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Declination Angle Definition
The declination angle( δ), varies every season due to the Earth rotation around the sun and the Earth on its axis of rotation. It would always be zero if not for the tilt f the Earth on its axis of rotation. As a fact, the tilt of the Earth is around 23.45° and it varies above or below this number. The δ is equal to Zero only at the spring and fall equinoxes. The declination angle of the sun is defined as the angle between the equator and the line drawn between the centers of the Earth and the sun Despite the fact of Earth revolving around the sun, it is easier for calculations to consider the sun revolving around a fixed Earth.
Declination Angle Calculation
The following equation can be used to calculate the declination angle: δ=−23.45°×cos(360/365×(d+10)) where the d is the number of days since the start of the year The declination angle equals zero at the equinoxes (March 22 and September 22), positive during the summer in northern hemisphere and negative during winter in the northern hemisphere. The declination reaches a maximum angle on June 22 which is 23.45° (the northern hemisphere summer solstice) and a minimum angle on December 21-22 which is of -23.45° (the northern hemisphere winter solstice). In the above equation, the +10 is due to the fact that the winter solstice occurs before the start of the year. The equation also assumes the orbit of the sun to be a perfect circle and the fraction of 360/365 converts the number of days to the position in the orbit. The apparent northward movement of the Sun during the northern spring, reaching the celestial equator during the March equinox. The declination reaches a maximum angle equal to the axial tilt of the Earth's axial tilt (23.44°) on the June solstice, then starts decreasing until reaching its minimum (−23.44°)on the December solstice, where its value is equal to the negative of the axial tilt. Seasons are a direct product of this variation.
Declination Angle variance
A line graph plotted for the Sun's declination throughout a year will resemble a sine wave with the amplitude being 23.44. Since the orbit of the Earth is in fact elliptical, in early Jan the movement of the Earth around the sun is more rapid near the perihelion than in early July near the aphelion. This makes Solar declination variation happen really faster in Jan than in July. Also, since perihelion and aphelion do not happen on the exact dates as solstices, the minima and maxima become slightly asymmetrical, and the change rate are not really equal before and after. | <urn:uuid:15070510-8ec9-4a1d-9e2c-4ecdd4e75a06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sinovoltaics.com/learning-center/basics/declination-angle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.943904 | 584 | 3.890625 | 4 |
It helps in lowering of the bad cholesterol level in our blood, as it is rich in monounsaturated fats. The extra virgin olive oil variety contains the highest level of antioxidant polyphenols and oleic acid. It is thus a healthy option compared to other vegetable oils. It has numerous beneficial qualities. Apart from being a good cooking aid, it is also known to have unique medicinal qualities. Some of them are as follows:
Reduce Heart Problems: Natural olive oil contains 70% monounsaturated fatty acid. As a result, it lowers cholesterol accumulation in the blood and reduces heart problems. It reduces the LDL, while at the same time increasing the HDL levels. The website of Montelcastelli Solutions Ltd. provides a table comparing the fatty acid composition of different types of oils.
Blood Cholesterol: LDL cholesterol is the bad type of cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart attacks and pulmonary heart disease. Extra virgin olive oil, which is rich in almost 40 antioxidant chemicals, helps reduce the oxidation effects of LDL cholesterol.
Weight Loss: Medical experts suggest that it is very difficult to gain weight from the mono-unsaturated fats present in olive oil. Experiments involving Mediterranean olive oil have shown positive results in regards to a reduction in human body weight.
Metabolism: Olive oil boosts the metabolism, the growth of good bone structure, and brain development in children. It is an excellent source of vitamin E, which is very beneficial for older people.
Anti-inflammatory and Antimicrobial Properties: The phenols present in olive oil have anti-inflammatory properties. The antimicrobial characteristics of the oil are a result of its strong aroma.
Digestion: Olive oil is known to aid in the digestive process. It is used as a medicinal oil to clean the digestive tract and to improve bowel movements.
Aging Process: Rich in antioxidants, olive oil slows the natural aging process of the human body. Used in cosmetic products and natural herbal therapy, it does wonders for the skin, which gets a natural shine and glow from the enriching oil.
Prevention of Gall Stones: This oil is also effective in preventing gall stones.
Healthy Cell Walls: Olive oil contains polyphenol which helps in stronger cell walls. It also increases the elasticity of arterial walls, protecting against various heart conditions.
Cancer: Olive oil is said to protect the human body against cancerous growth, especially bowel cancer. Medical research done at the prestigious Oxford University has shown positive signs that the acidic content of this oil can prevent the commencement of rectum and bowel cancer. In the UK, bowel cancer is one of the most prevalent forms of cancer, and kills almost twenty thousand citizens every year.
Breast cancer: Recent research study suggests that hydroxytyrosol, a major component of olive oil may help prevent breast cancer in postmenopausal women.
Hypertension: Recent research study suggests that Mediterranean diet comprising of food rich in unsaturated fats (found in olive oil and nuts) and nitrite and nitrate (found in leafy green vegetables) may help protect you from hypertension.
Olive Oil has been scientifically proven to be a better choice over other edible oils but it must be Cold Pressed Extra Virgin and The Big Olive produces nothing else but the highest quality Extra Virgin
Health benefits include:
Cholesterol free, and helps to reduce harmful cholesterol levels, reducing the risk of heart disease rich in vitamin E and is also a natural storehouse for vitamins A, D and K good source of anti-oxidants that fight the “free-radicals” which have been linked to cancer can benefit non-insulin dependent diabetes because it is a mono-saturated fat can help the digestive system function more effectively
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Though Notification Center's Do Not Disturb feature first made an appearance in Mountain Lion, it wasn't until Mavericks that the feature really got its due. Here are a few tips for getting the most out of it.
This is senior editor Dan Moren. You're probably familiar with Notification Center, the OS X feature that collects alerts and messages from a variety of apps and even Internet services. But Mavericks upgraded the capabilities of one feature: Do Not Disturb. Here are a couple of quick tips about getting the most out of it.
There are a few ways to enable Do Not Disturb. One of the quickest--and my favorite--is to hold down the Option key on your keyboard and click the Notification Center icon in the top right corner of your menu bar. This automatically activates Do Not Disturb until the following day, just in case you're just feeling a bit harried and don't want to be bothered. You can accomplish the same thing by activating Notification Center, scrolling down, and then clicking the Do Not Disturb slider.
If you prefer your schedule be a bit more regular, you can schedule Do Not Disturb times in the Notifications pane of System Preferences. If you want Notification Center to go quiet at the same time every day you can select the relevant checkbox and choose what time it should turn itself off and then back on. (You can also use this trick to effectively silence Notification Center permanently, by setting the times from, say, 3 a.m. to 2:59 a.m.)
If you do a lot of presentations, you may also want to select the checkbox that turns on Do Not Disturb automatically when you've connected your Mac to a TV or projector, just to ensure that your iMessages don't pop up while you're giving that important talk.
However, just in case there's an emergency that you want to break through the radio silence, Do Not Disturb also offers two settings: one that lets FaceTime calls through (either from your Favorites or from anybody) and one that lets someone through if they call repeatedly within three minutes.
Finally, a favorite extra Notification Center tip. If you enable the Share buttons option in the Notifications pane, you'll be able to compose iMessages without opening the Messages app, and--if you've linked to those social services--you can post to Twitter and/or Facebook as well.
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CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES ON THE ADMISSION POLICY OF
RIVONIA PRIMARY SCHOOL (3 October 2013)
In 2010 Rivonia Primary School refused to admit a child to grade 1 (for 2011) because the school, according to the SGB, was full. The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) instructed the school to admit the pupil, contrary to the school’s admission policy and when the principal refused to do so, departmental officials physically placed the learner in one of the school’s grade 1 classrooms. The SGB went to the South Gauteng High Court to seek a declaratory order, but lost their application, as the Court ruled that the overall authority to determine school capacity rested with provincial education department. The GDE also disciplined the principal. The SGB then turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) in 2012. The SCA found that the GDE’s instruction to the school was unlawful. The judgment overturned the High Court decision. The GDE subsequently took the matter to the Constitutional Court.
Who has the final say? What the Constitutional Court said ...
Based on Constitutional imperatives, an interpretation of the South African Schools Act (SASA) and the Gauteng provincial legislation, the SGB may determine the admission policy and the capacity of the school, but the department has the final say and may override the school’s policy – “the Department maintains ultimate control over the implementation of admission decisionsâ€. However, what is equally important is that “a decision to overturn an admission decision of a principal, or depart from a school admission policy, must be exercised reasonably and in a procedurally fair manner†which, according to the ConCourt, the GDE did not do.
The need for cooperation
Although the ConCourt ruled in favour of the department, it was critical of the GDE and the school. The judgment says both parties could and should have done more to prevent the need for litigation –“cooperation is the required norm†NAPTOSA supports the “required normâ€, however it is difficult to foster cooperation where departmental officials are aggressive and heavy handed and threaten school principals with disciplinary action should they disagree with them. Commenting on the behaviour of the department’s officials, the ConCourt observed that “It created antagonism and mistrust, causing the Rivonia Governing Body to recoilâ€
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Pioneer life in the Benton Co. WA area
Old Pioneer Waxes Poetic/Full of Praise for Tri-Cities
By BURTON 0. LUM
Tri-City Herald, Sunday, 13 May 1962
The old pioneer wants to pat everyone in the Tri-City region on the back and say well done thou good and faithful servants. This region has had its day in the sun of publicity during the special dedicatory services of the completion of the Ice Harbor Dam. It isn't every region the size of the Tri-City that can edit, print and publish a 196 page, 15 section newspaper the equal of this Tri-City Herald Dedicatory Ice Harbor Dam Edition. It's pages of interesting facts and fiction will thrill all who read it. It will cover the entire United States and many of the foreign countries of the world. Like a story well told it will never tire and always enlighten and interest all who read it!
Accept they place beneath the sun
Thou fairest Eden by many begun
From they birth may Thous arise
The grandest place beneath the skies.
Where rivers run and mountains stand
Thy future glories will surely command
With rivers three all joined in one
Silently flowing to the setting sun.
Few spots on this terresteral sphere
Match the beauties we have here
Be not selfish with God's Grace
Let all who wish enjoy this place.
Here may they build their homes in peace
Where joys and pleasures never cease
Raise their families in all the good
Both in man and womanhood.
In this Tri-City region so glorious blest
No spot in North, South, East or West
Can equal it for a home to be
Come join us now and you will see.
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OXFORD, Miss. – As scientists worldwide continue delving into the secrets of the universe, a University of Mississippi graduate student joins the ongoing exploration of particle physics, studying the most infinitesimally tiny pieces that comprise matter.
Wanwei Wu of China has been selected to receive a Universities Research Association Visiting Scholar Award of $25,920 for his proposal, “Beam Dynamics in the Muon g-2 Storage Ring.” The prestigious honor from the consortium that manages Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory will fund 12 months of on-site research at the facility starting Nov. 1. This award is for the reimbursement of salary and university fringe benefits.
In the three years since the university joined URA, the research group led by Breese Quinn, associate professor of physics, has received two URA Visiting Scholar awards (postdoctoral researcher Jim Kraus also received the honor in 2013) and a FermiLab Intensity Frontier Fellowship (given to Quinn, also in 2013). Several other URA members have yet to receive an award.
“Wanwei’s proposal was selected in competition with postdocs and professors from the top universities in the nation,” Quinn said. “This record for Mississippi demonstrates that we are benefiting greatly from membership in URA, and the U.S. particle physics program is benefiting from the quality researchers that Mississippi is sending to work at FermiLab.”
Wu, who applied for the fall 2016 URA Visiting Scholars Program Award in August, said he was glad when he heard his proposal was approved at the end of September.
“I am glad that the URA offered me this award,” Wu said. “I will work hard and make sure the project completed on time.”
Wu’s work is based on the FermiLab Muon g-2 Experiment, which could produce important advances in particle research, Quinn said.
“We are measuring how much the muon precesses, or wobbles, when it moves in a magnetic field,” he said. “If we find that the amount of wobble is different than what we expect, it will be a discovery that there are definitely other particles in the universe that we have never seen before.
“Wanwei’s specific work is to produce an extremely high-quality and well-understood muon beam to measure.”
A graduate of Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, Wu said his intrinsic love with physics leads him to keep studying and exploring the amazing secrets of nature. He came to Ole Miss because he said attending here is the best way for him to pursue such a goal.
“The courses on physics I took at UM are important and helpful to start my research,” Wu said. “The academic spirits I learned from professors at the department really encourage me and my research with belief.
“The theoretical training on particle physics I got from Dr. (Alakabha) Datta (associate professor of physics and astronomy) is extremely useful to understand the phenomena on experimental particle physics. I really appreciate all the professors, as well as graduate classmates, at the department for their help.”
Wu’s award attests to the strength of the department and the quality of its faculty, said Luca Bombelli, chair and professor of physics and astronomy.
“All three of our URA Awards demonstrate that the University of Mississippi is leading the way in finding answers to the most complex questions everyone has about the universe and its origins,” Bombelli said. “As our reputation for excellence grows, I feel confident the department’s faculty and students will continue to attract researchers who excel in their studies.”
By building some of the largest and most complex machines in the world, FermiLab scientists expand humankind’s understanding of matter, energy, space and time. The organization is at the forefront of research into neutrinos, ubiquitous but hard-to-catch particles that might point to a better understanding of the first moments after the Big Bang.
The proposed international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, to be based at FermiLab, will be the world’s largest experiment for neutrino science and proton decay studies.
FermiLab is also heavily involved in research at the Large Hadron Collider and serves as the U.S. headquarters for the CMS experiment there.
FermiLab scientists are at the cutting edge of research in dark matter and dark energy, which helped shape the universe and will continue to guide its evolution into the future. Fermilab is a base for exploration of the fundamental particles and forces that govern our world on the smallest scales.
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Utilities for encoding arbitrary data as Bourne shell fragments that stream the data to standard output, using HERE documents and simple shell decoders.
- data Chunk
- chunk :: ByteString -> Chunk
- encode :: Word8 -> Word8 -> ByteString -> ByteString
- decode :: Word8 -> Word8 -> ByteString -> ByteString
- data EscapeChar = EscapeChar !Word8 !ByteString !ByteString !ByteString
- escapes :: [EscapeChar]
- safeForHereDoc :: ByteString -> Bool
- encoded :: Chunk -> Bool
- script :: Chunk -> Builder
- leastStringNotIn :: ByteString -> ByteString
A chunk describes a block of binary data ready for inclusion in a shell
script. For many data blocks, no encoding or decoding is necessary; these
are stored in a
SafeChunk. Those blocks needing byte-translation are
stored in an
ByteString into a string safe for inclusion in a shell HERE
document and annotates with information to construct a shell decoder for
that document, if necessary.
ByteString with nulls is rewritten in a complicated way. Two escape
characters are chosen from a class of ASCII printable characters that look
like reasonable escape characters; the two that show up least frequently
in the document (including 0 times) become the null replacer and the
escaper. All instances of these two characters are rewritten to escape
sequences formed with the escaper, while nulls are rewritten to the null
replacer. Given the two characters thus chosen, a command line with
sed in sequence can be constructed to decode the document.
This encoding doubles the amount of space consumed by the escape characters. In the worst case, where the data is made of all 20 potential escapes, evenly distributed, and one null (so we can't punt on escaping), the data will grow in size by 10 percent. For data that is more evenly distributed over the bytes -- as we might expect of compressed tarballs -- we expect a size growth of two 256ths, or less than 0.8 percent.
Given a byte to replace nulls and an escape byte, rewrites the data such
that nulls are mapped to the replace byte, replace bytes are mapped to a
pair of escape bytes and the escape byte is is mapped to an escape byte
followed by an underscore. For example, if the null replace byte is
and the escape byte is
# then all nulls become
## and all
This escaping scheme is dictated by the needs of our Sed decoder, which is
just two global substitions, one after another. If the escaping were such
that, with our characters above,
# escaped to
#_ in the input becomes
##_. We want to run the subsitution
# first, to catch this; it produces
#_; then Sed feeds the input
to the second substitution which unfortunately renders
!. In the
alternate scheme, the input is encoded
! decoder runs first
and ignores it, then the
# decoder runs and catches it. When using a
pipeline of stream processors to interpret escape sequences, it seems best
to ensure that only the very last processor inserts escape characters, to
prevent their further interpretation.
Given the byte used to replace nulls and the escape byte, undoes the result of the encode operation -- rewriting null replacers to literal nulls and escape patterns to the original bytes. This function is not intended to be used in practice -- it will be shell commands that unpack the data -- but serves to document the ideas behind decoding as well as offering a way to check the encoder.
The candidate escape characters, with the forms to be used in constructed
Many binary strings can be embedded as-is in a HEREDOC, without escaping.
Predicate to determine whether data is represented as an encoded chunk or is unencoded.
Finds a short hexadecimal string that is not in the input.
A string of length
n has at most
n - (k - 1) substrings of some fixed,
k -- the substring starting at the first byte and
k, the substring starting at the second byte and extending
k and so on, on until the end where we have to stop
k - 1 short of
the last byte. We choose
k such that it contains enough hexadecimal
digits to enumerate all the substrings; for a 4M input, we want
k = 6.
We can take all the hex substrings of length
k in the input, sort them,
and then find the gaps. We take the least substring in the first gap for
our chosen substring. This gives us an O(n log n) algorithm.
The measurable length of a
ByteString is at most the maximum
(since the length function results in an
Int); this is one less than 2
to the bit width of a
Word (because there is a 0
Word). Thus a
suffices to enumerate all the possible substrings in a
one more. (Substrings are zero-indexed and the length is 1-indexed.) We
can leverage this fact to translate all substrings to
Word and store
them in an unboxed vector, using integer operations to find the least
subtring in the first gap. Space usage is linear in the length of the
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APAC Polyurea Coating Market Driver
Polyurea coatings are highly durable and have excellent moisture resistance properties. This material is commonly used for containment liners, roof top coatings, bridges, and other offshore structures. It is also a good choice for car parking lot applications. APAC is a rapidly growing market and is expected to grow at a faster rate in the coming years, as middle-class income in Asia grows. A few factors that contribute to this growth include:
Polyurea is a non-volatile material with a short cure time. It is a highly effective coating for many applications and is highly resistant to ultraviolet (UV) rays. In addition, it is also highly effective for coatings that are intended for continuous exposure to sunlight, such as marine parts. Its fast cure time makes it an ideal choice for confined workspaces. In addition, it can be applied to a variety of surfaces and has a very low initial cost.
Another benefit of polyurea is its ability to improve pump output. Its fast-curing properties make it a popular choice for lining ponds and aquaculture tanks. In addition to coatings, polyurea is also used to repair leaks and clog canals. Its durability, quick-curing, and impact-resistance make it a desirable choice for many industries. It is particularly suitable for industrial applications where speed and efficiency are crucial.
Polyurea is a versatile coating that offers a number of benefits for various applications in the construction industry. In particular, it is useful for crack-bridging and is water- and corrosion-resistant. It also enhances the mechanical properties of a structure. The global construction industry is growing at a rapid pace, due to several factors including increasing population, urbanization, and increased per capita incomes in developing nations. This is an excellent driver of growth for polyurea coatings.
For industrial applications, polyurea coatings are highly beneficial. Unlike other coating materials, polyurea is extremely flexible and will adhere well to a wide variety of substrates. It will also adhere to different temperatures and humidity environments. A polyurea coating will cure quickly, meaning that the process can be done without compromising safety. The benefits of this material are many, but one is the ease of application. This material is a great choice for a number of applications in industrial settings.
The main benefits of polyurea coatings are its long-term performance and strength. The material is resistant to abrasion and corrosion. It can also elongate 400% without cracking. It can be installed in a variety of temperatures and will reduce downtime. In addition, it is an excellent choice for ferric chloride tanks, as it provides a waterproof liner. This is a great advantage for manufacturers. | <urn:uuid:165d5d75-a6f7-4791-9e68-3f43a27a5e0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://polyorgs.com/apac-polyurea-coating-market-driver/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.956522 | 566 | 1.515625 | 2 |
AWS Essentials for Data Engineers
Overview of all Essential Services in AWS for Data Engineers such as AWS s3, IAM, Lambda Functions, Step Functions, Boto3, etc
Develop & Deploy
Develop Python Applications and Deploy as Lambda Functions by using a Zip-based bundle as well as a custom docker image
Monitor and troubleshoot the issues by going through Cloudwatch logs.
The entire application code used for the demo along with the notebook used to come up with core logic.
Ability to build solutions using multiple AWS Services such as Boto3, S3, Dynamodb, ECR, Cloudwatch, Glue Catalog, Athena, etc
About the AWS Essentials for Data Engineers
As part of this course, we will cover most of the commonly used services with hands on practice which are available under AWS Analytics.
What's covered as part of this course?
- Getting Started with AWS: As part of getting started you will be going through the details related to starting with AWS.
- Storage: AWS S3 is one of the most prominent fully managed AWS service. All IT Professionals who would like to work on AWS should be familiar about it. We will get into quite a few common features related to AWS s3 in this section.
- User Level Security - Managing Users, Roles, and Policies using IAM: Once you start working on AWS, you need to understand the permissions you have as a non admin user. As part of this section you will understand the details related to AWS IAM users, groups, roles as well as policies.
- Infrastructure - AWS EC2 Basics: AWS EC2 Instances are nothing but virtual machines on AWS. We will go through the basics related to AWS EC2 Basics, continue with AWS EC2 to understand how we can manage EC2 instances using AWS Commands and also how to install additional OS modules leveraging bootstrap scripts. | <urn:uuid:eeff0392-6711-4c36-b770-bfc6b836cbc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://itversity.com/course/aws-essentials-for-data-engineers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.935804 | 412 | 2 | 2 |
Louisiana will receive $234.6 million of Deepwater Horizon settlement money for wetlands restoration projects in Plaquemines, Terrebonne and St. Bernard parishes, officials said Monday.
The Louisiana Trustee Implementation Group has approved plans totaling more than $900 million this year, Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority Chairman Chip Kline said.
“Today’s announced projects further our ongoing efforts to restore the natural resource damages caused by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and will also provide a measure of protection as we seek to restore the natural ecosystem buffer we once had,” Gov. John Bel Edwards said.
The Bayou Terrebonne Increment of the Terrebonne Basin Ridge and Marsh Creation Project, the most expensive of the projects announced Monday, has been allocated $157 million for restoration, maintenance and monitoring of up to 1,430 acres of brackish and saline marsh and 80 acres of earthen ridge on the eastern side of Bayou Terrebonne, south of Chauvin.
Another $3.1 million will be used for engineering and design of the Terrebonne Houma Navigation Channel Island Restoration project, which is intended to restore and enlarge the bird nesting island located about four miles southeast of Cocodrie. The effort will focus on ways to restore the 32-acre bird island and enlarge it to about 50 acres by importing dredged sediment and depositing it on and around the existing island.
The Grande Cheniere Ridge Marsh Creation project is approved for $65 million in construction funding to build up to 624 acres of marsh in open water near Bayou Grande Cheniere and about 12,480 linear feet of earthen ridge along Jefferson Canal, while also helping to reestablish a southern land bridge in the Barataria Basin.
The Bird’s Foot Delta Hydrologic Restoration project in Plaquemines Parish is receiving $6 million for engineering and design. The project is intended to restore the hydrology in the Mississippi River Bird’s Foot Delta by dredging portions of Pass-a-Loutre, South Pass, and/or Southeast Pass to reconnect the river with the delta’s marshes.
Another $3.5 million is going toward engineering and designing Isle au Pitrein St. Bernard Parish. This project is intended to enhance nesting conditions for birds by using dredged sediment to elevate portions of the island and planting suitable vegetation for nesting brown pelicans and wading birds, shell rakes for American oystercatchers, shell or small limestone on the perimeter of the island for tern and black skimmer nesting habitat, and shoreline protection features with oyster benefits.
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[ExI] Zen19 is now at 5-dan in Go
kellycoinguy at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 18:22:41 UTC 2012
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> Computers are very good at the game of Go
> Posted by Chris Ball Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:07:00 GMT
> MIT Speed Go tournament, Jan 2012
> There's an attraction between computer programmers and the Asian game of Go.
> I think there's a lot to like about the game — it has very simple rules, high
> complexity (it's "deeper" than chess) and pleasing symmetry and aesthetics. I
> think the real reason programmers are so drawn to it might be a little more
> self-involved, though: being good at things that computers aren't good at
> tends to make programmers happy, and computers are terrible at Go.1
That's one reason I like Go so much. :-) It is a pride thing. I am a
mediocre Go player, ranked at 11k on IGS myself, which is a level that
requires years to achieve, but is nowhere near competitive. Computers
passed me a few years back.
> Or at least, that's the folk knowledge that's been true for most of my life.
> Computers have always been worse than an average amateur with a few years of
> experience, and incomparably bad to true professionals of the game. Someone I
> was talking to brought up the ineptitude of computers at Go a few days ago,
> talking about new ideas for CAPTCHAs: "just make the human solve Go
> problems", they said, and you're done; computers can't do that, right?
Except that most humans couldn't solve most Go problems... LOL. And,
the sorts of Go problems that the computer would be able to verify
would be the kind that would be able to be solved by computers... :-)
Computers have had a mathematically perfect end game for over 15
years. There is a book with the algorithm in it. Just when the end
game begins is, of course, an interesting question. :-)
> So, I've enjoyed this feeling of technological superiority to computers as
> much as anyone, and it hurts me a little to say this, but here I go: the idea
> that computers are bad at Go is not remotely true anymore. Computers are
> excellent at Go now.
Arrrgh!!!! Soon, they will be good at programming too, I fear! :-)
> To illustrate this, there's some history we should go
> Back in 1997 — the year that Deep Blue beat chess world champion Garry
> Kasparov for the first time — Darren Cook asked Computer Go enthusiasts for
> predictions on when computers will get to shodan (a strong amateur level) and
> when they'll beat World Champion players. John Tromp, an academic researcher
> and approximately shodan-level amateur, noticed the optimism of the guesses
> and wondered aloud whether the bets would continue to be optimistic if money
> were on the line, culminating in:
> John Tromp: "I would happily bet that I won't be beaten in a 10 game
> match before the year 2011."
> Darren Cook took the bet for $1000, and waited until 2010 before conducting
> the match against the "Many Faces of Go" program: Tromp won by 4 games to 0.
Many Faces of Go isn't all that good... :-)
> That seemed to settle things, but the challenge was repeated last month, from
> January 13th-18th 2012, and things happened rather differently. This time
> Tromp was playing a rising star of a program named Zen19, which won first
> place at the Computer Go Olympiad in 2009 and 2011. The results are in, and:
> Zen19 won by 3 games to 1. (For more reading on the challenge, see David
> Ormerod's page or Darren Cook's.)
> Beating an amateur shodan-level player is shocking by itself — that's my
> strength too, and I wasn't expecting a computer to be able to beat me anytime
> soon — but that isn't nearly the limit of Zen19's accomplishments: its
> progress on the KGS Go server looks something like this:
Is KGS an alternative to IGS?
> Year KGS Rank
> 2009 1-dan
> 2010 3-dan
> 2011 4-dan
> 2012 5-dan
> To put the 5-dan rank in perspective: amongst the players who played American
> Go Association rated games in 2011, there were only 105 players that are
> 6-dan and above.2 This suggests that there are only around 100 active
> tournament players in the US who are significantly stronger than Zen19. I'm
> sure I'll never become that strong myself.3
Me either, no way. Unless I'm enhanced with a Zen19 module in my brain... LOL.
> Being able to gain four dan-level ranks in three years is incredible, and
> there's no principled reason to expect that Zen19 will stop improving — it
> seems to have aligned itself on a path where it just continues getting better
> the more CPU time you throw at it, which is very reminiscent of the story
> with computer chess. Even more reminiscent (and frustrating!) is the
> technique used to get it to 5-dan. Before I explain how it works, I'll
> explain how an older Go program worked, using my favorite example: NeuroGo.
> NeuroGo dates back to 1996, and has what seems like a very plausible design:
> it's a hierarchical set of neural networks, containing a set of "Experts"
> that each get a chance to look at the board and evaluate moves. It's also
> possible for an expert to override the other evaluators — for example, a
> "Life and Death Expert" module could work out whether there's a way to "kill"
> a large group, and an "Opening Expert" could play the first moves of the game
> where balance and global position are most important. This seems to provide a
> nice balance to the tension of different priorities when considering what to
> Zen19, on the other hand, incorporates almost no knowledge about how to make
> strong Go moves! It's implemented using Monte Carlo Tree Search, as are all
> of the recent strong Go programs. Monte Carlo methods involve, at the most
> basic level, choosing between moves by generating many thousands of random
> games that stem from each possible move and picking the move that leads to
> the games where you have the highest score; you wouldn't expect such a random
> technique to work for a game as deep as Go, but it does. This makes me sad
> because while I wasn't foolish enough to believe that humans would always be
> better at Go than computers, I did think that the process of making a
> computer that is very good at Go might be equivalent to the process of
> acquiring a powerful understanding of how human cognition works; that the
> failure of brute-force solutions to Go would mean that we'd need a way to
> approximate how humans approach Go before we'd start to be able to beat
> strong human players reliably by implementing that same approach in silico.
I often wondered the same thing. But "intelligence" appears to have
different paths... that is, the same degree of intelligence in any
task can be achieved by differing means.
> I think that programs like Zen19 have actually learned even less about how to
> play good Go than computer chess programs have learned about how to play good
> chess; at least the chess programs contain heuristics about how to play
> positionally and how to value different pieces (in the absence of overriding
> information like a path to checkmate that involves sacrificing them). This
> lack of inbuilt Go knowledge shows up in Zen19's games — it regularly makes
> moves that look obviously bad, breaking proverbs about good play and stone
> connectivity, leaving you scratching your head at how it's making decisions.
> You can read a commented version of one of its wins against Tromp at
> GoGameGuru, or you could even play against it yourself on KGS.
Fun, will try it.
> Update: Matthew Woodcraft comments below that Zen19 does contain significant
> domain knowledge about Go. It's hard to know exactly how much; it's
> Zen19 is beating extremely strong amateurs, but it hasn't beaten
> professionals in games with no handicap yet. That said, now that we know that
> Zen19 is using Monte Carlo strategies, the reason why it seems to be getting
> stronger as it's fed more CPU time is revealed: these strategies are the most
> obviously parallelizable algorithms out there, and for all we know this exact
> version of Zen19 could end up becoming World Champion if a few more orders of
> magnitude of CPU time were made available to it.
> Which would feel like a shame, because I was really looking forward to seeing
> us figure out how brains work.
> 1: I think this is probably why I've never been interested in puzzles like
> Sudoku; I can't escape the feeling of "I could write a Perl script that does
> this for me". If I wouldn't put up with such manual labor in my work life,
> why should I put up with it for fun?
I like Sudoku, it relaxes my mind. But Go, on the other hand, gets my
brain highly involved.
> 2: Here is the query I used to come up with the 105 number.
> 3: In fact, KGS ranks are stronger than the same-numbered AGA rank, so the
> correct number of active players in the US who are stronger than Zen19 may be
> even smaller. Being stronger than US players isn't the same as being stronger
> than professional players, though — there are many players that are much
> stronger than amateur 5-dan in Asia, because there are high-value tournaments
> and incentives to dedicating your life to mastering Go there that don't exist
Yes... Here in Utah, we have one of the 5 dan amateurs, and he is a
transplant from asia. :-)
I haven't been active in local Go in a long long time.
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Tis the season! Earlier this year, the Internal Revenue Service announced the annual inflation adjustments for a number of tax provisions for the year 2014, including tax rate schedules, tax tables and cost-of-living adjustments. Those numbers reflected good news for most taxpayers since inflation has remained low for 2013. The latest annual inflation rate for the United States as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) indicate that the price of most consumer goods as reflected in the Consumer Price Index (CPI) has risen 1.0% over the year (the core index rose 1.7%).
But tell that to the lords-a-leaping and the ladies dancing. While the BLS' CPI has remained somewhat steady, PNC Wealth Management's CPI - the Christmas Price Index® - has increased by a whopping 7.7%.
The PNC Christmas Price Index® is similar to the Consumer Price Index - which measures changes in prices of goods and services - but instead, it measures the cost of buying one set of each of the gifts given in the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” In case you can't remember all 12 days (admit it, you're always forgetting at least one), here's a quick reminder:
12 Drummers Drumming,
11 Pipers Piping,
9 Ladies Dancing,
5 Gold Rings,
4 Calling Birds,
3 French Hens,
2 Turtle Doves anddddd
A Partridge in a Pear Tree.
If your true love shelled out enough to cover the costs of everything on the list this year, those 78 items would cost $27,393.17, an increase of 7.7% over last year (downloads as a pdf). That's the largest increase in recent years; in 2010, the index jumped 9.2%.
If your true love really wants to impress you by nabbing all 364 items - the number of the items as repeated throughout the song over and over - he or she will have to cough up $114,651, an increase of 6.9% from 2012.
What accounts for the price boost? The cost of labor. Those ladies dance for a lot more this year: the cost of the 9 Ladies Dancing is $7,553 in 2013, a 20% increase from 2012, according to PHILADANCO, a modern dance company in Philadelphia. Similarly, a good leaping lord is more expensive this year, too, according to The Pennsylvania Ballet, costing $5,243, a 10% increase from 2012. That's not terribly surprising since the cost of services has increased over the history of the CPI while the price of goods has slowed.
Labor costs for the 11 Pipers Piping and the 12 Drummers Drumming crept up just slightly, a 2.9% increase.
Not all labor saw an uptick, however. The 8 Maids-A-Milking receive minimum wage, or $7.25 per hour, a number that, despite criticisms, hasn't moved up since 2009. The total of their wages would be just $58.
The price of six other items on the list (Partridge in a Pear Tree, 2 Turtle Doves, 3 French Hens, 4 Calling Birds, 5 Gold Rings, 6 Geese-a-Laying and 7 Swans-a-Swimming) remained the same as last year. Despite no real movement on costs, it's still pretty expensive to buy those swans: they'll cost your true love $1,000 each. The costs of the swans, as well as the partridge, doves and geese was provided by the National Aviary in Pittsburgh (if you're wondering about the calling birds, those costs were provided by a national pet chain).
Only one item on the list dropped in price: the Pear Tree was a little less expensive this year, dipping by 3.2%, according to Cinnaminson Nurseries, a New Jersey nursery.
The totals of these items reflect the costs as if your true love went shopping the traditional way: actually going to jewelry stores, plant nurseries and the like. If your true love went high tech, the cost would be more - likely a surprise for most shoppers. This year, buying those items online would cost $39,762.61, about 45% more than buying in person.
Jim Dunigan, managing executive, Investments of PNC Wealth Management said, about the difference, "In general, Internet prices are higher than their non-Internet counterparts because of premium shipping costs for birds and the convenience factor of shopping online." You can likely blame fuel costs as part of the uptick - it's a fairly sure bet that Amazon won't be delivering geese by drones. I have to think shipping most of the items is a real nightmare, not to mention incredibly noisy.
Sales tax (or use tax, if you're shopping online) might be payable on your Christmas gifts - but that would depend on where you live. While 45 states impose some level of sales tax, there is dramatic variation between what goods and services are subject to tax. This is especially true when it comes to the costs of services. PNC is located in Pennsylvania where food (except for ready-to-eat), most clothing apparel, and medicines are nontaxable. But that pear tree? Taxable. Those gold rings? Taxable. Pets and most animals? Also taxable. But those milkmaids? Not taxable; as a farm and dairy state, most dairy-related services are exempt. Figuring the exemptions from state to state would be wildly time-consuming, so the CPI is tax neutral: interested consumers and tax geeks like me can figure those differences on our own.
The Christmas Price Index® began 30 years ago when the chief economist at PNC Bank decided to figure out how much it would cost to buy each of the gifts. Since the beginning, annual increases have averaged 2.9%, which exactly matches the U.S. inflation index. There's a slight variation over time: since the history of the CPI, the cost of the times has increased a total of 116%, while inflation is up 122% for the same time.
The cheapest year to show off your Christmas spirit was in 1995. The most expensive? That would be this year. The biggest increase in price between years occurred in 2003, with a spike of 16.0%.
The Christmas Price Index® offers a fun peek at the relative costs of goods and services each year. It’s now an annual tradition… kind of like this one:
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Monk fruit is 200-times sweeter than sugar. Monk fruit extract is naturally sweet but manufacturers add sugar or other sweeteners. This increases the calorie content and can contribute to metabolic syndrome, a precursor to diabetes and other diseases. Honey is a sweetener. However it has fewer calories per cup than sugar. You can also substitute monk fruit extract for honey. However, you must be careful when buying monk fruit products.
Maple syrup should not be consumed
Many people worry that maple syrup is out of bounds for Keto dieters. Although maple syrup is sweeter than most syrups, it still has a higher carb count than most other syrups. Maple syrup has a lot of carbs, unlike coconut sugar which has very few carbs. It is worth noting that maple syrup contains vitamins and minerals which make it a healthy substitute to regular table sugar.
