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The Necessity of ‘Voice from the Heart’
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” ― Lilla Watson.
Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, the high-profile Alice Springs city councillor, makes an important point that far more Indigenous people die as a result of violence at home, than at the hands of law enforcement. The same could be said of child abuse, far more children suffer abuse at the hands of fathers, uncles, brothers, grandfathers etc than from custodians of institutions. That is quite true. But is it the right point?
Jacinta’s point, made on Sky News, was in response to the ‘Black lives Matter’ protests. She argued that protesters were being self-indulgent, that they should look to their own backyard and get this terrible family-based reality sorted before focussing outside. It is true that domestic violence in indigenous communities is at epidemic proportions, but is her point at all helpful in this context?
It seems impertinent to be arguing against a person who claims a proud Aboriginal/Celtic heritage. However, with respect, she seriously misses the point, or perhaps glosses over it, for the sake of supporting a conservative political ideology. The reality is that when people are oppressed, when dignity is gone, when identity is denied, when loss and degradation has been systematic; the complex web of societal and cultural safeguards, taken for granted since time immemorial, become broken. Is anyone going to seriously suggest that family brutality was endemic within the indigenous population prior to white settlement? Of course not, societal norms were grounded and respected in highly developed customary law. This is not to defend indefensibility, but it is to say that ordering people to ‘pull themselves together’, while they live without meaning, purpose, or dignity, separated from custom, is patronising and misplaced.
When George Floyd was dying, he cried “I cannot breathe”, for him this was literally true, but for his people it has been metaphorically true for generations. 24 months ago when I was in Hebron, the largest Arab city on the Palestinian West Bank, the Palestinians said to me “the occupation and settlements are choking us”.
More than a decade ago I visited Deepsloot refugee camp not far from Pretoria, South Africa. It was a place of absolute squaller and desolation. The behaviour of men towards women in the camp was appalling. Nothing can defend brutality and sexual exploitation; however, it is one thing to condemn this behaviour, but quite another to address economic, social, and cultural inequity and loss, which underlies hopelessness. Being suffocated by oppression with loss of societal norms is a global phenomenon.
Black deaths in custody may not be the most accurate numerical indicator of the level of suffering and abuse experienced by Australia’s indigenous community, but they speak to the power base that refuses to address, or is ineptly incapable of addressing, underlying and continuing dislocation and loss. This ineptness, or cultural bias, looks exaggerated when not one single case of death in custody has been successfully prosecuted.
It is true that many indigenous deaths in custody have resulted from suicide and therefore, in theory at least, the judicial system and its officers are absolved from responsibility. However, even with a little knowledge of indigenous culture, and one should fairly assume that judicial officers are trained, it is clear that locking an indigenous person alone is highly dangerous. Australian indigenous, like indigenous everywhere, understand their identity through community – self is nothing outside community – and community is of course inclusive of country.
This matter, as much as anything else, is the heart of the problem and why attempted assimilation through the ’stolen generation’ became such a disastrous scandal, no matter how misguided the intention. No doubt many future studies will examine cultural change initiated by COVID 19 isolation. It is already clear that Australians want higher investment in meaningful relationship building. Is it possible that Australia and Australian society will now draw back from the precipice of social disintegration wrought through an over emphasis on the individual, and the minimisation of societal common good, rooted in our economic system? If so, it may well be the case that an indirect consequence of the pandemic is that, finally, White Australia wakes to the truth that we have culturally more to learn from indigenous Australians, than they have to learn from us; and that this learning is what will ‘bridge the gap’ in a way that white devised targets in health, education, longevity etc never can.
It is for this reason that a “Voice” to parliament is absolutely crucial, not simply for the sake of indigenous people, but for the sake of us all. I realise that the shape of the “Voice “ is yet to be finalised, but let there be no doubt it needs to happen. Minister Ken Wyatt, take courage and bring a referendum to the people before the next election, it is needed for all our sakes.
“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” ― Lilla Watson
(Lilla Watson is a Gangulu woman who grew up on the Dawson River, Central Queensland, her "Mother's country").
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There’s a saying in retail businesses that you “close to open.” Each evening before the team goes home, the floors are swept, coffee is prepped, and signs are put out for the day ahead. The next morning, the team can focus on the customers.
Rob Sproule - Fall Checklist
Your garden is closing for the year, and it’s twilight heading into a long night of winter. Take a few extra hours now, and in March and April when the melting snow reveals freshly composted beds and tulips popping out of the ground you’ll thank yourself. Here are a few things for your close-to-open fall checklist:
Perform garden surgery
Do you have an iris that looks like a donut? Or a bare spot along the fence where a tree should be? It’s surprising to many, but fall is the best time to roll up your sleeves and play garden surgeon.
Fallen leaves bring dormant root systems that essentially act as your anaesthesia, reducing stress on the patient. When transplanting, prep the new hole first. Dig as large a root ball as possible to disturb as few roots as possible. Toss in a fistful of bonemeal and surround the root ball with loose, rich soil so the fibrous roots can dig in a bit before winter. Water it well enough to make it an ice-cube after freeze-up. The same goes for planting trees. Dig a hole twice the root ball’s diameter with loose soil backfilled in. Water well and viola, you’ve got a new spring tree!
Plant fall bulbs
Alberta gardens are like teenagers: They wake up late and grumble the whole time. In April and May, even as we’re dreaming of summer colour, our gardens are a bleak brown colour. That’s when tulips and other fall bulbs, which felt like a chore in October, become glorious.
Pick some sunny spots through your perennial beds. Plant in groups of five to 10; tulips aren’t meant to fly solo. Plant two or three inches down, with the pointy side up. Water and forget about the bulbs until they provide the first vibrant smile of spring.
Make your bed
Making your bed in the morning is a great habit to get into. It starts the day right, and you know you’ll thank yourself when you crawl in that evening.
Your garden is exactly the same. Come spring time, the only thing you will want to do is plant, so amend your garden beds in the fall after you harvest. Fork in nutrient-rich compost or bagged manure to about six inches deep, especially in areas where you’re planning to grow tomatoes, corn, squash, and other greedy nitrogen suckers.
Deal with your pots
I have a dozen big ceramic pots around my yard, and I move them as little as possible. You won’t need to drag your glazed ceramics into the garage if you follow a few prepping tips. First of all, get all the old roots out. If you’ve planted annuals, most of the soil will come with them. The bottom half can be full of soil as long as it’s dry.
Make sure the pot is dry and its exterior is free of dirt and mud. You can either wrap it with bubble wrap (making sure it’s well sealed) or leave it. The gamble with leaving it is that if a freak rain/freeze happens you might get cracking. Honestly though, I haven’t wrapped my ceramics in 10 years and have had minimal cracking from water freezing.
Put the rake away
As easy as it is to ‘forget’ to give the lawn that last mow, it’s vital that you do. Head into the winter with a shaggy lawn and — especially with a heavy snow year — you’re leaving mice, voles, and a variety of other varmints with a cozy under-the-snow love nest.
Unless your yard is inundated with large trees, you can put the rake away. I run right over the leaves with my mower and grass-cycle it. The leaves release natural nitrogen as they break down, as long as the mulched leaves aren’t so thick they cover the grass entirely.
Service your mower
I often forget this one, but your lawnmower needs to be serviced and sharpened at least annually. If you wait until spring it’s going to be a long wait, so take the time to sharpen it up, get some gas in the jerry can, and store it properly. When you go to fetch it for your first mow of the spring it will be like finding $20 in your pocket!
Rob Sproule is the co-owner of Salisbury Greenhouse in Sherwood Park. Reach him by email at email@example.com or follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/SalisburyGarden.
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What is dyspepsia?
- Full during a meal.
- Painful fullness after a meal.
- Heat, burning or pain between your belly button and lower breastbone (upper belly).
Symptoms of dyspepsia
You may have one or more of these feelings if you are experiencing indigestion
- The feeling of being full or getting full quickly during a meal (and being unable to complete the meal).
- Painful fullness after a meal (as if food is staying in the stomach too long and not moving).
- Heat, burning or pain between your belly button and lower breastbone (in the upper belly); this pain can range from mild to very bad.
Some less frequent feelings that could be linked to indigestion are:
- Bloating (bad swelling in the stomach).
- Excessive gas in the abdomen.
- Throwing up.
- Burping or belching.
- Flatulence or feeling “windy”.
Causes of dyspepsia or indigestion
For some, certain actions can cause feelings of indigestion, such as:
- Eating too fast.
- Eating too much in one sitting.
- Eating high-fat, greasy or spicy foods.
- Drinking alcohol.
- Consuming too much caffeine.
- Experiencing stress.
- Taking some drugs.
- Taking too many painkillers (for example, for headaches or muscle/joint pain).
Other causes of indigestion (non-ulcer dyspepsia) could be
Tests for dyspepsia
Getting tested for indigestion, or to find the cause of it, is a key step to feeling better.
- An X-ray of the stomach and/or small intestine.
- An ultrasound of the belly.
- A blood, breath or stool test (to look for bacteria or allergies).
- An endoscopy (with biopsy).
What to expect during endoscopy
Treatment for dyspepsia
Your indigestion symptoms are unique to you.
Your gastroenterologist can help you find out the cause of your indigestion, so you can work
together to develop the best plan to handle your symptoms. Your choices will depend on the
cause of your indigestion.
Talk to your doctor about which medications or options might be best for you.
Lifestyle changes to treat dyspepsia
- Don’t smoke or use tobacco.
- Don’t drink alcohol, caffeine or carbonated drinks.
- Eat several small, low-fat meals during the day.
- Eat at a slow pace; chew food with care and fully.
- Allow enough time for meals (avoid excitement or exercise right after a meal).
- If possible, avoid taking aspirin or anti-inflammatory drugs (be sure to talk with your health care provider first).
- Try to track your symptoms to find out which foods cause your symptoms and do your best to cut those out of your diet.
- Don’t eat right before you go to bed.
- Sleep with your head raised slightly.
- Get plenty of rest.
- Find ways to reduce stress.
These drugs are helpful for people whose stomachs empty too slowly. An example is: Reglan®.
Side effects may include tiredness, sleepiness, depression (low mood), anxiety (feeling worried), jerky movements or spasms.
Your doctor may prescribe antibiotics if tests show bacteria.
- You have lost weight without trying to.
- You have trouble swallowing.
- You can’t stop throwing up.
- You have black, tarry stools.
- You have chest or belly pain with activity or if chest or belly pain is unrelieved by GI treatment.
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The Labor party gynocrats currently playing the Misogyny Monologues in Canberra to an admiring media audience both locally and globally are a political extension of the self-referential and self-regarding feminism that gave us such unwatchable drama as Eve Ensler’s Vagina Monologues. The Misogyny Monologues assumes, in the manner of such solipsism, that only a single correct position prevails on questions that affect soi disant women’s issues.
From this Labor feminist perspective, any plausible or, at least, debatable alternative that conflicts with official orthodoxy must be silenced. To enforce the orthodoxy, Labor’s thought police engage in a practice of labelling those who hold alternative viewpoints pejoratively. Not surprisingly, this tactic gives Australian political debate an increasingly Orwellian feel.
Indeed, when Macquarie Dictionary editor Sue Butler feels constrained, after Gillard’s diatribe, to change the dictionary’s misogyny entry from ‘hatred of women’ to an ‘entrenched prejudice against women’, we realise we are entering the realm of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Newspeak.
Unlike the Macquarie, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary definition of misogyny shows that the word compounds a Greek past participle and a collective noun: misos (hatred) and gyne (women). To redefine the first term as ‘prejudice’ and not hatred both distorts and stretches the concept. In the words of Syme, who worked in Oceania’s Ministry of Truth on the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary: ‘It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.’
Nor does the editor’s subsequent comment that ‘the entry [for misogyny] now has two definitions’ solve the problem of imprecision. As Alice observed in Through the Looking-Glass, ‘the question is whether you can make words mean different things’. Ms Butler and her Australian Labor sisterhood seem to reply, in the manner of Humpty Dumpty, ‘The question is, who is to be master. That is all.’
In the curious looking-glass world of Australian Labor, the Macquarie Dictionary’s redefinition of the term now fits ruling orthodoxy. ‘Political chaos,’ as Orwell observed in his 1946 essay ‘Politics and the English language’, ‘is connected with the decay of language.’ As a consequence of this negative political labelling, it is now impossible to offer even mild scepticism on a range of otherwise debatable policy positions. These range from a woman’s right to choose, late-term abortion, gay marriage, maternity leave and female priests and bishops. As a consequence, Tony Abbott is guilty of ‘hypocrisy’ for daring to raise the question of former Speaker Slipper’s attitude to women as the Prime Minister is daily offended by ‘the leader of the opposition’s sexism and misogyny’.
This is not to say that the Labor and feminist position on these issues is necessarily wrong. What is wrong is that any male or female who might query that position is ipso facto declared misogynist and excluded from debate. ‘Misogyny’ thus functions like other politically correct terms ‘racist’, ‘sexist’, ‘imperialist’, ‘colonialist’, ‘fascist’ to silence alternative positions and ultimately halt debate.
That this is about thought control and power becomes evident when the self-declared defenders of women’s rights address what by any liberal, secular and even, one might hope, socialist standard is real misogyny. Where, we might wonder, were Tanya, Julia, Jenny and Nicola when the Taleban gunned down a defenceless 15-year-old Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai, who committed the offence, in Islamist eyes, of welcoming a secular education and promoting girls’ education and women’s rights? The Taleban attempted to execute her for ‘Western thinking’.
What have the Labor feminists to say about the practice of forced or arranged marriages of underage girls among minority communities in Australia, which leads to cases like the rape and murder of Sargun Ragi? What are the views of Labor’s gynocracy on the male imamate’s patriarchal imposition of the veil on teenage Muslim girls in western Sydney?
What, one wonders, could be more misogynistic than the practice among some Australian Muslim communities of female circumcision? At least Eve Ensler had the integrity to add a Muslim woman’s viewpoint, ‘Under the Burqa’, to a revised version of her Vagina Monologues.
On these women’s issues, however, we find Labor feminists notably silent. Why should this be? In the leftist feminism that increasingly passes for Labor policy, the neglect of these misogynistic practices demonstrates neither cowardice nor indifference.
Rather it demonstrates multicultural sensitivity, deep cultural awareness and empathy with the non-Western other. Such renaming is not so much a convenient double standard as the classic practice of doublethink. It requires the orthodox to exercise a control over mental processes as complete as a contortionist over her body.
As Orwell explains, ‘doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.’ Like the inner party intellectual, the Labor feminist knows in which direction memories must be altered and therefore knows how to play tricks with current political reality, but by the exercise of doublethink she also satisfies herself that reality is not violated.
Doublethink over the treatment of women and multiculturalism as well as on a range of economic political and environmental issues now lies at the very heart of AusSoc. As in Nineteen Eighty-Four, ‘the essential act of the party is to use conscious deception while retaining the firmness of purpose that goes with complete honesty’. Its increasingly crude attempts to silence criticism that might expose its contradictions merely keeps ‘the lie one leap ahead of the truth’.
The feminist groupthink that flourishes on the wilder shores of academe has now become integral to Labor thought and practice. The growing thought control that pervades Australian political debate progressively corrupts language as official language corrupts thought. Words used in such a consciously dishonest way create a gap between real and declared political aims. As Orwell noted in 1946, politics thus becomes ‘a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia’. Ultimately, what the current misogyny monologue reveals is not Abbott’s but Labor’s rank hypocrisy.
David Martin Jones is a Brisbane-based academic and writer.
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The Waiuku war memorial was unveiled on 9 June 1921. This took the form of a granite obelisk on the corner of Queen and George streets. The people of Waiuku later also opened a memorial hospital in the town (Franklin Memorial Hospital). A roll of honour was also unveiled in the local public hall in 1931. In 1947 the names of Second World War servicemen were added to the memorial. In 2006 the memorial was restored and its surrounds redeveloped.
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Disability Rights Commission
The Disability Rights Commission (DRC) was established by the British Labour government in 1999. At that time, the DRC was the UK's third equality commission alongside the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equal Opportunities Commission. Its Chairman from 2000 to 2007 was Bert Massie.
The DRC was charged with reviewing the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 and recommending its amendment. It had rights of investigation and enforcement of disability legislation, and was responsible for advising employers on how to secure equal treatment of disabled employees. The DRC replaced an earlier and weaker body, the National Disability Council, established by the Conservatives in the 1990s.
The passing of the Equality Act 2006 means that in October 2007 the DRC was replaced by a new Equality and Human Rights Commission with powers across all equality law (race, sex, disability, religion and belief, sexual orientation and age).
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"I always use condoms with new partners, even if they have a clean STD test. Trust is earned for me in every aspect of a relationship, and so that means condoms too. Statistically, even with a negative partner, the chance of me transmitti..."
"You need to see your doctor if concerned. But as Grace stated, the exposure you had was not a risk for herpes, or any STD. Licking a breast, or cunnilingus for 2 seconds is not going to transmit herpes, even if she did have it."
In 10/2011 i went in for a pap and had my usual STD testing which included hetpeselect, a few days after my pap my gyn called and told me i was positive for hsv2 and negative for hsv 1. In 05/2012 i went to an allergy and immunology doctor and was sent to a lab for several blood tests: iga, igm, ige, igg and a few other tests and they all came back negative. My question is if i tested positive for hsv 2 previously should my igg test be positive also? P.s. i have never had any out breaks only a rash which was treated with nystatin/triamcinolone
I would ask her but it was mostly a one time thing and it isn't the type of thing to really ask. I have had many a female partner to know that what I felt was not "normal". So, I am more curious about the previous questions than any further acts with her. I appreciate the input. Thanks
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Design Variety in Welded Structures: Trailer Rear Guards
By Bill Mohr on Monday, August 13th, 2012
A day trip to Pittsburgh last Friday as a passenger allowed me time to watch the trucks pulling heavy-haul trailers. Taking a close look at the rear guards of trailers brought to light a fascinating subset of visible structure design. Each of the companies building dry freight trailers, refrigerated trailer (“reefers”) and platform trailers
has created a design to meet the requirements that a frame of certain height and width be placed at the rear end of the trailer. But what a variety. They are welded and bolted, steel and aluminum, sometimes with stiffener plates, sometimes with members around the outside edge, and always looking for simplicity and ease of manufacture.
This diversity is similar to the diversity of truss railroad bridges that went up in the United States as self-taught engineers applied their knowledge of load bearing structures and invented many types of truss before the Civil War. Now truss analysis programs are available for bridges. These indicate that many of these truss designs are very close to one another in capability.
EWI can help with design checks, and manufacturability assessments as companies look for an advantage is the structural design landscape.
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October is a time to celebrate breakthroughs in breast cancer treatment that helped create more than 3 million survivors in the United States. One in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime, but the average five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 89 percent. When cancer is located only in the breast, the survival rate is 99 percent. That’s progress worthy of all the pink “everywhere” that occurs each October.
Telling patients they are cancer-free is the best part of my job. While more breast cancer patients than ever will reach this milestone, it’s important to recognize that some will not. Three in 10 breast cancer patients will see their disease metastasize or spread far from its original site. Many of these brave fighters will endure and survive additional rounds of treatment.
Metastatic breast cancer usually occurs several years after a patient’s first diagnosis and is sometimes called “distant recurrence.” Metastases may include cells that are very different from the original cancer cells and may be resistant to previously used forms of treatment.
Today, there are several options for managing metastatic breast cancer. Some women live for many years with this disease. But on average, women survive three years. It’s understandable that people are not eager to talk about recurrence risk, but this pink elephant in the room is a profound challenge for patients and the oncology community.
It’s critical that the courageous women surviving with metastatic breast cancer have strong communities to support and surround them. With quality care delivered in small and large communities across the state, Texas Oncology patients don’t have to choose between being near their support networks and being near their treatments.
There is reason for tremendous hope. Cancer research is advancing. With more discoveries about how cancer cells work, researchers are developing new ways to target them, interrupting the signals they send and receive to control their growth and harnessing a patient’s own immune system to fight cancer with fewer side effects. The innovations of a few years ago are already saving lives. Through Texas Oncology’s clinical trial programs, women in Waco are benefiting from some of the most promising trials underway right now, without having to leave their supporters.
While researchers continue the work to find new treatment breakthroughs, it’s important to do all we can to support the women living with metastatic breast cancer now. In addition to enabling patients to stay near their communities of support, Texas Oncology helps patients address personal and emotional needs beyond their cancer. This includes providing information about the importance of nutrition and exercise, and working with community organizations, volunteers and support groups. We also help patients connect with counselors and other resources that can help make fighting metastatic breast cancer less difficult.
Our metastatic breast cancer patients are a source of inspiration and challenge for my colleagues and me. Nationally, 155,000 women are surviving this type of cancer. On their behalf, we are committed to pursuing new and better treatment options, so that more of them also can receive the good news that they are cancer-free.
Carl Chakmakjian, D.O., is a medical oncologist at Texas Oncology–Waco, 1700 W. State Highway 6.
Click here to view the full story from the Waco Tribune-Herald.
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Support for Third-Party Code on Websites
If a department, center or program uses a developer outside of HumTech to work on part of a website, this introduces third-party code to the site and limits the level of support HumTech can provide. This page explains support when a non-HumTech developer works on one or more parts of a website, while the Externally Developed Websites describes support for websites completely developed by a non-HumTech developer.
Our support of WordPress, the content management system (CMS) that is used to edit content on the website, does not change. So, if your group needs training or assistance editing their site’s content, they can reach out to HumTech for assistance.
WordPress regularly releases updates to add new features and improve security. On a monthly basis, HumTech goes through each website we have developed and applies these updates.
HumTech will support and maintain any code we’ve written, but not code written by non-HumTech developers. The original developer is ultimately responsible for their code and any changes that may need to be made to it.
- It’s possible a security update (like an update to WordPress) or a change in HumTech’s code may have an adverse effect on code written by someone outside of HumTech. In that case, HumTech will spend up to 1 hour attempting to resolve the issue. After an hour, it will be the job of the non-HumTech developer to investigate and resolve the issue/conflict with their code. HumTech will make sure the developer understands the issue and has access to fix it; the department must cover any developer costs for these fixes.
- Any feature request related to code written by the non-HumTech developer will need to be implemented by that developer at the department’s cost. For all other feature requests, email firstname.lastname@example.org or submit a ticket as usual.
- HumTech provides monthly reports of traffic coming to your department’s website using Google Analytics.
- HumTech maintains a week (7 days) of backups of every department website.
- Non-HumTech Developer – A developer who is not part of HumTech’s staff. This may include faculty, staff or a students from another department or a paid vendor who is unaffiliated with UCLA.
- Security Updates – From time to time, updates need to be made to WordPress and on the server (ex. Linux, PHP, Apache, mySQL) in order to resolve discovered security holes.
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Broad-scale modelling of coastal wetlands: what is required?
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This paper introduces a new broad-scale model of coastal wetland loss given sea-level rise, developed by the authors in the context of an EU-funded project. Internationally innovative research: the first broad-scale modelling effort to consider both net losses (conversion to open water) and transitions to other wetland types.
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To Common, that bohemian watering hole and eatery in Manchester’s Northern Quarter – the Left Bank of the North – and an exhibition of photography by 27-year-old Robert George, currently on display in the Kestrel Suite. But before apprising you of its artistic merits, a warning: as is so often the case with art, the exhibition’s preamble text and titling is enigmatic and thick with allusion, requiring more than a smattering of English history to help disentangle the concept.
In simple terms, Athelstan’s Dream is an exhibition of portraiture taken over a three-day period in London. As might be expected, images of facial weathering and ethnic diversity abound. But while variety of age and race might be the compelling pictorial essence of the exhibition, the subjects are linked by their expressions, most appearing pensive, solemn or careworn. The human condition – a slightly fatigued one – seems to be George’s niche.
But who is Athelstan and why George’s invocation of him? Here, dear reader, is a brief but necessary account of the most interesting episode of Anglo-Saxon history. Athelstan was the first true king of England. His grandfather, Alfred the Great, is famous for battling the Vikings and halting their attempts to destroy Anglo-Saxon power in the late 800s. During their incursions, the Vikings – hailing largely from Denmark – settled in the east of England which came to be known as the Danelaw. Whereas Alfred accepted the Danish presence and attempted to live in peace with them, Athelstan, fuelled by the success of his father Edward the Elder (who retook much of the Danelaw), attempted to rid England of all its Danish power bases and bring the entire population under his control, a task which he completed in 927 with the conquest of York.
The later medieval romance Guy of Warwick cast King Athelstan as the saviour of England, promised by an angel in a dream of a great victory over the Danes, thus saving England from the clutches of the pagan Scandinavians. It’s a little highbrow but, in referencing Athelstan, George is using him as a cultural marker for the beginning of England, specifically a white Christian one, in order to facilitate comparison with England today. “Any visions once dreamt for this island have been surpassed,” the preamble states assertively. Athelstan, it seems to be saying, could never have dreamt of an England as complex as this.
Which takes us to the photographs. A Portrait of Mr Stagger Lee immediately caught my eye, the subject reminding me of an unkempt, in-character Tommy Lee Jones, all grimace and steely-eyed, with straggly, grey hair protruding from beneath a snug deerstalker hat. But is this a portrait of destitution or the study of an overworked man? It’s hard to tell for, aside from his grizzled greyness, the man sports a black overcoat and a bag slung over his shoulder, which would seem to indicate purpose.
Girl with Pursed Fingers is, by comparison, a more optimistic and beautiful affair: the profile of a young woman wearing a grey beret, casually but tastefully attired, her fingers tentatively gripping a signpost as she gazes thoughtfully along a busy London street. Although she is young compared to Mr Stagger Lee, there is an air of maturity about her, conveyed by her clothes and expression. This could almost be a fashion shot on account of the subject and its composition, though the subject’s plaited hair suggests a primness and intelligence less in-keeping with Elle magazine.
The aforementioned are your reviewer’s stand-out photos, though the remainder of the exhibition is no less intriguing. Giant with Slender Shoulders shows a balding man wearing a sleeveless t-shirt gazing anxiously down, pondering unknown troubles. An Exhausted Enthusiasm is the portrait of a woman who looks as if the years have indeed eroded her lust for life. With her permed hair, quilted coat and gold jewellery, she has an air of respectability, though she appears lost in her thoughts, as if inwardly questioning her surroundings and her place in them. It’s a touching photograph that makes you want to take the weight off her feet.
In contrast, Two Smokers has a slovenly quality, an older Chinese man smoking in the foreground while an overweight, younger white woman puffs away at the rear; a contrast of race and gender, but the sharing of a human habit. In Three Expressions a Sikh couple walk slowly along the street, the man’s bright red turban dominating the photo, while an Afro-Caribbean girl on her mobile phone walks briskly behind. It’s a study of settled integration, but also of the nature of youth and age: the girl is moving quickly, the couple slowly; she is talking, the couple are silent, distinguished by wiser expressions; the man’s more brooding, the woman’s knowing.
Athelstan’s Dream is both a commentary on the human condition and ethnicity of the nation and raises questions about English identity and the concept of Englishness. It’s worth bearing in mind, however, that these images were taken in London, which, throughout history, in Athelstan’s time and long before, has always been an unusually diverse city. It is not England. Yet while George may be guilty of a little concept over-reach, there can be no doubt that he has provided us with an impeccable snapshot of everyday life in the capital and the seemingly unpredictable path of this country’s social history.
Review by Matthew Graham
What: Athelstan’s Dream, an exhibition of photographs by Robert George
Where: Common, Northern Quarter, Manchester
When: until September 26, 2013
More info: www.aplacecalledcommon.co.uk
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Horatio Hornblower (1999)
A&E Home Video
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional character created by British writer C. S. Forester in 1937 that has captivated audiences since, and has appeared in a series of 10 novels by the acclaimed author. Forester was a historical novelist, biographer, journalist and screenwriter wrapped into one, and most people are certainly familiar with his most famous work, "The African Queen" which found its way to the silver screen in 1951 with Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn, based on his own screenplay adaptation of his novel. A&E has taken the epic saga of the swashbuckling Horatio Hornblower and created four television movies that have now been released on DVD in a 4-disc box set from A&E Home Video.
The series of films consists of four adventures surrounding Horatio Hornblower, a naval officer in the British Navy during Nelson’s time. Each story has a complete closure so that they can be either viewed independently or consecutively. If you are anything like me however, you will be glued in front of your TV set for the almost 7 hours of the entire series, completely captivated by the beautiful images and the engrossing stories.
The first film, called "The Duel" introduces us to Hornblower as he becomes a midshipman onboard the "Justinian." Son of a renown physician, Hornblower is a real landlubber, but with high naval ambitions. As he enters the service, another midshipman, Simpson takes an instant dislike in the young sailor and uses his own power onboard to play sadistic and violent games with young Horatio Hornblower. While he attempts to avoid open confrontations, Simpson’s aggressive tyranny among the midshipmen of the "Justinian" and his killing of one of Hornblower’s friends, forces the aspiring officer to take action. But before they can settle their differences, Hornblower is transferred to the "Indefatigable" as war with France erupts. There, he manages to build a reputation for himself as a solid sailor, strategist and heroic combatant.
One day he sets out to rescue a handful of survivors from a wreckage, and realizes in horror that it is the "Justinian". Among the survivors is none other than Simpson, ready to once again start his violent regime among midshipmen.
The second film in the saga is "The Fire Ship." The war with France is getting more fierce by the day and the Spanish are slowly taking a stance towards the French enemy without openly entering the war. But on multiple occasions do the Spaniards destroy English supply ships, leaving the crews on board of ships like the "Indefatigable" for months without fresh food. While Hornblower prepars himself for his lieutenant exams, the "Indefatigable" sail to the African Coast to pick up fresh rations for the starving men, but as it turns out, the settlement is infected by the Plague. To avoid infection of the ship’s members, Hornblower proposes to remain on a separate ship with his men for a three-week quarantine. During that time he gathers first experience as a captain of a vessel himself, and learns that the real challenge of being an excellent officer comes at sea, and not from examinations. By the time he is taking his test, he is not only skilled but also has the ability to show the examiners how his quick and heroic decision making can save hundreds of lives, as a Spanish fire ship is on a collision course with the "Indefatigable".
