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Graphite2 is a rendering engine for graphite fonts. These are TrueType fonts with additional tables containing smart rendering information and were originally developed to support complex non-Roman writing systems. They may contain rules for e.g. ligatures, glyph substitution, kerning, justification - this can make them useful even on text written in Roman writing systems such as English. Note that firefox provides an internal copy of the graphite engine and cannot use a system version, but it too should benefit from the availability of graphite fonts.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://downloads.sourceforge.net/silgraphite/graphite2-1.2.4.tgz
Download MD5 sum: 2ef839348fe28e3b923bf8cced440227
Download size: 6.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 44 MB
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU
FreeType-2.5.2, Python-2.7.6, and silgraphite to build the comparerender test and benchmarking tool, and if that is present, Harfbuzz-0.9.26 to add more functionality to it (this is a circular dependency, you would need to first build graphite2 without harfbuzz).
You will need at least one suitable graphite font for the package to be useful.
Install Graphite2 by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr .. && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the
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The old "live chassis" TV sets in Britain had one side of the supply connected directly to the chassis, but the design was always such that nothing was exposed to touch. Fixing screws holding the chassis in place went into insulating inserts, the control knobs were non-conductive and either a push-fit on the control shafts or fixed with recessed grub-screws which could not be touched, etc.
Many of these sets in the 1950s/60s were fed from a reversible 2-pin 5A plug, so the chassis could easily be hot. The only problem was if somebody messed with the physical arrangements (e.g. replaced a fixing screw with one too long) or if a knob became detached and left a live shaft exposed (I learned that lesson the hard way when I was about 9 years old!).
The half-wave rectifier arrangement on the sets meant that in those areas which still had DC supplies in the 1950s the chassis would have
to be live in those houses fed from the negative pole of the 3-wire distribution system.
The SMPS arrangements of modern TVs do indeed result in the chassis sitting at about half supply potential, no matter which way the power is connected (just one of the reasons for using an isolation xfmr for servicing).
In a real world situation, you have two wires from the telly. Is there any way you can wire them so that an immediate danger arises in a properly wired house?
Certainly nothing that would blow up the TV!
Reversed line and neutral = No problem.
Connected between neutral & ground = TV just doesn't work.
Connected between line & ground = RCD/ELCB trips if present, otherwise TV works using the ground conductor as a path back to the neutral.
There's no immediate danger in the latter situation, although a bad ground connection could result in the metalwork of other appliances being pulled up to 240V by the path through the TV. | <urn:uuid:e8f29acb-6f67-44c8-ab28-06bb4207fef5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.electrical-contractor.net/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=142747 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00269-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971698 | 408 | 2.625 | 3 |
The government body charged with managing Angkor Archaeological Park has set an August 10 final deadline for the voluntary removal of homes and shops built illegally in protected zones of the park before they are forcibly razed.
“If the date passes, the provincial removal committee and Apsara Authority will execute the tearing down of all illegal constructions beginning on August 10, and we will not be responsible for damage or loss of construction materials,” a statement said.
About 523 structures were erected without permission leading up to the June 4 commune elections, Apsara has claimed.
Attempts to evict the squatters has met resistance, and previous deadlines have lapsed after Apsara director Sum Map conceded last month that authorities had not attempted to stop the villagers from building the homes, with families claiming it was because they feared losing votes for the CPP.
If the plans go ahead, villagers will protest, said Sin Vuthy, who constructed a home.
“We are not hesitant to protest, even if the authorities fatally shoot people with guns,” he said. | <urn:uuid:b247f5da-3b66-4184-810a-122006345e93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.cambodiadaily.com/brief/apsara-sets-razing-deadline-villagers-to-protest-133137/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.954286 | 222 | 1.570313 | 2 |
American automaker Tesla has released footage showing off its progress in the driverless car technology space. The video comes after Tesla announced in October that all of its future cars will come with the technology that will allow it to drive around on its own.
The self-driving demo was shared by CEO Elon Musk via a tweet. The footage is shot from the car’s POV (point of view) showing all the hurdles or in-path objects that the technology recognises to ensure a seamless journey, even in areas with traffic signals and other cars on the road. The video shows how the car manoeuvres through by-lanes with ease, stopping at signals, recognising when to slow down by understanding hurdles and objects in front of it.
The footage shows how the software in the car recognises in-path objects, people, road signs, road lights, and even lane lines, all of which are assigned in different colour codes. The video has a man sitting in the driver’s seat to abide by the law of the government; however, the man is seen doing nothing through the duration of the drive. He is neither steering the wheel, nor has his legs on the brake or accelerator. Throughout the duration of the footage, the driver has his hands firmly resting on his lap.
At the end of the journey, the driver gets out of the car without parking, and the car recognises an empty spot and parks itself seamlessly without any manual intervention. This footage is monumental in terms of the progress Tesla has made in the autonomous driving space. Google is of course working on a similar project.
Apple on the other hand has been reported to have ditched its Apple Car efforts, and instead focus on the new autonomous driving software – based on its augmented reality research efforts. The company even hired the former head of BlackBerry’s automotive software division as new leadership for Apple’s car team. Building software is a calculated move, as it leaves the options open for the company to decide if it wants to partner with or acquire an established car maker, rather than build a car itself. With Apple having difficulties in building an autonomous vehicle, it’s commendable that Tesla already has vehicles ready to ship with the software. | <urn:uuid:2a7f6443-8939-44a4-a84a-4ded28d6fa40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cencelx.com/technology/tesla-shows-off-its-self-driving-car-technology-on-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.973944 | 453 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Posted on May 16th, 2016 by UNM CC
Stocks should be handled with care to ensure that they are not contaminated with PCR product or plasmid DNA that might be prevalent in the laboratory. For this reason they are handled only in the pre-PCR area with gloves, aerosol resistant tips, and DNAse/contamination-free solutions.
Oligo concentrations are typically expressed in terms of moles, not weight (µg). The extinction coefficient, for converting absorbance (A260) to concentration (µM), varies according to the base composition of the oligo. In this protocol, the MPD is used to record the oligo sequence, to calculate its extinction coefficient and concentration, and to note the location of the freezer stock solution.
- DNAse free H2O or Tris 10mM, pH=8
- 1.5 mL Eppendorf tubes
- Aerosol resistant pipet tips
- Oligonucleotide stock (from manufacturer)
- Turn on spectrophotometer.
- Take bag containing oligo to pre-PCR room. Dump tube on bench, without touching tube or inner surface of bag.
- Don gloves. Place tube in pre-PCR rack.
- Add 10 µL of H2O or 10mM tris per nMole of stock primer (quantity according to the oligo maker). Vortex.
- Dilute Oligo 1:50 v:v by adding 10 uL to 490 uL H2O. Also aliquot 500 uL H2O as a blank.
- Using a glass cuvette (not plastic) blank the spec. using the H2O. Measure A260 of the oligo.
- Find or enter the oligo name in the MPD on the Oligo Details layout. Enter the A260 value and dilution factor (50).
Record the concentration of the oligo in your notebook.
- In the pre-PCR room don fresh gloves and write the concentration of the oligo on the stock tube.
- In a 1.5 mL tube, dilute the primer stock down to the working concentration of 10 uM with H2O or 10 mM Tris, pH8.
- Place the remaining oligo stock at -80ºC, and record it's location in the MPD. | <urn:uuid:3b3815ac-c832-4b5a-ab5b-1e294a4b67cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cancer.unm.edu/2016/05/16/new-oligo-lab/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00022-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.81512 | 497 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Today, Metro Vancouver and FortisBC Energy Inc. announced they've agreed to work together to achieve regional climate-action goals, and showcase a new facility that will recover more energy from liquid wastewater treatment.The new Lulu Island Renewable Natural Gas Facility, located in Richmond, B.C., at Metro Vancouver's Lulu Island Wastewater Treatment Plant site, now allows the unused biogas to be cleaned, stored and sold to purchasers such as FortisBC as Renewable Natural Gas (RNG). Renewable Natural Gas can blend seamlessly in existing gas infrastructure running throughout the province. As a low carbon substitute, increasing the amount of RNG in the FortisBC natural gas system helps reduce net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions versus conventional natural gas.Biogas is generated as a byproduct of the liquid wastewater treatment process, and some biogas from this facility has been used as a fuel for indoor heating and plant processes for many years. The new facility cleans biogas from the plant using a water-based scrubbing technology that's self-contained to make it pipeline ready for FortisBC's natural gas system."Metro Vancouver and FortisBC both recognize the importance of partnerships and co-investment in the development of projects that support the region's resilience and low-carbon future," said Sav Dhaliwal, Chair of the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors. "This facility will produce enough renewable natural gas to heat more than 600 homes, and we anticipate that production will increase as the region's population grows.""Metro Vancouver will reinvest some of the revenue from the sale of renewable natural gas into projects that will increase the amount of unused biogas available," said Richard Stewart, Chair of the Metro Vancouver Liquid Waste Committee. "This will allow the plant to clean and sell more renewable natural gas in the future, further reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the region."FortisBC is working to source enough carbon-neutral Renewable Natural Gas to make up 15 per cent of its overall natural gas supply by 2030 as part of their 30BY30 target, thereby in a concerted effort to reduce their customers' GHG emissions by 30 per cent by 2030. This is in line with the GHG emissions commitments outlined by the B.C. government in its CleanBC promise."By partnering with government and industry, FortisBC continues to innovate in the renewable gases space," said Joe Mazza, Vice-President of Energy Supply and Resource Development at FortisBC. "We've been delivering renewable natural gas for over a decade and it's an excellent example of a renewable energy that can be delivered through our gas infrastructure."Metro Vancouver and FortisBC have agreed to support four major environmental initiatives:enhancing renewable energy supply and usage, improving local air quality,reducing greenhouse gas emissions in transportation; andsupporting high-performance buildings and industrial facilities through energy efficiency and conservation, renewable gas use and innovation.Metro Vancouver and FortisBC will jointly explore opportunities to collaborate on climate-action initiatives that are effective, ambitious and equitable, while supporting innovation, safety, reliability and affordability.FortisBC's 30BY30 target is to reduce customers' greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent from 2007 levels by the year 2030. Additionally, FortisBC's Clean Growth Pathway to 2050 plan includes further solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and local air pollution through energy efficiency and conservation, investment in electric vehicle infrastructure, the use of natural gas for transportation and liquefied natural gas marine fuelling, in addition to increasing renewable gas supply."Working directly with local governments allows us to help meet the energy needs of our customers in the communities we serve and while harnessing the decarbonization potential of our energy systems," said Doug Slater, Vice-President of External and Indigenous Relations. "The document we've signed with Metro Vancouver sets the stage for us to demonstrate what we can do when we're able to collaborate on emissions reduction, and we look forward to working with Metro Vancouver to meet our shared goals."Metro Vancouver is implementing the Climate 2050 Strategy, which contains a vision of a resilient, carbon-neutral future for the region. This initiative targets a 45-per-cent reduction in regional greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 from 2010 levels, and aims to achieve regional carbon neutrality by 2050."We are committed to reducing emissions and achieving our climate goals of regional carbon neutrality by 2050," said Adriane Carr, Chair of the Metro Vancouver Climate Action Committee. "Renewable natural gas is an innovative energy solution that will help sustain our region's growing population."More information on the Lulu Island Renewable Natural Gas Facility can be found on Metro Vancouver's website. | <urn:uuid:c74a3189-2a7d-4deb-a4e9-aadaca265fb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.metrovancouver.org/media-room/media-releases/liquid-waste/651/Metro%20Vancouver%20and%20FortisBC%20Announce%20Formal%20Collaboration%20on%20Climate%20Action | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.934752 | 938 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Teachings of Joseph Smith, taken from the Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith.
On Experience Through Suffering:
If thou art called to pass through tribulations; if thou art in perils among false brethren; if thou art in perils among robbers; if thou art in perils by land or by sea; if thou art accused with all manner of false accusations; if thine enemies fall upon thee; if they tear thee from the society of thy father and mother and brethren and sisters; and if with a drawn sword thine enemies tear thee from the bosom of thy wife, and of thine offspring, and thine elder son, although but six years of age, shall cling to thy garments, and shall say, My father, my father, why can't you stay with us? O, my father, what are the men going to do with you? and if then he shall be thrust from thee by the sword, and thou be dragged to prison, and thine enemies prowl around thee like wolves for the blood of the lamb; and if thou shouldest be cast into the pit, or into the hands of murderers, and the sentence of death passed upon thee; if thou be cast into the deep, if the billowing surge conspire against thee; if fierce winds become thine enemy; if the heavens gather blackness, and all the elements combine to hedge up the way; and above all, if the very jaws of hell shall gape open the mouth wide after thee, know thou, my son, that all these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. The Son of Man hath descended below them all; art thou greater than he?
On Justice of the Great Lawgiver:
But while one portion of the human race is judging and condemning the other without mercy, the Great Parent of the universe looks upon the whole of the human family with a fatherly care and paternal regard; He views them as His offspring, and without any of those contracted feelings that influence the children of men, causes "His sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." He holds the reins of judgment in His hands; He is a wise Lawgiver, and will judge all men, not according to the narrow, contracted notions of men, but, "according to the deeds done in the body whether they be good or evil," or whether these deeds were done in England, America, Spain, Turkey, or India. He will judge them, "not according to what they have not, but according to what they have," those who have lived without law, will be judged without law, and those who have a law, will be judged by that law. We need not doubt the wisdom and intelligence of the Great Jehovah; He will award judgment or mercy to all nations according to their several deserts, their means of obtaining intelligence, the laws by which they are governed, the facilities afforded them of obtaining correct information, and His inscrutable designs in relation to the human family; and when the designs of God shall be made manifest, and the curtain of futurity be withdrawn, we shall all of us eventually have to confess that the Judge of all the earth has done right.
A majority of the prophecies and revelations that Joseph Smith received are recorded in a book called The Doctrine and Covenants, viewed by the Latter-day Saints as a cannon of scripture.
A Prophecy on the Civil War
One of the more interesting revelations therein, received in 1832, Joseph Smith prophesies of specific events that would later be called the Civil War. As recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants:
Revelation and prophecy on war, given through Joseph Smith, December 25, 1832. History of the Church 1:301-2.
The Word of Wisdom
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls;
2 And the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place.
3 For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations.
4 And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.
5 And it shall come to pass also that the remnants who are left of the land will marshal themselves, and shall become exceedingly angry, and shall vex the Gentiles with a sore vexation.
6 And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightning also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations;
7 That the cry of the saints, and of the blood of the saints, shall cease to come up into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, from the earth, to be avenged of their enemies.
8 Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come; for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord. Amen.
Joseph Smith also received a revelation in 1833 outlining a code of health called the Word of Wisdom. According to a study conducted by the University of California, Los Angeles, LDS Church members who follow the principles contained in the Word of Wisdom have one of the lowest death rates in the United States from cancer and cardiovascular diseases about half that of the general population. | <urn:uuid:8dc83702-209e-4b74-8697-a1dd65fc9369> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pbs.org/americanprophet/prophecies.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00128-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948064 | 1,227 | 2.5625 | 3 |
|Parental Fear Prevents Children Cycling on Roads in England|
|Detail:|| According to a survey conducted by Cycling England, parents are stopping their children cycling to school or using their bikes on roads because of growing concerns about safety. |
Phillip Darnton, chairman of Cycling England, said: "Somewhere along the line our fears for our children's safety have overtaken the reality of on-road accidents, which are in long-term decline. Every parent will want to ensure their children are kept safe, but they can't live out their lives within the shadows of the cul-de-sac, never able to venture further away from home."
According to the survey, most parents began cycling on the roads when they were 10 but do not allow their children to do the same until they are 12. One in three were allowed to cycle to school but only one in five ever allows their children to do the same. More than half of parents used their bike as regular transport when they were school age but 81% ban their children from enjoying the same freedoms.
Most parents said their children did not have the confidence and skills to ride on the road, but just over half said cycle training would make them feel more reassured. Parents cited safety concerns as the most common reason for stopping their children from cycling, yet only 3% knew someone who had had an accident.
Though according to recent transport statistics cyclists killed on the roads fell slightly in 2006 to 146, the number of seriously injured rose by 4% to 2,296. However, total casualties among pedal cyclists fell by 2% to 16,196.
Darnton said: "This research underlines the important role of cycling training in giving children the skills and confidence they need to cycle on the roads, and in giving parents the reassurance that their child is well equipped to do so."
Today, more than a quarter of children are only allowed to cycle with adult supervision, although three-quarters are allowed to cycle for recreation at the weekend or after school. Only one in five are allowed to use their bike to get from A to B during the week.
A separate survey for sustainable transport charity Sustrans, which oversees the 12,000-mile National Cycle Network, found nearly half of all pupils wanted to cycle to school, yet according to the National Travel Survey only 2% of UK schoolchildren actually do.
For the full story see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/may/06/transport.children
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Śrīvatsa Goswāmī of Rādhā-ramaṇa Mandir told me the same as can be read in this article, be it in less detail, in Vṛndāvan in 1985. Śrīvatsa Goswāmī said that Vaiṣṇavas drew tilak on the picture after cutting it out from this painting - they needed a picture for altar worship. Other drawings, of the 6 Goswāmīs, Viśvanātha Cakravartīpāda etc. are also man-made. The link to Jahangir-nama manuscript under the 4th illustration leads to a Columbia.edu webpage that proves the painting is of the court of Jahangir. Jahangir was born in 1569, some 15 years after Rūpa Goswāmī left this world. That is certain proof that the person depicted there is not Rūpa Goswāmī. | <urn:uuid:9fa9944e-5eeb-459c-bb9d-49b734d2039a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://madangopal.blogspot.com/2016/05/rupa-or-jadrup.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00303-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931314 | 211 | 2.140625 | 2 |
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
-Ken Olson, President, Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
The New York Yankees" Yogi Berra once said, "It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." In few industries has this been more obvious than with the Internet.
Think back just a few years ago: Microsoft was preparing to roll out a heralded online service called Microsoft Network (MSN). Computer magazines were filled with sound and fury about the danger, inevitability or both of Microsoft becoming the Internet's emperor. In Washington, leaders huffed and puffed and the U.S. Justice Department went to the brink of major anti-trust action to force Microsoft to separate MSN from its Windows software.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the company's Internet coronation.
To paraphrase an old line, Microsoft gave a party and no one came. Today, after billions of dollars invested, MSN has a consumer base of only about 1.5 million. By contrast, America Online signed up almost that many subscribers in the last quarter alone.
Speaking of America Online, just a few years ago, when the nation was just being introduced to the glories of the Internet, people were actually predicting AOL's demise. With so much free information available on the Internet, many thought that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like AOL that made money by charging for such services would whither on the vine and die.
Investors certainly feared this and AOL's stock price tumbled $75 to about $22 per share. But reports of AOL's death were quite premature: the company is now the undisputed online Internet king with more than 17 million subscribers. And AOL's stock rebounded too: A $10,000 investment in the company made just five years ago is now worth over $1.3 million.
The latest Internet craze is the hand-wringing surrounding AT&T's recent offer to buy the MediaOne cable company. With AT&T's recent acquisition of TCI, it now has a formidable platform to sell consumers a range of communications products, including local phone service and high-speed Internet access.
This has some observers singing an apocalyptic tune that AT&T will acquire a "stranglehold" over high-speed Internet access.
Such statements would be downright hilarious if not for one problem: they are attracting the attention of some lawmakers whose desire to regulate the economy is superceded only by their desire to appear on television talking about their desire to regulate the economy.
When AT&T announced that MediaOne had accepted its offer, faster than you can say "C-SPAN," Congressional chairmen announced hearings and issued press releases.
Since the Internet moves at the speed of light and Congress moves at the speed of -- well, a frog on Valium -- someone needs to make a very simple and obvious point to our learned leaders: stop hyperventilating and take a look at the reality of fast Internet service today.
Competition to create high-speed Internet services is perhaps the purest form of free enterprise today. Telephone and cable companies are scrambling to create high-speed access via the cable wire. Bell companies such as US West have unveiled fast digital line service.
Utility companies are in partnerships to use the electrical cable into Americans' homes as a "hot wire" for the Internet. And electronics firms such as Hughes have teamed up with America Online to create fast access service via satellites.
This competition guarantees consumers will have a variety of choices in the coming years and at reasonable prices too. For example, US West, mindful of its emerging competition, recently slashed the monthly service price of its digital line service from $60 to $40.
The next time you hear a siren call warning about an oncoming monopoly by any company in any area of the Internet, relax. The laws of economics and, more importantly, the laws of common-sense tell us that such a scenario is not going to happen.
And the next time you cruise the Information Superhighway, be sure to look in your rear-view mirror. There are no wrecks as far as the eye can see. MSN's dominance, AOL's death, the supremacy of "push" technology across the Internet all the wrecks predicted in the months and years past -- never occurred.
The Internet road is clear. Let's just hope lawmakers have the good sense
to let the traffic flow smoothly on its own.
David A. Ridenour is Vice President of The National Center for Public
Policy Research, a Washington, D.C. think tank, where he oversees the group's
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PhytlSigns lets you tune in to ‘plant-talk’
We humans are a communicative species – we simply cannot make do without keeping in touch with one another, be it through conversation or even sign language. How about nature, then? Surely there are many examples of how the animal kingdom chatters with one another, but in the realm of plants? There might not be any kind of Poison Ivy-like powers amongst us humans that lets us “talk” to plants, but how about a new kind of technology that claims to let us eavesdrop on what these leaves-endowed friends of ours chit chat about? Thanks to PhytlSigns, this is an innovative and unique piece of wearable technology for plants, where it happens to be a plant monitor unlike any other as it specifically listens in to what the plant itself is communicating as opposed to mundane tasks such as keeping track of the surrounding air temperature or the soil around it.
PhytlSigns was recently trialled, and it is available via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter. You can always “invest” in a super early bird pledge of US$135 so that you will end up with first mover advantage (and of course, bragging rights) when it comes to making use of the PhytlSigns in order to digitally connect with your plants. How does PhytlSigns work? The answer is simple – through the amplifying of the electrical signals that plants use to communicate internally, so that we humans, for the very first time, can hear them. Yes, literally hear them thanks to a speaker that is attached to the device, and through their language of electrical signals, you can figure out how they are reacting to their environment.
Nigel Wallbridge, Tech entrepreneur and co-founder of Vivent Sárl, which is the company behind PhytlSigns, said, “By analysing the signals our plants are emitting we can start to unlock the messages within them, and ultimately – decode the language of plants. Is a plant under attack from pests? Does it need water? Understanding what our plants are saying is exciting for everyone – from those who would like to take better care of their plants, to those interested in the environment, sustainability, the future of food production and open agriculture… the possibilities are far reaching.” Definitely an interesting addition to any home, don’t you agree? | <urn:uuid:b8bfe0a2-04bc-494d-957c-a809d98b6bf1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20160704/phytlsigns-lets-tune-planttalk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00026-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959504 | 497 | 2 | 2 |
Construction workers repairing a leaky water pipe at a corner of the Massachusetts State House have unearthed a time capsule that is dated to have been buried in 1795 by patriots Samuel Adams and Paul Revere. The time capsule was buried over two centuries ago by the patriots at a corner of the MSH when construction started on the building in 1795.
A time capsule is a container for preserving historical records to be discovered as some future time – and now it has been discovered for the second time in 2014 after its first discovery and reburial in 1855. A local expert from the Museum of Fine Arts painstakingly chipped away at the cornerstone where the time capsule was buried in order to unearth it without doing harm to it.
“What we know the box contains, based on the notes that we have, is a Paul Revere plate, papers, and coins from the 1600s,” said William Galvin, Massachusetts Secretary of State and head of the state’s historical commission. “It may contain other stuff too, we don’t know that yet.”
He said his commission will reveal the preserved contents of the time capsule to the public after it has been thoroughly examined and x-rayed by museum staff. “The contents are of concern, but the plaster that held the box in place is in good condition,” Galvin said.
Since the time capsule was accidently discovered and unearthed in 1855 during an emergency repairs to the State House, it was reburied back at the cornerstone after the handlers took extra care to ensure that it was properly secured.
“There were some coins that were tossed in the 1855 ceremony in the mix of the mortar. They are in good condition so we are optimistic that the box itself has withstood the test of time and that it will therefore be holding the contents securely,” Galvin said.
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“”The steward of the senate, named Gering; old Mrs. Kanzler; the tailor's fat wife; the woman cook of Mr. Mengerdorf; a stranger; a strange woman; Baunach, a senator, the fattest citizen in Würzburg; the old smith of the court; an old woman; a little girl, nine or ten years old; a younger girl, her little sister; the mother of the two little aforementioned girls; Liebler's daughter; Goebel's child, the most beautiful girl in Würzburg; a student who knew many languages; two boys from the Minster, each twelve years old; Stepper's little daughter; the woman who kept the bridge gate; an old woman; the little son of the town council bailiff; the wife of Knertz, the butcher; the infant daughter of Dr. Sculz; a blind girl; Schwarz, canon at Hach...
|—Chronicle of people executed as witches in the city of Würzburg in the year 1598|
These witch-hunts occurred during the Renaissance and early modern period, between the 15th and 16th centuries, and peaking during the early 17th centuries - a period of time which corresponds almost directly with the Reformation. (Thus, contrary to popular imagination, they occurred not in the Middle Ages but in the historical periods that followed it.) With religious schisms affecting many countries, as well as assorted territorial or dynastic wars, uncertainty and paranoia were rife within society, as was religious zealotry and hysteria. Both Catholic and Protestant (especially the Puritan varieties) theologies of this era emphasized the power of Satan and the threat he posed. The concept of the witch as not simply a local healer or sorceress, but a tool of the Devil, corrupted by demons, arose within this atmosphere, and the witch-hunters regularly cited the exhortation in Exodus 22:18, translated in the King James Bible as "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."
Between 40,000 and 60,000 "witches" were killed during the European witch-hunts, most of them innocent women, including "strange old widows," handicapped persons, simpletons, and mentally ill people. For those women who were skilled as midwives or other healers, this was often a sure claim for execution. However, while most of the victims were women, men weren't exempt from the witch trials either, as this was also was a convenient time for someone to "take care of" the neighboring priest, one's business rivals, someone that had "dirt" on a high official, or someone who just plain pissed them off by having them dragged before the court on charges of witchcraft. In much of Europe, a practice was followed of dividing the estate of the condemned witch between their accuser and any official involved, and so in many cases there was also a financial motive behind accusations of witchcraft.
A number of esoteric and bizarre beliefs and superstitions arose surrounding witches and their habits and abilities, varying from one country to another. In English witchcraft trials, a common feature was the concept of the "familiar," a demon appointed by Satan to aid witches in their mischief, which took the form of an animal. Naturally, any pet or livestock kept by an accused witch, or any animal discovered nearby, would be regarded as the witch's familiar. It was also commonly believed that witches themselves could transform into animals. Thus many witchcraft trials also involved accusations of being werewolves, since it was then portrayed as a voluntary transformation undergone by a witch or warlock in league with Satan, rather than an involuntary condition they had no control over, as modern films and literature would have it.
Trial and execution
Acquittals were common in peaceful times and places, but during the more frenzied witch-hunts, a mere accusation of witchcraft was often enough to have that person killed. Upon the arrest of one "witch," they would be interrogated and expected to supply the names of other "witches" as it was generally supposed that all witches attended coven meetings (sometimes known as "sabbats"). As torture was commonly used in these interrogations, such names would usually be forthcoming and those accused would be arrested.
Under some countries' laws, there could only be one period of torture, but the period could be adjourned as often as necessary. In practice, this meant that the prohibition on multiple periods of torture was uniformly ignored. Where the accused was subjected to the lesser tortures in a witch-hunter's arsenal or where torture did not draw blood, a confession would often be recorded as "without torture" as these tortures were considered mild compared to what the witch-hunters could have inflicted. Such "mild" tortures were also often referred to as "relaxing" the accused. Even in countries which had formally abolished torture, such as England after 1628, exceptions such as sleep deprivation and forced continuous walking around a cell were made for witches, as it was believed that physical exhaustion would cause the witch to call her familiar.
Although witches were usually tried before execution, the trial would not always follow any accepted practice of law, as witchcraft was viewed as a "crimen exceptum", one so atrocious the state suspended the ordinary legal process (itself not always much protection) . While a counsel for the defense was allowed, he stood the risk of being accused himself if he defended the accused "unduly". Hearsay evidence was permissible, evidence did not have to be disclosed, nor did the identity of the accuser. Indeed, the Malleus Maleficarum ("The Hammer Against Witches", a treatise written by Catholic Inquisitors in 1486) advises that, if the accused asks who has accused her, she should be told that "she knows very well whom she has bewitched". Officials were allowed and encouraged to lie to the accused (such as promising mercy when none would be forthcoming). The Malleus Maleficarum, like most such texts, assumes that the fact of accusation is, in itself, proof of guilt.
Trials by ordeal were also common, and often fatal, the most famous example being to throw the accused, whose hands and legs were tied with ropes, into a river. If the accused stayed underwater, they would be considered innocent and pulled up (however, this often did not occur in time, as they waited to make sure the accused was not coming up, and thus many drowned). If she managed to float, this would be seen as a sign of supernatural powers, and she would be considered guilty of witchcraft. Additionally "It became well known that, if the poor victim was laid out 'flat on their back and [holding] up their feet with a string' then 'the forepart will not sink'" i.e., those conducting the ordeal could "prove" the accused guilty just by positioning them this way.
Physical deformities or anomalies were often considered to be occult and played a part in witch trials. In English folklore, witches were believed to have a "third teat", used for suckling their familiar, which could be located anywhere on their bodies. In reality, this meant that any mole, growth, birthmark, wart, or even a swollen clitoris might be regarded as the witch's third teat and hence a sign of guilt.
In the Catholic nations of Europe, where laws were heavily influenced by ecclesiastical doctrine, witches were usually burnt to death, a method of execution otherwise used only for heretics, since the flames were believed to have a purifying and exorcistic effect on the corrupted soul. In some Protestant nations with a greater reliance on common law, especially England, hanging was the usual punishment. The witches convicted at the Puritan English colony of Salem in Massachusetts during 1692-3, which were among the last witch trials of this era, were also hanged.
Place in feminist pseudohistory
- See the Wikipedia article on Feminist interpretations of the Early Modern witch trials.
Unfortunately, this admittedly awful time has been stretched and mangled into the central narrative for a particular pseudohistory promoted by many neopagan "writers" as well as some feminists influenced by goddess pseudoscholarship. In particular, they tend to inflate the number killed (some claiming that up to 9 million died), and also like to claim that all of those killed were in fact followers of the "Old Religion," often depicted as a prehistoric matriarchal religion that the nasty patriarchal Christians were trying to destroy. This claim has been debunked many times over again, and yet it continues to pop up every so often.
Another misleading claim is that the witch hunts were a "women's holocaust." While the hunts were driven in large part by sexism, one estimate places men as the victims in about 15% of cases. Accusations of witchcraft based on gender varied by location, with witch-hunts in western Europe largely targeting women and those on the European periphery also commonly targeting men (Scandinavia and Russia being prime examples).
Other famous witch-hunts
Witch-hunts are a phenomenon that can happen in almost any culture. They can be used to explain why bad things happen to good people and, more importantly, "Who can we blame?"
In many cases, even on a local scale, a "witch-hunt" becomes a frenzy of people naming victims, evidence without merit, trials without evidence, convictions without trials, and executions without convictions.
- Salem witch trials
- McCarthyism and the communist scare
- The Night of the Long Knives — Adolf Hitler's purge of dissidents within the Nazi party.
- The Satanic Panic of the 1980s and early 1990s is a textbook example of this phenomenon, aggravated by the modern mass media. The death-count was thankfully low, as the modern US punishes witches with jail time rather than burning at the stake.
- Famous on RationalWiki: The Night of the Blunt Knives
- The political purge of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan following the coup attempt in 2016
See also
Further reading
- Aldous Huxley's 1952 history The Devils of Loudun, which examines how accusations of black magic and witchcraft were used as political tools.
- The Witch Hunts (A.D. 1400-1800), Prof. Pavlac's Women's History Site
- Case Study: The European Witch-Hunts, c. 1450-1750, and Witch-Hunts Today, Adam Jones, Gendercide Watch
- Historians and Scholars Produce New Picture of Witches and Witch Hunts, but Questions Remain, Peter Steinfels, The New York Times, 22 October 2005
- ↑ As quoted in Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World, Chapter 7
- ↑ http://www.foxearth.org.uk/SwimmingOfWitches.html
- ↑ The history of the "nine million" estimate (originally given by Gottfried Christian Voigt) was researched by Wolfgang Behringer: Neun Millionen Hexen. Enstehung, Tradition und Kritik eines populären Mythos, in: Geschichte in Wissenschaft und Unterricht 49. 1987, pp. 664–685, extensive summary here
- ↑ How Many Witches?
- ↑ Wolfgang Behringer. Withces and witch-hunts: A global history, p. 39
- ↑ Valerie A. Kivelson. Male witches and gendered categories in seventeenth century Russia. Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 45, No. 3, Jul., 2003.
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If you’re a homeowner, then you understand the importance of keeping it safe. Nothing is worse than having your home destroyed or ruined. Read this article for tips on to take better care of your home.
Turn the ringers off on your telephone if you are going to be away. A constantly ringing phone which rings forever is a sign to burglars that you are not home and could increase the chances of you getting robbed.
Don’t let strangers access to your house. Even if the person has a compelling story, requires help or has a great product to sell, ignore them. This person might just be casing the first rule of keeping your home security equipment.
Keeping your car inside will deter thieves from stealing or harming it. This can also make it more difficult for burglars to track when you away from home.
Most break-ins and burglaries occur because a door left open and an intruder just walks in. It does not take long time for a robber to pilfer items worth thousands of dollars.
Replace all locks in your newly purchased home. Although you may trust the previous homeowner, you really have no clue as to who they really are.
Replace rotted wood surrounding your door frames. An intruder can simply pry the rotten wood easily to open the door.Replace rotting wood with fresh wood to keep your home safer.
If you move into a home or apartment that has been previously lived in, make sure you get the locks changed. The person who used to live there may still have made some copies of the key. You might even purchase and install your own locks yourself to make sure you’re the only keys.
Having light on in your home at night is a good way to scare crooks away. They do not want to avoid being seen. Keep your home to be secure.
Ask about the history of any home security company how long they have been in business before you are considering. A company that’s been around for a long history has proven that their service is reliable. Knowing you are dealing with a shady company can keep you extra peace of mind when making this important decision.
Although automated electronic systems are powerful, not everybody needs them. In some neighborhoods, you might be better off taking a self defense class or owning a dog, while in others, an advanced home security system will fit the bill. Know what you can make a better decision.
Think about a wireless security system for the home installed. A wired system is probably less expensive, but they can require extensive rewiring work and may be rendered useless if the power fails.
Thieves can often be found looking through garbage cans in search of personal information to figure out your schedule and determine the best time to break in. You could also simply take care to tear papers with personal information into small bits before you discard them.
If you are out of town for awhile, have them check for fliers on your door. Thieves sometimes place fliers on front doors and then wait to see if people are home to take them down.
Ask about different contract durations that your home security company may offer. Each probably has its advantages and disadvantages. Longer contracts may create a lower bill per month, but you may not be able to get out of the contract if you need to. Shorter contracts may offer greater freedom along with higher costs.
Ask the company if they offer options to lease or buy your security equipment. Buying the equipment might cost more up front, but will save you a monthly bill. Leasing is often less expensive, but it comes with strings attached through contracts or continuing fees and charges. Look at both choices to know which one is better for your personal circumstances.
You should not keep your car registration documents inside the glove compartment. This is not wise since anybody who has access to them is going to know your address. Keep them on you or hide them elsewhere.You must have this information on hand if you should be pulled over.
Ask your security company if they’re currently offering an motion sensitive lighting. This provides added security when you from having unwanted guests enter the premises and can be a great burglar deterrent.
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Twins and their families are at the heart of all that we do. We are dedicated to twin research and supporting twins to live happy and healthy lives - from newborns to twins of all ages, identical and non-identical. Please let us know how we can help you:
It doesn't matter how old you are, or if you are identical or non-identical, same-sex or opposite sex twins, well or ill - all are welcome to join us. Twins can be registered as soon as they are born (and up to the age of 18 - after which they can register themselves) by their parents.
Why are twins so important to research? By studying the differences and similarities between both identical and non-identical twins, researchers are able to to tease apart the effects of nature (genetics) and nurture (environment) on our health and wellbeing.
Our studies look at medical conditions that can affect anyone, such as cancer and diabetes, as well as issues of specific concern to multiple-birth families such as premature birth and twin social and educational development.
By joining us, you become part of something bigger - an amazing Australia-wide community of over 75,000 twins and their families joining forces to make a difference. Membership is free and designed to help twins to thrive, connect and belong.
