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Researchers discover way to use the power of immunotherapy for advanced prostate cancer
Inhibition of key pathway promotes iron-dependent cell death in pancreatic cancer cells
It’s a scientific riddle tangled up in a complex web. How do you turn an immune cold cancer into one that responds to immunotherapy?
Researchers led by the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center started with a simple thread: an inhibitor that showed promise against metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer cells. This is the most challenging type of prostate cancer – advanced disease that has become resistant to hormone-based treatment.
From there, they continued to untangle the web to discover multiple levels of cellular processes that were preventing the immune system from mounting a response. Break past them with this inhibitor and suddenly what’s considered an immune cold tumor turns red hot.
“Immunotherapy has dramatically improved outcomes for some types of cancer. But prostate cancers are typically immune cold, which means these patients have benefited little from immunotherapies. Finding a way to rev up the immune response would create tremendous opportunity to improve patient outcomes,” said Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Michigan Center for Translational Pathology and S.P. Hicks Professor of Pathology at Michigan Medicine. Chinnaiyan is senior author of the paper published in Nature Cancer.
Researchers started by screening a library of 167 inhibitors against prostate cancer cells. They found one, ESK981, had the most impact.
ESK981 is a class of drugs called multi-tyrosine kinase inhibitors, which are designed to hit multiple targets. This means it functions like a combination therapy, able to block cancer on more than one front. It was originally developed to check blood vessel growth and has already been tested in phase 1 clinical trials, which found it to be safe and well-tolerated.
In cell lines and mice with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer, researchers found ESK981 inhibited tumor growth.
“The response was intriguing, but we wanted to understand the mechanism at play with ESK981 in prostate cancer cells,” Chinnaiyan said.
They discovered several cellular processes were occurring. First was the role of a type of cell death called autophagy. The authors surprisingly found that ESK981 was a potent inhibitor of autophagy in tumor cells. This caused the cancer cells to produce a protein called CXCL10, which led to recruitment of immune T cells to the tumor.
But there was one more layer to go. Ultimately, they traced it back to PIKfyve, a type of protein called a lipid kinase. The authors discovered that ESK981 directly targets PIKfyve, affecting these multiple processes involved in metabolism and cell death.
The researchers confirmed this by knocking down PIKfyve in cell lines and mice. They saw the same processes occur: tumors stopped growing, autophagy was controlled and more T cells were recruited to the tumor. When they added an immune checkpoint inhibitor to the PIKfyve knockdown, the impact was even greater, significantly reducing tumors.
“Overcoming resistance to immunotherapy is an urgent need in prostate cancer. PIKfyve is a promising target, especially combined with an immune checkpoint inhibitor. This combination has potential to extend the benefit of immunotherapy to patients whose tumors have previously not responded,” Chinnaiyan said.
Based on these findings, researchers have begun phase 2 clinical trials using ESK981 alone or in combination with the immunotherapy nivolumab for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer. Additional authors include Yuanyuan Qiao, Jae Eun Choi, Jean C. Tien, Stephanie A. Simko, Thekkelnaycke Rajendiran, Josh N. Vo, Andrew D. Delekta, Lisha Wang, Lanbo Xiao, Nathan B. Hodge, Parth Desai, Sergio Mendoza, Kristin Juckette, Alice Xu, Tanu Soni, Fengyun Su, Rui Wang, Xuhong Cao, Jiali Yu, Ilona Kryczek, Xiao-Ming Wang, Xiaoju Wang, Javed Siddiqui, Zhen Wang, Amelie Bernard, Ester Fernandez-Salas, Nora M. Navone, Stephanie J. Ellison, Ke Ding, Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen, Elisabeth I. Heath, Daniel J. Klionsky, Weiping Zou.
Funding for this work comes from the Prostate Cancer Foundation Challenge Award, National Cancer Institute Prostate SPORE Grant P50CA186786, Department of Defense grant PC130151P1, National Institutes of Health grant GM131919. In addition, individual researchers are supported by NCI grant R35CA231996, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, A. Alfred Taubman Institute, American Cancer Society, PCF Young Investigator Awards, DoD Postdoctoral Award W81XWH-16-1-0195, and the Academy of Finland.
Disclosure: The University of Michigan has filed a disclosure on the findings based on this study. Chinnaiyan and Qiao are named as co-inventors. Esanik Therapeutics Inc. licensed ESK981 from Teva Pharmaceuticals. Chinnaiyan is a co-founder and serves on the scientific advisory board of Esanik Therapeutics Inc. Esanik Therapeutics or Teva Pharmaceuticals were not involved in the design or approval of this study, nor was this study funded by them.
Paper cited: “Autophagy inhibition by targeting PIKfyve potentiates response to immune checkpoint blockade in prostate cancer,” Nature Cancer. DOI: 10.1038/s43018-021-00237-1. | <urn:uuid:08b15e58-5e20-4cdb-8d6f-6302d676d34c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rogelcancercenter.org/news/archive/researchers-discover-way-use-power-immunotherapy-advanced-prostate-cancer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.938987 | 1,220 | 2.25 | 2 |
Alberta Health Services has issued a public health advisory following the detection of a blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) bloom in areas of Lac La Nonne, Lac Ste. Anne, Isle Lake and the Paddle River Dam Reservoir. Please review the AHS recommendations below.
Residents living near the shores as well as visitors to these lakes, are advised to take the following precautions:
Avoid all contact with blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) blooms. If contact occurs, wash with tap water as soon as possible
Do not swim or wade, or allow your pets to swim or wade in any areas where blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) is visible
Do not feed whole fish or fish trimmings from this lake to your pets
Consider limiting human consumption of whole fish and fish trimmings from this lake, as it is known that fish may store toxins in their liver. (People can safely consume fish fillets from this lake)
As always, visitors and residents are reminded to never drink or cook with untreated water directly from any recreational body of water, including Lac Ste. Anne, at any time. Boiling of this water will not remove the toxins produced by blue-green algae. An alternate source of drinking water should also be provided for pets and livestock while this advisory is active.
Blue-green algae is naturally occurring and often becomes visible when weather conditions are calm. Appearing like scum, grass clippings, fuzz or globs on the surface of water, blue-green algae can be blue-green, greenish-brown, brown, and/or pinkish-red, and often smells musty or grassy.
People who come in contact with visible blue-green algae or who ingest water containing blue-green algae may experience skin irritation, rash, sore throat, sore red eyes, swollen lips, fever, nausea and vomiting and/or diarrhea. Symptoms usually appear within one to three hours and resolve in one to two days. Symptoms in children are often more pronounced; however, all humans are at risk of these symptoms.
Weather and wind conditions can cause algae blooms to move from one location in the lake to another. Due to this, the advisory will remain in effect for Lac La Nonne, Lac Ste. Anne, Isle Lake and the Paddle River Dam Reservoir until further notice.
Please note that areas of these lakes in which the blue-green algae bloom is NOT visible can still be used for recreational purposes, even while this blue-green algae Health Advisory is in place.
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We have three main tips to prevent congestion and breakouts:
- Supply your body with powerful clear skin nutrients, namely Vitamin Bs (particularly B5, B3, folic acid, biotin), Vitamin A, silicon, zinc and copper.
- Maintain a balanced lifestyle; Eat well (more fresh food, avoid processed foods, minimise dairy, wheat, sugar, and high GI foods), drink lots of water daily and find ways to reduce stress.
- Implement and stick to a soothing and healing natural skincare routine. Avoid using harsh ingredients on your skin, as most people see better long term results through a more natural approach. Harsh ingredients such as Benzoyl Peroxide can over dry the skin and cause long term skin problems. Avoid wearing heavy make-up if possible; a good tip is to double cleanse at the end of the day; cleanse once to melt away make-up and a second time to flush out the residue that has settled into your pores. Use a non-comedogenic, hydrating moisturiser daily, and a French green clay mask weekly to gently detoxifies and purifies the skin.
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The probability is that unless you happen to be a power-lifter or on some type of special system, i.e. weight management, bulking up or maybe record breaking weightlifting, then you would be like the majority, doing exercises on a so called ‘normal routine’ with eight to twelve exercises for over-all body-parts, or perhaps breaking them up on ‘split routines’ if more advanced.
An example of a common program would, after warm up, consist of usually dumbbell presses, generally alternately pressed, with regard to deltoids and tricep muscles; basic squats for legs, standard metabolism and chest area enlargement; basic bench presses designed for pectorals, triceps as well as shoulders (front deltoids).
This is implemented quite shortly by dumbbell flyes, barbell rows for your arms and of course lats and shoulders; triceps extensions for guess what, you heard that right, tricep muscles; barbell curls for biceps, perhaps some invert curls for a bit of lower arm work. Lateral raises for deltoids; calf raises for calves (if we said gastrocnemius, who would realize?) etc.
Split routines could possibly follow the usual pattern of ‘push /pull’ alternative trainings, or maybe more frequently lower body workouts a single session and also chest muscles the next workout. No problem with any one of that, and it works for most, most of the time. BUT! Becoming human, the majority of us get bored performing the same thing, exactly the same muscle building workout routines, the same routines, at the same time…. bored, bored, bored stiff…. and when you aren’t putting the heart and soul directly into exercise, when it becomes simply automatic, you then begin to lose interest and improvement slows and in the end halts.
Repaired Press — A Great Triceps Exercise Too! The answer is VARIETY! Sure use the basics that actually work, and the exercises you like, as well as avoid the exercises you detest by a replacement of some of the pursuing. Nothing new, no magic formulae, just alternative exercises to test from time to time to incorporate spice and also jest to your muscle building workouts.
So here, perhaps for future research, or to use straight away, are suggestions for if you want a change regarding schedule to boost progress. Option exercises for top level to toe workout routines! Taking that from the leading, here we go…….
Even in the crown there are muscles, holding them too tense, too long, can quickly bring about a headache, and even hair loss and it does help to test wrinkling your forehead and also face as frequently recommended in gossip columns on Yoga exercises, followed by total relaxation to help keep you looking young, approximately the beauty professionals promise (it’s past too far for me to commence!).
Following on down to the NECK and searching at the neck of the guitar from the back, the main reason for a thicker muscular neck is the TRAPEZIUS that you can can physical exercise via all kinds of overhead raising, deadlifts and all types of barbell and also dumbbell rowing, with emphasis on upright rowing to really pump the actual ‘Traps’ – any la Lou Ferringo. Try narrow hand spacing, knuckles towards the front, raising elbows higher and carry on until you have a real saturation of blood to the location.
Also acceptable for Traps may be the exercise regarding shoulder shrugging, although holding dumbbells, either together with barbell, usually lifted within power shelves, or dumbbells, the power mans tester with the ‘Farmers walk’ certainly telephone calls upon the bodybuilder to possess stronger than usual Traps. You realize when you have had enough whenever your face actually starts to ‘twitch’.
For the frontal neck muscle tissue, head opposition work employing a towel or even head connectors with weight loads attached, and even ‘buddy resistance’ as wrestlers usually do inside training (all wrestlers are ‘buddies’,and can behave with it…) my partner and i.e. get yourself a partner to face up to your neck movements, attempt also ‘wrestlers bridges’.
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Centrelink plus work loans
The VA real estate system was created through President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. The main function is always to eliminate the need for armed service veterans to have a downpayment to purchase a home. Real estate professionals are well-informed on the suggestions to apply for and be entitled to these loans. Now referred to as the GI Bill these refinancing options can be financed for a fixed rate for 12-15 20 25 or 30 year periods.
Veterans mortgage loans are available to all individuals who have served the required in time any branch on the US military. The Department of Vets Affairs guarantees each VA home buying mortgage loan. The real estate agent will assist in the search for virtually any single family residence of a veterans choice. For instance a townhouse or condominium in a VA approved project in addition to single family homes. A professional agent can determine these approved qualities.
VA home buying loans can also be used to build as well as improve or renovate a home. They do not have any prepayment penalty which means they can be paid off prior to the contracted agreed upon time length. Centrelink plus work loans Theyve also been assumable which means a VA qualified purchaser usually takes over the payments of an previously existing loan of this type.
Real estate brokers are knowledgeable about the actual specifics of these and also other types of mortgage funding. The other type plans include FHA typical and jumbo loans. Conventional loans are called fixed rate for 20 20 25 and 30 year terms. A persons vision rates on these loans remain constant with the full term or maybe life of the loans period for which it can be contracted on the day regarding closing. Real estate agents can guide the purchaser through the entire purchasing process.
Typical mortgages also exist in adjustable rate models which means the interest price can change at various points during the life of the financing time period. These changes are based on weekly average produces on US treasuries. These changes are explicitly spelled out by the real estate agent and also mortgage representative. Fat fixed rate home financing programs exist for home mortgages that will be greater than 333700. There is a greater risk towards the lender with these more substantial mortgages so they can carry higher interest rates. These kind of rates are fixed for the contracted period of time.
The government backed financial loans available to civilians are usually FHA which are available as balloon construction bridge and equity large property self-employed income area of expertise products for reduce payments credit alternative loans for credit ratings issues and deposit options among others. Knowledgeable real estate agents can guidebook a purchaser by means of any financing procedure with their expertise or maybe that of other marketplace professionals. A customer can depend on getting advice during many phases of their home buying process. Centrelink plus work loans Many people get dreams about improving their homes and home improvement lending options in the UK are a very good for those lacking cash to make their desires come to life. These loans are specifically designed to aid you within financing the enhancements and repairs that the home needs. Many householders were not able to do anything they wanted or even needed to do back then they purchased or built their home and these loans make it much simpler to make such things happen. Homeowners will frequently use a loan to get the home current with modern design and interior trends.
The marketplace for home improvement loans in britain is actually highly competing. This is why you may be astonished at just how possible it may be for you to obtain the appropriate loan to suit your needs. | <urn:uuid:2afe1898-ea33-4153-8a50-19aac5bf0468> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cashonyourmobile.com.au/centrelink-plus-work-loans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.968368 | 711 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Data from: European sea bass show behavioural resilience to near-future ocean acidification
Duteil, Mathieu et al. (2016), Data from: European sea bass show behavioural resilience to near-future ocean acidification, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.2dc8k
Ocean acidification (OA)—caused by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2)—is thought to be a major threat to marine ecosystems and has been shown to induce behavioural alterations in fish. Here we show behavioural resilience to near-future OA in a commercially important and migratory marine finfish, the Sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax). Sea bass were raised from eggs at 19°C in ambient or near-future OA (1000 µatm pCO2) conditions and n = 270 fish were observed 59–68 days post-hatch using automated tracking from video. Fish reared under ambient conditions, OA conditions, and fish reared in ambient conditions but tested in OA water showed statistically similar movement patterns, and reacted to their environment and interacted with each other in comparable ways. Thus our findings indicate behavioural resilience to near-future OA in juvenile sea bass. Moreover, simulated agent-based models indicate that our analysis methods are sensitive to subtle changes in fish behaviour. It is now important to determine whether the absences of any differences persist under more ecologically relevant circumstances and in contexts which have a more direct bearing on individual fitness. | <urn:uuid:d65beb02-db1d-434a-85f4-b50281fc10bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://datadryad.org:443/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.2dc8k | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.916342 | 314 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Australia's ABC station aired a televised report on Palestinian children detained by the Israeli army, angering Israel. The report said children are treated with brutality when they are arrested from the streets or abducted from their parents' homes.
ABC's Middle East correspondent John Lyons prepared the report for the programme Four Corners. Lyons said: "The Israeli army has always been a feared fighting force. Today; it is the focus of accusations of ill-treatment of Palestinian children in the West Bank."
The report reveals interviews with Palestinian youth describing ill-treatment, intimidation and threats they suffered while in detention. The youth claim that many of their relatives were abducted from their homes by the armed forces.
Israel's international spokesman, Yigal Palmor told the documentary workers: "The natural reaction is that these are intolerable cases, and I would like my authorities to do their utmost to make sure that this will not be repeated and this will change. I believe this is what we are doing."
However, settlers claimed "the Australian report ignores the settlers' need for security and to ensure that children will not assault them." | <urn:uuid:5235635d-2d13-440e-b769-72567923b0d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20140405-australian-news-report-on-detained-palestinian-children-angers-israel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.973971 | 223 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The following are the general rules of the dojo.
The dojo kun is said to have been created by Master Gichin Funakoshi (father of modern karate), and
some think that it may have been created by Sakugawa, an 18th century karate enthusiast who lived
in Okinawa. The overall purpose of the dojo kun is to give students a starting point to study
Shotokan karate. Master Funakoshi also expanded the ideas of the Dojo Kun into 20 precepts known as the
Listen to the Dojo Kun spoken in Japanese:
Hitotsu! Jinkaku kansei ni tsutomuro koto!
(One! To Strive for the Perfection of Character!)
(Seek Perfection of Character!)
Hitotsu! Makoto no michi o mamoru koto!
(One! To Defend the Paths of Truth!)
Hitotsu! Doryuku no seichin o yashinau koto!
(One! To Foster the Spirit of Effort!)
Hitotsu! Regi o omonzuru koto!
(One! To Honor the Principles of Etiquette!)
Hitotsu! Kekki no yu o imashimuru koto!
(One! To Guard against Impetuous Courage!)
(Refrain from Violent Behavior!) | <urn:uuid:ac7f0fab-351a-45d2-ac57-88a7f5a6a2aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/shotokan/dojokun.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00507-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.846436 | 290 | 2.9375 | 3 |
Which characters are examples for each aspect of an epic poem in The Song of Roland, including the feature of an epic hero who embodies the ideals off a particular nation or culture, the focus on the struggle for something of value to that culture, and the inclusion of a god/gods who intervene in the affairs of men, often to aid or punish the hero?
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The first characteristic of an epic poem, the hero, has to be Roland. He's known for his bravery, volunteering for the most dangerous assignments.
Charlemagne would represent the second characteristic. He's the leader of the Frankish (French) forces. His purpose in the epic is to fight to regain lands lost to the "infidel", non-Christians.
Gabriel would represent the third characteristic. He is god's emissary and leader of the angels that help the French army. He also leads Roland's soul to Paradise after his death.
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As part of the Organix #LoveGoodFood campaign to encourage little ones to explore, enjoy and share good food, Holly Bell has contributed to the Organix Little Book of Good Food – Toddlers & Families. She talks to M&B about getting toddlers to love healthy food.
What are your top tips for ensuring your toddler is getting a healthy diet?
Don't deny them flavours just because you don't like them
One of my first tips is to think outside the parameters of your own likes and dislikes. It's so easy to keep filling the trolley week after week with the same fruit, veg, meat etc. (I know I do this). We've all had a lifetime to develop our palates, whereas toddlers are just getting started. Don't deny them flavours just because you don't like them.
Secondly I'd think in terms of colour. The more the rainbow of colours each day from natural foods, the more likely your child is getting a good balanced diet.
Thirdly - try not to stress out if your toddler isn't keen on something or eats little for a day. A lot of them seem to be on 48 hour days. So for the first 24 hours they may eat like a horse, and the second they slow down.
Which essential nutrients do toddlers need?
By giving your child a varied diet containing a selection of foods from the different food groups every day, you will provide all the essential nutrients they need. Key nutrients toddlers need include Vitamin A, Vitamin D, Vitamin C, Iron and Zinc.
What are the main food groups a toddler requires?
There is no such thing as an ‘ideal’ portion size for all toddlers. A large active toddler will need more food than a smaller, less active child and some days they will eat more than usual, or next to nothing, but it all should balance out over a week or so.
If your child is growing well and developing normally, then do not worry too much about how much they are eating, even if it seems quite limited.
Each day aim for 5 portions of starchy foods, 5 portions of fruit and vegetables, 3 portions of dairy foods and 2 portions of meat, fish, eggs, nuts and pulses (3 if vegetarian).
Tell us a bit about your own boys’ eating habits.
My sons are all so different. I have one who will try anything and is in love with fruit and veg. He also has a very sweet tooth and loves any homemade treats on that front though has been known to leave cakes we've had when out if the icing is made with margarine or the cake is overly dry. He has made comments about being a chef one day so who knows!
His repertoire of fruit and veg is very limited
I have another son who has zero interest in sugar. He's a meat man. Loves traditional meals, especially anything involving Yorkshire puddings and roast potatoes. His repertoire of fruit and veg is very limited. He loves apples, bananas, blueberries, carrots, sweetcorn and broccoli - and not much else. Of course that doesn't stop me trying him with new flavours regularly.
And my third son is just a baby and loves most things we put in front of him. Apart from carrots - he really dislikes carrots!
Are any of your boys fussy eaters?
One of my sons has been a really fussy eater over the years, though he is getting better now. I have tried not to make a big deal of it, to keep offering new foods, even if they've been turned down before and not to enter into any kind of negotiation with him over food. He is not rewarded for trying something new in any way other than light praise.
My top tips for dealing with eaters like him are to take a deep breath, count to 10, remember it is NOT personal and remember, this too shall pass.
What are your top tips for making eating and cooking fun for toddlers?
They always had their own spoon, a little bowl and two tablespoons of flour with some form of spice to mix up
Cooking a tasty meal with toddlers helping can be a challenge! For me it’s about age appropriate helping. When the boys were under two they mostly put the vegetables on the chopping board, we talked about colours, textures and they always had their own spoon, a little bowl and two tablespoons of flour with some form of spice to mix up. They didn’t actually contribute very much to the process of cooking dinner, but they thought they did, and that’s what matters.
Try these tips:
- Choose recipes where they can get involved. Sounds obvious but anything where the main bulk of the time is spent deep frying or slicing with a mandolin is only going to end in bored tears.
- Allow some autonomy. Imagine never being able to deviate from a recipe? Life would be boring. It’s the same for kids. If they suggest adding a little onion to a dish why not try it?
- Think of a meal like a good story; it has a beginning, a middle and an end. It starts with discussing, planning and shopping, it builds to the actual food preparation and the cooking and it ends with laying the table, taking drinks orders (the unadulterated happiness of a child with a piece of paper, playing waiter is beautiful) and clearing plates.
- Get a little messy. Let your little one squash a tomato or squeeze an orange while you are cooking.
- Always, but always have a tea towel and/or wipes on standby for wiping up!
What are your favourite breakfast recipes to take toddlers beyond cereal and toast?
Blueberry pancakes are popular at the weekend
I think we have to rethink breakfast and remember you can eat pretty much anything as the first meal of the day - you're just breaking your fast. So whilst porridge is popular so too is regular rice with some ham and corn thrown in. Fruit is a big hit and is easy to prepare and eat too when it's a busy morning. Blueberry pancakes are popular at the weekend. Eggs too - in all their forms. And when we're running late Organix Goodies oaty bars are wolfed down by all my sons.
How can we make snacking more exciting for toddlers than just breadsticks?
Argh! Breadsticks are both a God-send and a hindrance. They're far too easy to reach for, fill kids up easily and don't offer the nutrients other snacks do. But we all do it - when the kids are hungry they're quick and easy. I'd suggest keeping a little pot of carrot sticks in the fridge in some water to grab, try some unsweetened dried fruit - maybe pineapple and mango or some cranberries too to mix things up.
Or how about some cheese cubes and cucumber sticks? If you're at home then some cold carrot, corn or courgette fritters are always a good call. And on the go I always reach for Organix Sweetcorn Rings. We all love them!
You’ll find lots more practical advice and tips to help you and your little one explore, enjoy and share good food in the Organix Little Book of Good Food – Toddlers & Families, you can download your free copy here: www.organix.com/lovegoodfood. As part of the campaign Organix has also produced a series of Love Good Food short videos, you can watch them here: #lovegoodfood | <urn:uuid:b158a1d9-115b-48d9-9c22-2920c3f1b511> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.motherandbaby.co.uk/lifestyle-and-celebs/food/healthy-eating-tips-and-advice/holly-bell-s-top-tips-to-get-your-toddler-to-eat-healthily | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968293 | 1,549 | 2.625 | 3 |
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The untold difference between a great leader and a good leader…
Teaching versus telling.
There are a million ways to teach or tell.
Great leaders teach.
And because they teach, their workload should be more about inspiration than perspiration.
It’s the difference between leading and managing.
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There is no dearth of possible ways one can reuse a shipping container. The robust structure of the shipping container makes it an ideal contender for use in buildings and green homes. King County Parks has found yet another use of shipping containers by building a new, comfortable and above all, environmentally friendly camping structure that is made using a standard 24-foot-long used cargo container.
The camper, dubbed Re-Tain, was developed by Joel Egan of HyBrid Arc and the project won King County Parks’ Little Footprint/Big Forest design contest. Located in Washington, the camper features an adaptable floor plan and comes with full sized bunk bed along with a table and a multi-purpose cabinet made using recycled kitchen parts. Adding to its eco friendly credentials, the camper features a green wall made using old soccer goals and a kitchen table that is made using an old door. Lit with energy efficient LED lights, the camper is available for overnight reservations at $50. | <urn:uuid:e2742196-d765-4d08-b33e-198e2cd9ff87> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ecochunk.com/3523/2012/10/31/re-tain-an-eco-friendly-shipping-container-camper-with-recycled-furniture-inside/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00383-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939227 | 201 | 1.90625 | 2 |
VERMONT - The U.S. Marines promote themselves as "the few, the proud." But starting this fall, the Marines - as well as the Army, Navy and Air Force - could find themselves with even fewer recruits coming from the ranks of Vermont's public schools.
That's because a new state law now requires all Vermont public schools to notify parents of their right to opt out of military sales pitches to their children. Act 127, which was signed by Governor Jim Douglas in May, clarifies some of the mandates under the federal No Child Left Behind Act. That law, which was enacted in 2002, requires any school that receives federal funding to turn over its students' names, addresses and phone numbers to local military recruiters. Schools that fail to do so run the risk of losing their federal funding.
However, No Child Left Behind also includes a provision that allows parents to request that their children's names not be released to the military without their written permission. In the past, Vermont school districts have interpreted the federal provision in different ways. Some schools have allowed parents to remove their kids' names just from the list sent to military recruiters. Others have told parents that if their children opt out of military recruitment, in effect, they're declining all recruitment opportunities, including those sent by colleges and universities, scholarship funds, class ring companies and yearbook publishers.
"Schools do this in very different ways," explains Allen Gilbert, executive director of the Vermont American Civil Liberties Union, which lobbied for the bill's passage. "Some schools' databases are really crude in how they spit out students' information, and others are really sophisticated. That was part of the problem."
Act 127 clarifies students' and parents' privacy protections by requiring schools to notify parents every year about their right to selectively remove their children's names from the list sent to recruiters for the military, but not others. School districts will begin mailing out those notices to parents in the next few weeks, along with other back-to-school bulletins, according to the Vermont Department of Education. Currently, the department doesn't track how many parents or students have already said no to military recruiters.
The law doesn't include a deadline - parents can send a letter to their school principal or headmaster at any time requesting that their children's names be taken off the list. According to the Vermont Superintendents Association, that letter should remain in effect for as long as the student is at the school or the school is notified otherwise.
That said, there are other ways for recruiters to obtain students' contact info - with or without their parents' permission. For example, schools throughout Vermont offer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), a voluntary standardized test designed to help students explore their career potentials. Created by the U.S. Department of Defense, the test is offered to schools at no charge, and is often administered by military recruiters. Last year, 340 students in 23 of Vermont's 66 high schools took the test, according to the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command in Illinois.
Not everyone who takes the test intends to enlist. Bob Johnson, a former principal at the K-12 Danville School and now interim executive director of the Vermont Principals Association, says that many guidance counselors in the Northeast Kingdom recommend the ASVAB as a way to help students identify promising career paths.
But students who take the ASVAB automatically get their names entered into a national database of potential military recruits. That database, which is maintained by the Pentagon's Joint Advertising and Market Research Studies (JAMRS), contains information on millions of Americans between the ages of 16 and 25. Students can opt out of JAMRS as well, but their names and personal data will still be maintained in "suppression files" that could be used later, according to the nonprofit privacy group Liberty Coalition. | <urn:uuid:97336bed-cb64-43b4-8fb1-6cb8286ef44e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://m.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/new-law-lets-students-and-parents-say-no-to-recruiters/Content?oid=2128754 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.972872 | 794 | 1.828125 | 2 |
The commercial/industrial/institutional (CII) market presents many specific fire alarm system challenges. The commercial market represents occupancies including office, mercantile and multifamily residential buildings. The industrial market offers a relatively straightforward business opportunity. As you would expect, manufacturing occupancies prevail. And, the institutional market also presents a consistent business opportunity among occupancies such as hospitals, prisons and other institutions that provide care of some sort.
In each of these markets, the building and fire codes have specific minimum fire alarm system requirements. In the industrial market, a contractor must follow Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations in addition to the building and fire codes. In some cases, the OSHA regulations may have stricter requirements than the building or fire codes.
The two central requirements for any fire alarm system installed in these occupancies are reliability and credibility.
Credible fire alarm systems are designed, installed and maintained to operate free of false alarms. If you have worked in the fire alarm industry for a while, you already know that the term “false alarm” has multiple definitions. In fact, NFPA 72 2010, the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, defines “nuisance alarm” as “Any alarm caused by mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or lack of proper maintenance, or any alarm activated by a cause than cannot be determined.”
But, for purpose of this article, the term “false alarm” includes alarm activation from any nonfire condition. That means if a backdraft from a working fireplace causes a smoke detector near the fireplace to alarm, a false alarm has occurred. You may argue that the smoke detector just did its job by detecting the smoke. But, the fact remains that smoke did not represent a threat from a hostile fire. You may also argue that the code requires the smoke detector in the specific location, so no one can blame you for the false alarm.
Both of these arguments are wrong. With today’s technology, a system designer can and should account for adverse ambient conditions.
Of course, the first place to address potential false alarm issues is in the design stage. NFPA 72 2010 actually provides some guidance in this area. The guidance begins with the requirement to select and install devices “to minimize nuisance alarms.” And Section 184.108.40.206 further states that, “The selection and placement of smoke detectors shall take into account both the performance characteristics of the detector and the areas into which the detectors are to be installed to prevent nuisance alarms or improper operation after installation.”
Do these passages mean you should not install a smoke detector near a fireplace? Not necessarily. It means that you must choose the right technology for the application. In my fireplace example, a multicriteria smoke detector would be the correct device to use. This detector will detect smoke but will need to sense one other combustion product, such as heat or carbon monoxide, for example, before transmitting an alarm condition to the fire alarm control panel.
Some smoke detectors, typically the ionization type, will react to the products of combustion from cooking. Although this type of detector has applications in a fire alarm system design to maintain system credibility, you must not use them where you would expect products of cooking combustion.
The code specifically requires that, “Unless specifically designed and listed for the expected conditions, smoke detectors shall not be installed if any of the following ambient conditions exist:
“(1) Temperature below 32°F
“(2) Temperature above 100°F
“(3) Relative humidity above 93 percent
“(4) Air velocity greater than 300 ft./min.”
The code also requires that the system designer choose the location of smoke detectors based on an evaluation of potential ambient sources of smoke, moisture, dust or fumes, and electrical or mechanical influences. Doing so will minimize nuisance alarms.
If you follow these design requirements and understand the capabilities of the available detection devices that you can use in a fire alarm system design, you will help ensure a credible system design.
However, the design only deals with one-third of the reliability/-credibility equation. Reliable fire alarm systems begin with the appropriate system design and then derive from code-compliant installation and complete maintenance and testing programs after the installation.
The requirements in NFPA 72 2010 also will help you ensure a reliable and credible fire alarm system installation. First, you must install the fire alarm system in accordance with the specifications and standards approved by the authority having jurisdiction. This includes the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code as well as any local or state codes.
Second, the code requires that you locate and mount devices and appliances to ensure that vibration and jarring do not cause accidental operation or failure. And, you can only install fire alarm system equipment in locations where conditions do not exceed the voltage, temperature and humidity limits specified in the manufacturer’s published instructions.
The code provides the minimum environmental conditions under which all fire alarm system equipment must operate and still perform their intended functions. These include the following:
“(1) At 85 percent and at 110 percent of the nameplate primary (main) and secondary (standby) input voltage(s)
“(2) At ambient temperatures of 32°F and 120°F
“(3) At a relative humidity of 85 percent and an ambient temperature of 86°F”
The annex states that “Product-listing standards include tests for temporary excursions beyond normal limits. In addition to temperature, humidity, and velocity variations, smoke detectors should operate reliably under such common environmental conditions as mechanical vibration, electrical interference, and other environmental influences … .”
With early smoke detector designs, you could not easily place them everywhere that the code required because of the devices’ sensitivity to minor environmental changes that would cause a false alarm. To counter this issue, manufacturers developed systems equipped with “alarm verification” features.
When enabled, this feature would permit the smoke detector to sense a minor transient change—such as someone walking underneath a smoke detector with a lit cigar or a flash of steam from a bathroom that would actuate a detector—-without initiating an alarm on the system.
Instead, the system would delay the alarm for one minute and attempt to reset the smoke detector so the system returned to normal and no alarm sounded. If, after the one-minute period, smoke continued to be present at the detector, then the alarm signal would transmit through the fire alarm system. The verification feature only applied to smoke detectors. If any other detection device—such as a heat detector or water flow switch—signaled an alarm condition, the system would operate without delay. In the 2010 edition of the code, a contractor may not initially enable the alarm verification feature unless conditions or occupant activities in the area of the smoke detector are expected to cause false alarms.
As stated in Annex A of the code, “The alarm verification feature should not be used as a substitute for proper detector location/applications or regular system maintenance. Alarm verification features are intended to reduce the frequency of false alarms caused by transient conditions.”