While maple syrup’s glycemicindex is lower than other sugars it can cause digestive discomfort. It should be powdered to make it keto-friendly. You can flavor it with maple extract. You should not use it too often as it can make sugar-free syrup gritty. If you’re unsure about whether maple syrup is suitable for Keto diet, it is best to consult with your doctor before using it.
Maple syrup can be substituted with sugar-free versions. Glucomannan is a low-carb alternative. It melts in hot liquids to create the perfect syrup consistency. You can also use maple extract instead of maple sugar. Maple extract has a taste similar to maple syrup and can be mixed with vanilla to achieve the same effect. Xanthan Gum thickens the syrup, giving it the same mouthfeel and taste as maple syrup.
Avoiding gluten-free breads
Whether you’re following a low-carb or low-gluten diet, you might be surprised to know that most grains contain gluten. Gluten proteins, which can be found in wheat and rye as well as barley, are responsible to dough’s sticky texture and chewiness. Gluten is naturally found in wheat, but it can also be added to packaged foods such as bread and pizza. Gluten helps foods stay together by binding them together and raising their volume. However, gluten can have adverse effects on your health.
If you’re on the keto diet, you’ll likely want to avoid bread, pasta, and pizza, since they contain gluten. It might be tempting not to eat gluten-free breads and pastas, but these items won’t have the same nutritional values as those made from wheat flour. Cereals are a good choice if you have wheat allergies. You should also avoid processed meats, alcohol and cheese.
Gluten-free pasta and breads are often mistaken for having no carbs. While this is true for products with a gluten-free label, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they are keto-friendly. Many of these products still contain high amounts carbohydrates, even though they have a label. The gluten-free version might contain wheat-alternatives, such as potato starch and modified food starch. These can also be high in carbs and can make it difficult to stay ketosis-free.
You might be wondering if beans are allowed in keto meals. Although beans can technically be added to your diet, they are high in carbohydrates. A cup of beans contains approximately half your daily allowance of carbohydrate. For this reason, you may want to consider other beans that are suitable for a ketogenic diet. Continue reading if you are unsure whether beans should be included in your daily diet.
Beans are a common staple, rich in fiber and nutrients. Beans are rich in both soluble as well as insoluble fiber. By binding with cholesterol in food, soluble fiber helps regulate blood cholesterol. Insoluble fiber attracts water and is important for cellular function and weight regulation. Both of these fibers promote regularity. For those who are following a ketogenic lifestyle, beans are a great option. They are also gluten-free.
Beans are generally not allowed on a keto diet. However, there are some beans that can be eaten on low-carb diets. For example, Soybean contains only 2.3g of net carbs per 100g. Other beans, such as Green beans and Lupins, have 10g or more of net carbohydrates per 100g. Ketosis is most affected by beans, as they contain virtually no fat.
Avoid eating fruit
Keto means limiting your fruit intake. But you don’t have completely eliminate fruits from your diet. Many fruits are incredibly healthy and nutritious. And, even though they may not be in season, you can still enjoy them throughout the year. Here are some of the best fruits you can include in your Keto diet. You might be amazed at the fruits you find. You might be surprised at the number of fruits you can enjoy.
Apples have 25g of carbs per serving, making them the most carb-dense fruit. Strawberries have a high level of fiber, but they are less than half the daily limit. Other fruits, like strawberries, are better choices. These fruits can be enjoyed occasionally, depending on how sweet you are. Strawberries are a great fruit to eat on Keto. If you aren’t sure which ones you should choose, try some strawberries first.
A cup of coffee is fine, but you should avoid drinking sugary beverages. While some of these beverages are rich in fiber, they contain too many carbohydrates for the keto diet. Soda, sports drinks, and sweetened tea all contain added sugar and aren’t recommended for a Keto diet. Similarly, regular water is the best way to stay hydrated on a keto diet. You can substitute sweetened drinks with unsweetened or sparkling water.
Avoid snacking on processed foods
You should avoid eating processed snacks while on the ketogenic diet. These foods, despite their delicious taste, are often high in sugar and carbohydrates. Beverages such as wine and beer are acceptable for a low carb diet. However, it is best to limit the intake of these drinks. Starchy vegetables like potatoes and corn have more carbs that fiber. Avoid high-sugar fruits such as bananas and apples. These can spike blood sugar much faster than vegetables, protein, and vegetables. Choose plain yogurt or Greek yogurt instead. These two have lower carbohydrates than regular yogurt.
The ketogenic diet encourages you to cut down on snacking. Try to avoid processed snacks altogether and aim to eat no more than a couple of real foods during mealtimes. Eating a complete meal will help curb your snacking urges and delay your next meal. You will train your body to be able fast and keep your fat stores full by delaying hunger until the next meal. You can also replace your snack with scrambled or boiled eggs. These are easy to prepare and won’t cause you to break your Keto diet.
Apart from fruits and vegetables you should also avoid foods containing wheat gluten or other products made from this ingredient. You should also avoid refined foods like white bread and BPA-lined containers. Factory-farmed pork should be avoided as it contains mercury and omega-6 fats. Seafoods may also contain mercury and PCBs, so you should avoid them. | <urn:uuid:1a8110f9-aa96-4b99-a471-654cb6804edc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nativeamericainc.com/keto-kimbap/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.954009 | 3,850 | 1.71875 | 2 |
It’s been a rough three years. In September 2000, the California legislature was debating a tax-relief bill intended to lower its “unprecedented surpluses” by giving at least $50 back to every taxpayer. Since then, the state has plunged into fiscal chaos, and voters ousted former governor Gray Davis in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The muscleman-turned-actor-turned-politician took office in November facing a year-end shortfall of $10.2 billion. His first move—delivering on his campaign promise to roll back his predecessor’s despised car-tax hike—raised that shortfall to $13.4 billion.
While no state’s plight has been illustrated quite as colorfully as California’s, almost all the states are in desperate need of funds. At the same time, there’s enormous reticence among politicians to raise taxes that directly affect voters—at least until after this year’s elections. Add in the lingering disgust among voters over Corporate America’s rash of scandals and, suddenly, business is openly in the crosshairs of state governments seeking revenue.
“A governor can say, ‘I’m not raising taxes,’ but go in and obliterate exemptions,” says Brian Murphy, partner in charge of state and local taxation at Grant Thornton. Going after corporate taxpayers, he says, “is always more popular with voters.” As one respondent to CFO magazine’s latest state-tax survey noted, “We all know that the states need additional revenues, but the anticorporate rhetoric needs to be replaced by cooperation.”
That’s not likely. To be sure, states continue their competition with one another to woo businesses to their soil through tax incentives and abatements. But the long-running battle over when one state has the right to tax the income of a company in another has reached a turning point.
For years, states have tried to assert that right based on various degrees of physical or economic presence, while companies have planned around such nexus issues. Now, the states have lost enough fights—and are in sufficiently dire economic straits—that they are turning from the courts to the legislatures to short-circuit the nexus question. In the meantime, states continue to pursue revenues through aggressive corporate audits—and even clawbacks of incentives.
No matter how irritating this is to corporate tax officials—and anger is a notable feature of our survey responses—no one denies the states need money. Current estimates peg combined state deficits for 2004 at about $80 billion—deeper, notes the liberal Center on Budget Priorities and Policies, than they have been at any time in the past 50 years. An overwhelming majority of survey respondents—81.3 percent—predicted that the state in which they work would be forced to raise taxes, regardless of additional collection or enforcement efforts.
Likely increases are not the only tax-related headache for businesses, however. For example, state tax forms generally mirror those of the Internal Revenue Service, but most states could not afford to follow Washington, D.C.’s lead in offering accelerated depreciation to businesses in 2002, forcing them to decouple their forms and tax codes, and adding to the corporate administrative burden. In Texas, tax refunds exceeding $250,000 can no longer be disbursed without legislative approval. And respondents complained bitterly about the amount of time they spend—or “waste,” several said—with state auditors these days.
Yet even CFOs fighting what they see as unfair or unreasonable tactics by various states express some sympathy for the plight of their tormentors. “New York State is in a world of hurt, and I understand that,” says Vince Holley, division controller of Wayland, New York-based Gunlocke Co., a division of Hon Industries. “But getting tough on clawback issues may burn them more.”
“It is really scraping the [bottom of the] barrel,” says Beverly, Massachusetts-based ZymeQuest Inc. CFO C. Evan Ballantyne of his state’s efforts to suddenly deny his company an R&D credit it has claimed for seven years. “You start to think to yourself, ‘These guys must be so desperate.'”
For states, financial desperation clearly has been coupled with frustration over corporate tax planning. Last July, the Multistate Tax Commission (MTC), an organization of 45 states, released a study claiming that 2001 state corporate-income-tax revenues of $35.4 billion would have been 35 percent higher but for corporate tax sheltering. “It is apparent,” the study said, “that various corporations are increasingly taking advantage of structural weaknesses and loopholes in the state corporate tax systems.”
The study drew a blistering response from the business-sponsored Council on State Taxation (COST), which argued that corporations pay an additional $358 billion in non-income taxes. But the MTC’s broad definition of shelters—to which COST also hotly objected—at least accurately reflects the increasingly dim view that states take of tax planning.
Last year saw rulings in a number of high-profile nexus battles, all revolving around states’ efforts to undermine tax-planning techniques involving Delaware holding companies. In most cases, the states lost, causing them to turn from the courts to their legislatures.
Most prominent among these cases was the decision in Lanco Inc. v. Director, Division of Taxation, a New Jersey ruling that our survey suggests is already as familiar to most corporate tax directors as 1992’s Quill Corp. v. North Dakota. In Quill, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that “substantial nexus” was defined by a physical presence. Thus, North Dakota could not require Quill—an out-of-state office-supplies catalog vendor—to collect use taxes on sales within North Dakota.
The question in Lanco was whether physical presence was also necessary to levy income or franchise taxes. Quill has served as the basis for a decade of corporate tax planning. Typically, affiliated holding companies in tax-friendly states—usually Delaware—own and license intangibles such as trademarks and patents to the operating companies. Those operating companies can then deduct the payments to their affiliates.
In Lanco, New Jersey’s tax director had attempted to levy income tax on the Delaware holding company that licenses intangibles to clothing manufacturer Lane Bryant. And there was good reason for Lane Bryant officials to worry that New Jersey’s argument of “economic nexus” might prevail: the facts in the case were identical to those in 1993’s infamous Geoffrey Inc. v. South Carolina Tax Commission. In that case, the South Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Geoffrey, a Delaware holding company that licensed intangibles to Toys “R” Us, was subject to income tax even though it had no physical presence in the state.
New Jersey was not so lucky—the court cited South Carolina as an aberration and ruled that without physical nexus, Lanco was not subject to the state’s income tax. The case also didn’t do much for New Jersey’s reputation: it rocketed to number one among the states considered by our survey respondents to be the most aggressive about asserting economic nexus. (South Carolina, which was first in 1998 and fifth in 2000, dropped to eighth on the list.)
Yet New Jersey’s failure to tax a Delaware holding company was not an unalloyed win for corporate tax planning. Earlier in 2003, Maryland pierced the corporate veil of two Delaware holding companies by arguing that they had no real business purpose other than to avoid tax. That’s a classic anti-tax-shelter argument, and one that may signal a much more aggressive approach by the states.
The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled simultaneously in Comptroller of the Treasury v. SYL Inc. and in Comptroller of the Treasury v. Crown Cork & Seal Co. (Delaware) Inc. that the Delaware holding companies of Syms and Crown Cork & Seal could be taxed—not individually, as New Jersey attempted in Lanco, but as part of their parent companies—because they “had no real economic substance as separate business entities.”
The court noted that all of the characteristics of a functioning company—employees, office space, travel expenses, and so on—”were virtually nonexistent on Crown Delaware’s balance sheets.” Where such expenses did exist, they were provided by Organization Services Inc., a “nexus services” provider.
Although Crown Delaware claimed revenues of about $37 million per year, total annual wages for its nine “employees” averaged $568 for each year between 1989 and 1993. Indeed, Crown Delaware’s total operating costs averaged just over $2,000 per year. “Over the five-year period in question,” the court noted, “Crown Delaware incurred a total of $20 in meals and entertainment, about $60 in telephone charges, and about $100 in postage. Travel costs for the entire period…amounted to less than $7.” And despite the fact that Crown Delaware theoretically existed to manage intellectual property, it never incurred any legal fees associated with patents or trademarks.
Those who defend moving intellectual property to a Delaware holding company as a legitimate tax-planning strategy admit that the Crown case is not the most flattering example. But even more-persuasive fact patterns are no sure thing. In a similar case decided in 2002—Sherwin-Williams v. Commissioner of Revenue—Massachusetts failed to convince a court that the paint company’s Delaware subsidiary was a sham, because, the court ruled, it did engage in legitimate business activities. This past June, New York’s Tax Appeals Tribunal looked at the same affiliate and found just the opposite to be the case.
SYL, Crown, and New York’s version of Sherwin-Williams make Delaware-style holding companies far more likely to be attacked in court these days—much as Enron’s abuses resulted in greater scrutiny of all special-purpose entities. “If you are a publicly traded company, you need to be far more cautious today than in the past with regard to aggressive tax planning,” says Stuart L. Rosow, an attorney with Proskauer Rose LLP. Although such planning is still possible for many companies, he says, “the level of scrutiny that it will be subjected to is much greater.”
Nexus End Run
A far more significant development, however, is the number of states that have grown tired of fighting and have simply changed the law. “There are two ways [for states] to attack” an out-of-state company, says Doug Lindholm, executive director of COST. “The first is to say it has economic presence. If that’s not going to work, because Lanco says you need a physical presence, [the state] can try to deny the deduction to the company that does have physical presence in the state.”
Today, nine states have legislation disallowing deductions taken by one company for payments—such as interest, or royalties on patents—to an affiliated company (see “Legislative Disallowance” later in this article). All but two have passed those laws since 2001. After losing the Sherwin-Williams case, Massachusetts simply changed the law last March to allow the tax commissioner to disallow any deduction that he considers a sham. New York passed tougher laws as well, despite winning its fight with Sherwin-Williams. “In 2003, the floodgates opened,” says the tax manager of one Fortune 500 company, who requested anonymity. Although only three states—New York, Massachusetts, and Arkansas—passed such laws last year, seven others considered similar proposals. Typically, these laws require the taxpayer to prove that the affiliated company has a legitimate business purpose.
“My prediction is that within the next three years, most separate-return states will have statutory limitations on related company expenses,” says COST legislative director Joe Crosby, “and they’ll be all over the board, capturing different types of items.”
That means more head-aches for corporations. The distinction between aggressive tax planning and improper tax sheltering is already a huge gray area. By disallowing certain types of intercompany transfers, the new laws potentially affect not just tax planning, but also such run-of-the-mill functions as treasury. Many of the new laws allow the company to justify to the tax commissioner why a particular transfer should be acceptable—but that is another compliance burden.
That complaint was already evident in our survey. Asked about the biggest headache for tax directors, one respondent wrote, “Inconsistent treatment of intercompany transactions—will the state disallow the expense, force combination, or declare affiliate nexus?” Said another: “New legislation that unreasonably denies deduction of intercompany payments.”
What’s most worrying about this new legislation, however, is not whether it’s reasonable, but that it isn’t likely to produce anywhere near enough money. “In the end,” says Michael Lippman, head of KPMG LLP’s state and local tax practice, “these income-tax expense-disallowance provisions are not going to be the cure for the states’ structural deficit problems, because they can’t raise sufficient revenue.” Despite the emphasis that corporate income tax often gets in the press and in state capitols, it typically makes up just 5 to 10 percent of state tax collections, says Lippman. The real dollars, he says, come from property tax, sales tax, and the individual income tax.
We asked the 81 percent of survey respondents who said tax hikes were inevitable in the state where they work which taxes they’d like to see raised. Many, apparently, are nonsmoking teetotalers, because sin taxes on cigarettes and alcohol were an overwhelmingly popular first choice (41.5 percent). Unfortunately, Lippman notes that most states “already did the easy things” like raising sin taxes. Consumer sales taxes were a strong second among our respondents (35.4 percent), followed by an even split on individual and corporate income tax (16.2 percent each). “With states having exhausted the easy remedies—delaying payment into a pension fund or increasing fees and cigarette taxes—it will be tougher and tougher for them to close the deficit with anything other than a tax increase,” says COST’s Lindholm
Although some states have already raised taxes—New York, for example, has raised both sales and income taxes—expect a wave of increases after this year’s election season. In the meantime, our survey suggests, corporations are going to have to live with tougher tax administration from states seeking to close their budget gaps. “States are out of money, and they are getting money out of audits even when the bases of their arguments are unreasonable, unfounded, and stupid,” wrote one survey respondent. “The tax department is then left with the option of fighting them or giving in.”
Tim Reason is a senior writer at CFO.
The 2004 Survey Results
This is the fourth time since 1996 that CFO magazine has surveyed corporate tax officials on their impressions of state tax environments. Given looming state deficits, we added questions this year about whether companies expected increased taxes, aggressive clawbacks, or legislation that would withdraw existing business incentives. States that received the worst ranking appear in boxes throughout the text.
An important characteristic of our survey is that it measures opinion, rather than comparing objective measures such as tax rates or appeal deadlines. After our last survey, in 2000, tax officials from some states, including Massachusetts, told us they were disappointed to get no recognition for big improvements in their administrative environment.
Without a doubt, impressions of unfair treatment die hard. States that topped our lists three years ago as most aggressive or least fair are often there again, even though we cast a much wider net this year, sending surveys to some 5,500 corporate tax officials, with the help of KPMG. We received 130 responses, a 2.3 percent response rate. But the results also reflected significant changes to the tax environment—most notably, New Jersey’s precipitous drop in the eyes of corporate taxpayers.
Were it not for New Jersey crashing the list of the worst five states, little would have changed from previous surveys—the states that corporate tax officials love to hate remain fairly consistent. This year, we simplified our maps to highlight the states that really stand out. The states marked the least (or most) fair and predictable are those whose survey scores deviated from the average by more than one standard deviation.
What is your overall impression of the tax environment in this state? Is it fair and predictable?
5 Least Fair:
- New Jersey
- New York
New Jersey was the falling star of CFO’s tax survey. The Garden State’s grab bag of tax-law changes in July 2002—particularly the introduction of an alternative minimum assessment (AMA) tax on a corporation’s gross receipts—earned it the label of the state with the most unfair and unpredictable tax environment.
In fact, New Jersey was ranked among the five most aggressive or least fair states in seven of eight questions we asked, and respondents said New Jersey’s tax policies were the most likely to dissuade companies from relocating to or expanding in the state. That’s a stunning change for a state that didn’t make the worst five in a single question in our 2000 tax survey, and is well known for actively courting business.
New Jersey was also the only state singled out multiple times by corporate tax officials asked to write in their top headaches. “Using New Jersey as a prime example,” wrote one, “state governors and legislatures changing only the corporate income tax to balance their budget without any comprehension as to what it does to business.” Another responded, “New, unique taxing schemes, such as New Jersey AMA.”
The state’s long-held reputation for fair tax administration also took a surprising beating, one that can’t be directly attributed to recent legislation. In fact, in the Council on State Taxation’s (COST) recent tax-administration scorecard—based on objective differences in state tax laws and policies—New Jersey’s score was the same as the average score for all states. And, says COST legislative director Joe Crosby, New Jersey tax-division director Robert Thompson and his staff are generally considered fair and evenhanded. He adds that “New Jersey has an independent tax court that is considered to have decisions that are fair and well reasoned.”
Yet CFO’s survey, which measures the subjective impressions of corporate tax officials, shows how easily such a reputation can be undone. Tax-court independence was the only subject in which New Jersey wasn’t ranked among the worst five states. New Jersey’s auditors, by contrast, were rated as the most unfair and unable to settle gray issues of any state’s. —T.R.
How do this state’s revenue-department policies and systems influence companies’ decisions to locate or expand there?
- New Jersey
- New York
How would you rate the independence of this state’s administrative appeals process—tax board, administrative law judge, or tax court—from its audit department?
Black and White
When it comes to settling “gray issues” at the auditor level, which states’ auditors are the most unfair or least able to avoid escalation of these issues?
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
Friends of Geoffrey
New Jersey again had the dubious distinction of leapfrogging into the lead among most-aggressive states, despite losing the Lanco case. Also notable is Maryland’s appearance among the most aggressive states on this map after its courtroom win arguing that certain Delaware holding companies were tax-sheltering shams. Not surprisingly, this map corresponds closely to the map of states that have passed or are considering legislation disallowing company deductions between affilliated companies.
Which states are most aggressive about asserting nexus positions for corporate income tax over corporations with only an economic presence in the state?
5 Most Aggressive
- New Jersey
- New York
A growing number of states have passed legislation disallowing deductions for transactions between affiliated companies. In 2003, such legislation was considered, but not enacted, in Maryland, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Which states’ legislatures are likely to eliminate or reduce existing business tax incentives this year?
- New Jersey
Grabbing for More
Which states are most aggressive about assessing additional tax based on forced combinations and decombinations, IRC ss.482 issues, or business/nonbusiness classifications?
- New York
- New Jersey
Which states are likely to pursue clawbacks of individual company incentives this year?
- New Jersey
- New York
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When it comes to aggressively asserting sales-tax nexus, California has held the number-one slot since CFO conducted its first state-tax survey in 1996. Asked if new governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s business-friendly attitude would extend to addressing California’s aggressive audits of out-of-state companies, spokesman H.D. Palmer said, “I can’t speak to that specific issue,” emphasizing instead Schwarzenegger’s efforts to aggressively audit the state’s own government, and his hopes to improve the climate for California-based businesses.
While no state comes near California’s dismal ranking, New Jersey placed a close second, once again making its first appearance among the top-five aggressive states. Its poor ranking in this category could simply reflect general corporate displeasure with the Garden State’s recent tax-law changes—which did not include sales-tax changes—but its prodigious leap to the number-two slot suggests its nexus unit has in fact been busier than in the past.
Although long considered an aggressive sales-tax collector, Texas is also a newcomer to the top five. The Lone Star State has recently toyed with such heretical ideas as a state income tax, but it hasn’t made significant changes to sales tax. Nonetheless, our survey results—and write-in comments—suggest that the state has significantly increased its nexus efforts. Brian Murphy, Grant Thornton’s partner in charge of state and local taxation, says Texas is among the many states that have recently beefed up their nexus units, an impression shared by one respondent who groused, “Texas must have an unlimited audit staff.” —T.R.
How would you rate this state’s stance on asserting sales/use tax nexus?
5 Most Aggressive
- New Jersey
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Importance of Vitamin D
Vitamin D is an extremely significant vitamin that affects several systems and organs throughout the body, and is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. It helps to prevent skeletal diseases (such as rickets), maintains levels of phosphorus and calcium in the blood and supports immunity.
Today, many Americans suffer from Vitamin D deficiency. Due to work and lifestyle changes over the past few decades and increased knowledge on the dangers of UV exposure, many people do not get enough Vitamin D from unfiltered sun exposure. People living in northern climates, work indoors and the elderly have an increased risk of developing Vitamin D deficiency due to their decreased sun exposure. Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a number of health problems including several types of cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
Vitamin D and Eye Health
The eyes are an essential part of your overall health. For doctors, they are the windows to the body. Multiple systemic health problems can be diagnosed with an eye examination. Vision is a vital part of learning at any age, and good vision will help you to continue to lead a healthy and active lifestyle in your later years. You can help keep your eyes healthy the same way you keep the rest of you healthy, with diet and exercise.
We all know the food we eat and the lifestyle choices we make affect our overall health and wellness. However, what we put into our bodies may have a greater effect than you think. Healthy eating habits and a diet with the recommended amount of vitamins and nutrients can help reduce the risk of eye disease and vision problems. Vitamins that are especially important for your eye health include: Vitamin A, Vitamin B, Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Lutein, Zeaxanthin and Omega-3 essential fatty acids.
Studies have suggested that Vitamin D is associated with a lower risk of macular degeneration. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of severe vision loss in adults over fifty. The disease affects central vision by attacking the macula, the center of the retina located at the back of the eye. The macula helps us to see colors and detail. Symptoms of AMD include gradual loss of the ability to see objects clearly, vision distortion, loss of color vision and dark spots in vision.
Research has also linked Vitamin D deficiency and diabetes, because there are vitamin D receptors on insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. Diabetic Eye disease, including Diabetic retinopathy, is extremely common among those living with type 2 diabetes. Diabetic retinopathy, the main cause behind blindness in American adults, causes the blood vessels in the eyes to swell to become blocked.
How to Supplement your Vitamin D Intake
To mitigate your risk from these and other health problems associated with vitamin D, it is crucial to get the recommended amount per day (the USDA Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamin D is 200 IU for adults under 50 and 400 IU for adults over 50). There is no substitute for vitamin D synthesis, so it is best to get a few minutes of unfiltered sunlight every day (No more than a few minutes. UV rays are harmful to your skin and eyes). Vitamin D can also be supplemented by diet. A few great food sources that include high levels of vitamin D are: milk, salmon, sardines and orange juice fortified with vitamin D. A supplement or multivitamin can also increase your vitamin D level.
Talk to your Eye Doctor
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June is migraine awareness month.
Migraines are one of the most underdiagnosed misunderstood conditions currently. Our physio James was interviewed by Migraine Australia last week in conjunction with calmd.
What is a migraine?
Migraine is a long-term ongoing condition that can affect up to 1 in 5 Australians. A migraine is characterised by severe throbbing pain, usually localised to one side of the head. This can be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, light sensitivity, sound sensitivity, cold hands and aura (visual disturbances that might include numbness of the arms or legs). However, a migraine does not have to be accompanied by a headache.
Migraine Australia has a wealth of information about migraine that can be found here.
June 21 is International Migraine Solidarity Day. So join us in putting up a selfie wearing your shades using the hashtag #shadesformigraine and #mam2020
See the interview below to learn a little bit about how the calmd face mask (available online and in all PhysioLife locations) can help you not only with migraines, but also with other headaches and even relaxion.
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As the world continues to navigate the challenges posed by COVID-19, Amgen remains focused on its mission to serve patients. The pandemic is upending the lives of millions of people, including those with cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular risk factors, who may experience more serious complications if they’re infected by COVID-19.
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Volume 11, Number 10—October 2005
Myocarditis Outbreak among Adults, Illinois, 2003
An outbreak of myocarditis occurred among adults in Illinois in 2003. Diagnostic testing of myocardial tissues from 3 patients and comprehensive tests for enterovirus and adenovirus of other specimens from patients were inconclusive. Appropriate specimen collection from patients with idiopathic cardiomyopathy and further enhancement of diagnostic techniques are needed.
Acute myocarditis is characterized by inflammatory infiltrates of the myocardium. Disease has been attributed to multiple infectious and noninfectious causes, but viruses, particularly the enteroviruses group B coxsackievirus and echoviruses, are believed to be the most common agents of infection in the United States (1). An infectious cause of myocarditis is usually suspected when unexplained heart failure or arrhythmia occurs in a person with a systemic febrile illness or upper respiratory tract infection. Acute myocarditis is typically sporadic, although clusters have been reported during outbreaks of viral disease (2,3). Most cases are idiopathic without a known cause (1). Myocardial biopsy specimens used for pathologic examination, the conventional standard for diagnosis (4,5), have been considered difficult to collect in nonfatal cases. Viruses are infrequently cultured from tissue specimens, although viral nucleic acid identification by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays on myocardium has recently enhanced viral detection (6–8). Viral serologic tests and PCR assays of blood, stool, urine, and nasopharyngeal specimens are adjunctive techniques for diagnosing myocarditis that have not been validated.
On March 21, 2003, the Kane County Health Department was notified about 6 cases of presumptive myocarditis and 1 case of pericarditis that occurred in patients hospitalized in Kane County, Illinois, within a 2-week period from February 26 to March 10. Five case-patients were <50 years of age, 1 of whom died within 24 hours of hospitalization. Five of the 6 case-patients were hospitalized at hospital A. Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) and Kane County Health Department initiated an investigation to identify additional cases and determine the cause of illness.
On March 22, IDPH distributed a notice describing the cluster of myocarditis cases to local health departments and healthcare providers in Illinois and requested urgent reporting of similar cases. At hospital A, where most of the initial cases were diagnosed, active surveillance was instituted for patients with a clinical syndrome consistent with myocarditis or pericarditis or an upper respiratory tract illness with profound fatigue or disproportionate shortness of breath of >2 weeks' duration. For patients with suspected cases, a testing protocol was implemented, which included a 2-dimensional echocardiogram; electrocardiogram; chest radiograph; measure of serum cardiac enzymes; complete blood count; nasopharyngeal, stool, and urine samples for enterovirus assays; and acute- and convalescent-phase serologic testing for enterovirus.
A review of all records for patients with discharge diagnoses of myocarditis or cardiomyopathy at all 5 hospitals in Kane County from October 1, 2002, through March 31, 2003, was conducted to find unreported cases of myocarditis. Persons with ischemic, alcoholic, postpartum, or chronic cardiomyopathy were excluded. To determine the background number of myocarditis cases for all patients <50 years of age in Kane County, a database search of medical records during the preceding 2-year period (October 1, 2000 to September 30, 2002) at all 5 hospitals was performed by principal International Classification of Diseases, 9th revision (ICD-9) discharge diagnosis codes (Appendix).
A case of myocarditis was defined as 1) a person with myocarditis diagnosed by electrocardiogram, echocardiogram, or cardiac catheterization, which indicates the presence of unexplained arrhythmia or decreased ejection fraction without apparent cause or 2) myocardial inflammatory infiltrates on tissue pathologic examination by using the Dallas criteria (9) or 3) viral isolation or nucleic acid identification in myocardial tissue specimens in persons living in northern Illinois from October 1, 2002, through May 30, 2003.
Medical records of patients were reviewed, and physicians who treated case-patients were interviewed when available. Information was collected about patient demographics; antecedent illness; underlying medical condition; exposure to toxins, pets, or ill persons; recent travel; and smallpox vaccination history.
The results of echocardiograms and routine specialized laboratory tests, including enterovirus complement-fixation serologic screening, conducted by physicians who evaluated patients at hospitals, were recorded. Nasopharyngeal, urine, and stool specimens from patients were cultured for enterovirus at the IDPH laboratory. Any available serum and myocardial tissue specimens from patients were tested at the California Department of Health Services Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory by using real-time PCR nucleic acid amplification (Amersham Eclipse, Piscataway, NJ, USA) and immunoglobulin M (IgM) enzyme immunoassay for detecting enterovirus and adenovirus (10,11).
Pathology reports on autopsy specimens from patients with fatal cases and myocardial biopsy specimens from patients with nonfatal cases were reviewed. Formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue from the autopsy of 1 available patients was submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Unexplained Deaths and Critical Illnesses (UNEX) Laboratory for Gram and calcium staining, enteroviral 5´ noncoding region gene PCR assay, and immunohistochemical staining to detect enterovirus, cytomegalovirus, influenza A, influenza B, and hantavirus.
Sixteen cases, 1 of which (that of patient 8) was recognized through retrospective medical record review, were identified. All patients were hospitalized and admitted between January 28 through April 7 (Figure 1), and 13 patients (81%) were adults <50 years of age. Six (38%) of the 16 patients were hospitalized at hospital A during January through March. For comparison, the number of diagnoses of myocarditis in patients <50 years of age (16 patients) from October 1, 2000, to September 30, 2002, was <1 per month.
The median age for patients was 38 years (range 20–70 years). Among the 16 case-patients, 4 (25%) were residents of Kane County, 8 (50%) were from 5 counties bordering Kane County, and 4 (25%) were from 4 other counties in northern Illinois (Figure 2).
Thirteen case-patients (81%) had an acute, viral-like illness within 1 month before onset of myocarditis. Two female patients, 26 and 39 years of age, had ventricular fibrillation that required an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (AICD) and recovered. There were 2 deaths (Table 1).
No common exposures could be identified among the patients. None of the patients had recently been vaccinated for smallpox.
Information on acute serologic testing for group B coxsackievirus performed at hospitals was known for 5 patients. Two patients (patients 11 and 14) had elevated antibody titers to group B coxsackievirus. Patient 14 had a convalescent-phase serum specimen collected for group B coxsackievirus antibody testing that had a 2-fold greater titer than the acute-phase sample. Acute serologic testing for echovirus was performed for 2 patients; results were positive for patient 14 and negative for patient 13. Patient 14 also had an elevated acute-phase influenza B antibody titer but a negative convalescent-phase antibody titer. Patient 12 had no change in acute- and convalescent-phase–positive titers for group B coxsackievirus (Table 2).
IDPH laboratory cultured nasopharyngeal (n = 5), urine (n = 6), stool (n = 6), and myocardial tissue (n = 1) specimens from 9 patients for enterovirus viral isolation. All cultures were negative. Among specimens (serum samples from 11 patients and myocardial tissue from 2 patients) tested for enterovirus and adenovirus by PCR and enzyme immunoassay , all were negative (Table 2).
For the 2 patients with fatal cases, the primary autopsy diagnosis was acute myocarditis. Autopsy tissue specimens from the 1 case-patient submitted to CDC were negative for viral agents (patient 1).
An outbreak of myocarditis of unknown cause occurred among adults in Kane County (population 400,000) and adjacent areas during winter and early spring 2003. Surveillance for myocarditis cases was initiated throughout Illinois in March and April, although clustering of cases was only evident in and limited to Kane County and surrounding communities. The reporting of myocarditis cases from other counties likely reflected baseline rates of idiopathic myocarditis in those populations that only came to the attention of public health officials through enhanced surveillance.
No common exposures were identified among case-patients. The outbreak occurred within the same period that adverse events of myopericarditis were being reported after smallpox vaccinations among military and healthcare personnel in the United States, including Illinois (12); however, no patients in this outbreak had recently been vaccinated against smallpox. Most illnesses were preceded by a prodrome that suggested the outbreak was viral in origin. Substantial illness and death occurred in these reported cases. All reported patients were hospitalized, 2 required AICD devices, and 2 deaths occurred, a reminder of the severe sequelae associated with this illness.
Despite extensive laboratory testing on submitted specimens, no specific agent was identified. Cross-reactivity of group B coxsackievirus serology with several agents was apparent from initial laboratory tests performed at the hospitals. These results were insufficient to support a specific cause of illness. Tissue specimens from only 3 of the 16 patients were available for testing, which was a major laboratory limitation in the investigation, particularly for detecting viral nucleic acid by PCR assays. The inability to implicate a responsible agent is a common outcome of myocarditis outbreak investigations (1,13).
A better understanding of myocarditis through enhanced diagnostic and therapeutic strategies, increased awareness of possible clusters of illness, and rapid reporting of clusters to public health departments will help improve prevention of future outbreaks. Recent biopsy-based studies suggest that a proportion of life-threatening myocarditis or idiopathic cardiomyopathy in otherwise healthy adults may arise from enteroviral and cytomegalovirus infections (14,15). Research is needed to assess the effect of potential antiviral treatment on illness and death in this patient population. In addition to encouraging appropriate viral testing of acute- and convalescent-phase serologic specimens, further study is required to examine the usefulness of endomyocardial tissue collection for advanced molecular analyses in patients with unexplained cardiomyopathy.
Dr Huhn completed an infectious diseases fellowship at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, in June 2005. From 2002 to 2004, he was an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer with CDC. His research interests include emerging infectious diseases, tropical medicine, infection control, and HIV.
We thank Julu Bhatnagar, Marc Fischer, Andrea Winquist, and Carol Glaser for their contributions to this study and acknowledge the activities of CDC's UNEX Project and CDC's Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases Infectious Disease Pathology Laboratory.
We note with sadness that one of our coauthors, Douglas Passaro, died suddenly on April 18, 2005. Dr Passaro was a talented and outstanding researcher, who initiated a nationally recognized program in the 1990s to investigate infectious causes of unexplained deaths; ironically, his death also remains unexplained.
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- Figure 1. Reported myocarditis case-patients by month of hospital admission, northern Illinois, 2003. (N = 15 because the exact date of admission to hospital was unknown for 1 patient).
- Figure 2. County of residence of reported myocarditis case-patients (N = 16), northern Illinois, 2003.
- Table 1. Demographic and clinical features of reported myocarditis patients, northern Illinois, 2003
- Table 2. Laboratory features of reported myocarditis case-patients, northern Illinois, 2003
Suggested citation for this article: Huhn GD, Gross C, Schnurr D, Preas C, Yagi S, Reagan S, et al. Myocarditis outbreak among adults, Illinois, 2003. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2005 Oct [date cited]. http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid1110.041152
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This Mediterranean Diet Guide gives an overview of the diet, the health benefits, easy Mediterranean food swaps, and recipes for you to get started with this way of eating. It's a lifestyle, not a diet, and one that's sure to leave you feeling your best.
I figured it was about time I do a post talking all about the Mediterranean Diet. I've mentioned it briefly, but I've been following the Mediterranean Diet loosely for the past few months, and I've been loving it.