After two parts on sea, the story takes a turn inland. In "The Duchess And The Evil" Hornblower and a small crew of men manage to capture a French ship, "La Reve". He is rewarded with his first official command and ordered to sail the ship to Britain, taking an intriguing duchess with him as a passenger. Before they know it, Hornblower and his men find themselves in the midst of the Spanish Armada during heavy fog. They are captured and sent to prison, but before they are forced to leave the ship, Hornblower manages to give important documents to the duchess who, as a royal civilian, will go free, while the sailors will be taken captive. Imprisoned on a remote island, Hornblower and his crew forge plans to escape, but all their preparations change when a Spanish ship capsizes and sinks offshore during a storm and the captivated men are allowed to mount a rescue operation.
The last part in the series is "The Wrong War." To defeat the French from within, the British are planning to use infiltration tactics and ally themselves with French rebels. A group of French royalists is determined to put their king on the throne, and to break the new republic. Aboard the "Indefatigable" and other ships, these French rebels are taken to the French coast to execute their strike, but it soon turns out that they are neither prepared, nor willing to face the reality of the war. As the French troops draw closer and the supporting English sailors prepare for a hopeless battle, Hornblower is disillusioned and realizes that this may have been the most fateful mission he has ever been sent on. He finds himself dragged into a war between French Royalists and Republicans, a war he and his men have very little understanding for.
The 4-disc box set A&E Home Video is presenting us here with us quite staggering. The transfers on the discs are beautiful and nicely transferred. The images of the movie conjure up visions of a glorious time when ships where masterpieces of craftsmanship. We all know the paintings of the battles at sea with firing cannons, rough seas underneath overcast skies. Tinged in opal tones, these pictures let you almost smell the scent of the gunpowder in the air. "Horatio Hornblower" does an excellent job in recreating this atmosphere, without being overly romanticized. We still get to see the living conditions and hardship of the time as well, but ever so often we get a glimpse of truly glorious maritime pictures. But the movie also adds a lot of action, spectacle and human elements to the mix in order to create compelling stories that are so powerful that the 2-hours that each episode lasts, simply fly by in a blink. I guarantee that you won’t be able to take you eyes off the screen once during these films. The DVD maintains this quality perfectly with true colors and a great level of detail. Presented as <$PS,fullframe> presentations, the transfers are practically without flaws. Clean and sharp, the colors are strong and saturated but without noise or bleeding. The blacks are also very deep and combined with the good highlights, create an image that has a beautiful visual depth. Running at DVD’s highest video datarate of 9.8 Mps, the transfer is also virtually free of compression artifacts, although slight signs of edge-enhancement are evident.
The discs all contain a single English language audio track in <$DD,Dolby Digital> and selectable English subtitles. The audio is presented in a stereo mix that is well integrated. The music in the movies is very prominent and also well produced, but never drowns out the dialogues, which remain very understandable at all times.
Being a television production it is hardly surprising that it comes only in a stereo version, but it makes you wonder what a well prepared surround mix with a low frequency extension could do to these films. Nonetheless, the cannon roar is coming across with quite some punch and the frequency response of the tracks is very wide and natural, leaving even the most subtle ambient effects fully intact.
The box set also contains a number of supplements, namely a dedicated documentary on each one of the discs. One of them is a "Behind The Scenes" featurette that takes you on the set of the making of the film, while another one covers nautical terms and definitions. Another yet sheds light on the life and work of C. S. Forester and the third one s a feature about "England’s Royal Warship", hosted by none other than Prince Edward of England. All featurettes are very well produced and offer a lot of insight into the time and workings of the Napoleonic wars during which the movies are set. If you enjoy the films, and I am sure you will, there can be no doubt that you will have to watch these great documentaries just as well.
"Horatio Hornblower" is a truly compelling epic and it is a truly stunning DVD release from A&E Home Video. Without a doubt, it is one of the best-looking films ever made about the era, making it an instant classic among historic seafaring dramas. Poetic, powerful and beautiful to behold, "Horatio Hornblower" is a must-see for everyone who enjoys adventurous, historical dramas. Although I personally enjoyed the first two episodes the most, all four of them are of top-notch quality, setting a new standard for television productions. Not only are the production values of this series simply amazing, the heroic stories, the beautiful images and the great acting put "Horatio Hornblower" in a league of its own. To pay proper tribute to this landmark production, A&E has released a box set on DVD that is a complete winner and leaves nothing to be desired!
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National Instruments (Nasdaq:NATI) announced the newest version of the NI Vision Development Module, a comprehensive library of image processing and machine vision functions for multiple programming languages, including NI LabVIEW and LabWindows(TM)/CVI as well as Microsoft C, C++, Visual Basic and .NET. With features including an improved edge-detection algorithm and support for new 2-D codes, machine designers can more efficiently enhance images, check for presence, locate features, identify objects and measure parts.
With improved edge-detection algorithms available in the Vision Development Module 8.5, engineers can successfully locate hard-to-find edges like those in many web-inspection applications. They also can reliably find edges at 1/25 or better pixel accuracy and offer improved reliability in images with noise, a 10 times improvement in accuracy over the previous method. For example, in an image with added uniform noise of amplitude 10, the max error dropped from 4/10 of a pixel to 5/100 of a pixel with the new edge detector. Additionally, engineers can detect straight edged lines in images, which helps them detect multiple intersecting lines that appear in the image at different orientations. The edge detector also provides support for calibrated images and incorporates calibration information, including image distortion associated with the image as part of the edge-detection process.
The Vision Development Module 8.5 provides enhanced support for the entire NI vision hardware platform and offers improved 2-D code recognition. Presently, 2-D bar codes are the most common application for machine vision in industrial applications, and the Vision Development Module allows for 1-D and 2-D code reading and optical character recognition/verification on images. This capability helps engineers identify packaging and assembly errors earlier in production. Additional support for new bar code types has been added, including quick response (QR) code, 2-D bar code that contains information about products, and Pharmacode, often used in the pharmaceutical industry.
The module also includes the Vision Assistant Express VI and the Vision Acquisition Express VI. The Vision Assistant Express VI packages the power of the Vision Assistant, an image processing and application prototyping environment, into a single VI to simplify vision applications. With Vision Acquisition Express VI engineers can acquire images from any NI vision hardware, as well as IEEE 1394 and Gigabit Ethernet cameras connected to standard ports, all in a simple menu-driven environment. Implementing the Vision Assistant Express VIs and the Vision Acquisition Express VIs increases the ease of use for programmable machine vision applications, cuts development time and lowers the bar of entry for machine designers who require the flexibility of LabVIEW.
About National Instruments
National Instruments is transforming the way engineers and scientists design, prototype and deploy systems for measurement, automation and embedded applications. NI empowers customers with off-the-shelf software such as NI LabVIEW and modular cost-effective hardware, and sells to a broad base of more than 25,000 different companies worldwide, with no one customer representing more than 3 percent of revenue and no one industry representing more than 10 percent of revenue. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 4,300 employees and direct operations in nearly 40 countries. For the past eight years, FORTUNE magazine has named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
NI Vision Development Module 8.5
Priced from $3,299; €2,999; ¥463,000
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The discussion group is intended as a showcase to appreciate the state of the art on the internal evaluation process handling L1-Biodiversity datasets.
The topics which have been launched by the EP on Biodiversity and Ground Vegetation, together with EP on Growth, will be described, and updated.
Each research topic, leaded by an internal member of the ICP Forests community, will be afforded within a strict Working Group (private), edited for merely information. Only invited members, contributing to the elaboration themes, will share the operative information and discussions.
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Topics for internal evaluations: description, involved people, status, etc.
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Hi everybody! Maybe this is a stupid question but I would like to know the availability of the data acquired in the field in L1 plots involved in the BioSoil-BIODIVERSITY project. Thanks in advance…Continue
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The Tissue Imaging Laboratory, located on the UCSD campus, is affiliated with the CTRI and both the Orthopaedic Surgery Department in the School of Medicine and the Bioengineering Department within the School of Engineering. As such, a variety of methodologies are available to define both the structure and function of biological tissues. These methods include, micro computed tomography, simultaneous high resolution microscopy and mechanics of single muscle cells and small muscle fiber bundles, metabolic assays for insulin sensitivity and glucose transport as well as the traditional methodologies.
The laboratory also has a significant commitment to training students via scientific research. Training occurs at all levels ranging from high school to post-graduate international visiting fellows. Lab personnel specialize in studying musculoskeletal design and musculoskeletal adaptation. UCSD faculty as well as scholars from other universities regularly partner with the lab’s physiologists, hand surgeons, residents, graduate students, and undergraduate students.
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“The start of a new year is a great time for companies to evaluate their information security practices and begin thinking about what threats they’ll be facing in the coming year,” said Kevin Prince, CTO, Perimeter E-Security. “As these security threats are becoming more serious and difficult to detect, it is vital for companies to understand what they can do to best protect their systems and information.
Top 10 information security threats for 2010 according to Perimeter E-Security:
Last year, Malware was listed as the second highest ranked threat to organizations on Perimeter E-Security’s list of top threats. There are many methods to install malware on systems, including the use of client-side software vulnerabilities. Browsers remain a top target for vulnerabilities. In 2009, the FBI reported that for the first time ever, revenue from cybercrime had exceeded drug trafficking, estimated at taking in more than one billion annually in profits.
2. Malicious insiders
Malicious insiders were listed as the top threat for 2009, but have fallen to the #2 spot for 2010. With the downturn in the economy last year, it was no surprise that many desperate and disgruntled employees attempted to exploit the companies they currently or previously worked for. There is no way to eliminate the threat of malicious insiders completely, but through good security policies and followed procedures, the incidents could be a fraction of what they are today. With the economy still suffering and still high unemployment levels, Malicious Insiders will continue to be a threat.
3. Exploited vulnerabilities
Vulnerability exploit is at the heart of hacking and data breaches. Worms, viruses, malware, and a host of other attack types often rely on vulnerability exploit to infect, spread and perform the actions cyber criminals want. And yet, organizations are still not doing what they need to for patch management. Hackers are more often exploiting client side vulnerabilities and other vulnerabilities associated with 3rd party applications.
4. Careless employees
Careless and untrained insiders will continue to be a very serious threat to organizations in 2010. Insiders can be broken down into three categories: careless & untrained employees, employees that are duped or fall prey to social engineering type attacks, and malicious employees. Protecting a network and critical and sensitive data is done very differently for each type. Policies, procedures, training and a little technology can make a world of difference in reducing an organization’s risk to careless insiders.
5. Mobile devices
Mobile devices have become a plague for information security professionals. There are worms and other malware that specifically target these devices such as the iPhone worm that would steal banking data and enlist these devices in a botnet. Theft is still a major cause of data breaches as mobile devices, especially laptops, are the main culprits. Tens of thousands of laptops are stolen each year and often these have sensitive data that require public disclosure as a data breach.
6. Social networking
Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and others have changed the way people communicate with each other, but these sites can pose serious threats to organizations. One main problem is that there is a trust component to these sites which makes them fertile ground for identity thieves. There is also a personal safety issue. Social networking sites are a stalker’s dream come true. Social networking sites are breeding grounds for SPAM, scams, scareware and a host of other attacks and these threats will continue to rise.
7. Social engineering
Social engineering is always a popular tool used by cyber criminals and phishing is still a popular method for doing just that. In fact, these new venues make social engineering even more effective. This year will have an added measure of complexity when it comes to social engineering attacks. Beginning sometime mid-2010, domain names will be expanded to include Japanese, Arabic, Hindi and even Greek characters, and with all of these characters being available for domain names, no longer will looking at a domain help one determine if it’s legitimate or not.
8. Zero-day exploits
Zero-day exploits are when an attacker can compromise a system based on a known vulnerability but no patch or fix exists, and they have become a very serious threat to information security. Zero-day vulnerabilities are being discovered in traditionally very secure protocols such as SSL and TLS. The zero-day vulnerability could also be in providers.
9. Cloud computing security threats
Using cloud based (i.e. Internet based) applications may not be as secure as once thought with many stories in 2009 regarding cloud based security issues. Many are calling for forced encryption to access “in the cloud” services. As cloud computing grows in popularity over the next few years, cloud security will become a very big issue.
10. Cyber espionage
Cyberespionage is a threat that’s being heard more and more all the time and there have been a flood of stories in 2009 on this subject. Most of these incidents surround government bodies and agencies and therefore have not been a huge threat to most individual organizations. However, since cyber espionage has major implications for the government, it is a rising threat that must be closely monitored.
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“Not all those who wander are lost.”
We often think of wandering as inherently wrong or bad as if a ‘wanderer’ does not know where they are going but they also are void of purpose. Yet Mr. Tolkien and myself disagree with this notion- on the contrary we believe that they are not lost, but looking, seeking. If you view wandering from the lens of a great search and rescue party, seeking to find, and wandering until found- it flips the script entirely. Jesus speaks plainly throughout the gospels about ‘seeking and finding’ and knocking closed doors to find the open ones. If Jesus encourages ‘seeking’ than sometimes and I argue- often we need to be willing to get lost. At OneLife, many students who enter our program are looking for something- often times it’s clarity, wisdom, discernment- to know their specific calling, to know God and who He created them to be. All of these reasons are valid and permissible convictions for enrolling in OneLife, yet the blaring commonality that not just students have (but all of humanity) is that we are all looking for someone or something.
At OneLife, we have a professional staff of leaders that will guide, mentor, disciple, and help students discern who God is leading them to be. That’s why we believe it’s okay to wander and even get lost. It’s not only okay to wander, we might even encourage it. We encourage students to wander because we see what wandering with God results in. When you know with whom you are wandering and with whom- it makes all the difference. The difference at OneLife is that many students don’t know their future endeavors- college, university, work, calling, family, etc. but they seek and wander in a God-fearing, God-honoring community that is following Jesus in their wandering. So we will continue to wander, learning to be lost in a world that we were never meant to make home, and seek first the kingdom that never dies.
Benjamin Case – Resident Leader
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BirdLife International (2022) Important Bird Areas factsheet: North Ronaldsay Coast. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 17/08/2022.
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By Andrew Markel
BRAKE & FRONT END Magazine
It is tough for a technician to know what they are getting when they buy a rotor. According to a recent U.S. International Trade Commission report, 80% of the rotors sold today are made in a country other than the United States. If the technician or counterman is only going on the price on the screen, it is difficult to pick the best rotor.
Design and Engineering
Some rotor manufacturers care only about the external dimensions of a rotor. The engineer wants it to fit and disregards the performance attributes. In the industry, this is called the “round and heavy” philosophy. Some aftermarket rotor manufacturers will take the OE design and make it better in order to exceed customer expectations.
Engineers will put in years of research and development and racing in order to develop and manufacture a rotor that can go beyond OE specifications.
Some rotor manufacturers will research and formulate high temperature and high strength alloys in order to have the best metallurgical microstructures. Also, they will develop casting and machining processes that maximizes certain properties of the metallurgical microstructures.
Casting and Machining
Many cheap castings are poured with the least amount of iron possible. When these are machined at the factory, they are essentially performing a “skin cut” where they remove the least amount of scale and material possible. The outer layer of iron is not as stable as the material underneath. This creates problems with porosity and strength. Eventually, these problems create stress in the rotor leading to distortion in the rotor. This results in a pulsation complaint.
Some rotors are processed through a controlled heat treating cycle that relieves internal stress in the rotor and improves the thermal stability and microstructures. According to some manufacturers, this eliminates any need or benefit of cryogenically treating a rotor.
Signs of a Good Rotor
A rotor should be mass balanced or it will shake or vibrate. Look at the method used to balance the rotor. Some manufacturers will either place weights in the fins or remove material from the outside diameter of the rotor’s plates.
If the rotor was mill balanced, you will see notches or cuts in the rotor. But, if too much weight is added or removed, it is a direct indication that the rotor has some severe internal problems that are causing this out-of-balance condition. Adding or removing mass can result in the rotor being thermally unbalanced.
As a rotor heats up, the area where the material was removed is different than the surrounding area. The way it absorbs and dissipates heat is changed. This creates stress in the rotor when it is heat cycled on the vehicle. Over time this will cause runout and thickness variation. Some rotors are balanced using a machining technology that mills the rotor concentrically eliminating these problems.
One standard that can be used to judge some rotors is if the manufacturer is certified by the International Standards Organization (ISO). The aim of ISO standards is the development of a quality management system that provides for continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste.
ISO/TS 16949 applies to the design/development, production and, when relevant, installation and servicing of automotive-related products.
If a manufacturer follows ISO/TS 16949, the manufacturer can provide you with the following information upon request:
1. Certified metallurgical chemical analysis for every batch poured.
2. Hardness of the brake face in eight places of that batch of rotors.
3. Concentricity of the mounting pilot to the outside diameter should be less than .002”.
4. Micro finish should be less than 35Ra or .7 micro inch.
5. Runout of the brake face to the mounting surface should be less than .001”.
6. Thickness variation of the brake plates should be less than .0003 inches.
7. Who performed the machining.
It’s not just how heavy a rotor is or if it will fit. The rotor needs to be properly designed for thermal capacity and superior heat dissipation, and it must be manufactured with precision to meet today’s vehicle requirements.
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December 2015 - Urological cancer profiles updated to 2011-13 incidence and mortality.
About the Hub
The Urological Cancer Hub provides data and intelligence on urological cancers in England. It is aimed at a wide range of professionals working in the field, including NHS providers, commissioners, Cancer Networks, charities, urologists and other clinicians. It also provides information and links for patients and the general public who wish to understand more about urological cancers, including information about incidence and mortality, and past and current trends. It has also been specifically designed to support the work of the NCIN's Urology Site Specific Clinical Reference Group.
There are several cancers which are grouped together as the urological cancers (links are to the Cancer Research UK website):
There are a number of specialist charities for urological cancers. For more information, see our Information for patients and carers page.
The Urological Cancer Hub is maintained by the Public Health England National Cancer Intelligence Network (Bristol team). NCIN (Bristol) leads on the analysis and collection of urological cancer data on behalf of the Cancer Registration Service (CRS). We are pleased also to work with the British Association of Urological Surgeons.
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Forsyth County, Georgia
|Forsyth County, Georgia|
Forsyth County Courthouse in Cumming
Location in the U.S. state of Georgia
Georgia's location in the U.S.
|Founded||December 3, 1831|
|Named for||John Forsyth|
|• Total||247 sq mi (640 km2)|
|• Land||224 sq mi (580 km2)|
|• Water||23 sq mi (60 km2), 9.4%|
|• Density||783/sq mi (302/km²)|
|Congressional districts||7th, 9th|
|Time zone||Eastern: UTC-5/-4|
Forsyth County is a county located in the north central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 175,511. The county seat is Cumming. Forsyth County is included in the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
During the early 21st century, Forsyth County has been one of the fastest-growing areas in the United States in terms of percentage of growth. The population growth was stimulated by the county's proximity to Atlanta and its appeal as a commuter base for people working in the Atlanta area. The influx of high-earning professionals has increased the average income dramatically; in 2008 Forbes ranked the county as the 13th-wealthiest in the United States in terms of median household income.
In the 1980s the county attracted national media attention as the site of large civil rights demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. Organizers had hoped to dispel the county's image as a sundown town; whites had expelled blacks in 1912 and been hostile to minorities for many decades since. Thousands of marchers on both sides came from outside the area; officials kept peace with police officers and National Guard protecting the event.
From 2007 to 2009 the county received additional national attention because of a severe regional drought. Lake Lanier forms the eastern border of the county. Water supplies for the metro Atlanta area and, downstream, areas of Alabama and Florida were threatened during the drought. This followed a more severe drought during 2007 and 2008, and flooding earlier in 2009. Flooding occurred in 2013, and severe drought again in June 2016. Georgia, Alabama and Florida have been in a tri-state water dispute since 1990 over apportionment of water flow from Lake Lanier, which is regulated by the Army Corps of Engineers as a federal project.
- 1 History
- 2 Geography
- 3 Demographics
- 4 Education
- 5 Recreation
- 6 Government and Politics
- 7 Communities
- 8 See also
- 9 Notes and references
- 10 Further reading
- 11 External links
For thousands of years, varying indigenous cultures lived in this area along the Etowah River. Starting near the end of the first millennium, Mound Builders of the Mississippian culture settled in this area; they built earthwork mound structures at nearby Etowah in present-day Bartow County, and large communities along the Etowah River in neighboring Cherokee County. They disappeared about 1500CE, before European encounter.
Members of the Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee Nation migrated into the area from the North, possibly from the Great Lakes area. They settled in the territory that would become Forsyth County and throughout upper Georgia and Alabama, also having settlements or towns in present-day Tennessee and western North Carolina.
After the discovery of gold by European Americans in the surrounding area in 1829, numerous settlers moved into the area. They increased the pressure on the state and federal government to have the Cherokee and other Native Americans removed to west of the Mississippi River, in order to extinguish their land claims and make land available for purchase. The Cherokee were forced to relocate during what was called the Trail of Tears.
Forsyth County was named after John Forsyth, Governor of Georgia from 1827–1829 and Secretary of State under Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. For many years, much of this hill country was farmed by yeomen farmers, who did not own many slaves.
20th century to present
The county population of about 10,000 was 90 percent majority white in the early 20th century, and residents still depended on agriculture. Its more than 1,000 "blacks" included 440 persons classified as mixed race on the census, indicating a continuing history of racial mixing.
Racial tensions became inflamed following two separate incidents in September 1912 in which black men were alleged to have raped white women. In the first case, a black preacher was assaulted by whites for suggesting the alleged victim may have been having a consensual relationship with a black man. The Sheriff gained support from the governor, who sent more than 20 National Guard troops to keep peace. The suspects in the first case were never tried, for lack of evidence.
In the second case, one of five black suspects was lynched by a mob of 4,000 who stormed the Cumming jail after arrests, shot him, and hanged his body on the town square. The woman rape victim died two weeks after being attacked. Charges against two of the four persons left in the second case were dropped after a plea bargain. But two young black men under 18 were quickly convicted by all-white juries and executed by hanging. Whites afterward harassed and intimidated blacks in Forsyth and neighboring counties, forcing most of them out of the region within weeks. By the late 20th century, residents were still almost all white.
During the 1950s, with the introduction of the poultry industry, the county had steady economic growth but was still all white and mostly rural. Georgia State Route 400 opened in 1971 and was eventually extended through the county and northward; it stimulated population growth as the county became a bedroom community for people working in Atlanta, which had expanding work opportunities.
By 1980, the county population was 27,500, growing to 40,000 in 1987. While some blacks worked in the county in new industries, none lived there. The county gained more than 30 new industries from 1980 and unemployment was low. Such growth resulted in the median income, formerly low, "rising faster than in any other county in Georgia." A small civil rights march in the county seat of Cumming in January 1987 was attacked by people throwing rocks, dirt and bottles. A week later another, much larger march took place, with civil rights activists going from Atlanta to Cumming protected by police and National Guard, and thousands of protesters joining a counter-demonstration. Local people said conditions had been improving for minorities, but whites appeared to be reacting out of fear.
Forsyth County continued to be developed for subdivisions, industry and related businesses. In 2008 it had been ranked among the top ten fastest-growing counties of the United States for several years. Many new subdivisions have been constructed, several around top-quality golf courses. The county's proximity to Atlanta and the Blue Ridge mountains, and bordering 37,000-acre (150 km2) Lake Sidney Lanier, has attracted many new residents. More than 60% of the current population either lived elsewhere in 1987 or had not yet been born.
The growth has put a strain on water supplies, especially during area droughts in the 21st century. Suburban growth has greatly increased water consumption in the area to maintain lawns and gardens, and supply new households. The region had severe droughts in 2007-2008 that threatened downriver water supplies in Alabama and Florida in addition to Atlanta, in 2013 and in 2016. Bans on outdoor use of water were put in place, and the area has encouraged conversion of toilets and appliances to those that use less water. A severe drought in southern Forsyth County was declared by the end of June 2016. Several county organizations work to plan growth that can sustain the high quality of life in the area.
The changing dynamics between white and black citizens after the Civil War resulted in tensions across the southern United States as whites tried to maintain dominance. They used violence to intimidate black voters and regain control of state legislatures, ending Reconstruction. At the turn of the 20th century, white Democrats dominated the Georgia legislature and passed laws increasing barriers to voter registration and voting, effectively disenfranchising most blacks in the state. Unable to vote, they were also excluded from juries. The white legislators passed racial segregation and other Jim Crow laws. Racial tensions increased as rural workers started to move to industrializing cities. Whites rioted against blacks in the Atlanta in 1906, resulting in more than 20 dead.
Forsyth County had a county population with a minority of ethnic African residents. The 1910 census recorded 10,847 white, 658 black, and 440 mulatto (mixed-race) residents, making the number of black citizens slightly more than 5% (as classified under the binary system of the South that classified all people of any African descent as Negro or black). They tended to work as sharecroppers, with some women working as domestic servants, and struggled with poverty.
In early September 1912 a white woman said she was the victim of an attempted rape by two black men, but they left before she was hurt. On September 7, 1912, police arrested five black men in connection with the assault, including Tony Howell and Isaiah Pirkle. That same afternoon members of numerous area black churches gathered for a barbecue just outside the county seat of Cumming. Preacher Grant Smith was heard to question the alleged victim's account, saying that perhaps she had been caught and had lied about what was actually a consensual relationship with a black man. (The mixed-race population in the county showed that whites and blacks had relationships; most were between white men and black or mixed-race women, which the whites tried to treat as a secret.) Whites horse-whipped Smith outside the courthouse, where he was rescued by police and taken into custody for his safety.
They locked him in the courthouse for safety. Rumors spread on both sides; whites said that the blacks threatened to dynamite the town. White residents gathered a lynch mob of 500 men (when Cumming had only 300 residents in total), with men coming to join from surrounding areas. They talked of lynching the black citizens held at the jail. By 1:30 p.m., the Sheriff deputized 25 men and called the Governor for help, who ordered in 23 National Guardsmen from nearby Gainesville, Georgia.
The next day, September 8, Mae Crow, a 19-year-old white girl, was attacked in a nearby community while walking to her aunt's house. She was pulled into the woods and assaulted. According to later testimony, she was raped by Ernest Knox, a 16-year-old black who worked as a hired hand at a neighbor’s farm. Knox was said to have told friends about the incident: Oscar Daniel (17), his sister Trussie (Jane) Daniel (21), and her live-in boyfriend Rob Edwards (24), who also went to the scene. They left the girl, thinking she had died and being afraid to get involved. Crow was found the next day by a search party; whites said later that she had regained consciousness briefly and named Knox as her attacker, but no newspaper reported this. A small hand mirror found at the scene was recognized as belonging to Knox; police used it to connect him to the crime and arrested him that morning. Police said he confessed fully. Because of the trouble two days before in Cumming, they took Knox to the jail in Gainesville. Hearing threats of a lynch mob there, officials moved him to a jail in Atlanta.
The following day, Knox’s friends were arrested in connection with the Mae Crow assault. Oscar Daniel and Rob Edwards were suspects in rape, and Trussie Daniel was held for not reporting the crime and as an accomplice. Ed Collins, a black neighbor, was picked up and held as a witness. They were detained in the small Cumming jail. The Atlanta Journal reported that Sheriff Reid drove through a mob of 2,000 people to get the suspects to the jail.
Within a few hours on September 9, the white mob increased to 4,000 people, who stormed the jail. Sheriff Reid was not there, having strategically left deputy Mitchell Lummus alone to protect the prisoners. Deputy Lummus hid most of them, but Rob Edwards was shot and killed by the mob while still in his cell. They dragged him out, mutilated him, and dragged his body behind a wagon, before hanging him from a telephone pole at the northwest corner of the Square. The coroner's inquest, held on September 18, 1912 found the cause of death to be a gunshot by an unknown assailant.
Crow died in the hospital two weeks later on September 23, 1912. The cause of death was listed as pneumonia. Knox and Daniel were indicted for rape and murder on September 30. Trussie Daniel and Ed Collins were both charged as accomplices.
All five trials, (including Tony Howell for the Ellen Grice case) were set for October 3 in Cumming, the county seat. The prisoners were escorted by four companies of the state militia by train to the Buford, Georgia station, and walked the remaining 14 miles (23 km).
As part of a plea bargain, Trussie Daniel changed her story and agreed to turn state's witness. Charges against her and Collins were dropped, in exchange for her testimony against Knox, her brother Oscar, and Edwards. The all-white jury deliberated 16 minutes and returned a verdict of guilty in Knox's case. Although no confession or other evidence linked Oscar Daniel to the crime, his sister’s testimony was fatal. The all-white jury pronounced him guilty that night.
On the following day, October 4, both teenagers were sentenced to death by hanging, scheduled for October 25. State law prohibited public hangings. The scheduled execution was to be viewed only by the victim’s family, a minister, and law officers. Gallows were built off the square in Cumming. A fence erected around the gallows was burned down the night before the execution. A crowd estimated at between 5,000 and 8,000 gathered to watch the hanging of the two youths, at a time when the total county population was around 12,000.
In the following months, a small group of men called “Night Riders” terrorized black citizens, threatening them to leave in 24 hours or be killed. Those who resisted were subjected to further harassment, including shots fired into their homes, or livestock killed. Some white residents tried to stop the Night Riders, but were unsuccessful. An estimated 98% of black residents of Forsyth County left. Some property owners were able to sell, likely at a loss. The renters and sharecroppers left to seek safer places. Those who abandoned property, and failed to continue paying property tax, eventually lost it, and whites took it over. Many black properties ended up in white hands without a sale and without a legal transfer of title. The anti-black campaign spread across Northern Georgia, with similar results of whites expelling blacks in many surrounding counties.
