. He was less closely engaged with the theater, with which he’d always had at best an ambivalent relationship, but tried extraordinary experimental works such as The New Inn. He wrote some of his most ambitious and popular masques, such as The Gypsies Metamorphosed. He was eager to prove his worth as a scholar. He wrote about statecraft and theology and poetics, composed two English grammars, studied Welsh, translated Horace, tried his hand at an epic.
He talked with his friends at Christ Church and Gresham College about the latest astronomical discoveries, about mathematics and magnetism and burning glasses and submarine travel and the possibility of life on other planets. He kept a close eye on the political scene and watched with amusement and apprehension the birth of the modern newspaper industry. All of these interests are strongly evident in the works he wrote during these final years.
AF: At the end of the biography, you discuss how Jonson has lost public favor over the centuries. Why do you think modern audiences don’t take to
Jonson’s comedies? And in what ways do you see your biography as contributing to what you see as a turn in Jonson’s reputation?
Donaldson: They don’t take to Jonson’s comedies (or his tragedies either) because they’ve just not had a chance to see them. Some haven’t been performed for centuries and are read today only by scholars.
But look what happened over recent years in England, as the Royal Shakespeare Company began enterprisingly to bring some of these nearly forgotten plays—such as The New Inn, The Devil is an Ass, Sejanus—back into theatrical currency and to play the more familiar comedies such as Volpone and The Alchemist in repertoire with Shakespearian comedies at Stratford. These are marvelous plays: brilliantly plotted, deeply absorbing, highly playable on the modern stage. They delighted audiences and took them by surprise. Why didn’t we know these works already?
You asked me earlier about surprise. Jonson himself is really the big surprise that I hope both the Life and the new Edition will deliver to readers and theatergoers alike. He’s one of the great unknown geniuses of the English theater and of western literature. He deserves to be better known. There’s a lot of pleasure out there in his writings, waiting to be encountered. I hope the new Life will help readers to find it.
Ian Donaldson is Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. He has written many books on Jonson and is a General Editor, with David Bevington and Martin Butler, of the forthcoming seven-volume Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson. An eminent scholar, Donaldson is a Fellow of the British Academy and past president of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
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from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. any of several deciduous low-growing shrubs of the genus Fothergilla having showy brushlike spikes of white flowers in spring and fiery red and orange autumn color; grows from Alabama to the Allegheny Mountains
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Designed by architect Denys Lasdun in 1976, The Royal National Theatre is one of London’s most recognizable examples of brutalism.
Denys Lasdun's National Theatre – one of London's best-known and most divisive Brutalist buildings – is a layered concrete landscape that Prince Charles once described as being like "a nuclear power station".
Lasdun was appointed to the project in 1963. With no previous experience in theatre design, he persuaded the board of theatre directors, designers and technical experts to give him the job without a team alongside him but with the drama of a solo-performance.
Completed in 1976, the Royal National Theatre stands on the South Bank of the Thames, just downstream of Waterloo bridge. It is formed from two fly towers rising from layered horizontal terraces that wrap around the building, cascading to the river level.
The complex consists of three main theaters: the open-stage theater, the largest amphitheater; a smaller Proscenium theater, and a third small studio theater. These concert halls exist alongside multiple interior spaces: a learning center, restaurants, a riverside bar, and a bookshop among others, that merge with sprawling terraces and maze-like passageways to create a city-like layout. On the riverside, the main public area is created through interconnected foyers that sit in an L-shape around the two larger theaters.
"The National Theatre is one of the last great buildings of the age of public sector architecture," said architectural historian Kester Ratterbury, "of a really ambitious public facility which sought to be itself, not a poor copy of commercial work."
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In early January 2014, Governor Paul LePage signed into law LD 718 - An Act To Protect Maine Food Consumers' Right To Know about Genetically Engineered Food.
The law is the result of decades of organizing, research, citizen lobbying and all-around collaboration among people from all walks of Maine life. In fact, this was the fifth of MOFGA's campaigns to require labeling of foods produced from genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Maine is the second state in the country to adopt labeling requirements for foods derived from GMO crops and animals. Connecticut adopted the first law in June 2013. Connecticut and Maine's legislation both require four neighboring states to pass similar legislation before the laws take effect.
So, what's happening in the neighboring states?
- Massachusetts - The Massachusetts Legislature is considering a mandatory labeling bill. MA Right To Know GMOs is the campaign organizer.
- New Hampshire - Narrowly missed passage of a GMO labeling bill in 2014. Preparing for the next legislative session. NOFA - New Hampshire is the campaign organizer.
- New Jersey - The New Jersey Legislature is considering a mandatory labeling bill. Right To Know GMOs NJ is the campaign organizer.
- New York - The New York Legislature is considering a mandatory labeling. GMO Free NY is the campaign organizer.
- Rhode Island - The Rhode Island Legislature has held a labeling bill for further study. Right To Know GMOs Rhode Island is the campaign organizer.
- Vermont - The Vermont Senate and House have both voted separately and overwhelmingly in support of GMO labeling. The two legislative chambers are working out differences in their versions of the bill, and hope to send a finalized bill to the governor for signing soon. Vermont's bill has no requirement for neighboring states to pass similar legislation, which would mean that Vermont would become the first state to require labeling of GMO foods - tentatively scheduled to take effect in July 2016. Vermont Right To Know GMOs is the campaign organizer.
Efforts to establish mandatory labeling of GMO foods are under way across the country. Food Democracy Now is a wonderful and comprehensive resource for staying abreast of state and federal campaigns.
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Why Dental Implants Are the Treatment of Selection For Tooth Replacement
Added: (Mon Dec 09 2013)
Dental implants have become the therapy of selection for many clients that need restorative therapies to repair or replace decomposing or lost teeth. There are a number of reasons for the change in approach by the majority of dental and gum professionals towards using dental implants as a more beneficial option than crowns or bridges, as was often performed in the past. They provide a long-term option to tooth reconstruction and repair that prevent many of the troubles sometimes experienced with various other corrective dental methods.
One of the main reasons that dental implants have actually become the preferred option for tooth restoration is because of their durability and life expectancy. Most will last a lifetime, whereas bring back a tooth with a bridge is a procedure that frequently has to be repeated after a particular time frame. Bridges are not long-term options when restorative therapies are needed. This is mainly due to the truth that they are more likely to break and decay can build up under the bridge or crown, causing added dental or gum problems. An additional trouble with bridges is that if a tooth adjacent to the originally replaced tooth encounters a trouble down the road, the bridge or crowns typically need to be replaced. Our information is gathered from More hints.
Dental implants give clients the opportunity to change a lost or decaying tooth with an additional that looks just like their real tooth. When a dental implant is made use of, the tooth that is affixed to the implant feels and look like a genuine tooth. Since the tooth is not linked to other teeth nearby, the tooth also functions like a genuine tooth and can be taken care of in the same way that a natural tooth should be taken care of. They do not require the extensive maintenance and cleaning regimen that bridges need in order to keep the underlying gums and bone healthy.
Another perk to going with dental implants is that no work has to be done to the surrounding teeth, as holds true when a client has a bridge put in. The implant affects the actual tooth that needs restoration just and does not count on the nearby teeth for any type of strength or security. This suggests that the nearby teeth do not have to be ground down and to have crowns put over them. Instead, they can be left alone.
Since the cleaning routine for those with dental implants is more simplified than those with bridges, selecting dental implants often means that the client experiences fewer future troubles with gum or underlying bone loss. Bridges need that the patient floss well and clean effectively both under the bridge as well as in between the supporting crowns on either side of the replaced tooth. Failure to do so effectively can lead to issues with the teeth, gums and bone.
Whether a patient have to have simply one or a collection of teeth replaced, the best solution in many cases are dental implants. Plano, Texas dental practitioner, Darren Dickson, DDS explains that even those who require a complete or partial denture can utilize dental implants to affix the dentures permanently in the mouth, instead of having a detachable device which many people are awkward with and can bring about its own set of problems. Dr. Dickson says increasingly more clients are choosing to make use of dental implants as an option to their dental restoration troubles as opposed to older, more conventional methods since the choice provides more benefits for the patient.
One issue of some clients is the expense of dental implants. They at first cost about thirty percent more than a bridge, however the distinction in expense is rather misleading due to the truth that dental implants are a long-term solution that will not need to be changed in the future and bridges should be changed regularly and generally just have a life expectancy of around 10 years. During time, patients likewise end up making trips to the dental expert for different issues that can possibly emerge due to a bridge which will not occur with dental implants. Some insurance business will cover the cost or partial cost of dental implants.
Not every client is a candidate for dental implants. Aspects such as the health of the underlying bone, the proximity of the tooth to the sinus cavity, the wellness of the gums, along with other factors need to be thought about prior to a client can be cleared for the use of dental implants by a periodontist or dental expert. Dr. Dickson, explains nevertheless, that for those clients who fulfill the criteria for successful dental implants, the treatment must be the treatment of option due to the advantages it provides over even more traditional dental treatments. To find out additional info check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFlJvuzepDg.Submitted by:Orlando Josef
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And Indian State Calls It As ‘Peace'
By Khalid Wasim Hassan
25 March, 2012
There have been many attempts by the Indian State to propagate the short periods of calmness as ‘peace' and ‘normalcy' in Kashmir . Now the year 2011 is being called as the “peaceful” year and the Indian State has already started selling this assumption at the ‘national' and ‘international' forums and media houses. The basis for this argument about ‘peace' and ‘normalcy' in my opinion is three-fold - decline in the levels of ‘ violence' in the valley, increase in the level of participation of people in electoral process and their engagement in the activities of sports and recreational activities.
As far as levels of violence is concerned, it has decreased, if one agrees with the Statist definition of violence in terms of attacks by armed groups on security forces, incidents of blasts and firing and the number of deaths of civilian population. But the definition of violence from people's perspective varies from that of State. The violence which people in Kashmir face on daily basis continued even in 2011. The stories of illegal detention, torture and custodial deaths were still alive in Kashmir valley. The pro self-determination leaders and the young generation supporting the movement have been arrested under Public Safety Acts in 2011 too. Even the members of the Bar Association were seen as threat to the ‘security' and put behind the bars. For last two decades the major threat to the local population is from the Impunity which the Indian armed forces enjoy in Kashmir under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) where in anyone can be picked-up, tortured or killed on the basis of mere suspicion, thus becoming the sufferer of violence . The ‘peaceful' year 2011 continued to have enforcement of this draconian law, which according to senior officials of Indian army is biblical word for them.
In search of his legitimacy, Chief Minister is trying to convince the people that he is trying to get away with this law in certain areas of the valley, but he cannot push too hard against his Bosses in New Delhi or against the armed forces who have been real Bosses for last two decades. History is witness that the appointments of his grandfather as well as father as Chief Minister were cancelled by the Bosses in Delhi once they tried cross the subscribed line.
The cases of enforced disappearances did not get any justice and the fake encounters by security forces were still a phenomenon in 2011 Kashmir (Mentally challenged person from Hindu community in Jammu became one of the victims of fake encounter in 2011). Noteworthy to mention here is that it was in 2011 only that the State Human Rights Commission gave authenticity to the findings of JKCS about 2730 bodies in unmarked graves, out of which 574 bodies have been already identified as local villagers. The Indian national media was busy in covering the fast of self acclaimed Gandhian -Anna Hazare, while giving Nelson eye to the Mass graves in Kashmir No doubt the number of people who were either part of armed struggle, sympathizers or just civilians killed by Indian armed forces were relatively less than last three years but those who were killed in past have become part of the public memory as martyrs. All these forms of violence – impunity to armed forces, enforced disappearances, fake encounters and mass graves have become part of the discourse of self-determination movement. To read less number of militant acts or no major incidents as arrival of peace in the valley is immature and this assumption has been proved wrong many times. Before any claims for the return of ‘peace', one needs to look at t he history of Kashmir politics and ponder why a small incident can turn into mass movement.
Secondly the electoral process has been made a measurement of the peace in Kashmir . The logic of the State goes like this: people participated in the elections, where they voted for the Government (hence for India ), which means they are against the movement of self-determination. So the participation of people in the Panchayati elections in 2011 has been added by the Indian state to the menu of ‘peace'. But can one signify the hi gh participation in elections cannot as a waning away of the movement of self-determination or return of peace as claimed by Indian State . In the recent past there was relatively high voter turn-out for State Assembly election in November/December 2008 in the Valley, which in fact, occurred against the backdrop of massive demonstrations for the right of self-determination during the Amaranath land row and an election boycott called by many pro self-determination groups. The hypothesis of ‘peace' and “participation of election as a vote for India ” at that time was proven null and void in 2009 and 2010 when people were again on streets reverberating slogans of Azaadi. As far as the participation in elections and high vote turn-out is concerned , the population in Kashmir valley has discovered that it can pursue its short-term economic objectives by participating in the official state-sponsored electoral process while continuing to express its long-term demands for A zadi outside the institutional political framework. Many voters while participating in elections claimed that our vote is to have daily needs for bijli (electricity), pani (water), and sadak (roads) addressed, and not in affirmation of Indian control over the Valley. We continue to support the movement for Azadi , was the response of the voters in post 2008 elections in an interaction with me during a fieldwork in the valley. This dynamics is the strategic compartmentalization by Kashmiri people of their short-terms interests into daily issues of management and governance, differentiating it from their long-term goal of self-determination. The Panchayati-raj election (2011) as a symbol of ‘peace' needs also to be looked in this perspective. Still the i ssues of sovereignty, right to self-determination and human rights violations continue to simmer beneath the surface of const itutional politics in Kashmir .
One more scene added to the picture of ‘peaceful' year of 2011 by the State is the engagement of young generation in sports and other recreational activities. The year of 2011 did see the various sports tournaments being organized by the State authorities. There has been renovation of some sports grounds even in the localities which a year back were termed as ‘sensitive', ‘dangerous' and ‘hubs of stonepetlers'. Even in the winter session football tournaments and other sports activities are being organized. No doubt the young generation – the Children of Tahreek (term used by Sanjay Kak for the youth born and brought-up in last two decades) have showcased their talent in these tournaments. One cannot but appreciate the talent of these young boys and girls who in amidst of turmoil around them are being able to compete with ‘others'. But this participation of Children in the sports activities has been added to the picture of ‘peaceful' year of 2011 by the State Government. If one looks at two decades closely, the sports activities were never stopped in the valley in real terms....the young generation continued to play cricket and football in small Kochas (lanes) if not in big stadiums. Even the cricket and football tournaments were being organized in remembrance of the Martyrs' in different localities. It is noteworthy that the many such sports events and even tours outside Kashmir for children are being organized by the Indian armed forces – either in the name of goodwill these forces are in search of legitimacy or are equally like State government trying to Indian-ize the local population. One needs to understand the politics of this benign face of the state - how in the name of ‘peace' and ‘normalcy' these sports activities are being pushed to divert the attention of the people from the real issues. In order to prevent revolution to happen and maintain status-quo the rulers of the day endeavour every possible strategy. One of the ways is to de-politicize the population by distracting them with entertainment and personal pleasures (sometimes by design of thosein power) that they no longer value the civic virtues and bow to civil authority with unquestioned obedience. In order to maintain the position of their Masters from Delhi and their own position, they try to avoid the basic demand of self-determination of the people. The cultural, sports and recreational activities are sponsored and given priority over the other burning issues like de-militarization, fake encounters and disappearances.
The end of violence, electoral process and recreational activities in valley has been projected as the indicators of ‘peace'. There is a deliberate attempt of portrayal of movement for Azadi opposite to that of ‘peace'. The ‘peace' defined by the Indian State is not the same as aspired by the people in Kashmir . The short periods of calmness cannot be regarded equivalent to the peace. Denial of the basic human rights – right to life and right to self-determination is itself amounts to violence. Unless this structural violence which amounts to denial of basic human rights and aspirations of Kashmiri people is addressed, how can one see the return of peace and normalcy in Kashmir .
Khalid Wasim completed PhD thesis recently from Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore.The thesis worked on the relgio-cultural dimension of Kashmiri self-determination movement, where it looks at various debates within the post1989 movement in Kashmir email@example.com
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A slump in global demand and the economic impact of a territorial dispute with China may have pushed the Japanese economy into recession, reports Reuters, based on a survey of 25 economists.
The downward forecast revision was prompted by a host of weak economic indicators from the world's third largest economy.
Japanese GDP shrank by 0.9 percent in the quarter to September. The polls suggest that the economy may contract by 0.1 percent in the next quarter.
Two straight quarters of economic contraction is commonly considered as an indicator of recession.
But the analysts surveyed added that the economy may pick up with 0.4 percent growth in the first quarter of the next year, as the global economy rebounds.
"We expect the economy will escape from a 'technical recession' and will pick up in January-March next year helped by economic recovery in the United States and China," Kyohei Morita, chief economist at Barclays Securities Japan told Reuters.
The slowing global economy and the rejection of Japanese goods in China impacted the country's export-reliant economy. Official data showed that shipments fell 5 percent from July to September.
Earlier, a report issued by analysts at Nomura Research in Tokyo said that Japanese exports may not show a significant revival before the end of 2012, so the economy could drop further in the final quarter of the fiscal year.
"We project a return to growth in 2013 Q1, however, as inventory adjustments end in China and exports pick up to China and other parts of Asia," they said, in line with the Reuters poll findings.
Japan has also been hit by a political impasse in implementing economic reform. The country is set to hold elections in December, which are likely to see the current opposition Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) coming to power.
The weak indicators and stubborn deflation have increased the pressure on the Bank of Japan to introduce further monetary easing measures. The central bank increased its asset purchase plan by 11 trillion yen in October.
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Drought in Thailand:
Low dam levels, El Nino phenomenon indicate water shortages: scientist.
Thailand might deal with a severe dry spell next year due to the El Nino weather condition phenomenon, a leading meteorologist has actually alerted.
In another stressing indicator, experts have actually cautioned that the present volume of water reserves in the significant dams is insufficient to satisfy need this year.
Maytee Mahayosananta, director of the Meteorological Department’s Central Weather Forecast Division, stated after he studied a number of weather report models, he found that the El Nino phenomenon would start in Thailand this year.
As an outcome, Maytee stated Thailand would not have sufficient water this year and next year as the sensation decreased rainfall.
“The volume of water this year will be less than that in 2013,” he stated.
According to the Royal Irrigation Department, the volume of water reserves in two major dams, Bhumibol and Sirikit, was only 21 per cent or about 3,893 million cubic metres.
This quantity of water will be used in the Chao Phraya river basin.
The department found that the quantity of water reserves in the two dams has actually drastically decreased and will not suffice for human use and to preserve ecosystems.
Thongplew Kongjun, director of the Department’s Office of Water Management and Hydrology, has urged members of the general public and farmers to be conservative in using water.
He said that the department this year anticipated to make use of 5.3 billion cubic metres of water from 3 major dams during the dry season however the water reserves it had actually used surpassed the plan by 600 million cubic metres.
Rains to arrive late
In addition, the department expects the rainy season to begin later on this year than typical in mid-May, which implies Thailand will not have water reserves this year and next year.
“Hopefully, farmers will not start growing their rice farms during this season. If they do not, then we will have sufficient water,” Thongplew added.
Suwattana Jitraladakorn, chairman of the Engineering Institute of Thailand’s water resources engineering sub-panel, said the quantity of water in the Chao Phraya River this year was lower than regular.
Because the authorities had released a big volume of water in 2012, he stated that water reserves in significant dams were low.
He found that the overall number of rice farms this year had grown over 200 per cent.
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute director Royol Chitradon said there was some rainfall in the upper locations of the Bhumibol and Sirikit dams, and that was why there were small quantities of water reserves in the dams.
“We discovered that the level of water reserves in these 2 dams was the least expensive in 10 years,” he said.
According to the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, about 38 provinces across the country have actually been proclaimed dry spell zones.
In a proposal to fix drought in Thailand troubles in the long term, National Water and Flood Management secretary basic Suphot Tovichakchaikul stated all abandoned water resources must be recuperated and have their capacity improved.
The use of water must be matched by demand and supply in cities, he stated. He said he was preparing a Bt2-trillion mega job to connect all water resources and disperse water straight to farmers.
Under this job, the water from the Mekong River will be diverted to the Kingdom during the rain period.
“This project will be suggested to the new government,” he stated.
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* Website note: Commander Rodger Winn was Commander of the Submarine Tracking Room in the Admiralty's underground Citadel, the Operational Intelligence Centre. His wrong assessment of the incoming naval ULTRA messages persuaded him, quite reasonably, to deduce that the battleship Tirpitz had sailed to attack the convoy, and on the evening of July 4, 1942 the Admiralty issued the fateful order to Captain Broome to scatter Convoy PQ.17's merchant ships and escorts. Disaster followed. Admiral Sir Norman Denning, director of Naval Intelligence, knew of this background, but he rightly declined to reveal it to Mr Irving at an interview. "The chap you've got to see is Winn," he said. "He knows, but it is for him to tell you." Winn declined to be interviewed. In retrospect it seems plain that the Admiralty had instructed him to refuse. The ULTRA secret was kept until 1974. Years later, the ULTRA signals were put in the public domain, and the full story came out -- too late.
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Gambling online can have many negative effects on your health. In this article, we discuss the the big easy slot demo COVID-19 pandemic and the Regulation of online gambling and the most common kinds of online gambling. In addition, we’ll talk about the regulation of online gambling and its effects on public health. Let’s get started. Before you start playing, be sure to understand how gambling online affects your finances. You’ll also discover the effects of gambling addiction. Don’t forget the many exciting ways you can make money.
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The COVID-19 pandemic impacted a variety of industries and social behavior. Numerous gambling establishments that were commercially owned were forced to close, however, online gambling sites continued to operate. Although the pandemic affected the offline gambling industry, it may have had a profound effect on online gambling, too. Here are some reasons it affected gambling online and online generally. Below are a few of the most significant effects of COVID-19 on online gambling.
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the problem of gambling and gambling in Canada. Researchers conducted a survey of participants in the AGRI National Project six months before the pandemic and then again during the lockdown. While both quantitative and qualitative results showed a decrease in gambling behavior, both kinds of data failed to be in line with the participants’ perceptions of the changes. The findings point to the impact of gambling online than a single study could conclude.
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These surveys use an approach that is mixed to determine whether gambling impacts overall well-being. They’re not reliable. Since online gambling is more common and more prevalent, there is a significant selection bias. There are also other causes of harm from gambling like stress, but these are less likely to impact the results of a survey. There are ways to reduce the harm online gambling can cause to your health.
The two most popular types of online gambling are poker and casino games. According to an Frost & Sullivan study in 1998, online gambling generated $830 million in revenue. As casinos on the internet began to pop up, these games became more popular too. Multiplayer gaming was also introduced by the government in 1998. In the U. S., over 10 percent of adults played casino games at least once a month. However, there is still plenty of legal controversies surrounding these online gambling options.
Gambling online is becoming more popular. This means that accurate information is becoming increasingly crucial. Different sources offer insight into the industry and the latest releases and innovative solutions. These sources can be classified into three broad categories.
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Human exploration of Mars dates back to the beginning of the space age. Our first machine emissariesbuzzed the Red Planet in the 1960s, and the first landers touched down in the next decade. The latest visitors have been rovers and orbiters.
Mars missions, on the ground and overhead, have given us an increasingly detailed understanding of Mars as it is now and how it might have looked earlier in its history. But if we’re to put humans on Mars by the 2030s (or earlier), the next batch of Mars machines need to be more varied in design and capability. Here are a few big ideas in development.
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Later this year, NASA will drop a prototype aircraft from an altitude of 100,000 feet where the cold, thin air is a reasonable approximation of the Martian atmosphere. If this and subsequent tests are successful – it may be the first flying machine on Mars.
Called the Preliminary Research Aerodynamic Design to Land on Mars (Prandtl-m), NASA’s concept sketches for its final design make it look like a futuristic boomerang. But Prandtl-m’s flying wing shape is probably its least intriguing feature.
More interesting? The one-pound, 24-inch glider will stow away in the aeroshell of a future rover mission carefully folded into a small rectangular container. Towards the end of the aeroshell’s decent, at about 2,000 feet, Prandtl-m’s container will separate, and the glider will unfold its wings for a 10-minute, 20-mile flight.
The glider’s lightweight design wouldn’t add much to the mission’s cost – but what exactly does NASA hope to gain by sending Prandtl-m to Mars?
According to NASA Armstrong chief scientist and program manager Al Bowers, “The Prandtl-m could overfly some of the proposed landing sites for a future astronaut mission and send back to Earth very detailed high resolution photographic map images that could tell scientists about the suitability of those landing sites.”
One Small Step…for a Humanoid Robot Called Valkyrie
NASA was among the teams at the Darpa Robotics Challenge Trials, and although its humanoid robot, Valkyrie, didn’t make the finals, the exercise planted another seed.
Robots that prove themselves effective in disaster scenarios may also be useful in other hostile environments – like, for example, deep space or on other planets.
And while having one team is well and good, opening a project to the research community and offering a prize? That may accelerate things considerably. So, naturally, NASA is launching a smaller sister contest to the DRC – for space robots.
The long-term goal? Developing humanoid robots, like Valkyrie, that are sufficiently advanced to operate in extreme environments like deep space and Mars.
NASA describes Valkyrie’s potential like this: “While developed specifically for disaster-response tasks, R5 [or Valkyrie] was also envisioned as part of a new category of robots for use in future NASA missions, either as a pre-cursor robot performing mission tasks before humans arrive, or as a human-assistive robot actively collaborating with the human crew.”
What might that look like in practice? We would send the gear we’ll need to survive on Mars ahead of a human mission – including one (or more) Valkyrie robots. The bots could handle some of the tools and components requiring installation. Perhaps they’d set up a garden in the hab and roll out the welcome mat. Once we arrive, they’d stay on as assistants.
If the DRC Finals taught us anything, it’s that humanoid robots haven’t reached that level of capability yet. But they probably aren’t decades out either. As NASA’s preparations for a manned mission to Mars begin in the mid- to late-2020s, humanoid robots are likely to be much more advanced than they are today.
And who knows, maybe the first footprint on Mars won’t be left by a human.
We Could Haul Habitats to Mars – Or Just 3D Print Them There
A number of projects are trying to 3D print large structures here on Earth – like, for example, a house, an office building, a bridge. Meanwhile, we just sent the first working 3D printer into space. Might we combine the two ideas?
To explore deep space and other planets, we’ll have to live off the land. A 3D printer sent to the moon or Mars could scoop lunar regolith or Martian soil, mix it up to form building materials, and print infrastructure for future astronauts.
The idea isn’t a new one, but it’s gained a little more steam in recent years.
NASA, for example, recently launched a $2.25 million competition (with America Makes) to figure out how to make 3D printed habitats for deep space exploration and a future human mission to Mars.
After an initial design contest – $50,000 in prizes to be awarded this September – competitors will participate in one of two challenges. The first seeks to develop the technology needed to make structures using local and recyclable materials. The second asks participants to turn such materials into life-size habitats.
To be sure, 3D printing large structures is no easy task.
We continue to experiment with 3D printed infrastructure here on Earth – but to date, it remains an emerging technology. And hostile environments on other planets pose serious challenges we don’t face here on Earth.
Mostly likely, the earliest use of 3D printers in space exploration will be smaller in scale—making tools and replacement parts. Indeed, 3D printing startup Made In Space has already made great progress in that direction. But as we 3D print on larger scales here on Earth, we’ll be able to apply that learning to build machines capable of operating elsewhere in the Solar System too.
Whatever the future holds – and no doubt other technological tools will emerge – as we move beyond pure research and contemplate human expeditions, you can bet robotics and automation will play a big role.
Jason dorrier – SingularityHub
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What number is 91 in Roman numerals?
Your question is: what is the number 91 in Roman numerals? Learn how to convert the normal number 91 into a correct translation of the Roman numeral.
The normal number 91 is identical to the Roman numeral XCI
XCI = 91
How to convert 91 to Roman numerals?
To convert the number 91 into Roman numerals, the translation involves dividing the number into place values (units, tens, hundreds, thousands), like this:
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How do you write 91 in Roman numerals?
To write the number 91 as Roman numerals correctly, combine the normal converted numbers. Higher numbers should always precede the lower numbers to provide you with the correct written translation, as shown in the table above.
90+1 = (XCI) = 91
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As soon as power supply designers know they need to comply with military standards, they typically need to take into account the transparency, or holdup requirement of the supply. Transparency requirement is the minimum amount of time during which input power can go away but the equipment is expected to remain operational. This power interruption duration can range from 50 to 1,000 ms, according to DO160 or Mil-Std 704 standards. The simplest way to achieve such a hold-up function, is to connect to the input bus a huge tank capacitor that will store energy during normal operation, and restore it during power interruption.
The necessary capacitance value is given by the following formula :
Total Capacitance= 2 x P x Δt / (η x (V12 – V22))
P = Power at the load
Δt = Hold Up time required
η = Converter efficiency
V1 = Charged capacitor voltage before power drop out
V2 = Final input voltage before power supply shut down
As an example, achieving 200-ms transparency on a 28-V input bus, a 25-W dc/dc converter with 9 to 36 V input voltage range requires a capacitor value as high as 25,000 μF / 50 V. Not only will this capacitor be very big, but it will also result in very high inrush current to charge it, unless some additional circuit comes into play to limit it. Figure 1 is an example of a typical holdup circuitry:
Fig. 1: Typical holdup circuit
Table 1 shows the drop out voltage V1 and V2 that account for different conditions of capacitor charge voltage. For example it shows the shut-down voltage value of the dc/dc converter for normal operation, emergency operation, and low transients on the input bus, before the power drops out – down to 9 V.
Table 1: The drop-out output voltage for different capacitor charge voltages
To help reduce size, inrush current and monitor the state of charge, an integrated high voltage module increases the voltage the hold-up capacitor is charged to, thus increases the stored energy for a given capacitance value. Said differently, for a given needed energy, increasing the voltage the hold-up cap is charged to, reduce the needed capacitor value, and consequently the capacitor size. This hold-up module, such as GAIA Converter's HUGD-50, embeds a charger that charges the hold-up cap to the max. voltage that dc/dc converter sustains.
In addition, the hold-up module features an active inrush current limitation and all necessary circuitry to manage automatically the interruptions, hold up mode switching and monitoring. Table 2 shows a typical example of a 25-W dc/dc converter power supply requiring 200-ms hold up time from a charged capacitor voltage before power drop out of 24 V: On top of significantly reducing the overall function size and inrush current, reducing capacitor value increases dramatically their reliability.
Table 2: Example of 25-W dc/dc converter that requires 200-ms hold-up time
As shown in Table 2, the higher the hold-up capacitor voltage, the smaller it can get for a given hold-up time. Exploiting this higher voltage principle together with ever wider input voltage ranges available with high end dc/dc converters will help reduce hold-up size even more dramatically.
Figure 2 shows the block diagram of the HUGD-300, which is not only 300-W rated but also able to deliver a user programmable 30 to 80 V voltage to the hold-up capacitor in order to multiply by almost 4 the stored energy for a given capacitance.
Fig. 2 HUGD-300 block diagram
In addition to the charger, switching and monitoring functions, it also features a reverse polarity function to help designer to comply with several standards such as Mil-STD-704, Mil-STD-1275. This complete set of functions permits to preserve the maximum hold-up capability voltage whatever the input bus level before drop out is. Table 3 shows the drop-out voltage V1 and V2 considering different conditions of capacitor charge voltage (such as in normal operation, emergency operation or low transient input bus) before power drop out down to 9 V, the shut-down voltage value of the dc/dc converter.
Table 3: The drop-out Voltage with different capacitor charge voltage
Table 4 shows a typical example of a 200-W dc/dc converter requiring 200-ms hold up time, using a 9 to 60-V input voltage range dc/dc, such as GAIA's 200-W series, from a charged capacitor voltage before power drops out from 16 V.
Table 4: Application requiring 200-ms hold-up time
For such high power applications, the amount of capacitor usually makes the holdup function not practical all together because of it's prohibitive size, inrush current, cost and reliability. With higher voltages and integrated switching holdup modules such as the HUGD-300 this now becomes feasible at just a fraction of all these critical parameters.
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said his poisoning shows that the Kremlin is increasingly worried about popular discontent, and the order to kill him must have come from Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with German magazine Der Spiegel published Thursday, Navalny, who is still in Germany but out of hospital, said the attempt to kill him came days after unrest erupted in Belarus following a contested election, which he said raised the stakes for the Russian president.
“The Kremlin realizes that it must take extreme measures to prevent a ‘Belarusian scenario,'” Navalny said, adding he believes that protests “in the Khabarovsk region against the Kremlin” have further increased pressure on Putin.