As a member of Twins Research Australia, there are many ways for you to get involved: from joining a study, attending a forum or media event, to helping with fundraising. Even if you only have a few minutes to spare, you can make a valued contribution.
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Identical twins occur when one fertilised embryo splits to form two individuals.
Identical twins are genetically the same; however, this does not mean that everything about them will be exactly the same. For example, while the fingerprints of identical twins are more alike than the prints of two completely unrelated people, they are not identical.
Identical twins are always the same sex; they usually are the same height, weight and have similar hair color. In relation to the genetic differences in MZ twins, different genes can be turned on or off which is why one identical twin may have a condition or disease that the other doesn’t. The differences are due to a number of natural chemical modifications that can influence changes to DNA – called epigenetics. Researchers have found that epigenetic changes in twins' genomes (their entire hereditary information) increase as the twins' age and become greater the longer they live apart. Common differences relate to features such as birthmarks, moles, hair patterns and teeth development. Aside from physical differences, there can be even greater differences in their personalities.
Non-identical twins occur when two separate eggs are released by the mother at the same time and are fertilised by two different sperm. These two fertilised eggs then implant independently in the uterus. DZ twins are genetically similar – just like normal brothers/sisters/siblings in that they share approximately 50% of their genetic material. DZ twins are still very special because they share the same womb and have very similar environments as they grow throughout life. | <urn:uuid:c4b98b5a-f8d7-4a81-97e7-6064947b447d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twins.org.au/component/content/?id=9:expecting-twins&catid=29&Itemid=113 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.96406 | 1,116 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Wells in Somerset is an ancient cathedral city in the picturesque district of Mendip, set in the heart of rural Somerset. It is known as England’s smallest city – the 2011 census recorded a population of 10,536 (4,882 males & 5,654 females).
The beautiful city of Wells is named after the springs (or wells) which rise within the grounds of the Bishop’s Palace. The medieval lanes within the city contain original unspoilt buildings, while the water supply, granted by Bishop Bekynton to the town in 1451, still gurgles down the sides of the High Street. Wells City Council is housed in the lovely Grade II listed Town Hall, (a popular venue for weddings and events) close to the stunning moated Bishop’s Palace and iconic Wells Cathedral. Bustling markets are held twice weekly in the historic Market Place, continuing a tradition dating back nearly 900 years, to when Wells was granted weekly markets in the city’s first charter. The City of Wells is twinned with Paray-Le-Monial, France; Bad Durkheim, Germany and Fontanellato, Italy.
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Wells Town Hall is a wonderful venue set in the heart of Somerset and is suitable for weddings, marriages and civil ceremonies. It can host anything from a small intimate affair in the Mayor’s Parlour for 18, to a large glamorous wedding reception for up to 180 guests.
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The Somerset Farmers Market takes place every Wednesday in the market place all year round. You can buy lots of varied fresh local seasonal produce including fruit, vegetables, cheese, fish and meat from many different stalls at an affordable price.
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Managers of small teams have the advantage of getting to know their employees on a more personal level since there are so few of them. A small team manager needs to be directly involved with keeping all team members motivated instead of leaving the task to the company at large. Keeping any team motivated is beneficial for both employees and managers. Here are some easy ways in which one can motivate a small team:
Visibly show recognition for hard work
In every company there are inherent types of recognition that employees receive in the form of healthcare benefits, yearly company awards, flexible work hours and so forth. This inherent recognition should not be the only type your team sees. Employees need to know their importance and how valuable they are. Get to know what type of recognition each employee responds to the best as not every person is the same. Some experts have come across the 50/30/20 rule of recognition. 30% of recognition should come from peers, 20% should come from the company itself and the remaining 50% from the manager. Recognition from the manager is especially valuable because this is the person that employees are most likely aiming to please and who hands down promotions. It stands to reason then that he or she should also be the one handing out praise for hard work.
One of the simplest ways to hand out recognition is to provide opportunities. Opportunities do not have to involve money or be linked to money. Opportunities can come in the form of providing an employee with the chance to take control of a very important customer profile or giving an introduction to an influential person in the company or industry.
Happy employees always equal productive employees. Making sure that each team member knows how important they are to the success of a project is essential to creating this happiness.
Know what serves as demotivation and what does not
There is a misconception that money is a big issue when it comes to motivation. In fact, it is the lack of money that serves as a demotivator. If giving more money is not an option, find out what things you need to avoid in order to keep motivation levels high.
The underutilisation of individuals can be a big demotivational factor. Underutilisation occurs when people are not allowed to apply their abilities to the fullest. Also, when employees are not being involved in decision-making processes it can make them feel powerless and mistrusted by their seniors. Focus especially on giving access to decision-making that centres around how an individual can get work done more efficiently as it provides a sense of control.
There is also such a thing as an employee that has too little stress. Too much stress can be paralysing and lead to ineffective work, but too little stress can cause procrastination, sloth like behaviour and a sense of entitlement. Aim to find a happy medium between the two.
If one works extremely hard on a project but see no results, it can also be demotivating. Provide opportunities for employees to be involved in work that has tangible results. Even if tangible results are not possible due to the type of project the person was involved with, make sure the individual knows what effect their work had on what was achieved by providing demonstrations or examples of the result.
Involvement is key
Some of the things that can serve as motivation to team members is being able to express creativity through new ideas and being involved with challenging projects. There are many ways in which you can help achieve these two things. The main way is to always involve all employees in processes. Ask employees how they want to do their work. This helps employees feel empowered and thus more likely to be loyal. Hearing each employee’s different viewpoint on how they can do their work in the best way possible, based on personal experience, can be a learning curve for you as a manager and improve processes in the future.
Try to get employees to provide solutions instead of only focusing on the problems. If employees are forced to focus on solutions, it helps them to employ their creativity. Also, by moving the focus away from problems there is less chance that employees will become negative about their work.
Meet with employees on a regular basis to explain strategic decisions being made within the company in a free and open way. This way they feel more invested in the company and in turn more motivated to do what is best for the company. It will also help to increase engagement from employees when it is time to execute the decisions that have been made – a win-win situation for both employee and manager. | <urn:uuid:fea43f7a-2e13-40d4-9cf0-a3d5628641a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.onsightapp.com/blog/creating-motivation-small-team | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.973786 | 913 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Natural Heritage of the River Liffey
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The natural heritage of the River Liffey is an integral part of its story. It encompasses the physical geography, ecology and biodiversity along the river. All of these facets of the Liffey are significant in their own right. They have also played no small part in influencing human activity and built heritage along the river. The natural heritage of the River Liffey changes greatly as it makes its way from the Wicklow Mountains to Dublin Bay.
Click on an audio clips to the right to find out more River Liffey Stories about Glaciation; Fish Life and Water Quality.
The source of the river is in an area of blanket bog in the Wicklow Mountains known as the Liffey Head bog. Blanket Bogs cover much of the upland areas of Ireland, include vast stretches of the Wicklow Mountains. Here the covering of peat which has built up over thousands of years is about two metres thick. The main plant species in this area are heathers, mosses and bog cotton and the process of peat formation is still taking place as here as these plants decay. Bog cotton produces white tufts each summer from which it gets its name. The bog is home to the Red Grouse, a rare and endangered species of bird.
The Wicklow Mountains as a whole is home to an estimated 15,000 wild deer and these shy creatures can sometimes be spotted close to the river. Many of them are hybrids due to the interbreeding of the native Irish red deer with the sika deer that were introduced from Japan in the 19th century.
Eels & Other Fish Life
The waters of the Liffey form an important habitat for a variety of birds and fish. The most prominent fish species are salmon and eels. Each year, salmon enter the Liffey from the sea and swim upstream to spawn in the upper reaches of the river and its tributaries. A special shaft was constructed within the dam at Leixlip that allows the fish to negotiate their way upstream. Once they hatch, the young salmon commence a long journey in the opposite direction to the waters of the Atlantic where they feed before returning again to complete the cycle. However, they have never been able to penetrate above Poulaphuca and are not found in the upper reaches of the river.
Eels undertake the same migratory process in reverse. They breed in the Sargasso Sea at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean and swim across to take up residence in the Liffey. Most stay in the lower reaches around Dublin but some of the more adventurous ones have been known to negotiate the weirs and head upstream.
The River Liffey was the subject of an important study of trout carried out in the 1930s by Dr. Rowland Southern and Dr. Winifred Frost. They showed that trout in the alkaline waters of the Liffey, where the river flows over limestone, grow to a larger size than trout in the more acidic waters of the upland areas. Ballysmuttan in Wicklow and Straffan in Kildare were the two main sites on the Liffey where this study was conducted. Blessington Lake and Leixlip Reservoir are the two most popular angling spots along the Liffey. Trout, pike and perch are amongst the species found here. Unfortunately, trout numbers in Blessington Lake have been adversely affected by the presence of pike and perch.
Bird Life at Blessington Lakes
Blessington Lake’s importance for birds has been recognised by its designation as a Special Protection Area and a Wildfowl Sanctuary. It is home to a number of birds who migrate here from the north during the winter months. Of particular note is the colony of Greylag Geese, a species that has been declining in Ireland in recent decades but is flourishing at Blessington. Other notable bird species are the Crested Grebe and the Lesser Black-backed Gull. More common birds like Mallard, Teal, Mute Swan, Whooper Swan and Cormorant also occupy the lake and feed on the surrounding grassland. Another bird present on the lake but found right along the River Liffey is the Grey Heron, which can be spotted standing silently in the waters waiting for the opportunity to catch fish. Much smaller than the heron is the brilliant blue kingfisher which nests along the riverbanks. It can sometimes be seen close to the bridge in Newbridge. | <urn:uuid:60f43345-fd46-43ea-ab97-0e5f4930fd8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heritage.wicklowheritage.org/places/river_liffey_heritage_project-2/the_natural_beauty_of_the_river_liffey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.957724 | 981 | 3.640625 | 4 |
Beyond shopping and jobs, loss of Bon-Ton hits charities, civic events, related businesses
While customers of Bon-Ton Stores Inc. lament losing the availability of its merchandise, local business and civic leaders have been assessing what the disappearance of Bon-Ton from Milwaukee will mean for the community and charities.
It's going to sting.
Boston Store locations and more than 200 other department stores owned by Bon-Ton are in liquidation after being sold in a bankruptcy auction April 18. The pending shutdown of Bon-Ton means Milwaukee will lose another company headquarters, and with it, more than 700 jobs downtown. Statewide, in excess of 2,200 Bon-Ton jobs will be lost.
That creates a domino effect.
Most obvious, a generous corporate citizen will be erased from the civic landscape. Over the years, Bon-Ton has been a huge corporate sponsor of Boys & Girls Clubs, breast cancer research and other causes.
Beyond that, its department store chains won't advertise in local media and won't bring in shoppers who also patronize adjacent stores. Its employees won't head to nearby restaurants for a meal, might not be able to maintain their own private level of giving, won't necessarily even live in the community anymore.
"We’re most concerned about the 2,200 employees in the state of Wisconsin that won’t have employment — that’s first and foremost,” said Mary Lou Young, chief executive officer of the United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County. “But I’m not going to kid you. This is going to be a big hit for the United Way and a big hit for our community. We will miss having them as a corporate partner.”
Often when a city loses a corporate headquarters, it’s because that business was acquired or merged into another company. That leaves the door open for charitable organizations to maintain or establish partnerships with the new leaders. The acquisition of Marshall & Ilsley Corp. by BMO Financial Group, Bucyrus International Inc. by Caterpillar Inc., and Journal Media Group by Gannett Co. Inc. are examples over the past decade.
But the complete shutdown of Bon-Ton offers no such opportunity.
Overall giving to the United Way from Bon-Ton amounted to $589,000 in 2017, which was down from a peak of $826,000 in 2015 but still a large contribution, Young said. The company also was a sponsor of special fundraising events.
“There’s a loss of revenue for the community, and it’s frankly going to hurt,” she said. “Bon-Ton has been a great corporate partner. They’ve dedicated a lot of their staff, time and talent. Their employees have been wonderful contributors.”
Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin Inc. also stands to take a hit from Bon-Ton’s closing.
For more than two decades, customers of Boston Store have been bringing used clothing, textiles and household items to the retailer twice a year and exchanging them for coupons that earned discounts on new apparel and other products.
That second-hand merchandise, in turn, was sold in Goodwill stores, with money from the sales going toward employment training, skills development, education and job placement for people in local communities.
The semi-annual Bon-Ton Goodwill Sale, which started in Milwaukee and spread to all department stores of Bon-Ton, had become an important fundraiser for the charitable organization. Last spring alone, it generated $564,000 in cash donations and 1.4 million pounds of second-hand clothes and items.
“I think the loss of Bon-Ton and Boston Store to this region will be significant,” said Pat Boelter, chief marketing officer for Goodwill Industries of Southeastern Wisconsin. “Besides the large number of individuals who will be displaced by the closing, Boston Store has a far-reaching impact on the local economy, and its closing will certainly have ripple effects on many organizations, as it will have on Goodwill.”
A surprise, no matter what
Although the financial woes of Bon-Ton, which hadn't been profitable since 2010, were reported for years as more consumers shopped online and fewer consumers went to malls, the sight of “Going Out of Business” signs in the windows of Boston Store locations around metro Milwaukee has been doleful — if not jarring — for longtime customers.
In recent years, Bon-Ton tried to draw additional customers into stores by adding furniture departments to more locations and establishing “Close to Home” departments that featured products made by local people or locally themed merchandise. While those moves gained some traction, it wasn’t enough to generate the kind of sales that could get the company out of its deep financial hole.
“I don’t think we could say it caught people by surprise,” said Beth Weirick, chief executive of Milwaukee Downtown Business Improvement District No. 21. “I think we’re all sad.”
Some Bon-Ton employees were patrons of the Grand Avenue mall food court and other businesses on the west end of downtown Milwaukee. Its corporate headquarters — it also has a co-corporate headquarters in York, Pa. — is located in offices above the Boston Store at 331 W. Wisconsin Ave.
The end of Bon-Ton also will hurt media revenue in cities where its stores have been located. Bon-Ton was a consistent advertiser with local broadcasters and daily newspapers like the Journal Sentinel.
“I think there’s no good spin to put on the loss of a corporate headquarters,” said Tim Sheehy, president of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce.
Losing top executives can be particularly noticeable.
“When you lose a corporate headquarters, you lose a lot of higher-income earners who have disposable income to give to charitable organizations to spend in the community,” Sheehy said.
Sheehy said Bon-Ton "is a vivid casualty of the war for the consumer and the online shopping vs. in-store shopping.”
He noted that while the changing shopping habits of consumers helped contribute to the death of Bon-Ton, the trend toward e-commerce has resulted in southeast Wisconsin job creation with facilities by online retailer Amazon.com in Kenosha.
“I don’t think it’s quite a mirror image, but it clearly is the flip side of the war for the consumer,” Sheehy said.
He said southeast Wisconsin still is home to 16 Fortune 1000 companies — based on annual revenue — such as Johnson Controls Inc, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., Kohl’s Corp. and Rockwell Automation Inc.
But there's no getting around the whack that losing Bon-Ton will deliver to metro Milwaukee.
"I had hoped they would be able to change their retail model and somehow or other be able to figure out what that would look like going forward and they'd be able to stay," said United Way's Young.
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Akhenaten and el-Amarna The King's Lost City
When Amenhotep IV became king of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty, he broke with religious and political tradition. Amenhotep IV rejected most Egyptian gods, especially the state god Amun. Instead, the new king worshipped the sun as a creative force called the Aten, and he changed his name to Akhenaten in honour of this god.
Akhenaten's religious changes led to political upheaval, because the old cult of Amun was based at Egypt's capital city, Thebes. To break the power of Amun's priests, Akhenaten founded a new capital city in the desert 200 miles north of Thebes. He called the city 'Akhetaten', meaning 'the Horizon of the Aten'. It is known today by the Arabic name, el-Amarna.
Akhenaten, his wife Nefertiti, and their daughters lived in vast palaces at el-Amarna and worshipped the Aten in open-air temples. After Akhenaten's death, however, the Aten religion began to fade. The new king of Egypt was a boy named Tutankhaten, married to Akhenaten's daughter. Tutankhamen returned to Thebes and re-instated the worship of Amun. He rejected the Aten and symbolized this action by taking a new name, Tutankhamen.
Twenty years after it was founded, the city of el-Amarna was abandoned.
Pottery, sculpture, painted floors, and faience decorations were left
behind as people moved away, When British archaeologists began to
excavate the site in the 1800s, they found a wealth of material that
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Ewan and Otley looking out at our local pond, June 2012
Welcome to the July edition of Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival: Pets and children.
This post was written for inclusion in the monthly Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival hosted by The Positive Parenting Connection and Authentic Parenting. This month our participants are sharing their thoughts and experiences with pets and children! Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants.
A game of fetch
My toddler son squeals with delight as his two favourite dogs wildly whirl round him and away, racing blissfully together at top speed around the pond. Ewan, a twinkle in his eye, shouts at the top of his lungs ‘Otley!’, ‘Eva!’ as he throws a stick for them, commanding them to play fetch. He attempts to chase after them, unperturbed by their agility and speed. This is a typical walk for my son, who absolutely adores dogs.
A member of the family
Without fail, whenever I tell Ewan his grandparents are visiting, he reminds me that we shall also be seeing their blue merle Border Collie dog, Otley, as important a member of the family as the people in it. From the moment Ewan became aware of his surroundings, he has interacted with my parent’s dog, stroking him, throwing balls and sticks for him, chasing him, going on walks with him and calling him. He has a similar relationship with our neighbour’s dog, a Labradoodle called Eva. Almost every day he will come into contact with one or both of these dogs, which undoubtedly adds joy to my son’s life, as well as offering him lessons in how to care for another living being.
A childhood of pets
I have always been an animal lover. As a child I joined the RSPCA’s children’s group ‘Animal Action’, sending in pictures of my various pets to their magazine. I was very fortunate to be surrounded by pets, owning a rabbit, three guinea pigs, two gerbils and a series of cats, but was desperate to own a dog, dreaming about the ways I would take him for walks, pet and train him. At the age of fourteen my parents bought Oscar, an eight week old blue merle border collie, the predecessor of Otley. He soon became an integral member of our family, a beautiful, sensitive and very much loved family pet who lived for fourteen years.
I look back fondly at all those happy years growing up with pets. However, they brought so much more than happiness, teaching me to love and care for other living creatures, to appreciate and respond to the needs of animals and of humans. Not only that, I learnt the value of living with a creature who could not talk, but communicated in other ways; for instance, whenever I was upset Oscar senses this, nuzzling up to me, offering quiet, loving support by simply being present. For a teenager growing up in an often bewildering world, he offered an irreplaceable love and loyalty no human could give.
My love of going for walks developed because of Oscar, as I discovered great value in stretching my legs, feeling the fresh air and being surrounded by nature. At the age of twenty-eight, on his death, I felt the first true profound loss in my life, mourning him as I would any member of my family. That was perhaps the deepest, hardest lesson I had to learn, that of inescapable death.
The benefits of dog ownership
My personal experience of dog ownership equates with many research studies which indicate the benefits of dog ownership for children. For instance, psychologists at Oregon State University discovered that when children look after a puppy improve their social skills, including sharing, co-operating and empathising with others. See HEALTH; Children and Their Pets: Unexpected Psychological Benefits
Countless other studies illustrate the link between periods spent with dogs and enhanced self esteem, as well as helping children who are lonely or suffering emotional neglect. Indeed, dogs and other animals are increasingly being used in therapy sessions with children, to aid their recovery from abuse and/or trauma. I am a great advocate of the healing, restorative power of animals and nature; simply stroking Otley instantly calms me down, his soft fur warm and comforting to the touch, his patient eyes accepting and loving.
A shared love of the outdoors
My husband and I met at university whilst pursuing our mutual hobby, mountaineering. As outdoor enthusiasts and exercise fanatics, we have spent many years walking, running and climbing together. Starting a family has in no way hindered our shared interests; from a small baby Ewan has accompanied us on long country walks, runs in the baby jogger and trips to the mountains, content to fit into our timetable as long as he has access to Mummy milk. At the age of two Ewan will happily be carried in the toddler sling for hours at a stretch, enjoying being snuggled up close to Mummy, as well as periods walking as well. If Otley or Eva accompanies us he is even happier, content to play with them or watch them racing around the countryside.
Living a settled, happy existence in a village in Derbyshire, England, with countryside right on our doorstep and Ewan a thriving two year old well socialised with dogs, the time has come for us to add to our family by owning our own dog. We are collecting our yellow Labrador puppy next month; right now he is still with his mother Maddie, and his brothers and sister, in a nearby village, growing more each day. Life will indeed become more complicated as we take on yet more responsibility, but we feel ready for this next stage in our lives, prepared for the challenge and the pleasure dog ownership will bring, as well as how it will change our lives. Being outdoor and animal lovers, getting a dog to share this love makes sense!
To go for walks with our own dog in our beautiful countryside, for Ewan to be brought up with a family dog as well as his grandparents and neighbours dogs, to offer him the valuable gift of owning a dog, seeing it develop from a puppy into an adult and old age as he grows up himself, are some of the many reasons we have taken this important decision. We very much look forward to what the future holds, with a growing boy and dog at our side!
Watch this space for puppy and toddler tales from mid August!
Visit The Positive Parenting Connection and Authentic Parenting to find out how you can participate in the next Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival!
Please take time to read the submissions by the other carnival participants:
- A Pet’s Role in the Home School — If a house isn’t a home without a pet, how can you imagine homeschooling without one? Erica at ChildOrganics discusses the many benefits of home schooling with pets. .
- Toddlers and Whiskers, Co-existing as One — Mama Duck at Quacks and Waddles explains how to introduce new pets to toddlers and babies
- Children and the Death of a Pet — Jennifer at Hybrid Rasta Mama offers suggestions on how to help children work through the loss of a pet. She includes a variety of books to support both parents and children during this tender time.
- 10 Reasons to Be a Foster Family for a Pet in Need — Christy from Adventures in Mommyhood: Mommy Outnumbered gives her top 10 reasons to consider fostering a pet until a forever home can be found.
- Preparing Dogs for New Baby — Jennifer from Mother of the Pack gives advice to new parents for preparing their dog(s) for a baby
- Children, Pets and Death — Lauren at Hobo Mama has walked with her son through the untimely death of their cat, a fascinating and troubling journey.
- The Health Benefits of Having Pets — Laura from Authentic Parenting tells us exactly why having pets is beneficial to your child’s health.
- Romeo, My Healing Dog — Bianca at the Pierogie Mama writes about her loveable old dog, Romeo, who at one point she had to give away but a few years later he was placed back in her life when she least expected it.
- 6 Tips to Help a Child That is Afraid of Dogs – Ariadne at Positive Parenting Connection is sharing helpful tips and using play to help children overcome a fear of dogs.
- The Value of Pets – Caroline from Stone Age Parenting writes about how pets have brought so much more than happiness to her life and how she has learned to appreciate and respond to the needs of animals and of humans. | <urn:uuid:b3fa0c30-0575-4fcd-9d3d-47250306be93> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stoneageparenting.com/2012/07/27/visiting-pets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00533-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973949 | 1,802 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Argulus(Fish Lice) Description
Argulus are a crustacean parasite in the subphylum Crustacea. This puts them in the same group with much larger crustaceans such as prawns and shrimp. Argulus is a member of the Branchiura class, which are all crustacean parasites. Argulus are one of the largest external parasites in home aquariums and ponds. Because of their size and visibility to the naked eye, they are also known as fish lice. The fish lice range in size from 5mm to 10mm in length. Even though they are quite large it can be difficult to see them sometimes because they like to hide in more sheltered areas on the fish host. The fish lice are round or oval in shape and almost flat. Kind of like a flattened horseshoe crab. The fish lice can move quite quickly and can swim between hosts.
Argulus Symptoms(Fish Lice Symptoms)
Symptoms include patches of irritated skin, gills and fins with small red holes. Because the argulus has hook like limbs and a sucking feeding apparatus, they can cause open wounds that can lead to secondary infection. This feeding apparatus releases enzymes to digest the host and this can also contribute to illness for the host fish. Of course another symptom of an argulus infection is actually seeing the parasites on your fish.
Argulus(Fish Lice) Life Cycle
Argulus have a direct life cycle using only the fish as hosts. They prey upon freshwater fish and marine fish. Argulus can spend a large amount of time swimming around and mating occurs when the male and female Argulus are swimming. The eggs clusters are dropped on any convenient submerged item. After hatching the Argulus makes several metamorphic changes as it goes towards adulthood. The entire cycle takes between 30-100 days depending on the temperature. After hatching they must find a host within a around four days or they will not survive.
Agulus(Fish Lice) Treatment
The most successful and effective treatments against lice are organophosphates. Using three treatments over the estimated life cycle of the parasite almost always eradicates lice. At typical summer pond temperatures of 68 degrees F or higher, treatments at 10-day intervals will kill existing adults and juveniles as well as emerging juveniles. Clout is one of the commonly available treatments and is quite effective.
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How is the ACT formatted?
First things first: let us dispel the notion that the SAT is the more widely accepted of the two tests. Almost every college accepts the ACT, and it has now surpassed the SAT in number of students sitting for it each year. For many students, this may come as a sign of relief since quite frankly, the ACT is a more straightforward test. The SAT and ACT are tailored towards different types of students, so is the ACT right for you?
The ACT has four sections:
· Math (includes some trigonometry questions)
· Science (meant to test reading and reasoning skills based upon a given set of facts)
· Reading comprehension
The ACT also has an optional essay, which must be in response to a given prompt. The prompt is usually an issue that is relevant to the age of a high school student.
Each section in the ACT is worth up to 36 points and your score is the average from all four sections. You don’t lose any points for wrong answers, unlike the SAT, which deducts ¼ of a point for each incorrect answer. The ACT tests you more on classroom knowledge and is more concerned with your composite score. If you happen to be weak in one section but very strong in another, you could still end up with a favorable score.
For more information on how to improve your score, contact Dov Landau, the Director of College Admissions at Top Test Prep. Top Test Prep is the elite one on one tutoring and admissions company featuring some of the best and brightest tutors and admission experts in the business. Dov can be reached at 202-618-4474. | <urn:uuid:4f9543d0-961e-4789-a856-ea63a178e68f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://toptestprep.com/act-exam-format/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721558.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00044-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957697 | 341 | 2.875 | 3 |
Naples, FL (PRWEB) May 29, 2013
Amazon Origins today releases the story behind the new-to-market all natural supplement, Amaçari. Jeff Moats, President and Founder of Amazon Origins suffered a near-death accident over two years ago leaving him with chronic inflammation and pain, only relieved by a little superfruit grown along the banks of the Amazon River in the Brazilian Rainforest.
On April 10, 2011, Jeff Moats lost control of the moped he was riding and collided head-on into a mailbox. Upon arrival at the scene of the accident, local police covered him with a tarp, believing him to be dead. Despite a caved-in skull and severe trauma to the brain, Jeff survived after hours of surgery that left him with 10 titanium plates in his head and chronic pain and inflammation.
Through his business in importing sustainably harvested fish from the Amazon, Jeff recalled stories of a cherry-sized superfruit known as Caçari or Camu Camu with a reported remarkable ability to ease inflammation.
“After taking the Amazonian superfruit regularly, my pain disappeared, and stayed away for good,” says Jeff Moats, President and Founder of Amazon Origins. Adding, “My strength returned and along with it, a passion to share this remarkable superfruit with others suffering from inflammation-related pain.”
After founding Amazon Origins, Jeff Moats began to import the superfruit from the Amazon Rainforest and market it as Amaçari – an all-natural product born as a result of his nearly fatal accident.
“To have that type of injury and not die,” said Dr. Mark Gerber, Jeff’s neurosurgeon, “and to be walking away with very little problems from it, that’s the miraculous part.”
Amaçari’s 100% CamuPure is wildcrafted, sustainably harvested and made from the superfruit with the highest natural concentration of Vitamin C of any known plant. In addition to its superior performance in Vitamin C testing, Amaçari also outranked high-phenolic fruits like blackberry and blueberry, which contribute to maintenance of healthy vision and heart, and bolsters cellular antioxidant defenses. The product also demonstrated superior performance testing for total ORAC, which is a unit of measurement for antioxidants developed by the National Institute on Aging in the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The nutrients found in Amaçari have been scientifically proven to have anti-aging and immunity-boosting effects when taken regularly. Testing is done with Brunswick Labs and Covance Labs.
About Amazon Origins:
The founder of Amazon Origins, Jeff Moats, has been intricately involved with sustainable agriculture throughout the vast Amazon Basin for the past 21 years and counting. Amazon Origins sustainably harvests Camu Camu berries to create natural products with significant health benefits.
Amaçari is made from a berry grown primarily in the Amazonian River Basin of Brazil. Also known as Camu Camu or Caçari, this superfruit has been scientifically shown to have significant health benefits. With the highest known natural source of Vitamin C – about 30 to 50 times that of an orange – this fruit also contains all the flavonoids and co-factors necessary for maximum absorption and utilization. The berry’s 335 natural chemical compounds and phytonutrients, which are powerful anti-oxidants, can help keep one healthy, focused and full of vitality. The product retails for under $30 for a bottle of 60 capsules, one month’s supply, and can be purchased online at http://www.CamuPure.com.
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- I soon discovered that both of them were perfect strangers to the rest of the company, and had never seen or heard of them before; and I had a whisper from a ghost who shall be nameless, "that these commentators always kept in the most distant quarters from their principals, in the lower world, through a consciousness of shame and guilt, because they had so horribly misrepresented the meaning of those authors to posterity."Part 3 — A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, .... (67% in)
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GreenFuel Technologies Corporation
It was based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Greenfuel shut down operations on May 13, 2009 after having raised more than $70 million in investments, citing it had run out of funds, and a victim of the economy.
The GFT President, Chief Technology Officer and the inventor of a newly patented system for growing pollution-digesting algae inexpensively on an industrial scale is Isaac Berzin, who founded the company in April, 2001. Time Magazine included Berzin in its list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2008.
A beta emission reduction system was installed at an MIT cogeneration facility in 2004 and after performing beyond expectations was moved to a larger power plant in fall 2005. Pilot units were tested at power plants in Arizona, Massachusetts and New York. Although the algal biomass produced by the process consists of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates which could be used to produce a variety of products, GFT seems to be focusing on biofuel products. GreenFuel's large scale algae to biofuel process at the Arizona Public Service Redhawk power facility won the 2006 Platts Emissions Energy Project of the Year Award.
In November 2006 Arizona Public Service Company (APS) announced that it and its partner GreenFuel Technologies will attempt to replicate their success of creating biofuels from algae grown using carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from a power plant.
In 2007, the company had to shut down its third-generation bioreactor facility in Arizona after the plant produced more algae than the company’s equipment could handle. At the same time, the company learned that its algae harvesting system would cost twice as much as expected. In 2007 they announced a restructuring, some 25 employees, about half the company’s staff, were laid off as a result of the plant shutdown.
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Known as Emissions-to-Biofuels, the process could use a photosynthetic bioreactor supplied with exhaust gases from a fossil fuel combustion source to grow algae. As smokestack emissions are delivered to the algae bioreactor, carbon dioxide and other pollutants are absorbed and utilized by the algae to grow at an exponential rate. Once harvested, the algae is processed to produce a variety of solids such as protein and bioplastics, gases such as methane, and biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.
Sources of carbon rich exhaust include manufacturing facilities and electricity generation plants, especially those which burn coal. Once the algal biomass is harvested and processed, the resulting fuel may be sold for additional revenue or utilized on-site.
The biofuel yield using the GreenFuel technique is 30 times higher per hectare compared to the yield of oil derived from conventional terrestrial crops. Emissions of carbon dioxide are reduced by 40% and emissions of oxides of nitrogen are reduced by up to 85%. Plant retrofits can be made with minimal disruption to existing facilities.
Large-scale algae farming plants
GreenFuel Technologies had launched the second phase of a major project with Spanish renewable energy firm Aurantia to build a large-scale algae farming plant adjacent to a CO2-spewing cement plant near Jerez, Spain.
- 2006 Energy Emission Project of the Year. Platts Global Energy Awards.
- 2006 Frost Sullivan Bio-based fuels technology Innovation Of The Year Award.
- 2006 Red Herring.
- "shut down". greentechmedia. 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- "closing". cnet. 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
- "Isaac Berzin, Israel's "Green Giant"". Cleantech Investing in Israel. 2008-05-18. Retrieved 2008-05-19.
- Platts 2006 Global Energy Awards
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Well, I did not know that my articles on how to register a trust and a society will be able to help so many people out there. I am glad that the tendency of doing social work is growing in India. One of the most frequently asked questions on my NGO related articles is, “what is the difference between a foundation and a trust” or “what is the difference between a foundation and a society”. So many people have asked me this question that now I am forced to write a separate article to answer it.
First of all, if you also want to know the difference between a foundation and NGO, I would like to congratulate you for thinking about social work. As I explained in my articles, both a trust and a society are two forms of a non-profit or non-government organization in India. So, if you want to do social work and want to have a legal entity for this purpose, then you register either a trust or a society. You can also register a Section 25 company, but mostly people register trust or a society for charitable work.
Trust is a simpler entity. It is easier to register and run. Such an organization is primarily based on trust. Donors give you money “trusting” that you will make good use of it for the objectives stated in your trust deed. Trustees are not answerable to anyone except the Charity Commissioner and the relevant laws. If the Income Tax department is providing 80g and 12a exemptions —they can revoke it if trustees do not follow the rules and objectives mentioned in the trust deed.
Society, on the other hand is a more democratic organization. All the members of the governing body are also answerable to each other and they have to keep the donors and the Registrar of Societies informed about what decisions are being made by them. Societies have to keep records of the meetings of the governing body.
Difference between Foundation and Trust / Society / NGO
OK, now we know the basic information about trust and society. But what is a foundation? Well, “foundation” is just a word!
There is nothing like a foundation that you can register. Foundation is just a word that many NGOs use in there names. For example, some ABCXYZ Foundation could either be registered as a society or as a trust.
Foundation is an optional word —you don’t have to use it in the name of your organization. If you want, you can use it —if you don’t want, don’t use it! Simple.
I hope now you will not get confused. Select the type of NGO from trust or society. In the name, you can use the word foundation, if you want.
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About this Artist
The LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC, under the vibrant leadership of Music & Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, presents an inspiring array of music, through a commitment to foundational works and adventurous explorations. Both at home and abroad, the Philharmonic – recognized as one of the world’s outstanding orchestras – is leading the way in groundbreaking programming, both on stage and in the community, offering a diverse range of programs that reflect the orchestra’s artistry and demonstrate its vision. 2017/18 marks the orchestra’s 99th season.
More than 250 concerts are either performed or presented by the LA Phil at its two iconic venues: the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl. During its winter season, with approximately 165 performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the LA Phil creates festivals, artist residencies, and other thematic programs designed to enhance the symphonic music experience and delve further into certain artists’ or composers’ work. Since 1922, its summer home has been the world-famous Hollywood Bowl, host to the finest artists from all genres of music.
The orchestra’s involvement with Los Angeles extends far beyond symphony concerts in a concert hall, with performances in schools, churches, and neighborhood centers of a vastly diverse community. Among its wide-ranging education initiatives is Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA). Inspired by Venezuela’s revolutionary El Sistema, the LA Phil and its community partners provide free instruments, intensive music training, and leadership training to nearly 800 students from underserved neighborhoods, empowering them through multi-year engagement to be college-ready and on a path to becoming vital citizens, leaders, and agents of change.
The orchestra also undertakes tours, including regular visits with partners in New York, Paris, and Tokyo, among others. The Philharmonic has been an International Associate at London’s Barbican Centre since 2009. The orchestra’s very first tour was in 1921, and the Philharmonic has made annual tours beginning with the 1969/70 season.
The orchestra has a substantial catalog of concerts available online, including the first full-length classical music video released on iTunes. In 2017, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Conductor Laureate Esa-Pekka Salonen were nominated for a Grammy for Best Classical Compendium for their live recording of Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels.
