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- At the peak of the whaling era, 88 ships from Nantucket sailed around the world, and the island was considered the "Whaling Capital of the World."
- A logbook is an official account of a ship's voyage kept by either the captain or the first mate. Accounts of voyages kept by other crew members are referred to as journals. In many captain's logs you can often find references to having "spoken" another ship, which simply meant to "hail."
- Benjamin Franklin's mother, Abiah, was born on Nantucket.
- Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, penned by 32 year-old novelist Herman Melville--and based on the sinking of the whaleship Essex by a rogue whale--was published in 1851. It was not a commercial success and was out of print by the time Melville died. He received his information from Owen Chase, a mate on the Essex who kept the ship’s log. Chase's home still stands on Orange Street.
- Macy's familiar red star logo was inspired by Rowland H. Macy's forearm tattoo from his whaling days. He found major success in New York, and his store became known for its innovative policy of clearly marking prices. He also employed the first in-store Santa Claus.
- Endangered species include the piping plover, least tern and osprey. Endangered plant life for which Nantucket is famous include: Russian olive, winterberry, hawthorne tree, rosa rugosa, the tupelo tree, pink lady's slipper and Indian pipes.
To learn more about the unique and varied history of the "Faraway Island", pick up a copy of the Chamber of Commerce Official Guidebook...or stop by our office at Zero Main Street and test your knowledge with one of our scavenger hunt handouts!
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The Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association (FEMA) recently released the following information regarding the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) proposed rule amending the National List of Allowed and Prohibited Substances regulations. This proposed rule pertains to the continued use and prohibition of 169 substances in organic production and handling. The Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) authorizes the establishment of the National List of allowed and prohibited substances. The National List identifies synthetic substances that are exempted (allowed) and non-synthetic substances that are prohibited in organic crop and livestock production. The National List also identifies non-synthetics and synthetics that are exempted for use in organic handling.
The list of non-agricultural (non-organic) substances allowed as ingredients in or on processed products labeled as "organic" or "made with organic" (specified ingredients or food group(s)) includes flavors (Section 205.605).
Comments on this proposed rule must be received by May 7.
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The Natural History of the Chicken
March 11, 2013
Most of us give no more thought to chickens than to deciding whether we want light or dark, original or crispy. Well, check out this superb documentary by PBS and prepare to be amazed!
In The Natural History of the Chicken, you’ll watch the story of a pet rooster who’s bathed and blow-dried daily, wears pampers, and rides in his own car seat up front with his owner. And then there’s my favorite, a surprisingly poignant story of a little bantam hen who valiantly defends her brood against a marauding hawk. There’s the strange tale of "Mike the Headless Chicken” who lived for years AFTER getting his head chopped off. (Totally true!) Or how about the hen who’s owner saved her life by giving her mouth to beak resuscitation after she was caught outside in a blizzard?
I guarantee that this delightfully quirky, but informative film will get you thinking differently about your Sunday dinner. Its gentle humor makes it a great choice for the whole family. If you raise your own chickens, it’s a MUST SEE.
And if, after watching the film, you decide you might like to raise these enchanting creatures yourself, come to the Library on March 19th at 6:30 p.m. for a free program, Keeping Backyard Chickens. Sign up online or call 816.628.5055 to reserve your spot.
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The ancient Aztec celebration of “Mexika New Year Ce Calli (One House)” at City College of San Francisco’s Mission campus was a bittersweet occasion this year.
The annual event memorialized Ernesto Xe YeiKoatl, the son of Aztec calendar interpreter Mazatzin Acosta, one of the main organizers of the event. The 23-year-old CCSF student and worker at a Whole Foods store was shot in February near Hayes and Webster streets in San Francisco. Police did not immediately make arrests or identify suspects, and the family is still waiting for news, Acosta said.
Celebration and mourning with a positive outlook marked the March 11 observation, in which traditional music and dance shared space with a commemorative altar dedicated to Xe.
“The most important thing is not what happened to my son, but [that] it’s not happening again,” Mazatzin said. After the ceremony, he said that he appreciated the support and shared feeling from the community. Many attendees had fond recollections of Xe.
“I knew the kid. He was a wonderful person,” attendee Gloria Esteva said in Spanish. In fact, that was the main reason she joined the celebration, she said. “He and his father taught our children about the Aztec calendar two and a half years ago, and my grandson came home impressed, telling about how much he had learned from them.
“They are special, lovely people who have been able to give back to the community. I want to thank them for being there, because even if he’s not here anymore, he stays in our hearts,” she said.
Ernesto Xe YeiKoatl helped spread awareness of the Aztec culture as a part of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), said Xochitl Bernadette Moreno, child care coordinator for the organization. Following his death, the group held a vigil and performed dances on the place where the shooting took place, she said.
“This was his mission, his work. So we have to continue it,” she said.
Xe’s death was “very hard,” said Denhi Donis, who has known the family since Xe was a little boy. Donis has contributed to the New Year’s celebration for the last three years by bringing flowers. She insisted that the evening be viewed as Xe’s soul’s release. “My people believe that you need to let it go so the spirit of the person can leave free. They don’t feel they can go, otherwise,” she said.
Acosta received affectionate condolences from the audience on the loss of his son as he conducted the ceremony and explained the significance of the calendar.
The Aztec year now beginning is called Ce Calli, which means One House, according to a system of cyclical symbols. The Aztec calendar has four subdivisions: rabbit, reed, flint and house, and every year receives a number from 1 to 13. One House will be followed by Two Rabbit, Three Reed, Four Stone and Five House, and so on until it reaches Thirteen House.
Acosta has conducted the celebration for six years at CCSF’s Mission campus. The evening began with traditional dances, with close to 400 people joining in, and continued with music by the band Ajayú and Mission artist Mamacoatl. At evening’s end, Acosta, along with head dancer Ehecatltezcatlipoca, invited celebrants to dance, hold hands and welcome the new year. Alma Iris conducted a smoke ceremony to the cardinal points.
“It’s a greeting and a recognition to the four directions of the universe,” Mazatzin said. “We acknowledge that we’re part of everything that surrounds us, and we respect it.”
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Horses and dogs, perhaps, can be boldly call the most intensely kind, smart and beautiful animals. Indeed, horses have always been famous for its beauty, grace and intelligence, and dogs, in addition to all this, still faithful! These animals are really a great couple, if they are regarded as Pets.
The horse will help you around the house or roll along the scenic landscapes, and the dog will protect the farm and bring home the booty! And the most remarkable thing is that these animals are able to get along with each other and be friends.
This couple is proof of that! Let’s see how the horse became friends with the dog and with some pleasure playing with it. They just like to spend time together. How their master was lucky that he had such animals.
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Offended by a statue depicting a woman’s breasts, the American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri is once again stepping up its fight against a statue at the Overland Park arboretum.
“Accept or Reject” is a bronze sculpture donated to the arboretum by sculptor Yu Chang depicting a fractured woman taking a photograph of her exposed breasts. The artist intended for the statue to offer a cautionary warning that the virtual world removes control over one’s image. But in 2012, the American Family Association of Kansas and Missouri circulated a petition to convene a grand jury for the purpose of deciding whether the statue was illegal because it was “obscene.”
They got the necessary signatures, a grand jury of Kansas citizens gathered to criminally investigate the statue and ultimately determined that the “sculpture in question did not meet the legal definition of obscenity.” While the sculpture avoided a criminal record, the taxpayers didn’t avoid a $35,000 bill for this misguided attempt to criminalize art.
Undeterred, the the American Family Association is now leading a second attempt to bring the sculpture to criminal court.
How is this even possible? Kansas is among a handful of states that have a citizen-impaneled grand jury law where a group gathers petition signatures to seek a criminal indictment. If the organizers reach the required number of signatures, a grand jury is impaneled to investigate violations of Kansas law. But until this year, the citizens’ influence over the criminal justice process stopped there.
Angry after a string of grand juries failed to return indictments alleging illegal abortion and pornography, groups like the American Family Association and Kansans for Life successfullyadvocated
to expand citizen involvement in the grand jury process. Now the law requires the grand jury to call the petition organizer as its first witness and permits the jury to pay for a special counsel or investigator of its choosing — even to replace the government prosecutor.
Empowered by the expanded role of citizens in the grand jury process, the American Family Association is taking a second swing at the bronze statue and has started another signature drive.
The First Amendment, and the opinions of the Supreme Court, hold this kind of art to be protected expression, not criminal obscenity. Under the law, “obscenity” has a specific meaning: it’s something that appeals to a “prurient” interest (that is, it is sexually exciting) and is devoid of any cultural, literary or artistic merit. That’s a tough bar for any sculpture to meet, since it’s incredibly difficult to prove that a piece of art is devoid of artistic value as a whole. And repeatedly bringing a piece of art into the criminal justice system not only violates the artist’s constitutional rights — it risks chilling future artistic work. If the people of Florence had threatened to haul Michelangelo’s David before a people’s tribunal, he might never have gone on to paint in the Sistine Chapel.
The American Family Association has every constitutional right to advocate against the statue and to rally its members behind a campaign to install better clothed public art. But our constitutional democracy does not allow a group of citizens to use the criminal justice system as a tool to censor constitutionally protected expression. The First Amendment in all its wisdom protects both the statue’s right to bare its breasts and the citizens’ right to object to them. Just not to warp the criminal justice system to achieve an unconstitutional outcome. So, this likely grand jury proceeding can only lead to one of two outcomes: An empty symbolic gesture, or an expensive and unconstitutional criminal prosecution.
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Related to eggshell calcification: silicosis
the deposit of calcium salts, mostly calcium phosphate, in body tissues. The normal absorption of calcium is facilitated by parathyroid hormone and by vitamin D. When there are increased amounts of parathyroid hormone in the blood (as in hyperparathyroidism), there is deposition of calcium in the alveoli of the lungs, the renal tubules, the thyroid gland, the gastric mucosa, and the arterial walls. Normally calcium is deposited in the bone matrix to insure stability and strength of the bone and in growing teeth.
dystrophic calcification the deposition of calcium in abnormal tissue, such as scar tissue or atherosclerotic plaques, without abnormalities of blood calcium.
eggshell calcification deposition of a thin layer of calcium around a thoracic lymph node, often seen in silicosis.
a thin layer of calcification around an intrathoracic lymph node, usually in silicosis, seen on a chest radiograph.
egg·shell cal·ci·fi·ca·tion(eg'shel kal'si-fi-kā'shŭn)
A thin layer of calcification around an intrathoracic lymph node, usually in silicosis, seen on a chest radiograph.
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One can always hear a great "spin" in a story, particularly when the authors are activists for a cause. I refer to the commentary concerning wind turbines in Somerset County ("A wind-win situation," April 21). Authors Tom Vinson and Bruce Burcat are paid individuals whose job is to promote wind and renewable energy regardless of some factual information.
First, the $200 million dollar project is a number that has somehow appeared with little actual data behind it. Sounds good though. Similarly, the $44 million in future tax revenues is generated over a 40-year period, so a little over $1 million per year. Jobs generated, at best, might be 5-to-10 full-time jobs at project completion.
Compare that to Patuxent River Naval Air Station. Annual revenue generation, in excess of $6 billion (that's billion, not million) and more than 41,000 jobs. The tax revenue to Maryland? Well, I can't count quickly that high but I'll bet it's a bit more than $1 million per year.
HB 1168 legislation isn't to ban the turbines but to allow time to determine where and if common usage is possible. Clearly, we support renewable energy but this all about height and location. The legislation clearly sets guidelines on turbine height in proximity to a very critical national asset radar system, one that only exists at Pax River. The further from the radar viewshed, the taller they become. What many fail to recognize is the millions of dollars being spent to better understand the technologies. To date, as has been stated, there are no proven solutions to mitigate the adverse effects of wind turbines.
What isn't brought up is the proposed turbine locations just happen to be near transmission facilities. Bottom line, the turbines can likely be placed at other spots, but the developer's cost to transfer the power to the grid increases and profits go down. Not to mention the massive subsidies that will be garnered by tax credits.
Lastly, the authors focus on climate change and rising seas. Yes, the Patuxent River Naval Air Station is located at the mouth of the Patuxent River and Chesapeake Bay. Has anyone bothered to look at where Baltimore is located? Rising seas, years to go. Let's focus on the immediate threat to bald eagles and other birds. The proposed wind farms are being fast-tracked through state and federal permitting processes. The 30-year taking permit will likely result in the largest taking of bald eagles in the history of our nation. What a lasting legacy.
In summation, HB 1168 is a reasonable compromise to allow for a measured and scientific analysis of the effects of wind turbines and national defense assets. This study could provide data that could greatly support other renewable energy initiatives. Gov. Martin O'Malley should also consider this on a national level and allow the bill to become law.
Todd B. Morgan, Leonardtown
The writer is a St. Mary's County Commissioner.
To respond to this letter, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.org. Please include your name and contact information.
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|SCHOOL OF POPULAR COMMUNICATION ALBERTO GRIFI
… “the heat and the mosquitoes not help but the guys still enthusiastic work until the last scene, until the final title with thanks and the word “the end”.
They know that this is the beginning of a long and difficult work in communication. They feel the responsibility to pursue alone designing communication tools through a creative and alternative form.
Speak and spread between the communities stories of violence and repression, stories from field that nobody ever could and wanted to tell, because sometimes remember is all too painful. The real possibility to take back in our hands the word to communicate existe and to do it we need the support and collaboration of all.
And on these looks we can find the words and the visions of Alberto Grifi. These looks accompained us to demolish the barriers of bourgeois professionalism, toward a reality of communitarian communication where definitively break the roles of author and protagonist.
Communication is a human, collective and freedom activity” …
Ironriot, Colombia 2007
GOALS AND STRATEGIES
The Popular Communication School Alberto Grifi is a space for libertarian training, whose main goal is to raise awareness on the importance of independent media and expression freedom. The School doesn’t have a particular physical space and there is no professional-specialized teachers.
This school takes place every time and everywhere there is optimal conditions to do it. On one hand, there is the desire to share and exchange knowledge, breaking down the cultural barrier between teacher and student, that is main feature of the educational processes in Western cultures. On the other hand, there is a community, which is facing a process of autonomy and independence from the unique thought of the neo-liberal model. A community using its own human, social and cultural potentialities, to resist against exploitation and to re-define, day by day, its own present. The main goal of the course is to constitute groups of communitarian communication, which have the basic knowledge to use the principal communication equipment: video-camera, photo-camera, audio recorder, computer. Learning of these basic skills, the groups will be encouraged to find out an autonomous process of creative, productive and organizational development. This process will allow the communication group, and the community as a whole, to have their medium, appropriate to their needs and to reinforce the self-management process. Communication groups are also stimulate to share the knowledge learned during the course. So we organize a further workshop managed by student of the first workshop: they teach to students from other communities or other people of the same community who wants to be involved. In fact the goal of Popular Communication School is not to create communication professionals, but to support autonomy processes of communities in resistance.
‘Sharing knowledge’ breaks the logic of professionalism, which tries to protect information, building a society with higher and lower classes.
‘Sharing’ means participate to the construction of a collective intelligence, a strong and conscious community, where communication is a popular process, diffuse, practiced, protected by everybody.
From 2005 to 2007 we realize our workshops in Colombia. In collaboration with NGO International Peace Observatory we meet rural communities in resistance in Magdalena Medio, Catatumbo and Tolima regions.With them and with the peasant associations accompanying the autonomy and resistance process, we construct the first communication groups and we realize a photo-showing; two brief publications (Catatumbo Habla and Voces del Altamizal), Taller Comunicacion; a video documentary on our school workshops in which students interview each other, speaking about their impression on this project; three short docu-fiction filmed with the camera editing technique (Historia real de un campesino, La histora de un informante and Tragedia campesina).
In 2009 we are in Mexico where, thanks to the group Nodo Solidale, we realize some workshops in the zapotec indigenous community in Santiago Xanica, Sierra South of Oaxaca State.
The students filmed a short docu-fiction with the camera editing technique (La milpa y el campesino).
In 2010 we are in Smira, a small farmer community in Morocco. We support a suistantable tourism project called Desert Ocean which borned from a collaboration between Morocco Migrant Community resident in Bologna area (the association Sopra i Ponti) and the rural communities of involved villages. Often these villages are also places of origin of people involved in this project.
The final result of this workshop is the realisation of a web site that the communities can use to give visibility to their territory and to sustainable tourism (http://desertocean.indivia.net/ ).
In general, the study planning of our Popular Communication School has six modules:
• Theory of popular communication
• Audiovisual language
• Multimedia language and internet
First, the practice of these modules is in relation with the technological possibilities of the community. In this way we work only in the communication areas that they autonomously will develop afterwards. Then, we do a meeting with the whole community, finding out the communication media, which more can satisfy their needs at that moment. In this way, maintaining a general education on every communication media and technologies, they study deeply the most important modules linked with their own community communication strategy. This is important to develop a real communication that can develop autonomously.
(workshop developed in October 2006, Catatumbo region, Columbia)
The workshop consists of four days for every community, with six hours of work per day. The first day we have a meeting with the whole community. We pleasantly discuss for a long time about communication conditions on the area where they live, speaking about the strategical importance of popular communication. In this first day the central topic is the independent communication and the goal is to stress its importance with the need to start an emancipator self-determinate process, rather than reliance on us. Discussing strategies to defend their projects, they decide not to promote and realize only one communication project for the whole region (i.e. a radio or newspaper). They want to develop as more media as possible in relation to each other and in more communities . Here the idea of communication network becomes a strategy to defend their own right to communicate and be informed. In the second day they start to analyze some media. They find out the peculiarities, using the point of view of a popular communication system. Then we start to talk about journalism with the intention to realize a newspaper distributed in the whole region. The first step is the choice of the topics: information about human rights violation made by the army, tales on region history, reportages on local culture and rural tradition and so on… After that, they analyze how to tell about these topics in a newspaper, as articles, reportages, comix, stressing the main characteristics and the realization ways: they do a work planning and write down the works (texts?) for the newspaper. Here a large part is dedicated to making interviews, because we think that it is a direct communicative form with whom the community can easily tell stories. So they use an audio recorder for the interviews that they then transcript and publish as written article. At the end of this day we have every element for the newspaper. The third day we work with the digital photo-camera, presenting main characteristics and functioning of image language. They take photo, often for the first time. With this work we reflect about the photography as communicative media: we speak about the use inside the articles, photo-reportage, photo showing and so on… trying to find out in every shot a piece of that beautiful landscape. At the end of this day they reflect on topics to develop them as video work. When they choose the interesting one, they construct the screenplay, using the structural elements of visual language. In the fourth and last day of workshop they turn on the video-camera. It is not so difficult to explain them the basic function, so they start to work on shot, light, sound recording and camera movement. They construct the scenes, the actors learn their piece and they write the title signs. Now everything is ready to film! They use the camera editing technique. In this way they can overcome the lack of technological tools, filming short fiction or documentaries without the need to edit with an external tool as a computer.
Popular Communication School Alberto Grifi workshops are powered by the cultural association VISUAL COMMUNICATION PROJECT and the video group TELEIMMAGINI?, and are produced by the Self-Managed Cultural Center XM24 (Bologna, Italy).
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The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are those of the writer.
Last month, the Obama administration announced that between three and six million households - about 2 to 4 % of taxpayers - would be faced with a penalty (or is it a tax?) at tax time for failing to secure "minimum essential coverage" to comply with the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sometimes referred to as Obamacare.
Under Obamacare, you’re considered covered if you have insurance through the government, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, retiree coverage, TRICARE, or VA health coverage; private insurance that you purchased on your own including COBRA coverage and coverage obtained through the Health Insurance Marketplace; or provided by your employer (even if you didn’t pay anything for the coverage). You'll report coverage on your tax return (find out how here). Most taxpayers - about 130 million or so - will report coverage.
Of those that don't have coverage (estimates range from 20 million to 37.5 million), most will avoid being subject to the penalty based on a waiver or exemption. Exemptions exist based on income or filing status, immigration status and religious affiliation - as well as the much-talked about incarceration exemption. A number of hardship exemptions are also available. (For more on exemptions and waivers, click here.)
Those taxpayers who can't demonstrate essential minimum coverage and aren't otherwise exempt are subject to a penalty - the shared individual responsibility payment - equal to 1% of income above the "filing threshold" or $95 per adult and $47.50 per child (up to $285 for a family), whichever is higher. That amount is figured and reported on the taxpayer's 2014 tax return, payable by April 15, 2015.
For the 2015 tax year, the amount of the penalty increases to 2% of income or $325 per adult; in 2016, it jumps up again to 2.5% of income or $695 per person.
In terms of dollars, the CBO had initially estimated that by 2016, nearly six million taxpayers would be subject to an average penalty of $1,200. The overwhelmingly majority (80%) of those estimated to be at risk to the penalty were those in the middle class with incomes between $55,850 and $115,250.
Since that time, the numbers have been adjusted downward, based largely on the perceived success of policies purchased through the Marketplace and the increased number of taxpayers exempt under the rules. Those estimates - between three and six million households - are still just guesses. But the dollars associated with those numbers are the real mystery. You see, buried in the language of the 2010 law creating the Affordable Health Care Act (you remember, the "big f*cking deal") is a bit of an out: There are practically no real consequences for not paying the penalty.
I mentioned this to Maggie McGrath, personal finance reporter for Forbes, while shooting video about the Health Care Act earlier this month. "Shouldn't that be the real story?" she asked.
She's right, of course. It should but oddly enough, nobody is really talking about it.
Why so quiet? Here's my guess: nobody has a clue what's really going to happen. You see, when the Act became news in 2010, rumors were flying about what would happen if you didn't pay the penalty. It was politically tricky. The consequences needed to be enough to make you want to conform with the Act but not so onerous that Congress would be loathe to vote for it.
The final language in the Act declared that the penalty "shall be paid upon notice and demand" which sounds really intimidating. The language went on to note that the penalty would be "collected in the same manner as an assessable penalty under subchapter B of chapter 68" which also sounds pretty serious - especially since subchapter B references some pretty nasty penalties for otherwise not complying with other sections of the Tax Code.
So what would the penalty for noncompliance be? Jail time? Nope. The language in the Act specifically rules out jail time, saying at Section 500A(g)(2)(A):
In the case of any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure.
So, no jail time.
But that means that the IRS will chase you and lien your property if you don't pay, right?
Nope. That's not allowed under the Act. At 500A(g)(2)(B)(i), the Treasury cannot "file notice of lien with respect to any property of a taxpayer by reason of any failure to pay the penalty imposed by this section."
So, no liens.
Then, clearly there will be levies or seizures on your wages and account, right?
Nope. Not that either. Under 500A(g)(2)(B)(ii), the Treasury cannot "levy on any such property with respect to such failure."
To recap then, by law, you have to pay the penalty. But if you don't, you won't go to jail, you won't be liened and you won't be levied for collection.
Is there anything that could happen to you if you choose not to pay? With no jail, no liens and no levies, it doesn't leave the IRS a lot of room to work when it comes to collections. Congress actually managed to create, as I wrote in 2012 and in in 2013, an incredibly complex and burdensome law without any teeth.
Well, maybe some teeth. Baby teeth. The IRS might seize any part or all of your refund in order to satisfy your obligation. Might. IRS hasn't come right out and said that it absolutely will offset your refund if you owe a penalty for failure to pay. However, in the Final Regulations issued on this matter, IRS noted that "[n]othing in this section prohibits the Secretary from offsetting any liability for the shared responsibility payment against any overpayment due the taxpayer, in accordance with section 6402(a) and its corresponding regulations." That's sufficiently passive aggressive, right? You're on notice that the IRS doesn't think that it's barred from taking your refund. They're not saying they will (for certain) but they're not saying they won't either.
So is there anything you can expect for sure? You can definitely expect a lot of letter writing and virtual shaking of the government's fist at you. Maybe even some blustering, for good measure.
But real consequences? Other than that potential refund seizure and a guilty conscience, there's nothing to keep taxpayers from opting out of paying. Will they? We'll have to wait and see.
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Article source: Architectural Group & Partners
Renovation of a building listed as national monument under preservation order.
The idea of light and nature showing through a building was the fundamental concept of redesigning the headquarter of Bank of Georgia, Tbilisi. Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright and Glenn Murcutt already had this idea in their minds as well as OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture Beijing, the architectural department of Rem Kolhaas architects in Rotterdam, for the high-class project “The Interlace” in Singapore. This idea was leading for renovation of the building in Georgia – since 2007 listed as national monument under preservation order – to be finished in spring 2011. A great and extraordinary office building was created: Incorporating nature in the whole interior design in forms of light. The architects of AG&P have realized a special highlight by using illuminated translucent concrete.
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President Obama called on Americans to refuse to accept tragedies like Monday's mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard as a normal part of life at a memorial service for the 12 people killed. "The tragedy and the pain that brings us here is extraordinary and unique."
"Alongside the anguish of these American families, alongside the accumulated outrage we feel, I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are somehow just the way it is, that this is the new normal," Obama said Sunday. "We can’t accept this. We must insist here, today, that there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work."
As the nation faces the aftermath of the fifth mass shooting of Obama's administration, the president pleaded again for a common sense approach to guns. "We cannot stop every act of senseless violence, know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one live, spare other families…surely we’ve got an obligation to try."
Obama challenged Americans to move beyond mourning and into action.
“Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families that is felt here today?" he asked. "Our tears are not enough. Our words and our prayers are not enough.”
Aaron Alexis, a Navy veteran who had access to the Yard from his work as a subcontractor of Hewlett Packard with an IT firm called "The Experts," entered the Washington Navy Yard on Monday shooting and killing 12 people before dying in a shootout with law enforcement.
The president, Secretary of State Chuck Hagel, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and Washington DC Mayor Vincent Gray all offered words of condolence to the families gathered together to mourn their loved ones. "Our country is drowning in a sea of guns," Gray said, and that the violent deaths of men, women and children are a "fact of life that we must stop accepting."
Monday's shooting "ought to be a shock to all of us, it ought to obsess us," Obama said. "It ought to lead to some sort of transformation. That’s what happened in other countries when they experienced similar tragedies." The president cited Great Britain and Australia—two countries that enacted strict gun control after mass shootings. Yet, efforts to expand background checks, or limit the size of gun magazines, after the massacres in Tucson, Ft. Hood, Oak Creek, Aurora, and Newtown, have all failed thanks in part to the lobbying of the National Rifle Association.
"In the US, after the round the clock coverage on cable news, after the heartbreaking interviews with families, after all the speeches, and all the punditry, and the conmmentary, nothing happens," Obama said.
Before the names of the victims were read by Admiral Mark Tidd, Obama laid out some of what was lost in the violence, from the grandchildren left behind to the fact that Sylvia Fraser, one of the victims, loved people so much that she took a second job at Walmart. "These are not statistics," the president said.
The shooting has raised questions about security on military bases, and Hagel announced Wednesday that the Defense Department would review those procedures at bases around the world. There will also be a review into the security clearance process that granted Alexis the credentials to enter the base on the day of the shooting despite repeated incidents that suggested he was unstable.
There has been virtually no discussion of potential legislation; in addition to the Congress being tied up in the showdown over the budget and a possible government shutdown, the debt ceiling, and defunding the Affordable Care Act, the failure to pass a bill in the wake of the last major mass shooting is still fresh.
Obama said in remarks at a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation event Saturday night that work to reduce violence must continue. “As long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as possible for dangerous people to get their hands on a gun, then we’ve got to work as hard as possible for the sake of our children. We’ve got to be ones who are willing to do more work to make it harder,” he said. No specific plans have yet been suggested.
Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the NRA, told David Gregory Sunday on Meet the Press that the shooting could have been prevented or the death toll limited if more individuals on the Navy base had been armed. La Pierre used similar language to what he used when talking about Sandy Hook. “the whole country,” he said, “knows the problem is there weren't enough good guys with guns. When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped.”
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||Savage, James. Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England
||Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Massachusetts, United States
Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
||1635 - 1734
||WHITON, WHITTON, WHITTUN or WHITTEN - WHITTEMORE, WITAMORE or WHITAMORE
|Volume 4, Page 533
br. of the preced. m. 27 Dec. 1677, Deborah, wid. of Daniel Howard,
had Mary, b. 25 Sept. 1678; John, 10 Jan. 1680; David, 5 June,
1681; Matthew, 28 Nov. 1682; Elizabeth 31 Mar. 1685; Susanna, 14 Nov.
1686; Lydia, 2 Apr. 1693; and Isaac, 25 Mar. 1696; and d. 22 July
1725. His wid. d. 19 Sept. 1729, aged 76. THOMAS, came in the
Elizabeth and Ann from London, 1635, aged 36, Audry, 45, perhaps his
w. and Jeremy, 8; but where he sat down is not heard. THOMAS,
Hingham, youngest s. of the first James of the same, m. 26 Jan. 1690,
Joanna Gardner, writ. in rec. Garnett, wid. of Francis of the same, d.
of Samuel May of Roxbury, had Joanna, b. 27 Jan. 1691; Jael, 12
Feb. 1693; Leah, 4 Apr. 1695; Thomas, 10 Feb. 1698; Rachel, 12
July 1700; Jonathan, 5 Mar. 1703; and Eleazer, 15 Nov. 1706, and d.
