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Why Online Learning
Students take online courses for a variety of reasons. They may be full-time online students, taking all their courses over the Internet Grade 1 - 12, or they may be part-time online students, that is, supplementing the courses they take at their school with online courses (Gr 10- 12). Many students use online courses for credit recovery when they have failed a class that is required for graduation or a post-secondary entrance requirement. Students may also wish to take the online course to improve their overall mark to meet an entrance requirement for a post-secondary program. Prairie South School Division has many schools in rural Saskatchewan which may not offer a course which the student would like to take. Some students use online courses for elective credit and personal enrichment.
Today’s learning environments are changing. From the student’s point of view, online learning is attractive because it is:
- Personalized to my needs and interests. When students select their courses, they take greater ownership.
- Flexible so that I can try different ways and/or times to learn. Online learning allows scheduling to accommodate health, sports, employment and family circumstances.
- Interactive and engaging lessons. Grades 1 - 9 students meet via Zoom in a real-time synchronous safe environment. Interactive software is used in online learning to provide different ways of learning. Grades 10-12 students learn asynchronously, learning at their own pace.
- Relevant to life. Students gain more experience using the 21st century technology tools used in college, university and in the workplace.
- Learn at your own pace in your own place. Students engage in asynchronous lessons in grades 10-12 allowing them to move faster or slower through assignments and track their own progress toward their goals. Take classes from school, at home, while travelling - anywhere.
- Constantly informed by different ways of demonstrating and measuring my progress. Educational technology can measure and share student progress quickly.
- Responsive and supportive. Communicating outside the typical school day is supported by the online learning culture. Students can email and/or text their online teachers questions throughout the day - 7 days per week.
- Challenging but achievable. Online learning reinforces lifelong learning skills, time management skills and promotes information literacy and communication skills as well as critical thinking and problem-solving skills. | <urn:uuid:5db1f39e-a05f-4503-99ac-92c1e3135f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://virtualschool.prairiesouth.ca/parents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.948738 | 480 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Being president of the United States is a demanding job, as even Barack Obama’s most demanding critics would concede. The same is certainly true about serving as prime minister of Israel, a nation many of its neighbors want to destroy.
Amid Russian expansionism, rising Islamic terrorism, resurgent anti-Semitism and the malevolent machinations of anti-American and anti-Israeli regimes around the world, one would hope that the leaders in Washington and Tel Aviv would display more mutual grace. But personal enmity between President Obama and Bibi Netanyahu, along with a major policy disagreement over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, has interfered. That’s understandable – our elected leaders are only human – but this is not a time in world history to indulge such feelings.
“Grace” is a word and a concept cherished by Obama. He revealed this in 2012 to Reader’s Digest editor Liz Vaccariello, who asked him, “What’s your favorite word in any language?”
“Grace,” he replied. “I love the word grace because I think it captures what we strive for in life. It’s not just an individual thing. It’s not just a matter of excellence or something you’ve achieved. It’s something internal to you, but it’s also something that’s given to you. It’s not just individual, but it has to do with your relationships with others.”
Obama has also used the word in its direct religious sense. In September 2010, a University of New Mexico student asked him, “Why are you a Christian?”
“I’m a Christian by choice,” the president began, noting that his family didn’t regularly attend church. “So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead: being my brother’s and sister’s keeper, treating others as they would treat me.”
He continued: “And I think also, understanding that Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we’re sinful and we’re flawed … [b]ut what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace.”
So that’s another definition.
Here’s a third, courtesy of Ernest Hemingway. When interviewed by Dorothy Parker for a 1929 New Yorker profile, the great writer defined courage as “grace under pressure.” Implicit in this definition is danger, perhaps on the battlefield, which Hemingway himself experienced at a young age as a World War I ambulance driver.
Bibi Netanyahu knows that kind of grace. He’s an Israeli war hero, a Special Forces officer wounded in commando raids defending his country. That’s why it’s jarring to hear Obama administration officials whisper to American reporters that Netanyahu is a gutless politician. What they mean is that he isn’t willing to take stances as prime minister that would risk his standing among the most conservative voters in Israel – his electoral base – or speak unpleasant truths on the campaign trail.
This seems to be a criticism made in good faith in that U.S. officials really do seem frustrated by what they see as Netanyahu’s reluctance to level with his own people. This brings us back to Obama’s own definition about grace. Among other things, it means putting yourself in another person’s shoes – perhaps the most essential tenet of Christianity, as taught by a self-educated rabbi who preached as a Jew to his fellow Jews.
All this begs the question why the president can’t talk to Netanyahu, or about him, in a more gracious way. Obama took two days to phone Bibi after his surprise electoral victory Tuesday. When he did call, White House reporters were told, the president took Netanyahu to task for his Election Day comment about Arab Israelis being bused to the polls by the opposition party and about his vacillating statements about whether he still favors a Palestinian state.
Without being privy to the conservation, it seems that there is a more effective way to communicate.
Obama could break the ice by saying, “Look, Bibi, I understand why you talked tough about Iran before the election. You should have heard the whoppers I told the voters about the Affordable Care Act before the 2012 election.”
He would then continue: “But we must move forward with these negotiations with Iran. The allies are wavering on sanctions, and if we don’t get something in place, we strengthen the hard-liners in Tehran. They’ll keep blaming us for their own economic failures, keep exporting terrorism, and keep trying to build atomic weapons. | <urn:uuid:17639595-7469-4465-a68d-3c62ef4ef94a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pe.com/articles/grace-762829-obama-netanyahu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00052-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974747 | 1,040 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia
Harlem Désir, Minister of State for European Affairs, visited the Holocaust Memorial in Paris this morning.» Read more ...
France and the fight against racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia
France is party to the International Convention on All Forms of Racial Discrimination. As a State Party, France is required to report periodically to the Committee (CERD) on its progress towards implementation of the Convention’s provisions.
France is also an active and vigilant participant in the follow-up process to the World Conference on Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, held in Durban in 2001. The aim of the follow-up mechanism is to assess progress made in combating racial discrimination, raising awareness of racism and its consequences and formulating consensus-based recommendations to the United Nations and to States.
France supports the work of the Council of Europe, which deals with this issue through the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), and that of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). As a member of OSCE, France particularly supports the programmes implemented by the Tolerance and Non-Discrimination Department of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR).
France was also active in supporting the adoption of the framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia by means of criminal law, proposed by the European Commission in 2001 and adopted on 28 November 2008 under France’s Presidency of the Council of European Union.
In accordance with the recommendations of the Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and its commitments as a signatory to the Convention, France adopted a national plan of action against racism and anti-Semitism in February 2012 and appointed an inter-ministerial delegate to combat racism and anti-Semitism. The delegate’s task is to coordinate the work of the various government departments and ensure the consistency of government action on the ground, and to provide impetus, make proposals and assess progress. The delegate is also responsible for the coordination and implementation of the national plan of action and for organising the meetings of the Inter-Ministerial Committee to Fight Racism and Anti-Semitism (CILRA), set up in 2003.
On the legal front, France has gradually built up a body of criminal legislation that sets an example to the world, and has developed a policy for education, culture and sports that addresses every aspect of the fight against racism and anti-Semitism and promotes real equality of opportunity.
Updated on : 01.03.13
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Apes in the Anthropocene : flexibility and survival
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We are in a new epoch, the Anthropocene, and research into our closest living relatives, the great apes, must keep pace with the rate that our species is driving change. While a goal of many studies is to understand how great apes behave in natural contexts, the impact of human activities must increasingly be taken into account. This is both a challenge and an opportunity, which can importantly inform research in three diverse fields: cognition, human evolution, and conservation. No long-term great ape research site is wholly unaffected by human influence, but research at those that are especially affected by human activity is particularly important for ensuring that our great ape kin survive the Anthropocene.
Hockings , K J , McLennan , M R , Carvalho , S , Ancrenaz , M , Bobe , R , Byrne , R W , Dunbar , R I M , Matsuzawa , T , McGrew , W C , Williamson , E A , Wilson , M L , Wood , B , Wrangham , R W & Hill , C M 2015 , ' Apes in the Anthropocene : flexibility and survival ' Trends in Ecology and Evolution , vol 30 , no. 4 , pp. 215-222 . , 10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.002
Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Copyright 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 30, 4, April 2015 DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2015.02.002
This work was supported by a research grant to K.J.H. from FCT, Portugal (PTDC/CS-ANT/121124/2010) and from MEXT, Japan (CCSN/PWS-U04).
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Research shows that good leadership and talent recruitment is critical to business success. However, in the 2016 McQuaig Global Talent Recruitment Survey, only 25% of HR professionals ranked their leaders as being “very effective”.
61% described their leaders as “somewhat effective” and 14% as “ineffective”. This is concerning. It means that 75% of people feel they are being led by people who do a adequate to poor job. It also has implications for retaining talent. On the bright side, new leaders do get leadership training in almost two-thirds of cases (62%). But given the way that staff rate their leaders, the effectiveness of this training is doubtful.
In fact, in almost 40% of cases there is no leadership training at all for new leaders. This may explain some of the very poor ratings that leaders were assigned in our survey. Interestingly, our study showed that where new leaders do receive leadership training, 79% of them ranked as “very effective”. Where people are not trained, only 38% of the leaders are considered effective.
In companies with strong leaders, 53% of managers were likely to have had interview training. Companies with “very effective” leaders are also likely to have a succession plan. This was true in 73% of cases. It suggests a vicious cycle of poor leadership which organisations must break if they are to succeed.
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Chicago-based aircraft manufacturer Boeing has revised its historically accurate forecast of aircraft sales upward, saying the world will need 34,000 new airliners over the next 20 years and the business will be worth $4.5 trillion. That is an increase of half of a trillion dollars up from a mere $4 trillion predicted in its previous forecast.
The pace of aircraft production forecast by both Boeing and European airliner manufacturer Airbus will require 466,650 more commercial pilots be trained by the year 2029. That will require an average of 23,300 new pilots a year. Nearly 40% of the new pilots will be required to meet the rapidly increasing travel market in the Asia-Pacific region. Boeing predicts in their market forecast that more than 97,000 new pilots will be needed to fly in North America. Since Asian Airlines hire thousands of their pilots from the United States, many more US trained pilots will be needed.
“It’s incredible to see just how much air travel has changed since I took my first flight back in 1977,” said Boeing’s VP of marketing, Randy Tinseth. “It has become critical to business and something we do for pleasure, to connect with family and friends. As the market continues to grow, especially in emerging economies, air travel will become affordable to even more people.”
Low-cost carriers will fuel much of the growth so Boeing is predicting that more than two-thirds of the market is for single-aisle airliners, chiefly its 737 and the Airbus A320. Aircraft with two rows, like the 787 and the A350, will account for about 8,000 units. Approximately 2,020 regional airliners will be needed and 790 large (747/A380) airliners will be sold. Only about 940 new freighters will be ordered but about 1,120 older airliners will be converted to freight hauling aircraft. | <urn:uuid:42807075-eef9-4c91-9838-734a7247b66e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pilotjobs.atpflightschool.com/2012/07/05/boeing-increases-forecast-for-airliners-and-airline-pilots/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951549 | 390 | 2.015625 | 2 |
LOC/L/L1. Education, General
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
The Academic Distinctions committee at the University of Oregon was concerned with reviewing the requirements for achieving various academic distinctions. Collection contains material regarding a new grading system and the honors college, 1970-1971.
Launched 1879 with five alumni, the University of Oregon Alumni Association works to keep alumni connected to the university. The collection contains Alumni Holding Company and Alumni Association records including correspondence, minutes, publications, reports, and newsletters, directories, resolutions, financial records, donor relations files, reunion information, photographs, slides, and negatives as well as correspondence and other information on students who served in WWI and WWII.
The Asklepiads Pre-Med Society is a student-run organization at the University of Oregon open to all students interested in the medical field. The collection (1929-1983) contains meeting minutes, ritual, photographs, and treasurer's reports.
Beta Phi Mu, the library and information studies honor society, was founded at the University of Illinois in August, 1948. The collection contains the University of Oregon chapter records consisting of bylaws, ritual information, correspondence, committee information and minutes, member and initiate information, treasurer's books and receipts, and a brass wick lamp, 1973.
The mission of the UO Center on Diversity and Community (CoDaC) is to advance inclusive excellence through critical thinking and an ethic of care. The collection contains reports and VHS tapes on CoDaC projects concerning diversity and affirmative action.
The Department of Military Science was established at the University of Oregon in 1919, although the school had sponsored military training through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program before the creation of a Military Science department. The collection includes department files and ROTC/Air Force ROTC information, audiotapes, scrapbooks, photographs, clippings, newsletters, student orientation and training, and protest information, 1916-1972.
Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 (nationally) to honor excellence in scientific investigation and encourage a sense of companionship and cooperation among researchers in all fields of science and engineering. The Society of the Sigma Xi, University of Oregon Chapter, was founded in 1923 after a two year effort. Collection contains office files, correspondence, fraternity records, chapter book, and historical information.
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10 December 2013 Upcoming meetings on surface salinity science
There are a number of meetings in 2014 that will be of interst to SMOS+SOS stakeholders:
23 - 28 February 2014 Ocean Sciences Meeting, Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu (www.sgmeet.com/osm2014/sessionschedule.asp?SessionID=073)
Co-sponsored by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), The Oceanography Society (TOS), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
27 April - 2 May 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2014, Vienna (meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2014/session/15292)
Session on Sea surface salinity variability: in situ and satellite observations.
26 - 28 November 2014 SMOS+SOS Workshop, Exeter, UK
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THERE are lots of healthy and nutritious foods you should include in your balanced diet, but for older people there are also some you should be very careful with, or avoid altogether.
Older people (those over the age of 65 or thereabouts) are at greater risk of food poisoning. On top of that, when older people get food poisoning it's harder for their bodies to fight it effectively and recover quickly. For that reason, it makes sense to avoid those foods most likely to cause food poisoning, or at least to be very careful about knowing how they’ve been sourced, stored and cooked.