The Los Angeles Philharmonic was founded by William Andrews Clark, Jr., a millionaire and amateur musician, who established the city’s first permanent symphony orchestra in 1919. Walter Henry Rothwell became its first Music Director, serving until 1927; since then, ten renowned conductors have served in that capacity: Georg Schnéevoigt (1927-1929); Artur Rodzinski (1929-1933); Otto Klemperer (1933-1939); Alfred Wallenstein (1943-1956); Eduard van Beinum (1956-1959); Zubin Mehta (1962-1978); Carlo Maria Giulini (1978-1984); André Previn (1985-1989); Esa-Pekka Salonen (1992-2009); and Gustavo Dudamel (2009-present). | <urn:uuid:32301a43-5fd4-458b-94ab-563494976157> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://es.laphil.com/musicdb/artists/3217/members-of-the-los-angeles-philharmonic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.921215 | 679 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Russians In California
An Imperial colony on our West Coast was their aim; Fort Ross was their military outpost; and the stakes—higher than they realized
April 1960 | Volume 11, Issue 3
To advance as quickly as possible to California and to remain there, Baranov depended on the assistance of his friends the Americans, who even before Rezanov’s visit helped the Russians to poach furs along the California coast. As early as 1803 he entered into a profit-sharing agreement with Captain Joseph (“Honest Joe”) O’Cain, who commanded a ship bearing his own name, the O’Cain out of Boston. The partnership admirably suited the needs of both parties. The Russians were faced with the depletion of the Alaskan hunting grounds, but had no seaworthy vessels. The New Englanders, on the other hand, could cruise almost at will in Spanish waters, but lacked the skill and equipment to take pelts. For this purpose the Aleuts, whom the Russians ruled absolutely, were incomparable. They were the finest seal and sea otter hunters in the world. In their light bidarkas, two-man skin canoes, they pursued the animals into rocky inlets and among dangerous shoals, harpooning them with deadly accuracy. On this first joint operation Baranov provided the O’Cain with twenty bidarkas, forty Aleuts, and two Russian officers to supervise them. When they returned north in June, 1804, after a hunt that extended below San Diego, they had caught eleven hundred otters.
Other Americans saw the advantages of collaboration with the Russians. The skippers of the Mercury, the Derby and the Peacock also signed contracts with Baranov, and started operating off California. At the same time, Baranov gathered information concerning California from his officers who accompanied the Aleuts; and in 1807 Vasily Tarakanov came back aboard the Peacock with the news his chief wanted: an excellent site for a base had been found.
Scarcely fifty miles above the Golden Gate, but virtually inaccessible to the land-bound Spaniards, who would have to make the enormous circuit of San Francisco Bay to get there, was Bodega Bay. Today this sheltered anchorage is sanded up, but then it could receive good-sized sailing ships. The surrounding territory seemed fertile. There was a plentiful supply of fresh water and timber. The climate was foggy, but mild. The local Indians, who hated the Spaniards, were friendly to other Europeans. Most important, the Spanish claim to the harbor and region, made in 1775, was doubtful. Drake had been there two centuries earlier. If the Russians chose, they could regard the land as part of New Albion. Conceivably, they could maintain that it belonged to the natives. Baranov, who finally had received two ships from Russia, decided the time was ripe to dispatch expeditionary forces. One was wrecked off the Columbia late in 1808, but the Kodiak arrived safely at Bodega for the New Year of 1809.
Forty Russians and one hundred and fifty Aleuts, twenty of them women, brought the Czar’s flag ashore, and stayed eight months. The party was led by Ivan Kuskov, a former clerk in the company, who for years had been Baranov’s trusted assistant. Far from appearing the intrepid leader of a hazardous expedition, Kuskov was a picture of mildness. He wore spectacles, and sometimes, at Sitka, drunken naval officers used to beat him, as if he were a character in a Gogol story. But a promotion recommended by Rezanov had given him new status, and he was to display unexpected strength and resourcefulness in a position of command.
On this preliminary visit to Bodega, which he named Fort Rumiantsev in honor of the powerful minister, Kuskov erected a few temporary buildings, inspected the neighboring countryside, and—like Tarakanov before him—sent his hunters into the forbidden waters of San Francisco Bay. This time, rather than risk an entrance through the Gate (where on one occasion a shot from the fort had destroyed two of Tarakanov’s bidarkas ), the Aleuts made a portage overland across modern Marin County. It was open provocation of the Spaniards, but the catch in furs was worth the risk. For the “precious sea otter … almost unheeded, was swimming about the Bay in great numbers.” The Aleuts began killing otters on Angel Island, within sight of the presidio, and then rashly descended to the southern arm of the bay. Late in March a company of soldiers surprised them ashore, and four of the intruders were killed and two wounded. But sporadic Spanish resistance never deterred the poachers. The Kodiak stayed five months longer at Bodega, leaving with two thousand skins.
Eighteen months later, in February, 1811, Kuskov was back on a new ship, the Chirikov , to make extensive preparations for the founding of a permanent settlement the following year. The Russians were acting slowly, but with considerable thoroughness and skill. That spring and summer they conducted what was actually a trial run of their colonial plans. Fur hunting continued unabated. A post was set up at the Farallon Islands, a favorite haunt of the fur seal, just off the Golden Gate; and during a four-month period three thousand of the animals were killed. Additional buildings were erected at Bodega, and a crop of wheat was sown, harvested, and carried to Sitka. Counting the Aleuts aboard the half dozen American ships that were present, the Russians had a formidable force of five hundred men on the coast: the total garrison of Spanish California was not much larger. | <urn:uuid:9d00bd70-bcb2-4562-8720-fce1d972b3a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.americanheritage.com/content/russians-california?page=5&nid=51263 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00299-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979593 | 1,224 | 3.125 | 3 |
Report: "Dark Money" dominates spending on Michigan Supreme Court political campaigns
A new report is raising questions about transparency in Michigan Supreme Court elections.
Craig Mauger is with the Michigan Campaign Finance Network. He says in 2016 so-called "dark money" helped the two Republican incumbents outspend their Democratic challengers by more than 30 to one.
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"Dark money" is money that is spent during political campaigns comes from undisclosed sources. The overall cost of the 2016 Michigan Supreme Court races was $3.4 million. Only 50.1% of that money came from sources that were disclosed in campaign finance reports.
Mauger worries about the possible influence shadowy ‘dark money’ groups may try to exert on the court.
“Democrats weren’t really attempting to win either of these two seats … and still this money poured in,” says Mauger.
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By Matt Blomberg
Foreign workers and tourists stranded in Cambodia during the Covid-19 pandemic have been trafficked and forced to work in sophisticated Chinese-run online scams, a Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation has found.
In interviews, nine trafficking victims said they were lured by social media adverts promising well-paid jobs in call centres.
Instead, they ended up in shuttered hotel casinos and guarded compounds where they had their passports confiscated before being put to work online.
The victims, mainly from Africa and Asia, said they were ordered to create fake profiles on Tinder, WhatsApp and Facebook to entice people into fraudulent investment schemes involving crypto currencies, foreign exchange and shares.
Those who objected or performed poorly were subjected to violence and threats, victims said. Mary, a teacher from the Philippines, said she miscarried while locked in a room without food and water for three days.
"We were desperate," said Mary, who was three months pregnant and four months out of work when she responded in July to a Facebook post offering call centre jobs to English-speaking foreigners.
"We thought it was real work but it became a living nightmare," said the 26-year-old, whose name has been changed to protect her identity.
WATCH: 6 scams to avoid in Cambodia
Approached for comment on the nine trafficking cases that the Thomson Reuters Foundation uncovered, a spokesperson for the Cambodian interior ministry said, "We also have heard about this before but until now we still do not have any evidence."
Cambodian police have previously carried out raids and deported hundreds of Chinese on suspicion of telecoms scams. But organised crime experts said the police have struggled to stamp out online crime because of corruption and weak law enforcement.
A Facebook spokesperson said the company would investigate profiles and groups passed on by the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
A spokesperson for WhatsApp said that users should use tools in the app to report suspicious activity.
A Tinder spokesperson said it had "zero-tolerance" for"romance scams" and that it would "work with law enforcement to ensure justice is served in such cases".
Locked in the process
Inside a heavily guarded compound in Sihanoukville, Mary said she handed her passport to human resources and was given the tools for her new job: five iPhones and five British SIM cards.
Mary said she was told to use images of attractive women to create fake identities on Tinder, WhatsApp and Facebook and find people interested in foreign exchange trading.
A few hours in, she told the manager she wanted out.
"She started threatening me: 'We will beat you if you don't follow our rules,'" Mary recalled. "I told her, 'I signed no contract. I want to leave. Release me.'"
Mary said the manager replied, "If you won't work, pack your bags - we sell you to another company."
Mary was locked in a room, bare except for three bed frames and two other women, also bound for a new boss, she said.
For two nights and three days, they went unfed, drinking water from a toilet in a bathroom which they were allowed to access at the whim of their guards, she said.
Guards had confiscated their phones - but Mary had a second device and was relaying events to her husband who, after reporting the situation to police in Sihanoukville, took up vigil at the compound's gates.
"I was worried if they transfer my wife, I would not find her again," he said.
Sihanoukville is a haven for a new breed of "sinister"Chinese gangs that take advantage of Cambodia's fast internet speeds and relaxed visa rules, said John Coyne, head of theNorthern Australia Strategic Policy Centre, a research group.
"Sihanoukville is a criminal hotspot created by the confluence of Chinese money, Chinese organised crime groups anda very poor legal environment," said Coyne, an ex-police officer and expert on organised crime in the Mekong region.
Beijing has sent police and planes to Cambodia to take home hundreds of suspected Chinese scammers in recent years, sending a "very heavy and very public ... message to its citizens" about the risks of engaging in crime, said a foreign law enforcement official monitoring the situation.
"The operators shifted to other targets," said the official,adding that by trafficking more people who speak languages other than Chinese, the gangs were able to target more nationalities.
"Eight new clients per day. If you don't get eight, you keep working," said a Tanzanian woman who took what was advertised online as a call centre job in Sihanoukville in June.
"Four hundred of us in one room - cheat, cheat, cheat.That's the job," she said, describing how she used fake online profiles to trap people into fraudulent investment schemes.
When the woman told management she wanted to leave, she was locked in a room with Mary and given two options: pay $2,000 or be sold to another company, she said.
The woman shared contact numbers for her trafficker, who told the Thomson Reuters Foundation he was paid a $1,000 commission for each person recruited to work in Sihanoukville but denied recruiting a Tanzanian woman.
The recruiter, who said he was Chinese and gave his name as Li Qiang, said he worked for a large firm that did not have a name, and said that his actions did not involve trafficking.
"The employee can leave whenever they want," he said.
The police chief in Preah Sihanouk province, where Sihanoukville is located, and a spokesman for the provincial administration, declined to comment.
Sold like goats
Cambodia has become a popular destination for workers in tourism, construction and education, which have been hard-hit by Covid-19, leaving a pool of "invisible people" for recruiters to prey on, said labour abuse investigator Khun Tharo.
Nehan, a teacher from Nepal who has lived in Cambodia for five years and was laid off during the pandemic, said he responded to a Facebook advert for a call centre job after exhausting his savings - and ended up being enslaved.
"To them, we are just animals; bought and sold like goats and chickens," he said.
Nehan said he was taken to start work in the shuttered White Sand Palace Hotel in Sihanoukville.
"(People) think that during corona time, White Sand is closed, but what happens inside, they don't know," said Nehan, who was released after working for a month without pay when he threatened to get his wife to report the scammers to the police.
"People go in (to the hotel) ... then they cannot go out."
A woman who answered a phone at White Sand Palace Hotel said it was not possible to speak to management as they had gone "to China", adding that the hotel was not aware of any online scamming operations on the premises.
Nehan said he was taken to hotel rooms where hundreds of people - mostly Chinese - worked to coax online investors into fake investment schemes and into scanning a QR code embedded in a website that allows them to hack into people's smartphones.
"They are hackers, thieves," Nehan said.
All of the victims were told to pay a ransom to be freed,but only one did - a South African tourist, whose mother shared a screenshot of a July payment of $2,047 sent to a Cambodian who negotiated her son's release.
Six others said they used threats, negotiation and social media posts to win their release. Two are still being held.
The tourist shared photographs of himself in a hospital bed with a bruised face and a bandage around his head, which he said was stitched after he was beaten by his trafficker for trying to rally a walkout from a Chinese-run scamming operation.
In Mary's case, her husband shared her ordeal on Facebook after three days, when she told him she thought she had miscarried their baby.
He also gave details to local news website Cambodia News English, he said.
"At first (the traffickers) were angry - how was this information getting out? I had videos and photos from inside,"Mary's husband said.
After threatening violence and demanding a $1,500 ransom, a deal was reached: Mary would be freed if he deleted the Facebook posts, he said.
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Organic farmers Larry Jacobs and Sandra Belin have made a life-long commitment to sustainability and social justice. And as reported in PAN's spring newsletter, they recently won confirmation of their right to farm free of pesticides in a $1 million court case.
Larry and Sandra started farming in San Mateo County, California, in 1980, producing fresh organic culinary herbs. Then in 1985 they began working with the Del Cabo community in Baja California, Mexico, to develop a source of organic fruit and vegetables during the off-season. Today, Del Cabo Cooperative is a thriving community of 400 farmers that sells organic produce across the U.S. Larry and Sandra are more than successful farmers. They're actively involved in influencing policy to protect people’s health and livelihoods from pesticide corporations. One example: Larry traveled with PAN scientist Susan Kegley to Washington, D.C., to testify at EPA on the economic hazards caused by pesticide drift.
"PAN saved our farm"
In October 2006, their California business was threatened when trace levels of pesticides were detected on plants at their farm after several organophosphates (chemicals that pose serious human health risks) were applied nearby. Coastal fogs carried the chemicals over neighboring property, wiping out a year's worth of sage, rosemary and dill at Jacobs Farm Del Cabo.
A Drift Catcher, the air monitoring device developed by PAN, was used to collect samples of the chemicals, providing evidence that the pesticides had traveled substantial distance from the application site, exposing a recreational area, west Santa Cruz neighborhoods — and Jacobs farm.
Western Farm Service, the pesticide applicator, was found liable and in 2010 a $1 million fine was upheld. "The message from the jury is pretty clear, both to industry and to regulators,” says Jacobs Farm attorney Nathan Benjamin. “It's not acceptable to apply these poisonous chemicals and turn your back on the consequences after the point of application.”
Larry's conclusion? “PAN saved our farm — your scientists helped us explain how pesticides evaporate and drift after application and can contaminate nearby crops.”
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The Film That Launched Margot Kidder’s Career | Curator’s Perspective
Canada lost Margot Kidder a little more than a year ago. She would have turned 71 on October 17, 2019. In honour of this great Canadian actress, I thought I would write a post on her first–ever film, The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1968), an award–winning drama that she made at the NFB.
The story of this film has its roots in the NFB’s Challenge for Change documentary series, which was just getting started and was to deal with the issue of fighting poverty in Canada. The screenplay for Best Damn Fiddler was written by Joan Finnigan as a drama, telling a story about poverty in the Ottawa Valley, and the film was intended to be part of the series. However, the various agencies that were participating in Challenge for Change felt that a fiction film did not meet the requirements of the program and rejected this film project altogether.
The NFB then approached the CBC, which was very interested in showing the film as part of its Festival TV series, a regular time slot reserved for quality drama or musical programming. The film was cast and production began in the area around Renfrew, Ontario, on October 17, 1967 (coincidently, Margot Kidder’s 19th birthday!). Director Peter Pearson assembled a veteran cast that included acclaimed actors Kate Reid and Chris Wiggins as the impoverished parents of nine children living in difficult conditions. Kidder, who was getting her start on Canadian television at the time, was cast in the role of their 16-year-old daughter, who was not happy with the life she was born into.
The story focuses on a proud man who refuses help from anyone, telling everyone around him that they will manage somehow. The relationship between this man and his daughter is what drives the film. When she brings up the notion of getting help from their kind social worker, he simply tells her that the only thing she needs to worry about is finding herself a good man to marry. Our young heroine isn’t interested in accepting this fate. She wants to improve her life and escape the “prison” her mother is living in; a yearly pregnancy and a life of grinding poverty.
This film does not sugarcoat the issues. Its gritty, realistic portrayal of poverty pulls no punches, but it is absolutely worth your time. Margot Kidder dazzles in her screen debut. She plays a feisty, strong-willed young woman who, although she faces great odds, has the courage to change her life for the better. Kidder’s scenes with Chris Wiggins are very well played.
When the film was finished, the CBC programmed it to be shown as part of Festival in mid–1968. For some unknown reason, they then bumped it off the schedule, and a new broadcast date was set for August 20. The NFB started to heavily publicize the upcoming broadcast, only to have the film pre-empted when the USSR invaded Czechoslovakia on that date. The CBC carried the news of this invasion live, and as a result the film would have to wait yet again to be seen.
It wasn’t until March 19, 1969, that Best Damn Fiddler would be broadcast on the entire CBC network as part of the Festival series. Reviews were, for the most part, excellent. The Ottawa Citizen called it a “quietly brilliant hour of television.” The Toronto Telegram said it was a “robust, gutsy and immensely human story…” There were, however, a few dissenting voices. Some people were unhappy with the unflinching portrait of poverty and considered the film a disappointment. Most critics singled out Margot Kidder’s performance, saying that she was destined for great things.
A few months after the broadcast, Best Damn Fiddler swept the Canadian Film Awards, winning eight in total, including film of the year, best screenplay, best director and best actor (Chris Wiggins). Kidder also won the award for Outstanding New Talent, for her performance in a television series that had been made before the film. Her next appearance was in the Norman Jewison film Gaily, Gaily (1969), the first of her many Hollywood roles.
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War Painting / Heterotopia – The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Saturday, September 11 – Saturday, October 30, 2021
Tuesday-Saturday 12:00-19:00 (Closed on Mon, Sun, Public holidays)
Takayama’s first Heterotopia series, Tokyo Heterotopia, was presented in 2013 as a “tour performance,” taking the form of a self-guided tour. Participants travelled around Tokyo with guidebooks and radios in hand. At specified locations, they could tune in their radios to readings of stories written by poets and novelists about people from Asia who came to live in Tokyo as students, immigrants, and refugees, revealing Asian history in Tokyo. Since then, the Heterotopia series has expanded throughout the world, including Beitou Heterotopia (Taiwan, 2016), Beirut Heterotopia (Lebanon, 2017), Piraeus Heterotopia (Greece, 2017), Heterotopia Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates, 2019), and Heterotopia Riga (Latvia, 2019). The Tokyo version became an app and continues to this day.
War Painting / Heterotopia – The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo is the first public performance of a project to ‘exhibit’ at other locations paintings depicting war scenes that are held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. The Japanese military commissioned the production of the majority of these war paintings between 1937 and 1945. After the war, paintings collected by GHQ were seized by America, but were returned to Japan in 1970 on indefinite loan, and 153 are currently held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
For this exhibition, white walls are lined with QR codes, but there are no actual paintings. When visitors use their phones to access a work by reading a QR code, they hear a reading of a poem created based on a specific war painting. Each poem is written by a poet from the country that is the setting for the painting or otherwise associated with the painting in some way. The readings are performed by the poets themselves. In this way, although not physically present, war paintings held in the collection of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo are ‘exhibited’ at the gallery by being visualized as the visitors listen to the readings.
One work at the exhibition, the poem “Grand Fond Blanc (Wonderful White)” by Walis Nokan was written based on Tsuguharu Foujita’s Fierce Fighting of Kaoru Paratroops After Landing on the Enemy’s Position. The soldiers who made up the Kaoru Paratroops were mainly from the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, and this war painting depicts a gruesome scene in which they make a forced landing and attack on an airfield on the island of Leyte in the Philippines occupied by American forces. Walis belongs to one of the indigenous peoples of Taiwan known as the Atayal, and he is widely known in Taiwan as a writer of Taiwanese indigenous literature. The poem is told from the standpoint of one of the Taiwanese soldiers among the Japanese forces depicted in the war painting, and is directed at Foujita, who painted the work. Readings can be heard by Walis himself in the original Chinese or by artist Tsuyoshi Ozawa who provides a Japanese translation.
This exhibition also presents poems created based on Miyamoto Saburo’s Meeting of Generals Yamashita and Percival, Yamashita Shinichi’s British and Australian Captives Work at Inchon, Korea, and Inokuma Genichiro’s Railroad Construction in a Certain Area. There are plans for the project to continue on after this exhibition. This show War Painting / Heterotopia – The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, is the first of what promises to be a fascinating series.
Born in 1969. In 2002, he formed the theater company Port B, and since then has been producing installations, touring performances and social experiments utilizing urban spaces as a way of engaging with cities and societies across the world. In recent years, collaboration with those from other fields including visual art, tourism, literature, architecture, and urban researches has seen the scope of his practice broadening further, and he has applied his theatrical philosophy and methodology to opening up new possibilities in a variety of fields. Major works include the Wagner Project (Yokohama, Oita, Frankfurt), McDonald’s Radio University (Frankfurt, Berlin, Tokyo, Kanazawa, Hong Kong), Heterotopia (Tokyo, Athens, Taipei etc.), Compartment City – Vienna (Vienna), Referendum Project (Tokyo, Fukushima, Vienna etc.), and The Complete Manual of Evacuation (Tokyo, Frankfurt). He has participated in major exhibitions, such as Yokohama Triennale (2014), Maison Hermès (2015, Tokyo), Roppongi Crossing (2016, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo), Sharjah Biennial (2017), and Biennale of Sydney (2018). The Wagner Project will be held at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa in January 2022.
Walis is a writer of Atayal (indigenous people of Taiwan) descent. During the 1990s he started publishing a magazine about indigenous culture and launched an Atayal literary style. The recipient of many literature prizes, He Makes Another Survey (1996) was a semi-finalist for the 19th China Times Literary Award. His work has been widely translated. He continues to play a leading role in the development of indigenous literature and the promotion of public awareness of indigenous history.
Alfian is a Resident Playwright with W!LD RICE, one of Singapore’s most recognized theatre companies. His published works include three collections of poetry, One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia and The Invisible Manuscript, a collection of short stories, Corridor, a collection of flash fiction, Malay Sketches, three collections of plays as well as the published play Cooling-Off Day. Alfian has been nominated eleven times for Best Original Script at the Life! Theatre Awards, eventually winning in 2005 for Landmarks, in 2010 for Nadirah, in 2013 for Kakak Kau Punya Laki (Your Sister’s Husband), and in 2016 for Hotel (coauthored with Marcia Vanderstraaten).
Born in Incheon, South Korea. She completed the doctoral program at the Department of Korean Language and Literature, Graduate School of General Studies, Inha University. She made her debut as a poet in 2011 with the “Writers Opening Tomorrow” New Poet Award, and in 2016 published her collection of poems We Decided to Get Darker (Changbi publishers). In 2017 she won the 1st “Gosan Literature Award” New Poet Award. She was the editor of the quarterly Writers from 2014 to 2019. In 2021, she discovered the life of the independence activist Kim Eungtae, who was the leader of the Kato Rice Mill Strike during the Japanese Emperor era, and introduced it in the “People’s Oral” section of the Writers. Currently, she is working on a new collection of poems translated into Korean and English.
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Release Date: 20 Sep 2007
Number of pages: 5
Document number: 48608
Democracy, Governance and Citizenship
Engaging Young Canadians
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“There, ye wise saints, behold your light, your star,
Ye would be dupes and victims and ye are.
Is it enough? or, must I, while a thrill
Lives in your sapient bosoms, cheat you still?”
Thomas Moore, Lalla Rookh, “The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan”
The fire, the canoe, and the spring, near which Deerslayer commenced his retreat, would have stood in the angles of a triangle of tolerably equal sides. The distance from the fire to the boat was a little less than the distance from the fire to the spring, while the distance from the spring to the boat was about equal to that between the two points first named. This, however, was in straight lines, a means of escape to which the fugitives could not resort. They were obliged to have recourse to a detour in order to get the cover of the bushes, and to follow the curvature of the beach. Under these disadvantages, then, the hunter commenced his retreat, disadvantages that he felt to be so much the greater from his knowledge of the habits of all Indians, who rarely fail in cases of sudden alarms, more especially when in the midst of cover, immediately to throw out flankers, with a view to meet their foes at all points, and if possible to turn their rear. That some such course was now adopted he believed from the tramp of feet, which not only came up the ascent, as related, but were also heard, under the first impulse, diverging not only towards the hill in the rear, but towards the extremity of the point, in a direction opposite to that he was about to take himself. Promptitude, consequently became a matter of the last importance, as the parties might meet on the strand, before the fugitive could reach the canoe.
Notwithstanding the pressing nature of the emergency, Deerslayer hesitated a single instant, ere he plunged into the bushes that lined the shore. His feelings had been awakened by the whole scene, and a sternness of purpose had come over him, to which he was ordinarily a stranger. Four dark figures loomed on the ridge, drawn against the brightness of the fire, and an enemy might have been sacrificed at a glance. The Indians had paused to gaze into the gloom, in search of the screeching hag, and with many a man less given to reflection than the hunter, the death of one of them would have been certain. Luckily he was more prudent. Although the rifle dropped a little towards the foremost of his pursuers, he did not aim or fire, but disappeared in the cover. To gain the beach, and to follow it round to the place where Chingachgook was already in the canoe, with Hist, anxiously waiting his appearance, occupied but a moment. Laying his rifle in the bottom of the canoe, Deerslayer stooped to give the latter a vigorous shove from the shore, when a powerful Indian leaped through the bushes, alighting like a panther on his back. Everything was now suspended by a hair; a false step ruining all. With a generosity that would have rendered a Roman illustrious throughout all time, but which, in the career of one so simple and humble, would have been forever lost to the world but for this unpretending legend, Deerslayer threw all his force into a desperate effort, shoved the canoe off with a power that sent it a hundred feet from the shore, as it might be in an instant, and fell forward into the lake, himself, face downward; his assailant necessarily following him.
Although the water was deep within a few yards of the beach, it was not more than breast high, as close in as the spot where the two combatants fell. Still this was quite sufficient to destroy one who had sunk, under the great disadvantages in which Deerslayer was placed. His hands were free, however, and the savage was compelled to relinquish his hug, to keep his own face above the surface. For half a minute there was a desperate struggle, like the floundering of an alligator that has just seized some powerful prey, and then both stood erect, grasping each other’s arms, in order to prevent the use of the deadly knife in the darkness. What might have been the issue of this severe personal struggle cannot be known, for half a dozen savages came leaping into the water to the aid of their friend, and Deerslayer yielded himself a prisoner, with a dignity that was as remarkable as his self-devotion.
To quit the lake and lead their new captive to the fire occupied the Indians but another minute. So much engaged were they all with the struggle and its consequences, that the canoe was unseen, though it still lay so near the shore as to render every syllable that was uttered perfectly intelligible to the Delaware and his betrothed; and the whole party left the spot, some continuing the pursuit after Hist, along the beach, though most proceeded to the light. Here Deerslayer’s antagonist so far recovered his breath and his recollection, for he had been throttled nearly to strangulation, as to relate the manner in which the girl had got off. It was now too late to assail the other fugitives, for no sooner was his friend led into the bushes than the Delaware placed his paddle into the water, and the light canoe glided noiselessly away, holding its course towards the centre of the lake until safe from shot, after which it sought the Ark. When Deerslayer reached the fire, he found himself surrounded by no less than eight grim savages, among whom was his old acquaintance Rivenoak. As soon as the latter caught a glimpse of the captive’s countenance, he spoke apart to his companions, and a low but general exclamation of pleasure and surprise escaped them. They knew that the conqueror of their late friend, he who had fallen on the opposite side of the lake, was in their hands, and subject to their mercy, or vengeance. There was no little admiration mingled in the ferocious looks that were thrown on the prisoner; an admiration that was as much excited by his present composure, as by his past deeds. This scene may be said to have been the commencement of the great and terrible reputation that Deerslayer, or Hawkeye, as he was afterwards called, enjoyed among all the tribes of New York and Canada; a reputation that was certainly more limited in its territorial and numerical extent, than those which are possessed in civilized life, but which was compensated for what it wanted in these particulars, perhaps, by its greater justice, and the total absence of mystification and management.
The arms of Deerslayer were not pinioned, and he was left the free use of his hands, his knife having been first removed. The only precaution that was taken to secure his person was untiring watchfulness, and a strong rope of bark that passed from ankle to ankle, not so much to prevent his walking, as to place an obstacle in the way of his attempting to escape by any sudden leap. Even this extra provision against flight was not made until the captive had been brought to the light, and his character ascertained. It was, in fact, a compliment to his prowess, and he felt proud of the distinction. That he might be bound when the warriors slept he thought probable, but to be bound in the moment of capture showed that he was already, and thus early, attaining a name. While the young Indians were fastening the rope, he wondered if Chingachgook would have been treated in the same manner, had he too fallen into the hands of the enemy. Nor did the reputation of the young pale-face rest altogether on his success in the previous combat, or in his discriminating and cool manner of managing the late negotiation, for it had received a great accession by the occurrences of the night. Ignorant of the movements of the Ark, and of the accident that had brought their fire into view, the Iroquois attributed the discovery of their new camp to the vigilance of so shrewd a foe. The manner in which he ventured upon the point, the abstraction or escape of Hist, and most of all the self-devotion of the prisoner, united to the readiness with which he had sent the canoe adrift, were so many important links in the chain of facts, on which his growing fame was founded. Many of these circumstances had been seen, some had been explained, and all were understood.
While this admiration and these honors were so unreservedly bestowed on Deerslayer, he did not escape some of the penalties of his situation. He was permitted to seat himself on the end of a log, near the fire, in order to dry his clothes, his late adversary standing opposite, now holding articles of his own scanty vestments to the heat, and now feeling his throat, on which the marks of his enemy’s fingers were still quite visible. The rest of the warriors consulted together, near at hand, all those who had been out having returned to report that no signs of any other prowlers near the camp were to be found. In this state of things, the old woman, whose name was Shebear, in plain English, approached Deerslayer, with her fists clenched and her eyes flashing fire. Hitherto, she had been occupied with screaming, an employment at which she had played her part with no small degree of success, but having succeeded in effectually alarming all within reach of a pair of lungs that had been strengthened by long practice, she next turned her attention to the injuries her own person had sustained in the struggle. These were in no manner material, though they were of a nature to arouse all the fury of a woman who had long ceased to attract by means of the gentler qualities, and who was much disposed to revenge the hardships she had so long endured, as the neglected wife and mother of savages, on all who came within her power. If Deerslayer had not permanently injured her, he had temporarily caused her to suffer, and she was not a person to overlook a wrong of this nature, on account of its motive.
“Skunk of the pale-faces,” commenced this exasperated and semi-poetic fury, shaking her fist under the nose of the impassable hunter, “you are not even a woman. Your friends the Delawares are only women, and you are their sheep. Your own people will not own you, and no tribe of redmen would have you in their wigwams; you skulk among petticoated warriors. You slay our brave friend who has left us? — No — his great soul scorned to fight you, and left his body rather than have the shame of slaying you! But the blood that you spilt when the spirit was not looking on, has not sunk into the ground. It must be buried in your groans. What music do I hear? Those are not the wailings of a red man! — no red warrior groans so much like a hog. They come from a pale-face throat — a Yengeese bosom, and sound as pleasant as girls singing — Dog — skunk — woodchuck-mink — hedgehog — pig — toad — spider — yengee —”
Here the old woman, having expended her breath and exhausted her epithets, was fain to pause a moment, though both her fists were shaken in the prisoner’s face, and the whole of her wrinkled countenance was filled with fierce resentment. Deerslayer looked upon these impotent attempts to arouse him as indifferently as a gentleman in our own state of society regards the vituperative terms of a blackguard: the one party feeling that the tongue of an old woman could never injure a warrior, and the other knowing that mendacity and vulgarity can only permanently affect those who resort to their use; but he was spared any further attack at present, by the interposition of Rivenoak, who shoved aside the hag, bidding her quit the spot, and prepared to take his seat at the side of his prisoner. The old woman withdrew, but the hunter well understood that he was to be the subject of all her means of annoyance, if not of positive injury, so long as he remained in the power of his enemies, for nothing rankles so deeply as the consciousness that an attempt to irritate has been met by contempt, a feeling that is usually the most passive of any that is harbored in the human breast. Rivenoak quietly took the seat we have mentioned, and, after a short pause, he commenced a dialogue, which we translate as usual, for the benefit of those readers who have not studied the North American languages.
“My pale-face friend is very welcome,” said the Indian, with a familiar nod, and a smile so covert that it required all Deerslayer’s vigilance to detect, and not a little of his philosophy to detect unmoved; “he is welcome. The Hurons keep a hot fire to dry the white man’s clothes by.”
“I thank you, Huron — or Mingo, as I most like to call you,” returned the other, “I thank you for the welcome, and I thank you for the fire. Each is good in its way, and the last is very good, when one has been in a spring as cold as the Glimmerglass. Even Huron warmth may be pleasant, at such a time, to a man with a Delaware heart.”
“The pale-face — but my brother has a name? So great a warrior would not have lived without a name?”
“Mingo,” said the hunter, a little of the weakness of human nature exhibiting itself in the glance of his eye, and the colour on his cheek —“Mingo, your brave called me Hawkeye, I suppose on account of a quick and sartain aim, when he was lying with his head in my lap, afore his spirit started for the Happy Hunting Grounds.”
“’Tis a good name! The hawk is sure of his blow. Hawkeye is not a woman; why does he live with the Delawares?”
“I understand you, Mingo, but we look on all that as a sarcumvention of some of your subtle devils, and deny the charge. Providence placed me among the Delawares young, and, ‘bating what Christian usages demand of my colour and gifts, I hope to live and die in their tribe. Still I do not mean to throw away altogether my natyve rights, and shall strive to do a pale-face’s duty, in red-skin society.”
“Good; a Huron is a red-skin, as well as a Delaware. Hawkeye is more of a Huron than of a woman.”
“I suppose you know, Mingo, your own meaning; if you don’t I make no question ’tis well known to Satan. But if you wish to get any thing out of me, speak plainer, for bargains can not be made blindfolded, or tongue tied.”
“Good; Hawkeye has not a forked tongue, and he likes to say what he thinks. He is an acquaintance of the Muskrat,” this was the name by which all the Indians designated Hutter —“and has lived in his wigwam. But he is not a friend. He wants no scalps, like a miserable Indian, but fights like a stout-hearted pale-face. The Muskrat is neither white, nor red. Neither a beast nor a fish. He is a water snake; sometimes in the spring and sometimes on the land. He looks for scalps, like an outcast. Hawkeye can go back and tell him how he has outwitted the Hurons, how he has escaped, and when his eyes are in a fog, when he can’t see as far as from his cabin to the shore, then Hawkeye can open the door for the Hurons. And how will the plunder be divided? Why, Hawkeye, will carry away the most, and the Hurons will take what he may choose to leave behind him. The scalps can go to Canada, for a pale-face has no satisfaction in them.”
“Well, well, Rivenoak — for so I hear ’em tarm you — This is plain English, enough, though spoken in Iroquois. I understand all you mean, now, and must say it out-devils even Mingo deviltry! No doubt, ‘twould be easy enough to go back and tell the Muskrat that I had got away from you, and gain some credit, too, by the expl’ite.”
“Good. That is what I want the pale-face to do.”
“Yes — yes — That’s plain enough. I know what you want me to do, without more words. When inside the house, and eating the Muskrat’s bread, and laughing and talking with his pretty darters, I might put his eyes into so thick a fog, that he couldn’t even see the door, much less the land.”
“Good! Hawkeye should have been born a Huron! His blood is not more than half white!”
“There you’re out, Huron; yes, there you’re as much out, as if you mistook a wolf for a catamount. I’m white in blood, heart, natur’ and gifts, though a little red-skin in feelin’s and habits. But when old Hutter’s eyes are well befogged, and his pretty darters perhaps in a deep sleep, and Hurry Harry, the Great Pine as you Indians tarm him, is dreaming of any thing but mischief, and all suppose Hawkeye is acting as a faithful sentinel, all I have to do is set a torch somewhere in sight for a signal, open the door, and let in the Hurons, to knock ’em all on the head.”
“Surely my brother is mistaken. He cannot be white! He is worthy to be a great chief among the Hurons!”
“That is true enough, I dares to say, if he could do all this. Now, harkee, Huron, and for once hear a few honest words from the mouth of a plain man. I am Christian born, and them that come of such a stock, and that listen to the words that were spoken to their fathers and will be spoken to their children, until ‘arth and all it holds perishes, can never lend themselves to such wickedness. Sarcumventions in war, may be, and are, lawful; but sarcumventions, and deceit, and treachery among fri’inds are fit only for the pale-face devils. I know that there are white men enough to give you this wrong idee of our natur’, but such be ontrue to their blood and gifts, and ought to be, if they are not, outcasts and vagabonds. No upright pale-face could do what you wish, and to be as plain with you as I wish to be, in my judgment no upright Delaware either. With a Mingo it may be different.”
The Huron listened to this rebuke with obvious disgust, but he had his ends in view, and was too wily to lose all chance of effecting them by a precipitate avowal of resentment. Affecting to smile, he seemed to listen eagerly, and he then pondered on what he had heard.
“Does Hawkeye love the Muskrat?” he abruptly demanded; “Or does he love his daughters?”
“Neither, Mingo. Old Tom is not a man to gain my love, and, as for the darters, they are comely enough to gain the liking of any young man, but there’s reason ag’in any very great love for either. Hetty is a good soul, but natur’ has laid a heavy hand on her mind, poor thing.”
“And the Wild Rose!” exclaimed the Huron — for the fame of Judith’s beauty had spread among those who could travel the wilderness, as well as the highway by means of old eagles’ nests, rocks, and riven trees known to them by report and tradition, as well as among the white borderers, “And the Wild Rose; is she not sweet enough to be put in the bosom of my brother?”
