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Russia breaks ground on new gas pipeline to China
Russia launched construction Monday of a 770 billion ruble ($20.8 bn) gas pipeline that will help bring gas from the far east of the country to China.
“We are today starting the biggest construction project in the world,” President Vladimir Putin said at the ceremonial joining of the first sections of the 3,968-kilometre (2,466-mile) Siberian Strength pipeline outside the eastern Siberian city of Yakutsk.
“But it is not about records, it is the fact that it is an extremely important project for the Russian Federation and for the People’s Republic of China,” he said, according to comments broadcast on national TV.
China’s Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli, who was also in attendance at the ceremony, said he hoped the pipeline would be completed within four years.
“China already plans in the first half of next year to start building the Chinese section of the pipeline and we should make an effort to complete construction and begin exploitation of the pipeline in 2018,” he said.
In May the two countries signed a 30-year deal which will eventually see Russia supplying China with 38 billion cubic metres of gas per year, an agreement worth some $400 billion.
The pipeline, which will have a total capacity of 61 billion cubic metres per year, will also link the gas fields in Yakustsk and Irkustsk to cities across the Russian far east.
Putin said earlier that the project would allow for increased hydrocarbon exports and was “also a major step forward in the gasification of our own country.”
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"The Invasion of the Sphinx Creatures": Diana Prince is working in her office when she gets a distress call from Steve Trevor asking for Wonder Woman's help. Quickly changing and flying off in her robot plane, lassoing Steve from an airfield and pulling him aboard. He tells her they need to go t
Appearing in "The Invasion of the Sphinx Creatures"
- Queen Mikra (Only appearance; dies)
- Field X-1
- Washington, D.C.
Synopsis for "The Invasion of the Sphinx Creatures"
Diana Prince is working in her office when she gets a distress call from Steve Trevor asking for Wonder Woman's help. Quickly changing and flying off in her robot plane, lassoing Steve from an airfield and pulling him aboard. He tells her they need to go to the Desert of the Sphinx's in order to prevent a space capsule from crash landing in the desert. Rushing there in her super-sonic jet, Wonder Woman helps redirect the capsule into the nearby bay where it is safely recovered.
Deciding to take some time to visit this new land, Wonder Woman and Steve walks it's markets. There an old shop keeper points out that Wonder Woman resembles an ancient ruler of the land named Queen Mirka. He tells them of an old prophecy that foretells that upon the return of the queen the Sphinxes in the desert would come back to life. Dismissing this as local superstition, and Wonder Woman's uncanny resemblance to Queen Mirka a coincidence the couple decides to travel the desert on camels. To their surprise, when they pass the legendary sphinx, the stone structure comes to life and knocks Steve out. Using mystical rays to make Wonder Woman feel numb, the sphinx takes her prisoner, thinking that she is Queen Mirka. As per their masters instructions before her slumber, she had ordered the sphinxes to rise up and take over all the lands around the desert.
To Wonder Woman's surprise other sphinx like structures come to life to carry out this goal as well, and easily fight off the local air force that attempts to stop them. Trying to get these creatures to destroy themselves, Wonder Woman tricks two of the sphinxes to fight each other. This plot works in destroying at least one of them, but not swaying their mission of conquest. Returning to the queen's temple, the sphinx creatures are surprised to see that the true Queen Mirka had remain undiscovered and use their powers to revive her. Wonder Woman reveals her true identity to Queen Mirka and begs her to cast off her goals of conquest. Mirka refuses and orders her faithful minions to trap Wonder Woman in a pyramid made of the remains of their destroyed comrade. They comply and then go off to take over the world. Wonder Woman, however, manages to break free and uses the block to reassemble the sphinx that was destroyed earlier.
Thankful at being granted a second life, the sphinx agrees to help Wonder Woman, fighting his former comrades until they are all destroyed. Furious Queen Mirka battles Wonder Woman, however, the ages catch up to the would be conqueror and she begins to rapidly age until she crumbles to dust. With the threat of Queen Mirka over with, Wonder Woman picks up Steve Trevor and they return to the United States, Wonder Woman telling him she's had her fill of the mysteries of the world for now.
Appearing in "Wonder Girl's Birthday Party"
- Wonder Girl (Diana) (also as Wonder Tot in flashback only)
- Giant Roc
Synopsis for "Wonder Girl's Birthday Party"
It is Wonder Girl's birthday and the Amazons of Paradise Island are throwing a birthday party of their favorite daughter. During the celebrations, Queen Hippolyta recollects Wonder Girl's second birthday, where her super-human strength made her blow her birthday cake clear into orbit where it would circle around the Earth, much to the little tot's dismay. This brings about a series of recollections of how, without fair, almost all of Wonder Girl's past birthdays ended in disaster.
On her fourth birthday, an earthquake would cause the temple to crumble, crushing her cake under it's remains. On her sixth birthday her birthday cake would get sucked up in a tornado. In this instance, Wonder Girl would manage to save the cake, only to stumble on her feet and do a face-plant into it.
This year, with no disasters forthcoming the Amazons bring out Wonder Girl's birthday cake. However it is grabbed by a Roc. When Wonder Girl attempts to get her cake back, the Roc drops it into the ocean and it becomes the next meal of a passing whale. Upset, Wonder Girl returns to the surface with a single birthday candle, all that is left of her cake. Witnessing this, Queen Hippolyta offers Wonder Girl a bright side to this: at least her ordeals to save her birthday cake each year would go down in the Amazonian history books.
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Twitter has been taking social media hate comments very seriously. It has updated its hate speech policies that ban dehumanizing remarks. Remarks based on age, disability or disease where such people are treated unequally. These changes had been updated in July in the company’s policies. They also stated that Twitter would be removing Tweets that dehumanize religious groups.
Prior to this recent event, Twitter had issued a major ban in 2018 on a dehumanizing speech in support of its existing hate speech policies. These policies protected discrimination against race and gender. Twitter had been updating these policies in light of events that they had failed to address according to user feedback.
The company also stated that the tweets posted before the 5th of March,2020 would be removed but the respective accounts would not be suspended. Twitter had introduced these policies in September 2018.
At that time Twitter had asked for feedback and had received more than 8000 responses across 30 countries in a mere span of 2 weeks.
Twitter feels that many minorities and other people would benefit from this policy.
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Yuc.izzd-1a intelligent dynamic triaxial tester
1、 Test preparation
1. Prepare the soil sample for the experiment, put the latex membrane into the membrane cylinder, draw out the air in the membrane to make the membrane close to the inner wall, put the soil sample in, open the switch at the interface of the membrane cylinder to let the air in, put down the latex membrane at both ends, and take out the soil sample wrapped by the latex membrane;
2. Using the back pressure system, exhaust the base and upper cap of soil sample, and place filter paper and permeable stone;
3. The soil sample is aligned with the soil sample base, and the latex film is put down to fit the soil sample base; the upper cap is placed at the upper end, and the latex film is put down to fit the upper cap, and the circular fan-shaped latex film is placed on the upper cap;
4. The base and top cap of the soil sample shall be respectively tied with leather bars to avoid air leakage;
5. Clean the sealing ring of the pressure chamber base and place the plexiglass cover;
6. Clean the sealing ring of the upper cover of the pressure chamber and place it on the plexiglass cover; tighten the locking screw;
7. Respectively connect the water pipes of confining pressure, back pressure and water inlet.
2、 Operation steps
1. Close the vent valve on the upper cover of the pressure chamber, start to apply the confining pressure to make the soil sample consolidated;
2. After consolidation, the display of the underwater sensor returns to zero. Adjust the nut on the pressure transmitting rod or the height of the loading system to make the underwater sensor fit the cap on the soil sample. After binding, the underwater sensor displays a negative value at this time. Continue to adjust the nut on the pressure transmitting rod to make the underwater sensor display zero;
3. Set various test parameters, start to apply confining pressure, and observe whether there is air leakage (water) at each interface;
4. Carry out consolidation drainage, compression test and vibration test according to relevant test procedures.
3、 System control
1. Turn on the computer, run the test software, set the relevant parameters on the software interface, and start the test,
2. After the test, upload the data, observe the test data and curves, process the test data, calculate the dynamic modulus of elasticity, dynamic damping ratio and other coefficients, and draw the hysteresis loop;
3. Output and print the test results when necessary;
4. After the test, turn off the water, electricity and air source, take out the soil sample and clean the container.
1. The test personnel shall operate according to the test procedures;
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[CentOS] Wheel and YUM!!
dean.plant at roke.co.uk
Fri Jun 27 08:48:00 UTC 2008
Ian Blackwell wrote:
> Plant, Dean wrote:
>> I see your trying to protect your users from becoming root. You do
>> realise that with that sudo configuration a user can still run "sudo
>> /bin/bash" or any of the other shells to gain root access.
> Hi Dean,
> I don't think that's correct. One of the purposes of the sudoers file
> is you can limit users to specific programs, excluding them from
> others. This entry, which I just tested in my CentOS5.2 box, allows
> the user tldap to use yum, but not /bin/bash:-
> tldap ALL=/usr/bin/yum
> Here's what happens when I try sudo as user tldap:-
> 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.centos.plusxen[tldap at www ~]$ sudo yum update
> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
> Loading "priorities" plugin
> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
> * base: rsync.atworks.co.jp
> * updates: rsync.atworks.co.jp
> * centosplus: mirror.exetel.com.au
> * addons: mirror.exetel.com.au
> * extras: mirror.exetel.com.au
> 0 packages excluded due to repository priority protections
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.centos.plusxen[tldap at www ~]$ sudo /bin/bash
> Sorry, user tldap is not allowed to execute '/bin/bash' as root on www
> 2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.centos.plusxen[tldap at www ~]$
Yes you are correct in your example only yum would run and no exclude is
required. We can not see from his posting exactly what commands he is
allowing as he is calling groups.
What I was trying to point out is that if is he is disabling commands
like su then they must be enabled somewhere in the groups he is calling
and it is good practice to disable all the shells as well. All my
sudoers lines that call groups like he was trying to do always have a
!SU, !SHELLS to specifically deny root access.
Anyway I will shut up now as none of this will help fix his problem.
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Instructional Development and Classroom Communication: A Case Study of First-Semester College Students in the Liberal Arts Curriculum
By: Tamara L. Burk (author)Paperback
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This book is about teachers learning about teaching. As increasingly complex educational models and new theories of student learning have become part of the discourse of higher education, college instructors have sought new opportunities for instructional development. However, while more and more schools are supporting these programs, there have been very few efforts to examine the outcomes of faculty training. This book follows a group of faculty through efforts to make their teaching more interactive, and describes the results by reporting the reactions of the first-year college students in their classes. Included along the way are the personal reflections of the faculty members as they struggle with new techniques, and revelations about what worked and what didn't. The result is a compelling case for peer and institutional support in the ongoing process of instructional development.
Tamara L. Burk is an Associate Professor of Communication, and the Director of the Leadership Studies Program at Columbia College. Dr. Burk holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy, Planning, and Leadership and an Ed.S. in Higher Education from The College of William and Mary, and an M.A. and a B.A. in Communication from the University of Maine. She has delivered instructional development programming at colleges and universities throughout the country.
Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Acknowledgments Chapter 3 List of Tables Chapter 4 List of Figures Chapter 5 The Nature and Significance of the Study Chapter 6 Related Literature Chapter 7 Methodology Chapter 8 Summary and Analysis of the Data Chapter 9 Implications for Practice and Future Research Chapter 10 Appendices Chapter 11 References Chapter 12 Index Chapter 13 About the Author
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The Administrative Core (Core A) will provide coordination of scientific activities for the 3 projects and 3 cores. It will also facilitate daily operations and longer term planning for the individual and overall scientific program. Statistical consultation will also be available from the Core via Chengjie Xiong, a biostatistician. Core A has 2 aims.
Specific Aim 1. To facilitate communication, data sharing, and organize meefings between project leaders and our internal and external advisory boards. Dr. Xiong, as biostatistician, will provide statistical consultation for the projects and cores.
Specific Aim 2 : To assist in sharing PPG generated research with the general scientific and lay community as well as within and among PPG investigators.
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common cause of dementia. There is no effective treatment that slows the progression of the disease. This core will provide an organizational structure for our efforts to better understand the relationship between cellular communication in the brain (synaptic activity) and the development of Alzheimer's disease.
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Last week Bernie Fuchs passed away.
For some illustrators (for most) that would be the end of their road. Not so for Bernie Fuchs. The man may be gone but his influence on illustration will last a very long time...
... maybe forever.
I'll always remember one particular class in my first year at art college. We had just pinned up our weekly assignment in John Woods' Structural Drawing class for him to critique. John was a tall, gaunt, chainsmoking expatriate Brit with an acerbic wit and and absolutely no tolerance for foolishness. I both liked and respected him - but he also scared the shit out of me.
On that day John made his way briskly around the room offering faint praise here, a scathing criticism there... but he stopped abruptly and stared for a good long minute at the work of one of my fellow students I'll call "Dave". The room was pin-drop silent as we waited on tenterhooks for John's remarks. To my untrained eyes the piece in question looked like a pretty impressive rendering of Dizzy Gillespie. Finally, taking a deep drag on the latest of his ever-present Rothman's King-sized cigarettes, John turned and pinned Dave with his merciless gaze. "You know Dave," he said through an exhalation of blue grey smoke, "perhaps next time you could try doing your own work for my class instead of a failed attempt at channeling Bernie Fuchs."
I thought, "who?"
At that point in my life I had never even heard of Bernie Fuchs. It was the 80's and I was a clueless 20-year-old kid who had only ever looked at comic books. Sure, I knew who Norman Rockwell was (everybody knows Norman Rockwell)... but beyond that, all other illustrators were a mystery to me. I had no idea that for nearly a quarter of a century countless artists - students and professionals - had been channeling Bernie Fuchs.
For every thousand who stole Fuchs' fire, there was a tiny handful who managed to incorporate that magnificent influence and evolve it into something unique and beautiful of their own. Others would come along, imitate the imitators, and repeat the process again and again. Today - another twenty five years later - what Bernie Fuchs originated has been so thoroughly absorbed that it has become part of the language of illustration.
Sometimes I'll look at what the current crop of young artists is doing and see elements of Fuchs' style in a paintings the way I see elements of Sundblom's or Lyendecker's or Rockwell's. You see it and you think, "that person probably doesn't even realize he's painting with light the way Bernie Fuchs taught us to."
How many artists can claim to have had such a profound influence on the industry?
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, there aren't many in the history of illustration who can lay claim to that sort of reverence.
Murray Tinkelman relates a great anecdote about how the first time Joe Bowler saw a piece by Bernie in 1958 he said, "I don't know who the hell did this, but the business is never going to be the same."
I'd go one step further and say that after Bernie Fuchs graced us with his genius, illustration has been changed forever.
That's probably small consolation to those who knew and loved Bernie Fuchs, the man... but whatever your belief system, in a way, Bernie Fuchs has attained immortality.
Through his profound influence on illustration, he will be with us forever.
* My thanks to Charlie Allen, who provided all of today's scans.
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Michigan Legislature Amends Accountants Privity Act
Michigan Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) are now better protected against malpractice and negligence claims filed by non-clients with a recent revision to what has become known as the "privity act," MCLA 600.2962.
In 1995, the Michigan Legislature passed an act limiting suits against CPAs to three instances: 1) claims by a client; 2) claims of fraud or intentional misrepresentation by anyone, and 3) claims by a non-client in situations where the client and the CPA both identify in writing the non-client who is going to rely on the CPA’s professional accounting services.
The writings referred to in the third instance became known as “privity letters,” which means they put the non-client and the CPA in “privity” with each other (connecting two parties, each having a legally recognized interest in the same matter). This would give the non-client standing to sue the CPA. The intent of the original act was to put the CPA on notice, before agreeing to take on an engagement, that someone other than his/her client is going to rely on the services being sought.
Since then, non-clients have tried to expand their right to bring suit by claiming a number of things intended to put the non-client into the first (client) category. They have claimed assignment of the claim from the client to the non-client (i.e., a bank or other lender) to include foreclosure against the client’s assets by a lender; writings, including emails sent by someone other than the client to the CPA; and writings sent after the engagement in question was begun or even after its completion. These attempts sought to erode what the Legislature intended to be a “bright line” test – no writings, no non-client claims.
Recently, a trial court ruled that emails to the CPA from an outside independent contractor, (i.e., regarding a lender relying on the CPA’s professional services), were held to be sufficient to allow the non-client lender to sue the accountant, even though some of them were sent during and after the engagement, and none of them were signed by the client.
In response, the author of this Rapid Report recommended to the Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants (MACPA) that it seek revision of the act to make sure the original intent of the legislation was upheld. The MACPA did. With the efforts of the Rapid Report author, in conjunction with Plunkett Cooney’s Professional Liability Practice Group Leader Michael Ashcraft and MACPA Vice President John Lindley, on June 25, Governor Rick Snyder approved the passage of PA 268 of 2012.
The revised statute now confirms that a non-client does not have standing to sue based on any of the following:
assignment of the claim by the client to a non-client;
voluntary surrender of assets by the client or acquisition by a non-client through foreclosure or some kind of security agreement with the client;
writings signed by someone other than the client personally (individual) or by an officer/manager/member (entity); or
writings sent after the engagement has begun.
If you have any questions regarding the privity act, contact the author of this Rapid Report, your Plunkett Cooney attorney or any member of the firm’s Professional Liability Practice Group.
Rapid Reports are distributed by the firm of Plunkett Cooney. Any questions or comments concerning the matters reported may be addressed to Michael P. Ashcraft, the author or any other members of the practice group. The brevity of this update prevents comprehensive treatment of all legal issues, and the information contained herein should not be taken as legal advice. Advice for specific matters should be sought directly from legal counsel. Copyright © 2012. All rights reserved PLUNKETT COONEY, P.C. | <urn:uuid:6929949d-e479-4484-b5d2-0053028afb85> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.plunkettcooney.com/publications-Michigan-Legislature-Amends-Accountants-Privity-Act | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.962389 | 832 | 1.632813 | 2 |
The Wiress Router has become common place due to a variety of reasons, but to most folks it rightfully remains a magic box. You shouldn’t really care about how it works inside, or how magic airwaves go from it to your various wireless devices and magically make the internet work. I hope to highlight a bit of the underlying magic to help you out with your router.
Wireless routers are made by a variety of manufacturers, but they all need to work together. If you have a router from Linksys, and a network card from Netgear, they both need to operate without hiccup. The way companies do this is by implementing a standard, which is just an agreement on how things will communicate/built/etc. Wireless routers are tied to the 802.11 standard. Because they are wireless, they communicate with radio waves. Radio waves are governed by the FCC, as there are a very finite “band” or “spectrums”. Thus, TV signals take one chunk of the availible spectrum, and Radio Talk shows take a different slice, and since they aren’t sharing the same spectrum, they can communicate as if the other didn’t exist. Wireless routers are very similar, and are primarily split across 2 wavelengths of what’s called “free spectrum”. Basically, it’s unlicensed wireless airwaves that any consumer device can live in. We’ll get into the problems this cause later, but first, lets go over the flavors of 802.11. This is meaningless gobblygook, so here’s the Too Long Didn’t Read:
802.11a (802.11 standard, part A) routers give a maximum throughput(Higher number here means a faster transfer) of 54mbps (Megabits per second, NOT megabytes per second. Roughly 6.75 Megabytes Per Second. For comparison, your hard drive gets about 20-50 on average for a regular hard drive.). It operates in the 5ghz spectrum. (the band it operates in.)
802.11b routers give a maximum throughput of 11mbps. It operates in the lower 2.4ghz spectrum.
802.11g routers give a maximum throughput of 54mbps. It operates in the 2.4ghz spectrum.
802.11n routers give a maximum throughput of 300mpbs. It operates in either the 2.4 or 5 ghz spectrum.
Here’s the even shorter version: Wireless routers have to play in 2 spectrums, the 2.4 ghz spectrum, which travels well through walls and travels a long distance, and the 5ghz band, which doesn’t travel through walls nearly as well as the 2.4ghz, but supports theoretical higher throughput (higher data rates). Unfortunately, the 2.4 ghz spectrum is *so small*, that there are only “11” channels.
“Umm, i see 14 channels there smart one…”
Channels 12, 13, and 14 are international channels, and *YOU SHOULD NOT USE THEM IN THE USA*. They drift into HAM radio spectrum, and the FCC will come investigate if some HAM radio operator is complaining about interference.
So, we’re left with 11 channels in the common 2.4ghz spectrum. Notice how the circles overlap one another? That means that certain channels actually share spectrum space, and interfere with each other. We really only have 3 non-overlapping channels, channel 1, 6 and 11.
The unfortunate part of Wireless networking is that the channels *drastically interfere with one another*. It’s part of the whole “it’s unlicensed” thing.. Lets take an example:
You’re driving down the road and listening to your favorite radio station. Like, 99.5 or 93.9. These numbers represent the assigned band the radio station has rights to. The FCC has licensed that specific band to that particular radio station, and will actively seek and prosecute anyone who violates that license, for instance if another radio station starts broadcasting on the same band. Unlicensed spectrum, on the other hand, means that anyone and their grandmother can actively live in that space. Microwave ovens, Phone handsets for landlines, your gerbil’s wireless playpen.
Lets take another example, this time of two wireless routers and two clients. Wireless router A and Client A are trying to talk to each other, and standing shoulder to shoulder with, Wireless router B and client B.
Wireless routers A and B are operating on channel 6. The routers can each only use *half* of the available spectrum, and they actually chat with one another in a very gentlemanly way. One goes, then it waits for the other to go, then the first goes again in talking with their respective clients A and B. BUT, if router A switches over to channel 5 (because you set it to 5), BOTH routers A and B, and clients A and B will try and transmit at the same time. It’s like four people yelling while standing next to each other. They both have to repeat themselves multiple times to be understood, and the effective throughput is a fraction of the whole.
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As professionals that spend time helping advisors income strategize on behalf of their clients, we see all kinds of things. If we are not careful, we can easily get caught up in the industry jargon surrounding income planning -- decumulation, qualified versus nonqualified, laddering, income benefit riders, etc. Many times, if this jargon is used with clients, it can wreak havoc and ignite confusion.
A common area ripe for misunderstanding and miscommunication is the conversation the advisor has with his clients at the point of explaining the "dollars per month" the client will have to spend during retirement. Advisors tend to talk in terms of "income" planning, and they do this down to a monthly or annual amount. But, unbeknownst to many advisors, their clients tend to substitute the word "paycheck" for "income" in their own heads. Inevitably a chasm develops -- the client having grown accustomed to a paycheck (already reduced by taxes and benefit payments), throughout the last 50 years, assumes income means "spendable."
Let's talk about a couple of basic areas relating to annuities you can brush up on to minimize potential misunderstandings that could occur as you help your clients plan for the next stage of their lives.
Historically, when income was derived from an annuity, it was accomplished through annuitizing the contract. This option entailed choosing a traditional annuitization option -- life only, period certain, or life with a period certain were all fairly common. Even today, as we team up with advisors to develop income maps for their clients, we sometimes use a five-year immediate annuity early in the retirement income strategy to allow other assets to grow, etc.
When you annuitize, you find yourself under the guise of Section 72 of the IRS code. This section details the mechanics and tax treatment of each annuitization payment -- known as the exclusion ratio. In essence, the exclusion ratio treats each annuity payment as a "slice" of the bigger pie. In other words, each annuity payment is deemed to have a proportionate amount of basis and interest growth -- thus spreading the taxes over time. In tax parlance, this is known as a tax preference.
The exclusion ratio described within the IRS code is best understood as a simple fraction applied to each monthly or annual annuity payment. The numerator is the amount of after tax money, or what's known as "basis," within the annuity. Since that money has already been taxed, it's excluded from taxation, as it is annuitized. The denominator is the "expected return" through annuitizing.
As an example, if $100,000 of after tax money was put into an annuity and subsequently annuitized using a 10-year certain annuitization option for $1,500 per month, the denominator would equal $180,000 ($1,500/month x 10 years).
Knowing this calculation can allow the advisor to communicate in the client's language and talk about an after-tax "paycheck." In other words, the $1,500 of income every month translates into $1,333 after taxes (assuming a 25 percent federal/state combined rate).
Based on the client's level of understanding, it's not uncommon for this conversation to lead to a decision to extend the payout period and reduce the amount taken out every month due to the tax preference that accrues to the client through the exclusion ratio. Or if the client actually needed the full $1,500 every month, they could make some adjustments to expenses or alternatively, take a shorter annuitization schedule. (Keep in mind, with other annuitization options, once basis is used up within Section 72, all the remaining income generated by the annuity is subject to tax.)
By structuring income payments using "free" withdrawals, the account value is left in place to continue to grow through additional interest credits. To the extent there is an account value available, (based on interest credits and the length of time withdrawals have been taken) that amount can be accessed at any time by the client (possibly subject to surrender charges and/or tax penalties).
Now here's where things can get a little dicey -- withdrawal payments are not treated the same compared to annuitization payments. Withdrawals are considered interest first, followed by basis. So, to the extent there are gains (interest/bonuses) affecting the account value, those dollars will be deemed to come out first, in the form of withdrawal payments before principal or basis. As a result, a larger portion of the income coming out of the annuity early on (when income begins) will be subject to tax compared to later payments.
As an example, assume $100,000 of after tax money was put into a 10 percent premium bonus annuity. The plan is to leave it alone for the first year and use the 10 percent free withdrawal provision to provide $10,000 of income during the second year. This will give the annuity time to accrue interest credits. Starting in the third year, scheduled income withdrawals will begin. Even if we assume no interest credits to the account, the account value starting day one of the second year is $110,000. Since withdrawals are deemed to be earnings first, basis later, the entire $10,000 free withdrawal is taxable. For someone needing a monthly paycheck of $833, but instead receives only $625, that could come as quite a shock ($10,000/12 compared to $7,500/12)
If this kind of tax treatment is not communicated and planned for, such an unforeseen event could cause much displeasure for the client, resulting in embarrassment for the advisor and possible loss of the client.
Moral of the story
Each client comes to the table with preconceived notions and personal understandings that could be different than the advisor. As you develop income strategies for your clients, try to cover the same information in more than one way. An effective way to do this is to repeat the information in a real life context. This can add clarity in the mind of your client.
As an example, since clients are prone to associating income planning with paycheck planning, go through each stage of the income flow and point out what is "spendable" for that year or period in question. By taking each stage and writing down the "net spendable amount" (the paycheck) available, this will help your client better understand. Of course, the next logical step is to relate the "net spendable" to their expected expenses for that period of time. By doing that, you'll find that your clients will see things more clearly. They will have a good opportunity to visualize what they can spend and if need be, make adjustments to the income or expense side of the ledger.
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A.I.R. in a few words
Founded in 1985, the Research Information Association, non profit organization, is to promote by all means the aid relationship, information and research on disability.
A.I.R. Receives the handicapped person and her family in their globality, privilegong listening, considering that parent are competent partners.
A.I.R. Ethics : An obligation of means in the families' service through innovating tools and techniques, in close touch with medical research, field professonals and universities.
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They will be the strong point of a medico-educationnal strategy to develop fulfillment and quality of live.
A.I.R. is a Resource Center :
A.I.R. participates in the development of organizations in France and others countries.
A.I.R. is in many networks.
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Take a bite out of our annual Shark Week guide
Shark Week: the annual reminder that sharks are friends, not food.
For the past 28 years, Discovery Channel has filled eight days of the summer with features all about our predatory pals.
If you're looking for Jaws, Deep Blue Sea or Sharknado look elsewhere. Discovery's Shark Week is a colorful, high definition look at the science behind why sharks do what they do.
The features will have those fantastic shots of massive Great White sharks flinging their whole bodies out of the water to catch seals, peeks into how sharks hunt in complete darkness, explorations into solutions for the increasing amount of shark encounters and a "talking sharks"-style aftershow hosted by Eli Roth.
Find must-watch shows, local sharks and fish-themed events in our Shark Week Guide.
Happy Shark Week!
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The present study examined the association between electrodermal activity (EDA) and season of birth in a sample of first-episode patients with schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, and affective disorder with psychotic features, and in a normal control group. Patients with schizophrenia who were born during the season of excess risk (January-April) were less responsive than those born during other times of the year. They had lower skin-conductance levels and fewer skin-conductance responses. No such effects were found in patients with schizophreniform or affective disorder, or in the normal subjects. When compared with the control group, winter-born schizophrenics showed significantly more evidence of hyporesponsivity. In contrast, nonwinter-born patients did not differ from normal subjects in skin-conductance level or number of skin-conductance responses. Schizophreniform patients born during the other seasons of the year were more likely to be hyporesponsive. The above results provide supporting evidence for the validity of the season of birth phenomenon. We hypothesize that a viral infection, or some other perinatal complication associated with winter and early spring births, leads to temporal lobe damage and consequent dyregulation of electrodermal activity in patients with schizophrenia.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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DotNetNuke For Dummies helps you get down to business and shows you how to create a user-friendly Web site. You’ll find out how you can build and manage a flexible, versatile site with all the advantages an open-source application offers, use convenient modules, build a community, and save some money at the same time. This plain-English guide lets you discover how to:Install, run, and troubleshoot DotNetNukeChange and customize portal settingsAdd and manage pages on your siteMake your site look professionalDeliver contents with Text/HTMLAdd news feeds, online surveys, and bannersInteract with visitors through blogging, feedback comments, and forumsCreate an e-businessCustomize the look of your site with exciting components
This book features cool new modules that will meet every Web site’s need, both commercial and personal. With DotNetNuke For Dummies, you’ll get up to speed with this wonderful online tool and create your own corner of the World Wide Web!
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Brunswick is located in Glynn county and has a population of 15,600.
For Georgia residents, the average tuition for all Brunswick administrative assistant schools for the 2009 - 2010 school year was $2,494.00. For non-residents, the average tuition for Brunswick administrative assistant schools was $9,976.00.
The average cost of books and supplies for administrative assistant schools in Brunswick is $1,105.00. Students have a choice of one administrative assistant college in Brunswick to attend. Administrative Assistant programs in Brunswick reportedly graduated 5 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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refers to the staright forward, objective meaing of kind of meaning we might expect to find if we looked the word up in a dictionary. eg the word summer denotes the season beetwen spring and autumn.
conotations of a word are associations that a word has and attitudes that are aroused by it these can be positive or negative. the case of summer the connotations are genarally positive. most people associate.
they are very important when anylysing texts. writers choose their texts carefully. we need to think about the thoghts feelings and ideas convayed by particular words.
aslo it is important to note down if words such as gloomy,miserable and dark appear close… | <urn:uuid:96f0044c-e950-4175-9c00-c3d356c1d1ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://getrevising.co.uk/revision-notes/as_english_language_lexis_and_semantics_for_wjec | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957713 | 146 | 3.1875 | 3 |
…people are really stressed and have gone through a traumatic experience. Some are coming back to work to an entirely new normal–new roles, new set ups, new rules. Some getting ready to work from home long-term and finding they don’t have the skills to keep performance up with that much autonomy.
If managed right, and people get reskilled, this is an opportunity that can bring the company together and help people adjust and thrive. If managed badly, stress can permeate organization, aggravate “presenteeism” and hurt morale.
To thrive through this crisis (and the next) people need to learn how to manage uncertainty, take control of their emotional health and build new work skills appropriate to their new environment: | <urn:uuid:46655740-6e41-46df-af89-07074bb84eae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theenergyproject.com/solutions/by-audience/leaders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.961795 | 152 | 1.585938 | 2 |
I do all my own plumbing, but this one I'm going to let for the
professionals. My question is from curiosity rather than from a DIY
point of view.
If you need absolutely dry joints in order for solder to set, how do
plumbers solder a gate valve at the main shut-off? Are there any
secrets (don't laugh) like vacuuming water from the supply line (which
in this case is a private well)?
If it's a private well, it's pretty simple: turn power off to the pump and
drain the pressure tank.
If city water, there's normally a buried shutoff between the water main and
the meter. That's so the city can shut your water off if you don't pay your
bills. :-) And incidentally it makes it convenient for plumbers in situations
such as you describe.
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)
Nobody ever left footprints in the sands of time by sitting on his butt.
And who wants to leave buttprints in the sands of time?
I've always seen flared valve fittings installed at the street
and meter. ex:
Doug Miller wrote:
HomeOwnersHub.com is a website for homeowners and building and maintenance pros. It is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here.