While food poisoning is unpleasant at any age, most people recover from it fairly quickly without treatment. However, older people may find it much harder to combat a bout of severe food poisoning because their immune system is no longer as strong as it once was. Food poisoning isn’t just a nuisance; it can lead to dangerous complications like dehydration and even become life-threatening
Symptoms include feeling nauseous, diarrhoea, vomiting, stomach cramps, a high temperature and experiencing aches and cold sweats. These symptoms usually start within a few hours or days of eating the food that caused the infection, but it may be longer. If you experience symptoms like these and think it may be due to food poisoning, you should seek medical advice.
The best thing, of course, is to avoid food poisoning in the first place. Here are some of the foods to be wary of when you’re older or have an underlying health condition that either weakens your immune system or hampers recovery:
Some soft cheeses: Mould-ripened soft cheese, such as brie, camembert, gorgonzola, Roquefort, Danish Blue and any unpasteurised soft cheeses, should be avoided. Because they are moister and less acidic than hard cheeses, they are an ideal environment for food-poisoning bugs to grow in, especially a bug called ‘listeria’. Cooked soft cheeses are generally fine because heat kills listeria.
Pâté: Try to avoid all types of fresh or chilled pâté (including vegetable pâtés) as they are another favourite breeding ground for listeria. Tinned pâté should be fine as it is heat-treated, killing the bacteria, as part of the canning process. However, once opened you should be careful about where you store it and how long for, following the advice on the packaging.
Raw or runny eggs: Older people and those with weaker immune systems should avoid raw or runny eggs or any foods which contain them, such as homemade mayonnaise or hollandaise sauce, because they increase the risk of salmonella poisoning. Many countries have a national standard for hens’ eggs, ensuring they are produced in line with a code of practice which should make them safe to eat raw or partially cooked. Look for eggs marked with the British Lion stamp. All other eggs, including duck, goose and quail eggs, should be cooked until both the whites and yolks are solid.
Cold meats: Many cold meats, such as salami, prosciutto, chorizo and pepperoni are not cooked, just cured and fermented, so they could contain toxoplasmosis-causing parasites. Always check product packaging to see whether the product is ready-to-eat or needs cooking first. For ready-to-eat meats, you can reduce any risk by freezing cured or fermented meats for four days at home before eating them, as freezing kills most parasites. If you’re eating out in a restaurant that sells cold cured or fermented meats, they may not have been frozen. Don’t be afraid to ask.
Raw or undercooked meat and poultry: Cases of food poisoning rise during barbecue season, because rare or undercooked meats – especially sausages, burgers and poultry – can harbour nasty bugs like E.coli, salmonella and campylobacter. Make sure meat and poultry is cooked thoroughly, with no traces of pink or blood, and always wash your hands, utensils and preparation surfaces thoroughly after handling raw meat or poultry.
Milk: Stick to pasteurised or UHT (ultra-heat-treated) milk, as these processes kill the harmful bugs sometimes found in raw (unpasteurised) milk available direct from farms, farm shops and some farmers’ markets. (The same advice applies to unpasteurised fruit juice).
Raw shellfish: Uncooked shellfish such as mussels, oysters, lobster, crab, prawns, scallops and clams can contain harmful bacteria and viruses which can trigger food poisoning. Cooked shellfish is fine, as are cold pre-cooked prawns.
Sushi: Dishes made with raw fish, such as sushi, are fine to eat as long as the fish has been frozen first, since freezing kills the small parasitic worms which raw fish occasionally contains. Sushi sold in shops will generally have been frozen first – if you’re concerned, don’t be afraid to ask. If making sushi at home, freeze the fish for at least four days before using it.
Bean sprouts: Beware of raw or lightly cooked bean sprouts. These are sprouts produced from seeds grown in water, harvested before the leaves develop and eaten whole, including the seed. There are many types, but common examples include alfalfa, beansprouts (mung bean), radish, fenugreek and clover. The warm moist conditions needed to grow bean sprouts are also ideal for the rapid growth of bacteria, so they should be cooked until steaming hot throughout in order to be eaten safely. | <urn:uuid:e6b64dca-208a-4343-8a11-3b0b1dbb9bbe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acornstairlifts.co.uk/blog/post/2204/Health/Some-foods-best-avoided-when-you%E2%80%99re-over-65 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.954873 | 1,199 | 3.03125 | 3 |
Interaksi Antara Daya Tumbuh Benih dengan Pertumbuhan Tanaman Semangka (Citrullus lanatus (Thunb.) Matsum dan Nakai) Pada Pemupukan Organik dan Anorganik
Abstract: The aim of this research to observe and analyze the ability to grow of watermelon seeds in organic and inorganic fertilizers. Observing and analyzing the interaction between the ability to grow of watermelon seeds with plant growth in organic and inorganic fertilizers. Recommend a combination of organic and inorganic fertilizers that provide maximum results. This research was conducted in field of State Polytechnic of Lampung on June until Agustus 2014. This research uses a randomized complete block design (RCBD) with treatment in the form of thiamethoxam, inorganic fertilizers and organic fertilizers, namely: P1 = 0% organic fertilizer + 100% inorganic fertilizer; P2 = 25% organic fertilizer + 75% inorganic fertilizer; P3 = 50% organic fertilizer + 50% inorganic fertilizer; P4 = 75% organic fertilizer + 25% inorganic fertilizer; P5 = 100% organic fertilizer + 0% inorganic fertilizer. Doses of inorganic fertilizers: Urea = 300 kg.ha-1, SP-36 = 200 kg.ha-1, KCl = 100 kg.ha-1. Organic fertilizer: manure (cow manure) = 20 tons.ha-1. Data were analyzed with analysis of variance and if there is a real different treatments followed by LSD test at 5% level. The results showed that organic and inorganic fertilizer application significantly affected fruit length and fruit weight, but did not significantly affect the ability to grow, main stem length and number of leaves. The length of the longest fruit found in the treatment of inorganic fertilizer application of 75% + 25% organic fertilizer (P2). While the weight of the heaviest fruit found in the treatment of organic fertilizer application of 100% (P5). The highest ability to grow plant found in the treatment of 100% inorganic fertilizer application (P1), treatment of inorganic fertilizer application 50% + 50% organic fertilizers (P3), P2 and P5 treatment. The longest length of main stem found in P5 treatment, while the highest number of leaves found in P2 treatment.
Penulis: Nazirwan, Anung Wahyudi
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Dr Omalu is a Nigerian doctor and forensic neuropathologist based in the United States.
On Saturday he was awarded with the American Medical Association (AMA)’s Highest Honor for his unprecedented health discovery. He received the Distinguished Service Award during the opening session of the 2016 AMA Interim Meeting, in Orlando, Florida.
The merit award recognizes a member of the AMA for exceptional service in the science and art of medicine. Dr Bennet has been a member of the AMA for 20 years now.
Dr Bennet Omalu discovered the Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in diseased NFL players in 2002.
CTE is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in athletes (and others) with a history of repetitive brain trauma, including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic sub-concussive hits to the head- CTE Centre, Boston University.
“When I looked at his brain and he had diffuse amyloid plaques everywhere and there were no neuritic plaques … I took the slides home with me.
“I spent six months with those slides. I saw tau randomly situated, and not reminiscent of any other dementia that I knew. My first reaction, when I went to the literature, was that I expected to find previous reports like this, but I didn’t find even one.”
The disease is usually common with people who experience repeated blows on their heads such as boxers and NFL players.
“Dr Omalu initially thought the league would be pleased to learn of his findings, but when they were presented at an NFL meeting on concussions in 2007, they were dismissed, and the league—through lawyers, physicians and other experts—went on to mount a coordinated effort to discredit Dr Omalu and his research.”- AMA.
After much denial, the NFL finally acknowledged the veracity of his finding in 2009. They publicly admitted there was a link between concussions sustained in football and CTE.
Bennet studied Medicine in Nigeria before he left for the United States. In 2015 he became a United States citizen.
Benet is the chief medical examiner for the San Joaquin County Coroner’s Office in California; and a clinical associate professor in the University of California, Davis, Department of Medical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine.
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Internet is the only way through which one can reach the desired object. The phone lookup system is the blessing of the internet. With the help of the phone lookup system, one can get detailed information about a phone number. If you are getting harassment calls or threatening calls, you can get detailed knowledge of the harasser from the reverse phone lookup system. Any business organisation needs to use the phone lookup system to avoid unnecessary phone calls. With the help of the phone lookup system, one can get the legal adviser's help to get rid of threatening calls.
The Uniqueness Of The Phone Lookup System
Phone number search for a specific reason is vital for many people. Phone number caller ID helps you find the unique caller list with their detailed information. If you miss picking up a call, the phone lookup system can help you drastically.
Various Phone Number Lookup systems are available in the market that provides you with the most advanced benefits of finding a phone number. You have to copy the unknown number and hit the search option of any search engine. A few seconds later, you will quickly get some specific information about the phone number because the extensive database phone number lookup system is becoming popular globally.
The phone number lookup system is a simple and smart way to improve your experience of getting the details of any phone number.
Maximum people around the world are victims of phone number harassment. Phone harassers hide behind the mysterious phone number. A strange call from an unknown number may provide you with severe pain for a few days.
Drawbacks Of Phone Lookup System
The reverse phone number lookup system claims to provide free service for finding the details of any phone number. But in many, cases, some companies charge a specific amount for providing reverse phone lookup service. Users have to select the phone lookup system as per their requirements.
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Firefighters responding to over 2,000 lightning strikes
Firefighters are responding to several dozen small fires across the Willamette National Forest. Thunderstorms that occurred over the past two days produced over 2,000 lightning strikes. Although not all strikes produce fires, today’s thunderstorms will continue to produce additional strikes. And even though rain has accompanied some of the strikes, it is not always enough rain to put out all of the new fires. Most of the fires are small, from single trees up to an acre in size.
The McKenzie River Ranger District and Middle Fork Ranger District received the bulk of the lightning, but lightning also sparked several new fires on the Detroit and Sweet Home Ranger Districts in the Whitewater Creek and Gordon Meadows areas respectively. Most of the fires on the McKenzie River Ranger District were reported in the Three Sisters Wilderness. Smokejumpers, rappellers and helicopters are being used to suppress these fires while caring for wilderness values and protecting firefighters from hazards.
Firefighters are currently responding to eight new fires on the Middle Fork Ranger District. One of these fires is located on a ridge north of Oakridge and is producing a column of smoke that is visible from town.
Fire managers expect more fires to emerge as a result of lightning over the upcoming days and possibly weeks. Aerial detection from helicopters helps fire managers in locating new starts. Crews are also out looking for new starts and are prepared to suppress them if conditions are safe.
“Our fire season is just beginning and we have a lot of summer left in front of us, so our strategy is to prioritize and suppress fires that we find in such a way that we reduce the risks to our firefighters and the public. So far, we are managing to keep up with the number of fires we have had with these storms,” said Meg Mitchell, Forest Supervisor for the Willamette National Forest. “We also stay in close touch with ODF who is suppressing fires on private lands that they protect in these areas, so we are all talking, sharing information and resources.”
There are currently no fire-related closures for the public or restrictions on campfires in the Willamette National Forest. “We just ask for everyone’s cooperation to watch their campfires closely and apply plenty of water until it’s completely out before they leave their campsite. Our air is pretty clean right now, and we want to keep It that way,” said Mitchell. Forest visitors are asked to report any smokes.
For additional information, please call the nearest Ranger District (McKenzie District # is 541-822-3381). Fire updates will also be posted on the Willamette National Forest website at www.fs.usda.gov/willamette
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Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA), a life-threatening but preventable condition, remains an important problem for youth with diabetes and their families. Diabetic ketoacidosis is due to a severe lack of insulin and it is often the presenting symptom of type 1 diabetes. It can also be present at the onset of type 2 diabetes.
SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth, a multi-center, multiethnic study of childhood diabetes, is the largest surveillance effort of diabetes among youth under the age of 20 conducted in the United States to date. The study covers 5 locations across the country where about 5.5 million children live.
In a report in the April, 2014, issue of the Pediatrics, study investigators analyzed data from 5615 youth with type 1 and 1425 youth with type 2 diabetes newly diagnosed between 2002 and 2010. The study, led by Dana Dabelea, MD, PhD, professor and associate dean at the University of Colorado School of Public Health, shows that the frequency of DKA at diagnosis in U.S. youth with type 1 diabetes did not decline over the last 8 years, but remained high compared with other developed countries, with almost a third of all youth with type 1 diabetes presenting in DKA. Rates were disproportionately high in children younger than 5 years of age, non-White racial/ethnic groups, youth without private health insurance and those with lower family income. Among youth with type 2 diabetes, DKA was much less common and decreased over time, suggesting improved detection or earlier diagnosis of diabetes.
Dabelea says "These data suggest that more needs to be done to begin reducing DKA rates in the future. Previous research suggests that increased community awareness of type 1 diabetes, including parental education and closer monitoring of signs and symptoms of diabetes, may be effective tools. In the U.S., improved health care access especially for underserved populations is also needed to reduce the observed health disparities."
SEARCH has estimated that there were at least 188,811 youth with diabetes in the U.S. in 2009: 168,141 with type 1 diabetes and 19,147 with type 2 diabetes. In the U.S. and worldwide, the incidence of type 1 diabetes in youth has been increasing by 3% to 4% per year, with limited estimates for type 2 diabetes except in minority populations in whom increased prevalence has also been reported.
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Diwali or Dipavali - The Hindu Festival of Lights
Deepavali or Diwali, is one of the most popular festivals of India and of Hindus. It is also one of the most eagerly awaited festivals in the Indian subcontinent. Business men and commercial establishments, consider it an opportunity to boost their sales and increase profits, while individuals use the occasion to celebrate life and strengthen relationships.
For children it is a great opportunity to experience the joys of growing up and become acquainted with all types of firecrackers. It comes during autumn in the Hindu month of Ashwayuja, (also known as Ashwin or Aippasi), according to the lunar calendar and corresponds roughly with either October or November depending upon the movement of the sun and the moon and their relative positions in space and time.
History, meaning and significance
In Sanskrit, "Deepavali" means, a row of lights. Its origins are a mystery, steeped in the myths and legends of ancient India. It was said to be originally a harvest festival. It was meant either to celebrate the harvest or to commemorate the ancestors who departed to the ancestral world. Vedic people believed that upon death souls who were not destined for liberation ascended to the ancestral world which was located in the moon by the path of ancestors (pitrmarg). Since the path was not as bright as the sunlit path of the immortals (devayana) people might have held lights, lamps and torches towards the sky on that day in the hope that it would help them ascend to the ancestral world.