In case you're wondering, the Mediterranean Diet was voted "best overall diet" by US News Health in 2018 and 2019. Despite the name, it's not as diet-y as other diets, and therefore easier to follow and keep up with. While others will try (and potential fail) at other trendier diets, the Mediterranean Diet is one that you really can't fail, and is much more of a lifestyle than a strict eating plan.
WHAT IS THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET?
The Mediterranean Diet is a diet that focuses on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and healthy fats like olive oil, nuts and seeds. Though those are the main aspects of the diet, there are still a LOT of other foods that are allowed and even encouraged. Picture the food pyramid for a second. Here's an example of the Mediterranean food pyramid:
- Bottom tier: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, seeds, legumes, beans, olive oil
- Middle tier(s): fish, seafood, poultry, eggs, cheese, yogurt, red wine
- Top tier: red meat, sugar
What you'll notice is that no food is completely off-limits. The reason I like this is because it's not unusual to be a place where you can't control the food. In fact, I think it's a really good thing to allow yourself the flexibility to eat ALL foods in moderation, rather than labeling certain foods as "bad".
When you're eating at home or when you go out to eat, it's easy to follow the diet, but if you're at a family gathering and they're grilling burgers and having cake for dessert, you can enjoy those things because they're not something you're consuming regularly. The diet promotes treating yourself and listening to your body, rather than NEVER being able to eat a donut ever again. Again, it's a lifestyle, not a diet.
HEALTH BENEFITS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN DIET
The Mediterranean Diet is said to lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and a stroke. It's said to help with weight loss, strengthening bones and aiding in digestion. Emerging studies show that it may also reduce the risk of depression, anxiety and some types of cancer.
EASY MEDITERRANEAN SWAPS
Butter --> olive oil: Olive oil is heart-healthy fat that can help lower cholesterol vs. butter, which is higher in saturated fat.
Meat --> seafood: Though some meat is allowed (chicken, turkey), for the most part, you'll want to choose seafood over meat. Though all seafood is encouraged, it is best to focus on seafood high in omega-3's, like salmon, tuna and herring.
Refined grains --> whole grains: Whole grains are high in fiber and tend to be easier to digest than refined grains. For most grains, you should be able to find the whole grain substitution. Choose brown rice over white, whole grain pasta, and whole grain bread instead of white.
Sugary cocktails --> red wine: Many cocktails contain hidden sugar. So, instead of a cocktail, opt for a glass of red wine. ....unless you're like me and red wine gives you a migraine, then a cocktail from time to time is A-ok.
EVERY DAY MEDITERRANEAN DIET RECIPES
Now that you know what you can and cannot eat while on the diet, it's time to cook some food! Check out these 51 Mediterranean Diet Recipes, which will hopefully inspire you to give it a go.
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The Children’s Sports Palace “Olympiyets”. It caters for children from the age of seven. The building has a gymnasium, various games halls, a special section for the high, long and vault jumps, and a running track with a special artificial covering. The total floor space of the building is 3,600 square metres. There are the usual dressing rooms and showers for 500 children, class-rooms, a first aid centre and a buffet. About 2,000 boys and girls take part in the track and field events, trampoline, karate, tennis, archery, volleyball and other classes.
The Sports Palace is a good place to leave the trolleybus and continue the excursion on foot. Next door is the Sports Palace for adults with only a fountain separating the two. The city Sports Palace was built in 1975 and is also used for film shows and concerts. It seats 6,500 people and its facilities include basketball, volleyball, wrestling, figure skating, gymnastics, etc. Contests, including national championships, are often staged here.
Opposite the Sports Palace is the main entrance to the Lenin Dendropark which stretches along the right side of the Avenue. The park was laid out on April 22nd, 1960, on the ninetieth anniversary of
Lenin’s birth. The site was formerly a wasteland cut by a deep gully, but now it is one of the finest parks in Odessa.
More than five hundred different species of trees and shrubs have been planted on the slopes of the gully including pines, firs, birches, chestnut trees and oaks. At the lowest spot of the park there is a large pond with fountains and bridges. It is an excellent place to spend a quiet morning or afternoon and provides much for those interested in the flora of the region.
If you enter the park you will find yourself on Alleya Druzhby (Friendship Avenue), running to your left and right,
parallel to the street. Its trees were planted by representatives from the other Soviet hero-cities: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kiev and Sevastopol, and from Odessa’s twin-towns: Marseilles, Varna, Segled, Yokohama, Vancouver and Genoa, as well as by the Soviet cosmonauts Valery Bykovsky and Georgy Shonin. The Avenue takes you to the exit from the park on Ploshchad Desyatogo Aprelya (April 10th Square) named after the day in 1944 when Odessa was liberated from the nazi invaders.
On the opposite side of the square is a stone of pink marble, it marks the spot where a monument to the founder of Odessa, Field-Marshal A. Suvorov, is to be erected.
Crossing to the right side, we continue along Shevchenko Avenue. The first street to the right leads to a big new residential district. The street Ulitsa Chernyakhovskogo (Chernyakhovsky St.) was named after the famous General Chernyakhovsky, twice Hero of the Soviet Union who was killed in battle near the end of the Great Patriotic War. A monument to the General stands at the beginning of the street outside school No.56, as it was the pupils of this school who launched a fund-raising campaign for the monument, contributing their share by collecting scrap-metal.
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In Vivo Ultrasonic Detection of Polyurea Crosslinked Silica Aerogel Implants
Background:Polyurea crosslinked silica aerogels are highly porous, lightweight, and mechanically strong materials with great potential for in vivo applications. Recent in vivo and in vitro studies have demonstrated the biocompatibility of this type of aerogel. The highly porous nature of aerogels allows for exceptional thermal, electric, and acoustic insulating capabilities that can be taken advantage of for non-invasive external imaging techniques. Sound-based detection of implants is a low cost, non-invasive, portable, and rapid technique that is routinely used and readily available in major clinics and hospitals.Methodology:In this study the first in vivo ultrasound response of polyurea crosslinked silica aerogel implants was investigated by means of a GE Medical Systems LogiQe diagnostic ultrasound machine with a linear array probe. Aerogel samples were inserted subcutaneously and sub-muscularly in a) fresh animal model and b) cadaveric human model for analysis. For comparison, samples of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) were also imaged under similar conditions as the aerogel samples.Conclusion/significance:Polyurea crosslinked silica aerogel (X-Si aerogel) implants were easily identified when inserted in either of the regions in both fresh animal model and cadaveric model. The implant dimensions inferred from the images matched the actual size of the implants and no apparent damage was sustained by the X-Si aerogel implants as a result of the ultrasonic imaging process. The aerogel implants demonstrated hyperechoic behavior and significant posterior shadowing. Results obtained were compared with images acquired from the PDMS implants inserted at the same location. © 2013 Sabri et al.
Sabri, F., Sebelik, M., Meacham, R., Boughter, J., Challis, M., & Leventis, N. (2013). In Vivo Ultrasonic Detection of Polyurea Crosslinked Silica Aerogel Implants. PLoS ONE, 8 (6) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0066348 | <urn:uuid:beabefa6-4f0f-4534-843b-9635cd0670ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/facpubs/6690/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.868297 | 477 | 1.726563 | 2 |
If you want to learn how to grow hair faster naturally in a week, then you are in the right place. I have some valuable tips for you that will help you find out how to grow hair faster.
All you need to do is make sure that you are taking all the natural oils that your scalp is producing and utilizing them to the fullest. Doing this will speed up the process of hair growth, whether you are getting a full head of hair or just a few strands.
Get frequent trims — yes, really
You can also boost the rate of hair growth by making sure that you are getting the right nutrients from your diet. Your body will be able to fight off various diseases as a result of taking the right vitamins and minerals.
Avoid drinking sodas, or any other kind of carbonated beverages. This will only serve to increase the production of carbon dioxide in your blood stream, which is bad for the production of new cells in your scalp.
Getting a healthy scalp will allow your hair to grow much more easily. All that you need to do is to make sure that you are not feeding it anything that will cause it to become bald.
Eat the right foods
Eating a lot of fruits and vegetables is a good way to learn how to grow hair faster naturally. It is a fact that the foods that you eat affects the way that you look and feel in a great deal.
In addition to the natural oils, your diet should also include a lot of water, particularly those that are rich in zinc. By keeping your body healthy and hydrated, it will be able to function well at its best.
When you are trying to learn how to grow hair faster naturally, it is very important that you do not skip on eating the proper amounts of protein. You must also keep in mind that you should be consuming as many nutrients as possible, since this will increase the rate of hair growth.
Resist the urge to go blonde
This will also help to get rid of the excess sebum that is on your skin. The sebum that your scalp produces is vital, but it has a lot of toxins that can cause damage to your scalp.
By keeping a healthy scalp, you will be able to protect yourself from a variety of health problems. This includes things like high blood pressure, Alzheimer’s disease, and even cancer.
Distribute your hair’s natural oils
It is also very important that you make sure that you are taking in the proper amount of vitamins and minerals that your body needs, because this will allow you to get a full head of hair on a regular basis. Once you have started to see new strands growing, you will also notice a better sense of well being, a more attractive personality, and most importantly, a better you.
Learning how to grow hair faster naturally is something that anyone can do. Take action today to give your body everything that it needs to function correctly.
Avoid heat styling tools
Ever wonder how to grow hair faster in a month? This article will give you some ideas about how to start growing your hair faster.
The key step is to learn how to keep the cuticles intact, which prevents your follicles from dying off. If you can get a few of your follicles to survive, they will continue to reproduce. By this time, you can expect new hairs to appear in your head in a month or two.
Skip the daily shampoo
When you’re growing, you have to be patient and focused. Even if it takes a month to a month and a half, this will go by quickly. Just do not rush your hair growth process. You should allow time for your follicles to develop.
You also have to have patience in the way you care for your hair as you are growing. You need to take good care of your scalp and hair as it grows. If you don’t, then you might find that you’ll grow the fastest at some point, but you’ll start to lose it in a few months.
Add a vitamin to your A.M. routine
If you want to grow it at the fastest rate possible, you need to use the right t444z hair products. You need to be looking for shampoos and conditioners that will help your hair grow faster. There are plenty of shampoos and conditioners out there that help to stimulate hair growth, so make sure that you are able to find them.
Once you find them, you need to apply them to your scalp. You should work them into your hair as best as you can, but you also need to use a leave-in conditioner after you wash it off. You also need to consider using a relaxer at times to maintain a natural shine on your hair and scalp.
Finish your shower with a cool rinse
The fastest way to grow hair is to use products that contain nutrients, amino acids, proteins, and vitamins. They will all stimulate your body to produce more hair. This way, you won’t have to worry about stopping in order to wait for your hair to grow.
You can be assured that you’ll be getting extra nutrients and vitamins that will stimulate the growth of your hair. Once your hair starts to grow, you’ll be amazed at how your hair feels.
Be careful when you brush wet hair
It’s because your hair is healthier and more resilient to conditions than when you were growing it. This means that it’s going to look fuller and finer. Once you start getting compliments about how nice your hair looks, then you can really start to enjoy yourself.
Start using minoxidil
How to grow hair faster in a month includes a lot of things that you can be confident about. You’ll be able to take better care of your hair, and will begin to see some results in a relatively short amount of time. Take time to read the labels on products to find ones that are best for you, as this will help your hair grow quicker.
The best hair growth products are ones that contain everything you need to get your hair to grow faster. You need to be able to find out what they are so that you can use them, so be diligent.
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in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP) > Vol. 11. N° 5 [03/11/2011] . - p.2161-2177
Spaceborne lidar measurements from CALIPSO (Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations) are used to provide a vortex-wide perspective of the 2009–2010 Arctic PSC (polar stratospheric cloud) season to complement more focused measurements from the European Union RECONCILE (reconciliation of essential process parameters for an enhanced predictability of Arctic stratospheric ozone loss and its climate interactions) field campaign. The 2009–2010 Arctic winter was unusually cold at stratospheric levels from mid-December 2009 until the end of January 2010, and was one of only a few winters from the past fifty-two years with synoptic-scale regions of temperatures below the frost point. More PSCs were observed by CALIPSO during the 2009–2010 Arctic winter than in the previous three Arctic seasons combined. In particular, there were significantly more observations of high number density NAT (nitric acid trihydrate) mixtures (referred to as Mix 2-enh) and ice PSCs. We found that the 2009–2010 season could roughly be divided into four periods with distinctly different PSC optical characteristics. The early season (15–30 December 2009) was characterized by patchy, tenuous PSCs, primarily low number density liquid/NAT mixtures. No ice clouds were observed by CALIPSO during this early phase, suggesting that these early season NAT clouds were formed through a non-ice nucleation mechanism. The second phase of the season (31 December 2009–14 January 2010) was characterized by frequent mountain wave ice clouds that nucleated widespread NAT particles throughout the vortex, including Mix 2-enh. The third phase of the season (15–21 January 2010) was characterized by synoptic-scale temperatures below the frost point which led to a rare outbreak of widespread ice clouds. The fourth phase of the season (22–28 January) was characterized by a major stratospheric warming that distorted the vortex, displacing the cold pool from the vortex center. This final phase was dominated by STS (supercooled ternary solution) PSCs, although NAT particles may have been present in low number densities, but were masked by the more abundant STS droplets at colder temperatures. We also found distinct variations in the relative proportion of PSCs in each composition class with altitude over the course of the 2009–2010 Arctic season. Lower number density liquid/NAT mixtures were most frequently observed in the lower altitude regions of the clouds (below ~18–20 km), which is consistent with CALIPSO observations in the Antarctic. Higher number density liquid/NAT mixtures, especially Mix 2-enh, were most frequently observed at altitudes above 18–20 km, primarily downstream of wave ice clouds. This pattern is consistent with the conceptual model whereby low number density, large NAT particles are precipitated from higher number density NAT clouds (i.e. mother clouds) that are nucleated downstream of mountain wave ice clouds.
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A NICKEL PICKLE
The Problems of Building High-Tech From a Meteoroid Wreck
by Bob Kobres
Though a nickel will not buy much today the element nickel is invaluable to our contemporary way of life. Without access to this nonferrous metal, much of what we take for granted would not be practical or in many cases possible.Automobiles would be fragile–hitting a pothole would, as in very early cars, often break an axle. Internal combustion engines could not be depended upon and would also weigh a great deal more per unit of horse-power than the motors we are accustomed to. Airplanes, if they could be made to fly (the Wright brothers used a motor that took advantage of nickel steel’s superior strength to weight ratio), would be terribly unsafe. Jet powered flight would be impossible–the strength that nickel gives to steel at high temperatures made this type engine feasible. No buildings could scrape the sky without nickel’s contribution; steel bridges would be massive, ugly and corrode rapidly as well. In essence, our world would appear and function much as it did one hundred years ago, for it was in the late 1880’s when nickel-steel became a product.
The discovery of this nickel-steel key to our century is quite fascinating. John Gamgee, an eccentric inventor, had succeeded in convincing U.S. government officials that victims of a yellow fever epidemic, then sweeping the south, could be brought back to health by living in a cold environment. Gamgee’s plan was to develop a refrigerated hospital ship which could travel from port to port, pick up victims, and freeze the fever out of them. Aiding Gamgee in this enterprise was Samuel J. Ritchie, a carriage manufacturer, who had recently met the inventor by chance (their Washington, D.C. hotel rooms were next door to one another). With Ritchie’s help, Gamgee received a promise from the Senate Committee on Epidemic Diseases for an appropriation of a quarter million dollars if the inventor could prove that a workable refrigeration system was possible. A machine shop at a local Navy shipyard was made available to Gamgee so that he could construct and demonstrate his cooling apparatus to the committee.
In 1876 (when this took place) refrigeration was a very new capability and Gamgee soon encountered a problem with his proposed device–he could find no material that would hold up to the pressure his machine generated. Normal cast iron, being porous, allowed his cooling agent (ammonia) to escape. Undeterred, Gamgee began mixing other metals with iron. After several weeks of disappointing results the inventor turned to his new found friend and asked: “Ritchie, did you ever notice the meteorites at the Smithsonian Institution?” The carriage maker said that he had, and Gamgee went on: “Well, we have no metallic iron on earth produced by nature in that form, and those meteors have all fallen from the skies, or have come from some other world. They nearly all contain nickel. Tomorrow we will send over to Philadelphia and get some, and try it. . . . try this metal as an alloy with iron, and see if we can imitate nature in duplicating the meteorite, as we are trying to imitate nature in the production of artificial cold for the yellow fever patients.”
Seventy-two samples of nickel-iron were produced, each blend with a half-percent higher nickel content. The batch that was eight percent nickel proved so hard that neither file nor chisel could alter it. Recalling this event later, Ritchie relates that Gamgee threw up his hands and shouted: “Eureka! I have found at last an alloy strong enough and hard enough to resist anything and close enough in texture to resist the escape of any form of gas!”
The two men, excited by this find, invited the Senate committee to come take a look for themselves. Duly impressed, it seemed certain that the committee would give the go ahead on Gamgee’s project. Unfortunately, the inventor chose this occasion to differ with the committee chairman over the cost and management of the proposed ship. The arguing continued. The weather cooled. The mosquitoes died and so brought the yellow fever epidemic to an end. Public attention turned elsewhere leaving Gamgee with no funds to continue his project. Ritchie returned to his Akron, Ohio carriage business undoubtedly thinking . . . “well, that’s that.” He could not have known what a profound effect his experience with Gamgee was to have on his future.
In 1881, Ritchie had need of second growth hickory to sustain his carriage business. Land was cheap in Ontario, so he went there to find his trees. While there, he also found iron ore, so he purchased fifteen thousand acres inclusive of mineral rights. To get his lumber out, as well as the iron ore, Ritchie needed a railroad. Through an impressive bit of wheeling and dealing, this entrepreneur had, in 1885, a major interest in the Central Ontario Railway and a working iron mine. Things did not pan out as Ritchie expected. His ore had such a high sulfur content it was almost worthless. About ready to give up mining and sell his interest in the railroad, Ritchie happened across some ore samples taken from Sudbury–a region that was near the operation he had underway. Analysis of these samples indicated a seven percent copper content. Ritchie immediately sent a deputy to Sudbury, then went himself. Ritchie returned owning some properties and holding options on almost one hundred thousand acres in the area. Again Ritchie was to face disappointment, though this time short lived. His new ore would yield no pure copper; another element refused to separate from the metal he sought. Further testing of the ore revealed the reason for its unexpected behavior. In Ritchie’s words:
The discovery of this nickel in these ores . . . was unexpected news . . . . We had no suspicion that they were anything but copper ores. This discovery changed the whole situation . . . . As the world’s annual consumption of nickel was then only about 1,000 tons, the question was what was to be done with all the nickel which these deposits could produce. I at once recalled . . . John Gamgee in the Navy Yard at Washington . . . and it occurred to me that nickel could be used with success in the manufacture of guns and for many other purposes as an alloy with iron and steel.
This occurred late in 1886. Ritchie fired off a letter to the famous gun-maker, Krupp, in Essen, Germany, telling him of the experiments Gamgee had performed a decade earlier. Krupp replied that there was not enough nickel in the world to warrant experiments which pointed to greater use of the element. Ritchie knew better. By 1890 things had changed considerably; a nickel pickle was on the world’s platter and little would remain the same.
The “arms race” as we know it began at this time. So impressive was the strength of this material for military purposes that in Glasgow (1890) the October 27, Herald ran this prophetic statement:
. . . . “When the irresistible nickel plated breech-loader confronts the impenetrable nickel plated ironclad then indeed . . . war as a fine art will come to an end.”
The Herald article was based on then recent tests of nickel steel armor plate at Annapolis.
On April 24, 1898, Spain declared war on the U.S. The war ended December 10 of the same year. Two major encounters occurred in this war–the Battle of Manila Bay and the Battle of Santiago de Cuba. Almost the entire Spanish fleet went to the bottom in these altercations. The United States lost one sailor. Nickel steel armor made the difference. The U.S. Navy had proven its metal. Naturally, other nations wanted the same protection for their own ships. The demand for nickel steel rose sharply and continued to rise as more and more applications were found for it. As mentioned earlier, the automobile industry was facilitated by this material. In the words of an early auto builder, Elwood Haynes:
Since the first attempt to build automobiles, early in the 90’s, experimenters have had difficulty in getting materials suitable for the purpose. Steel of high tensile strength was employed but the results were not satisfactory. Lower carbon steels were tried, but they lasted only a few weeks, or months, and then broke off short. Swedish iron did not break, but when the first hard bump was encountered it took a set and the wobbling rear wheels indicated what had happened. Finally a steel of moderately low carbon was introduced which gave only fair results, and if the car was driven for any length of time over rough roads, this also crystallized and broke off. Nickel changed all this.
Nickel would alter conditions far more than it had in 1907 when Haynes addressed his audience of mechanical engineers at Indianapolis, Indiana. The following year (1908) Model T’s started rolling off the line. From here on, the pace of social change got quicker, and, as a consequence of building and operating the equipment that drove this change, our planet’s air became thicker.
There is great irony in civilization’s meteoric path to the present state of affairs. Recall that Gamgee was inspired by the physical properties of meteorites to try nickel as an alloy with iron. Gamgee’s results caused Ritchie to recognize the potential of this then scarce metal when he later stumbled upon a huge quantity of it. What no one was to realize for quite some time was that the nickel, copper, iron, platinum, iridium, gold, silver, and other metals extracted from the ores of Sudbury had arrived there very suddenly about 1.7 billion years ago. In a very real sense, we have built high-tech from a meteoroid wreck. The large quantity of nickel available from this debris (that once constituted an asteroid estimated to have been two and one-half miles across) allowed Canada to dominate world production of this metal for better than half a century. There is, though, a very large price being paid for salvaging this mega-meteorite scrap–acid rain.
The dangerous drop in the pH value of rain water can not, of course, be blamed on this one metal refinery. Sudbury is, however, an excellent example of why our showers are turning sour. A nickel/copper smelting plant, owned by International Nickel (Inco), in this region has the unwanted distinction of being world champ in sulphur dioxide (SO2) emission. This one operation spews over six hundred thousand tons of SO2 into our air annually–about two times the yearly output of Sweden, a nation that now has around twenty thousand acidified lakes, one fifth of which no longer contain fish. Combined SO2 emissions from eastern Canada’s non-ferrous metal industry amounted to over two million tons in 1980, forty-five percent of Canada’s total SO2 contribution, east of Saskatchewan. Mining landed asteroids is definitely not a practice that will improve our present environment. There is, though, a way to get ourselves out of the “picklish” situation an abundant supply of nickel allowed us to get into.
The demonstrated fact is that many industrial processes do not blend well with the workings of a biological system. Solution? Expel those industries known to be harmful to our environment. This is not really a drastic remedy. Mining and processing materials in space are desirable from a long-term environmental, economic, or political outlook. Why, then, is there not a major project underway to rapidly relocate these industries which harm our environment? Part of the answer is found in the newness of such an option, but the principal reason a high priority has not been placed on this type of space development is the arms race. This dangerous contest saps the talent and resources needed to develop an infrastructure which would support space based industry.
The arms race, however, is very much a product of discordant global attitudes. Unless we soon learn to work in concert toward a harmonious relation between ourselves and the rest of nature, this meteoric rise in capability we have recently experienced will end with a catastrophic crash of civilization. A downfall that, if caused by continued industrial malpractice or a nuclear confrontation over controls of limited resources, will have a tremendously devastating impact upon all of Life on Earth.To survive, we must do better. | <urn:uuid:040debaa-65b7-4797-b694-aee63e0a2909> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cosmictusk.com/a-nickel-pickle-the-problems-of-building-high-tech-from-a-meteoroid-wreck/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.97308 | 2,600 | 3.421875 | 3 |
3 August 2022
Green Park Has Been Awarded with the Prestigious Race Equality Matters Trailblazer Status
The DNA of Future Retail Leadership is Green Park's and the World Retail Congress' second large scale survey of senior leaders in the retail industry. The findings suggest that the retail sector is now suffering from a crisis in leadership and is compiled from interviews with businesses of all shapes and sizes - large and small, traditional and pure play, across several sectors and around the world.
The findings reveal:
Analysis for the report concludes there are three main areas where companies need to focus their strategies to create leadership teams with the skills, attributes and behaviours in order to survive, and thrive: They are to create:
Steve Baggi, Co-Founder of Green Park and Head of Retail, said, “This report should act as a wake-up call for much of the retail sector. As technological change increases in pace and consumers interact with brands in ever more innovative ways, it’s clear that in their own words, the leadership teams at many of our leading companies appear unable to adapt and as a result risk failure in the future.
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what is the significance of the secretary telling Amir about Raymond's daughters suicide? What does this detail to the reader about Raymond? What does it foreshadow
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Raymond Andrews told him that his chances of getting a visa for Sohrab were slim. He would have to prove that Sohrab was legally an orphan by providing death certificates for Hassan and Farzana; this would have been impossible even in pre-Taliban Kabul. Before leaving, Amir snapped at Raymond Andrews, "They ought to put someone in your chair who knows what it's like to want a child." As he and Sohrab left, the receptionist told Amir that Raymond Andrews's daughter had committed suicide.
When Amir finds out that Andrews lost his daughter in a violent way, he is reminded that violence exists everywhere in the world, even in privileged societies and situations. In the second place, the moment uses one of Hosseini's favorite techniques, foreshadowing Sohrab's attempted suicide at the end of the chapter. | <urn:uuid:95b4a5ff-5a92-4484-8c9f-324986fd7f2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gradesaver.com/the-kite-runner/q-and-a/chapter-24-278179 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00282-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968344 | 211 | 1.960938 | 2 |
The IBM developerWorks site brings the community another great tutorial today, this time looking at the CakePHP framework and the creation of a simple application with it.
In "Cook up Web sites fast with CakePHP, Part 1: Adding related information and services", they build a sample application (Tor) from the ground up (installation guide and all) that will take in a username and password on a login page. Their goal is to show you how much time you could safe by using the framework over just the usual library-based (or procedural) programming methods.
You will need to be a bit familiar with PHP and the Model/View/Controller design pattern before you get started here, but if you have that down, you can just jump right in. You'll also either need to register with the site or log in with your account information to get to the good stuff. | <urn:uuid:53b0baa6-e362-4007-81d4-50e5d3d98c13> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://phpdeveloper.org/news/6788 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00425-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935802 | 180 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Methane: A Menace Surfaces Methane: A Menace Surfaces; December 2009; Scientific American Magazine; by Katey Walter Anthony; 8 Page(s) Touchdown on the gravel runway at Cherskii in remote northeastern Siberia sent the steel toe of a rubber boot into my buttocks. The shoe had sprung free from gear stuffed between me and my three colleagues packed into a tiny prop plane. This was the last leg of my research teams five-day journey from the University of Alaska Fairbanks across Russia to the Northeast Science Station in the land of a million lakes, which we were revisiting as part of our ongoing efforts to monitor a stirring giant that could greatly speed up global warming. These expeditions help us to understand how much of the perennially frozen ground, known as permafrost, in Siberia and across the Arctic is thawing, or close to thawing, and how much methane the process could generate. The question grips usand many scientists and policy makersbecause methane is a potent greenhouse gas, packing 25 times more heating power, molecule for molecule, than carbon dioxide. If the permafrost thaws rapidly because of global warming worldwide, the planet could get hotter more quickly than most models now predict. Our data, combined with complementary analyses by others, are revealing troubling trends. | <urn:uuid:e86e8cec-8a57-4eed-b2e9-89f2e9e23b2a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/methane-a-menace-surfaces.96932/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00202-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943477 | 267 | 3.3125 | 3 |
A ganglion cyst appears as a fluid enclosed bump usually around a joint or tendon sheath in the hand, wrist, or foot.
Ganglion cysts are the most common soft tissue mass of the hand and wrist (55 per 100,000 of population per year.) They occur in a 3 to 1 female to male ratio. These cysts can arise at any age with the majority presenting between the second and fourth decades (60-70%). There does not appear to be any relationship between ganglion cysts and dominant hand or occupation.
Currently, no single theory adequately explains what causes ganglion cysts to appear. Most modern theories are based on the belief that ganglion cysts arise from within the connective tissue. Some theories:
Repetitive trauma stimulates hyaluronic acid/mucin production by modified synovial cells at the synovial-capsular interface. Mucin dissects along the attached ligament and capsule to form capsular ducts. These ducts, in turn, act as valve-like structure that leads to the formation of mucin lakes. The mucin in the ducts and lakes accumulates to eventually form a ganglion cyst.
Mucinous degeneration results in cyst formation due to chronic damage. Later degeneration of the joint capsule results in cyst communication with the joint. Ganglion cysts may arise due to herniations of synovial tissue from the joints.
The vast majority of ganglion cysts arise as small painless bumps ranging in size from 1 to 3 cm. Most have a firm or rubbery consistency and are mobile. Occasionally these cysts can be symptomatic. The most common presenting symptoms include:
Typically the pain is dull and persistent and worse at the extremes of wrist motion. More frequently, pain is associated with dorsal ganglion and smaller ganglion size.
Sometimes a ganglion puts pressure on the nerves that pass near the joint; this may weaken hand strength, affect joint motion, or cause tingling in the fingers, hand, or forearm.
Appearance and location is often sufficient to diagnose a ganglion cyst. In addition, the cyst will trans-illuminate with a flashlight on physical exam.
Cyst fluid may be removed and examined to confirm the diagnosis
Often reserved for cases in which there is suspicion for other etiologies such as osteoarthritis, bone spurs, bone tumors, or fractures. However, x-rays can also be used to determine cyst related damage to wrist bones.
MRI or Ultrasound
Rarely used for the purpose of diagnosing ganglion cysts.
You must take into consideration that most ganglions will disappear without any treatment and often return despite treatment. If the cyst is not painful or interfering with function, often all that is needed is education, reassurance, and expectant management. More aggressive treatment is indicated if a ganglion becomes symptomatic, infected, or is affecting adjacent bones or ligaments. Treatment options include:
A large, 16 gauge needle is used to aspirate the cyst. This is rarely a permanent solution. In one study with 34 patients, 59% of cysts reoccurred within three months.
Aspiration with a Steroid Injection
Most commonly used approach. Thought to be more effective than aspiration alone. However, studies have shown cure rates ranging from 57-79%
Injection of Hyaluronidase followed by Aspiration:
95% cure rate at 6 months
Aspiration and instillation of steroid
With the prior use of hyaluronidase (87% cure at 2 years compared to 57% without hyaluronidase)
Open procedure versus less invasive arthroscopic approach. The goal is to remove the ganglion sac and connecting tissue. Has a 5 to 10% recurrence rate. | <urn:uuid:b8dfd956-8166-4293-8536-d27924e221ac> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://orthosurg.ucsf.edu/patient-care/divisions/sports-medicine/conditions/elbow-and-wrist/ganglion-cysts-of-the-wrist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929062 | 807 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Evolution of the Gymnasium
Gyms are enormously popular in America. In fact, statistics suggest that about 12 percent of the population has a membership. Gyms have become so pervasive that it’s hard to imagine a time when they weren’t found dotted across the landscape. Nonetheless, the fact remains that the modern gym is a relatively recent phenomenon.
More than 3,000 years ago, the innovative Persians established Zurkhanehs, which were essentially the ancient-world equivalent of modern-day gyms. The word “Zurkhaneh” translates to “house of strength,” and the facilities were strictly for the use of men. Scholars have described the physical activities there as being a cross between the martial arts and Iranian yoga. Men came to the Zurkhaneh to improve their speed, endurance and concentration while also turning themselves into warriors.
The concept of the gym was refined by the ancient Greeks, from whom the modern word “gymnasium” arises. Their word for it was “gymnasion,” which has its roots in the word “gymno,” meaning naked. Although the connection is less obvious now, the Greeks did have good reason for using this word to describe their centers for physical culture. At the time, exercise was performed in the nude to better showcase the fitness of the competitors at massive public events like the ancient Olympics. Just as in Persia, the gymnasium of the ancient Greeks was solely reserved for the use of men, who were meant to be training for battle. The gym was not just a place for sweating for the Greeks. They were also centers of philosophy and education.
The concept of the gymnasium all but disappeared from all cultures after the fall of the Greeks. Most people didn’t need to follow a program of exercise because mere survival gave them all of the physical challenges they needed. While members of the lower classes struggled to earn a living, those in the upper strata preferred to lead lives of leisure. An excess of physical exertion was considered unseemly.
Things began to slowly evolve in the latter half of the 19th century when more people began to take an interest in fitness and health. Members of the middle and upper classes were constantly looking for ways to improve themselves, and exercise formed a part of that. People began riding bicycles for fun and as part of a more active lifestyle. In fact, there was an outright “bicycle craze” in the 1890’s when an increasing number of people began taking advantage of the improved technology of the machines. Even women were increasingly permitted to cycle, with feminist Susan B. Anthony referring to the bicycle as the “freedom machine.”
At the same time, an increasing number of gyms were being founded. Swedish doctor Jonas Zander was creating ingenious exercise machines, many of which form the basis for the machines that are found in the modern gym. Suddenly, the leisurely members of the upper classes were being enticed toward physical exertion. It was viewed as being beneficial for the mind and body as well as being increasingly socially acceptable.
Many 19th century gyms were centered around colleges and universities where young men and women would take part in physical culture classes. This was also the time during which the earliest YMCA facilities were established. Of course, these facilities were often more than places to exercise as they included accommodations and auditoriums. Rudimentary gymnastics became popularized through the Turnvereine movement, which led to the creation of Turner gyms where aspects of German-American politics were explored in addition to offering a space for exercise.
Several new innovations hit the scene during the 1930’s. Boxing gyms began to spring up in urban areas. These facilities were specific to sparring and learning to fight, which meant that they were really only intended for men. However, this is also the decade when Jack LaLanne opened a health club in Oakland, California, which was much more akin to the modern gym than anything that had gone before. In fact, many industry experts refer to it as the first health and fitness club in America. Like Dr. Zander before him, LaLanne designed many of the exercise machines that are still familiar to gym members today.
The next gym revolution took place in the 1970’s and 1980’s as chain gyms began springing up across the country. It began to be quite normal for people to pay a monthly fee for a membership and the pleasure of sweating on a machine or participating in a class. The tradition continues today in diverse facilities, with members having more choices than ever before. No matter how you prefer to exercise, you’ll find a gym and trainers who can help you achieve your fitness goals. | <urn:uuid:fd57bf88-429f-4710-b3cc-32a39a6542fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myhousefitness.com/the-history-of-gyms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.985323 | 1,012 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Rhyme is also a useful aide-memoire, she points out, and recommends both playing her father's memory games and memorizing poems. By such means, she hopes, it might be possible to stave off the approach of Alzheimer's. It would be wonderful to think so, impossible to say she's wrong, and so maybe worth giving it a go.
She gives various other useful spin-offs that might be ours as a result of memorizing poems, the ability to recite them “hands-free” whilst doing other things, being one.
Some people, I know, recite memorized poems for stress-relief, to help them sleep, to defy the boredom of repetitive work, or simply for the pleasure they give.
Like many others, I am sure, I can still “rattle off” a great deal of verse which was required learning when I was at school - and quite a lot more that was not. Some of the required stuff, I would dearly love to be able to erase from my memory banks, but alas, that does not seem to be a possibility! Both the choice of poems, and what we were taught about them, left a lot to be desired, I fear.
Critics often bemoan the fact that children in school are no longer required to learn poetry by heart. That is, no doubt, a great loss, but I am comforted by the thought that they do get introduced to the work of living poets, whereas I, who was born just eleven years after Eliot wrote The Waste Land, went right through school (including grammar school) without knowing of his or its existence. It was not until I left school and went to art school that the world of contemporary (or near contemporary) poetry opened up for me. At school I was stuck with Lochinvar coming out of the west, “The Pied Piper of Hamelin”, and the journey of the good news from Ghent to Aixe. - Not quite true; we did “do” Homer!
It seems there has been both progress and regression. | <urn:uuid:4e16135f-7061-49bb-aa9c-2029b00ced68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://picsandpoems.blogspot.com/2007/03/memory.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.987167 | 433 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Real Life in China at the Height of Empire : Revealed by the Ghosts of Ji Xiaolan
Toward the end of the eighteenth century, the scholar and wit Ji Xiaolan published five collections of anecdotes and discourses on the interaction between the mundane and the spirit worlds, incorporating earthly life stories and happenings. Containing Ji's thoughts and others' experiences, these tales concern peasants, servants, merchants, governors, and ministers; take place throughout the Qing empire; and recount comedy and tragedy, cruelty and kindness, corruption and integrity, and erudition and ignorance. Some stories use ghosts to satirize men and manners; others straightforwardly examine beliefs and practices. Altogether, they draw a portrait of the time unmatched in scope and variety. Selections are organized thematically and include a contextualizing preface. An introduction appraises Ji's own career and the atmosphere in which he lived. | <urn:uuid:34f2ad0e-5be4-480f-bf40-5f07c73606e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pandora.com.tr/urun/real-life-in-china-at-the-height-of-empire-revealed-by-the-ghosts-of-ji-xiaolan/331601 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00216-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928795 | 180 | 2.53125 | 3 |
For the Wall Street Journal, he named a five best list of World War II memoirs.