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Don’t mean to be a downer, but it’s been a tough week. Everyone has been following the events unfolding in Japan over the last week and we’re all praying that this will somehow resolve positively and avoid a catastrophic conclusion. I haven’t really expressed this before, but I have the greatest admiration for the Japanese, who are such disciplined people. I have been fortunate enough to have visited Japan many times in my life, where I enjoyed the cuisine, the culture and the people; it’s a place I consider as one of my favorite destinations in the world. So sad that so much is going on there right now.
I wonder too about living on the West Coast. Over here, people have been scrambling trying to get potassium iodide or sea kelp in drugstores and health food places. Too late for me, I didn’t get any and the stuff has already run out, but supposedly, reports out there tell us there’s no need to worry. But it got me thinking once again about how vulnerable we are to natural disasters like this — the West Coast is notorious for being an earthquake belt. I think of it now and again and get these reminders whenever a tremor hits somewhere in the world. I still recall Loma Prieta quake as if it were yesterday; back then I thought I was a goner for all of a minute and a half or however long it took to shake up the office building I was in.
It also doesn’t help that I find myself going paranoid over this type of story and videos like this:
How much stock should we place into earthquake predictions (some geologists say these are predictable, while a lot of others say these things aren’t)? Are changes in our natural habitat actually ominous signals of what’s to come?
Some General Disaster & Earthquake Survival Tips
The best we can do is to prepare for disasters. Here are some things that may be worth paying attention to:
- 15 Fire Safety Tips To Protect Your Life and Home
- Do You Have An Emergency Plan When Disaster Strikes?
- EarthQuake Survival Tips By Artichoke Joe
- Preparing For An Emergency by Kiplinger.com
Remember that the Japanese are well versed on earthquakes and tsunamis and are quite prepared for these eventualities. It just so happened that what happened last week was a much bigger quake than they could have imagined. Some tips to think about:
- How safe is your home?
- Do you have the right supplies?
- Do you have a family plan?
- Keep an emergency checklist handy.
During times like these, my mind sometimes can’t help but dwell on grim possibilities. Do you ever wonder about what would happen if there happened to be a nuclear meltdown around the corner? It may help to see what kind of nuclear reactors are right by your neighborhood:
Pic by World Nuclear Association
Heard Of Nuclear Disaster Insurance?
It would certainly be a rare occurrence, so this is all mostly catastrophizing, but there are some practical points that touch on finance that you may want to know about. While life and limb and our overall safety are the number one priorities here, our shelter and possessions may be next. Do you write it all off in the face of a nuclear meltdown?
The answer is actually quite interesting. Insurance.com lays down some basic points:
- Your home insurance policy won’t cover you for nuclear related damages, but it seems that the government will.
- The federal government has set up a pool that takes funding from companies involved in nuclear energy. If there are any accidents, this fund/pool will cover claims.
- Nuclear insurance is basically covered by the “Price-Anderson Act”, a law that was passed in 1987. What claims will it address? Those related to:
- Sickness and illness that lead to death
- Loss and damage of property and possessions
- Bodily harm and injury
- Expenses for evacuees
Sounds morbid, but if it’s any consolation, there’s this type of insurance to fall back on.
Personal Financial Articles
I could use some cheering up. Let’s traipse around the blogosphere for now.
Get Rich Slowly: Outsmarting Myself
Credit Karma Blog: Is Financial Minimalism Good For Your Credit Score?
The Simple Dollar: Making Homemade Yogurt
My Dollar Plan: How to File Old and Delinquent Tax Returns
Lazy Man and Money: Mohu Leaf Antenna Delivers Free TV
PT Money: Do You Buy Local, Meaningful Art Work?
Money Smart Life: Our Home Owner Warranty Claim
Brip Blap: 10 tips to avoid money worries
Gen X Finance: Five Ways I Plan To Save Money in February
Funny About Money: Busted, Disgusted, and Cain’t Be Trusted
Monevator: What The Big Short teaches the little guy
Oblivious Investor: Cameras, Computers, and Mutual Funds
Million Dollar Journey: Buying Foreclosures In Canada
Frugal Dad: Ideas to Trim (or Slash) Vacation Costs
Dough Roller: Stuff About Annuities
Free Money Finance: Would You Move to Lower Your Taxes?
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Grey Area co-founder and CEO Ville Vesterinen took to the stage at GigaOM’s Mobilize 2011 Tuesday to discuss a growing trend: location-based gaming. One of the company’s most significant discoveries about mobile games has to do with how little they seem to actually be played on the run.
Grey Area is the company behind Shadow Cities, an iPhone game that broke new ground in mobile location-based massively multiplayer online gaming. Vesterinen called ShadowCities “the first of a new category of games,” where the game world and the real world are merged. Shadow Cities pulls not only other players in your area into the experience, but also the surroundings themselves. The real world tie-in allows for “the most exciting game board you can have,” says Vesterinen.
Location-based gaming, according to Vesterinen, needed technology to catch up to gamer expectations before it could succeed. Gamers who play MMOs are looking for “immersive experience,” and that’s what Shadow Cities can provide, thanks to the improved graphical capabilities of current generation mobile platforms.
Finding the sweet spot where location-based games succeed is a process of experimentation; Vesterinen says Grey Area expected a mobile game like Shadow Cities to be more popular while users were in transit, with short, casual sessions. In reality, most users tend to game in places where they are most often, like at home, and stay for longer periods. In this way, mobile gaming is much more in direct competition with traditional console gaming.
That also means location-based gaming need not necessarily orient itself towards casual players. Hours long sessions are common, and it stands to reason that some in-game experiences can cater to that group of gamers.
Another interesting point that Vesterinen made is that there is lots more opportunity to bring the real world into games; location is just one data set, things like real estate prices, weather, traffic could all contribute to the future of mobile gaming by filling in the virtual world with data users can easily relate to. That’s an interesting future to consider when video gaming’s past seems to have been built up around an idea of escapism, where game worlds often didn’t resemble a user’s environment at all.
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Roman Konstantinovich Sheshenin, PhD-student, SS. Cyril and Methodius Theological Institute of Post-Graduate Studies (Pyatnitskaya str. 4/2 b.1, Moscow, Russia, 115035)
Sheshenin R. K. «The Religious Sense» by Luigi Giussani: historical and theological context, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2017, vol. 6, pp. 68–90.
This article observes the work of the Italian priest Luigi Giussani (1922–2005) in the context of the theological discourse of the 20th century Catholic world. The dispute on the so-called «Theology of supernatural» arose in the period of the second scholasticism and regained its relevance in connection with the «anti-modernist» policy of the Catholic Church in the 19th century. The concept of «natura pura», as the main position of the Neo-Thomism, came under criticism by the French theologians of the «return to source». The article illustrates the dynamics of research on this topic starting with philosophical research by Maurice Blondel and theological «discoveries» of Henri de Lubac on the experience of the Milan priest L. Giussani at the Seminary Venegono and at the Berchet Lyceum (classical high school) in Milan. Understanding the «religious sense» as totality of needs and obviousness that accompany the person in comparison with all his things, he «expands» the boundaries of the mind to its «openness» to the Mystery. The article marks the Giussani’s thoughts in connection with the works of Blondel, Lubac, Colombo, Corti, Fabro, Montini. The conclusion points to the original provisions of Giussani on the issue of «theology of supernatural» which are associated with his activity in the student movement.
Key words: Luigi Giussani, theology of supernatural, Catholicism, M. Blondel, Henri de Lubac, Montini, neo-thomism, new theology, theological anthropology, the Second Vatican Council, anthropological turn | <urn:uuid:f712bb3b-4ed4-4569-b0ac-251f7c512a31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/tag/henri-de-lubac/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.793754 | 530 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Design is the way we shape and channel meaning, energy, ideas.
The way we interface with the world. In practice everything is
designed. Good and bad. Good design can be solid or virtual, two
dimensional or simply a frame but it implies a firm connection with
life and the desire to make sense of it.
Good design tells the truth. So it should come as no surprise that
the Design Academy Eindhoven students are interested and engaged
in the world and that this is reflected in their work. They are busy with
the essential integrity and authenticity of design, and what you can see
in the GRADUATION 2010 catalogue are manifestation of how they see
the world. Ideas made real.
They say that design is dead. Nothing could be further
from the truth. In Holland alone design is a 17 miljard euro
industry. Designers are an important part of the future.
At Design Academy Eindhoven we educate Individuals
to engage with the world through design, with integrity,
courage and understanding, and shape new realities
that make sense.
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John Ellistone ’s foreword to Jacob Boehme’s ‘ Signatura Rerum ’translated by him, for John Sparow’s 1st. English edition, London, 1651, printed by John Macock for Gyles Calvert. Transcribed from our library’s original.
This is the true Theosophic school
“…..It is uncertain to me whether the author wrote a preface to this treatise or not : and I could wish that the little spark of breathing desire which is in me after true knowledge, were able to write any thing which might be worthy of an introduction unto this book ; which is a true mystical mirror of the highest wisdom, for albeit I have been trained up in the schools of learning, and have made some progress in the tongues and arts, according to my mean capacity, yet I do acknowledge myself to be but an unlearned A. B. C. scholar in Sophia’s School, that would fail learn to read her Christ’s Cross line.
Indeed the best treasures that a man can attain unto in this world, is true knowledge ; even the knowledge of himself : for Man is the great Mystery of God, the microcosm, or the complete abridgment of the whole universe: he is the Mirandum dei opus, God’s master-piece, a living emblem, and a hieroglyph of Eternity and Time ; and therefore to know whence he is, and what his temporal and Eternal Being, and well being is, must needs be that ONE necessary thing, unto which all our chief study should aim, and in comparison of which all the wealth of this world is but loss and dross.
Hence Salomon the wisest of the Kings of Israel says:
“ Happy is the Man that finds Wisdom, and the Man that gets Understanding, for the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and there-of than fine gold ; she is more precious then rubies, and all things that can be desired are not to be compared unto her…”
This is that Wisdom which dwells in Nothing, and yet possesses All things, and the humble resigned Soul is its play fellow : this is the Divine alloquy, the Inspiration of the Almighty, the Breath of God, the Holy Unction, which instructs it aright in all things ; and searches the depths of God, 1 Cor.2.10.
This is the precious Pearl, whose beauty is more glorious, and whose virtue more Sovereign than the Sun : it is a never-failing comfort in all afflictions, a balsam for all sores, a Panacea for all diseases, a sure antidote against all poison and Death it self ; it is that joyful and assured companion and guide, which never forsakes a man, but convoys him through this valley of misery and death, into the blessed Paradise of perfect Bliss.
If thou ask what is the way to attain to this Wisdom : Behold ! Christ who is the Way, the Truth and the Life, tells the plainly in these words, Luc,9.23: “…If any man comes after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, daily, and follow me ” ; or as he says elsewhere, “… Unless ye be born again, ye cannot see the kingdom of heaven ” ; or as St. Paul says, 1 Cor.3.18 : “ If any man seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.”
Herein lies that simple child like way to the Highest Wisdom, which no sharp reason or wordly learning can reach unto ; nay, it is foolishness unto reason, and therefore so few go the way to find it. The proud sophists and wiselings of this world have always trampled it under foot with scorn and contempt, and have called it Enthusiasm, madness, melancholy, whimsey, phancy, etc…but wisdom is justified of her children.
Indeed every one is not fit or capable of the knowledge of the Eternal and Temporal Nature in its Mysterious operations, neither is the proud covetous world, worthy to receive a clear manifestation there-of and therefore the only wise God (who gives Wisdom to every one that asks it aright if him) hath lock up the jewels in his blessed treasury, which none can open but those that have the Key, which is this : viz. “ Ask and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you…” The father will give the Spirit to them that ask him for it.
This is the true Theosophick school wherein this Author learned his A.B.C. and unto which we must go if we would understands his writings ; for we must know that the sons of Hermes, who have commenced in the high school of true magick and theosophy, have always spake their hidden wisdom in a mystery ; and have so coucht it under shadows and figures, parables and similies, that none can understand their obscurely-clear writings, but those that have had admittance into the same school, and have tasted of the feast of Pentecost. And this doth not at all seem strange to the babes of Divine Mercury, for the mysteries of philosophy, divinity and theosophy, must not be profaned and laid open to the views of the outward astral reason, which turns all to its selfish pride, covetousness, envy, wrath and cunning hypocrisies ; and therefore a parabolical or magical phrase or dialect is the best and plainest habit and dress that mysteries can have to travel in up and down this wicked world ; and thus parables have a double and different respect and use, for as they do conceal and hide secrets from the rude and vulgar sort, who are not able or patient to bear any things but what suites with their common conceit and opinions, so likewise, they do sweetly lead the minds of the true searcher into the depths of wisdom councel ; They are as the cloudy pillar of Moses : they have a dark part and they have a light part, they are dark to the Egyptians- the pharisaical sons of sophistry-but light unto the true Israel-the children of the mystery.
And therefore whosoever will be a nursling of Sophia and learn to understand and speak the language of Wisdom, he must be born again of, and in, the word of wisdom, Christ Jesus, the immortal Seed ; the Divine Essence, which God breathed into his paradisiacal soul, must be revived and must become one again with that which he has in God before he was a creature, and then his Eternal Spirit may enter into that which is within the Vail, and see not only the literal but the moral, allegorical and analogical meaning of the Wise and their dark sayings ; he then I say will not fit to enter, not only into Solomon’s porch, the outer court of natural philosophy, sense and reason, but likewise into the inward court of holy and spiritual exercise, in divine understanding and knowledge ; and so he may step into the most inward and holiest place of Theosophical Mysteries, where-into none are admitted to come, but those that have received the high and holy Unction.
But lest I should transgress in being too large, I will endeavor briefly to hint unto the reader what this book doth contain, albeit the spirit of Wisdom herein cannot be delineated with pen and ink, no more then a sound can be painted, or the wind grasped in the hollow of the hands ; but know that herein he doth lively decipher and represent unto thee the Signature of all things, and gives the contents of Eternity and Time, and glanced at all Mysteries.
Herein the Author sets forth fundamentally the birth, sympathy and antipathy of all beings, how all beings do originally arise out of one Eternal Mystery, and how that same mystery doth begets itself in itself from Eternity to Eternity ; and likewise how all things, which take their Original out of this Eternal Mystery may be changed into Evil, and again out of Evil into Good, with a clear and manifest demonstration how Man hath turned himself out of the Good into Evil, and this transmutation is again out of Evil into Good ; moreover, herein is declared the outward Cure of the body ; how the outward life may be freed from sickness by its likeness or assimilate, and be again introduced into its first Essence, where also by way of parables or similitude the Philosopher’s stone is lively described for the temporal Cure ; and along with it the Holy Corner Stone, Christ alone, for the everlasting Cure, Regeneration and perfect restitution of all the true, faithful, eternal Souls. In a word, his intent is to let thee know the inward Power and Property by the outward sign ; for Nature hath given marks and notes to everything, whereby it may be known ; and this is the language of Nature, which tells for what everything is good and profitable. And herein lies the Mystery, or central science of the high Philosophical Work in the true Spagiric Art, which consummates the Cure not only for the body but for the Soul.
But let the Reader know the sharp speculation of his own reason will never pry into the depth of this book, but rather bring him into a maze of doubtful notions, wherein he will bewilder himself, and think the Author’s phrases tedious, irksome and strange; and therefore the understanding lies only in the manifestation of that Spirit, which in the Day of Pentecost gave forth the true sense and meaning of all language in one. Now if that Spirit doth rule and dwell in thee, then thou may understand this Author in the deepest ground, according to thy creatural Constellation, both in the Eternal and Temporal Nature ; but if not, these things will be but as the Relation of tifles and chimera’s unto thee. And therefore if thou be of a Saturnine property, dull and dark, shut up in the house of Luna, soar not too high with thy outward reason, lest thou fall indeed into the deep abyss of darkness ; but wait patiently till the divine Sol shall shine again in thy dark and selfish Saturn, and give thee some beams and glimpses of his Eternal Light, and then thy angry Mars will be changed into pure Love-zeal, and thy prating pharisaical and hypocritical Mercury into a meek, mild and Christian Speaking of God’s works and wonders into the dispensation of his Wisdom; and thy doubtful, unsettled Jupiter will be turned into a plerophory, or most full assurance of true joy, and saving comfort in thy Religion ; thy earthly Venus into heavenly Love, and thy eclipsed mutable Luna into pure, perfect and crystalline streams of Light, Life and Glory.
But the proud scorner that will take no warning is of Lucifer’s regiment, who saw the Mystery of God’s Kingdom to stand in meekness, simplicity and deep humility, and therefore out of his pride would aspire to be above the divine Love and Harmony of obedience to God’s Will, and so fell into the abyss of the dark world, even into the outmost darkness of the first principle, which we call Hell, where he and his legions are captives, from which the Almighty God of Love deliver us. Amen !
And so I will end with the words of the Author at the conclusion of the book, where he saith thus :
“ I have faithfully with all true admonition represented unto the Reader what the Lord of all Beings hath given me ; he may behold himself in this Looking-glass within and without, and so he shall find what, and who he is : Every Reader, be he good or bad, will find his profit and benefit therein : It is a very clear Gate of the Great Mystery of all beings ; by glosses, comments, curiosity and self-wit, none shall be able to reach or apprehend it in his own ground ; but it may very well meet and embrace the true Seeker, and create him much profit and joy, yea be helpful unto him in all natural things, provided that he apply himself thereunto aright, and seek in the fear of God, seeing it is yet a time of seeking, for a Lilly blossoms upon the mountains and valleys in all the ends of the Earth : He that Seeks, Finds. ”
And so I commend the Reader unto the Grace and Love of Jesus Christ, in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
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Days after 16 convoys from countries across the world visited Jammu and Kashmir to assess the situation in the valley, the UN Security Council has decided to hold a conclave to discuss the prevailing situation in Jammu and Kashmir.
The demand for the meeting, as per NDTV, was raised by China. The meeting will be held in New York tonight.
A similar meeting was held in August, which was also called by China post the subrogation of Article 370 in the valley that gave J&K special status.
The sources added that while UN Security Council members, other than China, are firm on India’s claim that Kashmir is India and Pakistan’s bilateral matter, China thinks otherwise.
The Security Council consists of five permanent members that are China, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and the Russian Federation.
French diplomatic sources told NDTV that the position of France has not changed and is very clear – that the Kashmir issue must be settled bilaterally. “As we have stated on several occasions and will continue to reiterate to our partners on the United Nations Security Council”. | <urn:uuid:a4e74ae5-bd14-47a2-8c84-7c765d08cb6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viralbake.com/un-security-council-to-hold-a-secret-meeting-to-discuss-kashmir-today-after-china-asks-for-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.969433 | 229 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Heterogeneity in individual quality can be a major obstacle when interpreting age-specific variation in life-history traits. Heterogeneity is likely to lead to within-generation selection, and patterns observed at the population level may result from the combination of hidden patterns specific to subpopulations. Population-level patterns are not relevant to hypotheses concerning the evolution of age-specific reproductive strategies if they differ from patterns at the individual level. We addressed the influence of age and a variable used as a surrogate of quality (yearly reproductive state) on survival and breeding probability in the kittiwake. We found evidence of an effect of age and quality on both demographic parameters. Patterns observed in breeders are consistent with the selection hypothesis, which predicts age-related increases in survival and traits positively correlated with survival. Our results also reveal unexpected age effects specific to subgroups: the influence of age on survival and future breeding probability is not the same in nonbreeders and breeders. These patterns are observed in higher-quality breeding habitats, where the influence of extrinsic factors on breeding state is the weakest. Moreover, there is slight evidence of an influence of sex on breeding probability (not on survival), but the same overall pattern is observed in both sexes. Our results support the hypothesis that age-related variation in demographic parameters observed at the population level is partly shaped by heterogeneity among individuals. They also suggest processes specific to subpopulations. Recent theoreticaI developments lay emphasis on integration of sources of heterogeneity in optimization models to account for apparently 'sub-optimal' empirical patterns. Incorporation of sources of heterogeneity is also the key to investigation of age-related reproductive strategies in heterogeneous populations. Thwarting 'heterogeneity's ruses' has become a major challenge: for detecting and understanding natural processes, and a constructive confrontation between empirical and theoretical studies.
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When Dot Porter, co-principal investigator on the Bibliotheca Philadelphiensis project, sends you an email saying “I made a thing, ” you know it’s going to be glorious and you also know you’re about to head down the rabbit hole. Her current “thing” is a BiblioPhilly Randomizer, a sweet little script that pulls up a random image from among the tens of thousands of pages of medieval-y goodness currently on OPenn.
And oh, my, didn’t bibliophilly get lucky! The first random image to come up, pictured here, was The Temptation of Adam and Eve from Free Library of Philadelphia Lewis E123 (fol. 22v). Just feast your eyes on that! Eve is flaky, Adam needs a shave, and the serpent has breasts! (Late fifteenth-century French Book of Hours, more info at the link below.)
Randomize BiblioPhilly yourself here: http://tinyurl.com/bibliophilly-randomizer
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You will need
- - drawing paper or a piece of Wallpaper, the size is upon your request
- -images of desired things: tangible and intangible
- -its a photo that you like
- glue pencil
- -colored pens
To start, take the drawing paper or sheet and visually divide it into nine sectors, starting from the upper left corner, as shown in the picture: wealth, fame, love and marriage, family, I and health, children and creativity, wisdom and knowledge, career, assistants, and travel. Take beauty magazines and start to cut out, pictures with the items that you like, according to these sectors. The picture should not be dark objects, and negative words or that you feel uncomfortable. It is better to find the right picture online and print it.
The sector of wealth. In this sector we cut out all those images that you associate with wealth. For example, a picture of a house, car and bills. Be sure to "beat" image. Stick your photo and write "I'm driving my new car Toyota Camry." If we are talking about the home of your dreams, make the signature – " I'm in my house in France on the Mediterranean sea." Be specific in your desires, and sign that thing – that your. Indeed, it can happen that you get into your dream home, and it will not belong to you. This applies to all sectors.
The sector of fame. In this sector you paste a picture of the rewards that you want to achieve. It could be your photo on the red carpet with the Cup in his hands, promotions, awards, diplomas, and grants.The sector of love and marriage. If you already have a favorite person, you should stick a joint photo where you are happy. If you want to find love, then cut out the couple. Each sector can be your photo. The sector of the family. Here paste the photograph of your family or the one you want to create.
The sector of health. In this sector can use photos of slender body, healthy food. Be sure to sign everything that you want. Sector children and creativity. If you already have children then glue their photo and paste image desired hobby. If you are not yet ready to have children, then the image is not necessary.
The sector of wisdom and knowledge. For this sector can be cut from the picture library or bookcase, and then write about the knowledge you need. Never write "I want...", affirmations must say that you already have what you want. Sector career. Achieve the career ladder can be here and in the sector of fame.
The sector of helpers and travel. Suitable image of countries and their symbols (Eiffel tower, leaning tower of Pisa), as well as portraits of successful people from the spheres of activities, success in which you want to achieve. Make a collage so as not to have any empty seats. After you have made a treasure map, hang it on the South – East. Look at her and imagine that everything you want you already have. Wish you success and fulfillment of desires.
Remember that the blank places on the treasure map should not be. Be sure to sign off that everything that is on the treasure map it is your.
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Outline of Judges
1. Introduction (Judges 1:1–3:6)
Judges begins with a double introduction lifting up the political problem of an incomplete “conquest” of the land of Canaan (1:1-36) and the religious problem of the people’s recurrent apostasy (2:1–3:6).
A. The Political Problem (Judges 1:1-36)
The conquest of Canaan is presented as a gradual process with victories (1:1-26) and defeats (1:27-36) by various tribes. This is at some odds with the book of The successor of Moses, Joshua led the Israelites into Canaan More, which envisions a unified, successful conquest under the leadership of Joshua.
B. The Theological Problem (Judges 2:1–3:6)
This second introduction seeks to explain the defeats in Judges 1:22-36 as the result of a cyclical pattern: Israel’s apostasy (2:11-12), followed by oppression by the enemy (2:13-15), and God’s deliverance by means of a “judge” (2:16). The repetition of this pattern will structure the rest of the book.
2. Stories of the Judges (Judges 3:7–16:31)
The exploits of local charismatic heroes are collected to portray the downward spiral of the people due to their apostasy.
A. Othniel versus Cushan-rishathaim (Judges 3:7-11)
This first judge, from the tribe of Judah was the name of Jacob’s fourth son and one of the 12 tribes. More, exemplifies the cyclical pattern with little extra detail.
B. Ehud versus the Moabites (Judges 3:12-30)
Ehud, a Benjaminite, and left-handed, tricks and defeats the Moabite king, Eglon.
C. Shamgar versus the Philistines (Judges 3:31)
Shamgar is not assigned to a tribe, interrupts the story, fails to follow the cyclical pattern, and has a non-Semitic name. He may be included because he brings the number of judges to twelve, symbolic of the twelve tribes.
D. An Israelite prophetess and influential judge. More and Barak against the Canaanites (Judges 4:1–5:31)
Chapter four is a narrative account of the exploits of the Naphtalites Deborah and Barak, possibly at Esdraelon, while chapter five, possibly the oldest biblical material we have, is a poetic version of the same story. Deborah is treated here as a prophet rather than a judge.
E. Judge whose small force won a victory using jars, torches, and trumpets More against the Midianites (Judges 6:1–8:35)
Gideon, from the tribe of Manasseh, is raised up to deliver Israel from the Midianites but becomes a harbinger of the decline to come.
F. Abimelech, Gideon’s Son (Judges 9:1-57)
Abimelech tries to become king of Shechem, but fails. Jotham’s fable (9:7-15) illustrates the ambiguity concerning kings in the book of Judges.
G. Tola and Jair, Minor Judges (Judges 10:1-5)
Scant information is given about these minor judges from Issachar was name of a son of Jacob and one of the 12 tribes of Israel More and Manasseh in Transjordan.
H. Judge who sacrificed his daughter to keep a vow More against the Ammonites (Judges 10:6–12:7)
The tragic story of Jephthah, from Manasseh in Transjordan, culminates in his rash A vow is a promise or an oath. God promised to be Israel’s God, while in return the people vowed to be obedient to God’s commandments. In the book of 1 Samuel Hannah, the mother of Samuel, vowed to dedicate the life of her son… More resulting in the Sacrifice is commonly understood as the practice of offering or giving up something as a sign of worship, commitment, or obedience. In the Old Testament grain, wine, or animals are used as sacrifice. In some New Testament writings Jesus’ death on the cross as the… More of his daughter.
I. Ibzan, Elon, and Abdon, Minor Judges (Judges 12:8-15)
Another brief group of minor judges from The name of a son of Jacob and one of the tribes of Israel More and, in Abdon’s case, Ephraim is listed.
J. A judge noted for great physical strength More against the Philistines (Judges 13:1–16:31)
Samson, from the tribe of Dan, is unlike the other judges whom God raised up to deliver the people from oppression. Samson is, rather, a “hero” (or antihero) who exercises a personal vendetta against his opponents.
3. Two Supplements (Judges 17:1–21:25)
Judges closes with two appalling incidents that illustrate the anarchy that characterized the people when “there was no king in Israel, and all the people did what was right in their own eyes” (17:6; 21:25).
A. The Origin of the A sanctuary is the consecrated area around the altar of a church or temple. It also means a place of safety where one can flee for protection. In the Old Testament, especially in the Psalms, God is referred to as a sanctuary, a refuge from… More at A son of Jacob and tribe of Israel. More (Judges 17:1–18:31)
The migration of part of the tribe of Dan to the north is recounted through the story of the Danites’ theft of Micah’s Idolatry is the worship of something other than the true God. An idol may be a cult image, an idea, or an object made of wood or stone. Ome of the Ten Commandments specifically prohibits the worship of graven images or idols; this concern is… More to account for the establishment of the sanctuary at Dan.
B. Civil War (Judges 19:1–21:25)
Outrage at the rape and murder of a Levite’s concubine erupts into the near elimination of the tribe of Benjamin by the other tribes. Both these supplements illustrate the truth of the refrain “There was no king in Israel” (Judges 17:6; 18:1; 19:1; 21:25) and the depth of Israel’s degradation without a leader. As such, they prepare the way for the books of The judge who anointed the first two kings of Israel More. | <urn:uuid:23195f02-dccf-4302-b738-8177ec0321be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://enterthebible.org/courses/judges/lessons/outline-of-judges | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.936626 | 1,453 | 3.5 | 4 |
This week's presentation of Blawg Review is a treasure trove of Intellectual Property news and opinion, including something for everyone, patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, and cyber law.
Blawg Review #179 is being hosted on Securing Innovation, the business blog of IP.com, on the birthday of Laszlo Biro, to commemorate his invention of the ballpoint pen seventy years ago. Like many, I didn't know who invented the ubiquitous ballpoint pen that, in its original invention by Biro, was apparently very similar to the classic BIC Cristal. I was also surprised to learn from this week's Blawg Review that Laszlo Biro had many other inventions, including an automatic transmission, which he sold to GM.
Blawg Review links a patent attorney's preview of Flash of Genius, a movie about the guy who invented the intermittent windshield-wiper. Stephen Albainy-Jenei, at the Patent Baristas patent law blog, thinks he will like this movie.
Billed as educational while also inspiring and entertaining, the early reviews have been positive. The story is based on the true story of college professor and part-time inventor Robert Kearns’s (Greg Kinnear) long battle with the U.S. automobile industry and his fight to receive recognition for his invention. Kearns took on a battle that nobody thought he could win.Click here to watch the movie trailer, and check out this week's Blawg Review #179 for more surprises. Is the guy in the movie poster above reading our blog's sidebar on the right? You should!
Kearns invented and patented the intermittent windshield wiper mechanism for use in light rain or mist and tried to license it to the big automakers. They all rejected his idea and then some went ahead and put intermittent wipers in their cars beginning in 1969. In 1967, he received the first of more than 30 patents for his wipers. He sued Ford in 1978 and Chrysler in 1982 for patent infringement. | <urn:uuid:81ecb185-e360-476f-bd42-8b3c93a4cae3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blawgreview.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00538-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970994 | 414 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Four people from different parts of India find themsleves on the frontline of the Earth's biggest, most complex crisis—climate change
>>Earthwitness, directed by Akanksha Joshi, Produced by PSBT
Four people from four different parts of India find themselves on the frontline of the Earth's biggest, most complex crisis—climate change. Shikari Baiga is a Baiga adivasi who lives and works in Chhattisgarh. Doongra Rabaari is a semi-nomad who comes to herd his sheep in Gujarat. Seno Tsushah, a Chakesang Naga from Nagaland. Sukdev a farmer in the Sunderbans. Catch a preview of Earth Witness, Reflections on the Times and the Timeless. The documentary by Akanksha Joshi won the Best Film (Climate Change & Sustainable Technologies) Award and the Best Cinematography Award at the 6th CMS Vatavaran, screened at Mumbai International Film Festival 2012, and was nominated for the Wildscreen Awards. It has also won special jury mention at the International documentary and short film festival held in Kerala and the seventh European Environment Film Festival in Bulgaria.
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Should Congress decide the future of the tobacco industry
First, marketing and advertising. Documents disclosed in courts and Congress prove that tobacco companies have targeted and groomed the youth market to replace the 400,000 customers they “lose” each year. Studies show that young people are particularly susceptible to the industry’s marketing pitches. So effective have these companies been at appealing to youth, that many children can identify Joe Camel as readily as they do Barney or cartoon characters.
The bill would place vast advertising and marketing restrictions on the tobacco industry, including a ban on billboards and outdoor advertising at sports arenas, as well as a prohibition of color ads and the use of human and animal figures. It would restrict point-of-sale advertising to ensure that cigarette pitches aren’t directed at children and would require bold, new warning labels on cigarette packaging. And, the tobacco industry would not be permitted to pay Hollywood to have its products featured in entertainment media.
Second higher cigarette prices. Experts say the most important step to deter youth consumption is to hike the price of tobacco products. Health studies show that consumption of only a modest number of cigarettes can result in clinical addiction, and that higher pricing is essential to deter underage use. Accordingly, the bill would increase the price per pack of cigarettes by a minimum of $1.10 over five years. The Clinton administration believes that this hike, included in the president’s budget request, could cut youth consumption in half.
Third, youth smoking-reduction targets. Four-and-one-half million underage Americans use tobacco, and the number is growing.