References to the festival are found in the Padma and Skanda Puranas. According to the latter, the lamps that were lit on that day symbolized aspects of the Sun. Diwali is associated with several ancient legends, such as the ascent of Nachiketa to the heaven, the victory of Rama over Ravana and his return to Ayodhay to ascend the throne, the return of the Pandavas from exile, and the victory of Lord Krishna over the demon Narakasura. In Kerala people believe that on this occasion the demon king Bali who was granted salvation by Vishnu, visits the earth to see people celebrating the festival. People also believe that on this occasion goddess Lakshmi visits the homes of her devotees and blesses them. Hence, people try to keep their homes clean. Outside India community celebrations are a common feature.
We have references, which suggest that celebrating Diwali in India has been a very ancient custom, which continues even today. A Sanskrit play, named Nagananda which was composed during the time of Harsha, states how it was celebrated with lamps, and how newly married couples received gifts on that occasion. Another scripture, Kavyamimansa, composed during the 9th century suggests how the homes were whitewashed and decorated with lamps. Al Beruni, the Persian historian who visited India in the 11th century mentions that Hindus celebrated Deepavali on New Moon day in the month of Kartika. Diwali is celebrated not only in India but in all the countries such as Nepal, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, where Hindus are present.
Whatever may be the practice, in a world ridden with the forces of ignorance, sorrow and conflict, we can feel its strong connection with the highest of our aspirations and deepest yearnings. In many ways, it is a ritual set in motion characterizing our natural inclination for things that are bright and beautiful, as expressed beautifully in the Vedic hymn, "tamasoma jyotirgamaya" (From darkness unto Light). Symbolically, it represents our divine nature and reminds us of our primary responsibility to pursue the path of light and attain liberation.
While we do not clearly know the antecedents of this remarkably unique, Hindu festival, currently Maha Lakshmi, the goddess, who symbolizes all the positive forces of life and the divine aspect of wealth and abundance is revered as its principal deity and main object or veneration. Truly, the festival is a celebration of wealth and abundance in which people from all sections of society, both rich and poor participate. Goddess Maha Lakshmi is associated with a number of legends and divine entities. Just as she represents universal health, wealth, happiness, victory, courage, facility, fertility, harmony, beauty, joy and enlightenment, Diwali represents the brilliance and the abundance of life and happiness in its full glory.
Many Hindus regard Diwali as the beginning of a new year. Historically, for traditional Hindu businesses it marks the beginning of a new accounting year. As the name suggests, Diwali is celebrated with lights and lamps, sounds, and joyous festivity. People consider the occasion an opportunity to start anew, to renew hopes, and to explore new relationships, possibilities and opportunities. The festival provides an opportunity to our senses to grasp their share of enjoyment and to our minds and hearts to experience the joys of life, belongingness, love, and universal brotherhood.
As the festival approaches, memories of previous Diwalis fill the minds of people, as they await with eager expectations of yet another exciting and joyous occasion to celebrate life and kinship. When the day dawns and the night comes, the earth wears a glittering robe. You can see the homes and streets being lit up with the brilliance of lights and lamps, while flashes of light from the firecrackers fill the sky and the mid-region as if to express gratitude and invite the celestial beings of those planes to participate in the festivity and offer their blessings.
On the night of Diwali, streets and public places all over India (and several other places) become filled with adults and children alike and reverberating sounds from the firecrackers. People from all backgrounds gather in streets, public places, lawns and front yards, house tops, or in front of their own houses to witness the celebration of joy and the victory of gods in the glow of auspicious lights. It is as if the mortal beings upon earth have discovered a way of lifting their minds to God to express their rejection of evil and their devotion and commitment to Dharma, righteous living, duty, morality, and all the good things that life and divinity represent.
However, Diwali is not a mere festival of lights where wealth is worshipped and people congregate to indulge in vanity and ostentatiousness. Traditionally, the festival is a ritual worship of light and divinity to express the allegiance of human beings to gods rather than the demons. It involves a series of complex rituals for five continuous days by devotees to express their gratitude to gods for their services and in return discharge their obligations towards them through prayers and sacrificial offerings. The lights that are lit on the night of Diwali are part of those offerings only. Hence, the celebration of Diwali with lights and firecrackers constitutes divine worship only, in which discipline, faith and sincerity play an important role.
The occasion offers innumerable opportunities to devout Hindus to focus their minds upon their gods and practice devotional service through karma yoga (the yoga of action) with detachment amidst distracting festivities and worldly activities. During Diwali time, people clean and decorate their homes and prepare for family gatherings. Nowadays the onset of Diwali season triggers a lot of buying activity, gambling and gift giving. Many projects are also started around this since Diwali is an auspicious festival.
In the following paragraphs we will describe how Hindus celebrate Diwali during the five days, in addition to presenting a few interesting facts about the festival. In the end we will also focus upon the practice of burning firecrackers during Diwali and whether it is justified in today’s world.
The first day - Dhantrayodashi
The first day of the festival is known as Dhanteras or Dhantrayodashi. Dhan means wealth, and Trayodashi means 13th day. Thus, as the name implies, this day falls on the 13th day of the first half of the lunar month. On this day, it is believed that, Lord Dhanwantari emerged from the waters of the ocean holding the knowledge of the spiritual medicines of Ayurveda, to help the mankind fight against sickness, disease and death.
On this day people purchase valuables, light lamps using oil filled clay cups and worship the Goddess of Wealth. They also worship Yama, the Lord of Death, seeking protection against untimely death. Parents and elders accompany children to the market looking for firecrackers and sweets, if they have not purchased already. Those who have brought them home spread the crackers in the sunlight and allow them to dry, so that when the time comes they do not fail to perform.
The second day – Narak Chaturdasi
The second day of the festival is known as Naraka Chaturdasi. Narak means the purgatory or hell and Chaturdashi means the fourteenth day. Thus, this day falls on the 14th day of the first half of the lunar month. Religiously, the day marks the end of an evil empire in some prehistoric past and the beginning of a new era of Light and Knowledge.
According to the legends, on this day Lord Sri Krishna, supported by his consort Satyabhama and his huge army, killed the demon Narkasura, in a legendary battle between the gods and demons and released the world from the darkness of fear and oppression. In the process, he also freed 16,000 divine Shaktis (energies) of the Mother Goddess, which were held forcibly until then by the evil demon.
On this auspicious day, people usually take a ritual bath before sunrise, using traditional herbs and materials, just as Lord Krishna was believed to have done after He returned from the battlefields victoriously. They spend the remaining day restfully in the company of friends and family. Some play cards and test their luck. It is also believed that on this day Lord Vishnu incarnated upon earth as Vamana and put his foot on the head of the demon king Bali. With his foot he pushed Bali down into the nether world and freed the earth and the goddess Lakshmi from his control.
The third day - Diwali
The actual Diwali is celebrated on the third day of the festival, when the moon completely wanes and total darkness sets in the night sky. It is in this darkness that Diwali finds its true expression. On this day people worship Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth and express their gratitude for previous favors.
Usually, the pooja is performed both in the morning and again in the evening when the sun is ready to set or has already set. People believe that the Goddess will not visit those homes which are not kept clean or properly lighted. So everyone strives to keep their houses clean, the doors and windows open and all the lights and lamps glowing brightly.
During the worship, devotees make offerings to Lord Vinayaka and Mother Goddess also, in addition to the principal deity, with traditional chants, rituals, purified water, new clothes, fruit and flowers, sweets, light, sandal paste, incense, rice, turmeric and vermillion. Money and valuables are placed before the principal deity during the invocation.
At the end of the worship, prasadam is offered to the family members and visitors. In wealthy households, the assistance of a temple priest is sought to conduct the worship according to the scriptural injunctions. After worshipping the goddess in one's own house, people start making rounds to the nearby temples, and the houses of friends and relations to see how the celebration has been going on and distribute sweets and gifts. Elsewhere, the goddess is worshipped ceremonially in temples, public places, business houses and offices.
As the evening comes, houses and streets are decorated with innumerable lights, lamps and candles. People keep the doors and windows open and all the lights on, expecting the goddess to come inside and take a survey of the things that have been done for her sake. Outside, people gather in the streets and front yards to burn firecrackers, or watch others burning them or keep an eye on the oil lamps. Some habitual card players, use the occasion as an opportunity to play cards and gamble their money.
According to a legend, on this day Lord Krishna completed his incarnation upon earth and left this world, leaving the pandavas and his kinsmen in utter confusion. In Jain tradition it is believed that Lord Mahavira, the last of the Thirthakaras, attained Nirvana on this day only. According to another prevailing legend, it was on this day, young Nachiketa of the Kathopanishad, received divine and secret knowledge of immortality from Lord Yama, the Lord of Death.
The fourth day - Padwa
The fourth day is variously known as Padwa, Varshapratipada and Kartika Shudda Padyami. According to a legend, at the behest of Lord Krishna the people of Braj worshipped the hillock Govardhan on this day to save themselves from an impending storm unleashed by the fury of Indra, the Lord of Heaven.
Even now, in northern India, in the land of Braj, people continue the tradition of worshipping Govardhan on this auspicious day. In a sense, this is an act of invocation to appease the forces of Nature to prevent the occurrence of floods and cyclonic storms, a tradition that is probably rooted in the Vedic times.
In the temples of Mathura and Nathdwara priests give a special bath to the principal deities on this occasion and decorate them with glittering robes and eye catching jewelry. They heap a mountain load of food infront of the deities in a symbolic way and later distribute it to the devotees as prasadam.
In traditional households, women worship their husbands and receive gifts and blessings in return. Business people open new account books to begin the new financial year and offer prayers for luck and prosperity.
The fifth day- Bhai Duj
The fifth and final day of the festival is known as Bhai duj (Bhayiduj, Bhayyaduj, Bhavbij or Bhayitika). On this day brothers and sisters get together to strengthen their bonds of love and affection and celebrate the occasion. Sisters put a ceremonial mark, usually with vermilion, on their brothers' foreheads and wish them long lives. According to a legend, the tradition began when Yamuna, the sister of Lord Yama honored her brother with a tilak on his forehead and wished him long life.
Miscellaneous facts about Diwali
1. It is believed that the festival of Diwali commemorates the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya. After spending 14 years in the forest of Dandaka and slaying the demon king Ravana, when Rama returned to Ayodhya, his capital city, people were overjoyed by the news of his arrival and started the tradition of Diwali by celebrating the day with lights and lamps. However, it must be noted that although the tradition links Rama to the festival, the Ramayana does not mention it by name. We do not find any reference to it in the Ramacharitmanas of Tulasidas.
2. It is suggested by some historians that the tradition of Diwali could be traced to the Harvest festivals of ancient times when people observed the end of a harvest season with some kind of festivity to celebrate the occasion. Since Diwali usually comes at the end of the harvest season, it lends credence to this theory, although we do not have any historical or scriptural evidence to prove it.
3.Two eminent Hindus, Swami Dayananda Saraswati and Swami Ramathirtha, left their mortal bodies on this auspicious day.
4. In West Bengal, people worship Goddess Durga during the Diwali festival. According to a legend, Durga killed Mahishasura in a fierce battle and continued her victory dance even after the demon was slain.
Diwali and Sikhism
1. Not only Hindus, but Sikhs also celebrate Diwali as an important festival. It is said that the foundation stone for the Golden Temple was laid during the time of Diwali in 1577.
2. Diwali played an important role in the life of Sri Guru Hargobind Ji, the sixth Guru of the Sikhs. When Jehangir, the Mughal emperor, arrested Guru Hargobind and put him in a prison in Gwalior, gloom descended upon Sikhs. However, Jehangir relented and freed the Guru. Accompanied by his followers and to the joy of many Sikhs, the Guru returned to Amritsar and made an appearance before his followers. The occasion was Diwali and it prompted the followers to celebrate the day with joy and happiness.
Diwali and Jainism
1. It is said that the first scriptural reference to Diwali is found in the Jain scripture Harivamsha Purana, by Acharya Jinasena. None of the principal Hindu scriptures mention the festival in particular. It prompted some to conclude that Diwali was originally a Jain festival and later adopted by Hindus as a festival of their own.
2. Lord Mahavira, the last of the Jain Thirthankaras, said to have attained Nirvana on this day at Pavapuri. Accoriding Jain legends the first disciple of Mahavira, Ganadhar Gautam Swami also attained complete knowledge on this very day, thus making Diwali a special occasion for Jains to celebrate.
3. The way Jains celebrate Diwali is different in many respects. There is an element of asceticism in whatever Jains do, and the celebration of Diwali is not an exception. The Jains celebrate Diwali during the month of Kartik for three days. During this period, devoted Jains observe fasting and chant the Uttaradhyayan Sutra which contains the final pravachans of Lord Mahavira and meditate upon him.
Diwali in other parts of the World
1. Diwali is celebrated in various parts of the world, in countries such as Britain, Guyana, Fiji, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Nepal, Singapore, Srilanka, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Africa, and Australia. With more and more Indians now migrating to various parts of the world, the number of countries where Diwali is celebrated has been gradually increasing. In most of these countries Diwali is celebrated on the same lines as described in this article with some minor variations. Some important variations are worth mentioning.
2. In Malaysia, people call Diwali as Hari Diwali and celebrate it during the seventh month of the Hindu solar calendar. In many respects it resembles the traditions followed in the Indian subcontinent.
3. Diwali is celebrated in Nepal with a lot of fanfare as in India, during the period of October and November, where it is known as Tihar. Here though the festival is celebrated for five days, the traditions vary from those followed in India. In Nepal animals are worshipped during the first two days. On the first day cows are worshipped and given offerings. On the second day, dogs are revered and offered special food. During third day the celebrations follow the same pattern as in India, with lights and lamps and lot of social activity. On the fourth day Yama, the Lord of Death is worshipped and appeased since on this occasion he said to have spared some legendary people from a certain death. On the fifth and final day, brothers and sisters meet and exchange pleasantries.
4. Diwali is celebrated in the Caribbean Islands also. Especially in Trinidad and Tobago Diwali it is marked as a special occasion and celebrated with a lot of fanfare. It is observed as a national holiday in this part of the world and some Ministers of the Government also take part in the celebrations publicly.