One title on the list:
Life and FateRead about another book on the list.
by Vasily Grossman
Between 1941 and 1945, Vassily Grossman was a reporter for the Soviet Krasnaya Zvezda (Red Star) newspaper who specialized in interviewing the "frontoviki" (front-line troops). He covered the battles of Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk and Berlin, and his interview subjects included Gen. Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, the Red Army's battlefield commander at Stalingrad. The writer was also present at the liberation of the Treblinka concentration camp. Taking extensive notes throughout the war, Grossman—a Jew who felt deeply betrayed by the Bolsheviks' growing anti-Semitism— incorporated the stories into his monumental autobiographical novel, "Life and Fate," which has been likened to "War and Peace" in its scope and ambition. The book, and even the typewriter ribbon on which it was written, were confiscated by the KGB after the war, and Grossman was told that "Life and Fate" could not be published for 200 years. That wasn't true—the book came out in the West in 1980 and in Russia eight years later. Its author had died of cancer in 1964.
Life and Fate also appears among Antony Beevor's five best works of fiction about World War Two.
Also see Ian Kershaw's five best books about major decisions of World War II. | <urn:uuid:7c2bc4a2-db1e-498b-8127-8868b74f2216> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://americareads.blogspot.com/2010/09/five-best-world-war-two-memoirs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00164-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976978 | 319 | 2.203125 | 2 |
SOCIAL BETTERMENT ACTIVITIES
THE ASSOCIATION FOR BETTER LIVING AND EDUCATION
The powerful social betterment technologies developed by L. Ron Hubbard have given humanity the tools to reverse the deteriorating condition of our society, a fact first recognized by those who themselves experienced his life-saving methods. These individuals have since played a leading role in bringing improvement to societys most troubled areas. Inspired by Mr. Hubbards words, We have the answers to human suffering, and they are available to everyone, teachers in the US and England found that their students who used his study technology realized exceptional gains in reading, learning and understanding. Likewise, there was the individual in prison who found that after reading one of Mr. Hubbards books, he had in his hands tools that enabled him to overcome drug addiction. Others utilized methods that allowed criminals to truly rehabilitate themselves. So it spread. And small miracles began to happen.
These miracles were recognized and application of Mr. Hubbards social betterment methods quickly expanded into areas across the globe where they were desperately needed. Yet despite the spectacular demand and support for these methods in recent decades, societys decline has rapidly accelerated, fueled by provenly unworkable and even harmful psychiatric-based attempts at education and rehabilitation.
It became clear that only through broad and standard application of Mr. Hubbards study technology, his drug and criminal reform methods and his common-sense moral code could continued beneficial results be assured, both for individuals served by these breakthroughs and for society as a whole. Thus the need was recognized for an organization to provide these technologies in a form that would always be available for use by secular groups wishing to improve conditions in society and one which would champion their accomplishments in reforming the abuses so rampant today.
That organization is the Association for Better Living and Education (ABLE), an international nonprofit public benefit corporation dedicated to social betterment. Formed in 1988, ABLE is empowered to authorize qualified social betterment groups to use L. Ron Hubbards technologies in purely secular charitable and educational activities. ABLE also is charged with the important responsibility of ensuring that this technology is made known and available to anyone who needs it and that the organizations authorized to utilize the technology under the social betterment trademarks are doing so correctly.
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Journal of Hebrew Scriptures - Volume 10 (2010) - Review
The interpretation of sacrifice continues to be a topic of much scholarly debate. In Beyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn McClymond, associate professor of religious studies at Georgia State University, makes an important contribution to this discussion by envisaging sacrifice as a dynamic cluster of interconnected events, and by shifting the attention from ritual actors to ritual substance. While the readable style of the volume makes the unfamiliar world of sacrificial rituals accessible to non-experts, her insistence that animal slaughter is not the culmination or essence of sacrificial rituals will challenge many experts.
The book is organized in seven parts. In the introduction McClymond shows how dominant theories of sacrifice by, e.g., Tylor, Robertson Smith, Hubert/Mauss, Girard, Burkert, Jamison, Jay, and Staal share the common feature that animal slaughter is central to sacrifice and must be considered key to its interpretation. Thus it seems that violence is an essential and indispensable element of sacrifice. These assumptions show that there is a fixation on animal sacrifice to such an extent that vegetal and liquid oblations are virtually ignored in theorizing, even though these substances are used far more frequently than animal offerings (p.17). McClymond challenges such reduction of the evidence by claiming that academic theorizing needs to be adjusted to the relevant data: A comprehensive approach to sacrifice has to incorporate all the offering substances employed in a sacrificial system (p. 61, emphasis in the original). She then provides a comparative study of sacrifice in brahmanical Hinduism and biblical/mishnaic Judaism.
Chapter 1 starts with the general observation that sacrificial rituals are always complex events and need to be interpreted accordingly. McClymond re-imagines sacrifice through a polythetic approach. Instead of focusing only on a single sacrificial activity, she considers all of the seven actions typically occurring in sacrificial rituals, such as the selection of the sacrificial material, the association of that material with the god(s), the identification of the ritual patron with the sacrificial material, its killing, its heating (in contrast to cooking), its apportionment among the patrons, priests, and the god(s), and finally its consumption. Her approach also highlights the interdependence of these activities as characteristic features of sacrifice; conversely the presence of just one of these activities does not define a sacrificial ritual. Finally, the polythetic approach allows McClymond to pay adequate attention to vegetal and liquid substances that are usually neglected in modern scholarship.
In Chapter 2 the insights about the complex nature of sacrificial rituals are utilized as the conceptual framework for reevaluating the importance of killing in sacrifice. In Vedic cosmology, the soma plant represents the god Soma and plants are similar to animals since both share the same life essence. Thus Vedic source texts state that, in the process of being ground (pressed), the soma plant is indeed killed (slain). Yet the culmination of the sacrifice is not this slaying but the moment when the participants of the ritual consume the potent soma juice at three different times of the day. According to Vedic texts about animal sacrifice, on the other hand, the animal should be strangled. Thus its death appears less violent and is not described as cruel in the source texts. The modern interpreter might, of course, construe the killing of the animal or the soma plant as merely destructive. McClymond, however, adopts an interesting positive perspective by discovering the interdependence of the killing to subsequent events: Based on Vedic priestly manuals, killing can be viewed as a constructive act because after death both animal and soma offerings are divided into multiple portions. The sacrificial process, which constructs, integrates, and constitutes the real, transforms a single substance (such as a goat) into multiple distinct offerings (skin, head, heart, entrails, fat, blood, and so forth) (p. 55). Finally, Vedic and Judean sacrificial ritual feature types of sacrifices without killing, thus without victim, like the Vedic agnihotra offering, consisting of cow's milk, and the Judean minḥâ, consisting of cereals. Theoretical approaches to sacrifice need to incorporate such data as well as those of animal sacrifice.
Chapter 3 deals with the problem that vegetal offerings are typically considered substitutes for or accompaniments to animal offerings and, as such, are excluded from most general theorizing about sacrifice. Vegetal offerings can, however, also be principal offerings, such as the Vedic iṣṭi and soma rituals and the Judean minḥâ. McClymond points out that sacrifices made of vegetal substances differ from those made of animals because the process of heating becomes a transformative process which reconstitutes a grain cake as sacrificial offering. Furthermore the Vedic sacrificial system differs from its Judean counterpart because, in its cosmology, vegetal materials are considered to be alive. Processing vegetal offerings might, therefore, involve killing, yet the climax of the ritual is the subsequent apportionment of the offering substance.
Chapter 4 discovers that liquid sacrifices consisting of milk, ghee (clarified butter), soma juice, oil, wine, and blood are integral features of their pertinent sacrificial systems. McClymond compares the Vedic soma offering which consists of extracting the plant's juice as its life essence to what she calls blood offering in the Judean sacrificial system. As the substance representing an animal's life (Lev 17:11), blood belongs to YHWH, the creator of life. Contrary to the scholarly opinion on the Judean cult, McClymond claims that blood is, in fact, a sacrificial offering (p. 112; see also p. 120). Integrating insights of Jacob Milgrom, she suggests that blood application has the function of purging the sanctuary and its objects from contamination. Specific methods of slaughter assure that blood is available for these purposes, so the purpose of animal slaughter is the subsequent blood application.
Chapter 5 is dedicated to the ritual division and distribution of sacrificial materials. McClymond chooses to call these activities apportionment in order to avoid connotations of violence that are absent from source texts. Rather, the apportionment of the sacrificial material, regardless of whether it is of animal or vegetal origins, is a complex and carefully orchestrated activity that is regulated through lengthy instructions, thus attesting to its significance. It appears as a creative process that transforms the physical material of a single offering into multiple discrete parts. Transcending the sacrificial ritual, apportionment appears as a structuring paradigm for the socio-cultural realm. Here, at the most fundamental level, is where ritual practice contributes an important sense of ought to human culture with the very presence of imperatives governing and directing human behaviour and interaction with the natural world (p. 147). Seen from this perspective, sacrifice emerges as a model for social order and hierarchy.
The conclusion applies various aspects from the comparative study of sacrifice to the realm of sacrificial metaphors used in non-cultic language. While the practice of actual material sacrifices has been abandoned in many cultures and is often met with contempt, the term sacrifice continues to be employed as a metaphor that authoritatively validates human behaviour. Acknowledging a variety of interconnected actions, the polythetic approach to sacrifice provides the conceptual framework for understanding how and why different religious traditions have considered yogic discipline, Torah study, or prayer as metaphorical sacrifices. Outside of the religious realm, sacrifice is a frequent but also problematic metaphor in patriotic discourse intended to motivate self-giving for one's country or for violent objectives.
In Beyond Sacred Violence, Kathryn McClymond manages to provide an introduction to Vedic and Judean/Jewish sacrifice that is helpful for all who approach these topics for the first time. In addition, she successfully challenges dominant scholarly theories of sacrifice that depict the center of religious worship of some traditions as an institution bent on the annihilation of life. In response to such interpretations, McClymond's polythetic approach offers a compelling alternative through a holistic view of sacrificial rituals and incorporates previously neglected aspects. It may be mentioned that her view of Judean sacrifice is corroborated by the temple cult in Elephantine which consisted only of cereal offerings and frankincense. This example confirms that the Hebrew sacrificial cult could be performed without any animal sacrifice, and thus entirely without killing.
Also McClymond's emphasis on the apportionment of sacrificial material provides an important corrective to current scholarship since it interprets sacrificial rituals as dynamic processes. Of further benefit to this section could have been a study of terminology. In the Hebrew Bible, one of several general terms for sacrifice, qōrbān (Lev 1:2; 7:38; Num 7:3, etc.), means offering/bringing near. It is frequently accompanied by the verb qrb Hif. (to bring close) and equivalents such as bw; Hif. and ngš Hif., conveying that sacrificial materials are being brought to the altar. These terms depict sacrificial rituals in the priestly writings as dynamic processes as well. Furthermore, biblical terminology suggests familiar images for apportionment when sacrifices are called food/bread of YHWH (Lev 21:17, 21; 22:25; Num 28:2; Mal 1:7, etc.). In private or public meals, the division, distribution, and apportionment of food according to the social standing of participants offers potent paradigms for sacrificial rituals.
Finally McClymond suggests that blood offering existed in Judean sacrificial rituals, which means that blood was actually sacrificed. Her argumentation has not convinced this reviewer. Her rationale is mainly based on the observation that blood is applied within the sanctuary and to sanctuary objects. She does not, however, discuss the purification rituals of lepers in which the blood of a guilt offering is applied to the person to be purged (Lev 14:14), or the priests' ordination rituals in which the blood of ordination sacrifices is applied to both the priests who are being consecrated and their clothes (Exod 29:20-21/Lev 8:23-24, 30). These data make it difficult to interpret the application of sacrificial blood as a genuine act of offering. Specifically, McClymond treats blood sacrifice as a distinct category next to animal and vegetal sacrifice. Yet she does not address the problem that this classification assigns any type of animal sacrifice to two distinct categories. I prefer, therefore, to understand blood application rites as an associate function within the category of animal sacrifice.
This is, however, just a minor criticism of a stimulating book that will guide its readers in their (re)discovery of the multifaceted practices of ritual sacrifices and how they function as paradigm for the cultural and socio-political identity of various human societies. I recommend McClymond's book to all interested scholars, clergy, teachers and students. I have made it a required reading in my own course on sacrifice and atonement. | <urn:uuid:8bc46ebd-cbb7-48cf-b7ef-55b1ffaee164> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/jhs/article/view/11321/8653 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00179-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937829 | 2,274 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Influence of Italian humanism on Chaucer
Contact between Geoffrey Chaucer and the Italian humanists Petrarch or Boccaccio has been proposed by scholars for centuries. More recent scholarship tends to discount these earlier speculations because of lack of evidence. As Leonard Koff remarks, the story of their meeting is "a 'tydying' worthy of Chaucer himself."
One of the reasons for the belief that Chaucer came in contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio is because of Chaucer's many trips to mainland Europe from England. Chaucer happened to be in the same areas at the same time as Petrarch and Boccaccio. Another reason is the influence of Petrarch's and Boccaccio's works on Chaucer's later literary works.
- 1 Chaucer's trips to mainland Europe
- 2 Griselda
- 3 Influence of Petrarch's and Boccaccio's works
- 4 Alternative viewpoints
- 5 Footnotes
- 6 Sources
Chaucer's trips to mainland Europe
Chaucer had made several trips to the mainland from England between 1367 and 1378 on the King's business as Esquire of the King. During at least one of these trips it is possible that he met Petrarch or Boccaccio or possibly both in Italy. Historian Donald Howard, Professor Walter William Skeat and Dr. Furnivall say there is good evidence to indicate that Chaucer met Petrarch at Arqua or Padua.
There are government records that show Chaucer was absent from England visiting Genoa and Florence from December 1372 until the middle of 1373. He went with Sir James de Provan and John de Mari, eminent merchants hired by the king, and some soldiers and servants. During this Italian business trip for the king to arrange for a settlement of Genoese merchants these scholars say it is likely that sometime in 1373 Chaucer made contact with Petrarch or Boccaccio.
Milan 1368: The wedding of the Duke of Clarence and Violante Visconti
Chaucer became a member of the royal court of King Edward III as a valet or esquire in June 1367. Among his many jobs in this position he travelled to mainland Europe many times. On one of these trips in 1368 Chaucer may have attended the wedding which took place in Milan on 28 May or 5 June between Edward's son Prince Lionel of Antwerp and Violante, daughter of Galeazzo II Visconti, Lord of Milan. The above scholars write that he was likely introduced to Petrarch at this wedding. Jean Froissart was also in attendance and perhaps Boccaccio. They believe it plausible that Chaucer not only met Petrarch at this wedding but also Boccaccio. This view today, however, is far from universally accepted. William T. Rossiter, in his 2010 book on Chaucer and Petrarch argues that the key evidence supporting a visit to the continent in this year is a warrant permitting Chaucer to pass at Dover, dated 17 July. No destination is given, but even if this does represent a trip to Milan, he would have missed not only the wedding, but also Petrarch, who had returned to Pavia on 3 July.
Biographers suggest that Chaucer very well could have met Petrarch personally, not only at the wedding of Violante in 1367, but also in Padua sometime in 1372–1373.
Petrarch's letter to Boccaccio, forming a preface to the tale of Griselda, was written shortly after Petrarch had made his version of Griselda. In some copies Petrarch's version of the story of Greselda has a date of "June 8, 1373," which indicates the date of supposed composition. Petrarch was so pleased with the story of Griselda ("De Patientia Griseldis") that he put it to memory. He wanted to repeat the virtuous story to his friends, perhaps including Chaucer. He eventually translated it into Latin, a common poetic language of the time (and, to Petrarch, a more prestigious language than the Italian vernacular). Therefore, scholars conclude that Chaucer and Petrarch met at Padua in 1373, probably the early part of the year. According to Skeat, evidence shows that Petrarch told Chaucer the story of Griselda from memory (though this may be speculation). Since both knew Italian and French, they might have communicated in either language or a combination of both these languages. It is evident that Chaucer obtained a copy of Petrarch's version written in Latin shortly after the meeting in Padua. Petrarch died 19 July 1374.
Chaucer translates the story of Griselda into English where it became part of The Canterbury Tales as The Clerk's Tale. Scholars speculate that he wrote the main part of the Clerk's Tale in the later part of 1373 or the early part of 1374, shortly after his first trip to Italy in 1372–73. Chaucer gives much praise to Petrarch and his writings. The "Originals and Analogues of some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales", reprinted and published for the Chaucer Society in 1875, assert that Chaucer personally met Petrarch. Many quotations are properly marked in the margins of the pages of the versions in the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts with each in the correct places. Scholars conclude that it is quite clear that Petrarch personally gave Chaucer a version of Griselda at Padua in 1373 (though this idea was proposed in the late 19th century, and more recent scholars are more sceptical of propositions that cannot be proven).
Influence of Petrarch's and Boccaccio's works
Chaucer produced works with much Italian influence after his Italian trip of 1372, whereas works written before his travel demonstrate French influence. Chaucer's stories imitate, among others, his Italian contemporaries Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. For example, Boccaccio first put out his stories of The Decameron; then Chaucer imitated many of these stories for his Canterbury Tales.
The Clerk's Tale
Boccaccio wrote the story of Griselda, which was later translated by Petrarch. Biographers say Chaucer heard it from Petrarch first by word of mouth at Padua. Later he received a Latin copy of it that he used to develop The Clerk's Tale. Many passages of The Clerk's Tale are nearly word for word of Petrarch's Latin version of Griselda.
In the prologue to The Clerk's Tale, the narrator suggests that he met Petrarch:
|“||The which that I Learn'd at Padova of a worthy clerk, As proved by his wordes and his werk. He is now dead, and nailed in his chest, I pray to God to give his soul good rest. Francis Petrarc', the laureate poete, Highte this clerk, whose rhetoric so sweet Illumin'd all Itaile of poetry... But forth to tellen of this worthy man, That taughte me this tale, as I began...||”|
However, this does not mean necessarily that Chaucer himself met Petrarch.
The Monk's Tale
Chaucer's Monk's Tale may also be based on Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium. This was a classical tradition of historiography dealing with famous men, which began with Plutarch's Parallel Lives. Chaucer's incipit reads: "Heer bigynneth the Monkes Tale De Casibus Virorum Illustrium." (Here begins the Monk's Tale "De Casibus Virorum Illustrium" – "On the Fates of Illustrious Men"). Many of the famous people that are in The Monk's Tale are also in Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium: Adam, Samson, Hercules, Cenobia, Nero, Alexander the Great, Croesus. Some of these people also appear in Petrarch's De Viris Illustribus. Chaucer, however, credits only Petrarch for this work:
- Let them unto my mayster Petrark go, That writeth of this y-nough, I undertake. (Middle English)
- Let him unto my master Petrarch go, Who wrote the whole of this, I undertake. (Modern English)
The Knight's Tale
Some of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales are based on Boccaccio's works. For example, Chaucer's first of these tales, The Knight's Tale, is a condensed version of Boccaccio's Teseida. Chaucer tightens the structure of Boccaccio's Teseida, changes some scenes in the general plot, and deepens the philosophy of the original. In The Knight's Tale, Arcite calls himself "Philostrate," an allusion to the title of Boccaccio's Filostrato. Chaucer thereby alludes to the fact that Filostrato and Teseida are from the same author – Boccaccio.
Other Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Shipman's Tale has similar features to Boccaccio's Decameron part 8,1. In Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale "January's" love-making can be attributed to Boccaccio's Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine. Chaucer's The Franklin's Tale draws on Boccaccio's Filocolo IV.31-4. Chaucer imitates Boccaccio's De casibus 8,6 of the character Zenobia in The Monk's Tale. The character Zenobia (a.k.a. Cenobia) Chaucer mistakenly credits to Petrarch (mentioned in his Triumph of Fame), whereas the character originally came from Boccaccio in his 106 list On Famous Women.
The Legend of Good Women
Chaucer followed the general plan of Boccaccio's work On Famous Women in The Legend of Good Women. Both works are of famed women, draw on classical mythology and history, are in chronological order, give a synopsis as an introduction, and are dedicated to a queen. Chaucer's "Cenobia" is borrowed from Boccaccio's Zenobia of De mulieribus claris. Chaucer also borrowed information of certain women from Boccaccio's De Casibus Virorum Illustrium and Genealogia Deorum Gentilium.
House of Fame
Chaucer's House of Fame was probably begun in 1374; considered one of his greatest works, it has much Italian influence. This work shows the Italian influence on Chaucer after being in Florence in 1373 and returning to Milan in 1378. Chaucer claims that "Lollius" was the source for the House of Fame, when in fact it came straight from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato. There are also likenesses between this work of Chaucer's and Boccaccio's Amorosa visione.
Troilus and Criseyde
In Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Troilus's lament after he has fallen in love song imitates Petrarch's sonnets, S'amor non-e, che dunque e quel ch' i' sento? ("If this be not love?") adapted from the Filostrato. Here Troilus's mode of thought is a Petrarchan combination of intelligent introspection, private emotion and scholastic logic. As far as scholars know, this is the first known adaptation of a Petrarch sonnet in English. Some believe that Troilus' later song (V.638-44) may imitate Petrarch's sonnet 189 ("My galley charged with forgetfulness").
Other historians assert that while Chaucer was on mainland Europe in 1372–73 and it could have been possible that he met Petrarch or Boccaccio, it is unlikely because of their different social statuses. Most however, agree, that whether Chaucer ever met Petrarch or Boccaccio, he was heavily influenced by their works.
- By serendipity two or three of Boccaccio's works would have to have fallen into the hands of Chaucer and he just happened to have made adaptations of them.
- A few other of Boccaccio's works by serendipity would have to have fallen into Chaucer's hands and he quoted from them.
- Chaucer would have to have, by chance, imitated several of Boccaccio's works, like Decameron.
- Chaucer was in Florence when Boccaccio was there at the same time, however something would have to have prevented the two great poets from meeting each other.
- Chaucer knew the famous Visconti family, as did Boccaccio, however a meeting between the two would have to have been precluded despite this high-profile mutual connection.
The more plausible scenario for Howard indicates that Chaucer personally met Boccaccio. Chaucer likely knew more Boccaccio works than scholars can prove. It is certain that Chaucer had access to Boccaccio's Filostrato and Teseida because of the quality of imitations in The House of Fame and Anelida and Arcite. The Knight's Tale uses Boccaccio's Teseida and the Filostrato is the major source of Troilus and Creseyde.
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With a few days left in the session, lawmakers have a tentative budget, and the winners — the University of Kentucky and public school teachers, chief among them — are coming into view.
Organized labor was the first big winner, as House leaders pronounced Gov. Fletcher’s trouble-twin initiatives — (1) to allow employees to join union shops without paying union dues and (2) to rescind the prevailing wage law — dead on arrival.
Louisville Metro was triumphant, with funding for the Ohio River bridges and the U of L arena in the budget. Rep. Larry Clark (D-Okolona) dropped his bid to link funding to the old Louisville Water Co. site. However, he, David Jones and John Schnatter made the point that their venue of choice, three blocks from the Arena Authority’s riverfront choice, could save taxpayers $114 million but was never duly considered amid an anything-but-transparent process micromanaged by authority Chairman Jim Host. After a career in communications, Host’s mishandling of the authority amounts to nothing less than a meltdown.
The legislature showed progress this session in its avoidance of social issues, the likes of which have entangled lawmakers in divisive debates. There were a few skirmishes over teaching intelligent design (some call it creationism) in science classes, but a constitutional amendment that would kill fairness ordinances lacked traction to clear the Senate, where it originated.
Two clear winners in the House were Reps. Robin Webb (D-Grayson) and Tanya Pullin (D-South Shore). Webb, a coal-miner-turned-lawyer, helped make this session a milestone for mine safety. Democrats are assessing this hard-working, articulate, smart and bipartisan woman’s prospects for a statewide run. Pullin’s stock also rose. She took the lead on legislation to boost Kentucky’s competitiveness in a multi-state bid for $1 billion experimental energy initiative. The FutureGen project intends to create the world’s cleanest power plant by converting coal into a hydrogen-rich gas that would produce electricity or fuel for pollution-free vehicles.
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I actually wrote this article a few years ago (before blogs rose to prominence), so it may seem a bit out of date. I think there’s still some good tips in it though, so have at it.
10 Tips for Writing Better Articles
Writing articles is a great way to create exposure for yourself and your business. In fact, I’d suggest it’s one of the best marketing tools you can use. Webmasters and newsletter publishers are always looking for good content. Further, aside from your time investment, it’s completely free advertising.
Here are 10 practical tips to ensure your articles get published and read by others.
1. Write to serve.
Before writing an article, ask yourself what problem it will help others solve. Some of the more common issues people deal with revolve around a lack of something, whether it’s time, money, self-confidence or just joy in life. How will your article help with these issues.
2. Grab their attention early.
If possible, intend to “hook” your reader right from the get-go. Ideally, your title should be the hook. When creating the title, ask yourself if it would make you want to read the article. Your first paragraph should also serve as a hook , as well as a general introduction to the article content.
3. Write to one person only.
Forget the fact your article will be read by many people and write to only one person, just like I’m doing with you now.
4. Keep the flow logical.
Don’t bounce around from one idea to the next. Each paragraph should logically follow the next. Although there may be different ideas expressed in each paragraph, they should dovetail off each other.
5. Use quotes to support your main idea.
Quotes from famous people are a great method to reinforce your ideas. They help you make your point and add credibility to your overall message. I use the quote library found at Motivation Mecca http://www.joshhinds.com or Uinspire at http://www.uinspire.com
6. Keep your paragraphs short.
Ideally, 4-6 lines per paragraph is what you want to shoot for. It looks and feels much more appealing to the reader to see “bite-sized” paragraphs.
7. Inspire action in your article.
If your article is, in fact, intended to solve a common problem, give people practical suggestions for taking action. Remember the formula “insight + action = growth.”
8. When possible, tie your message to everyday activities.
A good example of this is “life is like a box of chocolates.” Make it easy for your reader to relate to your ideas. That will also make it easier for your reader to apply your ideas in their life.
9. Summarize the article in the final 1-2 paragraphs.
Briefly summarize the main points of your article, how people can take action from the information and what results they can achieve.
10. Don’t forget the resource box.
Provide a brief resource box following your article. It should tell a little about you, your business, how you serve others and how to contact you. Be sure to include your URL and email address with an invitation to contact you or visit your site.
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Contoh Artikel Bahasa Inggris Tentang Pendidikan Karakter Siswa Terbaik
Contoh Artikel Bahasa Inggris Tentang Pendidikan Karakter Siswa Terbaik – Contoh artikel bahasa Inggris tentang pendidikan dibawah ini akan menjelaskan mengenai kekerasan yang sering terjadi di sekolah. Apa yang ada dalam artikel ddiambil dari menulisessay.com. Langsung saja simak baik-baik. artikel nya berikut ini.
The Violence in The School
The more extraordinary savage conduct conferred by young people has demonstrated an exceptionally disturbing rate. The sign, this conduct has infiltrated every one of the lines and establishments of social life, including the universe of training. The particular case that makes us additionally discouraging, which is proposed presently instructive establishment of character arrangement have likewise been defiled by those hurtful practices. School right now character conduct has been polluted by various brutal conduct and it ought to be our dependable.
The passing of Dimas Dikita Handoko, the first semester understudies in the School of Sailing ( STIP ) due to the awful treat of his senior in Jakarta a month ago and Renggo Kadafi, 5 th grade understudies, who professedly mishandled by his senior turn into a wake-up require every one of us. The vicious conduct has transformed into a society. How could a man who was manufacturing and setting up his future kick the bucket in the spot and with every one of those awful religions?
Our training history records numerous occurrences of savagery that happen in the school environment, even on grounds partnered with the authority who proposed to set up a capable and top notch state mechanical assembly. Still recorded in our memory what number of youthful shoots in IPDN. As of now handfuls, even hundreds, of understudies who passed on because of fight and battles between them which are activated by paltry issues and consistently we can see that. The inquiry is the reason those brutal practices dependably rehash in our instruction?
Vicious conduct in the school environment is brought about by numerous components. By the by, the accompanying three components can be utilized as a clarification of why this conduct is constantly rehashed.
In the first place, the technique for the aggressive instruction, particularly in schools authority can be the offender roughness. In the introduction, new understudies are prepared physically so hard. Right now, that incorporates physical brutality is expected to ingrain discipline, patriotism, patriotism, and mental durability. Physical movement viewed as a panacea to make the understudies prepared to contemplate. Obviously, the reason this is a legitimization for the seniors to show force and strength to their youngsters. In the event that the reason for schools is to print an able contraption in specific ranges, why the disagreeableness that advances perseverance and physical savagery ought to be highlighted?
Second, mentally, a person who is instructed and raised in a situation that backings rough is perhaps to execute the same conduct when he picks up force. The cycle of savagery at long last turn into a custom which dependably be rehashed consistently. New understudies who passed the introduction with roughness will execute the same thing when they get to be seniors. Inserted in their brains that being a senior means qualified for regard the lesser right now savagery they’ve experienced some time recently. Convention is obviously extremely unsafe for our instruction and turn out to be exceptionally hard to evacuate when it is pull and settled in for a long time.
Third, lack of care, apathy, and uncertainty directors and educators who are endowed with the obligation to deal with the school are the variables that most add to the event of fierce conduct in instruction. School is the second home for understudies. Folks send their kids to class in light of the fact that they accept that school is a protected spot for the development and improvement of youngsters. Whoever is endowed to deal with the school ought to guarantee that the kids are shielded and safe from any risk of savagery.
Brutal conduct is still basic in schools ought to be impression of our disappointment in setting up the cutting edge. Everybody ought to understand that viciousness will just take retribution and devastation. In the event that fierce conduct is still exist in the school, the doomsday of our instruction will come soon.
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Christiane Amanpour is CNN's chief international correspondent and anchor of the network's award-winning, flagship global affairs programme "Amanpour". She is based in the network's London bureau.
Beginning in 1983 as an entry-level assistant on the international assignment desk at CNN's headquarters in Atlanta, Amanpour rose through the organization becoming a reporter at the New York bureau, and later, the network's leading international correspondent.
Amanpour's fearless and uncompromising approach made her popular with audiences, and a force to be reckoned with by global influencers -- in 1996, Newsweek said that her reporting from conflict hotspots in the Gulf and the Balkans had helped make CNN 'must-see TV for world leaders'.
From the 1991 Gulf War, the 2003 American-led invasion, Amanpour has documented the bloody violence which has marked Iraq's recent history. In 2004, she also reported exclusively from the courtroom at the trial of Saddam Hussein, where the former dictator, dishevelled and in chains, was eventually sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.
On the ground during the siege of Sarajevo, Amanpour exposed the brutality of the Bosnian War, reporting on the daily tragedy of life for civilians in the city. She was outspoken, calling out the human rights abuses, massacres and genocide committed against the Bosnian Moslems, later saying "There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice."
In 2009 "Amanpour" was launched, and the primetime interview programme has seen Amanpour speak to a raft of leaders and decision makers on the issues affecting the world today.
Throughout her time at CNN Amanpour has secured exclusive interviews with global power players. In the wake of the September 11 attacks she was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. During the height of the Arab Spring she conducted an Emmy-winning interview, the last, with Libya's former leader 'Colonel' Moammar Gadhafi, she was also the last journalist to interview Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak just before he was deposed.
Following his landslide election victory, Amanpour spoke exclusively to Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, eliciting from him acknowledgement of the occurrence of the Holocaust. She was the first journalist to interview Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff following her country's shocking defeat in the 2014 World Cup semi-final. She also had the rare opportunity to sit down with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, talking to him about the widespread violent demonstrations in his country.
In January 2014, Amanpour also exclusively broke the news of a dossier of testimony and photographs which alleged to show systematic torture of prisoners by government forces in Syria, welcoming a panel of war crimes experts who attested to the veracity of the shocking allegations. It was with this evidence that she later confronted Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev -- challenging him to justify his government's support for the Assad regime.
She has reported from the aftermath of many humanitarian crises including the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2011 Japanese tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina, where she visited a community center which had been converted to a makeshift morgue for victims of the storm.
In addition to her work as an anchor and reporter, Amanpour is an active rights campaigner. A board member of the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Centre for Public Integrity and the International Women's Media Foundation, she has used her profile to raise awareness of key global issues and journalists' rights. She has interviewed educational rights activist Malala Yousafzai for CNN on several occasions -- bringing focus to her courage and international advocacy work. In May 2014 she used an appearance on BBC television to raise awareness of the plight of the 200 Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram - asking British Prime Minister David Cameron to join the #BringBackOurGirls campaign.
Amanpour has earned every major television journalism award including eleven News and Documentary Emmy Awards, four Peabody Awards, two George Polk Awards, three duPont-Columbia Awards and the Courage in Journalism Award. She has received nine honorary degrees, has been named a CBE and was this year inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame. She is an honorary citizen of Sarajevo and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Freedom of the Press and the Safety of Journalists.
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In this section we have some answers to the questions we receive most often. Before requesting direct assistance please kindly check that your question has not already been reported and solved in this section.
A load cell is an electronic component (transducer) to which a weight force is applied.
The load cell is able to convert the weight force applied into an electrical signal in mV proportional to the mechanical deformation expressed in tenths of a millimetre caused by the same force.
A load cell consists of a metal body (stainless steel or aluminium) to which strain gauges are applied. The strain gauges are constituted by a grid of thin metal wire (constantan) applied to a support of insulating material and glued into specific areas of the load cell. The strain gauges follow the deformations of the surface of the load cell to which they are bonded, lengthening and shortening along with it; these dimensional changes cause a variation in electrical resistance, which through the "Wheatstone Bridge" connection, is converted into a proportional electric signal normally expressed in mV (thousandths of a volt).
Depending on the type of application for which they have been built, or the construction method used, we mention some common types of load cells that LAUMAS can offer you:
Yes. Our load cells are all compatible with any manufacturer's weight indicators and our weight indicators are all compatible with any manufacturer's strain gauge cells.
Check that the load cell supporting surfaces are parallel and usually flat.
Use suitable mounting accessories to compensate if any of the support surfaces are slightly out of parallel.
The supporting surfaces must be sufficiently rigid and in theory non-deformable.
For load shear beam, bending beam and single point cells, the support value indicated on the datasheet must be respected.
Pay attention to the direction of load indicated on the datasheet or on the cell body: this must be oriented in the same direction as the force being applied.
For safety reasons, it is advisable to use the load cells at a maximum of 70-80% of their nominal capacity.
In the case of weighing of structures with 4 supports, keep in mind that the load will not be evenly distributed on them and that 85-90% of the applied load will be spread across just 3 supports.
A weighing system is all the more precise when the weighed structure is free of friction. When there are pipes, before anchoring the pipe to the weighed structure, check that it is close to and in line with the nozzle to which it will be attached.
Friction can be limited by using flexible hoses and elastic joints or free inlets with rubber protection, such as of the bellows type.Alternatively, position the first anchor bracket in the horizontal section as far away as possible from the structure being weighed, at least 40 times the diameter of the pipe.
To check the correct mechanical installation of the weighing system, reset the weight indicator and apply a force to the system, then remove it. The indicator should return perfectly to zero.In the case of a weighing system with multiple load cells repeat this operation for each cell. At system loading the weight values will be similar on each cell, at system unloading they will indicate zero.
To connect multiple load cells in parallel, use a watertight junction box, with a suitable terminal strip, or a multi-channel transmitter in the box.The cables in and out of the box or multi-channel transmitter require the installation of cable clamps.
The extension cables used for the connection must be shielded. We recommend using a 6-wire cable with reference/sense management, which can compensate for the voltage drop due to the distance between the devices. If possible, it should be inserted into the cable duct by itself and laid as far away as possible from the power cables.When using 4-conductor connection cables, use a minimum cross-section of 1 square millimetre and preferably not more than 300 metres in length.
We offer a variety of mounting accessories. Their purpose is to ensure the correct application of the load cell and maximum reliability and precision and compatibility with the mechanical, electrical and pneumatic connections present on the structure being weighed.
In multi-cell systems we recommend positioning the restraints so that they are able to withstand any lateral forces.
The system designer will have to assess whether the standard mounting accessories are sufficient for the purpose, or whether additional measures should be taken depending on: shocks and vibrations, wind thrust, seismic classification of the installation area, consistency of the supporting base.
Providing constraints that can counteract horizontal forces allows the load cells to work correctly, thus avoiding potentially damaging stresses.
The provision of anti-tip constraints is advised for weighing systems on silos, tanks or structures that are located outdoors and subject to potential wind thrust, earthquakes, accidental impacts with operating machines and other similar situations.
Electrostatic charges have the potential to damage the load cells. For this reason, we recommend that you connect the top plate of each cell to the bottom plate of each cell using a copper conductor of suitable cross-section. Then, connect all the lower plates to each other and connect them to the same grounding network.
This allows electrostatic charges to be discharged to the ground without passing through and damaging the load cells.