The bill calls for a 60 percent reduction in youth consumption within 10 years and levies hefty financial penalties on the tobacco industry for failing to achieve them.
Fourth, stronger enforcement of rules for youth access to tobacco products. While smoking by minors is prohibited in every state, youths continue to buy tobacco. The bill would require that tobacco products be stored in areas inaccessible to youths and required retailers to “card” tobacco purchasers in the same manner as alcohol buyers. In addition, the bill would ban vending machines, except in adult facilities, and require face-to-face transactions where teens are present.
Fifth, cigarette-ingredient regulation. Cigarettes contain numerous active ingredients harmful to health, including nicotine, tar and ammonia. Evidence suggests that the tobacco industry has manipulated these ingredients to enhance their addictive qualities and, in some instances, added benign substances such as molasses to sweeten the taste for introductory users–our children.
The bill would permit the FDA to oversee and regulate tobacco products in order to protect public health and promote the development of safer cigarettes. However, any ban on nicotine, tobacco products or retail sales of tobacco could not go into effect for two years, enabling Congress time to act. Moreover, the FDA would have to consider the black-market potential of any modification to cigarettes that would push uses to seek contraband products.
Sixth, industry payments. Smoking-related health-care costs exceed a whopping $45 billion per year! The bill would require the industry to pay $516 billion during the next 25 years to reimburse taxpayers for costs to Medicare and state healthcare programs. These funds also would be employed to finance smoking-related health research, prevention and cessation activities, as well as to help innocent tobacco farmers and rural communities affected by changes in the industry.
Finally, the bill would place a cap on the tobacco industry’s exposure to legal liability without barring any individual or group’s ability to sue or receive compensation. The tobacco industry has successfully fended off lawsuits for years. However, should trends change and massive new judgments be awarded against the tobacco industry, bankruptcy is always a possibility.
Experts agree that bankruptcy is an undesirable outcome for the nation economically, legally and medically. Involving bankruptcy would permit the industry to shield itself from its financial responsibilities, including compensation to victims. When the asbestos companies went bankrupt and left the financial and legal mess that it still with us, only the lawyers made out. Moreover, the extinction of domestic manufacturers would simply push tobacco users to purchase foreign brands or unregulated contraband which would lead to a public-health crisis.
We have heard many opinions about whether the industry — at the end of the day — will submit to this legislation. Legal challenges, of course, would delay reforms, so industry cooperation would be advantageous. While public-health authorities insist that price hikes are the key to cutting underage smoking, they alone won’t do the job.
The proposed advertising restrictions and youth-usage penalties, which the industry is threatening to challenge, are essential pieces of the puzzle.
The National Tobacco Policy and Youth Smoking Reduction Act, however, was never intended to be a “deal” with the tobacco industry. Our mission was to pass the best possible legislation to stop youth smoking. That’s what the public has demanded and, with that goal in mind, the bill will be considered by the full Senate, where it will be further refined.
Tobacco is a legal products and the decision to use it, though risky, is a choice for adults to make. Nevertheless, the nation requires that the tobacco industry join us in the fight to protect our children. If they choose not to, the American people will respond accordingly. Congress will act, and the states will resume their lawsuits to extract in court what we might more efficiently achieve through cooperation.
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Mark A. Kay, M.D., Ph.D.
Dennis Farrey Family Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Genetics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMark A. Kay, M.D., Ph.D. Director of the Program in Human Gene Therapy and Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Genetics. Respected worldwide for his work in gene therapy for hemophilia, Dr. Kay and his laboratory focus on establishing the scientific principles and developing the technologies needed for achieving persistent and therapeutic levels of gene expression in vivo. The major disease models are hemophilia, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B viral infections.
Electron Kebebew, MD, FACS
Harry A. Oberhelman, Jr. and Mark L. Welton Professor
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsDr. Kebebew’s translational and clinical investigations have three main scientific goals: 1) to develop effective therapies for fatal, rare and neglected endocrine cancers, 2) to identify new methods, strategies and technologies for improving the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine neoplasms and the prognostication of endocrine cancers, and 3) to develop methods for precision treatment of endocrine tumors.
Saad A. Khan, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Oncology)
BioDr. Khan is a fellowship-trained cancer specialist with board certification in oncology and hematology. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology.
Dr. Khan focuses on the treatment of head and neck cancers, advanced thyroid cancers, and neuroendocrine tumors. He recognizes the broad effects of these conditions on daily living and aims to develop personalized, comprehensive treatment plans that optimize health and quality of life.
Dr. Khan’s research interests include therapeutic clinical trials as well as ways to reduce toxicities that some patients may experience when receiving cancer treatment. His research activities include ongoing clinical trials of targeted and immune therapy for aggressive thyroid cancer.
He has published numerous articles on his research discoveries in peer-reviewed journals such as the JAMA Oncology, Investigational New Drugs, and others. Topics include new drug treatments for small cell lung cancer and for cancers of the head and neck, racial and gender disparities in certain types of cancer, and management of the potentially toxic effects of cancer therapies.
Dr. Khan is a member of the NRG Head and Neck Committee. NRG brings together internationally recognized groups (the first words in their names form the acronym “NRG”) to conduct cancer clinical research and share study results. The objective is to inform clinical decision making and healthcare policy worldwide.
Dr. Khan is a member of the ECOG Head and Neck Core and Thoracic Committees. ECOG (Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group) is part of one of the five groups of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) National Clinical Trials Network (NCTN) Program.
He also is a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Central IRB for Early Phase Clinical Trials.
When not providing patient care or conducting research, Dr. Khan enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, and relaxing at the beach.
Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor and Professor of Chemistry and, by courtesy, of Biochemistry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch in this laboratory focuses on problems where deep insights into enzymology and metabolism can be harnessed to improve human health.
For the past two decades, we have studied and engineered enzymatic assembly lines called polyketide synthases that catalyze the biosynthesis of structurally complex and medicinally fascinating antibiotics in bacteria. An example of such an assembly line is found in the erythromycin biosynthetic pathway. Our current focus is on understanding the structure and mechanism of this polyketide synthase. At the same time, we are developing methods to decode the vast and growing number of orphan polyketide assembly lines in the sequence databases.
For more than a decade, we have also investigated the pathogenesis of celiac disease, an autoimmune disorder of the small intestine, with the goal of discovering therapies and related management tools for this widespread but overlooked disease. Ongoing efforts focus on understanding the pivotal role of transglutaminase 2 in triggering the inflammatory response to dietary gluten in the celiac intestine.
George A. and Hilda M. Daubert Professor of Chemistry
Current Research and Scholarly Interests• Design of cell-permeable reagents for profiling, modifying, and controlling RNAs
• Developing fluorescent probes of DNA repair pathways, with applications in cancer, aging, and neurodegenerative disease
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This post covers our activities for the months of May and June. We have largely been working from home over the last few months, and we have had to shift our focus to activities that can be done remotely. This means a lot of new items on Alaska’s Digital Archives, as well as a new topic guide on law in Alaska. Arlene also participated in an online forum hosted by Cook Inlet Historical Society.
Alaska’s Digital Archives
Added metadata to 20 photographs from the Leland Olson papers. Leland Olson traveled to many White Alice sites in Alaska and Canada during the construction of the telecommunications system.
11 letters and 1 colonist resettlement contract from the Thelma Caulkins papers. Digitized for for a university history teacher using them in a class on the New Deal.
115 photographs from the Hans J. Christensen family photograph album.
35 photographs and 1 event program from the Alaska Black Caucus, Inc. records.
62 transcriptions of Ruben Gaines recordings have been added to the description of those items. Thanks to Robin Hanson and Alice Cone for all their hard work in transcribing the recordings!
Law related collections. Our newest topic guide lists collections related to law in Alaska, including papers of lawyers and collections related to lawsuits. We’re working on converting all of our guides to this new format.
Arlene participated in an online forum hosted by Cook Inlet Historical Society and the Anchorage Museum on June 18. The forum was entitled: “We’re Saving It For You: The Value and Importance of Archives.” The panel included Dr. William Schneider, retired Professor and Oral Historian at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, Bruce Parham, retired archivist from the National Archives Anchorage branch, and Arabeth Balasko, archivist at the Anchorage Museum. | <urn:uuid:007f3f0f-361d-4745-8281-b0e454cb093e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archives.consortiumlibrary.org/2020/07/06/new-in-the-archives-may-june-2020/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.933084 | 380 | 1.5 | 2 |
With the right plan and the right discipline, you can get seriously shredded in just 28 days.Read article
The study consisted of a group of men and women over an eight-week period from Rutgers University. 22 participants suffered from depression and 30 were mentally healthy participants. Researchers had each participant start with 30 minutes of meditation followed by 30 minutes of aerobic exercise. Participants were also told that if their thoughts drifted to past events during the workout, they should refocus their breathing. This technique allows those with depression to accept “moment-to-moment changes in attention.”
“Scientists have known for a while that both of these activities alone can help with depression,” Tracey Shors of the Department of Psychology and Center for Collaborative Neuroscience says, “but this study suggests that when done together, there is a striking improvement in depressive symptoms along with increases in synchronized brain activity.”
In the end, participants in the study who suffered from depression had a 40 percent reduction in depression-related symptoms.
Depression can be debilitating, affecting one in five Americans at one point during their life. Common treatments for depression have been medications that regulate brain chemicals and cognitive behavioral therapy. Ultimately, the goal of the study is to demonstrate that new coping skills can be acquired by individuals to better control stressful life events.
“By learning to focus their attention and exercise,” Shors says, “people who are fighting depression can acquire new cognitive skills that can help them process information and reduce the overwhelming recollection of memories from the past.” | <urn:uuid:a465054f-1e91-4d33-b0a1-76853fb06f61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.muscleandfitness.com/muscle-fitness-hers/hers-features/exercise-and-meditation-can-help-you-beat-depression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.96855 | 320 | 2.625 | 3 |
Traditional agriculture methods could help protect food supplies and make agriculture more resilient to the effects of climate change, a report by the UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) said today.
Traditional knowledge, rather than modern methods, has helped indigenous people in countries like China, Kenya and Bolivia to cope with extreme weather and environmental change, the report said.
“Policies, subsidies, research and intellectual property rights promote a few modern commercial varieties and intensive agriculture at the expense of traditional crops and practices,” said Krystyna Swiderska, senior researcher at the IIED and lead author of the study.
“This is perverse as it forces countries and communities to depend on an ever decreasing variety of crops and threatens with extinction the knowledge and biological diversity that form the foundations of resilience.”
Traditional methods include using local plants to control pests, choosing crop varieties which tolerate extreme conditions such as droughts and floods and planting a variety of crops to hedge bets against uncertain futures.
Policymakers agree that agriculture needs to be adapted to cope with rising temperatures, variable rainfall and extreme weather events to ensure future food security.
However, government policies have largely overlooked long-established agricultural practices in favour of intensifying production through modern methods, the report said.
Next month, governments will meet at a U.N. climate summit in Durban, South Africa, to work on securing a deal to cut greenhouse gas emissions and climate aid for developing countries.
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Winfield, city (1990 pop. 11,931), seat of Cowley co., S central Kans., on the Walnut River; inc. 1873. The economy is based on agriculture and oil and gas wells. Among Winfield's manufactures are plastic and metal products, machinery, and heating equipment. Southwestern College is there.
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Personally, I'm a statue freak so I think people should keep as many statues as possible in their cities. Obviously I understand the impulse to knock down Saddam's statues and I won't blame people if they do it, but I hope that a few are at least left standing as exemplars of what was, after all, a significant period in Iraqi history. They should also consider putting up new statues of other people so that the country doesn't undergo sudden statue depletion. Fortunately, Mesopotamian history is filled with commemorable figures going all the way back to the days of Gilgamesh.Oddly enough, Saddam may stick around. One of the phenomena that I remember hearing about in conversation a while ago was that statues of Soviet-era Russian leaders and politicians are either going back up in their places of honor or there is significant agitation to do so- up to and including KGB leaders, not the most desirous lot.
I don't see this as being about the policies and actions of the figures in question, of course. The thing is, Yglesias' idea that "it's a significant part of their history" may well be echoed by the people of Iraq themselves, especially if the rebuilding doesn't go as well as hoped (again, see Russia) and many Iraqis start thinking that they would be better off now if they were under Saddam. This would be a huge embarassment to the United States, of course, as (unlike in Russia) the United States was instrumental in the end of Saddam's regime and any nostalgia for said period is a pretty direct rebuke of the U.S., but that's why the rebuilding is so important.
Unfortunately, according to this piece, which implies that many within the government want to bail out fairly soon:
These officials are leaning toward a quick exit from a country that U.S.-led forces conquered in less than a month. The administration remains committed to repairing and rebuilding war-damaged infrastructure, in many cases to standards considerably higher than before the war started, a senior defense official said. Indeed, San Francisco-based Bechtel Group was just awarded an initial $34.6 million contract to rebuild airports, water and electricity systems, roads and railroads.Oops. This could be disasterous. These officials are apparently willing to do the easy stuff (that is, not coincidentially, highly profitable to American companies doing the rebuilding) but not the hard stuff: actually building that democracy that they've been talking about. On a certain level I do sympathize- the longer the American presence, the louder the cries of "colonization", and the behavior of the U.S. to date hasn't exactly disproved that claim. (I wonder how many Iraqis are going to know the name "Halliburton" before this is over?) Still, it's manifestly obvious that the wealth of Iraq could pay for the reconstruction whether or not the U.S. army is there, and it is also obvious that Bush's rhetoric compels him to not just rebuild infrastructure, but play midwife to a middle eastern democracy as much as he is able.
But the far larger task of ensuring that Iraq emerges as a representative democracy friendly to U.S. interests and operating with a free-market economy would be left to an Iraqi interim authority, which could control key aspects of Iraqi governance within months.
If he cannot do that, and pulls out, then he only demonstrates that Afghanistan's current woes are part-and-parcel of Bush-style "regime change". Those that look back nostalgically at order and prosperity (such as existed in Iraq when it wasn't embroiled in warfare of one kind or another) will want to rebuild not just Saddam's statue, but Saddam's governing style. Interwar Germany all over again.
edit. Kevin Drum posited the eminently sensible idea of letting the U.N. get involved:
A few days ago I suggested that since there were big problems with both a prolonged American presence in Iraq and with a quick pullout, a strong role for the UN would be a good compromise. What I meant, of course, was that a true multinational presence is the best long run solution, and since the UN is the only serious multinational organization we have with experience in nation building and peacekeeping, the UN it is.He quotes David Adesnik's anti-U.N. argument, but as Adesnik's (or at least that of his argument) conception of U.N. involvement appears to be limited entirely to the oil-for-food program, the IMF, and the World Bank, I think it can be safely dismissed. There's more to the U.N. than those, and I'd question whether he believes that the U.N. is ever successful.
(He also demonstrates a possible inability to understand the job that's necessary when describing a successful rebuilding occupation as "temporary"; as opposed to permanent, maybe, but that's a pretty long "temporary"- and what's with pulling out the "bipartisan consensus" canard that died in the 2002 election?)
No, the real problem is whether the U.N. even really wants the job. I'm sure that more than a few American policymakers who aren't wedded to the anti-U.N. neocon faction would love the U.N. to move in, pick up the job, and pick up the tab. That's the problem, though- since the U.N. didn't support the war, their legitimacy as a body that can confer legitimacy to military action would be even further eroded if they did move in, as they would be seen by all and sundry as an American handmaiden. So it looks like it'll be an American job, not a U.N. one. The U.N. may do it, but it'd create more problems than it solves.
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Visualization technology improves lab experience
By May 2011, Carnegie Mellon’s civil and environmental engineering (CEE) department will be home to the IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab. The lab will be comprised of three main components: a high-end analytics and computing center known as the “Cloud,” a videoconference collaboration lab, and the CAVE, a fully immersive, three-dimensional interactive environment. The videoconference lab will enhance already existing connections between Carnegie Mellon researchers and their partners across the country and around the world.
The CAVE is the latest 3-D visualization technology from EON Reality, Inc. This three-dimensional environment, called the ICube, will consist of three rear-projection walls to display images portraying the desired environment. The ICube will provide a new interface for viewing data, including MATLAB or GIS plans for new construction, CAD designs for a jet plane, and even the anatomy of the human body.
The IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab will primarily be used for CEE researchers and students, but its visualization capabilities can aid other researchers as well.
Emily Walker, a junior materials science major, said, “If they expanded this technology to model a product, a crystal, or a circuit, it would be good for people in other engineering departments too.”
According to the EON website, users wearing lightweight glasses with infrared tracking will be able to move freely about the ICube as the system monitors their position and orientation within the environment. Then, the technology will stream stereoscopic images of the virtual environment onto the walls taking the user’s changing perspective into account.
The IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab CAVE will accept user input via an Xbox controller.
The Smarter Infrastructure Lab will be just one component of a greater initiative: the Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator (PSII). The PSII is co-sponsored by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, IBM, and the aircraft manufacturing company Bombardier, Inc.
These sponsors’ donations will directly enrich Carnegie Mellon’s own research and graduate programs in the smart infrastructure area that spans a number of departments and colleges, especially that of the Advanced Infrastructure Systems (AIS) program in CEE.
CEE faculty members in the AIS group include the CEE department head, James H. Garrett Jr., along with Burcu Akinci, Mario Bergés, Irving Oppenheim, Lucio Soibelman, Scott Matthews, Chris Hendrickson, and Susan Finger.
According to Garrett and Soibelman, the central focuses of AIS research include infrastructure and facilities design, construction, and operations.
The research field encompasses both the built environment and the natural environment.
“We’re exploring how sensing, information modeling, information management, data mining, and intelligent-decision support can be applied to the processes of constructing and managing infrastructure,” Garrett said.
Cataloging the existing cracks in the sewer pipeline system, knowing the stress and strain capacities of public bridges, and accurately predicting the costs of future road repairs are all important to city policy-makers and contractors.
“Our infrastructure is in bad shape. There doesn’t seem to be enough money available to truly address all the different demands for replacement of that infrastructure,” Garrett said, while explaining that emergency response costs up to three times as much as planned response and repair. “So information is key. It’s why IBM is very interested in this area.”
Soibelman added that it is a civil engineer’s ability to delay expenditures and optimize repairs. “People think about installing sensors on a bridge to be used as an alarm that the bridge is about to collapse.... But I could add sensors in bridges that the city is planning to destroy ... and by the sensor I can prove that I can use this bridge for several more years in a safe way.”
Both Garrett and Soibelman agreed that collecting, analyzing, and visualizing information are important processes in civil engineering. They believe that the IBM Smarter Infrastructure Lab will help them and their colleagues to present and transmit data in a clear, concise manner.
“All this information will be integrated and able to be visualized in ways that will help decision-makers make decisions. Because, in the end, our goal is to make sure a decision-maker makes the right decision as soon as possible and spends the least amount of money to have the highest quality operational infrastructure,” Garrett said.
“We can tell the city to fix this pipe or fix that pipe, and they can trust us, or we can find a way of showing them visually in a way that they say, ‘Ah, that makes sense,’ ” Soibelman said. “Visualization has that power.” | <urn:uuid:7f8370f5-fe44-4198-b1d2-97b62bfe4dbb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thetartan.org/2011/2/14/news/i_cube | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00246-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924359 | 988 | 2.59375 | 3 |
You’re probably getting ready to sort out last year’s financial records and prepare for this year’s record keeping. But what should you keep and what can you throw away? Here are some suggestions.
Keep records that directly support income or expense items on your tax return. For income, this includes W-2s, 1099s, and Form K-1s. Also keep records of any other income you might have received from other sources. It’s also a good idea to save your bank statements and investment statements from brokers.
For expense items, keep documentation that supports any itemized deductions you claim. This includes acknowledgments from charitable organizations and backup for taxes paid, mortgage interest, medical deductions, work expenses, and miscellaneous deductions. Even if you don’t itemize, keep records of expenses for child care, medical insurance if you’re self-employed, and any other expenses that appear on your return.
The IRS can audit you routinely for three years after you file your return. But in cases where income is underreported, they can audit for up to six years. To be safe, keep your tax records for seven years.
Keep certain other records even longer. These include records relating to your house purchase and any improvements you make. Also keep records of investment purchases, dividends reinvested, and any major gifts you make or receive. And finally, keep copies of all your tax returns and W-2s in case you ever need to prove your earnings for social security purposes.
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Thursday, June 10, 1999 Published at 09:27 GMT 10:27 UK
Warp drive possible
Light speed travel would make exploring the Universe feasible
By BBC News Online Science Editor Dr David Whitehouse
In Star Trek, the USS Enterprise is powered by what is called a "warp drive" and at the moment only Paramount Pictures know its secrets.
The analysis of the concept of a warp drive by Chris Van Den Broeck of the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium means that building a starship Enterprise is a little closer.
The fabric of space
Dr Van Den Broeck was reanalysing ground-breaking calculations made five years ago by Mexican mathematician Miguel Alcubierre.
The idea relies on the concept that, to physicists, space is not empty. Strange as it may seem, space has a shape that can be distorted by matter. In fact the force of gravity is actually due to the curvature of space - recognising that was the greatest triumph of Albert Einstein's career.
So you could use matter to distort the space around a starship to create a "ripple" in spacetime.
The starship would have to be microscopically small on the outside but large enough on the inside to carry passengers, just like the Tardis in the British sci-fi series, Dr Who.
Miguel Alcubierre came up with the idea of expanding the space behind a starship and contracting it in front of it. The starship would rest in a "warp bubble" between the two spacetime distortions. The result would be a wave in spacetime along which the starship would surf.
Also, the starship and its crew would be weightless and would therefore not be crushed by the enormous G-forces of acceleration and deceleration.
What's more, the passage of time inside the warp bubble would be the same as that outside it. The crew would not suffer from Einstein's "time dilation" effect where time passes at different rates for people travelling at different speeds.
The time dilation effect means that anyone travelling to the stars at speeds approaching that of light would experience a journey of a few years. But when they came back to Earth they would find that thousands of years had passed and all their friends were long dead.
Alcubierre's idea was a good one, but his work seemed to suggest that building a warp bubble would be impossible in practice. More energy than the entire universe could supply would be needed to create the spacetime distortions.
However, Dr Van Den Broeck's analysis suggests a far lower amount of energy is required, reduced by a factor of one followed by 62 zeros.
This is not to say that it is time to go out and start building a warp drive. As Dr Van Den Broeck says in his forthcoming paper in General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology: "This does not mean that the proposal is realistic."
Building a warp drive is currently far beyond our technological abilities and there are severe theoretical arguments that say it may never be possible.
But it just might be. Dr Van Den Broeck concludes his analysis by saying, "The first warp drive is still a long way off but maybe it has now become slightly less improbable." | <urn:uuid:0c5be39e-2aec-44a1-816a-ec829334847e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/364496.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970979 | 663 | 3.8125 | 4 |
Financial planner Michael Kitces thinks a hybrid income annuity/long-term care insurance policy could be the solution to a riddle economists have puzzled over for years.
Economists have long argued that there’s a perfect financial product for retirement: the humble immediate income annuity.
It’s a straightforward proposition: Fork over a big chunk of cash to an insurance company, which starts sending a monthly check when you retire – or later. The cash keeps coming as long as you live.
The immediate annuity, which also goes by the name of single premium income annuity (SPIA), offers effective protection against longevity risk, which is the risk of outliving your money. It comes with an intriguing special sauce, euphemistically known as the “mortality credit.” That simply means insurance companies use the unpaid assets of folks who die at younger ages to pay out to those who live longer, and it allows an annuity to have comparatively high payout rates.
But economists also talk about an “annuity puzzle.” Namely, if SPIAS are such a perfect retirement vehicle, why do so few people buy them? Sales totaled $7.7 billion last year, according to LIMRA, the insurance industry research and consulting group. That’s a drop in the bucket compared with IRAs and workplace retirement plans, where $5.3 trillion were invested last year, according to the Investment Company Institute.
One oft-heard response to the annuity puzzle is that retirees fear a SPIA won’t pay off if they don’t live very long. Another big objection is the loss of liquidity associated with an annuity purchase. What happens if you get really ill, or lightning cracks your roof in half?
Now, that fear is getting a close look in a study by two economists, who attempted to quantify what happens to the value of an immediate annuity when an unexpected health shock occurs. Their conclusion: health shocks can produce a unique double-whammy for annuity buyers: a sharp decline in life expectancy, which cuts the remaining value of the annuity, and the unmet need for cash to pay for care. They conclude that for risk-averse retirees, or for those with limited retirement assets, the best move is to avoid annuities altogether. | <urn:uuid:93b7fe02-216d-4999-a7f5-d85795d45712> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://retirementrevised.com/the-income-annuity-puzzle-why-dont-more-people-use-them/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951716 | 474 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The Akai MPC series of sampler workstations, originally designed by electronic drum guru Roger Linn, are instruments of legend in the hip-hop community. Their responsive pads and classic swing grooves made them perfect for beat-makers, who would dissect samples from records, map them out across the pads, then sequence patterns on the fly.
This type of pad-based jamming can be replicated with a regular drum sampler plugin. Begin by mapping out a handful of melodic samples over different pads, then tune and roughly level each one. By punching out riff ideas with a MIDI keyboard or pad controller, a basic combination of samples can be auditioned in time with your beat and bass groove. Each sample can be reversed, enveloped or edited individually. If any samples don't fit the bill, simply scroll through your samples folder to find another.
With the accompanying audio examples, you'll hear our basic groove and piano stabs slowly develop into a collage of keys, vocal chops and samples.
Step 1: A stuttering, sample-based hook would suit this bare hip-hop groove, so we open a drum sampler (NI's Battery 4) and load a selection of stab samples across several pads. Our sampler's mixer channel is sent to a short reverb, which will place the sounds in the same 'room'.
Step 2: It's quick and easy to come across a starting point for a riff, simply by cycling through sounds in our samples folder while jamming notes on a MIDI keyboard. A few basic piano stabs are recorded in, with a longer harp sample slotting in between.
Step 3: The piano needs more treble, so a second high-passed piano hit is layered over the first. Battery 4's master saturation and limiting effects are applied, dirtying up the various samples and helping them sound like they all emerge from the same 'sampled' source.
Step 4: A small vocal chop, guitar hit and other stabs are recorded in around the main hits. These new elements are treated in different ways; most are layered with other pitched-down sounds, reversed, stuttered and filtered to help them fit together in the mix.
Step 5: Once the main groove has been created, a final edit section is crafted by pitching down duplicate copies of the harp and vocal. To make the most of this change, we mute the drums and bass for the final beat of the track, isolating the new melodic elements.
Step 6: EQ is applied to Battery 4's output - a first instance removes bloated mid frequencies, then a second device lifts up the high-mid and treble ranges. For unity and levelling, liberal analogue-style compression slams the sounds together even more. | <urn:uuid:8863029a-4fba-4c6c-9a54-be64fb9e655c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.musicradar.com/tuition/tech/comment-poser-un-groove-a-partir-de-samples-613461 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00188-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937254 | 565 | 1.875 | 2 |
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Utility Cart Safety - Small electrical or gas-powered carts are used to perform a wide variety of tasks. These carts are commonly known as utility, industrial, service, electric carts. This program is designed to outline safety responsibilities on utility carts. | <urn:uuid:005d8240-8f83-42c5-b886-3d61bfd4eb1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wave.atlantictraining.com/course/utility-cart-safety-online-interactive-training | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.95635 | 96 | 1.78125 | 2 |
It is time for a National inquiry into the Family Law Court. This inquiry should seek to understand if decisions are balanced and fair for both parties. A system of review and redress should follow.
Listening to the stories of men
Over the past year, I have engaged with men online and their stories about their experiences with Family Court matters. I have also been privy to the stories of men I know personally and their experiences within the Family Court system in Australia. I have found these stories to be quite alarming.
I believe there is a system of unfairness. There are indeed enough personal recounts that I have personally come across to conclude that some/many men appear to be on the receiving end of injustice and unfairness within the Family Court system. It is fair to assume that this extends beyond my own networks and could indeed be a prevalent experience amongst men.
The child should always be placed at the centre of the policy framework. The best outcome for the child should be to have regular physical and emotional contact with both parents, wherever possible.
I am a strong believer that if there is no violence, where neither parent, nor child is in danger from the other; that both parents have the same right to be involved fully in their child’s life. That should be seen as fair and just. If that means that neither parent can leave the geographical area, then so be it.
For some men, this is not a complex matter of whom the child lives with; but it is simply a matter of being given ‘permission’ to have physical contact with their own child on a regular basis – to simply be involved. That basic right should always be decided upon in a fair and just manner, with the child at the centre of the decision. Not the desires of either parent placed at the centre of the decision.
Just one of the stories
One personal story told to me recently, was from a young father. He has fought to be able to spend time with his child since the day she was born. The mother had already decided “her baby” did not need a father, prior to the birth (his personal recount and he showed me text messages to the same effect). The father has seen the child for only 32 days out of 530 days, despite a mediated parenting agreement being in place. I am reassured that there was/is no violence and no unusual circumstances. The existing mediated agreement also support this is not the case. This is just a simple story of a father who wants to be involved in his child’s life.
In this instance, the mother has moved five times. The father has travelled to various places to see his child all in the relatively close geographical area, up to an hour and a half away. However, recently the mother took the child and moved 2,500 km’s away across three states without telling the father. One day she did not show up at the agreed place to deliver the child to the father for his scheduled visit at his home. The mother was unable to be contacted for months.
The mother ignored the parenting agreement already decided upon in mediation in the court system during the first round of appeal by the father to spend time with his child (Legal proceedings commenced from the day the child was born). The mother removed the child and took the child to live three states away in the period between the court mediated parenting agreement and the official court ruling (which I understand confirms the parenting agreement agreed to at mediation).
After a court battle instigated by the father (which has been ongoing since the birth of the child), the judge decided ‘although it is not ideal’ he will be at least ‘allowed’ to Skype his child twice a week. The judge acknowledged the mother broke the parenting agreement but ruled that the mother does not have to return the child to the same geographical area so the father can have regular access.
This was because the mother has relatives in the state she moved to. The mother also has relatives in the area the child was born and removed from. However, this was not taken into account. Most importantly, the fact that the child has the other parent – a key and major relative back where the child was moved from – was completely ignored.
His new reality
The father’s involvement in the child’s life will be via a screen on an I-Phone – twice per week. The Skype calls so far have been about 15 minutes long. The child is under two years old. The father is around 20 years old. For this young man, the legal battle to see his child continues. He has been informed to appeal this, he needs to travel three states away and appeal the matter in the court where the mother now resides.
For men with little income, how do they cope with this, let alone the emotional turmoil?
The most difficult part for me as the recipient of this story, was the feeling of helplessness for the father who is so distraught at being punished because, in his own words:
“I have done everything the court has said to do. I followed the agreement. I have done nothing wrong. She has done everything wrong. How is that fair? How is that fair?”
If listening to this brings forth such distressing emotions for me, a third party – what is the actual emotional toll on the father? I conclude it is insurmountable.
How many stories similar to this young man’s story are there?
Why does this matter?
The impetus for my writing this is a question from this father: “What is the point of a parenting agreement, if one party can just break it?” How is that fair? After hearing this story, it appears that mediated agreements have no weight as a legal mechanism to protect the rights of either parent. In this case – the father’s rights.
If there is no case for violence, danger or unusual circumstances (drugs/alcohol etc.), laws need to be reviewed to ensure that the child is placed at the centre of decisions made and fairness for both parties prevails.
I am not a family law expert and I declare that I have no experience in studying family law and I do not understand the complexities of the system. However, I am an individual who sees patterns in narrative. It is patterns in narrative – in stories of lived experience which set the foundations of how our society is shaped. I have developed the belief that there is something wrong with the shape of this part of our society at present.
The patterns in narrative I am seeing are raw, emotional, frightening and alarming. I simply have to say… or do something. I cannot have a platform such as a blog and remain silent on this matter. I don’t see the point of being someone who is actively engaged politically just to ignore what I am hearing. I don’t see the point of labelling myself a liberal feminist, or a democratic socialist, if I ignore a blatant area of inequality which can be redressed by a review of the existing law and on what basis decisions are made.
The stories I have engaged with online and amongst others within my own networks, all point to that men are overwhelmingly experiencing injustice and inequality in Family Law cases and there is an pool of emotional pain that is as vast as it is deep. There simply must be a better solution. With same sex couples also with families, the notion of the woman having prominence of all decisions can no longer be the norm and should never have been. This should never be about gender. The child simply must be at the centre of this policy debate.