Deerslayer had far too much of the innate gentleman to insinuate aught against the fair fame of one who, by nature and position was so helpless, and as he did not choose to utter an untruth, he preferred being silent. The Huron mistook the motive, and supposed that disappointed affection lay at the bottom of his reserve. Still bent on corrupting or bribing his captive, in order to obtain possession of the treasures with which his imagination filled the Castle, he persevered in his attack.
“Hawkeye is talking with a friend,” he continued. “He knows that Rivenoak is a man of his word, for they have traded together, and trade opens the soul. My friend has come here on account of a little string held by a girl, that can pull the whole body of the sternest warrior?”
“You are nearer the truth, now, Huron, than you’ve been afore, since we began to talk. This is true. But one end of that string was not fast to my heart, nor did the Wild Rose hold the other.”
“This is wonderful! Does my brother love in his head, and not in his heart? And can the Feeble Mind pull so hard against so stout a warrior?”
“There it is ag’in; sometimes right, and sometimes wrong! The string you mean is fast to the heart of a great Delaware; one of Mohican stock in fact, living among the Delawares since the disparsion of his own people, and of the family of Uncas — Chingachgook by name, or Great Sarpent. He has come here, led by the string, and I’ve followed, or rather come afore, for I got here first, pulled by nothing stronger than fri’ndship; which is strong enough for such as are not niggardly of their feelin’s, and are willing to live a little for their fellow creatur’s, as well as for themselves.”
“But a string has two ends — one is fast to the mind of a Mohican; and the other?”
“Why the other was here close to the fire, half an hour since. Wah-ta-Wah held it in her hand, if she didn’t hold it to her heart.”
“I understand what you mean, my brother,” returned the Indian gravely, for the first time catching a direct clue to the adventures of the evening. “The Great Serpent, being strongest, pulled the hardest, and Hist was forced to leave us.”
“I don’t think there was much pulling about it,” answered the other, laughing, always in his silent manner, with as much heartiness as if he were not a captive, and in danger of torture or death —“I don’t think there was much pulling about it; no I don’t. Lord help you, Huron! He likes the gal, and the gal likes him, and it surpassed Huron sarcumventions to keep two young people apart, where there was so strong a feelin’ to bring ’em together.”
“And Hawkeye and Chingachgook came into our camp on this errand, only?”
“That’s a question that’ll answer itself, Mingo! Yes, if a question could talk it would answer itself, to your parfect satisfaction. For what else should we come? And yet, it isn’t exactly so, neither; for we didn’t come into your camp at all, but only as far as that pine, there, that you see on the other side of the ridge, where we stood watching your movements, and conduct, as long as we liked. When we were ready, the Sarpent gave his signal, and then all went just as it should, down to the moment when yonder vagabond leaped upon my back. Sartain; we come for that, and for no other purpose, and we got what we come for; there’s no use in pretending otherwise. Hist is off with a man who’s the next thing to her husband, and come what will to me, that’s one good thing detarmined.”
“What sign, or signal, told the young maiden that her lover was nigh?” asked the Huron with more curiosity than it was usual for him to betray.
Deerslayer laughed again, and seem’d to enjoy the success of the exploit, with as much glee as if he had not been its victim.
“Your squirrels are great gadabouts, Mingo,” he cried still laughing-“yes, they’re sartainly great gadabouts! When other folk’s squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees, and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their musick! Well, there’s four legged squirrels, and there’s two legged squirrels, and give me the last, when there’s a good tight string atween two hearts. If one brings ’em together, t’other tells when to pull hardest!”
The Huron looked vexed, though he succeeded in suppressing any violent exhibition of resentment. He now quitted his prisoner and, joining the rest of the warriors, he communicated the substance of what he had learned. As in his own case, admiration was mingled with anger at the boldness and success of their enemies. Three or four of them ascended the little acclivity and gazed at the tree where it was understood the adventurers had posted themselves, and one even descended to it, and examined for foot prints around its roots, in order to make sure that the statement was true. The result confirmed the story of the captive, and they all returned to the fire with increased wonder and respect. The messenger who had arrived with some communication from the party above, while the two adventurers were watching the camp, was now despatched with some answer, and doubtless bore with him the intelligence of all that had happened.
Down to this moment, the young Indian who had been seen walking in company with Hist and another female had made no advances to any communication with Deerslayer. He had held himself aloof from his friends, even, passing near the bevy of younger women, who were clustering together, apart as usual, and conversed in low tones on the subject of the escape of their late companion. Perhaps it would be true to say that these last were pleased as well as vexed at what had just occurred. Their female sympathies were with the lovers, while their pride was bound up in the success of their own tribe. It is possible, too, that the superior personal advantages of Hist rendered her dangerous to some of the younger part of the group, and they were not sorry to find she was no longer in the way of their own ascendency. On the whole, however, the better feeling was most prevalent, for neither the wild condition in which they lived, the clannish prejudices of tribes, nor their hard fortunes as Indian women, could entirely conquer the inextinguishable leaning of their sex to the affections. One of the girls even laughed at the disconsolate look of the swain who might fancy himself deserted, a circumstance that seemed suddenly to arouse his energies, and induce him to move towards the log, on which the prisoner was still seated, drying his clothes.
“This is Catamount!” said the Indian, striking his hand boastfully on his naked breast, as he uttered the words in a manner to show how much weight he expected them to carry.
“This is Hawkeye,” quietly returned Deerslayer, adopting the name by which he knew he would be known in future, among all the tribes of the Iroquois. “My sight is keen; is my brother’s leap long?”
“From here to the Delaware villages. Hawkeye has stolen my wife; he must bring her back, or his scalp will hang on a pole, and dry in my wigwam.”
“Hawkeye has stolen nothing, Huron. He doesn’t come of a thieving breed, nor has he thieving gifts. Your wife, as you call Wah-ta-Wah, will never be the wife of any red-skin of the Canadas; her mind is in the cabin of a Delaware, and her body has gone to find it. The catamount is actyve I know, but its legs can’t keep pace with a woman’s wishes.”
“The Serpent of the Delawares is a dog — he is a poor bull trout that keeps in the water; he is afraid to stand on the hard earth, like a brave Indian!”
“Well, well, Huron, that’s pretty impudent, considering it’s not an hour since the Sarpent stood within a hundred feet of you, and would have tried the toughness of your skin with a rifle bullet, when I pointed you out to him, hadn’t I laid the weight of a little judgment on his hand. You may take in timorsome gals in the settlements, with your catamount whine, but the ears of a man can tell truth from ontruth.”
“Hist laughs at him! She sees he is lame, and a poor hunter, and he has never been on a war path. She will take a man for a husband, and not a fish.”
“How do you know that, Catamount? how do you know that?” returned Deerslayer laughing. “She has gone into the lake, you see, and maybe she prefars a trout to a mongrel cat. As for war paths, neither the Sarpent nor I have much exper’ence, we are ready to own, but if you don’t call this one, you must tarm it, what the gals in the settlements tarm it, the high road to matrimony. Take my advice, Catamount, and s’arch for a wife among the Huron women; you’ll never get one with a willing mind from among the Delawares.”
Catamount’s hand felt for his tomahawk, and when the fingers reached the handle they worked convulsively, as if their owner hesitated between policy and resentment. At this critical moment Rivenoak approached, and by a gesture of authority, induced the young man to retire, assuming his former position, himself, on the log at the side of Deerslayer. Here he continued silent for a little time, maintaining the grave reserve of an Indian chief.
“Hawkeye is right,” the Iroquois at length began; “his sight is so strong that he can see truth in a dark night, and our eyes have been blinded. He is an owl, darkness hiding nothing from him. He ought not to strike his friends. He is right.”
“I’m glad you think so, Mingo,” returned the other, “for a traitor, in my judgment, is worse than a coward. I care as little for the Muskrat, as one pale-face ought to care for another, but I care too much for him to ambush him in the way you wished. In short, according to my idees, any sarcumventions, except open-war sarcumventions, are ag’in both law, and what we whites call ‘gospel’, too.”
“My pale-face brother is right; he is no Indian, to forget his Manitou and his colour. The Hurons know that they have a great warrior for their prisoner, and they will treat him as one. If he is to be tortured, his torments shall be such as no common man can bear; if he is to be treated as a friend, it will be the friendship of chiefs.”
As the Huron uttered this extraordinary assurance of consideration, his eye furtively glanced at the countenance of his listener, in order to discover how he stood the compliment, though his gravity and apparent sincerity would have prevented any man but one practised in artifices, from detecting his motives. Deerslayer belonged to the class of the unsuspicious, and acquainted with the Indian notions of what constitutes respect, in matters connected with the treatment of captives, he felt his blood chill at the announcement, even while he maintained an aspect so steeled that his quick sighted enemy could discover in it no signs of weakness.
“God has put me in your hands, Huron,” the captive at length answered, “and I suppose you will act your will on me. I shall not boast of what I can do, under torment, for I’ve never been tried, and no man can say till he has been; but I’ll do my endivours not to disgrace the people among whom I got my training. Howsever, I wish you now to bear witness that I’m altogether of white blood, and, in a nat’ral way of white gifts too; so, should I be overcome and forget myself, I hope you’ll lay the fault where it properly belongs, and in no manner put it on the Delawares, or their allies and friends the Mohicans. We’re all created with more or less weakness, and I’m afeard it’s a pale-face’s to give in under great bodily torment, when a red-skin will sing his songs, and boast of his deeds in the very teeth of his foes.”
“We shall see. Hawkeye has a good countenance, and he is tough — but why should he be tormented, when the Hurons love him? He is not born their enemy, and the death of one warrior will not cast a cloud between them forever.”
“So much the better, Huron; so much the better. Still I don’t wish to owe any thing to a mistake about each other’s meaning. It is so much the better that you bear no malice for the loss of a warrior who fell in war, and yet it is ontrue that there is no inmity — lawful inmity I mean — atween us. So far as I have red-skin feelin’s at all, I’ve Delaware feelin’s, and I leave you to judge for yourself how far they are likely to be fri’ndly to the Mingos —”
Deerslayer ceased, for a sort of spectre stood before him, that put a stop to his words, and, indeed, caused him for a moment to doubt the fidelity of his boasted vision. Hetty Hutter was standing at the side of the fire as quietly as if she belonged to the tribe.
As the hunter and the Indian sat watching the emotions that were betrayed in each other’s countenance, the girl had approached unnoticed, doubtless ascending from the beach on the southern side of the point, or that next to the spot where the Ark had anchored, and had advanced to the fire with the fearlessness that belonged to her simplicity, and which was certainly justified by the treatment formerly received from the Indians. As soon as Rivenoak perceived the girl, she was recognised, and calling to two or three of the younger warriors, the chief sent them out to reconnoitre, lest her appearance should be the forerunner of another attack. He then motioned to Hetty to draw near.
“I hope your visit is a sign that the Sarpent and Hist are in safety, Hetty,” said Deerslayer, as soon as the girl had complied with the Huron’s request. “I don’t think you’d come ashore ag’in, on the arr’nd that brought you here afore.”
“Judith told me to come this time, Deerslayer,” Hetty replied, “she paddled me ashore herself, in a canoe, as soon as the Serpent had shown her Hist and told his story. How handsome Hist is tonight, Deerslayer, and how much happier she looks than when she was with the Hurons!”
“That’s natur’ gal; yes, that may be set down as human natur’. She’s with her betrothed, and no longer fears a Mingo husband. In my judgment Judith, herself, would lose most of her beauty if she thought she was to bestow it all on a Mingo! Content is a great fortifier of good looks, and I’ll warrant you, Hist is contented enough, now she is out of the hands of these miscreants, and with her chosen warrior! Did you say that Judith told you to come ashore — why should your sister do that?”
“She bid me come to see you, and to try and persuade the savages to take more elephants to let you off, but I’ve brought the Bible with me — that will do more than all the elephants in father’s chest!”
“And your father, good little Hetty — and Hurry; did they know of your arr’nd?”
“Not they. Both are asleep, and Judith and the Serpent thought it best they should not be woke, lest they might want to come again after scalps, when Hist had told them how few warriors, and how many women and children there were in the camp. Judith would give me no peace, till I had come ashore to see what had happened to you.”
“Well, that’s remarkable as consarns Judith! Whey should she feel so much unsartainty about me? — Ah —— I see how it is, now; yes, I see into the whole matter, now. You must understand, Hetty, that your sister is oneasy lest Harry March should wake, and come blundering here into the hands of the inimy ag’in, under some idee that, being a travelling comrade, he ought to help me in this matter! Hurry is a blunderer, I will allow, but I don’t think he’d risk as much for my sake, as he would for his own.”
“Judith don’t care for Hurry, though Hurry cares for her,” replied Hetty innocently, but quite positively.
“I’ve heard you say as much as that afore; yes, I’ve heard that from you, afore, gal, and yet it isn’t true. One don’t live in a tribe, not to see something of the way in which liking works in a woman’s heart. Though no way given to marrying myself, I’ve been a looker on among the Delawares, and this is a matter in which pale-face and red-skin gifts are all as one as the same. When the feelin’ begins, the young woman is thoughtful, and has no eyes or ears onless for the warrior that has taken her fancy; then follows melancholy and sighing, and such sort of actions; after which, especially if matters don’t come to plain discourse, she often flies round to back biting and fault finding, blaming the youth for the very things she likes best in him. Some young creatur’s are forward in this way of showing their love, and I’m of opinion Judith is one of ’em. Now, I’ve heard her as much as deny that Hurry was good-looking, and the young woman who could do that, must be far gone indeed!”
“The young woman who liked Hurry would own that he is handsome. I think Hurry very handsome, Deerslayer, and I’m sure everybody must think so, that has eyes. Judith don’t like Harry March, and that’s the reason she finds fault with him.”
“Well — well — my good little Hetty, have it your own way. If we should talk from now till winter, each would think as at present, and there’s no use in words. I must believe that Judith is much wrapped up in Hurry, and that, sooner or later, she’ll have him; and this, too, all the more from the manner in which she abuses him; and I dare to say, you think just the contrary. But mind what I now tell you, gal, and pretend not to know it,” continued this being, who was so obtuse on a point on which men are usually quick enough to make discoveries, and so acute in matters that would baffle the observation of much the greater portion of mankind, “I see how it is, with them vagabonds. Rivenoak has left us, you see, and is talking yonder with his young men, and though too far to be heard, I can see what he is telling them. Their orders is to watch your movements, and to find where the canoe is to meet you, to take you back to the Ark, and then to seize all and what they can. I’m sorry Judith sent you, for I suppose she wants you to go back ag’in.”
“All that’s settled, Deerslayer,” returned the girl, in a low, confidential and meaning manner, “and you may trust me to outwit the best Indian of them all. I know I am feeble minded, but I’ve got some sense, and you’ll see how I’ll use it in getting back, when my errand is done!”
“Ahs! me, poor girl; I’m afeard all that’s easier said than done. They’re a venomous set of riptyles and their p’ison’s none the milder, for the loss of Hist. Well, I’m glad the Sarpent was the one to get off with the gal, for now there’ll be two happy at least, whereas had he fallen into the hands of the Mingos, there’d been two miserable, and another far from feelin’ as a man likes to feel.”
“Now you put me in mind of a part of my errand that I had almost forgotten, Deerslayer. Judith told me to ask you what you thought the Hurons would do with you, if you couldn’t be bought off, and what she had best do to serve you. Yes, this was the most important part of the errand — what she had best do, in order to serve you?”
“That’s as you think, Hetty; but it’s no matter. Young women are apt to lay most stress on what most touches their feelin’s; but no matter; have it your own way, so you be but careful not to let the vagabonds get the mastery of a canoe. When you get back to the Ark, tell ’em to keep close, and to keep moving too, most especially at night. Many hours can’t go by without the troops on the river hearing of this party, and then your fri’nds may look for relief. ’Tis but a day’s march from the nearest garrison, and true soldiers will never lie idle with the foe in their neighborhood. This is my advice, and you may say to your father and Hurry that scalp-hunting will be a poor business now, as the Mingos are up and awake, and nothing can save ’em, ‘till the troops come, except keeping a good belt of water atween ’em and the savages.”
“What shall I tell Judith about you, Deerslayer; I know she will send me back again, if I don’t bring her the truth about you.”
“Then tell her the truth. I see no reason Judith Hutter shouldn’t hear the truth about me, as well as a lie. I’m a captyve in Indian hands, and Providence only knows what will come of it! Harkee, Hetty,” dropping his voice and speaking still more confidentially, “you are a little weak minded, it must be allowed, but you know something of Injins. Here I am in their hands, after having slain one of their stoutest warriors, and they’ve been endivouring to work upon me through fear of consequences, to betray your father, and all in the Ark. I understand the blackguards as well as if they’d told it all out plainly, with their tongues. They hold up avarice afore me, on one side, and fear on t’other, and think honesty will give way atween ’em both. But let your father and Hurry know, ’tis all useless; as for the Sarpent, he knows it already.”
“But what shall I tell Judith? She will certainly send me back, if I don’t satisfy her mind.”
“Well, tell Judith the same. No doubt the savages will try the torments, to make me give in, and to revenge the loss of their warrior, but I must hold out ag’in nat’ral weakness in the best manner I can. You may tell Judith to feel no consarn on my account-it will come hard I know, seeing that a white man’s gifts don’t run to boasting and singing under torment, for he generally feels smallest when he suffers most — but you may tell her not to have any consarn. I think I shall make out to stand it, and she may rely on this, let me give in, as much as I may, and prove completely that I am white, by wailings, and howlings, and even tears, yet I’ll never fall so far as to betray my fri’nds. When it gets to burning holes in the flesh, with heated ramrods, and to hacking the body, and tearing the hair out by the roots, natur’ may get the upperhand, so far as groans, and complaints are consarned, but there the triumph of the vagabonds will ind; nothing short of God’s abandoning him to the devils can make an honest man ontrue to his colour and duty.”
Hetty listened with great attention, and her mild but speaking countenance manifested a strong sympathy in the anticipated agony of the supposititious sufferer. At first she seemed at a loss how to act; then, taking a hand of Deerslayer’s she affectionately recommended to him to borrow her Bible, and to read it while the savages were inflicting their torments. When the other honestly admitted that it exceeded his power to read, she even volunteered to remain with him, and to perform this holy office in person. The offer was gently declined, and Rivenoak being about to join them, Deerslayer requested the girl to leave him, first enjoining her again to tell those in the Ark to have full confidence in his fidelity. Hetty now walked away, and approached the group of females with as much confidence and self-possession as if she were a native of the tribe. On the other hand the Huron resumed his seat by the side of his prisoner, the one continuing to ask questions with all the wily ingenuity of a practised Indian counsellor, and the other baffling him by the very means that are known to be the most efficacious in defeating the finesse of the more pretending diplomacy of civilization, or by confining his answers to the truth, and the truth only.
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In its first year, The Jobber's Salesman ran a column for salespeople entitled, “How I landed the order: Little stories of unusual sales — as told by salesmen.” The column in the July 1920 issue of The Jobber's Salesman, which Electrical Wholesaling was called until 1932, offered some advice from a field salesperson that's just as applicable today as it was 85 years ago:
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SIC Announces Annual High School Business Skills Competition Awards
March 4, 2013
Gallatin County High School is the high overall winner for this year’s high school business skills competition at Southeastern Illinois College.
The event, held Feb. 28, included six categories for individual students to compete with their peers from other SIC district high schools. Those schools competing this year included Carmi-White County, Eldorado, Galatia, Gallatin County, Hardin County and Harrisburg.
Several of the events involve an objective exam while others have a hands-on component. The top two scores from each event are recognized at the awards ceremony. Each school’s individual competition scores are totaled to find out the school with the most points.
“Recognizing the students for their achievements is a great way to encourage them to flourish in these areas for potential future careers,” said Dan Holt, business instructor at SIC.
Each high school can enter up to two students per event. In the accounting category, the 100-question test covers such topics as balance sheets, income statements, work sheets, adjusting and closing entries, account balances, notes receivable and petty cash. Students are not allowed to use calculators or cell phones during the test. Mitchell Ramsey of Gallatin County won first in accounting and Brandon Thom of Harrisburg took second.
The general business category covers banking, budgeting, careers, economic systems, insurance, marketing and other business information. Jamey Steed of Carmi-White County earned first place in general business, while Kinsey Naas of Gallatin County took second.
Keyboarding consists of two 3-minute timed writings with a non-corrected five error limit. Haley Bell of Carmi-White County won first place in keyboarding. Second place went to Jordan Trainor of Hardin County.
Computer concepts tests student knowledge on basic computing principles, terminology, programming concepts and procedures, computer application concepts and computer equipment. Joseph Watson of Eldorado took first in computer concepts and Kyle Sherod of Gallatin County earned second.
The information technology contest quizzes student on their knowledge about computer assembly and networking. Taking first in information technology was Jimmy Sexton of Carmi-White County, Travis Bortz of Harrisburg earned second in this category.
Finally, the web design category required students to modify a web page working with HTML code. Dakota Meents of Eldorado won first place in web design, and Dustin Oldham of Gallatin County took second.
The purpose of the event is not only to encourage and enhance the study of business knowledge and skills at an early age, but to familiarize area high school students with the available business and computer information technology programs at SIC.
“We have been hosting this event for the past 11 years. It has been one of the highlights of my year to get to meet these students and give them much deserved recognition for their academic achievements,” said Karen Keasler, SIC business science instructor and one of the organizers of the event. “Many of those who compete decide to attend SIC. It is always rewarding to find them in my classes and to get to know them.”
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Got the kind of face everybody knows.
Run around barefoot when it snows.
Growin' out your hair 'cos you like it long.
Fighting in the road 'cos you know it's wrong.
People got a thing for the dangerous.
You'll find it inside the best of us.
Taking what they want like it's owed to them.
Other folks do the best they can...
Some of us do the best we can!
Everybody's speaking in tongues, we gotta speak in love!
Never met a man 'said he did not try
Running from the truth time again in life.
You can be the poor one, rich or wise,
But all of us know 'bout sacrifice.
Put me in the water, put me in the fire.
Put me in the world and I'll walk that wire.
Seen the people come and I've seen them go.
Talk all day but it's what they show...
Talk all day but it's what you show!
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• Functional skills in English and Maths Level 2
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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2018). How People Learn II:
Learners, Contexts, and Cultures. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
Newmann, F. M., Smith, B., Allensworth, E., & Bryk, A. S. (2001). Instructional program coherence: What it is and why it should guide school improvement policy. Educational evaluation and policy analysis, 23(4), 297-321.
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A proton, moving with a velocity of v1i collides elastically with another proton that is initially at rest. One proton has three times the speed of the other after the collision. How would I find the speed of each proton after the collision in terms of vi and their velocity vectors after the collision? I understand that momentum is conserved, but i see how to apply it. Any help would greatly be appreciated. | <urn:uuid:607d549a-0cf6-4a43-9f44-66ae5297f897> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/elastic-collision.65308/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00427-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97326 | 89 | 2.4375 | 2 |
I would like to know what to do with leftover pieces of hand soap. I have started using liquid soap for hands, but have plenty of soap pieces left over.
Carmen from Illinois
I would put into a soap dispenser with warm water and let dissolve, it should make liquid soap. They have a special soap dispenser just for using leftover soap pieces. I think I saw it in the ABC distributing catalog, but I'm not sure. I think you could just make your own and give it a little shake each time you go to use it. (04/26/2004)
You can always use them in your drawers to keep your clothes fresh. (04/26/2004)
I use soap samples in the shower, so they go to slivers pretty quickly. I put the slivers of soap in an old catsup squeeze bottle, like you used to see at cafes, with some water and a marble. Shake vigorously before using. The catsup squeeze bottle has a large mouth for easily adding soap, and the tip is easily cleared if it clogs.
You could sew the pieces into a washcloth folded in half and stitched. Then just wet and wash. (04/26/2004)
If you pull up soap making websites (same for leftover candle wax) you can find out how to "melt" down the soap and pour into a mold (small tin can works well and you can open the closed end and push out once set-small milk cartons also work well) and reuse. (04/26/2004)
If you use your garage sink or outside spigot a lot, take an old nylon stocking or knee-high, put the soap slivers in it and tie a knot, so you've got a big soap lump down by the toe.Then tie it to the spigot. Next time your hands are covered with dirt from gardening or grease from working on the car, just wet your hands and rub the soap lump between your hands. You'll get clean BEFORE you go indoors! (04/30/2004)
By Becki in Indiana
If anyone suffers from leg cramps, put the leftover soap pieces under your bottom sheet. Or you could keep by your bed and rub onto your leg if you have a cramp. (05/20/2004)
Yes, use Irish Spring soap bars under your sheets, directly under your legs. You will not get leg cramps anymore. My Grampa and Uncle both had bad leg cramps until they started using soap under their sheets. My grampa took his bar out to see if he would get cramps without the soap in the bed, and he did get a bad cramp that night. They both swear by this remedy and it has been proven to work by many medical experts. Search the internet if you don't believe me. I know the is some medicinal value to this remedy but they haven't found out what it is yet. All I know is that it works. It won't hurt you to try it for yourself. IT WILL WORK (11/20/2004)
I used scraps of net left over from a sewing project to make a net drawstring bag to hold small pieces of soap. It hangs in the shower and I use this instead of a instead of a washcloth. I've recycled net and soap bits. It's better than the nylon "thingies" you buy.
By Barbara (04/22/2005)
Thank you, this is exactly what I was looking for! Now I can use up the many leftover pieces of bar soap that I have collected and didn't want to just throw away. (03/27/2008)
There used to be a rubber bag with holes in it? My mom had one years ago. Do they still exist? (05/12/2008)
Wow I didn't know you could do a lot of things with soap. Thanks you guys! (11/15/2008)
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French was the official language of the English court from 1066 until the beginning of the fifteenth century. And that before the French is the official language of France, since during that time it was Latin that was the official language until 1539.
French was the language of the English Parliament until 1363, and it was not until 1413 that English courts were allowed to plead in English. But its use has continued for many years. Until the nineteenth century, a large number of French formulas were still used in acts of justice and in the ceremonies of the coronation of English sovereigns.
During this period, English continued to be used at the same time as French: the country was bilingual. The French language has had a strong influence on English in many areas such as commerce, law, family or cooking. Among the words borrowed from French, we find “merchant”, “judge”, “marriage” or “mustard”.
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New software could improve democratic input
Otago Daily Times, 22 July 2008
By David Bruce
Air quality is one of the major concerns people have concerning a $300 million cement plant being built at Weston, near Oamaru, according to information being gathered by Otago University masters student Ngaio Fletcher.
Last weekend, Ms Fletcher ran six seminars in Oamaru for research she is conducting on whether an interactive computer software programme developed by Otago University could improve community input into major projects.
The outcome would be easier decision-making by local authorities later on.
The research will form part of Ms Fletcher's thesis for her master's degree.
She has chosen Holcim (New Zealand) Ltd's plans for a cement plant at Weston as an example of a major project.
The computer software programme is called 1000minds.
It breaks complex issues down into more simple ones by considering only two factors at a time.
An example might be trading off an increase in traffic for pollution reduction.
By making a series of trade-off decisions, the software builds a picture of the criteria people deem to be the most important.
At least 20 people have been involved with the research.
Last weekend's seminars identified that people had differing concerns about the effects of the cement plant, depending on where they lived.
Those close to the plant were worried about heavy traffic and noise.
Those further away were worried about economic effects and access to services such as health and education, as more people would move to the area to work at the plant.
However, the widest concern was the plant's effect on air quality.
Ms Fletcher believes that 1000minds could play an important part in formatting community input information.
Her research will now be compiled into her thesis, which should be complete towards the end of August.
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Wednesday May 28, 2014
How many college students go to class and get to carry out a full-fledged controlled prairie burn? Or, recommend solutions to real problems in their own cities and towns, and see their ideas implemented? Or, take their newly learned clinical skills and put them to work in an underserved population, offering invaluable services to real patients?
At Indiana University Northwest, most of them do.
In fact, at IU Northwest, this kind of hands-on learning is the norm rather than the exception. Hardly anyone learns strictly in a classroom anymore. And that’s a good thing.
Sitting in lecture halls and pouring over case studies to learn how something should be done in the field is only one small part of higher education at IU Northwest. Rather, experiences are a primary way students learn, from professors who, in large part, have worked in the very careers the students are pursuing.
Such opportunities for students are plentiful in every discipline at IU Northwest. From ecology to nursing to city planning, three examples from the 2013-14 academic year illustrate the full scope of an IU Northwest education.
Burning issues in ecology
Spencer Cortwright, Ph.D., department chair and associate professor of biology, provides a field experience for all of his upper-level classes. One popular site for a variety of lessons is the Little Calumet River Prairie and Wetlands, sometimes known affectionately as “Spencer’s Prairie,” located immediately north of the main campus parking lot.
Cortwright is happy to be the prairie’s permanent caretaker, and a great side benefit is that it has also become a classroom for IU Northwest students. His zoology students regularly study the foraging habits of small mammals, and the Biology Club assists in conducting a controlled prairie burn.
Recent biology graduate Bridget Swope recently participated in her third controlled prairie burn under Cortwright’s supervision. Her excitement is apparent as she recounts her experience.
“The day of the burn, you get here at 9 a.m.,” she said. “You load everything up. You have the gas tanks and the water prepared just in case you get spot fires. You go down and do a test fire like in small corner so it doesn’t get too far and you make sure the wind is going to push it so it goes out toward the barriers – like the pavement or the street – where it is not going to burn. You make sure the wind is good, the humidity is good, that everything is alright. And then you start at the highest area. There is really tall grass by the levy wall, so we burn that area first because it is the biggest grass density and grass burns the hottest. And then we just go through and everyone gets their turn.”
Swope emphasized that proper certification is required to conduct a prairie burn so the students are supervised closely.
Swope said the prairie is a great hands-on classroom, not only for fire training, but also for many aspects of ecology – the study of insects, the impact of non-native plants, changes in the food web, the eating habits of mice, and more. The prairie provides a field experience in all parts of an ecosystem.
“It helped me be a well-rounded biologist,” Swope said.
Cortwright said that conducting a controlled prairie is actually a skill that is needed in Northwest Indiana.
“The application of prescribed fire is performed by all conservation groups in the Midwest and hence, is an important skill for students looking for such a job,” Cortwright said. “At the same time, our fire efforts work to improve a nature preserve that thousands drive by each day.”
Making a difference in our neighborhoods
As part of his Environmental Planning course, Kalim Shah, Ph.D., asked his students to get involved in public meetings of the Northwestern Indiana Regional Planning Commission (NIRPC).
In groups of three and four, the students took part in each of the commission’s policy committees, and by semester’s end, they presented their planning and process recommendations to the committees.
Lauren Whitman, a senior majoring in anthropology, served on a NIRPC committee that addresses bicycle, pedestrian and water transportation in the area. Her group provided recommendations for how to improve the visibility of the committee’s meetings and get more community input.
Whitman said she valued the experience for the education it provided about how things get done in a community – locally, federally and globally.
“We heard lectures on actual policies of planning and learned about how it gets to the state and federal level,” she said. “On the local level we were asked to participate in a committee of NIRPC. We visited their meetings and learned how what we were learning in class about policies at the national level apply locally,” Whitman said. “One of the central messages of the class was that even if you think globally, which is kind of the motto for any environmental science, what really matters is when you act locally. That was our goal. To figure out how these policies could move forward in our area.”
Whitman, whose ultimate career goal is to become a college professor, said she was interested in urban planning for her personal interest. In fact, she is also earning a minor in urban public health.
She said the experience helped her to become a better citizen.
“I know who to talk to and how things actually get done. If I have an issue with a sidewalk in my neighborhood, for instance, I know who to talk to about it.”
Nursing lessons from Guatemala
Clinical Assistant Professor Jennifer Szabo’s course, titled Global Service Learning, recently culminated in a 10-day trip to Zacapa, Guatemala, organized by Hearts in Motion, a non-profit organization that provides care and medical treatment for children, families, and communities through its programs and sponsorships in the U.S., and Central and South America.
The experience was the first trip abroad for the School of Nursing, in which 13 students and three recent graduates lent their talents, and nursing skills, to residents of a poverty-stricken village.
“Throughout our 10 days, we set up five different clinics and delivered care in rural mountainside villages,” Szabo said. “We made food and distributed it as well as clothing to one poverty-stricken village that sits literally on a garbage dump, participated in a weekly feeding program at an orphanage, visited and passed out toys and bubbles at a daycare, moved all furniture and supplies to a new building from a daycare that was destroyed by water, and immersed ourselves in the Guatemalan culture as well as definitely improved our Spanish-speaking skills.”
Nursing student Lissa Landini, said that seeing many different patients with many different conditions all in one day was a clinical experience unlike any she’d had before. The students had to think quickly on their feet, which gave them a taste of what a day in the life of a nurse might be like.
“Being able to practice like a nurse but not necessarily being a nurse yet, gives you an eye-opening example of what it will be like when you get there, and it gives you an idea of what you want to do in the future too. Now that I’ve done this,” she said, “I can’t imagine not doing this for the rest of my life.”
Adam Wolfe, a full-time firefighter who is trading his career in teaching for one in nursing, gave one word to describe the experience: “life-changing.” He agreed that nursing is only one small part of the education he received in Guatemala.
“It helped me open my eyes to the compassionate side – seeing people as people and not just seeing them as patients,” he said.
Szabo hopes to make future trips a collaborative venture and engage other disciplines on campus, especially from the College of Health and Human Services, as the experience lends itself perfectly for interprofessional education.
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V-22 Aerial Tanker Variant on Tap for 2018 | Israel’s Sea-based Iron Dome Intercepts Salvos in Test | Saab Premiers First of Three Gripen E’sMay 19, 2016 00:50 UTC
- The Navy’s V-22 Osprey program has set 2018 for the deployment of the aerial tanker variant of the USMC’s MV-22B. Once the new capability is installed, it will be possible for the air combat element of a Marine Expeditionary Unit to refuel in air its F-35 Lightning II strike fighters and CH-53 heavy-lift helicopters, and eventually even other V-22s may be a possibility. This capability will extend the reach of the amphibious ready groups for strike and assault missions.
- Raytheon’s SeaRam anti-ship defense system has undergone its most rigorous testing in recent US Navy testing. Targets successfully engaged involved two supersonic missiles flying in complex, evasive maneuvers which the system successfully took down with the Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2 missiles. The SeaRAM is an upgrade of Phalanx Block 1B and it swaps out the gatling gun with an 11-round Rolling Airframe Missile guide.
- A collaboration between MIT and Lockheed Martin engineers is to focus on the innovations needed to enable generation-after-next autonomous systems. The signed agreement was formalized during a ceremony at the campus last Friday and provides a multi-year framework between MIT and Lockheed Martin for collaborative research, exchange of visiting scientists, support of student Undergraduate Research Opportunities, fellowships, and internships at Lockheed Martin. Dr. Padraig Moloney, who spearheaded the new initiative, stated “We’re confident that our relationship and collaboration in these technical areas will influence the fields of autonomy and robotics for the next 15-20 years.”
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- On Wednesday, Israel claimed that it had successfully intercepted a test salvo of shore-launched short-range rockets with a new sea-based version of the Iron Dome. The testing took place two week ago on board the force’s INS Lahav Sa’ar-5 corvette-class surface vessel which has had the IAI/Elta developed Adir radar and Rafael-developed Iron Dome integrated on board. It remains unclear, however, what types of threats the system engaged.
- Austria’s Diamond Aircraft has announced the maiden flight of its DART-450 (Diamond Aircraft Reconnaissance Trainer). The aircraft is a first all-carbon fiber tandem, 2-seat civilian and military trainer with a sidestick and pneumatic ejection seats. Powering the DART-450 is the Ivchenko-Progress/Motor Sich AI-450S turboprop engine, a 5-blade MT propeller, and a GARMIN avionic system, giving the trainer a top speed of 250kts.
- Saab rolled out the first of its three Gripen E fighters yesterday, with the test fighter to be handed over to the flight test department this summer. The unveiling comes three years before the first of at least 96 production models are to be delivered to the governments of Brazil and Sweden. Saab expects that between 400-450 Gripen E models could be produced over the life of the program.
- MBDA has been awarded a $600 million UK MoD contract for futher development of the Spear 3 missile. The missile is described as the sister weapon to MBDA’s Brimstone already in service with the RAF, in use in Iraq and Syria against Islamic State militants. Already, the Spear 3 has been test-fired from a Typhoon aircraft but the contract will allow MBDA to develop the missile for use with the controversial F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
- Indian Air Force (IAF) chief Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha became the first chief to fly the indigenous HAL Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas fighter in a short sortie on Tuesday. Raha’s flight came during a visit to meet team LCA in Bengalaru which involved the inauguration of the Tejas’ painting hanger. The only other top IAF officer to have flown the LCA was Deputy chief of Air Staff Air Marshal SBP Sinha, in September 2014.