A correctly grounded system removes the possibility of future damage to the cells and the instrument connected to them.Extending the earthing system through the metal parts of the structure being weighedis absolutely forbidden.
To verify the correct operation of one or more load cells, tests should be performed using a digital multimeter with mV range. The test must be performed by qualified personnel able to perform the measurements accurately. We can see in detail the tests to be performed:
Load cells resistance measure by means of digital multimeter:
Load cells voltage measure by means of digital multimeter:
Depending on the model, the load cells may have a cable with 4 or 6 wires plus the screen. The 6-wire models, in addition to having the terminals of power supply + and power supply – and signal + and signal -, have 2 additional wires called Sense + and Sense – which may also be denominated reference.
The resistance of an electrical cable varies depending on temperature and length, given that we can say that as the temperature and the distance changes there is a voltage drop that the 6-wire system allows to be compensated without affecting the measurement.
The 4-wire load cells are thermally compensated and calibrated in relation to the length of the cable which is supplied as standard; to not compromise the calibration and compensation it is not recommended to shorten the cable of a 4-wire load cell; in the case of the weighing plant there is a weighing indicator or transmitter with a 6-wire input and a junction box-parallel, we recommend using a 6-wire cable to connect to the weighing indicator – transmitter to compensate the voltage drop on the stretch of cable between the junction box and the indicator itself.
If the indicator has a 4-wire input, it is recommended to use a shielded cable with a significant cross-section (minimum 1 sq.mm) in order to contain the voltage drop between the junction box and the weight indicator.
All these measures do not have to be considered with the 6-wire load cells.
The Sense (reference) wires are connected to the sense terminals of the weight indicator, so that this can measure and adjust the amplifier on the actual voltage that arrives to the load cells. The 6-wire load cells are therefore preferred over those with 4 wires, also on these load cells there are no limitations in the event the installer wants to shorten the cables.
The load cell cable must be self-contained and must not pass through cable ducts with other cables. We recommend that you connect it directly to the weight indicator or transmitter without interruptions and without terminal blocks.
We also recommend that you do not install the electronic instrumentation in a cabinet containing an inverter. If unavoidable, install special filters and separators between the inverters. The person in charge of the electrical control panel must prepare and install all the electrical protections necessary for the system.
We recommend that you always keep the equipment powered to prevent condensation forming.
Instruments with "MULTI" program allow the installer to select independently the type of software required in order to be able to respond to different needs. Any dealer who decides to keep stocks of weight indicators with MULTI program will thus have "WILDCARD" instruments that will be able at any time to adapt to the various needs of supply that may arise.
List of selectable programs:
An automatic weighing instrument is an instrument that determines the mass of a product without the intervention of an operator and follows a predetermined program of automatic processes characteristic of such an instrument.
Automatic weighing instruments (AWI) used for commercial purposes, must comply with the requirements of Directive 2014/32/EU (Measuring Instruments Directive, MID), the essential requirements of Annex I and the specific requirements contained in Annex MI-006.
Below we list the main types of automatic weighing instruments object of the M.I.D. directive
An automatic weighing instrument that determines the mass of discrete loads (for example, pre-packaged goods) or single loads of loose material.
Automatic weight batcher
Automatic catchweigher that subdivides articles of different mass into two or more subsets, depending on the value of the difference between the mass of the object and a nominal set-point.
Automatic catchweigher that affixes labels to individual articles with the weight value.
An automatic weighing instrument that affixes labels to individual articles with the weight value and price information.
Automatic gravimetric filling machine
Automatic weighing instrument that fills containers with a predetermined and virtually constant mass of product in grains.
Discontinuous totalizer (weighing instrument/totalizing hopper)
An automatic weighing instrument that determines the mass of a product in grains by dividing it into discrete loads. The mass of each discrete load is determined in sequence and summed. Each discrete load is then brought together.
An automatic weighing instrument that determines the mass of a loose product on a conveyor belt, without resorting to a systematic subdivision of the product and without interrupting the movement of the conveyor belt.
Weighbridge for railway vehicles
An automatic weighing instrument with a load receptor inclusive of rails for conveying railway vehicles.
Laumas is able to provide weight indicators and weight transmitters in accordance with the M.I.D. directive ( Measuring instruments Directive)
A non automatic weighing instrument (NAWI) is an instrument that requires the intervention of an operator during weighing.
With reference to the European Directive 2014/31/EU the use of approved weighing instruments is mandatory for legal use with third parties in the following applications and/or tasks:
Instruments for legal use with third parties must be subjected to a first periodic verification prior to commissioning and will be subject to periodic verification time with frequency determined by the individual national regulations of the Member States of the European Community (In Italy every three years).
LAUMAS is able to perform the first periodic verification/CE-M approval on its weighing instruments, both independently and through the use of its network of accredited assistance centres.
The first periodic verification is required when the weighing system is used in applications for legal use with third parties in accordance with OIML R76:2006 – Directive 2014/31/EU.
With regard to subsequent periodic verifications, according to the law, they will be carried out with a frequency determined by the individual national regulations of the Member States of the European Community (In Italy every three years) from the date of the first periodic verification through the weights and measures office of the chamber of commerce for the province of installation or an accredited metrology laboratory in the area.Request information at email@example.com on the accredited metrology laboratory nearest to you.
A company that operates with a certified Quality System, must check the weighing instruments at their disposal on a periodic basis, the frequency of which is to be determined at the discretion of the company in accordance with the quality inspector and depending on the use to which the instrument is intended.
If the weighing instrument is crucial to the productive activity of the company and is used with high frequency, the periodicity of verification may even be monthly or half-yearly, but if the weighing instrument is used sporadically, and for marginal activities within the company, inspections will be more dilated in time, for example every 24 – 36 months.
The verification can be done using certified sample weights traceable to national samples following a proper documented procedure. LAUMAS is equipped with a worldwide network of service centres able to perform calibration reports in accordance with UNI EN ISO 9001.
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Milky Way’s Giant Black Hole Awoke from Slumber 300 Years Ago
The Galactic Plane seen by the ATLASGAL survey, divided into sections. Credit ESO.The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (9×1017 km) (6×1017 mi) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 ly (9×1015 km) thick. It is estimated to contain at least 200 billion stars and possibly up to 400 billion stars, the exact figure depending on the number of very low-mass stars, which is highly uncertain. This can be compared to the one trillion (1012) stars of the neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy. The stellar disc does not have a sharp edge, a radius beyond which there are no stars. Rather, the number of stars drops smoothly with distance from the centre of the Galaxy. Beyond a radius of roughly 40,000 light-years (4×1017 km) the number of stars drops much faster with radius, for reasons that are not understood.
Extending beyond the stellar disk is a much thicker disk of gas. Recent observations indicate that the gaseous disk of the Milky Way has a thickness of around 12,000 ly (1×1017 km)—twice the previously accepted value. As a guide to the relative physical scale of the Milky Way, if it were reduced to 10m in diameter, the Solar System, including the hypothesized Oort cloud, would be no more than 0.1mm in width.
The Galactic Halo extends outward, but is limited in size by the orbits of two Milky Way satellites, the Large and the Small Magellanic Clouds, whose perigalacticon is at ~180,000 ly (2×1018 km). At this distance or beyond, the orbits of most halo objects would be disrupted by the Magellanic Clouds, and the objects would likely be ejected from the vicinity of the Milky Way. | <urn:uuid:6f14f08e-d8e0-4c67-b0e3-089899766ef3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread550152/pg6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.912684 | 458 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Walking on the path of a martial discipline is a fascinating experience, sometimes it’s hard.
Training after training our psychophysical system opens up to new dimensions, movements, habits and perspectives we weren’t aware of.
The same happens with words, with terminology and concepts through which we verbally communicate what we try to embody in our practice. This is an area in which several critical issues arise: either because as part of Western culture we are used to schematize, conceptualize, trying to understand even before experiencing it directly, or because the terms used in practice and the concepts from which they derive originate from languages and cultures far from ours.
Thus it is not uncommon to find martial arts’ practitioners who, in a sincere and convinced way, repeat sentences and words spoken on the other side of the globe, in other languages and in other times. With the risk of creating misunderstandings and misguiding ideas.
One of the most “dangerous” words is harmony.
We know that generally Western individual is fascinated by the representation of the Eastern world as a dimension of clean rigor, of kindness, of decorous formality. Places and times where everything works well. Where an individual finds himself or herself in contact with nature and through certain practices.
To describe all this, we use a term that derives from the Greek, ἁρμονίζω, armonizo, from which harmony, in fact, stems.
Yet… That term originally meant “connecting, adapting, putting something alongside something else”.
From this point of view we should therefore consider a heap of rubbish, a bag among another, an industrial chicken farm, a set of instruments that plays music simultaneously, to be harmonious.
Yet usually we all consider a clean garden as harmonious, on which maybe free-range chickens scratch with a delicate background music…
What, then, does harmony need to be really such?
Probably the concept that we summarize with the word “unity”.
We are fine, we generally feel pleasure when we feel immersed, we feel “one” with what we live. In a relationship, in a family, in a beautiful landscape, during a sensorial immersive experience …
We can say that we tend to be attracted to harmony. It is this, nothing else, that drives us to get out of our comfortable shell and “connect” us to another. And that’s what a martial discipline aims at achieving from every individual; each keiko aims at the physical level to engage the person in an incremental connection path.
Our whole system realizes when this moment of total union occurs, or if we prefer to say it in Japanese, when aiki shows up. It’s a unique feeling.
It is a rare sensation and it does not pop up “on purpose”, we can only set the ground with constant work for this to happen. With perseverance, patience, confidence, training after training.
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President elect Barack Obama most probably will announce the appointment of Robert Gates to be his Secretary of Defense. This decision will undoubtedly lead to complaints by many people who believed in electing Obama they were sending a message the current leaders of our Iraq-Afghanistan policy had to be replaced. However, there is some logic in the decision to retain a moderate Republican in office given that he has moved sharply away from previous behaviors by Donald Rumsfeld. Gates has made clear he is open to discussions with a variety of leaders in the Middle East and understands the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan can not be won solely by reliance on military action.
The key point in selecting Gates must be the acceptance by the secretary of defense that he now serves the Obama administration and must be in accord with its goals. If he can work in this manner, his retention adds a sense of continuity in what is going right as well as a recognition there must be change in the coming months. The first point will be whether or not US troops begin withdrawing next year and continue that process in the following year. The goal must be 2011 for the majority of soldiers being out of Iraq.
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Secretary of Defense Robert Gates continued blaming Russia as the culprit in recent events in Georgia while conveniently ignoring the role played by Bush actions which helped to precipitate the violence. He accused Russia of “mauling and menacing small democracies” but did acknowledge contemporary Russia was not the same threat to world peace as the former Soviet Union. He also warned Russian leaders they may have achieved a Pyrrhic victory which will cost their nation in the long run. In his view, Medvedev and Putin were trying to “recapture past glory along with past territory” but it will be a costly venture into returning to olden days and tactics. “In reality, Russia’s policies are born of a grievance-based desire to dominate its near abroad, not an ideology based effort to dominate the globe.”
At no point did Gates acknowledge that Bush plans to construct missile bases on the border of Russia might have been interpreted as an act of aggression. At not point did the Republican leader admit it was Georgia’s rash actions which created the problem.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen told Congress the pieces are all in place to gain victory in Iraq, but the prospect for Afghanistan is somewhat different. Admiral Mullen put it this way, “I am not convinced we’re winning in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can.” Gates assured Congress, “no matter what you think about the origins of the war in Iraq, we must get the end game there right. I believe we have now entered that end games.” Both men emphasized “we did not compromise one war for the other.” Their comments raise more questions than provide answers. How can Gates and Mullen ignore the reality that the war in Afghanistan in 2001 had the Taliban on the run and completely disorganized, but troops were withdrawn from that conflict to deal with the new war in Iraq. Of course, one war WAS compromised for the other!
Mullen admits the United States is not winning in Afghanistan, but offers no rationale as to why we should be able to gain victory. Of course, a fundamental problem is the use of the word “victory” in either place. What exactly constitutes “victory?” There were no militants in Iraq in 2003 and now there are thousands. There was no al-Qaeda presence in Algeria in 2003, but now, due to the war in Iraq, there is a new North Africa al-Qaeda.
Afghanistan is not Iraq, it is mountainous, a large narcotics trade which funds insurgents, political instability in neighboring Pakistan, and a serious division within the nation arising not merely from the Taliban, but from tribal chieftains and cliques. What would “victory” look like in Afghanistan?
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As gas prices have risen while the economy slowly recovers, the concept of a “staycation” has become increasingly popular. What exactly is a staycation? Why should you consider one for you and your family this year? How does this create a more abundant life?
A staycation is simply a vacation in which you stay at home. Instead of traveling to a faraway, fun, and often expensive city, taking a staycation means learning to enjoy the beauty and opportunities that surround you each day. Taking a staycation clearly is a less expensive option for most people. Instead of paying for the cost of plane tickets or gas for your car, not to mention wear and tear, hotel costs, parking fees, and restaurants, you will be able to stay in your own home.
The benefit of saving travel costs, in addition to the pure financial savings, is that you can choose to use your vacation stash to pay for splurges in your local area. Perhaps you can visit a high-end restaurant you would love to visit. On a staycation, you can do that because you’ll be eating most meals at home.
A staycation also should be far less stressful than a traditional vacation.
There is no research on where to park, how to dress for the weather, or other vacation worries. Instead you will be able to know where you are going and how to get there easily. Plus, you can head home if lines are too long or a thunderstorm rolls in.
The other major benefit to a staycation is that it promotes the abundance mindset. Regardless of where one lives, with very few exceptions, the “locals” often feel that there is “nothing to do.” That’s because the things to do get overlooked! It’s kind of like that pile of overdue library books that we walk by on the way out each morning and forget to pick up. We don’t even really see them anymore. Most local tourist attractions are the same. We know these hotspots are there, but we never get around to visiting them.
A staycation is the perfect time to remedy this problem! Make a list of places you keep intending to visit in your local area and check out local newspaper or visitor’s bureau listings for more ideas. Enjoying a stay-at-home vacation means learning to accept the beauty and abundance that surrounds you and feeling a closer part of the local community. | <urn:uuid:64d0d1c0-4af2-4578-a0a3-5a7fdf93966f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art49873.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00167-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966706 | 503 | 1.78125 | 2 |
If good news were headline news, we'd see a crawler across the bottom of the screen on CNN reading:
Open-source developers do something that Microsoft and Apple can't: Deliver a complex bundle of software on time, year after year.
Simply and reliably to git-r-done may not win headlines, but it does win fans. Which probably explains why Eclipse has over two-million users and something like two-thirds of the Java IDE market.
As it has with every major release for the past three years, the Eclipse Foundation has unveiled a major updatethe Europa releaseon schedule. Meanwhile, Apple has had to postpone its yearly update of OS X to divert development efforts to its new cell phone business, and Microsoft isn't even talking about when the next major release of Windows will occur (although they do admit they are "working on it").
The Universe of Eclipse
Eclipse, in case you've been living in the subsurface ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa for the past five years and missed it, is a vendor-neutral set of open-source frameworks and
exemplary tools for software development, a toolset sufficiently rich that Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director of the Eclipse Foundation (www.eclipse.org), and Ward Cunningham, the former Eclipse Foundation Director, Committer Community Development, both insist that it is more than an IDE.
As interesting as what goes into an Eclipse release is who is involved in it. The Eclipse universe includes those who contribute as well as those who use. "In the embedded and mobile industry," says Milinkovich, "the Eclipse C/C++ IDE has become the de facto IDE for real-time operating systems." He adds that most of the major RTOS vendors have adopted Eclipse as their tools platform.
As for who contributes, about 50 different organizations are represented among the hundreds of Eclipse developers working on 75+ projects. As is the case with other major open-source projects, Eclipse is not just some hobby effort of independent programmers. Major computer industry corporations make the strategic decision to invest in Eclipse. They invest in many ways: By supporting their employees to work on Eclipse, by making intellectual property available, and by paying dues to the not-for-profit Eclipse Foundation.
Eclipse, as much as any open-source project, demonstrates that open source is serious business.
Today the roster of just strategic developers alone includes BEA, Borland, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Nokia, Oracle, and Sybase as well as Acutate, Cloudsmith, Compuware, INNOOPRACT, Iona, OpenMethods, Serena, Simula Labs, SOPERA, Wind River, and Zend.
What they contribute is significant. Strategic developers must put eight programmers to work on Eclipse projects full time, pay up to $250,000 in dues, and lead one or more Eclipse Open Source project. Strategic consumers pay up to $500,000 dues, reduced by contributing one or two full-time developers. Add-in Providers, another category of players in the Eclipse game, pay $5000 dues. Committers are individuals allowed write access to CVS repositories. Eclipse has on the order of 800 committers today.
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This piece is part of the Washington, D.C. installment of the “Advocating on the Road” blog series.
By the time the Centers for Disease Control first used the acronym AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) in the fall of 1982, the disease was already heavily stigmatized in the United States. Reports of the disease were mounting weekly, and the public was becoming increasingly aware of the linkage to gay men and intravenous drug users — groups that were already stigmatized. While the medical community searched for definitive evidence on what caused the disease and how it was transmitted (and elected officials, including President Reagan, remained silent in the face of a growing epidemic), many Americans responded to the disease with fear and judgment.
It was during this uncertainty that Karin Klingman — a member of Christ Lutheran, an ELCA congregation in Washington, D.C.—was beginning her medical career as a resident physician. Now an infectious disease doctor and involved in clinical research at the National Institutes of Health, Karin felt compelled to work with HIV and AIDS patients in the early 1980s when “nobody wanted to touch them and yet somebody needed to be caring for them.” She says, “I’ve always had a great deal of compassion for these patients — they were always a marginalized group: the gay men whose families didn’t come to visit them; the IV drug users whose lives were a mess; and other people who were shocked to be dealing with the life-threatening disease they didn’t expect to get.” Since then, Karin has devoted her career to working with HIV and AIDS patients and, since coming to the National Institutes of Health, being involved in research that focuses on treatments for HIV-infected people.
Outside of work, Karin engages members of her congregation and other Lutherans and Christians in D.C. to tackle stigmatization and serve those living with the disease. “The D.C. area has a special need to focus on HIV and AIDS and try to get the prevalence rate down,” she says. “We can do a lot as a church to welcome marginalized people, make them feel whole.”
Most recently Karin has been a leader within Lutheran Grace, a group of Lutherans in the D.C. region who are committed to reducing the stigma of HIV and AIDS, as they participate in the 2012 International AIDS Conference currently taking place in Washington, D.C. They are a strong Lutheran presence at the Global Village, and the only church denomination with a booth in this diverse space where people from all over the world meet, share and learn from one another. Through the ELCA Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod, Lutheran Grace has recruited volunteers and church members from all over the synod and other regions to create prayer cards for their booth in the Global Village. “It’s been phenomenal the way people have embraced this. We never expected this response, and I couldn’t have expected more than what they’ve done,” Karin says.
When asked what she has learned about working with HIV and AIDS professionally and within her congregation, Karin responds, “I’ve seen that people don’t realize they should worry about HIV unless they’ve been personally affected. Once you start talking about it, they start to understand stigma and how that makes living with the disease so much worse. I think the church should commit itself to being inclusive and welcoming to people with HIV and AIDS and not judge what they’ve done or why they’ve gotten the disease.
“Unless we’re compassionate about the disease, it’s never going to go away — people won’t be tested and people won’t take drugs because they’re scared of being identified. We won’t be able to combat the disease. We have to keep talking about it; people in the church are receptive to learning. I think the church is a good place to talk about it — we are supposed to welcome all people.”
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Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have coaxed gold into nanowires as a way of creating an inexpensive material for detecting poisonous gases found in natural gas.
Along with colleagues at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), Alexander Star, associate professor of chemistry in Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and principal investigator of the research project, developed a self-assembly method that uses scaffolds (a structure used to hold up or support another material) to grow gold nanowires. Their findings, titled "Welding of Gold Nanoparticles on Graphitic Templates for Chemical Sensing," were published online Jan. 22 in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
"The most common methods to sense gases require bulky and expensive equipment," says Star. "Chip-based sensors that rely on nanomaterials for detection would be less expensive and more portable as workers could wear them to monitor poisonous gases, such as hydrogen sulfide."
Star and his research team determined gold nanomaterials would be ideal for detecting hydrogen sulfide owing to gold's high affinity for sulfur and unique physical properties of nanomaterials. They experimented with carbon nanotubes and graphene—an atomic-scale chicken wire made of carbon atoms—and used computer modeling, X-ray diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy to study the self-assembly process. They also tested the resulting materials' responses to hydrogen sulfide.
"To produce the gold nanowires, we suspended nanotubes in water with gold-containing chloroauric acid," says Star. "As we stirred and heated the mixture, the gold reduced and formed nanoparticles on the outer walls of the tubes. The result was a highly conductive jumble of gold nanowires and carbon nanotubes."
To test the nanowires' ability to detect hydrogen sulfide, Star and his colleagues cast a film of the composite material onto a chip patterned with gold electrodes. The team could detect gas at levels as low as 5ppb (parts per billion)—a detection level comparable to that of existing sensing techniques. Additionally, they could detect the hydrogen sulfide in complex mixtures of gases simulating natural gas. Star says the group will now test the chips' detection limits using real samples from gas wells.
Also involved in the study were Dan Sorescu, research physicist at NETL, who performed computational modeling of the gold nanowire formation; Mengning Ding, a Pitt graduate student in chemistry, who performed experimental work and synthesized and characterized gold nanowires and measured their sensor response; and Gregg Kotchey, a fellow Pitt graduate student in chemistry, who synthesized some of the graphene templates used in this study.
Funding for this work was provided by NETL in support of ongoing research in sensor systems and diagnostics.
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Many pathogens use certain sugar compounds from their host to help conceal themselves against the immune system. Scientists at the University of Bonn have now, in cooperation with researchers at the University of York in the United Kingdom, analyzed the dynamics of a bacterial molecule that is involved in this process. They demonstrate that the protein grabs onto the sugar molecule with a Pac Man-like chewing motion and holds it until it can be used. Their results could help design therapeutics that could make the protein poorer at grabbing and holding and hence compromise the pathogen in the host. The study has now been published in “Biophysical Journal”.
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Fiber-reinforced plastics (FRP) are frequently used in the aeronautic and automobile industry. However, the repair of workpieces made of these composite materials is often less profitable than exchanging the part. In order to increase the lifetime of FRP parts and to make them more eco-efficient, the Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) and the Apodius GmbH want to combine a new measuring device for fiber layer orientation with an innovative laser-based repair process.
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Canada's PetroFrontier Corp. (PetroFrontier) reported Tuesday that Statoil Australia Theta B.V. (Statoil), PetroFrontier's joint venture partner and the operator of the 2014 work program and budget has completed testing operations at the OzBeta-1 well in exploration permit (EP) 127 in Australia's Northern Territory. The OzBeta-1 well was perforated over a 9.8 foot (3 meter) interval within the Arthur Creek Hot Shale from 4,419 to 4,429 feet (1,347 to 1,350 meters) depth. A small water based hydraulic stimulation was successfully completed and a total of 4,838 cubic feet (137 cubic meters) of water and 14.1 tons of sand were pumped into the well. Testing operations, utilizing a coiled tubing conveyed jet pump were then carried out. A total of 5,544 cubic feet (157 cubic meters) of water was produced with no measurable volume of hydrocarbons. No oil or gas was produced and Statoil has informed PetroFrontier that the OzBeta-1 well will now be abandoned.
These results are disappointing and technically challenging considering the positive hydrocarbon indicators measured while drilling and subsequently derived from log data.
Statoil will now proceed with completion and testing operations at the OzDelta-1 well in EP 128, as it is now considered to be the technically preferred location over the OzAlpha-1 in EP 104 location as previously announced.
The OzDelta-1 well was drilled to a total vertical depth of 2,755 feet (840 meters) and encountered a combined total of approximately 321 feet (98 meters) of Lower Arthur Creek Hot Shale and Thorntonia formations. Multiple oil shows were recorded while drilling and a continuous coring operation recovered approximately 105 feet (32 meters) of core. PetroFrontier's independent third party petrophysical analysis has identified a total net pay of approximately 62 feet (19 meters) within the Arthur Creek and Thorntonia formations utilizing a porosity cut off of 2 percent and a water saturation cut-off of 58 percent. Statoil has developed a completion and testing program for this well which includes perforating a 9.8 foot (3 meter) interval, performing a hydraulic stimulation and testing the well with a jet pump. The main objective of the completion is to test the concept of oil production from these formations which has yet to be proven. Subject to contractor availability, weather and regulatory approvals, testing operations are anticipated to be completed early in the fourth quarter of 2014.
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A Beginner’s Guide to iPhone Photography [ + FREE App Guide]Jun 16 2016
Photography has been the biggest catalyst in growing my business. I‘ve always put a lot of time and effort in creating effective visuals for my content which has been super helpful in taking my business to the next level. I used to click photos with my DSLR to get sharp and high-quality images. And so, the thought of clicking blog photos using my phone was, at first, scary for me. But now, after understanding the iPhone camera and creating an entire photo pack using it, I completely believe that we can create professional, high quality photographs for our business using the iPhone camera.
I‘ve been blown away by your interest in the topic of iPhone photography. So today, I am sharing the complete guide to getting started with iPhone photography with you. Additionally I created a comprehensive guide of the apps and equipment you need to shoot photos on your iPhone camera. You can download it right here.
Exploring the iPhone camera screen:
The first step would be to understand the iPhone camera screen, what are the different symbols and what they mean. As you can see, there are 7 options on the camera screen, let’s explore each of these:
[ Order : Top to bottom – Left to right ]
Camera swap: This button is to help you swap between the front and rear cameras of your iPhone. By default it is set to use the rear camera. More on this below.
Timer: This button helps you set a timer for the photo to be captured. You can choose between 3s or 10s to capture the photo after you click.
HDR: The HDR button stands for High Dynamic Range. Switching it on helps you achieve balanced exposure for your photos in high contrast scenes. This can be set to on, off or auto. In auto HDR mode the camera will decide whether or not to use the setting, based on the light in the scene.
Flash: The last button on the left side is the flash. You can set it to on, off or auto. Flash is used in low light conditions to brighten the scene. I highly recommend keeping it off for better quality pictures.
Camera filters: This button lets you apply filters for your camera. There are a total of 8 preset live view filters which let you see how your photos will look with each of the filters before taking the photo. Just tap to select any filter you like. More on this below.
Shutter: The shutter button is used to click the photo. You can tap it once to capture a scene or you can hold it for longer to take a continuous burst of photos.
Front vs rear camera:
The iPhone has two cameras, one at the front and another at the rear. The front camera is the one we use for taking selfies, answering video calls, etc. The rear camera, the one on the backside of the camera, is always a better quality one and much more suited to take high quality professional photos.
On the iPhone 6 for example, the front camera is a 5 Mega Pixels (MP) camera whereas the rear camera is of 12MP. So whenever you are doing serious photography with your iPhone, use the rear camera.
Exploring the modes:
The iPhone camera comes with 6 different modes :
Photo, Square, Video, Slow-mo, Time-lapse, Pano
I can go into details of what each of the modes are, but instead of sharing extra information and overwhelming you, I ll tell you just exactly what you need. For most of your photography, you will just use the Photo mode. The photo mode helps you capture photos in high resolution and the largest size that’s possible on your iPhone. If you are interested in taking square photos for Instagram, you can use the square mode. However, I’d still suggest using the photo mode to click the photo and then cropping it to a square for Instagram during editing.
Figuring out the lighting:
One of the biggest questions people have is why are the iPhone photos grainy? There can be many reasons for this, including the misuse of zoom. But one of the more common reasons is due to poor lighting. Lesser the light, more grainy the photo is. I have two solutions for this. My favorite solution is to get natural light. Just shoot next to a window or go outdoors where you can get natural light for your photos. Honestly, you don’t need a lot of light, a decent amount is good enough. The second option would be to get artificial lighting. You can create your own lighting setup for just $20 at home. Here’s an excellent tutorial on how to do that!
Forget the zoom and flash:
Learning from my experience, one of the biggest tips would be to forget the zoom and flash on your iPhone camera. If you want to take a close up shot, go as close as you can to the subject but do NOT zoom. Zooming reduces the quality of your image, so its best to zoom in with your feet and walk closer to the subject. And coming to the flash, just forget it – its ugly and it hurts. There are better ways to improve the lighting of your photo than using flash!
Using the iPhone camera filters:
By default, the iPhone camera has 8 different filters you can shoot with. The filters are great and I personally like the chrome filter a lot. However, when I am taking photos for my blog, I prefer taking my photo with no filter and editing my photo later on. This way I have much more control in the editing phase as I can start from the scratch.
Choose 2 to 4 apps and stick with it:
As iPhone photography becomes more popular, there are several thousands of photo editing apps on the iPhone. Every day there is a new photo editing app that everyone’s raving about. And while it is amazing to have so many choices, it can also be overwhelming. Its easy to install a 1000 apps on your phone, but do you need all of them? Maybe not! My recommendation would be to try a few, pick 2 – 4 apps that work for you and stick with it. Too much experimenting can leave you overwhelmed and confused.
Don’t worry, you don’t have to do it all yourself – I‘ve done the job for you. I’ve researched, tried several photo apps and have rounded the best ones in the PDF here. I‘ve listed 10 apps with their exact functionality and why you might need them. And trust me, these are the only apps that you need to shoot beautiful, crisp photos for your business using your iPhone. So click below to download the guide, choose 2-4 apps that suit you and stick with it!
Choosing the right accessories:
There are several accessories in the market that help in making iPhone photography far more enjoyable and easier. One of my favorite accessories is the attachable lenses that you can attach to your iPhone camera to bump up its power and functionality. You get macro lenses for close up shots, fish eye lens for wide angles shots and so on. Depending on your photo needs, you might want to explore some of these. While they are not a must, these accessories can certainly help in taking your iPhone photos to the next level. I have listed the three must have lens and accessories for your in the free guide above.
Practice and have fun:
The best way to improve your iPhone photography is to practice, a lot! One of my favorite things to do is to go on photo walks. A photo walk is basically where you go on a walk and click photos of things you find interesting on your walk. It can be a simple flower, an interesting object, a bike – it can be anything. Try different angles, compositions and take lots of pictures. The intention for you is to learn more about your camera and how it works.
Sharing and learning from the community:
If you are interested in improving your iPhone photos, I invite you to use the hashtag #CreativeConvex for all your iPhone photos on Instagram. We can check each other’s photos there, share feedback and improve help each other. So what say you? I am super excited to see you in there, so make sure to tag your next iPhone photo with #CreativeConvex and browse the hashtag to find others.
Now that we are done with the getting started guide, I will be delving into each of these topics in more detail in upcoming posts. So stay tuned for that. Don’t forget to download the awesome iPhone guide that I ‘ve created for you:
Now its your turn!
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Shake up your child’s breakfast!
A recent survey conducted by a leading natural health magazine in Canada reported that over 50% of people began their day with a smoothie. They are fast and convenient and can be loaded with nutrition. Unfortunately many are missing a critical component and that is protein. A smoothie made of fruit and juice may energize you initially but within hours your blood sugar will dip and you will be reaching for anything to give you a boost. Adding a high quality protein powder to your smoothie creates sustainable energy and supports the whole body. This is especially important for children as a high sugar breakfast leads to concentration issues at school and a predisposition to weight issues.
There are plenty of protein powders on the market but deciding which one is right for you can be difficult. Vegan protein is an ideal choice versus dairy or egg protein which many are allergic to. That said some vegan protein powders are better than others. The first consideration is taste, especially if children are going to be using it. Vegan proteins have come a long way in terms of taste however look for one that is naturally flavorued and sweetened with xylitol and/or stevia instead of sugar or chemical artificial sweeteners like sucralose. The next consideration is the source of the vegan protein. Common sources are soy, hemp, rice, pea, and cranberry. Many health practitioners are steering their clients away from soy and rice protein for various reasons. A new trend is a grain-free blend of proteins like FitSMART Vegan Protein Shake by Renew Life. Blending an assortment of proteins (hemp, pea, chia and cranberry) allows for a nice texture and taste. FitSMART Vegan Protein is not only grain-free but it is also gluten free, soy-free and GMO-free. It delivers 20 grams of protein per serving and has a taste that children will enjoy.
Another thing that children need is fibre. Constipation is the most common digestive health issue for children so it is important to make sure they are getting enough dietary fibre and a smoothie is a great way to do this. In order to figure out how many grams of fibre per day your child needs use this simple calculation: age of child + 5 = amount of fibre required per day. For example, a five year old child would need 10 grams. With children, as with adults, it is important to ensure they are drinking plenty of water so that fibre can do its job. FitSMART Vegan Protein shake has a whopping 10 grams of prebiotic fibre in each serving. Prebiotics help to feed the good bacteria in the gut. Speaking of which, we can’t forget probiotics in the quest for good digestive health. FloraBABY is a probiotic powder that can be easily mixed into smoothies. Don’t let the “baby” in the name fool you, this formula is perfect right into teenage years! Last but not least, round out that healthy breakfast with omega-3 DHA for healthy brain function! Norwegian Gold Kids DHA offers children a delicious tiny chewable softgel that packs beneficial levels of the omega-3 fatty acid DHA along with vitamin D for strong bones.
A smoothie made with water, low sugar fruit like berries and a vegan protein shake mix is a great start to the day. Try these delicious recipes that the whole family will enjoy!
Fresh Berry Blast
1 cup of filtered water
½ cup of frozen mixed berries
1 scoop of Vegan Protein shake mix (Pomegranate Berry or Vanilla flavour)
Blend until smooth and frothy.
Chocolate Nut Delight
½ cup of filtered water
½ cup of unsweetened almond milk
1 scoop of Vegan Protein shake mix (chocolate flavour)
1 tablespoon of peanut or almond butter
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Marriage equality won't fix the big issues in the GLBTIQ community that relate to violence, homelessness and mental health.
There. I've said it.
This might make me unpopular but I'm prepared to wager I'm not the only person who believes that the idea of equality in its purest sense is being lost in the collective rush to the marital alter.
I'm a great supporter of marriage equality for gay and lesbian Australians; it's long overdue and I look forward to a day when I can get married in my own country.
But will marriage equality solve some of the bigger issues in our community? The issues relating to violence, homelessness and mental health that continue to percolate away in Australia receive minimal reportage and even less funding whilst the conversation about marriage equality only gets louder.
So let's take a look at some of the real issues the GLBTIQ community presently faces.
Violence in same-sex relationships in Australia is currently described as a silent epidemic. Approximately one in three lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex couples experience domestic violence.
Within this cohort, it's women and transgendered people who experience violence at a higher rate than gay men. This is a frightening statistic and yet, very little of this is mentioned in mental health planning or funding initiatives.
GLBTIQ individuals also face a particular set of challenges in relation to finding a safe place to live and continue to be overrepresented in the reporting of homelessness in Australia. Often young people experience homelessness when they have declared their sexuality or are gender questioning and report higher incidences of negative experiences associated with being homeless; with homophobia and transphobia a common experience in accommodation support services. Violence towards homeless GLBTIQ youth is also continuing to rise.
This speaks to a knock-on effect on the mental health of the GLBTIQ community. GLBTIQ people typically experience much higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation and feelings of social isolation. This is particularly acute in rural areas.
Many young people struggle with their sexuality whilst others experience disruptions to their mental state due to a sense of isolation experienced in their family or workplace. Discrimination, both overt and covert, still exists which creates a substantial impact on rates of depression, anxiety and alcohol and other drug use all of which are higher in the GLBTIQ community than in the heterosexual community.
Given the social issues facing GLBTIQ people in Australia I can't help but think that it seems foolish to put all of the equality eggs in the marriage basket and believe that an amendment to the Marriage Act will make these problems evaporate or suddenly become repaired.
It's fair to say that many mainstream services have a history of being non-inclusive of GLBTIQ folks or are not appropriately skilled in responding to the issues relating to this group. At the very least there needs to be a federal imperative that requires services to create policies around governance and diversity training to better respond to the needs of our community.
But again, does marriage equality impact on any of this? I've heard people tell me marriage equality will force people to be more responsive, it will make us feel better in terms of our mental health or we'll feel safer. I tend to think this is a bit Pollyanna and suspect that anyone in a violent relationship or someone who is homeless or experiencing depression doesn't have marriage equality at the forefront of their thoughts.
So what's the solution here?
I believe if we removed the word 'marriage' from the lobbying equation, the concept of acknowledging the rights of GLBTIQ folks would be more palatable because it becomes more of a civil right and less of a moral debate. The problem lies with a Federal Government, which refuses to acknowledge the rights of GLBTIQ people, which is no surprise given that Australia is led by a man who's on the record as being 'uncomfortable' with being around the gays.
If this is who leads us and continues to not only gag his troops but also rules based on an outdated personal belief system, I think marriage equality is not close, it's really far away.
Without the civil right of equality, GLBTIQ Australians will continue to be seen as second-class citizens. If our rights were on par with our heterosexual brothers and sisters, we would be more visible and in an ideal world, considered worth the investment when it comes to our rights to safety and good health.