5. Diwali is celebrated by Hindus in the USA at homes, temples, and community halls. However due to restrictions in various states on the use of firecrackers, Hindus are presently not using firecrackers during Diwali. Many hesitate even to light lamps, or celebrate the festival in open, since it attracts attention and complaints from the neighbors who do not know what the occasion means. It is time Hindu associations in the USA to take up the matter with the State and Federal authorities and obtain permission to celebrate Diwali with firecrackers just as people have the permission to celebrate the Fourth of July.
Diwali in the Modern World
A growing number of scholars and people question the need and justification of using firecrackers to celebrate Diwali and demand for its discontinuation citing several reasons which are stated below.
Every year a lot of money goes into flames in the name of celebrations towards firecrackers. It serves no purpose except a little excitement and could be used by people for more productive purposes or humanitarian aid.
Many companies that are engaged in the manufacture of firecrackers employ child labor. They hardly follow the safety rules or regulations. Because of negligence and lack of oversight, occasionally it leads to fire accidents and deaths.
The manufactures do not maintain quality due to slack regulations and corruption. When people use them, they expose themselves to the hazard of injuries and accidental deaths.
Miscreants use the opportunity to use firecrackers and create in streets and public places or tease women. Many fire accidents also happen in areas where people live in houses with thatched roofs and temporary constructions.
Excessive and unchecked use of firecrackers is a source of public nuisance and often leads to communal clashes, street fights, and social tensions.
The festival brings out into open the social and economic disparities that prevail in society. While rich families celebrate the festival with great abandon, poor people and children experience despair and frustration when they see others celebrating.
The firecrackers used during the festival on a large scale are a source of pollution. However, on the positive side it is said that the smoke and smell coming from them drive away insects and mosquitoes and keep people safe from their bite.
Some of the points mentioned above are valid and justified. Hence, some introspection may be required. If we can separate emotion and belief for a moment and examine the issue with reason, it makes sense for each family to minimize the expenditure on firecrackers, at least by avoiding the purchase of certain types which are expensive and hazardous, or which create noise pollution. Instead, they can spend that money for a good cause such as giving charity to a temple, organization, or a needy person. They can still celebrate Diwali with lamps, and other festivities.
Diwali symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness, and of good over evil. We celebrate light because it represents life. Apart from the traditional methods of celebrating it, you can celebrate it in other ways too such as lighting the lamp of knowledge in the minds of others or bringing hope and happiness in their lives through selfless service. Goddess Lakshmi will be truly pleased if you become a lamp to others and channel her light, wealth, and abundance to them. Let you be a lamp in the darkness of ignorance and suffering and spread light in the lives of others. It is better than living selfishly and accumulate karmic darkness. Wealth is truly divine. It remains divine and force of light only when it is spent for good causes and with right intentions to promote harmony, happiness, and spiritual wellbeing. Those who know the Maha Lakshmi know how she is pleased when wealth is spent for the purpose for which it is intended, which is the performance of obligatory duties for the preservation of life, order and regularity upon earth In today’s world, let us therefore celebrate Diwali as an auspicious occasion and a sacred opportunity to bring cheer and happiness in a world which is oppressed by the darkness of egoism, greed, vanity and selfishness.
Suggestions for Further Reading
- Hindu Festivals - Diwali or Dipavali
- Hindu Festivals - Durga Puja
- Navaratri - The Hindu Festival
- Should December 25 be a Public Holiday in India?
- Hindu Gods - Lord Ganesha
- God and Self in Hinduism
- Goddesses of Hinduism, Their Symbolism and Significance
- Hindusim and Prayers
- Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, the Highest Gods of Hinduism
- Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of Wealth and Wellbeing
- Navagrahas, the Nine Planetary gods in Hinduism
- Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism
- Worship of Gods and Goddess inHindusim
- About Goddess Parvathi or Shakti
- Sarasvathi, The Goddess of Learning
- The Role of Archakas, Temple Priests, in Hinduism
- Hinduism - Gods and Goddess in the Vedas
- Yajna - Vedic Sacrifices in Hinduism
- Hindu God Vishnu, the Preserver
- The Problem of Maya Or Illusion and How To Deal With It
- Brahman, The Highest God Of Hinduism
- The Bhagavadgita, Philosophy and Concepts
- The Many Gods and Goddesses of Hinduism
- Bhakti yoga or the Yoga of Devotion
- Divine Qualities Of A True Worshipper Of God
- he Meaning And Significance of Prarthana or Prayer in Hinduism
- Essays On Dharma
- Esoteric Mystic Hinduism
- Introduction to Hinduism
- Hindu Way of Life
- Essays On Karma
- Hindu Rites and Rituals
- The Origin of The Sanskrit Language
- Symbolism in Hinduism
- Essays on The Upanishads
- Concepts of Hinduism
- Essays on Atman
- Hindu Festivals
- Spiritual Practice
- Right Living
- Yoga of Sorrow
- Mental Health
- Concepts of Buddhism
- General Essays
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1773. Colored mezzotint. National Library of Medicine
Fabien Gautier D’Agoty
Gautier D’Agoty’s colored mezzotints have a painterly
quality. This pregnant woman calmly looks back at the viewer, a
characteristic pose of 18th-century French portraiture.
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Dental Cosmetic porcelains are put through a technique called implantology. This incorporates a specific Dental clinician puncturing an initial directly into the jawbone where the titanium screw Dental Cosmetic porcelain will rest. The implant has an extraordinary clasp or inside screw onto which the bogus tooth will be associated in any event one little medical procedure should be done to begin the way toward putting Dental Cosmetic porcelains. This may incorporate a CT check to guarantee the dental master comprehends the arrangement of your other teeth, the thickness of your jawbone and furthermore to decide the specific situation to put the Dental Cosmetic porcelain
Quick or deferred Dental Cosmetic porcelain
The Dental Cosmetic porcelains is either a quick implant, where the Dental Cosmetic porcelain is set straight into the gap where your tooth has basically been disposed of from, or a deferred Dental Cosmetic porcelain, where the tooth is wiped out and furthermore the gum is given several months to recoup preceding the Dental Cosmetic porcelain is put. The dental expert will unquestionably need to penetrate a gap through your jawbone through a cut made in your periodontal in which to situate the Dental Cosmetic porcelain if a deferred Dental Cosmetic porcelain is used both moment and delayed implants should be possible using two distinct strategies. The absolute initially is when both the implant pole (which is underneath the periodontal) and the joint (the part over the gum tissue which the bogus tooth joins on to) are set simultaneously. The erroneous tooth isn’t typically connected as of now as the mouth needs a while to recuperate. All things considered the dental expert may utilize you a scaffold or assortment of false teeth to cover any sort of spaces in your teeth.
The second is the point at which the implant post is embedded and the gum is shut with join, making the implant undetected underneath the periodontal boc rang su. Various months after the fact the gum tissue is cut open and furthermore the projection is joined to the bar. The dentures are after that fastened, either forever or they may have the option to be dispensed with for purifying.
Like different activities, Dental Cosmetic porcelains existing advantages as well as could be expected adverse impacts and challenges to an individual. The side effects and troubles are uncommon and furthermore the drawn out preferences of Dental Cosmetic porcelains are overwhelmingly certain. The upsides of Dental Cosmetic porcelains incorporate having a long haul just as complain complimentary help for a passing up tooth or teeth. They are simpler to oversee than an assortment of false teeth as they build up a lasting aspect of your mouth and furthermore are not destined to mix or make torment like false teeth can. Dental Cosmetic porcelains are likewise valuable since they grant you the chance to have no limitations about what you can expend, making your devouring encounters charming. They additionally help in the production of a stunning look as implants ensure that your jawbone doesn’t lessen as the Dental Cosmetic porcelain connects to it. Without a Dental Cosmetic porcelain to supplant a passing up tooth, the jawbone contracts which ages your facial appearance significantly. | <urn:uuid:c374e7ab-b7f2-49ce-bbb1-e0a43c1e110a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://benningtonareahabitat.com/how-dental-cosmetic-porcelains-works-well.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.927874 | 654 | 1.617188 | 2 |
This picture shows a comparison of the unprocessed Wide Field/ Planetary Camera (WF/PC) image (A) with images produced by three different image restoration techniques (B, C, D). As discussed in the accompanying background information on image processing, all of these techniques attempt to remove the halos which can be seen around stars in the raw image. The techniques used were: B) Jansson's constrained iterative method (from the Space Telescope Science Institute), C) a constrained least squares/maximum entropy method (from the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph team), and D) Lucy's iterative method (from the WF/PC team.)
In general, these three very different methods give remarkably similar results. Some of the techniques generate slightly sharper images. Also, the cosmic ray (CR) hits have been removed from image D (note, for example, the linear CR feature in the middle right of A, B, and C.) Except for these minor differences, the excellent agreement of these three methods give us confidence that the restored images from all three methods are quite reliable. | <urn:uuid:d100cffd-3f7d-4d71-bb83-ed768324e0e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://hubblesite.org/image/9/news_release/1990-09 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00140-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917057 | 220 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Video: One simple test to check how good your eyesight is
How quickly you can spot Albert Einstein is the key to how sharp your vision is
All you need to do is watch this video and pay attention to the image as it comes towards you.
The quicker you can spot Albert Einstein from Marilyn Monroe, the better your eyes are.
If, by the end of the video you can't see the scientist, then you need to go to the optician.
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Makeover for historic boat at Stoke Bruerne
Alongside the Friends of the Canal Musuem, we have given Stoke Bruerne’s oldest floating resident some important conservation work.
Built in 1935, Sculptor is one of just a few historic working boats remaining on the canal and moors along the Grand Union Canal just outside the Canal Museum. Originally owned by the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company Sculptor was used to carry a variety of cargo such as cotton and coal from London to the Midlands. During WWII Sculptor was called into action to help with firefighting duties in London and helped extinguish fires caused by incendiary bombs.
As part of the work Sculptor was taken out of the water so that weeds, muck and slime could be cleaned off the bottom of the boat. Once on dry land the boat was inspected and, after being given a clean bill of health, was repainted. The metalwork within the boat was also given a fresh bright red paint job and a new stove and chimney was installed.
Boat conservation is an important part of the work of the museum. Last year the museum received funding from Museum Development East Midlands to work with accredited conservator, George Monger, to develop a conservation management plan for Sculptor.
George said: “As part of the museum collection it’s important to keep Sculptor looking good but it’s also important that we preserve her history and the stories she can tell through her fabric.”
While Sculptor was out of the water George spotted some mystery bolts on her hull that may be the last evidence of her days as a fire boat. Perhaps they were the bolts that held her hoses.
The museum has now been successful in applying for funding from the Association of Independent Museums for George to continue to work with the volunteer team on Sculptor.
Stephanie Furniss, from the Canal Museum, said: "It’s lovely to see Sculptor out on the canal and it always creates a talking point when people come and visit the museum or enjoy a pot of tea in the café. Having a museum exhibit out on the canal really helps to tell the history of the waterways and, now it’s had a bit of makeover, it looks even more impressive.”
Kathryn Dodington, from the Friends of the Canal Museum, said: "Not many people realise that before roads and railways, canals were the motorways of their day and if it wasn’t for boats like Sculptor, it would have taken months to send goods up and down the country. It’s thanks in part to the care and dedication of volunteers that Sculptor has survived so well and can still help us tell the history of our waterways." | <urn:uuid:b58c5683-d13f-489f-95bf-5f56c69babf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/news-and-views/news/makeover-for-historic-boat-at-stoke-bruerne | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.97738 | 583 | 2.3125 | 2 |
But, like rock 'n' roll, hiphop, and snowboarding, perhaps it was inevitable that skateboarding would be simplified, codified, and ultimately tamed by the very authority figures against whom early skaters were originally rebelling.
In a measure of exactly how mainstream the sport has become, last Friday the city government hosted its first-ever "skateboard summit." Held downtown at the DoubleTree Hotel, the conference was complete with charts, reports, surveys, and even police representatives talking about the win-win solutions offered by city-sponsored skate parks.
Portland has a bipolar history with skaters, attempting to curtail their culture while simultaneously encouraging the sport in designated areas. Last year, voters approved a property tax to raise funds for the ailing parks and rec bureau; $500,000 was earmarked for building skate parks. In part, the conference was intended to figure out where to place those parks.
On Friday, city council member Jim Francesconi, who oversees the city's parks and rec bureau, stood in front of the conference and pledged his support for helping skateboarders. He also urged members of once-rebellious skate culture to build "coalitions."
Three years ago, however, in a hotly contested 3-2 vote, city council lifted a longstanding ban against skateboarding downtown. Mayor Vera Katz and Francesconi were the two opposed to removing the ban. PHIL BUSSE
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This article was published 4/3/2012 (1785 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Moonlight sparkled on the water as a sleek new cargo ship backed away from her Vancouver dock and quietly slipped into the dark November night. Without ceremony, the Clifford J. Rodgers set sail for the Yukon carrying a shipment of beer, stored for the first time in a series of specially fabricated stacking metal containers. On that autumn night in 1955, she became the first cargo ship in the world to use this revolutionary technology that would transform the global economy in the 20th century.
Today, 90 per cent of the world's cargo is transported in standardized shipping containers, with more than 20 million containers making 200 million trips each year.
International trade deficits mean that less than three-quarters of the shipping containers coming to North America head back in the opposite direction. This has led to a surplus of tens of thousands of containers sitting unused in ports across the continent.
The growing importance of environmental sustainability in building design has led architects to explore these mountains of unused steel boxes as a material resource. With prefabricated and modular construction reducing labour, fabrication time and material waste, reclaiming discarded shipping containers can be an effective and affordable component of a sustainable design strategy.
Constructed with standardized dimensions and interlocking connections that allow stacking of up to 12 units, shipping containers that are built to carry heavy loads and withstand harsh environments can be a versatile design module for many building types. They have been used for everything from temporary housing for Japanese tsunami victims to a dramatic London hotel, a 1,000-container student residence in Amsterdam and even a Starbucks in Seattle.
As construction costs continue to rise, some Winnipeg architects are looking to shipping-container design as an economically attractive alternative to standard construction.
