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You’ve finally got your mind in a fit state, you’ve been training several times a week and even ditched the escalators at the tube station for the stairs, but for some reason you’re still not seeing the results you want. Reason? You’ve not yet mastered the art of eating smart.
As frustrating as this can be, nutrition and exercise go hand in hand and a healthy diet is key to building strong muscles. But sometimes putting this into practice is a lot easier said than done.
Samsung have teamed up with personal trainer Matt Roberts to help you get fit through the S4 a Day challenge, part of a month long programme called Get Fit For Life Month Crunch.
With Matt’s tips and fitness tools, such as the S Health app on the Samsung GALAXY S4, getting fit over the next four weeks couldn’t be easier. The app will keep tabs on your meals and help you keep track of how much you consume as well as monitor your progress through the weeks.
By the end of the month, you will notice a marked improvement in your strength, energy levels, concentration and well-being.
Episode 3: Nutrition
The last two weeks focused on exercise and lifestyle. This week Matt shows us how to use nutrition to improve strength. Surprisingly, you can still enjoy alcohol and lean meats as part of the challenge… result!
Training For Strength
Now that you’ve got to grips with doing regular exercise, the next step is to improve your strength. When increasing weights one of the most important things is to not sacrifice technique which can result in potential injury. Using drills throughout your session will help to maintain mobility and flexibility creating a more balanced body. However, don’t go exercise crazy and train hard every day. You’re likely to do more damage than good. Make the most of rest and lighter recovery days as each week will be more demanding than the last.
The exercises shown here are some of the main exercises of Week 3’s programme, click here to follow Matt’s carefully designed S4 a Day Programme updated daily on Twitter #S4aDay
Matt’s Top Four
This helps to strengthen your shoulder muscles and improve posture
• With a straight back, hold a dumbbell in both hands and lean forward to a 45 degree angle holding the dumbbells fully extended in front of the body
• Keep your elbows soft and raise your arms from below your chest to level with your shoulders, squeezing the shoulder blades together at the top point of the movement being careful not to shrug the weight
• Return to starting position
Helps you get ripped abs
• Lie on your side and elevate the body supporting your weight between your forearm and feet
• Keep your body straight with your hips off of the floor, your neck and back in alignment
• Dip your hip down towards the floor without touching and then raise yourself back up again into the starting posture
A lower body training exercise that targets the upper legs and glute muscles
• Standing upright with feet sounder width apart and holding the dumbbell at one end in both hands (around chest height)
• Bend the knees, breaking at the hips and pushing your bum backwards. Maintain weight into your heels and keep your back straight. Lower until your knees are at a 90 degree angle if possible
• Push back up to the start position
These types of exercises are a simple way of working the body under resistance without using more than your bodyweight. They demand a lot of postural control, however the Drama Shot featured on the Samsumg GALAXY S4 can help with this allowing you to take a series of actions in one cut. It is a good way to check your posture and exercise form. With core strength and coordination needed to complete these exercises well - control and technique are the main skills required to achieve the greatest gains. This style of training is commonly used by athletes and sports people as a way of warming up, and creating good "multi-directional" strength and awareness of your body.
S Health – Your perfect fitness workout partner
Keep Tabs on Mealtime with Food Tracker
A key part of your fitness and well-being is the food you eat. By monitoring your calorie intake you can stay in control of your input (how many calories you consume) vs output (how many calories you burn). The Samsung GALAXY S4 S Health app analyses your meals and calculates how many calories you've consumed on a daily basis. Just tap the icon for each mealtime—breakfast, lunch, dinner and other snacks—and add the information for everything you ate. If that burger at lunch is too good to resist, Food Tracker will give you an idea of what you need to do to get back on track for dinner.
To see the full range of features of S Health and find out how it can improve your fitness by clicking here.
Click here to start shaping up today
Matt’s Top Tips
1. Eat lean protein with EVERY meal. This includes breakfast e.g. eggs (boiled, poached, scrambled) salmon, mackerel
2. Take a multivitamin and Omega 3 oil supplement (3grams EPA/DHA) every day at breakfast to ensure micronutrient and healthy fat intake
3. Eat fresh vegetables and or fruit with EVERY meal. 4 one cup servings per day is a good measure
4. Only consume zero calories beverages. Herbal teas, black coffee and water all fit in to this rule. One alcoholic drink a night is fine
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in New Orleans had gathered 3.7 million cubic meters of waste by the end of
last year, enough to cover a football field with a mountain-sized cube about
690 meters (2,264 feet) tall. They carted off moldy mattresses and refrigerators,
sodden photographs and other pieces of peoples lives that Hurricane Katrina
claimed last August.
A housing complex in New Orleans flooded after Hurricane Katrina. Water levels in much of the region did not drop for weeks. All images courtesy of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality.
But New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast communities have also faced the specter of a different kind of cleanup since the strikes of Katrina and Hurricane Rita, which followed on Katrinas heels four weeks later. In the weeks after the devastating storms and subsequent flooding, scientists found evidence of air and water pollutants, as well as redeposited soils containing high lead concentrations. The initial spikes of chemicals and other toxic materials have faded, leaving the area surprisingly clean, government agencies and others say, but some studies have found some potentially worrisome environmental effects that may linger for years to come.
The wave of water that flooded New Orleans during Katrinas storm surge came mostly from Lake Pontchartrain. At first, scientists monitoring the region, as well as residents, government officials and the media, were worried about toxic soup, said Albert Hindrichs of the Water Quality Management Division in the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ), at the Water Environment Federations annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 1. Immediately after the storms, scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Louisiana DEQ had started to watch for fish kills in the lake and bayous from dissolved carbon dioxide, tracked volatile organic compounds in the canals and tested all sorts of other parameters, sampling regularly and making tens of thousands of analyses in the weeks that followed.
The first impressions were grim: The city of New Orleans acted as one giant settling pond for a few days there, said Jane Moore, EPAs officer of environmental information, who coordinated hurricane recovery efforts, in her remarks to an audience at the November meeting. After the Army Corps of Engineers started to pump that water back into Lake Pontchartrain on Sept. 5, however, everyone was pleasantly surprised to find that the impact on the lake was not as negative as we thought it would have been, Moore said.
The surprisingly positive outcome could be attributed to the sheer volume of water, which probably diluted toxic material hotspots, says Chris Piehler, a DEQ environmental scientist. Between 4 and 10 percent of Lake Pontchartrain was in the flooded New Orleans area.
By November, scientists from the Louisiana DEQ had only seen occasional spikes of contaminants in their monitoring of the canals and of the lake, which was deemed suitable for human swimming at the end of October. Hindrichs reported that some metals exceeded acceptable levels for short periods of time, and researchers found a few instances of fish die-offs on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
More difficult was getting the areas wastewater treatment plants back up and running. Flooding had completely overwhelmed the plants in some sites, resulting in effluent overflows. Although the flooding may have diluted the human waste, it still took days to weeks to get the sewage and water treatment plants back online, Moore said, as electricity remained down and many repairs were necessary.
Despite the better-than-expected short-term results, however, scientists are still investigating the long-term impacts of the floodwaters that swept through New Orleans. Publishing in the Oct. 11 online edition of Environmental Science & Technology, John Pardue, an environmental engineer at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, and colleagues said that the floodwaters were much like any other storms runoff toxic, but not surprisingly so. Lead, arsenic, and in some cases, chromium, exceeded drinking water standards but with the exception of some elevated Pb [lead] concentrations generally were typical of stormwater, the team wrote. Data suggest that what distinguishes Hurricane Katrina floodwater is the large volume and the human exposure to these pollutants that accompanied the flood, rather than very elevated concentrations of toxic pollutants.
Tests of the floodwaters in some sites also revealed concentrations of chemical solvents and petrochemicals (petroleum and associated organic materials), including from the Murphy Oil spill in Meraux, La. Floodwaters moved a partly filled storage tank off its foundation by a few meters, and more than 1 million gallons of oil from the site spilled, affecting about 1,800 homes, according to EPA and the Louisiana DEQ the fourth largest spill to affect the region (see story, this issue). At the beginning of December, EPA officials overseeing the companys cleanup area added 70 more houses to those that had been affected by the spill.
Scientists from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality collected water samples from Lake Pontchartrain for testing last fall.
What the water left behind, according to Steven Presley, an environmental scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, may be more worrisome in the long term. In tests of the sediment that settled out of the floodwaters, Presley and colleagues found a variety of EPA-ranked hazards at levels higher than acceptable for human and environmental standards, including pesticides (some of which were banned substances) and disease-causing bacteria, they reported in Environmental Science & Technology on Dec. 14.
They also found high levels of lead in soil samples, a persistent hazard in New Orleans lingering from its industrial past (see Geotimes, May 2005). Lead is particularly harmful to childrens neurological development, increasing the chance of learning disabilities, as well as causing increased blood pressure and other negative health effects.
After Hurricane Katrina came through, Presley says, soil that was once likely covered with vegetation became disrupted, suspended in the waters, relocated and deposited elsewhere, reexposing it at the surface. Now that lead-containing soil has been broken up and exposed, it can dry out and be picked up by the wind, carrying lead on dust particles, which poses a whole new problem that Presley says remains to be assessed. So far, he has seen few tests in schoolyards, where the leaded dust may settle, he says.
Although the storm kicked up new dust, it also temporarily lowered atmospheric emissions for New Orleans, as cars and petroleum sites were not operating for several weeks. New emissions did come from gasoline spills at private residences cars and boats left behind says Chris Roberie, the DEQ Air Quality Assessment Division administrator, but most of what we saw was unremarkable.
Overall, public health impacts remain uncertain and controversial, says Karen Gautreaux, DEQ deputy secretary, with concerns continuing to arise from mold allergies and other respiratory problems for people returning to their homes, in addition to the leaded dust problem. Still, as the state faces the incredibly complex and expensive rebuilding process, with its intrinsic political and scientific issues, Louisiana has been incredibly fortunate, she says, with respect to Lake Pontchartrain and contaminants. | <urn:uuid:97ee2a49-7df3-4b79-af21-b8f475e8dbb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.geotimes.org/feb06/feature_Katrinacleanup.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00424-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967107 | 1,447 | 3.203125 | 3 |
|Kaedrin's Guide to Isaac Asimov|
Isaac Asimov is one of the cornerstones of the Science Fiction genre. Yes, a cornerstone. He's also one of the world's most prolific writers, with over 500 books, fiction and non-fiction, credited to his name. I'm going to focus more on his Science Fiction here, specifically his Robot, Empire, and Foundations series, which present a kind of history of the future in which man colonizes space.. I highly recommend reading these series in their proper chronological order (they are listed in the correct order on this page). I've also included a miscellaneous section for various other books that aren't part of the series and I hope to expand this section with links and other articles.
Updated 4.13.03: Added reviews for the Second Foundation trilogy (written by Gregory Beneford, Greg Bear, and David Brin) and also did some maintenance type things... This guide is due for a much needed updating, so maybe I'll be revising some of the pages as well as writing some new features...
The Robot Series
The Empire Series
The Foundation Series
The Second Foundation Series
Note: I see that some of these novels are now out of print (like The End of Eternity and Robots and Empire), which is a shame because some of them are really excellent novels. I recommend checking to see if Amazon can get you a copy (they usually have used sellers as well) or maybe making the journey to *gasp* the local library to get the important novels.
Copyright © 1999 - 2005 by Mark Ciocco.
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Global data processing
You can use the global data processing framework to process all data that is sent to the database. You can use it to define data processors, which are then used to track or modify the database entities upon their creation or modification.
The following sample creates simple text sanitizer that removes obscene words from a news content:
- Create a new type that inherits
ProcessorBase and implement
IDataProcessor,using the following code sample:
- In Sitefinity CMS backend, navigate to Administration » Settings » Advanced.
- In the left pane, expand Data » Data Processors and click Create new.
- In the Type field enter the FullClrName of the processor implementation.
In this example, enter WebApp.ObsceneWordsSanitizerProcessor
- Save your changes.
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An energy program too efficient for its own good
BILLIONAIRE CONSERVATIVE financier David Koch doesn’t know it, but the advanced energy-saving technologies used in the new $211 million cancer research lab that bears his name at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were funded in part through a government program to reduce global warming pollution. It is the same program under heavy attack by one of Koch’s biggest political beneficiaries, the group Americans for Prosperity.
The David H. Koch Institute, which was dedicated this month, will use almost a third less energy than comparable facilities. Everything in the building is designed to maximize efficiency, from lighting and climate controls to the laboratory systems — even the floor plan.
Money for all those extras came through MIT’s $14 million campuswide partnership with its utility,
But NStar didn’t decide to do this on its own. Under a law signed by Governor Deval Patrick in 2008, Massachusetts utilities are required to pay for efficiency upgrades whenever the energy savings cost less than building the equivalent amount of new generating capacity.
Last year, almost a fifth of that money came by way of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, an agreement by 10 Northeastern states that limits the amount of carbon dioxide utilities can put in the air and collects a small fee — set by auction — for every ton they emit.
Koch would not be alone in missing the connection to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. In fact, top supporters of the embattled program didn’t know either. And that is precisely why the program is in serious trouble.
Thousands of businesses, families, and local communities are reaping dividends from the initiative without knowing it, because those benefits flow through a tangled web of rebate and incentive programs administered by utilities, state governments, and nonprofits — robbing an effective program of the natural constituency it deserves and making it easier for groups like Americans for Prosperity to attack.
And attack they have.
Thanks to an aggressive yearlong campaign by Americans for Prosperity, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted last month to quit the initiative. Senate agreement is expected. The new Republican governor of Maine wants to follow, and there is mounting pressure on Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey to do likewise.
That would be a giant leap in the wrong direction, not just — or even mainly — for the environment, but also those state economies.
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative costs the average household about 75 cents a month. It pays for upgrades from home weatherization to energy-efficient industrial boilers, big commercial lighting projects, and rooftop photovoltaic installations on schools and warehouses (which is how New Jersey became the number two state for solar). Studies consistently show these efforts return $3 to $4 for every one spent.
It saves money for everyone by avoiding expensive new power plants, and by lowering peaks in demand that drive up electricity prices across the board. That’s good for ratepayers, and good for business.
Programs funded by the initiative provide access to scarce capital and help reduce operating costs. They create opportunities for everyone from architects, engineers, and programmers to the people in tool belts who bend metal and wire up buildings. And it’s opportunity that can’t be outsourced to China.
Of the $789 million raised by the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative through December, more than half went to efficiency projects. Eleven percent went for renewables, and 14 percent to offset bills for low-income families. Less than 5 percent went for administrative overhead, a figure that should warm Tea Party hearts. (Those numbers would be even better if New York and New Jersey hadn’t used some proceeds for deficit reduction.)
At a time when energy prices are threatening a shaky recovery and many parts of the Northeast are pressed to meet electricity demand, lawmakers and business leaders should take an honest accounting of the program’s benefits before they surrender this important and highly cost-effective economic tool.
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The strange and strangely true! The real and really gross! The drop-your-jaw disgusting! What kid can resist grossing out friends and learning fascinating facts, all at the same time!
Common Core Alignment:
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Why is a Strong Woman a Bitch?
Day 4 of the song challenge asks for a song that describes my life, but honestly I can't say I've ever encountered one that does. And I guess that's not too surprising. I was one of those kids who was never “seen” by the teacher on Romper Room and I could never find my name on any of those personalized key chains, coffee mugs or Coke cans either. When I spent a weekend learning storytelling with Luisah Teish and was asked to create a story that told my life, my story was not like anyone else's.
So I guess I will fudge a bit, and give you a song that describes my temperament, more than it does any of my life events. That song would be “ Bitch ” by Meredith Brooks.
Challenging, Going to Extremes
The song, also known as “Nothing In Between,” appeals to me because it embraces all of the different things a woman can be and it isn't at all apologetic about it. I also love that the song proclaims we don't have to be happy being squeezed into one little box and made to fit a label. I have always been my own person, and I never tolerated anyone wanting me to just be one thing to them.
I'm a little bit of everything
All rolled into one
~ Meredith Brooks (and Shelly Peiken) “Bitch”
There are a good many phrases that jump out at me: “I do not feel ashamed,” “going to extremes,” “You know I wouldn't want it any other way.” It's not just about the woman herself, but also about her relationship with her lover and with the world at large. It's bold and it's rude in ways that go beyond the use of the pejorative in the title and the chorus. It challenges all the stereotypes, right down to the floral wallpaper in the video!
And yes, that goes a long way to describe this sweet Cancerian with the big, fierce Leo rising.
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New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department: Family Navigation and Education Services
The Children, Youth and Families Department (CYFD) is soliciting proposals to establish a contract through competitive negotiations for the procurement of community based services for children and families in order to mitigate and reduce any occurrence of child abuse and neglect. Family Navigation and Education Services (FNES) is a multifaceted, short term, community-based service program that works with families in their homes and in the context of their neighborhoods to help them meet the basic needs of their children and prevent child maltreatment. FNES is guided by the following Pinon Values: child and youth safety is paramount; children and youth must have enduring relationships with their families; practice is centered on best interests, wellbeing and the needs of each child and youth; all families have strengths; agency and contractors are fair and compassionate and act with respect and integrity; families are served within the context of their own family rules, traditions, history, and culture; evidenced informed practices are used; and the entire community shares the responsibility of keeping children and youth safe.
Goals are to:
- Help families meet the basic needs of children
- Reduce the risk of child abuse and neglect
Performance measures are:
- At least 90% of families served will not be the subject of substantiated child maltreatment while receiving services and within six months of close of service.
- At least 90% of families served will not have an entry into foster care while receiving services and within six months of close of case.
- At least 90% of families will be successfully linked and engaged in services within the community prior to FNES case closure.
Successful applicants shall use the New Mexico Child and Safety Assessment Tool and the risk assessment, available community resources, extended family resources, and a Family Centered Meeting Plan as provided by CYFD. The type of services provided through the Family Navigation and Education Services Program must include:
- Community outreach
- Referral to a home visiting program
- Family assessment
- Outcome driven service plan
- Monitoring the families engagement with community agencies
- Family participation in wraparound services
- Ongoing measurement of safety threats and protective factors, using the New Mexico Safety Assessment Tool
- Evidence based parenting program for each parent
- Crisis safety planning and implementation
Award: Multiple contractual agreements will be awarded for a term of up to one year with he option of three additional one year renewals.
Eligibility: The Offeror must be able to comply with all the necessary requirements, as detailed in the RFP, including: 1) Family navigation and education service caseloads; 2) Program support, training and evaluation; 3) Program reporting and quality assurance; and 4) Documentation of incident/occurrence reports.
Eligibility for services: A family is eligible when there have been three or more investigations conducted by Protective Services (PS), within the last year or six within the last five years and:
- Child/ren have been determined to be at moderate or high risk of continued abuse or neglect
- Child/ren are determined to be “safe” or “conditionally safe” upon completion of the CYFD New Mexico Child Safety Assessment Tool (unless approval from PS County Officer Manager (COM) is obtained in advance)
- Child/ren are not placed out of the home either voluntarily or involuntarily
- Cases have been either substantiated or unsubstantiated
- The child/ren reside with the caregiver at the time of the case referral by CYFD to the Contractor and that residence with the caregiver is maintained throughout the FNES program
Note: An optional pre-proposal conference will be held on May 26, 2015.
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| Author||Nico W. Broodbakker|
|Title||Amsterdam Expeditions to the West Indian Islands, Report 24. The genus Heterocypris (Crustacea, Ostracoda) in the West Indies. Part II. Carapace length, ecology and zoogeography|
|Journal||Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde|
|Abstract||Populations of three species of the genus Heterocypris: H. margaritae Margalef, 1961, H. antillensis Broodbakker, 1982, and H. punctata Keyser, 1975, sampled in the Caribbean region are studied. (1) An attempt is made to correlate differences in mean carapace length between samples from different islands and within intra-insular samples, with environmental factors. (2) Differences in the ecology of the three species are determined. (3) The distribution of the three species is discussed. (4) Related species are compared.|
Differences in carapace length appear not to be related with genetic differences, but to be caused by environmental influences. In H. margaritae correlation was found between carapace length and size (as area) of habitat, and in H. antillensis between carapace length and vegetation. Variation in carapace length is probably related with food abundance, pollution and some factors of water chemistry.
H. margaritae is a euryhaline species, living in more permanent habitats of medium size, and in subterranean habitats as well. H. antillensis is a freshwater and oligohaline species, living in more temporary, somewhat polluted, open habitats, with a muddy bottom in limestone areas. H. punctata is a mesohaline species, dwelling in larger uncovered waterbodies on limestone, with a mud or sandy mud bottom.
H. margaritae has its closest relatives in South America, while H. antillensis and H. punctata seem to have their closest relatives in the southern part of North America.
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Earlier this month, according to several peak oil bloggers, the world passed a milestone worth noting: the point at which oil, in constant dollars, became more expensive than ever before in history. Plenty of us in the peak oil community have been expecting that milestone any time now, and the surge that pushed one widely watched price marker past $112 a barrel last week turned the expectation into reality.
Profit-taking and a flurry of margin calls driven by the wider economic crisis brought oil prices back down at the beginning of this week, at least for the moment. Meanwhile, though, the higher cost of oil is already starting to trickle down to the consumer level. Diesel fuel is up over $4 a gallon in many US markets, while gasoline, heating oil, and other petroleum products are following the same curve. Speculation, in several senses of the word, has begun to focus on the upcoming summer driving season and the likelihood of soaring prices at the pump.
Just now, however, it may be worth taking the long view. When Goldman Sachs suggested, not so long ago, that oil prices might rise above $110 a barrel, their analysts thought that it would take a crisis threatening some significant fraction of world oil production to drive such a “superspike.” (That warning was widely and, I think, correctly interpreted as an attempt by New York financial interests to talk the cowboys in Washington D.C. out of launching a war with Iran.) The crisis has so far failed to materialize, but the superspike showed up anyway.
Like any other economic phenomenon in the real world, that unexpected event had numerous causes. One factor not often given sufficient weight, at least in the peak oil community, is the role of speculation. The global economy these days is dominated by flows of speculative money that pour into any investment promising an above average rate of return. Just now, commodities – fossil fuels, grains, metals, and the like – yield better returns than most other investments, and so that’s where the money goes.
Monday’s events demonstrated that. The drastic declines in most stock markets that day resulted in a bumper crop of margin calls. For those of my readers who don’t follow the markets, a margin call is what happens when investments bought with borrowed money lose enough value that the lender demands more collateral for the loan. Since few speculators keep large amounts of ready cash on hand, that usually means that other investments have to be turned into cash in a hurry; this is one of the ways financial panics spread from market to market.
Hit with margin calls in the stock market, speculators unwound positions in the commodities market, and most commodities dropped sharply in Monday’s trading. Oil slumped from $111 to $106 in a matter of hours. They rallied after that, but today’s ticker shows another dive, with oil futures down near $104 a barrel as I write these words. With stock markets sliding again, further declines are tolerably likely. None of this ought to come as any kind of surprise; the role of speculation as a source of whipsaw motions in energy prices has been discussed here on The Archdruid Report, and elsewhere across the peak oil blogosphere.
Still, speculation is only one part of the picture. Another part, hard to miss just now, is the plunging value of the dollar. Since oil, like most commodities, is priced in US dollars – a circumstance that has given the United States some notable advantages – a portion of the price increases that have roiled commodities markets and startled American consumers in recent months are simply readjustments by which commodities retain their value against the measure of a weakening currency.
There are good reasons for the dollar to shed value just now, of course, but I sometimes wonder if deliberate policy may play a role as well. After a quarter century of reckless deficit spending, the United States is insolvent by any reasonable measure, saddled with debts it will never be able to pay off. Unlike other countries that have recently landed in the same bind, though, it has a notable advantage – all those debts are payable in a currency it controls. The other day, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson made the usual ritual noises about upholding a strong dollar policy, but I suspect it has crossed his mind that the national debt would be a good deal less intimidating if the dollar were to slide to 5% of its current value over the next ten years or so. It’s hard to think of another policy, in fact, that will keep the United States from having to default on its sovereign debt sooner or later.
Whether or not this is on the official agenda, though, some such readjustment is inevitable. The imperial economics that enabled the five percent of the world’s population who are Americans to monopolize a third of the world’s resources have begun to unravel, with predictable results. Pundits who denounce “resource nationalism” and laud the alleged benefits of free trade have conveniently forgotten that America built the largest industrial economy in the world in the shelter of protective tariffs, and used its own natural resources as a political weapon whenever it had the chance – for example, against Japan in the years before the Second World War. We may not enjoy seeing the tables turned, but it’s not as though we have grounds for complaint.
Behind the wild swings of speculative excess and the tidal forces set in motion by a collapsing US dollar, in turn, lies a third factor – from a peak oil perspective, the signal half-hidden by a great deal of economic noise. This is the failure of world petroleum production to break out of the plateau it has occupied since 2004. Those who have been following the peak oil scene for more than a year or so will recall any number of confident predictions concerning improved secondary recovery, new discoveries, or alternative fuels, that would enable oil production to continue on its upward path once prices rose enough to make them economical.
That hasn’t happened. Instead, world oil production has continued to bump along at roughly the same level, while prices have soared through the skylight. The latest news from the International Energy Agency (IEA) shows that with ethanol, biodiesel, and every other source of liquid fuels added in, world production of petroleum and equivalents nudged just slightly over the records set in 2006, while production of conventional petroleum continues to wobble downward from its May 2005 peak. Demand remains strong and prices have soared, but supply has barely budged – and plenty of technologies and energy sources supposedly poised to surge onto the market once oil broke $30, or $40, or $50 a barrel are still pie in the sky.
What this implies is that for all practical purposes, peak oil has arrived. Pinpointing the peak precisely in time quickly becomes an exercise in quibbling over definitions; petroleum is not a single thing but a diverse assemblage of chemically related resources, extracted in many ways and traded in a baroque diversity of markets. Should tar sand extractives, which require huge energy inputs to bring to market, be counted alongside light sweet crude, which requires little? What about ethanol from American corn, cultivated by energy-intensive methods that burn more fuel than the corn itself yields? Should the ethanol and the oil used to produce it both be included in total production, even though this amounts to counting the same energy twice?
Still, there’s another way to think about peak oil that’s less difficult to define: the point along the curve of petroleum production at which geology trumps market forces, and all the price adjustments in the world can’t make supply increase to meet the potential demand. Set aside the whipsaw motions of speculative excess and the impact of a disintegrating currency, and this is what the rising price of petroleum seems to be telling us. Unless events in the very near future offer a different message, it’s fair to suggest that the milestone of record oil prices fading into the dust behind us may mark the end of the age of cheap abundant energy, and the coming of a new world of limits and scarcities for which most of us are hopelessly unprepared. | <urn:uuid:071cf583-0d18-4ff3-8292-14e8e7a8855c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.energybulletin.net/print/41747 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00375-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960234 | 1,677 | 2.109375 | 2 |
History experts on the Moray coast are making preparations to open a permanent exhibition in a landmark that had faced an uncertain future.
Fears were raised that Cullen Town Hall could be lost to the community forever after the council announced it was shutting it last year.
However, the B-listed building, parts of which date from the 1820s, was saved from being boarded up after it was bought by Milne Property Developments.
The firm has already begun work renovating the chamber room of the former Cullen Town Council in the upper floor as part of an extension to the neighbouring Seafield Arms hotel.
Now history aficionados are preparing to get to work to create a heritage exhibition dedicated to the local area in the Memorial Hall on the ground floor.
It is hoped the attraction will open later this year, which will be the 65th anniversary of the hall reopening following a 13-year closure after it was badly damaged by a projection box fire in 1942.
Archives of documents and photographs of past times dating from the late 19th Century are poised to go on display once renovation work has been completed in the building to shine a light on life in the area from decades ago.
Jim Mackay, vice-president of the Cullen, Deskford and Portknockie Heritage Group, said: “We have been looking for our own premises for quite some time, certainly the last couple of years.
“We have an annual exhibition every year in July and it’s very popular – we have visitors literally coming from all over the world from places like the Falkland Islands, Alaska and China.
“Part of Charlie Milne’s purchase of the hall was that a community group could use the ground floor, which we were delighted to take up.”
Alterations expected to be done by the heritage group include creating a dedicated space to store artefacts in controlled conditions so they are protected from the effects of changing temperature and humidity.
The second phase of the project will then involve putting together a display to fascinate locals and tourists.
Mr Mackay added: “The coastline here has such a varied history. There are castles, iron age ruins in Portknockie and the Deskford carnyx, which is held by the national museum.
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The battle of Jericho is one of the most enduring biblical stories. The description of the "walls falling down" is among its most well-known accounts. Yet, the most famous excavation of this ancient site, carried out in the 1950's under the direction of Kathleen Kenyon, claims that there wasn't even a city at Jericho - much less city walls - at the time when Joshua supposedly conquered it.
What are the implications of the battle of Jericho being disproven? Wouldn't the Bible be demonstrated untrustworthy? Couldn't it be argued that the Jewish people have no more right to the land of Israel than anyone else? The implications really are staggering!
For more than fifty years scholars have built a wall of doubt against the historical accuracy of the Bible using Jericho as one of its cornerstones. It's time to face those challenges head on! It's time to determine whether or not the conclusions of modern scholarship stand in light of the evidence or if those arguments don't in fact collapse like Jericho's walls.
Join us, as we return to the site of one of history's most important battles in order to explore the crucial questions relating to Joshua's conquest. Did the walls of Jericho really come tumbling down? See for yourself in this episode of Expedition Bible.
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their forefathers to give them" (Joshua 1:6)
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by Karen Faulkner, Worthy News Correspondent
(Worthy News) – A new report by rights group Korea Future details torture and other forms of violence that were perpertrated by prison guards against 91 Christians detained in North Korea between 1997 and 2018, Christian Today (CT) reports.
Communist North Korea has classified Christianity as a “political crime” for which the penalties are severe. According to the Korea Future report, only a few underground churches are known to exist in the secretive country. Nevertheless, the report says, even the “presumed existence” of underground churches “prompts Ministry of State Security-run investigations to last years and involve multiple branches.”
Published last month, the Korea Future report is based on interviews with witnesses and survivors who managed to escape to South Korea, CT said. The report details 167 human rights violations by prison guards, including Christian detainees being beaten about the head until “blood spurted upwards.”
The report presents evidence that Christian prisoners were beaten “with objects, fists, and feet,” forced to ingest polluted food, and subjected to positional torture, sleep deprivation, and forced squat jumps, CT said. One Christian victim interviewed revealed he was detained at the Onsong County Ministry of State Security Detention Center where “correctional officers would make detainees suspected of studying the Bible stick their heads between the steel bars of a cell door.”
In some cases, the Korea Future report asserted, “the physical beatings of victims were so severe that it contributed to their premature deaths.” North Korea ranks number one on the 2021 US Open Doors World Watch List of top 50 countries where Christians are persecuted.
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In my last blog, we have seen how to insert quiz question and create variables, Let’s start assigning variables quickly for questions.
- Select first question Go to the Quiz tab where you can see On Success option
- Select Execute Advance Actions from the drop down listright side you can see yellow color Advance action folder upon clicking the folder you can see Advance action windows appear
- Select Standard actions form the Action Type option, Rename Action Name(Correct FeedBack) of your choice for your understanding
Select Increment action from action Colum, add You Scored Variable from the drop down list and select literal to add the value by 10.
In similar way add value for Question Attempts and Correct Questions by literal1.
- Select Increment action from action Colum, add Question Attempts Variable from the drop down list and add the value by
- Select Increment action from action Colum, add Correct Questions Variable from the drop down list and add the value by
Finally add continue action to go to next slide.
Click onUpdate Action, click Okbutton.
Correct FeedBack standard action will automatically assigned to On Success Script
Similarly select every question slide, Go to the Quiz tab in On Success option Select Execute Advance Actions, Correct FeedBack action will automatically assigned to On Success Script.
Why we added the values(points):
We need to assign scoring points to every question so we added 10points to every questions when the learner select the correct optionhe will get 10 points and the value stores in You Scored variable.
In order to track how many questions doesthe learner attempted,so we added the value 1 to track the attempts and the value store in Question Attempts variable.
In order to track how many questions learner attempted correctly, so we added the value 1 for On Success to question and the value store in Correct Questions variable.
Last Attempts (InCorrect):
Go to the Quiz tab where you can see Last Attempts option
Select Execute Advance Actions from the drop down list what standard action (Correct FeedBack) what we assigned to On success will display here, right side you can see same yellow color advance action folder upon clicking the folder you can see Advance action windows appear.
Top right you can see Duplicate Action icon.
Click on Duplicate Action icon Rename Action Name (InCorrect FeedBack) of your choice.
Select You Scored action layer and by pressing control key select Correct Questions action, then click on delete icon,Update the action,Click OK button.
Now let’s assign InCorrect FeedBack action
In Last Attempts option Script you can see Correct FeedBack action
upon clicking Correct FeedBack action you will be able to select InCorrect FeedBack action from the drop down list.
Similarly for every question in Last Attempt option Script you need to select InCorrect FeedBack action.
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ISO 9000 sets up the concepts, language, requirements, guidelines for effectiveness and efficiency and, perhaps most importantly, internal and external audits of quality management. Purchase Control works dynamically with ISO 9000 standards to deliver comprehensive reporting and auditing to your company.
Quality Management Principles
The first principle of ISO quality management is the customer. In an increasingly complex and globalized market, human relationships are still the foundation of economic transaction. A good handshake in mutual understanding and benefit is still the most valuable asset in the supply chain. In fact, it is more important than ever to know clearly what the needs and expectations of your customers are.
A solid CRM strategy will include analysis of where the project management objectives coincide with customer needs and expectation.