It's time to change the conversation. Let's redirect the focus to keeping young people safe, services accountable for being inclusive and promoting equality based on improving the health and wellbeing of all GLBTIQ Australians.
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With the recent rise in popularity of Internet photo sharing sites like Flickr and Google Images, community photo collections (CPCs) have emerged as a powerful new type of image dataset for computer vision and computer graphics research. With billions of such photos now online, these collections should enable huge opportunities in 3D, visualization, image-based rendering, recognition, and other research areas. The Graphics and Imaging Laboratory of the University of Washington‘s Department of Computer Science and Engineering are at the cutting edge of research based around crowd sourced imagery and 3D modelling.
In their project ‘Bulding Rome in a Day’ the group considered the problem of reconstructing entire cities from images harvested from the web. The aim is to build a parallel distributed system that downloads all the images associated with a city from Flickr.com. After downloading, it matches these images to find common points and uses this information to compute the three dimensional structure of the city and the pose of the cameras that captured these images. All this to be done in a day.
The movie below details thier sample work using 58,000 images of Dubrovnik sourced from Flickr:
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Testing species limits in the highly variable scarab Cyclocephalasexpunctata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae)
Moore, Matthew Robert
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Moore, Matthew Robert (2010). Testing species limits in the highly variable scarab Cyclocephalasexpunctata (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae). -- In Proceedings: 6th Annual Symposium: Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects. Wichita, KS: Wichita State University, p. 149-150
Members of the speciose genus Cyclocephala (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Dynastinae) exhibit intraspecific variation of elytral patterns and genital morphology, creating diagnostic difficulties that confound study of the group. This study aims to comprehensively describe and explain the maintenance of intraspecific variation in C. sexpunctataand C. brevisusing morphological, molecular and phylogeographic techniques. The mitochondrial gene CO1 was successfully amplified from C. sexpunctataspecimens. Preliminary analyses of data on elytral and pronotal patterns indicate that populations of C. sexpunctatafrom Panama and Guatemala have different frequency distributions of pattern classes. Variation in these populations is distributed along altitudinal clines.
Paper presented to the 6th Annual Symposium on Graduate Research and Scholarly Projects (GRASP) held at the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, Wichita State University, April 23, 2010.
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Why a 50% Drop in Housing Is Not the Bottom (April 16, 2009)
The psychology behind the idea that a 50% reduction in bubble-era housing prices constitutes a "bargain" is flawed for a number of reasons.
I recently saw a few minutes of a Nightly Business Report program on PBS in which a Florida broker was observing that homes which once commanded $350,000 at the bubble top were selling briskly now at $169,000 to investors from every part of the globe.
In other words: "These homes are half off! They're screaming bargains! They can't get any cheaper than this!"
The psychology behind this euphoria is accessible to us all. It's easy to forget where housing prices were before the bubble and focus instead on how much they've dropped from the bubble peak. The same is true in any bubble, be it collectables, real estate, stocks, or tulip bulbs.
But valuation realities have no relation to bubble top pricing. Thus we should ground our analysis of housing valuations and what constitutes a "bottom" in metrics other than "it's 50% off it's top price."
Let's start by considering just how high the bubble took housing valuations:
This chart reveals that housing in California more than tripled at the bubble top. A fall of 50% from that peak (i.e. $275,000) is still 60% above the starting point.
Let's consider a model of all bubbles, regardless of the asset or the era:
No model can predict the timing, highs or lows of any bubble, but bubbles tend to follow a pattern traced in human psychology:
1. As euphoria grabs hold, prices rise in a steep ascent to a point at which "everyone" believes there is no end to the trend.
2. The initial descent from the bubble peak is a "shock" which leaves the bubble mentality intact, i.e. the Bull Market in tulip bulbs, real estate, tech stocks, etc. is only suffering a standard retracement/indigestion; the trend higher is still in place.
3. In housing, this psychology is embedded in such chestnuts as "they're not making any more land," "real estate always rises over time," "population growth means demand for housing will always rise," "the house is the foundation of middle class wealth appreciation," and so on.
4. At some point speculators who were left out of the initial explosive rise jump in because "prices are a real bargain now."
5. This buying pushes demand above supply briefly, and prices start rising again.
6. But the realities beneath price action have changed, and this bargain-hunting burst soon fades as demand falters, supply rises and prices renew their descent.
7. Speculators and investors' memory of the tremendous profits made on the way up remain firmly embedded, forming an "investment memory" which locks them into the view that the upward trend will resume at some point. This drives wave after wave of bottom fishing in which speculators buy into an apparent bottom only to be disappointed/ wiped out by a renewal of the downtrend.
8. At some point, all the bottom fishers have expended their capital and prices retrace to the pre-bubble levels, or even lower. This is what can be called "the real bottom."
9. But the memory of past glories still remains in the minds of speculators/investors, and so a subdued uptrend starts as "hope springs eternal" buying kicks in.
10. Eventually this institutional/cultural "memory of an uptrend" fades as the "recovery" in prices fails. The truisms which fed the brief bubble and long post-bubble decline and recovery--that tech stocks were the future, real estate only goes up, the South Seas is the epic investment of all time, etc. are repudiated and lose favor. This is the ultimate bottom.
Can a 10-year bubble reach this "ultimate bottom" in a mere two years? History suggests not.
Then there's the preponderance of other evidence that the underpinnings of the housing bubble have irrevocably shifted. Let's review some charts:
Household balance sheets are in terrible shape: This chart only reflects the extreme reached in 2006; it's undoubtedly even worse now.
Personal savings rates have risen recently, but Americans will need to start saving roughly a trillion dollars a year to return to historic savings rates: and that means not borrowing a spending a trillion but withdrawing it from consuming.
Meanwhile, the equity extraction game is over, and the stands are littered with broken dreams and busted bets:
Mortgage debt has tripled from $4.2 trillion in 1997 to over $12 trillion:
This explosion of debt is economy-wide, and is not limited to residential housing: How an economy foundering beneath stupendous debt can forcefeed housing prices higher via ever greater debt is unknown.
Just as a refresher on the extremes the housing bubble reached even when adjusted for inflation:
A significant percentage of this debt comes due in the years just ahead:
Another standard measure of valuation, the price-to-rent ratio, also reached historic highs. In some areas of the nation, this might have already returned to the mean, but with property taxes skyhigh and the cost of renting dropping, it may well be the cost of renting is still significantly cheaper than owning.
While this graph is a few years old, the trend to historic highs in property taxes is clearly illustrated. Yes, you can petition your county to lower your appraisal, but unless your state is protected from fast-rising property taxes via a Prop 13-type law, then brace yourself for local governments to make up their declinign tax revenues on the backs of property owners--plummeting prices be darned.
With reports of banks holding some 600,000 foreclosed or distressed properties on their books and off the market in the news, it is a foregone conclusion that any blip up in demand for homes will be met with a tide of new supply. After the current "bargain buying" dries up, inventory will exceed demand and prices will resume their fall.
And last but not least, let's note that we're dealing not just with the aftermath of one historically extreme bubble, but three: one in stocks (shown here), one in housing (shown above) and another in bonds which have skyrocketed as yields drop to near-zero.
The net result of declining asset values across all asset classes but gold is that there will be a global reduction in borrowing against assets. So add up the financial contexts which control real estate valuations:
1. Extreme bubble valuations must eventually retrace to the starting point, and in many cases they drop below the starting point.
2. Housing and real estate are based on the availability of cheap, plentiful debt. As economy-wide debt loads are at historic extremes, it is prudent to ask what conditions will enable trillions more in debt to be issued to buy inflated housing.
3. As the Federal government borrows trillions of dollars on the open market to fund its mega-stimulus-bailout debts (in the trillions and counting), then the government is competing with private borrowers for a dwindling pool of capital/savings. That will drive up rates, making mortgages more expensive. And since prices drop as rates rise, this global push on interest rates is a profound headwind for housing prices globally.
4. Paying a mortgage requires steady income, which for most citizens means a steady job. Rapidly rising unemployment reduces the pool of potential buyers and adds to the inventory as those losing their incomes also lose their homes.
In short: with the national and household balance sheets at historic extremes of indebtedness it is difficult to see what fundamental financial foundation exists for higher housing prices.
The only conclusion to be drawn from the above charts is that those currently buying "at bargain prices" will very likely be disappointed as prices renew their downtrend in the near future.
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Who is disenfranchised?
Published 10:40 am Wednesday, November 22, 2017
With three different recounts still to come in the Virginia House of Delegates elections that took place Nov. 7 and political control of that chamber in the balance — the Democrats need flip only one of those close elections to wrest control from the Republicans — it will be interesting to see whether the Democratic Party and its supposedly nonpartisan friends who have clamored for an end to political gerrymandering of Virginia’s legislative districts continue to pursue that goal.
Gerrymandering has long been considered one of the perks of holding the most seats in the legislature, and both parties have taken advantage of their power positions in the state legislature at various times in Virginia’s history to “ensure” that voters from the out-of-power party are marginalized in future elections.
But the 2017 election shows that sureties are far from certainties. The Republicans, who had a 66-34 voting advantage in the House prior to Nov. 7, blew the whole lead, putting Democrats within a close recount of splitting the body or even taking control. Clearly, national politics can trump even a gerrymandered election map.
But the results of this election demonstrate a striking feature of politics that has played out in elections from the local to the national level: Rural voters have little in common with their urban counterparts. And Democrats have learned to play that gap for all it’s worth.
Look, for example, at the differences between the makeup of the electorate that voted for both Democratic Governor-Elect Ralph Northam and his failed Republican challenger, Ed Gillespie. Of Northam’s voters, 74.1 percent were from urban and suburban precincts, according to the Virginia Public Access Project. Gillespie, on the other hand, polled 82.9 percent of his votes from rural and suburban precincts, garnering the vast majority of rural precincts — defined as fewer than 575 registered voters per square mile — around the commonwealth.
Rural precincts have almost no power when placed against their urban counterparts, defined as having more than 2,500 registered voters per square mile. Gillespie picked up just 17.1 percent of his votes from urban districts, compared to Northam’s 36.5 percent.
Put another way — and one that should raise alarms throughout the commonwealth — if Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria were taken out of the mix, Northam’s nine-point margin over Gillespie would have been trimmed to about half a percent, a level that would have resulted in a legally mandated statewide recount.
The simple fact is that, for wide swaths of Virginia, statewide elections hardly matter any more. When Northern Virginia voters decide on their candidate, the only thing that stands between that candidate and the oath of office is voter turnout — and even that factor is weighted to Northern Virginia’s densely populated communities, which poll for Democrats by huge margins.
At the national level, this situation is exactly the one the Electoral College exists to balance. The Founding Fathers recognized that urban areas would have more electoral power than their much larger, but less populous rural sisters, so they set up the Electoral College to balance the power.
No such balance exists at the state level, though there’s an argument to be made that gerrymandering has had a similar effect in consequence, if not in intention. Virginia’s move from red to blue at the statewide level has been balanced by the gerrymandering that — until this year — has “assured” a state legislature that represents more than the interests of Northern Virginia.
Virginia Democrats can close the deal on flipping the state to the blue column if they succeed in taking control of the legislature. At that point, whether they continue with their crusade to end the practice or simply embrace it again and redistrict the commonwealth to ensure their own re-election efforts, it will be nearly impossible for the huge conservative sections of Virginia to have a voice in the state or national political arenas.
The charge against gerrymandering has always been that it disenfranchises voters. But if you’re a conservative looking at the election results compared to a map of the red and blue precincts across the commonwealth of Virginia — if you’re a Republican considering the voting power of three heavily Democratic municipalities in Northern Virginia — there’s a good chance that you’re feeling a bit disenfranchised yourself right about now. | <urn:uuid:2ebb9b27-7209-4ae8-9ef7-45102ade8a52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thetidewaternews.com/2017/11/22/who-is-disenfranchised/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.956912 | 911 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Suboxone Treatment for Opiate Dependence
Suboxone is an FDA approved medication treatment that is sometimes used to help reduce withdrawal symptoms and minimize drug cravings for those in recovery from opioid use disorder (OUD). Suboxone is one of several medically assisted treatment programs that are found in Florida drug and alcohol rehab centers like SJRP, helping clients to achieve successful abstinence from opioids.
Like other medication-assisted treatment options, Suboxone should not be used as a stand-alone treatment protocol for opiate addiction. The use of maintenance medications, such as Suboxone, must be part of a comprehensive treatment protocol that includes therapy, support, and lifestyle change in order for opioid addiction recovery to be most successful.
To learn more about the medication-assisted treatment programs available at SJRP, give our admissions team a call at 833-397-3422. We are ready to answer any questions you may have.
Medically assisted treatment (MAT) has become a staple in rehabilitation and detox centers for opioid substance abuse. One of the most popular drugs that are used in the facilitation of opioid detox is Suboxone. Suboxone is a partial anti-opioid agent that works to assist individuals in recovery to slowly taper off from the use of opioids, by reducing the full-fledged effect that the drug has on the body and the brain’s receptors. By slowly minimizing the impact that opioids have on the body, the withdrawal process becomes easier and less intense for those in treatment. Unlike other anti-opioid agents, Suboxone can be prescribed from a doctor or at a detox center in several forms, suboxone pill, or suboxone strips.
What is Suboxone?
In 2002 Suboxone was approved by the Food and Drug Administration to be used as a form of treatment for opioid users. In the 2010’s Suboxone was sold under the generic name of Subutex and then removed from the market and sold under other brand names.
Suboxone Brand Names
Some of the brand names that suboxone might be labled under include Suboxone Film, Cizdol, Buprenex, and Zubsolv.
What is Suboxone prescribed for?
Suboxone is used as part of a treatment program for individuals who are participating in opioid substance abuse. Partial anti-opioids work as a supplement to replace the original opioid in use, such as oxycodone and heroin, and help the user to slowly taper off with reduced withdrawal side effects and a higher success rate of sobriety long term.
History of Suboxone
The early origins of the history of Subxone began during the early 1960s, there were many studies conducted concerning anti-opioid substances and the possibilities for a treatment program.
When was Suboxone FDA approved?
It wasn’t until 1970 when Suboxone FDA approval was finalized.
Buprenorphine was created that there was a real change in the medical field for opioid treatment. Buprenorphine is one of two ingredients that comprise Suboxone, the other being Naloxone. It is a man-made opioid that was proven to be effective for pain management, safer than Methadone, and could be used as a means to combat opioid use for individuals who are in recovery. In 2000 the Drug Addiction Treatment Act was passed and officially permitted licensed medical practitioners to use opioids to treat opioids.
How to Take Suboxone
Suboxone dosage and administration should be done under the care of medical practitioners, side effects of this partial opioid can be dangerous and life-threatening if not administered correctly.
How to take suboxone?
The most common way Suboxone is taken is by ingestion, once-daily a Suboxone tablet or Suboxone film strip.
How to take suboxone pill?
Suboxone should only be consumed under the direction of a medical practitioner. Generally a patient will take the suboxone tablet with a glass of water before a meal.
How to take Suboxone strips?
The film will be placed under the tongue and dissolved in a few minutes. It is imperative to keep Suboxone stored in a safe place to protect the unique chemistry components that are easily impacted by temperature or light and also to protect others from accidentally consuming the drug.
The second way Suboxone can be administered is via an intravenous shot at the doctor’s office. The administration of this shot work will last up to a month or more.
How Long Does Suboxone Stay in Your System?
In comparison to other anti-opioid that are used, Suboxone has longer lasting power in the body due to its potent ingredient, Buprenorphine, an opioid.
So how long does suboxone stay in your system?
It depends, on average it can take the human body up to 8 days for Buprenophrine to leave the body in total, but other elements can impact the length of time the drug can leave a trace behind for even longer
- Age of user
- Poly-substance abuse
- Metabolic rate
- Liver function
- How long has the substance been in use?
The most common ways to test for the presence of Suboxone in the body are through blood tests or saliva samples and can be effective up to 7 days after the last administration of Suboxone.
Suboxone Treatment for Opiate Dependence
One of the main causes of opioid use and subsequent dependence is chronic pain management. Opioids have a potent structure that completely takes away all pain from its user, and with each use, a dependence builds. Statistics have shown that 1.9 million individuals in the U.S. are addicted to prescription opioids and 2018 data shows that every day, 128 people in the United States die after overdosing on opioids. With the millions of individuals that have become addicted to the effects of opioids, there is a need for a treatment program that is just as powerful as a narcotic itself.
Hence, the concept of using one drug to treat the abuse of another. Generally, the use of Suboxone treatment is introduced into a after the initial detoxification and withdrawal process has concluded. Suboxone is administered once daily to combat the cravings and desire the former drug in use created. The success rates for Suboxone are incredibly high, especially with the introduction of behavioral therapy programs or counseling for an all-inclusive effect.
How long does it take for suboxone to kick in?
On average, usually about 3 to 4 hours.
Why Use Suboxone?
Participating in medically assisted treatment in conjunction with therapeutic programs has been proven to be extremely successful. While there are several options to choose from such as Methadone, Subutex, Zubsolv. It could be said that taking Suboxone is the ideal antagonist because it is not just simply composed of Buprenorphine alone. The results of one study have shown the effectiveness of Suboxone- 49% of participants experienced reduced prescription painkiller abuse throughout a 12 week Suboxone treatment. With the constant advances in medicine, the rates of successful results are only getting higher.
Suboxone vs Methadone
Suboxone and Methadone are both used to aid persons in recovery to slowly reduce the desire to use opioids and manipulate the brain’s receptors and reward center of the brain. Methadone has long been used to treat individuals who are struggling with opioid dependence since its inception internationally in the 1930s. In the case of Suboxone vs Methadone, there are significant differences, Methadone is highly addictive, According to the CDC, in 2009, 30% of all painkiller deaths were attributable to methadone. For deaths involving only one painkiller, methadone was involved in 4 out of every 10 deaths—twice as many as any other painkiller. On the other hand, studies have shown that buprenorphine is almost 6 times safer than methadone use.
Subutex vs Suboxone
It could almost be said that Subutex vs Suboxone are identical, both anti-opioid agents that prevent persons in recovery from experiencing full withdrawal symptoms by slowing tapering off the use of opioids. The biggest difference between Subutex and Suboxone is that Subutex is simply the brand name of Buprenorphine, an anti-opioid. Because of the powerful singular component of Buprenorphine, it is much easier to easily abuse and overdose with improper management and administration.
Zubsolv vs Suboxone
In the case of Zubsolv vs suboxone, both are partial anti-opioids that contain identical active ingredients, Buprenophrine and Naloxone. The two distinct differences in these drugs are the form of administration and taste. Suboxone is a thin film that is dissolved orally and has a subtle citrus flavor, whereas Zubslov is a tablet that has mint taste.
Vivitrol vs Suboxone
Similar to Suboxone, Vivitrol is an opioid antagonist that has a primary function of preventing opioid molecules from being received by the receptors in the brain. Both anti-opioids can be administered via injection or orally ingested. However, the biggest element that separates Vivitrol vs Suboxone is the fact that Suboxone has been proven to be more effective with a shorter percentage of early relapse rates and relapse rates in general. Individuals who took Suboxone had a 57% relapse rate in comparison to the 65% relapse rate of Vivitrol.
How is Suboxone Administered?
These two active ingredients of Suboxone- Buprenorphine and Naloxone respectively.
Doctors who prescribe Suboxone or its two distinct components can offer the antagonist in tablet form, monthly intravenous injection, buccally through the cheek, or nasal spray. However, the best way to take suboxone strips
Suboxone comes in the traditional form of a sublingual film. This film is to be strictly dissolved under the tongue and is not meant manipulated into any other form, such as cutting, as this can destroy the integrity of the antagonist and produce unwanted effects.
Suboxone Side Effects
- Suboxone Withdrawal: Since Suboxone is a partial opioid due to the presence of Buprenorphine, there is a withdrawal process that must take place before a medically assisted suboxone withdrawal can begin. The signs of the first stage of suboxone withdrawal can take up to 4 days to appear, however, the psychological impact can leave a lasting effect for several months.
- Precipitated Withdrawal: One of the most dangerous occurrences that can take place is a Suboxone precipitated withdrawal. This is the onset of an early withdrawal which is triggered by ingesting an opioid and Suboxone within a short time frame, the chemistry of a partial opioid and full opioid can have dangerous- if not fatal effects. It is advised to only consume suboxone under the guidance of your treatment provider to avoid a suboxone precipitated withdrawal.
- Suboxone Overdose: While it is entirely possible to have a suboxone overdose, the likelihood increases with the use of other drugs or alcohol present in the body simultaneously. Suboxone overdose symptoms can appear in many different forms such as higher blood pressure rates or even a stroke.
Suboxone Drug Interactions
Suboxone or any other anti-opioid should never be taken in conjunction with any narcotic substance or alcohol. The consequences of mixing and matching Suboxone and other similar purposed drugs; whether accidentally or recreationally can be devastating altogether result in fatality. Suboxone drug interactions are very common with certain narcotics such as cocaine, other opioids, antidepressants or sleeping pills can have a very adverse reaction such as:
- High blood pressure
- Heart complications
- Violent Behavior
It is imperative to be aware of the strength Suboxone, the possibility of taking more Suboxone than prescribed can result in adverse effects, and even death in some cases.
Who Should Take Suboxone?
Suboxone for opiate withdrawal is best for candidates who have completed the initial detoxification stage, have undergone a complete opioid withdrawal, and are enrolled in a medically assisted therapy treatment program. And have been free of opioid and alcohol for a minimum of three days but ideally a maximum seven. Full synthetic opiates such as herion treatment suboxone must be observed carefully by medical staff and be advised.
Who Should Avoid Suboxone?
Suboxone has a very high success rate, however, it is still considered to be a partial opiate, so it is imperative to look at all aspects of the drug before enrolling in a medically assisted treatment. There is a slight possibility that a former opioid user may become addicted to Suboxone and might undergo another detoxification process from a supplemental opiate.
- Individuals who are prone to have severe allergic reactions
- Level of dependence in question
- Individuals who have underlying liver and kidney problems. Suboxone could have a harsh effect on the internal organs
Where is Suboxone Prescribed?
Wondering how to use Suboxone for opiate withdrawal? The best advice is to contact the admissions staff for your treatment center to find out more information. SJRP admissions team is available to answer your questions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Give us a call at 833-397-3422. Similar to inpatient treatment, short term suboxone use for opiate withdrawal is used within the walls of a licensed center for an improved rate of success and safety for the patient which is the number one priority.
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The newest generation of oxygen sensors are being called "wideband" lambda sensors or "air/fuel ratio sensors" because that's exactly what they do. They provide a precise indication of the exact air/fuel ratio, and over the broadest range of mixtures - all the way from 10:1 to 20:1 air/fuel ratio.
The Bosch LSU 4 wideband oxygen sensor is a 5-wire sensor that reads oxygen in much the same way as a traditional oxygen sensor. but it uses the latest "planar" construction with a special two-part sensing element to measure how much oxygen is in the exhaust.
The Bosch LSU 4 wideband oxygen sensor has a response time of less than 100 milliseconds to changes in the air/fuel mixture, and reaches operating temperature of 700 to 800 degree Centigrade (1,400 degree F) within 20 seconds or less using its internal heater. This is nearly twice the operating temperature of a conventional oxygen sensor.
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The Heart of Mindful Relationships : Meditations on Togetherness Hardback
by Maria Arpa
Part of the Mindfulness series
The Heart of Mindful Relationships explores the sources of a truthful and loving bond - empathy, compassionate communication, respect and honesty - for a deeper understanding of each other and conscious harmony.
Through practical and spiritual techniques, you will learn how to express yourself as an individual and as a couple to achieve the togetherness you both want.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher: The Ivy Press
- Publication Date: 25/04/2012
- Category: Dating, relationships, living together & marriage
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[SPORK] Deconstructing Iraq: not oil per se... just plain
Adam L. Beberg
beberg at mithral.com
Tue Apr 15 22:01:10 PDT 2003
On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, James Rogers wrote:
> The number of currency users is pretty immaterial to the power of a
> currency. Take China, for example. The economics behind the currency have
> much greater weight than the number of users. The number of users is just a
> rough indicator of the size of the economy that is backing a currency.
Europe has a healthy and educated middle class, we're not talking about
adding poor 3rd world users to the Euro, like Canadians or something ;)
> I'm not sure exactly what this is referring to. The average EU debt-GDP
> ratio appears to be modestly higher than the US, and the major economies in
> the EU individually don't look any better than the US.
The average american has something like 8k in unbacked debts, above and
beyond the hard debts like houses and cars. I'd love to get ahold of a GDP
number minus the amount that's paid for with nothing but bits. Only problem
with that is that it can't go on forever.
> There are a few economies that look interesting around the world, but the EU
> as a whole isn't one of them (though countries like Ireland catch my eye).
It doesn't have to be interesting, just has to have more users and not be an
ocean away from 90% of the world population.
- Adam L. Beberg - beberg at mithral.com
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Kuril Bobtail ( "Bobtail" stands for "short tail") - one of the youngest officially recognized by the community of breeders of cats. This breed is the result of natural selection in the Kuril Islands, and only at the end of the 20th century, these cats were brought to the mainland. Studies have shown that the type of these cats and their short "tail-pompon" inherited stable, ie they are resistant breed trait.
The first standard Kuril Bobtail was accepted by the Soviet Feline Federation in October 1991. The modern Bobtail standard adopted in 2001.
Description of species
No wonder these cats are called small household lynx. Bobtail strong animals, the size and weight of which are quite impressive. Weight adult cat may reach even 10 kg, but the average representatives of this species weigh 5-8 kilograms.
The head is triangular in shape with smooth lines, it is proportional to the size of the body. The forehead is rounded, with a smooth transition to the nose, cheekbones low. Eyes correspond to the color - for standard allows any shades of green and yellow colors.
There are two varieties of Bobtail - Shorthair and with medium length hair. The coat is thick and thin, with a well developed undercoat. Colors can be very different, not only allowed "color-point" and Abyssinian colors. Typically, the most common bicolor and tabby. The most exotic is probably spotted color with which cats especially like the owners of the taiga - the lynx.
Coat of smoking has a truly unique properties. Firstly, it is not going into mats. And secondly, it does not get wet, as the homeland of these cats is very humid climate, and cats in the process of natural selection "learned" to handle it.
Bobtail's tail is the object of particular attention at the shows. About him is not enough to say - "short". Tails of these wonderful cats are completely different and different, such as fingerprints in humans. Basically, there are several types.
- "Spiral" - the tail consists of 3-15 plentiful fractured, sometimes under quite sharp angles of the vertebrae. Intervertebral connection mobile or semi-moving. The length of the tail, the visible eye, ranges from 5 to 10 centimeters.
- "Panicle" - tail length from 5 to 15 centimeters consisting of 5-10 vertebrae bent at obtuse angles with the semi-moving joints.
- "Stump" - the shortest type of tail (only 2-5 centimeters). With such a structure as the vertebrae would fit onto each other. Fractures at an obtuse angle and intervertebral fixed connection. Overall, the vertebrae in the tail - from 2 to 8.
- "Move aside bobtail" - this tail at the base is the same as that of ordinary cats, but 5-7 vertebrae starts izlamyvatsya in all possible ways. Compounds of any mobility.
Bobtaylov character traits and habits
Surprisingly, in the nature of smoking is not the cat. If many other cats "walk by themselves," the Bobtail walks with the owner. His devotion, perhaps, can be compared to a dog - that they are also similar to the Siberians. These cats are very attached to the people, but like dogs, choose a single host, the rest of the family members are friendly. For the owner of the cat will go anywhere, even on a fishing trip. By the way, smoking - excellent hunters, they are very cleverly catch mice, rats, and even fish. And in the excitement of hunting, these cats can even dive for prey - they are absolutely not afraid of water.
Despite the fact that Bobtail quite autonomous and independent (vivid proof that they survive well in quite difficult conditions of the Kuril Islands), they are very focused on the person and seek his company. These purring with pleasure spend time in the host on his knees, and their patience in relation to children are the envy of even the most seasoned nurse. As if the child is not squeezed his chetverolapogo friend, the cat never will float teeth and claws do not show aggression towards the "human baby".
In this case, they are absolutely not intrusive, delicate and will not persevere, if you feel that at the moment the owner is not up to them.
The voice of these cats a nice, soft, with a beautiful timbre.
In OES high intelligence. They are easy to learn - to stop undesirable behavior pet, as a rule, it is enough to explain it to the cats once.
With other animals bobtail also get along great, "agree", and even build a hierarchy with only their slave laws.
How to care for the Kurils
Bobtail like large spaces, they are very active and mobile. Every pet should have its own, separate place. It will be just fine, if you can install in your home or apartment any simulators for these cats with amazing dexterity. Tiered platforms of varying heights, tunnels, various stairs - Bobtail is very grateful for the opportunity to engage in "training". Incidentally, the Bobtail is also excellent jumpers.
Combing hair cats can be, but not necessarily. Rather, combing will serve as massage, because as we said earlier, the wool of these animals does not roll and do not even get dirty. But for the eyes and ears need to monitor and periodically cleaned with a swab dipped in lukewarm water. And of course, despite the excellent health Kuriles, it is necessary to make all appropriate vaccinations.
Very good are the representatives of this breed to water procedures, more than that - really love them, and not just tolerated.
Like kittens and adult cats and cats are unpretentious in food. But do not forget that the food must be balanced and nutritious. It is best to present in the diet of those foods that Bobtail would get, living in a natural environment for it - meat, sea fish, vegetarian food. Due to the nature of the medium intestine Kuriles contraindicated dairy products and potatoes. The only exceptions are bobtail kittens, which can give milk. Experienced breeders are also not recommended to combine natural and artificial feed, so as not to disrupt metabolism.
If you follow all these simple advice on nutrition and care, your pets will please you a great mood, exceptional endurance and excellent appearance.
- The cost of this breed kittens with pedigree ranges from 300 to 1200 USD Moreover, usually the price of the cat is higher than a cat.
- Like dogs, Kuril Bobtail feel the approach of danger. There are cases when the cats of this breed have warned their masters of the earthquake approaching, a gas leak or short circuit.
- As a rule, bobtail cat breed does not mark territory. The only exception is a situation where a number of other cats lives with him. In addition, smoking is practically do not fade and are not "cat" smell, so that their contents in the house does not make any special efforts.
- It is believed that the Kuril Islands the bobtail cat lived since the 8th century, as a hybrid of powerful Siberian Japanese bobtail.
- First cat caught in the capital of Russia, called Chip-O. Intrigued by this wonderful breed, she was brought to Moscow, Olga Mironova, which experts called the "grandmother of the Russian feline." Then the first Breeding Kuril Bobtail "Kunashir" well founded. He was named in honor of the island, from which the chip has been brought about.
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I did search before I posted this and could not find a solution to my problem.
I would like to stream Audio one way from one PC to another.
This code I have included is a modified version of MS Voice Chat from the Visual Basic 6 CD.
My project contains WaveStream.dll as the WaveStream.cls ClassModule.
So the application does not require the actual DLL what so ever, and it's easier to make mods to the code.
But I have included Microsofts original source code for the DLL.
These are the only formats I can get to work...
8000Hz. 8bit, Mono
11025Hz. 8bit, Mono
22050Hz. 8bit, Mono
8000Hz. 8bit, Stereo
11025Hz. 8bit, Stereo
8000Hz. 16bit, Mono
8000Hz. 16bit, Stereo << Works for a few seconds then... Run-time error - Type mismatch at ...
[color=Red]Call .SaveStreamBuffer(Index, ExData(Index))[/color] in the WaveStream.cls ClassModule
I have tried everything to get better quality but with no luck, it's a bit out of my leage in VB.
I am trying for [b]44100Hz, 16bit, Stereo [/b]which should Stream through the Router at about 200kbs.
Delay in the system is not a problem, as long it is constant.
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When faith leaders and congregations use social media wisely, they have the opportunity to share a theology of an inclusive, loving, and playful God. Social media can remind others that God is still speaking. It can be an invitation to God's peace and a reminder of God's thirst for justice. Social media also can create and sustain community. Here are ten ways you and your faith communities can participate in the digital landscape.
Social media is not a shouting platform. At its best, it is a listening platform. Before you venture into this brave new world to say something, read what congregants and your partner organizations are saying. When communicating via Twitter, favorite, retweet, and reply to other's tweets at least as much as you share your own voice.
People are just as likely to connect over a hashtag online as over coffee in the narthex. From Twitter lists to Facebook groups to discovering people with similar passions and interests, we are presented with a uniquely digital opportunity to connect people beyond the barriers of geography. When planning a worship celebration or marching for social justice, put a commonly used hashtag at the end of your virtual message so others may find your action as they search.
The digital era blurs the lines between consumer and creator. Anyone with a Wi-Fi signal finds herself with instant access to the largest publishing platform in the history of humanity. From YouTube to Twitter to a myriad of blog platforms, the internet is an arena where we give voice to the world we envision. Before George Zimmerman was arrested for the killing of Trayvon Martin, Middle Collegiate Church posted pictures of our multiracial congregation dressed in hoodies with the signs, "I am not dangerous. Racism is. #TrayvonMartin" When you stand for social justice, think messaging that complements it in social media.
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Faith communities utilize social media to community organize. We publish, share, and retweet the causes and events happening around us, putting the "mob" in "mobilize" and moving people from awareness to activism using nothing more than 140 characters. After Middle Collegiate Church posted images of our congregants in hoodies, a congregation in Tulsa, Oklahoma saw the post and planned a hoodie Sunday the following week. And in the weeks to come, the White senior pastor in Tulsa was invited to organize with Black pastors when racial tensions were high in Tulsa.
In the rapid pace of the information superhighway, space to reflect is necessary. Write a draft before you publish. While your words will be joining the stream of consciousness that is the World Wide Web, they will live forever. Every misquotation, every foot-in-your-mouth, and every accidental post are a part of the digital infrastructure that is the internet. Reread each status update and blog comment before you post. You may also use tools like HootSuite and SproutSocial to save and schedule your posts days in advance.
The digital era provides different opportunities for communication. Treating each platform the same means you are treating them all wrong. Rather than saying the same thing everywhere just because you can, research the differences. Twitter is not Facebook is not Instagram is not Tubmlr is not YouTube is not LinkedIn is not Vine is not Wordpress is not Xanga. For more social media strategies, check out Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary Vaynerchuck.
The digital world is just as much a part of the real world as the physical world. Even though our Middle Collegiate Church care team discourages social media as the medium in which sensitive care concerns are shared, our congregants use it because it is a normative way in which they communicate. So, we find out as much about our congregants' need for care through social media as we do through written prayer requests on Sundays. As you see posts that talk about the concerns in people's lives, switch the media and reply with an email, phone call, or personal contact.
Participating in a virtual space does not replace a physical encounter, it amplifies the encounter. An online relationship will go even further when two digital avatars shake hands and spend time together. There is always more to a person than the virtual identity they are performing at any given moment. Nothing takes the place of a one-on-one discussion or a shared experience. | <urn:uuid:f38c770b-8441-43f8-ae3c-81bfeb364367> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patheos.com/topics/how-is-technology-changing-spirituality/ten-ways-congregations-can-engage-with-social-media-jacqueline-lewis-040714 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.933391 | 951 | 2.015625 | 2 |
I separate the two, because Chris Mooney is the sole author of the report. So we don’t know how much of the report is Mooney and how much is the other participants in the workshops.
I pointed out that the op-ed seemed to have a different reference frame from that of a scientist, but we don’t know about that, either. That was a conclusion I was drawing from Mooney’s overinterpretation of some of his data. It’s possible that Mooney is simply assuming that everyone who reads the report and op-ed knows that there are discoverable truths about the world and that science has methods that can discover those truths and then goes on to consider how scientists might better communicate those truths. But he says that nowhere, and his approach to data has an edge of relativism. He seems to be using one of the laws of journalism: if one political party is doing something stupid, the other must be found to be doing something stupid in an equal and opposite direction. (Apologies to Isaac Newton.)
But I’ll leave that aside and look at the report in Mooney’s reference frame. And there are problems there.
Probably the biggest is that he’s got the history of Yucca Mountain wrong.
For an eloquent testimony to this fact, consider the long and dysfunctional history of attempts to establish a national nuclear waste repository at the remote Yucca Mountain site in Nevada. When a 1987 amendment to the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act designated Yucca as the sole site to be studied for its suitability as the nation’s central waste repository (removing several other sites from contention), the basis for the choice included highly scientific and technical considerations about geology, hydrology, and tectonic activity, among many other factors. Nevertheless, the legislation was quickly dubbed the “Screw Nevada Bill” by locals, who saw a political ploy to dump on their state. Soon, Nevadans’ sense of grievance found political champions like current Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has fought for two decades in opposition to the Yucca plan.He goes on to make it sound as though this decision was based on the science and that therefore the scientists were at fault. Or perhaps he is simply eliding the decision and observing that it is the scientists who took much of the flack.