The alarm verification feature does not intend to compensate for design errors or lack of maintenance. As mentioned above, a better design practice would use a device such as a multicriteria smoke detector when the expected environmental condition might cause false alarms.
And finally, to help ensure the long-term reliability and credibility of a fire alarm system that uses smoke detection, the code requires protection of detectors during construction. It also requires that the contractor perform a specific test to verify that each smoke detector will operate in accordance with its listed and marked sensitivity. In lieu of this test, the contractor must replace the smoke detectors prior to the final commissioning of the system.
The professional contractor must understand the need to ensure reliability and credibility of the fire alarm systems he or she installs. It will help ensure the life safety of the occupants protected by the system.
MOORE, a licensed fire protection engineer, frequent speaker and an expert in the life safety field, is a past chair of the NFPA 72 Technical Correlating Committee. Moore is a principal with Hughes Associates Inc. at the Warwick, R.I., office. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:493dc549-7764-41b9-9549-0910aadc72b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ecmag.com/print/section/systems/alarm-doesnt-cry-wolf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00341-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915241 | 1,711 | 1.953125 | 2 |
On freegrok.com a new review of an APress PHP-related book has been posted, a look at W. Jason Gilmore's "Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition".
Walking through your local bookstore will show that there is definitely no shortage of books related to PHP and MySQL. These ubiquitous technologies have been many a beginner's foray into the world of web development. Since both are free and widely supported it's a safe bet that the software you create can be used in almost any circumstance with relative ease. Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional, Third Edition is a good resource to get you started on your way.
The reviewer breaks down the chapters of the book and points out two chapters (web services and MVC with the Zend Framework) that he though were noteworthy for budding developers to look in to.
All in all W. Jason Gilmore has done an excellent job of bringing a wide ranging topics into a manageable size and retaining much of the value for later use. | <urn:uuid:214eef40-fb67-4c2d-b3fd-75cb45168482> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/10277 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00274-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948659 | 210 | 1.5 | 2 |
A major exhibition highlighting African American women’s literature is open in the Penn Libraries’ Kamin Gallery, and a symposium exploring aspects of the collection and literary culture of the late 20th century is planned for this week.
The exhibit and symposium celebrate the 2018 gift from collector Joanna Banks of her library of African American literature, specifically focused on women, children’s books, and cookbooks. The exhibition is titled “Writing Across Genres: African American Women Writers in the Joanna Banks Collection.”
On Feb. 20 and 21, the 2020 Jay I. Kislak Symposium “Black Women Writing Across Genres in the Late 20th Century” will look at the flourishing of Black women writers as a cultural force in late 20th century America. The program will take place on the first and sixth floors of the Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center.
Lynne Farrington, senior curator in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Penn Libraries, says the event will combine panel discussions and readings with scholars and artists examining topics ranging from activist writing to theorizing the archive and the role of bibliographies in the making of the collection.
“The symposium seeks to inspire new work in the discipline while honoring the important work that has already been done on many of the authors in the collection,” says Farrington.
Banks, a Washington, D.C.-based book collector, began her collection in 1965 after reading “The Langston Hughes Reader.” Reading Hughes built a desire in Banks to find other work by Black writers, and it was the thrill of making new discoveries in used and new bookstores that fueled her decadeslong collecting journey.
“This is an exciting collection,” says Farrington. “It complements our current holdings in children’s literature and cookery while simultaneously expanding our holdings of works by African American women, many of which were from publishers outside the mainstream and for that reason not widely collected.”
The Joanna Banks Collection may be understood as a collection of collections. In its totality, it represents a broad selection of African-American book production, covering many subjects, published primarily from the mid-1960s to present day.
Walking through the exhibit, one can feel a powerful distillation both of the new collection and of the varieties of Black women’s intellectual production through print. The work is captured in the artistry of book covers, photographs, and printed pages. It is clear Banks had an astute eye as a reader and collector.
“Penn students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the world, are the real beneficiaries of this generous gift,” says Savage. “And helping to bring this collection to Penn means so much to me personally because Joanna and I met in a reading group for Black women in Washington, D.C., in 1984. That group helped me find my voice and gave me the courage in midlife to study to become a scholar of African American history. Joanna’s generous gift brings our friendship full circle, resting as it always has on a shared love of books by and about Black people.”
Savage contacted Farrington about bringing the collection to Penn.
“She and I traveled to Joanna’s home so they could meet, and later, Joanna visited the Kislak Center,” says Savage. “Lynne and a colleague of hers, John Pollack [curator at Kislak], literally packed up the collection in Joanna’s house in late May 2018.”
The collection filled 150 boxes with a major trove of more than 10,000 books, periodicals, recordings, and photographs. Farrington thought this would be a wonderful collection for Penn graduate students to engage with in their scholarly work.
Two graduate students (pictured below), Destiny Crockett, a second-year Ph.D. student in Africana studies and Kiana Murphy, a fifth-year doctoral student in English, have been instrumental in pulling it all together, according to Farrington.
Crockett recalls a feeling of being overwhelmed “in a good way” upon first seeing the collection.
“It was a reminder of how little I have read even though I read so much as a student,” says Crockett. “I felt a sense of curiosity at how much more is out there for me to read and that was very exciting to look forward to.”
Murphy says one of the things that the collection reminded her of was the richness and abundance in engaging with the archive.
“It shifted my focus from talking about absence in the archives to considering how to account for so many Black women writing across genres for decades,” says Murphy.
Both hope the exhibition, in conjunction with the symposium, will invite more people to come and engage with other special collections and spark an interest to start a collection of their own.
As the friendship of Joanna Banks and Barbara Savage came full circle over African American literature, so did the friendship between the two graduate students.
“I honestly think that Destiny and I have grown closer as friends through the archival practice,” says Murphy. “Laughing, disagreements, and conversations about some of the items we found in the collection has strengthened our friendship and that is the beauty of what the Joanna Banks collection has curated for us personally.”
Crockett hopes the conversation about “Black Women Writing Across Genres” continues in people’s everyday lives after seeing the exhibition, as it did for her.
“I’ve talked about this experience with my mother and grandmother,” she says. “I grew up watching the Food Channel and my family is always talking about food. So, I shared a lot about the cookbooks by Black women with my family.”
Among the confirmed speakers are Lorene Cary, a senior lecturer in the Department of English; poet, essayist, and Black feminist activist Cheryl Clarke, Columbia Professor Farah Jasmine Griffin, and Rutgers Professor Cheryl Wall, along with exhibition co-curators, Crockett and Murphy. Banks will also be joining the conversation.
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Some segments of the search engine world, such as Ask and Powerset, are gambling on the idea that the future of search is in natural language search, which essentially allows people to conduct searches using actual, useful sentences instead of possibly vague keywords. So what does one of the world’s most popular search engines think about natural language search, and do they believe that it is also the future of searching?
In a recent interview with MIT’s Technology Review, Peter Norvig, the director of research at Google, shot down the idea of implementing natural language search capabilities at Google. In essence, he characterized natural language searching as not being a big advance, and more so a lower-level form of search that doesn’t require much understanding of how words go together:
“We think what’s important about natural language is the mapping of words onto the concepts that users are looking for. But we don’t think it’s a big advance to be able to type something as a question as opposed to keywords. Typing “What is the capital of France?” won’t get you better results than typing “capital of France.” But understanding how words go together is important. To give some examples, “New York” is different from “York,” but “Vegas” is the same as “Las Vegas,” and “Jersey” may or may not be the same as “New Jersey.” That’s a natural-language aspect that we’re focusing on. Most of what we do is at the word and phrase level; we’re not concentrating on the sentence. We think it’s important to get the right results rather than change the interface.”
I think he’s actually got a really good point. In working at a library, I frequently assist patrons in their research endeavors, including online searches. You would be surprised by the number of people who do not understand the intricacies of searching, or the idea that formulating their queries in different ways will yield different results. This is what I think search engines like Ask and Powerset are attempting to capitalize on – the demographic that doesn’t really know how to conduct a good, thorough search, or casual searchers who just want to type something in and be spit back an answer.
I try to do my part, and attempt to educate people on the theories and methods behind searching.That way, they will be able to help themselves and they won’t need to keep coming back to me every time they need to find information. So I guess that is my round-about way of saying that I agree with Norvig’s assessment that it’s far more important to understand how words together, and to focus on fine-tuning those results, rather than focusing on the lowest common denominator.
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Genomic Testing in Neurological Tumours
There are 31 Clinical Indications included in the Cancer National Genomics Test Directory for neurological tumours . For each of the clinical indications listed below testing is provided by all 7 Genomic Laboratory Hubs across England. The test directory includes both targeted genetic testing and panel testing using next generation sequencing (NGS) technology. The West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory provides a centralised cancer panel testing service (both DNA and RNA panels) for the Central and South GLH Consortium.
Genetic testing services for neurological tumours are currently in development.
DNA and RNA panels however are available. Please contact Dr Yvonne Wallis (email@example.com) to discuss your requirements.
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The Last Soviet in Tallinn: the Saga of the 'Bronze Soldier'
The fate of the monument had been a hotly contested issue between Estonia and Russia since legislation regarding its removal was introduced into the Estonian Parliament months ago. Since then, the so-called 'Monument of the Soldier-Liberator' - which pays tribute to those Soviet soldiers who perished at the hands of the Nazis in Estonia - has become the figurehead of the complicated, worsening relationship between Estonia and Russia.
Tallinn's ethnic Estonian community has long regarded the monument to be an unwelcome reminder of 50 years of Soviet oppression. Estonia's ethnic Russian community, which comprises a significant third of the country's entire population, regards the monument as a symbol of Russia's sacrifice during World War II and a tribute to the Russian soldiers who died fighting Nazi Germany. At the crux of the matter are two contrasting interpretations of history: For Russia, the years 1941-45 call to mind the 'Great Patriotic War', wherein the Soviet Union defeated Germany for the good of all Europe (an act they feel they've received little thanks for). For Estonia, alongside Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, the Second World War began two years earlier in August 1939, when Stalin and Hitler divided Europe in half with the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. Ethnic Estonians view Russia's re-entry into Estonia in 1944 as an act of occupation - a regime change from one oppressive occupying force to another. Russians continue to view their re-entry into Estonia as an act of liberation, freeing Estonia from the terror of fascism.
For Estonians, it is this refusal on the part of Russia to acknowledge or confront the hardships the Soviet Union inflicted on the Baltic peoples that continues to aggravate them and will continue to strain relations between the two countries. The presence of an overtly Soviet monument - particularly one touted as a symbol of 'liberation' and sacrifice - in their city centre is regarded as nothing short of insulting. With a soaring economy, booming tourist industry and pioneering technological advances, Estonia has become one of the darlings of the EU since ascension in 2004, giving rise to an increased sense of pride within the small Baltic nation and a slight tendency toward nationalist indulgences - the dismantling of the Bronze Soldier being a perfect example. Backed by Europe, Estonia is feeling good enough about themselves to get brazen. They won't be bullied by Russia anymore, and unlike other former Soviet satellites, they won't cater to Moscow in the interest of the national economy. They've got some new friends and they're doing just fine financially, thank you.
Estonia overwhelmingly passed legislation banning Soviet symbols like the hammer and sickle, and in early 2007 put The War Graves Protection Act into effect, requiring that the remains of soldiers be respectfully interned in proper military cemeteries. This act gave grounds for the desired removal of the Bronze Soldier from central Tallinn and the unknown remains beneath it to be identified and reburied with the monument elsewhere. Predictably, Moscow lost its shit, taking offense at the forthrightness of a tiny country they have had their hand in for so long. Amidst the media outrage in Russia, the fact that Estonia is a sovereign country and that this was a matter of Estonian internal affairs seemed to be overlooked. Anti-Estonian statements became political tools of public-image improvement for Russian politicians, and accusations of Estonia fostering fascism flew. Vague threats from Russian officials abounded, including the description of plans to move the monument as an "ultra-nationalist and very short-sighted policy" coming from Putin himself. Calls for economic sanctions followed and politicians urged the Russian people to boycott Estonian goods. Russian nationalist groups in Estonia and Russia vowed to defend the monument by whatever means necessary; should it be removed, ethnic Russians in Tallinn vowed to stand in its place. Flag-waving demonstrations took place around the monument for weeks. Sensing the tension was boiling to a head, Tallinn authorities 'soldiered' forward with their plans for the monument's relocation, hoping to get the job done before May 9th - 'Victory Day' - when the Bronze Soldier has yearly been the rallying point for brawling nationalists on both sides of the issue and the site of violence.
The removal of the monument was not without unprecedented protest and violence in the Estonian capital. During the events of the monuments overnight removal on April 27th, 2007, frenzied demonstrators hurled rocks and molotov-cocktails at police, overturned cars, lit several buildings on fire, and looted liquor stores in what became a full-on riot in the streets of Tallinn that persisted for two days and involved over 3000 participants. By Saturday, police had detained over 1000 people, most of whom were drunken Russian-speaking teenagers hell-bent on defending a memorial to fallen soldiers from a war they didn't experience and likely know little about. Provoked by the sensationalist, censored and one-sided journalism coming out of the Kremlin, Russian nationalists from all over Estonia rallied to Tallinn, inciting the worst violence in the country since Soviet tanks attempted to crush the independence movement (ironic, no?). One ethnic Russian was stabbed to death - presumably by other rioters - and 153 others were injured as police employed tear gas, rubber batons, light and noise shells and water jet cannons to suppress crowds and stop looters. Several police were also hospitalised during the shocking violence, which seemed to have lost momentum by Sunday morning after alcohol sales were banned in the capital.
Rioting also occurred in the primarily Russian towns of Johvi, Kohtla-Jarve and Narva, where the violence was not as extreme, but nonetheless troubling for Estonian-Russian relations in the small country. As Russia and Estonia continue to spar politically, the daily street-level relations between ethnic Russian and ethnic Estonian residents in Estonia has certainly reached an all-time low, stirred up by Estonian officials' stubborn insistence to carry out the unpopular decision to move the Bronze Soldier and provoked by Moscow officials' outraged reaction to the decision, including propaganda campaigns with slogans like, "Hitler is the hero of Estonia." Certainly the Estonian government could and should have been more diplomatic, creating a discussion with the Russian government about how best to approach the issue with respect to both sides. Not that Russia would have heard them amidst their immediate over-the-top condemnation at the first utterance.
Estonia's Russian population - imported in large numbers during occupation in an effort to 'Russify' the country as tens of thousands of native Estonians were massacred or deported - faces many challenges today due to both their voluntary failure to integrate or 'Estonianise' themselves, and discriminatory Estonian national policies. Take the fact that though half the country's population speaks Russian, Estonian is the only official national language, for example. Amnesty International has been adamant about pressuring Estonia to change its policy requiring Estonian language fluency for citizenship, which has resulted in half of Estonia's enormous Russian population not having the full rights and benefits of proper citizenship. With diplomatic relations between Russia and Estonia being severed, the onus lies on the Estonian government to find a way to better incorporate its Russian population; it may be necessary if the country wishes to continue currying favour in the EU. Yet, the political influence of the heaps of praise and attention the country has garnered since EU ascension hasn't lead policy in that direction thus far...
The Bronze Instigator, for his part, has been restored and relocated - along with 12 graves revealed during the police-protected excavations at his former standing place in Tonismagi - to a quiet military cemetery beyond Tallinn's city centre.
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Sorry Albert must be foolish:)Reply
Dear Albert, Before to make yourself look fulish please read the Interner resources and then please visit libraries and find some good books. I'm researching this subject since 2000.Reply
To Edward in the US who says that Estonians fought along with the Germans against the Jews. get your facts straight before you make idiotic comments. The Estonians were forced into serving with the Nazis. Anyone who resisted was executed.Reply
I was born in Estonia and lived there until of age 22.Then I left because I didn't see any future for myself and felt like I am a second sort of habitant. Its really sad what is still happening there. The politicians are very stupid. The force of one country depends on reunion of the population inside of the country. At the moment whoever wants to conquer Estonia can do it, because only a few people will truly defend the country. Politicians instead of building together a strong prospering country, play the political games in order to be elected by the nationalists...This is very sad. Since I left in 2000, nothing has changed, only has worsened. Russians are not really integrated. Many of them would like to learn Estonian and to be accepted as citizens but its difficult. For the moment they still have a so called Alien Passport, meaning you have no citezenship. My brotheris one of them, despite the fact that he was born and lived there all his life.Everybody who speaks a foreign language knows, that to be able to speak it you need to practice it. With who in Estonia, if all your friends are Russian? Russians leaving in their own community and Estonians are very hostile towards them; like those Russians personally participated in killing Estonians 60 years ago. And let me remind you, that at Stalin's time not only Estonians were killed and been sent to Siberia but the other nationalities as well, among of them mostly were Russians. At that time it wasn't about the Estonian nationality but about enemy status, politics and much more. There is a lot more to say and I agree with a previous commen that people who never experienced it can't judge. Good day to everyone!Reply
Can I ask what you want from the Estonian people? Considering that the Soviet Union invaded Estonia and murdered tens of thousands of Estonians in the 1940's, what exactly do you want from the Estonian people? The Russian government under Putin is in total denial of that the Soviet Union did the to Baltic States. I agree, it would be nice if the Estonians and Russians could "shake hands and forgive", but wouldn't a first step be for the Russian government to admit its atrocities against the Estonian people and at least apologize?Reply
It is so upsetting when people from other countries who have no clue about your country bablig stupid things like " OOO if Russians don't like estonian rules or do not what to learn the language let them go back to Russia ". Do U PEOPLE even know what you are saying!!! So now every black or how U call them now African Americans do not like something in US , so why don't you suggest them as well to get out of your country back to Africa !! Does it make any sense??? Same here this people (Russian population) majority of them were born in Estonia and so did they parents. It is they home!!! Non of you, who makes the comment here, been in Tallinn when the monument was taken down. It was shameful. Yes estonians hate russians and it is sad. But all this could be dun properly without upsetting the crowds. Do u know how it was done? I'll tell you how... The government didn't give the date for monument movement , they didn't give people a chance to go and say goodbye to it. Instead they draged the monument in the night time like something shameful. Smart government with two nationalities shouldn't do it that way. It was like a slap in to the all russina-estonian's faces. We should integrate and not degraded !!! I love my country , but it saddens me that estonians don't want to move on and forget what happened during soviet times. And I am not saying that russians shouldn't put effort into it. What I am saying that government could help people. One guy refers to France, but isn't the french government who offers free language courses?? Why estonians can't do the same? Instead of making it harder. Do you know how many native estonians can fluently speak and write in they own language, not too many. If I go to US and try to speak with my broken english people won't reject me, neglect me or laugth at me. They actually are pleased that I am trying. Try to speak broken estonian to this snobs, they are like french will look at you like you are an idiot ruining the beautiful language. I never had language barrier or complex speaking english as I do in estonian. One thing I could never understand. Estnia is such a small country it's ALWAYS been under somebody , Dutch, Germans and so on , but no, only thing they remember is bad russians. Do you know that during Dutch and German governing estonians were slaves and had now estonian speaking schools ! And during russian time they had all this . By all means I am not defending Russia , but it is time to let go. We should really shake hands Estonians and Russians. I think only that way the country can prosper. Isn't what we(russian and estonians) all want?Reply
Currently in Tallinn, and living in St Petersburg as an English teacher, and learning the history. I am in agreement with you. It would be best for all to move on, forgive, and cooperate.Reply
I READ YOUR ARTICLE WITH GREAT CONCERN.IT DISTURBS ME THAT BOTH THE RUSSIAN AND ESTONIAN PEOPLE CAN NOT FIND A SOLUTION TO THIER DIFFERANCES.THERE IS A VERY EASY SOLUTION SHAKE HANDS ,BE ONE NATION AND SMILE..IF THE JEWISH NATION CAN FORGIVE ( BUT NOT FORGET) WHT CAN THESE TWO CULTURES DO THE SAME,,COME TRY IT YOU WILL FIND IT WORKS..REMEMBER ""THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS ONLY SOLUTIONS""Reply
As long as Russia claims that it was a "liberator" of Estonia during World War II when, in fact, it was just as evil an agressor as Nazi Germany (just ask Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland as well. If Germany had not invaded the USSR in 1941, the USSR would have remained an agressor), the problem will remain. Placing rose colored glasses on history by the Russian leaders makes them the real villains here, not the Estonians. Insisting on placing a Red Army soldier in the middle of Tallinn is no different than placing an SS soldier on the streets of Tel Aviv. Estonia is a soveriegn nation that has had a victimized past from her huge neighbor. Estonia is not the aggressor here. If the ethnic Russians are unhappy in Estonia, they can go back to Russia. If they wish to become Estonian citizens, they need to learn the Estonian language and customs. If France can insist on citizens in that country learning French language and customs, Estonia has the same right. Thousands of Estonians were murdered and deported by the Soviets, and their country was invaded and raped by the Red Army during World War II. What in the hell does Putin expect from the Estonian peopleReply
I can't believe the nasty comments!!!! As for someone from the United Kingdom telling people in Estonia to get along!!! And using India as an example, where they kill their politicians!!! I have visited Estonia a number of times while it was forcibly part of the USSR. I don't have space here to detail how the Russians treated Estonians in their own country. And may I add that many of the Russians in Estonia have chosen not to take out Estonian citizenship. I'm sure Putin is just waiting to go marching in to "save" these Russian citizens as he did in Georgia. Find out the facts, please, including the cyber terrorism that took place against Estonian web sites after the statue was moved to a war graves site.Reply
Well let me say something to all Estonians citizens. This world of ours is already suffering lots of more important problems than having to live next to each other. Both the peoples of your country need to learn to live in peace and integraty with one-another. The Russians stayed back in Estonia because I guess they too were fed up with the Soviet regime. The Estonians treat them as second class citizens and that is the reason of their acting pro-russian. This is a small country with not many people then why the devide between its citizens? Look at one of the worlds biggest democracies like India, where people of god knows how many religions, sects, cultures and beliefs live in peace and harmony(except when there are some external interests or some selfish political propaganda). Come on All you Estonians life is very short so why not live it to the fullest and the best way possible. You have a very butiful country so keep it that way and lovely people too. For the people outside of Estonia if you cannot help in uniting the people of this country, do not try and blackmail them. Best would be to mind your own business in which ever country you live. Before you try and solve your neighbours problems try and solve the ones in your own house. Let it be known that all Estonian citizens be it the Estonians or the Russians ARE FIRST PROUD CITIZENS OF ESTONIA.Reply
why should Estonia have discussed it with the Russians? last time I checked they were a soveirgn nation and can make their own decisions about their country. I applaud Estonia for having the courage to make the move. Too bad they didn't do it sooner. And if the Russians living in Estonia don't like it, they can always move back to Russia. But of course they won't because they all know they have a much better life in Estonia.Reply
Unfortunately, Russia spoiled the significance of the sttatue by shifting from liberator to occupier. Can anyone say Iraq?Reply
When will Estonia finally get rid of all the neo-Stalinist Communist pigs in the country?Reply
Anonymous:This article was written as the riots were occurring and the monument was yet to be re-erected where it stands today; hence the use of the words "removed" and "dismantled." The ethnic Russian who was murdered was indeed killed during violence or a "skirmish" between rioters. The ethnicity of his killer is not known and may never be. We will change this sentence to not suggest ethnicity, but it would be naive to think that ethnic Estonians were not also involved in the violence, whether voluntarily or otherwise...Reply
Unfortunately Estonian government acting as a 3rd Reih after 1935. After nazi passed the Nurnberg Law in 1935, then holocaust start step by step. Also Estonian troops fight side by side with nazi against "World Jews" Is very sad that Estonia following the same direction. Was very cozy and cute country.Reply
The Bronze Soldier was relocated to more appropriate surroundings, as opposed to "removed" or "dismantled". Previously, I read that the stabbing death was a result of violence between rioters. This article has a different take. What is the reason for the discrepancy ?Reply
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After a brief hiatus, Ra Ra Brunonia is back and better than ever. This week we examine the historical roots of Carrie Tower and its relatively subtle presence on campus. Located on the corner of Waterman and Prospect, the tower, in all its glory, peers down upon the slack-liners and studiers of the Quiet Green. Unlike its counterparts on the Main Green, Carrie Tower holds a more subtle, yet deep rooted reputation on campus.
Built in 1904 as a gift from Paul Bajnotti of Turin, Italy, Carrie Tower serves as a memorial for the daughter of Nicholas Brown II, the wife of the benefactor. The tower, built by the J.W. Bishop Company of Boston, is 95 ft. tall (it’s no SciLi) and is primarily constructed of brick (it’s also no ivory tower). The top of the tower is fashioned with four copper clock faces and often adorned with an assortment of invasive plant species. The foliage was not included in any of the original blueprints. Though no one has ever been held prisoner in its highest windows, in the mid-1900s, Carrie Tower and its now defunct bells were used to signal the beginning and end of classes and victories of the Brown football team. Continue Reading | <urn:uuid:fb9fa39f-0e07-476e-9947-483a84a2aa16> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogdailyherald.com/tag/propstojanover/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968999 | 257 | 1.75 | 2 |
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MONTREUX, Switzerland — In nearly the same breath, the world’s most powerful diplomats have talked about the importance of this week’s peace conference on Syria and downplayed expectations for a breakthrough.
The timeframe for the talks is a week to 10 days, and then a break — but for what, and for how long?
Syria’s Western-backed opposition and President Bashar Assad’s handpicked representatives have never spoken face-to-face and it’s not at all clear how much either side — or their proxy powerbrokers — really want an end to the war. A look at the goals of the participants and how the conference, which opens Wednesday, could unfold.
WHAT’S AT STAKE
Fighting in Syria has killed more than 130,000 people and left millions of refugees, either in camps or squats in neighboring countries or within Syria’s borders. The economy has been devastated, and bombs and gunfire have ruined once-thriving cities. The rebellion started in March 2011, and Syria has seen little but violence ever since. The contrast for the peace conference in the Alps town of Montreux could hardly be more stark — Switzerland has stayed out of international conflict since 1815, when it was declared neutral at the end of the Napoleonic wars.
The dichotomy isn’t lost on Syrians suffering from the war. The government carried out airstrikes across the country on Tuesday, including in Daraa province in the south, outside the capital, Damascus, in Homs province in central Syria and in Aleppo in the north. The deadliest of the attacks hit opposition-held areas of Aleppo, killing at least 10 people.
For some of the more than 2 million Syrian refugees scattered around the region, there was scant interest in a settlement with Assad’s government.
“We lost our faith in the international community. We don’t care about the Geneva conference and whether it takes place or not,” said Ibraheem Qaddah, a former rebel fighter with an amputated arm, now holed up in Jordan’s sprawling Zaatari refugee camp. “We have lost a lot of relatives and friends and family members in the fighting, and we’ve lost Syria.”
NEW LEADERSHIP? UNLIKELY THIS TIME AROUND
Syria’s Western-backed Syrian National Coalition wants a transitional government to replace Assad, reiterating Tuesday that it finally decided to attend the peace conference in order to establish a transitional government with full executive powers “in which killers and criminals do not participate.”
That’s the stated goal of the peace conference, agreed upon by international powers in preliminary talks in June.
But Assad, whose soldiers have notched up recent military victories, points to the ascendance of Islamic militants to temper Western enthusiasm for the rebels. He has said he has no intention of stepping down and, on the contrary, may run again as president later this year.
Still, by agreeing to meet them, Assad for the first time has acknowledged an opposition that he has long derided and dismissed as “terrorists” and “mercenaries.”
CEASE-FIRES, HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS, PRISONER EXCHANGES
“We must take small steps,” Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the German foreign minister, said in Paris on Tuesday.
A comprehensive end to the war in Syria is probably not possible, but smaller goals may be achievable.
Syria’s government last week proposed a cease-fire in the embattled city of Aleppo and a prisoner exchange with the opposition, but left the terms vague. The opposition has accused the government of reneging on promises before and declaring cease-fires in order to buy time. There are also questions as to whether a truce is remotely possible in a devastated city where scattered rebel groups have been locked for months in a stalemate with government troops.
Prisoner exchanges pose similar problems: With no unified command, the prospect of pulling together a rebel database of those detained seems impossibly remote. And Assad’s government operated secret prisons for years, if not decades, before the fighting started. That doesn’t preclude small exchanges and — as Steinmeier said — small steps are the first goal.
Humanitarian corridors would seem a likely starting point, but as one rebel brigade after another has fallen away from the Syrian National Council, it’s unclear how the shrinking umbrella group could enforce any agreement it reaches. The rebels could benefit — if they can be persuaded not to seize the supplies for their own forces, and resolve with the government who polices the routes and guarantees the safety of the police.
HOW IT COULD UNFOLD
The first direct talks between the opposition and the government are scheduled to start in Geneva on Friday. News agencies in Russia, which is spearheading the talks along with the United States, said those discussions are expected to last seven to 10 days, then break for a short time.
The reports did not specify the purpose of the break, its duration or how talks could resume. But any agreements reached between the two sides would have to be thoroughly vetted. In the case of the Syrian opposition, that will be complicated by defections and its total inability to influence fighters within Syria.
For a recent comparison, the Dayton peace talks that ended the Bosnian war in 1995 took place over 21 days under far more auspicious circumstances, where the leaders were looking for political cover for a war they wanted to end. In Syria, neither side is looking for — or expecting — a quick end to the fighting. And the fighting has evolved into a proxy war between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia, as well as touching on post-Cold War tensions between Russia and the United States. | <urn:uuid:fe2fe4dd-75e8-4e8d-b32e-effff6ac25ee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.heraldnet.com/news/syria-peace-talks-hyped-as-crucial-downplayed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00097-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956732 | 1,204 | 1.921875 | 2 |
NEW YORK, Oct. 14, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In the summer of 2013, Belarus Free Theater, a well-known underground theater group, held sold-out performances in London. After the show called 'Trash Cuisine', a provocative performance with such elements as electrocution, stoning, and hanging – a metaphor for the situation with human rights in the Republic of Belarus, hundreds of spectators signed postcards addressed to the EU officials.
The cards stated: "Repression is increasing in Belarus. The last dictatorship in Europe employs capital punishment; opponents are kidnapped or imprisoned. Yet every year the EU buys more from Belarus. We ask for an increase in targeted economic and political sanctions against all enterprises supporting the Belarusian Presidential Administration…"
Thousands of signed postcards with 'REALPOLITIK' logo on the back were received by the EU officials responsible for economic policy towards Belarus. European External Action Service published a reply to the petitioners on its website: "The immediate and unconditional release and rehabilitation of all political prisoners is a political priority for the EU. This is evidenced by the reference to the political prisoners, including the conditions under which they are imprisoned and their state of health, in all relevant actions, statements and diplomatic messages of the EU…"
Belarusians in Exile (BiE), the US-based organization, supported the petition to the EU: "Despite the fact that some sanctions against the Belarusian regime are in place, the EU keeps buying more from Belarus every year, effectively sponsoring the regime and providing it with much-needed hard currency. We hope that the EU officials will listen to the human rights organizations and will expand sanctions against the main sponsors of the regime, the state-owned conglomerates that sell oil, chemicals, and potash to the EU. We believe that this is the most effective way to push for changes in this country," says Dima Shehigelsky, BiE director.
The EU reviews restrictive measures against Belarus annually. The next review is to take place in October of 2013.
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March 31, 2011 by danny
Finished a biography on Philip Larkin by Richard Bradford, ‘First Boredom, Then Fear – The Life of Philip Larkin’. From the intro: “The defensive strategy of the pro-Larkinists, that a writer’s prejudices are separable from and irrelevant to their literary achievements, is charitable but both demonstrably invalid and impossible to maintain. To treat poems as pure artefacts is formalism gone mad – try reading Yeats’s ‘Easter 1916’ without involving thoughts on the actual Easter Rising and Yeats’s experience of it – and to cite only those elements of a writer’s life which we believe best correspond with his stature as an artist takes us back to the worst aspects of Victorianism.”
Larkin – “a man for whom the mundane, the dreary and the mildly depressing were inspirational.”
Not love you? Dear I’d pay ten quid for you:
Five down and five when I get rid of you.
He married a woman to stop her getting away
Now she’s there all day,
Love Larkin’s poetry. Note his racism (which many of his friends tried to excuse): “…hardly any of his letters from 1972 onwards fails to include, apropos nothing in particular, some reference to the enduring presence of ‘Pakis’ or ‘Niggers’ in English society, such as satanic figures as Arthur Scargill or the burden placed upon taxpayers like Gunner and himself by the growing mass of lazy, unwashed left-wing students.”
Interviewed by Jenny Mallon, a final year student at the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, the focus of whose study is ‘the year 1981 and the Irish hunger strikes’.
30th March. Interviewed by final year history student at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, Daniel McKenna, on his dissertation on the political rise of Sinn Fein 1981-1983.
Did a reading and a Q & A at the creative writing class in the Metropolitan College, Whiterock, organised by writer and broadcaster Paul Clements.
29th March. Did Skype interview with Hope Mills [USA], a graduate student studying the ‘artistic response to the 1981 Hunger Strike’.
25th March. Went to Féile FM, which was its last day of full-time broadcasting, to explain why the management of Féile an Phobail felt it had to close the station.
16th March. Was invited by English teacher Kelly McGahan to judge a public speaking competition in St Louise’s College. The standard was incredibly high and the young girls were amazingly confident.
Spoke at symposium in the Market Place Theatre, Armagh, after the performance of ‘The Chronicles of Long Kesh’
15th March. Did Skype interview on republican politics with Bonnie Weir [USA] for her doctoral thesis.