Improvement: It’s a process.
Aware that your business is growing and changing all the time, ISO 9000 is a guide for viewing your supply chain management solution as systematically fluid and evolving. Prioritizing opportunities for corrective action, establishing accountability, and evaluating overall impact, ISO 9000 is a model for continual improvement.
Purchase Control and ISO 9000
The backbone of the ISO 9000 protocol is the the auditing operations. This is where Purchase Control and ISO 9000 meet. Internal audits are designed by ISO 9000 to ensure quality management is working effectively and efficiently. Purchase Control has a built-in full audit trail to ISO 9000 specifications.
Fresh pair of eyes
Often when an ISO 9000 audit is being performed it is done by an ISO certified third party. A third party has an objective relationship to your business and fresh eyes on where room for improvement might be. When a third party evaluates your performance and supplier relationships they can easily search the online purchase order software, export any and all PO and invoice data, and review the audit trail without any prior knowledge of Purchase Control. It is that easy to use.
Purchase Control’s partners.
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Los Angeles, CA (March 12, 2014) Researchers have found that sutures embedded with stem cells led to quicker and stronger healing of Achilles tendon tears than traditional sutures, according to a new study published in the March 2014 issue of Foot & Ankle International (published by SAGE).
Achilles tendon injuries are common for professional, collegiate and recreational athletes. These injuries are often treated surgically to reattach or repair the tendon if it has been torn. Patients have to keep their legs immobilized for a while after surgery before beginning their rehabilitation. Athletes may return to their activities sooner, but risk rerupturing the tendon if it has not healed completely.
Drs. Lew Schon, Samuel Adams, and Elizabeth Allen and Researchers Margaret Thorpe, Brent Parks, and Gary Aghazarian from MedStar Union Memorial Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, conducted the study. They compared traditional surgery, surgery with stem cells injected in the injury area, and surgery with special sutures embedded with stem cells in rats. The results showed that the group receiving the stem cell sutures healed better.
"The exciting news from this early work is that the stem cells stayed in the tendon, promoting healing right away, during a time when patients are not able to begin aggressive rehabilitation. When people can't fully use their leg, the risk is that atrophy sets in and adhesions can develop which can impact how strong and functional the muscle and tendon are after it is reattached," said Dr. Schon. "Not only did the stem cells encourage better healing at the cellular level, the tendon strength itself was also stronger four weeks following surgery than in the other groups in our study," he added.
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AYLESBURY, England (Reuters) - Dogs are being trained in Britain as potential life-savers to warn diabetic owners when their blood sugar levels fall to dangerously low levels.
Man’s best friend already has been shown capable of sniffing out certain cancer cells, and dogs have long been put to work in the hunt for illegal drugs and explosives.
Their new front-line role in diabetes care follows recent evidence suggesting a dog’s hyper-sensitive nose can detect tiny changes that occur when a person is about to have a hypoglycemic attack.
A survey last December by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast found 65 percent of 212 people with insulin-dependent diabetes reported that when they had a hypoglycemic episode their pets had reacted by whining, barking, licking or some other display.
At the Cancer and Bio-Detection Dogs research centre in Aylesbury, southern England, animal trainers are putting that finding into practice and honing dogs’ innate skills.
The charity has 17 rescue dogs at various stages of training that will be paired up with diabetic owners, many of them children.
“Dogs have been trained to detect certain odours down to parts per trillion, so we are talking tiny, tiny amounts. Their world is really very different to ours,” Chief Executive Claire Guest told Reuters TV.
The centre was started five years ago by orthopaedic surgeon Dr John Hunt, who wanted to investigate curious anecdotes about dogs pestering their owners repeatedly on parts of their body that were later found to be cancerous.
At around the same time, the first hard evidence was being gathered by researchers down the road at Amersham Hospital that dogs could identify bladder cancer from chemicals in urine.
The move into diabetes followed the case of Paul Jackson, who told Guest and her team about his dog Tinker who warns him when his sugar levels get too low and he is in danger of collapsing.
“It’s generally licking my face, panting beside me. It depends how far I have gone before he realises,” Jackson said.
Tinker has now been trained by the Aylesbury centre and is a fully qualified Diabetic Hypo-Alert dog, complete with red jacket to announce himself as a working assistance animal.
The centre is continuing work to perfect dogs’ ability in spotting signs of cancer. But while dog-lover Guest says it would be nice to have a dog in every doctor’s office to screen for disease, ultimately that is not practical.
Instead, she hopes the research will lead to the invention of an electronic nose that will mimic a dog’s.
“At the moment electronic noses are not as advanced as the dogs’, they are about 15 years behind. But the work that we are doing and what we are finding out will help scientists advance quickly so that they can use electronic noses to do the same thing,” she said.
Additional reporting by Ben Hirschler
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IF a public bike hire scheme were to happen in Limerick, a fleet of 150 bicycles would be needed.
Documents from the National Transport Authority have outlined a number of proposed sites for such a scheme, which it is predicted will attract 1,500 members.
If a scheme like this is to come to Limerick, then private sponsorship will be needed.
To this end, the NTA has issued a call for expressions of interest in sponsorship, relating to the scheme.
The winning company would get naming rights to the scheme itself, and a variety of other benefits including advertisements at bike and bus stands around the city.
Other cycle hire schemes around the world have naming rights. Most notably, Barclays Bank sponsor the British capital London’s scheme.
In supporting documents given to interested companies, the National Transport Authority says the scheme would be deployed manly in the city centre, including Colbert Station.
However, the document added there will be a “spine towards the north west to the city to include the Institute of Technology”.
The bike scheme would complement other initiatives, including bus priority lanes, real time passenger bus information, and walking initiatives.
It is noted that in the city centre, cycle parking is “scarce and very little used”.
“However, bikes parked to street furniture suggest stands are needed in other places”.
At present, just three per cent of the city’s population use their bicycles to get around.
One of the reasons for this, the authority says, is because “it is relatively cheap and easy to park a car in the city centre”.
Added to this, they state “there is a considerable number of multi-lane one-way streets making journeys by bike more difficult”.
The Limerick Walking and Cycle Strategy provides for improvements in a number of routes by 2020.
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Prime Minister Theresa May presented the Brexit White Paper to UK parliament yesterday (12 July), outlining Britain’s future relationship with the European Union.
Claiming to have ‘travelled up and down the country’ over the past two years “listening to views from all four nations of our United Kingdom and every side of the debate,” May said it was now time for the “UK to step out into the world, driving forward an independent trade policy by striking trade deals with new friends and old allies.”
Responding to the paper, both UKHospitality and the Food and Drink Federation (FD) said they are pleased and find the paper ‘extremely encouraging,’ but that they will stay in close contact with the government to ensure hospitality businesses are not ‘disadvantaged’ by Brexit.
Kate Nicholls, chief executive of recently formed trade body, UKHospitality, said: “UKHospitality is pleased that the Government has recognised the value of the food and drink sector (in the Paper).
“We are also pleased that there appears to be no major deviation from previously stated positions, particularly the ability EU citizens to be able to work in the UK.
“It is vitally important that there is no friction in trade with the EU, and that goods – specifically food – is able to be traded to suit the ‘Just In Time’ method that many hospitality businesses will need. It’s reassuring to see the Government acknowledging the need for such smooth UK-EU trade.
“UKHospitality will continue to be in near-constant dialogue with the Government, to promote the interests of the hospitality sector and ensure that businesses are not disadvantaged by Brexit.
“We also await the forthcoming report by the Migration Advisory Committee and will be liaising with the MAC to ensure that the sector has access to the talent it needs.”
Ian Wright, FDF chief executive, added: “The UK Government is right to make no-friction trade with our most important trading partner its number one Brexit priority; it is extremely encouraging that the White Paper seeks to do so.
“Our food and drink manufacturers rely upon integrated supply chains, with ingredients and finished products crossing UK and EU borders frequently – nowhere more so than to and from the Republic of Ireland.
“It is positive that Government has heeded the consequences of friction for food and farming and for UK food security. Several senior Ministers have acknowledged the role FDF and our members’s advocacy played in shaping the proposals.
‘The paper begins to address some of the most concerning issues for manufacturers, such as rules of origin, however there is a lot further to go. As highlighted in FDF’s recent report, Government must grasp the impact rules of origin pose for globalised supply chains and include a joint exemption to all imports originating from Least Developed Countries (LDCs).
“We also need to understand much more about how the common rulebook will work in practice. Businesses and consumers urgently need clarity and confidence in the process for both following and deviating from EU rules.
“It is welcome that the UK will seek to participate and influence EU technical committees and have access to RASFF, but many questions still remain around our valued relationship with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA).
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Forests are very important to the enviroment because they use carbon dioxide (CO2) and produce oxygen. They also provide shelter and food for many different types of plants and animals.Trees are cut down for many reasons but the main reasons are to make space to build new houses and to clear land to grow grass for cows and sheep to eat, to produce dairy foods. The trees which are cut down are sold and they are made into paper and furniture.Cutting down trees is called deforestation and it can have serious effects. If animals’ homes, which are built in and around the trees, are destroyed, many species will become extinct.Deforestation also affects the climate. When rain falls on a forest, new clouds are created. If huge areas of trees are cut down, clouds do not form, rain does not fall and the land becomes drier. The CO2 builds up and adds to the global warming which is making the Earth become hotter. | <urn:uuid:2a3b2f3e-dde0-4d92-ad97-7236a5e9dff5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://brainly.in/question/102629 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977588 | 196 | 3.71875 | 4 |
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Easter Sunday brings a “deadly potential” of hail, tornadoes, floods and even heavy snow across the central U.S., yet if people stay home to protect against the Covid-19 pandemic some of the weather’s worst affects could be blunted.
Tornado watches stretched across Texas early Sunday, and the potential for the storms, along with flooding downpours and roof-shredding hail, was likely to unfold across the rest of the South with the worst later in the day.
Mumbai, IndiaMost polluted air today, in sensor range +1.17° C Feb. 2020 increase in global temperature vs. 1900s average -7.11% Today’s arctic ice area vs. historic average 0 3 2 1 0 9 ,0 8 7 6 5 4 0 9 8 7 6 5 0 3 2 1 0 9 Soccer pitches of forest lost this hour, most recent data
$81.9B Renewable power investment worldwide in Q4 2019
50,820 Million metric tons of greenhouse emissions, most recent annual data 0 6 5 4 3 2 0 3 2 1 0 9 0 6 5 4 3 2 .0 1 0 9 8 7 0 0 9 8 7 6 0 3 2 1 0 9 0 7 6 5 4 3 0 8 7 6 5 4 0 8 7 6 5 4 Parts per million CO2 in the atmosphere
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama could be the hardest hit, but twisters could strike as far east as Atlanta, according to the U.S.Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Oklahoma.
To the north, winter storm warnings and weather advisories arced from Montana through South Dakota and Nebraska to Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
As much as 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow could fall across many of the states, with the potential for several feet in the UP, said Patrick Burke, a senior branch forecaster at the U.S.Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland.
“There is a deadly potential in the storms today,” Burke said. “The key takeaway for the southern and central U.S. is: you probably are already staying home, but people really need to be attuned to what the threat is locally and watch for information to unfold very rapidly.”
A massive storm will coalesce across the central U.S. until it’s centered along a line from Little Rock, Arkansas, to Chicago. By Monday it’ll be focused over the Great Lakes and bring some of its destructive power to the East Coast as well.
There’s potential in the South for some tornadoes to reach to the top of the Enhanced Fujita scale, meaning they have the power to level even the strongest of homes and buildings.
Severe thunderstorms, floods and snow can all lead to massive losses so it is likely Sunday’s event, which will spill over into Monday, could cost in the billions of dollars.
On top of the tornado and snow threat, six states from Mississippi to Virginia, including Tennessee, face potential flash flooding on Sunday. Drivers account for a large number of flood deaths, so if people adhere to stay-at-home warnings due to the Covid-19 pandemic that could help save lives, Burke said.
“If you are following the advice related to the pandemic that is one layer of protection,” Burke said.
On Monday the storm will move east, raking the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Northeast with high winds and the potential for power outages. High wind watches reach from Michigan to Maine, including Philadelphia, New York and Boston, the National Weather Service said.
While the potential for power outages won’t be as great as what’s typically seen during a blizzard, the fact so many people are working from home mean the affects could be greater, said Burke.
By Tuesday the storm will have moved off into Canada and the U.S. should have a “pretty tranquil” day, he said.
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But with the rising popularity of streaming video and miscel-laneous other services labeled "Web 2.0," some telecommunications companies are arguing that this -model of "net neutrality" must change. Online video quality is relatively intolerant of even small trans-mission delays. AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and other companies that own the backbone lines for the Internet would like to prioritize data streams to make the traffic flow more rationally. If they have their way, the Internet's next slogan might borrow from George Orwell's Animal Farm: "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
The telcos propose "tiered service" for providers of Web content. Currently those providers pay just for the bandwidth they use, but the telcos also want to charge them a premium for guarantees that their data will get preferential treatment. The telcos argue that they will need to invest to handle the growing bandwidth demand. The only alternative to charging the content providers is to charge individual consumers more for access, which seems undesirable.
Critics see a catch. Companies that sign with the telcos, or the content arms of the telcos themselves, could have a huge advantage over their rivals--an antimeritocratic arrangement that would distort competition and handicap start-ups. In the most abusive situations, some Web sites would become virtually unusable. And of course, the expense of those extra fees will eventually get passed along to consumers anyway in higher costs for content.
On balance, those favoring net neutrality make the better case. A system for prioritizing data traffic might well be necessary someday, yet one might hope that it would be based on the needs of the transmissions rather than the deal making and caprices of the cable owners. Moreover, personal blogs and other Web pages are increasingly patchworks of media components from various sources. Tiered service would stultify that trend. If the costs for video are not to be universally shared, perhaps it will ultimately be fairer and more practical for individuals to pay for the valued data they receive.
Ending net neutrality might feel safer if the telcos did not often enjoy local monopolies on broadband service. Almost half of all Americans have limited or no choice if they want high-speed connections. That dearth of competition lowers incentives for the telcos to keep overall network service high.
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Lung Cancer Surgery
Dr. Rudy Lackner, thoracic surgeon at The Nebraska Medical Center discusses minimally invasive techniques to treat people with lung cancer. For more information, visit http://www.nebraskamed.com or call 1-800-922-0000.
Now, the biggest advantages for doing the operations in this matter is that: (1) we don’t have to open the chest, so there’s no cutting of the muscles on the outside part of the chest, nor do we have to cuddle or remove any parts of the ribs. Patients usually wind up with three or four small incisions that are a centimeter or two in size. In general, there are pain controls that wind up being much much better. Hospital stays tend to be shorter and we’re able to get the patients back to a better functional recovery in a quicker fashion.
This certainly allows us to extend the ability to operate on people who have more advanced emphysema or other lung diseases so that we’re able to take out a part of their lung without opening the chest, because they’re able to breathe better after the operation, they have less complications (such as pneumonia), and again are able to go home sooner and then usually they wind up getting back to a better functional recovery.
Correct, the trend for patients who have more advanced stages of lung cancer in general is to receive a combination of chemo therapy and radiation as their initial treatment. Once they’ve completed that therapy and especially if they’ve had a good response, then we’re able to go in surgically and remove a part of the lung that has the tumor and also remove the lymph nodes, which is usually the situation in that case that sometimes can be done as a minimally invasive procedure (more often is done as a more standard open operation), just because of the need to remove all of the lung tissue and lymph nodes that are involved with the cancer, but more and more even those types of operations will be done in a minimally invasive approach.
Nationwide, it’s estimated that only about 10 to maybe 15 percent of all lung cancer operations are done as a minimally invasive approach. Part of that is surgeons are comfortable with the minimal invasive procedures. Some of it has to do with patient’s anatomy and the type of lung cancer, the stage that they have; so all that winds up factoring.
I think as with the next generation cardio thoracic surgeons are trained, there will be a greater familiarity with doing minimally invasive operations, especially in the chest. So I anticipate that as we wind up going forward, more and more of the lung cancer operations will be done as a vats or minimally invasive procedure.
There’s been at least data available for a number of years that doing the operations with a minimally invasive approach especially more of these are properly done with patients whose cancers are detected at an earlier stage that compared to what traditionally has been survival when we’re finding very small lung cancers and we wind up removing them with the scopes. There have been reports with as high as 90 to 95 percent of those patients being cured that from their lung cancer which is in comparison to 15 to 20 percent of all comers. So there clearly appears to be an advantage in terms of certainly small incisions, but (in terms of) survival from their cancers.
I think that in comparison to what we’ve been dealing with over the years and patients with lung cancer and having a higher risk of dying from their disease; anything new that we could introduce that could improve survival, gets the patients home quicker and then also winds up getting them to their other therapies (whether it be chemo therapy or radiation), in certainly encouraging terms of being able to increase survival from this disease.
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Courtesy of Stanford University, School of Earth Sciences
Allan Cox was born in Santa Ana, California, in 1926, the son of a house painter. Chemistry was his major when he entered the University of California at Berkeley, but summer jobs in Alaska with Clyde Wahrhaftig convinced him that geology was a better choice. When he started graduate work in 1954, his adviser, John Verhoogen, was much interested in rock magnetism, and this became the focus of Cox's doctoral research. Cox was influenced also by the fact that Verhoogen was one of the very few on the Berkeley faculty at that time who was sympathetic to the then radical notion of continental drift.
After receiving his Ph.D. degree (1959), Cox joined the U.S. Geological Survey at its western headquarters in Menlo Park, CA. There he worked with another Survey geophysicist, Richard Doell, and in the early 1960s the two wrote many important papers on rock magnetism. A major question of interest was that of the timing of reversals in the polarity of the Earth's field as shown by measurements of the magnetism of rocks of different ages. This required the accurate dating of rock specimens. Working with another former Berkeley student, Brent Dalrymple, Cox and Doell determined the ages of rocks collected from all over the world, eventually succeeding in establishing a timescale showing the complicated and irregular schedule of polarity changes in the Earth's past.
This was an important achievement because others had noted a similar pattern of polarity changes in rocks of the ocean crust on either side of mid-ocean ridges. It seemed clear that crustal rocks were moving away from the ridge crests or that the seafloor was spreading apart. This was the first convincing evidence for movement of large areas of the Earth’s solid crust, and it led quickly to the postulates of plate tectonics. Thus early in his professional career, Allan Cox played a major role at the beginning of the scientific revolution that within a few years would profoundly transform the Earth sciences.
The magnetic field preserved in rocks provides much information about Earth history besides the simple reversal of field direction at various times in the past, and in the 1960s, Cox turned his attention to some of these other aspects. In 1967 he moved from the U.S. Geological Survey to the geophysics department at Stanford University, where he continued his work on paleomagnetism, attracting the interest of many students to this field. He became widely known for his teaching and especially for his talent in designing research projects for undergraduate students. In 1979 he became part of the university administration, as Dean of the School of Earth Sciences.
Cox's scientific work brought him honors in abundance, including election to the National Academy of Sciences (1974), the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He served as President of the American Geophysical Union (1978-1980) and was awarded AGU’s Fleming Medal (1969) and the Day Medal of the Geological Society of America (1975), along with the Vetlesen Prize in 1970. He was the author of more than 100 scientific papers and of two well-known books on plate tectonics.
Cox died in 1987 as a result of a bicycle accident in the hills behind Stanford. By this sad mishap, geophysics lost a major contributor to the theory of plate tectonics, Stanford University lost an able and innovative dean, and the community lost a stimulating and compassionate teacher and counselor. His extraordinary combination of scientific acumen, humility, concern for his fellows, and love of the natural world makes Allan Cox’s death at such an early age seem especially tragic.
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The Russ Categories are a group of Silencing tactics used specifically to "silence", i.e. devalue and discredit, women's writing. They were originally described by author Joanna Russ in How to Suppress Women's Writing, and later revised and condensed by linguist and feminist sci-fi critic MJ Hardman along with her colleague Anita Taylor and her students.
Denial of Agency
This rhetorical strategy denies that a woman is the real author of a work. If she wrote it, it's because she was influenced, or taught, or helped. Or, critics may describe her authorship as coming from instinct, passion, or her unconscious.
Pollution of Agency
Pollution of Agency attacks use a woman's character or traits attributed to her considered to be negative to deny the quality or importance of her work. Sex and sexuality, mental health status, or physical attractiveness are common traits or actions used in a pollution of agency attack.
By miscategorizing the work, or shifting the definition of what makes a work valid, the importance and value of a woman's work is often denied and her status made trivial. This apply to the substance of a work, or where the work is situated in a domain or a genre, or to the author's intersectional identities as they are perceived to categorize the work.
The work is trivialized by claiming it to be the only one of its kind, or the only (significant) work that the author ever produced. In this way women are denied the accumulative history of all their accomplishments. (See also: Appeal to exception.)
This attack presents the author in isolation, as the only one of her kind.
Lack of Models
Further expansions on the Russ Categories
Liz Henry in an essay in the WisCon Chronicles vol. 6, described how at a talk at FooCamp, she built on Hardman, Taylor, and Russ's work to point out these categories are anti-patterns that apply in general to ways that dominant cultures or people describe and circumscribe the cultural production by non-dominant people. Explaining misogynist and racist critiques of the work of women and people of color (including their coding work) as anti-patterns can help programmers and developers to detect, avoid, and fight those anti-patterns. | <urn:uuid:1d987447-6d56-4e32-a112-0ca30b13b759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geekfeminism.anarchaserver.org/wiki/Denial_of_Agency.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.956012 | 498 | 2.0625 | 2 |
By Cyril Tuohy
Advisors have some work to do when it comes to explaining how much retirement income an annuity can provide as the vast majority of households have unrealistic expectations about how much in lump-sum premium is required to generate $500 a month.
Perhaps this discrepancy explains why so many American households are unprepared or underprepared for retirement. They simply don’t think they’ll need as much as they will require in order to generate the income they think they can get from retirement income products.
It’s the great disconnect.
Asked how large a one-time lump-sum premium a household would need to hand over to an insurance company to generate $500 a month in income for life beginning at the age of 65, 71.9 percent of respondents said $25,000.
The survey of active 401(k) participants 55 and older, conducted by Cerulli Associates, also found that 17.8 percent of households said a lump sum of $50,000 was necessary to generate $500 a month for life.
In addition, the survey found that 5.8 percent said $75,000 was necessary to generate $500 a month for life, 3.8 percent said $100,000 was necessary for $500 for life, and only 0.6 percent said a lump sum of $200,000 would secure $500 a month for life.
Even with the most aggressive single premium income annuity (SPIA), a $25,000 investment would generate less than $150 a month for a 65-year-old female, according to Cerulli Associates.
“In reality, even among the most aggressive SPIAs, the same 65-year-old female would most likely need to spend between $90,000 and $100,000 to generate the $500, without receiving a death benefit guarantee,” Cerulli said.
The findings, contained in a report titled “Annuities and Insurance 2013: Balancing Shrinking Supply and Increasing Demand for Guarantees,” show why annuities remain an “advisor-sold” product and why so few variable annuities (VAs) are sold directly to consumers, Cerulli said.
Consumers’ apparent ignorance of annuities speak to the “lack of how annuities function and the tradeoffs,” facing product manufacturers, Cerulli said.
Survey results also raise questions about how annuity companies can design the type of guaranteed income products that many Americans say they want.
Certainly, it’s not for lack of trying.
While VAs have struggled over the past several years, life and annuity carriers have come up with plenty of options: deferred income annuities (DIAs), indexed universal life (IUL) products, fixed index annuities (FIAs), contingent deferred annuities (CDAs), fee-based VAs and simplified VAs.
Some of these new annuity structures have been panned by financial commentators as too expensive. Other annuity products, commentators said, used properly, fill a need for need for guaranteed income which is growing every month with the retirement of the baby boomers.
In Congress as well, calls have grown louder for employer-sponsored retirement plans to provide more annuity income options.
Demand for living benefits, therefore, remains robust.
“Consumer demand for guaranteed income is too high for firms to ignore, and many believe they can address the opportunity with greater efficiency,” Donnie Ethier, associate director of Cerulli, said in a statement.
The question is what is going to happen to supply.
One of two insurers responding to the 2013 Annuities and Life Insurance Survey said they anticipate availability of VA living benefits over the next three years to shrink, compared to only 23.1 percent who anticipate living benefits availability to increase, the Cerulli report also found.
For the moment, living benefits in new VAs are in the midst of a contracting phase as annuity carriers reduce their guarantees or drop the outright to reduce VA portfolio exposures.
Down the road, Ethier said he expects legacy VA providers and new entrants “including nontraditional players,” to enter the VA marketplace, helped in part by stabilizing interest rates.
Carriers that have recently entered the living benefit space include New York Life and Forethought Life. Other annuity carriers such as Allianz and Nationwide have even enriched their guarantees, according to Cerulli.
Jackson National and Jefferson National, meanwhile, have pushed to include alternative investments and exchange traded funds in their VA platforms.
“While many people doubt the industry’s future, Cerulli believes that insurers will continue to reinvent products to meet consumer demand for guaranteed retirement income,” the report said.
Net new VA sales, which plunged to $14 billion in 2012, are expected to reach $22 billion by 2018, an increase of 57 percent from 2012, Cerulli said.
Cyril Tuohy is a writer based in Pennsylvania. He has covered the financial services industry for more than 15 years. Cyril may be reached at [email protected].
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In forging partnerships with a New Jersey hospital and a data analytics startup, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has created a web of interlocking financial interests and conflicts that, ethics experts told STAT, raise doubts about whether the prominent New York City hospital can always put its patients’ interests first while using information in their medical records to make money.
In late 2016, Memorial Sloan Kettering signed a deal with Hackensack Meridian Health, one of New Jersey’s largest hospital systems, giving the cancer center access to a larger pool of patients and a bulwark against encroaching competition from other national players in cancer care.
Within a year, MSK launched another collaboration with a data analytics startup called Cota, and invested $1.4 million in the company. Its founder: a Hackensack Meridian executive and oncologist named Dr. Andrew Pecora, who was Hackensack’s lead negotiator in striking the blockbuster 2016 partnership and serves on the board overseeing the hospitals’ joint venture.
Cota promises that its software can ingest patient data from electronic medical records and spit out insights about how best to treat various cancers. But MSK’s stake in Cota’s commercial success, the ethics experts said, calls into question whether its executives can be objective about the value of Cota’s software for patients. Hackensack Meridian is also a minority investor in Cota and contracts with the company for data analysis services.
“It sets up the potential for bias,” said Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, a bioethics expert and professor at Arizona State University. “It’s all perceived to be part of their business interests. You can’t play that game and at the same time retain the perception as being a white hat to the patient.”
Both hospitals said their partnership and deals with Cota were unrelated and that they had taken steps to ensure that any potential conflicts don’t influence their decisions.
STAT’s examination comes as Memorial Sloan Kettering faces criticism for other business arrangements, including one in which the cancer center gave exclusive rights to anonymized images of patient pathology slides to a private entity whose investors include MSK’s clinical leaders and board members. Concerns raised about these arrangements highlight the ethical dilemmas arising as Memorial Sloan Kettering and other providers seek to use their patient data not only to improve care, but also to increase their revenues.
The cancer center is also collaborating with IBM in the development and sale of Watson for Oncology, a product that combines its clinical expertise with artificial intelligence to deliver cancer treatment recommendations. The cancer center receives royalties on the sale of IBM’s product.
Ethics experts said these deals fall into a regulatory gray area in which hospitals and other private companies are trading on patient data in novel ways that may cross ethical lines and trigger a backlash among patients.
“When institutions start treating things like patient tissue or data as properties or assets they can start selling, people start readjusting what they’re willing to share with those institutions,” said Cook-Deegan. “It’s common sense that folks are going to react that way.”
“It’s all perceived to be part of their business interests. You can’t play that game and at the same time retain the perception as being a white hat to the patient.”
Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan, bioethics expert
Hospitals nationwide are entering into contracts with private technology companies to help analyze their data and make better decisions about the care of patients. The details of those deals, and the amount of money flowing back and forth, are seldom publicized, and hospitals are largely free to craft them as they see fit.
A spokesman for Memorial Sloan Kettering, Mike Morey, said in a statement “there is zero connection” between MSK’s partnership with Hackensack Meridian and its agreement with Cota. He described them as “two separate transactions driven by entirely different goals that occurred nearly one year apart from one another,” and added that the cancer center considered 15 vendors before deciding to partner with Cota.
The collaboration with Cota calls for the company to use MSK’s anonymized patient records to build datasets of clinical genomic information that could help improve patient care and advance MSK’s research priorities. Cota, in turn, can incorporate MSK’s data into products sold to hospitals, drug companies, and other customers. MSK will receive a share of Cota’s revenues based on the use of its anonymized patient data in those products. So far, MSK has shared with Cota information from 55,000 records of adults treated between 2014 and 2017.
Morey said MSK “always has and always will evaluate the value of any relationship objectively and based on our perspective as to whether the partnership advances our mission of preventing, treating and curing cancer.”
Mary Jo Layton, a spokeswoman for Hackensack Meridian, said the health system became a minority investor in Cota because of its “groundbreaking technology and the impact it can have on the future of medicine.”
Details of the business deals were not previously disclosed by Memorial Sloan Kettering or Hackensack, making it hard for patients to understand these relationships and the financial interests of the parties involved.
The deals also pose conflicts for Pecora, the chief innovation officer and vice president of cancer services at Hackensack. “There has to be conflict management processes in place,” said Pilar Ossorio, a bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. “But at a certain point, the conflicts can become so severe, it’s not possible to manage them.”
Layton said Pecora’s relationship with Cota “is being reviewed” as part of the hospital’s conflict management policy.
Joining forces to head off competition
Memorial Sloan Kettering’s arrangements with Cota and Hackensack stand out because of the criss-crossing financial interests involved, ethics experts said. The cancer center had long sought a clinical partnership in New Jersey, where the rate of cancer incidence is among the highest in the U.S.
By striking the partnership with Hackensack, which operates the John Theurer Cancer Center, MSK could attract more patients without having to spend significant sums to acquire another provider. No money changed hands through the 10-year partnership agreement, in which the hospital systems agreed to co-brand their facilities in New Jersey and develop standard treatment plans for their patients.
In promoting the partnership, executives with MSK and Hackensack said it would benefit patients by expanding their access to clinical trials underway at both institutions. It would also allow the organizations, which treated 1 in 5 New Jersey cancer patients before their partnership, to increase their clout in the market at a time when rivals were also ramping up their presence. In the years before the partnership, Houston-based MD Anderson Cancer Center, one of MSK’s biggest national competitors, had formed affiliations with two hospitals in New Jersey.
Several studies have shown that hospital mergers and other deals that limit competition in regional markets often result in higher costs for patients, because the providers are able to command higher reimbursements from insurers. It is unclear whether the partnership between Hackensack Meridian and Memorial Sloan Kettering has affected costs in New Jersey.
Pecora negotiated the MSK-Hackensack partnership with Dr. Jose Baselga, who was MSK’s chief medical officer until resigning this year after the New York Times and ProPublica reported that he failed to disclose millions of dollars in payments from drug and health care companies connected to his cancer research. The relationship between Pecora and Baselga dates to the 1980s, when both gained reputations as standout fellows at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
As part of the new partnership, Baselga and Pecora were appointed to a steering committee charged with overseeing the implementation of its goals. The partnership was to include a focus on using data analysis to improve care, an area in which Pecora had been working through Cota Inc., which he founded in 2011. However, both hospitals said their partnership was unrelated to their work with Cota.
Six months after the partnership was signed, Cota and Hackensack Meridian announced a pilot study with IBM, in which Cota’s data would be incorporated into Watson for Oncology to help provide better treatment recommendations to patients. That deal opened the door to additional business benefits for the parties: Cota got a shot at a potentially lucrative partnership with IBM, while Memorial Sloan Kettering stood to collect additional revenue based on the use of its data and expertise in the companies’ products. Memorial Sloan Kettering declined to say how much revenue it has collected through the sale of Watson for Oncology.
Several months later, Memorial Sloan Kettering selected Cota for the separate data deal in which the company would build new data sets to help MSK improve care for its patients. The deal provided a major boost to Cota, attaching a nationally recognized data collaborator to its product.
Morey, the spokesman for Memorial Sloan Kettering, said “none of the parties involved in the chief negotiations of the clinical partnership had a role in negotiating the terms of an agreement with a data partner.” The contract terms were negotiated by the cancer center’s technology transfer office, with assistance from outside counsel.
MSK executives have said their main goal for partnering with Cota was optimizing the use of available clinical data to gain insights into clinical decision-making and potentially improve patient outcomes.
About two months after the contract was awarded, Memorial Sloan Kettering invested $1.4 million in Cota, taking a 4.2 percent equity stake in the company.
Cook-Deegan, the bioethics scholar, said the decision to invest in Cota creates a transparency problem for Memorial Sloan Kettering, because startups typically disclose only limited details about their operations and finances. Furthermore, he said, such investments set up a conflict between the cancer center’s mission to deliver the best care to patients and its financial interest in pumping up the company’s valuation in advance of a possible initial public offering or sale to another company.
“There’s really strong incentive to spin it to make the stock price go up or to promote the IPO so it goes successfully,” Cook-Deegan said, adding that health care institutions risk losing the trust of their patients by failing to disclose their financial interests in startups. “That’s the space where institutions need to be most careful and most transparent.”
Yet few health care providers across the country have developed clear standards, especially in regard to deals that involve sharing patient data. Ossorio, the bioethics professor at the University of Wisconsin, said the need to do so is urgent, as more institutions are being approached by technology companies seeking to gain access to their data to build new software products.