Asked how he could be sure that the order to have him assassinated originated with the Russian president, Navalny said only three people in Russia would have the authority to commission an attack with the nerve agent Novichok, all of whom are subordinate to Putin. “If it wasn’t him, then everything would be much worse. A cup of Novichok is enough to poison all passengers of a large Berlin subway station. If the access to the agent is not three people, but 30, then it’s a global threat. That would be terrible,” he said.
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Navalny said being poisoned was painless but he felt that he was dying. He said when he lost consciousness, he “knew” he was dead, but “only later it turned out I was wrong.”
“Not returning would mean that Putin had achieved his goal … and I am not afraid!” — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
Asked about German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to his hospital room in Berlin, Navalny said they “didn’t discuss anything secret or sensational,” but he was “impressed by how well she knows Russia and my case — some details she knows better than I do.”
According to Navalny, when he thanked her, Merkel said: “I only did what was my duty.”
Navalny also reiterated his conviction that his clothes — which he believes must have traces of the poison on them — have been intentionally kept by Russia to prevent them from being used as evidence in his case.
Despite everything that occurred, however, the outspoken Kremlin critic said he wants to return to Russia.
“Not returning would mean that Putin had achieved his goal … and I am not afraid! If my hands tremble, it is not from fear, but from this [poison],” he said, adding that he won’t give Putin the “gift of not returning.”
Instead, he vowed to continue his opposition work and do battle in “the conflict between those who stand up for freedom and those who want to drive us back into the past — into a strange orthodox imitation of the Soviet Union, garnished with capitalism and oligarchs.”
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The Serbian overclocker d0minat0r managed to score a record in the 3DMark03 discipline, the 16GB AMD Radeon VII graphics card rank. Using a water cooling system, the graphics adapter was overclocked to a frequency of 1424 MHz for the GPU (+1.71% of the base) and up to 1196 MHz (+ 19.60% of the base) for the HBM2 memory.
But it is worth noting that the main part of the work on winning first place was done by the Intel Core i9-10900K overclocked to 7000 MHz. Such is the peculiarity of the old processor-dependent benchmark 3DMark 2003. As a result of its bench session, d0minat0r achieved 314954 points:
The enthusiast’s test setup consisted of the following components:
- Motherboard – ASUS ROG Maximus XII Apex;
- Processor – Intel Core i9-10900K;
- OS – Windows 7.
And it looked like this:
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The medicinal use of oregano oil actually dates back to ancient Roman and Greek times, when the leaves were used for common ailments such as aching muscles and skin sores. McCormick Science Institute shares that Oregano has also been used in traditional medicines for such ailments as asthma, cramping, diarrhea, and indigestion. In Greece, an oregano infusion is still used as a folk remedy against colds and upset stomach and to maintain general health.
This versatile plant can be used for illnesses such as allergies, bronchitis, croup, rheumatoid arthritis, urinary tract infections and headaches. In addition oregano oil applied topically can help with dandruff, athletes foot, ringworm, toothaches, and varicose veins it can even be used as an insect repellent. The list of essential oil benefits are evidenced, as backed by the over 600 studies at Pubmed.
What’s in oregano oil?
The benefits of oregano oil are attributed to its properties as an anti-allergenic, antibacterial, antifungal, antioxidant, antiparasitic, antiviral and digestive compound.
Oil of oregano is very high in phenols that have wonderful antioxidant benefits. The two most prominent compounds are carvacrol and thymol which have anti-fungal and anti-bacterial properties. Pub Med has over 800 science based studies on the benefits of carvacrol, including its ability to reduce and reverse allergies, bacterial infections, candida, fungal infections, inflammation, parasites, tumors and viruses.
Common uses for oregano oil
Allergy Support-Oregano oil can provide a calming effect on individuals who are hypersensitive to seasonal and environmental factors.
Cold symptoms-Oregano oil can help ease breathing difficulties associated with a cold
Digestive help-Oregano oil helps to stimulate bile flow enhancing the process of digestion.
Immune system support-This study from the USDA shares the strength of oregano oil in defeating salmonella. Researchers at Georgetown Medical Center also share their belief that essential oils , with their long standing safety record would be useful in prevention and treatment of severe bacterial infections, especially those difficult to treat and those that are antibiotic resistant.
MRSA- Researchers found that the potent antibacterial properties of oregano oil could kill this hospital super-bug.
Sore muscles-The book, The Essential Guide to Essential Oils shares that a 50-50 mixture of oregano oil and a carrier oil, such as olive oil can help to relieve sore joints and muscles
Parasites– This study shares the promising results of oil of oregano supplementation to rid the body of parasites. In fact, it was even more effective than Tinidazol, commonly prescribed for parasite infections caused by amoeba giardia.
Respiratory infections-According to this study, oregano oil also proved effective with respiratory infections brought on by Klebsiella pneumoniae.
Stress reducer-Carvaco, thymo and terpinene, just a few of the compounds in oregano oil reduce stress levels and promote well being
Yeast infections-Even those yeast infections that are resistant to Diflucan, respond well to treatment with oregano oil.
The benefits of antibiotic without the risk
It may be surprising to learn that that oregano oil may actually be superior to certain antibiotics. In fact the results of experiments showed that the oil was active against all of the clinical strains tested, with the most activity against E. coli.
E coli can cause intestinal inflectional infections with symptoms that include abdominal pain, diarrhea and fever. Severe cases can include bloody diarrhea, dehydration and kidney failure.
Where to get oil of oregano
Oil of oregano is available in many health food stores, online and through your health care practitioner. The Global Health Center has an oregano oil blend (Oregatrex), for internal use. It is organic, has an extra virgin olive oil base, and a minimum of 80% carvacrol. Its also blended with peppermint oil and capsaicin (the compound that gives peppers their heat) for added resistance to harmful organisms. NOTE: If you have issues with nightshades, I’d pass on this formula.
Its easy to get started with an organic oregano oil blend like Oregatrex. Simply shake the bottle, place 1-6 drops in a vegetarian capsule (included), and take at the beginning of your meal, 2-3 times daily or as recommended by your physician.
It includes 1 fluid oz. and includes 90-100 empty vegetarian capsules for easy serving.
Oil of oregano notes
Oil of oregano should only be taken under the supervision of your health practitioner. Your doctor will advise on the strength, dosage and time recommendations based on your overall health and whatever condition you are trying to resolve.
Discuss with your doctor if probiotics should also be taken with oregano oil.
If purchasing oregano oil, remember that when taken internally, oil of oregano does need to be diluted with water, or oil.
Due to it’s strength, oil of oregano should only be taken for short periods at a time….again this is where your health practitioner should be advising you.
Since oil of oregano is from the mint family, if you have allergies to mint, it is best to avoid this oil.
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Newspaper Page Text
ST. PAUL. Wim. & CHICAGO. IM
"ON GREAT WATERS."
crossed the harbor bar,
and mends afar,
""Mi the evening star.
With prayer of watchers left behind,
It sails before tho springing wind:
Strong is tbe bark, and God is kind.
O baby-souls, sent forth from Heaven,
To you the sea. is also given
A weary struggle to be striken!
Ye, too, have left the light of home
For warring winds and wavesto /oanx
Across a dreary waste of foam.
And what shall be the end for ye?
Dark shipwreck in the midmost seat
Or triumph to eternity'
Fear not for if ye brave the blast
With God's own colors at the mast.
The haven will toe sure at last
Arthui 8ilTi9ti,in, Good Wonla
THE "BOMBAY FIEND."
Diabolical Work of a native
India in 1858.
An Assassin Who II wilfested Uktug1
for tile Rlgrlifc Kxr of Knellslimeu
The Many Wild Theories Ad-
vancedCaught ut Last.
The faeries of crimes committed by
the &o-called "Whitechapel Fiend in
a district of London, is a plagiarism on
the work of the "bOmbay Fiend.1
only difference is that one killed only
mou, and Englishmen at that, and the
other kills only women, and women of
doubtful reputations. It was in 1858the
that tho Bombay fiend pursued his
bloody work, and during his career I
was a resident of that city and saw
most of his victims after death. A
all were English, and all of them army
or civil officers, and as the last mutter
ing^ of the mutiny had not yet been
stamped out, the British Government
took care to suppress the paiticulars
of this fiend's work as much as possi
ble. While a tLousand men were
quietly boai-ching for him the press
was forbidden to give him any notorie
ty, d,s it was believed the criminal was
a native, and to particularize would bo
to make a hero of him and induce
others to follow in his bloody footsteps.
The first murder occurred in March,
1858, and the victim was an English
Captain of infantry. He was leaving
a club house at ten o'clock at night,
and to reach the street he had to pass
between two stores by an alleyway
seven or eight feet wide and twenty
feet long. This way was lighted by a
People were coming and going every
tv, or three minutes, and it was a
public thoroughfare in which a woman
would have felt perfectly safe from vio
lence. Five minutes after the Captain
left the club house an alarm was raised
that he had been murdered. A score
of lis rushed out to find him dead in
the alleyway. He had been stabbed to
the heart, and his right ear had been
cut off. The body had not been de
spoiled, and the general verdict was
tnat it was a case of revenge. Thera
was a great stir over this, the first of
the series, and many natives were ar
i ested on suspicion. The British were
carrying things with a high hand then,
and some of the parties arrested were
tortured to extort a confession. It was
given out that one had confessed and
been executed, but this statement was
only to affect the native population.
Not one of the suspects had a word to
say to help clear up the mystery.
On the eleventh night after tho Cap
tain's murder a Lieutenant of dragoons
was found dead at the front door of the
bungalow of a friend on whom he was
about to oall. It was only twenty feet
from the gate to the steps, and th
path leading up was of sand. It Avas
only just after dark, with many people
moving about, and yet no one had been
alarmed. Th officer had not been
dead five minutes when found As in
the other case, he had been stabbed to
the heart and the right ear cut off and
carried away. This satisfied every
body that an assassin was abroad, and
the excitement was intense I was
the policy of tho Government to sup
press the facts as far as possible, but
they soon became known to every
European in the city, and every man
was his guaid from that time on.
Those who had been in India longest
reasoned that these murders were the
work of a fanatica religions fanatic.
A that date, and even for ten years
later, religious fanatics were to be
found in every community. They made
vows to do this or that for the glory
of their God, aud it was a rare thing
for ono of them to abandon his
work. 1 have met natives %ho had
vowed never to walk a straight Una-
sin had COTUS and gone like a shadow,
but he had done his work an well as in
the ether cases. The one thrust had
been sufficient, .and. the rdgfrfc ear had
been cut off. I was one of the first
called in when the alarm was raised.
I took a torch and examined the wall,
and at the rear of the garden I found
where a pole had been slanted up
against the walL to assist a elimber
The man had lifted the pole over to
helphim down.and I found the prints of
his sandals in the soft earth. It was
settled, to my satisfaction, at least,
that the assassin was a native, although
at this point the police brought for
ward the theory that the person was ft
others who had vowed to sleep stand
ing others who kept one eye shut, one i were a bit scared, you Vi^ow, a^d you
arm raised, or had vowed not to speak.
If the assassin had vowed to take the
lives of a certain number of English
men he Avas more to be dreaded than a
baud of robbers. Nothing but his capt
ure Avouid prevent him from fulfilling
that VOAV, and the fact of his commit
ting two murders in prominent places
and leaving no clew to his identity
proved that ho was a crafty felloAV.
There was the usual cij against the
police force, but one who stopped to
consider for a moment realized how
helpless the officers were. A dozen
arrests Avere made and threats, prom
ises and torture used to secure a point
er, but the poor fellows knew nothing
and therefore, had nothing to give up.
On tho evening of the fifteenth day
after the second murder a third oc
cu?-red. A artillery Captain, who had
been through all tho mutiny, and who
had only that day boasted that he could
take care of himself under all circum
stances, had called at the bung-alow of
bis brother, who Avas in the civil serv
ice. Not finding him at home the Cap
tain had taken a turn in the garden
with his cigiv*. Tho throe native
hou&ehold servants had noticed him
walking up and down, but after a
few minutes one of them saw him
lying on the ground. The three ran
out, and it was to find him dead The
garden was about a quarter of an acre
in extent and \vm surroundecl' by a
European, probably disguised'as a na- i" that other land.".
five. The arrest of a dozen sailors and
vagabonds followed, while all the na
tives in jail were turned loose. I
never knew whether the police believ
ed in the new theory, or whether it
was advised by the government, but
circumstances went prove that the
latter was the-case. The arrest and
abuse of innocent natives was causing
much excitement in the city, and it
was doubtless deemed safer to take an
other theory. At the same time the
authorities offered a reward of 1,000
for the arrest of the real assassin, and
a private circular was sent to every
European in Bombay Avarning him to
be on his guard.
On the evening" of the tenth day
after the third murder I was in a read
ing room much frequented by Euro
peans,. When I left I had to cross a
plat of ground about forty faet wide.
It was well shaded by trees, but also
well lighted by gas-light, and a brick
sidewalk six feet wide ran straight to
the street Kear the grate leading-
street was the only dark spot, and
a bench was here placed beneath a
tree. As I came along I noticed a
native seated on the bench as if wait
ing- for his master inside I noticed
him as one might glance at a passing
carriage, and was going on, Avhen he
"Sahib, for God's sake stop a mo
ment' I am very ill. I have been
"Do you think you have been poi
soned?" I asked, as Iieft the path and
"I am sure of it Lefcme take your
lie seized my left hand in his left,
and his fingers had the grip of a vise.
He half rose from the bench, and
something forced me to say:
"I am sorry for you. I Avill go and
find some Englishman Avho can render
"But are you no English?"
"No, I am an American.'"
Ho seemed to gasp, and I heard Mm
mutter under his breath as he relaxed
his grasp on my fingers. Then he
"Never mind, Sahibnever mind.
Wo are all dogs to the English. They
would be glad to see me die. I will
find a doctor."
He staggered away through the gate
and Avas out of sight in a moment,
Avbile I found myself so Aveak that I
was obliged to sit doAvn on the bench
he vacated. I had caught sight of a
naked knife in his right hand as he
half rose from the bench. Here was
the assassin! He Avas a powerful fellow,
Avith muscles of steel. He got my left
hand, intending: to lift my arm and
give me the fatal blow, but when I gave
my nationality he desisted. It was the
English he Avas after. I had seen him
in the shadow, where all dark faces
look alike. I had heard his voice, but
all natives of India seem to have the
same intonations. Had he been led be
fore me two minutes later in company
with others I could not have picked
him out. Bu what assurance the as
sassin must have! There Avas not a
minute in which some one Avas not
passing. Indeed, as I stood before
him two men entered from the street
and tAvo left the reading rooms.
hadn't one chance in fifty of commit
ting murder and escaping observation
and pursuit, but he took the risks.
It is a fact conceded by the average
Englishman that a British official who
is Avilling to take advice is a rarity.
The Indian mutiny Avas years coming.
The signs Avere as plain as the sun at
noonday, but British pigbeadednes
and official egotism refused to see or
believe. I verily believe that if
a New lovk detective should pro
ceed to London and secure a
straight pointer as to the identity of
the Whitechapel fiend he Avould not
only be scoffed at, but obstructions
Avould be throAvn in his way. I felt it my
duty to g-o to the English chief of po
lice of Bombay and lay the facts be
fore him as I have before the roader.
He began to smile as soon as I began
to talk, and presently Avaved me away,
"Thanks for your kindness, sir, but
our story is all nonsense. You don't
know those natives as we do. You
saw a knife and a plot where nothing
of the sort existed. Thanks, sir, but I
am very busy to-day'"
I went away feeling mortified and
indignant, but revenge was at hand.
That very evening, between ten and
eleven o'clock, a member of the civil
government of the Bombay presidency
he was a tax receiver, I believe
Avas found weltering in his blood as
the assassin's fouith victim. wa-
lying in a heap in front of a bench in a
public park, and it Avas easy enough
for me to realize how it had come
about. The native Avho took my hand
had taken his. The knife had gone to
the man's heart, and the rig-tot ear was
missing. A police official came to see
me, and. I was asked to pay the chief
another visit, but this I flatly re
fused to do. I had been snub
bed and insulted, and if he caught
his man it must be without help
from me. The reward was now
increased to 2,000, and over thirty
arrests were made within the next
two days. The whole city was in a
ferment by this time, and as tho days
Avent by and the real assassin Avas not
caught, the populace demanded the
the dark regarding the maiVs identity.
Ten days passed, and then a British
Major was assassinated on a public
street between two lamp-posts. In.
this instance the hour was late and the
Major was drunk. The murder was
identical with the others, and during
the next day many Europeans left the
It was queer how the first clew was
struck. Two days after the murder I
head of tho chief of police, and he I sharper shadow of the ^eak, this time
had to step down. His successor had encircled by a double lfcw and their
own spectral arms were again visible.
more chan his keenness and little of
is conceit, and when he sent form I
obeyed the summons He was satis
fied that tha native who spared me
frrftflc wall niir Wt?& Tho jpesj. trtew the collector, but we were mi ir?
was talking with an English officer
about the bloody business, and the
name of the first victim was men
"Poor Tom!" sighed the officer, I
wonder if no will find, any ears to pull
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"Well, he was a good-hearted com
panion, but a terrible hard master on
his servants. He had his OAvn way of
managing them. Some of us believe
in kicks and cuffs, backed up with
g-ood big oaths, but Tom pulled their
ears for them. It was not a Aveek be
fore his death that I saw him pull the
right ear of his groom until blood
flOAved from the torn flesh."
I put two and two tog-ether as quick
as a flash of lightning, and half an
hour later was with the chief of po
lice. It had puzzled every body to
understand why the assassin had sliced
off and carried away the rig-ht ear in
each ca&e. Here was a solution of the
mystery. The groom had gone into
other service, but Avas easily located
and arrested. He was caring- for the
horses of an officer, and in his box in
the stable was found his knife and the
four bloody ears. He was a bold, gamy
fellow, and lie boasted of his bloody
"I killedraymaster because he pulled
my ear. After killing him I wanted to
kill others. I had set the number at
twenty. I am your prisoner. Do with
me as you like. The four Englishmen
I have killed were worth to you four
thousand such lives a3 mine. I am
ready to die."
He was executed in public, and died
cursing the whole English race. How
do you suppose the reward Avas divid
ed? If any body furnished the clew I
did, but the money Avas divided be-
tAveen the chief of police, who caused
the arrest, and the officer who told me
about the ear-pulling-' They were big--
hearted enough to offer me twenty-five
pounds each, but I respectfully de
clined the charity.JV. Y. Sufi.
The Probable Cause of Feelings Born, of
Ignorance and Superstition.
Turning back to the heathen and the
savage, Ave see at once Avhence comes
the old feeling about mountains, xk feel
ing born of dark shadows that disap
pear in the light of knowledge. We
have all heard of the Brocken and its
witch revels, made famous by the
genius of Goethe. The Harti mount
ains are so rich in superstitious le
gends, not that they have more impos
ing- features of their own than many
other less celebrated mountains, but
because, standing out by themselves
on the great northern flats of Ger
many, they powerfully impressed the
imagination of the lowlanders around,
and because, this district being one of
the last converted to Christianity, they
long continued to be a retreat for
pagan rites, and thus gained their
frim reputation as a seat of witch
craft. Here, as is well kno\vn, ap
pears the Specter of the Brocken,
Avhen, at sunrise or sunset, the amazed
traveler happens to see a magnificent
reflection of his OAvn figure thrown
upon the sheet of mist vailing some
opposite peak. The most extraordi
nary of all such appearances seem to
be that observed at Adam's Peak, in
Ceylon, as described for us through a
recent expedition undertaken by the
Hon. Ralph Abercromby and two other
men of science:
"This mountain rises in an abrupt
cone, 1,000 feet above the chain and
7,552 feet above sea level. It lies near
an elboAV in the main range, while i
gorge runs up from the northeast just
to the west of it When, then, the
northeast monsoon blows morning
mist up the valley, light wreaths of
condensed vapor pass to the Avest of
the peak, and catch the shadows at
sunrise. The party reached the sum
mit on the night of February 21, 1886,
amid rain, mist and wind. Early next
morning the foregloAV began to bright
en the under surface of the stratus
cloud with orange, patches of white
mist filled the hollOAVs, and sometimes
masses of mist, coming from the val
ley, enveloped them Avith condensed
vapor A 6-30 a the sun
peeped through a chink in the
clouds, and they saw the
pointed shadow of the peak lying on
the misty land. Soon a complete pris
matic circle of about eight degrees
diameter, Avith the red outside, formed
round the summit of the peak as a
center. The meteorologist, knowing
that with this bow there ought to be
spectral figures, waved his hand about,
and immediately found giant shadowy
arms moving- in the center of the rain
bow. TAVO dark rays shot upAvard and
outward on either side of the cen
ter, and appeared to be nearly in a
prolongation of the lines of the slope
of the peak below. Three times with
in a quarter of an hour this appearance
Avas repeated as the mist drove up in
proner quantities, and fitful glimpses
of the sun gave sufficient light
to throAV a shadOAv and form a
circular rainbow. In every case
the shadow and bow were seen
in front of land, and never against the
sky. When the sun lose pretty hxgh
the characteristic peculiarity of the
shadow Avas beautifully observed. As
a thin Avreath of condensed vapor
came up the valley at a proper height.
a resplendent bow formed round the
shadoAv, while both seemed to stand
up majestically in front of the observ
ers, and then the shadow fell down
upon the land, and the bow vanished
as the mist passed on. About an hour
later the sun again shoue out, but
much higher and stronger than before,
and then they saw a brighter and
The shadow, the double bow and
giant oforaas combined to make this
phenomenon tbe most marked in the
THE FROTH pfr FUN.
A TCEAXXHT young lawyer spent two dayi
and a night over one case, and at the end oi
that-time could not tell-which, side he was
on. It was a case of champagne.
A Irishman apologized for running
away from a fight in these Words: Bedad.
I'd rather be a coward lor fifteen minutes
than a corpse for the resist my life." fi|
JEXNIB, dear, 'tis understood that you'rt
isrased2 oh. yes. deaimtj. T
engaged! handsome?" "Yes." "that's good!'
"Is he wealthy!" "Yes.?'\ "That's bet-
A LAMES' eacque house- announced at thj
endor their newspaper advertisement "cir
culars free on application.!' Thefirmre
ceived a note the other day from, a. Vermont
lady who nod read the announcement, and
asked themto send a fur-lined one to hex
A HOBSB-DEALBB who lately effected a
sale was offered a bottle of porter to con
fess the animal's failings. The bottle was
drunk, and then he said the horse had but
two faults. When turned loose the field
he was hard to catch," and he was of nr
use when he waa caught."
"WHAT would our wives say if they knew
where we are?" said the captain of a
"down-East" schooner, when they were
beating about in a thick fog, fearful of go
ing ashore. "HumphI 1 shonld't mind
that," replied the mate, if we only knew
where we were ourselves."
Mas. VENEERING" Really, my dear doc
tor, yon must come to my ball. It is Lucy's
coming out affair, you know, and I shall take
no refusal none at all." Dr. Bygee
"WeU, yon see, dear madam, I am a
very busy man. My time is not my own."
Mrs. Veneering- Say no more. Include
the visit in your bill. There, I shall expect
OFSTCT! BOX" Please, ^r, your -wife say?
you went off this morning without tbinkin'
about it bem' the anniversary of your wed
din\ and won't you please go home agair
and sit down and talk a little while like old
tunes, sir!" Devoted husband"Certain
ly, certainly- Bless her little heart! Here,
boy, put this card on the door: Back ny*
Ax old Bucksport sea captain thus de
scribes the way in which he dismissed an
undesirable suitor for the hand of his
daughter the other mghti I just showed
him up the companion-way and out on the
gang-plank leading from my house, and
gently remarked that the wind was off
shore, and the sooner he got underway the.
better offing he would get before morning.
He paid off and bore away down the street."
ITEMS ABOUT AUTHORS.
IT is stated that Margaret Delano re-Avrote
"John Ward, Preacher," six times before
SCO TT turned out his -wonderful romances
untd he earned for himself the names of
"The Great Magician" and "Wizard of the
TBOLLOPB published forty-five three-vol
ume novels in all, and he received in hard
cash for them the sum of 70,000, something
RICHARD BEINSLET SHEHIDAN was a very
slow nomposer, and his note book, published
by Moore, shOAVS how he polished and
worked over some of his most iamous epi
BTBON wrote the "Bride of Abydos" in
four days and the "Corsair" in ten, though
as a general thing he was not a very rapid
writer, often re-writing and making many
GOLDSMITH labored over his poetry excess
ively, though his prose flowed forth with
ease and without erasures. Ten lines of
the "Deserted Village" he considered a
good day's work.
GR IT wrote with very great labor and
difficulty, and when he was once asked why
he had written so little poetry his reply
Avas: "Because of the great exertion in the
labor of composition.''
JAMES PAYNE, the present well-known
novelist, it is said, has turned out as the
product of his pen in thirty years over one
hundred volumes, mainly fiction, but em
bracing some other topics.
Fon immensity of performance Alexander
Dumas heads the list. His literary career
lasted about forty years, and he boasted
that during that time 1,300 volumes were
published under his name.
WILLIAM SHAKEsrEABB turned out those
marvelous plays of his Avith astonishing
rapidity. Two and three and sometimes
four in a year! Thirty-six in ail in about
twelve years, managing one or more theat
ers also and acting at tunes.
ROBERT X.OUIS STEVESSON thin ks that
George Meredith's "Rnoda Fleming" is the
Btrongest thing in English letters since
Bhakespeare died and that "if Shake
speare could have read it he would have
jumped and cried: 'Here's a fellow 1'
USUALLY the inconsistency is of the man
Who professes much and does little, but
there may be an inconsistency on the part
of the man who professes nothing and does
much. The profession and the character
should be one.
THE estimated consumption of wheat in
Great Britain is five and a half bushels per
THE man who invented the type
writer did more toward giving women
their writes than all the women suffrage
associations in the country.iYorrfctotwi
PLAYIXO upon wordstype-writing.
SOMETIMES men become crookei,i ordex
to help themselves out of straightened po
THE sentence "There's no such word as
fai l" can hardly be classified as a 'canV
phrase.Mei chant Traveler.
FAXHEB TIME travels by cycles.Time.
THE counterfeiter never stands still in
his profession. He is always forging
WHBJT a bald-headed man removes his
hat to salute a lady, it does not remind one
pf a leafless branch, although it's a naked
An authority on etiquette says that a
woman can take a man's hand, but must
not shake it but there is nothing set down
In the rules which can prevent her from
shaking the man.PaineavUle Democrat
WHES the rug is over the fence it Is out.
SMALL dinner tables may be Parisian,
Jut small dinners area failure of the
kverage restaurant.Germantown Jndepend.
AN actress who is presented with costly
bouquets at the footlights may be said to
be a lady of fine stage presents.1cxat
A WABNIKO noteb sharp. *t "s|
Accorjiinjc to recent investigations is caused by
excess of lacticacid in the blood. Thisacid attacks
the fibrous tissues, particularly in the joints, and
causes the local manifestations of the disease,
pains and aches in the back and shoulders, and In
the joints at tho knees, ankles, hips and wrists.
Thousands people hwa found In Hood's Sana
parilla a positive and permanent cure for rheuma
tism. This medicine, by its purifying and vitalizing
action, neutralises the acidity of the blood,and also
builds up and strengthens the whole body.
Solgby aUdruggists, Jlnlrforte, Preparedonli
WO P$9 Qw Itefter
THB bees are informed of a wedding it
Derbyshire, Eng., andtheir hives decorated
THE Romans deemed it an ill omen t
meet certain animals on the way to the cer
emony. A priest, hare, dog, cat, lizard ot
serpent was unlucky in the middle ages$
wolf, toad or spider lucky
Isr Greece the1groom is lightly sprinkled
with water on leaving the home for th
The bride must visit the over
AN author's title ought to be:
Wnv is a man -who makes pens very
.vicked? He makes people steel pens and
taen says they do write.
fattier or a near rela-
tive, to salute it and obtain leave to set out
IK France, during the middle ages, a ring
of straw, or one made from a horseshoj
nail, was placed on the bride's finger, and
some had as many as five such rings. Th
couple also stood on a ring during the cere
IK Scotland it is particularly ominous
meet a funeral on the way to the ceremony.
Bride or groom was certain to die soon, a
the sex of the person buried was male oi
female. In one part of Yorkshire the groom
on meeting a male acquaintance rubbed hu
elbow for luck.
THE Swedish bride tries to see the groom
before he sees her, to gain the mastery
She places her foot before his during th
ceremony and sits in the bridal chair Irst
She must stand near the groom, so tha'
no one can come between them.
IK Brittany, if the wife seeks to rule, sh
must take care that the ring when placed
on her finger shall slip at once to its place
on her finger, instead of alloAVing it to stoj
at the first joint. The bride who lost hei
ring lost her appetite, and to break it por
IT is deemed especially ominous in Scot
land for a lump of soot to fall doAvn antf
spoil the breakfast on the day of tbe wed
ding, for a bird to die ia its cage or for
bird to sit on the wmdow-sill and chu*|
long The bride must carefully avoid break
ing a dish on that day
USOALLY the inconsistency is of the man
Who professes much and does little, but
there may be an inconsistency on the part
of the man who professes nothing and does
much. The profesii and the character
should be one.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
'The Fast Mail Line
Steam heated trains to Chicago vesti
buiei trams to Chicago, finest dining cars
in the world excursion tickets to Colorado
excursion tckeis to California excursion
tickets to Florida everything first-class.
First-cL'ss people patronize first-class lines.
For fuifcher information app.y to the Com
pany's Agents ots. Paul Minneapolis,
or to any Coupon Ticket Agent the
THE man who invented the type-writer
did more toward gmng women their
writes than all the women suffrage asso
ciations in the country.
"Mr friends laughed at the idea of a $5.00
bone mill, but since I got one of Wilson's,
advertised in this paper, the laugh is all on
my side. Every one that sees it has to ac
knowledge it is a perfect success. I can
crack enough shells for 150 fowls in!3 min
utes and the same amount will go five
times farther than if cracked with a ham
mer. There is no waste, and a child can
crack them. Bones take a little more
strength. It also cracks corn easily and
WHEK the last one of a quartet of good
fellows determines to die, the thing is a
four gone conclusion.N. O. Picayune,
Hoi day Excursions via the Monon Route.
On Dec. 31st, 1888, aud Jan. 1st, 18S9, tne
Monon Route will sell excursion tickets be
tween all stations including Louisville, In
dianapolis and Cincinnati, at one and one
third fare for the round trip, good returning
untilJan 3,1889 Pullman Buffet Sleepers on
night trains Farlor Cliair Cars on day trains.
For rates, tickets and full information, ad
dress any Agent of the Monon Route, or call
at City Ticket Office, 73 Clark St Chicago.
THE Chinese does not take his queue
from nature Two-thirds of it is third
class silk.San Fi anexsco AUa.
Smiling Gardens of Plenty
Where nature beams her brightestin the
extreme south, on our sister continent and
in the tropics of the Caribbean Seaare too
often the home of malaria, the vertical sun,
copious decaying vegetation and bad water,
also co-operating to breed virulent disor
ders of the stomach, liver and bowels It
is .such regions that Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters gets in some of its most beneficent
A PROMIKBNT bandthe engagement
ring.Detroit ee Pras.
HABSH purgative remedies are fast giving
Avay to the gentle action and mild effects of
Carter's Little Livei Pui= 1 you. try them,
they will certainly please \ou.
MEN can talk horse Avithout having a
FOR Throat Diseases and Coughs use
BUOAAN'S BKOXCHIAI* TROCHES. Late all
ical good things, they are imitated. The
genuine are sold only in boxet.
"AnEGULABhigh flyer"our American
DOV'T wait until you are sick before trying
Carter's Little Liver Pills, but get a vial at
once. You can't take them without benefit.
DIAMOND dustmoney paid for a
5 JACOBS OH
For Bruises and Burns.
Fresh, Strong:. Convincing Facts.
Beat Results. Eait Frorldencs, X. X., JTaae,'8S.'
Wills in the employ of the Baritow Stove Co.,
your Bt Jacob* Oil to many bad boras of
ttoauUrt Mid alvsyt with bit results
OXO. W. HOBTOH.
ladder Fell. Oalrsstoa, Texas, June S3,1888.
?eU from Udder, braised and sprained my foot
and wrist, suffered are days, was cured by St,
Jacobs Oil JOSBUA WITKTH.
Pitcher*!! X.nck. Detroit. Mich June 0,1888
Pitching b&ll Bprl2ie4 and bxntMd my arm, two
applications oi St. Jacobs Oil cared me.
AT DHTJ0OI8T8 AND DKALEK8
THE CHARLES A. V0GELER CO.. Baltimore, U4
For Old and.1ToTi.iig.