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UN expert urges Somalia to strengthen justice system following attacks
17 April 2013 – The Somali Government and international community must continue their efforts to strengthen the East African country’s justice sector in spite of a series attacks on Sunday which killed dozens of civilians including judges and lawyers and injured many more, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.
“In my various visits to Mogadishu, I have been always encouraged by the commitment of the justice personnel and legal aid providers who conduct their duties in a challenging security context,” said the expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari.
On Sunday, armed men targeted an aid convoy close to the airport and stormed the Banadir Regional Court in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The militant group Al Shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
“In order to ensure the rule of law and the fight against impunity, the judicial personnel have to be protected and allowed to do their job in a war-torn country like Somalia,” Mr. Bari said.
While the list of dead and injured is still being completed, local non-governmental organizations have confirmed the deaths of Mohamed Mohamud Afrah, head of the Somali Lawyers Association and his associate Abdikarin Hassan Gorod. Both were working with the Somali Women’s Development Centre.
The two lawyers also provided legal assistance to countless Somalis over the past years, including legal advice to the journalist Abdiasis Abdinur Ibrahim and an alleged rape survivor he interviewed. The two were convicted earlier this year of one year in prison, but the sentence was later overturned.
“I offer my heartfelt condolences and prayers to the families and loved ones of those killed and injured during the attacks,” said Mr. Bari. “Last Sunday was another terribly sad day for a country that has already suffered so much for so long.”
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TITLE: The Legend of the Weeping Sycamore
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Gazing up into the tops of the trees around him, he whispered, "I want to be big, like all of you!" Some of his nearby cousins could boast of having over one hundred rings. The little sprig of green was still very much a fledgling in the forest. Someday, though, he would show them all just what he was made of. "I'm destined for greatness," he thought. "One day I will be a mighty sycamore in this forest. I may be small now, but one day I will a king."
Hundreds of miles away from the forest of sycamores, there was talk of another king, a human child, not yet a year old. This baby boy was being diligently sought by one who wanted to kill him and prevent the fulfillment of Messianic prophecy.
"Take your child and your wife and go to a far country. Stay there until I tell you it is safe to return." A young mother's heart burned with the memory of the angel's words. "Your son is destined for greatness; for he will one day be a king and he will save his people from their sin."
. . . Time left its imprint. The tiny seedling was now a mature tree that proudly wore 33 rings. Each ring represented the passing of a human year...
As the early morning sun cast a shaft of light into the forest, men came, carrying heavy wooden axes. They ruthlessly cut down three trees. The mighty sycamore was the last to fall. They drug it from its forest home, through the city streets and up a hill, called Golgotha. And there....they laid upon its sturdy frame, a man. Above the man a sign was hung that said, "King of the Jews"
The sycamore looked first to his left and then to his right, observing the two trees on either side of him. "Ah, then this is my finest hour!" He proclaimed. "See how I am lifted up. I am finally King of the Forest!"
When the first drops began to fall across its rough timbers, the tree shuddered in utter disbelief! A stream of human blood trickled steadily downward, forming a puddle at the base of its timbers. The man spoke, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do."
The sycamore murmured to himself, "This king is also truly alone." And then in a louder voice, "we are betrayed!" He longed for the comfort of the forest and felt himself, an unwitting participant in this tragedy that was unfolding. "I no longer wish to be a king," he whimpered into the gathering darkness.
"Who do you think you are, anyway?" cried the tree on the left. "You're nothing special. You're cut from the same forest as we are. Get over yourself!"
"Leave him alone!" the tree on the right retorted. "You and I are ordinary trees and we bear the bodies of men who deserve to hang here. But this tree has been specially grown to support the Son of God. Let is be proclaimed that this mighty Sycamore is favored above all other trees! It has been chosen to raise up the Messiah, King of the Jews and Savior of the World". Hearing these words, the privileged sycamore began to weep, mingling its tears with the blood of the crucified Son of God.
When the first rays of the morning sun broke across the eastern sky, the body of the man, Jesus, was taken away to be buried in a rich man's tomb. The favored tree was lifted from its place and laid to rest on the crest of the hill called "The Place of the Skull."
Biblical accounts of the crucifixion of Christ relate many strange and supernatural occurrences which followed the death of Jesus. The earth quaked. Graves were opened. Dead men were seen walking. Legends tell a different story. They speak of 33 trees seen marching across the hillside, bearing the scarred remains of one weeping sycamore... lifted high upon their branches...much like the funeral procession for a stately king.
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Alpha Centauri or Bust
By Steve Nadis
The nearest star system is 4.37 light-years away. But an ambitious and innovative new idea - involving lasers and nanospacecraft - could get us there in the next 40 years.
By Jessica Marshall
In the middle of the Bering Sea, off the coast of Alaska, sits an island that was once home to a special population of mammoths. Now, researchers are digging deep to reconstruct the past and unearth the cause of the creatures' demise.
By Kenneth Miller
Most doctors fight cancer from the outside with radiation and chemotherapy. But James Allison is fighting it from the inside by hacking patients' immune systems. The results are changing the cancer game.
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The issue of racial profiling by police briefly grabbed the attention of the press in June of 1999 when New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman fired the head of the state police after he accused blacks and Hispanics of being more likely to be drug dealers and therefore deserving of heightened police scrutiny. Whitman earned glowing coverage for her swift action.
In fact, Whitman had sedulously ignored the problem for most of her term, insisting that racial profiling was not a practice of the state police. Even after two New Jersey state troopers fired eleven shots into a van carrying four black men on their way to a basketball clinic in 1998, Whitman clung to her contention that the action was not racially motivated. In 1995, a New Jersey state judge threw out charges against fifteen black drivers who, the judge concluded, had been pulled over without cause. During the trial it emerged that on a 26-mile long stretch on the southern part of the New Jersey Turnpike minorities accounted for 46 percent of the drivers stopped, even though they accounted for only 15 percent of suspected speeders.
Whitman also kept her mouth shut when Emblez Longoria, a New Jersey state trooper, filed suit against his department claiming that she was being pressured to make illegal stops of black and Hispanic drivers in order to fulfill his arrest quotas. Longoria, who is Hispanic, alleges that he was denied promotions and harassed by his superiors when he refused to pull over drivers using racial profiling. Ultimately, the Governor’s hand was forced by the racist remarks of Col. Carl Williams, the head of the New Jersey state police. Responding to a report showing that 75 percent of all motorists arrested on the New Jersey Turnpike in the first two months of 1997 were minorities, Williams told the Newark Star-Ledger that cocaine and marijuana traffickers were most likely to be either black or Hispanic. Williams was canned, but that was it. The investigation of his Department was put into the hands of Attorney General Peter Verniero, who has fiercely denied that New Jersey cops use profiling. Black leaders in New Jersey demanded that Verniero’s investigation be taken up by an independent panel. But Whitman refused and instead nominated Verniero (who obediently buried the troublesome issue) for a spot on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
But racial profiling is neither new nor isolated to the Garden State. Criminology has had these genetic typing obsessions as far back as eugenicists such as Cesare Lombroso, who attempted to define criminal types through head shapes and other physical characteristics. Particularly influential in the US was Earnest Albert Hooten, a Harvard professor of anthropology and appalling racist who published The American Criminal in 1939. Now these racist theories have pervaded the policing system of the United States from coast-to-coast. To be a black driver in America is to invite police scrutiny, as thousands are daily singled out for groundless pull-overs, “pretext” stops, and subjected to intrusive, warrantless searches and abusive treatment by police.
The problem is not merely one of racist cops, but of a policing system that encourages and promotes racial typing. In Amherst, Massachusetts, the police department held seminars for its officers on “perpetrator profiles”. The officers were told that “interracial couples” were more likely to be engaged in drug dealing than white couples.
In San Diego, the police are ever vigilant to pull over black people driving expensive cars. In October of 1997, a black man named Shawn Lee and his girlfriend were stopped by the California Highway Patrol on Interstate 15. Lee, a member of the San Diego Chargers football team, and his girlfriend were handcuffed and held by police for more than an hour. The patrolman said that they were detained because Lee was driving a car that fit a description of one that had been reported as stolen that night. This story was false. Lee was driving a new Jeep Grand Cherokee. The stolen vehicle was a Honda.
A similar kind of racial typing is evident up the coast in supposedly liberal Santa Monica. In the fall of 1996, a pair of police cars tailed Darryl Hicks and George Washington, two black men, as they pulled into the parking garage of their hotel. The police cruisers turned on their lights and at gun-point ordered the men out of their cars. The men were handcuffed and placed in separate police cars. Washington and Hicks’ car was searched. The police claimed the men were being detained because they fit the description of suspects wanted in a string of nineteen armed robberies. The officers also said one of the men appeared to be “nervous”. Washington and Hicks later sued the police officers for false arrest and civil rights violations. In ruling for the two men, the court determined that the armed robberies had not occurred in Santa Monica and that neither of the men fit the descriptions of the robbers.
In Carmel, Indiana, an affluent suburb of Indianapolis, a state trooper pulled over a black man named David Smith. The trooper was unaware that Smith was a sergeant in the Carmel city police department and the sedan he was driving was actually an unmarked police car. Smith was ordered out of his car and, according to Smith, the trooper appeared to be “shocked and surprised” when he saw that Smith was wearing his police uniform. The trooper said he had pulled Smith over because he had three antennas on the back of his car.
A similar incident occurred in Orange County, Florida. In April of 1997,Aaron Campbell was pulled over by sheriff’s deputies on the Florida Turnpike. The deputies ordered Campbell from the car, forced him to the pavement, drenched his face with pepper spray and arrested him. Campbell was a major in the Metro-Dade County police department and had identified himself as a policeman when he was pulled over. The Orange County deputies later said Campbell had been stopped for having an “obscured license tag” and for making an illegal lane change.
As is so often the case, the pretext for the profiling is the drug war, itself an ill-disguised form of state-sponsored racism. Nowhere has this kind of racial typing in the name of drug interdiction been used as aggressively as in Maryland, where since at least 1988 it has been the policy of the state troopers to pull over, detain and search drivers for drugs and guns, using a race-based “drug courier profile”. According to the testimony of a Maryland State Trooper, those race profiles explicitly targeted: “1) young, black males wearing expensive jewelry; 2) driving expensive cars, usually sports cars; 3) carrying beepers; and 4) in possession of telephone numbers.”
In 1990, the state police set up a drug task force called “Special Traffic Interdiction Force”, or STIF. STIF targeted drivers along Interstate95 in northeastern Maryland. The unit was composed of six white troopers. Over the course of six years, the STIF unit, using the drug courier profile, pulled over and searched black drivers four times as often as they did whites. One of the troopers, Bernard M. Donovan, searched only black drivers.
In 1992, the Maryland State Police’s Criminal Intelligence Division developed a “Confidential Criminal Intelligence Report”, which troopers used to make stops and searches based on race. The report encouraged troopers in Allegheny County to increase searches of black male drivers by saying that “the county is currently experiencing a serious problem with the incoming flow of crack cocaine”. The Intelligence Report professed that “the dealers and couriers (traffickers) are predominantly black males and females”.
The Criminal Intelligence Report came to light through a lawsuit filed in 1993 by Robert Wilkins. Wilkins, a Harvard Law School graduate, was a public defender in Washington, DC. In May of 1992 he was returning to DC from a family funeral in Ohio in a rented Cadillac. He was accompanied by his aunt, uncle and a 29-year old cousin. Wilkins was pulled over by a trooper in western Maryland for speeding. He and his family were ordered out of the car and forced to stand in driving rain for more than an hour as the state trooper brought in drug-sniffing dogs to search the car. No drugs were found. Wilkins and the American Civil Liberties Union filed suit and, in 1995, won a substantial settlement from the Maryland State Police. As part of the Wilkins settlement, the state police agreed to compile a database of all stops of drivers on Maryland highways in which police ask to perform searches or in which a search is done by a drug-sniffing dog.
White motorists make up 78 per cent of Maryland highway traffic, while black drivers account for about 17 per cent and other minorities about 5percent in the state. When the Wilkins data were submitted to the court in late 1998, they showed that between January 1, 1995 and December 15,1997, more than 70 per cent of the people who were stopped and searched on Interstate 95 were black and about 77 per cent were minorities. Only about 23 per cent were white. The data also revealed that the vast majority of drivers who were stopped and searched and not found to be carrying any drugs were also black, more than 67 percent. The ACLU used such data to bring a class action suit against the Maryland state police.
Clearly, the Wilkins litigation did nothing alter the racist practices of the Maryland troopers as evidenced by the testimony of State Trooper Michael Lewis in a recent criminal case. Lewis told the court that he pulled over Robert Ware in large measure because he was a young, black man. Lewis admitted that he factored in the race of drivers on a daily basis as part of his drug interdiction work. In late 1998, the Maryland State Police assigned Lewis to a post as an instructor, training other troopers in how to identify potential drug couriers on the state’s highways.
One of the plaintiffs in the ACLU suit was Nelson Walker, a native of Liberia and a student at the University of North Carolina. In April of 1995, Walker was stopped on Interstate 95, purportedly for failure to have his seatbelt buckled. The trooper who pulled him over insinuated that his 1990Infiniti was too nice a car for Walker to be driving and ordered Walker and his passenger out of the car. Drug-detecting dogs were called for and then the car was searched for over an hour and a half. Walker and his friend, Mecca Agunabo I, were made to stand in the rain for nearly two hours while the car was searched.
When Agunabo said he needed to get out of the rain because he had just recently recovered from a bout with pneumonia, the trooper threatened to arrest him. In a search for drugs, the troopers rummaged through the men’s luggage and other personal belongings. Then the troopers largely dismantled Walker’s car, tearing out a door panel, the back seat and part of the sunroof. No drugs were found. One of the troopers went to his cruiser and returned with a screwdriver, which he handed to Walker saying, “Here, you’re going to need this.”
This essay is excerpted from “Killing Trayvon: Racism in Post-Racial America,” edited by Jeffrey St. Clair and Kevin Alexander Gray, coming soon from CounterPunch Books.
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR is the author of Been Brown So Long It Looked Like Green to Me: the Politics of Nature, Grand Theft Pentagon and Born Under a Bad Sky. His latest book is Hopeless: Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion. He can be reached at: email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:a8f5ec30-c527-4016-9054-112173c65b86> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/08/02/a-very-short-history-of-driving-while-black/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00165-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979826 | 2,405 | 2.296875 | 2 |
reports that "Each year, more than a half million people get sick from C. difficile, and in recent years, C. difficile infections have become more frequent, severe and difficult to treat."
This is a bacteria disease that is called: (1) Clostridium Difficile Colitis; (2) Antibiotic-Associated Colitis; (3) C. difficile Colitis; (4) C. diff; and (5) C diff.
Causes of C. difficile
C. difficile is considered the most common gut bug infection and is rapidly growing into an epidemic problem. It is found in the soil, air, water, human and animal feces, and food products, such as processed meats. Certain people carry the bacteria in their large intestine with very few side effects. However, it is the health care field that is often associated with C. difficile, along with its association with antibiotics.
The primary antibiotic that is associated with C. difficile is clindamycin (Cleocin). But other common antibiotics include ampicillin, amoxicillin, and cephalosporins [such as cephalexin (Keflex)]. The National Institutes of Health
report that the study, "Hospital-wide restriction of clindamycin: effect on the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea and cost," concluded hospital formulary restriction of clindamycin is an effective way to decrease the number of infections due to C. difficile.
A growing epidemic
This month's October Consumer Reports - On Health
questions (on page 1) whether or not good bacteria can successfully fight this new medical threat that is causing approximately 14,000 deaths a year. Typically, patient numbers have been on the rise in elderly patients in long-term are units or hospitals. However, current numbers are rising in younger and healthier age groups from other health care settings: medical clinics, nursing homes, and doctor's offices.
According to MedicineNet.com, "More than three million C. difficile infections occur in hospitals in the US each year. After a stay of only two days in a hospital, 10% of patients will develop infection with C. difficile. C. difficile also may be acquired outside of hospitals in the community. It is estimated that 20,000 infections with C. difficile occur in the community each year in the U.S."
To make things even worse, the bacteria C. difficile, a spore-forming bacteria, is evolving into virulent strains that are resisting newer drug treatments, such as the emergence of the hypervirulent NAP1/BI/027
Symptoms of C. difficile
The symptoms of C. difficile develop within a couple of months after a person has completed their course of antibiotics (unnecessary antibiotics wipe out natural gut flora), with a multitude of symptoms:
Some people have loose stools during or shortly after antibiotic therapy.
-- Increased white blood cell count
-- Chronic diarrhea that is watery, occurring ten to fifteen times a day
-- Loose stools can occur during or after antibiotic therapy
-- Abdominal pain that causes cramping and abdominal tenderness
-- Intestinal inflammation
-- Extreme fatigue
-- Weight loss
-- Dehydration that may cause hospitalization
-- Inflamed colons
-- Swollen abdomen
-- Kidney failure
-- Blood in stools
-- Form patches in the intestines of raw tissue that can bleed or produce pus (pseudomembranous colitis)
NOTE: Physicians suggest that if a patient is taking an antibiotic and has three or more loose stools a day, a fever, severe abdominal pain, and/or blood in the stools, he or she should go to a doctor and be tested for C. difficile.
Fecal transplants are considered an emerging technique for individuals with C. difficile, with a MedPage Today
reader suggesting the term "fecal transplants" be replaced with "pre-probiotic transplant."
The medical field reports that by 2014, stool transplants will be the standard treatment for Clostridium difficile. Healthy stools from donors can alter patients' fecal microbiota to resemble that of the healthy donor over time, studies report.
However, MedPage Today
has posted that practitioners for fecal transplants will be required to obtain an IND ( Investigational New Drug Program) to use fecal transplant as a treatment for C. difficile, as the FDA has now classified that donor feces as a biologic drug in order to control the process.
"We hope that in the future, there will be stool banks, just like there are blood banks and sperm banks," said Lawrence Brandt, MD, professor of medicine and surgery at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York City. ( 20 Mind-Blowing Medical Breakthroughs, Readers Digest. 2013. September.pg.83)
Donated stools on an individual basis per patient is different from a stool bank, something patients will see in the near future. However, protocol is the same once patients move beyond the "ick" factor. Of course, by the second time around with the disease, "ick" has moved way down the road. Currently, friends and families of the patient freely donate 50 grams of feces, screened to prevent viruses (HIV or hepatitis C) or other pathogens that would harm the patient. The donors occasionally donate on a routine basis for other patients, the beginning of stool banks of the future.
Mayo Clinic's Dr. Orenstein
states that their fecal transplant program is distinguished rigorously for evaluating recipients and donors, but only for relapsing patients. "Our focus is on safety, measuring outcomes, appropriate follow-up and ongoing process improvement," he says. "Without regulation or standards, if something goes wrong, that could mean the end of this procedure for people who really need it."
Stools that are currently being donated are placed in a very inexpensive plastic plunger that is inserted into the patient's rectum, a five-minute procedure to re-establish the bacterial balance. The patient should be feeling better in 48 hours, with a 90% success rate for the disease.
Future fecal transplants will consist of two enema procedures that are less costly, once they are approved by health regulators.
(1) The colonoscopy requires the patient to be sedated while the donated stool is inserted into the colon.
(2) A plastic feeding tube is passed through the nose, down the throat and into the stomach. The donated feces are then fed into the tube.
C. difficile inpatient costs
reports that within the last eight months, C. difficile inpatient factors that added to the rising medical costs were an average of 12 days of hospitalization, intensive care units, orders of isolation, and multiple specialist consultants (infectious disease specialists and gastroenterologists). This totals to approximately $35,621 on the average.
Additional costs to patients on an individual basis were:
-- Diagnostic tests, with 60% of patients having colonoscopies, endoscopies, CT or MRI scans, sigmoidoscopies, or tests for obstruction.
-- Mucosal inflammation was identified in 16%, 2% required colectomy, and 0.4% had surgery for toxic megacolon.
-- Specialist consultations other than gastroenterology and infectious disease included intensivists in 5% and surgery in 25%.
-- A total of 7.6% of patients died during their hospital stay, with C. difficile infection being the cause of death in 21%.
In the United States, it is estimated that 3 million cases occur each year, with an excess cost burden for the health care system now exceeding $3 billion annually.
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After the amazing 'Paper flower construction' workshop, we wanted to share the knowledge-wealth. These things are easy to make, and they look awesome. People created some serious blooms at that workshop. So, here's a tutorial for a simple stack-based flower.
You will need:
-About 10 squares of tissue paper, all (roughly) the same size
-About 10 squares of a different color tissue paper, all the same size, but a bit smaller than the first lot
-Florist's wire, or, in a pinch, twistee-ties
(Paint-and-ink covered cutting mat is optional)
Initiate flower making! Hold the larger squares together with a paperclip and cut out a flower shape. You can give the petals any shape you like - rounded, pointy, fat, skinny, fringy, whatever floats your flowery boat. Repeat for smaller squares.
Place smaller flower sheets on top of larger flower sheets, and then pierce with a pin. Pierce it good! Wiggle the pin around to make the hole large enough for your wire.
Now you have three options:
1) make two holes, like a button hole, and thread the wire through so both ends come out the back of the flower
2) make one hole, and make a little loop on the top and bottom of the wire to stop the flower breaking free
3) use a brass fastener to keep it together
We went for the last option for this flower.
Now it's time to create BEAUTY. Take each sheet layer by layer, starting from the inside, and SCRUNCH or FLUFF or FLOOF that stuff good. Build the shape and character of your flower! The flower may well go through stages of looking, to use our lovely teacher's phrase, 'like a dog'. But persevere! The right amount of scrunching, fluffing, and floofing will result in a beautiful bloom. No flower is a lost cause.
Ta daaa! All done. These can be made all different sizes, and by varying the amount of sheets you can get a fluffier or less fluffy flower. You can glue some yellow bits (stamens, right?) into the centre if you so desire. Your life need never be flowerless again.
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To the Congress of the United States:
Twenty-eight years ago our nation embarked upon a new experiment in international relationships--the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Program. Faced with the chaos in world trade that had resulted from the Great Depression, disillusioned by the failure of the promises that high protective tariffs would generate recovery, and impelled by a desperate need to restore our economy, President Roosevelt asked for authority to negotiate reciprocal tariff reductions with other nations of the world in order to spur our exports and aid our economic recovery and growth.
That landmark measure, guided through Congress by Cordell Hull, has been extended eleven times. It has served our country and the free world well over two decades. The application of this program brought growth and order to the free world trading system. Our total exports, averaging less than $2 billion a year in the three years preceding enactment of the law, have now increased to over $20 billion.
On June 30, 1962, the negotiating authority under the last extension of the Trade Agreements Act expires. It must be replaced by a wholly new instrument. A new American trade initiative is needed to meet the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing world economy.
In the brief period since this Act was last extended, five fundamentally new and' sweeping developments have made obsolete our traditional trade policy:
--The growth of the European Common Market--an economy which may soon nearly equal our own, protected by a single external tariff similar to our own--has progressed with such success and momentum that it has surpassed its original timetable, convinced those initially skeptical that there is now no turning back and laid the groundwork for a radical alteration of the economics of the Atlantic Alliance. Almost 90 percent of the free world's industrial production (if the United Kingdom and others successfully complete their negotiations for membership) may soon be concentrated in two great markets--the United States of America and the expanded European Economic Community. A trade policy adequate to negotiate item by item tariff reductions with a large number of small independent states will no longer be adequate to assure ready access for ourselves-and for our traditional trading partners in Canada, Japan, Latin America and elsewhere--to a market nearly as large as our own, whose negotiators can speak with one voice but whose internal differences make it impossible for them to negotiate item by item.
--The growing pressures on our balance of payments position have, in the past few years, turned a new spotlight on the importance of increasing American exports to strengthen the international position of the dollar and prevent a steady drain of our gold reserves. To maintain our defense, assistance and other commitments abroad, while expanding the free flow of goods and capital, we must achieve a reasonable equilibrium in our international accounts by offsetting these dollar outlays with dollar sales.
--The need to accelerate our own economic growth, following a lagging period of seven years characterized by three recessions, is more urgent than it has been in years--underlined by the millions of new job opportunities which will have to be found in this decade to provide employment for those already unemployed as well as an increasing flood of younger workers, farm workers seeking new opportunities, and city workers displaced by technological change.
--The communist aid and trade offensive has also become more apparent in recent years. Soviet bloc trade with 41 non-communist countries in the less-developed areas of the globe has more than tripled in recent years; and bloc trade missions are busy in nearly every continent attempting to penetrate, encircle and divide the free world.
--The need for new markets for Japan and the developing nations has also been accentuated as never before--both by the prospective impact of the EEC's external tariff and by their own need to acquire new outlets for their raw materials and light manufacturers.
To meet these new challenges and opportunities, I am today transmitting to the Congress a new and modern instrument of trade negotiation--the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. As I said in nay State of the Union Address, its enactment "could well affect the unity of the West, the course of the Cold War and the growth of our nation for a generation or more to come."
I. THE BENEFITS OF INCREASED TRADE
Specifically, enactment of this measure will benefit substantially every state of the union, every segment of the American economy, and every basic objective of our domestic economy and foreign policy.
Our efforts to expand our economy will be importantly affected by our ability to expand our exports--and particularly upon the ability of our farmers and businessmen to sell to the Common Market. There is arising across the Atlantic a single economic community which may soon have a population half again as big as our own, working and competing together with no more barriers to commerce and investment than exist among our 50 states--in an economy which has been growing roughly twice as fast as ours--representing a purchasing power which will someday equal our own and a living standard growing faster than our own. As its consumer incomes grow, its consumer demands are also growing, particularly for the type of goods that we produce best, which are only now beginning to be widely sold or known in the markets of Europe or in the homes of its middle income families.
Some 30 percent of our exports--more than $4 billion in industrial goods and materials and nearly $2 billion in agricultural products--already goes to the members and prospective members of the EEC. European manufacturers, however, have increased their share of this rapidly expanding market at a far greater rate than American manufacturers. Unless our industry can maintain and increase its share of this attractive market, there will be further temptation to locate additional American financed plants in Europe in order to get behind the external tariff wall of the EEC. This would enable the American manufacturer to contend for that vast consumer potential on more competitive terms with his European counterparts; but it will also mean a failure on our part to take advantage of this growing market to increase jobs and investment in this country.
A more liberal trade policy will in general benefit our most efficient and expanding industries-industries which have demonstrated their advantage over other world producers by exporting on the average twice as much of their products as we import-industries which have done this while paying the highest wages in our country. Increasing investment and employment in these growth industries will make for a more healthy, efficient and expanding economy and a still higher American standard of living. Indeed, freer movement of trade between America and the Common Market would bolster the economy of the entire free world, stimulating each nation to do most what it does best and helping to achieve the OECD target of a 50 percent combined Atlantic Community increase in Gross National Product by 1970.
Our efforts to prevent inflation will be reinforced by expanded trade. Once given a fair and equal opportunity to compete in overseas markets, and once subject to healthy competition from overseas manufacturers for our own markets, American management and labor will have additional reason to maintain competitive costs and prices, modernize their plants and increase their productivity. The discipline of the world market place is an excellent measure of efficiency and a force to stability. To try to shield American industry from the discipline of foreign competition would isolate our domestic price level from world prices, encourage domestic inflation, reduce our exports still further and invite less desirable Governmental solutions.
Our efforts to correct our adverse balance of payments have in recent years roughly paralleled our ability to increase our export surplus. It is necessary if we are to maintain our security programs abroad--our own military forces overseas plus our contribution to the security and growth of other free countries--to make substantial dollar outlays abroad. These outlays are being held to the minimum necessary, and we are seeking increased sharing from our allies. But they will continue at substantial rates--and this requires us to enlarge the $5 billion export surplus which we presently enjoy from our favorable balance of trade. If that surplus can be enlarged, as exports under our new program rise faster than imports, we can achieve the equilibrium in our balance of payments which is essential to our economic stability and flexibility. If, on the other hand, our surplus should fail to grow, if our exports should be denied ready access to the EEC and other markets--our overseas position would be endangered. Moreover, if we can lower the external tariff wall of the Common Market through negotiation our manufacturers will be under less pressure to locate their plants behind that wall in order to sell in the European market, thus reducing the export of capital funds to Europe.
Our efforts to promote the strength and unity of the West are thus directly related to the strength and unity of Atlantic trade policies. An expanded export program is necessary to give this Nation both the balance of payments equilibrium and the economic growth we need to sustain our share of Western military security and economic advance. Equally important, a freer flow of trade across the Atlantic will enable the two giant markets on either side of the ocean to impart strength and vigor to each other, and to combine their resources and momentum to undertake the many enterprises which the security of free peoples demands. For the first time, as the world's greatest trading nation, we can welcome a single partner whose trade is even larger than our own-a partner no longer divided and dependent, but strong enough to share with us the responsibilities and initiatives of the free world.
The communist bloc, largely self-contained and isolated, represents an economic power already by some standards larger than that of Western Europe and hoping someday to overtake the United States. But the combined output and purchasing power of the United States and Western Europe-nearly a trillion dollars a year--is more than twice as great as that of the entire Sino-Soviet world. Though we have only half the population, and far less than half the territory, we can pool our resources and resourcefulness in an open trade partnership strong enough to outstrip any challenge, and strong enough to undertake all the many enterprises around the world which the maintenance and progress of freedom require. If we can take this step, Marxist predictions of "capitalist" empires warring over markets and stifling competition would be shattered for all time--Communist hopes for a trade war between these two great economic giants would be frustrated--and Communist efforts to split the West would be doomed to failure.
As members of the Atlantic Community we have concerted our military objectives through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We are concerting our monetary and economic policies through the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It is time now to write a new chapter in the evolution of the Atlantic Community. The success of our foreign policy depends in large measure upon the success of our foreign trade, and our maintenance of Western political unity depends in equally large measure upon the degree of Western economic unity. An integrated Western Europe, joined in trading partnership with the United States, will further shift the world balance of power to the side of freedom.
Our efforts to prove the superiority of free choice will thus be advanced immeasurably. We will prove to the world that we believe in peacefully "tearing down walls" instead of arbitrarily building them. We will be opening new vistas of choice and opportunity to the producers and consumers of the free world. In answer to those who say to the world's poorer countries that economic progress and freedom are no longer compatible, we--who have long boasted about the virtues of the market place and of free competitive enterprise, about our ability to compete and sell in any market, and about our willingness to keep abreast of the times--will have our greatest opportunity since the Marshall Plan to demonstrate the vitality of free choice.
Communist bloc nations have negotiated more than 200 trade agreements in recent years. Inevitably the recipient nation finds its economy increasingly dependent upon Soviet goods, services and technicians. But many of these nations have also observed that the economics of free choice provide far greater benefits than the economics of coercion-and the wider we can make the area of economic freedom, the easier we make it for all free peoples to receive the benefits of our innovations and put them into practice.
Our efforts to aid the developing nations of the world and other friends, however, depend upon more than a demonstration of freedom's vitality and benefits. If their economies are to expand, if their new industries are to he successful, if they are to acquire the foreign exchange funds they will need to replace our aid efforts, these nations must find new outlets for their raw materials and new manufactures. We must make certain that any arrangements which we make with the European Economic Community are worked out in such a fashion as to insure nondiscriminatory application to all third countries. Even more important, however, the United States and Europe together have a joint responsibility to all of the less developed countries of the world-and in this sense we must work together to insure that their legitimate aspirations and requirements are fulfilled. The "open partnership" which this Bill proposes will enable all free nations to share together the rewards of a wider economic choice for all.
Our efforts to maintain the leadership of the free world thus rest, in the final analysis, on our success in this undertaking. Economic isolation and political leadership are wholly incompatible. In the next few years, the nations of Western Europe will be fixing basic economic and trading patterns vitally affecting the future of our economy and the hopes of our less-developed friends. Basic political and military decisions of vital interest to our security will be made. Unless we have this authority to negotiate and have it this year--if we are separated from the Common Market by high tariff barriers on either side of the Atlantic--then we cannot hope to play an effective part in those basic decisions.
If we are to retain our leadership, the initiative is up to us. The revolutionary changes which are occurring will not wait for us to make up our minds. The United States has encouraged sweeping changes in Free World economic patterns in order to strengthen the forces of freedom. But we cannot ourselves stand still. If we are to lead, we must act. We must adapt our own economy to the imperatives of a changing world, and once more assert our leadership.
The American businessman, once the authority granted by this bill is exercised, will have a unique opportunity to compete on a more equal basis in a rich and rapidly expanding market abroad which possesses potentially a purchasing power as large and as varied as our own. He knows that, once artificial restraints are removed, a vast array of American goods, produced by American know-how with American efficiency, can compete with any goods in any spot in the world. And almost all members of the business community, in every state, now participate or could participate in the production, processing, transporting, or distribution of either exports or imports.
Already we sell to Western Europe alone more machinery, transportation equipment, chemicals and coal than our total imports of these commodities from all regions of the world combined. Western Europe is our best customer today--and should be an even better one tomorrow. But as the new external tariff surrounding the Common Market replaces the internal tariff structure, a German producer--who once competed in the markets of France on the same terms with our own producers--will achieve free access to French markets while our own producers face a tariff. In short, in the absence of authority to bargain down that external tariff, as the economy of the Common Market expands, our exports will not expand with it. They may even decline.
The American farmer has a tremendous stake in expanded trade. One out of every seven farm workers produces for export. The average farmer depends on foreign markets to sell the crops grown on one out of every six acres he plants. Sixty percent of our rice, 49 percent of our cotton, 45 percent of our wheat and 42 percent of our soybean production are exported. Agriculture is one of our best sources of foreign exchange.
Our farmers are particularly dependent upon the markets of Western Europe. Our agricultural trade with that area is four to' one in our favor. The agreements recently reached at Brussels both exhausted our existing authority to obtain further European concessions, and laid the groundwork for future negotiations on American farm exports to be conducted once new authority is granted. But new and flexible authority is required if we are to keep the door of the Common Market open to American agriculture, and open it wider still. If the output of our astounding productivity is not to pile up increasingly in our warehouses, our negotiators will need both the special EEC authority and the general 50 percent authority requested in the bill described later in this message.
The American worker will benefit from the expansion of our exports. One out of every three workers engaged in manufacturing is employed in establishments that export. Several hundred times as many workers owe their jobs directly or indirectly to exports as are in the small group--estimated to be less than one half of one percent of all workers--who might be adversely affected by a sharp increase in imports. As the number of job seekers in our labor force expands in the years ahead, increasing our job opportunities will require expanding our markets and economy, and making certain that new United States plants built to serve Common Market consumers are built here, to employ American workers, and not there.
The American consumer benefits most of all from an increase in foreign trade. Imports give him a wider choice of products at competitive prices. They introduce new ideas and new tastes, which often lead to new demands for American production.
Increased imports stimulate our own efforts to increase efficiency, and supplement anti-trust and other efforts to assure competition. Many industries of importance to the American consumer and economy are dependent upon imports for raw materials and other supplies. Thus American-made goods can also be made much less expensively for the American consumers if we lower the tariff on the materials that are necessary to their production.
American imports, in short, have generally strengthened rather than weakened our economy. Their competitive benefits have already been mentioned. But about 60 percent of the goods we import do not compete with the goods we produce--either because they are not produced in this country, or are not produced in any significant quantity. They provide us with products we need but cannot efficiently make or grow (such as bananas or coffee), supplement our own steadily depleting natural resources with items not available here in quantity (such as manganese or chrome ore, 90 percent or more of which must be imported if our steel mills are to operate), and contribute to our industrial efficiency, our economic growth and our high level of consumption. Those imports that do compete are equal to only one or one and one-half percent of our total national production; and even these imports create jobs directly for those engaged in their processing, distribution, or transportation, and indirectly for those employed in both export industries and in those industries dependent upon reasonably priced imported supplies for their own ability to compete.
Moreover, we must reduce our own tariffs if we hope to reduce tariffs abroad and thereby increase our exports and export surplus. There are many more American jobs dependent upon exports than could possibly be adversely affected by increased imports. And those export industries are our strongest, most efficient, highest paying growth industries.
It is obvious, therefore, that the warnings against increased imports based upon the lower level of wages paid in other countries are not telling the whole story. For this fear is refuted by the fact that American industry in general--and America's highest paid industries in particular--export more goods to other markets than any other nation; sell far more abroad to other countries than they sell to us; and command the vast preponderance of our own market here in the United States. There are three reasons for this:
(a) The skill and efficiency of American workers, with the help of our machinery and technology, can produce more units per man hour than any other workers in the world--thus making the competitive cost of our labor for many products far less than it is in countries with lower wage rates. For example, while a United States coal miner is paid eight times as much per hour as the Japanese miner, he produces fourteen times as much coal-our real cost per ton of coal is thus far smaller--and we sell the Japanese tens of millions of dollars worth of coal each year.