For those of us who claim to be for equality and social justice, we must ask why more attention is not being paid to men who are self harming, who are in severe emotional distress and who are also taking their own lives, because of decisions in the family court.
This is not my story. I am merely the story-teller. As a woman, I do not have this experience as a father. I have been told by men that this is their reality – this is their lived experience due to decisions of the Family Court of Australia.
Gathering evidence for a proposal
I simply seek to bring a proposal to the two political major parties and advocate that they take a serious view of the stories of men. I will be seeking that they agree to bi-partisan support.
Once I have gathered enough evidence for a proposal, I will ask that they recommend a National Inquiry into the Family Court of Australia. I will also ask that they seek to implement an operational strategy where cases can be re-heard and a system of redress is put into place.
To assist me in gathering evidence for a proposal, I have developed a short questionnaire (see below). Please feel free to share your story and opinion by completing the survey below. The purpose of this short questionnaire is to collect stories from men who feel they have experienced injustice in the Family Court of Australia.
These stories will be used to identify main themes to highlight where there may be consistent areas of inequality. You may use a pseudonym and please do not include any identifying details.
This proposal will be sent to Ministers and politicians relevant to this area, to advocate for a national review of the Family Court of Australia; including a proposal for a system of individual review and redress, where inequality is identified.
From the information gathered, other suggestions will also be proposed, as per the lived experience of men who have completed this survey.
My aim is not about one gender winning or one gender losing, but ensuring that this is brought to light so we have an actual system of fairness and the child is placed at the centre of any decisions made.
Please note this is a point of advocacy. It is not a guaranteed solution. I do not know what the outcome will be, but this needs to start somewhere. | <urn:uuid:b7c20386-9b58-4e2a-bf6b-40fa38bef0a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://polyfeministix.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/family-court-of-australia-mens-experiences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.976272 | 2,015 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Folly Tower
“The great point of the Tower is that it will be entirely useless”
Berners’ response when asked by the planning subcommittee what exactly was the point of the Tower.
Lord Berners had more fun with his choice of architect. Knowing that his friend Lord Wellesley detested gothic architecture, Berners commissioned him to build a gothic folly. But while Berners was abroad Wellesley defiantly built the Tower in austere classical style. With all but ten feet to go, Berners returned home.
Irately, he insisted that the Tower be finished off in Gothic, thus explaining the rather curious mixture of styles.
Interesting invoice showing the Tower cost £2151 to build, with fees of £129.
Lord Berners, and others on site at the Tower
Whilst walking on Folly Hill in the early 1930s, Lord Berners flippantly remarked to his companion Robert Heber-Percy that “this Hill needs a Tower”. This was overheard, and wild rumours flew, leading to fierce local objections. Amused, Berners decided to tease his objectors and, wittily defeating all opposition, he obtained his planning permission with the proviso that the Tower could only be higher than the surrounding trees by three feet.
Opening of the Tower. Tatler 1935
Photographs of the guests and account of the opening
Opening of the Folly Tower extract from Faringdon Advertiser 2007
Newspaper account of the Firework display
Lord Weymouth at the opening of the Tower
Tolkien and The Folly Tower extract from The Observer May 2020
All about the Folly from The Folly Flaneuse website 2022
Faringdon Tower, (and a novel idea)
Whatever your views about the eccentric architecture of the last Folly to be built in England, the views from the top are not in question and are quite simply breathtaking. | <urn:uuid:3240d1a0-8b37-410e-8925-02ebdbd12d9b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.faringdonfolly.org.uk/folly-tower.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.959506 | 410 | 2.484375 | 2 |
We probably can't prove that "Soldier Matthew" is the same as "Family Matthew", but we can seek to demonstrate that they are not the same person. If, for example, the military records show that Soldier Matthew was serving overseas at the time that Family Matthew got married, we would conclude that they were different men.
The discharge record has a hand-drawn table in the left margin, which appears to enumerate Matthew Stretch's service record:
85th Regiment 2 Years
99th Regiment 3 1/2 Years
East Norfolk Regiment 3 Years
Royal East London Militia 8 1/2 years
(The lower line is hard to read, and continues into the fold, but it reads "Royal East" by comparison with the line above, and thus is presumed to be the Royal East London Regiment, where Matthew finally served. There appears to be a line drawn under the "8 1/2" suggesting a summation.)
This gives us a total service of about 17 years (give or take a bit, obviously) ending in 1805. On the second page of the discharge record it states 18 1/2 years service instead. That can't be accurately derived from the numbers in the table, but perhaps the table figures are rounded down to the nearest half year, while their sum without such rounding is 18.5. I'll use 17 years below as it's less constrictive, and I don’t think it changes the analysis significantly.
So the very latest Matthew can have enlisted is ~1788 if all periods of service were contiguous, but I will not assume that they were (he would have been nearly 30 at such time, which is older than a typical recruit). I will, however, assume that all individual periods of service were contiguous, as otherwise there are just too many unknowns. My understanding is that "popping in and out of one's regiment" was not common practice, in any case. I will also assume that the periods of service took place in the tabulated order.
Typical enlistment ages appear to be late teens and early twenties, but younger is not unknown (even in Matthew's likely extended family). Assuming that Matthew didn't lie significantly about his age, a date of ~1775 seems like a reasonable lower bound for his enlistment date. That leaves roughly a 13-year window in which his service might have started.
So can we work out when Matthew might have served in each regiment, and does this help? This basically becomes a bit like one of those logic problems where we must (for some reason) work out which vicar went to the opera wearing a purple hat…
The 85th Regiment (2 Years)
Soldier Matthew's first regiment, the 85th Regiment of Foot, has had three incarnations:
1) 1759 - 1763 as the "Royal Volontiers"
2) 1779 - 1783 as the "Westminster Volunteers"
3) 1793 - 1881 as the "Bucks Volunteers", later the "King's Light Infantry"
Clearly, #1 is too early for Matthew, and #3 is too late, as 1793 is well past the 1788 cutoff noted above. So we can conclude that Matthew first served in the Westminster Volunteers for about 2 years in that 1779-1783 period. (Some sources suggest 1778 instead of 1779 for when the 85th was raised. This may be from ambiguity in records, or might reflect when the process started and finished. I'm not sure what the convention is here.)
Significantly, a starting date of ~1788 (from fully contiguous service periods) simply isn't compatible with joining the 85th as his first regiment, as it didn't exist then. So either Matthew's periods of service were not contiguous, or the order in the table is incorrect. As noted above, I've assumed the former and not the latter.
The Westminster Volunteers were not a fortunate regiment. They were sent to Jamaica in 1780, where:
Decimated by disease in Jamaica, what had been described as “one of the finest corps that ever left the shores of England” was reduced to 71 men in two years; sent back to England in 1782
Worse was to come:
1782 - greater part of regiment perished on board the Ville de Paris three-decker and other French prizes taken in Rodney's action with the Comte de Grasse, which were swept away by a cyclone off Newfoundland, when homeward bound
It appears that the main troop carrier sank, and few of the 85th made it home. Matthew might have been one of those lucky, battered few, or he could perhaps have transferred out before they sailed in 1830.
Summary: The likely service period in the 85th was ~1779-1780.
The 99th Regiment (3.5 Years)
The 99th Regiment of Foot also had multiple incarnations:
1) 1760 - 1763
2) 1779 - 1783 (the Jamaica Regiment)
3) 1793 - 1797 (disbanded in Demerara, men drafted into 39th Dorsetshire Regt of Foot)
4) Three more, too late to consider.
Again, #1 is too early, and #3 is too late for Matthew's service to fit, so he must have served in #2. 3.5 years service is approximately the entire duration of that regiment's existence, so he must have joined close to the start. He cannot have been in the 85th at the same time, so he must likely have moved from the 85th in ~1780 - before that regiment sailed to Jamaica, thereby avoiding their tribulations. The 99th took him to Jamaica anyway.
Summary: The likely service period in the 99th was ~1780-1783.
The 9th Regiment (3 Years)
The East Norfolk Regiment was raised back in 1685, became the 9th Regiment of Foot in 1747 and then the 9th East Norfolk Regiment in 1782. At that point the regiment was based in Norwich to build up strength, so there's a good chance that Matthew enlisted there after returning home following the disbanding of the 99th. Before that date, the 9th had been in the Americas for over a decade (including three years of captivity) until 1781, so Matthew can't realistically have been in the 9th before 1782.
A book, "The Ninth, or the East Norfolk, Regiment of Foot", compiled by Richard Cannon and published in 1848, has a timeline for the regiment which includes this relevant section (from archive.org):
1783 Designated "The Ninth, or East Norfolk" Regiment
1784 Marched to Scotland
1785 Embarked for Ireland
1788 Embarked for West Indies
1796 Re-embarked for England
If Matthew had joined the 9th shortly prior to 1788, he would have spent nearly another decade in the West Indies, which doesn't fit with his 3 years service. So he must have left before 1788. His three years fits flexibly between 1783 and 1788, and so he probably went to Scotland and/or Ireland during his service.
Summary: The likely service period in the 9th was ~1783/4/5-1786/7/8.
The Royal East London Militia
Matthew had 8.5 years of service in the Royal East London Militia in March 1805. Assuming that was contiguous, and that it ended in 1805, that means he enlisted in around 1796. He can't have joined before then without a break in service, which I have assumed did not occur.
Summary: The likely service period in the RELM was ~1796-1805
So that leaves a gap between ~1785 and ~1796. What could he have been doing in this time?
Well, if we go back to the "Family Matthew" Stretch who married Elizabeth Flight, there's a happy coincidence. Matthew and Elizabeth married in 1788 and had children from 1789 to 1804. The marriage and first few children fit perfectly within that 1785-1796 gap in military service. The Royal East London Militia would not have travelled far (an archived regiments.org page suggests <12 miles), so the continuation of their family during that period is plausible.
Now we can, tentatively, build up a parallel timeline for the two Matthews:
There does not appear to be any clear conflict between the two timelines, so we can rule out neither the "One Matthew" nor the "Two Matthews" models. Typical. Baptism records for Family Matthew's children mention an occupation of "Porter" or "Painter" (and one I can't read) but none, alas, note him as a militiaman. "Painter" is one point of overlap between the records for the two Matthews (the other being approximate age). Although that was surely not an uncommon occupation, in combination with an uncommon name it looks more relevant.
So the military record does not show that Matthew the soldier was a different person to Matthew the father. Instead it provides a rather convenient fit to the family records. This isn't proof, of course, but it starts to look reasonable given the paucity of alternatives. I still don't have a birth/baptism record for Matthew - the only good match was born in the wrong Norwich parish and died in infancy. So there may be missing records or still some errors in the above work.
There are still questions, though, that might undermine all of this. Is a ~10 year gap in service between the 9th and the Militia plausible as described above? Would there not have been a pension or other record from his earlier service period to ~1785, or would that have been replaced by the 1805 one? Are the changes of regiment reasonable? Anything that makes the service record analysis "not work" (for example, requiring a single contiguous block of service) would instantly nullify Soldier Matthew as a match for Family Matthew. That would be disappointing, but still a valuable and important result.
Even so, I don't think the service pattern as tabulated can work in a single block to 1805, as the 85th and 99th didn't exist at the right times. And even with reordering (which I haven't analysed in proper detail yet), the 9th spent 1776-1781 in the Americas, which makes it hard to fit into an alternative order.
In summary, a comparison of military and civilian records may identify conflicts that allow the elimination of candidates. This particular case yields a convenient lack of conflict, allowing the "One Matthew" model to survive alongside the "Two Matthews" model. I think the "One Matthew" tree is probably correct, but I'm keen to know if there's anything else that can be pulled out of these (or other) records, which might settle the question once and for all. | <urn:uuid:baa377ed-e7d7-49d3-857e-4ecca536f5cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://genealogy.stackexchange.com/questions/12467/correlating-military-and-civil-records-for-one-or-two-individuals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.981736 | 2,261 | 2.515625 | 3 |
As a physician I am endless intrigued
by the processes of adaptation that has led to our being on this
earth; and I am amazed that these processes show up so dramatically
in our differing politics. So for those wishing to think a bit deeper
than soundbites here's my two cents' worth.
Bacteria are the oldest life forms on this planet with evidence of their presence close to four billion years ago. Over the next two billion years they adapted to survive using natural selection, where good mutations provided a survival benefit that was passed down to more offspring than those without the good mutation as the bacteria divided. They formed the atmosphere and learned how to recycle. This is Darwinian evolution; it represents competition between agents. But there is another side to it described by Lynn Margulis in the process she called symbiosis. In this the agents are seen to cooperate; bacteria, for example, who knew how to metabolize sugars became the mitochondria that are the engines of all animal cells. Other bacteria that had learned how to use sunlight for energy joined similarly and became the chloroplasts that power the plant kingdom. Life, Margulis and her school argue, did not spread across the globe by competition, but by cooperation and networking.
Going down the road a few billion years we know that survival is important, but we also know that diversity is equally important and that, while survival insures individual benefits, cooperation is the foundation for social benefits as well as the diversity that is the sine qua non of a healthy system . We can also see these two poles, if we look for them, in nearly every aspect of our lives as adaptive organisms.
Applying these ideas to a discussion of political parties is always difficult because we always see what we focus on and what we focus on is not the whole or the underlying principles, but the instant episode. This is a task worth the effort because it takes one to a broader place where principles play a greater role. Take, for example, our current crop of politicians.
On both sides we have candidates who are well educated, religious, with strong family ties, and intelligent. One of them worked in business, close to Wall Street. He seems oriented more to the laissez faire type of market that is focused on profits as the indication of survival. Promoting this kind of survival will raises all boats is the way he sees the system working. His opponent was a community organizer in his formative years. He sees the value of community symbiosis; that people working together on a shared problem is the only way to save the resource from being torn apart by the self-interested. Demonstrating this won Elinor Ostrum, a political scientist, the Nobel Prize in economics.
On a broad basis the funding for one party comes in large contributions from the relatively few who have been very successful at the profit end of survival, while that of the other comes in much smaller amounts from the more numerous who are not so wealthy but see a possible community.
The plan for progress on the one side is to enable those who create jobs (the wealthy?) to do so more easily and with less restraint. In this the emphasis is on making jobs, but just as with the TARP program that saved the financial industry, where the focus was on getting money to those on Main Street that needed it, money seems to have a mind of its own. TARP money stayed in the Wall Street banks, just as trickle-down money mostly stays with the wealthy. Money in the bank, or in the pocket, equals survival in this way of thinking.
On the other hand the plan for the communitarians lies more in helping to repair the infrastructure, working to improve the social elements, like health and education, that lead to a better quality of life; and realizing that money in your pocket, or on a national scale a constantly increasing GDP, is not, as Robert Kennedy memorably stated, the best measure of social health. They see more of a role for cooperative enterprise and other yardsticks, like Bhutan's Gross National Happiness.
One side focuses on the dangers of overextending our debt and our economy crashing. We spend too much on entitlements that help the poor in our society and we need to cut that expense. They propose doing this by changing those programs to work on vouchers so that the individual has more of a stake in the service. At the same time they deny the overwhelming warning from the majority of the world's scientists of the far greater threat to the planet that is present in our continuing use of carbon fuels for our necessary energy. Cheap fuels, in their point of view, are critical to allay future debt and preserve our life style. Short-term profits equal survival. The other side does more to preserve the safety net, and also gives some service to supporting energy alternatives, even when they wind up non-competitive in a marketplace dominated by cheap carbon fuels and subsidized alternatives from outside. They seem agreeable to a carbon tax that would help cut our use of fuels, cover some of our debt, and perhaps delay some global warming.
In the area of foreign policy we have one side lamenting America's decline in power and resolving to increase military funding to restore our power. They appear to see military power as the only real power. On the other side we have a secretary of state acknowledging the need for "smart power," presumably with the meaning given by Joseph Nye (Soft Power) as the wise combination of hard (military) power and the soft power implied in getting the other side to want what you want. Neither side has yet come to the realization that this battle is archetypal--it goes far beyond U.S. Military power. Paul Ewald (The Evolution of Infectious Disease) shows that bacteria exposed to hard power, as in something that kills them (like antibiotics), will develop resistance to that threat, but when exposed to soft power, as in making it harder for them to get around (with soap and water, bed nets, condoms, good nasal hygiene, etc.) they will develop more to live with the host without trying to recycle them. Even psychological games show that people will spend some of their own money in order to bring down a selfishly oriented game player. The use of hard power, in other words, creates its own enemies.
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People dreaming of owning a Supercar. I dream of that too, a lot, and one of my favorite dreams. You name it, a Lamborghini, a Ferrari, a Porsche, Saleen, Pagani, etc. Yup, those very, very, very hard to reach and impossible dream.
Most people don’t have that half a million of dineros to spend and waste on just one car. Sooner or later those sweet dream will slip away for most people who can’t afford it, that is. And by the time you already have so much money, you’ll be 80 years old.
So what some people do to make that Supercar dream come true?. They can triple their efforts and work really hard towards that half of millions of dollars or….they can build one in their garage at home. Some of this dreamers realize their dream by building a Kit-Car.
Maybe it’s not the same in term of Supercar quality or with an insanely expensive price tag. Close enough and you could be looking at the next best thing to the actual thing, an exact dimension and detailed replica. Even better because most builders don’t have to spend million of dollars to do the self-build.
One Kit-Car in particular that can drive side by side and even compete with the Supercar gang is the GTM Super Kit-Car (Gran Touring-Mid-engine). The most intriguing and fascinating about this Kit-Car is that it can go from 0-60 mph in just 3.0 seconds.
Is that crazy and outrageous or what?
How can a self-build car, can beat the time by any known and famous Supercars that have the reputation of being the fastest road-going cars?
Factory Five Racing have the performance chart to prove it.
The GTM is faster 0-60 mph than a Ferrari Enzo, a Porsche GT, a Saleen Twin Turbo S7, a Ford GT, and a Lamborghini Murcielago! (Acceleration data by Car & Driver Magazine)
The GTM even beats out a Champ car to 60 mph! (September 2005 Road and Track)
- 0-60 in 3.0 seconds
- 0-100 in 6.6 seconds
- ¼ mile in 11.0 seconds @ 132 mph
But a Supercar isn’t just defined by acceleration. The GTM’s ultra-stout, ultra light space frame chassis and deep breathing LS Series V-8 power combine with modern suspension and brake components to deliver Supercar performance in braking and road holding as well.
The GTM stops and turns just as fiercely or more so than the rest of the Supercar gang. With stock Corvette brakes, the GTM slows to a stop from 70 mph in only 166 feet, out braking the mighty $157,000 Ford GT. That was on the ‘STOCK’ Corvette brakes, not on the $30,000 carbon/ceramic brakes assembly.
Want road holding? The GTM turns faster than it falls through the air. Car and Driver measured a phenomenal 1.05 lateral G on street DOT tires. To put that in context, the Ferrari Enzo is the only car that matches it!
The car is light and aerodynamic, with excellent weight distribution and precise race-car handling/braking derived from the Chevrolet Corvette C-5. The car uses potent GM-LS series engine power and Corvette suspension/brakes with Koni brand coil-over shocks and a Porsche 911 trans axle to get the job done.
So what is the price for a dream?
You can see clearly from the chart, definitely not $659,430. For a complete car build, $19,990 kit plus the donor parts and required components can roughly cost $60,000 or less according to FFR.
The GTM Supercar kit is engineered to be built as a chassis kit by a car guy at home with regular tools. The GTM kit gives builder everything they need to build the car, except for select running gear parts taken from a late model 1997-2004 Chevrolet C5 Corvette. Builder can use parts taken from a donor Corvette, or purchase the required parts new from GM performance parts dealers.
You can check out more informations on this awesome Kit-Car at Factory Five Racing site.
Watch GTM in action:
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After more than 5 years of living in temporary housing, the community of Tukuraki in the highlands of Fiji are today celebrating as they move into their newly built, disaster resilient village. The Tukuraki community was devastated in 2012 as a landslide buried 80% of their village and tragically took the lives of a young family including a toddler and young baby.
The community were forced to relocate to temporary homes as they were at risk of further landslides and in the midst of recovering from the landslide, the community was hit by Cyclone Evan only 10 months later. Just recently the community was again forced to flee to nearby caves as Tropical Cyclone Winston hit in February last year, the community’s third major disaster in four years.
As a result, the Fiji Government deemed relocation for the inland community an urgent priority and approached the Pacific Community (SPC) to support in this work. Today, 11 homes and a community hall built to category five cyclone standards was officially opened.
The $756,000 FJD relocation of the Tukuraki Village to a safer and less disaster prone site was made possible through the European Union and the ACP Group of States -funded Building Safety and Resilience in the Pacific Project (BSRP) implemented by the Pacific Community. The BSRP Project is committed at reducing the vulnerability for the Pacific to disaster and climate change.
The Hon Inia Seruiratu, High Level Climate Change Champion for COP23 and Minister for Agiruclture, Rural and Maritime Development, and National Disaster Management and Meteorology
“Today as we celebrate the critical milestone for Tukuraki, we also remember Anare Taliga (38 years), Mereoni Robe (23 years), Losena Nai (18 months) and Makelesi Matalau (6 months), who lost their lives to the devastating landslide that altered the lives of everyone in the Tukuraki community.
“The achievement of creating a disaster resilient community that has been led by the community itself is testament to the resilience of the Tukuraki community,” he said.
In addition to the buildings, the project also provided the community with access to a reliable water sources. The Ba area is known for enduring long term droughts and to counter this issue, the project built a dam nearby and have strategically placed water tanks that connect to each household, ensuring the community will never run out of water.
“This community knows and understands disaster but what makes this relocation remarkable is the partnership led by Fiji Government with SPC and the European Union to achieve real, measureable disaster resilience at the community level. We know this new community will protect not only the lives but the livelihoods of the Tukuraki community and we are immensely proud to be a key partner in this work,” Pacific Community Deputy-Director General Dr Audrey Aumua, said.
Along with the eleven homes and the evacuation centre, the Tukuraki community have also been assisted with a retaining wall (to prevent soil erosion), road access, site levelling and a playground. The new location is closer to Nalotawa District School which means the community will have easier access to schools as well as health services.
“We are proud to partner up with the Fiji government and the Pacific Community on this project as it not only has helped the people of this community, it has also established for the nation what a resilient rural community looks like. With the effects of climate change and rising tides threatening coastal communities all over the Pacific, Tukuraki stands as a great example of how effective partnerships can sustain development” the European Union head of Cooperation, Mr. Christoph Wagner said.
Tukuraki is the first inland community to be relocated, a unique feature as the other 46 key priority communities for relocation are all coastal.
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I hesitate to even use the words “personal brand” because this is a much maligned phrase that may mean everything or it may mean nothing. The concept of a brand has its origins in product marketing. Marketers have devised and mastered the art of establishing a company’s brand, are able to measure its impact, and calculate its worth. Many of these expert marketing people show up on job seeker Twitter chats or other online forums to show off their knowledge and teach about personal branding… only it usually doesn’t transfer well to people branding. Most sophisticated marketing programs can measure both the quantifiable and non-quantifiable aspects of a brand, but to try to measure people beyond how tall they are is only a guess. This is not about Twitter followers, Facebook friends, or LinkedIn contacts. That may help to measure some things, but those numbers are not absolute. It is not about blog views, comments or RT’s even though those numbers may also be useful. It is about quality of the network and probably not anything that is quantifiable.
Personal influence is an amorphous blob that defies measurement. Even so, there are some very good ways to get a handle on personal clout.
- Self Assessment – Without having an absolute scale of measurement, Google yourself and see if you are recognizable at all. You could be non-existent… quick, go look in a mirror. If there are pages and pages of hits, that fact gives some hint that you are closer to being unique.
- Relativity Assessment – Pick a leader, mentor or other person that you picture as being in the same realm of knowledge as yourself. If your Google hits are comparable, you know that your influence is comparable.
- Numerical Assessments – There are numerous free or low cost analytical tools that can measure influence. There is no definition of how much is good, but it is possible to use Google Analytics, Sprout, Hootsuite or dozens of other tools to give a numerical or graphical depiction of how far ideas have been communicated.
- Goal Assessment – It’s personal. Nobody can tell you what numbers you should see in your assessments, so decide what is important. Plan changes and measure the impact of those changes on visibility, relativity and numerical assessments. Lather, rinse and repeat.
Everybody has a brand whether they consciously create it or not. Without going into a boring monolog that is mainly marketspeak, several things will determine if you have a good brand. When involved in moving a career forward or looking for a new job, this can be a critical factor in success. A polished brand will probably not make it happen, but if it is worth doing it is worth measuring. On the more personal side, the outcome is more about how you feel about yourself than how others see you. Take care of being who you intend to be, avoid branding mistakes, and the external perspective should happen seamlessly. In the end, what makes you happy?
- Follow Passions – This is the old axiom “anything worth doing is worth doing right” at a new and higher level. For most, this might be some charitable work not related to a career, but for many it is using work-related experiences to spread the word in a unique direction.
- Stay Current – As a card carrying member of the boomer generation, I am annoyed by both the boomers who don’t get it (or don’t want to) as well as some of the later generationers who are dismissive of all that has gone before. Too much finger pointing and complaining! Accepting the status quo as the norm leads to nowhere.
- Keep Improving – We are trained that any lack of knowledge, imperfections or weaknesses are to be hidden from view and once we set out on a course of action we can never go back. My kids learned differently from the great philosopher, Big Bird who sang, “Everyone makes mistakes.” How quickly we forget. Pick your own mentors… one will not always be appointed for you.
- Show Gratitude – Nobody does it alone. We all have help and should show appreciation for physical, intellectual and spiritual gifts. Be thankful for the people in your life who contributed to successes and overlooked failures. Pay back, pay forward, and remember that feedback is a gift.
There is a line I remember from a poem I have forgotten: “I am a part of all that I have met.” (Alfred Lord Tennyson). We are not who we used to be because of others who are touching us daily… and most don’t even know it. We are also not who we will be tomorrow because of other influencers who will enter our lives. We are all a part of someone else’s brand.
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This is great advice for new Halloo users.
Q: What is a phone loop?
A: Phone loops are an easily fixed, but common problem with users new to virtual systems. This happens when you have your phone forwarding to one number and then set that phone to forward to the first number. You will notice a drop in calls and your costs will increase exponentially.
Here are two of the most common things to remember about phone loops.
- You can’t call your Halloo number from the the phone that you are forwarding to and expect that to work.
- Don’t forward your telephone back to your Halloo number if you use that number in a Halloo forwarding rule! It is like putting two mirrors facing each other.
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Tom Wolfes book The Bonfire of the Vanities certainly can be seen as a reflection of the attitudes concerns and events of the latter part of the twentieth century Tom Wolfe says himself that his aim for this book was to write a realistic novel that crammed as much as of New York City between covers as you could Tom Wolfe The Bonfire Of The Vanities Introduction 1979 In doing this Tom Wolfe has created a novel firmly fixed in both a time and a place This sense of time and place as much as the plot and characters contributes to a novel that deals with many late twentieth century themes The themes and concerns of the late twentieth century that are looked at in the book include wealth the gap between rich and poor the importance of image presenting well to the world a preoccupation with sexuality roles of minority groups race issues law and order the justice system the role and significance of the media city living basically life in New York and the corruption of political systems and politicians The theme of image is a very important idea in society and this is reflected in the book in many ways The main way is through the image of the characters and most of all the image of the main character Sherman MaCoy Sherman is a character that by our societies standards has it all A high paying job on wall street and therefore money a big house a wife and beautiful daughter and an attractive young girlfriend Through this perception and image of Sherman Tom Wolfe is reflecting the image of a whole class structure that is the class structure of the rich He also gives us a direct contrast to this by portraying the characters that are not so successful For example the Jewish lawyer named Kramer Kramer is portrayed as a hard-nosed lawyer who is living in
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Pulchrana picturata — Spotted Stream Frog
Also known as:
Malaysian Fire Frog
This species is placed in genus Hylarana by some authorities.
These frogs were once considered to be the same species as the very similar-looking Striped Stream Frog, but differences in their calls gave them away. Then the frogologists realized that the stripeys were found at lower elevation and in different habitats than the potties. Then they realized that they do have a visual distinction: the stripeys have a continuous light stripe starting at the snout, going over the eye, and extending to the rear, whereas the spotties have a broken stripe or none at all.
- Inger, R. F., Stuebing, R. B., Grafe, T. U., Dehling, J. M. 2017. A Field Guide to the Frogs of Borneo, Third Edition
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The Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands as Singular Scientific and Technical Infrastructure (ICTS), within its main objective of facilitating access and promoting the efficient use of the oceanic environment with the greatest environmental and sustainability guarantees, has as one of its main goals the promotion and development of marine renewable energies.
This new video offers a view of the potential of the test site, belonging to the distributed ICTS MARHIS (Maritime Aggregated Research Hydraulic Infrastructures) that aims to increase the competitiveness and efficiency of the Spanish ICTS in the field of marine hydraulic engineering (coastal , port and offshore) offering its infrastructures and associated technological services in a coordinated way.
The test site is a 23 km2 marine area located on the northeast coast of Gran Canaria where different marine technologies are tested under real and monitored conditions. It is equipped with an electrical and communications infrastructure that allows the evacuation of energy to the electricity transmission network.
PLOCAN is fully inserted in the Canary Islands Blue Economy Strategy which states that in the coming years renewable energies of marine origin will have an important development, and the Canary Islands and its productive fabric could be an important part of it, due to its capacities, environmental resources and existing conditions such as a test site in deep waters, companies and infrastructures such as ports that could position the island as a hub for the development of this type of energy in the mid and south Atlantic.
This Strategy indicates that this technological and industrial opportunity supposes betting in the medium and long term for the deployment of marine energy technologies as a potential for economic and business development for the island, facilitating the technological, regulatory, administrative and financial framework for this, together with the adaptation of the productive and technological fabric to the professional and service requirements for this type of industry.
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The following essay is part of a series in which dozens of women will reveal what women they most admire. The series is part of “Women Rule,” a unique effort this fall by POLITICO, Google and The Tory Burch Foundation exploring how women are leading change in politics, policy and their communities. See more essays here.
I am fortunate to enjoy the company of a number of smart, supportive and accomplished women in my life. Most are expert jugglers, adept at balancing stellar careers while setting correct family priorities. Like many women, they were leaning in long before it was cool.
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By far the most impressive of that group — women I would want to be when I grow up if we were not already roughly the same age — are two women who are devoting their energies to expanding our minds and worlds in essential and important ways. Among my closest friends, they are living their passions.
Ertharin Cousin has fed 97 million people just this year.
Michele Norris has spent the past several years challenging us to rethink how we define ourselves as Americans.
Ertharin is the executive director of the World Food Programme, the world’s largest humanitarian program. And she is saving the world one hungry mouth at a time, overseeing 15,000 staff members who serve more than 100 million people. As the chief United Nations hunger emissary, she is steward of nearly $4 billion in contributions from around the world, spending a lot of her life on planes calling attention to the crises most of us largely ignore.
Forbes named her its 49th most powerful woman in the world — and until they tallied it up, I did not grasp the enormity of her accomplishment.
She has met with Syrian refugees in Turkey and Lebanon, and traveled to Yemen, Rwanda, Congo, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Israel, Burkina Faso, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. In Rome, where she is based, she was granted an audience with the pope.
And she’s had the job only since April 2012. Hungry babies could not have a more tireless advocate.
Michele, a special correspondent at NPR, is well-known to radio audiences for her dulcet voice and incisive interviews ranging from politics to culture to children’s literature.
Michele thought she was writing a simple family memoir when she set out to create “The Grace of Silence,” a heart-tugging meditation on what it was like to come of age as a young black woman at a time when our nation was in severe racial flux. She introduced us to her midcentury American family and unearthed secrets that reminded us how far we have come in a nation that only recently began to live up to its promise for minority citizens.
But to her surprise, Michele touched a nerve by turning her curious eye and ear to other people’s stories as well. Aware that talking about race honestly is one of our great national taboos, she began asking audiences, readers and listeners to talk about race themselves — not by pointing fingers but by boiling their own experiences down to just six words.