In the 1910 Census, more than 1,000 black and mixed-race people were recorded in Forsyth County, with slightly more than 10,000 whites. By the 1920 Census only 30 ethnic African Americans remained in the county.
At age 16, Ernest Knox was among the youngest people ever executed by the state of Georgia (Oscar Daniel was 17). In 1978, state law was amended to prevent the execution of anyone, who at the time of committing a crime, was below the age of 17, following a United States Supreme Court ruling in this matter.
In the 2010 Census Forsyth County was 85% white and had a high median income. Most lower income people lived elsewhere.
Marches and demonstrations of the 1980s
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More ethnically diverse citizens had begun in recent years to migrate to the county, particularly in the affluent southern portion. However, racial tension continued to be a part of the county's image into the early 1990s. On January 17, 1987, civil rights activists marched in Cumming, and a counter-demonstration was made by a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, most of whom were not residents of the county, as well as others who objected to the march. According to a story published in the New York Times on January 18, four marchers were slightly injured by stones and bottles thrown at them. Eight people from the counter-demonstration, all white, were arrested. The charges included trespassing and carrying concealed weapons.
White Forsyth resident Charles A. Blackburn wanted to have a brotherhood march to celebrate the first annual celebration of Martin Luther King's birthday as a national holiday. He wanted to dispel the racist image of Forsyth County, where he owned and operated a private school, the Blackburn Learning Center. Blackburn cancelled his plans after he received threatening phone calls. Other whites in nearby counties, as well as State Representative J. E. McKinney of Atlanta and Hosea Williams, who was on the Atlanta City Council, took up the march plans instead.
The following week, January 24, approximately 20,000 participants marched in Cumming. This occurrence produced no violence, despite the presence of more than 5,000 counter-demonstrators, summoned by the Forsyth County Defense League. The county and state had mustered about 2,000 peace officers and national guardsmen. Forsyth County paid $670,000 for police overtime during the political demonstration. Many residents were outraged to have to pay for the march, as most participants were from outside the county. (V. S. Naipaul's interview with Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley Walraven, before the second march, is referred to in his book A Turn in the South.)
The demonstration is thought to have been the largest civil rights demonstration in the U.S. since about 1970. The unexpected turnout of some 5,000 counter-demonstrators, 66 of whom were arrested for "parading without a permit," turned out to be the largest resistance opposed to civil rights since the 1960s. The counter-demonstration was called by the Forsyth County Defense League and the Nationalist Movement, newly organized in Cumming by local plumber Mark Watts.
Marchers came for the second march from all over the country, forming a caravan from Atlanta; National Guard troops were assigned for protection on freeway overpasses along the route. When marchers arrived, they discovered that most of the Cumming residents had left town for the day. Some had boarded up their windows because they feared violence. Marchers wound slowly through streets lined by hundreds of armed National Guards, many of them black. At least two-thirds of the 20,000 civil rights marchers were white, according to eyewitnesses. Forsyth County subsequently charged large fees for parade permits until the practice was overturned in Forsyth County, Georgia v. The Nationalist Movement (505 U.S. 123) in the Supreme Court of the United States on June 19, 1992.
The eastern two-thirds of Forsyth County are located in the Upper Chattahoochee River sub-basin of the ACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin), while the northwestern third of the county is located in the Etowah River sub-basin of the ACT River Basin (Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin).
- Dawson County - north
- Hall County - east
- Gwinnett County - southeast
- Fulton County - southwest
- Cherokee County - northwest
National protected areas
|U.S. Decennial Census
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 175,511 people, 59,433 households, and 47,623 families residing in the county. The population density was 783.5 inhabitants per square mile (302.5/km2). There were 64,052 housing units at an average density of 285.9 per square mile (110.4/km2). The racial makeup of the county was 85.4% white, 6.2% Asian, 2.6% black or African American, 0.3% American Indian, 3.8% from other races, and 1.6% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 9.4% of the population. In terms of ancestry, 15.7% were German, 14.4% were American, 14.2% were Irish, 12.9% were English, and 5.8% were Italian.
Of the 59,433 households, 46.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.5% were married couples living together, 8.0% had a female householder with no husband present, 19.9% were non-families, and 15.9% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.94 and the average family size was 3.29. The median age was 36.9 years.
The median income for a household in the county was $87,605 and the median income for a family was $96,501. Males had a median income of $72,030 versus $46,310 for females. The per capita income for the county was $35,385. About 4.5% of families and 6.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.0% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.
Forsyth County is served by Forsyth County Schools. FCS serves 42,600 students and is the largest employer in the county with over 4,100 full-time employees and 1,500 substitutes. Out of 180 school districts, FCS is the seventh largest school system in Georgia. FCS is home to 37 schools – twenty-one elementary, ten middle, five high schools, as well as the Academies for Creative Education (A.C.E) that houses one school, iAchieve Virtual Academy, FCS' 6–12 online school, and two programs, Gateway Academy (the alternative program for middle and high school students) and Forsyth Academy.
The twenty-one elementary schools include Big Creek Elementary School, Brandywine Elementary School, Brookwood Elementary School, Chattahoochee Elementary School, Chestatee Elementary School, Coal Mountain Elementary School, Cumming Elementary School, Daves Creek Elementary School, Haw Creek Elementary School, Johns Creek Elementary School, Kelly Mill Elementary School, Mashburn Elementary School, Matt Elementary School, Midway Elementary School, Sawnee Elementary School, Settles Bridge Elementary School, Sharon Elementary School, Shiloh Point Elementary School, Silver City Elementary School, Vickery Creek Elementary School, and Whitlow Elementary School. The ten middle schools include DeSana Middle School, Lakeside Middle School, Liberty Middle School, Little Mill Middle School, North Forsyth Middle School, Otwell Middle School, Piney Grove Middle School, Riverwatch Middle School, South Forsyth Middle School, and Vickery Creek Middle School. The five high schools include Forsyth Central High School, Lambert High School, North Forsyth High School, South Forsyth High School, and West Forsyth High School.
Lake Lanier, a 37,000-acre (150 km2) lake created and maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in association with Buford Dam, is enjoyed by many residents and non-residents alike. Fishing, boating, tubing, wake boarding, and water skiing are common activities on the lake.
Forsyth County Parks and Recreation Department maintains more than 15 parks in the county. Most notable are Sawnee Mountain Preserve, Central Park, Fowler Park, Poole's Mill Covered Bridge and the Big Creek Greenway. The Cumming Fairgrounds host many events throughout the year including a rodeo, The Cumming Country Fair, and a farmers' market. There is also the annual 4 July Steam Engine Parade.
Government and Politics
United States Congress
|Senate Class 2||David Perdue||Republican||2015||Junior Senator|
|Senate Class 3||Johnny Isakson||Republican||2005||Senior Senator|
|District 7||Rob Woodall||Republican||2011|
|District 9||Doug Collins||Republican||2013|
Georgia General Assembly
Georgia State Senate
Georgia House of Representatives
With only one officially incorporated city, the majority of Forsyth County citizens live in areas with zip codes assigned to cities in surrounding counties.
In addition, there are several unincorporated communities throughout the county.
Notes and references
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- Marshall Ingwerson, "Facing a racial reckoning. Georgia town prepares for civil rights march"], The Christian Science Monitor, 23 January 1987; accessed 25 July 2016
- Kayla Robins, "Lake Lanier levels concerning for drought", Forsyth County News, 29 June 2016; accessed 25 July 2016
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The number of jobless 16- to 24-year-olds is worse than the UK average.
In Scotland last year, there were 124,800 people over 16 not in full-time education who had never had a job, up by almost a fifth (19.4 per cent) on 2012.
Opposition politicians pointed out that SNP Almond Valley MSP Angela Constance was paid £85,500 a year when she was Minister for Youth Employment.
Last month she became Cabinet Secretary for Training, Youth and Women’s Employment and her salary was increased to £102,000 a year.
It seems as long as you remain loyal to Alex Salmond, even failing ministers will get promoted
Although the 52.6 per cent youth employment rate in Scotland was higher than the 49.8 per cent for the UK as a whole, the proportion of young people out of work in Scotland was slightly higher at 20.6 per cent compared to 20.1 per cent in the UK.
Labour MSP Jenny Marra said: “In most businesses, failure sees you getting fired. With the SNP, it seems as long as you remain loyal to Alex Salmond, even failing ministers will get promoted.”
But Miss Constance said: “Scotland continues to outperform the UK across all headline labour market indicators, with a lower unemployment rate, higher employment rate and lower economic inactivity rate.”
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New Delhi : Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asserted that the Centre is committed to double the income of all farmers by 2022, much ahead of time frame set by the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaking in his valedictory address on the concluding day of the international conference on Rule of Law for Supporting the 2030 Development Agenda, Sustainable Development Goals, Rajnath said that the Centre has adopted a zero tolerance policy against hunger and that India will successfully end hunger by 2030.
The Home Minister also said that eradicating poverty is the greatest global challenge and top most priority for India.
He said that the government is exploring new ways to empower women by providing equal opportunity in political, economic and public life. (ANI)
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Fidelity is for every vocation, not just marriage, pope says
IMAGE: CNS photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters
By Junno Arocho Esteves
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Sixth Commandment’s mandate against adultery is a call to fidelity that applies not only to married couples, but to all Christians called to love others through their vocation, Pope Francis said.
Married men and women, priests and those in religious life are ultimately called to live out their vocation faithfully and follow the "path of love that goes from receiving care to the ability to offer care, from receiving life to the ability to give life," the pope said Oct. 31 during his weekly general audience.
"Every Christian vocation is spousal because it is the fruit of the bond of love in which we are all renewed, the bond of love with Christ," he said. "Starting from (Christ’s) fidelity, his tenderness, his generosity, we look with faith at marriage and at every vocation, and we understand the full meaning of sexuality."
Among the pilgrims present at the audience were the members of the Together in Hope choir, an ecumenical choir comprised of Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist, Reformed, evangelical, and nonreligious people based in Minneapolis.
Accompanying the choir was Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Lutheran Bishop Ann Svennungsen, head of the Minneapolis Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, who were greeted by Pope Francis after the audience.
During the audience, the pope continued his series of talks on the Ten Commandments, reflecting on the command, "Thou shall not commit adultery," which he said was a "call to love that is manifested in fidelity acceptance and mercy."
While the commandment refers to fidelity in marriage, the pope said it is not only addressed to spouses but is a "paternal word of God addressed to every man and woman."
Being mature is being able to "take upon oneself someone else’s burden and to love without ambiguity," he said.
On the other hand, the pope said, adulterers and those who are unfaithful are "immature" people who interpret situations according to their own "well-being and satisfaction."
"In order to be married, it’s not enough to celebrate the wedding! We need to make a journey from the ‘I’ to the ‘we,’ from thinking for yourself to thinking for two, from living by yourself to living with another person," the pope said. "It is a beautiful path; when we decentralize ourselves, then every act is spousal."
Priests and those who live chaste consecrated lives, he said, must also follow this path and live it "faithfully and joyfully as a spousal and fruitful relationship of motherhood and fatherhood."
"The church does not need aspirants to the role of priests, but rather men whose hearts have been touched by the Holy Spirit with an unreserved love for the bride of Christ," Pope Francis said. "In the priesthood, we love the people of God with all the paternity, tenderness and strength of a spouse and a father."
Pope Francis said that the call to not commit adultery is a reminder of the Christian duty to love as Christ loves and to respect one another.
"The human body is not an instrument of pleasure but the place of our call to love," the pope said. "And in authentic love, there is no room for lust and its superficiality. Men and women deserve more!"
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The only country in the world who's athletes don't get paid.
Whey should pro athletes get paid less money? How about because not even our President get's paid as much as they do, and he runs the freaking country! Law enforcement officers don't get paid nearly as much as they do, and they risk there lives everyday to protect American citizens! The country is in a recession! People are going hungry and dieing because they can't afford anything! Yes pro athletes are very good at what they do and entertain the masses, but that dose not mean that they should be paid millions upon millions of dollars! Yes some pro athletes contribute to charities and other good things with there money but there are also plenty who don't! Ty Law actually got mad at being offered a contract that would pay him 7 million dollars and he demanded more money than that saying "I gotta eat!", please! I can get plenty to eat with less than 20 bucks! Mcdonalds dollar menu! Or a Burger King value meal! That's just selfish! Sorry for the rant but I digress, that is why pro athletes should be paid less money then they get paid currently.
Someone who is paid to evaluate collegiate athletes on their professional potential.
This is an opinion question. You have to decide for yourself and make an argument using available data.
they get paid $14.000 a year pro rata
Average pro soccer salary
Yes. When teachers are paid 35,000 a year and an athlete gets several million for running around with a ball they get paid too much. Education is more important than sports.
as much money as they can shove in their pockets while robbing a bank
cause some athletes work hard to get the amount of money that they do.
In Germany, pro players don't get paid as much in the NBA, because there is not as much money to command from. They are paid 75% of the minimum NBA salary in beer.
No pro athletes are not overpaid
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The US policy on Iran is universally known in diplomatic circles in Tehran as “maximum pressure”, but if anything this underestimates how far Washington is willing to go.
As the name implies, the toll on Iran is heavy. The signs are the regime is starting to crack but can do little to save itself.
In pursuit of its containment goals, the US is steadily turning up the heat by phasing out waivers for states that have been buying the country's crude output. While Brian Hook, the US State Department envoy, stopped short of a complete shutdown of US concessions when he spoke on Friday, the measures are being steadily curtailed.
Remember, Donald Trump wants to force Iran to the table. A serious foreign policy rupture is under way, as the regime turns inward to shore up its hold on power.
Most experts in Iranian affairs were caught out by the powerful effect of Trump’s decision to pull out of the 2015 accord less than three years after the pact temporarily mothballed the country’s nuclear programme.
At the time of the decision, the Iranians affected a lack of concern. President Hassan Rouhani and his US-educated foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made two key assumptions. Asia would keep buying Iranian oil and Europe would keep Iran's international trade system going.
Both theories have now proven wrong, and Mr Zarif is scrambling to come up with a plan B.
But Iran has alienated the very partners it needs to rescue its rapidly collapsing economy.
The IMF predicts it will shrink by six per cent this year. Middle-class Iranians are feeling the pinch more than ever and prices have risen by sharply in the past 12 months.
Oil exports are already down by 1.6 million barrels since the Trump announcement – and now Washington has set its sights on pushing the figure closer to zero.
For a government that was elected twice on a mandate of stabilising the living standards of ordinary Iranians, this is disastrous. Presenting a more amenable face to the world has not delivered for the Iranian population.
The revamp failed because Iran blew the chance to change its role on the international stage. The country is seen as part of the problem in Yemen. It played an outsized role in events in Syria, but is now marginalised in the reconciliation talks – both those led by Russia and those led by the UN – because of its sectarian bias and links to the regime of Bashar Al Assad.
On the global stage, Iran continues to misjudge its position with Europe. The ground is shifting markedly against any more concessions to Tehran, just when Iran needs them most.
When Donald Trump pulled the plug on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), European diplomats were adamant that the deal should not be overturned.
US sanctions to curb European business deals with Iran were considered illegal by the EU Commission. Britain, France and Germany moved to act as co-guarantors for Instex, a trade mechanism that sheltered transactions from the US Treasury’s punitive measures.
Iran has since complained that the impact of this support has fallen short of expectations. It now cries foul that there has been no broader rescue plan to justify continued compliance with the deal.
Iranian officials warn that the JCPOA must, in effect, be renegotiated. A policy of “less for less” is being mooted by figures such as Abbas Araghchi, the deputy foreign minister, as he speaks with European counterparts.
However, there are dangers for the Iranians. European frustration with Iran could soon go the other way. Instead of concessions, there is pressure for more sanctions to target Iran’s missile development activities.
The production of longer-range and more advanced missiles has been a story of flagrant expansion to contrast with the nuclear shutdown.
European nations are increasingly exasperated by regional concerns over missiles targeting Riyadh and bellicosity over the Strait of Hormuz shipping lanes.
There is also recognition of the need to align policy with the US as the smoke clears from the original meltdown of transatlantic ties.
Tehran has also done its own work to alienate states around Europe. The detention of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual UK-Iranian national, is a key example. Active assassination plots have been uncovered in six countries, including the Netherlands and Denmark. When the trials of the arrested suspects start in the coming months, the consequences of Tehran will be severe.
At the same time, Iran is looking beyond the Rouhani era. The rise of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Qassem Soleimani has taken on an air of inevitability.
The pressure on the regime has translated into a focus on survival. The IRGC has captured swathes of the government and many lucrative economic franchises.
Its last outstanding goal is to take the presidency. For the hardliners, the price of power comes on the back of collapse. President Trump has poisoned the prize.
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Lee County will add more beds to its jail to account for a growing population.
The facility can house up to 14 female inmates, but the Board of Supervisors has approved a plan to boost capacity to 32.
Sheriff Jim Sholl says the expansion is a necessity because his options are limited when the female population exceeds 14.
He says the additional inmates must either be transported to a nearby jail, at a price that can jump at any time, or housed in a cell block assigned to male inmates.
Sholl says the block would then be off-limits to male inmates, further reducing the total bed count.
The expansion is expected to cost about $450,000, but there is no money in the budget to pay for it. That means borrowing the money could be an option.
Supervisor Gary Folluo voted against the expansion. He was concerned that there was not enough public input or discussion about the proposal.
Project Manager John Hanson says construction would not get underway until all of the materials are purchased to limit the amount of time inmates would be displaced.
He says that could be 3-4 months.
The jail was expanded roughly two years ago. The contractors added the infrastructure required for expansion to make the process of shifting from 96 to 144 beds easier.
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Definition of bellpull
: a handle or knob attached to a cord by which one rings a bell; also : the cord itself
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First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new program today – Let's Move! Active Schools – designed to bring exercise back to the school environment and inspire students to become more physically active.
First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new, unprecedented collaboration designed to help students in American schools become more physically active. The new program, Let's Move! Active Schools, is a sub-initiative within the First Lady's larger Let's Move! campaign. It provides tools and assistance to schools to create environments where children get the recommended 60 minutes of physical activity before, during and after school. The goal of the program is to engage 50,000 schools across the United States to participate in the next five years. The First Lady called for school staff, students' families and communities to sign up at LetsMoveSchools.org to support active lifestyles and help reach this goal.
The new program, announced at a "Let’s Move! Active Schools" event in Chicago, aims to boost physical activity in schools by combining elements of existing programs and utilizing new resources to help schools encourage exercise among their students. The resources and tools include assistance from certified professionals, training, and grants to activate programs. Let's Move! Active Schools aims to mobilize PE teachers, school administrators, classroom teachers and parents to be "school champions" and help get students to become more active.
First Lady Michelle Obama said, "With each passing year, schools feel like it’s just getting harder to find the time, the money, and the will to help our kids be active. But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean we should stop trying – it means we should try harder. It means that all of us – not just educators, but businesses and non-profits and ordinary citizens – we all need to dig deeper and start getting even more creative. That’s what Let’s Move! Active Schools is all about – it’s about all of us coming together to once again make being active a way of life for our kids. And with today’s announcement, anyone, in any community, can become a champion to bring physical education back to their school."
The goal of the new initiative is to provide students with access to quality physical activity within the school environment, where they spend a lot of their time. The program will make it easier for schools to keep their students active and healthy by recommending the most effective solutions and providing support to schools that sign up.
Even though the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommend a minimum of 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity, only one in three American children engages in physical activity on a daily basis. Furthermore, daily physical education classes are offered only in 4 percent of elementary schools, 8 percent of middle schools and 2 percent of high schools across the United States.
"Children need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity per day where they live, learn and play," said Kathleen Sebelius, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. "With youth spending six to seven hours in school daily, schools are a great place to get kids moving. With the launch of this initiative, we are confident that schools will have the tools, resources, and support they need to inspire their students to be physically active for a lifetime."
Let's Move! Active Schools is managed by several organisations: the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD), the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition (PCFSN), and the Alliance for a Healthier Generation. These organisations will guide the development and implementation of the program. Companies and organisations providing funding and resources for the program include NIKE, Kaiser Permanenente, the GENYOUth Foundation, the General Mills Foundation, and ChildObesity180.
"Physical educators have always known that children are designed to move," said E. Paul Roetert, AAHPERD CEO. "Now through Let’s Move! Active Schools, we are thrilled to elevate our efforts in increasing physical activity before, during and after school to a larger national stage. Our role will be to provide professional development training so that physical educators will create even more early, positive experiences for all children. We want physical activity to become an integral part of their daily lives."
Watch the video to see the First Lady announce the project.
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Improve Your Snorkeling Technique
7 Easy Tips
The key to successful snorkeling is relaxation in the water. It is as much a psychological as it is a physical skill. You will improve your skills and become comfortable in the water with practice. Here are some training tips.
1. Put all your equipment on and practice floating in the face down and horizontal positions. Dont swim; just calmly float. You can do this in shallow water or a swimming pool.
2. Prepare for mask and/or snorkel floods. If a flood happens in open water, it can be distressing to someone who is not ready to handle the situation. Practice this skill by floating in shallow water and deliberately flooding and clearing your equipment. Heres how:
a. To flood your mask, gently pull it away from your face and allow water to enter the mask.
To clear it out, lift your head out of the water and tilt the bottom of the mask away from your face and allow the water to drain out.
b. To flood your snorkel, immerse your head under the water until your snorkel fills up. Remember to hold your breath! To clear your snorkel, exhale a burst of air through your mouth to blast the water out. Then take a cautious first breath to make sure all the water is gone.
3. In the water, objects look 25% larger (or closer) than they really are. You can practice judging distance by floating in very shallow water and reaching down to touch the bottom. This will help you learn how far an arms length is underwater.
4. Walking with fins on can be uncertain on dry land or on a boat. If you are snorkeling from shore, try putting your fins on and removing them in waist deep water. If you are snorkeling from a boat, dont put your fins on until it is time to enter the water and take them off at the boat ladder before getting back on the boat.
5. To use your fins correctly, you must use an efficient kick. You can do this by using a slow flutter kick motion. Try to keep your knees and ankles relaxed to prevent your leg muscles from cramping. Once you are proficient in this skill, you will notice that your fins propel you through the water. You will hardly need to use your arms and can let them rest easily at your side, or keep one arm floating in front of your head to act as a bumper.
6. Once you have mastered using your equipment, practice controlling your movements in the water. You will feel more comfortable and calm in the water as you improve your maneuvering abilities and you will minimize accidental bump-ins with objects in the water such as other snorkelers, reef elements, buoys, etc.
7. Knowing your personal limitations is a vital skill often overlooked. Recognize them and remain alert to them. There is no good reason to push your limits. They will change with each snorkeling opportunity presented. Factors to consider are water temperature, surge, currents, and visibility. Your personal limitations will also change when you gain experience, get older, or have a change in health.
A relaxed snorkeler gets more pleasure out of snorkeling and a greater appreciation of the environment. A calm snorkeler seems less threatening and when the aquatic wildlife realizes you are not a threat, they resume
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In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee,
to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin’s name was Mary.
The angel went to her and said, “Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you.”
Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be.
But the angel said to her, “Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God.
You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus.
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6 Things You Need To Know Today (September 19, 2018)
1. Padma Lakshmi sent an important message on the Emmy red carpet.
The author, actress, and model called attention to the fashion industry's environmental impact at the award show, saying, "I'm excited to wear this beautiful J. Mendel dress again. I think in this day and age we should stop sending the message to young women and girls that we all have these endless closets of clothes we never wear more than once, especially on a red carpet." Couldn't. Agree. More. (People)
2. As humans, we're programmed to forgive one another.
For better or for worse, a team of psychologists just found that humans' ability to forgive often overrides negative transgressions. Their experiment featured one person who chose to electrically shock other people in exchange for money, and one person who did not. More than 1,500 observers were confident that the consistently "good" archetypal person was indeed a good person, but they weren't confident that the person who chose monetary gain was a "bad" person. (Science Daily)
3. Doctors are starting to do breast reconstructions a little differently.
Surgeons are now placing breast implants on top of the chest muscle instead of under it, thanks to newly available mesh products. The new strategy is helping reduce the risk of pain, weakness, and chest deformities that many women experience during reconstructive surgery. (NYT)
4. Doctors are banning baby walkers—for the second time.
According to a new study published in Pediatrics, baby walkers are responsible for over 2,000 emergency room visits a year (i.e., skull fractures, broken bones, and other injuries). The study looked at the impact of a baby walker ban back in 1992 on emergency room visits: With product safety improvements, injuries dropped from nearly 21,000 in 1990 to 3,200 in 2003, but thousands of children are still getting hurt. With a renewed ban, doctors hope to make even more progress. (NPR)
5. Soon you might be able to get your Coca-Cola with a dose of CBD in it.
Coca-Cola has reportedly been eyeing the cannabis market and is in talks with a Canadian-based distributor about adding CBD to their products. They haven't made any decisions yet, and doing so would be contingent on CBD becoming more widely legal. "We are closely watching the growth of non-psychoactive CBD as an ingredient in functional wellness beverages around the world," Coca-Cola spokesman Kent Landers said in a statement. "The space is evolving quickly. No decisions have been made at this time." (Bloomberg)
6. These are the four main personality types, says science.
Researchers just identified a brand-new set of personality types that all people likely fall under: average, reserved, role model, and self-centered. They uncovered the categories by looking at four different personality surveys answered by 1.5 million people. (mindbodygreen)
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Source: Return of the Jedi
The Imperial Shuttle is a Lambda-class shuttle used by the Imperial fleet to transport cargo and passengers. Many government officials prefer them because of their combat-worthy construction and large interior space. The shuttles are outfitted with weapons, which allow them to travel without the need for military escort, thus preventing Rebels from determining whether a shuttle is transporting mere cargo or important officials. Equipped with hyperdrives, Lambda shuttles arecapable of transporting passengers or material between different fleets and star systems.
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How much sleep do you need? “At least 8 hours” has been the old standby in our cultural consciousness for some time. But this isn’t quite the right answer – in fact, it’s not necessarily quite the right question, either.
Determine how much sleep you really need
Each person’s sleep needs will change throughout their life span, so age is a really important factor here – recommendations can range from 14 to 17 hours for newborns and 7 to 8 for adults 65 and older. You also have to take into account what sort of sleep you’re getting – is it uninterrupted, deep sleep or very restless, for example, as well as how much sleep seems to be just right for helping you feel your best during the daylight hours. All of that being said, we do have details that can help you best figure out what number might make sense for you.
Know that how much sleep you need varies
That well-worn 8-hour recommendation isn’t too far off. Experts recommend between 7 and 9 hours of sleep each night for adults between the ages of 26 and 64. A little more or a little less sleep may be appropriate for certain people. As many as 10 hours or as few as 6 hours may be healthy, but more or less than this isn’t recommended. For younger adults, aged 18 to 25, the core recommendations are the same, though as many as 10 to 11 hours on the higher end may be appropriate for certain people. Sleep outside of this range isn’t really recommended and could mean that someone is experiencing a serious health problem.
What this means is that the middle range of 7 to 9 hours is what experts agree is the amount they’re comfortable recommending. But really, you need to pay attention to your own body and how much sleep seems to work for you. What you should really pay attention to – and there’s probably no major surprise here – is how much sleep you need to feel happy, productive, and like your very best self.
Listen to your body
For example, if you sleep for a solid 7 hours every night but still feel really groggy in the morning and not well-rested during the day, then maybe what’s right for you is a few more hours of shut-eye. Again, some people might need as many as 10 hours or as few as 6 hours to feel great.
You’ll also want to try to pay attention to details like: Do you wake up feeling refreshed? Do you feel alert and not particularly sleepy during the day? Can you concentrate on everything you need to? Or are you often tired during the day? And do you notice that you’re not sleeping well at night? How often do you seem to be getting a good night’s sleep? Do you need a lot of coffee to make it through the day?
Track your sleep patterns
As you pay attention to some of these details, it can be really helpful to track how much sleep you’re getting and how you’re feeling during the day. (And, hey, you can use Ovia for that!) If you do this for a few weeks, you can likely get a good sense of what your particular sweet spot for sleep is.
Keep in mind that if you’re experiencing sleepiness during the day when you think you should be feeling alert, are feeling depressed, are having trouble breathing during sleep, are snoring during sleep, have tingling or cramping in your legs during sleep, have regularly disturbed sleep, have had a partner tell you that your sleep seems to be off in some way, have a lot of trouble falling asleep, often take lengthy naps (meaning longer than 20 to 30 minutes), or if there’s anything else that seems to be preventing you from sleeping well at night, you should talk with your healthcare provider to help you figure out if there might be an underlying problem that’s keeping you from getting the sleep you need.
Sleep is immensely important for your health and overall well-being. Everyone deserves to spend their days feeling happy, alert, and ready to take on the world. That might take just 6 hours of sleep, it could take as many as 10, or you might find the number of hours that are right for you fit neatly within that 6 to 8 hour range. That Goldilocks-style “just right” number will be unique to you, so get to know what it is, and you should be feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed before long.
- Happy days and restful nights: How to know if you’re getting enough sleep
- Bedtime goodies for grownups that may help you get some sleep already
- Max Hirshkowitz et al. “National Sleep Foundation’s sleep time duration recommendations: methodology and results summary.” Sleep Health. (1)1: 40-43. March 2015. Retrieved February 11 2019. https://www.sleephealthjournal.org/article/S2352-7218%2815%2900015-7/fulltext.
- Morton H. Shaevitz. “How Much Sleep Do You Really Need?” Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC, September 6 2016. Retrieved February 11 2019. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/refire-don-t-retire/201609/how-much-sleep-do-you-really-need.
- “Brain Basics: Understanding Sleep.” National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Fri, 2019-02-08 . Retrieved February 11 2019. https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/Patient-Caregiver-Education/Understanding-Sleep.
- “How Much Sleep Do I Need?” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Division of Population Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, March 2 2017. Retrieved February 11 2019. https://www.cdc.gov/sleep/about_sleep/how_much_sleep.html.