(b) Our best industries also possess other advantages--the adequacy of low cost raw materials or electrical power, for example. Neither wages nor total labor costs is an adequate standard of comparison it- used alone,
(c) American products can frequently compete successfully even where foreign prices are somewhat lower--by virtue of their superior quality, style, packaging, servicing or assurance of delivery.
Given this strength, accompanied by increasing productivity and wages in the rest of the world, there is less need to be concerned over the level of wages in the low wage countries. These levels, moreover, are already on the rise, and, we would hope, will continue to narrow the current wage gap, encouraged by appropriate consultations on an international basis.
This philosophy of the free market--the wider economic choice for men and nations-is as old as freedom itself. It is not a partisan philosophy. For many years our trade legislation has enjoyed bi-partisan backing from those members of both parties who recognized how essential trade is to our basic security abroad and our economic health at home. This is even more true today. The Trade Expansion Act of 1962 is designed as the expression of a nation, not of any single faction, not of any single faction or section. It is in that spirit that I recommend it to the Congress for prompt and favorable action.
II. PROVISIONS OF THE BILL
New Negotiating Authority. To achieve all of the goals and gains set forth above-to empower our negotiators with sufficient authority to induce the EEC to grant wider access to our goods and crops and fair treatment to those of Latin America, Japan and other countries--and to be ready to talk trade with the Common Market in practical terms--it is essential that our bargaining authority be increased in both flexibility and extent. I am therefore requesting two basic kinds of authority to be exercised over the next five years:
First, a general authority to reduce existing tariffs by 50 percent in reciprocal negotiations. It would be our intention to employ a variety of techniques in exercising this authority, including negotiations on broad categories or sub-categories of products.
Secondly, a special authority, to be used in negotiating with the EEC, to reduce or eliminate all tariffs on those groups of products where the United States and the EEC together account for 80 percent or more of world trade in a representative period. The fact that these groups of products fall within this special or "dominant supplier" authority is proof that they can be produced here or in Europe more efficiently than anywhere else in the world. They include most of the products which the members of the Common Market are especially interested in trading with us, and most of the products for which we want freer access to the Common Market; and to a considerable extent they are items in which our own ability to compete is demonstrated by the fact that our exports of these items are substantially greater than our imports. They account for nearly $2 billion of our total industrial exports to present and prospective Common Market members in 1960, and for about $1.4 billion of our imports from these countries. In short, this special authority will enable-us to negotiate for a dramatic agreement with the Common Market that will pool our economic strength for the advancement of freedom.
To be effective in achieving a breakthrough agreement with the EEC so that our farmers, manufacturers and other free world trading partners can participate, we will need to use both the dominant supplier authority and the general authority in combination. Reductions would be put into effect gradually in stages over five years or more. But the traditional technique of trading one brick at a time off our respective tariff walls will not suffice to assure American farm and factory exports the kind of access to the European market which they must have if trade between the two Atlantic markets is to expand. We must talk instead in terms of trading whole layers at a time in exchange for other layers, as the Europeans have been doing in reducing their internal tariffs, permitting the forces of competition to set new trade patterns. Trading in such an enlarged basis is not possible, the EEC has found, if traditional item by item economic histories are to dominate. But let me emphasize that we mean to see to it that all reductions and concessions are reciprocal--and that the access we gain is not limited by the use of quotas or other restrictive devices.
Safeguarding interests of other trading partners. In our negotiations with the Common Market, we will preserve our traditional most favored-nation principle under which any tariff concessions negotiated will be generalized to our other trading partners. Obviously, in special authority agreements where the United States and the EEC are the dominant suppliers, the participation of other nations often would not be significant. On other items, where justified, compensating concessions from other interested countries should be obtained as part of the negotiations. But in essence we must strive for a non-discriminatory trade partnership with the EEC. If it succeeds only in splintering the free world, or increasing the disparity between rich and poor nations, it will have failed to achieve one of its major purposes. The negotiating authority under this bill will thus be used to strengthen the ties of both "Common Markets" with, and expand our own trade in, the Latin American republics, Canada, Japan and other non-European nations--as well as helping them maximize their opportunities to trade with the Common Market.
The bill also requests special authority to reduce or eliminate all duties and other restrictions on the importation of tropical agricultural and forestry products supplied by friendly less-developed countries and not produced here in any significant quantity, if our action is taken in concert with similar action by the Common Market. These tropical products are the staple exports of many less-developed countries. Their efforts for economic development and diversification must be advanced out of earnings from these products. By assuring them as large a market as possible, we are bringing closer the day when they will be able to finance their own development needs on a self-sustaining basis.
Safeguards to American Industry. If the authority requested in this act is used, imports as well as exports will increase; and this increase will, in the overwhelming number of cases, be beneficial for the reasons outlined above. Nevertheless ample safeguards against injury to American industry and agriculture will be retained. Escape clause relief will continue to be available with more up-to-date definitions. Temporary tariff relief will be granted where essential. The power to impose duties or suspend concessions to protect the national security will be retained. Articles will be reserved from negotiations whenever such action is deemed to be in the best interest of the nation and the economy. And the four basic stages of the traditional peril point procedures and safeguards will be retained and improved:
--the President will refer to the Tariff Commission the list of proposed items for negotiations;
--the Tariff Commission will conduct hearings to determine the effect of concessions on these products;
--the Commission will make a report to the President, specifically based, as such reports are based now, upon its findings of how new imports might lead to the idling of productive facilities, the inability of domestic producers to operate at a profit and the unemployment of workers as the result of anticipated reductions in duties; and
--the President will report to the Congress on his action after completion of the negotiations. The present arrangements will be substantially improved, however, since both the Tariff Commission recommendation and the President's report would be broader than a bare determination of specific peril points; and this should enable us to make much more informed use of these recommendations than has been true in the past.
Trade Adjustment Assistance. I am also recommending as an essential part of the new trade program that companies, farmers and workers who suffer damage from increased foreign import competition be assisted in their efforts to adjust to that competition. When considerations of national policy make it desirable to avoid higher tariffs, those injured by that competition should not be required to bear the full brunt of the impact. Rather, the burden of economic adjustment should be borne in part by the Federal Government.
Under existing law, the only alternatives available to the President are the imposition or refusal of tariff relief. These alternatives should continue to be available.
The legislation I am proposing, however, provides an additional alternative called Trade Adjustment Assistance. This alternative will permit the Executive Branch to make extensive use of its facilities, programs and resources to provide special assistance to farmers, firms and their employees in making the economic readjustments necessitated by the imports resulting from tariff concessions.
Any worker or group of workers unemployed or under-employed as a result of increased imports would, under this bill, be eligible for the following forms of assistance:
1. Readjustment allowances providing as much as 65 percent of the individual's average weekly wage for up to 52 weeks for all workers, and for as many as 13 additional weeks for workers over 60, with unemployment insurance benefits deducted from such allowances to the extent available;
2. Vocational education and training assistance to develop higher and different skills;
3. Financial assistance for those who cannot find work in their present community to relocate to a different place in the United States where suitable employment is available.
For a businessman or farmer adversely affected by imports, there should be available:
1. Technical information, advice and consultation to help plan and implement an attack on the problem;
2. Tax benefits to encourage modernization and diversification;
3. Loan guarantees and loans otherwise not commercially available to aid modernization and diversification.
Just as the Federal Government has assisted in personal readjustments made necessary by military service, just as the Federal Government met its obligation to assist industry in adjusting to war production and again to return to peacetime production, so there is an obligation to render assistance to those who suffer as a result of national trade policy. Such a program will supplement and work in coordination with, not duplicate, what we are already doing or proposing to do for depressed areas, for small business, for investment incentives, and for the retraining and compensation of our unemployed workers.
This cannot be and will not be a subsidy program of government paternalism. It is instead a program to afford time for American initiative, American adaptability and American resiliency to assert themselves. It is consistent with that part of the proposed law which would stage tariff reductions over a five year period. Accordingly, trade adjustment assistance, like the other provisions of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, is designed to strengthen the efficiency of our economy, not to protect inefficiencies.
Authority to grant temporary tariff relief will remain available to assist those industries injured by a sudden influx of goods under revised tariffs. But the accent is on "adjustment" more than "assistance." Through trade adjustment prompt and effective help can be given to those suffering genuine hardship in adjusting to import competition, moving men and resources of uneconomic production into efficient production and competitive positions, and in the process preserving the employment relationships between firms and workers wherever possible. Unlike tariff relief, this assistance can be tailored to their individual needs without disrupting other policies. Experience with a similar kind of program in the Common Market, and in the face of more extensive tariff reductions than we propose here, testifies to the effective but relatively inexpensive nature of this approach. For most affected firms will find that the adjustment involved is no more than the adjustment they face every year or few years as the result of changes in the economy, consumer taste or domestic competition.
The purpose of this message has been to describe the challenge we face and the tools we need. The decision rests with the Congress. That decision will either mark the beginning of a new chapter in the alliance of free nations--or a threat to the growth of Western unity. The two great Atlantic markets will either grow together or they will grow apart. The meaning and range of free economic choice will either be widened for the benefit of free men everywhere--or confused and constricted by new barriers and delays.
Last year, in enacting a long-term foreign aid program, the Congress made possible a fundamental change in our relations with the developing nations. This bill will make possible a fundamental, far-reaching and unique change in our relations with the other industrialized nations--particularly with the other members of the Atlantic Community. As NATO was unprecedented in military history, this measure is unprecedented in economic history. But its passage will be long-remembered and its benefits widely distributed among those who work for freedom.
At rare moments in the life of this nation an opportunity comes along to fashion out of the confusion of current events a clear and bold action to show the world what it is we stand for. Such an opportunity is before us now. This bill, by enabling us to strike a bargain with the Common Market, will "strike a blow" for freedom.
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On the other hand, missing or skipping dental cleanings carries the huge risk of developing gum disease, since bacteria never skip or miss living in your oral cavity. Periodontitis is a term which refers to the inflammation of your gum line which might range anywhere from painful to hazardous.
Mucus and bacteria can mix inside your mouth to create a sticky material that dentists call plaque. Most everyone knows that flossing and brushing every day will get rid of a lot of plaque, or at least reduce it, but not everyone follows their daily routines with care.
If plaque stays on teeth, it eventually may turn into actual tartar. No level of flossing or brushing will get rid of tartar. Only your dental hygienist and periodontist are the ones that can get tartar off of your teeth. That’s why going to routine appointments is crucial.
Tartar will contribute to gum inflammation that can trigger pain and even hurt your teeth. Gingivitis is a form of periodontitis that is mild enough to often be reversed through frequent flossing and brushing, on top of good dental cleanings. If this disease progresses, damage might become permanently irreversible.
When you consult with your periodontist, you can learn the various risk factors for serious gum disease, as well as the steps you can take to ever prevent it from first happening. Some frequent factors that might contribute include smoking, puberty or menopause in women, blood sugar control problems, diabetes, medications both over the counter and prescription, systemic diseases like HIV or cancer, and even genetic susceptibility. You can talk to your dentist about these various risk factors as well as to develop the right action plan to minimize your chances.
Should you still develop a serious case of gum disease, you might have numerous treatment options. Your periodontist can possibly try root planing or scaling, which are deep-cleaning techniques. Scaling might involve removing tartar from both below and above the gum line with an invasive technique such as scraping. Root planing will smooth out particular bumpy spots that are on your teeth. Such bumpy spots can turn into gathering places for the bacteria that make you even more susceptible to gum disease. Advanced cases might even mean a periodontist uses a laser to remove plaque and tartar. A lot of removal techniques for tartar might trigger swelling, discomfort, inflammation, and pain. Using laser techniques can significantly reduce such negative side effects.
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Just bought a 2Gig chip from the Vendors section for my Garmin 478. You must take an existing Garmin data card and use the case to house the new chip. So here's the quick how to pictorial. First, remove the tiny Phillips screw from the back of the card. Then, using a blade, pry the cover off the card. It's a pretty durable plastic and it will take a little persuasion at first. Continue sliding the blade forward and the other corner will pop off. At this point you can continue removing the cover with just your fingers. This is what it looks like open. At this point, remove the existing chip and replace with the 2Gig chip. Notice the black plastic locator pin in the extreme upper right corner of the board. This pin prevents you from installing the chip upside down. Then, snap the cover back onto the rest of the case. At this point, the front of my card bulged slightly. I removed the cover and found that the back of the header bus on the chip is slightly longer than the original. I took a razor blade, pressed down and took about 1/32 off the plastic bus on both sides. This is how much plastic gets removed Reassemble the case, and replace the screw. I labeled mine with a sharpie. ALL DONE, enjoy frosty beverage now. | <urn:uuid:bd1d4b74-e0db-4e5a-abc1-a782e617f8be> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://advrider.com/index.php?threads/how-to-upgrade-your-garmin-data-card-memory.804367/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00014-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934259 | 277 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Lisa* is the divorced mother of two boys. She shares custody with the boys’ father. “Its just the same problems over and over again. My ex won’t coordinate anything. Right now my biggest problem is bed times. At my house the boys go to bed promptly at 9:00. Their father lets them stay up until all hours–even on school nights. When I get them back they are exhausted, their homework’s not done, and it makes me crazy. I’m convinced he does this just to get my goat.”
Could be, but it’s more likely something else–it’s not uncommon for parents who share custody to be more lenient with the kids for fear they will not want to return to their home. “The truth is,” Lisa’s ex, Mark* explains. “I’m afraid the boys won’t want to come over any more if I make them go to bed when they don’t want to. They’ll think my house is no fun and will want to stay with Lisa.”
It’s not every day a parent admits his motivation is fear that his children might prefer the home of the other parent. In response, they do not establish disciplinary rules and may go as far as purchasing elaborate gifts to lure the children back to their home.
“About six months ago the boys’ dad bought the boys expensive dirt bikes. I know how much he makes and I know he didn’t have the cash. But, what’s done is done. The really infuriating part is that he won’t let the boys bring the bikes back to my house. I would love to support them in their love of the sport, but he makes them keep the bikes at his house.”
Mark is not in this alone. Last month, Lisa bought the boys each a puppy. “Hey, boys need a dog,” she smirked.
Are these obvious attempts to alienate the other parent? No one in this family, from Mark to Lisa, to the boys, realizes that they are in the midst of a subconscious game of tug of war. The parent’s need to alienate is brought about by their own insecurity and fear of losing the boys’ affection. The boys are right in the middle–something that, when asked, neither parent wanted.
I met Lisa and Mark during a mediation session when they could not agree upon an equitable split of their children’s time. Lisa had enrolled the boys in soccer while Mark enrolled them in a dirt bike camp. The boys were torn, the parents were at odds, and no one was feeding the puppies…something had to be done. That was the first time they had ever heard the term Parental Alienation.
“I didn’t realize I was trying to alienate the kids from Mark,” confessed Lisa. “I just felt powerless and I knew I had to do something. I thought I was fighting fire with fire.”
“I have to admit,” said Mark. “When I thought of the dirt bikes, I knew I had won. I just didn’t realize how much all this was really hurting the kids.”
Even Mark used the word, “won,” in his explanation of his motives. In his eyes he was fighting a secret battle for his kids and he would pull out all the stops to win the war.
How did Lisa and Mark stop participating in this parental alienation? The first thing they did was identified the problem and realized that their motivation was fear based–on both sides. It became obvious to them during their mediation sessions that they were the only ones who could stop the alienation process. Even though they did not trust each other, they attempted to call a truce for the sake of the boys. Mark allowed the boys to take the dirt bikes back to Lisa’s home so she support their dirt bike riding, and Lisa invited Mark to all the boys’ soccer games so he could be participate in that part of their lives. In order to not fall into their old behaviors, Mark and Lisa also went to four therapy sessions with a counselor to help them with their co-parenting. And, over time, they slowly learned to raise their boys together after divorce.
The potential for PA was spotted early in the case of Mark and Lisa and the necessary precautions were taken before severe damage was done to the boys by either parent. However, PA can be severe, and on occasion, permanently damage the relationship between parent and child. Here are some warning signs to see if you are either a victim or the perpetrator of Parental Alienation:
If you see yourself in the above list, get help from a qualified professional. Before you run off to the therapist, however, understand that this article depicts only the beginnings of what is called, Parental Alienation (PA) or Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS). PA is usually achieved by a systematic series of badmouthing and manipulation, that, over time, undermines the other parent and alienates the child so severely that he or she rejects the other parent on his or her own. No one wins or loses if your child is suffering from parental alienation–especially not the child. Your child has the right to both parents.
Dr. Jann Blackstone specializes in child custody, divorce, and stepfamily mediation. She is the author of seven books on divorce, remarriage, and co-parenting, specifically, Ex-Etiquette for Parents: Good Behavior After Divorce and Separation, Ex-Etiquette for Weddings, and Ex-Etiquette for Holidays. Dr. Blackstone is also the founder of Bonus Families,501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to peaceful coexistence between divorced or separated parents and their combined families.
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The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. Glaciers are melting, ice caps are disappearing, the permafrost is thawing, and land animals, fish and flora are migrating to new habitats. Geographer Mark C. Serreze recounts the decades of scientific detective work that reveal how this warming trend is not part of a natural cycle, but the result of human activity. In this fascinating and frightening read, he asserts that the North Pole serves as a warning system of what will happen to the lower latitudes.
About the Author
Mark C. Serreze is professor of geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a fellow of its Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences. He directs the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
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The Union’s sugar regime, which has survived the last two major rounds of farm policy reform unscathed, has been found by the EU’s own watchdog to cost consumers 6.5 billion euro a year in artificially high prices.
The system has also shut out competitively-priced sugar produced by some of the world’s poorest countries to protect the investment of large land owners in some of the richest parts of the UK, France and Germany.
Sugar grower Daul says he sees no problem and defends his stance. “I don’t see any conflict of interest,” he told European Voice. “There’s lots of people on the agriculture committee who are producers of milk.”
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Long before Ayatollah Khomeini introducing Islamic Republic in 1979 or Shah Ismail (ruled 1501-1524) founding the Shi’ite Safavid Dynasty in 1501, there was Ardeshir Babakan, the head of Sassanid Dynasty, who established Zoroastrianism as the state religion and gave much power to the religious caste in 224 in Iran. He is also called as Ardashir (another form of Artaxerxes), Ardeshir I or Ardeshir Papakan, for his father Papak. Papak or Babak was the son or descendant of Sassan and was a vassal or a subordinate of the chief petty king in Persis, the province of Fars in the southern Iran today. Among many cities, which were built in Iran in Sassanid era, the construction of Shahr-e-Babak of Kerman (a province in southeast of Iran) is attributed to Babak, and those of Zanjan (the center of Zanjan province in the northwest of Iran) and Firuz Abad of Fars are attributed to Ardeshir I. Ardeshir Babakan Palace or Sassanians Big Fire-temple is located in the north of Firuz Abad, and it is one of the magnificent monuments of Sassanid era. This monument is composed of several roofed platforms and a number of rooms and numerous halls.
The Sassanid era began in earnest in 228, when Ardashir I defeated the last Parthian king, Artabanus IV, and destroyed the Parthian Empire which had held sway over the region for centuries. He and his successors created a vast empire which included those lands of the old Achaemenid Empire east of the Euphrates River.
Crowned in 226 as the Iran's King of Kings (in Persian: Shahanshah-e Iran), Ardashir I brought the over 400 year-old Parthian Empire to an end and began four centuries of Sassanid rule. (His consort Adhur-Anahid also took the title of Queen of Queens). Years later, Ardashir I expanded his new empire to the east and northwest, conquering the provinces of Sistan, Gorgan, Khorasan, Margiana (in modern Turkmenistan), and Balkh. Bahrain and Mosul were also added to Sassanid possessions. Furthermore, the Kings of Kushan, Turan, and Mekran recognized Ardashir I as their overlord, a person in a position of power.
According to historian Arthur Christensen, the Sassanid state as established by Ardashir I was characterized by two general trends which differentiated it from its Parthian predecessor: a strong political centralization and organized state sponsorship of Zoroastrianism. Though Zoroastrianism was practicing during previous dynasties, Ardeshir I made it as an official religion, and all other faiths were persecuted. He also developed a temple or a place for worship for the first time in Iran.
Under Ardashir I, Zoroastrianism was promoted and regulated by the state, one based on the ideological principle of divinely granted and indisputable authority. Also under royal direction, an apparently "orthodox" version of the Avesta (the primary collection of sacred texts of Zoroastrianism, composed in the Avestan language) was compiled by a clergy named Tansar. (Some documents also reveal that chief religious leader or Mobad-e-Mobadan of Ardashir was called as a Heerbad or Teaching Clergy). Tansar, however, must be the real founder of Zoroastrian orthodoxy under Ardeshir I (reigned from 224 to 241), and the early Sassanian kings. Tansar created a Zoroastrian orthodoxy which controlled the administration of religious properties independently of the central government. He also was the kings’ top advisor.
Fundamentalism and religious dogmatism together with the increasing role of Zoroastrian clergies during Ardeshir and other Sassanian kings restricted freedom of thought and expression and social views to a large extent. In addition to that the government's commitment to support the official religion intensified the said restrictions. This fact caused the government to adopt a harsh stand with respect to new religious movements such as the Manicheans (in Persian: Payrovaan-e Maani), Mazdakis (in Persian: Payrovaan-e Mazdak), etc. Above all, the uprising of Mazdak and his supporters following the shameful defeat and captivity o Sassanian king Peroz I (457-484) by the white Huns, and commitment of other Sassanian kings Balash (484-488) and Ghobad or Kavadh (488-531) to pay taxes to them, as well the continued draught and famine, not only induced the Sassanian Ghobad to accept the new religion, but the philosophy of Mazdakism and collective system shook the class frontiers, without, however putting a new order instead. As a result of social confusions and disorganization, Mazdak lost control of the situation as well. Sassanian king Anushiravan (531-579), through suppression of Mazdakis, apparently ended the confusions, and revived the power and consolidated the position of the Zoroastrian clergies
The religious fanaticism not only caused downfall of Sassanids but also that of Safavids. Iran gradually weakened during both Zoroastrian Sassanid and Shi’ite Safavid dynasties and the conditions became favorable for foreign adversaries to overthrow the dynasties in power at the time. Arabs defeated the Yazdegerd III (632-651), last king of Sassanians, and an Afghan rebel army toppled Shah Sultan Hossein (1694-1722), the last effective ruler of Safavid dynasty.
Manouchehr Saadat Noury, PhD
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Saadat Nouri, H. (1933): The Short History of Iran (in Persian: Taarikh-e Mokhtasar-e Iran), A Translation of a Book authored by Sir Percy Sykes, Erfan Publications, Isfahan, Iran.
Saadat Noury, M. (2010): Various Articles on the History of Iran and First Iranians.
Wikipedia Encyclopedia (2010): Online Articles on Ardeshir I, Sassanids, and Safavids.
Zarinkoob, A. (1999): History of Iran (in Persian: Roozgaraan Tarikh-e Iran), ed., Sokhan Publications, Tehran, Iran.
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When Cupid held an auction sale,
I hastened to his mart,
For I had heard that he would sell
The blue-eyed Dora’s heart.
I brought a wealth of truest love,
The most that I could proffer,
Because, forsooth, of stocks or bonds
I had not one to offer.
When Cupid offered Dora’s heart,
I bid my whole heart’s love,
A love that reached from sea to sea
And to the sky above;
And When Sir Cupid called for more,
I bid my hands and life,
That should be hers for servitude
If she became my wife.
Then “Going! going!” Cupid cried;
The silence was intense
Until old Goldbags said, “I bid
My stocks and four per cents!”
Then Cupid cried, “Fair Dora’s heart,
That ne’er was sold before!
Does anybody raise the bid?
Will any offer more?”
“If not—,” but Count Decrepit rose,
Infirm, decayed and slim;
“I hid my title!” and her heart
Was there knocked down to him.
Well! titles may be more than love!
I shall not rant nor rail;
For after all I much prefer
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Are you interested in working with entrepreneurship and business development, and do you have a business opportunity that you would like to explore further?
On the 9th of November, AAU Inkubator and Venture Cup are hosting the business planning workshop, where you will have the opportunity to work with fellow entrepreneurs and business developers from Aalborg University on your own project or startup company, with the ambition of describing your business opportunity professionally to be used in connection with customers, partners or investors.
During the day you will be introduced to working with business planning, and you will gain experience in describing your business idea professionally. Furthermore you will get the opportunity to pitch your business plan to an audience of likeminded people, who will be able to help you further develop your idea through knowledge and networks, and work with experts in business planning.
To participate in the workshop you either need to have a business opportunity that you are working on at the moment, or have the desire to join a startup and contribute with your competencies. If the latter is the case, we will try to match you with a team on the day.
Do I need to bring a fully described business plan to the workshop? NO! You are welcome whether you scribbled your idea on the back of a napkin, or you are a running startup already having a turnover. The common denominator for the day is that you have the will to learn about business development and either have an idea or competencies to contribute to a startup or business development project.
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India’s defense scientists conducted an advanced air defense missile test, where an incoming hostile missile was successfully intercepted 15 km above the earth. This brings India one step closer to developing a full fledged missile defence system.
The test was conducted in the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Wheeler Island in the Bay of Bengal, off the coast of Orissa, around 1,500 km east of capital New Delhi.
The hostile ballistic missile was a modified version of India’s Prithvi missile and the interceptor was a new generation indigenous missile. The critical detection radar is a modified version of an Israeli system.
- The target missile was fired first from a mobile launcher at 11:00 AM from Chandipur-on-sea.
- Two minutes and 40 seconds later, the interceptor was fired from Wheeler’s Island, a 130 km away.
- The hostile missile was destroyed, according to defence jargon, in a ‘copy book fashion’ about 15 km above the Bay of Bengal.
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Your average grave is visited for an average of around 15 years. After that, neglect can leave it looking unloved and anonymous, creating exactly the opposite effect to the one intended. There are those who see a cemetery as a monument to the vanity of human wishes. I’m one of them. Remembrance all too quickly passes into amnesia. Forever in our hearts? Who did you say you were exactly?
An exception to this rule is a military cemetery. Military folk maintain a hold on the hearts of the living longer than everyday heroes who die in civvies. Make what you want of that.
In Europe a number of American war cemeteries have an adopt-a-grave scheme. Local citizens, hundreds of them, adopt the grave of a dead soldier. They bring flowers and keep it looking tended. There are even waiting lists. More here.
Some 65 years ago Mrs Arpots (91) adopted the grave of British soldier Leonard Raymond Allison at the British War Cemetery in Brunssum. Still she is in good contact with the soldier’s family in the UK. “The mother of the soldier in particular was very grateful that we maintained the grave of her son. For us it was the least we could do after having been liberated.”
Just like Mrs. Arpots people from Brunssum have adopted a grave immediately following the liberation. They not only looked after the graves but also continued staying in touch with the family of the deceased soldier. Mrs. Arpots: “The family found it consoling and assuring that we maintained those graves for them. Leonard was their beloved son or brother. We have seen them frequently, and then they stayed with us or we stayed with them. We also received baby clothes and toys from them. We always had a very special relationship. I really enjoyed looking after the grave and maintain our relationship with the family.”
In the UK, Darwen has an adopt-a-grave scheme for its war dead, each grave marked by its Portland stone headstone. At Sutton Veny Primary School near Warminster, Wiltshire, pupils tend the graves of New Zealand and Australian soldiers in the local churchyard.
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I recently read an excellent biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian who was executed by the Nazis for participating in a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler. The biography is called Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, by Eric Metaxis. (Numbers in parentheses throughout this article are page references to this work.) I've always connected with Bonhoeffer, which on the face of it may sound strange, since he was a conservative evangelical Lutheran who ended up supporting the killing of another human being—hardly a stance that brings to mind A Course in Miracles. Yet even so, for reasons I hope will become clear below, Bonhoeffer strikes me as a uncommonly good human being with qualities I admire and wish to emulate in my own way.
Let me begin with a way-too-short summary of his life. Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) was a young pastor and theologian active in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. He was an ardent opponent of the Nazis from the beginning of their rule in 1933, and was especially concerned about the growing persecution of Jews and other "undesirables." Of particular concern to him as a pastor was the German (Lutheran) church's response to Hitler and the ideology of National Socialism. Most German church leaders capitulated to the Nazis to one degree or another, from simply not speaking out against the regime to forming an official Reichskirche (Reich Church) that promoted a thoroughly "Nazified" theology.
But Bonhoeffer and a few brave others strongly denounced Hitler's regime as entirely incompatible with the Christian gospel. In his mind, the church had a duty to "Speak out for those who cannot speak" (247). So, he and his associates broke away from the official German church and formed the Confessing Church, which rejected Nazism and (in their view) affirmed the true Christian "confession," the true gospel of Jesus Christ. He founded a seminary devoted to training the next generation of young pastors and theologians to restore the true gospel when the nightmare of the Third Reich had passed, a time many hoped would be soon.
However, things continued to get worse; war was imminent. So Bonhoeffer, who at that time (1939) was in America and on the brink of accepting a comfortable position there, decided after much prayer and reflection that he had to return to Germany to join with his brethren in the struggle for the soul of his country. The situation was so grave that eventually, he felt that God was calling him to join a conspiracy to assassinate Hitler to save the lives that Hitler was destroying. He did so, working during the war as an agent for one of the German military intelligence agencies as a cover for his participation in the conspiracy.
Several attempts were made on Hitler's life using concealed bombs, but he always managed to escape without the bombs ever being detonated. The conspirators lamented their bad fortune, but the good news was that precisely because the bombs were not detonated in those attempts, the conspiracy remained undiscovered and could try again. But finally, in the famous Operation Valkyrie carried out on July 20, 1944, the concealed bomb did go off—but without harming Hitler. Now that the plot had been dramatically revealed, the conspirators were rounded up, and most of them were executed. Bonhoeffer was executed on April 9, 1945, only weeks before the Allies arrived and Hitler killed himself.
As I said, in spite of our theological differences—and in spite of the fact that the Course would find an assassination attempt problematic, to say the least—I find Bonhoeffer admirable and worthy of emulation. There is an intangible "something" about him that I feel a real connection to. In terms of his specific personal qualities, three in particular stand out for me. One is the deep love that he extended to seemingly everyone he encountered. He seems to have been remarkably free of malice; he seems to have possessed in great measure what the Dalai Lama has called the "good heart." Those who shared recollections of him emphasized again and again how incredibly loving, kind, and generous he was.
As a little snapshot, here is an account of a former student of his when he was teaching a confirmation class for rough, working-class boys in North Berlin. Other pastors had given up on these troublemakers, but Bonhoeffer was determined to work with them, and in the end he connected with them in a way that no previous pastor ever had. Getting off to a good start was a key to this. So, very early in his work with these boys, when one boy took out a sandwich during class,
Pastor Bonhoeffer said nothing at first. Then he looked at him, calmly and kindly—but long and intensely, without saying a word. In embarrassment, the boy put his sandwich away. The attempt to annoy our pastor had come to nothing through his composure and kindness—and perhaps through his understanding of boyish tomfoolery. (131)
Bonhoeffer described Jesus as "the man for others," and that seems to be the standard by which he himself tried to live. He was a person who tried to "be truly helpful" (T-2.V.A.18:2), to use that famous phrase from the Course, and people's recollections of him veritably shine with the positive impact he had on them.
Another quality of Bonhoeffer's that I admire is his towering intellect. The man knew how to think. His good heart and brilliant mind combined to produce someone whose mental stance as an academic and theologian appears to have been unusually free of ego. He could listen to different points of view open-mindedly and respond to them with kindness and clarity. He carefully weighed all sides of an issue and could change his mind if opposing arguments convinced him. Even though as a conservative theologian he often disagreed with the liberals who were predominant in the academy, he retained their respect and they his.
And once he was finally convinced of a position, he stood up for it with "gentle firmness and quiet certainty" (W-pI.73.10:1), to use another Course phrase. This was especially evident in his stance toward the Nazis. He spoke and wrote with eloquent conviction about the clear and unambiguous choice his church and his nation faced. In a time when Nazi churchmen were writing "Germanicized" revisions of the Sermon on the Mount in which the meek no longer inherit the earth, and were hailing Jesus (a Palestinian Jew, of course) as "a burst of Nordic light in the midst of a world tormented by symptoms of degeneracy" (218-219), such conviction was desperately needed. While many were fearfully trying to find a convenient compromise between Nazi ideology and the Christian message, Bonhoeffer reminded them that you cannot serve two masters:
It must be made quite clear—terrifying though it is—that we are immediately faced with the decision: National Socialist or Christian. (233)
The question is really: Christianity or Germanism? And the sooner the conflict is revealed in the clear light of day, the better. (183)
Yet as unequivocal as his position was, he was also intelligent enough to keep quiet when declaring it would compromise the very goal that his position demanded. Later on, after he had joined the conspiracy and therefore had to mute his anti-Nazi views in order not to call attention to himself, he and his colleague Eberhard Bethge were in a café when the French surrender to Germany was announced. The crowd went wild with patriotic fervor, and to Bethge's shock, Bonhoeffer himself was doing the "Heil Hitler" salute right along with them. Bonhoeffer then whispered to Bethge, "Are you crazy? Raise your arm! We'll have to run risks for many different things, but this silly salute is not one of them!" (361). In other words: Don't be so outwardly pure that you compromise the purpose that your inward purity has called you to fulfill. Use your head!
The final quality of Bonhoeffer's that I want to highlight here is just that commitment to purpose, to mission—his absolute commitment to following God's Will in everything he did. He reflected and prayed constantly on the question of what God's purpose for him was, in matters large and small. This was something he stressed to the young pastors he trained at his seminary. In fact, he trained them to follow a monastic-style spiritual practice that included morning and evening services, meditation on scripture passages, and prayer. All of this was for the purpose of grounding his pupils in a life committed to following the way God laid out. In his words:
The restoration of the church must surely depend on a new kind of monasticism, which has nothing in common with the old but a but of life of uncompromising discipleship, following Christ according to the Sermon on the Mount. (245)
He himself felt that his work was a real calling from God. And it seems to me that from early on, he had a sense that he was destined to die for the sake of this calling. I'm very struck by what he wrote in 1936—after Hitler came to power, but long before Bonhoeffer's death for his opposition became a serious possibility:
My calling is quite clear to me. What God will make of it I do not know…I must follow the path. Perhaps it will not be such a long one (Phil. 1:23 [a verse in which Paul declares his desire "to depart and be with Christ"]). But it is a fine thing to have realized my calling…I believe its nobility will become plain to us only in coming times and events. If only we can hold out. (123)
Bonhoeffer's "final standard" was to be "the responsible man, who tries to make his whole life an answer to the question and call of God" (431). It seems that this was the man he truly strived to be.
This brings us to the final years of his life. As I mentioned, in 1939, haunted by the call of God to join his brethren in Germany as the war was about to commence, he turned down a comfortable position in America to fulfill what he felt was his God-given destiny. This was a decision that ultimately cost him his life, but one he felt that he simply had to make for the sake of his life's mission.
And it seems to me that the qualities he developed throughout his life—especially his love—came to full flower after he was arrested, imprisoned, and executed. We can see the impact he had in the accounts of those who saw him in those final days. Hugh Falconer, one of his prison mates, said that "[Bonhoeffer] was very happy during the whole time I knew him, and did a great deal to keep some of the weaker brethren from depression and anxiety" (516). Another of his prison mates, Payne Best, wrote a memoir about his prison experience, and said of Bonhoeffer that
His soul really shone in the dark desperation of our prison…[Bonhoeffer] had always been afraid that he would not be strong enough to stand such a test but now he knew there was nothing in life of which one need ever be afraid. (503)
In that same memoir, Best said that Bonhoeffer "was a good and saintly man" (518). Years later, he shared in a letter to Bonhoeffer's family that "In fact my feeling was far stronger than these words imply. He was, without exception, the finest and most lovable man have I ever met" (528).
Bonhoeffer began the last day of his life not knowing that it was the last day of his life. Unbeknownst to him, Nazi officials were coming to give him and his co-conspirators a mock trial followed by their execution. But the officials were (rather miraculously) delayed long enough for Bonhoeffer to give what turned out to be his final Sunday service for his fellow prisoners. Best said that this service "spoke to us in a manner that reached the hearts of all, finding just the right words to express the spirit of our imprisonment and the thoughts and resolutions which it had brought" (528). Eventually, the officials did show up, and they told Bonhoeffer to come with them. Everyone knew what that meant. Best said that as Bonhoeffer left, he said to him, "This is the end. For me the beginning of life."
Finally, Bonhoeffer prepared for his impending death. The only account we have is from the prison camp's doctor, H. Fischer-Hüllstrung, who said:
I saw Pastor Bonhoeffer [in a room in one of the huts], before taking off his prison garb, kneeling on the floor praying fervently to his God. I was most deeply moved by the way this lovable man prayed, so devout and so certain that God heard his prayer. At the place of execution, he again said a short prayer and climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.