17 Sept. 1708. His wid. m. 23 Mar. 1711, Nathan Farrow. The
sound of this name having its first syl. short or long, at the whim of
some of the descend. who prefer. the long, easily slid into Whiting in
the fourth or fifth generat. as they spread into various towns.
WHITRED, WHITTEREDD. WHITTRIDGE, or WHITRIG, JOHN, Salem
1668, is prob. the same who was k. under capt. Turner, by the Ind. at
the Falls fight, 19 May 1676, and perhaps left posterity. NATHANIEL,
Lynn 1637. SAMUEL, a soldier of Lothrop's comp. k. at Bloody Brook
with the flower of Essex, 18 Sept. 1675. THOMAS, Ipswich 1648, s. of
William, brot. by him. from Eng. had w. Florence, of whose d. 1672, a
most doleful report may be seen in the diary of Rev. William Adams,
pr. in 4 Mass. Hist. Coll. I. 17. He had a s. 13 yrs. old at that time.
By sec. w. Charity, he had Rebecca, b. 27 May 1689, wh. m. 11 Jan. WILLIAM, Ipswich 1637,
1711, the sec. William Cleaves of Beverly.
perhaps br. of Nathaniel, had come in the Elizabeth 1635, aged 36,
with w. Elizabeth 30, and s.Thomas, 10, and was of Beninden, Co. Kent.
Late in life he m. a. 1663, Susanna, wid of Anthony Colby, and d. 9
Dec. 1668, his inv. showing est. one third less than debts.
WHITTEMORE, WITAMORE or WHITAMORE, BENJAMIN, Malden, s. of
Thomas, by w. Elizabeth d. of William Buckman, had Benjamin, b. Jan.
1668, d. in few wks.; Elizabeth Apr. 1669; Benjamin, again, 2 Nov. 1670,
d. at 6 yrs and prob. others, as Benjamin, again, the inscript. on whose
gr.-st. says he d. 6 Oct. 1703, aged 23; and d. 16 July 1726, in 87th yr.
and his wid. d. in two days in her 83d yr. BENJAMIN, Malden, s. of
the first John, m. 17 Aug. 1692, Esther Brooks, had Mary, b. 12 July
1694; Benjamin, 9 Apr. 1696; Nathaniel, 23 Nov. 1698; Grace, 20
Mar. 1701; Hannah, 15 July 1703; Mehitable, 19 Apr. 1705; Esther,
3 May 1707, d. at 2 yrs.; Joel, 29 Apr. 1709; Aaron, 13 Dec. 1711;
Susanna; and Esther, again, and he d. 8 Sept. 1734. DANIEL, Watertown,
s. of Thomas, b. perhaps in Eng. m. 7 Mar. 1662, Mary, d. of
Categories: Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States | Massachusetts, United States | Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States | Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, United States | Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
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Last month, Mayor Mike Duggan announced the formation of Detroit's first "innovation district," stretching up Woodward Avenue from the riverfront to New Center.
"We have right now some great creative energy occurring in downtown and Midtown," he said at the time. "The focus of the innovation district will be to create an anchor to support neighborhood business incubators across the city."
The announcement came on the heels of a report by the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institute that touts such areas as the future economic drivers of cities. The nonprofit cited the activity along Woodward Avenue as an exemplar of the concept.
"These districts, by our definition, are geographic areas where leading-edge anchor institutions and companies cluster and connect with startups, business incubators and accelerators," wrote Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner in the report, The Rise of Innovation Districts: A New Geography of Innovation in America. "They are also physically compact, transit-accessible and technically wired and offer mixed-use housing, office and retail."
Sounds like downtown and Midtown.
In particular, Katz and Wagner cite Dan Gilbert moving his Quicken Loans and Rock Ventures empire into downtown as a catalyst for the district. They see the coming M-1 Rail line as a critical future component because it offers connectivity along the stretch.
But before this was the newly branded innovation district, it was the unofficial "creative corridor," and organizations such as the Detroit Creative Corridor Center have been incubating and growing small creative firms in an attempt to fill its arteries with economic activity.
These businesses — filmmakers, ad agencies, digital media, branding agencies, architects, designers, etc. — have been moving into downtown and Midtown and slowly and organically clustering into distinct centers of activity. Some have moved in from the suburbs, some have come from farther flung locales and some outgrew their space in DC3's New Center incubator. And, of course, they join those that have called these streets home for years.
"The thing we have realized is that we actually have districts within this creative corridor geography," said Matt Clayson, director of DC3, a partnership between the College of Creative Studies and Business Leaders for Michigan. "There is a certain density of creative practioners that we did not have four years ago. That's a good 1,100 creative workers. Four years ago, no."
Up the avenue, a retail and design center is emerging at the intersection of Cass and Canfield streets, with interior design firm Patrick Thompson Design holding down the retail floor of the Auburn apartment building along with a host of retailers, including Norah and Hugh, two home-goods stores, and Source Booksellers. Around the corner, retailers Nest and City Bird look onto Shinola's retail headquarters and the new Willys Detroit shop. There also is long-standing retail, such as Spiral Collective.
"It's become a district where one can consume design," Clayson said.
Finally, near DC3 and TechTown Detroit in New Center is a design, research and development hub, thanks to all the anchor institutions that are clustered in the area. The Henry Ford Innovation Institute, part of the Henry Ford Health System campus, is there along with the College of Creative Studies and Wayne State University's coming $90 million biosciences facility.
"This area is all about supporting design startups and research and development," Clayson said.
These three districts didn't form by fiat. Only the New Center cluster was intentional — and only then because it combined the firepower of existing organizations. But in the past four years, the number of creative firms — which is a narrow definition of the business activity happening in the district — has jumped from around 15 to 50, Clayson said, and he's working with five to 10 new businesses a month who are interested in opening.
"The activity around Grand Circus really happened after a few dinners and meetings," Clayson said. "There were no consults paid to figure out that strategy. That's how it should happen in a city: getting the right people around a dinner table or a meeting table."
When Patrick Thompson was looking to open his interior design studio — which is well known for designing the Detroit Institute of Arts' Kresge Court — he was interested in being in Midtown. He didn't realize there was a creative cluster forming, but he liked the activity on the street and wanted to be around other design businesses. So when a first floor retail spot in The Auburn building opened, he moved in last summer.
"As a landmark alone, it's been great," he said. "Everyone is starting to know this area. It's a pretty high-profile area, so it's been beneficial for our business being there."
He also likes having clients right in the neighborhood. The DIA is just up the street, and he recently bid on a significant design project at the Block on Cass Park, the former S.S. Kresge World Headquarters on Second Avenue.
When Philip Lauri began looking for office space for his film-production studio, Detroit Lives!, he was considering any part of the city. He could have ended up in any of the creative clusters or even in other neighborhoods. But now that he's in 2,000 square feet on the 28th floor of the David Stott Building, he sees the cluster forming around him.
"Being in Capitol Park, it seemed like a lot of forces were mobilizing in this particular area around growth, which was enticing," he said. "There was a desire to be downtown, to be close to the other companies, and it just kind of sends a message of establishment."
It hasn't impacted his bottom line, as he tries to grow revenue from $250,000 last year to $500,000 this year, but he still sees the advantage of being around others in the same industry.
"I think the impact is on a goodwill level," he said. "I don't know that proximity to other businesses has grown our books, but it's nice to be able to walk over to Jack Morton Worldwide and other clients."
Clayson sees the clusters as nascent in their formation. There is so much more work to be done, he said. DC3 is creating a heat map to be able to visually show the activity and working on a long-term strategy that integrates with the mayor's new innovation district.
"That will result in additional business clustering and concentrating there," he said. "Right now it's still a fraction of what it can be. But a lot has to be done between longtime stakeholders in this innovation district and some of the newcomers. We are looking at how we can serve as a sensitive and appropriate platform."
He'll be working with the mayor's 17-person panel, chaired by Henry Ford Health System's Nancy Schlichting to figure out that future. More clusters can form within the area and stronger ties between businesses can be formed. The mayor views the district as a way to catalyze neighborhood business districts and growth in other areas of the city.
But for Lauri, a Detroit native, things are better than they were three years ago.
"The airplane conversation is totally changing," he said. "It's less guns and more talk about growth."
Amy Haimerl: (313) 446-0416, email@example.com. Twitter: @haimerlad
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I read the papers and online testimonials of mob attacks on women in the streets protesting and if I had not read the titles, I would have thought that the authors had suddenly taken a keen interest in the every day life of street children. I would have justifiably concluded they have become avid observers who have taken to the street to highlight the prevalence and normality of sexual violence in street culture that very little children live every night. But no, I have read the title; the words indicate this is about other girls; younger and older women, “welaad naas”, of the working and middle class (because remember street kids are the “excluded” class, second class citizens if that!). These articles are written because “citizens” have been struck, “citizens” honour has been violated; “citizens” human rights have been wronged. But street children? They aren’t citizens – they don’t even hold ID. When they come raped, shot, dead, and left in front of shelter doors, there’s not been a crime, because a citizen hasn’t been involved. So no, this flood of articles about harassment, sexual attacks and gang rape on the street, are not about the street kids.
But because this is the every day reality for those children, I have come to know the streets as what they have been recently discovered by others. So I thought that maybe by writing this, I could shed a different light, a look from a different angle on a phenomenon that many are so horrified by, so unfamiliar with.
I am arguing here that this is one of the ugly faces of the street. And, just as each human, each friend, has an ugly face, you only get to see it, know it, get scorned by it, once you have spent long enough with it. It’s reality and it’s crudeness cannot hide forever and the euphoria of the imagined utopia of solidarity that the street brings during revolutionary times, begins to crack and the street and all it’s non-citizen inhabitants become a reality that you cannot escape and one whose reality you have shared, one which has scarred you, too.
Talking of scarring, a lot of attention and horror has been expressed following the attack where a blade was used on one victim to these assaults. I wondered about the irony of the timing of this. Just last month I took one of my street girls to a generous plastic surgeon who had offered my girls free reconstructive surgery for the scars they suffered during such attacks on the street. The scarring is part of the street rape culture – any boy or girl who has been raped on the street, will be “marked”. This mark, usually a curve under the eye of the victim, will mean they are no longer virgins. Subsequent sexual attacks, and there will be many, will lead to smaller marks anywhere else on the body. One girl, none of us at the shelter forget, was lucky. She escaped the scarring on the face, but needed 16 stitches on her lower back where she was knifed as she escaped her rapists.
I am not an expert in conspiracy theories, but I am a consultant on street kids and the risks of the street. And so, when I read the musings that the NDP, the MB, the who ever else is organizing these mob sex attacks, my better judgment makes me tentative. I remember that no one paid the four men in their thirties and forties to gang rape seven-year-old Maya who had been living on the street just four days. The younger the child, the attackers think, the smaller the risk of contracting HIV.
Being on the street brings with it much risk, the longer you stay on it, the more likely you will be exposed to that risk. Does it make it ok? Of course not! But what it does, is highlight the plight of the children who do not conjure up the same attention and horror when these attacks happen to them, daily. What it does do is emphasize the terror that the streets have become because we have allowed them not to be safe. How the law and it’s enforcement is, and always has been neglectful of the sphere, that in our country, is home to many. Does it deserve to be treated with less fury because it’s an every day reality? No, but the anger, the support, the reform that needs to come after it, has to be extended to those who are not on the official count of these attacks – because there has not just been 25 attacks on the street since the start of the year.
As street kids will tell you; gang rape is just the start for them – prostitution, trafficking and pornography come shortly afterwards. What the revolutionary class are experiencing now is only the initiation of what thousands of children on our streets, boys and girls experience. Imagine that?
The dysfunctional compass of blame is at work. Just as people point a finger of reprimand at the street kids for being on the street and not at home, ignoring all the reasons that have pushed them on it, now the same fingers point at the females getting attacked in Tahrir and elsewhere suggesting it’s their fault for not staying safe at home. Accountability. Once we learn the meaning of this word, perhaps the streets might be a little safer for all.
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A Brief History
Established in 1883 as an Episcopal mission in the Black Hall section of Old Lyme, Saint Ann’s founders were Charles Griswold Bartlett and his wife, Annie, who ran a boy’s preparatory school for Yale. They were aided by their ecclesiastical mentor, the Rev. W.B. Buckingham, Archdeacon of what is now the New London Deanery. For several years Mr. Bartlett and students form Berkeley Divinity School performed services in the school for the boys and townspeople. Once a month a priest arrived on horseback to celebrate the Eucharist. One of these priests was the Rev. Theodore M. Peck, who is thought to have been instrumental in the erection in 1892 of a Guild House at the corner of Mile Creek and Bailey Roads where services would now be held.
In 1899, Mr. Thomas J. Falls of New York gave to the Missionary Society a substantial house and 25 acres of land as a memorial to his mother. Mr. Peck moved in, and untill 2011, the building had been used as the rectory. It is believed that Mr. Peck built the adjacent barn with his own hands for the shelter of his horse and carriage and glebe crops.
Shortly after 1900 the Guild House was moved to its present location at the corner of Mile Creek and Shore Roads.
For several years the mission station at Black Hall and others in the area were served by archdeacons, one of whom, the Rev. M. McLean Goldie, upgraded his transportation from a horse and buggy to a 1913 Maxwell automobile. Now with improved transportation and growing missions on his hands Mr. Goldie proposed to his bishop that Saint Ann’s become a self-sustaining parish. Thus, fund raising began in 1917 for a larger church building. In 1923, Bishop Brewster called the Rev. Henry Adams Link to be Vicar of Saint Ann’s Mission. This same year, the Diocese of Connecticut purchased the former Baptist Church on Lyme Street, and the congregation of Saint Ann’s moved in.
During the Depression, Saint Ann’s Mission reached a low point. The size of the congregation dwindled and church leaders considered abandoning the mission. In 1927, the church building was sold to the Roman Catholic Church. (Records of the sale show that the purchase was made for $1.00. Perhaps wisely, no explanation was offered for this price.) Saint Ann’s resumed its worship in the Guild House.
After the war, Bishop Gray and the Rev. Edward Merrill, Rector of Grace Church in Old Saybrook and Archdeacon of Middlesex, turned their attention to strengthening the mission in Old Lyme. They believed that with the opening of the Baldwin Bridge in 1948 and plans for major highway expansion this area of the state would experience growth. Archdeacon Merrill assumed the Saint Ann’s assignment from 1948 through 1949, until the bishop secured the services of Mr. William T. Walker, a student at Berkeley Divinity School, as Lay Vicar. Soon the congregation expanded to 55 families.
In August, 1954, Nigel L. Andrews, formerly a lawyer, now a Berkeley student, came to Saint Ann’s as Lay Vicar. He was ordained Deacon a year later and then Priest. On Trinity Sunday, 1955, he became Saint Ann’s first Rector. Saint Ann’s congregation grew and its programs expanded until the need for more space became urgent. $65,000 was raised in contributions and pledges for a new church and on August 12, 1956, Bishop Gray dedicated the new (present) building. By 1959, Saint Ann’s Mission was a self-supporting Parish. The Guild House began a new life as the Nearly New Shop – a consignment store that provided funds for mission work.
In 1963, the Rev. Charles H. Griswold became the second Rector of Saint Ann’s. That same year, the parish hall was built. In 1984, the Rev. Dr. Kirk S. Smith was called as the third Rector. Under his leadership, Saint Ann’s embarked on another capital fund drive for the purpose of enlarging several areas of the church, and modifying others to better suit the growing church’s needs. In 1992 The Rev, John V. Connelly followed as the fourth Rector, serving for two years. He was succeeded by The Rev. Peter T. Vanderveen who stayed with the congregation for 14 years before moving on. In 2011, the parish called The Rev. Canon Mark K. J. Robinson to be its sixth rector and The Rev. Page Rodgers as Assistant to the Rector for Community and Adult Education.
Our one hundred-plus year history paints a seacoast landscape with an Episcopal presence at the heart of the scene. The Holy Spirit who breathed life into us in Black Hall in 1883 still moves among us and guides us ever onward to new and deeper expressions of God’s love. We hope and pray we will always remember our special heritage.
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U.S. Secretary of Education (DOE) Betsy DeVos has announced that, due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) national emergency, the DOE will halt collection actions and wage garnishments to provide additional assistance to borrowers for a period of at least 60 days from March 13, 2020.
Per DeVos’ directive, the DOE has stopped all requests to the U.S. Treasury to withhold money from defaulted borrowers’ federal income tax refunds, Social Security payments, and other federal payments. Such withholdings, known as “Treasury offsets,” are permitted by federal law and applied toward repayment of defaulted federal student loans. At the same time, the Secretary directed the Department to refund approximately $1.8 billion in offsets to more than 830,000 borrowers. The Department expects the number of borrowers who will benefit from this relief to increase as services work through additional offsets already submitted at the time of the announcement.
The notice adds that the DOE must rely on employers to make the change to borrowers’ paychecks, so it will monitor employers’ compliance with the request to stop wage garnishment. Borrowers whose wages continue to be garnished after March 13 should contact their employers’ human resources department.
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SDGs is by far the most used hashtag in this discussion, followed by openscience, health, scicomm and Covid-19. The discussion about Health in the Citizen Science Twitter community seems to revolve around the Sustainable Development Goals.
People tend to use more than one hashtag in the tweet, with all topic-related hashtags forming community-like structures around certain subjects.
From the initial dataset, which contained 365,609 tweets related to Citizen Science, after applying a filtering process we obtained 17,122 tweets related to Health. From the tweets acquired we extracted all the words that were preceded by “#” to find the hashtags. Each hashtag appearing in our tweets was then counted. The results displayed in Fig. 1 show that SDGs is the most used hashtag in this topic with almost three hundred more appearances than the second most used one. With this result it seems like the discussion about health and e-health in the Citizen Science community in Twitter revolves around the Sustainable Development Goals.
Once we knew what were the most used hashtags, it was interesting to discover how these hashtags were related to one another. Normally a tweet is accompanied by two or more hashtags in order to increase visibility of what is written so it would be reasonable that hashtags in the same tweet had a topic in common. We created a graph of related hashtags, the connections between hashtags were computed by linking all hashtags in a tweet to one another. The results are shown in Fig. 2 which is a three-dimensional visualization of these connections. In this graph, the bigger and closer to yellow a node is, the more times it has been used alongside other hashtags. It can be observed how hashtags on the same topic form community-like structures and how some other hashtags act as links between these topic-communities, thereby showing themselves to be the most connected hashtags.
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cocoanoun [ U ]uk /ˈkəʊ.kəʊ/ us /ˈkoʊ.koʊ/
- You can use cocoa powder to make the cake, if you like, rather than chocolate.
- She came through from the kitchen with two large mugs of cocoa on a tray.
- A lot of people find having a cup of cocoa at bedtime helps them sleep.
- I found the cocoa in the top right-hand cupboard, next to the sugar.
- Mix a spoonful of sugar in with the cocoa, otherwise it tastes quite bitter.
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The idea of Art in our times is changing radically. All of the desperate defining and containing that is much mocked in this blog is the vain effort to medicate the metaphysical nausea we experience upon finding ourselves on a shifting funhouse floor. This brilliant interview with Cory Doctorow by Joel Turnipseed pins down a few of the facts we need to accept: (read the whole thing, but by its nature I shouldn't feel guilty about stealing a large chunk)
We live in a century in which copying is only going to get easier. It's the 21st century, there's not going to be a year in which it's harder to copy than this year; there's not going to be a day in which it's harder to copy than this day; from now on. Right? If copying gets harder, it's because of a nuclear holocaust. There's nothing else that's going to make copying harder from now on. And so, if your business model and your aesthetic effect in your literature and your work is intended not to be copied, you're fundamentally not making art for the 21st century. It might be quaint, it might be interesting, but it's not particularly contemporary to produce art that demands these constraints from a bygone era. You might as well be writing 15-hour Ring Cycle knock-offs and hoping that they'll be performed at the local opera. I mean, yes, there's a tiny market for that, but it's hardly what you'd call contemporary art.(Link via Journalista)
So that's the artistic reason. Finally, there's the ethical reason. And the ethical reason is that the alternative is that we chide, criminalize, sue, damn our readers for doing what readers have always done, which is sharing books they love—only now they're doing it electronically. You know, there's no solution that arises from telling people to stop using computers in the way that computers were intended to be used. They're copying machines. So telling the audience for art, telling 70 million American file-sharers that they're all crooks, and none of them have the right to due process, none of them have the right to privacy, we need to wire-tap all of them, we need to shut down their network connections without notice in order to preserve the anti-copying business model: that's a deeply unethical position. It puts us in a world in which we are criminalizing average people for participating in their culture.
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"Scheherazade's Feast: Foods of the Medieval Arab World is [a] fascinating glimpse into how medieval Arabians ate, and the recipes are as relevant today as they were in the medieval period. Salloum, Salloum, and Elias have managed to preserve the best of Arabian cuisine for generations to come."—Samaya Borom, ParergonThe author of the thirteenth-century Arabic cookbook Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh proposed that food was among the foremost pleasures in life. Scheherazade's Feasts invites adventurous cooks to test this hypothesis.
"From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, when Baghdad was the grandest city in the world and Moorish Spain was a beacon of civilization, all cookbooks were written in Arabic. The Salloums have done a wonderful job of bringing this age of splendor and luxury to life and rendering the party dishes of a thousand years ago in all their fragrant glory."—Charles Perry, translator of A Baghdad Cookery Book
From the seventh to the thirteenth centuries, the influence and power of the medieval Islamic world stretched from the Middle East to the Iberian Peninsula, and this Golden Age gave rise to great innovation in gastronomy no less than in science, philosophy, and literature. The medieval Arab culinary empire was vast and varied: with trade and conquest came riches, abundance, new ingredients, and new ideas. The emergence of a luxurious cuisine in this period inspired an extensive body of literature: poets penned lyrics to the beauty of asparagus or the aroma of crushed almonds; nobles documented the dining customs obliged by etiquette and opulence; manuals prescribed meal plans to deepen the pleasure of eating and curtail digestive distress.
Drawn from this wealth of medieval Arabic writing, Scheherazade's Feasts presents more than a hundred recipes for the foods and beverages of a sophisticated and cosmopolitan empire. The recipes are translated from medieval sources and adapted for the modern cook, with replacements suggested for rare ingredients such as the first buds of the date tree or the fat rendered from the tail of a sheep. With the guidance of prolific cookbook writer Habeeb Salloum and his daughters, historians Leila and Muna, these recipes are easy to follow and deliciously appealing. The dishes are framed with verse inspired by them, culinary tips, and tales of the caliphs and kings whose courts demanded their royal preparation. To contextualize these selections, a richly researched introduction details the foodscape of the medieval Islamic world.
Habeeb Salloum is author of many books, including Classic Vegetarian Cooking from the Middle East and North Africa and The Arabian Nights Cookbook: From Lamb Kebabs to Baba Ghanouj, Delicious Homestyle Arabian Cooking.
Muna Salloum and Leila Salloum Elias are coauthors of The Sweets of Araby: Enchanting Recipes from the Tales of the 1001 Arabian Nights.
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3 effects of climate change you haven’t heard of
Somewhat akin to National Geographic (a comparison which I’m sure it has tired of), Geographical features gorgeous photos and in-depth features about the world’s geography and culture.
Geographical also runs a regular section called “Climatewatch,” a round-up that summarizes recent research about climate change. Beyond documenting calving icebergs, warming permafrost temperatures, and rising sea levels, though, Geographical also runs short explanations about the lesser known effects of climate change.
Here are three of the lesser known effects of climate change, reported in recent issues of Geographical:
1. At least one-fifth of the world’s lizard population could disappear.
More than 12% of the lizard population in Mexico has gone extinct since 1975, according to the research Geographical cites; projections for the future look much worse. At least 39% of the world’s lizards–especially those who bear live young– could disappear by 2080 due to increasing temperatures.
2. Declines in agricultural productivity could result in mass Mexican migration to the US.
Climate change won’t affect non-human animal populations alone. Human communities will be affected profoundly, too.
In its October 2010 issue, Geographical’s Kara Moses, citing research done at Princeton University, stated that “A warming climate could cause mass migration of Mexicans into the USA.” As crop yields drop due to climate change, farmers and other workers in the agricultural industry will be forced to migrate. Moses added, “Under current predictions for the range of climatic variations, this could mean between 1.4 million and 6.7 million Mexicans–up to 10 percent of the current adult population–migrating… in the next 70 years.”
Migration isn’t the only consequence affecting humans; Geographical also reported that civil war is likely to occur in Africa as the Earth heats up and water supplies diminish. The research cited indicated that the likelihood of civil war increases at least 55% if current climate change projections are realized.
3. Primate communities could collapse as their “time budgets” are re-alloted.
If you’ve ever watched primates at the zoo, they seem to spend their time engaged in a couple key activities: eating, hanging out (literally), and grooming one another. Researchers from Bournemouth and Oxford predict that if temperatures continue rising, apes will be forced to spend more time on “basic survival,” and will have less time for socializing. Socializing, the researchers explain, is actually a critical function of daily living for apes; it helps keep groups together. As socialization breaks down, so too will the overall primate population.
Want to subscribe to Geographical: the Royal Geographical Society Magazine? Click here.
Read more about climate change by browsing the articles on Matador’s Global Environmental Issues Focus Page.
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Daily, anesthesiologists depend on their Medical Gas Vacuum System (or ‘MGVS’) to continuously deliver an adequate supply of ‘medical grade” gases for patient care. Because these systems seldom appear to have problems and are hidden behind the walls, little thought is given to the complexity of the MGVS and its potential safety hazards.
To educate anesthesiologists regarding the potential problems in the design, construction, maintenance, and certification of the MGVS, the APSF Subcommittee on the MGVS was formed, and, at the 1994 ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, presented a scientific exhibit ‘Beyond the Walls” which demonstrated many problems encountered in MGVS. As part of this exhibit, a survey was conducted to define what practitioners know about the MGVS they use and the problems that they have encountered.
One hundred and two visitors to the exhibit participated in the survey and their demographic makeup is summarized in Table 1.
Table 1: Survey Demographics
Anesthesiologists at Academic Institutions: 53
Anesthesiologists at Nonacademic Institutions: 32
Other: (CRNA, residents, engineers, technologists):17
Years of Experience
0 to 5 years 22
6 to 10 years 18
11 to 15 years 29
16 to 20 years 10
Greater than 20 years 23
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Hospital with more than 500 beds 42
Hospital with 100 to 500 beds 41
Other (Small hospital, Outpatient Surgery center) 7
Anesthesiology Residency Training site 58
CRNA Training site 16
Knowledge of the MGVS was assessed in a series of seven questions which ranged from site specific questions such as “Do you know who is responsible for and maintains your MGVS?’ and ‘Is it certified?’ to general questions of prior awareness of MGVS problems and education experience. Only 55% of those surveyed knew who was responsible at their institution for the MGVS; a mere 25% knew that their system had been certified. Of those having medical air in their facility (31 of 93), only 50% had checked that the compressor was medical grade, 35% the outside air purity, and 25% the locations of the intake for the compressor.
Most sites had bulk liquid oxygen supplies (87 of 97), but only 51% knew that the bulk site was the responsibility of the supplier. Though 73% of those responding knew the location of the zone cut-off valves (a question frequently asked on JCAHO surveys), only 27% knew where the bulk supply or main line cutoff valve was located. Of those responding, 40% were aware of the complexity of a MGVS shutdown, but only 25% knew of the requirements for piping and brazing in construction. Thirty percent of respondents knew of the potential contaminants to be found in medical gas systems, and this correlated significantly with those having experienced problems with their MGVS (p=.005). In addition, only 24 of 99 had received any teaching about the MGVS as part of their training, yet 83 of 92 felt that it should be covered as part of training. Overall knowledge of the MGVS correlated positively with three factors: being an academic anesthesiologist (p=.02), years of practice (p=.005), and having experienced a MG-VS problem (p=.017).
Five questions dealt with first hand experience with MGVS problems, failures and shutdowns. Sixty-one problems were reported by 39 of 102 respondents. The most common problems encountered were:
- Contaminants (liquid, particulate, infectious, and gaseous) 28%
- Components failures (valves, regulators, etc.) 18%
- Bulk supply problems 18%
- Pipeline leaks 15%
- Design and construction problems 15%
Fifty-five respondents (54%) reported having had a shutdown of the MGVS at their institution; there were no significant differences between institutions either in size or whether they were a training site or not. Most shutdowns (58%) occurred to expand the MGVS, though 18% were to upgrade systems to meet standards and 9% were to clean systems of contaminants. For these shutdowns, less than half of the anesthesia departments represented actively participated in the planning process (45%); the rest (except for one case in which no warning was given) were only informed when the shutdown was to occur. Two patient deaths were reported that resulted from MGVS shutdowns or failures (one resulted from a crossed pipeline and no data were given on the second).