- “How Much Sleep Do We Really Need?” National Sleep Foundation. National Sleep Foundation. Retrieved February 11 2019. https://www.sleepfoundation.org/excessive-sleepiness/support/how-much-sleep-do-we-really-need.
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Enel Green Power has published an article noting the use of 3D printing in their flagship Geyser project at Santa Barbara metallurgy labs in Cavriglia, Italy.
The idea to use 3D printing to repair essential components was spawned at a roundtable discussion organized by the project Geyser team. A group of technicians and experts from the geothermal, thermal and hydroelectric sectors gathered to discuss how to optimize the management of geothermal plants.
“It all started from our curiosity and desire to use the 3D printer that we had in-house,” says Nicoletta Mazzuca, Enel Green Power’s project manager for Geyser. “We wanted to repair parts that were going to end up in landfills because they couldn’t be fixed with conventional forging techniques.”
The 3D printing machine is located in the Santa Barbara labs, at the headquarters of Engineering and Technical Support for Enel Production, where an additive manufacturing machine with laser metal deposition (or direct energy deposition) technology has been available since 2019. This tool can reproduce and repair various metal parts by depositing the necessary material one layer at a time.
The pilot project began when the printer was used to repair an impeller, which is an essential component of the centrifugal compressor of a geothermal plant.
The team purchased a powdered form of the material used to make the impellers (a type of stainless steel called 17-4 PH), followed by laser scans and the creation of the 3D model. The work concluded with the first historic repair of a worn part using this technology.
According to Enel, this sustainable innovation will make it possible to set in motion a cycle of reuse of materials: until now, worn impellers were replaced with new ones and ended up in landfills, so repairing them will also save about €70,000 ($85,000) per year.
“After a year of work, we were able to use additive manufacturing processes to repair our impellers for the first time. Not only does it give our impellers a second life, it also saves us money while respecting the environment thanks to a circularity of 100%,” added Mazzuca.
Matteo Niccolai, workshop maintenance and technical services leader – O&M Geo Italy of Enel Green Power said: “The idea of using additive manufacturing to solve one of Geo’s supply chain issues is a concrete example of the effectiveness of sharing problems and best practices transversally within the company, solving critical issues with the help of previously unseen perspectives.”
Source: Renewable Energy
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Tourism is an important part of China’s economy. It has created thousands of jobs, developed infrastructure, created a sense of cultural exchange between the citizens and foreigners, and boosted the economy’s revenue. The Chinese use the phrase “Zhong Guo,” which translates to “Country of the Center.” They have maintained a unique culture, since the ancient civilization that attracts tourists from all corners of the globe.
The country provides many great opportunities for entrepreneurs. However, if you are planning to establish a tourism company in the country, you should keep several facts in mind. Here is everything you should know.
Important Facts about China Tourism
The Chinese tourism industry is growing very fast, something that has made it an important pillar of the economy. The available statistics show that China stood as the fourth most visited country in the globe after France, the United States, and Spain in 2015. They also show that the country received over 56.9 foreign tourists in that year.
In 2017, revenue from the tourism industry was over $1.45 trillion and it contributed around 11.04 percent of the country’s GDP. That was an immense growth from 2014 when the industry only reported $943.1 billion. In 2017, the industry had employed over 28.25 million individuals directly and indirectly.
Some of the highly visited places are Anyang, Nanjing, Tongli, Chongqin, and Tianjin. Most people visiting the country also consider places like:
- Great Wall of China
- Silk Road
- Changbai Mountains
- Forbidden City
- Munt Tai
- Mount Emei
- Confucius Mansion
- Yabuli Ski Resort
- Potala Palace
China has many attractions. Therefore, more people are likely to visit the country in the coming years. Before establishing your tourism company in China, get conversant with many attractions so that your guests can enjoy their stay.
Starting Your Tourism Business in China
After understanding the Chinese Tourism industry, your next step should be learning the steps you have to follow when setting up a business in China. Here are the three important steps.
- Making the Decision to Expand Your Tourism Business to China
This is the most important step. Without taking this step, you will not establish any business in China. The decision to expand includes many things such as identifying the potential shareholders, sourcing of funds, and market research.
You have to keep in mind that the process of starting a tourism business in China is complicated. You will have to choose the type of tourism business you want to start. For example, you can start a Tour Company, travel agency, or even a resort. After that, you will have to decide on the location and the source of money to finance it. Remember to do adequate market research to avoid making losses.
- Complete the Company Incorporation Stage
This stage requires you to decide on the formation of your tourism company. Some people choose a wholly foreign-owned enterprise (WFOE) while others will choose to start a joint venture. Keep in mind that the type of business you form will influence the type of activities you will undertake and the share of profit/losses you will get at the end of the day.
The process of incorporating a company in China is complicated. Therefore, most people will choose agencies to help them navigate the involved problems. An agency will help you prepare all the necessary documents and work through the departments involved in tourism company registration.
The Chinese tourism industry offers many opportunities for investors. You can take advantage of the opportunities to expand your business. Keep in mind that many players are working in the industry. Therefore, you have to come up with a good strategy to make a profit. Work with experts from the start to avoid making losses.
- Commence Your Business Operations
Registration of your tourism company in China is the start of a long journey. For example, you will need the right infrastructure and staff to start your operations when establishing a travel company. Further, you will need cameras, tour vehicles, and experienced tour guides. You do not want your foreign clients to miss one of the key attractions in China.
If you have been looking for high-potential investment areas, consider the Chinese tourism industry. The industry offers many opportunities for individuals that would want to expand their travel business to China. Remember to develop a strategy for growth before establishing the business. You may also need the services of an expert.
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According to Epicurious, a meringue consists of sugar and egg whites beaten into a foam which can either have a soft or crunchy texture. Though the list of ingredients to prepare meringue is short, many problems can arise during the making and baking of meringues. The amounts of sugar, egg whites, oven temperature setting and even the weather can thwart the best intentions when making meringues. Overcome these challenges by troubleshooting your own meringues.
Things You'll Need
Wait for a dry, clear day before making meringues as excess humidity or dampness in the air can prevent the egg whites from properly beating.
Check the proportion of sugar to egg whites in your recipe. Use 2 tbsp. confectioner’s sugar, which combines sugar with cornstarch, for soft meringues as the cornstarch stabilizes the egg whites. Use 4 tbsp. ultra-fine sugar when making hard meringues.
Add 1/8 tsp. cream of tartar per egg white to the whites after beating them to soft peaks.
Mix in the sugar only one tablespoon at a time to the egg whites when after the egg whites form soft peaks that droop when you lift the beaters from the foam for soft or hard meringues.
Beat hard meringues until the peaks of the meringue mixture stand up stiffly on the end of the beaters when you remove the beaters from the bowl and hold them upside down. Mix soft meringues only until the peaks of foam at the end of the beaters stand bend only at the tips of the peaks.
Avoid beading or weeping meringues by sprinkling 3 to 4 tbsp. fine cake crumbs over hot pie filling, to absorb excess moisture. Spoon the meringue over hot filling and bake in a preheated oven.
Bake soft meringues in a preheated 425 to 450 degree Fahrenheit oven for five minutes until the peaks have browned and the valleys look golden. Cook hard meringues overnight in an oven at the lowest temperature setting with the door slightly ajar to thoroughly dry the meringues and make them crisp.
References and Resources"Cookwise"; Shirley O. Corriher; 1997.
What's Cooking America: Meringue
Epicurious: Meringue Definition
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A 'Game' worth playing on audiobook
Published 3:00 pm, Friday, December 21, 2012
My introduction to George R.R. Martin's fantasy world of Westeros came through HBO's "Game of Thrones."
Yes, I'm late to the game, considering the first novel in Martin's planned seven-book epic, "A Game of Thrones," came out in 1996. But the HBO series prompted me to seek out the novel, because the book is always better.
And, after reading "A Game of Thrones," I sought out the audiobook, if only to give me another way of spending more time with the high-born families who are the key players in the game of thrones: the Baratheons of Storm's End, with Robert the one king over the seven kingdoms that make up Westeros; the Starks of Winterfell, with Eddard, the lord of that vast, cold northern land called upon to be Robert's right-hand man; the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, which includes Robert's scheming wife, Queen Cersei; and the Targaryens, the young heirs to a family that had united the seven kingdoms hundreds of years before, but have been exiled to the lands across the narrow sea.
The "game" of the title, for those who are unfamiliar with the story, deals with the political — and physical — machinations as the multitude of characters strive for power, or are devoured by other people's struggles. As Cersei says to the so-honorable-you-know-he's-doomed Eddard Stark, "When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die."
What launches the action of the novel is the news of the death of King Robert's Hand – which is what the king's chief adviser is called. His death prompts the king to visit Eddard Stark in his northern kingdom to ask him to be his new Hand, which means breaking up his family and moving far to the south to the capital, King's Landing. There, Eddard Stark retraces his predecessor's steps, and begins to uncover a truth that threatens to break apart the royal house.
As in many a fantasy epic, a lot of people die. But unlike the granddaddy of them all, "The Lord of the Rings," the characters in "A Game of Thrones" don't shy away from sex. In fact, sex and its many outcomes of legitimate and illegitimate children power much of the epic. It adds a strong humanizing aspect to the tale, and is no doubt one of the reasons why it appealed to HBO.
The audiobook — a 28-disc, 33.5-hour unabridged epic (Random House Audio; $45) — stands on its own as a major accomplishment. In fact, the 2004 audiobook features British actor Roy Dotrice narrating and creating 224 distinct character voices, an achievement that earned Guinness World Record recognition for "most character voices for an audio book — individual."
It isn't just quantity that matters. The now 89-year-old Dotrice has the kind of steady and stately British accent that gives weight to his every word. His acting is well-suited for the epic fantasy that is "A Game of Thrones," with its suggestion that he's an ancient storyteller speaking from a faraway time and place. Fans of the TV series, which completed its second season earlier this year, will know Dotrice as Pyromancer Hallyne, the person who makes the wildfire for Tyrion Lanniseter (but I'm getting ahead of myself, because that's part of Season 2, which is based on the second book, "A Clash of Kings").
Dotrice successfully conveys a multitude of characters in the audiobook. He easily nails some of the more distinctive voices — the guttural and gruff Khal Drogo (the powerful Dothraki warlord who takes the exiled Daenerys Targaryen as his wife); the pinched and high-pitched voice of the maegi, a witch taken in by Daynerys; and the quasi-European lyrical play in the voice of Syrio Forel, a sword-fighting master who is hired by Eddard Stark to teach his tomboyish younger daughter, Arya.
Where he excels is in realizing two similar but distinct characters, Grand Maester Pycelle of King's Landing and Maester Luwin of House Stark. Dotrice captures both characters' stately positions, as they are both older men who act as maesters (scholarly advisers who are celibate). Dotrice also nails their differences. Luwin speaks slowly with a sad worldliness as he tries to counsel the Starks with forthright advice. Pycelle, meanwhile, also speaks slowly, with just a subtle enough difference to hint at his two-faced scheming that shows why he's been able to be an adviser to a succession of kings.
In many ways, Dotrice enlivens the book in ways that are even better then the HBO show. For example, one of my favorite scenes occurs at an inn on the road when Lady Cattelan Stark runs into Tyrion Lannister, whom she believes plotted in the murder attempt on her young son. She calls out the others in the inn by the insignias on the clothes to remind them of their allegiance to her house by birth (she's the daughter of Lord Tully) and to her house by marriage, the Starks. By her speech, the men rise and take Tyrion prisoner.
In print and in the audiobook, the rich drama plays out well as a satisfying and complex turn of events, considering both Lady Stark and Tyrion have been developed as likable characters. Dotrice's skills allow his voice to fill the inn with the characters present. In the HBO show, however, the wonderful performances by Peter Dinklage (who won an Emmy) and Michelle Fairley can't make up for the shot-in-the-studio feel of this scene, which makes the inn appear too small, too brightly lit and not crowded enough. At least that's how the place appeared in my imagination when reading the scene and listening to it.
Rewatching the scene on DVD revealed the weakness of a visual adaptation: it has to be literal at all times, and must show places and people, instead of just suggesting them.
That power makes "A Game of Thrones," the audiobook, time well spent.
firstname.lastname@example.org • 518-454-5629 • @mjanairo
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Bennington, New Hampshire
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Bennington is a town in Hillsborough county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1842 and has gone by the following other name/s: Hancock/Deering/Greenfield. For more information, contact the county at 7 School St., Unit 101, Bennington 03442. On the attached map, Bennington is shown as 7 in Hillsborough.
For information about the state of New Hampshire see New Hampshire Family History Research.
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While big-city jails get lots of attention, lockups in small and medium-sized counties have driven the overall explosion in the U.S. inmate population, says a new analysis of 45 years of jail statistics. U.S. jails now hold nearly 700,000 inmates on any given day, up from 157,000 in 1970. The Vera Institute of Justice found that smaller counties now hold 44 percent of the overall total, up from just 28 percent in 1978, the Associated Press reports. Jail populations in mid-sized counties with populations of 250,000 to 1 million residents grew by four times and small-sized counties with 250,000 residents or less grew by nearly seven times, Vera’s analysis shows. In that time large county jail populations grew by only about three times.
What’s behind the trend is not clear but experts say a range of factors likely contribute, from law enforcement’s increased use of summonses and traffic tickets to the closing of state mental hospitals in that time. “Everyone’s jail problem is a little different,” said Vera’s Christian Henrichson. Unlike state prisons that hold inmates doing lengthy terms, local jails and county lockups are generally used to house pretrial detainees or those who have been sentenced to serve stints of a year or less for relatively minor crimes. Jail use continues to rise though crime rates have declined since peaking in 1991, the analysis shows. Blacks are jailed at nearly four times the rate of whites and the number of women locked up in jails has grown 14-fold since 1970, according to the Vera report.
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Randel McGee is a professional storyteller and decorative paper cutter who often visits the Santa Clara branch of the public library. The Santa Clara Historical museum sponsors Mr McGee.
Every year at Swiss Days in Santa Clara a Swiss themed puppet show is sponsored by the Santa Clara Historical museum. 🙂 Swiss Days is held the 4th weekend in September at Santa Clara Town Hall, come check us out!
Check out this cool website link about the ancient people who used to call Utah “home”!
The ancestral Pueblo people residing in the Mesa Verde region and surrounding areas became agricultural societies, likely during the Basketmaker II period (about 500 BC to AD 500) as domesticated corn found its way north from what is now Arizona. Farming became the main source of food, but Pueblo cultures see farming and their crops as much more. Historical and contemporary accounts from Pueblo people regard farming and the crops, especially corn, as the essence of their culture, structure for their families, and infiltrating every part of their lives. A member of the Hopi tribe, Donald Dawahongnewa, once told a group of students at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center , “When we look at our crops… we don’t look at them as numbers, we look at them as our children. That’s how we look at our plants; we treat them like that. And so when you go to your field you sing a song and your children will hear you singing, they will say, ‘Our daddy is coming here.’
Ancient native peoples of the Santa Clara river valley communicated in ancient writing on walls. Hundreds of Hieroglyphs/Petroglyphs and rock writings have been left by the ancient peoples on the rock outcropping above the Santa Clara river.
Check out this cool article! The ancient people who used to call Utah home:
2603 Santa Clara Drive
Santa Clara, UT 84765
Closed November to February
Contact for more information: (435) 632-7040
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Waltham, Ma. – Construction projects from all across North America are invited to compete for the widely recognized Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction. The Holcim Awards will recognize projects that meet current needs for housing and infrastructure without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.The Holcim Awards, an international competition, is an initiative of the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction to celebrate innovative, future-oriented, and tangible sustainable construction projects from around the globe. The Holcim Awards are supported in the North America region by the Holcim Ltd Group companies Holcim (US) Inc., St. Lawrence Cement, and Aggregate Industries. The North American region includes the US, Canada, Bermuda and the Bahamas.“Holcim is committed to supporting and promoting advances in sustainable construction,” said Patrick Dolberg, chief executive officer of Holcim (US). “We hope everyone working to develop sustainable solutions will participate to earn national and global recognition for their innovation.”The Holcim Awards competition is open to anyone involved in planning, design, or development of a sustainable construction project, including architects, planners, engineers, or project owners. All building projects are eligible for the competition if the project has not commenced execution prior to June 1, 2007. There are no construction materials requirements or restrictions on the types of projects, as long as they embody the environmental, economic and social values of sustainable construction.Prize money will total $2 million for the 2008-2009 competition. Regional prizes range from $10,000 to $100,000, with the Global Holcim Awards ranging from $50,000 to $300,000. Nominations and entries in the competition will be accepted until February 29, 2008 at www.holcimawards.org.Add One/Holcim AwardsA special category of the awards competition is open for project visions at a conceptual level, during an early stage of design, or with a low probability of execution. In addition, the “Next Generation” category is open for professionals younger than 35 years of age. Juries will award three Next Generation prizes at the regional level.Winners of the Holcim Awards North American regional competition (except Next Generation), selected in 2008, will advance to the global competition to be held in 2009.Award applicants are evaluated by independent juries in five regions of the world, including North America, using a five-point definition of sustainable construction. These “target issues” serve as a benchmark to measure the degree to which a building contributes to sustainable development. They include:² Quantum change and transferability² Ethical standards and social equity² Ecological quality and energy conservation² Economic performance and compatibility² Contextual and aesthetic impactDetailed descriptions of each target issue and a full list of the members of each jury are available on www.holcimawards.org. Comprehensive information on the competition is also available. All entries must be submitted online in English only.The Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction is supported by Holcim Ltd but is independent of its commercial interests. Holcim Ltd is one of the world's leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, gravel, and sand) as well as further activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt including services. The Holcim Group holds majority and minority interests in more than 70 countries on all continents and employs almost 90,000 people.Holcim (US) Inc. is a subsidiary of Holcim Ltd, and one of the nation’s leading manufacturers and suppliers of cement and mineral components. Holcim (US) has 2,400 employees and operates 14 manufacturing plants and over 70 distribution facilities in the United States.St. Lawrence Cement, a company of the Holcim Group, is a leading producer and supplier of products and services for the construction industry, namely cement, concrete, aggregates, and construction. The company operates in Canada and on the eastern seaboard of the United States, and employs a total of 3,200 people. Aggregate Industries, a subsidiary of Holcim Ltd, is an environmentally responsible producer of high-quality aggregate-based construction materials in the United States and the United Kingdom. The company produces aggregates, ready-mixed concrete, concrete products, and asphalt (and related contracting services) in seven regional businesses in the United States and employs over 6,000 people.
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Internet dating can be dangerous. On line stalkers can use your personal data to their private advantage. Simply by reading the profile, they can find out in which you are, what your popular hobby is normally, and other sensitive information. Obviously, such information can be very damaging. Yet , it is also easy to avoid these dangerous scenarios if you go along with some basic guidelines. Here are a few to keep in mind when using the internet to date. Keeping these tips in mind can make it much safer to night out online.
One of the biggest dangers of online dating is sex-related maltreatment. Even if you don’t intend to, some people may well post payback adult adult porn images because revenge for being cheated in. In addition , it is best to be aware of the surroundings while using the internet. You never know who all you’ll meet up with. While this doesn’t happen every day, you should always be on guard. The net is a unsafe place.
One study seen that older people tend to ignore the risks of online dating. Although it’s authentic that older people are more likely to ignore these safety measures, only 39% of those within the age of 65 agree. Additionally , online dating is riskier for the purpose of the LGB community, in which a higher portion of accidents are reported. Furthermore, people’s sexual orientation also affects all their overall connection with online dating. Whilst these statistics might seem alarming, they are based upon a small test of American adults.
Attacking titles and pictures are among the most common perils of online dating. In accordance to figures from research, nearly forty percent of woman online daters reported acquiring inappropriate announcements. One-third of women reported receiving dangers online. Furthermore, a study from your LGB community found that LGB individuals suffered more threats than heterosexuals. Normally, women who use online dating sites happen to be twice as probably cheated on. Additionally , love-making abuse is normally doubled amongst users of dating software.
Various other dangers of internet dating include sexting and nuisance. Pictures will often be publicly offered, and people might use them meant for mental exploitation and georgian women for marriage payback adult. Sexting might cause low self-pride, and parents should always talk to their children regarding these dangers. Additionally , pictures are usually sent by simply teens to make public, thus, making them vulnerable to undesirable contact. Worse, people need to be careful to not ever share personal data on the net unless they are absolutely sure it can safe for them to share this with others.
A large number of people don’t reveal all their full name web based right up until they have fulfilled the person. Tend give out private information on a seeing website prior to meeting in person. You do not know the moment someone will try to extort money a person or talk to you to your credit card details. Also, usually do not discuss where you work. You may well be proud of your job, however you should prevent giving out your hard work address or career details online. Keep in mind online scammers, who are inclined to attempt to rob your i . d by using bogus information.
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Definition - What does RAID 01 mean?
RAID 01 is a type of nested RAID level that provides data sharing and replicating capabilities from a single RAID level.
It provides mirroring capabilities on RAID 0 arrays or mirrored stripe sets with enhanced fault tolerance capabilities.
RAID 01 is also known as RAID 0+1.
Techopedia explains RAID 01
RAID 01 is similar to RAID level 1 and utilizes half of the disk capacity to mirror the data (stored in other half). RAID 01 primarily mirrors data of the stripes. It stripes multiple disks together into sets that are mirrored together. RAID 01 provides good fault tolerance capabilities where loss of one drive does not affect its operations. However, if one drive from each disk is lost, the RAID 01 ceases to function.
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On December 4 the second of two eclipses will be exact – the powerful Total Solar Eclipse in Sagittarius.
- Sun and Moon will be at 12°
- The Universal Date for 12.4.2021 adds up to 12.
- December is the 12th month.
This sets up a dynamic quadruple 12:12:12:12 code.
Much will be learned and appreciated by tuning to the frequency of joy and wisdom.
Sagittarius is enthusiastic by nature, adaptable and resilient.
Jupiter, the ruling planet, enhances joy and fortunate outcomes.
- Sagittarius’ symbol is the archer with an arrow.
- Sagittarius governs higher learning and beliefs.
- It symbolizes your unquenching thirst for knowledge and wisdom.
- Sagittarius loves expanding horizons.
You want to know the meaning of life and GIVE MEANING to your life.
Many aspects are created to this total eclipse from Mercury, Uranus, Chiron and Saturn.
Venus, Neptune, Pluto, Mars and Jupiter create the other dynamic connections.
So every planet is engaged in this eclipse!
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Public Scrutiny, Police Behavior, and Crime Consequences: Evidence from High-Profile Police Killings
132 Pages Posted: 1 Dec 2020 Last revised: 26 Apr 2022
Date Written: September 15, 2019
After a spate of protests touched off by high-profile incidents of police use of force, there has been a renewed focus on whether public scrutiny shapes policing behavior, otherwise known as the Ferguson Effect. This question has gained additional urgency as the country grapples with increases in murders. This paper provides the first national analysis showing that after police killings that generate significant public attention and scrutiny, officers reduce effort and crime increases. The effects differ by offense type: Reduced police effort yields persistently fewer arrests for low-level offenses (e.g., marijuana possession) but limited changes in arrests for violent or more serious property crimes. I show that decreased interaction with civilians through police stops may be driving the results. However, the increase in offending is driven by murders and robberies, imposing significant crime costs on affected municipalities. The effects only occur after there is broad community awareness of the incident. These findings are robust to numerous changes in empirical specification, transformations of the dependent variable, and varying levels of fixed effects that control for changes in state law and treatment spillovers. I also present evidence that suggests these effects are not driven by a pattern-or-practice investigation or a court-mandated monitoring agreement. To distinguish between the potential effects that may simultaneously impact arrest levels following a high-profile police killing, I develop a theoretical model that provides empirically testable predictions for each mechanism. I find that the reduction in low-level arrests corroborates public scrutiny as the causal channel. Finally, I provide evidence that the increase in offending is driven by both a response to the reduction in policing effort and a reaction to the police killing itself, suggesting that measures to reduce use of force should be prioritized.
Keywords: Ferguson Effect, police killings, public scrutiny, police effort, crime, arrests, stops
JEL Classification: K42, H76, J15, D73, H41
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
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ARICE´s overall aim is to provide Europe with better capacities for marine-based research in the ice-covered Arctic Ocean.
ARICE aims at reaching this goal with the existing polar fleet by:
ARICE will develop strategies to ensure the optimal use of the existing polar research vessels at a European and international level. The aim is to establish an International Arctic Research Icebreaker Consortium which shares and jointly funds ship time for scientists on the available research icebreakers.
ARICE will provide transnational access to four European and two international research icebreakers. Access is granted based on scientific excellence of the research proposals, which researchers need to submit during the application process. The participating icebreakers are:
- PRV Polarstern, Germany
- IB Oden, Sweden
- RV Kronprins Haakon, Norway
- MSV Fennica, Finland
- CCGS Amundsen, Canada
- RV Sikuliaq, United States of America
Joint research activities
ARICE will improve the research icebreakers’ services by working closely together with maritime industry on a so called “ships and platforms of opportunity” programme. Through this programme, commercial vessels operating in the Arctic Ocean will collect oceanic and atmospheric data on their cruises. At the same time, science and industry will work together to explore new technologies, which can improve ship-based and autonomous measurements in the Arctic Ocean. ARICE will also implement virtual and remote access of data via an innovative 3D Virtual Icebreaker, which will provide anyone with real-time information from the Arctic.
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Medical Robots aren`t new to healthcare. These days robots help with various physical therapies and help perform surgery. Magnetic robots a tiny and are used for operations such as removing plaque from arteries that have become blocked. It is expected that with advances in robotic technology that a new robotic breed is being developed. These medical robots have features similar to those found in smartphones, gaming consoles with advanced sensors and motion detectors and especially in microprocessors and voice activation. Some like the Vasteras Giraff enables the elderly to communicate with others outside the home. It provides two-way video communication similar to Skype.
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Carnot Réfrigération’s industrial refrigeration technology was developed to facilitate the daily work of warehouse managers. Designed to partially or completely replace existing systems, Carnot’s solution yields significant benefits:
Carnot developed a unique CO2 refrigeration solution combining 4 key components that contribute to the aforementioned benefits:
01. CO2 as the main refrigerant: A natural, eco-friendly refrigerant with a higher heat transfer potential, cutting out synthetic refrigerants – such as ammonia, a corrosive substance that can lead to major system malfunctions. These gasses are increasingly retired from systems because of their harmful environmental effects.
02. Heat recovery and redistribution to specific areas: An energy-efficient system that reduces heating costs and ensures a constant, comfortable temperature in the building (optional)
03. CO2 Hot gas defrosting
04. High-pressure technology (no stationary engineer needed): A simpler, more efficient, and easy-to-install system that requires less equipment (pumps, pipes), positively impacting installation and maintenance costs.
Carnot’s entirely modular technology is easily adaptable to existing refrigeration facilities. Our engineering team is also highly experienced in CO2 solutions that use natural refrigerants, and year after year optimizes refrigeration systems across North America. Our experts will work with you to assess financial assistance options and thoroughly evaluate the overall benefits of our system for your warehouse.
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New policy requires fewer tests for some Georgia students
Georgia students taking certain advanced classes in high school will take fewer state tests under a new state policy.
The state Board of Education voted Thursday to stop requiring students who take certain Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate courses to take state end-of-course exams in the same subject, part of a continuing national and state backlash against testing.
The rules will apply to students taking American literature, U.S. history and economics. The state estimates that it will eliminate 58,000 tests in those subjects. One student might be exempted from one, two or all three tests depending on what advanced courses he or she takes.
All high school students must still take state exams in ninth-grade literature, algebra, biology, physical science and geology. The first three of those are required by federal law. The latter two are required by state law. But there’s no analogous AP or IB course in those subjects to substitute for the state tests, which count for 20% of a student’s grade in a class.
The change itself isn’t very big, but could be a dry run before asking lawmakers to change state law to eliminate tests not required under federal law. State Superintendent Richard Woods has made that a goal.
“Today’s change is another step toward more reasonable, student-focused testing in Georgia — and getting our testing requirements in line with the federal minimum,” Woods said in a statement. “When a student passes a course at the advanced level of AP or IB, we know they’re prepared to move forward.”
All eight courses will still be required for high school graduation.
Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican like Woods, also supports the change.
“This proposal is a simple, reasonable solution to reduce burdensome and costly double-testing for advanced courses in Georgia high schools without compromising accountability in classrooms,” Kemp wrote in an August letter.
The state has given the current end-of-course tests since 2014. Before then, Georgia gave different tests in the same subjects. That testing system was set up by a 2000 law aimed at creating a rigorous core curriculum and giving standardized tests to make sure what students were learning.
From 1991 through 2011, Georgia also administered a separate state graduation test that determined whether a student could graduate from high school.
Both end-of-course and high school graduation tests grew out of an education reform movement. The exams began in the South and spread to 25 states by 2012, but states have since been dropping such requirements, and only 13 states now require them, according to the Education Commission of the States.
Georgia also uses the tests to help calculate school ratings for high schools. Instead of test scores, course grades will now be used. Department of Education spokeswoman Meghan Frick said it’s impossible to use scores from AP or IB exams because of how long it takes to grade those exams.
The state already allows high schools to substitute grades from high school students taking dual enrollment courses for college credit in the school rating system.
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Risk hindering finance, shares could well become stranded assets
(Vancouver) Nautilus braces itself for yet another AGM of excuses and bad news for investors. The wannabe deep sea miner is still struggling to convince financiers that its Solwara 1 deep sea mine is more than a sci fi pipe dream.
The company is unable to complete the build of it support vessel and equipment. According to its Annual Information Forms, the financial and environmental risks are significant and the operation is entirely speculative.
"Even Nautilus doesn't want to waste money on the economic assessments, feasibility studies, cost studies and the assessments of ore grades considered normal in the mining industry. Mainstream financiers are not interested in experiments nor are individual investors. This can be seen by the failure of share releases to raise funds for the company. Responsible shareholders weigh up the likely exposure to social and environmental risks and the value erosion that goes with that. In regards to Nautilus, they have voted with their wallets,” says Dr. Helen Rosenbaum of the Deep Sea Mining Campaign.