14th March. Spoke at the official launch of the hunger strike exhibition at the Strule Arts Centre, Omagh.
12th March. Learnt of the sudden death of Brian Moore, a.k.a Cormac the cartoonist. Very sad.
10th March. At the launch of Stephen Walker’s book ‘Hide and Seek’ in the Queen’s Bookshop. His book is about the extraordinary story of Vatican-based Irish priest Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty and the quest to capture him by SS police chief Herbert Kappler. O’Flaherty, based in the Vatican during WWII, organised the hiding of many PoWs and Jews from the Nazis, saving over 6,500 lives.
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March 14, 2011 by danny
Got a call from Flair Campbell late on Saturday night to tell me that Brian Moore had died suddenly after a short illness. Brian was one of life’s gentlemen, intelligent, witty, dedicated, selfless and hugely talented as a singer and songwriter but also as the mischievous, subversive cartoonist ‘Cormac’, often the first thing that readers of Republican News and An Phoblacht/Republican News would go to when they bought the paper.
I wrote the introduction to a compilation of his work – and now I cannot find the book!
I was last with him and joking in the Cultúrlann on the Falls Road in early February at the launch of the Robert Ballagh book by Ciaran Carty during Féile an Earraigh. I was slegging him as an artist manqué but Brian, who was quite proficient in French, corrected my pronunciation. Other times you would see him coming into Madden’s Bar for a pint of Guinness before catching the last bus to Andersonstown to be with his partner Máire O’Hare.
Tom Hartley and I always looked forward to him arriving into our office on the Falls Road with his precious cartoon sealed inside two pieces of cardboard. It was Tom who would subsequently retrieve these cartoons from the printers and who deposited many of them in the Linenhall Library for posterity.
His cartoons are too numerous to mention as would be the number of free gigs he performed for every good cause under the sun.
His death comes as a great shock, so unexpected.
There are other tributes to Brian at the An Phoblacht site.
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Four years is a long time in politics but it was four years ago that Eoghan Harris accepted a bet from Jude Collins which eventually cost Mr Harris one thousand pounds. Here is the story as told by Jude Collins!
MONEY TALK AT TALKS BACK
There are stories that have a happy ending and there are stories that have an unhappy ending. This is a happy-ender.
It began back in August 2007, at the ‘West Belfast Talks Back’ session of Féile An Phobail, where Senator Eoghan Harris, a columnist for The Sunday Independent, was one of the panellists. In his column the previous week, the good Senator had announced that at the south’s next general election, Sinn Féin’s remaining seats (they’d just dropped from five to four) would be mopped up by Fianna Fail. Mmm, I thought. On my way to the WBTB session I stopped off at my bank and got them to give me a £100 note for five twenties.
Fast forward to questions from the audience at ‘West Belfast Talks Back’. I stand up and hold aloft my money. “I have in my hand a £100 note,” I say. Cue yelps of delight from audience. “With it I want to bet Eoghan Harris is wrong about Fianna Fail mopping up Sinn Féin seats at the next election. According to his column he is certain it will happen, so I’d like odds of 10-1”. Faced with denying his own column prediction, the good Senator said he’d be glad to take my money from me and give me those odds.
Now – and this is getting to the interesting bit, so pay attention – fast forward four years, from 2007 to 2011. The south’s general election has been called and I contact Senator Eoghan again. What about our bet? There’s a pregnant pause of several days; Senator Eoghan eventually breaks cover and declares he’s prepared to cede the bet even before polling day. “You got lucky with the financial melt-down, my boy,” he tells me. I explain that I’m not a boy and it had nothing to do with luck, just shrewd political judgement on my part (it never pays to be modest in matters of money).
After that there are a few minor wobbles before the happy ending. At one point the Senator got an idea that the bet was in Euros, not pounds, but when I mentioned a 2007 tape recording and an Irish Times report saying otherwise, he accepted that he’d misremembered. And he changed his minds several times about when he’d pay me – before the election, then after the election, then just before the election. A bit of a Hamlet, the Senator.
But now he’s paid (I told you it was a happy ending). The postman, God bless him, brought a big fat banker’s order for £1,000 the other day, and the money is now nestling in a specially created account in my bank. I had thought of getting it in fivers, rushing home and rubbing them all over my naked body but the present Mrs Collins said that might traumatise the cat so I didn’t. Fair play to ex-Senator Eoghan: he did cough up the £1000 with a degree of good grace. That said he was of course totally, wildly, completely and utterly wrong in his prediction and I was undeniably, impressively and wonderfully right, so nya-nya-na-nya –NA… I’m going to leave marks on this kitchen table if I dance on it any more.
The £1000 question: what will I do with the money? I thought about getting a dog and calling him Eoghan but I’ve decided instead to focus on the May election here. Out there somewhere, I know, there is a simple soul convinced that May 5th will see the SDLP mop up Sinn Féin seats and Margaret Ritchie emerge as the new First Minister. My mission over the next eight weeks is to find him or her, put an arm round his/her shoulders and flutter a £1000 note under his/her nose. “Can I interest you” I will say “in a little bet?”
P T Barnum was right. There’s one born every minute.
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Did an interview today with Sarah O’Neill whose thesis is a literary biography of Jennifer Johnston, and Jennifer was one of the writers who came into the H-Blocks whilst I was there to teach creative writing.
7th March. Did interview along with David Hume of the Orange Order on BBC’s Talkback re the Orange Order’s proposal that Royal Mail issue stamps to commemorate the signing of the Ulster Covenant in 1912, the formation of the 36th Ulster Division in 1915, the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and ‘the establishment of Northern Ireland.’ Met Professor Bob White from Indianapolis re the current situation.
4th March. Finished ‘Revolutionary Road’ by Richard Yates, first published in 1961, a story of US suburbia in the mid 1950s, and very depressing. Didn’t like it much and cannot understand why it got such rave reviews. Attended tribute for the late publisher Steve Mac Donogh in the Project Arts Theatre, Templebar, as part of the Dublin book festival.
3rd March. Did interview on the 1981 hunger strike with Italian journalist Fausta Speranza who works for Vatican Radio. My feature on the hunger strike, ‘The Night of Auld Lang Syne’, appeared in the print edition of An Phoblacht.
1st March. Attended launch of hunger strike exhibition in Linenhall Library. Did interview on hunger strike for BBC Radio Ulster’s ‘Good Evening Extra’. Myself and Peter Shirlow interviewed by Paul Clarke on ‘UTV Live’ tonight re the electoral rise of Sinn Féin.
25th February. Attended event in name of David Ervine at the Crescent Arts Centre organised by Brian Rowan. Interviewed by Queen’s research student Kathleen Ireton about conflict resolution and ‘the use of apologies – the controversy of how and when they are used, how they come about, reactions to them,’ and specifically the IRA’s apology to non-combatants in 2002.
23rd February. Wrote a feature for next week’s An Phoblacht, ‘The Night of Auld Lang Syne’.
Finished ‘Embers’ by Sándor Márai, the Hungarian expatriate writer who shot himself in San Diego in 1989. An interesting novel about friendship, love and betrayal, involving two old men who have known each other since they were ten, the affluent Henrik and the poor Konrad, and the ghost of Henrik’s long-dead wife Krisztina. Why the men haven’t met in over forty years is slowly revealed. The word ‘monologue’ to me always suggests, though need not, something pejorative, a boring harangue. Well, there are monologues on ‘hunting’ (which would please Kevin Myers no end), ‘friendship’, ‘fidelity’ and ‘growing old’. Best quote: “Memory has a wonderful way of separating the wheat from the chaff.”
22nd February. Interviewed by Evelyn Kaldoja from Estonia’s largest circulating newspaper, Postimees, on the 1981 hunger strike.
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March 4, 2011 by danny
Wrote a feature about the hunger strike which appears in today’s print edition of An Phoblacht. I called it The Night of ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and its relevance becomes clear. Here it is.
Sometimes the bell didn’t work so you banged on the door. If he didn’t know you, Stoker Cosgrove would shout, “Who is it?” But he had known me since I was a 10-year-old and knocked about with his son Tommy and Tommy’s older sister, Nora, who had been a bit of a tomboy. The Pigeon Club, where Stoker did security, also happened to be my Da’s watering hole after he finished the night shift at Telephone House.
Next door to the club at one time had been Iveagh Elementary School, attended by Protestant children, some who came from around the side streets off the Falls, but most from down Broadway where Broadway became part of the loyalist ‘Village’ area. The headmaster and staff got on well with the locals, and relations had always been good, even after August 1969 when thousands of Catholics had been burnt out of their homes. In response to our desperate attempts for protection (and before the IRA reorganised) the British army billeted in the school and we welcomed them, brought them cigarettes and made them tea.
It was Stoker who had said, “You’ll rue the day you made them sandwiches.” His statement struck me at the time – which is why I recall it with such clarity.
On Thursday, 4th September, 1969, a loyalist mob, whipped up by Ian Paisley, marched up Broadway. It was after midnight and they were mostly drunk, having looted Roddy’s Bar. They came up to remove our barricade, claiming that their kids couldn’t get to school – a claim repudiated by the headmaster and the Rev Ray Hill, minister of Broadway Presbyterian Church on the Falls Road. We had built an access for pedestrians, though one that could easily be closed down if there was an attack.
We rushed out to defend our homes only to be met by the British army who turned on us with fixed bayonets on their rifles and forced us back whilst a motorist was badly beaten by the mob. One of our neighbours actually joined with the soldiers in trying to push us back, arguing that we should trust the army to deal with the situation. He pushed young Tommy Cosgrove once too often and it ended in a punch-up. That neighbour ended up in the SDLP, Tommy in the IRA.
During the commotion 57-year-old Jimmy Dempsey, a father of four, who lived seven doors below me, dropped dead and an ambulance couldn’t get into the area.
It wasn’t until a lone gunman took up position at a fence in Iveagh Crescent and fired shots over the heads of the loyalists that they retreated.
Stoker had been right. Rather than tackle the loyalists the Brits had turned on us. The same was to happen a few weeks later when in full view of the Brits and the RUC, loyalists burned down Catholic homes in Coates Street, behind Hastings Street Barracks.
I banged on the door of the club and Stoker opened it and said, “Your Da and Mrs Morrison are over in the corner,” which always struck me as being funny. He didn’t want to say “your Ma” but it sounded as if my Da was out with another woman!
1980 had been a tough year. I had spent much of it visiting prisoners in Armagh and the H-Blocks, mostly Mairead Farrell and Bobby Sands, in the build-up to the hunger strike. Now, the hunger strike was over but instead of taking the opportunity to resolve the crisis (which is what the Catholic hierarchy and the SDLP, amongst others, claimed would happen if only the prisoners ended the fast) the Brits were arrogantly pressing home a presumed advantage to defeat the resolve of the protesting prisoners. A second hunger strike was inevitable.
It was the last day, the last hours of 1980, and my wife and I decided to see in the New Year with my parents. It was a while before I relaxed. The club was packed, noisy and dense with smoke. Someone requested a particular song and the two musicians nodded to each other and played a cover version of Johnny McEvoy’s 1967 hit, ‘Nora’. It was quite ironic – as things turned out.
The song has an interesting history. It was first a poem, written in 1864 by a Canadian schoolteacher to his wife and was titled, ‘When You and I Were Young, Maggie’, and is about a couple in old age reflecting back on time. But in actual fact the teacher George Johnson’s wife died just months after they were married and the words were adapted as lyrics in a song popularised from 1866. ‘Maggie’ became ‘Nora’ when the romantic ballad appeared in Sean O’Casey’s ‘The Plough and the Stars’.
At midnight the musicians played ‘Auld Lang Syne’ and we got up and linked and sang heartily and to my right I discovered that I was linked with Nora – for whom the song, I realised, had been dedicated – and for a guilty while I was able to forget that eight miles away three hundred men were lying in the H-Blocks still on the blanket, and for some a clock was ticking.
Nora was now no longer a tomboy but a married woman with three young children. That night none of us could imagine what was to unfold.
Just after 5am on Wednesday 8th July, we received news that the fifth hunger striker, Joe McDonnell, had died. I went to the Republican Press Centre on the Falls Road to deal with the media. The eight o’clock news was on the radio when a dull shot rang out. It was nothing unusual and shootings had become fairly routine phenomena around this time. ‘Bingo’ Campbell, who ran messages for us, shouted up the stairs: “They’ve shot somebody in Linden Street!”
I ran out to see what was happening and found a small crowd around a body lying on the ground, encircled by a much larger crowd of both dumbfounded and angry people.
“The fucking cops just opened fire for nothing!” I was told. It was clear from the scene – and later proved by a Canadian camera crew – that there had been no rioting in the area. The victim had been shot in the head and her face was swollen and certainly wasn’t recognisable to me. An ambulance came and I went back to the Sinn Féin office to resume work.
Only later in the day did I learn that it had been Nora. She had got up that morning and found that she was without cigarettes. She left the house for just a minute to go to the corner shop. RUC Chief Superintendent Jimmy Crutchley had been driving past her corner as the front seat passenger in a jeep and he ordered another officer to fire. The jeep had to make a deliberately sharp right turn to enable fire. Nora died the following day from a skull fracture and brain injuries inflicted by the plastic bullet. Crutchley was later promoted to Assistant Chief Constable of the RUC.
At the time of Nora’s death her brother Tommy was on the blanket, his third time in jail – twice interned, now sentenced. Another blanket man at that time, and one familiar to many people throughout Ireland, was Seando Moore, who died last June and who, had he been alive, would have been on the road this year taking the hunger strike exhibition around Ireland, such was his devotion to his fallen comrades.
Seando had married Patricia McCabe whose brother Jim was Nora’s husband.
After Nora’s death in 1981 Jim was left to raise seven-year-old Paul, two-year-old Jim and three-month-old Aine. He is still active in Relatives for Justice, campaigning against the use of plastic bullets.
A city so silent and lone, Nora
Where the young and the gay and the best
In polished white mansion of stone, Nora
Have each found a place of rest
Is built where the birds used to play, Nora
And join in the songs that were sung
For we sang just as gay as they, Nora
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Viscoelasticity; Blood; Children--Physiology
The performance of pediatric circulatory support devices depends on the properties of pediatric blood. This study reports the measurement of the viscoelastic properties of pediatric blood at 37°C [body temperature]. The results were compared with adult viscoelastic properties at the same temperature and also to pediatric viscoelastic properties analyzed at 22°C [room temperature]. The measurements were made using a viscoelasticity analyzer Vilastic-3 on the blood at the hematocrit at which it was drawn. Each test produced results for viscoelastic parameters versus shear rate [stretch test] at a frequency of 2 Hz. Samples were obtained with informed consent from 11 pediatric patients at Kosair Children's Hospital with body weight of 12.72 ± 9.85 kg [3.60 kg to 34.8 kg] and age of 2.72 ± 3.42 years [0.0301 years to 11.83 years]. The average spun hematocrit was 40.2 ± 7.38% [30% to 51.5%] and the average density was 1.053 ± 0.00492 [1.047 to 1.060]. Mean viscosity values were 0.091 ± 0.022 poise [0.2 strain], 0.08 ± 0.021 poise [1 strain] and 0.0696 ± 0.016 poise [5 strain]. Mean elasticity values were 0.056 ± 0.028 poise [0.2 strain], 0.053 ± 0.024 poise [1 strain] and 0.021 ± 0.007 poise [5 strain]. The results obtained by 2 way - ANOVA comparison showed significant variation (p < 0.05) between the adult and pediatric data at 37°C. The comparison of the pediatric data at body temperature and room temperature showed dissimilar values in viscoelasticity with a significant variation (p < 0.05). The results from this study can be used as base data for pediatric blood at normal body temperature for design of implants for pediatric patients.
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Reinfections make up a bit less than a third of Covid cases in the UK – but the BA.5 subvariant is not able to escape vaccine immunity better than its parent. CC-licensed photo by Mike Finn on Flickr.
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the consequences of reinfections are still unclear. It’s unlikely that each subsequent bout of COVID is worse for an individual than the previous one; this idea has proliferated because of a recent preprint, which really only showed that getting reinfected is worse than not being reinfected. Nor should people worry that, as one viral news article recently suggested, “it is now possible to be reinfected with one of Omicron’s variants every two to three weeks.” [The newly rising Omicron subvariant] BA.5 is different from its forebears but not from itself; although someone could catch the new variant despite having recently had COVID, they’d be very unlikely to get infected again in the near future.
Though previous immunity has been dialed down a few notches, since BA.5 showed up, it hasn’t disappeared entirely. “We’re seeing that new infections are disproportionately people who haven’t been infected before,” Meaghan Kall, an epidemiologist at the U.K. Health Security Agency, told me. About 70% of those who currently have COVID in England are first-timers, even though they account for just 15% of the country’s population. This clearly shows that although reinfections are a serious problem, the population still has some protection against catching even BA.5.
The degree to which the new variant escapes immunity is also a shadow of what we saw last winter, when Omicron first arrived. For comparison, antibodies in vaccinated people were 20 to 40 times worse at neutralizing BA.1 than the original coronavirus. BA.5 reduces their efficiency threefold again—a small gain of sneakiness on top of its predecessor’s dramatic flair for infiltration.
So BA.5 is essentially carrying out a mopping-up operation – infecting the people who until now have evaded infection. This isn’t over, by any means. And 30% of infections being reinfections is a lot of reinfections in the grand scheme of people getting ill with Covid. Anecdotal reports say it takes a long time to clear, and leaves people feeling wiped.
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David Pierce, now that the public beta of iOS 16 and Mac OS Ventura has come out:
If you’re the kind of person who uses an iPad as your main workhorse, iPadOS 16 is for you. Just the ability to plug in an external monitor and use it as a second screen is a game-changer for anyone who spends hours a day doing work on their iPad. The process is pretty seamless: you can buy a specific USB-C to HDMI cable, but my USB-C hub worked well, too, and as soon as I plugged it in, it popped up a second screen with its own dock ready to go.
The iPad assumes the second screen is above it by default, so you drag windows up from your iPad onto your second screen. (You can tweak this in Settings.) Most apps just treat the monitor as a really big iPad with no touchscreen, which works well enough, but a few get crazy with it: Netflix played everything turned 90 degrees to the right, for instance, and YouTube expanded into some deeply broken layout I’ve never seen before. These are all solvable problems, and are why betas exist, but this actually isn’t an easy fix for everyone. Should apps actually treat it like a big iPad and give you 30-plus inches of a 10-inch app? Some apps are already built to be responsive and resize nimbly as you move them around, but no iPad developer has had to reckon with screens this size — or this many different sizes, period — before.
Stage Manager is the other thing that’s going to cause developers headaches. It’s also likely to be the most controversial thing about iPadOS 16: a new tool for multitasking designed to make it easier to quickly switch between a lot of apps. Once you turn on Stage Manager — it’s actually off by default, so you have to actively decide to use it before it appears — it puts four “piles” of apps onto the left side of your screen, like a dock of your various screen configurations.
…We’ll reserve full judgment for our review this fall, but so far, I hate Stage Manager. The piles take up too much room on the screen, and it takes way too much work to place the app windows just so.
Bit of an asterisk on this: you need an M1 iPad. Otherwise you just get mirroring on the second screen. Meanwhile, another Apple windowing manager added to the pile. Should have just stuck with Exposé.
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Domestic energy bills will rise faster this winter than previously forecast by the energy regulator Ofgem, its chief executive has admitted to MPs.
Jonathan Brearley said in late May that a typical household would pay £800 a year more from October. But, while giving evidence to MPs, he said it was “clear” that estimate for winter bills now looked too low.
The original figure was used by ministers when deciding how much to pay in direct assistance this winter. One industry analyst has predicted a rise of more than £1,200 a year in October. Cornwall Insight said that the typical domestic customer was likely to pay £3,244 a year from October, then £3,363 a year from January.
The typical bill at present is about £2,000 a year. In itself, this was a rise of £700 a year in April, compared with the previous six months.
About 23 million households in England, Wales and Scotland have their bills governed by the energy price cap. That limits the amount suppliers can charge per unit of energy, and the standing charge, and is set every six months. From this winter, it is expected that this will change to a three-month period.
Mr Brearley said in May that a typical household gas and electricity bill on the price cap would increase to £2,800 a year, owing to continued volatility in gas prices. But on Monday, he told MPs on the Public Accounts Committee that it was “clear”, given the current “pricing dynamics” and the ongoing war in Ukraine, that “prices are looking higher than they did when we made that estimate”.
However, he would not be drawn on exactly how much higher bills would be ahead of the official announcement in the coming weeks.
The next Prime Minister is in for a world of hurt.
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A tariff on Russian oil imports would be preferable to a complex price cap in multiple ways. First, a tariff raises [government] revenues, while a price cap does not. Forcing the exporter to sell at a maximum price set by the cartel of buyers, the price cap destroys part of Russia’s fossil fuel revenues. But with a tariff, the EU would extract at least some of those revenues, and could use them in the short term for income support for poorer households facing high energy bills, and in the long term for reconstruction efforts in Ukraine.
Second, enforcing a price cap would be difficult: importers willing to pay more than the price cap could try to offer a higher price ‘behind doors’ to obtain priority access to Russian oil. Third, if many countries applied a price cap, demand for Russian oil would spike. Because refiners of Russian oil would compete with refiners of higher-priced oil from elsewhere, retail prices of fuel at the pump would follow the higher global oil price instead of the capped purchase price of Russian oil. This means that consumers would not see any benefits in terms of lower prices at the pump.
What about the spike in gas prices? While the EU aims to cut imports of Russian oil into the EU by 90% by the end of the year, Europe’s dependence on Russian natural gas is still the elephant in the room: following the lengthy, difficult negotiations leading to the partial oil embargo, no EU leader is particularly keen to embark on gas sanctions. Further, given Russia is increasingly cutting its exports to Europe, some may wonder whether it is worth the EU attempting any sanctions on gas at all.
But redirecting gas supplies away from Europe and towards other markets is even harder for Russia, and it would not be as profitable. For this reason, Russia would bear the brunt of a tariff on gas: European gas demand is more flexible than Russian gas supply. The EU should use this as an advantage.
Seems like a sensible idea, well-argued, which of course means that it won’t happen. All the momentum is towards the less good idea, of a price cap, and nobody’s going to want to be the person – or country’s leader – who admits they’re heading in the wrong direction. Maybe the euro falling to parity with the dollar over European recession fears will concentrate some minds.
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Paul Lewis, Harry Davies, Lisa O’Carroll, Simon Goodley and Felicity Lawrence:
Mark MacGann, a career lobbyist who led Uber’s efforts to win over governments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, has come forward to identify himself as the source who leaked more than 124,000 company files to the Guardian.
MacGann decided to speak out, he says, because he believes Uber knowingly flouted laws in dozens of countries and misled people about the benefits to drivers of the company’s gig-economy model.
The 52-year-old acknowledges he was part of Uber’s top team at the time – and is not without blame for the conduct he describes. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, he said he was partly motivated by remorse.
“I am partly responsible,” he said. “I was the one talking to governments, I was the one pushing this with the media, I was the one telling people that they should change the rules because drivers were going to benefit and people were going to get so much economic opportunity.
“When that turned out not to be the case – we had actually sold people a lie – how can you have a clear conscience if you don’t stand up and own your contribution to how people are being treated today?”
The senior role MacGann held at Uber between 2014 and 2016 put him at the heart of decisions taken at the highest levels of the company during the period in which it was forcing its way into markets in violation of taxi-licensing laws. He oversaw Uber’s attempts to persuade governments to change taxi regulations and create a more favourable business environment in more than 40 countries.
Pretty strong story for day 2. And a remarkable thing to do by MacGann.
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Devin, the founder of a cryptocurrency startup based in San Francisco, woke up one day in February to the most bizarre phone call of his life.
The man on the other end, an FBI agent, told Devin that the seemingly legitimate software developer he’d hired the previous summer was a North Korean operative who’d sent tens of thousands of dollars of his salary to the country’s authoritarian regime.
Stunned, Devin hung up and immediately cut the employee off from company accounts, he said.
“He was a good contributor,” Devin lamented, puzzled by the man who had claimed to be Chinese and passed multiple rounds of interviews to get hired. (CNN is using a pseudonym for Devin to protect the identity of his company).
Devin’s encounter is just one example of what US officials say is a relentless, evolving effort by the North Korean government to infiltrate and steal from cryptocurrency and other tech firms around the world to help fund Kim Jong Un’s illicit nuclear and ballistic weapons program.
…The FBI, Treasury and State departments issued a rare public advisory in May about thousands of “highly skilled” IT personnel who provide Pyongyang with “a critical stream of revenue” that helps bankroll the regime’s “highest economic and security priorities.”
It’s an elaborate money-making scheme that relies on front companies, contractors and deception to prey on a volatile industry that is always on the hunt for top talent. North Korean tech workers can earn more than $300,000 annually — hundreds of times the average income of a North Korean citizen — and up to 90% of their wages go to the regime, according to the US advisory.
“(The North Koreans) take this very seriously,” said Soo Kim, a former North Korea analyst at the CIA. “It’s not just some rando in his basement trying to mine cryptocurrency,” she added, referring to the process of generating digital money. “It’s a way of life.”
For the right-wing media, lawmakers, and talking heads who were banned or had abandoned the platform—and who had spent weeks celebrating a deal they believed would herald their triumphant return to tweeting—Musk’s withdrawal was a devastating blow.
But rather than going into mourning, they’ve managed to twist logic to the point where they now claim that Musk planned to scupper the deal all along—and it’s actually a really good thing.
And what better way to show their contempt for Twitter than by sharing their views on Twitter.
“Holy shit. The party is really over here. The purge is coming,” Dave Rubin, a conservative political commentator tweeted after news of Musk’s withdrawal was announced.
The main gist of the argument from the right is that Musk was correct to pull out because he had successfully exposed the level of spam accounts on the platform.
“Elon musk is terminating his agreement to buy Twitter: So basically Twitter has a huge amount of spam accounts—way more than they let on—and has gotten busted for it,” Donald Trump Jr. tweeted. “As I said weeks ago spam accounts are probably 50% not 5% of Twitter users.”
Except, as Matt Levine points out in his newsletter, if spam accounts (and how exactly do you define that? Show your working), then that means that Twitter is monetising fantastically well on its humans, who actually look at ads, so Twitter is fabulously valuable and Musk should buy it after all. It’s a self-defeating argument to claim there are too many bots.
A passenger on a United Express flight deployed an evacuation slide on a moving aircraft at LAX! The individual was the only one to suffer some injuries.
The airline operating the flight was SkyWest. This was flight UA5365, operating last Friday (25th of June). The aircraft would fly from Los Angeles (KLAX) to Salt Lake City (KSLC). The crew pushed back from gate 82 in Los Angeles at 6:55pm local time. Five-six minutes later, a passenger started behaving erratically, standing up in the cabin. Eventually, he would deploy an evacuation slide.
Well now. Seems that we have an empirical test of “can you open the aircraft door while the aircraft is taxiing?” Hope you’re all satisfied. (Please don’t attempt to submit this data to replication.)
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Companies that sell military AI make expansive claims for what their technology can do. They say it can help with everything from the mundane to the lethal, from screening résumés to processing data from satellites or recognizing patterns in data to help soldiers make quicker decisions on the battlefield. Image recognition software can help with identifying targets. Autonomous drones can be used for surveillance or attacks on land, air, or water, or to help soldiers deliver supplies more safely than is possible by land.
These technologies are still in their infancy on the battlefield, and militaries are going through a period of experimentation, says Payne, sometimes without much success. There are countless examples of AI companies’ tendency to make grand promises about technologies that turn out not to work as advertised, and combat zones are perhaps among the most technically challenging areas in which to deploy AI because there is little relevant training data. This could cause autonomous systems to fail in a “complex and unpredictable manner,” argued Arthur Holland Michel, an expert on drones and other surveillance technologies, in a paper for the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Nevertheless, many militaries are pressing forward. In a vaguely worded press release in 2021, the British army proudly announced it had used AI in a military operation for the first time, to provide information on the surrounding environment and terrain. The US is working with startups to develop autonomous military vehicles. In the future, swarms of hundreds or even thousands of autonomous drones that the US and British militaries are developing could prove to be powerful and lethal weapons.
It was 2006 when I commissioned a piece about uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs, aka drones) and how keen the US Army had been to use them since 2004. Now they’re commonplace in the Ukraine war. These systems can take a while to feed through, but once they’re ready, they’re used. AI is going to be exactly the same. One more war? Two?
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|• Why do social networks drive us a little mad?
• Why does angry content seem to dominate what we see?
• How much of a role do algorithms play in affecting what we see and do online?
• What can we do about it?
• Did Facebook have any inkling of what was coming in Myanmar in 2016?
Read Social Warming, my latest book, and find answers – and more.
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Architect Louis Henri Sullivan was Frank Lloyd Wright’s mentor, the father of the skyscraper, and one of the “godfathers” of modern architecture, In the last phase of his career, Sullivan built several exquisite wee banks in the American midwest that he called “jewel boxes,” stunningly crafted small buildings celebrating the primary symbol of capitalism in each of these prosperous small towns.
The People’s Savings Bank in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was probably the least of these small jewels, but has enjoyed perhaps the best repurposing.
The bank has been restored, and is now a very fine Italian restaurant and cocktail bar – Sullivan’s Bar, appropriately – just the sort of place I could easily spend a week doing serious research. A blogger recently spent the day there:
We gawked at Allen E. Philbrick’s murals depicting “Banking, Commerce, and Industry” ... The murals feature idealised forms of capitalism in front of pristine forests and open fields. Man and nature appear in harmony with golden sunshine flooding the dimly lit bar with the promise of future prosperity -- a prosperity Cedar Rapids works towards as earnestly as the farmer with his plough.
A fine use of the elegant space. And the perfect backdrop to enjoy a Negroni or a God Father. Or several.
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Early fire detection is critically important. For instance, a fire takes just 30 seconds to become life-threatening. Consequently, fire detection systems are designed to alert occupants to a fire hazard quickly. Clearly, an early alert allows time for safe evacuation. Moreover, early detection plays a vital role in the safety of emergency personnel. Furthermore, business property loss and operational downtime are also minimised. Additionally, many alarm systems provide location information for first responders. This information enables them to attend to the source of the fire quickly. Ideally, the detection system should connect to the Warning and Alarm systems. This way, a signal is transmitted automatically to a manned control station and occupants are given an early warning. Ultimately, the purpose of an automatic fire detection system is to detect a fire, alert the occupants to take action, plus notify the emergency response personnel.
How to Choose the Correct Fire Detection System
The type of fire detection system and alarm system you choose is based on your fire safety goals. In turn, these goals are determined by a risk assessment of your property and business operation. Furthermore, when deciding on a system, you must consider the ongoing costs. These costs include regular maintenance, testing and inspections. Also, fire alarm systems are subject to Australian Standards and laws and must be carried out by accredited inspectors.
Automatic Fire Detection and Alarm System
What is an Automatic Fire Detection System and Alarm System? This is the central system in the vast majority of commercial buildings. Usually, they comprise a series of sensors and related monitoring equipment. These detect the effects of a fire and activate connected systems and functions. So, typical components include:
- Sound Systems for Emergency Purposes (SSEP)
- Building occupant warning systems (BOWS)
- Building Management Systems – BMS Automated Lift and Automatic Door Controllers)
- Alarm Signalling Equipment (ASE – Alert Fire Services)
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It’s on the sectional. It’s been the subject of notams dating back decades. And yet it always seems that when NASA is about to launch yet another space shuttle, somebody blunders into the no-fly area extending for miles around the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in east central Florida. On December 4, it was a Bell 214 that strayed into the no-no zone a few hours before the 5:45 p.m. (EST) liftoff time of the space shuttle Endeavor. Piloted by a lone 67-year-old man, the helicopter was quickly intercepted by a U.S. Air Force F-16 and escorted to a landing in a field near Christmas, Fla., located about 25 mi west of KSC. The intercept was part of an extensively beefed-up security program instituted by NASA since September 11, a new plan that includes a larger 35-mi no-fly zone surrounding the shuttle’s pair of beachfront launch pads during liftoff operations. According to local authorities, the pilot had recently purchased the helicopter in Florida and was ferrying it back to his home in Washington state. He maintained he was unaware of the flight restriction. Authorities declined to identify the aviator, who was detained until after the dusk launch, then allowed to proceed on his journey.
Rotorcraft Update: Pilot punctures space shuttle no-fly zone
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Food poisoning is a common, yet distressing and sometimes life-threatening problem. Help us inspire the way the world eats and join our fantastic Native Foods team. Birria: One of the hottest new Mexican street food trends is birria, a slowly braised meat usually done as goat (chivo) or beef (res). Lahmajune: A classic Armenian dish, lahmajune is found in bakeries and restaurants all over the city.
Because the ingredients in processed foods are often made in large quantities during the early stages of the manufacturing process, any hygiene problems in the facilities that produce a basic ingredient that is used widely by other factories in the later stages of production can have serious effects on the quality and safety of many final food products.
When you eat processed foods you reduce the likelihood of being poisoned or picking up a food-borne disease. Because our cells usually do not require that amount of energy at that time of eating, the sugar must either be converted to glycogen (sugar storage within cells) or converted to fat.
A suburb of Los Angeles, Hollywood is a destination in itself, with its own unique history and iconic sites. The nutritional value of what you eat may be more consistent and you will probably be ingesting more nutrients and vitamins than you would get by eating only unprocessed food.
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The Los Angeles County Museum of Art lays claim to being the largest art museum in the western United States, with almost 130,000 pieces spanning from antiquity through to modern times.