As a Course student, why am I so inspired by a conservative Lutheran who fervently believed that the one and only way to salvation is through faith in Jesus Christ's sacrificial death on the cross? Part of it is that in spite of Bonhoeffer's obvious differences with the Course, I see similarities as well. His practice of seeking God's guidance echoes the Course's emphasis on seeking the Holy Spirit's guidance. His commitment to what he regarded as a God-given mission for his life is reminiscent of what the Course calls our special function. His work as a teacher passing on his path to his pupils in the seminary he founded brings to mind the "plan of the teachers" described by the Manual. And it certainly seems that with at least some of these pupils (Bethge in particular), he had what the Course would call holy relationships.
In addition to these specific similarities, I see a similarity on a kind of macro-level. We at the Circle like to speak broadly of the Course as a path of study, practice, and extension to others, and I see all three in Bonhoeffer's following of his own path. He was devoted to rigorous study of his scripture, with an emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount, which actually does parallel the Course in many ways. He developed a practice of prayer and meditation that sounds similar to Course practice—he even spent each day reflecting on a different scriptural passage, which sounds a lot like the Course's practice of reflecting on the idea for the day. And as a teacher and exemplar, he extended miracles of love and helpfulness to everyone he encountered, striving to be a "man for others" as Jesus was.
And as I hope has become clear in what I've written here, it is this last aspect of Bonhoeffer's life—his extension to others—that inspires me the most. I'm sure he must have had his faults, but the simple fact of the matter is that I am deeply moved by a man who, whatever those faults, lived a life of uncommon goodness. This goodness is so apparent in the accounts of people whose lives he touched, as we can see in those I've quoted above. This was a man who devoted his entire life to serving others in whatever way God guided him, no matter what the cost—even unto death. Such a man is a rare and priceless gift to the world.
Bonhoeffer's uncommon goodness is the frame through which I see his decision to participate in the plot to assassinate Hitler. Was it the right thing to do? I don't know. On the one hand, it's impossible for me to imagine the Course saying "Kill that guy." On the other hand, it's possible that the Holy Spirit had some reason for Bonhoeffer to participate in the conspiracy, even if He didn't want Hitler to actually be killed. There's no way to know all the intricacies of God's plan. But it seems clear to me that Bonhoeffer's decision in this unimaginably extreme situation was rooted in the same things that guided his entire life: his devotion to others and his commitment to following God's Will for his life. He prayed long and hard about his decision to take part in the conspiracy, and he felt it was what he was being called to do. That is not a guarantee that his decision was correct, of course. But given his basic goodness and the extremity of the situation, I'm certainly willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
My admiration for Bonhoeffer is ultimately rooted in my conviction that in the end, goodness like his will win the day. If I ever find myself in a situation anywhere near as extreme as his, I can only hope and pray that I can respond to it with anything near to his love and courage. He was a beautiful exemplar of his path, and he inspires me to be a beautiful exemplar of mine. Whatever our different paths, I believe that to the degree all of us can approach life the way Dietrich Bonhoeffer did, the world will be blessed. And in the end, the goodness at the heart of reality—the goodness of God, which blossoms when we all become "men and women for others"—will indeed win the day. | <urn:uuid:4c742964-5782-4443-90dd-a84f2c784c4e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.circleofa.org/library/course-meets-world/dietrich-bonhoeffer-a-man-for-others/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.988287 | 3,645 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Painting is undoubtedly a stress buster! Everyone must paint something or the other every once in a while to feel the bliss of the mind. However, when you think about what to sit to paint, there is one big question- what should you paint. Since you are not an amateur painter, you would want to go easy on yourself. Hence begins the search for Easy Watercolor Painting Ideas on Canvas. However, you want to paint something that you would relate to. Hence, here is a cool collection of various themes that you can have to make your watercolor painting. Don’t forget to prime your canvas before painting or all the paint will be soaked by the canvas.
Easy Watercolor Painting Ideas on Canvas
Beautiful Scenic Watercolor Paintings on Canvas
As an amateur, you must like to have a broad perspective on what to paint. You must be open to trying new types and styles of painting. A simple way of starting to paint is by painting some beautiful scenic views that do now have very minute detailing. This will make you understand the blending and depth of colors.
Painting Beautiful Human Beings | Easy Watercolor Painting Ideas on Canvas
Leveling up a grade, if you are somewhere on the artistic level that you understand depts. and blends of colors more appropriately, and then this is what you must opt for. These give you the hold of going deep into the details of the painting. By this, you can explore your understanding of minute details such as painting eyelashes of the subject.
Nature’s Reflections In Watercolor | Easy Watercolor Painting Ideas on Canvas
The technique you will be using while painting these watercolor ideas on canvas is the wash technique. Moreover, you can combine the wet on wet technique to get the desired results. Make the background using these techniques. Then use black paint to make the details of the painting. For the effects of shadow and depths, use the white and grey colors with your paintbrushes.
Cultures Of The World
The beauty of the world doesn’t lie in fashion and lifestyle, but on the streets. Stomping through the streets you will understand the diversity of the world. When you make these paintings, you will see that every part of the world has a different story to tell. This sure will make your spirits raise high.
Easy Wonders Of The World Watercolor Painting Ideas on Canvas
Another thing that reflects the diversity in the world is the way each part has its own wonders. These make them different in the way the cultures developed. It also makes you see how wonderful the artist was to make such gorgeous specimens. From north to south and east to west, cultural diversity makes these masterpieces phenomenal.
Amazing Beauty Of Nature
We appreciate the man for his creations of monuments and palaces. However, have you sat and glazed at the deeming sunsets? Or have you ever been to a dessert and thought how beautiful some sand dunes were? We often seem to neglect the beauty of nature. The way mountains are and the way a river flows don’t mesmerize us anymore. Because the eyes have become accustomed to it. grab the beauty in your artwork and let people see what they are missing.
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Covid Scotland: Almost 3,000 new cases of coronavirus reported across the country
The First Minister has provided an update on coronavirus in Scotland during a briefing in parliament.
There have been 2,870 new cases of coronavirus reported in the last 24 hours.
1,107 people were in hospital yesterday, and 94 people in intensive care.
There have been 18 new reported deaths of people who tested positive.
4,160,835 people have received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccination and 3,813,547 have received their second dose.
The First Minister provided the update in the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday.
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S Korea's Cyworld battles Facebook
Seoul -Bullying is a big problem in the digital playgrounds of the world's social networks.
But South Korea's top social networking site Cyworld is touting several distinctive features - including making people prove who they are in the real world before they can join their virtual one.
This might seem at odds with the whole ethos of social networks such as Facebook and MySpace, but it can be a bonus in a country where cyber bullies have posed a problem.
"Although I think new social networks will take up a certain portion of the Korean market, we are better known, more experienced and have strong privacy protection," Lee Tae-Shin, portal manager at Cyworld, said.
Cyworld, unlike many other open social networks, requires users to verify their real names and identities when creating an account.
"By doing so, we can protect the privacy of our users and we take the matter very seriously," Lee said.
In one of the world's most wired societies, malicious internet gossip can wield strong sway. Police in 2008 announced a crackdown on rumour-mongers, whom they blamed for the suicide of local actress Choi Jin-Sil.
Such rumours were also partially blamed for the suicide of actress Chung Da-Bin. A government survey in 2006 showed 85% of high school students were under stress from cyber bullying.
20 million Korean users
"Cyworld's well-protected privacy allows a tight relationship between 'friends'. But that prevents networks from expanding," said Han Sang-Ki, a professor at KAIST's Graduate School of Culture and Technology.
But at least one active user is enthusiastic.
"It's much easier to set up privacy settings on Cyworld than on other systems and that is a huge advantage - because there is some information which I don't want to reveal, like wallposts, to my friends," said Kim Hoo-Yeon, aged 21.
Cyworld, founded in 2001, now has more than 20 million South Korean users.
It sees itself as the social network pioneer in one of the world's most wired societies - with about 78% of the population connected to the internet and about 66% of the total using social networks,
Cyworld is a bulletin board for complaints, opinions and even press releases for public figures ranging from Olympic figure skating champion Kim Yu-Na to top politicians.
When Kim broke up acrimoniously with her Canadian coach Brian Orser, she used her Cyworld homepage to explain her reasons to millions of fans.
But its dominance is under threat.
Research and consulting group Korean Click says that in June, Cyworld had 22 million visits a month, Twitter 5.1 million and Facebook 2.2 million.
Last month, Korean Click's figures show 18 million for Cyworld, 7.4 million for Twitter and 6.7 million for Facebook.
Despite the trend, Korean Click says it expects domestic social networks to raise their game and compete more dynamically.
Cyworld is trying to do just that. Two months ago it introduced the C-Log, incorporating some features of Facebook and a Twitter-style short message service, to meet the competition.
"It will be an interesting competition. We will do our best," said portal manager Lee.
Cyworld, part of the Nate portal provided by SK Communications, boasts several distinctive features apart from just privacy.
Users can decorate their homepage with background music, wallpaper, postings from diaries, pictures and video footage.
Twitter, Facebook catching up
A service called "Ilchon" allows users to become friends and to comment on, or cut and paste, each others' postings.
Cyworld also has an online currency called "Dotori" (chestnuts). Users purchase the online currency and use it to buy background music and other items to decorate their homepage.
Dotori transactions at Cyworld are worth more than $220 000 a day, a major source of profit for SK Communications.
Professor Han says that although Cyworld has more visitors now by far, Twitter and Facebook are catching up fast.
"And at this speed, they might catch up soon," he said.
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10 Rorschach Images
Project by Ana Miljacki, Lee Moreau, and Sarah Hirschman
Project_Rorschach is a series of ten cards that compile architectural imagery from digital archives in a manner inspired by the ten cards used in the Rorschach inkblot test. It was first exhibited at the Design Biennial Boston from February – May 2013, and was curated by over,under at the BSA Space, the exhibition space of the Boston Society of Architects in Boston, MA.
Once meticulously printed on a single antique press in Switzerland, the Rorschach images were sold only to licensed therapists. Having run out of copyright protection in the US, the test images are now available on Wikipedia for all to contemplate. We employ a reference to them as an invitation to follow and see (anew) images of contemporary architectural tropes.
Grouped by meme, ubiquitous images of architecture are layered into ten revised Rorschach cards. No longer inkblots, but retaining the symmetry that was originally constitutive of their figuration, the architectural Rorschach images are super-saturated compositions of chimneys, robotic bricks, cantilevers, house piles, hyper-towers, circles, phalluses, beanie blobs, single surfaces, diagrids, and stacks. They are assembled from the digital archives that designers draw on when thirsty—such as Archinect, ArchDaily, or Dezeen—and reproduced here in the low-res flatness that is their currency.
This project invites architectural self-analysis while it simultaneously plays on the fact that the discipline of architecture is constituted, multiplied, and advanced from constant projections onto its own archives. Although the inkblot revisions still might send the “chance image” signal, Project_Rorschach does not provide any means for authorial evaluation of the imaginations projected onto it. It speaks instead, and hopefully propels further, into an open-ended string of interpretations—some of architecture’s contemporary haunts.
Project Ana Miljacki, Lee Moreau, and Sarah Hirschman
Team: Oliver Wuttig, Alexander William Marshall, Andrew Manto, Sean Capone (The Supernature), George Xinxin Lin, Clay Anderson, Bill Gastrock, and Chiranit Prateepasen.
Cards 10 takeaway Rorschach-inspired cards
Projection Animation transitions between the ten composite Rorschach images
Bench Large custom bench (derived from Gerrit Rietveld’s Z chair and his Red/Blue chaise lounge) serves as seating and card display
Project_ is a design and research firm founded in 1998 by Ana Miljački and Lee Moreau. Through the production of buildings, exhibitions, writing, and the instigation of discourse, Project_ strives to critically re-wire histories and futures of architecture. Ana Miljački is currently an assistant professor of architecture at MIT and a co-curator with Eva Franch i Gilabert and Ashley Schafer of the US Pavilion for the 2014 Venice Biennale. Lee Moreau is a registered architect and a principal in the design and innovation firm Continuum.
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December 31 might be everything about the newest season’s kiss, but by new-year’s Day, most people are contemplating exactly what uses the hug. This could be a beneficial metaphor for the internet dating behaviors generally. The individual we turn to for instant love, an immediate spark if not a New season’s kiss isn’t necessarily the exact same person we might be happy revealing our life with long-lasting. With this in mind, it’s secure to think that one significant cause finding lasting love shows these difficult is the fact that characteristics we look for in somebody aren’t always those that trigger suffering intimacy.
The reason why we fall in really love may be a mystery, nevertheless the factors we remain in love tend to be much less challenging. This is exactly why this new-year I propose generating many resolutions as to what we look for in a romantic commitment. There is no these thing because the best partner, but a great lover are located in anyone who has created by themselves in some ways in which go beyond the area. While we each look for a particular pair of characteristics which exclusively significant to all of us by yourself, there are particular psychological traits you and your partner can strive for that produce the flame not only more powerful, much more passionate and much more satisfying, additionally less more likely to die out the time the clock strikes midnight.
Several traits will not be evident to you as soon as we very first fulfill some body, but while we familiarize yourself with the individuals we date, normally invaluable qualities to both look out for in them and focus on in ourselves. These perfect qualities feature:
This declaration is certainly not supposed to echo the ever-advised motto that maturity is very important. Getting “grown up” is not just an issue of perhaps not acting like a young child anymore. It isn’t about a boyfriend which remembers to obtain the trash or a girlfriend just who never ever runs late. These qualities tend to be wonderful, but to genuinely become adults ways producing an active effort to recognize and deal with adverse impacts from your past. A great lover is thus ready to think about his or her record and is also thinking about focusing on how old occasions inform recent actions.
When people mature psychologically, they’re less likely to re-enact or project past encounters onto their own current relationships. They establish a stronger sense of liberty and autonomy, having differentiated from destructive influences from early in life. Because they evolve within on their own, they’ve been less inclined to identify people to make up for flaws and weak points or even finish their own incompleteness. Alternatively, they truly are in search of people to share life with as equals and value by themselves of on their own. Having damaged ties to outdated identities and habits, this person is far more accessible to an enchanting partner together with brand new household they generate collectively. Normally, becoming psychologically mature ourselves aids in this process and dramatically gets better our odds of achieving a good and gratifying connection.
The best companion is actually available, undefended and prepared to be susceptible. No individual is perfect, so finding a person who is actually friendly and receptive to feedback can be a huge asset to a long-lasting union. When someone is free-thinking and open-minded, it enables them to end up being forthright in showing emotions, views, aspirations and desires, which allows that undoubtedly know all of them. Their particular openness can an illustration of these curiosity about individual development and often plays a part in the introduction of the relationship. Like best folks, great unions you should never exist, therefore locating some body with whom you can speak about an area that you find is actually without your connection and who is open to changing is more than half the battle. Conversely, getting happy to accept comments from our lovers and looking for the kernel of fact as to what they do say permits us to establish our selves in the same way.
3. Trustworthiness & Integrity
The ideal partner finds out the necessity of honesty in a close union. Honesty builds count on between individuals. Dishonesty confuses the other person, betraying their own susceptability and shattering their unique feeling of reality. Absolutely nothing features a more destructive influence on a close relationship between two different people than dishonesty and deception. In painful conditions instance cheating, the blatant deception involved can be just as, or even more, upsetting as compared to unfaithful work by itself. The ideal partner aims to live on a life of ethics to make sure that there are no discrepancies between terms and steps. This applies to all degrees of interaction, both spoken and nonverbal. Becoming available and truthful in our many personal interactions indicates actually knowing our selves and the objectives. While this can be challenging, its an attempt really worth aiming for.
4. Respect & freedom
Ideal lovers value each other individuals’ interests divide using their own. They feel congenial toward and encouraging of each and every other’s overall targets in daily life. These are generally responsive to another’s desires, desires and feelings, and put all of them on the same foundation along with their own. Perfect lovers address both with respect and sensitivity. They don’t make an effort to get a grip on each other with threatening or manipulative behavior. These are generally respectful of their lover’s unique private borders, while in addition remaining near actually and psychologically. Valuing and respecting the lovers’ sovereign minds and never attempting to change them we can really know them as an independent men and women.
The ideal companion perceives their partner on both a mental, observational level and an emotional, intuitive level. This person is able to both understand and empathize with his or the woman partner. Whenever a couple in a couple understand each other, they discover the commonalities that you can get between the two and also identify and value the distinctions. When both associates are empathic, that’s, with the capacity of communicating with feeling along with value when it comes to other individual’s wishes, attitudes and principles, each companion feels realized and authenticated. Developing our ability to be empathic helps us realize and attune to your partner.
Just the right spouse is easily affectionate and receptive on a lot of amounts: actually, emotionally and verbally. She or he is private, acknowledging and outwardly demonstrative of feelings of comfort and inflammation. This person should appreciate nearness in becoming intimate and feel uninhibited in offering and accepting affection and pleasure. Becoming prepared for both offering and receiving love adds a poignant sensation to your schedules.
7. Sense of Humor
The best spouse features a sense of humor. A feeling of laughter could be a lifesaver in a relationship. The capacity to laugh at your self and also at existence’s foibles enables individuals in order to maintain a proper point of view when coping with sensitive and painful issues that develop within the union. Partners who’re lively and teasing usually defuse potentially volatile situations using their wit. A good sense of humor positively relieves the tight times in a relationship. Having the ability to have a good laugh at ourselves helps make existence easier. Plus, it really is among life’s biggest joys to be able to laugh with someone close to all of us.
The âThink Excellent’ Test
Why You are Already in a commitment!
Can’t Purchase Myself Love
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Cystic acne is the most severe type of acne. Unfortunately, this type of inflammatory cyst is also the most difficult to get rid of on your own.
What is the fastest way to get rid of a cystic pimple?
“Ice-cold temperatures help constrict blood vessels, so wrap an ice cube in a paper towel and hold it against the bump to reduce redness and bring down the swelling a bit,” says Zeichner, who recommends icing three times an hour in ten-minute intervals, i.e., ten minutes on, ten minutes off.
Can a cyst pop on its own?
You should never try to squeeze or pop a cyst or pseudocyst yourself. This can lead to infection. In some cases, they improve on their own.
How do you help someone with severe acne?
Managing Severe Acne: Do’s and Don’ts
- Do gently clean your skin.
- Do use sunscreen.
- Do try OTC products.
- Do use cold and heat.
- Do see a dermatologist.
- Don’t use harsh products.
- Don’t pick at your skin.
- Don’t cause friction.
How do you pop a cystic pimple with no head?
Soak a clean washcloth in water that is hot, but not too hot to touch. Apply the warm compress. Hold the warm compress on the blind pimple for 10 to 15 minutes. Repeat the application three to four times a day until the blind pimple comes to a head and releases the pus.
Does toothpaste work on cystic acne?
The rumor mill might have you believing that dabbing some regular old toothpaste on your zit will help it clear up overnight. But, while it’s true that several ingredients found in toothpaste are drying to skin and might help shrink your pimple, this home remedy for breakouts isn’t worth the risk.
What is the best thing to put on a cystic pimple?
- Ice. Because ice is often effective in decreasing swelling, itchiness, pain, and redness, some natural healers suggest rubbing an ice cube on the cystic acne spot until the cold becomes uncomfortable. …
- Aspirin mask. …
- Diet. …
- Vinegar cleanser. …
- Turmeric mask. …
- Probiotics. …
- Tea tree oil.
What happens if a cyst pops inside you?
Infection – the cyst fills with bacteria and pus, and becomes an abscess. If the abscess bursts inside the body, there is a risk of blood poisoning (septicaemia). Peritonitis – if an internal cyst bursts, there is a risk of peritonitis, which is inflammation of the membrane lining the abdominal wall.
What can I put on a cyst to draw it out?
If it bothers you aesthetically, gets infected, causes pain, or grows rapidly in size, then talk with your doctor.
- Hot compress. Simple heat is the most recommended and effective home measure for draining or shrinking cysts. …
- Tea tree oil. …
- Apple cider vinegar. …
- Aloe vera. …
- Castor oil. …
- Witch hazel. …
Can Urgent Care remove a cyst?
Both aspiration and cyst removal can be performed in an urgent care center. The treatment of the cyst depends on certain factors, including the type and location of the cyst, and also whether the cyst is infected.
What age is acne the worst?
Acne is extremely common and can affect people of all ages. Adolescents and young adults between ages 12 and 24 tend to be the most affected group. It usually begins during the start of puberty, affecting girls earlier than boys.
Why is my acne not stopping?
Bacteria, clogged pores, oil, and inflammation can all cause acne. Of course, the second treatment should attack a different cause of acne. For example, if you are using an acne treatment that contains benzoyl peroxide, the second acne treatment should contain another acne-fighting ingredient.
Does drinking water help acne?
In particular, it may help keep your skin hydrated, support immune function, regulate blood sugar levels, and promote natural detoxification — all of which can help fight acne. If staying properly hydrated with water doesn’t improve your acne, be sure to discuss other treatment options with your healthcare provider.
How do you draw out a deep blackhead?
So how do I treat blackheads?
- Try salicylic acid. …
- Use benzoyl peroxide to get to the root of the issue. …
- Give powerful retinoids a try. …
- Use steam to nix blackheads instantly. …
- Get rid of blackheads overnight with a two-step process. …
- Try pore strips to get rid of blackheads on your nose.
Can I stick a needle in a sebaceous cyst?
Another drainage option to combat sebaceous cysts include fine-needle aspiration. A thin needle is inserted into the cyst to drain the liquid. This method is often used for cysts on the breast. While these are both a quick and painless fix, the cysts are likely to continue to occur unless complete removal is performed.
What does cystic acne look like?
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4.611/13 Civil Architecture in Islamic History (HASS)
Instructor: Nasser Rabbat
13- Fatehpur Sikri, India:
The Mughals of India: ruled most of India for three centuries before the establishment of direct British rule in 1858. The period between the founder Babur's reign (1526-30) and 1707 is considered the age of the Great Mughals.
Jalal al-Din Akbar: (1556-1605) the third and probably greatest Mughal emperor. He built Fatehpur Sikri, moved the court there between 1571 and 1585, and created an environment for dialogue between the various religious sects in the empire. He amalgamated all doctrines in a new vision of a universal order, the Din-i Ilahi, in which he was the infallible imam.
Fatehpur Sikri: Established near the old settlement of Sikri and the khanqah of the sufi sheikh Salim al-Din Chishti (d. 1572). It was planned to become the dynastic ceremonial center with an elaborate palatial complex and numerous pavilions for the courtiers. The royal section of the city stretched for 2 miles along a rocky ridge overlooking an artificial lake to the north. The residential areas extended on the low land south of the palaces and were surrounded by fortifications.
Important Structures in the City:
The Hiran Minar: A pivotal structure, this tower may have served as the zero milestone in the demarcation of the empire's road system.
The Hatyapul Gate (Elephant Gate): may have been the ceremonial entry into the royal enclosure from the lower level of the north plains.
The Congregational Mosque (Jami‘ Masjid): a huge sandstone enclosure with two main gates: the Badshahi (Royal) Gate in the east and
The Bauland Darwaza (Lofty Gate): The major gate facing south towards the residential sections. It is a huge, three-sided Iwan gate topped with chattris.
Tomb of Sheikh Salim al-Din Chishti: The spiritual center of the city, it is a richly decorated square pavilion built of white marble.
The Divankhana-i ‘Amm (Public Hall): a courtyard structure with a royal pavilion.
The Divan-i Khass (Private Hall): a square building with four Chattris, its plan is radially arranged around a central column supporting the throne area.
The Panch Mahal: a five-story, porticoed pavilion (baradari) that served as a viewing stand for the ladies of the Harem from behind the jalis (carved screens).
Anup Talau: A square reservoir in the sultan's private section with cross-axial bridges leading to a central platform.
Jodh Bai's Palace: A palace in the zenana (harem).
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Strength Training for Cross Country Runners
Far too many cross-country runners avoid weight training. But these endurance athletes will benefit by incorporating strength training into their programs. Increased upper body strength helps delay arm and posture fatigue during a race. Increased leg strength enhances running efficiency, force application and speed.
Another bonus of strength training is injury protection. As a distance runner, your legs absorb up to five times your body weight with each stride. The cumulative effects can add up over the season. Muscle weakness and imbalances are two prime causes of overuse injuries. Incorporating strength training will go a long way to prepare the muscles, bones, tendons and ligaments for the high intensity loads placed on the body during the season.
A good cross-country strength-training program should focus on strengthening and balancing the quadriceps, hamstrings and hips. This will develop the powerful strides needed for end-of-race sprints to the finish. Getting stronger also helps to absorb the repetitive shock of each stride and contributes to a successful season.
The best days to include strength training into your workout are after hills, intervals, tempo or fartlek runs. Stay away from lifting weights on recovery days and long run days.
♦ Hold dumbbells in both hands with arms extended at sides of body
♦ Bend front knee to lower into lunge position until thigh is parallel to ground; keep front knee behind toes
♦ Push off heel to extend hip and knee to drive up to start position
♦ Repeat with other leg
♦ Assume position on Calf Raise machine with slight bend at hips and knees
♦ Drive up on toes, fully extending hips and knees
♦ Descend slowly; repeat for specified reps
♦ With a dumbbell in each hand, assume push-up position with straight arms
♦ Perform a Push-Up
♦ At the top of the push-up, keeping your core stiff, row the dumbbell to the side of your chest, bending your arm as you pull it up
♦ Pause, then lower the dumbbell. Repeat with other arm.
Sets/Duration: 3x10-20 seconds
♦ Assume staggered stance holding lightweight dumbbells at sides
♦ Keeping arms at 90 degrees, drive arms forward and back
♦ Repeat for specified reps; alternate lead leg each set
Sets/Duration: 2 x 30-60 seconds each position
♦ Perform Front, Side and Glute Bridges (Plank) in a circuit
♦ Keep back flat with body in perfect Plank position
♦ Tighten core to prevent bad form
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Khrushchev counsels Castro to stand firm and not respond to provocative American overflights of Cuban airspace.
Letter from Nikita Khrushchev to Fidel Castro
October 28, 1962
Dear Comrade Fidel Castro:
Our message to President Kennedy of October 27, allows for a solution of the problem in your favor, defending Cuba from an invasion, from an outbreak of such a war. Kennedy's answer, which you obviously know, offers U.S. guarantees that they will not only not invade Cuba with their own forces, but that they will not allow their allies to do so. The President of the United States has thus responded favorably to my messages of October 26 and 27.
We have just drafted our response to the President's message. I will not write it here since it is being transmitted by radio.
Because of this we would now like to advise you, in this turning point of the crisis, not to get carried away by your feelings: show firmness. It must be said that we understand your profound indignation at the aggressive actions of the U.S.A and at its violation of the fundamental norms of international law.
For the time being, however, it is not law that rules but rather the lack of sense of the militarists in the Pentagon. Since an agreement is in sight, the Pentagon is looking for a pretext to thwart it. This is why it organizes provocative overflights. Yesterday, you shot down one of them, yet previously you did not when they flew over your territory. That step will be used by aggressors to their advantage, to further their aims.
Because of this we would like to advise you, in the spirit of friendship, to show patience, firmness and more firmness. Naturally, if there is an invasion, it will be necessary to fight it with everything. But one must not allow oneself to fall for provocations. Now that a solution is being found -- one that is in your favor and that guarantees against an invasion -- the unbridled militarists in the Pentagon want to frustrate the agreement and provoke you into taking actions that could be used against you. we ask you not to give them a pretext for this.
We on our part will do everything to stabilize the situation in Cuba, to defend Cuba. from invasion and to assure you the possibilities for the peaceful construction of the socialist society.
We send you, and your entire collective direction, our greetings.
Head of the most powerful family in America, billionaire John D. Rockefeller's vast philanthropy changed his family's reputation.
Richard Nixon faced impeachment but also ended the Vietnam War. Part of the award-winning Presidents Collection.
The dramatic story of the nation's first subway
America came apart in 1964 and has since been reborn.
American prisoners of war in North Vietnam tell of their experiences at the Hanoi Hilton and other notorious prisons.
The story of Liliu'okalani, the last queen and ruler of the independent Kingdom of Hawaii.
Richard Sears and Alva Curtis Roebuck brought consumer goods to the hands of every American with their Sears and Roebuck catalogue.
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Pachyphytum bracteosum is an Echeveria relative with thick, rounded, silver-blue leaves.
Pachyphytum bracteosum is an Echeveria relative with thick, rounded, silver-blue leaves on short stems that look like rounded white stones.
Common Name: Moon Stones
Family: Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)
Zone Hardiness: 9-11
Light: Full Sun
Primary Bloom Colour: Red
Secondary Bloom Colour:
Bloom Time: Summer - Fall
Soil Moisture: Drought Tolerant, Dry
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Native to Mexico.
Geogrpahical Origin: Americas - North America
*The Plant Encyclopedia is updated each year to provide a representation of the plants we offer, have offered, and may offer again. However, it is not a live inventory of our stock. Not all plants will be available at all times or in every year. Use the link above to enquire about the availability of this plant. Additionally, we carry many plants that have not yet been entered into our database so please enquire if you don’t see what you’re looking for. Plants are available only for on-site sales at our nursery in Richmond, BC, Canada or for shipping within Canada. We do not ship internationally. However, if you are visiting the nursery from afar, we can arrange for the necessary permits and paperwork for you to take plants back with you to your country. | <urn:uuid:b957274a-3019-43c1-8328-8477a3a8e017> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phoenix.neocodesoftware.com/plant.php?plantId=9453 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.865875 | 379 | 2.015625 | 2 |
DHS in the News
Journalists worldwide write about The DHS Program results. The dissemination of DHS, SPA and HIV data is often widely covered by media in survey countries, but journalists also use The DHS Program data throughout the year as background information for their stories, or to compare health and development indicators across countries. These data are also used by journalists in the United States and other developed countries, as it is considered the gold standard of population, health and nutrition data. Below are some examples of recent news coverage. Please note: The links below are to websites outside The DHS Program.
Bridging family planning gap in Nigeria
DAILY INDEPENDENT (Abuja, Nigeria)
"Recently, stakeholders in the health sector, especially family planning experts concluded their 3rd family planning conference in Abuja.The conference was convened as a result of the concern and anxiety occasioned by the revelation from the 2013 National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) results/finding which showed a great disparity between knowledge of family planning techniques and actual usage. Knowledge of Family Planning in Nigeria is put at 85 per cent while actual use is only 10 per cent..." | <urn:uuid:de54c64d-b32f-45d1-b3c2-96af657ee614> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dhsprogram.com/Who-We-Are/News-Room/Bridging-family-planning-gap-in-Nigeria.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.95525 | 242 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a condition characterized by the gradual decline of joint and cartilage tissue. It is a progressive condition that causes recurring pain in people. At present, it is estimated that around 27 million Americans suffer from this disease. The onset of OA is usually associated with aging. As the body advances in age, it’s ability to regenerate cartilage and bone tissue diminishes. This increases the body’s vulnerability to various forms of arthritis as it can no longer function with robust properties. As the condition progresses, people face increasingly debilitating symptoms, which tend to restrict them in performing many of the daily activities.
Although osteoarthritis is a disorder of the joints that can affect any joint of the body, it most commonly develops in hands, knees, and hips. There are multiple factors that contribute or raise the chances of people developing OA. These include:
Excessive weight exposes the bone structure of the body to immense load. This increases the risk for arthritis in various joints of the body, mainly the knee, hip, and spine. The joints possess an extensive range of motion, due to which they have a less stable bone structure. This makes them more sensitive to obesity than other bones of the body. Maintaining ideal weight can reduce the risk of osteoarthritis or prevent it altogether. For those who already suffer from it, it is extremely necessary that they lose weight in order to delay or slow down its progression.
When people inherit a mutated gene, which is suppose to build cartilage tissue, they’re predisposed to conditions like osteoarthritis. The inadequate function of tissue growth contributes to the deterioration of joints. Moreover, people born with any type of join complications or abnormalities are at greater risk for OA.
Injuries that affect muscles, tendons and ligaments of the body can raise the risk for osteoarthritis and even catalyze its development. Some bone related injuries can pose significant risk for causing chronic inflammation, which over time can lead to the different forms of arthritis. In addition, osteoarthritis can exist as a secondary condition triggered by the original condition or injury.
The repetitive use of joints either from rigorous activities or from maintaining an incorrect posture can cause osteoarthritis. Many individuals work jobs that require sitting, bending or using a certain part of the body excessively. Such people are at increased risk for joint degenerative conditions.
Aging significantly raises the risk for a vast variety of joint issues, including osteoarthritis. Since the healing mechanism is not as active it is in younger people, old people fail to counter the wear and tear of their joints by regenerating at the same level. With time OA causes complete or partial loss of the cartilage cushion creating friction between the bones during movement. This not only causes immense pain but also restricts people from various activities and mobility.
Treatment for Osteoarthritis
The treatment for OA is multifactorial – usually a combination of exercise, weight management and medicine like OrthoWave. Treatment factors typically depend on the health of the patient and are determined taking into account age, medical history, overall health and severity of the condition. Sometimes, in addition to eating growth promoting foods, exercising healthy and taking prescribed medicine physical therapy with muscle toughening exercises is also recommended.
In advanced cases, joint fluid elimination, installation of supportive device or invasive surgery may be employed to help patients recover from pain.
Acetaminophen, ibuprofen, and naproxen are over-the-counter examples of pain killing medicines that are used for pain alleviation. if these medicines aren’t effective, the doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory drugs. In the case of severe pain, steroid injections can be taken which are directly stuck into the joint. These aren’t highly recommended as it is suggested by many experts that steroids, NSAIDS and Opiates can accelerate tissue generation in the long run. Many new procedures are underway that may have greater potential of treating osteoarthritis with effectiveness. | <urn:uuid:a92cf7e7-55ce-4c00-9580-dd8f98aaf0a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.dailyu.com/health/what-causes-osteoarthritis-and-how-can-you-fix-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.945655 | 845 | 3.71875 | 4 |
The Danger of Opening a Door We Cannot Close by Daniel Borgstrom
Summary: Underwriting is camouflage for advertising. Pacifica has never allowed it’s anti-war mission to be susceptible to corruption by accepting advertising funding from mainstream corporate sources. With so many un-declared wars, now is not the time for Pacifica stations to start underwriting.
The Pacifica Radio network, which includes five stations and about 250 affiliates, is facing a financial crisis which could mean the extinction of the network, and out of sheer desperation, the Pacifica National Board is now thinking of seeking funds from underwriters. It sounds tempting, very tempting, but it’s not the way to go. By accepting funds from underwriters even with the best of intentions, Pacifica would be opening a door we cannot close; a door that keeps opening itself wider and wider, ultimately to money we cannot control.
That has been the experience of many progressive organizations whose missions were diverted or even reversed. Pacifica would not likely be an exception, and if foundations and corporations fund our radio stations, we’ll be broadcasting their version of news and analysis.
The corporate media is a prime example of how funding works, and it doesn’t take an MBA in finance to understand it. I remember my high school economics teacher (half a century ago now) telling us that a newspaper could better afford to offend its readers than its advertisers. “Subscriptions barely pay for the ink and newsprint,” the teacher explained. “The newspaper’s main income comes from advertising. No paper can afford to offend those advertisers.”
Although mainstream media outlets don’t deny their corporate nature, they do pretend to be fair, loudly proclaiming themselves the “free, unbiased media,” which they’re not. The Washington Postsays on its masthead “Democracy dies in darkness,” which is true, but the Post is itself part of the darkness and has promoted every U.S. war in living memory (Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc.). The New York Times calls itself the “Newspaper of Record,” which it certainly is — a record of the official national security state narratives and their various twists and turns on any number of topics ranging from the JFK assassination, to 9/11, to Iraq, to “Russiagate.”
NPR/PBS pretend to be something of an alternative. They hold fund drives and are to some extent public supported, but they accept funding from numerous corporate sources, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, AT&T, Koch Industries and many more. NPR coverage reflects the sensibilities of their wealthy funders.
Of course, we’ve seen those corporate outlets do publish some excellent, well-researched and insightful journalism. Usually, as in the case of the Watergate exposés, it makes the newspaper look good, like a watchdog for the public interest, and it may even fit in with the agenda of some powerful faction. But not always. There was Gary Webb, an award-winning journalist of the San Jose Mercury News, who famously wrote about the connection between the CIA and drug smuggling. It ended as a lesson for journalists who dare to overstep the bounds. More recently, CNN’s Marc Lamont Hill made a speech at the United Nations where he expressed support for the Palestinians; CNN fired Hill the next day. That’s the world of corporate journalism, the “free, unbiased media.” Yes, they do have some excellent journalists. There was Seymour Hersh, who’s no longer welcome at U.S. media outlets; the only place he could go with one of his recent articles was Germany. Not all journalists are outright fired; some, like the late Robert Parry, quit in frustration; Parry went on to found Consortium News, an independent online news outlet now headed by Joe Lauria.