Tutt'g JAver Pills act, as kindly on the
child, the delicate female or iniirm
ld age* as upon tevigorou man
trive tone to the weak stomach, *xw
els, kidneys and bladder. To these
organs their strengthening' qualities
are wonderful, causing them tvo per
form their unctio-Tw as in youth.
Office. 44 Murray St., Uew York.
Soid^only In Tins*
j&ttever feuy loose
it i gerferany Wi
WOLCOTT HEAT TR8P & RADlflTOB
ces 60 per cent, move
with SS to 50 per cam
GRAINS OF GUMPTION.
OUR value in life is not in being conspicu
ous, but in being faithful to the work given
us, and. the trust impos ed on us.
BLUXDEBKG men, instead of admitting
their responsibility, try to excuse tnem
selves by throwing the blame upon others.
BE friendly and sociable, but don't go too
far. For people to live happy together tbe
real secret is that they should not live too
H^i who helps to circulate a piece of gos
sip 1/5 as bad as the one who originated it.
To put your fist in a tar barrel, and then go
round shaking hands A)rith every body, is
what some people like to do.
ALTHOUGH politeness necessarily follows
to a great extent set forms, it should have
its Origin in afiectiou for the xncUviduaX, or,
in a more general way, in consideration for
others. When the young man begins to be
have at home with less ps&iteness than he
exhibits abroad, there is much danger that
gradually he Avdl lose that consideration for
his immediate relatives which he should
have and exhibit.
TACT is born with some men and women,
like the supple, delicate fingers of the art
ist's band, and those who have it use. their
gift instinctively. It is not measured alike
to those Avho have it. Men possess it in
different degrees while others, again, are
wanting in it altogether. It is the outcome
of intellectual and of temperamental quali
fications, and implies the possession oi
clear perceptions, quick imagination and
delicate sensibilities. It is these that give
the tactful person his subtle intuition of an
other's mental processes and modes of feel
ing, and in the same moment exactly the
right method of dealin/ fith these.
THE THREE CROSSES.
THE Greek Cross has four equal arms,
representing the Gospel preached to the four
quarters of the earta hy the four evangel
THE Maltese Cross is formed of four ar
rove-heads meeting at the points, the badge
of the Knights of Malta. The eight points
of this form of the cross are said to symbol
ize the eight beatitudes.
TUE Cross of Calvary is across on three
steps, Avhich are supposed to signify the
three virtuesfaith, hope and charity, and
is the kind ahvays found on the altars of
churches Then have the Cross of Con
stantme, which is simply a monogram of the
first two Greek letters of the word Christ,
MINCED SANDWICH. Chop and pound
thoroughly some well-roasted or boiled niufc
ton, season to taste, add four ounces ol
butter to each pound of meat and beat
till quite smooth. Make a pastry as for pie
crust, roll out thin and cover one-half with
a thick layer of the minced meat fold ovei
the other half, pinch the edges together and
mark with a knife where the sandwiches
,areto be divided when cold. Sake
LOOK for the best. NATIONAL YEAST. 5 & 10a
A HAFFT mediuma pleasant spiritual-
Le wh buy suchySoaps take
To Aveigh the cake exact and fair,
And find they pay in figures round
A dollar, more or less per pound.
Is Ou injew Form
OjSr-SBUD FOR FBEE SPECIMEN COPY TO
ROBERT BONNER'S SON S,
184= William Street, JSew York.
SrXAllS THIS PAPER. erf tbaa you write.
3L W. DTTNHASTS
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STOCK ON HAND:
able age ISO COIiTfiwita
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Best Quality. Price Beasoiutble.
Term* Easy. Don't Buy without inspect
log this Ctreatet and Most Successful
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Beaa i Beam Bex
aa4J0iigftk*M?* th ftelaX-for
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MADE WITH BOIUNQ WAER.
If You Are Sick.
With Headache, Neuralgia, Rheumatism Dyspep
sia, Biliousness, Blood Humora, Kidney Disease,
Constipation, female Trouble*, Fever and Agae,
Sleeplessness, Partial Paralysis, or Nervous Pros
tration, use Paine's Celery Compound and be.
cured. In each of these the cause is mental or
physical overwork, anxiety, exposure or malaria,
the effect of which is to weaken the nervous sys
tem, resulting in one of these diseases. Remove
the CAUBS Avith that great Nerve Tonic, srd the
BSscLr win disappear
JAB. L. BOAVEX, Springfield, Mass, writes:
Paine's Celery Compound cannot be excelled as
a Nerve Tonic. In my case a single bottle
wrought a great change My nervousness entirely
disappeared, and Arith it the resulting affection
of th.e stomach, heart and liver, and the whola
tone of the system was AvonderuUly invigorated.
I tell my friends, if sick as I have been, Paine's
Will Cure You!
Sold by druggists. SI, six for $5. Prepared only
*y WJELLS, RICHARDSON & Co., Burlington, Vt
For the Aged, Nervous, Debilitated.
Warranted to color more goods than any othl
ayes ever made, and to give more brilliant ana
durable colors. Ask for the Diamond, and take
A Dress Dyed
A Coat Colored
Garments Renewed CENTS
A Child can use them!
Unequalled for all Fancy and Art Work.
At druggists and-Merchants Dye Boole &ee
WELLS, RICHARDSON & CO,, Props., Burlington, Vt
2 NEWEST CRAZE I
A GOOD SUGGESTION.
ONOMY, as wise folks say, What course should people then pursue
Is Avealth pronounced another Avay, In short, the only thing to do,
So Avhile "hard times" the people cry, Though rich in bonds, or Avorldly poor,
Thteall ToiletoSoaps the should notcare.
buy The IVORY SOA P" they should procure,
Which may be bought from coast to coabt.
At sixteen cents per pound at most,
And does more satisfaction grant
Than all the Toilet Soaps extant.
A WORD O WARNING.
There are many white soaps, each represented to be" just as good as the' Ivory'
they ARE NOT, but like all counterfeits, lack the peculiar and remarkable qualities
of the genuine. Ask for "Ivory" Soap and insist upon getting It.
Copyright 1886, by Procter & Gamble.
THE NEW YORK
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33. The game complete, with Key"How to Oo it,*
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4 4 Broadway, BTJ3W YORK.. I is MOB*
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^^&Tf^\ kJf.lOOje cent, mow mads
eant on application. WILSON BROS. EaatoaTPaT
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Cures Catarrh, Neuralgia, Deafness
Headache, Colds, Etc Instant Re
lief". Electric Battery every bottle.
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to introduce it. Send 2icts. in stamp*
to pay postage and packing for a bottla
that sells for 50 cts. Circulars FREE
ells in every family. Agents aremafc
incoverSlOOn month. i.GE\T WASTED.
Address BUfcWSfKU & to., U0IXY, H1CH.
AyUS. 2H2S 2 APR arexr you wnt*.
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Headache, Hay Fever, &c. 50 cents.
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As Joshua Wright recently pointed out, Visa is informing merchants about similar crimes that took place around the same time in Utah. Skimmers have also been found in Florida and elsewhere. Just this week, customers of Lucky Supermarkets in California found out that a similar attack was the reason their bank accounts were recently drained. This isn't just one clever crook; this is a criminal industry at work.Bluetooth skimmers sold on the criminal underground. There is an industry producing hardware for crime just as there is an industry producing software for crime.
How can you protect yourself as a customer? The best advice I can think of is to consider the liability of payment methods. There is a reason I like to carry some cash. There is also a reason I strongly prefer to use a credit card over a bank debit card. With a credit card (in the US, at least), the financial institutions and merchants bear most of the burden of liability. As long as I check for unauthorized transactions before paying my bill every month, I don't have much to worry about. Once, many years ago, someone emptied my checking account. I figured out what had happened and managed to convince my bank that the bank's own misguided security practice had allowed it to happen, but guess who bore the burden of a zero balance until that was resolved?
How can you protect yourself if you are a retailer or financial institution? This is a much more difficult problem. For starters, you should read Joshua Wright's article and the Visa bulletin. Josh has some nice things to say about my Project Ubertooth, but he also has some criticisms, mostly pointing out features yet to be developed. The first item on his wish list is frequency hopping, something I am working on now. He also points out the need to improve Bluetooth device fingerprinting, an area of research that has been advanced in recent years primarily by JP Dunning.
When I read about real life attacks on retailers and customers, sometimes I imagine how I could use technology to catch the crooks. Frankly, it would be hard, and it would be especially hard to deploy tools that would allow more investigators to do the same. Bad guys are using Bluetooth (and potentially other wireless technologies). We need Bluetooth tools for the good guys too.
I guess, if there is a lesson to be learned from all this, it is that hardware security matters. If an attacker can get in between a user and a system, the security of the system will fail in almost any case. Advocates of the Bring Your Pwn Device (BYOD) trend might want to pay attention. (That was an honest typo, but I decided to keep it!)
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Grass seedcan be planted in a weedy lawn. However, if the weeds are very thick, you will get better results if you deal with the weeds first. If there are just a few weeds, pull the largest ones, then apply the grass seed.
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Willy faces Fondren for the first time in 58 years, newsclipping
Newspaper clipping from the Rice Thresher with the headline "Willy faces Fondren for the first time in 58 years" written by Lisa Gray. The article is from volume 75, number 26, dated on Friday, April 15 1988. It details the student's prank rotating the statue of Willy. Original resource is scanned photocopy.
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Richard Allen (1760-1831)
Richard Allen, the founder and first Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was born a slave on February 14, 1760 on the estate of Benjamin Chew, Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from 1774-1777.
Richard Allen, his parents and three other children were sold to a Mr. Stokeley in Delaware, near Dover. Allen recorded that Stokeley was a very tender and humane man who was more like a father to his slaves than a master.
As Richard and his brother grew older, they were permitted to attend meetings of the Methodist Society. Allen was converted at the age of 17. He began preaching in 1780. Through thrift and industry, he and his brother worked at night to pay for their freedom.
He commenced traveling in 1783 and later returned to Philadelphia and joined the white congregation at St. Georges's Methodist Episcopal Church. He was licensed to preach in 1784 and was permitted to hold services in the morning about 5 a.m.
In 1786 the membership of St. George's Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia included both blacks and whites. However, the white members met that year and decided that thereafter black members should sit only in the balcony.
Two black Sunday worshipers, Absalom Jones (1746-1818) and Richard Allen (1760-1831), whose enthusiasm for the Methodist Church had brought many blacks into the congregation, learned of the decision only when, on the following Sunday, ushers tapped them on the shoulder during the opening prayers, and demanded that they move to the balcony without waiting for the end of the prayer. They walked out, followed by the other black members.
Absalom Jones conferred with William White, Episcopal Bishop of Philadelphia, who agreed to accept the group as an Episcopal parish. Jones would serve as lay reader, and, after a period of study, would be ordained and serve as rector.
Allen wanted the group to remain Methodist, and in 1793 he left to form a Methodist congregation. In 1816 he left the Methodists to form a new denomination, the African Methodist Episcopal Church (Ame).
Jones (ordained deacon and priest in 1795 and 1802) and Allen (ordained deacon and elder in 1799 and 1816) were the first two black Americans to receive formal ordination in any denomination.
The African Methodist Episcopal Church Zion (Ame Zion) formed in New York in about 1796 for similar reasons. The two groups were well organized before they heard of each other.
The Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, also historically black, was an offshoot in 1870 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. (The Methodists split into North and South before the War of 1861-1865, and have since re-united.)
Freedom's Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers by Richard Newman
A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awfulcalamity in Philadelphia in the year 1793 and a refutation of somecensures, thrown upon them in some late publications. by Absalom and Richard Allen Jones
The story of the first of the Blacks, the pathfinder Absalom Jones, 1746-1818 by George F Bragg
Who was the Reverend Absalom Jones?: 1746-1818 A.D by Civet Chakwal Kristof
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Bring your Body (+ mind) into Balance with Essential Oils
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Essential oils, the most pure form of plants and flowers, have been used since ancient times. From medicinal remedies to religious rituals, oils such as Frankincense, Myrrh and Sandalwood were considered more valuable than gold. In this Lisa.FM Thrive! podcast, learn more about an essential oil blend called 3 Wise Men, from Young Living.
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I first started using Young Living essential oils and nutritional products while working erratic hours as a radio newscaster. The crazy schedule wreaked havoc on my digestion and sleep cycle. Young Living products helped to restore my body and made it easier to cope with the extra stress.
I also enjoy using these products as a natural way to ease muscle pain (rub on a sore neck/shoulder) and reduce stress (a drop in my palm, rub hands together and inhale deeply). A few drops of my favorite oils in a cold air diffuser (electric) keeps my living environment smelling clean and comfortable. Here are a few of my favorite Young Living Essential Oils, you can use them alone or blend together for a feeling of uplifting relief.
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Th powerful combo of Lemon, Peppermint and Lavender can provide relief from seasonal sinus issues. 2 drops of each, taken orally (alone, in water, or a spoon full of honey), eliminated the need for over the counter medications.
Lavender oil has helped me to relax and get a better night’s sleep. I’ve also used lavender oil to soothe burns and abrasions. It smells so good, you can wear it as a perfume. Because of its versatility, lavender oil has been called the “Swiss Army Knife” of essential oils. Read more & order
Peppermint Oil is a natural breath freshener. I ingest a drop or two after a big meal. Feeling lightheaded? Inhale the scent directly from the bottle could offer a pick-me-up. A drop or two of peppermint oil behind your neck can offer cooling relief. Read more & order
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The most cost effective way to dive into the world of aromatherapy and essential oils is to purchase a Young Living starter kit. I recommend the “Premium Starter Kit.” It comes with 11 bottles of Young Living’s most popular Essential Oils, samples of Ningxia Red, your choice of cold air diffuser and more. Add a few drops of your favorite oil to the diffuser and turn it on to keep your living environment smelling fresh and clean.
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June 8, 2016 – Nearly half of unemployed Americans have quit looking for work, and the numbers are even worse for the long-term jobless, according to a poll released Wednesday that paints a grim picture of the labor market.
Some 59 percent of those who have been out of work for two years or more say they have stopped looking, the Harris Poll of unemployed Americans showed. Overall, 43 percent of the jobless said they have given up, according to the poll released in conjunction with Express Employment Professionals, a job placement service.
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“This is a tale of two economies,” Express CEO Bob Funk said in a statement. “It’s frightening to see this many people who could work say they have given up.”
The results come just a few days after a government report showed that the unemployment rate fell to 4.7 percent in May, but the drop came primarily because of a sharp decline in the labor force participation rate. The number of people of all ages whom the government considers “not in the labor force” swelled by 664,000 to a record 94.7 million Americans, according to Labor Department data.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump falsely claimed that the unemployment rate could be as high as 42 percent during his victory speech in New Hampshire.
Job creation, after averaging over 200,000 for much of the recovery, has slowed considerably this year. May saw just 38,000 new jobs, part of a trend in which payrolls have grown an average of 116,000 over the past three months and less than 150,000 for all of 2016.
The greatest concentration of unemployment is in the 18-29 age group, which comprises one-third of all the jobless.
Other highlights of the poll:
83 percent say economic benefits are skewed to the rich
66 percent say they don’t apply for minimum-wage jobs because the pay is too low
The unemployed are spending just 11.7 hours a week looking for work.
More than half — 51 percent — say they haven’t had a job interview since 2014.
There’s virtually no stand-out preference in the presidential race: 27 percent prefer presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, while 23 percent favor likely Republican standard-bearer Donald Trump.
While much has been made over the decline in the labor force participation rate — at 62.6 percent, it is just off its lowest level since late 1977 — some economists think the fear is overdone. They argue that the drop is due in large part to an aging population, among other causes.
“Almost all of the decline that we’ve seen over the last decade or so is due to three factors: retiring baby boomers just leaving the labor force, college students getting more education than ever, and disability,” Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist at job placement site Glassdoor, said in an interview. “I don’t think it’s particularly worrisome.”
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In an economically challenging time that is characterized by downsizing, the closing of businesses and widespread unemployment, finding a new profession can be a daunting task. Fortunately, technology is opening up new job opportunities all the time. One particularly interesting and in demand career can be found in the field of computer aided design, or CAD. CAD professions include, but are not limited to engineering and architecture. Other professions where CAD can be put to excellent use include jewelry creation, landscape design, interior decorating and more. In fact, the areas of opportunity for CAD will only increase with time.
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One might ask why someone would study CAD drafting, aside from the many job opportunities available in the field. This is a professional area that is very well suited to those with artistic talent and interest, those with mechanical ability, and definitely those with computer skills or the aptitude to learn computer skills. These types of skill sets adapt quite readily to CAD professions. With these skills, Sacramento CAD drafting schools will warmly welcome you into their classrooms. The programs offered in Sacramento CAD drafting schools range from specializations in project management, product designers, draftsmen and more. It is the ability to create designs in CAD that make it possible for virtual product prototypes to be created, saving massive amounts of time and money, not to mention the delays and glitches that inevitably accompany the hands-on creation of an actual item, which is much easier to modify and manipulate in a digital image format.
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The E Instruments MP120 compact manometer plus anemometer measures pressure and air velocity. It features an up to 8,000 FPM air velocity range, 0.1 resolution and accuracy of +/-1% of rdg. Pressure is measured in kPa, inWg, mbra, mmHg and psi; air velocity is measured in FPM, m/s and Km/h. The meter has a 128 x 128 pixel display and dimensions of 5 in. x 2.5 in. x 1.25 in. Pressure tubes, battery and carrying case are included.
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Planting the Seeds of American Utopianism
This section reviews literature which addresses arcadian conceptions of the ideal community. Such a perspective, with its emphasis on garden and pastoral metaphors, is useful in the analysis of American utopianism.
ReferencesBrachlow, S. (1988). The communion of the saints: Radical puritan and separatist ecclesiology, 1570-1625. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Eliade, M. (1966). Paradise and utopia: mythical geography and eschatology. In F.E. Manuel's (Ed.). Utopias and utopian thought (pp. 260-280). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Frye, N. (1966). Varieties of literary utopias. In F.E. Manuel's (Ed.). Utopias and utopian thought (pp. 25-49). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.Hardy, D. & Ward, C. (1984). Arcadia for all: The legacy of a makeshift landscape. London: Mansell Publishing Limited.Lingeman, R. (1980). Small town America: A narrative history, 1620-The Present. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons.Litwak, L. (1975). A dream of arcadia: Anti-industrialism in Spanish literature, 1895-1905. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. Locke, J. (1952). The second treatise of government. New York: Macmillan Publishing.Watkins, O.C. (1972). The puritan experience: Studies in spiritual autobiography. New York: Schocken Books.Winthrop, J. (1994). A modell of Christian charity. In P. Lauter (Ed.). The Heath anthology of American literature (Vol. 1) (pp. 226-231). Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company.
- This section examines the concept of arcadia and its relationship to utopianism. Frye (1966) suggests that a pastoral conception of human interaction and its relationship with nature is best defined as arcadian, not utopian -- "a society of shepherds without distinction of class, engaged in a life that permit[s] the maximum of peace and of leisure" (p. 41). The characteristics of an arcadian community, Frye notes, are simplicity and equality. Instead of placing humanity in a position of mechanized dominance over the landscape, arcadia finds the individual at peace with external and internal nature. Hardy and Ward (1984) emphasize arcadia's "purer way of life rooted in a past, more natural setting" (p. 9). The simplicity of desires which follows might be found in Rousseau's conception of the state of nature. The arcadian theme in art, literature, and community planning served as a critical response to the threat of mechanized society and its potential infringement against human nature. In her analysis of anti-industrial themes in Spanish literature, Litwak (1975) described the arcadian "propaganda" for beauty in contrast with the ugliness of modern society. She epitomizes the arcadian enemy with the London Exposition of 1851, "where it was proclaimed that art and industry could live together for a happier future" (p. 4).
- The emergence of an actual America from its mythic origins reveals that the arcadian vision contained the seeds of a nation of villages and high ideals. When Locke wrote in his Second Treatise that, "in the beginning all the world was America" (p. 29), he denounced an uncultivated wasteland, devoid of labor and currency. However, puritan founders envisioned a green space in which organic community vitiated the need for a Lockian body politic apart from civil society. Standing aboard the Arabella in 1630, John Winthrop declared in the linguistic style of his day "that men shall say of succeeding plantacions: the lord make it like that of New England: for wee must Consider that wee shall be as a Citty upon a Hill" (p. 233). This shining example would not be forged in iron, but planted in the fields of human souls; and it would exemplify a world where all the world would become America again. Such a sentiment is explored by Eliade (1966), who writes of a myth of the eternal return: "[A] periodic regeneration of time presupposes, in more or less explicit form -- and especially in the historical civilizations -- a new Creation, that is, a repetition of the cosmogonic act" (p. 52).
- It must be recalled that puritan endeavors to grow an organic community took place not within a garden of Eden, but within a wilderness of evil. The struggle of building within that wilderness of demonic threats was viewed as a terrible ordeal designed to test God's chosen people before the promise was to be fulfilled. Yet, that arcadian vision, with its sense of organic relationship and cyclical return, enabled a stifling provincialism. Lingeman (1980) describes the organic quality of stability as a key element of the puritan New England town, writing that "[i]t's collective drive was fueled by ideals of peace and order, homogeneity and harmony, conformity and orthodoxy. It may well be said that the New England town government was the seedbed of the American form of democracy, but it was also the locus of the local tyranny of the majority -- or rather the ruling majority" (p. 35). Watkins (1972) notes that puritan community rested upon the "immense reassurance" gained by the use of testimony and home meetings to establish both a commonality of experience and surveillance against those who might rebel against the order (p. 231). This communal power structure which might, from a contemporary perspective, be viewed as oppressive was likely justified in an environment in which "it appeared certain to the more advanced puritans that . . . God was about to bring the long eschatological struggle of the past sixteen centuries to a sudden and resounding climax in their own time" (Brachlow, 1988, p. 79). This theme of immanent change provides common ground between arcadian and utopian literature.
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If you have just gotten yourself a new Mac and do not what to install, this is the right article for you. Or if you are looking for substitutes for any application that you are now utilizing in Mac, then too this article can be really useful for you. We give here a list of applications that you will find very useful. The best part is they are free and available to be installed in your Mac.
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Allows you to simply record information in any situation utilizing any platform or device that is on hand and also ensures that this information is easy to find in a handy manner at any place and any time you require it.
You can synchronize your Facebook events with the call easily using this
Offers you an icon in the menu bar to access any applications that are installed at once. It does this by scanning through typical locations like the network, local user and developer applications.
This provides you with the easiest and most effective way to keep track of your time
Easy to utilize applications that are good for Mind mapping on Mac. It also aids you in visually collecting, classifying and structuring ideas. You can also use this for studying, organizing and solving problems
This has been created for the singular objective of renaming lists of files
A very quick way to open applications
You can use this to tag files and bookmarks. Which essentially frees you of the rigid hierarchy that you have in the Finder’s structure for folders.
A coordinated and extensible interface that allows for working with contacts, applications, music and a host of other data.
This is manager for Sticky notes on your Mac computer
An application for time and activity analysis, this one will automatically keep tabs on where you expend time while you are working on the computer.
Enables you to store and manage all your text messages, documents, events and calendar entries along with other things
A very easy to use application for creating a things to do list
Will help you focus on the work that you are on currently
This one will display all applications in a total dockk.
Will aid you in keeping all widgets, application plugins, applications and preference panes in your system up to date
The application that enables burning of discs and other options
22. Font Explorer X
A tool for managing fonts
Will aid you in locating and buying stuff on eBay
24. Set Icon
You can use this to set a custom icon for drives quickly using this
A very effective text editor that is for general purposes
Office applications with full features especially for Mac
It is for editing HTML, Text, LaTeX, Java, C++, Perl, Python, PHP and many more
28. Adobe Reader
You can use this to read PDF files
It is a RSS reader for Mac
A free RSS reader for Mac
So this is a list of 30 Free and Useful Mac application which you can use. Give a try to these applications and share your opinion with us.
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Note: Guest blogger Kyle Buckley, a NCPA research associate, gives his thoughts on the Vice Presidential debate.
The Vice Presidential debates last night were painful to watch, and the aftermath isn’t any more reassuring. Talking heads have focused relentlessly on
body language and what should have been said, while fact checkers cherry pick data almost as impressively as the candidates themselves.
It’s disconcerting, but since taxes are sort of our thing, let’s take a look at Biden’s statement that it is “not mathematically possible” to cut taxes and see federal revenue growth.
So what exactly is the Romney-Ryan tax plan? Here are a few of the key points:
- Lower the corporate tax rate (which by the way, something that President Obama has also proposed)
- Decrease individual income tax rates by 20 percent
- Eliminate taxes on capital gains, dividends, and interest for any taxpayer with an Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) under $200,000.
- Pursue a simpler tax structure with a broader base.
Ryan seems to be equivocating on which “important preferences for middle class taxpayers” would be preserved, making it extremely difficult to estimate the viability his proposed plan to broaden the base and lower the tax rates. So instead let’s focus on the idea of growing the federal revenue streams while cutting taxes.
A historical example of this is the story of the capital gains tax. In 1997, Congress and President Clinton agreed to lower the rate from 28 percent to 20 percent, retroactive May 1997. As WSJ writer Steven Moore points out in an NCPA study, capital gains tax revenue increased from $85 billion to $100 billion from 1996 to 1997. Of course, this was a period of significant stock market gains. But even during the tumultuous decade of 2000, President Bush’s capital gains tax reduction doubles capital gains tax revenue from $56 billion in 2003 to $110 billion in 2006.
Biden references the Tax Policy Center (TPC) in his argument that Romney is raising taxes on the middle class, and cannot possibly be revenue-neutral. The TPC report suggests that Romney’s
plan would result in a 24 percent cut in projected revenue by 2015 ($900 billion). Unfortunately, the TPC looks at the Romney plan in a vacuum, neglecting the impact of tax reform on the economy as a whole. The American Enterprise Institute and Heritage both acknowledge that the TPC doesn’t account for GDP growth as a result of reforms. This is important. Gerald W. Scully, a former NCPA senior fellow, notes that as we move closer to the growth maximizing tax rate (as Romney plans to do), GDP and Federal revenue increases, while income inequality decreases.
Having been in the Senate since 1972 and experiencing all manner of tax policy (from both sides of the aisle), Senator Biden should know better.
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August 10, 2022 by John Fernandez
Improving Sleep Health: Don’t Rely on Melatonin, Over-the-Counter Meds
Too many people make it through hectic, stressful days juggling work and family responsibilities, only to end up tossing and turning during disturbed or erratic sleep cycles. Add the persistent “blue light” of digital devices — laptops, smartphones and tablets — and it’s not surprising that the market for over-the-counter sleep medications is so robust.
There is also melatonin, a popular supplement that is made in a lab, a synthetic version of the human hormone that helps regulate sleep-wake cycles.
Physicians who specialize in sleep health, neurologists and sleep psychologists agree that relying on these over-the-counter drugs or supplements is not a viable or long-term solution to sleep disturbance problems, and they certainly are not the answer if you have serious disorders, such as obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or insomnia.
OSA, the more common of the two forms of apnea, occurs when the muscles in the back of the throat fail to keep the airway open, despite efforts to breathe. Left untreated, sleep apnea can lead to other serious health issues, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke and depression, studies have confirmed. Such a serious condition requires a diagnosis by a physician, who may prescribe medication for a specific period of time, and possibly other therapies that can treat persistent OSA or other sleep disorders or disturbances.
‘Less Medicine is Better’
“The point is that a magic bullet doesn’t exists that just zaps you into sleep without complications,” says Timothy Grant, M.D., medical director, Baptist Health Sleep Centers. “That’s why we have to explain to patients about the risks involved with these medications. Sometimes people’s lives are so impacted by their inability to sleep that they think they need something to break that cycle. But we always try to stress that less medicine or no medicine is better.”
Sleep health experts try to steer patients toward improving their “sleep hygiene,” which refers to different habits that are necessary for nighttime sleep quality and full daytime alertness.
Just a few simple changes can make the difference between a good night’s sleep and spending night tossing and turning. Lifestyle modifications can improve sleep health, and overall fitness, such as regular exercise (that doesn’t take place in the evening), proper nutrition, weight management and properly treating underlying chronic conditions, such as high blood pressure or diabetes. A sleep environment that is comfortably cool, dark and devoid of electronic devices is part of healthier sleep hygiene.
Relaxation and Behavioral Therapies
There are non-medical psychological and behavioral treatments for insomnia. Relaxation training, stimulus control, sleep restriction, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) are examples. CBT works to overcome unhealthy beliefs and fears around sleep, and focus more on rational and positive thinking, according to the National Sleep Foundation. There is a substantial research supporting the use of CBT for insomnia, the Foundation says.
Some of these techniques can be self-taught, while others are adopted through the help of a therapist or sleep specialist.
“It’s very important to combine relaxation therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and sleep hygiene with medicine, if medicine is prescribed at all,” says Dr. Grant.
Sleep medications, such as Nytol, Sominex, and Unisom, that are available without a prescription use antihistamines as their main active ingredient. An antihistamine is what someone would typically take for an allergy and it tends to make people sleepy, Dr. Grant points out.
Potential Problems With Melatonin
In the huge over-the-counter market for sleep aids, melatonin in the form of supplements has become widely accepted, says Marcy Wasman, Ph.D, sleep psychologist affiliated Baptist Health. But, as with any dietary supplements used regularly, the side effects and ingredients could be a problem for some users.
“Melatonin is so widespread that people think it’s not a big deal. It’s over the counter,” says Ms. Wasman. “But it can be a big deal.” She explains that a 2017 study indicates that the melatonin content of dietary supplements can vary greatly from what is listed on the label. Researchers from the Gosling Research Institute for Plant Preservation at the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, also founds that some products may be contaminated with serotonin, a controlled substance responsible for maintaining mood balance and fighting depression.
Some of these over-the-counter products may be a good solution for some to “get through one tough night,” but it should not be used regularly, especially without consulting with your physician and a sleep specialist.
“Relying on these products is like using a crutch repeatedly,” says Sergio Jaramillo, M.D., a neurologist with Baptist Health Neuroscience Center.” You are kind of giving up the power that you have within yourself to find sleep naturally — you are giving it up to a sleep aid. You want to empower yourself and keep that power so that you kind find sleep naturally, especially as we age and as we get less efficient in sleep. You don’t want to give up the power to find sleep naturally.”
See Baptist Health’s Facebook Live session on overcoming sleep disorders and developing healthy sleep habits. Hear from our experts: Dr. Timothy Grant, medical director, Baptist Health Sleep Centers; Dr. Sergio Jaramillo, neurologist, Baptist Health Neuroscience Center; and Dr. Marcy Wasman, sleep psychologist.
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Lately, it seems as though many people have been concerned about over-optimization when it comes to search engine optimization of their web sites. Rightly so. There is some concern, especially since Google has been testing the over-optimization filter yet again. Keep in mind, though, that versions of the so-called Over Optimization Penalty has been around for years and SEOs have been concerned for a long time.
That’s why I continue to post these search engine optimization tips, so we can get back to the basics here of SEO. So, let’s take a look at heading tags and remember that your heading tags should include your keywords.
The heading tags you create fore ach of your web pages should have keywords in them for effective SEO. These are the headings for the body of your web page. You should have at least three heading tags for each page. This is how you inform the search engines and visitors about what you have to offer on your various web pages.
You definitely want to put the 1st heading tag, called, H1 around the name of your product. This is so that it targets what you are selling on that particular page of your website. You want to use the keywords that are the most important so that you will be able to have those important words at the top of the web page.
You want to do this for every single web page, even those that you don’t end up being pages where you sell items. This includes your blog pages too because they will often get a great deal of traffic. You can use the H2 and H3 headings for any subsections where you can use keywords effectively as well.
If you have many web pages, you want to adequately have headings for all of them. This includes your about us page, your frequently asked questions, and your testimonials pages. By effectively using these heading tags, you will be able to give your site plenty of structure which is professional. You will also be able to get higher search engine rankings and far more traffic than before.
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See Inside a Canadian E-Waste Recycling Facility
Servers were the size of refrigerators and a single CPU chip had about $300 of gold when Montreal-based electronics recycling company FCM Recycling started harvesting precious metals from computers' circuit boards and memory. Last week, I chatted with FCM representatives Chris and Andrew about the the work they're doing and the e-waste climate in Canada.
FCM was founded as a small metals recycling facility in 1991, when electronic waste was a new enough problem that it hadn't been legislated or regulated. They would dissolve circuit board fiberglass in big vats of caustic acid, to collect the gold, silver, and palladium left behind. Any materials they couldn't use were discarded.