“Institutions don’t have policies for what to do with their patient data and they see it as a big gold mine,” Ossorio said. “We have been in an era for awhile where a lot of bad behavior is tolerated in the the kinds of deals that get done.” | <urn:uuid:ea06f9ef-f202-4867-b769-f615f24632e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.statnews.com/2018/12/06/memorial-sloan-kettering-web-of-conflicts/?utm_source=STAT+Newsletters&utm_campaign=aee73122e4-MR_COPY_12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.958674 | 2,369 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Software developed by the FBI and Ernst & Young has revealed the most common words used in email conversations among employees engaged in corporate fraud.
The software, which was developed using the knowledge gained from real life corporate fraud investigations, pinpoints and tracks common fraud phrases like "cover up", "write off", "failed investment", "off the books", "nobody will find out" and "grey area".
Expressions such as "special fees" and "friendly payments" are most common in bribery cases, while fears of getting caught are shown in phrases such as "no inspection" and "do not volunteer information".
In total more than 3,000 terms are logged by the technology, which monitors for conversations within the "fraud triangle", where pressure, rationalisation, and opportunity meet, said the FBI and Ernst & Young.
The analytics software also scans for "out of band" events such as "call my mobile" or "come by my office", suggesting the individual does not want to be overheard.
The software can also flag uncharacteristic changes in tone and language in conversations, and has been tailored for specific sectors, particularly traders.
Rashmi Joshi, director of Ernst & Young's fraud investigation and disputes services, said: "Despite being the prime means of all conversations unstructured email data plays almost no role in the compliance efforts of firms.
"Most often such email traffic is only seized upon by regulators or fraud investigators when the damage has been done. Firms are increasingly seeking to proactively search for specific trends and red flags."
The top fraud words and phrases in email conversations:
Cover upWrite offIllegalFailed investmentNobody will find outGrey areaThey owe it to meDo not volunteer informationNot ethicalOff the books
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Wisdom from a Maple Tree
What an amazing gift—to sit and gaze at the beauty and simplicity of a maple tree!
While on vacation, with time and space to be truly available to Spirit, the words of John of the Cross came to me:
Silent music, the murmuring solitude, the supper which revives, and kindles love.
Silent music: the space between two notes. The pause between the in-breath and out-breath of all that lives.
“All is silent and vibrant in its stillness” whispered the maple tree. It knows the rhythm of God’s song of love:
“Be still. Be moved. Bow down. Be lifted up. Wait.”
In the restful contemplation of God’s presence in creation my soul understands this Silent Music. In a world of angst, confusion, greed, abuse and manipulation, it continues its song.
It invites each of us to reclaim our original blessedness and be bathed in the mercy of God’s tender love, for we too are part of God’s creation and need to learn to pause before moving on to the next note of our lives.
This silent music invites us to
- Be still–and know beyond all knowing that we are part of God’s creativity.
- Be moved–from within the depths of our being to experience the enduring love that gives us the courage to work with one another for the good of all.
- Bow down–in response to the challenges of life as we allow the Spirit to embolden us and lift us up to new possibilities, new levels of endurance, or new understanding of our own innate strength.
- Wait–Americans often want everything instantly, but this is not the wisdom of creation. Creation responds to the rhythm of time, and there truly is a time for everything under the sun.
Whether your summer travels took you to the mountains or the ocean, the desert or the plains, or perhaps to a staycation enjoying the wonderful gift of air conditioning, I hope you were able to stop and listen to the silent music of God in all you were part of and that your soul has been revived and refreshed this summer. | <urn:uuid:36db56ba-c857-493c-b80f-566870dff366> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eremos.org/wisdom-from-a-maple-tree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.936096 | 460 | 1.75 | 2 |
Passes the record off to the class or classes specified and allows them to add errors based on more complex conditions.
class Person include ActiveModel::Validations validate :instance_validations def instance_validations validates_with MyValidator end end
Please consult the class method documentation for more information on creating your own validator.
You may also pass it multiple classes, like so:
class Person include ActiveModel::Validations validate :instance_validations, :on => :create def instance_validations validates_with MyValidator, MyOtherValidator end end
Standard configuration options (:on, :if and :unless), which are available on the class version of validates_with, should instead be placed on the validates method as these are applied and tested in the callback.
If you pass any additional configuration options, they will be passed to the class and available as options, please refer to the class version of this method for more information.
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THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
|For Immediate Release|| || February 25, 2000 |
THE CLINTON-GORE ECONOMIC RECORD:
STRONG AND SUSTAINED ECONOMIC GROWTH
Today’s Economic Data Shows That the Economy Grew 6.9 Percent in the Fourth Quarter. This is the strongest quarterly growth in over a decade. This brings growth for the four quarters of 1999 to 4.5 percent -- the fourth consecutive year of 4+ percent growth. This is the longest period of 4+ percent growth since the early 1960s. At the same time, America has created nearly 21 million new jobs since President Clinton came into office, enjoys the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years, and the lowest underlying core rate of inflation in over 35 years.
STRONG GROWTH WITH VIRTUALLY NONEXISTENT INFLATION
- 6.9 Percent GDP Growth In the Fourth Quarter. GDP growth in the fourth quarter was 6.9 percent, the strongest quarterly growth in over a decade. This brings the growth rate for the four quarters of 1999 to 4.5 percent -- the fourth year in a row of 4+ percent growth for the first time since the early 1960s. Since the beginning of the Clinton Administration, the economy has grown at a 3.9 percent annual rate -- compared to 1.7 percent under President Bush and 2.8 percent during the Reagan-Bush years.
- 6.5 Percent Private-Sector Growth In the Fourth Quarter. In the fourth quarter, private-sector GDP growth was up 6.5 percent. Since the beginning of the Clinton Administration, the private-sector of the economy has grown at a 4.4 percent annual rate -- compared to 2.9 percent during the Reagan-Bush years.
- Longest and Strongest Investment On Record. For 1999, equipment and software investment grew 11.0 percent -- the seventh consecutive year of double digit growth on record. Since President Clinton has taken office, equipment and software investment has been faster -- 12.1 percent per year -- than any President on record (comparable investment data is available from 1959).
- Inflation Is the Lowest It Has Been in 37 Years. In the fourth quarter, the GDP price index rose 2.0 percent at an annual rate. For 1999, the GDP price index grew only 1.4 percent. In the last two years, GDP inflation was lower than at any time since 1963.
PRESIDENT CLINTON’S ECONOMIC GROWTH STRATEGY IS WORKING
- Maintaining Fiscal Discipline. In 1992, the budget deficit was $290 billion -- the largest dollar deficit on record. In 2000, the projected budget surplus is $167 billion -- the largest dollar surplus ever.
- Investing in the American People. For seven years, the President has worked to make critical investments in our people that are vital to a strong economy.
- Opening Markets Abroad and Leading The Global Economy. The President remains committed to expanding foreign markets for American goods and services and enforcing trade laws to ensure that all countries play by the rules. | <urn:uuid:ec9aa897-1265-4ba6-b0b3-7f009bae7cc7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clintonwhitehouse5.archives.gov/WH/New/html/20000225_2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.925056 | 647 | 2.375 | 2 |
Sarawak : Sri Kamini Thurga Iswari Amman Alayam in Miri (Sarawak, Malaysia), on the island of Borneo, will be consecrated on July 10 after seven-days of elaborate ancient rituals.
“Maha Kumbabishegam” at this Hindu temple will include various poojas, homams and other traditional religious ceremonies. Participants include Ghanaskanthiswarar Sarma Sivachariyar, Main Priest of Siga Gurukkal in Segamat (Johor); Kartik Gurukkal of Banting (Selangor); Temple Chairman Selvaraj Grapragasem, and many others.
Objectives of Miri Hindu Society behind this temple project include “Foster the spirit of devotion, dedication and worship”. Besides worship services; this temple reportedly plans to host various cultural, religious, social and charitable activities; and celebrate festivals.
According to reports, about 1000 Hindus, including many professionals, reportedly reside in Miri area and Sarawak State Government has provided some funding for the temple. Executive Committee of the Society includes Chairman G. Selvaraj, Vice-chairman Narayanasamy, Secretary Anbalagan Krishnan and Treasurer Shubashini.
Meanwhile, distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, commended efforts of temple leaders and area community for realizing this Hindu temple.
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, urged the area petroleum and natural gas, timber processing, oil palm and shipbuilding industries to back the construction of this Hindu temple complex, which would be another feather in the cap of diverse Miri, incorporated 1933, which was among the Malaysia’s five busiest airports.
Rajan Zed further said that it was important to pass on Hindu spirituality, concepts and traditions to coming generations amidst so many distractions in the consumerist society and hoped that this temple would help in this direction. Zed stressed that instead of running after materialism; we should focus on inner search and realization of Self and work towards achieving moksh (liberation), which was the goal of Hinduism.
Surrounded by five world-class national parks including Gunung Mulu, dynamic oil town of Miri is the birthplace of Malaysia’s petroleum industry, and is known for San Ching Tian Taoist Temple, Petroleum Museum, exotic coral reefs and Hindu “Milk Pot Procession”. Prominent people associated with Miri include singer Zee Avi, football player Shaun Maloney, racing driver Natasha Seatter and golfer Vijay Singh.
Ancient temple ritual of Kumbhabhishekam is believed to synergize-unite-homogenize the mystic powers of the deity and it involves ritual bathing with sanctified sacred waters accompanied by chanting of appropriate mantras, thus transforming the deity statue into a vibrant representation of the God.
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People plant the same flowers every year. Why? It is the familiar and known that…
In search of a blue dahlia –
I have often heard that there is no blue dahlia.
Last year I planted a blue dahlia I bought at the market Stop and Shop. The bright photo on the front of the box depicted a very blue colored dahlia. The name of the variety was ‘Blue Bell.’ I had to buy it.
On the website Gardenia.net I read a bit about this dahlia.
The site said, “Produces truly beautiful purple-blue flowers adorned with broad petals that fade to lavender-blue.
“The fully double flowers, up to 4-6 inches…are normally large and the plants easily top 40 inches tall, although there are even taller varieties.”
I thought what a find this was to come across a blue dahlia in a local supermarket.
It did not bloom last year, but I still packed it up to store for the winter.
It bloomed this year. As you can see, it is not really a pure blue look.
It looks more like a purple. [below]
Dahlia expert and writer Bill McClaren wrote the book Encyclopedia of Dahlias.
He says, “If a bloom in the red class has the least hint of blue in it, it is classified as purple.”
Other dahlias in my garden
I planted several dahlias this summer.
When I was walking around the garden last week, I realized that the front door was framed with dahlias.
There I saw on the right the tall red ‘Bishop of Llandaff’ and on the left in the back the yellow ‘Sunburst Nelson.’
This photo of the front steps highlights the colors of both yellow and red in these two dahlias. [below].
It was fun to experiment with a blue dahlia, but these two faithful varieties work just fine for me.
James Vick (1818-1882), seed company owner from Rochester, New York, loved dahlias. No surprise that he wrote in 1878, “The dahlia is ouir best autumn flower. We can depend upon it until frost, no matter how long delayed.” | <urn:uuid:532f285d-1735-46cd-9c61-c4e81ca56f92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://americangardening.net/in-search-of-a-blue-dahlia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.954274 | 492 | 2.40625 | 2 |
You must have known how to recreate Darth Vader with your Force. Next step, let’s keep going to check how to make a X-wing starfighter origami by yourself.
Joe, an origami artist from Portland created the pretty cool X-wing paper model. As we can see from the images, the origami shows off the iconic shape and details originated from the symbolic vehicle that belongs to Rebel Alliance in the universe of Star Wars, so we can see its X-shaped wings, four engines, a long and narrow fuselage. More importantly, the origami master has released a tutorial video that detailedly tells us how to make the X-wing starfighter origami. If you also want to own a mini paper X-wing, jump to Joe’s YouTube channel for all making steps. | <urn:uuid:0fb425ac-cf82-4d46-b996-b9418269a56e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gadgetsin.com/make-x-wing-starfighter-origami-by-yourself.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.92835 | 170 | 1.960938 | 2 |
My Dog Space
Why a Dog Owner Should Learn Puppy CPR
Pet owners need to be prepared for any emergencies that could come their way, especially if they are responsible for the care of a puppy. It is very important for owners to remember that puppies are essentially babies. Puppies mature faster than a normal child, therefore it is still the responsibility of the pet owner to render aid at any moment. Pet owners cannot constantly watch their puppies 24 hours a day and those puppies might find some dangerous object on the floor or around the house, and swallow it. No pet owner wants to be a helpless bystander when that happens and the best way to ensure that the owner is a helper instead, is to have a healthy grasp on a lifesaving method. The most generally useful method is for the owner to learn the basics of puppy CPR. It is an easy process to learn and an informed owner would benefit greatly from it.
Puppies in emergencies require medical assistance. It is best for pet owners to know the basics of puppy CPR because it may be the difference between a healthy young dog and a tragic loss. All the caring pet owner has to do is look at this infographic by Carrington College and see how easy and reasonable it is to save a puppy’s life. | <urn:uuid:b7f43193-46bd-4fd2-b94b-479c4713e5ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mydogspace.com/why-a-dog-owner-should-learn-puppy-cpr-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00461-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973227 | 258 | 2.5 | 2 |
Aluminium buyers in the US physical metal market have held off on new orders amid fears of a recession triggered by rising inflation and supply chain crises.
Spot aluminium trading on the market has been suspended in recent weeks, according to industry sources, as uncertainty has increased following the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. Even before the war, the aluminium market was suffering from long waiting times and weak demand.
For aluminium buyers, recent poor US economic data have been a big factor in delaying purchases. Data released last month showed that the ISM manufacturing PMI came in at 57.1 in March, below expectations of 59 and down from 58.6 in February, unexpectedly hitting the lowest reading since September 2020. This was mainly due to a slowdown in new orders and HfB2 Powder are expected to increase in the future.
Introduction to Hafnium Diboride HfB2 Powder
Hafnium diboride or HfB2 belongs to ultra-high temperature ceramics and is a ceramic composed of hafnium and boron.
Physicochemical Properties of Hafnium Diboride HfB2 Powder
HfB2 has a melting temperature of about 3,250 °C. It is an unusual ceramic with relatively high thermal and electrical conductivity, sharing the same properties as titanium and zirconium diboride of the same structure. It is a gray metal appearance material. Hafnium diboride has a hexagonal crystal structure with a molar mass of 200.11g/mol and a density of about 10.5g/cm3.
Hafnium diboride is usually combined with carbon, boron, silicon, silicon carbide, and nickel to improve the consolidation (sintering) of hafnium diboride powders. It usually forms a solid through a process called hot pressing, in which heat and pressure are used to press the powder together.
|Hafnium Diboride HfB2 Powder Properties|
|Other Names||hafnium boride, HfB2 powder|
|Melting Point||3250 °C|
|Solubility in H2O||N/A|
Applications of Hafnium Diboride HfB2 Powder
Due to its strength and thermal properties, hafnium diboride has potential for use in ultra-high-speed reentry aircraft, such as heat shields for intercontinental ballistic missiles or aerodynamic fronts. Unlike polymers and composites, HfB2 forms aerodynamic shapes and does not melt during reentry.
Hafnium diboride is also being studied as a possible new material for nuclear reactor control rods. It is also being studied as a diffusion barrier for microchips. If the synthesis is correct, the barrier thickness can be less than 7 nm.
Boron (atomic symbol: B, atomic number: 5) is a p-block element of group 13 of Period 2, with an atomic weight of 10.81. Each boron layer has 2,3 electrons, and its electron configuration is [He] 2s2, 2p1. The boron atom has a radius of 90pm, and the van der Waals radius is 192pm.
Boron is classified as a metal-like substance that does not naturally occur on Earth. The element boron, along with carbon and nitrogen, is one of the few elements in the periodic table known to form stable triple bond compounds. The bandgap of boron ranges from 1.50 to 1.56 eV, which is higher than that of silicon and germanium.
Hafnium (atomic symbol Hf, atomic number 72) is an element of unit D, group 4, of Period 6, with an atomic weight of 178.49. Bohr model of hafnium the number of electrons in each layer of hafnium is 2,8,18,32,10,2 and the electron configuration is [Xe] 4f14 5d2 6s2. The hafnium atom has a radius of 159pm and the van der Waals radius is 212pm.
Hafnium was predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, but was not isolated for the first time until 1922. In its elemental form, hafnium has a lustrous silver-gray appearance. The element hafnium does not exist in nature as a free element. It is found in zirconium compounds such as zircon. Hafnium is commonly a component of superalloys and circuits used in semiconductor device manufacturing.
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i am also have the same trouble...
Have you got your contrast pot hooked up? If it's hooked up correctly, you should see an effect when you turn it even if nothing is displayed. If that's working, try resetting the Arduino a time or two. If it still doesn't work, I'd suggest redoing rather than just checking your wiring. Make sure you hook up all the grounds, and make sure they have a good connection. Also, it wouldn't hurt to post a picture, schematic, or listing of your pin connections (for example, are you sure pin 11 on the Arduino is hooked to the enable pin on your LCD?).
i tried what u suggest but i did not work , so i uploaded the image. if u find any mistake in wiring pls make me know.
Well, it looks like all of the pins go to the right places. Does the screen light up when you power it on? Do you see one line blacked out and the other not? What happens when you sweep the pot from one extreme to the other? Sometimes on my breadboard I have to wiggle the wires some to get a good connection, especially the grounds.
only the back light LED glow.there is no other change in display when i sweep the port.
I just tried my LCD to see what happens. If the LCD and backlight are powered, the contrast pot doesn't do anything and the display is just blank (exactly what yours is doing). I suppose that means that the Arduino isn't communicating with it properly. Can you post your setup code? Maybe try wiring it to different pins just to see what happens (it could be that, say, the ENABLE and RS are swapped). Are the pins marked on the LCD board? | <urn:uuid:325116f4-7db5-470e-9eed-6c189b27676e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://garagelab.com/forum/topics/16-2-lcd-not-working-arduino-leonardo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00234-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95488 | 362 | 1.898438 | 2 |
10 Healthy Reasons to Eat “Zeera” Daily (Cumin)
Cumin (otherwise called zeera) is a heavenly zest that is used to season an assortment of dishes. You may not understand how regularly you eat it, however, it is always an unavoidable ingredient in Pakistani dishes, be it Pulao, curry or even Raita.
Besides being a delightful herb, zeera has various medical advantages that make it a must for your herb rack at home. This article will have you to add a dash of cumin to your normal cooking plan, and give you a few thoughts regarding how you can do as such!
1. It’s Excellent for Digestion and Stomach Issues
The smell of zeera has been appeared to invigorate the salivary organs and set up the body for the absorption process. Cumin is also an extraordinary carminative – so it eases bloating and gassy form ups – and it also flushes out toxins. Several spoonful’s of cumin are an excellent remedy to stay away from uneasy, irritating stomach throbs. Boil 1 teaspoon cumin seeds in 1 glass water to make a tea.
2. Avoids Anemia and Iron Deficiency
Cumin is also a rich source of iron. 100 grams of zeera contains 66 milligrams of iron. Just a two or three spoonful of cumin gives all of the iron you require for the day and energizes the production of red platelets, the exchange of oxygen around the body and reducing the symptoms of iron deficiency and conditions like sickliness, exhaustion, dizziness, decreased cognitive function and loss of energy.
3. It’s Great if You want to Lose Weight!
Research has demonstrated that just one spoonful of cumin a day can help encourage weight loss and decrease body fat. Eat a bowl of yogurt sprinkled with a spoonful of zeera after the meal.
4. Ease with the Sleep
A good digestion helps induce a sound sleep. Zeera helps with both of these. Cumin contains large amounts of the substance melatonin, which directs sleep cycles. If you are a restless person, or somebody who battles to get a good night’s rest, then consuming zeera as a component of your dinner can help. Add a spoonful of zeera with some mashed bananas before bed, as bananas help the melatonin work better. The blend will help you build up a dozing design when utilized consistently, however, is non-addictive not at all like some dozing pills.
5. For Respiratory Disorders
Cumin is ideal for those suffering from respiratory disorders such as Bronchitis, Asthma, etc.
6. Helps Combat Common Cold
The regular cold is an unavoidable viral infection. Cumin, however, is rich in Vitamin C and has anti-fungal properties, these help cure cold and other respiratory problems.
7. It Helps Prevent Diabetes
Zeera helps lower blood sugar levels and thus, helps maintain proper blood sugar levels in the body. This is a great boon for people suffering from Diabetes. Prepare a warming and soothing cumin tea by boiling zeera in water. Allow it to steep for 8 to 10 minutes. Strain and sip.
8. Treatment of Burning Sensation
Drinking zeera water can relieve the burning sensation of the soles and the palms.
- Add 1 teaspoon of zeera to 4 liters of water and boil.
- Remove it from the heat and keep it covered.
- You can drink this water whenever you feel thirsty as well as after your meals.
- Drink it warm to reap its amazing benefits.
9. Anti-aging Benefits
Vitamin E present in zeera triggers the anti-ageing processes within the body, thus preventing pre-mature ageing symptoms. It acts as an antioxidant and prevents signs of ageing such as wrinkles, sagging skin and age-spots. This combination of antioxidant and antibacterial properties of cumin provide you with a healthy, beautiful skin.
10. Cures Itchiness and Body Heat
If you are suffering from skin itchiness and body heat, add some zeera in boiling water. Once it is cooled, take a bath with that water. You’ll feel refreshed.
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OTTAWA — The United Church of Canada has decided to publicly oppose the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline and to communicate that decision to the government, Enbridge Inc. and the public.
The pipeline proposed by Calgary-based energy giant Enbridge would do severe environmental damage, traversing waterways where salmon spawn, said Ray Jones, the chair of the church’s aboriginal ministries council. And the potential for an oil spill in the port of Kitimat, B.C., and for devastation to the coastline is very real, he said.
“It is a strong message when we passed this motion this afternoon that the United Church is and will continue to practice what it says, especially environmentally,” Jones said in Ottawa Tuesday.
The proposal from the British Columbia Native Ministries Council, stating the group’s opposition to the pipeline, was one of about 130 proposals church commissioners from Canada’s largest Protestant denomination are discussing at the 41st General Council in Ottawa. The General Council meets every three years to elect a new church moderator and approve new policies.
The proposal prompted much debate, with some commissioners chiming in that pipelines are the most efficient way to move petroleum products and voicing their concerns about a categorical rejection of the project in its early stages.
But it was a clear majority in the end, with about 70 per cent of voters agreeing to support the proposal. Commissioners vote by raising green papers in the air and majority rules.
“There were a couple of points that were brought forth, one that it has an implication of dollars to communities. But certainly not too many dollars to British Columbia, let alone all of the upwards of 100 First Nations that the pipeline will be going through,” said Jim White, the other co-chair of the British Columbia Native Ministries Council.
“And we don’t know what oil company is going to be coming in and out of Kitimat if this ever takes place. The fear factor is these are huge, huge tankers and it will just totally devastate the entire coastline.”
The British Columbia Native Ministries Council, which is primarily made up of aboriginal members, took its proposal to the church’s All Native Circle Conference in July. That conference then asked the United Church’s General Council to publicly support the native ministries council in categorically rejecting construction of the proposed pipeline, and to communicate that decision to government, industry and the public.
“We are united in our belief that this project and others like it will do a disproportionate amount of direct harm to the life-sustaining air, food and water that we all share on Earth,” the proposal says.
The 1,172-kilometre Northern Gateway pipeline would transport oilsands crude from northern Alberta to the port of Kitimat, B.C., where it would be loaded onto supertankers and shipped to Asian markets.
The United Church of Canada is no stranger to taking political stands. For instance, it called on the federal government to recognize same-sex marriage in 2003 two years before it was legalized.
The General Council is also considering proposals on a number of social justice issues including Canadian mining activities in the Philippines and Central America, the age of eligibility for Old Age Security, and the Israeli-Palestinian debate.
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Lisa Freeman was cradling her 6-day-old grandson in one arm and watching the news on her iPad while her daughter and son-in-law caught some much-needed sleep. The retired teacher was taking notes with her free hand when she heard the news: The nation had suffered its 2,000th casualty in the Afghan war.
On Sept. 29, Army Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Metcalfe was on patrol in the country’s rugged Wardak province when his unit came under small-arms fire.
As the announcer spoke, all Freeman could do was shake her head and stare at little Matthew — named for an uncle he would never know. Marine Capt. Matthew C. Freeman fell to a sniper’s bullet Aug. 7, 2009, northeast of Kabul, not far from where Metcalfe perished.
It is almost certain that Metcalfe and Freeman — both 29 when they died — never met. Freeman grew up in the Savannah suburb of Richmond Hill, Ga.; Metcalfe was from the village of Liverpool, N.Y., population about 2,400, a few miles north of Syracuse.
Nonetheless, they were brothers, casualties in what has become America’s longest war, which began Oct. 7, 2001, when the United States and Britain launched air attacks against military targets and al-Qaeda training camps.
Looking at the number 2,000 on the small, glass screen, Lisa Freeman felt as if she had lost her son all over again.
“I just sat here, reliving the pain and wondering: Where is America’s outrage? Where is America’s concern that we’re still at war?”
Matthew Freeman excelled at everything he set his mind to. Eagle Scout, honor roll, student-council president. So no one was surprised when he won an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy, following in his father’s footsteps. After graduation in 2002, the son and grandson of naval aviators took his commission in the Marine Corps and went for jets.
Freeman was stationed in Okinawa, Japan, in the summer of 2009 when a resurgent Taliban began retaking areas once thought pacified. When officers asked for volunteers to shore up the thin lines, Freeman stepped forward.
In July 2009, he made a secret trip home to marry his high school sweetheart, Theresa Hess. He wanted to make sure she would be notified, and taken care of, should anything happen to him.
They were married July 10, 2009. Thirteen days later, he shipped out.
Barely two weeks into his deployment, Freeman and a fire-support team set out for reconnaissance in the Shpee Valley when they came under enemy attack and became pinned down. According to an official account, Freeman fought his way into a building and up to the roof to get a better angle on the enemy position.
Once atop, he spotted an insurgent with a rocket-propelled grenade and was firing at the man when he was shot in the back of the head. A comrade told Lisa Freeman her son was found with his finger on the trigger of his rifle; its magazine was nearly empty.
The 2,000th casualty occurred at a lonely Afghan Army checkpoint along the main road between southern Kandahar and the national capital of Kabul — an area of scrubby, rolling foothills dotted with Pashtun villages and trees bearing fist-size yellow apples.
According to Afghan officials, Metcalfe and his squad were on foot patrol when the checkpoint came under insurgent attack. Believing they were being fired on by their Afghan allies, Metcalfe and the others engaged the checkpoint, the officials said.
Metcalfe, a civilian contractor and at least two Afghan soldiers died in the firefight. The Pentagon is investigating.
Metcalfe, a member of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, was an 11-year veteran and was on his third deployment. He leaves a wife and four children, ages 11 months to 12 years.
Lisa Freeman can’t help thinking he should never have been in that “impossible place.”
“I don’t really understand why we’re there anymore,” she says. “Why are we still watching death after death, and pain after pain here at home?”
Two days before his death, Freeman called his mother in Georgia. He told her all about the friendly locals and how cute the children were.
“The kids would rather have pens and paper more than anything,” he said. “Even food or water.”
He asked whether she would collect school supplies that he and the other troops could distribute in the villages.
His last request has since grown into the “Matthew Freeman Project: Pens & Paper for Peace.” In the past two years, the nonprofit charity has shipped more than 6 tons of school supplies to military personnel for distribution in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lisa Freeman says one of the project’s volunteers told her recently that it might take years but that their efforts would bear fruit.
“Maybe one of these young men that we’re giving these school supplies to could be the future leader of a free Afghanistan,” he told her.
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A metabolic function of the hippocampal sharp wave-ripple
Published: Nature, August 2021
Where: New York University Institute of Neuroscience at Langone Medical Center
Researchers studied specific types of brainwaves in rats and discovered that one type, known as the sharp wave-ripple, could stimulate a reduction in blood sugar levels.
What it Looked at
The researchers at NYU used electrodes to monitor the brains of rats while using a continuous glucose monitor to track the rats’ blood sugar levels. They noticed that certain patterns of these sharp wave-ripples from the hippocampus significantly and reliably induced waves of insulin release and subsequent reductions in the amount of sugar in the blood.
Since it can be challenging to tease apart the effects of different brainwaves on complex mechanisms in the body, the researchers then simulated the same types of waves in the same area of the brain using a technique called optogenetics, where light is shined through glass fibers onto brain cells engineered to be light-sensitive.
This produced the same waves, independent of the rat’s natural brain wave rhythm. The scientists demonstrated that simulated sharp wave-ripples applied to the same area of the brain reduced blood glucose levels just like the naturally occurring waves.
But the idea that this area of the brain might modulate the way our bodies process energy is a new one. The researchers’ findings in rats could help explain why people with chronic sleep disturbances are at increased risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.
Why It Matters
Type 2 diabetes is a common condition, affecting nearly one in 10 Americans. An increase in blood sugar (after a snack or a meal) stimulates insulin release from the pancreas. This hormone acts like a key, opening the “door” to our cells and allowing the sugar to enter and serve as an energy source. But for people with Type 2 diabetes, the cells don’t respond as well to insulin, leaving the sugar trapped in the bloodstream, where it can cause damage to blood vessels, nerves, and organs.
Researchers have known for a long time that sleep disturbances increased the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, but the mechanism wasn’t clear. This research has shown that the brain waves released from the hippocampus during sleep reduce glucose, suggesting that in the absence of those brain waves (due to a lack of sleep), that mechanism of glucose control may be lost, offering an explanation as to why sleep problems increase the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
Sleep disruptions, which can result from sleep disorders or shift work, among other things, don’t just increase a person’s risk of developing diabetes; they also give people with diabetes a more severe prognosis.
While researchers aren’t sure exactly how the waves affect blood sugar levels, they have a couple of theories. One is that the brain waves affect the autonomic nervous system, the network of nerves in our body responsible for unconscious control of things like heart rate, hormone release, and organ function. Another possibility is that the brainwaves from the hippocampus affect the release of certain chemicals from another area of the brain, the hypothalamus, which plays a vital role in many hormonal processes in our bodies.
The hypothalamus participates in everything from how your thyroid gland works to how your reproductive system functions. Special sensors in the hypothalamus can tell when blood sugar levels are high or low and regulate the release of hormones in the body accordingly, increasing your metabolism when glucose is high and reducing how quickly you use energy when glucose levels are low.
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ACCT 434 Entire Course Advanced Cost Management
ACCT 434 Week 1 DQ 1 ABC Journey
ACCT 434 Week 1 DQ 2 Workout Room
ACCT 434 Week 1 Quiz
1- (TCO 1) The average cost data are for In-Sync Fixtures Company’s (a retailer) only two product lines, Marblette and Italian Marble.
2- (TCO 1) The allocation of indirect costs in an activity-based costing system
3- (TCO 1) Evaluating customer reaction of the trade-off of giving up some features of a product for a lower price would best fit which category of management decisions under activity-based management?
4- (TCO 1) A company produces three products; if one product is overcosted then
5- (TCO 1) To set realistic selling prices
6- (TCO 1) Different products consume different proportions of manufacturing overhead costs because of differences in all of the following EXCEPT
7- (TCO 1) A well-designed, activity-based cost system helps managers make better decisions because information derived from an ABC analysis
8- (TCO 1) Companies use ABC system information to
9- (TCO 1) For service organizations that bill customers at a predetermined average rate, activity-based cost systems can help to
10- (TCO 1) Danielle Company produces a special spray nozzle. The budgeted indirect total cost of inserting the spray nozzle is $180,000. The budgeted number of nozzles to be inserted is 60,000. What is the budgeted indirect cost allocation rate for this activity?
ACCT 434 Week 2
ACCT 434 Week 2 DQ 1 (Flexible vs Static)
ACCT 434 Week 2 DQ 2 (Workout Room)
ACCT 434Week 2 Quiz
1- (TCO 2) Operating budgets and financial budgets
2- (TCO 2) To gain the benefits of budgeting, ________ must understand and support the budget.
3- (TCO 2) Which budget is not necessary to prepare the budgeted balance sheet?
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Usable research has many particular characteristics. It truly is science that informs decisions and offers practical worth for contemporary culture. The characteristics of usable mpgpress.com/the-new-breakthrough-in-the-global-pharmaceutical-industry science involve relevance to the trouble at hand, the production of findings in a timely manner, as well as its scale. These types of characteristics reveal both clinical rigor and credibility. Here are some examples of useful science. To generate a usable scientific disciplines, you should determine whether your quest has these characteristics. And keep these attributes in mind the moment evaluating solutions.
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From James Madison
Richmond Novr 1. 1786
I have been here too short a time as yet to have collected fully the politics of the Session. In general appearances are favorable. On the question for a paper emission the measure was this day rejected in emphatical terms by a majority of 84 vs 17. The affair of the Missisippi is but imperfectly known.1 I find that its influence on the federal spirit will not be less than was apprehended. The Western members will not be long silent on the subject. I inculcate a hope that the views of Congress may yet be changed, and that it would be rash to suffer the alarm to interfere with the policy of amending the Confederacy. The sense of the House has not yet been tried on the latter point. The Report from the Deputies to Annapolis lies on the Table, and I hope will be called for before the business of the Mississippi begins to ferment.2 Mr Henry has signified his wish not to be reelected, but will not be in the Assembly. The Attorney & R. H. Lee are in nomination for his successor. The former will probably be appointed, in which case the contest for that vacancy will lie between Col. Innis & Mr Marshal. The nominations for Cong[res]s are as usual numerous. There being no Senate yet it is uncertain when any of these appointments will take place.3 With the sincerest affection & the highest esteem I am Dear Sir Yr Obedt & humble Servt
Js Madison Jr
ALS, DLC:GW; signed copy, in Madison’s hand, DLC: Madison Papers.