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Food, What?!†is a youth empowerment and food justice organization using food, through sustainable agriculture and health, as the vehicle for youth to grow into strong, healthy, and resilient teens. LOS ANGELES — New Knicks point guard Dennis Smith Jr. doesn’t want the perception he’s a junk-food maven. Each neighborhood Carolina Ale House has their own unique menus featuring local specialties along with our fan-favorite burgers and wings, all made from fresh ingredients.
This versatile card gives you discounts at top Los Angeles attractions, restaurants, and shops, including Six Flags Magic Mountain, Madame Tussauds Hollywood, Santa Monica Pier Aquarium, and more. Chefs who roast early fall squash a little longer and temper extra-spicy jalapeños in the summertime ponzu, because they know cooking with real food requires real care.
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Find our favorite healthy recipes and cooking tips from the best cookbooks, food blogs, and websites to make cooking faster and easier. Korean barbecue: Thinly sliced meats, beef, pork, and chicken, but also duck, seafood, and lamb, grilled tabletop and served with a variety of banchan (palate-cleansing snacks). In modern times, with advanced technology , enjoyable foods are easily available to consumers.
It’s a lot cheaper to put someone on three months of statins to lower their cholesterol than to figure out how to get them to eat a healthy diet,†says Eric Rimm, a professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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If you’re a vegetarian, eating out can sometimes be a challenge. 97 The health food movement known as raw foodism promotes a mostly vegan diet of raw fruits, vegetables, and grains prepared in various ways, including juicing, food dehydration, sprouting, and other methods of preparation that do not heat the food above 118 °F (47.8 °C). | <urn:uuid:0f251bda-44b5-4045-a35e-58231bcdb817> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.sscresult2016.com/food-wine-magazine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00079.warc.gz | en | 0.923304 | 833 | 1.804688 | 2 |
ear (plural ears)
- (countable) The organ of hearing, consisting of the pinna, auditory canal, eardrum, malleus, incus, stapes and cochlea.
- (countable) The external part of the organ of hearing, the auricle.
- (countable) (slang) A police informant.
- From the movie The Enforcer.
- If you don’t cooperate, I’ll put it out on the street that you’re an ear.
3 letters in word "ear": A E R.
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Lucy Taliaferro Yarick wore many hats during her lifetime. A resident of this city for some 75 years, she was a member of several civic organizations and lent her artistic talent to many causes.
Her husband, Alfred Taliaferro, also a Disney employee, worked on the Donald Duck comic strip and created Donald Duck’s nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, according to the Glendale News-Press, June 19, 2008.
Yarick lent her talents to Glendale’s first “Beautification Week” in 1968. As chair of the Community Beautification Committee, she designed the emblem, a little Spanish burro surrounded by the words “Keep Glendale Clean” and “The Verdugos Green,” according to the Los Angeles Times, February 19, 1968.
Yarick said at the time that the burro was selected to reflect the city’s Spanish heritage and that it was once part of a spacious ranchero. The burro emblem was to be attached to trash trucks, reproduced on awards presented to those cited for keeping Glendale beautiful and also printed on information cards that were included in billing statements sent to the city’s then 55,000 water and power customers.
Yarick’s husband, Alfred Taliaferro, passed away in 1969. In 1978 she married Burnell Yarick, a professor of botany at Glendale Community College. Together, they hosted “Yaricks’ Backyard,” a gardening show on KIEV that aired on weekends. The couple were on the air at 5 a.m. Sunday mornings with the greeting “Hiya neighbor! Welcome to our world of gardening.”
During the two-hour show, the couple discussed the weather, phases of the moon, snails, cooking tips, relatives and their vacation trips, as noted in the Times, August 6, 1994.
As Glendale neared its 75th anniversary in 1981, Yarick was asked to join the Diamond Jubilee Committee, which was formed to stage a year-long celebration.
To educate the community on its heritage, the committee sponsored a histograph that was created by a retired architect, Gene Burke. The histograph, printed on a large piece of parchment, combined historic facts with artwork.
“We wanted to do something special,” Yarick told the News-Press, July 9, 1981. “Instead of the usual commemorative plates, glasses and ashtrays, we thought we’d offer the people of Glendale something unique.”
The Glendale Historical Society shared the cost of printing 6,000 copies, which were distributed through the city’s major banking institutions and at other venues.
In 2000, Yarick received a lifetime achievement award for her years of service in helping beautify the city and improving the quality of life for its residents.
Four years later, she represented her first husband, Alfred Taliafierro, when Donald Duck was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Taliaferro was one of the artists who drew and inked Donald Duck’s first daily comic strips, according to the News-Press, August 7, 2004. Yarick passed away in June, 2008.
“Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed your recent GNP article on Whiting Woods. We will post a copy of it at the Doctors House kiosk. I've long been a fan of that neighborhood, and think it would certainly merit designation as a historic district, if the residents were so inclined. Such a shame that Mr. Whiting's house was destroyed. It looks magnificent from the photo on the W.W. website. Do you know if the large house that Mr. Whiting later built and wrote his life story from is still standing? Is it located in La Crescenta/Glendale?’’ Signed, Greg Grammer.
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The departments (départements) were established in 1790 to replace the monarchic administrative system, which included the traditional provinces. The departments were to be administrated by a Department Council (Conseil du Département) and a Board of Directors (Directoire) including the Préfet and one or more Sous-Préfets.
The General Councils (Conseils Généraux) were established in 1800; during the ephemeral Second Republic (1848), the General Councils were for the first time elected by universal suffrage.
The Constitutional Law of 10 April 1871 prescribed that each canton (subdivision of a department) should be represented by one Councillor (Conseiller Général), elected for 6 years. In practice, there is an election (élection cantonale) in half of the cantons every three years.
The Law of 2 March 1982 established administrative decentralization, given extended executive power at the department level to the General Council. The President of the General Council, elected by the General Councillors, is the head of the executive power. In case of equality of votes, the senior Councillor is elected for President.
Ivan Sache, 10 December 2001
The 2015 reform
The status of the departments remained unchanged until 2015. Article 1 of Law No. 403 of 17 May 2013 (text) changes the name of the
Department Assemblies as follows:
In all legislative provisions:
1. The words conseils généraux, conseiller général and conseillers généraux shall be replaced by the words conseils départementaux, conseiller départemental and conseillers départementaux, respectively;
2. The words conseil général, when applied to the body mentioned in Article L. 3121-1 of the General Code of Territorial Collectivities, shall be replaced by the words conseil départemental.
The Law further details all the Codes and Laws where the modification shall be implemented.
The number of cantons and the election process was also dramatically
modified before the election that took place on 22 and 29 March 2015
(first and second round, respectively).
Based on the official population data published on 27 December 2013 by the INSEE (National Institute of Statistics and Economical Studies), the number of cantons was reduced from 4,035 to 2,054. The reduction was aimed at correcting the over-representation of rural areas. The reform stirred up controversy; the struggle against the reform was led by Bernadette Chirac - the wife of former President Jacques Chirac, who had been General Councillor of the suppressed canton of Corrèze from 1979 to 2015. More than 2,000 appeals were tabled at the State Council, to no avail but minor limit modifications. The limits of the new cantons are defined, for each Department, by a Decree published in the French official gazette.
The ticket for the departmental election, hitherto composed of a candidate and his/her deputy for each canton, is now composed of two candidates, a man and a woman, and their two deputies, a man and a woman, for each canton, in order to establish gender parity in the Departmental Councils. The Departmental Councillors are elected for six years.
[Ministry of the Interior]
The assemblies formed after the 2015 election were renamed
Departmental Councils. This change had to be implemented in all
official paper and electronic documents, as well as on emblems.
Several Department Councils, for the sake of money saving, marginally modified their emblem to reflect the new denomination rather than adopting a new emblem - as it was traditionally done from time to time or after a change in the political majority.
As of today, only one change in the flag of a Departmental Council has been reported, in the department of Aude.
Ivan Sache, 12 July 2015
The creation of the départements was decided by the
Assemblée nationale constituante. Jacques
Thouret proposed a grid of 84 equal squares of 324 square leagues each, the whole design being centered on Paris.
On 15 January 1790, France was divided into 83 departements, each of them being divided in cantons and communes (municipalities).
The war that broke out on 20 April 1792 against the European powers yielded significant territorial conquests, which were incorporated to France as new departments.
Napoléon I subsequently increased the French territory: in 1810,
France was constituted of 130 departements. After the fall of
Napoléon and the crash of the First Empire, the first Treaty of Paris (30 May 1814) restored the former borders of France, which kept one third of Savoy (Annecy and Chambéry), Avignon and the Comtat Venaissin, Montbéliard and
After the Cent-Jours (Napoléon's come-back, March-June 1815) and the second Treaty of Paris (20 November 1815), France lost Savoy, Landau (today in Germany), and Philippeville and Marienbourg (today in Belgium), keeping only 86 departements.
In 1860, Savoy and the County of Nice were incorporated to France following local referendums, forming the departments of Savoie, Haute-Savoie and Alpes-Maritimes. The new department of Alpes-Maritimes was increased with the eastern part of the department of Var (arrondissement of Grasse); this resulted in the odd situation of the department of Var being named after a river that does not water it.
By the Treaty of Francfort (10 May 1871), France transferred to Germany the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin, except the town of Belfort, which formed a "special territory" eventually made the department of Territoire de Belfort in 1922; parts of the department of Meurthe (arrondissements of Château-Salins and Sarrebourg) and the department of Moselle, except the arrondissement of Briey, which was incorporated to the new department of Meurthe-et-Moselle, together with the parts of the former Meurthe remained French. After the return of Alsace and Moselle to France in 1919, the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle remained unchanged, the department of Meurthe was not refounded and the new department of Moselle incorporated the territories retroceded by Germany.
This was the last significant modification in the French departments, excepted a few border regularizations in the Alps in 1946.
Ivan Sache, 14 November 2009
Number put before each department is its official code.
54 Meurthe et Moselle
90 Territoire de Belfort
973 French Guiana
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Westford is a town in Otsego County, New York, United States. The population was 868 at the 2010 census.
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Guest Author - Connie Krochmal
For 2007, a number of new sunflower varireties are being introduced. Some of these are suitable as cut flowers.
Junior Sunflower is a pollenless variety, which boosts its desirability as a cut flower. Junior is named for its petite stems, which are only 2˝ feet tall. With numerous branches, Junior has a profusion of sunny yellow flowers with dark centers. These grow to five inches in diameter. Junior is unique for it is the very first pollenless dwarf branching sunflower. If you run out of room in the cutting garden, you can grow this in a large pot.
Sunflower Premier Lemon
Premier Lemon sunflower is so quick to bloom that it belongs in every cutting garden. The flowers begin opening in about 45 to 50 days. The non-branching plants reach about three feet in height. Floral designers will like the fact that this is a pollenless variety. Premier Lemon has vivid yellow blossoms.
Sunflower Peach Passion
From Johnny’s Selected Seeds comes a pollenless sunflower bred especially for cutting. Peach Passion sunflower can be relied on to produce a large number of gorgeous, long-stemmed flowers. These can reach four inches in diameter. Their centers are golden yellow. The plants grow to four feet tall. This is early to bloom with the flowers beginning to open in about 55 days from planting.
Sunflower Red/Lemon Bicolor
Also from Johnny’s is Red/Lemon Bicolor sunflower. This is part of the Pro Cut series of sunflowers. Blooming in about 50 to 60 days from planting, this is a pollenless variety. With sturdy stems, the plants reach five feet in height. The gorgeous blooms grow to four inches across, and have intriguing dark centers.
Sunflower Sunny Smile
Sunny Smile sunflower is another dwarf pollenless variety. However, the ultimate size of the plants does depend upon its growing conditions. It usually reaches about 1˝ feet in height. Up to three inches across, the blooms have dark centers with golden orange petals. Very quick to bloom, these start opening around 50 to 55 days from planting.
Sunflower Sunrich Orange Summer
This is a great new pollenless variety. The flowers are a rich golden orange with dark brown centers. They appear on sturdy stems. Though the overall size of the plant does depend upon your growing conditions, it
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Virtual reality you can reach out and touchJuly 1, 2010 in Technology / Computer Sciences
A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner.
It sounds like science fiction, but advances in haptic technology and a new approach to generating virtual reality (VR) content are helping to create virtual experiences that are far more realistic and immersive than anything achieved before.
Not only do users see and hear their virtual surroundings, objects and avatars, but they can touch them as well, paving the way for new applications in telepresence, telemedicine, industrial design, gaming and entertainment.
“The audiovisual aspects of VR have come a long way in recent years, so adding a sense of touch is the next step,” says Andreas Schweinberger, a researcher at Technische Universität Munchen in Germany. “We know that the more senses that can be used, the more interaction, the greater the sense of presence. And a stronger sense of presence means the experience is more immersive and realistic.”
Schweinberger led a team from nine universities and research institutes in developing technology to make VR objects and characters touchable. With funding from the EU in the Immersence project, they developed innovative haptic and multi-modal interfaces, new signal processing techniques and a pioneering method to generate VR objects from real-world objects in real time.
The latter technology, developed at the Computer Vision Laboratory of Swiss project partner ETH Zürich, uses a 3D scanner and advanced modelling system to create a virtual representation of a real object, such as a cup, box or, in one experiment, a green fluffy toy frog. The 3D digital representation of the object can then be transmitted to someone at a remote location, who, by wearing VR goggles and touching a haptic interface, can move, prod and poke it.
“Haptic technology is still in the early stages. For the haptic interface, we used a robotic arm called a PHANTOM that has one contact point. This gives the sense of touching an object, but you can’t pick it up or handle it. However, one of the other project partners, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, is developing a haptic device with two contact points that should make it possible to grasp an object with a virtual hand,” Schweinberger explains.
The researchers also worked on techniques that would allow a user to feel different textures and sense the stiffness of an object, enabling them to differentiate between a hard box, a soft fluffy frog or even a liquid.
Would you care to dance?
The Immersence researchers did not stop at human-object interaction, however. Technische Universität München also developed technology to enable human-human interaction in a virtual environment.
At the lab in Munich, they used a mobile robotic platform with two arms to serve as the dance partner for a real human dancer. By wearing VR goggles, the user would see a dancer of the opposite sex and could dance with them by holding the “hands” of the robot.
“To program the robot we first recorded the forces, balance and movement of a real human dancer and applied these to the robot. In a VR environment, the robot could be a computer-controlled agent or the avatar of another person,” the project manager says.
French partner Université d’Evry went one step further and studied how to give the sensation of two people handling an object, such as lifting a heavy box, all virtually.
“It is not as simple as one person taking the lead and the other following. In reality, it is a negotiation process and the robotic interface has to be programmed for that,” Schweinberger notes.
Gamers will obviously be delighted by the developments, which promise to bring a whole new dimension and realism to VR environments. Besides entertainment, however, there are many serious applications for haptic VR technology. Doctors, for example, could use it to treat patients remotely, physiotherapists could use it for training and rehabilitation and industrial designers could collaborate remotely by virtually “teleporting” touchable digital mock-ups of designs over the internet.
“The research will also help in the development of cognitive robots that are better able to interact with humans,” notes Schweinberger, whose team is continuing research on that aspect of the Immersence project, which received funding under the FET-proactive strand of the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme. ETH Zürich, meanwhile, is set to continue developing its virtual teleporter.
Several of the project partners are also continuing their work in the EU-funded BEAMING project where they plan to develop a virtual reality room in which several mobile robots will move around autonomously and simulated objects, such as a table, chair or door, will be experienced by the user immersed in a virtual world.
Star Trek’s Holodeck, it seems, may only be a few years away.
Immersence project - www.immersence.info/
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Go anywhere people are taking photos and you’ll see someone taking photos with an iPad or some sort of Android tablet. Everyone’s already pointed out how silly this looks — but is it really a bad idea?
There’s no question people look silly when they do this, but people look silly when they do many common things. Many people still think Bluetooth earpieces look ridiculous, but they’re still used by many people each day.
Phone vs. Tablet Camera Hardware
Most tablets have rear cameras, just like you’ll find on smartphones. People aren’t just taking selfies with these things. But how good are these cameras?
Let’s compare Apple’s latest iPad Air and iPhone 5s to each other. The rear-facing “iSight Camera” captures 5 megapixel photos on the iPad Air, while it captures 8 MP photos on the iPhone 5s. The rear-facing camera on the iPhone 5s also offers additional features designed for capturing better photos. It’s clear that Apple’s top-of-the-line iPhone has a superior rear-facing camera to their top-of-the-line iPad.
This isn’t all about Apple devices. The same will be true of most other devices, including Android tablets and smartphones. For example, Samsung’s Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 tablet has an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, while their Galaxy S4 smartphone has a 13 MP camera.
Megapixels aren’t the only thing that matters when it comes to comparing cameras. A camera with fewer megapixels could be better than another camera with more megapixels for other reasons. We’re using it as a shortcut here — if Apple or Samsung make their own cameras and use similar ones, it’s likely that the higher megapixel cameras will be more expensive and higher quality.
Unless you have a very cheap or old phone and a top-of-the-line, recent tablet, your smartphone includes better camera hardware than your tablet. If you have both a smartphone and tablet nearby, you should pick up your smartphone to take a picture — you’ll get higher-quality photos. Manufacturers know most people will use a smartphone camera more than a tablet camera, so they put more expensive, higher-quality cameras in their phones.
Why Take a Photo With a Tablet?
Tablets have basically the same photo-taking software you’ll find on a smartphone. This is especially true on Android tablets and Apple’s iPad, but even Windows 8 desktop PCs now include a smartphone-style photo-taking app. For example, on Microsoft’s Surface Pro PC, you can swipe down on the lock screen and bring up a camera that lets you use the tablet’s rear camera, effectively turning your $1000 PC into a bulky handheld camera.
Some people may prefer a smartphone a tablet to a smartphone when taking pictures. For example, a tablet provides a larger screen for previewing the resulting photograph. If a person has poor eyesight, this can help when taking photos — it’s easier than squinting at a tiny screen. For some people who need the larger previews, a tablet may be the ideal digital camera.
On a tablet, you can also easily begin editing and working with the photos immediately after you take them. Rather than using a smartphone photo-editing app, you can use more full-featured tablet apps. On a full Windows 8 tablet, you could even open those photos in the desktop version of Photoshop without transferring them to another device. Of course, you could also set up something like Dropbox to automatically upload the photos you take from your iPhone or Android phone.
Tablets Distract and Get In the Way
Aside from looking silly, taking photos with a tablet is distracting and can block other people from seeing what you’re photographing or taking their own photos. Just picture someone standing in front of you at a tourist attraction, holding up their iPad to take a photo and blocking the view. A phone is especially ideal for these situations, as it’s smaller. It won’t draw as much attention, take up as much space, or block as many views.
“The Best Camera Is the One You Have With You”
Of course, the best camera is the one you have with you at any given time. If you’re using a tablet and you need to take a photo as quickly as possible, the tablet in your hands may be the ideal camera. If all you have is a tablet with you or you have a nice tablet and an old smartphone, a tablet may be superior to your smartphone.
Most people shouldn’t be taking photos with tablets — if only because tablets offer worse photo quality than comparable smartphones. Your smartphone is a better camera, so whip it out instead. In crowds, people nearby will appreciate that you’re not blocking their views with your larger screen.
But maybe we shouldn’t laugh at people we see using tablets as cameras. The next person you see snapping a picture with a tablet may have poor eyesight and may be benefiting from the larger preview area. Taking a photo with a tablet isn’t always the worst idea in the world.
Whatever we think of it, people will be taking photos with tablets for years to come. There’s a reason tablets come with rear-facing cameras in the first place, and it’s a bit silly to complain when people make use of them. We can only hope that people use them responsibly and don’t get in everyone’s way when snapping those iPad photos. | <urn:uuid:7886d73c-34e2-4e5f-97a9-26430f00d264> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.howtogeek.com/186261/taking-photos-with-an-ipad-or-another-tablet-ridiculous-or-smart/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00114-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931451 | 1,176 | 1.773438 | 2 |
As a business owner, you don't only have to think about the types of payments to accept — you also have to figure out how you'll accept them.
There are a two primary ways for small businesses to accept payments. The traditional method is a full-fledged point-of-sale (POS) system, complete with a touch screen, barcode scanner, cash register, credit card terminal and receipt printer. In recent years, however, mobile payments — processing payments using a mobile app and credit card reader attached to a smartphone or tablet; digital wallets that process payments online like PayPal and Square Wallet; and mobile wallets that store credit card information in mobile phones — have proved a worthy contender.
Like any other technology, each method has its pros and cons. For one, small businesses are more familiar with traditional POS systems. These have been around for decades and are the most universally accepted way to process cash, check and credit card payments. Nonetheless, they lack the convenience that mobile payments have to offer. Mobile payments enable businesses to accept credit card payments anytime, anywhere, while also giving customers even more ways to pay using their preferred methods. But because mobile payments are relatively new, some businesses have been slow to adopt mobile checkout systems. [Credit Card Processing Services for Small Business]
Traditional POS vs. mobile payments
Business owners trying to decide whether to stay with traditional POS systems or replace them with mobile payments have a tough choice to make. For many businesses, though, experts say traditional POS systems are still the best choice because they offer consumers a sense of security and familiarity.
"Mobile systems are being developed to both augment and replace traditional POS systems," said Rick Caldarella, vice president of product management at Veracity Payment Solutions, a merchant acquirer and payment transaction processor. "However, they will likely not totally replace the traditional POS systems, at least for several years."
POS systems will continue to stick around because they still serve a critical purpose for merchants, Caldarella said. In addition to processing payments, these systems include reporting capabilities, such as inventory control and accounting. They also store databases of customer information, making security a top concern.
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"Security and liability concerns are critical to the types of businesses who utilize POS systems to run their shops," Caldarella said. Therefore, businesses should choose an infrastructure that will protect them and their customers' private information.
A report by the Federal Reserve found that security concerns are the primary reason why consumers are not using mobile POS payments. And, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center, identity theft has been the No. 1 complaint on the Federal Trade Commission's list of complaints for 13 years in a row, and even increased 32 percent between 2011 and 2012. This means that when consumers are handing over their credit cards, they have more trust in POS systems than in mobile systems.
Traditional POS systems trump mobile
When it comes to security and reliability, traditional POS systems have set the bar, said Jared Isaacman, CEO of POS systems provider Harbortouch.
First, given the security risks of wireless networks, traditional POS systems are on much safer networks than mobile devices, Isaacman said.
"Mobile-based systems rely completely on the signal strength from your wireless provider or a Wi-Fi connection, which isn't nearly as secure or reliable as a hardwired connection," he said.
Second, mobile payment solutions are still in their infancy. Although they meet certain security requirements, they typically are not compliant with the highest security standards.
"Most mobile solutions do not have the security to protect cardholder data and leave the merchant exposed to potential liability," said Sam Zietz, CEO of TouchSuite, an all-in-one POS systems provider.
"PADSS certification is currently the highest level of PCI security," Zietz said. "Most mobile solutions are not PCI compliant or have a lesser level of security."
Moreover, mobile devices are prone to physical theft, which further increases the risk that confidential company data and sensitive customer information could get lost or end up in the wrong hands.
"The mobile aspect allows for the physical removal of the device compared to a larger stationary system," Zietz said. "It is far easier to steal or misplace a phone or tablet than a touch-screen point-of-sale system."
The compromising of customer information can have costly consequences for businesses and consumers. Stolen data can cost companies an estimated $150 to $250 per credit card number, which they pass on to consumers by increasing credit card fees.
When choosing between a traditional and a mobile POS system, it's imperative that businesses consider data security, Isaacman said. "With data security becoming an increasing concern, it is critical to deliver the safest way for your customers to pay in order to protect both you and them," he said.
You don't have to choose
Although traditional POS systems are still the best choice for many businesses, this doesn't mean they can't give mobile solutions a try. Instead of looking at traditional POS systems and mobile credit card processors as two mutually exclusive options, businesses can combine the two methods to provide better service and enhance the customer experience.
Michael Ni, chief marketing officer and senior vice president of products at e-commerce solutions provider Avangate, said one type of technology doesn't necessarily have to replace the other.
"The key for retailers here is to supplement the experience, not supplant [it] with technology," Ni said. For instance, Apple and Wal-Mart offer a "buy online, pick up in store" option, where consumers can use mobile devices to order items and then physically pay for them using a traditional POS system at the store, he said.
By combining both systems, businesses of any size can get the best of both worlds: the familiarity and security of traditional POS systems, and the added benefits of mobile checkout.
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If you have been reading about various aspects of our environment and the steps that can be taken to conserve it, you might have come across the term offshore renewables. Climate change is a reality and that has compelled organizations around the world to adopt measures or methods to run their operations without harming the environment further. Burning fossil fuels will not help us in the long run and one has to keep looking for energy sources that are sustainable.
The good news is that we have a plethora of opportunities to source renewable energy and use it in the most effective manner. At the moment, there are three primary sources of offshore renewables.
The three major sources of offshore renewables are as follows:
Waves have always been a source of tremendous energy and today, many organizations of international repute are trying to come up with methods or techniques to utilize wave energy efficiently for their operations. A while back, a company created a device that worked towards wave energy, generated from the oceans, into electricity. Though this particular source of energy is not being used on a wide scale yet, it has a lot of potential.
When it comes to offshore renewable energy, wind energy remains the most popular option for companies. Offshore wind energy can be produced without creating a lot of noise or other disturbances around. This source of offshore renewable energy was discovered a long time ago and continues to remain relevant. The wind makes the turbine blades move and that plays an important role in the energy creation process.
Despite offering several benefits, tidal energy continues to remain largely unexplored. Tides are dependent on the moon’s gravitational forces to a great extent. Because of this, it is easier to make predictions about the creation of tidal energy than to draw out estimates about the energy derived from the wind or the sun. Mostly, tidal power generators are used to create tidal energy. Though setting up these devices is not an easy process, putting your time, money and energy at the same pays off in the long run.
Today, many European countries have taken the lead in adopting offshore renewable energy. Many large corporations, too, are taking steps to use these sources more prominently. With time, one expects the awareness around offshore renewables to grow significantly. Several government agencies and institutions that have been designed to conserve the environment are working closely with each other to come up with ideas to use the existing sources of offshore renewable energy better. | <urn:uuid:beaf4937-f93c-40f7-9aef-c0e181698213> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adnest.net/offshore-renewables-all-that-you-need-to-know-about-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.95588 | 487 | 3.390625 | 3 |
Hector BERLIOZ (1803-1869) Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale (1840) [27:20]
François-Joseph GOSSEC (1734-1829) Symphonie Militaire [5:17]
Hyacinthe JADIN (1776-1800) Overture in F [5.49]
François-Joseph GOSSEC (1734-1829) Marche Lugubre [4.32]
Luigi CHERUBINI (1760-1842) Hymne à la Victoire [6.02]
Xavier LEFÈVRE (1763-1829) Hymne à l'Agriculture [4.06]
Claude-Josephe ROUGET DE LISLE (1760-1836) Hymne à la liberté (La Marseillaise) [4.10]
Leeds Festival Chorus/Simon Wright
The Wallace Collection/John Wallace
Dudley Bright (trombone solo: Berlioz II)
rec. All Saints' Church, Tooting, 1-3 February 1989
NIMBUS NI 5175 [57:16]
This disc is themed around the French Revolution (1789-1799) and has Berlioz’s fourth and final symphony as its headline.
Berlioz was the least symphonic of composers and the feral phantasmagoria that is the Symphonie Fantastique is more properly known as An Episode in the Life of an Artist – too much of a mouthful these days. The Grande Symphonie Funèbre et Triomphale is laid out for wind-band. At the first performance in Paris on 28 July 1840 there were 200 players; there’s a smaller number here but still pretty imposing. He revised it in 1842 when strings were added. No strings in this version but the chorus appears in the finale. The first movement has momentous pomp and some romantic interludes. The middle movement has the trombone playing bel canto before we swing back into strutting vitality and brisk grandeur. Touches familiar from the Fantastique are in evidence in the outer movements but this is a more extrovert piece with little or nothing of the psychological impulse of the 1830 work.
Gossec’s two movement Symphonie Militaire belies its title with the centred demeanour of a Mozartean wind serenade. Jadin’s Overture is in similar vein with perhaps a touch of Turkish paprika. Gossec’s Marche Lugubre celebrates in gaunt, ominous and tragic numbers and does indeed seem to articulate dreadful events – very impressive in a Beethovenian way. The Cherubini is sung with apt fervour and helps offset lashings of bombast. Lefèbvre’s Hymne is a more roundedly romantic work. The Rouget de Lisle Hymne is treated to a bouncy outing. It is heated but the singing would have benefited from a massed choir of French singers to catch all the blaze and fervour.
John Humphries’ liner-note sets the scene well. Pity that first names and dates are not given for all the composers. This is a unique collection which conveys the gaunt and tragic aspects of the Revolution alongside less exalted values.
The recording is clear despite the church acoustic and has plenty of impact.
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scented (Matricaria recutita) and scentless (Tripleurospermum inodorum) mayweeds are not easy to tell apart visually, so I like to use the "scent test".
Run a finger tip across the top of the disc flowers and then sniff your finger - scentless mayweed is either scentless or has a faint sweet scent, while scented mayweed usually has a strong aromatic scent.
If the scent test isn't convincing, split a receptacle in half - Matricaria has a hollow receptacle, and TripleurospermumAnthemis is rarer, and has scented foliage.
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A leading bread company has begun a High Court action against a rival firm over what it claims is a mimicking of its packaging for brown bread.
McCambridge bread company, which is the market leader for brown soda bread, is suing Brennans amid claims that customers have been confused by their ‘lookalike’ packaging.
It claims Brennans is engaging in unfair commercial practice and is in breach of copyright.
Brennans denies that it is attempting to ‘pass off’ its product as that of McCambridge's.
A small supermarket shelf has been set up in the courtroom for the hearing to illustrate the arguments.
Opening the case, Counsel for McCambridge, Anthony Aston, said McCambridge began as a grocery shop in Ranelagh in Dublin in 1945 and closed in 1985. It then concentrated on the sale of bread and ice cream and the bread business took off.
The brown soda bread is the market leader for that type of product, he said.
Brennans was established in 1960 and is the overall leader in the bread market with a distinctive brand and trademarked slogan. It had also been selling brown soda bread for a number of years.
In 2008, McCambridge changed its packaging for brown soda bread and in January of this year Brennans replaced its packaging for one ‘with a high degree of similarity’ to McCambridge.
McCambridge says consumers are unlikely to scrutinise the packaging in great detail and instead will make a decision to buy based on general appearance.
It also claims Brennans is engaging in unfair commercial practice and causing customers to buy a product believing it to be something else. It also claims an infringement of copyright.
Brennans denies the claims and says its packaging is sufficiently different to allow customers to distinguish between the two products.
Company Chairman Michael McCambridge said he first became aware of the Brennans packaging when he saw the product on a supermarket shelf mixed in with his own.
He said the reason he did not complain until six weeks later was because his opinion was ‘subjective’.
However, after further meetings with supermarket buyers, it became apparent that even those with 30 years experience were confusing the two products, he said.
He said it was his belief that Brennans began a move in 2008 to get closer to the McCambridge product but did not succeed until it changed its packaging again earlier this year.
The court heard that Brennans was selling its brown soda bread for an average of €1.25, but it was often priced at €1 during promotions.
The McCambridge bread sells for €1.69. However Mr McCambridge said the price difference in the past had no impact on sales. McCambridge bread sells on average 162,000 loaves a week. | <urn:uuid:bbff7b47-1feb-45e9-93fe-b982ec61f038> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rte.ie/news/2011/0721/304027-mccambridge_brennans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00168-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983063 | 586 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) has launched yet another innovative feat into integrating the use of lead batteries by installing two microgrids at the campus’ EcoVillage, which comprises of solar-powered houses designed and built by the university’s very own students.
According to Missouri S&T’s Microgrid Industrial Consortium, the purpose of this project is to be able to enlighten the potential use of microgrids as a renewable energy source by measuring its advancements in lead battery energy storage.
At this stage, two homes previously occupied by students will be utilized for the project—wherein each will be powered with stored electricity from the systems which will run off charging algorithms from a 24-hour, cloud-based control system.
“The new microgrid systems will allow researchers to explore the application of advanced lead batteries in stationary grid-tied applications.” Dr. Mehdi Ferdowsi, director of Missouri S&T’s Microgrid Industrial Consortium and a professor of electrical engineering and computing, expressed regarding the subject. He also noted that the advanced testing of microgrids can also be used to conduct research on possible peer-to-peer transactions with the energy trading between consumers and ‘prosumers’, or those who both produce and consume the energy.
Given with the resolution of providing opportunities to serve the state’s environment through energy research, this project is provided with a three-year timeline for research and is expected to be finalized by 2021. | <urn:uuid:cd72e949-55e8-4f1d-a969-980ab09802d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.usesi.com/2018/11/18/university-powers-ecovillage-with-new-microgrids-for-research-on-advanced-lead-battery-technologies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.945776 | 316 | 3.046875 | 3 |
IAA Stimulates Cell Enlargement
Cell wall contains layer of cellulose fibrils and are normally quite rigid. Thus for a cell to grow, there must be a mechanism for relaxing the cellulose fibrils. IAA releases the cross linking bands which hold the micro fibrils together. Auxin is thought to cause the walls to become plastic and them osmotic water intake causes the cell to swell like a balloon. American physiologist P.M. Ray has observed that IAA effect on elongation begins after a lag period of only 8-12 minutes, in tissues as coleoptiles. Recently it has been found that with certain auxins or even with IAA itself when used under correct conditions, the lag period can be reduced to 1 minute or less.
