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Did you know Robert Redford used to work for big oil? As a teenager, Redford worked in the oil fields for Standard Oil, now Chevron — while his father worked in the accounting department for the same company.
“I know what it’s like when a person’s job, their own livelihood, depends on having to hold that line, and how difficult it is when the ethic of a company goes against some of the dangers attached to it,” says the now well-known enviro-celeb Redford. “That’s tough — because that’s the job you’ve got. It may be the only job you can have. So it was hard thing for me. It was painful, when I worked in the oil fields.”
Redford tells this personal story in a short video for the environmental nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council. In this 5-minute clip on the Gulf Coast disaster, Redford says that greenwashing fossil fuel companies make him want to throw up, that politicians who’ve profited by colluding with big oil companies must be made to change, and that Americans need to take charge to pass a clean energy policy.
Watch the video to get inspired, then learn more about clean energy and climate legislation at NRDC’s website — which lets you easily e-mail your senators urging them to pass clean energy legislation. | <urn:uuid:f7088587-f551-49f7-8435-a10f97751656> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/responsible-living/blogs/robert-redford-on-working-for-standard-oil | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00498-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966062 | 290 | 1.867188 | 2 |
I first heard about this series of poems— SLAMMING OPEN THE DOOR by Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno—on NPR. I can't remember which program, but it was an interview with the poet in which she read from this book, and it was impossible not to be moved.
The poems are a response to the murder of her grown daughter, a recent nursing school graduate. The show was difficult to listen to but also engaging and enlightening as well.
There used to be, among the poets I came up with, a quick judgment of poems that seemed to exploit personal tragedies, as if they were all "cheap shots." And there's a more recent criticism that the only narrative prose and poetry that can get any attention now has to be based on some form of sensationalism.
But in the case of Bonanno's experience and the ways she informs it and us, that kind of criticism is useless.
These are powerful poems individually and as a group, and seem as necessary as our instinct to turn away from what they convey.
This opening poem—"Death Barged In"—gets it right [you probably have to click on it to enlarge it in order to read it].
As soon as I got this book, loaned to me by poet and friend Theresa Burns, I had the feeling I knew Bonanno, even the photograph on the back of the book looks familiar. But maybe it's just that we have all heard versions of this story too many times in our lives and this response is so vital and so basic it feels like personal history somehow.
And just as difficult to generalize about. Some of these poems are beautiful lyrics whose heart is an image that cannot be ignored. Some are fragments of the most reductive observations and yet the poignancy of their impetus creates a power few such poems can match.
There is no way to separate the horrible reality the poems are about, whether directly or indirectly, from their power so I decline to even take part in that argument. Maybe a future generation can judge the relevance of that ingredient on their lyric or anti-lyric power, for now all I can do is marvel at their clarity and precision, and unflinching honesty. here's one of many examples:
Don't pity me:
I was too lazy to walk
up the stairs
to tuck her in at night.
When I brushed her hair
I pulled hard
on the rim
of the spoon
of my giving.
The craft that went into the line breaks—simple but rhythmically, and narratively, complementary—especially in that last stanza with the hard, pounding "masculine" endings (as they used to be defined, that is the emphasis falling on the last syllable) of "sharp" "edge" "rim" and "spoon" followed by the softer (yet meaning-wise much harsher in this context) "feminine" (that is the last syllable in the line being an unstressed one) ending of the last line—"giving"—is a pretty fine example of turning grief and piety as well as sympathy and empathy into the harsh reality of the mix of qualities every instance in life contains.
It would be hard to imagine anyone but a fine poet getting that so right and so succinctly. It's a powerful read I recommend. | <urn:uuid:196a77d4-42b0-483a-9653-a56372904b65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lallysalley.blogspot.com/2010/07/slamming-open-door.html?showComment=1279839422559 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00060-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974998 | 684 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The World Health Organization Tuesday launched the “First Embrace” campaign with simple steps to save newborns and prevent complications arising from unsafe and outdated neonatal practices in Vietnam.
The campaign highlights early essential newborn care, including actions and interventions to address the most common causes of newborn death and disease, such as prematurity, low birth weight and severe illnesses like pneumonia and diarrhea.
“We lose far too many newborn infants to preventable factors, such as disease,” Shin Young-soo, WHO’s regional director for the Western Pacific, said.
“First Embrace addresses this challenge by urging women and healthcare providers across Vietnam to take simple steps to protect babies during the crucial time immediately after birth.”
According to WHO, Vietnam has made great strides in the last two decades in reducing the number of children under five dying within the first month of life, reaching the UN Millennium Development Goals target of reducing child mortality.
However, in 2012 over 17,000 newborns still died within the first month of life.
WHO’s early essential newborn care stresses the importance of skin-to-skin contact between the mother and child shortly after birth.
This simple act transfers warmth, placental blood and protective bacteria, and encourages exclusive breastfeeding.
Skin-to-skin contact should be followed by proper clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord with sterile instruments.
Breastfeeding is then initiated naturally by feeding cues like drooling, tonguing, and biting the hand.
Early initiation of breastfeeding is especially important because colostrum, or “first milk”, contains essential nutrients, antibodies and immune cells.
Other routine steps like providing vitamin K, eye prophylaxis, and immunization; weighing; and a complete examination of the baby’s health, should be performed after the first breastfeeding, according to WHO.
WHO, with support from the Ministry of Health, is launching the First Embrace campaign in Vietnam at three hospitals this week: Tu Du Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, The Obstetrics and Paediatrics Hospital in Da Nang, and the National Obstetrics and Gynaecology Hospital in Hanoi. | <urn:uuid:527f4723-0cd0-48d5-9526-fc14b6fc83af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thanhniennews.com/health/first-embrace-campaign-launched-to-save-newborns-in-vietnam-47940.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.919787 | 453 | 2.953125 | 3 |
How Countries Use Satellites
Adeel I. / Physics/336 / April 17,1997
Countries use satellites in many areas. These areas include military,
reconnaissance, agriculture, and oceanography. With the help of satellites
in these areas, countries have strengthened their military power and have
improved their economic systems. Although only certain countries have this
technology, more and more are getting access due to the new developments
of satellites which have reduced its cost.
Development of Military
Military satellites have developed through the years. In 1976, the
first so called "military satellite" was let into space. It was
known as the KH-11 and was equipped with large telescopes and video cameras
to observe Earth and to continuously transmit pictures to ground stations.
Also, the KH-11 was one of the few satellites of the time with improved
nighttime observing ability. " It's rumored that KH-11's can pick
out objects six inches long, and perhaps as little as two inches long;
it may be possible to read automobile plates" (Waters, 63). Another
major development of the military satellite was the development of the
Cosmos 1426. This military satellite was developed and launched in 1982
by the Soviet Union in response to the United States' KH-11. The images
obtained by this Satellite were in film form. Its quality was cheaper than
that of the KH-11, but was produced and launched in more numbers. Also,
in 1988, Israel and South Africa constructed and launched the Offea 1.
France, Italy, and Spain have also collaboratively started their own network
of military satellites.
Uses of Military
Countries use satellites in the military in various ways. Military
satellites are used in the Air Force, Navy, and primarily in military detection.
The United States is one of the leading countries involved in highly technologically
advanced military satellites. To gain a superior system of military satellites,
a country must place restrictions on civilian satellites so their uses
would not go in the wrong hands. Countries use military satellites for
military detection. Military detection is primarily accomplished by Navigational
Systems such as the NNSS (Navy Navigational Satellite System). However,
there are also other examples of measurement and intelligence collection
systems. These include the nuclear detonation detection systems on Global
Positioning System Satellites; radar systems such as the missile tracking
and detection radar at Diyarkir.
in U.S. Navy and Air Force
In the U.S., military satellites have a big impact on the Air Force
and Navy. Just recently, the U.S. Air Force started building powerful electronic
cameras to scan skies and calculate, automatically, motions of all satellites
that enter their fields of view. These new systems of satellites, can detect
fainter objects and analyze orbital maneuvers by satellites in minutes,
whereas photographic techniques require a minimum of an hour and a half.
Also, military satellites play a big role in the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy
has just developed a Navigation Satellite System(NNSS). It has been developed
initially for ballistic(Of or relating to projectiles, their motion,
or their effects)missile submarines for use in their updating of the
inertial navigational system. However, it has also been extended for ships.
This was made assessable because now high accuracy fixes several times
a day can be retrieved on every point on the Earth with the help of this
new Navy Navigation Satellite System. NNSS is passive and uses low-orbit
satellites to function.
on Civilian Satellites by Countries
Despite the advanced technology of the military satellites, civilian
satellites are prohibited to construct and launch satellites as sophisticated.
" Governments try to prevent civilian satellites from gaining capabilities
that could affect national security." The U.S. Government also follows
this principal. For instance, they have made the capabilities of the KH-11
a military top-secret. Even the existence is not officially admitted by
the government. Despite these limitations, civilian satellites are providing
valuable information on meteorology, agriculture, forestry, geology, environmental
science, and other areas.
of Spy/Reconnaissance Satellites
Spy and reconnaissance satellites have been developed throughout the
years. This development was achieved through a series of steps. According
to Waters, the "technology of military reconnaissance by satellite
changed considerably over the years." In the 1960's and 1970's, the
U.S. developed satellites that could use their own rocket engines and navigational
systems to move from one orbit to another, or swoop closer to Earth for
especially detailed observations. The U.S. military continued to develop
satellites that could relay information to Earth on radio waves. Film-dropping
satellites remained essential for high-resolution pictures until 1976.
The biggest step to reconnaissance satellites came as result of the Cold
War. " The Cold War was the development and deployment of increasingly
sophisticated reconnaissance satellites, manned and unmanned spy planes,
and land and sea-based listening posts" (High Flying 49). It was at
this time that spy and reconnaissance satellites broke off from the other
military satellites and formed their own category, officially.
Types of Spy/Reconnaissance
Today, spy satellites have differentiated into different types. There
are four basic kinds of spy satellites; reconnaissance, ocean surveillance,
early warning, and elint. The most important type of spy satellite is the
reconnaissance. The reconnaissance satellites photograph missile bases
and other places of military interest. They have to get close-up pictures,
thus, they are placed in low orbits. The drag from the atmosphere slowly
brings them down causing their life time to be only a few weeks.
Future of Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance satellites have been used by countries in many ways
and will be continued to be used in the future. It has been reported from
the National Reconnaissance Office, which handles intelligence satellite
procurement(obtaining by special force), there has been the developing
of an imaging satellite that would cover eight times more territory in
a single image than the advanced KH-11. This wide-area capability, obtained
at the cost of a reduced scale, makes it possible to cover far more territory
with less effort. This will tremendously help countries in their spy and
reconnaissance satellite technology. Also, due to the reduction of satellite
cost, more countries will be able to enter the world of Reconnaissance
satellites to reap its benefits and advantages.
of Satellites in Agriculture
Countries have also used satellites to improve agriculture. Satellites
are now being used to distinguish crops from weeds, and healthy plants
from sick ones with the help of infra-red vision. Satellite based navigation,
such as GPS(Global Positioning System) which was developed by the military,
also assists in the process. With this, farmers can keep track of precisely
what they're putting as they plant, fertilize and spray. A farmer now also
has the ability to take account of such differences as different kinds
of soil, varying in acidity, organic content, and nitrogen levels( all
meriting different treatment). Also, differences of drainage and treatment
can be determined. All this improves yield and prevents the waste of valuable
chemicals. American, Russian, British and French concerns are already selling
satellites or access to these satellites to farmers and corporations. This
practice is well established in America, where over a dozen companies sell
receivers and navigation equipment. The most noted is the John Deere "Green
Star". It is an array of GPS(Global Positioning System) navigation,
crop mapping and monitoring gadgetry.
of Satellites in Oceanography
Satellites have also had a profound effect in oceanography. In regional
and local seas, satellites provide remote sensing which gives a unique
approach to monitoring the environment for the management of living resources,
fishing, navigation and coastal erosion. " _ It will become relatively
inexpensive to develop local and regional programs for purposes such as
forecasting sea conditions, monitoring pollution or performing bathymetric(Measurement
of the depth of large bodies of water) surveys" (Robinson 34).
Thus, every maritime nation will have access to valuable information needed
for the management of that part of the ocean that compromises its exclusive
In conclusion, countries use satellites in many areas and for different
reasons. Whether its military reconnaissance, agriculture, or oceanography,
satellites have improved a nation's military strength and/or economic strength.
Satellites in these fields are still being advanced and will continue to
play an important role in the future of all nations and the world.
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The Memory Bank. By Carolyn Coman & Rob Shepperson. Arthur A. Levine/Scholastic. $16.99.
The Danger Box. By Blue Balliett. Scholastic. $16.99.
Allie Finkle’s Rules for Girls #6: Blast from the Past. By Meg Cabot. Scholastic. $15.99.
Sometimes the way a story is told adds a great deal to its effectiveness. It can be a matter of verbal style, of course – but increasingly, especially in books for younger readers, what sets some works above others is their creativity in using illustrations. Thus, The Memory Bank starts with a wonderful premise: what if a memory bank were like a physical bank, complete with vaults and storage areas and security and people enforcing the banking rules? Then Carolyn Coman and Rob Shepperson work that idea through in an exceptionally well-done combination of words and art. Coman is the wordsmith and Shepperson the artist, but this is a true collaboration of equals, because some chapters of the book have no words at all and some have minimal illustrations. And the changing pattern of what is verbal and what is pictorial is an integral part of the story. The tale itself is an elaborate fantasy that focuses on Hope Scroggins and her adored little sister, Honey, who at the book’s start is abandoned on the roadside by the kids’ truly horrible parents – who then command Hope to forget Honey. The aptly named Hope refuses, but withdraws into herself until she is doing nothing but sleeping and dreaming of Honey (and we see the dreams very vividly – and soon realize that Honey is quite all right, with a group of other children in some strange land). Hope’s constant dreaming creates an imbalance between her “deposits” of dreams and waking memories in the Memory Bank, and that results in her being brought to the bank itself – at which point she goes through a remarkable series of adventures. The bank, officially called WWMB (World Wide Memory Bank), is under siege by an anarchistic group called the Clean Slate Gang (CSG), which opposes memory preservation. And it soon turns out that, while the WWMB is entirely peopled by adults, the CSG contains only children – including Hope’s sister. The way the various arcs of the story intersect is quite wonderful: initially, the CSG pages are all visual and the WWMB ones are verbal, but eventually, pictures become more important in WWMB scenes and words creep in to describe CSG activities. This could have been a science-fiction story, and a scary one at that (in the hands of, say, Philip K. Dick), but most characters’ expressions here are so jovial and the threats and arguments have such a dreamlike quality that there is never anything in the book to frighten young readers – except Hope’s and Honey’s real-world parents, who are unremittingly awful. It is eventually through a stored memory belonging to Honey that the sisters re-connect, and the feel-good climax in which CSG and WWMB realize they can and must get along (just as children and adults need to coexist) is handled with joy and subtlety. The Memory Bank is worth reading – and remembering.
The Danger Box, the fourth more-esoteric-than-comparable-books novel by Blue Balliett, wraps its mystery in Balliett’s typically effective and unusual stylistic presentation, which here includes use of multiple typefaces, plenty of lists (one of which gives all 22 trees after which the streets of the town of Three Oaks are named), multiple perspectives (with some chapters presented in italics to set them off from others), excerpts from newspaper articles and journal entries, and chapter titles (for the very short chapters) that become part of the progress of the story (“A Teapot and a Pail,” “Featherbone,” “I Spy,” “A Palindrome with a Stutter,” “Old Sauerkraut,” and on and on). The story involves antiques, the mysterious box that gives the book its title, Charles Darwin, a burning building whose destruction feels like a death in the family, and – at the center – 12-year-old narrator Zoomy Chamberlain, who calls himself “the Secret from a Secret from a Secret” because of his family circumstances…and who sees things in ways that other people don’t. Commenting on the actions of his friend, Lorrol, Zoomy says, “she’d just started something helpful that was sprouting dangerous leaves. That sure sounded familiar.” Indeed, that is what Zoomy does as a matter of course: try to help, then follow the consequences of his helpfulness in unanticipated directions. Balliett knits together the threads of the mystery – and of her characters’ personality quirks – with her usual skill, and the fact that there is a very definite real-world element to this story (which Balliett hints at before the tale starts and explains in more detail after it ends) makes the novel all the more effective. It is certainly a worthy successor to Chasing Vermeer, The Wright 3, and The Calder Game.
Meg Cabot’s stories of Allie Finkle do not inhabit quite as rarefied a plane as the books by Coman & Shepperson and Balliett, but they too use unusual visual elements to set them apart from other amusing novels about preteen girls. Cabot does give the impression of trying a little too hard to be different, and much of what happens to Allie really is not that distinctive, so the sixth book in the series, Blast from the Past, gets a (+++) rating. But fans will surely not be disappointed. As usual, the book’s wraparound jacket, when removed and turned sideways, offers some of Allie’s rules and invites readers to write their own. Also as usual, the book itself contains rules to open each chapter, although calling some of them “rules” is a bit of a stretch: “Living History Museums Are Just Awful,” “Cheyenne O’Malley Is the Most Popular Girl in Room 209, and Probably in the Whole World…at Least in Her Own Mind.” Other rules fit the fairly frothy plot better and are more reflective of Allie’s usually bubbly personality: “It’s Very Rude to Call Someone a Troglodyte,” “Tattling on People Is Kind of Mean Unless It’s for a Good Reason.” As for the story, it involves Allie being paired for a field trip with her former best friend, Mary Kay, and how the two do (or don’t) get along when forced to be together again. Also here are some rules written by George Washington – so Allie’s book of rules isn’t as weird as some people think – and some bad blood between Pine Height and Walnut Knolls schools, and a bee sting that reveals something about friendship and interpersonal problems to Allie (who is not the one who gets stung). Allie eventually picks up some maturity and is repeatedly praised for being “such a good influence on others,” and is a better person at the end of the book than at its beginning – as in all the books in this series. Allie is basically a nice kid, but her stories are nothing special, except for the “rules” gimmick and other unusual ways in which Cabot presents the tales. | <urn:uuid:34234042-d0d9-4d1a-bdce-e3558e07942b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://transcentury.blogspot.com/2010/11/special-presentations.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00468-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959509 | 1,607 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Backup as a service (BaaS) is an approach to backing up data that involves purchasing backup and recovery services from an online data backup provider. Instead of performing backup with a centralized, on-premises IT department, BaaS connects systems to a private, public or hybrid cloud managed by the outside provider. Backup as a service is easier to manage than other offsite services. Instead of worrying about rotating and managing tapes or hard disks at an offsite location, data storage administrators can offload maintenance and management to the provider.
BaaS may be used when an organization has outgrown its legacy storage backup and would have to go through a costly upgrade, or lacks the resources for on-premises, high-level backup. Outsourcing backup and recovery to a provider can also keep data accessible or restorable from a remote location in case of an outage or failure.
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Prior to the WUF meeting in Vancouver, UN-HABITAT organized a global internet discussion – Habitat Jam – on urban problems to bring ideas from the public to those preparing for WUF3. According to the organizers, slum dwellers in poor countries were most active in this online forum. Following the discussion organizers collated the ideas to produce a workbook (pdf) and a website. Below are some of the “70 actionable ideas” that emerged from the discussion (and links to more details):
Idea: 4.3 Building Community Resiliency
Community resilience can be built using participatory tools that enable community members to map their own hazards and risks and mobilize critical resources to respond to those risks.
Natural disasters are occurring with increased frequency and their financial, social and environmental impacts are rising exponentially. The increased risk of disaster poses challenges to local authorities and their citizens. Community members are the first respondents in emergencies and it is their capacity to cope with impacts of disasters that often determines the risk to life and property. Simple knowledge of “Dos” and “Don’ts” before and after disasters can help improve community response. Post-disaster rehabilitation by rebuilding and reconstruction is not enough to build resiliency.
Idea: 5.3 Cities as Ecosystems
Local governments are figuring out how to treat the natural and built environment, and the humans that interact with it, as one interconnected “city ecosystem”.
Cities are organisms, consuming resources and discharging wastes at ever higher rates as their populations explode.Treating the city as an ecosystem recognizes natural limits. BedZED in the UK, Durban,South Africa and Auroville,India are examples of an approach that treats a city as a part of, rather than apart from, the natural world.
The ‘city as ecosystem’ research was started by UNEP, codified in the Melbourne Principles and the Cities As Sustainable Ecosystems (CASE) approach. CASE is the multidisciplinary study of urban and economic systems and their linkages with natural systems. It focuses on multiple spatial and temporal scales; emphasizes the systems approach; and takes account of techniques such as the ecological footprint, human ecosystem framework, urban metabolism and ecosystem services focus.
Idea: 1.4 Urban Agriculture – A Poverty Reduction Strategy
In poor communities and informal settlements, city councils can promote urban agriculture as a means to fight malnutrition and hunger, enhance the environment and create jobs.
Although growing food in cities is an ancient practice,itskey role in reducing poverty is gaining recognition today. In Kampala, Uganda, the city council, NGOs, research groups,national and international agencies joined forces in a unique collaborative process to legitimize and safeguard growing food and keeping livestock in the city. Kampala’s set of supportive bylaws governing urban agriculture is a model for other cities grappling with this contentious issue. Now the Ugandan government is adopting a national urban agriculture policy.
Idea: 1.11 Ecological Sanitation: Public Toilets in Slums
Sanitation for people living in slums is a criticalproblem. Ecosan toilets, a system using source separation, not only provides sanitation services at low cost to poor inhabitants, it also recovers waste for reuse in agriculture.
The concept behind ecological sanitation (ecosan) is that sanitation problems could be solved more sustainably and efficiently if the resources contained in excretaand wastewater were recovered and used rather than discharged into water bodies and the surrounding environment. The sanitary systems that are used today are based on modern misconception that human excreta are simply wastes with no useful purpose and must be disposed of. Ideally, ecological sanitation systems enable a complete recovery of nutrients in household wastewater and their reuse in agriculture. In this way, they help preserve soil fertility and safeguard long-term food security, whilst minimizing the consumption and pollution of water resources.
Idea: 6.5 Attractive, Affordable Transit
The TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System in Bogotá, Colombia provides equitable, clean and efficient transportation and has transformed the city from a place designed for cars to one designed for people.
In Bogotá, people happily choose to take the bus knowing their trip will be cheaper, faster, safer and cleaner than taking the same trip by car. The TransMilenio bus rapid transit system is a low-cost network of high efficiency buses that makes public transport the choice of the people. Cutting car use reduces energy consumption and air pollution,and makes cities more livable. | <urn:uuid:72aba164-51f9-429a-9a24-55a52d8a3b7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rs.resalliance.org/2006/06/20/urban-ecology-the-world-urban-forum-urban-solutions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93772 | 939 | 3.078125 | 3 |
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Enriching the life, work and career of every passionate European HR professional through critical reviews and articles on HR–related publications, trends, academic research and current practices and beliefs
The globalisation of the economy is continuing to impact the world of work in an accelerating manner. In this economic setting, the financial industry and the multinationals are dominating the agenda and happily play different economic settings including tax and labour regulations against each other. It is an illusion to think that any country within the EU still has enough political power on its own to master this economic reality. We’re still electing our political leaders on a national level, while we fully understand the real power sits at a European or even at a global level. I therefor strongly believe that it is time to sunset the 19th century invention called country and prepare for a fully integrated political and economic European Union. The European Union is the only platform with real power.
What does this mean for HR?
Today’s HR world is dominated by HR views and practices of dominant global companies. Just like coffee prices are established on a global scale, so is the world of work. Some falsely believe labour is still regulated on a national level, or even at plant level. This hasn’t been the case for the last 30 years or more. The business world and the democratic welfare state do not make a happy couple. Companies shift capital and work in this globally deregulated liberal economy at a rate countries cannot adapt to. Not surprisingly, those companies are globally organized and administered. Europe needs to step up to that challenge. Although Germany, the UK and France are important players, their individual tax and labour practices are too divergent to have a global impact. I believe it’s time Europe truly unites on the topic of work if Europe is to preserve its way of life. This is not about blowing up systems but getting a grip through democratic means on the world of work in Europe.
I’ll be presenting different and challenging views. They will at times be controversial, undermining, polemic, radical, unpractical and marginal but always inspirational, honest, independent, rational and respectful. Demystifying some of the myths, criticizing pseudo-scientific beliefs and reporting on solid academic insights and first-hand experience are all part of the brief.
Occasionally the contributions will go beyond the HR domain and touch on history, science, philosophy, art and everything else that makes us human. The European touch however will always be present.
Main focus points will be
- Europe and the world of work from an HR standpoint
- The social, cultural and economic dimensions of work
- HR trends and news in Europe and the rest of the world
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Duplicate copy protection for the table.
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When shopping for baby gifts, everyone knows that blue is for boys and pink is for girls. But now there's evidence that those colors may be more than just marketing gimmicks. According to a new study in the Aug. 21 issue of Current Biology, women may be biologically programmed to prefer the color pink or, at least, redder shades of blue more than men.
Anya Hurlbert and Yazhu Ling, neuroscientists at Newcastle University conducted a color-selection experiment with 208 volunteers between the ages of 20 and 26. Participants were asked to move a mouse cursor as quickly as possible to their preferred color from a series of paired, colored rectangles, controlled for hue, saturation and lightness. Each person completed three separate tests, then was retested two weeks later.
On average, the study found, all people generally prefer blue, something researchers have long known. The study also found that while both men and women liked blue, women tended to pick redder shades of blue reddish-purple hues while men preferred blue-green. To assess whether the color preferences could have been due to culture, the researchers tested 37 Han Chinese volunteers from mainland China, along with the 171 British Caucasian participants, and found the same male-female differences. Though the Chinese participants showed a greater overall preference for red than their British counterparts (red is considered an auspicious color in China), Chinese women and men diverged in color preference predictably along the red-green axis.
“This is the first study to pinpoint a robust sex difference in the red-green axis of human color vision,” says Yazhu Ling, co-author of the study. “And this preference has an evolutionary advantage behind it.”
Ling speculates that the color preference and women's ability to better discriminate red from green could have evolved due to sex-specific divisions of labor: while men hunted, women gatherered, and they had to be able to spot ripe berries and fruits. Another theory suggests that women, as caregivers who need to be particularly sensitive to, say, a child flushed with fever, have developed a sensitivity to reddish changes in skin color, a skill that enhances their abilities as the “emphathizer.”
Ling says that she and her colleagues plan to expand their research in future studies to other cultures not only British and Chinese and age groups, including infants, to further test the nature-versus-nurture concept. | <urn:uuid:a722dd90-dd24-4bc0-bb00-29ebc29728ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1654371,00.html | 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 | 0.956145 | 505 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Facebook Sets Up An E-Mail To Track Phishing Scams: email@example.com
This article was written by Amit Chowdhry. You can follow me at @amitchowdhry or on Google+ at +AmitChowdhry
Facebook has created a new e-mail address for users to report scams. If you notice a scam happening on Facebook, make sure to let Facebook know at firstname.lastname@example.org. Phishing is when a scammer tries to convince you to give them your banking information or login credentials. Facebook will report scams to outside security companies. | <urn:uuid:6e51fd26-8a1a-4737-9baa-ec16189db35d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pulse2.com/2012/08/10/facebook-sets-up-an-e-mail-to-track-phishing-scams-phishfb-com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00508-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938014 | 123 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Richard Simonsen’s photographic quest began as a challenge from a friend who happens to be a well-known professional nature photographer: capture an amazing underwater picture of a common loon.
The 2011 Audubon Magazine Photo Awards winners.] Simonsen, a 66-year-old dentist and amateur photographer, took the dare, borrowing waterproof equipment and spending weekend after weekend one summer on Moose Lake in northeastern Minnesota. What finally resulted was a frozen-in-time moment of a loon grabbing its next meal, a picture that earned Simonsen first place in the Amateur category of the Birds and Their Habitat section of the third annual Audubon Magazine Photography Awards.
His capture came, by his own account, from a combination of perseverance and a little luck. The year was 1997. Back then Simonsen still shot with a film camera, a Nikon, the exact body of which has been lost to memory. He’d already accomplished his stated goal for the summer—to photograph a loon chick feeding on its parent’s back—when his photog buddy raised the stakes. “So I borrowed an underwater housing. Then I put on a flash and just started shooting,” he says. “Unfortunately you can only get one shot at a time [using this type of equipment underwater], but that just made me take pictures over and over and over again.”
Simonsen focused on a single loon family—mom, dad, two chicks—following them around, getting up close and personal in their feeding area. By the time summer greens gave way to autumn reds, Simonsen says the loons were so accustomed to his presence that they almost seemed tamed. “It was just so special,” he says. “I could still be doing that”—spending time among loons, that is, not shooting underwater. In fact, he hasn’t done it again in the decade-plus since he took his winning photo. “It was so much effort. I ruined a flash because I had it in a baggie and it would leak,” he remembers. “It’s very difficult to hold that equipment under the water.”
He says he loves his winning image, though, mostly because it captures an intimate moment few people see firsthand. “The picture shows the power of [loons],” he says. “They stick their heads under water, and if they see a fish, they get it.”
Their majestic behavior has always drawn Simonsen to loons. And it’s what sent him back to Moose Lake the following spring in 1998 for a loon reunion. He found his adult pair again by identifying their markings and discovered that they’d hatched a single chick.
Yet “the story of those birds ends rather tragically,” he says. The male was killed by a boat, leaving the female to fend for herself and her newborn. As can happen with loons, other adult males of the species attacked the chick over and over. “It was just lying there helpless,” Simonsen says. “We sort of nursed it back to health and tried to put it back with the mother once it was strong again. The next day it was just unconscious under the water.”
Simonsen wouldn’t give up, however. After he and a friend conferred with several loon experts about how to save the chick, they relocated it to another loon family with young. “We let the chick go. He swam over to the [three] and they seemed to accept him,” Simonsen says. “The image I’m left with is the two adults swimming off with two chicks instead of one.”
He pauses, never knowing for sure what happened to that young loon—but hoping for the best. “It was quite an adventure up there on Moose Lake." | <urn:uuid:60de7b91-fc73-4285-8481-355f4049f8c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2012/loon-lake | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983637 | 829 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The South Australia helmet law came into effect from July 1991. It applies to all ages.
Helmet use increased from 40% to 90% upon introduction of the law.
The law is strictly enforced in most places but also much contested. From 2000 to 2003, South Australian cyclists paid AUD500,000 in fines for not wearing helmets (Advertiser, 2003).
Effect on casualties
The rate of head injuries declined both before and after the helmet law, with no obvious improvement in reduction around the time of the law. The decrease in concussions was greater than the decrease in other head/face injuries. (Marshall and White, 1994)
The Office of Road Safety, in reporting its evaluation of helmet legislation, said "Due to the disparate nature of the results from different sources, it is not possible to be conclusive about the effect of the requirement to wear bicycle helmets on the number of cyclists.". The report noted a 1994 study by Harrison of school children that showed a 38% decline in cycling from September 1988 to March 1994. This is likely to under-estimate the decline due to the helmets law because cycling is more popular in March than September in southern Australia.
The Advertiser. 19 December 2003.
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West Street Elementary School stands behind the belief that parents/guardians are their children’s first and most influential teachers and that sustained parent involvement in the education of their children contributes greatly to student achievement and a positive school environment.
West Street School Site Council
West Street School Site Council is a decision-making group comprised of parents and staff who represent our school and community in an advisory position. The Council annually reviews the Comprehensive School Safety Plan (CSSP) and the Single Plan for Student Achievement (SPSA). It provides a venue for parents to learn more about the programs at our school and to serve in an advisory capacity to the principal and school.
English Language Advisory Committee (ELAC)
West Street's English Language Advisory Council (ELAC) is a group of representative parents from our elementary school whose children are English Learners. The ELAC's purpose is to advise the school and district on programs and services available for their students in order to achieve academic success. We also provide topics of interest for EL parents to further our parent educational outreach. All parents are welcome to attend these informational meetings held a few times during the school year.
Other Volunteer Opportunities
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Linux-Based X Terminals with XDMCP
XDMCP How-To by Thomas Chao
XDM-Xterm Mini How-To by Kevin Taylor.
Much of the information for this article was taken from these two documents. Additionally, each how-to contains a list of more reference materials.
Leon Brin has been a member of the mathematics department at Southern CT State University for three years and a Linux enthusiast for five. He welcomes your comments at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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With apologies to Billy Joel, new research from Harvard shows that, irrespective of the state of their general health, only the godless die young.
Over the last 20 years, research has gradually accumulated suggesting that religious service attendance is associated with better physical and mental health. For example, research articles have indicated that regular religious service attendance is associated with a 30 per cent reduction in depression, a five-fold reduction in the likelihood of suicide, and a 30 per cent reduction in mortality, over 16 years of follow-up.
There have been a number of prior studies on religious service attendance and longevity. Many of these had been criticised for poor methodology, for instance allowing the possibility of reverse causation — ie, that only those who are healthy can attend services, so that attendance isn’t necessarily influencing health.
Papers recently published out of Harvard University have tried to address this concern by using repeated measurements of service attendance and health over time to control for whether changes in health preceded changes in service attendance. The associations between religious service attendance and longevity, suicide and depression were all robust. Results indicated that compared with women who never attended religious services, women who attended more than once a week had a 33 per cent lower mortality risk during the study period. Those who attended weekly had a 26 per cent lower risk and those who attended less than once a week had a 13 per cent lower risk. (The data comes from women who worked as nurses in the US, most of whom identified as Catholic or Protestant, so most of the religious services would be at churches. However, the definition encompassed a range of different places of worship.)
NOT Just Social Benefits
Although historically researchers have suggested that the positive health benefits of religious involvement could be largely attributed to the social aspects of church attendance–socialization being an established contributor to well-being–more sophisticated statistical analysis shows that the social dimensions of faith account for only about 20% of the life-extending benefits of religion. According to researchers…
Other mechanisms might also be operative. The development of self-discipline and a sense of meaning and purpose in life have been proposed in the literature as potential factors. The association between service attendance and health seems not to be explainable by just one mechanism alone. Rather, there appear to be many pathways from religion to health. Religious service attendance affects many aspects of a person’s life and the cumulative effect of all of these seems to have a substantial influence on health.
Of course, studies can’t statistically account for, y’know, that grace thingy.
“Spiritual Not Religious” Dying Sooner As Well.
The research also had some bad news for all the “spiritual but not religious” folks out there…
it appears to be religious service attendance, rather than self-assessed religiosity or spirituality or private practices, that most powerfully predicts health.
You can read the rest here. For more on how you and your kids live longer more faithful lives, check out Discovering God Together: The Catholic Guide to Raising Faithful Kids. | <urn:uuid:dc4bff72-8c23-4337-9ed8-a01ddcfbacdf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catholiccounselors.com/category/atheism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.958819 | 626 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Denise Parizek is art historian and curator. She founded pogmahon.art.club in 2000 and directed Schleifmuehlgasse 12-14 in Vienna over 10 years. Since 2019 she is member of 12-14 contemporary and has been curating international projects in Canada, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia, Croatia, Mexico, Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Vienna since 2008.
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This Movie is a Gift /RA online
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Natural History /RA print
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A FILM BY ANJA SALOMONOWITZ
WITH DANIEL SPOERRI | OSKAR SALOMONOWITZ | FEDERICO VECCHI
”I ONLY ARRANGE COOKING SPOONS AND I LOOK LIKE AS IF I JUDGE ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH”
Like an arbitrator of life and death, concentrated on spoons, doll heads, tiny animals, kitchen appliances of all shapes, Daniel Spoerri creates new interpretations of old stuff, filling junk with significance. Kicking the wheel of life with a new impetus, turning things upside down and save them before their ending.
Anja Salomonowitz latest work is Dieser Film ist ein Geschenk / This Movie is a Gift, 2019, an interview like a documentation about Spoerri ́s way of thinking and working. The film originated from a private connection between the director and the artist.
THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is a film about the artist Daniel Spoerri, about generations and about life and death. A cyclical conception of coming and going, of transformation. The introduction, Resurrection, a shortfilm by Daniel Spoerri and Tony Morgan, made 1969, clearly indicates the direction of the movie. We can consider the procedure of digestion from the beginning to the end or vice versa, a constant cycle, like life to death. But this film is not a sad movie, quite the contrary. For example when Spoerri mentioned, if the decendent for instance, would still be in his room, there would be a big scramble. A entanglement of dimensions like in Sartres play Les jeux sont faits. Being one of the last ones, seeing friends passing away, the tragedy of the survivors.
There is another bereavement appearing. After the death of Anja Salomonowitz ́s father she had to empty his house and she found some black spoons and a red heart made of glass. She could have dumped these objects or they could be basic material for Spoerri. So she gifted these family objet trouvé Spoerri and he made out of that precious remnant a gift for her. Kind of the principle of potlatch, Anja decided to create another donation for the artist and she made the movie.
Salomonowitz thanks Spoerri with a portrait that links his work with objects over and over again to his biography: Spoerri, born Feinstein, was the son of a Romanian Jew who was abducted and murdered. At the same time, the film looks ahead and extends a memory by Salomonowitz ́s son Oskar as a stand-in and reflector on Spoerris stage. Nothing is lost, everything is always reassembled in surprising ways. An infinite loop of repetition and renewal that is particularly evident in the contrasting juxtaposition between Spoerri and Oskar.
Oskar Salomonowitz, at the shooting time 10 and Daniel Spoerri 88, are talking about life and work and their time-depending different approaches. Oskar is not only mirroring the artist in action, not only copying his movements and his way of working. There is more in this inter-generational encounter: It’s a conversation between grandfather and grandson, an exchange of experience on the one hand and innovation on the other hand. Oskar told Spoerri about his plans for future, his interest in IT, which is kind of alien for the artist. After several tries to explain his objective Oskar finally used a simple example.
„Imagine you will need a new website. There you can sell your pictures. That I could program for you.“
This argument was tangible, understandable and suddenly all things were obvious for both parties.
On the meta level the film is a philosophical discussion about human beings, what distinguishes us, the distortion between what we think we are and what we wanna be, and the tradition of knowledge as well as the discord between scientific, technological and political objectives. Its also a movie about history, Romanian history: Ion Antonescu and his ethnic cleansing between 1940 – 1941. Even though the sound of the narration stayed incredibly unagitated in spite of the atrocities in the historical flashback.
Anja Salomonowitz lives as a scriptwriter and director in Vienna. She studied film editing and film directing at the Filmakademie in Vienna and at the Film and Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In her films she writes stories by means transferring words into pictures. She developed a pictorial language between documentation, narration and demand in a concrete reference to social and political conditions. The color-coded films condense real experiences and facts into abstracted visuals.
Spoerri started as artist, dancer and director and signed as a cofounder the manifesto Nouveau Réalisme in Paris in 1960. His success as a visual artist is based on his eat art projects. These are remnants of a meal or another randomly found situation fixed on tabletops. It captures a piece of everyday reality like in a trap (“piège”). He started collecting objects on flea markets when he found out, that his hosts were not enjoying anymore to loose the whole tableware inclusive table top after snugly dinners, he once mentioned in the movie. Spoerri is not only the inventor of the “Tableaux piège”. Early the Topography of Chance emerged, a kind of literary counterpart to the search for terrain using everyday objects.
This side of Spoerri art is the approach of the movie about Eat Art by Eva Pervolovici, which she is shooting since several month. For that reason she stopped in Vienna for an interview with Daniel Spoerri and she filmed also some sequences with the eat art artist Tiberius Stanciu, born in Bucharest and living in Vienna. Eva Pervolovici ́s heterogenous creations tries to make the surrealism of every days life visible – an attempt which is also familiar to Spoerris strategy. The camera operator is the young photo and movie artist Dragos Hanciu. Sound engineer is Benoit Maerens. But more can not be revealed yet – the story has to be continued, latest next year at Daniel Spoerris 90th anniversary.