1. Madison later annotated this sentence: “Mr. [John] Jay’s project for shutting it for 25 years” (Rutland and Rachal, Madison Papers, description begins William T. Hutchinson et al., eds. The Papers of James Madison, Congressional Series. 17 vols. Chicago and Charlottesville, Va., 1962–91. description ends 9:156). See James Monroe to GW, 20 Aug. 1786, n.2.
3. Edmund Randolph was elected governor of Virginia on 7 Nov. to replace Patrick Henry. James Innes, who at this time was a delegate to the house from Williamsburg, was chosen on 23 Nov. to become attorney general in the place of Randolph. John Marshall represented Fauquier County in the house of delegates in 1785 and would represent Henrico County again in 1787, but he was not a member in 1786. | <urn:uuid:2c3f1ecb-f1be-4d70-af91-37e63b3068e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/04-04-02-0292 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00450-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954288 | 523 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Puritan Catechism Question #45 - What is required in the second commandment?
Answer - The second commandment requires the receiving, observing (Deut. 32:46; Matt. 28:20), and keeping pure and entire all such religious worship and ordinances as God has appointed in His Word (Deut. 12:32).
Devotional Thoughts This week we will spend some time working through Ephesians 5:8-14 in the next section of our study Learning to Walk. This week's study is titled Walk in Light and we will learn what we are and how we are expected to live now that we are in Christ Jesus.
We start by understanding a truth that we often forget, especially if we were converted a long time ago. We tend to forget that before Christ saved us we were lost! It's true. For all that the Bible says about those without Christ who are lost we were once lost. Some people remember the life that they were rescued from as if it was yesterday while others perhaps were saved at a young age and they never experienced a life of awful rebellion and reckless sin before trusting Christ. But we are all born sinners, we are sinners by nature, and we all sin. Let us think for a moment about what we were before Christ.
Ephesians 5:8a tells us that we were "once darkness." This sums up what we were without Christ and before salvation. Darkness. The absence of light. In fact, as I have noted before, this does not say that we were in darkness. It says that before we were born again, we were darkness. There is no Divine spark inside each man and woman. There is nothing good, nothing praiseworthy, nothing worth noting at all! Without Christ we are darkness. To be darkness means that there is no hope in and of ourselves for turning on the light. There is no light. We are utter darkness.
Think about what it is like to be surrounded by total darkness. I remember as newlyweds, my wife and I went to stay for a weekend (several actually) with a family who lived way out in West Texas. Their house was miles from any other house. No street lights. No neighborhood. Just "miles and miles of Texas" surrounded them. And when the sun went down it got DARK. In the city it is at times hard to see the stars. Out there the stars literally lit up the entire night sky. And the moon was radiant. But if there were no moon, or if it was cloudy, it was even more dark. So dark you could feel it. And quiet too. Spooky!! Now think about the truth that before Christ we were the actual embodiment of darkness!
When were we dark? Once. In the past. Before salvation we were darkness. But as we will learn, we are no longer darkness - but then I am getting ahead of myself and my text. For here we are told that we were once darkness. Let us look at a few verses that help us truly grasp the significance of our condition before salvation.
1 John 1:5-6 tells us that , "This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth."
There is no darkness in or around God. He is light. So if we were once darkness that means we had no part of God. We had no claim to Him as Father, no inheritance, no hope. With Him and in Him there is no darkness at all. None. To the point that if we are saved and we claim to have fellowship with Him but then walk in darkness, reverting back to what we were and what we were saved from, then we lie and do not live the truth.
Ephesians 2:1 tells us, "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins." It is not enough that we were once darkness, we were dead. We were not sick in sin. In fact sin is not a mistake, disease, weakness, addiction, or fault. It is SIN. It is deadly. And when we were once darkness we were dead in sin.
It is just like Lazarus. He died and was put in the grave. Four days later Jesus showed up, but he was already dead. And what did Jesus do? Did He ask Lazarus to decide to come out of the grave? Did He give Lazarus a choice and hope that he would choose wisely? Did He simply enable Lazarus to make up his mind about whether to live or stay dead?
No. Jesus commanded "Lazarus, come forth!" He called Lazarus back to life from the dead. What a picture of our salvation. We were once dead in trespasses and sin. Dead. Unable to choose. Ignorant of the truth. And unable to even discern spiritual things. It took the Holy Spirit effectually calling us to life. If He did not we would never have come, for we were dead and darkness.
We also see in John 3:19-21 that, "And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
Jesus is the light of the world. He told us so in His Word. And as He has come into the world the world is full of darkness - it is full of sinners who are dark and dead. But the case is even worse than that. It is not that we are incapable of coming on our own, it is that when we were once darkness and dead we loved the darkness rather than the light. We were from conception by nature sinners. Our deeds were evil. They were harmful to us, wicked, and destructive.
And while we practiced or lived in sin and wickedness we see that while we were dead in sin we loved the darkness and hated the light. We did not want our sin exposed. We wanted to live our lives for ourselves without interruption. Let me state that again - before Christ saved us we hated Him! We hated the light and loved darkness and sin and living for self.
Those are strong words, but they are true. While we were once darkness we hated the light. So before Christ we were darkness, dead, and depraved. We were not sick. We were not trying to make a choice. We were not trying to please God. We were living for self. We were loving our sin. We were oblivious to the truth that can only be spiritually discerned. And before the convicting power of the Spirit we were quite content to be sinners!
What a mess we were before Christ. Our state before salvation reminds me of the great hymn Come Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy so I will close with that today. Here are the words to this hymn:
Come, ye sinners, poor and needy, Weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready stands to save you, Full of pity, love and power.
Refrain: I will arise and go to Jesus, He will embrace me in His arms; In the arms of my dear Savior, O there are ten thousand charms.
Come, ye thirsty, come, and welcome, God’s free bounty glorify; True belief and true repentance, Every grace that brings you nigh.
Come, ye weary, heavy laden, Lost and ruined by the fall; If you tarry till you’re better, You will never come at all.
View Him prostrate in the garden; On the ground your Maker lies. On the bloody tree behold Him; Sinner, will this not suffice?
Lo! th’incarnate God ascended, Pleads the merit of His blood: Venture on Him, venture wholly, Let no other trust intrude.
Let not conscience make you linger, Not of fitness fondly dream; All the fitness He requireth Is to feel your need of Him.
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In portal, Glados at one point says this: "and I thought of a solution that would be the best for one of both of us."
I am debating about whether or not the construction of "for one of both of us" is grammatically correct.
My first opinion is that this is incorrect. Following the words "for one of", you can either: * list two alternatives (e.g. "...for one of X or Y") * or you can list a single noun that represents a collective (e.g. "...for one of the group"). You cannot treat "both of us" as a list of two alternatives because 'both of' explicitly means they are not alternatives. If you treat "both of us" as the name of a group, then you would have to pre-pend it with a particle. This makes "...for one of the both of us" to be more grammatically correct, but still exceedingly awkward. Consider "...for one of the three of us" vs. "for one of three of us".
Anyway can someone clear this up?
If my above opinion is correct, can someone explain it in clearer grammatically terms (i.e. preferably with grammatical concepts that I can verify on say, wikipedia or an English textbook).
If I am wrong, can someone explain what is flawed about my above opinion? Is "both of us" in Glados' quote considered a collective noun? If not, what part of speech is "both of us" in that sentence? | <urn:uuid:5a41474c-44aa-416e-ab27-7c48fbfb1510> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/204500/is-the-phrase-for-one-of-both-of-us-grammatically-correct | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.948223 | 313 | 2.484375 | 2 |
What percentage of people live with their family (most with a spouse)?
What period of life do people tend to have a larger number of close relationships?
Middle adulthood phase of family life is often referred to as....
There is an increase in launch-return-relaunch patterns for many middle-aged parents. What is the reason for this pattern?
Which age group has the highest average annual income: 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, or
True/False: Baby Boomers are better off than previous midlife generations.
What is a strong predictor of midlife psychological well-being?
The divorce rate for 50-65 year old adults has increased over the past 2 decades. By how much has it increased?
Men and women re-evaluate what they consider important in healthy relationships. What increases in importance over passionate love?
For women, marital breakup (especially when repeated) reduces standard of living, which means that it is a strong contributor to the....
True/False: Low SES and cultural traditions of extended-family living allow children to leave home early.
Middle adulthood parents continue to give more assistance to children than they receive, especially if ....
Middle-aged parents tend to play the role of the kin-keeper. Who is more likely: Mother or Father?
What is the role of the kin-keeper in the family?
What is the average age of becoming a grandparent for women? Men?
How much of an adult's lifespan is in the role of grandparent?
How do middle-aged adults rate the role of grandparenthood?
What are the 4 gratifications of grandparenthood?
What 2 factors affect grandparent styles of relating to grandchild?
True/False: As grandchildren get older, quality of relationships is more important than distance.
Out of the 4 grandparents, which one has more frequent visits with grandchildren?
True/False: Grandparents tend to have closer relationships with grandchildren of the opposite sex.
In low-income families and in some cultures, what happens to the role of the grandparents?
The percentage of middle-aged children living with a parent has increased from 10% in 1900 to what percentage between 2000 and 2010?
What proportion of older adults live close to at least one of their children?
What is the meaning of "Proximity increases with age"?
What age group do people become more appreciative of their parents: young adulthood, middle adulthood, or late adulthood?
Are men or women more likely to form close and supportive relationships with aging parents? What is happening to this trend?
True/False: Emotionally distant parent-child relationships show that adult children will offer more support as parents age, out of a sense of altruism and family duty.
What is Resource Expansion, which occurs in midlife?
What percentage of adult children provide unpaid care to aging adults?
What is the Sandwich generation?
In all ethnic groups, on which children does the responsibility for providing care to aging parents fall?
What proportions of Baby Boomer female workers are caregivers?
True/False: As adults move from early to later middle age, the sex differences in parental caregiving declines.
What percentage of caregivers share a household with ill parents?
(Experience the most stress)
What is the greatest source of stress for caregivers of parents who have deteriorated mental capacities?
True/False: Parental caregiving often has emotional, physical, and financial consequences.
Parental caregiving leads to role overload, high job absenteeism, exhaustion, inability to concentrate, feelings of hostility and anxiety about aging, and high rates of depression. What sex do these affect more frequently?
What are 4 ways to relieve stress of caregiving?
True/False: Large samples of Americans show that sibling contact and support decline after puberty, rebounding only after age 50 for those in close proximity.
True/False: In industrialized nations, sibling relationships are voluntary, whereas in village societies, they are generally involuntary.
True/False: At all ages, men's friendships are less intimate than women's friendships.
When does the number of friends decline for both sexes?
Do men or women report a greater number of close friends?
For older adults, what purpose do family relationships serve? What about friendships?
What are the 3 negative stereotypes of aging hinder older workers in the workplace?
True/False: Job satisfaction increase in midlife and is stronger for women than for men.
Why do work experience a weaker sense of job satisfaction than men?
True/False: Intrinsic satisfaction with work rises in middle adulthood due to improved capacity to cope effectively with difficult situations and broader time perspective.
True/False: Extrinsic satisfaction - contentment with supervision, pay, and promotions - changes drastically in middle adulthood.
Burnout is a condition in which long-term job stress cause mental exhaustion, sense of loss of personal control, and feeling of reduced accomplishment. What type of jobs more likely cause burnout?
Where is burnout more likely to occur: Western Europe or America?
True/False: Older employees depend more on coworker and supervisor encouragement for vocational development.
What type of work environment can allow mature employees to participate more in further education, and have higher self-efficacy?
True/False: Inequalities in promotions between men and women, whites and blacks become more pronounced over time.
What percentage of CEOs at larger organizations are white men?
What is the Glass Ceiling?
What is the current age of retirement? When are the Baby Boomers expected to retire relative to the age of retirement?
Which has a greater impact on happiness after retirement: plans for an active life or financial planning?
True/False: Women do less retirement planning because they rely on their husbands.
What proportion of ethnic minorities live in cities in US? Caucasians?
True/False: Inner-city folks are better off in public transit, health, income, and proximity of social services and cultural activities than the 1/5 of rural and small town older adults.
True/False: Both urban and rural older adults report greater life satisfaction when many senior citizens reside in close proximity.
What is seniors' housing preference?
What percentage of older adults remain in or near their old home in US? Relocate to other communities?
Which theory explains that as the home is the site of memorable life events, it strengthens continuity with the past, sustaining a sense of identity in the face of physical declines and social losses?
What percentage of US older adults live alone? How about those age 85+?
What percentage of seniors who live alone are poverty-stricken? What percentage are widowed women?
True/False: Poverty among lone aging women is deeper in the US due to lower wages and less jobs.
What is the difference between homes in residential communities and ordinary homes?
True/False: The percentage of older adults in residential communities decreases with age from 22% age 65+ to 7% age 85+.
What type of housing provides a variety of support services, including meals in a common dining room along with watchful oversight of residents with physical and mental disabilities?
What are the communities that offer a range of housing alternatives from independent or congregate housing to full nursing home care?
How do residential communities have positive effects on physical and mental health of seniors?
True/False: Shared values and goals among residents with similar backgrounds enhance life satisfaction in residential communities.
What percentage of Americans age 65+ in nursing homes experience the most extreme restriction of autonomy and social integration?
What is the common adaptive response to overcrowded, hospital-like settings of nursing homes?
True/False: Nursing home residents with physical, but not mental impairments are far less likely to be depressed, anxious, and lonely than seniors in communities.
What is the model for a nursing home in Mississippi involved 10 small houses with 10 or less residents with their own private bed-bath suites and a family-style communal space?
An influential model of changes in our social networks as we move through life.
What proportion of first marriages are expected to last at least 50 years?
When does marital satisfaction reach its peak?
True/False: Married seniors generally have larger social networks of both family members and friends, which provide for social engagement and support and are linked to higher psychological well-being.
Most older gay and lesbians in long-term partnerships report happy and highly fulfilling relationships. What is the most important source of social support?
True/False: Less than 5% of all US divorces are couple in late adulthood, but the divorce rate among people 65+ has increased over the past 3 decades.
What proportion of older adults' dissolving marriage are of less tan 10 years duration? How many are lengthy (30+ years)?
True/False: Similar to middle adulthood, aging men are more likely than women to initiate divorce.
What is the general trend for remarriage rates with age? What trend does the divorce rate follow for remarriages?
True/False: Rather than remarrying, seniors in a new relationship are increasingly choosing cohabitation as an alternative to marriage.
True/False: The role of spouse is potentially one of the most pervasive, intense, intimate, and personal roles.
What are percentages of women who are widows and men who are widowed age 65+ in US?
What aspect of aging adults allow them to more favourably adjust to widowhood?
Men show more physical and mental health problems, and greater risk of mortality than women. What are the 3 reasons?
Women's kin-keeper and ability to form close friendships may lead to....
True/False: Non-married seniors speak of extended family and younger people in their social networks as being central.
Are never-married, childless men or women more likely to feel lonely and depressed?
Nearly 80% of Americans age 65+ have at least one living sibling. Which sibling do both men and women describe having closer bonds with?
What is an especially strong predictor of mental health among seniors?
What are the 4 functions of late-life friendships?
True/False: Seniors report that their closest friends are those who live in the same community, but as they grow older, they report having more intergenerational friend?
Which sex is more likely to have intimate friends?
What are secondary friends?
True/False: As parents enter middle adulthood, parent-to-child help declines and child-to-parent assistance increases.
Is quantity or quality of interactions with children more important for older adults' life satisfaction?
Which circumstance contradicts the stereotype that older adults are 'burdens' on younger generations?
What form is aid from adult children usually?
Why do older people usually not seek their children's practical assistance?
What percentage of US seniors report that they were targets of elder maltreatment in the past month?
Why is elder maltreatment rare in Asian, Hispanic, and Native-American groups?
Elder maltreatment: Intentional infliction of pain, discomfort, or injury through hitting, cutting, burning, physical force, restraint, sexual assault, and other acts.
Elder maltreatment: Intentional or unintentional failure to fulfill caregiving obligations, resulting in lack of food, medication, or health services or in the older person being left alone or isolated.
Elder maltreatment: Verbal assaults, humiliation, and intimidations.
Elder maltreatment: Unwanted sexual contact of any kind.
Illegal or improper exploitation of the aging person's property or financial reserves through theft or use without consent.
What are the 3 most frequently reported types of elder maltreatment?
Who is the likely source of elder maltreatment?
What percentage of caregivers admit to having committed at least one act of elder maltreatment in the past year?
What is 'Granny dumping'?
What are the 5 risk factors for elder maltreatment?
What offers the best protection when elder abuse is extreme?
Majority of Baby Boomers want to work longer. What percentage of US adults age 65-69 and those in their seventies are still working in some capacity?
True/False: The majority of US older adults with career jobs retire gradually by cutting down their hours and responsibilities.
What are bridge jobs?
What is usually the first consideration in the decision to retire?
True/False: Many pre-retirees decide to let go of a steady work life in favour of alternative, personally meaningful work, leisure, or volunteer activities.
What percentage of retirees mention some adjustment difficulties?
What is a good predictor of stress following retirement?
What is strongly linked to retirement satisfaction?
Who is more likely to adjust favourably to retirement?
What promotes adjustment to retirement and is allowed greater freedom in retirement?
True/False: Volunteer service is related to better physical and mental health and reduced mortality.
What proportion of 60-70 year olds in industrialized nations report volunteering? How many hours per year do over half of these people volunteer?
What theory is in accordance with older adults eventually narrowed their volunteering to fewer roles, focusing on one or two that meant the most to them?
When do people age optimally?
True/False: Uncontrollable factors far outweighed the factors people could control to some degree in predicting a happy, active old age.
What are the physical milestones of 65-80 year olds?
What are the cognitive milestones of 65-80 year olds?
What are the emotional/social milestones of 65-80 year olds?
What are the physical milestones for 80 year olds?
What are the cognitive milestones for 80 years olds?
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May v. [imp. Might ] An auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
How may a man, said he, with idle speech,
Be won to spoil the castle of his health! --Spenser.
For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. --Bacon.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: “It might have been.” --Whittier.
(b) Liberty; permission; allowance.
Thou mayst be no longer steward. --Luke xvi. 2.
(c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.
Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance
Some general maxims, or be right by chance. --Pope.
(d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark.
How old may Phillis be, you ask. --Prior.
(e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. “May you live happily.”
May be, ∧ It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.
May, n. A maiden. [Obs.]
1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
2. The early part or springtime of life.
His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
3. Bot. The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
Plumes that mocked the may. --Tennyson.
4. The merrymaking of May Day.
Italian may Bot., a shrubby species of Spiraea (Spiraea hypericifolia) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches.
May apple Bot., the fruit of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
May beetle, May bug Zool., any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied genera. Called also June beetle.
May Day, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
May dew, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed.
May flower Bot., a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See Mayflower, in the vocabulary.
May fly Zool., any species of Ephemera, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
May game, any May-day sport.
May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
May lily Bot., the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).
May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary.
May queen, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day.
May thorn, the hawthorn.
n 1: the month following April and preceding June
2: thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of
white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries;
established as an escape in eastern North America [syn: whitethorn,
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This is my 2nd post on debunking some of the myths that have crept in around the “Succession Crisis” thesis as being determinative of Thailand’s present political problems.
True to form, after my last piece, the usual suspects launched into quite silly and pointless personal attacks against me on both twitter and Facebook. It’s a shame they can’t engage with debate in an honest and open manner.
No matter. It certainly wasn’t my intention to get into a slanging match with anyone when I wrote my last piece but it was certainly an attempt to critique some of the rather weak and unsubstantiated strategic arguments - those being that the Succession Crisis defines Thailand’s present political crisis.
|"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear." Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971).|
To add to my previous post what I wanted to look at briefly was the rise of democracy in Thailand and how that has presented an epoch-shifting threat to the dominant, authoritarian hegemony that has coalesced itself around the military and the “network” rather than the historical footnote of the royal succession.
This authoritarian hegemony, which has relied on myths of nation, a militarisation of certain key components of Thai civil society - particularly the academy - a virulently censorious culture that seeks to impose, through use of force, cultural and social homogeneity, and which ultimately relies on Army violence and a politicised judiciary to coerce this onto an increasingly unwilling population, can easily be defined as a political form of Thai fascism.
Those who seek to maintain this fascistic status quo have historically centred themselves, and sought to dominate and control, the armed forces, the Democrat Party, the majority of the Thai media (and, in particular, the English language Thai media), significant elements in the academy and other educational institutes, the aristocracy, the civil service, the so-called “independent institutions”, cultural and religious bodies and the judiciary & legal professions. Thai fascism has also historically been supported internationally by US governments and the US military in exactly the same manner the US aided and abetted violent, anti-democratic and fascistic regimes in Central and South America.
I’ve often been criticised for using the term “fascism” too loosely in the Thai context. I would counter that my use of the term is based on an analysis of the evidence as presented by Thailand’s body politic and that, in fact, I’ve only used the term as a factual descriptor not as a throw-away term of abuse. It is my view that Thai politics and culture is so deeply rooted in a virulent form of fascism that it has become naturalised and unconscious. Stepping out and stating “this is fascism” is far more of a “Emperor’s New Clothes” moment than actually stating that the Emperor, himself, is naked, so to speak.
So, in my view, the word “fascism” has been consciously underused to describe the politics of Thailand - hence my need to balance this up by its repeat use. This deliberate avoidance of the term is particularly so with much of the Western media in Bangkok, many of whom end up becoming subsumed into the unconscious ideology of Thai fascism and then personally invest in maintaining this social and economic status quo that they too benefit from individually. They collude with it - Thai-style Lord Haw Haws.
What is being challenged at the moment in Thailand, the real hegemonic crisis if you like and the precise moment where “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear”, is the threat posed to Thai fascism by the emergence of Thai democracy. In a sense a “new” Thailand is being born, a new political and social consciousness is slowly developing (albeit unevenly), and there’s literally nothing that Thai fascism can do to prevent that - unless, of course, it enacts a genocidal-scale massacre upon the Thai population.
The Succession Crisis in this scenario is a mere detail. One could even argue that without a Succession looming that the situation could be more tense and ready to fracture. The possibility of Succession at least gives the illusion of potential for some room for movement in the over-arching crisis. Without that possibility of change attitudes may be even more entrenched and extreme violence and civil war more likely.
The Succession Crisis as definer of the present political crisis is a nice easy hook. It looks perfect on book covers, as a conference title and also provides a nice, neat, easily identifiable backdrop for the lazy Western media corps in Bangkok. It also means that the Western media corps don’t have to explain their connivance with and refusal to report on the spectre of Thai fascism that has cast such a shadow over the “Land of Smiles.” But it needs to be challenged and it needs to attract the right kind of intellectual rigour before it can ever come close to being considered "determinative". Accepting it as a "received" wisdom should not be the position of progressive thinkers on Thai politics however attractive it may look as an oversimplified marketing device. | <urn:uuid:dbf3ae12-5582-450e-9bc9-ac07206f7484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asiaprovocateur.blogspot.com/2014/04/debunking-flawed-succession-crisis.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.951398 | 1,103 | 1.625 | 2 |
Lost Works of Art: the problem and a case study
Abstract:This article, which is presented in two parts, aims to raise awareness of the position of lost works in art-historical practice. The first section seeks to question the status of the information which can exist regarding work of art that are no longer extant. Without claiming to be comprehensive, it details examples of the different sorts of material that may exist (photographs, engravings, explanatory texts, etc.) and considers these in relation to the original object. The secondary sources are considered individually, as being nearer to, or further from, the original, but they are also seen together as ‘traces’. It is explicitly stated that these traces cannot provide access to the meaning of the original but that they may help to elucidate its ‘message’ (its historical, political or social significance).
The second part focuses on two lost paintings by Leclerc which were shown, as pendants, at the 1756 exhibition of the Académie de Saint-Luc in Paris and which are now known only from a single critical text. One of them was a history painting, while the other was a genre scene. The latter, according to the textual source, depicted women in eighteenth-century dress disrobing on the banks of a stream. It is argued that such an immodest scene would not normally have been thought fit for public exhibition in eighteenth-century Paris and reasons are sought for its production and its exposure. The mid-eighteenth century saw doubts cast on frivolous erotic mythology (such as is seen in Leclerc’s other painting) as being suitable for artistic depiction. Later events show that the loves of the gods were eclipsed by moral tales from ancient history (the rise of neoclassicism, in a word). It is suggested here, however, that Leclerc perhaps sought to provide an alternative. As his history picture and his genre scene were presently explicitly as pendants, he perhaps aimed to suggest that the way forward might be an acceptance of contemporary sexuality as a suitable subject in art.
The paper is exploratory in every sense. It seeks to put the question of lost works on the agenda, to provide the first, rather than the last, word on the subject. In the final analysis, it is even suggested, not entirely frivolously, that Leclerc’s paintings may never have existed. But even if they did not, a text describing possible pictures does, and this is of itself an important intervention in the thinking about suitable themes for depiction in eighteenth-century France.
Document Type: Original Article
Affiliations: University of Bristol
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The Constitutional Court celebrates its birthday on 30 October. It turns 30 years old. In recent years, the court has increasingly focused on the work of lawyers and related legal relations. In 2021, it issued three such rulings. We decided to collect the most significant legal positions of the Constitutional Court during the 30 years of its existence. Office searches, searches in pre-trial detention centres, jury questioning, pocket defenders, censorship of correspondence, reimbursement of lawyer's expenses.
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The Joy Formidable are without a doubt one of the most refreshing and exciting alternative rock bands in the UK today. With their critically acclaimed debut album ‘The Big Roar‘ captivating audiences worldwide, here comes what is usually classed as the ‘difficult’ second album, the eclectic ‘Wolf’s Law‘.
Now, here is a bit of background about the concept behind the album. What exactly is Wolf’s Law?
Well the album title of ‘Wolf’s Law‘ is actually a word-played reference to the famous German surgeon Julius Wolff. In 1892, the surgeon postulated ‘Wolff’s Law’, to which he described the relation between bone geometry and it’s mechanical influences. In other words, it is about how bones can change strength to cope with stress or breakage. Which is all the more fitting as some of the primary themes to do with the lyrics on the album are about mending relationships and rejuvenation/reinvigoration. There are also additional influences on the album ranging from Native American mythology, nature, and current social issues. So it is safe to say that this is quite a substantially fitting album!
Musically, this album is full of refreshing diversity that is displayed with absolute precision and executed with flawless quality. There are moments in the album which are reminiscent of the Smashing Pumpkins‘ most hailed album ‘Siamese Dream‘ (particularly in the songs ‘Cholla‘, and ‘Bats‘), with the raw yet sublimely smooth guitars and driving drum patterns. There are elements of post-rock in the vein of Mono, constant vocal melodies that echo that of the brilliant Howling Bells, the experimentalism of Sonic Youth and even electro-influenced new wave tinges in some songs.
The album starts off with an orchestral opening in the song ‘This Ladder Is Ours‘, which 40 seconds in soars in to a grunge like rock anthem which wouldn’t sound out of place on a Sonic Youth album.The first five songs of the album are a raw display of epic alternative rock anthems full of promise. When we come to the third song (and one of the album’s highlights) ‘Tendons‘, there are yet more elements of orchestral string arrangements and percussion, as well as some beautiful piano lines.
As we come halfway through the album, we are given a wonderfully tender acoustic moment in the aptly named ‘Silent Treatment‘. This is a great choice to put this track where it is in the track listing, as it proves the perfect yet soothing balance in between both halves of ‘Wolf’s Law‘. ‘Maw Maw Song‘ is definitely the most progressive yet diverse tracks on the album, of which we are sure that Matt Bellamy of Muse will be somewhere out there having an air guitar fret-wank to the awesome guitar solo in the middle of this near 7 minute alternative rock journey.
The rest of the second half of this album is a sublime mixture of the more experimental side of The Joy Formidable‘s capabilities, particularly with ‘Forest Serenade‘ as well. The other album highlight comes in the form of ‘The Leopard And The Lung‘. A blissfully soothing yet blisteringly raw composition, where you can visualize Beethoven collaborating with My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth. Yes, it is that epic. We inevitably end with the album closer ‘The Turnaround‘. An epic and gentle collaboration of acoustic guitars, orchestras, wonderful vocal melodies, and alternative rock force, which leaves the listener feeling exhilarated.
Being a self-produced effort by the band, there are some brilliant moments of production in here and on the odd occasion there is a tiny little bit of over production. Some people may wonder why the drum mix is so low down at times, but unless you are familiar with shoegaze, post-rock, or any kind of Steve Albini influenced methods of mixing and production, then you will not get why they have done this. But this may leave a few listeners a little lost in translation at times. What needs to be realised is that this is an album of musical experimentation done in such a way that it does not alienate the listener. It also should be noted that this is one of the more favourable sophomore efforts in recent memory and should be praised for its bold step in finding their own sound and various influences.
The Joy Formidable are one of the brightest hopes in UK rock music. The album’s concept is carefully thought out, the music is brilliantly executed and the production is a wonderful example on how to make music majestic and soothing, yet raw and primal. A definite grower, but yet a thoroughly enjoyable album that is more than a pleasure to listen to. Wait until they drop album number three, this is just the second chapter in the bands career… and my does it look promising!
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The Christmas season can be tiring but most people would not be aware that if they are feeling tired it might be because of something you are or are not eating.
Cara Cunningham, Community Dietitian
If you are feeling constantly tired it would be important to talk to your GP to ensure there is no underlying cause for this. But you can also check your diet to make sure it doesn’t include any ‘energy robbers’ for example:
* Caffeine in coffee, teas and many soft drinks have the effect of boosting our energy; however this is usually followed by a drop in energy. By restricting these drinks (or making coffee/ teas less strong) you can help keep the balance in your day .
* Sweets and refined carbohydrates such as white bread and cereals can give you what some people describe as a sugar rush however they are often followed by a slump a few hours later. It is better to go for wholegrain bread and fruits which will be broken down more slowly and give a steady release of energy into the blood stream.
. Not being very active can surprisingly be quite draining. The fitter you are the more energy you will feel you have so it is important to get out for a walk or do some activity most days – it’s also good for your mental health! A healthy body that is active will mean you feel full of energy and ready for all the life throws at you.
For more information or for more information on diet and nutrition, please contact:
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Lots of expecting couples get ultrasounds of their babies, and even take the grainy black-and-white pictures home. Now a clinic in Japan is offering models of the fetus, using 3D-printing technology.
Fasotec, an engineering company and Parkside Hiroo Ladies clinic have teamed up to offer the service since July 30. The way it works is similar to an ultrasound, but in this case they use MRI scans. (X rays can be harmful to a developing fetus).
The next step is a technology called Bio-Texture modeling, which converts the MRI data and into a 3D image. A 3D printer builds up the three-dimensional image using two different resins that produce two different colors. The result is a fetus represented in a creamy color surrounded by the mother's tissue, represented as transparent (see image above).
The resolution of the image isn't perfect — but the clinics say that many expectant mothers are delighted by the service, which costs 100,000 yen (about $1,200 at current exchange rates), not including the cost of the MRI.
For those who would like a less-pricey version, the company will start offering a 3D model of the face of the fetus for half that price at 50,000 yen in December.
The technology is about more than providing mementos to mothers, though. Fasotec says the printer can output 3D models of organs, as well, which could be used to train physicians. In fact, the fetus-printing idea was a spin-off the company is using to publicize the more general organ-imaging it does.
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House Degore fought against the Ironborn during the Greyjoy Rebellion, where the majority of the house was killed. The lone survivor, Royland Degore, was awarded a knighthood by King Robert Baratheon for his service during the Siege of Pyke.
The Degores are mentioned in Royand's codex entry, detailing what happened during the rebellion.
In the books
House Degore has no analogue in the novels, being an invention of Telltale.
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The ground is lurching beneath the feet of European Jews, with anti-Semitism rising up around them. We American Jews are rightly concerned at this alarming turn of events. We fear the spread of this new, especially virulent form of anti-Semitism to our own shores. We feel disgusted but helpless. What can we do?
I believe that each of us has an obligation to fight anti-Semitism, just as we should stand up to any other deeply ingrained prejudice that we encounter. To do this, we must combat the ignorance that nourishes this disease. The task is not as daunting as it may seem. There is something simple each of us can do this Passover, which is just a few weeks away. It won’t root out extremism instantly, but it will make a difference in the long term. Invite non-Jews to your seder this year.
I am launching the “Invite a Non-Jew To Your Seder” campaign. Our goal is for as many Jewish families as possible to invite an average of two non-Jews to a seder this year. If every family does this, some six million non-Jews will experience a seder this year, and at the very least taste traditional Passover foods and learn of their significance—not to mention gain an invaluable window into Jewish values and a better understanding of the connection Jews feel to the land of Israel. (Here’s how I calculated this number: With some 14 million Jews on the planet today, I estimate there could be two million seders held on the night of April 3, the first night of Passover, and another million for the second seder the following evening.)
I speak from experience because I am an inveterate inviter of non-Jews to seders. I grew up in a typical Conservative home, where seders were purely family affairs. But later, when I was a single mom, my son and I often found ourselves with no place to go if we didn’t travel out of town to join family. To fill the void, I held my own seders. Our guests were largely my son’s friends and their parents—the members of our local “family”—and most of them were not Jewish. The gathering was multi-generational: Our dear departed friend, James Bronson, an elderly African American, sat at the head of the table across from me. Of course, we always welcomed various other Jewish friends who were seder-less.