Despite high demand and low vacancy rates, the shortage of new residential apartment development occurring in Winnipeg can be attributed in large part to an imbalance between construction costs and rental rates, making investment less attractive to developers. Architect David Penner is creatively exploring the use of shipping containers in a proposed new rental-housing development at 956 Notre Dame Ave., as a way to close this financial disparity.
The project proposes to use a total of 36 containers stacked three across and six high, plugged into a central exterior circulation core from two sides. The efficient unit configuration takes advantage of the built-in structural capabilities of the containers, reducing cost and simplifying construction.
Each of the 18 residential units consists of two stacked containers that form a 37-square-metre (400-square-foot) double-height loft apartment. With a standard width of only 2.4 metres, the stacked layout increases the volume of interior space to create a sense of openness and provides the opportunity for a full-height glass end wall that floods the unit with natural light.
If this innovative project successfully solves the technical challenges of this construction type in our climate, it will lay the groundwork for community and government acceptance of other container buildings that could help meet the provincewide need for affordable quality housing.
On the campus of the University of Winnipeg, a new shipping-container building stands as an example of how recycled industrial waste can be creatively transformed into a sophisticated piece of modern urban architecture.
Designed by Peter Sampson Architecture Studio, bikelab is a community-focused educational bicycle repair kiosk that combines two storage containers that once travelled the oceans with an Italian shipping company. The units were prefabricated and bolted together after being transported to the site. Sitting on a foundation of temporary concrete blocks, its light footprint and modular construction mean the building can be easily dismantled, placed on a truck and reconfigured at another site. This versatility will potentially extend its life cycle, allowing it to adapt to evolving conditions.
A discarded heavy transportation relic finding new life celebrating modern active transportation is a poetic design metaphor that brings a creative spirit to the building. The innovative use of shipping containers, however, provided the more practical advantages of allowing the project to meet its budget constraints and its environmental sustainability goals while expressing a functional simplicity and esthetic elegance.
Bikelab serves as a welcoming meeting place on the University of Winnipeg campus, with light pouring out of large glass openings cut into the container sides, exposing the warm recycled-wood interior. Its success and efficiency make bikelab an appropriate design prototype for similar facilities envisioned as beacons across the campus and even linking to transportation pathways throughout the city.
Shipping-container architecture is a growing trend around the world, but bringing it to the context of an extreme Manitoba climate presents unique challenges. The innovative strategies demonstrated with these two projects exemplify some of the creative architectural design happening in Winnipeg today. Their clever solutions promote the importance of environmental responsibility while at the same time expressing a modern urban flair.
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Stroke rehabilitation in London & Treatment after Stroke at Home or at the practice – London neurological physiotherapy
If you have recently had a stroke, your chances of recovery will be greater if you start rehabilitation with our neuro physiotherapist as soon as possible after returning home from the hospital. Most likely, your movement will be affected and you will experience weakness, numbness or paralysis in your limps or face, sometimes maybe with the sensation of pins and needles, or cold and hot spells. The affected side may feel different, with the limbs feeling heavy and occasionally painful and you might be having difficulties with posture and balance.
Physiotherapy Rehabilitation after a Stroke in London
Stroke Physiotherapy is an important part of your rehabilitation and it will help you learn how to use both sides of your body equally again and gain back as much muscle strength and range of movement as possible. At London Home Visit Physiotherapy we have a neuro-physiotherapist based in London specialised in stroke, who can help you regain your mobility and independence, through different techniques exercise, manipulation, massage and skills training. After an initial assessment, our neuro-physiotherapist will work with you to create a unique programme tailored to your current abilities and your goals, in order to deliver the most efficient treatment and help you gain as much autonomy as possible. Our London neuro-physiotherapist can also advise your family or your carer on how to help you with mobility on a daily basis.
The neuro-physiotherapist will visit you at home, so you don’t have to travel with reduced mobility & can receive your stroke treatment in a familiar environment. This will aid a more speedy and effective recovery. If you prefer we can also see you at the practice in Moorgate in the city near Liverpool Street or in Belgravia near Victoria Station. Call us for more details or to book an appointment.
More information about the Stroke
What is a stroke?
A stroke is caused when a blood clot or hemorrhage in the brain causes the blood supply to a part of the brain to cut off. It is a very serious medical condition and it needs to be treated immediately. Approximately 150,000 people have a stroke every year in the UK. People over 65 are most at risk of having a stroke. The symptoms and their severity vary from person to person. For some people they can be quite mild, or in more serious cases they might cause permanent damage.
What are the different type of Stroke ?
There are too main types of stroke:
- Ischemic stroke: when a clot blocks an artery that carries blood to the brain.
- Hemorrhagic stroke: when a blood vessel supplying the brain bursts and causes brain damage.
What is a Mini Stroke?
People can also experience a ‘mini-stroke’, or transient ischemic attack (TIA), when the brain’s blood supply is interrupted for a very brief time. The symptoms of a TIA are very similar to a stroke, but only last a few minutes or hours, and then disappear completely.
What are the main symptoms of a stroke?
- Numbness, weakness or paralysis on one side of the body or the face
- Slurred speech or difficulty finding words or understanding speech
- Blurred vision or loss of sight
- Confusion or unsteadiness
- Severe headache
If you suspect that you or someone else is having a stroke, phone 999 immediately and ask for an ambulance.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A newer surgical technique for removing tonsil tissue may have a lower rate of complications than two other commonly used approaches, a new study suggests.
In a study of nearly 3,400 children and teenagers who had tonsil tissue removed, researchers found that surgery using a microdebrider -- a device that shaves tonsil tissue down -- had a lower rate of post-surgery bleeding or dehydration than the other two techniques studied.
However, the researchers stress that complication rates were low with all three surgical approaches -- the microdebrider, electrocautery (where tissue is burned away with an electrically heated metal probe) and coblation (where radiofrequency energy is used to remove the tissue).
Overall, 2 percent of children and teens in the study had a major complication -- defined as bleeding or dehydration that required a trip to the emergency room or hospitalization.
The bottom line for parents is that they should talk with their child's surgeon about the type of tonsillectomy technique he or she is using, and why, according to Dr. Craig S. Derkay, the senior researcher on the study and director of pediatric otolaryngology at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia.
Because surgeon experience is so important, "you want your surgeon to utilize the technique that they are most comfortable with and that gets the best results in their hands," Derkay told Reuters Health in an email.
Tonsillectomies were once commonly performed in children with recurrent cases of sore throat, with more than 1 million done in the U.S. every year from the late 1950s to early 1970s. The practice declined, though, both due to a lack of evidence that it worked and because tonsil infections can often be treated with antibiotics.
Currently, about 500,000 children have the surgery each year, often as an adenotonsillectomy, where both the tonsil and adenoid tissue are removed. The tonsils and adenoids are masses of tissue that help catch incoming germs; the tonsils sit in the back of the throat, while the adenoids dwell behind the nose.
These days, adenotonsillectomy is still sometimes used for recurrent sore throats that do not respond to medication. But more often, it is used to treat obstructive sleep apnea, a disorder in which breathing repeatedly stops and restarts during the night. In children, enlarged tonsils and adenoids are often a cause of sleep apnea.
Traditionally, adenotonsillectomy has been performed with a scalpel or electrocautery. In the last decade, newer techniques have emerged, but it has not been clear how the various approaches compare when it comes to complications.
One of the new approaches is to use a microdebrider, a powered rotary shaving device that reduces, but does not remove, the tonsils and adenoids. Coblation is also a newer method, in which radiofrequency energy, rather than heat, is used to remove the tissue; it can be used for partial or complete removal of the tonsils and adenoids.
For the current study, Derkay's team reviewed the records of 3,362 patients age 18 or younger who underwent tonsillectomy or adenotonsillectomy at their hospital between 2005 and 2008.
Of those who had surgery with the microdebrider, 0.7 percent had serious post-surgery bleeding or dehydration, versus 2.8 percent of coblation patients, and 3.1 percent of electrocautery patients.
According to Derkay, the microdebrider likely has few complications because it does not injure the connective-tissue "capsule" that protects the muscle underlying the tonsils.
In a previous clinical trial, the researchers found that children randomly assigned to undergo the microdebrider procedure healed faster and returned to a normal diet more quickly than those who had electrocautery. That quicker recover, Derkay said, may be why kids in this study had less bleeding and dehydration following surgery.
Still, the choice of tonsillectomy techniques depends largely on the surgeon.
The microdebrider technique is technically more difficult than electrocautery, Derkay noted, and most surgeons today were predominately trained in the latter.
The underlying reason for the tonsillectomy also matters. Derkay said that at his center, they typically use the microdebrider for treating sleep apnea, but opt for electrocautery when treating repeated tonsil infections -- since that technique does not leave tonsil tissue behind.
As far as coblation, Derkay said there is so far little science to show that the relatively new technique is better than electrocautery.
Using a microdebrider is more costly, as the disposable blades are $100 apiece, while the electrocautery device is about $15, according to Derkay. But, he said, insurers generally pay the same for the surgery regardless of the technique, and families' out-of-pocket expenses would be similar with all three.
Some other newer tonsillectomy techniques not evaluated in this study include laser surgery and the Harmonic scalpel, where ultrasound energy is used to vibrate the blade and simultaneously cut and coagulate tissue, with the goal of limiting bleeding and tissue damage.
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On NBC’s “New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly,” comedian Natasha Leggero cracked a joke that offended many people.
The joke was about the social media uproar caused last month when SpaghettiOs tweeted
a promotional photo of a noodle celebrating Pearl Harbor Day.
Here’s the video, and her joke:
“I mean it sucks that the only survivors of Pearl Harbor are being mocked by the only food they can still chew,” she said.
Many people whose opinions I respect thought that Leggero and/or NBC should apologize. I disagree.
No, her joke wasn’t tasteful. I wouldn’t make it, and I probably wouldn’t attend a comedy show if I knew the comic was going to use Pearl Harbor as fodder. But I don’t believe that Leggero’s intent was to diminish the tragedy of Pearl Harbor or its survivors. Rather, her quip played to me like nothing more than a silly “old people gum their food” joke.
Still, many people voiced their displeasure on Facebook and Twitter, and Leggero decided to respond with a defiant statement
. I thought she got the tone just right:
I wish I could apologize, but do you really want another insincere apology that you know is just an attempt at damage control and not a real admission of guilt? Let me just try instead to be honest.
I’m not sorry. I don’t think the amazing courage of American veterans and specifically those who survived Pearl Harbor is in any way diminished by a comedian making a joke about dentures on television. Do we really believe that the people who fought and defended our freedom against Nazis and the Axis powers will find a joke about SpaghettiO’s too much to bear?
My own father lost his hearing in the Vietnam War so the issue is pretty close to me too. So rather than apologize, let me offer another perspective.
On the one hand you have me, making a joke about how old people can’t chew tough foods very well.
On the other hand, you have Veterans who receive inadequate care upon their return from active duty, rampant sexual assault against female soldiers, staggering rates of suicide, traumatic brain injury, PTSD, substance abuse and depression among soldiers and political gridlock that prevents these problems from getting solved quickly.
Where do you think your outrage and action would be better served?
At the end of her statement, she encouraged her fans to donate to the Disabled American Veterans.
The reason I agree with Leggero’s refusal to apologize is simple.
She’s a comedian.
Leggero is not a corporate brand. Comedians are granted far more license than the typical corporate spokesperson, and thank goodness for that.
Could you imagine how dull comedy would become if it was sanitized to the point that no one was ever offended? Would we really want to live in a world in which Mort Sahl, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Dennis Miller and Chris Rock were never allowed to appear on television for fear that they might [gasp] say something unpopular
There are, of course, limits to how far comics can go. Michael Richards (Kramer from “Seinfeld”) went way over the line in a disturbing rant
full of racial epithets. And Tracy Morgan went too far when he suggested that he would stab his son to death
if he was gay.
As for NBC, I think we have to ask ourselves whether it’s reasonable to expect a TV network to apologize for every spontaneous, unscripted, unpopular joke made on its air by a comedian. Sometimes, that answer may be yes. But I’m not sure negative social media activity is the only metric to use in determining whether an apology should be offered. In some cases, a combination of evaluating the perceived offense and monitoring the social media activity may be enough.
This “crisis” passed quickly. And as happens with many of today’s social media “crises,” NBC’s has already become a distant memory.
What do you think? Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below.
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Labour shortages and other issues have prompted 55% of managers at Canadian businesses to give their employees wage hikes, says a Bank of Canada report.
“Businesses’ most pressing concerns in recent months have been labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the costs associated with these two challenges,” the Bank wrote in a report called, “Business Leaders’ Pulse: An Online Business Survey,” according to Blacklock’s Reporter
The survey was based on questions issued to managers on a monthly basis in many sectors, ranging from ranchers to factory operators, including those with fewer than 20 employees.
“Across almost all industries, businesses reported labour shortages are causing a loss of sales,” said the survey.
In addition to raising wages, 36% of managers said they were turning away sales, 33% were increasing overtime, 25% were contracting out work, 20% were offering workers bonuses and new benefits, and 15% were reducing minimum qualifications to hire untrained employees.
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In a June 1 report, the labour department said unionized private sector wage gains to date in 2022 were running at 2.3%, the highest average since 2014, while the hospitality industry was seeing average pay gains as much as 3.4%.
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Even after the disease is treated, cancer survivors face high medical costs and are often hindered by a loss in productivity, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Female cancer survivors have mean annual medical expenditures of $8,412, more than $3,000 higher than annual expenses for women without a cancer history. Male cancer survivors had slightly lower annual medical expenditures than female survivors, at $8,091, but their cost differential when compared to medical expenses by men without a history of cancer was higher, at $4,187.
“Cancer survivors face many challenges with medical care follow-up, managing the long-term and late effects of treatments, monitoring for recurrence, and an increased risk for additional cancers,” wrote report authors Donatus U. Ekwueme, PhD, of the division of cancer prevention and control at the CDC’s National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion in Atlanta, and colleagues. “These survivors also face economic challenges, including limitations in work and daily activities, obtaining health insurance coverage and accessing health care, and increasing medical care costs.”
The findings were published as part of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and were based on an analysis of data from the 2008-2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Annual productivity loss among cancer survivors was $4,033 and $3,719 for women and men, respectively, with employment disability accounting for roughly three-quarters of productivity loss.