Eventually, as computers got smaller (and used less precious metal), FCM became a more traditional scrapyard. Then, in 2005, they were approached by Recyc-Québec, a government body that takes care of recycling mandates, about starting provincial electronics recycling programs. They installed their first shredder in 2007 and started processing e-waste in Québec.
Growing from Coast to CoastSince then, they have expanded across the country: two facilities in Ontario (Cornwall and Toronto), two in Québec (and will be opening up a third in Québec City), one in the Maritimes (Halifax), and one in British Columbia. Their main shredder is in Montreal—other locations collect, sort, and dismantle electronics, and then send the materials to Montreal.
Today, thanks to regulation, urban mining, corporate participation, and better recycling practices, far less material ends up in landfills than 20 years ago. FCM now treats about 30 millions pounds of electronic goods per year, everything from cell phones and laptops to medical equipment. They trash less than 1% of all the material that goes through their facility, including all packaging material (shrink-wrap, gaylords, bags, skids—everything). The rest is recycled into various products: wire, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap, and a clean plastic shred. They have special processing lines for getting indium from flat screens and mercury from mercury switches.
How is E-Waste Different in Canada?So what's different about e-waste recycling in Canada? Not much, at one level. The tools and the process are pretty much identical to those used by US recyclers. Shredders like the one in the picture above can be found at almost any large e-waste recycling facility around the globe.
National regulations are fairly similar, too. Just like the US R2 and e-Stewards certifications, Canadian recyclers are certified by Electronics Product Stewardship Canada (EPSC), which lays out health and safety workplace guidelines, requirements for environmentally friendly e-waste processing, and regulations about what can be exported to other countries. EPSC, Chris and Andrew say, is maybe slightly more rigid about downstream accountability—they have to do a little bit more tracking of raw materials that leave their facility. Unlike the US, Canada has ratified the Basel Convention and prohibits export of unfinished goods to non-OECD countries (any country not on this list, that is).
E-waste management is funded somewhat differently in Canada. In the US, e-scrap is what Andrew calls "a commodity market"—in many states, people are paid for the materials they bring in. In Canada, he says, although individual recyclers are for-profit businesses, e-waste as a whole is "more of a social program supported by eco-fees."
But the biggest difference between the US and Canada is in the way EPSC works to harmonize standards across provinces. Because the EPA encourages states to develop their own hazardous waste regulations, the requirements for US recyclers vary drastically from state to state. So far, 25 states have e-waste legislation, but the laws are conflicting and confusing. Sometimes recyclers pay, sometimes manufacturers pay, sometimes consumers pay. Because of the varying demands of different state laws, R2/RIOS, and e-Stewards, it's difficult for a US recycler to expand into other states the way FCM has expanded into other provinces. Only a few US recyclers, such as Electronics Recyclers International, have locations in multiple states. Some attempts to harmonize US laws have been made—there's an organization dedicated to harmonizing US e-waste laws called the Electronics Recycling Coordination Clearinghouse. No efforts, however, have been as effective as EPSC.
Harmonization does slow down the process of starting a new program a bit—Chris says that the biggest hurdle is that the entire collection, payment, and auditing system has to be set up before a program can launch. But it also enables companies like FCM to expand across the country, without having to meet vastly different standards from province to province.
Cell Phone RefurbishmentAnd the vast network of connections they've made by expanding—they are involved with national organizations like Big Brothers Big Sisters and the Scouts—helps them get the volume they need for new projects, such as the cell phone reuse and refurbishment program they are starting this year. Andrew says they receive more than 8,000 cell phones each month. Not all of those are reusable, of course. He points out that often it may not be worth the time, effort, and transportation costs involved in refurbishing a device, if it will end up in a landfill in six months anyway.
But many of the phones they receive could easily have a couple more years of useful life. Smartphone sales just overtook desktop sales for the first time last year, Andrew tells me, quoting a recent E-Scrap News article. Many of those sales are people upgrading from one smartphone to another. Our friends at Recellular, for example, say they always receive a big influx of phones on the day a new smartphone is announced. So FCM is taking steps to begin selling refurbished phones.
How Do You Find a Recycler in Canada?We haven't visited FCM and so can't give them our personal seal of approval, but they're certified by a number of external ratings boards—as any recycler you use should be. If you're in Canada and not near an FCM location, what do you do with your used electronics? Although Canadian provinces are working to harmonize their programs at a legislative level, unfortunately there doesn't appear to be a searchable database of recyclers equivalent to Earth911 for the US. You do have a few good options: use a take-back program at a retail store such as Best Buy, search for recycling programs within your province (there's a pretty good list here), or find a charity that accepts donated electronics such as The Electronics Recycling Association.
Recyclers can't mine $300 of gold from a single CPU chip anymore, but there are many more recyclers today than 20 years ago. And thanks to FCM and other recyclers like them, fewer devices are ending up in landfills.
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New Headway Elementary PDF and Audio A completely new Elementary edition from the world’s best-selling adult English course, with new digital resources for 2011. The Fourth edition brings you fully revised and updated texts, topics, and artwork, and the 2011 resources make it the most digital-friendly edition yet.
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Headway’s trusted methodology combines solid grammar and practice, vocabulary development, and integrated skills with communicative role-plays and personalization.
Authentic material from a variety of sources enables students to see new language in context, and a range of comprehension tasks, language and vocabulary exercises, and extension activities practise the four skills. ‘Everyday English’ and ‘Spoken grammar’ sections practise real-world speaking skills, and a writing section for each unit at the back of the book provides models for students to analyse and imitate.
Headway’s balanced methodology combines the best of traditional approaches – solid grammar and practice, vocabulary development etc – and newer approaches, such as communicative role-play and personalization.
Here are three of them:
i) Grammar has a core place in language teaching and learning.
ii) A wide variety of practice tasks in all the four skills are essential to language learning.
iii) Everyday expressions, particularly of spoken English, also need a place in the syllabus. These can be functional, social, situational or idiomatic.
- Clear focus on grammar.
- Balanced, integrated-skills syllabus.
- Real-world speaking skills – Everyday English, Spoken English, Music of English.
- Digital resources for interactive whiteboards – New Headway Classroom Presentation Tool.
- Full teacher support – resources, photocopiables, tests and more – in print and online.
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Kiteboarding equipment is built tough, and is meant to last for years, but as with anything, wear and tear can add up and eventually lead to gear failure. Here a list of areas to check on your kiteboarding kite before heading out for a ride.
On the kite:
* Look over the canopy material to make sure there are no rips, pinholes, or badly worn areas. Holding the material up to the light and looking from underneath is a great way to detect pinholes and tears, worn areas will appear lighter in color or faded and scuffed up. If you find small tears or weak areas apply a patch of kite tape over the entire area on both sides of the canopy and your kite should be OK for a session. later you can have the patch sewn on or the area of the canopy replaced by a repair shop. If the tears are more than a few inches long than a repair product like kitefix is required, or the area must be patched and sewn before using the kite.
* Inspect the leading edge of the kite. Look for tears, badly scraped areas, or other weaknesses in the leading edge material which can be caused from the kite scraping on the ground or hard objects. Also inspect the seam of the leading edge for areas where the stitching is coming un-done. If you find any damage on the leading edge do not use the kite until it is repaired in a repair shop.
* Check the bridle attachment points where they connect to the leading edge. Over time, these points can begin to tear off the kite. Make sure all stitching and material is secure, if a bridle attachment point is failing then don't use the kite until it is repaired.
* Inspect the bridle lines of the kite for wear. bridle lines are only likely to become damaged where there are pulleys or sliding rings, or where flying lines are attached, so check these areas carefully. If an area of the bridle line is worn, it can usually be replaced quickly with an extra length of line.
* Inspect the inflation valves and hoses on the kite. Make sure the valves are properly positioned, and that hoses connecting the leading edge to the struts on the kite are not cracked or worn out. Hoses are simple to replace if looking worn or damaged, simply pop the old one off and put the new one on.
* Ensure the kite is inflated to the proper pressure and not losing air before you take off.
Although kiteboarding kites are built tough and can survive hard crashes on land and water, it is a good idea to head back in after a bad crash and recheck the kite to ensure there is no damage sustained before the next time you try to boost 50 ft in the air.
AirPadre Kiteboarding is a great resource for kiteboarders around the world, with tons of great equipment, a knowledgeable staff, and one of the best kiteboarding and kitesurfing locations in the world on South Padre Island, Texas.
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From: Daniel L Christiansen (firstname.lastname@example.org)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 11:32:16 EST
Garrett B Trott & Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote [snipped]:
> >But when it comes to vv. 18-19, neither English version makes any
> >typographical distinction, whereas N/A 27 again indents ( without
> >italicization, this time ).
> >It's only a small point, but have you any idea why N/A should indent
> >vv. 18-19?
> Just an idea, but some scholars see a creed-like formula present in these
> verses, similar to what is in 1 Timothy 3:16. N/A indents it similar to
> how they indent 1 Timothy 3:16, since the original audience may have
> perhaps seen it as a "kind-of quotation."
The lack of italicization is not surprising, since italics are reserved
in NA27 for OT quotes (cf Introduction p 50). And I think that Garrett
is close to the mark with his comment on "creed-like formula." (In
addition to 1Tim 3:16, we have 1Thess 5:16-22; 1Tim 2:5-6, 6:11-12,
6:15-16; 2Tim 1:9-10; Col 1:15-20 and--of course--the Carmen Christi in
I was surprised that the Intro to NA27 did not include any comment on
the editors' decisions for determining & indicating poetics; however,
even without specific info in the edition, it is clear that this is what
has been done. The indentation of v 18 is due to a poetic structure of
the text; such poetic structure itself is usually seen as evidencing an
early Church confession/creed/hymn.
-- Daniel L. Christiansen Department of Bible Multnomah Bible College 8435 NE Glisan Street Portland, OR 97220 (Also Portland Bible College, Prof of Biblical Languages) e-mail: email@example.com
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- FAS: 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4, 10/4, 12/4, 16/4
- 9″ & Wider FAS: 4/4, 5/4, 6/4, 8/4
- #1 Common: 4/4
- #2 Common: 8/4
- Heartwood is a rich dark brown to purplish-black, with the sapwood being nearly white in color. Walnut is straight grained, stiff, and has a good shock resistance. Walnut is commonly sold steamed, where the heartwood is blended with the sapwood , producing at times lighter and varying shades of brown on the boards.
How well does it work?
- Works well with hand and machine tools. Walnut holds nails and screws well, and has a great finish. Walnut also paints, stains, glues, and polishes well.
Seasoning and Durability
- The heartwood of walnut is very durable to decay, but the sapwood is liable to attack by the powder post beetle.
Notes on Grade
- Butternut and Walnut are more lenient in grade than other North American hardwoods, thus there will be a higher waste factor when working with the lumber.
- Walnut has been reported as a sensitizer, but severe reactions are quite uncommon. Common reactions are eye and skin irritation.
- Cabinetry, furniture, gunstock, instruments, flooring, and plywood.
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Word problems are much more enjoyable for your youngster to solve than regular, boring maths. In this free downloadable worksheet, your youngster is expected to read a mathematical text carefully and answer the questions under it. The questions are easy to understand, and counting the cupcakes adds an element of color and fun.
Mathematics involves far more than learning to count numbers, adding them up, subtracting, multiplication and division. And, your youngster is probably just starting to see that. Maybe they are getting a little overwhelmed by all the new complexities like comparing numbers and learning their differences. With this downloadable worksheet, however, you can bring back the fun to comparing numbers!
What is more fun than a day at the beach? Definitely, not a day spent doing some math, that’s for sure! Your child might not be too eager to stay indoors and count and compare numbers with you. But, with this printable worksheet, you can bring a bit of beach fun into maths. Carefully read the text with your child and figure out how many seashells Stuart has. Hint: it is more than Meg’s and less than Jane’s.
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Often times, whether in work or family life—or even in politics—when things go wrong, someone usually, as it’s popularly said, “takes the blame.” In psychological terms, attributing blame falls under the large umbrella of attribution theory—or, when one “seek[s] causes for others’ behavior or circumstances.”
Attribution appears to be well within the realm of average human behavior; in other words, seeking out the causes or circumstances of an individual’s behavior is something we all seem to do—quite routinely, too.
One theorist, Fritz Heider, is considered to be “the father of attribution theory,” because of his work on the subject. In 1958, Heider published The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, where he proposed that “individuals make internal attributions when they identify a person’s supposed personal characteristics as the cause of his or her behavior or circumstances and external attributions when they identify the environment and the situation as causes for a person’s behavior or circumstances.”
The fundamental attribution error occurs, then, when an individual makes external attributions to explain his or her behavior and circumstances but fails to do so for other individuals’ behavior or circumstances. In 2002, researchers from Iowa State University published an article, General Verses Specific Victim Blaming, in which they cite Heider’s work, noting: “. . . people are more likely to attribute their own failures to environmental attributes and their own successes to personal attributes. In contrast,” the authors continue, “people may have a tendency to do the opposite when judging others.” In other words, when things go wrong for us, it’s the situation; when things go wrong for someone else, it’s their fault.
Understanding attribution remains important because it could be a first step toward identifying and preventing the fundamental attribution error from occurring.
Attribution tends to appear often during discussions of discerning the causes of social issues, or even in unlikely places such as sports conversations. If the winning team’s quarterback says, “We got lucky,” he, in essence, is making an external attribution—he is saying that the cause of his team’s success lied outside the team’s control. More likely, however, that same winning team may attribute their success to the “players’ skills” or the character of an individual player. In this case, he may be making an internal attribution.
In the case of social issues, the Iowa State researchers attempted to dig deeper and explain why some individuals make the attributions that they do. It turns out that two important variables come into play—the type of victim and a belief in a “just world.”
With regard to the former, the researchers note that, “. . . whether one blames the victim or society may depend on the type of victim.” In other words, the type of person who is called into question may determine how that victim is judged. What’s more, in the case of AIDS victims, which was the population being studied by the above study, “[v]ictim blaming was significantly associated with intolerance . . . .” Moreover, other theorists have noted that “blaming the victim” is more likely to occur if the individual doing the blaming believes in a just world; that is, a belief that “the world is largely a fair and safe place to live.”
The take away message here is that attributing the causes of our own and others’ behavior and circumstances remains neither “good” nor “bad,” but rather appears to be a ubiquitous psychological phenomenon. Whether we make internal or external attributions for our or others’ situations, however, depends heavily on who the victim is and whether or not we believe the “just world hypothesis,” as the research in this area suggests. Perhaps, more importantly, it remains vital that we attempt to withhold initial judgement in cases where the motivations behind another person’s behavior remain unclear.
Johnson, L., Mullick, R., and Mulford, C. (2002). General verses specific victim blaming. The Journal of Social Psychology, 142, 249 – 263.
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"Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative changes."
(Marx, Capital I.11, cadged from Malcolm Harris)
This semester, I'm teaching my first 3-hour, once-weekly class, an undergrad medieval comparative lit course. It runs from 6:30-9:10 every Monday, which I bisect with an optional but absolutely needed 15-minute break from roughly 7:45-8pm.
Three classes in and I'm loving it. It's not just that I have to wind myself up to teach this stuff only once instead of twice a week (and we know, at least I do, the emotional effort required to step into a classroom); it's what a long class does to my teaching.
For me and other talkers, a 75-minute class (or these thrice-weekly 50-minute classes I've heard rumor of) loves for me just to offload great blocks of ad-libbed information. And judging by my evals, this works. The letter arrives at some destination, if I'm just trying to convince my students that they're getting what they think is an education and, even more so, if I want them to think I'm smart. But it's obviously not our jobs to convince students that we deserve to be running the class.
Three hours of talking though? Doable, definitely, but far more obviously useless than in a regular-length class, or my name isn't Karl "Increase Mather" Steel. Quantitative differences have forced me to flip my classroom. I'm following the scientists who are following humanities teaching.
Below, I'll give you a map of the whole class. First, though, last night's favorite bit.
I showed them the Wikipedia page on The Voyage of Saint Brendan and gave them five or ten minutes to read it (either from the screen up front or from their phones) and to write down one key thing the wikipedia page missed, and--if they had time--why this thing matters for understanding the text. If you don't want to read the Wikipedia, because why?, it offers a very brief intro and then a 29-item list of the steps of the voyage. And that's it.
Here's a partial list of what the class turned up:
- Birds are fallen angels, not just birds.
- Interactions between the people – the kisses for example, or the bowing, or the conversation.
- What Brendan thinks about Abbot Ailbe's silence, which he thinks too severe for human nature to bear.
- How Brendan lets God guide them to islands rather than travelling deliberately.
- All the stuff about don’t worry, god will keep us safe: gryphon eg.
- Jasconius: wikip doesn’t seem to understand that he is also the whale island.
- Omits the size of the sheep – giant holy land sheep who never get milked.
- Above all: the Psalms and the liturgy. Calendar and the solstice, Easter, Christmas.
What champs! We could have kept going for another 20 minutes on this. Now, I told them the obvious: they were being tested on whether they'd done the reading, and also being given a practical lesson in Wikipedian inadequacies. They got all this. But then I unpacked a fun fact: we have 120+ extant manuscripts of the Voyage of Brendan, and translations into most European vernaculars. And a lot of the translations, or really, adaptations, do exactly what the Wikipedia article does, namely, they hush up the religious element and turn up the adventure. See some of this for example. What does this say about continuities between medieval and modern readers?
Keep reading for the complete lesson plan. And if you'd rather just skip to comments, do that, and let me know your classroom flipping tricks, because frankly this old talker is new to all this...fun. Note that my class has only 24 students, which strikes me as perfect for a 300-level undergrad course.
The whole plan:
- As students come in, to set a mood, I played a long scene from Valhalla Rising of warriors drifting at sea, mostly mute, filthy, and lost in the fog;
- the medieval news: last week it was Richard III. This week it was the Pope's resignation (helped along by showing them Bruce Holsinger's blog) and then some Wonders of the East from the newly digitized Cotton MS Vitellius A XV (which means talking about the Ashburnham House fire);
- then, once I know I have a full complement, the Wikipedia thing;
- three five-minute student presentations. All smart and interesting. The first on animal guides; the second on ecology, conservationism, and sainthood; and the third on Christian allegory. Everyone had to write down a comment or question for every presenter, which meant a lively discussion until the break at 7:45;
- during the break, students who stuck around learned how to build a coracle;
- since mine might be the only medieval class the students take, I do a lot of "medieval ambassadorship"--or just show and tell--whenever I do take time to talk. Last night I showed them an Adam Roberts pun ("The Em-Bayeux Strikes Back") and then...explained the joke;
- boring discussion of the papers I had just graded. Had to be done, but this I hadn't quite planned on, so I reverted back to the old lecturing Karl. Will need to fix this next time;
- quick gesture at favorite bits from the immrama and echtrai, mostly from old issues of the Revue celtique available on Archive.org: Voyage of Snegdus and Mac Riagla; Voyage of Mael Duin; Voyage of the Húi Corra; and the Voyage of Bran. This led into a brief discussion of medieval remix culture, and using TvTropes to undo the modern pretension of "originality";
- and finally, in-class writing, small group discussion, followed by reports back to the class.
Here were the questions:
- Having read Bede's Life of Cuthbert and the Voyage of St. Brendan, what do you now know about Christian monastic asceticism, and what does this say about their conception about the good and the evil? What do they think someone needs to do to be holy, and why? [this required explaining the difference between asceticism and aestheticism];
- Why is the Voyage precise on so many things (the size of the "iceberg" for example), but never about where things actually are (the relative position of the islands)?
- Why should being naked except for full-body hair be a sign of holiness?
They got 10 minutes. They could write first about whichever one interested them, and all three if they could. One detailed response would be more than sufficient, though. Then groups of four had to try to synthesize an answer (which is always, usefully, impossible). Discussion had to be cut off, both in the small groups, and then when I finally let them go precisely at 9:10.
One more point! Because of all the in-class writing (which is ungraded but read and counts for 15% of their grade), and the presentation (which has a graded written component), I'm eliminating TWO short papers from my standard syllabus. Advantages abound: less to grade; they write more; they think about the reading more often, and possibly more deeply; and they have more time at home to work on their other classes. Which means I'm not the bad guy, and I'm stuck in grading jail a lot less. Everyone wins.
Next week we start four weeks on Gerald of Wales. I hope we all can keep it up!
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The standard advice on whether you have enough yarn to complete one more row is to stretch out your knitting and, if the length of yarn is 4 times the width of your work, you should have enough.
How do I know if I have enough yarn for a project?
Weigh the full skein of yarn (including the 20 yards) on a scale and record how many grams it is. Multiply the full skein weight by 20. Divide that number by the weight of the 20 yards. The resulting number is how many yards is in the full skein.
How do I figure out how much yarn I need?
How to Calculate Yarn Yardage by Weight
- Take the original number of yards and multiply by the remaining ounces.
- Take that number and divide by the total ounces of an unused skein of this same yarn.
- Answer = 152.66 yards! Woohoo!
How do I know how much yarn I need to crochet a blanket?
To find out the total amount of yarn you’ll use for your project, multiply the number of stitches in your pattern by the number of inches each stitch uses.
How much yarn do I need to crochet a blanket?
For a full-size blanket, you will need quite a bit of yarn, probably around 13-18 balls or skeins of yarn. Usually, afghans are very colorful, so you may have one skein of each and, if it’s it’s really colorful, that can add up. If the blanket only has one or a few colors, it may only be 10 skeins.
How much yarn do I need to knit a blanket?
“The amount of yarn you need really depends on your project and how thick your yarn is. For example, a good size blanket takes about 225 yards of yarn,” Weil says. “If you are making that with four strands of super bulky yarn, you would need 900 yards total.
How much yarn is needed for a baby blanket?
How much yarn do I need to make a ____?
|Yarn Weight 1||Yarn Weight 3|
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|Afghan||3750-4125 Yards||3000-3500 Yards|
How much yarn do I need to crochet a top?
Get out a skein of yarn that’s 4.5 ounces (127.5 g) or 227 yards (208 m) long. You can use any type of yarn you like, but pick yarn that’s soft so your crop top is comfortable to wear. Keep in mind that you won’t use all of the skein. Avoid using 100% cotton yarn since it will shrink if you toss it in the dryer.
What do you do when you run out of yarn in the middle of a project?
When you run out of yarn and need to add another ball to your project, stop when you have about 6″ left of your current ball. Stop your last stitch with two loops left on your hook before completing the stitch. Then place a loop of the new ball tail on the hook and draw through the last twp loops to finish the stitch.
How much big yarn do I need to make a blanket?
For example, they may be able to identify that 4 pounds of wool can yield a 30” x 50” blanket, and the ball contains 28 yards per pound. Crunch those numbers, and know that you’ll have about 340 feet of chunky yarn in a single ball to yield a 30” x 50” blanket.
How much yarn do I need to crochet a granny square blanket?
You can use the information in the pattern to make any size of blanket. Yardage: In the gauge listed above, each granny square will require approximately 32 yards of yarn.
How many balls of yarn does it take to crochet a single bed blanket?
1 to 3 balls of yarn would be needed.
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HIV/AIDS is a major pandemic in many parts of Africa but one country on the continent is making huge strides to eradicate the disease. According to the Federal HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office (HAPCO), Ethiopia plans to prevent up to 80,000 new cases of HIV infection and more than half a million AIDS-related deaths by 2020, and as Dr. Alebachew Achamyeleh, acting director of HAPCO, told Keycorrespondents.org:
“I believe Ethiopia is in a strong position to achieve the goal of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030.”
There’s good reason to believe that. As Dr. Achamyeleh pointed out, Ethiopia has already exceeded its previous five-year target of reducing new HIV infections to 0.14 percent. HAPCO actually reduced the incidence of HIV from 0.28 percent in 2010 to 0.03 percent in 2015. The secret to Ethiopia’s success, Dr. Achamyeleh said, is focusing mainly on people at the highest risk of infection. “Activities focused on identifying places and people with a high risk of HIV infection like hotspot areas for sex workers and long distance truck drivers, as well as addressing harmful practices like gender based violence,” Key Correspondents reported. Additionally, the country has focused on intensifying HIV prevention with programs in schools, universities and youth centers encouraging young adults to change their sexual health behavior; enhancing care, treatment, and support; and generating strategic information during the past five years.
“In Ethiopia, more than 3,000 health facilities give voluntary counselling and testing service, while 377,000 people are on treatment in 1,500 service centers. Around 35,000 of these people began the service in 2015,” Dr. Achamyeleh said. Taking note of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office report that the 2015 AIDS death rate had fallen by more than 70% from the more than 70,000 people who died of AIDS in 2010, he added, “This is the outcome of the increased access to antiretroviral treatment.”
As Ethiopia gears up to meet their goals for 2020 and 2030, Dr. Achamyeleh did note only approximately 20 percent of HIV positive children are taking antiretrovirals, a stat that can turn around with better knowledge and comprehension of HIV as a still very real threat in the country, despite the decreased incidence.
“We need to intensify our coordinated efforts. Undertaking high impact targeted prevention activities and targeted HIV counselling and testing are among the priorities over the next five years,” said Dr. Achamyeleh.
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In this post, I’ll outline some of the courses you can choose from and provide some useful information about each so you can better choose the best options for you.
TEFL training course (not the CELTA)
You can find quite a few TEFL courses both online and in-house now. They have grown due to demand from people unable to attend or unaware of the CELTA. These can vary from short weekends to longer courses. Some argue that a TEFL course is a TEFL course and that if it gets you a job then it is fine. There are companies who provide their own TEFL courses as part of pre-teaching training and some that sell courses and then offer work. The important question to ask yourself is ‘will it help me get a good job’? If you can’t afford the CELTA or find a course in your country and an alternative will help you then you might need to consider this option but if you plan to apply to the big schools then be prepared for the certificate not being recognised.
The CELTA is for many people the first step into TEFL. It is intense and stressful but provides you with the tools and confidence to start teaching the next day and can be enough to get you a good job in several countries. However, in terms of recognition, it isn’t always recognised as it isn’t seen as ‘academic’ in some countries but is generally taken by language schools who understand these qualifications. It can be a big investment so choose your school carefully and think about moving abroad afterwards as there are many people with CELTAs now so competition can be tough.
The traditional next step up the TEFL career ladder is the DELTA. In many ways, it continues your education into linguistics, course development and experimenting with new methods. It is frequently requested for senior teacher and ADOS and DOS posts and even in the academic system. After a few years of CELTA level teaching, you might feel you’ve reached a plateau and need to develop and so the DELTA is the natural next move. There is some debate about whether it is equivalent to an MA though. On paper in the UK, it is the same level but if you apply for an academic job that asks for an MA and have the DELTA, you might not be accepted. It can help you skip MA modules though.
Certificate in International Business English Training (Cert iBET, Business English)
Teachers of Business English delivering lessons in language schools or in companies can learn a lot from the Cert iBET course. It is available online, in schools or as a blended course and is designed to help you develop as a professional business English provider and some courses have very recognised trainers in this field. It isn’t as popular as the CELTA or DELTA and so these courses are limited. Also, it isn’t as well-known but is certainly worth considering after the CELTA if you want to work in Business English.
Coaching has become a common word on TEFL teacher CVs over the past few years. Several people have even rebranded themselves as language coaches. This is because coaching is seen by some as a more modern method of teaching or ‘coaching’ 121 students and even groups. It is many complementary components to the TEFL method and can open up new doors for your teaching and career. Nevertheless, choosing the right coaching course can be difficult as it is still a developing field and so prices, quality and recognised vary greatly. If you want something to expand your bag of TEFL techniques then coaching could be useful.
Any teacher looking to move into academia will probably need to think about an MA course. Thankfully, there are numerous online, weekend and on-site courses that cover TEFL teaching and this is expanding. Where previously only an MA in Linguistics was available, now you can choose from MA’s focussing on technology and teaching and even material development. For the majority of countries an MA is an MA but always check. There are students with BAs and MAs from countries that are not recognised in Europe. Also look at the ranking of the university you wish to attend and the faculty. With the increasing amount of online MA courses, you can access good quality education from anywhere but at a high price in some cases.
Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)
A PGCE is a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education which is like a practical MA combined with internships. It is often requested for teaching in primary, middle and high schools in the UK system and so is a rather intense course which prepares you to teach the national curriculum. There are courses with elements of TEFL so if you are thinking of working in UK schools, a PGCE is a good choice. On the other hand, if you expect to use it abroad, you might need to reconsider as it isn’t academic like an MA or as TEFL as a CELTA or DELTA.
Masters of Research (MRes)
For teachers considering an academic path towards a Phd, the MRes is becoming a common choice. Some Phd programmes demand a solid background in research which not all MA courses provide. As a result, the MRes can provide you with the research tools you need to do a Phd or to work in research. It is increasingly combined with Phd programmes in structured Phds now to enable people to progress easier into a Phd.
The top qualification for most people is a Phd. This is where you select a focus you are interested in and do intensive research on it for publication. If you are in the academic system as an EAP teacher or have a similar post, a Phd should help you move up but make sure you choose a suitable topic, a good university and a recognised tutor. Your Phd paper is kind of your mark in the sand and employers are very aware of which universities are high in rankings, as well as which tutors are respected in the field. The length and difficulty, as well as price, of a Phd are not to be underestimated though so take these into consideration. Moreover, having a Phd does not guarantee you a job and the chances of finding the right post in the exact right subject area can be challenging.
Disclaimer: All our blog posts are written by external bloggers. Content contained herein does not necessarily represent the views of the British Council.
The Trinity CertTESOL is also accepted by the British Council so should be explicitly stated as one of the two recommended options. Evidence of this is here https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/teacher-training/formal-qualifications
Paragraph titles CELTA/CertTESOLand DELTA/DipTESOL both contain Trinity qualification names but the content only mentions CELTA and DELTA.
As a person who is familiar with both Cambridge and Trinity College of London qualifications, even I find this article confusing.
Thanks for your comment. As stated at the bottom of this blogpost - all our blog posts are written by external bloggers, and so the views here do not necessarily represent the British Council. This post gives an overview of some of the different career paths available to English language teachers and just some of the qualifications that they can gain to develop professionally - as you said, the CertTESOL and DipTESOL are mentioned alongside the CELTA and DELTA as alternatives to these qualifications.
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Professional Category: Doctor
Academic History: Phd Food Science and Technology
CSIC Scientific Areas: Food Science and Technology
LINES OF RESEARCH:
Bioactivity of food components of marine origin, mainly, Omega 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids:
- Regulation of redox homeostasis. Oxidative posttranslational modifications of proteins and lipid oxidation. Protein carbonylation. Proteomics and lipidomics tools.
- In vivo mechanisms of action in the prevention of metabolic alteration induced by diet.
- Biomarkers and therapeutic targets for the prevention/paliation of metabolic alteration induced by diet.
Resumen libre del Currículum/biografía:
She received her PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela in 2016, at the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology doctoral program, carrying out her studies at the department of Chemistry of Seafood Products from the IIM-CSIC. Her PhD studies addressed the molecular mechanisms of action of the consumption of marine polyunsaturated fatty acids by applying redox and quantitative proteomics tools.
She did predoctoral stays, first at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the USC and then, at the Department of Macromolecular Structure from the CNB-CSIC, where he focused on food biochemistry and protein analysis based on mass spectrometry, respectively. In 2017, and as a doctor, she moved to the Department of Bioanalytics at the University of Leipzig, where she joined the Dr. Fedorova’s research for a 2-years postdoctoral stay. During this stage, she was trained in the study and characterization of oxidized lipids and proteins, which are relevant in diet-induced metabolic disorders.
In 2010, she received a FPI Fellowship and joined the Chemistry of Seafood Products department at the IIM-CSIC. She is a postdoctoral researcher at the aforementioned department since 2017, when she gained a fellowship from the GAIN-Xunta de Galicia´s Program for Support at the Post-Doctoral Stage. During her research career, she has been continuously involved in numerous projects. She has published 29 journal articles and book chapters, and her h-index is 8. She has presented her work at national and international congresses. She has supervised 1 PhD thesis. She is a reviewer for many SCI journals. She won the 2018 ILSI Europe Young Scientist Travel Award. She is member of the Society for Free Radical Research Europe (SFRR Europe).
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Self-study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research
Theory, Methodology, and Practice
Self-study of Practice as a Genre of Qualitative Research by Stefinee E. Pinnegar
Book DescriptionTeacher educators live hectic lives at institutional and discipline boundaries. Our greatest potential for influence is through developing relationships with others in our practice. Our work is fundamentally relational and emotional. We are obligated to the teachers we teach and the public students they teach. Our practice exists in the midst of experience, conflicting and often hostile boundaries, and between what we know from research and what we understand from practice. Self-study of practice invites researchers to embrace the hectic and fragmented territory of practice as the space for study. This book educates those who would like to explore practice in the methodology of self-study. It provides both a pragmatic and theoretic guide. It grounds the research in ontology and establishes dialogue as the inquiry process. It supports researchers through the use of frameworks to guide research and explication of strategies for conducting it.