She was unprepared for the flood of replies that poured in from 40 countries — 32,000 archived responses, so far. It overwhelmed her tiny website daily. “I’m a bit like Lucy in the chocolate factory,” she told me the other day. “Hustling to keep up as the cards roll in by the hundreds.”
Many of the submissions are hurtful, clear-eyed and poetic. Many take you to stories the writers would otherwise be unable to tell.
“First saw black person at 16.”
“Not understanding doesn’t make me racist.”
“He looked down to stay safe.”
“Are you Hispanic, or just Italian?”
“Want to forget. Need to remember.”
“The chains are made of air.”
Set aside some time if you go to theracecardproject.com because the stories they tell will draw you in.
Both Ertharin and Michele are mothers who bring their special nurturing gifts to their work. They have dedicated themselves to tackling difficult and essential topics in a manner that makes it impossible for us to look away.
They improve our lives, and they improve my world.
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Brussels, 26 July 2022
Following a dialogue with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), working closely with the European Commission and the European network of national consumer protection (CPC) authorities, international online marketplace Wish has agreed to increase transparency of prices to comply with EU consumer rules. In the context of the regular monitoring of commercial practices of online platforms performed by EU consumer authorities, a number of EU consumer law concerns were identified. Concerns were also raised in the context of the CPC coordinated screening, or “sweep” of coronavirus related ads on online platforms in 2020.
Following the launch of a dialogue in April 2021, Wish has committed to put an end to misleading practices, such as promoting fake discounts (for example, not based on a price which had actually been charged) and the use of undisclosed personalised pricing, based on the purchaser’s behaviour and location.
Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, said:
“Consumers need to be informed upfront about how much they have to pay for a product, including all taxes, such as import duties and other fees, and their choices cannot be based on fake price reductions. Price transparency is a key asset for a well-functioning and competitive Single Market, for consumers and businesses alike. As we welcome Wish’s change of practice in the area of price transparency, we also expect continuous efforts on ensuring product safety, in line with their commitments under the Product Safety Pledge.”
As a result of the cooperation, Wish has now implemented a new interface to prevent unauthentic and misleading discounts advertised by their business partners, as well as ceasing the use of price personalisation techniques. More information on the enforcement of consumer protection is available here, as well as in the ACM press release. You can find out more about Wish’s commitments on ensuring product safety under the Product Safety Pledge.
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The rise of social networking and virtual connections is changing things around here
Facebook is no longer just a silly tool for tracking down old flames or notifying the world that you are enjoying a fine sandwich. Along with other forms of digital interaction, organizations use Facebook to mobilize meetings and movements, reunite lost pets with owners, alert residents to prowlers and track down wanted criminals, to name a few. Social media can forge relationships, improve efficiency, boost business and promote safety within communities.
Of course, like any technology, it comes with a few pitfalls, and not everyone is on board.
• What’s a friend and a follow? Click here for a glossary of basic social media terminology you’ll see in this story.
• Read about how the Advocate is using social media.
• Get ideas about how social media can benefit your neighborhood organization, business or group.
Forty years ago, teenagers in Preston Hollow passed the time cruising down Forest Lane. With Led Zeppelin tunes blaring out the windows of their Cameros, they headed east from Marsh, made a U-turn at The Hockaday School and zipped back west. They did this again and again for two to three hours a night.
“That was our social network. We didn’t have texting or the internet,” says Stefanie Brown, who lived in the neighborhood but attended school in Carrollton.
The ritual began in the late 1960s and ended in the 1990s, she says, when police began cracking down on that type of behavior.
About two years ago, on a whim, Brown created a Facebook group titled “forest lane” where cruisers could reminisce.
“It started as a joke, and within two weeks, I had 600 followers. I thought, ‘Wow, I guess I’ll keep it up.’ ”
Today, the group has 1,462 members and counting, and it’s just one of several forums dedicated to the Forest Lane cruisers.
Facebook users start conversations about what music they listened to back then, which restaurants they frequented, senior pranks and whatever happened to their vintage rides. Some followers post detailed descriptions of what the area looked like 20 and 30 years ago.
Discussions kept coming back to the Forest Lane mural, painted in 1976 by W.T. White seniors. The long, colorful image extending from Midway to Rosser has become a neighborhood landmark, although it has been altered over the years.
“I was about 6 or 7 at the time it was painted,” Brown says. “All I saw were people out there painting a wall. I didn’t know the details or the people.”
A handful of W.T. White alumni launched an effort in June to restore the mural to its original state. Brown created a separate Facebook group, “Helping to Paint the Wall on Forest Lane!” to help locate old photographs and original painters. There, she found Mary Alsobrook, an original artist from that 1976 senior class who now lives in Houston.
“When I heard they wanted to repaint the wall, it brought tears to my eyes,” Alsobrook says.
She began digging through her mementos and posting to the Facebook group, locating nearly all the original images from the mural. The page has become the central hub for the restoration project, which is currently in limbo until an agreement is reached with the Glen Meadows Homeowners’ Association, which owns the wall.
Separated in age by more than a decade, Brown and Alsobrook had never met before finding each other on Facebook.
“Mary and I have become good friends,” Brown says. “I’ve learned a lot about what it was like back then.”
For a neighborhood group of 30-somethings, having a Facebook page is almost mandatory, says Brooke Green, president of the North Dallas Early Childhood PTA, a club for young mothers with children up to 5 years old.
“We have to have a presence on Facebook because it’s expected,” Green says. “It gives us legitimacy in 21st century Dallas. It’s pretty much the norm. Everyone has an iPhone. Moms probably check Facebook more than they’re willing to admit.”
NDECPTA includes about 180 members. The Facebook group has 106 followers who have become part of the Facebook generation where friends chat over a virtual news feed instead of a dining room table. But it’s not just a way for the group to promote itself — it promotes interaction among its members.
“Last year, we saw a big upswing in the amount of casual conversation,” Green says.
Discussion threads include “Where are the best pumpkin patches this year?” and “Does anyone know of any open gym hours nearby?”
The Facebook group also is a place where moms can continue conversations that started during one of the monthly programs. For example, parents can try out a nutritional tip they received and post about how it did or didn’t work.
NDECPTA launched its Facebook group about three years ago, about the same time that the “25 Things About Me” trend circulated with users posting random facts about themselves. It turned out to be a good icebreaker, especially for members who don’t always speak up at meetings.
“It helps the perception that we’re not cliquey. The group is open to anyone.”
However, Green says Facebook isn’t a replacement for good old-fashioned talking to one another — in person.
“It only enhances those face-to-face meetings. You can be on Facebook 24/7, but we encourage people to get off the computer. You have to have face time as a new mom, or life is really lonely.”
The arm of social media has even reached neighborhood businesses, which have adopted Facebook and Twitter as a key form of advertising.
North Haven Gardens started using the tools about two years ago to attract younger gardeners.
“I couldn’t say it’s just one age group. I think it’s everybody. It’s across the board.”
The Facebook page has become a place where customers can enter contests, browse inventory and receive gardening advice without walking into the store.
For example, someone posted a picture of a peculiar leaf in his backyard, asking if it was poisonous. North Haven quickly replied, “No, it’s just Virginia Creeper.”
“We’re pretty savvy about that,” Rosen says. “We don’t want a customer doing something wrong because we took two days to get back with them.”
Rosen often walks through the garden center with a digital camera, taking photos of eye-catching plants for a virtual tour on Facebook. It once boosted sales for the sweet olive tree.
“People can see what we have without coming in. We usually get quite a few hits on those.”
However, Rosen says, social media doesn’t keep people from visiting the store altogether. If anything, the regular and colorful updates attract more customers, since North Haven “is not right off the highway like some of the big box alternatives,” Rosen says.
But keeping up with the ever-evolving world of social media isn’t easy, she says, especially for small businesses.
“It’s a time-consuming project. If you’ve got a small business with only a few employees running everything, it’s very difficult to keep up.”
No more waiting until the quarterly crime watch meeting for the latest stats on our neighborhood. The North Central and Northwest substations have embraced Facebook, posting real-time information about neighborhood crime.
“If we have a certain area where sexual assaults are going on, we can post the suspect’s description and that he’s targeting single females between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m., and we can put a warning out there,” says Sgt. Israel Herrera, head of the North Central neighborhood policing team.
In early November, police circulated a surveillance video of a man who robbed several Game Stop stores throughout the city, including the Preston-Forest location. A Facebook user commented, “I saw that guy at tha lovers lane train station on sunday when i was coming from that same game stop!!!!!!”
Police have made no arrests in the case yet, but Herrera says that kind of information can only help an investigation, and he encourages more people to call 911 or use the iWatch smartphone application, which allows citizens to send anonymous text messages about suspicious activity.
The police have received at least 1,135 tips citywide through iWatch since January 2011. Last May, one of those tips led police to a marijuana grow house at 7400 Northaven — just a few yards from the Jewish Community Center — where officers seized several pounds of weed.
“It’s a way of getting involved without getting too involved,” Herrera says about both the iWatch and social media tools.
The Facebook page also serves as an alternative source of information for busy parents who can’t always make the 6 p.m. neighborhood meetings.
“I have three children, and they’re in bed by 9 p.m.,” Herrera says. “I don’t always have time to go to meetings. I’d imagine for some people, [Facebook] reaches that avenue.
“The great thing about Facebook is that it’s written communication. So people can’t say ‘I thought I heard this’ or ‘I thought I heard that.’ I think with the younger generation, the face-to-face communication is starting to diminish.”
Dallas Police also use Twitter and Nixle to disseminate information, but have found that Facebook reaches the biggest audience. At least 7,826 people have “liked” the police department page where officers post not only crime updates but also traffic updates and photos from community presentations.
“It shows a positive interaction with adults and children in our area,” Herrera says.
Sparkman Club Estates resident Brooke Green remembers when police shared the video of the “Lively Lane Prowler,” a man who creepily peeped into homes and burglarized some around the Midway Hollow area in October. It created lots of buzz among her friends, and police caught the suspect a few weeks later. Green found out on Facebook.
“That really gave me peace of mind that he was caught,” she says.
Five blogs to follow online
Watch DeGolyer Elementary students and staff as they build an outdoor classroom that will aid in subjects such as math and science. Photos illustrate how far the project has come — from dead grass to butterfly gardens.
Stay up to date on the progress of our neighborhood’s new hike and bike trail, stretching from Valleydale to Preston and now under construction. New posts appear about once or twice a month.
Get free inspiration from Preston Hollow home design expert Kyle Knight. She posts images of creative ideas under random themes, such as blue patterns or various ways to present a wet bar. Her blog actually helped launch her design career.
Find news about local handmade artists specializing in all kinds of creative crafts. That includes Preston Hollow resident Patricia Ivanisevic of Karma Crochet.
Preston Hollow native Gina Dunn posts her musings about art and life. The Ursuline Academy graduate is a successful painter, owns a private studio and has her work on display at area venues, including the Omni Convention Center Hotel.
Four city hall web functions you probably haven’t used (but should)
Not only does the Dallas Public Library have a thorough and useful app (with the swipe of a finger, search the catalog, place items on hold or renew items checked out) but it also has an extensive selection of eBooks available to borrow. Options range from New York Times bestsellers (John Grisham’s “The Litigators”) to classics (Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”) to popular nonfiction (Michael Pollen’s “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”). We tried it, and in less than 10 minutes, we were reading on our iPhone. A helpful guided tour takes library cardholders through the process.
2. Find out whether your favorite restaurants passed inspection.
They wouldn’t be open if they hadn’t, but the section located at this lengthy web address allows you to see whether the places you frequent are receiving high scores or barely making the grade. A quick search by name reveals how a restaurant fared on its most recent inspections.
3. Run into Mark Cuban, Ebby Halliday or the Cowboys cheerleaders.
These local celebs are a sampling of the famous names and faces the Dallas Park and Recreation Department recruited to promote its recent trail etiquette campaign. Other than watching the amusing video, website visitors can view an interactive map to find the exact layout of Dallas trails (both current and planned) in relation to streets, rec centers and other local landmarks.
4. Learn which park pavilion beat out Cowboys Stadium as the 2009 “Best of Show” award recipient from the American Institute of Architects Dallas chapter.
This little-known fact is touted in the online brochure “The Park Pavilions of Dallas,” which highlights 44 of the city’s shade-giving structures. Thirty-two of them were designed by respected architects who were charged with making the pavilions “contextual within the surrounding community and embraced by the neighborhood,” among other criteria. | <urn:uuid:1c66593c-e702-4882-9261-d78fc9f52f86> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://prestonhollow.advocatemag.com/2011/12/21/is-facebook-the-new-front-porch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.949588 | 2,954 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Painters and Allied Trades
Men and women who want to become an industrial or commercial painter or work in one of their allied trades, perform an array of work in what is known as the finishing trades.
Depending on the project, a painter or allied trade worker may work indoors or outdoors. In general, their work is done inside but certain trades, such as glaziers may have to work outdoors.
The jobsite for a painter or allied trade worker can vary from a commercial or industrial setting to schools, sports venues, hospitals, residential homes and apartment buildings and more.
Painter and allied trade workers begin their career as an apprentice, learning basic skills. Apprentices earn while they learn through on-the-job training and receive classroom instruction from trained and experienced instructors. After the apprenticeship is completed, painters and allied trades workers become journeymen and earn a pay raise.
The Finishing Trades Institute provides training guidelines for this industry.
Work of the various trades is:
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades (IUPAT) is an international organization, which represents the men and women who work in the finishing trades: industrial and commercial painting, drywall finishing, glazing and glass work, sign and display and floor covering installation. The IUPAT is committed to workers rights and benefiting the families of those who are members.
The Finishing Contractors Association is comprised of contractors in architectural glass and metal, drywall finishing, flooring, industrial coating, painting, wallcovering and sign work. FCA contractors share a common mission – to provide their customers with the highest quality craftsmanship.
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Breasts cancers could be classified into different molecular subtypes with various pathological and clinical features. cells. Altering PTEN in conjunction with either p53 or EGFR as opposed to the one modifications caused elevated development of changed colonies in gentle agar. Concomitantly changing all three genes resulted in the highest price of mobile proliferation and the best amount of anchorage-independent colony development. Outcomes from our work to engineer a style of BBC expressing modifications of EGFR p53 and PTEN suggest that these changes are cooperative and likely play a causal role in basal-like breast cancer pathogenesis. Concern should be given to targeting Etidronate Disodium EGFR and restoring p53 and PTEN signaling simultaneously as a strategy for treatment of this subtype of breast malignancy. pathway activity is usually altered within most if not all BBCs.4 Taken together EGFR p53 and PTEN are altered at high frequency in a large subset of BBC cases indicating the potential for these genes to cooperate in BBC initiation and/or progression in those tumors. The MCF10A cell line is a powerful human mammary cell culture model system for studying the genetic insults that can lead to breast malignancy. MCF10A cells are human spontaneously immortalized untransformed non-tumorigenic mostly diploid and lack or genes designed in MCF10A cells can model changes that are found in a large proportion of BBC tumors allowing us to analyze for their phenotypic effects in mammary cells. Physique?1. Modeling basal-like breast malignancy through altering EGFR p53 and PTEN in MCF10A cells. (A) Studies analyzing loss of PTEN overexpression of EGFR or loss of p53 function have not shown an oncogenic effect individually in mammary epithelial … To verify that this changes to EGFR p53 or PTEN had the predicted functional effects we investigated signaling in our models. Cells expressing EGFR p53DD or PTEN loss were starved overnight and total protein lysates were analyzed by western blot. We found that the transduced EGF receptor was functionally active by the increased total tyrosine phosphorylation on EGFR in the cells overexpressing EGFR as compared with control cells (Fig.?1B). Consistent with an effective dominant-negative disruption of p53 function the p53DD infected cells displayed a decreased level of p21 a critical cell cycle downstream effector of p53 activation (Fig.?1C). AKT activation at serine-473 Etidronate Disodium was increased by PTEN mutation (Fig.?1D). Therefore we observed signaling changes that were expected as the consequence of overexpressing EGFR p53DD or shedding PTEN inside our program. EGF-independent development is feasible just in PTEN-null cells rather than in EGFR- or p53DD-expressing MCF10As We characterized the development properties of MCF10A cells harboring overexpression of EGFR p53DD or lack of PTEN to evaluate each alteration’s influence on proliferation under starved circumstances. Non-transformed cells are reliant on development factor signaling because of their capability to proliferate; hence in the lack of the correct mitogenic signals they don’t develop.56 Proliferation was dependant on assessing the relative cell accumulation at different period factors as previously described.57 Cells were preserved in media without any development supplement for an interval of 20 d. Etidronate Disodium When cells expressing different one modifications were compared because of their ability to develop we observed distinctive differences within their proliferation capability. In keeping with prior observations 49 lack of PTEN allowed cells to proliferate without development factor arousal (Fig.?2A). MCF10A Etidronate Disodium cells expressing p53DD Rabbit Polyclonal to AML1 (phospho-Ser435). or EGFR didn’t proliferate under identical circumstances. Therefore whereas shedding PTEN expression by itself was an instigator for cell development in the lack of development factors exogenous appearance of either EGFR or p53DD had not been. Body?2. In vitro tumorigenic properties of single-modified MCF10A cells. 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Hot Springs Cove is a splendid hot spring still enjoyable in its natural state, located in Maquinna Provincial Park in the remote northern end of Clayoquot Sound. The boiling spring water bubbles up from deep in the earth and cascades down a small cliff into a series of natural layered rock pools, cooled by the incoming Pacific Ocean surf, each pool slightly cooler than the one above it. At high tide the surf surges up into the two lower pools creating a unique blend of hot and cool water.This tidal action also flushes the pools twice daily, so they are always noticeably clean. The spring water is very hot (47 degrees Celcius, 117 degrees Fahrenheit), and is clear with just a faint smell and taste of sulphur.
For the few that can stand the intense heat, a natural shower underneath the waterfalls is simply awesome! Let your tensions evaporate with the steam, at any time of the year. Rejuvenate your soul in these wonderfully scenic surroundings. Soaking in the rocky pools with a mountain rising overhead is a magical experience.
This soothing, natural wonder is open year-round and is accessible only by air or by sea (one-hour water taxi ride from Tofino). The hotsprings are reached by an easy hike on a 2-km attractive wooden boardwalk trail from the dock. A selection of transport packages is offered out of Tofino, combining aerial sightseeing, camping, whale watching and kayaking with the magical experience of a mineral steam bath surrounded by old-growth rain forest.
Hot Springs Cove is a refreshing stop for kayakers paddling through the Flores and Vargas Islands, and for those seeking a less strenuous visit, accommodation can be sought at a nearby lodge operated by the Hesquiat First Nations.
Guests of the lodge are permitted access to the two-mile, well-marked, wilderness trail to Tsamata Beach, to spend time strolling through the uncut forest and exploring the undisturbed shoreline. There are huge ancient cedars, towering Douglas firs, and spruces, some draped with Spanish moss. The air is thick and humid, and everything is lush, damp, green and growing.
Hot Springs Cove is a very popular attraction on the west coast, so a visit during fall and winter will provide more privacy. The mineral water sustains numerous micro-organisms that could affect your eyes, ears and throat, and protective footwear is recommended in the rock pools – rubber-soled aquashoes are best. Bathing suits are not always worn.
Wilderness, backcountry or walk-in camping is allowed, but no facilities are provided. Camping is not permitted on the peninsula portion of the park where the hot springs are located. Wilderness camping is permitted in the remainder of the park. A private campground, operated by the Hesquiat First Nation, is located just north of the government dock.
Following a 4.8-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday, 7 January, 2015, felt on the west coast of Vancouver Island that hit 18 kilometres east-northeast of Tofino at a depth of 24 kilometres, the water at Hot Springs Cove cooled off for a day or two, and the sulphur smell was gone. Officials of the Hesquiaht First Nation advised that the water temperature had increased substantially by the Friday, and by Saturday, 10 January, 2015, Hot Springs Cove was back to its normal, steaming, delightful best.
Hot Springs Cove is located in Maquinna Provincial Marine Park at the remote northern end of Clayoquot Sound, north of Tofino on the west coast of Vancouver Island.
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Guest Opinion: The paradox of connection
Friday, May 24, 2013 7:00 AM
We live and work at a time when we can be connected 24/7. It is common to hear people talk about how many “friends” they have on Facebook, how many followers they have on Twitter and how many connections they have on LinkedIn. Yet, we put up fences to maintain our privacy and to keep the neighbors out. We may not know our neighbors well enough to even borrow a cup of sugar.
The front porch is a powerful metaphor that reflects the loss of community and connectedness. Houses used to have front porches where people hung out and shared stories. Not only are front porches gone; it has become the norm for people to wear earphones in public. The message: “Don’t talk to me. I’m busy.”
Although we are connected, research has documented the social isolation in the U.S. A study showed that one-fourth of all Americans report that they have nobody to talk to about “important matters.”
Another fourth reported they are just one person away from nobody. But the most startling finding was that in only two decades, from 1985 to 2004, the number of people who have no one to talk to has doubled, and the average number of confidants has gone down from three to two. This finding is significant because the closer and stronger our tie with someone, the broader the scope of their support for us and the likelihood that they will provide major help in a crisis. It is easier to have extensive relationships at a distance, but harder to develop deep friendships in our backyard.
We live in a society that values individualism, but it can make us self-centered as we watch out for “number one.”
This attitude is reflected in the declining membership of social groups such as the Shriners, Elks and PTAs. Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone,” stressed how important it is to feel connected and part of a community, and this is important to people of all ages. Research tells us that socially connected people live longer, respond better to stress, have more robust immune systems and do better at fighting a variety of specific illnesses.
These medical benefits derive directly from the social connection itself, not just from lifestyle improvement, such as better diet, more exercise and better medical care.
Current trends are detrimental to trying to build community. We come to workplaces that celebrate and encourage independence, and this makes building a sense of community difficult. We need each other to tackle the complexities and challenges of work in these uncertain times, but in the workplace, collegiality is rarely encouraged. It is not surprising that teamwork and collaboration are challenges when people don’t know each other.
And it is hard to trust people you don’t know. When we are aware of these patterns, we can focus on what people need. Our time is well spent if we get to know people, listen to what they have to say and become someone they can trust. The paradox of connection is that we need to disconnect to connect in order to build a sense of community.
Building community in the workplace may be the most important task for leaders in these times.
Jann Freed, Ph.D., is a leadership development and change management consultant at The Genysys Group.
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Purdue Agricultural Economics Report
The 2008 Farm Bill ACRE Program: Overview and Analysis for Indiana
Roman Keeney, Assistant Professor and Tamara Truax, Graduate Student
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (2008 Farm Bill) was debated and enacted into law during a period of record high prices for many crop commodities. With market forecasts for prices that were considerably higher than target prices, the U.S. Congress turned its attention to reorienting farm commodity policy to bolster the farm revenue safety net. This resulted in a new optional counter-cyclical revenue program named Average Crop Revenue Election (ACRE). Beginning with the 2009 crop year, farmers with program crop base acreage may choose to enroll any of their Farm Service Agency (FSA) farms in this program in return for foregoing counter-cyclical payments (CCP), 20% of their direct payments (DP), and 30% of the loan rates used to trigger loan deficiency payments (LDP) and marketing loan gains (MLG). Farmers who choose not to enroll in ACRE will remain eligible for counter-cyclical payments and will not be subject to the reductions in direct payments and loan rates—a continuation of the 2002 Farm Bill program.
ACRE Program Basics
The option to enroll in ACRE is available for each FSA farm. The signup period for ACRE for the 2009 crop year began in late April and must be completed by August 14, 2009. Farmers who decide not to enroll in ACRE in 2009 will again have the option to enroll in remaining years of the program’s authorization (2010-2012). However, once a FSA farm is enrolled it must stay in the ACRE program through 2012 and all crops grown on a FSA farm are subject to the ACRE rules for payments. The irrevocable nature of ACRE means that all interested parties (including cash-rent landlords for the particular farm) must consent to the enrollment in ACRE.
ACRE works as a counter-cyclical revenue program that makes payments when per acre crop revenue falls short of benchmark levels. The size of the payment gets larger as the revenue shortfall becomes greater (up to a cap of 25% of the state benchmark revenue). Similar to farm payments with target prices, ACRE employs crop revenue benchmarks to determine when and at what level payments are made. Under ACRE, two benchmarks are used, one at the state level and one at the farm. The first benchmark requires that, on average, actual crop revenue falls short of 90% of the expected level for the state for a particular crop. If crop revenue exceeds this benchmark, no producer in the state is eligible for an ACRE payment for that crop. If the state’s producers are eligible due to a state revenue shortfall, producers must also fail to meet the farm number specific benchmark revenue to qualify for an ACRE payment for that particular crop.
The fact that ACRE payments are triggered by revenue shortfalls means that the program works as a safety net against declining revenue due either to low prices or poor yields relative to historic averages. By design, the program is intended to smooth out year to year changes in revenue, allowing producers the opportunity to weather years when revenue is far short of expectations. Despite the appeal of this concept, the irrevocability of ACRE enrollment and the two trigger payment system complicates the decision to enroll in ACRE. The up-to four year (2009-2012) commitment to be in the program means that producers must form an estimate of the long-run benefit of the program in an era of uncertain output and input prices and convince partners and landlords that these benefits favor enrollment. As part of this, the producer must also form some expectation about how farm-level yields will evolve over the next four years relative to the state average. Under the dual-trigger system an individual farm can have a poor revenue year, yet be shut out of ACRE payments if the state, on average, meets crop revenue expectations. Thus, ACRE is not a direct substitute for crop insurance on individual farms.
Payment Triggers and Calculation for ACRE
Table 1 provides an example of calculating an ACRE payment. The first step is to evaluate whether any ACRE payments are made by checking actual state and farm per acre revenue against the program benchmarks. Line 6 of the table gives ACRE revenue benchmarks for the example calculated as the program yield multiplied by the price. The ACRE program yield (both state and farm) is calculated as an Olympic average (both high and low value dropped) of the most recent five years. The ACRE program price is calculated as the national average price for the crop over the two most recent marketing years. Thus, if we assume the example values in Table 1 to be appropriate for an acre of corn on an Indiana farm in 2009, line 1 would be the average yield from 2004-2008 (with the best and worst yield dropped from the calculation) for both the state and the farm. Line 2 shows us the national average price for the 2007 and 2008 crop marketing years.
In calculating per acre revenue benchmarks, an adjustment is made to the (price x quantity) value for both the state and the farm. The state revenue benchmark is multiplied by 90%, meaning that state corn revenue has to fall by more than 10% on average for any acre of corn to be eligible for a payment. No percentage adjustment is made at the farm level. In fact, farmers are allowed to add the per acre crop insurance premium they pay for the crop year in question (see the assumed value of $15.00 in line 5), which increases the chances that actual farm-level revenue will fall short of the benchmark. Thus, there is an incentive to purchase crop insurance as a complement to ACRE, but there is no requirement to have crop insurance coverage to enroll in the ACRE program. With the benchmark values set, all that is needed is the crop year revenue to determine payment eligibility.
In the example, we assume the corn price for the 2009 market year falls 15% to $3.57, from the $4.20 average of the previous two years (note that this is simply an illustration and not a forecast of the 2009 marketing year price). This price drop is enough with yields near the average level to generate both a state and farm-level revenue shortfall, as indicated on line 11 of Table 1. If either benchmark had been exceeded by actual revenue, no ACRE payment would be made for corn on this farm. With revenues short of both benchmarks, we proceed to calculate the ACRE payment level as indicated in lines 13-15.
The first step is to calculate the state level ACRE base payment, found by subtracting state actual revenue from state benchmark revenue (line 13). Then on line 14 the state level base payment is adjusted based on the ratio of the individual farm level benchmark yield to that of the state. For the example farm in Table 1, the farm’s corn yields are 15% higher than the state average and thus the acre base payment is multiplied by a factor of 1.15. Finally, the ACRE program just like counter-cyclical and direct payments pays out on only 83.3% of base acres (a value that rises to 85% in 2012) so that a final adjustment is made in line 15 to get the ACRE payment of $34.82 per acre of corn planted or considered planted.
From the example in Table 1, we see that the key element in the decision to enroll in ACRE is the producer’s expected price for the coming year. In our example, if the corn price falls to only $3.80 instead of $3.57, the state benchmark is exceeded and no ACRE payments are made. If the price is below $3.80, ACRE payments are made, but may be too small to recover the direct payment amount foregone (20%). How much are those direct payments? If we assume this acre of corn annually receives $30.00 per acre in direct payments, the cost of enrolling in ACRE is $6.00. The national average market price must fall to $3.76 in order to trigger an ACRE payment of about $6.00 per acre in this example. But also keep in mind if prices, in this example, are above $3.76 one would be better to not be in ACRE for 2009. In May 2009, USDA was projecting 2009 corn prices to be in a range of $3.70 to $4.50 per bushel. However, this was very early in the growing season and more information will be available about the 2009 growing season before the final ACRE decision has to be made for 2009 by no later than August 14, 2009.
Factors Influencing ACRE Enrollment
The break-even analysis conducted for the example farm highlights the importance of anticipating price changes in determining the benefits of ACRE enrollment. However, Indiana FSA farms will differ widely in their preference for ACRE due to the crop mix they have on their farm, the direct payment (DP) and counter-cyclical payment (CCP) yields used as the basis for payments, and how closely related their yields are to the state average. Table 2 reports on these factors across the state for corn, soybeans and wheat, using the nine National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) Crop Reporting Districts (CRD).
We estimate the program yields reported in Table 2 at the CRD level by taking the average yield for 1985-1989 (DP), 1997-2001 (CCP) and 2004-2008 (ACRE; an Olympic average). CRD and state yield correlations in Table 2 are calculated for 1999-2008 to determine how closely crop yields track the state average for different regions. The shares in Table 2 represent the portion of harvested acreage from 2004-2008 in each CRD for each program crop. The shares in each region total to 1.00 or 100%. For example, corn accounted for 57% of the harvested acreage in the Northwest CRD (NW).
Table 2 shows that one benefit of enrolling in ACRE is the ability to update program yields to more recent crop years. For both corn and soybeans which take up the majority of acreage in Indiana, ACRE program yields in 2009 will be more than 30% higher than the yields used as the basis for direct payments and more than 10% higher than the yields used for CCP. This extension of coverage to relatively current yields carries forward as the ACRE program yield is updated annually to the most recent five-year Olympic average. The state to CRD yield correlations shows consistent and strong positive correlations between changes in the state average yield and regional average yields for most regions of Indiana. Higher correlations suggest that state and regional yields tend to move in the same direction. When the state has high yields, the CRD’s tend to have high yields, and the same is true for low yields. The maximum correlation is 1.0 which means the yields in a CRD move in lock step with the state yields. Generally, an individual farm’s yields will be less correlated with state yields than CRD yields are correlated with state yields.
Even with the advantage of updating program yield coverage, the most critical element likely to affect ACRE enrollment is the ability to obtain revenue coverage that is benchmarked to the strong market prices for 2007 and 2008. The 2007 and 2008 prices for corn, beans, and wheat that are built into the ACRE program’s revenue guarantee will be nearly double the CCP target price for those crops. In our example in the previous section, a corn price that fell to just $3.80 per bushel was enough to trigger an ACRE payment. In the regular program, the corn price must fall to $2.35 per bushel to generate CCP payments. From this, we see that prices would have to drastically drop to begin generating CCP payments. While several forecasts have prices holding reasonably steady over the coming four years, in the event they do fall drastically, the ACRE program has a built in limit to how much program benefits could fall as the state benchmark revenue is limited to a 10% change from year to year.
Analysis of ACRE for Indiana Crop Regions
To get an idea of how program benefits might vary across Indiana we use the information in Table 2 as representative farms from each region in the state and consider how ACRE performs under two price scenarios: one where prices are relatively flat (following the FAPRI forecasts) and one where prices decline over the next four years at a constant 15% rate. These two scenarios are depicted in Figure 1 and Figure 2. Using these prices for comparison and the ACRE decision tool developed at Texas A&M’s Agricultural and Food Policy Center (AFPC) we analyze the expected payments that ACRE would generate under each scenario.
The ACRE decision tool at AFPC allows farmers to input their own information on crop yields, acreage rotation, etc. to analyze each FSA farm. This AFPC decision tool is particularly well-suited to this task because it considers uncertainty in future prices and yields in its calculation of the expected ACRE payments for a given farm. Given the differences across farms that will be important determinants of the benefits (and costs) of enrolling in ACRE, producers should conduct their own analysis. Our use of it here is just to provide an overview of the expected payments from ACRE relative to those from the regular Direct and Countercyclical Program (DCP) using historical data at the CRD level.
