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? ? ? ?The National Development and Reform Commission issued the “Medium and Long-Term Plan for the Development of Hydrogen Energy Industry (2021-2035)” and proposed:
? ? ? ?Based on the local hydrogen energy supply capacity, industrial environment and market space and other basic conditions, combined with the development characteristics of the road transportation industry, focus on promoting the application of hydrogen fuel cells in medium and heavy vehicles, and orderly expand the application space of hydrogen fuel cells and other new energy passenger and truck markets. Gradually establish a complementary development model of fuel cell electric vehicles and lithium battery pure electric vehicles. Actively explore the application of fuel cells in ships, aircraft and other fields, promote the research and development of large-scale hydrogen energy aircraft, and continuously increase the market size of hydrogen energy applications in the transportation field. | <urn:uuid:33d299a9-d27a-48c4-ae0e-fc6fada2bd55> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://zuisg.com/2022/03/26/%E5%8F%91%E6%94%B9%E5%A7%94%EF%BC%9A%E9%87%8D%E7%82%B9%E6%8E%A8%E8%BF%9B%E6%B0%A2%E7%87%83%E6%96%99%E7%94%B5%E6%B1%A0%E4%B8%AD%E9%87%8D%E5%9E%8B%E8%BD%A6%E8%BE%86%E5%BA%94%E7%94%A8development-and-ref/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.773617 | 557 | 1.8125 | 2 |
What Is An EB-5 Visa?
Established 1990 as the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program by Congress as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, the EB-5 visa gives foreign investors a way to obtain permanent residence (green card) in the United States. Since its inception,EB-5 visa has become an important source of investment for development projects in the United States. In order for a foreign investor to be eligible for the EB-5 visa, that individual has to meet three basic requirements:
- The foreign national must invest a minimum of $1 million in a New Commercial Enterprise in the United States (or invest a minimum of $500,000 if the investment is made in a Targeted Employment Area);
- The foreign national must prove that the capital invested comes from a legal source (e.g., was not obtained through criminal activities) for the purposes of section 203(b)(5) of the Immigration Act of 1990;
- The foreign national must show that the investment has created or preserved, or will create, a minimum of 10 new jobs for U.S. workers.
Apart from the principal foreign investor, his/her spouse and unmarried children under the age of 21 also qualify to receive permanent residence (green card).
Minimum Capital Investment Requirement:
Although the minimum capital investment amount required for the EB-5 visa is currently $1 million, if the investments are made in the “Targeted Employment Area” (“TEA”) that amount is $500,000.
The “Targeted Employment Area” (“TEA”) includes any of the following:
- A targeted employment/ High Unemployment Area. This refers to an area that has an unemployment rate of a minimum of 150% of the national average rate.
- Rural Area. This refers to an area located outside a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) and is outside a city or a town with a population of 20,000 or more.
Capital refers to cash, equipment, inventory, other tangible property, cash equivalents, and the indebtedness secured by assets owned by the foreign investor. The foreign investor has to be primarily and personally liable and that the assets of the new commercial enterprise on which the petition is made are not used to secure any of the indebtedness.
Investments that qualify for EB-5 purposes are those made in for-profit “New Commercial Enterprise” (“NCE”). NCE simply refers to a:
- A commercial enterprise that was established after Nov. 29, 1990, or
- A commercial enterprise that was established before or on Nov. 29, 1990, that has been:
- Purchased and the existing company/business restricted in such a way that it results in an NCE, or
- Expanded through investments such that there has been a 40% increase in the number of employees or in net worth of the enterprise.
Also, you have to provide evidence, (if applicable), that the NCE has been established and does business predominantly in a targeted employment area (TEA).
Commercial enterprise refers to for-profit activates formed for the ongoing running of lawful business include, though not limited to:
- A corporation
- A holding company
- A joint venture
- A partnership (limited or general)
- A sole proprietorship
- A business trust or other entity, either publicly or privately owned
- Including any NCE consisting of a holding company or its wholly-owned subsidiaries, provided that this subsidiary engages in for-profit activities formed for the ongoing running of a lawful business.
Note: This definition does not include passive investments such as the acquisition of properties with no commercial or job-creating components such as a residential property.
Job Creation Requirements:
The EB-5 visa investor must provide proof that the investment in the new commercial enterprise led to the creation or preservation of a minimum of 10 full-time direct or indirect jobs for qualified employees within two years of the foreign investor’s admission to the U.S. as a Conditional Permanent Resident. If there is more than one EB-5 visa investor in a single NCE then the total amount of jobs created or preserved must give 10 full-time jobs to each EB-5 immigrant investor. A full time refers to a minimum of 35 work hours a week.
Note: A foreign investor can be credited with preserving a job in a troubled business.
A troubled business is one that was established two or more years ago and has incurred a net loss (of a minimum of 20% of the net worth of the NCE) during the 1-or 2-year period before the immigrant investor’s Form I-526 filing for removal of conditions.
Also, if the investment is associated with a regional centre, full-time jobs in the regional centre framework can include indirect jobs as determined by use of a reasonable economic methodology.
Regional Center-Based EB-5 Investment:
A designated regional centre is a private or public entity (for instance a sole proprietorship or a corporation) that has filed for and has obtained the designation from USCIS to take part in the Immigrant Investor Program also known as the regional centre program. These regional centres have the authority to sponsor job-creating capital investments projects within a geographic area and within specific industries. This enables the foreign investors to get credit for both jobs created directly within the NCE and indirectly (outside the NCE).
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The Processes Involved In Securing Permanent Residency through EB-5 Visa
There are basically three steps involved in acquiringanEB-5 visa
One –Filing a Form I-526, Immigrant Petition by Alien Entrepreneur with USCIS :
First of all, the foreign investor must file Form I-526. Through documentation, will show that the foreign investor passes the criteria and requirements needed to obtain an EB-5 visa.
Two – Conditional Residence :
After the approval of Form I-526, the investor (and family members if they qualify) can file for a conditional permanent resident status valid for 2 years.
- If the foreign investor is already in the United States, he/she needs to file Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This will allow the investor to change status to a conditional permanent resident within the United States.
- If the foreign investor is outside the United States, the investor should file for a DS-230/DS-260, Application for Immigrant Visa and Alien Registration, with the U.S. Department of State. This will allow the investor to obtain an EB-5 visa for admission to the U.S.
Three – Removal of Conditions :
- The foreign investor must file a Form I-829, Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove, within the last 90 days of the 2-year conditional permanent residence period
- The foreign investor needs to include only the conditional resident’s address on Form I-829.
Requirements for the Removal of Conditions
- Foreign investors continued the investment in the New Commercial Enterprise during the 2-year period
- The NCE created, preserved, or can be expected to create within a reasonable time 10 jobs.
If the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approve the Petition by Entrepreneur to Remove Conditions, the conditions will be removed and the foreign investor and family members who qualify will be permitted to live and work in the U.S. permanently.
The EB-5 visa is a great way for you and your family to immigrate to the U.S. if you are willing to invest in the American economy, which is a booming economy and one of the largest and most profitable in the world. Also, the privileges associated with the U.S. permanent residence (green card) are limitless including the ability to live and work in the United States, access to the best healthcare, send your children to the best schools and the opportunity to gain access to the best financial minds and to grow your enterprise in the United States.
- 2016. About the EB-5 Visa. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/about-eb-5-visa. [Accessed 30 October 2016].
- 2016. EB-5 Immigrant Investor Process. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.uscis.gov/working-united-states/permanent-workers/employment-based-immigration-fifth-preference-eb-5/eb-5-immigrant-investor-process. [Accessed 30 October 2016].
- 2016. EB-5: Permanent Workers – Immigrant Investors. [ONLINE] Available at:https://my.uscis.gov/exploremyoptions/eb5_permanent_workers. [Accessed 30 October 2016].
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The production or refinement of pharmaceutical products often involves dispersing dusty, sticky or fine powders in liquids. Conventional technology often encounters problems - such as when agglomerated powders are not completely wetted - and this is precisely where modern vacuum dispersing systems come in.
Gels, creams and suspensions or coatings on tablets are among the pharmaceutical products manufactured using powders or refined powder mixtures. They usually consist of an active ingredient, the thickening or swelling agent, such as CMC and HPMC, and colourants such as iron oxide, titanium dioxide or talc.
Manufacturing companies can have complex requirements and the topic of reliability is particularly important and so pharmaceutical processes need to be established. These processes must be reproducible and adapt to the often meticulously coordinated requirements of the production chain.
The system design aims to prevent the operator from coming into contact with the materials for precisely this reason. And the aim is to achieve the longest possible storage stability after production without any foam. Agglomerates or air pockets in the product have to be completely ruled out. This is a prevalent problem, because if long dissolving times or the formation of agglomerates occur during the production of a suspension, this can lead to long waiting times.
We come across several problems when conventional technology is employed. Traditional agitators or dissolvers wet the powdered fillers as an agglomerate rather than singularly- This is something that cannot be avoided, as it is the principle of these systems. Powder inside these agglomerates is not completely wetted. The inside of the agglomerates may be wetted later by capillary effect, but this is only possible on a selective basis. The way in which the powder is added is the cause of the pseudowetting. It occurs when the powder is added to the vessel from above. However, it also occurs when it is inducted into a liquid from below in a vacuum vessel by compact flow or inline by using so-called injectors. The problem is caused by the fact that the powder particles touch each other during wetting and are not dispersed.
The solution is provided by a system that can completely wet and optimally disperse powder particles in both liquid and viscous medium. This is exactly what ystral’s powder wetting and dispersing system Conti- TDS does. The system is used to produce solvent-and water-based coating suspensions - but this is only one example of the many possible applications. A suction hose is used to draw in the powder or it is taken directly from the container, whereby the powder only comes into contact with the liquid in the dispersing zone. Dispersing takes place under a massive shear-effect and vacuum.
The vacuum has an extraordinary effect. Under vacuum, the air contained in the powder expands by up to 98%. All the particles in the powder are in flight when they are inducted at high speed by the vacuum conveyor. When the powder is transported, the vacuum in the powder constantly increases when it moves from the point where it is added to the maximum vacuum zone and the distances between the individual particles increase accordingly.
The system generates its suction effect directly in the liquid. The maximum vacuum prevails the wetting and dispersing zone and the distances between the individual particles are largest when they enter this zone. No additional transport or fluidisation air is needed for this effect because the air in the powder expands and subsequently contracts again after dispersing. The particles are individually separated and thoroughly wetted. The powder inlet is closed once the adding of powder has been completed. The system can then be continued to be used as a normal Inline Disperser or for degassing in low-viscose systems, whereby installation both on existing vessels and in complete systems is possible.
The system allows dispersions and emulsions to be produced with particle or droplet sizes on the nanometre scale. A higher product quality can be achieved due to the fact that the formation of agglomerates is avoided. In addition, wetting and dispersing take place at significantly lower temperatures than when conventional technology is used and this often achieves a beneficial advantage in subsequent process steps.
The storage stability of the suspensions produced using the system can be increased by up to 90 %, meaning that the coating process can be carried out hours, or even days, after producing the coating. This can even be done without a separate agitator in the feed vessel, and energy consumption is also almost two-thirds lower than when using conventional technology.
In pharmaceutical production, powders often have to be dispersed in liquids.
Conventional technology often achieves only incomplete wetting, because the powders are introduced agglomerated.
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Ending Apartheid -- Bush Team Moves To Lift Sanctions On South Africa
WASHINGTON - Over the objections of some anti-apartheid groups, the Bush administration is moving toward lifting U.S. sanctions against white-ruled South Africa in hopes that the repeal will encourage democracy and economic growth.
Although a formal decision by President Bush is not expected before July, administration officials said the State Department is in the final stages of certifying that the conditions to remove the economic sanctions have been fulfilled.
"There's some urgency about settling this," said an administration official, who described the administration as eager to follow the lead of the European Community and several African nations in improving relations with South Africa.
The move would represent an important victory for the white government of President F.W. de Klerk, who is trying to end South Africa's status as an international outcast by dismantling the legal system of racial segregation and disenfranchisement.
One of the last pillars of apartheid fell yesterday when the South African Parliament repealed the Population Registration Act, which classifies citizens by race.
As much as the South African government wants the sanctions lifted, some groups that oppose apartheid, including the African National Congress and the Congressional Black Caucus, want them kept in place until South African blacks obtain more rights.
Bush, already under fire for opposing civil-rights legislation in Congress, could be criticized as racially insensitive if he removes sanctions without more progress.
At issue are distinctly different visions of the nature of change taking place in South Africa and the 1986 law that restricted investments in and imports from South Africa.
Bush administration officials, heartened by recent reforms, want to shift U.S. policy to cooperation and re-establish commercial ties that will help South Africa raise the standard of living for all residents.
Some anti-apartheid activists, however, remain unconvinced that the South African government is on an irreversible path toward racial equality and worry that the United States will lose its power to push for reform if it removes the club of sanctions.
"There's a real danger here that we could relax sanctions prematurely and send a message to the majority of the South African population that they're essentially being abandoned," said Rep. Howard Wolpe, D-Mich.
The landmark 1986 anti-apartheid law, enacted over President Ronald Reagan's veto, restricted U.S. investment in South Africa and barred imports of some South African products, including coal, steel, uranium and gold coins.
Legally, Bush will not need Congress' approval if he determines the five conditions to lift sanctions have been fulfilled. But the administration has pledged to consult with Congress, hoping to avoid the divisive rift that marked the Reagan administration's dealings with Congress.
Even if the federal sanctions are lifted, few experts expect U.S. companies to move quickly to do business with South Africa. Deterrents include the unstable political situation there and scores of state and local laws restricting business ties with South Africa.
DISMANTLING SOUTH AFRICAN APARTHEID
South Africa's Parliament yesterday repealed the law that required racial classification of its citizens. Below are changes in apartheid laws and other reforms since 1989 when President F.W. de Klerk assumed power:
What's new - Citizens will no longer be classified by race at birth; those already classified will remain so until a non-racial constitution is passed
- Public facilities, such as hospitals, public transportation, beaches have been desegregated
- Blacks, previously restricted to land ownership in 13 percent of the country, may legally buy property anywhere
- Whites-only public schools may be integrated, if 72% of students' parents vote for desegregation
- Black-led opposition groups, including the African National Congress (ANC), have been legalized
- More than 1,000 political prisoners have been released since January 1990; ANC says more than 1,000 remain jailed
What's left to be changed - Blacks (68% of population) may not vote in national elections
- Only white males are drafted to military service
- Whites receive larger government pensions than blacks
- Many institutions remain segregated
- Wide economic differences between 5 million whites, 30 million blacks
SOURCE: AP KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
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That's Not My Plane Board book
by Fiona Watt
Illustrated by Rachel Wells
Part of the That's Not My... series
A delightful touchy-feely book with simple, repetitive text.
Features bight, colourful illustrations with textures to touch and feel on every pag, helping very young children develop language and sensory skills.
- Format: Board book
- Pages: 10 pages, full colour illustrations throughout
- Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 30/05/2008
- Category: Touch & feel books
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Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee on Tuesday stated that India should think about a substantial stimulation and provide money in hand to make demand and stop chains of bankruptcies from rescue the market struck by the national coronavirus lockdown.
“India wants a stimulus package. We haven’t committed a large enough fiscal package nonetheless,” he advised Congress president Rahul Gandhi throughout a conversation.
“Spending is the simplest way to rekindle the market. It is going to have stimulation impact,” Banerjee added.
Gandhi is now holding a series of discussions with Indian and global thought leaders to talk about the Covid-19 catastrophe and its effects on the Indian market.
Banerjee said the authorities must issue temporary ration cards for 3 to six weeks for every man who wants food grains to save their own lives.
The three were known for their capacity to split the problem of managing global poverty into smaller issues.
“Banerjee told Gandhi that it’s crucial to rekindle demand. However, to offer direct money transfer to just more impoverished people is problematic,” he explained.
The cash is little provided that India’s gross domestic product will be to the tune of approximately Rs 200 lakh crore, he’d stated.
Banerjee said the Aadhaar-based asserts for PDS could have spared a great deal of distress for the poor, as most are still not in the computer system.
“We ought to take a cue in the US by putting in more money from the hands of individuals to rekindle demand. Additionally, it’s best to set a moratorium on debt obligations,” he explained.
On raising the lockdown, Banerjee is known for caution. “You can not take the lockdown if a lot of individuals are becoming ill. We have to know about the disease’s course before settling on lifting the lockdown,” he added.
The Nobel laureate said that India ought to be optimistic about the general economic revival post-lockdown.
About the centralization versus decentralization discussion, Banerjee stated there’s a visible strain as evident from the motion of the researchers, which may not be managed by state authorities only.
The central authorities should have analyzed the migrant individuals before they stopped the trains to get their home cities, he further added.
Banerjee also implied that state authorities ought to be given cash to chalk out their strategies directed at reaching a broader section of the individuals rather than something about some of the money getting wasted.
“Whenever you’re in dire straits, being courageous is the only alternative,” he explained.
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October is American Archives Month, and the assistant archivist for the Diocese of Burlington is commemorating it by highlighting a facet of the collections of the archives each week.
Because this year’s theme for the special month is “Biography: Stories of People and Places,” Kathleen Messier, in collaboration with the diocesan Office of Communications, is focusing on the four main uses of the archives in the Diocese of Burlington: administrative, historical, genealogical and education/outreach on various online platforms.
At the diocesan offices on Joy Drive in South Burlington, she is highlighting those same four aspects with informal newsletter-style emails with photos or other descriptive information for employees to read at their leisure.
Oct. 2, for example, was the day designated for the online interactive or real activity known as “Ask an Archivist” day. “My colleagues here on Joy Drive participated by asking some excellent questions regarding their parishes, particular archival practices, or meanings of some of the elements incorporated in the building of some of the Diocese’s oldest churches,” she said.
Messier appreciates the continued questions and comments about the archives. “What always causes me to pause is knowing that people, places and events were as real in 1830, 1853, 1945, etc. as they are now,” she said. “They were so real that efforts have been made by those who came before us to preserve them through extensive documentation (photographs, biographical information and recorded memories and the like).”
Preserving history is important, both for families and for the Church. “As members of the Body of Christ here in the Diocese, it’s important to have some knowledge and understanding of Vermont’s Catholic heritage,” said the member the Society of American Archivists, New England Archivists and Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists.
Family history often is passed on from one generation to the next through the sharing of photographs, books, artifacts and oral and/or written historical information. “This all gives us an understanding of ourselves in the historical context of our human family – Who am I? How did I get here? What were some major events that contributed to my heritage?” she said. “Now, in applying this same idea to our spiritual family as Vermont Catholics: It is vital to have the awareness of the origins and development of the Diocese of Burlington and we can utilize the records of our Church to help us have a sense of who we are as Catholics in Vermont now because of the work done by those who came to minister to Catholics and establish this Diocese so long ago.”
Among the most important records retained by the Catholic Church are sacramental records – all current sacramental registers are retained at the parish where the sacrament took place, but the Diocesan Archives is the repository of a few original, very old sacramental registers that, over time, were too deteriorated to keep in their respective parish office.
“There is a collection of transcribed records from almost every parish in Vermont retained in the archives as well, so when individuals are contacting the archives for family genealogy purposes, those books serve as reference to establish an ancestor’s Catholic heritage,” Messier said.
She invites those interested to visit the archives on the diocesan website for more detailed information regarding sacramental records (vermontcatholic.org).
A special presentation
In collaboration with diocesan Director of Worship Josh Perry, a presentation titled, “A cause for Sainthood – Burlington’s First Bishop,” covering:
- The path to sainthood – Who? Why? What? How? When? Exploring the process of canonization in the Catholic church.
- A biographical sketch of Burlington’s first Bishop, Louis de Goësbriand
- A curated display of artifacts belonging to or used by Bishop de Goësbriand
- Comments, questions and answers.
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WYA Middle East (WYAME) Regional Director of Operations Laura El Khoury together with 2 WYA Middle East members participated in the Erasmus+ project, “Stay Healthier Outside” that took place in Giovinazzo, Italy from November 7-14, 2016.
This project gathered young people from Lebanon, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Romania, Ukraine, Poland, and Italy. The program aimed to provide a unique and rich experience for young people to learn more about outdoor lifestyle and share personal experiences while focusing on developing the skills of all the participants when it comes to survival, camping, hiking, good nutrition and orientation in nature.
“Nonetheless, it was a great opportunity for cultural exchange. Participants were asked to organize cultural evenings, representing their countries and own identity. Each of the teams prepared games, food and drinks, songs and traditional dances. It was really interesting to see how everybody was vividly participating and interested in knowing more about other countries’ culture. The Lebanese team prepared a quiz game for a better understanding of our own identity, culture and history along with Dabkeh and a tasting of main Lebanese Mezze.,” Laura shared.
The project focused on strengthening both personal development skills and team work through some activities that require good organization and task divisions to accomplish a specific goal.
“Overall, the “Stay Healthier Outside” youth program succeeded in breaking cultural barriers by promoting solidarity and bringing youth from different backgrounds together,” Laura added. | <urn:uuid:ff7b3d4e-93cc-4baa-9deb-04cc692ed846> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wya.net/press-release/wyame-staff-members-join-stay-healthier-outside-project-in-italy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00285-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949279 | 309 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Dreams and Dream Interpretation
The Edgar Cayce Readings Approach to Dreams
Although it is true that many of us do not consciously remember our dreams, everyone dreams. During the early part of this century, while psychologists such as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were demonstrating the clinical importance of dreams, Edgar Cayce was providing average individuals with guidelines for working with what has become one of the most practical approaches to dreams. Hundreds of Cayce's readings deal with the subject of dreams and dream interpretation.
Perhaps the most important insights gained from the wealth of this material is the fact that each of us is aware of much more—about ourselves, our physical bodies, our surroundings, even our lifestyles—at subconscious levels than we realize.
Dreams can diagnose the causes of our physical ailments, point out the thoughts and emotions that we've tried to overlook and often make suggestions for improving our relationships with others. While dreaming, we can gain awareness about our entire being: physically, mentally, and spiritually. | <urn:uuid:22d347cf-0d83-41cf-ae02-508357b5852e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.edgarcayce.org/the-readings/dreams | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957691 | 203 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Sports Premium Funding was introduced by the Department for Education with the vision that:
"ALL pupils leaving primary school physically literate and with the knowledge, skills and motivation necessary to equip them for a healthy, active lifestyle and lifelong participation in physical activity and sport."
It is expected that schools will see an improvement against the following 5 key indicators:
- the engagement of all pupils in regular physical activity – kick-starting healthy active lifestyles
- the profile of PE and sport being raised across the school as a tool for whole school improvement
- increased confidence, knowledge and skills of all staff in teaching PE and sport
- broader experience of a range of sports and activities offered to all pupils
- increased participation in competitive sport
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Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989 :It's a pity the Harlem Globetrotters brought along their own opponents when we have the makings of - A team to give them a run for their money. 24 February 1959.
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Shows the ENZED Globetrotters (a group of much-travelled Cabinet Ministers) being led out by their most senior player (Walter Nash) all of whom are being dwarfed by the Harlem Globetrotters. Refers to a visit by the American basketball team and to criticism of the amount of travel being undertaken by Members of Parliament
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The short answer is yes.
The long answer is technology & materials being what they were in the 30's, that square coil would melt if it ran on much more than 4 amps for any length of time. (see tip # 38 for an example). In order to get a hot spark at the same time the starter was drawing max current from the battery, a ballast resistor was added in the ignition circuit. What that did was add about .3 ohms of resistance in the circuit, added to the 1.5 ohms of the coil. That got you 3.5 amps or so at start up. As the voltage increased when the engine was running to about 7.5 volts, the resistor heated up, adding more resistance in the circuit. 1.0 ohms hot, plus 1.5 ohms of the coil got you down to 3 amps or so to keep from melting the coil. The same rule (actually, Ohm's Law) applies to a 12v circuit. I= E/R. Current equals voltage divided by resistance.
It used to be before the "Land of Almost Right" started making coils that you could count on a 12v frontmount coil as having 3 ohms of internal resistance & the 6v coils as having 1.5 ohms or less. Thus, thanks to Ohm's Law, you could calculate what additional resistance you needed in the circuit to limit coil current to 3.5 amps. So, you will need to measure the internal resistance of that alleged 12v coil & see what it is. A digital multi-meter has two probes & a switch. Set the switch on resistance. Put one probe on the top of the coil & the other on the pigtail at the bottom. It will give you a reading in ohms. Lets just say it reads 3.0 ohms. Your OEM ballast resistor (which you must use) is about 1 ohm hot. A coil a 3.0 ohms, plus the ballast resistor at 1 ohm (hot) gives you 4.0 ohms resistance in the circuit. Your 12 volt alternator puts out 14.5 volts. You need to determine current (amps). 14.5 v divided by 4.0 ohms gets you 3.6 amps; that's ok. But, and this is the problem......what if the coil is only 2 ohms? Do the math. 14.5 volts divided by 3.0 ohms gets you 4.8 amps! Not good! And, if the coil is less than 2 ohms (and some are) it will fry quickly. So, to get it to 3.5 amps, you need another resistor in the circuit. Either that, or keep spare $30 coil around.
Or, you can not worry about measuring the resistance; just use an ammeter per the other picture & directions that JMOR put together.
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Nextrials offers a hosted software solution for the data collection and project management of clinical trials. Prism, its award-winning electronic data capture (EDC) solution, has been used at over 1,200 research sites around the world to streamline clinical research and bring products to the market faster.
The San Ramon, California-based company was founded by a group of researchers in 1999. The company’s creation was inspired by the convergence of two separate events. While working at Genentech, Lecia Shaffer and Anthony Costello put together the FDA filing for the drug Herceptin, used to treat breast cancer. They struggled with the required volumes of paper and experienced the headaches of the first generation of data collection software products. They recognized the growing potential of the Internet and realized that it provided the foundation for a hosted solution for the collection of clinical data. At the same time, biochemist Jim Rogers was trying, unsuccessfully, to convince his CEO that the Internet could be harnessed to facilitate the project management challenges associated with highly dispersed clinical trials. He felt insulted when his CEO told him it was a dumb idea but to build a prototype so the company could claim to be innovative. The three founders spent two days holed up in Jim’s house outlining their vision for Nextrials. Soon after starting the company, they hired Robert Lyons to program the software. Lyons proved invaluable in converting the vision to software, and he was soon added as a partner and a founder.
The company’s flagship product is Prism, an SaaS solution for clinical trial management and EDC. Its features include inventory management, lab data management, interactive subject screening and randomization, safety data management and serious adverse event reporting, query management, real-time project management status alerts, e-mail alerts, and business intelligence functionality. Depending on the complexity of the client’s database, using Prism it takes about two weeks to design that database, compared to the eight-week industry standard. Data is typically 99.99% clean. According to Rogers, the average cost to develop a new drug is over $1 billion, and it takes up to 12 years to complete the clinical trials process, obtain approvals and deliver the drug to market. Prism can cut this time and save on costs and labor. The latest version of the product is supported on the iPhone and the iPad, an important improvement, says Rogers: “With its bigger screen, imaging power and a number of medical applications in development, the Apple iPad is expected to quickly advance the idea of entering data at the bedside for use in both clinical trials and a patient’s permanent electronic health record (EHR).”
An analyst at IDC Health Insights puts the EDC market at $568 million for 2010. Once the industry has reached maximum adoption (~95% of clinical trials), the market is expected to exceed $1 billion. Nextrials’s sweet spot in the market are the small and mid-sized biotech and medical device companies. They conservatively represent about 30% of clinical trials, so the prime market size is about $170 million in 2010 with an eventual size of over $300 million. However, Nextrials says that as it advances its e-clinical software, particularly around integration with EHR, its solutions will be more attractive to large pharma companies and that portion of the market will open up more. Developing solutions for patient recruitment and drug safety reporting will also significantly increase the addressable market.
There were a number of players in the clinical trials management solution market when Nextrials was founded. A few of the companies that had significant funding, such as Phase Forward and Medidata, focused almost exclusively on larger companies and their larger research budgets. In its early years, Nextrials served the small to mid-sized biotechnology and medical device markets. The marketing strategy was simple: work with smaller institutions because they are often the industry’s innovators and, as such, they better appreciate the value of e-clinical tools such as Nextrials’ Prism. They also appreciated the high level of service that Nextrials as a smaller vendor was able to give.
The company credits its ability to compete head-to-head against the established EDC and clinical trial management companies to the strength of Prism’s design, the expertise of the management team, a strong customer focus, and its 99.99% uptime/reliability. Life science IT mirrors the industry it supports, says Nextrials. Large pharma companies are notoriously poor innovators, often looking to nimble biotech companies for new products or innovations like the use of EHR for clinical research.
From its inception, Nextrials has been self-funded and has been profitable for nine of its eleven years. Over the past five years, the company has averaged 45% annual growth and has been listed on the Inc 5000 for the past three years. The 2008 award was based revenues of $4.6 million in 2007 and a growth rate of over 155%. By 2009, the global economic crisis had a ripple effect on Nextrials and the rest of the industry because biotech companies cut back on research as their funding became uncertain. Nextrials was able to make the necessary adjustments to its cost structure to post a profit with $4.9 million in revenue. The company has already seen a turnaround in the industry and expects over 10% revenue growth in 2010 as the industry recovers. It expects higher growth rates in subsequent years.
Nextrials is in discussions with a number of potential investors. The company says the market is interested in healthcare IT and recognizes the value in utilizing EHR for clinical research. Nextrials plans to use the investment to further develop its EDC/EHR solutions for patient recruitment, study data collection, and drug safety reporting. The ideal investor will have access to life sciences companies who can benefit from these solutions.
The goal is to grow by taking on outside investment to accelerate the development of EHR-related solutions that will increase the addressable market. Nextrials plans to expand its EDC market and increase market share by offering EHR-enabled EDC to give it an advantage over competitors that do not offer this next-generation tool.
Nextrials has worked with over 30 clients from small biotech and medical device startups to large pharmaceutical enterprises. Its software has been used at over 1,500 clinics and hospitals in more than 30 countries. Many of the sites are in Central/Eastern Europe, Russia and South America, which are are high-growth areas for clinical research. Some customers are AcuFocus, ArQule, EKOS, GlobeImmune, Generex, Pfizer, Shire, and Syndax.
Nextrial says that its eventual exit will likely be through acquisition. Possible suitors include healthcare companies that are looking for an entry into the life sciences market, large outsourcing companies in the industry that want to add technology solutions to their offerings, related life science companies looking to consolidate technologies into a broader software suite, or possibly a competitor that wants to incorporate the existing business and gain access to new EHR/EDC tools being developed.
Many Health Professionals Buying iPad, But its Effect on Healthcare Still in Question (from HealthLeaders Media)
Deal Radar 2009: DecisionView
Deal Radar 2009: WaveMark
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Schuyler National Bank v. Gadsden
Annotate this Case
191 U.S. 451 (1903)
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U.S. Supreme Court
Schuyler National Bank v. Gadsden, 191 U.S. 451 (1903)
Schuyler National Bank v. Gadsden
Argued November 3, 1903
Decided December 7, 1903
191 U.S. 451
Where usurious interest has been paid to a national bank, the remedy afforded by sec. 5198, U.S. Revised Statutes, is exclusive, and is confined to an independent action to recover such usurious payment. Hazeltine v. Central National Bank, 183 U. S. 118.
A claim that usurious interest has been paid on a debt to a national bank secured by mortgage on real estate given by the debtors to an individual for the benefit of the bank cannot be asserted under the state law in foreclosure proceedings in the state courts.