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From presentation at Geosynthetics 2013 conference
By Abigail Beck
A standing room only crowd gathered April 3, 2013, for the panel discussion “How to specify a geoelectric leak location survey,” presented during the Geosynthetics 2013 conference April 1-4 in Long Beach, Calif.
The varying viewpoints of the panel members and the challenging questions and comments from the audience made for lively discussion. Forums such as these are critical for sharing knowledge and improving industry standards and methods.
Tim Bauters kicked off the discussion by sharing some alarming photos of leaks that would have remained in the installed geomembrane if they had not been detected by liner integrity surveys (LIS). Then the 90-minute session was shaped by questions and topics posed to the panel, which included of Glenn Darilek (Leak Location Services Inc.), Ian Peggs (I-Corp International), Abigail Beck (TRI Environmental), and Andre Rollin (Groupe Alphard). Each member of the panel was given the opportunity to provide a response or comment, followed by questions and comments from the audience.
The questions and topics are presented here, followed by a synopsis of the subsequent discussions.
What should one know about liner integrity surveys during the liner system design? How should one specify a liner integrity survey (LIS)? How should one perform CQA for a liner integrity survey?
The panel pointed out that, foremost, a liner integrity survey needs to be considered in the design phase. Boundary conditions such as material conductivity and survey area isolation are very important to a successful survey. Several case studies were mentioned—at one site the geocomposite was too dry for a successful survey, at other sites it was sufficiently wet and leaks were located. If the requirement for watering the geocomposite is part of the project specifications, dry geocomposite can be avoided.
The same was noted with subgrade conditions. The consequences are greater, however, since you cannot water the subgrade after the geomembrane has been placed. Desiccated subgrade and encapsulated GCL can prevent the ability to survey an installation. If this is not considered in the design phase, the survey may not be successful.
Design engineers should contact an experienced leak location company for design guidance. Also, they should understand that they have the option of taking a class to educate themselves in liner integrity surveys.
Panel members commented that it would be quite complicated to produce a complete design guidance document, given the wide range of technologies and site and design-specific conditions. The panel noted that survey companies chosen to perform LIS work need to be experienced, but that the minimum qualifications should be sensible for the method used. One useful tool for construction quality assurance (CQA) is the blind actual leak placement—a hole drilled by the site engineer, owner, or CQA agent to check the functionality of the LIS.
Also, GPS-based mapping can be used with the dipole survey method as a valuable CQA tool to provide documentation that the survey was completed and that the method was properly applied.
In conclusion to this portion of the discussion, the audience expressed the desire for a more comprehensive liner integrity survey guidance document for design engineers.
Talk about challenging cases relating to site isolation from your field experience.
The importance of perimeter isolation was stressed, particularly in terms of cleanliness and dryness. Grounded objects inside the survey area also require isolation. In addition to the perimeter site isolation, excessive leaks through the liner itself can reduce survey sensitivity.
However, even if isolation or excessive leakage compromises the sensitivity of a survey, the survey should be done because it is better than not doing a survey at all. The survey will still locate the larger leaks. ASTM does allow latitude in the sensitivity, in the case of adverse site conditions.
What new technologies (materials and equipment) and standards should the field look to for performing or improving LIS sensitivity and success?
A GPS-based three-dimensional voltage mapping system for soil-covered dipole surveys was presented. This method provides meaningful CQA documentation. In addition, the equipment used for GPS-based mapping can be used for simultaneous multi-directional surveying. This would increase dipole survey sensitivity and quality.
A method for cancelling the background noise for the dipole method was also presented. This technology would be applied to sites with electrical noise from sources such as pumps, power lines in the surrounding area, and objects in the survey area that create localized voltage potentials. It has shown to increase the signal created by a leak by reducing the electrical noise created by other sources.
The introduction of a new ASTM standard for conductive geotextile was announced.* The technology for creating conductive geotextile has also been significantly advanced.
*See the complete news article regarding a proposed ASTM WK42576, “Practice for Electrical Leak Location on Exposed Geosynthetics,” at: geosyntheticsmagazine.com/articles/080513_geomembrane_leaks
This proposal is currently under development and will be a topic for discussion at the Jan. 29-30, 2014, biannual meetings of the ASTM Committee D35 on Geosynthetics in Houston, Texas.
Where are we with regard to destructive testing of liners on site?
The requirement for destructive testing was discussed, particularly the frequency. The panel’s first comment was that the frequency of destructive sampling is excessive. Several states allow a decrease in destructive seam sampling if a liner integrity survey is performed. It was mentioned that there are other methods of seam analysis that are non-destructive. The concept that it might make more sense to only do destructs at the end of the seams where patches will be anyway was mentioned.
J.P. Giroud offered a reason for the current 500-ft. frequency. He stated that in 1983 the frequency was arbitrarily created and was meant as an interim requirement until a more sensible one could be implemented. But that the value has never changed. Another audience member commented that the ability to randomly sample for testing has made a positive impact on overall seam quality, calling it an important CQA tool to be able to require a destruct sample in questionable areas.
In conclusion, a comment was made from the audience that it shouldn’t be a question of replacing one form of testing for another; all of the methods should be used to complement each other to create a holistic evaluation of installation quality.
Should artificial leaks be standardized?
Artificial leaks are conductive circular disks meant to simulate actual leaks. They are electrically isolated around the circular conductive disk and an insulated wire can then be grounded to the earth at the perimeter of the survey area. This allows the liner integrity survey to check for survey sensitivity without actually creating a leak in the geomembrane.
In response, the panel commented that the signal from a leak depends more on hole contact than on hole size. The artificial leaks can be thought of as a way to check equipment functionality. It was noted that ASTM already provides specific details for artificial leaks, and this approach has worked well for 23 years.
It was stressed that artificial leaks should be set up to conservatively estimate an actual leak signal so that the sensitivity test results do not make the survey sensitivity appear greater than in actuality. One panel member said that it is always better to drill a hole if possible to verify survey functionality, but another panel member disagreed, since the ASTM method is meant as a non-destructive test. The drilling of holes can be costly, since someone will have to pay to patch it, especially if no other holes are found during the survey except for the ones that were drilled. The ASTM standard explains the advantages of artificial vs. actual leaks and some owners do not want to pay to have a liner crew mobilized to repair an actual leak.
Should blind actual leaks be used?
The question was posed to the panel whether or not it is a good idea for owners, designers or CQA agents to make blind actual leaks. These types of leaks are intentionally put in for the leak location contractor to locate as a means to verify the functionality of the methods that contractor will use on the site.
One member of the panel felt that at least one blind leak per project should be made, since the owner, designer, and CQA agent’s confidence in LIS technology goes up when blind holes are drilled and located.
Yet, two case studies were described where blind holes were not drilled correctly and multiple leak location companies were unable to locate them. These situations resulted in project delays and significant financial loss for the leak location contractors involved.
It was noted that guidance for creating blind actual leaks will soon be an ASTM standard. This should mitigate many of the problems encountered by poorly executed blind leaks. The ASTM standard is currently under review for approval.
The panel made the final comment that since the spirit of liner integrity methods is that they are non-destructive test methods, blind actual leaks should not be required. The audience responded with the comment that in Europe, it is the standard protocol to place at least three blind leaks per project, but it is imperative that a blind actual leak placement protocol is provided.
It was pointed out that if you look at how many geomembrane lining systems are installed and calculate the percentage of those where liner integrity surveys are performed as part of construction, the percentage is so low it is astonishing (estimated at 2 %).
Liner integrity survey methods are performed as part of construction, when there may or may not be a leak. The same methods are referred to as electrical leak location surveys when the geomembrane is known to contain a leak and it must be localized for repair. These methods are the state of the art in geomembrane quality control. Since the price of a survey is insignificant compared to the cost of a project and it adds immense value, there is no reason it should not be done on every project. The only reason projects may have for not performing the methods must be that they are uninformed, since undetected leaks will cost a site more in the long-term; the reasoning cannot be financial
The audience responded to this statement with a final comment from J.P. Giroud: “All geomembrane liners should be subjected to a liner integrity survey.”
NOTE: All proceedings from Geosynthetics 2013 are available at: https://secure.ifai.com/ifai.com/store/item/667
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Few things unleash memories as vividly as a favorite song from our past. We don’t just remember the tune; we can often recall exactly where we were, whom we were with, sometimes even what we were wearing when we first heard a tune on our personal Top Hits list. There are a number of reasons for this powerful recollection, including the geography of the brain itself.
Music, Emotion, and Memory in Harmony
Links among three areas of the temporal lobe (at the bottom of the brain) help determine how well we remember a song:
- Primary auditory cortex. This part of the brain enables us to interpret the sounds we hear, helping us distinguish sounds with a pattern from chaotic noise.
- Amygdala. This structure processes emotions such as fear, anger, and pleasure. Neuroimaging confirms that the amygdala tends to have a heightened response to music and is activated more by songs than by random collections of sounds.
- Hippocampus. Memories are organized and stored here. The hippocampus also helps connect emotions to sensory input, including sound. Songs that trigger more of an emotional response are more likely to be remembered.
While a song can affect our emotions, our emotional state when we hear it also influences our response to the song. The setting plays a role as well. If we first hear a song, for example, during a highly pleasurable experience (say, a great party), it can attach to that experience and elevate our mood when we hear it again in neutral situations.
Why Songs from Our Teens and Young Adulthood Dominate Personal “Top Hits” Lists
For many people, music consumption is at its peak from adolescence through the early twenties. This is when musical tastes are usually shaped, and these tastes often hold true from then on.
But it’s not just the many hours of listening that forge these musical preferences. Adolescence is when we begin figuring out who we are. This search for an identity, combined with an increased release of hormones during our teen years, makes us hungrily absorb and evaluate our daily experiences and interactions with peers. The music we listen to during this phase of our development becomes inextricably linked to this quest for personal definition.
It was 1967. I had just entered high school and was about to break up with my girlfriend. Every day it seemed that my voice was getting lower and my body was growing taller.
I went with some classmates over to a friend’s house to hear a new record album. Not just any album; it was the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
I can see us all with mouths agape as we were launched into a new era of rock ’n’ roll. My friend Kevin looks at the lyrics on the album jacket. Tom lies on the couch. Bill sits cross-legged on the floor. I stand in the middle of the room. I can smell the pot roast cooking in the kitchen for Kevin’s family dinner.
I freeze and stop breathing when “A Day in the Life” begins. And, to this day, hearing the first notes of that legendary song brings all the emotions and images of that afternoon into orbit around my consciousness.
Many first-time experiences that occur during these years have an accompanying soundtrack—from first dates to first kisses to the first time driving a car. The intensity of this connection between moment and music results in what are called “reminiscence bumps”—memories that we can vividly recall as we get older.
According to Petra Janata, a psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, “a piece of familiar music serves as a soundtrack for a mental movie that starts playing in our head. It calls back memories of a particular person or place, and you might all of a sudden see that person’s face in your mind’s eye.”
Understanding the importance of music that matters to us personally is actually guiding efforts for memory enhancement in patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Even when memory in general is in decline, the ability to recall favorite songs often remains intact. Janata and others are researching ways to develop music-based therapy for those afflicted with this disease.
Take a Stroll Down Your Own Musical Memory Lane
Think back to when you were a teenager and first heard a song that would become one of your favorites. Write down where you were and what was happening around you during that pivotal listening experience. You may be surprised by how many vivid memories make an appearance!
Find Out More
- Daniel J. Levitin, This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
- “Study Finds Brain Hub That Links Music, Memory and Emotion,” University of California, Davis, press release
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June 17, 2008
Walk To Fight Cancer
By Amanda Stevens Journal Staff Writer
The community will be coming together to honor cancer survivors as well as loved ones lost to cancer during an overnight walk-a- thon this weekend.The 10th annual American Cancer Society Rio Rancho Relay for Life will begin at 7 p.m. Friday and continue throughout the night until 8 a.m. Saturday.
"The purpose of having it through the night is since cancer never sleeps, neither will we," said Lisa Gonzales, the Rio Rancho Relay event chairwoman. "When morning comes, it represents new life in honor of those who have lost their life. It represents new life to cancer survivors."
So far, 35 teams of 10-18 people have signed up to participate, as well as 37 cancer survivors, Gonzales said.
"I believe this event is extremely important," she said. "I feel there is a cure for cancer. I believe anybody who gets involved with Relay for Life feels in their heart there is a cure for cancer, and it's going to take a community to step up and find the funds to research to find the cure."
Participants raise money according to the number of laps they walk or run around the track, Gonzales said.
"We're hoping to bring in roughly $45,000," she said. "That money goes to the American Cancer Society, and it goes to advocacy, cancer research and also to support patients in the process of fighting cancer and in the healing process and patient support as well."
Luminarias will light up the track as the walkers go late into the night.
"Luminaria bags are lit all around that track that honor survivors and family and friends who have lost their loved ones," Gonzales said. "It's a beautiful experience, and it's a symbol of hope."
For those who have not signed up, there is still time. Participants are welcome to sign up the day of the event, Gonzales said. Or, visit events. cancer.org/rf lrioranchonm for more information and to register.
"I hear so many stories out there and (cancer) really affects our community more than I think people really know, and that's why it's so important for us to come together as a community and raise the funds and fight back and support each other and make a difference," Gonzales said.
IF YOU GO
WHAT: American Cancer Society Rio Rancho Relay for Life
WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday to 8 a.m. Saturday
WHERE: Rio Rancho High School
HOW MUCH: $10 registration fee
(c) 2008 Albuquerque Journal. Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
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Elon Musk’s first Tesla, in 2008, was a sports car — great for Jay Leno and George Clooney, of course, but more an experimental toy than something that would change the way we drive. The Model S sedan came next, in 2012, attracting other plug-friendly bold-faced names like James Cameron, Cameron Diaz, and Ben Affleck. Tonight Musk introduces the new SUV, Model X. It’s the next phase of Tesla’s evolution away from being the DeLorean (or the Cord), and toward being something you could actually drive if you’re not a celebrity with green-cred to prove.
The family-size Model X is meant to compete with giants BMW and Toyota. The Model X was originally announced in early 2012 with a target to deliver the first wave of cars in mid-2014. It will finally launch tonight during an event at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California.
1. An Overview of Model X
It will be able to seat seven (perfect for Silicon Valley peewee soccer) and go 250 miles at more than 300 horsepower before needing a recharge. It can also do 0-to-60 in five seconds, but you aren’t going to do that in a school zone.
2. It’s late, right? What caused the delay?
Full-scale production of the Model X was delayed due to battery issues (which the Model S reportedly had) and Musk’s mission to hit his 2013 goal for Model S sales and shore up the company’s overall profitability.
3. Here’s why the Model X is so important for Tesla.
It should show that Tesla can scale up. The Model X will also test Tesla’s strength as a company. This is the first time in Tesla’s history that it has had two models in production at the same time.
4. What is up with the competition?
The Model X will be the only electric luxury SUV on the American market for at least a year (the BMW X5 EDrive and Audi Q6 are not far behind), which gives Tesla an advantage in a relatively small market. So far reservations are strong; Tesla has booked 30,000 reservations for the Model X and plans to reach its goal of selling 50,000 cars this year.
5. It’s still not for the 99 percent-ers.
At $75,000, the Model X will actually be $5,000 more than the starting price of the Model S because it’s heavier and more complicated to build. A fully tricked-out X will run you $132,000 and $144,000. But that shiny green feeling never seems to come cheap.
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This an excerpt from the book ‘Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands’, courtesy of the author.
‘Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands’ is the true story of Lượng La, a boy growing up in the Mekong Delta in the midst of the Vietnam War. When the 1968 Tết Offensive forces his family to flee the countryside for the safety of the city, they continue to travel back and forth to their island farm despite threats from the Việt Cộng and nearby firefights. Lượng only wants to catch fish and slingshot birds, but the war ends and Communism plunges him back in time to a land without electricity where books are burned and propaganda “kneads their skulls.” He starts to fight for his freedom the only way he knows how.
By Michelle Robin La (as told to her by her husband, Lượng La)
I put a basket of ripe soursops in my canoe and paddle through the canals to the place where the fruit wholesaler usually ties her boat. On my way, I pass the neighbor’s house. No clothes or pots hang outside. The countryside is the emptiest I’ve seen it. Most people have gone to the city where they think it will be safer when the final battle erupts. I can’t stand staying in the city waiting to lose. I listen for other boats or the rumbling noise from a distant firefight. All I hear is the stroke of the wooden paddle when I nudge the canoe away from the water coconuts on the bank.
She hands me back my empty basket and some money. “Sorry, Lượng, I didn’t see any good bánh today. No package either, but your mother sent a message. She wants me to tell you ‘Don’t be a lost bird flying away from the flock.’”
I laugh. What a strange message. I’ve been out here watching our land ever since school closed because the teachers stopped coming. I guess Má wants me to go home. “I understand,” I say. “I’ll leave with you the next time I have fruit to sell.”
Two days later, the fruit wholesaler walks all the way to my hut. “Your mother sent another message. You need to go home today. We’ll wait for you.”
I run out and harvest some fruit I’ve been watching. I put the fruit in a plastic net bag along with my clothes and the rest of the rice. After I tie the canoe to a water coconut, I walk through the island to the fruit wholesaler’s boat.
The boat turns out of the leafy passages of Cồn Tàu and into the wide open river. There’s nothing to do but look at the brown water curling away from the boat and the trees hiding the edge of the shore next to us. No ghost bodies float in the river. There weren’t any on the way down either, and I haven’t heard much gunfire. Why have we stopped fighting? The news on the radio is that the Army is fleeing — they must be retreating into position to make their last stand. In history books there’s always a heroic battle at the end. No one just gives up. We pass the stream that leads to our old home in Quới Sơn. We already fled once. Where can we go now?
It’s evening when we get to the fruit vendor’s dock in Tân Long. There are only a few boats tied up. The street is full of people waiting to see what will happen. Small boats travel back and forth across the river.
I find Má in her room. “Good. You’re here,” she says. “Go upstairs and pack your clothes.”
“How are we going to leave?” I ask.
“There’s a way.” Má has several big travel bags filled and hidden in her bedroom. “Now we’re just waiting for your older sisters. I sent a message a week ago, but they’re still not here.” She paces the house searching for things to take, trying to keep the front room looking normal so no one knows we’re planning to leave.
I put some shorts and a couple of shirts in a plastic rice bag, but I know we’re not going anywhere with my two oldest sisters still at nursing school. And Ba hasn’t packed anything. I think my father’s too scared to leave.
The next day Mr. Three East mutters to himself as he patrols the street in front of our house. He’s the only member of the Civilian Self-Defense still around. Whenever he runs into soldiers he asks, “Are you on break? Why are you home?”
“Our unit disbanded. We didn’t have anywhere to go,” a soldier answers, “so we put our arms down and came home.”
They’re running away from the fight.
Ba sees Mr. Three East walking by and calls him in for tea. I set the teapot on the table. “That’s it,” Mr. Three East says, “they’ll surrender soon. Everyone fell out of line. The Army is a snake without a head now. The head was chopped off a while ago.” He gulps down his tea and walks back to his house.
Two soldiers stop by the next evening. Má brings them to the dining area in the back of the house. I follow, along with my brothers and the sisters who are home. “Are you coming?” one of the soldiers asks Má.
“I’m waiting for my two oldest daughters,” she says.
Ba steps in from the lean-to.
“It’s hard to have everyone together,” the soldier says. “Why doesn’t your husband stay and wait? We’ll send another boat for them.”
“What if the carriers aren’t there?” Ba asks. “Can we go to Thailand?”
The soldiers shake their heads. “No. There’s not enough fuel.”
Má tells the men to wait in the front part of the house while she and Ba talk. She chases us kids out. I can’t hear what Má says, but Ba shouts, “Do you want to kill us all?”
Má comes out alone. “Is there a wave after this one?” she asks the soldiers.
“All the big ones are going in the next twelve hours,” one of them says. “All the troop carriers and transports. This is a well-armed convoy and it’s being escorted. Only small patrol boats will be left.”
“We need more time.”
“You have to decide now.”
The soldiers leave without an answer. My parents argue for hours. “You don’t know where they’re going,” Ba says. “The Army says the carriers will be there, but other people say you’re just going out to drown or get ambushed by the Communists or even shot by the Americans. If it doesn’t work then we can’t come back. We’ll be traitors. Our house will be ransacked the second we close our door to leave.”
Aren’t the Communists supposed to be worse? After all of Ba’s talk about how bad Communism is, why are we staying?
The next day when I wake up, Má is already gone. Chị Tư tells me she went to Mỹ Tho. From our balcony I watch boats of all sizes stream south toward the mouth of the river. They’re staggered, three in a row, then two. Large ships, metal freighters, and troop transports in the middle with gunboats rocketing down alongside them, pushing up waves. For the first time, the Mekong looks small.
I walk out to watch the parade of boats from the end of the foot ferry dock. People stand around watching in front of Six Chicken’s house. “There goes the whole Navy,” someone says.
They’re abandoning us.
Soldiers step off small passenger ferry boats onto the dock, saying, “It’s over.” Everybody expects a final battle at the Army base along National Road 4. But how will it happen with all the soldiers coming home?
A woman selling steamed yams says, “I have to work . . . Communists or not . . . My family has to eat.”
People look around for any anti-Communist posters near their homes and peel them off. Mr. Three East walks by without stopping. He’s not wearing his uniform or carrying his gun.
Two men carrying a steel desk get off a small ferry boat. The boat owner says that over in Mỹ Tho people have started looting abandoned offices. Smoke billows out of public buildings from officials burning documents.
Women on a troop transport ship wave at us and point downriver toward the ocean. A soldier comes out and walks among them. The women stop. He leaves. The women start waving again and pointing downriver. Another soldier comes out and gestures them to get below. We should be on one of the transports. Even though we’ve stopped fighting, we should be with the side that’s free. Not stuck back here with the Communists. What is Má doing? Shouldn’t she be back by now?
Every once in a while there’s a rumble in the distance. Some Army soldiers say it sounds like a B-40 rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Still, it looks like the convoy will make it without being attacked. “What happens when they get to the ocean?” someone asks.
“They’ll drown,” a couple of people answer at the same time.
“No they won’t,” says a soldier who came home today. “The carriers are out there. The carriers will pick them up and take them some place.”
“What if you manage to get to the carriers, then what will happen to you?” an older man asks.
“They’ll probably go to Thailand, create a camp so they can come back and retake Việt Nam,” the soldier says. Another soldier nods.
“Come back and fight? With what?” the man says. “Where will they get troops or equipment? No, if you get on one of those boats, it’s a one-way ticket.”
He’s right. I’d like to find out where the one-way ticket goes, though. China has Taiwan and Korea has South Korea. Where will we go? To some tiny island somewhere? Wherever it is will be freedom.
I jump in the river to cool down. Transport ships stop along the way to pick up people who come out to meet them in small ferry boats. Maybe I could hire a ferry to take me out. Then I’d wave at one of the transporters going by to have it stop for me. All I’d have to tell them is that my father is already on a carrier.
A few hours later the boats are gone except for a transporter going full-tilt down the river every once in a while. Má comes back late in the afternoon. “I watched the convoy this morning,” I say. “Are we going to be picked up?”
“We’re waiting for your sisters,” she says. “We’ll all go together.”
It will be too late. And even if my sisters were here, I don’t think Ba would let us leave.
The next morning, I’m out in front of the house waiting for something to happen. My parents listen to the radio at the table inside with Chị Tư and Chị Năm. My brothers and younger sisters sit outside on the steps. I wander in and out. Every once in a while some small-arm fire or grenades go off in the distance. Each time, I hope it’s the start of our final fight to push the Communists back.
All at once, people on the street say that it’s an unconditional surrender. I run back inside. The voice of the Army general who’s been our president for only two days comes over the radio:
“The Republic of Việt Nam’s policy is the policy of peace and reconciliation, aimed at saving the blood of our people. I ask all the Army to stop firing and stay where you are. I ask our brothers in the Provisional Revolutionary Government to stop firing and stay in place. We wait here to hand over authority to the Provisional Revolutionary Government in order to stop useless bloodshed.”
The tape repeats and the unconditional surrender starts again.
I thought we had more time.
Ba turns on a small black and white TV mounted on the wall. The same general is at Independence Hall announcing the surrender. It seems more official on the screen.
On the street people say, “Unconditional? How can that be? . . . He was supposed to be negotiating for us . . . He must have been working for the North all along.”
I come back inside to see what we need to hide. We hid most of the tape players and TVs earlier. Má moves through the house looking for any flags or symbols of South Việt Nam. She finds the flag from the boat and takes it off the pole. Then she gathers up some paper flags on sticks and pulls down posters. She puts the pile of yellow in the kitchen fireplace and lights it. All around us, we smell our neighbors’ flags burning, too.
I go to the back of the house and climb onto the thick tin over the kitchen, the only place on the roof I can stand on now without crushing it. The South Vietnamese flag painted on our rooftop has already faded away. No need to scrape it off. I stop to listen, hoping there’s going to be one last fight, but there are only small bursts of gunfire in the distance. A few boats rush downstream. Is it too late for us to go?
I spend the rest of the day waiting for something to happen. In the evening, people stand outside in the street whispering and watching the sun set. As soon as the sun goes down it’s completely dark. For the last three weeks there hasn’t been any diesel for the town generators. Someone points overhead to a new formation in the stars—shoots coming off a handle like a broom. I look at stars all the time in the countryside, and I haven’t seen a constellation like this before. “It’s a sign from the sky that we’ll be swept aside,” people tell each other. “The Communists will sweep away our wealth, our food, our lives, everything.”
I don’t need the stars to tell me that it’s going to be bad.
The next day, everybody’s face has a numb, scared look. The radio stations are down in Sài Gòn and Mỹ Tho. Everything is hushed. Usually with so many people crowded on our small island there’s a lot of noise, but even the dogs have stopped barking. I sit on the porch. People in the street say, “I hardly heard gunfire and it was over.”
A man walks by in a homemade uniform calling out, “Turn in any weapons you have.” As soon as he leaves, people call him an April 30th Communist for converting to the winning side on the day we lost.
When I get home I tell Ba, “If you haven’t turned in our gun, I can take it.” Maybe I can do something more than just turn it in. Someone should.
“Wait until there aren’t any people around,” Ba says. “We don’t want anyone to report us for having a gun.”
When the people in the street thin out, I take our M-2 carbine and the two clips of ammunition down from the top of the glass-door cabinet. As soon as I get a few steps past the house, I slap a clip in. I haven’t fired it before, but I know how.
The April 30th Communist standing by the guns doesn’t notice me. He keeps looking over his shoulder into the alley. When he turns his head, I go behind a fence on the other side of the street into Mr. Three Belt’s shipyard. I’m not sure what I can do. If we have to turn our gun in, I want to do it without anyone seeing which house I came from.
It’s dark under the roof covering the shipyard. I brush aside a spider web and glance around to see if the meter-long lizard that lives in the wood pile is poking its head out. Then I get down on my stomach so I can look through a hole near the bottom of the fence and watch the soldier.
The April 30th Communist’s knees shake as a woman walks up to him, head down, and puts her family’s gun in the pile. He clenches his rifle to his shoulder. His face looks white, like it wouldn’t bleed if you cut it, and he keeps looking back at the houses in the alley as if someone is going to attack him. I’m sure he doesn’t know I’m here.
I lie with the gun at my side, looking through the hole. Are we all going to stand around and let the Communists take everything away from us? Everything my parents worked so hard for? There’s no one else out on the street. It’s late morning and hot. I stare at the soldier. Besides being so scared he’s probably thirsty. Sweat drips down my face. There’s no gunfire, no fighting anywhere. All I can hear is my heartbeat in my chest. What’s wrong with us? If one person does something, maybe it will give other people the courage to stand up.
I slide the gun barrel into the bottom of the V-shaped hole. If a shot came, no one would know where it came from. My heart pounds against my ribcage. It feels huge inside my chest. Where’s that April 30th Communist’s head? I move the gun around until his face is in the sights. He looks straight at me, but he can’t see me here in the dark. My hand feels damp against the wood stock of the gun. All I have to do is aim and squeeze the trigger.
My hands start shaking on the gun. What if I pull the trigger and it doesn’t fire? How many bullets will it take to kill him? I’ll empty the whole magazine. If he’s not down, I’ll put in the spare clip. If he fires back, he won’t make it. I’ll run straight to the river behind me, swim out to the deep part, and drop the gun. No one will find it.
Sweat runs down my eyebrows and drips down the side of my cheeks. What if I don’t make it to the river? I’d have to kill myself — say goodbye to everything, my family, the land in Cồn Tàu. Even if I made it, what if someone found out it was me? My family would be punished. Lying on the dirt, my body feels hot and cold at the same time. My face and tongue tingle. I take a few deep breaths. If I do this, all I’ll do is kill him. He’s from the South, not the North. He’s so scared, what’s the point? He probably got recruited yesterday. He’s just stupid and killing one stupid person won’t change anything . . . but it could destroy my family. My knees go weak. I can’t feel my tongue, or my eyes. If it was just my life to lose, it would be gone, but I don’t want to hurt my family.
The April 30th Communist guarding the pile of guns glances behind at the alley again. I step out into the sunlight, sweaty and dusty. I approach with the gun pointed down and loaded, safety off. If he looks at me like he’s conquering us, if he says anything, I’ll shoot him. He turns toward me. His knees shake like they’re going to shatter and his white knuckles clench his gun. I take the clip out and toss it and the spare into the pile.
I give him a cold stare as I gently lean the gun against the stack of weapons. “Don’t you worry that someone’s going to blow your head off?”
He looks over his shoulder and back at me. He doesn’t answer. He could be dead already. I start walking toward my house. After half a block, I turn back. The April 30th Communist is running toward the town hall, clasping his gun. I killed him without shooting.
A former Army soldier leans against a wall smoking near my house. “Did you see that guard collecting guns?” I say. “He ran away pretty fast.”
The ex-soldier ignores me and takes another draw from his cigarette. I walk away. I should have had the guts to pull the trigger.
An hour later, I return to the pile of weapons. It’s still there, unguarded. I hunt through it, looking for the big rounds used by single-shot sniper guns. At least I’ll collect some bullets I can use for building forts. I think about taking a gun, but too many neighbors are watching. I find a small clip of sniper bullets and head home.
There must be mountains of ammunition over in Mỹ Tho. I get on a ferry going to the Mỹ Tho market. The ferry heads into the smaller river that divides Mỹ Tho in two. Near the base of a bridge, a standing face boat sits with the flat ramp on its face for loading troops tilted above the shore. The South Vietnamese flag is painted on each side. The captain probably tried to destroy it by ramming it into the bank.
Communist soldiers stand on the bridge looking over the railing. They disappear behind us as the ferry passes underneath. I get off at the market and walk back toward the standing face boat. Locked iron gates cover the storefronts lining the street. Smoke drifts out of the wide open doors of two administrative offices. Inside mounds of ashes smolder. Scattered papers cover the floor. Only a few large metal desks and file cabinets remain. Kids wander in and out of the buildings looking for anything left.
At the entrance to the bridge, a tank and a personnel carrier stand guard. Two men stick their heads out of the tank and another sits at the gun turret. Nearby is an enormous pile of weapons. Below the bridge, a group of kids and grown-ups scavenge metal chairs, pipes, antennas, and lights from the standing face boat. I go down and climb on the boat. The metal deck lists backward under my feet. Twin machine guns sit on each side of the cabin. I could still do something. The cabin door doesn’t have a handle, so I try the door on the other side. It’s stuck. I pick up a piece of metal and pry it open. A man follows me inside. I go up to the control panel and push one button, then another. The man glances around for something to take. The radio hisses. I could do something.
“You better get out before you get killed or arrested.” The man steps back out.
I lock the doors. On the bridge above, five soldiers stand against the railing. There’s a hatch in back I could crawl out in case they come after me. This time I could get away. I look through the scope—it’s black. I push a couple more buttons. The scope lights up and I point it down. Below, the tide moves out around the large boats of fruit wholesalers. After I shoot, I could jump out of the hatch and swim around by the boats like nothing happened. No one knows me here—it’s not like the April 30th collecting guns next to our house where the first people they would blame would be the families living nearby. If I do something, then other people might, too.
I drag a chain of bullets from the holding area, push it into a reservoir, and press the load button. The chain snaps in and the guns click. I put my face back into the scope and hold onto the handles. The twin barrels move with me up to the bridge. The soldiers up there look as if they’re standing next to me. They wear regular uniforms and hold their guns like seasoned soldiers — not like the April 30th collecting weapons in our neighbourhood. If I pull the trigger, they’d be gone. They’re looking everywhere but at the guns pointing up at them.