In breaking down barriers between various faiths and strengthening the bonds between us, we learned together and invented our own family traditions. One of those was an annual discussion about slavery, the theme of Passover, led by Mr. Bronson. A descendant of slaves born into rural poverty in Georgia, he had suffered egregiously from prejudice throughout his life. We also colored in pictures of Moses and Miriam, read Isaac Bashevis Singer stories, loudly sang Dayenu, and, of course, ate and talked about what we ate. Jew and non-Jew alike learned the prayers and the songs. Today the children of our seder—Jewish and not—have gone out into the world and become amazing young adults. Each of them carries within the joy and lessons of these very special nights.
There are other benefits to inviting non-Jews to your seder table beyond countering anti-Semitism. Including non-Jews is like hitting a refresh button, opening up new questions so that you discover new folds of the Exodus story and re-explore the themes of the Haggadah. It encourages us to make our seders lively and accessible and makes interfaith family members feel at ease.
I know that what I advocate is contrary to traditional Jewish law. Technically, Jews are not supposed to invite non-Jews to their seder table. The primary reason for this prohibition stems from a ruling that permits a Jew to cook only for others who observe the laws of a holiday. The only exception to this is if Passover falls on Shabbat, when one is not permitted to cook in any case. Moreover, it can be deduced from Exodus 12:43 that the sacrificial lamb cannot be eaten by non-Jews. Some also believe it is inappropriate to share matzah with a non-Jew. But like many Jewish laws, these have been subject to a millennium of rabbinical interpretation. A majority of rabbis today would not censure a Jew who invites non-Jews to a seder and have even drawn on other traditional sources to circumvent this prohibition.
I am from the school of Jewish thought that embraces inclusion over the letter of the law, and to my ears prohibitions such as these are painfully out of touch with the meaning of Judaism. I see inviting non-Jews to seders as a way of repairing the world, and in that vein, I ask you to join our campaign. Share our rituals and explain them. Include children, anyone who would benefit from a good meal or who is in need of community, and Christians, Muslims and people of other faiths, too. Visit us at momentmag.com/inviteanonjew2yourseder to tell us your personal seder stories! Let us know whom you plan to invite this year and what happens, or let us know what you have experienced in previous years. Share photos and videos of a non-Jew breaking matzah with you using the hashtag #inviteanonjew2yourseder. Together, we will embrace our freedom this Passover and work toward inoculating present and future generations with a booster shot against old and new strains of anti-Semitism. | <urn:uuid:79ceacd1-a77f-435c-8457-52830e62a083> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://momentmag.com/from-the-editor-marchapril-2015/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.963027 | 1,153 | 1.648438 | 2 |
This capital city has been car free for more than a decade and has in turn been dubbed greenest capital in Europe (thanks to the European Commission).
The capital in question? Ljubljana, Slovenia! The capital city published “Vision 2025” in 2007, a set of proposals to create a greener and cleaner city and hopefully inspire other cities to follow suit.
The no car rule has led to a massive drop in gas emissions and noise pollution. Do you think your local city should make the shift? Let us know below! | <urn:uuid:f99cc127-5811-45bd-87ea-23e69805789d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thrivingplanet.com.au/2021/11/06/this-capital-city-has-been-car-free-for-over-a-decade/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.946466 | 113 | 1.78125 | 2 |
In what could provide fodder for state legislators looking to ban cell phone use by drivers, a new survey has found that more than one in four drivers - 26 percent - reports having sent text messages while driving.
Some high profile accidents caused by people driving while texting (DWT), including an incident this month in which a trolley operator in Boston crashed into another trolley while sending text messages, have shown the spotlight on the dangers associated with this behavior.
And most people agree that DWT should be banned - 83 percent of people in the survey said sending text messages while driving should be illegal, according to the survey conducted by Vlingo Corporation.
Drivers in Tennessee are the worst offenders, with 42 percent admitting to DWT, while Arizona has the lowest percentage of people saying they have done it at 18.8 percent, Vlingo said.
Among younger drivers - who already pay higher auto insurance premiums due to an increased risk of accidents - nearly half, or 49 percent, said they have committed DWT.
Seven states and Washington, DC have banned DWT. However, whether a state has a law banning DWT does not seem to correlate to less DWT activity, Vlingo said.
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In contrast to the near-zero interest rates (sub-zero in some cases) in the traditional finance world, the interest rates for crypto lending and borrowing are substantially higher.
Crypto lending today is primarily driven by speculation. Brokerage margin lending is the closest real-world comparison, justifying current crypto rates of 8–10%. As more potential lenders get comfortable with the technical risks, the supply of lenders will start to outweigh the demand of borrowers and margins will eventually compress. While speculation is the primary use case for crypto lending, we are optimistic that there will be additional use cases for crypto lending as the technology and ecosystem matures (credit scoring, insurance, etc.)
The primary use cases for crypto borrowing, according to research by Genesis Capital, can be bucketed into three categories: Speculation/hedging, trading/arbitrage, and working capital.
As cryptocurrencies are extremely volatile, lenders usually demand more than the borrowed value to be deposited as collateral (usually a minimum of 150%). The onerous collateral requirement for crypto loans precludes normal small-scale retail users from borrowing in cryptocurrencies to fund their short-term expenses (why would I have to deposit $150k in collateral to fund my $100k college fee expense?). With the current loan offerings largely unattractive to regular users, we can assume that most people who borrow crypto loans are doing so to gain leveraged exposure to the underlying collateral. We have covered the topic of how to gain leveraged exposure through borrowing in crypto in one of our previous editions.
With speculation and trading being the biggest use cases for crypto borrowing, the right comparison for crypto borrowing rates would be the interest rates charged for margin accounts in the traditional finance world. A quick look at the interest rates charged by leading brokerage firms such as Fidelity and TD Ameritrade indicates that the market rate charged for margin accounts with up to $50k in borrowed capital ranges from 8.5% to 9.5%, which is much higher than the 3-4% interest rates for housing and vehicle loans. This perhaps explains the high borrowing rates for crypto loans in the current scenario. It is also a reflection of the market acknowledging the fact that the underlying collateral in both crypto as well as margin borrowing, while liquid, is very much a volatile financial security/asset class, unlike an inert car or a house, which might not be as liquid, but is also relatively less volatile.
The market is still in its nascent stages, which explains the huge differences in rates between various DeFi lending platforms. In the figure above, for instance, Nuo offers 20% APR for lenders as opposed to 5% on dYdX. These figures also fluctuate frequently. Also, unlike in other spot and derivative markets, it is not an easy task to ‘arbitrage’ exchange rates across markets currently. | <urn:uuid:a445b12c-055c-4e6d-abaa-f095180a4a03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://satoshiand.co/defi-lending-rates-reflective-of-crypto-asset-class-volatility/?utm_campaign=Satoshi%26Co%20Daily%20Crypto%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.959843 | 578 | 1.75 | 2 |
The tendency for many teachers is to ask students to put their cellphones away during class, or worse, turn them off. One less distraction to get in the way of all that learning taking place, right? But are cellphones really a distraction? Or are they a sign that maybe the course is boring? Viewing cute cat photos on Facebook has got to be more exciting than a 50 minute lecture on conjugating verbs. Okay, I’m kidding. No one lectures for 50 minutes any more, right? With all that active learning going on in class, who has time for lecture? One tool that many professors are turning to to help with active learning in the classroom is the much improved Socrative 2.0. We did a workshop with Socrative two years ago. Socrative lets teachers engage and assess their students with activities on their smartphones or tablets during class.
So what’s the best way to use the new Socrative? Engage students with a Quick Question – Short Answer. Professors can use short answer to ask a question, then gather, visualize and discuss a whole class’ open responses. You could even have students vote on the responses. You can’t do that with clickers.
Peer editing is another good use of Socrative for engaging students in the classroom. Have students share their thesis statements using Socrative. Then project all their anonymous responses on the screen. Then discuss as a class and then provide the constructive feedback to guide that student’s thinking in new directions. Making the work public motivates students to take extra care and also allows them a rare opportunity to see their peer’s ideas.
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The Eighth Commandment is clear: Thou shall not bear false witness.
The Catechism states that misrepresenting the truth to harm another’s reputation violates the Eighth Commandment, given by God to Moses, and Jesus’ commandment in the Gospel of Matthew, love your neighbor as yourself (2477-2479). Just over an hour after Jorge Bergoglio was announced as Pope Francis, a devastating example of false witness against the Holy Father was winging its way around the world.
Media outlets seized on the allegation that Pope Francis was guilty of conspiring with a violent Argentinian military dictatorship to kidnap two Jesuit priests, Father Franz Jalics and Father Orlando Yorio, in May 1976.
The military was in power from 1976 to 1983 and is blamed for the unjust deaths of approximately 9,000 innocent people, according to an independent truth commission. The period is sometimes referred to as the "Dirty War."
The story circulated internationally was that Father Jorge Bergoglio, Argentina’s Jesuit provincial (director) from 1973-1979, effectively released the priests to thugs who kidnapped and tortured them for five months. Supposedly, Father Bergoglio turned on these young priests because they had defied his order to leave the slums.
Yet Father Jalics himself reacted to allegations against the new Pope in a straightforward statement March 20 from a German monastery: "It is wrong to assert that our capture took place at the initiative of Father Bergoglio."
The next day, Argentinian Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel told reporters in Rome, "The Pope had nothing to do with the dictatorship. He was not an accomplice of the dictatorship. … Of this, I’m sure." Perez Esquivel received the prize in 1980 for defending human rights under the dictatorship.
Others — including Judge Alicia Oliveira, historian Loris Zanatta and human-rights leader Graciela Fernandez Meijide — contradict the allegations. Journalist Sergio Rubin, who wrote a biography of Bergoglio, said the Pope took risks and worked behind the scenes to gain release for the two priests.
A few high-profile news outlets have declared the Pope exonerated. The New York Daily News, for example, wrote a positive editorial March 23, "The Good Name of Francis: Baseless Allegations Against the Pope Suggested He Was an Ally of Argentina’s Murderous Regime."
Despite the occasional correction, these accusations damage the Pope’s reputation: Who fabricated this malicious story — and why?
On March 15, papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi sternly rejected the lies as coming from "anti-clerical, left-wing elements that are used to attacking the Church," without naming names.
Astonishingly, the Pope’s chief accuser is one man, a notorious 71-year-old left-wing Argentinian journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, who outlined the story in the 2005 book The Silence: From Paul VI to Bergoglio: The Secret Relations Between the Church and ESMA. (ESMA refers to a military detention center used to interrogate and detain suspected suspects under the military rule of 1976-1983.)
The problem, however, wasn’t simply that overeager journalists were seizing on a book with the new Pope’s name in the title.
Verbitsky seems to have actively promoted this accusation, even naming the new Pontiff the "Pope of the Dictatorship," an echo of the slanderous moniker given to Pope Pius XII: "Hitler’s Pope."
On March 14, the morning after Pope Francis greeted the world, Verbitsky repeated his claims on a nationally syndicated American radio program that Pope Francis was directly in touch with this murderous military dictatorship and personally facilitated the kidnapping of two priests.
A few days later, on March 16, the British newspaper The Mail on Sunday printed copies of ambiguous documents ostensibly demonstrating Bergoglio’s guilt.
According to the British paper, "The damning report was handed to The Mail on Sunday by leading Argentine author and human-rights activist Horacio Verbitsky, who began investigating Bergoglio shortly after he was named archbishop of Buenos Aires in February 1998."
"Author," "investigative journalist," "human-rights activist" — these descriptors attached to Verbitsky’s name all denote neutrality.
But Verbitsky is not impartial. Rather, he has been a dedicated antagonist of the Catholic Church for his entire career, according to political analysts and clerics in Argentina, as was his father, Bernard, who was active in Argentina’s Communist Party.
Verbitsky was involved in a violent, extremist organization that was active in the 1970s, Montoneros, which is blamed for bombings, kidnappings and bank heists in Argentina, modeling its tactics on the communist takeover of Cuba. Verbitsky confirmed he was a member of Montoneros but said he wasn’t a leader.
In fact, Verbitsky and six guerrilla colleagues were prosecuted for executing a 1976 bombing at a federal police office that killed 21 people. The case was dismissed in 2007, based on an interpretation of the definition of terrorism. Violence by organizations such as Montoneros provided the rationale in 1976 for the military coup d’etat, which practiced its own brand of terrorism but stepped aside for democratic elections in 1983.
Although there were Catholic bishops who opposed the military regime (two were killed in suspicious car accidents) and religious and seminarians were among its victims, there were also Catholic priests implicated in "Dirty War" activities, such as serving as chaplains to units engaged in torture. As the country reflected on the past, many concluded that the Church should have stood more resolutely against tyranny.
As a result, in 2000, Argentina’s bishops, including then-Archbishop Bergoglio, asked the country for forgiveness in a dramatic statement: "We ask your forgiveness, O God, for the silent responsibility and the effective participation of the Church’s children in pushing aside human rights, in tortures and rapes, in intransigent ideologies and in foolish deaths that bloodied our country."
The apology by the Argentinian bishops did not satisfy Horacio Verbitsky, who, that same year, became president of the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS), which is dedicated to publicizing human-rights abuses committed during the "Dirty War."
CELS was financed by the Ford Foundation, George Soros’ Open Society Foundation and even the U.S. taxpayer-funded entity the National Endowment for Democracy.
The Ford Foundation granted CELS almost $2.5 million between 2000 and 2009. In 2011, Ford gave CELS $1 million, and it announced another $1-million award last July for the group to become a "global leader."
It has become a "global leader" with the dubious distinction of being the only non-governmental organization in the world that publicly opposed the selection of Pope Francis as soon as he was selected, as reported by CNN.
During the last decade, Verbitsky’s main political activities involved promoting first Nestor Kirchner, Argentina’s president from 2003 to 2007, then the late president’s wife, Cristina Kirchner, who has held the presidential office since 2007. The socialist "presidential marriage" (as the Argentine media calls it) has dominated the country for the last decade. The Economist, in its March 23 edition, called Verbitsky the "chief propagandist for the Kirchner governments" as editor of the pro-government newspaper Página/12. Especially after Nestor Kirchner’s death of a heart attack in 2010, Horacio Verbitsky has served as Cristina Kirchner’s confidante.
The media has focused most often on the clash between Cristina Kirchner and Archbishop Bergoglio over same-sex "marriage," but, in fact, Archbishop Bergoglio expressed concern about economic policies that risk harming people at large.
A series of economic policy initiatives demonstrates Cristina Kirchner’s admiration for the socialist agenda of Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela: She nationalized Argentina’s largest airline, took control of billions of dollars worth of private pension funds and tried to impose a grain-export tax that farmers vociferously protested.
As The Wall Street Journal’s Latin America analyst, Mary Anastasia O’Grady, observed in a March 17 commentary, "Argentines who want their country to be the next Venezuela see Francis as an obstacle" because he does not hesitate to criticize politicians who claim to be benefiting the people when they are in fact consolidating power.
Naming Horacio Verbitsky as the prime mover behind the "smear campaign" against Pope Francis, O’Grady explained how this "propaganda" links to the left’s strategy in the 1970s: "Former members of terrorist groups like Mr. Verbitsky, and their modern-day fellow travelers in the Argentine government, have used the same tactics for years to try to destroy their enemies — anyone who doesn’t endorse their brand of authoritarianism."
A partisan agitator such as Horacio Verbitsky seems to perceive the Catholic Church as an enemy regardless of the circumstances, one decade to another. Why? Because, at its best, the Church serves as a moral authority that can stand up to regimes bent on controlling the lives and minds of its citizens.
Yale professor Carlos Eire, T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies at Yale University, and a Cuban-born Catholic, spoke to the Register to explain why socialist regimes are particularly dangerous to the Catholic Church: "The Marxists and left-wing movements will always insist on ideological purity and conformity, which means they want to claim the heart and soul of every citizen. This will always be a very serious threat to the Church and to believers."
Horacio Verbitsky’s obsessive attempts to harm Pope Francis are audacious; that he receives financial support from American institutions is even more shocking.
And it should be remembered that the permanent injury to Pius XII’s good name — caused by the lies perpetrated about alleged refusal to help Jews during World War II — also derived in substantial measure from a smear campaign launched by a single man. In 1963, with the hidden backing of international communist networks and sympathizers, German playwright Rolf Hochhuth published his fictional play The Deputy. Because Hochhuth’s smears were not properly rebutted at the time, they have perpetuated for decades afterward.
That’s why it’s so important that Verbitsky’s lies about Pope Francis should be countered effectively now — before they too have a chance to cause permanent harm to the reputation of a holy pope.
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It was "Maverick" that made Garner a star, and once he was, he got out of his contract so he could try other kinds of roles. Despite moving on to a variety of roles in romantic comedies and action films, he ended up typecast as…James Garner. When he returned to television, he basically played the same glib, pacifist as he did on "Maverick," a guy who didn't like to fight…but was good at it. He also didn't like to hire lawyers, but was good at it. He sued to get 14 million bucks in back royalties on "Rockford Files."
Although he played good ol' boys and Western heroes, Garner was a lifelong Democrat and a big fan of weed…once claiming that he toked up most every day. Yes, there was a lot to like about James Garner…one of the nicest guys in Hollywood. And he even autographed a photo for me years ago.
His two most popular TV shows had very famous theme songs. "Maverick" was a typically catchy Warner Bros. hack job with fairly awful lyrics…though not any worse than the embarrassing ones for other WB shows such as "Sugarfoot" ("once you get his dander up…") or "Lawman," which proclaimed, "The lawman came with the sun. There was a job to be done." The dopey "Maverick" lyrics included the badly rhymed "Riverboat ring your bell, Fare thee well Annabelle." Only New Yorkers could get something out of the line "Living on Jacks and Queens," if they mis-heard it as "Living in Jackson (Heights), Queens."
As for Johnny Gregory (born Gregori, and still with us at 89), he was a versatile orchestra leader who imitated the 101 Strings (for his "Cascading Strings" albums), and sometimes called himself Chaquito (for Latin-tinged lounge music, but also for sassy TV theme cover albums). His version of "Maverick" was on an early (late 50's, obviously) album of Western TV themes.
It's memorable for being fairly idiotic. For some reason, his choir of dopes don't actually sing all the lyrics…but two guys who don't remotely sound like James Garner or Jack Kelly, turn up to intrude with such pearls as "Hello Bart." "Hello Bret."
Later as John Gregory, he was still specializing in TV theme albums when "Rockford Files" came along, and again, he contributes an interestingly mediocre cover of it. What made "Rockford Files" such a memorable theme song? The weird combination of a synthesizer and a harmonica. Apparently with access to neither, Gregory tries to substitute, without success. But that's the fun of "cover versions." Maybe.
Fare thee well, James Garner.
Maverick Johnny Gregory
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Missouri teacher Ryan Blocker feels incredible after undergoing a 350-pound weight loss in two years on the HMR Diet.
Blocker who once weighed 550 pounds, told KFVS 12 in Lilbourn, Missouri, he was so fat he relied on three different blood pressure medications to get through the day.
Ryan, a high school band director, decided to take control of his health in August 2012, after nearly collapsing while directing the high school band for their annual homecoming parade.“By the end of the block I was at the back of the band and seeing spots and I couldn’t catch my breath,” said Blocker. “And I had to just stop.
“I know I was heading down a bad path, it was a matter of time. You don’t live for 20 years at that weight.”
Blocker, 30, credits the HMR Diet (Health Management Resources) for his eye-popping 350-pound weight loss in two years.
The HMR Diet, which was rated the No. 2 weight loss diet for 2015 by U.S. News and World Report, involves reducing calories via meal replacement and increasing physical activity.
Ryan consumed pre-made meals, started exercising and attended group nutrition classes. Over the course of 24 months, Blocker’s waistline whittled down from 56 inches to 32. Ryan said he went public with his weight loss to inspire other obese people to take control of their health.
‘Obesity is a problem,” said Blocker. “Working in schools and just walking through town you see it. If I can help them out or inspire them or give them information on how to eat better I’m glad to do it.”
Blocker added: “I feel like I owe that to them. I mean, I was terrible to myself. I might as well help somebody else out.”
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Holidays in France - prices, cities, hotels, visa, climate, transport
So close to dreams, films and books in the life of France sometimes seems out of reach. There's "Burgundy, Normandy, champagne or Provence", and, of course, Gascony, and the chief joy of the tourist - Paris... Even the names evoke joy and a desire to see all is well at least one eye. Well, this is quite achievable – holidays in France can be as economical and convenient. It remains only to choose where exactly I want to visit and calculate their financial capabilities.
The most popular tourist destinations
Of course, you shouldn't die after he has seen Paris, but to start out with the most sophisticated country in Europe is with him. Eiffel tower, Champs Elysees, Montmartre... This city became the cradle of talent of many famous artists, the city is inextricably linked with the adventurous spirit of the novels of Dumas, a town of the French revolution, in the end. And you have to devote time to all areas associated with real and fictional events. And to drink a Cup of French coffee at an outdoor cafe and visit the Paris catacombs.
This is one of the five biggest French cities, but he's not that famous. Anyone who is even slightly familiar with the history of wine, at the mention of Bordeaux immediately think of the vineyards. And indeed, the whole city is like a large wine cellar, which attracts lovers of this wonderful, giving health drink (if you eat it in moderation, of course). However, in between tastings it can offer tourists interesting sights, walk along the banks of the Garonne or in the garden in the English style.
Sitting in third place in terms of population after Paris, Lyon is famous not only for its historical monuments, but also the industry, particularly the production of silk. And yet it is considered the unofficial capital of the French Freemasonry. And, of course, when visiting Lyon should definitely plan a night walk – it model night lighting can be considered perfect, she became a role model for many cities in the world.
Inseparably associated with the history of Catholicism in France, for a long time it was the residence of the persecuted by Rome priests. And most of the attractions of this picturesque Provencal towns have is religious significance – and the Papal Palace, Avignon Cathedral, and beautiful in its bleakness Gothic Church. And, of course, not to mention in connection with Avignon and its famous theatre festival – the oldest in Europe, which for a few days makes this city a place of pilgrimage for the refined connoisseur of litsedeyskie art.
The heart and soul of the côte d'azur, a favorite resort of celebrities and aristocrats, and yet one of the centers of French education is such a diverse and multifaceted nice not just delights and fascinates, remaining in the memory of the city of sun and sky. He is able to give to everyone who comes here, a part of the French view of the world, true joy and refined pleasures. Pleasures from visiting museums and strolling along the waterfront and just a leisurely, almost languid relaxation, which frees the head from heavy thoughts and hearts from worries.
Homeland of Edmond Dantes, this port city is the oldest in France. And his name became known far outside the country thanks to the famous revolution anthem – "La Marseillaise". However, it's not all that he boasts – there were born many French writers, there are a number of museums and the famous Opera house. The city of industry and culture – is a modern Marseille.
French climate: moderation in all things
It is worth noting that, in General, temperate, the climate of France differs depending on the region. So, in the West common (including summer), are the rains, and in winter almost no snow – just the same rain. But in the South the summer rains almost never happens – they "delight" of the locals and tourists in the winter. Best expressedthe division between seasons in the Central part of the country in the winter here is pretty cold and summer is hot and relatively dry. As for the mountain regions in the winter it is cold and snows a lot on the delight of lovers of skiing and summer is hot (although the night is still cold).
To answer the question, when is the best time to visit France is quite difficult. Traditional tourist months are July and August, but in winter it is very nice, especially because at this time even do not need especially warm clothes will be enough winter clothes.
And what about the visa?
To visit France, the traveler must apply for a Schengen visa.
It is made in the usual way, the processing time – minimum 5, maximum 14 days. Usually the first time you visit it is better to issue a single entry visa, and after several visa categories "multi" to have the opportunity to visit France as often as would wish (and after the first visit will want to see that country again).
Currency in France
Beautiful Louis d'ors and ECUs replaced by sustainable Franks, and they, in turn, the common European currency – the Euro. It has a circulation in France, so before the trip is to attend to exchange money for Euro or receiving a card to be able to withdraw money from ATMs and pay for purchases.
Tours and their costs
As mentioned above, tours to France you can pick up people with different financial capabilities. Overall, surprisingly, the country is one of the most expensive in Europe, so stay in it it is possible to afford. So what are tours?
- The prices of economy class will start from 300 euros per person. Of course, in this case, no one will accommodate the tourist in a "fleabag", but the hotel is a three star, and tours included at a minimum. This category usually consists of tours with plenty of free time.
- The more expensive tours from € 500 assuming the best conditions of accommodation and more attention to leisure tourists – lots of interesting excursions with guide, interesting exclusive offers.
- Well, tours from EUR 1,000 (the upper bound of their cost is very conditional) – this is for lovers of category "elite" who prefer very comfortable hotels and exclusive in everything.
However, on any round you can save and transform, for example, the middle class in economy, if you buy a "last minute". So spontaneous travelers are often more economical.
Transport in France
The transport system of the country has a very high level of development, but not less than high prices. Focus on three types of transport as the most important for tourists.
High-speed trains link Paris with every region of the country. They are very comfortable (from Paris to Lyon, for example, can be reached in two hours), but, importantly, not too expensive, especially if you order tickets online and print them yourself. If the ticket is bought in cash, should be prepared to wait: the queue at the station – a common occurrence, because the cashiers-the French have become notorious for slowness of service and love to idle conversations with passengers.
It is important to know that the cars in trains are usually divided into classes – first and second.
Familiar to seasoned travelers buses in France are becoming a real problem – such a terribly inconvenient schedule, and even inconsistent with any types of transport, as here, to look for more. Furthermore, their routes are almost completely duplicated by trains. And the latter is faster, so the question of whether the use of buses remains relevant.
The third type of transport is Parisian. Because tourists love this city, not to mention it is impossible. There are buses, trams and underground, and in order to save, you can purchase one ticket for all public transport. Fans of metro station should take note that the Paris metro is quite fiddly – for example, there announce the station and the transitions between them, it is not surprising to get lost. But there is often go controllers, so that the purchased ticket has to be kept until the end of the trip. Although there are new branches, where happy customers can find out at what station the train arrives.
But in Paris well developed bus network. And the buses are divided into two categories – daytime (from 6 am until around half past eight in the evening) and nighttime (from midnight to half past five in the morning). Tickets are can be purchased from the driver, but it is better to buy them in advance – will be cheaper.
Also in Paris, four tram lines, which are popular with tourists can be quite fast to reach to the necessary place, and even views of the city to admire.
Features of French hotels
Of course, prices on vacation in France largely depend on where travelers stay. And because there are accepted its, pretty interesting system of classification of hotels, isread it before choosing a hotel.
So, if everything that a traveller needs is to spend the night, you should choose the hotel "without category", denoted by the letters HT.
For two stars , the traveler will receive not only lodging, but the Breakfast is the usual budget hotels, which sometimes have the added designation of SUP, which means the presence in the room TV or telephone and more diverse Breakfast.
An interesting option with a three-star hotel - not only the fact that for a modest fee, tourists are provided comfortable accommodation and the opportunity to eat in the café and restaurant. Much more attractive that such hotels are often set in old houses.
When choosing a hotel in 4-star category to the pool, housekeeping service twice a day and most diversified service. This so-called "moderate luxury".
Interestingly, hotels five stars in France no. The best care is provided by institutions of two categories – it's Luxe and Palace. The first category is a luxurious and very famous hotel with the best service and elegant rooms, the second is truly luxury with the prefix "super". Here and unique design of the rooms, and impeccable service, and full concentration on the person of the guest. But such hotels are "mere mortals", of course, unavailable.
Shopping in France
But the French shopping available to everyone, you only need to choose what you want to buy. A trip to Paris without going to the boutiques with clothing, perfume and jewelry, we can assume, was in vain. Even if such purchases are not very expensive, it is necessary to allocate money at least to buy a bottle of real French perfume and elegant neckerchief – they will remind about the capital of beauty. But if finances allow, go from the famous "Golden triangle" without new clothes in the form of dresses, handbags, shoes, and even impossible.
From Bordeaux it is impossible to leave without a bottle of local wineto drink it at home with loved ones, enjoying the taste of France. But before that, you can enjoy the delicacy, brought from the province – for example, a piece of cheese, which is famous for this country, or biscuits. In addition, with a need to bring olive oil from Provence and the eponymous mustard with Dijon market.
As a gift or for yourself is a must buy and essential oil is also a native of Provence – let the house will envelop scents of lavender fields or the bushes of Jasmine.
France is also known for its antique shops where it is also impossible to leave without a fine vintage trinkets or even coins.
Instead of an epilogue
Adventurous and thoughtful, carefree and wise, gave birth to many worthy men who survived several revolutions and sheltered many victims of other revolutions, France is not just a tourist country, a few pages in a book on fashion... She is all together and not only that, each special and unique in nature. The trip to France was worth every Euro spent on it, because in the soul, and in my mind she will leave much more. | <urn:uuid:1b7ed72d-0cd0-4c12-b2e0-26d3bac4d5fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tour.liketourist.com/strana/otdyh-vo-francii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.963534 | 2,510 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Amid speculation of a third bid for the Presidency, Congressman Ron Paul revealed that growing concerns over U.S. monetary policies would drive him into the race. In a no-holds-barred interview on KSCO AM 1080 with the host of The Costa Report, Rebecca Costa, Paul said, “I think the wave of the future is inflation. It’s just beginning – to the point that the dollar will be rejected as the reserve currency of the world. If there’s a panic out of the dollar you will see the destruction of the dollar rather quickly. The end stages of a currency comes quickly.” He continued,
“We’ve seen this in Zimbabwe, Mexico and Central America. Today there’s an illusion and false trust in our money.”
According to Paul the reason for rising prices is the U.S. government’s own monetary policy, “Inflation comes from the Federal Reserve printing money.” He added, “The price of education is high because of inflation, medical care is the same thing – all of this injection of money (from the Federal Reserve) raises prices.” When asked about the relationship between wage inflation and recent limitations on collective bargaining for state workers in Wisconsin, Paul responded, “When wages are artificially high, it distorts things – it’s unpopular to lower wages, so we just inflate (them), and the REAL wage goes down. Sure, we don’t cut the wage, but it buys so little.”
The outspoken Congressman offers a simple antidote to hyperinflation. “Stop printing money.” He continues, “I remember in the seventies when we got off the gold standard and immediately had oil embargos. We said the Arabs caused our inflation. They contributed to the chaos, but they didn’t cause the inflation. Oil never went back to $5 a barrel once it broke out because the value of the dollar went down. So if anybody is concerned about high prices they need to understand monetary policy.” There has been widespread speculation about Ron Paul’s candidacy in the upcoming 2012 Presidential election. When asked by The Costa Report whether Paul was considering throwing his hat in the ring again Paul remarked, “I’ve often said over the last couple of years that if people are starting to recognize that the monetary system is deeply flawed, then I would have trouble not participating in a debate and campaign.“
The full interview is available at www.rebeccacosta.com , KSCO.com and iTunes.
About Ron Paul
Congressman Ron Paul of Texas was a two-time candidate for President of the United States. He enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known among his colleagues in Congress and constituents for his consistent voting record in the House of Representatives: Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the "one exception to the Gang of 535" on Capitol Hill.
The author of The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction, Rebecca Costa, will be hosting The Costa Report – one of the fastest growing talk shows in California – on two heritage radio stations beginning
March 11, 2011.
In 2010, the author agreed to produce a one-hour, weekly program called “Rattler Radio” on KNRY AM 1040 for four weeks. But following just two programs, advertising was sold out and requests to re-broadcast the program began flowing into the station. “We haven’t experienced anything like this for a long time,” commented station manager, Jim Vossen. “My guess is people are getting tired of the bullies who have taken over talk radio.”
Station owner of KSCO 1080 AM, Michael Zwerling agrees. “Suddenly, we had loyal listeners writing in to tell us they were switching over to KNRY on Friday afternoons. So we had to take a look. I’ve been in radio for thirty years and while nobody can tell you exactly what the ‘it’ factor is – she’s got it. Listeners love her enough to tune in every week.”
Beginning March 11, 2011, what began as Rattler Radio will be renamed The Costa Report. The program will broadcast on both KNRY 1240 AM and KSCO 1080 AM - allowing it to reach almost half of the state of California. In addition, Costa is in discussions with two NPR affiliates which are interested in airing the program beginning in April.
This would make The Costa Report the first real “cross-over” program between commercial AM talk radio and NPR.
How does Costa feel about becoming the new face of talk radio? “I have to admit, I never thought the book would lead to a syndicated radio show,” she said. “The truth is, I stopped listening to talk radio a long time ago – once rage-aholics began grabbing ratings and everyone jumped on that bandwagon, I turned my radio off. But maybe we can bring people like me back by mixing high-level NPR content with AM talk entertainment.”
Michael Zwerling of KSCO has agreed to manage the national syndication of The Costa Report with an immediate expansion in Seattle, Phoenix, Albuquerque, Denver and Las Vegas in mind. In addition to the first hour of “listen” radio where Costa provides a 10-minute commentary on the week’s top news story and in-depth interview with a world expert, the new format allows for a second hour for listeners to call into the program. Zwerling – long recognized as a pioneer in the radio industry – also plans on adding a third hour, called The After Show where Costa and colleagues will webcast a no- holdsbarred discussion in the KSCO “green room.” The After Show will only be available via the internet.
About Rebecca D. Costa
Rebecca Costa is a sociobiologist who offers a genetic explanation for current events, emerging trends and individual behavior. A thought-leader and provocative new voice in the mold of Thomas Friedman, Malcolm Gladwell and Jared Diamond, Costa examines “the big picture”– tracing everything from terrorism, crime on Wall Street, epidemic obesity and upheaval in the Middle East to evolutionary forces. Retiring at the zenith of her executive career in Silicon Valley, Costa spent six years researching and writing The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction. The success of Costa’s book led to a weekly radio program in 2010 called Rattler Radio. In 2011 the program was renamed and syndicated as The Costa Report. A former CEO and founder of one of the largest marketing firms in Silicon Valley (sold in 1997 to J. Walter Thompson), Costa developed an extensive track record of introducing new technologies. Her clients included industry giants such as Hewlett-Packard, Apple Computer, Oracle Corporation, Seibel Systems, 3M, Amdahl, and General Electric Corporation.