Local communities are also not interested in Nautilus's experiment. In the past two weeks, two large forums against the Nautilus Solwara 1 deep sea mining project in the Bismarck Sea have been held in New Ireland and East New Britain provinces of Papua New Guinea. Supported by the Catholic Bishops and Caritas Papua New Guinea , both forums called for the halt of Nautilus Solwara 1 project and a complete ban on seabed mining in PNG and The Pacific.
Patrick Kitaun, Caritas PNG Coordinator said, “The Bismarck Sea is not a Laboratory for the world to experiment with seabed mining. Our ocean is our life! We get all our basics from the ocean so we need to protect it. We will not allow experimental seabed mining in Papua New Guinea. It must be stopped and banned for good."
Jonathan Mesulam of the Alliance of Solwara Warriors stated, “Nautilus, we are not guinea pigs for your mining experiment! We in the Pacific are custodians of the world’s largest ocean. These oceans are important to us as sources of food and livelihoods. They are vital for our culture and our very identity. In New Ireland Province, we are only 25 km away from the Solwara 1 site. It is right in the middle of our traditional fishing grounds. We will stand up for our rights!”
Vicar General, Father Vincent Takin of the Diocese of Kavieng stated, “In order for any development to take place, the people must be the object of development and not subject to it. The people have not been fully informed about the impacts of Solwara 1 on the social, cultural, physical and spiritual aspects of their lives. Therefore they cannot give their consent.”
Dr. Catherine Coumans of MiningWatch Canada says, "Seabed mining is not only financially irresponsible but also unconscionable given its unnecessary destruction of irreplaceable marine ecosystems. Our need for metals can be met in more creative and intelligent ways, in particular by the urban mining of electronic and other wastes, and the reduction of demand for virgin minerals through better product design, repairing and recycling.
“These options will provide win-win solutions for society, environment and the economy and gain a social licence that deep sea mining will never achieve. Shares in Nautilus's Solwara 1 will be stranded assets."
For more info:
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
- Jonathon Mesulam, Alliance of Solwara Warriors representative, West Coast New Ireland Province, [email protected], +675 70038933
- Patrick Kitaun, Caritas PNG Coordinator, Kavieng Diocese, [email protected], +675 70620453
- To contact Fr Vincent Takin: John Momori, Caritas PNG Parish Coordinator, [email protected], +675 70620714
- Helen Rosenbaum, Deep Sea Mining Campaign, [email protected], +61 413201793
- Dr. Catherine Coumans, MiningWatch Canada, [email protected], +1 613-569-3439
If it proceeds, the Solwara 1 mine will be located in the Bismarck Sea of Papua New Guinea, approximately 25 km from the coastline of New Ireland Province, about 35 km from Duke of York Islands and 60 km from Kokopo township in East New Britain.
See sections on Risk factors in Annual Information Forms for financial years 2015 and 2016. For example:
"Our operations are speculative due to the high-risk nature of business related to the exploration and acquisition of rights to potential mineable deposits of metals. These risk factors could materially affect the Company’s future results and could cause actual events to differ materially from those described in forward-looking statements relating to our Company." (FY 2016, p.52)
"... Performance, availability, reliability, maintenance, wear and life of equipment are unknown. There can be no guarantee that sub-sea engineering and recovery systems can be developed or if developed, will be employable in a commercially-viable manner." (FY 2015, p.54)
"... while Company studies have indicated a low likelihood of risk to the aquatic environment from mining activities, the actual impact of any SMS [seafloor massive sulphide] mining operations on the environment has yet to be determined.” (FY 2015, p.61)
"Nautilus has not completed and does not intend to complete a preliminary economic assessment, pre-feasibility study or feasibility study before completing the construction and first deployment of the Seafloor Production System at the Solwara 1 Project.”
"No independent Qualified Person has confirmed the amount of these costs or recommended that these costs be incurred. There is significant risk with this approach and no assurance can be given that the Seafloor Production System, if fully funded and completed for deployment at the Solwara 1 Project, will successfully demonstrate that seafloor resource development is commercially viable." (FY 2015, p.52)
Statement by Vicar General, Father Vincent Takin, representing the Diocese of Kavieng and speaking on behalf of His Lordship, Bishop Ambrose Kiapseni MSC DD and all the Catholic faithful of the Diocese of Kavieng. View the full statement here.
For example, No Mining Required; No more mining says Apple; and Apple will stop relying on mining for minerals ‘one day’; California based Blue Oak Resources estimates that every year mining companies spend roughly $12 billion for virgin ore deposits. Tons of cell phones and other electronics are thrown out every year, and each ton contains 70 times the amount of gold and silver found in virgin ore. For copper the number is even higher, with the equivalent of roughly one-third of global mining production thrown out in e-waste globally every year; 'Urban mining': UBC engineers say e-waste richer than ore pulled from the ground; Can ‘urban mining’ solve the world’s e-waste problem? See also the Institute for Sustainable Futures (University of Technology Sydney) study Renewable Energy and Deep-Sea Mining: Supply, Demand and Scenarios.
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There is certainly virtual funds, and then there is Bitcoin. The tremendous geeky Bitcoin is a mathematically-derived currency that guarantees to modify the way men and women use money. Bitcoins are not actual cash-they are strings of code locked with armed forces-quality encryption-and folks who use them to get and market goods and companies are tough to trace. Alongside with anonymous drug dealers, Ashton Kutcher and the Winklevoss twins have reportedly jumped on the bandwagon. There is one thing to be explained about making use of forex that is not regulated by the authorities or banking companies, isn’t going to appear with the common transaction fees and is not possible to counterfeit. Bitcoin also claims to be catastrophe-evidence, simply because you can not demolish numbers in the identical way that you can wipe out gold reserves or paper income.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is a digital forex produced in 2009 by a developer hiding under the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto (supposedly a Japanese man who has ideal command of American English). Bitcoin is decentralized, which means it is not managed by a central authority like a financial institution, nation, government or individual. It is peer-to-peer and open-source, distributed throughout the internet from personal computer to laptop, without require for middlemen. In contrast to U.S. dollars, Bitcoin is almost untraceable, making it eye-catching to libertarians afraid of government meddling and denizens of the underworld. You can use it to shell out for purchases online and off, from illegal medications on the Silk Road to legit restaurant meals.
Exactly where to Get Bitcoins
You can get Bitcoins from close friends, on the internet giveaways or by purchasing them with actual cash from Bitcoin exchanges. Using actual funds to purchase Bitcoins defeats the complete objective of anonymity, nevertheless, simply because you may possibly need to have to include your lender account to a third social gathering website. You can also purchase Bitcoins making use of your mobile mobile phone or by means of cash deposit establishments. New Bitcoins are produced by “mining.” Mining is carried out automatically by pcs or servers-it is not true-globe mining exactly where you have to dig underground to unearth commodities, but the principle is related. You have to exert effort to dig up gold, and you (or your device) also have to devote time and methods to verify and report Bitcoin transactions.
One of the coolest things about Bitcoin is that it will get its value not from true-entire world objects, but from codes. Bitcoins are pulled out of the ether by devices (and the men and women who operate them) in exchange for solving complex mathematical difficulties associated to the current variety of Bitcoins. These cumbersome and expensive supercomputers appear with potent encryption capabilities (and reportedly suck electricity like nobody’s company). In a typical transaction, customer A from place X pays vendor B some Bitcoins online. Miners then race to authenticate and encrypt the transaction, logging Bitcoin codes in a central server. Whomever solves the puzzle very first will get the Bitcoins. About twenty five new Bitcoins are developed for each 10-moment block, but that number can boost or lessen dependent on how extended the community operates.
How to Use Bitcoins
After you get your hands on some Bitcoins, you need to store them in an on the internet wallet by way of a computer software or a third-social gathering site. You grow to be component of the Bitcoin community when you develop your virtual wallet. To send Bitcoins to yet another user or shell out for on the internet buys, get that person/seller’s identification variety and transfer Bitcoins online. Processing requires about a handful of minutes to an hour, as Bitcoin miners across the globe confirm the transaction.
How to Make Income on Bitcoins
If you happen to be nonetheless skeptical, 1 Bitcoin is currently value about $90 (as of eighteen April 2013), with hourly fluctuations that can make a day trader dizzy. Unstable as it is, more and a lot more men and women are commencing to milk the phenomenon for all it is well worth-whilst it lasts. How to get your slice of the virtual gold rush? Some methods: Offer Bitcoin mining computers, sell your Bitcoins at crazy prices on eBay and speculate on Bitcoin marketplaces. Bitcoin Evolution Review can also begin mining. Any man or woman can mine Bitcoins, but unless you can pay for an successful setup, it will take an common Personal computer a 12 months or much more to resolve algorithms. Most folks be part of pools of other miners who merge their computing energy for more rapidly code-cracking.
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Thinking beyond the school day.
Our enrichment programs were created to supplement and enhance a child’s school-based learning in a fun and interactive way. Learning Brooke offers a variety of enrichment programs that expand on core curriculum, while focusing on the individual goals and interests of the children.
For more information on enrichment programs, contact:
Erica Kupferschmidt, Director • 401.941.3705 • firstname.lastname@example.org
Afternoon Kindergarten Enrichment
This multifaceted experience for half-day kindergarteners is designed to spark a child’s natural curiosities. The children are encouraged to take an active role in their learning by developing relationships and discovering what the world means to them.
Based on these emerging interests, our teachers guide the students to sustain deeper explorations and long-term integrated projects. This supports the inquisitive nature of children and encourages hands-on learning through small/large group and individual investigations — both indoors and out.
Empowering children to own their learning.
At Learning Brooke, our ultimate goal is always to support children along the exciting journey of self-discovery. Students are treated with the utmost respect — giving them the time and space necessary to develop the core skills for their ongoing educational path.
Reading, writing, math, science and social skills are acquired in a natural way. Children are also encouraged to explore new ideas and express themselves through oral & written language, clay-making, painting, dancing, wood & wire, movement and music.
Before & After School (grades K-3).
Our after school programs are safe, fun and educational sessions that complement the school day, while helping to take what the children have learned to the next level. Learning Brooke teachers provide homework assistance, along with directing and supervising an engaging variety of indoor and outdoor activities. The children are encouraged to explore their interests and ideas within learning centers, while working cooperatively in small groups.
7:30 am to 8:30 am
3:30 pm to 5:30 pm
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The United Nations mission in Sudan concluded the first stage of consultations with Sudanese parties in a bid to bring an end to the political crisis in the country.
The UN Integrated Transitional Assistance Mission in Sudan (UNITAMS) is expected to produce a summary document that highlights major areas of consensus among Sudanese political forces on contentious matters on the transition to civilian rule.
Volker Perthes, head of the UNITAMS, described the consultation process as “valuable” as it allows the mission to hear a range of perspectives and proposals from the Sudanese people.
UNITAMS launched an intra-Sudanese political process on January 10 in order to end the country’s political crisis and Perthes has been in consultations with Sudanese political parties and civil forces in the country.
Sudan has been going through a political crisis since Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, chairman of Sudan’s transitional Sovereign Council, declared a state of emergency on October 25, 2021 and dissolved the Sovereign Council and the government.
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Side Effects Of Keto Diet Plans: What You Need To Know
People all across the country are having fantastic weight loss results with the keto diet. They say they have more energy, more fat burn, and feel better than ever! If that sounds too good to be true, it’s because it PARTIALLY is. We’re definitely not saying you should throw out the idea of keto altogether! But there are some potential keto diet plan side effects that we think you should know about! Most of these are either temporary or have easy solutions, so don’t fret! Knowledge is power! And that’s why we want to arm you with all of our knowledge on keto diet plan side effects!
Keto Diet Plan Side Effects: Keto Flu
Probably the most prevalent of keto diet plan side effects is the dreaded keto flu. This usually comes on at the beginning of keto and goes away on its own within about a week. But it DOES feel a lot like the flu. Keto Flu symptoms can include:
- Brain Fog
- Sugar Cravings
Don’t be discouraged by these initial side effects (unless they are really affecting your quality of life, of course). Like we said, keto flu usually sorts itself out in no time. And looking past keto flu, people report LESS cravings and IMPROVED mood on the keto diet. So it could be worth that initial bout of keto flu. Try to power through it and treat your body like you would if you had a regular flu. Get your rest, and get plenty of fluids.
Keto Diet Plan Side Effects: Constipation
Another of the fairly common keto diet plan side effects is constipation. Now, we know this isn’t the most fun to talk about. But, it’s normal! Especially when you’ve just changed your diet. Our digestive system needs some time to adjust. And because you’ll likely be eating more fat and protein and less fiber on a keto diet, you might end up a little blocked up. But like most keto diet plan side effects, this CAN be easily solved! Here are a few ways to address constipation because of your keto diet:
- Get Hydrated| Oftentimes constipation is a result of dehydration. Make sure you’re getting lots of water.
- Eat Your Fiber| Eating lots of non-starchy vegetables is a good way to get your fiber without loading up on carbs so you can get things moving and grooving!
Keto Diet Plan Side Effects: Keto Breath
The last of the keto diet plan side effects we’ll talk about here is keto breath. Oftentimes, people say their breath begins to smell when they start the keto diet. This isn’t necessarily a bad smell, but many people describe it as sort of sweet or a bit rotten. Which is probably not how you want your breath to smell. But don’t despair! For many people, keto breath proves to be temporary. It’s simply the result of a ketone called acetone being released through your breath. But if it persists, it’s as simple as keeping up with your oral hygiene and using breath freshener or gum!
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After the Orphanage: Memory, Identity and Personal History in Post-war Australia
Publication Date :
1 Jan 2009
While there is much literature on the experience of growing up in an orphanage, very few books examine life after institutional care. After the Orphanage is the first book to address how care-leavers adjust to life in the outside world. Using interviews with people who grew up in orphanages and group homes in Victoria between 1945 and 1983, the book explores how institutionalisation affected future education, employment opportunities, relationships and health, and the implications this might have for policy and practice in the out-of-home care of children.
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From Github and npm, to releasing beta versions, semantic versioning, code coverage, continuous integration, and providing your library with a solid set of unit tests, there are a ton of things to learn.
You might also enjoy this article about contributing to open source.
In this lesson, you'll learn how to set up your machine to publish to npm so people can install your library. You'll configure some helpful defaults and use those to create a
package.json file for your project using
There are so many repeated steps when releasing a new version of a library. The tool semantic-release automates this process by pushing off the responsibility of your releases to continuous integration. Trust us, this will change your workflow for the better.
Wouldn't it be nice if everyone ran the tests before committing code? With ghooks, you can automatically add a githook when dependencies are installed which will allow you to define common scripts to be run at various points during git actions (like committing). In this lesson, we'll add a githook for running the tests before we commit code to make sure we don't commit anything that breaks the tests.
It's nice to know the status of a project. Adding badges to your readme gives first-timers and old-timers an at-a-glance peek into the status of your project. In this lesson, we'll add several badges using shields.io
By default, Travis will build all branches, tags, and Pull Requests. Because we're building our master branch before we release, we don't need Travis building our releases. Also, we don't care to have Travis build all the branches. So we're going to limit Travis to only build our master branch and Pull Requests by configuring travis via our
Currently, our library is being distributed as a CommonJS module, but we should support the browser as well. In this lesson, we're going to use
webpack to create a
UMD (Universal Module Definition) build of our module so users can consume it in a browser.
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Managing millennials: What employers need to know
Millennials will redefine the workforce in a digital economy. So what do potential employers need to know about managing them?
The impact of millennials on organisations and the ability of companies to harness a changing workforce, are predicted to be one of the largest factors to define future corporate success.
Millennials represent people born between 1980 and 2000, currently 2.5 billion people worldwide.
As of 2015, millennials as a cohort have become the largest generational component of the workforce, at roughly 34 per cent, just in front of Generation X.
As more baby boomers retire, millennials are expected to make up 50 per cent of the workforce by 2020, and 75 per cent by 2030.
Millennials – and in particular those in the latter part of the age bracket who are just now entering the workforce – bring with them a new approach to work, founded in a digital environment which champions connectivity, immediacy, speed, growth, and an ever-forward outlook.
A generational shift
Organisations cannot expect millennials to assimilate into the existing culture of companies where they will soon be the majority.
Instead, organisations will need to adapt to retain the best talent from the millennial generation, and ensure future growth.
The millennial generation will redefine how organisations manage their workforce. With high education, ability for fast paced work, and an innate understanding of an increasing technology-focused corporate landscape, millennials can make rapid and impressive contributions to the workplace.
In return, they look for a new suite of talent management priorities, which companies need to be ready to provide.
Development is most important. These days there are many paths to success, and most don’t necessarily involve a slow climb up a corporate ladder.
It’s common to hear about 25 year old entrepreneur CEOs running start-ups, and we are all want opportunities to advance quickly. Millennials look for a more personalised development program, which includes recognition of their skillsets and contributions, and an understanding of where they are headed.
Millennials who have exposure to strong leadership and professional development are roughly 25 per cent more likely to stay in a role for over five years, rather than leave in the next two.
Millennials want to be challenged and stimulated in ways similar to how they personal lives are lived.
Just as you might be used to texting, while talking to a friend, while you both watch a movie – variety is important in the workplace.
This includes the ability to shape elements of your role, and empower you to make those decisions yourself. After salary and benefits, Accenture found that challenging and interesting work was the most important factor for 2015 graduates entering the workforce.
Look for ways to speed up development for high potential employees and those able to take on more. Integral components can include project exposure, stretch assignments, and secondments.
It’s also important that millennials understand how their contribution fits into the bigger picture. This is easily facilitated by companies which embrace data driven decision making.
Millennials feel comfortable questioning decisions and want to know the ‘why’ before putting their efforts behind a task.
They understand and appreciate data, and therefore intuition and gut feelings no longer cut it in a world driven by analytics-backed strategy. They also believe that business success goes hand in hand with employee satisfaction, ethics and integrity.
Being able to provide an integration of technology into work, and a connected workplace, is vital. In their personal lives, communication for millennials is almost all digital.
When asked, 68 per cent of 18-29 year olds sent or read a text message the day before, and 38 per cent communicated via social media, compared to 26 per cent of 50-64 year olds who texted, and 17 per cent on social media.
Workplace communication should reflect this generational shift as much as possible. Data-driven and digitally-focused organisations will increasingly become the norm in the future, and those which don’t will suffer from more than a lack of workforce talent.
If they’re unhappy or can see a better opportunity elsewhere, your workforce won’t sit on their hands and wait – they’ll leave.
Rules of engagement
Sixty-six per cent of millennials expect to have left their job by 2020. Therefore engagement and continual development is key. This encompasses a range of areas which will challenge and shape future workplaces.
A breakdown of traditional hierarchies and barriers becomes important, including exposure to senior executives, and more transparent communication.
So too does flexibility, the technological ability to work where and when you feel most productive, and the maturity to be measured by your deliverables rather than the time you spend sitting at your desk.
These are not only valuable to attract and retain talent, but are all fast becoming hallmarks of a modern organisation embracing technology and aligning itself to how companies will operate in the future.
If you are a proud millennial who is about to graduate university, or has graduated in the last two years, and want to start your career in an organisation where you can make a real difference? Join the nbn Graduate Program!
Applications for 2017 are open now, until Friday May 13 2016. Click here to find out more.
Find out more about the nbn Graduate Program in the video below
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What is the Water Shortage Response Plan?
The City of Camrose has developed a draft Water Shortage Response Plan (WSRP) to guide potential water restrictions, especially during dry summers. The Province requires the City to provide them with a "Water Operations Plan" (also known as a "Water Shortage Response Plan"). This plan can take on a variety of forms, but it must address at least three main items:
1. A description of water management during normal and water shortage operations,
2. Monitoring and reporting programs, and
3. Contact information for the City of Camrose waterworks facility
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It’s not your job to tell your daughters not to dress “too sexy.”
It’s not your job to warn your daughters about parties, drinking and hookup culture.
It’s not your job to teach your daughters to avoid walking alone at night.
It’s not your job to teach your daughters to avoid walking alone at anytime.
It’s not your job to tell your daughters to keep their heads down while using public transportation.
It’s not your job to encourage your daughters to say they are in a relationship to avoid unwanted attention.
It’s not your job to teach your daughters to ignore the cat calls.
It’s not your job to tell your daughters smiling or being friendly might be mistaken for wanting something sexual.
It’s not your job to give your daughters whistles, or mace, or a knife or a sharp set of keys.
It’s not your job to teach your daughters how not to get harassed or assaulted or raped.
For far too long we have made women and girls shoulder the burden for the inappropriate and often violent behavior some men inflict upon them.
Women are reminded from a young age of our status as victims, as prey in waiting. Whether it’s avoiding a street because someone tried to grab us there, or dancing in a group to better ward off jerks at the club, we spend so much of our time in this fight or flight mode.
I am a bit older. The cat calls have dwindled, I rarely go out and I am seldom alone at night in public. I am a mother, and, in many ways, my role his shifted.
I have two boys. Though they may be small, I often wonder what they will be like as teenagers and young adults. I think about some of the unfortunate encounters I have had with guys, and wonder, will my kids turn out that way?
I know parents are not to blame for everything which may go wrong with their kids. I know perfectly lovely parents can produce perfectly horrible children. Friends, society the media, etc., all play a role in shaping how our boys view and treat women.
I also acknowledge the vulnerability of young men in our world. The thought of anything happening to my sons makes me sick. I think the stigma against reporting sexual abuse toward men needs to end, and I will never dismiss or downplay anyone’s story, regardless of gender identity.
But, because women are more likely the victims of sexual assault, molestation, violence or domestic abuse, I want to do my part to encourage my fellow parents of boys to do more.
It’s our job to teach our sons that not only does “no means no,” but often “yes doesn’t mean yes.”
It’s our job to teach our sons to not look at a drunk girl as an easy target.
It’s our job to tell our sons that shouting things at women on the street, even if the words are “nice” is harassment.
It’s our job to tell our sons that nobody should be touched in any way unless they explicitly ask for it.
It’s our job to teach our sons that buying a woman gifts, taking her out to dinner or doing anything “special” for her, doesn’t mean she is required to return the favor sexually.
It’s our job to teach our sons that hair pulling, bra snapping and butt pinching is never funny.
It’s our job to tell our sons that their sexual reputation is less important than a woman’s worth.
It’s our job to teach our sons to not help their friends engage in harmful behavior toward women, or worse let their friends help them.
It’s our job to tell our sons that sharing private photos, bragging about conquests and slut-shaming perpetuate a culture that demeans and devalues their female counterparts.
It is our job to do better by our girls by doing better by our boys.
We have to put an end to this “boys will be boys” attitude about how our sons treat girls. We need to recognize the self entitlement we may have given them and how that shapes the way they view women. We can’t let girls and those who care for them shoulder the burden of their safety.
When I see one of those dad’s of daughter memes, you know, the ones with the dad threatening to kill any boy who dares to mess with their baby girl, I feel sad. I feel sad that even today, people feel like boys are still predators and girls are victims. I am angry that in many ways, this is still true. I am hurt that generation after generation goes by and nothing seems to change.
Well, that stops now.
My fellow parents of boys, let’s commit to doing more to raise better men. Let’s do this so their female friends, co-workers, and family members no longer have to fear being sexually harassed or worse.
We have a responsibility to teach our sons to treat women better, so you don’t have to teach your daughter how to be safe.
It is our job.
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My Spare Heart
I mean, Mum didn’t drink that much. All of my friend’s mums loved their champagne or whatever. Everyone drank in The Village, too. I'd only been there about a month and there’d already been five wine and food festivals. Mum’s drinking wasn’t a big deal. Right?
Phoebe’s parents have split up and she’s moved to sleepy old Willunga with her Dad and his health-obsessed girlfriend. It’s only a few kilometres from Phoebe’s old friends and the city but feels like another world. Her new school is full of hippies, but some of the kids are cool and the local basketball team is tight, and before long Phoebe is fitting in. But as her mum becomes increasingly unreliable, Phoebe’s grades begin to suffer, her place on the basketball team is under threat and her worries spiral out of control.
Phoebe can’t tell her friends and if she tells her dad he’ll get angry, but pretending everything is fine is breaking her heart. How can she help her mum without tearing her family apart?
A powerful and uplifting story about family breakdowns, facing truths and finding balance.
Enrichetta Frezzato manages the translation rights for My Spare Heart
Contact Tara Wynne for more information
The audio rights are handled by Allen & Unwin Pty.
a powerful and crucial story by a First Nations YA writer that explores alcoholism, racism, sexual assault, bullying and family dynamics.
Honest, raw and full of heart.Tobias Madden, author of Anything But Fine
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Members of the European parliament were aghast earlier this week to discover that the EU's proposed new digital commissioner doesn't get the cloud.
Former energy commissioner Günther Oettinger was being grilled in a question-and-answer session on Monday about his proposed new role as the EU's digital economy and society commissioner. Referring in what he described as "semi-serious" comments to the recent hacking of celebrity pictures from iCloud accounts, he put the blame squarely on the victims:
If someone is dumb enough as a celebrity to take a nude photo of themselves and put it online, they surely can't expect us to protect them.
I mean, stupidity is something you can not — or only partly — save people from.
The ill-chosen comments betrayed an astonishingly poor grasp of the commissioner-delegate's new brief, which he is due to assume within days. Although it is a common misconception among those who either ignorantly or willfully fail to distinguish privately accessed cloud services with the open Internet, it was a lamentable gaffe from the EU's next head of digital policy.
The notion that every service in the public Internet is akin to facilities in a public park, where everyone strolls wherever they like, is facile to say the least. The public cloud is more like a shopping center, where anyone is free to walk into any bank or shop, but only the account holder can access their own private details. Oettinger's predecessors have loudly promoted the EU's measures to protect the privacy of individuals in such transactions.
Making remarks that perpetuate commonplace misunderstandings of such matters is a disgrace from someone who is about to be the EU's digital commissioner. His role is one of those charged with the duty of protecting people online and he clearly starts without a clue.
Unfortunately in politics, knowledge of one's brief is not normally a large part of why one is chosen for a specific role, and this is certainly the case in the EU. Every one of the 28 commissioners — one from each country — is coming new to their role after June's elections to choose a new European parliament. Perhaps it is as well that data protection will become the direct responsibility not of Oettinger but of incoming justice, consumers and gender equality commissioner Vera Jourová from the Czech Republic. The digital single market becomes the brief of former Estonian prime minister, Andrus Ansip.
A further consequence of the clean sweep of new blood at the Commission is that several of the most experienced advisors are also changing roles. European civil servant Ken Ducatel has been a key figure in the delivery of former digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes' cloud computing strategy but on September 1st he took up a new role as chief information security officer. His deputy succeeds him in his role as head of unit for software, services and cloud at DG Connect, the department that looks after digital policy.
It has been suggested that Oettinger has been selected for the key digital role because, as a German, he is best placed to overcome German opposition to the data protection regulations proposed by former justice commissioner Viviane Reding. But German Green MEP Jan Philipp Albrecht says that Oettinger's poor digital credentials leave him ill-fitted for the task:
Oettinger does not even use social media, for example. He barely communicates publicly with people on the internet. Instead, he is a man of classical media. As regional prime minister and as energy commissioner he devoted himself to traditional issue areas. This will be an enormous challenge for him.
Oettinger takes over a portfolio that faces serious challenges. As mentioned, the important data protection regulations have run into delays. While that may please my diginomica colleague Stuart Lauchlan, who has been skeptical of Viviane Reding's no-ocmpromise approach to Internet regulation, most cloud industry insiders berate the patchwork quilt of data protection legislation that makes it complex and costly to offer cross-border cloud services in Europe.
Several other aspects of outgoing Commissioner Kroes' much vaunted EU cloud strategy have also run into problems. Work on establishing common specifications for cloud service contracts have fallen prey to professional lobbying by suppliers that the UK goverment likes to characterize as the entrenched 'oligopoly' of established suppliers.
Meanwhile the Cloud for Europe initiative to develop several flagship cross-border public sector cloud projects as role models for public sector cloud procurement has run into difficulties finding government sponsors willing to underwrite the costs of model projects.
The EU is an object model in the flaws of representative democracy. Achieving any consensus among representatives of 28 nation states, especially when elected European parliamentarians are often at odds with their own nation's government ministers, is a constant battle. That anything constructive ever gets done is frankly a miracle.
Add into this the difficulty that most politicians are experts only in the art of politics and rarely understand the detail of specific briefs and you have a recipe for propagating unintended consequences. Although Neelie Kroes often inspired exasperation during her term of office she at least understood the fundamentals of cloud computing in a way that appears to have eluded her successor. I foresee a rapid wave of warm nostalgia for her term of office.
Europe desperately needs to get its act together on cloud policy and first indications are that the appointment of Oettinger has been a retrograde step. Perhaps someone had the notion that his experience as energy commissioner would be helpful in overseeing the development of utility computing in the EU. But if Oettinger has no concept of how the connected digital economy is destined to work, no amount of utility market knowledge will help him in his role.
Disclosure: The author is chair of EuroCloud UK, the British arm of the European cloud industry trade association. Learn more about data protection legislation at EuroCloud UK's next member meeting on Power to the Cloud: What do you need to know about Data Centres?
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when nothing is left
something is left
a burning ember
ready to flame
life is like that
Some people need Buddha conquering the armies of Mara; I need Siddhartha’s utter surprise at the existence of suffering and his realization that even kings are without immunity. Some people look to the resurrection. I understand the garden of Gethsemane. Some people see the triumph of the Promised Land. I get being chased by Pharaoh’s armies. For someone like me, life is a dangerous and not entirely attractive endeavor. But for better or worse, it’s the only life I’ve got. So, I look for the shafts of light deep in the muck. I look for something that shines.