Text: Denise Parizek, 2019
Purgatory of vanities
58th Biennale di Venezia
May You Live in Interesting Times. After visiting the 58th Biennale di Venezia I am in doubt about it. Ralph Rugoff renounces unrestrained, even radically on attitude, content, orientation. The selection criteria are apparently more in skin colour, than artistic talent, political statement, discursive claim. The second obvious impression was the urge of promoting consternation.
At the same time, I am distressed by my thoughts, ashamed, but as a art lover I really suffered from gasp breathing. The biggest biennial show for contemporary art is becoming an alpine uprising of the rich and the beautiful. A machine for generating values. An artless bubble, which hopefully will burst soon.
First of all Arsenale, the show space for radical, innovativ positions, the place where we mainly found the more interesting art works in the past.
2019 the Arsenale is dark. Plywood walls with dark wooden plates with black letters. Embedded paintings, mostly uninteresting, poorly crafted sculptures, snatching for effect. Black silicon suits, like dead bodies hanging in the wooden beams of the roof construction of the Arsenale, made by the german artist Alexandra Bircken. Kitsch as Kitsch can.
Coveted selfie points are two mechanical installations, sending shivers down the spine in their aggressiveness. As a counterpart of the colour or blood sweeping Roboter caught in a plexiglass glass cube, programmed by Sun Yuan and Peng Yu, in the main pavilion in the Giardinis, in Arsenale again a plexiglass cube with an aggressive whip, attached on a white marble throne is impressing stagily the audience. Sometimes it seemed the whip conquer the protection and we, the visitors are suddenly aware, or perhaps awake again. Art can be dangerous. Ok, both installations are great for social platforms, but what else will the artists tell us?
The horror appears glamorous but not sophisticated. In-between name dropping; photographs in well known quality by Stan Douglas, technical overloaded installation with smoke and lectures about bamboo growing by Hito Steyerl, a wonderful poetic installation, multi layered cooperation by Apichatpang Weerasethakul & Tsuyoshi Hisakado. The well known poetically director explores themes of social and political issues in the context of memory on a global scale. In cooperation with the Japanese artist Tsuyoshi Hisakado Weerasethakui previously worked on Synchronicity, a multi layered, lovingly designed installation, displayed in Arsenale.
One of my favorites was the video by Christian Marclay. The pioneer in use of sampled and synthesized sound accompanied by visual element created frames from 48 war movies placed inside each other. Nothing explicitly visible, but triggering the whole cruelty as insanity.
Just as the works of art are alien to one another, arbitrarily mixed, the visitors also alienate, quickly give up their search for meaning or content. Bored, they stroll through the art, stop here, sometimes there to serve a participative video (gym with screen), also boring, go on.
In one of the dockyards Tomás Saraceno created a fragile installation, blinking in the uprising sun, mirrored in the waves of the laguna, overlaid with a sound cloud from beyond, underlining the shiny opposite. The structural solutions to define and use space, from points of view that may distance the visitors from their circumstances in the maze of vanity.
Lorenzo Quinn, who already thematised the rising water level at the 57 Biennale displaying huge hands supporting a house on the Canal Grande, filled the city with new bridge-building hands inaugurated on Thursday at the Arsenale. “Builing Bridges” are the 6 15-meter-high hands that form a kind of gate over the channel. Big, white, nice.
“The pairs of hands are the symbol of all that unites,” says the Barcelona-based artist to his favorite motif.
Outside at the old harbour basin the 2015 sunken wracked boat, Barca Nostra by Christoph Büchel.
„Our boat, our crock, our disgrace“
Schock and dismay appears again, the visitor plagues bad conscience again. But like in the catholic church there is confess in visiting the Biennale, the absolution will follow latest at the opening Buffett spilled down with warm Prosecco.
Giardini Main Pavillon, at the entrance again smoke.
Shop window dummies are wearing tile gowns, Zhana Kadyrova, Yu Ji covered rusty chains with resin, black garbage bags made of marble by Andreas Lolis, a Mexican wall by Teresa Margolles, transported from Ciudad Juarez, telling the audience about assassination on women. Deep involvement again, even more the missing person´s report affixed on big glass plates.
I try to ignore the crocheted anemones by sisters Wertheim.
Midst of the turmoil surrounding the dissolution of my understanding of contemporary art I discovered her, a subtile seduction – luring me – Mari Katayama.
Katayama was born with tibial hemimelia, she decided to have her legs amputated by nine. In her work she uses her handicap in a punkish way, with protheses covered with tattoos, for different models, for sport or with high-heels.e., She uses her body like living material. A sort of living sculpture, aware that her topics are complex. She is touching things without being derivative of them, she is catchy but she never demand compassion. It is not possible to separate Katayama´s work form her body and her history, though she is never making art out of her disabilities. The assemblages filled with personally things, like feathers, dried flowers, shells accompanied by puppets, similar to the creator, are poetic, historic, literary, touching, provoking and breath taking beautiful.
Outside / Giradinis
One kind of minimundus, near ridicule, was the installation of the Belgian Pavilion, which was even highlighted by the jury with a “special mention”. The artists Joos de Gruyter and Harald Thys had realized a horror cabinet with characters from folk myths and “urban legends”. The jury praised the creation of “parallel realities”. More a fairground attraction than art with superficial pseudo political approach.
Lithuania has been awarded a Golden Lion for Best Country Contribution. The work “Sun and Sea” by artist trio Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, and Lina Lapelytė is a landscaped beach where performers loll on towels and sing about everyday issues, but also about climate change and other disasters.
The jury saw in it a “Brecht opera” and praised the “experimental spirit” of the contribution. The group also realized an “unconventional approach to the question of national representation” at the award ceremony on Saturday in Venice. The whole performance lasts for 3 hours and the artists mentioned that it would be wise to stay the whole time. I unfortunately could not, though it was really beautiful, but not touching.
„History has failed us, but no matter“ is the title of the Korean Pavillon. Siren Eun Young Jung, Hwayeon Nam, and Jane Jin Kaisen curated by Hyujin Kim presented „tradition” serves as a significant medium throughout the process of digging into, researching, discovering, rethinking, and finally interrupting the modality of the East Asian modernization that has been in pursuit of Western modernity. Generating a complex narrative assemblage of historical interventions, the three artists seek to resist and create ruptures in the logic of systems and power, and they are keen to question how the development of civilization, violence of convention, and the norms of such history take place in our times. Saturated with the performance of tactile knowledge and the experiences of affect that are manifested through the sounds, rhythms, waves, series of scattered images and bodily movements, the exhibition attempts a space for the veiled, the forgotten, the exiled, the condemned, and the silenced.
Romania, Germany, the Netherlands, the Canandians and the Danes are surprisingly visionary in presenting minority artists who once fled and found a new home. The German Franziska Zólyom, curator i.e., born i Budapest, the artist Natascha Saar Haghighian is rooted in Iran. She has chosen a group of international musicians. In this sound file the question of nationality dissolves into sounds. Unfortunately the good idea inferiors the artistic demands.
The exhibition Unfinished Conversations on the Weight of Absence curated by Cristian Nae, which presents works of artists Belu-Simion Fainaru, Dan Mihaltianu and Miklós Onucsán takes place in the Romanian Pavillon. The three artists came to prominence in the 1980ties. For the third time Mihai Pop, the founder of Plan B, is involved in the show, or the master mind behind.
The curator transfers well known art positions of already well known Romanian exile artists over decades and tries to reinterpret them in a contemporary context. As often in Balkan Art History artists have been more far-sightedly from eastern countries. The influence direction west is not really researched till now, but obvious in groups like Sigma, Oho and also the presented artists. Using the categories of nationality, belonging, bringing up the topic of Romanian diaspora. A poetic reaction to growing nationalism, anti European propaganda, separating.
48 War Movies. 2019 Einkanal-Videoinstallation, Farbe, Stereosound, Endlosschleife
Traces of the Political
Curated by Rainer Fuchs
Jonathas de Andrade, Mirosław Bałka, Heimrad Bäcker, Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Matthew Buckingham, Mark Dion, Stan Douglas, Andrea Geyer, Ion Grigorescu, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Sanja Iveković, Alfredo Jaar, Sven Johne, Nikita Kadan, Tatiana Lecomte, Christian Kosmas Mayer, Isa Melsheimer, Mario Merz, Christian Philipp Müller, OHO Gruppe, Hélio Oiticica, Anri Sala, Sigma Gruppe, Margherita Spiluttini, Ingeborg Strobl, Sandra Vitaljić, Lois Weinberger, Christopher Williams
Museum moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna
Nature: Attention History!
Saturday November 25, 2017, 2–7 pm
23rd of september, 2017 – 14th of January, 2018
The exhibition „Natural Histories. Traces of the Political“ explored representations of nature in reference to social processes and historical events. Looking at various issues, this presentation showed the mutual interrelations between nature and history beyond all idyllic idealization.
The show spanned the period from the 1960s to the present, beginning with works of Neo-avantgardists from former socialist states on Balkan and conceptual art that reflect on both the conditions of artistic production and reception and also their social dimensions and critiques of history. Artists of the next generation draw on the traditions of critiques of colonialism and of society, and transfer and update these into their own contemporary environments.
Depictions of nature also play a role in works that look at issues like genocide or internment, flight, and resistance in the context of totalitarian systems and military conflicts. Beside the political development in Austria the exhibition became more and more important as a kind of educational warning tool.
A further topic was the transformation of public and historical places by natural processes.
Nature claims everything back and becomes a sign of historical change.
OHO, an activist style movement in Yugoslavia, was founded in the early 6oties. The name is a combination of the Slovenian words for eye, oakum, and ear, uho. The human being is seen at a level with objects, the relationship between the two is not longer seen historically. This way of thinking is also known as reism and it dominated the early period of OHO´s artistic practice. Every day objects should be liberated from their prescribed functions. Thus they still put their focus on attentive seeing, pure experience and exploring of nature. The members did not agree with the way of transformation to a emerging consumer society, they dispersed their discontent with the political status quo in their country. But they were also interested in Western, non-communist, states, culture and protest movements. After a while they started to publish a number of journals in Ljubljana and a series of OHO books (Milenko Matanovic, David Nez, Marko Pogacnik, Andraz Salamun).
Like Sigma group they were focussing nature and structures, engaging with the landscape through subtle and reversible interventions. The OHO group was successfully and the demand for exhibitions was very high. 1971 they decided to abandon the institutional art business. In their commune in Sempas, a small village in western Slovenia, they remained true to their motto and combined art with every day life.
The Neo-avant garde approaches of artist groups in Eastern Europe, i.e. Sigma group (Stefan Bertalan, Constantin Flondor, Lucian Codeianu, Doro Tulcan a.m.m.) is still surprisingly contemporary. Nature and science became platforms for a nonconformist art in the increasingly restrictive nineteen seventies under Ceausescu regime.
Sigma emerged out of 111 collective in 1969. The group worked together for more than ten years in Timisoara. They explored various ways of creating and descontructing forms and patterns, reproducing structural systems and analising the phenomenon of nature.
Their inspiration was nourished by interdisciplinary research into bionics and cybernetics and they started to integrated methods from natural science into their artistic practice.
By working in Timisoara at some distance from the dogmatic climate in Bucharest, the artists were able to engage in subtle new approaches in national and international art.
Ileana Pintilie, curator and art historian from Timisoara wrote in the catalogue about the multi media projects by Sigma group in the 7oties and Stefan Bertalan. „The Informational Tower“, conceived 1970, was one of their multi media projects. A mixture of architecture and sculpture, used as a display for more layers of information, light and sound. In the Bastion Gallery in Timisoara they realized the so called bloating structures. They installed transparent tubes, on which a slide and a film was projected during the opening. The imagination of diverse universes and the assistance of the audience transmuted the Vernissage into an happening.
Stefan Bertalan deconstructed plants and cut them in geometric shapes. His life unrolls as a process of constantly observing, recording and archiving the world of forms and structures, hidden in nature. He focused the unspoiled pure part of the world, pointed out the elements which create the ensemble of living. He never ceased to wonder at their perfect constructions and bionic functions. He transformed flowers to studies and further in sculptures, looking like plants from the universe. His obsessive style in working and researching was typically for him but he never lost focusing the goal of reconciling artistic reality with the reality of the world around.
Under the subtitle „Holocoust, genocid, persecution, flight and resistance“ viewers encounter the history of Nazi Terror and Holocaust. Miroslav Balka´s „Winterreise (Bambi, Bambi, Pond), 2003 confronted the viewer with what at first glance seems to be a romantic winter landscape. On the second view it turned out that it was a view of the concentration camp Birkenau. Referencing on Hollywood myth of Bambi, an idyll with graceful deer, he recalled for the viewer the wall of silence which enabled the horror.
Sandra Vitaljic´s interest in the role of historical knowledge in decoding symbolic. „Neplodna Tla (Infertilegrounds), 2009,2012, is a photographic series of landscapes that were site of politically motivated massacres from WWII to the Balkan War.
The Ukrainian artist Nikita Kadan focused in her work the role of plants as a food reservoir in revolutionary times like the revolt on Maidan Square in 2014, „Limits of Responsibility“. Kadan juxtaposed revolutionary gardens with communist agricultural propaganda. She highlighted the connections between former empty promises and the irresponsibility of present day politics.
Ion Grigorescu created a twenty four pages album, named !La Bella Addormentata“, 1982, with twenty threes hand coloured photographs, which he accompanied with text. He found the photos in the attic of his first wife and found out that they were taken by his father in law. The girl on the images was a woman named Emma, who has been murdered during the Holocaust. The depicted landscapes are also recalled as historical sites of persecution. The photographs are poetic, the unknown woman finds herself in landscapes that, along with the text, underscore the animalism and joyful soul of nature but with surroundings like architecture, boats or bolders in its rawest and most boundless stage.
Anri Sala from Tirana, showed a left over from Enver Hoxha´s regime, the zoo in Tirana, which was founded in 1966. It became known as the most sad animal park in the world and was finally closed in 2005. 2001, when Anri Sala made the film, the fall of the communist regime was not yet a decade hence. Albania was undergoing a period of radical political, economic and social transformation.
Consistant notable was the increasing number of dogs on their own and overgrowing nature in images is directly linked with the poverty and fascist governments.
Branding for me was the story of Alfred Kleistern, who photographed the Baltic Sea in different periods of his life. In October 1976 at 6 am he walked into the Baltic Sea, and swam non stop for 24 hours to the Western German Island of Fehmarn. This spectacular escape in the West caused a sensation. He went to Lübeck and was quite successful during most of his life. In June 1999 his body was found not far from where he had set off on his escape. After the fall of the Wall in Berlin he tried to expand in Eastern Germany and relocated part of his business in his hometown Rostock. After years of dwindling profits he had been forced to sell his company. Kleistner left an archive of 358 amateur photographs of the Baltic Sea, 240 were shown in the exhibition,120 black and white, 120 colored photographs, framed.
Alfredo Jaar´s subject of discussion were the years after reunification of Vietnam in 1975. Supporters of the republican aspirations became victims of repression and structural violence, which led to one of the twentieth century´s largest mass flight. Jar, who has experienced the military coup under General Pinochet in Chile 1973 focusses always oppressed, exploited and persecuted people. „Untitled (Water)“ confronted the audience in a most theatrical way. Three illuminated boxes showing photographs of rough sea waves, with hidden portraits of refugees in the back. The faces could be seen with the help of a mirror fixed on the wall. The images of the high waves and the fragmented view of the portraits were a monumental symbol for the fates of the people of the portraits.
One of the most important objectives in the area Karola Kraus has been and continues to be to convey the historical and theoretical framework of art to the public through fostering discourse in the form of publications and academic events. She takes her responsibility toward the collection Ludwig and the educational and social approach seriously. The exhibitions she is presenting includes art projects which get involved and points out the ruptures and transformations in our society. To undermine tried and tested rituals, that makes us more sensitive and expands our imagination, that facilitates new ways of seeing is more important than ever. For me this show succeeded in presenting various theoretical and practical strategies to point out enormous important topics.
„At times in which a newly emerging Biedermeier coincides with a re-politicization of society in the context of current waves of migration, the social polarization between enlightened urban and traditional rural social classes, between winners and losers of modernization, seems not to have been overcome, and even to be taking hold now more than ever. This has the appearance of a micro study of the increasing gap between North and South as a result of neoliberalization. The naturalization of history that can currently be obersrved, in the form of appeals to higher powers to justify ones own political goals, for example, seems to be both a symptom and an intention of contemporary neoconservative or fundamentalist social policy.“
Foreword Karola Kraus, mumok General Director & Rainer Fuchs, Curator, 2017
The Hymn of an Inner Growth´s
Traces of the Political / Catalogue /mumok
Foreword Karola Kraus, mumok General Director & Rainer Fuchs, Curator, 2017
Editing House Walter König, Köln
Denise Parizek, 2018
Photocredits Mute Insurgent 2017
REVISTA ARTA September 2019 print
ART & SCIENCE
„Perception is the origin of all knowledge and science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past“
Leonardo Da Vinci
The history of combining art and science goes back a long way. One of her most famous representative still is Leonardo da Vinci. He lived in a time of cultural transition known as the Renaissance, an era of philosophical, scientific and religious “rebirth,” where the masses no longer accepted beliefs at face value and questioned the reasoning behind given theories. This new mindset gave rise to a curiosity about the origins of science and how art could demonstrate them.
Since 2009, there is an Art & Science class at the University of Applied Arts of Vienna, which was co-developed by Virgil Widrich and is runned by him since 2010.
VW: Despite the common detective search for the “truth”, the break between art and science must have come sometime in the age of Romanticism: science assumed the domain of “objectivity” and art the “subjectivity”. The quality feature of science has been the possibility of repeating an experiment by each and every one with exactly the same results. The quality feature of art, on the other hand, became precisely the unrepeatability of the artwork by any other. “Art & Science” study program does not deal with boundaries and drawer discussions, but with examining the methods used by the two “sides” in their fields over time have developed to answer research questions. Ideally, this discussion inspires and creates works in common discourse that could not be otherwise.
The central element of the master’s program is a project orientation that takes into account the fact that in a ‘scientific‘ world many everyday social issues are permeated by scientific knowledge that gives rise to controversial discussions. Some of these discussions link complex fields of knowledge and their specialized learning and make different contributions to the development of our society. The objective is exploring and learning social and political processes, manipulating artistic and scientific positions, using different methods of organization as well as medias. Questioning topics of art and science opens a creative field of tensions for finding or rejecting answers.
COOPERATION Art & Science with CERN
CERN, is a Laboratory, established in 1954, with the prime goal to collect and connect the most interesting international scientists for a common experiment and international collaboration, where in the canteen are minimum 2 Nobel Price Winner present. The work of CERN helps to uncover the universe, what it is made of and how it works. They do this by providing a unique range of particle accelerator to researchers, to advance the boundaries of human knowledge.
The contact to CERN was made by the Rector Gerald Bast. The local art program “Art @ CMS”, founded by Michael Hoch, is the education and mediation initiative of the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This contact made it possible for the students of the Art & Science department to visit the LHC and to lead the dialogue directly with a number of scientists working there. The first result in 2017 was the exhibition „Circuit Training“, in which the work of 21 students was exhibited later in the White House Vienna. Subsequent projects such as that of Denise Schellmann in Gent makes the cooperation sustainable and influences the students of the Art & Science department. Students of the department are very engaged and you will find several spots in Europe, where they are presenting their artistic results. At LATENT COMMONS in U10 in Belgrade I saw Rafael Lippuner´ s work for the first time and even if I visited the show cause of Guadalupe Aldrete and Croation Marko Markovic (a Serbian Marko Markovic artist also exists and the both of them had a common performance at U10) his installation triggered me.
At the last Master’s presentation in June 2019 I was amazed at the depth and quality of many works. The level of the class is high, convincing the students’ reflective approaches, impressive in-depth research in two different fields. Here I introduce some of the artists of the department:
A Convention of Small Moments
2019, Multimedia Installation
In the installation A CONVENTION OF SMALL MOMENTS at University yard routines, gestures and movements are physically linked to different objects and places, transporting their momentum to create a moment elsewhere. A part of the microcosmos which is the everyday working environment at this institution is tapped and resonant in the atrium, where various elements are installed. With site-specific aspects as well as its inhabitants – the people who work or study there – in mind, a cumulative kinetic sculpture is created with the intention of regaining a bit of the lost magic and reconsidering the uncertainty as a friend. In Vienna he used every day things like cupboards, tableware, but in Belgrade the installation was even more enigmatic because it was more fragile and less visible, due to the fineness of the materials.
The Nonessential Essential 2019, Experiment, drawings
The Force of Embodiment, a hypothesis about a new fundamental force in nature and the intrinsic capacity of matter to reincarnate. Written from the perspective of an artist immersed in the scientific world, its language and theories and in collaboration with scientists from CERN, this artistic work presents the visualization and study of a hypothetical force, compared to known and proven forces, electroweak or electromagnetic forces, strong and gravitational forces. The proposed Force of Embodiment is impossible to prove scientifically but is coherent to the discourse of particle physics. Qualified as “poetic but not scientific” in the physics world, and being proud of this qualification, this hypothesis opens up a discussion on how far art can imagine itself into the world of particle physics.
Exciting was the work of FREDERIQUE NEUTS LEROY – The Other Place, an installation and drawings, a mix of experiential and abstracted map, deep down in the basement of the University building. This art project is focused on Marc Augé’s concept called the “non-place.” This concept was developed upon analyzing the importance of the different types of places that can be defined as non-places, and focuses on how and why these places are essential in our hyper-modern cities. In fact, sites such as highways, storage areas, urban voids or unoccupied areas are classified as “other places” and most of the time, they are neglected and invisible to the citizens. These other places have been directly observed by walking around Vienna and have been recorded in drawings. The purpose of this art project is to show the perceptions we could have of these “other places” by means of an installation of 3D art and drawings. The art project implies a certain degree of abstraction to make the spectator consider the multiple aspects of the “non-place” concept.
Like Frederique Neuts Leroy Denise Schellmann also focuses on gaps, void, but not on the the blank between buildings, rather concentrated in the gab between art and science. I am particularly pleased with focussing the void in all kind of arts, the exploration of the black hole between the notes, signs, things.
PAULA FLORES, studying in Vienna since one year presented her annual project. She treats themes such as immigration and the disappearance of native cultures, flora and fauna as a result of modern industry; the space these cultures occupy and how they’ve changed according to its commodification. Making use of diverse artistic disciplines and a mix of organic and industrial materials, she creates a dialogue regarding the current situation between human and nature. Sharing an intimate moment under a blanket, covered with seeds more specifically tiny plants. The skin in direct contact with water and heat, later on with roots. Roots that may feed from her and she from them. What better place to become one with new seedlings. What can the energy of a newborn plant that is growing skin to skin with us, teach us? What can we give to this new being?
The Arscientic Andism | My Romantic Manifesto
Driven by an inner conflict? Denise Schellmann is actively involved in both fine art and traditional science, as well as in the special field of art & science itself. She is ranging between divergent categories. Or are they actually the same? What is art? What is science? What is art & science? How can she obtain stability in the indefinable realm between art and science? How should the artist practice? How should she define categories? Schellmann’s mission is to explore her personal perception on the border between two fictitious worlds. Her mission is to unite and to bridge them. Is this possible at all?
RA: You come from science, you studied pharmacology and then you
switched to fine art.
DS: Before my artistic career I studied pharmacy and completed my doctoral thesis at the department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in Vienna. This time period was also the starting point of my artistic career. For me, my scientific working process was definitely based on creativity and art.
In my former days as a scientist, I used to explore the smallest building blocks of our existence on a molecular level in the outer universe. My task was to develop new drugs for cancer therapy. Examinations under the microscope were part of my everyday life. Now as an artist with scientific skills I put my research on the building blocks of my very inner micro universe. Drawing is my most direct way of getting an insight and expressing my inner vibrations. I describe my drawings as „the seismographic notations of my soul“.
RA: How was your stay at CERN influencing your work, your approach and what did you take personally out of this cooperation?
DS: For me, as a gifted groupie of micro-universal structures, cooperating with CERN was a dream come true. I always was deeply impressed by the reasons why the particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), was built, and how what it was doing was possible at all.
The key issues that gave rise to the construction of CERN in Geneva are not physical ones. They rather concern the basic questions of the creation story par excellence: Where do we come from? Why are we here? What happened around the Big Bang? What happens when the universe has expanded in the distant future? Even the questions “Is there a God?” and “Is there live on other planets?” are not uncommon at CERN. So, by means of physical experiments, can questions from philosophy and perhaps even theology be answered there? Keeping this in mind, I conclude that scientists and engineers who deal with the CERN topic need to be extremely talented and open-minded to be able to look beyond their scientific horizons. Creativity, art and out–of–the–box thinking are substantial skills a scientist should bring with for the research in this special field.
Influenced by all these facts and questions I wrote my very personal manifesto The Arscientic Andism – My Romantic Manifesto, which is about the immersion into the in–between–space, the indefinable area between the two categories of art AND science. Maybe scientists would disagree, but for me CERN is Art&Science in practice.
RA: Your topic for the Master Thesis was the gap between Art & Science.
For me a welcome approach, because I think too little importance is attributed to the gaps, the emptiness. What is this AND for you in your work?
DS: For me, in many cases Art&Science is misunderstood. It is often represented as the visualisation of scientific data.
In my view Art&Science can only happen in the interspace between the category of art and of science. An important prerequisite for this is the immersion into both disciplines equally. Only then this indefinable area in–between art AND science is perceptible and accessible.
My recent work The Arscientic Andism – My Romantic Manifesto is my very own journey to find stability in this gap. Like any other discipline, Art&Science is all about practice.
WE LIVE THROUGH CORREALISM
Frederick John Kiesler
“Form does not follow function, function follows vision, vision follows reality.”
Frederick John Kiesler is the only Avantgardist in Fine Arts and Architecture rooted in Austria, internationally well known, but not in Austria, even if there is the awesome Kiesler Stiftung in Mariahilferstrasse in Vienna. Director Peter Bogner and his Team´s task is to explore the heritage of the Austro-American architect and to inscribe the current architecture and art production. The Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation was founded in 1997 with the acquisition of the estate of Friedrich Kiesler by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna, as well as by the help of numerous private donors. In 1997, the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation acquired more than 2,500 works on paper as well as 15,000 photos, numerous documents and secondary archives on the life and work of Friedrich Kiesler. The archive includes drawings, sketches and plans as well as letters and theoretical texts from the twenties to the sixties. The largely unpublished materials allow a variety of insights into Kiesler’s visionary approach, in his way of working and cross-border thinking. Kiesler’s importance as a key figure in the art and architecture avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century is reflected in the extensive correspondence with renowned artists and personalities of cultural life such as Marcel Duchamp, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Max Ernst, Hans Arp , Peggy Guggenheim and many more. At the same time the Foundation created at the special wish of Frederick Kiesler´s wife Lilian Kiesler, the Frederick Kiesler Award for Architecture and Art. The Austrian highest endowed prize, worth 55000.- Euros, is in a biennale rhythm. The prize is awarded alternately by the Republik of Austria and the City of Vienna and is organized by Kiesler Foundation Vienna. An international jury of theoreticians, artists and architects awards the Prize for “Outstanding Achievements in Architecture and the Arts, which correspond to the innovative views of Frederick Kiesler and his theory of ‘correlated arts’, in that cross-border sense. The list of prize winners is like a list of the who-is-who in international contemporary arts scene, Bruce Nauman,Toyo Ito, Olafur Eliasson, Asymptote / Hani Rashid + Lise Anne Couture, Cedric Price, Frank O. Gehry or Judith Barry and the Austrian Artist Heimo Zobering. Kiesler’s attempt to achieve a unity of artistic and social domains. He was oriented towards an interdisciplinary combination which unites theory and practice. He has worked in various disciplines, architecture, visual arts, design and theater, always based on this holistic thinking and acting, The Frederick Kiesler Foundation develops its interdisciplinary and trans medial activities. They are organizing research projects, symposia and exhibitions which examine Kiesler´s oeuvre and its historical impact, attending to aspects of historical inquiry, as well as of contemporary cultural discourse.
Although during his lifetime his exhibition projects, competition entries, publications and writings earned him recognition beyond specialist circles, Kiesler built little. Designs like Party Lounge, Bed Couch or the Correalistic Rocker were too futuristic, in their conceptual approach as well as in the theoretical. The time was not ready for that kind of combination of flexibility and mobility, geometrical shape and high quality materials. In his biomorphic furniture he sought to dissolve the visual, real, image and environment into a free flowing space.
Some of his intriguing furnitures are posthumously manufactured in limited quantities by Wittmann Austria for example. A nice collection of this series of Kiesler furnitures are at Kiesler Stiftung in use. The ergonomic shape invites to relaxed sitting and swaying.
Frederick John Kiesler was born in September 1890 in Czernowitz and died December 1965 in New York.
After his studies at Technical Institute in Vienna, he attended painting and printmaking classes at the Academy of Fine Arts. In July 1913, Kiesler quit academy without a diploma. He worked for several institutions, like Konzert Haus in Vienna and created a so called CI for them. He was also productive as a theater and art exhibition designer in Vienna and Berlin in the 20ties. He started a brief cooperation with Adolf Loos and became a member of the De Stijl group in 1923. He invented the 1924L+T radical hanging system for galleries and museums.
His unorthodox architectural drawings and plans which he called „polydimensional“ were related to Surrealist automatic drawings. In this period he influenced the major figures with his heretical approach to artistic theories and practices. In 1924 he arranged the world premiere of the 16 minute film „Ballet mécanique“, directed by Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, with Man Ray. This version Lilian Kiesler, his second wife, found in the closet of their county house in the Hamptons in 1975 and the Anthology Film Archives restored it.
Kiesler collaborated early on with the Surrealists, and with Marcel Duchamp. His writing was extensive, his theoretical work embraced two lengthy manifestos, the article “Pseudo-Functionalism in Modern Architecture” (Partisan Review, July 1949) and the book Contemporary Art Applied to the Store and Its Display (New York: Brentano, 1930).
He married Stefanie (Stefi) Frischer in 1920, 1926 they moved to New York City. A return to Europe was too dangerous at that time and so they decided to stay in the United States. The start in the New World was quite hard for Kiesler and he did window designer for Saks Fith Avenue and several other jobs. Without the help of pragmatic Stefi Kiesler he could hardly survive. Stuff believed in his visions and did everything to support him. But even in the time as window dresser he created his own style and founded in a way modern window arrangements.
Between 1937 and 1943 he was director of the Laboratory for Design Correlation at Columbia University, department Architecture. The study program was quite more commercially and pragmatic oriented than his deep conviction of his theoretical ideas. His concepts were based on the relationship among spaces, people and objects and the concept has to involve „correalism“ or „continuity“, that refer to each other.
In the 1950ties he created a series of Galaxcies paintings, a visualization of his version of space into multi paneled installations that protruded from the wall. He matched paintings with sculptures and drawings and accomplished his aspect of multilayered universes.
“Each painting represents a definite unit in itself just as in one family each member is of distinct individuality. Yet, their firm cohesion (into one) is inborn no matter how heterogeneous the character of the members might be. Under these circumstances, it seems natural that each painted unit, particularly when protruding from the wall, and viewed from the side, will also assume the value of a plastic entity, very much in the sense of sculpture, while the aspect of the total galaxy promotes too, the idea of an architectural coordinate without destroying the main character as a painting. Thus the traditional division of the plastic arts, sculpture, and architecture, is transmuted and overcome and their fluid unification is now contained within rather than combined from without.”
These series of paintings were also sparked by the artist´s response to the political and social upheaval of war years. Conceived a few years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki Kiesler described his inspiration for Galaxies:
“If the reassessment of values in these tense times is of necessity for each and all of us, one is convinced that the artist’s work too can no longer be placed in isolation: that art must strive again to become part of daily experience. It seems, therefore, that painters, sculptors, and architects must conceive their work – as part of the world.”
Kiesler’s body of sculptural works also incorporate similar philosophies, uniting individual pieces with specific placements, further illustrating his theories of human-design relationships. His installation of Us, You, Me (completed 1963-65), included pieces in bronze, aluminum, wood, granite, and concrete in various sizes.
Stefi Kiesler died in September 1963. In 1964, the year before his death, Kiesler married Lillian Olinsey, his longtime secretary and confidante, as Stefi had advised him to do while she was still alive. In May 1965, he traveled to Jerusalem for the inauguration of the Shrine of the Book; seven months later he died in New York City. The Shrine of the Book is the only realized building. Comparable with visionary genius like Buckminster Fuller or Nikola Teslar Frederick Kiesler is still contemporary and innovative and many projects of recent art shows are referring, even if the artists are not aware, on ideas and visions of this diverse inventor.
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Inside the Endless House. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1966.
„The Future: Notes on Architecture as Sculpture.” In: Art in America, 54/3, Mai-Juni 1966. S. 57-68.
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Text Denise Parizek, 2018
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14. – 20. NOVEMBER 2017
“New technologies have always had an undeniable impact on art. Artists today are not just appropriating digital innovations; they are using them to critically analyze social reality and newly-emerging spaces of experience, and not least to ask what authenticity means today.”
Robert Punkenhofer, Artistic Director of VIENNA ART WEEK
The VIENNA ART WEEK program incorporated not only the city’s most important museums, galleries and art academies, but a number of exhibition spaces and independent initiatives. More than 30 studios were involved in the Open Studio Day. The Alternative Space Open House casted a spotlight on the Austrian capital’s emerging art spaces for the first time, welcoming visitors to explore yet another facet of this city’s cultural landscape. The gathering of the art scene was quite international as well as colourful and a shimmering vibration lied over the city. The variety and the access was low threshold, the acceptance widespread and the interest in contemporary art growing.
The topic „Transforming Technology“ opened a new and thrilling field of contemporary fine arts and widened the perspective as well as drew the interest of diving in new categories or think about other ways beyond the path of the well known. Transforming reflects on the various possibilities today to combine art and science. Even if it is not the newest hottest shit in art, since Leonardo we know about cooperations between art and science. To adjust the speed towards new technologies, to reflect the state of science in art as well as to involve them is a permanent challenge for artists and scientists. The age of cyborg art has already started, the opportunities are increasing. New times await different approaches. Art projects like this allow us a fictional look in the future and to think it over at times as well as to open new territories and ways adapted to the century we are living in.
As a kind of anti statement Michael Koch and Marcus Zobl twisted the issue during the Open Studio Day. The painter Koch taught the multi media artist Zobl how to build frames, to stretch canvas by his own hands, to cover it with prime coat and to learn the first steps of painting in acrylic on canvas. For the audience the approach was as interesting as the seismic dancing of Moon Ribas or the tones out of heaven and hell by Florian Hecker. Real life of 90 percent of contemporary artists is not that shiny and fancy as in „The Square“ alleged, even not that wild any more. In contrary VAW is covering the whole range of contemporary art scene, the fancy VIP cluster is dancing beside the hard working, multi loaded and precarious living artists. The process of transparency of the Viennese art scene constrained at least for one week.
I have pointed out 3 positions of art meets science, Moon Ribas, Cyborg Artist, Florian Hecker, Sound Artist, Maria Grün & Max Berner Fiction Sculptors.
Moon Ribas Seismic Percussions / MAK Technological, Vienna
14.11. 2017 7:15 pm MAK Vienna, Stubenring 5
The focus of Transforming Technology laid in the fields of science, art and technology whose work explored with different formats and in a variety of ways. Like the Spanish artist Moon Ribas, a leading protagonist of the cyborg movement. Fragile looking Moon Ribas has had a sensor implanted into her elbow that vibrates as soon as an earthquake can be recognized somewhere over the planet.
Moon Ribas grew up in Mataró in Spain and moved to England at the age of 18 where she studied experimental dance and graduated in choreography at Dartington College of Arts and Movement Research at SNDO Theaterschool in Amsterdam. During her studies she began to explore the possibilities of sensory extensions by applying technology to her body. Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson founded the nonprofit organization Cyborg Foundation in 2010. The foundation is a platform for research, creation and promotion of projects related to extending and creating new senses and perceptions by applying technology to the human body.
“Cybernetics, for me, is about the artist using technology as a tool. We don’t have to be separate from the machine. It’s more unique and personal to embed it into your self and create new perceptions.”
Moon Ribas, Lecture VAW 2017
In 2013, Moon developed a sensor that vibrates whenever there’s an earthquake on the planet. Moon has been wearing this sensor since March 2013. The sensor, which is permanently attached to her elbow, vibrates in different levels depending on the intensity of each earthquakes and is wirelessly connected to online seismographs, which means she can feel earthquakes from all over the world regardless of where she is. Her choreographies are mostly depending on the earthquakes she is feeling during her performances, like at Nau Ivanow in Barcelona in 2013. The intensity of movement and the tempo are paced on the magnitude of each seismic movement.
Because Moo Ribas is wearing the sensor permanently and she uses her seismic sense to create dance pieces.
In her performance „Seismic Percussions“, one of the highlights of VAW, Moon Ribas visualized the vibrations of the tectonic movements in a performance epicentered on earthquakes in Austria during the past 30 years. Her choreography works are based on the exploration of new movements developed by the addition of new senses or sensory extensions to the dancer.
Florian Hecker. Hallucination, Perspective, Synthesis Exhibition / Kunsthalle Vienna
Duration 17.11. 2017 – 14.1. 2018
Florian Hecker´s display is a nearly dark empty room with a soft organic shaped floating light sculpture and intense sound of computer generated compositions. His works produce a form of an immateriality. The objective of the sound artist is a resonating space and stage for sound that withdraw from linguistic description and categorization. The compositions dramatize psychoacoustic as well as objective physical stimuli, inclusive their physical impact.
One of the three exhibited works is called „Distorsiv produced otoacoustic Emission“ and confronts the visitor with a audible phenomenon. Two sine waves reach the ear of the listener, while he perceives three of them. In a sense, a ghostly sound creeps in, which only arises through the refraction of the sound waves in our inner ear.
„Auditory Scene“, not recommended for tinnitus sufferers, is the most physical work in Florian Hecker’s exhibition. He uses our cochlea directly as a sound source. Hecker does not compose on the basis of 12 tones, but involves the entire spectrum of sine wave overtones, from which any sound can be built up or decomposed into one notes. He works, transforms, decomposes the stuff of which the sounds are made of.
Maria Grün & Max Berner „ ….Breath… Child“ / Schleifmühlgasse 12-14 Vienna
VIENNA ART WEEK SPECIAL
Vernissage 8th of November, 2017
15.11.2017 Vienna Art Week Gallery Night
18.11.2017 Vienna Art Week Studio Days
The sculptor Maria Grün and the photographer Max Berner have created a show circling the human body and technical environment of medical surgery. In their common installation „…Breath…Child“ they staged the human body as a surreal machine, related to their previous work „Anagram_1“. Grün and Berner used the figure of a child symbolically, as a triptych, moved by the oxygen distribution in the body. Like the ventilator, the body is headless, anonymous. Maria Grün´s hyperrealistic approach zooms the processes of the inner body and the transience of its substance: the unspeakable, the uncanny, the abject.
The approach in her work seems similar to laboratory procedures – experimenting with temperature, color/pigments, additives, different layers – trying to find the right compound for the silicon cast. As in a laboratory it is enormous important to make a precisely documentation. The same procedure starts with the question, what´s the right electronic and mechanical components. Maria Grün cooperates with a technician at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna. They are following the trial and error principle of science and are thinking, experimenting and realizing together. Permanent documenting, making sketches and notices about what did work and especially what did not work.
The working series, which started with „Organ“ in 2014, a cybernetic food processor, includes till now „Pneuma“ a silicon lung hanging on a medical-like metal instrument in 2015 and „Goose bump simulator“, which seems to be animated by high voltage. The series of kinetic organs and the installation „Anagramm_1“ thematized function and dysfunctions of the human body in the era of modern technology-based medicine: It´s deforming, deconstructing and parting it, The body seems incorporated in the frame of a surreal machine.