This survey shows that there is a significant knowledge deficit among anesthesiologists regarding the MGVS and its potential hazards. Nearly 30% of those surveyed acknowledged that they had little knowledge of their MGVS. Few (25%) were taught about the MGVS during their training (yet, over 90% of respondents felt that lectures about the MGVS should be included as part of the residency program). These survey results suggest that one way many anesthesiologists may learn about their MGVS is through experiencing problems or failures (a very strong correlation between problems experienced and knowledge of the MGVS). Extrapolating from the survey data, an anesthesiologist might expect a failure or shutdown of the MGVS (that would directly affect him/her and clinical care) about once every 10 years.
The APSF Subcommittee on the MGVS has been working to help educate the practitioner through a continuing series of articles in the APSF Newsletter and through presentation of the ‘Beyond the Walls’ scientific exhibit at the 1994 ASA and NYPGA conferences. Clearly though, there is a need for these topics to be covered as part of residency training. Strong support was expressed in the survey results for the development of training aids such as videotapes, reprints, exhibits, and a general outline of the issues. Efforts are underway to organize and fund a videotape that could be used in training programs. Further, the Subcommittee has proposed creation of a ‘MGVS Hotline’ to answer questions about the MGVS and assist with MGVS problems. When available, details will appear in the APSF Newsletter.
Dr. Peterson, an active member of the APSF subcommittee on MGVS, is Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University 0 Arizona, Phoenix
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Nearly half of adults with Cushing’s disease that persists or recurs after surgical treatment require second and sometimes third therapeutic interventions, including pituitary surgical reintervention, radiotherapy, pharmacotherapy or bilateral adrenalectomy, study data from Mexico show. Moisés Mercado, MD, FRCPC, of the ABC Hospital Neurological and Cancer Centers in Mexico City, and colleagues evaluated 84 adults (median age, 34 years; 77 women) with Cushing’s disease to determine the long-term efficacy of secondary interventions for persistent and recurrent Cushing’s disease. Median follow-up was 6.3 years. Overall, 81 participants were primarily treated with transsphenoidal surgery. More than half experienced long-lasting remission (61.7%); disease remained active in 16%, who were diagnosed with persistent Cushing’s disease; and 22% experienced relapse after remission and were diagnosed with recurrent Cushing’s disease. After the initial procedure, 18 participants required pituitary surgical reintervention, including 10 with recurrent and eight with persistent disease. Radiation therapy was administered to 14 participants, including two as primary therapy and 12 after failed pituitary surgery. Pharmacologic treatment with ketoconazole was prescribed for 15 participants at one point during the course of disease. Bilateral adrenalectomy was performed in 12 participants. Pituitary surgical reintervention was the most commonly used secondary treatment (22.2%), followed by pharmacologic therapy with ketoconazole (16%), radiotherapy (14.8%) and bilateral adrenalectomy (14.8%). More than half of participants experienced early remissions after a second operation (66.6%) and radiotherapy (58.3%), whereas long-lasting remission was reached in only 33.3% of participants who underwent a second surgery and 41.6% of participants who underwent radiotherapy. Half of participants who underwent bilateral adrenalectomy were diagnosed with Nelson’s syndrome. Overall, 88% of participants achieved remission, and disease was biochemically controlled with pharmacologic treatment in 9.5% of participants after their initial, secondary and third-line treatments. “The efficacy of treatment alternatives for recurrent or persistent [Cushing’s disease] vary among patients, and often, more than one of these interventions is required in order to achieve a long-lasting remission,” the researchers wrote. – by Amber Cox Disclosure: The researchers report no relevant financial disclosures. From http://www.healio.com/endocrinology/adrenal/news/in-the-journals/%7B5519b312-5912-4c65-b2ed-2ece3f68e83f%7D/postsurgical-treatment-often-necessary-in-persistent-recurrent-cushings-disease
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For Immediate Release
Office of the First Lady
January 8, 2003
Mrs. Bush's Remarks at Anniversary of the Signing of the No Child Left Behind Act
The East Room
Thank you. And thank you, Secretary Paige and Senator Gregg for being here today and for your leadership in inspiring reform in education through the No Child Left Behind Act.
One year ago, when the President signed this historic legislation, he embarked on a mission with our leaders in Congress - a mission to ensure that every child in America receives an excellent education. Today, our students, teachers, parents and communities are embracing this new standard with unwavering determination. The No Child Left Behind Act provides our schools with unprecedented reform and resources. Across America, students and schools are providing results and the reassurance that standards and accountability work.
As I travel across the country, I see the promise of reform in America's schools. I see children excited and ready to learn; teachers who are committed to success; and principals who refuse to accept failure. We are honored to have several of these very principals here today. Thank you for believing in the power of reform - and for believing in our children.
Our children need our continued support. Today, we have more students in school than ever before - more children who want the American dream and who undeniably deserve it. To meet this challenge, in the coming years we will need more people to answer the call to teach. We know that our children's future depends on their education. And the quality of their education depends on our teachers. Strong schools and quality teachers are the President's priorities and I am proud to be part of the President's work to achieve these priorities.
Our mission to reform education is far from over. We face many challenges. But already, we have made great strides. And our resolve remains strong. Together, we will bring the promise of an excellent education to every child in America - and no child will be left behind. Ladies and Gentlemen, the man who will make sure we accomplish this, my husband,
President George W. Bush.
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OUR NEW APPROACH TO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW CURRICULUM
Over a dozen Case Western Law Professors teach in the area of international law; together, they offer more international law electives than all but a handful of U.S. law schools. We call our three-year learning arc, "Core, Concentration, Capstone."
Core: In the first year, Students who will undertake a Cox Center-funded summer internship take "Fundamentals of International Law," a one-credit course in the spring semester that introduces them to norms of customary international law, rules of treaty interpretation, basics of researching international precedents, and the principles that govern international dispute resolution and international criminal trials.
Concentration: In the second year, students pursuing an international law concentration begin to focus on one of four areas, by taking a sequence of electives that continue into the third year related to public international law, international business law, national security law, or immigration law. Altogether, we offer forty specialty courses in these areas including our "War Crimes Research Lab" where students work on legal issues outsourced by five international tribunals, "World Intellectual Property Law Lab" where students work on international IP issues assigned to us by the World Intellectual Property Organization, and our Immigration Law Practicum, where students work on real asylum and refugee cases for real clients.
Capstone: In the third year, students take a semester-long, full-time international law capstone experience. Options include our new Human Rights Law Clinic or over thirty externships around the world. Or you can spend your third year abroad earning a foreign LLM degree at one of our partner universities while concurrently earning our JD degree in no extra time.
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Pneumatic mufflers are commonly found on air intakes on compressor systems to help reduce the noise levels of the compressor. This article will provide all the relevant information on air compressor intake silencers and examples of products available online!
Table of Contents
- What is an Air Compressor Intake Silencer?
- How does an Air Compressor Intake Silencer Work?
- Air Compressor Intake Silencers Online
- FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
What is an Air Compressor Intake Silencer?
Air compressors themselves create quite a lot of noise when they are operating. One of many ways to help reduce the noise produced by the air compressor is to install an air compressor intake silencer, or also known as a muffler.
Noise occurs in air compressor systems as a result of fast-moving turbulent air colliding with static air. A significant amount of this high-frequency pulsating noise produced by an air compressor comes from the air intake.
As the compressor rotates onrushing air is drawn past a reed flapper valve which rattles and vibrates on each pulse. Air compressor intake silences can help to reduce these pulsations and subsequently reduce the sound level.
Pneumatic intake silencers usually connect to ports using a threaded male end. Manufacturers do, however, provide products that are compatible with the most common thread standards.
Mufflers tend to also combine several functions in a single assembly for space savings and simplicity. Air compressor intake muffling devices are typically constructed as air compressor muffler filter combination devices for this reason. Allowing you to not only reduce the noise of the system but block any contaminants from flowing into the compression chambers.
How does an Air Compressor Intake Silencer Work?
As air enters the device, it is baffled through tubes and other methods using noise-damping elements. These elements help to reduce the sound produced by air rushing through the intake, while also keeping flow restriction to the absolute minimum.
An air compressor muffler is installed directly at the air intake, and along with other mufflers in the system, can help reduce the noise of an air compressor down 15 to 35 dB from an unmuffled compressed air system.
Note: a reduction of 10dB equates to cutting sound levels in half!
Below is a good YouTube example of the difference between using and not using an air compressor intake muffler!
Air Compressor Intake Silencers Online
First up is this Walfront air compressor silencer filter which has a 1/2″ male thread size.
This is a great option for reducing the noise of your filter and is a great replacement option. Perfect accessories for air filters, quite easy to install. Used widely on the admitting port of air filters, can greatly reduce the noise of air intake.
Its best features are being used for air inlets, and can effectively block the dust in the air moisture. It is able to reduce the filter noise at work while also greatly helping to improve the efficiency of air silencer filters and longevity. This intake silencer is typically suitable for oil-less intake operations.
Next up, we have a Solberg GS-06-050 inlet air compressor silencer filter. The component comes with a 1/2″ Male PT outlet rated at 12 SCFM and boasts terrific reviews by customers.
Along with the usual benefits of compressor intake muffler filters, this product has a low entry velocity air gap between the base and cover. It’s has a durable carbon steel construction with a baked enamel finish and a center bracket located for minimal flow restriction.
It is also possible to acquire pressure drop graphs, as they’re available upon request, to better investigate these types of silencer filters. This product is associated with a great design and build quality, as well as being compact and easy to install.
The Solberg GS-10-075 inlet compressor air silencer filter below has a 3/4″ Male PT outlet and is rated for 25 SCFM.
This compressor muffler filter can be associated with great quality and effectiveness. The majority of the reviews credit the construction of the filter, how well it reduces sound as well as its durability.
Finally, we have another Solberg air silencer filter, the FS-15-100 this time with a 1″ Male PT outlet, and is rated for 35 SCFM.
Similar to the previous model, this model boasts a low-pressure drop center bracket located for minimal flow restriction and outlet pipe design. Pressure drop graphs again are available upon request.
The key benefit this compressor muffler filter offers is that it has a tubular silencing design. The tube is positioned to maximize attenuation and airflow while also minimizing pressure drop.
These are all but a few of the air compressor silencer filters available online, with Solberg being one of the biggest OEM providers available. They offer a wide range of high-quality filter silencers that deaden noise and aim to offer exceptional performance in very tough industrial environments. These compact designs are used for filtration protection, noise attenuation (silencing), and vent breather applications.
For more information, and to look at their range of products, visit their website here!
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FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
Yes, air compressor silencers can help to reduce the noise of compressed air systems. In some cases, they may be able to reduce the noise levels by between 15 dB and 35 dB which can make a significant difference!
The best way to muffle an air compressor is to insert an air compressor muffler or silencer onto the air intake valve or exhaust. A significant amount of high-frequency pulsating noise comes from both of these components.
Yes, you can add mufflers to various places on an air compressor. The most notable locations are on the exhaust or intake. Mufflers can help in reducing the noise level of the air compressor, and bring it down to a more acceptable number.
To fix a noisy air compressor there are a number of steps you can take. First of all, you could cover some parts of your air compressor with rubber to help reduce the vibrations and make it quieter, even the motor. You could also place rubber mats underneath the compressor or cover it to help reduce the vibrations too. Modifying the intake and exhaust systems by adding mufflers/silencers can significantly help to reduce the overall noise levels. If none of those work then maybe you should rethink getting a new, and quieter air compressor.
If you have any questions regarding air compressor intake silencers, please leave a comment below, with a photo if applicable, so that someone can help you!
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Fodor's Expert Review Ho Phra Keo
There's a good reason why Ho Phra Keo, one of the city's oldest and most impressive temples, has a name so similar to the wat in Bangkok's Grand Palace. The original Ho Phra Keo here was built by King Setthathirat in 1565 to house the Emerald Buddha, which he had taken from Chiang Mai in Thailand. The king installed the sacred statue first in Luang Prabang and then in Vientiane at Ho Phra Keo, but the Siamese army recaptured the Buddha in 1778 and it was installed in Bangkok. The present temple, restored in 1936, is a national museum. On display are Buddha sculptures of different styles, some wonderful chiseled images of Khmer deities, and a fine collection of stone inscriptions. The masterpiece of the museum is a 16th-century lacquered door carved with Hindu images.
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Recent Tutoring Session Reviews
"The student and I reviewed one hour of US History, again going over the major points from the Revolutionary War to the current time. I went decade to decade, major war to major war, and emphasized the Presidents during these eras and the major themes of each time period (decade to decade). He continues to improve in history. Then, he took two reading English practice tests. and got 18 out of 20 questions correct...a job well done. Again, he keeps getting better and better."
"We covered more practice analogies in today's session. For the quantitative reasoning section, we practiced a variety of math problems and practice problems online (geometry, simple arithmetic, and word problems). We also reviewed the definitions of words that she did not know."
"My first session with the student went very well. We went over the sections of the test and started going over problems in the initial diagnostic test. We went over how to summarize individual sections of a passage versus trying to process the entire passage at once. This was the first time the student has started studying, so I asked him to learn more details about each section of the test (duration, content, types of questions). I also want him to have gone over most of the material before April so that he can start practicing tests during the month of April. A lofty goal, but I can tell he really wants to do well on the exam, so I think he's up to the challenge!"
"Today we covered reading comprehension -- specifically of literary and informational passages. We discussed author tone, how to identify the main idea of a text, comparing and contrasting details, and figurative language. The student was more confident with her work. She was given homework to read several passages and answer questions about them. We also discussed taking a practice test, which she will take next week."
"We finished covering the math section, focusing on trigonometry, and began more in-depth work on the English and Science sections, going over specific question types. The student had taken trig before, but he needed to review almost everything covered by the test. The student had a good attitude, as usual. He is also bringing up strategies we discussed without prompting, a good sign. In the next session, we will continue to work on the English and Science sections. The student will take an English diagnostic test, and we will cover anything he misses. For Science, we will finish our overview of the different question types."
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A screenshot made to look like a New York Post article has been circulating on social media stating that 500 million refugees are about to arrive in Europe. Euronews has fact-checked these claims.
Many social media users sharing a screenshot of a supposed New York Post headline stating that the United Nations have issued a stark warning about a massive influx of refugees from Africa soon arriving to Europe.
No trace of article online
The screenshot did not include the New York Post logo but used the same typeface and credited a real reporter from the newspaper.
After searching the New York Post website, Euronews did not find any trace of this article. However, this article that was found was published on the same date, at the same time, and even by the same reporter.
The UN says it has never issued this warning
In addition, Euronews spoke to a spokesperson of the UN Refugee Agency who confirmed that the agency had never released such a statement.
But is Europe really facing a massive wave of immigration? For the moment, there’s no evidence of that. For example, the data from the International Organization for Migration shows that 50,630 refugees — from all countries not just from the African continent — have arrived in Europe so far in 2022.
The same data set shows that 151,417 refugees from around the world arrived in Europe in 2021. These numbers are nowhere near the 500 million allegedly predicted in the fake headline.
Five hundred million is still over five times the total number of refugees in the world in 2021 according to the UNHCR.
Watch the report in the video player above.
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Cullingworth teachers are learning about sports from the experts during special PE sessions.
Staff from the Sports Cool company have been commissioned to run PE lessons twice a week at Cullingworth Primary School.
The visiting coaches are also using lessons to pass specialist skills to the class teachers.
The school is funding the sessions with part of its £9,000-a-year special PE funding, which is provided to every school in the UK by the government.
Sports Cool, based in Lancashire, already runs after-school dodgeball, football and multi-sports sessions.
A school spokesman said: “We were really impressed with them – they are really professional.
“They are now delivering lessons while training teachers at the same time. They’re covering the whole range of sports. The kids are loving it.”
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After a toenail is removed, patients should apply a topical antibiotic to the area twice a day until the wound is healed, according to the American Academy of Family Physicians. Patients should keep the wound clean and replace the bandages when necessary.Continue Reading
Patients should elevate the foot when sitting or lying down to encourage blood flow to the wounded area. Patients may take an over-the-counter pain reliever, such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen, if the pain becomes unbearable, reports the American Academy of Family Physicians. To encourage the wound to heal, patients should clean the wound daily with warm water, and dry the wound completely with a clean cloth. Patients should also dress the wound as necessary, especially if bleeding or discharge is present. The wound should remain bandaged for at least one week after the toenail removal procedure to prevent infection.
For the first three weeks after the procedure, patients should wear a postoperative shoe to reduce pain and discomfort as the toenail heals and grows back, states the Cleveland Clinic. As the wound heals, patients should avoid wearing high-heeled shoes, tight-fitting shoes, running shoes or shoes that do not fit properly. Patients should also avoid excessive physical activity until the wound heals completely.Learn more about Conditions & Diseases
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Over 800 firefighters are battling the 62,000 acre High Cascades Complex burning on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. And it's a tossup whether Mother Nature will help. "They are calling for some cooling over the next couple of days, so that part is good, but they're also thinking there might be some winds coming up too in the next couple of days. So it's kind of a wait and see attitude." Mark Morrow with the Northwest Coordination Center says nearly 200 homes are threatened by the fire. Six have already been evacuated.
With fire burning on both sides of the Deschutes River, rafters should also be cautious. "If they've rafted through the area, for example, they might see helicopters, you know coming into the rive with buckets to put water on the fires. And so they're just urging people to be cautious and be aware of this action that was going on all around them." Morrow says cooler temperatures should help crews but strong winds could also push the fires.
As for the weather:
Fire crews are busy all over Oregon fighting wildfires caused by lightning strikes from storms last week.
Oregon Department of Forestry spokesman Rod Nichols says they are on stand-by in case any of these large fires on federal lands seep into state and private lands. Going forward the weather is looking mostly good.
“And the weather forecast is a little bit better, and so we're expecting less of a chance of lightning. But nevertheless the conditions in the forests and rangelands is very, very dry and the fuels are dry and the weather is warm. And so other sources of fire-starts can occur, mainly human caused.” He says you don't want to come home from a fun vacation and discover that you accidently started a big expensive fire in Oregon. The largest fire is the High Cascades Complex on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation; it’s at about 62,0000 acres, is 10% contained. The Hancock Fire near Clarno is about 53,000 acres and 70% contained.
As for air quality right now ; the DEQ issued an air quality warning for Prineville. And the air around Sisters is rated as "moderate". Surprisingly bend's air is currently considered "good".
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Tuesday about potential heart risks when combining two HIV drugs.
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The agency said preliminary data suggest Roche’s Invirase and Abbott Laboratories’ Norvir can affect the electrical activity of the heart when used together. Changes to the heart’s electrical activity can delay the signals that trigger heart beats.
In some cases the problem can cause irregular heart rhythms, leading to lightheadedness, fainting, and even death.
The FDA made its announcement after reviewing data submitted by Roche about the heart activity of patients using its drug with Abbott’s Norvir. The agency said its review is ongoing and patients should not stop taking Invirase without talking to their doctor.
Doctors should review patients’ heart health and current medications to determine if they should continue taking Invirase, the agency said in a statement posted online.
Invirase was approved in 1995 and is marketed by Genentech, the biotech unit of Swiss drugmaker Roche.
The drug is used in combination with Norvir and other anti-viral drugs to control HIV in adults. Norvir is given at a low dose to boost the level of Invirase in the body.
The FDA previously asked Roche and all makers of protease inhibitor drugs, which includes Invirase, to conduct studies of the heart side effects of their products.
A spokeswoman for Genentech said the company has submitted new drug labeling to Invirase which is under FDA review.
“The safety of patients is of the utmost importance to Genentech, and we continue to monitor and report to FDA adverse event reports from patients and physicians,” Tara Cooper said in a statement.
A spokesman for Abbott, based in North Chicago, Ill., could not immediately provide comment.
HIV attacks the body’s immune system, eventually causing AIDS. Just over 1.1 million Americans are estimated to have HIV and 232,000 do not know it, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The FDA issued Tuesday’s warning under its so-called early communication program, which seeks to alert the public to a potential side effect with a drug immediately, even if no direct link has been established.
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As the bathing season slowly draws to a close, pool owners should start thinking about the proper emptying of the pool.
It is very important that the pool is emptied properly. A thorough cleaning as well as a damage inspection are important reasons to empty the pool at the end of the season.
Regular water exchange can’t hurt either. In this article, the topic of pool emptying is examined in more detail. The common variants, such as with and without pump (etc.) are presented.
What should be considered?
Whether it is an inflatable pool or a pool firmly integrated into the ground, baby monitor for two rooms the pool must not remain empty for too long. Otherwise, damage to the pelvis may occur.
This is either due to a displacement of the soil (basin integrated into the soil) or a deformation of the inflatable basin due to weather-related influences (inflatable basin).
Different ways to empty the pool
With a hose, the pool can be emptied comparatively quickly. If you don’t have one at hand, go to the nearest DIY store or garden center and buy a copy or order it online.
A minimum diameter of 2 cm should be targeted when buying. The pool water must not simply be let into the garden. There must be a drain nearby!
Once this has been found, one end of the hose is placed just below the water surface and the other end towards the drain.
In some cases, the hose must be several meters long for this. If short and strong suction is now carried out at the end of the hose drain, a process is triggered which, due to the resulting negative pressure, gradually causes the pool water to run out of the pool.
While the whole thing then takes place, the pool owner only has to make sure that the hose end in the pool also remains just below the water surface.
The obvious weakness of this type of pool emptying is the absence of a suitable drain. But don’t worry, because other possible solutions will be explained in the further course of this article.
Before you start emptying the pool with a hose, it is necessary to check whether there is a suitable drain nearby. A drain that does not lead to another body of water, but ends in a sewage treatment plant in the further course, is considered suitable. Anyone who simply empties the water into the garden risks severe penalties.
For small pools – empty pool via floor run
If you have a rather small pool in front of you, weight limit for baby swings you can play with the idea of emptying the pool by means of a floor run. For larger pools, this procedure is not recommended, as there is simply too much water in the pools concerned.
To start the process, connect the bottom run to the filter system of the pool. Next, the filter pump is switched off. After that, the lines must be blocked so that only the bottom barrel is open.
Then position the reusable valve on “emptying”. As a result, it should now happen that after connecting a hose, the water is sucked into the bottom barrel via the filter pump that has been switched on again. This process is a bit more time-consuming than the others. Therefore not suitable for large pools.
Empty the pool without a bottom run – but with a pool pump
The thing with the floor run is simply not suitable for larger pools. Therefore, it is recommended to work with a pool pump when it comes to emptying the pools in question.
For this purpose, the hose is connected to an adapter, which was previously attached to the skimmer of the pool. The next step is to activate the pool pump.
This then gradually pulls the water out of the pool pool. The pool pump must have a pre-filter. If this is not the case, the device may overheat and, as a result, break.
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Probiotics: Why are They Beneficial?
It is crucial to have an energised digestive system. This is more than the food you consume each day. The inner workings of the digestive system are what gut health means. It’s crucial because it influences how you digest food, and how it keeps its nutrients in good condition to make it through your day. Probiotics can help improve your digestion as well as keep your gut healthy.
There are a variety of methods to consume probiotics. One of the most effective is to consume them in capsule form. It’s similar to taking a daily vitamin, and it doesn’t alter the taste of the food you eat or drink. There are many benefits to probiotics. Knowing them can help you to take better health of your digestive system and ensure that you’re not overly stressed.
Probiotics are loved by many for their digestion health. The body uses what it naturally produces to separate nutrients from substances that then turn into waste. It is likely that you will realize that not all food items contain the full spectrum of nutrients. Only people who have a balanced, healthy diet are able to achieve this. But, it’s possible to live a joyful life.
However, it is important to eat nutritious foods that have the least amount of artificial flavor colors, preservatives, and colours there are products that are a mix of all these elements. Probiotics are a way to ensure your body is able to digest the food you consume regardless of how natural it is. Even if you’re eating nothing, probiotics will make your stomach feel full. If you suffer from an uneasy stomach or regularly notice that you are suffering from stomachaches It could be because your body doesn’t have enough natural protection against lingering bacteria that can cause irritation. Probiotics can be found in active digestion and also between.
Probiotics aid in digesting food faster. There will be less stomach upset , and your digestive system will work faster since this occurs faster. Whether you eat too fast, or you feel like you’re feeling gas following eating certain food items Probiotics can help calm these effects down and focus on making the food easier to digest in general.
It’s okay to take probiotic supplements when your stomach isn’t painful or you have difficulty digesting certain foods. Since they work from the inside out, you’ll notice that your stomach adjusts to them. Probiotics differ from other supplements or vitamins. Your body won’t have the urge to eliminate them when they’re not in use. Probiotics can be kept within your digestive system in order to improve your health.
The one thing that many people do not consider is their immune systems and how food and digestion are connected to their immune systems. When you consider your health’s immune system you can improve it a lot if you practice healthy hygiene and stay away from people who exhibit symptoms. Probiotics can be beneficial for your immune system. They assist you in avoiding illness and also make it easier to recover from illnesses. These are especially important benefits due to the fact that probiotics are also working within your body. They can take care of external factors and probiotics can take care of all the rest.
The microbiome inside your gut is what you eat. These microorganisms are comprised of bacteria that live within your intestinal tract. The type of bacteria functions as a filter, and decides the nutrients you should consume. What should be discarded or transformed into waste in order to eliminate it. You are more likely than others to become sick when you don’t have a positive microbiome in you stomach. This is because the stomach’s filtration system isn’t performing to its fullest. To keep you from becoming sick, probiotics boost the microbiome of your gut.
You can stress yourself out worrying about getting sick. This can result in weakening your immune system. Your immune system is in good hands when you maintain your gut microbiome daily with a probiotic. Probiotics function quietly, but powerfully. Probiotics are always helping your body, even if you do not think about it. This is great news for those who have multiple things going on at once. It’s easy to lose track of your immune system. However, probiotics can help you keep it in check.
There are many stressors in life, some that are not a choice. There are times when you feel upset or being stressed. This is because stress can cause negative effects on the health of your gut and digestive system. It is possible to learn the benefits of probiotics for stress management and de-escalating stressful situations by understanding this relationship.
An interesting fact is that the majority of serotonin is made in your gut. While the majority of people are aware of serotonin, the “happy chemical” within our brains, only a people are aware of the process by which it’s created. It’s simple to recognize how taking proper care of your gut health will also benefit your mental well-being. There will be a positive change in your mental wellbeing when you begin taking an probiotic to boost the health of your gut. These levels of serotonin are crucial to feeling happy and being in a good mood. It can regulate your mood, and help make difficult situations feel even less stressful because you’ll feel as if you’re able to manage them.
If you have high serotonin levels you will be more likely make better choices in your life. This can help you become more social and will make you feel more comfortable around others. If you’re talking to your loved ones or working with your colleagues, having the elevated levels of serotonin makes you a much more enjoyable person to be around. You’ll be happier and more stable every day because of probiotics that promote good gut health. It is obvious how everything in your body interacts with one another, even to the point that it can affect your mind.
Probiotics help improve your health as a person. this is essential for both how you feel as well as your personal development. Studies have shown that less stress is associated with higher levels of immunity. This is just one more method that probiotics can help ensure your safety and health. Since there are no disadvantages to taking a probiotic capsule daily, it makes sense to simply take one because of its numerous health benefits.
Bloating can cause discomfort and inconvenience, which can affect your ability to function. You can’t quickly get rid of the feeling however, you can take preventative steps. You can help your stomach prepare to digest food items which cause you to feel full by taking probiotics before eating. This preventative step is easy and does not need the sufferer to experience the feeling of bloating throughout the day. You can eliminate it, and your stomach will be able digest these foods easily thanks to probiotics and the health microbiome.
It’s important to know those foods which cause you to feel bloated so you can avoid them, or ensure that you have taken your probiotics prior to eating. Here are a few of the most well-known.
You are likely to consume at the very least one of these daily. If you do not want to avoid them entirely A probiotic in your system will help to stop the bloating from happening. This probiotic will help your stomach to digest the ingredients that cause your body expand. These foods and drinks could cause you to feel bloated due to them making your stomach gassy or are gaseous in the nature of things. Bloating is a normal aspect of the body’s normal function. However, it can be a problem if have frequent bouts of it.
Bloating can happen regardless of the food you consume. Constipation or menstrual symptoms can cause the feeling of bloating. It is also important to consider how fast you consume your food. Bloating can occur in the event that you eat fast or in large quantities. This is due to the fact that your stomach might not be able to take on such a load. Probiotics are designed to get your digestive system working even before you need to start digesting. You’ll feel fuller and less bloated after a while. If you already have the bloating problem, Probiotics can help make it less severe.
It is essential to be able to function effectively throughout the day. You require energy to complete any task you have to complete, whether you have an extremely busy day or have to tidy up your house. Although sleep is essential, your digestive system plays an important role in how much energy you can get throughout the day. If your stomach is not in a state of calm or agitation, your mind will also be restless. Probiotics boost your energy levels and promote your energy levels to be higher. It’s a great way to have energy throughout the day without having to have to rely on the excessive consumption of caffeine.