For my tribe, the preternaturally freaked out, spirituality is a necessity. It is something that is left when everything is lost. Members of my tribe don’t sit on the cushion because we think we’re evolved. We sit because we have to. We don’t pray because we are fundamentally good. We pray because we need something. Yes, Jim Morrison, we hope we can petition the Lord with prayer. We are a very flawed lot. God wouldn’t have picked us. We would have cried out after the first affliction.
So, what does any of this have to do with Parabola and the deep meaning of traditions? Parabola is a balm in the midst of life’s randomness. It can lead you to water and teach you wisdom, even if you are like me and members of my tribe – the “oh, sh-t, I didn’t sign up for this at the reincarnation window” crowd. Of course, most people who read Parabola are not like me and my tribe. They are spiritually evolved for all the right reasons. But if you are like me, constantly surprised that life could be like this: remember when nothing is left, something is left. And like a burning ember, it can flame to life and show you the way.
Read The Story of Patacara in the Alone & Together issue of Parabola.
“No child will be a refuge, Not any relations at all. The one who is taken by death will find no shelter among king. Knowing this, understanding this, the wise one, restrained by virtue, quickly clears the obstacles on the path that leads to freedom.”
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About This Class
Photoshop for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make a tartan or plaid repeating pattern. I'll show you how you can make any plaid or tartan using a reference image to get the colors and lines correct and how to add some extra texture to make it look realistic. This is a sample of the plaid we'll create (it is much simpler to make than you might think):
Thank you to the Skillshare users who asked for this class!
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Helen teaches the popular Illustrator for Lunch™, Photoshop for Lunch™ and ACR & Lightroom for Lunch™ series of courses. Each course is just the right length to take over a lunch break and is packed with useful and fun techniques. The projects are designed to reinforce what is taught so they too can be easily completed over a lunch hour or two.
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On November 21st, 2008, The Learning Enhancement Center hosted a symposium on the topic of Self-Directed Learning, in honor of the publication of a special issue of its newsletter, The Luminaria.
The range of topics demonstrated the broad scope of areas to which self-directed learning are applicable. These included discussions on the philosophy, psychology and biology of self-directedness, as well as teaching practices and curriculum development.
Dr. Richard Grallo delivers a terrific presentation on promoting self-directedness through questioning in a statistics course that he teaches.
Dr. Heide Hlawaty sits with the symposium’s keynote speaker, Dr. Monica Devenas of Rutgers University.
Dr. Clyde Griffin offers insight into the philosophical and pedagogical aspects of the self-directed learner.
Dr. Jaya Kannan, Title V LEC Director, poses the question, “Is Self Directedness Teachable?”
Lisa Bauer, LEC Math & Statistics Specialist, examines biological underpinnings mediating control beliefs.
Lou Acierno, Director of Academic Computing, demonstrates how advancements in technology can enable self-directed learning within a college community.
The toast of the day’s events was the enlightening and inspiring discussion by the student panel, facilitated by LEC’s Yasmine Alwan.
Lectures can be heard via downloadable podcasts.Share
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Production of biofuels from lignocellulosic (LC) residues should be fuelling the energy matrix in the near future. Yeasts will play an important role as platform microorganisms for the conversion processes of LC-derived sugars into, for instance, fuel ethanol but also other advanced fuels and chemicals. Fermentation of LC hydrolysates poses many scientific and technological challenges. For example, the limitation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in fermenting pentose sugars (derived-hemicellulose), and the pre-treatment processes that generate various yeast growth inhibitors (furan-derivatives, phenolics, and organic acids), reduce the efficiency of fermentation. To overcome the inability of the S. cerevisiae to ferment xylose and also xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) and, to tackle the inhibition by acetic acid, this present research proposal aims to engineer and to improve the performance of these pathways in industrial S. cerevisiae strains (SA-1). For that, genes of XOS transport and dissimilation and a NADH-consuming acetate pathway will be engineered in a xylose-consuming yeast strain. The strains will be engineered using a recently developed high-efficient CRISPR/Cas9 system-based approach for industrial S. cerevisiae genome editing. For the construction of the xylose consumption pathway, the xylose reductase and xylitol dehydrogenase genes (XR/XDH) from Scheffersomyces stipitis were used. The XOS transport and consumption genes from Neurospora crassa will be used for reconstitution of this XOS utilization pathway in this xylose-consuming strain. Moreover, the overexpression of the acetyl-CoA synthetase (ACS) gene from Salmonelas enterica will be used to increase conversion of acetate into acetyl-CoA and the heterologous expression of the acetylating acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (AADH) gene from Escherichia coli will be used to enable the conversion of acetyl-CoA into acetaldehyde. The transformed strains will be evaluated under anaerobic conditions according to their capacity to consume xylose, XOS, and acetate. The consumption of XOS and acetate will expand the capabilities of S. cerevisiae to utilize plant-derived and represent the potential to increase the efficiency of second-generation biofuel production.
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A recent National Journal article on Arizona Senate-hopeful Jeff Flake underlines an unusual feature in today’s political landscape:[i] There are several prominent conservatives who proudly favor a carbon tax, including professional economists such as President Bush’s advisor Greg Mankiw. Just today, it was reported that former Congressman Bob Inglis has joined forced with Makiw, Art Laffer, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin to push for taxes on carbon and gasoline. Yet there are serious dangers from a carbon tax, both in terms of economic theory as well as political reality.
A Carbon Tax in Theory
In today’s economy, a tax on carbon is largely equivalent to a tax on energy usage. In this respect, a high carbon tax would be just as crippling to economic growth as a high tax on labor or a high tax on the use of machinery.
Yet the proponents of a carbon tax try to turn this analogy on its head, by saying the government should “tax bads, not goods.” In other words, they recommend implementing a revenue-neutral carbon tax, in which the government reduces economically inefficient taxes (such as the income or payroll tax) and replaces the lost revenues with a tax on what they have decided are socially harmful activities, such as carbon dioxide emissions. Thus we allegedly kill two birds with one stone: We reduce the threat of manmade climate change, while reducing the “deadweight loss” currently generated by taxes on labor or capital gains.
Even on a purely theoretical level, this case for a carbon tax is not as strong as its proponents believe. For example, the “optimal” carbon tax is probably nowhere near as high as they think. In their models, economists can calculate what they call the “social cost of carbon,” which is a gauge of the (present discounted value of) future damages due to manmade climate change that can be attributed to the emission of an additional unit of carbon today. Proponents want to calibrate the tax to make emitters internalize this “externality” and thus balance the social benefits of their economic activity with the full social costs, all things considered.
But to repeat, in these models the “social cost of carbon”—and the associated “optimal” carbon tax—are far too high. The models implicitly assume that all governments on the face of the planet will uniformly implement the carbon tax at its appropriate level, and will continually update the tax over the course of decades as circumstances change and the social cost of carbon evolves. Yet if only (say) half of the world’s governments participate in the plan to tax carbon, then the economic cost of achieving a given environmental objective rises by a whopping 250 percent, according to the modeling of William Nordhaus.[ii]
Another theoretical problem, raised by Roy Cordato, is that the government currently has all manner of measures in place that increase the price or reduce the use of carbon-based fuel including CAFE mileage standards; excessive regulation of coal, oil, and gas production and use; appliance efficiency mandates; the light bulb ban; the federal gasoline excise tax; state and local gasoline excise taxes; severance taxes; renewable fuels and electricity mandates (though it’s uncertain as to whether all these measures actually do on net reduce greenhouse gas emissions); and fiscal subsidies for “green” programs. Even from a purely theoretical level, the “optimum” carbon tax wouldn’t take zero as a baseline, but would have to take into account the net discouragement on carbon usage from all of these other programs, first.
The above discussion has shown that the correctly calculated “optimal carbon tax,” even on purely theoretical grounds, might be far lower than what the proponents believe. Consequently, if the government were to levy a carbon tax based on their inflated calculations, it would cause more economic harm than benefits (in terms of mitigated climate change damages in the future).
How big is this danger? Again we can turn to the modeling work of William Nordhaus, a pioneer in the economics of climate change and a strong proponent of carbon taxes. Nordhaus’ own DICE model suggests that an overly aggressive tax on carbon could be a cure far worse than the disease. For example, back in 2008 Nordhaus calculated that the so-called optimal carbon tax would yield net benefits of $3 trillion, in present-value terms. In contrast, if governments had been foolish enough to implement the aggressive emissions cutbacks proposed by Al Gore, Nordhaus’ model calculated that the net harm to humanity would have been $21 trillion, in present-value terms.[iii] Thus, the net harm from taxing carbon at the level implicitly proposed by Al Gore was seven times as high as the net benefit from the best possible carbon tax imaginable.
A Carbon Tax in Practice
So far we’ve just outlined some of the theoretical problems with a carbon tax. In practice, the academic discussions above are largely a sideshow. Even if the new tax is touted as “revenue-neutral,” it is very naïve to suppose that it will stay that way.
For example, when the modern individual income tax was first introduced in 1913, it was touted as a relatively minor nuisance that would just affect the super rich. Indeed, the original bracket structure was very modest. Adjusting for inflation, the top rate of 7% kicked in on incomes above $11.3 million, while the bottom bracket applied to all incomes up to $453,000, with a tax rate of a mere 1%.
But oh how things changed, and quickly: Because of the government’s need for revenue during World War I, a mere five years later the top rate had skyrocketed eleven-fold to an incredible 77%, while the bottom rate (with a much lower income threshold of $59,000) had risen six-fold to 6%.[iv] Keep this history in mind when supporters promise a “revenue-neutral” carbon tax.
In fact, it is doubtful that we would ever even see a moment of much lower income taxes, coupled with a new carbon tax. This is because the carbon tax, by its very nature, is “regressive,” meaning that it impacts lower-income households much more than the rich. After all, paying the utility bills and filling the gas tank are much bigger components of a poor household’s budget than a millionaire’s.
Because of its regressive nature—and because of the explicitly progressive (i.e. soak-the-rich) structure of the current federal income tax—it would be politically impossible to literally swap in an “efficient” carbon tax and remove, dollar-for-dollar, federal income taxes. Such a move would represent a massive tax cut for the rich and an equally massive tax hike on the poor. In practice, the move would be replete with all sorts of “compensating side payments,” with all of the opportunity for corruption and further economic distortions, that we saw with actual cap-and-trade legislation.
On the issue of regressivity, it’s true that swapping out the payroll tax and replacing it with a carbon tax would be an easier sell (since the payroll tax is itself regressive). However, this move would also be extremely difficult politically, inasmuch as the funding for Social Security and Medicare—due to demographics—would now be dependent on the vagaries of the climate’s sensitivity to carbon dioxide emissions. Even in theory, it would be hard to get this tradeoff right. In practice, it is extremely unlikely that taxpayers on net would see a lower burden, especially as the funding shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare become more obvious. The extra source of revenue flowing from the carbon tax would instead mean that the federal government would persist with unsustainable spending for that much longer.
Kenneth Green of AEI had a change of heart on carbon taxes for precisely this reason. Although he initially supported a tax swap deal because of its theoretical economic gains, he later wrote:
However, watching states loot “dedicated” eco-taxes for general revenue; seeing the emergence of more proposals for revenue-raising carbon taxes to finance continued deficit spending; and generally bearing witness to endless insincerity on the part of greens and their allies, I have to admit that my friends in the “free-market” movement [who had opposed carbon taxes all along] were right: A carbon tax would simply become another general revenue raiser, and a step in carbon-seduction. “Oh, come on, you’ve already accepted the tax, now let’s do cap-and-trade, and regulation.”
Even the theoretical case for a carbon tax is not as strong as its proponents think, because the “optimal” carbon tax (all things considered) might be fairly low, even stipulating the popular models of climate change. Yet the real problem with a carbon tax is that legislators and bureaucrats will hardly go to economists when designing the particulars of the plan. Instead, carbon taxes (and associated compensating payments) will be dictated by the seemingly infinite thirst of government officials for revenue and the opportunity to reward favored constituencies. The shift from broad government taxation to concentrated taxes—which the general population only sees in the form of higher prices of energy products—also allows government officials to divert an overtaxed public’s ire from them to the producers of energy, thereby creating a convenient and unpopular scapegoat.
It is understandable why those who generally favor bigger government are enthusiastic supporters of a federal carbon tax. Yet conservatives and other skeptics of government intervention should be far more dubious.
[i] Coral Davenport, “Desert Bloom,” National Journal, June 28, 2012.
[ii] See the discussion on pages 213-214 of Robert P. Murphy, “Rolling the DICE: Nordhaus’ Dubious Case for a Carbon Tax,” Independent Review, Vol. 14., no. 2, Fall 2009, available at: http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_14_02_03_murphy.pdf.
[iii] See Murphy, “Rolling the DICE,” Table 4, page 211.
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Canada has only ever qualified for one World Cup, but a second appearance looks to be on the horizon. Amidst a golden generation of players like LOSC (Lille Olympique Sporting Club) striker Jonathan David, and Bayern Munich left-back Alphonso Davies, Canada has become one of the strongest teams in North American soccer.
Canada’s sole World Cup appearance came at the 1986 tournament in Mexico. There, Canada finished at the bottom of their group, losing to the U.S.S.R., France, and Hungary, while failing to score a single goal. Despite this poor performance, Canada’s participation in the World Cup sparked interest in soccer across the nation. This has led to a growth in quality for Canadian soccer since 1986, culminating now, on the cusp of qualifying for next year’s FIFA World Cup in Qatar.
After topping their qualifying group in round one and defeating Haiti in the second round, Canada now sits in the final round of the CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America, and Caribbean Association Football) World Cup Qualifier. This third round sees Canada enter an eight-team group, featuring multiple countries with World Cup experience like the United States and Mexico. In the group, the top three teams gain automatic qualification to the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The fourth-placed team will play the winner of the Oceania Football Confederation’s qualifiers in June 2022 for a spot in the World Cup.
Canada has had some significant performances up until now in this qualifying stage. Most notably, their draw against Mexico in Mexico City at the Estadio Azteca—one of the most difficult stadiums to play at in North America. For Canada to qualify, they will need to continue to gain points against these difficult oppositions. This was apparent for Canada heading into their home match against Mexico in Edmonton on November 16.
The stakes were high for Canada and Mexico leading up to this match because of the U.S.A. drawing against Jamaica. As a result, a win would advance either team to first place in the group.
Due to the young, in-form, and fast-paced counter-attacking style of the Canadians, they were favoured to win. The match took place in -11°C weather, as Commonwealth Stadium was covered in a blanket of snow. This game earned the stadium the term ‘Ice Teca.’
For the first 55 minutes, Canada appeared to have better odds. There were two goals from Larin, who thereby became Canada’s joint all-time leading scorer. His first goal was in the 47 minute and the second off a set piece in the 52. After Canada gained the lead, Mexico began to generate chances. Eventually, a powerful header from Atletico Madrid 31-year-old, Héctor Herrera, gave Mexico their first goal. Yet even after several more Mexican chances, Canada held strong. This secured Canada their first win against Mexico in over 20 years.
Currently, Canada sits first in their group with a one-point lead over the U.S.A. With six games remaining between now and March 2022, Canada will have to continue their current run of form in order to qualify for their second ever FIFA World Cup appearance.
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Engineered Hardwood vs. Solid Hardwood
- Engineered Hardwood vs. Solid Hardwood
Engineered hardwood is manufactured using a veneer of hardwood applied to the surface of each plank, with the remaining plank being made with multiple layers of plywood. Due to its construction, engineered hardwood is manufactured using less hardwood making it an environmentally friendly choice over solid hardwood. Solid hardwood is manufactured from a solid piece of wood, generally ¾” thick.
Engineered hardwood, because of its structure, can be installed by nailing, gluing, or floating it and on many different sub floors and surfaces including concrete and over ceramic or linoleum. Solid hardwood can only be nailed down onto a wooden sub floor.
Engineered hardwood can resist higher humidity changes in the home because of its construction and therefore can be installed anywhere in the home including the basement; whereas solid hardwood can only be installed in very stable humidity conditions on a wooden sub floor and only on or above the soil level of the home.
Engineered floors can only be resurfaced one or two times depending on the thickness of the hardwood veneer and provided that the engineered floor was originally glued or nailed down to the subfloor. Solid hardwood can be resurfaced many times which extends the longevity of the floor to over 100 hundred years.
Solid hardwood should never be installed over a radiant heat system. Depending on the manufacturer and species of the wood, an engineered hardwood floor may be installed over radiant heat systems.
Solid hardwood is traditionally and currently the most common flooring option available offering home owners many choices of stain colours, species, and grades. In comparison, engineered hardwood is limited in species and grades available.
Solid hardwood requires special tools to install and most likely will require a professional installer. With click engineered floating floors, less specialized tools are required for installation, making it easier for the do-it-yourselfer.
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In the wake of a devastating flood that ravaged the homes of thousands of Louisiana residents and killed at least eight people, one man is being hailed as a hero for providing some culinary relief.
On Monday, Christian Dornhorst—a Louisiana native who lives across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge—went to Sam’s Club with his wife daughter. The Dornhorsts spent over $850 on 108 pounds of brisket, reports the Washington Post-- but he wasn’t planning you’re average summertime backyard barbecue. He was on a mission to help feed those who had lost their homes—or worse—during the flood.
“The Lord put this in my heart at 7 in the morning, when I was at work,” Dornhorst, who works at Dow Chemical, told the Washington Post. He told his boss about his plan and was granted the day off.
“By 9, I had the food at Sam’s Club. By 11, my wife had seasoned it up.”
Dornhorst, who owns a smoker and a pick-up truck, began preparing the meat was ready to take off—but then he realized he wasn’t sure exactly where to go. He eventually found someone who directed him toward the Media Centre-- a soundstage and production facility that’s currently being used as a temporary shelter for thousands of displaced victims.
Once parked, Dornhorst helped other volunteers fire up two small grills and was serving grilled chicken and sausages throughout the afternoon. His brisket, which had been smoking all day, was done by about 7 p.m.
According to the Post, all 108 pounds of it was gone in just 20 minutes.
After he finished food service, Dornhorst, an army veteran, and his wife took their daughter inside the temporary shelter.
“I brought my 4-year-old so she could see what it’s like when you don’t have a bed,” he said
He hopes Dow will sponsor another meat run and that he'll be able to take more days off soon to go back to the site and cook for another day
This article was originally published on August 17, 2016
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I HAD a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a dream: my dream to have a foothold in the country. Like many concepts do in Haiti, the phrase pied à terre became literal, material.
Foot on the ground. The ground, when I first saw it, was planted in manioc and sweet potato. All trees but a single mango had been cut down, either to make way for those plantings or to make charcoal. My Haitian partner in building the house, an artist by trade, put his initials on the single mango so the neighbors would not turn that one into charcoal, too.
The house was the traditional one-room affair known as a ti kay. It was made by the stick and wattle method, which involves the interweaving of twigs and branches, and the corner posts were connected by split bamboo. Once the walls were completed some cement was plastered over them, and a tin roof was affixed to the corner posts, with an intentional six-inch gap between roof and wall that was closed with wire mesh to keep out rodents.
A truly traditional ti kay would have had a thatched roof rather than tin, walls plastered with mud rather than cement, and a dirt floor rather than a poured concrete one (which also had an eight-inch rim in case water from the nearby ravine should rise). An additional refinement was a tiny gallery straight out the front door, with a whitewashed railing and gate, just barely large enough for two chairs and the people sitting in them.Continue reading the main story
The house had two doors and three windows, two flanking the front door. The third window, about 18 inches square, faced the east and — doubtless by design of my artist friend — neatly framed the mountain peak where stands the Citadelle La Ferrière, the fortress that was erected by Henri Christophe, first and last king of Haiti, and is as improbable a sight there as a grounded ocean liner. On the other side of the house was a nook just big enough for me to unroll my sleeping mat and hang my mosquito net. To me there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can’t get through the mesh to bite you.
The doors were double, and closed with huge twisted iron hooks whose style goes back to colonial times. The windows, without glass, had shutters that closed the same way. The hook-and-eye relationship of these locks was so tight that the one on the front door had to be pounded in with a hammer; that done, one’s sense of security was impregnable, and yet the space between wall and roof left the interior breezy and cool.
Security was important; there was no wall around the property. My Haitian partner wanted a concrete wall; I preferred a cactus fence, for reasons of aesthetics and economy. On one side there was already a cactus hedge about 15 feet high, and very discouraging to any intruder. But it didn’t go all the way around, so the first night I spent in the ti kay I helped my friend bring in all his possessions, hoe and shovel and wheelbarrow and motorcycle, before the hooks were pounded in, leaving us just space enough to stretch out to sleep.
My friend was building a slightly larger abode for himself under that sole mango tree, but in the meanwhile he stayed in the ti kay. I appeared once or twice a year. Around the little house he planted trees; coconut palms and pineapple and mango and a cotton tree, as well as two kinds of hibiscus and many other flowers I could not name. At my insistence he also planted a pair of mapou trees, which are understood to attract spirits. Our mapou saplings were just a 20-minute walk from the ancient mapou of Bois Caiman, the spot where the slave insurrection of 1791 began, making that tree a monument to the Haitian Revolution. It was almost exactly 200 years later when we began putting our young mapous in.
One can’t do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it’s hard to have a separate thought. My partner came from Cap Haitien, the second largest city in Haiti, but he adapted himself seamlessly to our rural community. He quietly taught martial arts to the boys and supported the local soccer club, paid school fees for one child who’d been orphaned, and generally made himself respected, almost revered. The antiseptics and ibuprofen I brought from the United States enabled him to give first aid and treat fevers. Once our well was dug, he gave everyone water. And he took two girls (distant cousins, I believe) from a more remote area into his house so they could go to better schools.
The older girl took cooking courses among other things, and became an extraordinary chef. Crouched on the ground under the shade of a bamboo, using a single iron cauldron on a charcoal brazier, she could produce all the classics of Haitian cuisine: goat stew, chicken with green cashews, and her specialty, a dish made of land crabs that I have never tasted anywhere else. Half a dozen schoolchildren got their main meal of the day out of her iron pot, which earned a lot of local goodwill.
When we needed to set posts for a bamboo fence, men with machetes walked out of the woods to help us. When my friend was attacked by bandits during a moment of general lawlessness on the heels of a botched election, men with machetes walked out of the woods to drive them away.
With such activities, our home began, as I had hoped, to resemble a traditional lakou. Lakou is the Creole word for “courtyard,” but it means a whole lot more: the dwellings of an extended family group, sharing shelter and water and food and cropland under the aegis of ancestral spirits. Relations within a lakou prove the value of familial blood ties, while relations from one lakou to the others prove the value of universal human kinship. Each lakou is a cell in a network; there is no hierarchy, or no permanent one, so that an enemy can’t destroy any part of it without destroying all the parts. This structure made the Haitian Revolution a success, and has enabled a dauntless resistance to slavery, in all its forms, ever since.
Of course, my friend and I couldn’t claim all that. I was a foreigner, a blan, and he was a newcomer to the zone. Still, every morning that I watered the mapou, I could hope and believe that a spirit would come.
When my friend turned over the ti kay to me and moved to his own house under the mango, I bought two handmade ladderback chairs at the Cap Haitien market. My furnishing pretty well stopped there. I wanted (though I couldn’t have said so at the time) to use this space to drain away my old personality and see if I could get by without forming a new one. At night I’d light a candle I had fixed with wax to the floor; it was one of the slender white candles that are sold under the brand Magic Light and called by Haitians bougie balèn. I would then pour a little water round the candle’s base, and pray — the simplest of local rituals.
Prayer, then sleep. In the little house in Haiti I slept without dreaming, sustained in our lakou as if in a hammock, our lakou afloat in the web of all the others surrounding it. It was for that I kept the house bare; the quiet catharsis of dreamless sleep. Haitians believe, if a vessel is empty, a spirit will surely arrive to fill it.Continue reading the main story
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Long time ago I self made a windgenerator with a low budget. I used PVC pipes to made the wind turbine blades and It worked fine. On the links below you can see the idea:
http://www.windandwet.com/windturbine/t ... uction.php
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I was wondering if we could use this technology to make the hydrofoil fins . Does this idea look stupid?
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International Franchising in 2016 at a Glance
Franchising outside of the United States presents a different set of opportunities and challenges from franchising domestically, including different franchise structures and distinct cultural and legal frameworks. Careful research and consideration must be taken before considering opening a business in an unfamiliar country.
Several options beyond a single location franchise exist that are popular for international expansion:
Master franchising: A setup in which a person or organization is in charge of developing an entire franchise system and brand in a particular country. The person or organization can then sub-franchise out rights to other franchisees for individual or multiple units, or for regional franchising. The master franchise owner is essentially the franchisor in the country and takes a royalty from any sub-franchisees. Because master franchisees are in charge of other franchisees, they need to know both sides of the franchise's operations – how to run the franchise as a franchisee and a franchisor.
Regional franchising: This option is similar to master franchising, except that instead of an entire country, the franchisee gains the right to develop that brand in a region that is large and identifiable (i.e. Texas, Scotland, or New South Wales). Regional franchise owners also franchise out individual and multiple units.
Area development franchising: This option is similar to regional franchising, except that it is for a city or smaller region, and is more geared towards managing multiple franchises itself, rather than sub franchising.
Direct franchising: With this option, companies basically add franchises internationally, as a company would in the U.S. The franchisee buys directly from the main company, either from the United States’ headquarters or from a subsidiary office.
Joint venturing: This is a mix between master franchising and direct franchising. The franchise works with a business partner in the target country, whether a person or corporation, to joint finance and control the franchise’s brand and model, and they either manage the franchises together, or sub-franchise them to others.
In recent years, the popularity of area development franchising has been on the rise. There are a few reasons why this is happening. Direct franchising is relatively impractical for the franchise unless the target country is very nearby the franchise’s headquarters. Area developers are good conduits to spread the brand in large areas, and they have serious incentives to promote it. But as opposed to master or regional franchisees, having multiple area developers in the country and region can help spread the risk for a franchise, avoiding having all their eggs in one basket.
A couple of decades ago, international franchising was thoroughly dominated by the biggest franchises. However, international franchising has expanded significantly – it is estimated that 800 companies are franchising internationally and 100 more cross the border each year! This is driven not just by the big franchises, but the little guys as well. On a recent list of 500 top franchises, even as far down the list as 472, Abrakadoodle, only has 25% of its locations in the United States!
The countries included have expanded as well. International franchising is no longer primarily limited to Canada and the United Kingdom. Frequently the local franchises in the host country offer significant competition to the US franchises branching out.
It is important that franchisees are sensitive to local conditions and that franchisors are willing to help franchisees, or at least allow them to reconfigure their products and services as necessary to succeed in the different conditions of the target country, whether they be culture, climate or law related. Extensive research is required to figure out if a company's products or services should be changed to appeal to the different cultural norms in a country, in ways that can sometimes be very detailed and specific. For example, a candy company found that Middle Easterners prefer their chocolate monochromatic, while Chinese and Japanese residents like their chocolate pieces smaller than in the US.
Local laws come up as a factor in several different areas important to franchisees. For one, the franchisee must ensure that the trademarks used by the franchise are available in the target country – different countries have different rules about who can reserve trademarks, and whether prior use is necessary. Without the trademarks, it could be impossible to open the franchise or costly to have to buy the trademark. In Western Europe, franchises must adjust to laws and regulations that are far more strict regarding workers and other practices.
Of course certain countries are expected to be better targets than others for international franchising. In recent years great places for franchising included China, Colombia, India, Vietnam, and South Africa, and opportunities still abound. Always look for strong economic activity and easy regulations when considering a market - and of course, make sure the local consumer is a match!
Some franchise sectors are more popular than others for international expansion right now as well – particularly, specialty food and retail, automotive products and services, commercial services like facility management and security, and personal services like maids and home health care.
While franchising internationally has its difficulties, it also presents whole new worlds of opportunity for franchisees interested in a challenge and a chance to get off the beaten path. The risks are greater than domestic franchising, but the payoff can be greater as well.
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Colorado law defines sexual harassment as any unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, whether they are verbal advances or physical acts. Sexual advances, creating a hostile work environment that is blatantly sexual in nature, and sexual advances are some of the more prevalent forms of sexual harassment amongst employers.
How does Colorado Law Prohibit Sexual Harassment?
First, employers in Fruita are often required to formulate company policies regarding sexual conduct, which must be posted and visible to employees. The policies should at least include: contact information for the reporting of sexual harassment incidents, an outline of policies to be followed in filing a claim, and the remedies available when a claim successfully proven.
The laws of the state of Colorado and federal law have both formed agencies with the authority to investigate sexual harassment claims. These agencies conduct investigations at a given Fruita work site in order to verify if a complaint that they have received is true or not. Additionally, these laws prohibit employers from firing an employee for alleging sexual harassment or taking any action in retaliation to a claim.
How can a Colorado attorney help?
It can be difficult to both investigate and establish a sexual harassment claim without having any expertise in the applicable areas of law. The federal agencies that handle initial claims of sexual harassment are frequently understaffed and overworked. Thus, hiring an attorney in Fruita can be the safest way to file your claim within the deadlines for sexual harassment claims that Colorado has defined.
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His argument suggests that the transition from the failed Japanese Model for handling a bank solvency led financial crisis to the Swedish Model is inevitable.
Under the Japanese Model, bank book capital and banker bonuses are protected at all costs. By definition the policies pursued under this model do not allow for losses on bad debt to be recognized.
Under the Swedish Model, banks are required to recognize upfront the losses on the bad debt in the financial system.
I agree that adoption of the Swedish Model is inevitable. However, Japan shows that while it is inevitable, at the urging of the bankers, policy makers will push the moment of when the Swedish Model is adopted as far as possible into the future.
This delay guarantees maximum damage to the real economy and the social contract it supports. It also guarantees maximum bonuses paid to bankers.
At some point, even the best tricks -- the aimless chatter of "other solutions," the putting-off of painful decisions -- don't help any longer.
At some point, Greece's rescuers in Berlin, Brussels or Paris will have to admit that saving the country is going to cost a lot of money..... the money will simply be a loss for Germany and the other creditor nations.