I wish I could say that censorship doesn’t happen in our network, at Pacifica Radio. Well, it does. KPFA (94.1 FM) in Berkeley is Pacifica’s flagship station; there, last August General Manager Quincy McCoy canceled the popular (and controversial) program “Guns and Butter” hosted by Bonnie Faulkner. The program’s entire 17 years of archives were also erased from the KPFA website, and this was done without any transparent process such as listeners expect at a supposedly democratically run community station. When over sixty fans of Guns & Butter showed upat a scheduled KPFA forum to protest, the station’s manager was out of town on vacation.
Guns and Butter has now joined the Unz Review, a selection of “interesting, important, and controversial perspectives largely excluded from the American mainstream media.” Ron Unz said, “I suspect that Pacifica’s severe financial problems may have allowed outside donors the necessary leverage to finally remove a long-standing thorn in their side.”
Actually, Bonnie’s show continues to be aired on other Pacifica stations and affiliates; only KPFA discontinued it. But could Ron Unz’s suspicions about outside donors be well founded, at least at KPFA?
Meanwhile, KPFA’s programmers feature on-air guests such as Karen Greenberg, Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University, who tells us the FBI and CIA “are there to keep us safe.” It is of course fine to have such guests on the air; I think we should, but they should be asked insightful and challenging questions — which tend to be avoided. So we, the KPFA listeners, are often left to hear the same basic neoliberal groupthink that’s on CNN or CBS or NPR.
Then there’s “Russiagate”; we get plenty of that along with other evidence-free doctrines of the corporate media, now being echoed on KPFA. Such is the trend; a trend which goes back many years, but recently it’s been getting worse. (See Ann Garrison’s “We Love the CIA!”—or How the “Left” Lost Its Mind). That’s the trend at KPFA; and it does look like KPFA’s management may indeed be preparing to make the station’s airwaves acceptable to prospective corporate funders.
It wasn’t always that way. KPFA dates back to 1949, and during the McCarthy the station bravely exposed the Cold War propaganda. Likewise during the Vietnam War, it was an antiwar voice. For decades the station maintained a long and honorable tradition of independent, free speech and radical programming, but revolutionary projects don’t always stay revolutionary forever, and the current situation is much like the George Orwell story “Animal Farm.” That is, a clique among the staff at KPFA have set themselves up as the gatekeepers, and as in Orwell’s story, they’ve found allies outside the farm. The station’s elite are today allied with local Democratic Party clubs, and the general manager goes on the air announcing that station is part of the “Resistance.” It’s a resistance that doesn’t resist war.
Reportedly some small stations are accepting underwriting from small business, such as neighborhood bakeries, various collectives. For them, a small scale operation, it may work if they can limit it to that. However, the dynamics can be different at a large station, particularly at KPFA, where expenses are much larger and finances as well as programming are already spiraling out of control.
This neoliberal trend at KPFA cannot be reversed with large injections of money from underwriters. Nor would it be likely to save the network. A couple of years ago we saw a preview of what happens when the current KPFA management gets an infusion of cash. That was in 2015; the station received a bequest of about $600,000. Instead of putting that money to good use, and laying some away for a rainy day, the manager (Quincy McCoy) canceled an upcoming fund drive and the station burned its way through the unexpected gift of free money. When it was gone (some say “squandered“), there was little to show for it. Projects which legitimately needed money were still not attended to.
Although there is something of a firewall between KPFA and the parent organization, the Pacifica Foundation, I fear if the network were to okay underwriters, it would go much the same, except that unlike the case of a one-time bequest, the door would now be opened to ongoing searches for free money.
To reverse that trend at KPFA, we must begin by giving up the notion that we can resolve our problems with free and easy foundation money. Lew Hill’s vision for KPFA/Pacifica, when he founded it back in 1949, was that it must be listener sponsored. Lew Hill was right. That is the way KPFA/Pacifica can maintain its dignity as a source of trustworthy, independent programming and preserve its progressive antiwar voice.
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DANIEL BORGSTRÖM is a sitting KPFA LSB member and is with ” Rescue Pacifica,” a group working to keep the network intact and defend KPFA’s traditional antiwar voice.
KPFA 94.1 FM is one of five stations of the Pacifica radio network located in major cities across the country. The other stations are WBAI 99.5 in New York, WPFW 89.3 in Washington, DC, KPFT 90.1 in Houston, and KPFK 90.7 in Los Angeles. There are also about 250 affiliate stations.
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Beavers Northwest specializes in non-lethal management options to alleviate flooding and property damage without harming beavers. The most common methods are flow devices, including pond levelers and exclusion fencing. Both types of devices, when properly installed and maintained, are the most cost effective and longest lasting beaver management methods.
If you have further questions about device installation and maintenance or are interested in having us assess the feasibility of a device on your property, please contact us.
A pond leveler is simply a pipe through a dam. The pipe is set at a height that prevents further flooding, but retains enough water so that beavers can remain onsite. A cage is placed around the inlet of the pipe to prevent beavers from plugging it with mud and sticks. These devices require very little maintenance (3-4 check-ups per year), and can last indefinitely.
Deciding where to place your leveler is an important step. If you lower the pond too much, beavers will take notice and may begin building in new places which will exacerbate the problem. But if you don't lower it enough, the flooding issue will not be resolved. Finding the perfect pond height can be tricky! Note: if you remove the dam or notch it too often, beavers may move it to another spot which may be better or worse for flooding!
We notch the dams to the height that we want the pond to equilibrate. During storm events, the water level will temporarily increase until the pipe is able to convey enough water out of the pond. This is normal. The pond height should reach the desired level after a day or two.
It is important to notch the dam gradually. Releasing too much water quickly can cause problems downstream, create high sediment loads, and impact fish in the system.
Each pond leveling device consists of a pipe that goes through the dam and a cage around the inlet of the pipe. The cage is designed so that beavers cannot plug up the pipe with debris. We build these cages out of cattle panel fencing with 4" x 6" mesh. We use two of these panels to build the cages on site. Each cylindrical cage has a top and bottom to ensure that beavers cannot get in.
A hole is cut in the side of the cylinder to send the pipe through. It is important that the pipe is secure in the cage and that there is not a large gap where the pipe enters for beavers to get through.
The cage should be placed in the beaver pond upstream of the dam by at least 10 feet. If the cage is too close to the dam, beavers may key in to the water flowing through the pipe and try to plug up the cage. It is also important that the pipe is placed low enough in the cage that it will not be at the surface of the water. Any noises that the pipe makes as it draws in water will attract beaver attention.
The height of the pond with a functional device is determined by the placement of the pipe in the dam, not it's placement in the cage. This means that if you place the pipe low in the cage, it will not drain all the water from the pond unless the pipe is also placed low in the dam.
The pipe and cage should be secured with crossed t-posts to ensure that they remain in place. Depending on the site and the velocity of the water, we typically place 6-12 t-posts along the whole length of the device. If the water is too deep to safely install t-posts, cinder blocks can be used to weigh down the pipe.
To ensure that the pond leveling device can function indefinitely, periodic maintenance is required. Maintenance includes monitoring for changes in beaver activity, ensuring that the pipe remains clear of debris, and adjusting the height of the pipe in the dam to modify the pond height.
With periodic check-ups, these devices will continue to convey water and maintain the beaver pond at the desired height. We provide maintenance contracts and/or training to clients as part of our device installation. If you have questions about device maintenance at your site, please contact us.
Also known as 'beaver deceivers', exclusion devices keep beavers from plugging culverts and other narrow constrictions. Using fencing materials, beavers are kept a sufficient distance away from the culvert to reduce noise and the feeling of quickly moving water, two things that trigger beavers to build dams. By excluding beavers from this area, they are less compelled to dam the area and focus their work in more preferable places of the stream, away from infrastructure.
Exclusion devices can also be placed on existing dams. This is done by notching (removing a given amount of material) from a dam to promote water flow and achieve desired water levels. Fencing material is then placed around this gap, creating a break in the dam that beavers cannot repair. This allows continuous water flow even if beavers work along the edges of the fence. It also promotes beavers to start building in other areas that do not maximize flooding. | <urn:uuid:0bf1de5f-b75d-4269-a93e-7856a2aedd98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://beaversnw.org/flooding-reduction | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.937726 | 1,068 | 2.203125 | 2 |
In 1901, the Mechanism was the sponge divers’ most extraordinary find. Since its discovery, it has astonished an international community of ancient historians and archaeologists. In the decades immediately following its recovery, investigation yielded scant insight into the purpose and functions of this Mechanism. However, research over the last half century has teased out its secrets. The machine dates from the end of the 2nd century B.C. It is the most sophisticated mechanism that survives from antiquity. For a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, no workshop or lone genius produced anything as complex.
We know understand the Antikythera Mechanism to be a complex mechanical “computer” which tracked astronomical phenomena and the cycles of the Solar System. But more than half of it is still missing, probably still at the bottom of the sea near the island of Antikythera. Will the new expedition discover some of the missing fragments?
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Online and E-safety
The internet is a great way to connect with others and learn new things. As interactions between people are increasingly taking place online it is essential that we safeguard as robustly in the virtual world as we do in the real one. We can do this through:
- Promoting safe online behaviour to children, young people, adults and their families
- Taking online actions and networks into account when providing support
People go online for a variety of reasons, including to:
- search for information or content on search engines
- share images and watch videos through websites or mobile apps
- use social networking websites
- write or reply to messages on forums and message boards
- play games along or with others through websites, apps or games consoles
- chat with other people through online, games, messenger apps, games consoles, webcams, social network, and other instant communication tools
- find new friends and partners.
There are lots of benefits in going online, and also some risks. These include:
- exposure to and sharing of explicit material (including sexting)
- grooming and child sex abuse or exploitation
- identity theft or cyber-hacking
- addiction, gambling and debt
- desensitization to violence and intimacy.
It is important that we are confident talking about online choices and interactions. This includes access via tablets, laptop and phones etc, eg;
- personal information shared on-line: checking privacy settings, sharing contact details, geotagging
- images shared and online communication: online support networks, inappropriate images (e.g. sexting), online bullying or harassment
- online relationships: safe online friendships, meeting up with online friends or potential partners.
It is important that people understand how to deal with cyber bullying
- Keep the evidence– the nature of cyber bullying means that there is concrete evidence of the unpleasant messages being directed at an individual. Keeping a copy of the offensive material can be useful when reporting an incident and may help to identify the bully or result in consequences.
- Report the bully– if you need to report the bully, do this through a trusted individual or service. If the cyberbullying is severe, you may consider contacting the police, especially if grooming or threats of violence are involved.
- Do not retaliate – it is tempting to reply to the cyber bullies but this is a bad idea. By ignoring the bullies you deprive them of a reaction and remove the risk of encouraging them to keep tormenting you. In addition, you do not want to join them in spreading hate online.
There are opportunities for your safety and security to be breached online. Here are three simple ways to help maximise your welfare:
- Protect your password. You can do this by avoiding common passwords (such as 123456, abc123, qwerty and letmein) and using special characters, capital letters and numbers in your password. Aim to change your password every 90 days and never share it with anyone.
- Always log off public computers when you have finished.This will stop strangers from accessing your accounts without permission or by mistake.
- Set a high level of security on your social networks.For Twitter and Instagram this can be a ‘private’ account where you approve your followers. On Facebook, only add and accept people you know and can trust in real life.
As cyber citizens, we have the same responsibility of maintaining civil behaviour as we do when we are face to face with others in public. Here is what you can do to abide by this standard:
- Do not do anything online that you would not in real life.Sending a message online can feel much removed from reality, but you will still be held accountable for your actions as they have an impact on others.
- Look out for yourself or other peopleexperiencing one of the seven types of cyberbullying outlined above. If there is cause for concern, report these messages to a trustworthy individual.
The internet is a brilliant resource for communicating with friends, learning new things and having fun. With a few easy measures it is possible to stay safe online and avoid cyber bullying.
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`The guidance is clear, practical and teacher-friendly and encapsulates current best primary practice' - TES Extra for Special Needs
Bullying establishes itself as soon as young children begin to engage in social groups - someone is left out… someone is different… someone gets hurt. If you are eager to intervene early to support children aged 5 - 12 years in forming collaborative and empathic relationships, this is the resource to help you do it!
Using research findings from over 400 children's views, the book looks at:
- physical aggression
- verbal harm
- taking and breaking
Each lesson plan follows the same format with a poster-related discussion, class and follow-up activities, developmental work, research activity and lesson review. The book comes with a CD-ROM to print out the six posters as well as 48 individual illustrations. You will not be disappointed with the ease with which the author's ideas translate into classroom use!
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Right here. Right now
Title: Performance “Right here. Right now.” / “Właśnie tu. Właśnie teraz."
Creators: Teatr CHOREA / Laboratorium Kreatywnego Działania (Poland)
Leaders: Janusz Adam Biedrzycki, Wiktor Moraczewski, Magdalena Paszkiewicz
Music: Paweł Odorowicz, Antoni Kowarski
Visuals: Rami Shaya
Cast: Laboratorium Kreatywnego Działania Group - Anastasiya Bakhtyukova, Nina Baranowska, Natalia Bednarek, Antonina Borowska, Iga Denst, Róża Felcenloben, Julia Konopka, Antoni Kowarski, Lilianna Maj, Jakub Mejna, Natalia Niźnikowska, Nikol Olak, Justyna Olczak, Izabela Papierska, Zofia Piątkowska, Joanna Podlejska, Monika Rutkowska, Julia Szydłowska, Zuzanna Szymczyk, Konstancja Tomanik, Wiktoria Wieczorek, Ulyana Zaruba
Date: 30.08.2019 / Friday /
Time: 8:30 pm
Place: Spaces in Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki in Lodz
Tickets: admission in free, no prior reservation
Duration: 30 minutes (no intermissions)
Viewers' age: no limitations
DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFORMANCE:
Performance "Right here. Right now." is an attempt to tell the story of young people who are struggling with demons of misunderstanding and exclusion, while looking for the meaning of such values as freedom and equality. The performance is build form impressions of young people's life and their experiences, therefore creating this performance turned out to be a real game shaping their own identity.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
The performance was created as part of the project "Labolatorium Kreatywnego Działania" led by CHOREA Theatre in a form of weekly workshop meetings with young people. The workshops are aimed at broadening their competences and discovering new possibilities of expression in the area of art and theatre research.
Janusz Adam Biedrzycki - Actor, dancer, choreographer, theatre instructor. A graduate of the Faculty of Humanities, specialization: Cultural Studies, Folklore and Ethnology, Theater Studies and Film Studies at the University of Maria Curie-Sklodowska in Lublin. A graduate of Cultural Management at the Institute of Theory of Literature, Theatre and Audiovisual Arts of the University of Lodz. Co-founder and member of CHOREA Theatre Association. Graduate of 'Educator in the theater' course, organized by the Zbigniew Raszewski Theatre Institute in Warsaw. He collaborates with neTTheatre in Lublin, Pinokio Puppet and Actor Theatre in Lodz, Cinema Theatre in Michalowice and Kana Theatre in Szczecin. Choreographer and co-director of performances: 'Roosteras, badgers and other goats' and 'Fall - PsychoSomaticGaym' monodrama. Originator and producer of the series of workshops completed by the 'The Ugly' performance. Scholar of the Ministery of Culture and National Heritage in 2010 and 2014 and scholar of the Office of the City of Lodz in 2013 and 2017. Initiator and executor of 'Vidomi' project and 'Vidomi-Continuation' project, which was a series of dance workshops with the participation of blind and visually impaired people, completed by two performances 'Vidomi' and 'The Darkness'. Co-author of a handbook 'Actors phisical training. From individual to group actions'. Experienced in leading theatre and dance workshops all over Poland and abroad.
Wiktor Moraczewski - Bachelor graduate of Cultural Studies and Theatre Studies at the University of Lodz (Department of Drama and Theatre). Currently a student of master's studies - Theatre in Contemporary Culture, at the Department of Drama and Theatre on the University of Lodz. Since 2014 he cooperates with Górna Culture Center in Lodz, where he co-organized and participated in Polish and international projects - like 'Radar', created by a method of Sensory Labirynth Theatre, of which he is a certified instructor. He gained experience and an european certificate in this field by participating in international theatre project 'Ritual Beyond Roots' held as part of the Erasmus+ program in Romania, and during international projects like 'Calypso - il teatro per il sociale' in Italy. Since 2015 he cooperates with the Foundation - Theatre Institute of Mieczysław Hertz in Lodz. In 2016 he was adapting the text and creating dramaturgy for a performance of Anna Cichy-Fatyga 'Towards a Big Sea', directed by Jacek Orłowski. The subject of his BA thesis were the theatre rooms in Grand Hotel in Lodz. In terms of a project 'Institute - (m)Łodzi' he created a photographic exhibition '7.15 p.m.', which was a part of his research and scientific work. The second edition of this exhibition was presented in Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki in Lodz, in terms of Nationwide Theatre Festival Perspektywy 2017, and during the 3rd Congress of Polish Theatre Studies Society. Since 2017 he cooperates with the CHOREA Theatre as a playwright. He wrote the script for the performance 'Darkness. What is hidden', directed by Janusz Adam Biedrzycki and Magdalena Paszkiewicz. He is also a theatre critic. His articles and reviews are published in 'Dziennik Łódzki', and in the cultural magazine of Lodz region 'Kalejdoskop'.
Paweł Odorowicz - Musician (viola), improviser, composer, arranger, sideman, recording engineer. Born in 1973 in Lublin (Poland). Graduated form Crakow Music Academy in 1998, and in 2011-2014 a lecturer at the Department of Contemporary Music, Jazz and Percussion at the Cracow Music Academy. In 2011 and 2014 he received the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage scholarships for: 'Milosz in living pictures' - multimedia show based on poetry of Nobel's awarded polish writer Czeslaw Milosz (2011), and 'Zabawianki, wyliczanki, kołysanki, czyli Kolberg dzieciom' - songs and music plays for children based on traditional polish music (2014). In 2017 he received the President of The Lublin City scholarschip for composition of music for string quartet based on traditional polish music. In 2016 he became a laureate of the 'Real Musicians Tournament' in Philharmonic in Szczecin. He is a two-time Grand Prix winner in the 'New Tradition' Folk Music Contest organized by Polish Radio: in 2014 with the group Trzy Dni Później, and in 2017 with the original project 'Songs of Transition' performed by the duo Grochocki_Odorowicz. He is cooperating with famous polish theatre director Leszek Mądzik (Scena Plastyczna KUL), creating live music for his theatre shows 'Out of the darkness' (Warsaw, 2015), 'Furrow II' (Christchurch, New Zealand, 2015), 'Gate. Piotrkowska 26' (Lodz, 2016), '(She) leaves' (Wrocław, 2016), - 'Corset' (Lodz, 2016). Paweł Odorowicz tooks part in over 40 CD and DVD records. He cooperates with CHOREA Theatre since 2013. He performs in CHOREA Theatre projects, performanceas and concerts: 'Gilgamesh' (2013), 'Lullabies' (2013), 'After The Birds' (2016), 'Spojrzystośc' (2017), 'IN_NI' (2017). | <urn:uuid:0540c7eb-9bb2-4438-8dd0-84bfbfd4d5ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://2019.retroperspektywy.com/en/events/performances/wlasnie-tu-wlasnie-teraz-en/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.894651 | 1,773 | 1.5 | 2 |
H.R.5865 - American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2012112th Congress (2011-2012)
|Sponsor:||Rep. Lipinski, Daniel [D-IL-3] (Introduced 05/30/2012)|
|Committees:||House - Energy and Commerce; Budget | Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation|
|Committee Reports:||H. Rept. 112-659|
|Latest Action:||09/13/2012 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (All Actions)|
|Roll Call Votes:||There has been 1 roll call vote|
This bill has the status Passed House
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Summary: H.R.5865 — 112th Congress (2011-2012)All Bill Information (Except Text)
Passed House amended (09/12/2012)
(This measure has not been amended since it was reported to the House on September 10, 2012. The summary of that version is repeated here.)
American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2012 - Directs the President, in each of 2014 and 2018, to submit to Congress and publish on a public website a strategy to promote growth, sustainability, and competitiveness in the nation's manufacturing sector, create well-paid, stable jobs, enable innovation and investment, and support national security.
Establishes, within the Department of Commerce, the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Board to: (1) advise the President on issues affecting the nation's manufacturing sector, (2) conduct a comprehensive analysis (analysis) of such sector, and (3) develop a national manufacturing competitiveness strategy (strategy).
Directs the Board to: (1) publish in the Federal Register and on a public website a draft report, and to submit to the President for review and revision a final report, on the strategy; and (2) make the analysis available to the public.
Requires the President, in preparing the budget for FY2016-FY2022, to include information regarding the consistency of such budget with the goals and recommendations included in the strategy. | <urn:uuid:47251e7c-e68e-420c-bbdb-0b765d2e38da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/5865?q=hr2055 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914938 | 444 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The availability and use of Energy resources is an area of interest to all Dukes County residents.
For General Conservation and Energy Tips:
The Department of Energy's website has informational links to energy saving tips, energy sources, energy efficiency, and other energy related areas.
For Assistance for Winter Fuel Heating Expenses:
Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) 1-800-632-8175
Salvation Army's Good Neighbor Fund 1-800-334-5124 (from 617/508/781/978)
Residential Assistance to Families in Transition (RAFT 1-800-224-5124)
For Alternate Sources of Energy on Martha's Vineyard
Vineyard Energy Project, with the assistance of Vermont Energy Investment Corporation, and funding from the Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust, prepared a report regarding a 10 year energy efficiency and renewable energy action plan for Martha's Vineyard. Alternate energy resources, including Solar and Wind, are discussed and links are provided.
Cape Light Compact
The Cape Light Compact is a regional services organization made up of all 21 towns of Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard, and Barnstable and Dukes counties. The purpose of the Compact is to represent and protect consumer interests in a restructured utility industry. As authorized by each town, the Compact operates the regional energy efficiency program and works with the combined buying power of the region's 197,000 electric consumers to negotiate for lower cost electricity and other public benefits.
The Compact provides:
1) aggregated power supply
2) consumer advocacy
3) energy efficiency programs such as low income, residential, commercial and industrial, and education programs
This comprehensive approach, undertaken with legal and technical support, is vitally important as the electric industry continues in its transition to a competitive market.
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I should hold myself guilty of greater impropriety in accepting a horse from my brother, than from Willoughby.
If the impertinent remarks of Mrs. Jennings are to be the proof of impropriety in conduct, we are all offending every moment of our lives.
On the contrary, nothing can be a stronger proof of it, Elinor; for if there had been any real impropriety in what I did, I should have been sensible of it at the time, for we always know when we are acting wrong, and with such a conviction I could have had no pleasure.
Elinor, who had now been for some time reflecting on the propriety or impropriety of speedily hazarding her narration, without feeling at all nearer decision than at first, heard this; and perceiving that as reflection did nothing, resolution must do all, soon found herself leading to the fact.
But her condemnation of him did not blind her to the impropriety of their having been written at all; and she was silently grieving over the imprudence which had hazarded such unsolicited proofs of tenderness, not warranted by anything preceding, and most severely condemned by the event, when Marianne, perceiving that she had finished the letters, observed to her that they contained nothing but what any one would have written in the same situation.
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Although a concerted effort by police is beginning to affect the number of collisions, it was discouraging that two pedestrians were killed by cars within the last six weeks — one at Phyllis Avenue on March 5 and the other on a Central Expressway sidewalk on April 3 causing injuries that led to the victim's death April 6.
These deaths, and William Ware's, did not need to happen. A motorist ran onto the sidewalk in the Central Expressway death and the pedestrian was crossing Phyllis in a crosswalk when she was hit. Incidents like this can devastate families, who are left with few explanations, while perpetrators often receive a slap on the wrist.
And when you look at the compilation of five years of collisions published last week and see the symbols cluttering many intersections of the map it becomes clear that much more needs to be done to make our streets safer for bikes and pedestrians. This is especially true at the most dangerous intersections, like Sylvan Avenue and El Camino Real, where 12 collisions with bikes and pedestrians occurred over five years. Castro Street between Central Expressway and El Camino had at least a dozen collisions and there were an equal number at El Monte and El Camino. Grant Road and El Camino is also extremely dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists.
The City Council has already sent a message to the police and public works departments to step up enforcement to combat reckless driving. The effort appears to be responsible for a substantial drop in car versus car and car versus bike and pedestrian collisions in the last 12 months, from 55 last year to 26 in the last 12 months. No one can be certain, but the reduction could be the result of a major jump in the number of traffic tickets, up to 3,068 from 1,138 in the prior year.
A recent police priority is nabbing motorists who ignore pedestrians in a crosswalk, an extremely dangerous oversight that can greatly increase the chances of a serious injury.
While the city can't stop every reckless driver, it can modify its streets to discourage speeding and alert drivers to the presence of pedestrians and bicyclists.
The council already is getting the message and member Jac Siegel said the goal, whenever possible, is to "put in as safe a bike path as possible and as many pedestrian paths as possible."
That could be a big help in bringing down the collision rate, which from 2007 to 2012 meant that a pedestrian or cyclist was hit every five days. Cyclists were twice as likely to be hit as pedestrians.
Now the council is thinking more pro-actively, especially backing better designs of California Street and Escuela Avenue, an area highly prone to pedestrian and bicycle collisions. Castro Street in front of Graham Middle School is a very good candidate for narrowing, with bike lanes. Several students were hit by cars as they were crossing the street last year.
Publication of maps and statistics are just the first step in making Mountain View a community that makes sure its pedestrians and cyclists have a safe sidewalk or bike lane, and that motorists respect their space.
We are happy to see the city taking the lead to make safety the highest priority on local streets by taking measures that will benefit pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as drivers, who will be involved in fewer collisions as city streets become calmer places.
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Apple IPM Home
Apple Scouting Manual
IPM Final Reports
Fungal Twig and Limb Cankers
In addition to fire blight (caused by a bacterium), twig and limb cankers are caused by several different fungi. It will not be necessary to determine the actual cause of cankers other than fire blight; however, it is important to note the occurrence of cankered limbs when they are observed. Many fungi that cause limb cankers also cause fruit rot diseases.
SYMPTOMS: Generally, cankers will appear as small to large sunken areas on twigs, limbs and/or tree trunks. Depending upon the cause of the cankers, the sunken areas may exude a liquid or develop sporulating structures which in turn exude a gelatinous material laden with fungal spores. This is especially true during humid, rainy weather. Cankers may become cracked or appear to blister in a way which is not characteristic of "normal" apple bark. Many times cankers will be associated with lenticels or tree wounds, especially those resulting from improper pruning techniques. Additionally, healthy wood bordering cankered tissue will often be swollen with callous tissue as the tree attempts to "heal" cankered wood.
DISEASE CYCLE: Canker-causing fungi normally overwinter in diseased or dead wood on the tree, and produce and disseminate spores during rainy periods in the growing season. New infection sites then become sources of additional spore production. Weakened or poorly-growing trees are especially susceptible to fungal canker diseases.
SCOUTING: Be on the lookout for twig and limb cankers as you scout for leaf and fruit diseases, and record their occurrence in the comments section of your scout form.
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Facebook has resorted to mass censorship in Australia over a revenue-sharing dispute with news conglomerates in the country. On Thursday, February 18, Australian Facebook users woke up to sweeping censorship of news on the platform, including blocking of pages of several outlets and/or preventing users from posting links to news websites. In a bid to block news altogether on their platform, the social media giant has also blocked public information websites, trade unions, community organizations and progressive political groups.
The dispute arose as the Australian parliament seemed set to pass a law that would empower news outlets to bargain with Google and Facebook to share the revenues generated on these platforms using their content. The new Media Bargaining Code was passed by the lower house of the Australian parliament on Wednesday, and had also cleared committee-level review in the Senate. The law received overwhelming support from the opposition as well.
While Google’s Alphabet Inc and Facebook have been railing against the law, the former has recently signed deals with major news outlets in Australia for revenue-sharing agreements. In the meanwhile, news media corporations and conglomerates, who run virtual monopolies in the country, have been lobbying the ruling conservative Liberal-National government for the code.
Facebook has been threatening censorship since September when the proposed law was first announced by the government led by Scott Morrison. The censorship as it has been rolled also ended up affecting websites that are not strictly news. It has led to censoring of government websites as well as advisories from the health and meteorology department. With parts of Australia facing another bushfire crisis along with the COVID-19 pandemic, Facebook has received tremendous backlash for depriving people of access to crucial information.
Another casualty has been grassroots movements, trade unions, and independent media groups and journalists who depend on social media traction for their work. The website of the nation’s trade union confederation, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), was among the websites blocked by Facebook.
The Communist Party of Australia and the Communist Party of Australia (Marxist-Leninist) have also had their websites blocked from the platform. In the meanwhile, pages of major political parties and smaller right-wing groups do not seem to have been affected by the censorship.
Australian communists have pointed to the singling out of unions, communist parties and independent journalists as another way of censoring progressive voices. Talking to Peoples Dispatch, activist Jemma Nott said that the move looks like “a cynical attempt to pass off the censorship of left-wing opinion as simply being caught in Facebook’s new algorithm under the response to this legislation and they have given no sign that they will reverse this censorship.”
Nott also highlighted that independent media outlets that have been reporting on government corruption and the extensive monopoly of the Murdoch-media, such as Michael West Media and True Crime Daily, have also been censored.
However, socialists and progressives in the country are wary of taking any sides in what they see as a battle between monopolies. Media outlets owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp hold a monopoly of over 70% of the national print readership. Murdoch is also one of the biggest advocates of the bargaining code, which has also inspired other media corporations around the world.
The Canadian government, for instance, responded to the news of Facebook censorship with an announcement to follow Australia’s lead in creating a media bargaining code. Canadian minister Steven Guilbeault said while making the announcement that “Canada is at the forefront of this battle.” Canada’s national media conglomerates, which own the bulk of television and print media in the country, have been lobbying for a similar code for revenue sharing.
Talking about how Google has been striking deals with major media corporations for revenue sharing, Nott stated, “Google has acquiesced to the legislation’s terms which provides the mainstream media with a backdoor to Google’s algorithm, meaning that they can have first dibs on pushing themselves to the top of the Google rankings and cement major media control while squashing the smaller players.”
She added that the legislation shows that the government is not incapable of standing up to corporate giants. “This legislation does show that Scott Morrison does in fact have the power to stand up to Big Tech,” says Nott. “He is setting a global precedent that is scary for Silicon Valley. So if he can do that, the Australian workers can now see that he can regulate Big Tech in the people’s interest rather than in the interests of a handful of media moguls. And perhaps workers globally will be imbued with a new sense that their government can stand up to Big Tech too.” | <urn:uuid:ced5539d-cbe7-49be-a69a-095e7ef7f88a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peoplesdispatch.org/2021/02/19/facebooks-news-censorship-in-australia-a-battle-between-monopolies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.970185 | 958 | 1.867188 | 2 |
This is probably the crux of this article. Science and you may religion each other, just like the do so many other things in life, dispose off the favorable to the bad. It is because everyone is as well dumb when planning on taking a processed way of expertise. All of them otherwise little. He’s too egotistical and patriotic to grow the merge that demands efforts and you may mindful discretion.
Such. Technology already must take new position there is no God otherwise afterlife because its most recent device set does not succeed it to see to your such as regions of lives. Very boffins thoughtlessly throw away the entire Jesus and you will afterlife point for example it is nothing. This is certainly a massive shortcoming away from research and an old analogy off faster heads simply having the ability to go so far as the units needs them. When subjects transfer to mental aspects of finding it stop trying because their scientific gadgets have not a bit trapped so you can measure here yet ,.
Firstly, energy is basically God and so are guidance. The new universe overall is Jesus. So as long as the researchers are trusting about market and you will statutes of world you simply can’t put God aside. 2nd, the complete afterlife discussion is fairly confusing. We know there are numerous, many people who may have had near demise event and additionally they all statement such things. Whether or not research can’t a bit utilize so it, this does not mean it isn’t actual — the same way technology failed to make use of the country becoming an excellent areas regardless of the discovered secret communities (most of the greatly religious, mind you) one know that it thousands of years prior to science trapped having them.
Science often can be a bit arrogant within the thinking it will throw out spiritual fundamentals due to the fact greater part of faster smart religious people misrepresent such foundations. Just because most religious people don’t know what they are talking about with regards to God does not always mean one to Jesus will not occur. Even though it make the literal interpretation from an actual Jesus doesn’t mean there isn’t a philosophical opportunity Goodness. There is significantly more so you can they.
Conversely, religion draws an identical shit, but off another peak. That is good and all of, however, will eventually try to build your analytical and need qualities. Emotion and you will love simply happens up until now. Faith believes that in case there’s data one disproves a religious faith that data is wrong. It the fact a number of the big date, however, a lot of the big date science have it proper and you may religion have it wrong. Faith have an arduous, tough time polishing their thinking once the scientific study falls out new light and wisdom on it.
Faith focuses significantly more into individual development of people and you will the introduction of enjoying relationships. Yeah, I know, I am aware. Think about all the wars were only available in title of religion? Think about all of the religions which go as much as destroying some body? Think about every eliminating from the Bible, an such like, etc?
Faith is more prone to use the feeling/like > reasoning method
Again, a bit of discretion should do you to better throughout these information. The new wars started in title from religion are always become by the organizers ahead who happen to be more often than not corrupt. They are never ever started by a-hearted mother and you can pops just obtaining each day a tiny better than the last. This can be a negative and sad aspect of religion.
Science centers around faculties away from reason
Science is more focused on mental, logical some thing. Research methods something fairly and you will scrutinizes the studies to locate the best possible service. When most readily useful alternatives occur science gets into him or her. This is exactly an enormous strength that technology enjoys over faith. Faith doesn’t actually work like that. | <urn:uuid:abca306d-6b6c-4a9e-8314-887fedad6c34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cybersolution.ru/2022/08/06/faith-focuses-primarily-on-individual-gains-and/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.958281 | 804 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Gavin Bashar (pictured, right), UK managing director at Tunstall Healthcare, discusses how technology and innovation can support people living with Alzheimer’s in care homes…
There are currently around 900,000 people living with dementia in the UK and this is projected to rise to 1.6 million by 20401.
It can be challenging to care for someone living with dementia and carers can struggle to effectively meet their needs. However, technology can help to support carers and enable people living with dementia to live more independently for longer. They are therefore able to enjoy a better quality life for longer, and people who care for them can feel less anxious.
As more is understood about dementia in its various forms it is clear that investing in technology has the potential to make a significant and positive difference to the lives of vulnerable people, and support their needs effectively in residential and nursing care settings.
The benefits of technology
Technologies such as telecare and telehealth offer an excellent opportunity to enhance the quality of life of people living with dementia.
When deployed correctly, technology can enable vulnerable people to remain independent for longer. Systems can be used to help keep them safe and remain socially involved with loved ones, other residents and staff for as long as possible.
Alert systems, along with health and activity monitoring, can be tailored to the needs of individuals and automatically monitor risks, such as falls or fires both in a residents’ room and in communal spaces. Vulnerable people are also able to call for help in case of an emergency, 24 hours a day, so that clinicians and GPs can be alerted if help is required. This also ensures that staff have the peace of mind that the wellbeing of residents is being monitored at all times.
Sensors can be used which will alert a carer if the person they care for leaves their bed during the night. Devices are also available that can be used outside of a care home, should off-site trips be possible, enabling care home residents to continue enjoying familiar places such as the local shop by providing them with an easy means to call for help if they need it. Such devices also incorporate GPS, so the wearer can be easily located.
Discreet monitoring of activity over time, such as how often the bathroom is being used, can detect any deterioration in wellbeing at an early stage and enable interventions which can reduce or delay the need for more complex care. Likewise, the monitoring of vital signs and symptoms can give an early indication of deteriorating health, and identify individuals that are most in need of intervention.
To fully realise the benefits of technology in dementia care, it should be introduced as early as possible and be tailored to the specific needs of each individual. Securing the right support early will enable users to continue living with independence and dignity for as long as possible.
The role of technology in caregiving
Technology has a key role to play in supporting carers, enabling them to enjoy a good work life balance, and socialise with residents, knowing they will be alerted if needed. Providing peace of mind that the person they care for is safe and comfortable, and enabling short periods of respite can help to reduce anxiety and prevent carer burnout.
Technology can also enable carers to respond quickly to events, supporting a less restrictive approach and enabling care to be targeted where and when it’s needed most. Used appropriately it can improve care quality, increase the capacity of key services and enable flexibility in the way care is delivered, helping to address both current and future challenges.
Looking to the future
As in every area of life, technology which can help to support people with Alzheimer’s is advancing every day. In addition to reacting to events such as a person with dementia falling or being unable to find their way to their room, data insight means we can begin to develop more intelligent solutions which can enable more personalised, preventative and predictive care.
By creating a world where it is standard practice to use technology to support people with dementia, we can improve citizen experience, support improved quality and reliability, and provide person-centred care which is tailored to meet the specific needs of individuals.
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