The microbiome of your gut is a key component in the development of your serotonin levels. It can also affect the chemical balance of your brain. You’ll have better mood and memory as well cognitive capabilities. This can improve your daily life regardless of what activities you are engaged in. It’s a simple pill which can provide all these amazing benefits. Anyone can benefit from the numerous advantages of probiotics.
The other great thing concerning probiotics is their natural nature and their ability to support healthy body functions. Anyone looking to improve their health often drawn to natural remedies prior to seeking out medication or other foreign substances in their systems. It is always recommended to seek help from a professional. However, there are many natural options that can be just as effective for your body. Your body is capable of being robust and resilient if you have the proper resources.
A lot of people are concerned with their weight and keeping a healthy BMI. It is often difficult to find alternative ways to keep their weight under control without exercise and diet. A lot of people tend to be restricted, which could cause people to slow their metabolism. This is referred to as “yoyo dieting”, which the body doesn’t like. You can slow down the rate of metabolism by limiting your intake of food and then abruptly altering the amount. This can lead to increasing your weight in the course of time. This can lead to an unsettling cycle where it is easy to lose control of your body.
If you supplement your diet with probiotics you can actually effectively control your weight in this way. Probiotics help reduce appetite and keep you from overeating when you’re exhausted or feeling a bit agitated. Your stomach will become more conscious of hunger signals. Probiotics will help you to eat less unhealthy food, as it has the natural microbiome. These microbes also assist in the digestion process of foods, which can improve your metabolism. The faster food is broken down, the sooner you’ll be able to digest and process it into your system. This allows you to manage your weight without having to consume a restricted diet or adhere to a strict diet.
It is essential to track the frequency of your bowel movements since this determines how your body excretes waste. These toxins can remain within your body, which can cause weight gain or make you feel tired. Regular bowel movements are crucial for your body’s metabolism to lose excess weight. This helps you manage your weight and lose excess fat.
Your digestive system is the highest efficiency when you consume probiotics. This allows to move your bowels. This will help you to improve your metabolism , making your exercise and diet more effective. It’s an effective way to shed excess weight and fat quickly. If you want to see lasting results, then taking probiotics is the right way to go.
Probiotics can also help your skin appear gorgeous. Probiotics can help your skin glowing and healthy. Probiotics that have the strain known as L. paracasei are the component that helps to defend the skin from the effects of the effects of aging, natural elements and the effects of preservatives and additives in food items. Probiotics can boost confidence in yourself and help you feel good.
The Bigger Picture
Even if your don’t have a problem with indigestion, probiotics are beneficial. They can help improve the health of your gut and improve your physical and mental well-being. A daily probiotic can be used as a vitamin taken daily, or supplement. It will show a difference over the course of. It will help you to have great digestion. They also aid in the prevention of diseases and other harmful bacteria. Probiotics are an excellent supplement to any lifestyle.
Probiology is capsules with an unique formula that will help you get started on a probiotic program and improve your physical and mental health. The reason why this capsule is unmatched is because Probiology’s probiotic formula is made up of active and powerful strains of bacteria, all designed to work in conjunction with your body. The capsules are a step closer to returning the health of your gut.
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A Poem for Spring
Imagine my delight when my mother arrived with bags of "mystery" items. The first item I happened to grab was this weathered poem. It was written by her French-Canadian grandfather in 1938. Upon reading it, I was immediately struck by his reverence for nature. Based on glimpses provided by my mother, I knew he was keen on the joys of the great outdoors, but this was tangible proof. I never knew he wrote about it. This seems to be a validation of what I'm trying to do with Floramont, letting people know the importance of nature to our well-being. It is a heritage all of us can share.
Be sure to take time out to admire the greenery outside. Even looking out the window is beneficial. Or, you can relish the memories of previous days outdoors, maybe even writing a poem about it for future generations to enjoy!
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The benchmarking procedure (the list of software and test conditions) is described here. To make the diagrams easier to read, results are represented in percents (100% stands for the result of Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 in each test). Detailed results in absolute values are published in this Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.
As we expected, there are no performance gains from more than two cores. But the clock rate and CPU architecture do matter. The same concerns cache. However, insufficient cache can be compensated by a higher frequency -- the E7400 catches up with the E8200, while the E7600 outperforms it. So there is nothing surprising that Intel abandoned the expensive E8200 as soon as the same performance level was reached by cheaper processors with higher clock rates. In other respects, we can see that even inexpensive processors suffice for professional 3D Modeling packages. It's true, when a given computer is used solely for its creative component, of course, and the final renders are performed on a dedicated computer or even on a whole render farm.
No dual-core processor can compete with high-speed triple-core and even slow quad-core models here. Performance ratios are so big that in order to catch up with at least the Q8200, dual-core processors would have to operate at 4 GHz, while their current maximum is 3.33 GHz. We do not accept the remark that a Core 2 Duo can be overclocked to this level -- Core 2 Quad can be overclocked as well, and Phenom II X3 720 even has an unlocked multiplier. As we expected, such tasks need as many cores as you can get. Performance gains in rendering are demonstrated even in those cases, when we install eight physical cores running 16 threads simultaneously (e.g. two Xeons). The saturation point in desktop system is even further. Performance gains are not linear, and the clock rate also affects the results (so the Q8200 and the Х3 720 demonstrate almost identical results). But the general picture is apparent.
Scientific and engineering analysis
This group of applications also demonstrates a clear tendency, but it does not favor multiple cores: it's better to have a couple of cores operating at a higher clock rate. Besides, 2M cache is apparently too small, and it spoils results of the Pentium or Core 2 Quad Q8000, to say nothing of the Athlon II, where this cache is shared between cores and cannot be used to exchange data. But over 3M seems to be excessive. Differences between processors are so small that it's not rational to make a choice on the ground of this group of applications -- even a Celeron will be doing fine here, even though it's a serious group of programs, not just home multimedia.
We noticed some performance gains from the increased number of cores, but they are not significant. Results? Pentium E6300 demonstrate the same performance as Core 2 Quad Q8200, and Core 2 Duo E7600 catches up with Core 2 Quad Q9300. Dual-core processors operate at a higher clock rate, of course, than quad-core processors with similar results. But the difference is not that big to consider the latter better suited for such tasks. To put it shortly, even Mid-End dual-core models will suffice for bitmap graphics. And practically the only factor that can turn you against them is the reign of quad-core processors among top performance solutions. This is all familiar -- Intel and AMD used the same method to push single-core processors out of the market. But now it's done in a milder fashion -- for example, top models of Core 2 Duo have higher frequencies than "composite" models so far. Sometimes this difference is quite big, so than can keep their face. However, this tendency is quite pronounced already. It concerns even old familiar platforms, to say nothing of promising ones -- for example, there are already three quad-core processors for LGA1156, dual-core models will appear next year.
These tasks do not need more than two cores, unlike much cache, so our winner is Core 2 Duo E8200. But our comparison of the E7400 and E7600 makes us regret about DDR3 in LGA775. As we have already found out, even the upgrade from DDR2 1066 to DDR3 1333 decreases performance in this group of tests, and DDR3 memory yields really bad results for processors with FSB 1066: such memory frequency is attainable for DDR2 as well, memory bandwidth will be the same, but latencies will be much lower. Why don't we see the same fiasco with the Pentium? The E5300 has FSB 800, and it was tested with DDR2 800. So the E6300 can objectively "stomach" faster memory. But in this case, "all steam was wasted on the whistle" to make up for the harmful effect of DDR3. As a result, we've got equal terms (performance gains appear due to the higher clock rate), that's something at least.
The number of cores, their clock rate, and cache size (to some degree) -- these are components of success. When at least two of these components are present at once, results grow significantly: that's not the first time when we see a high-clocked triple-core processor from AMD compete on a par not only with Core 2 Duo (that's its target competitor), but also with low quad-core devices from both companies. Dual-core processors are much slower. Any of them, especially our Pentium. Huge cache capacity allows the Core 2 Duo E8200 win the whole 400 MHz that separated it from the top representative of Series E7000.
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Our changing climate
Climate change is not a new phenomenon; there have been periods of extremes in the distant past. What is unusual now is the rate and scale of change, and the underlying cause of these changes - widely agreed to be the growing emissions of greenhouse gases associated with human activity.
Find our more about the drivers of climate change.
Scotland's climate is already changing and will continue to do so for many years to come.
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As a multilateral development finance institution, the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group seeks to further the social and economic well-being of its regional member countries. To attain this objective, the Bank uses the leverage afforded by its AAA rating to on-lend to its borrower countries, at favorable terms, resources raised in international capital markets.
Up until 1997, only one loan product, the multi-currency variable rate loan (VLR), was offered by the Bank. The shift to a more dynamic multi-product institution that took place that year was predicated on the desire to increase flexibility and choice.
The Bank’s lending environment was made more responsive to the borrower countries’ varied and evolving needs. With the introduction of single currency loans, borrowers were given the option to choose from a number of currencies readily available to the Bank, including the South African Rand, along with three interest rate bases. Since 2000, the AfDB offers its borrowers flexibility to customize their debt repayment profile with access to annuities, step-up or step-down amortization of principal or bullet repayment. These features enable sophisticated borrowers to profile their loans to fit their specific needs.
Flexibility and freedom of choice, again, are the main thrust of the introduction in 2002 of a range of Risk Management Products including interest rate and currency swaps, caps, collars, commodity hedges and indexed loans enabling borrowers to manage risks occurring during the life of a given loan. These hedging instruments allow borrowers to better manage the financial risks associated with their ADB loans, to access market-based hedging tools using the Bank as an intermediary, and to actively manage their AfDB debt portfolio.
With the introduction of guarantees in 2004, the Bank has opened up a new window of opportunity for borrowers who want to access resources from third-party lenders, including capital markets. Guarantees are also an effective tool for encouraging local currency borrowing.
On 9 December 2009, Board of Directors of the Bank approved several amendments to the menu of the Bank’s financial products. These amendments include the withdrawal of the Variable Rate Loan (VLR) Product for all borrowers, the maintenance of the temporary suspension of the Fixed Spread Loan (FSL) product and the introduction of the Enhanced Variable Spread Loan (EVSL) Product for sovereign guaranteed borrowers.
- 09/12/2015 - AfDB approves US $53 million for water in Zimbabwe and financial reform in Chad
- 12/08/2015 - Fitch affirms African Development Bank at ‘AAA’; Outlook stable
- 29/05/2015 - Interview with Stefan Nalletamby, Director, Financial Sector Development, AfDB
- 06/02/2015 - AfDB issues 1.375% USD 1 billion global benchmark due 12 February 2020
- 03/12/2014 - AfDB issues a 6.625% ZAR 500 Million Eurobond due 9 December 2017
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The recent emphasis on infrastructure development across Eurasia, underscored by China’s Belt and Road Initiative, is creating opportunities for Afghanistan to foster the kind of economic growth that can blunt the appeal of radicalism.Continue reading
Category: Belt and Road
In “How to Bring Peace to Afghanistan” (Op-Ed, June 16), Stephen J. Hadley and Moeed Yusuf are right that Pakistan’s behavior must change if Afghanistan is to attain stability. But they are naïve in thinking that what they propose will produce such change.Continue reading
Recently, this author was invited to a track 1.5 China-Afghanistan-Pakistan symposium on “Tackling Terrorist Threats, Jointly Safeguarding Regional Security” in Beijing. The rare trilateral symposium was welcomed by the three sides as a good opportunity to exchange views and to offer tangible, policy and operational solutions for the consideration of their respective governments to help them address jointly the intertwined threats of terrorism, extremism, and criminality in the region. The discussions were so constructive on the seminal role, which major regional stakeholders can play to stabilise Afghanistan, that the absence of an Indian delegation was needfully felt around the table.Continue reading
What is the main purpose of the Kabul Process for Peace and Security Cooperation?
President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah re-launched the Kabul Process in June 2017. The principal purpose of the process is to ensure an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned, inclusive peace process where we are fully in the driver’s seat to address the multiple dimensions of ongoing war and violence in Afghanistan. But we know this is impossible without results-driven regional and international cooperation. Since its re-launch, the Kabul Process has been recognized as an overarching platform, under which all other peace initiatives and efforts take place to support Afghanistan in our quest for genuine, lasting peace. Because the success of the process hinges on sincere regional cooperation, we continue to call on our neighbors and partners in the region to develop measures necessary to end violence and to forge sustainable peace in Afghanistan. Doing so, we strongly believe, should create positive dividends for the entire region. Continue reading
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Tibetan Singing Bowls
In Scone Library on Friday 10th November, groups of pre-schoolers experienced maybe for the first time, the power of the singing bowl. It was played by Children’s author Lynn Jenkins, in order to reveal the art of mindfulness to the children.
Lynn and her illustrator Kirrili Lonergan have written a series of books as resources for kids, parents and teachers, to help them think more positively and deal with anxiety and worries. In the first book in the series, Lessons of a Lac, the Little Anxious Creature meets Curly who is much more laid back than him. The children were entranced by the puppets of Lac and Curly and the interaction between the characters was made concrete for them.
Then Lynn bought out the singing bowl. All the children became quite silent and breathed in and out slowly. Lynn explained that they can control their emotions and anxieties, and that some of their fear may come from situations like starting school or making a friend.
Their latest book Ollie’s Treasure, is a book about paying attention to what is around, a journey of the senses, to reach a state of simple mindfulness. After Lynn read the book, the children cried out, ‘Play the bowl again. Play the bowl again!’ It seemed that they fully understood its power.
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[ syll. xa-vyer, xav-y-er ] The baby boy name Xavyer is also used as a girl name. It is pronounced as ZEYViy-er †. The origin of Xavyer is the Basque language. Xavyer is a variant of the name Xavier (English, French, and Spanish).
Xavyer is an unusual baby name for boys. It is listed outside of the top 1000 names. In 2015, among the group of boy names directly linked to Xavyer, Xavier was the most popular.
Baby names that sound like Xavyer include Xavery, Xaviare, Xaviero, Xaviore, Zaffir, Zeffiro, Zefiro, Zoboro, Zoborro, Zubarey, Zubari, Zubarie, Zuberee, Zuberey, Zuberi (African and Swahili), Zuberie, Zubery, Zoborio, Zubaree, and Xavaeir.
† approx English pronunciation for Xavyer: Z as in "zoo (Z.UW)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; V as in "vow (V.AW)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"
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What you can do to protect your computer and your privacy
Hackers and new computer viruses seem to be in the news more frequently, along with regular warnings to update your virus protection and protect your privacy. The task of keeping your computer safe can seem overwhelming. So, what can you do to safeguard access to your computer and to protect yourself and your family from cyber intrusion?
Know the terminology
The first step is to recognize the risks and become familiar with some terminology. Hackers, attackers or intruders are terms applied to the people who seek to exploit weaknesses in software and computer systems for their own gain. Their actions can range from mischief (creating a virus with no intentionally negative impact) to malicious (stealing or altering information).
Malicious code includes code such as viruses, worms and Trojan horses. Although some people use these terms interchangeably, they have unique characteristics:
- Viruses — This type of malicious code requires you to actually do something before it infects your computer. This action could be opening an e-mail attachment or going to a particular Web page.
- Worms — Worms propagate without you doing anything. They typically start by exploiting a software vulnerability (a flaw that allows the software's intended security policy to be violated). Then once the victim computer has been infected, the worm will attempt to find and infect other computers. Similar to viruses, worms can propagate via e-mail, websites or network-based software. The automated self-propagation of worms distinguishes them from viruses.
- Trojan horses — A Trojan horse program is software that claims to do one thing while, in fact, doing something different behind the scenes. For example, a program that claims it will speed up your computer may actually be sending your confidential information to an intruder.
- Spyware — This sneaky software rides its way onto computers when you download screensavers, games, music and other applications. Spyware sends information about what you're doing on the Internet to a third-party, usually to target you with pop-up ads.
Minimize access to your information
As long as you have a computer and connect it to a network or the Internet, you are vulnerable to someone or something else remotely accessing or corrupting your information. Here are some tips to make it more difficult for someone to do this:
- Lock or log-off your computer when you are away from it. This prevents another person from then sitting down at your computer and accessing all of your information.
- To be really secure, disconnect your computer from the Internet when you aren't using it. The likelihood that attackers or viruses scanning the network for available computers will target your computer becomes much higher if your computer is always connected.
- Evaluate your security settings. Many, but not all Internet providers offer free security software. If you don't receive free software, you should consider buying a commercial product that includes virus scan, firewall and pop-up blockers. You should also be aware of your Internet cookies setting. Cookies are short pieces of data used by Web servers to identify users. Some cookies are useful for storing images and data from websites that you frequent, but others are malicious and collect information about you. You'll have to decide how much risk from cookies you can accept.
- Browsers enable you to block pop-up ads. You can also install anti-spyware to block them.
- Look for signals that you are using a secure web page. A secure site encrypts or scrambles personal information so it cannot be easily intercepted. Signals include a screen notice that says you are on a secure site, a closed lock or unbroken key in the bottom corner of your screen, or having the first letters of the Internet address you are viewing change from "http" to "https."
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Researchers from the University of Washington have created a next-generation condom that protects against pregnancy, prevents HIV, and then promptly disappears.
The scientists just published a paper in PLoS One detailing the condoms, which consist of electrically spun cloth of nanometer-sized fibers essentially woven out of HIV-preventing medication.
The nanofibers are created by electrospinning, a process in which an electric field is used to send streams of fluid through the air. The fibers created can be manipulated to alter the material’s solubility, strength and even basic shape. Because of this versatility, the study’s authors write, the nanofibers may be better at delivering drugs than existing mediums like gels and pills.
“Our dream is to create a product women can use to protect themselves from HIV infection and unintended pregnancy,” co-author Kim Woodrow, a UW assistant professor of bioengineering, said in a statement. “We have the drugs to do that. It’s really about delivering them in a way that makes them more potent, and allows a woman to want to use it.”
The condoms can be woven out of medicines that prevent HIV infections while also acting as barriers that effectively keep sperm out. Once used, the electrospun condoms are designed to dissolve either within minutes or gradually over a few days, providing more sustained delivery similar to the birth-control pill.
The female condoms could be inserted directly into the vagina or used as a coating for other birth control devices such as the vaginal ring.
While the rapidly-dissolving condom won’t hit the shelves anytime soon, the research team was recently granted almost $1 million to pursue the technology by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Read more about the group’s work here.
This post was originally published on Smartplanet.com
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San Francisco is touted as a green city, but when it comes to caring for trees, what’s lacking is the green.
Funding for tree maintenance has long challenged The City even as it has pushed for aggressive tree planting. For years, the failure to adequately fund tree upkeep has haunted city officials, but there’s been little progress.
No one knows The City’s budget struggle better than those property owners who recently found out the Department of Public Works had decided to gradually transfer maintenance of 110,000 street trees to their adjacent property owners. The transfer has met with some resistance.
Now, as The City works on a new urban forest master plan to address everything from funding to planting, Supervisor Scott Wiener is confronting this reality. He has requested a hearing on San Francisco’s urban forest.
“We have hundreds of thousands of trees in the public realm in The City and it’s one of our greatest assets,” Wiener said Tuesday. “It makes our city green, cleans our air and beautifies our streets. Yet, for a number of years, budget cuts have severely reduced DPW and Rec and Park’s urban forestry budget and their ability to maintain these trees.”
Property owners may not want responsibility for street trees, know how to care for them or be willing to spend the money to do so properly, Wiener observed. And he said it is “not acceptable” that the Recreation and Park Department is able to prune its trees only once every 50 years, on average.
“We need to find a sustainable funding source for our urban forest,” Wiener said.
One solution, Wiener said, is to ask voters to approve a small parcel tax, which would cost a property owner about $60 to $90 annually, and in exchange The City would take over responsibility for all street trees.
City Planner Jon Swae, who is helping to draft the updated plan, told The City’s Urban Forestry Council last month that this environment is challenging for trees.
“The urban environment is a harsh place for trees to grow,” Swae said. “There is compact soil, very small root bases. We have very little building setbacks, if any building setbacks, so tree canopies aren’t allowed to grow and expand. We also have Muni overhead wires and PG&E wires. So they have a lot going against them.”
Other issues the plan will likely address is the lack of trees in certain neighborhoods.
“We have neighborhoods that are much greener than others, many streets without trees,” Swae said. “But we also have a really insufficient tree canopy.”
Almost 700,000 trees grow on both public and private property in San Francisco, according to the Planning Department.
The City’s urban canopy has increased by 1.8 percent for a total of 13.7 percent since the 2005 count, but it remains unclear if the increase was due to planting or a difference in counting methodology. The U.S. average is reportedly between 22 percent and 30 percent.
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What you do:
Let children pretend to be elves. Prepare different stations in your classroom and provide children with elf hats, aprons, and elf name tags.
Provide plain packing paper, stamps, markers, crayons, stickers, paint, etc.
Invite children to create their own colorful Chirstmas wrapping paper. Hang paper from a clothesline to dry.
Provide a variety of boxes, wrapping paper, tissue paper, glue sticks, ribbons, bows, tape, gift tags, and toys to wrap.
Tip! Pre-cut paper in to different sizes that fit around the boxes.
Let children fill the boxes with a toy and wrap and decorate the box.
Toy Building Station:
Provide Duplo and Legos, paper, pencils, containers.
Let children build different toys with the building blocks.
Tip! You can also make some examples of toys (structures) and let children duplicate them.
Provide toys, paintbrushes, and paint pallets.
Let children use the paintbrush to pretend to paint the toys with the matching colors from the paint pallet.
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Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia
On-line version ISSN 1678-4162
SA, W.F. et al. Post-fertilization development of bovine oocytes pre-matured in follicular fluid. Arq. Bras. Med. Vet. Zootec. [online]. 2003, vol.55, n.3, pp.287-292. ISSN 1678-4162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0102-09352003000300007.
The effect of the pre-maturation with bovine follicular fluid (bFF) on developmental competence of immature bovine oocytes was studied. Cumulus-oocytes complexes (COC) and bFF were obtained from ovaries collected at slaughterhouse. bFF was inactivated prior to use and COCs were distributed in four treatments: (T1) 70% of bFF in Talp hepes, (T2) 100% of bFF, (T3) 100% of Talp Hepes medium, and (T4) control group. In T1, T2, and T3, COCs were incubated during 5h at 37ºC before proceeding with in vitro maturation. In T4, maturation was performed soon after follicular aspiration. After in vitro fertilization, the presumptive zygotes were co-cultured with cumulus cells during 10 days. It was evaluated cleavage, blastocyst on seventh and eighth days post-fertilization (PF), overall blastocyst and hatched blastocyst on eighth and ninth days PF. It was also calculated the ratio of blastocyst on seventh and eighth days, and hatched blastocyst in function of overall blastocyst production. Cleavage, overall blastocyst and hatched blastocyst rates were similar (P>0.05) among treatments. However, blastocyst production on seventh day was lower (P<0.05) for bFF and Talp Hepes. These results indicate that bFF and Talp Hepes in pre-maturation for five hours caused a delay on embryonic development, although the overall blastocyst production and viability were not affected.
Keywords : bovine; oocyte; follicular fluid; embryo production.
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A common culprit of a no start condition, located on the side of the starter motor
A bad starter solenoid can cause a starter motor to not spin. A starter solenoid can also be referred to as a starter relay and it is the switch mechanism that sends a large current to the starter motor in order to turn the engine over. A faulty solenoid can commonly be misdiagnosed as a faulty starter motor.
In some cases starter solenoids cannot be replaced separately and are an integral part of the starter motor. In cases where a starter solenoid is available a proper diagnosis of the starter can save you a ton of money if the tests indicate that the solenoid is the problem.
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For Immediate Release – November 16, 2007
US Autism and Asperger Association Names New Chief Medical Officer
Salt Lake City, UT – US Autism and Asperger Association (USAAA), one of the largest voluntary autism and Asperger organizations in the United States and a world leader in providing education for interventional treatment options, today announced the appointment of Phillip C. DeMio, M.D. as Chief Medical Officer. This position is the Association’s most senior clinical advisor, providing management oversight of the organization’s research, surveillance, epidemiology and international programs. The Chief Medical Officer frequently serves as chief spokesperson regarding medical and scientific policy issues for this global nonprofit association.
"We are pleased to have Dr. DeMio on board to help lead USAAA’s clinical strategy and look forward to his many contributions," said USAAA’s Executive Director L.P. Kaplan, Ph.D. "Dr. DeMio’s' impressive credentials and medical expertise will be invaluable to us as we all work together to help health care practitioners implement biomedical interventions, along with behavioral and developmental therapies to enhance the quality of the lives of individuals on the autism spectrum."
Dr. DeMio is board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He received his M.D. from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine with honors in Neurosurgery, Endocrinology/Metabolism, Advanced OB/GYN, and Advanced Internal Medicine. Dr. DeMio has been a faculty member at several teaching hospitals including Case Western University School of Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is accredited by the Teaching System of U.S. Armed Forces Medical Core and his career includes an emphasis on toxicology.
Dr. DeMio’s accredited speaking appearances include the topics of brain toxicology, nutrition, and the use of supplements for children and adults given at major U.S. universities. He is a frequent presenter at autism conferences and his publications include articles on inflammation, acute and chronic injuries, and recovery.
"I am very excited to be appointed Chief Medical Officer at USAAA and to be part of an organization whose mission is to improve the lives of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders worldwide," said Dr. DeMio.
Dr. DeMio is currently the Medical Director for the Whole Health and Wellness Centers located in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. His practice focuses on the diagnosis and treatment for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders. As a father of a child with autism, Dr. DeMio explains his mission to help patients reach their maximum potential through biomedical care with the philosophy, "that our children and loved ones are first and foremost in all of our treatments."
Dr. DeMio’s practice includes primary care and integrative medicine/toxicology for children and adults. The Centers are the largest participant in a research program regarding the use of multiple enzyme preparations. He has also emphasized other broad issues. “We must address the immune system in every child so that this major piece of the biological aspects of Autism Spectrum Disorders can be treated,” said Dr. DeMio. Ongoing research also emphasizes early diagnosis including methods to identify at-risk children before symptoms develop, along with helping families prepare for subsequent pregnancies.
Dr. DeMio has testified before the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and challenged the CDC to take a stand on whether or not they acknowledged the current autism epidemic. While this was denied by the CDC and other powerful organizations, the U.S. Senate and House later recognized that autism has reached epidemic proportions. Senator Charles Schumer (NY) said, “Autism is a nationwide epidemic that has lived in the shadows for too long.” The result of this debate has led to the presidential signing of the landmark Combating Autism Act of 2006 (S. 843). This will provide enhanced federal support for autism research and increase public awareness about Autism Spectrum Disorders.
USAAA is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization. The USAAA mission is to enhance the quality of life of individuals and their families/caregivers touched by Autism Spectrum Disorders by providing educational and family support through conferences/seminars, published and electronic mediums, and research. For more information, visit the USAAA Web site at www.usautism.org.
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Foreclosures: President says some families will lose homes
Foreclosures are inevitable for some families, President Obama told a Wisconsin crowd Wednesday. Even with increased government spending, foreclosures will occur, he said.
Racine, Wisconsin — President Barack Obama says that no matter how much the government spends, some people still won't be able to afford their mortgages and will lose their homes.
There are still underlying problems in the housing market, the president said, in part because "some people just got too much house for their salary."
Obama made his comments in response to a question Wednesday at a town hall event.
He said that Wall Street overhaul legislation pending in Congress would help with regulations to ensure that people don't get "tricked" into buying homes they can't afford.
Said the president: "We don't want to go through anything like this again."
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When I was in college, my nana would always mail me a package full of my favorite cookies. Since she lived so far away, she was unable to just drop them off at my apartment, but she wanted me to enjoy my favorites and still get that taste of home.
In today’s world, many of our family and friends live too far away to easily share in our holiday goodies. But you can still send them favorite treats, and if you act fast, they can even still get them before we ring in the New Year. Follow these tips for safely sending food to family and friends:
- Some ideal foods to send are fruitcakes, biscotti, packaged cakes, packaged cookies, hard candies, pralines, toffee, quick breads, jerky, nuts and dried fruit. Foods high in sugar are good to send because their high sugar content prevents the growth of bacteria. Avoid sending cookies and cakes that contain creams, custards and frosting. Other foods to avoid sending are foods that crumble easy, pies and yeast breads.
- Avoid sending foods in glass containers. If you must mail a glass jar, place the jar in a zip-top bag and wrap with bubble wrap.
- When packing homemade goodies, pack them in air-tight containers. Separate any moist foods from crisp foods to prevent moist foods from drying out and crisp foods from getting soggy. Pack the heavy items in the bottom of the box and fill with packing peanuts or wadded up newspaper.
- Avoid sending perishable foods like meats, poultry, fish and soft cheese. If you need to ship a perishable item, let the recipient know a perishable item is on the way. Before packing, make sure the food is already cold. Pack the food in an insulated cooler surrounded by frozen gel packs. Be sure to label your box Perishable: Keep Refrigerated. When the recipient receives their food, ice crystals should be visible. If recipient‘s food is warmer than 40°F, the food should be thrown away. The Center of Disease Control states perishable foods held between 40°F and 140°F are the leading cause of food-borne illness. Once food enters this temperature danger zone, bacteria doubles every 20 minutes.