Wikipedia gives a summary of the history of the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act that pretty much follows how I recall it.*
DOE was to study five potential sites, and then recommend three to the President by January 1, 1985. Five additional sites were to be studied and three of them recommended to the president by July 1, 1989 as possible locations for a second repository. A full environmental impact statement was required for any site recommended to the President.But there was that 1987 amendment by Congress. At that time, several of the sites listed by Wikipedia had been evaluated and recommended, and granite sites in Northeastern states were being evaluated. Public concern about the Hanford site in Washington State was rising, and no way were the more numerous citizens of the Northeast going to tolerate a nuclear repository in their backyards. So pressure was put on Congress, and Congress responded with that 1987 amendment. Yucca Mountain was it. The scientists I knew felt that the decision was premature, and the people of Nevada were outraged that they had been outvoted and the process promised them in the 1982 Act had been truncated
Locations considered to be leading contenders for a permanent repository were basalt formations at the government's Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington; volcanic tuff formations at its Nevada nuclear test site, and several salt formations in Utah, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Salt and granite formations in other states from Maine to Georgia had also been surveyed, but not evaluated in great detail.
The President was required to review site recommendations and submit to Congress by March 31, 1987 his recommendation of one site for the first repository, and by March 31, 1990, his recommendation for a second repository.
In other words, the focus on Yucca Mountain was a nakedly political decision, but somehow Mooney and perhaps his fellow confrerees have come to believe that it had something to do with the scientists.
This undercuts the discussion of dealing with Nevada’s outraged public. Certainly, in public meetings, it was the scientists who took much of the flack, and the opposition used arguments against the science to try to stop the repository from being sited at Yucca Mountain. But Mooney misunderstands the underlying issue, just as he accuses scientists of doing. It was indeed a “political ploy to dump on” Nevada.
Mooney finds a favorable model in Canada.
Dialogue has not broken down; rather, it has been fostered and strengthened.That’s a good thing, but it’s, as scientists say, necessary but not sufficient. People can dialogue and disagree, which seems to be the case in Canada, and they can dialogue and agree on stuff that isn’t factual and therefore isn’t going to solve the real-life problem. I’m going back to my reference frame in that last.
The Internet and genetics workshops seem to have produced very little in the way of approaching the questions they raise. This seems to indicate that the means to effective communication being advocated aren’t very useful for being deployed early, even though the report suggests that early deployment is essential for improved communication.
I’ve been hanging out quite a bit lately at The Oil Drum and suspect that the discussion there is the sort of thing that needs to happen more frequently. A number of experts in drilling and other relevant issues comment and respond to questions. There’s a certain amount of extraneous stuff that gets in, but the discussion overall is the kind of thing I’ve had with colleagues. There’s always something somebody doesn’t know, so they ask questions, and people get off the subject, but sometimes something useful comes out of that too. It’s a good thing for those not engaged in science and engineering to see happening and to be able to participate in.
That’s (sort of) one of the recommendations in Mooney’s report. The preface lists a number of recommendations that seem to have come out of the workshops and is signed by American Academy of Arts and Sciences officials. But there’s a lot of the typical academic, more study is needed, make jobs for social scientists too stuff that academic reports always recommend.
More later, maybe.
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What is a normal sodium level? At what point is the level considered to be dangerously low? As a cancer patient, is this indicative of anything?
Each laboratory has different ranges for normal sodium levels, so what is considered low is different for every laboratory. In general, one starts to monitor sodium levels that are in the mid 120’s range, because if it gets any lower it may cause confusion. If it is extremely low, say less than 110 or so, occasionally one may have a seizure. If low sodium levels start to cause problems, there are guidelines for giving IV fluids to help correct the problem and there is also a medication that is helpful. However, many people have a sodium level in the 120’s range and have no problems from it.
Some types of cancers produce proteins that cause sodium levels to be low. Sometimes a sodium level will drop when someone has pneumonia or any other type of lung problem, including cancer. Occasionally, cancer in the brain can cause a low sodium. Medications can also decrease sodium levels.
You can’t really say too much about the cancer based on just a sodium level, because so many “non-cancerous” conditions can affect the sodium. One needs a physical examination, other blood work, and radiographic studies to determine if the cancer is growing or shrinking.
Joanna M Brell, MD
Formerly, Assistant Professor of Medicine
School of Medicine
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MONTREAL (CNS) — The Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops announced it will no longer be a member of KAIROS, a Canadian-based ecumenical social justice coalition.
In a short statement, the conference expressed concerns about the way KAIROS is structured. “While this is a valid way of operating, it is nevertheless incongruent with the type of oversight and consultation required by Catholic bishops engaged in a given ecumenical venture.”
The bishops’ statement was released Oct. 12, after private discussion at their recent plenary assembly. The statement said KAIROS was informed of the decision Oct. 7.
Since its inception in 2001, KAIROS has invited its members to work and speak together on issues related to social justice, ecology, human rights, and peace activism. The CCCB was one of the founding members of Kairos.
Two Catholic groups — Development and Peace and the Canadian Religious Conference, representing male and female Catholic religious orders — remain a part of KAIROS. Among other members are the Anglican Church, the Presbyterian Church and the United Church of Canada.
The bishops’ decision to sever its association with KAIROS “shouldn’t be a surprise, neither for KAIROS, nor for our ecumenical partners,” said Bishop Lionel Gendron of Saint-Jean-Longueuil Quebec, vice president of the CCCB.
“I’ve been a member of the CCCB’s Executive Committee for five years. And year after year, that question (leaving or remaining a member of KAIROS) has always been at the forefront of our discussions, for different reasons,” said Bishop Gendron. “The decision to leave wasn’t taken lightly.”
He said KAIROS’s structure and the way it operates generated “annoying and uneasy situations that seemed incompatible with what we stand for.”
For instance, he said the Canadian bishops’ conference logo appeared in every letter or statement issued by KAIROS, leading people to believe “that we (the Catholic bishops of Canada) approved all the positions put forward by the ecumenical coalition.”
He said when the coalition made a decision, it did not have an ecumenical discussion and reach a consensus.
At KAIROS, “people are first and foremost involved in advocacy, so to champion particular issues. And when you’re fighting for a cause, you must act quickly.” This is where the problem lies, said Bishop Gendron, since “our own structures demand that we take more time to consult all of our instances.”
KAIROS promptly responded to the CCCB’s decision to leave the coalition.
In a statement, the Rev. Desmond Jagger-Parsons of the United Church of Canada, president of the board of directors of KAIROS, acknowledged the group’s long collaboration with the bishops. He also noted that KAIROS “is not foremost a forum devoted to ecumenical dialogue. Our work is totally different.”
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It could be hard to steadfastly keep up while using the brand new and popular software that adolescents incorporate, however if you’re the moms and dad of an adolescent whom utilizes smartphones or any other mobile phones, it’s important to keep the attention open for software that pose prospective dangers towards kids. You could consider utilizing adult controls computer software for closer monitoring of kids’ mobile device utilize.
When it comes to the app Yubo, that has been earlier known as Yellow, there are enough concerns that some education has sent letters to mothers warning all of them concerning app. If you’re involved? Here’s what you should see.
This location-based application allows customers become connections predicated on little more than a picture.
“Tinder for Teens”
It appears obvious your app was designed to appear like the internet dating app Tinder in some vital tips. Yubo reveals people photographs of various other consumers, and so they can swipe proper or left to fancy or pass on the user that they’re viewing. Whenever two people were a match, they’re linked on app and that can then chat, display pictures, and send films.
The app represent it self as a personal software in making family but considering the clear resemblance to popular relationships app, it’s to-be expected that adolescents uses they for the function. Even though little ones under 13 include barred by using the software and people over 18 is banned from contacting underage consumers, there’s no confirmation processes in place, very there’s not a chance to be certain that customers tend to be providing their particular correct many years. A 12-year-old could create as an older teen, a 15-year-old could imagine are an adult, and, maybe most concerningly, a grownup could signup pretending to-be a teen.
Link with Snapchat
Yubo’s connection to Snapchat could create teens vulnerable to being monitored or indiancupid kupony located by people acting becoming a teen.
Another worry about Yubo is the fact that it gives the choice to incorporate suits generated on Yubo on the user’s Snapchat associates. Since Snapchat can be used by teenagers to document differing of these daily physical lives, like their unique social and school recreation, the images discussed could promote a Yubo contact plenty of information about a teen’s daily life.
It is especially concerning whenever you just take Snapchat’s Snap chart showcase into consideration. Breeze Maps shows maps that pinpoint a user’s area when a photo got used, that may allow another individual to trace them immediately or see stores that will stays personal, like room and class contact. Snap Map stores are only able to be viewed by a user’s contacts, despite having probably the most community options, however, if a teenager try incorporating associates from Yubo that they don’t discover really for their Snapchat associates, it can give the wrong individual an intimate view their own schedules and areas.
How to proceed?
Interaction is key here. It’s vital that you speak to your teenage concerning possible risks of utilizing Yubo, such as the probability that grownups might sign-up acting as young adults. Whether deciding that your child shouldn’t be permitted to download dating software whatsoever or you decide that they’re permitted they use the application so long as they follow certain safety formula, it is crucial that you talking frankly together with your teens about any of it application and others like it.
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Orfeo ed Euridice is an opera composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck based on the myth of Orpheus, set to a libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi. Orfeo is an opera on a mythological subject with choruses and dancing. The piece was first performed at the Burgtheater in Vienna on October 5, 1762 in the presence of Empress Maria Theresa. Orfeo ed Euridice is the first of Gluck's "reform" operas, in which he attempted to replace the abstruse plots and overly complex music of opera seria with a "noble simplicity" in both the music and the drama.
Orpheus is a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting.
Orfeo – Kathleen Ferrier
Eurdice – Greet Koeman
Amore – Nel Duval
Chorus and Orchestra of the Netherlands Opera
Charles Bruck – conductor
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January 26, 2018 Pope Francis released his World Communications Day message this week, focusing on the perils of perpetuating ‘fake-news’ and the responsibility of all to discern and propagate only truth through media channels. While World Communications Day 2018 takes place May 13, the Pope’s January 24 released statement, “The truth will set you free: fake-news and journalism for peace” emphasizes the ability of fallacious reporting to produce calamitous havoc on society. Fake news grabs people’s attention “by appealing to stereotypes and common social prejudices, and exploiting instantaneous emotions like anxiety, contempt, anger and frustration,” Pope Francis wrote in his message. The Holy Father also referred to “fake news” as “snake-tactics” and likened them to those used by the “crafty serpent” in the Garden of Eden. Read his statement in its entirety here and his prayer for World Communications Day 2018 here. | <urn:uuid:0d4fb538-34b2-41de-8cac-60f17b4cbcff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cacatholic.org/article/popes-world-communications-day-message-focuses-truth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.961908 | 200 | 2.140625 | 2 |
There is ample metaphysics [...] There is ample metaphysics in not thinking at all.
What do I think about the world?
How should I know what I think about the world?
If I were ill I would think about it.
What idea have I about things?
What opinion do I have on causes and effects?
What meditations have I had upon God and the soul
And upon the creation of the World?
I don't know. For me, to think about that is to shut
And not think. It is to draw the curtains
Of my window (but it has no curtains).
The mystery of things? How should I know I know what
The only mystery is there being somebody who might
think about mystery.
A man who stands in the sun and shuts his eyes
Begins not to know what the sun is
And to think many things full of heat.
But he opens his eyes and sees the sun,
And now he cannot think of anything,
Because the light of the sun is worth more than the
Of all the philosophers and all the poets.
The light of the sun does not know what it is doing
And so does stray and is common and good.
Metaphysics? What metaphysics do those trees have?
That of being green and having crowns and branches
And that of giving fruit at their hours, - which is not
what makes us think,
Us, who don't know to be aware of them.
But what better metaphysics than theirs,
Which is not knowing why they live
And not knowing they don't know?
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Experts who work on technology-enhanced assessment have a few ideas to replace those tiresome multiple-choice tests that so many people complain about. Take this one, for instance:
A middle school student sits down at a computer and watches an animation of a spring that powers a racecar in a pinball machine. Prompts lead her to think about what gives the spring its power: Is it the thickness of the wire? The number of coils? She has to choose a hypothesis and explain what leads her to think it could be correct. She designs an experiment to test her hypothesis, inquiring into how the thickness of the wire and the number of coils affect the spring’s ability to propel the racecar.
From this, she generates a table of outcomes. She explains how the different variables shed light on her hypothesis, discusses whether it was correct. She reflects on how the experiment could be changed to produce more enlightening data, and then she reworks it and discusses her conclusions: Given everything she’s learned, which spring will make the pinball racecar go faster, and why?
This assessment task was just one of those showcased yesterday at a conference on technology-enhanced assessment in Oxon Hill, Md., during a session on ways to measure skills that have traditionally been tricky to assess. The pinball car task was designed by a team from SRI International. They were showing it off not only to demonstrate the potential depth and engagement that such tasks offer, but to show how they can be designed from the bottom up—not adapted—according to the principles of Universal Design for Learning and evidence-centered design.
The gathering was organized by the Center for K-12 Assessment and Performance Management at ETS and the Council of Chief State School Officers, which helps its state members sort through assessment issues through its SCASS system, a network of collaboratives on various standards and testing issues. It was sponsored by some of the biggest names in the testing industry. All the papers from the conference can be found on a special page of the center’s website.
While the SRI team presented the prototype task in science, a team from ETS displayed a mathematics task that it has been piloting in New Jersey as part of its CBAL initiative, which envisions testing as a form of instruction. They presented a task called “proportional punch,” which leads students through exercises in ratio and proportions as they figure out how to make cherry punch of varying concentrations. As they try various recipes of water and punch mix, they can watch a “sweetness meter” change. Developing tables of data, students have to theorize about how different ratios will influence the punch, and must explain their answers. Which will be sweeter: a punch made with 7 scoops of mix and 9 cups of water or one made with 10 scoops and 13 cups of water? Why? The task also offers special-needs adaptations such as text-to-speech and haptic, or vibrating, sensations to aid students with visual impairments.
An English/language arts task, showcased by a team from CTB/McGraw-Hill, had students read an article, conduct research and write a series of extended and brief responses to prompts. They must evaluate the credibility of their research sources. They can take notes on a yellow pad on the screen, can have what they write read back to them, and can respond orally if they choose. The students’ performance creates data feedback for the teacher, and the task includes tailored suggestions about instructional next steps.
One theme that kept arising during the presentations and accompanying discussions was how technology offers the possibility of making tests more of a learning experience for students. Juan D’Brot, West Virginia’s assessment director, noted after the presentations that he was struck by their potential to be “a blend of instruction and assessment.”
“We’re really blending this summative-formative-interim continuum,” he said.
Sue Rigney, an assessment expert with the U.S. Department of Education who co-moderated the morning’s presentations, noted the blurring of those lines, as well.
“We are seeing a narrowing of the distance between summative assessment and instruction,” she said. “I don’t know where it will end.”
The excitement about the potential of technology-enhanced tests, however, was tempered throughout the discussions with a sense of how far there is to go before such tests are refined and available, and the challenges they pose when they are ready.
Experts in the room repeatedly cautioned one another to avoid being seduced by the “coolness factor” of technology, and stay focused on the instructional and measurement rationale behind each design feature. Additionally, many questions still hover over the work on technology-enhanced tests: how do educators manage and understand the flood of new kinds of data they will produce? How do that data dovetail with states’ accountability systems? Not every possible set of skills can be assessed, so which ones are most important to assess? And what process will guide educators and policymakers as they decide which tests to use for classroom-based instruction and which to use for large-scale settings like state and federal accountability?
The ship, as CTB/McGraw-Hill’s Karen Barton said, is not quite ready to launch.
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The time is well overdue for the satellite industry to strengthen its innovation focus. Embracing a cloud-native and infrastructure-as-a-service mindset is an important first step, says Edvin Lindqvist, CTO of Forsway.
A large portion of the satellite industry has during the last decades failed to keep up with the exponential pace of innovation seen in the tech industry. During the last years, the publics interest in space has been growing, mainly based on innovations from a few major players. The satellite industry needs to continue innovating to keep the momentum. By replicating the tech industry and embracing cloud computing, one of techs key innovation enablers, the satellite industry can continue its forward-leaning trend.
The cloud is often seen as the driving force for innovation in tech environments. Its easy to see why this makes sense. If you dont need to care about acquiring and operating computing and network infrastructure its much easier to stay focused on the main target your innovation.
Embracing the cloud and infrastructure-as-a-service as drivers of growth
To enable a faster pace of innovation, the satellite industry needs to move away from shipping rack- mounted devices to delivering software. For this to happen, satellite teleport operators need to deploy a cloud infrastructure where modern, quickly evolving software-based services can run, and delivering short turnaround times for upgrades. All time spent on reinventing the wheel in form of developing infrastructure management can then instead be spent on the value-adding, future-oriented services the industry needs to thrive and grow. A cloudification of the infrastructure could be followed by including the advances in software defined radio (SDR). The combination of cloud and SDR would bring an extremely flexible teleport infrastructure that could enable gigantic innovation leaps.
Addressing the threat Amazon services present to the satellite industry
As with most opportunities, there is also a closely related threat. The release of Amazons Ground Station service should be a clear wakeup call for the industry. Amazon Ground Station allows companies working with earth observation analysis to download data from satellites straight into Amazon Web Services – where they can use the powerful Amazon analytics and AI tool. If the satellite industry fails to follow the cloud trend, they may soon end up solely as suppliers of bent space-pipes for the video/satcom portion of the industry and space data generators for segment of the industry working with earth observation. The value-added services offered today will be completely engulfed by the tech and cloud players.
Development of NFV and Kubernetes
In telecom there was early insight that cloud services could enable innovation and help make operations leaner. This insight resulted in the development of network function virtualization (NFV), where the old rack mounted firewalls, routers, etc. of the past are delivered as virtualized network functions (VNF) that can be spun up in an operator cloud in just minutes instead of waiting for weeks for new hardware shipments. As the telecom world (out of necessity) is well regulated, ETSI defined a massive set of specifications to enable quick deployments and good interoperability.
Unfortunately, the complexity of the NFV standards has made parts of the standard impossible to implement across the industry. An example is the orchestration and management layer of NFV that on paper appears very useful for quickly enabling new services. Its so complex that even though the specification was first released in 2014, there is still no fully finalized generic orchestrator software. The industrys most spoken about orchestrator software, ONAP, requires nearly a full rack of servers just to be started and its not ready yet.
Over the last year in the tech industry, there has been a large uptake in using container technology application deployment. Containers are lightweight, fully contained application packages with strong runtime isolation. Docker made using containers simple by creating a format to package applications in containers. The real uptake came when Kubernetes was released (commonly called k8s, Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system).
Kubernetes release and the introduction of Cloud-Native Services
Kubernetes assembles all the best practices; from how Google operates their planet to scaling datacenters into a single, lightweight and easy to operate platform for running containerized applications as robust and scalable services. Kubernetes has now become the de facto standard for running containerized services in cloud environments and is the core of what is called cloud-native services. Many large mobile operators believe Kubernetes helps reduce the shortcomings of NFV, embracing Kubernetes practices and have started transforming their infrastructure.
Joining the Cloud Native movement to drive industry transformation
At Forsway, we are currently transforming our solution for hybrid satellite/terrestrial broadband connectivity into a cloud-native solution in a project funded by ESA (European Space Agency). One of the key drivers behind the decision to go “cloud-native” is to minimize the time we spend on infrastructure development and enable more time on product development. Forsway also anticipates making new deployments faster with simplified operation and reduced time to deploy new features. During an initial period, we anticipate either supplying our own servers using small private Kubernetes clouds or running the services partially in a public cloud. We aim to celebrate a big win for the industry when we make the first deployment in a satellite operators own cloud infrastructure. Our hope and aim are that our cloud transformation can inspire other industry players, both partners and competitors, to embrace the cloud-native movement.
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The Taino presence in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico can be found in the people and the cultures according to scholars conducting research in both places.
Scholars from the Caribbean and the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) held forums and conducted research in both the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico recently to explore indigeneity or the indigenous presence in both of these cultures.
In January, the Indigenous Legacies of the Caribbean Project (ILCP) of the NMAI sponsored a forum on Thursday, January 17th at the Archaeological Museum in San Juan de la Maguana, a Dominican town well known on the island for its indigenous heritage. The title of the event was "The Indigenous Legacy of the Dominican Republic.”
In his account of the visit, Dr. Jose Barreiro, Assistant Director of Research at the NMAI, noted why the town of San Juan de la Maguana was chosen for the event.
“In a country of presumed extinction of indigenous identity and culture, San Juan de la Maguana…stands out for its concentration of people who profess and relish the indigenous heritage of Quisqueya and the Caribbean, broadly identified as Taíno,” Barreiro wrote.
At the forum in San Juan de la Maguana, Barreiro presented information about the ILCP’s research and plans for a future exhibition entitled “Consciousness of Taino: Caribbean Indigeneity.” Another member of the ILCP team, Ranald Woodaman of the Smithsonian’s Latino Center also came to gather research for the project and participate in the forum.
Scholars such as epidemiologist Tony De Moya and Anthropologist Glenis Tavares of the National Museum of the Dominican Man then presented studies and evidence of indigenous heritage in the local area and throughout the country. During the discussions held after the presentations, many local residents asked questions about how to conduct oral history interviews as well as descriptions of some of “the Indian roots that undergird Afro-Dominican…music, religious practice,” Barreiro stated. He did note that there were audience members who believed in the “total extinction” of the indigenous presence in the Dominican Republic but that most of the Forum audience was sympathetic and supportive of the ILCP.
Following the event in the museum, the ILCP team traveled to the municipal center of the town where Mayor Hanoi Sanchez stated that San Juan de la Maguana was “the capital of aboriginal culture” of the country.
In visits near the town, Barreiro and Woodaman were shown a local indigenous ceremonial area.
“A local group including Dr. Sobieski de Leon guided us to the Plaza of Anacaona, known locally as the Corral de Indios. This is a sacred space in the old cacicazgo, a large circular ceremonial field, with a stone—the Stone of Anacaona—at the center. It was fascinating to me that the stone is identified as having been in place for more than five hundred years since the massacres that were committed at this exact site. A local prayer woman (oradora), blending Catholic saints and "world alive" practice, normally cares ceremonially for the stone,” Barreiro said.
The presence of indigenous traditions in families and regions were among the topics explored when the ILCP team traveled to Puerto Rico a few weeks after the visit to the Dominican Republic.
On Tuesday, February 19th, the NMAI and the Center for Advanced Studies of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean held a forum entitled “The Indigenous Legacy in Puerto Rico” at the Center in San Juan, the island’s capital. The Center is devoted to graduate level studies in history, economics, anthropology and other fields involving Puerto Rico and its role in the Caribbean.
Along with Barreiro, who gave an overview of the ILCP, the presenters at the forum included the Puerto Rican Archaeologist Dr. Osvaldo Garcia who spoke about the Smithsonian’s Caribbean Indigenous Collection, Dr. Juan Martinez Cruzado, the Puerto Rican geneticist who conducted the indigenous mitochondrial DNA Survey of the island who has done further studies there and throughout Latin America, and Professor Jalil Sued Badillo, a noted historian and author of two books involving Taino history in Puerto Rico.
After the forum, the ILCP team visited a number of Taino historical sites in Puerto Rico, including a number of caves with extensive petroglyphs and pictographs. Accompanying Barreiro was Professor Juan Manuel Delgado a historian who over 30 years has collected oral history interviews of Puerto Ricans with indigenous heritage. Delgado, along with Woodaman, Garcia and Martinez Cruzado, are participants in the ILCP.
Through Delgado, Barreiro met with Alice Cheverez and her family in the mountains near Morovis, on the western side of the island. Barreiro described part of his visit to the family and their indigenous aspects, noting that Alice had "classic Taino physique and facial features".
"We had driven for over three hours out of Mayagüez to visit her family. Puerto Rico around San Juan is heavily urbanized but go east or west out of the capital, pass up the mountains to the central and some coastal regions, and you can still meet some families of distinguishable indigenous legacy and lineage," he stated.
"The Chéverez are a large, extended indo-Boriken family still living in these precious mountains. Their place has the feel of the old campesino (jibaro) homestead – hanging hamocks, animals walking loose, barefoot children playing," Barreiro continued. "The family is reminiscent of large multi-family, indo-Cuban homestead caserios found in the Cuban mountains. More than a single nuclear family at the end of a long and winding road of verdant hills, the Chéverez are a multi-family lineage. Mapping preliminarily with Alice on her family’s extensions, we could count ten families with several children each just among her siblings, while the extended genealogies of a large chain of uncles and aunts and their children’s families through three living generations, took our quick kinship count to some two hundred people…I encouraged Alice and the family to develop a count of their relations."
"There is a Taino revival and a great continuing interest in things indigenous in Puerto Rico," Barreiro asserted. "The revival is as intense as it is contested, but nevertheless real and extensive. Major historians and archeologists sustain vigorous research agendas, pushing the edges of knowledge and interpretation of a substantial and growing Taino material and archival wealth. We were fortunate to meet up with a few from this distinguished circle during our recent journey through the island." | <urn:uuid:15a77892-262a-426e-bde5-bd243a7442bf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/indigenous-peoples/smithsonian-forums-on-the-living-indigenous-legacies-of-the-dominican-republic-and-puerto-rico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953548 | 1,430 | 3.1875 | 3 |
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Rome came into conflict with Carthage because they were both major powers in the same geographic area. As the two empires grew, they started to have conflict over who would get what in areas where the empires touched.
The first such conflict arose over the island of Sicily. Both empires worried that the other would gain an advantage if it could take control of this island because of its strategic location. This might allow the empire that controlled Sicily to dominate or even destroy the other empire. The First Punic War started because of this issue.
So, Rome and Carthage came into conflict because they were both expanding and each side worried that the other would become too powerful.
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Data centers consume massive amounts of power. A recent study by one major Australian bank found that two thirds of its total electricity consumption was accounted for by IT, and data centers accounted for half that. Aside from the obvious environmental impacts, their insatiable thirst for energy translates into a material bottom line impact for many organizations.
Despite incremental efficiency gains by hardware vendors, and increased use of technologies like virtualization, the total energy consumption of the IT function is increasing. At the same time, the cost of electricity is rising, which means that the cost of the energy consumption of IT will continue to escalate.
Organizations looking to decrease their consumption of energy, in order to reap environmental and monetary rewards, should consider a three-pronged approach that combines incentives, power management, and the hyperconvergence of IT infrastructure.
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In spite of the hefty price tag, in many organizations, the IT department is not responsible for the cost of their power consumption, and therefore they have no incentive to reduce it.
The research shows that if the power consumption of IT is included in the IT budget, action to improve power management is swiftly taken.
- Implement Proactive Power Management
Data center managers and the facilities management professionals responsible for data center infrastructure – including the supply of power – need to coordinate their approach to power management and look at their IT infrastructure holistically. It is not a single technology. Power management and helping organizations reduce their IT power consumption is a multidisciplinary exercise. Most suppliers have a role to play, through offering products or services that facilitate the process.
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Another contributing factor is the excess of IT infrastructure that is deployed in a typical data center. In many organizations, servers and other IT equipment have grown substantially. In order to run all infrastructure below the hypervisor, close to a dozen separate infrastructure components are typically required – from servers and storage arrays, to backup appliances, WAN optimizers, and cloud gateways.
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- Types of Developers
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- Types of Discontinuities
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Visible (Red) and Fluorescent Penetrants of various types of different surfaces use of dry, wet, solvent suspended developers.
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Myocardial infarction patients had reductions in risk factors, exercise more after program
FRIDAY, July 23 (HealthDay News) -- A nurse-managed secondary prevention program may improve cardiovascular risk factors among individuals who have suffered a myocardial infarction, according to a study published in the August issue of Applied Nursing Research.
Zöhre Irmak, Ph.D., of Mugla University, and Hatice Fesci, Ph.D., of Gazi University in Ankara -- both in Turkey, evaluated the effects of a nurse-managed secondary prevention program on lifestyle and risk factors among 36 individuals who had experienced a myocardial infarction. The secondary prevention program was initiated in the hospital and continued during home visits four times after discharge.
The researchers found that patients in the program had reductions in mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure, total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and body mass index, with the proportion of smokers decreasing from 61.1 percent before the program to 13.9 percent after the program. In addition, the researchers found that 5.6 percent of patients paid attention to their nutritional intake prior to the program versus 80.6 after the program, and 13.9 percent engaged in physical activity before the program versus 86.1 percent after the program.
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In just a few hours, the
Senate Finance Committee has an opportunity to pick up where the House of
Representatives and Senate HELP Committee began, and include in their bill a
strong public health insurance option. Only one thing stands in their way:
Since the beginning of
this debate, President Obama and Senator Baucus have done everything possible
to keep Republicans at the table. It turns out -- not surprisingly --
the majority of Republicans don’t care about changing our healthcare
system. They’re content to do the bidding of Big Insurance by spreading
half-truths to score political points. So it’s time for Democrats to make a decision: Are you
going to vote to support a public plan, which has the vast support of
Democrats, and I might add, of the majority of Americans? Are you going to
stand up for the change the people voted for in November? Or are you going to cower before the
Let’s look at
exactly what a public health insurance option would do:
- A strong public option would drive down costs, saving the federal government billions of dollars. One hundred and ten billion to be precise, according to the latest score by the Congressional Budget Office.
- A public option would compete side-by-side in an exchange with private plans -- offering more choices to Americans and forcing private insurers to compete on a level playing field.
- It would help guarantee people can afford their healthcare coverage and provide coverage to those the insurance industry continues to discriminate against: Americans with disabilities, pre-existing conditions, or severe health problems.
- No longer would any American have to live with the fear and uncertainty of losing their health insurance -- secure healthcare coverage would bring peace of mind to millions.
- A small number of insurers would no longer have an iron-grip monopoly on certain areas of the country. Private insurers have unleveled the playing field for their benefit by keeping competition out. Look at Maine, just one company controls 71% of the entire state. A strong public plan -- that would cost less -- would rectify this lopsided scenario while simultaneously lowering costs and offering more options to consumers.
Republicans can continue
to fight for insurance profits but Democrats should embrace this sort of
change. It’s a simple choice: stand with Big Insurance or stand with the
Look -- we all know
the media is obsessed with the horse race. The media decided the public health
insurance option is dead, so it must be dead. Sure, it makes for an interesting
process story but it ignores reality: as long as Democrats act like Democrats
and stop hiding behind Republicans, the public option is alive and well.
Guess what? There are now 60 Democratic Senators, which means there is no
place for Dems to hide.
Today, when Senators
Rockefeller and Schumer introduce amendments to the Senate Finance Bill
that guarantee competition and choice, it’s time for Democrats to stand up and be
counted. We know Republicans will balk and push back in defense of insurance
profits, it’s what they’ve done since mark-up began -- looking
at you, Senator Kyl -- but we cannot let Republicans and their insurance industry puppet masters control this debate any longer.
It’s time. Time to
stand up to the Republicans bent on killing healthcare reform, time to stand up
for what you believe in, and time stand up for the American people. You can no
longer hide behind the Republicans.
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office. Visit http://action.seiu.org/call4publicoption
to report-back on your calls.
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Despite Advances, 'Diabetes Rising'
NEAL CONAN, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.
Ninety years ago, the invention of insulin was hailed as the magic bullet for a terrible disease that was incurable, but insulin was just a treatment for diabetes, not a cure, and even with the understanding that with medicine, diet and exercise, patients can control their blood sugar, death rates from diabetes continue to increase, and increase dramatically.
Today, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes affect some 23 million people in the U.S. alone. If that growth continues, as much as a third of the population could come to be affected.
In a new book, medical journalist Dan Hurley asks why a once-rare disease is exploding around the world, why doctors focus so much on treatment rather than cures or prevention, and on the importance of money, milk and dirt. He also describes his own experiences as a Type 1 diabetic for over 30 years.
So diabetics, explain to the rest of us what we don't understand about your disease and how it affects your life. Our phone number is 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.org. And you can also join the conversation on our Web site. That's at npr.org. Just click on TALK OF THE NATION.
Later in the hour, a Google smartphone, ESPN in 3-D, and Apple's tablet computer rumors. Farhad Manjoo joins us to make sense of the latest tech news. But first, diabetes.
Dan Hurley joins us from our bureau in New York. His new book is "Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It." It's nice to have you on the program with us today.
Mr. DAN HURLEY (Author): Thank you, Neal.
CONAN: And as someone with no experience of diabetes, I have to say I was very surprised to read that while you monitor yourself regularly, you eat right and exercise, mostly when you can, and take your insulin regularly, that you can count on feeling terrible at least once a day.
Mr. HURLEY: Neal, this is - this disease they say is like a baby that never stops crying. It never stops demanding your attention. I would call your attention to the just-reported death of Casey Johnson(ph), the daughter of the owner of the Jets. She was a Type 1 diabetic with a history of hospitalizations for severe low blood sugars. I don't know if this is what caused her death, but I do know the terror of waking up in the back of an ambulance with a severe low, and I do know that Type 1 diabetes is now twice as common as it was 20 years ago and five times more common than it was after World War II.
So I want - what I don't know is why the FDA is holding back a lifesaving device called the artificial pancreas that could make life for people like me a lot easier by letting a computer track my diabetes like an autopilot.
CONAN: You write about that in the book, and we'll get to some of the complaints you have, not just about the FDA but about the diabetes community too, which - but anyway, you were talking about Type 1 diabetes. You describe at one point waking up with your daughter spooning marshmallow fluff into your mouth, your nine-year-old daughter.
Mr. HURLEY: Nobody wants to wake up with their daughter saving their life, and this is not a result of not taking care of your diabetes. In fact, the harder a person with Type 1 diabetes who takes insulin, the harder they work to control it, the closer their blood sugars are to normal, and that means we're always a cupcake away from a coma.
CONAN: And when you first adopted your regimen of monitoring yourself very closely, testing your blood sugar repeatedly during the day, closely watching your diet, exercising regularly, you describe meeting another writer who said, boy - who also had diabetes - and said, boy, you know, I'd rather die than live that way.
Mr. HURLEY: And then he did. He was a guy who wrote regularly for the New Yorker, and one day I read in the paper, he had passed away from a sever hypoglycemia. It happens - it's really unavoidable in the life of a Type 1 diabetic.
Some people are lucky enough, usually because they let their sugars run higher, but if you try to get low, and you keep it close to normal, you're on the razor's edge.
CONAN: If you don't keep it close to normal, then you risk doing what happened to the writer.
Mr. HURLEY: Yeah, you have - you know, all diabetics have tripled the risk of heart disease. It's the leading cause of non-traumatic amputations, of blindness, of kidney failure, and it has been growing so insanely. We have - I don't think people realize that 150 years ago a doctor could go most of his career and never meet a person with diabetes. This is something that is the disease of modern culture.
CONAN: And in fact, one of the correlations, and we'll get to obesity and overweight, and that's one correlation with it, but another one that you point out is money.
(Soundbite of laughter)
Mr. HURLEY: Well, there have been countless studies looking at associations with Type 1 diabetes across - around the world, and it's often been seen that higher rates of Type 1 diabetes are seen in more well-to-do countries. Whether - you know, I don't think anyone thinks that money causes diabetes - I hope not - but people do think that eating a healthy diet, what we think of as a healthy diet, getting - never having to face any kind of food shortages, sets up the body for a higher risk of later developing Type 1.
CONAN: Indeed, you say essentially our bodies were never designed with the idea that we would ever have to face the problem of too much food, and indeed never learned how to regulate the sugar right.
Mr. HURLEY: You know, it seems we've set up a world that is perfect for creating diabetes in so many ways. It's not just the food. It's the lack of time we spend outside in sunshine, Vitamin D is the sunshine vitamin. It increases your protection against developing diabetes. Persistent organic pollutants that are everywhere, they're ubiquitous in the culture, they've been found to have a 37-fold increase - that's 37 times likelier - to develop Type 2 diabetes. So the world we've living in is a diabetes machine.
CONAN: We want to hear from our listeners today, those of you who have experience with diabetes. What is it that the rest of us don't understand about your disease? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. Let's begin with Dave, and Dave's calling us from Jackson, Wyoming.
DAVE (Caller): Hello.
CONAN: Hi, Dave.
DAVE: How are you?
CONAN: Good, thanks.
DAVE: I'm a physician's assistant here, and I see a lot of diabetes. I work in a free clinic. We've seen a dramatic in the incidence of diabetes over the last few years, and for a while it seemed like we'd see, you know, one a week, a new diagnosis.
I attribute that partly to, you know, the advent of video games and, you know, not getting outside and exercising more, but I also see - it seems like in the mid-'70s, when the United States food industry started using more high-fructose corn syrup, we saw - we've since then seen a dramatic increase also in both obesity and diabetes.
CONAN: Is there a connection, Dan Hurley, that you've found or that the doctors you talked to found between diabetes and high-fructose corn syrup?
Mr. HURLEY: There was one study that saw an association specifically between high-fructose corn syrup and diabetes, and that study was later found to have been flawed.