Where the state law does not forbid an agent from taking security for the benefit of a principal, the taking of real estate security by the president of a national bank for a debt due to the bank is, in legal effect, the taking of such security by the bank itself.
The provisions of the United States statutes forbidding the taking of real estate security by a national bank for a debt coincidentally contracted do not operate to make the security void, but simply subject the bank to be called to account by the government for exceeding its powers. Logan County v. Townsend, 139 U. S. 67.
On August 8, 1890, George Thrush, one of the defendants in error, being indebted to the Schuyler National Bank, one of the plaintiffs in error, for money then and theretofore lent, executed a note to the bank for the sum of $5,000, payable six months after date. As collateral security for the payment of this note, Thrush and his wife executed a note and mortgage for $5,000 to one Sumner, who was at that time the president of the bank. The collateral note and mortgage were delivered to the bank, and by it retained. The note made to the bank was renewed by the bank from time to time, and various payments of interest and on account of the principal were made to the bank, the principal sum thereby being reduced in March, 1894, to $3,000. In that month and year, a new note was executed to the bank for the principal sum then due and interest, in all, $3,229. No money dealings were had at any time between either Thrush and his wife and Sumner individually.
James Gadsden, one of the defendants in error, sued Thrush and his wife in a Nebraska court to foreclose an asserted mortgage on real estate. Junior encumbrances of record were made parties defendant, among them being Sumner, to whom the mortgage for $5,000, securing the collateral note previously referred to, had been executed. He answered, and by cross-petition asserted the lien of the mortgage, which he alleged was made to him as trustee for the benefit of the Schuyler National Bank; he prayed foreclosure of such lien and the payment of the indebtedness to the bank, stated to be $3,229 and interest. The Schuyler National Bank was subsequently made a party defendant, and, by answer and cross-petition, claimed the benefit of the mortgage to Sumner, securing the indebtedness just stated, and joined in the prayer for foreclosure. Separate answers, similar in tenor, were filed on behalf of Thrush and his wife, in which were averred, in numerous paragraphs, many payments to the bank of usurious interest during a period of five years, and in substance it was prayed that the amount of such payments might be deducted
from the principal sum claimed by the bank to be due. In each of the answers was contained the following paragraph:
"That the said note of $5,000 of the defendants George Thrush and Mattie N. Thrush, together with the mortgage securing the same, were not executed and delivered to said William H. Sumner upon any consideration whatsoever, but the same are simply held by said defendant as collateral security to the amount owing by the defendant, George Thrush, on the said indebtedness now being evidenced by said $3,229 note, in this: that the said note of $5,000 and the mortgage securing the same were executed and delivered by this defendant and Mattie N. Thrush to said Sumner for the purpose that said Sumner might protect therewith said bank on account of the indebtedness of said George Thrush to said bank, and said note and mortgage were accepted by said Sumner with the knowledge and consent of said bank, and because said bank refused to take said mortgage, and said Sumner in nowise protected said loan or advanced any money thereon and at the time of the maturity thereof, by virtue of the premises and the payments of usurious and illegal interest made thereon, as aforesaid, there was due and owing, after deducting the payments made upon the principal and the said payments of usurious interest, the small balance, to-wit, of $252.20, and for the aforesaid balance the said defendant Sumner is entitled to a lien upon said premises under and by virtue of said mortgage and promissory note of $5,000."
A reply was filed to these answers. It was therein stated in substance that most of the alleged usurious interest had been paid to the bank more than two years before the commencement of the action, and that the remaining interest payments were not in excess of the rate allowed by law to be contracted for. The pleading concluded with the claim
"that this Court has no jurisdiction in this action to consider the question raised in said answer to each and every item of interest mentioned in said answer as paid to said Schuyler National Bank; that said items are not proper items of set-off or counterclaim and cannot
be adjudicated except in a suit brought expressly for that purpose under the provisions of § 5198 of the Revised Statutes of the United States."
A decree was entered determining the priority of liens between the respective lienholders, and providing for a foreclosure. Among other things, it was adjudged that the mortgage to Sumner was executed and delivered for the benefit of the bank, and that the bank was entitled to the proceeds of the note and mortgage. As to the defense of usury set up in the answers, it was decided that, as the transaction was one with a national bank, it was governed by the laws of the United States, and therefore recovery by way of set-off of the usurious interest alleged to have been paid was refused. Recovery of the interest embraced in the claim of the bank was, however, denied, and judgment was entered only for the principal sum found to be due and owing to the bank.
On appeal, the Supreme Court of Nebraska reversed the judgment of the district court in the particular just noticed, and remanded the cause with directions
"to ascertain the amount of money advanced to Thrush by the Schuyler National Bank, deduct therefrom all payments, whether of principal or interest, and award foreclosure for the remainder, if any."
56 Neb. 565. On a rehearing, the appellate court reaffirmed its previous decision. 58 Neb. 340. Thereupon a writ of error was allowed from this Court, which was subsequently dismissed for want of jurisdiction. 179 U.S. 681. Subsequently, the state district court entered a judgment in conformity with the mandate of the Supreme Court of Nebraska, and such judgment was affirmed on appeal. 63 Neb. 881. The present writ of error was thereupon allowed. | <urn:uuid:64dfc574-8875-4094-8261-1c54bad0bda1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/191/451/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00201-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980975 | 1,618 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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Riverston School Dubai is a new mainstream UK curriculum school that will also be offering a fully inclusive environment to children of all abilities. It is named after the UK school which is highly regarded for its broad provision, and is associated with the Riverston Centre in Dubai which opened in 2017.
The story so far...
In February 2021, it was formally announced that Riverston School had closed. Further details can be found here.
Riverston School Dubai is a landmark school for the city, having been established as a fully inclusive school, catering to children of all abilities. It is already making its mark in the UAE Education sector, having been the Winner of the "Best International Initiative in the UAE" at WhichSchoolAdvisor.com's sister website - SchoolsCompared.com - Top School Awards in March 2019, as a result of the association of Riverston UK with the Dubai school.
Riverston Dubai follows the National Curriculum of England, and the school team, including its Principal, Deputy Principal/Director of Inclusion and teaching staff are all experienced in working with students with the broadest variety of educational abilities. All teaching staff (currently six) are from the UK, apart from the Islamic and Arabic teachers. In addition, the school has four Learning Support Assistants who are qualified to provide a range of additional support including ABA therapy, play therapy, or SEND support. Class sizes are limited to 16 students per class to give children individual attention and to determine and develop each student’s strengths. The total capacity of the school is 300. Whilst not specifically a school for Students of Determination, its fully inclusive ethos means the school has the internal capacity to provide additional focused support to students of differing abilities.
Riverston Dubai has been inspired by the success and approach of Riverston UK. Riverston is a UK-based, international education and training group with Ofsted-rated ‘outstanding’ and ‘excellent’ nurseries and schools in the UK, as well as children's centres in India and the UAE. As a branch campus of Riverston School London, Riverston School Dubai mirrors the London school’s highly successful inclusive model of education. The Group has nearly 100 years of experience in providing high-quality education. Riverston School, London opened in 1926.
The primary-only school is located in Nad Al Sheba 4 and began to admit students starting FS1 from September 2018; the children who join FS1 must be aged 3 by 31st December of the year in which they commence school in the prior September. There are assessments and observations prior to admission, which take place either at Riverston School Dubai or at the child’s current school/nursery (where possible). In more complex cases, observations can be arranged across 3 days, but in general, a one and half hour assessment is the norm. Based on this, each child’s strengths and areas where support is required are determined and each child receives a personalised learning plan and timetable. Students in the school have tutors who track progress across all areas of academic and personal development.
As part of the school's commitment to support children of all abilities, including those with additional learning needs, specialist support, such as Speech and Occupational Therapy, is included within the school's provision, avoiding the necessity for parents to ferry their child between specialists outside of school. There will be additional fees for this.
The Principal of the school is David Quick who has 28 years of experience as a teacher, including 11 years as a member of Senior Leadership Teams, seven years as a Deputy / Assistant Head and four years as Principal with roles in the UK and internationally.
Mr. Quick explained: “ Riverston School will be a small school with small classes and a real family atmosphere. Every child will have their individualised learning programme. We will ensure that each child will have that personal care and we will know them inside out. This will enable us to draw out their talents and allow them to taste success. When the child finishes school with us, they will have reached their potential and subsequently will be ready to take the next steps on their lifelong learning journey.”
At the core of the school’s philosophy will be parent partnerships and the community for easy transition for the students.
Mr Quick told WhichSchoolAdvisor.com that “I believe in building partnerships and communities. At my previous school, I established a number of new links with parent groups, local community groups, local authorities, schools, vocational colleges and universities to successfully and seamlessly transition students and ensure that each child could benefit from continuity of practices and care between their time in school, at home and in the community. This is something that I am looking to continue in Dubai. Ensure successful transition of students in and out of the school as well as the creation of strong, long-term partnerships with families, the KHDA and other stakeholders in the community."
Such small class sizes inevitably come at a price. The fees start at AED 67,500 for FS1 to Year 1, and AED 70,500 for Year 2 to 6. There is an application fee of AED 500.
The further assessments costs are AED 1,500, which results in a report including a detailed representation of each student’s strengths in dimensions such as reading, attitudes and relationships. The first points in an Individual Education Plan (IEP) are generated out of the observations and assessments. In more complex cases, where applicable, additional fees of between AED 20,000 - 50,000 may be added, if additional levels of support and therapy are required.
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Read the media release “Funding change in B.C. speaks to urgent need for National Autism” here.
Changes to B.C. Autism service delivery speaks to urgent need for National Autism Strategy
The Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance (CASDA) is calling on the federal government to hasten and prioritize a National Autism Strategy in light of the drastic changes being made to autism supports in British Columbia; changes that will significantly impact those on the autism spectrum in the province.
On October 27, 2021, the British Columbia Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) announced a new service system for neurodiverse children, where one-stop Family Connections Hubs will be implemented across B.C. This system will be fully implemented by March 2025, at which point children and youth on the autism spectrum can no longer access individualized funding. Families and caregivers who cannot afford to continue to fund service providers out-of-pocket will have no other option but to receive services and supports through these one-stop family connections hubs. Furthermore, the transition to Family Connections Hubs may also lead to severing the relationships that families and youth currently have with their trusted professionals, increasing the risk of being placed on long waitlists, and having to cope with the confusion and burden of navigating a new and complex system.
Currently, the Ministry of Children and Family Development in B.C. offers a direct funding model, where Autism Funding is allocated to families and caregivers of children under the age of 18, who have a diagnosis of autism and reside in British Columbia. Up to $22,000 per year is allocated for each child under the age of 6, and up to $6,000 per year for each child aged 6 to 18. This funding helps families pay for professional supports that promote skill development for their child, including communication, social-emotional, academic and life skills.
While this model has limitations in meeting the needs of children on the autism spectrum and their families, the approach taken by the MCFD in B.C. is deeply concerning to the Canadian Autism Spectrum Disorder Alliance (CASDA) and its members for the following reasons:
- The B.C. government has not engaged in inclusive policy design: To the best of our knowledge, the B.C. government has not consulted stakeholders, including provincial or national autism organizations, autism researchers, and most importantly, Autistic self advocates and families of neurodivergent children and youth receiving funding under the Children and Youth with Support Needs (CYSN) Framework.
- The B.C. government lacks transparency regarding the evidence used to inform the implementation of Family Connections Hubs: The B.C. government has not shared an evidence-based rationale to support the implementation of “one-stop family connection hubs “ versus other models of service delivery and support. There is no indication of the evidence and data used to support the cost-effectiveness and efficiency of one model over the other to deliver critical services to children and families.
- The B.C. government has presented very little information on the implementation and operational logistics of these “hubs,” leaving autism families extremely distressed about the future of their children and youth. There is no economic or workforce modelling data to assure the community that B.C. has service provider capacity to effectively implement a hub service delivery model without increasing waitlist times to receive critical support and services.
- The B.C. government’s policy announcement has resulted in a divide between the community surrounding youth on the spectrum and the broader disability community: Historically, the B.C. government has not provided adequate support to Children and Youth with Special Needs (CYSN), hence, the announcement regarding the implementation of Family Connection Hub has further widened the gap within the disability communities. This has left families feeling as though they are competing over scarce resources in a fragmented system. All children with disabilities deserve support to be able to reach their fullest potential. Thus, there is an urgent need for an approach that will support the spreading and scaling of cost-effective and evidence-informed delivery models that adequately address the diverse needs of children with disabilities.
Unfortunately, drastic changes to regional autism policy are a frequent occurrence in Canada. More often than not, evidence to support these major policy decisions is either lacking or is not made publicly accessible to stakeholders. This leads to the assumption that these decisions are based on political ideology, rather than evidence. Provinces and territories moving from one distinct service model to another results in major inconsistencies and leaves those that are the most impacted by these changes without access to these vital supports.
Currently, access to supports for Autistic persons—children, youth, and adults—varies greatly across the country. Programs are not only delivered by distinct ministries and departments, but are also accessed via distinct requirements. This furthers the pattern of different and fragmented service delivery models across Canada.
A National Autism Strategy can help fill gaps and address challenges at a provincial level
The federal government initiated the process of developing a National Autism Strategy (NAS) in 2019 to help address gaps discussed above. To date, the most substantial progress made towards the development of the Strategy has been a consultation on the science of autism by the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, which is expected to be released to the public in early 2022.
CASDA is calling upon the federal government to act in a timely manner and commit to a reasonable timeframe to develop and implement a NAS.
Yesterday, the Senate of Canada held the second reading of Bill S-203, “An Act respecting a federal framework on autism spectrum disorder.” The proposed legislation echoes the concerns expressed by CASDA and their members, and calls upon the federal government to act on “Pay Now or Pay Later,” the Senate report published in 2007.
We urge the federal government to implement a NAS that will align services and supports across the country. This is needed to alleviate the burden faced by families when drastic policy changes are enforced regionally, such as the implementation of Family Service Hubs in B.C.. A robust National Autism Strategy should:
- Adopt inclusive policy design that centers the perspectives of Autistic people living in Canada;
- Define minimum standards of support (programs and services) and professionals across Canada to ensure that Autistic people in Canada receive equitable access to supports, regardless of their postal code;
- Provide guidance to the provinces and territories to implement evidence-informed models of supports that can be delivered across the country;
- Coordinate national collaboration and knowledge sharing mechanisms between provinces and territories, where lessons and collective evidence can be shared to inform policy decisions;
- Allocate resources to collect longitudinal data that will shed light on the effectiveness of programs as well as existing gaps within services for persons on the spectrum and their families across Canada. This will, in turn, support iterative learning cycles in autism policy development to inform and scale successful programs in other jurisdictions.
If you would like to take part in conversations around a National Autism Strategy, here’s how you can get involved:
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- Meet or write to your local Member of Parliament with your concerns and questions about autism policy in Canada. Find your local MP. We invite you to CC CASDA at firstname.lastname@example.org in your emails to your MP if you would like us to provide support. Reach out to us if you would like to attend a virtual meeting with you and your MPs to share your stories.
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- where vast and diverse experience, expertise and voices come together for the shared and common purpose to advocate and amplify the need for a National Autism Strategy. Members also have access to CASDA’s bi-monthly newsletter, the “National Autism Newsletter.” The National Autism Newsletter is a great resource for members to stay informed about the development of a National Autism Strategy, to learn about member initiatives across the country, and to take part in projects facilitated by CASDA.
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Posted: 20 Oct 2014 08:38 PM PDT
Najib Abdul Razak and Umno Baru were denied an early Deepavali present when opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim dismissed all talk of going into exile, in London.
Just imagine the headlines in Utusan Malaysia and TV3 if Anwar had chosen exile: 'Coward Anwar seeks exile to escape jail', 'Exile proves Anwar's guilt', 'Anwar abandons followers, lives in luxury in London', 'We told you so; Anwar is scared to face the truth'.
When he was interviewed by The Daily Telegraph, Anwar expressed no plans to form a government in exile, in London, despite unsuccessful attempts by his friends to convince him to stay. He admitted the strain placed on his family. He was sanguine about reform.
He said, "It is very difficult, particularly for my family. But when I started this case for reform in Malaysia I knew it was not going to be easy."
If Anwar had chosen exile, Najib would have effectively isolated Anwar from his followers. The rakyat would not be spared either. They would be told that throwing their money and weight behind Anwar was wasteful, and their support for the opposition a futile cause.
Najib knows that having Anwar in exile is as good as putting him behind bars; but there are subtle differences.
People who have conducted a long-distance romance know that the relationship could suffer without complete commitment and absolute trust. The pressures and sacrifices are enormous. Anwar, in exile, and his supporters would face the same test. Who would falter first?
In recent months, many disillusioned Malaysians have had their confidence shaken by the troubles in Pakatan. In the recent Kajang move, PAS appeared to be hastening the break-up of the coalition.
Disheartened Malaysians should heed Anwar's words. When he led the charge for reform, he knew it was going to be a long haul. Change is not for the faint-hearted. Decades of Umno Baru's decadent and divisive rule, cannot be unravelled overnight. Are we all prepared to wait?
Anwar has laid the foundations for change, and although he risks losing his freedom, we have nothing to lose, apart from some sleepless nights, or our cool, when we are spat on, in a peaceful protest, by pro-government thugs.
If he were to be jailed, Anwar's companions will be a few books, if his captors allow him that luxury, and the cockroaches in his cell. In relative freedom, we have the companionship and support of one another, to continue the reform agenda.
Jailing Anwar is not a simple matter for it presents Umno Baru with several dilemmas.
First. Jail might make Anwar a martyr. Umno Baru will want to avoid this at all costs.
Second. Jail reduces many of the opportunities to distract the rakyat. At present, our attention is immediately diverted, should any bad news emerge. Notice how the major corruption or religious scandals are immediately preceded by yet another Anwar sexposé? Sex sells, especially among the Malays.
Whetting our appetite for change
Third. Jail will not isolate Anwar. He may be physically removed, from our presence, but he has whetted our appetite for change. His absence will focus Malaysian minds and provide renewed momentum for change. It will prove to the authorities that we are capable of leading the charge, by ourselves.
Jailing Anwar may backfire on Najib. Urgings for reform will be re-energised with vengeance.
Anwar said that his exile would have a detrimental effect on Malaysians, especially its youth. He knows that responsible leaders are important role models. He said, "…if people like me can't stand up against these atrocities what can we expect from young people?"
He is right. The problem is not always with our leaders. Our youth can be equally perplexing.
Two days before Anwar's interview with The Daily Telegraph, PAS president Hadi Awang (right) had given a talk to Malaysian students in London.
Responding to a question fielded by a student, Hadi told his audience that women were perfectly suited to be leaders in their respective fields, but that they had no legitimacy to be leaders of the state, or the nation. He stressed that the woman's importance lay in nurturing the family unit.
There is sex equality in Islam, so one must assume that Hadi is a closet misogynist. Why has he avoided the remarkable women leaders from the decadent west and Israel? Any Malaysian woman who aspires to be a menteri besar, or prime minister should avoid Hadi.
He has conveniently ignored the women leaders in Pakistan and Bangladesh, both Muslim nations. He has forgotten the succession of six Queens who ruled the Kingdom of Patani in the 16th and 17th centuries.
The PAS president is entitled to his views, but more shocking was the reaction of some female students that night. They agreed that Malay women should not aspire to be PM.
It appears that Anwar has much unfinished business amongst the Malay community. We still need him to free young Malay minds from the bondage of conservative Islam, Malay feudalism and subservient culture. Without Anwar, few Malay women will contribute to nation-building.
Posted: 20 Oct 2014 08:34 PM PDT
While Indonesia marked another democratic advance on Monday, democracy in neighbouring Malaysia goes backwards.
Indonesia inaugurates the man that most voters chose to be leader, while Malaysia concludes a sham trial to destroy the man that most voters chose to be leader.
Indonesia is conducting the first transfer of power from one directly elected president to another.
And Malaysia? It remains under the control of the same party that has ruled continuously since independence in 1957.
“While Indonesia is making huge progress, we are rewinding and the democratic space is going back to the Mahathir era of the 1990s,” says Malaysia’s opposition treasury spokesman, Rafizi Ramli, during a visit to Australia on Monday. “We have not recovered from last year’s election.”
There is more than democracy at stake. A professor of political science at Monash University’s Malaysian campus, James Chin, says: “In Malaysia, politics is being hijacked by political Islam. It really worries me. They are putting Malay supremacy together with Islamic supremacy.”
The foundation stone of the perennially ruling party was always racial discrimination – special favour to native Malays over all other citizens, including the country’s sizeable Chinese and Indian minorities.
But now it’s pursuing policies of religious discrimination as well, says Mr Chin: “Previously, they tried to regulate the body and behaviour of Muslims; now, they are trying to regulate the body and behaviour of non-Muslims too.”
He contrasts this with Indonesia, where a secular state does not impose Islamic standards on other faiths. It’s one thing to fine Muslims for drinking alcohol, says Mr Chin, but now there are attempts to penalise non-Mulsims taking part in Oktoberfest in Malaysia.
The authoritarian nature of the Najib government will be on display to the world next week when it renews its courtroom persecution of the opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim.
Anwar was the subject of one of the world’s most ridiculous political persecutions, an effort by the then prime minister, Mahathir Mohammed, to ruin him by accusing him of sodomy. And now, a ruling on the sequel: Sodomy 2.
He was the deputy prime minister to Mahathir when they had a falling out in 1998. The foolish and farcical pursuit of Anwar failed to ruin him, but it did turn him into a formidable leader of the opposition.
Anwar spent six years in jail before a court overturned his conviction. He emerged to lead an energised campaign at the 2013 election. So the Malaysian people delivered their own verdict on Anwar and his Pakatan Rakyat, or People’s Pact party.
The opposition under Anwar won 51 per cent of the vote at the 2013 election, but only 40 per cent of parliamentary seats.
It was a record result for an opposition and it shook the government. Even in a manipulated system, the ruling party, for the first time, had failed to win a majority of votes.
The result scared the government of Najib Razak into reviving its favoured tactic for repressing Anwar: the charge of sodomy. Sodomy 2 had been running for a while, but after the High Court knocked out the latest sodomy charge against the married father of five, the government took its trumped-up case to Malaysia’s Court of Appeal.
The Court of Appeal overturned the High Court. It gave Anwar a five-year jail sentence. He is free on bail pending appeal. On the weekend he flew home from London to Kuala Lumpur for final appeals. His supporters fear the outcome: “Quite a few of my friends have tried to persuade me to stay away,” Anwar told British media just before boarding the plane home.
The prosecution is asking for an even longer jail term.
In an extraordinary illustration of the government’s contortions in its manic determination to get Anwar, the prosecution will not be led by the a lawyer from the prosecution system but a private lawyer hired by the state. Experts say there is no precedent in Malaysian jurisprudence.
In fact, the prosecution is to be conducted by the personal lawyer for Mr Najib.
The political crackdown is much wider than Anwar. Human Rights Watch has detailed at least 14 cases this year where the government has brought spurious charges against political opponents and activists under the 1948 Sedition Act. One opposition politician faces the prospect of five years in jail for saying “damn UMNO”. UMNO is Najib’s political party.
The Najib government has two options, according to the opposition’s Rafizi Ramli: “It can reform and allow more democratic space. Or they can go for the crackdown, and risk an even worse backlash from the public.”
He has personal experience of the crackdown. Before entering politics he ran a corruption-busting NGO that exposed a Najib government minister misusing a $A90 million taxpayer loan. Instead of setting up a cattle farm, she was using the money to buy luxury apartments.
The expose forced the minister to resign. But now Mr Ramli is the one facing jail. He’s facing the risk of three years in jail for breaching banking secrecy laws in disclosing the corruption. Mr Ramli, the man who busted the scam, is the only person charged over it.
Mr Ramli, also the secretary-general of the opposition party, is in Canberra on Tuesday, leading a delegation. He’s hoping to convince Australian politicians to help coax Mr Najib from authoritarianism to democratic openness.
Professor Chin says Mr Ramli has no hope of support from the Australian government: “The Abbott government loves Najib.”
Australia favours the Najib government based on a long-standing view that Malaysia is a modern, Western, secular, like-minded power in a region fretting about a backward Indonesia, he says.
But Indonesia is modernising and it is Malaysia that is going backwards. “The romantic view of Malaysia,” says Chin, “is based on a country that hasn’t existed for the last ten years.”‘
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Italian company Digital Maison captures accurate geometry of a patient’s face with Artec Eva to design and 3D print an eye mask for alleviating a sleep disorder.
Graves’ disease, a.k.a. Basedow’s disease, affects about 0.5% of males and 3% of females, with exophthalmos (protrusion of one or both eyeballs) being one of the common symptoms. The bulging and consequent immovability of the eye result in excessive lacrimation, photophobia and narrowing visual field. In order to remedy this pathology, treatment generally starts with pharmacological and hormonal therapy for Graves’ disease, and proceeds with surgical intervention for exophthalmos.
Patients with exophthalmos
Surgery can’t be immune from collateral effects, one of which is the possible damage of the tendinous tissue of the levator palpebrae (elevating muscle of the upper eyelid), impeding the closure of the eye and making it hardly possible for the patient to rest at night.
This was the case with a female patient, 48, who, a year after undergoing surgery, started to suffer from a sleep disorder, which could not be alleviated by aids such as sleeping masks or pads.
A 3D scanning and printing service provider in Torino, Italy Digital Maison was contracted to develop a customized eye mask for the patient.
“Kairos 3D, from who we received this job to work on, know our scanning skills and our passion for small medical projects to explore the use of new technologies of 3D scanning, modelling and printing,” says Paolo Gianolio, the owner of Digital Maison. “Our goal is to deliver rapid solutions with low-cost techniques.”
In a previous project Digital Maison designed a special shoe for a patient with severe foot deformation, using a scanner, fast modelling in Rhinoceros, and rapid prototyping on Zprinter. Paolo was one of the first researchers in Italy to write a thesis on 3D scanners 15 years ago.
“For this project we used Artec Eva, the only 3D scanner for small to medium-sized objects capable of capturing surfaces in detail with extreme ease of use and handling,” says Paolo. “The scanner’s portability has allowed me to scan directly at the patient’s house, which was a psychological benefit.”
Scanning the patient with Artec Eva
A few minutes of scanning and data processing in Artec Studio 3D object software yielded a precise, textured 3D image of the face:
The 3D model of the patient’s face obtained with Artec Eva, with and without texture
Artec Studio’s measurement tool enabled Paolo to reveal remarkable deviations in the shape of the face depending on the patient’s position (lying and sitting): the skin on the softest parts, cheeks primarily, can move up to 5 mm if the patient goes from lying to sitting.
“When the final purpose of a project is to develop a device that must fit the face perfectly, like in this case where a sleeping mask needed to be made, it is fundamental to avoid initial error,” says Paolo. “It was obvious to me that I needed to work with the scan of the face in the horizontal position. Nevertheless, it was very interesting to compare the two scans in Artec Studio and see the differences in height.”
The blue color indicates areas where skin is set back in the lying position, compared against the sitting position.
Using surface modeling in Rhinoceros 5 on the 3D mesh, Paolo designed a 3D model of the mask. The orthosis replicated the facial surface to perfection, ensuring the blocking of light and the closing of the eyelids during the night rest.
The 3D model of the patient’s face wearing the eye mask, developed in Rhinoceros 5
The final model saw several material trials with FDM print (fused deposition modeling, where the printer lays down material in layers) on a Delta Wasp 3D printer. The choice fell on Bioflex, a semi-rigid material, able to guarantee tight fit and a high level of comfort.
The 3D printed eye mask
“This project, meant to solve a particular patient’s specific problem, can be applied in similar cases where patients suffer from the same kind of disorder,” says Paolo. “The scanner can help produce a perfectly personalized device for just about any medical purpose.”
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Imagine a patient suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and is literally transported to the time and place where the traumatic incident occurred. With an experienced professional, the counselor would coax the patient into steps towards recovery. In conjunction with traditional cognitive behavior therapy, VR opens up the possibility of a more complete treatment program. From phobias to job interview training, there are limitless applications of VR in the mental health realm.
According to Srivastava, Das, and Chaudury’s article in the Industrial Psychiatry Journal, VR has been applied in treatments for “social phobia, claustrophobia, and fear of driving” (Das, 2014). VR helps train individuals identify the stages and magnitude of their reaction towards the sensory cues of their real-life phobias. By gradually exposing the patients to their worst fear without any real risk, they would reduce feelings of anxiety.
In addition, the University of Oxford published a study in the British Journal of Psychiatry, indicating the positive outcomes of VR treatment for paranoia. Participants who were normally anxious in public transportation felt better after spending 30 min in a simulated subway. Overall, the investigators concluded that, “virtual reality cognitive therapy led to large reductions in delusional conviction” (Freeman et. al, 2016). These modern day examples highlight the potential of VR and mental health treatment.
Moreover, a team of researchers observed how difficult it is for people with mental illness to become employed. They gathered 70 individuals with severe mental illnesses like PTSD and had subjects take part in this study for six months with Virtual Reality Job Interview Training (VR-JIT). The training included simulated interviews lasting from 20-30 minutes and consisted of 15 trials. After the training, the investigators found that there was a higher chance for participants to receive job offers. The researchers postulate that VR is a “promising intervention” for mentally ill patients (Smith et. Al, 2015).
Mental health treatment with VR is also making its way to the app world. VirtualSpeech is one such example, with its tagline being “download the app, put on your virtual reality headset and start practicing” (VirtualSpeech, 2017). Dominic Barnard and Artur Grzybowski (the founders) are developing a course for socially anxious individuals in preparation for job interviews and beyond (Bozorgzadeh, 2016). VR training is on the go with available apps and breaking through with confidence building and helping people become more prepared in social situations.
Through constant improvements in the hardware and appropriate training for mental health professionals, VR can be the solution for treating mental health disorders. By blurring the lines between real-life and virtual worlds, VR has the potential to adequately prepare mental health patients to overcome their issues.
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What is causing yellow flash in soybeans?Posted Wednesday, August 17, 2011, at 8:59 AM
The yellow flash that we have seen in soybeans this year seems to be lasting longer than usual. We usually see some of this yellow where there is an overlap or a particularly high rate of glyphosate used.
Stressed beans will flash more readily and with the heat and dry weather stress that we have experienced many fields have flashed even with typical rates of glyphosate usage.
According to several sources, yellow flash is the temporary chlorosis of newly emerging soybean leaves that sometimes occurs following the application of glyphosate to glyphosate-resistant soybeans.
Yellow flash is most likely to occur when environmental conditions are warm and moist, favoring rapid soybean growth, and/ or with high rates of glyphosate are applied. The temporary chlorosis results from a reduction in chlorophyll content in the affected leaves.
A few days after glyphosate is applied, all leaves on the soybean plant remain green except the newest leaves at the top that were less than 1/2 inch long at the time of the spraying.
These leaves continue to grow and expand, but the chlorophyll production is reduced, leaving a yellow color that lasts normally up to a week. In the case of yellow flash, glyphosate does not cause green leaves to turn yellow; instead, temporary yellowing is a result of leaf development when the soybean plant is under multiple stresses.
If soybeans are under continual stresses, yellow leaves may appear until 10 to 21 days later. Under dry conditions, yellow leaves may stay yellow until the crop resumes growth after rain releases the crop form stress. Yellow flash is largely a result of an interaction of the with the environment and not the genotype of the plant.
It is important to make sure that the yellowing is not a result of a nutrient deficiency. Nutrient deficiencies such as iron chlorosis, and manganese and possibly other nutrients could produce similar symptoms to yellow flash.
However, these nutrient deficiencies would be expected earlier in the season and soybeans would have grown out of these conditions by now.