- Consider paying a little extra for expedited delivery, so foods are as fresh as possible when they arrive.
Everyone enjoys opening a box of goodies during Christmas –or any time, really. Just be safe and smart about sending your gift, so your loved one can safely enjoy it.
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the best outdoor activities in boston
If you’re taking a trip to New England, stop by The City on a Hill.
Published May 5, 2016 4:00 AM
by Michelle Gage
Stop by the city zoo, where their mission is to help inspire people to protect and sustain the natural world for future generations. This non-profit creates fun, interactive and engaging experiences that combine with wildlife and conservation programs, research and education. A yearly membership gets you through the gates for free.
Visit the Longfellow House, a national historic site in Massachusetts. This home once belonged to Henry W. Longfellow, one of the world’s foremost 19th century poets. It’s a great place to explore literature and arts of the time period. Enjoy the beautiful formal garden, while reciting the poem “Flowers” by Longfellow.
Castle Island, located in South Boston, is certainly a sight that can’t be missed. Not really an island, this spot is one to see while visiting this great state. If you’re a fishing enthusiast, make sure to fish from the pier. Summer is surely the time to take a trip, as Fort Independence is open to guided tours every Saturday and Sunday.
Take in a good concert with the family. The best part, they’re FREE! If loud music in open air isn’t your thing (who are you), might we suggest an outdoor movie playing on another night or a night of dancing. All this is happening over at The Hatch Memorial Shell.
Visit the Bunker Hill Monument. This massive structure, a 221 foot granite obelisk, marks the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution. After a few iterations, this monument was completed in 1842 and dedicated the following year.
Visit the Boston Harbor Islands, the largest recreational open space in Easter Boston. This site is an important ecological habitat for wildlife and hosts over half a million visitors annually. Take a ferry over here to spend time hiking, camping or birdwatching.
Take a walk over to Brewer Fountain in Boston Commons. Gardner Brewer gifted this fountain to the city. At the base is Neptune, the Roman god of the sea. With Neptune is also Amphitrite, Acis and Galatea, all gods and goddesses of the water. Go to the commons to “sea” it all in person.
Take a charming ride on a swan boat any day of the week you wish! The ride takes a little less than fifteen minutes. Go for a leisurely ride after lunch for less than the price of a sandwich. This is a one of a kind experience. Check it off your summer buck list in only a matter of minutes.
While in town, stop by the Cambridge Farmers Market. Every day brings a new location, allowing you to change it up. You can munch on lunch at a new hot spot every day. Load up on god grub – fruits, veggies and fresh meats.
Listen to some good music, performed by some of the country’s most promising students. Berklee College of Music hosts nearly 200 concerts from May to September, leaving you without an excuse to miss out. Bring a blanket and a picnic dinner for some fun on the lawn.
You can’t go to Boston without visiting Fenway Park. Home of the Red Sox, this stadium is on every baseball enthusiast’s bucket list. Fenway Park has played host to ten World Series, with the Red Sox wining half of them. If you’re visiting when there is no game playing, take a tour of the stadium.
Take in a game while visiting fair city of Boston. Sure, you can just take the stadium tour, but if you can plan around a game, you won’t be disappointed! See the Sox play at Fenway Park. Take the whole family to a game, get a hot dog and sit through nine innings of fun and festivities. A sunny game day makes for the best summer day ever.
Take a highly recommended Duck Tour during your stay in Boston. The number one duck tour in the city is sure to fill your day with fun. Make many stops around the town, seeing all the sights. In just one 80 minute tour, you make over thirty stops.
Window shopping should be a sport. Stroll down Newbury Street, no wallet in hand. Get in a little cardio, while taking in the season’s new summer styles. Fashionistas get the best of both worlds – cardio and to keep their cash. Stick to walking outside and only peeking in the windows for a glimpse at what’s inside.
Go for a bike ride on the Charles River Path. If biking isn’t your thing, try skating or walking. Doing all of this cardio is made better by the beautiful view of the waterfront. It follows both shores of the Charles River from Boston to Norumbega Park in Newton.
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Old World Brewery: The Old World Must've Been Messed Up
A word often flung around the beer-rating websites on which I sometimes dwell is homerism. The term has a broad definition, but most basically it means support for a local brewery that goes beyond what said brewery deserves. It's most often used by people from states outside a certain brewery's distribution region accusing those in the local market of artificially inflating that brewery's ratings. Homers give extra credit to local brewers, they say, for the sheer fact that they exist close by. It's an interesting phenomenon, brought on perhaps by the local-food movement that's become increasingly popular across the country.
It's also the only logical explanation for why Old World Brewery is still in business.
Why else would people continue to buy beers that have failed to garner a single grade above 40 percent on Ratebeer or Beeradvocate? Why else would someone drink beer from a brewery that was found to have committed more than 17 health-code violations, including excess flies brought inside by the dogs living in the back of the brewery and rat feces found in the grain storage area?
Despite it all, Old World recently premiered several new bottle designs and an enhanced distribution contract with Safeway. It's baffling.
In an effort to remove homerism from the equation, I held a tasting of Old World's offerings with a friend who lives as far away from Arizona as I could think of: Florida. She's knowledgeable in beer, though she had never heard of Old World before trying these. Here's what she thought of each one:
Nitro Blonde "Explodes with carbonation as soon as liquid hits glass, like watching lava hit water. One part head, four parts white soap suds. Oh. Oh, my God. What is that? It tastes like marzipan -- soapy, lightly floral, very chemically.
4 Leaf Irish Red "This has the same deal when poured: bubbles. In your mouth, the carbonation makes the beer expand like fire extinguisher foam. It almost burns your tongue. What causes this? Bacteria? It says on the bottle that this is made with Irish malts and Saaz hops, which is weird. Saaz is a Czech hop used mostly in pilsners, so it's an odd choice for this style. The beer smells tangy, almost infected. A touch buttery. A little cinnamon, some apple vinegar. There's not a whole lot of flavor -- it actually smells worse than it tastes. Wait . . . no. It's getting worse. Nearly tart and a little too bitter for the style."
Praying Monk (After reading the label, which advises drinkers to try something new, like climbing a rock) "Go climb a rock? How about you go fuck yourself? This supposedly combines spicy Belgian yeast with Apollo, Cascade, and Mt. Hood hops. It smells like bean sprouts, pepper and cardboard. A little licorice in the flavor, soapy and super-bitter. It's almost like a real beer up front, with semi-sweet honey. But then there's dish soap in the back. I'm praying that I don't have to drink this beer again."
Highlander Scotch Ale "Not much head at all here. It's the right color, anyway. Smells a little bit like feet, or the smell when you walk into a brewery. But like a spoiled version. It's sweet -- this could almost pass for a dark Belgian ale, like a dubbel or a quad. Major caramel and maple aromas. In the flavor: a little toast, lots of toffee, some brandy and sherry. Big alcohol. The best so far, though it may be mislabeled."
Dark Knight Porter "Purple-black, nearly no head. This smells like dark chocolate with blackberry syrup or black cherry cola. The front of the flavor is interesting -- bitter coffee and tangy dark fruit, with a hint of some lactic tang. Things smooth out at the swallow, with roast and vanilla, smooth and sweet. If not for the weird sourness, it would be a very decent porter. I almost finished the whole bottle. Definitely the best out of the five, it at least has characteristics that are found in a porter."
All told, she found it shocking that people paid money for these beers often enough for Old World to stay in operation. She just assumed that the owner kept in the black by continually funneling his own money into the business.
That owner is Patrick Fields, a person who while at the helm of one of Arizona's worst breweries is also unfortunately one of the most vocal. Through interviews with local media and barely-decipherable Facebook posts (an example: "the trend is local and don't let the distributors talk in their regional brands that are flat or decreasing in draft although they are still moving off retail shelves. LOCAL LOCAL LOCAL and they will come . . . OK and a Stone IPA" -- wut?) he complains about the amount of support Arizona drinkers give to breweries from out of state. According to Fields, his beer isn't selling well because local drinkers don't appreciate the beers made in their own neighborhoods.
If you were literally anywhere in the Valley during Arizona Beer Week, you'd know this view is patently false. Arizona's established local breweries are expanding at an astounding pace, and new ones seem to be popping up every week. In 2012, Four Peaks broke into the top 50 U.S. craft breweries by sales volume while distributing exclusively in-state -- a feat matched by only a handful of California and Texas breweries, which distribute to a much larger local populace. To think that Arizona craft beer bars and consumers aren't supporting their local brewers is ludicrous.
The real reason Fields is upset is that the craft beer scene in Arizona is taking off, and he's not getting a taste. We have some ridiculously good beer -- some GABF medal-winning beer. Locals will buy the beer made in their communities -- but not if it's mediocre. Gone are the days when a nice story about your dreams was enough to sell your beer. To succeed today, you have to make a good product. Homerism will only get you so far.
Zach Fowle is a Certified Cicerone, an accredited guide to beer. He works at World of Beer in Tempe.
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Please click here for more information about course accreditation
Continued Professional Development
This course counts for 20 hours CPD
Feline Health & Welfare
Learn about cat health & welfare, routine health checks & common health disorders, common diseases & parasites, basic first aid and principles.
Learn about the Daily Health Check and how to recognise common health problems and illness in the cat including: FUS, abscess, cystitis, hairballs, renal failure, acute abdomen, poisoning and parasitic infections
Gain an understanding of the basic principles of first aid for animals and how to maintain life until professional treatment is obtained.
Learn how to manage first aid treatment of a range of common injuries to the cat including bits, cuts, shock, road traffic accidents. Learn how to monitor respiratory and heart rate and blood flow.
This module includes information about handling and understanding basic feline behaviour.
This module explores feline nutritional needs, the composition of foods, nutrients and essential nutrients for the cat.
Learn about the functions of each nutrient type including: Growth & repair, energy, respiration, insulation, protection, cell structure, skeletal tissue, digestive processes, body heat and neural functioning.
The module includes information about Essential nutrients including: Essential amino acids, essential fatty acids, salts, zinc, water, calcium, phosphorous and the importance of specific nutrients in the cat diet.
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Many people want to work with cats and there are various different roles working hands-on with cats, these include cattery workers, feline behaviourists, animal welfare officers, re-homers and those working in stray and neutering programmes worldwide to reduce and control cat populations. Having foundation knowledge about cat care and welfare is important for all these hands-on roles with cats. Being able to carry out daily health checks, monitor for sickness and injury, administer first aid and ensure that diets are appropriate and well prepared are all important aspects of cat care and ensuring high welfare standards. This course contains information on all these subjects and is relevant for anyone wanting to work with cats. This feline course is also of interest to cat owners who want to gain a better understanding about cat care, nutrition and first aid.
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In the late fall of 1938, my mom and dad moved from the edge of the loess bluffs near Charleston, Miss., to the small town of Jonestown, Miss., the heart of Delta farming country. My dad was the farm manager for a large plantation (which he was very good at), and the move was to a farm bordering rather famous Swan Lake.
At that time, I was in Desoto County, Miss., working for a large sawmill, merchandise, and farming complex owned by ex-state senator Bolivar Dean.
I had not seen the place where my parents moved to, and the first letter from my mom spoke briefly of the many thousands of ducks that resided on Swan Lake only 300 yards from their back doorstep! I could hardly believe what I was reading, having been hooked on duck hunting since I was old enough to hold a gun.
They were not bragging. The shooting season had not yet opened, and that old lake-marsh was absolutely plastered with ducks all the way from its south end near Highway 61 and the little town of Jonestown. Never have I seen a place so solidly filled with ducks!
I was told by local hunters that it was probably the finest duck lake in the South. I believed them and as soon as the season opened, I was there for the shooting.
It was absolutely fabulous — especially the mallards and gadwalls that loved the place. It also harbored virtually every species of duck that inhabited the Mississippi flyway.
Sometime in the past, I published a report of a hunt where my friend John Sommers and I bagged a limit of eight ducks, every one of them of a different species.
It developed that the people who lived in and around Jonestown had formed a sort of club called the Jonestown Wildlife Association. Since my parents lived right on the bank of the lake, I was taken in as a member.
Later, after leaving the Desoto County job and coming home to get ready to join the service, I was made a sort of warden. In fact, my friend Burdine Mosely and I “split” the job between us and each of us received $37.50 per season to more or less patrol the lake to keep poachers down to a minimum. It was good pay since shells could be bought at Jimmy Lee's store for 75 cents a box.
My regular hunting buddy was the local druggist, a man a bit older than I but a rabid duck hunter. His name was Jack Stanford, and he could always find someone to take over in the store so we could hunt if the ducks happened to be plentiful and flying well.
Jack was an excellent shot and could paddle a boat with the best of them, but for some unknown reason he simply could not call ducks with any success.
This may have been why he picked me as his hunting buddy. I had learned the art well in the Tallahatchie River floodplain where I had grown up under the tutelage of the best duck callers in the state.
We hunted together constantly, and I must say that Jack always gave me public credit for calling in most of the ducks that we killed.
After all of these years, Swan Lake still exists. It actually seems to be larger than it was back in the old days when Burdine and I were wardens.
It lies in plain view just opposite the Clarksdale airport on Highway 61. On wintry days, drivers going by are almost certain to see ducks milling around the vicinity.
Every time I see it I get a “warm, fuzzy” feeling recalling the fine times that it furnished us in the past, and I am thankful it still survives.
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Newly Discovered Modifier Protein Could Stimulate Plant Growth Under Environmental Stress
Whether or not you have a green thumb, if a plant is not completely happy with the right about of water, sunlight, or even the right make-up of soil, plants will slow their growth or even stop growing altogether in order to save energy.
But according to new research led by scientists at Durham University, plants contain a natural mechanism that could stimulate their growth even under stress, which could potentially lead to better crop yields.
They do this by making proteins that repress growth. This process is reversed when plants produce a hormone — called Gibberellin — which breaks down the proteins that repress growth.
Growth repression can be problematic not only for your own garden, but for farmers as crops that suffer from restricted growth produce smaller yields.
The research team, led by the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology, have discovered that plants have the natural ability to regulate their growth independently of Gibberellin, particularly during times of environmental stress.
They found that plants produce a modifier protein, called SUMO that interacts with the growth repressing proteins.
The researchers believe that by modifying the interaction between the modifier protein and the repressor proteins they can remove the brakes from plant growth, leading to higher yields, even when plants are experiencing stress.
This interaction can be modified in a number of ways, including by conventional plant breeding methods and by biotechnology techniques.
The research was carried out on Thale Cress, a model for plant research that occurs naturally throughout most of Europe and Central Asia, but the scientists say the mechanism they have found also exists in crops such as barley, corn, rice and wheat.
Corresponding author Dr Ari Sadanandom, Associate Director of the Durham Centre for Crop Improvement Technology, in Durham University's School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, said the finding could be an important aid in crop production.
Dr Sadanandom said: "What we have found is a molecular mechanism in plants which stabilizes the levels of specific proteins that restrict growth in changing environmental conditions.
"This mechanism works independently of the Gibberellin hormone, meaning we can use this new understanding for a novel approach to encourage the plant to grow, even when under stress.
"If we can encourage the crops to keep growing, even when faced by adverse conditions, it could give us greater yields and lead to sustainable intensification of food production that we must achieve to meet the demands on the planet’s finite resources."
Read more at Durham University.
Crop image via Shutterstock.
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Related to deadly: Deadly Sins
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Sharing national resources is at least as important as defeating the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) when it comes to holding Iraq together in 2015.
Next week Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi is scheduled to visit Erbil, his first visit to the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as premier.
The lead-up to the visit has been long and torturous, including months of speculation and tactical maneuvering over the potential form of a revenue-sharing deal between Baghdad and the Kurds.
Though less dramatic than the day-to-day fighting against the Islamic State, the outcome of these negotiations could do more to cement the unity or Iraq – or hasten its break-up – than events taking place on the battlefield.
Recession in Iraqi Kurdistan
This week, Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abbadi is scheduled to visit Erbil, his first visit to the capital of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq as premier. The lead-up to the visit has been long and torturous, including months of speculation and tactical manoeuvring over the potential form of a revenue-sharing deal between Baghdad and the Kurds.
Though less dramatic than the day-to-day fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the outcome of these negotiations could do more to cement the unity of Iraq - or hasten its break-up - than events taking place on the battlefield.
For almost a year now, the Kurds have lived without their customary budget transfers from Baghdad. In previous years, the Kurds received 17 percent of net revenues from Baghdad - around a billion dollars a month - to cover $750m of Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) salaries and pay for ministry programmes.
This year, Iraqi Kurdistan has to reckon on hundreds of millions of dollars of additional costs each month to maintain full mobilisation of the Peshmerga to fight ISIL and to support nearly 1.4 million displaced Arabs, Kurds and minorities.
In 2014, Baghdad has only paid about a month and a half of salaries, forcing the KRG to default on salaries despite taking out multibillion dollar loans. The region is now in debt to the tune of about $8bn.
Though the Kurds are earning close to $450m of revenue from their independent oil sales via Turkey, the government in Ankara is only releasing 17 percent of KRG oil revenues to the Kurds while negotiations with Baghdad are under way. This covers less than 10 percent of KRG costs.
Two paths for the Kurds
The situation can resolve in one of two ways.
|Iraq threatens legal action against any buyer of Kurdish oil
Abbadi and the Kurds could agree on a revenue-sharing deal that would be written into the 2015 budget and implemented for a year. The deal would involve a joint oil marketing arrangement between the Iraqi state and the Kurds, and a commitment of set volumes of KRG-produced oil exports in 2015.
The Kurds would receive their oil revenues directly from international banks in a transparent process, and these revenues would be considered a partial advance on the KRG's restored monthly payments from Baghdad.
Such a deal could also allow Iraq to export 200,000-400,000 barrels per day of Kirkuk crude through the Kurds internal pipeline network. Due to ISIL's destruction of much of the federal Iraqi government's northern export infrastructure, the Kurds offer the only way for Iraq to monetise this oil in the coming years.
Alternately, if Baghdad and the Kurds cannot agree on a deal, the KRG may continue down the path of independent oil exports via Turkey, without Baghdad's cooperation.
This path is choked with legal and political challenges and would eventually tear apart Iraq and the Kurdistan Region.
Baghdad would lose its northern export route for Kirkuk crude and collapsed talks might drive Turkey to release the full weight of KRG oil revenues to Erbil, speeding up Kurdish economic independence.
For the Kurds, the independent export path represents a slow painful path to economic self-sufficiency that could entail a year or more of deep recession, and would then only swap dependence on Baghdad for dependence on Ankara.
Abbadi's choice: Unite or split Iraq
At this crucial time in Iraq's history, only one factor is holding the country together: the wealth created by southern Iraq's oil exports and how these funds will be distributed in the forthcoming 2015 budget.
Federal government oil revenues are central to every major initiative to strengthen the country.
The southern Shia provinces demand economic development through the payment of "petrodollars" to oil-producing provinces.
The Sunni provinces want the federal government to fund the National Guard programme, to raise new US-trained military units to allow the Sunni areas to defeat ISIL and thereafter self-police.
The Kurds view staying in Iraq as an economic necessity, for now, and their benefactor, Turkey, will push them to stay at the negotiating table with Baghdad as long as a deal is possible.
All the factions will have to accept that Iraqi funds will be limited in 2015 due to declining oil prices and skyrocketing war costs. But all factions - including the Kurds - also need to be convinced that it is better to stay in Iraq than to go their own way.
When the Iraqi government was formed, Baghdad promised to restore monthly payments to the Kurds and this should be done in mid-November, as a symbol of goodwill as negotiations start.
After a year of non-payment to the Kurds and months of non-payment to the ISIL-held provinces, the federal government has the surplus money to restart payments.
The basic truth is that "Sunni uprisings" and "Kurdish separatism" are not the key threats to Iraq's unity.
Iraq's Shia are the only power with the ability to break up Iraq, and they can do it in a heartbeat if they decide to cut the Sunnis and the Kurds off from Basra's oil wealth in 2015.
For this reason, Abbadi holds the fate of a unified Iraq in his hands when he travels to Erbil. By paying Kurdish salaries in November and striking a fair revenue-sharing deal for 2015, he can score a major victory for Iraq's future on a vital, if unsung, battlefield.
Michael Knights is the Lafer Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He specialises in the politics and security of Iraq. He has worked in every Iraqi province and most of the country's hundred districts, including periods embedded with Iraq's security forces.
Source: Al Jazeera
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KLAFS ABC of well-being
A laconium is a dry sweating room. As in a tepidarium, the heat radiates evenly from the stone walls, floors, seats and benches. However, the temperature is considerably higher than in a tepidarium, being held at around 60°. In a laconium, you slowly but surely begin to sweat most intensively. A laconium is a good alternative for anyone who finds a traditional sauna – where the temperature is generally 90°C or more – too hot. The level of humidity is between 15-20%.
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October 11, 2013
Posted by Milton Carrero at 12:59:46 PM on October 11, 2013
Spiritual leader and best-selling author Rabbi Harold S. Kushner has earned his place in people’s hearts and personal libraries for his ability to approach life’s puzzles with compassion and love. He is best known for his book “When Bad Things Happen to Good People,” inspired by the life of his son Aaron who died from the premature aging disease progeria.
Last Wednesday, Kushner spoke at Bethlehem’s Central Moravian Church about the need to balance worldly demands while still living a life of spiritual integrity. It’s the central idea in his book “Living a Life that Matters.”
I met with the Rabbi for coffee the following morning, moments before he left the Lehigh Valley. Here are some of the highlights from my conversation with a man who has taught many to look at pain in a new light.
Milton Carrero: Pain is universal. You had to deal with it first hand and it led to one of your greatest epiphanies. Would you be able to provide for people who are suffering an avenue to that acceptance that you found?
Harold Kushner: The first thing that comes to mind, is that I find the ability to feel pain reassuring because, first of all, I’m alive and secondly, I care. If there weren’t things I cared about, loss, pain, frustration wouldn’t bother me as much.
I don’t want to be a person who goes through life anesthetized, so I don’t enjoy pain, but I accept that it’s part of the package of there being things that I cared about.
What do I do with it?
First, I’m confident I can get through it. If I have people to share my issues with, that helps a lot. Somebody who hurts along with you, somebody who says he knows what I feel.
Secondly, because I have gone through it before, and know that it doesn’t last forever, I have learned to be confident in my own ability to survive pain. I will still be here when the pain passes. So the pain doesn’t have that power over me. I don’t enjoy it but it can’t frighten me.
MC: Have you been able to draw lessons from your experiences with pain?
HK: Sometimes pain leads to a lesson. You stick your hand in the fire and you find out not to do that again, so that’s a lesson. But I don’t think the lesson should be how to avoid pain. The lesson should be that there are things that are worth being hurt by. To take a chance to love, to take a try to do something, knowing full well that you set yourself up for being hurt... For what kind of life would it be like if you were so afraid of pain that you would never want to do that?
MC: Sometimes anticipating the pain causes more stress than the pain itself.
HK: The wrong way to handle pain is to anticipate it in advance. It reminds me of a Jewish telegram saying: “Letter follows, start worrying now.”
To worry that something will hurt, whether it’s something as simple as an injection or to be afraid of being turned down for a job that you applied for... If those things happen, they will hurt. But they don’t have to hurt before they happen.
If you have been in pain, and I can’t imagine anybody who hasn’t by the time they are relatively grown up, you know that it hurts and it passes.
So you say, ‘I’m not afraid because one of these hours, the pain will go away and I will still be here.
MC: What are some other ways of effectively coping with pain?
HK: Come in the company of other people. Join a support group. You’ll find that they understand you. You don’t have to explain yourself to them. You’ll find that what is happening to you is happening to all of these other nice, admirable people. It’s not something that you were singled out because there’s something wrong with you. It’s possible to be strong in the face of pain.
MC: You have written several books, and I know that the one that you spoke about yesterday: “Living a life that matters” you wrote more than a decade ago, what are some of the questions that keep you contemplating today? What are some things that you have in your heart and your mind that make you ponder?
HK: That’s an interesting question Milton, thank you. One of them, came up last night during the question and answer session: People who have been hurt by life, feel the need to get even with the person who hurt them.
If I ever do write another book, this might be part of it: When somebody cheats you or takes advantage of you, they are exercising power over you and you feel powerless and you think that by trying to hurt them back you reclaim power. But the fact is that the more angry and upset you are with them, the more you are giving them power over you.
MC: Did you ever aspire to be in the position that you are today?
HK: Milton, I still can’t believe it happened. I still can’t believe that the book I wrote 32 years ago have become an international phenomenon. I still can’t believe that I’ve published a dozen books. I still can’t believe that I come to a place like Bethlehem where I hardly know anybody and hundreds of people would turn out to hear me give a speech.
MC: Perhaps there is a place in you and me where we can find truth and once we find that, because it’s sincere and honest, it might be applicable to others.
HK: You find that a lot of people have the same problems.
MC: You categorize yourself as a conservative Jewish Rabbi and yet many of your ideas sound similar to what I'm hearing from spiritual leaders of various other religions. It's beautiful to see those connections.
HK: I would hope so. If my books resonate with people outside the Jewish tradition is because they are universals. Pain and loss and depravation and hope and hopes that aren’t fulfilled and the importance of bonding with other people, those exists irrespective of religious denominational boundaries.
MC: Going back to your book "Living a Life that Matters," there’s this struggle that we have created for ourselves as to what success is supposed to be. Also as men we are taught that in order for us to excel we often have to make the other look bad or be above the other.
I’ve been reeducated by women and others toward including more and that could be just as good to survival...
HK: You said something interesting there when you’ve made this allusion to the impact of women. There might be a gender difference. I think human nature is essentially the same but I think women innately or by cultural influence tend to be more connectors and men tend to be more competitive. And sometimes, maybe one of the important things that men can be taught is to be open to their feminine side, not to see every other man as a rival, not to see every encounter as a competition.
I think that is something that takes the pleasure out of life for a lot of men that everything becomes a matter of winning and losing.
MC: Is God male or female?
HK: I was giving a talk to a former congregation about whether the God of the Bible is male or female and the answer is both. That we have to learn to see both sides of ourselves as reflections of a God who embodies all of that.
ABOUT THE WRITERS
TIM DARRAGH has been reporting and editing the news for 30 years, most of it at The Morning Call. For much of that time, he's been doing award-winning investigative and in-depth reporting projects. Tim created the three-year-long Change of Heart project, and wrote a series on the state's fractured food inspection system that led to widespread improvements in food safety. Meantime, that novice jogger you see plodding along the streets around Bethlehem Township? That would be Tim.
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Housing an economic paradox in Connecticut
Published 9:18 pm, Friday, March 8, 2013
Job creation in Connecticut is not the fuel behind the 38 percent jump in home sales in the fourth quarter, a new survey of the economy has found.
"It's a little bit of a puzzle," Steven Lanza, economist and editor of the University of Connecticut's quarterly The Connecticut Economy, said on Friday. "The housing market seems to be turning a corner as job numbers seem to be flagging."
Employment in the fourth quarter in Connecticut fell by 1,642, or 0.1 percent, while home sales increased by 38.2 percent. The statewide average price rose 0.4 percent to $297,200.
But Lanza and a local Realtor said the paradox was created by a combination of pent-up demand, low interest rates and more confidence in the economy by people who kept jobs during the downturn and were living with parents or renting apartments.
The job market is still contributing to sales in the housing market, he said, it's just not the main fuel.
"Even though jobs are heading south, it's not accelerating," he said, which provides stability to the nearly 2 million people employed. He, like other economic experts and state officials, also expects Connecticut's employment statistics will see positive revisions when the updated data comes out later this month.
Connecticut's jobless report for January will come out on March 15, and its February numbers will be reported on March 28. Nationally, the job market improved in February, gaining 236,000 positions, while the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent.
The UConn publication is predicting job losses in the state through the first two quarters due in part to slow national growth in gross domestic product and to federal spending cuts. However, gains could be seen as early as the second half of this year on increased consumer spending and confidence in the private sector.
For housing, the group of economists is predicting prices will increase throughout the year, with gains seen particularly in the Bridgeport, Stamford and New Haven regions.
Lanza said stability in the job market is a contributing factor to the sales increases.
"There are just different factors driving one market, the housing market, as opposed to the job market," Lanza said. "The market for housing isn't going up because jobs are flat, and jobs being flat is not holding that market back all together. If we were to see jobs pick up, which could happen in the second half of this year, and certainly will happen next year, then I think we will really start to see housing turn around in a significant way."
Housing is being moved right now by pent up demand, lower interest rates and a decrease in stock, he and Realtor Cheryl Scott Daniels, president of the Mid Fairfield County Real Estate Association, said.
Rents for apartments have been climbing, according to a Hearst Connecticut Newspapers' report this week that used Census Bureau data. Realtors say that's one reason people are interested in buying: because mortgage payments are about the same or even less than some apartment rents.
Daniels said like corporations, there are many people in Connecticut who have been building up their money and now see this as a buying opportunity, with interest rates so low.