They'll have to make it up some other way, such as raising taxes or cutting expenditures.Under the Japanese Model, the only options for making up a loss from writing down bad debt hurt the taxpayers: either through higher taxes or less government expenditures.
Under the Swedish Model, a third option for paying for the losses is introduced. An option that doesn't hurt taxpayers at all. That option is that banks "pay" for the losses.
The way that banks pay for the losses is through retention of 100% of future earnings to rebuild their book capital levels.
It is common sense that the banks should pay as nobody forced them to extend credit beyond the capacity of the borrower to repay.
There's just one problem, though. This moment of insight and clarity is still a long way off.
For the time being, it seems as though the euro-zone countries are just going to keep carrying along as they have been. That is, muddling onward and delaying reality for as long as possible.This pushing off adopting the Swedish Model is extremely expensive.
It shifts the burden of the excess debt onto the real economy. As your humble blogger predicted at the outset of the financial crisis, until the losses are realized, the global economy will be in a Japan-style economic slump with a bias towards spiraling downwards that is periodically interrupted by fiscal and monetary stimulus programs.
Angela Merkel is the master of this strategy. The German chancellor wants to push back Greece's necessary payday by at least 10 months. That's because she hopes to be re-elected in the fall of 2013....
That means when the euro finance ministers meet on Tuesday to free up the next tranche of Greece's second rescue package, they will only resolve as much as is absolutely necessary to get through the next months.
They would also rather not have to ask the question as to where the additional nearly €33 billion that it's going to cost by allowing Greece to push back its savings targets again is supposed to come from. And they're less willing than ever to think about long-term solutions, like a debt haircut.
But this is cowardly and dishonest. Citizens are only going to grow angrier with their politicians....In Japan, this anger is shown by the high turnover in prime ministers.
In the EU, this anger is being shown by protests.
Like no other government, Germany has stirred up sentiment against Greece and produced arguments about how important it is to be tough on countries in debt. Now it will be that much more difficult for Germany to explain why it all of a sudden makes sense to give money to the very same places.This is one of the many problems associated with pursuing the Japanese Model. It is very difficult for a politician to acknowledge that they were wrong in pursuing the Japanese Model even when the facts are clear to the electorate.
Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe that the Germany government is capable of handling the truth about the debt situation in Greece, Portugal, Spain, France, the UK and the US.
More unfortunately, in their unwillingness to acknowledge the truth, the German government is managing to jeopardize the German real economy and Germany's social contract.
The only hope for an end to this mess is the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which obviously takes its principles seriously. For example, the IMF may only give money to indebted countries if they can foreseeably repay the credit and, at the end of the lending program, be able to look out for themselves once more.How ironic that the IMF is the only hope. As Asian and Latin American countries will tell you, heading into the financial crisis the IMF's role was to collect sovereign debts for the large western economies regardless of the pain inflicted on their real economy and society.
But this is exactly what Greece cannot do. By all economic logic, the country won't be able to reduce its debt load to 120 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP)by 2020 as planned. At the moment, the country's debt burden lies around 177 percent, and by 2014 it will even be up to 190 percent.
To recover from such monumental numbers, neither lowering interest rates for old credit nor other tricks that the government is suggesting will work.
It will actually take either a gigantic economic boom or a so-called debt haircut. This means that the creditors, chief among them the euro countries, would have to release Greece from a big segment of its debts.
As there isn't an economic boom anywhere in sight, another haircut is going to be the only way out. At least, that's how the IMF and virtually every serious economist sees it. Only the politicians responsible for the situation want to see it otherwise.
There is no way around it, though. Germany and the other creditor countries will have to pay for Greece. Whether it's called a haircut, bankruptcy, debt forgiveness or a transfer is irrelevant. The only important thing now is that the policymakers find the courage to reveal the truth to their people.Which means explaining that the Japanese Model and its related policies have failed. In place of the Japanese Model, the government is going to pursue the Swedish Model and its related policies going forward.
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Diet Plans, Fitness Training and Exercise Programs
What does it take to become a fitness trainer? What exercise programs are we going to make? Kevin Kearns, a karate at 13 and now a successful fitness trainer, established his own company and created his own fitness training and exercise programs using all the knowledge that he had learned from school. He is also the person behind the success and fitness trainings of MMA fighters like Kenny Florian, Marcus Davis, Jorge Gurgel and Alberto Crane.
His first fitness career started at Boston Athletic Club after he got his degree from the University. His personal fitness training career took off after he set up and supervised his own Fitness Connection Gym and exercise center in Brookline Massachusetts in 1990, and a new company Be Physically Fit in 2006.
Fitness Training Programs
His customized fitness programs are made for our fitness level, personal target or goal and lifestyle. He applies Functional Movement Screens which help distinguish the most effective fitness trainings and exercises that provide movement pattern. His fitness training program includes:
- Effective and Safe Weight Loss
- Exercises for Lean Muscle Increase
- Muscle Endurance and Cardiovascular trainings and exercises
- Trainings and exercises for event / sport
- Core Strength Exercises
- Lifestyle and Functioning Exercise
- Flexibility Training
- Exercises and Training programs for home or travel
- Self Defense training programs and exercises
Diet Plan for MMA Fighters
For fighters, there are lots of misinformation in the octagon about the best weight loss program for fitness training and fights. The diet plan that they are using now is not a diet, but a lifestyle. Kevin's diet plan for his fighters has an even quantity of protein and carbohydrates with low percent of fats. The ratio used for their diet plan is 40% of carbohydrates, 20% fats and 40% of protein. Water is very necessary for the fighters before, during and after fitness training and/or exercise program.
Exercise Programs and Benefits
Here are some of Kevin Kearns' Exercise programs that are tailor-made for his MMA Fighters to improve their physical, emotional skills and endurance.
- "Bosu Sprawl" - a great exercise with the help of Bosu ball to work on the sprawl of fighters.
- "Ground and Pound" - a perfect exercise using exercise ball to imitate the same motion to ground and pound the opponent.
- "Foam Roller Therapy" - the best way to decrease and possibly avoid back pain using a simple exercise and foam roller. This type of exercise is known as self massage.
- "Gas in the Tank" - an exercise that requires great physical, mental and emotional effort. Fighters were trained at a higher altitude location like in Colorado Springs - 5000+ ft. above the sea level. Higher Altitude place is one of the reasons that our body might have difficulties bringing adequate oxygen into blood stream and send to working muscles (Hypoxia).
"The name came about when I first conceived of the "gas in the tank" program for sports specific training forMMA. The idea behind the program is to mimic what goes on in a fight, including the pace. It's a hard fast training program that is designed to make the fighters cry in training so they laugh in battle." Kevin said to BodyBuilding.com when asked why he was called Dr. Evil by KenFlo.
Kevin is known to be one of the best fitness trainers, because he doesn't only focus on fitness and diet but most of all on stamina. He knows that fighters need to exercise their endurance in every fight and he knows that fitness with the right diet will help them reach for the belt. Every success achieved by these fighters, through the exercise and fitness training that he gave them, is like his own success. Most of all, he doesn't only help fighters with their exercise program, fitness training and diet, but same goes to those people who want to lose weight. He also helps regular people exercise their endurance, have their own fitness and exercise training, with the right diet plan without ever setting foot on the cage.
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How to make a confession
Prior to your confession you should recite the
Come Holy Spirit into my soul. Enlighten my mind that I may know the sins I ought to confess, and grant me your grace to confess them fully, humbly, and with a contrite heart. Help me to firmly resolve not to commit them again. O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of my God, intercede for me through the Passion of your Son, that I may obtain the grace to make a good confession. All you blessed Archangels, Angels and Saints of God, pray for me, a sinner, that I may repent from my sins, and that my heart may be forever united with yours in eternal love. Amen.
After entering the
confessional, something similar to the following should occur:
Priest: In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Penitent: Bless me Father, for I have sinned. My last confession was (how long ago?). <Recite your sins.>
Priest: The priest will listen. He may ask questions or counsel you. He will generally give you a penance to perform and then ask you to make an Act of Contrition.
Penitent: Say an Act of Contrition. (There are a number of versions of this prayer. I have included a few examples.)
Oh, my God, I am heartily sorry for my sins. Because I dread the loss of heaven and the pains of hell, but most of all because they offend Thee my God who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace to confess my sins, to do penance and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all-good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve, with the help of Thy grace, to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned against you whom I should love above all things. I firmly intend, with your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin. Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for us. In his name, my God, have mercy. Amen.
O my God, I am sorry for my sins because I have offended you. I know I should love you above all things. Help me to do penance, to do better, and to avoid anything that might lead me to sin. Amen.
Priest: Gives you absolution. He will generally offer you the sign of peace and then dismiss you. You should then perform your penance as soon as possible or else at the Priest's discretion.
Penitent: Thank you, Father.
It is important to remember not to be embarrassed
to make your confession, nor should you be embarrassed as to how long it may
have been since your last confession.
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Book Review: Wendy Garling’s Stars at Dawn
Imagine this: a young woman, heavily pregnant and in labor, makes the journey to a grove of trees sacred to the local goddess. The village women accompany her, and she delivers her child in the traditional way, standing up, clutching tree branches for support, held around the waist by her sister. The little prince Siddhartha was born this way in Lumbini’s grove. His mother Maya, the queen of a small kingdom, died soon after giving birth.
It’s a female-centered story concerned with the birthing traditions of an ancient culture—at least that’s the interpretation by Wendy Garling, a Sanskrit scholar and author of the new book Stars at Dawn: Forgotten Stories of Women in the Buddha’s Life (Shambhala 2016). When thinking about the historical Buddha, most of us rarely consider his mother—but the story matters, especially when placed in cultural context, says Garling. The Buddha’s birth “would have been an occasion for the village women to gather to assist Maya, share in the birthing rituals, and facilitate the delivery and aftercare of the new mother and baby,” she writes. In other words, the historical Buddha came into the world surrounded by women—the first of many times in which females played an important role in the life of the man who would become the Buddha.
In Stars at Dawn, Garling uses lesser-known Pali and Sanskrit sources to reconstruct narratives of the women in the Buddha’s biography. The Buddha did not become enlightened in a vacuum, Garling asserts; a supporting cast of royal wives, parents and siblings, devoted followers, demi-gods and goddesses, and even a loyal horse helped him along the path. While many of the male figures in these stories remain well-known names, the women have faded into the background over the years, either forgotten or deliberately elided from the narrative. Buddhism’s patriarchal manifestation in the modern world is largely a result of such erasure. This excellent storytelling book makes a strong case for those forgotten women, delivering accessible and well-conceived arguments that rightly re-center them in Buddhist discourse.
Often challenging accepted stories, and sometimes even reconstructing an entirely oppositional narrative, Garling shows that women—not idealized figureheads, but real-life women—were essential to the Buddha’s life. These are the women without whom “he wouldn’t be where he is today.” Women who were indispensable characters in the formation of a new religion, and who motivated, nurtured, and aided Siddhartha Gautama’s journey. Rather than viewing these women as supporting cast members, Garling brings each woman to the fore, looking at evidence for her historical existence and the cultural context surrounding her role. In doing so, she traces a network of living, breathing female human beings, flawed and complex, who played essential roles in the earliest days of Buddhism.
Her central characters include Maya, the Buddha’s mother; Mahaprajapati, the historical Buddha’s aunt and foster-mother; Yashodhara, his first wife; and Sujata, the village woman who fed him the milk that sustained him beneath the Bodhi tree. Rather than idealizing these women in service to a narrative of salvation, Garling humanizes them and thereby gives them agency. This is particularly true for Yashodhara, a complex and conflicted woman who bore the Buddha’s child: “She was angry, shattered when Siddhartha left, and added to that she now faces the humiliation of scrutiny surrounding her pregnancy and her son’s paternity,” Garling tells us of the young queen. No passive conduit for her husband’s teachings, Yashodhara is animated by grief, revenge, and eventually acceptance of the new religion he has founded. Understanding the complexity of the young couple’s relationship does not take away from the Buddha’s eminence. Rather, it offers a sweet and sad dimension to the Buddha’s choices, and gives weight to his decision to leave behind the material world for the spiritual.
Garling is also not shy about exploring the historical conditions under which the Buddha and the women of these stories lived. She spends a lot of time in Prince Siddhartha’s harem, a topic that can cause some discomfort for the modern Buddhist. By exploring the roles played by the consorts, both as manifestations of desire and as real-life women living in a community of child-rearing and mutual support, Garling illustrates how crucial they were to the Buddha. Rather than blaming the historical conditions under which the women in the stories operated—often arranged marriages, concubinage, or intense poverty—she shows how the women strove to be their best selves in spite of their situations: “Indeed, these women have skillfully made the best of a man’s world by leveraging the opportunities available to them in order to further their own ends,” she argues.
It is unclear, at times, where the line between researched conjecture and hopeful supposition is drawn. Garling tends to gender-swap minor characters, such as a monk present at the Buddha’s parinirvana, based on evidence from lesser-known texts. As your columnist is no Sanskrit scholar, I cannot argue with her conjectures, but I sometimes wondered where wishing for stronger female roles crossed into a little creative storytelling.
That said, Garling’s arguments are well supported, sprinkled with quotations from English translations of the Pali and Sanskrit texts and, despite all that scholarly stuff, very enjoyable for the layperson to read. The stories move at a quick pace, are full of description, and give a full and vivid picture of the lives of some extraordinary people. Garling resolutely gives evidence for full equity in the religion, digging back through sacred texts to show that later editorial intrusion is responsible for many of the misogynistic aspects of Buddhism, and that we cannot attribute such attitudes to the Buddha himself.
The variety of female characters is also refreshing. One of Garling’s goals is to show examples of both lay and ordained women in the tales. We get several noteworthy lay practitioners, including Visakha, the wealthy woman who builds monastic quarters for the new order, and Sujata, the village girl (or possibly a merchant’s daughter) who provides the starving Buddha with rice milk. In terms of monastics, Garling makes the case for women’s full ordination via the tale of Mahaprajapati, who has walked barefoot for hundreds of kilometers to request ordination from her son: “She stays slumped in the doorway awash in tears . . . of course he is shocked not only to see his queen and multitude of bedraggled Shakya clanswomen in this desperate state.” The issue of women’s ordination remains one of the touchiest for modern readers. But again, by humanizing the Buddha as a man who tried to walk away from a kingdom, only to find the kingdom following him into the mendicant’s life, Garling provides insight into the Buddha’s decision-making—choices about women’s ordination that still affect practitioners today.
In the last year, this column has covered many eminent Buddhist women who have lamented the invisibility of powerful female narratives in the religion. They have talked about reclaiming women’s stories as models and myths as a way toward greater equity. Here, Garling takes another step in that direction, offering an accessible and well-researched book of women’s stories. They are Buddhists, but they are also human, vulnerable and brash and tender. Buddhists are mothers, wives, daughters; they are businesswomen and seductresses; they are nurturing and vengeful, protective and fiercely dedicated to the spiritual path. Let us hope this is the first of many books that provide deep and varied feminine role models for Buddhist daughters of the future.
The 2,600th Anniversary of the Global Bhikkhuni Sangha and Fourfold Sangha of the Buddha (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
Dharma in Translation: Lhundup Damchö (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
Exclusive Interview: The 17th Karmapa and the Buddhist Nuns of the Tibetan tradition (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
An Agent of Change: Empowering Bhutanese Nuns (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
Anukampa Bhikkhuni Project: The First Buddhist Nunnery in the UK (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
Attending the Bhikshuni Ordination in Taiwan - 12 November–17 December 2015 (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
Life in the Red – The Long Journey to Really Being Daughters of the Buddha (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
The Journey of Women Going Forth into the Bhikkhuni Order in Bangladesh: An Interview with Samaneri Gautami, Part 1 (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
The Journey of Women Going Forth into the Bhikkhuni Order in Bangladesh: An Interview with Samaneri Gautami, Part 2 (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
The Journey of Women Going Forth into the Bhikkhuni Order in Bangladesh, Part 3: The Bhikkhuni Order Is Established (Buddhistdoor Gobal)
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The United States has said that fighting between Turkey, pro-Turkish rebels and Kurdish-aligned forces in northern Syria is “unacceptable” and must stop.
Clashes in places where so-called Islamic State (IS) was not present were a “source of deep concern”, the US envoy to the anti-IS coalition tweeted.
Turkish forces have attacked what they say are Kurdish “terrorists” since crossing the border last week.
But the Kurdish YPG militia says Turkey just wants to occupy Syrian territory.
Ankara says it aims to push both IS and Kurdish fighters away from its border.
Turkish forces and allied factions of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) forced IS out of the Syrian border city of Jarablus on Tuesday and have since pounded neighbouring villages held by Kurdish-led, US-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF).
The Turkish military carried out 61 artillery strikes around Jarablus over the past 24 hours Reuters news agency reported on Monday.
Turkey has insisted Kurdish militia, which it regards as terrorists, retreat east across the Euphrates river.
The Kurdish Popular Protection Units (YPG), which dominates the SDF, says its forces have withdrawn, and that the Turkish action against the group was a “pretext” for occupying Syria.
The US Pentagon spokesman renewed Washington’s call for the YPG to pull back over the river, which he said had “largely occurred”.
He warned that unco-ordinated operations “provide room for ISIL [IS] to find sanctuary and continue planning attacks against Turkey, the SDF, the United States, and our partners around the world”.
Turkish concern over Kurdish expansion increased after the SDF took control of the strategic Syrian city of Manbij from IS two weeks ago.
Turkey has been fighting a Kurdish insurgency in its south-east for decades and fears Kurdish gains in northern Syria will fuel Kurdish separatism at home.
Turkish-backed forces moved towards Manbij, 20 miles (30 kilometres) south of Turkey’s border, on Monday, Reuters reported.
On Sunday, tens of people were killed in Turkish air strikes on Kurdish-held areas near Jarablus.
A monitoring group said at least 35 civilians and four militants had been killed, while the Turkish military said 25 people, all Kurdish militants, died.
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The gambler’s fallacy, also known as the Monte Carlo fallacy or the fallacy of the maturity of chances, is the mistaken belief that if something happens more frequently than normal during some period, then it will happen less frequently in the future; likewise, if something happens less frequently than normal during some period, then it will happen more frequently in the future (presumably as a means of balancing nature). In situations where what is being observed is truly random (i.e. independent trials of a random process), this belief, though appealing to the human mind, is false. This fallacy can arise in many practical situations although it is most strongly associated with gambling where such mistakes are common among players.
Gambler’s fallacy is the false belief that a random process becomes less random, and more predictable, as it is repeated. This is most commonly seen in gambling, hence the name of the fallacy. For example, a person playing craps may feel that the dice are “due” for a certain number, based on their failure to win after multiple rolls. This is a false belief as the odds of rolling a certain number are the same for each roll, independent of previous or future rolls.
The Gambler’s Fallacy is committed when a person assumes that a departure from what occurs on average or in the long term will be corrected in the short term. The form of the fallacy is as follows:
X has happened.
X departs from what is expected to occur on average or over the long term.
Therefore, X will come to an end soon.
A person is assuming that some result must be “due” simply because what has previously happened departs from what would be expected on average or over the long term.
For example, one toss of a fair (two sides, non-loaded) coin does not affect the next toss of the coin. So, each time the coin is tossed there is (ideally) a 50% chance of it landing heads and a 50% chance of it landing tails. Suppose that a person tosses a coin 6 times and gets a head each time. If he concludes that the next toss will be tails because tails “is due”, then he will have committed the Gambler’s Fallacy. This is because the results of previous tosses have no bearing on the outcome of the 7th toss. It has a 50% chance of being heads and a 50% chance of being tails, just like any other toss.
Gamblers fallacy originated in the roulette of Monte Carlo
The most famous example this phenomenon occurred in a game of roulette at the Monte Carlo Casino on August 18, 1913, when the ball fell in black 26 times in a row. This was an extremely uncommon occurrence, although no more nor less common than any of the other 67,108,863 sequences of 26 red or black. Gamblers lost millions of francs betting against black, reasoning incorrectly that the streak was causing an “imbalance” in the randomness of the wheel, and that it had to be followed by a long streak of red.
Gambler’s fallacy, has its roots in gambler’s psychology. Arises out of a belief in a “law of small numbers”, or the erroneous belief that small samples must be representative of the larger population. According to the fallacy, “streaks” must eventually even out in order to be representative.
Counterargument by R.D. Ellison: The BIG LIE.
The prevailing wisdom among gaming experts and mathematicians is that every table decision (at games like roulette or craps) is an independent event. The opposing view (that a number can be “due”) is derided as being a foolish viewpoint, and is referred to as the premise of the Gambler’s Fallacy.
As it turns out, this so-called fallacy is in itself false. The following are the in congruencies of this ‘independent events’ issue that the experts have not addressed:
At American Roulette, for example:
Experts agree that every number has a 1 in 38 chance of appearing on the next spin.
This 1 in 38 chance is also known as that number’s statistical expectation.
If an entity has or takes on any kind of expectation, it ceases to be independent.
If these numerical events did not have an inherent predictability, there would be no way to assign a statistical expectation to them. And anything that has a predictable quality to it cannot be “independent.”
As Frank Barstow said in his book, Beat the Casino, “Dice and the wheel are inanimate, but if their behavior were not subject to some governing force or principle, sequences of 30 or more repeats might be commonplace, and there could be no games like craps or roulette, because there would be no way of figuring probabilities and odds.” This, of course, goes against the thinking and teachings of all other gaming authors, but that, in itself, does not prove that statement to be wrong.
This truth becomes more clear when one considers that the ‘independent events’ premise gaming experts embrace actually contradicts itself. Table results at roulette are in an ongoing state of conforming to their probabilities, but anything that is truly ‘independent’ does not conform. Many gaming authors contradict themselves as well, by advising their readers to hold out for a specific table condition (like the “five-count” at craps).
But if all table results were as independent as they claim, it would not make the slightest difference when a player placed his bets. Anything that occurred in the past would have no relevance whatsoever.
Gaming authors, statisticians and math experts all agree that the numbers will conform to the probabilities given a large enough sampling. What they’re saying is that numbers conform in large groups but not in small groups. Another contradiction.
An accumulation of small groups will form a large group; therefore, anything that applies to a large group will also apply to a small group, in a smaller way. So, the statistical pressure for numbers to conform to their probabilities will be felt in all numbers that form any small group, just as they do for a large group.
For lack of a better expression, each number is a tiny part of a greater conspiracy that will ultimately reveal itself as the trials accumulate.
It comes down to this: in a controlled environment that invokes a statistical certainty, there has to be a cause, and an effect. The effect is that the numbers conform to their statistical expectation. The ‘other guys’ will tell you that there is no cause; that the effect is the result of willy-nilly random chance that conforms through unabated coincidence! And the entire world has been buying this illogical horsepuckey for a hundred years!
Truth is, these numbers are influenced by the equivalent of a countdown that adjusts itself with every spin, which is programmed into the device itself. The more precise the manufacturing technique of that device, the more accurate (unbiased) the table decisions will be.
How did so many experts arrive at such an erroneous conclusion? Their viewpoint rested largely on the seemingly incontrovertible argument that “the wheel has no memory.” Hard to argue with that, because it does sound like the ran tings of a madman to claim that the wheel can remember what has happened, then compensate accordingly.
That implies that the wheel possesses some form of intelligence! Ah, but what they overlook is the fact that man does possess the technology to create a balanced device that distributes the numbers evenly. And that is all the wheel is doing when it performs this artificial “thinking” task that they all say is impossible!
So, the wheel does not actually ‘think’, but it IS constructed to perform the equivalent task, insofar as the fair distribution of numbers is concerned. It was designed, through precision crafting, to produce numbers that match the probabilities.
The illusion of memory is an inherent part of the construction. So, in effect, it does have a memory. In effect, it ‘knows’ when number 5 is under performing, and, given enough time, it will compensate for that. It is self-correcting.
This logic applies to anything that has been formally assigned a statistical expectation. At craps, the dice are precision ground to within 1/10,000th of an inch. The dice don’t need to have a memory to act as if they did; they are just doing what they were constructed to do.
The numbers that are generated will automatically pursue a state of balance among themselves. What this means is that a craps or roulette number can be technically “due,” after all. Its appearance may be sidetracked by an opposing trend, but that is just a temporary delay of the inevitable.
Well then, if these events are not independent, shouldn’t gaming systems work? Not necessarily. There are two forces at play: statistical propensity (the law of averages), and trends. At times, these two work in concert with each other; at other times they clash. But in any such contest, trends have the strategic advantage.
Think of statistical propensity as the underlying constant, which will frequently be disrupted by trends, which don’t take orders from anyone!
All those experts, all these years, have been wrong. And it took the 3qA, which defies explanation by those same experts, to bring this new reality to light. This is the true reality. This is the one explanation that would not cause the scientific community to stutter and grope for meaning when trying to explain why the numbers do what they do.
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OK, just so I don't have to see any more 'it can't be food poisoning after 1 hour' bullshit, here's how it works. The two main mechanisms for food poisoning where the food itself isn't actually poisonous, are through ingesting live agents like bacteria, virus, or parasites, or through ingesting the toxins produced by bacteria. In food poisoning where there is a rapid onset of symptoms (in the 1-6 hour range), it's generally due to bacterial toxins, i.e.; the food you ate was 'rotten'. In cases where you ingest a live agent, the incubation period can be from anything from a few hours up to several days, so people don't usually necessarily associate it with the food they ate. This is often erroneously passed off as 'stomach flu'. There are also things like CJD where symptoms don't show up for years. Long story short: STFU. This is possible.
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Tuesday 17 June 1952
It was Tuesday, under the sign of Gemini. The US president was Harry S. Truman (Democratic).
Clash by Night, directed by Fritz Lang, was one of the most viewed movies released in 1952
while The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk was one of the best selling books.
But much more happened that day: find out below..
Or have a look at the whole 1952.
Which were the most popular movies released in the last months ?
Which were the most popular TV series released in the last months ?
Find out your future
Get a FREE Numerology report based on the digits of 17 June 1952!
Which were the important events of 17 June 1952 ?
- St. Albert Chmielowski.
- National holiday of West Germany until 1990, see Workers' Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.
- Iceland's national day, celebrating independence from Denmark in 1944.
- Mike Milbury: American ice hockey player, coach and executive.
- Estelle Morris: Baroness Morris of Yardley English educator and politician Secretary of State for Education.
- Fabienne Thibeault: Canadian singer from Quebec, she sang in "Starmania", the French version of Tycoon, composed by Michel Berger.
- Sergio Marchionne: Italian-born business executive with dual citizenship in Canada and Italy, he is credited with turning around Fiat.
- Alberto Williams: Argentine Composer (Etrerno Reposo), dies at 89.
- 2 mine cave-ins at Charleroi, Belgium
Make this date unforgettable
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Links to the DOE info:
N.J.A.C. 6A: 8, Standards and Assessment for Student Achievement, [in definitions and special programs sections, do you need specific pages or code numbers?]
Requirements for G & T
Other important info:
Advanced students in today's classroom: What we know
The educator network of the New Jersey Association for Gifted Children is an NJEA Affiliated Group. This volunteer organization hosts an annual statewide conference, regional events, and presents workshops at the NJEA Convention. Advocating for gifted education statewide and support for locals is part of the mission of NJAGC. Check out the contests, awards, scholarships, and mini-grants. Quarterly newsletter, advocacy help and monthly e-zines are benefits of membership, and reduced prices for workshops.
The National Association for Gifted Children offers webinars, an annual conference, professional magazines, support for its state affiliates and advocacy at the federal level for gifted education. Great toolkit in Legislative section.
www.gifted.org The Gifted Child Society of Bergen County, NJ provides fellowships in alternate (odd numbered) years to send ten NJ educators to University of Connecticut’s summer Confratute week-long residential professional development training in creative thinking and gifted education strategies.
Council for Exceptional Children / The Association for Gifted
All-inclusive site for educators and parents about meeting the special needs of gifted children. Check out Gifted 101 and information on testing and professional workshops.
Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted
Graduate level coursework in gifted education in NJ.
Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth offers opportunities for students through distance learning, summer day and overnight camps, and teacher scholarships and recognition.
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Recreational activities for college students can vary depending on how creative they want to be, and everyone has their choice of a few things that they can do with their time. You can find out a few things that would be fun for you, and you will start to get really into something that you could do for a long time after you graduate. Try them all, and then find out that you can have the most fun doing something that you can do in your house. In this article, I discuss the top 3 recreational Sports for college life.
You can easily play billiards as long as you have a table, and you can progress a lot once you learn the right stance and handhold for the cue. You can learn how to measure distance and the strike on each ball, and then you will learn how to use the chalk on your cue. You will learn a lot of things that will make you very good at this game, and it is something that you can do every time you get around the table. It is an easy game to play, and you can do it while talking or having a drink. This is the perfect game for someone who wants to think and relax.
Table tennis is the game that you have a ping pong table for even if you are not using it, and it can be a game that you really get into because it does not take up much room. It is an Olympic sport, and it has all these different techniques that you can learn if you want to start to take it very seriously. You have every chance in the world to make the game a part of your life, and you can get really good at it if you have friends who will play with you. You should watch someone who is very competitive play this game, and you will see just how far you can take it because it is a very interesting game.
You could play frisbee outside, and you can take frisbee with you to your adult years because there are a lot of adult leagues that will let you play. Most colleges have a team for this, and they will make sure that you have been given the way to get on a team that will be fun. You could play on the full team that competes, or you could just play on an intramural team for fun.
How Do You Set Up For These Games?
You need to make sure that you are ready to set up for these games, and you will find out that you can get a lot of help making sure that you have something that will make your life easier. You also need to be sure that you have figured out what you can do to be sure that you will have a way to get these tables in your home. You can have a rec room, and you can put both of these tables in the house if you want to. You have total freedom to make your house a place for games, and you can do so any time you want because these are easy games to set up for. You can get ready for frisbee in your backyard, and you can play with as many people as you want.