Yellow flash by itself has been reported as having no effect on yield, but any associated stress factors may affect yield to a degree.
Stress can delay pod set and with a shorter period of time for pod fill, yields may be reduced some.
Pod set delay may also reduce the number of pods compared to more optimal growing conditions.
Another yield component that may be affected is the number of beans per pod. However, soybeans are a very resilient plant with the ability to adapt to changing conditions and maximize it's productivity with the resources that it has.
There are several weeks left in the growing season and the soybean plant still has time to take advantage of more favorable growing conditions to set and fill pods.
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I would strongly suggest proper training walks with any puppy, especially with one though that doesn't listen when outside.
A training walk consists of this: 1/4 of training, 1/4 of training, 1/4 of doing doggie things and 1/4 of relaxing.
1/4 training: this can include heel walking, sit, down, stays etc. But also tracking, searching for food or toys etc. Do this in little spurts of perhaps a couple of minutes at the time... it doesn't have to be in one block.
1/4 playing: play ball, tug of war, chase games, running etc. It's interacting with you and I normally do it just after a little training session. Again, it doesn't have to be in one block, but little bits here and there during the walk.
1/4 doggie things: let your pup play with other dogs, sniffing... doing what dogs do.
1/4 relaxing: this is the only thing I would do in one block. Just sit down on a bench or in the grass, keep puppy on a short lead and relax watching the world go by. You can also practice this in a cafe for example with outside seating. Puppies need to learn to switch off when they are outside too, the only way they are going to learn if you practice it.
Doing training walks means that at least half of the time, your puppy is interacting with YOU and not with the environment and the puppy also learns that you are fun to be with and will learn to hang around and keep an eye on you just in case another training/playing session is coming up.
As for jumping up on people: see my post to the other thread re this problem using treats to teach your puppy to focus on you when people walk past not on them.
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The student-governments of rival schools Oregon State University and the University of Oregon have announced a temporary partnership, which is kind of like how it would be if Negan from The Walking Dead could somehow join forces with Ramsay Bolton.
And why are these villains teaming up? (UO and OSU, not Negan and Ramsay.) You can probably guess: they want to play Halloween costume police.
In a strongly worded email to students at both campuses, student-government presidents Rachel Grisham and Quinn Haaga warned their communities that acts of cultural appropriation “are not acceptable.” Full stop.
Cultural appropriation is the act of borrowing or using aspects of a culture by another culture, typically a dominant culture. Around the time of Halloween, we often see people dressing as a culture or a character, which is offensive and reinforces negative stereotypes. These costumes reinforce racism, sexism, and classism. As active and respectful members of the OSU and the UO communities, we expect everyone to not engage in cultural appropriation.
Or what? is a tempting response. Unfortunately, we know exactly what will happen to transgressors. The University of Oregon, for example, harbors one of the most dangerous bias response teams I’ve written about. Students who push the line, as far as costumes are concerned, can expect to be investigated.
The idea that students should avoid particular costumes because they happen to involve other cultures is absurd, and this email unintentionally points out exactly why. Note that its authors have inadvertently outlawed practically all Halloween costumes in their zeal to punish cultural appropriation, which isn’t even a bad thing that should be discouraged in the first place.
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The project aimed at developing a series of tools that would enable city-dwellers to manage/monitor/research an urban garden using open-software and as much recycled materials as possible (mostly city waste that may include computers, printers, traffic lights or plastic bottles.)
Using some DIY laboratory equipment, Andy Gracie’s team developed a system of variable strength magnetic field generators and related apparatus which allowed them to observe living micro-organisms as they were exposed and responded to various magnetic fields
Could chemical reactions in fruits be also used to create on-off switches, the basic building blocks of computer logic and memory? Would it be possible to create a computer with fruits? The Fruit Computer Laboratory project proposes to create a temporary laboratory, open to the general public, that will raise questions and reflections about the construction of a future computer based on fruits
Call for the presentation of projects where science, technology and art converge into prototypes and installations that use software, hardware and biology
8 projects developed over 2 weeks in Mexico D.F. use hardware and software tools to create prototypes that explore the relations between machines and humour/laughter
Biophionitos generates artificial life using a system similar to the zoetrope, an early animation device that produces an illusion of action from a rapid succession of static pictures. Horacio González, Paola Guimerans and Igor González added to the old invention a touch of Processing and a whiff of Arduino
I’ve been covering a few editions of the Interactivos? workshops so far and have usually focused on a couple of my favourite projects. Today however, i thought i’d ask two of the workshop leaders/teachers to give us a broader overview of the workshops, how they evolve, why certain directions are being taken, what the mood is like over these two intense weeks of work, etc. | <urn:uuid:f95e96a9-b38f-4557-afcb-c500e132dfc5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://we-make-money-not-art.com/category/interactivos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00158-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923148 | 379 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military command to put nuclear-armed forces on high alert as Ukrainian fighters defending the city of Kharkiv said they had repelled an attack by invading Russian troops.
US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said that "President Putin is continuing to escalate this war in a manner that is totally unacceptable and we have to continue to stem his actions in the strongest possible way".
On the fourth day of the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two, the Ukrainian president's office said negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow would be held at the Belarusian-Ukrainian border. They would meet without preconditions, it said.
Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, mainly women and children, were fleeing from the Russian assault into neighbouring countries.
The capital Kyiv was still in Ukrainian government hands, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rallying his people despite Russian shelling of civilian infrastructure.
But Putin, who has described the invasion as a "special military operation", thrust an alarming new element into play on Sunday when he ordered Russia's deterrence forces - a reference to units which include nuclear arms - onto high alert.
He cited aggressive statements by NATO leaders and economic sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow.
"As you can see, not only do Western countries take unfriendly measures against our country in the economic dimension - I mean the illegal sanctions that everyone knows about very well - but also the top officials of leading NATO countries allow themselves to make aggressive statements with regards to our country," Putin said on state television.
Putin's order is part of a pattern of Moscow manufacturing threats to justify aggression, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said on Sunday.
"We've seen him do this time and time again. At no point has Russia been under threat from NATO, has Russia been under threat from Ukraine," Psaki said on ABC's "This Week" program.
"This is all a pattern from President Putin and we're going to stand up to it. We have the ability to defend ourselves, but we also need to call out what we're seeing here from President Putin," Psaki added.
Russian soldiers and armoured vehicles have rolled into Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city, and witnesses reported firing and explosions. A natural gas pipeline was blown up before daybreak, a Ukrainian state agency said.
But city authorities said Ukrainian fighters had repelled the attack.
"Control over Kharkiv is completely ours! The armed forces, the police, and the defence forces are working, and the city is being completely cleansed of the enemy," regional Governor Oleh Sinegubov said.
Reuters was unable to immediately corroborate the information.
Ukrainian forces were also holding off Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.
"We have withstood and are successfully repelling enemy attacks. The fighting goes on," Zelenskiy said in a video message from the streets of Kyiv.
Australian Associated Press
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Porcelain incense vessel in the form of an archaic bronze 'gui' with two dragon-head handles. The incense burner has blue tinged glaze. There are elaborately carved designs round the sides imitating bronze style decorative motifs.
- Made in: Jingdezhen
- (Asia,China,Jiangxi (province),Jingdezhen)
- Height: 61 millimetres
- Width: 102 millimetres
Published PDF date : Ming 16th-17th centuryRoom 95 label text:
Incense vessel in the form of an ancient bronze
This incense burner is in the form of an ancient ritual bronze food vessel, called a gui. It is covered with a pale qingbai glaze. In the Song dynasty, educated men revived interest in antiques and in collecting objects from the past. They published catalogues illustrating historical jades and bronzes. Contemporary Song craftsmen reproduced their shapes in other materials, responding to commissions from wealthy clients. This tradition was revived in the Ming and Qing dynasties. The new users adapted the functions of these objects hence the present vessel would have been used for burning incense rather than as a vessel connected with offering food to deceased ancestors.
Porcelain with carved decoration and qingbai glaze
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province 江西省, 景德鎮
Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, about AD 1736–1795
On display: G95/dc40/sh8
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Object reference number: RRC38814
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“Mommy, my eye is itching, and it hurts.”
“Well, don’t scratch it, you’ll make it worse! Has anyone in your class had Pink Eye lately?”
“Yeah, Reg went home yesterday with it. Why?”
“Well you can thank Reg for the day off, and a day of wanting to scratch your eyes out.”
Have you ever had Pink Eye? If you have, you know the crazy itching and soreness that comes with it. What can you do about it? What is a good Pink Eye treatment?
Pink Eye Treatment: What is Pink Eye?
Conjunctivitis (Pink Eye) is an infection and/or swelling of the membranous lining of the eyelids and lower eyeball (also known as the conjunctiva.) It is accompanied with a variety of symptoms:
- Eye Pain
- Gritty Feeling in the Eyes
- Sensitivity to Light
- Blurred Vision
- Crusts That Form on the Eyelid Overnight
All these symptoms can be very irritating, as well as painful. Many times it’s a child that needs Pink Eye treatment, and it can be very intense for all involved. As a former teacher I have seen Pink Eye sweep through a classroom like a flood. It’s highly contagious, and when the symptoms show up it’s obvious what’s happened.
Pink Eye Treatment: What Causes It?
Pink Eye is caused when the conjunctiva are exposed to bacteria or other irritants. It is spread through contact, whether it be another person, or the causative irritant. Viruses are a common cause of Conjunctivitis. There are other causes as well:
- Allergies (allergic conjunctivitis)
- Chemical Exposure
- Certain Diseases
- Parasites (rare)
- Contact Lenses (improper cleaning or application)
- Birth (neonatal in the birth canal)
The Pink Eye treatment you need may depend on the type of Pink Eye you have. You can sometimes treat the symptoms, and other times you can treat the cause. As stated earlier it is spread mostly through contact, so another “cause” could be the person next to you.
Pink Eye Treatment: Treatments
There aren’t a lot of Pink Eye treatment options. The answer to why is twofold:
- The treatments we have are affective.
- Various forms of Conjunctivitis can be treated by one of the few Pink Eye treatment we have.
As stated, the treatments are based on the type you have. Viral is a different treatment from Bacterial, which is different from Allergic Conjunctivitis.
- Medication for Pink Eye/Antibiotic Eye Drops
- Treatment of the Allergy
- Cool or Warm Compresses
- Simply Letting it Resolve
This Pink Eye treatment is used in treating mostly Bacterial Conjunctivitis. Usually a couple of drops, several times a day for 3-5 days, will alleviate the symptoms.
Treatment of the Allergy
Here is one of the types of Pink Eye that requires you treat not only the symptoms, but the cause. Without treating the allergy, you will not completely eliminate the possibility of the Conjunctivitis returning.
Cool or Warm Compresses
This is not so much a treatment as a comfort measure. With Pink Eye comes the burning, itching, and sometimes crusting of the eyes. Placing a cool or warm compress on your eyes when symptoms show up can help relieve those symptoms.
Let it Resolve (go away)
Some Pink Eye can’t be treated by any known method; it simply has to go away by itself. You can treat the symptoms, but it may take from 3-5 days to see improvement.
Pink Eye Treatment: Prevention
Perhaps the best Pink Eye treatment is to prevent it from ever happening. There are several steps you can use to prevent you, and those around you, from getting Pink Eye. You can even prevent others from passing it on to you by taking a few simple preventative measures.
- Good hygiene
- Do not share makeup
- Do not share towels
- Change pillowcases
- Keep your hands away from your face
- Replace eye cosmetics often
- Handle and clean contact lenses properly
- Wash your hands often
These are all proactive, personal steps that you can take to prevent Pink Eye. To keep from needing a Pink Eye treatment wash your hands often, but especially as you leave your workplace or school, and then again as you get home. Stopping the “infection highway” is a very important part of preventing Conjunctivitis.
What Is A Good Pink Eye Treatment?
That is a fairly simple question. First try and prevent it. If that doesn’t work pick the best Pink Eye treatment that fits your particular type of condition. Be it Pink Eye drops or allergy medicine, either way it will take a few days for your Pink Eye treatment to fix the problem.
What is Conjunctivitis?
a. Fear of the words And, But, and Or (Think about it!)
b. Pink Eye
c. A disease you get in your gums
d. Tearing of your conjuncts
True or False: Pink Eye has more than one cause.
Which is NOT a Pink Eye preventative measure?
a. Good hygiene
b. Wash hands often
c. Don’t lick other peoples eyeball
d. Take Immodium daily
Answers at the bottom of the page!
Tired of waiting for that pesky little condition known as Pink eye to go away? For many people, this is not just “pesky” it’s downright menacing. There are several types of Pink Eye; some are borderline chronic, and Neil Eros has come up with an answer for all of them. Imagine you:
• NOT Scratching
• NOT hurting
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I recommend Eros’ book to anyone who has suffered from the irritation known as Pink Eye. Within minutes you could be learning about the cure that can start working its magic on your suffering within hours.
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The latest innovation from the friendly, by which I mean terrifyingly Orwellian, folks at amazon.com is Kindle Popular Highlights: as the name suggests, it lets you see which passages of books have been most highlighted by Kindle e-reader users. (Every time you use the built-in highlighting function, the device silently informs Amazon. Not sinister at all.) It's an intriguing snapshot of the quotations Kindle users save for future reference, and while I don't seem to share their tastes – at the time of writing, seven of the top 10 entries are from Dan Brown or the cheesily sermonising Christian bestseller The Shack – I do share the underlying urge. I highlight books compulsively, bookmark websites, tear out magazine articles and scribble quotes on Post-its, with the vague idea they'll be inspiring or useful at some future point. Then I reshelve the books, forget about the websites and mislay the Post-its.
I suspect I'm not alone. We tend to lack good systems for storing the kind of information that can't be assigned an immediate, specific purpose, even though it may be the most important information. The gas bill gets paid, then filed, while the life-transforming philosophical insight gets jotted on an envelope and promptly lost.
What to do with this category of information is one challenge of the modern field of "personal knowledge management", but 18th- and 19th-century literate types had a pretty good answer: the commonplace book. John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Coleridge and Jonathan Swift all kept such books, copying down proverbs, poems and other wisdom they encountered while reading. So did many women, often excluded from public discourse at the time. By appropriating others' nuggets, writes cultural historian Robert Darnton, "you made a book of your own, one stamped with your personality".
In a recent Columbia University lecture, the writer Steven Johnson drew parallels between commonplace books and the web: blogging, Twitter and social bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon are often held to have sparked a renaissance of the form. (His focus is the way some iPad apps obstruct this, by forbidding highlighting.) As with commonplace books, this linking and sharing creates not just a hodgepodge, but something coherent and original: "When text is free to combine in new, surprising ways, new forms of value are created… We have all the tools at our disposal to create commonplace books that would astound Locke and Jefferson."
Yet the reason I've started keeping a real, pen-and-paper commonplace book is that the social power of the web, awesome though it is, doesn't confer the same benefits. There's something important about exploring ideas privately as well as collectively. Indeed, there's something about promiscuous online bookmarking and highlighting that seems antithetical to commonplacing. Because the real challenge of handling stray nuggets of information isn't how to collect and organise them (there's good software for this, such as DevonThink for Mac and PersonalBrain for Windows). Commonplacing is about internalising that information: engaging deeply, processing it so that it becomes part of you. Writing by hand seems to help; so does not instantly sharing everything. If the web is a wild, furiously creative ecosystem – a rainforest, say – the commonplace book is a private vegetable patch. Different things grow best in each. | <urn:uuid:1de43106-40fd-41fa-9f5b-fb629d194054> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/may/29/change-your-life-information-storage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00094-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94869 | 691 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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This webinar will be led by Ian Kessler, Professor of Public Policy & Management and Deputy Director of the Health & Social Care Workforce Research Unit (HSCWRU) at King’s College London.
This session reports on the findings from a project funded by Health Education England (HEE) on supported employment programmes, introduced by NHS Trusts, for young people with disabilities. Based on interviews with over 40 national, local and organisational actors with a stake in these programmes, attention will focus on why, how and with what effect such schemes are introduced. The session will provide insights into how to design and implement supported employment programmes for people with learning disabilities.
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An axial corneal topographical mapof a right eye at birth (A) and at 3 months (B). The central corneal powerdecreased from 49.1 to 45.1 diopters (D), and the astigmatism diminished from5.7 D at 96° to 2.5 D at 111°.
An axial corneal topographical mapof one of the steeper left eye corneas at birth (A) and at 6 months (B). Thecentral corneal power decreased from 54.9 to 47.3 diopters (D), and the astigmatismdiminished from 8.1 D at 116° to 0.1 D at 5°.
Isenberg SJ, Del Signore M, Chen A, Wei J, Christenson PD. Corneal Topography of Neonates and Infants. Arch Ophthalmol. 2004;122(12):1767-1771. doi:10.1001/archopht.122.12.1767
To evaluate corneal curvature by direct topographic analysis duringthe first 6 months of life.
We evaluated corneal topography in 200 infants using a specialized handheldtopographic instrument at a mean of 1.6 days after birth, and in some againat 3 and 6 months in the newborn nursery and ophthalmology clinic of a publichospital.
At birth, the mean central corneal power measured 48.5 diopters (D)(95% confidence interval [CI], 48.2-48.8 D; range, 41.4-56.0 D) and astigmatismmeasured 6.0 D (95% CI, 5.6-6.3 D), usually “with the rule” (80%)with a mean axis of 95°. The mean astigmatism on the semimeridian mapat 3 mm was 6.4 D (95% CI, 6.0-6.8 D); and at 5 mm, 5.9 D (95% CI, 5.4-6.3D). At birth, neonates delivered vaginally had a greater frequency of with-the-ruleastigmatism than those delivered by cesarean section (P = .02). By 6 months, the mean central corneal power andastigmatism decreased to 43.0 (95% CI, 41.3-43.1) D and 2.3 (95% CI, 1.4-3.2)D, respectively (P<.005 for each).
Newborns have steep, high, astigmatic (generally with-the-rule) corneasat birth that flatten significantly by the age of 6 months. The method ofdelivery can affect the astigmatic axis at birth.
The shape of the corneal surface in infants has been quite steep inseveral studies. Clinicians have appreciated this steepness when donor corneasfrom infants were transplanted onto adult recipients, resulting in keratometrymeasurements averaging 57.7 diopters (D).1
Few studies have attempted to directly measure corneal curvature inneonates and infants. Most had a small sample size and used techniques todetermine the refractive error and then secondarily implied the contributionof the cornea. Others have used keratometers. Keratometers, however, assumea spherocylindrical corneal shape and are limited to monitoring the cornealcurvature based on 4 points. Placido disc–based videokeratography, asused in this study, has provided reliable data about the anterior cornealsurface, approaching the spherocylindrical ideal.2,3
To our knowledge, this study is the first to evaluate corneal curvatureby direct topographic analysis in neonates and infants, as determined by asearch on the PubMed Web site of the National Library of Medicine and in ourliterature review.
The Human Subjects Committee of the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center approvedthe protocol. Written informed consent was obtained from each mother beforeher child was studied. The infants were securely wrapped in a swaddling cloth.The eyelids were separated with 2 cotton-tipped applicators and were alwayselevated off the ocular surface. Great care was taken to apply the applicatorsonly to the upper and lower rims of the orbit. No pressure was applied directlyon the eye.
The topography of each cornea was then studied with a specialized topographicinstrument (Vista Handheld Corneal Topographer; EyeSys Premier, Irvine, Calif),a Placido disc–based system. Before each use, the instrument was calibratedaccording to the manufacturer’s instructions. A study was accepted onlyif at least 3 complete Placido rings were visible, centered, and properlyfocused on the recorded image. If these criteria were not met, the study wasrepeated until the criteria were satisfied. The data were directly downloadedto a portable computer and analyzed with software for the topographic instrument.
Data for each eye of each infant, where available, were used in allstatistical analyses, summarized with means and frequencies over all eyes.Confidence intervals (CIs) and statistical comparisons that incorporate thecorrelation between the 2 eyes of an individual were used to include all availabledata without inflating the precision of estimates. Linear mixed models withcompound symmetric correlation were used for corneal power and astigmatism.4,5 Generalized estimating equations witha binomial distribution and a logit-link function were used to compare “with-the-rule”astigmatism between vaginal and cesarean section deliveries, incorporatingwithin-subject correlation between eyes.6 Analyseswere performed with modules (Mixed and Genmod) in SAS statistical software,version 8.2.7 To verify the validity of thetopographic system, we compared the keratometric data of 22 adult eyes, asmeasured by the same system, with measurements obtained from 2 other instruments(IOLMaster [Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany] and ARK-760A [Marco, Jacksonville,Fla]).
Of the 200 neonates studied, 95 were female. All newborns who met thecriteria and whose parent consented were consecutively recruited for the studyfrom March 7, 1999, through June 6, 2000. The racial proportion was as follows:74% Latin American, 12% African American, 8% white, and 5% other (percentagesdo not total 100 because of rounding). The mean ± SD birthweight was 3318 ± 543 g (range, 1890-5030 g). At examination,the mean ± SD postnatal age was 1.6 ± 1.2days (range, 0-8 days), and the mean ± SD postconceptionalage was 39.3 ± 1.7 weeks (range, 29.9-42.7 weeks). Repeatexaminations were conducted at a mean ± SD of 3.0 ± 0.5and 6.0 ± 0.5 postnatal months.
For the neonates, the mean central corneal power was 48.5 (range, 41.4-56.0)D. The mean keratometric astigmatism was 6.0 (range, 0.2-16.4) D. The meanastigmatism on the semimeridian map at 3 mm was 6.4 (range, 0.01-22.5) D;and at 5 mm, 5.9 (range, 1.1-18.3) D.
The mean axis of the astigmatism in the neonates was 95.0°. Mostof the astigmatic axes (80%) were with the rule (within 20° of 90°),while 19% were at an oblique axis and less than 1% were “against therule” (within 20° of 180°).
Neonates delivered vaginally had the same (P = .49)mean central corneal power (48.5 D; 95% CI, 48.2-48.9 D) as those deliveredby cesarean section (48.5 D; 95% CI, 47.7-48.9 D). The astigmatism was alsothe same (P = .47): 6.0 (95% CI, 5.6-6.4)D and 6.0 (95% CI, 5.0-6.4) D, respectively. By 3 months, the difference forcentral corneal power was 44.5 (95% CI, 43.4-45.6) D and 44.1 (95% CI, 42.7-45.3)D, respectively, and the astigmatism was 3.6 (95% CI, 2.6-4.5) D and 2.9 (95%CI, 1.6-3.9) D, respectively; these values were also not statistically different(P>.30).
However, the type of delivery was related to the astigmatic axis. Atbirth, neonates delivered vaginally had a greater frequency of with-the-ruleastigmatism (83%) than those delivered by cesarean section (72%) (P = .02). By 3 months, the frequencies were similar (86%and 73%, respectively) to those at birth, but nonsignificant (P = .37) because of the reduced number of infants observedat this point. There are insufficient data for comparison at 6 months.
The follow-up data for the 3- and 6-month examinations are given inthe Table. Figure 1 and Figure 2 showexamples of differential maps from birth to the ages of 3 and 6 months, respectively.The decreases in central power and astigmatism from birth to the 3- and 6-monthmeasurements were statistically significant (P<.005).From 3 to 6 months, the reductions in central power and astigmatism were notsignificant (P = .93 and P = .14, respectively). Frequencies of type of astigmatismare almost identical at birth and at 3 months. An observed reduction in frequencyof with-the-rule astigmatism at 6 months is nonsignificant (P>.10).
For all comparisons at all ages studied, there were no statisticallysignificant differences whether the infants were stratified by sex or race(P>.05 for all).
The validation studies on the adult eyes found no significant differencesamong the instruments (P>.70). For steepest and flattestmeridians compared with a different instrument (IOLMaster), the topographicsystem used (Vista) demonstrated a mean difference of 0.13 D flatter and 0.03D steeper. The numbers for the comparison with the second instrument (ARK-760A)were 0.1 D steeper and 0.2 D steeper.
There have been few studies that directly measured corneal curvaturein newborns. In 1976, Ehlers and colleagues8 reportedthe mean ± SD corneal curvature in 19 mature newborns tobe 7.1 ± 0.07 mm using a keratometer. By using an ophthalmometeron neonates, Gordon and Donzis9 found the mean ± SDapical keratometry to decrease from 53.6 ± 2.5 D in 11 eyesat 30 to 35 postconceptional weeks to 51.2 ± 1.1 D in 10eyes at 39 to 41 postconceptional weeks. In 11 infants younger than 1 year,they found the mean ± SD keratometric value to further decreaseto 45.2 ± 1.3 D. There was no measurement of astigmatism.While these numbers are higher than our corresponding numbers of 48.5 D atbirth and 43.0 D at 6 months, their measurements are within 1 SD of our findings.Interestingly, the nearly 6-D reduction they found from birth to 1 year isquite similar to the reduction from birth to 6 months reported in this study.In Japan, Inagaki10 performed automated keratometryon 11 mature neonates and found a mean ± SD keratometry readingof 47.0 ± 1.2 D. The curvature decreased to a mean ± SDof 44.1 ± 1.7 D by the age of 3 months in the 8 infants hefollowed up. These numbers are close to the results of this investigation.A 2004 study, which used a keratometer, reported higher values than thosefound in this study—58.6 D horizontally and 54.0 D vertically when averagingboth eyes.11
The use of infantile corneas for keratoplasty to adult recipients hasbeen reported. Koenig and associates1 believedthat the large value of 57.7 D following such a keratoplasty might reflecta steepening effect induced by suturing the relatively elastic infantile corneato an adult recipient. Wood and Nissenkorn12 attributedthe myopia found in their adult recipients of infant corneas to corneal steepness,with an average keratometry reading in the adults of 46.5/50.9 D.
In a 2004 study, Friling and associates,11 usingkeratometry, reported 6 D of cylinder in their 32 infants whose postconceptualage was younger than 32 weeks and 3.3 D for the 30 infants whose postconceptualage was older than 36 weeks.
The nature and amount of astigmatism reported in neonates and infantsare controversial. By using near retinoscopy without cycloplegia, Mohindraand colleagues13 found that, of 17 newbornsyounger than 1 week, about 20% had astigmatism of 2 D or more. The same 20%proportion was still present at the age of 6 months. In a later report, astigmatismof at least 1 D in 55% of infants younger than 5 months was found, with 10%displaying a cylinder exceeding 3 D.14
By using photorefractive techniques, Howland and associates15 studied 15 neonates younger than 10 days, and reportedthat 50% had astigmatism, with 25% exceeding 1 D. At the age of 6 months,the proportion was also parallel. With similar methods, Atkinson and coworkers16 found that almost all of their 20 infants at theage of 3 months had at least 1 D of astigmatism and that the quantity wasreduced to adult levels by the age of 18 months. Weale17 calculatedthat the with-the-rule astigmatism should measure 3.5 D in white and 5.8 Din Japanese neonates.
We measured a greater mean astigmatism at birth (5.6 D) and 3 months(3.3 D) than these previous studies. This could be attributed to the strongpossibility that the direct topographical analysis used in this study is moreaccurate than the other methods attempted. To ensure that the handheld systemwe used was as accurate as other instruments, we compared it with 2 otherdevices and found the measurements nearly identical among the 3. It is alsopossible that we measured the neonates closer to birth (mean, 1.6 days, withsome as early as a few hours after birth) than the other studies. Thus, wewould more likely appreciate the direct effects of the birth process, whichmay have compressed the eye and produced a larger astigmatism than reportedin previous studies. By the age of 6 months, our findings (2.3 D) are moresimilar to previously reported values.
Most cesarean section deliveries were begun after the neonate’shead was already engaged in the birth canal. This would explain our findingthat a vaginal delivery caused a similar amount of astigmatism as a cesareandelivery.
Previous reports of the axis of astigmatism in newborns and infantsare even more contradictory. By using near retinoscopy without cycloplegia,Gwiazda and coworkers14 examined 440 infantsyounger than 5 months. They found that the astigmatism of at least 1 D thatwas present in 235 infants was with the rule in 45% of the cases and againstthe rule in 45%. This study was somewhat contradicted by a subsequent investigationby Thorn and colleagues.18 Also using nearretinoscopy without cycloplegia, Thorn et al reported that 51% of 45 whiteinfants (aged 3½-11.8 months) had with-the-rule astigmatism and only13% had against-the-rule astigmatism. They also reported that 59% of 22 Chineseinfants (aged 3½-12 months) had against-the-rule astigmatism.
There are potential problems with studies using near retinoscopy. Wessonand colleagues19 found significant differencesbetween near retinoscopy and cycloplegic refraction for sphere and cylinderpower, especially in infants. Maino and coworkers20 foundnear retinoscopy and cycloplegic retinoscopy to agree (within 0.5 D) in only27% of 311 children between the ages of 18 and 48 months. Saunders21 indicated several potential sources for error usingthis technique, including not neutralizing the meridians simultaneously whencycloplegia is not used and performing retinoscopy off axis, especially inthe highly curved infant cornea. She also was concerned about the large disparityin the angle between the visual and optical axes (angle α) in newborns(8°-10°) compared with adults (4°-5°). This angle αeffect might influence not only retinoscopy but also techniques using camerasfor photorefraction. Indeed, using isotropic and orthogonal photorefractivetechniques, Howland and Sayles22 reported anagainst-the-rule astigmatism rate of about 50% in 76 astigmatic infants youngerthan 1 year (mean age, 6 months).
In a recent study, Mayer and colleagues23 reportedthat all their 1-month-old infants with greater than 1 D of cylinder demonstrateda with-the-rule axis. By the age of 6 months, the proportion had decreasedto about a third. Weale17 postulated that thewith-the-rule astigmatism and corneal ellipticity found in newborns are attributableto the oblate form of the fetal eye, supported by the observation that theyoung cornea yields less to stress than does the sclera.
Our findings of with-the-rule astigmatism in about 80% of infants atbirth and at the age of 3 months show a greater preponderance of with-the-ruleastigmatism than previous studies. Possible explanations for this discrepancymight include the increased accuracy implicit in this study by using directcorneal topography instead of somewhat subjective retinoscopy or photographictechniques. Our observation of the with-the-rule frequency decreasing to 50%by the age of 6 months, while the oblique and against-the-rule groups wereincreasing (which is, however, based on only 8 infants) is consistent withthe general trend over life to shift from with-the-rule to against-the-ruleastigmatism.24
The type of delivery was related to the astigmatic axis. At birth, with-the-ruleastigmatism was more frequent in neonates delivered vaginally (83%) than inthose delivered by cesarean section (72%) (P = .02).Because cesarean sections were generally begun shortly after the head wasengaged in the birth canal, the angle of compression on the eye may have beendifferent than following a complete vaginal delivery. A similar differenceaccording to type of delivery was observed at 3 months, but is not statisticallysignificant because fewer infants were observed at this point.
This study does have limitations. To open the eyelids, we used cotton-tippedapplicators. To minimize the possibility that pressure was exerted on theglobe, we applied direct pressure only to the orbital rims and actually generallyelevated the eyelids off of the ocular surface. We chose this method becauseprevious studies found problems using an eyelid speculum. Masci25 demonstratedthat use of a speculum reduced the cylinder in with-the-rule subjects by amean ± SD of 0.7 ± 0.2 D, and increasedthe cylinder in against-the-rule subjects by a mean ± SDof 0.2 ± 0.2 D. Wilson and colleagues26 foundthat, for eyes with toricity greater than 0.6 D with the rule, the mean shiftinduced by an eyelid speculum was −0.1 D vertically and −0.4 Dhorizontally. Shea and associates27 recentlyreported that the use of eyelid specula affects the measured cycloplegic refractionwhen children are under anesthesia. For children younger than 4 years, themeasured cylinder had an average difference of 1.7 D when comparing 2 differenttypes of eyelid specula (P<.001). Recently, theuse of an eyelid speculum in children was shown to increase the intraocularpressure an average of 4 mm Hg.28 To avoidthe artifact induced by using a speculum, we decided to use a manual technique.It is possible that despite our efforts, some pressure may have contactedthe globe in some infants. We also lost several infants for the 3- and 6-monthfollow-up examinations. These were healthy infants with little reason to returnfor the examination, despite our efforts to contact all of them.