Interest rates are hovering around 3.7 percent for a fixed-rate, 30-year mortgage, according to the most recent Mortgage Bankers Association report.
Daniels said inventory is also shrinking in the housing market. She said there are a number of homeowners who bought in the boom, 2005 to 2007, and they are unlikely to recover their purchase price right now. So people who otherwise might have tried to sell and move up are staying put for a while.
On the other hand, there are homeowners who bought their houses a decade or more ago and are now selling -- and making a profit, she said.
Ultimately, both Lanza and Daniels say they are optimistic about the direction of both markets in the state.
"Those that have the jobs and the income are thinking now is the time to buy," Daniels said.
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Through partnership, collaboration and innovation Janus' programs are changing lives and building futures.
Few situations put a young person at greater risk than being homeless where they face exploitation, abuse and violence. For well over a quarter of a century our homeless youth programs known as Willamette Bridge have been at the forefront of services providing thousands of youth with an accessible and supportive path out of homelessness each year.
Part of Portland’s Homeless Youth Continuum, Willamette Bridge services include street outreach, assessment, emergency and short-term shelter, transitional and independent housing and case management.
Responding to the changing needs of runaway youth and their families through collaboration in order to maximize community resources has been a hallmark of Harry’s Mother since 1976. The crisis triage center model at Harry’s Mother includes three distinct but highly integrated arms of service under a single umbrella creating a 24-hour coordinated system of care for thousands of youth and families in crisis that provides immediate access to service regardless of which “door” they enter.
The recognition that Southwest Washington had no community-based services to help homeless and runaway at-risk youth and their families led to the opening of the area’s first-ever emergency shelter in 1996. That first step to provide safety off the streets and help for Southwest Washington youth ages 9 to 17 and their families, has grown into a coordinated continuum of services that today includes street outreach, a day-time drop-in center, two emergency shelters and housing programs that now serve thousands of young people and their families from across the Southwest Washington region every year.
For over four decades Janus has worked with Oregon’s Department of Human Services and the Oregon Youth Authority to help abused and neglected youth between the ages of 13 to 24 rebuild their lives through community-based residential treatment programs that are recognized in and out of Oregon for their successful outcomes.
Our residential and re-entry services encourage positive youth development and provide normalizing experiences and a sense of community to prepare youth for a successful transition to independent living. Across our highly specialized programs, hundreds of youth call Janus “home” from six months up to three years.
Since 1979, thousands of young parents have built positive parenting and child-development skills through Insights’ best practice programs. With a philosophy that is both respect and strength-based, Insights’ case management and home visiting programs provide young parents with parenting skills that will lead to a better future for themselves and their children.
Since 2001, Village Gardens has reclaimed and empowered low income neighborhoods through community food projects in neighborhoods characterized by hunger, poverty, crime, school failure and isolation. Children, teenagers, adults and seniors are transforming their communities through community gardens, orchards, employment opportunities, a youth-run entrepreneurial farm, a livestock project and the Pacific Northwest’s first-ever, community-run healthy corner grocery store, the Village Market. The program’s motto says it all, “"Village Gardens brings a spirit of hope to people by growing and sharing healthy food, teaching and learning skills and empowering community leadership”.
Since 2001, the Janus Scholarship Fund has helped open the door to higher education for teen parents, immigrant youth and formerly homeless youth who excelled in our programs.
From completing an associate degree at a community college, graduating from a four-year university and even medical school, Janus Youth Programs is changing lives and building futures by creating a bridge to the future through our Scholarship Fund.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
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By Lorena Williams
The San Juan National Forest’s Pagosa Ranger District invites your input on a proposal for the Turkey Springs Vegetation Management Project.
You can participate in the planning process by sharing suggestions for how to make the project better, specific concerns or information you may have about the project area. The public scoping period is open for 45 days, with comments accepted until Feb. 1, 2021.
The proposed project area is west of Pagosa Springs and west of Pagosa Lakes in Archuleta County. This is a high-priority area due to the dense population, high recreation use and important wildlife habitat.
Proposed treatments include fuels reduction and vegetation management activities such as thinning, mowing, mastication and tree harvests. Variations in forest conditions, management objectives and past vegetation treatments across the landscape will result in the use of different approaches in different areas.
The need for the proposed project is to reduce or rearrange fuels to facilitate safe and effective wildland fire management, to promote a forest structure and composition resilient to disturbances such as wildfire and drought, to promote conditions that provide for long-term wildlife habitat sustainability, and to provide wood products for commercial and noncommercial uses. These activities would improve the forest ecosystem, moving it closer to desired conditions outlined in the 2013 San Juan National Forest Land Resource Management Plan.
You can view the scoping letter, maps and information about how to comment at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=59146. There will be additional opportunities for input as the planning process continues, but early participation is encouraged.
For additional information on the proposed Turkey Springs Vegetation Management Project, contact Matt Tuten at 264-1513 or email@example.com.
All offices on the San Juan National Forest are currently conducting business and providing services virtually. For information on the San Juan National Forest, call 247-4874.
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Koen Book Distributors v. Powell, Trachtman, Logan, Carril, Bowman & Lombardo, P.C.,
212 F.R.D. 283 (E.D. Pa. 2002).
PA. underlying bankruptcy proceeding
Student contributor: Cheryl Neuman
Facts: Plaintiffs retained Defendants for advice concerning a security interest from one of its customers. After the customer filed for bankruptcy, defendants continued to represent plaintiffs as creditors in the bankruptcy proceeding. Plaintiffs eventually informed defendants that they would be initiating a malpractice action against them due to their dissatisfaction with the defendants’ services. The attorney client relationship was terminated 3 months later. During the time when the defendants were first put on notice about the pending the lawsuit and the time when the attorney-client relationship was actually terminated, defendants consulted with other lawyers in their firm concerning ethical and legal issues regarding the upcoming malpractice action. The plaintiffs wanted access to the documents that were produced as a result of the inquiry within defendants’ law practice.
Issue: Does the attorney-client privilege apply to documents that a lawyer prepared in response to an ethical inquiry concerning the client, who has threatened to initiate a malpractice action against the firm?
Ruling: No. The attorney client privilege does not apply in this situation. The defendants also relied on the work-product doctrine, but this doctrine does not apply where a client, as opposed to another party, seeks discovery of the lawyer’s mental impressions. The documents are therefore discoverable.
Lesson: The purpose of the attorney client privilege is to promote full disclosure and communication between attorneys and their clients, thereby encouraging broader public interests. In this case, had the defendants realized the predicament involved in this situation, they should have either
a) Withdrawn from representing the plaintiff, or
b) They could have requested consent from the plaintiff and continued representation after full disclosure and consultation.
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Field of hemp. Credit: René Nijs via Flicker
Rules regulating use of hemp extract in food, dairy products and animal feed in Florida took effect Jan. 1, but growers eager for permits to cultivate hemp here are still on hold.
“We’re proud to roll out these final rules for CBD in food and dairy products, open applications for hemp food establishment permits, and ensure our inspectors are ready to enforce the rules and uphold public safety,” said Commissioner Nikki Fried, head of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, in a press release announcing her department’s new rules.
Florida can now permit and inspect food, dairy products and animal feed that contain hemp extract, chiefly in the form of ingestible CBD oil, which were unregulated until now. Popular consumer items marketed as health products include hemp seeds, hemp milk, hemp ice cream and hemp-infused drinks.
Florida’s exuberant plans to grow hemp and convert it into wildly popular CBD oil is on pause since the U.S. Department of Agriculture applied the brakes on Oct. 31. That is when it released unpopular rules setting a low cap on the THC content allowable in cultivated hemp. THC is the psychotropic agent in hemp’s still-outlawed cousin, marijuana. Only medical marijuana, controlled by medical prescription, is legal.
For hemp to be legal, it must contain only low levels of THC, and growers say the cap set by the USDA is unrealistically low.
Hemp advocates said the USDA rule sent a “shock wave” through the industry because growers are no longer confident they can grow hemp that meets the low threshold for THC, defined as “delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol [THC] concentration of not more than 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.”
Like most crops, hemp is sensitive to variations in temperature and moisture. In hemp, those variations over a growing cycle alter its intended THC content. A crop that tests “hot” – too high in THC – at the time of harvest would be illegal to sell and have to be destroyed, resulting in a total loss for the grower. Hemp growers around the country are reporting high rates of hemp crops testing “hot” despite growers’ best efforts.
In light of widespread objections to the rule, the USDA is accepting public comments through Jan. 29.
Fried wanted her department to start issuing hemp-cultivation permits at the first of this year but now predicts a delay until sometime in the first quarter, while it revises state rules to align with the USDA rules.
The USDA’s 0.3 percent cap on THC in hemp is the latest disruption in Florida’s zealous hemp-growing ambitions. States around the country are questioning the viability of developing thriving hemp industries when there are too many parties eager to grow the crop but too few facilities in place to process and distribute it, as is the case in Florida.
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Japan has sought to reform its intelligence agencies. The country has confronted various national security challenges since the end of the Cold War. Gray zone situations concerning Japanese territorial integrity by China, North Korea and to a certain extent, Russia, forced Japan to confront it. Terrorist attacks that take place sometimes have Japanese nationals killed or wounded, either on purpose or as casualties during an attack. These two scenarios usually bring forth concerns that intelligence collected by Japanese intelligence agencies are inadequate or not enough. Reforms to help Japanese intelligence agencies reform their operations for national security reasons have been stalled after the postwar government was established.
While Japan seeks to improve their intelligence capabilities, it will no doubt try to push reforms that would make intelligence collecting easier and overcome bureaucratic obstacles for national security purposes. However, the country will continue to work with allies and like-minded countries in improving its capabilities in order to overcome any limitations they have.
Key Judgement 1
Outside events will highly likely to influence Japan’s actions to reforms to its intelligence agencies
- With gray zone events and terrorist attacks indirectly or directly threatening Japan, the country will be forced to counter new threats by either establishing new agencies tasked to tackle said threat or expand its mandate, budget and personnel. Kunihiko Miyake, an ex-Japanese diplomat, has stated that noble intentions will not be enough to prevent Japanese from being caught in dangerous situations [source].
- The Taepodong missile launch in 1998 forced Japan to invest in satellites in order to track down future missile launchs from North Korea as Tokyo was caught off their guard because of a lack of tracking capability [source].
- The International Counter-Terrorism Intelligence Collection Unit, under the control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was created by Tokyo in December 2015 to collaborate with foreign intelligence agencies. This was influenced by the deaths of two Japanese hostages by ISIS fighters in February 2015 [source] and by the Paris-wide terrorist attacks on November 2015 [source]. Such a decision was understood to be a knee-jerk reaction. This speaks to the lack of an intelligence agency dedicated to only conduct foreign intelligence operations.
- Japan will continue to direct its existing intelligence agencies to improve on their capabilities. This includes having a part of the defense budget in 2015 allocated to ISR capabilities to better defend Japanese airspace and waters from Chinese territorial incursions and North Korean missile tests [source].
Key Judgement 2
Japan will likely make changes in order to centralize intelligence operations
- After Japan was occupied by the Allied Forces, the Imperial military and intelligence agencies were disbanded due to their role in World War II. As such, postwar Japan opted for a decentralized model for intelligence agencies to operate after its sovereignty was restored in 1952 [source]. This resulted in a fragmented intelligence apparatus.
- The Cold War has made Japan dependent towards the US for external security needs while they concentrated on its economic recovery. This was seen as a mix of success and frustration from the Japanese intelligence community [source].
- The decentralization of intelligence agencies played a role in the lack of cooperation from its domestic partners. This was seen as an obstacle by Japanese intelligence personnel [source] and their foreign allies [source].
- Setting up the National Security Council in December 2013 to replace the functions of the Security Council was seen as a success story for streamlining intelligence operations and inter-agency cooperation [source]. It also made major decisions, such as reinterpreting Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution [source]. This would not have taken place if Shinzo Abe was not elected as prime minister in 2012 as he actively sought to make changes for the benefit of the intelligence community to work together for mutual interest instead of keeping vital information for themselves [source].
Key Judgement 3
Japan will highly likely rely on the intelligence capabilities of its allies to make up for any shortcomings
- Japan’s previous attempts to reform its intelligence capabilities were met with strong resistance from politicians and most of the public due to strong reminders of how Imperial military intelligence operated in the past [source].
- While Japan will seek assistance from its allies to help improve their capabilities to do intelligence operations more smoothly, its weakness in foreign intelligence experience means that Tokyo will rely on its allies and their experience in conducting foreign intelligence missions [source].
- Any shortcoming from domestic intelligence agencies will likely have to be examined according to what the priorities of the government of the day.
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Timber Frame Lintels
Timber Frame Lintels
L7 L7/HD L7/XHD
Blockwork built tight against inner face of the lintel. Place mortar bed on top of blockwork before floor units are laid to provide even distribution of load. Lintels may be propped to facilitate speed of construction.
Designed for use in timber frame construction, the L7 lintels provide support to the outer leaf to brickwork over openings.
To achieve the loading tables shown the L7 lintels must be secured with restraining clips and a timber batten (not supplied) must be used t prevent lateral deflecton (twist) during the building stage.
Installation of IG’s L7, L7/HD and L7/XHD are all similar.
All Timber frame lintels must be installed with restraining clips and a timber pinch batten to prevent rotation of the lintel during the building stage. Propping may be used to facilitate speed of construction.
To achieve the loading figures shown, the L7 lintel must be secured with restraining clips and a timber pinch batten (not supplied) must be used to prevent lateral deflection (rotation) during the building stage. A single timber pinch batten 300mm long at mid span will be sufficient.
IG timber frame restraint clips are supplied free of charge and must be fixed to the timber frame structure by 3.3mm x 50mm galvanised nails. Allowance should be made for the movement of the timber frame structure due to settlement and shrinkage. Lateral restraint clip should be placed at 500mm centres each side of mid span.
Timber Frame lintels are manufactured from pre-galvanised mild steel BS EN 10346:2009 DX51D plus Z600 or grade Z275 to BS5977: part 2, 1983 (BS EN 845-2:2003). There is a minimum zinc coating of 600g/m² galvanising including both sides.
If stainless steel lintels are required:
IG utilise stainless steel grade 304 2b to BS EN 10088- part 2 Astm 240 (European Grade 1.4307).
Heavy Duty Timber lintels are insulated with expanded polystyrene and conform to BS 13163:2008.
Technical Information details all the specification clauses required for IG lintels. The Specification Clause required for Box lintels is titled “Timber Frame Lintels”.
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The extent to which FTSE 100 companies use tax havens for their operations is revealed in a database of their subsidiaries compiled for the first time by the development charity ActionAid.
The 100 largest groups registered on the London Stock Exchange have more than 34,000 subsidiaries and joint ventures between them. A quarter of these, over 8,000, are located in jurisdictions that offer low tax rates or require limited disclosure to other tax authorities.
UK companies are required by law to report a list of their subsidiary companies together with their country of registration to Companies House. However, many of the FTSE 100 have failed to do so in the past. Disclosure of the full list by all 100 groups is the result of a formal complaint made by ActionAid to Companies House and a subsequent investigation by the business secretary, Vince Cable.
It is the first time a comprehensive list of subsidiaries has been collected. There are several legitimate reasons for multinational companies to have subsidiaries in countries around the world, but the extent to which the largest UK-listed companies' business is conducted offshore in jurisdictions classed as tax havens has been seized upon by campaigners calling for a clampdown on corporate tax avoidance.
ActionAid has analysed the list according to the definition of tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions compiled by the government accountability office of the US Congress, including in addition the US state of Delaware and the Netherlands, which are not on the GAO list but are acknowledged to offer tax and minimal disclosure advantages to foreign companies. By this measure, it emerges that 98 of the FTSE 100 companies use tax havens, with only Fresnillo, a Mexican-based mining company, and Hargreaves Lansdown, a Bristol-based financial services group, declaring no offshore subsidiaries.
Martin Hearson, a tax policy expert at ActionAid, said: "When companies use tax havens to dodge taxes, ordinary people in developing countries and the UK lose out. Our research today lays bare the extent to which the use of tax havens is rife among Britain's biggest multinationals, who have serious questions to answer."
The banking sector has the largest number of tax haven companies, with the big four UK banks – HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays and Lloyds – having a total of 1,649 offshore subsidiaries. They have the largest number of companies registered in the Cayman Islands, with Barclays alone registering 174 subsidiaries and ventures there. HSBC has 156 subsidiaries in Delaware, which has limited reporting requirements, compared to 97 in the rest of the USA. Lloyds Group has 97 companies in the Channel Islands.
The advertising and communications group WPP, which moved its tax domicile to the low-tax regime of Ireland, has 611 subsidiary companies based in tax havens.
The banks point out that they are global businesses with local operations in dozens of countries including jurisdictions that happen to be on the list of tax havens, and that that in itself is not evidence of tax avoidance. A spokesman for HSBC said the bank did not use artificial tax planning structures or transactions to avoid tax, and was a top-five UK taxpayer paying £6bn in UK taxes in last six years.
Barclays attributed its large number of Caymans companies to the legacy of its acquisition of Walbrook and said it was working to reduce the number. It too pointed out that there were many reasons other than tax planning for companies to have subsidiaries offshore, such as the ease of incorporation or speed with which capital could be moved.
A Barclays spokesman said: "All foreign subsidiaries are included in returns to HMRC either because they are UK tax resident and file UK tax returns or because they are listed on returns giving information on income earned that may be subject to UK tax under what is referred to as the controlled foreign company legislation."
Lloyds Banking declined to comment. A Guardian investigation revealed that RBS operated complex international tax avoidance schemes during its boom years, but it said it would put an end to these when it accepted a government bailout. Many of its tax haven subsidiaries appear to relate to these previous transactions running their contractual course. An RBS spokesman said of the company today: "We are a signatory to the UK tax code of practice and adhere to the spirit as well as the letter of the law."
Tax justice campaigners accused the banking sector of bypassing regulation through offshore subsidiaries. "Banks use tax havens extensively not just to avoid tax and to help their private banking clients, but also to avoid regulation by mainstream financial centres, which is the attraction of creating shadow banks in offshore centres like Cayman, Jersey and Luxembourg," said John Christensen, director of the Tax Justice Network.
The former Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman Matthew Oakeshott called on non-executive directors, shareholders and employees to put pressure on their companies to reveal subsidiaries that have no commercial rationale other than secrecy or tax dodging. "The Treasury must insist on full disclosure on RBS and Lloyds' use of tax havens to ensure they are not cheating their owners, British taxpayers," he said.
WPP moved its tax residence from the UK to Ireland in 2008, saying it would help to reduce its overall tax rate. It has indicated that it is ready to return to the UK for tax purposes in 2013 if proposals in George Osborne's budget this year to relax the rules on taxing foreign subsidiaries are enacted. The Treasury acknowledges the reform could see UK tax receipts fall but argues that it will keep the UK competitive as a home for global corporations.
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Polysomnography, also known as a sleep study, is a detailed test used to diagnose sleep disorders. This procedure records brain waves, oxygen level in the blood, heart rate and breathing, as well as leg and eye movements of the patient during the study.
Polysomnography is usually conducted at a sleep centre or sleep disorders unit within a hospital. It’s usually done at night, rarely during the day to accommodate shift workers who normally sleep during the day. Further, this study also helps to start or modify a treatment plan if a person has been already diagnosed with a sleep disorder.
Why It’s Done?
Polysomnography evaluates the sleep stages and cycles to determine if or when a person’s sleep schedules are disrupted and why.
There are various types of home sleep apnea test devices using different patterns of sensors. They usually record breathing rate, airflow, oxygen levels and heart rate. One type also provides information on blood vessel tone.
The normal process of falling asleep starts with a sleep stage- non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep. During this stage, brain waves slow down remarkably and are recorded by electroencephalography (EEG). The patients’ eyes don’t move back and forth quickly during NREM when compared to later stages of sleep. After an hour or two of NREM sleep, brain activity picks up again and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep starts, and most dreaming happens during REM sleep.
A person generally goes through multiple sleep cycles at night, cycling between NREM and REM sleep in about 90 minutes. Sleep disorders can impede this sleep method.
The healthcare provider may suggest polysomnography if he or she suspects a person may have the following condition:
- Sleep apnea or another sleep-related breathing disorder
- Periodic limb movement disorder
- REM sleep behaviour disorder
- Unusual behaviours during sleep
- Unexplained chronic insomnia
How To Prepare For the Study?
The doctor will explain in detail about the procedure to the patient. Some of the things to be taken care of include:
Before The Procedure:
Refrain from eating or drinking any caffeinated beverages and restrict alcohol, particularly in the afternoon and evening before the test. Consuming alcohol and caffeine may alert the patient’s sleep schedule and can make sleep disorders symptoms worse.
The patient is asked to wear night clothes, while the test is performed. The patient is advised not to wear any tight clothes as these may interfere with the patient's sleep.
The patient is asked to come to the sleep centre and stay overnight.
The study room would be very calm and dark, to aid the patient fall asleep quickly.
The study room will also have a rest room attached to and it is not shared with others, to avert any kind of disturbance.
This room is installed with a camera to watch all the movements of the patient precisely after the lights are turned off.
The sleep specialist carefully evaluates the body reactions and the sleep cycles of the patient.
The room is also installed with an audio system, for the patient to speak with a sleep specialist in case of any doubt.
During The Procedure:
When the patient is about to sleep, the technician connects electrodes on the patient’s temple, scalp, legs, and chest with help of adhesive tapes. These electrodes are linked to long wires which are further connected to a computer. The wires attached are very long and do not cause any hindrance while sleeping.
A small clip-like device is also connected to the patient’s ear or finger, to constantly monitor the oxygen supply in the blood.
While the patient is asleep, the following parameters are recorded by the technician:
- Breathing cycle (respiration)
- Heart rate
- Level of oxygen in the blood
- Brain waves
- Muscle tone
- Leg Movements
- Eye movements
- Body positions
- Any noises like snoring while sleeping
These parameters are carefully evaluated throughout the night and recorded on a graph.
In case of any emergency, the patent can alert the sleep technician immediately for assistance.
The patient is connected to positive airway pressure (PAP) machine, and this is used mainly for patients with sleep apnea, which is a breathing disorder associated with sleep. In this condition, the breathing of the patient stops and begins frequently.
PAP machine comprises a nosepiece that aids in providing a mild air stream to the patient to help boost the breathing process while sleeping. Generally, patients undergoing tests with the PAP machine would be asked to try the machine once before the study begins so that patient does not feel any discomfort when the machine is used during the night. The patient may not be able to sleep easily, while in the study room as compared to at home. Although, a lesser duration of sleep or discomfort in the sleep during the test would not largely impact test results in any way.
After The Procedure:
When the patient wakes up the next morning, the electrodes attached are removed and the patient is allowed to go home in the morning and resume daily routine normally. The patient is asked to visit the doctor for a review.
The healthcare provider assesses the graph of the body reactions and sleep cycles of the patient cautiously and finds out any interferences in the sleep schedule.
When the patient wakes up the next morning, the electrodes or the test sensors attached to the body are removed. The patient is allowed to go home in the morning and the patient can resume routine activities normally. The technician interprets and analyses the results of the patient and hands them to the doctor.
The doctor diagnoses and evaluates any sleep disorders in the patient based on the graphs obtained and the sleep cycles of the patient.
The doctor would discuss the results of the study in detail with the patient. If any abnormal behavioural changes in the sleep schedule of the patient are observed in the report, then the doctor may recommend medications or decide on a treatment plan. A normal study indicates no or very few signs of episodes of stopped breathing and normal patterns of muscle and eye movements and brainwaves during sleep.
Whereas abnormal study results indicate abnormal brain waves and muscle movements that cause sleep disorders. Abnormalities and findings noted from the test include:
Eye movements and brain waves measured, while the patient is asleep help the doctor check the impediments in the sleep schedule of the patient, which can be a marker of multiple abnormalities related to sleep. Some of the sleep abnormalities, which can be diagnosed from eye movements and brain waves are REM-related sleep disorders and narcolepsy.
The result can indicate the oxygen level required by the patient during sleep, thus the doctor can determine the treatment plan accordingly.
The heart rate changes and the variations in the breathing rate can be a sign of sleep apnea.
Other behaviours observed during the study may be a result of multiple conditions and problems related to the sleep
Issues observed with limb or leg movements can be a sign of limb-based disorders in the patient.
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Posted by Teri
It started at breakfast with friends at the Outlook Inn in Eastsound. The tide was low and the sun was shining in Fishing Bay across Main Street. The conversation turned to curious lore of the tiny island in view. Indian Island, as it is known today, was once called “Jap Island” (not just to us old-timers, but also to the US Bureau of Land Management!). Talk about politically incorrect! Before our time it was known as Victory Island. And at some point there were rumors of mining activity there. So what was the real story?
The title examiner in me (past life) began to go to work. A quick visit to harass my favorite title officer, Teri Nigretto, got me up to speed (her family has been here forever.) Apparently “Jap Island” got its name because a Japanese man use to live there in small cabin.
Teri and I then did an actual title search and found a deed recorded in 1981 for an Official Mining Claim by the Uptown Low Down Mining Company!
None of the names were familiar and we’d never heard of anything precious being found there other than marine life. We concluded this must’ve been a group of good ole boys imbibing in some spirits when they looked out the window and had an idea to stake a claim. Whether they were serious about their endeavor or just having fun remains a mystery, but I did find proof that my breakfast partners weren’t full of hoo-ha!!
This may not answer all my questions about Indian Island, but now I’ve got a new nugget to toss out at the breakfast table. 🙂
Looking to enjoy the simple life on beautiful Orcas Island?
Contact T Williams Realty – we’ll help you find your way home.
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Sheltering suburban homeless on frigid days
Christopher Thompson effortlessly shuffles the deck of playing cards, looking like a man who's played more games than Hoyle.
The red-backed cards snap as they briskly blend at Thompson's fingertips. The game is Spades, and three other players at the rectangular table await the deal.
All are homeless.
Although the cards are marked with the logo of Milwaukee's Potawatami Bingo Casino, the game is being played at a daytime resource center in North Chicago run by PADS Lake County.
"To have some place to stay when it's cold like this, it's a good thing," the 51-year-old Thompson says before play begins. "Everybody gets in bad situations. Everybody needs some help."
Thompson was among the many homeless people who sought shelter at the center Monday, one of the coldest days on record. It's at 3001 Green Bay Road, on the campus of the Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center.
Visitors found meals, a place to rest, a hot shower, books to read and even washing machines for their clothes.
"The basic needs we take for granted," said Joel Williams, PADS Lake County's executive director.
The dangers that come with exposure to extreme cold have been well-reported this winter: frostbite, hypothermia, death. For the homeless, the stakes are more grave.
"When you have weather like this, obviously the health risks are tremendous," Williams said.
Churches throughout Lake County offer shelter on a rotating schedule at night, but the center in North Chicago is the only daytime PADS facility in the county.
The center is open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day -- opposite the hours of the church shelters in the PADS system. Homeless people are welcome to walk or drive over on their own; many are bused to and from the overnight sanctuaries.
An accurate estimate of Lake County's homeless population is elusive. Although a count is attempted every year, it isn't thorough and doesn't include people who have temporarily found shelter or are hiding from the census takers.
The last census, conducted in January 2013, revealed 497 homeless people living in the county.
PADS employees encourage homeless men and women to come to their shelters with outreach missions throughout the year. They go to homeless hangouts such as train stations and wooded areas with packages of food and toiletries, and they try to break down resistance to the shelter system, Williams said.
"It's more about building that relationship with our staff," he said.
When it gets this cold, PADS sends buses to train stations in search of homeless people who want shelter.
During the last patch of extreme cold a few weeks ago, about 120 homeless people came to the center each day, Williams said. Normally this time of year, the facility will see between 90 and 100 people a day.
"We are planning for that again (this week)," Williams said.
PADS client Larry Daniels knows how dangerous the cold can be if you're homeless. A cousin froze to death one winter while sleeping in his car, Daniels said.
"I know people out there are going to die in the cold," he said. "I think about that."
Barbara Belongia has been spending her days at the center for about three weeks. Homeless for nearly a year, the former Kenosha resident has bounded from state to state and center to center.
The brutal cold makes it hard for her to get around, so she came to the PADS center.
"It's challenging," she said of the weather. "They take care of me. They feed you good, you get to eat good."
The North Chicago center has space set aside for families, but the accommodations aren't spacious. In one room, children from two families rested on blankets arranged on the floor as their parents sat on chairs nearby.
Alexander Rodriguez was there with his 15-year-old daughter. Formerly of Round Lake, they've been using shelters for about a month as they search for more permanent housing.
In a quiet voice, Rodriguez said "not getting sick" is his top priority during the cold weather.
"Making sure that she's OK and not getting sick as well," Rodriguez said, gesturing to his daughter.
If you need shelter, you can call PADS at (847) 689-4357 or send an email to email@example.com.