Man as a machine-operated being, who automates bodily functions, de-personifies the essence. Remain machines like left overs, with the same functions like previous human organs. A gloomy look into the future or the stirring of a hope for eternal life? Many aspects lie between the curse of progress and optimization of physical and human efficiency. A game between reality and artificiality. Humanity appears machine-driven and machines get humane features.
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The war on poverty was lost because only the professionals fought it. Until the civilians the poor get involved, the war and its costs will continue. Poverty has become full employment for professionals.
In 1964, our nation declared a war on poverty that called for maximum feasible participation of the poor. The poor were supposed to get involved in helping to find solutions for their problems as a way of developing their own power to solve problems.
Social service agencies only reinforced the sense of dependency among the poor as they were seen as brokers that determined what services, as well as how the services would be delivered, to the poor. The challenge was seen as wresting the resources from the service agencies (the professionals, the brokers) and directing resources to local communities where the poor could help determine their own destiny.
As those in power saw where the poor began to question how resources were not meeting their intended purposes, they began criticizing the poor for speaking out and reverted to the established donor-donee relationship with them thus reinforcing the sense of dependency and sense of hopelessness that such a relationship creates.
What the short life of the war on poverty did was to give some of the poor the opportunity to realize they had the power and talent within them to better their lives and their communities.
The Salt Lake Community Action Program (CAP), part of the war on poverty, brought change, not only among the poor, but in the community as well. People in the program exposed the inefficiencies and lousy service within the social service system endemic to monopolies they are the only show in town with a captive customer base so there is no need to change, just do more of the same.
When the service fails, its the fault of the customer. That shows how the social service industry continues to grow, because its customers have no power to make change, and there is no lobby for the poor.
The Salt Lake CAP demonstrated that, given the opportunity, the poor could improve their lives and their communities as well. The CAP program hired the poor from their neighborhoods and created neighborhood councils the poor controlled.8 comments on this story
Once they had a chance to have a sense of accomplishment in helping others and their communities, many went on to improve their lives. They cleaned up their neighborhoods, helped start community centers, a childrens day care center, school lunches, youth programs, health centers and changed welfare policies, to name a few.
Many of the poor hired in the program went on to seek better jobs and further education and later returned to serve their communities. They succeeded because they understood and had compassion for the less fortunate. The CAP program demonstrated the value of hiring the poor in programs that are supposed to help them. They not only improved their lives, but also were able to reach the poor because of their own life struggles.
The current social service system is an outdated and a wasteful system. Other professions have found it productive to hire paraprofessionals to meet customer needs. Policy makers should restructure the current system so that is responsive to the needs of the poor in a compassionate way by hiring the poor in reaching and helping those in need.
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The comparatively dismal state of educational attainment for American Indians is well-established: They are almost twice as likely as other Americans not to have graduated from high school, significantly less likely to have any higher education, and half as likely to have a bachelor's degree.
The institutions most associated with educating Native Americans at the postsecondary level are the more than two dozen federally chartered tribal colleges and universities. They get the vast majority of their support from the federal government, receiving a total of nearly $100 million in operating funds each year through the Labor Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs, and a significantly smaller amount for programs and facilities through the Education Department’s Strengthening Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities program. For 2008, President Bush’s budget proposed cutting those latter funds to $18.6 million from the $23.6 million awarded in 2007, "an unprecedented cut," as Jamie P. Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy," described it at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs this month.
The tribal colleges are not the only institutions with American Indian students, of course; public colleges and universities in states with large Native American populations, like Arizona, New Mexico and the Dakotas, enroll significant numbers of such students.
In recognition of that, a move is afoot in Congress that would provide federal support to non-tribal institutions that enroll significant numbers of Native American students – and the idea is dividing American Indian educators.
The proposal, which was advanced in the last two sessions of Congress as an amendment to legislation to renew the Higher Education Act by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), would call for providing grants to colleges and universities where Native Americans make up at least 10 percent of the student body. The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is expected to consider a new version of the Higher Education Act extension bill as soon as next week, and a spokeswoman for Bingaman said the senator would push the Native American provision.
Bingaman said the funds, which would be authorized as part of Title III of the Higher Education Act, whose purpose is “strengthening institutions,” would be similar to those that now support what the government calls “Hispanic-serving institutions” -- those that have significant numbers of Hispanic or Latino students. The money would support curricular and faculty developments, the purchase of books, and other purposes. The government, Bingaman said in a news release about the bill, “does not do enough to support colleges that serve Native Americans.”
Tribal college leaders certainly agree with that statement, and they are sympathetic to the legislation’s goal of supporting Native American students, “many of whom are our graduates,” David Gipp, president of United Tribes Technical College, said at this month's hearing before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
But Gipp and other tribal college leaders, as represented by the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, are troubled by several aspects of the proposed legislation. First, they are concerned that creating such a program would open the door to potential legal challenges to programs for Native Americans, where they believe none exist now. The current law that provides for educational funds for American Indians, the Tribally Controlled College or University Assistance Act, exists because the federal government has accepted a binding political responsibility to support the tribes in exchange for having seized their land many years ago.
But creating a new program that supports students at traditional institutions based on their ethnicity would raise affirmative action issues, the Indian higher education consortium argued in a September 2005 letter opposing the Bingaman proposal then.
The tribal colleges also argue that it would be unfair for traditional institutions that already receive significant federal and state support based on their enrollments to receive extra funds for enrolling Native American students, when tribal colleges cannot count the 20 percent of non-Indian students who make up their student bodies in the formula used to determine how much federal operating support they receive.
And because there would be “no practical way of separating out funds going to improve education opportunities Native Americans within these state institutions” that might receive funds under the Bingaman proposal, AIHEC argues, “this program would just result in creating a source of additional funds for state supported institutions to increase their basic operating and program budgets – without any means for measuring its effect on Native American students.”
Lastly, Gipp and others note, given the current fiscal environment in Congress and the intense competition it has created for scarce funds, it seems possible if not likely that any money that might go toward the proposed new program would come out of the already insufficient funds Congress appropriates each year for tribal colleges. The Bingaman measure would “authorize” the allocation of new funds for Native American-serving institutions, but like all such legislation, it would only permit Congress to spend those funds, not actually provide them. That would fall to Congressional appropriators each year, and their track record has not been good, Gipp argues.
“It’s really asking tribal colleges to do something greatly unfair to them,” he said, “when Congress has never reached the existing funding levels.
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One of the small-but-fascinating surprises from yesterday's Facebook earnings call was CEO Mark Zuckerberg's impromptu discussion of teens on Facebook, and whether they're abandoning the social network.
Yes, Zuck cares whether the kids think he's cool.
The issue here is that one of Facebook's big downside risks is the day when Facebook suddenly becomes so uncool that no one wants to use it. That was the MySpace story, basically. Once teenagers made a collective decision that there were too many ads/parents/old people on MySpace, they all left, quickly followed by everyone else. In May, the Pew Research Center released a study that showed teens were increasingly negative on Facebook.
But Zuckerberg said yesterday that teens are not leaving Facebook, and in fact the company has close to 100% of all teens on the service:
One specific demographic I want to address is U.S. teens. There's been a lot of speculation and reporting that fewer teens are using Facebook, but based on our data that just isn't true. It's difficult to measure this perfectly since some young people lie about their age, but based on the best data we have we believe that we are close to fully penetrated in the U.S. teen demographic for a while and the number of teens using Facebook on both a daily and monthly basis has been steady over the past year and a half. Teens also remain really highly engaged using Facebook. Now it's also worth mentioning that these stats are for Facebook only. Instagram is growing quickly as well. So if you combine the two services together, we believe our engagement and share of time spent are likely growing quickly throughout the world."
Note that he doesn't address whether teens like Facebook or not, just that they're still using it. Another interpretation of this statement is that Facebook is for teens what cable TV companies are for adults: No one likes them but everyone uses them.
Facebook doesn't break out demographic data for its monthly active users or daily active users. But broadly, all those metrics are still growing in the U.S., although they're topping out as the number of monthly active users approaches 200 million.
His Instagram comment is equally telling:
... it's just growing still quickly. I mean the number that we just said was 130 million monthly actives. Video product is growing really quickly. There are so many directions to expand this in that we think that the right focus for now is to continue just focusing on increasing the footprint of Instagram. And when the right time comes then we'll think about doing advertising.
The photosharing app has zero revenue attached to it right now because Zuckerberg is letting it grow its user base. Obviously, Instagram is much cooler than Facebook right now.
Together, that suggests Instagram is Zuckerberg's backup plan for teens: They may defect from Facebook someday, but his 1 million advertisers will still be able to reach them on Instagram as soon as he decides to flip that revenue switch to the "on" position.
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Zuckerberg’s face is all of the media right now. Quite a few items remarking on his poor social abilities. He’s clearly on the autism spectrum and if I recall it’s more in-line with Asperger’s.
That generally means that the switch inside the head doesn’t register non-vocal feedback, and that the social skills never truly develop. Socially inept. We’ve all met people where social cues just go right by. This is more evident in high school and college settings, where everyone is showing tremendous social growth, while others seem stalled. As adults, the social aspects are usually screened out during the hiring process. Or in. Or the individual has learned some tricks to manage that lack of skill.
Or, they deploy a data harvesting tool with the guise of connection building, and become a billionaire.
I work in IT. Specifically at the intersection of consumer functions and security/privacy controls. I know more than I should, or at least some days I’d prefer to know less. First point – if you’re online you are giving up privacy. Full stop. Either you pay to control it (part of it at least, or the appearance of control), or you do it for free and give up that control.
There’s a reason it’s so easy to DOX someone.
The internet may be temporary – sites come and go – but it’s all archived somewhere. It is both permanent and impermanent at the same time, making it really quite hard for people to navigate. What people were doing 10 years ago is still being used to screen new hires. That is not going away anytime soon.
Ethics are a social construct. We don’t eat dogs in North America, rarely eat horse. In other parts of the world it’s a regular meal. Ethically we have issues with that, while other do not. That’s at the national level. Even at the community level this changes. Find two churches and you’ll find two different sets of ethics.
Now throw in someone who has no ability to understand the social implications of ethics. They are not un-ethical in the sense that they purposefully go against ethical norms, but more so in that they just don’t understand the nuances of ethics.
For better or worse, this also means that they are immune from international ethics. Say in one country, it’s entirely acceptable to scrape all user related data to make a giant database of behavior (China). In another, the company must disclose all private data to the users (Germany). A company working in both areas has to find the right balance, let alone their corporate policies to manage their service. That Facebook said it would apply GDPR is a good step. Considering that they fought it tooth and nail, is more like a thief admitting guilt after caught, but it’s still some progress.
I will say that for all the faults, the EU seems to take this more seriously than most other countries. Canada would be wise to integrate those policies, as we tend to align the same way. I mean that in the context of post-national ethics. We’re all humans before we’re nationals after all, much more alike than dissimilar.
Generally run by people with poor social skills focused more on the what can we do, rather than why should we do it. There’s a really good reason why so many harassment issues have come out of the woodwork in these companies. A psychopath is someone who lacks empathy – they are not not just serial killers. A lack of social skills is right in line with that behavior.
Many people are driven by power/money, and once bitten by that bug, it’s hard to go back. People get blinded by their own agenda that they lose sight of the impacts of their decisions. Uber simply didn’t care that there were existing markets, they just dropped down illegal cabs, paid a few fines and disrupted an entire market. There’s only a small difference between that and WalMart moving into a small town, closing all the mom and pop shops, milking the town dry, then closing their shop down for good.
And we let them. Because it’s practical. Or it’s cheaper. We’ll sell our souls to the devil without a blink of an eye. Most times, we won’t even realize we’re doing it. Or we think it doesn’t affect us.
The conceptual idea of adding more connections is certainly good. It’s the foundation of the internet after all. We are too soon into that space as compared to other social advances, for a web of ethics to have developed. By breaking down the geographical barriers, we have exposed the sensitive nerves of ethic boundaries. It’s much easier to ignore dog eating in China if you don’t ever hear about it. Much harder to do when it’s on the newsfeeds, websites, and social media.
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UN urged to probe child abuse in Sri LankaMay 20th, 2009 - 9:20 pm ICT by IANS
London, May 20 (IANS) Children under 18 years are being abducted from refugee camps and from Vavuniya town in northern Sri Lanka by paramilitary groups who enjoy the tacit support of the Sri Lankan government, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers said Wednesday.
The Coalition welcomed the initiative by the Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) on children and armed conflict to send a special envoy to Sri Lanka to investigate these and other abuses against children.
The Sri Lankan government is reported to have agreed in principle to such a visit.
“The last phase of fighting in Sri Lanka has had a catastrophic impact on children. The special envoy’s visit needs to take place without delay,” said Victoria Forbes Adam, director of the Coalition.
The Coalition has received verified reports of abductions of under-18s from inside and outside internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Vavuniya as well as about the recruitment and re-recruitment of children by paramilitary groups in the districts of Batticaloa and Trincomalee.
Some children appear to have been abducted for alleged links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), while others are kidnapped for ransom, it said.
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Pharmaceutical Training: 3 Guiding Principles for Success
Training pharmaceutical representatives to understand — and maximize the benefits of — software they’re using on the job is a necessary component of any pharmaceutical sales program. A training program is not one-size-fits-all, but there are certain base considerations that are always at play when we are designing and implementing a program. For starters, it’s important to address the following questions:
1) How should the program be standardized?
Whether training takes place in different cities, states or countries, we often find existing programs that have been implemented in several locations can have discrepancies. We work to set baseline processes across any geographical area. This improves the program by making the content and delivery consistent no matter who is receiving it, or where.
2) Will the program be global?
We offer training programs in every continent except Antarctica. If the training program will occur in multiple countries, the curriculum needs to be translated and localized for each country. This is not counter-intuitive to standardization, but rather, helps achieve that objective by adapting the baseline processes to make sure they are appropriately communicated through local languages and cultural nuances. It also means customizing the program design to include learning methods that are best-suited for a particular location.
3) How can the trainee best grasp the concept?
Training program design should always follow basic education principles. Every person learns differently, so we aim to bring in all five senses, with an emphasis on touch. Hands-on interaction — in which end-users perform realistic and practical exercises — are best to help the students of our programs become fully competent. We also often integrate “training for the trainers,” in which we direct the supervisors or managers who, in turn, train the end-users on best practices.
While training programs differ vastly in content and structure and must be customized for a company’s specific needs, these principles will help ensure your training program is off to a successful start. | <urn:uuid:8afc1323-3cba-487f-ac46-711d0b1d2237> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifesciencescare.hcltech.com/blog/pharmaceutical-training-3-guiding-principles-success/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.939104 | 409 | 1.75 | 2 |
Define the concept of Atman, and describe how it is similar to yet different from the typical western concept of self.
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Atman: A Hindu Divine Concept
Atman is a Sanskrit word that in Pali equates to the word Atta and it means 'original source' or the breath of life or literally living-breath. In Indian use the word is used in the reference to the individual 'being' with the closest approximation in Western terminology as the 'soul' for this being, one's Atman is one's very essence, the breath of life, mind and self that makes the person his own unique being. But this goes beyond physicality for in Hindu, Atman refers to the indestructible essence of self. Now, Atman, together with Brahman (the cosmic self or one true soul of the world) is seen as one unit, one monistic manifestation of what is holy in individuals. While Brahman is the source of the entire world and is its divine essence, Atman is the distilled essence of all that is holy and divine in man, ...
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Step right up and enjoy the ride, as we take you inside the anatomy of a typical amusement park: a machine engineered for your conscious and subliminal delight, surprise, and excitement, right up until it’s time to head back to the real world. Introduction: How amusement parks hijack your brain
AFRAID AND LOVING IT
Thrill rides are the spiritual heart of the modern amusement park. Why do so many people enjoy being made to feel like they could die at any second? One theory emphasizes how good we feel after we return to solid ground, our bodies intact. But as any dedicated thrill-seeker will tell you, the experience itself—the radical narrowing of one’s attention, the feeling of time slowing down—can be its own source of pleasure. A pair of Dutch design experts from the Delft University of Technology argued in a recent paper that this altered state comes from pairing mortal fear with a “protective frame” that assures people they are safe. Citing the work of British psychologist Michael Apter, they suggest this state can be its own reward: “potentially refreshing, enchanting, empowering, exciting, or profound.”
One roller coaster at Six Flags New England plunges you into Batman’s world; on another you fight Bizarro. Just a bunch of licensing deals? Not quite. Immersive, otherwordly rides date back to the origins of amusement parks. According to historian Josephine Kane, parks divert us in part by giving us access to experiences that feel beyond the bounds of reality. A century ago this often meant rides that simulated travel to exotic places. These days, travel no longer feels so removed from everyday life. Having superpowers does.
THE NOSTALGIA EFFECT
Even a sophisticated amusement park may have a distinctly old-timey side, to say nothing of county fairs. The mechanized contraptions, the primitive games, the carnival-like atmosphere — even if you never ride a vintage carousel, these may be affecting you. Research has shown that when people are prompted to feel nostalgia, they report feeling more optimistic about the future, and more confident that life has meaning.
LOVE AND NOVELTY
An amusement park may not seem like the most romantic place on earth, but research suggests it’s a better spot for a date than you’d think: anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of “Why We Love,” says people are more likely to become attracted to each other in situations that are novel and exciting. Research suggests people are at higher risk for falling in love on vacation, “processing novel stimuli and having novel pleasures,” according to Linden. A day at an amusement park has more of those than you normally get in a week.
THE JOY OF 'ALMOST'
Many of the classic midway games are neatly engineered to capitalize on what Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden calls the “near-miss effect”—the thrill of getting so close to victory you can taste it. That plastic ring you nearly looped around one of those glass bottles? The softball just bouncing out of the milk can? It’s no ordinary failure; it’s a failure designed to give you a jolt of pleasure—one that pushes you to take just one more shot. And then another.
Many iconic carnival games are hard because they demand unfamiliar skills, like hitting a target with a squirt gun until the balloon on top explodes. Learning those skills exerts a particular pull on us, according to Chris Lewis, an expert on addictive games. Citing the concept of “flow theory,” Lewis said there’s an almost euphoric state of mind induced by a game that makes you feel like you’re progressively improving. “It’s when a game hits that sweet spot, where the player thinks, ‘I’m not succeeding at this yet but I feel like I could’—that’s when you keep handing the money over.”
BEST LINE EVER!
Even those frustrating lines contribute to our experience, research suggests. When people see a long line, they tend to conclude that whatever lies at the end of it must be pretty valuable. If done right, waiting in line can even boost your enjoyment of the overall experience: A 2010 study published in the Journal of Marketing Research found that amusement park guests who focused on the number of people behind them in line expressed more excitement about the ride they were going on, and were more likely to enjoy it, than those who focused on the number of people in front of them.
TAKE A LEFT NEAR THE BULBOUS THING
Typically, maps and signposts succeed by being direct and efficient. Not so at amusement parks. “You want to encourage wandering and serendipity and spending money,” said Chris Calori, author of the book “Signage and Wayfinding Design.” And yet, said expert Mark VanderKlipp, it is important that visitors can easily find the nearest bathroom or food stand. Hence the curious hybrid known as the amusement park map, a cartoonish rendering without any straight lines from point A to point B—but where the facilities are clearly and unmistakably marked.
GATHER 'ROUND THE CORN DOG
Many of us wouldn’t stuff ourselves with cheese fries, funnel cake, and cotton candy under normal circumstances. But according to social psychologists, being surrounded by huge groups of strangers tends to break down impulse control: We feel anonymous, less like ourselves, and more inclined to indulge in behaviors we wouldn’t otherwise. And even if you feel strong, watch out: A 2010 study from the University of Georgia showed that being around people with poor self-control is contagious.
ILLUSTRATIONS: Doug Chayka for The Boston Globe
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Weather: Record highs but cold rain ahead
Updated 1:07 pm, Tuesday, December 11, 2012
December in the Bay Area: It can be cold, wet, dry and, apparently, record-setting warm.
"It was pretty nice for a day in December," Cross said. "There was an offshore flow that brought us the warm temperatures instead of our normal sea breeze."
Moffett Field, in Mountain View, tied its record of 69 degrees, set in 1958. San Francisco was 65 degrees downtown, four degrees below its record high. Most other locations in the Bay Area were about five degrees below their records, but still well above normal, Cross said.
But it won't last long. By Tuesday afternoon, a cold storm will blow south from Alaska, bringing rain in the Bay Area and a hefty load of snow in the Sierra. Cold temperatures will remain until Saturday, when more rain will hit the coast, forecasters said.
"A week and a half ago we were maybe one storm away from a significant flood event, and now it is sunny, warm and dry," said Mike Pechner, a meteorologist with Golden West Meteorology. "And now we're looking at another cold system that will replenish the snow we lost during the warm rain."
That will be normal for this time of year, Pechner said.
"The weather pattern turns much colder and remains that way probably up until Christmas," he said. "The cold weather will get folks in the festive mood of the holiday, but it should not harm shopping in terms of a lot of rain."
Between 6 and 10 inches of snow are expected to fall - and stick - in the Sierra above 6,000 feet, Pechner said. Snowflakes could be spotted as low as 3,000 feet starting Wednesday.
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Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2010.
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This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:February, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Timetable can be viewed here. For information about these dates, click here.
|Time Commitment:||Contact Hours: Ten lectures and 50 hours practical work. |
Total Time Commitment: Estimated total time commitment of 120 hours
|Recommended Background Knowledge:||None|
|Non Allowed Subjects:||Students who have received credit for 654-302 Experimental Marine Ecology (prior to 2010) may not enrol in this subject for credit.|
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It is University policy to take all reasonable steps to minimise the impact of disability upon academic study and reasonable steps will be made to enhance a student’s participation in the University’s programs. This subject requires all students to actively and safely participate in laboratory activities. Students who feel their disability may impact upon their participation are encouraged to discuss this with the subject coordinator and the Disability Liaison Unit.
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This subject explores the techniques and methods of undertaking research in zoology with an emphasis on the marine environment, including experimental and sampling design, data collection, statistical analysis of data, presentation of the research results and peer review. Students will participate in a group project, in which they will design, execute, analyse and interpret observational and experimental studies of animals in either natural or captive populations.
To provide students with an opportunity to engage in an authentic experience of the entire process of scientific research: from translating a general question in animal behaviour to a specific hypothesis about the relationship between measurable variables; developing an experimental or sampling design; collecting and analysing data; preparing an oral presentation and a draft written report; formally reviewing reports prepared by other students and revising their reports in line with the reviews provided by their colleagues; and finally submitting an individual report for assessment.
Written work totalling up to 5000 words, including a report on practical work (60%), peer-review assessment (20%), and response to reviewer's comments (20%), due during first semester immediately following the summer semester in which the subject was undertaken.
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This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:
You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.
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This subject builds upon existing generic skills, including an ability to approach and assimilate new knowledge from observation and the literature, and an ability to use that knowledge to evaluate and communicate results.
Students should develop their abilities to pose testable hypotheses, to devise appropriate sampling procedures and experimental designs, and to work in field situations.
Students should learn how to access information from the primary scientific literature, through both electronic and traditional sources, and gain experience in writing scientific reports and essays.
|Notes:||This subject is available for science credit to students enrolled in the BSc (both pre-2008 and new degrees), BASc or a combined BSc course.|
Bachelor of Science |
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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The structure of the hydrogen ion (H(aq)+) in water.
- Author(s): Stoyanov, Evgenii S;
- Stoyanova, Irina V;
- Reed, Christopher A
- et al.
Published Web Locationhttps://doi.org/10.1021/ja9101826
The hydrogen ion in water, H(aq)(+), is a unique H(13)O(6)(+) entity that defines the boundary of positive-charge delocalization. Its central unit is neither a C(3v) H(3)O(+) Eigen-type ion nor a typical H(5)O(2)(+) Zundel-type ion. IR spectroscopy indicates that the H(13)O(6)(+) ion has an unexpectedly long central O...O separation (>>2.43 A), showing that in comparison with the gas and solid phases, the environment of liquid water is uniquely proficient in delocalizing positive charge. These results will change the description of H(aq)(+) in textbooks of chemistry, and a more extensive delocalization of positive charge may need to be incorporated into descriptions of mechanisms of aqueous proton transport. | <urn:uuid:d3fd0387-0a4f-49dc-b3d1-62e0d37a7d14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2n20q3c8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.753314 | 256 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Genetic Pathway for Chronic Kidney Disease Revealed
News Jun 23, 2014
The University of Michigan Medical School led an international group of researchers in creating a molecular map of the body changes leading to chronic kidney disease.
Partly due to an aging and overweight population, chronic kidney disease — a condition in which damaged kidneys cannot filter blood as well as healthy kidneys — is one of the nation’s fastest growing chronic diseases.
“Addressing the initial mechanisms of CKD may be more beneficial and is good news for patients who could receive therapy earlier on for a variety of kidney diseases before they progress into CKD,” says Matthias Kretzler, M.D., a professor of internal medicine and bioinformatics and a nephrologist at the U-M Health System.
Diseases and infections that can damage kidneys and cause CKD include autoimmune disease like lupus leading to glomerulonephritis, polycystic kidney disease or kidney problems people are born with.
However, the most common causes of chronic kidney disease are diabetes and high blood pressure. CKD affects over 13 percent of the United States population, about 26 million people.
Using combined genetic and clinical data, Kretzler, U-M’s Sebastian Martini, M.D., and colleagues revealed a network of shared genetic pathways associated with CKD.
This unique methodology helped to describe what the key molecular drivers of CKD are, what CKD-causing diseases were most closely related and to understand specific molecular mechanisms causing the disease to progress or worsen in different patients.
The CKDGen consortium, European Renal cDNA Bank-Kroener-Fresenius Biopsy Bank, and the Clinical Phenotyping Resource and Biobank core contributed to the study published online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
"The study highlighted why understanding the way different diseases share the same molecular mechanism is important for treatment," says Martini, a systems biologist at the U-M Medical School.
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As UCDSU call for a full enquiry into the money spent on the administration of grants, Bridget Fitzsimons looks at the current system and questions its feasibility
No one can say that the current grants system is successful. When the economic climate was less harsh, students often had to wait weeks into the semester for their grant cheques. This problem has only gotten worse as the recession has furthered. Some students are still waiting for their first grant installments, even though we are now into semester two. For students struggling to make ends meet, the results of UCD Students’ Union’s survey of county councils’ administration costs for grants were a slap in the face.
The discrepancies were huge. From Westmeath’s relatively modest sum of €70.51 per student to North Tipperary’s indulgent €484.25, there really is no concrete amount for how much it should cost to process a grant. Clearly, the costs incurred by North Tipperary are ludicrous. In listening to figures like this, grant recipients will undoubtedly agree with SU President Gary Redmond’s calls for a centralised grants system.
Redmond estimates that a centralised system might save the Irish government €20 million, and that it would eliminate much of the red tape that seems to infest the current grants process. To centralise the process will undoubtedly make it easier and cheaper for the government at a time when every penny matters.
However, there is still the issue of time. First year students cannot apply for third level grants until they are offered and have accepted their CAO place, which is sometimes as little as a week before they start college. The administration involved means that students will never be able to get grants when they need them. In a centralised system, students would be able to apply for grants earlier, giving governmental bodies far more time to process claims and allow students to be able to have access to money when they need it. The start of the semester is the most costly – registration fees are paid and books and materials are purchased. Why should students wait until December for money they needed in September?
The very fact that those who are worst off are unable to get access to this vital money means that the grants system is in dire need of overhaul. A centralised system would destroy much of the bureaucracy that is preventing students from being able to pay their way through college. Added up, North Tipperary’s administration costs of €254,716.03 are laughable. If this County Council had properly used their resources, many more students would be able to avail of grants at a time when they need them most.
An economic downturn is a time to save, not a time to be rash and wasteful of money. A centralised system would save the government money, make things easier for students, and allow the college system to run more smoothly. We can only hope that the promised enquiry into the grants system will mean more convenience for students, savings for the government and a destruction of the red tape that is stopping us from being able to properly live while in full-time education. | <urn:uuid:041bd450-e2fd-4e98-8812-aade7a2c8239> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.universityobserver.ie/comment/re-examining-grants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00332-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976444 | 637 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Piano/Vocal/Guitar - Difficulty: medium
By Cyndi Lauper. Piano Vocal. Pop. Single. With vocal melody, piano accompaniment, lyrics, chord names and guitar chord diagrams. 4 pages. Published by Hal Leonard (HL.355327).
Item Number: HL.355327
ISBN 1495042510. 9x12 inches. Key: C major.
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Sea levels can change for a variety of reasons over a range of different time scales.
At the daily timescale, sea levels might change as a result of tides, wave activity or storm surges, as well as events such as earthquakes and tsunamis.
There are some changes that occur as a result of seasonal changes, such as warming in summer and cooling in winter in both hemispheres, and some are annual changes associated with natural climate variability, such as El Niño and La Niña events.
Of greatest interest to researchers studying climate change are the sea-level changes occurring over multiple decades.
Average global sea levels have been rising consistently since 1880 (the earliest available robust estimates) largely in response to increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and the consequent changes in the global climate.
Warming and sea-level rise
There are two main processes behind long-term sea-level rises, which are a direct result of a warming climate. Firstly, as the ocean has warmed the total volume of the ocean has increased through thermal expansion of water. Secondly, water has been added to the oceans as a result of melting glaciers and ice sheets.
Sea levels began to rise in the 19th century and the rate of sea-level rise since the mid-19th century has been larger than the average rate during the previous two millennia.
Global-average sea levels are currently (between 1993 and 2012) rising at around 3.2mm per year, faster than during the 20th century as a whole. Rates of sea-level rise are not uniform around the globe and vary from year to year.
Since 1993, the rates of sea-level rise to the north and northwest of Australia have been 7 to 11 mm per year, two to three times the global average, and rates of sea-level rise on the central east and southern coasts of the continent are mostly similar to the global average.
These variations are at least in part a result of natural variability of the climate system. For example, global sea level fell during the intense La Niña event of 2010–2011. This was partly due to the exceptionally high rainfall over land which resulted in floods in Australia, northern South America, and Southeast Asia. This was compounded by the long residence time of water over inland Australia.
Recent observations show that sea levels have rebounded in line with the long-term trend.
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There are two sorts of knowledge in Arcadia: the knowledge of love and academic knowledge. These two types of knowledge are in constant conflict throughout the text. It is only the proposition of marriage, the intellectual justification for sex, which allows a resolution between the two forces. The theme of love vs. intellect is touched upon in the first pages of the play. Thomasina interrupts her lesson with Septimus by asking what carnal knowledge is. Sexual knowledge always acts in conflict with intellectual knowledge, and here it gets in the way of the lesson. Thomasina also remarks on the conflict between emotion and intellect in her history lesson. Her question is prompted by Septimus himself who was found having sex with Mrs. Chater in the gazebo the day before. Thomasina describes Cleopatra as making "noodles of our sex" because Cleopatra was weakened by love. Thomasina heralds Queen Elizabeth who would not have been tempted by love to give away land or power. The great Hannah Jarvis is, like Thomasina's Queen Elizabeth, unswayed by romantic passions. She believes, as does Thomasina, that romantic inclinations would destroy or distract her from her work. Hannah refuses warmth or emotion: she refuses a kiss, denies Bernard's propositions, laughs at Valentine's proposal, and brushes off Gus's flirtation.
Nonetheless, Hannah, like Thomasina, Septimus, and Gus all waltz at the conclusion of the play. Hannah cannot refuse emotion or the bashful Gus by the end of the play and is drawn into an uncomfortable and uneasy dance. The conflict between emotion and intellect is resolved because Hannah suddenly understands that the two are inseparable. Hannah is unlike Thomasina, who unconsciously understands this, driven forcefully by the mystery of both.
Sex remains the final mystery of Arcadia. Septimus, in the conclusion of the play, reveals the final sadness and emptiness of an academic life: "When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore." Septimus implies that the mysteries of mathematics will someday be solved. As if knowing his own fate, Septimus embraces and kisses Thomasina in earnest, finally indulging in the mystery of his attraction and love. Septimus will not go to Thomasina's room, although she asks him, but he is restrained for a reason that remains unknown. Septimus realizes the ultimately unfulfilling nature of academic progress but will only tragically experience the fulfilling nature of love for a brief moment in a waltz and kiss with Thomasina. In the same manner, Hannah Jarvis submits to a dance with Gus. She, like Septimus, has solved her mystery and now looks to Gus for fulfillment and new mysteries.
Septimus describes to Thomasina the path of knowledge, a humanity that drops knowledge and learning as it picks up new ideas and developments. Septimus tells Thomasina she should not be upset at the loss of the library of Alexandria because such discoveries will be had again, in another time and possibly in another language. This story is ironic to the fate of Thomasina's own discoveries that aren't unearthed until 1993 by Valentine. Thomasina's discoveries are made again: chaos theory and thermodynamics are formal concepts by the time her primer is found and analyzed. Arcadia works as a description of humanity's own progression of knowledge. While Thomasina and Septimus make new discoveries, Hannah and Valentine work to find their discoveries. The work of Thomasina and Septimus is lost but later found again.
Fire takes on multiple meanings in the play, but it most strongly symbolizes death and the eventual and inevitable end of the human species. Like Thomasina's diagram of heat exchange, as exemplified by Mr. Noakes's steam engine, all will eventually end. As the law of thermodynamics prescribes, we will all eventually burn up. Fire is destruction and death happening over and over again. Septimus burns Lord Byron's letter, unread, a rare and valuable piece of historical literature. Fire is also sexual, the burn that keeps bodies in motion. Septimus observes that Mrs. Chater is in a state of "tropical humidity as would grown orchids in her drawers in January". Thomasina and Valentine wish to describe and analyze the universal laws of heat and destruction. The final scene is the greatest culmination of the fire motif. While Valentine and Hannah discuss the meaning of Thomasina's heat-exchange diagram, Thomasina holds the flame that will eventually cause her own destruction. As Thomasina and Septimus waltz, the audience is aware of Thomasina's fate. We can see the workings and progress of the heat diagram before our eyes.
Sex persists as the anti-academic driving force in Arcadia. Academic knowledge is never separated far from carnal knowledge—academic knowledge somehow equating sexual prowess. For example, when Bernard makes his great discovery he immediately propositions Hannah, indicating how academic knowledge gives Bernard sexual confidence. Sex is also equated with heat, making it the eventual objective and need of all humans. The relationship between Thomasina's theory of heat exchange and sex is clearly articulated by Chloe who tells Valentine that Newton forgot to account for sex in his deterministic universe. Heat, like sex, is unchangeable, persistent, and random.
Mathematics and "Simple English Algebra" is the foundation of Arcadia. The mysteries of math reveal greater truths about humanity and the family as a whole. Mathematics is also a source of pride within the play. Valentine, as a chaos mathematician himself, is reluctant to share Thomasina's theory and fractal with Hannah. Thomasina's algebra and geometry lessons culminate into her genius understanding of the laws of thermodynamics and chaos theory. The laws of thermodynamics dictate the fate of all the characters on stage, and the realization of such fate eventually conclude the play (most tragically, Thomasina's own ironic death by fire). Septimus and Thomasina, along with Gus and Hannah, succumb to the law of thermodynamics by coming together in a waltz. The couples know their mathematical, unstoppable fate and embrace each other in spite of it.
The Gardens of Sidley Park symbolize the transformation and transition between romanticism and classicism. Mr. Noakes wishes to alter the gardens into the picturesque and thoroughly romantic style and means to tear out the gazebo in favor of a hermitage and drain the lake with a newly improved steam engine. Lady Croom accuses Mr. Noakes of reading too many novels by Radcliff, such as The Castle of Otranto (actually written by Horace Walpole, as Mr. Chater points out), and The Mysteries of Udolpho. Mr. Noakes means to transform the green, lush perfect Englishman's garden into an "eruption of gloomy forest and towering crag," Lady Croom describes it as a haunt of "hobgoblins." As Hannah describes it, the garden is a classical painting imposed on landscape or "untamed nature in the style of Salvatore Rosa everything but vampires". The garden represents romanticism, (for Hannah) a decline from thinking to emotion, and the need for "false emotion" and "cheap thrills."
The modern day characters wear the Regency Clothes or clothes that would be worn to a fancy dress ball in Thomasina's time. Regency Clothes symbolize high society and privilege. The dress not only links the two generations and time periods, but it reveals the hay day of the English aristocratic family. Chloe, Gus, and Valentine wear the outfits to have their pictures taken and dress for the annual dance. The dress reestablishes their power as a family and role in the community, seemingly diminished in modern times.
The Primer is the symbol of learning and academia. Thomasina is the first to use the primer, which once belonged to Septimus; however, at the conclusion of the play, Septimus has taken back his primer. Septimus's use of his the primer once again symbolizes his return to being a student; this time he is a student of Thomasina, who has surpassed his knowledge and teachings.
Ezra Chater doesn't die of a spider bite, he dies of a monkey bite.
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Lord Byron left the United Kingdom, not the United States, in 1809 to go on the Grand Tour.
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The Goals of OLPC
The laptop hopefully will give the children the ability to explore, experiment and express themselves. Many children don't have access to books, internet, tv and the laptop will be the only media they have.
Flash space is limited and it's time the talk about what's important for children in their daily life. It would be very helpful to ask the people in poor countries what their priorities are.
This is the first priority. If it is not fun then kids won't use it. But fun is not as obvious as adults think. Constructionist educators and teachers using the montessori method know that children like to be totally involved in learning, not just consumers of content.
One way to tell if something is fun is to observe how much time kids devote to it. In the Exploratorium in San Francisco, one exhibit captured visitors for many times the minute or two that most exhibits get. See Sickle Cell Counsellor for more about it. For that matter, the ESP game devised by a Computer Science prof at Carnegie Mellon captured some folks for twelve hours a day or more for days on end. Mayhap we should analyze that.
In order to make much use of an OLPC, the child needs to be literate in their native language. What kind of applications can assist the child to attain literacy but still work cross-culturally. For example, a visual dictionary might have a picture of an apple with the word apple under it. You could translate the word apple to a south Indian language but it wouldn't help much because the kids would have no idea what the picture represents and the adults around them might not even know the meaning of the word for apple in their language.
See Pre-literate Applications for some ideas. But really, with a million kids with laptops, or even many fewer for a very local language, the task of developing or extending a visual dictionary is, itself, a whole series of appropriate class projects. With the built in cameras in their laptops, the kids themselves can make illustrations which will be understood by other speakers of their language.
In a related vein, a class might well learn lots by undertaking to choose among several alternatives for the best version of each entry for such a dictionary. When education is the fundamental goal, nearly every problem can be treated as another learning opportunity.
Most of the people in poor countries live in agricultural environment. Survival comes first, even before education, but when the education tools can give the kids and their families a better life, they will get hooked on learning.
What the OLPC project must do is to share the ideas that work in one country with educators and kids in other places. For example, if there are people whose job is to help farmers improve their success in farming, then they should be asked to assist some actual classes in understanding what works in the local area. Then those classes can prepare material to convey that understanding to others. Even more telling would be to do actual scientific research of the processes of farming as a part of schoolwork.
How compelling would it be for a class to construct a narrative about planting, tending, and harvesting yams or rice or whatever is grown locally? If someone invented an improvement to part of the process, some class could undertake to document and measure the effect of the new method and provide the resulting narratives to other schools and other farmers. The experts can then be instructed by the students. Wouldn't that turn things on their head sometimes? it also helps kids how to leasrn how to read and write.
AIDS, tobacco, hygyiene, vitamins, ...
It sounds good until you realize that snakes are more likely to kill these kids than AIDS, tobacco is only available to the older, richer villagers, hygiene in tropical climates is not the same as in temperate ones, and vitamins are only available in foods, not in the non-existent shops. All the same, basic health and hygiene education materials already exist, now the OLPC can make it easier to distribute them, even if they are only scanned into DJVU ebooks.