Ekwueme and colleagues underscored the importance of understanding how a history of cancer affects costs by pointing out the number of cancer survivors in the U.S. has risen dramatically thanks to better treatments and early detection through advanced imaging. The number of people in the U.S. with a history of cancer grew from 3 million in 1971 to 13.4 million in 2012, and is projected to increase to 18 million over the next decade.
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Be it as an e-book, audiobook, on a tablet or classically in print: Books are a wonderful way to immerse yourself in other worlds, to find new inspiration or to digress with thoughts and to enjoy the multifaceted forms of literature. Here are ten classics of world literature that you should have read at some point in your life:
1. Jack Kerouac – “On the Road” (1957)
The autobiographical novel is considered the “Beat Generation” manifesto par excellence. Kerouac wrote his best-known work in just three weeks, creating a travel novel that continues to inspire free spirits and fortune seekers to this day.
2. Vladimir Nabokov – “Lolita” (1955)
In prudish 1950s America, Nabokov’s novel about paedophile Humbert Humbert sparked a scandal. At the same time, the work is much more than the psychological representation of a morally questionable relationship. “Lolita” is a book that becomes an exciting novelty experience every time it is read.
3. Umberto Eco – “The Name of the Rose” (1980)
With his debut, Eco made his breakthrough as a writer. Set in a Benedictine abbey in 1327, the novel is considered a typical example of postmodern writing, as it unites several genres and offers countless possibilities for interpretation. exciting!
4.Jane Austen – “Pride and Prejudice” (1813)
In the book toplists of world literature, female authors are a rarity. All the more we recommend the reading of Austen’s most famous work: The love story around Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy reveals the states of society at the turn of the century from the 18th century to the 19th century as vivid and stirring as no other.
5. Günther Grass – “The Tin Drum” (1959)
Grass became world famous with his portrayal of the chewy Oskar Mazerath, who stops growing at the age of three. The novel is the first part of Grass’s “Gdansk Trilogy” and is considered one of the most important works of postwar literature.
6. Franz Kafka – “The Transformation” (1915)
Although Kafka’s “transformation” is rather unpopular as school reading, the narrative of Gregor Samsa waking up one morning as a beetle in his bed provides a story in which many find themselves at some point in their lives: After developing into a new form of his I meet with rejection from Samsa’s family and society. A story of otherness and the search for acceptance.
7. George Orwell – “1984” (1949)
The main character Winston Smith lives in a totalitarian dictatorship. This literary example of an unpleasant surveillance state is often cited even in modern times as a reminder of the fatal consequences of such “Big Brother” systems. A novel that leaves a lasting impression.
8. Albert Camus – “The Stranger” (1942)
With his novel “The Stranger,” Camus provided a literary work that is more relevant today and encourages the reader to reflect on his own and the foreign, xenophobia and enemy images. Set in 1930s Algeria, the novel is considered one of the most important works of the 20th century.
9. James Joyce – “Ulysses” (1922)
At around 800 pages, Joyce’s “Ulysses” is definitely not an easy fare. Still, the novel is worth the time and effort: Echoing Homer’s Odyssey, Joyce’s protagonist Leopold Bloom wanders through Dublin on June 16, 1904 – a literary work that reading fans worldwide honour every year with the “Bloomsday” on that very date.
10. Milan Kundera – “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (1984)
Kundera’s global success is far more than the love story surrounding protagonists Teresa and Tomas. Rather, in his multi-layered novel, the exiled author reveals the peculiarities of the individual and the influence of individual people on their environment in the time-historical context of the Prague Spring. A novel that continues to thrill. | <urn:uuid:49b5751b-2c9c-490d-ad13-bb379ac5f7b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://readwritelabsincubation.com/10-interesting-writers-and-their-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.952197 | 922 | 2.25 | 2 |
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The archaeological remains of Pre- and Protopalatial (Early Minoan I to Middle Minoan IIB) Crete include a large number of tombs and cemeteries dating to the third and second millennium B.C.E. These periods constitute a distinct cycle in terms of mortuary customs that was clearly defined by two significant attributes: the use of similar types of tombs and the deposition of significant amounts of material, objects that must be considered socially valuable. This mortuary cycle corresponded with dynamic social changes on Crete that ended in the appearance of a state society. Cemeteries and funerary rituals were central social arenas in Pre- and Protopalatial Crete. The study of the mortuary record therefore can elucidate dynamic history of Cretan communities during the Pre- and Protopalatial periods. This book constitutes an effort to reach a better understanding of a key period in Cretan and European history by a clear and concise approach to the funerary evidence: it is a comprehensive study of the totality of the known Cretan mortuary record during the Pre- and Protopalatial periods.
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I dedicate these words to our neighbor George Floyd (z”l), may his memory be for a revolution.
A new Pharaoh rose up over Egypt who knew not Joseph. Now, when we ended the book of Genesis, Joseph and Pharoah had a close relationship — you remember how cozy those two were, saving all the Egyptians and the Children of Jacob by planning ahead; well, the Jews thought they had it made in the Egyptian shade.
Not so much.
Over the years, this new Pharaoh strategically and intentionally made life more and more difficult for the Israelites: Taking away their rights, enslaving them, beating them, challenging their basic dignity.
The Israelites groaned under the bondage and cried out; the new Pharaoh was cruel and paranoid, indecent and violent. So we cried out to God: We cried out to resist tyranny. Because we knew in our bones that slavery and human dignity are incompatible.
I want you to know the names of two women who remade the world — and without whom, we wouldn’t be here today: Shiphrah and Puah.
Shiphrah and Puah were the midwives who delivered the Hebrew babies. And when Pharaoh decreed that all the Israelite boys must be killed (he got paranoid the Israelites would form a mass army and rebel), they engaged in history’s first act of civil disobedience. They refused to do what the almighty Pharaoh demanded.
Pharaoh was furious! “Why are you disobeying me?”
Shiphrah and Puah answered him, “The Hebrew women are vigorous! Their labor is so short — they give birth before we arrive.”
C’mon folks. Shiphrah and Puah lied. They lied to save those babies. They refused to destroy innocent human life because of the ravings of a megalomaniac lunatic. According to the Egyptian legal system, they broke the law!
But God rewarded them and their households.
And we remember Shiphrah and Puah — and their epic moral courage — at Passover.
The Exodus story recalls the Jewish people’s liberation from slavery to freedom. It wasn’t an easy road to freedom.
You might remember the story? Moses didn’t walk up to Pharaoh in his palace one day and say, “You know Sir, we’d like to talk. You see, while we really enjoy working seven days a week in the hot Egyptian sun and don’t really mind our taskmasters beating us or throwing our baby boys in the Nile, we’ve decided that this just isn’t the right match for us Israelites. Thank you for your time, but we’re going to depart to worship our God in freedom. How does next Tuesday at noon work for you?”
Liberation wasn’t easy! Pharaoh’s heart was stone. The Israelites spent 400 years being treated like garbage. Moses had a hard time speaking in public and the people had Egypt in their hearts. Few of them could imagine a different life — a world where they were free. In fact, the rabbinic sages explain that the Israelites couldn’t even hear Moses at first—mi-kotzer ruach v’avodah kashah — they were being worked so hard they couldn’t even breathe.
They couldn’t even breathe.
That’s precisely why there were 10 plagues before Pharaoh let the Israelites go free. Why? To remind us that freedom doesn’t happen overnight. And certainly not for a racist system that was built over four centuries!
Those 10 plagues were as much to challenge the Egyptians and the Pharaoh as they were to show the Israelites that we had the power of endurance; the plagues helped the Israelites slaves build the requisite faith and the spiritual muscles to resist tyranny. We build faith step by step, story by story, person by person.
Those 10 plagues were the original politics of disruption; humanity’s boldest wake-up call.
You beat these slaves? We’re gonna ruin your water!
You overwork these people? We’re gonna wreck your crops!
You won’t pay them? We’re gonna block your roads!
You won’t free them? We’re gonna turn off the lights!
You deny people their basic human dignity? We’re coming!
After 10 plagues, Pharaoh’s hardened heart finally shattered and our people marched to freedom!
Because enslaving people, discriminating against people, denying people their innate dignity, choking them to death on the street is such a profound theological affront to God that business as usual just isn’t possible. We must never forget where we’ve come from and who we are: “We were slaves in the land of Egypt, you and I.” Those are the words we recite every Passover seder.
This. Is. Personal.
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Philosophers have looked for ways to explain Gods existence for centuries One such argment that the believer must justify in order to maintain the possibility of Gods existence is the problem of evil In his essay The Problem of Evil by Richard Swinburne the author attempts to explain how evil can exist in a world created by an omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent Being namely God Swinburne uses to free-will defense and says that God gave us a choice between doing good and doing evil If someone chooses to do good over evil then that Good is greater than if one had no choice at all but to do good This is a weak argument and in order to clarify those weaknesses one can look at Steven M Cahns essay entitled Cacodaemony This essay parallels Swineburnes but states that an omniscient omnipotent omnimalevolent Demon created the world By looking at how weak the argument for cacodaemony is one can see how unlikely it is that the Demon exists and then can see that the existence of God is just as unlikely In The Problem of Evil Swinburne says that an omniscient omnipotent omnibenevolent Being created the world If this were true how can evil exist in this world If God consciously knew He was creating a world in which there is evil then He would not be omnibenevolent If God did not know He was creating a world in which evil exists then He would not be omniscient If God is omnipotent then He would be able to stop any evil from occurring Either way God would not be what Christianity makes him out to be Swinburne argues that the theodicist one who believes that it is not wrong for God to create a world in which there is evil can logically explain the existence of evil in the world The main argument that the theodicist uses is the free-will defense which claims that God gave humans
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A tragedy the summer of 1990 claimed the lives of four UF students: Sonja Jane Larson, Tracy Inez Paules, Christina Patricia Powell and Manuel Ricardo Taboada. This fund was created to honor their memory and to perpetuate their aspirations.
Sonja Larson, 18, of Deerfield Beach was a freshman who had planned to major in early childhood education. She attended Ely High School in Pompano Beach where she was a science and pre-engineering student in an advanced academic magnet program. Sonja was a member of the National Honor Society, Mu Alpha Theta Mathematical Society, Sorota (a service organization) and Key Club. She was a member of the softball team and manager of the girls’ basketball and volleyball teams. She was the youngest of her six siblings.
Tracy Inez Paules, 23, was a senior in political science who was planning to attend law school. She attended American High School in Hialeah, Fla., where she was president of her 1984 graduating class as well as 1984 homecoming queen. She was a member of the National Honor Society and played for the girls’ soccer and softball teams at American High.
Christina Powell, 17, was a freshman from Jacksonville. She graduated from Episcopal High School in Jacksonville where she was a “model student” and an outstanding athlete. She wrote for the school’s literary magazine and was interested in a career in architecture.
Manuel R. Taboada, 23, graduated from American High School in Hialeah and had been attending Santa Fe Community College before being accepted into the UF architecture program. In high school, he was a member of Sorota (a service organization), the National Honor Society, the Thespians Club and the Television Club. He played guard for the American High football team and was expected to become a member of the UF crew club tea | <urn:uuid:fcc5f6b4-43a3-4480-986e-ff9033c72ca8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uff.ufl.edu/giving-opportunities/004031-1990-student-memorial-scholarship/?appeal=GRADSAPV%3Fappeal%3DGRADSAPV%3Fpost_type%3Dstory%3Fappeal%3DGRADSAPV%3Fappeal%3DGRADSAPV%3Fpost_type%3Dstory | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.98697 | 386 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Amidst the haze over our collective conscience, lies the dilemma of a common man - am I a political or apolitical one. Especially at the backdrop of growing social insurgencies and experiences of political discourse all around us, it is important to understand the politics, nay, be part of it.
Religion and politics, and at times a deadly mix of both, is infringing our socioeconomic wellbeing. Those who sail in the religio-political waves, presume, nothing can stop them. It’s fuelled also by our hero-worship culture, that’s prevalent not only for political but other sections, such as cinema. Once we vote for a certain candidate, we feel obliged, we convince ourselves into an unquestioned, biased legacy of supporting the elected representative – our psychological self-defence mechanisms kicking in, protecting a possible wrong choice we made. While protecting our choices, we tend to go defensive over our mistakes. When this extends to the political choices, we end-up extending our mistakes further, by blindly following and endorsing actions of the political leaders.
A politically aware electorate is the backbone of any democracy. We are more likely to debate frequently about current affairs, be aware of legislations and have opinions about national issues. But a serious problem arises when the electorate stops judging the political class and instead identifies itself with it. This leads to hero-worship and blind belief, pretty much similar to our religious inclinations (described at length here: http://sceptacular.blogspot.com/2015/02/our-belief-system.html).
When people recognise themselves with the party they voted for in the last election, they see anyone with opposing ideologies as enemies. It is then that the national discourse becomes diluted, with well-informed citizens being replaced by star-struck, agenda-driven, criticism-abhorrent, propaganda-enslaved people who will defend their party or leaders no matter what they say or what they do. Many of us forget that the spirit of democracy lies in nurturing debate and responding to critics and opponents not by condescending phrases but by factual retaliation.
This phenomenon is becoming common among voters of all demographics, all mainstream parties and all regions. People have stopped judging their leaders by facts, and begun judging the facts based on their party loyalty. Derogatory debates, hate and cursing, just because we have different political preferences.
The truth remains that we, the citizens of this country, are behaving like voters less and political spokespersons more. This is very dangerous for a democracy. The political class needs to be ideologically divisive so voters have a diversity of choice; but when the voters stringently allot themselves to political blocs the national debate on all issues becomes corrupted.
Though many citizens find it unacceptable, nevertheless it is a public tendency in India (and in many other countries too) to praise the politician with blind adulation and reverence. Leaders who work for the downtrodden will always get unstinted support and respect but that does not imply we have to overdo it by changing respect into a fawning submission. It is highly important to commend a person (leader or not) and felicitate them for the good work, as that will not only encourage their actions but also ensure the news of any good work is disseminated down to the grassroots and others also learn how to follow suit. But commendation when runs into the arena of holy worship, history tells us that it leads to the ruin of the democratic system of checks and balances.