This could make a difference, start something. Sweat spills down my face.
How do I aim a gun with two barrels so far apart? I practice sweeping the crosshairs over the soldiers. I just need the guts to pull the trigger. If one person stands up against the Communists, maybe others will. A soldier on the bridge looks down as if he’s staring into the scope at me. He moves to talk to the soldier next to him. They all slowly back away from the railing.
One of the soldiers peeks over the edge. Then, two men jump down the side of the bridge. They’ll be here in seconds. Army soldiers say that you need to destroy your equipment, so the enemy can’t get it. I grab a fire ax and smash it into the dashboard. I crack the gun scope and handles. Then I crawl out the hatch and jump onto the shore. I would have done something. There just wasn’t enough time.
The soldiers pass by me on the way to the boat. “Who was in there? What’s going on over there?”
I’m sweating like crazy. “I don’t know.”
The soldiers scold the kids playing next to the boat and they scatter. Out of the corner of my eye, I see them approach the cabin, the barrels of their AK-47s leading the way. Relief pours over me. I’m glad I didn’t have to make a decision.
There’s a pile of ammunition taller than my head near the bridge. This will be my only chance to get gunpowder to make rockets with. The soldiers in the tank and on the bridge, the ones I almost shot, look at me searching though the pile but don’t say anything. When I have as much ammunition as I can carry, I head toward the ferry dock in Lạc Hồng Garden.
The two teenage sisters of the Eight Talent family have their parent’s small boat lined up next to the other ferry boats, waiting to get enough passengers. “What are you doing with all that?” one of the Eight Talent girls says. She and her sister sit back by the motor with nón lá covering their heads from the sun. “You’re going to get in trouble.”
“It’s just bullets. If you don’t have a gun to fire them what does it matter?” I see an even larger mound of ammunition down toward the end of the park. “I’ll come back.”
I drag myself and the chains of bullets over to the other pile. Two men in a personnel carrier stand guard. They look at me and then at each other. I wrap a chain of M-60s around my chest in an X like machine gunners do. Then, I slump toward the ferry dock with a tank shell in each hand, cradling loose belts of ammunition. I try not to fall down the wide stone steps on the edge of the river leading to the ferry boats.
“Did the soldiers say anything?” one of the Eight Talent girls asks. “Aren’t you going to get in trouble carrying those shells?”
I make my way over the other boats to theirs, trying not to drop anything. “I took it in front of the soldiers. They didn’t care.”
I sit in back by the Eight Talent sisters and put down the tank shells and loose chains. I wipe the sweat off my forehead. Two older women sit up front with their baskets and shoulder poles. “That ammunition is dangerous, you’re going to hurt yourself,” one of the women says. “You should throw it all away.”
The motor is noisy so I can’t hear the rest. “I worked hard to get this,” I shout up to them.
People stare at me as I step onto the ferry dock near my house walking doubled-over with all of the ammunition. “What are you going to do with all of that?”
“Make rockets and build my fort.”
I put the shells and bullets away and get a bowl of rice. “Where’d you get all that?” Chị Tư asks.
“There’re piles of it in Mỹ Tho.” I scoop rice into my mouth. “After I finish eating, I’m going to go and get more.”
“No,” my sister says. “Stay home and play with what you have.”
I spend the rest of the day using a vise and pliers to pull the bullets out of the casings and empty the gunpowder into a tin cup. I save two bullets to use as gate posts when I build castles. “That’s a lot of brass,” Ba says. “When you’re done playing, we can flatten them to make hinges.”
By the time I finish, it’s night. I can’t sleep with the silence. Before, there was always gunfire somewhere if you listened. I still can’t believe it’s really over. I lie awake wondering what will happen to our family. I should have done something. It haunts me worse than any ghost.
In the morning, I take the casings to the alley next to our house. I line them up along the tops of the old sandbags I made into a fort. Neighbors come over and hand me empty 105 artillery shells given to them by relatives in the Army. They’re worried about having anything from the old government. I dig the 105s into the dirt at the corners of the sandbags, so it looks like the old Army fort. I want to remind everyone walking by that we shouldn’t give up. It’s all I have left to remember what we were. A Communist soldier passes by on the street. I aim my fingers and pretend to shoot. Then I crouch down behind the walls.
Michelle Robin La’s first book, ‘Catching Shrimp with Bare Hands’, is the true story of her husband growing up in the midst of the Vietnam War and his struggle for freedom after the communist takeover. Her work has appeared in Brain, Child Magazine, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal, Creative Nonfiction Magazine, Literary Mama, and Mom Egg Review.
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In the world of dreams the rules of reality do not necessarily apply. Each dream is unique and it's a direct link to the soul and spirit. Psychology provides its own theories on what dreams mean, but so did tradition and the study of dreams for thousands of years before any relevant science had developed.
Dream Meanings - Laughter
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Free Lecture by Tuskegee Airman March 27 at Atlantic City Campus
March 15, 2012
Atlantic Cape Community College invites the public to attend a free presentation by Dr. Eugene J. Richardson Jr., chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Chapter Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. Sponsored by Atlantic Cape’s Community Affairs Program, the lecture begins at 11:30 a.m., Tuesday, March 27, at the Charles D. Worthington Atlantic City Campus, 1535 Bacharach Blvd.
Dr. Richardson became interested in flight as a young boy in 1930. Driven by pure interest to fly, he decided to join the Army Air Corps in order to become a pilot. At 18, he was sent to Keesler Field in Mississippi for basic training. From there he went to Tuskegee Army Air Field for 40 weeks of training, where trainees were separated by race.
He completed flight training in March 1945, and he never saw combat, as World War II came to an end shortly after. He was discharged in 1946 and returned to Philadelphia where he finished his high school degree and went to Temple University and later received a Doctor of Education from Penn State University. He pursued a career in education in the Philadelphia school system because, “there was nowhere for a black aviator to go in the United States—only Tuskegee,” at the time he was discharged.
Dr. Richardson will speak about the history of the Tuskegee Airmen, African Americans in aviation, civil rights and the importance of education for youth.
For more information, contact Patricia Gandy at (609) 343-4827.
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Definition of gemote
v. t. - A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.
The word "gemote" uses 6 letters: E E G M O T.
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Some random words: amulet
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Germans not stupid on nuclear shutdown
Published 08/08/2011 | 11:23
MICHAEL Job (Irish Independent, Letters, August 5) refers to the "age of stupidity" with regard to the decision to close nuclear power stations.
He must, however, be aware that Germans rarely partake in major acts of stupidity. One cannot overlook the fact they were among the leaders in the nuclear energy revolution of the past half-century.
If it was the post-earthquake disaster at the Japanese Fukushima plant in March that accelerated Germany’s decision to shut down all its nuclear power stations by 2022, they will be well prepared to do so. German pioneering and progress in the installation of alternative power sources to nuclear and fossil fuels — particularly in wind, marine, solar and biomass production technology — is again well ahead of the posse.
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I love playing with the syntax and semantics of nonsense. As it turns out, most students get a kick out of it, too. These activities will definitely engage your students and make them think.
Nonsense with impeccable grammar:
Kids love making up weird, nonsensical stuff. The cool thing about letting them make stuff up is that, to do it effectively, they have to think.
English, like any language, relies on syntax to help convey meaning; however, ensuring the syntax and grammar are correct does not necessarily mean the sentence makes sense. Noam Chomsky, in showing that grammar is distinct from meaning, famously quipped:
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
The syntax of the sentence is just fine. There is a clear subject and a verb, and a complete thought is expressed…but that thought doesn’t make any rational sense. Another example:
The hacking sect leaps against the complaint.
And it’s not restricted to declarative sentences. You can ask nonsense questions:
How will the suspect diverge within the lemon?
Or give nonsense commands:
Climb the nonchalant tulip sauce.
And make nonsense exclamations:
The taste orbits!
Though that last one sounds like a Skittles ad tagline.
Talk about this idea with your students. Ask them to make up their own nonsense sentences, and check to make sure their grammar is correct. Make it a competition to come up with the most ridiculous sentence, and watch your students crank up the creativity. Heck, you can even turn this into a sentence diagramming exercise, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Add a non-linguistic aspect for critical thinking
I’m always looking for ways to engage my visual learners, and this nonsense exercise is a great way to incorporate some non-linguistic representational thinking.
After the students have shared all their nonsense sentences, choose one as a class to illustrate. Figure out a way to visually represent the nonsense. Sometimes this can be very difficult, but that’s where the critical thought comes in. You have to rely on alternate meanings of words, abstract images, and artistic license to make it work. You also don’t need to restrict yourself to a single picture as a drawing. Try communicating the meaning of the nonsense in a comic strip, or act it out in a skit.
As an extension activity, you can have your students discuss, diagram, or illustrate randomly generated sentences…
This website is an awesome resource for nonsense. The site has a number of generators – from single random words to full random paragraphs based on topics you provide.
Tell your kids to generate a random phrase/sentence/paragraph through the site, then ask them to illustrate it.
Tell them to construct a paragraph that incorporates the sentence or uses it as the topic sentence.
Tell them to brainstorm story ideas from the random words generated. Then write the story. For an added bonus, tell them they have to incorporate at least one nonsense sentence per paragraph of their story.
There are dozens of ways to use syntactically correct nonsense to generate critical thought. And like I said, I’ve yet to meet a student that doesn’t get a kick out of making up ridiculous sentences.
Go. Do it. And have fun. (:
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'Toxic' Indian festivals poisoning waterways >>Source: Reuters
Toxic chemicals from thousands of idols of Hindu gods immersed in rivers and lakes across India are causing pollution which is killing fish and contaminating food crops, experts and environmentalists said on Monday.
Chinese scientists recycle circuit boards to park benches >>Source: SciDev.net
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If you’re undecided on your next vacation destination, you can’t go wrong with at least looking at National Geographic’s recommendations. Having been a major player in the world of travel for decades, you just know there are going to be some incredible destinations and interesting suggestions. Here are the National Geographic recommended trips for 2017:
The destination of Kauai will be familiar to many as the key location for the majority of the Jurassic Park movies, but I promise that if you decide to visit, you won’t get into half as much trouble! With marked hiking paths, deep plunging pools and North America’s largest mahogany forest, there is enough nature packed in to this place to fill your quota for the entire year!
It’s hard to pick a specific location in Finland because the entire country is completely amazing. Containing 40 national parks, 6 national hiking areas and 12 wilderness areas, you are completely spoilt for choice in this Scandinavian paradise. Not to mention, you can take a trip to Lapland!
Head to Baja California if you want 2017 to be the year that your mind was blown by wildlife under the sea! Bordered on the west by Pacific Ocean and on the east by the Sea of Cortez, the crystal blue waters provide homes for, among others, great white sharks, whales, manta rays and literally thousands of varieties of fish. If scuba diving is on your bucket list, then make sure you tick it off in Mexico!
Banff provides the visual definition of rugged beauty, with the Canadian haven offering expansive mountain landscapes where you can enjoy activities like mountain hiking, horseback riding, and a spot of luxurious relaxing in hot springs. This year in particular is perfect to visit, as Canada will be celebrating it’s 150th nationhood anniversary!
Ecuador’s Choco region is best known for its amazing cloud forests: fog covered Andean slopes that are bursting with plant and animal life that will make for an amazing and unique photo album when you are back home! This might not be a location for those with insect phobias, though, as the unique conditions have given rise to moths the size of your hand!
Once an undiscovered and underrated playground for adventurous travelers, the Western Balkans is now much more accessible to tourists from all over the world, and in 2017, for the very first time, the 1,200 mile Via Dinarica trail will be 100% mapped with all the information you need to set off and complete a life-changing hike!
One of the few bits of good news from 2016 was that tiger populations are on the rise for the first time in a long time. Why not go and see them in India where nearly two thirds of the growing population resides? You might think that you have had your fill of the animals from wildlife documentaries, but trust me, absolutely nothing can beat seeing the majestic tiger in their natural habitat.
Marrakech was always a favourite spot for iconic fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent, so if you are in to fashion then what better holiday for 2017 than to take a pilgrimage to the place where his ashes are scattered. Along with this fashion connection, Marrakech is also a once-in-a-lifetime experience when it comes to the sprawling, amazing street markets where vendors get offended if you don’t haggle!
Ernest Hemingway once referred to Madrid as the capital of the world, and the cosmopolitan European city has maintained its charm over the years to remain one of the most popular holiday destinations for city breaks. Filled with museums and a buzzing art scene, there is so much culture to take in that you’ll need at least a week to be satisfied!
If you fancy an Alaskan adventure, then look no further than Anchorage. You can enjoy activities like hiking through glaciers, fishing in the world’s biggest urban fishery, brown bear spotting and surfing along the bore tide for those brave enough to withstand the low temperatures!
Many know Seoul as the one time host of the Olympics Games and the Soccer World Cup, but the city has so much more to offer than just that reputation. Cutting edge is definitely the phrase to describe the city, with lots of modern architecture, modern restaurants and all round futuristic culture being at the forefront.
Though many across the world have their own opinions on Russia’s politics, something that cannot be denied is the beauty of its capital city. Red Square and the amazing striped domes of St. Basil’s Cathedral are iconic images, and the sheer power of the architecture is almost overwhelming if you ever get to experience it in person!
Anybody who has binged Narcos on Netflix might not consider Colombia at the top of the trip list, but you clearly have never heard of Cartagena! Resting along the Colombian Caribbean coast, this place, untouched by conflict, is filled with painted colonial mansions that are simply stunning in the sunshine. It really feels like time travel to the past.
Berlin takes all the cool points when it comes to visiting Germany, but don’t count Hamburg out! Once known as Germany’s ‘gateway to the world’, Hamburg has a long tradition in importing and exporting through its intricate canal system, and the port areas of the city are now some of the most quaint and beautiful in the entire country.
It’s 2017 and it’s time for Malta to return to the world stage in a big way! The small Mediterranean island might be overlooked in favor of bigger countries like Spain and Italy, but thanks to some key scenes of the smash hit Game Of Thrones being filmed there, people have started to become more interested in visiting to soak up the beautiful scenery and rich, mixed culture.
Located north of Australia in the South Pacific, Papua New Guinea is comprised of over 600 small islands, which makes for some really amazing adventures of all sorts! Efforts have been made to make the untamed rain forests much easier for intrepid souls to explore the terrain.
Fun fact, Chengdu is the only city in China that is known by the same name now as it was 2000 years ago! It is a fog-covered river town that has quietly come to be regarded as one of the very best locations for amazing food in the entire world, with UNESCO giving it the title of ‘the cradle and center of Sichuan cuisine’.
If you are looking for some quintessential Alpine travel experiences, then Canton Uri is the destination for you! From snow peaked mountains to wildflower meadows to traditional cheese making huts, this Swiss area, seemingly stuck in time, is the perfect getaway from the stresses of modern life!
In terms of culture, these islands are part French, part Caribbean, and this mixture makes for a vibrant and interesting holiday experience. If you are a history buff, you can also complement the beautiful sun soaked vacation experience with some enriching learning about the history of the African slave trade.
If live music is something that you want to hear more of in 2017, then right now there is no better place than Georgia. With a buzzing music scene that boasts modern greats as well as historical icons like Otis Redding, Little Richard and Ray Charles, the state holds approximately 75 different festivals a year!
If you want to go on a vacation that really means something, then why not go home, so to speak? The Cradle Of Humankind World Heritage site in Johannesburg is a stunning places filled with evidence and artifacts relating to the African locations where humans where first known to walk the earth. You’ll learn so much!
Are you inspired by any of these destinations?
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As COVID-19 continues to change lives around the world, its severe impact on the global economy is already hinting towards tough times ahead.
GCC stock markets are no exception, and in fact, the initial signs of stress were already visible as early as February 2020. What makes this stock rout worse is the historically low oil prices. Brent Crude prices were already weak coming into 2020, and a production conflict with Russia and growing US oil supplies hit the GCC economy where it hurts the most.
This report tries to cover how the GCC stock markets have behaved since the Coronavirus outbreak.
Major Losses Across GCC Stock Market Amid COVID-19
March 1, 2020, witnessed one of the worst bear-market rallies across GCC stock indices, with investors losing over Dh257 billion ($70 billion) in a single day. Saudi Arabian investors registered the highest losses of over $41 billion that day.
And there have been multiple similar one-day movements across the regional markets. A close look at major indices reveal significant losses year-to-date, with ADX General falling 19%, MSCI TADAWUL 30 dropping over 16%, and QE General losing nearly 15% of its value.
Oil Pricing War Comes Back to Bite GCC Markets
Worldwide lockdowns have had a severe impact on the global demand for oil. Some reports even expect the demand to fall as much as 30% throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The early oil-pricing conflicts with Russia have worsened the impact of COVID-19. The escalated commentary between Saudi Arabia and Russia led to a single-day fall of over 25% in oil prices (March 9).
With Brend Crude prices hovering close to $37 per barrel, oil exporters across the MENA region are set to witness a GDP deficit in excess of 11% in 2020.
Top Sectors Bleeding Money, Booking Losses
The global aviation, tourism, and hospitality industries have come under reeling pressure because of the global shutdowns. The UAE is an unfortunate example of this detrimental trend.
The UAE is home to some of the world’s largest airlines, including Emirates and Etihad Airways, with the aviation sector contributing as much as 5% to the empire’s GDP. The aviation industry, along with the tourism sector accounts for over 11% of the UAE’s GDP.
The worldwide lockdown has sent these sectors into a tailspin, with major airliners throughout the GCC region cutting their workforce. The tourism industry is witnessing a similar sentiment, adding to the overall woes of the GCC financial markets.
Hope for Recovery After Markets Open Post Eid Holidays
A mixture of adverse sector-wise movements and over-reliance of the GCC economies on key sectors has resulted in undesirable rating updates, with international agencies, such as Moody, downgrading their ratings to negative (for Saudi Arabia).
Amid a negative sentiment, there are some positive trends, such as the resilience shown by Gulf bonds throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The Gulf region is becoming a massive contributor to the global debt markets.
As countries ease lockdowns and the global demand for oil picks up, the GCC stock market could witness a sharp recovery.
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The negative effects of rampant illegal immigration into the United States Article by Waldo Benavidez At the risk of being called a traitor and immigrant basher I must speak out or at least attempt to express a point of view that I believe has not been even a small part of the debate about illegal immigration, and that issue is the impact illegal immigration has on the working poor of this country; and the political impotence it has injected into the Chicano community. Primarily, the debate has focused on the drain illegal immigration has on institutions such as school systems, health care, jobs and the depression of wages, law enforcement and the criminal justice system. All this is true and the taxpayer funded institutions that are reeling from this huge migration into the United States are the ones that are primarily suppose to be servicing the low income people of this country. In turn, causing low income families to compete for increasingly limited funds, resources and basic survival necessities. The negative effects of rampant illegal immigration into the United States - article by Waldo Benavidez - Defend Colorado Now - a Colorado immigration reform organization supporting initiatives and legislation to stop illegal immigration and stop ill This is one area of illegal immigration that our leaders do not discuss when discussions like immigration is on the media. We always hear how it affect hard working illegal aliens who only want a better life for their children and businesses who is addicted to a supply of cheap labor but never how hard working Americans who want a better life for their children. They do not want to hear how we feel about how Comprehensive Immigration Reform will affect us but always asking illegal aliens how it will affect them ( and businesses how it will affect them). .
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Corrections Appended January 8 and 10, 2013
In a study decorated with leather-bound books and busts of ancient Greek scholars, an 18-year-old British student is getting an assignment: a 2,000-word essay on democracy and Fukuyama’s “The End of History?” “I want you to get argumentative,” says her teacher, glancing over his spectacles. “Next week we’ll pick up the theme of democracy with Plato.”
Dressed in jeans, bangles and a leather jacket, the student, Jane Odera, appears at home with these highbrow challenges. Yet just five years ago, she was living with her mother in social housing and considering dropping out of school to become a hairdresser. Now, she’s applying to one of the most prestigious universities in the world: Cambridge.
Her teacher, Oxford professor Peter Claus, travels to Odera’s London public school, Brooke House Sixth Form (BSix), once a week as part of a program he founded in 2008 called Pem-Brooke. The initiative, partly funded by Pembroke College, Oxford, is aiming to help disadvantaged students get into the country’s two most storied universities, Oxford and Cambridge.
The challenge for such students is immense. Pupils from private schools have been a significant presence at Oxford and Cambridge, known collectively as Oxbridge, for decades, despite the fact that only 7% of British students attend them. (The point is often made by the universities that despite privately-educated students being in the minority, they make up approximately one-third of the students with high enough grades to apply to Oxbridge — thereby constituting a larger pool of eligible candidates.) In a country with the lowest social mobility in the Western world according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Oxford and Cambridge rank last among large research-intensive U.K. universities in terms of students drawn from public schools. In 2010–11, just 2.5% of Oxford students and 3.1% of Cambridge students came from low-participation neighborhoods, and both universities scored below admission benchmarks calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body, for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, admitting around 10% from that group.
That matters because those left behind are less likely to join the ranks of Britain’s elites. Over 30% of leading professionals in the U.K., including almost 80% of the judiciary, 47% of highflyers in financial services and 41% of top journalists attended Oxbridge, according to recent studies by the Sutton Trust, a U.K. educational charity. Every university-educated Prime Minister since 1937 has walked one of the two universities’ halls save Gordon Brown. (Prime Minister David Cameron and his deputy, Nick Clegg, both attended top private schools and then Oxbridge, as did approximately two-thirds of their Cabinet.) This isn’t just bad news for the clever, underprivileged students who don’t attend Oxbridge — it’s bad news for Britain, which draws its elites from an artificially narrow pool that is largely cut off from the country at large.
Still, the Pem-Brooke program is a sign of how change may finally be coming to these ancient institutions. Cambridge and Oxford have in recent years ramped up their existing efforts, which got underway over a decade ago, to actively seek out underprivileged students. Oxford now spends $4 million a year on student outreach, up from $1.6 million in 2006–07. While some of that money is still used to recruit from posh private schools, much is spent on school visits and teacher-training sessions aimed at encouraging poor and minority students to apply to the university. In 2010, Oxford also launched a summer school, which gives some 500 academically talented, state-school students a chance to experience studying at Oxford for a week. (Previously, Oxford hosted summer schools for unprivileged students set up and funded by the nonprofit Sutton Trust starting in the late 1990s. Cambridge continues to run and largely fund a Sutton Trust summer school program.) In addition, the university admissions office highly recommends to tutors that qualified students from poor areas be invited for interviews. And it has set a target of increasing the number of undergrads from socioeconomically disadvantaged areas from 6.1% to 9% by 2016–17.
Much of this is due to pressure from outside. In 2010, a Member of Parliament from the left-leaning Labour Party, David Lammy, launched a campaign to encourage diversity at Oxbridge after examining admissions data obtained via freedom-of-information requests. He found that almost 90% of the student body at both universities is drawn from the upper and middle classes, that Oxford accepted only one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity in 2009, and that in 2008 and 2009, Oxford held 21% of its outreach events at private schools, including 12 at Kate Middleton’s school, Marlborough College, and nine at Prince William’s alma mater, Eton College. (State school students were invited.) Lammy’s exposé, which received a flurry of press attention, led Cameron to describe the situation at Oxbridge as “disgraceful.” (His remarks, prefaced by the statement: “I saw figures the other day that showed that only one black person went to Oxford last year,” came under criticism from Oxford and others as inaccurate. One British black Caribbean undergraduate was accepted that year, out of the 27 black undergraduates admitted from the U.K. Cameron’s office responded by noting that the Prime Minister was making a “wider point” about “black and minority ethnic groups” at “universities like Oxford.”)
Around the same time, the government began a push to speed change at Oxbridge. In February 2012, Liberal Democrats in the U.K. coalition government pushed through the appointment of a new head of the independent public body charged with safeguarding fair access to higher education, the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon, who has indicated his intention to negotiate “challenging” diversity targets with English universities, in exchange for allowing them to charge up to $14,500 per year in tuition fees.
All told, these efforts seem to be having an effect. Last year, Oxford announced that it accepted a record number of state-school applicants, 57.7%, for the incoming 2011 class. In September 2012, Cambridge announced that it admitted 63.3% state-school students for 2012–13, up from 58% the year before.
Yet critics say while both universities are on the right path, the problem is far from solved. According to the Sutton Trust, about 90% of the “public-school students” accepted by Oxbridge were plucked from schools with above average levels of attainment, including selective grammar schools akin to New York’s famed Bronx High School of Science. And within the universities’ constituent undergraduate colleges — which oversee admissions individually — there are deep inconsistencies in efforts to track down bright underprivileged undergraduates. “There has been progress — colleges like Mansfield at Oxford and King’s at Cambridge are really going out of their way to recruit the best and the brightest wherever they are. But the lion’s share of colleges simply aren’t pulling their weight,” says Lammy. “When you look at the figures across schools, across ethnicity, across region, it’s deeply worrying.”
Pembroke is one college beginning to pull its weight, thanks to the efforts of Professor Claus and others at Pembroke to make equality of opportunity a priority. In September, the college announced a 10-year strategy for outreach to underprivileged students, including the expansion of the Pem-Brooke program to schools in the northwest of England.
But even at Pembroke, these efforts are relatively recent. Until 2008, the college confined itself to the traditional “outreach” activities, opening its halls to potential applicants who cared to come and hosting visiting schoolchildren. This meant, in essence, that the college was preaching to the converted. “Activities that try and get people who were perhaps not thinking about Oxford,” says Mark Fricker, academic director of Pembroke. “Up until the Pem-Brooke scheme [in 2008], our activities in those areas were pretty slim.”
Sitting in Pembroke’s elegant faculty room, Claus, whose warm demeanor belies the stereotype of the aloof Oxford academic, reflects on why Britain’s two oldest universities have come so late to the game. It’s the pressure to publish that keeps academics from throwing themselves into outreach work, he says, balancing a cup of tea. But his own underprivileged background — he came to his history professorship via Ruskin College, an adult-education institution in Oxford — means he’s taken a special interest. “I have to do it,” he says.
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The centerpiece of the Pem-Brooke project in Hackney, one of the roughest parts of London, is a room similar to an Oxford professor’s study, built right in the heart of BSix. Called the Red Room, it’s meant to get poor students used to the sort of surroundings they might encounter at an Oxbridge admission interview — during which a university academic invites a prospective undergrad into her study, hands him a cup of tea and ruthlessly probes the limits of his intelligence. When the replica professor’s room first hit the papers in March, some in the press called it a gimmick. But Claus says creating an elevating space in the school — a modern building next to a concrete tower block — was crucial. “We wanted to get away from education as training,” he says, referencing the common idea that poor students would be better off learning to be car mechanics or carpenters. “Education is for life.”
The Red Room is certainly different for Odera, Claus’ student, who hopes to study politics at Cambridge. Odera grew up in public housing (known in Britain as a council estate) with her single mother, who left Nigeria in the 1970s and worked three jobs to support her family. They had to share a bedroom, which wasn’t ideal. “As I got older, I thought, What is she doing next to me?” says Odera. Her schooling has been patchy. As a 5-year-old, she often sat by herself in class because she already understood the teacher’s lesson. “Instead of giving me stuff to do that was challenging, they’d leave me out.” In order to attend a good middle school, she arose at 5:30 every morning for a two-hour bus trip across London (she couldn’t afford the train). When she finally made it to a selective public school for bright pupils at age 14, Odera felt like even more of an outsider. “I could count on one hand the number of people who were black in my whole year,” she says. “It was posh. And I just felt like the estate girl, really.”
Odera felt so alienated that she stopped going to school on most days. She considered dropping out and taking a job in hair and beauty. Yet when it came to exams, she still shone, scoring top grades on her General Certificates of Secondary Education — the subject tests British students take at age 16. Still she was dogged by problems, including depression that went undiagnosed until this year. After switching schools again, she left education altogether. Then, she saw BSix while driving in Hackney. She applied and was chosen for Claus’ program. There, Odera has been able to seriously pursue her academics, including her interest in politics. “My family is Nigerian, and my mom was directly affected by the civil war in Nigeria,” she says. “I wondered, Why did Britain support Nigeria and not Biafra? Just all sorts of questions like that came up in my head, and I thought, I want to be a part of this.”
Pem-Brooke has already helped three Hackney students get into Oxbridge, a first for BSix, while increasing the number of Hackney students getting into other top British universities by over 500% in the past three years. The model has also drawn in 16 other universities to take over the teaching of various subjects to bright students. Its planned hub in the northwest will bring the total of young people it helps to 90 per year. Such resource-intensive aid has its limits, however — no matter how many students the program takes in, it will only affect a relatively small number.
And it is not only the scale of the task that stands in the way of diversifying Oxbridge. In late February, the government’s new diversity czar, Ebdon, suggested that the government might withhold some funding for universities that fail to admit more poor students. The comment sparked a middle-class firestorm. The Sunday Times splashed the headline “Will This Man Stop Your Child Going to a Top University?” across an unflattering picture of Ebdon superimposed over an idyllic Cambridge college. In the photo, Ebdon holds a sign reading, “Please Keep Out — Unless from a Disadvantaged Group, as Approved by the Dept. Social Engineering.” Many of the country’s top universities, including Cambridge, later set ambitious targets for the proportion of admitted state-school students. In response, the Headmasters’ and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), a network of 252 elite British private schools, threatened a boycott of those universities. The head of HMC, Christopher Ray, accused the government of taking a page out of Kurt Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House, where in the satirical story “Harrison Bergeron,” citizens are all “of equal strength, intelligence and beauty” by 2081, thanks to the handicapper general, who makes the beautiful wear masks and intelligent people don deafening earphones. “I do wonder who is applying for the post of U.K. handicapper general at the moment,” Ray mused.
Some education experts, however, say this view ignores the advantages conferred by private schooling. “People from state schools, with the same A-levels, do better than people from private schools when they get to university,” says Francis Green, a professor at the Institute of Education, University of London. “Study after study [in peer-reviewed journals] has been finding that that’s the case.” Green says the phenomenon makes sense. “Someone of moderate ability, who is at a private school, gets very well taught, pressured by parents and school teachers alike and get A-levels above their ability level. They then don’t do as well when they get to university, and the conditions they face are exactly the same as the equivalent person who’s just come from a state school. If that is true, there is a logical argument for the universities to take the social background, the school background in particular, of applicants into account.” Green, an Oxford graduate with two daughters who attended Cambridge, says the backlash from independent schools against targets is to be expected. “Of course it would be prejudicing their clients, who are the parents of their children.” The response, he says, is obvious. “It’s still the case that the social-class background of people in the top universities is extremely skewed.” Other education experts and officials at Cambridge cite studies that conclude that, in fact, the brightest state school students do not outperform their equally high-performing private-school-educated peers at top universities.
It’s not just head teachers and wealthy parents who object, however. Oxbridge itself has largely stuck to the conviction that changing standards to facilitate social mobility would violate the universities’ core missions. “As institutions charged with education, research and training, our purpose is not to be engines for promoting social justice,” said Alison Richard, the vice chancellor (at the time) of Cambridge in 2008. “Promoting social mobility is not our core mission, which is to provide an outstanding education.”
Critics say Oxford and Cambridge’s focus on admitting the most academically accomplished misses the larger role the universities play in Britain. “All our studies show that Oxford and Cambridge graduates dominate society. They don’t go on to be academics, largely, they go on to do other things. So in effect, it’s a bit of a fallacy,” says Lee Elliot Major, the director of development and policy at the Sutton Trust. Major points out that it doesn’t have to be this way. “The leading universities in the world — the Ivy Leagues — have an incredibly progressive attitude toward this agenda. What they say they’re in is the value-added business — it’s about creating leaders. Oxford and Cambridge see their mission in the world as fundamentally different from those of the Ivy Leagues. I think that’s at the heart of this.”
Lammy points out that taxpayer-funded Oxford and Cambridge have even more of an obligation to address social inequality than their private American counterparts. “In the end, these are public institutions in receipt of serious amounts of public money,” says Lammy. In addition to their regular government funding, Oxford and Cambridge are the only undergraduate universities in the country to receive an extra $11 million to sustain their unique one-on-one teaching system. “If they were private institutions, you could argue they can do whatever the hell they want. But if they take taxpayers’ money, then I do think it’s legitimate to press them on these issues.”
Back at BSix, those involved with the Pem-Brooke project say they want their students to be admitted to top colleges on their own merits, rather than their background. “We don’t want any concessions from anybody,” says Ken Warman, the principal of BSix, who made his own way from poverty to Oxford decades ago. “It’s not a good message for our students. Would you be as confident if you were let in because of where you were from?”