Table 3 reports the average difference per year in per acre government payment receipts (ACRE minus DCP) for each CRD in Indiana for the 2009-2012 period, as well as this difference for the first and last year of the program. If prices hold fairly flat over the life of the ACRE program consistent with FAPRI projections, then the ACRE program is expected to generate between $11.00 and $15.00 extra dollars per acre per year in government payments for Indiana CRDs. If prices fall sharply and consistently, the expected gain in payments from being in ACRE increase to between $31.00 and $43.00. In our analysis of flat and falling prices, there was no year for a CRD in which the ACRE payment total was below that of the DCP program. Looking at the expected payment differences in the first and final year under each scenario, we see that a good deal of the advantage of the ACRE program are the relatively high 2007 and 2008 prices that set the initial revenue benchmarks. As prices stabilize or fall, these benchmarks generate large per acre payments that erode over time as the benchmark adjusts each year to new lower prices. With a large portion of potential benefits of ACRE built into the 2009 benchmarks, the importance of coming to an informed conclusion regarding ACRE in 2009 becomes apparent in spite of the fact that the irrevocable enrollment in ACRE may be undertaken any time in the next four years.
There is of course the possibility of rising prices in coming years. In this situation, the likelihood of receiving ACRE payments is small, and therefore staying out of ACRE could be the optimum decision because one would not incur the penalties of 20% lower direct payments and 30% reduction in loan levels.
Concluding Comments on ACRE
The fact that ACRE is offered as an optional enrollment program as opposed to a mandated change indicates that there is some uncertainty about the potential benefits across program crops. The analysis here shows that for the typical program crops in Indiana the ACRE program has the potential to generate significantly higher program payments if prices fall only slightly or steeply decline. Of course if prices for corn and soybeans increase, the ACRE program revenue benchmarks will be exceeded at the state level and no payments will be made and enrollees will lose 20% of their direct payments and loan levels are reduced by 30%. For most farms, the decline in direct payments will be in the range of $5 to $7 per acre, which can be viewed as the cost of ACRE’s revenue protection benefits. While these costs and benefits must be weighed by individual decision makers for each of their eligible farm numbers, the high current prices, ability to update yields, and the 10% limit on changes in benchmark revenue all represent structural incentives in the ACRE program that will encourage enrollment.
Specific facts and circumstances on a particular farm may overwhelm the ACRE incentives however. An obvious situation would be where a farm’s yields poorly track those of the state average. In this situation, one could imagine a farm in a drought-stricken area that could incur significant revenue losses relative to its benchmark but receive no ACRE payments due to the state trigger not being met. This points out why ACRE is not a direct substitute for crop insurance.
Another situation likely to arise is a farm that has availed itself of the planting flexibility afforded by the direct payment program, moving to a rotation with a non-program crop such as hay. Since ACRE requires all crops on an FSA farm to be enrolled, a significant amount of non-program crops (relative to the program base acreage) means that ACRE benefits have to be even larger per acre for ACRE covered crops to overcome the cost of enrolling.
Since the signup deadline to enroll in ACRE for 2009 is not until August 14, 2009, this will provide added time to evaluate 2009 crop yield and price prospects. If yields and prices at that time appear high enough to not trigger ACRE payments, this will be a greater encouragement to not elect ACRE for 2009. The potential reason to stay out of ACRE in 2009 under this circumstance is the loss of 20% of 2009 direct payments and a 30% reduction in the loan rate. There will also be additional information on August 12 when USDA provides estimates of state and national yields. In addition, they will provide an update of their estimate of the national average prices received for the 2009/10 marketing year upon which the calculations for ACRE will be made. Producers who do not elect ACRE in 2009 can then re-evaluate in 2010 whether to elect ACRE.
Of course the information available in early August 2009 could also more strongly encourage one to sign up for ACRE in 2009. This might be a situation where state yields and individual farm yields are expected to be low due to adverse weather in the summer of 2009, or, price prospects for the 2009 crop could be depressed. Either of these would increase the odds of triggering ACRE payments and encourage election of ACRE in 2009.
Most producers will want to continue to become familiar with the potential benefits of ACRE and also consider the costs of electing ACRE. It would also be valuable to use an ACRE Evaluation Tool such as was referenced in this article to examine each individual farm. Those who have not yet made a decision on ACRE for 2009 probably want to re-evaluate their situation in early August when much more will be known about the 2009 crop yield and price prospects.
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Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a condition characterized by an unusually extreme startle response. The exact cause of the condition is unknown. One theory is that the disorder occurs because of an extreme conditioned response to a particular situation influenced by cultural factors. It was first identified during the late nineteenth century in Maine and the Canadian province of Quebec in an isolated population of lumberjacks of French Canadian descent. Jumping Frenchmen of Maine is a type of startle-matching syndrome. These syndromes have been described in many different parts of the world.
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Pope Benedict’s resignation is official
February 28, 2013
The pontificate of Benedict XVI has come to an end.
At 8 pm Rome time, the Pope’s resignation officially took effect and the Holy See became vacant.
The Pope left Rome at 5 pm, having taking his final leave of Vatican officials. As his helicopter lifted off, all the bells of the Vatican sounded. Bells pealed once again when he arrived at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, where he was greeted by Church leaders and civic officials.
Appearing at the balcony of the apostolic palace soon after his arrival, the Pope thanked the faithful for their expressions of support. “I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on earth,” he said. But he promised that continue to serve the Church “with my heart, with my love, with my prayers, with my reflection, and with all my inner strength.”
At exactly 8 pm, the doors of the apostolic palace were closed, and the Swiss Guard detail left their post, since the Swiss Guard are responsible only for the personal safety of the reigning Pontiff. (The Vatican gendarmerie will continue to provide security for the former Pope.)
The papal apartments at the Vatican have been sealed off, and the Fisherman’s Ring worn by Benedict XVI has been destroyed. The sede vacante period has begun for the Catholic Church.
All the top officials of the Roman Curia will now submit their resignations, since they serve at the pleasure of the Pontiff. The new Pope will have the authority to renew their appointments, at his discretion. Until the new Pontiff is elected, the Roman Curia will make no policy decisions, and the day-to-day administration of the Church will be handled collectively by the College of Cardinals.
Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the dean of the College of Cardinals, has the formal duty of summoning all cardinals to Rome—although in fact most cardinals have already arrived—and scheduling the first of a series of “congregations” at which the cardinals will decide, among other things, when the conclave will meet to elect the next Pope.
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I guess we're all Sedevacantists now, eh? ;-)
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From what I read in "Inside the Vatican," it might be a good idea if the new pope appoints a new Secretary of State. The one serving Benedict XVI seems to have gone a few steps beyond being a loyal gatekeeper, choosing instead to decide which of the Holy Father's messages and directives he wanted to pass along. | <urn:uuid:fc6cdc15-c251-42d4-9813-745ed5348555> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17194 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962829 | 639 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Zulu Impi Warrior (Anglo-Zulu War)
The Anglo-Zulu War was fought in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The war is notable for several particularly bloody battles, including an opening victory of the Zulu at the Battle of Isandlwana, followed by the successful defense of Rourke's Drift by a small British force from attack by a large Zulu force. The British eventually won the war, ending Zulu dominance of the region.
The Zulu were among the most mobile foot soldiers in the world. Trained to go permanently barefoot, Shaka's troops could cover fifty miles a day, and launch attacks almost at a flat run. The more inexperienced and younger regiments had darker shields, with greater proportions of white on the shield denoting greater experience and age. This warrior is unmarried, and needs to "wash their spear" in the blood of an enemy of the king to choose a girl to marry, as well as gaining enhanced status. Fringes of cow tails are hung around the neck, as well as on the arms and legs. The heavy kilt is of monkey tails, called an insimango. A leopard skin head-band is also worn. | <urn:uuid:a6a405c0-b4d2-4ff4-a11b-e2876d0bf7db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyork-customs.com/store/p969/Zulu_Impi_Warrior_%28Anglo-Zulu_War%29.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.975493 | 252 | 3.203125 | 3 |
The Time-Space Research Laboratory (時空研究所 Jikuu Kenkyuujo?), also known as the Chronos Institute, is a facility that researches space and time.
An experimental time machine is stolen from the institute by Dr. Wily, who uses it to bring a future version of Mega Man to fight himself in the present. Dr. Light had been dispatched to the laboratory to investigate. With the help of Rush's enhanced sense of smell, he was able to deduce that it was none other than Dr. Wily behind the theft. Having a bad feeling about the incident, Dr. Light immediately called upon Mega Man and Rush to search out Dr. Wily's whereabouts.
The Chronos Institute is a facility leading the way in researching time, how it works, how it affects people, and how it can be manipulated. One of its researchers, Dr. Shou Kouin, is working in a prototype time travel machine named the "Time Skipper" that will allow one to move freely through time. Time Man works in the institute.
Its first appearance was in the beginning of issue 20, where Dr. Wily takes control over the institute and modifies it into a base. During the crossover Worlds Collide, the Chronos Institute is mentioned by Dr. Light in Sonic the Hedgehog Issue 248.
In issue 37, the Chronos Institute appears for the first time with its original appearance. It is shown that Dr. Kouin hired Xander Payne (under the fake name Mr. Wells) as a lab assistant after the global blackout. Xander proceeded to use a prototype time travel machine in an attempt to undo the robot revolution by sending himself to the past, but presumably ended up travelling to the future instead. Payne later reappeared not long after he left in issue 40, and was apprehended by Agents Stern and Krantz.
Dr. Light, Mega Man, and Rush analyze the Time-Space Research Laboratory, which had a time machine stolen. Using his nose, Rush discovers Dr. Wily is behind the theft, and Crash Man appears to make sure Mega Man will not disturb Dr. Wily. After Crash Man's defeat, Metal Man, Air Man, and Wood Man appear and attack Mega Man, but they are also defeated. After the battle, Mega Man leaves the laboratory to search Dr. Wily.
- The name "Chronos Institute" is coined by the English Mega Man II manual. It is called "Time-Space Research Laboratory" in Mega Man Official Complete Works.
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Revisiting the electronic structure of phosphazenes
Natural bond orbital (NBO) and topological electron density analyses have been used to investigate the electronic structure of phosphazenes [N3P3R6] (R = H, F, Cl, Br, CH3, CF3, N(C2H4); 2R = O2C6H4), [N4P4Cl8], and H[NPCl2]4H. Using the former, the two most likely phosphazene bonding alternatives, negative hyperconjugation and ionic bonding have been critically evaluated. Ionic bonding, as suggested by topological analysis, was found to be the dominant bonding feature, although contributions from negative hyperconjugation are necessary for a more complete bonding description. Substituent effects on the P-N bond have been assessed and cases of bond length alternation have been rationalized using this combined bonding model, which supersedes previous models involving d-orbital participation, leading to an explanation for the observed bond length alternation found in some linear polyphosphazenes. In addition, common aromaticity indicators, nucleus independent chemical shifts (NICS) and para-delocalization indices (PDI), have been determined for the cyclophosphazenes. | <urn:uuid:fad3e457-4e56-493e-8f32-25e39d718690> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/76832 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00109-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.878042 | 263 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The Baltimore Consort is a small ensemble of instrumentalists and singers whose major focus has been early music, taking into account both the classical and folk realms, often blurring the distinction between the two. In the early years, its main focus was English music from the Elizabethan period, but the group soon branched out into Irish, Scottish, French, Spanish, and Italian early music. The chronological range of the repertory has generallyRead more fallen into Renaissance era, roughly spanning the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Consort players perform on early instruments (viols, recorders, lutes, rebec, etc.) and their concerts and recordings can feature only instrumental music or a mixture of vocal and instrumental pieces. The Consort regularly tours the United States and has made several highly successful concert tours across Europe. It has made more than a dozen recordings, mostly for the Dorian Records label.
The Baltimore Consort was founded in 1980 by lutenist Roger Harmon and flutist Mindy Rosenfeld. There have been several personnel changes over the years, and, not surprisingly, the size of the ensemble has varied: in the 1990s, for example, it was called a sextet. At that time the Consort included soprano Custer LaRue. In 2004, LaRue took a leave of absence and from that time the ensemble, consisting of five instrumentalists -- Mindy Rosenfeld, Mary Anne Ballard (viol and rebec), Mark Cudek (cittern, viol, Renaissance guitar), Larry Lipkis (viol, recorder), and Ronn McFarlane (lute) -- have used guest artists for vocals, including countertenor José Lemos and soprano Danielle Svonavec. It was in 1990 that Dorian released the Baltimore Consort's first recordings, On the Banks of Helicon, which contained early music from Scotland, and Watkins Ale, a disc of English Renaissance music. The Consort quickly became one of the most popular American early music ensembles, as a string of successful recordings and concert tours followed. The group regularly performs an orchestral concert program entitled O'er the Hills and Far Away, which features arrangements of early music works by the Consort's own Larry Lipkis. Among the Baltimore Consort's recordings is the 2007 Dorian CD Gut, Wind, and Wire: Instruments of the Baltimore Consort, which contains 36 numbers of sixteenth century instrumental pieces. Read less
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Jan 14, 2009 - TANGO was too aggressive, Alice too old, Coco too
sick and Bosco too psycho. All - and hundreds more - are now dead.
Mysterious deaths at one of the city's biggest pounds have sparked a
major campaign by animal welfare and rescue groups to end the
bloodletting at The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home
The action came as it was revealed more than 90 dogs and cats were
sentenced to death every day at council pounds across NSW, with
33,000 killed in the past year.
Figures obtained by The Daily Telegraph revealed the number of
unloved, unwanted or unclaimed pets given lethal injections grew by
40 per cent in just one year.
The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home recently lost its impound contract
with the City of Sydney Council amid concerns the registered charity
was destroying too many animals.
Overall, Blacktown City Council recorded the highest number of cat
and dog deaths in 2007-08, with 3411 animals from all over Sydney
killed, putting it well ahead of the rest of the state's councils.
The 33,116 animals died after owners refused to collect them or
animal rescue and welfare workers were unable to re-house them.
The number grew by 9113 in a year, with 24,003 killed in 2006-07.
While Blacktown Animal Holding Facility had the most kills, it took
in animals from Auburn, Lane Cove, Canada Bay, Holroyd, Ryde,
Parramatta and Hunters Hill.
The city's other major pound, The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home, killed
964 cats and dogs taken from Botany Bay, Hurstville, Kogarah,
Marrickville, Randwick, Rockdale, Waverley, Woollahra and City of
Sydney council areas.
The Office of Liquor, Gaming and Racing conducted two separate
investigations into the organisation's activities but, as the
majority of complaints related to commercial and civil matters
outside its jurisdiction, it found no breaches of the Charitable
Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore said a pound's "culture and mission"
were key factors that influenced the number of animals put down. The
decision to withdraw the impound contract from The Sydney Dogs and
Cats Home was not taken lightly, she said.
"It's about finding a home or getting a pet back to its home and
that (once) seemed to be a very strong policy of The Sydney Dogs and
Cats Home," she said.
"It's my understanding that the regime changed and they no longer
met our expectations.
"Also a lot of those pets were kept in single cages. Dogs need to
socialise with other dogs and other people otherwise they develop
behavioural problems and it's even more difficult to rehouse them."
The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home did not return The Daily Telegraph's
According to official figures, the councils that put down the
greatest number of animals last year were Bathurst (1002), Tamworth
(869), Coffs Harbour (849), Liverpool (936), Wagga Wagga (799),
Broken Hill (720) Wyong (639) and Hawkesbury (658).
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With reference to ‘IFC Masala Bonds’, sometimes seen in the news, which of the statements given below is/are correct?
1. The International Finance Corporation, which offers these bonds, is an arm of the World Bank.
2. They are the rupee-denominated bonds and are a source of debt financing for the public and private sector,
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Melanoma is a type of skin cancer, which appears like a flat, asymmetrical mole with irregular borders. It develops in melanocytes (pigment cells). While some can develop within an existing mole, most are new skin growths or spots. Melanoma is the sixth most common cancer in the United States and is increasing rapidly.
Symptoms of Metastatic Melanoma
The following skin transformations are common in metastatic melanoma:
- Color change
- Bleeding without cause
- Ulcerations or infection of skin
- Pain or tenderness
- Transformation from flat to raised or vice versa
More serious changes that can occur throughout the body include:
- Swollen lymph nodes, typically in the groin or armpit
- Colorless lump
- Weight loss of unknown cause
- Chronic cough
Once a diagnosis of melanoma is made, one must stage the cancer by assessing the spread (metastasis) for treatment options. Typical sites of spread start under the skin and then progress to the following parts of the body:
- Lymph nodes
The following sites are considered distant, and occur in later stages of metastatic melanoma:
- Adrenal glands
- Gastrointestinal tract
Stages of Metastatic Melanoma
- Stage 0: Melanoma is in the epidermis but not the dermis underneath.
- Stage 1: Tumor is equal to or less than 1 mm thick.
- Stage 2: Tumor is between 1-4mm thick.
- Stage 3:Tumor is between 1-4 mm thick. Has spread to 1-3 nearby lymph nodes.
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It’s four o’clock in the morning and you suddenly wake up. Your heart starts pounding and from the corner of your eye you see a hooded figure.
Nomsa Gwala* can vividly remember the first time she suffered an attack. “It was about four o’clock in the morning and I had abruptly woken up,” she recalls that terrifying night almost three years ago.
“As I opened my eyes I could immediately feel something was wrong. I was awake, but I could not move my body. It was as if I was paralysed, and from the corner of my eye a shadow figure was slowly approaching me . . .”
Most people would think this 28-year-old newspaper reporter from Johannesburg was suffering from a hallucination, but instead Nomsa suffers from a debilitating condition called sleep paralysis.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine defines this condition as the temporary inability to move your body, either when you are falling asleep or when you are waking up. This paralysis can last from a few seconds to several minutes. It’s often accompanied by hallucinations on which you can’t act.
And Gwala is definitely not alone in suffering from this condition. Research from Pennsylvania State University found that 7.6% of the general population and 28.3% of students experience at least one episode of sleep paralysis during their lifetime.
‘I thought I was going mad’
Suffering from sleep paralysis can be very frightening, says Gwala. “You just have to tell yourself what you are seeing and experiencing is not real. The first time it happened to me I thought I was going mad.”
Besides being paralysed, common symptoms of sleep paralysis include:
- Not being able to talk. Even if you want to scream for help, you aren’t able to do so.
- Restricted breathing. Some people complain that taking deep breaths is often difficult, or that “a presence” is sitting on their chest.
- Experience hallucinations. Although they don’t occur in every case, such hallucinations can seem very real to the sufferer.
- Feeling extreme anxiety. Because your arms, legs and body are completely paralysed, you may experience elevated heart rate, sweating and other symptoms of anxiety.
Why does it develop?
Although research is still murky on the exact causes of the disorder, lack of sleep, a sleep schedule that often changes, and mental stress can lead to sleep paralysis. Bipolar disorder and other psychiatric conditions are also risk factors.
Experts think sleep paralysis happens when a person wakes up before rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is finished. During this deep state, our brain has vivid dreams while the muscles of the body are essentially turned off. The person will thus still experience the dream (hallucination), but will temporarily be unable to physically act on it.
“My doctor told me to stick to a strict sleep schedule,” says Gwala. “I have no electronics in the bedroom and I read something calming as I fall asleep.”
In most mild cases, getting eight hours of sleep and going to bed at roughly the same time each night might help. Other things that might help include:
- Cutting down on caffeine
- Not eating or drinking before bedtime
- Creating a restful sleeping environment
In more severe cases antidepressants such as anafranil, norpramin or Prozac might be prescribed. This can slightly alter the neurochemicals in the brain that control REM sleep and can prevent the paralysis. It can also reduce the experience of hallucinations.
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Finding a better way to store electrical energy is the single biggest breakthrough needed to tackle climate change. But the goal of developing batteries that are lighter, as well as more compact, powerful and affordable remains frustratingly elusive.
Virtually all usable energy on Earth originates from the sun: wind, solar, wood, even fossil fuels. Oil, gas and coal are simply the fossilised remains of organisms that lived in ancient forests, lakes and seas, which relied on photosynthesis to harness the sun’s energy.
The amount of solar energy reaching Earth’s surface every year is many orders of magnitude greater than that needed to meet all the needs of the planet’s growing population.
Solar radiation reaching the planet’s surface is equivalent to more than 150 watts per square metre on average, according to Roger Barry at the University of Colorado.
The problem is how to store that energy in a usable form available when and where needed. Solar panels are not useful at night, or in the winter at high latitudes, or when the sun is temporarily obscured by clouds. Solar energy ultimately drives the wind too. But wind turbines are useless on a still day.
The ideal storage medium has a high energy content but is light, compact and affordable. Liquid fuels refined from petroleum, especially gasoline and diesel, have the best combination of energy content, density and weight, which makes them especially desirable in mobile applications like cars, trucks and ships.
“Compared to gasoline and diesel, other options may have more energy per unit weight, but none have more energy per unit volume,” the U.S. Energy Information Administration explained in a recent note.
Liquefied natural gas contains more energy per unit of weight but takes up much more space. Ethanol is inferior in weight and volume terms. Batteries are generally heavier and need more space than gasoline or diesel. Most are also much more expensive.
Burning those fossil fuels, however, contributes to global warming. The challenge is to develop more effective energy storage that can compete with gasoline and diesel. Better batteries are likely to prove the only realistic option.
GRID SCALE, VEHICLES
Improved storage is needed at two very different levels: grid scale (for example to store solar electricity for use at night) where it can be stationary, and on a smaller, more mobile scale (to replace gasoline and diesel with electricity as the source of power in cars, trucks and ships).
Various options have been developed for stationary grid-scale storage – including pump hydro, flywheels and compressed air systems. Better batteries are the most promising technology for grid-scale applications, however, and probably the only one for small-scale mobile applications.
Small-scale batteries are already used in electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The main problem is the high cost and weight.
For grid applications, some truly enormous batteries have been built. The city of Fairbanks in Alaska has installed a battery system weighing 1,300 tonnes and taking up 2,000 square metres (21,000 square feet) in a warehouse capable of providing 40 megawatts of power for up to seven minutes in the event of a power failure.
Given Fairbanks’ isolated location and winter temperatures as much as 50 degrees Celsius below zero (minus 58 Fahrenheit), a secure supply of electricity is vital. The battery is intended to keep the lights on long enough to start up auxiliary diesel generators.
Even bigger batteries have been built. In 2011, China’s State Grid Corporation commissioned a giant battery array that can supply 20-36 megawatt-hours of electricity. The Zhangbei National Energy Storage and Transmission Demonstration Project, in Hebei province, is coupled with a wind farm and solar power plant, and claims to be the largest battery array in the world.
Crucially, Zhangbei was intended to prove that wind and solar can provide a reliable source of power on demand. But in most cases, batteries are still too heavy, too large and too expensive to offer an effective solution to grid-scale and vehicle storage needs.
Developing smaller, lighter and more powerful batteries is now one of the top research priorities for the U.S. Department of Energy, the world’s biggest funder of science research.
Most of the department’s research focuses on more mature technologies.
Its Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), however, is a specialised unit that aims to catalyse the development of less advanced technologies with transformational potential by providing early-stage funding, technical assistance and commercial expertise.
Established in 2007, ARPA-E was modelled on the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, credited with helping develop the global positioning system, the stealth fighter and computer networking.
According to the U.S. National Academy of Science, ARPA-E was designed to support “creative out-of-the-box transformational generic energy research that industry by itself cannot or will not support and in which the risk may be high but success would provide dramatic benefits to the nation”.
The agency has an annual budget of $275 million. Most of the funding is allocated to 18 focus areas. Five of them concern energy storage – more than any other area of energy technology.
The storage-related programmes are: Advanced Management and Protection Energy Storage Devices (AMPED); Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST); Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS); High-Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS); and Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE).
With the exception of HEATS, which focuses on nuclear and solar thermal energy, all these programmes concentrate on developing better batteries. Since 2010, ARPA-E has allocated well over $100 million of funding to 47 battery-related projects, according to the agency’s website.
BEEST is funding research that explicitly aims to make batteries comparable to gasoline and diesel. “To offer performance comparable to gasoline-powered cars, electric vehicles must be able to deliver the kind of power that will make electric cars fast, responsive and exciting to drive,” ARPA-E emphasises.
“They also must be able to travel at least 300 miles (480 km) on a single charge – the approximate driving range per tank of gas – for a comparable cost. This would require batteries with double the energy density and one-third the cost of today’s state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery packs.”
ARPA-E is funding research to re-evaluate each component of a battery (positive and negative electrodes as well as the electrolyte) and the materials used to make them.
“BEEST projects are exploring a variety of potential solutions including radical improvement of today’s lithium-ion technologies, designs using other metals such as magnesium, sodium and zinc, and new ways of using lithium in lithium-sulfur and lithium-air batteries,” the agency explains.
At a much bigger scale, GRIDS is funding research into technology that could be used to back up intermittent wind and solar generation with storage anywhere on the electrical grid at a capital cost of less than $100 per kilowatt-hour.
According to the agency: “The energy storage facilities that exist today use pumped hydropower, which is only available in a handful of locations. New, more flexible, large-scale energy storage technologies would allow energy to be efficiently stored and sent to any location in the country.
“Cost-effective grid-scale energy storage is critical for increasing the use of renewable alternatives and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the electric energy sector.”
A major breakthrough at either scale still appears some way off. But nothing would do more to combat climate change, which justifies ARPA-E’s commitment to research on a new generation of battery technology.
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Medical coding is an in-demand career at healthcare organizations across the country. Though there have been talks about the government’s high spending, the folks still receive the perfect well being care and maintenance for his or her money. Nonetheless, though the economic resources accessible to a country have an incredible impact on that nation’s total expenditures on healthcare, there’s almost as a lot variation within the types of the healthcare systems in nations that are economically poor as there may be in wealthy countries.
Sufferers share costs for doctor visits, inpatient care and prescription drugs, that are uncapped. The Taiwanese authorities pays for all its residents’ well being care wants. Probably the most visible features of any healthcare system are the facilities and personnel concerned in the supply of healthcare. This gives Australian residents free remedy in public or personal hospitals.
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We can turn to these guides for support and a little nudge when we need help finding the right direction in life.
Spirit guides mean different things to different people. Examples include ancestors; wise spiritual masters, such as Jesus or Buddha; animal spirits; or benevolent forces like angels. We can turn to these guides for support and a little nudge when we need help finding the right direction in life. For this week’s Healthy Habit, let’s look at ways to connect with your Spirit Guide.
- Set your intention. What guidance are you seeking, and why? Some people find that keeping a spirit guide journal allows them to sort through their true intention, and adds to their contemplation before they approach their spirit guide or guides.
- Issue an invitation. Invite your spirit guide into your life. This may take the form of meditation, asking for help before sleeping (dreams), prayer, or placing a letter into a special spot.
- Let go of expectations. Rebecca Campbell, author at Heal Your Life.com, had a good insight when she wrote of her spirit guides, “I wanted to know their age, their background, their personality, and hair color. I wanted them to pop over for dinner and share a bottle of red.” Then she realized she had to release expectations of how a spirit guide may manifest. Be open to the experience in whatever form it takes. Is it a smell? A sensation? A gut feeling? It probably won’t be Great Aunt Sally’s form in a mist, sitting in your kitchenette and telling you to dump that loser boyfriend. But hey, who knows.
- Look for signs. Does a particular song keep showing up in your daily life? Chance encounters with someone you keep running into? Does a book title or certain animal keep coming up? If you’re seeing patterns, perhaps a spirit guide is trying to tell you something. Give it some reflection.
- Don’t forget to say thank you. If you feel you’ve received direct help—from angels, ancestors, or spiritual masters—say thanks in the form of prayer or meditation. A nice touch would be a devote an act of kindness or a yoga practice in that guide’s honor, while thinking about the guide. | <urn:uuid:ac158f6c-bfc9-4458-b161-703bf929f8cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spiritualityhealth.com/articles/2017/09/25/5-ways-to-connect-with-your-spirit-guide?token=eRDAMoQRi_JaRBrwJUamgvJwxKcgC1SF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.943993 | 470 | 1.664063 | 2 |
I'm running into a problem with sending packets between a java client and a c++ server over a tcp/ip socket.
the data being sent between the client and server is a plain text string.
the problem I'm having is the java client can send packets to the server and the server can process the strings send without a problem. However, when I send a string from the server to the client the java client either interprets it as being a blank string or as random characters.
here's the relevant c server code
Here's how I setup the buffer
Here's an example of the first thing I try to write from the server to the client and how I put it into the buffer.
char* messageBuf = (char*)malloc(sizeof(char)*1025);
Here's the function call I use to send the packet through the socket
here's the relevant java client code
perror("Server: write error");
I setup my socket in java with
setup my input output streams in java with
s = new Socket("127.0.0.1", serverPort);
read from the stream in java using
DataOutputStream out = new DataOutputStream(s.getOutputStream());
DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(s.getInputStream());
any help would be very much appreciated.
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Mizuno reveals new airtime concept with JPX golf ball with dimple-cluster design for delayed descent.
The ‘Dimple-Cluster’ design of the new JPX is a result of a 3 year study into the descent phase of ball flight.
In tandem with the Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Mizuno’s ball engineers found that by focusing on dimple performance in the ‘descent phase’, they could effectively extend airtime and overall distance. The smaller, micro-dimples within the JPX’s cluster pattern take effect at slower speeds – as the ball transitions to descent.
With the added dimension of descent performance – the JPX delivers increased yardage in a soft, responsive package.
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In October 1954, a very special game of football was played. Billed as a friendly, the political stakes could hardly have been higher. Welcome to IBWM, Nick Wright.
On the morning of October 3rd 1954 two aircraft carrying sixteen players and seven officials from Arsenal Football Club departed Northolt Airport in Greater London. They were headed for Moscow, where they would become the first British team to play in Soviet Russia. Stalin had died the previous year, but crossing the Iron Curtain remained a step into the unknown. Originally scheduled to arrive in the Russian capital that evening, Arsenal were held up for a night in Minsk – some four hundred miles from their destination - due to bad weather conditions.
An arduous journey was to be followed by an even more painful ordeal. On October 5th, as part of increased efforts to strengthen relations between the British and Soviet people, Arsenal were due to play the Soviet Top League’s reigning Champions, Dynamo Moscow, in a showpiece friendly match. Despite the fixture’s ‘friendly’ billing, Arsenal, English title winners in 1953, ended up on the receiving end of an embarrassing 5-0 thrashing.
Greeted with bouquets of flowers at Moscow airport, the travel-weary Arsenal players finally arrived at the Hotel Moskva in Red Square just twenty-four hours before kick-off. The match had been described locally as ‘Russia’s soccer match of the century’, and journalist Patrick Sergeant depicted the hysteria which had gripped the city in the Daily Mail on October 4th : “the struggle for tickets here has to be seen to be believed,” he wrote. “The town is agog about the match, and queues are expected to form from 3am tomorrow morning.”
It seemed as if the whole of Moscow was eagerly awaiting its first glimpse of English football. A crowd of 75,000 would be crammed into Dynamo’s stadium, far exceeding its official capacity of 64,500.
Mikhail Yakushins' Dynamo, with an average age of just 22, were a formidable outfit. Their line-up boasted several Soviet internationals, including goalkeeping legend Lev Yashin. Indeed, the Russians were clear favourites to win the match against an ageing Arsenal side spearheaded by the lumbering 34-year-old Tommy Lawton up front. Patrick Sergeant, however, was undeterred from backing the Gunners at odds of 10-1. “It may be old hope long dying, but I feel that if Arsenal can shoot first-time and fulfil their own positional defence, I may be collecting a lot of roubles on Tuesday night,” he declared smugly in his match preview.
October 5th arrived and the Arsenal players and staff negotiated the Moscow traffic to the stadium with the help of a police escort. ‘Long live friendship between the peoples of England and the Soviet Union!’ read a banner displayed outside the away dressing room.
National anthems were sung and speeches were made to rapturous applause as the Union Jack and Hammer and Sickle flew side by side overhead. A British parliamentary delegation looked on from the stands as Arsenal took to the field for their warm up accompanied by the baritone voice of African-American singer (and known Communist) Paul Robeson booming out over the stadium loudspeaker. “The Russians apparently like jazz”, noted Michael Davie in The Observer. Meanwhile, the crowd sounded its appreciation as wing-half Alex Forbes jokingly danced over the ball in time to the music.