In conclusion, corneal topography determinations in neonates revealsteep, high, astigmatic (generally, with-the-rule) measurements at birth thatflatten significantly by the age of 6 months. The method of delivery affectsthe astigmatic axis at birth, but not the amount of astigmatic cylinder.
Correspondence: Sherwin J. Isenberg, MD,Department of Ophthalmology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, 1000 W Carson St,Torrance, CA 90509 (email@example.com).
Submitted for Publication: November 14, 2003;final revision received April 12, 2004; accepted June 1, 2004.
Funding/Support: This study was supported inpart by General Clinical Research Center grant MO01 RR00425 from the NationalCenter for Research Resources, Bethesda, Md; the Sara Kolb Fund, Los Angeles,Calif; the Kirchgessner Foundation, Los Angeles; and a Senior Scientific InvestigatorAward from Research to Prevent Blindness, New York, NY (Dr Isenberg).
Financial Disclosure: None.
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A Problem in American Criminal Justice
In recent years, one of the important facets of the American criminal justice is the declination of crime. The total number of crimes in the United States has decreased by 22 percent between 1991 and 2000. However, the declination was not accompanied by a downturn of all arrests. A further analysis of the ten-year period reveals that arrests were vacillated by this type of offense. For instance, arrests for offenses, such as murder, forcible rape, robbery and arson, plummeted by 25.3 percent. Furthermore, arrests of drug abusers grew by 49.4 percent. However, despite the declination in crimes, the American criminal justice has a prominent challenge: racial disparities in criminal justice.
Although African-Americans comprise of about 13 percent of the general population, 27.9 percent of their arrests were conducted in 2000. Particularly, during the war on drugs, the Blacks accounted for 34.5 percent of drug abuse arrests (Free, 2003). In addition, there is an excessive amount of African-American youth in juvenile institutions. The Department of Justice, along with six other leading foundations, reports that the African-American youth that is without a previous juvenile incarceration record, is over six times more likely to be sentenced to juvenile prisons than similarly situated White Youth. The disparity was especially prominent for violence and drug crimes (Free, 2003). Teenagers from the Blacks community were 9 and 48 times respectively more likely to be sentenced by juvenile court.
Furthermore, the sanctioning disparities are not confined to youthful offenders. African American adults are frequently subjected to harsher penalties than their white counterpart. An analysis of the first six months of the implementation of the Californian Assembly Bill 971, which established a mandatory 25-year-to-life sentence upon the conviction of a third felony, reveals racial differences(Free, 2003). On the same note, in Los Angeles County, the Blacks comprise of 10 percent of the general population, as opposed to the constituted 30.5 percent of the felony cases and 57.3 percent of the third-strike cases. On the contrary, the Whites represent 36.6 percent of the population; yet, they have only accounted for 19.7 percent and 12.6 percent of the felony cases and third strike cases, respectively (Free, 2003).
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Incarceration statistics for jails and prisons further display the problem of racial discrimination in the American criminal justice. In the middle of the year 2000, non-Hispanic African-Americans represented 44.6 percent of all male inmates in local jails and state or federal prisons (Free, 2003). The female inmates from the same population represented 44.5 percent. When comparing the number of inmates per 100,000 residents for each group, the disparity becomes more prominent (Free, 2003). Non-Hispanic African-American males were almost seven times more likely to be incarcerated, than their White counterparts. The females were six times more likely to be arrested than the Whites.
Furthermore, the African-Americans remain confined longer, than the Whites. A review of discretionary and mandatory parole disclosed substantial differences between Blacks and Whites, from the time served in prison, till first state parole releases (Free, 2003). Non-Hispanic African-Americans stay longer in prison, than non-Hispanic Whites for discretionary parole releases, by an average of three months. The largest racial disparity appears in forcible rape, in which the Non-Hispanic Blacks standard is 2 months longer than their Non-Hispanic white counterparts (Free, 2003). Capital punishment represents another area where racial disparities are prominent. In 2000, the Blacks made up 39.6 percent of the new admissions to state death rows. Whereas, the federal system has few death-certified cases, over 70 percent of those awaiting death in federal prisons on April 1, 2001, were non-Hispanic African Americans.
Causes of Racial Disparities
There are adverse effects of racial disparities on the American criminal justice: this problem affects decisions on investigations, arrests, prosecution and sentencing. There are high levels of discretion, because many prisoners from the Black community are sentenced as a result of decisions that are made on racial grounds (American Bar Association, 2007). The prominence of this problem cannot be ignored. For instance, a traffic officer stops a Black driver for a traffic violation, while ignoring a White driver that is committing the same offense; both criminals are treated with disparity (American Bar Association, 2007). Additionally, judges and prosecutors attend law schools; however, they continue to make racially imbalanced decisions. Illustratively, racial disparity becomes evident when a prosecutor offers a plea bargain to a White defendant, in order to avoid a jail term, but fails to offer a similar deal to a Black defendant with same charges. Moreover, the Black defendant may be less educated and community supporters may be of the same stature as the White defendant (American Bar Association, 2007). However, these are not grounds for the prosecutor and judge to be lenient to the Whites. These decisions are common in the criminal justice system, when police officers arrest individuals of a particular race simply because they believe individuals from these communities are more likely to engage in criminal acts than others (American Bar Association, 2007). For instance, an officer is engaged in racial disparities when he decides that a Black youth, waking in the White neighborhood while carrying a TV set, is suspicious.
Solutions to Racial Disparities
Racial disparities have adverse effects on the American criminal justice. Individuals, who are racially discriminated, face legal challenges. The point is that the defendant must prove that the prosecutor is engaged in intentional discrimination, in order for him or her to prevail (American Bar Association, 2007). Racial disparities are a serious problem in the American criminal justice, and therefore, it must be resolved. Although, human rights advocates have tried to stop this problem, cases of racial disparities are still a prominent issue in the American criminal justice. Therefore, the government should set a commission that will look into the issue. Secondly, the task force should include all parties interested in eliminating racial and ethnic disparity. The commission will have the mandate design and conduct studies to determine the extent of this problem in the various stages of criminal investigation (American Bar Association, 2007). Thirdly, it will make periodic public reports on the findings of their studies and make recommendations, intended to eliminate unjustified racial and ethnic disparities. The task force should conduct comprehensive studies on the criminal justice system from arrest to sentencing, to determine whether there are racial disparities, to establish their causes and to recommend concrete strategies, in order to eliminate them(American Bar Association, 2007). In addition, the state and federal government should make it a mandatory requirement for law enforcement agencies to develop and implement procedures that will combat racial disparities.
Conclusively, the American criminal justice has played a significant role in reducing the rate of crimes, however; it highlights an important issue on racial disparities. The African-American is overrepresented in both juvenile and criminal justice statistics. They are more likely to be arrested, incarcerated and sentenced to death in capital-eligible cases, than their white counterparts. When attention is turned from specific crimes, such as forcible rape and drug abuse to the pattern of offending, it is clear that African-Americans are arrested more than the Whites. Racial disparity is a problem that affects the prosecutorial processes. Police officers make arrests on racial grounds; one may arrest a Black driver, while ignoring a White one that is committing the same offense. The prosecutors make favorable plea for White defendants, while the Blacks are charged with the same criminal act. The state and federal governments should set a task force that will conduct comprehensive studies to determine causes, the extent of racial disparities in criminal justice and make concrete changes, in order to eliminate the problem. | <urn:uuid:b72f1a4f-5e45-4c82-8d10-1bf5125bdca6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://exclusivethesis.com/law/a-problem-in-american-criminal-justice/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.94829 | 1,577 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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Community Care for the Chronically Mentally Ill: Removing Barriers and Building Supports. Human Resources Series.
Craig, Rebecca T.
State Legislative Report, v11 n8 Jun 1986
The plight of the chronically mentally ill is discussed in this document. Chronic mental illness is defined as producing major impairments in functioning for an extended period of time. It is noted the chronically mentally ill are expected to negotiate a bureaucratic maze to receive help. The history of treatment of the mentally ill is traced from individuals being locked up and forgotten, to the emergence of state mental hospitals, to community mental health facilities and deinstitutionalization, and finally to the deinstitutionalized chronically mentally ill as a disabled population left for communities. The treatment of the chronically mentally ill today is discussed, including increased family support, transinstitutionalization, and shunting into the criminal system. Service needs of these people are listed, including such things as inpatient care, shelter, and socialization. Eight areas of general legislative guidelines are presented. Relevant state laws are presented. The pressing need of the chronically mentally ill is highlighted in a discussion of future trends and implications. A case study of Oklahoma is presented. Eight references are listed. (ABL)
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Authoring Institution: National Conference of State Legislatures, Denver, CO.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov on Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Choosing “a Russia of Pushkin” over “a Russia of Putin”
March 29, 2022 | Tags: REASON
The "Russian Federation," which has been taken over by a dictator, has unleashed a criminal war.
This is a blow to all of us who belong to the Russian culture and who speak Russian. The very word "Russian" has become, in the world's eyes, toxic.
But a thousand times worse is what is happening to our close kin, the Ukrainian people. Before our eyes a true humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding. Many hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have lost everything: their homes, their livelihoods, their property.
And the number of refugees will grow, the situation will only get worse. Most of us are far from where this is happening, many very far. We have no power to end this nightmare. But we cannot, we do not want to, we do not have the right to do nothing. The least that we can do is to help people who are fleeing the Russian—no, the Putin—army.
Let all of us in the Russian world help Ukrainian refugees.
The dictator is waging war not only on Ukraine, but also on his own country, denying it its future, stamping out and destroying all that is living, replacing it everywhere with death. But the true Russia, is bigger, stronger, and longer lasting than Putin's "RFia." It lives and will remain living.
Let us prove this to ourselves and to the whole world. Please, contribute to help Ukrainian refugees.
Russians of all countries, unite against the war!
The "There is a Russia of dictatorship, and there is a Russia of culture, a Russia of Putin and a Russia of Pushkin" quote is from Baryshnikov in a Vanity Fair article. I learned of the project through a video by Andrey Makarevich, a prominent anti-war Russian singer.
You can contribute here; the funds will go through the UK-based Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). I asked DEC whether they have a US-tax-deductible affiliate, but they told me no; I also have a query in to TrueRussia. TrueRussia's appeal has apparently raised over $1M at this point. | <urn:uuid:8da957ca-c46f-441b-8516-0cf24f4d8815> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freedombunker.com/2022/03/29/mikhail-baryshnikov-on-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-choosing-a-russia-of-pushkin-over-a-russia-of-putin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.959241 | 479 | 1.695313 | 2 |
To enable India to become a global knowledge power by promoting, guiding and conducting basic research in Geomagnetism and Allied fields.Mission
To Promote, guide and conduct research in all branches of Geomagnetism. To build infrastructural support (using state-of-the-art technology) for acquisition of high quality data, leading to frontline research.
To maintain / modernize magnetic observatory network of India and establish new observatories and facilities at existing centers for other observations related to geomagnetism and allied fields.
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This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him
to life everlasting. 1Ti 1:15-16
In these verses Paul describes what Jesus came into the world to do, and who he was before Christ redeemed him. He had a keen ability to give a clear picture-with few words.
Paul gave no excuses, blamed no one for his blindness, his wretched conduct as Saul of Tarsus, in his ignorance, unbelief, and persecuting rage; of being a blasphemer, and a relentless persecutor of Christ's people, of his injurious insolent, and overbearing pride. He describes himself as the chief of sinners.
It is only when we truly see God and His gaze on us pierces our souls, that we know ourselves, and see who we really are, and repent in dust and ashes. When someone really gets saved, everyone will know it, there will be a marked change, a turn-around in their life. The man or woman who truly repents, and walks with God, may make mistakes, and fail at times, but like Jacob-will repent, get back up and keep walking with God. This will not guarantee you a life of happiness, many friends, pleasure and ease. This will be brought out below.
Paul made an honest, clear picture of himself-so when even the most vile, hopeless abandoned sinner read and considered his case-they would take heart, that there was room for them at the foot of the Cross. He is an example of mercy, a specimen of what Christ can do, even for the worst of sinners. If Jesus Christ, with whom there can be no respect of persons, saved Saul of Tarsus, no sinner need despair.
If there was hope and salvation for Paul, there is hope for you and I.
Note: There's been some who have said to me "You are arrogant". I've been cursed, mocked, and insulted many times over the years. I'd ask-How do you like to be treated?
I'm a quiet, "mind my own business" kind of person, and blunt in my way of speaking-somewhat like Paul (I don't claim to be in his rank or category), and have had experiences in my life that have molded me into what I am now (robbed 3 times). In this world you learn to become strong, and able to take the blows of life-or let the world destroy you. My armor, is always on. But, I choose the verses above, to describe who I am. I have no reputation to try to uphold, no character to polish-I am a redeemed sinner, who has been called by God to do some things-that I will admit-I have no strength or ability to do in my flesh-it is God in me, that moves me in this work. I've made mistakes, failed at times, but gotten back up, and keep going. It is the Spirit of God, that moves me in what I am doing, in spite of my flaws. The blog below gives a description of who I was before Jesus redeemed me, and saved me, and what Christ has done in me, for His glory.
It doesn't take long after I post new material, to see and hear reactions; some good, some bad.
Whatever people's opinions, I leave it in God's hands. To the enemies- I don't care what you may think of me. The only persons opinion that matters to me, is the Lord Jesus Christ.
The false accusations, the condemnations, the rumors/gossip, slander gets taken to the throne of God. I talk to Him about it, and leave it there. If anyone is really interested in me as a person, or cares to know the truth about the stories told of me-I'll tell you the truth. If your not interested, that's fine. I can live my life in peace, either way.
During Paul's service and missionary journey's, he encountered many dangerous, treacherous problems, many times he spoke of his persecutions, the tortures he endured, and the false brethren and enemies he suffered from. But along the way he came to the place where he was unmovable in his faith, and his walk with God.
The Four Marks of the Immovable Man
“And see, now I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that will happen to me there, except that the Holy Spirit testifies in every city, saying that chains and tribulations await me. But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus,
to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.” Act 20:22-24
Here, in his own words, is the secret of Paul’s prevailing perseverance. As we look over his confession, four distinguishing characteristics stand out — charting for each one of us today the pathway through our own difficult challenges.
By following Paul’s example, we also can become men and women who are immovable from our sure foundations, and unstoppable in our eternal quest.
Paul’s example shows us four marks of the Immovable Man…
#1 – He had conviction of Spirit — “I go bound in the spirit,” he said. The word means to be irrevocably resolved in commitment to the present course of action. There is a finality to the conviction Paul possessed, like a man “bound in chains” from which there is no escape offered…nor desired. Any appeal made to Paul by his friends, urging him to take it easy, fell powerless to the ground. Something far more powerful held him firm to his course of action.
#2 – He had courage of Heart – “not knowing what will happen to me there, except that bonds and afflictions await me.” It takes a man or woman of immeasurable courage to walk headlong into open hostility. Those who seek a life of ease will never reach the heights of glory gained by those who press upward against great oppositions.
#3 – He had composure of Mind — “But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself.” Here we see the true magnificence of a selfless man. Paul was not looking for a chance to advance his career, bulk up his portfolio, sweep the competition, nor leave his mark in the Vaulted Halls of Man’s Celebrated Giants. Something higher and far more noble had captured his imagination. He had set his thoughts upon heaven, and the honor of the name of Jesus. And, though dismissed by the world as a fool with a misspent life, he is now cheered in the realms of glory as the Great Apostle of Grace.
#4 – He has constancy of Purpose — “that I may finish my race with joy.” And what a race he ran! Through valleys and over hills; in the thick of the woods, and out in the open meadows; upon rocky terrain, and across the hot desert sands — he ran with faith, and finished with perseverance. Such is the internal power of a prevailing purpose in life. I once read that a man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.
My friend, in what ways can you benefit by Paul’s example as you face your own challenges in today’s world? How might his words find a place in your life, and embolden you to rise in a new resolve of faithfulness — even if its against all odds? Rylisms
Comment: Reading this down through the ages of time, I will put my lot in with Paul, and go wherever Christ leads me-and burn the bridges behind me.
In this page there will be devotions/poems
music and inspirational material
The Lord Will Pour Out His Spirit
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit.
And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.
But this is that which was spoken by the
And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:
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Manatita is an esteemed author living in London, UK. He writes spiritual books, flash fiction and esoteric poetry, his favourite genre.
A Mother's Love
"A Mother's love is something
that no on can explain,
It is made of deep devotion
and of sacrifice and pain..." - Helen Steiner Rice
Ode to a Wonderful Mom 1. A Free Verse Sonnet
She’s exquisitely beautiful, like a flower,
Her smile is a sweet, charming, lily-white joy.
She hides her sacrifice, like a redolent rose,
And her soul speaks of the sanctity of God.
A cute intimacy-embrace exists,
Between the radiance of her concern,
And the receptivity of her daughter’s heart.
They say that the eyes are the seat of the soul.
Hers tell of joy and sorrow; some pain perhaps;
Yet she carries her beauty with effortless grace.
Her Heart sings, like the nightingale,
Poetic love-songs of tomorrows dawn.
With enduring dignity, she absorbs her daughter’s pain,
A parent’s selflessness, whispering of supernal Love.
-Manatita, The Lantern Carrier (Kingsley) 8th September, 2018.
Ode To A Wonderful Mom 2. An Eight-Syllable Sonnet
She has a sweet rose-tinted smile,
A loving Heart; sweet sacrifice.
Enduring Love for her cute child,
Aroma beauty full of spice.
With cuteness-charm she does exudes,
A sweetness unbeknown to some.
A radiant lustre shows her mood,
Self-sacrificing loving mom.
Her Heart sings of tomorrow’s dawn,
She speaks of faith; of God above.
The sparrow chants upon the morn,
Parental strength; her life to serve.
Cheerful dignity, her good name,
A life to give, a dauntless flame.
Manatita, The Lantern Carrier (Kingsley) 8th September, 2018.
"Mother's hold their children hands for a while, but their Hearts forever." Author unknown
Mother's Love is ...
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Gender policy is conceived in this document as a policy that pays attention to the psychological, social and cultural factors that contribute to unequal opportunities for the different sexes.
The development of a gender and diversity policy within the Research and Innovation (R&I) policy domain is one of the actions in the Regional Innovation Plan 2021-2027 (and the Smart Specialization Strategy that is part of it) . Participatory and inclusive R&I approaches were identified as a key challenge in this regard.
Not surprisingly, this thematic is an integral part of the Regional political R&I (as well as more general) priorities. In addition, the development of an internal culture of respect and diversity represents one of the four axes of Innoviris’ current strategic plan 2021-2025, underscoring the importance of this theme within the organizational culture.
This document summarizes our past, present and future undertakings, focusing on the five fields of action, recommended by the Horizon Europe framework program:
• work–life balance and organizational culture;
• gender balance in leadership and decision-making;
• gender equality in recruitment and career progression;
• integration of the gender dimension into research and teaching content;
• measures against gender-based violence, including sexual harassment.
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MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa - President Obama made a surprise detour to a wind farm today, part of his ongoing effort to tout his support for one of this swing state's top industries.
"At a moment when we want to pursue every avenue for job creation, it's homegrown energy like wind that's creating good, new jobs in states like Iowa," the president told reporters after touring the wind turbines on the Heil Family Farm, which harvests enough wind to power an estimated 30,000 Iowa homes.
Bipartisan support for wind energy production, Obama said, has "been fraying a little bit during the election season."
Once again, Obama criticized Mitt Romney for wanting to end tax credits for clean energy production. "He's called these sources of energy 'imaginary'; his new running mate has called them a 'fad,'" he said.
The 7,000 Iowa jobs that depend on wind energy are not figments of the imagination, Obama said. "That's what's at stake in November." | <urn:uuid:4b250b03-31ad-44d6-8e57-363f5a283e85> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/08/obama-visits-iowa-wind-farm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718285.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00106-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970871 | 212 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The past few days have seen an exciting announcement from the world of science. The existence of the God particle has been confirmed by the CERN particle physics laboratory in Switzerland.
The God particle, known in scientific circles as the Higgs boson, depends upon the existence of a “Higgs field.” The Higgs field permeates all of space and gives particles their property of mass. This resurrects the idea of the “aether” as a universal field.
The aether concept went out of fashion a century ago and sent physics into a cul-de-sac from which it can now escape. The recognition of the most fundamental field in the universe re-opens the doorway to the much-coveted idea of a Unified Field theory that will explain all fundamental forces.
The popular science press reports the discovery of the Higgs particle as one of the most important scientific advances of the past 100 years, proving that there is an invisible energy field that pervades the vacuum of the known universe and gives mass to the smallest building blocks of matter. Without this field, they deduce, there would be no planets, stars, or life as we know it.
In a previous article, I proposed that the all-pervasive aether or Higgs field be called the “God field.” Let’s face it, if a Nobel Prize in Physics recipient can call the Higgs boson the God Particle, then we can call the Higgs field the God Field! The important thing is that the aether, the fabric of space, is once again being recognized and this recognition will remove the blockage that was holding back our understanding of the laws of the universe.
For example, one of the limitations we still face is that the cause of mass is a great unknown to the science of physics. To rephrase that, why does a body made of energetic particles have weight? What causes weight or mass? Now, science will be able to move toward showing that the effect that produces mass is particles’ energetic interaction with the subtle magnetic energy of the fabric of space.
Another great mystery in physics is the nature of gravity. If the fabric of space becomes understood as a subtle magnetic energy which only responds when acted upon by electric particles, then it can be seen that any body of matter will contain an intensification of that subtle magnetic energy. This creates an attractive effect.
When you think of magnetism as a fundamental energy, try to avoid thinking of bar magnets and their closed-loop fields. Instead, think of the more subtle version of magnetism as an energetic fluid which fills all space and is passive until acted upon.
Because magnetic energy is attractive when activated, solid objects will have an inherent attractiveness to other solid objects and – thank goodness – big objects like the Earth will have enough of that inherent attraction to hold little objects like you and me safely on the ground instead of floating away into outer space!
We live in times when science, even though focused toward a more material view than metaphysics, is nevertheless producing revelations which will eventually cross that barrier between the material and the immaterial. We live in fascinating times!
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Analogy Man writes: On CNN there is a video of a scam using prepaid debit cards and a backdoor key sequence to get 20's instead of 5's from an ATM.
With recent troubles with elections and voting machines I wonder how long it will take this ATM manufacturer to close this loophole in ATM security compared to how long it will take Diebold and others to address the inate insecurity of their voting machines.
Analogy Man writes: The Nano ITX form factor doesn't appear to getting a great deal of traction in the marketplace. Reviewers like the size, but the onboard video, lightweight VIA processor etc. seem to miss the mark for a media PC. I do a lot of testing and demonstrations of an enterprise application from my laptop, so I was interested in taking this form factor in another direction.
If one dispensed with all of the onboard graphics and audio and pared the interfaces down to a pair of USB 2 ports and a network interface in exchange for some CPU horsepower I would toss a few of servers in my laptop bag, a router and a NAS and walk into a customer site with a datacenter over my shoulder. It would lend a dimension of reality/credibility to testing and demonstrations if the components were on seperate physical devices rather than virtual servers.
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Daily Devotion for August 31, 2012
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come; Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever and ever.
This old slave spiritual, My God is a Rock in a Weary Land, takes its first line from Isaiah 32:2.
My God is a rock in a weary land, weary land, weary land
My God is a rock in a weary land
A shelter in the the time of the storm.
Stop and let me tell you about chapter one
When the lord God's work had just begun
Stop and let me tell you about chapter two
When the lord God preached that Bible through
Stop and let me tell you about chapter three
When the lord God died up on Calvary.
Now stop and let me tell you about chapter four
When the lord God visits among the poor
Stop and let me tell you about chapter five
When the lord God brought all the dead alive
Stop and let me tell you about chapter six
When he went to Jerusalem and healed the sick.
Stop and let me tell you about chapter seven
When he died and he risen and he went to heaven
Stop and let me tell you about chapter eight
When the lord God was standin’ at the golden gate
Stop and let me tell you about chapter nine
When the lord God turned all the water to wine.
Prayer for the Morning
Oh Lord, most heavenly Father, Almighty and everlasting God, who has safely brought me to the beginning of this day; I give you thanks for my creation, preservation, and all the blessings of my life. Grant that this day I fall into no sin, neither run into any kind of danger; but that all my doings, being governed by your will, may be righteous in your sight. Through Christ our Lord, I pray.
Prayer for Grace and Strength
Lord God, I pray that you will fill my heart with the blessing of your Holy Spirit. Grant me this day the strength to be temperate in all things, diligent in my duties, and patient under my afflictions. Direct me in all my ways. Give me grace to be just and upright in all my dealings; quiet and peaceable; full of compassion; and ready to do good to all people, according to my abilities and opportunities. For the sake of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,
Community of Prayer
Heavenly Lord, I know I am not alone saying these prayers or reading your Word this morning, but many people unknown to me, from all stations of life, have joined together in this brief moment of devotion. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be among the community of all who pray in the name of Christ this morning, and remain among us always.
(Additional prayers may be found at Prayers for All Occasions.)
God be with you 'til we meet again.
And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
1 Corinthian 13 (ESV)
Faith, Hope, and Charity [summary]
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not vaunt itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Notes on the Scripture
Taken as a whole, Paul's great essay on Christian love — agape, translated "charity" in the King James Bible — gives us an anchor, a point by which we can orient our priorities, thoughts, prayers, and actions. In fact it gives us three such anchors, faith and hope being the other two, but tells us to turn first to the concept of love when we examine our past actions or plan those to come.
Faith is not subordinate to love, for it is through faith that we are saved. Paul himself says this: "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God." (Ephesians 2:8)
The third cardinal attribute of Christianity is hope. The concept of hope overlaps with the concept of faith, the difference being that our faith involves our conviction that God exists and has given us His holy word in the form of the Bible, whereas our hope involves our relationship with Christ. Hope is not to be confused with "wish", for we hope in certainty. The first definition in Merriam Webster is "to desire with expectation of obtainment".
Hope is an enormously important — a critical and necessary component of Christian life. If you are not convinced that you will be given eternal life, through Christ, or that such life will not be paradise, it is a good point for meditation and prayer. Every person, being imperfect, will hold some degree of doubt. We cannot help it; we were born into sin. But we must let ourselves hope, if we have faith in Christ's promises, for life after death does indeed exist and will be ours, by virtue of our faith.
Of the three, though, love is the greatest, for it is our expression of Christ into the world while we still live in it. We burst through the wall of selfishness and show Christ's power when we love. Our faith and hope are our means of salvation; but our love is our means of helping others to find salvation. To love is to walk in the footsteps of Jesus Himself. | <urn:uuid:3b6f3125-dd31-4a49-89ca-a8274e431f01> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dailyprayer.us/daily_devotion.php?day=1097 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952097 | 1,486 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Understanding the rapid intensification of tropical cyclone Titli using Hurricane WRF model simulations
Keywords:Rapid intensification, Tropical cyclone, Hurricane WRF
Understanding Rapid Intensification (RI) is crucial for improving the Tropical Cyclone (TC) intensity forecast skill and TC induced disaster preparedness. The physical processes that lead to RI are not well studied over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) region. Two TC cases, i.e., Titli (exhibited RI) and Phethai (not exhibited RI) from the 2018 post-monsoon season are considered to understand the environmental conditions responsible for making RI happen. The Hurricane Weather Research and Forecasting (HWRF) model produced simulations for Titli and Phethai are analyzed to understand the intensification changes. The purpose of this study is to investigate the environmental and storm structure characteristics that led to the RI of TC Titli when compared to TC Phethai. The Phethai and Titli simulations are initially validated against the best estimations by India Meteorological Department (IMD) and compared in terms of the environmental vertical wind shear as this parameter is often negatively correlated with TC intensification. Area averages of the deep-layer and mid-layer vertical wind shear over the TC environment suggest that shear did not affect the intensification of the Titli simulation. Initially, Titli contained higher magnitudes of relative humidity throughout the troposphere within the storm’s circulation. This steered to a higher upward mass flux in the troposphere and rapid intensification of relative vorticity (circulation) in the middle troposphere prior to any significant change ensued at the surface. After a deep vortex was established, the mass flux (and lower-tropospheric convergence) continued to rise, leading to RI. These results offer a basis for future research to understand better and forecast the development of RI.
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Staircases are often seen as means of access, the construction to get from one floor to the next. However, lovers of spectacular architecture and nature view these steps as more than a structure to climb. We have compiled a list of some of the most extreme, beautiful and noteworthy staircases around the globe. We give you, the Staircase Walk of Fame:
Spiral Staircase at the Vatican Museum – One of the most frequently photographed set of stairs in the world, the spiral staircase in the Vatican Museum is flawless. The staircase was designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932 and is actually two separate staircases in one that twist together to form a double helix.
Bridge-Stair at the Traversinertobel – This bridge in Switzerland is a structure designed by Jurg Conzett and Rolf Bachofner. The staircase is the solution to the problem of connecting two different elevations over the gorge of the Via Mala. Once a rope bridge for hikers, this replacement after a rock slide is suspended and spans a distance of 56 meters and has a difference in height of 22 meters between each end of the bridge-stair. Amazing!
Wayna Picchu – One of the most celebrated staircases in the world, Wayna Picchu is often seen in postcards from Peru. This towering mountain along the Inca Trail has stairs that wrap around its entirety. This picturesque set of stairs is a must-climb if you visit Peru.
Stairway to the Sky – This phenomenal staircase is found in the rainforest tropics of Mexico. A structure in Edward James’ sculpture garden, this stairway doesn’t lead anywhere in particular. However, from the top you will be able to look around at the vast surroundings of natural waterfalls, pools and sculptures.
Lello Bookshop, Portugal – This amazing and unique staircase is found in one of the most popular bookstores in the world. It’s pink, alluring and creates a beautiful optical illusion. The swirling structure brings crowds from all around the globe. It contains a swirling structure where the pieces appear to “pour” into the middle and the sight is breathtaking.
Whether built for practicality or merely sight-seeing, staircases have become ingenious forms of expression. Update your home and express your style with a notable staircase from Acadia Stairs. Maybe yours will make Staircase Walk of Fame!
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Twitter, the hottest company to hit the tech world since Facebook, is losing money.
In its long-anticipating public IPO filing, the seven-year-old San Francisco-based startup revealed that its revenue has been growing fast, but not as fast as its expenses. The company earned $253 million in the first half of this year, more than double what it took in over the same period in 2012. But its net losses grew, to $69.3 million.
That doesn’t sound like great news for a company that is hoping to raise $1 billion from investors in its initial public offering. But people will buy the stock anyway, on the theory that the company’s rapid growth will eventually translate to profits.
Twitter today has more than 200 million active users, who fire off some 500 million tweets a day. By comparison, Facebook has more than 1 billion active users. Whether Twitter can close that gap is one of the biggest questions looming over its IPO.
- I explained last month how Twitter makes money.
- Reuters recounted the story of how Twitter turned itself into a serious business.
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- Google Yourself (or Bing, or Yahoo, etc)
- What do you think of the results?