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Fast-growing bermudagrass answer for Southwest cattleman One man's pariah is another man's panacea. Jiggs bermudagrass is a pariah to some. For others, it is becoming a panacea that offers at least one cure for the ills of southwest Texas agriculture.
Jiggs is a Coastal bermudagrass mutation discovered by a northeast Texas dairyman growing in one of his fields. Its name is derived from the dairyman, J.R. Riggs, and it has gained recognition as one of the most voracious hybrid bermudagrasses ever.
It is so aggressive that row crop and vegetable researchers on Texas A&M University's Uvalde research station would just as soon Extension agronomist and forage specialist Charles "Stick" Stichler plant research Jiggs trials somewhere else other than on the station.
"They finally told me I could plant on a strip of ground next to a shed - away from any row crops trials," laughed Stichler. "It's pretty aggressive. It can grow two and a half inches a night in the summer when it is well watered and fertilized."
Stichler has been evaluating Jiggs bermudagrass alongside other Coastal bermudagrasses for more than a decade in many areas of the state.
"It does well in many areas," he said. "The only place it does not do better than other Coastal bermudagrasses is in high pH soils."
It is doing very well for Uvalde cattlemen Joe Hargrove and his son-in-law Jimmy Speer. Jiggs is becoming a panacea that may offer them and others a profitable route out of non-profit row crop farming.
"I think you are going to see a lot more farmers go back to stock farming from row crop farming in south Texas. Commodity prices are just too low for people to make a living at row crop farming," said Uvalde County agriculture Extension agent Kenneth White.
"Cattle on irrigated pasture with Jiggs bermudagrass may be a better use of our water and other resources. That is especially true right now because the drought is reducing cattle numbers of dryland pasture and prices for stocker cattle are good."
That is very evident with the ambitious stocker cattle operation Hargrove and Speer have put together near Crystal City, Texas, an area once known as the spinach capital of the world.
Hargrove, a Uvalde native and longtime south Texas cattleman who owns South-west Livestock Exchange in Uvalde, bought 7,000 acres near Crystal City several years ago. Much of the land is crisscrossed with cement-lined ditches and dotted with small manmade ponds, remnants of the days when hundreds of workers were on the payroll of companies with names like Del Monte producing spinach and other high value crops.
The spinach is gone, the result of high labor and low prices. However, the good land with equally good water remains. There are more than 30 wells on the property. Water is at 350 feet, and Hargrove and Speer are irrigating it with large 500-acre Zimmatic center pivots, two wells per pivot.
He has nine pumps operating now, with the goal of stock farming 5,400 acres of irrigated pasture, all in Jiggs bermudagrass in the summer and ryegrass in the fall in a year-round stocker ranch for 10,000 head of cattle.
Yep, that is a little more than two acres per animal, but Jiggs can handle it, Stichler, White and Hargrove say.
"The stuff grows like crazy," said Hargrove. "We plant it from tops, and in 45 days we have a solid cover. We planted it for the first time last year and overseeded with rye and it did not hurt it. It came back strong this spring."
Stichler has the research to back that up. In a May harvested trial with Jiggs, Alicia, World Feeder, Tifton 85 and Coastal, Jiggs produced two and a half times more forage by weight than World Feeder and Coastal Bermuda; 66 percent more than Tifton 85, and 30 percent more than Alicia.
Jiggs produced 10 times more pounds of protein per acre in a June 29 cutting than World Feeder; three times more than Alicia; double Coastal, and 40 percent more than Tifton 85.
"Jiggs produced more forage, spread faster, and endured drought stress better than any the other grasses," reported Stichler.
"We had 1,250 head of stocker calves grazing on two 125-acre blocks, and we still baled 250 round bales off one 125-acre block," Hargrove said. The pasture was only a year old, and the hay was baled at the recommended seven-leaf stage.
White is not surprised. He has seen Jiggs perform for several years in both South and Southwest Texas. "It is a very good hybrid bermuda that not only grows well, but has good feed quality," White added.
Hargrove and Speer are buying cattle from both sides of the Texas-Mexico border, generally 300 to 400 pound calves they graze to 600 to 700 pounds on the irrigated pasture before shipping them to Barret Feedyards in Hereford, Texas, a 120,000-head feeding operation on the Texas High Plains.
"We are in partnership with Barret on the cattle," explained Hargrove. "We figure we can put on a pound and a half to two pounds of gain per calf per day with this system."
THAT IS not the 2.5-pound gain expected from a wheat-ryegrass-oat stocker operation, but the Jiggs/ryegrass program is considerably less farming and management.
"With the bermudagrass, all you have is a one-time farming expense. It's not like farming other crops," he said.
Speer has set aside one 125-acre block as the source of the "tops" for new acreage. The Jiggs is clipped and baled in the morning and spread with a bale chopper as soon as possible the same day on well-watered, disked ground.
"You need to have pieces with about five or six nodes to make sure you get good rooting," White said. "Each nodes represents a root source."
The ground is cultipacked after the tops are scattered, and that's the end of the farming part.
The Coastal bermudagrass mutation is irrigated with an inch of water per week and fertilized with about 30 units of nitrogen per week.
In October, Speer overseeds with rye, aerating the bermuda before planting. "This will take us through the winter, making this a year-round stocker operation," he said.
White believes irrigation rates on pasture, particularly the Jiggs bermudagrass, can be reduced with accurate evapotranspiration information. A new network of weather stations has been set up in the area to calculate weekly ET for all irrigated crops in the area.
"I think once we begin collecting ET rates and using them to irrigate, we can realize a savings of a fourth to a third of the water we are now using by irrigating according to crop use, based on the weather," White said. "That will make it even more attractive."
Several others are doing the same thing Hargrove and Speer are doing, and White thinks the number of Jiggs producers and stock farmers will grow.
Any drawback to Jiggs?
"I did get a complaint from a Jiggs grower in Knippa just east of Uvalde three years ago. We got a lot of rain one summer and he calls up to complain that all he did that summer was bale hay. He was baling every 25 days, and getting tired of it," said Stichler.
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Is it Right to Judge Others?
by M Randall
Today it seems the most often quoted Bible verse is Matthew 7:1, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." Some use it without realizing its true meaning and others, Christian and non Christians, use it to avoid accountability. Hypocrites for example would use it to avoid being challenged in their wrong doing. What does this verse really mean? Does this verse teach that we cannot judge others?
We see Jesus just a few verse later in Matthew 7:6 calling people "Pigs" and "dogs" and in verse 15 "wolves in sheep's clothing." In verse 16 He tells us how to recognize the false prophets, "you will recognize them by their fruits." Jesus would not be telling us how to recognize false prophets if he did not expect us to judge them as being true prophets or false prophets.
Therefore, the answer to our question is that Christians are to judge others. If judging others is unchristian as some charge, we would be unable to have the various levels of government, we would be unable to be a good parent, we would certainly make a poor employer, none of us would be able to sit on a jury and the list goes on.
Jesus does condemn a critical and judgmental spirit, one with a sense of moral superiority. He commanded us to examine ourselves first for the problems that we so easily see in others. It is when we examine ourselves that we can better see the problem and get help for our own problem first. Christians are not only commanded to judge but to judge righteously and not just by appearance. John 7:24, "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
Christians must use spiritual discernment in coming to conclusions on matters of right or wrong or good and evil. Judgment that judges right from wrong and good from evil is always legitimate judgment for Christians. Hebrews states, "But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil." Christians can discern both good and evil which according to the Bible is a legitimate judgment.
If a person is doing wrong and I tell them they are doing wrong I am not judging that person but I am judging that persons behavior. God will judge the intent or motivation of man, Romans 2:16, "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
The Greek word for judge is "krino" which means according to W.E. Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words, "to separate, select, and choose, hence, to determine, and so to judge, pronounce judgment." This is spiritual discernment and as we shall see in the following it is required by God. Judgment for punishment or sentencing belongs to God and not to mankind. Romans explains, "Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine I will repay, saith the Lord." Hebrews , "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Paul, writing to the Corinthians stated in 1 Corinthians 6:1-2, "Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?" The saints, believers, shall judge the world so judging is not only permitted but required. If a Christian has a matter against another Christian he/she is to take it before the saints, believers. This can only be done if Christians can judge the right or wrong of the matter. Therefore, it is not unchristian to judge others when done in a righteous manner.
Now look at the next two verses, 1 Corinthians 6:3-4, "Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church" Not only is mankind held to a standard, this verse implies that angels also have a standard. The saints, or believers, are to judge angels so there must be a standard for them as well as for mankind. Obviously, Christians are to judge the things that pertain to this life.
There is a proper way to judge. Matthew 7:1 states, "Judge not, that ye be not judged." This means that we can judge but we must first judge ourselves confessing our sins and then judge righteously not condemning. 1 Corinthians 11:31-32, "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world."
Some would say, "Hey, I have seen you do the same thing so you cannot judge me for doing it." This is covered in the verse following the "Judge not" verse in Matthew. Matthew 7:4-5, "Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye."
Before I can judge another I must not have any unconfessed sin in my life. If I have unconfessed sin in my life then I cannot judge. When I come before God in prayer and confess those sins I can then judge properly. Therefore, having done the same thing I can still judge if my sins have been dealt with. If I confess my sins I receive forgiveness.
Don't miss the end of the verse above, "and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." This informs us that we can judge after we have cast the beam out of our own eye. "Judge not," does not mean that we cannot judge but we must first clean up our own act by confessing our sins and we will be forgiven, then we can judge but judge righteously. One must first become a believer to have ones sins forgiven so this makes it impossible for an unbeliever to biblically judge others.
A most important item for Christians is for Christians to first judge themselves. 1 Corinthians 11:31-32, "For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged. But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world." If we as Christians would judge ourselves first and judge others in the same manner we would certainly be more charitable in judging others.
There are many biblical examples that show Christians are required to judge. In 1 Corinthians 5 Paul writes of a church member living in open immorality. This church member's sin was being ignored and when Paul heard of it he judged the immorality of the sin and demanded the member be turned over to Satan for destruction of the flesh. In other words, he was put outside the spiritual protection of the local Church. 1 Corinthians 5:3, "For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed," Therefore, the church, which is an assembly of believers, is to judge members of the assembly.
Further on in Matthew 7:15-16 we are told, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits." If we are to beware of false prophets we must be able to know them and we can only do that by judging. Verse 16 goes on to tell us we shall know them by their fruit so we are to judge them by their fruit. Verse 17 explains further about the fruit, "Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit."
The letter to the Ephesians gives more information about the fruit, Ephesians , "have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them." To have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness we must be able to judge and not only that we are to reprove them! Many Christians are wrongly judged for judging right or wrong, never mind reproving anyone.
Right after the "Judge not" passage we have a few verses later a command. Matthew 7:6, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you." It is obvious that one must exercise spiritual discernment, judge, to fulfill this command.
What standard are we to use for spiritual discernment? The original question of judgment was the use of the Bible verse of Matthew 7:1 to "Judge not." Since a Bible verse was first used it is the Bible that is to be used as a standard of right and wrong and spiritual discernment. The Bible has the only absolute moral standards but the relativist would respond that there are no absolute standards and those who use them are being arrogant and judgmental. These accusations are unwarranted but the absolutist could respond that the relativist has just made a judgment and is also being arrogant and judgmental.
If a Christian makes a judgment from a sense of moral superiority he/she would be wrong. The proper sense of morality would be that except for the grace of God there go I, rather than a false sense of moral superiority. The Bible requires a Christian to use spiritual discernment to come to the truth of a matter but no where does the Bible address this matter for an unbeliever, possibly because the unbeliever is unable to use spiritual discernment since he/she is spiritually dead Originally published on SearchWarp.com for M Randall Monday, April 18, 2005
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Since 2000, ASB Bright Sparks has provided a unique opportunity for young minds across the country to tap into their tech potential. Past winners have taken up positions at companies such as Google and Microsoft.
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“Technology is changing rapidly and it’s encouraging to see companies embrace and understand its role in our lives, allowing us to create newer and more advanced tools.”
ASB executive general manager technology and innovation Russell Jones says this year’s competition has more opportunities for all young tech minds.
“For 2016 we’re excited to expand the entry categories, and with males comprising of 95 percent of current entrants, there is a real focus for both organisations to encourage significantly increased female participation this year.”
Sophie Crispe, who won first prize at teh 2015 ASB Bright Spark awards for her brain injury app.
Entry categories this year include science, engineering, environment and software.
Since it began, 2000 Kiwi kids have participated in ASB Bright Sparks and developed software such as a brain injury tracking app, an app that makes it easier to dispense the exact amount of product from bulk bins at the supermarket, and a window-cleaning robot.
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“There were already apps that do similar things but they weren’t up to the standard I wanted them to be. It doesn’t matter that similar apps already existed, there’s always room for innovation.”
Since Kohli was awarded a Bright Sparks prize in 2014, the app has been downloaded more than a million times and is used in 124 countries.
“Bright Sparks was useful for the proposal experience because I’d never done that sort of thing before and it was also great exposure for what we’re doing.”
His huge success has opened some doors for his future, including an internship as an iOS developer for multinational conglomerate Landmark Group, which is based in Dubai.
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D’var Torah – Nitzavim/Vayelech 5770
Rabbi Maurice Harris – Temple Beth Israel – Eugene, OR
Shabbat shalom to everyone on this, the last Shabbat before the Jewish New Year of 5771 begins. I hope to see all of you this Wednesday night, Thursday morning, Thursday night and Friday morning for Rosh Hashanah services, and then again Friday night and Saturday morning for Shabbat Shuvah services. It’s a lot of davenning, a lot of togetherness, and I pledge to bring my breath mints if you will too.
In our annual journey through the Torah, we’ve gotten very close to the end of the scroll. This week we’ve arrived at the double Torah portion known as Nitzavim/Vayelech. It begins with well-known words, spoken by Moses to the Israelites: atem nitzavim kool-chem ha-yom leefnay adonay. One translation reads: “You stand this day, all of you, before the Eternal One your God.”
It’s a moment in which Moses tells the Hebrews that they are about to enter into a covenant with God and in the fullest sense, become a nation bonded with God. There are several moments of covenant between God and Israel in Torah, and this one stands prominently alongside the pact made between God and the people earlier in the Torah at Mt. Sinai. Now, the Israelites are poised to enter the Promised Land in just a matter of days or weeks, though, sadly, Moses won’t be making that journey with them. But for now, Moses informs them that they are about to ratify, once again, their sacred agreement, their eternal pact with God, as they get ready to transform from a wandering tribe of Hebrews to a nation within a land.
Moses goes on to remind the Israelites that if they keep the covenant they will create a just and prosperous society, and enjoy peace with their neighbors. If they violate the covenant, however, there will be sad and painful consequences. Ultimately, the land will spit them out, and they will find themselves in exile. Their beloved promised land will fall into ruin and destruction on such a scale that neighboring nations will pity them.
We read these words with dramatic irony. As readers we know that not one but two bitter and catastrophic exiles await the Israelites in the centuries after Moses’s life. After warning the Israelites that exile will be the cost of breaking the covenant, Moses tries to offer them hope should they ever find themselves in exile in the future. Here’s some of what he says:
When all these things happen to you [meaning when you do inevitably violate this covenant and find yourselves exiled from your land] … should you take [all that I’ve said] to heart amidst the various nations to which the Eternal your God has banished you, and should you then return to the Eternal your God, and you and your children heed God’s command with all your heart and spirit…then the Eternal your God will restore your fortunes and take you back in motherly-love. God will bring you together again from all the peoples where the Eternal your God has scattered you. Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the sky, from there the Eternal your God will gather you, from there God will fetch you. And the Eternal your God will bring you to the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; and God will make you more numerous than your ancestors were.
If we stop and look at this passage closely, we start to see how extraordinary it is. Here is Moses, giving his final speeches to a people he knows is deeply flawed, yet full of promise.
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JNF Shares the Beauty of Nature with the Visually Impaired
Contact: Sarit Schonbrun • JNF Communications Manager • 212-879-9305 ext. 222 • email@example.com
February 22, 2006 — On a bridge over Hashofet stream deep in Ramat Menashe Park, a group stood in silence, listening to the sound of flowing water. Throughout the day, their tour guide had the unique task of making the forest’s beauty come alive for those who could not see it.This Tu B’Shevat, participants from the Haifa Association for the Visually Impaired experienced the sounds and scents of Israel's Ramat Menashe Park on a hike coordinated by Jewish National Fund- Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael. On an hour-long walk, they smelled various herbs, learned about different species of trees by touching their twigs, and listened closely as their guide described the splendor of the 84,000-dunam JNF-KKL park. The group hiked along a trail specially designed for people with disabilities-- a common feature in JNF-KKL's parks and forests today.
“For us, getting out, particularly going to a stream and a forest is very, very special,” said Moshe Goldstein, one of the participants. “We are dependent on other people for mobility, so there is no way we could visit Nahal Hashofet without help. I really appreciate JNF-KKL for arranging this.”
After the hike, each participant planted a sapling at the JNF-KKL Tzipori Field Center, the first Tu B'Shevat tree planting for many Russian immigrants in the group. “We decided to give a name to this plot,” said Lilach, a participant who led the group in song throughout the hike. “Originally, we thought of ‘Blind People’s Grove’ but then we chose ‘Grove of Light’ expressing so beautifully exactly what we feel.”
The day concluded with a traditional Tu B’Shevat Seder where participants had dried fruits, olives and grape juice and learned about the historical and agricultural significance of Tu B’Shevat.
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JNF embodies both heart and action; our work is varied in scope but singular in benefit. We strive to bring an enhanced quality of life to all of Israel’s residents, and translate these advancements to the world beyond. JNF is greening the desert with millions of trees, building thousands of parks, creating new communities and cities for generations of Israelis to call home, bolstering Israel’s water supply, helping develop innovative arid-agriculture techniques, and educating both young and old about the founding and importance of Israel and Zionism.
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Historic Routes of Jamaica
– Travel on the land of inimitable history –
All India, 9th January 2013: With a rich, strong and vibrant background, Jamaica has a dynamic history. From a mixture of ethnicities that have landed on the island country, Jamaica has many fascinating stories to tell. Jamaica is an excellent place to understand the history of the Carribbean. With a combination of old places and its interesting stories dating back to centuries ago, Jamaica is a perfect place to celebrate history.
Jamaica has a natural charm, which attracts the visitors of the island. The island has a number of places worth visiting where the tourist can spend their day listening to stories and experience the place. Jamaica is not only beautiful but also has a rich culture to offer making it a memorable experience while learning the past of the country.
Once known as the largest town in the English colonies, Port Royal is a captivating historical site of Jamaica. Many wellknown pirates and privateers have passed through the port including Captain Henry Morgan. Port Royal, in June 1692 was hit by an earthquake which ruined the colony completely. The tremours of the earthquake made two-third of the city sank in the waters killing thousands.The incident was called as a curse because the port was a major haven for pirates and buccaneers. Famously known as the wickedest city, tourist gets a first hand experience of the remainings and the artifacts. Port Royal is now a small fishing village unlike its past.
Rose Hall Great House
Located approx 15km east of Montego Bay, Rose Hall Great House is one of the most interesting structures in Jamaica. With a belief of being haunted till date, the land was purchased by Henry Fanning. The first mistress of the house was Rosa Palmer died in 1790 after marrying 4 times. Her last husband John Palmer’s grandnephew moved to the house and married Annie Patterson who is known as the White Witch of the Rose Hall. This stunning mansion is built of cut-stone on the first two levels and stucco on the third and uppermost level. The building also features cut-stone symmetrical grand staircase, sash windows, keystones, etc making it perfect backdrop for couples who dream of a fantasy wedding set back in history.
Accompong Maroon Village
Accompong is a historical village of Jamaica where the runaway slaves settled to be safe from the Spanish and the British rulers. The village was named so after the Maroon leader Accompong. Located in St. Elizabeth Parish about 40 miles of South of Montego Bay, the village was consolidated by a treaty in 1739 and is a historic home to Leeward Maroon. The inhabitants of Accompong share practices and a culture similar to their African culture originating 200–300 years ago and is an interesting place to visit when in Jamaica.
Falmouth is Jamaica’s best-preserved Georgian town and a must visit when in the island country. With a rich heritage and history, Falmouth gives its visitors to enjoy 19th-century Georgian architecture as well as river bamboo raft rides, arts and crafts shopping, flavorful local fare and horse-and-buggy rides. Falmouth is situated about 18 miles east of Montego Bay, once a royal town and commerce centre during the sugarcane boom of the 1700s. Falmouth with an interesting history and various attractions is a perfect place to spend some quality time on vacations.
Good Hope Great House
Good Hope Great House is a beautiful mansion consisting one-thousand acres of land built around 1755. The house is located outside of Falmouth and borders the Marthe Brae river. This old cut-stone building has high roof beam ceilings, with pinewood and wild orange floors, water wheel and kiln that still stand today. The Good Hope Estate was made through a land grant given to Colonel Thomas William and now is a home to 13-bedroom accomodation with various attractions nearby. Chukka Caribbean Adventures tours of the Good Hope Great House is one of the exciting activities to do in Jamaica.
Jamaica – Once you go, you know!
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Kinetico Water Systems Solves Problem Water: Hard or Smelly
If you live in the Woodside or Atherton area, you might be drinking water from a well or from the Hech-Hechy Reservoir. As a result, water quality may be very different from neighborhood to neighborhood-or just across the road. It could be hard or smelly or just taste bad. The harder it is, the more calcium carbonate (hard, white substance) will attach to your pipes, water heater, glassware and stemware, and fixtures, clogging pipes and shortening the life of your appliances. If the water is smelly or full of sediment, you will need a trustworthy water treatment solution. We at De Anza Water Conditioning have solutions to your problem water. A family-owned business and an authorized dealer of Kinetico Water Systems for over 40 years, we sell, install, and service water softeners, water filters, and reverse osmosis drinking water systems for residents and businesses in Woodside and surrounding areas.
We chose to represent Kinetico Water Systems because they are the best. Since 1970, Kinetico Water Systems have been manufactured in Newbury, Ohio, from the most advanced facility of its kind and distributed to more than 100 countries worldwide.
Hardness is measured in grains, and the higher the number, the harder it is. Very hard water can destroy a water heater in a matter of years. Pipes clog and restrict your flow rate. Shower doors are impossible to clean. If your water source is hard and disinfected with chlorine or chloramine (a combination of chlorine and ammonia commonly found in municipal water supplies on the Peninsula), De Anza Water Conditioning sells Kinetico combination water filter softeners that remove the hardness down to zero grains and removes the chlorine or chloramine as well. The carbon pre-filter also protects the resin, the softening media, allowing you to enjoy soft, filtered water for decades. Using patented technology, Kinetico Water Systems are non-electric, high-flow, high-efficiency systems that deliver soft, filtered water on a 24/7 basis, without interruption. Using the kinetic energy of water, they use no electricity, so you have no complicated controls and no worries. Kinetico systems feature the most comprehensive warranties in the industry. You can’t go wrong with the De Anza Water Conditioning and Kinetico team.
Maybe your water isn’t hard, but it smells. Maybe it’s cloudy or filled with sediment or some other contaminant. De Anza Water Conditioning has a Kinetico whole house water filter for you. Kinetico’s non-electric, high-efficiency whole house water filters remove sediment, iron, Sulphur, and other contaminants from well water
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Just call us today at 408-684-6873 for a consultation.
Working with a local, family owned business has many benefits. We know our customers, and they know we are responsive and courteous. We are equipped to handle a wide variety of water quality concerns and are able to offer the best solution for your problem. Kinetico water treatment systems are simple and trustworthy, with the most comprehensive warranties in the industry. Our highly experienced water specialists, service technicians, office staff, and superior water systems on the market, we are able to solve your water problem. As an authorized Kinetico dealer, we sell, install, and service Kinetico water softeners, water filters, and reverse osmosis drinking water systems to residents and businesses in the Bay Area, including Woodside. Our non-electric Kinetico Water Systems feature patented technology, high flow rates, and high-efficiency operation, so you will use less water and less salt (or potassium) than any other system on the market. Considering salt and water usage, maintenance costs, and electricity usage, Kinetico Water Systems deliver a total lower cost of ownership over the life of the product, and the product will last for decades.
De Anza Water Conditioning sells, installs, and services Kinetico Water Systems, the most highly rated and reliable water treatment systems on the market. With the most comprehensive warranties, Kinetico Water Systems offer the lowest total cost of ownership. With De Anza Water Conditioning, you can try it before you buy it, so call us today at (408) 371-5521 for a free consultation and water test.
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I am replacing an ancient water softener which was removed from the pipes 15
The house has two water heaters. Apparently there are also some soft water
zones (showers) and hard water zones (kitchen and bar faucets). There are
hot/cold and hard/soft water pipes going in all directions. The pipes are in
After I have installed a new softener, how can I determine which faucets
have soft and which ones have hard water?
have your plumber check unused pipes for damage. using helpers, try
the various basement shutoffs, label everything which is there using
magic marker, or a brite-mark paint marker, label all pipes and
shutoffs, and arrows of direction of water flow from street toward
each device. if this is a fancy installation, get a labelmaker. if no
shutoffs are available or if you have water flow problems or useless
shutoffs, you should add or replace them, consider compression
fittings or whatever you use locally to speed this job along quickly.
use large opening ball valves for flow. consider a chart posted where
the main shutoff is if you insist on using abbreviations. at fixtures
color code or label all pipes and shutoffs. -b
There's a simple chemical test which will show the difference clearly. Fill a
quart jar about half-way with distilled water, and dissolve about 1/4 cup of
Epsom salts in it. Then add a cup of the water you want to test. Soft water
will have no noticeable effect, but hard water will instantly turn the
I'd bet that all of your hot water is softened but if you drain the water
softener and then fill it you should be sure. For the other fixtures get
some clean bottles, let the water run for a minute or so and collect about
1/2 a pint. Take these bottles to Sears and go to the dept. where they sell
water softeners. They'll test your water for free for hardness and iron.
Many other dealers of water softeners will do this too. There are labs that
do this but that's probably overkill here.
One way is to add a very small amount of soap, in equal amounts, to a
given volume of sample. The soft water will suds up, the hard much
less. Also, the softer water will feel more slippery than the hard
water. Take samples to a lab and get quantitative results.
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The international Day of Prayer for Peace on 21 September is part of a growing movement in opposition to religiously-sanctioned violence.
Or any kind of officially-sanctioned violence, really.
But there is also a recognition that praying and working for change is no easy matter. It involves deep conviction, tough thinking, demanding faith and hopeful action. There's no room for smugness or complacency.
Although the views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of Ekklesia, the article may reflect Ekklesia's values. If you use Ekklesia's news briefings please consider making a donation to sponsor Ekklesia's work here.
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Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Optics, Image Science and Vision vol:27 issue:12 pages:2670-83
The application of multivariate techniques to neuroimaging and electrophysiological data has greatly enhanced the ability to detect where, when, and how functional neural information is processed during a variety of behavioral tasks. With the extension to single-trial analysis, neuroscientists are able to relate brain states to perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes. Using pattern classification methods, the neuroscientist can extract neural performance measures in a manner analogous to human behavioral performance, allowing for a consistent information content metric across measurement modalities. However, as with behavioral psychophysical performance, pattern classifier performances are a product of both the task-relevant information inherent in the brain and in the task/stimuli. Here, we argue for the use of an ideal observer framework with which the researcher can effectively normalize the observed neural performance given the task's inherent objective difficulty. We use data from a face versus car discrimination task and compare classifier performance applied to electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data with corresponding human behavior through the absolute and relative efficiency metrics. We show that confounding variables that can lead to erroneous interpretations of information content can be accounted for through comparisons to an ideal observer, allowing for more confident interpretation of the neural mechanisms involved in the task of interest. Finally, we discuss limitations of interpretation due to the transduction of indirect measures of neural activity, underlying assumptions in the optimality of the pattern classifiers, and dependence of efficiency results on signal contrast.
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New “committee” video about the larks hunting in France: The hunt for larks and lovebirds is in full swing. Despite declining stocks across Europe, France, Spain and Italy have once again released millions of larks and lovebirds for hunting this month.
That is why today the “Committee against Bird Murder” has submitted a comprehensive environmental complaint to the European Commission. The shooting of these species on the train is not sustainable and accelerates the decline of breeding birds in Germany and elsewhere.
The hunting laws of France, Spain and Italy therefore violate the EU Birds Directive. Our complaint is based on recent studies showing both the massive decline of these species in Germany and the United Kingdom and the official firing of around 900,000 larks and 1.5 million lovebirds per year in the Mediterranean.
On the French Atlantic coast skylarks may additionally be caught with huge nets. A video released by the committee today shows for the first time how skylarks are captured by French hunters and then killed. The footage is already several years old, but has been withheld by us for legal reasons so far. The documented fishing method is still common practice today.
As bait live decoys serve. The specially caught larks are tethered at their feet and connected with a long cord to the bird catcher, who sits in a hut on the edge of the plant. When birds approach the nets, the bird catcher pulls on the cords and the tailed animals start to flutter excitedly. The catcher imitates the air call of the larks with a whistle and can thus lure a whole swarm into ruin.
When enough birds have gathered, the bird catcher triggers a mechanism and the several hundred square meters of nets collapse over them. It is allowed in two departments each bird catcher to set up to 300 catching cages for larks.
Officially, more than 3,000 birdcatchers are allowed to catch larks, the rate differs depending on the department and is in the Gironde, for example, at 336 larks per catcher per year. A total of 1 million skylarks may be caught, but in truth there are probably a few hundred more!
My comment: Crimes against animals have become more professional.
Mafia methods everywhere.
It continues to be hunted, murdered, tortured.
All these crimes are partially ignored, tacitly condoned or made possible on corrupt hunting lobbyists in politics.
In addition, they are made possible by a perpetrator friendly judiciary and an indifferent society, which does not want to openly condemn these crimes, and sells its cowardice as “tolerance”.
My best regards to all, Venus
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