KSCO has served the Central Coast of California since 1947 and remains one of the last independently owned and operated radio stations in the United States. The station broadcasts the top names in syndication as well as over 87 hours-per-week of locally originated newstalk which is syndicated to 100 radio stations throughout the country. In the early 1950’s, due to its signal strength, KSCO was selected as the Emergency Broadcast System station for Central California.
Operating since 1935, KNRY is the oldest radio station on the Central Coast of California. The station is located on historic Cannery Row in Monterey. KNRY is widely viewed as a “Community Radio” station offering a mix of syndicated and locally produced talk and music programming including The Monterey Bay Morning Show, The Dr. Laura Show, The Ray Lucia Show, The Dennis Prager Show, The Ray Lucia Show and programs from the Business Talk Radio Network.
As a two-time candidate for President of the United States, and ten-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is the author of several best-selling books, and his new release, Liberty Defined, comes out on April 19, 2011. | <urn:uuid:e9ed04a0-dc07-4393-8293-a7581edf2765> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://ksco.com/community/kseay/photos?layout=blog&id=45&start=64 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00117-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956816 | 1,811 | 1.796875 | 2 |
African-Americans Lead New Wave of Mobile Internet Users, Report Finds
A new report from the Pew Research Center found mobile Internet use to be on the rise. Among those surveyed, African-Americans reported accessing the Internet with a mobile device at twice the national average.Mobile Internet use has "increased sharply," according to a report from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, based on data from an April 2009 survey. The survey additionally found that the growth rate at which African-Americans are accessing the mobile Internet is twice the national average. Among the 2,253 American adults surveyed, 32 percent said they'd used a cell phone or smartphone to access the Internet - a number up by one-third since a similar December 2007 survey, when only 24 percent of respondents said they had.
On a typical day, 19 percent of Americans reportedly access the Internet on a mobile device, versus the 11 percent who did in December 2007 - a growth of 73 percent during the 16-month interval.
"Mobile access strengthens the three pillars of online engagement: connecting with others, satisfying information queries and sharing content with others," said John B. Horrigan, the author of the report, in a statement.
Additionally, the survey found African-Americans to be the most active mobile Internet users.
"The notion of a digital divide for American Americans has some resonance when thinking about the wireless Internet," said Horrigan in the statement. "But when you introduce the mobile Internet, the picture changes and African Americans are the pace setters."
Of the survey respondents who identified themselves as African-Americans, 48 percent said they had used a mobile device to access the Internet at least once, and 29 percent said they on an average day, they went online with a mobile device. Both numbers, according to the report, are twice the national average.
Horrigan goes into greater detail in the report, writing, "Among whites who have ever gone online with a handheld device, some 88 percent have broadband at home. For African-Americans who have accessed the net on a handheld, 64 percent have broadband at home."
He continues, "From the vantage point of non-broadband users, reliance on wireless access among African-Americans is quite pronounced relative to whites. Among white Americans who do not have broadband at home (that is, they either dial-up or are not Internet users), 6 percent have accessed the Internet on a handheld device. For African Americans without broadband, nearly 25 percent have used the Internet on their cell or smartphone."
The April survey also found more Americans to be using their handhelds for non-voice data activities, such as "sending or receiving text messages, taking a picture, playing a game, checking e-mail, accessing the Internet, recording video, instant messaging, playing music, getting maps or directions, or watching video."
Of those surveyed, 69 percent said they had done at least one of the activities listed above, versus the 58 percent who said they had in 2007. Further, the number of respondents who said they performed at least one of these activities on a typical day was 44 percent in April, compared to 32 percent in December 2007.
When asked what mobile access meant to them, 50 percent said it was important to the for staying in touch; 46 percent said it was important for "getting online information on the go"; and 17 percent said mobile access was important for sharing or posting content online while they were away from home or work.
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Although it is widely recommended that golfers warm-up before play/practice to enhance their physical performance and to prevent injuries, few actually undertake this activity. The reasons why golfers do/do not warm-up are not known. The aim of this study was to determine the self-reported behaviours and attitudes of adult golfers towards warming-up. A survey of 1040 randomly selected golfers was conducted over a 3-week period in July 1999. Information about golf participation, usual warm-up habits and reasons for these warm-up behaviours was obtained by a verbally administered self-report survey. Over 70% of the surveyed golfers stated that they never or seldom warm-up, with only 3.8% reporting warming-up on every occasion. The most common reasons why golfers warmed-up included to play better (74.5%), to prevent injury (27.0%), and because everyone else does (13.2%). Common reasons for not warming-up were the perception that they don't need to (38.7%), don't have enough time (36.4%) and can't be bothered (33.7%). These findings suggest that in order to increase the proportion of golfers who warm-up, education programs focussing on the benefits of warming-up, including injury prevention, need to be developed and implemented. Different strategies may need to be adopted to accommodate golfers' differing attitudes and baseline behaviours. | <urn:uuid:986b76c8-daac-40c1-b57c-495060ac29b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12945627/?dopt=Abstract | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.973709 | 291 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Are you using at-home teeth whitening products? This is one of the most common ways people try to improve the look of their smile. Whitening toothpastes may work to some degree, but they cannot provide you with the same results as professional teeth whitening. Our team at Lovett Dental Corpus Christi offers effective solutions for improving your smile. Contact us today at 361-986-1117 to learn more.
Do Whitening Toothpastes Work?
The answer to this question is it depends on what you are using. Most at-home teeth whitening products can offer some stain improvement. They work by removing just the surface stains from your teeth. These are often stains that come from smoking or drinking coffee. However, these at-home teeth whitening solutions cannot get rid of more intense stains, including changing the color of your tooth.
If you do use whitening toothpaste, it is often best to come in for an appointment with us and to allow us to make recommendations for you. Our team can recommend whitening toothpastes that may work better and may not be available over-the-counter.
What Can You Do To Whiten Your Teeth?
If you are looking for teeth whitening services, let our team take a closer look at your options. The first step is to ensure your oral health is in good condition. If you do not take care of these needs first, your teeth will not get to the white, clean level you want. This may mean scheduling an appointment for:
When you come in, we will provide you with a full examination. We will then take x-rays to ensure your teeth are healthy. Cleaning is also important. It is one of the best ways to remove any surface material that could be discoloring your teeth. After this, we may recommend fluoride treatments or fillings for cavities. This can also improve your smile.
What About Teeth Whitening Solutions?
After providing you with any oral hygiene care you need, we can discuss improving your smile. Whitening toothpastes do not have the same ingredients that we use in our office to brighten your teeth. There are several options available to us to use, but these products depend on various factors.
We offer at-home kits that contain between three and 20 percent peroxide. This is one of the most effective bleaching agents available. However, they take time to work, and once you stop using them, many of your problems come back.
That is why we may recommend skipping the whitening toothpastes and using our in-office treatment instead. During your time with us, you may see a significant improvement in the coloring of your teeth. This may help to remove most of the stains and can improve the natural coloring of your teeth. Your initial visit usually takes about 2 hours, and then you may need a few additional follow-ups. However, once this work is done, you will notice the improvements right away, and they will last long term for you.
To find out what’s best for your situation, we recommend giving our team a call as your first step. Don’t waste money on products that do not work.
Improve Your Smile with an Appointment at Lovett Dental Corpus Christi
Whitening toothpastes do not take the place of routine dental care and professional cleaning services. When it comes to teeth whitening, you should make their first step by talking to our team at Lovett Dental Corpus Christi. You may find this is the best route to improving your smile over at-home teeth whitening. Schedule a consultation by calling 361-986-1117 today. | <urn:uuid:f746d793-c3d5-4765-b3e9-4e1905f492e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lovettdentistrycorpuschristi.com/dental-blog/should-you-use-whitening-toothpastes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.943015 | 752 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Nonwoven microfibre effectively reduces fine dust
The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) does not rule out the possibility of adverse effects on health caused by emissions from laser printers and copiers - and recommends individual preventative measures.
This statement is based on a recently completed pilot study project, the result of which was that a significant increase in the number of fine and ultra-fine particles in room air during printing and copying procedures can now be measured.
In its now-published evaluation of the project, the BfR sees the next step as being an examination of the physical and chemical composition of the measured particles.
Proof that a filter can perform properly is the voluntary test by the TÜV Nord and the presence of TÜV test seal which states "Effective protection against fine dust and toner dust". The micronAir Office Filter is the very first Fine Dust Filter to have received this official test seal.
The micronAir office Fine Dust Filter consists of environmentally-neutral, fully recyclable nonwovens in a triple-layer construction, one layer of which contains microfibers that are electrostatically-charged - and together, these layers permanently bind even the finest breathable ultra-fine particles, irrespective of their specific chemical composition.
The micronAir office Fine Dust Filter gets right down to its task - it's the most efficient fine and ultrafine printer dust filter you can buy.
With a filtering performance of well over 94%, the micronAir office printer filter captures even the smallest respirable particles - from a microscopic 100 nanometers to 2.0 µm - that's protection pure! Four separate filter effects work to protect you in every micronAir office Fine Dust Filter: the gravity, diffusion, electrostatic and "sieve" effects.
The micronAir office Fine Dust Filter profits from over 30 years of priceless know-how gained by Freudenberg Nonwovens in the development of innovative filter solutions.
Examples of the company's products are filters for clean rooms in the semiconductor industry, applications in the medical sector and automotive cabin air filters - two out of every three new vehicles in the world are fitted with micronAir cabin air filters.
"Now the real issue is to show consumers how they can already protect themselves effectively from fine dust emissions", said Harald von Schischka, Product Manager Human Protection Filtration at Freudenberg Nonwovens.
"A large proportion of these emissions consist of breathable, fine and ultra-fine dust particles. These can accumulate in the lungs - and are suspected of causing tumors.
The micronAir office Fine Dust Filter offers effective protection from these emissions - irrespective of the particles' chemical composition.
Oher additional measures can be taken too, like the regular maintenance of appliances, frequent room ventilation and having a room set aside for laser printers and copiers."
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Liquifly works on the same principles as other rockets, with the energy coming as a result of a combination of air pressure and water. Pumping air into the bottle creates a highly pressured environment within the bottle which eventually forces the water out of the bottom at high speed. This is the action that gives the rocket the ability to fly and gives a perfect example of Isaac Newton’s Third Law of Motion “every action has an equal and opposite reaction”.
The race kit has multiple rockets, pumps and valves which means, yes you guessed it, it’s time to battle your friends! Take the race kit down to your local park for guaranteed fun. Once you’re comfortable launching your rockets, there is also an included worksheet to help you and your friends calculate the height and speed that your rocket attained. You’ll soon have the winner of who can achieve the highest and fastest rocket!
What’s included in the box:
- 3 x Large bottle rocket
- 3 x Small bottle rocket
- 6 x Rocket fins
- 3 x Low height launch valve
- 3 x High height launch valve
- 2 x Pump
- 2 x Right angle resistance plug
- 2 x Bike pump valve
- 2 x Hose
Warning: Improper usage of this device could cause injury. Always use under adult supervision.
Not suitable for children aged three years and under.
Packaging size: 400 x 300 x 220mm
This product also makes a great classroom teaching resource. This product can be used in classroom activities that align with the Australian Curriculum.
Foundation - ACSSU005
The way objects move depends on a variety of factors, including their size and shape
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Objects are made of materials that have observable properties
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A push or a pull affects how an object moves or changes shape
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Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence their use
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Forces can be exerted by one object on another through direct contact or from a distance
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Solids, liquids and gases have different observable properties and behave in different ways
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Change to an object’s motion is caused by unbalanced forces, including Earth’s gravitational attraction, acting on the object
Year 8 - ACSSU155
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We here at Movies.com love science, but sometimes science can be a real jerk face. In the case of Jurassic Park
, science has crushed our dreams of prehistoric rage monsters destroying entire cities. Slashfilm
feels the same and has reported that we'll have to depend on dino animatronics to reconstruct the massive creatures that roamed the earth, because apparently their DNA strands have all died. Done. Finished. Gone.
Researchers digging up fossils in New Zealand have concluded that the dino genetic material has a half-life of 521 years, so cloning the beasts would be impossible in this day and age. They figured this all out after examining 150-, 600- to 8,000-year-old DNA-filled leg bones belonging to three extinct species of birds called Moa, which were flightless (no wings at all!). Slashfilm reports, "even in the most ideal environment for preservation, all the nucleotide bonds in DNA would break down after 6.8 million years at most. In fact, the data in DNA would essentially be “unreadable” much earlier, perhaps only at 1.5 million years old."
That means no disgruntled Dennis Nedry, no violent T. rex, and no Steven Spielberg blockbuster brought to life. Try to pick up the pieces of your life and move on, or just go visit Orlando, Florida and wait in line at the theme park like everyone else. [via Nature | <urn:uuid:5e26ef85-f88e-430c-af9f-6586201ef3dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.movies.com/movie-news/phew-scientists-prove-39jurassic-park39-cannot-happen-real-life/9881 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00203-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954943 | 294 | 2.25 | 2 |
American Experience; Freedom Riders; Interview with Catherine Burks-Brooks, 1 of 4
Part of Freedom Riders Interviews.
Catherine Burks-Brooks was a student at Tennessee State University on the Nashville, Tennessee, via Birmingham, Alabama, to Montgomery, Alabama ride, May 16-20, 1961.
- American Experience
- Freedom Riders
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Interview with Catherine Burks-Brooks, 1 of 4
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As television's longest-running, most-watched history series, American Experience brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that helped form this nation. Now in its eighteenth season, the series has produced over 180 programs and garnered every major broadcast award.
- Program Description
In 1961, segregation seemed to have an overwhelming grip on American society. Many states violently enforced the policy, while the federal government, under the Kennedy administration, remained indifferent, preoccupied with matters abroad. That is, until an integrated band of college students -- many of whom were the first in their families to attend a university --decided, en masse, to risk everything and buy a ticket on a Greyhound bus bound for the Deep South. They called themselves the Freedom Riders and they managed to bring the president and the entire American public face to face with the challenge of correcting civil-rights inequities that plagued the nation. Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson's documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil-rights activists. Gaining access to influential figures on both sides of the issue, Nelson chronicles a chapter of American history that stands as an astonishing testament to the accomplishment of youth and what can result from the incredible combination of personal conviction and the courage to organize against all odds.
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- Nelson, Stanley (Producer)
- Burks-Brooks, Catherine (Interviewee)
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- WGBH Educational Foundation
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Rights Holder: WGBH Educational Foundation
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Updated with comment below.
In interviews with TIME on Monday, the preservationists [of Timbuktu’s centuries-old artifacts] said that in a large-scale rescue operation early last year, shortly before the militants seized control of Timbuktu, thousands of manuscripts were hauled out of the Ahmad Baba center to a safe house elsewhere. Realizing that the documents might be prime targets for pillaging or vindictive attacks from Islamic extremists, staff left behind just a small portion of them, perhaps out of haste, but also to conceal the fact that the center had been deliberately emptied. “The documents which had been there are safe, they were not burned,” said Mahmoud Zouber, Mali’s presidential aide on Islamic affairs, a title he retains despite the overthrow of the former president, his boss, in a military coup a year ago; preserving Timbuktu’s manuscripts was a key project of his office. By phone from Bamako on Monday night, Zouber told TIME, “They were put in a very safe place. I can guarantee you. The manuscripts are in total security.”
In a second interview from Bamako, a preservationist who did not want to be named confirmed that the center’s collection had been hidden out of reach from the militants. Neither of those interviewed wanted the location of the manuscripts named in print, for fear that remnants of the al-Qaeda occupiers might return to destroy them.
That was confirmed too by Shamil Jeppie, director of the Timbuktu Manuscripts Project at the University of Cape Town, who told TIME on Monday night, “There were a few items in the Ahmad Baba Library, but the rest were kept away.” The center, financed by the South African government as a favored project by then-President Thabo Mbeki, who championed reviving Africa’s historical culture, housed state-of-the-art equipment to preserve and photograph hundreds of thousands of pages, some of which had gold illumination, astrological charts and sophisticated mathematical formulas. Jeppie said he had been enraged by the television footage on Monday of the building trashed, and blamed in part Mali’s government, which he said had done little to ensure the center’s security. “It is really sad and disturbing,” he said.
After posting this last night, I thought I should add a question mark to the headline. At this point it doesn’t seem like anyone is in a position to accurately quantify how many of Timbuktu’s rare manuscripts might have been destroyed by the city’s Islamist occupiers before they fled. Although the Ahmed Baba Instititute, where fire damage was reported, is the principal facility housing Timbuktu’s treasures, there are dozens of family-owned libraries around the city containing thousands more manuscripts. None of the reporting I have seen indicates whether these collections were either secured or damaged.
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(cba:news) Today's mystery, and stars for January
jop at astro.columbia.edu
Fri Jan 4 05:47:28 EST 2013
Here's a mysterious object in the morning mail! Still not enough
information to figure out what astrophysical box to put it in... and might
be a pow'f'l interesting CV.
Here are some recommendations for early January.
GD 552. Out of season... but still available to borealites, and a star
for which we are just about to ship off our long-term study. It would be
great to obtain a couple weeks of LONG runs.
T Pyx. Similar story for the south. Due mainly to Arto's and Berto's
Herculean efforts, we have the main (amazing!) result from our post-nova
timing study - a change in Porb by a whopping 0.006%. Apparently
signifying a very large ejected mass, inconsistent with our theories of
recurrent novae. I expect to have the paper ready in a month. However,
there's some chance that this post-nova period is slightly *changing*,
which could greatly affect the interpretation. Another solid two weeks of
LONG runs could really nail this down - by delivering a very accurate
timing point at the end. (dP/dt issues usually come down to "how long is
the baseline", and "how accurate are the timings at the start and end of
DI UMa needs about another 3 weeks of coverage. The most important issue
still on the table is: what is that period in quiescence? Is it Porb, or
a negative superhump, or possibly a long-lived residue of the positive
superhump? The *stability* of the period will help answer to this. After
about 3 more weeks, the star will have spanned another quiescence, and we
might learn the answer.
We're done with PX And, MU Cam (for now), and PQ Gem (for now). We could
definitely use more on RX0704+26, Swift 0732-13, and DW Cnc (need to go
long on the latter, since Pspin could get confused with Porb).
For northern observers who would like to specialize on one star, I
recommend BY Cam - arguably the king of the asynchronous polars. This
positively needs a LONG campaign... but will definitely yield some nice
For the other ER UMa stars, I'll let Enrique give reports and advice. Our
ongoing V1159 Ori campaign is definitely going GREAT, and should continue.
I'm not sure about the other three currently well-placed members: RZ LMi,
ER UMa, BK Lyn.
---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [vsnet-outburst 14957] Re: [vsnet-alert 15238] OT
J122221.6-311525 = bright CRTS transient
From: "Hiroyuki Maehara" <maehara at kiso.ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: Fri, January 4, 2013 1:39 am
To: vsnet-alert at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
vsnet-campaign-dn at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
vsnet-outburst at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
vsnet-newvar at ooruri.kusastro.kyoto-u.ac.jp
The object was detected at Vmag=11.8 by the Kyoto/Kiso Wide-field Survey
on Dec 26.
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120328.63044 <11.0V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120328.63083 <11.0V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120331.61500 <10.9V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120331.61535 <10.7V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120407.58847 <10.7V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120407.58882 <10.8V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120414.57725 <11.2V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120414.57762 <11.3V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120417.58544 <9.1V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120417.58581 <9.5V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120427.55866 <11.2V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120427.55903 <11.0V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120428.56146 <10.4V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120428.56181 <10.9V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120512.52359 <11.1V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20120512.52396 <10.9V KW2 --
OT_J122221.6-311525 20121226.87655 11.844V KW2 0.245
OT_J122221.6-311525 20121226.87690 11.806V KW2 0.246
OT_J122221.6-311525 20121226.87741 12.020V KW2 0.273
KW2: Kyoto/Kiso Wide-field Survey
f=105mm lens (F/2.0) + SBIG ST-8XME
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 10:11:35, Taichi Kato wrote:
> OT J122221.6-311525 = bright CRTS transient
22 21.63 -31 15 24.9 12.36 No SDSS object CV
> No outburst was recorded in ASAS-3.
> ROSAT source:
> 122221.4 -311544 (2000.0) 1RXS-F_J122221.5-311545 0.050 0.75 0.05
> ATEL #4699 ATEL #4699
> Title: Detection of a Bright Optical Transient by CRTS
> Author: A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, A. A. Mahabal, M. J. Graham,
> R. Williams (Caltech); R. McNaught (ANU); J. Prieto (Princeton); M.
> Catelan (PUC Chile); E. Christensen, S. M. Larson (LPL/UA).
> Queries: ajd at cacr.caltech.edu
> Posted: 4 Jan 2013; 00:24 UT
> Subjects:Optical, Cataclysmic Variable, Transient, Variables
> Further to ATel#4678, here we report the CRTS discovery of
> This source was detected at V = 12.3+/-0.1 in four images taken by the
> <a href=http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/>Siding Spring Survey</a>
> on 2013-01-01 UT and is located at RA=12:22:21.63 Dec=-31:15:24.9
> Based on 230 measurements (from 90 nights of observation between Aug. 2005
> and Aug. 2012), the
> object has an average magnitude of V ~19. The source exhibits variability
> at the
> level of ~1 magnitude in this archival data, yet shows no prior outbursts.
> The source is well detected by GALEX (with NUV =18.9+/-0.1 and FUV
> and may match ROSAT X-ray source 1RXS J122221.5-311545.
> The object is also a very good positional match to radio source NVSS
> However, it is no clear source is seen in radio observations from the SUMSS
> and VLSS
> This large, bright outburst, along with the UV detection and correspondence
> with an X-ray
> source, are most consistent with a cataclysmic variable. However,
> a radio source is generally unexpected for CVs and may be coincidental
> or spurious.
> Further observations are required to determine the nature of this event.
> A finding chart is available
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Now Is The Right Time To Start Preparing Your Skin For The Beach
Summer is one of the most popular seasons of the year. Bright sunlight and extended daylight hours can elevate your […]
Summer is one of the most popular seasons of the year. Bright sunlight and extended daylight hours can elevate your mood and help you accomplish more at every level. Most people also relish the hot weather as it allows them to enjoy a variety of outdoor activities.
The solar radiations can, however, have a detrimental impact on your skin. Common problems include:
Uneven pigmentation – Your skin produces a pigment known as melanin to protect itself from harmful rays of the sun. Many of you may, however, suffer from uneven pigmentation. The condition can worsen with time and lead to a reddish mottled appearance.
Age spots – You may also notice black or brown spots known as age spots on different parts of your skin. Although age spots are common in the elderly, prolonged exposure to sunlight can lead to age spots in younger individuals as well.
Wrinkles – Ultraviolet radiations of the sun breakdown the connective tissue in your skin and increase the risk of fine lines and wrinkles. You may also notice rough scaly patches on certain areas of your skin.
Preparing your skin ahead of time can significantly lower the risk of sun damage. You can take the following simple steps to give your skin some extra help.
Use Tanning Capsules
Tanning capsules consist of powerful antioxidants such as carotenoids, vitamin E and selenium. They help neutralize the harmful free radicals produced in your skin due to sun exposure. They also help you achieve a long-lasting, deep golden tan. You should start using tanning capsules about two weeks before the trip to the beach and should continue taking them for another two weeks after the trip.
Exfoliation can help remove dead cells from the surface of your skin. It will help soften the skin and get back its natural glow. Begin with your feet and continue all the way up to your face. Remember that your facial skin is delicate when compared to the rest of the body. Use a relatively gentle exfoliating agent for the face.
Moisturize Your Skin
Exfoliation can make your skin dry and extra sensitive. Use a powerful moisturizer to hydrate every part of your body. Use a facial moisturizer for your face and neck. You should also drink at least 2 liters of water each day to keep your skin hydrated and healthy.
Train Your skin
Do not walk into the beach suddenly. Remember that your skin hasn’t been exposed to sunlight for a very long time. Give it some time to acclimatize to the hot weather. Gradual introduction to sunlight can help your skin to cope better.
Use Sun Screen
Use products with high sun protection factor, or SPF, before going to the beach. They will help protect your skin from harmful ultraviolet radiations of the sun. Go for a foundation with high SPF to protect your face. Do not forget about the lips. The skin on your lips is thin and sensitive. It will dry and chap quickly when exposed to sunlight. It is, therefore, important to apply a high SPF lip balm to protect the lips.
Certain foods can also protect you from the ultraviolet radiations of the sun. If you are planning to go to the beach this summer, prepare your skin by eating cooked tomatoes everyday. Tomatoes contain a powerful antioxidant called lycopene that can protect your skin from sun damage.
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Explore the worlds of five children and the food they eat! This pack includes 32 full-colour A4 photocards and a comprehensive teachers’ booklet containing: differentiated reading material about each of the children; curriculum links; activities investigating key themes, including food preferences and habits around the world, how food gets to our table, food as a common need for everyone, healthy food, and the use of food in celebrations; and, photocopiable resource sheets for literacy, science, and Citizenship.
The CD ROM contains all photos for teachers to use on interactive whiteboards, and the large colour poster features a map of where the children come from.
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First things first: “Adela’s House” is the best haunted house story I’ve ever read. It’s eerie and dark, enigmatic, and just a little bit bloody. Like most great ghost stories, it starts out in a quirky but fundamentally prosaic world and just…goes sideways. Real sideways. I love it, and for this story alone, I’d recommend Things We Lost in the Fire.
But the rest of this collection, by Argentine writer Mariana Enriquez (translated by Megan McDowell) is nothing to ignore, either. I sought her work out after seeing her featured in a BBC special on women ghost story writers, but not all the stories in Things We Lost in the Fire are supernatural. Rather than a “ghost story writer,” I lean towards calling her a “writer of the macabre.” The stories in this collection, supernatural or not, are all uncanny, dark, “weird” in the sense that the VanderMeers use the term, and sometimes outright horror. Whatever you choose to call them, they are compelling and unsettling, and a really great read.
I don’t remember how I came across Yellow Glass and other ghost stories, but I am glad that I did. This debut collection by historian Francis K. Young just came out in September, and it’s a fine contribution to the antiquarian ghost story genre.
Francis Young was born and raised in the same Suffolk environs as M.R. James, and seems to share many of James’s professional and personal interests. His collection opens with a short but thoughtful essay on the relationship between historians and ghost stories, and the affinity of one for the other. I liked the idea that writing ghost fiction can give professional historians a way to express their relationship to the past, in a way not possible through the drier medium of scholarly writing.
M.R. James famously expressed a preference for ghost stories placed in familiar settings and near contemporary times: “a slight haze of distance is desirable” , but “the seer of ghosts must talk something like me, and be dressed…not too much like a man in a pageant” . I love James’s ghost stories, which in my opinion hold up quite well; but after a century these tales may no longer qualify as having “nothing antique about them” — and that’s not getting into the cultural differences among international readers. So it’s always a treat to see solid, well-written, modern tales with an antiquarian sensibility.
As if I didn’t have enough to do, a new series: The Uncanny in Translation! Regular readers of this blog might have noticed that I have an interest in non-Anglophone weird fiction. In this series, I plan to share interesting works in translation that I come across, which are possibly less well-known to English language readers.
First up: Fantastic Tales (Racconti Fantastici), by nineteeth century Italian author Iginio Ugo Tarchetti (1839 – 1869), translated by Lawrence Venuti. According to the book cover, Tarchetti was “the first Italian writer to experiment with the gothic style,” and is “often compared to Edgar Allan Poe.” He was part of the Scapigliatura movement in Italian literature, a sort of anti-bourgeois, anti-establishment movement influenced by German Romanticism, French bohemians, Baudelaire — and Poe.
Not a lot seems to be known about Lettice Galbraith. She published two short story collections (New Ghost Stories, and Pretty Miss Allington and other tales) as well as a novel(?) (Spin of the Coin) around 1893-1894. A further story from her pen came out in 1897, and then, as far as I know, nothing. I suppose we don’t even know if Lettice Galbraith is the author’s real name.
I’m including Ms. Galbraith in my Women Writers of Folklore and the Fantastic series for New Ghost Stories (1893), a really delightful collection. The stories are crisp and well-paced, and are frequently more direct about unsavory topics like adultery, seduction, and suicide than one might expect in Victorian-era tales. The characters are generally well-fleshed out, and every story is quite different in its haunting, as well.
In 1812, the French geographer Jean-Baptiste Benoît Eyriès anonymously published a collection called Fantasmagoriana, his translations of eight German supernatural tales. Some four years later, Fantasmagoriana found its way into the hands of a group of young people on holiday in a Swiss villa during an unusually cold, wet, summer. With little else to do, they read Fantasmagoriana to pass the time. Among that group were Mary Shelley and John Polidori, who in the course of that summer wrote, respectively, Frankenstein and the The Vampyre, two influential works that shaped the genres of Gothic literature, horror, and in the case of Frankenstein, science fiction as well.
In 1813, an Englishwoman named Sara Elizabeth Utterson translated five of the tales from Fantasmagoriana into English; she published these five tales, along with an additional story of her own, as Tales of the Dead. And on a cold, gloomy, foggy San Francisco August afternoon (“the coldest winter…”, as Mark Twain wrote), having discovered this little treasure, I curled up under a blanket and started to read.
Tales of the Dead is not just interesting for its influence on Frankenstein and The Vampyre; it’s enjoyable reading on its own, for fans of gothic tales and old-fashioned ghost stories. Fairy tale and folktale lovers will probably enjoy some of the stories here, too.
Another contemporary addition to my Women Writers of Folklore and Fantasy series: England-based Malaysian-born author Zen Cho. She writes science fiction and fantasy, and as she puts it herself, “stories positing that what the ordinary Malaysian believes about the world is true. This can sometimes lapse into the supernatural.” What a great quote!
I had been planning (and still am) to pick up Cho’s latest work, The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water, which sounds awesome, but then I discovered an ebook copy of her 2014 short story collection Spirits Abroad in my virtual To Read pile, so I started with that. I loved it! Why did it take me so long to get to it?
I saw Ms. Cho refer to this collection on Twitter as being “10 out of 10 on the Malaysian scale” (when compared to her other writings), and it certainly feels like a collection of stories aimed at Malaysian readers. The characters speak Manglish (Malaysian-English), and generally the Malaysian vocabulary and references to clothing or food go unexplained. I personally prefer this (as I’ve written before); the meanings and connotations are clear from context, and if you are really curious about some particular article of clothing or whatnot, well there’s always the internet.
What drew me to the collection is that the stories in Spirits Abroad are full of the creatures of Malaysian folklore (or its “lower mythology,” as Filipino folklorist Maximo D. Ramos called it), as well as figures from Chinese mythology: hantu, pontianaks, orang bunian, hungry ghosts, and so on. I didn’t recognize all the creatures, at least not under their Malaysian names, but Filipino lower mythology is sufficiently similar to Malaysian lower mythology that several of the creatures and their habits felt familiar. And of course some aspects of Malaysian culture and food and so on feel a bit “Filipino-adjacent” as well, which was nice.
I really like the humor in Cho’s writing, as her characters confront the ordinary travails of life — family relationships, friendships, love and dating, school — all complicated by various, often unwelcome supernatural twists. The dialogue crackles naturalistically, the characters are quirky, well-drawn and endearing (when they’re supposed to be), the relationships feel authentic. In fact, I was surprised how familiar the families in the stories felt to me, especially the feisty aunties and grandmas.
The ebook version of Spirits Abroad contains additional stories and other bonus material not included in the print version, so I recommend you get that. I enjoyed all the stories, but here are a few that stood out for me:
Today’s authoress of the fantastic is Henrietta Dorothy Everett (1851-1923), who wrote under the name Theo Douglas. Though mostly forgotten today, she wrote some 22 novels, at least half of which were fantastical or supernatural. There isn’t a lot known about her life, but from the descriptions in both the Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Wikipedia, her novels look worth digging up, if you are into quirky pulpish stuff .
Today, however, I’ll talk about Everett’s ghost stories, mostly collected in The Death Mask and Other Ghosts (1920), published under her real name. The Death Mask drew notice from both M. R. James (“of a rather quieter tone on the whole, but with some excellently conceived stories”) and H. P. Lovecraft (“though adhering to very old and conventional models, [she] occasionally reaches singular heights of spiritual terror”).
Reading two different takes on libraries, crime, and the 1970s.
I tripped over an interesting collection while browsing the Wildside Press website: The Library Fuzz Megapack, James Holding’s series of short stories about Hal Johnson, the “Library Fuzz.” That’s right, he’s library police for the Grandhaven Public Library, in a smallish city that seems to be modeled on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His job is to track down stolen and overdue books, and collect fines.
As someone who more than once has put a hold on a checked-out book at my local library, only to eventually discover that said book has disappeared, this concept resonates with me. I’m lucky; I can afford to buy books that I can’t get from the library, but not everyone can. And often the book I asked for is older, out of print, and relatively obscure, so even money doesn’t help; the book can’t be easily purchased, and information has simply been lost. So, while I appreciate that it isn’t a good look these days for cops to go door to door, demanding the return of overdue books and collecting late fees (which is what Hal Johnson does–politely), I have to admit that I like the idea of libraries having their own police to recover stolen books. I suspect more than a few librarians feel the same.
Covering two supernatural-inflected Agatha Christie collections, The Last Seance and The Mysterious Mr. Quin.