12 weeks ago we all made websites. For many of you it was your 1st website ever (awesome!) Now it’s finally time to turn that website into an ePortfolio.
For most of you your ePortfolio will be a website about your career, probably about your major. That’s probably the best way to go, but it’s not your only choice. If you have a hobby, a passion, a club, a cause, those too might be what you’d like to focus on.
Cristina Robinson took Art110 last spring. Here’s Cristina’s Art110 website. It looks a lot like many of yours. Cristina loves the ocean. It’s part of why she’s a marine biology major. But she also loves being a mermaid! Here’s the Mainland Mermaids website Cristina created for herself and her partner Prudence.
Audience & Goals
Before you really get started you should think about who the audience for your website is, and what your communication goals are. If you’re making an Mechanical Engineering website your audience might be HR Directors at engineering firms. If you’re making a Physical Therapy website your audience might be athletes or people recovering from injuries. If you’re making a Cosplay site your audience might be people you’ve met at conventions. What you want to communicate in each of these situations is different, but try to be clear on what you’d like your audience to get from your site.
What’s the content of your site? If you’re a mermaid you might go down to the beach and have somebody take pix of you. If you’re a rock star you might play at The Whiskey and shoot some video. If you’re a Nurse or a Business Marketer, you’ll probably want a combination of your coursework and any outside work or activities. If you’re just getting started you might not have too much to draw on, but you can still find content for your site.
The great thing about a website is how easy they are to update. There are lots of other ways to make websites besides WordPress, but one of the reasons I like WordPress so much for you guys is exactly that: easy to update. You can add new stuff. Modify or remove old stuff. Fast. Easy.
So even if you don’t have much, put up what you can. A class essay. If you haven’t even taken any major classes yet, then write a personal statement and maybe copy some sections out of the CSULB Catalog. You can list the Psychology or Aerospace classes you’ll be taking soon and what the course content is. Then in the semesters to come you can replace that with stronger, more personal work.
You don’t have to change the WP Theme on your site, but this is a really good week to look through that huge collection of WP themes and see if another one might serve you better. You can check out all your classmates sites and see who you think has the most compelling theme.
These days one person might look at your site on a 4″ phone, and another might view it on a 46″ monitor. You never know. Does your site look good on one, but bad on another? When a site is designed to work well on any size display we call that Responsive Design. Most of us aren’t Developers or Designers, so it’s not our job to build responsive designs, but it’s still important to view our sites on different displays and make sure it’s working on all of them. If you discover that your theme looks awesome on a laptop, but is hard to navigate on a phone, you might want to look at some other themes. Most of the themes on WordPress.com should be pretty responsive, but it’s important to check.
Shaping Your Content
After Art110 is over, some of you will choose to keep your Art110 posts up, and some of you will take them down. That’s your call. Even if you do choose to keep them up you probably don’t want them to be the thing that peeps see when they come to your site. Whether you’re a Marine Biologist or a Mermaid, a Fashion Merchandiser or a Car Buff, a Computer Scientist or a Rock Star, you’d probably like that to be what’s featured when peeps come to your site.
Some of you might want a whole separate website for your professional site, which is fine, but you can do a lot with the one you already have. And you can change the URL if you want to. Having professional & class content on the same site is fine. In fact it’s probably very helpful early in your career. Over time, as your accomplishments grow, you can feature the class work less and less, or even take it down if you prefer.
Categories & Tags
There are a variety of ways to Shape Your Content including things like custom home pages, but probably one of the easiest and most powerful is with Categories, Tags & Menus. Categories & Tags are both “labels” you can stick on your posts. I like to think of Categories as major overarching things, and tags as smaller details. If I have an LA Sports blog where I write about the Lakers, the Dodgers, the Kings, UCLA, USC, and The Beach, then those would probably be my categories, and specific players might be tags. So if I write about a Laker game, “Lakers” would be my category for that post, and then tags could include each individual player I say something about, like “Kobe”, and also the names of opposing teams, stadiums, win or loss, or anything else I think is important.
Once your posts have Categories & Tags you can use menus to give visitors fast and easy access to what they’re interested in. By having your Art110 posts use a Category like “Art110” and using a Category like “Business Marketing” for your professional work, you can easily setup menus to get people to the content they’re interested in. You could also have Categories & Menus for Internships, Volunteer Work, and other Professionally related activities.
Depending on your theme there are a few different ways to feature what’s important on your home page.
- Featured Categories — some themes will let you select which categories appear on your home page and which do not.
- Sticky — you can make a post “sticky” which will put it at the top of all your other posts, even newer ones.
- Custom Page — you can create a custom “page” and have that be your home page. Visitors can use your Menu to get at other content “inside”.
You can put all kinds of things in Side and Bottom “widget areas”. These could be navigation tools, feature elements, or things like photos from Instagram or Flickr, or links out to other places, like your LinkedIn.
Remember that in addition to getting the “Embed Code” for Vimeo & YouTube, you can also embed things like Twitter & Instagram on your posts. These are nice ways to document projects you’re working on. So that senior year Aerospace Engineering project doesn’t have to be only documented at the end, you could easily snap a Twitter Photo or Instagram any time you meet with your team and then use those to create updates on the project.
If you haven’t already made an “About” or “About Me” page for your website, now’s the time. Make that page and add it as a menu item. Write something about yourself and your career mission on this page. Include a couple of relevant images.
Two things I’d strongly encourage you to include on your About Me page are a vlog and a license. A short vlog, 30 seconds is fine, is a great way to let visitors “meet” you. As you know from your own web surfing experience, a bit of video can really connect you to someone in ways that words and pix alone can’t quite do. You could say something like:
Hi, I’m Glenn Zucman. I’m a visual artist in Los Angeles. My Intermedia art practice ranges from robotic projects to online identity activities. I teach art at Long Beach State, and I’m the former host of the arts interview radio broadcasts Strange Angels for KBeach Radio and Border Patrol for American Public Media. Thank you for visiting my website, I hope you enjoy the work, and just click on the ‘contact’ button if you have questions about anything. Thanks a lot!
You should also let peeps know how you’ve chosen to license your work. Can they put your photo on their website? Can they remix it? Can they publish it in their textbook?
- Copyright All Rights Reserved – most restrictive choice
- Public Domain – most open choice
In-between those 2 extremes are the 6 flavors of Creative Commons licenses:
- Creative Commons, Non-Commercial, No-Derivatives is pretty close to Copyright All Rights Reserved and will probably serve the needs of people who mostly want to retain rights.
- Creative Commons, Attribution is pretty close to Public Domain and will probably serve the needs of people who mostly want to share their work.
- Creative Commons, Non-Commercial is a nice middle ground: it lets other people “like you” do remixes and mashups on YouTube and elsewhere, but it doesn’t allow commercial use. So if NBC or the New York Times suddenly want to use you work, they still have to contact you, and you could negotiate a licensing fee with them.
You can get the embed code for the Creative Commons license of your choice here: creativecommons.org/choose
You should either make a separate contact page, or add contact info as part of your About page. Some of you will be fine giving your email out. Some of you will not. Either way you can add an easy Contact Form that lets people contact you through your website, without giving your email out.
Your Blog Post
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Students preparing to teach are encouraged to take at least one class in economics, selecting either the micro or macro principles course or a class dealing with current economic issues.
Masters in Curriculum & Instruction
The Graduate School of Education at the University of St. Thomas offers a course of study leading to a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction with application in Economic Education. This degree sequence is designed to help teachers become better prepared to meet the demands of improved, enriched curricular and instructional practices in the schools. The student must satisfactorily complete 4 courses in Education and 6 courses in economics/economic education.
Continuing Education courses in Economics are also offered each semester for teachers who have their degrees and desire additional coursework in economics.
Conferences and Workshops
The Curriculum Library is well-stocked with up-to-date materials, both in print and non-print form. Located in Room 310B Loras Hall, all these materials are available for use by teachers in the Twin Cities area on a lending-library basis.
*Annotated Bibliography of Teaching Materials for Global Economics, Grades K-12, 2nd edition.
*A Selected Bibliography of Curricular Materials for the Teaching of Economics and Related Subjects: a listing of all the print and non-print materials in the Center's Resource Library.
*Note: These bibliographies are available upon request.
Formal cooperation has been established with four school districts under the EconomicsAmerica Program (formerly DEEP -- Developmental Economic Education Program): Burnsville-Savage-Eagan School District, Osseo School District, White Bear Lake Area Schools, South Washington County District 833, and the schools of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. | <urn:uuid:10047acb-9e72-43e3-972a-8432545ad3c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stthomas.edu/eced/core-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00057-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914792 | 362 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Michael recently wrote about his experience jumping into a Fate game. I love D&D and I really can’t see myself running a full campaign in anything else right now. Over the last year, I’ve run a little bit of Fate here and there and it is a much different game from D&D/Pathfinder. This week for my Campaign Trail column I thought I would look at what is Fate and how can it help make you a better GM (and player).
The first thing we need to figure out is what exactly is Fate. Evil Hat’s Fate is a family of RPGs with a surprisingly complex history and includes Core and Accelerated rules and also popular games such as Atomic Robo, Spirit of the Century and The Dresden Files.
- a generic rpg based on the FUDGE gaming system that is highly flexible and can be used to run nearly any game scenario/setting
- award winning and highly supported
- collaborative and narrative game that allows the GM and players to tell an interactive story together piecing together scenes with obstacles
- available rules are Fate Core (4th edition) and lighter Fate Accelerated Edition (FAE)
Fate Accelerated is a great place to start and it is free!
Quick Rules Overview
THE FOUR ACTIONS:
- Overcome. Use the overcome action to achieve assorted goals appropriate to your skill.
- Create an Advantage. Use the create an advantage action to make a situation aspect that gives you a benefit, or to claim a benefit from any aspect you have access to.
- Attack. Use the attack action to harm someone in a conflict or take them out of a scene.
- Defend. Use the defend action to avoid an attack or prevent someone from creating an advantage against you.
You roll 4 Fate (or fudge) dice to determine a roll value from -4 to +4 (or cards can be used) and then add a modifier to determine if an action is successful or not and what the outcome is.
THE FOUR OUTCOMES:
- Fail. If you roll lower than your opposition, you fail.
- Tie. If you roll the same as your opposition, you tie.
- Succeed. If you roll higher than your opposition, you succeed.
- Success with Style. If you roll way higher than your opposition, you succeed with style.
Fate is not…
A game with set races, classes and attributes.
- With Fate Core, you don’t create a Drow Ranger with a dexterity of 20. Fate uses aspects, skills and stunts to figure out what your character is specifically good at… many of which are developed as the game progresses. So Drizz’t is now An Exiled Ranger from the Underdark.
- Fate Accelerated does have 6 Approaches (Careful, Clever, Flashy, Forceful, Quick and Sneaky) that you rank to determine if your character is swashbuckling, brutish, tricky, etc.
A game with levels.
- Fate does not have a structured level progression system to advance through a class, but characters are not static throughout a campaign.
- Characters progress by changing or adding something to their character sheet during milestones. Character progress is unique and specific to the character and story driven.
A game where the GM is god.
In a Fate game the GM is a final decision maker, but it is a more collaborative game than d20. Everyone at the table (the players and the GM) come together to make an interesting narrative, working together to figure out what the outcome of actions should be.
A rules first game.
As written, Fate is a narrative driven tabletop RPG. The flexible rules are used to support the narrative versus directing it.
How can Fate make me a better d20 GM?
Some of these ideas are obvious and require no exposure to Fate, but I’ve found that Fate has pushed me to try the following in my D&D game:
- Let the Players Build the World Too
- I’ve been asking my players to send me location ideas for the next town we are sailing to or to name a tavern, ship or NPC. The players have come up with some great stuff and it becomes their world.
- I asked some of my players to help write the history and culture for the races they chose for their PCs.
- I always try to have a name ready as a backup to make sure we don’t end up with a world full of Bob the Barkeep.
- Focus on the Narrative
- Try to create obstacles that drive the story versus fighting random things that would make a cool encounter.
- Create open scenarios with problems that need to be resolved however the players want, instead of linking encounters together using a railway track.
- Try setting story based milestones for level progression versus counting up XP for each encounter.
- Listen to your players and to determine where they’d like to see the story go. Give players real choices or even ask them where they think the story is going (or even where they want it to go).
- Ignore the Rules
- If a player wants to reflavor a spell, weapon or item… let them. As long as it does not break the game what is the difference what something is called or what a blast of energy is made of.
- If a player has a great backstory and a race or class is not available to support it, work on a homebrew together.
- If a player asks if something is possible and the rule does not work or does not exist… figure it out together and set a difficulty.
- Push or Reward Roleplaying and Creative Play
- There are lots of ways of rewarding creative play, and D&D 5e’s inspiration mechanic is just one of them.
- For my D&D weekly game I like to reward swashbuckling play along with good backstory driven roleplay, so I’ll give out advantage rolls pretty much anytime a player wants to do something crazy like jumping over a chasm or swinging from a chandelier on top of inspiration points.
- An alternative to inspiration is to give out tokens such as Action Points (D&D 4e) or Hero Points (Eberron) that need to be spent each day or level to do cool stuff like Fate’s stunts.
- Handing out physical tokens might be a way of really emphasizing this reward system.
You can get FATE RPG at the Evilhat website, or through DriveThruRPG website in PDF, ePub, and Kindle formats. Here are the links:
- FATE Core [http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114903/Fate-Core-System] Pay What You Want / Suggested $5.00
- FATE Accelerated Edition (FAE) [http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/114902/Fate-Accelerated-Edition] Pay What You Want / Suggested $2.50
- FATE System Toolkit [http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/119385/Fate-System-Toolkit] Pay What You Want / Suggested $5.00
- Fate Worlds: Volume One Worlds on Fire [http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/119383/Fate-Worlds-Worlds-on-Fire] $7.50
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A stockperson’s work is essential to the agricultural industry. Raising animals to high standards of welfare and with consideration for their needs is a skilled role, combining technology and manual labour. As a stockperson apprentice, you’ll need compassion, self-motivation and the ability to work both in a team and independently. Animal welfare is always a priority on a farm, so the key to being a good stockperson is understanding your limits and knowing when to ask for help. The challenges of working with livestock mean no two days are the same, and an apprenticeship training provided at Lackham will equip you with the knowledge and skills you’ll be using throughout your career.
What will I learn?
The apprenticeship will support you in developing skills needed to work safely and securely. You’ll learn how to use the appropriate technology, machinery and equipment to support your role, and practice essential record-keeping. Hands-on learning is at the heart of the qualification, and includes a wide range of topics and tasks preparing you for roles across the livestock industry. There are various core modules, covering the generic requirements for competent animal care. Optional modules allow you to explore the specific needs for different livestock, allowing you to tailor your learning to your own ambitions.
Study, Assessment and Qualifications
Typically an apprentice will spend 18 months on-programme working, with a minium of 20% off-the-job training.
The End Point Assessment (EPA) will only start once the employer is satisfied that the apprentice is consistently working at or above the level set out in the occupational standard. The EPA must be completed within six months.
Minimum Entry Level 3 or GCSE grade E in Maths and English.
All applicants will be required to pass initial assessments in Maths and English.
A Level 1 or another Level 2 qualification in Agriculture or other Land-based related subjects could be an advantage.
You need to be 16 years old or over to take this qualification.
Additional Costs and Information
An Intermediate apprenticeship in Agriculture will usually take 18 months to complete.
You will attend college for one day per week during term time as part of your training.
To assist you during your apprenticeship, you may be required to purchase some equipment and resources to support you during your course.
What Could I Do Next?
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A total of 15 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection have been identified in 6 states.
The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Louisiana (5), and Tennessee (1).
Four ill persons have been hospitalized. One death has been reported in Louisiana.
Based on interviews conducted to date, a source for these infections has not been identified. If a specific source is identified, public health officials will advise the public and take steps to prevent additional illnesses.
Dates for patients’ onset of illness range from April 15, 2012 to May 12, 2012. It has been approximately 6 weeks since the last illness onset among reported cases. Although this indicates that this outbreak could be over, CDC continues to work with state public health officials to identify additional cases and the source of these STEC O145 infections. | <urn:uuid:0ead76b0-964c-436b-a45f-17ff7983609f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.marlerblog.com/case-news/cdc-update-e-coli-o145-outbreak/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955692 | 189 | 1.710938 | 2 |
An ionic compound is a giant structure of ions. Strong electrostatic forces of attraction between oppositely charged ions hold ionic compounds together. These forces, called ionic bonding, act in all directions in the lattice.
The number of ions in an ionic compound is such that the overall charge of a sample of the compound is zero.
Properties of Ionic Compounds
High melting and boiling points
The ions in a crystal lattice are very strongly bonded together, so a high temperature is required to separate the ions and melt the crystal. These compounds have high melting points and high boiling points because of the large amounts of energy needed to break the many strong bonds.
Ionic compounds do not conduct electricity when solid. The ions are held strongly in position, so they cannot move and carry an electric current. When melted or dissolved in water, ionic compounds conduct electricity because the ions are free to move and carry the current. e.g. Sodium chloride is soluble in water and the solution conducts electricity. | <urn:uuid:92cbf58e-3fa5-4b1f-8c01-aebacf108acc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://passmyexams.co.uk/GCSE/chemistry/ionic-compounds-properties.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00125-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925165 | 207 | 4.0625 | 4 |
I just found this wonderful site thanks to Sassy in Second. Take a look at this video. When I first started teaching I'd did something similar to this. It just reminded me that I should start to do this again this school year.
If you register with the site(it's free) you get your own on-line lesson planner which will allow you to save your favorite videos. You can even choose when you want to be reminded about the lesson so you won't forget. I know I come across lots of ideas and I bookmark them, then promptly forget where I bookmarked it or I have so many bookmarked that it's impossible to find. The other neat thing is you can add any wonderful idea you find on the thousands of fabulous teacher blog we stalk, to your lesson planner.
Here's another one to use during math time. It's geared towards K but I can change it to fit first grade.
This one has two good place value games. This one is for 2nd grade but I can certainly see implementing this later in the year or even changing it up a bit to use during the beginning of the year.
You should take a look around.
2nd Grade WONDERS - Morning Work
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One of the great joys of herbs is making your own cures in the home. I love making salves. Maybe it’s that pioneer spirit in my veins that makes me feel like I’ve provided a necessity for my family. Maybe it’s tinkering in the kitchen. I’d guess it’s a little of both. Today I’m going to let you in on how to make a simple salve for your own medicine chest. You can experiment with different kinds of herbs (like chamomile) if you’re familiar with their effects, but for today’s I thought we’d do a calendula salve. Calendula has many uses and it’s pretty safe as well as great for skin conditions.
Take a clean glass jar and dump in the dried herb; I’d say about an ounce of calendula. Just cover the calendula with olive oil, then add the contents of one or two Vitamin E tablets to keep the oil from getting rancid. Cap the jar and wait for two weeks. (Yes, a little patience goes a long way to getting a good herb product!) I usually give the jar a gentle shake every day or two. After two weeks, strain the oil through a sieve and then some cheesecloth. Measure out the oil and figure out 1/4 the amount for the beeswax. So if you have 1 cup of oil, add 1/4 cup beeswax. Put the oil in a pan (try and have one just for this purpose) and heat the mixture on a very low heat, stirring occasionally, until all the beeswax has completely melted. Turn off the heat.
To test the consistency, I like to take a teaspoon of the mixture and place it on a plate or in a little bowl. I place it in the fridge for a minute just to let it solidify. If the mixture is still too thin, add a little more beeswax. Too thick and you can add a little bit of olive oil. When the consistency is where you prefer, pour your mixture into a glass jar with a wide mouth. I like glass storage bowls that come with airtight lids. Only place the lid on after the salve has completely cooled. Store your salve in a cool dark location.
It may look a little complicated at first blush, but truly, learning how to make a simple salve like this one is rewarding, economical, and happily chemical free! | <urn:uuid:34e4dfaa-4877-4a76-ab13-1bbbc2e2ff32> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dkmommyspot.com/how-to-make-a-simple-salve/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929178 | 520 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Are Mormons "Christians" as defined by traditional Christian orthodoxy? The answer to that question is easy and straightforward, and it is "no." Nevertheless, even as the question is clear, the answer requires some explanation.
The issue is clearly framed in this case. Christianity is rightly defined in terms of "traditional Christian orthodoxy." Thus, we have an objective standard by which to define what is and is not Christianity.
We are not talking here about the postmodern conception of Christianity that minimizes truth. We are not talking about Christianity as a mood or as a sociological movement. We are not talking about liberal Christianity that minimizes doctrine nor about sectarian Christianity which defines the faith in terms of eccentric doctrines. We are talking about historic, traditional, Christian orthodoxy.
Once that is made clear, the answer is inevitable. Furthermore, the answer is made easy, not only by the structure of Christian orthodoxy (a structure Mormonism denies) but by the central argument of Mormonism itself - that the true faith was restored through Joseph Smith in the nineteenth century in America and that the entire structure of Christian orthodoxy as affirmed by the post-apostolic church is corrupt and false.
In other words, Mormonism rejects traditional Christian orthodoxy at the onset - this rejection is the very logic of Mormonism's existence. A contemporary observer of Mormon public relations is not going to hear this logic presented directly, but it is the very logic and message of the Book of Mormon and the structure of Mormon thought. Mormonism rejects Christian orthodoxy as the very argument for its own existence, and it clearly identifies historic Christianity as a false faith.
So, what does Mormonism reject? The orthodox consensus of the Christian church is defined in terms of its historic creeds and doctrinal affirmations. Two great doctrines stand as the central substance of that consensus. Throughout the centuries, the doctrines concerning the Trinity and the nature of Christ have constituted that foundation, and the church has used these definitional doctrines as the standard for identifying true Christianity.
The Mormon doctrine of God does not correspond to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity. Mormonism rejects the central logic of this doctrine (one God in three eternal persons) and develops its own doctrine of God - a doctrine that bears practically no resemblance to Trinitarian theology. The Mormon doctrine of God includes many gods, not one. Furthermore, Mormonism teaches that we are what God once was and are becoming what He now is. That is in direct conflict with Christian orthodoxy.
Contemporary Mormonism presents the Book of Mormon as "another testament of Jesus Christ," but the Jesus of the Book of Mormon is not the only begotten Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, or the one through whose death on the cross we can be saved from our sins.
Normative Christianity is defined by the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the other formulas of the doctrinal consensus. These doctrines are understood by Christians to be rooted directly within the Bible and rightly affirmed by all true believers in all places and throughout all time. As one leading figure in the early church explained, the true faith is recognized and affirmed everywhere, always, and by all (Vincent of Lérins defined the orthodox tradition as those truths affirmed "ubique, semper, ab omnibus").
The major divisions within Christian history (Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism) disagree over important issues of doctrine, but all affirm the early church's consensus concerning the nature of Christ and the Trinitarian faith. These are precisely what Mormonism rejects.
Without doubt, Mormonism borrows Christian themes, personalities, and narratives. Nevertheless, it rejects what orthodox Christianity affirms and it affirms what orthodox Christianity rejects. It is not Christianity in a new form or another branch of the Christian tradition. By its own teachings and claims, it rejects that very tradition.
Richard John Neuhaus, a leading Roman Catholic theologian, helpfully reminds us that "Christian" is a word that "is not honorific but descriptive." Christians do respect the Mormon affirmation of the family and the zeal of Mormon youth in their own missionary work. Christians must affirm religious liberty and the right of Mormons to practice and share their faith.
Nevertheless, Mormonism is not Christianity by definition or description.
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In addition to the Savings general terms and conditions, the following terms and conditions apply to the Inheritance Cash ISA. If there is a conflict between the Savings General terms and conditions and these Inheritance Cash ISA terms and conditions, these Inheritance Cash ISA terms and conditions will take priority.
Meanings of Words and Expressions
- In these conditions the following words and expressions have the following meanings:
- “Account” means a Nationwide Inheritance Cash ISA.
- ‘Deceased’ means an individual who was your spouse or civil partner who died on or after 3 December 2014 with whom you were living at the date of the Deceased’s death and who, at the date of their death, was an ISA account holder.
- ‘Deceased’s Account’ means an ISA which the Deceased held with an ISA provider at the date of the Deceased’s death.
- ‘Inherited ISA allowance’ means the maximum amount, in aggregate, that can be paid into your Inheritance Cash ISA with us being:
- the value of the Deceased’s Account at the date of death; or
- where the Deceased held more than one Deceased’s Account, the combined value of those accounts at the date of death, in each case provided that you have not deposited funds towards the allowance with another ISA provider in respect of any such Deceased’s Account.
‘Permitted Period’ is a period of time beginning with the date of the Deceased’s death and ending either:
- 3 years thereafter; or
- 180 days after the administration of the estate is complete; whichever is the later.
For the purposes of calculating the Permitted Period, where the Deceased died in the period beginning 3 December 2014 and ending on 5 April 2015, the date of death will be taken as 6 April 2015.
“Regulations” means the Individual Savings Account Regulations 1998 as particularly amended by the Individual Savings Account (Amendment) Regulations 2015, or as otherwise amended from time to time.
‘You/your’ means the holder of the Account and who is the surviving spouse or civil partner of the Deceased.
Account holding and Ownership
An application for an Inheritance Cash ISA can only be made:
- by an individual who is the surviving spouse or civil partner of the Deceased; and
- within the Permitted Period.
- You agree that in subscribing to this Account and when making future deposits, if any, you will not exceed your Inherited ISA allowance.
- The Account is only available to individuals who are aged 16 or over.
- Proof of your identity, verification of your address and your National Insurance Number may be required on Account opening.
- The Account will be, and must remain in, your beneficial ownership and must not be used as security for a loan.
- You may only hold one Inheritance Cash ISA with Nationwide in relation to a Deceased at any given time.
Subject to the Regulations and your personal annual ISA allowance(s), you may be entitled to subscribe to another ISA in the same tax year as subscribing to this one. This is because your Inherited ISA allowance is in addition to your personal annual ISA allowance(s).
For more information about your personal annual ISA allowance(s), Inherited ISA allowance and any other permissible subscriptions please visit us in branch or visit our website www.nationwide.co.uk or HMRC’s website www.hmrc.gov.uk for further details.
- Interest is calculated daily and paid annually on 30 September and on closure.
- Interest will not accrue to the Inheritance Cash ISA following closure.
- Interest can be paid into the Account, a Nationwide current or savings account (subject to any restrictions on deposits into that account) or a current account with another bank or building society. Interest is paid tax free.
- We will calculate interest on each whole pound in the Account.
- The interest rate payable on the Account is variable.
- You may only make deposits into the Account within the Permitted Period.
- The minimum amount for any deposit is £1.
- Payments into the Account must not cause you to exceed your Inherited ISA allowance.
You can withdraw any available funds in the Account without notice or loss of interest.
- If you wish to transfer all or part of your Inheritance Cash ISA with us to another cash ISA provider we will send the funds and accompanying information to the new provider within 5 business days of the date of receipt of a transfer instruction from the new provider.
- If you wish to transfer all or part of your Inheritance Cash ISA with us to a stocks and shares ISA provider we will transfer the account within the time stipulated by you or within 30 days of receiving the request from your new provider, whichever is the longer.
- If you transfer all or part of your Inheritance Cash ISA with us to another ISA provider before you have fully used up your Inherited ISA allowance within the Permitted Period, you will only be able to make any future deposits in relation to the Inherited ISA allowance to an Account held with us, and not to the ISA provider you have transferred to. These terms and conditions will continue to apply to any such future deposits.
- Any deposit that is made into the Account counts towards your Inherited ISA allowance. So if, after the cancellation period (within 30 days of Account opening), any funds are withdrawn from the Account you cannot pay any more money into the Account if it means that you would exceed your Inherited ISA allowance.
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How is debt dealt with in divorce? The difference between “soft” and “hard” loans
March 24, 2022
A recent case before the Family Court provided some helpful guidance on how debt should be dealt with in financial settlements following divorce together with the difference in the treatment between “soft” loans and “hard” loans.
It is quite common that in a marriage either one or both spouses will have incurred debt of some kind, whether formally through a commercial arrangement with the likes of a bank or more informally by borrowing money from family members.
Upon divorce and separation, it is not unusual for spouses to laden themselves with more debt as their financial circumstances have to adjust and outgoings increase.
When considering what a fair financial settlement looks like, there can be the question of what to do with the debt and whether or not allowance should be made for certain debts to be repaid from the assets available.
In P v Q EWFC B9 both spouses had incurred debts. The husband alleged that during the course of the marriage, his mother had lent him £150,000 to help with purchasing a home. He alleged that there was an expectation that when his mother was no longer able to look after herself into her old age, the money would be re-paid to her. There were no document to record the loan.
After the husband and wife separated and during the course of negotiations, the husband, without any demand from his mother, repaid the sum of £150,000 to her and asserted that it represented the repayment of the loan.
The Judge did not accept that the £150,000 was a “hard” loan from the husband’s mother which required repayment. The husband’s mother gave evidence during the Court Hearing and when pressed, explained that she could not envisage any circumstance in which she would pursue the loan as a debt by way of litigation.
The Judge therefore decided to ‘add back’ the sum of £150,000 onto the Schedule of Assets (as if the husband had not made the payment back to his mother).
What is the difference between a ‘soft loan’ and a ‘hard loan’?
Within his Judgment, the Judge set out a number of points which can be considered to help determine whether or not a debt can be included or excluded from the Schedule of Assets:
- Once a Judge has decided that a contractually binding obligation to a third party exists, the Court may consider whether the obligation is hard or soft. If it is a soft obligation, the Judge may decide, as an exercise of discretion, to leave it out of the Schedule of Assets and Liabilities.
- There is no hard or fast test as to whether or not a loan will fall into one category or another and each case will be facts specific.
- A common feature of cases comes down to the question of whether or not it is likely, in reality, that a debt obligation will be enforced.
Other factors to consider (though not an exhaustive list) include:
- Is it an obligation to a finance company?
- Do the terms of the obligation have the feel of a normal commercial arrangement?
- Does the obligation arise out of a written agreement?
- Is there a written demand for payment or threat of litigation and/or actual litigation?
- Has there been a delay in enforcing the repayment of the debt?
- Is the amount of money such that it would be less likely for a creditor to be likely to waive the obligation either wholly or partly?
The Judge went on to consider features which could lead a Judge to conclude that a debt obligation is in the category of “soft” loan:
- It is an obligation to a friend or family member with whom the debtor remains on good terms and who is likely to want the debtor not to suffer hardship.
- The obligation arose informally and the terms of the obligation do not have the feel of a normal commercial arrangement.
- There has been no written demand for payment despite the due date having passed.
- There has been a delay in enforcing the obligation; or
- Is the amount of money such that it would be likely for the creditor to waive the obligation either wholly or partly? However, the amount of the debt, is not necessarily decisive.
Careful consideration will be needed in each case as to how particular debts should be treated. Attention should be given to how loans are structured and formalised, particularly if the spouse has borrowed money from family or friends.
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It has been a big year for gene therapy. In the past 12 months, three gene therapy products received approval from FDA. In July 2018, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb released a statement on the FDA’s efforts and commitment to advance gene therapy. The statement included the announcement of six new or revised guidance documents related to the development of gene therapy products. In this presentation, Dr. Vaughn will review Commissioner Gottlieb’s statement, provide an overview of the six guidance documents, and discuss the implications for clinical development of new gene therapy products.
Identify the six new draft guidance documents recently released by the FDA in the area of gene therapy.
Understand the basic recommendations the FDA has for sponsors and researchers working in the area of gene therapy.