Oh what wonderful projects there can be to document what the local healers and health experts say and do and then to actually measure the results. New knowledge and understandings are guaranteed to arise if this is done even badly. Such topics can be revisited even in a single class every few years, without loss of educational and health consequences of real value. But these things are the very ones which are necessarily done locally in order to fit with the culture and religions of the area. Material without sensitivity to the local culture probably gets rejected by all participants, and their parents.
Peace and Love
Too many people in this world are involved in anger, violence and greed. There needs to be a central focus on family, love and peace. The general platform could focus on embedding peaceful concepts and ideas into the users of the laptop. Other related ideas:
- On startup provide a pleasant greeting.
- One of the options on the desktop should be: Peace activities
- Peace activities could teach about sharing and giving.
Overpopulation is a major problem in the 3rd world because it leads to things like deforestation, desertification, reduced land fertility and so on. Children need to understand how the environment works and how to hold it together so that it can continue to provide food for themselves and their children and grandchildren.
Projects like Motoman show how the OLPC can be leveraged as a communication tool in the absence of telecommunications infrastructure. Where there are no cell phones or landline telephones, a motor scooter can carry electronic messages between villages and towns. Grameen Bank has some experience that shows how even a small amount of communication ability can lead to overal economic improvement in a region.
Understand their own and other cultures
Think globally, act locally. This is a philosophy that crosses all cultural boundaries. We need to teach kids that they are not only citizens of a village, but members of an entire global community.
Given that the OLPC is an ebook delivery vehicle, it could easily be used to deliver technical skills content, such as how to salvage an old electric motor and turn it into a generator, how to build a hydraulic ram, packed-earth wall building techniques and so on. There is an entire library of alternative technology literature that has been built up over the last 40 years which can be delivered on the OLPC using DJVU ebooks.
Still, the phrase delivered on the OLPC sounds so passive receptive. It sounds like what we do in schools in the developed world rather than the more participatory approach which is at the foundation of the OLPC project. Instead, let some classes select relevant portions of this alternative technology literature and construct a locally appropriate narrative about it. Then, in subsequent efforts, they could document what happens when local folks try to apply that book learning in practice. Analysis of the results could be quite stimulating to all concerned.
But it all starts with information which means books. The OLPC's ability to deliver ebooks scanned into DJVU format is key here. The second step is discussion about the new information and here again, the OLPC can help because it provides long-range wireless chat services. The long range means that a larger number of people can discuss any particular issue and this larger number increases the probability that a good idea will get shared. This is what caused Europe to climb out of the Middle Ages, led to the Reformation and the Industrial Revolution. The OLPC is not just a computer, not just an ebook library, it is also a radio, a telephone system, a brilliant communications device. | <urn:uuid:ae252aaa-e841-42a7-9507-ee8843fc8ec5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wiki.laptop.org/go/The_Goals_of_OLPC | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00412-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951793 | 1,556 | 3.5625 | 4 |
In Western Australia, endangered great white sharks are being slaughtered. In Queensland, dredging spoil is to be dumped on the Great Barrier Reef.
In Tasmania, ancient forests - harbouring some of the planet's tallest trees - are in danger of being stripped of their World Heritage listing.
Australians could be forgiven for wondering if the federal government they elected last September is the most conservation-hostile in living memory.
Critics warn that moves by Tony Abbott and his Environment Minister, Greg Hunt, will not only degrade the country's most outstanding natural assets, but make Australia an international laughing-stock. The UN has already threatened to list the Great Barrier Reef as "in danger" when its World Heritage watchdog committee meets in Qatar in June.
Compounding the right-wing government's apparent disregard for Australia's unique environment, say conservationists and scientists, is its resistance to any meaningful action to tackle climate change.
Mr Abbott has axed three key agencies, including one which supported private investment in renewable energy. So contemptuous is he of the science behind climate change - of any science, for that matter - that he has not even bothered appointing a science minister.
In Queensland, the health of what is widely considered Earth's greatest reef is being risked so that Australia can ship yet more coal to China and India, and fuel greenhouse gas-emitting industries. In Tasmania, the prize is timber. Precious wilderness and rainforest areas will be logged if the government convinces the UN committee to remove their World Heritage protection.
In Western Australia, Mr Hunt has exempted the state government from federal laws protecting great whites, so that it can go ahead with a cull. That was despite marine scientists saying there is no evidence that such measures reduce the number of attacks, and warning that apex predators are essential to the ocean ecosystem.
The cull, which prompted mass protests around the country last weekend, was announced in response to seven fatal shark attacks in Western Australian waters in the past three years. Baited drum lines have been set up a kilometre off popular beaches; any great white, tiger or bull shark bigger than 3 metres which is caught there is killed.
One letter-writer lamented in the Sydney Morning Herald this week: "This crowd [the government] have been in office for less than six months. Imagine the damage they can do in three years [the parliamentary term]."
The Great Barrier Reef already faces multiple threats: storms, warmer water, agricultural run-off and poisonous crown-of-thorns starfish. Now Mr Hunt has approved the expansion of a nearby coal terminal into the biggest port of its kind in the world - and the dumping in the reef's waters of millions of tonnes of sludge from the massive dredging operation that requires.
Scientists had urged him to veto the plans for Abbot Point, because of the risk to a host of marine life including endangered turtles and dugongs [sea cows]. Tourism operators fear the impact on their business, and on Australia's image abroad. But the country intends to triple its coal exports by 2030 - and Abbot Point, along with Gladstone, another port near the reef, are key to that vision.
At the opposite end of the country - in a move which the leader of the Australian Greens, Christine Milne, says will make Australia "a global laughing-stock" - the government has asked the UN's World Heritage Committee to de-list 74,000 hectares of the wilderness and rainforest for which Tasmania is internationally renowned.
Mr Hunt claims the area - among 170,000 hectares listed only last year, at the request of the previous Labor government - is degraded as a result of being logged, and should not have been listed. But that is disputed by, among others, Peter Hitchcock, an international consultant on world heritage values, who says about 90 per cent of it is pristine.
Mr Hitchcock told The Australian that the forests in question were "outstanding by any stretch of the imagination". According to Environment Tasmania, a leading conservation group, they are part of a unique tall eucalypt ecosystem - the southern hemisphere's equivalent of California's redwoods, with some trees more than 400 years old and up to 100 metres high.
Even Tasmania's timber industry opposes the move, because the 170,000-hectare listing was the centrepiece of a "peace deal" struck between the industry, unions and green groups in 2011 after decades of warring over the forests.
If the UN committee does brand the reef as "in danger", Australia will join 32 other countries with World Heritage sites in that category, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Syria, Afghanistan and the Central African Republic. But while conservationists are tearing their hair out, the government seems to care little about the international embarrassment.
It ought to care about the impact on tourism, which adds more than $42bn (NZ$45.8bn) a year to Australia's Gross Domestic Product. Like the reef, Tasmania's forests are a major draw.
In Western Australia, killing sharks is supposed to persuade tourists that it's safe to visit the state and swim off its beaches. However, Richard Branson - one of a number of high-profile figures to criticise the cull - believes it will have the opposite effect.
Interviewed on Australian radio last week, he said: "You're advertising a problem that doesn't exist, in a major way, and you're deterring people from wanting to come to Perth and your beautiful countryside around it."
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According to the Brussels bicycle observations, the number of cyclists in Brussels increased with 50% in 2016. But figures about accidents do not exist. Therefore the Brussels Capital Region launched the project PING if you care! together with Bike Citizens and Mobiel 21. It is a participative research project, in which Brussels cyclists were asked to cooperate.
The test case was running from May 2017 till the end of January 2018. A total of 1,000 Brussels cyclists were asked to be part of the test panel. They received a PING button to attach on the bicycle handlebars. In any situation they felt unsafe, they could press the PING button in order to locate their position via the Bike Citizens app on their smartphone. At the end of the trip, cyclists could assign the ping to specific category.
This PING if you care! test case eventually resulted in a detailed cycling map of Brussels. The ideal instrument that allows you to improve investments in bicycle infrastructure and awareness campaigns through Brussels policy.
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Cubify has launched a really cool 3D objects printer that can print objects. Those of you who are interested in decorating their houses, this is a must have gadget that you should get to enhance your creativity skills. Just check out these objects printed by The Cube. If you want to cubify your home refer to the description and go through its specifications.
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With ten different material colors to choose from enjoy the freedom to print in your true colors or to mix it up.
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Preparations for teaching have brought me into contact with two new translations: Robert Alter’s rendering of Genesis and Joe Sachs’s version of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Though the underlying texts could not be more different in style and genre, I think that the impulse behind the two translations is similar: to cut through a translation tradition that has impeded understanding, but more than that, has rendered the texts in question boring.
It is a gesture that I find profoundly attractive, a kind of “Protestant principle” of translation. Part of the appeal is probably the individualism of it, which sits well with someone like me, since I flatter myself that I have “charted my own way” without accumulating an approved pedigree. More than that, though, I think the attraction of this kind of radical retranslation is the sense that it’s not just possible to say something new about some of the most commented-upon texts in the Western tradition, but to see them again for the first time.
Genesis, for instance, is obviously one of the most familiar texts in the world to me, and yet Alter’s translation made it feel brand-new. I can’t say I’ve studied Aristotle anywhere near as closely, but the contrast between Sachs’s translation and the jargon-laden near-nonsense I struggled to work through before could not be clearer. I now want to read every translation both authors have done of their respective body of texts — which is especially striking in the case of Sachs, since I’ve previously had no particular interest in Aristotle.
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- the healthiness of being crystalline
- the amount that a material (example. a polymer or a rock) is crystalline
- the smoothness or state of being crystalline; crystalline construction.
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Water is the most abundant molecule on Earth. Approximately 70% of this planets surface is covered with water and it is the only substance that occurs naturally in a gas, liquid and solid (ice) form. Each water molecule is made of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one (O) oxygen atom and this is where its chemical symbol comes from H2O.
The Celsius temperature scale is based on waters' freezing point (0 degrees) and boiling point (100 degrees). Unlike most substances, water's solid form is less dense than its liquid form which is why ice cubes float. Water is also capable of absorbing a lot of heat before its temperature increases.
Water is the major vital component necessary for life to exist. The human body is made up of 50 to 75 percent water and it forms the basis of blood, digestive juices, lymph, semen, tears, urine and perspiration and is contained in lean muscle, fat and bones.
Protoplasm, the basic material of living cells, is made of fats, carbohydrates, proteins, salts, and similar elements combined with water. Water acts as a solvent, transporting, combining, and chemically breaking down these substances. A cell exchanges elements with the rest of the body by electrolysis, and in a normal case, minerals and microelements pass through the cell membrane to the nucleus by electro-osmosis. The body needs electrolytes (minerals like sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate) for its basic functions.
Water also has the following purposes in the body:
Aids digestion and prevents constipation.
Enables the flushing out of waste by-products of the body’s metabolism, for example excess electrolytes such as sodium and potassium and urea, which is formed through the processing of dietary protein. It does this through bowel movements, mucous production,
perspiration, respiration and urination.
Enables transport of components such as oxygen and nutrients in the blood.
Helps to dissolve minerals and other nutrients to make them accessible to the body.
Lubricates and cushions the joints.
Moistens and protects mucous membranes in the eyes, nose and throat.
Moisturises the skin to maintain its texture and appearance.
Provides fluid to enable reproduction and protection against pathogenic bacteria and viruses.
Provides transportation of antibodies for the immune and lymph systems.
Protects and helps to flush toxins from the brain and other sensitive tissues.
Regulates the body’s temperature through perspiration.
Serves as a shock absorber inside the eyes, spinal cord and in the amniotic sac surrounding the foetus in pregnancy.
Blood transports oxygen to the muscles for activities such as exercise. If there is not enough oxygen in the blood, the muscles create lactic acid which causes painful cramps. The consumption of water helps to keep blood pumped with oxygen.The body cannot store water and must have fresh supplies every day to perform virtually every metabolic process.The amount required depends upon body size, metabolism, the weather, the food consumed and the level of physical
When magnesium is present in water, life and health are enhanced. One of the main benefits of drinking plenty of magnesium-rich water is to prevent heart disease and stroke. Full hydration is essential to help prevent clogging of arteries in the heart and brain and full hydration with water and magnesium is crucial for treating high blood pressure without using diuretics or other pharmaceutical medications.
Water is one of the cheapest and healthiest fuels to consume and it's 100% fat free. The human body needs H2O because it is made up of 70% water, just like the planet Earth, and human beings should drink enough to keep the urine pale during the day.
Many believe that drinking tea and coffee is providing them with the water they need but they are both diuretics and thus the body is losing extra water rather than topping up supplies and drinking alcohol has the same effect. Central heating also makes the body lose more water.
Blood transports oxygen to the muscles for activities such as exercise. If there is not enough oxygen in the blood, the muscles create lactic acid which causes painful cramps. Drinking more water helps to keep blood pumped with oxygen.
Signs of water deficiency
Bad breath is a classic sign that water intake needs to be increased. Saliva helps cleanse the teeth of bacteria and keeps the tongue hydrated. Lack of water dries the mouth, leads to furry tongue and prevents bacteria from being washed away, all of which can cause bad breath (halitosis).
Constipation. Without water the contents of the colon (lower intestine) can dry out and get stuck, eventually causing diverticulitis. Constipation can also be a problem, because water is needed to bulk out faeces. Drinking water, along with taking in water from fruit and vegetables, helps to rehydrate this waste.
Headache.Three quarters of the brain is water so if there is insufficient water intake the brain will feel it first. Try drinking a couple glasses of water, put your feet in a bowl of comfortably-hot water and place a cool cloth on your head. If a headache is caused by alcohol, then drinking a large glass of water, particularly before bed, will help get rid of a headache by flushing out toxins and re-hydrating the brain.
Kidneys.A healthy hydrated body removes waste with light yellow virtually odourless urine. Darker urine is more highly concentrated and waste products linger in the bladder and may lead to cystitis and kidney infections.
The lymphatic system is the body's waste disposal system, breaking down toxins like caffeine before passing them into the blood stream. Dehydration weakens the flow of lymph in the system and makes the body less resistant to infection. With water, lymph flows properly again, fighting infection and lowering feverish temperatures.
Skin needs water for elasticity, so too little water leaves it looking dry, llined and feeling delicate. The body needs water to help flush out poisons from things like junk food and additives. When dehydrated, toxins linger in the liver, causing fatigue and an inability to concentrate. Water swills the poisons out and gets the system moving again.
Sunken eyes and under eye circles are signs that the body needs water. Eyes sink because there is not enough water to keep them suspended in the eye socket and under-eye circles are due to thin skin being bruised as fluid drains away.
Water retention. When feeling puffy as women often do before a period, drinking water is the best treatment for reducing fluid retention. If the body does not get enough water, it senses there is a shortage and begins to retain every drop it needs for vital daily processes.
Mineral water is a healthy alternative to tap water as it usually contains trace elements that are essential to human health. Depending upon it's source it can naturally contain minerals such as bicarbonate, calcium, fluoride, lithium, magnesium, potassium, silica, sodium and strontium. Water from natural springs, wells and mountain lakes contains minerals which are in the rocks through which it flows and these minerals all have a purpose within the human body. Modern day farming techniques have leeched many minerals from the soil so non organic farmed food often is lacking in them, especially magnesium. The best way to ingest the
some of the minerals needed daily is through drinking mineral water, whether carbonated or still, everyday.
Drinking mineral water is especially important for the elderly and those on
medications which can force the body to expel essential minerals in the urine such as diuretics.
Tap water has little mineral content except fluoride and chlorine which are added artificially and, in many developed countries, also contains traces of medications administered to humans such as hormone replacement drugs and the contraceptive pill.
If water is boiled for a long time, or re-boiled, it can concentrate elements such as nitrates, arsenic and fluoride which then become toxic. There is a concern that re-boiled water may lead a person to develop cancer and other ailments. This concern is not unfounded. While the boiled water is fine, increasing the concentration of toxic substances may put people at risk for certain illnesses, including cancer. For example:
Arsenic exposure may produce symptoms of arsenic toxicity, plus it has been associated with some forms of cancer.
Nitrates excess has been linked to certain types of cancer and methemoglobinaemia which is an abnormally high level of red blood cells. Symptoms of methemoglobinemia include a blue colouring of the skin, fatigue, headache, lack of energy and shortness of breath.
Fluoride excess can cause dental fluorosis (that characterise itself as spots on the tooth enamel), a loss of the appetite and finally calcification of the back bone. Fluorosis occurs when more than 10 mg per day is taken. Fluoride builds-up in the brain, thyroid and bones and can cause hypothyroidism which can lead to weight gain and depression.
Because fluoride is added to drinking water in some countries and nitrates are used to colour processed red meats the concentration of these two elements is more likely in people that drink this tap water or consume red processed meats.
Even healthy minerals may become concentrated to dangerous levels when water is re-boiled. For example, excessive intake of calcium salt, commonly found in drinking water and mineral water, can lead to arthritis, bladder and kidney stones, gall stones and hardening of the arteries. This toxicity of certain minerals will also directly affect the balance of other essential minerals in the body as they all depend upon each other to be utilised.
It is therefore recommended that a kettle of water is completed emptied, rinsed and refilled with fresh water each time it is boiled and used for tea or coffee. The rise in coffee and tea drinking may have contributed to the rise in cancer and other ailments in persons that constantly drink re-boiled tap water and consume processed red meats such as bacon, ham, pâte, salami and sausages etc.
Carbon filters can remove some heavy metals and chlorine from tap water but do not remove fluoride. Carbon filters also need to be changed very often as they are a perfect environment for bacteria and other harmful microbes.
The danger of distilled water
Distillation is the process in which water is boiled, evaporated and the vapour condensed. Distilled water is free of dissolved minerals and, because of this, has the special property of being able to actively absorb toxic substances from the body and eliminate them. There are benefits to drinking distilled water when seeking to cleanse or detoxify the system for short periods of time (a few weeks) but longer than this can cause the body to be come mineral deficient and acidic.
Fasting using distilled water can be dangerous because of the rapid loss of electrolytes (sodium, potassium, chloride) and trace minerals like magnesium, deficiencies of which can cause heart beat irregularities and high blood pressure.
Cooking foods in distilled water pulls the minerals out of them and lowers their nutrient value.
Distilled water is an active absorber and when it comes into contact with air, it absorbs carbon dioxide, making it acidic. The more distilled water a person drinks, the higher the body acidity becomes.
Distilled water, being mineral-free, is very aggressive, in that it tends to dissolve substances with which it is in contact. Carbon dioxide from the air is rapidly absorbed, making the water acidic and even more aggressive. Many metals are also dissolved by distilled water.
The most toxic commercial beverages that people consume (cola beverages and other soft drinks) are made from distilled water. Heavy consumers of soft drinks (with or without sugar) expel huge amounts of calcium, magnesium and other trace minerals through the urine.
The more minerals lost, the greater the risk for osteoporosis, osteoarthritis, hypothyroidism, coronary artery disease, high blood pressure and a long list of degenerative diseases generally associated with premature aging.
Aging and disease is the direct result of the accumulation of acid waste products in the body. A poor diet may be partially to blame for the waste accumulation.
Consuming the following can cause the body to become more acidic:
Soft and fizzy drinks
White flour products
Stress, whether mental or physical can lead to acid deposits in the body.
There is a correlation between the consumption of soft water (distilled water is extremely soft) and the incidence of cardiovascular disease. Cells, tissues and organs do not like to be dipped in acid and will do anything to buffer this acidity including the removal of minerals from the skeleton and the manufacture of bicarbonate in the blood.
The longer one drinks distilled water, the more likely the development of mineral deficiencies and an acid state. People who consume distilled water always eventually develop multiple mineral deficiencies. The ideal water for the human body should be slightly alkaline and this requires the presence of minerals like calcium and magnesium. Bottled mineral water is the wisest choice.
Distilled water tends to be acidic and can only be recommended as a way of drawing poisons out of the body. Once this is accomplished, the continued drinking of distilled water is not recommended.
Water filtered through a solid charcoal filter is slightly alkaline. Ozonation of this charcoal filtered water is ideal for daily drinking. Longevity is associated with the regular consumption of hard water (high in minerals). Disease and early death is more likely to be seen with the long term drinking of distilled water.
Water and heart attacks
Many people say they don't drink anything before going to bed because they'll have to get up during the night.
Why do people urinate so much at night? Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When a person lays down and the lower body (legs and etc) is level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body s follows.
Two glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs.
One glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion.
One glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure.
One glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack. Water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps.
Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Sleep apnea could be to blame.
If an aspirin or a baby aspirin are taken once a day, always take it at night. Aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life"; therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the small hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in the system.
Always keep Aspirin by the bedside. Aspirin lasts for years and when it gets past its sell by date, it smells like vinegar.
There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
NOTE: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.
The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.
If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a some water.
Afterwards: Call emergency services (999 UK).
Take a seat on a chair near the front door and wait for their arrival and ...DO
NOT LIE DOWN!
Consuming ginger and turmeric (which has the
same effects as aspirin) with a snack in the evening can help protect
against strokes and heart attack but should never be administered during a heart attack or stroke.
Water retention, also known as fluid retention or oedema, refers to an excessive build-up of fluid in the circulatory system, body tissues or cavities in the body. A complex system of hormones and prostaglandins (hormone-like substances) is used by the body to regulate water levels and excess water intake is resolved by the kidneys quickly excreting the excess fluid in the form of urine. Fluid (liquid) rich in nutrients, vitamins and oxygen, known as interstitial fluid, continuously passes from tiny blood vessels (capillaries) into surrounding tissues and nourishes the body's cells before passing back into the capillaries.
Causes of water retention
Albumin is a protein made by the liver that helps move many small molecules through the blood, including bilirubin, calcium, progesterone and medicines. It plays an important role in keeping the fluid from the blood from leaking out into the tissues and if levels of this protein are low it can cause water retention. Low albumin levels could be cause by liver or kidney disease or if the body is not absorbing enough protein. Decreased blood albumin may occur when the body does not get or absorb enough nutrients due to factors such as the following
After weight-loss surgery (gastric band)
Crohn's disease (inflammation of the digestive system, also called inflammatory bowel disease if it affects the colon)
Low-protein diets (may be due to treating gout or other for weight loss)
Celiac disease (an immune disease in where any consumption of gluten damages the small intestine)
Whipple disease (a rare condition that prevents the small intestines from allowing nutrients to pass into the rest of the body caused by infection with a form of bacteria called Tropheryma whippelii)
Allergies: Certain foods and insect bites can cause oedema in susceptible people.
Capillary dysfunction: Water retention may occur if pressure inside the capillaries changes or if something occurs that makes the capillary walls too leaky. This will cause excess fluid to be released into the tissue spaces between cells and. rather than returning to the capillaries, this fluid causes swelling and water logging (water retention).
Heart disorders can cause respiratory problems leading to fluid on the lungs. Normal pressure within blood vessels is partly maintained by the pumping force of the heart. If the heart starts to fail (congestive heart failure), there will be a change in blood pressure, which often results in serious water retention causing swellings in the ankles, feet and/or legs. Fluid can also build-up in the lungs causing a chronic (long-term) cough. Congestive heart failure may eventually cause breathing problems and even more stress on the heart.
Histamine: When an inflammation is present in the body, histamine is released and causes the gaps between the cells of the capillary walls to widen, making them more leaky. The aim is to make it easier for infection-fighting white cells to quickly get to the site of an inflammation (infection). However, if the inflammation persists for a long time, water retention can become chronic (long-term). To find natural anti-histamine remedies see Allergies
Hyponatraemia is caused by water intoxication (drinking so much water that it dilutes the sodium in the blood and overwhelms the kidney's compensation mechanism) or by a syndrome of inappropriate anti-diuretic hormone secretion which can be associated with illnesses like brain diseases, cancer, pneumonia, thyroid problems and some medications.
Kidney disorders: The kidneys remove excess waste and fluid from the blood and excrete it as urine. The blood and oxygen supply comes from the renal arteries, which are branches of the abdominal aorta. These branches of blood vessels decrease in size until they become the glomeruli in the kidneys. Here the blood is filtered is filtered so that the waste, fluids and other substances can be extracted passed into miniscule tubules, from which the bloodstream reabsorbs what the body is able to reuse then the waste is excreted in the urine. Usually the kidneys are able to eliminate all waste materials that the body produces unless the blood flow to the
kidneys is affected, the tubules or glomeruli are not working properly because of damage or disease, if the urine outflow is obstructed or the kidneys are failing. Then because fluids and waste material is not being excreted it builds up and causes water retention.
Lymph system is a network of tubes or vessels much like the blood vessels that cover all the tissues of the body. Lymph is a clear fluid that travels via the lymphatic channels and carries bacteria, chemicals, debris, fluid, lymphocytes, toxins and viruses back from the tissues and then empties it into the bloodstream at the lymph node points through out the body. If the lymphatic system becomes overwhelmed by fluids, congested or the lymph nodes become infected fluid can build-up in various tissues around the body including the abdomen (ascites) or ankles, feet and legs. Lack of physical activity can also cause a
malfunction of the lymph system.
Medications: Some medications can cause water or fluid retention such as:
Beta-blockers (used to treat abnormal heart rhythms and prevent tachycardia)
NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) - medications with analgesic (pain reducing), antipyretic (fever reducing) effects. In high doses they are actually effective in reducing inflammation. Examples include aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen.
Oestrogen-containing drugs, such as the combined oral contraceptive pill, or HRT (hormone replacement therapy).
Physical inactivity causes the blood to pool in the legs resulting in high pressure in the capillaries. If an individual remains inactive for too long the capillaries may split; leaving small blood marks under the skin, and the veins may become swollen (varicose veins). Exercising the legs makes the muscles help the leg veins return blood to the heart as it is travelling upwards against gravity. During prolonged periods of physical inactivity, such as on a long-haul flight, even small movements, such as standing up on tiptoes and down a few times, rotating the ankles and wiggling the toes can help to
avoid fluid retention.
Pregnancy can cause fluid retention due to the weight of the uterus on the veins in the pelvis but generally this is nothing to be concerned about and will rectify itself after child birth.
Pre-menstrualwater retention can cause bloating and tender breasts and is probably due to hormone imbalances and also some nutritional factors. Premenstrual refers to the second half of the woman's menstrual cycle during the days or the week or so before her period begins.
Protein deficiency: The body requires a certain level of proteins for effective water balance and an individual with severe protein deficiency may find it harder to get the water from the tissue spaces back into the capillaries. The enlarged abdomens of seriously malnourished starving people are mainly caused by a lack of protein in their diet. leading to water retention in the abdomen.
Vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency can cause water retention and ironically, diuretic medications causes a deficiency of this vitamin.
Highest sources of vitamin B1 in milligrams per 100 grams
Yeast extract 23.38 mg
Brewer’s yeast 11 mg
Rice bran 2.75 mg
Wheat germ 1.88 mg
Sunflower seeds 1.48 mg
Coriander leaves 1.25 mg
Pine nuts 1.24 mg
Sesame seeds 1.21 mg
Pork 1.12 mg
Peanuts 0.85 mg
Soya beans0.83 mg
Macadamia nuts 0.71 mg
Trout 0.43 mg
Chicken livers 0.38 mg
Peas 0.28 mg
Salmon 0.26 mg
Navy beans 0.24 mg
Squash 0.17 mg
Brown rice 0.16 mg
Asparagus 0.16 mg
Nori seaweed 0.5 mg
prouted beans 0.4 mg
Shiitake mushrooms 0.3 mg
Asparagus, globe artichoke 0.2 mg
Beetroot greens, okra, spinach, watercress 0.1 mg
NOTE:Vitamin B1 levels in foods are radically reduced by heat. Check labels of Brewer's yeast as some products do not contain vitamin B1.
Vitamin B5(Pantothenic acid) deficiency can cause water retention.
Highest sources of vitamin B5 in milligrams per 100 grams
Brewer’s yeast 13.5 mg
Chicken livers 8.32 mg
Rice bran 7.39 mg
Sunflower seeds 7.06 mg
Yeast extract 4.60 mg
Shiitake mushrooms 3.59 mg
Fish roe 3.50 mg
Spirulina 3.48 mg
Paprika 2.51 mg
Wheat germ 2.26 mg
Sun dried tomatoes 2.09 mg
Goose 1.83 mg
Lobster 1.67 mg
Duck 1.50 mg
Peanuts 1.40 mg
Buckwheat 1.23 mg
NOTE: Check labels of Brewer's yeast as some products do not contain vitamin B1.
Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) can cause water retention and diuretic medications also cause a deficiency of vitamin B6.
Alcohol promotes the loss and destruction of vitamin B6 from the body and the medicine theophylline, often prescribed to asthmatic children, decreases levels of vitamin B6 in the body.
Highest sources of vitamin B6 in milligrams per 100 grams
Rice bran4.07 mg
Brewer’s yeast1.50 mg
Sunflower seeds1.35 mg
Wheat germ1.30 mg
Pistachio nuts1.12 mg
Tuna fish1.04 mg
Beef or calf’s liver 1.03 mg
Shiitake mushrooms 0.97 mg
Salmon 0.94 mg
Venison 0.76 mg
NOTE:Wild salmon (0.94 mg) contains far more vitamin B6 than farmed salmon (0.56 mg) and fresh salmon and tuna are far richer in vitamin B6 than tinned.
Remedies for water retention
Eating the correct foods to gain a natural diuretic and water balancing affect in the body will benefit the whole system as they also contain many other essential nutrients and no side effects.
Black Pepper corns grind onto everything, transports the nutrients to different parts of body, reduces congestion in the lungs
Blueberries nourish the kidneys and stop bacteria from attaching to the walls of the urinary tract.
Brussel Sprouts help in stimulating the kidneys and pancreas and results in better cleansing of cells
Carrots provide nourishment for the kidneys and bladder and reduce inflammation of the urethra.
Celery nourishes the kidneys and reduces blood pressure
Chives are valuable as a blood cleanser and exercise a very strong diuretic action
Cranberries nourish the kidneys and stop bacteria from attaching to the walls of the urinary tract.
Cucumbers are rich in sulphur and silicon that stimulate the kidneys into better removal of uric acid
Dandelion four cups a day with one teaspoon of honey - pour hot but not boiling water from the kettle on a teaspoon of the leaves in a cup and drink - a natural diuretic. It stimulates the removal of waste/toxins via the bile and the urine, and spares the potassium that is otherwise lost with conventional diuretics
Fig is oxidant, laxative, diuretic, digestible and a blood cleanser
Drugs prescribed to treat water retention such as anti-hypertensives, thiazide-type diuretics deplete magnesium, sodium, potassium and zinc. Loop diuretics deplete potassium, magnesium, calcium, zinc and vitamins B1 (thiamine), B6 (pyridoxine) and C (ascorbic acid). Furosemide causes vitamin B1 (thiamine) deficiency in 98 percent of patients with congestive heart failure and increases excretion of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and vitamin B6 (pyridoxine).
If taking any of these diuretic medications a selection of foods rich in each of these nutrients must be consumed daily.
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For Mother’s Day this year, I traveled up the California coast to Fort Bragg to visit my second-oldest son (whose birthday it also happened to be) and family. We had a great time together: Among other things, we played cards and board games, meandered through the quaint town of Mendocino, took walks and played Frisbee on the beach, visited the fantastically blooming Botanical Gardens in Fort Bragg, ate barbecue at a local restaurant, and splurged on bread pudding for breakfast on Sunday. (Notice the absence of electronically oriented entertainment.)
I came home feeling revitalized and ready to approach a new week with fresh eyes and energy. And I am reflecting, not for the first time, that it is the Little Things that most enrich life—the walks and meals and smiles. Just as it is the Little Things that annoy us the most—the toothpaste squeezed from the wrong end, clothes on the floor, and unwashed dishes in the sink. It’s the Little Things that make or break our days. Perhaps more importantly, where we choose to focus—on the negative or the positive—affects how we perceive the quality of our lives.
For this reason, this week’s journaling prompts are all about The Little Things:
- Make a list of at least ten Little Things for which you are grateful today. Review the list and write about how you feel and about how you perceive your life as a whole.
- Make a list of at least ten Little Things that annoyed you today. Review the list and write about how you feel and about how you perceive your life as a whole.
- Read your previous two entries. How does the tone of the prose at the end of the second list differ from the first? Did what you write about affect your mood and perception of life? Freewrite for ten minutes about your observations.
- What are the Little Things in your life that make you feel most happy? What in your experience has made those things important to you?
- If you could have one—just one—Little Thing be or happen in your life every day, what would that Little Thing be, and why?
- If you could chose to never have one Little Thing be or happen in your life—ever—what would it be, and why is that Little Think so annoying or unpleasant that you would ban it forever?
- Do you consider yourself to be a “glass-is-half-full” or “glass-is-half-empty” kind of person? Do you focus more on the pleasant or unpleasant sorts of Little Things? Do you feel that you have a choice about how you see things? Either way, in what ways does your way of looking at the world serve you well and in what ways does it not serve you?
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An abbreviation of area switch rule when it comes to city of Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Now utilized as a chant for residents to portay thier pleasure of the house.Ever since 'the great flood' of 2007, Tewkesbury pleasure has actually skyrocketed, because has arrived to realize that its the greatest/smallest/most very likely to overflow again town in the nation. Folks from or with lived-in Tewkesbury, could often be heard chanting '684' in various neighbouring cities. The 684 life style is certainly not simple. Dedicated members being heard chanting "684 for a lifetime!" at anybody in thier basic vicinity.
From this time onwards the Humber formed the boundary between the two kingdoms. In 684 we hear of the first English invasion of Ireland, but in the following year Ecgfrith was slain and his army totally destroyed by the Picts at a place called Nechtansmere (probably Dunnichen Moss in Forfarshire). | <urn:uuid:79e47d26-1627-43ce-92de-8548e2ed2d90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.all-dictionary.com/meaning%20of%20684 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00243-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972924 | 212 | 1.914063 | 2 |
|Publication number||US5592366 A|
|Application number||US 08/314,857|
|Publication date||Jan 7, 1997|
|Filing date||Sep 29, 1994|
|Priority date||Sep 29, 1994|
|Also published as||EP0737414A1, WO1996010900A1|
|Publication number||08314857, 314857, US 5592366 A, US 5592366A, US-A-5592366, US5592366 A, US5592366A|
|Inventors||Jacob Goldman, Moshe Zarmi|
|Original Assignee||Goldman; Jacob, Zarmi; Moshe|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (15), Non-Patent Citations (2), Referenced by (28), Classifications (9), Legal Events (3)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This invention relates generally to computer systems for industrial experimentation and more particularly to a front loading computer instrument chassis that can be used as a stand-alone computer or bus extender.
Presently there exist front loading computers and bus extender computers; however these computers and bus extenders suffer from a number of problems that are solved by the present invention. Examples of such devices are set forth in the following patents and articles:
______________________________________U.S. Pat. No. Inventor______________________________________4,680,674 Moore4,754,397 Varaiya et al.4,787,029 Khan4,853,850 Krass, Jr. et al.4,903,230 Kaplan et al.4,967,311 Ferchau et al.5,168,424 Bolton et al.5,172,305 DeWilde5,175,536 Aschliman5,247,427 Driscoll et al.5,331,509 Kikinis5,339,221 Conroy-Wass et al.______________________________________
"The Siemens Microcomputer Module System SMP80", by Irmfried
Bromine, Components Report, XII (1977) No. 5, pages 818-184.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,680,674 to Moore discloses a Modular Computer System with Integral Electronic Bus.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,754,397 to Varaiya et al. discloses Fault Tolerant Modular Subsystems for Computers.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,787,029 to Khan discloses a Level Converting Bus Extender with Subsystem Selection Signal Decoding Enabling Connection to Microprocessor.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,853,850 to Krass, Jr. et al. discloses a Vehicle Computer Diagnostic Interface Apparatus.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,903,230 to Kaplan et al. discloses a Remote Terminal Address and Baud Rate Selection.
U.S. Pat. No. 4,967,311 to Ferchau et al. discloses an Electronic Module Interconnection System.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,168,424 to Bolton et al. discloses a Multi Unit Electrical Apparatus with Dual Inlet Fans Positioned Opposite Unit Bays.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,172,305 to De Wilde discloses a Circuit Board Enclosure with Displaceable Power Supply.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,175,536 to Aschliman discloses an Apparatus and Method for Adapting Cards Designated for VME Bus for use in a VXI Bus system.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,247,427 to Driscoll et al. discloses a Disk Array Subsystem having Elongated T-shaped Guides for use in a Data Processing System.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,331,509 to Kikinis discloses a Modular Notebook Computer Having a Planar Array of Module Bays and a Pivotally Attached Flat-Panel Display.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,339,221 to Conroy-Wass et al. discloses a Printed Circuit Board Mounting Cage.
Some of the problems that are faced by these devices are that they require an operator to utilize only cards configured for the particular device. In other words a top loading instrument card is not capable of being used with these front loading devices. Further, these devices can only be used in one capacity, either as a computer or as a bus extender but not both. They do not have proper cooling systems which can cause operational problems with the computer, and they are generally expensive. The cooling systems offered by ordinary PCs may be inadequate for a system requiring numerous instruments, and could cause power failures and degraded performance.
Thus there exists the need for a front loading computer instrument chassis that can be utilized as a stand-alone computer or a bus extender that has an improved cooling system, multiple power supplies, is inexpensive, and enables an operator to insert and remove PC instrument cards without powering down the entire computer.
It is accordingly an object of the invention to provide a front loading computer instrument chassis.
It is another object of the invention to provide a front loading computer instrument chassis that can be used as a stand-alone computer or as a bus extender.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a front loading computer instrument chassis that can be used as a stand-alone computer or as a bus extender that has an improved cooling system.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a computer instrument chassis that can be used as a stand-alone computer or as a bus extender which has dual power supplies.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a computer instrument chassis that can be used as a stand-alone computer or as a bus extender that allows an operator to insert or remove PC instrument cards without powering down, removing casements or interrupting the CPU.
The foregoing objects are attained by the present invention, which provides a front loading computer instrument chassis which may be used as a stand-alone computer or a bus extender. The invention utilizes a housing having a front, the front having an opening in a first loading plane. The invention further utilizes instrument receiving slots (the terms slots and instrument receiving slots will hereinafter be used interchangeably) located in the housing. These slots are engageable to printed circuit cards inserted through the front opening of the housing. There are also first and second power supplies. The first power supply is electrically coupled to a first set of the instrument receiving slots. The second power supply is electrically coupled to a second set of the instrument receiving slots. Thus a first set of the printed circuit cards may be maintained in electrical and mechanical separation and isolation from a second set of said printed circuit cards.
In another embodiment of the invention, a carrier card which is adapted for use in a front loading computer instrument chassis that has a plurality of instrument receiving slots, is utilized. The carrier card includes a board having a front, a first face, and a bottom. A first set of connectors are attached to the front of the board such that the carrier card connects to the computer instrument chassis at the front of the board. The carrier card further includes a second set of connectors attached to the first face of the board proximal the bottom of the board such that a top loading PC instrument card is connectable to the carrier card in a relatively parallel position. The second set of connectors are coupled to the first set of connectors. They are configured such that when the top loading PC instrument card is connected to the carrier card the top loading PC instrument card is capable of interacting with the front loading computer instrument chassis. The carrier card also includes DIP (Dual In-line Package) switches connected to the carrier card. These DIP switches provide for an offset input/output address to be added to an address of the PC instrument card. The carrier card further includes an inter-card bus attached to the board having a plurality of bus lines whereby selected bus lines can be configured into several sub-buses serving selected cards.
The invention will next be described in connection with certain illustrated embodiments; however, it should be clear to those skilled in the art that various modifications, additions and subtractions can be made without departing from the spirit or scope of the claims.