What's clearly true is the more you weigh, the likelier you are to become diabetic, and this is a multigenerational effect. If your grandfather never went through a period of food shortages when he was a kid, say, living in Europe during World War I, you are more likely to get diabetes. This is a multigenerational, epigenetic effect.
So food is part of the story, but there's a lot of wheels turning in this diabetes machine.
CONAN: And Dave, thanks very much for the call. Indeed, you say yes, obesity's increasing dramatically. Diabetes is increasing faster than obesity is.
Mr. HURLEY: It's grown so ridiculously, it's almost impossible to keep up. This is - Type 2 diabetes is what everyone used to think of as Uncle Fred's disease, that he's 50, 60, he's overweight, he's not doing anything, and by golly, he developed diabetes.
Now they're seeing it in children, and there have been reports of children dying of Type 2 diabetes. This is like getting Alzheimer's in high school. This is crazy.
One-third of boys born in the year 2000 are now expected to have - develop Type 2 diabetes in their lifetime, and 39 percent of girls in their lifetime will develop it. It's really a pandemic that our society and our health care system have really yet to come to grips with. We're not going to fix this with another pill.
CONAN: And we're going to get to more calls in just a minute, after we get back from the break, but I do need to address a question that you address repeatedly in the book, and that is advice from so many doctors: If you just diet and exercise and take care of your insulin injections, monitor yourself carefully, you can control this disease.
Mr. HURLEY: Neal, if I could walk on air, I could jump off a cliff and not hit the bottom. The problem is, I can't walk on the air. And the problem for human beings to be told by a dietician, hey, here's what you're going to eat from now on - and I've been on the receiving end of this glib advice - it's good advice. I try personally, in my life, to control my diabetes as closely as possible, and it's been really important for me. I mean, I have no complications after more than 30 years. I would urge every diabetic to take the best care they can of themselves.
But if you step back and look on a societal level, you just know that giving yourself round-the-clock care, turning your diet upside-down, changing your lifestyle all because of some disease, is just not going to work, and it's not working.
CONAN: We're talking this hour with medical reporter and diabetic Dan Hurley. If you suffer from either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes, call and tell us what we don't understand about your illness. Give us a call, 800-989-8255. You can also send us email. That address is firstname.lastname@example.org. Stay with us. I'm Neal Conan. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
(Soundbite of music)
CONAN: This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington. We got this email from Carol in Davidson, North Carolina: My sister was diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in 1969. Her pediatrician had not ever seen a case before. The doctors told my parents she would not live to see 21. She died at 39, in 1996, while waiting for a kidney transplant, but when I tell people she died of complications from juvenile diabetes, they tell me: People don't die from diabetes.
We're talking about this chronic and debilitating disease today and about the great deal we do not understand about it. Reporter Dan Hurley's book is called "Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It."
If you'd like to read an excerpt from his book about how mom Rikki Conley discovered a high number of children in her neighborhood diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in Boston's wealthiest suburb, you can head over to our Web site. That's at npr.org.
We also want to hear from you. If you have either Type 1 or Type 2, what don't we understand about your disease? Give us a call, 800-989-8255. Email us, email@example.com. You can also join the conversation on our Web site - that's at npr.org - and click on TALK OF THE NATION.
And here's - Dan Hurley, we're referring to Type 1 and Type 2. They used to be called juvenile diabetes and adult-onset diabetes. Those terms aren't used anymore.
Mr. HURLEY: Doctors have really struggled for years how to distinguish between the two types, basically, and they finally gave up and just came up with these blank-sounding terms, Type 1 and Type 2.
Type 1 usually occurs when you're young. I got it when I was 18. Usually the oldest a person would get it would be into their 20s. A lot of kids will develop it, if they get it. And you need insulin. Basically your immune system has attacked the insulin-producing cells in your pancreas, kills them. You've got no insulin. You will die if you don't get insulin, and there's no diet that will save you except, you know, you do want to follow a healthy diet.
Type 2 is slower-forming. It's usually in later life. It's usually associated with being overweight, but as I've said, it's happening much more often in younger kids. It's being seen in the teens and the 20s, even in people that are not necessarily very overweight, and although everyone likes to seem to think that you could diet your way out of Type 2, it is, it is really tough to do that.
CONAN: Here's an email we got anonymously. I am 35. I had a stroke due to complications with pregnancy. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes this year. I feel like I live with a death sentence each day.
Mr. HURLEY: It's not a death sentence. You know, I'm talking very seriously about this at a societal level. I have good friends - one of my best friends in my town is another Type 1 diabetic, woman who lives down the block, the wife of a good friend, she has Type 1. We're doing great, and with Type 1 and Type 2, if you are determined, if you follow the diet - there's lots of great tools. There's wonderful developments.
And I think, though, that doctors forget to - they get so lost in thinking, hey, we've got two dozen drugs for Type 2, we've got continuous sugar monitors for Type 1, we've got insulin pumps, isn't everything great? It is, at the very least, an exhausting disease, but you can - it should never be forgotten that you can really take control. It's just that, do you want to spend your life focusing on this?
Right now I have no choice, and neither does anyone else, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.
CONAN: You talk about some of the psychological effects too: predisposition towards depression and a condition you describe particularly with women: eating disorders, which you describe as diabulimia.
Mr. HURLEY: I've met with folks, and this is about one-third of young women apparently do this - they will stop taking their insulin to lose weight. And this is a very well-known secret among young diabetic women. They get - having someone tell you, hey, every bite of food is - your life is in your hands and you've got to control everything. Human being tend to be a little rebellious, and they don't like being told what to do.
So it's - this is why we really need some important breakthroughs to get past the current plateau that we've reached. There are good tools, but we need much more.
CONAN: We want to hear from diabetics in the audience, what we don't understand about your disease, 800-989-8255. Email us, firstname.lastname@example.org. Annalisa's on the line from Salt Lake City.
ANNALISA (Caller): Yes, hi. How are you?
CONAN: I'm well, thanks.
ANNALISA: Good, good. First of all, I just have to say, I'm so excited. When I turned on the radio to hear this program, I went: yay, finally, someone's talking about the things in diabetes that everybody thinks they know but don't actually know. So you know - I'm 33 years old. I was diagnosed Type 1 diabetic at 17. When I was 18 years old, I got on the insulin pump, which has been very wonderful. I just recently got on the continuous glucose monitoring system, which has been helpful as well, but still people think, oh good, then you're good, you're cured. And I go, no, no.
Anyway, I just wanted to tell you that for me, living with diabetes is kind of like the secret in your closet that you don't really talk about much because people are so - so many different opinions about it and so many different ideas about what should be doing, and they look at you and they go: Oh really? That's interesting. How can you go about doing regular day-to-day things?
And - so I don't actually - I wear my pump on the outside of my pants. People say: What is that? I used to teach, and my kids would say what is that? And I used to say, I was born sexless, and it's a device that actually, you know, gives me estrogen, keeps me from, you know, turning back into sexless. Or I'd say it's one of those - I'm in constant pain. It's a morphine pump, you know. I mean it was just - things that you just have to do because you have to deal with what's going on.
But I have two kids, and I had normal pregnancies for the most part. They were born three weeks early, both of them, but they were only about seven pounds, which is a normal size, especially for a diabetic.
So anyway, I just wanted to ask a question out there. It's dealing with doctors and endocrinologists, which I am ashamed to admit I haven't seen my endocrinologist in a bit because every time I go in I feel like I have just completely failed at my life and just wanting to maybe - from the doctor here being a diabetic and also practicing in the field - what if I should give to endocrinologists to help diabetics not feel like they are just failing when actually, in reality, when you look at it, I feel like that I'm doing relatively well in my life, so...
CONAN: Well, we should point out Dan Hurley is not a doctor. He is a diabetic and he's written a lot about diabetes, but he's not a doctor. But anyway, Dan...
Mr. HURLEY: I'm a reporter and a diabetic.
ANNALISA: Oh, okay.
Mr. HURLEY: But Annalisa, this is - really goes to the heart of the issue, and what I wish I could say to every person with diabetes and the people that know them and love them, and to the physicians, is - this disease, there is no such thing as perfection, that it's a struggle, and there is nobody who is wise enough to constantly accept this burden of having to control their sugar minute by minute by minute.
I mean, I'm sitting here. I have a continuous glucose monitor, and I'm looking, and oh, my blood sugar is 148. Twenty minutes ago it was 110. Where is it going? How can I do that? I'm on the radio. Hold on.
And so I think we need to accept that we are human beings and we were not put here to control our blood sugar and that we do the best we can, and if dieticians and doctors could begin to accept a little better that we're not screw-ups because our sugar is running a little high, we're human beings, and we've got more important things to do with our life than stare at our blood sugar all day. We do our best, we try, and you know, I think people with diabetes need to accept their inevitable failings. It is inevitable. There is no way to keep your sugars normal all the time, and you do your best and you try. This is why I think it's really important. There's studies being done on what's called the artificial pancreas where, you know, they take...
CONAN: I was just going to get to that. If you have that insulin pump and the glucose monitor, if you connect those with a computer, you have what you called the computer cure.
Mr. HURLEY: Yes. And this exists right now. I mean, I have on me a little continuous monitor that tells me my sugar every five minutes. I've got an insulin...
Mr. HURLEY: Right. And I've got an insulin pump. And the problem is that the FDA will not allow the data from the pump - from the monitor to control the pump. So my blood sugar can be falling, falling, falling. And if I'm asleep and I don't notice that it's trying to beep me to tell me to wake up, I could, you know, die from that. It - progress is needed, and a lot of researchers are very frustrated. The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has been working tremendously hard. They're spending more than 10 million a year to get this to people. It's entirely doable. All the products exist. All we need is some final testing, and get the FDA to wake up and realize that people are dying right now. And they're being driven crazy by trying to be their own pancreas.
CONAN: And Annalisa, thank you very much for the call. Good luck.
And I wanted to point out that you also argue in the book, this kind of behavior from the FDA, the AIDS community would not have put up with this.
Mr. HURLEY: You know, there's a lot of discussion behind the scenes among people that care passionately about diabetes. And whether we've reached the point where there should be marches out in front of the FDA offices demanding faster approval of an artificial pancreas, I don't know. I do know that it was only just over a year ago that the FDA, after years of studies showing that many drugs for type 2, it actually increased the risk for heart disease in diabetics. Finally, last year, they decided that any new drug has to show evidence that it doesn't increase your cardiac heart disease risk for diabetes and that was long overdue. There are still many drugs on the market that doctors are prescribing that can have an effect on the heart, a risk of people with diabetes. And I urge folks to look into it, whether they read my book or do some Googling, or read some other books. There's so many drugs out there that people really need to inform themselves.
CONAN: Dan Hurley's book is " Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About It." You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
And here's an email we have from Ellen(ph) in Boca Raton in Florida. My now 22-year-old son was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes 21 years ago. Type 1 is a relentless potentially devastating, debilitating and deadly disease. There's no rest even in sleep. Parents are up throughout the night checking their children's blood sugars, worrying about the dead-in-bed syndrome. Even when a person gets up to go to the bathroom, they need to check blood glucose and sometimes check for ketones to know if their insulin pump is working or if they took enough insulin. We need increased funding for cure-focused research in humans. And she adds, no more - not mice need to be cured.
And this from - what's this person's name - it's from Redmond, Oregon, from Rick(ph). Both daughters have type 1 diabetes, one at 10, the other at 20. They're now 30 and 32. I am concerned that the industry of supporting type 1 and type 2 is so large that there are efforts to discourage a cure. There was a lot of promise. Now I hear nothing about stem cell research replacing islet cell. I don't want to outlive them.
Mr. HURLEY: There - you know, I'm not going to be so cynical as to say that drug companies don't want to cure diabetes. They're human beings. They have loved ones as well. But what I will say is they want to make money. They need to make money, and that's their job. But it's the job of people with diabetes to demand harder work and the kinds of research that will get us to a cure.
You know, the biological cure - whether through stem cells or some sort of treatment that could reverse the disease, this is a really tough case. That is going to take quite a while unless something comes like a bolt out of the blue.
Mr. HURLEY: That's why I think this biomedical device, the artificial pancreas, can be huge. And it's something doable. You basically have off-the-shelf devices that are available. It's not...
CONAN: And companies ought to be able to make a pretty good profit on it too. It's...
Mr. HURLEY: It's not pretty. It's a kind of winning-ugly approach.
CONAN: Kludge, yeah.
(Soundbite of laughter)
CONAN: Let's see if we can get one more caller in before we have to let you go. This is Nick(ph). Nick calling us from Green Bay.
NICK (Caller): Hi. I'm from the ER, and the (unintelligible) I was diabetic. And they're like, what are you gonna do about it? I said, there's nothing I can do. I don't have health insurance. So, luckily, my wife - she's pregnant, and she got a prescription for metformin, so I'm just taking that on my own. But I checked and I tried to get help and there's no one out there to help me, so I just take my metformin every day. And luckily, she's got prescriptions for it but if it wasn't for that, I'd be in deep trouble.
CONAN: Dan Hurley?
Mr. HURLEY: The health care system of this country, obviously, or Congress has - I don't know if they've let us down or if you're going to be able to get the kind of help you need. I can tell you that I spend a - just crazy amount of money on my diabetes care and my health insurance. It's just obscene. And I don't think that the care should - needs to be this expensive. Metformin, by the way, as far as I know - again, I'm not a doctor - that's a good first drug for diabetes. And if you were able to test your blood sugar every once in a blue moon and see if it's staying close to normal, that'd be great.
CONAN: Good luck, Nick. And Dan Hurley, we have to - you've really hit a nerve here. We've had hundreds of emails pour in during this segment. Thank you very much for being with us.
Mr. HURLEY: Thank you for giving a chance to this important topic.
CONAN: Dan Hurley's book, "Diabetes Rising: How a Rare Disease Became a Modern Pandemic, and What to Do About it." Coming up, it's a week for geeks. The Consumer Electronics Show starts on Thursday. Everybody is buzzing about tablets. Plus Google has a Smartphone. They debuted it today. We'll get a review from Farhad Manjoo coming up next. Stay with us. It's the TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News.
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As a new mom, taking care of yourself is just as important as taking care of your new baby. Having your baby can bring in a world of emotions – happiness, relief, exhaustion, anxiety and more – and finding balance and support for you and your baby are important to create a happy, healthy home.
Make sure to get enough sleep, eat right and exercise. And, if you’re not feeling like yourself, reach out to someone for help or support. Going to your postpartum appointments is an important part of protecting your health, and your doctor is a great resource for providing guidance and tips.
Your emotional health is also an important aspect of being a new mom. Postpartum depression affects as many as one in seven women, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Postpartum depression often appears one to three weeks after childbirth, but might start during pregnancy or up to a year after birth. The symptoms include:
- Feelings of guilt
- Difficulty sleeping
- Trouble bonding with your baby
Contact your healthcare provider today if you have recently given birth and are experiencing these symptoms. It’s important to notify your doctor about your symptoms and get treatment, such as counseling, as soon as possible.
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Game SHIELD Stream
Sometimes, all you want to do is shoot people in the face for an hour from the comfort of your sofa, but you don’t want to distract your loved one’s season finale on TV. You have a beefy PC in the other room at the ready, and a tablet, what do you do?
If you have a GeForce GTX 600-Series or later GPU, and an NVIDIA SHIELD device, you can stream your desktop games to it. Your PC does the legwork with all the rendering, while the SHIELD shows you the results.
This low latency wireless setup and gaming experience is streamed through the GeForce Experience app. While there is a small performance hit to frame rates, any streamed games will run pretty much as if they were native. What’s really nice about this feature is that if a game or store client (eg: Steam, Origin) requires an update, it won’t become a roadblock thanks to the fact that you’ll be able to use Windows as soon as you connect, allowing you to take over the mouse with your SHIELD device to click what needs to be clicked. Afterwards, the game will launch right up.
As an aside, you can read our review of NVIDIA’s SHIELD Android TV right here.
Your graphics card can not only render games, but with the help of GFE, it can save your playthroughs or stream them across different services, such as Twitch or YouTube. Sharing your gaming sessions has become a big part of the modern Internet with ‘Let’s Play’ videos popping up all over the place. Not only does it allow others to see what you are doing, but also interact with you in real-time, while you are playing.
However, no one will want to watch your stream if your game is running at 15 frames per second because you can’t encode the video fast enough. All modern NVIDIA GPUs now come with a dedicated video encoder on-chip. This means that your CPU isn’t taking the brunt of the encoding task, slowing your game down in the process.
The built-in encoder does have a small impact on performance, but this is no more than 3%, so we’re talking less than 1 FPS loss in most cases. The recorder is quite configurable too. It does not save raw, uncompressed video, so it won’t burn through your disk space like a few other utilities. You can set different locations to store the temp video and the final saved video too.
The compression rate is also configurable, ranging from 10 to 130 Mbps for locally stored gameplay, so if you plan on recording 4K at 60 FPS, you can do so with almost no perceptible loss in image quality. You can also limit frame rates while recording to 60 or 30 FPS (which is mainly to prevent audio sync issues with variable frame rates).
For streaming, you have a greater deal of flexibility. If your Internet connection is decidedly lacking, recording your game play first and then uploading later might be best, but if you have a moderate to great connection, then live streaming becomes an option.
GFE’s streaming options are quite impressive, as it will not only stream directly to Twitch or YouTube, but it will let you set the resolution independently of the game (downscaling while encoding). This means you can play at 1080p but stream at 720p, without affecting your own performance. You also have even tighter control over image quality, by restricting it from 1 to 18 Mbps, with resolutions including 360p, 480p, 720p and 1080p, in either 30 or 60 FPS. If that’s all a bit complicated for you, there are some presets you can use instead, but that fine control is just a click away.
Another cool feature is the Instant Replay. Playing a real tense match then miraculously pull off six 360 no-scope headshots in a row within 5 seconds? Bummed out because you weren’t recording? GeForce Experience lets you record constantly in the background on a loop with its Instant Replay feature, so that when that fateful moment arrives, you can instantly save the last few minutes of gameplay. You can set the loop time from 30 seconds to 20 minutes, with the same quality control as the live recorder. It won’t automatically upload that replay to a streaming service, but it lets you do it later.
If video isn’t your thing, screenshots are possible too, all from the same GFE menu or customized hotkeys. You have the option to upload to either Imgur or Google Photos (with hopefully more services offered down the road), or deal with them after the fact – they are saved as PNG and are located in the same folder as your outputted videos, which can be configured inside of the overlay.
The GeForce Experience
GFE is a helpful tool for new users and seasoned veterans. Simplifying game settings and setup, checking system capabilities, updating drivers effortlessly, and streaming your triumphs and amusing failures to the world. You can even record your desktop if you want to do guides/presentations or show browser games off (although there is a privacy safeguard in the options to prevent this if you wish).
There are a number of system checks it can perform too, such as showing you if your system meets the requirements for Virtual Reality. Do you have enough RAM, CPU powerful enough, perhaps a better GPU is required? While NVIDIA can’t help with the costs of Head Mounted Displays such as Oculus Rift or HTC Vive, you can check if your system is up for the challenge.
If there were a couple of things I’d like to see changed in GFE, it would be a small improvement to the screenshots section, since not being able to browse them first seems odd, and the location of where they are stored is not shown or intuitive. Originally, I had thought the pictures disappeared after a reboot, but they were later found in the rather odd default ‘Video’ directory.
The other thing I would suggest changing, would be the default shortcut key to bring up the main overlay for streaming and recording, which is Alt+Z. While innocent enough, this shortcut is picked up by most Adobe products when using Ctrl+Alt+Z, which is used for repeated undo. Fortunately, NVIDIA lets you change all the shortcuts under the GFE options – it’s just confusing the first time it happens.
GeForce Experience regularly lists special offers for new hardware, as well as giving away free games and running contests every now and then. When prompted about a new driver, you might just spot a chance to score a brand new system or GPU upgrade in the process.
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The fear of rejection is a relatively common problem. Most people have experienced a fear of rejection at some point in their lives, and it’s not particularly unusual for these fears to overwhelm people and become socially debilitating. Many experts believe that fear of rejection is rooted in an evolutionary tribal social impulse, and in that sense, it might be as much of a primal fear as the fear of a dangerous animal. Being rejected in primal times may have been devastating to a person’s status, which could be potentially dangerous in that environment. That danger may have created evolutionary pressure towards the development of a natural fear of rejection.
For many people, the possibility of being rejected can seem incredibly daunting—facing rejection can be almost as frightening as facing physical danger. In cases like these, it can be difficult for people to view rejection objectively, and they often lack the ability to put things in perspective. For people in this situation, it can be helpful to have someone else outline the real likely consequences of a potential rejection so that they can be compared to the person’s imagined disastrous, worst-case scenario. This can sometimes help people avoid being frozen by their fears.
When people fear rejection, it can sometimes have the effect of making them seem less confident, and because of this, the fear can actually have self-fulfilling results. Some people find it easier to face rejection once they realize that their fear is actually increasing their chances of rejection. Once people gain a little confidence, their rejection rate will often go down significantly, and that can also be self-reinforcing in the same way that the fear is self-fulfilling.
For some people, visualization can be a useful strategy for dealing with rejection. There are many exercises built around this kind of therapy, and most of them involve visualizing a situation where the fear of rejection would normally spring up. The person will focus on visualizing herself overcoming her fear and receiving a positive outcome. With repeated use, this kind of therapy can gradually reduce a person’s fear in her day-to-day life.
Another useful strategy for some people is to stop thinking about the consequences of rejection and focus on the possible rewards of acceptance. For people who are generally motivated by negatives, this can be a helpful way of turning the tables. Sometimes it allows them to see things in a different light while letting them have a better understanding of the ways rejection might be holding them back.
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This text is shared directly from Augmented Reality blog, written by Kendra Grant, Jenelle Kresak, Kate Ropchan, Scott Tammik and Pamela Jones
“AR has the potential to promote efficiency of learning and training in academic and corporate surroundings by providing information at the right time and right place and offering rich content with computer-generated 3D imagery… AR may appeal to constructivist notions of education, where students take control of their own learning, and could provide opportunities for more authentic learning and training styles.”Lee Kangdon, 2012
The pace of miniaturization within mobile computing is helping to fuel the growth of Augmented Reality. Developers and engineers are finding exciting new ways to incorporate Augmented Reality technology into our daily lives in the near future.
In their 2012 report on 12 emerging technologies to watch for in education in the next five years, the New Media Consortium predicts that augmented reality is set for adoption in four to five years, indicating that we remain in the early developmental stages of this technology, however it is gaining attention. To review the report, click here.
For one perspective on what new mobile Augmented Reality hardware and software is just around the corner, browse through the most recently crowd funded projects on Kickstarter. Scan the photo above to review several successful Kickstarter products we feel are particularly relevant to education, or visit the entire list of projects here.
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Everyone goes through the problem of stomach ache at least once in a lifetime and knowing how to get rid of stomach ache can prove to be very handy at the time.
Stomach pain is extremely disturbing, particularly when you need to do something that requires concentration and attention. If you have gone through one or are going through one, read on. This article is everything under one roof and covers the following areas:
- What is stomach ache
- Causes of stomach ache
- Symptoms of stomach ache
- Stomach ache treatment
- Home remedies for stomach ache
What is stomach ache?
An umbrella term for stomach aches is “abdominal pain”. Whether it is due to indigestion, gastritis or irritable bowel syndrome, and aching tummy can be very discomforting. No worries, you can alleviate stomach pain with a variety of treatments and natural stomach ache remedies.
What Causes of stomach ache
It doesn’t matter whether it is cramps in the stomach, abdominal pain, mild belly pain, or sharp pain in the stomach. There are thousands of different causes for stomach ache. Here is a list of some of the common causes:
- Food poisoning
- Food allergies
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Stones in the kidney
- Infection in the urinary tract
- Infection in the gall bladder
- Gastroesophageal reflux disease
- Menstrual cramps
- Kidney stones
- Crohn’s disease
- Stomach virus
- Infection in the stomach
- Urinary Tract infection
- Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO)
- Thyroid disease
- Excessive intake of alcohol
Symptoms of stomach ache
The major stomach pain symptom is usually the pain felt in the abdominal region. In case the pain is recurrent or severe and consists of the following symptoms, you should go see a doctor:
- Difficulty in breathing
- Passage of blood while vomiting
- Inability to eat
- Tightness in abdomen
- Loss of appetite
- Difficulty to pass stool
- Signs of dehydration
- Frequent or Painful urination
- Black tarry or bloody stool
Such symptoms hint towards some internal problem which needs treatment. The sooner, the better. Do not make delays in case of severe abdominal pain. Immediately go see a doctor.
How to get rid of stomach ache
Stomach ache treatment
Treatment of abdominal pain mainly depends on the cause. There are various ways to get rid of stomach ache like antibiotics for infection, medications for ulcers, GERD, inflammation or pain triggered by particular beverages or foods. In case of hernia or appendicitis, surgery is required. Since there can be many reasons, the doctor is going to ask you about the symptoms that you are going through and conduct a physical exam. After doing his initial evaluations, he might ask you to do some tests to help figure out the real cause of pain. The tests may consist of urine or stool test, CT scan, ultrasound, endoscopy or blood tests.
Home remedies for stomach ache
If the stomach ache persists, it is highly recommended to visit a doctor. However, there are various home remedies that serve as great stomach ache cures. This list will clear all your confusions regarding what to take for stomach ache. Here you go…
Ginger has been a cure-all for nausea to pain and all that is in between since ancient times and is among the best medicine for stomach pain. It is not simply an old wive’s tale. There are studies that have proved it to be effective for treating different types of upset stomach along with reducing pain in the stomach. Ginger aids in neutralizing stomach acid, increase digestive juice and minimize the production of free radicals.
- Take a fresh ginger root and cut thin slices.
- Take a cup of water and as soon as the water starts boiling, put ginger slices in it.
- Allow it to boil for a few minutes and let it simmer for few more minutes.
- Strain it and add some honey for taste.
- Take small sips slowly.
- Consume this ginger tea twice or thrice a day to improve digestion and ease stomach ache.
- You can also consume ginger in the form of ginger chews and supplements. Others like to drink in the form of beverage like ginger ale or simply tea.
Do you have a stomach ache because of indigestion? Then fennel seeds can bring you quick stomach ache relief due to its antimicrobial, pain reducing, diuretic and carminative qualities. Fennel seeds aid in providing relief from indigestion signs like bloating and gas as well.
- Take a cup of hot water and add a teaspoon of crushed fennel seeds in it.
- Allow it to steep for 10 minutes.
- Let it cool and then strain it.
- Add a bit of honey to enhance taste.
- Drink slowly
- As an alternative, you can also chew on one and a half teaspoon of fennel seeds after a meal.
You can go for one of these remedies and consume it thrice a day to alleviate stomach ache.
Asafetida is also known by the name hing. You can shed all your worries if your tummy pain is due to indigestion or gas because Asafetida consists of antiflatulent and antispasmodic qualities that alleviates the discomfort.
- Take a cup of warm water and add a teaspoon of asafetida.
- Take a cotton cloth and soak it in this solution.
- Keep it on your stomach for up to 15 minutes.
- It helps to ease the pain.
- Do it many times in a day.
- Take a glass of warm water and add a pinch of hing.
- Stir well and consume it thrice a day.
- If you want, you can even add a pinch of rock salt.
- This remedy is great as it helps to eliminate gas and gives relief fromstomach ache.
Chamomile is well known for its anti-inflammatory nature. It helps to relax the muscles present in the upper digestive tract and thereby making the contractions smooth which helps to move the food in the digestive tract. This also helps to minimize stomach cramps. Moreover, chamomile’s sedative quality has a calming effect on the nerves. So both the sedative and anti-inflammatory quality helps to reduce tummy ache.
- Take a cup of boiling water.
- Add a teaspoon of dried chamomile in it and cover it.
- Let it steep for up to 15 minutes.
- Strain it and put in lemon juice or honey to enhance taste.
- Take small sips and drink slowly.
- Consume twice or thrice a day.
5. Lemon water
Lemon water is a great cure for an upset stomach. It is not a hidden fact anymore that lemon is a rich source of vitamin C and a powerful antioxidant that eliminates free radicals. What you probably don’t know is that lemon helps to treat indigestion and as a result relieves stomach ache caused by it. Therefore, lemon water is extremely effective.
- Take a cup of warm water.
- Add fresh lemon juice in it.
- Adding a pinch of black salt makes it even more effective.
- Add some honey as a taste enhancer.
- Consume the drink 3 to 4 times a day.
Did you know medical studies have proved that peppermint aids in improving the flow of bile and that bile juices are used for the purpose of digestion in the body? This is the reason, peppermint helps to improve digestion. It also has a soothing effect on muscles of the stomach, which is why it helps to minimize the ache. This antispasmodic effect of peppermint in the digestive tract aids in reducing pain that results from stomach gas.
- To prepare peppermint tea, take a cup of boiling water and add a teaspoon of dried peppermint.
- Allow it to steep for 10 minutes.
- Strain the solution and mix a bit of honey.
- Drink the tea slowly.
- You can also chew on peppermint leaves on and off to get fast stomach ache relief.
Both methods help to ease the pain and relax you.
7. Apple Cider Vinegar
Facing indigestion or gas? Go ahead and try the staple of home remedies, apple cider vinegar. Do you find it too strong? You can dilute it by adding in some water. It is the antibiotic quality in apple cider vinegar that helps to improve digestion and soothe the stomach. In case you don’t have apple cider vinegar, you can always use the regular vinegar.
- Take a cup of warm water and mix a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar.
- Mix a tablespoon of honey.
- Sip it slowly.
- Consume this solution after every few hours till you feel better.
Yogurt is the most stomach friendly food. It is great for the overall health your stomach. Did you know yoghurt with live cultures aid in improving digestion and as a result helps to give you relief from stomach aches caused by indigestion.
- Take a cup of water and add two tablespoons of plain yoghurt along with a pinch of salt.
- Extract some juice of fresh coriander leaves and add 3 tablespoons of it to the mixture.
- In the end, add 1 ½ teaspoon of cardamom powder.
- To ease stomach aches, drink it after an hour of having your meal
- As an alternative, you can also have unsweetened yoghurt many times in a day till you start feeling better.
9. Warm Compress
Heat is a great pain killer and helps to soothe the stomach ache. What heat does enhance the process of digestion and facilitate circulation. You will automatically find relief from stomach pain when food is properly digested.
- Take a warm shower or bath for up to 20 minutes two times a day to get relief from stomach pain.
- Keep a hot water bottle on the site of pain on your stomach for 10 minutes. To get the best results, keep the heating device on your stomach and lie down. Do this many times a day till you feel better.
10. Rice Water
Do you think rice water is the leftover water after you cook rice? Yes, exactly that’s what it is. It acts as a demulcent but what’s a demulcent? It is a substance that helps to give you relief from inflammation by building a barrier over a membrane especially the stomach lining and minimizes pain. It serves as one of the best natural remedies for an upset stomach.
- Take 1 ½ cup of white rice and wash it properly.
- Take 6 cups of water in a pan and boil it.
- Then add the rice to it.
- Cook the rice and when it becomes tender, strain the water.
- Allow the water to cool and mix some honey in it.
- Sip it slowly.
- Consume it 2 times a day, every day.
- As a bland food, you can even eat yoghurt with rice.
So now that you are aware of how to get rid of stomach ache, you can apply these remedies or visit a doctor in case of constant stomach pain.
Frequently Asked Questions
What are antacids and when should I start taking antacids?
As discussed antacids neutralize the acid in stomach providing relief from acid indigestion, upset stomach, heartburn, ulcers, gas and sour stomach. Take antacids as your doctor has directed you. If you are taking tablets, make sure you chew them properly. Be careful about overusing antacids as it can have side effects like stomach cramps, constipation and diarrhea. Pepcid, Zantac, Axid, and Tagamet are easily available in store and reduce the production of stomach acid. For those patients for whom antacids are not effective enough can use PPIs or H2 blockers as an alternative. Make sure you discuss with your doctor if you have frequent of severe episodes of reflux.
Can stomach cramps be avoided without taking medicines?
Doing experiments with your stomach is the best method of finding out which drinks and foods are acceptable to your stomach. Only take those foods and drinks that your stomach is able to digest properly. Be careful about your timings as well. For example, make sure you don’t have a big lunch if you are planning to do some jogging later on. Having small snacks the entire day is a better way to avoid stomach cramps.
Eating high-fat foods, peppermint, onions, alcohol can result in GERD or heartburn which then causes stomach pain. Also avoid caffeinated beverages like coffee and foods like chocolate that can trigger acid reflux. Citrus fruits and tomatoes also contribute to acidity. Making changes to your eating habits can minimize acid reflux. Also try to keep your posture upright. Make sure you eat your last meal 3 to 4 hour hours before you sleep and do not snack at bedtime.
What exactly is Endoscopy?
This is a method by which doctor can see inside the digestive system. A lighted tube with camera known as the endoscope is inserted into your mouth for the doctors to see the inide of your stomach, esophagus, small intestine, rectum or colon. Doctors can then easily diagnose:
- Stomach or chest pain
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All 72 miners trapped by a fire in a potash mine in Saskatchewan were safe and back on the surface Monday, a day after taking refuge from the smoke and flames.
By early Monday morning, rescuers had brought 67 miners to the surface, said Gary Phillips, a spokesperson for Mosaic, the U.S.-based company that owns the mine. A company official said shortly after 9 a.m. that the remaining five mine employees – who were trapped deepest in the mine – had been brought to the surface and all were healthy.
Rescuers had to ensure that smoke and toxic fumes were cleared before the miners could leave their refuge stations in the mine.
Officials said on Sunday night that all had been found safe and unhurt.
The workers holed up in sealed emergency rooms after the fire broke out in the mine near Esterhazy, about 210 kilometres northeast of Regina.
The fire was put out before midnight local time, Mosaic officials said.
- FROM JAN. 29, 2006: Miners found safe in Saskatchewan mine
All the miners survived by retreating to refuge rooms, which had enough oxygen supplies to last at least 36 hours, as well as water, food, beds and blankets.
"The fire is out; it's obviously good news," Marshall Hamilton, a Mosaic spokesperson, said in a telephone news conference at about midnight.
"They're all safe, they're all secure, they're all accounted for."
Six-person teams of rescue workers had been entering the mine to work rotating shifts starting two hours after the fire started.
Mine officials were quickly able to establish radio contact with about 40 of the workers, who camped out in two refuge rooms.
The fate of 30 others remained uncertain until shortly before 9 p.m., when a rescue team found them in another refuge room about 1.5 kilometres from the fire.
"I won't kid you, there was a lot of relief in that," Hamilton said.
He said the team of six rescuers entered the room and spoke with the miners to confirm they were uninjured. The team then resealed the room to protect the miners from fumes and smoke.
Mine officials said the fire broke out on a polyethylene pipe that burned "like a wick" and generated black smoke that made it hard for firefighters to access. The company said it was too early to speculate about the cause of the fire.
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Coleus leave foliage plants the Jefferson Library Market Garden in Greenwich Village.
The term "coleus" is often used as a common name for species formerly placed in the genus Coleus that are cultivated as ornamental plants, particularly Coleus blumei (Plectranthus scutellarioides), which is popular as a garden plant for its brightly colored foliage.
The Jefferson Market Garden is situated on a triangular city block, this 0.4-acre garden has been under the care of community volunteers since its inception in 1974.
From 1931 to 1973 the Women’s House of Detention sat adjacent to the courthouse, on the site of the current garden. Upon the demolition of the prison, the site was transferred to the New York City
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In conjunction with the recent publication of a new, gorgeous dual-language edition of The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust, this morning The Daily Beast shared the first poem ever written by Marcel Proust (as far as anyone knows). The poem, penned when the legendary author was a mere 17 years old, reflects his struggle with homosexuality and his blossoming talent. After the jump, read Proust’s debut poem and a collection of nine other of the earliest known verses of now famous poets. Did we miss your favorite? Let us know about it in the comments.
Proust’s first known poem was written when he was just 17 years old, and dedicated to his friend Daniel Halévy, who had written to him, “Don’t treat me as a pederast, that wounds me. Morally I’m trying, if only out of a sense of elegance, to remain pure.”
“Pederasty” (1889) Translated by Richard Howard
To Daniel Halévy
If I had money from a boundless mint
and sinew enough in hands, lips, loins,
I’d shun the vanity of politics and print,
and leave—tomorrow? No, tonight!—for lawns
luminous with artificial green
(without the rustic flaws of frost and vermin),
where I’d forever be sleeping with one
warm child or other: François? Firmin? . . .
For what is manly mockery to me?
Let Sodom’s apples burn, acre by acre,
I’d savor still the sweat of those sweet limbs!
Beneath a solar gold, a lunar nacre,
I’d… languish (an ars moriendi of my own),
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Having a bank account can be a gateway to accessing other financial products, such as credit cards or mortgages where the providers need to be sure that repayments can be made. They will probably look at how you have run your bank account as part of their credit checking process.
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Disclaimer: This information is intended solely to provide guidance and is not financial advice. Moneyfacts will not be liable for any loss arising from your use or reliance on this information. If you are in any doubt, Moneyfacts recommends you obtain independent financial advice.
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