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One of Belfast’s best-loved but nearly forgotten buildings, the Floral Hall has a long and illustrious history as a place of entertainment and romance. Built in the mid-1930s it is a beautiful modernist dance hall. As the city’s pre-eminent entertainment venue for over thirty five years, loves, romances and marriages were born here. Generations danced here, or in later years, came to see Pink Floyd, or the roller discos. Public affection is strong and is rooted in this social history.
Situated on the slopes of Cave Hill overlooking Belfast Lough, the building is today sited within the grounds of Belfast Zoo. When it was constructed, it formed the centrepiece of the Bellvue Gardens. These had been laid out by Belfast Corporation at the terminus of the Belfast tram lines. They were to be a destination attraction and were a way of encouraging people to use the trams.
Bellvue Pleasure Gardens played host to band performances, open-air dancing, concert parties, amusements and fireworks. They made such an impression that they were described as a”unique possession amongst the municipal corporations of the British Isles” and soon became known as the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. In 1933 the Corporation added a small zoological collection, again hoping to increase use of the trams.
The first proposal to build a dance hall on the Bellvue site was made in 1933. Plans were drawn up and costed at £21,900 but the plan was abandoned for cost reasons. Within a year a dance hall was back on the agenda. Designed by D.W. Boyd, Floral Hall was built and furnished by the firm of J. & R. Taggart at a cost of £14,520.
Opened on May 4th 1936, with its blue and gold interior colour scheme, tangerine entrance hall, and seating capacity for 1000 people, the Floral Hall quickly become a hugely popular venue. Over 130,000 people used the building in 1947 alone. It continued to be a popular venue into the 1960s when show bands frequented the building on a weekly basis. People travelled from all over Northern Ireland to dance in the Floral Hall.
Work began on the new zoo site in 1974, by which time the Floral Hall had become a tired building. A decline in the popularity of dance halls in general, as well as the impact of “The Troubles,” meant that visitor numbers fell sharply. Proposals were raised to convert the Floral Hall into a restaurant and wedding venue in 1973 but it was never taken forward. The building subsequently closed shortly thereafter. Despite its key location, the building has been closed to the public since, being used occasionally as a store room for animal feed. Whilst needing considerable work it is easy to imagine the atmosphere of a Big Band on stage and the dance floor filled with revellers as you walk through the ticket booths into the main arena.
BBT has been in negotiations with Belfast City Council about the possibility of restoring Floral Hall to its former glory. Plans have progressed and Council is keen to see the building restored. Discussions are now centred on the possibility of providing a wedding and conference facility alongside an education facility for the zoo that would help with regeneration in north Belfast. In advance of this, the Trust is launching an oral history project to gather and document the memories associated with Floral Hall and to capture the public’s affection for the building.
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By Jude Njoku
ISSUES bordering on the very poor state of the River Niger Bridge at Onitsha and the urgent need to build a second bridge across the River took the centre stage at one of the sessions of the House of Representatives last week.
The House passed a motion sponsored by Mr. Ezenwa Onyewuchi, representing Owerri Federal Constituency of Imo State, which observed that the current River Niger bridge which was built in 1965, is at the brink of caving in. In passing the motion, the House urged the Federal Government to engage the services of a competent contractor to commence the construction of a second Niger bridge to support the one presently in use.
Presenting the motion, Onyewuchi noted that the bridge, which links the South-East, South-South and South-West and some northern states, is on the verge of collapse due to its age, over use and lack of maintenance.
“There is evidence of corrosion and cracks to the structural members of the bridge, which has been stretched beyond its limits and capacity, ” he said, adding that “the promises of constructing a second Niger Bridge by the past and present administrations has been a mirage.”
Building a second bridge across the River Niger has become an over-flogged issue since 1992 when former military President, General Ibrahim Babangida challenged. Nigerian Engineers to come up with the design of the bridge.
The River Niger bridge has become a nightmare to commuters mainly due to poor maintenance, overuse, frequent subjection to overbearing deadweight and cannibalisation. The dead weight is a product of the traffic snarl that has become a regular feature at the imposing bridge.
Apart from the observation made by Mr. Onyewuchi on the floor of the House of Reps, fears have previously been raised in many quarters that the bridge may soon cave in. The current bridge which links the River Niger from Asaba to Onitsha, was actually initiated by the British colonial government and completed just before the civil war.
Missing bolts, nuts and other key metal components from the steel bridge prompted the Federal Government to undertake rehabilitation work on it about six years ago. These palliative measures lasted for a short time before the bridge became stressed again. Experts posit that the only solution remains the construction of a second bridge to link the Owerri end of Onitsha town.
Vanguard Homes & Property recalls that due to the persistent calls by concerned users of the bridge who noted that age was no longer on its side and that if nothing was done to remedy the situation, the bridge will, one day cave in, the then Works & Housing Minister, Major-General Mamman Kotyangora, an Engineer, persuaded the Babangida regime to challenge indigenous engineers with the design and construction of the bridge.
The Nigerian Society of Engineers NSE, rose to the challenge and formed a management consultancy company known as NSE PREMS which did the design of the bridge. Unfortunately, the project did not take off as the Federal government later came up with the idea of adding an East -West rail line to the project. This later developed signalled the commencement of intense politicking on the construction of the bridge with successive governments merely pay lip service to the project.
About three years ago, the former Minister of Works, Senator Mohammed Sanusi Daggash raised the hope of millions of users of the bridge when he assured Nigerians that the present administration is desirous and committed to the construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge.
He noted that the construction of a second bridge across the Niger had become expedient and assured Nigerians that while maintenance works will continue on the existing bridge, the Federal Government would work assiduously to construct a new one. Daggash was later removed from office and the issue died.
In August last year, the the Federal Government again resurrected the issue of building a 2nd Niger Bridge. The government said it has approved a contract of N325 million to Messrs Roughton International Limited, a transaction advisory services firm, to design, build, finance and operate the proposed second Niger Bridge.
Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, and his Ministry of Works counterpart, Mike Onolememen, told State House correspondents that the government is targeting the third quarter of this year as the period when the ground breaking ceremony of the project will be performed.
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After several days of unmitigated disaster — bad press, angry donors, baffled supporters, unwelcome scrutiny — the leaders of Susan G. Komen for the Cure, the world’s leading advocate for breast cancer research, moved to restore their credibility and calm the roiling waters that threatened to drown the organization in unfavorable reviews. It quickly became clear to Nancy Brinker, founder and CEO, that she had besmirched her brand with a politically driven decision to end a longstanding partnership with Planned Parenthood.
But the carefully worded public statement Komen released last week doesn’t quite end the story. Advocates for women’s health should watch carefully over the next several months to see whether Brinker and her board care more about helping less-affluent women get breast cancer screenings than they do about placating the anti-choice crowd.
For years now, Komen has been pressured by rigid anti-abortionists to stop making grants to Planned Parenthood, caricatured by its critics as solely an abortion provider. Last year, for example, the publishing arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, citing grants to Planned Parenthood, halted a brief campaign in which it sold pink bibles and donated some of the proceeds to Komen.
That pressure will only increase if the hardline anti-abortionists believe they had a near-victory snatched away suddenly. Komen may be looking for a quieter and less-obvious route to the same place: ending a relationship with a women’s health partner that has unfairly become a lightning rod.
Let’s look at the facts: Last year, abortions accounted for about 3 percent of the services provided by Planned Parenthood. Most of its funds go to a broad array of other women’s reproductive health services.
While its clinics across the country vary, most provide contraception. Many provide gynecological exams, treat sexually transmitted diseases and provide pre-natal care. (Yes, that’s right: Planned Parenthood provides medical care to pregnant women.) And some give vouchers for mammograms. That’s about as pro-life as it gets.
But leaders of the anti-abortion movement use a narrow and mean definition for that term, excluding children once they are out of the womb, women too poor to pay for mammograms and even pregnant women without medical insurance. Their health and welfare don’t get much notice from the pious right.
That includes ambitious politicians like Karen Handel, the Georgia politician who may have played a prominent role in Komen’s troubling initial decision. In 2010, Handel, Georgia’s former secretary of state, lost a bid to become governor despite an endorsement from Sarah Palin. Komen hired her last April as senior vice president for public policy. | <urn:uuid:0698197b-00d7-4676-aef2-95b26a3bc23b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nationalmemo.com/komen-reverses-course-planned-parenthoodfor-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00237-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95453 | 563 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Sometimes, it's a good idea to open a copy of a document instead of the document itself. This way, you can avoid making any accidental changes to the original. You can open a copy of a document from the Windows 98 Desktop without having to use the Save As command. Just right-click the file and choose New. A copy of the document (with a generic name) opens, and when you press Ctrl+S to save it, you're prompted to name it. Make sure that you give this document a new name, such as Copy of Document1 so that you do not overwrite the original document. | <urn:uuid:658b2c92-8256-4a2f-a8e6-a544e5423242> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,100731,00.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895808 | 147 | 3.09375 | 3 |
First stills from Werner Herzog’s latest, ‘Queen of the Desert,’ telling the true story of Gertrude Bell, played by Kidman, who was a British spy, an archaeologist and more at the turn of last century and ended up playing a major role in establishing the modern state of Iraq. She wielded an enormous amount of power for a woman of her era.
QUEEN OF THE DESERT tells the story of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) who, as historian, novelist and member of the British secret service, played a decisive role around 1920 in setting the course for the new political order in the Middle East. As an educated young woman, for whom no suitable husband can be found in England, she journeys to Tehran. After a tragic love affair with diplomat and inveterate gambler Henry Cadogan, she decides to give up on her private life and discover the region as an explorer. Before the backdrop of the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire she learns languages, translates literature, meets with Muslim dignitaries in Cairo, Basra and Baghdad and earns their trust through her pluck and respect. Predestined to be a mediator between the Orient and the British Empire, she contributes to defining the new borders in the region after the First World War. And then love enters her life once again. | <urn:uuid:0d0feee3-dd63-44a7-8980-bd6fbad97cf4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.movies.ie/queen-of-the-desert-images-featuring-nicole-kidman-damian-lewis-and-james-franco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00093-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945831 | 281 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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The mission of Central Virginia Regional Library is to serve as a lifelong learning resource by providing access to information and assisting in its use for personal and community development. The library will meet informational needs and assist with educational, civic, and cultural activities using resources, classes, and programs.
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- Be an integral part of our community and an essential contact for all area residents, agencies, community organizations, and businesses in need of information.
- Act as a gateway to global resources.
- Support the interests of children and adults through the provision of materials for recreation, education, and information.
- Offer a wide range of services and programs for a variety of ages and audiences.
- Provide information and resources efficiently, accurately and in formats preferred by our customers.
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A proxy prefix should be part of all library database URL's. This prefix allows students and faculty affiliated with the Victoria College or the University of Houston-Victoria free access to the databases.
Without the proxy prefix, users trying to access databases from off-campus will not be recognized by the database vendor as a VC or UHV user.
The proxy prefix is https://login.ruby.uhv.edu/login?url=
You may have to add this prefix to your URLs.
When you look at a full-text article in a library subscription database or at a publisher's website, the URL associated with that article is either dynamic or persistent.
A dynamic URL means the the URL was created at the time you did the search in the database that eventually brought you to the full-text article you are viewing. A dynamic URL is temporary and usually will not work when copied and tried again. So if you provide the URL to others (as in a research paper reference list,) they will not usually be able to access the information.
A persistent or durable URL will return you to the same article every time. Some vendors do a very good job of providing a persistent/durable URL, others do not. This creates a problem when you need to provide a persistent or durable URL to put into a list of references for your paper or an email, or when instructors want to put links in Blackboard. This guide will give you information you can use to create persistent/durable URL's.
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U.S. companies’ hiring plans reflect the worst employment outlook since January 2010 as demand slows in the world’s largest economy, a private survey showed.
Fewer companies project payrolls to rise in the next six months compared with a July survey, while more plan to cut workers, the National Association for Business Economics said today in Washington. The share of firms planning to raise prices was the smallest in almost two years.
Businesses are concerned about the European debt crisis, with 30 percent of participants anticipating it will cause a decline in sales through early 2012, the survey showed. While companies said they expect the U.S. will keep expanding, they trimmed projections for the pace of growth and pared capital spending plans, helping explain why the recovery has failed to gain momentum.
“Expectations are muted,” Shawn DuBravac, chief economist at the Consumer Electronics Association in Arlington, Virginia, who analyzed the results, said in a statement. The latest survey’s “respondents remain cautiously confident.”
Within the employment outlook, 29 percent of companies said they would increase hiring, down from 43 percent in July, while 59 percent reported they plan no change in staff, a 10-point jump. Twelve percent projected a decline in payrolls, up from 8 percent in the previous NABE survey.
The difference between those forecasting a rise in spending on new equipment in the next 12 months and those expecting a decrease resulted in a net index of 41, down from 50 in July.
The dimming outlook for employment and investment stems from the slowdown in growth. Eighty-five percent of companies surveyed said that the economy may expand 2 percent or less in the period ending this quarter compared with the final three months of 2010. In the prior survey, just one of every five economists polled predicted growth would be that slow.
The debt crisis in Europe already is hurting U.S. firms and is likely to continue, according to a special question in the latest survey, conducted between Sept. 20 and Oct. 5. Twenty percent of participants reported developments in Europe have led to as much as a 10 percent drop in sales so far this year.
The one bright spot in the survey was that inflation will subside. Twenty percent of companies expect prices to rise in the next three months, the smallest share in five surveys. Sixty-seven percent projected no change, up from 58 percent in the July survey, and a larger share of participants said they may cut prices. As a result, the net index fell to 6, the lowest since the second half of 2009.
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Space probe Voyager 2 during its path through space sent a message to the base of the Earth in a quite unintelligible language. NASA after over six years did not know the reason, but they know that it can not be accidental.
Voyager 2 is the first spacecraft to leave the solar system in 2010 and it was in the moments when the spacecraft could enter into interstellar space that a strange thing happened, that NASA would consider “someone or something” had assumed control over it.
“At a distance of about 15 billion kilometers from Earth, the probe suddenly started sending data in a language which they could never understand,” said NASA expert Kevin Baines, reports Physics Astronomy.
“Something or someone changed the communications system of the space probe Voyager 2,” added Baines.
“The assessment of the other systems, the Voyager team could not find any defect. Only one system was changed, “he said Baines adds that the later analysis showed that a component in a binary code system was changed from 0 to 1.
Such a change of only one bit indicates that someone deliberately tried to change some things on the computer of Voyager 2. With such methods commonly used by hackers, they can completely shut down the computer or destroy data. In this case, damage was only to one system.
Of course, experts from NASA first started exploring the possibility that someone has hacked spacecraft from Earth, but at such a great distance it was almost impossible to carry out.
NASA experts took three weeks to resolve this problem and correct the error. However, the real reason for this anomaly today is not known. German scientist Hartwig Hausdorff has no doubt – he is confident that it was aliens.
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Fiji Floods: UNICEF and partners urgently responding to water, health and education needs
SUVA, 7 April 2012 - Over 14,000 thousand people, including 5,000 children, have been displaced from their homes due to flooding in the Western and Central Divisions of Fiji. These families are sheltering in over 200 evacuation centres and many lack regular access to water, food and essential items. Water and electricity shortages across the Western Division are creating a potentially dangerous situation for thousands more.
UNICEF is especially concerned over access to clean water for both drinking and bathing. Leptospirosis, diarrhea and typhoid are a real threat in the flood-affected areas. Water is being delivered by trucks to evacuation centers and communities – however, due to damaged roads not all areas can be reached regularly. For those who do have access to water, proper filtering and storage of water is essential.
In response, UNICEF with the Fiji Red Cross is distributing water and sanitation kits to families in need in the Western Division. Each kit contains water containers, purification tablets and soap to safely store and prepare clean drinking water and to support adequate hygiene. One thousand family kits are being distributed over the weekend, and more are on the way. UNICEF is also helping partners prepare for any eventual disease outbreak through the provision of essential health supplies.
According to UNICEF Pacific Representative, Dr. Isiye Ndombi, preparedness is the key. “It is essential that we work proactively to prevent disease outbreaks in flood-affected areas. Diarrhea, leptospirosis and typhoid can be fatal, especially so for children. We need to make sure that families are aware of the risks and how to address them, and are supported with access to water and sanitation.”
Nutrition for children is also a concern. “Providing mothers of infants with a safe space and the support to breastfeed is the simplest and best way we can protect our youngest children, particularly when hygiene and water is a challenge.” UNICEF is advising that food supplied to families in need should contain a balance of protein, from fish and dhal, as well as starchy basics such as noodles, rice and biscuits. Mothers of infants are encouraged to continue to exclusively breastfeed their newborn children. Over the long term, families who have lost crops and incomes should be supported to ensure that children’s health and well-being is not compromised.
With schools in the Western Division due to reopen on 10 April, UNICEF is also working with partners to get flood-affected schools re-equipped in time. Through ‘school in a box’ and recreation and early childhood kits, UNICEF is supporting classes to welcome back children whose lives have been devastated by the floods.
UNICEF is present in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
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Fired Miami Dolphins coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three teams on Tuesday over alleged racist hiring practices for coaches and general managers, saying the league remains “rife with racism” even as it publicly condemns it.
The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan federal court, said the hypocrisy was on display with the chilly treatment Flores received from the Dolphins after he refused to accept a $100,000-a-game offer from the club his first season to “tank” so it could secure the top draft pick.
The lawsuit sought class-action status and unspecified damages from the league, the Dolphins, the Denver Broncos and the New York Giants, along with unidentified individuals.
Flores, 40, was fired last month by Miami after leading the Dolphins to a 24-25 record over three years. They went 9-8 in their second straight winning season, but failed to make the playoffs during his tenure.
In a statement released by the lawyers representing him, Flores said: “God has gifted me with a special talent to coach the game of football, but the need for change is bigger than my personal goals.”
“In making the decision to file the class action complaint today, I understand that I may be risking coaching the game that I love and that has done so much for my family and me. My sincere hope is that by standing up against systemic racism in the NFL, others will join me to ensure that positive change is made for generations to come,” he said.
In a statement, the NFL said it will defend “against these claims, which are without merit.”
It added: “The NFL and our clubs are deeply committed to ensuring equitable employment practices and continue to make progress in providing equitable opportunities throughout our organizations. Diversity is core to everything we do, and there are few issues on which our clubs and our internal leadership team spend more time.”
The lawsuit alleges that the league has discriminated against Flores and other Black coaches for racial reasons, denying them positions as head coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators and quarterbacks coaches, as well as general managers.
According to the lawsuit, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross told Flores he would pay him $100,000 for every loss during the coach’s first season because he wanted the club to “tank” so it could get the draft’s top pick.
The lawsuit alleged that Ross then pressured Flores to recruit a prominent quarterback in violation of the league’s tampering rules. When Flores refused, he was cast as the “angry Black man” who is difficult to work with and was derided until he was fired, the suit said.
Messages left with the Dolphins seeking comment were not immediately returned.
The lawsuit said the firing of Flores was typical for Black coaches who are not given the latitude other coaches receive to succeed. It noted that Flores led the Dolphins to back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2003.
Last week, the Giants disclosed to third parties that they had decided to hire Brian Daboll as their new coach even when they had not yet had their scheduled meeting with Flores, the lawsuit said.
“Mr. Flores was deceptively led to believe he actually had a chance at this job,” the lawsuit said, adding that he had to endure a dinner with the Giants’ new general manager knowing that the team had already selected Daboll.
The lawsuit also cited a message Flores received three days before his scheduled Giants interview from New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, which at first told Flores he’d heard that Flores was “their guy.” But the lawsuit said Belichick apologized and corrected himself, saying he’d misread the text and now realized Daboll was chosen.
A message left with the Patriots was not immediately returned.
In a statement, the Giants said: “We are pleased and confident with the process that resulted in the hiring of Brian Daboll. We interviewed an impressive and diverse group of candidates. The fact of the matter is, Brian Flores was in the conversation to be our head coach until the eleventh hour. Ultimately, we hired the individual we felt was most qualified to be our next head coach.”
Patriots safety Devin McCourty, who played for Flores and shares a Twitter account with his twin brother Jason, tweeted that Flores was “pivotal in my career and love that I can support him for calling out what we all already know.”
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Bailiffs are to be banned from entering homes at night and from using physical force against debtors under new laws coming into effect this weekend.
Further changes will also prevent enforcement agents from entering properties where only children are at home and from taking vital household essentials such as cookers, microwaves, fridges or washing machines.
Bailiffs, who collect roughly four million debts each year, will also have to be trained and certified to practise under a shake-up of laws designed to bring an end to aggressive behaviour.
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling said: " We are stamping out bad practice and making sure bailiffs play by the rules.
"Those who don't will be banned.
"Aggressive bailiff activity is unacceptable and it is high time that the cowboys out there are stopped from giving the rest of this important industry a bad name.
"People will still have to face up to their debts - but they will no longer need to fear their home being raided at night, the threat of violence or having their vital household equipment seized."
Among the changes, landlords will no longer be able to use bailiffs to seize property for residential rent debts without going to court first, while the debt collectors will have to give courts information on the likely means of entry and amount of force required before a warrant is granted,
Bailiffs will also have to give seven days notice before taking possessions, unless they have specific permission from a court.
The reforms come into effect on April 6 and are part of a wider package under changes to the Tribunals, Courts & Enforcement Act 2007.
Jo Salter, researcher at the think-tank Demos, said: "It is about time that action is being taken to curb the behaviour of bailiffs.
"As part of our recent research, Demos heard from countless families about how the aggressive use of bailiffs played a big part in the emotional harm being caused by debt.
"Council tax arrears is an example of one type of debt that many said resulted in bailiffs getting involved. The actions of bailiffs could often overwhelm people's rational ability to deal with the debt itself. As a result our research showed that arrears can often be just as harmful to people as payday loans."
Citizens Advice chief executive Gillian Guy said: "For too long bailiffs have been getting away with aggressive behaviour and charging for visits they don't make. We help with 1,000 bailiff problems a week. People have reported bailiffs giving debt letters to their children and threatening violence. These new rules reflect just how out of control the industry is and are a welcome step towards protecting people in debt.
"It's important bailiffs seize this opportunity to transform into a responsible industry that understands the difference between people who can't pay and people who won't pay. We'll be watching to see if that really does happen.
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Collectively, four residents at Blue Valley Nursing Homes, Dwight Pumphrey, Jean Jacobitz, Martha Denayer and Doris Deepe have 407 years between them, after celebrating their 100th birthdays.
And then there’s Mary Rozmajzl, who was a New Year’s Eve baby 100 years ago, and lives with her sister, Margaret.
Their history is rich, sprinkled with spot memories as Dwight takes himself back to farming potatoes and sugar beets in Scottsbluff County and Doris recalls her family of nine siblings.
Mary rode the Concorde, the supersonic airliner that was double the speed of most, if not all, airliners. She crossed the Atlantic Ocean in about four hours.
All their eyes lit up at the thought and dialogue of their memories. Some have age blocking them from articulating, and others talk non-stop, like Martha, whose grandmother was an opera singer.
“She toured Europe. Her father was an interpreter who knew at least five languages,” Martha’s daughter, Judy Dunn of Belleville, said. “Don’t get her started.”
But Martha was ready to go and talked about hiding to get out of housework and how “very happy” her family was.
Judy prompted Martha’s memory about trips to the zoo in Garden City, Kan., and Martha said she and her siblings were given crackers for a treat on those trips.
Her daughter remembers a home full of music growing up. Judy is the oldest of five children and her mother is a grand to 23 children and has eight great-great grandchildren. Out of the descendants, Judy is the only one who went on to teach public school music.
Jean is from a farm east of Hebron. Three of her four children’s names rhyme, Lonny, Connie and Bonnie. Catherine is her fourth child.
Doris wasn’t fearful when her daughter, Beverly Deepe, went to Vietnam to be a war correspondent.
“I knew she was capable,” Doris said.
After attending Belvidere High School, Doris went to business college and worked for different companies.
She said she couldn’t avoid meeting her husband. They had two children, Beverly and Barbara Joan.
Dwight is a Quilt of Valor recipient. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1945 and was stationed in Germany and Africa. He became a 2nd Lieutenant in artillery, and after, worked for the Department of Agriculture.
It is Mary, who will tell listeners about the Great Depression and how her mother would feed the “tramps” at their house on Eads Avenue. Mary lives with her sister, Sister Margaret Nacke.
“Mother always let these people in and did the best we could for them,” Mary said. “We were lucky.”
She’s thankful to have been born in Hebron and returned to Hebron after many years of being in different parts of the United States and abroad.
Mary was baptized at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, and went on to become the salutatorian of Hebron High School for the Class of 1937. She attended Hebron Junior College for a year, and transferred to the Chiliclothe Business College in Missouri.
“It was during the war years and we didn’t really know what women could do,” she said. “I don’t think anyone really knew what was going on in Germany.”
Her mother had relatives in Chicago, who offered to look after Mary if she moved there. Mary did, and worked as a secretary in an insurance company.
She remembers one of her classmates, Pershing Nakada, came to visit her at work. Pershing was Japanese and she said her colleagues were surprised to see him.
He wanted to take Mary to lunch and she was more than fine with it.
“He brought a little makeup case to me as a gift, which I still have today,” she said. By that time, the Japanese had bombed Pearl Harbor, she added.
Later in life, Mary and a friend, Clara Lawson, sailed to England on the Queen Elizabeth II, and saw Scotland and Ireland, and then came home as passengers on the British-French Concorde, probably one of the most remarkable trips of their lives.
According to the company, where she had investments, Mary could fly on the Concorde or receive $750 credit at Harrods, a department store in England.
“They gave each passenger a model of the Concorde on the plane. They told us to watch for the curvature of the Earth,” she said because the Concorde flew higher than 50,000 feet.
She said they could see the speed (Mach) of the plane on one side, and the altitude on the other.
On the plane, she and Clara were served lamb chops for dinner with linen napkins and Cognac to finish the meal.
Mary’s work life included working at air bases in Bruning, and in Colorado Springs, where she and her co-workers lived in a large home. They were served breakfast, but were on their own for supper and she chuckled about the small hot plate they used for cooking.
She also worked for Mutual Insurance of Omaha, where she met her husband, Francis.
“He was an auditor,” she said. “We moved to Malvern, Iowa, and I went to work at the Malvern Trust and Savings Bank.”
Her husband and his father were the owners of a plant for raising chickens in Malvern. When he died, Mary returned to Hebron to help take care of her mother, who was in her 80’s by then.
Mary has a lot to offer in the way of memories and the present.
“Use your mind. Read and keep up with things as much as you can. Take interest in things,” she said.
She thinks cell phones are good and bad.
“It’s a wonderful thing in one way, but it takes from talking to people and imagination,” she said.
She recommends taking advantage of the arts, and recalled the many shows she saw on stage in one of Chicago’s main parks, including a show about a Chinese general.
All five over 100 saw transportation and technology advance through the years.
Martha, one of 11 children, chuckles at the thought of a girl who came to church in a dress after wearing boys’ clothes because it was the Depression. Judy notes the shift from horse to tractor for her mother.
“Once they got a tractor they wanted more land,” Judy said.
Mary said one of the first pieces of furniture she and her husband had in Malvern was a television set.
Free online tools now make it easier than ever to record memories of the elderly, but if someone is still holding onto a 1972 General Electric cassette recorder, it will suffice if a transcript is made.
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Nineteen-year-aged Ahmed Muhammad, Oakland Technical High School’s very first Black male class valedictorian, is however penning his tale as he completes his initial calendar year of college with astounding achievements.
The starting of his freshman year at Stanford College was hectic for Muhammad, but he was however inspired to increase to the event. He attained a 4.05 grade-place common by the finish of the two semesters with a great deal credit to his superior college alma mater, KTVU claimed.
“My courses at Stanford in phrases of how I approached them weren’t far too a great deal distinctive from what my teachers essential of me in large school,” he spelled out to the information outlet.
Faculty was an adjustment for the scholar, from huge class measurements to lecture halls total of hundreds of college students.
But the willpower and lessons he discovered in significant university aided him navigate school.
Muhammad claimed, “I did not have an understanding of why they have been expecting so much in superior university, why they were being challenging on me, but now, com[ing] to university, I’m directly applying what they taught me.”
According to the climbing sophomore, those people anticipations sparked an entrepreneurial spirit in him. In the wake of the pandemic, Muhammad founded Kits Cubed, a youth-led, nonprofit group, out of his garage. He created hands-on science encounters for young children via obtainable and affordable science kits, summer season camps, and other educational supplies “purposefully created to need small to no world wide web or laptop or computer access,” per the organization’s website.
Since its launch, Kits Cubed has been functioning to increase. From once-a-year traditions this kind of as past year’s end-of-summer season science truthful to supplying free of charge science camps at the West Oakland Youth Heart, Muhammad has ideas to encourage tens of 1000’s of young experts throughout the Bay Location, the state, and the entire world.
Named a National Geographic Youthful Explorer, Muhammad is working to build a pilot plan to develop new kits to be dispersed to Oakland school rooms and integrated with the Oakland Unified School District’s science curriculum. This initiative intends to see the mild of day by means of the nonprofit’s alignment with the Full Alternative Science System (FOSS) curriculum, a exploration-centered science curriculum for grades K-8.
“So little ones can essentially consider house the materials and increase on the material that their academics taught them,” Muhammad stated, adding, “It’s dependent on the same philosophy for little ones to explore the issues they know and are familiar with to exhibit science is all all around them.”
Muhammad is at this time employing learners aged 16 to 24 in places together with package enhancement, group outreach, internet marketing and graphic design and style. He’s also encouraging younger volunteers to use for a summer months internship with his organization. Test out the announcement by using Instagram underneath:
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Ukrainian officials reported on Saturday that it has received heavy incoming artillery fire for the first time from neighboring nation Belarus. That country is a Russian ally but has not been directly involved in the invasion that began in February.
The Russians have used Belarus as a staging area and for logistical support during the invasion, although the nation has not previously been directly engaged.
The town of Desna in the country’s northern Chernigiv region was hit by 20 rockets according to the northern Ukrainian military command. No casualties were initially reported. The Saturday attack from Belarus came one day after Ukraine announced a strategic retreat from the city of Severodonetsk.
Ukraine’s military intelligence services issued a statement saying the strike is “directly linked to Kremlin efforts to pull Belarus as a co-belligerent into the war in Ukraine.”
At the time of the airstrike on Saturday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to be in a meeting with Belarusan President Aleksandr Lukashenko in St. Petersburg.
Western observers are becoming increasingly concerned about the greater involvement of Belarus in assisting the Russian war effort. Russia expert Mark Voyger of the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Analysis said earlier this month that the actions of the Belarusian military present new dangers in the conflict.
He said that intelligence reports show Belarus is planning military exercises very near the Ukrainian border. He noted that Russia has consistently used military drills by its allies as “cover for their aggressive actions.”
Voyger also said that Putin has been applying pressure to Lukashenko to “force him to take a more aggressive stance to launch more aggressive actions out of Belarus, involving Belarusian troops.”
Lukashenko wrote to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres last month with a warning that international efforts to supply Ukraine with military equipment and weapons “could lead to World War III.” He claimed that his only concern was to “prevent the regional conflict in Europe from escalating into a full-scale world war.”
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2009: In the early morning hours on the day of the Grammy Awards, R&B singer Chris Brown is arrested and held on suspicion of making criminal threats on his girlfriend, fellow singer Rihanna, who suffered visible injuries and identified him as her attacker. The incident led Rihanna to postpone concerts scheduled in Indonesia and in Malaysia. Brown would plead guilty to felony assault in June and be sentenced to five years probation and six months of community service. The two singers are seen here in December 2008.