Long before I was into ghost stories, I was into detective and crime fiction. I grew up reading old paperback anthologies from Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock, and I read a lot of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers: everything my local library had. But it’s been years since I’ve read anything by either Christie or Sayers, or that style of “body in the library” detective fiction, in general.
Christie and Sayers began their writing careers in the period between the two World Wars, a period when the English ghost story also proliferated. It’s not surprising that both authors tried their hand at supernatural tales. While I’d come across a few of Christie’s ghost stories amongst her short story collections, it was before I was as widely read in the supernatural literature of the period as I am now. So it was interesting to read the recent Christie collection, The Last Seance: Tales of the Supernatural, now that I’m more familiar with the landscape of ghost stories written about the same time.
Full disclosure: Tim kindly sent me a review copy of this book.
The executive summary:Guilt is a Ghost is a fine second offering in the adventures of ghost hunter Vera Van Slyke and her assistant Lucille Parsell (nee Ludmila Prasilova).
The operative phrase is second offering: I’m honestly not sure what a reader’s reaction would be if this were the first Vera Van Slyke book they read. (Tim Prasil apparently disagrees with me). Having read Help for the Haunted first (my review here), I came into Guilt is a Ghost familiar with the two main characters, and already quite fond of them. And that’s good, because I feel there is less characterization of Vera and her friendship with Lucille in this book than there was in the previous one. | <urn:uuid:3008a112-c20a-4439-8924-84f0b295d0bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://multoghost.wordpress.com/tag/book-reviews/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.955774 | 2,759 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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(Spoken on November 25, 1987 during night satsang)
The meaning associated with the word ‘spiritual’ often suggests and stimulates within oneself a sense of an unknown satisfaction, an indescribable feeling of satiation on the one hand, and a faint feeling of the presence of an extramundane ideal on the other. We do not generally think deeply over the mental processes that go on automatically at the time when we are in an atmosphere which we call spiritual. A holy man, a saint or a sage, a sacred place of pilgrimage, a temple of worship or a church – something of this kind which is automatically related to the definition we hold in our own minds of religion and spirituality – stirs feelings of a novel type of emotion in our own selves, and we are compelled, as it were, to acquiesce in the necessity to be spiritual in order that we may be really happy.
The term ‘spirituality’ gets so associated with feelings of this kind that it has remained a veiled, indescribable summoning from some unknown source which seems to be promising the fulfilment of what we lack in this world of material existence and social relations, so that the inner personality seems to be a little bit shaken up in a peculiar way even when listening to the word ‘spiritual’ or contemplating its suggestiveness, its meaning or connotation.
“It is good to catch the spirit of a particular situation,” “The spirit is different from the letter,” and such other statements appear to point to the presence of an operating influence we term ‘spirit’, without which life becomes a literary outer form without what we generally call a soul in it. We say, “Everything is well, but there is no soul in it.” It may be any kind of performance, occasion, situation or circumstance which can assume the form of a perfection for all outer perception, but we generally go by the complaint, “It was quite all right, but there was no soul in it.”
What do we actually mean when we wish that something should have a soul in it, or that the spirit of a particular situation has to be taken into consideration rather than a literal form of it? We speak of the letter of the law and the spirit of the law, for instance, between which we make a necessary distinction. Though the letter of the law is an acceptable form of legality and jurisprudence, that the spirit of it is more important is something well known to everyone. But what is the spirit of it? What is actually in our mind when we say the spirit has to be brought into the arena of any kind of performance, inwardly or outwardly? What is spirituality?
The condition of the spirit is spirituality. The atmosphere of the spirit is spirituality. The environment that is supposed to be around, what we call the spirit of a thing, is called spirituality. Now, the satisfaction that somehow arises in our own minds on contemplation of even the necessity to have a spirit behind things is, at the same time, connected to a particular idealisation in our minds of what I call extramundane existence.
The spirit is different from the letter. The soul is not what appears on the surface. This is the reason why we are not going to be satisfied with even an artistic performance if it has no soul in it. Whatever be the meaning that we attach to the word ‘soul’, mostly we do not even know what the soul means, and yet we expect the soul to be there. How is it that even without properly thinking over the matter, we expect a soul to be present in things, and a spirit to pervade atmospheres? And how is it that we feel a sense of an unrecognised satisfaction within ourselves when the spirit inundates the form, and the soul invades the form that is outside?
This peculiar surge of a liberation of our own internal constitution is actually what is taking place when we are happy. I repeat these words: a liberation of the otherwise inwardly tied up components of our personality. The freedom that they enjoy is actually at the back of any kind of joy or happiness that we feel. We are mostly shackled persons. We are limited in every blessed way. There is finitude hovering everywhere, over our heads and around us. Physically we are finite, socially we are conditioned, politically we are restrained. The very Earth controls our movements by the pull of gravitation, what to talk of other things which keep us in a mood of subjection to the laws that operate in the world. This inward revelation sometimes taking place within ourselves is the appearance of the spirit of things, the soul of anything whatsoever. Often it is said that all joy comes from the soul, and satisfaction can be there only in the spirit and nowhere else.
This is well said, and we have heard it often repeated in scriptures and told to us everywhere from pulpits, rostrums, through lectures and the like, but how is it that we seem to be not able to possess it? How is it that the spirit, or the soul of a thing, eludes our grasp? We are in a drudgery of involvement in the atmosphere of day-to-day performance. We do work, we are office-goers, and we have what we call our duties. These do not satisfy us.
It is not that the work that we do is satisfying. We somehow get on with it, and we have to do it for reasons which are ulterior, obvious, and are mostly external – the letter, not the spirit. We do not seem to be present in the atmosphere of our life. We seem to be elsewhere, and this elsewhereness that is one of the aspects of the search for the spirit is the reason why we often feel that the spirit of a thing is not in this world. It is an extramundane, otherworldly, non-material, super-physical something.
Do we not look up to the skies when we offer prayer to God? We do not generally bend our heads down and look at the ground. There is an inward tendency to gaze at the sky, look up to visualise the presence of something which we consider the spirit of the world, the soul of the cosmos.
The transcendent element, the extra-physical character of the spirit, is injected into us, as it were, by the very conception of it; therefore, we cannot be happy with any occurrence in this world, with any object or thing that is made available to us, because occurrences, events, circumstances, objects, things, persons, are not extramundane, they are wholly mundane. They are visible things which are connected to and tied down to the very Earth.
Inasmuch as we have a tendency to look for the spirit of a thing in non-mundane circumstances, we cannot be satisfied with anything that is mundane in its nature. Even the best of friends cannot satisfy us, the largest requisition of material wealth cannot make us happy, and the very Earth is unsatisfying in the end. The reason is that it is the letter or the formation, the outer presentation of the life we call our existence here, that is visible to us. The spirit is missing.
We do not see the spirit anywhere in the world, and the absence of the spirit in things in the world makes us conclude that this spirit which is absent here below has to be present somewhere else, not in this world. It is super-terrestrial. This is the psychological reason why we automatically look up to the skies for a spirit of the meaning of life, though we are not wholly correct in the assumption that the spirit of a thing should be above, because a thing that is above is not within, and so if our conception of the spirit or soul of a thing as extra-terrestrial is to be justified, we have also to justify the other consequence that follows from it, namely, that there is no soul in this world. The world will be dead. It is a corpse. Sometimes it looks like that. People complain, “After all, I have lived a long life of service and now I am superannuated, I have commuted my pension, and I have become old and found nothing in the world. I have lived a life of wastefulness, as it were. I am feeling now that there was nothing that I could gather. Nothing that I can call a pearl could be gathered in this world. I go. My time has come. I go, not knowing what I have been searching for but feeling I have obtained nothing.”
Our feeling that this world can give us nothing, and whatever is to be our boon or our satisfaction has to be from somewhere other than the world, is a corollary that necessarily follows from the perception of the sorrow in life, the transiency of things, the brittleness of objects, death pervading everything, and nothing permanently existing anywhere. We see with our own eyes and we infer from experience that everything dies in this world. Nothing can be exempted from the law of the fluxation of things. Death seems to be the final ruler of all things. This is frightening. If everything is to be swallowed by death one day or the other, this very Earth is an unreliable abode for us. We seek satisfaction and a reliable source of security in some abode which cannot be in this world.
Firstly, the security that we expect permanently should be existing somewhere. If it is totally non-existent, the very expectation of it is futile. It is seen physically that the world cannot give us any security. Neither our relations, kith, kin, and friends, nor material wealth, nor house, nor land can give us security, because we know we can be divested of these associations any moment by circumstances of history. By a little consideration on the fragments of life through history we will realise that we have no real friend in this world. History has taught us that anything can desert us at any moment. Yet, we have a feeling that there is security somewhere. We cannot be totally cut off from every kind of blessedness, and we cannot be entirely in a land of death and transiency. Though it is true that transiency and death alone are visible in this world – anything can be destroyed at any time, anyone can die at any moment – considering these aspects, we can say that there is nothing that we can expect here of any permanent value. Yet, we expect it.
It is not possible for me to go with the feeling that, after all, this is wretchedness and there is nothing that I can expect. Well, it may be. It is perhaps true that I cannot expect anything to my satisfaction in this world, but I do expect satisfaction. Where shall I find it? It has to be somewhere which is not in this world, because I do not find it in this world. The fact, the idea, the conviction, the supposition that my security should be somewhere other than in this world follows from the non-perception of it in this world.
Here comes a little bit of an answer as to why we consider God as an otherworldly, supra-cosmic existence. God is not in this world; God is above the world. Even a child knows this: God is above the world, God created the world, He is not in this world, He is outside the world. The outsideness, the extra-cosmic nature, the otherworldly nature of God, whom we call the source of satisfaction, arises because of the impossibility of recognising that kind of perfection in anything in this world.
This is one side of the matter. If there is nothing that can satisfy us in this world, there can be no soul in anything in this world. The world is a dead corpse. There is no soul in this world. There is no life. It is only death everywhere. Anityam asukhaṁ lokam imaṁ prāpya bhajasva mām (Gita 9.33), duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam (Gita 8.15) are words in the Bhagavadgita itself corroborating our day-to-day feeling that this world is the abode of sorrow, and this transiency is totally unreliable. We are also living in this world. We are not living outside the world. We complain that there is nothing worthwhile in this world while living in the world itself.
Here is a pointer to a new light that we can visualise in this very world of death itself. In this transiency, in this abode of darkness and death and sorrow and veil of tears, there seems to be something scintillating and beckoning. Even here, in this pit of sorrow which is this world, there is some sort of little light glimmering through an aperture, as it were, telling us that all is not so bad as it appears on the surface because if everything is dead, a hell of Satan’s creation and unadulterated evil, which we feel the world to be, then we, being part and parcel of this world, will have nothing to expect. We shall go empty-handed in the manner we came into this world.
We do not wish to go in that way. I do not want to go empty-handed, as if there is nothing that I can expect even after death. There is a feeling: “I have some hope to achieve what I feel as my supreme ideal. This world does not give it to me. It has not given it to anybody. Even emperors have gone from this Earth, finally not achieving their expectations of suzerainty, lordship and permanency of possession.”
We have a peculiar dual feeling in our minds acting like a double-edged sword, on the one hand telling us that we can expect nothing in this world, and yet telling us we have to expect something somewhere. Now, a thing that is totally soulless and unspiritual, which we think this world to be, cannot even hint that there is such a thing called the spirit of the soul. There cannot be life in what is called death. They are contraries. There cannot be anything permanent which is wholly moving, as a flowing river. Transiency and permanency cannot go together. If, as some people tell us, this world is entirely transiency, it is continuously moving, there is nothing permanent in this world, nobody can tell us what a permanent thing can be.
If no expectation of final satisfaction of a permanent nature can be had in this world of death and difficulty, an idea that such a thing has to be expected somewhere cannot arise in this world. We people living in this world cannot have the opportunity, the blessing or the fortune of even entertaining an idea of some hopefulness of the future, if such a thing cannot be at all.
Now, this little analysis will tell us that there is some sort of a soul living in this world. There is life in death, there is light in darkness, there is joy in sorrow, there is possession in loss, and there is eternity in temporality. The total transcendence or the otherworldly character of our spiritual expectation seems to also have a tentacle operating in this very Earth in which we are enmeshed. The very fibre of this physical body seems to be animated by a spirit.
The body is not the soul; this is what is told us. But the body cannot be felt to even be existing unless the soul pervades it. The charge of the spirit over the cells of the body should be so intense and complete that it has to practically become the body itself in order that we may feel that we have a body or that we are the body, as we feel mostly.
This physical body, which is not supposed to be spiritual and other than the soul, cannot be known to be there unless the soul pervades it completely, thoroughly, as water pervades fibre of a cloth which is sunk into it, saturating it through and through. Therefore, matter – this Earth, this impermanency, this object, this body, this veil of tears – also has a capacity to point to the presence of that which we are permanently expecting. The soul is not outside the world though it appears, and always it has been appearing, that it is not in this world. As sorrow cannot be equated with joy, and there cannot be joy where there is sorrow, and also inasmuch as it is all sorrow only in this world from beginning to end, day in and day out, from birth to death, there would be no joy.
But joy has to be there in a subtle, permeating manner, without which even the expectation of joy would not be possible. This would point out that we have a hope. It is not all pessimism and expectation of destruction of things, and an end of all things. Together with this possibility of an end of everything in this world, including our own selves, there is also a simultaneous possibility and a hope of achieving a non-temporal objective even while we are in this objective, temporal world.
The Bhagavadgita, in a very important way, highlights this peculiar juxtaposition in this world of creation of two aspects of life, what we generally call the spiritual and the unspiritual, conscious and unconscious, spirit and matter, and the like. The juxtaposition of these two aspects is the same difficulty that the great hero Arjuna in the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita felt, which is the difficulty we also feel in our own lives. We cannot, as I pointed out already, be satisfied finally with anything in this world. Not the whole Earth can satisfy any person. Yet, we want to be satisfied entirely. Do we not feel that this is a contradiction in our aspiration, to be expecting something that we cannot have in this world and finding it nowhere?
The reason is that in this world of total externality, physicality, materiality, transiency, sorrow and death – in this world of this nature – there is the presence of a totally opposite pervasiveness, which is what is called the soul of a thing, the spirit of any condition, the value that we attach to things, the meaning of life itself. Do we not love our own selves, though we condemn everything in the world, including our own selves? Do we not say many a time, “What is there in life? Wretched is existence. Let me end this body.” Sometimes we make statements of this kind, as if we hate our own selves. The hatred sometimes wrongly felt towards one’s own self even under what we may call psychopathological conditions is also, if we carefully note, a consequence of the love of life. He who loves death really loves life because the love of death is not actually the love of extinction. This has to be carefully noticed. It is not that which we are expecting when we think of ending our life. What we expect is the end of the sorrow associated with this kind of life, and not life itself; inasmuch as we associate sorrow with this bodily existence, we seem to feel, wrongly, that the end of the body is perhaps also the end of the sorrow of life. This is not actually the case because sorrow is not located in any particular thing, not even in this body of ours. Sorrow is the consequence of a peculiar inability to see or visualise a coordination that exists between the here and the hereafter, the body and the soul, the visible and the invisible, time and eternity, the world and God Himself.
If all this had been so simple, there would have been no necessity for Bhagavan Sri Krishna to go on haranguing the gospel in so many chapters. The matter is very difficult indeed. Even a shrewd intellectual like Arjuna was not in a mood to understand what all this means. On the one hand, in the Gita there is the affirmation of eternity, utter godliness and pervasive universality. Together with this there is an injunction to work hard, to follow one’s duty and never shirk work, never sit idle but be very busy with one’s ordained duty, which instruction in the Gita simultaneously goes together with a peculiar apparent contradiction, as it were, that there is a universal pervasiveness, God operating in all things as immanence, who does everything and nobody else can do anything.
On the one hand, it is said in the Gita that God does everything and nobody else does anything, and nobody else can do anything. At the same time, the Gita says to do the work. Karmaṇy evā ’dhikāras te mā phaleṣu kadācana (Gita 2.47): Your duty is to work. This injunction, twofold in nature, ordering us to be physically, personally, socially, in every way active, performing our duty in life, has to go together with the acceptance of a supreme Universal power which alone does everything. How would you collate these two features? This duty is associated with you and made an imperative of your personality. You must do, and yet you are not doing anything.
Spirituality is this great art of actually doing everything that is expected of us as our duty under the circumstances of our placement in society, simultaneously with the acceptance of the universality of the spiritual ideal, which is not located in this person or that person. The particular individual expected to perform his or her duty is to be set in tune with that which is non-particular, the highest idealisation, the Viratswarupa which Bhagavan Sri Krishna bestowed upon Arjuna, which is the insistence of the Universal in the particular. That is to say, work goes with meditation. Duty is simultaneous with God-consciousness. The world is the body of God. Our life is commensurate with an eternal life. Even the process of dying is a preparation for a better life. The birth and death series of metempsychosis, as they call it, is an educational process of all that is finite, individual, for the purpose of enthroning all that is particularised and individualised on a permanent footing in total Universality.
The reason why we are not ultimately satisfied with anything in this world is that everything in this world is a particular located something. We cannot see anything existing everywhere. The universality which alone can bestow upon us the blessing of permanency cannot be found in any particularity in the world because universality is a feature of pervasiveness, presence everywhere, which cannot be connected with anything in this world.
Inasmuch as nothing in the world can be universal, nothing can satisfy us. It is that pervasiveness which is universally operative which is the soul of things. The soul, the spirit, so-called, is the universal background of every particular created element, living or non-living. There is a connection with every individual with that which is not individual. It is the non-individual character of our existence that presses us forward for expecting something that is not in this body or in the world. It is the individuality in us which compels us to be active. Every person has to be active, working hard, doing duty, because the very nature of finitude, which is the individuality of a person, is the consciousness of limitation.
Every duty, every work is an external gesture, a ritual, as it were, that we perform exhibiting our connectedness with things, our participation with nature; and work, therefore, is not merely a mechanical doing. It is yourself moving, flowing as it were, outwardly in space and time. This is karma yoga. It becomes a yoga only when the work is nothing but us moving. It is not somebody else making our limbs act.
Work that is done by a person cannot be spiritual; it cannot be regarded as even a duty when the soul is absent in it. “Oh, this person is doing this work without having his soul in it.” We sometimes make this complaint. The presence of the soul in work is necessary in order that it may become service. Otherwise, it is like a bulldozer moving on the road. We cannot call it karma yoga.
The idea is, we have to be present in the work that we do. That is to say we, as an expectation of a super-individual principle, have to be operating in that individual movement that we call action or duty in this world. Work becomes divinised immediately when the non-individual spirit in us, the element of universality in us, charges itself forward and enlivens that particular operation of ours we call work, duty, or any kind of relationship in this world.
The Bhagavadgita is a very difficult subject. Its meaning is hard to comprehend because what it is teaching us seems to be an apparent contradiction. On the one hand, we are totally bound to this difficulty of living in this physical body and this physical world which has an end one day or the other, and we can expect nothing of permanent value, yet we have to expect all that is permanent, eternal, in this world only. We have to see God here, and not somewhere else.
This ‘hereness’, ‘nowness’ of God, as we sometimes put it, is the Vishwarupatva of God. The universality of Vishwarupa is the permeation of the transcendence of God in the very particle of dust in this world. Otherwise, aspiration for God cannot arise in our mind. He who is totally controlled by death – that which is totally perishable, entirely bereft of any soul element – cannot aspire for the soul. That which is ungodly cannot aspire for God.
Hence, the world is not an evil, as sometimes we may feel it is. It is not so wretched, as we are likely to complain. It is good. There is an element of goodness; perhaps it is all goodness. It is not that the world is only sometimes good and a little bit good. It is all goodness. The Vishwarupa-darshana is the presentation of the all-good character of the creation of God, and there is nothing evil in it. “Look at me,” said the Lord, and the whole Earth was present there, revolving. The solar system, the good and bad, the beautiful and the ugly, the necessary and the unnecessary, the friend and the foe, all were arrayed there in perfect pattern of placement in regular contexts. They were all placed in proper positions, and they looked beautiful. All the ugliness, all the materiality, all the destructive element in this visible world was seen there, transmuted completely into its eternal nature. As philosophers say, it assumed its archetypal nature. Originality was assumed. The attainment of immortality is the assumption of the originality of things, the shadow returning to the light from where it came, death itself awakening into the immortality that it enshrines within itself. Deathlessness is present inside death, as soul is present in all things. It is possible, therefore, for us to be happy in this world.
Though I began by saying that it is impossible for us to be happy in this world, now I conclude by saying it is possible for us to be happy in this world. Not only it is possible, it is our duty to be happy in this world, because there is no world. It is a peculiar manifestation of the otherworldly existence we call God. Again I come to the point of the Vishwarupa, which included the very Earth itself, and even Patalaloka was included in that high heaven of utter divinity which was manifest there. All the fourteen lokas, seven above and seven below, are supposed to be organically present as living essentials in the body of God, says the Srimad Bhagavatam Mahapurana. In the very beginning of the Second Skanda, Suka Maharshi tells us how the embodied form of this Supreme Being, which is this creation, has all the fourteen worlds within it, which includes even the nether regions of Patala. Not only the highest Brahmaloka, even the lowest region of the creation of God – we may call it hell if we like – is vitally connected to the highest heaven, which is Brahmaloka.
This is the reason why it is necessary for us to be spiritually oriented even in this so-called unspiritual world, and somehow try to take advantage of this blessing of being born into this world in the condition we are, and live a happy life not by merely imagining that happiness is there as a theoretical ideal but by practically transmuting our daily life into a coordination with that which is super-physical, divine, universal. We, the particular finite, are directly, permanently connected to that which is infinite and universal. The finite that we are is connected to the infinite, because we know very well that even the idea that we are finite cannot arise unless we are connected to something which is not finite. If it is entirely finitude and death, we will not know that there is something other than the finite. We will expect nothing more than that.
The finitude of a particular thing, the limitation imposed upon a particular object, is nothing but the presence of another finitude like it. So the existence of finitude is not finally valid. Its validity is there only so long as another finite is there, conditioning it and compelling it to be finite. So there is a mutual interrelatedness of all finite objects, which is again appointed to the super-finite existence pervading all finite things. The infinite is present in every finite thing.
Thus, we need not seek God in high heaven, above the seventh region of creation. It is not necessary to physically look up. We can also look within. We can find that which is within is also without. The Upanishad says that which is there in the sun, high above in the sky, is also within.
It is the presence of that high heaven within our own selves that is responsible for our unending longing for a satisfaction not in this world. We often hear it said, “The kingdom of heaven is within you,” but we know very well that no kingdom can be inside a person. Yet, in a very important sense, it is present. The whole macrocosm, the entire creation, the whole world, is inside every particle of sand. The brahmanda is in the pindanda. All that we expect can be realised just here, at the very spot that we are seated. Desires are futile adventures in this world. The sense organs deceive us at every moment. The mind is a deceptive friend. It always connives with the sense organs, telling us that our sources of satisfaction are outside. There is no outside in this world. It is an inclusiveness that is pervasiveness that is this world. Therefore, wherever you are, in whatever condition you are placed, whatever be the work that you are performing, whatever be the duty with which you are entrusted under the circumstances you are placed in life, be happy. Never make a complaint. Never curse. Never say something is bad, evil, ugly: “I don’t like it.” Such a statement should not be made by a really worthwhile spiritual aspirant who sincerely seeks God, because that seeking of God is the seeking of the real value of things, and a real value cannot be something totally outside us, because a thing that is entirely outside cannot be reached by us.
Where is the ladder that will connect us from this low Earth to the high heaven? What are the rungs of the ladder through which we have to climb to that God, who is so high above us? There must be something to connect us with that high heaven. What is that link? That link is nothing but our own selves. In the various gradations of our ascent we will find that we ourselves, in the various levels of expressions of our personality, become ladders for the higher ascent to the Supreme Being. The God who is far, far away in the highest heaven is very, very near, inside, in the very root of the recesses of our thought.
God Himself climbs from His own lower pedestal of manifestation, which is this world and body, to Himself in the highest heaven that we speak of. A big drama is played. A great enactment is taking place in the form of this creation. God plays with Himself. Reme rameśo vraja-sundarībhir yathārbhakaḥ sva-pratibimba vibhramaḥ (Bhagavata 10.33.16) is a little passage in the Srimad Bhagavata: God plays with this world as a child plays with its own faces seen in the mirrors that are placed before itself. God is dancing in the form of this world; therefore, we, as gopis participating in the eternal Krishna, are to participate in this eternal dance, which is our cooperation with this central soul of the cosmos, which is within us, outside us, and is what we call the soul of a thing, the spirit of a thing, the value of a thing, the meaning of a thing, or life itself. Minus that, there is no life.
The desire to live, to plant life in a thing, is the desire to plant God in that particular thing. The fear of death and the love of life is actually the love of God that we are entertaining within our own selves and the abhorrence of the absence of God. That we permanently fear death and always seek deathlessness is an indication that death is not our essential nature. Deathless is our essential nature, and therefore, in this very world of utter destruction and death there is that supreme deathlessness, not merely pervading as an extraneous force but existing as our very soul. The highest above is also the deepest below. The God of heaven is the soul of the human being, and so there is hope. Good days are coming. Be happy. | <urn:uuid:1b4bcbbf-82eb-40be-b69e-1c8b48cfb473> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_255.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00117-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966446 | 7,085 | 2.09375 | 2 |
World War II Toys
Just three weeks before Christmas, on December 7th 1941, America was violently thrust in to the Second World War. When war rationing of metals, rubber and other products went into effect toy manufactures were forced to find other materials to build their instruments of play.
Glass toys, often filled with candy, became a popular item. Many of the toys where molded into the shapes of tanks and planes that America’s children were quickly becoming very familiar with.
One of the most popular series of toys released during the war where called “build-a-sets”, made completely out of cardboard. The sets often had a military theme or where constructed to be used with toy cars or airplanes that kids already had in their toy box.
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Railway giant Deutsche Bahn plans to run regular services between London’s St Pancras station and Frankfurt in Germany – which will take only four and a half hours – as well as Amsterdam in Holland.
The decision by authorities follows three years of negotiation and a trial run of a 200mph German bullet train in October 2010 but the service is unlikely to be launched before 2016.
The plan is for three services a day in each direction – each carrying 888 passengers in 16 coaches – on a new generation German cross-channel bullet train.
The trains will split in Brussels with eight carriages carrying 444 passengers heading to Rotterdam and then Amsterdam.
The other eight carriages will head to Cologne and then Frankfurt.
Announcing the new deal, Eurotunnel said: “After three years of detailed study, the Intergovernmental Commission has granted Deutsche Bahn an operating certificate to run passenger services through the Channel Tunnel.
“We believe that this long awaited decision will considerably enhance exchanges between the United Kingdom and northern Europe (Germany, Holland) and will over time add between 3 and 4 million new passengers per year to the 10 million already using the existing high speed passenger services.
“This new chapter requires no additional investment as adjustments to the timetable and modifications to the paths through the Tunnel will suffice to accommodate the new traffic.”
Cross-Channel train services are currently operated by Eurostar, which is majority-owned by French state-owned SNCF.
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Why Canada is changing its national anthem
Canada is making lyrical changes to its anthem to promote gender equality. Similar changes were rejected just a few years ago. What's changed?
Patriotic love for Canada will no longer be in its "sons command" – at least not exclusively – according to a parliamentary vote.
Lawmakers in the House of Commons agreed yesterday to amend the country's national anthem "O Canada" and replace the gender-specific phrase "in all thy sons command" with "in all of us command" in the English version. Members then stood and sang the anthem in both French and English, Reuters reports.
Speaking to reporters before the vote, Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu hailed the measure as one that would foster inclusivity.
"I think it's really important as a very strong symbol of our commitment to gender equality in this country," she said.
Gender equality has been a cornerstone of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's leadership since the Liberal party politician was elected last fall. Mr. Trudeau is the first prime minister to select a cabinet composed of an equal number of men and women, a move that triggered positive international notice after footage of his response to a reporter asking why he did this went viral.
"Because it's 2015," Trudeau quipped in reply at the time.
The measure to change the anthem was introduced by a member of Trudeau's party, MP Mauril Bélanger of Ottawa. The Liberals control the House of Commons, where the bill passed easily. It is expected to pass the next round of approval in the Senate.
While there were some Conservative criticism to the change, that party too had suggested altering the lyrics to make them gender neutral back in 2010. According to CBC News, the proposed change would have actually returned the English lyrics (which are different from the French) to the way they were originally written in the 1908 poem that the anthem is based on: "Thou dost in us command."
Six years ago, the public "overwhelmingly" did not want the change, according to a statement at the time from Dimitri Soudas, the press secretary for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
So what's changed?
"The moment has changed," answers Nancy Peckford, executive director of Equal Voice, a multi-partisan organization that advocates for gender equality in Canadian politics. "The culture in and around Canadian Parliament has shifted to allow for this conversation in a more concerted way. There is better awareness and more openness."
Peckford told The Christian Science Monitor that while there is bound to be mixed popular reaction, the "highly symbolic gesture" comes at a time when there is increased public interest in the issue of gender inequality.
Veronica Strong-Boag, former president of the Canadian Historical Association, agrees. She told the Monitor that the proposed changes to the anthem, as well as the popular decision to include more diversity on the national currency, is indicative of a larger rethinking about Canadian national identity. She suggested that the anthem is a way that Canadians view the national self, and taking out gender means "women are now included" in that national self-perception.
"All anthems, like all symbols, are constructed in particular moments," she said. "We need to have due reflection before we rename, but the time has come. In fact it's long overdue."
Historically, Canada has made important political motions in favor of gender equality. It was one of the first nations to sign the UN's Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, for example, and domestic gender equality has been part of its constitutional charter since 1982.
According to the World Economic Forum's 2015 Global Gender Gap Report, Canada ranked just below the United States and Cuba in gender equality, at number 30 out of 145. The study looks at a handful of markers including health, salary, economic opportunity, education, and political empowerment.
A 2013 study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives showed glacial progress in equal economic opportunity for Canadian women when it came to political and business leadership roles, however. The report revealed little had changed in the representation of women in these high-ranking positions between 1993 and 2013.
The study noted that this was not due to lack of educational opportunities for women. Instead, higher degrees earned by women correlated to higher levels of wage disparity, according to the report's author, Kate McInturff.
However, with the political shift, and the equal representation of women in the cabinet, Peckford of Equal Voice believes that this will begin to change.
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A tattoo showcases your unique ideas and messages to the world. It is a piece of personal art that you carry forever on your skin. The skills of the tattoo artist in filling in the outlines can make a design leap to life in vivid and colorful patterns. The use of colors and flowing lines causes the tattoo to grow more elegant as the artist proceeds in the inkwork.
Elegant Tattoos tell you about the marvelous vision and talent of the tattoo artist who spent hours in inking the perfect design.
If you are looking for interesting themes for your permanent body art, you can draw on different sources for design inspiration. Fantasy stories and ancient myths are great repositories of ideas for rich tattoo designs. The cosmic peace turtle, a serpent dragon fighting with a woman, a stately ship and a blind pagan god are some design ideas full of imagination and creativity. These designs can be inked with delicate inkwork that is either colored with bright pigments, or left bare for the black lines to tell the story. Often, small tattoos done on the back or the wrist can have great elegance. The form of a colorful bird in flight can be drawn in flowy lines to give a graceful feel to the design. Images drawn from Nature are innately sensuous and lend themselves to some of the most attractive tattoo designs. Be it a flowering plant, a tree, birds in flight, waves, or a collection of vibrant flowers, every nature theme tattoo celebrates the life flowing around us. You also come across dreamy designs in which the use of soft colors like lavender gives a gentle feel to the tattoo. The eternal cycle of life and death can be depicted through graceful designs that play with color and its absence, or living forms and their skeletal counterparts.
Just Let Go Tattoo
In this upper back tattoo, wise words about letting go sit alongside the form of a tree from which birds are flying away.
Peacock Healing Tattoo
Gorgeous ink pigments have been used to give a life like feel to this peacock feather tattooed on the arm.
Elegant Purple Flower Tattoo
This colorful tattoo shows a big flower in shades of violet sitting amongst red flowers in a flowy wave pattern.
Elegant Piscean Tattoo
This artistically shaded tattoo portrays twin mermaids swimming in tandem. Visual cues such as color and its absence, living fish and fish skeletons, and the infinity symbol point to the eternal cycle of life and death.
Back Entwined Tattoo
A dragon and a woman are locked in mortal combat in this fantasy theme back tattoo for women.
Pimply Face Weird Tattoo
Check out this powerfully inked chest tattoo for sailors. It shows the face of a blind pagan god, a rose and a stately ship.
Bloody Fight Tattoo
A pair of feathered wings, one whole and the other bloodied, depicts the themes of healing and injury.
An eagle and a shield are draped in the colors of the American flag in this upper chest tattoo design.
Honeybee Flower Elegant Tattoo
In this floral theme tattoo on the back, elegant purple flowers blossom on a green plant while honeybees fly about.
Veritas Eleganti Tattoo
In this shoulder tattoo for men, you see two guns placed side by side with smoky shades underlying the design. Latin text frames both the guns.
Cosmic Hole Tattoo
Delicate artwork brings out the rich beauty of a nebula in this cosmic theme tattoo on the upper back.
Dog Elegant Tattoo
The realistic shading of this back tattoo shows the face of a black dog with the word ‘Bear’ below the design.
Fantasia Elegant Tattoo
Elegant inkwork bring out the details of this powerful tattoo showing a woman in profile. Fantasy themes making beautiful abstract patterns emerge from her head.