For a fuller understanding of the nature and objects of the invention, reference should be made to the following detailed description and accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 depicts a perspective view of the invention configured as a stand-alone computer showing a housing, a carrier card, a CPU (central processing unit) module, other PC instrument cards loaded in various instrument receiving slots, multiple power switches, and front covers;
FIG. 2 depicts a cross-sectional side view of the invention showing placement of one of the plurality of fans and direction of air flow within the housing;
FIG. 3 depicts an arrangement for the plurality of instrument receiving slots;
FIG. 4 depicts a carrier card with a PC instrument card mounted thereon;
FIG. 5 depicts a schematic drawing of a carrier card showing a first set of connectors, a second set of connectors, DIP switches, and an inter-card bus;
FIG. 5A depicts a carrier card showing the connections between the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors;
FIG. 6 depicts an exploded view of a section of a carrier card showing carrier card jumper settings;
FIG. 7 depicts an exploded view of DIP switches showing an example of adding the hexadecimal address 2000H;
FIG. 8 depicts an exploded view of another section of a carrier card showing the offset switch location;
FIG. 9 depicts a flow chart showing an inter-card bus and sub busses between the carrier cards;
FIG. 10 depicts a flow chart showing the bus isolation between the PC instrument card and the CPU;
FIG. 11 depicts a bus expansion buffer card.
The overall configuration of the present invention is depicted in FIG. 1. The invention is directed to a computer instrument chassis. The computer instrument chassis is designed for testing, data acquisition, and process control applications or any other application requiring the use of PC-based instrumentation. The invention allows an operator to integrate PC instrument cards 12 of arbitrary configuration using a VXI-like front loading mechanism. In accordance with the invention PC instrument cards 12 are buffered and shielded from one another to prevent interference and cross-talk between instruments. The entire system is buffered, providing isolation between the CPU and the instruments and between the individual instruments as well. The computer busses (address, data and control) are buffered on the CPU module 20, the bus expander unit 44, and the carrier cards 14. This isolation not only safeguards the CPU from any hazardous condition, it also prevents a single instrument from hanging-up" the bus and disabling the entire computer. The computer instrument chassis is front loading and may be used as a standalone computer or as a bus extender depending upon its configuration.
FIG. 1 depicts a perspective view of the invention configured as a stand-alone computer (stand-alone mode) showing a housing 10, a carrier card 14, a CPU module 20, other PC instrument cards 12 loaded in various instrument receiving slots 24, multiple power switches 18, and hinged front covers 22. The CPU module 20 occupies four slots 24 and may include a conventional CPU, floppy disk drives, hard disk drives, a VGA interface, two RS-232 ports, and a parallel port. It may also provide one open slot for special I/O (input/output) interface such as GPIB MXI/VXI or a bus expander for an additional computer instrument chassis. The CPU module 20 maintains electrical and mechanical separation from the I/O buses. This configuration of the first embodiment provides 10 available slots 24 for PC instrument cards 12 (as shown in FIG. 10). In the stand-alone mode, one power supply provides power to the CPU module 20 while the second power supply provides power to the PC instrument cards. Each of the two power supplies has its own power switch 18 allowing the PC instrument cards to be powered down while the computer is running. In a second configuration of the invention the computer instrument chassis can be configured as a bus expander.
As a bus expander (expanded mode) it can accommodate up to 13 plug-in instruments. The invention will accept any IBM Personal Computer AT (or PC-compatible) computer as a controller. The PC bus is extended via a carrier card 14 designed to completely isolate the PC bus from the application environment. The computer busses (address, data and control) are isolated from the application hardware. Isolation not only safeguards the computer operation, it also enables the invention to offset PC instrument card addresses to any I/O address location. Thus I/O address space will not be limited by the PC system or I/O devices used when using the computer instrument chassis. It will be apparent to one skilled in the art that two computer instrument chassis may be daisy linked to accommodate up to twenty three PC instrument cards under a single CPU. In the expanded mode, the computer instrument cards 12 utilize a dedicated power supply and cooling system. For applications using cards with high current consumption, the operator can divide the application bay into two sections (slots 1-6 and 7-13 seen on FIG. 3) and use the additional power supply to support the higher slots (7-14). When the invention is configured in expanded mode one method of achieving this may be by utilizing a bus expander card 46 as depicted in FIG. 11.
The bus expander card can be thought of as a "transmitter" card and can be installed in the host computer in an available ISA slot. In accordance with the present invention this expander card is coupled to a second "receiver" card by a pair of 1 m shielded cables. The receiver card receives the bus signals from the bus expander card and routes them to the backplane of the present invention.
In one embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 1 and 3 the computer instrument chassis may have 14 slots and two hinged front panels 22. The number of slots may be increased or decreased depending upon the design requirements. Four fans 16 provide efficient cooling for the entire computer instrument chassis. There may be more or fewer fans depending upon the number of slots that have been provided in the chassis.
FIG. 2 depicts the embodiment of the invention showing placement of the plurality of fans 16 and direction of air flow within the housing 10 as a result of this placement. Each of the fans in this embodiment provides 56 CFM (cubic feet per minute). The number of fans provided can also be changed dependant upon the CFM provided by each fan. Two of the fans are used for power supplies cooling and two for the instrumentation. Additional fans directed towards specific instruments that require special cooling may also be provided.
In FIG. 1, the power switches 18 are shown. In this embodiment there are two power switches 18 that control two power supplies (not shown). In this embodiment there are two DC power supplies providing +5 VDC at 50 A (max), +12 VDC at 19 A (max), -5 VDC at 1 A (max), -12 VDC at 1 A (max).
FIGS. 4-8 depict the carrier card 14. The carrier card 14 allows the computer instrument chassis to physically and electrically accommodate any PC instrument card 12 having different configurations such as top loading. The carrier card 14 converts the top loading method of ordinary PCs into a front loading one similar to the ones found in VXI/VME systems. This front loading removes the need to open the computer to remove or insert PC instrument cards. This is an important advantage of the invention. When these card carriers 14 are loaded in the chassis, they are recessed behind the front panel 22 to allow room for internal wiring connection to the interface panel 28. The interface panel 28 can employ a variety of slots 24 such as Virginia Panel, ITT Cannon ZIF connectors, circular connectors and the like.
FIGS. 5 and 5A show the overall configuration of an embodiment of the carrier card 14 showing a first set of connectors 30, a second set of connectors 32, DIP switches 34, an inter-card bus 36, the connections 38 between the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors, DMA acknowledge jumpers 40 and memory select jumper 42. The connections 38 between the first set of connectors and the second set of connectors enable the top loading PC instrument card to be front loaded.
The first set of connectors 30 face and plug into the instrument receiving slots 24. The connectors on the ordinary PC instrument card 12 face and plug into the second set of connectors 32. The carrier card 14 slides into the computer instrument chassis, connecting to one of the 14 instrument receiving slots 24 on the mother board. The carrier card has two PCB ground layers which offer shielding and isolation for the PC instrument cards. Rear and top card guides are used to hold the instrument in place.
One feature of the present invention is extended I/O addressing. PC-based instruments occupy several I/O addresses (from 2 to 64 in most cases). Since the PC I/O space is limited, it is sometimes impossible to use more than three of four instruments even if there are slots 24 available. The carrier card 14 has the ability to perform additional addressing than is normally done with standard I/O cards. The carrier card 14 has an offset DIP switch 34 that can add an offset address to any standard card address. This offset is independent of the slot used to install the carrier card. For example if a GT64 switch card has a base address of 0×300, we can add 0×1000 to arrive at a new address.
______________________________________Card Base Address 0x0300 (note extra leading zero for alignment)Offset Address 0x1000New Base Address 0x1300______________________________________
This enables an operator to install two or more cards all with the same base address setting, and by using the DIP Switches 34 locate the cards at different base memory addresses.
If the PC instrument card 24 being mounted on the carrier card 14 uses DMA, the DMA acknowledge jumpers 40 need to be added. The jumpers are used for DMA read operations, where the PC bus direction needs to be reversed. The selection made here should match the requirements of the PC instrument card. For example, in FIG. 6, the DMA acknowledge jumpers 40 are clearly shown. If the instrument uses DMA #1 and DMA #5, jumper DACK1 in group A and jumper DACK5 in group B or jumper DACK1 in group B and DACK5 in group A.
If the PC instrument card 12 being used is memory mapped (i.e. uses CPU memory below 1 Meg.) then a memory select jumper 42 should be put in place. The following table indicates the jumper requirements for the desired memory area:
______________________________________Jumper Memory______________________________________MEMS2 D0000 - D7FFFMEMS3 D8000 - DFFFFMEMS4 E0000 - E7FFFMEMS5 E8000 - EFFFF______________________________________
Some applications require interconnections between the instruments. In accordance with the present invention the carrier card 14 includes an internal twenty four line intercard bus 36 for intercard signal transfers. Twelve of the lines may be configured into several sub-busses serving selected carrier cards 14 only. This capability is illustrated in FIG. 9.
It will thus be seen that the invention efficiently attains the objects set forth above, among those made apparent from the preceding description. In particular, the invention provides a computer instrument chassis. The chassis can be utilized as a stand-alone computer or it can operate as a bus extender for an existing computer. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the configurations depicted in FIGS. 1-5 and 11 and are distinguishable over the art in that they allow top loading pc instrument cards to be front loaded, the invention has dual capabilities, it has an improved cooling system, an improved power system and the system is completely buffered which enabled insertion and removal of PC instrument cards without disrupting the CPU.
It will be understood that changes may be made in the above construction and in the foregoing sequences of operation without departing from the scope of the invention. It is accordingly intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings be interpreted as illustrative rather than in a limiting sense.
It is also to be understood that the following claims are intended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention as described herein, and all statements of the scope of the invention which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.
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Contrition, which holds the first place amongst the aforesaid acts of the penitent, is a sorrow of mind, and a detestation for sin committed, with the purpose of not sinning for the future. This movement of contrition was at all times necessary for obtaining the pardon of sins; and, in one who has fallen after baptism, it then at length prepares for the remission of sins, when it is united with confidence in the divine mercy, and with the desire of performing the other things which are required for rightly receiving this sacrament. Wherefore the holy Synod declares, that this contrition contains not only a cessation from sin, and the purpose and the beginning of a new life, but also a hatred of the old, agreeably to that saying: Cast away from you all your iniquities, wherein you have transgressed and make to yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. And assuredly he who has considered those cries of the saints: To thee only have I sinned, and have done evil before thee; I have labored in my groaning, every night I will wash my bed; I will recount to thee all my years, in the bitterness of my soul; and others of this kind, will easily understand that they flowed from a certain vehement hatred of their past life, and from an exceeding detestation of sins. The Synod teaches moreover, that, although it sometimes happens that this contrition is perfect through charity, and reconciles man with God before this sacrament be actually received, the said reconciliation, nevertheless, is not to be ascribed to that contrition, independently of the desire of the sacrament which is included therein. And as to that imperfect contrition, which is called attrition, because that it is commonly conceived either from the consideration of the turpitude of sin, or from the fear of hell and of punishment, it declares that if, with the hope of pardon, it exclude the wish to sin, it not only does not make a man a hypocrite, and a greater sinner, but that it is even a gift of God, and an impulse of the Holy Ghost,—who does not indeed as yet dwell in the penitent, but only moves him,—whereby the penitent being assisted prepares a way for himself unto justice. And although this (attrition) can not of itself, without the sacrament of Penance, conduct the sinner to justification, yet does it dispose him to obtain the grace of God in the sacrament of Penance. For, smitten profitably with this fear, the Ninevites, at the preaching of Jonas, did fearful penance, and obtained mercy from the Lord. Wherefore falsely do some calumniate Catholic writers, as if they had maintained that the sacrament of Penance confers grace without any good motion on the part of those who receive it: a thing which the Church of God never taught, or thought; and falsely also do they assert that contrition is extorted and forced, not free and voluntary.
From the institution of the sacrament of Penance, as already explained, the universal Church has always understood that the entire confession of sins was also instituted by the Lord, and is of divine right necessary for all who have fallen after baptism; because that our Lord Jesus Christ, when about to ascend from earth to heaven, left priests his own vicars, as presidents and judges, unto whom all the mortal crimes, into which the faithful of Christ may have fallen, should be carried, in order that, in accordance with the power of the keys, they may pronounce the sentence of forgiveness or retention of sins. For it is manifest that priests could not have exercised judgment without knowledge of the cause; neither indeed could they have observed equity in enjoining punishments, if the said faithful should have declared their sins in general only, and not rather specifically, and one by one. Whence it is gathered that all the mortal sins, of which, after a diligent examination of themselves, they are conscious, must needs be by penitents enumerated in confession, even though those sins be most hidden, and committed only against the two last precepts of the decalogue,—sins which sometimes wound the soul more grievously, and are more dangerous, than those which are committed outwardly. For venial sins, whereby we are not excluded from the grace of God, and into which we fall more frequently, although they be rightly and profitably, and without any presumption, declared in confession, as the custom of pious persons demonstrates, yet may they be omitted without guilt, and be expiated by many other remedies. But, whereas all mortal sins, even those of thought, render men children of wrath, and enemies of God, it is necessary to seek also for the pardon of them all from God, with an open and modest confession. Wherefore, while the faithful of Christ are careful to confess all the sins which occur to their memory, they without doubt lay them all bare before the mercy of God to be pardoned: whereas they who act otherwise, and knowingly keep back certain sins, such set nothing before the divine bounty to be forgiven through the priest; for if the sick be ashamed to show his wound to the physician, his medical art cures not that which it knows not of. We gather, furthermore, that those circumstances which change the species of the sin are also to be explained in confession, because that, without them, the sins themselves are neither entirely set forth by the penitents, nor are they known clearly to the judges; and it can not be that they can estimate rightly the grievousness of the crimes, and impose on the penitents the punishment which ought to be inflicted on account of them. Whence it is unreasonable to teach that these circumstances have been invented by idle men; or that one circumstance only is to be confessed, to wit, that one has sinned against a brother. But it is also impious to assert, that confession, enjoined to be made in this manner, is impossible, or to call it a slaughter house of consciences; for it is certain, that in the Church nothing else is required of penitents, but that, after each has examined himself diligently, and searched all the folds and recesses of his conscience, he confess those sins by which he shall remember that he has mortally offended his Lord. and God: whilst the other sins, which do not occur to him after diligent thought, are understood to be included as a whole in that same confession; for which sins we confidently say with the prophet: From my secret sins cleanse me, O Lord. Now, the very difficulty of a confession like this, and the shame of making known one’s sins, might indeed seem a grievous thing, were it not alleviated by the so many and so great advantages and consolations, which are most assuredly bestowed by absolution upon all who worthily approach to this sacrament. For the rest, as to the manner of confessing secretly to a priest alone, although Christ has not forbidden that a person may,—in punishment of his sins, and for his own humiliation, as well for an example to others as for the edification of the Church that has been scandalized,—confess his sins publicly, nevertheless this is not commanded by a divine precept; neither would it be very prudent to enjoin by any human law, that sins, especially such as are secret, should, be made known by a public confession. Wherefore, whereas the secret sacramental confession, which was in use from the beginning in holy Church, and is still also, in use, has always been commended by the most holy and the most ancient Fathers with a great and unanimous consent, the vain calumny of those is manifestly refuted, who are not ashamed to teach that confession is alien from the divine command, and is a human invention, and that it took its rise from the Fathers assembled in the Council of Lateran: for the Church did not, through the Council of Lateran, ordain that the faithful of Christ should confess,—a thing which it knew to be necessary, and to be instituted of divine right,—but that the precept of confession should be complied with, at least once a year, by all and each, when they have attained to years of discretion. Whence, throughout the whole Church, the salutary custom is, to the great benefit of the souls of the faithful, now observed, of confessing at that most sacred and most acceptable time of Lent,—a custom which this holy Synod most highly approves of and embraces, as pious and worthy of being retained.—end of quote of Chapter V.
In connection with what we have thus far quoted from the decrees of the Council of Trent, we wish to state briefly the following. First, we read in these chapters of “mortal sins.” The word “mortal” here stands over against the word “venial.” Venial sins, then, are sins that may be pardoned or overlooked, sins that are excusable. Mortal sins, on the other hand, are deadly sins, sins that incur the penalty of eternal death. Secondly, the Roman Catholic conception of penance views penance as a sacrament which consists of three parts: Contrition, Confession with the mouth to the priest, and Satisfaction. Thus far we have already quoted the two chapters on Contrition and Confession.
On the Ministry of this Sacraments, and Absolution
But, as regards the minister of this sacrament, the holy Synod declares all those doctrines to be false, and utterly alien from the truth of the Gospel, which perniciously extend the ministry of the keys to any others so ever besides bishops and priests; imagining, contrary to the institution of this sacrament, that those words of our Lord, Whatsoever you shall bind upon earth, shall be bound also in heaven, and whatsoever you shall loose upon earth shall be loosed also in heaven, and, Whose sins you shall forgive, they we forgiven them, and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained, were in such wise addressed to all the faithful of Christ indifferently and indiscriminately, as that every one has the power of forgiving sins,—public sins to wit by rebuke, provided he that is rebuked shall acquiesce, and secret sins by a voluntary confession made to any individual whatsoever. It also teaches, that even priests, who are in mortal sin, exercise, through the virtue of the Holy Ghost which was bestowed in ordination, the office of forgiving sins, as the ministers of Christ; and that their sentiment is erroneous who contend that this power exists not in bad priests. But although the absolution of the priest is the dispensation of another’s bounty, yet is it not a bare ministry only, whether of announcing the Gospel, or of declaring that sins are forgiven, but is after the manner of a judicial act, whereby sentence is pronounced by the priest as by a judge; and therefore the penitent ought not so to confide in his own personal faith as to think that,—even though there be no contrition on his part, or no intention on the part of the priest of acting seriously and absolving truly,—he is nevertheless truly and in God’s sight absolved, on account of his faith alone. For neither would faith without penance bestow any remission of sins, nor would he be otherwise than most careless of his own salvation, who, knowing that a priest but absolved him in jest, should not carefully seek for another who would act in earnest. | <urn:uuid:fbee480a-13fa-4679-a764-581df765acbd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sb.rfpa.org/the-church-and-the-sacraments-views-during-the-third-period-750-1517-a-d-the-seven-sacraments-penance-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.972722 | 2,394 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Most of us consider the end of the year a time for reflection; how the past year treated (or was treated by) us; what lessons we learned that we’d rather leave behind (!), and those we’ll carry with us into the new year.
Given that we are now counting down to the end of the year (and then my birthday!), today’s post highlight seven articles from around the web that teach, or share, lessons learned.
Why: As a trainer or facilitator, how can you better incorporate your participants into your workshops? Beth Kanter shares some lessons from a recent workshop on best practices in crowd funding.
Why: Sometimes unspoken lessons are the most powerful. In this very personal WUL post, I examine lessons in silence taught by my grandfather.
Why: Lessons can only be learned when you take control of your life. Kirk Hazlett reflects on why making plans and taking action is imperative to personal growth.
Why: “Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” (Spot quiz: who said that?) In this short yet compelling read, Shel Holtz takes a walk down memory lane, sharing why discouraging brand ambassadors due to red tape can ultimately hurt reputation and sales.
Why: Building a community is not an easy task. Kami Huyse shares lessons she learned first hand in this still relevant post.
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Any accident involving a motorcycle can result in serious injuries. In many cases, these injuries can be fatal. When riding a bike, you are exposed to the elements and must balance on a smaller vehicle with less protection than standard passenger cars, vans, and trucks. Additionally, being more exposed to the road and other drivers around you, the maneuverability of motorcycles makes them more prone to accidents in general.
This exposure and vulnerability make head injury a prevalent complication of motorcycle accidents. In addition, helmetless riders are much more likely to require hospitalization after an accident than those who wear helmets consistently. The protective quality of helmets is well-documented, but not every rider chooses to wear one for whatever reason.
Types of Motorcycle Accidents Causing Head Injuries
Various types of accidents and collisions can lead to head injuries in a motorcycle accident. Some of the most common include:
- Head-on collisions
- Rear-ender collisions
- T-bone collisions
- Side swiping
Accidents on the road are hazardous because they are already at high speed when the impact happens. Accidents at a stop sign or light are usually much less severe because the acceleration is significantly lower. However, any accident is still likely to result in severe injuries if the motorcycle doesn’t have the protection of a helmet.
Helmet Protection in Motorcycle Accidents
Motorcycle helmets are a must-have for a reason; they protect the head from the external impact that can cause injury. Before you ride your bike in the city or on the open road, check the helmet laws in place. You don’t want to get into trouble with the authorities.
In a motorcycle accident, the helmet should cover the skull from impact. Many helmets also have a specialized system that protects the head from internal pressure at high speeds. The quality of the helmet can make a significant difference. While some standard helmets may provide little more than the comfort of an inner lining, others may be customized to fit snugly around the head and protect from external impact. Helmets come in many different styles, so it’s easy to choose the one that suits your needs.
How Does a Head Injury Happen?
When a motorcycle crashes with a car or another surface, it often results in the head contacting the ground. This impact can cause serious injury to the head and brain. The weight of the motorcyclist’s helmet makes the situation much worse because it adds additional pressure on the skull. The added weight can be dangerous when the helmet is pushed into the head rather than keeping it away from the ground. The effect of the head against a surface can cause several types of head injuries. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury brought by the acceleration of the brain against the skull.
The Consequences of Head Injury in Motorcycle Accidents
When a person suffers a head injury, the initial pain and swelling can be the least of their worries. A severe head injury can be critical and even life-threatening, depending on the circumstances. Some of the consequences of a severe head injury include:
- Loss of consciousness
- Brain damage
A person who suffers a severe head injury may need to stay in the hospital for several weeks or months to recuperate. Unfortunately, these injuries also often result in long-term disabilities or even death.
Help for Victims of Head Injuries After an Accident
Receiving urgent medical assistance is crucial if you are injured in a motorbike accident. At the scene, it’s best to stay calm and let the paramedics know of any head injury or pain. Thus, this will help them treat your injuries more appropriately and avoid confusion about your medical history.
After receiving an appropriate diagnosis for your injuries, you may want to speak to a lawyer. A lawyer can help you navigate a claim for compensation if you cannot work again due to your injuries. Brain injury lawyers in Indianapolis can help you recover compensation for lost wages and medical bills from your accident. In addition, consulting with an attorney experienced in brain injury cases can help you understand your legal rights and options.
How to Stay Safe on a Motorbike
Protecting yourself from head injuries is important, but it’s also essential to protect your entire body while biking. Wearing a helmet is the ideal way to protect your head. You can also wear protective body gear, like gloves and knee pads. Be mindful of your surroundings when biking and drive defensively to avoid collisions. If you do get into an accident, get immediate medical attention. Follow all traffic laws, wear protective gear, and be mindful of how other drivers may interact with you on the road.
Having a motorcycle comes with many benefits and joys. On the other hand, motorcycle accidents can lead to many injuries beyond simple cuts and bruises, so you must be very careful each time you ride. One of the most common injuries is a head injury, which can cause severe damage to the brain. When driving a motorcycle, wearing a helmet is easy and a must to protect your head from external impact. It’s also necessary to drive defensively to avoid collisions with other vehicles.
When it comes to educating the public on legal matters, few people are as determined as Michael Hawkins. From discovering issues of interest that concern all of us to offering actionable articles and guides to those in need, Michael is relentless in his journey of helping people make sense of the legal system. With dozens of pieces published in magazines, news outlets, and online journals, Michael is here to translate legalese into plain English so you can understand your rights and make the system work in your benefit. | <urn:uuid:a6d36182-b87b-4165-92c2-390a7bc5c46e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tampabaynewswire.com/2022/07/05/motorcycle-accidents-and-head-injuries-what-to-know-and-what-to-do-109912 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.948847 | 1,161 | 2.578125 | 3 |
The students' assignment was to find out who killed Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and why. Although the class ended last spring and many of the students graduated, they're still trying to write that last paper.
Pearl disappeared while reporting in Pakistan in 2002. A video delivered to the FBI showed him being beheaded.
Yesterday, the group, known as the Pearl Project and now attached to the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court asking for the release of records by the CIA, FBI, Defense Department and five other federal agencies.
Members of the group are seeking, among other things, FBI files on convicted terrorist Richard Reid. Pearl was reporting a story about Reid and his Pakistani handler when he disappeared. They hope the lawsuit will unearth documents or new sources in time for them to finish their final paper late this spring.
"It's not only a really personal story . . . but a story really pertinent to current events and, well, to humanity," said Rebecca Tapscott, a 2008 graduate.
The idea for the class began in summer 2002, after four men were convicted in Pakistan in connection with Pearl's death. Pearl's longtime friend, Asra Nomani, with whom Pearl was staying when he disappeared, suspected that more people were involved. She knew, for example, that a man who led police to Pearl's body, which was found outside Karachi, was allegedly one of the guards who had held him. But he was never charged.
Read the rest of the article (here) by Susan Kinzie in the Washington Post
Watch the beheading of Daniel Pearl (here)
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Perseid 2015: Meteor Shower Peaks This Week, Here’s How You Can Watch It
This year, the Perseid meteor shower will provide the brightest view in years because of a coinciding new moon.
“The Perseids feature fast and bright meteors that frequently leave trains, and in 2015 there will be no moonlight to upstage the shower,” NASA said.
When Will The Meteor Shower Peak?
The celestial event, which falls in the Perseus constellation in the northeastern part of the sky, will occur late Wednesday night through the pre-dawn hours of Thursday.
During this year’s Perseid meteor, the moon will be almost invisible during its peak, according to International Business Times. The best time to watch the phenomena will be at 4 a.m. on August 13, when skygazers will be able to see almost 100 meteors an hour, as reported by Universe Today.
The American Meteor Society and Sky & Telescope have maps to help locate the constellations Cassiopeia and Perseus. Observers can also make use of iOS and Google Android applications like Skyview.
“Pastures or farms are good” to view the meteor shower, NASA’s meteor expert Bill Cooke said.
“Anywhere where there’s a clear sky – state parks, national parks,” are also ideal places to view the celestial event, he said, as reported by Business Insider.
“Normally with the other meteor showers I’d say you’d see none, but the Perseids have a few very bright ones and you might see those from the city. People in cities shouldn’t expect to see more than a handful of Perseids over the course of one night.”
He further said, “If you can’t get away from the city, you need to put yourself in the shadow of a building where you can still see a lot of sky,” Cooke said. “Go somewhere dark where there’s not a street light bearing down you.”
What Are Perseid Meteors?
According to USA Today, NASA explains Perseid meteors as particles comprising of dust and ice from the Swift-Tuttle comet. Each August, the comet and Earth cross paths, and the particles from the comet enter Earth’s atmosphere and burn, producing an atmospheric light show.
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The Barents Sea system is often depicted as a simple food web in terms of number of dominant feeding links. The most conspicuous feeding link is between the Northeast Arctic cod Gadus morhua, the world's largest cod stock which is presently at a historical high level, and capelin Mallotus villosus. The system also holds diverse seabird and marine mammal communities. Previous diet studies may suggest that these top predators (cod, bird and sea mammals) compete for food particularly with respect to pelagic fish such as capelin and juvenile herring (Clupea harengus), and krill. In this paper we explored the diet of some Barents Sea top predators (cod, Black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla, Common guillemot Uria aalge, and Minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata). We developed a GAM modelling approach to analyse the temporal variation diet composition within and between predators, to explore intra- and inter-specific interactions. The GAM models demonstrated that the seabird diet is temperature dependent while the diet of Minke whale and cod is prey dependent; Minke whale and cod diets depend on the abundance of herring and capelin, respectively. There was significant diet overlap between cod and Minke whale, and between kittiwake and guillemot. In general, the diet overlap between predators increased with changes in herring and krill abundances. The diet overlap models developed in this study may help to identify inter-specific interactions and their dynamics that potentially affect the stocks targeted by fisheries.
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With temperatures forecast to drop to below freezing tonight, Redding residents are reminded to take precautions to avoid injuries or property damage resulting from the cold.
The National Weather Service (NWS) predicts nighttime temperatures below freezing tonight and Wednesday morning. Residents should ensure pipes and outdoor water lines are protected if exposed to cold weather. In extreme cold, residents should disconnect hoses and cover outdoor faucets and pipes, or allow them to trickle slightly to prevent freezing.
Homeowners also should turn automatic landscape sprinklers to the “off” or “rain” setting until temperatures warm up to prevent water from freezing on sidewalks. Likewise, commercial property owners and landscapers are urged to turn off landscape sprinklers, especially those near public sidewalks, to prevent slippery conditions. Should pipes freeze, homeowners should not try to thaw them out with a torch or other open flame. A hair dryer or other warm air can be used after shutting off the main water supply to the house.
The Redding Fire Department urges residents to ensure portable space heaters have adequate clearance of at least 36 inches from combustibles, are equipped with an automatic shutoff and are plugged directly into an outlet. Do not use barbecues or unapproved kerosene heaters inside the home. Paper products should not be burned in a fireplace or wood stove, and chimney and vents should be clean and inspected. Place cooled ashes from wood-burning appliances in a covered metal container and place container at least 10 feet from the home or any nearby structure. Use lanterns or flashlights instead of candles. Homeowners are also urged to make sure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are tested and working.
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Over the past few years we've seen tremendous growth in UX libraries and frameworks -- most of which are open source. Much has been written comparing the use of, approach to, and completeness of these frameworks. But often overlooked are the metrics tracking the size, strength, and momentum of the communities and ecosystems surrounding these open source projects. These stats should play a key role in your selection.
Which projects rose to the topThis analysis digs into the communities behind the top 10 open source projects spanning UI libraries, frameworks, and full-stack frameworks that include server-side runtimes. The projects in my analysis are today's hottest UI projects, including AngularJS, Ember.js, SproutCore, Backbone.JS, Knockout.js, Spine, CanJS, Meteor-JS, Derby, and Yahoo Mojito.
My goal was to paint a picture of the communities surrounding these projects, specifically looking at size and growth, in an effort to correlate the data against the popularity and success of individual projects. Also included is a look into the ecosystem surrounding each project, with the assumption that the ecosystem further reflects the popularity and success of a project.
Monthly contributorsExploring the number and growth of monthly contributors for a project provides insight into the project's momentum and can highlight critical tipping points for projects that are capturing broad industry interest. The chart below tracks monthly contributor participation. This statistic shows the number of developers who have contributed code in a given month.
As you can see, SproutCore was the early front-runner in monthly contributor participation. However, when SproutCore forked to create Ember in December 2011, many developers on the team moved along with it, jump-starting Ember. Now Ember, along with AngularJS, has seen significant monthly contributor growth in 2013, both emerging as leaders from an overall community growth perspective. Also note that in the spring of this year, active contributors to Backbone and Meteor dropped off significantly concurrent with the accelerated growth of AngularJS and Ember.
All-time contributorsLooking at total lifetime contributors for a project can help us understand a few different points. For one thing, it often reflects the governance style of a project. Many projects are tightly managed by a small group of people, while others open up contributions to a wide and diverse audience.
The number of all-time contributors can also help us understand the relative momentum of a project at any given time. Large, well-established projects can often have significant numbers of contributors, helping fix bugs, contributing to documentation, and other related tasks. The total number of contributors can also often be associated with the overall size of the code base. This metric is typically most valuable when combined with other community metrics, such as lines of code, total commits, and monthly commits.
Ecosystem projectsBeyond immediate contributors, the strength of a project's community is evident from ecosystem projects that extend and are built upon them. This demonstrates that the core project community alone doesn't always tell the whole story of a project's momentum. Looking more broadly at the ecosystem can further describe the overall success of an individual project.
Notably, Backbone has a substantial ecosystem, showing its overall momentum and usage in the industry. In an effort to further validate the Backbone ecosystem, I filtered my search to include only Backbone-related projects that have three or more stars on GitHub, which resulted in 1,627 projects. Compare this with 794 AngularJS projects with more than three stars, and Backbone's ecosystem is still two times the size of AngularJS's.
Full-stack solutionsBecause the full-stack solutions have a different scope than many of the other projects, I wanted to take a separate look into their growth. Full-stack solutions include both a client framework and a server-side framework; hypothetically, the amount of code involved should be greater, as should be the number of contributors participating over time. The chart indicates each of these projects is in a relatively early stage with moderate participation.
Lines of code and commitsYou may be left wondering about the size of the code bases for each of these projects -- and the relationship between that number and the number of contributors. Comparing these, we see that community size and total commits have little correlation to the size of the code base. For example, AngularJS shows a ratio of 413 LOC per contributor while Ember shows a ratio of 146 LOC per contributor.
You can, however, correlate the size of the community (all-time contributors) with the all-time number of commits and see that the number of commits per contributor varies greatly by project. This may show that some projects are easier to contribute to, affecting their long-term sustainability.
Reading the tea leavesCommunity size and growth are important indicators of a project's momentum. While these indicators can't tell us the whole story, they provide important insight into projects that are being heavily invested in and help us make decisions based on the viability and sustainability of the community behind a project. They can also aid us in finding tipping points in a project's life span, providing us with opportunities to both engage in projects and influence change.
The subject of rich UI frameworks is near and dear to me, as I spent five years at Adobe driving product marketing for the Flex framework, now an Apache project. Based on all the data analyzed here, my take is that Ember and AngularJS are emerging as the frameworks to watch. That said, the ecosystem surrounding Backbone demonstrates both the popularity and commitment to this UI approach, and is therefore sure to have a continuing, bright future ahead.
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A middle school turns out chess champions in 'Brooklyn Castle'
'Brooklyn Castle' has the right moves.
Courtesy of Producers Distribution Agency
Is chess cool? In my day, being in the school chess club was about as hip as being on the audiovisual squad and a full step lower than being in the marching band.
Times have changed, though. At least they have at Intermediate School 318, an inner-city school in Brooklyn, New York. Despite the fact that more than 65 percent of its students are from homes with incomes below the federal poverty level, this middle school has consistently trained the most-winning junior-high chess teams in the nation.
As inspirational academic stories go, it doesn’t get much better than this, which is no doubt what attracted first-time feature filmmaker (and Brooklyn native) Katie Dellamaggiore to make a film about I.S. 318. As a piece of filmmaking, “Brooklyn Castle” is not going to set the world on fire. Often scattershot, it frequently stops short of delving into the lives of the young chess mavens just when things are getting interesting. But the kids and their faculty coaches and sponsors are so spirited that this raggedness almost doesn’t matter.
Although the chess team has about 85 members, Dellamaggiore focuses on the five at the top, each highly individual. Rochelle, age 13, in eighth grade, is soft-spoken but determined to be the first African-American female to be ranked a master. She is shy about talking chess because she thinks it makes her sound “like a nerd,” especially in such a male-dominated world.
Justus, in sixth grade, has been selected to join the United States Chess Federation’s All-American team. Of all the kids on view here, he seems the most withdrawn, rarely cracking a smile. His focus is all on the board, and when he loses, which is not often, the distraught 11-year-old comes through loud and clear. Alexis, 12, in seventh grade, is the pride of his working-class immigrant parents. He hopes to support them one day by getting a good job, which, for him, means getting into a top-ranked New York public high school. Patrick, 11, in seventh grade, has a condition that has been diagnosed as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. The discipline of chess has a marked positive effect on all aspects of his life.
And then there is Pobo, 12, in seventh grade, who is a born glad-hander. Calling himself “Pobama,” he runs successfully for class president, campaigning to restore budget cuts to after-school programs like chess. Budget cuts, beginning in 2009, when the film starts, are incessant throughout this story. At one point, in 2011, assistant principal/coach John Galvin uses $8,000 of his own money to cover the cost of the team’s trip to the nationals in Dallas.
Why is this particular school so good at cultivating terrific young chess players? Clearly Galvin, along with principal Fred Rubino and head chess teacher Elizabeth Vicary, has a great deal to do with the success. But the film leaves hanging the notion that great chess players are created rather than born.
What’s probably true is that the innate intelligence of these children, which might have been stifled otherwise, is brought to the fore by chess. It’s an intellectual discipline that, as we can see from the kids, is also a life discipline.
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★★★I LOVE ALLAH★★★
Saudi Drivers Top the World in Road Deaths
Saudi Arabia found to have the highest road accident death toll in the world.
An average of 17 Saudi Arabian residents die on the country's roads each day, a report by the Kingdom's General Directorate of Traffic has revealed.
The news comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) found Saudi Arabia to have the world's highest number of deaths from road accidents, which now make up the country's principal cause of death in adult males aged 16 to 36.
First reported by the Saudi daily Arab News, the study found that 6,485 people had died and more than 36,000 were injured in over 485,000 traffic accidents during 2008 and 2009.
There was no official reaction to the unfortunate world record, and Saudi analysts pointed to larger underlying problems.
"The driving problems are with young people," Ali Abdul-Rahman Al-Mazyad, a Saudi columnist in Riyadh told The Media Line. "There are very little outlets for young people to enjoy themselves and kids basically do what they want."
The report found that almost a third of traffic accidents in the Saudi capital Riyadh were due to drivers jumping red lights, followed by 18 percent of accidents caused by illegal U-turns. The most common dangerous driving activities were speeding, sudden stops and speaking on the phone while driving.
Over the past two decades Saudi Arabia has recorded 4 million traffic accidents, leading to 86,000 deaths and 611,000 injuries, 7 percent of which resulted in permanent disabilities.
A recent study at the King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), a Riyadh-based scientific research group, warned that if the current rise in road accident rates is not curbed, Saudi Arabia will have over 4 million traffic accidents a year by 2030.
Silvio Saadi, a Jeddah-based businessman and film producer, argued that an out-of-control youth culture were to blame.
"You won't believe what you see," he told The Media Line. "It's just crazy."
"Saudis often try to drift with normal cars and thousands of spectators on the sides of the street," he said, referring to an informal motor sport in which drivers intentionally over-steer so as to lose traction and drift on the road. "Sometimes the car drifts into the spectators, slamming them into buildings along the sidewalk."
A few years ago they built a Jeddah raceway to attract young people to do it on the track instead of on the streets, but people still like to do it the old fashioned Bedouin way."
Saudi Arabia has long had a taste for expensive cars, and spottings of young Saudis cruising the streets of Jeddah and Riyadh in Maseratis, Ferraris, Porsches and Harley Davidson motorbikes are increasingly commonplace.
One of the Middle East's largest car markets, automobile sales make up about three percent of Saudi Arabia's gross domestic product.
Saudi car sales are now expected to boom. The kingdom's car market, including both commercial automobiles and transport infrastructure, is currently worth about $9 billion. The market is expected to grow by 30 percent in 2010.
Over 675,000 cars are expected to be sold in 2010 to a population of just under 25 million.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Until This Year, the International Energy Agency Mocked People Saying Oil Supplies Might Peak. Now, the IEA Says Supplies Will Peak "Around 2020"
Until this year, the International Energy Agency mocked people who said that oil supplies might peak in the near future.
Now, the IEA has changed its outlook and predicting that oil supplies will peak "around 2020".
Peak oil would have huge effects on economics and politics.
It is also possible that there are unseen political forces pressuring the IEA. The IEA does not include any Arab countries, and is dominated by Western countries. It is possible that there are behind-the-scenes geopolitical pressures arguing for a declaration of peak oil.
However, the shift in the IEA's position is so dramatic that I have to take it seriously, and am now tenatively convinced in the reality of peak oil within the next couple of decades. | <urn:uuid:bdd28c61-721b-4fd6-b53e-44771f614d77> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://georgewashington2.blogspot.com/2008/12/until-this-year-international-energy.html?showComment=1238481900000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00355-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967608 | 191 | 2.421875 | 2 |
When your portable data is certainly running low, you can use Low Data Mode to stretch out it. This mode categorizes data usage over other things, and reduces the quality of internet streaming audio and video. Computerized Downloads and Background Iphone app Refresh will be disabled, and Apple Reports does not change as often or perhaps pre-fetch memories to accelerate updates. You can even set your home screen qualifications color to complement the illumination of the room and turn about a Wi-Fi signal if readily available.
The best way to eliminate Low Data Mode on iOS and iPadOS is to use Siri. Yet , Siri is definitely not the best at controlling settings, so you should eliminate the feature manually in case you have the skill. Open your Settings app and search for Low Data. You’ll find an connection titled “Low Data” inside the screen’s Control Center. Basically tap that to turn off Low Data Mode. Otherwise, you can turn off Low Info Mode for pretty much all apps within your device.