The match got underway and despite rarely threatening the Dynamo goal, the visitors held their own admirably until the forty-fourth minute, when Vladimir Ilyev evaded a crowd of defenders inside the Arsenal box and shot low past the despairing Jack Kelsey.
Despite Arsenal’s encouraging start, the second half was a different story, as the nimble Russians ran rings around their tiring opponents. Ilyev headed in his and Dynamo’s second from a free kick just after the break, before three further goals were added in the closing fifteen minutes. The pre-match Soviet hospitality was nowhere to be seen as Arsenal were ripped apart.
Among the spectators was Daily Herald reporter Clifford Webb. He recalled the ironic applause and laughter Arsenal were subjected to by the Moscow crowd during their abject second half showing. “They are asking how old is Tommy Lawton and how old are some of the other Arsenal players, because they seem so tired”, joked his interpreter. “He’s too old and slow,” cackled one spectator, “is this the best team England could find?”
It wasn’t all bad for Lawton, however. To mark his 35th birthday the day after the match, Soviet officials presented him with champagne and an enormous cake at the team’s hotel.
Arsenal manager Tom Whittaker, perhaps conscious of his diplomatic responsibilities, was effusive in his praise of the hosts: “The Russians played more like a team that any I have ever seen,” he told the Daily Worker (now the Morning Star). “It was impossible to single out any one player for special praise because they played so much as a team. They were certainly faster than us, moving very much quicker en bloc.”
Back home the headlines were unforgiving. “Arsenal run down in Dynamoland!” screamed the Daily Herald. “We shall leave Moscow with sour memories from an occasion that was ill advised from the start,” wrote the dejected Clifford Webb. The Daily Mail, meanwhile, went with “Outplayed Arsenal get the Moscow whistle – crowd chuckle at 5-0 defeat.”
After returning to London, full-back Walley Barnes broke ranks by abandoning diplomacy to vent his frustration in the now defunct Sunday newspaper, Reynolds News. He blamed the difficult journey and lack of sleep for Arsenal’s defeat. The Gunners were due to host Dynamo’s city rivals Spartak at Highbury on November 9 in another ‘goodwill friendly’. For Barnes, however, that match represented an opportunity to get even with the Russians. “They’ll take it all back!” he vowed. “You can’t see the chip on my shoulder,” he added, “but take my word for it, I’ve got one there.”
Unfortunately for Barnes, they lost that one too, 2-1.
Arsenal’s clash with Dynamo Moscow was intended as a monument to peaceful coexistence between the Soviet Union and the West, but it did not take long for relations to turn sour once more. As the Cold War rumbled on for another 35 years, Arsenal were left to wonder why they’d bothered.
Full highlights of the match can be viewed here. IBWM recommends that you bookmark this page.
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In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a winter scene in Cinema 4D using the new Magic Snow plugin from Nitroman.
Part 4 focuses on adding snow to our elements and creating large patches of snow using Magic Snow. We build the basis of a winter scene using our elements leading to a foundation to take the project further. You're only limited by your imagination and creativity! Have fun and thanks for watching!
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Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom (the northeast region of the state, also called NEK) is a land that’s hard to pin down. A beautiful area of lakes, mountains, farms, and small Vermont towns, wealth sits next to poverty and rural culture meets intense tourism. New England traditions are overlaid with the stunning essence of Vermont. It’s not an easy place to live in many ways — residents are working hard to make it financially, and may not have the means or the ability to help the region’s free-roaming or loosely owned cats. And the region’s feral cat and loosely owned cat population (many living in barns or farms or out in the elements) needs help.
Felines and Friends Foundation started with the grassroots effort of a Vermont children’s author, Natalie Kinsey-Warnock, who cared about cats and carried out her own trap-neuter-return efforts, coordinating with area animal welfare organizations. Bonnie Geisler, another Vermonter and current president of the organization, also had a passion for cat rescue and heard about Natalie’s efforts. A small group met at Bonnie’s dining room table to form Felines and Friends and officially launched the organization in April 2013. Recognizing that competent and effective organizations in the region were already addressing adoption, fostering, and cruelty issues, they created the Felines and Friends Foundation with an intentional focus and emphasis on bringing TNR initiatives to the rural communities in the Northeast Kingdom and beyond.
Until August 2013, Felines and Friends existed solely on private donations and the work of tireless volunteers. But the game changed for everyone — cats, communities, and Felines and Friends — when Vermont Companion Animal Neutering, FFF’s primary spay/neuter clinic in Middlesex, Vermont, was awarded a PetSmart Charities Targeted grant for spaying and neutering 1,000 cats in the Northeast Kingdom over a 12-month period. This was a provisional two-year grant: To earn the second year, Felines and Friends needed to demonstrate that it could get the job done — and it did.
Felines and Friends currently has more than 25 active volunteers, and a small (unpaid) management team of three. Felines and Friends has been able to meet its goal of bringing 30-plus cats every other week to its collaborating Vermont veterinary clinic, Vermont Companion Animal Neutering. In the summer, it’s kitten season, and the focus is on working as quickly as possible to prevent more unwanted litters in towns and surrounding areas. In the winter, the organization focuses on cats in barns. Once spayed/neutered and vaccinated, these barn cats are staged overnight post-surgery — the staging has proven to aid recovery from the surgery in cold temps, and the barns are warm enough to facilitate recovery.
The organization’s mission is to greatly reduce the number of free roaming cats in the Northeast Kingdom and beyond through TNR with the goals of improving the welfare of cats, minimizing the negative impact on people and wildlife, and reducing the number of cats and kittens entering local shelters. To this end, Felines and Friends’ endeavors (completely outlined here at its website) include TNR-ing as many cats as resources allow and re-homing as many adoptable cats as possible while working with shelters in the area and beyond.
Felines and Friends, as of July 2014, has already TNR-ed 1,013 cats and estimates that it is making significant progress in reducing the free-roaming cat numbers in the NEK. The group surpassed its yearly goal of trapping, neutering, and returning 1,000 cats. Of the 1,013 cats that have been treated so far in this grant period, approximately two-thirds were returned to their landowners or barns and about one-third found space in a shelter or were adopted directly by Felines and Friends.
Felines and Friends recognizes that not everyone loves cats, and that not everyone has the means or the desire to help free-roaming cats. But it has taken a very community-friendly approach, which is also well-planned. “Planning is the most important element in ensuring effective TNR,” says Bonnie. TNR in these rural communities starts with approaching the town officials, the animal control officer (if there is one), and the landowners. A reliable feeder is crucial to the success of the plan. This person feeds the cats on schedule for a minimum of several weeks, so that the cats get used to a consistent routine and the feeder is able to get an accurate count of cats to be live-trapped. Cats are counted daily. In this way, Felines and Friends is able to very accurately predict how many cats it’ll be able to TNR when that date arrives. A few days before the anticipated live-trapping event, informational door hangers are placed on houses throughout town.
Reception in the Northeast Kingdom has been very positive, likely facilitated by Felines and Friends’ outreach, but also by its skilled approach. The organization intentionally fosters a culture of respect, and volunteers know and understand that everyone in these towns, no matter their circumstances, knowledge about cats, or attitudes about cats, is just trying to do their best to live their lives and survive.
As a new resident of Vermont and of the Northeast Kingdom, I was astounded to attend a recent Felines and Friends fundraiser and observe what must have been at least 100 enthusiastic supporters. At this country auction, there were beautiful items of all kinds (cat related and not) that people bid upon for the good of the Northeast Kingdom’s free-roaming cats. The auction is just one of several fundraising endeavors that take place during the year. It’s obvious that this fairly young organization is loved and supported in the region. Felines and Friends has achieved amazing results in its young life, but Bonnie predicts that the organization could double its TNR efforts and numbers with more resources. You don’t have to live in Vermont to help — if you’re interested in donating, go to the Felines and Friends donation page.
For those of us wanting to carry out TNR in our own communities, Bonnie says good guidelines have been written. Initiatives and processes designed and put into place by Neighborhood Cats and Alley Cat Allies form much of the foundation of Felines and Friends. Bonnie considers the Neighborhood Cats TNR manual a strong set of guidelines.
Bonnie advises that people who undertake TNR remember that many “feral” cats probably really are feral and will not be happy living close to humans. Also, it’s easy for a TNR organization to lose its focus and veer into fostering, for example. Animal welfare organizations need to be clear about their mission, whether it’s TNR, fostering, adoption, education, rescue, or some combination of these. It can be easy for an organization to lose its way, as there’s so much work to do.
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About Catherine Holm: Told that she is funny but doesn’t know it, accused of being an unintentional con artist by her husband, quiet, with frequent unannounced bursts into dancing liveliness, Cat Holm loves writing about, working for, and living with cats. She is the author of The Great Purr (cat fantasy novel out June 1), the cat-themed memoir Driving with Cats: Ours for a Short Time, the creator of Ann Catanzaro cat fantasy story gift books, and the author of two short story collections. She loves to dance, be outside whenever possible, read, play with cats, make music, do and teach yoga, and write. Cat lives in the woods, which she loves as much as really dark chocolate, and gets regular inspiration shots along with her double espresso shots from the city.
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If there were an Oscar for Best Film-Financing Deal, the winning transaction might look something like this: original equity investors are returned a multiple of their initial investment within in a prescribed time frame; mezzanine investors get all their interest and principle paid; senior debt is fully serviced—and possibly re-cycled for another favorable round of financing.
But that’s not an award likely to be given out any time soon—in part because even the non-televised portion of the Academy Awards show is already too long; in part because of the many challenges to achieving that sort of success in a Hollywood film-financing deal; and in part because of the extremely confidential nature of these industry deals.
Nevertheless, deals matching the above description have been done during this latest film-financing capital cycle, and they’ve frequently involved hedge fund managers, investment bankers, private equity fund managers and other alternative investment types. In fact, it’s these finance industry players that characterize the latest capital cycle (which dates to roughly 2004) and distinguish it from previous cycles.
But before we continue, a word on previous cycles.
New Wave Financing
Like cinematic movements, film financing seems to come in waves. One hedge fund manager, who has extensive experience in the film-financing field but prefers not to be identified because he’s no longer focused in this space, summed it up this way: “If you go back 30 years, you see the Japanese coming through; 20 years ago, insurance companies; 10 years ago, German film funds who had tax reasons for investing in films; and then this last decade, it’s been hedge funds, largely.”
Each investment wave has its own characteristics. In the early ‘80s, much of the investment was tax driven: investors could purchase films as they were being completed and effectively lease them back to distributors. They could accelerate the depreciation and amortization of the asset just purchased to defer income and other taxes.
Insurance companies, during their Hollywood period (roughly the early ‘90s), offered to insure gap loans on films. Banks would provide gap financing to producers, then insure the loans in case sales targets were missed and producers couldn’t make good. Emboldened by their insurance policies, banks increased the gap loans to as much as 50% of film budgets. Many films failed to reach their sales targets, many insurance companies were called in to repay loans, some litigation ensued and, as a result, insurance-backed gap financing has become more rationalized since the height of the market.
Past cycles have also been characterized by public underwriting. The German government, in response to the increasing domination of the major studios, developed a public market in tax-shelter vehicles—the Neuer Market¬—which, according to another industry insider, raised money from wealthy German investors “who had glossy pamphlets put in front of them.” Large German film funds like Helkon and Kinowelt invested hundreds of millions of dollars in independent production companies like Newmarket and New Line Cinema. The funds sprang up like mushrooms, their trading prices soared, and then in 2001, the Neuer Market melted down, a victim of bankruptcies and insider-trading scandals, and with it went the film production financing funds. The collapse left major studios and large independents looking for new sources of production financing.
And that brings us to this latest film-financing cycle. Between 2004 and 2008, an estimated $15 billion was invested in slates of films. Players like Merrill Lynch, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and JPMorgan all arranged co-financing deals with studios raising money from hedge funds and private equity firms. The players are mostly U.S.-based and mostly on Wall Street. The financial crisis had its effect on this sector, like all others, but after a lull, money is once again flowing back into the film industry.
It should also be mentioned that, through all financing cycles, there’s one group of investors that can always be counted on. These, says the hedge fund manager, are people “using methods of analysis that don’t relate to the statistical success rate of films,” i.e., my daughter is in the film, my son has always wanted to be a film producer, my son wrote the script, my wife wants to be a movie star. Such investors, he says, go into the business for “emotional reasons” and often end up with “an enormous pile of burnt cash.”
Financing Your Film
Producers have a number of ways of financing their films:
First, and most basic, is equity: this is the early-stage financing that turns a script into a film in progress. As with much venture-capital, angel and other seed capital seeking high returns against high risk, most equity investors in the independent environment fail to see returns on their money. On the bright side, most equity investors in the independent environment don’t expect their money back—they’re the ever-dependable investors mentioned above, frequently the family and friends of the filmmaker. When they do see returns, of course, they are sometimes spectacular, as was the case with investors in The Blair Witch Project—made for about $60,000, the film went on to gross $249 million worldwide. But The Blair Witch Projects are the exception, not the rule, says the hedge fund manager, “Most people who invest professionally in film financing don’t do equity investing and even studios have to own a film outright if they’re going to make an equity investment in it.”
Next is senior debt, which accounts for a significant portion of the film’s total financing. Traditional providers of senior debt (banks like JPMorgan Chase) require a security interest in the film and all revenue streams associated with it in priority to equity. So, before a film is completed, a producer might sell the distribution rights (including theatrical, home video/DVD, pay TV, free TV and other rights) for various countries. The producer can then use the value of these contracts as collateral against a production loan from a bank.
Another form of financing, which became an important part of the funding for independent films around 2002, is ‘soft dollars’ or tax credits for shooting your film in a certain state or country. One fund manager recounted his own experience with a tax credit deal for “a fairly mediocre” film (if you haven’t seen it, “you might find a better use for 90 minutes of your time,” he says) in Connecticut.
In that state, a portion of the film’s budget qualifies for a tax credit provided the filmmakers meet certain criteria in terms of filming and spending in the state. The film in question—let’s call it Generic Action—had a budget of about $60 million with a tax-credit qualifying portion of about $20 million. To get the credit, however, the director couldn’t simply promise to spend in the state—he actually had to do it, then claim the credit later.
The director, naturally, thought a better deal might be to swap the right to the tax credit for ready cash he could use to finish the film. To sweeten the deal, he’d offer to sell the credit at a discount (say, $16 million).
For this sort of deal to work, credits must be transferable—no financier will be interested if the rights can’t be assigned directly to him. The Connecticut tax break could only be used by a corporate tax payer with a tax obligation to the state, so a financier purchasing the tax credit needs to use it himself or sell it to a Connecticut corporate taxpayer who can use it. The Pennsylvania tax credit, on the other hand, “is marvelous because it gives you an actual rebate, so when the film is done, you submit the expenditure documentation and they cut a check,” says the hedge fund manager.
Since 2005, according to Business Week, states have granted $3.5 billion in incentives to makers of films, TV shows and commercials, but many of these programs are currently under assault, as states struggle to balance budgets.
Still another component of film financing is print and advertising financing—prints need to be made for theatrical distribution, but the main part of the tab is advertising. The typical P&A budget today, says the hedge fund manager, is equal to the film budget, if not higher. He gives the example, from his own experience, of a $16 million film with a $20 million P&A budget. The financiers offered to provide $8 million senior debt at 20%, which, he says, is a very common interest rate range for P&A financing. “What’s distinct about P&A,” he says, “[is] it has no security. The rights in the film itself are not the security, but it is senior by virtue of the order of payment, which is effectively like being senior secured in that the revenue from the film—after the distributor is paid—pays P&A first. Last in, first out.”
Producers can also earn money from product placement (think ET and Reese’s Pieces, think George Clooney’s character in “Up in the Air” flying American Airlines).
And then, there is slate financing.
Hedging Your Cinematic Bets
Whatever the structure of the film-financing deal, those entering one hope for a Hollywood ending, i.e., the film is a smash hit and everyone involved gets fabulously wealthy.
The odds, however, are stacked pretty steeply against this. A large-scale, independent studio making 12 films a year will probably get “eight losses, two break-evens, one pretty good film and one hit,” says the hedge fund manager. Smaller-scale institutions with the wherewithal to make only four films could find themselves with four losers and end up closing shop.
As a business proposition, it’s better to spread the risk over a larger number of films. That’s an ability the studios have always had—they can release 20 films over a season and, says the hedge fund manager, “are virtually guaranteed, if they did their math and everything else right, to make a profit because they would distribute risk and return expectations in such a way as to have a normal statistical distribution.”
A slate of films, as it’s called, probably won’t bring great wealth but will prevent the investors from losing their shirts, and that’s often the goal in film production financing—not to hit the ball out of the park but “not to lose everything. Because it is one of the most volatile industries that there is.”
Borrowing a page from the studios’ book, hedge funds and other investors entering the film-financing world decided to create their own slates. Slate financing is a “term of art” for a financing arrangement in which an investment group provides capital to a major studio-distributor or its subsidiary. Every deal is different, but in an article on the subject, entertainment lawyer Jeffrey C. Foy says that generally, the investment is in the multi-millions and the studio receives a distribution fee between 10% and 15% and is allowed to recoup its marketing costs before splitting the profits with the slate investment group.
Slate financing funds can offer senior, mezzanine or equity packages, depending on investor risk appetite.
Slate financing agreements put financiers into relationships with major studios and large independents.
Most studios, says the industry insider, have “a real culture of partnership.” They will step in to protect investor money when necessary—and it can be necessary, because the movie-making business is a constant battle between creative and commercial forces. Give money to creative types and they’ll spend it. Not, says the insider, “to put it in their pockets” but to “create something all that much more spectacular.” Sometimes, allowing the creative team to spend millions pays off—James Cameron’s films being a case in point. But more often, it’s money—investor money—down the drain.
These studios, says the insider, are basically looking to share the risk (and, along with it, the higher returns) inherent in filmmaking with hedge funds or private equity firms. In return, the studios get distribution fees, which give them steady returns, which can be shown to analysts who might give the thumbs up to the studio’s stock, pleasing shareholders.
Other studios are more opportunistic about third-party financing, seeing it as a chance to off-load an ugly slate of films. These are the sort of deals that can go south—the final scenes played out by lawyers.
Still other studios are so expert at managing their cash flows that they “play this distribution fee/tax game perfectly well, to where the amount received by the provider of capital is effectively the same as something better than an investment grade bond.”
Who Invests in Film?
Film financing, says the insider, is a complex business that requires “good information, strong experience and a balanced approach that avoids emotion about being in the business.” It is not for the faint of heart. So who is it for?
According to the hedge fund manager, film investors fall into three main categories:
First, there are angel investors—family and friends of the filmmaker who invest for other than strictly financial reasons.
Second there are those who think they can “beat the house.”
“Everyone else has been burned, many people in Hollywood are charlatans, but they think they can beat the house anyway—they’ll pick better films, they’ve met a very trustworthy guy who has a slate of films that can’t lose—and the hallmark of those people is they claim very outsize rates of return.”
The third category of investor is able, by virtue of scale of investment or some other means, to truly diversify across a number of different investment opportunities. This investor looks at films the way others look at real estate—knowing many things could go wrong, but that if he’s truly diversified and invests on a significant scale, and is very diligent, then over a reasonable period of time, he’ll reap a “very handsome return.” Which is basically what the studios do—although even the studios get it wrong.
Another answer to the question, ‘Who invests?’ might be, ‘People who see an opportunity.’ Box office demand is currently strong, but the number of films being made with U.S. distribution is down significantly. To Kevin Frakes, that represents an opportunity.
Frakes founded L.A.-based PalmStar Media Capital in 2010. It has just closed the initial capitalization on its first investment fund, which will invest in production gap financing, P&A financing and equity co-financing.
“We will be in a position to fully finance pictures. We will invest a limited amount of equity in each film, but the focus is debt financing and distribution financing. The movies will be $5 to $25 million and genre fare—horrors, thrillers, action, romantic comedies, in that range.”
Frakes started out on the development side of the business and says his move to “from the sell to the buy side” was prompted by a 2009 wake up call: “In 2009…only about a third of the movies were getting made compared to previous years and our ability to convert projects from development into production was really hurting us, so we decided we really needed to get on the other side of the industry.”
How to Succeed in Film Financing
Frakes clearly believes there’s money to be made in film financing, and the hedge fund manager agrees, but offers three pieces of advice to those considering taking the plunge:
First, you must take the time to truly understand the many elements of film production finance and distribution, in particular, the legal components and how the rights are created, distributed and paid for.
Second, you have to have some kind of connection to the industry at a fairly high level, meaning, you need to have access to trustworthy people and have a good mechanism for filtering out people who are not reliable business partners. That, he says, means using good lawyers and consulting with the people best qualified to analyze your proposed deal. Frakes echoed this, saying he couldn’t imagine having started PalmStar Media Capital without having experience in the film business. That said, he says in starting the company he “took more of a path that a fund or a finance company would take. I hired a CFO, I hired a financial consultant firm—I hired the Salter Group, to come in and consult with us and build our investment model…I can see doing this without my background, but you’d have to invest considerably within the industry to bring in people who really know what they’re doing.”
The third piece of advice to would-be film financiers, says the hedge fund manager, is “remain vigilant.” Hollywood likes to fleece people, he says, but if you follow steps one and two, you are more likely to enter good deals with good people.
For a final word on film financing, FINalternatives decided to follow the hedge fund manager’s advice (and Kevin Frakes’ example) and turn to someone who really knows the business. We asked The Salter Group’s Roy Salter to tell us what he tells those who ask his firm’s advice on investing in film. His response was both discrete and succinct:
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C Program to Check Whether a Number is Palindrome or Not
This program reverses an integer (entered by the user) using while loop. Then, if statement is used to check whether the reversed number is equal to the original number or not.
To understand this example, you should have the knowledge of following C programming topics:
- C Programming Operators
- C if, if...else and Nested if...else Statement
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Who isn’t looking forward to a summer holiday? It’s no doubt a well-earned break for you – a time for you to relax, let all your troubles wash away and enjoy yourself.
Treat your hair piece like your own skin
It’s true to say that synthetic fibre and real hair pieces should be treated in the way that you treat your own skin. In other words, always try to protect the hair from extreme weather conditions by wearing an appropriate cover. In the heat and sunshine, wear a hat made of natural fibres like silk or cotton. Not only does this help prevent drying out the hair, it also helps to avoid tearing hair fibres too.
Use a special hydrating constructor spray
Synthetic fibre hair and 100% human hair cannot retain moisture like natural hair. So keep your hair hydrated with a specially-formulated hair care product like a reconstructor spray which helps moisturise and prevent drying. The best quality reconstructor sprays contain natural ‘repairing’ ingredients like sunflower and sugar beet. The spray acts like a leave-in conditioner which means you can happily get on with your holiday without worrying about the effects of dry and hot weather conditions.
Comb or hand-wash your hair piece on a daily basis
It’s important to make sure that any grains of sand or dirt are removed from your hair piece on a daily basis. Otherwise they could affect the method of attachment (e.g. weaken the glue used to attach your piece). Hand-washing in tepid water is always recommended. Never wring or squeeze your it – swirl it around the basin – and use special wig or shampoos and conditioners. Regular off-the-shelf haircare products may contain high levels of alcohol which could damage hair fibres. When drying your hair piece, always hand-pat dry with a natural-fibre cotton towel to avoid pulling out any strands of hair. Gently shake it to help it regain its shape and style.
Avoid using heated appliances to dry your hair piece
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The UK’s failure to build retirement homes prevents downsizing and the key to unlocking the housing crisis lies in reversing decades of underinvestment, says a new report
The key to unlocking the UK’s housing crisis lies in reversing decades of underinvestment in purpose-built housing for older people which could encourage downsizers and free up family homes.
The Associated Retirement Community Operators (ARCO) report, ‘Too little, Too late? Housing for an ageing population’, reveals that 15 million bedrooms are surplus to requirements across UK homes.
The report, independently authored by the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, expects this bedroom surplus will exceed 20 million by 2040, with nearly 13 million people above the age of 65 living in largely unsuitable households.
The report highlights:
- The key to unlocking the UK’s housing crisis lies in tackling the under-occupation of family homes, where nearly 9 million households aged over-65 live in a house with ‘surplus’ bedrooms.
- Only 2.5% of the UK’s 29 million dwellings are technically defined as ‘retirement housing’ – but the number of purpose-built homes offering care services is far less, at around 0.7% of UK housing stock, according to a recent report from the Urban Land Institute.
- Just 7,000 new homes built each year are designed for older people. This is inadequate to serve the 180,000 65-plus households that will be created each year over the next decade.
The report calls on Government to:
- Promote the benefits of downsizing and incentivise people to downsize before social care is needed, partly through cuts to Stamp Duty Land Tax.
- Establish a housing strategy for older people that joins together housing and health, and obliges local authorities to plan for retirement housing and to identify appropriate sites.
ACRO believes this would kickstart the housing market by freeing up family homes, provide much-needed choice for older people, and enable them to lead healthier lives for longer, reducing pressure on health services.
Housing that works for everybody
Nigel Wilson, CEO of Legal & General, said: “Our housing stock needs to work for everybody. People of all ages need more supply of housing and better choices, whether they are trying to accommodate a growing family, looking to rightsize to a healthy and safe later living environment, or indeed to retrofit their existing home.
“We know there is strong demand for the right sort of housing for later life living, with great design, supportive communities and good access to friends, family and facilities.
“Housing policy now needs to catch up with the demands and opportunities of our ageing demographic: getting this right has benefits for everyone.”
Phil Bayliss, CEO of Later Living at Legal & General and chairman of Guild Living, commented: “As has become ever more apparent in the past few months, there are major failures in the way we house our elderly in their later years.
“As a country, we need to acknowledge the benefits that a new form of retirement community can bring and to actively plan to deliver these homes. For this, we will need policy support that mandates a minimum quota of homes each year to meet the needs of older people.
“These communities offer significant health benefits – a 50% decrease in GP visits and an 80 percent decrease in hospital stays – and more manageable social care costs. More than this, they provide vibrant communities that can help increase healthspan.
“This is why we established our out-of-town and urban later living operators, Inspired Villages and Guild Living. These businesses are offering a new way forward through great design, community, and care services, enabling people to live healthier, happier, safer, and more independent lives.”
Helping older people live better
Eugene Marchese, co-founder at Guild Living, which is developing purpose-built housing for older people in town centres, said: “This welcome report lays bare some stark figures on how much housing is being wasted and how far behind Britain is when it comes to providing the right amount of age-appropriate accommodation.
“This is about one thing: helping older people live better. Most people have no real understanding of “later living” – but the Covid-19 crisis has woken everyone up of what happens when we ignore the question of “how do we want our parents to live?”
Félicie Krikler, director at Assael Architecture, added: “As this report makes clear, households have been shrinking in size for four decades, but the way we design new homes has failed to keep pace.
“Our planning system must recognise that well-designed later living housing can transform our lives as we get older by allowing us to age better. This is not only by supporting mobility, but also by creating aspirational housing that people choose to move to, not because they have to, and intergenerational places with shared services that sit at the heart of their community.”
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Russian leader Vladimir Putin does not have cancer, says a CIA expert, and the only problem with him is that if anything he’s “too healthy”.
William Burns, the director of the CIA, told the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado that there was no evidence to support the reports coming out of Russia that President Putin had either Parkinson’s Disease, cancer, or both.
He told an audience of international security experts: "There are lots of rumours about President Putin's health and as far as we can tell he's entirely too healthy.”
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As laughter echoed around the room he stressed that his comments were not an official CIA analysis.
Mr Burns went on to outline the threat that Putin represents to Russia’s neighbours, and to the world in general.
He said that Putin was "a big believer in control, intimidation and getting even,” and that the Russian leader’s hard-line attitude was only becoming more uncompromising as he becomes more isolated.
"He is convinced that his destiny as Russia's leader is to restore Russia as a great power,” Mr Burns said. “He believes the key to doing that is to recreate a sphere of influence in Russia's neighbourhood and he cannot do that without controlling Ukraine."
Speaking of his personal experience in Moscow, Mr Burns added: “I've heard him say this privately over the years that Ukraine is not a real country.
"Well, real countries fight back. And that's what the Ukrainians have done."
Russia has ‘already lost’ war in Ukraine, says UK's armed forces chief
The most recent US intelligence puts Russia’s losses in Ukraine in the region of 15,000 killed and as many as 45,000 wounded. Mr Burns said that the withdrawal of Russian thrusts into Ukraine’s heartland to concentrate firepower in the Donbas region suggests that Putin’s commanders had learned “hard lessons”.
The original pretext for the February invasion is that Ukraine was conducting a “genocide” of Russian-speakers in eastern Ukraine.
But the invasion has only served to galvanise Western support for Ukraine.
UK will 'cease to exist' after Russia nukes island to bits in WW3, warns Putin ally
Four more Himars mobile rocket artillery systems have been sent by the US to join the 12 already in service in the besieged country.
Ukraine says it has already used the weapons to carry out successful strikes on 30 Russian logistics and ammunitions hubs.
American Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the US “will keep finding innovative ways to sustain our long-term support for the brave men and women of the Ukrainian armed forces and we will tailor our assistance to ensure that Ukraine has the technology, the ammunition and the sheer firepower to defend itself”.
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An electrifying memoir by the blind Chinese activist who inspired millions with the story of his fight for justice and his belief in the cause of freedom
It was like a scene out of a thriller: one morning in April 2012, China’s most famous political activist—a blind, self-taught lawyer—climbed over the wall of his heavily guarded home and escaped. Days later he turned up at the American embassy in Beijing, and only a furious round of high-level negotiations made it possible for him to leave China and begin a new life in the United States.
Chen Guangcheng is a unique figure on the world stage, but his story is even more remarkable than anyone knew. The son of a poor farmer in rural China, blinded by illness when he was an infant, Chen was fortunate to survive a difficult childhood. But despite his disability, he was determined to educate himself and fight for the rights of his country’s poor, especially a legion of women who had endured forced sterilizations and abortions under the hated “one child” policy. Repeatedly harassed, beaten, and imprisoned by Chinese authorities, Chen was ultimately placed under house arrest. After nearly two years of increasing danger, he evaded his captors and fled to freedom.
Both a riveting memoir and a revealing portrait of modern China, The Barefoot Lawyer tells the story of a man who has never accepted limits and always believed in the power of the human spirit to overcome any obstacle. Download and start listening now! | <urn:uuid:8ab90f79-6e2e-441e-ae05-d54b4bc51876> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://audiobookstore.com/audiobooks/the-barefoot-lawyer.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980634 | 310 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Over the previous yr, the cryptocurrency market took a collection of heavy punches from the Chinese language authorities. The market took the hits like a warrior, however the combos have taken its toll in lots of cryptocurrency traders. The market lackluster efficiency in 2018 pales compared to its stellar thousand-percent features in 2017.
What has occurred?
Since 2013, the Chinese language authorities have taken measures to control cryptocurrency, however nothing in comparison with what was enforced in 2017. (Take a look at this text for an in depth evaluation of the official discover issued by the Chinese language authorities)
2017 was a banner yr for the cryptocurrency market with all the eye and development it has achieved. The intense value volatility pressured the Central financial institution to undertake extra excessive measures, together with the ban of preliminary coin choices (ICOs) and clampdowns on home cryptocurrency exchanges. Quickly after, mining factories in China had been pressured to shut down, citing extreme electrical energy consumption. Many exchanges and factories have relocated abroad to keep away from rules however remained accessible to Chinese language traders. Nonetheless, they nonetheless fail to flee the claws of the Chinese language Dragon.
Within the newest collection of government-led efforts to observe and ban cryptocurrency buying and selling amongst Chinese language traders, China prolonged its “Eagle Eye” to observe overseas cryptocurrency exchanges. Corporations and financial institution accounts suspected of finishing up transactions with overseas crypto-exchanges and associated actions are subjected to measures from limiting withdrawal limits to freezing of accounts. There have even been ongoing rumors among the many Chinese language group of extra excessive measures to be enforced on overseas platforms that permit buying and selling amongst Chinese language traders.
“As for whether or not there shall be additional regulatory measures, we must look ahead to orders from the upper authorities.” Excerpts from an interview with group chief of the China’s Public Data Community Safety Supervision company below the Ministry of Public Safety, twenty eighth February
WHY WHY WHY!?