These effects are now considered to be as a result of activisation of proton pumps in membrane that pump protons in cell wall and cause a rise in acidity. Acidification loosens bonds in cell wall and cell wall plasticity increases. This rapid response is followed by activation of m-RNA translated into enzymes that catalyze synthesis of cellulose and other cell wall materials which cause the strengthening of elongated cell wall completing the cell elongation. | <urn:uuid:3dade091-d791-44f3-9973-0ebeb52d70fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.expertsmind.com/questions/iaa-stimulates-cell-enlargement-30129902.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00283-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932509 | 251 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Color Hair at the Ends OnlyQ: Is it possible to color hair at the ends (the tips) only? What coloring techniques would I need to use for this?
A: Depending on the length of the hair, this type of hair color application could be as simple as dipping the ends of the hair into the color mixture to the depth of the area to color. However, since I gather you are looking to color the ends of the hair all around the head, you will probably want to have some method to keep the line of demarcation clear and clean.
I would recommend a balayage (freehand brush) technique, executed in the same way you would cut a bob. Section the hair and clip it up (out of the way) except for a one-inch perimeter at the bottom. Use a brush to apply the color formula to as much of the ends as you wish around the perimeter.
Lower another segment of hair, being careful to comb it out before letting it fall to join the first section. Use a separate comb to then comb the sections together starting at the point where the color was applied to the first section. Then, apply the color mixture to the new section.
Repeat this process until all the hair is down and the color is applied where you wish. You will need to work quickly to prevent uneven processing, and you must remember to keep the "dry comb" - for smoothing the segments as you lower them - separate from your "wet comb" - for lining up the new segments with the previous color application segments - to avoid spreading the color beyond the desired areas.
How to color hair
How to section hair when coloring
Advanced hair coloring techniques
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Posted by DanielS on Saturday, 01 October 2016 19:07.
Visigrad Post, “Croatia aligns herself on Berlin’s policy”, 29 Sept 2016:
Croatia – Interior Minister Vlaho Orepić is serene and does not think that a new migratory wave will hit the country. According to him no significant flow of migrants will affect Croatia, or even Europe.
“There is no place for ‘fear’. It is true that Europe is in a latent state of migrant crisis. Croatia as a member of the European Union shares that fate, and the recent summit of countries on the migrant route to Vienna was simply a result of the need to find the best and most rational solutions,” said Mr. Orepić.
He reported that the joint solution on which the EU has agreed was the extension of the agreement with Turkey, as well as protection of external borders, which until now has been quite significant.
Also, the Minister stressed that, in a month, Croatia had decreased from 100 daily arrivals of migrants to 10 or 15 per day. He is not worried about a possible migration stream as his country has already experienced, “at this moment, there is really nothing to indicate that there will be a large migrant wave. There is a latent danger, it is true, but if these common objectives are met, I am confident that the migrant wave will not arrive,” said the Minister Orepić.
Neighboring countries, Hungary, Austria, Slovenia, have committed more troops, builds barriers, it is a “plan B”, as Mr Orbán said. About this, the Croatian minister said: “We have the plan B, but the fact is that we have not caused the migrant crisis and we will not solve it. During the wave last year, we were dealing with consequences, and we would do it now as well. It is very important to be rational”.
Because of the Dublin Protocol, a number of migrants is returned to Croatia. Mr. Orepić said that Croatia is a responsible member of the EU. “We will carry out our obligations. We have the obligation to accept these people, as well as to accommodate another 1,582 people.”
He added that Croatia had the resources to welcome migrants.
For two months, a significant number of migrants are trying to cross the border from Serbia to Croatia. They come from Pakistan, Afghanistan or Iraq.
The president, who is in New York for a United Nations mini summit on the invasion, said that last year, Croatia let the invaders pass to other countries because there were no fences at the borders with Slovenia and Hungary.
Now, however, there are fences and the borders are closed.
Furthermore, she said, it “turned out that over 85 percent of them were economic migrants and not genuine refugees.”
Posted by DanielS on Friday, 16 September 2016 02:06.
Visigrad Post, Dubrovnik, Croatia – A two-day forum was attended by Croatia with heads of state and officials from twelve countries of Central and Eastern Europe, all members of the European Union, to discuss common challenges to strengthen economically and politically the area between the three seas – the Adriatic, the Baltic and the Black Sea. This was the Three Seas Initiative.
“The area between the Adriatic, the Baltic and the Black Sea is the lifeblood of Europe,” said the host of the forum, Croatian President Grabar-Kitarović. Thursday, August 25, a round table gathered in Dubrovnik, on the cost of the Adriatic Sea, the presidents of Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Lithuania and Slovenia, as well as ministers and deputy ministers of Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia.
The region (BABS: Baltic – Adriatic – Black Sea) accounts for 28% of EU territory, 22% of its population but only for 10% of its GDP. Discussions about the economy have focused on the need to improve the infrastructure of the whole region and in particular energetic cooperation, mainly to promote the plurality of energy sources and reduce energy dependence. According to the Croatian President, 50 billion euros are needed to overcome the current shortcomings. However, she also drew attention to the major challenges of the region, namely the demographic decline and emigration.
Polish President Duda for his part stressed that cooperation should be extended to other areas to be sufficiently strong: culture and science as well as student exchanges must come to reinforce this cooperation. But the heart of this cooperation is the creation of a true north-south European axis, stressed the Polish president. In conclusion for his speech, Andrzej Duda announced that the next summit would be held in Poland in Wroclaw in June 2017.
Chinese and American speakers were also present. Chinese Ministerial Assistant for Foreign Affairs Liu Haixing in charge of Central and Eastern Europe region recalled that China was very interested in the development of the area. China believes it will serve her project of New Silk Road.
American General James L. Jones, president of Jones Group International and former adviser for the National Security of President Obama said that the development of the Three Seas Initiative must be an element not only for European development but also for security. General Jones stressed the use by Russia of her position as an energy supplier to increase her economic influence and to strengthen her geopolitical goals. | <urn:uuid:8601c597-96ea-4a51-abb7-36b8cba2c9a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://majorityrights.com/weblog/news_index/C119 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972357 | 1,130 | 1.625 | 2 |
Toyota sets Canadian tests for plug-in Prius hybrids
By Allan Dowd
VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The controversy surrounding safety issues at Toyota Motor Corp has not changed the way it is market testing the new plug-in version of its Prius Hybrid, the director of Toyota Canada said on Thursday.
Toyota unveiled its plans on Thursday to test the vehicle in four Canadian provinces over the next year, hoping to find out, in part, how consumers will use the rechargeable electric-gas cars in cold weather.
"No (change). Not at all. Prius is a tried and true technological safety leader in the industry," Larry Hutchinson told reporters at the Globe environmental conference in Vancouver, where the pilot testing plan was announced.
"The pilot is not a technical pilot. The pilot is more for us about understanding the consumer, and how and who (the car) would be best suited for," Hutchinson said.
The world's largest automaker is fighting to maintain consumer support in the face of safety concerns that led it to recall some 8.5 million vehicles.
The company said in February it would recall nearly 500,000 new Prius and Lexus brand hybrid cars globally for braking problems, but Hutchinson said that was not to address a safety issue.
Toyota has built 600 plug-in Prius vehicles for pilot tests around the world. Most will go to Europe, United States and Japan. It hopes to have the car available to consumers in two to three years.
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I'll be honest, broccoli has never been my favorite vegetable. As a kid, it always seemed to show up on our dinner plates with a mushy, flavorless texture. And as many parents do, I was always told to eat my vegetables. My uncle used to tell me it would make my hair turn curly. Guess I ate just enough to grow the wavy hair I have now.
I have since come around and in my adult years have developed an appreciation for the vegetable. Variety, freshness and preparation are key to how my taste buds will react to this beastly green giant. Plus, it's a nutritional powerhouse. It's a very good source of dietary fiber and chock full of vitamins and minerals: Vitamins A, C, K, E (Alpha Tocopherol), B6, Folate, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Pantothenic Acid, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Phosphorus Potassium, and Zinc. AND it contains anti-oxidants such as sulforaphane that help prevent cancer.
But this power veggie doesn't stop there. Broccoli is an excellent source of protein. It's protein content is 34% of its dry matter and according to the USDA, one cup of chopped broccoli can provide over 4 grams of protein. It contains more fiber than a slice of whole wheat bread, more calcium than a glass of milk, and 75% of Vitamin C than that of oranges! However, eating broccoli alone will not give you a complete protein because all the essential and non-essential amino acids are not all present in one single plant. So to get your protein punch, pair it with foods that have a complimentary amino acid makeup such as corn based foods like cornmeal or game meat such as buffalo.
Growing broccoli is fairly easy. It can be grown year round but as a cool weather crop, it is at it's best in the Fall and Winter. Provide ample water and plenty of nitrogen, calcium, and potassium. Pests such as aphids, cabbage loopers, cabbage worms, cutworms, earwigs, snails and powdery mildew can become a nuisance so be on the lookout to detect them early.
Harvesting broccoli at the right time, or any crop for that matter, is critical if you want to get the most nutritional bang for your buck. Look for heads with firm stalks and tight, green florets and harvest broccoli when the heads are small and before the yellow flower buds open. Leave the small green leaves on the stem intact - they provide good nutrients. Broccoli loves to chill out, so it's best to pick it in the early morning when temperatures are cool. Then immediately place them in some ice water and then in your refrigerator. Your broccoli can last for up 10 days in a perforated plastic bag in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator.
When preparing broccoli, the possibilities can be endless. Saute them with a bit of garlic, ginger, and chili flakes. Try them in a stir fry, casserole, in a soup or frittata, roasted, steamed, or simply raw in a salad or with a dip. This is a recipe I adapted from Nourishing Connections: The Healing Power of Food and Community, by Cathryn Couch and JoEllen DeNicola. I brought this dish with me to a potluck with my cycling teammates and it was a hit:
Broccoli & Millet Salad with Toasted Cashews
1 cup millet
1/4 tsp sea salt
2 cups boiling water
2 cups broccoli, florets and chopped stems
1 tsp minced garlic
3/4 cup thinly slice celery
1/4 cup minced fresh dill weed
1/4 cup minced fresh parsley
1/2 - 1 cup cashews
1/3 cup lemon juice
1/3 cup olive oil
1/2 tsp sea salt
1. Toast the millet in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly until it begins to brown. Carefully add the boiling water and the sea salt, reduce the heat to low and cover. Cook until the water is absorbed and the millet is tender, 20-25 minutes.
2. Put the millet on a cookie sheet and spread it out to cool.
3. While the millet is cooling, steam the broccoli just until tender and bright green. Rinse under cold water, drain well and place in a large bowl.
4. Add the celery, dill and parsley to the broccoli.
5. In a separate bowl, whisk together the lemon juice, olive oil and sea salt.
6. When the millet is cool, crumble it into the vegetables. Add the cashews and the dressing and toss everything together.
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US employers kept their pace of hiring virtually steady last month, falling short of the levels needed to bring down the country’s lofty unemployment rate and pointing to lackluster economic growth this year.
Other data on Friday gave stronger signs of growth, with the US service sector activity expanding the most in 10 months.
Payrolls outside the farming sector grew 155,000 last month, the US Department of Labor said. That was in line with analysts’ expectations and slightly below the revised gain of 161,000 reported for November.
The jobless rate was steady at 7.8 percent. The report reinforces expectations of 2 percent economic growth this year, which is unlikely to quickly bring down the unemployment rate.
It is also means the US Federal Reserve may think twice before altering its “easy-money policies” anytime soon despite growing unease by some policymakers over a bond-buying program.
“The US economy is just muddling through,” Navigate Advisors managing director Tom di Galoma said.
The US Department of Labor raised its estimate for the unemployment rate in November by a tenth of a point to 7.8 percent, citing a slight change in the labor market’s seasonal swings.
Most economists expect the US economy will be held back by tax hikes this year as well as by weak spending by households and businesses, which are still trying to reduce their debt burdens.
Friday’s data nonetheless gave signals of some momentum in the labor market’s recovery from the 2007 to 2009 recession.
Gains in employment were distributed broadly throughout the economy, from manufacturing and construction to health care.
Also, many economists had expected last month’s payroll gains to be padded by one-time factors such as the recovery from a mammoth storm that hit the east coast of the US in October.
The government had said last month the storm had no substantial impact on the November data, and many economists expected the government on Friday to recant by revising downward payroll gains in November.
Instead, the government revised November payrolls upward by 15,000.
Average hourly earnings rose 0.3 percent last month, slightly more than analysts had expected, while the length of the average working week edged higher.
“This shows the economy is chugging along, with payroll gains at about the average it has been over the past year,” RBC Capital Markets economist Tom Porcelli said.
Separately, the Institute for Supply Management said its services index rose to 56.1 last month, the highest since February last year.
Some analysts said the pace of hiring remains too weak for the Federal Reserve to consider scaling back its plans to buy bonds. The US central bank has said it wants substantial improvement in the employment outlook before taking its foot off the accelerator.
“There is nothing here to suggest the Fed will see indications of a ‘substantial’ improvement,” said Julia Coronado, chief North America economist at BNP Paribas in New York.
However, Craig Dismuke, a strategist at Vining Sparks in Memphis, Tennessee, said the current pace of job creation will raise pressure on the Fed to stop bond purchases after the middle of the year.
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Enjoy simple baked eggplant with salt and oil, turn it into mini eggplant pizzas or go all out and make baked eggplant Parmesan. Eggplant is a hearty vegetable that works well on its own or in many baked recipes.Continue Reading
Naturally low in calories and carbohydrates, eggplant is a healthy choice for a filling lunch and dinner. As a larger vegetable, it also makes a very filling addition to the day. As a mild tasting fruit it works well on its own or as part of another flavorful dish.
This dish is just baked eggplant seasoned with some garlic, salt and ground black pepper. Garlic pieces are pushed into sliced circles of eggplant before they receive a coating of olive oil, salt and pepper. The eggplant are baked in a 500 degree Fahrenheit oven for up to 25 minutes until golden and crispy.
Mini eggplant pizzas
Make a low-carb pizza snack with slices of eggplant as the base, instead of crackers, bread or pizza dough. Before adding the toppings, the eggplant slices are salted, oiled and baked at 400 F for 20 minutes. The discs are topped with tomato paste, diced tomatoes, seasoning and cheese. When popped back into the oven for a few minutes the cheese and tomatoes become runny and gooey.
Baked eggplant Parmesan
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Barnett Contract P-1853 with Enigmatic K Mark
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There is no English gun maker who could more appropriately be called the “Gun Maker to the Confederacy” than the London firm of John Edward Barnett & Sons. During the course of the American Civil War, Barnett delivered thousands of P-1853 “Enfield” rifle muskets, as well as P-1853 artillery and P-1856 cavalry carbines to the Confederacy. Barnett not only filled Confederate central government contracts, but also orders for the Confederates states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The Barnett family traced their gunmaking heritage to Thomas Barnett who operated in London as early as 1796. In 1811 the firm became Thomas Barnett & Sons, and John Edward Barnett subsequently succeeded to the business in 1833. In 1842 the firm was renamed JE Barnett & Sons and operated under that name until 1901 when they became JE Barnett & Sons LTD, going out of business in 1908. During the Civil War years, the Barnetts operated at both their 134 Minories address, which had been established in 1833, and at Brewhouse Lane, Wapping, where they operated from 1860-1874. In the typical fashion of the old time gunmakers in England, Barnett relied heavily on a variety of contractors to produce piecework parts, which were subsequently assembled into complete arms in the Barnett shop. While Barnett could clearly manufacture entire guns in house (and often did), it was often more expedient and cost effective to sub-contract for major components when large contracts were received and had to be delivered quickly. Many of the orders received from the Confederacy during the course of the American Civil War were just these types of orders, which had to be completed as quickly as possible. It is not uncommon to disassemble a P-1853 rifle musket with a Barnett marked lock, only to discover that the gun may have been assembled by Barnett, but that few (if any of the components) were produced by Barnett. These guns often bear Confederate viewers marks such as the small CH/1 in circle, or one of the known marks of Sinclair, Hamilton & Company “ a primary supplier of English arms and materiel to the Confederacy. Even those Barnett arms devoid of documented Confederate inspection marks are often Confederate related arms. Barnett delivered a number of guns, presumably to the Confederacy, that were assembled by other makers, but are marked BARNETT / LONDON either on the stock flat opposite the lock or along the toe of the stock. These were clearly guns purchased by Barnett to get a nearly finished order “out the door” as expeditiously as possible. Sometimes the presence of a previously undocumented mark on a Barnett Enfield suggests Confederate use as well. In the case of the Barnett P-1853 Enfield offered here, just such a mark exists.
This Barnett P-1853 Enfield is marked in two places with a medium sized capital letter K. The first location is in the top of the stock comb, forward of the buttplate tang. This is the location that the “furnishers mark” is typically found on guns that were part of the Sinclair, Hamilton & Company “2nd Contract” with the Confederate central government. To date, the “five furnishers’ that have been documented to have delivered guns under that contract were E.P. Bond, Parker, Field & Sons, and James Kerr, all located in London, and CW James and WC Scott & Sons of Birmingham. These “five furnishers’ often marked their guns on the stock comb with a single “B”, “F”, “K”, “J” or “S”, respectively. The letter “P” has been tentatively identified as a sixth furnisher’s mark by Gordon Jones of the Atlanta History Center and myself. This mark appears to be that of Francis Preston of Manchester, a contractor better known for bayonets and edged weapons during the Civil War era than for firearms. Every single capital letter mark found on the top of the stock comb of a P-1853 Enfield has eventually been determined to be a mark relating to Confederate purchase. This Barnett P-1853 also bears the same single “K” on the top of the breech of the barrel. To date, the only definitive Confederate marks located in this area have been those of Sinclair, Hamilton & Company (an S/HC within an oval), and the N.C. mark of the North Carolina contract that was delivered by Barnett. The location of the mark on both the breech and the comb strongly suggest that this single letter “K” is a Confederate mark that has yet to be fully deciphered. The initial reaction of most experts who have viewed the mark is that it is an alternate mark for James Kerr of London. Kerr was the designer of the famous English pistol that bore his name and was the manager of the London Armoury Company in London. Kerr received at least a couple of small Confederate arms contracts personally during the Civil War, that appear to have been “kick backs’ or bonuses from his boss, Archibald Hamilton. Hamilton served as the managing director of the London Armoury Company and was the principle in the firm of Sinclair, Hamilton & Company. Kerr delivered 500 P-1853 Enfields under the 2nd Sinclair, Hamilton & Company contract with the Confederacy, and at least 80 (and possibly more) of the 800 P-1856 Sergeant’s Fusils for India Service that were purchased by the state of Georgia. Another possible meaning for the mark is that like the “NC” mark on the breech of the North Carolina contract guns, this gun was meant for delivery to “K”, but who was “K”? It could reference a Confederate Kentucky regiment, as at least one of the regiments in the Orphan Brigade was equipped with arms purchased personally by the their Colonel. It could also reference Otto Henry Kaselack, who was the owner of the Blockade Runner Gem. The Gem was chartered by the Cobia Company of Charleston to run the blockade. As most blockade-runners made their money on the speculative cargo that they carried for the ships owners (often 50% of the entire cargo), this mark may indicate that Kaselack was purchasing Enfields from Barnett on a speculative basis. This would also explain the lack of any other typical Confederate inspection marks associated with Barnett contract arms. In the same vein, the “K” could reference the Galveston, TX blockade running venture King & Company. This company owned and operated several blockade runners, including the Lavinia, Pelica, and the Sachen (which was likely renamed the Clarinda. Other possibilities also include Peter Kraft of Columbia, SC who was partners in the firm of Kraft, Goldschmidt & Kraft. The Kraft has been a gunsmith in antebellum Columbia, and had offered English guns for sale in advertisements as late as January of 1861, including Adams revolvers and “English” shotguns. During the war the company produced Kraft, Goldschmidt & Kraft swords and probably imported at least some firearms, as they already had business dealings with English gun makers. A final option would be Melchior G. Klingender & Company of Liverpool. This company worked as shipping agents for both Fraser, Trenholm & Company and S. Isaac, Campbell & Company. Trenholm owned blockade-runners were sometimes registered to Klingender, and the company also sold cotton for S. Isaac, Campbell & Company, which the latter had received as payment for goods. Although a long shot, the “K” could reference Klingender. Of the options explored above, I think it is most likely the “K” references either Peter Kraft or Otto Kaselack. The rational for this is based partially upon the fact that the barrels of very few “K” marked Barnetts that are known to exist are numbered. The number is located on the top of that barrel, forward of the front sight. Including this example, I am aware of 3 others with identical “K” markings. One of these three could not be examined, but the other two are numbered on their barrels in the same way. One is marked “17” and the other is “37”. This one is “38”. This suggests a minimum of 40 guns produced under this contract; at least two cases of 20. This small order would be typical for a small importer like Kraft, or a blockade-runner buying a handful of muskets for speculative sale. While the mystery of the “K” mark has yet to be fully unraveled, I am quite convinced that this is a mark with definite Confederate association.
This “K” Marked Barnett contract P-1853 Rifle Musket is in completely untouched condition and is really very striking. The gun is clearly marked on the lock BARNETT / LONDON forward of the hammer with the additional mark of a (CROWN) / TOWER to the rear of the hammer. This marking is sometimes encountered on Barnett contract arms. The stock flat, opposite the lock, is marked W. LAMMAS. I could not find Lammas in the directories, but he was probably a setter-up (gun assembler) who performed contract work for Barnett. The interior of the lock is marked BARNETT over the mainspring, indicating that they were the contractor delivering the gun, and the name R&W ASTON is stamped around the mainspring boss, which indicates that the large Birmingham firm of R&W Aston actually produced the lock. The barrel is marked at the breech with three London commercial proofs: a Provisional Proof, a Definitive Proof and a Definitive View mark. The underside of the barrel is marked with a plethora of initials names and numbers, including 9 / 729, W.L. and BARNETT. The bottom of the barrel also has an intertwined EL mark, indicating that the rough barrel originated in Li’ge, Belgium. The use of Belgian made barrels was a fairly common practice among London and Birmingham gun makers. The underside of the barrel is also marked with a 25 gauge mark, indicating .577 caliber. The underside of the barrel is also marked with the assembly mating code of three file slashes, | | |. This same mating code appears on the top edge of the lock plate and in the ramrod channel of the stock. The rear sight is marked PW&S, indicating that is was manufactured by the famous Birmingham firm of Philip Webley & Son. As previously noted, a capital K is stamped on the comb of the stock and on the top of the breech of the gun. The muzzle of the gun is stamped with the number 38, just forward of the front sight. A small (CROWN / B, the trademark of Barnett, is stamped in the wood behind the triggerguard of the gun.
The gun is in about FINE overall condition and is essentially untouched, with a lovely dark brown, oxidized patina on the exposed surfaces of the barrel, which is mixed with traces of the original blued finish. The bottom of the barrel retains about 95% of its original deep, dark, rust blued finish. The barrel bands have the same thick chocolate patina with hints of plum coloration found on the barrel of the gun. The metal is mostly smooth, with some lightly scattered areas of minor oxidized roughness over all of the iron surfaces, and light to moderate pinpricking around the breech and bolster area from percussion cap flash. The bore of the gun is in about GOOD+ to NEAR VERY GOOD condition with visible rifling along its entire length, which is stronger near the breech than at the muzzle. The bore shows patches of bright and dark metal, and has light to moderate pitting scattered along its entire length, with some more significant patches of pitting present closer to the muzzle. The lock of the gun is mostly smooth metal with a lightly oxidized plum brown patina that matches the balance of the gun wonderfully. The lock is excellent mechanically and functions well on all positions. The gun retains its complete original rear sight, as well as the original front sight/bayonet lug. The gun retains both sling swivels as well, although the upper swivel is probably a more recent replacement. The original full-length ramrod is in the channel under the barrel and retains good threads at the end. The original screw retention “doughnuts’ are present on the lower and middle barrel band tension screws, but the upper band is missing this part. The brass furniture has been lightly cleaned, and has a bright, golden color. The stock is in about FINE condition. The wood to metal fit of the gun is wonderfully executed throughout, with no slop or gapping present. The stock is full-length, solid and free of any breaks, cracks or repairs. The stock retains very sharp lines throughout and crisp edges, with no indication of having been sanded. Any of the minor rounding to sharp edges appears to the result of actual carry and use. The rifle does show a number of bumps, dings and minor dents in the wood, as would be expected from a 150 year old military musket, but is very crisp and sharp overall.
Overall, this is great, example of a very scarce “K Marked” Barnett contract P-1853 Enfield rifle musket. This is one of only four examples that I am currently aware of and while the gun bears no documentable Confederate marks, I am 99.99% sure that the “K” marks on the comb and breech indicate that this gun was part of a Confederate contract. The gun has tons of eye appeal, is much crisper and sharper than most Enfields offered for sale these days and was made by one of the most famous English gun makers to sell to the Confederacy, JE Barnett & Sons. This is simply a wonderful gun with scarce marks that will almost certainly be proven to be of Confederate origin one day. This Barnett Enfield will be great addition to an advanced Civil War Enfield collection.SOLD | <urn:uuid:b69e6ab1-47c3-487b-bf1c-0dc4c9572886> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collegehillarsenal.com/barnett-contract-p-1853-with-enigmatic-k-mark?tag=Co&page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.973178 | 2,960 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Given the growing attention to quality improvement, comparative effectiveness research, and pragmatic trials embedded within learning health systems, the use of the cluster randomization design is bound to increase. The number of clusters available for randomization is often limited in such trials. Designs that incorporate pre-intervention measurements (e.g. cluster cross-over, repeated parallel arm, and stepped wedge designs) can substantially reduce the required numbers of clusters by decreasing between-cluster sources of variation. However, there are substantial risks associated with few clusters, including increased probability of chance imbalances and type I and type II error, limited perceived or actual generalizability, and fewer options for statistical analysis. Furthermore, current sample size methods for the stepped wedge design make a strong underlying assumption with respect to the correlation structure-in particular, that the intracluster and inter-period correlations are equal. This is in contrast with methods for the cluster cross-over design that explicitly allow for a smaller inter-period correlation. Failing to similarly allow for the inter-period correlation in the design of a stepped wedge trial may yield perilously low sample sizes. Further methodological and empirical work is required to inform sample size methods and guidance for the stepped wedge trial and to provide minimum thresholds for this design.
Keywords: Cluster randomized trial; cluster cross-over trial; sample size calculation; stepped wedge trial.
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Difference Too Often Leads to Hate Many times in the world differences have lead to hate Think of Martin Luther King for example who stood for fighting against one of the largest differences A Separate Peace by John Knowles is one of many examples of differences leading to hate Gene and Finny who somehow managed to become friends have completely different views of each other Finny wanted to be friends with Gene but had trouble facing the reality that Gene felt differently Gene became jealous over Finnys difference to himself Difference has led to hate once more and pain has again resulted first mentally and emotionally then finally physically Knowles creates Gene as one who always is strictly trying to comply with the rules and regulations always obeying his superiors completely different then that of Finnys personality Over your head Pink It makes you look like a fairy 909 Considering such he envies Finny because Finny can get away with murder if he wanted to and can stay out of trouble doing so Phineas could get away with anything I couldnt help envying hima little 909 Knowles shows how much jealousy Gene had over Finny s ability to stay out of trouble no matter what he did This time he wasnt going to get away with it 909 He would rather be in accordance to the rules and be on his best behavior than to be a rebel who goes against everything Finny on the other hand was more of a rebel I wonder what would happen if I looked like a fairy to everyone 909 Finny more of a rebel is very outgoing he however shows himself off as a perfect individual One day at Devon he gets into small dispute because he wore the school tie as a belt This he frees himself from quickly explaining It goes with the shirt and it all ties togetherwith what weve been talking about this
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9 ways to create a purrfect relationship with your cat
Some cats are naturally more affectionate than others - Siamese and Persian cats are well known for lap snuggling and a Tonkinese cat will not only cuddle up but they are vocal too!
However, if your cat seems to prefer their own company at the moment, there are still ways that you can build a relationship that will last a lifetime.
9 Ways to create a purrfect kitty relationship
1. Start to socialise your cat when they are young
When you first bring your pawsome pal home, let them get accustomed to new sights, smells, and sounds - exploring their new surroundings on their terms. Keep them in a single room in the house that has all of their resources for the first few days, then introduce them to the rest of the house and any other pets.
Gradually allow them to be stroked and handled by you and other family members without forcing them into any interactions; if you’re introducing kids to your new cat then make sure they’re aware not to grab for the kitty as this can damage the friendship and startle your lovely furry bundle of joy!
2. Make sure you have everything their little hearts desire, right from the beginning
Food and water bowls must be accessible (but away from other pets) and remember that you need one of each resource for every pet, plus one extra! The same goes for litter trays, scratching posts and high perches they can jump on to. Having everything they need makes your kitty feel safe and in control - and more likely to be relaxed which should bring out their social side!
To learn more about this read about cat essentials and where to put them
3. Learn cat-talk!
Get to know your kitty’s body language; the position of their tail, eyes and ears speaks a thousand words and it’s important to know when your cat is happy or when it is showing signs of stress and anxiety. Did you know that if you blink very slowly at a cat you are saying “I love you”, but don’t stare directly at them as they see this as threatening and they will run away. Half-closed eyes, forward facing ears, and relaxed whiskers are all signs that your kitty is relaxed and content!
So you think you are the body language expert - try our cat body language quiz
4. Don’t force it!
Let your cat make the first move and don’t grab them and try to force them to sit on your lap! Let them come to you on their terms (a little treat might entice them in the first place!) but also let them go free when they start to wriggle to get away. This will help build up their trust in you and make them more likely to want to snuggle up to you in future.
Read our article on how to train your cat to be a lap cat
5. Learn their favourite soft spot.
Does your cat sometimes turn into a little purring machine? Generally, cats like to be touched and stroked around the base of their ears, around their cheeks and under the chin - this is where their facial glands are. They’re not keen on having their tummy, tail or their back stroked. Sometimes they may be so relaxed that they’ll lie with their stomach exposed but don’t be fooled - this is not an invitation to stroke them there and may result in a short nip!
6. Set aside some kitty time!
Most cats have an active time at dawn and dusk; it may seem to you that they are being a bit crazy, scooting around the house at great speed, just when you are sleeping or want to relax. However, this is a natural instinct and when they would (in the wild) have done their hunting. So avoid trying to play with your cat at these times. The best time to play with your kitty a couple of times throughout the day - just 10-15 minutes playing with their favourite toy will help to tire them out, establish a routine and develop a bond.
Also read our article on: 4 Best Kitty Toys for Active Cats.
7. Be approachable!
Sit with your cat’s favourite cushion or blanket closeby and wait for your cat to come to you. As they will have left their smell on their blanket and have good associations with it, they will more likely feel positive about approaching you. You can tempt them closer with a little treat and once they’ve sniffed your hand they may be happier to come closer to explore more. Don’t move quickly or startle your cat as this will put them off, but take your time and create a relaxed environment.
Read more about other happy cat families and there ups and downs
8. Help them to groom.
Cats are very clean creatures and spend a lot of time grooming themselves. When you have developed a close bond with your cat and they are happy to sit on your lap for a while, try a little grooming! This will not only make your bond stronger, but regular grooming will help to prevent their coat from matting, it will reduce shedding and help spread natural oils over your cat’s skin and coat. Find more about why cat groom.
9. Nurture Your Kitty Bond
The recipe for kitty friendship is actually easier than you might think: give them space when they need it, pamper them and ensure they have everything they need, and throw in some nice treats and playtime and you’ll soon have the purrfect bond with your kitty! In other words, they’ll have you wrapped around their little paw in no time at all!
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Collectanea Chemica, ed. by A.E. Waite, , at sacred-texts.com
Of the Second Matter, or Seed in Metals.
ALL philosophers affirm, with one consent, that metals have a seed by which they are increased, and that this seminal quality is the same in all of them; but it is perfectly ripened in gold only, where the bond of union is so fixed that it is most difficult to decompound the subject, and procure it for the Philosophical Work. But some, who were adepts in the art, have by painful processes taken gold for their male, and the mercury, which they knew how to rextact from the less compacted metals, for a female: not as an easier process, but to
find out the possibility of making the stone this way; and have succeeded, giving this method more openly to conceal the true confection, which is most easy and simple. We shall, therefore, set before the reader a landmark, to keep him from splitting on this difficulty, by considering what is the seed wherein the metals are increased, that the artist may be no longer at a loss where to seek for it, keeping in view the writings of our learned predecessors on this subject.
The seed of metals is what the Sons of Wisdom have called their mercury, to distinguish it from quicksilver, which it nearly resembles, being the radical moisture of metals. This, when judiciously extracted, without corrosives, or fluxing, contains in it a seminal quality whose perfect ripeness is only in gold; in the other metals it is crude, like fruits which are yet green, not being sufficiently digested by the heat of the sun and action of the elements. We observed that the radical moisture contains the seed, which is true: yet it is not the seed,
but the sperm only, in which the vital principle floats, being invisible to the eye. But the mind perceives it, in a true artist, as a central point of condensed air, wherein Nature, according to the will of God, has included the first principles of life in everything, as well animal and vegetable as mineral; for in animals the sperm may be seen, but not the included principle of impregnation: this is a concentered point, to which the sperm serves only as a vehicle, till, by the action and ferment of the matrix, the point wherein Nature has included a vital principle expands itself, and then it is perceivable in the rudiments of an animal. So in any esculent fruit (as, for instance, in an apple), the pulp or sperm is much more in proportion than the seed included; and even that which appears to be seed is only a finer concoction of sperm, including the vital stamina; as also in a grain of wheat, the flour is only the sperm, the point of vegetation is an included air. which is kept by its sperm from the extremes of cold and heat, till it finds a
proper matrix, where the husk being softened with moisture, and warmed by the heat, the surrounding sperm putrefies, making the seed, or concentered air, to expand and to burst the husk, carrying along in its motion a milky substance, assimulated to itself from the putrefied sperm. This the condensing quality of the air includes in a film and hardens into a germ, all according to the purpose of Nature.