Low Data Mode is useful if you want to avoid covering your data limit, or for the purpose of battery life. In addition, it pauses automatic iCloud back up copies. Additionally , online video and audio streams happen to be optimized to use low info. This mode is helpful intended for slow Wi fi networks. A slow cellular connection here may not be adequate for regular downloads. But you don’t need to turn off Low Data mode in order to access your phone. And if you want to preserve more data, you can also use Wi fi only.
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Today's advertising landscape is littered with all manner of attempts to capture the attention of consumers. Interactive media, omnipresent marketing and subtle tricks have all found their way into the mainstream of brand awareness and self promotion. Consequently, individuals who are attempting to promote their art or talent need to think outside of the box.
One way to do this is called guerrilla marketing. This type of advertisement is meant to be stealthy and low-key while having a strong impact on the public. It essentially seeks to pique people's interests, usually with a design or slogan. Once individuals are interested enough, they'll check out the website, shop or store to which the campaign corresponds.
There are many different ways to engage in such efforts. Some people choose to embrace posters as their medium for raising awareness, while others simply concentrate their efforts on internet marketing. However, one of the best may be to simply use stickers. In cities, these devices can be found on poles, posters, notice boards and in the windows of shops. A 2×3.5 printed sticker instantly grabs one's attention, especially with a striking design or message. Carefully select the method by which you'll deploy your campaign and start printing today. | <urn:uuid:b74c1346-fe93-445b-b6c0-bdd8a67375e9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.nextdayflyers.com/stickers-help-designers-undertake-a-campaign-of-guerrilla-marketing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00201-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963823 | 244 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Authors: Alan Stainer, Lorice Stainer
Addresses: Middlesex University Business School, The Burroughs, Hendon, London NW4 4BT, UK. ' University of Hertfordshire Business School, De Havilland Campus, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
Abstract: Every organisation must ensure that its responsibilities are encompassed within its legal, social and economic domains. Environmental and productivity issues thus need to be entwined to form the foundation of such an effective corporate strategy. The inter-relationships of sustainability, growth and the improvement in quality of life are discussed through a stakeholder approach where |green| yardsticks are explored and related to productivity. A framework for analysis is constructed, illustrating the flow from inputs, through processes, to outputs and, ultimately, to outcomes, highlighting impacts on society. Such a perspective can be perceived as the contemporary sustainability vision through sensible resource utilisation.
Keywords: performance; productivity management; environmental management; business sustainability; decision making; corporate social responsibility; CSR; business ethics; resource utilisation; sustainable development.
International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management, 2009 Vol.10 No.1, pp.56 - 70
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Description: I first took notice to this particular dinosaur when the first Land Before Time cartoon movie came out. The characters name was “Ducky” and she was a spunky little reptile that other dinosaurs referred to as a swimmer. The Parasaurolophus walked sometimes as a biped, and other times as a quadruped. This dinosaur existed over 70 million years ago from the late Cretaceous period. They are also called hadrosaurids which is a family of dinosaurs that had odd skull adornments. This particular group of reptile has an actual elongated shaped head that goes from the front to the back of the skull. What does that mean you ask? It means, the way the Parasaurolophus head looks, is exactly how the skull is shaped. There are many theories to what purpose the shape of the head serves for this particular species. After extensive research, it has been determined that its shape helped them identify the sex and race of other dinosaurs, heightened sound ability to communicate, and to help maintain a constant internal body temperature so it wouldn’t have to depend on the temperatures from the outside environment. The information that’s been collected over the years tells us that this animal was about 30 to 31 feet long, weighed almost 3 tons, and had a 5 ft long skull. Archeologists think this reptile wandered around for food on all four limbs, but when it came time to run, they ran on just two. The name Parasaurolophus means “near crested lizard”, this dinosaur is a species that is easily identified by others. I personally think that they were cute and their appearance has a lot of character. This step by step tutorial gives you solid online instructions on how to draw the Parasaurolophus with ease. If you like dinosaurs like I do, I know you will have fun sketching this one. | <urn:uuid:f4d3a757-bc9a-41e8-a6f4-20602d4c8a3b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dragoart.com/tut/how-to-draw-a-parasaurolophus-209 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.969832 | 460 | 3.28125 | 3 |
NEW YORK (PRNewswire) — Rabobank has published a new report on the global wine industry, looking at issues of supply, demand and pricing in key markets worldwide, particularly South Africa.
In the report, Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research team says that both bulk and bottled wine exports from South Africa enjoyed strong growth in 2013. Rabobank analysts say the weak rand, coupled with rising bulk wine prices in other wine-producing regions, made South Africa wine more competitive and attracted new buyers who were impressed by the quality they found. Overall exports increased 26% in 2013, however, challenges remain and bulk and bottled wine suppliers will require different strategies to navigate the new market.
"Success going forward for bulk wine producers requires extreme production and logistics efficiency," explained Rabobank analyst Stephen Rannekleiv. "The recent large harvest in Spain has made the bulk market more competitive again and South Africa wine will have to seek new alternative markets to maintain growth.
"By contrast," Rannekleiv continued, "success as a bottled wine exporter is becoming more limited to those companies with the ability to build strong brands. For bottled wine exporters, a deeper understanding of the target consumer and what drives purchase beyond price will be key."
With data for the 2013 wine grape harvest now generally available, it appears that increasing yields for important suppliers in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have led to a broad increase in wine availability going in to the 2014 Southern Hemisphere harvest period. However, there continue to be pockets of mismatched supply and demand. Inventories of Spanish value wines are now quite healthy, following the large harvest in La Mancha, but Bordeaux is tight due to adverse weather. Southern Hemisphere production was quite strong in 2013, but looks set to see mild to significant declines across Chile, Argentina and South Africa. It is still early to gauge the size of the Australian harvest, but production in New Zealand will likely break its previous record.
International Trade Update:
The international wine trade reached somewhat of a watershed moment in 2013, as bulk wine now makes up half of all New World exports. Although bulk wine has clearly taken share from bottled exports, the recent data from South Africa suggests that the two segments can co-exist and find success when they follow clearly differentiated strategies.
Rabobank Group is a global financial services leader providing wholesale and retail banking, leasing, real estate services, and renewable energy project financing. Founded over a century ago, Rabobank is one of the largest banks in the world, with nearly $1 trillion in assets and operations in more than 40 countries. In North America, Rabobank is a premier bank to the food, beverage and agribusiness industry. Rabobank's Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory team is comprised of more than 80 analysts around the world who provide expert analysis, insight and counsel to Rabobank clients about trends, issues and developments in all sectors of agriculture. www.rabobank.com/f&a | <urn:uuid:fe0e8c7e-2dfd-499f-a36d-103da74b8e8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foodmanufacturing.com/news/2014/04/bulk-wine-takes-share-bottled-exports | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00489-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952033 | 622 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The two major BIMR activities are the Annual General Meeting (AGM) and the BIMR Regional Conference. Other activites may occur on an ad-hoc basis and have included seminars, workshops and delegations
BIMR Annual Conference
The BIMR Annual Conference is hosted by a different Branch each year, chosen on a rotational basis.
The Annual Conference reflects the priorities of good governance and parliamentary democracy by addressing issues such as:
- ICT techonology
- Children’s rights
- Poverty reduction
- Sustainable development
- Trade and investment
Held in the Isle of Man from 11-14 May 2010 the Regional Conference was entitled 'Technology and democracy: successes and challenges'. Looking in detail at possibilities, rights and challenges, the three-day conference engaged delegates in a number of topical plenary sessions.
After a successful conference, delegates agreed that the topic of technology and democracy should be revisited on an international setting so that other challenges and opportunities could be addressed.
40th BIMR Regional Conference 2009
Held in Guernsey from 15-19 June 2009 the Regional Conference entitled 'The international Economic Downturn, its Impacts and the responsibilities of Parliamentarians' aimed to explore and discuss the characteristics of the global financial system, the reasons for its collapse and the impact of the crisis on the global economy.
The conference concluded with the publication of a communiqué which urged "parliamentarians to debate and scrutinise in our legislative bodies to ensure that the needs of local economies and financial industries are taken into account. Furthermore, we stress the necessity to raise awareness of the global repercussions of the economic crisis and the vital position of Parliamentarians within this framework".
BIMR Annual General Meeting
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Today in Question Time, Dr Sophie Scamps MP asked Minister for Health and Aged Care, Mark Butler for more details on the ALP election commitment to implement a national strategy on climate, health and well-being.
Dr Scamps MP:
The Australian Medical Association and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners and others have declared that climate change is a health emergency. I commend the Government’s commitment to developing a national strategy on climate change, health and wellbeing, as this will begin to address this emergency. Would the Minister please outline to the House the contents of the strategy and the timeline for delivery?
Thank you, Mr Speaker. I thank the member for Mackellar for this important question. The World Health Organisation has described climate change as the greatest threat to public health in the 21st century.
They estimate that between 2030 and 2050, 250,000 people every year will lose their lives as a direct result of a warming planet. And the impact in Australia will be profound. In a continent that already pushes us right up against the limits of human tolerance. Heat-related deaths will increase.
The health effects are more frequent and intents extreme weather events will grow substantially and disease will start to creep southward.
The dengue fever exposure zone for example is expected to move as far south as Rockhampton by the middle of the century and as far south as northern New South Wales by the end of the Mr Speaker, we’re already seeing this.
Separate from the tragic fatalities caused by the Black Saturday bushfires more than a decade ago, that heatwave in Victoria caused 374 heat related deaths, as well as a huge increase in callouts to the ambulance service.
Australia lags the rest of the world in climate and health after nine long years of denial and inaction.
But, Mr Speaker, that will change under this government. The first and the most important step obviously is to take real action on climate change.
And I congratulate my friend and colleague, the Minister for climate change and energy, for the bill he’s brought before this House and for the constructive engagement by the member for Mackellar.
On this side we know good climate policy is good public health policy.
Renewable energy is not just good for the climate, it also removes dangerous particulate pollution from the atmosphere and improves public health, as do electric vehicles.
I’ve already commissioned advice from my department about the implementation of the election to which the member for Mackellar refers and I’ve had an early discussion with state and territory health ministers about how we can work together, Labor and Liberal alike, to reduce emissions from the health sector, as well as improving its capability to deal with the risks and the opportunities that come with climate change.
Mr Speaker, the legislation before the House today is an important first step in ending nine long years of denial and inaction. But alongside sectors like manufacturing and transport, energy, agriculture, and mining, the health sector also needs a focused plan to deal with climate change. And we are getting on with the job of making that plan. | <urn:uuid:4afee7a4-726f-4a8e-ba78-05979c464fac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.caha.org.au/220803 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.955741 | 645 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour
Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour is an important place for many different people. The mana whenua of Ngāti Wheke, residents, and visitors all share a love for the harbour and surrounding bays.
The Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour plan sets a way forward for the community to ensure the ecological and cultural health of Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour as mahinga kai is restored for us and our children after us.
Ecological bands and Key Focus Areas
The Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour plan targets six ecological areas for change. Each ecological band is of equal importance and will help weave our korowai for the Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour catchment.
Whaka-Ora Healthy Harbour projects
The future of Whakaraupō/Lyttelton Harbour
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Sunrise to sunset - symbolic interpretation
"Sunrise marks the start of the day, and if you have plans at the start of the day, you are free to carry them out or not, as well as being free to change them. But when the sun sets, that is, at the end of the day, what is done is done, nothing more and nothing less.
Sunset signifies the end of the day as a cycle. But in the language of symbols, a day is the name we give not just to a period of twenty-four hours. It can represent a month, a year, a lifetime… or even the nine months a woman carries a child in her womb. While she is carrying her child, she can influence it through her thoughts, feelings and wishes to walk the path of light. Then, the child is born, and what everyone here sees as a beginning is, in fact, the end of a process of condensing, of concretizing, similar in some respects to the sun setting. And in a way, the mother’s power comes to an end at that point."
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Research project in Immunology and Immunotherapy Research project in Immunology and Immunotherapy (60 credits) Students will carry out a detailed investigation, using laboratory techniques, of a cutting-edge research question relevant to immunology or immunotherapy. This project will involve working as part of a team within a research group, producing novel scientific data, analysing and interpreting this data, and carrying out onward experimental design. The research projects will be available across a broad range of cutting-edge immunology/immunotherapy research groups within the College of MDS. Some projects will also be available within a number of external commercial organisations, including University of Birmingham spin-out companies and biotechnology/pharmaceutical companies with an interest in immunotherapy. During the research project students will present a poster of their work to academics and peers. Module attendance required: Twenty-two weeks of laboratory research. Module dates: TBC Assessment: Dissertation (100%): The research project will be submitted as a dissertation (10,000 words). Academics involved in the delivery of this module: Each student will choose a research group from across the College of Medical and Dental Sciences or external organisations, to act as their host laboratory, including supervision by the lead academic. | <urn:uuid:b8d9ad6d-ce07-42af-99d0-b1e4f67bca59> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/med/pg-modules/research-project-in-immunology-and-immunotherapy.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00382-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918054 | 250 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Here are the Editor's Picks articles for the Organization Site! These are the top ten articles that your Organization Editor feels are most important for you to read. Enjoy!
1. Decluttering Benefits
Clutter clearing be a challenge. That's not news, but there is a simple way to make clearing clutter less of a chore. Adopt a new mindset. Learn how to look at space and stuff in a new way and you will find decluttering becomes practically joyful.
2. How to Organize Medical Information
Dealing with everyday paperwork is challenging enough; trying to keep tabs on medical papers can be even harder. The solution is to create a healthcare binder. Not only is it simple - it's smart. Being an organized, engaged patient puts you in control. Better results all around will be the outcome.
3. Creating a Tickler File
Sure, a tickler file sounds odd (feathers? Elmo?), but itīs really an effective and easy-to-use tool for keeping track of papers and To Doīs. Read on for instructions on setting one up.
4. Organize Your Day with Morning Routines
Do mornings make you crazy? Do you feel rushed, stressed, or disorganized? It's east to fix, you just need to adopt a morning routine. Routines are an incredible tool. They eliminate chaos and bring a real sense of control. Here's how how to make your mornings perfectly peaceful.
5. Organized Bill Paying
Paying bills may never be fun, but the process doesn't need to be a painful one. Getting organized can make it easier to keep on top of bills, pay them on time, and keep your sanity.
6. Create a Home Management Binder
A home management binder is a quick, simple, and inexpensive way of corralling important info about your house and your family so it's a snap to find when you need it. Here's what to include in your binder and how to put it together.
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Once youīve written a personal mission statement, itīs time to put it to work for you! Hereīs how to make sure your mission statement reflects your goals, values, and priorities, and some simple ways to put it into practice.
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General Reporting Obligation - Code of Ethics
The College of William & Mary’s Code of Ethics, adopted by the Board of Visitors in 2009, obligates all members of the university community to report any illegal or unethical conduct that comes to their attention, “so the university can investigate and take corrective steps.” The Code of Ethics is focused on illegal or unethical conduct by members of the W&M community relating to the W&M community. Criminal conduct that poses a threat to the safety of the campus must also be reported; these reports should be made to the William & Mary Police.
There are many ways to make reports, file complaints, or otherwise bring to light violations or concerns. The Office of Compliance & Equity has information about the different reporting and complaint mechanisms. The Chief Compliance Officer can accept reports and provide information.
Specific Reporting Obligations
In addition to the general reporting requirement in the Code of Ethics, there are specific reporting requirements imposed on university employees by law and university policy. Each of these six reporting requirements is explained in more detail by clicking on the highlighted (gold) text.
- All employees must report suspected child abuse (abuse of a minor), under state law
- Campus Security Authorities must report to W&M Police certain types of criminal conduct (“Clery Act crimes”) occurring on campus or W&M-controlled property, under the university’s Crime Reporting Policy
- All employees must report their own criminal conviction of certain drug or alcohol law violations, under state policy
- All employees (except for those working in the Counseling Center, Student Health Center, and a very few other "confidential resources") must report certain instances or situations of sexual harassment or sexual violence:
- sexual harassment affecting a student, including sexual violence such as sexual assault and non-consensual sexual intercourse, and
- sexual violence occurring on campus or W&M-controlled property (our "Clery Act geography")
- Faculty, supervisors, and managers must report any incidents or complaints of discrimination or harassment, under the Policy on Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation, and
- All employees must report threats and acts of violence.
University employees in certain positions or who are engaged in certain activities, such as grant-sponsored research, may be subject to additional reporting requirements.
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A small bridge in Santa Clara that provides a connection from Intel’s corporate office on Juliette Lane with the San Tomas Aquino Creek Trail is up for demolition. The Freedom Bridge is a crossing over the San Tomas Aquino Creek that was permitted by the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) in 1997 and constructed by Intel. Since then, the bridge has operated under a lease agreement between SCVWD and Intel. Recently SCVWD requested that Intel, which owns the bridge, remove the structure.
“It’s old and structurally deficient,” said Barbara Keegan, director of SCVWD’s District 2. “The bridge was built as a temporary structure and never meant to be permanent. There are several problems with it.”
In addition to the Freedom Bridge’s aged state, it’s also not ADA compliant or fully accessible to the public because it ends at a private parking lot owned by Intel. One of the most worrisome flaws is that the bridge could exacerbate flooding, which has become more of a regional concern in recent years.
“Bridges are usually designed to deal with floods, but the Freedom Bridge doesn’t have enough freeboard, which is the distance between the water level and the underside of the bridge,” explained Usha Chatwani, civil engineer, SCVWD.
If the waterline were to rise above the bottom level of the bridge, water could be diverted onto land and cause debris from the bridge to dislodge and flow downstream, potentially causing contamination or obstruction.
SCVWD had initially contacted Intel in 2015 about removing the bridge but concerns were raised about access for cyclists. Meetings with the City of Santa Clara and SCVWD ensued to figure out a way to maintain bridge access over the creek.
“Good effort was made on both sides,” Keegan commented. “There are still many moving pieces, so the door isn’t closed.”
If the City decides to build a new bridge at some point, there would be a joint-use agreement made between the SCVWD and the City, and SCVWD would issue a permit for the project. SCVWD would continue to maintain the creek while the City would maintain the bridge.
According to Lenka Wright, Santa Clara’s Director of Communications, the City is currently working on the Freedom Circle Specific Plan, which is in close proximity to the bridge. As part of that plan, a future creek crossing and funding options will be explored.
“If a new bridge is identified as a need, it would require funding and permitting, and would not be completed in any near-term schedule,” said Wright.
This past November, SCVWD sent a letter to Intel informing the company that it has an extension until September 2019 to remove the bridge. The extension is designed to allow for enough time to get permits from a number of agencies allow the demolition work. There will continue to be road access in the vicinity despite the bridge’s absence.
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NADINE STROSSEN: Social media platforms present the same issues that we have been grappling with with respect to older media. But throughout human history every time a new medium of communication comes along many people, including many government officials, become very exercised about the new power and the allegedly new harms that are posed. So, we went through this when radio was invented, when the telephone was invented, when television was invented, when the World Wide Web came to people's attention. And, in fact, I have read that when the printing press was invented and when papyrus was invented there were similar eruptions of fear about this great new power to distribute information and the harm that could be done through information and disinformation. So, I think it's really important for us to have historic humility and not see what we're going through now as inherently different and more dangerous than the past. And I think that the same fundamental principles that have applied to other media should apply to social media as well.
First of all, as private sector entities, social media companies have absolutely no legal obligation to respect First Amendment rights, free speech rights, for anybody else. So, just as I have no right to participate in your wonderful film and I have no right to have an op-ed in The New York Times, I have no right to have my post displayed on Facebook or Twitter and so forth. Moreover, those companies have their own First Amendment rights to make their own editorial decisions about what expression they are going to allow on their platform and what they're not going to allow. I, as somebody who defends free speech rights for media companies, along with other companies, would oppose government restriction on the ability of these companies to decide what they will air and what they will not air. However, I will raise my voice to urge these companies to adhere, as closely as feasible, to the same basic standards that are reflected in the First Amendment. Because I think that for all of the potential damage that can be done by various kinds of online communications, including disinformation and so-called fake news and political ads and so forth, that far more harm is done when we empower these largely unaccountable private sector really powerful entities to pick and choose what expression is going to be aired and what will not be aired. And that danger is especially great when we are talking about political speech. The supreme court has consistently said, throughout history, of all expression that is important in our system of government by far the most important is speech about public affairs, speech about politics. "We, the people," to quote the opening words of our constitution, we wield sovereign power but how can we do that responsibly or effectively if we do not have access, full access, to information about those who are running for office? Those who are seeking our votes? Those who are making public policy decisions?
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This is the third book written by Ellen White, now usually called "Spiritual Gifts Volume 1", and covers the history of sin from before it ever existed in heaven, to its final eradication in the lake of fire that will burn up this world in the future. It was published in 1858, and is very different in content and style from the later 1884, 1888, and current 1911 editions, but the overall theme is similar. With the newer editions gaining the spotlight, this book has generally not been read by most of us Seventh-day Adventists up to the present time.
The Great Controversy Between Christ and His Angels, and Satan and His Angels
Believing that the words written in this book were all inspired by God, there is undoubtedly much instruction to be gained regarding the history of God's people, our position today, and the preparation we must make to get ready for the soon-coming Time of Trouble.
In doing this study guide, it is important to pray for the Holy Spirit's leading, and to keep in mind the title of the book which shows us who the controversy is between - Christ and his angels, and Satan and his angels.
The questions are designed to be straight-forward, with the inspired words themselves in this book giving the direct answer. The bonus questions are not directly answerable from this book, but may be found useful in stimulating deeper study not only in this book, but in the most important book of all - the Bible.
May the Lord's words not return unto him void is the prayer of the preparer;
Daniel Winters earlysda at hotmail.com August, 2007
This study guide is free to copy, and available online at: www.earlysda.com
Lesson 1: The Fall of Satan
1. What are the first 5 words written at the start of this book?
2. Was Satan beautiful or ugly when created?
3. Was Satan jealous of Jesus, or of the Father?
4. Are all sins of the same magnitude in God's eyes?
5. Was Satan trying to destroy the government of God, or make it better?
6. Who did Satan and his angels rebel against?
7. Does God ever use force? If so, give two examples from this paragraph showing it.
8. Physically speaking, how did Satan leave heaven?
9. Did Satan ever repent?
10. What could God not do, and why?
11. What is one reason given why Satan wanted to destroy Adam and Eve?
12. If Adam and Eve obeyed God, what could not happen?
13. If Adam and Eve disobeyed, would God smile on them?
14. How does Satan "insinuate" twice in this chapter?
15. What were the two steps Satan planned to get Adam and Eve to do?
Bonus questions: "The Lord has shown me", and "I saw" are phrases that show what about the author? Why did God have the good angels physically drive the bad ones out of heaven?
Lesson 2: The Fall of Man
16. Who often instructed Adam and Eve, and what did they instruct them about?
17. Complete this sentence: The angels enjoined upon them to closely follow the directions God had given them, ___________________________________ _________________.
18. Did Eve believe what the Lord had said, just as he said it?
19. Was the forbidden fruit ugly or rotten?
20. What was astonishing to Eve about the snake, and why?
21. Was Adam deceived?
22. Why did Adam resolve to share Eve's fate?
23. In the last paragraph of chapter one is written what Satan's plans were to cause Adam and Eve to disobey. What were the two steps again, and did he succeed in his plan?
24. Which did Adam love more - Eve, or God's command?
25. Name the emotion and describe the action of the angels when they heard of man's fall.
26. What were the angels afraid Adam and Eve might do, and why?
27. Did God himself drive Adam and Eve from the garden, and if so, how?
28. Did the tree of life give immortality?
29. What is one similarity between Satan's course and man's course?
Bonus question: How many ways were there for Adam and Eve to sin at first?
Lesson 3: The Plan of Salvation
30. When Adam and Eve first sinned, was there any way of escape for them?
31. Describe Jesus' countenance after the third time he came from the Father.
32. Did the Father ask Jesus to save humans, or did Jesus offer his life to his Father?
33. What two things are necessary for humans to again receive the favor of God?
34. How much of the plan of salvation did Jesus conceal from the angels?
35. Did Jesus know what would happen to him before he came as a man to this earth?
36. What is one purpose given why Jesus became a human?
37. Which would be worse for Jesus at the cross - bodily agony or mental agony - and why?
38. Can the life of an angel pay the debt to ransom man?
39. As a human, would Jesus be weaker than the angels?
40. Why would the angels want to interfere in the plan of salvation?
41. Did the Father devise the plan of salvation, or did he accept it?
42. Was Jesus joyous over the plan of salvation when telling it to the angels?
43. What two things would Jesus accomplish by his death?
44. What two reasons are given for the inexpressible joy among the angels?
45. Does the Father have difficulty sometimes in making choices?
46. How much did some angels love us humans?
47. What two things are necessary for the Son to do, to save lost man?
48. Describe the angels' work with Jesus and with his followers.
49. Name something impossible for God to do.
50. When Jesus should take fallen man's nature, what did Satan think he could do?
51. Does Satan still look kingly?
52. Use 8 different words to describe Satan's facial expression.
53. What part of Satan's face did Ellen White particularly notice, and why?
54. When does Satan's smile grow horrible?
Bonus question: How did Satan learn of the plan of salvation?
Lesson 4: The First Advent of Christ
55. What phrase is used to show that the author is moving in time in the vision?
56. Whose birth was honored more than any other?
57. How did the Holy Spirit appear at Jesus' baptism?
58. Did John know Jesus as soon as he saw him?
59. Did John tell his disciples to always follow him (John)?
60. List four things in John's life that made it without pleasure.
61. How did John reprove sin, and what did this prepare?
62. What did John faithfully tell Herod?
63. Did Herod intend to kill John?
64. How was the least disciple that followed Jesus greater than John the Baptist?
65. John represents who in the last days, and what two things do they herald (preach)?
66. Who fitted Jesus for the fierce temptations?
67. Did Jesus stay robust during his fast?
68. What gave Satan hope that he could overcome Jesus?
69. Satan tempted Jesus to exercise what kind of power?
70. According to Jesus, how many words of God does man live by?
71. What was Satan seeking to dispute?
72. Did Satan already have sufficient evidence of this?
73. In comparison to Satan's strength, what was Jesus' condition?
74. What sustained Jesus through all his sufferings?
75. Did Satan come with words of inspiration to tempt Jesus?
76. What was Satan's object in this temptation?
77. When our rights are disputed, what should we do?
78. What is the condition to call upon God to display his power?
79. In each of his responses to the three temptations, what did Jesus quote from?
80. Did Satan know what would happen to him if Jesus should die to redeem man?
81. If Satan could make the plan of redemption fail, what did he think he could do?
82. Did Jesus bring his power and glory from heaven when he came as a man?
83. With what would Jesus redeem the possessions of Satan?
84. What two things will eventually be given into Jesus' hands?
Bonus question: In describing the fallen nature that Jesus took when becoming a man, does it refer to being spiritually fallen (sinful) or physically fallen (weak)?
Lesson 5: The Ministry of Christ
85. After Satan ended his direct temptations, how did he still hope to prevail against Jesus?
86. Satan and his angels decided in their special counsel to use their power to the utmost to do what, and why?
87. Satan and his angels didn't care how exact the Jews were, if they could
____________________________________________, and make them believe
88. Name two times when Satan urged the people to take the life of Jesus, and how Jesus was protected both times.
89. Satan exerted all his power to do what to the hearts and feelings of the people?
90. How many humans would it take to accept Jesus for him to carry out the plan of salvation?
91. How did Jesus commence his work?
92. Those who were healed and raised to life, what did they do?
93. Who did Jesus work mightily for?
94. By whose power did Jesus heal?
95. List three attributes of Christ's life.
96. Why were many of these healed by Jesus ashamed of him?
97. Could many endure to live like Jesus?
98. Were Jesus' words so plain that anyone could understand?
99. Who did Satan stir up to take Jesus' life?
100. Who did Jesus speak encouragingly to?
101. Did any of the Jewish leaders believe on Jesus, and if so, why did they not acknowledge it?
102. If Jesus would resent the cruelty and scorn to be heaped upon him, what did Satan hope Jesus would do?
103. Could the disciples understand what Jesus meant about being crucified and rising again?
Bonus question: What was Jesus' method of working, and can we be successful doing that today?
Lesson 6: The Transfiguration
104. Why did God give the transfiguration experience for the disciples? For Jesus?
105. Who did God send to talk with Jesus, and why did he choose them?
106. Compare what God said here, with what he said at Jesus' baptism.
107. Did Elijah live a pleasant life?
108. In God's eyes, are some humans greater and lesser?
109. Moses mediated between who and who?
110. Does God get angry?
111. How did Moses show his love for Israel?
112. What did Moses forget?
113. Name two things God planned to do by often bringing Israel into difficulties.
114. Did Moses sin when he broke the 10 commandments of stone, and why or why not?
115. For what sin did God not allow Moses to enter the promised land?
116. How did Moses' sin make Satan happy?
117. If Moses had remained steadfast, would he have died?
118. Michael has another name. What is it?
119. Who do Moses and Elijah represent?
Bonus question: Both times the Father spoke audibly to Jesus so that the surrounding people could understand his voice, he said essentially the same thing. How important is it to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and can you believe in God without believing in his Son?
Lesson 7: The Betrayal of Christ
120. Did Judas think he was a true disciple of Christ?
121. How could Mary better express her gratitude to her Saviour?
122. How did Judas excuse his covetousness?
123. Why did the chief rulers not confess their belief in Jesus?
124. What did the chief rulers fear?
125. What were the two paths that the chief rulers saw for themselves?
126. Did the chief rulers like Lazarus?
127. What was Satan's relationship with Judas?
128. At the time of the Last Supper, was Peter a converted man?
129. How were the disciples to obtain strength?
130. Why couldn't a host of angels go and surround Jesus?
131. What did Jesus not receive from his disciples in Gethsemane?
132. Why did Jesus ask a question, and manifest his divine power to the group?
133. What animated the angels' faces?
134. What made them sad again?
135. Why were many angels sent to the scene of Jesus' trial?
Bonus question: Did Judas love Jesus?
Lesson 8: The Trial of Christ
136. Why did the angels lay off their crowns?
137. How did Satan and his angels affect the atmosphere in the judgment hall?
138. Name two ways Satan was hoping to make the plan of salvation fail.
139. Why did Peter declare that he didn't know Jesus?
140. Name two things Peter did after that look of Jesus.
141. Refer to question #102: List 5 types of cruelty and scorn they did to Jesus.
142. How many angels would it have taken to deliver Jesus?
143. List two more types of cruelty and scorn heaped on Jesus.
144. What did Jesus do with the spit on him?
145. List three things the disciples expected Jesus to do.
146. What two things strengthened the disciples' faith that Jesus was the Son of God?
147. What did the disciples hope Jesus would do?
148. What did Judas love more than Jesus? (see bonus question chapter 7)
149. Did he think Jesus would allow himself to be taken?
150. Judas' confession showed what had caused the priests to take Jesus?
151. Did anyone sympathize with Jesus at his trial?
152. Compare Jesus' appearance with those who sat in judgment against him.
153. Why was an angel sent to Pilate's wife?
154. What did his wife do after having the dream?
155. Who did Herod think Jesus was, and why?
156. How were Pilate and Herod made friends?
157. Who was Jesus to use his divine power for?
158. What did Jesus answer Herod and those accusing him?
159. Name two temptations Satan and his angels suggested to Pilate.
160. List two reasons why Pilate delivered an innocent man to die.
161. At the time of Jesus' trial impressions were made which did what later?
162. Even having taken man's nature, how much did Jesus depart from the will of his Father?
Bonus question: Do you think the temptation for Jesus to instantly deliver himself from his murderers was large or small?
Lesson 9: The Crucifixion of Christ
163. What did Jesus do three times?
164. Describe the happy scene and the sorrowful scene that the disciples witnessed.
165. What did Jesus' mother hope?
166. What did Jesus do when the nails were driven into his body?
167. What two feelings did Satan experience as Jesus was suffering?
168. Describe how they made Jesus suffer.
169. What two types of agony did Jesus suffer?
170. What words did those passing by Jesus use that were similar to Satan's?
171. What did the angels feel as they heard these words?
172. What was Jesus' last lesson?
173. What was perhaps the last physical need of Jesus, and how did they turn this into an insult?
174. Did the angels look until the very end?
175. List three things that happened when Jesus died.
176. Did Satan exult at the moment of Jesus' death?
177. How did Satan and his angels decide to still work against the government of God?
178. In keeping us from Jesus, how is Satan working for his own interest?
179. What did Jesus do that was a continual reproof to the priests and elders?
180. Why did they despise Jesus?
181. How long will Jesus bear the nail prints, and what story do they tell?
182. What were the disciples afraid of?
183. Did the disciples or Jesus' mother doubt Jesus?
184. How did they honor Jesus' body, and who was instrumental in helping honor it?
185. What were the angels earnestly waiting for?
186. How long did they want a guard around Jesus' sepulchre?
Bonus question: What do the nail prints in Jesus' hands mean?
Lesson 10: The Resurrection of Christ
187. What did the disciples and Jesus do on the Sabbath?
188. How many angels came down to the sepulchre?
189. What did the Roman guard do when they saw the angels, and why?
190. The angel that rolled back the stone cried out to Jesus __________________! __________________! ____________!
191. What did the other angel do?
192. Why did Satan's angels complain?
193. Why did Satan lament and rage?
194. Why did Satan want to show the priests and elders Jesus' resurrection in a bright light?
195. Describe what Ellen White saw the Roman guard do.
196. How did the chief priests and elders feel when they heard the guard's report?
197. If the report was correct, what would happen to them?
198. Why did the Roman guard sell their honor?
199. Who was resurrected with Jesus, and what was the purpose?
200. Is the human race getting stronger and more beautiful?
201. What has Satan been learning?
202. Name two groups or persons who kept the matter from being concealed by Satan.
203. As the news of Jesus' resurrection spread, how did the Jews feel?
204. Did Pilate believe the lying report?
205. How was Herod's reaction to the news of Jesus' resurrection different from Pilate's?
206. What did the holy women fear when they saw the empty sepulchre?
207. Did the disciples believe the report of the women that Jesus was risen?
208. What was Mary thinking and feeling as she lingered around the sepulchre?
209. When did Mary understand that is was Jesus she was talking to?
210. What did Mary want to do to Jesus, and why did he not allow her?
211. What did Jesus hear from his Father, and what did he receive?
212. Did Jesus forget his disciples a little while in heaven?
213. Thomas showed a lack of confidence in who?
214. What was the will of God in spreading the report of Jesus' resurrection?
215. Did Jesus reprove Thomas for calling him "God"?
216. How are we to receive the first and second angels' messages?
217. What must we tell those who embrace only a part of the third angel's message?
218. How important is this event - the resurrection?
219. What testimony did Jesus commission the disciples to give?
220. How would the disciples find relief when persecuted?
221. How did Jesus maintain the victory over the temptations of the Devil?
222. The disciples' lives could not be taken from them until what had happened?
223. List three reasons why Jesus would send the Holy Spirit.
Bonus question: Jesus received all power in heaven, and upon earth from his Father, but why does it still seem like Satan is in control of this world?
Lesson 11: The Ascension of Christ
224. What two groups went with Jesus as he ascended to heaven?
225. List three things the heavenly host did for their majestic commander.
226. How will Jesus come again?
227. While Satan retains his power and authority on earth, what must he and his angels do?
228. Jesus had given his disciples power to do what?
Bonus question: Imagine how the angels acted and felt during the approximately 33 years that Jesus was away from heaven, and how they felt when he returned.
Lesson 12: The Disciples of Christ
229. Name two things the disciples did.
230. When Jesus died, the chief priests thought what three things would happen?
231. What was it that had caused the cripple to be healed?
232. By hearing only one talk from the disciples, what did thousands of people do?
233. The leaders who had heard Peter's denial of Jesus thought they could intimidate him, but how was Peter now changed?
234. How did Peter remove the stain of his cowardly denial of Jesus?
235. Is there salvation in any other name than "Jesus Christ"?
236. When Peter was approved by Jesus, what was given as a token of that approval?
237. Did Peter tell the chief priests that the disciples would heed their command?
238. The disciples continued to do what?
239. What banner were hundreds enlisting under daily?
240. Did God's angels tell the disciples to heed the command of the high priest and elders?
241. What did the chief priests love more than God?
242. Who are the two witnesses (or groups of witnesses) of these things concerning Jesus?
243. What were the evil angels trying to get the priests and elders to do?
244. Why did the disciples leave the council praising God?
245. Where did the disciples preach?
246. Who did the disciples place the blood of Jesus upon?
247. What were God's angels commissioned to do?
248. What three events of Jesus' life were to be the hope of Israel (God's people)?
249. What three things are everyone to do?
Bonus questions: Aren't Christ's followers to always "obey those in authority" (Heb. 13:17, 1Peter 2:13)? If so, then why did the disciples not do it sometimes, and might there be times when we should not do it either? Is there a higher rule to follow?
Lesson 13: The Death of Stephen
250. Why were many people angry?
251. How did Stephen reprove the priests and elders?
252. With faith and the Holy Spirit, how did Stephen progress in his talk?
253. As the spirit of Stephen was stirred, what did he cry out against them?
254. What enraged the chief priests and rulers?
255. What was the Son of man doing in Stephen's vision?
256. Why was Satan happy to see Stephen die?
257. Who did Jesus select to more than fill the place of Stephen?
Bonus question: Why, in most countries of the world today, are God's people not being persecuted by the religious leaders as Stephen was?
Lesson 14: The Conversion of Saul
258. What two questions did Saul ask the Lord?
259. What blinded Saul?
260. Saul did not have what three things for three days?
261. Saul was to bear Jesus' name before who?
262. Name two reasons Ananias was sent to Saul.
263. What did Saul do after receiving sight and arising?
264. He then preached _________ in the synagogues, that he was _______________ _____________________.
265. What did Saul's miraculous conversion convince many of?
266. What did Jesus teach Saul?
267. The divine light which shone upon the prophecies concerning Jesus enabled Saul to do what two things?
Bonus question: Why did Jesus physically reveal himself to Saul, but not to us today?
Lesson 15: The Jews Decided to Kill Paul
268. Name two reasons the angels were commissioned to guard Paul.
269. How did the disciples help Paul get out of Damascus?
270. How did the disciples in Jerusalem first feel towards Paul?
271. Paul told the people to worship who?
272. How did the Jews stir up those idolators?
273. What were Satan's two objects in getting the woman to cry after the disciples?
274. Why were the woman's masters angry when the evil spirit left her?
275. List four things the disciples' imprisonment showed the people.
276. At midnight Paul and Silas ________, and _____________,
277. How did everyone's bands get loosened?
278. What was the jailer's question?
279. And the disciples' response?
280. Why were Paul and Silas not willing to leave prison in a private manner?
Bonus question: Is it good today to remind people to keep the law, just as Paul and Silas did?
Lesson 16: Paul Visited Jerusalem
281. List three things that Paul preached or related that enraged the priests.
282. Why did Jesus appear to Paul in a vision, telling him to depart from Jerusalem, and where did he send him?
283. Paul's enemies had to admit that his letters were powerful, so what did they say to try and destroy those letters' influence?
284. What two things charmed Paul's hearers?
285. What did Paul do to make the common people want to be disciples of Christ?
286. What were to be the means of spreading the knowledge of Christ?
287. What were kings and governors convicted of when Paul preached Jesus, and told of his experience?
288. Some hearts were softened, but not converted. What happened to those hearts?
289. How did the Jews add sin to sin?
290. How was the resurrection of Jesus made doubly sure?
291. What was the Jews' only hope after murdering Jesus?
292. What two things were signified by the temple vail being torn from top to bottom when Jesus died?
293. If Jews or Gentiles wish to be saved, both ____________________________
294. A stream of blood, and a stream of water came from Jesus' body while on the cross. What does each stream represent?
Bonus question: How can one obtain a powerful personal testimony, and is it necessary?