For Odera, building confidence has been a slow process. “My mum and dad didn’t go to university. It’s a scary thought,” she says. “It’s kind of like, Who am I to apply?” After college, Odera wants to help raise aspirations among young women from poor backgrounds. “I think people don’t work as hard because they think, I’m not going to get there anyway. I felt like that, and it took me a long time to realize that’s not the case because of the support I had,” she says. “I want to give that back.” Eventually, she hopes to become a Member of Parliament. First, however, she needs to finish her application to Cambridge. She worries her childhood troubles may have already compromised her as a candidate. Still, she knows that with her grades, her passion for politics and Claus’ help, there’s a chance. “That’s what I’m trying to hold on to,” she says. “My worry is, is it too late?” It won’t be long until she finds out — Cambridge announces its admissions decisions this month.
This article has been changed. An earlier version stated that Oxford University accepted “only one black Caribbean student” in 2009, when in fact the university accepted one British black Caribbean undergraduate who declared his or her ethnicity when applying to Oxford. The article has also been amended to reflect the context for comments made by British Prime Minister David Cameron on the number of black students at Oxford. It has also been changed to reflect the fact that in 2009 Oxford “held” rather than “targeted” 21% of its outreach events at private schools, and that it draws the majority of its non-private students from public schools with above average levels of attainment, rather than “elite public schools.” An amendment was made to indicate that Office for Fair Access director Les Ebdon has not imposed but intends to negotiate targets with universities. It has been corrected to indicate that every university-educated Prime Minister save Gordon Brown has attended Oxford or Cambridge since 1937, rather than throughout history. The proportion of Oxbridge graduates in David Cameron’s cabinet has been updated — following the Prime Minister’s September reshuffle, the percentage rose from almost 40% to two-thirds. Percentages on leading Oxbridge graduates have been updated to reflect the latest figures. The article erred in stating that private school students have “dominated” Oxbridge for “centuries.” In the 1970s, according to Cambridge, admissions of state school students ranged from 62% to 68%, sinking down to around 50% in the 1980s. The article has been amended to clarify that although only a small percentage of British students are privately educated, they make up one-third of the students with the requisite qualifications to apply to Oxbridge. The article erred in stating that Oxford and Cambridge “missed government admission targets” for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. Rather, the universities scored below “benchmarks” for admission of students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds which are calculated by the Higher Education Statistics Agency, a non-governmental body. The article was amended to clarify the point that Cambridge continues to run Sutton Trust summer schools. The article mistakenly suggested that the current U.K. government had launched an “initiative to reform Oxbridge.” There was no official initiative, but rather a marked push by the government to encourage change. The article referred to Cambridge and Oxford’s efforts “in the past two years” to seek out underprivileged students. In fact, their commitment is far more long-standing — programs to reach out to underprivileged students have been operating at the two universities since at least the mid-1990s. The article erred in suggesting that Cambridge had protested state school targets, and in stating that it had “agreed to” ambitious targets, rather than setting the targets themselves that were then approved by the Office of Fair Access. The article has been amended to clarify that there is debate over whether the ‘school effect’, whereby state school students outperform private school students at university, applies to those at the highest levels of achievement, from which Oxford and Cambridge recruit. The article has been changed to correct the misstatement that a lack of strong candidates from poor backgrounds is not the concern of Oxford and Cambridge. The article has amended the phrase “Oxford and Cambridge’s myopic focus on cherry-picking the most academically accomplished,” to more fairly reflect the universities’ approach.
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CASINO MONEY: Riverboat tax monday pays for city police cars
COLUMBIA CITY — A budget change went into affect when Mayor Ryan Daniel took office in 2012, and many believe it was for the better.Previously, the police department's squad cars were purchased through the city's general funds.With the department replacing 2-3 vehicles per year, some citizens were distraught that local tax money was funding the new vehicles.After some adjustments to the budget, Daniel decided to use the city's "riverboat" money to purchase squad cars.The riverboat tax was established in 1993 by the Indiana General Assembly to bring economic opportunity and job creation to the state.To read the rest of this story, see the October 5-6 issue of The Post and Mail. Don't have a subscription? Call (260) 244-5153 or subscribe to our e-edition. For breaking news, sports updates and additional coverage, bookmark the homepage and find us on facebook and twitter.
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Pray to a Moon-god
Facts About Allah, Worship & Hajj in Islam
"What do we say to someone who reads an article on the web attacking Islam & the people trying to share Islam?
Like 'Why do Muslims pray to a black stone (or black box) in the desert?'
Many misunderstandings and misconceptions today confuse even our Muslim youth. This is true even regarding the way we believe in our Lord, our Creator - our God - Allah.
Harsh Questions with lies about Allah & God in ISLAM:
1. Why do Muslims pray to a black cube in the desert in Mecca!
(Answer - Muslims do not pray to anything or anyone, except Allah)
2. Why do they kiss a black rock haning on the black cube!
(Answer - Not because we think it is Allah)
3. How come they do a pilgrimage (Hajj) like some kind of pagan ritual!
(Answer - These rituals are from Abraham and Ishmael, even before Jewish times)
4. Why do they pray to a "moon-god" idol - actually inside the cube building (kabah)?
(Answer - There is no 'idol' - or anything else for that matter - inside the kabbah)
More Answers ~
Begin by following the
"Way of Dawah"
by Yusuf Estes:
Be polite and kind and offer to sit together over tea or coffee to have a nice discussion about this subject. Then begin by saying,
1. "Thank you, for asking about my religion"
Smile & be calm in a soft, pleasent voice to avoid harsh statements and hard feelings.
2. "Islam has two important points for providing answers to questions":
A. Truth - we are not permitted to lie, this means Hell Fire to us and is not something taken lightly by Muslims.
B. Proof - The evidence for Islam is in two parts:
Only the Quran in the original Arabic language
Only the authenticated teachings and sayings of the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, are considered as authorative references for answers to anything about Islam.
Examine the samples of our evidence [Below]
3. "You see, everything in Islam has been accurately documented and preserved for over 1,400 years and preserved in the hearts and minds of those who have consistantly memorized it all, word for word and passed it on in the same manner."
4. "Even if someone tells a lie about Islam, or tries to change Islam in some way, it is easy enough to prove what Islam really teaches as we can refer to the original sources at any time, which we intend to demonstrate in our answers for you now.
5. There are some important facts, long established as part and parcel of Islam, without which a person could not be a Muslim. These essentials will help you in understanding the concept of Islam and the behavior of Muslims much better and could help you in providing answers to any questions about Islam.
There are three additional items that we find are very effective in presenting answers and helping a non-Muslim to wake-up to the beauty of Islam:
ANSWER CONTINUES ~
"O.K. Now we can get started on your question about who it is Muslim worship and how we do it"
"We've already understand Muslims worship only One God - no partners or gods beside God. This is the same as the first Commandment in the Old Testament, book of Exodus, chapter 20 - in the Ten Commandments: "Thou shall not have any other gods besides Me (God)".
[for more details give the link: www.GodAllah.com]
"Let's begin by taking a closer look at your questions. Go ahead, what would you like to ask?"
1. What is the black cube-shapped building (Ka'bah) in the sanctuary in Makkah?
Let us examine closely the square-structured Ka'bah (The Holy House) at Mecca, in Arabia, wherein in its Eastern corner lies the Black Stone set up chest-high. Every pilgrim in Mecca would like to kiss it from the time they arrive there. This action marks the start of the act of Tawaf.
The word "Tawaf" is an Arabic infinitive noun which means to circle, compass or move around something. A pilgrim has to circle the Ka'bah seven times, to complete Tawaf. Each one of the seven rounds begins by kissing, if possible, or by simply pointing at the Black Stone.
The Black Stone thus, serves to mark the start of each round. Tawaf is one of the integral parts of Pilgrimage (Hajj), which is also performed, as a separate act of worship at any time. Thus we find the Ka'bah continually being circled by people day and night.
Let us examine, for instance, the words of God's Oneness, which the pilgrim mentions all throughout his Hajj and especially while going around the ka'bah (we will use English letters for transliteration of the Arabic):Labbaik Allah humma labbaik - (Here I am O Lord!)
Labbaik Allah humma labbaik! Labbaik la sharika laka labbaik - Innal hamda - Wan-ni'mata - Laka walmulk - Laa sharika lak.
O my Lord, here I am at Your service, here I am.
There is no partner with You. Here I am.
Truly the praise and the provisions are Yours,
and so is the Dominion and Sovereignty.
No partners (or false gods) with You.
It is the same step at the beginning eof his tawaf (going around the building) to say,
"In the Name of Allah, Most Great, believing in You, confirming Your Book, fulfilling Your Command and following the way of Your prophet Muhammad!"
In this way the tawaf is done only for the sake of the Supreme God of the universe (Allah), and never in the name of any other god, nor for the black stone, as some people claim.
Worship in Islam can only be for Allah and no one or nothing else.
The act of kissing the stone or pointing toward it while going aorund the ka'bah is nothing more than following the tradition of the prophet himself, who explained it was not the stone or the moon or anything else that was to be worshipped.
Instead, all of our worship, devotion and thanksgiving must be only for Almighty God (Allah).
GLORIFYING THE ONE GOD
Find out, how the pilgrim goes on glorifying Allah the most High, while performing the rounds, with these beautiful sayings: "Glory be to Allah! All Praise be to Allah! There is no deity save God. Allah is Most Great! There is no might, nor power, except by Allah's Help."
A Monotheist (believer in one god) holds these sublime prayers far more valuable than the earth's entire riches. With these, he praises his One and Only Lord, as he circles a spot made Holy by the presence of His House. Is there any remotest trace of Polytheism (multi-god worship) or Idolatry in such an act?
As he has left all his worldly affairs behind, the pilgrim, besides praising Allah, also goes on praying for his worldly betterment, in between. Here is his all-embracing prayer to Allah, the Benevolent: "O Allah! make me content with my appointed lot, and bless me therein. And make good to me all, my losses and needs."
THE TWO-WORLD PRAYER
COULD A STONE BE GOD?
Consider this, when the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, finally gained access to his homeland after being forced out for over a decade, the first and only thing he did was to remove and destroy the 360 idols and statues that had dominated the area for centuries. After destroying all of these fake 'gods' the prophet and his companions made sure to communicate to the next generations after them, to worship only the One God who cannot be contained in a box or a stone or for that matter, anywhere in the universe. This is similiar to what we still find today in the Bible for both Jews and Christians, when King Solomon dedicated his temple to God, saying "The heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house we have built with human hands?"
There is no graven image for the pilgrims to worship in the ka'bah, or in the haram (sanctuary) nor anywhere on this earth. Muslims only worship God, as One. Worshipping anything or anyone other than Allah - is the most heinous and blasphemous crime in Islam.
In light of what the Quran has stated, worshipping anything instead of Almighty God, or making partners in worship by praying through something like a rock, a stick, a stone, a bone or anything else in the universe, would be the last thing any One-God worshipper (Muslim) could ever imagine.
A stone is just a mere rock after all. It has no power whatsoever to do good or inflict harm to any one, apart from Allah, the Sole Deity of mankind. That is a thing cherished either knowingly, ignorantly or figuratively - by those who take to stone-worship instead of God-worship, a belief and practice as unholy as it is senseless.
This is why the Black Stone becomes a mystery to such people, and so, some out of ignorance openly lie by saying Muhammad (Peace be upon him) broke every Idol in Islam except one - meaning the Ka'bah, or the Black Stone. Even some unwitting Muslims got confused about the Black Stone. It was then when 'Umar the second Caliph, removed any doubt from their minds.
Umar made it clear to everyone about the black stone, while going around the ka'bah, he came up to the corner where the black stone is mounted and leaned down toward it and said, "Undoubtly, I know you are nothing but a stone and you can not harm nor benefit anyone. If I had not seen the prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, kiss you, I would not kiss you." (Narrated by 'Abis bin Rabi'a in Sahih Al Bukhari, page 396, no. 808 - Summarized version in English)
So when he came to kiss the Stone, he cried out publicly to it: Narrated 'Abis bin Rabi'a: 'Umar (May Allah be pleased
The father and the son, true believers in the One God and submitting to Him on His terms (Muslims), were in this way raising the foundations with trembling hearts, for the Muslims are Allah's most devoted servants, ever fearful of his displeasure. While building the Ka'bah, therefore, both of them were afraid that Allah may not accept their humble service, hence that prayer of theirs. How touching of such fidelity, how moving of such humility towards Allah the Great! It is the essence of Monotheism, the ideal pattern of Faith and Actions great and small for all Muslims to follow. When raised to a certain height, Ibrahim (Peace be upon him) ordered his son to choose a piece of stone to mark the main cornerpoint. Even as the lad was searching for it, the Archangel Gabriel appeared with the Black Stone from Heaven.
Thereupon Allah taught them through revelation the pilgrimage rites, which includes the Tawaf.
Keep in mind thousands, hundreds of thousands and even sometimes millions of people are all going around the ka'bah at the same time. Not only is unlikely for a person to kiss or touch the stone, in many cases you can not even see the stone due to the distance away from the ka'bah. This is very normal and when this is the case, a simple gesture toward the direction of the northeast corner of the building with the outstretched palm of the hand is sufficient.
The pilgrim begins at this corner and can kiss or touch the stone if the crowd is not too heavy, otherwise he can simply point toward it and say, "Bismillah, Allahu Akbar!" (In the Name of Allah! Allah is Greatest!"
This would signify the beginnig of the first of the seven rounds, and each time he passes by he may either kiss, touch or just signal toward it with his hand.
After keeping it there for twenty years, they had returned it back to Mecca in the year 339 AH (see shorter Encyclopedia Leiden 1953, P. 219). In such an event, the Shari'ah (Law) maintains that the pilgrim shall perform his Tawaf without the Black stone. Instead of the Black Stone, the pilgrim shall touch its place at the corner of the Ka'bah, or point at its spot, and continue his Tawaf. Thus the total absence of the Stone itself makes no difference in the validity of the Tawaf and the Pilgrimage. This shows how tiny a part is being played by this stone. How ignorant of others and how childish, therefore, sounds the charge that it is the "most Precious Idol preserved by Islam"!
The idol and its worship simply do not exist. The Bible is kissed in law courts; does that mean then that it is worshipped? Moreover, parents kiss their children lovingly, without any trace of worship in it at all.
A big question-mark that should come to one's mind are the pre-Islamic Arab idolaters who had held the Ka'bah under their control. With all their polytheism and idolatry, they too used to circle the Ka'bah and kiss the Black Stone. Had their kissing been an act of idol- worship, why then was there still a need for them-despite the presence of the "almighty" Black Stone-to install three hundred and sixty idols therein? This proves beyond a shadow of doubt that it is one thing to kiss the Black Stone under Divine Orders, and quite another to worship a stone or an idol. Most notable, perhaps, is the fact that One-God worshippers do nothing beyond simply kissing the Black Stone. They neither venerate it with folded hands, nor kneel down, nor prostrate themselves, nor squat before it. For all these is done only by idol-worshippers before their idols.
It was these rank idolaters who had injected pagan rites into the purely Islamic Pilgrimage laid down by Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him), one of the greatest worshippers of God. All honor is due to Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him), the seal of the Prophets and the last of Abraham's (Peace be upon him) line of Prophethood, who first swept clean the Holy Ka'bah from its heathen idols. It was he again who restored the original pilgrimage to its pristine purity.
The Muslims, are in fact the true followers of the Religion of Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him), the grand-father of Prophet Muhammad(Peace be upon him), where pilgrimage to Mecca is a notable heritage as well as an important fixture of the religion. How different could these facts be from the Non-Muslims' random conjecture?
Abraham (Peace be upon him) is being himself ordained in this verse to keep perfectly away from idolatry. He is being told, as well, to sanctify the House of God from all kinds of impurities, especially from that of idol-worship. Then follows the two-fold purpose for which that House was being built. First, is its being the center of Tawaf for those who compass it round, and its being the prayer-place for those who pray therein their daily Prayers second. This is as much as to say that the Tawaf and the Pilgrimage do depend upon the house of God, as much as do the prayers. For this reason all those who pray all the world over do turn in the one direction of the Ka'bah at Mecca. After being ordained to build and sanctify God's Ka'bah, Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him) receives in the next verse the command to proclaim the Pilgrimage to the Ka'bah, in this manner:
That definitely proves that it was Abraham (Peace be upon him) who built the Ka'bah, and that it was also he who proclaimed the Pilgrimage, facts that should equally refute the oft-repeated allegation put forth that pilgrimage was some pagan rite invented by the heathen idolaters, and retained by Islam.
HIGHLIGHT OF PILGRIMAGE
Initiated by Abraham (Peace be upon him), and reflected by the Seal of the Prophets, Pilgrimage to the House of God is a unique experience to every true Muslim. For a "Muslim" is essentially the one who shifts from the false to the true Religion - from disbelief to Belief in God, and from multi-god to One-God worship. This trait made Abraham (Peace be upon him) a "Perfect" Muslim when he entered the Pantheon at Babylon, and smashed the idols therein to pieces. Allah entrusted him with building His House at Mecca, and tasked him to proclaim the Pilgrimage to it.
Henceforth, Pilgrimage to the House of God becomes the most predominant trait of being a Muslim. A haven of absolute freedom, and a sanctuary of perfect peace and security, this Holy Mosque is the only spot on earth set up by Allah for one and all the people alike, without any distinction. It is the House of God wherein all men are equal, none being entitled to own it exclusively. This is told in these words of Allah:
The message of this Surah named "The Pilgrimage" (Chapter 22, verses 26-27) itself, is describing the construction of the Ka'bah and its sanctification, it being the focal point of Tawaf as well as the center of Prayers. Thus, the incumbency of Pilgrimage to this "first house of One-God worship", etc. Verses 28-37, do contain the basic elements of the Monotheistic religion of Prophet Abraham (Peace be upon him), wherein one of the main objectives emphasized is the need to celebrate the Name of Allah Alone over the animal-whether ordinarily slaughtered, or offered as sacrifices to Allah, as against those offered to the idolaters' idols, as evidenced particularly by verses 28, 30, 34, 36 and 37. "Avoiding the abomination of idols", and "neglecting the word that is false" (telling and witnessing falsehood), these two cardinal sins, have been specially prohibited in Verse 30.
The crowning message of unparalleled importance is the commandment: "Hunafa' Lillah (i.e. to worship none but Allah), not associating partners (in worship, etc.) unto Him...", which is the soul and the heart of Monotheism (one-God worship), and the annihilator of all Polytheism (multi-god worship).
This last, but not the least message, is the essence of Pilgrimage, as also the topmost concern and happiness of every Muslim. The Meccan idolaters too, used to perform the Pilgrimage, calling themselves thereby as "Hanifs" (followers of Abraham).
Therefore, Muslims are being told to perform the Pilgrimage, and call themselves as "Hanifs" but with this difference: "Being true in faith to Allah, and never assigning partners to Him". Thus the sublime Truths, the essence of the creed: "There is no deity save God", seem to be beyond the comprehension of idol-worshippers, all over the world, and in all ages.
Prayers are an obligatory duty upon every Muslim. This is why every Muslim anywhere around the world turns towards Allah, facing in the direction of the Ka'bah five times daily. Of course, the Ka'bah is for outward direction to face in one's prayers, though inwardly, one faces his entire heart, to the Lord of the Worlds Himself. In this manner, Muslims are so intimately related to the Ka'bah through their Pilgrimage and Prayers, till the last moment of their lives. Not only this, but every Muslim is made to face the direction of the Ka'bah when breathing his last. Nay, even after death he is buried in his last resting place, i.e. in the grave, so that he faces the same direction of the Ka'bah.
And this forms the only straight path, that is the religion of our father Abraham, peace be upon him, as referred to in verse 161.
On the whole, the Hajj is a unique annual gathering of its own kind.
Muslims from all around the world come together to worship in true monotheism, the one-God of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, David, Solomon and of course Muhammad, peace be upon all of them.
These people are putting aside any differences of race, color or social status.
They all gather in the ancient city of Mecca to glorify the One Lord of all creation.
Incidentally, this gathering has always provided the chance for dedicated and serious minded people around the world to share in ways to learn of difficulties and problems concerning religious, social, political and family issues concerning all of us around the world and how best to aid each other in solutions.
This has been going on now for hundreds and hundreds of years.
All these manifold benefits are hinted at in the words:
That they may witness benefits for themselves and mention the name of Allah on known days, over what He has provided for them of [sacrificial] animals. So eat of them and feed the miserable and poor.
The Hajj (pilgrimage) we see, is not a pagan ritual for Muslims, rather it is the fulfillment of an incumbent duty regarding the worship of the One and Only God (Allah).
This is not even a topic of consideration for Muslims. This is a ridiculous claim of a few self-styled "experts" on Islam who know what they are claiming is outlandish and far away from the truth. Read the details for yourself and remember, "Muslims can't lie - or they go to Hell."
INVITATION TO NON-MUSLIMS
So, instead of regarding the Hajj (pilgrimage) duty as a pagan rite, why not consider their own age-old idolatry, and accept and follow the religion of our father Abraham?
The time has arrived for these very people to proclaim of their own free will, "There is no God Worthy of worship except Almighty God!"
And we pray to Almighty God, asking Him to guide them and let them preform the Hajj (pilgrimage) to the House of God at Mecca! And offer their prayers regularly facing towards that same House!
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Changes in global demand for fruits and vegetables in the world are generating new opportunities for producers, including small producers, highlights a report published by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
In 2021, world exports of fruits and vegetables totaled US$225.6 billion.
In addition to greater use of technological know-how, important transformations on the demand side generate considerable new opportunities for value creation in modern agriculture.
As incomes rise in developing countries, people are changing their diets, shifting from staple grains and starches to more diversified diets that include products such as fruits and vegetables, meats and dairy products, says the IDB document, entitled Competing in Agribusiness.
In this context, these products, as well as inputs such as feed grains, are currently facing very dynamic demands.
At the same time, the greater ability to pay in developed countries is inducing consumers in these countries to seek the fruits and vegetables they want all year round, even in off-season periods, which offers excellent opportunities in producing countries that can respond to these demands.
Fruits and vegetables
As demand for these products increases, buyers (including end consumers) are imposing new and growing requirements on the properties of the products they buy and consume.
For example, the report adds, supermarkets and processors are demanding food products that meet increasingly stringent safety and quality standards, have a longer shelf life, and are produced in a way that respects labor rights and is more environmentally friendly.
World fruit exports were $143 billion in 2021, with the main participants being the United States ($15 billion), Spain ($12 billion), the Netherlands ($8.6 billion), Mexico ($8.3 billion) and Chile ($6.5 billion).
As for global external sales of vegetables, these amounted to $82.6 billion in 2021. As exporters, China (US$10.1 billion), Spain (US$8.8 billion), Mexico (US$5.6 billion), the Netherlands (US$8.5 billion) and Canada (US$5.4 billion) stood out.
At the same time, consumers increasingly require more detailed information about the way in which the products they consume are produced, demanding everything from sustainability -organic products, sustainable practices in the use of scarce resources such as water- to fair trade practices.
Moreover, in the spirit of the vertical structural transformation mentioned above, the sector has the potential to generate very important opportunities for small producers.
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The NYPD has released a report that breaks down its controversial stop and frisk policy by precinct and race.
The 2011 figures show nearly 90 percent of those stopped for "reasonable suspicion" were black or Hispanic. Together, the two groups comprise less than 53 percent of the city's population.
Brooklyn's 75th precinct, covering East New York and Cypress Hills, had the most stops. Ninety-seven of the more than 31,000 people stopped were black or Hispanic.
The figures show a total of 685,724 people were detained in 2011.
The New York Civil Liberties Union fought for the release of the figures last year.
NYPD spokesman Paul Browne tells the Daily News charges of racial profiling were unfair. He says there are more stops in some precincts because they have more crime.
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through their influence at corpbrate 6rother""ise:' cause' such' proceedings to be taken bytlietiorporation as i:t ought to take'ifthe lease were a fraud upon the stockholders whom it represented as trustee in; entering into the contract. But although the complainantniay oce-upy· a better position as to matters,of procedure and remedy than he would if he were a stockholder, this circumstance cannot prejudice the right of the defendant to insist that the contract cannot be set aside, in whole or in' part, unless it is invalid as between the North Carolina Railroad Conlpany' as a trustee for its stockholders and itself. The complainant's cause of action is founded on the rights to which he has succeeded as a mortgagee of the shares of stock, and his position is not assisted, nor is that:of the defendant prejudiced, by his neglect to substitute himself asa stock·' holder in place of a mortga.gee of the stock. Fol' these reasons,'and without discussing the other questions which are presented by the demurrer, the demurrer is sustained.
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OQ'I1'1't, D. Nebra8ka. March 1,1889.)
WATER COMPANIEs-TARII,l'F OF. CHARGES-CONSTRUCTION.
The Omaha water,works ordin,ance provides that the company shall furnIsh' water to citizensrel>iding along the line Cif its mains at certain rates; and' gives a. taritr for dwelling-houses according to the number of rooms auet other buildings of different kinds. Rents for other purposes are fixed by, meter-rates.'lowering inversely to the amount of water taken. Held. that the' company has the right t,o trea.t each building separately; and the United' States,. as owner of the Fort Omaha reservation,-a tract of ,mullY:8cr,fjs, OD! which are dwellings for officers: hospitals, warehouses, and not e-ntitled to be supplied as a single consumer. ' : .',:'., '. :
Injunction. George E. Pritchett, for the United States. J. lrI. Woolworth, John L. Webster, and Lake &- Hamilton, for respondentJ,
BREWER, J. This is a bill brought by the United States to enjoin the d'e:" fendant from taking up its or shutting offthe supply of Wlitet' heretoforefumished by it to Fort Olllaha; The facts are these: . ernment, complainant herein, owns a reservation of many aoresknoWn fis! "Fort Omaha," upon which are situaten a number of buildings,'atnong for officers, hospitals, warehouses, 'anU· 'barracks: them for at least a regiment of troops. In 1870, the state Nebraska ceded jurisdiction over this tract of land to the general government: At that time it was a. mile or two distant from the limits of the city ofOnii!ha. The defendant is a corporation having authority byordinances'ah'cli tracts'to lay down, its in the streetsoHhe'city ofOrtJaha:,' and obliged to: supply its citizens and inhabitants with wal:fet anee with the provisions of the ordinances.Some·yt!l1rs sinoo"tbEPg0Voi.i
emment made a contract with defendant to extend one of its mains 1;(, For,t Omaha, and supply the buildings on'the premises with water at a stipulated sum. This contract, by its terms, expired at the end of one year, but similar contracts have been made from year to year, the last one expiring about the 10th of last July. In 1887 the exterior limits of the city of Omaha were extended so as to include said military reserJuly, the comvation and fort. At the expiration of the contract plainant declined to enter into another, and insisted that it was entitled to the privileges of a citizen or inhabitant of the city of Omaha, and a supply of water from the water-works of the defendant at ordinance rates, and for all the buildings on the fort reservation to be considered as one consumer. The defendant declined to supply water under these terms, and was proceeding to take up its mains, when this bill was filed. The facts are all agreed upon, and but two questions have been presented and argued. First. Has the government, in respect to this reservation, any rights under the ordinance of the city, or power to compel the defendant to supply it with water? The argument, briefly stated, is that this reservation, though within the exterior limits of the city of Omaha, is not a part of it, or even a part of the state of Nebraska, because jurisdiction has been ceded to the general government. The city has no power to enter on this reservation, open, grade, or improve streets, or exercise any municipal powers, or discharge any municipal duties within its limits; hence conversely, neither the government, as the owner of the ground, nor any of the persons dwelling upon the reservation as individuals"have any rights as against the municipality or under its ordinances. The cases of Railroad Co. v. Lowe, 114 U. S. 525,5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 995, and of Railroad Co. v.McGlinn, 114 U. S. 542, 5 Sup. Ct. Rep. 1005, and the cases cited in the opinion, are referred to as authorities upon this question. It may turn, partially at least, on the true intent and meaning of the contracts and ordinances heretofore referred to. Perhaps a fair construction would require the defendant to furnish water to all within the outer boundaries of the city, irrespective of the question whether any individual or property is within the territorial jurisdiction of tliemunicipality. Isball not, however, decide that question, but pass to the other, the answer to which must be against the contention of the co:mplainant, and fatal td this bill; As heretofore stated. the reservation or fort is a tract of many acres, upon which are situated many houses .and other buildings. Now, it makes a very material difference all these houses and buildings are to be treated separately by reason, 'of the separate occupancYt or as a unit by'reason of the single proprietorship of the government. The average amount of water deliv" ared t@ the reservation has been 20,000 gallons per day. The meterrates, as· fiKed by ordinance, are 100 to 500 gallons per day, 35 cents per 1,000 gallons} '4,000 gallons per day, 15 cents per 1,000 gallons. Now, if each buillling. is to be treatp.u asa separate consumer, the water would have .paid for probably at the rate of 35' cents, whereas, if all are to be treated,as simply one consumer, then 15 cents per 1,000 gallons would betpe.price. That under the ordinance the water company has a.right
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to treat each building as a separate consumer, seems to me very clear.
Section 10 of the ordinance .is the ODe that prescribes the rates. It reads as follows: Any person, company, corporation, or association, or their assigns, who shall construct such water-works shall furnish water to citizens residing along the line of said mains, or contiguous to the same, at all times when any such water-works shall be maintained, at rates which shall not exceed the following tariff, to-wit:
TARIFF OF WATER-RATES.
100 to 500 gallons per day, -at the Tate of 5UOto'l,OOO" .. .. 1,000 to 2,000" .. .. 2,000 to 4,000 ... .. .. Over 4,000 .. .. ..
Obviously the whole scope of this section is to give to the watercompany a right to treat each building separately. That, by the agreed statement of facts, has been their constant practice, and any other conto it. The very fact that all the special struction would work rates prescribed make no reference to ownership of buildings or property ,shows that the' question of ownership is immaterial, and that the rates depend upon the character of the property, and the probable extent of the use. Take the first two items: it is not to the owner of the dwell... ing-house not exceeding five rooms, but for the house itself, and for each additional room. The same prindple should apply to a large property like the reservatioD, upon which are m,any buildings. The question is not who owns all this, but what is the character of the buildings, the number of them, and the uses to which they are put. And the meter rates are to be construed as merely a substitute for the special rates, giving the right to pay for the amount of water, rather than upon the character and size of ,the building. Suppose some one in the city owning a block of ground should put up 20 or 30. residences.to rent; it would be a, clear violation of the spirit of this ordinance to permit"him to supply all these houses as though they constitutecilone property. Indeed, as nothiQg is said .al;>out contiguity, if ownership was the test, a
residences, 'stores, ,and 's.caftered iIf dit: fetent: parts 'of the citymight i insist upon supply to'allat the lowest rate; or, as neither ownership nor contiguity is spoken of, why might he not cnotract for all the water from defendant, and subcontract it to vain there .can be little doubt on thIS..,.T,he practIce whlChh'as obtamed ever SlUee defendant's water'works were established correctly interprets the ordinance t and expresses its true spirit and meaning; and .that gives defendant the right to building a separate consumer, and charge either for the bmldmg or at meter rates accordingly. This being the true interpretation or the contract, it follows that complainant's case must fail, and a decree'must go dismissing the
GEORGIA INFIRMARY FOR TIlE REi,IEF AND PROTECTION OF AGED AND :,; , ,AFFLICT1l:D ;NEGMES 1:. JONES et al. CITY CoUNCIL 'OF AUGUSTA'lI. SAME.
(Cirouit Oourt, S. D. New York. February 22, 1889.)
., Testator.'after disposing of all the residue of hill estate except certain cotton against the United States government. bequeathed a specified sum out of the proceeds of ,said claims to complainants. or so much should remain'after paying cert!,in legacieS to others. At that time his claims were pending before the court of claims, but before his death he col· lected them, and invested the proceeds insecurities, realizing a sl1m sufficient to 'have satisfied the bequest to complainants. Held, that the legacies were 8,pecifip. and were payable only in case executors collected the funds from source inqica:ted, and, that ttlstator by coJlectini' t,hem caused an ademption of'the legaCIes. ' , ;
In Bills for legacies. ' Bills respectively by tht> Georgia Infirmary fOl'the Relief and Prote-e:. tion of Agl:ldand Afflicted Negroes and the city council of against Jones· and a-n()ther,administratorsc. t. a. of Gazaway B. Lamar, for the payment of certain legacies given to complainant. John W. Weed; forcomplllinallts. Oharles O. 'Beaman, for defendants. WALLAGE; J. These aCtiOllS involve the rights of the complainants, to legacies of $50,000, bequeathed to then1 for charitable objects by the willof Gazaway B.-Lamar, deceased. The will was executed September 28, 1872, Rhdatthat time the testator owned 'real and personal property in possession,antl 'had besides certain claims fora large am(nihtagainst the goverritrient'ofthe United Statesfor cotton which had -been seized and sold by its ,officers during the war of the Rebellion, whicl> were then' 'being'prosecuted for collection. The will, by the first
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Warsaw's iconic palm loses leaves in Euro protest
WARSAW (Reuters) - Warsaw's iconic city centre palm tree is almost bare after its creator removed its leaves to protest against what she believes is the city's disregard for social needs amid a huge amount of spending on Euro 2012.