If this whole process of Nature, most wonderful in her operations, was not constantly repeated before our eyes, the simple process of vegetation would be equally problematical with that of the philosophers; yet how can the metals increase, nay, how can anything be multiplied without seed? The true artists never pretended to multiply metals without it, and can it be denied that Nature still follows her first appointment? She always fructifies the seed when it is put into a proper matrix. Does not she obey an ingenious artist, who knows her operations, with her possibilities,
and attempts nothing beyond them? A husbandman meliorates his ground with compost, burns the weeds, and makes use of other operations. He steeps his seed in various preparations, only taking care not to destroy its vital principle; indeed, it never comes into his head to roast it, or to boil it, in which he shows more knowledge of Nature than some would-be philosophers do. Nature, like a liberal mother, rewards him with a more plentiful harvest, in proportion as he has meliorated her seed and furnished a more suitable matrix for its increase.
The intelligent gardener goes farther; he knows how to shorten the process of vegetation, or retard it. He gathers roses, cuts salads, and pulls green peas in winter. Are the curious inclined to admire plants and fruits of other climates? He can produce them in his stoves to perfection. Nature follows his directions unconstrained, always willing to obtain her end, viz., the perfection of her offspring.
Open your eyes here, ye studious searchers of Nature! Is she so liberal in her perishing productions, how much more in those which are permanent, and can subsist in the fire? Attend, then, to her operations; if you procure the metallic seed, and ripen that by art which she is many ages in perfecting, it cannot fail but she will reward you with an increase proportioned to the excellency of your subject.
The reader will be apt to exclaim here: "Very fine! All this is well; but how shall the seed of metals be procured, and whence comes it that so few know how to gather it?" To this it is answered that the philosophers have hitherto industriously kept that a profound secret; some out of a selfish disposition, though otherwise good men. Others, who wished only for worthy persons to whom they might impart it, could not write of it openly, because covetousness and vanity have been governing principles in the world;
and, being wise men, they knew that it was not the will of the Most High to inflame and cherish such odious tempers, the genuine offspring of pride and self-love, but to banish them out of the earth, wherefore they have been withheld hitherto. But we, finding no restraint on our mind in that respect, shall declare what we know: and the rather because we judge the time is come to demolish the golden calf, so long had in veneration by all ranks of men, insomuch that worth is estimated by the money a man possesses; and such is the inequality of possessions that mankind are almost reducible to the rich, who are rioting in extravagance, and the poor, who are in extreme want, smarting under the iron hand of oppression. Now the measure of iniquity among the rich hastens to its limit, and the cry of the poor is come before the Lord: "Who will give them to eat till they shall be satisfied?" Hereafter the rich will see the vanity of their possessions when compared with the treasures communicated
by this secret; for the riches it bestows are a blessing from God, and not the squeezing of oppression. Besides, its chief excellence consists in making a medicine capable of healing all diseases to which the human body is liable, and prolonging life to the utmost limits ordained by the Creator of all things.
There want not other reasons for the manifestation of the process; for scepticism has gone hand in hand with luxury and oppression, insomuch that the fundamental truths of all revealed religion are disputed. These were always held in veneration by the possessors of this art, as may be seen from what they have left upon record in their books: and, indeed, the first principles of revealed religion are demonstrated from the whole process, for the seed of metals is sown in corruption, and raised in incorruption; it is sown a natural body, and raised a spiritual body; it is known to partake of the curse which came upon the earth for man's sake, having in its composition
a deadly poison, which can only be separated by a regeneration in water and fire; it can, when it is throughly purified and exalted, immediately tinge imperfect metals and raise them to a state of perfection, being in this respect a lively emblem of that seed of the woman, the Serpent Bruiser, who, through His sufferings and death, bath entered into glory, having thenceforth power and authority to redeem, purify, and glorify all those who come unto Him as a mediator between God and mankind.
Such being our motives, we can no longer be silent concerning the seed of metals, but declare that it is contained in the ores of metals, as wheat is in the grain; and the sottish folly of alchemists has hindered them from adverting to this, so that they have always sought it in the vulgar metals, which are factitious and not a natural production, herein acting as foolishly as if a man should sow bread and expect corn from it, or from an egg which
is boiled hope to produce a chicken. Nay, though the philosophers have said many times the vulgar metals are dead, not excepting gold, which passes the fire, they could never imagine a thing so simple as that the seed of metals was contained in their ores, where alone it ought to be expected; so bewildered is human ingenuity, when it leaves the beaten track of truth and Nature, to entangle itself in a multiplicity of fine-spun inventions.
The searcher of Nature will rejoice greatly in this discovery, as grounded in reason and sound philosophy; but to fools it would be in vain, should even Wisdom herself cry out in the streets. Wherefore, leaving such persons to hug themselves in their own imaginary importance, we shall go on to observe that the ores of metals are our First Matter, or sperm, wherein the seed is contained, and the key of this art consists in a right dissolution of the ores into a water, which the philosophers call their mercury, or water of life, and an
earthy substance, which they have denominated their sulphur. The first is called their woman, wife, Luna, and other names, signifying that it is the feminine quality in their seed; the other they have denominated their man, husband, Sol, etc., to point out its masculine quality. In the separation and due conjunction of these with heat, and careful management, there is generated a noble offspring, which they have for its excellency called the quintessence, or a subject wherein the four elements are so completely harmonised as to produce a fifth subsisting in the fire, without waste of substance, or diminution of its virtue, wherefore they have given it the titles of Salamander, Phoenix, and Son of the Sun. | <urn:uuid:4d1694f8-2186-41e3-96cf-7bd4bc8c2e83> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/cc/cc13.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969258 | 2,219 | 2.4375 | 2 |
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Back in 2002, when America was flying terror suspects out of Afghanistan to its new prison in Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon was in no doubt that it was incarcerating the "worst of the worst", in the words of one spokesman.
By Patrick Jackson
BBC News Online
"They are bad guys and... if let out on the street, they will go back to the proclivity of trying to kill Americans and others," said Rear Adm John D Stufflebeem.
Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed is facing charges back in Spain
In the years since the prison was created, at least 188 "bad guys" of various nationalities have been repatriated from their sun-baked cells in Cuba.
A Pentagon spokesman told BBC News Online that at least five of those released had "rejoined the fight".
Abdul Ghaffar, a Taleban militant killed fighting in Afghanistan in late September, is known to have spent about eight months in the camp before his release.
But what of all the others, going back to home communities as far afield as Sudan and the UK?
Were at least some of the "worst" not so bad after all?
No case to answer
For Amnesty International, the stream of transfers reinforces its argument that detention without trial as part of an open-ended "war on terror" is unjustified.
"The number of people who have been released and who have not then been charged in their home countries basically underscores the fact that they should never have been in Guantanamo Bay in the first place," a spokesperson told BBC News Online.
The organisation highlights the fact that few Guantanamo detainees "transferred for continued detention" in their home countries face prosecution on their return:
- Seven Russians were released without trial at the end of June, four months after their transfer
It has been unclear what, if any, legal action was taken against four Saudis after their transfer in May 2003
Spain freed Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed on bail on 13 July after holding him four and a half months on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation. It granted bail in view of his experiences in Guantanamo
As of late September 2004, the French authorities
were still holding four men on suspicion of terrorist links after their much-publicised return from Guantanamo in July.
In March, five of nine Britons held at Guantanamo were flown back to the UK and the authorities released them without charge the following day.
Perhaps one of the best-known Guantanamo ex-inmates is Danish national Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane, who announced in September he planned to travel to Chechnya and fight Russian forces.
The 31-year-old went on TV to say his transfer deal with the US authorities not to take part in terrorist activity could be treated as "toilet paper".
The Danish Intelligence Security Service later announced that Mr Abderrahmane had retracted his statement and would stay at home.
For the Pentagon, the transfer of inmates is not an admission that the US got the wrong men - just part of the military screening process in a time of war.
Each detainee who leaves the prison is transferred either for release or continued detention abroad after a careful assessment, said spokesman Maj Michael Shavers.
The US says its treatment of inmates is justified
"Each case is a little bit different", he told BBC News Online, and he cited factors which may lead to a transfer:
- The detainee may have "renounced their fight against the US" and is no longer a threat
The detainee may no longer "contain intelligence value"
It is established that the detainee has not committed any crimes triable by military commission, ie war crimes
In the eyes of the US military, there can be no question of ex-detainees suing the US military for unjustified imprisonment.
"When you capture individuals in a combat situation, you have the right to hold them until the end of hostilities," Maj Shavers said.
He made clear he was referring to the "war on terror" in general, and not the war in Afghanistan specifically.
"This is a precedent used by many countries, in many conflicts, over history," he added.
In July, the authorities at Guantanamo began reviewing individual cases among the remaining detainees, thought to number about 540 as of early October.
Concern has been raised by human rights groups that some of these, such as ethnic Uighurs from China, would face persecution if sent back to their home countries.
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Grey Matter (Matière Grise, 2011), directed by Kivu Ruhorahoza, contemplates the effects of the 1994 Rwandan genocide upon the psyche and the social world. It is the first feature-length narrative film directed by a Rwandan about the 1994 genocide, and the only to offer a Rwandan's rich visual interpretation of its impact. For this alone, Grey Matter holds a critical place within the film library of sub-Saharan Africa. But the film is also an important reflection on how Rwandans imagine, speak of, and visualize the relics of trauma. It traces, in different domains and voices, dynamics of abjection and pain and the ethics of love both in and beyond trauma. This careful attention to the psychosocial dynamics of trauma, loss, and witnessing offers much to contemporary reflections upon African modernity. How is it possible to recuperate what has been lost? How might a Rwandan subject mourn not only the loss of the object per se, but also the loss of a lovable and loved image of herself or himself? What, indeed, is a Rwandan subject within modernity?
The film draws our attention to these questions through its structure. There are three distinct stories, all of which are connected by trauma, and as the film progresses we begin to wonder which events happened and which exist in the minds of the characters. First, there is young Balthazar (Hervé Kimenyi) on his bed conceptualizing the script of a film, "The Cycle of the Cockroach" (Le cycle du cafard). He wants to produce the film in the capital city of Kigali, and he has approached the government for support. But they refuse to finance his film, suggesting instead that what the country needs is work about HIV prevention and domestic violence. No one, the administrator concludes, is interested in your film. Balthazar is not discouraged by the bad news, however, and he continues with plans for filming, telling an actress that the government money will soon be deposited in his account. [End Page 231]
This leads to the second part of the film, in which Balthazar's story takes shape in the portrait of a man, a wartime assassin, who is locked up in an asylum. His violence is focused upon a cockroach in a jar (the term cockroach was used by Hutu extremists to designate Tutsis during the genocide), and his fury against this small creature is fueled by the rhetoric being spouted from the radio in a seductively smooth female voice and the beer being passed through the bars of his cell window. The lines between the individual and the state begin to blur, along with our grasp of reality. Is it possible to consider his psyche without questioning the entire nation? We might return to Frantz Fanon, the Martinican psychotherapist who clearly articulated in Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) that in order to treat the psyche of patients during wars, it is important to revisit the entire system that has organized the war. Another key text is Moses and Monotheism (1939), in which Freud conceived of the difficulties of translating from the psyche of the individual to the psyche of the masses as a problem of historical investigation and historical depth. While describing the social conditions of his own writing under Nazi persecution and through his escape into exile, he asked what kind of evidence might support the notion of a social unconscious and the claim that groups and cultures retain unconscious memory traces of their past. As psychoanalytic theory and feminists have eloquently argued, the implications of responses to questions about psychic processes are always political. Enriching Freud's insight that the interrelations between the psyche and the social may be conceived as a problem of translation, Ruhorahoza problematizes the interrelations between the psychic and the social, suggesting new connections between psychoanalysis and social theory in this specific story of the Rwandan genocide.
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Faizabad was the original capital of Nawabs. It lies roughly 130 km east of Lucknow on the banks of Saryu river. You have probably not heard of this name in the context of tourism. We stopped at the place on our way to Ayodhya to see some of the remaining monuments of the Nawab era.
Faizabad, Nawabs of Awadh – Twin City of Ayodhya
As we passed through the city, it looked like any other town of Uttar Pradesh. Narrow busy streets lined with shops on both sides. Cycle rickshaws, pedestrians & two wheeler drivers competing for the best bit of the road. Hawkers shouting at top of their voice. Old style shops take you back in time. Just then you pass by some old structure – an arched gateway or an old Haveli. You wonder how this place would have looked in its hay days.
There are two main things to be in seen Faizabad – the tomb of Nawab Shuja-Ud-Daula and his wife who is popularly known as Bahu Begum.
History of Faizabad
Some historians believe that the area that is today called Faizabad was called Saket during the epic era of Ramayana. It is quite possible as the Ayodhya is right next door. This was the mythical palace of Dasrath – the father of Lord Rama.
In the known history, Saadat Ali Khan was appointed as the Subedar of Awadh in 1722. He was the first one to build the first cantonment here on the banks of Saryu River. He was the first Naib of Awadh in Mughal court. The word Nawab comes from Naib. It would later become the title of his dynasty that would rule Awadh till the independence of India in 1947.
In its initial days, Faizabad was known as Bangla – for the huge mad barracks that were built here. How and when it came to be known as Faizabad seems to be lost in history.
Umrao Jaan Ada or Ameeran as the famous courtesan of Awadh was known to have come from Faizabad. She was sold to a Kotha in Lucknow, and that is where she gained her fame. I would say it was Rekha in film Umrao Jaan who immortalized here.
Things to see in Faizabad
Like any city, you can walk around this one too and know the city. If you do not have time, here are the main places to visit for you.
Gulab Bari – Tomb of Shuja-Ud-Daula
Gulab Bari translates to Rose Garden. However, you do not see any roses around this monument. So, go with your imagination. Try and visualize how this huge campus would look with pink roses blooming all around it.
The first structure that you see is a Nakkar Khana -a gate that was used to play music on its upper-story. The gate is in quite a dilapidated state. However, if you look closely at its arches, you would see signs of stucco work and probably some paintings in their faintest version.
We entered through the gate and laid our eyes on the tomb of Nawab Shuja-Ud-Daula. A pillar with lion capital has been installed right at the entry of this – I assume post-independence.
On the right side of entry gate is the Imambara and left side is a mosque. Both these structures are kind of inaccessible. All around the tomb’s the outer wall has simple but lovely turrets, The barracks used to house the staff of the tomb. Today there is a nursery in one part of the garden. This in a way keeps alive the name of the place, though I missed the roses here too.
Tomb of Shuja-Ud-Daula
The tomb of Shuja-Ud-Daula follows typical Islamic principles – a grave on the ground floor or basement and a replica of it on the first floor.
At Gulab Bari, the graves are on the ground floor. You can request the caretaker to open it for you. Shuja-Ud-Daula rests here along with his mother. His father Safdarjung’s grave was also here but it was later shifted to Delhi. In Delhi, his tomb is beautiful in red sandstone comparable to that of Humayun’s Tomb.
Tombs here are built with bricks and covered with thick lime plaster. The Stucco work is an influence of the British. Bricks used are called Lakhori Bricks – they are thinner than the ones we use today.
The grave is simple but it enclosed in a beautiful wooden perforated wall with arches.
The tomb was built by Shuja-Ud-Daula himself during his lifetime.
Bahu Begum ka Maqbara
Bahu Begum was the wife of a Shuja-Ud-Daula – Ummataul Zohra. Her tomb is taller than her husband’s tomb and to date, it is the tallest building in the heritage town.
You enter through a lofty gate and the get the first view of the tomb through the tree-lined avenue. Take a flight of steps from one corner of the raised platform to reach the upper story. There are halls and corridors that run below the domes.
There are lovely ceiling frescos in pale yellow and bright blue color. They are the best part of this tomb. They look quite recently restored, while most of the other features of the tomb are probably waiting for a restoration. Arches and the stucco work around them make an interesting architecture to admire.
Bahu Begum’s grave is on the ground floor that is inaccessible.
We met a pair of Ostrich in the gardens of Bahu Begum’s tomb. Since not many tourists visit these monuments, they were in the attack mode. We had to request the local staff to escort us to the main building. However, this is how I discovered that Ostrich exists in this part of the country. I did not see but I was told that a lot of peacocks live in this complex.
A motif of Twin Fish
A common motif of two fishes can be seen in both the tombs. Two fishes are a part of symbols associated with this dynasty. The story goes that when the Nawabs were traveling to build their new kingdom in Lucknow, a pair of fishes came to their boat. They thought of this as an auspicious omen and adopted them as their symbol. Everywhere you go in Awadh, you will be first greeted by the twin fishes.
After spending a couple of hours at these two tombs, we headed to Ayodhya on a boat from Guptar Ghat. There would be more coming on Guptar Ghat in the upcoming post on Ayodhya.
While Ayodhya was what I had set out to explore, this place was a chance discovery. It was a great rendezvous with the initial history of Nawabs of Lucknow.
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Midland is located in Santa Barbara County in the town of Los Olivos, CA. Los Olivos is north of the cities of Santa Barbara and Buellton, and south of the cities of San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria.
We are blessed with 2,860 acres on our campus, a large percentage of which is relatively untouched. Our property neighbors the Los Padres National Forest, the largest national forest in the state, and we are also adjacent to the San Rafael Wilderness Area, home of the Manzana River and its tributaries. More than just a backdrop, our campus becomes part of the classroom. Science classes camp and learn orienteering as part of the curriculum, English classes search out secluded meadows in which to write, read, and discuss, and the fine arts classes include the landscape and natural materials in countless projects.
Meadows, creeks, cliffs, canyons, and ridgelines; yucca, sycamores, oaks, sage, and poppies; coyotes, wild pigs, wild turkeys, owls, hawks, and eagles. A student at Midland makes a connection with the natural world. The sense of place a student develops at Midland is invaluable and enduring.
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Streptomyces sp. P3 was isolated from potato scab diseased tubers in Pyeongchang, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea in 2017. Here, we report the draft genome sequences of P3 with 9,851,971 bp size (71.2% GC content) of the chromosome. The genome comprises 8,548 CDS, 18 rRNA and 66 tRNA genes. Although strain P3 did not show pathogenicity both potato tuber assay and radish seedling assay, it possesses tomatinase (tomA) gene among conserved pathogenicity-related genes in well characterized pathogenic Streptomyces. Thus, the genome sequences determined in this study will be useful to understand for pathogenic evolution in Streptomyces species, which already adapted to potato scab pathogens.
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In two weeks, Israel will finally start building the world's largest detention center for asylum seekers. The facility will go up in the Negev sand dunes on 1,000 dunams (250 acres) at the Ketziot prison.
"We're not building a prison, but ultimately it's a detention facility, not a resort site or a hotel," a senior defense official said. "It's not really a prison, though. They can walk around, they have 4.5 meters in their rooms. The organized public space is pretty huge. You don't get that in a prison."
At the first stage, the facility for up to 8,000 inmates will consist of 12 wings, each designed to house 280 refugees. Each wing will have two dining rooms, a toilet-and-shower compound, a laundry and places to study. The Defense Ministry also plans to build a library and a club.
The ministry intends to issue a tender for the construction of the refugees' rooms next week. The contractors' proposals will determine whether four, seven or eight refugees will be housed in each room. Each refugee would live at the center for up to three years.
According to the plan, each room must have a window or two, beds, lockers, an electric socket and accessibility to toilets by day and night.
"Nowhere in the world is so much space allotted per inmate," the senior defense official said, referring to the 4.5 square meters.
"We'll do all it takes to provide reasonably humane conditions. We all wish we didn't have to build such a facility. But we're in a certain situation due to certain circumstances, and we need a facility to address these needs," he said.
"It will have trees, flowers and bushes. We understand human beings have to stay there .... The ministry thinks it's important to have vegetation there so the inmates don't get a feeling they're surrounded by iron bars."
The center will also include computer facilities, sports and religious facilities, conference halls, women's and well-baby clinics, playgrounds and workshops.
The facility will have hundreds of gates along its fences, though each wing and room will be able to be locked down.
The ministry has yet to decide whether to allocate separate family areas. It has also not decided what to do about sick people who must be isolated, such as tuberculosis patients.
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Rohan* used to live in Metiaburj, located in the South western part of Kolkata, along with his parents and older brother.
With an insufficient income, Rohan along with his mother and sibling found a safe haven in their maternal uncle’s home. Rohan and his brother had to work in a slipper factory and started to support their mother by providing Rs.50/- while still pursuing their primary education.
With every passing day, things got worse and their mother contracted a bone disease along with a worsening heart condition. Rohan and his sibling were forced to quit school and to continue working full time in the factory. Seeing the mounting hospital bills at home, Rohan’s sibling gave up all responsibilities and ran away from home, leaving young Rohan in-charge of their mother’s ill health and the diminishing finances at home.
Things at the factory weren’t good either. With a history of physical abuse by the owner and a meagre salary, Rohan was distressed and angry. He set out to look for a respectful work environment and a decent earning.
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Put on your monocle and top hat and pretend you are part of the 1% for a minute. Your first task is to write a set of legal codes about the collection of debt in this country, specifically student debt. And you want to be kind of a jerk about it. What’s the one thing you could do for student debt that you don’t do for any other type of debt, one that would radically shift the relationship between student loan creditors and debtors both practically and symbolically?
How about this, from the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996: “Notwithstanding any other provision of law… all payments due to an individual under… the Social Security Act… shall be subject to offset under this section.”
What this means is that when it comes to collecting on student loans, the government can take funds from your Social Security check. There are rules to the offset: the first $750 a month can’t be touched, and only 15 percent of benefits above that can be taken to pay back student loans. But this is still a radical break in the social contract with no equivalent for private debts.
If you look at the original text of the Social Security Act, you can see that Social Security payments were not “subject to execution, levy, attachment, garnishment, or other legal process, or to the operation of any bankruptcy or insolvency law.” My man Franklin Delano Roosevelt understood that basic economic freedom, one part of which is freedom from utter poverty in old age, would come under assault from creditors and debt and that it was important to clear a space that provides a baseline of income that clever debt collectors can’t get to. Social Security is supposed to be just one leg of a three-legged stool for retirement, the amount necessary to keep poverty at bay, and it is crucial that it is protected.
Yet we are willing to snap this leg off the stool as payment for, of all things, loans people take out to educate themselves. In a dynamic economy, education should be risky — whole occupations and industries come and go with technology, and what was a wise investment at one point is a bad one later on. But there need to be rules for what happens when these risks go bad. We have removed every last rule on this kind of debt.
According to the Project on Student Debt, the average debt load for graduating seniors in 1996, when this law was passed, was $12,750. Now it is over $23,200. Also note that, post-1991 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2005 as it regards Social Security payments, student loan collection has no statute of limitations. This is one of the very few kinds of debts without such limitations. As this site puts it, “Creditors and debt collectors have a limited time window in which to sue debtors for nonpayment of credit card bills… In most states, the statute of limitations period on debts is between three and 10 years.” But in this case, the Department of Education notes, “[b]y virtue of section 484A(a) of the Higher Education Act, statute of limitations of no kind now limits Department’s or the guaranty agency’s ability to file suit, enforce judgments, initiate offsets, or other actions, to collect a defaulted student loan.”
It is impossible to discharge bad debts in this system under our normal mechanism for handling bad debts — bankruptcy. When delinquencies happen — say when you graduate into a recession that elites refuse to fix — you get thrown into the fee-churning world of private debt collection. This world was memorably described by law professor Ronald Mann as a “sweat box” of fees and other ways of increasing the total debt owed. With fees churning, there’s no date after which creditors can no longer go after your student loan payment, and they can even go after the baseline measure society has created to prevent poverty in old age.
Now with all this in mind, let’s quickly examine the New York Fed’s recent release of its Quarterly Report on Consumer Credit, specifically this delinquency data:
Student loan delinquencies look to be slowly increasing over time, while credit cards and mortgages go up and down. On the flip side of this dynamic is the amount of loans being “charged off” by private institutions. These are loans that will never be fully replayed, and a cost-benefit analysis tells the lender that it is no longer worth trying to collect the full amount. These are tough estimates to get, but Karen Dynan of the Brookings Institute has one estimate in her “Household Deleveraging and the Economic Recovery”:
As credit card and housing debt become unbearable, there’s a point at which they get written down. That point is too high, but because of various laws regarding debt collection that shift the strategy and potential end results between the actors, there’s a logic to it. As far as I can tell, there’s simply no equivalent chart, or even logic, for student loans. Because of legal choices we’ve made in how to set up this relationship, it stays forever, is virtually impossible to discharge under hardship, churns fees when it goes bad, and creditors can get to anything, including Social Security, to get it repaid. Meanwhile, we have a Great Depression-like event that is throwing college graduates into a labor market that is far too weak.
It is good to see President Obama, as part of his “We Can’t Wait” campaign, pushing to get some fencing around the rules for future student loan debtors through an executive order. According to this press release, the government will accelerate the implementation of laws “to limit loan payments to 10 percent of their discretionary income starting in 2012 [instead of 2014]. In addition, the debt would be forgiven after 20 years instead of 25, as current law allows.” However, according to an early analysis of this move, “[b]orrowers with loans from 2007 and earlier will not be eligible. Likewise, borrowers who don’t have at least one loan from 2012 or later, like students who graduated in 2011 or earlier, also won’t be eligible. Borrowers who are already in repayment will not be eligible.” So the problem remains for now.
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The Wall Street Journal editorialized the other day that the lesson the world’s terrorists would take away from the Spanish election was the following: “That by murdering innocents they were able to topple one of the pillars of the Western anti-terror alliance.”
The editorial continued: “The illusion that it is possible to purchase peace with appeasement or neutrality is always powerful in any war. The burden of self-defense is expensive and painful. The British preferred Chamberlain to Churchill in the late 1930s, while millions marched in Europe in 1982 against Ronald Reagan’s deployment of nuclear missiles to deter the Soviet Union. Mr. Aznar has good historical company.”
New York Times columnist David Brooks opined that “some significant percentage of the Spanish electorate was mobilized after the massacre to shift the course of the campaign, throw out the old government and replace it with one whose policies are more to Al Qaeda’s liking,” and followed up, “What is the Spanish word for appeasement?”
Tom Friedman, in a column titled, “Axis of Appeasement,” observed that “a Spanish pullout from Iraq would only
bring to mind Churchill’s remark after Chamberlain returned
from signing the Munich pact with Hitler: ‘You were given
the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and
you will have war.'”
And Dennis Hastert, the Speaker of the House, offered that the Spanish people “chose to change their government and to, in a sense, appease
Yes, the “A” word — Appeasement — has made a comeback. The reference is to a meeting, in September, 1938, in Munich between British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Adolf Hitler. Hitler demanded that Sudetenland, then Czechoslovak land, be ceded to Germany because it was settled by Germans. Chamberlain, to his eternal shame, agreed — and that agreement became know as Appeasement.
The word is meant to sting, and it’s especially insulting and undiplomatic directed towards a continent where tens of millions of lives were lost as
a result of Nazi aggression and in a country that is in
national mourning over the loss of 201 lives as a result of
an Al-Qaeda related bombing. As the French daily Le Monde rightly pointed out, the appeasement argument shows “a lot of contempt for the Spanish people who live daily with the threat of terrorism.” And Jonathan Freedland, writing in the Guardian, observes that “the menace of al-Qaida is real and serious enough without making hyperbolic comparisons to the Third Reich.”
And anyway, the analogy doesn’t work. Freedland says there are “two grave errors that underlie this latest argument from the right. One is a misunderstanding of democracy, the other is a failure to make crucial distinctions.”
The first mistake is the more surprising, for no word is invoked more often in support of the “war on terror” than democracy. Yet these insults hurled at the Spanish show a sneaking contempt for the idea. For surely the Spanish did nothing more on Sunday than exercise their democratic right to change governments. They elected the Socialist party; to suggest they voted for al-Qaida is a slur not only on the Spanish nation but on the democratic process itself, implying that when terrorists strike political choice must end.
Consider, too, that the Spanish people, as they headed to the polls, had reason to think their government wasn’t being entirely straight with them about the bombings. The widespread impression
that the government withheld evidence and misled the public
to influence the outcome of the election certainly had an
impact on the result.
The government’s handling of the bombing was also
reminiscent of its exaggeration of intelligence evidence and
“going over the heads of the voters” in the run-up to the
Iraqi War. The cynical attempt to manipulate the nation’s
tragedy for political benefit only gave credence to
criticisms of the Popular Party’s lack of transparency and
honesty with the voters. As Le Monde points out:
The handling of the information, backed by pressure on the
big media, revived the memory of other deceptions, such as
the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, which
Mr. Aznar refused to explain … The Spanish right was beaten by
itself, by turning to methods that it unfortunately does not
have a monopoly on…That is why Spaniards’ fresh start, far
from amounting to resignation in the face of terrorism, is a
lesson in democracy.
Another error of those who criticize the Spanish vote, says Freedland, is a “failure to distinguish between the war against al-Qaida and the war on Iraq.”
About 90% of the Spanish electorate were against the latter; there is no evidence that they were, or are, soft on the former. On the contrary, there have been two mass demonstrations of Spanish opinion in the past few days: let no one forget that 36 hours before the election, about 11 million Spaniards took to the streets to swear their revulsion at terrorism. It takes some cheek to accuse a nation like that of weakness and appeasement.
As a Guardian editorial further points out:
“The Spanish electorate were not voting for a cave-in to
al-Qaida. On the contrary, many of those who opposed the war
in Iraq did so precisely because they feared it would
distract from the more urgent war against Islamist
fanaticism. (Witness the US military resources pulled off
the hunt for Bin Laden in Afghanistan and diverted to
Baghdad.) Nor was it appeasement to suggest that the US-led
invasion of an oil-rich, Muslim country would make
al-Qaida’s recruitment mission that much easier.”
Instead of taking cheap shots at the Spanish voters, who
did nothing more — or less — than exercise their right to vote, U.S.
commentators and politicians should take a sober look at the
reasons behind the Popular Party’s downfall. Many of the
criticisms leveled at Aznar are echoed in the United Kingdom
and the United States. If they are serious about about
effectively pursuing the “war on terrorism,” not to mention
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Algeria today marks 50 years of freedom from French rule, a politicized event as the Muslim North African nation has yet to reconcile with its former sovereign following the two nation's vicious eight-year war, reported The Associated Press.
Algeria says 1.5 million people were killed in the 1954-1962 war, but some historians say the figure may be closer to 300,000-400,000, which is "still more than the number of French killed in World War I," noted AP.
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika is commemorating the event today at a monument dedicated to "martyrs" of the "revolution," the term used there to refer to the war, according to AP. There are also plans for a huge concert this evening.
In France, Paris' National Army Museum has put up a new exhibition dedicated to the "complicated" decades of French colonial rule, which aside from "some vague attempts at balance" is "mostly a tribute to a Gallic army putting natives in their place," Nabila Ramdani editorialized in The Guardian.
"Though there are graphic pictures of FLN [National Liberation Front] activists being tortured, the display as a whole fails to address what this dark period did for relations between the two countries," according to Ramdani.
The Associated Press said the museum's "Algeria 1830-1962" exhibit is "perhaps the closest public reckoning France has made of the darkest period of its colonial history," underscoring how far the two nations have to go when it comes to addressing their controversial shared history.
French historian Benjamin Stora said the event shows that "the more time passes, the more memory returns," a problem that "must be treated," telling AP from Paris today that the issue won't simply disappear "by magic."
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A draft report prepared by the European Commission on Greece’s compliance with the bailout agreement requirements and the sustainability of the Greek debt, suggests that Greece would have to implement some austerity measures originally scheduled for 2020 a year earlier. This would happen if creditors see that the primary surplus target of 3.5% in 2019 is beyond reach. “and this would mean that lowering of the tax-free basis would be implemented already in 2019, Greek media interpret the Commission analysis. Lowering the tax basis would mean that the poor with less than 6,000 euro annual income will be taxed as well.
- Greece currently owes its European peers 224 billion euros, an amount that underpins its creditors’ desire to keep a close eye on the country even after it leaves their direct oversight.
According to Bloomberg, the analysis of the sustainability of Greece’s debt foresees a worse trajectory for the country’s debt than what was expected a few months ago.
According to the commission’s baseline scenario, Greece’s debt-to-GDP ratio is expected to reach 181.1 % in 2017, 165 % in 2020, 127.2 % in 2030 and 96.4 % in 2060, forecasts that are slightly higher than what was projected at the end of the last review in June.
The slightly worse debt trajectory underscores the likelihood that a final debt-sustainability analysis at the end of Greece’s program will confirm the need for further re-profiling of Greece loans, especially if economic growth lags.
What’s more, in its analysis the commission raises questions about whether the foreseen size of Greece’s cash buffer should be reassessed, with the planned 10.2 billion-euro cushion only covering financing needs of less than 10 months following the end of Greece’s bailout — an amount that could increase with future market issuances and progress in cash management reform.