Lesson 17: The Great Apostasy
295. Why were the Christians who lived in the time of persecution greatly beloved by God?
296. What did these Christians do that increased their reward in heaven?
297. Why was Satan not satisfied?
298. The sufferings those Christians endured led them to do what three things?
299. What plan did Satan have to fight more successfully against the government of God?
300. What were two of the consequences of Christians uniting with the idolators?
301. What did Satan stir up the fallen church to do?
302. Draw a picture of the idolators' banner, and of the Christians' banner.
303. List two reasons some Christians used to accept the propositions of the idolators.
304. Individual Christians who joined with the idolators did what to those bearing the white banner?
305. What did some professed Christians do to the Jews, and why?
306. Why did God scatter the Jews over the world?
307. Name two things some Jews will see, and who they will receive.
308. What is the current status of the Jewish nation in God's eyes?
Bonus questions: Are there times when it is good to "lower the standard"? Is there a difference between "lower the standard" and "compromise"?
Lesson 18: Mystery of Iniquity
309. List two things Satan has always been designing to do.
310. What did the church leaders do to the Bible, and why?
311. In actuality, the popes and priests were whose representatives?
312. Why were many Christians slain in a dreadful manner?
313. What did the church leaders do with the copies of the Bible they could find?
314. What was God's plan to do with the Bible in the last days?
315. Those who had a chance to read the Bible, how did they feel?
316. Satan doesn't care if we believe the Jewish things stopped at the cross, if he can push us farther to believe what?
317. All heaven knew that God could not do what two things with his law?
318. If the law could be done away, what might have happened?
319. Had the church remained _______ and _________________, Satan could not have _______________________________, and
320. In doing away with the law, Satan is striking directly against what?
321. Satan tried to corrupt which commandment, and why?
322. How did Satan use the resurrection to serve his purpose?
323. How long will this deception be allowed to continue?
324. If the Sabbath should be changed, what day should it be changed to and why?
325. How do the crucifixion and resurrection reflect on the law?
326. What two things do we do today to commemorate the crucifixion and resurrection?
327: Who will keep the Sabbath, to whose honor, and for how long?
Bonus questions: Do we consider reading the Bible an exalted privilege today? How much effort has Satan put into changing the fourth commandment?
Lesson 19: Death, Not Eternal Life in Misery
328. Where did Satan teach his first lesson on the immortality of the soul?
329. What was the tree of life for?
330. When the soul that sins, dies, what does that do to the wrath of God?
331. Said the angel, Life _______________, ____________________________________________. Death is __________________, ________________, _________________.
332. As the people believe Satan's lie that man is immortal, Satan holds up what kind of God before them?
333. Satan leads some to another extreme, and represents what kind of God before them?
334. Why does another class of people not love the Bible?
335. Another class of people goes still further, and does what?
336. Why does another class of people lose their minds?
337. So that even the weakest person need not err, what did God do?
338. Near the close of time, what was to be done with the Bible, and why?
339. Have any words been changed in the Bible?
340. List two ways we can know that true seekers for truth don't have to err.
341. Do many people desire life?
342. What must God do to those who do not choose to accept salvation?
343. If God took the wicked to heaven, how would they feel there?
344. By sending the unholy back to the dust from which they were created, how should that make us think of God's character?
345. What did Satan and his angels tell the good angels?
346. Why was the church of God then, pure?
Bonus questions: Why do nearly all humans want to believe the falsehood that some part of you keeps living even after you die? What is the best way to answer people who say there are errors in the Bible?
Lesson 20: The Reformation
347. Where were the angels of God searching, and who were they searching for?
348. List three reasons Luther was chosen.
349. Compare before and after Luther received light from heaven,
a. What was he trusting in?
b. How was he coming (or trying to come) to God?
350. What did Luther, in the power of the Holy Spirit, raise his voice against?
351. How were Luther and Melancthon able to help each other?
352. If the work had been left to either of these men alone, what would have happened to the work of God in each case?
353. The Luther-Melancthon team is similar to what team in the Bible?
354. Some of God's witnesses were permitted to be killed, but why not Luther and Melancthon?
355. Those few Christians were strong in God, and ________________________
356. When was the church united and loving?
357. List two kinds of sinners not permitted to unite with the church then.
Bonus questions: Why did countries where the Reformation was the strongest become rich and strong? Most people in those same countries today are rejecting the Reformation. What results can we expect?
Lesson 21: The Church and World United
358. How did even the most timid Christians maintain their faith when facing death?
359. Instead of the church contending for the faith, what did Satan lead them to fight for?
360. What did the church stop doing, which made her lose her power?
361. List three things the church would do if she had always retained her holy and peculiar character, and how her enemies would view her.
362. What two things must our faith in Jesus lead to, and if it doesn't, allows Satan to use us in his service better than if we had no faith?
363. How are those who possess pure and undefiled religion brought into disrepute?
364. Why are some retained in the church even tho they are no more fit to be there than Satan and his angels?
365. How is the religion of Jesus made to appear to the world?
366. Those who followed Him (Jesus) _________________________.
367. List three things that God's message for the church would do.
Bonus questions: What are some of the traditions in the churches which are ruining millions? Does God's church today (SDA) seek the favor of the world sometimes, and if so, give examples. Is God's church today a "terror to her enemies", and if not, why not?
Lesson 22: William Miller
368. Who repeatedly visited William Miller, and what did they help him to understand?
369. When he couldn't understand one part of scripture, what did he do?
370. William Miller saw that the churches were loving what?, and were seeking what?, and were ambitious for what?
371. _____________, ______________, and _________ he could see everywhere.
372. What Old Testament man and New Testament man is William Miller compared to, and why?
373. What two things did the Lord's angel reveal to John?
374. How did the angel's face change as he showed John the final triumph of the church of God?
375. List two things John saw that led him to fall to worship at the angel's feet.
376. Which book of the Bible is especially for those who live in the last days, and what two things will it guide them in?
377. How could the people have better understood the visions of John?
378. By showing the harmony of the visions of Daniel and John and other portions of the Bible, William Miller did what?
379. Name two things that were enough to lead William Miller to endure toil, privation, and suffering.
380. What did William Miller cry out?
Bonus questions: Why did God especially send his angels to help William Miller, and not others? Why is a major portion of this chapter devoted to John?
Lesson 23: The First Angel's Message
381. List two things that God designed in the 1843 message.
382. How many professed ministers of Christ gave the message?
383. Sinners ____________, _______, and __________________________________.
384. Those who received the message labored for who?
385. This soul-purifying work led the affections AWAY from what, and TO what?
386. List three things their testimony was calculated to do to the churches.
387. The preaching of definite time brought opposition from who down to who?
388. Many shepherds who professed to love Jesus said they had no opposition to what, but did have objection to what?
389. But God's all-seeing eye read their hearts and saw what?
390. Those who would not be aroused from their carnal security loved what, and were content with what?
391. Those who did not accept the message did what to William Miller and those with him?
392. The most devoted knew the message was from whom?
393. Was the First Angel's Message given at the correct time?
394. When the churches rejected the message, what did Jesus do towards them?
395. What did Satan and his angels cast in the face of Jesus and his angels?
396. Whose hand covered a mistake in the reckoning of the prophetic periods, and why did he do it?
397. Those who had embraced the message through fear professed belief, but their profession had not done what to their hearts and lives?
398. How did Jesus and the heavenly host look upon those people longing to see Jesus return?
399. How did God feel toward those who would not receive the light he had sent them?
400. Among many of the believers, did they have more energy in the 1843 message, or the 1844 message, and why?
401. Those who did not receive the message, congratulated themselves for what two things?
402. Why did the churches shut the 1844 message believer's testimony out of the churches?
403. The believers were shut out of the churches, and prepared for what?
Bonus questions: Was the Seventh-day Adventist church built on a failed time prophecy? In paragraph 7, what is the mistake in the reckoning of the prophetic periods?
Lesson 24: The Second Angel's Message
404. What did the churches do that made them fall from God's favor?
405. How did the beloved of God answer the message?
406. When did the great light shine upon the people of God?
407. Why was the midnight cry given?
408. Who were the angels sent to, and what did they constrain them to do?
409. Were the leaders in the work also leaders in receiving and helping to give the midnight cry?
410. The midnight cry led the believers to do what?
411. List three things the saints did while waiting for their Lord.
412. How did Jesus look upon his people then?
413. They had made a _________________ ________, an _______________________, and _______________________________ _____________.
414. What caused many to recover from their fear and start mocking God's people?
Bonus questions: Are the churches that fell in 1844, still fallen today? It seems that very few times in history have God's people been accepted with him. What appears to be the requirements to be accepted with him?
Lesson 25: Advent Movement Illustrated
415. Describe where the eyes were directed of both those who seemed to have no connection with Jesus, and those receiving beams of light from Jesus.
416. Who could be enlightened by the glorious light?
417. Those who received the light raised their voices in harmony with whom?
418. What contrasting styles were used by the ministers and leading men who had rejected the truth, when fastening the cords?
419. List three things the above men were constantly saying.
420. Who conversed with the second angel, and what did they cry?
421. Those who cherished the light united with whom, and what did they cry?
422. List five things "a large number" did.
423. What was the answer to those reaching out for help?
424. Where did the free company appear to be?
425. How did Jesus look upon those who were gazing up with intense interest?
426. They must yet ___________________ _____________________________. They must ______________________________
_______________________, and________ ________________________________. They must _____________, ____________
427. What was the joyful company correct in, and what were their mistakes?
428. Whose disappointment was the author shown next?
429: List three things Jesus had his angels tell the disappointed ones he must do before he returns to earth.
430. The disappointment of the disciples well represents whose disappointment?
431. Whose disappointment was greater, the disciples, or the believers in 1844?
432. What did the first and second angels' messages accomplish?
Bonus questions: What may be some reasons ministers and leading men told lies to the people by saying that they had the truth and that God was with them? Can we look at the disciples' experience to gain further insights into our experience in the future?
Lesson 26: Another Illustration
433. Who did Jesus commission to go to earth, and what two things was he supposed to do?
434. Did everyone who received the light react the same way?
435. All who received the light did what two things?
436. Why was the angel watching the professed people of God?
437. How did all those in heaven feel when they saw many who professed love for Jesus rejecting the message?
438. What was God's purpose in using a point of time?
439. The majority of Christ's professed followers were led by Satan to do what?
440. The majority of the disappointed ones had greater energy in 1843 or 1844, and why?
441. What will happen to those who have mocked and scoffed at the idea of the saints going up?
442. List 3 things Jesus commissioned other angels to do.
443. What two things did Satan's angels tell God's angels?
444. What did the angels of God do?
445. How did Jesus and all his angels look on the faithful people?
446. How did Jesus react to those who had rejected him?
447. List 3 things the people did to know the will of God.
448. Satan could not keep the light from God's people as long as they did what two things?
449. Jesus bade his angels to do what?
450. God's mercy and goodness is shown by messages leading his people to do what?
Bonus questions: What are some of the errors handed down by heathen and papists? Explain in detail the 1843 disappointment.
Lesson 27: The Sanctuary
451. In the 1844 message, what failure was on God's part?
452. In the 1844 message, what error was on man's part?
453. What two things had Jesus gone to do in the Most Holy Place?
454. The cherubs on each end of the ark looking downwards represent what?
455. What looked like smoke of beautiful colors?
456. As Ellen White saw the glory come from the Father to Jesus to the saints, what was she forced to do?
457. What did the sanctuary upon earth resemble?
458. What did Jesus do to enter into the heavenly sanctuary?
459. List two things the rending of the temple vail showed.
460. What two things did Jesus go to do in the Most Holy Place?
Bonus questions: What does it mean to "marry the New Jerusalem"? Why does Jesus' priestly robe have bells and pomegranates around the bottom?
Lesson 28: The Third Angel's Message
461. Who put a parchment in an angel's hand and sent him to earth?
462. List two things the third angel's message is to do to the children of God.
463. Although God's children's lives are at stake, what must they do?
464. As the third angel repeats Revelation 14:12, what does he point to, and why?
465. Jesus makes his final intercession for what two groups?
466. When was the light of the Sabbath seen?
467. How did the people of God follow Jesus into the Most Holy?
468. Why does joy and hope spring up again?
469. How does the 4th commandment appear, compared to the other nine?
470. When the remnant see they have observed a day handed down by the heathen and papists, what two things do they do?
471. The remnant join in whose work?
472. When many embraced the message of the third angel, what two things did they do?
473. What did the people embrace in their order?
474. How can we be shielded against the many delusions of Satan?
475. After the great disappointment, when did some people say the 1st and 2nd messages were fulfilled, while others said when?
476. Some searched the Bible to do what?
477. Did many who led in the 1st and 2nd angels' messages deny them?
478. At length _______________________
479. When will William Miller come forth from the grave?
Bonus questions: The prayers, censer, smoke, and light from God are mentioned in both chapters 27 and 28 - why? Is it necessary to believe the 1st and 2nd angels' messages today? What is the anchor to hold God's people now?
Lesson 29: A Firm Platform
480. How many steps are there going up to the platform, and what do they represent?
481. The manner in which they are received will decide what?
482. How had the people of God obtained their experience?
483. List 4 things those that stood firm on the platform did.
484. Name two things the Jews rejected.
485. List 3 things the rejecters could not be benefited or blessed by.
486. What did God do with the love people professed for Jesus?
487. What two things did the people reject in the 1840s?
488. List 3 things the rejecters could not be benefited by.
489. What of the Jews is useless, and what, of those who did not enter by faith into the Most Holy Place, is useless?
490. What will happen to the world and churches when false reformations die away?
491. I saw that God had ________________ _____________________________, and _______________________, and ministers and people __________________________ _______________________, ___________ ___________________________________, and they will ________________________ _______.
492. What will Satan do before the loud cry of the third angel?
493. Every one of the honest ones will do what two things?
Bonus questions: When were the Jews left in complete deception and total darkness, at the cross, or at Stephen's death? How many steps, messages, and angels (with their number attached to messages) are there, and why?
Lesson 30: Spiritualism
494. See definition of "rapping".
495. Satan has power to do what?
496. Why will Satan do this?
497. What three "musts" are required of the saints?
498. Why is it important to understand the state of the dead?
499. How will we have to contend with this delusion?
500. If we don't prepare for this delusion, what will happen to us?
501. God is willing to send every angel in heaven to help faithful souls, but on what condition?
502. Was the whole world aboard the train?
503. Was the conductor of the train handsome?
504. Why is the world given over to strong delusions?
505. Where is the train going?
506. Was the little company traveling close to the train?
507. What bound the little company together?
508. How did the little company look?
509. See definition of "precious" and "vile".
510. What is the one piece of evidence that by itself is enough for the Christian to discover the snare?
511. See definition of "Thomas Paine".
512. Where does Satan say Thomas Paine is?
513. Was Thomas Paine a holy man?
514. By sending his angels to speak for the apostles, what will Satan do to the world?
515. What did the Holy Ghost dictate?
516. What will the lying angels do?
517. Why does Satan wish to get everyone into uncertainty about the word of God?
518. Satan assigns his angels to do what?
519. Are all of Satan's angels instructed to act the part of wicked men only?
520. There is no difference made between ___________________________________
521. List two easy things for Satan.
522. What is the masterpiece of Satan?
523. What is Satan virtually saying to the world and infidels?
524. What is the foundation of the Christians' hope?
525. Satan holds out what to take the place of the Bible?
526. What is the channel wholly devoted to Satan?
527. The Book that is to judge him and his followers is put where by Satan?
528. What is Jesus made to be?
529. List three things the deluded followers of Satan will repeat and try to make appear about our Saviour.
530. How will the deluded followers of Satan compare their works with Christ's?
531. When will the world discover their deception?
Bonus questions: Is Satan working here and there at random, or are he and his angels working very orderly? Why do very few people today believe that the Bible was dictated by the Holy Ghost? Is most of this chapter talking about symbolical things like movies and books that are of Satanic origin, or actual things that Satan will cause to happen in the future? Will these spiritual manifestations by Satan's angels and his deluded followers make the world laugh, or believe in them?
Definition: "Rapping" refers to the start of modern spiritualism - from the Fox Sisters in New York in 1848. They and their friends would sit around a table holding hands, and then ask questions to the spirit world. No one would be touching the table, but there would be knocks (raps), one knock for "yes", or two knocks for "no", etc.
"Precious" means "of high value", and "vile" means filthy. In a spiritual sense, "precious" means "holy", and "vile" means "unholy".
"Thomas Paine" was born in England in 1737, but lived most of his life in America. He is the greatest intellectual of the American Revolution. He wrote many beautiful things about each person using their free will, but he also wrote many things against the Bible, and said that anyone who believed in the Bible was not using their brains. His writings are still very influential today in many universities of the world.
Lesson 31: Covetousness
532. Satan told his angels to lay their snares especially for people doing what two things?
533. How would Satan hold the sleeping churches?
534. Who does Satan and his angels hate, and why?
535. Satan says: Make them care more for __________ than ____________________
____________________, or ____________ ___________________________.
536. Satan says to: Cause ______________ ___________. Destroy ________________ _____________________.
537. How does Satan plan to weaken the ministers' courage and zeal?
538. What is Satan's plan to surely get God's people?
539. Where is Satan and his angels when servants of God have meetings, and what do they do there?
540. When does Satan come in and wither up every noble and generous principle?
541. Like Judas, some people who don't know they are controlled by Satan have what traits?
542. What does God hate, and what does he think of the prayers of those who possess it?
543. What does Satan and his angels do with the covetous acts of God's people?
544. When God's people become weary of being generous, how does God feel about them?
545. Why is God greatly displeased with any selfishness in his professed people?
546. Who is our perfect pattern?
Bonus question: Give some examples of things to do to grow more into the principles of heaven.
Lesson 32: The Shaking
547. In the first sentence, what did "some" have, and what were they doing?
548. What did they look like?
549. By pressing their darkness upon those pleading with God, what four steps did the evil angels intend to lead them to do?
550. How many ways were there to keep safe?
551. How do good angels help the people of God with their wings?
552. Did everyone agonize and plead with God?
553. What happened to the darkness around those not resisting it?
554. Who did the angels assist?
555. Did Jesus sometimes send light to those pleading with God?
556. What exactly causes the shaking?
557. What is the effect on the receiver of the straight testimony?
558. Will everyone accept this straight testimony?
559. How important is the straight testimony to the church?
560. Those who truly receive the straight testimony will do what, and what will be done to them?
561. The voice seemed to be so full of ___________, __________________, and ____________, ____________.
562. What were those who were mightily shaken clothed with?
563. What did the victory call forth from those who were like a company of soldiers?
564. Those who did not prize salvation enough failed to do what three things?
565. What did those clothed with the armor do?
566. What was the only thing exalted to the honest?
567. What had made this great change from being bound, to losing fear of relatives?
568. What aroused and enraged the wicked?
569. Why were God's people crying unto God earnestly?
570. List two traits of God's people at that time.
571. What reason did the commanding angel give the other angels why they were not allowed to deliver God's people?
572. How did this company look after being delivered by the voice of God?
Bonus questions: What is "the testimony" mentioned in the fifth and sixth paragraphs? What standards should be exalted? What Bible situation is being referred to by "drink of the cup" and "baptized with the baptism"?
Lesson 33: The Sins of Babylon
573. Who is it impossible to distinguish from the world?
574. What are the only two things hateful to the carnal heart?
575. List three things lacking in the popular ministry.
576. What is the only thing that can overcome, and retain the victory over the powers of darkness? (find Bible text and name each part)
577. What awakens the spirit of persecution?
578. When were the churches left as the Jews?
579. What does God think of their prayers?
580. Compare how these people look upon themselves, and how Jesus looks upon them.
581. Why do the evil angels look upon the religious bodies with exultation?
582. What is the grievous sin some professed followers of the Saviour engage in?
583. Name two groups God's anger burns against.
584. In the day of execution of God's judgment, it will be less tolerable for those who oppress their fellow-men (slaves) than for who?
585. What kind of slave can God not take to heaven?
586. How will God show his compassion on that kind of slave?
587. How will the wrath of God be appeased?
Bonus questions: Who is Babylon? Is this chapter only for the 1860 time frame in America and the churches then, or does it have an application for the end time also?
Lesson 34: The Loud Cry
588. Who does "another mighty angel" unite his voice with?
589. The 2nd angel's message is given again, with what addition?
590. What did those who united in the message do?
591. This message joins the 3rd message as the _______________________ joined the _______________________ in 1844.
592. What do the saints fearlessly do?
593. Who left the fallen churches?
594. How many people are to be tested on the 3rd message?
595. What restrains those who wish to hinder this work?
596. List three things every saint does.
597. How do the saints' faces look?
598. What are the precious people hurried out of?
599. The excellent glory prepares God's people for what?
Bonus question: Is it important to not call this angel: "The Fourth Angel"?
Lesson 35: The Third Message Closed
600. What had God's people received and what had been revived?
601. Where was the last great warning sounded?
602. What was the work done by the angel with the writer's ink-horn?
603. What did Jesus say with a loud voice?
604. When was every case decided for life or death?
605. The judgment was going on for who while Jesus was ministering in the sanctuary?
606. Who had the control of man when Jesus left the Most Holy Place?
607. What breaks with fury on those who have slighted salvation and hated reproof?
608. After the close of Jesus' mediation, how were the saints living?
609. Some cursed God for the plagues, while others did what?
610. What did the saints do to help the sinners then?
611. How many people chose to accept the plan of salvation?
612. Who was hurrying to and fro?
613. What kind of famine was it?
614. Name two things the lost people prized higher than heavenly treasure.
615. List three things the wicked ministers told their people, and one thing they did not tell them.
Bonus question: Does Jesus place the sins confessed while in the Most Holy Place back on Satan before the 2nd Coming, or after?
Lesson 36: The Time of Jacob's Trouble
616. The saints left where to live where?
617. The leading men of earth wrote a paper giving orders allowing what?
618. How would God be honored?
619. How would Jesus be honored?
620. Why were the saints suffering great mental anguish?
621. Draw a picture of the relationship of the physical location of the 4 groups ---> the wicked, good angels, evil angels, and saints.
622. For what reason would God deliver the saints?
623. The saints are compared to who in the Bible, and how is their work similar?
624. God would not allow the wicked to destroy those who ____________________ __________________, and who would not __________________________________, or __________________.
625. Who would be happy if the wicked were permitted to slay the saints at that time?
626. What weapons did the wicked have to kill the saints, and what happened to those weapons?
Bonus questions: After the close of probation, will any saints die? Why is the saints' experience compared to Jacob's?
Lesson 37: Deliverance of the Saints
627. What time did God choose to deliver his people?
628. What happened to the streams?
629. Who came up out of their graves glorified?
630. How did the words as they came from the mouth of Jehovah sound?
631. When did the saints give a mighty shout of victory over the beast and his image?
632. When did the jubilee start?
633. Why did the wicked master not know what to do?
634. Describe what Jesus wore, his eyes, feet, voice, countenance, and what name he had written on his clothes and thighs.
635. What did the earth and heavens do?
636. What had the saints said during the terrible scenes?
637. Those sickly bodies _______________ ___________________________________
638. What two things were attached to the cloud, and what were they saying?
639. Before entering the holy city, how were the saints arranged?
Bonus question: By saying "at midnight" does it mean just where Ellen White was in this vision?
Lesson 38: The Saints' Reward
640. What two things does Jesus give the saints?
641. Are the saints in the city or outside when they receive their gifts from Jesus?
642. What makes Jesus satisfied?
643. What two parts of the tree of life do the saints eat?
644. The most exalted language cannot describe ___________________________, nor________________________________
Bonus questions: Will there be no more sorrow as soon as we enter heaven, or after the 1,000 years? Since there is no more death, why do the saints need to still eat from the tree of life?
Lesson 39: The Earth Desolated
645. Whose wrath had the wicked suffered?
646. Who were signal objects of that wrath?
647. After the saints were delivered, what did the wicked do?
648. What can Satan enjoy through the 1000 years?
649. List four reasons Satan suffers extremely during the 1000 years.
650. List three groups of beings who are happy that Satan cannot tempt them anymore.
651. Who were the wicked judged by?
652. What were the wicked judged by?
653. How were the wicked judged?
654. Where was the judgment against the wicked written?
655. Which comes first to this earth after the 1000 years, Jesus or the City of God?
Bonus questions: Why do you think the false shepherds had their eyes and tongues melted away? Can Satan still go to other worlds and tempt beings there now? Will the 1000 years be a vacation, or a period of active work?
Lesson 40: The Second Resurrection
656. Compare how those who came up in the first resurrection looked like, with those who came up in the second.
657. What group of people is singled out as being in pain from seeing Jesus?
658. ...they with one accord raise their voices, and with terrible distinctness exclaim, ___________________________________
659. What did Satan do to the weak among his subjects?
660. How many people were on Satan's side?
661. When the wicked are resurrected, where do their thoughts begin?
662. How does Satan try to deceive the wicked into believing that they can take the City of God?
663. Does Satan succeed or fail in deceiving them?
664. What do the wicked make?
665. What are the wicked expecting?
666. What makes the wickeds' courage fail?
667. What two things do the wicked sense?
Bonus questions: How can it be possible that the wicked are deceived by Satan to think they can fight and win against God? Will it be a short time or long time from the time the wicked are resurrected, to the time they are ready to fight to take the City?
Lesson 41: The Second Death
668. Who rains fire upon the wicked?
669. How long do some of the wicked burn?
670. List three things Satan must be punished and suffer for.
671. When all the wicked were consumed, what was satisfied?
672. What will God have?
673. What was the eternal inheritance of the saints?
674. The kingdom, _______________, and ___________________________________
_______________________________, was ___________________________________
___________________________________________, even _____________________.
Bonus questions: Why does the angel say a few words added from what is written in the Bible about the "worm of life"? When all the angels and redeemed see the final burning of the wicked, why will they say "Amen!"? Why is the grammar used more in the past tense rather than future tense?
Three Angels' Messages in simplified form:
1. Jesus is coming soon, get ready!
2. Leave the Sunday churches.
3. Keep the Sabbath.
Whole book bonus question: Do you want to make a covenant with God to do everything he says to be among that group that "cast their glittering crowns at the feet of their Redeemer, and prostrated themselves in adoration before him, and worshiped him that liveth forever and ever"?
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The field cricket is one of the most common household accidental invader insect pests. There are several species of field crickets ranging in size from 1/4 to 3/4 inch, but the best known is the black field cricket, a large, shiny black insect. Like other accidental invaders, field crickets spend most of their life outdoors where they feed, grow, develop and reproduce. Only during a limited portion of their life cycle do they wander indoors by mistake and create an annoyance.
Field crickets spend the winter as eggs laid in the soil. These eggs hatch in late spring or early summer, and tiny immature crickets called nymphs begin to feed on a variety of succulent grasses and weeds. The nymphs look like the adults except for their smaller size and the absence of wings. Nymphs develop into adults within approximately 90 days. The adults mate and lay eggs in late summer before succumbing to old age or freezing temperatures in the fall.
Chirping, one of the hallmarks of crickets, is done only by the males as a way to attract the females of their own species. Chirping is produced by rubbing the wings together.
There is no single, perfect solution for the control of crickets that are invading the house. Often some combination of the following suggestions will work. Ultimately, cricket problems end in the fall when the adults are killed by heavy frost or freeze.
1. Seal cracks, gaps and holes in foundation, siding, windows, doors, screens, and other possible entry points. Remove vegetation and debris from next to the house that serves as a hiding place or breeding site.
2. Reduce the number of pests at the source if possible. Spraying outdoor use insecticides on lawns, fencerows and other cricket habitats may help reduce the population of rickets. Spraying in mid summer when crickets are small is more effective than late summer applications.
3. Use barrier perimeter sprays on and along the foundation to stop migrating invaders. In years of abundance the barrier should extend all the way to the source if possible; that is,all the way to the fencerow, ditch bank or other identifiable habitat for crickets.
4. For invaders already inside the house, vacuum or sweep them up and discard.
For more information on insecticides that can be used outdoors please see "Insecticides in the Home Landscape and Garden." Indoor treatments with residual insecticicides have little in any benefit. Do not use lawn and garden insecticide concentrates indoors. The fly swatter, rolled up magazine, or vacuum cleaner are the easiest methods to eliminate crickets that are inside.
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A coming-of-age story about a boy who is used to flying under the radar, and the classroom of kids determined to help him stand out. This touching friendship tale is the perfect read for fans of Fish in a Tree and Song for a Whale.
"Austin’s narration is conversational and observant." -Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
If Austin picked a color to describe his life, it would be tumbleweed brown. Austin doesn't like standing out. He’s always the new kid, and there's no hiding his size. Plus, Austin has a secret: he struggles to read.
Then Austin meets Bertie, who is razzmatazz. Everything about Bertie is bursting! But the best part of his newest school is the Safety Squad, with their laser lemon vests. Their easy confidence and leadership stand out in the coolest way. Even when things are not so vibrant and life at home makes Austin feel pacific blue, for the first time, he wants to leave a mark. And the more Austin speaks up, the more he finds he may not be that different after all.
Austin is used to being the new kid in class; along with his mother, the presumed-white fourth grader has moved so many times that he has developed strategies to stay under the radar and to conceal his trouble reading ("If you turn the pages too fast, teachers notice"). On his first day at a new school, Austin meets blue-eyed, effervescent classmate Bertie, who encourages him to apply to Safety Squad. Taciturn Austin relishes the idea of helping younger kids "on the bus and off the bus with their huge backpacks and their shoebox projects," and though he imagines doing the job with easy confidence, he can't bring himself to ask his unpredictable and avoidant mom to sign the permission slip. Austin's narration is conversational and observant, threaded with descriptive colors and metaphors that hint at his learning obstacles: "It wasn't like I could tell her that the words started to look like bricks, and the letters started to look like ants, and then the ants turned into dead leaves that were shriveled up with the edges all curling." Swender's (Solving for M) brief, textured tale never spells out the extent of Austin's reading difficulty, while his vigilant protection of his secret and near constant anxiety at it being discovered imbues this thoughtful character study with tension and drive. Ages 9 12. Agent: Jennifer Weltz, Jean V. Naggar Literary. | <urn:uuid:4880d72c-0bcb-4f7e-a846-6a1dc4ef3df0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.apple.com/us/book/id1553001877 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.971811 | 540 | 1.757813 | 2 |
When a little bug sneezes a riot breaks out as one accident leads to another, and another… until the whole town is caught up in the ensuing chaos. Young readers will delight in this action-packed tale of mishaps and mayhem!
This title belongs to the highly acclaimed Beginner Book series developed by Dr. Seuss, in which the essential ingredients of rhyme, rhythm and repetition are combined with zany artwork and off-the-wall humour to create a range of books that will encourage even the most reluctant child to learn to read.
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NECC’s Associate of Science in Business Transfer is for you if you are interested in transferring to a four-year college or university to receive your bachelor’s degree in business. With this program, you can satisfy your basic liberal arts and business administration courses at a fraction of the cost of most four-year schools’ tuition. You will also enjoy the convenience of staying close to home, and benefit from our small class sizes and helpful student support services, and then transfer your credits to a bachelor’s degree program.
While enrolled in this program, you will gain the necessary skills to communicate effectively in a college classroom environment. You will also apply critical thinking to address and solve problems associated with the chosen career field, and utilize technology, where applicable, to complete assignments. These are the same skills that will be required as you advance academically. Whether transferring to a public or private college or university, students completing the Business Transfer program are positioned to be successful.
In addition to preparing you to transfer to a public or private four-year school, NECC offers internships at local companies such as Raytheon, UPS, and local non-profits. Co-operative learning opportunities at a variety of local businesses are also available to interested students.
Graduates can pursue many career paths, and job settings and titles vary widely. Business directors and managers play a crucial role in the fields of marketing, advertising, sales, finance, banking, sports, entertainment, and many other related fields. Job prospects remain steady, and today’s graduates enter an exciting and evolving era in the world of business.
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Dropped Solutions – Picking the Right Shed For Your Demands Shed Solutions is a firm based in Edmonton, Alberta. It supplies a full series of services, including the production, setup, and financing of storage sheds. The business uses 3 people, including one supervisor, and also creates $434,826 in sales annually. It is backed by the Dun & Bradstreet Data Cloud and also is a self-service online directory and research study device. It helps you locate appropriate contacts, prioritize your prospects, and involve with vital acquiring groups. Depending on your requirements as well as budget, you can select in between various kinds of sheds. If you have actually limited room, a corner shed may be just what you require. These sheds are commonly 3 feet broad, one m high, as well as 50 cm deep. Horizontal and also upright sheds are additionally offered. Device sheds are made to fit tools and also accessories and also typically feature shelving as well as hooks to store these devices. You can likewise opt for gabble-style roofed sheds that resemble traditional Dutch barns. When it pertains to materials, choosing the right kind of timber to construct your shed is crucial. While timber is usually cheaper than steel, you may need to buy specialized tools in order to customize it. As well as because wood is renewable, many house owners choose it over steel. But before you pick your product, make certain to think about the adhering to pointers. A better shed is made with resilient materials. As an example, plywood is an excellent product for a storage shed due to the fact that it can withstand the components, while engineered wood is much more sturdy against termites and also fungal decay. If you are looking for a shed for saving seasonal designs, or a workshop, you might wish to look into a storage shed in the yard. These can likewise be used for seasonal decoration and for storage of extra furniture. In addition to acting as an attractive storage space area, backyard storage remedies are likewise a cost-efficient service for storing seasonal products and also lorries. If you can not pay for a premium storage space system, a backyard storage space shed might be the excellent service. If you have a lot of devices as well as want to utilize a room for pastimes and also crafts, think about a steel shed for your workshop. These can be 100 square feet or even more, as well as you can include workbenches as well as shelves to make your workshop as useful as possible. A workshop can additionally be placed just actions away from your backdoor for simple access. Along with the garage, a shed can be made use of as a workplace. The firm likewise supplies personalized shed prepare for houses as well as companies. Bigger wood yard sheds are offered also, with many of the very same attributes as well as benefits of a house. These sheds use more room for hobbies and also relaxation, and might even act as a second house. Small wooden yard sheds have actually also ended up being preferred as outside offices for remote employees. A sector has actually emerged to fulfill this expanding need, as well as yard office sheds can be purchased as “off the secure” remedies. When choosing a yard workplace, take into consideration all of the advantages it needs to supply and also select the one that will fulfill your requirements the best. | <urn:uuid:880fd922-4c86-4107-bfd6-c70392a3d9d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://soccer10.info/finding-similarities-between-and-life-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.98236 | 674 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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"Our bills have gone down," said Bergman.
Consumer Reports' Dan DiClerico says those are all good moves. But there's even more you can do to cut your energy bills.
"Roughly 50 percent of residential energy bills go towards heating and cooling," said DiClerico.
Consumer Reports says you can save about $550 a year in energy costs if you know where to look. First, focus on eliminating any leaks around doors, windows, and electrical outlets.
"You can check for air leaks with an incense stick," said DiClerico."First, turn on an exhaust fan in your home. Then, light the stick, and hold it up to any openings. If smoke starts to blow horizontally, you've got a leak."
A Consumer Reports' survey found only 12 percent of homeowners have added or upgraded their insulation in the last three years.
"A good place to start is in the attic. Look for missing insulation where heat can escape, including above the attic hatch door," said DiClerico.
Also, make sure your existing insulation is thick enough. For fiberglass or rock wool, you want at least 11 inches of insulation. For cellulose, you want eight inches or more. And don't forget to insulate your plumbing and ductwork, too.
"In our survey, only five percent of people insulated their heating and cooling ductwork," explains DiClerico. "Now it could cost you about $500 to hire someone to do your ducts, but you could end up saving $400 a year."
How and when you wash your laundry can add up to more energy savings, too. It turns out only 38 percent of people surveyed by Consumer Reports always wash their clothes in cold water. That can save you up to $60 a year. But 73 percent of people do wait to run a full load in the washing machine. That's another way to cut your costs. | <urn:uuid:283d4bd3-fea3-4439-b005-f1980a291161> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://abc7.com/archive/7011100/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00008-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956359 | 433 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Valued at $162 billion USD in 2020 — and expected to reach giddy heights of $295 billion USD by 2026 — to say that the gaming market has exploded over the last decade is one of those assertions which falls squarely into the “understatement” category.
Not so long ago, in the grand scheme of things, gaming was a pastime considered niche for adults — the prerequisite of those less than generously, but more than frequently, caricatured as odorous basement dwellers — but mostly thought of as something created for and best left to children.
But that perception has all but evaporated, along with similar prejudices about those who read comics or watch animated films and TV. The popularity of Marvel movies has certainly done much of the heavy lifting in terms of proving the mass-appeal popular culture value of these once fringe interests. And now there’s no going back.
As a society, it seems we’ve learned to accept that each of these things is an art all of its own and a more than worthy way to spend our time without couching or apologising as if there were something embarrassing about it.
And so, naturally, what we welcome into our lives we welcome into our homes. And, for gaming, this holds especially true.
In the mid-to-late 90s and the early 00s, when I was a kid casually playing games in an online environment that still felt new and exciting, the logistics were a nightmare.
The speed would make Keanu Reeves sweat buckets. If the phone rang — or if someone in your own home dared to even lift the receiver high enough to coax out a dial tone — you were disconnected without warning or mercy. The computer itself was probably in a dark room somewhere that bore little resemblance to the rest of your house.
But we’re living in a different world now. We’ve moved from isolated PCs buried in the family “office,” through games consoles attached through a dodgy SCART cable to a secondary TV in some low-tier room of the house, and into a set-up where gaming takes pride of place.
It’s perhaps no surprise we’ve come so far — certainty not to long-time gamers, who have known all along what the rest of us are just catching up to: gaming is good for us.
In a world that demands connection to real-time events at every given moment, even multiplayer gaming feels like a step back from all that: a chance to simply zone out from life — to ignore the timeline and the news ticker — in favour of solving puzzles and completing missions that have no bearing on life. The chance to immerse yourself in something that only matters while you’re doing it — with no knock-on effects or repercussions — is an understandably welcome relief with more or less universal appeal.
Gaming isn’t just more appealing than ever in an abstract, almost philosophical sense, though. Thanks to the advent of Cloud Gaming technology, it’s also a more enticing prospect from a logistical point of view. That is to say: it’s easier to play games than ever before.
Cloud Gaming technology essentially eliminates the need for clunky consoles — both space thieves and aesthetic nightmares — and uses smart technology to transform anything from one TV to an entire room into a subtle, design-friendly gaming haven.
Being able to play XBOX games without, oh — you know — an XBOX, for example, more or less changes everything. In making gaming more accessible, Cloud technology effectively challenges ideas about who gaming is for, by making it available to everyone with a much less obtrusive level of commitment.
It’s an interesting development and kind of a hairpin swerve from where it felt like things were going. Or, at least, where they’d been idling.
For the longest time, it seemed like gaming had taken the stubborn position that more really was more: more consoles, more controllers, more adjacent tech. Motion sensors, gaming chairs, VR headsets. If you weren’t a capital “G” Gamer, all of these things felt like they were for someone else. For not only a different kind of game-playing experience, but a different kind of lifestyle.
Cloud Gaming takes us down another path, integrating with our homes rather than squatting in them, inviting gaming into our lives as a stress and clutter free extension.
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By Carol Morello
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 23, 2010; A18
The 32,000 residents of rural Botetourt County in southwestern Virginia were census overachievers this year. As of Thursday, 83 percent of them had mailed in their questionnaires, far surpassing the 60 percent who returned their forms in the 2000 Census and the current statewide average of 75 percent.
Local officials did nothing different. Assistant County Administrator Spencer Suter said residents were responding to the Census Bureau's $133 million ad campaign.
"I wish we could jump in there and claim a bunch of credit," he said. "But we haven't put a tremendous amount of time or money into it. It's a tribute to the work the census folks are doing this year."