The controversial 15-metre high artificial tree, originally part of an art exhibition but which has become a permanent feature in the city for almost 10 years, is passed by thousands of fans on their way to the National Stadium for matches.
"Instead of a blossoming cultural life and a new building of the museum for modern art we have fun zones, indebted cities, UEFA taking all profits from the event and a huge spectacle of primitive nationalism," Joanna Rajkowska, the artist who created and claims ownership of the palm told the gazeta.pl website on Thursday.
UEFA expects the tournament to generate about 1.3 billion euros ($1.64 billion) in revenue with profits mainly distributed to the 16 participating nations and as solidarity payments to the 53 member associations of European soccer's governing body.
Rajkowska said her action was also triggered by the city's decision to erect a huge white football close to the palm which she claimed violated her rights.
"The palm is a symbol of all that is missing in the vision of city authorities - that is of common good based on a dialogue with the society," Rajkowska said in a statement.
Poland has spent some 20 billion euros ($25 billion) on Euro 2012, which it is co-hosting with Ukraine, and hopes to use the tournament to promote itself as an emerging economic powerhouse in Europe's eastern wing.
But Rajkowska, who endorsed the "Bread instead of games" movement, believes Poland should have used the money to subsidize schools, kindergartens, housing for the poor and other public facilities to counter fiscal austerity in one of the European Union's poorest member countries.
(Reporting by Marcin Goettig; Editing by Ken Ferris)
© Thomson Reuters 2017 All rights reserved.
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We know anecdotally that participating in the I’m a Scientist event has a positive effect on students’ attitudes to science. Teachers tell us that their students were buzzing, and that they understood more about science. Students thank scientists in live chats for an interesting lesson. They tell us that it is “better than Facebook”.
But being data geeks that isn’t good enough. We wanted to know just how much we were affecting the students. Were we affecting them all by the same amount? Girls, boys, year groups? Did being more active in the event mean a greater change in attitude?
Questions we ask students
Thanks in part to the pilot work by Robin Longdin, then a SciComm masters student at UWE, we ask every student registering for I’m a Scientist a set of 4 questions:
- How does school make you feel about science?
- Are you planning to choose a science subject at the next stage of your education?
- Do you think jobs involving science are interesting?
- When you finish your education, how likely are you to look for a job that uses your science knowledge and skills?
We also ask the same questions towards the end of the event and ask for the username so we can match against their initial answers, their gender, year group, zone and activity levels within the event.
Measuring attitudinal change
The important thing for us is not the answers they give but the difference between the beginning and end of the event. We want to know if after two weeks of being exposed to our scientists they feel differently.
Each question had a five point answer scale. We intentionally wanted a neutral middle answer. We can’t expect students to all feel passionately about science. We then allocated a numerical value to each answer. 2 for the most positive, -2 for the most negative. We then simply subtract the starting answer value from the end of event value to give us a value for change in attitude for each of the four questions for each of the student who answered.
Do more active students see a greater change in attitude?
There is a lot of data generated and one of the challenges is to consolidate it into meaningful clusters. For example what do we mean by levels of activity? Some students are lively in live chats. Others ask a lot of questions. Some do both. We looked at the 3 main types of activity: ASK, CHAT, VOTE and scored each student between 0 and 3 depending on how active they were. We then totalled the individual scores to give each student a score between 0 and 9 overall. That is the X-axis below.
The first thing to note is that the overall trend is that the more activity on the site the more positive the change in attitude. Secondly the change in attitude to the final question: “When you finish your education, how likely are you to look for a job that uses your science knowledge and skills?” is much lower than the other questions, and in fact sometimes negative even for those students who made the most of our erstwhile role models.
We need to investigate this further. It could be a flawed question? What does it really mean to 13 and 14 year olds. Do school students consider a PhD studentship to be a job? Are half our role models not helping with that question?
We went back to the source data and found to our embarrassment that we had made a mistake and we were comparing the answers to the final question to the answers to the 3rd question. D’Oh! The good news for us is that when you use the right data, the story looks even better. Students emerge from I’m a Scientist feeling much more positive about jobs in science for themselves.
The greatest effect is on girls and Year 10 & 11 students
This graph shows the average change in attitude for 6 groups by question asked. It clearly shows that the event has the greatest effect on girls and on students in Years 10 & 11.
This is based on a total of 853 valid responses from students across 3 events from June 2013 to March 2014 in the UK. The n for the groups in the second chart are:
Years 7-9: n=589
Year 10 & 11: n=130
They don’t all add up to 853. Sometimes it is a group of girls and boys who register. We also had 21 6th formers respond, but that is too small a sample to use. And sometimes the default “Please choose” answer remained. Yes there are disproprtionately more girls than boys, but yes, more girls than boys do participate.
Leave a comment and start a conversation!
Finally, we do this analysis for our own sake so that we can better understand our event, but we publish it for your sake, whoever you are. We want other practitioners to share in our knowledge. Please leave a comment to say “thanks”, or to ask for clarification or for more information.
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It is important to communicate with other vehicle drivers when traveling. This can be accomplished by using a hand signal and prolonging your left hand. Similarly, if you see something that is not in your way, you have to quit and also signal to various other motorcyclists. A few of the hazards include dead animals, deer crossing the road, oil, water swimming pools, shelfs, mud, gravel, and a collapsed car blocking a lane.
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The term motorbike can be utilized mutually with a bike or motorbike. It’s commonly contracted to the bike too, so there’s no threat of being misconstrued or laughed at. The two terms have various meanings and also are generally perplexed in different contexts. Making use of the right word can avoid people from misconstruing the meaning of words. In addition, it is important to make use of the appropriate meaning for your motorcycle.
A motorbike is a two-wheeled vehicle, comparable to a bike. Its name can be complex, but don’t stress. If you make use of the word bike, you’re probably fine. It can be used to refer to a bicycle, a bike, or a motorbike. This suggests that both terms have the same significance and also are made use of in various contexts. However you’ll never be poked fun at or misunderstood if you make use of the word bike. https://clementcycling.com/best-bluetooth-motorcycle-helmets/
As bike became more prominent, improving began to influence the form of the motorbike. A cutting edge new layout, called a “dustbin fairing,” was presented by Moto Guzzi and NSU. By 1957, structured devices won nearly all Grand Prix races. In 1958, full-enclosure fairings were outlawed in auto racing, however their use was just halted by the AMA’s regulations. The term motorbike has actually been widely approved ever since, and also is still commonly used in the United States.
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CloudVision is a powerful platform that processes and stores tremendous amounts of network data. It knows the topology of the network, device configuration, interface activity and other network events. These APIs allow access to fleet-wide data access and control, forming a management-plane with consistent usage.
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For more information on modelling, see the Modeling page.
Adding a new API simply means creating a new model. Once a model is made, a set of consistent API verbs can then be generated for it. These verbs are named and behave the same across all models. For clients this makes it near trivial to adapt usage of one API to another.
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This operation has numerous failure modes:
In each of these cases, the client is now responsible of determining which failure mode occurred and how to proceed.
In a state-sharing paradigm a reboot request might be performed by setting a reboot request attribute to
the current time. The service can return from this request almost immediately (only durably writing the request).
Then the client can subscribe to a
last-reboot attribute and knows the device has been rebooted successfully
when that attribute’s timestamp exceeds that of the reboot request. State sharing allows the various components
involved in an action not to need to care about each other; they just need to synchronize state when they
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This list is not extensive, nor an endorsement of any project. Many more tools can be found on the awesome-grpc page.
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"The prospects of the negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas do not look promising. President Obama undoubtedly thinks otherwise, but if Abbas speaks for anyone, it's barely half the Palestinians. The chances of anything good coming of this are not great. Another possibility is Jordan. If Jordan were ready to absorb both more territories and more people, things would be much easier and more natural. But Jordan does not agree to this. Therefore, I say that we can look at another option: for Israel to apply its law to Judea and Samaria and grant citizenship to 1.5 million Palestinians."
These remarks, which to many sound subversive, were not voiced by a left-wing advocate of a binational state. The speaker is from the Betar movement, a former top leader in Likud and political patron of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a former defense and foreign affairs minister - Moshe Arens. On June 2, Arens published an op-ed in Haaretz ("Is there another option?" ) in which he urged consideration of a political alternative to the existing situation and the political negotiations. He wants to break the great taboo of Israeli policy making by granting Israeli citizenship to the Palestinians in the West Bank. Arens is not put off by those who accuse him of promoting the idea of a binational Jewish-Palestinian state. "We are already a binational state," he says, "and also a multicultural and multi-sector state. The minorities [meaning Arabs] here make up 20 percent of the population - that's a fact and you can't argue with facts."
As Washington, Ramallah and Jerusalem slouch toward what seems like a well-known, self-evident solution - two states for two nations, on the basis of the 1967 borders and a small-scale territorial swap - a conceptual breakthrough is taking place in the right wing. Its ideologues are no longer content with rejecting withdrawal and evacuation of settlements, citing security arguments calculated to strike fear into the hearts of the Israeli mainstream. Their new idea addresses the shortcomings of the status quo, takes account of the isolation in which Israel finds itself and acknowledges the need to break the political deadlock.
Once the sole preserve of the political margins, the approach is now being advocated by leading figures in Likud and among the settlers - people who are not necessarily considered extremists or oddballs. About a month before Arens published his article, Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin (Likud ) said, "It's preferable for the Palestinians to become citizens of the state than for us to divide the country." In an interview this week (see box ), Rivlin reiterates and elaborates this viewpoint. In May 2009, Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely organized a conference in the Knesset titled "Alternatives to Two States." Since then, on a couple of occasions, she has called publicly for citizenship to be granted to the Palestinians "in gradual fashion." Now she is planning to publish a position paper on the subject. Uri Elitzur, former chairman of the Yesha Council of Settlements and Netanyahu's bureau chief in his first term as prime minister, last year published an article in the settlers' journal Nekuda calling for the onset of a process, at the conclusion of which the Palestinians will have "a blue ID card [like Israelis], yellow license plates [like Israelis], National Insurance and the right to vote for the Knesset." Emily Amrousi, a former spokesperson for the Yesha Council, takes part in meetings between settlers and Palestinians and speaks explicitly of "one land in which the children of settlers and the children of Palestinians will be bused to school together."
It's still not a full-fledged political camp and there are still holes in the theory. But although its advocates do not seem to be working together, the plans they put forward are remarkably similar. They all reject totally the various ideas of ethnic separation and recognize that political rights accrue to the Palestinians. They talk about a process that will take between a decade and a generation to complete, at the end of which the Palestinians will enjoy full personal rights, but in a country whose symbols and spirit will remain Jewish. It is at this point that the one-state right wing diverges from the binational left. The right is not talking about a neutral "state of all its citizens" with no identity, nor about "Israstine" with a flag showing a crescent and a Shield of David. As envisaged by the right wing, one state still means a sovereign Jewish state, but in a more complex reality, and inspired by the vision of a democratic Jewish state without an occupation and without apartheid, without fences and separations. In such a state, Jews will be able to live in Hebron and pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and a Palestinian from Ramallah will be able to serve as an ambassador and live in Tel Aviv or simply enjoy ice cream on the city's seashore. Sounds off the wall? "If every path seems to reach an impasse,' Elitzur wrote in Nekuda, "usually the right path is one that was never even considered, the one that is universally acknowledged to be unacceptable, taboo."
A year ago, in a seminar sponsored by the Geneva Initiative group, Uri Elitzur astonished an audience of parliamentary assistants with pointed, clear remarks about the desirable political framework. "The worst solution," he said, "is apparently the right one: a binational state, full annexation, full citizenship."
Among those who were not surprised were leading figures from the settlers' movement Gush Emunim (Bloc of the Faithful ). Elitzur has been trying to sell them his idea for some time. "At first I was in splendid isolation," he says, "but lately more and more people are willing to move in my direction. I think it's the only practicable solution. The two-state formula has been kicked around for 10 years or more. All the politicians say - aloud or in a whisper - they are for it, but it's still not happening. The differences between left and right, over which they kill each other in hatred, are really very small. But everyone is convinced that moving a fraction of an inch from his viewpoint will mean the country's destruction. Neither the one side nor the other is to blame, nor even the Palestinians. The Arab world simply does not want to reach a compromise with us, and even if the formula is found, it won't endure.
"The existing situation is also a dead end," Elitzur continues. "It can't last forever. The problems Israel has faced in the international community in the past five years are due to the fact that the world is fed up. The international community is telling us, 'You claimed it was a temporary situation, yet that temporary situation has already lasted 40 years. We are ready to agree to another decade, but we want to know where things are going.' The Israelis are also starting to grasp this. I want us to look for the solutions on the other side of the scale, which lies between the existing situation and the annexation and naturalization of all the Palestinians."
In internal forums and in front of a home audience, Elitzur is even more outspoken. "There are many softened or newspeak variations of apartheid," he wrote in Nekuda, which devoted an entire issue to the search for an alternative policy to the two-state solution. "Some suggest that the Palestinians should be under Israeli rule but vote in the elections for the Jordanian parliament. There are ideas involving autonomy, cantons, powerless self-government. It's not by chance or by neglect that none of these proposals became the official policy of Likud or of the right. In the end, they all go back to a dead end: a whole population living under Israeli rule without civil rights. That is unacceptable on a permanent basis. It's a situation that can exist only temporarily and faces mounting pressure, both internal and external, to bring the temporary situation to an end at long last."
What do you say to the allegations that you have joined the radical left?
"There's a clear separation between us. I am talking about a Jewish state, the state of the Jewish people, which will contain a large Arab minority. The left is talking about an Arab state containing a Jewish minority, even if they do not explicitly think that. The leftist demonstrators in [the West Bank village of] Bil'in have totally joined the Palestinian cause."
Still, in terms of the political plan, there are points of convergence between you and them.
"In terms of the political plan, yes. But so what? I have many points in common with the extreme left. I am in favor of refusing an order to dismantle settlements, they are in favor of refusing an order to serve in the territories, and both of us are against the [separation] fence. I am not frightened at the fact that there are Jews with whom I profoundly disagree on one issue but with whom I share views on other issues. But I will not enter into a political alliance with the Anarchists [Against the Wall] even though I too am against the fence. We have common ground, but beyond it we have a very deep disagreement. As I see it, the State of Israel was established in order to preserve the rights of the small Jewish minority in the Middle East - six million vs. 300 million - and that is its main purpose. After fulfilling its main purpose, it is also a democratic state. That's why it has to grant human rights to everyone, Jew or non-Jew."
Indeed, Elitzur no longer needs the left to wrench him out of his splendid isolation. Hanan Porat, for example, one of the iconic founders of Gush Emunim, though rejecting what he terms "the automatic citizenship that Uri is proposing, which is naive and is liable to lead to grave consequences," also suggests gradually applying Israeli law in the territories, first in regions where there is a Jewish majority, and within a decade or a generation, throughout.
And the Palestinians?
Porat: "In my view, every Arab has three options. First, those who want an Arab state and are ready to implement that goal by means of terrorism and a struggle against the state, have no place in the Land of Israel. Second, those who accept their place and accept Jewish sovereignty, but do not want to take part in the state and fulfill all their obligations, can be considered residents and enjoy full human rights, but not political representation in the state's institutions. By the same token, they will also not have full obligations, such as military or national service. Third, those who say they are loyal to the state and to its laws and are ready to fulfill the obligations it prescribes and declare loyalty to it, can receive full citizenship. I consider this a moral and human principle: citizenship is not forced on anyone or granted just like that. We tried this in East Jerusalem, and the fact is that we failed.
"There is no point in threatening us with the idea of a state of all its citizens," Porat continues. "Already 30 years ago, we in Gush Emunim were against solutions of fear - both withdrawal and transfer - and said that in the Return to Zion there is room for the Arab population who desire this, as long as we are not naive about the process."
A few weeks before he published his article in Nekuda, Elitzur spoke at the conference Hotovely organized in the Knesset on alternatives to the two-state solution. Despite the participation of serious speakers, such as former chief of staff and present minister for strategic affairs, Moshe Ya'alon, and Major General (res. ) Giora Eiland, a former head of the National Security Council, Hotovely came out of the conference disappointed. "It made a lot of headlines and had resonance, but I did not see a genuine vision," she says. "The ideas ranged from the status quo to 'Jordan is Palestine.' Most of the speakers rejected the alternative put forward by the left without putting anything positive on the table.
"This approach has characterized the political discourse of the right wing for years," she continues. "The right, you could say, had a Qassam for every argument of the left. We had deep ideological roots which said that this is our land, but beyond that we did not put forward a real solution. Only Uri Elitzur took a different approach."
Since then, Hotovely has become increasingly convinced that the idea of giving the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria citizenship must be part of the political horizon. At the moment, she envisages this as a long-term process, perhaps lasting a generation, during which the situation on the ground will stabilize, while the symbols and character of the Jewish state will be enshrined in a constitution. But the goal must be clear: annexation and citizenship, or as she puts it, "removing the question mark from above Judea and Samaria."
Hotovely: "My outlook has two motivations. First, my deep belief in our right to the Land of Israel. Shiloh and Beit El settlements are, for me, the land of our forefathers in the full sense of the term. The second thing is that I do not ignore the fact that there are Palestinians here. Both the left and the right chose to shut their eyes to the fact that there are human beings here. The left chose to do it by building a fence and deciding that they just don't want to see them, and the right simply said, 'We will continue and see what happens.' We have reached a critical point, a situation in which the entire Zionist enterprise is under threat, because the international community now disputes the legitimacy of our defense of Sderot and Ashkelon, not the legitimacy of building a settler outpost."
The international community takes that stance because we are still occupiers. There will be greater legitimacy when the occupation ends.
"We did not get legitimacy in return for our previous withdrawals. Worse, the harm we are inflicting on the Palestinian population has become far more mortal. Our instruments of defense became tanks and planes, and that is always worse than policing operations that are done when you control the ground.
"The assumption of the left is that once it hides behind the international border, everything will be permitted. But it's clear already now that not everything is permitted and that the principle of proportionality is shackling Israel in Gaza - so what will happen in Judea and Samaria? In fact, it goes even deeper. There is a moral failure here. After all, the left has long since stopped talking about peace and is resorting to a terminology of separation and segregation. They are also convinced that the confrontation will continue even afterward. The result is a solution that perpetuates the conflict and turns us from occupiers into perpetrators of massacres, to put it bluntly. It's the left that made us a crueler nation and also put our security at risk."
Could a country with such a large non-Jewish minority still be Jewish?
"At the moment, we are talking about citizenship in Judea and Samaria, not Gaza. In Gaza there is an enemy regime that rejects Israel. It is outside the political discourse, including the two-state discourse. There are 1.5 million Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. I want it to be clear that I do not recognize national rights of Palestinians in the Land of Israel. I recognize their human rights and their individual rights, and also their individual political rights - but between the sea and the Jordan there is room for one state, a Jewish state."
The fact is that the state is having a hard time containing a minority of 20 percent even now. How will it cope with 30 or 40 percent and also preserve its character?
"Every choice entails a price. The status quo carries a heavy price, the two-state idea carries a heavy price, and the approach I am now presenting also carries a price. Coping with the Arab minority is a lower price than the danger of the Qassams, the delegitimization and the immoral actions we will commit in coping with them, and also preferable to giving up parts of the homeland, including Jerusalem."
Once the Palestinians become citizens, things might lurch out of your control. Some will say you are playing with fire.
"Everyone is playing with fire. There is no solution that is divorced from the world of risk in the Middle East. The risks in the two-state conception are not virtual, they have already been actualized. The risks I am talking about can be addressed in a rational process lasting a generation."
Of the two dangers you discern - a binational state or a Palestinian state - which would you choose?
"Unequivocally the binational danger. In the binational process we have a degree of control, but the moment you abandon the area to the Palestinian entity, what control do you have over what will happen there?"
51 percent majority
In a political reality of increasing polarization between the country's Jewish and Arab citizens, talk of a shared space between the Mediterranean and the Jordan does not always get a serious hearing. Some of the right-wing spokesmen understand this. For Moshe Arens, integration of the Arab population into Israeli society is a prior condition - only afterward will it be possible to talk about granting citizenship to the Palestinians in the territories. "If we are incapable of integrating Israel's Arab citizens, how will we be able to offer the others citizens?" Arens says. "If I wanted something to happen after my article was published, it was for an emphasis to be placed on the attitude toward the Arab population inside Israel. I have spoken to the prime minister about this dozens of times. It's the biggest problem in the country. If we do not integrate the Arabs, it will simply be a disaster."
There is one large party that says they simply have to be transferred into a Palestinian state.
"The platform of Yisrael Beiteinu is nonsensical, an attempt to curry to the lowest common denominator in the country," says Arens sharply. "Where will the transfer be carried out? Will Galilee be transferred to the Palestinian state? The Negev to Egypt? It's not doable. They are just causing damage to 20 percent of our population, insulting them by saying they want to be rid of them, strip them of Israeli citizenship. Who ever heard the like?
"I repeat: first of all, we need to take care of the Israeli Arabs who are citizens. That is also essential if we are thinking of giving citizenship to Palestinians from Judea and Samaria. Only if they see that the Arabs have it good in Israel will they think it might be good for them, too."
Your opponents will say that by publishing an article like this, you are strengthening Sheikh Ra'ad Salah [a leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel] and that you will introduce a fifth column into the country that will spell the end of the Jewish state.
"Only those who don't grasp the full depth of the issue will say that. I have written dozens of times that the policy must be two-pronged: against the Islamic Movement - to outlaw them, because they are a subversive, seditious movement - and, at the same time, to work against feelings of discrimination among Israel's Arab citizens. It is untenable for these people to be hewers of wood and drawers of water - doing the dirty work in the industrialized and advanced country that is Israel."
Have you been accused of becoming a post-Zionist in the wake of your article?
"That's a lot of nonsense. Was [Revisionist leader Ze'ev] Jabotinsky a post-Zionist? He talked about a Jewish state with a Jewish majority, but for him a majority meant even 51 percent, too. In his last book, he suggested that the president might be a Jew and the vice president an Arab, and also the opposite. Jabotinsky was no post-Zionist."
If there is anything that unites the political establishment - Ehud Barak, Tzipi Livni and now Netanyahu, too - it's the view that granting the Palestinians citizenship is dangerous and that only separation will ensure a democratic Jewish state.
"Demagoguery. If Zionism means 'as little as possible for the Arabs,' I have to say that I do not accept that. Jabotinsky did not accept it, either. You call that Zionism - as few Arabs as possible in Israel? That is the Zionism of [Avigdor] Lieberman. If what is implied by the rhetoric of Tzipi Livni is that we need as few Arabs as possible in Israel, it's not so far from Lieberman. "People should not exploit what I said for their purposes. My intention is that, to begin with, we have to focus on the Arab population in Israel, and especially the Muslims. It's definitely a dual-stage process. Only then, many years from now, will it be possible to consider additional minorities, and then maybe the Arabs across the Green Line will say that things are simply good in Israel - not in order to overcome us demographically, but simply because things here are good. We haven't yet reached that point."
If Elitzur, Hotovely and Arens represent the political aspect of the idea of a joint state, Emily Amrousi is interested in its everyday side. Amrousi, who lives in the West Bank settlement of Talmon, is active in Eretz Shalom (Land of Peace ), an organization that arranges meetings between settlers and Palestinians, focusing on the local interests of both sides, not necessarily on the political pitfalls. She, too, admits that in the distant future there will have to be citizenship for everyone. "But don't make me out to be a one-state advocate," Amrousi says. "In the end, it might arrive at that, but that's still a very long way off. Let's talk first about one land, one strip of ground. We are not like the Canaanite movement: we are not forgoing the State of Israel and the flag of Israel."
And until we reach the coveted equality, will we have to make do with the status quo?
"No, I don't like the status quo either because it's really not moral. It's impossible to go on like this, with a situation in which my Palestinian neighbors have to cross three checkpoints to get from one village to another. There is a distortion here - true, for security reasons, for logical reasons - but something went wrong along the way, and we can't go on accepting this.
"The word 'citizenship' is very national and very political. In the Eretz Shalom initiative we do not talk about citizenship, but about concepts of neighborly relations. There are no neighborly relations here, because either it's relations between enemies or we are transparent to them and they to us. And the relations that do exist are like those between horse and rider. There must be an initial basis before we talk about citizenship and a judicial system. We need to speak their language and we can even have a joint swimming pool here, because both they and we need separation between men and women. That may be a bit far off, but we have to think first about everyday life. I know that sounds like conditional citizenship - saying they must first be my good neighbors and then I will grant them rights - but I really do want to talk about a process that starts from below."
From below or from above, in the end we reach a state whose demographic and geographic parameters are very different from what we have today.
"Demography is definitely a threat, but the other threat is bigger. The harder price is to cut up this country, with one part topographically higher than the other. I can't speak with the Israeli public now about citizenship and Palestinians on the beach in Tel Aviv, because that's a threat to the public. The whole situation now is wrong. We made a mistake, we arrived at the wrong place and we have a long way to go, but in the end there has to be one space here. We will yet talk about one state, but in the meantime we can talk about one land."
One can take a cynical view of Eretz Shalom, of Amrousi's decision to learn Arabic or of the project being organized by the settlers in Talmon: to build a lean-to for Palestinian workers awaiting a security check before entering their settlement. Fashionably late, one could say, and under the threat of evacuation, Gush Emunim is discovering the enlightened occupation. But there is another side, too: the impression that the Israeli center, in its addiction to the separation idea, has sloughed off the question of relations with the Arab population, on both sides of the Green Line. Is it a coincidence that Amrousi chose to describe the reality in the Land of Israel as "one space," a term used by critical sociologists from the radical left?
Prof. Yehouda Shenhav, formerly from the Sephardi Democratic Rainbow and editor of the journal Theory and Criticism for the past decade, believes that the concept of reality for people on the right, as quoted above, is far more accurate and honest than the two-state concept of the left. In his recent book, "The Time of the Green Line" (Am Oved, Hebrew ), Shenhav returns to what he terms the true foundation of the conflict, namely 1948, and not "the obliterating and blurring paradigm according to which everything was swell until 1967, and then things went awry, as David Grossman writes in 'The Yellow Wind.'" Shenhav rejects both the two-state idea and the "state of all its citizens." He argues that the only possible stable model is one that will recognize the distinctiveness of different communities - among both Palestinians and Jews - in the one space between the sea and the Jordan River.
"The diagnosis of the right-wingers is accurate," Shenhav says, and immediately adds, "But let's be precise: it's not the whole of the right. Most of them do not speak in those terms. But there is a minority that reads reality in a far less denying and less repressive way than all the people on the left who support the two-state solution. The majority of the left does not understand a spatial concept that does not permit homogeneity. The Jews and the Palestinians are Siamese twins. The ideology of the Jewish state espoused by the articulate spokespersons of the left tries to sever the different Palestinian groups, and takes their severance as a fait accompli. In contrast, Rubi [Reuven] Rivlin and Moshe Arens understand that those on both sides of the Green Line are Palestinians.
"I am not in favor of the wrongs being caused by the settlements," Shenhav continues, "but in their political diagnosis the settlers are right. In one way or another, we too will ultimately learn this, and the only question is how much bloodshed it will entail. I wrote exactly what the right is saying today: the war in Gaza is the model that will be repeated in the future if there is separation."
The 1967 lines are accepted by the international community. The left is against the plunder of land that is taking place to the east, against the fact that a settlement like Ofra is situated on private Palestinian land.
"What exactly is the difference between Ofra and Beit Dagan, which is situated on [the former Palestinian village of] Beit Dajan? Do the 19 years from 1948 to 1967 make one settlement moral and the other immoral? In my book I quote Uri Elitzur, who says, 'You [the left] expelled the Palestinians in 1948, did not allow them back, established settlements on all their villages and afterward built the separation fence, and then you come to us with complaints, even though we have not destroyed even one village in the West Bank - not even one - to build a settlement.'
"The 1967 paradigm is intended to make it possible for the left to live in Tel Aviv and feel good about itself," Shenhav continues. "The settlements will be sacrificed in order to atone for what they did to the Palestinians in 1948. The settlers will pay the price of the sins of the left. Yossi Beilin and his Geneva Initiative and all the rest want to preserve the achievements of the Ashkenazi elite.
"Don't get me wrong: I am not in favor of the vision of the right wing. All I am doing is recommending that the left listen to what the right is saying. To take the right wing's diagnosis and develop it into normative and moral left-wing viewpoints, to create a horizon that reflects leftism - not nationalism, not a Jewish empire."
Are you now a person of the left or the right?
"I don't know. I wrote in favor of the [Palestinians'] right of return and I am against the evacuation of settlements. So where does that leave me?"
The supporters of the two-state concept always warned against closing a window of opportunity to establish a Palestinian state. Now that the right has started to talk about a one-state solution, is the window closed? Definitely not, says Gadi Baltiansky, director general of the Geneva Initiative: "But I appreciate the sincerity of those who speak clearly at this time. The right always spoke in negative terms. Tzipi Livni once noted that the Likud's platform always starts with the word 'no.' No to a Palestinian state, no to withdrawal, no, no and more no. Now there are people on the right who are saying with great candor what must be done, even if some of them are still hesitant about going public.
"I never liked the division into the 'peace camp' and the 'national camp,'" Baltiansky continues. "The fact is that I am no less national than the right and they want peace no less than I do. In Israel there is a two-state camp and a one-state, binational camp, and the choice is between them. But the right should not delude itself: one Jewish state will not be a solution, but a continuation of the conflict. There will be fights over the flag and over the anthem and over the school curriculum, and the situation will be untenable."
As of now, giving citizenship to the Palestinians is not on the political agenda of the right. According to the head of the Yesha Council, Danny Dayan, "the idea is unrealistic. In the present circumstances, it could put Israel's character at risk. Morally, the fact that the Palestinians will not have full political rights in the foreseeable future is the fault of the Palestinians themselves. They rejected every compromise and chose war and are now paying the price of their mistakes. It's not apartheid, it's their choice."
So what's the solution?
"The solution for the coming decades is the present status quo, with improvements of one kind or another. Of all the possibilities, that one affords the most stable balance. It is also important to say that even so, the Palestinians have more political rights than any Arab citizen in the Middle East, with the possible exception of the Lebanese."
Faithful to his outlook, Dayan last week - ahead of Netanyahu's meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama - was busy cobbling together a coalition of the leaders of the right-wing parties in the Knesset. The aim: to compel Netanyahu to end the construction freeze in the territories at the end of September, as promised. Other MKs who are against the two-state solution, such as Aryeh Eldad (National Union ) and Danny Danon (Likud ), also told me that giving the Palestinians citizenship is not on their agenda, not even in the face of the emerging two-state plan.
Still, the impression is that even those who are against the idea have modified their approach recently. Adi Mintz, a former director general of the Yesha Council, presented a plan whereby after the security situation stabilizes, Israel will annex 60 percent of Judea and Samaria, whose 300,000 Palestinian inhabitants will be granted Israeli citizenship. The status of the rest of the population and of the area will, in this view, be settled within the framework of a comprehensive regional solution in the more distant future.
The right-leaning newspaper, Makor Rishon, recently devoted an issue to the possibility of leaving settlements under Palestinian sovereignty if the two-state plan is implemented. Logic says that if supporters of such an idea are truly serious, it should not be a problem for them to agree to live in the one state that will extend from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River, whatever its character.
In any event, it will soon become clear whether renewal of the political process will lead to the removal from the agenda of every option except the establishment of a Palestinian state, or whether the opposition to such a state will generate momentum for supporters of the one-state alternative. Those who espouse this idea admit that its main drawback is that no genuine discussion of its merits and shortcomings has ever been held. Thus, key issues, such as the transition period leading up to citizenship, the refugee problem, the status of Gaza and even the bizarre question of how many Palestinians there really are have not been seriously addressed.
For this reason, Hotovely wants to publish a position paper on the issue, perhaps with the aid of an American research institute. "I want people to understand the issues, not to say that [MK Ahmed] Tibi and I are from the same party. The taboo that forbids talk about any option other than the two-state solution is almost anti-democratic. It's like brain-gagging." W
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