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FROM SURVEY-BASED TO REGISTER-BASED STATISTICS: A PARADIGM SHIFT USING LATENT VARIABLE MODELS
National Institutes involved in the production of official statistics have to face the growing need of timely, high quality, comprehensive and relevant estimates of population parameters of interest. While the use of administrative information has always been fundamental in official statistics to improve estimates derived from sample surveys, we are nowadays assisting to the so-called paradigm shift from survey-based to register-based statistics. This shift is assigning to administrative data a central role in the production of official statistics: they are not considered any longer as simple instrumental information, but, rather, are directly used for the estimation of population quantities. Within this framework, surveys are mainly meant to fill in the information that is not yet available in the administrative registers.
As it is clear, the integration of data coming from different data sources represents a key aspect of such a paradigm shift. Together with the potentiality of this emerging approach (cost reduction, quality improvement, deduced burden on respondents), a number of new methodological issues arises. These lead to the need (and to the opportunity) of developing novel, more flexible, statistical methods to use for the production of official statistics based on improved linking methods as well as on improved sampling and estimation methodologies. In this respect, three main research objectives represent the core of the present project: record linkage and data integration, statistical modelling for the estimation of Census and population quantities, small area estimation for the estimation of population parameters for unplanned domains.
The project focuses on the development of new, improved, record linkage (RL) methods for merging potentially noisy data sources, in the absence of a unique identifier; the aim is both to remove duplicated information and to increase the informative content of each single source.
The project also focuses on the development of new model-assisted and model-based projection estimators for the estimation of Census and population quantities. Models based on latent variables, both in the form of parametric – Gaussian – and non-parametric random parameters will be investigated to derive improved estimates from integrated, geo-referenced data, coming from multiple data sources. The last objective of the project focuses on the development of new small area estimation (SAE) methods for the estimation of population parameters from linked data. The research will focus also on developing (robust) small area models in a causal framework for policy evaluation. Novel methods will be proposed to estimate the area specific average treatment effects for unplanned domains. In this framework, latent variables may play a central role to model sources of unobserved heterogeneity. In this framework another goal of the project is to develop a methodology to estimate quantile regression in presence of endogeneity. | <urn:uuid:d8b4ec3c-a239-4c3f-bf91-99302d39d81e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://people.unipi.it/nicola_salvati/project-description/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.884054 | 562 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Word of the Month - Cooperation
DDS’s word of the month is cooperation. Our ambassador for cooperation is a famous Canadian lady named Nellie McClung. In 1927, Ms. McClung cooperated and worked together with 4 other women to help all Canadian women achieve more equal rights, including the right to vote. Read more about Nellie McClung on the Word of the Month poster outside the office, or look her up on Google! Here is a link to a fun page all about Ms. McClung. Interesting fact - she is also on a run of the Canadian $100.00 bill.
Word of the Month - GENEROSITY
Our ambassador for December's Word of the Month is Tommy Douglas. Because of his generosity and love for people, in 1966, he ensured that universal health care was available to all Canadians.
Generosity seems to be such a fitting word for this season. During this season of joy, please remember those who may be looking towards Christmas with dread or anxiety. Many families are wondering if they will be able to have anything to eat on Christmas, let alone a gift under the tree for their precious littles.
While you are buying gifts for your children, why not buy an extra and donate it to Toys for Tots? While shopping for your Christmas Dinner with all the trimmings, why not buy a little extra and donate it to the local food back? Please keep in mind what this season is truly about – kindness, generosity, and bringing joy to the lives of others.
Word of the Month - RESPONSIBILITY
November’s Word of the Month is responsibility and Sir John A. Macdonald is a great representative for this. Who is Sir MacDonald? He was a very important man – he was the one who essentially created Canada! Sir MacDonald was our very first prime minister in 1867. He believed that the people could unite and create a country and he took on the responsibility of doing just that. Sir MacDonald worked very hard to bring people together into a new nation we call Canada. Stop by the office to see the Word of the Month poster and stay tuned for more on Sir John A. MacDonald and what responsibility is all about.
Word of the Month for October is - RESPECT
David Suzuki is our bannerman for respect this month. He is a huge proponent of respect for the environment, through respect for each other. Follow this link HERE to learn more about Suzuki's respectful philosophies.
Word of the Month for September is COURAGE
Our word of the month for September is COURAGE.
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero and we honour him each September by walking and running in his memory. He showed great courage.
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What makes SOLIDWORKS such a powerful application is the sheer breadth of tools and utilities it offers designers. It would seem that the only limitation to what can be created in SOLIDWORKS is our imagination. In this week’s Video Tech Tip, we share with you one of the little-known utilities found in SOLIDWORKS: the DrawCompare tool. This utility offers the functionality to compare many different compare tools that inspect your documents for differences and present you with an easy to follow report outlining any changes
How To Use the DrawCompare Tool
The DrawCompare utility can be used to compare: documents, features, geometry, BOMs and 3D PMI.
- Documents: Compares the properties of two SOLIDWORKS documents (or two configurations of the same document). This utility identifies file properties, document-specific properties, and document properties.
- Features: Identifies the differences in solid features, including appearance properties (colors, optics, and textures) between two versions of the same part (or two configurations of the same part). Features are compared by name and type and are classified into three different categories- identical features, modified features, and unique features.
- Geometry: Compares two parts (or two configurations of the same part) and identifies differences between two versions of the same part. Compare Geometry performs both volume comparison and face comparison. For assemblies, you can compare geometry only in volumes, and for surface models, you can compare geometry only in faces.
- BOMs: Compares Bill of Material (BOM) tables from two SOLIDWORKS assembly or drawing documents. You can compare BOM tables from two assemblies, two drawings, or an assembly and a drawing.
As you can see, the DrawCompare tool is a real time saver when you need to see what’s different between models or files.
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Optocleaner UV equipment for weed
control cares about global warming.
Sea Ice news. - Canada's
arctic ice shelf has 'massively' shrunk -
Consequences of less sea
Click on the graphs and click on the pictures for more information from the
CO2 - updated monthly.
A little rise in temperature as well as a rise in
greenhouse gases will push
global warming further,
amplified by not well understood feedback loops.
In addition to water vapor,
CO2 is the dominating greenhouse gas.
However the concentration of CO2, shown on the
graph below, goes in the wrong direction.
Man made activities during the last 100 years is
correlated to the sudden rise in CO2 concentration.
Data from ice cores shows "more normal" fluctuations 2000 years back - but
happens right now
is alarming - as it elevate the global temperature shown at the bottom of the
safe level may be 350 ppm CO2, but who is responsible for setting a limit.
Where should we aim to prevent dangerous climate change?
To make the decision "not to act" will have
Just to say that the climate has always
been changing is to accept the consequences.
Methane Hydrates, at present trapped underground, makes things even worse
and so do more
water vapor, as the concentration of methane and water vapor goes up with rising
CO2 produced by soil bacteria and forest fires
goes up as well.
This "positive feedback loop" can suddenly
make things go very fast.
Climate Change" situation is hopeful not yet the case
CO2 may have to stay in the atmospheric for
thousands of years.
New data shows
oceans. It decreases the take-up of CO2, and
Deforestation makes things
As more than 90% of global warming ends up in the oceans,
rise of sea temperature
gives a clear status.
It is also a proof of global warming.
Most of the energy involved per year is calculated and shown
Be prepared for
severe flooding and climatic change or take
action to cut CO2 emission.
extreme weather can be expected. e.g.
Longer lasting and more intense heat waves,
wildfires, long intense rain showers,
stronger hurricanes, change in vegetation and more spread of
a source of Ocean Life and photosynthesis at sea, is already declining.
Plankton is the major CO2 sink as huge as the forests and green vegetation at land.
It also produce half of the oxygen on earth and the volatile organic sulfur gas DMS,
to increase cloud cover.
Military advisers makes
recommendations as mass migration,
conflicts may follow.
Antarctic ice sheet is
beneath the ice.
Report by a short
Video and a new
The Ross Ice Shelf, a massive piece of ice the size of France,
collapse without warning.
The much smaller Ice Shelf,
Larsen B, disintegrated in 2002.
Meltwater has the last 20 000 years changed the sea level by
more than 100 m.
Antarctic glaciers melting more quickly.
A lot of uncertainty remains.
- Is a
reduction of CO2 - wherever
possible - enough to stop the rise in temperature ?
- Some scientist says "it is not just us" -
maybe it is solar activity. If
so even more
has to be done to limit the damage created by both man and e.g. the sun.
the recorded sunspot number by yourself - it has been unusual low during 2008
the beginning of 2009 but it is primary a 11 year
cycle so it comes up again during the next few years.
The present deep sunspot minimum and La Nina
would normally give a period of cooling.
- The fact is instead Global Dimming. BBC
- It won't help either to blame water vapor, if we can't remove it.
- To invent
climate myths is not ethical - there is too much at stake. We have
to investigate the facts very fast to find the right solutions.
- Whatever the causes, we can not afford
the temperature to get out of control.
- What is
the cost of doing too little too late ?
wherever possible, is probably too little to stop global warming,
but CO2 can be pumped under
sea flour in liquid form 2)
should be collected and used as fuel instead of leaking to the atmosphere.
Wilkins Ice Shelf in Antarctic break-up.
We are dealing with a balance
in the earths
cycle and energy budget.
By tipping the balance, temperature are set to rise.
Higher temperature will tip the balance even more.
In artic regions with methane trapped
under permafrost, temperature goes up faster than shown below.
The temperature will accelerate further up3)
for some time
until we reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere4)
to a level
the energy budget back into balance.
As less CO2 will be absorbed by the ocean due to higher temperature and
saturation effects, equilibrium
will require very low CO2 emission.
To delay a major cut in CO2 is to allow the temperature to jump and
be released -
far worse than CO2.
Fatal delay has already been added by
masking Global Warming by air pollution.
The reduction of sunlight in some areas is up to 25% and the main source is
Asia's brown cloud.
It will rise the temperature
further and trigger CO2 to flush out of the deep ocean through natural ocean currents
CH4 to flush out of the seabed.
Passing a point of no return, temperature will lead and concentrations of CO2
and CH4 will increase further.
A "thermal runaway" situation
like the prehistoric global warming episode, called the
Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, or
Planet earth survives
and periods of extreme warming with a plummeting oxygen level.
However most species do not.
Man has to fight the very
powerful forces of nature before
passing the point of no return.
The warming has to be stopped using all means known today and additional new
such as e.g. a reflective non polluting stuff in the atmosphere.
However tests should be monitored by the press in order to share
the expensive research results.
The massive ongoing tests seen in the sky behind some airplanes
shows huge operations but the research results are so far a secret
Years from now we hopeful find more means to stop global warming best described
the rise in Ocean Heat Content.
The major dips in the curve are
Things are probably much more complicated than known today, but CO2 is an
factor that can be changed by us. Other factors may be beyond our reach.
The sun offer us
all the energy we need.
Nuclear and wind power is a supplement.
Better batteries and fuel cells are being developed. However we are short
Some future control of water vapor and clouds could be very helpful and so
in converting CO2 into something more
useful. Until then
CO2 can be
CO2 can be reduced and new CO2 efficient equipment can be used.
A little more "borrowed time" may be available from geoengineering La Nina,
by forcing cold deep sea water up if we have to gamble.
New CO2 free energy sources could be "the solution" - if such technology
is "low risk" and has "a clean" production process.
We are the last
generation able to stop a runaway climate change as
are passed right now.
point of no return" means no way back
even if all economic and all military resources are used.
A 100% CO2 cut will be far too little to stop the forces of nature.
"Runaway" means that the temperature can not stop when we pass year 2050 or 2100
- first stop is "hot house".
If we fail
the next few decades, the setback can be 100 000 years or 1 million
During a few decades, we can loose modern technology and the rate of change can
be so fast that there is not enough time
to adapt to old technology even stone age technology.
The huge amount of
methane hydrate collected since the last major event 55 million years ago can
easily set the species of
planet earth further back.
A runaway warming probably stops at a hot equilibrium stage before planet earth
Venus, but we do not know.
Venus has demonstrated what happens when too much greenhouse gas is stored
in the atmosphere.
Homo Sapiens: "Endangered Species" or
"Invasive Species" ?
1) Move the map with mouse
+ left click engaged. Adjust
sea level and select Hybrid to combine a satellite map with a road
Zoom by using the slider in the left upper corner to show
future flooding in your local area.
Realize that one kilo fossil fuel mostly consists of carbon atoms - nearly one
kilo carbon atoms.
To form CO2, two oxygen atoms, coming from the air, are added
and they are a little heavier than carbon.
It adds up to extract around 3 kilo liquid to pump
underground. Large consumers of fossil fuel should do that right now in full
cost. However cutting CO2 is cheaper if possible, but it is not enough.
3) Temperature and
sea level will go up for decades even if all emissions from fossil fuel were
stopped overnight - a 100% CO2 cut.
Maybe such an "emergency break" will work after
being active each day for a few decades,
but we can not be sure as the reduction
we already made to natural carbon sinks has to be accounted for - se the
carbon cycle and energy budget.
A backup plan "plan
B" could be to extract more CO2 from the air than emitted and pump it
underground - a cut of more than 100%
Low risk 4th generation nuclear power plants burning old
nuclear waste could be put into production.
Collecting leaking methane gas could also be very helpful -
oil companies already have the natural gas distribution network.
Less meat from
land animals, especially cows
combined with population control.
White paint on rooftops, cars and roads would reflect some
The good thing is that a small fraction of the sunlight
available can cover our need for electricity and heat.
4) The spike in CO2
concentration were obtained in less than 100 years, but the conclusion by
David Archer is that the emitted CO2
will stay in the air longer than previously thought. His
research shows that the CO2 lifetime in the air is around 300 years
but with a long
tail, as the last 25% will take thousands of years to remove.
To stop the temperature in time will be difficult as we are
late and most humans do not understand how a little rise in
temperature will speedup a further rise in
temperature and might trigger a flip from 10 000 years of stable climate conditions
a hot "greenhouse earth" -
not a healthy place for humans
sulfide is released.
5) If the
aerosols (not ordinary "contrails" or "steam clouds"
after jet engines but huge metallic dust clouds staying for hours)
designed to bring the temperature down, we ought to se results right now.
Even without an "artificial sunshield" the global temperature
should go down for a few years based on the cold water
upwelling in the pacific (La Nina) and based on a a low number of sunspots (zero).
Warm upwelling water (El Nino) will be back a few years from
now. The number of sunspots is now to rise following a 11 year cycle.
What will happened if we get a combination of warm El Nino,
high number of sunspots and low dust/pollution in the air ?
Carbon sinks are destroyed faster than ever.
concentration of greenhouse gases
( click on the map to select e.g. Greenland and
Antarctica for the major gases CO2, CH4 and N2O )
are now passing very critical safety levels.
Another application of aerosols could be to reduce cosmic
radiation and UV light in case of a "superwave"
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ELIZABETHTOWN — Learning and good nutrition does not end when school lets out. The Bladen County Schools Seamless Summer Feeding Program, funded by the US Department of Agriculture, helps provide free nutritious meals to children and youth under the age of 18 so they are better fueled with healthy food to learn and grow.
From now through July 31, free breakfast and lunch will be available at any of the following locations: Bladenboro Middle School, East Arcadia School, Elizabethtown Primary School, Tar Heel Middle School, and West Bladen High School. People interested in participating can stop by any of these locations between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m., Monday through Thursday, to enjoy a healthy and nutritious meal.
Residents conducting a summer service camp, bible school, day camp, enrichment program, athletic camp, community center program, parks and recreation program, library program, or small licensed home daycare and childcare center that do not operate under CACFP are eligible to provide free meals through the summer feeding program. Contact the Bladen County Schools Summer Feeding Manager at 862-4136 to find out how to participate in the program. | <urn:uuid:50c4fe07-b8ad-4725-a594-fee7e48a14e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bladenjournal.com/news/6543/bcs-offering-free-summer-meals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00312-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947356 | 239 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Last summer, my daughter spent four nights at a sleep-away camp where she fed baby goats from the palm of her hand and gave a cow a bath. She returned home with a pile of filthy clothes, an inspired sense of independence, and a new fondness and appreciation for farm animals that’s nearly impossible to gain when you’re growing up in the middle of a city as she is.
At the camp pickup, the first thing my 9-year-old daughter told me was, “I’m a vegetarian!” This wasn’t the first time I’d heard those words. She’d already gone through a few meatless phases—most of them short-lived and linked to a specific incident where she interacted with an animal in an intimate way and contemplated whether she’d actually want to eat that furry beast. A hike through a field of cows in the spring when spindly-legged calves were wobbling through the green fuzzy grass led to a decision to not eat hamburgers that lasted about a week. Time spent with some friends backyard chickens spurred a similar plan, which she again abandoned quickly.
It’s these interactions with animals that led her to make a direct connection between the animals who are dying for her dinner. That chunk of pork chop was once a pig who was as cute as the smiley swine in the beloved film Babe. Why in the world would anyone want to eat that? For a child just trying to figure out the world, this is confusing. Maybe not so much for a child growing up on a farm where pets become dinner, but most of today’s kids aren’t growing up in this sort of environment so it’s probably a moot point.
My daughter’s commitment to vegetarianism after camp lasted about six months. I was happy to let her explore a meat-free diet as long she she agreed to eat plenty of protein including fish. Our weekly salmon meal (typically the frozen wild kind from Trader Joe’s) led her to be more of a pescetarian than a full-blown vegetarian but I figured she needed the fish protein since her brain is still developing. I also had her talk to our pediatrician for some tips and advice on getting enough protein, and I figured she was more likely to listen to a doctor than her mom. And she’d already heard my philosophy around eating meat a million times (everything in moderation is in my opinion the healthy way to go) so I knew not to proselytize. This would only infuriate her and lead her to some other extreme such as veganism.
Her diet didn’t cause much havoc in our household because we only eat red meat when we go out for burgers once or twice a month and most of our meals can easily be meat-free. On taco night, she ate more black beans and skipped the grilled chicken. Often she made her own salads and became quite good at concocting dressings that she’d often end up drinking by the spoonful (she has a love for oil and vinegar that’s quite remarkable).
And then one day my son and I were making salami sandwiches and I was about to pull out a jar of peanut butter for her and she said…”I think I want salami…” I simply said, “Ok” because I knew that making a big deal about it would enrage her. And that was that.
I bring this all up because in the latest cute-kid video to take the Internet by storm, an adorable little Portuguese boy, who seems far older and wiser than his elementary school age, converses with his mother about the ethics of eating animals as he contemplates where to eat the octopus piled atop his bowl of gnocchi. The video is in Portuguese and was translated into English with subtitles. It has been viewed more than half a million times.
This video—that seems to be the work of some great foreign film director rather than an amateur—beautifully presents that moment when kids try to get their head around the idea of eating an animal. And the mother’s responses are priceless–as is her reaction at the end of the video (be sure to watch the full thing).
If you’re a parent then the nature of the conversation between the mother and son will be familiar to you. I’ve learned from my daughter and many of her friends who’ve also tried out a vegetarian diet (some of them have stuck with it but most flip-flop back-and-forth) that it’s perfectly normal (and probably healthy) for kids to question why we’d eat a living, breathing being, especially one that’s as cute as a young, frisky cow grazing in a grassy pasture can be. | <urn:uuid:a263ba87-40a9-4b60-be59-66cae5d79005> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.sfgate.com/sfmoms/2013/06/03/video-worlds-cutest-kid-contemplates-whether-to-eat-octopus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980923 | 1,003 | 1.695313 | 2 |
12% of the population of developing countries consists of individuals with special needs in reference to the statistics of World Health Organization. Persons having impaired hearing, (orthopedic) physically-challenged or visually impaired persons, the persons with learning disorder, speech disorder, adjustment disorder, chronic diseases and the persons in need of protection are accepted as handicapped persons or persons with disabilities.
The General Assembly of the United Nations describes "disability" as the inability to do the work needs to be done individually in social life due to an inherited or adventitious handicap in physical and mental ability unlike normal people. The definition of architectural disability is the situation when people are prevented due to their physical deficiencies and lack of suitable facilities in buildings designed according to general needs.
Disabled individuals should be able to actively participate in everyday life as well as other individuals and have access to the condition of "independent living" in contemporary urban and society structures. It is the most natural right of the disabled individuals, as in every individual, to sustain their experiences whether alone or with little help without a hitch. Of course, some special conditions must be provided in order for disabled people to be actively involved in social, communal and business life. Indispensable items of everyday life such as intra-city transportation order, equipment for public transports, architectural structure of public usage areas and urban furniture should be designed, produced and applied in such a way that will enable other individuals to use them without limiting the accessibility of disabled individuals.
Orthopedically handicapped people are those who are restricted in their ability to move or who need some equipment to help them move.
The equipment they use requires arrangements in physical spaces in terms of making the device difficult to relocate and their required range of motion. For this reason, it is very important to know the sizes and materials used in the equipment of orthopedic handicapped people in the arrangements made in or around buildings.
People with disabilities are often unable to use the physical environments because of not being equipped in a form suitable to their needs in Turkey. Handicapped people are generally not considered as users in urban areas where physical arrangements are required (squares, carriage ways, pedestrian roads, gateways, green-fields) and the spaces of public buildings where special design is needed (entrances, circulation, wet areas). This situation has begun to change positively and access of disabled people in public buildings has begun to be facilitated with the recent legal regulations.
Being a part of business life is an important requirement for disabled people to actively participate in social life in addition to have suitable urban structure and accessibility. It seems that the basis of social policies for disabled people is directed specifically to the employment of them and special arrangement of their working life and work relations. It is stated protecting disabled people by employing them and helping them to keep their jobs is suitable for the purposes of international social policy principles and these policies will coincide with health and education policies for the same purpose. The works towards making disabled people a part of social and economic life have started at the beginning of the 20th century. The idea of obligation regarding employing disabled people was born with an increase in the number of handicapped people in Europe, especially after the World Wars. This arrangement is aimed at ensuring that the disabled people are producers instead of consumers.
Treatment and services should be provided to those who have lost their physical, mental and spiritual strength due to diseases or accidents that occurred congenital or adventitious; the abilities and strengths of these people need to be corrected at the highest level in medical, social and occupational aspects and they need to be self-sufficient individuals who can act independently in society in consequence of the rehabilitation service provided to them.
It is clear that the level of social consciousness should be increased both politically and socially to achieve a healthy, strong, stable society where all individuals actively participate in everyday and business life and to have a state and community structure in which each individual has access to equal physical conditions.
THE OBJECTIVE OF THE CENTER
The objective of the center is engaging in activities such as doing researches, developing projects, expanding awareness of the society, contributing to the active participation of disabled people in business life, increasing their employment opportunities in the fields such as architecture, social, education, and policy development with the objective of ensuring that disabled people are able to access to "independent living" conditions and they can participate in urban life.
THE FIELD OF ACTIVITY OF THE CENTER
a) To carry out researches with the purpose of providing "independent living" conditions to disabled people,
b) To develop ideas and projects to find financial support within the scope of these studies,
c) To develop projects on various scales in order to enable disabled people to participate actively in urban and community life,
d) To develop ideas and projects for the participation of disabled people in business life and to increase their employment opportunities,
e) To provide career support services for the participation of disabled people in business life and to increase their employment opportunities,
f) To develop and execute joint projects by cooperating with foundations, non-governmental organizations, municipality centers, agencies, research centers, etc. related to disabled people,
g) To open vocational and personal skill development courses for disabled people and to give certificates to the successful trainees,
h) To give seminars to different sections of the society with the intent of increasing public consciousness,
I) To organize national and international scientific meetings in order to develop possible improvements and solutions to apply now and in future with the aim of ensuring disabled people actively participate in communal life,
j) To publish books and periodical publications within the Center,
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Case Management in Maryland's Tomorrow.
Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore.
Case management is an essential component of Maryland's Tomorrow projects. Case management is a client-centered, goal-oriented process for assessing the needs of an individual for particular services and assisting the client to obtain those services. Under Maryland's Tomorrow projects, a case manager develops a plan of service with an at-risk student, identifies the responsibilities of the student, and is responsible for finding and implementing all the resources needed to meet the training, education, support, and other needs of the student. Some of the actions required of case managers are as follows: (1) encourage parents to become involved in their children's education; (2) help students set realistic goals; (3) help students develop their own plan of action for achieving goals; (4) help students gain access to the services and resources they need to reach their goals; and (5) help students to gain access to services outside the school. The case management program can include techniques such as assessment, contracts, progress reports, weekly assignment sheets, and parental involvement. (Appendixes, which make up about two-thirds of the report, include forms for assessments, contracts, progress reports, weekly assignment sheets, and parental involvement derived from Maryland's Tommorrow projects.) (KC)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
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OPINION NUMBER - 168
ADOPTED - 1996/11/01
SUBJECT - Conflicts of Interest
REQUESTED BY: Anthony F. Raimondo, Chairman, Nebraska Economic Development Commission
QUESTION: 1) Does a member of the Economic Development Commission have a conflict of interest if a business with which he is associated applies for a grant from the Nebraska Department of Economic Development? 2) Can a member of the Economic Development Commission have an interest in a contract with the Nebraska Department of Economic Development?
As to question #1, see analysis. As to question #2, see analysis.
Behlen Manufacturing Company (Behlen) of Columbus, Nebraska has applied for a grant pursuant to the Customized Job Training Program. This is a state developed economic incentive program which is administered by the Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED). If approved, the grant would provide $50,000 to Behlen for the purpose of providing training in connection with fifty jobs which Behlen is considering transferring from Indiana to Nebraska. The requestor is the president and chief executive officer of Behlen.
According to a publication of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development entitled STATE OF NEBRASKA'S CUSTOMIZED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM- Instruction Guidelines and Application:
The purpose of customized job training is to provide State assistance on projects which offer an opportunity for economic development in Nebraska... In general, the types of companies qualifying are those engaged in activities which sell goods/services primarily to a non-Nebraska market: manufacturing, processing, warehousing, and headquarter facilities are some examples.
In practice, DED does not simply wait for some interested business to apply for these grants. Instead, it depends on an informal network of contacts throughout the state to bring to its attention businesses which are considering the expansion of existing operations or which are considering locating within the state. The department may actually make the initial contact with the business. If the business is interested in the job training program, a DED employee under the direction of the DED Job Training Coordinator will meet with representatives of the business. The employee will assist the business with the application process.
Upon receipt of the application, the Job Training Coordinator reviews it for completeness. It is then forwarded to the Department review team. The review team recommends approval or disapproval of the application to the Director of DED. A recommendation to approve includes a recommendation as to the amount of the grant and conditions of the grant. If the Director approves the grant, a job training grant agreement is prepared and signed by DED and the business.
Section 49-1499 of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act identifies a potential conflict of interest as a situation in which a public official is faced with making a decision or taking an action which may cause a financial benefit or detriment to: a) the public official; b) a member of his or her immediate family; or c) a business with which he is associated. In addition, the benefit or detriment must be distinguishable from the effect experienced by the general public or a broad segment of it.
Section 49-1408 defines "business with which the individual is associated" as a business in which "the individual is a partner, limited liability company member, director, or officer." A person may also have a business association by virtue of holding stock with a certain dollar value or representing a certain equity interest. The requestor has a business association with Behlen based upon his being its president and chief executive officer.
The question becomes whether the requestor is faced, in his official capacity, with making a decision or taking an action which could result in a financial benefit or detriment to Behlen. It is the position of the Commission that he is not.
Section 81-1201.02 of the state statutes provides for the establishment of the Department of Economic Development and the Economic Development Commission. It further provides that:
The purpose of the department and the commission shall be to maintain and develop the economy of the state and to provide opportunities for the people which will enhance and expand the quality of their lives.
The balance of §81-1201.02 includes other general statements of authority as to DED and the Economic Development Commission. Subsequent sections of this series of statutes establish the process by which members of the Economic Development Commission are appointed, their qualifications, payment of expenses, and a requirement of at least four meetings per year. While these subsequent statutes provide for certain powers and duties of the Department of Economic Development, there is no specific mention of further powers or duties for the Economic Development Commission.
Sections 81-1202 through 81-1210 of the state statutes pertain specifically to Job Training Grants. These sections became operative in 1995. There is no reference to the Economic Development Commission in these sections.
Title 85, Chapter 1 is a rule of DED entitled Rules Relating to the Administration of the Nebraska Job Training Grant. This rule was developed pursuant to the provisions of §81-1210. There is no reference in Title 85, Chapter 1 to the Economic Development Commission.
While many agencies of the State of Nebraska are governed by boards or commissions, the Department of Economic Development is not one of them. The Economic Development Commission does not choose the DED director or make any decisions binding on the agency. It is essentially an advisory body and a forum for discussion of economic development issues and broad state policy in the area of economic development. In neither law or practice does it have any role in process of making grants pursuant to the Customized Job Training Program.
Based upon the foregoing, it does not appear that the member of the Economic Development Commission will be faced with taking any official action or making any official decision with regard to the grant application of Behlen. He does not, therefore, have a conflict of interest. However, the fact that there is no conflict of interest is not dispositive of the matter.
Section 49-14,102 of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act provides in part as follows:
[N]o public official or public employee, a member of that individual's immediate family, or a business with which the individual is associated shall enter into a contract valued at two thousand dollars or more, in any one year, with a governmental body unless the contract is awarded through an open and public process which includes prior public notice and subsequent availability for public inspection during the regular office hours of the contracting governmental body of the proposals considered and the contract awarded... This section shall not apply to a contract when the public official or public employee does not in any way represent either party in the transaction.
The nature of a Job Training Grant is one of contract. That is, the applicant agrees to do something in exchange for money from the state. The instruction guidelines and rules of DED also refer to the post award document signed by it and the applicant as a contract. Because the requestor has a business association with Behlen, he has an interest in the contract. Section 49-14,102 prohibits such an interest unless the requirements of the section are met.
In past advisory opinions, the Commission has addressed the concept of an "open and public process." It has stated that a bidding process is an open and public process. It has also stated that an open and public process includes one in which the matter of awarding a contract is an agenda item for a meeting of a governing body if the meeting is publicized in the normal manner of the governing body. See Advisory Opinions #61, #87 and #154. These are not necessarily the only processes which can be considered open and public.
The process prescribed in STATE OF NEBRASKA'S CUSTOMIZED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM- Instruction Guidelines and Application is not an open and public process. While not confidential, the application and approval process is not one which would ever likely come to the attention of the public. There is no prior public notice of the submission of the application, the recommendation of the review team, nor the decision of the Director of DED.
Part of §49-14,102 quoted above provides that the section shall not apply to a contract in which the public official does not in any way represent either party to the transaction. In Advisory Opinion #39, the Commission took the position that the president of a corporation "would necessarily represent...one of the parties to the proposed contract". That situation involved a for-profit corporation in which the president was involved in the day to day operations of the corporation. In Advisory Opinion #154 the Commission acknowledged that a president of a corporation would not always necessarily represent one party to the transaction. A determination is dependent upon the manner in which the business is conducted. The situation addressed by Advisory #154 involved the president of an international membership organization in which the president served a one year term and had no day to day role in the operation.
The circumstances in the matter before us are more analogous to the situation addressed in Advisory Opinion #39. In his capacity as president and chief executive officer of Behlen, the requestor necessarily represents one party to the transaction. It is our opinion, therefore, that the exception to §49-14,102 does not apply.
A member of the Economic Development Commission may only have an interest in a contract with the Department of Economic Development if the contract is awarded through an open and public process. The current process is not open and public. If DED wants to develop a different process for awarding these grants, the Commission would be willing to review the process in order to determine if it meets the open and public process test.