As forms continue to trickle in, Americans are poised to match, and could overtake, the 72 percent who returned their short forms during the last census.
In many places, residents have done far better than they did 10 years ago. More than one in five of the nation's counties have outperformed their 2000 rate by five percentage points or more, according to an analysis by the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York. But many large cities have low response rates, as do some rural areas with many residents who are considered difficult to count. Typically, they are low-income people, immigrants and minorities.
Both the District and Virginia are improving on their 2000 performances, and Maryland has matched its 2000 rate.
The ultimate success of the census depends on the next phase. The Census Bureau is hiring about 630,000 temporary workers to go door to door, starting May 1, to find people who haven't yet returned their forms.
Although final mail-in response rates won't be available until next week, the assessment of the 2010 Census has begun.
Some had hoped the mail-in phase would outpace the nationwide participation of a decade ago. "In 2000, we had an undercount in communities of color and an overcount in white communities," said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and chairman of the Census Advisory Committee. "We shouldn't use it as a yardstick."More challenging
This census was considered more challenging than the last one because the recession led to foreclosures, vacant housing and more shared homes, all of which make it more difficult to count the population. And the census was, in effect, the face of Washington at a time of discontent with government.
"This is a very surprising and pleasing success," said Census Bureau Director Robert M. Groves, who noted that response rates for surveys both public and private have plummeted.
Steve Jost, associate director of communications for the census, said that matching the 2000 response rate "is a positive sign for the country. Maybe the country's doing better than news coverage suggests and people came together in this moment for the common good."
The Census Bureau's strategy was to spend lots of money promoting the census and its importance, both for apportioning seats in the House of Representatives and for spreading around more than $400 billion in federal funds every year.
Three decades of declining response rates reversed in 2000, when $100 million in paid ads replaced public service announcements that ran in the wee hours of the morning. This year, the Census Bureau budgeted $330 million for communications. More than a third went for advertising, most of it targeted at immigrants and other hard-to-count communities. The rest bought supplies for 165,000 partnerships the Census Bureau formed with local governments, businesses and organizations.Rulers, fortune cookies
The money bought, for example, small rulers and fortune cookies with census messages for Chisago County, Minn., where the response rate went from 54 percent to 81 percent.
It also bought trinkets to pass out at the county fair in neighboring Washington County last fall. The county's seat is Stillwater, home town of Rep. Michele Bachmann (R), a census critic who has said that her family would not complete the form beyond answering how many people live in their home. By Thursday, 84 percent of households in Stillwater had mailed in their completed census forms, the same percentage as in 2000.
"I haven't received any calls from any residents unhappy about the census or anyone asking about Michele Bachmann," said Amanda Hollis, the county's point person for the census.
Minnesota assigned two full-time employees and one part-time worker to canvass the state, set up booths at state fairs and passed out palm cards urging snowbirds to count themselves as residents of the state no matter where they were on April 1.
Other states were equally aggressive. In 2000, South Carolina had the nation's second lowest response rate, 65 percent. This year, it has reached 73 percent.
"We were determined not to be that low again," said Bobby Bowers, director of the research office at the state budget control board. Bowers helped persuade legislators to spend $1 million for billboards and other ads across the state. "I've been scaring the heck out of everybody talking about the loss of revenue," he said.
Ken Prewitt, director of the 2000 Census, said he had expected the response rate to fall 4 to 5 percent short of the 2000 response rate because of the recession and widespread suspicion of government. "The advertising campaign as well as the outreach effort arrested what would have otherwise been a decline in the mail-back rate," he said.
In some places, census ads raised expectations too high. In New Mexico's rural Taos County -- where 40 percent have responded, compared with 44 percent in 2000 -- many residents have been disappointed to learn the census won't send forms to post office boxes, said Mike Trujillo, chairman of the county's Complete Count Committee. When they call the automated help line, they get more frustrated.
"They're not going to give private information to a machine," Trujillo said.
Many of the roughly 300,000 people living in colonias along the Mexican border near Brownsville, Tex., had seen or heard Spanish-language census ads and were eager to be counted, said Michael Seifert, a former Catholic priest who works in those neighborhoods with the coalition Equal Voices. "There was a kind of energy," he said. "People would call and say, 'I didn't get a form. I want to be counted.' "
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KNOXVILLE – Sophocles’ tragedy “Oedipus the King” will run February 4-21, 2010 in the Clarence Brown Theatre’s Carousel Theatre. This production contains adult content.
“This play is an example–an ancient example–of a culture’s effort to make sense of the incomprehensibility of man’s existence. It raises searching questions about man’s place in the world–is man free or are his actions predetermined by some supernatural force? This question is at the heart of Sophocles’ play and one that has perplexed philosophers and theologians for centuries,” said director John Sipes. “Oedipus left his home to escape his “destiny” only to learn later that he had precisely fulfilled the god’s horrific prediction. Ironically, it is Oedipus’ choice to uncover the truth that destroys him; it is in exercising his free will that he discovers the horrible truth of his existence.”
Sipes is a second-year faculty member in the UT Theatre Department. Prior to this, he was the Resident Movement Director for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon. In thirteen seasons at the Festival, he worked on over 100 productions. Before joining the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he directed shows and choreographed fights for the Illinois Shakespeare Festival for twelve seasons; he served as the Festival’s Artistic Director from 1990 to 1995. Recent directing credits include “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and “All My Sons” at the Clarence Brown, “Henry VIII” and “King John” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “The Hollow” at the Milwaukee Rep, and “Julius Caesar” at Shakespeare Santa Cruz. He received an MFA in Acting from Indiana University. He is a certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique (AmSat), and a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. John also trained in Corporeal Mime with Etienne Decroux in Paris, and studied with Tadashi Suzuki in Japan.
The cast includes many talented resident artists, MFA students, and community actors, all of whom have been seen regularly on the CBT stages. They are: David Alley, Carol Mayo Jenkins, David Kortemeier, Donald Thorne, Cycerli Ash, Jessica Ripton and Matt Ventura.
The cast also includes three visiting guest artists. Jeremy Holm, a New York actor, returns to play the role of “Oedipus.” He previously appeared in the CBT productions of “Anna Karenna” and “The Trojan Women.” Elizabeth Norment, also a New York actor, will play the role of “Jocasta.” She has appeared on regional theatre stages, Broadway and in film and television, and she most recently performed in the one-woman show “The Year of Magical Thinking” at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre. Ned Schmidtke, formerly based in Chicago, now resides in Los Angeles where he maintains a busy career in television, film and theatre.
Visiting guest artist, Jennifer Tipton, designed the lights.
“Ms. Tipton is a two-time Tony Award and two-time Drama Desk Award winning Lighting Designer, and a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Genius Award. She has designed lights for theatre and dance on Broadway and in regional theatres across the country. In addition to her prolific professional career, Ms. Tipton has taught Lighting Design at the Yale School of Drama since 1981 where she has inspired countless young designers many of whom are now significant professional designers themselves. We all feel privileged to have the opportunity to collaborate with an artist of Ms. Tipton’s caliber,” Sipes said.
MFA set design student, Mary Pingree, designed the set.
“The set contains some architectural elements that harken back to the ancient theatres of Greece, and some others that could be found in our city centers today. So, the set will appear simultaneously foreign and familiar, old and new, much in the same haunting way the story of “Oedipus Rex” feels–at once mysteriously distant and unreal, while at the same time, disturbingly recognizable and very real,” Sipes said.
Marianne Custer, head of Design at UT, designed the costumes.
“Marianne’s costume designs suggest a modern world while simultaneously evoking aspects of the ancient past. Her designs, as always, contributed immeasurably to the shaping of our approach to the play” Sipes said.
UT Theater faculty member, Terry Silver-Alford, and resident sound designer, Mike Ponder, collaborated as Composer and Sound Designer.
“Our production will include some of Terry’s original music played on a “prepared piano.” Terry’s music captures exquisitely the mystery and haunting beauty of the play,” Sipes said.
Preview for the show is February 4. Opening night is February 5. The show runs to February 21. Evening performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Matinees begin at 2 p.m. For tickets, call the Clarence Brown Theatre box office at 865-974-5161, Tickets Unlimited at 865-656-4444 or online at http://www.clarencebrowntheatre.com.
Who: Clarence Brown Theatre in the Carousel Theatre
What: “Oedipus the King”
When: Feb. 4-21. 2010, 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m.
Tickets: Preview: Adult $20, UT Fac/Staff—BOGO $17, Seniors $17, Students $12, UT Students Free with ID
Opening: Adults $33, Students $20, UT Students $10 with ID
Wed/Thursday: Adults $22, UT Fac/Staff—BOGO $19 Seniors $19, Students $12, UT Students $5 with ID
Weekends: Adults $27, UT Fac/Staff-BOGO $22, Seniors $22, Students $15, UT Students $5 with ID
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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) announced that tomorrow, Wednesday, June 20, 2012, it will activate a flashing yellow arrow traffic signal at the intersection of Langworthy Road and Route 1 (Post Road) in Westerly.
This is the second flashing yellow arrow signal RIDOT has installed in Rhode Island. Motorists across the state will start seeing more flashing yellow signals as RIDOT completes intersection improvement projects. Departments of transportation across the country are embracing flashing yellow arrow signals at intersections with certain types of left-turn signals to improve safety and move traffic more efficiently.
The signal will replace an existing traffic light at this intersection as part of a $2.5 million resurfacing project for Dunn's Corner Road and this intersection. The signal will aid drivers making left turns from Langworthy Road northbound onto Route 1 South.
The new signal improves the existing left-turn signal by adding a flashing yellow arrow to the sequence of lights. Drivers still get a green arrow, indicating they can turn left while protected from oncoming traffic. When that time is over, the signal shows a yellow arrow, telling drivers that the signal is changing and they need to get ready to stop. The light then shows a flashing yellow arrow, which signals to drivers that they can proceed if the intersection is clear. Oncoming traffic has a green light during a flashing yellow arrow. The sequence typically ends by showing a steady yellow arrow followed by a steady red arrow, requiring a full stop.
National studies have found that intersections with flashing yellow arrow signals have fewer crashes as compared with traditional signals. Flashing yellow arrow signals also have been installed to minimize delay by providing more opportunities to make left turns.
RIDOT has developed a website (www.dot.ri.gov/engineering/trafficdesign/flashingyellowarrow.asp) to help explain the operation of this new technology. The page also contains links to other DOT websites that feature animations and videos showing how flashing yellow arrow signals work.
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In most diets, there is the concept of cheat meals. The purpose of cheat meals is to decrease envy and psychological stress. Imagine, you’re dieting and you have to go to a special event (birthday, etc.). Do you think you can eat the number of calories required by your diet? No, you’ll eat more calories.
Be careful because there are good and bad ways to handle cheat meals. The right way is to eat a few more calories a few days a month. Because you do it a few days a month, you’ll always have results.
The wrong way is to eat a cheat meal with a huge amount of calories, especially with dietary fats. It’s important to know that they contain chemicals that are like body fat. So, your body burns a small number of calories to produce energy to transform dietary fats into body fat.
Fat in cheat meals
Go further. Carbohydrates and proteins contain chemicals different from body fat. This means that your body must burn a good amount of calories to produce energy to turn them into body fat. Dietary protein, weight loss, and weight maintenance is a study that shows it.
In comparison, meals high in fat lead to the fastest and most significant fat gains. The result is a meal rich in carbohydrates or protein is a great choice to stay on track. This study, fat and carbohydrate overfeeding in humans: different effects on energy storage gives more details.
I noticed that there is a misunderstanding about a cheat meal. Some people do a cheat day instead. The problem is that they can eat 3,410 calories at the end of the day. This cheat day can destroy a week of progress.
Here is another fascinating fact, alcohol. When you go on a diet, you avoid it, but once the cheat meal is there, you drink. During this, you expect that you will be able to eat and drink the things that you cannot. Unfortunately, this is a bad idea. Alcohol stimulates the way your body converts the food you eat into body fat ( dietary fat, protein, etc.). Here’s what’s fascinating. Alcohol doesn’t make you fatter by itself, but it influences your body to produce more fat from what you eat.
Cheat meals help you reduce the pressure of dieting. Sometimes you want to eat something that you used to eat and you miss its taste. Use cheat meals in moderation to continue to have results. Don’t succumb to the temptations of those around you. You’re the one and only person who can transform your body, no one else will. Take care of your body.
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The BC Visibility Coordinating Committee (BCVCC) works with stakeholders to develop a visual air quality protection and improvement program for British Columbia. Formed in 2006, the BCVCC is a collaborative venture between B.C. Ministry of Environment, Metro Vancouver, the Fraser Valley Regional District, Environment Canada and Health Canada.
Follow the links below for more information on Canadian and international visual air quality improvement initiatives.
The work of the BCVCC has advanced on several fronts with expanded and improved visual air quality monitoring and modelling, enhancement of the ClearAirBC website, public launch of the visual air quality rating and the development of a stakeholder engagement plan. The 2015 BCVCC Annual report provide further details.
Additional work is reflected in the following documents:
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Missouri adopts policy for red-light cameras
A uniform policy for the use of traffic enforcement cameras was approved unanimously today by the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission.
The new standards require that all tickets for red-light violations be issued by an actual police officer.
Don Hillis with MoDOT says they also include updating warning signs ahead of intersections with red-light cameras.
"The simple change that we're recommending...is (to) add underneath the signing that we have there, 'Includes right turns,'" Hillis told the commission before the vote. "That way, (motorists) have been given some notification and have an opportunity to adjust their behavior as they approach the intersection."
Hillis also defended the use of red-light cameras, saying their use has saved lives in Missouri.
"The 44.7 percent reduction in fatality and serious injury crashes related to right angles," Hillis said. "A right angle (crash) is where the front end of one car hits the side of another car...(red-light cameras) work."
But Hillis also admitted that the number of rear-end crashes at intersections with red-light cameras rose slightly.
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In the case of plates or dishes with plastic parts, they can melt and release hazardous chemicals as the temperature inside the dishwasher increases. Generally, though, it means that the dish cannot withstand the steam and heat inside the machine. Usually, the dish in question will become damaged and useless.
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Dolphins: Spy in the Pod/Penguins: Spy in the Huddle DVD
Two nature documentaries narrated by David Tennant. 'Dolphins: Spy in the Pod' shows footage of dolphins from a unique perspective.
Through the use of cameras disguised as different marine animals, the film-makers were able to capture dolphin life from within the pod, with the dolphins accepting and allowing the cameras into their lives.
In 'Penguins: Spy in the Huddle', similar cameras were used to film different breeds of penguins and their lives from within the colony.
With features on emperor penguins, the humboldt penguin and the unusual rockhopper penguins that live in the Falkland Islands, the documentary explores a wide range of species and behaviours.
- Format: DVD
- Region: 2
- Certification: (Ex)
- EAN: 5036193031762
- Catalogue number: AV3176
- Studio: Acorn Media UK
- Release date: 28/07/2014
- Genre: Living World/Universe
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Business Communication entails all kinds of situations and scenarios that involve communication. Some may require inter-department memos, or emails to certain groups or even meetings among department heads. While most of these are simply day-to-day affairs for the efficient functioning of the company, there occasionally arise difficult situations that require tactful communications. And these are not always easy to conduct or be a part of. Confronting an employee or even a department head on an issue or problem is not pleasant and must be done with the greater good of the employee and company in mind. There is a significant amount of stock 3d bottom eyelashes skill that is required to navigate through difficult conversations in a smooth and tactful manner. In this article we will examine three such requirements for handling difficult conversations with ease:Thrur
- Affirmation: The worst manner to start a difficult conversation with an employee is to pounce on them with the issue as soon as they step in the door. It is very likely that the employee might already be apprehensive coming into the meeting, having his or her guard up. In such a situation it is not good to begin on a negative note. One of the most efficient communication techniques is to begin by affirming the individual. Voicing your appreciation for their work, their stock 3d bottom eyelashes and their worth to the company set the platform for having a probing conversation. This puts the employee’s mind at ease as they feel validated in their roles within the company and gives a sense of belonging.
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How to use Partiality in a sentence
This strange partiality is now to some extent intelligible.
The Sephardic Jews in all these respects occupied a superior position, and they merited the partiality shown to them.
They all are predaceous, powerful creatures, with a partiality for eggs.
In particular it is clear that the charge of partiality for Rome is unfounded.
He conducted the trial with marked partiality and malevolence, condemned the maid to imprisonment for life, and then, under pressure from the populace and the English, had recourse to fresh perfidies, declared Joan a relapsed heretic, excommunicated her, and handed her over to the secular arm on the 30th of May 1431.Advertisement
His administration of this office at a critical time was marked by his accustomed energy, but unfortunately also by partiality in the letting of government contracts, which brought about his resignation at Lincoln's request in January 1862 and his subsequent censure by the House of Representatives.
In both works he was drawn into controversy with Jean le Clerc, who was then writing his Bibliotheque universelle, and who accused him of partiality.
In contrast with the Schoolmen of the middle ages, he has no partiality for Aristotle.
That such was the case must not be entirely charged to partiality, still less to deliberate unfairness on the part of William I.
In all his writings he displays a strong partiality for everything Norman, and rates the Norman influence on French and English literature as of the very highest moment.Advertisement
The occurrence of the words "Achademia Leonardi Vinci" on certain engravings, done after his drawings, of geometric "knots" or puzzle-patterns (things for which we have already learned his partiality), helped to give currency to this impression not only in Italy but in the North, where the same engravings were copied by Albrecht Diirer.
The partiality that he showed for the Ruman and Szekler parts of the population alienated, however, the Transylvanian Saxons, who preferred the direct government of the emperor.
Joachim's luxurious habits, his partiality for adventurers, and his delight in building, led him to incur such a heavy expenditure that of ter pledging many of his lands and rights he was compelled in 1540 to appeal for help to the estates.
Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always.
Her partiality for him increased as her contempt and hatred of Darnley became more confirmed.Advertisement
His homilies, which are still preserved, furnish ample apology for the partiality of the people, exhibiting the free command of a pure and copious vocabulary, an inexhaustible fund of metaphors and similitudes, giving variety and grace to the most familiar topics, with an almost dramatic exposure of the folly and turpitude of vice, and a deep moral earnestness.
Mohallab was soon after deprived of the government of Khorasan, Majjaj accusing him of partiality towards the rebels of Yemenite extraction.
These demonstrations, however, were the outcome not of any returning partiality for her own family, but of her intense dislike, in which she resembled Queen Elizabeth, of any "successor," "it being a thing I cannot bear to have any successor here though but for a week"; and in spite of some appearances to the contrary, it is certain that religion and political wisdom kept Anne firm to the Protestant succession.
The rule of Charles, and especially his partiality for a certain Hagano, had aroused some irritation; and, supported by many of the clergy and by some of the most powerful of the Frankish nobles, Robert took up arms, drove Charles into Lorraine, and was himself crowned king of the Franks at Reims on the 29th of June 922.
A large population grew up, first at Kimberley, afterwards at Barberton, and finally at Johannesburg - a population modern in its ideas, energetic, educated, cosmopolitan, appreciating all the resources that modern civilization had to offer them, and with a strong partiality for the life of the town or the camp rather than that of the farm and the veld.Advertisement
William of Tyre speaks of him as a fine soldier, an able politician, and a good son of the church, and only blames him for partiality to his friends, and a forgetfulness of names and faces, which placed him at a disadvantage and made him too dependent on his immediate intimates.
This fault of partiality was, according to Polybius, a conspicuous blot in Fabius's account of his own times, which was, we are told, full and in the main accurate, and, like the earlier portions, consisted of official annalistic notices, supplemented, however, not from tradition, but from his own experience and from contemporary sources.
Thus his refusal to sacrifice Polish to Lithuanian or Lithuanian to Polish interests caused both Poles and Lithuanians to accuse the f ar-seeing monarch of partiality and favouritism; while his anti-German policy, on which the future safety of the dual state depended, could only be carried through by the most humiliating concessions to patrician pride and greed.
Like his predecessors, Addington continued to be a partisan after his acceptance of this office, took part at times in debate when the house was in committee; and on one occasion his partiality allowed Pitt to disregard the authority of the chair.
Otto's Latin is excellent, and in spite of a slight partiality for the Hohenstaufen, and some minor inaccuracies, the Gesta has been rightly described as a "model of historical composition."Advertisement
Forster thereafter ranked himself as a member of the Church of England, for which, indeed, he was in later life charged with having too great a partiality.
We will be gracious to the needy without partiality, and we must be gracious to the needy without partiality.
Almost every microscopist has had a particular group or type of specimen to which he or she has a special partiality.
Mrs Thrale could never understand the partiality which all her acquaintances felt for him and indeed Johnson seems to have irritated him at times.
The quality of light near maximum partiality was changed.Advertisement
The problem of national partiality is solved by the impossibility of impartiality.
Paul's selection reflects his own partiality to figurative painting.
Its repertoire includes a range of styles, from Gregorian chant to 20th century works, but with a strong partiality to Finnish music.
How can we die in wholeness when we have lived our lives in such partiality?
His great partiality for flogging was noted, but not held against him.Advertisement
Even such thoroughly immoral cultures as that of white slaveholders would seem sufficient to ground the sorts of national partiality she defends.
I feel that I have betrayed myself perpetually -- so unguarded in speaking of my partiality for the church!
Around the time of maximum partiality there was much singing from birds including wrens, robins and a blackcap.
All such solitary bulls, as their colloquial name indicates, are of a spiteful disposition; and it appears that with the majority the inducement to live apart is due to their partiality for cultivated crops, into which the more timid females are afraid to venture.
In 1704 St John took office with Harley as secretary at war, thus being brought into intimate relations with Marlborough, by whom he was treated with paternal partiality.Advertisement
This enthusiasm for Rome and for Roman virtues is, moreover, saved from degenerating into gross partiality by the genuine candour of Livy's mind and by his wide sympathies with every thing great and good.
I feel that I have betrayed myself perpetually -- so unguarded in speaking of my partiality for the church !
The ilex, also known as the "holm oak" from its resemblance to the holly, abounds in all the Mediterranean countries, showing a partiality for the sea air.
He died on the 2nd of July 1816, having occupied his latter years in the composition and revision of an autobiography (published in 1817), which, with all its egotism and partiality, is a valuable work, and the chief authority for his life.
Causes could be evoked to the tsar himself, " when any partiality of the judges in any affair in which they themselves were interested was discovered" (ib.).Advertisement
The poplars are almost entirely confined to the north temperate zone, but a few approach or even pass its northern limit, and they are widely distributed within that area; they show, like the willows, a partiality for moist ground and often line the river-sides in otherwise treeless districts.
When living near the coast foxes will, however, visit the shore at low water in search of crabs and whelks; and the old story of the fox and the grapes seems to be founded upon a partiality on the part of the creature for that fruit.
Throughout the war the Zulu showed marked partiality for the British side.
Edwy, to judge from the disproportionately large numbers of charters issued during his reign, seems to have been weakly lavish in the granting of privileges, and soon the chief men of Mercia and Northumbria were disgusted by his partiality for Wessex.
But the lammergeyer has also a great partiality for bones, which when small enough it swallows.Advertisement
These elements are, briefly stated, (1) a strong partiality for subjects dealing with humble life, in country and town, with the fun of taverns and village greens, with that domestic life in the rough which goes to the making of the earlier farces in English and French; (2) a whimsical, elfin kind of wit, delighting in extravagance and topsy-turviness; (3) a frank interest in the pleasures of good company and good drink.
The partiality for the chase which the ancient Egyptians manifested was shared by the Assyrians and Babylonians, as is shown by the frequency with which hunting scenes are depicted on the walls of their temples and palaces; it is even said that their 1 See on this whole subject ch.
Leaning on the bourgeois, conservative, liberal and anti-clerical republicans, they were no more able than was the Thermidor party to re-establish the freedom that had been suspended by revolutionary despotism; they created a ministry of police, interdicted the clubs and popular societies, distracted the press, and with partiality undertook the separation of Church and State voted on the 18th of September 1794.
Except in the case of a select few, Irving's preaching awakened little interest among the congregation of Chalmers, Chalmers himself, with no partiality for its bravuras and flourishes, comparing it to "Italian music, appreciated only by connoisseurs"; but as a missionary among the poorer classes he wielded an influence that was altogether unique. | <urn:uuid:d04e66ea-1be9-48a8-87d1-8adf34e9990d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/partiality | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.980413 | 2,308 | 2.296875 | 2 |
The California State Senate agrees with Charlie Rangel that they “deserve” to own guns but the citizens do not!
They voted 28-8 to exempt themselves from the gun-control laws that apply to the rest of the California.
You think maybe this will cause Californians to rise up? NOPE! It happened 5 years ago and since California has passed a plethora of other gun laws…that only apply to citizens.
Yes, you heard me right! The exemption was created in 2011 and the California legislature has passed a number of gun laws since. Pretty easy when you are passing bills that do not apply to you!
It is not the only special privileges California legislators provide themselves!
They do not pay red light camera bills or for gasoline!
How does it all happen so easily in California? The Washington Post explains:
Attempts by a handful of reformers to require politicians to provide a full annual disclosure of the benefits received from the public treasury have been rebuffed. Currently, government officials must file a statement of economic interests revealing income from any source other than a local, state or federal government agency. Gifts worth more than $50 also must be disclosed, but lawmakers rejected a bill that would have prohibited acceptance of concert and sporting event tickets, gift cards, spa treatments, golf outings and other benefits from lobbyists trying to buy votes.
Bills of this nature never meet an honest fate in which roll-call votes put members on the record as favoring or opposing each idea. Instead, reform measures are held in committee to die quietly as legislative deadlines pass. As of last week, it’s effectively impossible for a bill to become law if it hasn’t already passed in at least one of the chambers.
…and it just goes on and on!
Red Skelton said so eloquently in his commentary on the Pledge of Allegiance:
And to the Republic — A Republic: a sovereign state in which power is invested into the representatives chosen by the people to govern; and the government is the people; and it’s from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people.
California has it backwards, they are running with the method of “from the leaders to the people”
That is why I joined the 5 Million people who have fled California within the last decade.
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Norway to provide $9.4b loan to IMF
Updated: 2011-12-22 01:10
OSLO - Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday announced that Norway would provide a loan of 55 billion Norwegian kroners ($9.4 billion) to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to safeguard the global economy.
"Norway has today offered up to 6 billion Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to the International Monetary Fund, as a bilateral loan to contribute to stabilizing the European and global economy, and thus also to safeguard the Norwegian economy and Norwegian jobs," said Stoltenberg at a press conference.
The Norwegian loan, which needs approval from the country's parliament, will be part of the international effort to ensure the IMF has sufficient lending capacity to assist member countries with emergency funding, which is vital for countries in Europe, according to the Norwegian prime minister.
"Many of Norway's trade and cooperation partners are in a difficult economic situation. We have a strong interest in international economic and financial stability," said Stoltenberg.
Norway's loan offer is conditional, depending on a broader international effort, said a press release from the prime minister's office.
The eurozone countries promised Monday to make loans totalling 150 billion euros available for the IMF. Several EU countries outside the euro area have also declared their willingness to offer new loans. Countries outside Europe are considering additional contributions.
Norway's loans will be made available to the IMF's general lending operations and are meant to be available for all IMF member countries, said the press release.
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How to stop smoking tobacco in just 12 weeks!
Fri, September 20, 2019
By Rusan Healthcare
Once you commit to yourself that you want to quit smoking, you have won half the battle. Most people don’t try to quit because they think it’s too hard. Well, it is true in a way, quitting tobacco smoking is a very difficult task. It takes considerable willpower and a strong mindset to achieve your goal of being smoke-free. There are multiple strategies for breaking your addiction to cigarette smoking. It depends on your which method you choose to discontinue smoking. Although, ending your smoking habit will not happen instantly, but if you have the dedication you can quit smoking.
Why Smoking is so addictive?
Nicotine in cigarettes is responsible for the kick of pleasure & Wellbeing. Nicotine is not hazardous, but tobacco also contains other plenty of harmful and cancer inducing substances which are ingested as tar. Nicotine is a highly addictive substance, and this addictive quality is the cause of the continuing use of tobacco products. Nicotine, when smoked from cigarettes and inhaled, is quickly absorbed in the lungs.
Inhaled nicotine reaches the brain within 8 seconds. In the brain, nicotine acts on nicotinic receptors and immediately stimulates the release of chemical messengers that produce a feel-good effect. This feel-good effect reduces as the amount of nicotine decreases in the brain, which then triggers an urge in the smoker to light another cigarette, making it a hard chain to break. The brain seeks the feel-good effect regularly, thereby making smoking a habit.
Understanding the withdrawal symptoms in quit smoking?
One of the main reasons smokers keep smoking is nicotine. Nicotine is a chemical in cigarettes that makes you addicted to smoking. Over time, your body gets used to having nicotine. However, the more you smoke, the more nicotine you need to feel normal. When your body doesn’t get nicotine, you may feel uncomfortable and crave cigarettes. This is called withdrawal.
Most withdrawal symptoms begin within the first 1-2 days, peak in first week and last for 3-4 weeks. Listed are a few withdrawal symptoms:
Difficulty in concentrating
Craving for smoking
Nicotine Replacement Therapy
NRT is one of the most successful tools for treating smoking addiction. It consists of several quitting tools such as gums, patches, lozenges, inhalers, and sprays. They provide you the required nicotine supply which keeps you away from smoking. It is seen that people who use any form of NRT are more successful in quitting the smoking habit.
Nicotine patch therapy is one of the best ways NRT offers to quit smoking. A nicotine patch is a transdermal patch that releases nicotine into the body through the skin. It is used as an aid in NRT, a process for smoking cessation. When you apply the nicotine patch to your skin it starts to absorb the nicotine which later enters your blood. This nicotine released by the patch will suppress the smoking urges keeping you away from cigarettes.
2baconil’s nicotine patches are very effective and easy-to-use quit smoking aid. They are available in different strengths. 7 mg, 14 mg, and 21 mg are the patch strength you can buy. You can easily buy the nicotine patch from the pharmacies and can also order online to save time.
Follow these techniques for nicotine patches to work effectively
Wear the patch on your chest or high on your arm.
Put on a new patch after 24 hours. If you have trouble sleeping or have disturbing dreams, remove the patch before you go to bed and put on a new one first thing when you wake up.
No need to change your daily routine – with the patch, you can shower, swim and enjoy all your favorite physical activities. Side effects may include redness and soreness under the patch. To help reduce side effects, you should change the location of the patch each day.
Benefits of using patches
Is available in various doses without a prescription.
Is easy to use.
Can control nicotine cravings and withdrawal symptoms for 24 hours at a time.
Can be used in combination with other quit-smoking aids.
Can be gradually tapered off as your cravings and withdrawal symptoms decrease.
Nicotine gum is a type of chewing gum that delivers nicotine to the body. It is used as an aid in nicotine replacement therapy. It helps you to manage the nicotine cravings keeping you off cigarettes. They are available in a couple of different strengths 2 mg and 4 mg.
Follow these techniques for nicotine gum to work effectively
To release nicotine from the gum, bite a piece until it has a peppery taste, or you notice a tingly sensation in your mouth.
To let the nicotine, absorb, hold the gum between your gum-line and cheek until the taste or tingly sensation stops.
To release more nicotine, bite and hold again
Repeat the cycle for about 30 minutes, then discard the gum because all the nicotine in it has been used.
Benefits of nicotine gum
Is available without a prescription in two doses — 2 mg or 4 mg. Can control the sudden nicotine cravings and withdrawal symptoms that you might experience while using other quit-smoking medications.
Reasons you should quit smoking tobacco
Quitting smoking is one of the best things you can do for your health and for the health of your loved ones
You will look better and have more energy.
Tobacco stains will fade from your teeth, nails, and hands.
You will have more money in your pocket.
You will be free from having to find a place to smoke.
You will never have to worry about running out of cigarettes.
The smell of cigarettes will fade from your clothes, car, and home.
You will set a good example for your children and others.
NRT generally lasts two to three months. After this period the dose can be reduced gradually. The idea is to let the body get used to being without nicotine so that you don’t suffer withdrawal symptoms.NRT not helps you to quit smoking but also helps you to overcome nicotine withdrawal symptoms. Start with NRT and put an end to your smoking habit in just 12 weeks to live a tobacco-free life.
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For undergraduate courses in New Religious Movements (NRMs) or Religious Cults.
Taking the approach that new religious movements are neither new nor inherently evil or dangerous, New Religious Movements takes a more historical and cultural perspective than other books on the market.
Elijah Siegler wrote this book to counter the common misconception that NRMs first appeared suddenly in North America and Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that this is a myopic perspective that derives from the fear that "cults" were seducing a young and naïve generation into leaving their comfortable lives and shows that NRMs have been developing across the globe over the last few centuries. Most books about NRMs also begin from the question as to why anyone would join them but Elijah Siegler argues that this is not the most important question for students in classes on NRMs and his text assumes that people join NRMs for all sorts of psychological, theological, or cultural reasons.
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The Internet is not only holding up, but is also keeping the world going both social and economically during this crisis. This should be more than enough reason to never again question Net Neutrality and the need to understand the Internet as a public service. Instead, there have been several stories circulating about the risk to the internet from our excessive use in recent days. In this post, we analyse what could also be behind the news spread by the big Telecoms corporations and that are weaken democratic access to the Network of Networks.
The shock doctrine tells us that in emergency situations like the ones we are experiencing, every self-respecting wrongdoer will try to leverage the climate of fear to do things they wouldn’t normally get away with in a normal situation.
An example of this is how one particular news item has spread recently: just when we need it the most, we are told that the Internet is about to collapse, and moreover, it’s our own fault.
Why the Internet is the Internet
The reader has probably heard of a founding principle of the very structure behind the Internet called Net Neutrality, a principle that organisations all over the world, we have defended alongside. Broadly, this principle states that no preference can be given in network traffic to one over another, depending, for example, on what they pay. All bits and bytes on the net must be treated equally. Without it, the Internet would end up just like television, a space where content is decided by those who can afford it and the rest of us are passive users. We would only be able to buy packages separately: there would be packages for the poor with Whatsapp, Facebook and little else, which at first they would even offer us for free, but then you would have nothing else; the more you pay, the more you would be able to access. This would put an end to the global window that is the Internet we know today, which allows us to see and be seen.
Telecoms corporations and States (the less democratic they are, the more they oppose Net Neutrality) are the number one enemies of this principle because it limits the extent to which they can shovel their biases while monetising the net in a more capillary way. While democracy is crying out for the Internet to be treated as a public service, like water or electricity should be, the great economic and political powers that be are rowing hard in the opposite direction.
The argument and strategy of the Telecoms lobby against Net Neutrality has always been to whine and play the victim. Poor souls! Just think of all the money they’re forced to invest to offer everyone the same bandwidth.
The outburst of Covid19, which has left society in a state of shock, is an opportunity they could ill afford to waste.
A statement of terror
In a joint statement the great telecoms companies have come together to whimper about the situation (both in Spain and outside Spain). It is an interesting document, as pieces of propaganda go, one that bears analysing.
While we’re on the subject, the statement is also full of product placement, with the companies telling us that we have the best internet installations in Europe (haven’t they done a good job!) and that this is why it is able to withstand the 40% “explosion” in increased use (the figures are their own). They “call” for moderate use of the Internet because of the danger of it not holding up. Note that the biggest “explosions” in use that we see are usually caused by the consumption of live football (which now is not taking place), yet we’re not aware of any previous calls by the Telecom giants to moderate use during the Football Ligue.
What they’re saying is, if anything happens, it’s your own fault for watching too many series. The most surreal part of the statement, issued by these specialists, is when they advise “not to send mass emails”, which are in no way capable of collapsing the Internet.
What is also curious is that, while they were sending this statement to the press and the European Commission, many Telecoms companies were also putting out offers and free “gifts” to their customers consisting of more gigabytes and greater bandwidth, as well as more channels which is what consumes most bandwidth.
While we cannot deny an increase in traffic, there is no saturation of the system because if there were, they would not be able to add new audiovisual content for clients (new content, by the way, in direct competition with Netflix and similar, which, as we will see, are the ones who are being marked out as responsible).
Media outlets, some eager for news about Covid19, others simply unaccustomed to questioning communiqués handed down from “above”, have published it uncritically. No questions asked, no verification, fuelling the panic: “Most seen on social networks: Coronavirus ‘collapses’ the Internet”; “The Internet might collapse”, and so on and so forth.
The first step in their propaganda has worked.
The second step is to take the problem to the political institutions using their direct communication channels: the European commissioner responsible, Thierry Breton, was president of France Telecom until 2005. A few days later the EU issued a statement as a result of which Netflix and Youtube announced that they would be lowering the quality of their videos. This is a measure we believe to be sensible under the circumstances.
But we should be careful: as we have already said, we are not denying am increase in traffic; we are denying the impending collapse of the Internet.
For the European Commission to issue a statement to warn they are prepared to apply the European legislation on Net Neutrality, which provides that in emergency situations the flow to essential services will be prioritised, is not just normal, but should be spontaneous and natural. This is why Telecom companies are getting ahead of the game.
The subsequent EU communiqué has a disturbing bias: it transfers the authority to act to the Telecom companies. From the point of view of network neutrality —as expressed in the European regulations themselves— in cases such as this where it may be prudent or even necessary to lower the quality of the non-essential service such as Netflix or YouTube, the Telecom companies should be on the sidelines and not actively deciding strategy. Management of the traffic that passes through their networks, in cases of suspension of the Neutrality of the Internet – ike the suspension of certain fundamental rights such as those we are experiencing due to the State of Emergency -, is not the prerogative of these private companies, but of governments and parliaments. In order to impose restrictions on non-essential content providers such as YouTube and Netflix, the European Commission (or the Ministry, at the State level) must go directly to the source, to those providers. Let those who originate the traffic be the same ones who control that traffic from its origin. If the Telecom companies themselves act as Internet traffic police, they are both judge and jury. Their aim is to open the door to future control by operators of the traffic on their networks, giving them permission to discriminate and determine who uses them and for what products. This would be the end of Net Neutrality, of the Internet as we know it.
1 – Do you remember the case of the electrical companies complaining that the blackouts were happening because they didn’t have any money and in the end it was discovered they had actually been eluding taxes beyond our means?
When this crisis subsides, or perhaps even before, these telecom companies will take advantage of it to launch yet another attack on Net Neutrality by saying that we need to put an end to it in order to withstand future emergencies. We cannot afford to fall for it. It’s pure propaganda.
What we are seeing right now is the deployment of teleworking and digital management, something that should already be normal or, in any case, should be normalised in the digital age in which we live. It should not be labelled a “crash” of the Internet. We need this vital service just like all homes and businesses must have enough electricity to operate. And then, of course, they can add all the live football, channels and offers the Telecom companies want to give us. If their infrastructure, which we have all paid for together, is insufficient and they don’t want to spend money to adapt it, they are free to get into a different business.
2 – As we have seen, even if it were true that the network was collapsing, the very same European regulations for which we fought tooth and nail in 2016 , already has provisions for cases of emergency in which the flow will be prioritised for basic services. This crisis is further proof of what we have been advocating for in trying to protect net neutrality: The Internet should be a public, regulated service and not a market product.
3 – The data provided in these claims is provided by the Telecom companies themselves. Why is data on the state of the Internet not publicly audited in an independent manner in a way that is more transparent and more understandable for the public? The Covid19 crisis is clear proof that Internet use must be improved in all spheres, public and private. In this as in all areas, we need to know the data not only for transparency and to know we are not being taken for a ride, but so that anyone can work with them because citizen science is the future.
So, let’s not dance to the sound of the drums of these producers of systemic hoaxes .
Let’s continue to defend net neutrality and a free, more democratic Internet.
What is Net Neutrality?
Net neutrality wins in Europe
For more information on mass producers of systemic hoaxes, please refer to our book: “#FAKE YOU – Fake News y Desinformación” Governments, political parties, mass media, corporations, big money: monopolies of information manipulation and cuts to freedom of expression
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