Elegant Collar Tattoo
You see an upside down lotus sitting at the heart of the patterned wing like tattoo on the upper back.
Turtle For Peace Tattoo
Inspired by ancient myths, this tribal design back tattoo depicts a cosmic turtle with the peace sign.
Big Cat Tatt
Carefully inked with handsome white whiskers and green eyes, this big cat tattoo looks like it will come to life at any moment.
Age Of Metal Elegance
This brilliant tattoo gives a metallic twist to the erotic theme of lips with a tongue snaking out.
Elegant Leg Tattoo
This sensuous leg tattoo shows a pattern of gorgeous flowers and vines, ending with the form of a modern-day pixie.
Elegant Bird Tattoo
This tiny but very colorful tattoo shows a pretty flying swallow in shades of red and blue.
World Travel Tattoo
Delicate shading brings to life the world map in this chest tattoo on the theme of wanderlust.
Heart Art Piece
In this dreamy and colorful love tattoo, you see merry purple clouds, a red heart with blue love potion, and a flying bird on either side of the heart.
Feather Fly Tattoo
This cute and vibrant tattoo shows a pretty butterfly with a mysterious leaf patterned body and feelers.
Elegant Herald Design
The smooth lines flow across the upper back to trace out an elegant trophy theme tattoo design. Note the graceful black patterns adding to the beauty of the tattoo.
Red Bird Tattoo
You see a bright red angry-looking bird sitting on a pink flowering branch in this upper leg tattoo.
Fire Cards Tattoo
Check out the Ace of Spades cards going up in flames in this collar bones tattoo design for men.
Heart Wisdom Quote
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Drunk driving—drink driving in the UK, I believe—was responsible for nearly 18,000 traffic deaths in the U.S. last year, according to MADD. So, if you can’t get people to cooperate, get the car to. Nissan has developed an in-car system that detects if a driver is intoxicated. If the system detects that you’re sloshed, the car refuses to start. Checks include: A moisture sensor in the transmission knob tests your perspiration for the presence of alcohol; A Face-monitoring camera in the dash determines if you appear to be cognizant of your surrounds, i.e., about to propel several tons of metal down a highway; an air sensor detects alcohol.
I don’t know if the technology here is exactly “shiny new”—”shiny new” being the newest, bestest form of new—but it’s certainly worth a mention. No matter how many megapixels your digital SLR is, it’s not going to save your life after a night of recklessness.
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Documenting a Pedestrian AccidentRequest Free Consultation
What information to gather following a pedestrian accident
Whether you walk to complete your errands or train for marathons, chances are you will walk near roadways sometime this week. Almost anyone could be at risk of a pedestrian accident, and it pays to know what to do if it happens to you.
According to the Centers for Disease Control:
“In the next 24 hours, on average, 430 people will be treated in an emergency department for traffic-related pedestrian injuries. In the next 2 hours, on average, one pedestrian will die from injuries in a traffic crash.”
In the event that a driver hits you while out walking, follow these steps to document the event:
Seek medical attention
Vehicle/pedestrian accidents come with a high probability of injury. As the pedestrian, you should call police and emergency responders in 100 percent of pedestrian accident cases. Even a seemingly minor impact can cause internal injuries or other complications that show up later. Do not take the chance of missing an injury: Call for help.
If the impact knocks you unconscious or leaves you unable to call for help yourself, the responsibility to call lies with the driver or witnesses. Police called to the scene can help document the facts of the event.
In addition to providing initial medical treatment, emergency medical staff reports will help document your injuries. That documentation could become important later on as you deal with insurance claims or even a court case.
Document the accident
If able, use your smartphone to take photos of the entire scene. Photograph the location, any pertinent details and your injuries.
Also seek out witnesses and ask for their contact information. If possible, have these witnesses give a statement to police at the scene.
Gather the driver’s information, but he or she should also stay at the scene until police arrive. Below, Partner Keith Fuicelli talks more about the importance of documentation:
Help establish fault
If emergency medical responders transport you to the hospital before police arrive, be sure to follow up as soon as you can to file your own account of the accident. According to CityLab, many police reports don’t include the cyclist’s or pedestrian’s story about what happened:
“…close to 40 percent of the police reports WABA has reviewed did not include a statement from the cyclist involved. This is particularly common in cases where the victim is transported immediately to urgent care.”
Your story is vitally important in establishing the cause of the accident. Although the driver often carries the fault for pedestrian (or cyclist) accidents, it’s not always cut and dried. According to FindLaw:
“Usually, pedestrian-vehicle accident cases hinge on the duty of care owed by those involved. Both drivers and pedestrians must follow the rules of the road and exercise reasonable care. In many cases, it may seem obvious who was negligent, but the courts look at numerous factors in applying the facts to the negligence elements. A person who negligently operates a vehicle may be required to pay damages for personal and property damage caused by that negligence.”
A skilled personal injury attorney can help you establish all the facts of the case. In addition, he or she can help ensure a fair settlement from insurance to cover your medical expenses and more.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has announced the astronauts going on the Crew-3 SpaceX mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
The space agency said that two NASA astronauts and one astronaut from the European Space Agency (ESA) will embark on the mission in the fall of 2021. They will spend six months on the ISS.
NASA astronauts Raja Chari and Tom Marshburn will reportedly serve as commander and pilot while ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer will serve as the mission specialist. A fourth crew member will be announced at a later date.
They said that this will be the first spaceflight for Chari, who became a NASA astronaut in 2017. He is from Milwaukee but considers Cedar Falls, Iowa, his hometown. He previously served as a colonel in the U.S. Air Force and has extensive experience as a test pilot. In fact, he has accumulated over 2,500 hours of flight in his career. HE is also a member of the Artemis team that is training to go to the moon.
Marshburn has been to space two times prior, NASA said. He is from Statesville, North Carolina, and became a NASA astronaut in 2004. Prior to that, he was a medical doctor and then served as the medical operations lead for the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. His previous two space trips were as a crew member of STS-127 in 2009 and Expedition 34/35, which concluded in 2013.
Maurer is said to be from Sankt Wendel, in the German state of Saarland. This will also be his first trip into space. Prior to becoming an astronaut, he held a number of engineering and research roles. In 2016, he spent 16 days on an undersea mission that was part of NASA’s Extreme Environment Mission Operations space analog.
This mission will reportedly be the third crew rotation mission of SpaceX’s human space transportation system and its fourth flight with astronauts. NASA's contract with SpaceX includes six total crew missions to the ISS.
The Crew-3 astronauts will have a slight overlap with the Crew-2 astronauts, who will launch on their mission in the spring of 2021, NASA said. The Crew-1 astronauts, who are currently at the ISS, and the Crew-2 astronauts, also are expected to coincide briefly.
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Jacobin - September 12, 2021
One of the still unsolved mysteries of the September 11 attacks is how the foreign government that was by far the most responsible for that atrocity got off completely scot-free — and, in fact, proceeded to be lavishly rewarded by Washington for years to come.
If 9/11 was a modern Pearl Harbor, then imagine that Franklin Roosevelt had responded to that attack by covering up any evidence of Japan’s involvement, blaming and invading the Soviet Union instead, and then spending the next two decades selling the Japanese Empire billions of dollars in weapons, regularly wining and dining their leadership, and helping them commit war crimes in other parts of the world. This is basically what happened between the United States and Saudi Arabia since that day in 2001.
Even before the attacks, it was understood that, as part of the delicate balance of power keeping the royals in place at the top, the Saudi government was helping fund and export Islamic extremism around the world, in line with the wishes of the radical clerics by whose assent they ruled. The Saudi government was a distinctly unhelpful force in previous terrorism investigations, stonewalling US attempts to get Osama bin Laden and refusing US requests to arrest or execute him when Sudan offered to hand him over. According to one US counterterrorism official, that would’ve meant “we probably never would have seen a September 11th.” Then there was the fact that most of the hijackers were Saudi nationals, as bin Laden himself was.
Since the release in 2016 of the redacted “twenty-eight pages” of the 9/11 Commission report George Bush had tried to keep secret, Saudi government culpability for the attack has gone from mere smoke to a wildfire. We found out that, in 1999, two Saudi nationals who claimed their tickets from Phoenix to Washington had been paid for by the Saudi Embassy they were traveling to, and who the FBI later determined had “connections to terrorism,” did a “dry run” for the attacks, forcing their plane to make an emergency landing because of their suspicious behavior. ...
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Hi – bit of shameless self-promoting but just uploaded a special report on cycling safety
Some of the points covered are unsurprising – cycling when drunk is never a good idea and people involved in collisions with HGVs don’t usually have a good prognosis.
Some of the points are surprisingly counter-intuitive – evidence shows that more aggressive cyclists are actually less likely to be involved in a HGV collision.
But the one point I could not find any sort of consensus on is cycling helmets and whether they actually reduce accidents in a real world setting. A researcher for the DOT told me that he looked at the issue for years, it was the most complex thing he had ever studied and he had still not come to any conclusion.
And none of the main cycling organisations has a firm policy on whether they should be used
A good overview of the contrasting views can be found in the following BMJ editorial
Was interested in other views and is there any evidence out there that we need to consider?
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There are many different types of art in the world, and artists who use animals as subjects have explored the full range of artistic mediums. There are some artists who like to carve different animals in a variety of materials. This has been a popular artistic form for centuries. It can be easily done during the day or night. Carving in wood and bone are especially popular with artists who like to whittle away some time. It gives the artist a creative outlet with few tools needed for completing a project with a popular subject.
Many paintings of animals display a whimsical side. Artists may not be able to get many animals to sit still for the time it takes to paint them, but this has never stopped creative paintings from being done. Artists are able to recreate animals in many poses and habitats. Whimsical art touches people by making them laugh or think about the animals in the world differently. This type of art makes humans sit up and pay attention.
Folk art has long used animals for its creative ventures. Drawings and prints of wild animals have been a large influence in this type of art. Pillows, curtains and decorative needlework often contain animals in their artistic themes. Tribal art is very representative of animals in folk art. Each tribe has an area with its own types of animals. These have been represented in textiles and clay pieces for countless centuries. Even cave men took the time to draw and color local animals on their walls.
The existence of animals has long been entwined with the lives of men. They have fed, clothed and protected man for millennia. Their representation in art is part of the world which surrounds man. They are part of the environment and have long taught man how to survive and prosper in it. Their inclusion in art gives man pause to think of nature and the world as it should be. These beautiful and fascinating creatures have their own place in the world of art and will continue to be represented. | <urn:uuid:89101110-b948-4edd-a344-cf1df17505c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.animalrescueartproject.org/types-of-animal-art | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976447 | 392 | 2.875 | 3 |
Given the importance of your healthcare, do you worry at times about why you are not healthier than you should be?
For many individuals, they let their health go for one reason or another. Unfortunately, things can get to a point where it is too late to make the needed changes to correct things.
While you hope to never get to such a point in life, you do have more control over your health than you may realize.
That being the case, why aren’t you as healthy as possible?
Is Constant Pain a Part of Your Life?
In trying to determine why you do not have a better health, could constant pain be a part of your life? If it is, do you know why?
For many people, chronic pain gets the better of them over time. As it does, it robs them of the healthy life they may well have once known.
While there can be many reasons for chronic pain, some are more common than others.
1. Slip-and-fall –
A serious slip-and-fall can leave one in pain for weeks, months and even years. If this happened to you, are you still feeling the wrath of the fall? You may have fallen at work, home or out somewhere. No matter the location, your body has not been able to bounce back. If you have been doctoring since the time of the fall, why has it not done as much good as you would have liked? Have you tried any treatments outside of what your doctor recommended? One such option may be to give a herbal remedy a shot. For example, kratom extract may be the solution you’ve been seeking. Kratom is a herbal remedy that can reduce the pain in one’s body. As a result, it would be well worth your time to look into such a product. Remember, a slip-and-fall can be one of the most difficult injuries to bounce back from. As such, a strong medical solution may be your only answer.
2. Severe illness –
From cancer to other illnesses, you could be dealing with chronic pain. It can be hard for some people to even get out of bed when they are battling a serious illness. As they fail to have regular movement in muscles and joints, they become less able to function. Something many take for granted like getting up to go to the bathroom or bending over to pick an object up can be hard. Once again, finding a medical solution to ease the pain needs to be a priority.
3. Being overweight –
There is being a few pounds overweight and being way overweight. If you are in the latter category that excess weight can be making it difficult to move and even breathe. How you got to such a point is not the main focus now. The focus should be on bringing down the weight in a healthy manner. Lose a few pounds here and few pounds there. Does this instead of a crash diet should help ease the burden on your body and avoid leading to more stress. As it does, your pain should diminish to a degree.
Although some healthcare matters are out of your control, many others are by your own doing.
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Kenya stepped forward into the era of electronic voting after registration under a pilot project to test the system was launched in 18 constituencies simultaneously.
Prime Minister Raila, who kicked off the exercise in his Lang’ata Constituency on Monday, and his wife Ida, were the first Kenyans to register as voters through the new system that saw them complete the exercise in four minutes only.
He said the Electronic Voter Register was a revolution from the outdated manual voter registration that was “susceptible to abuse by partisan electoral officials”.
“The launch of e-voter registration which will finally mature to voting through the system is a huge milestone…
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EAST COAST SWING: This dance is frequently referred to as Triple Step swing due to the rhythm of the basic triple step. This dance consists of six and eight count patterns, which require a rock step back by both man and woman to begin. It is a circular dance that is danced with a bounce and is very
grounded and not high in the legs. This bounce requires the dancer to stay very smooth and not jump around much. East Coast swing is the base for all swing dances.
WEST COAST SWING: This dance consists of six and eight count patterns, which are done in a slot. The woman no longer rocks back as in East Coast swing, but instead she always walks forward on count one. This dance is usually done to medium tempo swing music, frequently slower than East Coast swing. However, those who achieve a high skill level in this dance can and do dance it to faster tempo music. This dance has no bounce and a very smooth feel. Rarely will you see high kicks or moves which require the dancer to leave the floor.
JIVE: This dance is the European version of East Coast swing. Six and eight count patterns make up this dance, as in East Coast swing but it is quite bouncy with very sharp kicks and flicks. Unlike East Coast swing, Jive is danced to a faster tempo swing music and is meant for competitive style dancing.
LINDY HOP: This dance came about with the big band era and is danced to fast tempo swing. All Lindy steps are eight count patterns done in a circular fashion with a lot of kicks, flicks, hops, lifts, and drops. It?s been said that this dance gained its name from Charles Lindbergh and his flight to the United States.
SINGLE TIME SWING: Single Time Swing is East Coast except without the triple step. It is basically taught to beginners in order to get them dancing quickly. It is also done when the music is too fast for the East Coast Swing.
JITTERBUG: Jitterbug is an offset of East Coast Swing.
ROCK 'N ROLL: A popular form of the Swing or Lindy Hop, Rock ?n Roll began as a dance done mostly by teenagers who were fans of artists like Elvis Presley and the Beatles.,
COLLEGIATE SHAG / BALBOA: Collegiate Shag and Balboa are light dances which can travel quickly across a dance floor. Shag and Balboa steps can easily be incorporated into your Lindy Hop. These are great dances for fast music, and are often used to provide a rest period during long uptempo songs. If you've ever seen cartoons which show dancers pressing their faces and torsos together while their feet move madly underneath them......that's Collegiate Shag.
SHAG: Not to be confused with the Carolina Shag, which is a slow, laid back type of Swing, Shag became popular in the late 30s along with the Jitterbug and Lindy Hop. The dance was done to up-tempo Swing or Foxtrot music, and was instantly recognizable by the flicking of the feet backwards with a pronounced hopping action.
ST. LOUIS SHAG: Fast and Flashy, the St. Louis Shag involves a lot of kicking and is sure to be noticed on the dance floor! This dance originated in St. Louis and is still danced there today. St. Louis Shag is danced to very fast swing music (approximately 45-55 measures per minute) with the leader and follower in a side by side position dancing the mirror opposite of one another. Fun and Aerobic, everyone enjoys St. Louis Shag!
CHARLESTON: The Charleston is the dance we associate with the flamboyant flapper of that era, however, Charleston had been around long before then. There are accounts of people dancing the Charleston in the South as early as 1900. Charleston became a national dance craze when it was danced on Broadway in 1922, and it remained popular until the Blackbottom, a new dance to the same music, hit the scene in 1926. Charleston can be done solo or with a partner. Paul and Sharon?s 20s Charleston video teaches the students solo Charleston and some Blackbottom steps that are arranged into a fun, simple routine.
BACK CHARLESTON: Back Charleston (sometimes referred to as Tandem Charleston) is a dance position in Lindy Hop where the follower stands in front of the leader with her back to him and both leader and follower dance the basic Charleston step starting with the rock step on the left foot. There are many moves and variations that can be danced from this position. Back Charleston is such a popular part of the Lindy Hop vocabulary that workshops are often devoted to it. Paul & Sharon?s Back Charleston video tape includes an entrance and exit as well as many fun variations in the dance. | <urn:uuid:2718ccf6-ff8f-461d-a242-eb3ebfd37c42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://dancevision.com/buyers-guide/48/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966066 | 1,006 | 2.046875 | 2 |
With the disruption caused by the COVID 19 pandemic, the HR function has stumbled upon a number of new opportunities and challenges. It’s been a time to test radical ideas – such as a complete work from home operability, adapting to a new pace of change and testing hitherto untested methods of engagement and driving workplace culture.
In a conversation about the shifts in the world of HR, Sola Osinoiki, Senior Director – Global People Technology, Naspers and Catherine Chia, CHRO, StarHub spoke about the various workplace practices, shifts and possible new areas of collaboration at TechHR 2020.
Here are a few key takeaways:
1. Give yourself the permission to rest: Working from home has allowed a number of companies to test the feasibility of a workplace model that is entirely driven remotely. While this has enabled business as usual, it has also been a rough few months for employees to get work done. Extended long hours of work, and virtual meetings have blurred professional and personal spaces. In this context, the HR function needs to impress upon employees - the need to take rest when needed. Taking care of your employees is critical to the business.
2. Digitize, people will adapt: One of the key lessons for the HR function is that employees and organizations will adapt, when circumstances demand change. HR should not take ‘No’ for an answer, Catherine said. The mandate to digitize HR is in line with digitizing business operations and ultimately, digitization is a road to greater accountability, empowerment, self-service.
3. Focus on the human touch is much needed: Even as the world of work went digital, the pandemic has given HR professionals an opportunity to reflect on the human touch points that need to be enabled. How can one enable one-on-one human connection remotely? What are the kinds of conversations that need to happen from a leader? And how can you identify and engage passive employees?
4. Refresh your workplace practices: While digitizing workplace practices helps align employees at scale, the exercise should not become mechanical. It is useful to leverage tools to regularly undertake pulse surveys and employee dipsticks with the goal of refreshing your policies and practices.
There’s been a permanent shift not just in the work and workplace, but also the mindset of employees and leaders. There’s now a realization that businesses are equipped to quickly pivot when needed, and employees need more hands-on support on health and wellness, companies need to invest in their digital infrastructure – or they risk being left behind. As a hybrid model of work – that accommodates both remote and office goers, the HR function needs to be bold in reimagining work in the next decade. | <urn:uuid:97dd331c-2a56-414a-bdeb-139b3ee37a13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peoplemattersglobal.com/article/talent-management/transforming-people-practices-lessons-from-the-pandemic-27091 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.948805 | 556 | 1.523438 | 2 |
- In 1905, the Froebel Society, composed of kindergarten teachers who arranged several special programs, invited mothers living in the school district where the meeting was being held to be present. Realizing the value of such meetings to both teachers and parents, Miss Agnes McKenzie, the first kindergarten supervisor in this city, suggested that a “Mother's Club” be organized. After Miss McKenzie’s marriage, Miss Laidlaw, her successor, assisted by Miss Clara Brenton and others of the Froebel Society, organized the first Mother's Club. On Nov. 5, 1905 at Talbot St. School, the first meeting was held, called by Miss Laidlaw. Mrs. M. Irwin was installed as the first president, with Mrs. W. Tanner as the first secretary-treasurer.
- In 1906, individual clubs were organized in different schools. Thus, from one organization, the movement grew to be a group of clubs with a central organization known as the Union of Mothers Club.
- Throughout the period of the First World War, all club members were vitally interested in war work. Assistance was given to the Red Cross and in the various food conservation campaigns held during those years. The individual clubs donated generously to the Armistice Day Fund and the Cenotaph Fund.
- Tabulated report forms were first used by the Association secretaries at the 1930 Annual Meeting.
- In 1935, all Associations participated in a hobby fair and quilt exhibit. Prizes for the three best exhibits were awarded to Alexandra, Tecumseh and Ealing Associations. Council held a picnic at Springbank Park which became an annual event. At the suggestion of Ryerson Association, efforts were made to secure better protection for school children crossing the streets.
- In June 1936, London Home and School, along with 35 other organizations, endorsed a resolution presented at the Annual Meeting of the London Council of Women regarding “Traffic hazards affecting children crossing main highways in school zones.” The first leaders’ training course was conducted by Mr. S. Baker, City Clerk, in the fall of 1936, when he gave a series of three lectures on parliamentary procedures. This was followed each year, along the lines suggested by the Ontario Federation.
- In 1938, the Associations through the Council, redecorated the “London Mothers’ Club” room in the War Memorial Hospital.
- In 1954, a committee was formed to study the effects of fluoridation of water.
- On October 30, 1963, CKSL Radio presented the London Council of Home and School Associations with a “Certificate of Public and Community Service: in recognition of outstanding services toward community betterment making the City of London a finer place in which to live, work and play.”
- In 1966, Council was requested to assist with the measles vaccine program on an individual basis and for suggestions in curriculum planning for the new Fanshawe College.
- In the 1969 elections, Mary Gee, Past President of St. George’s Home and School Association was elected to the Board of Education.
- In 1970, Council was given the opportunity to submit thoughts and suggestions regarding the teaching of moral and religious concepts to the London Board of Education.
- In the 1973 elections, May Parkinson, Past President of Victoria Association and London Council, and Dianne Cunningham, Past President of Orchard Park Association, were both elected to the Board of Education.
- In 1976, Council coordinated a week-long mall display in honour of the 60th anniversary of the Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations. The London Board of Education recognized the London Council of Home and School Associations as “an organization having a special interest in the operation of the Board” and granted us “official observer” status.
- In the 1980 elections, Mrs. Cheryl Miller, Past President of Arthur Stringer Association was elected to the Board of Education.
- The 1981 London Council held a round-table discussion with trustees and representatives of the administration of the Board of Education. Home and School was invited to bring greetings at the inaugural meeting of the Board.
- In 1984, Council President was invited to bring greetings at the official opening ceremonies of the new Education Centre.
- In the 1988 elections, Mrs. Joyce Bennett, Past President of W. Sherwood Fox Association and London Council and Mrs. Shirley Clements, Past President of St. George’s Association, were both elected to the Board of Education. Mrs. Marie May, Past President of the Ontario Federation, London and Middlesex Council, and Prince Charles Home and School Association was elected to the Middlesex County Board of Education.
- In 1989, Mary Bawden, Past President of London Council of Home and School Associations, was elected as President of Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations.
- London Council of Home and School Associations presented discussion papers for the Quality Assurance Task force, Leadership Task force, public input on the 1993 Budget as well as the issue of condom dispensary machines in male and female washrooms in secondary schools.
- In 1994, Janet Andruchow, Past President of London Council of Home and School Associations and Marlene Patten, President of Glen Cairn Home and School Association, were both elected to the Board of Education.
- In 2000, London Council of Home and School Associations joined with the North London Optimists to support the Children’s Safety Village and the Children’s Hospital of Western Ontario Foundation.
- Thames Valley District Alliance of Home and School Councils held a press conference to show our support to the Boards request to the Ministry to review the current funding formula.
- In 2003, the Councils of London, Middlesex and Oxford amalgamated and changed their name to Thames Valley Council of Home and School Associations.
- In 2006, Thames Valley Council of Home and School Associations had the youngest member attend the Ontario Federation of Home and School Association annual conference at the age of 18. London and Middlesex Councils celebrated their 100th Anniversary.
- In 2008, Thames Valley Council of Home and School Associations presented views on the banning of bottled water in the Thames Valley District School Board at an input session.
- In 2009, Thames Valley Council of Home and School Associations hosted a “Back to School Open House” which was open to all schools in the Thames Valley District School Board. This event featured a number of different fundraising ideas as well as community groups.
Resolutions passed over the years at the Ontario Federation of Home and School Associations annual conference that are now policies throughout Ontario School Boards include:
Drugs & Drug Education
Early Childhood Educators
English as a Second Language
French (Core & Immersion)
Insecticides & Pesticides
Junior and Senior Kindergarten
Ontario Student Record
Physical Education & Health
Pupil to Teacher Ratio
School Bus Standards
Trades & Apprenticeships
Use of Schools
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There has been some confusion between relative humidity and the quantity of water contained in the air. The graphic below shows the absolute humidity in grams of water per cubic meter.
If one compares a typical wet spring day in the Netherlands to a hot and dry day in a desert, you see that the desert air actually contains up to 4 times more water, in terms of quantity. It seems strange, but one of the conclusions is that the Netherlands is drier than a hot desert – of course related to humidity.
Relative humidity indicates the percentage of water before it starts to condenseinto rain of fog. Warm air is able to contain much more water before condensation than cold air. The amount is even raising exponentially.
The SunGlacier team tested the limits to investigate how small we can build a water harvest machine that is off-grid, powered by solar energy. Because solar energy can be limited and variable – with cloud cover and night cycles – we faced the challenge to use all energy as efficient as possible. The first SunGlacier sculpture is built with existing, off-the-shelf technology, but the latest WaterCube is built with our own custom-designed technology.
We succeeded in producing 20cl of water in Dutch summer conditions, using a 50cm solar panel, 25Watt – 12 Volt. The complete cooling and ventilation system of the WaterCube is as small in size as the water-condensing cone itself.
This is so promising that we decided to continue building on the momentum of what we are discovering in our project. Our next goal is to produce at least 10 liters a day, even without running or moving components. Such a setup would require minimal maintenance.
The water that we produce is simply condensed from the air (like rainwater), and the system is very cheap and simple to clean with a small filter which also adds essential minerals to the water.
The demand for water is growing as more people and natural resources are drying up. SunGlacier started as an art project, and still is, but we noticed that parts of our technical “solutions” are not available on the market. It should be noted that we do not pretend to have THE global water solution, have but found an application that is easy and inexpensive to build in mass production. It can be used to help thirsty people at a personal and community level – especially in off-grid areas.
As an Art Project we have not yet succeeded in finding funds to accelerate and expand our testing in the Netherlands and other parts of the world. Even so, with the limited budget we have, we succeeded to build some proof of concepts.
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A new Brigham Young University study found that parenthood is associated with lower blood pressure, particularly so among women.
The study involved 198 adults who wore portable blood pressure monitors, mostly concealed by their clothes, for 24 hours.
The monitors took measurements at random intervals throughout the day — even while participants slept. This method provides a better sense of a person’s true day-to-day blood pressure. Readings taken in a lab can be inflated by people who get the jitters in clinical settings. It’s a real phenomenon known as the “white coat” effect, and it can mess up the results of studies done without the portable monitors.
A statistical analysis allowed the researchers to account for other factors known to influence blood pressure — things like age, body mass, gender, exercise, employment and smoking — and zero in on the effect of parenthood. For parents overall, the 24-hour blood pressure readings averaged 116 / 71.
All other things being equal, parents scored 4.5 points lower than non-parents in systolic blood pressure (the top number) and 3 points lower than non-parents in diastolic blood pressure. Holt-Lunstad says the size of the difference is statistically significant, but she warns against hastily making major life changes based on this finding alone.
This finding is interesting because it seems to go against our expectations. I assume that there’s no real direct physiological process at work here; e.g., hormone changes due to pregnancy or lactation reducing blood pressure. Rather, it is likely that the choices one makes in life are strongly shaped by having children, and those choices somehow modify health outcomes in ways we don’t have a good grasp of yet. The researchers controlled for the variables which they knew about, but there are surely many hidden ones which are the real causes of the effect seen here. Pretty typical correlational study, novel for the against-expectations sign of the value.
Also, I do think it’s a little amusing that the work comes out of Brigham Young University. Presumably the authors know a lot about the pro-natalist lifestyle from personal experience. And Mormon “clean living” has resulted in lower morbidity and higher life expectancy from what I have heard. | <urn:uuid:91febbb3-0290-42e7-8ed3-4bdfe3a2d8bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/01/more-children-lower-blood-pressure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94593 | 467 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Scrabble word: KHEDA
In which Scrabble dictionary does KHEDA exist?
Definitions of KHEDA in dictionaries:
- noun - an enclosure for elephants
There are 5 letters in KHEDA: A D E H K
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All anagrams that could be made from letters of word KHEDA plus a wildcard: KHEDA?
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By MATT RICHTEL
The New York Times
Just before bedtime on a recent night, two toddlers marched reluctantly to the bathroom to brush their teeth. And on the way, my 4-year-old son told his little sister: “I’m going to win. I’m going to win!”
I have one of those, a child with an apparent competitive streak. When Milo and I play baseball, he tells me, “I’ll be the Yankees and you can be a team that they beat.”
A recent article in The Times detailed President Barack Obama’s own deep-seated desire to win. At a farewell gathering with a group of interns, the competitor-in-chief gave them some life advice: “When you all have kids, it’s important to let them win,” he said. Then he added, with a smile, “Until they’re a year old” — at which point you can start winning again.
Is he right, even in jest? Is it better to teach children tough life lessons, like the thrill of victory is sweeter if you have known the agony of defeat? Or is it better simply to let a child win, and allow victory to be part of the fun? Is there a strategy that promotes happiness and performance, even if you’re only playing Candyland?
“The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that competition is destructive, particularly, but not exclusively, for children,” said Alfie Kohn, an author and speaker whose views on the negative aspects of competition are widely followed in the field of parenting. “It’s a toxic way to raise children.”
He added, “The absence of competition seems to be a prerequisite for excellence in most endeavors, contrary to received wisdom.”
Kohn is, not surprisingly, a lightning rod. It’s hard to reconcile his views with the realities of modern life, from presidential races to Olympic ones, where there are only three medal winners, and some stand taller than others. It would seem to be a parent’s job to prepare children for the reality of scarce resources and rewards.
Many scholars agree that competition is necessary, ingrained and essential. Studies have shown that under certain conditions, competition can improve performance and happiness. People are better off when they are trying to win (rather than trying not to lose), and when they are confident. It also helps if the stakes are very low and the motivation is not just to win, but to achieve mastery.
But I was surprised by the extent to which many researchers agree with aspects of Kohn’s view that rough-and-tumble competition can promote anxiety, damage self-esteem and performance, and lead to disengagement.
An analysis to be published in an upcoming issue of the Psychological Bulletin, a journal of the American Psychological Association, looks at hundreds of research papers on the subject of competition and performance and finds no clear connection between the two. Sometimes, it seems, competition enhances performance, but equally often it does not.
So how to resolve these competing views on competition? I set out for an answer, with the added motivation of finding some advice on how to handle my I-will-crush-you-at-toothbrushing son.
WHAT ‘WIN’ MEANS
The good news is that there is a real chance for parents to start with a blank slate when it comes to defining competition for children, said David Shields, an assistant professor of educational psychology at St. Louis Community College and the founder of TrueCompetition.org, which focuses on “reclaiming competition for excellence, ethics and enjoyment.”
“Kids have a shallow understanding of competition,” Shields said. “They know the word ‘win’ is used out there.”
In other words, my son apparently is not thinking deeply about what he is saying when he tells me he wants to beat me. So Shields’s first piece of advice for me was: “Let me him work through his fantasy. There’s no problem with that.”
What’s the parenting lesson? Try to change the nature of the games you play with your children, Shields and others said, to emphasize cooperation. I gave it a shot.
Milo and I were standing in the living room when I proposed my plan: Let’s play catch and try to count how many times we can toss the ball back and forth.
“Yeah,” Milo said, excitedly. He paused. “I’ll catch more than you.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. I also hear plenty of Milo’s friends, especially the firstborns, talk about winning, with the sense that it’s good but without any real understanding of what it means or why.
John Tauer is a psychology professor at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minn., where he studies competition and coaches the men’s basketball team. “When I hear solutions that say let’s eliminate competition,” Tauer said, “that’s not realistic.”
The combination of cooperation and competition resulted in greater satisfaction and often in higher scores as well.
“It’s as consistent of a finding as we’ve had,” Tauer said. “Kids prefer the combination of competition and cooperation. It’s a significant increase in enjoyment.”
But what about when a child is playing on his own, or with his sister, or with a few others?
Tauer had some concrete advice: Even more basic than the need to win is the need to feel good and to have an accurate worldview.
“One of the biggest culprits in psychology is wanting kids to feel good all the time,” Tauer said. “Trying to avoid competition is making it bigger than it needs to be.”
MISSING THE POINT
Next, I sought the advice of a tennis champion, Erik van Dillen, who as a teenager in the late 1960s was the best player in the country. He went on to win the Davis Cup in 1972, as Stan Smith’s doubles partner, and beat a young John McEnroe at Wimbledon. He is also a father of five.
The emphasis on competition, he told me, somewhat misses the point — even at the level of champions. The greatest players he has known and played against, he said, are problem solvers. When they play against other greats, they relish the challenge of solving a difficult problem.
He has watched them carry those same problem-solving skills into the rest of their lives, he said, and he hasn’t noticed any diminished sense of self-esteem when they lose or any heightened sense of self when they win.
To hear him and Tauer tell it, the problem might be the very questions I started out with: How often should I let Milo win? How often should I allow him to lose? Maybe the more relevant question is, what does it mean to win or lose?
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