Great leaders such as Dr. Ambedkar challenged this notion of idolisation in politics by calling it a “sure road to degradation and to eventual dictatorship” which should be a wake-up call for the public, and the political parties. One needs to refrain from worshiping the politician as it can very well empower him to be invincible, resistant and unassailable to public criticism, legal accountability and transparency. And when that happens there will be no room for improvement or public opinion; the mistakes of the politician will be dismissed as paltry in the light of his being a flawless hero. Praise the leader, and you will be rewarded, worship him and he will reward himself at all times.
Indian election agendas for ages have been dominated by caste/religion. While we expect elections to be ‘development’ centric, it soon snowballs into an ugly sugar coated religion and caste based rhetoric. Every stakeholder comes up with their respective share of loose condemn-able statements, burning effigies of the trust we bestowed on them. Politicians have time and again rived us by hatred and held us hostage to the intolerant demands of religious natures.
Real development issues seem to get faded and if/when they seem to portray them, politicians do to not stick to the tall promises they made while wooing the voters. The very core issues these politicians once opposed vehemently, now support after resuming the offices, or vice-versa. They are seen taking complete U-turns on issues they claimed to resolve if came to power, the flip-flops would leave the Cirque du Soleil smitten. The oratory could be safely classified as rhetoric during pre-election and statesmanship post-election. They use the media to garner favourable views and to quash when the winds are not favourable. The electorate, at times, knowingly elect candidates with questionable records, ideologies, falling prey to the inflated claims of work done.
In the last Presidential election (year 2012), out of the 776 MPs and 4,120 MLAs who were eligible to vote, 31% or 1,450 of them had criminal cases lodged against them (based on the information they provided in their election affidavits). Among the number mentioned, 641 of them had serious criminal charges against them (i.e. rape, attempt to murder, kidnapping, robbery and extortion against them.
It’s a movie called ‘Indian Politics’ – starring actors garnering the most negative reviews imaginable. Not only the so-called “representatives of the people” are horrible at their proclaimed jobs, they are also foul-mouthed and unbelievably immature. A matured, reason prevailed person would understand that people are different and we should respect the difference, but in politics, it's easy to turn into a bigot, blindly follow or oppose. They can’t do a single scene without throwing accusations and threatening each other. These are the people we trusted on creating, building and strengthening the sovereignty of our nation. What they end up scripting is blame games, U-turns, false promises, political gimmicks and amalgamation of one or more of these. Politicians don’t hesitate shedding their badge as a statesman and cross the thin red line which separates rhetoric from bigotry.
We, the audience were promised a script filled with fairy-tales. But we were given were protests and offensive bantering. The screenplay remains mundane and the dialogue delivery rash and unsettling. The location settings, the only thing that (almost) saved the movie from being a complete disaster, a remarkably beautiful, ornate round building with pillars as strong as the actors’ vocal chords. It’s a pity this majestic monument must be the setting of such a bad movie with such an uninspiring cast. Indian Parliamentarians: In-charge of The Largest Democracy, disrespect it daily and the great nation, that has been built over countless sacrifices of our freedom-fighters and the soldiers who lay their lives in protecting it. Not that the entire cast is horrible; it’s just that they’re not good enough to compensate for the group which never stops shouting lines that are not even in the script. They never improved, always bickered amongst themselves, and let down the millions who vouch for them every day.
The problem is rather propagated by us, and lies in our gullibility. We place the politicians on a holy pedestal. There are also those figures who reach such a place because their fans are trying to flatter and win their sanction. People give them a grand treatment unwittingly granting him/her full immunity. The common masses do not realise that in their pampering of their leader they are contributing to his/her:
- full exemption hence prone to corruption.
- unaccountability hence prone to breaking the law.
- absolute power hence prone to mistreating his underlings, workers and the civilians.
There might be exceptions, but it's a great risk to gamble on rare exceptions and at the cost of having to deal with a dictator in a democratic society.
The issue of communalism has attracted the centre stage in Indian Politics for quite some time now. Fringe groups of all hues make statements to incite people and the result being small incidents lead to large communal disturbances. Although secularism is proceeding rapid in many of the world’s societies, and this trend seems connected in some way to the process of economic development, nevertheless religion continues to be an important political phenomenon throughout the world, for multiple reasons. Even the most secularised countries (Sweden is typically cited as a prime example) include substantial numbers of people who still identify themselves as religious. Communal harmony is paramount for the functioning of a great democracy like India.
Recent injection of some new elements of intolerance and authoritarianism into the lives of people has created unnecessary disturbances. A rampant culture of violence targeting freedom of expression, freedom of religion, intellectual freedoms. The most troubling aspect of the state of Indian democracy remains, as always, the appalling culture of impunity that kept infringing right since the days of partition, for mass crimes that target selective ethnicity with the explicit backing of leading political figures. It is appalling that politicians known to be complicit in large-scale communal violence have escaped legal retribution and are not even seen to be seriously threatened by legal sanctions.
These sustain the new cultures of intolerance by giving them a seeming legitimacy. Organised mysticism and cultures of gullibility has crept in. "You have hurt my sentiments" is the fiction used to justify both violence and intolerance. The so-called sentiments that are said to be hurt are manipulated – serial devices akin to the Nazi "stab in the back" theory that was used to justify the attacks on German democracy in the 1920s. A fundamental lack of equality, is a huge black hole at the heart of our democracy. Autonomous bodies are also being moved to the subservient to the views of the political parties, replacing the deserving with the stooge.
Rationalists who were active in combating the organised mysticism and cultures of gullibility have been ‘silenced’. It's slowly taking the form of canary in the coal mine: Secular voices, if censored, others will follow. How can any modern democracy flourish if the supposedly "popular" cultural base is one steeped in various forms of promoted mysticism and credulousness? Run by religious entrepreneurs, who have every stake in keeping the mass of the population in a state of abject subjugation have been flourishing. Nationalist gibes, the belligerent provocation of various Indian minorities has raised ethnic tensions.
Divisive, intolerant and insensitive statements of ruling-party leaders, their repeated transgressions and silence maintained by the head of the party constitutes tacit approval, - and that such endorsement is not acceptable, it's rather ominous. A quick resort to bans (to please those so-called religious sentiments, ultimately to garnish the political mileage) will chill all debate as everyone will be anguished by ideas they dislike. It is far better to improve the environment for ideas through tolerance and mutual respect, than strangulating sprouts of ideas.
Parliament is about reaching a consensus; but all we see is disruptions, continuing for weeks. We need to see beyond the lies and chaos of politics and understand the central point: we need politicians who can debate in a civil, decent manner, who can uphold the dignity of the parliament and defend democracy. Due to this known track-record of unruly, immature, indecency – many elite people stay away from politics; unfortunately leaving the undeserving to serve(?) the nation.
We generally look in awe or gloss over the expensive advertisements of our leaders and their deeds which could have been represented in a modest ad or an article. Huge Banners, flimsy hoarding, countless posters, and artistic graffiti, should make one think of the expenses driven into financing these grand motifs of narcissist propaganda and coverage. The holding of extravagant events, time and again disrupt public transport among other things; the space which is used to hold grand gatherings is open to defacement, littering, and even deforestation and not to mention the wastage of resources all on the expense of the common man. We have adjusted ourselves to ignorantly accept all this, knowingly or unknowingly.
Do we really need to buy all this, helping them to create block-blusters for themselves, while we keep suffering?
Do we need to surrender our loyalty to the elected candidates? We ‘the people’ have the rights to question/demand their loyalty.
We need someone who will intervene decisively to crush the extremist fringe and refocus the country’s attention where it matters. The vast mass of citizens in this country have to ask themselves whether that is the vision of India they seriously subscribe to. We the common people need to understand that we can love our country without having to love our government. Sadly, we have come to realise that all the politicians have similar faces, but different masks! It is always us, ‘common people’ that are chosen as victims. Those who fall prey to the communal incidences are common people, not the politicians.
We the citizens should not allow the political class to divide us – we must understand that we are not a herd to blindly follow political leaders. We do not owe any politician anything; we don’t need to defend anything and everything that they say. We have the right to criticise our politicians when they need it, and defend them when they deserve it. We don’t owe them our unquestionable loyalty – they owe us their unquestionable loyalty. Our allegiance lies to the Tricolour, the Constitution and the Law, not to the party we voted for in the last election.
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Your lips can become drier than the desert more quickly than any other part of your body, because they don’t have oil glands to keep them moisturized.
When you add in the dry winter air and wind, it can be a recipe for painfully chapped lips.
Luckily, there is a way to say goodbye to cracks, redness, and flaking and get the smooth, plump, kissably soft pout you want when you follow the eight steps below.
#1 – Hydrate
Moisture starts from the inside with the water you drink each day in order to replenish those dry lips. So, be sure to get in at least 64 ounces of the hydration you need to see soft, healthy lips every time you look in the mirror.
#2 – Exfoliate
Picking at those flakes only risks making the dryness and cracking worse. Instead, use a gentle exfoliator once a week to remove that dry skin. Simply scrub across your lips and then pat off using a damp washcloth.
#3 – Balm It Up
After exfoliating, coat your lips with a deeply hydrating balm in order to lock in moisture and lock out the elements. This protective barrier is perfect to soothe and prevent dry, chapped lips. Ingredients to look for in the perfect balm include beeswax, coconut oil, shea butter, and vitamin E.
#4 – Protect
It’s also important to remember that just like the skin on the rest of your face, your lips are prone to UV damage, which can leave them looking dry and increase fine lines. So, be sure to remember your lips when you’re thinking about sunscreen.
#5 – Stop Licking
Of course, for these hydration steps to work, you have to stop doing things that dry out your lips. And, the number one item on that list is licking them!
Yup, saliva will irritate your lips and leave them looking dryer than ever before, so avoid licking at all costs.
#6 – Replenish While You Sleep
It’s also important to remember to use a heavy, emollient balm before bed in order to provide your lips with deep down moisture when they need it most. By coating them overnight, you can get a smoother, softer look by morning.
#7 – Choose Your Gloss or Lipstick
If you’re living with dry lips, choose a gloss or lipstick with natural hydrators, in order to leave your lips looking silky smooth. At Miracles & More, we craft our Lipstick Extreme and Lipgloss using vitamin E and vanillin extract to promote healthy skin, revive your lips from within, and leave them looking soft, smooth, and unforgettable.
#8 – Add Shimmer
The final step to getting luscious looking lips is to add a hint of shimmer. To do this, we like to use our Sheer Glo Lotion to the center of the top and bottom of lips to make them look plumper.
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YOUR NEW REALITY
June 1, 2010
Take a wild guess who convinced George W. Bush that starting wars in the Middle East would be “good for the economy”?
Oliver Stone interviews former Argentina president Néstor Kirchner :
From Oliver Stone’s new documentary, “South of the Border”, in theatres June 2010.
- A d v e r t i s e m e n t
There’s a revolution underway in South America, but most of the world doesn’t know it. Oliver Stone sets out on a road trip across five countries to explore the social and political movements as well as the mainstream media’s misperception of South America while interviewing seven of its elected presidents. In casual conversations with Presidents Hugo Chávez (Venezuela), Evo Morales (Bolivia), Lula da Silva (Brazil), Cristina Kirchner (Argentina), as well as her husband and ex-President Nėstor Kirchner, Fernando Lugo (Paraguay), Rafael Correa (Ecuador), and Raúl Castro (Cuba), Stone gains unprecedented access and sheds new light upon the exciting transformations in the region. | <urn:uuid:3d699ffd-70c1-43ab-b95a-0f093873d2c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infowars.com/george-w-bush-%E2%80%98starting-wars-in-middle-east-good-for-the-economy%E2%80%99/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00483-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881319 | 257 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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This study presents outcomes data on knowledge, attitudes and behavior from Girls Energy Conservation Corps, a research and development project that produced a series of six patch activity guides for girls age 8-13 who are members of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. The program focused on integrating engaging online and real world activities that involved girls in learning about climate change and their role in it, in saving energy, in using new media creatively to educate peers about energy conservation, and in understanding the importance of collective goals and action to address climate change. The paper describes how the iterative design process was informed by formative evaluation data, and presents outcomes data from the final summative evaluation. Positive changes in knowledge, behavior, and attitudes suggest that a carefully designed program can address the challenges of educating children about energy conservation and climate change at this age, even if participant exposure to the program is brief. Findings also bring to light that developmental differences may be used when using adult-tested behavior change models and constructs for youth; these difference are important to deconstruct in future studies to apply to youth behavior change models and theories. | <urn:uuid:ecbb3a9d-577b-4a4b-b348-3aff8fe9eb4f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://terc.edu/display/Library/Girls+Energy+Conservation+Corps%3A+Study+of+a+Girl+Scout+Program+Focused+on+Energy+Conservation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00179-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93774 | 232 | 3.5625 | 4 |
If I have given you delight
By aught that I have done,
Let me lie quiet in that night
Which shall be yours anon:
And for that little, little span
The dead are borne in mind
Seek not to question other than
The books I leave behind.
"The Appeal," by Rudyard Kipling, published posthumously, 1939.
Image: Rudyard Kipling, lithograph by Sir William Nicholson, 1899.
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Commentary, J Appl Bioinformat Computat Biol Vol: 0 Issue: 0
Premature Aging & Senescence in Kidney Fibrosis
Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario; E-mail: [email protected]
*Corresponding authors: Zhan Ting, Department of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Ontario; E-mail: [email protected]
Received: July 05, 2021 Accepted: July 19, 2021 Published: July 26, 2021
Age-related issues like persistent kidney illness (CKD) are progressively pervasive all around the world and posture phenomenal difficulties. In numerous angles, CKD can be seen as a condition of sped up and untimely maturing. Maturing kidney and CKD share numerous normal trademark highlights with expanded cell senescence, a rationed program portrayed by an irreversible cell cycle capture with changed transcriptome and secretome. While formative senescence and intense senescence may emphatically add to the adjusting of embryogenesis and injury fix, persistent senescence, when unsettled speedily, assumes a vital part in kidney fibrogenesis and CKD movement. Senescent cells evoke their fibrogenic activities.
Keywords: Kidney Fibrosis
Basically by discharging a combination of incendiary and profibrotic factors known as the senescence-related secretory aggregate(SASP). Expanding proof demonstrates that senescent cells could be a promising new objective for remedial intercession known as senotherapy, which incorporates exhausting senescent cells, adjusting SASP and reclamation of senescence inhibitors.