A cash buffer of 17 billion euros would cover financing needs for on year after the end of the bailout, while 20.3 billion would fully cover financing needs until the end of 2019, and around 30 billion euros until the end of 2020, the commission said in its report.
According to Bloomberg, creditors have little intention to allow Greeks go ahead without supervision, once the bailout program exits in summer 2018.
Meanwhile, euro zone finance ministers meet in Brussels under the new Eurogroup chief Mario Centeno from Portugal. They are expected to conclude the third review but postpone the release of the bailout tranche estimated at 6-7 billion euros, until Greece has completed all required milestones, by February.
Top on European creditors’ agenda is the smooth running of electronic foreclosures and privatization of Greece’s natural gas grid operator. Desfa.
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Before the start of business, Just Security provides a curated summary of up-to-the-minute developments at home and abroad. Here’s today’s news.
The KOREAN PENINSULA
China’s President Xi Jinping urged President Trump to exercise restraint in a call today as the USS Carl Vinson carrier group headed for North Korea, a deployment North Korea said was “an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade the North.” Ben Blanchard and Ju-min Park report at Reuters.
North Korea is “ready to sink” the USS Carl Vinson “with a single strike,” North Korean state media warned today, the BBC reporting.
The Pentagon called on North Korea to “refrain from provocative, destabilizing actions and rhetoric” yesterday and to fulfil its international obligations and return to serious discussions, calling the Pyongyang regime’s nuclear weapons program a “clear, grave threat to US national security.” Eli Watkins and Jamie Crawford report at CNN.
South Korea and its allies are preparing for the possibility that North Korea will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time or conduct another nuclear test tomorrow as it marks the founding anniversary of its military, Kim Tong-Hyung reports at the AP.
American citizen Professor Tony Kim has been arrested in Pyongyang, the third US citizen known to have been detained by North Korea in recent months and an episode likely to serve as another flashpoint with the US at a time of heightened tensions with North Korea, suggests Jonathan Cheng at the Wall Street Journal.
President Trump will have to face a nuclear-armed North Korea with missiles capable of reaching the US during his first term, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly said yesterday, Mallory Shelbourne reporting at the Hill.
China’s worry that US-North Korea tensions could escalate into outright military conflict are reflected by President Xi’s reported words of caution to President Trump by phone today, Beijing-time, writes Chris Buckley at the New York Times.
The best move for the US now would be to open direct talks with Pyongyang that begin by negotiating a halt on nuclear tests and missiles in return for at least considering North Korea’s demand for suspension of joint military exercises with South Korea, suggests John Delury at the Washington Post, pointing out that there is no way to launch a pre-emptive strike on North Korea without being hit back harder, or without avoiding the deaths of the ten million people who live in Seoul.
“Secondary sanctions” on those who do business with the regime. In dealing with North Korea, the Trump administration should take a look at former president Obama’s approach to sanctioning in order to get Iran to come to the nuclear negotiating table, suggests David S. Cohen writing at the Washington Post.
President Trump’s team has repeatedly slammed Iran despite acknowledging that it has complied with the nuclear deal Trump has repeatedly railed against, observes Rebecca Kheel at the Hill.
The Trump administration’s propensity for demonizing Iran and misrepresenting the threat it poses risks an unnecessary and perilous confrontation, writes the New York Times editorial board.
Former president Obama was not telling the whole story when he presented the “one-time gesture” of releasing Iranian prisoners “who were not charged with terrorism or any violent offenses” last year as a modest trade-off for the sake of the Iran nuclear deal and Tehran’s promise to release five American prisoners, according to an investigation by POLITICO’s Josh Meyer.
A diplomatic breakthrough with the potential to bring the two main warring sides in Libya together in a new political agreement was brokered in a meeting in Rome overseen by Italy’s foreign minister Angelino Alfano and the Italian ambassador to Libya, Patrick Wintour reports at the Guardian.
TRUMP ADMINISTRATION FOREIGN POLICY
President Trump will host 14 members of the UN Security Council for lunch at the White House today, Somini Sengupta reports at the New York Times.
Vice President Mike Pence will cut his Asia trip short by a day, returning to the US tomorrow, it was announced yesterday, a Pence aide reportedly citing the number of issues “on deck in Washington this week” as the reason for the change. David Cohen reports at POLITICO.
Pence thanked US service members based in American Samoa for their work in “challenging times” for the military in the Asia-Pacific en route to Hawaii, Ken Thomas reports at the AP.
Vice President Mike Pence has emerged as one of Trump’s main emissaries on the world stage mending relations and reassuring allies disconcerted by President Trump’s unpredictable behavior after his ten-day trip covering four Pacific Rim nations, writes Ken Thomas at the AP.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has been quietly placing building blocks for resettling ties with Middle East allies that had become strained during Obama’s tenure during his trip to the region encompassing Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel over the past three weeks, writes Gordon Lubold at the Wall Street Journal.
The Trump administration’s failure to embrace the need for a broader strategy on Asia’s escalating security and economic challenges means it is missing the opportunity presented by closer relations with Japan, writes Josh Rogin at the Washington Post.
The Trump administration is being forced to manage the numerous unresolved international crises it inherited with one hand tied behind its back because its State Department is understaffed. Former member of the US House of Representatives Mike Rogers writing at the Washington Post explains that while the State Department does need reforming and streamlining, starving it of leadership is not the way to achieve this goal.
Will President Trump follow suit on special ops? The US has been infatuated with special operations since Franklin Roosevelt created the first unit in 1942, but the history of special ops should teach the President that they are primarily tactical tools, not strategic options, and nor can they always beat the odds. Mark Moyar writes at the New York Times.
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian election interference has no full-time dedicated staff and those who are working on the probe do not have backgrounds in investigative experience, nor have any interviews been conducted with key players so far, Tim Mak reports at The Daily Beast.
Russia used some of Trump’s own advisers including Carter Page to try to infiltrate the Trump campaign, according to US officials, Pamela Brown, Shimon Prokupecz, Jim Sciutto and Marshall Cohen reporting at CNN.
Ongoing federal investigations into alleged Russian interference in the presidential elections could help to stop similar meddling in the elections of US allies, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) suggested Saturday, Jari Tanner reports at the AP.
Five questions for Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) as he takes over from Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) as leader of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russia are posed by Morgan Chalfant at the Hill.
A US-operated base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Khost came under suspected Taliban attack this morning, officials said, providing few immediate details. [Reuters]
Defense Secretary James Mattis arrived unannounced in Afghanistan today to assess the US’ longest-running war as President Trump considers the option of sending more troops there, Robert Burns reports at the AP.
At least 140 Afghan troops were killed in the deadliest single Taliban attack since 2001 on a base near the city of Mazar-e Sharif Friday, Sayed Salahuddin and Pamela Constable report at the Washington Post.
The Afghan minister of defense and the army chief of staff both resigned today in the wake of the Taliban attack, Mujib Mashal reports at the New York Times.
The attack was the Taliban’s latest effort in its campaign to destabilize and demoralize the Afghan armed forces already buckling under the weight of corruption, desertion and a lack of trust between soldiers and officers, Mujib Mashal writes at the New York Times.
Torture and mistreatment of prisoners by Afghan security forces is as widespread as ever despite new laws and promises from Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani, according to a new UN report released today, Josh Smith reports at Reuters.
There are indications that President Tump wants to increase aid to Saudi Arabia in Yemen with specific military steps by the US in the battle against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, a move that could receive blowback from Capitol Hill where both parties have expressed doubts about US support of Saudi Arabia in Yemen, Ellen Mitchell reporting on recent developments at the Hill.
Saudi’s King Salman appointed one of his sons Prince Khaled bin Salman as the new envoy to Washington as part of an effort to cement improving ties with the Trump administration, Nikhil Lohade and Dahlia Kholaif write at the Wall Street Journal.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi arrived in Saudi Arabia yesterday to boost “strategic relations” between the two regional powers and to discuss issues such as the threat to national security and stability posed by terrorism, Al Jazeera reports.
Israeli forces struck Syrian government groups in Quneitra two days after a similar attack in the same region yesterday, killing three fighters from the pro-government National Defense Forces, Al Jazeera reports.
Assad regime forces retook the town of Halfaya near Hama city and advanced deeper into rebel-held parts of Damascus over the weekend, Al Jazeera reports.
The CEO of LafargeHolcim will resign amid “strong tensions” facing the cement company after it admitted last month that it had made deals with armed groups in Syria allegedly including the Islamic State, he announced today, the AP reporting.
A convoy of off-duty Iraqi soldiers was ambushed by militants near the Iraqi town of Rutba last night, officials said, leaving at least ten dead. The AP reports.
The MEXICAN BORDER WALL
President Trump said he wants any spending deal to include some funding for his wall along the US border with Mexico less than a week before the federal government could run out of money, according to White House officials, risking a partial shutdown over the issues. Kristina Peterson reports at the Wall Street Journal,
Mexico will eventually pay for his border wall, President Trump said yesterday, Mallory Shelbourne reporting at the Hill.
CYBERSECURITY, PRIVACY and TECHNOLOGY
The Trump administration has u-turned on its attitude to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, formerly the helpful discloser of material damaging to Hillary Clinton, now a “priority” arrest for the Justice Department, but what case can be made against him? Michael Weiss writes at The Daily Beast.
“Can a freed Guantánamo war criminal appeal his conviction from the global battlefield?” This question is being asked by a Pentagon appeals panel considering whether to upend the war crimes conviction of former Sudanese captive Ibrahim al Qosi, Carol Rosenberg reports at the Miami Herald.
US and Philippine troops will hold humanitarian exercises next month instead of their annual war games in response to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s distain for the nations’ longstanding defense alliance, Reuters reports.
Somali pirates are returning to waters of East Africa after five years of calm, prompting the Pentagon to warn commercial ships to shore up their defences against forced boardings, though Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is not calling for a response from the US Navy as yet, Helen Cooper reports at the New York Times.
Western security will be hit whoever wins the French general election, explains Griff Witte at the Washington Post.
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What are your summer plans? Do you have a special vacation coming up, one that you weren’t able to take during COVID? How about spending more time with friends and family? Or, maybe like many of us, you’re simply going to wing it over the next few months and see what pops up. On one hand, not having plans can be a wonderful, spontaneous way to enjoy life as it comes; other the other hand, too much time can lead to less productivity and, uh-oh, boredom.
And boredom these days typically leads us to our devices … smart devices, that is. Before we know it, we’ve wasted an entire afternoon looking at social media, reading depressing news, and viewing dozens of TikTok videos involving people slapping each other with tortillas—in other words, doomscrolling.
Since July is National Anti-Boredom Month, Insights has a few suggestions to have on hand the next time you’re experiencing ennui:
- Learn to play an instrument – with the help of YouTube videos, this can be surprisingly fun and totally doable. The better videos show you the basic how-tos and then walk you through short, easy pieces. If you don’t own an instrument, borrow one from a friend.
- Write a short story – don’t worry about writing that great American novel just yet; start with a short story that’s been buzzing around in your brain for months or years. Maybe it’s based on a bizarre incident you witnessed at a grocery store—anything mundane that caught your attention is good fodder. Like any well-written story, a short story should have a hook (something that intrigues the reader right away), a beginning, a middle and an end.
- Plan your next vacation – the great thing about planning versus taking a vacation is the former is free, has no limits regarding your desires or budget, and doesn’t involve today’s inevitable flight changes or cancellations. Tear pictures out of a magazine and put together a dream board. Think about the clothes you’ll wear, the food you’ll want to eat, the types of people you hope to meet—go for it.
- Dive deep into something that has always interested you – take a day or a week to learn all you can about it; make it your goal to be a minor expert on the topic.
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A French composer born October 21, 1961 in Saint-Avold.
Marco Marini studied drumming with Richard Paul Morellini at the Centre Musical Créatif Nancéen. A drummer with various groups of current music (rock, jazz, variété, fanfare…), he practises percussion, singing, the manipulation of diverse objects and has become a composer and musician-actor with the Materia Prima company. He realises sound installations and develops his compositions for the dramatic and choreographic arts.
A French composer born March 15, 1931 in Mantes-la-Jolie.
Pierre Uga studied at the conservatories of Mulhouse, Bordeaux and Tours. He took advanced classes at the Schola Cantorum, where in particular he developed his knowledge of modal counterpoint, composition and orchestration. His teachers include Pierre Lantier, Louis Forestier, Daniel-Lesur and Pierre Wissmer.
A German composer born April 20, 1963.
Having studied composition at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin with Franck Michael and Gösta Neuwirth (1983-1991), Isabel Mundry took advanced classes with Hans Zender at the Hochschule für Musik in Frankfurt (1991-1994). She has also trained in electronic music, at the studio of Fribourg as well as at that of the Technical University of Berlin, where she in addition studied musicology, the history of art and philosophy. She completed her studies with the composition and computer music course at Ircam (1992-1994).
A French composer born July 22, 1947 in Montereau.
A pianist by training, Françoise Toullec followed classes in jazz and improvisation at the IACP of Paris (Institut Art Culture Perception) with Alan Silva and instrument classes at the École Martenot.
A Cypriot composer born April 24, 1981.
Christina Athinodorou began her music studies with the piano, in Cyprus. She continued her studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where she studied composition with Julian Philips and conducting with Alan Hazeldine. She subsequently furthered her composition studies with Philippe Leroux in Paris. In 2011 she obtained a doctorate at the Royal Holloway University of London.
An Italian composer born February 4, 1980.
A French composer and improviser born March 9, 1969.
A pianist by training, Laurence Bouckaert studied at the University and Conservatory of Strasburg. She then entered the electroacoustic composition class of Michel Zbar at Boulogne-Billancourt. She completed her university education in Lille, with a master’s dissertation on La production de la musique concrète à Paris de 1948 à la fondation du GRM en 1958. She continued her research at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and obtained a DEA in music and musicology of the 20th century, presenting a dissertation on the Influences techniques et mode de composition dans le répertoire de l’Ina-GRM de 1960 à 1975.
Sasha J. BLONDEAU
A French composer born May 26, 1986 in Briançon.
Sasha J. Blondeau studied the piano, the saxophone and jazz as well as composition, notably in the classes of Denis Lorrain and François Roux at the Lyons Conservatory (2007).
A French composer born October 22, 1966 in Amiens.
A pianist by training, Pascale Lazarus studied at the Amiens Conservatory, the Paris Conservatory and the Grenoble Conservatory, where she obtained a DEM for composition in the class of Arnaud Petit. She initiated herself into jazz improvisation for two years in Tarrytown (USA) and continues to improvise, notably to accompany dance shows and classes. With an engineering diploma from the Compiègne Technology University, she followed a course at Ircam as part of a DEA in systems management.
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I made a mistake last week. It was an honest one, but a mistake nonetheless – a misunderstanding that led to an oversight. And a client was pretty upset about it.
How do you respond when a client or colleague confronts you about a mistake that’s been made? Our natural reaction is to quickly search our minds for reasons why it happened or point partial blame back on the person across from us.
What did I do?
I apologized and owned the mistake, explained where the misunderstanding happened and shared ideas for two new processes we could implement to ensure it doesn’t happen again moving forward.
What was my client’s response?
“Thanks for your candor. I have a great deal of respect for you.”
We’re so terrified of being wrong that it causes us to do crazy things sometimes – make excuses, lie, shift blame. The truth is that most of the time people know when a mistake has been made and often they know who made it. Accepting responsibility for your part has a strange way of showing your maturity and integrity and can actually build trust instead of tear it down.
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from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In Sollas's classification, a tribe of heterocœlous calcareous sponges, embracing both recent and fossil forms, whose flagellated chambers are either radial tubes or cylindrical sacs. The families Syconidæ, Syllcibidæ, and Teichonellidæ are assigned to this tribe.
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The Bush administration's leaked Nuclear Posture Review suggests dramatic and dangerous changes in policy. Congress should reject a key result of it the request for funds to study a new earth-penetrating nuclear weapon.
The review argues that the US must build a new generation of small nuclear weapons designed to penetrate deep into earth and destroy underground bunkers. The idea is that a nuclear weapon would penetrate so deep that its explosion would be contained, there would be no fallout, and a nuclear weapon that kills fewer people is somehow less nuclear. This is wrong a nuke is a nuke.
The risk to the US incurred by use of nuclear weapons doesn't depend on their sizes. Dangerous states are deterred from nuclear use by the certainty they would invite US nuclear retaliation. This provides the US's best barrier against nuclear use. Any US use of a nuclear weapon would destroy that barrier and US moral leadership. The US would raise the probability that nuclear arms would be used against it.
A penetrating nuclear weapon of the sort the administration plans to study cannot be "clean." The depth the weapon can penetrate before detonating is limited by how hard the bomb or missile can hit the earth and still function. Calculations suggest that, using a weapon with one-third the power of the Hiroshima bomb, 650 feet of earth penetration is needed, but the best available missile technology can achieve far less than 100 feet. Such an explosion would eject large amounts of radioactive dirt.
We could get deeper penetration by landing troops above the bunker and boring a hole in the ground. But if we are to do that, we can use advanced conventional explosives or incendiary weapons to do the job.
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Memories as old as Babylon, hopes and fears as new as the headlines out of Baghdad, all blend together in the living history of Iraq’s Jews.
Eileen Khalastchy, 70, remembers falling asleep on the roof of her house near the Tigris River as a child in the 1950s, listening to “the sound of music and of people clapping; the sky was full of stars.” Now living in Britain, she longs to go back to Iraq, she says. Edwin Shuker, 48, member of the World Sephardic Congress, recalls living as if “we were in a big, virtual concentration camp” in Iraq in 1971. He was 16 when his family fled north through the mountains to freedom. “We were willing to lose everything,” he says. “You felt you were going to die anyway.” Yet he, too, wanted to return, and last month for a few days he did. “I was unable to control the tears,” he says. As he saw Baghdad from the air, he broke down. “I cried for our whole life, for our community, now dispersed all over the world, for all the people killed by Saddam Hussein.”
As the United States moved to oust the Iraqi dictatorship earlier this year, many partisans of the war imagined it would create a new Middle East where Israel could survive in security, where borders would open, trade would flourish. Even the road to peace among Israelis and Palestinians would go through Baghdad, it was said, as the city would become an example of prosperity, tolerance and coexistence. After all, less than a century ago a quarter of the city’s population was Jewish, and among their hundreds of thousands of descendants, many dared imagine they could visit their old homes, perhaps reclaim their birthrights, even build new businesses.
But Emad Levy, 38, who was born and raised in Baghdad and lives there still as the “acting rabbi” of a community that has dwindled to 26 people, shares neither the exiles’ nostalgia, nor any grand hopes for what’s to come. “We have no future here, believe me,” he says. Levy’s 82-year-old father was given the chance to leave with five other aging Jews in July, aboard a secret charter flight direct from Baghdad International to Ben-Gurion Airport. “Later I will follow,” says Levy, after he has sold off the house and other assets too difficult to take with him.
In the harsh reality of today’s Iraq, those Jews who remain are much freer than they were under Saddam, who watched them all as potential spies. But they say the remnants of their culture are in greater danger now, and so are their lives. Baghdad’s last open synagogue, behind a high wall in the district of Bataween, was locked and shuttered about two weeks before the American invasion began, and has not been used for regular services since. “We cannot let anybody enter the synagogue,” Levy explains, “because the neighbors see people and say, ‘They are Zionists.’ And, then, it is so easy to throw a bomb over the wall.”
The community has lived through millennia of persecutions and prosperity, panic, hope and despair. “We have been here for 2,600 years, from the time of Nebuchadnezzar,” says Levy, when the Babylonian tyrant carried thousands of Jews from Jerusalem into exile. (“By the rivers of Babylon,” says the psalm, “there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”) But they could not survive the frightening tumult of an Arab world inflamed for more than 60 years by anger against modern Zionism. And it’s that deeply cultivated hatred, now stoked again by television images of Israeli-Palestinian warfare, that makes high-minded plans to transform the region seem so remote from the reality on the ground.
"The people here, they blame everything on the Jews,” says Levy. He should know: his family persevered in Iraq as virtually all other Jews left. His father was alive to witness the atrocities committed against Iraq’s Jewish community in 1941, when hundreds were killed in riots. After 1948, more than 100,000 Jews left everything they had and fled to the new state of Israel. Perhaps 6,000 remained, among them the wealthiest. But a series of mysterious bombings persuaded most of those to leave as well in the early 1950s. The rage that followed Israel’s lightening victory in the 1967 war, then the rise of Saddam’s lethally paranoid regime and the public hanging of alleged Zionist spies, pared the community down to hundreds, then scores, and now only those couple of dozen who are left. Most are in their 70s or 80s. There’s not a single woman for Levy to marry.
Many Jews in Israel, Europe and the United States want to face down the hatred in Iraq. “There is a trend to demonize the Jew, and it has to be confronted,” says Shuker. “If we are fearful and we don’t do something about it, then we are contributors, too.” Author Joseph Braude, an American of Iraqi Jewish decent, argues that “exiles serve as an important bridge of mentality between their past country and their new country.”
But every report of Israeli business initiatives in Iraq, often in partnership with Jordanian or Turkish companies, feeds rumors on the street that the U.S. occupation is a Zionist plot to take the country away from the Arabs. Stories about a firm called the Iraqi International Law Group (IILG), for instance, are an anti-American propagandist’s dream: its president is Salem (Sam) Chalabi, nephew of Iraqi Governing Council member, Ahmad Chalabi, a Pentagon favorite. One of the partners of the company is Marc Zell, an American-born Israeli and outspoken advocate of the settler movement in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
In July, Shiite cleric Ayatollah Kazem al-Husseini al-Haieri issued a fatwa demanding death for Jews who bought property in Iraq. Members of the so-called Army of Mohammed, one of the guerrilla groups attacking Americans, told NEWSWEEK they see their battle as one against Zionists as much as the United States. The 25-member Iraqi Governing Council, hand-picked by the United States, itself issued a statement last week flatly condemning Israel for bombing “the neighboring sister country Syria” in retaliation for the suicide bombing in Haifa.
“The people here are very angry,” says Levy one afternoon in the living room of the rambling house he’s getting ready to leave behind. The perceived symmetry between the U.S. occupation and Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands, he said, was a particular sore point: “They do not like to be turned into Palestinians.” And what of the Jews who dream of a land of promise, if not a promised land, in Iraq? Jews of Iraqi descent ” think that they would like to be in Iraq again,” says Levy. “They think that it is life in the 1950s, not the life that it is now.” Such dreams are easier to nurture, it seems, far away from the reality of today’s Iraq.
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In late July, Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, received a handwritten postcard from overseas, signed “An Army Soldier.”
“I will still be deployed in Afghanistan on 20 Sept., when [don’t ask, don’t tell] is finally repealed,” the soldier wrote. “It will take a huge burden off my shoulders — a combat zone is stressful enough on its own.”
That the soldier had to sign the postcard anonymously to thank her for working to scrap the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, Collins said, spoke volumes about what was at stake.
“It is touching,” Collins told the Bangor Daily News on Monday, the afternoon before the repeal of the military policy goes into effect. “It is touching because he took the time to thank me, but it’s also touching that he couldn’t sign his real name. Here this soldier is, serving in Afghanistan. It is I who should be thanking him for his duty. It’s our country who should be thanking him, instead of making him fear that if he’s discovered as gay, he’ll lose his job.”
The repeal of the Clinton-era don’t ask, don’t tell policy takes effect on Tuesday, allowing for the first time openly gay and lesbian individuals to serve in the United States military.
Since 1993, the policy prevented the military from inquiring about its members’ sexual orientations, but if the military discovered by other means that the members were homosexual, those members would be discharged.
On Tuesday night, the Washington, D.C.-based Log Cabin Republicans are slated to honor Collins with the group’s Spirit of Lincoln Award. The Log Cabin Republicans is an organization of Republicans focused on advocating for equality for gays and lesbians.
Collins also has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign and by Equality Maine, but Christian Berle, deputy executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans, said her work on the issue remains largely unnoticed by the public at large.
Collins and independent Sen. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut are credited with pushing the repeal of don’t ask, don’t tell as a standalone bill in December of last year after partisan gridlock blocked progress of a larger Defense Authorization Act, in which the repeal previously had been a provision.
“To this day, I talk to people who don’t understand how Herculean a task she had in getting this to happen,” Berle, a Portland native, told the Bangor Daily News. “Her role and her achievements have been overlooked, consistently.”
The repeal bill specified that the policy would remain in place until 60 days after the president, defense secretary and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certified that doing away with the provision would not hurt military readiness. They did so in late July, and Tuesday the policy ends.
Collins called the bill she championed with Lieberman a “breakthrough” in the repeal effort, bringing the issue above the political fray surrounding the larger defense bill.
Berle said Collins spent many nights “burning the midnight oil” meeting with fellow Senate Republicans — such as Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mark Kirk of Illinois — to seek votes in support of the repeal.
“I felt strongly that this was a matter of justice and of our country not losing the talents of patriotic Americans wanting to serve,” she told the Bangor Daily News. “It was difficult that my friend, Sen. John McCain [R-Ariz.] was on the opposite side fighting passionately about this issue. It represents an historic change for our military and our country. Starting tomorrow, we’ll welcome the service of any qualified individual, regardless of sexual orientation, to put on the uniform and fight for our country.”
The senator credited a letter she received from retired Navy Rear Adm. Charles “Chick” Rauch of Glenburn in 2007 for getting her to actively think about the issue.
“He wrote about serving with sailors under his command who he knew to be gay or lesbian, and he always felt bad they had to hide such essential facts about themselves,” Collins said of the letter.
“Society’s changed,” Rauch said Monday. “A lot of my contemporaries did not like the idea of people who were openly gay serving with them, and in fact probably didn’t even know there were people serving with them who were gay. But we did, and they did good jobs.
“The thing that got to me [at the time of the letter] was that we were having such a hard time recruiting … we were reducing our standards,” he continued. “At the same time, we were eliminating from the service people who were perfectly fine military people who were very talented and interested in serving their country.”
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, another organization advocating for the repeal, claims that 14,500 military members have been fired for being open homosexuals since don’t ask, don’t tell was passed in 1993.
“It’s going to be interesting to see how many of the 14,000 service members who have been fired from the military [for being gay or lesbian] attempt to rejoin the military,” Collins said Monday.
Others, she noted, will simply stay there. The unnamed Army Soldier from the postcard wrote that he’ll repay Collins’ “courage” with “continued professionalism.”
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1. Eat a Snack Before You Go
The biggest mistake you could make is going to a sporting event on an empty stomach! It will be really difficult to make good choices when you are starving and surrounded by the tantalizing aromas of junk food. Before you go to your sporting event, have a healthy snack such as a protein shake that will fill you up and provide your body with nutrients and energy for your day. If you eat something before the game, you won’t be as tempted to buy a greasy hot dog or buttery bag of popcorn. You’ll save calories AND money!
2. Two Cooler Method
Yes, we know what you’re thinking: “I already have a suburban-size inventory of things to bring, so please don’t add anything else!” It may seem like a lot to ask, but since you’re most likely going to be packing a cooler for the field anyway, just add a second cooler full of nutritious goodies. Fill it with easy snacks such as oranges, carrot sticks, apples and cheese. Bonus points if you unpackage the items and stick them in reusable containers for quick grabbing. Grab coolers and other supplies for a day on the field at our local Academy Sports + Outdoors!
3. Protein, Protein, Protein
Pack easy-to-tote snacks filled with protein to power your active player. Peanut butter or almond butter mixed with a low-sugar jelly make the perfect sandwiches that are quick to assemble. If you have nut allergy concerns, roll turkey and cheese together, then slice into pieces for bite-size ease. Add pretzels instead of greasy chips, and top it off with cold water or your favorite sports drink. Your player will feel better on and off the field with these healthier alternatives.
4. On-the-Go Dining
No time to prep before your tournament? Need a quick and healthy meal after a long day on the field? Don’t worry. We've got you covered. Many of our sponsor restaurants make it easy with grab-and-go choices and advanced ordering options. Some of them even offer delivery! How awesome is this? Not only do you get amazing food fast, but you have a wonderful variety of food styles to choose from.
With options like these, eating healthy at your next tournament will be a breeze! | <urn:uuid:abaf5846-5ba7-4051-90ed-1ac035b1481f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gulfshores.com/sports/blog/healthy-eating-at-sporting-events-in-alabama/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.927607 | 491 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Corrosion Protection Technology Minimizes Formation of Corrosive Amine Salts
GE announced a new corrosion protection technology designed for refinery boiler and steam condensate systems. GE’s Steamate low salt amine (LSA) product series was designed to provide enhanced steam-side corrosion protection with greater reliability to the crude unit distillation process.
Water quality can significantly affect refinery operations, including boilers, cooling units and heat recovery systems, having a direct impact on the equipment. GE’s Steamate LSA product series is made up of proprietary blends of volatile amines in combination with GE’s polyamine surface corrosion inhibitor. This new technology provides corrosion protection of refinery boiler and steam-condensate systems, while minimizing the potential for formation of corrosive amine salts in crude distillation units where utility steam is used in crude processing.
Corrosion can threaten the reliability and safety of critical refinery equipment, raise maintenance costs, reduce process runtime and jeopardize product quality. In addition, corrosion control is becoming more important as refiners around the world turn to lower-cost "opportunity" crude oil feedstocks and often work to maximize middle distillate production. The GE Steamate LSA series offers a dual-corrosion protection feature with a neutralizing amine package in combination with the polyamine surface corrosion inhibitor. | <urn:uuid:75980c16-68f3-4862-8e13-60df6f8afef1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/vendors/products/2013/corrosion-protection-technology-minimizes-formation-of-corrosive-amine-salts-/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907372 | 278 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Women in the prime of their lives often grieve when they lose a child, especially in the case of an infant or toddler. When friends and family members hear about such a loss, they want to help in any way possible, but it can be difficult to know what to do when you don’t have experience with grieving mothers or grieving in general. Here are three ways you can provide emotional support for a grieving mother that will help her feel better after the initial shock of losing her child has passed.
A grieving mother may feel distant from friends and family, but it’s important that she doesn’t feel disconnected. One way you can help is by offering your undivided attention in whatever capacity you’re able. A grieving mother may need someone to simply sit with her and listen while she talks about her loved one. She may also just need some company when she visits her friend or relative’s gravesite, so plan on spending time with her when appropriate. Whether it means setting aside several hours of one day or planning an hour of each week, you can offer your time in whatever form works best.
Give her a special gift
If your friend or family member is grieving, give her something that brings her some joy. This doesn’t mean spending lots of money on expensive presents; it means thinking of something she loves and giving it to her as a reminder that she is important and loved. Perhaps you can give your mother-in-law one of her favorite candies or flowers. A lot of times, we don’t know what would bring someone joy because we aren’t always close with them, but we may have an idea if we spend time getting to know them better. Try sharing photos from their favorite vacations with them or a special gift box curated for this type of loss such as bereavement gifts for moms.
Give her space
When someone is grieving, they need time and space to grieve in their own way. If you really want to help, give them room to deal with things in their own way. Don’t force your suggestions or opinions on them when you know they aren’t ready. Instead, offer your support in whatever form is best for them—whether that means being physically present or giving her some breathing room by going out of town. Give her time. Everyone deals with grief differently and at different paces, so no matter how much time has passed since a loss, it can still be too soon for others to talk about it with a grieving person.
No matter what you do, it’s important to remember that there is no right way to provide emotional support. The most valuable thing you can do as a friend or family member is just be there—and let mom know she’s not alone. If you’re unsure how best to help, ask her directly about what she needs from you and listen intently as she responds. | <urn:uuid:ff73121e-3153-4423-9abb-3dc65f998db2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://coolmomsrule.com/3-things-you-can-do-for-a-grieving-mom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.974168 | 606 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Combining Indirect Observations and Models to Resolve Spatiotemporal Patterns of Precipitation in Complex Terrain
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Mountain precipitation in the Western United States is critical for the water resources of the region, but resolving spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation in complex terrain is challenging due to lack of observations, measurement uncertainty and high spatial variability. We examine several gridded precipitation datasets over the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, and find that these widely-used products exhibit substantial variation in water-year total precipitation over different areas of the range. In addition, trends in precipitation and snow computed from different datasets vary substantially. Both findings suggest that further work is needed to better resolve spatial and temporal patterns of precipitation in complex terrain. Streamflow observations are widely made and reflect the basin’s hydrologic response to precipitation input. We develop a methodology for inferring basin-mean precipitation using lumped hydrologic models and Bayesian model calibration, which infers water-year total precipitation given daily streamflow observations. We apply this approach to several basins around Yosemite National Park in the Sierra Nevada in order to assess the sensitivity and robustness of inferred precipitation. We find that patterns of precipitation can be inferred from streamflow, both in terms of spatial and year-to-year variability. However, by using a small ensemble of hydrologic model structures to test the sensitivity of inferred precipitation, we also show that the absolute amounts of inferred precipitation are subject to significant uncertainty. Higher-elevation basins of the Sierra Nevada are hydrologically snow-dominated, and we hypothesize that the uncertainty in inferred precipitation can be reduced by calibrating the hydrologic model to both snow and streamflow observations. We leverage the recent availability of a high-resolution distributed snow dataset from the Airborne Snow Observatory (ASO) to determine basin-mean snow water equivalent (SWE) over the upper Tuolumne River basin. We also compare point and distributed SWE measurements over the basin, to assess the reliability of using point measurements to estimate basin-mean SWE. In this case, point measurements show bias in estimating basin-mean ASO SWE, largely due to non-representative sampling with respect to elevation. When basin-mean SWE is included with streamflow in model calibration, uncertainty in inferred precipitation is reduced by up to half, and model ensemble consistency is improved. To resolve patterns of precipitation over the Sierra Nevada, we infer precipitation from streamflow using 56 stream gauges that measure runoff from relatively unimpaired basins, over 1950-2010. We compare inferred precipitation to gauge-based gridded precipitation data, finding that significant differences exist between the mean spatial patterns of precipitation over the range. In particular, inferred precipitation suggests that gridded products underestimate precipitation for higher-elevation basins whose aspect faces prevailing winds. Better agreement is found in lower-elevation and leeward basins. Collectively, the findings suggest that the development of spatially distributed precipitation datasets should not consider precipitation gauge data in isolation, but should also consider other related hydrologic observations in order to better resolve patterns of precipitation in complex terrain.