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The caption read: “Adolf Hitler, the German patriot. When on 1 August 1914 tens of thousands of deeply moved Munich citizens listened to the last notes of the band, suddenly the German anthem washed over the square. In the midst of the crowd stood with shining eyes – Adolf Hitler”. Hitler was superimposed to lend credibility to the image of the Nazi leader as a patriot and a man of the people. The photo went on to become a favorite Nazi propaganda picture, appearing with captions such as “Adolf Hitler: A man of the People”. It was used countless times in newspapers, propaganda papers, biographies and school books.
Hoffmann, who was one of the founders and the main supplier of pictures for the Nazi paper, always claimed he had discovered Hitler in the photo by chance after the future Führer visited his studio in 1929. When Hoffmann was told by Adolf Hitler that he was there during the Declaration of War in 1914, Hoffman scoured and scrutinized every picture he had of that momentous day. Hoffmann then dug out a glass picture negative he’d planned to throw away and found Hitler in the image. “I only needed to search for a very short time, one standing there, yes, it’s him – his hair falls over the forehead”, Hoffmann once said. “His face cannot deceive – it was him”.
However, many researchers claim Hitler’s photographer Hoffmann manipulated the image in order to feature the soon-to-be-dictator. Research has failed to turn up the original negative of the picture. And intense scrutiny of newsreel footage has failed to spot Hitler among the crowd.
Photographs of Hitler taken during the war show him with a large mustache, of the sort that was in fashion at the time. The practice of shaving mustaches down to a “toothbrush” shape seems to have been introduced during the war to allow men to wear gas masks more comfortably; the fashion was unknown before 1914.
If the photograph is correct, then Hitler, almost alone in Europe, wore a toothbrush mustache in 1914, grew a big mustache during the war, and then went back to a toothbrush style after the war, none of which seems very likely. Since he was in Munich in 1914, and his presence in the crowd is entirely in character, while it is possible he was inserted into the photograph by Nazi propagandists, the most likely explanation is that the picture was retouched to make him more immediately recognizable to Germans in the Thirties.
Further evidence that perhaps the whole thing was faked by him and Heinrich Hoffmann can be found in the pages of Hitler’s autobiography Mein Kampf, published in 1925. He makes no mention of being in the Odeonsplatz on August 2 but does make reference to the following day, when he petitions the King of Bavaria to allow him, an Austrian, to fight for Germany.
Pending definite confirmation, therefore, the photograph is probably best regarded as allegedly, rather than definitely, showing Hitler’s presence in the crowd.
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The Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.52 Multiple Vulnerabilities when detected with a vulnerability scanner will report it as a CVSS 9.8 (v3).
The Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.53 Multiple Vulnerabilities when detected with a vulnerability scanner will report it as a CVSS 9.8 (v3).
CVSS is a scoring system for vulnerability systems, its an industry standard scoring system to mark findings against a specific number ranging from 0 to 10. They are shown as:
The Vulnerability Information
The Apache software causing this vulnerability is installed and bundled with all Apple MacOS devices by default for all versions as well (Catalina, Bigsur, Monterey etc.).
The application is installed but is disabled by default and is not active. However the manufacturer does not provide updates for this application along with the OS updates.
For the purpose of Cyber Essentials Plus assessment, this vulnerability is not considered as it as the manufacturer does not provide updates for it and also is disabled by default.
Command to Disable Apache\httpd
/bin/launchctl disable system/org.apache.httpd
Command to check whether Apache\httpd is enabled:
/bin/launchctl print-disabled system | /usr/bin/grep -c '"org.apache.httpd" => true'
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The hot topics section contains a variety of informational subject
matter primarily concerning the safety and well-being of you and your
It contains many helpful tips and tidbits of useful information that can
make your life easier and safer, especially during an emergency or
other crisis. You'll find information on the proper usage of the 911
system, how to make it easier and faster for emergency responders to
find your home in an emergency, how important it is to yield the
right-of-way to emergency vehicles, and how to report information
concerning suspected arson.
There is also the latest information about the department's annual open
house and other public functions in which the department participates.
This little slip of paper filled out and stuck to the refrigerator, the back of the front door, by the phone, or any other prominent location, can provide valuable information that can greatly assist the paramedics in treating the patient, especially if time is critical.
Michigan Public Act 451 of 1994, Section 324 and the Waterford Township Code of Ordinances, Section 7-29 explicitly prohibit the open burning of yard waste, leaves, grass, brush, branches, wood, construction materials, building materials, garbage, trash, waste material or any other material.
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As the newly purpose-built Viking Octantis® begins its maiden journey in the Great Lakes, Viking® continues to establish new benchmarks for its expedition cruises. The Viking Octantis finally completed a roundtrip through the Welland Canal, which is an important section of the St. Lawrence Seaway connecting Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. As a result, it is now the largest passenger vessel that has ever travelled through the Welland Canal.
The Viking Octantis was designed specifically to reach the Great Lakes region. The vessel is scheduled to remain in the Great Lakes until the beginning of October 2022, during which time it will sail a number of different routes between Toronto and Duluth. The Viking Polaris®, a second exploration vessel, will make its debut later this year and will sail the Great Lakes together with the Viking Octantis beginning in the 2023 season.
“Our expedition ships were designed with the Great Lakes in mind. This region has been historically underserved by cruise lines, and we are delighted by the warm and enthusiastic reception we have received from the local communities,” said Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking. He added, “With our first season now underway, we are pleased with the strong demand among our guests and look forward to introducing even more curious travellers to these fantastic destinations in 2023.”
The arrival of Viking to the Great Lakes brings with it the newest and most modern vessels that have ever explored this part of North America. Additionally, Viking has made a significant commitment to the local tourism industry as well as the economic development of the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Ohio (beginning in 2023) as well as the province of Ontario in Canada.
Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) conducts innovative research on the dynamic environments and ecosystems of the Great Lakes and coastal regions to provide information for resource use and management decisions that lead to safe and sustainable ecosystems, ecosystem services, and human health.
Viking has partnered with the GLERL to help develop the scientific enrichment programme for its Great Lakes voyages. The expedition ships used by Viking have also been given the formal status of weather balloon stations by NOAA and the US National Weather Service. From these ships, regular launches of weather balloons are carried out.
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One who contributes from his wealth for the purpose of writing or publishing a sefer of a Tzaddik –
Behold, at any given time, and in any corner of the world, that a person studies from this sefer, the Tzaddik [on high] evokes merit on behalf of the donor through whom the sefer was disseminated.
—The Rebbe, Igrot Kodesh, vol 2
by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson the Lubavitcher Rebbe
Adapted by Rabbi Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
A Torah discourse of the Lubavitcher Rebbe usually revolves around a question, sometimes a seemingly microscopic tension, serving as a point of departure for the Rebbe`s discussion. To hear or read such a discussion is to embark on a journey in which we are challenged and forced to move, and at the end stand far from where we began. Here, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, serves as guide to that journey, elucidating the question in each discourse and explaining its context. In this collection of lucid adaptations of the Rebbe's talks on the weekly Torah readings and Jewish holidays, each question is not only resolved but also revealed to be the starting point of a major spiritual search, a journey to the inner sanctum of Torah. With descriptive introductions to each chapter and extensive indexes, Torah Studies is an important gateway to the Rebbe's teachings and legacy.
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How To Pack Small Appliances For Moving
Packing Small Appliances for Moving
How To Pack Small Appliances For Moving – When moving small appliances, you need special handling. Experts like Pack And Ship Movers know how to pack items such as clocks and small radios. The experts take care of small things that are delicate. They know the right procedures they apply to get the items delivered to the final destination.
The application of several padding is essential to protect the items. Multi Layered paper wrap should be applied to protect fragile items. Items with removable parts should be packed separately.
Failure to pack the items well can lead to losses. The experts can help in the wrapping, packing & more. Some homeowners have a lot of things they would like to move to. The experts can help them. It is easy to avoid stress when experts are left to handle the packing process. There are several steps experts follow to pack the items correctly. The steps are outlined below:
Use packing paper to wrap the power cords
Small appliances such as radios have power cords. The cord has sharp endings that can scratch other items during the move. It is essential to wrap them in a protective paper to avoid cases where they can wrap against other appliances. Homeowners would like to get their items to the new destination safely; the experts take the necessary precautions to wrap the cords. The cords should be kept dry all the way.
Wrapping them in a protective paper is essential because they will remain dry, making it easy to move them to the new location. Buying enough wrapping papers is essential. They create the necessary protective layer. You will not struggle on how to pack small appliances for moving if you can work closely with experts. They know the right steps you can take to move the items safely to new locations.
Wrap appliance in paper pads
The next step to take after wrapping the cord is to wrap the appliances. It is good to create a cushioning layer on the appliances to avoid damaging them. A taping pad is essential to keep the insulation in place.
When moving over long distances, the appliances can contact and create friction that can remove the outer coating. Homeowners are eager to get the appliances to their final destination safely. Applying the wrapping paper makes it convenient and safe to move them to the final destination.
Use crumpled paper to line the bottom
Before packing the appliances, line the bottom of the box using a crumpled paper. It is essential to avoid cases where the appliances will be exposed to too much friction at the bottom during the move. The bottom should be lined carefully before packing the items. Introduce the items carefully to get the perfect insulation.
Pack And Ship Movers can help in all types of moving services. They can as well provide advice on packing & more steps to follow. People who follow their guides find it easy to realize the best results as they work on the moving services. The steps followed are easy to follow. They can be utilized to realize the best results when moving.
Fill gaps in the box with crumpled paper
The appliances should stay in one place during the move. Avoid leaving spaces that will allow the appliances to keep moving in the box. The use of crumpled paper is necessary to fill the spaces. The paper will also create a cushioning effect that is necessary to avoid cases where the appliances will come into contact with the rest in the box. Working with an expert makes it easy to get all the steps right.
They can as well help in outsourcing the papers. When you get the papers in place, it becomes easy to realize the best results. You will not get stranded when trying to figure out how to pack small appliances for moving if you can work with experts. They have a lot of experience in the field, and they will be ready to offer the necessary help.
Label the box
For easy identification of the items, it is easy to label the boxes. Some items are delicate, and they will require careful handling. When the boxes are labeled, it becomes easy for those packing them onto the moving trucks to know the contents and know how to handle them. Some electronics require proper positioning during the move. It is necessary to label the upper part of the appliances during the move.
Work with experts who will offer the right advice. Ask the professionals to provide markers. In most cases, they will arrive with different items required for the move. Ensure the items are handed in well to avoid incidences where they can arrive at the new destination when they are already damaged. Remember, proper care is necessary to avoid cases where the appliances can be delivered when broken.
Small appliances should be packed individually
Some items can knock against each other during the move and cause losses. For example, it is advisable to pack transistor radios and other small items in their boxes. Putting the items together can lead to breakages.
Other items that require careful handling during the move are steam irons. Ensure you empty them before packing in the boxes. Carrying steam boxes that have water can lead to spillage. The water will affect other electronics during the move. Experts recommend taking care of the items during the move. They will be readily available to work on different appliances and ensure the move is smooth.
Package It Properly & Safely
All small items should be cushioned then placed in the boxes. The bottom of the boxes can knock against the moving truck during the move. It should be cushioned to knock against the bottom; the items will still remain safe.
Some appliances should be packed without batteries. The batteries can be affected by weather, reducing the move leading to corrosion. When batteries corrode, there are high chances they will affect the electronics. You would not like to affect your electronics during the move. It is essential to pack the items carefully before you start moving.
Work with an expert who will offer the necessary guidance.
When packing small appliances for moving, care should be taken to avoid damage. The appliances require careful handling at all times. The moving services require careful planning. Experts from reliable moving companies appoint a coordinator who offers necessary guidance on how to go about the process.
It is possible to get all your small appliances to move to the new destination safely. It can take time to pack several items if you have been collecting them over time. The experts will come and offer help. It is advisable to research and decide on the most reliable experts who will provide the right advice to allow for the perfect move.
Packing, Moving & More
When packing small appliances, ensure you label the boxes. It may be hard to locate them if they are left to stay randomly in the truck. Pack And Ship Movers experts know the right steps to take so they can take to assure customers of an excellent moving experience. It may cost some money to hire us, but the quality of services we offer will make you realize the value of moving professionals. Hire our experts who have been tried and proven to provide superior moving services.
They will be in the best position to assure homeowners of great assistance. You took the time to save money and buy the appliances. Hire someone who will take the necessary actions and ensure the devices are protected during the move. Ask about experience, and it will be possible to know the best experts.
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While many fisheries around the globe are in a state of collapse, many are successful as well. Fishing cooperatives are an approach to sustainable fishing that have received little attention despite the fact that studies have shown potential benefits from this practice such as reducing or eliminating the race for fish, improving economic efficiency and market value, improving enforcement and compliance, and promoting conservation and environmental stewardship. The conditions and attributes that lead to a successful fishing cooperative need to be studied in order to better understand their actual and potential role in fishing management. Fishing cooperatives exist in diverse settings, and for analysis to be broadly applicable, information was drawn from 67 different institutions in different geographic, social, environmental, and economic settings. This enabled Ovando et al. (2012) to analyze the links between specific characteristics and contexts of fisheries, such as the development status of the host nation, fisheries management practices, species characteristics, and collective actions taken by fishery cooperatives. Ovando et al. found that fishing cooperatives often take actions directed toward coordinating harvest activities, adopting and enforcing restrictions on fishing methods and effort, and taking direct conservation actions such as establishment of private marine protected areas.—Evelyn Byer
Ovando, D.A., Deacon, R.T., Lester, S.E., Costello, C., Van Leuvan, T., McIlwain, K., Kent Strauss, C., Arbuckle, M., Fujita, R., Gelcich, S., 2012. Conservation incentives and collective choices in cooperative fisheries. Marine Policy. 37, 132-140.
Ovando and colleagues compiled data from a large set of case studies of cooperatives and organized them into a database of the ecological, economic, institutional, and social structure of the fisheries involved, together with the collective actions fishery cooperatives undertake. Also, these data were used to test hypotheses on how ecological, economic, social, and governance circumstances are linked to the collective choices made by cooperatives. Ecological and microeconomic theories were informally used to guide the selection of six survey question areas: ecology, institutions, economics, government policy, coop structure, and cooperative actions. The first four are hypothesized to influence cooperative formation and action, the fifth category is descriptive, and the sixth category is the main focus of attention. Ecological variables focused on life history traits of the species targeted by the fishery. Institutional variables reflect the national context, such as the per capita GDP. Economic variables are fishery specific, and capture information on species value, market destination, and reliability of catch. Policy variables measure the role of government in the management of the fishery and include variables such as the extent of government subsidizes for fishing. Structural variables describe attributes of cooperatives such as annual landings. Finally, cooperative action variables identify the specific collective activities each cooperative undertakes. The fishing cooperatives were not chosen randomly, but rather were selected from a review of the existing literature, possibly meaning that cooperatives in developed countries are over-represented. Complete linkage cluster analysis was used to identify relationships among cooperative actions to provide insight into choices made by cooperatives. Finally, logit regression analysis for clustered survey data was used to examine factors contributing to the probability of the formation of private marine protected areas (PMPAs).
Ovando et al. found cooperatives often establish PMPAs and take other resource stewardship actions when institutional and ecological circumstances are appropriate. Cooperative fishing was found in every major fishing region and was found not to be solely associated with large, small, rich, or poor fisheries, but rather to represent a broadly applied strategy for dealing with common-pool resources. The fact that the sample contains a greater proportion of democratic and developed countries than the world as a whole means that the world’s fishing cooperatives may not be perfectly represented. Ovando et al. encourages comparative analysis of wide groups of fisheries in order to better understand what incentives drive the actions of cooperatives and thus support the health of fisheries and the communities that depend on them.
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Many parts of the country are well into the throes of winter and poor surface conditions can make ground operations extremely challenging. All of the following accidents occurred in 2004; fortunately no one was injured.
On January 3, the pilot of a Cessna 172 attempted to land on a snow-covered runway at the Hayfork Airport in Hayfork, California. Upon completing a fly-over, the pilot noticed tire tracks on the runway, and proceeded to perform a short-field landing. After landing, snow accumulated in front of the nose wheel, causing the 172 to nose over. The propeller and both wings struck the ground, causing substantial damage.
The NTSB determined the cause of this accident was the pilot's inadequate in-flight decision to land on a snow-covered runway without ascertaining the depth of the snow.
On January 10, a Cessna 150 was substantially damaged when it nosed over after hitting a snowdrift during a night landing at Princeton-Kauffman Memorial Airport in Princeton, Missouri. The pilot said that after a normal approach and landing, "the main wheels seemed to slow, pulling the nose wheel down." He then lost control and veered to the left and the airplane flipped tail over nose at the edge of the runway. When the pilot exited the plane, he noticed 6 to 8 inches of snow on the ground.
The NTSB determined the cause of this accident was the encounter with the unknown snowdrifts during landing. A contributing factor was the failure of the airport to issue a notam about the runway conditions.
Finally, on January 17, a Cessna 310R hit a snow bank following a loss of directional control during landing at the St. Clair County Airport in Port Huron, Michigan. En route to the airport the pilot listened to the AWOS report, which included a notam reporting braking action measurements of 33, 35, and 36 MU with light snow. The pilot received the same notam from air traffic control. Neither indicated any rapidly changing conditions.
The pilot reported that after landing, the aircraft never gained any traction, and slid to the left side of the runway. The left main gear hit a snow bank, causing the airplane to swing around. The nose then hit the same snow bank and the nose gear collapsed. The original notam included remarks "one-half inch loose snow over patchy ice, compacted snow and ice all surfaces, executive ramp closed."
The NTSB determined the cause of this accident was the loss of directional control as a result of reduced braking performance because of a snow-covered runway.
According to the Aeronautical Information Manual, "MU (friction) values range from 0 to 100 where zero is the lowest friction value and 100 is the maximum friction value obtainable. For frozen contaminants on runway surfaces, a MU value of 40 or less is the level when the aircraft braking performance starts to deteriorate and directional control begins to be less responsive. The lower the MU value, the less effective braking performance becomes and the more difficult directional control becomes."
For more information on how to operate on less than ideal surfaces, and how to better interpret braking action reports, read the AOPA Air Safety Institute's Safety Brief, Cold Facts: Braking Action Reports .
Accident reports can be found in ASI's accident database.
Posted Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:55:12 AM
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UNICEF puts social and gender-sensitive budgeting in context.
UNICEF’s mission is to help countries ensure that all children enjoy the right to conditions necessary for a safe and happy childhood, as well as those that will allow them to develop to their full potential as human beings and citizens. The extent to which public investments are appropriately targeted toward boys and girls makes a huge difference in the fulfilment of these goals.
In trying economic times where economic growth and budgets are threatened, it is particularly important to ensure budgets protect services for children. Without this protection, not only is the progress made toward the Millennium Development Goals threatened, but the seeds of poverty for future generations is also planted. From a child rights perspective, social budget work focuses on building long-term institutions for child-friendly policies and budgets. Among the outcomes of social budget work are more—and more effectively channeled—resources for children, women and poor families.
To maximize resources for children, UNICEF supports governments to identify funding sources, create consensus around the need to invest more in children, and to use the central and local government budgets as tools to achieve sustainable progress in the fulfilment of children’s rights.
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Iowa joins U.S. states from coasts to heartland acting to curb COVID-19
(Reuters) – Several U.S. governors, from the coastal states of New Jersey and California to the heartland of Iowa and Ohio, acted on Monday to restrict gatherings and boost face-coverings in confronting a coronavirus surge they warned is out of control.
Each of the four governors, representing both ends of America’s political divide and a mix of urban and rural regions, cited health data showing the pandemic reaching its most perilous point yet in the United States, threatening to overwhelm hospitals and claim thousands more lives in the weeks ahead.
They acknowledged that tighter limits on social interactions would prove especially difficult through the winter holidays. But without efforts to immediately tamp down the spread of the virus, the governors warned, more drastic action would be necessary in the near future.
Health experts have projected the coming holiday travel season and the onset of colder weather, with more people tending to congregate indoors, is likely to worsen the situation.
More than 70,000 Americans were hospitalized for treatment of COVID-19 as of Monday, the most ever at any time since the pandemic began, according to a Reuters tally of public health figures.
The number of U.S. infections documented to date surpassed 11 million on Monday, a little more than a week after crossing the 10-million mark – the fastest time it has taken for the national tally to grow by a million cases.
The spike in cases and hospitalizations has been especially striking in places like Iowa, a largely rural, Midwestern Corn Belt state spared the worst ravages of the pandemic when it began eight months ago.
Iowa, for example, has registered more than new 52,000 infections over the past two weeks, about the same number documented from March to mid-August, with COVID-19 accounting for one in every four patients now hospitalized in the state.
“No one wants to do this,” Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds, a Republican, said in announcing that all indoor gatherings for social, leisure and community events will be limited to 15 people, with outdoor gatherings limited to 30, weddings and funerals included.
In addition, Iowa’s restaurants and bars will be ordered to close by 10 p.m., and masks will be newly required for anyone spending at least 15 minutes in an indoor public space without being able to socially distance, the governor said.
Reynolds said success hinged on public cooperation rather than enforcement.
“If Iowans don’t buy into this, we lose,” Reynolds told a news conference. “Businesses will close once again. More schools will be forced to go online, our healthcare system will fail, and the cost in human life will be high.”
Similar messages were delivered on Monday by the Democratic governors of California and New Jersey, and their Republican counterpart in Ohio.
PHILADELPHIA GETS TOUGH
Some of the most aggressive new actions to confront the crisis were being taken at the local level, such as in Philadelphia, the nation’s sixth most populous city.
Officials there on Monday ordered a ban on “indoor gatherings of any size in any location, public or private,” except among individuals who live together.
“We need to keep this virus from jumping from one household to another,” city Health Commissioner Thomas Farley told a news conference.
If the current rate of “exponential” growth in cases continues, hospitals will soon be strained to their limits and more than 1,000 people could die in Pennsylvania’s largest city over the next six weeks, Farley said.
In neighboring New Jersey, one of the hardest-hit states in the early phase of the pandemic, Governor Phil Murphy said he was ordering gatherings of people from different households limited to 10 indoors, down from 25, while the mandatory cap on outdoor gatherings will be lowered to 150 from 500.
Across the country, California Governor Gavin Newsom said he was applying “emergency brakes” to his reopening plan, citing a doubling in the daily number of COVID-19 cases reported across the state over the past 10 days.
Under Newsom’s announcement, commercial and social restrictions will be tightened starting Tuesday in 40 of the state’s 58 counties, covering the vast majority of its 40 million residents.
The crackdown means no indoor service in bars and restaurants and more restrictions on many other businesses and public gatherings. California is also strengthening its face covering guidance to require individuals to wear a mask whenever outside their home, with limited exceptions, Newsom said.
In Ohio, where daily case tallies have increased by 17% and total hospitalizations by at least 25% in the past week, the state’s health department issued a revised order to limit mass gatherings starting on Tuesday, Governor Mike DeWine announced.
The flurry of measures came as 40 states have reported record daily increases in COVID-19 cases this month, while 20 states have registered all-time highs in daily coronavirus-related deaths and 26 reported new peaks in hospitalizations, according to the Reuters tally.
The nation as a whole has averaged more than 148,000 new cases a day, and 1,120 daily deaths, over the past week.
Reporting by Maria Caspani in New York and Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Additional reporting by Doina Chiacu, David Shepardson and David Lawder in Washington and Anurag Maan in Bengaluru; Writing by Sharon Bernstein, Maria Caspani and Steve Gorman; Editing by Bill Tarrant, Aurora Ellis and Rosalba O’Brien
Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
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The technologies currently available enable people to obtain videos online in the comfort and level of privacy of their homes. The options on the market today let you obtain, perform, burn off and retail store motion pictures and demonstrates in a multitude of consumer-friendly formats. If you’re enthusiastic about film downloads, there are certain things you have to know to create your expertise risk-free and productive.
As a way to observe your film downloading you will need a press player. Most personal computers appear built with mass media players currently, but there are other options available on the internet if you’re trying to find a more advanced person than the a single you have.
Just before installing any movies, you should make sure you study all the information provided on the webpage to ensure you recognize every one of the legitimate ramifications of on the internet bioskopkeren movie downloads. It’s not all motion picture downloads are authorized, so to guard your very best pursuits it’s vital to comprehend what you are capable to do and what you are unacceptable to accomplish regarding on the web motion picture downloading.
Web video files are sizeable. Huge. They are bigger than audio documents. So even if you may possibly be happy to obtain audio by using a dialup relationship, you may not at all gladly obtain videos employing that same connection. Getting motion pictures on the internet truly needs a broadband internet or DSL relationship. Numerous full-length videos can be acquired in just two hours by using a broadband internet relationship. In case you are interested in creating a down-loadable video local library in your own home, you might first want to check around on an inexpensive broadband link. Many people discover that once they spend the money for few more to the quicker support, they never ever want to return.
Internet video downloads will still be within its infancy. But currently some video obtain providers are providing some superior characteristics. These improve features could incorporate supplying totally free software program to get rid of the delivered electronically movies to some Digital video disc or possibly a Compact disc playable with a residence Digital video disc gamer; a free enhanced film person; and the ability to down load Television shows and songs videos. When figuring out which service to use, find one that allows you to hunt for movies by title, designer, and style of music. It can make browsing through the large data base of movies 100,000 on some services quite simple.
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With the evolution of technology, robots are no longer just reserved for science fiction. A French has created an electronic humanoid that you can build directly at your home using a 3D printer! We present to you this impressive innovation that makes the robotics available for everyone.
InMoov is the name of this incredible 14 kg robot created by Gaël Langevin who is a designer, sculptor and DIY french amateur. The idea: A humanoid of the size of a real human being can be printed directly at your home through a 3D printer with a maximum cost of just € 700. A first enterprise of its kind. According to Gael: “My project is the development of a platform which is accessible to everyone. If you you have a small 3D printer with a volume of 12x12x12cm, all the building blocks are designed to be printed without particular difficulty and assembled using screws or clip-ons”.
This project is open source but it has a non-commercial license, which means that everyone is free to modify and reuse the technology for non-commercial applications. Moreover, this 3D design has already been reused for the development of a hand prosthesis! In addition to that, Gaël also puts the every new building block that he creates as well as the tutorials, so that they can be used by the schools and universities.
Gael admits that he has used the information available on the Internet to solve some of the robots design problems that would otherwise have taken several years of study. Regarding his inspiration, he says: “Everything inspires me even when I look at a can, I start thinking of transforming it into a sensor for the fingertips of the robot. Books and movies, give us a certain vision of the future and I think it is not difficult to reconcile between my robot and that vision.” Besides that, he admits that from an early age he was fascinated by Robinson Crusoe, Rahan, Geo Trouvetou and Pif Gadget, which perhaps explains his resourceful side.
About the development of robotics in the coming years, Gaël says: “I think it is now and it is inevitable. It’s like the development of electricity or Internet. You should know that there are already robots that can move, think and adapt their behavior according to the situation in which they find themselves”.
Finally, if you want to also build your own InMoov, you can visit the website of Gaël where you will find the detailed 3D designs as well as the tutorials on how to build and infuse life into the robots.
We are awestruck to learn that this robot was built by a single designer. His creation is absolutely amazing and the fact that it was made entirely using 3D printer really impressed us. We also appreciate the thinking of Gaël to leave the project open source so that everyone can use and further develop it. In any case, we hope to see many more improvements in the project. Would you like to print your own robots at your home in the near future?
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Certain things that you do on daily basis might be bad for your dental health. Here are the common bad dental health habits that you should avoid.
It’s seen that many individuals simply start biting their nails when they are nervous. If you are also among those individuals, you need to know that it’s a bad dental habit. It may lead you towards bad oral and dental health condition.
Obviously, you will never like to deal with different types of oral and dental health problems. The key disadvantage of biting your nails is that it can damage the enamel of your teeth.
Of course, when you get enamel on your teeth damaged, you won’t be able to properly chew foods. Thus, you will have to cope with unwanted situations. Without any doubt, you won’t like to deal with unwanted situations. Thus, you need to get rid of the habit of nails biting.
Do You Chew on Ice?
People who don’t have adequate level of iron or lack iron usually have an urge for eating non-eatable stuffs. Thus, they usually prefer chewing ice. Of course, it’s a bad dental habit that may lead you towards negative consequences. If you want to enjoy good oral health, you need to focus on avoiding this bad habit.
It’s seen that due to chewing ice, many individuals simply get their enamel damaged. It might be possible that ice parts can be stuck in their teeth. In concise, eating or chewing ice regularly can damage teeth. Many individuals have to deal with different types of dental issues just by chewing on ice.
Do You Use Your Teeth Just like a Tool?
If you are using your teeth just like a tool, you are going to destroy them sooner or later. Of course, your teeth aren’t as stronger as you can use them like a tool such as scissors or cutter. Instead, you need to know the natural work of your teeth.
There are lots of individuals in this world who are coping with such a bad habit. If you are also among those individuals who use their teeth as a tool, you need to get rid of this bad dental habit as soon as possible.
Do You Not Wear a Mouthguard While Playing?