Compliance with the provisions of §49-14,102 is important for least two reasons. The first is that a contract entered into contrary to the provisions of §49-14,102 is voidable by a court of competent jurisdiction. See §49-14,103. The second is that the provisions of §49-14,101(3) prohibit a public official from using his or her public office, or confidential information received through the holding of a public office for personal financial gain, that of an immediate family member, or a business with which he or she is associated. Having a prohibited interest in a contract with a governing body could be evidence of a violation of §49-14,101(3).
Finally, we note the existence of Attorney General's Opinion #87012 which was issued in 1987. That opinion takes the position that a member of the Economic Development Commission may not directly receive a grant administered by DED. However, the opinion did not address the application of §49-14,102. It is the Commission's position that §49-14,102 clearly contemplates that public officials may have an interest in a contract with a state agency as long as the statutory criteria are met.
Absent an open and public process for awarding a Customized Job Training grant, a member of the Economic Development Commission who has a business association with a grantee has a prohibited interest in a contract as provided by §49-14,102.
A member of the Economic Development Commission does not have a conflict of interest if a business with which he is associated applies for a Customized Job Training Grant from the Department of Economic Development because he is not faced with taking an official action or making an official decision in connection with the application. The member may not have an interest in a contract with the Department of Economic Development unless the contract is awarded through an open and public process. | <urn:uuid:239e3946-1ad0-4dde-b077-01b6470574e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nadc.nebraska.gov/AdvisoryOpinions/OPINION%20168.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00220-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958252 | 2,335 | 1.539063 | 2 |
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Press Release – TOUGHLOVE
Parents dont need to stand idly by, whilst their teenage children ruin their own lives and those of other family members through use of legal highs, says TOUGHLOVE. The parent support organisation has issued a list of recommendations or parents who …8 April 2014
Don’t Stand Idly By Whilst Legal Highs Ruin Teenage Lives
TOUGHLOVE issues list of recommendations for parents of drug-taking teens
Parents don’t need to stand idly by, whilst their teenage children ruin their own lives and those of other family members through use of legal highs, says TOUGHLOVE.
The parent support organisation has issued a list of recommendations (see below) for parents who suspect their teen might be experimenting with legal highs or other drugs.
Where drug use is suspected, the list recommends parents should search their homes for substances and confiscate any found. The search should also extend to their teens’ bedrooms.
In addition, TOUGHLOVE urges parents with drug-using teenagers to make contact with the organisation, either via its website www.toughlove.org.nz or by telephoning its freephone helpline 0800 868 445. And it recommends participation in a local TOUGHLOVE Parent Support Group.
Now in its thirtieth year of operations, TOUGHLOVE has helped tens of thousands of New Zealand parents cope with the trauma of unacceptable teen behaviour through Support Group participation. Parents of teenagers using legal highs are currently amongst those whom the organisation is helping.
“The surge of concern over legal highs has also underscored the devastating impact that teenage drug abuse in general can have, not only on the lives, health and well-being of the young people themselves but also on those of their parents and siblings,” says veteran Auckland Support Group facilitator, Peter Altmann.
“When parents see their much-loved children harming themselves and others through substance abuse, a typical and understandable reaction is to blame Society in general and to support calls for stronger anti-drug legislation.
“There may well be a case for tougher legislation. But, on its own, this approach will do little to help either a drug-dependent teen or a parent whose self-confidence and peace of mind are in shreds because of a situation they can’t control,” he says.
“For this reason, we recommend that parents declare their homes to be ‘drug free zones’ and, if they suspect their teenagers are using drugs, they should search the house, including the teens’ bedrooms, for any suspect substances or related implements.
“It shouldn’t matter to a parent whether or not the drugs are legal or illegal. You have a right and a duty to your children to keep all drugs off your property,” Mr Altmann adds.
“Another temptation is for parents to avoid confrontation. This too is understandable. But whilst you pretend to ignore a teenage drug problem, your teen’s physical and mental health might be in jeopardy, as might be your own safety and that of your other children.
“It’s important not to let matters fester. But, equally, it’s important not to respond to the situation with anger, as you’re then likely to start a pointless slanging match or worse,” he says.
Mr Altmann points out that TOUGHLOVE Support Groups are all run by parents who’ve experienced at first hand the worry, hopelessness and heartache that can result from inappropriate teenage behaviour. They are, he says, non-judgmental, supportive and well-trained in the proven strategies that TOUGHLOVE recommends.
“One thing we stress is that there are no quick fixes for coping with out-of-control teens and that parents, just as much as their children, may well need to change their behaviour.
“There’s a widespread misconception that TOUGHLOVE stands for a harsh and punitive approach. But that’s simply not our position. Instead, we stress that teenagers need a clear sense of structure, boundaries and consequences. Our name reflects the realisation that parenting is a tough job and that love is an essential part of it,” he adds.
TOUGHLOVE Parent Support Groups meet on weekday evenings, with participation kept strictly confidential. Newcomers pay a one-off sum of just $40, with a gold coin donation expected at subsequent sessions.
Further information about TOUGHLOVE is available at www.toughlove.org.nz or by telephoning the freephone helpline, 0800 868 445.
Coping With Legal Highs: Recommendations for parents of drug-taking teens:
• Declare your home a drug free zone
• If you think your teen is using legal highs or other drugs, search the house for them
• Include your teen’s bedroom in the search
• Confiscate any legal highs, other drugs or drug-related implements you find in your house
• Don’t let things fester. Speak to your teen at an early point about what you’ve discovered
• Don’t confront in anger. It could lead to a slanging match or worse
• Set consequences for further drug use and make sure your teen understands what’s involved
• Make sure your teen understands that you still love him/her and are serious about helping
• For further advice, contact TOUGHLOVE at www.toughlove.org.nz or by dialling 0800 868 445
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Travel trailer and motorhome setups may seem intimidating at first. If you're not used to the RV lifestyle, everything you need to learn can sound harder than it is, but once you get in the habit, it's easy to remember! However, even if you're an expert, there's never any harm in taking a moment to double-check your motorhome or travel trailer setup checklist to prevent mistakes.
Travel Trailer Setup for Beginners
- Upon arrival at the campground, survey your surroundings to make sure that the area is safe for your camper. Look out for low-hanging branches and potholes, and check for adequate clearance so any slide-outs and awnings can be safely extended without being damaged.
- If you have hook-ups available at your campsite, locate them and position your RV for easy access.
- Once your vehicle is in place, you'll need to level it with a bubble level, an app on your phone, or your unit's auto-leveling system.
- Make sure the breaker on your trailer is off, then plug your surge protector into the power supply and plug in your RV's connection cord. Then, turn on the breaker.
- Turn the propane on.
- Hook up your water line to the main campground water connection. Let the water run to test it, but make sure the valves in your unit are closed first.
- Bleed out any air in the hot water tank, and then turn it on.
- If you have a full hook-up campground, the last thing you need to connect is your sewer hose. Leave the valves closed for black and gray water. If you have a tank monitoring system, check it.
- Now, you can focus on making your campground more comfortable any way you see fit.
Motorhome Setup Checklist
Whether you're a beginner or an expert in RV living, mistakes are common while setting up your motorhome, but using a checklist can help reduce the number of mistakes so you can keep your family and your vehicle safe.
- Turn the emergency brake on.
- Level the vehicle.
- Connect the power.
- Turn the propane on.
- Hook up your water line.
- Bleed air out of the hot water tank and turn it on.
- Hook up the sewer hose.
- Put out your outdoor items (awning, tables, chairs, etc.).
- Raise your antennae.
- Lower the outside step.
- Unlock exterior compartments.
- Inspect any slide-out areas to make sure there are no obstructions.
- Once it's safe, extend your slide-outs.
- Air out the unit by opening the windows or turning on the AC or heating system.
- Bleed any air from the gas line to the stove, then light the oven pilot light.
- Fill the toilet with water and flush a few times, then add the tank treatment.
- Test the water line by running the shower.
- Unpack whatever you need for camping.
- Verify that everybody you're traveling with knows where the first aid kit is, just in case.
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For the first time, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) came out in support of low-carbohydrate diets for people with diabetes who want to manage their weight. The ADA announced this landmark decision in December 2007 with its 2008 clinical practice recommendations. The latest recommendation is in sharp contrast to decades of promoting only low-fat/high-carb diets.
Furthermore, there have been several recent research studies supporting a low-carb diet in reversing diabetes, particularly type 2 diabetes, which affects nearly 20 million adults and children.
Study: Published in the January 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, this study assessed the effects of “restricted carbohydrate” diets in the management of diabetes. The analysis included data from 13 individual studies, in which lower-carb diets were compared to a higher-carb diet. The lower-carb diets used in these experiments ranged in carbohydrate content from 4 to 45 percent, so while some were genuinely low-carb, others were only slightly lower than conventional diets.
Results: Lower-carb diets led to significant improvements in blood glucose levels of HBA1c and levels of unhealthy blood fats known as triglycerides. Overall, blood sugar levels fell by 15 percent, HbA1c levels by 9.4 percent and triglyceride levels dropped by a third compared to the higher-carb diets.
Study: Published in the February 2008 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, this study analyzed the low-carbohydrate score as a risk factor for type 2 diabetes.
Results: Individuals with a higher low-carb diet score were not found to have an increased risk of diabetes. When confounding factors were accounted for, individuals with diets of the highest glycemic load were found to be about 2½ times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes compared to those who consumed diets with the lowest glycemic load. The analysis also revealed no link between animal fat intake and diabetes risk.
Judy Barnes Baker’s cookbook, filled with delicious, nutritious and low-carbohydrate recipes, can help these 20 million Americans who are trying to manage or reverse their diabetes. Carb Wars: Sugar is the New Fat (ISBN: 978-09792018-0-6; $21.95) is a lifestyle cookbook that includes nearly 400 recipes to help people enjoy food without unnecessary sugar and starch. An invaluable, comprehensive kitchen resource, the book includes:
- The history of low-carb diets
- Information about the importance of natural fats to health
- An analysis of the current low-carb diet systems
- How to read labels and how to avoid hidden sugar and starch
- In-depth information on sweeteners, fats, dairy products, flours and 27 other specific food categories
- Almost 400 recipes for both familiar favorites and new creations, from appetizers, soups and side dishes to main dishes, desserts and even breads
- Dozens of helpful tips about how to survive in a sugar-saturated world
- Sources for specialty products
There is no government definition of “low carb,” leaving it open to interpretation. The strictest of the low-carb plans start at 20 grams/day, others recommend 100 to 150 grams/day and a few allow up to 200. Baker reduced and eliminated carbs as much as possible without sacrificing taste. She provides many tips for replacing high-carb ingredients with lower-carb substitutes, including natural foods that have properties similar to the original ingredients, but fewer carbohydrates. Following are some of the recipes you’ll find:
- Peanut soup
- Pumpkin fritters
- Oven fried chicken
- Squash pasta with roasted peppers and sun-dried tomatoes
- Chocolate zucchini cake and muffins
- Chocolate truffles
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Space and tech bigwigs back new venture 'to help ensure humanity's prosperity'
Updated 4:22 pm, Wednesday, April 18, 2012
An impressive, and impressively wealthy, collection of techies just announced plans to announce what sounds like some sort of audacious new space effort.
X Prize Foundation Founder Peter Diamandis, commercial space entrepreneur Eric Anderson, former NASA Mars mission manager Chris Lewicki and planetary scientist and veteran NASA astronaut Tom Jones will gather Tuesday at the Seattle Museum of Flight's new Charles Simonyi Space Gallery to "unveil a new space venture with a mission to help ensure humanity's prosperity," according to an announcement that the new venture, Planetary Resources, released Wednesday.
"(T)he company will overlay two critical sectors – space exploration and natural resources – to add trillions of dollars to the global GDP," the release said. "This innovative start-up will create a new industry and a new definition of 'natural resources.'"
We don't have any idea what that means, but the blog Technology Review provided an intriguing guess, writing: "That sounds like asteroid mining. Because what else is there in space that we need here on earth? Certainly not a livable climate or a replacement for our dwindling supplies of oil."
Prominent astronomer Phil Plait agreed, writing:
What natural resources are there in space? Solar energy might count, but I have a strong suspicion what they're really talking about is asteroid mining. ...
The engineering behind it would be fearsome. We're a ways out from being able to do this, but if we had a big rocket — say SpaceX's Falcon Heavy (though I don't see any SpaceX folks listed in the release) — then getting an operation to a near-Earth asteroid is feasible. Even a rocky asteroid would have metals in it, and we can pick in advance one that has a higher abundance of metals. And like I said in my TED talk, we can move asteroids around if we're patient.
If I were being optimistic, I might say something like this could get off the ground in 20 years or so, depending on several variables, and maybe sooner. Let me be frank: I don't think this is a crazy idea.
Planetary Resources is supported by Simonyi, chairman of Intentional Software Corporation, Microsoft's former chief software architect and two-time space tourist, Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, film-maker and explorer James Cameron, Sherpalo founder and Google board founding member K. Ram Shriram, and Ross Perot Jr., chairman of Hillwood and The Perot Group (and son of the two-time presidential candidate).
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Happy Monday, awesome readers!
Keeping in mind that if anything can go wrong, it will, Murphy’s Law itself can also go wrong, right? I mean, it’s Murphy’s Law!
- The moment you decide to follow through on your threat to ground your teenager for the weekend, you will instantly get a call from someone asking you out on a date.
- The one time your teens’ favourite cereal goes on sale you come home with a year’s supply only to find out that they no longer like that cereal.
- The day you brag about how proud you are of your teens will also be the day that you get a call from the school principal.
- The day that you decide to clear out the basement and have a garage sale to get rid of all the “stuff” your teens have outgrown is the day they decide that they can’t live without any of it.
- The afternoon that your teen finally says “yes” to going shopping with you is the day that the planets align so that you run into every single kid from their high school.
- The morning that your teens wake up before noon is that one time that you went dancing the night before and need another 18 hours of sleep.
- Just when you think you finally “speak the same language” as your teens, old words with new meanings come into the house and it’s back to square one. | <urn:uuid:1ab60ce6-fdb3-4529-b63d-aee1aac658a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.moxie-dude.com/2014/02/24/murphys-laws-for-single-moms-because-teenagers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.95497 | 305 | 1.75 | 2 |
QUINTE SKYHAWKS MINOR FOOTBALL
The Belleville Minor Football League had its inaugural season in 1995. For three years prior to the formation of the league, a team from Belleville played in the Kingston Minor Football League. For 15 years, the league operated with two teams from Trenton, three in Belleville and one from Bancroft playing in a spring league. The league expanded by two teams in 2010 with the addition of Trent Hills Titans and Centre Hastings Centurions. 2016 brought the addition of Bayside. 2017-18 saw the Napanee area team come & go. 2020 Napanee re-entered the league again.
At the start of the 2019 the league officially changed it's name to the QUINTE SKYHAWKS MINOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE and started functioning under the auspices of the Skyhawks who operate the local area Jr. & Sr. varsity teams in the Ontario Football Conference (OFC).
Objectives and Values of the League
• To provide Grade 6, 7, & 8 children with the opportunity to play tackle football.
• To encourage children to participate in a physical activity.
• To teach children the fundamentals of football.
• To promote the game of contact football.
• To develop character in children – particularly because of the nature of the game.
• To promote co-operation in the players – the game requires 12 players to work as a unit to achieve success.
• To promote camaraderie amongst the players.
• To bring together students from different feeder schools who will be attending the same high school.
• To provide children an opportunity to learn from, and to co-operate with coaches.
• To provide children an opportunity to play organized football, with qualified referees, timers, sideline officials and assistants.
• To recognize the individual efforts of players with “Player of the Game” awards.
• To recognize team efforts with four Divisional trophies at the end of the season.
Local Minor Football has given thousands of local children an opportunity to learn the game of football. Parents are most appreciative of the efforts of the coaches, trainers and managers to provide the learning opportunities for their children.
Concussion are brain injuries. As a league, we follow all requirements laid out in Rowan's Law.
Like all injuries, concussions must be treated accordingly. If your child is suspected to have a concussion during practice or a game, the coach or trainer will immediately remove your son/daughter from all activities. Parents/Guardian will be notified. It is critical that an athlete with a suspected concussion be examined by a medical doctor. It is also a parent/guardian responsibiliy to inform coaches of any concussions and injuries received outside of the football realm. It is also up to parents/guardians to decide if they want to do Baseline Testing for concussions. Call your family doctor to see if they think it will be required. Please familiarize yourself with Rowans Law, as it is not only your coaches responsibility, but also that of each player and their parent.
Insurance is covered the auspices of Football Ontario and the Ontario Summer Football League
Annual Registration takes place in Late February, early March. Practices begin in early in April. Most teams practice twice a week (three times per week prior to the start of the regular season. The regular season starts the first week of May and ends the last Saturday of June. Most games are played Thursday or Friday evenings or Saturday mornings. All teams have at least two home games. Our season culminates with Championship Saturday in the second last week of June when four divisions champions crowned.
“A” The Pat Carty Memorial Trophy
“B” The Mike Schad Bowl
“C” The “Red” Townsend Memorial Trophy
“D” the Vern “Jumbo” Goyer Memorial Trophy
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How to Become a Bioinformatics Researcher
Eleazar Eskin is a professor of bioinformatics at the University of California, Los Angeles, where his research is in genetics and genetic variation. He earned a Bachelor of Science in mathematics, computer science, and economics at the University of Chicago, and went on to earn a PhD in computer science at Columbia University.
When Eleazar first entered graduate school, he had no interest in biology, and he planned to study computer science. After a few years in school, he became excited by the race to sequence the human genome, and the way that algorithms and computational ideas were central to the “genomic revolution.” Eleazar and his colleagues could tell that they were on the verge of something new and exciting, and this led to his involvement with bioinformatics research.
What is the study of bioinformatics?
To me, bioinformatics is the intersection of the fields of computational science and biology. Bioinformatics draws on techniques from many areas of computational or quantitative sciences including computer science, statistics, mathematics and physics. Bioinformatics is both a subfield of computer science as well as a subfield of biology. Programs in bioinformatics are often in a variety of places, from engineering schools, to medical schools, to the life sciences.
What do you find most interesting about bioinformatics?
What I find most interesting is solving real problems using computational techniques. Biology provides a huge number of difficult computational problems which require computational approaches to solve. What my group focuses on is developing methods to solve these problems.
Are there subfields of bioinformatics that students might not be aware of?
Almost every area of biology has a corresponding subfield of bioinformatics. While genome sequencing and analysis is perhaps the most common area, there are many more out there.
What careers do students commonly pursue with a degree in bioinformatics?
There are huge opportunities for graduate programs in Bioinformatics because of the current growth of these programs and the relatively small number of applicants. Beyond graduate school, there is now a large biotech industry that is interested in hiring individuals with experience in bioinformatics. Since a lot of the training in bioinformatics is in computational problem solving, bioinformatics graduates are well prepared for careers outside of bioinformatics as well. Our graduates are in a great position to work in any area of data analysis. These days with "big data" being a hot topic, there are plenty of jobs available for the graduates.
Is a graduate degree preferable for a career in bioinformatics, or can someone enter the field with a bachelor's degree?
A graduate degree is not necessary, but there are more opportunities for individuals with graduate degrees.
What personality traits do you think a student should have in order to be successful in a bioinformatics program?
Since bioinformatics is extremely interdisciplinary, students should have a good amount of curiosity and willingness to learn about other areas.
What electives would you recommend that a student in a bioinformatics program take?
I recommend that students take as many programming, statistics, and math courses that they can fit. The stronger the foundation of computational techniques that a student has, the better.
What study tips would you give to a student to help him or her succeed in a bioinformatics program?
Take advantage of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and learn from the people around you who may know more about a topic than you do. In bioinformatics, computational scientists are constantly learning from biologists and vice versa.
Do you think bioinformatics is a subject that can be studied online, or is a traditional class environment ideal?
What is key to bioinformatics is working on projects. Online courses are a good option as long as there is an opportunity to work on open-ended projects.
What subjects should a prospective student of bioinformatics study before entering a bioinformatics program?
A strong programming background is perhaps the most important. Following that, some background in statistics and background in biology.
What pieces of advice, or caution, would you offer to a prospective student of bioinformatics?
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So, you finish a marathon pre training workout and as you head to the shower you look into the medicine cabinet to consider your options . . . you reach for the painkillers and down two pills in a single gulp without a second thought. It’s hard to pinpoint what percentage of runners regularly take non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, but surveys show that 70 percent of marathon runners take a painkiller before a long distance event. Likewise, surveys on Ironman triathletes found that nearly 60 percent take an anti-inflammatory in the three months leading up to the race. You don’t have to be a super-stud to want to silence a creaky knee. Unfortunately, the usage we see in competitive athletes trickles down to recreational athletes too. People assume they are safe because they are sold over the counter painkillers, but these too can be risky.
However, it has been proven that runners who take painkillers before a distance event hoping to boost their pain tolerance are making a big mistake. In a recent study, athletes were given ibuprofen (600 mg and 1,200 mg the day before and during the race, respectively). They then compared their performances to a group that took no meds. Results found no statistical difference between the groups‘ race times, muscle damage, perceived effort, or reported soreness. But some members of the medicated group did have one big consequence. The ibuprofen disrupted the integrity of the lining cells of the colon and there was a leakage of bacteria into the bloodstream. It has been proven that this can cause a condition called endotoxemia, which can lead to septic shock in extreme cases. What runners are more likely to experience is amplified inflammation and oxidative stress (the breakdown of certain cells), which can increase soreness and delay recovery.
Of course, these meds do help runners manage aches and pains. So, here are a few scenarios and how to take the medication safely.
Problem: You twisted your ankle on a run, or you ran a hard half marathon and walking down stairs makes you wince.
Pros: Relieves swelling and aches by blocking an enzyme that creates inflammation in the body.
Cons: Can impair kidney function, more so if taken before or during a run. Can cause GI distress, more so if taken pre or mid-run.
Advice: Take 1 pill (200 mg) 2-3 hours post run (once you are rehydrated) for an acute injury or severe soreness. Don’t take for more than four days.
Problem: You twisted your ankle on a run or you ran a hard half marathon, and you have a family history of heart disease.
Pros: Inhibits the body’s inflammatory response. Provides longer-lasting relief than ibuprofen. NSAID associated with lower heart-attack risk.
Cons: Can impair kidney function, especially if taken before or during a run. Can cause GI distress, especially if taken before a run.
Advice: Take 1 pill (220 mg) 2–3 hours post run (once you’re rehydrated) to relieve an acute injury or severe soreness. Don’t take for more than four days.
Problem: You woke up with a killer headache and have a killer workout on tap. Or your foot hurts but you’re set on racing anyway.
Pros: Acts as an analgesic but is not an anti-inflammatory, meaning it relieves aches without impacting the stomach or kidneys.
Cons: Can have a detrimental effect on your liver if taken frequently or in large doses.
Advice: Take 1 regular-strength pill (325 mg) before or after a run. Skip the booze. Alcohol increases the med’s liver toxicity. Don’t take for more than four days.
Problem: You are on a daily low-dose aspirin regimen prescribed by your doctor.
Pros: Anti-inflammatory that inhibits blood-clotting to protect against heart disease and stroke.
Cons: Can cause GI distress if you’re not accustomed to it. Even a low 81 mg dose can impair your blood’s ability to clot.
Advice: Safe before a run if you are on a regimen. Trail runners may want to skip due to risk of bleeding. Can also worsen swelling and bruising.
Moves to help you get stronger, avoid injuries:
Quercetin & Polyphenol
Problem: You’re after a big goal and want to reduce the general aches and soreness that come with a long, hard training period.
Pros: Diets high in quercetin (found in onions, apples, berries) and polyphenols (found in grapes, plums, coffee) reduce inflammation in athletes.
Cons: Supplements should be discussed with your doctor and not overdosed.
Advice: Eat foods rich in these natural anti-inflammatories. During particularly hard training periods, you can opt to take a supplement to enhance the benefits.
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Covering 280 square miles in southwest Georgia, Calhoun County was created from parts of Early and Baker counties in 1854. The county is named for John C. Calhoun, the U.S. vice president under presidents John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. It has four incorporated cities: Arlington, Edison, Leary, and Morgan.
Morgan, the county seat, was incorporated in 1856. Although Morgan, named for either Hiram Morgan, one of the town's first commissioners, or Daniel Morgan, a general during the Revolutionary War (1775-83), was not the largest city in the new county, it was named the county seat after a unique proposal was used to determine the site.
The state legislature moved the county seat to Arlington. Six years later, however, voters petitioned for it to be returned to Morgan, and in 1929 Morgan again became the county seat. Calhoun County Middle/High School and a public library are located in Edison. Designated a "Better Hometown City," Edison has been beautified with brick sidewalks, cast-iron handrails, and period lighting, and the city's commercial district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. Also on the register is the Arlington United Methodist Church in Arlington, which was listed in 1990.
More than 50 percent of the land in the county has been designated as prime farmland by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The main crops are corn, oats, sorghum, and wheat. In recent years the number of family-owned farms has declined, and Calhoun County, home to several endangered plant and animal species, including the
The annual May Day festival in Arlington, held the first Saturday in May, is one of the oldest festivals in Georgia. Other events include the King Cotton Horse Show, held in Edison each May, and the Harvest Festival, held on the courthouse square in Morgan every November.
According to the 2010 U.S. census, the population of Calhoun County is 6,694, an increase from the 2000 population of 6,320.
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Defense Transportation: DOD Needs to Take Actions to Improve the Transportation of Hazardous Material Shipments
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Aviation Workforce: Current and Future Availability of Airline Pilots
GAO-14-232: Published: Feb 28, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 28, 2014.
FAA Reauthorization Act: Progress and Challenges Implementing Various Provisions of the 2012 Act
GAO-14-285T: Published: Feb 5, 2014. Publicly Released: Feb 5, 2014.
Fiscal Year 2013 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund
GAO-14-162R: Published: Dec 9, 2013. Publicly Released: Dec 9, 2013.
Aviation Safety: Status of Recommendations to Improve FAA's Certification and Approval Processes
GAO-14-142T: Published: Oct 30, 2013. Publicly Released: Oct 30, 2013.
National Airspace System: Improved Budgeting Could Help FAA Better Determine Future Operations and Maintenance Priorities
GAO-13-693: Published: Aug 22, 2013. Publicly Released: Sep 23, 2013.
Intermodal Transportation: A Variety of Factors Influence Airport-Intercity Passenger Rail Connectivity
GAO-13-691: Published: Aug 2, 2013. Publicly Released: Aug 2, 2013.
Intermodal Transportation: Results of GAO's Survey on Air-Rail Connectivity (GAO-13-692SP, August 2013), an E-supplement to GAO-13-691
GAO-13-692SP: Published: Aug 2, 2013. Publicly Released: Aug 2, 2013.
Airline Mergers: Issues Raised by the Proposed Merger of American Airlines and US Airways
GAO-13-403T: Published: Jun 19, 2013. Publicly Released: Jun 19, 2013.
NextGen Air Transportation System: FAA Has Made Some Progress in Midterm Implementation, but Ongoing Challenges Limit Expected Benefits
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Cameroon-Nigeria: Bakassi returnees overwhelm authorities
|Publication Date||11 September 2008|
|Cite as||IRIN, Cameroon-Nigeria: Bakassi returnees overwhelm authorities, 11 September 2008, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/48ce1d6515.html [accessed 21 January 2017]|
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ABUJA , 11 September 2008 (IRIN) - Up to 100,000 Nigerians displaced from Bakassi in southern Nigeria are sheltering in makeshift camps 10 kilometres away in the state of Akwa Ibom. More keep arriving according to the Nigerian Red Cross, leading local authorities to fear an impending humanitarian crisis.
The influx has overwhelmed Akwa Ibom's local authorities who are struggling to feed, shelter, clothe and medicate the returnees, most of whom have come empty-handed, according to local journalist Tommy Solomon.
Aniekan Umanah, Akwa Ibom's information commissioner, warned IRIN "There is no way we can handle things for much longer."
Umanah told IRIN they have received no assistance from the federal government, and are relying on non-governmental organisations like the Nigerian Red Cross.
Okon Eyo, 45, a now homeless fisherman and father of seven has tried to access dwindling emergency supplies at Mbo camp in Akwa Ibom. "We want the federal government to move in quickly and assist us," he pleaded. "We want to get on with our lives. We don't want this thing to drag for too long."
Government help slow to arrive
Nigerians started fleeing Bakassi following the 14 August 2008 ceremony between the governments of Cameroon and Nigeria, which officially handed over administration of the disputed Bakassi peninsula to Cameroon.
According to Umanah, Akwa Ibom received 75,000 returnees over the last two weeks of August. Just when local authorities believed the last returnees had arrived, 20 more buses came in early September. "We were helpless. We had to shelter them in a local school and make arrangements for their food and security. We don't know when it will end."
The Nigerian National Boundary Commission, which helped steer the Bakassi handover, pledged more than US$7 million in federal funds to resettle Nigerian nationals from the disputed territory into the neighbouring Cross River state. But none of this funding was slated for Akwa Ibom, according to Florence Ita-Giw, head of the presidential task force on Bakassi returnees.
As a result. many returnees may not be eligible for federal help. The National Boundary Commission also set up the government's aid package expecting people with family in other parts of the country to return there, according to Tunde Orebiyi, national secretary of the Nigerian Red Cross.
Returnees to Cross River have as yet seen little government help.
Ita-Giw with the national government, counsels patience. "We are working hard to make as many houses ready [as possible] for occupation by the returnees, but it can't be done overnight," she told IRIN. The Red Cross' Orebiyi has warned resettlement can take as long as one year.
Some 300,000 Nigerians lived in Bakassi before its transfer to Cameroon. In the process leading up to the handover, authorities had discussed a transitional arrangement allowing joint administration by Nigeria and Cameroon for an initial period to guarantee the fair treatment of Nigerians left behind.
But this was not put in place, according to returnees and journalist Solomon.
"The returnees said most of them were being terrorised by the Cameroonian police and they did not find life easy under the new ruling," Solomon explained. According to him, the Cross River authorities are investigating reports that Cameroonian soldiers recently killed Nigerians in Bakassi.
Mambou Deffo Roland, chief of the Cameroonian military police, declined to comment on these allegations.
But in a 21 August speech following the handover, Cameroon President Paul Biya assured the safety of Bakassi-based Nigerians. "I reassure them: their safety and rights will continue to be guaranteed, they will be able as in the past, to continue their lives in peace as long as they abide by the laws of Cameroon."
Some Nigerians took their loss of Bakassi with outrage, accusing the government of betraying them.
An activist in Bakassi, who asked to remain anonymous, said lingering resentment among returnees could escalate into a full-blown insurgency.
The peninsula has suffered attacks by both Nigerians and Cameroonians over the past year, with casualties registered on both sides.
But the Nigerian military is keen to play down such fears. "There is absolutely no security threat," said Nigerian military spokesman Mohammed Yusuf, "Threats by whom, to whom?" he asked. "Nothing is happening. There is no problem in Bakassi."
Nigeria and Cameroon have been praised for the peaceful resolution of their border dispute in a conflict-prone continent with colonial era borders.
But for some the pain incurred by the recent re-drawing of the map will be slow to subside. A prominent Bakassi chief Edet Okon told IRIN, "The emotional and sentimental attachment to one's ancestral home is not something you can do away with in a short period of time." | <urn:uuid:484acd6d-4d15-467b-90f5-728bd14ef3d2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.refworld.org/publisher,IRIN,,CMR,48ce1d6515,0.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00375-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95459 | 1,162 | 1.585938 | 2 |
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