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Since the first wave of COVID-19 patients fluttered through our healthcare systems, managing patient’s anemia plays a critical role in providing communities with essential medical care, while helping to avoid critical blood shortages. When blood shortages are unavoidable hospitals need a comprehensive strategy and procedure in place to reduce the use of blood products when clinically acceptable.
Important steps we have seen clinical leadership take to manage anemia have included:
- Inpatient transfusion algorithms
- Alerting physicians to not transfuse asymptomatic anemia (for Hgb > 7),
- Transfuse patients with symptoms, active bleeding or very high risk for acute coronary syndrome only.
- Restrictive blood ordering unless active bleeding is present, consideration of IV iron within specific parameters, suggest all transfusions undergo critical review by transfusions services for the ordering provider, nursing and lab staff.
Communication between transfusion services and blood supplier is also critical. We suggest the hospital appoint a “transfusion services liaison” who would manage the relationship with the contracted blood supplier and coordinate hospital communication on the availability and timing of blood product delivery. The teams should establish streamlined mechanisms of information exchange (electronic) between blood center collections/distribution and hospital transfusion services/blood bank on a daily basis (pre-delivery) and in preparation for following days blood collections and distribution of blood products. This communication will ensure that all decisions related to patient prioritization (e.g. adapted admission HgB and discharge criteria, triage methods for red cells, prevention and control measures) are communicated to all relevant staff and stakeholders based on blood supply availability and ensure the availability of reliable and sustainable emergency blood product those who are in the most critical need. | <urn:uuid:d445ea32-8c08-4992-ade9-f9c4a060610a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthcareperformanceinsider.com/anemia-management-and-covid-19-managing-patients-and-blood-inventory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.904628 | 352 | 2.421875 | 2 |
(Last Updated on : 24/01/2015)
23 degree 20 Taurus - 06 degree 40 Gemini
Soma, the Moon God.
Deer (Antelopes) head.
vay, vo, kaa, ke.
moksha (spiritual liberation).
Ruling body parts:
Face, Chin, Cheeks, Larynx, Palate, Throat, Vocal Chord, Arms, Shoulders, Thymus Gland and Upper Ribs.
Mrigashira Nakshatra comes under the domain of planet Venus (Taurus 23 degree 20) and Mercury (Gemini 06 degree 40) ruled by planet Mars. It consists of three faint stars near the head of constellation of Orion. Mrigashira is the fifth Nakshatra called "The Searching Star" marking the beginning of search, the ruling planet mars reflecting the spiritual warrior searching for truth. The first half of the Mrigashira is placed in the constellation of Taurus
the bull. This part is ruled by Venus is very creative; the native is very poetic and have musical talent. This is very good for producing beautiful and creative things. The second half of Mrigashira which resides in Gemini
is very good in writing, and public speaking. The person may also be very clever, curious and research oriented. The symbol for Mrigashira is an antelopes head. Antelope is elusive, quick, graceful, agile, and represented as a golden deer. Thus it can be a search for the golden deer that gets caught in the form of comforts and pleasures of worldly life chasing after non-existent things that can only be held in the moment. People born with this nakshatra prominent often have the face of a deer. Another animal is a female serpent, representing the sensual and seductive nature. Mrigashira represents quick radical change, and searching for enlightenment. This Nakshatra also speaks of Motherly instincts. They are devoted to their mothers.
Seeking comfort and pleasure in life, sensory attachments to strong materialistic things and craving for sensation. A fickle nature may also be observed in the Gemini half of Mrigashira.
The Deity is Soma; the Moon God who imparts the divine nectar of ever-new bliss. It has a Deva temperament and moksha or spiritual liberation as its primary motivation. It is an excellent asterism for research of religious or philosophical truths. The power of Mrigashira is "to give fulfilment". Mrigashira Nakshatra is joyful and makes life more attractive. Main motive is they search to fulfil their desire and enjoy the creation. Mrigashira individuals are gentle, peaceful, sensitive, and perceptive in nature. They are sincere in their behaviour towards others and expect that others should also behave in the same way. They are always curious and so are good travellers, investigators, researchers and collectors and they make good public speakers and communicators.
Legend of Mrigashira Nakshatra
In Hindu mythology a story connected with Mrigashira Nakshatra. This story reveals a shadow side of soma the deity, and his attraction to Jupiters wife Tara. Soma seduced Tara and eloped with her. This caused tremendous uproar which made the Gods intervene and return Tara to Jupiter, however by that time Tara was Pregnant with moons child, the childs name budha or mercury. In the Vedas, it is written, "out of the moon, the mind was born". That is analytical mind of mercury is create out of the perceptual mind of the moon. Jupiter was aware of Budhas illegitimate birth, but Jupiter found Mercury charming and agreed to accept him as his son and decide to father him anyway. From Astrological point of view, this can be interrelated as involvement of sexual seduction, birth of illegitimate child and reunion of family after a mishap. Natives of this nakshatra are pleasure seeking, the way Soma sought after Taras company and they are on a look out for some kind of sensational relationships.
Mrigashira Nakshatra Pada
In each Nakshatra there are 4 padas. The Navamsa is the 1/9 division of the zodiac. Therefore, there is connection between the padas and the navamsa. The signs of the padas give information about the soul of a person.
Pada 1: Falls in Leo Navamsa and is ruled by Sun. This pada has the ability to express its experiences through creative and artistic activities.
Pada 2: Falls in Virgo Navamsa ruled by Mercury. This pada represents the discriminatory, calculative, good mental ability, and humorous side of Mrigashira.
Pada 3: Falls in Libra Navamsa ruled by Venus. This pada is related to sociability exploring the mental side of all types of relationships.
Pada 4: Falls in Scorpio Navamsa ruled by Mars. This pada relates to the intellectual, argumentative, suspicious, flaky and whimsical part of this nakshatra. Most of the negative qualities of Mrigashira find expression through this pada. It can function wisely only in evolved souls and through proper guidance.
Ascendant in Mrigashira Nakshatra:
Attractive, seductive nature, mystical, seeker of truth, face of a deer, enthusiastic, talkative, good speech, daring, active mind, mental vacillation, love of travel.
Roles of Planets in Mrigashira Nakshatra
Stars and planets each have a different influence on our lives depending on their position in the horoscope.
Sun: Adventurous, courageous, architect, competitive, leadership, authority figure, poetic, writing skill, jack of all trades, creative, indulgent nature and laziness.
Moon: They are pleasant spoken, intelligent and affectionate to their mother. They are self-sacrificing, sensual and beautiful. They are gentle, tender, peaceful and romantic.
Mars: Strong determination, enthusiastic, stubborn, sensual, high sexy drive, courageous, passionate and risk taking.
Mercury: The mercury in Mrigashira indicates a person who is restless and nervous, and constantly searching for something. Quick, and have beautiful handwriting skills.
Jupiter: Intelligent and knowledge seeking, truthful, handsome, enjoy wealth and prosperity, natural traveller, researcher, and spiritual.
Venus: Indulgent in sensual pleasures, wealthy, beautiful, poetic, interest in music, dance, seductive, fond of good food, and may involve in erotic love affair.
Saturn: Lack efficiency in their work, cunning, arrogant and stubborn. On positive side they often become inclined towards spirituality and seek spiritual depths of life.
Rahu: Rahu will begin, to search for materialistic pleasure. Rahus intellectual search for the answers we seek externally are not enough and at that point the inner journey can start.
Ketu: Ketu in Mrigashira shows a past life where an intellectual search into the realities of life began. This is an opportunity for the soul to give it up its material entanglements and move towards self-realization. | <urn:uuid:5231bb82-1ec2-4abe-a935-196feaa52fcc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.indianetzone.com/15/mrigashira_nakshtra.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00472-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.927035 | 1,500 | 2.1875 | 2 |
802.359.5000 | WILD BIRD REHAB: x510
by Grae O’Toole, Director, Center for Wild Bird Rehabilitation & Emily Curd Guswa, Assistant Professor of Biology at Landmark College
This semester two sections of Principals of Biology 2 learned about cells, sex determination, and DNA technology while helping the Vermont Institute for Natural Science (VINS) learn more about their raptor ambassadors. At first blush, this may seem like an unlikely partnership. Principals of Biology 2 focuses on life below the cellular level, and VINS is an organization that specialized in environmental education and research and avian rehabilitation. However, a lot of environmental and organismal research relies upon genetic tools to solve mysteries hidden in DNA.
Landmark students set out to uncover the mystery of how many sex chromosomes individual birds contain in their cells. Not all birds have external traits that vary by sex. For those species with similar-looking males and females, an easy way to tell them apart is to count sex chromosomes. In Humans, genetic males carry two different sex chromosomes (XY) and genetic females carry two copies of the same sex chromosome (XX). Birds have a different system where males have two copies of the W sex chromosome and females have a single copy of two different chromosomes (WZ). The W and Z chromosome share some of the same genes, and there is variation in those genes between the W and Z chromosome. We can apply standard genetic techniques to differentiate between sex chromosomes.
DNA from a few cells in the quill tip of a flight feather is sufficient to determine sex chromosomes. Over the last month, Landmark students have learned three commonly used techniques to acquire feather DNA and count sex chromosomes: DNA extraction, PCR, and gel electrophoresis. Students learned the chemistry required to successfully crack open cells, capture DNA, and clean it. Students learned PCR theory and technique to successfully generate billions of copies of W and Z chromosome-specific DNA. Finally, students learned how to visualize their amplified DNA with gel-electrophoresis, which separates different-sized DNA and illuminates it with UV light. The end result is a clear image of one or two DNA bands (see the Figure below).
Revealing the sex chromosome number was really exciting! Students were responsible for an individual bird, and could easily identify the sex chromosomes of their bird on the gel. Some had positive controls birds with known sex and others had birds with unknown sex. The students found out if their bird’s sex was known after reading the gel. The truly amazing result is that the genetic sex for all positive control birds matched the results from the gel! The DNA extraction for a few samples failed and that is ok. From this failure, we learned that flight feathers work best for bird sex determination. We tested flight and body feathers for sex chromosomes, and only one body feather sample produced a band. The good news is we can get new material and try again. Science after all is a process, and from this small experiment, we learned a lot!
Gel electrophoresis results for bird sex chromosome determination. The gel images show the number of different sex chromosomes for birds samples SP22_B2_02(02)- SP22_B2_13 (03) (Bird ambassador identities not provided). Positive controls with known sex are indicated by PC-M (male) PC-F (female). 100 base pairs (bp) DNA ladder was used as a DNA size standard and indicates the relative length of DNA in 100 nucleotide bp increments. Samples 05 and 06 were body feather extracts and did not produce bands. The No DNA sample is a negative control where water was added instead of DNA to ensure our reagents were not contaminated.
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Poems about Music
PostedApril 22, 2011
And far into the night he crooned that tune.
The stars went out and so did the moon.
The singer stopped playing and went to bed
While the Weary Blues echoed through his head...
From "The Weary Blues" by Langston Hughes
From the trumpet, pawned, redeemed, pawned again
you formed one wrenching blue arrangement, a phrase
complicated as that twilit dive through smoke, applause...
From "Lost Fugue for Chet" by Lynda Hull
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The criteria for being considered as classical is the style’s adherence to the guidelines laid down in Natyashastra, which explains the Indian art of acting. The Sangeet Natak Akademi currently confers classical status on eight Indian classical dance styles: Bharatanatyam (Tamil Nadu), Kathak (North, West and Central India), Kathakali(Kerala), Kuchipudi (Andhra Pradesh), Odissi (Odissa), Manipuri (Manipur), Mohiniyattam (Kerala), and Sattriya (Assam). All classical dances of India have roots in Hindu arts and religious practices.
1. BHARATNATYAM – TAMIL NADU
- Bharatnatyam dance – where one dancer takes on many roles in a single performance.
- style was kept alive by the devadasis, who were young girls ‘gifted’ by their parents to the temples and who were married to the gods.
- devadasisperformed music and dance as offerings to the deities, in the temple courtyards.
- As a solo dance, Bharatnatyam leans heavily on the abhinaya or mime aspect of dance – the nritya, where the dancer expresses the sahitya through movement and mime.
- varnam– most important composition of the Bharatnatyam repertoire, encompasses both nritta and nritya and epitomises the essence of this classical dance form. Dancer here performs complicated well graded rhythmic patterns in two speeds showing the control over rhythm, and then goes on to depict in a variety of ways, through abhinaya the lines of the sahitya.
- After the strenuousvarnam, the dancer performs a number of abhinaya items expressing a variety of moods.
- bhava or rasa is woven into the sahitya and then expressed by the dancer.
- Bharatnatyam performance ends with atillana which has its origin in the tarana of Hindustani music. The finale of the piece is a series of well designed rhythmic lines reaching a climax. The performance ends with a mangalam invoking the blessings of the Gods.
- The accompanying orchestra consists of a vocalist, a mridangam player, violinist or veena player, a flautist and a cymbal player. The person who conducts the dance recitation is the Nattuvanar.
2. KATHAK- UTTAR PRADESH
- Kathakars or story-tellers, are people who narrate stories largely based on episodes from the epics, myths and legends.
- It probably started as an oral tradition. Mime and gestures were perhaps added later on to make the recitation more effective.
- Vaishnavite cult which swept North India in the 15th century. and the resultant bhakti movement contributed to a whole new range of lyrics and musical forms.
- Dance in Raslila, however, was mainly an extension of the basic mime and gestures of theKathakars or story-tellers which blended easily with the existing traditional dance.
- In both Hindu and Muslim courts, Kathak became highly stylised and came to be regarded as a sophisticated form of entertainment.
- Under the Muslimsthere was a greater stress on nritya and bhava giving the dance graceful, expressive and sensuous dimensions.
- The weight of the body is equally distributed along the horizontal and vertical axis.
- full foot contact is of prime importance where only the toe or the ball of the foot are used, their function is limited.
- no deflections and no use of sharp bends or curves of the upper or lower part of the body.
- Torso movements emerge from the change of the shoulder line rather than through the manipulations of the backbone or upper chest and lower waist muscles.
- Both the drummer (here the drum is either a pakhawaj, a type of mridangam, or a pair of tabla) and the dancer weave endless combinations on a repetitive melodic line.
- A poetic line set to music is interpreted with gestures in other numbers, such as thetumri, bhajan, dadra – all lyrical musical compositions.
- Both innritta (pure dance) and the abhinaya (mime) there is immense scope for improvisation of presenting variations on a theme.
- Being the only classical dance of India having links with Muslim culture, it represents a unique synthesis of Hindu and Muslim genius in art.
- Further, Kathak is the only form of classical dance wedded to Hindustani or the North Indian music.
3. KUCHIPUDI- ANDHRA PRADESH
- ‘At times, even though the dramatic situation did not demand, solo dancing was being presented to punctuate the presentation and to enhance the appeal. One such number istarangam inspired by the Krishna-leela tarangini of Teerthanarayana Yogi.
- To show the dexterity of the dancers in footwork and their control and balance over their bodies, techniques like dancing on the rim of a brass plate and with a pitcher full of water on the head was introduced.
- Acrobatic dancing became part of the repertoire.
- there are now two forms of Kuchipudi; the traditional musical dance-drama and the solo dance.
- A recital of Kuchipudi begins with an invocatory number, as is done in some other classical dance styles. Earlier the invocation was limited toGanesha Vandana. Now other gods are also invoked.
- It is followed bynritta, that is, non-narrative and abstract dancing. A Kuchipudi recital is usually concluded with tarangam.
- music that accompanies the dance is according to the classical school of Carnatic music and is delightfully syncopatic.
- Orchestra- mridangam, violin/veena & cymbal.
4. KATHAKALI- KERALA
- Comparatively recent origin.
- Chakiarkoothu, Koodiyattam,Krishnattam and Ramanattam are few of the ritual performing arts of Kerala which have had a direct influence on Kathakali in its form and technique.
- Kathakali is a blend of dance, music and acting and dramatizes stories, which are mostly adapted from the Indian epics.
- Kathakali is a visual art whereaharya, costume and make-up are suited to the characters, as per the tenets laid down in the Natya Shastra.
- The face of the artist is painted over to appear as though a mask is worn. The lips, the eyelashes and the eyebrows are made to look prominent. A mixture of rice paste and lime is applied to make thechutti on the face which highlights the facial make-up.
- The characters in a Kathakali performance are broadly divided intosatvika, rajasika and tamasika Satvika characters are noble, heroic, generous and refined.
- A large oil-fed lamp is placed in front of the stage and two people hold a curtain calledTirasseela on the stage, the main dancers stand behind it before the performance.
- The technical details cover every part of the body from facial muscles to fingers, eyes, hands and wrists.
- The facial muscles play an important part. The movement of the eyebrows, the eye-balls and the lower eye-lids as described in the Natya Shastra are not used to such an extent in any other dance style.
- The weight of the body is on the outer edges of the feet which are slightly bent and curved.
5. ODISSI- ODISHA
- Archaeological evidence of this dance form dating back to the 2nd century B.C. is found in the caves of Udayagiri and Khandagiri near Bhubaneshwar.
- With Hinduism taking roots in Orissa by about the 7th century A.D., many imposing temples were erected. The Sun Temple at Konarak, built in the 13th century, with itsNatya mandap or Hall of dance, marks the culmination of the temple building activity in Orissa. These dance movements, frozen in stone, continue to inspire Odissi dancers even today.
- Themaharis, who were originally temple dancers came to be employed in royal courts which resulted in the degeneration of the art form. Around this time, a class of boys called gotipuas were trained in the art, they danced in the temples and also for general entertainment. Many of today’s gurus of this style belong to the gotipua
- Facial expressions, hand gestures and body movements are used to suggest a certain feeling, an emotion or one of the ninerasas.
- The techniques of movement are built around the two basic postures of theChowk(above) and the Tribhanga(left). The chowk is a position imitating a square – a very masculine stance with the weight of the body equally balanced. The tribhanga is a very feminine stance where the body is deflected at the neck, torso and the knees.
- With the lower half of the body remaining static, the torso moves from one side to the other along the axis passing through the centre of the upper half of the body. Great training is required for this control so as to avoid any shoulder or hip movement.
- There are certain foot positions with flat, toe or heel contact. These are used in a variety of intricate combinations.
- Almost all leg movements are spiral/circular
- Hand gestures play an important role both innritta where they are used only as decorative embellishments and in nritya where they are used for communication.
- orchestra –pakhawaj , flute, sitar / violin and manjira
- In each performance, even a modern Odissi dancer still reaffirms the faith of thedevadasis or maharis where they sought liberation or moksha through the medium of dance.
6. SATTRIYA- ASSAM
- Introduced in the 15th century A.D by the great Vaishnava saint and reformer of Assam, Mahapurusha Sankaradeva as a powerful medium for propagation of the Vaishnava faith.
- This neo-Vaishnava treasure of Assamese dance and drama has been, for centuries, nurtured and preserved with great commitment by the Sattras ( Vaishnavamaths/monasteries). Because of its religious character & association with the Sattras, it has been aptly named Sattriya.
- There were two dance forms prevalent in Assam before the neo-Vaishnava movement such as Ojapali and Devadasi with many classical elements.
- Two varieties of Ojapali dances are still prevalent in Assam i.e. Sukananni or Maroi Goa Ojah and Vyah Goa Ojah. Sukananni Oja paali is of Shakti cult and Vyah Goa Oja paali is of Vaishnava cult. Sankaradeva included Vyah Goa Ojah into his daily rituals in Sattra. Till now Vyah Goa Ojah is a part of rituals of the Sattras of Assam. The dancers in a Oja paali chorus not only sing and dance but also explain the narration by gestures and stylized movements.
- As far as Devadasi dance is concerned, resemblance of a good number of rhythmic syllables and dance postures along with footwork with Sattriya dance is a clear indication of the influence of the former on the latter.
- Other visible influences on Sattriya dance are those from Assamese folk dances namely Bihu, Bodos etc.
- Sattriya dance tradition is governed by strictly laid down principles in respect ofhastamudras, footworks, aharyas, music etc.
7. MANIPURI- MANIPUR
- Because of its geographical location, the people of Manipur have been protected from outside influences, and this region has been able to retain its unique traditional culture.
- Lai Haraoba(merrymaking of the gods)is one of the main festivals still performed in Manipur which has its roots in the pre-Vaishnavite period. The principal performers are the maibas and maibis (priests and priestesses) who re-enact the theme of the creation of the world.
- With the arrival of Vaishnavism in the 15th century A.D., new compositions based on episodes from the life of Radha and Krishna were gradually introduced.
- Manipur dance has a large repertoire, however, the most popular forms are the Ras, the Sankirtana and the Thang-Ta.
- There are five principal Ras dances of which four are linked with specific seasons, while the fifth can be presented at any time of the year. In Manipuri Ras, the main characters are Radha, Krishna and the
- A short fine white muslin skirt is worn over it. A dark coloured velvet blouse covers the upper part of the body and a traditional white veil is worn over a special hair-do which falls gracefully over the face. Krishna wears a yellow dhoti, a dark velvet jacket and a crown of peacock feathers.
- The Kirtan form of congregational singing accompanies the dance which is known as Sankirtana in Manipur. The male dancers play the Pung and Kartal while dancing. The masculine aspect of dance – the Choloms are a part of the Sankirtana tradition. The Pung and Kartal choloms are performed at all social and religious festivals.
- The martial dancers of Manipur – the Thang-ta – have their origins in the days when man’s survival depended on his ability to defend himself from wild animals.
- The Manipuri classical style of singing is calledNat – very different from both north and south Indian music, this style is immediately recognizable with its high pitched open throated rendering with particular type of trills and modulations.
- The main musical instrument is thePung or the Manipuri classical drum.
- Besides theRas and other leelas, each stage in one’s life is celebrated with Sankirtana performances – child birth, upanayanam, wedding and shradha are all occasions for singing and dancing in Manipur. The whole community participates as song and dance form part of daily life expressions.
8. MOHINIYATTAM- KERALA
- The swaying coconut trees in the gentle breeze is reminiscent of the soft and languorous movements of Mohiniyattam – the feminine classical dance form of Kerala. Literally meaning the Dance of the Enchantress, it is deeply rooted in femininity, GRACE (Lasya) and BEAUTY (Sringara) forming the quintessence of this dance form.
- Of all the classical South Indian styles, Mohiniyattam can be singled out with admirable distinction, for it’s characteristic body movements, marked by the graceful sway of the torso.
- What is unique is the easy going rise and fall of the body, with emphasis mainly on the torso. The movements are never abrupt, but dignified, easy, natural, restrained and yet subtle. The glances, postures, gait employed are so subtle and graceful that they convey the infinite suggestiveness of radiant love.
- The traditional costume worn in Mohiniyattam is white with a gold border, and gold ornaments are worn.
- The unique coiffure with hair gathered on the left side of the head reflect it’s aesthetic appeal, making it distinct from the other dance forms of India.
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President Barack Obama called on Americans to carry forward the spirit of the civil rights movement during a speech in Selma, Alabama, on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the momentous march known as “Bloody Sunday” and the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
"First and foremost, we have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough,” Obama said. “If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done – the American experiment in self-government gives work and purpose to each generation."
Thousands of people arrived in Selma ahead of Obama’s speech, as civil rights leaders and 100 members of Congress sat in attendance. The atmosphere was festive, with vendors selling souvenirs commemorating the violent confrontation that took place decades ago.
Being patriotic, Obama said, does not simply mean singing America's praises.
"Sometimes, it requires the occasional disruption," Obama said. "Selma teaches us, too, that action requires that we shed our cynicism. For when it comes to the pursuit of justice, we can afford neither complacency nor despair."
Obama, the first black president, delivered remarks at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the crackdown on the March 7 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala.
During the march state troopers and police violently attacked hundreds of peaceful protesters as they tried to cross the bridge in an event that would become known as "Bloody Sunday."
"Selma is now. Selma is about the courage of ordinary people doing extraordinary things because they believe they can change the country, that they can shape our nation's destiny," Obama said during a trip to South Carolina on Friday.
The Selma anniversary comes as protesters nationwide condemn what they perceive as persistent racial disparities in the U.S. criminal justice system — a movement sparked by a series of police killings of unarmed black men.
A Department of Justice (DOJ) report released this week accused police in Ferguson of racial bias against the city's black residents. The DOJ, however, did not find a civil rights violation in Brown's death.
FBI Director James Comey said last month that racial bias persists in the U.S. and goes beyond law enforcement. He cited research that pointed to the widespread existence of unconscious bias.
On Saturday Obama said he had been asked if the report showed that, with respect to race in the United States, little had changed in 50 years.
The president rejected the notion, saying, "What happened in Ferguson may not be unique, but it’s no longer endemic, or sanctioned by law and custom; and before the civil rights movement, it most surely was."
"We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America,” said Obama. “If you think nothing’s changed in the past fifty years, ask somebody who lived through the Selma."
Two days after the Bloody Sunday march, Martin Luther King led over 2,000 people back to the bridge, though he kept from crossing it. The bridge that is now seen as one of the most important sites in civil rights history.
Ironically, the bridge is named after Edmund Pettus, a Confederate general and Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. At the time it was built, the bridge was viewed as a tribute to white supremacy. But it has been transformed into a symbol of the struggle for racial equality.
On March 21, 1965, marchers finally crossed the bridge and thousands of other protesters joined along the way to Montgomery, with about 25,000 people entering the state capital.
A few months later, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, ending a century of barriers that prevented African Americans from voting freely.
"It's because they marched that the next generation hasn't been bloodied so much," Obama said in a speech in Selma in 2007 as a presidential hopeful. "It's because they marched that I got the kind of education I got, a law degree, a seat in the Illinois senate and ultimately in the United States senate."
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NASA researchers in Silicon Valley are done talking turkey. They’re taking action.
A flock of turkeys that has taken up residence at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, has become so destructive that wildlife officials have hatched a plan to move them elsewhere.
Though the birds have lived there for several years, a group of them has been wreaking havoc, officials with the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.
Cars, gardens, even people have fallen victim to the birds’ aggression. The flock of about 18 unruly birds has disrupted flights at nearby Moffett Federal Airfield, blocked traffic and made a mess with their droppings, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
The birds are running amok not far from some of the world’s top minds, who are researching aeronautics, exploration technology and science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration facility.
Although the federal space agency said in a statement that the growing population of turkeys poses “minimal impact to the NASA community,” officials confirmed that the birds were being moved to an ecological reserve “to roam freely.”
“This measure protects the safety and well-being of the turkeys, as well as the Ames community and workforce,” NASA said in the statement.
It appears people have been feeding the birds, despite a “no feeding the wildlife” policy at the site, according to Tanya Espinosa, a Department of Agriculture spokesperson. About 30 turkeys are regularly seen in the area.
For all animals, feeding creates a link between humans and food, and they “often become more aggressive towards humans in their search for a meal,” Espinosa said in an email.
Now there’s a plan to trap the nuisance fowl and drive them to the roughly 3,000-acre San Antonio Valley Ecological Reserve, where they will presumably live out their days, according to officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which is providing the release site.
If it sounds unusual — well, it is.
“Normally we don’t go around relocating turkeys,” said Ken Paglia, a spokesperson for the wildlife agency. But in this situation, he said, it’s the right call.
Time is of the essence. It’s key to nab the turkeys before they begin nesting, or they’ll grow in ranks. But it’s also important to allow them to nest at the correct time.
“This will help ensure that the young turkeys don’t learn from older turkeys in regard to damaging cars and landscaping,” Espinosa said.
But there’s a problem: When people feed the wild birds, it interferes with the complex trapping efforts, Espinosa said.
To trap them, certain areas are baited with corn or similar food for several weeks “to encourage the turkeys to congregate in specific areas,” she said.
Once the animals come to the site several days in a row, a walk-in corral trap is built with a detachable funnel entrance that permits the birds to go in but makes it more difficult for them to find their way back out.
The trap is baited, and the detachable funnel is left off. After the turkeys habitually go into the trap to feed, the funnel is put on.
Once corralled, the birds will undergo a blood draw, as well as an oral and cloacal swab. They will be banded, their age and sex data will be collected, and they will be tested for diseases.
Finally, the birds will be placed individually into “turkey boxes” and transported to their new home. Measures will be taken at each step “to ensure the safety of the birds and reduce any stress,” Espinosa said.
One of the main reasons the USDA is taking the lead on the relocation is that the department employs licensed trappers “whose job it is to professionally and safely and humanely trap animals,” Paglia said.
Every year, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife gets complaints about turkeys. Usually they’re ripping up property with their beaks.
“It’s not the biggest issue out there, but it’s definitely an issue,” Paglia said. “It’s something that we deal with on a somewhat consistent basis.”
Moving wildlife is not typically the department’s course of action; it requires substantial resources of time and manpower, and sometimes it just shifts the problem elsewhere.
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Safety Training Awards is the awarding organisation of The Swimming Teachers’ Association, an independent registered charity and national governing body for swimming and lifesaving founded in 1932 with more than 12,000 members, whose objective is:
The preservation of human life by the teaching of swimming, lifesaving and survival techniques.
As an awarding organisation, Safety Training Awards offers and certificates vocational qualifications across a range of swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid, health and safety and pool plant disciplines. These qualifications are designed to meet both legal requirements and national occupational standards for various industries.
Safety Training Awards is also a CIMSPA Awarding Organisation Partner with many qualifications endorsed too, including all the Level 2 and Level 3 aquatic qualifications and first aid qualifications.
On top of this, Safety Training Awards also provides an extensive continuing professional development (CPD) programme to support leisure industry professionals with updating their knowledge and skills after gaining their qualifications.
Safety Training Awards Regulation
Safety Training Awards is regulated or accredited by the following awarding organisation regulators:
The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual)
Ofqual is an independent organisation which reports directly to the UK Parliament. They are responsible for the regulation of qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, maintaining standards and confidence in vocational qualifications. STA offer a range of swimming teaching, lifesaving, first aid, health and safety and pool plant qualifications which are on Ofqual’s Register of Regulated Qualifications at levels 1-4.
Qualifications Wales is the regulator of non-degree qualifications and the qualifications system in Wales. It is a Welsh Government sponsored body, independent of government, and is accountable to the National Assembly for Wales.
Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) Accreditation
SQA Accreditation regulates approved awarding bodies and their qualifications in Scotland. They are responsible for safeguarding the interests of learners, employers, parents, funding bodies and the Scottish Government. | <urn:uuid:c7decb45-7449-425d-a1a8-64a0b05ffe60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.safetytrainingawards.co.uk/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.946661 | 396 | 1.820313 | 2 |
At Epson, we have always exercised creativity and have challenged ourselves to deliver products and services that exceed the expectations of our customers around the world. We have done this by drawing on the efficient, compact, and precision technologies we have developed since the company was founded. In 2016, we formulated the Epson 25 Corporate Vision, which described how we wanted Epson to be in ten years and mapped out actions and a path to get there.
In recent times, humans have faced crises such as climate change and the coronavirus pandemic. People have always sought enrichment, but I believe that many of the issues we are facing may have been caused by a desire for personal affluence at the expense of others. I think the world desires more than just material and economic wealth. People also want other, less tangible forms of wealth. They want to be enriched spiritually and culturally. Sustainability is a fundamental requirement for achieving this. Epson is committed to achieving sustainability and enriching communities by working with customers and partners. To that end, we renewed Epson 25 in March 2021.
In Epson 25 Renewed, we have redefined the primary materialities (priority issues as a corporation) as achieving sustainability in a circular economy, advancing the frontiers of industry, and improving the quality of life. We will address these materialities by driving innovation in five areas: office and home printing, commercial and industrial printing, manufacturing, visuals, and lifestyle. Epson's inkjet technology and other efficient, compact, and precision technologies reduce environmental impacts and increase productivity. I believe that these technologies, along with the new value they create, can play a major role in solving societal issues and in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. In addition, we will co-create sustainability and enrich communities by connecting people, things and information through digital technologies.
Epson, long a strong proponent of environmental action, has also revised Environmental Vision 2050. Our stated goals are to become carbon negative and underground resource-free by 2050.1
1 Underground resources are non-renewable resources such as oil and metals.
The actions we take will help to make the world a better place.
President and CEO
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The global development of badminton means that tournaments are being hosted in nearly every part of the world. Badminton players are travelling further and to more exotic locations to compete and train.
It is important that players and the entourage (coaches, team managers, supporters) follow some basic advice around preparing for travel and travelling.
Being fit and healthy so that you can perform your best on court is the most important thing so you should take some basic precautions on health and safety when travelling.
Some basic starting points are:
– read travel advisories published by your government
– make sure your association and your family know your travel itinerary
– ensure you have travel insurance that covers health, hospitalization and loss of personal items
– if you are using medications – take your own supply with you
– take basic precautions around food and water safety.
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