There are different types of sports such as boxing, swimming, football, volleyball, and others that need mouth guard in order to protect teeth and jaw from unwanted hit. Of course, if you are playing a contact-game, you need to use mouth guard in order to protect your teeth, gums and jaw from unwanted hit or damage.
People who don’t wear mouthguard have to deal with tooth damage like situation. Of course, you won’t like to face tooth damage or jaw dislocation. Thus, you always need to use a mouth guard in order to safe guard your oral health.
Oral Piercings Could Be Dangerous for your Oral Health
However, it’s great to have piercings for expressing your views or emotions, but piercings on a few body parts can be a threat to health. If you have got your tongue or lips pierced, you are likely to deal with unwanted oral health problems.
You are highly advised that you should get rid of these piercings as soon as possible. When you have piercing on your tongue, you are likely to damage white enamel on your teeth. It may affect the functionality of your tongue as well.
Don’t Grind Your Teeth
You should avoid grinding your teeth as it may lead your overall dental health towards bad situation. It means that you will have to cope with dental health problems if you keep grinding your teeth consciously or unconsciously.
It’s seen that due to various reasons such as misaligned teeth may insist you on grinding your teeth. But when you build the habit of grinding your teeth consciously or unconsciously, you are going to create health hazards for your teeth.
There are individuals who grind their teeth while sleeping. If you are also among those individuals, you need to get in touch with your dentist. Or you may use a sleeping-tooth-guard. This way, you can easily get rid of the habit of grinding your teeth.
Eating Starchy and Sugary Foods
You need to avoid eating starchy and sugary foods. There is no doubt that due to eating sugary or starchy foods, many individuals have to cope with different types or oral health problems. You need to learn how to avoid eating sugary as well as starchy stuffs.
One of the bad dental health habits that you should avoid is to avoid eating sugary foods. Due to eating sugary or starchy foods, many individuals have to deal with toothache, cavities or tooth decay. Instead of eating sugary foods, you need to go with healthy foods that can help you enjoying good oral health.
Chewing on Pencils
Most of the children build the habit of chewing their pencil. If you notice your child chewing a pencil, you need to help him getting rid of the bad habit.
Apart from little kids, there are adults who are also habitual of chewing pencils or similar objects. If you are also among those individuals, you need to know that this habit can destroy the white enamel of your teeth.
So, these are a few top bad dental health habits that you should avoid as soon as possible. Getting rid of these bad oral practices can help you leading a healthy life.
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How libraries reach into the flow of their users has been one of the recurrent themes of this blog. Recently, I have been interested to see libraries begin to systematise this and to understand the issues around particular approaches. I mentioned the National Library of Scotland’s presence on YouTube the other day, and a comment pointed me to an interesting discussion by Eilidh MacGlone about the initiative:
In conclusion, there really is no place like home to us at the moment – our catalogue is in much better shape than YouTube’s. But we think YouTube is a great place to take our filmshows, to visit and meet our users, to build relationships and to interact with them, and perhaps in this aspect, YouTube is better than any online service we yet offer. [WIDWISAWN: volume 6, issue 1, page 4]
This is in the nicely named WIDWISAWN (who is doing what in Scotland and what is needed). The same issue carries a piece by Andrew Youngson giving a high level overview of NLS interaction with several web-based services:
In reality the likelihood of major unforeseen issues and problems is slim. To allow such concerns to hold back making information and content available is to the detriment to the vast majority of people who could access it and enjoy it. The imagined lack of “control” is understandable, but ensuring reasonable and professional judgement is used at the point of creation should allay this fear. For every possible concern with utilising these resources, there are many more positives to be gained from sensible usage. [WIDWISAWN: volume 6, issue 1, page 3]
As we get more experience, the particular characteristics of each service will become more apparent. In commenting about this initiative, for example, Seb Chan interestingly contrasts Flickr and YouTube.
As Burgess points out, though, the best textual responses to YouTube content happen on the blogs, forums and website on which video content ends up being embedded, rather than on YouTube itself. Whilst this also occurs with Flickr embeds, my hunch is that Flickr’s active nurturing of its ‘own’ community around the site means that embedding plays a lesser role than it does for YouTube content. [fresh + new(er) » Blog Archive » Video archives in YouTube? – National Library of Scotland]
Andrew Youngson talks about enjoyment in his note above. I was at the National Library of Scotland with some colleagues from the SCONUL conference. In the entrance were panels with pictures from the collection. One caused some discussion. It was a letter from Elizabeth Taylor to Muriel Spark. Much of the interest was because she signed herself Elizabeth Taylor Burton [*]. I can now share our enjoyment with you ……:
[Note 23 March 2011: I was sad to see the news today that Elizabeth Taylor had died, and it caused me to look back at this entry. I noticed that the image was no longer showing. I am not sure why. It is available here at the National Library of Scotland site.]
Uploaded to FLICKR 18 April 2008 by the National Library of Scotland, all rights reserved.
[*] Interestingly, this name is not recorded in LC, DNB or BNF authority files.
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Monkeypox strain in India different from Europe: ICMR-NIV study
A team of Indian scientists have found that the monkeypox virus strain circulating in the country is different from the strain that caused 'superspreader events' in Europe, leading to a global outbreak of the disease.
New Delhi, A team of Indian scientists have found that the monkeypox virus strain circulating in the country is different from the strain that caused 'superspreader events' in Europe, leading to a global outbreak of the disease.
The team from Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Virology (ICMR-NIV), Pune, conducted genetic sequencing of two monkeypox cases from Kerala.
The data showed that the virus strain present in the country is A.2, that was recently imported to India from the Middle East. It was earlier present in Thailand and the US during the 2021 outbreak. However, the strain that caused superspreader events in Europe, was due to B.1.
"The present sustained human-human transmission of the monkeypox virus is believed to have happened via superspreader events in Europe with 16,000+ cases now spread across 70+ countries. This largely is represented as the B.1 lineage of the virus and encompass the predominant lineage for genomes in 2022," Vinod Scaria, scientist at CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB), tweeted.
He noted that A.2 is in contrast to the majority of the genomes across the world which belong to B.1 lineage; and the A.2 cluster, seen in India, is "not suggestive of a superspreader event".
"This would mean" that the cases in the country "are not possibly linked to the European superspreader events", Scaria wrote.
"We might be looking at a distinct cluster of human-human transmission and possibly unrecognised for years. The earliest sample in the cluster from the US is indeed from 2021 suggesting the virus has been in circulation for quite some time, and earlier than the European events," he added.
He suggested increasing genomic surveillance in the country as more cases emerge and possibly sequence every single case.
"Public health measures and communication needs to take these new insights into consideration. Wide testing and awareness could uncover many more cases," Scaria said.
To avoid a shortage and help ensure patients have access to an adequate supply of the medicine, FDA will not object to the temporary distribution of Sitagliptin containing NTTP above the acceptable intake limit of 37 ng per day, and up to 246.7 ng per day.
The acquisition marks the entry of the group in the state of Haryana. The upcoming integrated healthcare complex located on the Golf Course Road at Gurugram would be commissioned in a span of 24 months.
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This time of year is special to Christians world-wide. From Fat Tuesday to Good Friday, Christians celebrate the season of Lent when Jesus went into the desert to fast and pray before his crucifixion. It is a serious time that is revered by both lay persons and those who have devoted themselves to the service of the Lord.
So, what is the connection to beer? It seems that the German Paulaner monks at Cloister Neudeck ob der Au in Munich took their fasting serious during Lent and ate no solid food during the Holy time. Therefore, instead of making bread with their grain they brewed beer – what they called liquid bread to sustain them through the long season.
The beer they brewed has gone by several names including Fastenbier or Starkbier it is more commonly known as Doppelbock. According to the Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines, this brew should be very rich and malty with a touch of chocolate but still crisp and smooth. Doppelbock, literally double bock, is generally relatively high in alcohol at between 7 and 12 percent. In the higher alcohol versions, there is generally a mild burn from the alcohol.
This classic Bavarian style has a long and checkered history. Depending on which documents you believe, the style began somewhere between 1630 and 1670. Being men of the cloth, the monks were not so sure that they should be drinking such an intoxicating and delicious brew during Lent, typically a time of denial. So, they sought guidance from their earthly leader, the Holy Father himself in Rome.
The monks dispatched a keg of their brew to Rome, but since the journey was long and wound through the Alps and the hot plains, of Italy the beer got warmed in the sun and shaken by the road over a period of several weeks. When it arrived in Rome it had been through quite an ordeal and was less than ideal for consumption. The pope took one taste of the brew and decided that such a vile brew would be fitting as a drink during a time when the monks were supposed to be denying themselves earthly pleasures.
But, monks are not the only ones to have used the brew as a means of fasting. A few years ago a J. Wilson approached an Iowa brewery and asked them to create a Doppelbock for him. His goal was to imitate the Paulaner monks and go on a liquid diet for the entire Lenten season. Wilson drank four beers on weekdays and five on weekends along with water and ate nothing during his fast. At the end of his Lenten experiment he was 25 pounds lighter and reported very few ill effects. However, in an interview for Men’s Health magazine, Wilson said he would not recommend the diet as a healthy way to lose weight.
The monks of eventually named their brew Salvator after the savior. In deference to that original brew, when imitators began making their own versions, most were named with the –ator ending to the appellation. Commercial versions that are currently available include Spaten Optimator and Ayinger Celebrator. Recently the style was reproduced in Jacksonville by Intuition Ale Works as a special beer for the brewery’s Mug Club.
- Doppelbock: The Lenten Beer That’s Not Just For Lent (badassdigest.com)
- Liquid Bread for Lent (boiseweekly.com)
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In 2009 the Norwegian Directorate of Nature management warned that the Atlantic salmon population in River Tana in Arctic Norway was dramatically reduced. Active mesures had to be taken to prevent future extinction. Local fishermen protested against this description of the cause of events. On fishing expeditions, expert claims were continuously discussed. Such conversations were and are a substantial part of everyday conversations amongst local fishermen. In this chapter, the fishermens' conversations are used as an entry into particular aspects of local knowledge, its relational nature, and the implicit epistemological politics. As their witness, during hours of fishing and conversing, I observed how the fishermen scrutinized scientific knowledge claims. They did not just question and compare the experts' knowledge claims with what they themselves knew. Significantly, the fishermen made comparisons of how knowing was done. The Ongoing conversation of the fishermen enacted a resistance more complex than what was visible at first sight. Positioning fisheries science as the Other, local knowledge was enacted and assembled as fluid and heterogenous, including numerous unequal and loosely assembled entites.
|Title of host publication||Fishing People of the North|
|Subtitle of host publication||Cultures, economies, and management responding to change|
|Editors||C. Carothers, K.R. Criddle, C.P. Chambers, P.J. Cullenberg, J.A. Falls, A.H. Himes-Cornell, J.P. Johnsen, N.S. Kimball, C.R. Menzies, E.S. Springer|
|Place of Publication||Fairbanks|
|Publisher||Alaska Sea Grant, University of Alaska, Fairbanks|
|Number of pages||18|
|Publication status||Published - 6 Dec 2012|
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As the dust settles upon Gaza following a tenuous ceasefire called after 11 days of relentless attacks on the population, our partners in Palestine are taking stock of the unfathomable damage and urgent needs at present.
The death toll in Gaza, currently at 247 people, including 66 children, continues to mount as bodies are pulled out of the rubble. At least 1,417 people – 412 of them children – have been injured. And at least 12 Israelis were killed.
Homes, schools, hospitals, and Gaza’s only COVID testing site have been destroyed. More than 90,000 Palestinians were displaced. Infrastructure that came under heavy attack in 2014, such as the energy grid, water supply, and roads, has been even more extensively damaged or destroyed.
This and much more has happened in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and an ongoing blockade hindering movement into and out of Gaza and cutting off access to life-saving medical supplies and other essentials. And then there is the vast psychological toll upon the population.
According to the Palestinian Medical Relief Society:
“[T]he humanitarian crisis mounts. Of particular concern are the most vulnerable of Palestinian demographics, including, women, elderly, those already displaced, those with disabilities, and especially our children and youth, who should be representing our future. Every child deserves the right to feel safe and protected, and to have a peaceful childhood, free from violence. The children of Palestine have never had this right, and therefore, we ask for support to protect the rights of Palestinian children and all Palestinians.”
Work on the ground
Even as their own lives have been turned upside down, our partners on the ground have been working tirelessly on emergency response while building toward longer-term change. They assert that now is not the time to return to «normal» in Palestine because normal before the most recent attacks meant ongoing human rights violations, military occupation, suffocating blockade, displacement, apartheid and settler colonialism. Now is the time to achieve a just peace and Palestinian self-determination.
To support our partners as they engage not only in emergency relief, but also in the hard work of recovery and transformation, Grassroots International has launched the Palestine Solidarity Emergency Fund. Over $400,000 has been raised thus far through an outpouring of solidarity by hundreds of donors, and we continue to raise funds to support such critical efforts as:
- Urgent medical relief, including care for Palestinians injured by Israeli attacks, along with COVID preventative care and education for the broader population
- Community organizing and mobilization to resist displacement, theft of homes, and home demolitions in East Jerusalem, while connecting these local struggles to broader efforts to challenge settler colonialism
- Mental health support to those in Gaza, especially children, subject to ongoing trauma from the twin stresses of siege and extreme violence
- Organizing by Palestinian youth to resist state repression – including in the face of mass arrests happening right now – while constructing alternative futures based on values of pluralism, justice, democracy, and self-determination
- Research and advocacy from the local to global levels to challenge the apartheid wall and ongoing land grabbing in the West Bank
- Defense of land and water rights of Palestinian farmers and fishers
- Documentation of war crimes committed by Israeli occupying forces against Palestinians, to serve as evidence before the International Criminal Court
- Advocacy to hold the US and other complicit governments accountable, while building global solidarity
Grassroots International believes in long-term partnership and deep relationships with movements on the ground addressing the root causes of injustice. Out of those abiding relationships comes the ability to respond to urgent crises with a base of trust and solidarity. We are grateful to our community for joining us in expressing that solidarity with the Palestinian people.
Contributions to the Palestine Solidarity Emergency Fund may be made here.
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Have them spend much less time watching tv.
Clearly eLearning, telecommuting, and telepresence could, and should have a very constructive impression on the standard of life for all Palestinians. Israel must expedite approval and supply of pc/wireless/telecom hardware, as well as launch of further wirel4ess frequency that might further support enhanced ICT.
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Imagine Duluth 2035 Looking For Different Ways Of Commuting Around Town
Focus Group Looks Into Possible Lake Ave Overpass Change
DULUTH, Minn. – Congestion on Lake Avenue from those trying to access Canal Park from Superior Street has become a growing concern for the city of Duluth.
A focus group met tonight to talk about 6 different proposed policies that would better forms of transportation in different parts of the city. The focus group, which is part of the Imagine Duluth 2035 initiative came together tonight to talk about multiple areas around Duluth that could use some TLC.
One area specifically is the overpass above I–35 that connects the busy tourist district of Canal Park to the cramped business district of Superior Street.
With more people visiting Canal Park and more frustration growing over available parking, the focus group is trying to figure out how to utilize downtown parking while finding a way to safely move foot traffic and bikers across the current scary overpass.
“The walk signals take forever. It always feels like there traffic coming from every direction. One of the ideas we threw out was could we do a trial where bikes and pedestrians don’t have to go down to street level, where maybe the cars would have to watch out for bikes and pedestrians as they’re about to cross that intersection,” City Planner Jenn Moses says.
The proposed plan that was presented tonight also included narrowing current car lanes to make room for a bike lane and lowering the height of the curbs for those walking across the overpass.
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On September 5th, 1946 the incredibly talented Freddie Mercury (real name: Farrokh Bulsara) was born and the world of rock and roll would never be the same.
Freddie Mercury was born in Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania), where he lived with his mother, father and younger sister. He attended a boarding school in Bombay where his talent for the piano was first noticed. Friends commented that he could hear anything on the radio, and turn around and play it on the piano.
When Freddie was 17 the family was forced to flee Zanzibar due to the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. It was then that the family wound up in London, England, where Mercury lived the rest of his life as a British citizen. It was here that he began trying to put together a band.
There were a few false starts: Ibex, Wreckage, and Sour Milk Sea. Then in 1970, Mercury hooked up with guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor and the magic was born – Queen.
It has often been noted that Queen’s music is extremely eclectic. Although definitely rock and roll, beyond that it is hard to categorize. The band was as talented with ballads as it was with disco. When you consider Mercury’s influences, though, it is easy to understand. He was inspired by Elvis, the Beatles, Liza Minnelli (particularly praising her role in “Cabaret”), the Who, Led Zeppelin, and Jimi Hendrix. In a (rare) interview in 1986 Mercury is quoted as saying, “I hate doing the same thing again and again and again. I like to see what’s happening now in music, film and theatre, and incorporate all of those things.”
Then there is the magic of Mercury’s voice. With a vocal range of four octaves, he is the envy of even opera singers. He had no formal vocal training; he just claimed to have fun singing, and he put everything into his songs. He could jump from a deep-throated baritone to a glass-cracking falsetto within the same stanza.
Queen’s concerts were no less impressive. Coming into their own at the beginning of the hard rock movement, Queen was giving concerts at the same time as the colorful makeup bands like KISS, Ozzie Osbourne, and Alice Cooper. Given Mercury’s love of theatre, this was not a problem to compete with. Outlandish costumes, stage tricks, playing to the audience – this was Freddie Mercury’s place to shine. Queen often performed to sold-out stadium audiences around the world.
Offstage, however, Mercury was an incredibly private person, staying out of the limelight. This has actually earned him a lot of criticism over the years. Many people felt that he should have been more “open” about being gay and having HIV and AIDS.
In fact, Mercury denied having AIDS for many months, despite looking increasingly ill. Finally, on November 23, 1991, he issued this statement:
“Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctors and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease. My privacy has always been very special to me and I am famous for my lack of interviews. Please understand this policy will continue.”
He passed away the next day at the age of 45 from bronchial pneumonia resulting from AIDS.
Although he may not have actively done anything to highlight HIV and AIDS while he was living and suffered from it, his death cast a huge spotlight on this disease. In 1992 the remaining members of Queen founded the Mercury Phoenix Trust, a charity which raises money for various AIDS charities. The first major fundraiser was the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert for AIDS Awareness.It played to a live audience of 72,000 and was broadcast to 76 countries with an estimated audience of 1 billion.
It is hard to believe (still) that this man with such a voice full of life is no longer with us. We can only be thankful that we have so many of his recordings to remind us of the magic that was Freddie Mercury.
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Irrigation in the Chowchilla region began in the late 1800's with artesian wells, but by the 1940's diminished groundwater supplies threatened the area's continued economic viability. The Chowchilla Water District was formed in 1949 for the purpose of furnishing a supplemental water supply for agriculture within its boundaries. Until that time, the District had been part of the Madera Irrigation District.
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Bread of Life
Many years ago, so the story goes, a well known missionary was travelling on board a train in Central India. giving out gospels free, to anyone who would accept one. All seemed to be going well until he offered a copy of St John’s gospel to a non-Christian, who was so angry that he tore it into pieces, and threw all the scraps out of the train window.
That seemed to be the end of the story, but it so happened that another man was walking along by the side of the railway track, and he picked up one of these pieces of paper. It had words written on it in his own language, and it said:- ‘ The Bread of Life’.
He didn’t know what it meant, so he made some enquiries, and one of his friends told him it that it was a piece of writing from the Christian book, but he must not read it or he would be defiled.
The man thought for a moment and then said,
“No I want to read the book that contains that beautiful phrase, so he bought a copy of the New Testament, and was shown the part where the sentence occurred, and he found Jesus’s own words, “I am the Bread of Life.” He studied that gospel, and he said that his heart just filled up with light.
Later this man became a preacher of the gospel in Central India. That little piece of paper was indeed the ‘bread of life’ to him.
When I read this story, I thought how amazing it was that four short words could alter the whole course of a person’s life. These words opened a doorway into St John’s gospel, then another into the New Testament, and yet another into the person of Christ himself.
He would have found other ‘I am’ statements, some of which we will be looking at over the next few weeks, ..... I am the Door: the Good Shepherd: the Way, the Truth, the Life: the Resurrection.
But what was it that he discovered about the man who was ‘The Bread of Life’ when he read St John’s gospel, chapter 6, the one before us today?
Firstly he would have discovered a man called Jesus, recognised by his followers as the Prophet. He was a teacher at the height of his popularity, and he was a leader of men who possessed miraculous powers. It was he who had just fed a crowd of 5000 people with only two loaves of bread and five fishes. So great a leader and teacher was he that his followers were trying to force him to be their king. But becoming a king, an earthly ruler, was not what Jesus desired. He escaped from them and withdrew to the hills alone, to be away from them. Perhaps this is what first impressed the Indian traveller about Jesus, the fact that he had not sought after power, wealth, fame and all the other benefits that come along with royal positions of authority.
Secondly he would have found in John’s gospel, a man who spoke truth, for the words that he said were not necessarily what the people were wanting to hear.
We only have to listen to politicians running for office, or councillors wishing to be elected, or presidents standing for office to discover that leaders’ promises are rich, tempting and palatable.....but quite often empty ones once they win the vote and are put in power over others.
Not so Jesus, in fact what he says to the people in ‘his bread of life’ speech actually turns many of his followers against him. It is at this point in the gospel that those who had been attracted to Jesus up until that point, now walked away from him , his words offended their ears. They couldn’t stomach what he was saying. From this point in other gospels too, the Jesus movement went into decline. He was clearly not courting popularity.
What else would this Indian traveller have found in John 6?
He would have been able to read for himself some of the things Jesus claimed about himself.
He would have found not only his precious four words, the bread of life, but also the words,
“I am the Bread of Life, He who comes to me will never be hungry, He who believes in me will never be thirsty.”
Bread meant life in those days of scarcity and often famines. It was the primary source of food in New Testament times. It had special significance in the Bible because it represented the sustenance of life in the world, essential food, without which man would die!
Jesus also likened himself to the manna which God provided the Israelites with on their journey from slavery to freedom, food which they were given to help them on their journey into the promised land. God’s own provision for them!
He told the people that if they believed in him, they would have life eternal, life forever.
He said “ This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world, and unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man, and drink of his blood you will have no life in you!”
He told them that his flesh was real food, and his blood was real drink.
No wonder some of them thought he was mad.
Yet here we are today claiming his promises that the one who feeds on this bread will live forever. He prophesied this would happen.
Yet the Indian who searched chapter 6, to discover more about the Bread of Life, would also have found a leader who did not manipulate his followers or brainwash them. He allowed them perfect freedom to accept or reject his teaching, unlike many leaders of cults throughout the ages who have trapped and ensnared their followers.
“You do not want to leave too?” he asks them.
Their reply is one which we would probably want to echo in our hearts too.
“Where else would we go, for you have the words of eternal life!
Along with this statement we might as well add:-
Which other leader of faith could hold a candle to this one?
Which other leader of faith ever made claims for himself as bold as these?
Which other leader of faith made such accurate prophecies as the ones he made?
Who else has performed miracles, healed the sick, cared for the poor and underprivileged , fought for the outcast or love the sinner the way he did?
Which other leader of faith has ever made the supreme sacrifice of surrendering his own life to wipe away our sins, the way he did?
These four words, ‘The Bread of Life’ are indeed a door into a far greater truth than we can ever realise, just like that fragment of paper found upon a railway track, opening up a whole library of many other words brim full of life.
So too the piece of bread we consume today, and the words we hear, “This is my body”
a fragment yes, but part of a love too deep for words to express, part of a body of people too many to count, part of an eternity too difficult for our small minds to imagine.
As we receive this bread of life this morning,
let us not ask how Jesus feeds us, let us not dissect his words, tear them into shreds, or quarrel over them, and separate ourselves into factions as men and women have done over the centuries, let us simply admit:-
“Lord, I don’t have the ability to comprehend how you feed us through this bread, but I know you do, and I give you thanks that you have provided this for me, help me also be food that brings life to others!”
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There are considerable differences between Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS) or e-cigarettes as they’re more commonly called, and smoking cigarettes.
The two main differences are;
Safety, this includes the short and long-term effects on the health of smokers and those around them.
Cost, as each uses consumable products there is an ongoing – albeit very different – cost for each habit.
Here’s how the differences between e-cigarettes and cigarettes compare side-by-side:
It’s no secret that smoking carries some serious health risks. Smoking accounts for around 80,000 deaths each year in the UK, and the government has been aggressive in getting this message across in recent years.
Smoking cigarettes is not just dangerous to the person holding the cigarette but to those breathing in second-hand smoke around them too.
For most smokers, they see a marked improvement in their health from just reducing the number of cigarettes they are smoking per day.
Around 3 out of 5 smokers say that they want to quit. But the addictive chemicals, namely nicotine, make it difficult to quit.
Which is why e-cigarettes become an alternative. E-cigarettes replicate the feel and sensation of smoking and deliver nicotine, but without a lot of the other harmful chemicals in cigarettes known to cause health issues.
E-cigarettes do not produce a lot of the most harmful chemicals produced by cigarettes. For example, one of the most harmful chemicals produced by cigarettes is carbon monoxide – which is not present in e-cigarettes.
When someone smoking a cigarette inhales carbon monoxide, it’s absorbed through the lungs and enters into their bloodstream.
The carbon monoxide then takes the place of oxygen and is transported by red blood cells. The NHS list the following health risks associated with elevated carbon monoxide levels:
- Increased heart rate
- Headaches and visual distortions
- Increased risk of heart attacks and strokes
In short, carbon monoxide is one of the main contributing factors as to why smokers find themselves out of breath easily.
This is just one of the hundreds of chemicals produced by cigarettes that contribute to the various health issues associated with smoking.
So, while they are not void of any chemicals, in comparison to cigarettes, e-cigarettes are a much safer option.
E-cigarettes are designed to supply the user with nicotine, which is the most addictive chemical in cigarettes.
Nicotine is not typically seen as harmful, and with some e-cigarettes, the user also has the option to control how much nicotine they are inhaling, or indeed use e-cigarettes which do not contain nicotine.
This combination of flexibility, control, and safety makes using e-cigarettes a much safer option compared to cigarettes.
Obviously, health should come first and be the most important consideration when comparing ENDS vs smoking.
With that said, the cost is going to come a close second for a lot of people. With smoking being such an expensive habit, this can often be used to help persuade someone to try a safer alternative that is also less expensive.
The government has been heavily taxing cigarettes for many years now in a bid to make cigarettes less obtainable for youngsters and to reduce the number of people smoking.
The Chancellor announced in the 2020 budget that smokers were going to have to pay an extra 27p for a pack of 20 cigarettes. This means the average cost of a pack of 20 cigarettes is currently around £12.73.
It’s estimated that the average smoker in the UK smokes around 20 cigarettes a day. That means the average annual cost of smoking is £4,646.45.
There is an initial investment with e-cigarettes as users need to buy a vaping kit. This can range anywhere from £20 up to hundreds for the high-end models.
Once a user has a device, they only need to replace the e-liquid as it runs out, and coils or some other parts depending on the model of e-cigarette.
A good example is vape pods, which are one of the most popular options right now. These are typically made up of just two parts; a battery and a pod that clicks into the battery.
Pods usually have a built-in atomiser, so it can simply be discarded when it runs out and a new one clicked into the battery. Making this one of the most versatile and cost-effective options.
The average e-cigarette user consumes approx 10ml of e-liquid per week. This costs around £5, putting the annual cost of using an e-cigarette around the £300 mark.
Looking at both of these factors; safety and cost, it’s easy to see that e-cigarettes are considerably safer and less expensive than cigarettes and provide consumers with a better choice all round.
How we put safety first at Ventus Medical
While e-cigarettes and NRT products offer a much safer alternative to smoking and help to create that bridge that so many smokers need to be able to quit, we wanted to take it a step further.
Here at Ventus Medical our specialists have been diligently focused on the development of the next generation of safer NRT products.
Our analytical, toxicology, and regulatory teams are experts in product testing and evaluation, and we’ve been working on innovative NRT products that we know are going to change the NRT market.
If you want to know more about our mission to develop safer and more effective smoking cessation solutions, or how you can be amongst the first to experience our products, please contact us to find out more.
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Trazodone 50 Mg Tablets
Trazodone hydrochloride (Desyrel®) is a prescription drug that is used for treating depression in adults. It comes in tablet form and is generally taken one to three times a day, usually after eating. Possible side effects include headache, vomiting, and dizziness.
Although brand-name trazodone tablets are no longer available, generic trazodone is available in three strengths:
- 50 mg trazodone tablets
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The recommended starting dosage when treating depression is 150 mg per day (divided into two or three doses per day). Even though trazodone is not approved to treat insomnia, it is frequently prescribed in an "off-label" fashion for this use. Usually, the dose for insomnia is lower, starting with 25 mg or 50 mg of trazodone at bedtime.
(To learn more about how to take the 50-mg, 100-mg, or 150-mg tablets, click Trazodone Dosage. This article also warns against adjusting your dose without your healthcare provider's approval.)
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