Think about your youngster investing his or her financial savings to put money into a digital product (on this case, cryptocurrency) that she or he has no means of verifying its authenticity and worth. She or he may get fortunate and strike it wealthy, or lose all of it when the crypto-bubble burst. Now scale that to tens of millions of Chinese language residents and we’re speaking about billions of Chinese language Yuan.
The market is filled with scams and pointless ICOs. (I am certain you will have heard information of individuals sending cash to random addresses with the promise of doubling their investments and ICOs that merely do not make sense). Many unsavvy traders are in it for the cash and would care much less in regards to the expertise and innovation behind it. The worth of many cryptocurrencies is derived from market hypothesis. Throughout the crypto-boom in 2017, take part in any ICO with both a well-known advisor onboard, a promising group or a good hype and you might be assured at the very least 3X your investments.
A lack of awareness of the agency and the expertise behind it, mixed with the proliferation of ICOs, is a recipe for catastrophe. Members of the Central financial institution reviews that just about 90% of the ICOs are fraudulent or entails unlawful fundraising. In my view, the Chinese language authorities needs to make sure that cryptocurrency stays ‘controllable’ and never too large to fail throughout the Chinese language group. China is taking the proper steps in the direction of a safer, extra regulated cryptocurrency world, albeit aggressive and controversial. In reality, it could be the most effective transfer the nation has taken in a long time.
Will China difficulty an ultimatum and make cryptocurrency unlawful? I extremely doubt so since it’s fairly pointless to take action. At the moment, monetary establishments are banned from holding any crypto belongings whereas people are allowed to however are barred from finishing up any types of buying and selling.
A State-run Cryptocurrency Trade?
On the annual “Two Periods” (Named as a result of two main parties- Nationwide Individuals’s Congress (NPC) and the Nationwide Committee of the Chinese language Individuals’s Political Consultative Convention (CPCC) each participate within the forum）held on the primary week of March, leaders congregate to debate in regards to the newest points and make crucial legislation amendments.
Wang Pengjie, a member of the NPCC dabbled into the prospects of a state-run digital asset buying and selling platform in addition to provoke instructional initiatives on blockchain and cryptocurrency in China. Nevertheless, the proposed platform would require a authenticated account to permit buying and selling.
“With the institution of associated rules and the co-operation of the Individuals’s Financial institution of China (PBoC) and China Securities Regulatory Fee(CSRC), a regulated and environment friendly cryptocurrency trade platform would function a proper means for corporations to lift funds (by way of ICOs) and traders to carry their digital belongings and obtain capital appreciation” Excerpts of Wang Pengjie presentation on the Two Periods.
The March in the direction of a Blockchain Nation
Governments and central banks worldwide have struggled to grapple with the growing recognition of cryptocurrencies; however one factor is certain, all have embraced blockchain.
Regardless of the cryptocurrency crackdown, blockchain has been gaining recognition and adoption in varied ranges. The Chinese language authorities have been supporting blockchain initiatives and embracing the expertise. In reality, the Individuals’s Financial institution of China (PBoC) have been engaged on a digital forex and have carried out mock transactions with a number of the nation’s industrial banks. It’s nonetheless unconfirmed if the digital forex shall be decentralized and provide options of cryptocurrency like anonymity and immutability. It would not come as a shock if it seems to be only a digital Chinese language Yuan provided that anonymity is the very last thing that China needs of their nation. Nevertheless, created as a detailed substitute of the Chinese language Yuan, the digital forex shall be subjected to present financial insurance policies and legal guidelines.
Individuals’s Financial institution of China Governor, Zhou Xiaochuan. Supply: CNBC
“A number of cryptocurrencies have seen explosive development which might deliver important damaging affect on customers and retail traders. We do not like (cryptocurrency) merchandise that make use of the massive alternative for hypothesis that offers folks the phantasm of getting wealthy in a single day” Excerpts from Zhou Xiaochuan interview on Friday, ninth March.
On a media look on Friday, ninth March, Governor of Individuals’s Financial institution of China, Zhou Xiaochuan criticized cryptocurrency initiatives that leveraged on the crypto-boom to money in and gasoline market hypothesis. He additionally famous that growth of the digital forex is ‘technologically inevitable’
On a regional stage, many Chinese language cities have are driving blockchain initiatives to advertise development of their area. Hangzhou, renown for being the headquarters of Alibaba, have acknowledged blockchain expertise to be one of many metropolis’s high priorities in 2018. The native authorities in Chengdu metropolis have additionally been proposed the constructing of an incubation heart to foster the adoption of blockchain expertise within the metropolis’s monetary providers.
Native conglomerates such Tencent and Alibaba have additionally fashioned partnership with blockchain companies or initiated initiatives on their very own. Blockchain companies akin to VeChain have additionally secured a number of partnerships with Chinese language companies to enhance provide chain transparency in China.
All clues level to the truth that China is working in the direction of a blockchain nation. China has all the time had a open mentality to emergent applied sciences akin to cell fee and Synthetic Intelligence. Henceforth, it’s undoubtedly that China would be the first blockchain-enabled nation. Will we see the Chinese language authorities backing down and let its residents commerce once more? In all probability, when the market has matured and is much less risky however positively not in 2018. | <urn:uuid:ba9087fc-0059-48e1-b9bd-ac71bafcf33d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.bit.com.ph/prepping-for-a-cryptocurrency-world-china-edition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.946878 | 1,637 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Researchers conducted a study on home remedies among patients in the participating GP offices in the United Kingdom. Although the questionnaire did not ask about patients’ knowledge or use of home remedies, it was designed to collect information about their usage. This could have affected the results as patients may have been more familiarized with the pre-defined home remedies than they are with their daily practices. Some patients may have thought a cough remedy was a cough medicine, but didn’t know they were using a home remedy.
Besides taking warm compresses, you can try several home remedies for colds. For colds, ginger, turmeric, and garlic are all great remedies. Add some to your soup or decaf tea. Cayenne pepper can help clear your stuffy nose. These remedies are best for short-term relief. Common colds can last up to two weeks. You can also apply menthol oil to the affected area.
The CDC recommends that you consult a doctor if you have symptoms of a cold that persist for more than 10 consecutive days. If you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, or have a compromised immune system, contact your doctor. Children should see their pediatrician immediately if they experience fever or other unusual symptoms. If you’re suffering from a cold or the flu, try home remedies to reduce fever and relieve symptoms.
The best home remedy for flu is to get some rest. While influenza is contagious, you should not be active and avoid meeting others if you have the virus. Good sleep is crucial for fighting the flu. It can boost the immune system. Humidity can also help to ease your stuffy nose and sore throat. To keep the air moist, place a humidifier inside your bedroom. If you wake up with a stuffy nose, turn on a humidifier.
Taking a hot shower can also help. A steaming shower helps to moisturize the nasal passages, while a sponge bath can be a soothing way to unwind. You can also have your favorite restaurants delivered or your favorite meals delivered. Avoid fried and hard foods and spend as much time indoors as possible, reading and resting. Avoid going to the gym or running errands while you have the flu. Spend the day in bed reading a book.
Sore throat remedies
Gargling lemon juice with a cotton ball can be an easy home remedy for a sore throat. Lemons contain high levels of vitamin C, which helps the body fight inflammation. Drink one teaspoon of lemon juice in warm water every half hour. The steam will soothe your throat and help you to breathe easier. Alternately, you can use one teaspoon of honey mixed in a cup warm water. Honey has antibacterial properties that may soothe the throat.
Steam can also be used to soothe sore throats. It can help to clear congestion from the throat and open the sinuses. In case you don’t have access to a steam room, you can use a hot shower to get the same effects. If you can’t afford a steam room, boil water in a pan and place a towel over your face. Take a deep breath and direct the water towards your nose.
Poison ivy remedies
If poison ivy has ever touched you, you may have wondered if there was a home remedy. There are effective remedies for poison oak, but there are not medically proven ones. Cold compresses, witch hazel, and strong brewed tea are all effective at reducing the itching and pain caused by poison ivy.
You can wash the area with soap for relief, especially if it is within the first 30 mins of exposure. But avoid soaps that contain oils. You can also use rubbing alcohol. You should also give your pet a bath if you’ve had contact with poison ivy. This can help remove the oil that is spread from your skin to your pets’. You can also give them a cool shower or soak them in soapy water to help ease the itch.
Ginger tea is a natural remedy for many ailments, including flu and cold symptoms. Ginger is also a great anti-inflammatory. It aids digestion and absorption. Its anti-inflammatory properties reduce high blood pressure. A cup of ginger tea each day can prevent nausea and discomfort during pregnancy, and may also be a soothing remedy for menstrual cramps. The warm drink can also relieve symptoms such as sore throat and coughing.
To make ginger tea, simply add the fresh root to a pot of boiling water. Add a few slices of lemon to the mixture. Let the mixture sit for at least five minutes before serving. For added health benefits, add honey and lemon slices. Stir well and enjoy! To give your ginger tea home remedies for flu symptoms or cold symptoms, you can add a few drops honey or lemon juice to give it a tangy taste. You can also make ginger tea from hot water in a mug.
Gargle with turmeric, salt
A mixture of salt and turmeric can be used to treat symptoms of a sore throat. The turmeric in the mixture will relieve inflammation and also cut through any phlegm that may have accumulated in the throat. It is one the most powerful expectorants. Adding a few drops of honey to the water may also help. This gargle should be done first thing in the morning.
Turmeric has many benefits for the body, including fighting infections and preventing coronavirus. You can make a gargle by mixing turmeric with hot water. To soothe sore throats, turmeric milk can be ingested. To make a paste of turmeric powder, you can mix it with water. You can also grind some turmeric powder into a fine powder, and apply it directly to the affected area. Peppermint oil contains menthol, which has antibacterial and numbing properties.
Hot chicken soup
Whenever you have a cold, hot, delicious chicken soup is the perfect remedy. This delicious, quick meal can be prepared in under two hours. You can add chicken, carrots, celery, and soaked mushroom to this soup. The soup should be simmered for 2 1/2 hours to tenderize the chicken. You can add rice to the soup while it is simmering.
One study showed that chicken has antibacterial, immune-boosting properties. A study published in the American Journal of Therapeutics concluded that the compound carnosine found in chicken helps regulate the body’s immune response, which could help the body fight against a cold. Chicken soup can also loosen mucus making it an effective treatment to congestion. Dr. Ziment says that chicken soup is more effective at clearing the sinuses than hot water.
Figs reduce constipation
Figs are a great way of increasing your fiber intake without sacrificing taste. A quarter cup of dried grapefruit contains approximately 4g of fiber. Figs can be eaten raw or cooked and are great for constipation relief. You can also soak the fig leaf in water before you use them in salads or baking. Online or in specialty shops, dried figs are also available.
Besides their delicious taste, figs are also rich in dietary fiber, which aids in inducing bowel movements. Two figs can be soaked in water overnight to provide a natural remedy. You can then take a teaspoonful of the soaked figs in the morning to induce bowel movements. Alternatively, you can also eat them as a snack.
Olive-tree leaves reduce high blood pressure
Research suggests that the olive-tree leaves may lower blood pressure in hypertensives. The natural substance oleuropein is found in high amounts in olive leaves. These compounds have been shown by studies to reduce systolic blood Pressure by 11.5mmHg and diastolic Blood Pressure by 4.8mmHg, as well providing other vascular benefits. The effectiveness of olive-tree leaves remains uncertain.
The olive tree is a symbol of endurance and resilience, able to withstand even the harshest climate. The leaves of the olive tree are a powerful remedy. They contain compounds that are anti-inflammatory and cardioprotective. Two studies have examined the impact of olive-tree leaves upon blood pressure and waist circumference. These studies found that olive-tree leaves reduced the risk of CVD by up to 15% and significantly decreased the risk of developing heart disease. | <urn:uuid:f50e4d72-d7cb-4148-9b42-3b272885c289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bhsheli.com/home-remedies-tooth-abscess/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.947255 | 1,709 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Melanie S. Hatter
Hatter’s artful, moving novel looks closely at the murder of a young black woman and her family’s devastation. Old—and new—questions about race and civil rights in 21st Century America arise alongside the unfolding story of Malawi and those who live in the wake of her loss.
“Whether random or at the hands of authorities or of vigilantes, daily, black men and women become victims of the epidemic of gun violence sweeping the United States. Malawi’s Sisters considers the consequences on those left behind. An early morning phone call disrupts the seemingly placid lives of Judge Malcolm Walker and his artist wife, Bet. The Walker family, including daughters Kenya and Ghana, struggle to come to terms with what it means when those you love are taken in ways that are somehow both random as well as predictable.”
—David Haynes, Kimbilio Co-Founder and Program Director, Author of A Star in the Face of the Sky
From Malawi’s Sisters, “Chapter 4”
“Malcolm looked at the blinds covering the window. He knew what was downstairs. The word “downstairs” was better than the word “basement,” which was where most hospitals housed the morgue. He and Bet were here now to identify their baby girl, not to console her and pay the hospital bill, though that would come later in the mail. Malcolm wasn’t sure his daughter had health insurance. He should know these things. As her father, he should know whether or not his daughter had health insurance.
“Why don’t you take a moment and sit down,” said Dr. Kosi, extending his arm to the chairs behind them.
Malcolm gripped Bet by the shoulders, almost dragging her to a standing position. He thought the words, let’s sit, but nothing came out of his mouth. He tried to take a step but his feet were weighted with invisible blocks and his knees began to shake. He almost dropped Bet in an effort to grab the desk to stop himself from falling. “Please, Bet,” he said, feebly. This was not the judge’s voice. It was the voice of a tiny man afraid of having to identify his daughter’s body.” | <urn:uuid:5030ba0a-0491-443d-9a63-0cf9b539de78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fourwaybooks.com/site/malawis-sisters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.983716 | 500 | 1.875 | 2 |
Tulum is a perfect piece of paradise that sits 130km (about 80 miles) south of the hot spot of Cancun.
Since March 2008 Tulum is one of the newest municipalities in Mexico, There are 170 populated localities including the towns of Tulum, Coba, Akumal, Chemuyil, Macario Gomez and Punta Allen.
Tulum is a small Mayan town that stretches between the pristine white sand beaches and the rich and vibrant rain forest. Tulum is also known world wide for its deep history, lively culture and unique charm. When visitors first come to Tulum the amazement that they feel is a lasting impression and one that will not soon be forgotten.
Sitting just meters from the second largest off shore reef in the world and home to hundreds of cenotes and with thousands more near by, the marine life and water adventures of Tulum have been tantalizing visitors for years. From the breathtaking views of the Caribbean Sea from the ruins of El Castillo to swimming peacefully in one of the pristine cenotes in the area, Tulum is sure to bring a sense of relaxation to any traveler.
Tulum's beaches are considered by many to be among the worlds most beautiful beaches. The sub tropic sun drenches sun worshipers in a warm glow while they sit in beach chairs under palapa umbrellas all along the shoreline. Guests sit back sipping on cold cocktails and nibble on plates from one of the many restaurants along Tulum beach.
The beaches of Tulum offer visitors the perfect place to sit back and feel the warm waters of the sea on their feet and the clear blue colors of the sea dancing in front of them.
The marine life that makes up the shores and cenotes of Tulum will keep you busy exploring their vast beauty. The sea turtles that come to lay their eggs on Tulum's beaches until they make their way to the water again are a rare site that is treasured by many. From swimming with dolphins, exploring the vast array of coral to watching the schools of tropical fish swim by, the waters of the Caribbean Sea off the shores of Tulum are truly amazing.
Tulum's cenotes are spectacular and provide hours of entertainment and learning opportunities. Swimming peacefully in the crystal clean water that has seeped through the rocks provides a sense of harmony with your surroundings. The snorkeling and diving opportunities open up a whole new side of Tulum.
The ruins of Tulum have been bringing tourists to the area for many years. This ancient walled city was, in its time, a thriving civilization. Originally thought to be called Zama, meaning dawn, by the ancient Maya, Tulum was a major crossroads of trade from both land and sea. Tulum, Mayan for wall, is one of the only fortified Mayan sites and is named such after the 8 meter (26 feet) thick wall that surrounds the ruins. Tulum is one of the best preserved coastal sites in all of Mexico. The ruins of Tulum have brought travelers from all over the world into her walls and shown them the splendor of her city.
Some of the many impressive buildings within the ruins are the Temple of the Descending god, El Castillo and Temple of the Frescoes. These beautiful examples of ancient Mayan architecture showcase the beautiful history that makes this site so magical. El Castillo is the tallest structure within the ruins and is one of the most photographed locations in all of the Rivera Maya.
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Data from: Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers
Perry, George H. et al. (2015), Data from: Adaptive, convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype in African rainforest hunter-gatherers, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ms8k7
The evolutionary history of the human pygmy phenotype (small body size), a characteristic of African and Southeast Asian rainforest hunter-gatherers, is largely unknown. Here we use a genome-wide admixture mapping analysis to identify 16 genomic regions that are significantly associated with the pygmy phenotype in the Batwa, a rainforest hunter-gatherer population from Uganda (east central Africa). The identified genomic regions have multiple attributes that provide supporting evidence of genuine association with the pygmy phenotype, including enrichments for SNPs previously associated with stature variation in Europeans and for genes with growth hormone receptor and regulation functions. To test adaptive evolutionary hypotheses, we computed the haplotype-based integrated haplotype score (iHS) statistic and the level of population differentiation (FST) between the Batwa and their agricultural neighbors, the Bakiga, for each genomic SNP. Both |iHS| and FST values were significantly higher for SNPs within the Batwa pygmy phenotype-associated regions than the remainder of the genome, a signature of polygenic adaptation. In contrast, when we expanded our analysis to include Baka rainforest hunter-gatherers from Cameroon and Gabon (west central Africa) and Nzebi and Nzime neighboring agriculturalists, we did not observe elevated |iHS| or FST values in these genomic regions. Together, these results suggest adaptive and at least partially convergent origins of the pygmy phenotype even within Africa, supporting the hypothesis that small body size confers a selective advantage for tropical rainforest hunter-gatherers but raising questions about the antiquity of this behavior. | <urn:uuid:18c5521e-1ee5-4119-adf6-7ed523deaa7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://datadryad.org:443/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ms8k7 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.892592 | 440 | 2.640625 | 3 |
By Bronwyn Ison
When it happened I couldn’t believe my own ears. I recognized I was prefacing my childhood stories to my daughters as, “when I was little girl…” Yes, when I was a little girl life was very different. If you are a parent to a tween or teen or a grandparent to someone in this age group you will be able to relate. The constant need and desire for constant stimulation and instant gratification is exponential.
As a parent to two tween daughters I must say their endless need to be entertained by a hand held device frightens me. I am certain this does not sit well with me and it may not with you either. Once I recognized a potential dependency of the device I knew I had to take action. Parents and grandparents I understand it is not easy to accept the repercussions of taking their phone away from them. I was beginning to feel hostage to my daughter’s iPhone. If I had my druthers I would have never allowed the phones in the first place. That is another story. Needless to say, I knew had to take action. It was time to set boundaries as to when and how much time they could use their devices. While I knew this may be challenging, it was necessary.
Having strong social skills is and will continue to be an essential part of life. Without strong communication skills life in the future may be challenging when it comes to having a job and working with others. One will still need to work face-to-face with people.
Each family will need to establish which kinds of boundaries are necessary for their lifestyle. Here are few ideas that may be a good starting point to share with your children or grandchildren.
*Have a conversation with your child. Share with them, you are not being cruel or punishing them, but you are simply setting times and days of which they can use the phone or any other device.
*Set days and times of which they can use their phone. Be consistent and firm with your ground rules.
*Encourage them to read, color, or play a game instead of using their phone.
*The phone should be in your possession when they go to bed at night.
*Refrain from having the phone at the dinner table. Explain and share that you would like to learn more about their day and have family time during your meal.
*Avoid letting them use their phone in the car. Encourage conversation or enjoy the scenery.
These are just a few hints and suggestions. Since establishing boundaries with my daughters relating to how often they may use the phone, it has relieved a lot of stress. They respect the rules. It wasn’t easy in the beginning but eventually it became a part of our regular routine. Best of luck to you!
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Lata Mangeshkar is an Indian playback singer and occasional actor. She has recorded songs in various Indian languages and has made contributions to Bollywood as well as Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada cinema.
Lata Mangeshkar was born at Gomantak Sahakari Mandali along with her elder brother Shri Kishore Kumar who was a child actor in Hindi films of those days. Lata’s father Pandit Deenanath Mangeshkar worked with The Great Gandharva – a traveling theater company that performed folk songs of Maharashtra. Her mother Shevanti.
About Lata Mangeshkar
Lata Mangeshkar was born on September 28, 1929, in Indore (Madhya Pradesh). Lata’s mother died when she was only three years old. Her father wanted her to learn classical music and he sent his daughter to a local music teacher named Babuji Bhai who taught her the first lessons in Marathi and Hindi classical music. At the age of seven, Lata’s talent was discovered by Master Vinayak, who taught her Hindustani classical music. She had a natural gift for music and she would sing songs perfectly after listening to them just once or twice.
Life of Mangeshkar
She was born in Indore, India to Deenanath and Shevanti Mangeshkar on September 28, 1929. Her father Deenanath Mangeshkar, who was an actor and singer in plays, married Shevanti. Deenanath is the brother of Bhaurao Baburao Mangeshkar (also known as Baburao Painter), who was a well-known artist of the 19th century Maharashtra. The youngest of five children, Lata was born in Indore, where her father had moved from Gwalior. Her family eventually moved back to Mumbai (then Bombay) in 1941.
Lata Mangeshkar had her elementary education from a woman teacher in Mumbai and she continued to study at the Elphinstone High School. She was among the first batch of Music faculty of this school. She also learned French, German, and English at home. Lata was the only girl in her family and she was very close to her brother Shrikant, who was somewhat older than her. Lata’s father feared that she would not get married as a single girl, so both of them decided that their brother should settle down first, and then they would find a good enough match for Lata’s brother later on.
Her personal life
Lata Mangeshkar married Rajkumar Mangeshkar, a music director, in 1950. The couple had two daughters, Prabha and Teji. Teji is a famous actress in Hindi movies and Prabha is an art director and a drama teacher.
Lata Mangeshkar began her playback singing career at the age of 13 for a Marathi film, Aapne (1942), and then sang for numerous films. From 1942 to 1964 she was solely a playback singer. In 1965 she sang her first non-film song “Ab Mujhe Raat Din”. In 1966 she sang 4 songs in the unreleased movie, Dil Ne Phir Yaad Kiya, and then she started her professional career as a playback singer. She was not comfortable becoming an actress, so she started acting in 1971 with that year’s classic Seeta Aur Geeta, which was one of the biggest hits of that year. Her first acted film is Prem Pujari, which was released in 1972.
A career in the 1940s
The movie Aapne (1942) was her first film. She sang “Bhavai Bhoge Yad Karu” in this movie. In 1942, she sang Aaja Nagare neeche tera in the Marathi Movie Shanivar Bhag (1941). Her first Hindi song was Hum tere bin aaye (1942) “Lata Mangeshkar” and “Tere Jaisa Koi Yeh Mausam”.
She first got success in 1942 with her song “Aapne” from the film Aapne. Her first big Hindi song was “Zindagi Jhoomke Na Jaye” which was sung in 1942 in the movie Aapne (1942). Her first duet song was “Tumse Milkar Na Jaane Kyon” which was sung with K.L. Saigal.
Her first duet with her brother Kishore Kumar was “Dil Mein Chhupa Loonga” from the movie Humsaya (1963). She did playback singing for a few Telugu movies such as Maduveneta (1950), Samudram (1993), and Aa Naluguru.
A career in the 1950s
In the film Shabnam (1949), she sang “Suraj Hua Maddham”. In 1950, she sang “Chalte Chalte” in the film Sapne. She sang Tera Khilona Pyar in the film Jhuk Gaya Aasman in 1963. Her duets with Suman Kalyanpur include Teri Meri Kahani and Main Meri Patni Aur Woh.
In 1959 she sang Tum bin jaan ke hum tum in the movie Boots To Boot. Her duets with Mukesh include Ab Mujhe Raat Din – a non-film song from 1966. Her performances in Bombay Talkies with Kishore Kumar and Anoopam with Hemant Kumar in 1954 brought her great acclaim.
In 1964 she sang “Yeh Mera Diwanapan” for the movie Anupama. Her first song in Telugu was “Ramayanamu Loni Sanchani” from the film Samudram (1993).
A career in the 1960s
She sang 3 songs in 2 languages (Marathi and Hindi) in 1962 – Chanda Chori Chori, Suno Suno Aaya Re and Hawa Mein Ganga Behti Hai. In 1964, she sang “Chand Jaan” from the movie Prem Pujari. Her first song in her other language was “Naino Naal Ek Gali”, sung for the movie Chali Chali.
A career in the 1970s
In 1970 she sang a duet with Kalyanji Anandji Ab Dard Chalte Hain. In the same year she sang “Sone Ki Jaye Sharaab” for the movie Jwar Bhata. She sang “Beqasoor” for the movie Seeta Aur Geeta in 1971.
In 1971 she sang “Roop Tera Mastana” and “Jeena Yahan Chalna Hai” for the movie Seeta Aur Geeta. She also sang “Chitchor Meri Jaan Mein Na Rahi”, with Kishore Kumar, for Seeta Aur Geeta in 1971. Her first song in Bhojpuri was in 1972, when she recorded the super-hit song Nachdi Phira Dham Dham Dhalu Chalne Lage, picturised on Mumtaz and Rajendra Kumar.
In the movie Pink (1972), she sang “Chalo Chalo” and “Hum Tum Saath Ho To”. The same year, in the movie Khandaan, she sang “Kabhi Kabhi Ye Zindagi Mein”.
In 1974 in the movie Izzat Ki Nazron Se, she sang 12 songs. One of them was “Aaj Naino Firdouse” which became a big hit. She also sang a duet in Bhojpuri with Kishore Kumar for the film Izzat Ki Nazron Se as well. She also recorded 12 songs for Lahore (1974). One of them was “Shadi Teri Meri Baat Sunana Ma” by Lata Mangeshkar and Mohd. Rafi.
A career in the 1980s
In 1982 she sang “Kya Hua Tera Wada” from the movie Meri Jung. Her first Bhojpuri film was Aaj Ka Mughal-e-Azam, which was released in 1983, and she sang one duet with Kishore Kumar named “Naa Nee Ko Taala”, which became a super hit. Thereafter, she recorded songs in Bhojpuri films regularly. She also sang for films such as Sharaabi (1984) and Zarqa (1985).
A career in the 1990s
In 1992, she sang “Maan Ke Mughal-e-Azam”, picturized on Madhuri Dixit and Amitabh Bachchan. She said that the melody of “Kya Hua Tera Wada” was sent to her over the telephone by Kamal Hasan.
In 1994 she sang music for songs like “Kabhi Kabhi Mein Zindagi Mein” from the movie Phool Aur Kaante, and “Kitni Aankhon Mein Kadi” from the movie Ek Thi Daayan, both for Mithun Chakraborty. Her last film was Jag Arjun (1996). She later enjoyed a career in Malayalam films, recording several chart-toppers such as “Kumbaramela” and “Idhu Neeyattha Thurannu”.A series of audio albums named “Mitra” (meaning friend in Hindi) was released by HMV India Ltd.
A career after 2000s
In 2012, she sang two songs for the movie Barfi! and one song for the Bhojpuri film Hamar Bhauji. She was also nominated for Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer for her song “Beera Jaise Man Ka Mela” from the film Aiyyaa. In 2012, she sang one song for the film De Dana Dan which was release in 2012.
She sang “Darshan Chale Chale” from the Rajshri Production film Jungle carve Heart which was release in 2013.
In 2013, she sang “Teri Meri Rooftop” from the movie Laal Ishq and one song for the Bhojpuri film Dholavira (2013). She also sang for the Bhojpuri films Toilet Ek Prem Katha (2013) and De Jaya Great Maa (2014).
Awards and Honor
She won the Filmfare Best Female Playback Singer Award for Sharaabi (1984) and Teri Meri Rooftop (2013). Lata Mangeshkar also won the All India Radio Best Female Playback Singer Award for “Kachche Ke Lene” from De Dana Dan. She also won the Zee Gold Awards South-East Filmfare Award for Best Music Director for Jungle Carved Heart. Lata Mangeshkar also became a judge in Dance Plus’ show Dance O Rang. She also get Bharat Ratna in 2001. | <urn:uuid:3b5f67e7-b9a9-42be-9a82-8784b9a9cd8f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://newsexpressin.com/lata-mangeshkar/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.976171 | 2,375 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Declaration of Independence
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting
in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence
Hall), approved the Declaration
of Independence, severing the colonies' ties to the British
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The text of the Declaration
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7 - Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution urging
Congress to declare independence from Great Britain.
11 - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,
Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed
to a committee to draft a declaration of independence.
28 - A fair copy of the committee draft of the Declaration
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1-4 - Congress debated and revised the Declaration
2 - Congress declared independence by adopting the
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19 - Congress ordered the Declaration of Independence
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2 - The engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence
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Thornton all signed on a later date.
A printed copy of the final version of the Declaration
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from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention,
In 1777, Mary
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and Deeds in American History
On July 6, 1776, John
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Amazing Americans: Thomas Jefferson - The Declaration of
Treasures of the Library of Congress - Declaration of Independence
This online exhibition contains Jefferson's rough draft
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Benjamin Franklin. Also includes a fragment of an early
draft of the document, a letter to Roger Weightman with
Jefferson's reflections on the Declaration, Jefferson's
draft of the Virginia Constitution, and an excerpt from
Henry Home, Lord Kames' Essays on
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regarding the pursuit of happiness.
the United States
This online exhibition offers insights into how the
nation’s founding documents were forged and the
role that imagination and vision played in the unprecedented
creative act of forming a self–governing country.
The exhibition includes a section on creating the Declaration
Independence: Drafting the Documents
This exhibition includes a timeline of events related
to the Declaration and a detailed essay on the drafting
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The Provincial Congress of North Carolina authorized
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The Declaration of Independence was enacted on July 4,
the Declaration of Independence
Robin Shields discusses the American Declaration of Independence,
focusing on its distribution through early American newspapers.
Fifteen newspapers containing the Declaration from the
Library of Congress' Serial and Government Publication
Division's American newspaper collection are profiled.
Shields highlights the importance of newspapers for the
success of the American Revolution and the influence newspaper
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of Independence, USHistory.org
Documents, Declaration of Independence, National Archives
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of the Declaration: Historic Places Commemorating the Signing
of the Declaration of Independence, National Park Service
Boyd, Julian P. The Declaration of
Independence: The Evolution of the Text. Rev. ed.
Charlottesville: International Center for Jefferson Studies
at Monticello in association with the Library of Congress,
Cook, Don. The Long Fuse: How Britain
Lost the American Colonies, 1760-1785. New York:
Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995. [Catalog
Gerber, Scott Douglas, ed. The Declaration
of Independence: Origins and Impact. Washington,
D.C.: CQ Press, 2002. [Catalog
Maier, Pauline. American Scripture:
Making the Declaration of Independence. New York:
Knopf, 1997. [Catalog
Wood, Gordon. The American Revolution.
New York: Modern Library, 2002. [Catalog
Fradin, Dennis B. The Signers: The
Fifty-Six Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence.
New York: Walker, 2002. [Catalog
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Graves, Kerry A. The Declaration of
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Michael McCullough was active/lived in New Mexico. Michael McCullough is known for mountain landscape and Southwest pottery painting.
The following information is from William Kaye who wrote the following about a painting by Michael McCullough, which Kaye and his wife placed over the fireplace in their living room:
When my wife Cindy and I were in the southwestern U.S. in April/May 1989, we bought this watercolor, depicting Three Indian Pottery Vases, representing three Indian tribes in New Mexico: the Zuni, the Acoma,
and the ancient Anasazi. The artist, Michael McCullough is a Native American. The vase shown at the right in the painting is based on shards excavated by the archeologists working for the Public Service Company in New Mexico. The shards are then catalogued by the state and given back to the company, where they are made available to a ... Displaying 750 of 0 characters. | <urn:uuid:1451ab9a-da9e-4dce-8fec-4b55b45427d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.askart.com/artist_bio/artist/123276/artist.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00078-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975946 | 193 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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