CKD is an overall significant general medical condition.
CKD shows numerus highlights of cell senescence.
CKD movement can be invigorated by maturing advancing variables and hostile to maturing frameworks absconds.
Senotherapeutics show extraordinary possibilities in invert renal maturing, and give elective systems to CKD.
The commonness of ongoing kidney illness (CKD) has arrived at pestilence extents, with roughly 10 % of the all out populace show declined kidney work [1,2]. In reality, during the infection movement, most of injuries form into the end-stage renal sickness (ESRD), a staggering condition that requires renal substitution therapy, including kidney relocate and dialysis. Astoundingly, CKD not just offers various phenotypic similitudes with kidney maturing, like glomerular sclerosis, interstitial fibrosis, cylindrical decay, loss of fix ability, and vascular rarefaction, yet additionally displays foundational geriatric aggregates, for example vascular calcification, diligent uraemic aggravation, psychological brokenness, muscle squandering, osteoporosis, and slightness .
Curiously, there is a wonderful error among organic and ordered maturing in CKD patients. The critical qualities of cell senescence are development capture and loss of DNA replication, breakdown of DNA. Twofold strands,14 and amassing of senescence-related proteins principally through p16INK4A-retinoblastoma (Rb) and ARF-p53-p21 pathways.15,16 These pathways altogether end cell expansion and speed up cell senescence. Senescent cells can be distinguished by senescence-related β-galactosidase (SA–β-gal) activity,4,13 and these cells produce segments of the senescence-related secretory aggregate (SASP), including proinflammatory cytokines, for example, IL-6 and framework blending particles, for example, TGF-β1. Cell senescence can be brought about by DNA harm, mitochondria brokenness, aggravation, oxidative pressure, and epigenetic modifications, every one of which is a typical trademark highlight in CKD. Of note, among physical cells of the kidney, rounded cells are the destined to change to the senescent aggregate. Notwithstanding, the fundamental sub-atomic component of cylindrical senescence has not been clarified
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NEW YORK, NY (Jan. 16, 2019) — The Open Space Institute (OSI) today commended Governor Andrew Cuomo’s 2019-20 budget proposal for it conservation vision and action. OSI is particularly pleased that the governor is maintaining a historic commitment to rebuilding state parks, creating a budgetary blue print for combatting climate change, providing for clean drinking water, banning plastic bags and expanding the state’s bottle return program. The group also lauded the governor for maintaining funding levels for the Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) and increasing the state’s investment in water infrastructure.
“This spending plan further establishes Governor Cuomo as a national leader in protecting our precious natural resources,” said Kim Elliman, OSI’s president and CEO. “In addition to maintaining EPF and water infrastructure and state park infrastructure funding, his bottle bill and plastic bag ban proposals are critical to reducing the amount of single use plastics that end up polluting our land and waterways. The governor is to be commended for taking these bold actions.”
The plastic bag ban will curtail the billions of non-biodegradable plastic bags being used annually in New York State and the bottle bill will increase the number of recycled plastic containers. Both proposals are aimed at cutting pollution, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and preventing plastic materials from ending up in the trash.
Elliman also expressed strong support for utilizing the power of nature to absorb carbon pollution as referenced in the governor’s spending plan. “Smart and informed land conservation is one of the most cost-effective ways to sequester carbon and absorb the effects of climate change.”
While supportive of the overall budget proposal, Elliman expressed concern over the lack of funding for staff at New York State Parks and the Department of Environmental Conservation. “The urgency to protect our parks and environment should be extended to funding for agency staff. The greatest opportunity for success of these exciting and cutting-edge proposals relies on steady workforce that will carry out the work,” he said. | <urn:uuid:840d5540-9e4e-41f2-a9dd-0638b39e1924> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.openspaceinstitute.org/news/osi-applauds-governor-andrew-cuomos-landmark-budget-protecting-water-taking-on-climate-change-and-improving-parks-and-protected-lands | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.916133 | 418 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Coastal village is an exotic paradise friendly to English and the dollar
Good morning: Sunrise in Belize.
Savvy travelers looking for sun, sand and culture off the beaten path should consider packing their bags and bikinis for a different, untouched paradise: Hopkins in Belize, a small village in a tiny country with a dynamic split personality.
Home to seven distinct cultures living amicably side by side in a country the size of New Hampshire, Belize embodies numerous contradictions. It’s located in northern Central America, but locals speak English peppered with Creole slang. Though the country was granted independence from Great Britain in the early 1980s, a British sense of order remains, mixing with a laid-back vibe that comes standard with proximity to the tropics. The Stann Creek District, Belize’s coastline dotted with villages and towns, is also home to Hopkins Village, a hidden gem and cultural paradise.
A welcome mural at the entrance of Hopkins Village.
So whether you want to submerge yourself in the Western Hemisphere’s largest barrier reef, play Indiana Jones at an ancient Mayan ruin, stalk jaguars in the lush rain forest or lazily work on your tan on a deserted beach, Hopkins has you covered. Get there, before everyone else.
SIGHTS, SOUNDS AND SNORKELING
Hopkins is a Garifuna village bursting with culture. The Garifuna are an Afro-Caribbean people with a strong heritage of fishing, music and dance. Join a drum circle on the beach with local Garifuna instrument makers at Lebeha Drumming Center
in the village center. Practice your bartering skills and bring home a handmade drum.
Left: Jabbar Lambey, left, owner and founder of the Lebeha Drumming Center, practices with two students. Right: Waterfall rappelling at Antelope Falls.
Belize is known for its cats, especially jaguars. Stalk — or be stalked by — jaguars at Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary
. If you think you hear a lion, don’t worry. It’s probably just a howler monkey being territorial. The trails are self-guided, but hiring a guide in Hopkins is recommended if you want a better chance of spotting wildlife.
A family cooks lunch on the beach. Inset: Stewed chicken washed down with the local beer Belikin.
Kayak and snorkel with manatees, barracudas and whale sharks off Belize’s Great Barrier Reef. Rent a kayak and a snorkel and start paddling until you see coral. Daring (and certified) scuba divers can take a day trip to the world-renowned Great Blue Hole
. The underwater sinkhole was made famous by Jacques Cousteau, who “discovered” the phenomenon in 1972. Snorkelers can look for reef sharks in the coral surrounding the hole. Hamanasi Dive and Snorkel
organizes trips to the Blue Hole.
Belize was the heart of the ancient Mayan empire since 2000 B.C. and has the ruins to prove it. Lamanai
, one of Belize’s many ancient Mayan sites, is accessible by riverboat and comes complete with crocodile effigies, tombs and hundreds of temple steps leading up and up to epic views of the surrounding rain forest. Jungle Jeanie’s
offers inland tours by request.
Those seeking adventure can arrange day trips through Bocawina Adventures & Eco Tours
to the nearby Mayflower Bocawina National Forest
for hiking, zip-lining and overnight canopy stays. For the truly intrepid, Mayflower’s majestic Antelope Falls is the place to be for waterfall rappelling.
Eating in Hopkins is an informal, delicious and affordable affair. Creole and Garifuna flavors are sold at a plethora of casual snack shacks and kitchens up and down the streets of Hopkins. Put on your favorite flip-flops and follow your nose to whatever looks good.
Garifuna cuisine is made from scratch and labor-intensive. The highlight is sweet cassava bread made from coconuts that takes several days to make and is a requirement at all meals.
Marie Sharp is the patron saint of habanero hot sauce in Belize. Every table in the country has at least one bottle. Burn your tongue on varieties ranging from mild to “No Wimps Allowed.”
Stew chicken, with meat so tender it falls off the bone, is Belize’s national dish. It’s usually served with coconut-scented rice and beans, potato salad and sweet plantains on the side.
Though Mexico is Belize’s northern neighbor, don’t expect to cool off with a Corona, which is considered contraband. Opt instead for a locally made Belikin Beer, a lager easily identified by a drawing of a Mayan ruin on the label.
Belize City’s Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport is a three-hour direct flight from Houston, but skip the bustle of the capital and head straight to Hopkins, a relatively lesser-known village in the southern district of Stann Creek. Hopkins is ideally situated near both the jungle and the Caribbean, and is a 20-minute puddle jump from Belize City via Tropic Air.
Feeling adventurous? Get to know the locals and learn a little Creole during a “chicken bus” (brightly colored old U.S. school buses) ride on the scenic Hummingbird Highway. Hopkins itself is easily and ideally explored by foot, though golf carts are available for rent. The village technically has street names, but no one uses them. Instead, there is North Hopkins at one end of the village, South Hopkins at the other, and a whole lot of scenic coast connecting them.
There is no need to change money as the U.S. dollar is widely accepted and easily calculated at a long-standing value of about 2 Belize dollars for each U.S. dollar.
Hopkins is safe, especially for tourists, and traveling women can walk freely at night.
When to go:
Belize’s weather is similar to that of Florida, and its high season for travel runs late November to late April. The rainy season, from June to mid-November, is also marked by hurricanes from July to October.
WHERE TO STAYJUNGLE JEANIE'S BY THE SEA
Left: One of the seaside cabanas of Jungle Jeanie by the Sea Resort in Hopkins Village, Belize. Right: One of the buildings at Hamanasi Resort, Hopkins Village, Belize.
Stay in this comfortable, moderately priced cabana built on a private sandy beach. Each cabana has something special to offer. Families can feel like the Swiss Family Robinson in the Jungle Loft, while honeymooners can enjoy private sea views from the deck of the Tree House. Sunlight drenches rooms at 6 a.m. and the Caribbean calls out for an early morning dip or paddle board. Rooms from $50.
North Hopkins Village
Stann Creek District
A boutique resort with the looks, ambiance and service of a luxury hotel twice its size. Guests can choose to stay in private tree houses, honeymoon suites or beachfront rooms, each with ocean views, Central American folk-art décor and hardwood furnishings. Dine on fresh ceviche by the pool, or relax with rum and pineapple juice on the ocean pier after a day of Hopkins activities. Rooms from $260.
South Hopkins Village
Stann Creek District
Megan Wood is a freelance writer living in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Objective: Under the The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Privacy Rule, researchers are required to obtain written authorization from patients to gain access to protected health information. The purpose of this research was to examine how the characteristics of authorization forms used by hospitals affect the likelihood of consent.
Method: This work reports on a recent telephone survey (administered January to August 2004) of previously hospitalized patients from 16 Massachusetts hospitals. Respondents were asked to provide authorization for review of their medical records. Those respondents who agreed over the phone to be mailed authorization forms were sent a copy of their hospital's form and were asked to sign and return it. Measured characteristics of the forms included number of pages, number of fields, distinctness of institution's name, whether a witness was required, and requirement of Social Security Number (SSN).
Results: We received 1021 signed forms (50.3% of all sent forms). The likelihood of return was affected by the requirement of the SSN, the clarity of the hospital name, and providing an extra copy for respondents’ records. In logistic regression analysis, besides age and gender, only the SSN and clarity of the hospital name identification were significant.
Conclusion: Forms should be clear about the institution from which they come, easy to understand, and should not ask for SSN or other highly sensitive information unrelated to health care.
From the *Center for Survey Research, University of Massachusetts, Boston; and †Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston.
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Evaluation of the PepsiCo Achieving Change Together Employment Innovation Initiative
Evaluation of a corporate project designed to increase the number of employees with disabilities working for PepsiCo.
From 2014 to 2016, the Heldrich Center conducted an implementation evaluation for the Kessler Foundation and the Poses Foundation of the Achieving Change Together (ACT) Employment Innovation Initiative, a corporate disability and inclusion project designed to increase the number of qualified employees with disabilities working for PepsiCo, and to improve their employment outcomes and career experiences. With assistance from the national not-for-profit Ability Beyond, Inc., PepsiCo implemented the ACT initiative in eight pilot sites across the nation, with specific components of the model replicated at each site. These components were designed to improve the application, screening, ranking, interviewing, hiring, and onboarding processes as well as retention at PepsiCo. The Heldrich Center conducted a process evaluation of the program and collected data through employee and hiring manager surveys, interviews with program operators as well as through the analysis of participant data collected by Ability Beyond. | <urn:uuid:6baef1a2-bcfb-46fb-9dbb-4790c6d90606> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heldrich.rutgers.edu/work/evaluation-pepsico-achieving-change-together-employment-innovation-initiative | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.940908 | 213 | 1.796875 | 2 |
After getting GPO set up with a Gina3G sound card, studio monitors, and a new powerful computer, I decided to try it out by using Sibelius to play back an orchestral piece that I have heard performed by three different orchestras. Having spent hundreds of hours playing in an orchestra and having heard several hours of my music played by orchestras, I thought I would offer some practical advice concerning dynamics.
I have seen some discussion here of arriving at dynamic percentages by dividing 127 by approximately 7 (from about 19% for ppp to 100% for fff), but the dynamics that result are unlikely to coincide with those of real performances. Sibelius's default percentages (from 34% for ppp to 100% for fff) are much closer to the real world.
Mozart only used three dynamic markings, p, f, and fp. The next generation added pp, mf, and ff. So we have very soft, soft, medium, loud, and very loud. A least one book on orchestration suggests that these five levels are all the basic levels that orchestral musicians recognize, since medium soft and medium loud are basically the same (and indeed mp doesn't show until much later than mf). fff and ppp don't show up until Berlioz.
In the real world fff is a dangerous marking because brass players often take this as license to push their instruments to levels that create a brassy, somewhat vulgar sound. (OK, if you want that.) And ppp suggests a barely perceptible level, yet all instruments have a limit to how softly they can play and still produce a sound, so the real-world dynamic range is narrower than the 19% to 100% scale would suggest.
The lowest level possible gets complicated. No oboe player can play C4 as softly as a clarinetist, and no woodwind player can play C4 as loudly as a trombone player. And there are some strange phenomena -- for example, a string section can play both louder and softer than a single player (there are sound acoustic and technical reasons for this).
After much debate in the 1970s, a notation conference held in Ghent, Belgium decided that the notation of dynamics in scores should be absolute, even though everyone knew that the first trumpet's ff was louder than the first bassoon's. The reasoning was that somebody (the conductor) needed to be able to look at the score and make sense of the markings. Thus the conductor could know that marking the trumpet one dynamic level lower than the horns indicated that the trumpet was truly supposed to be softer than the horns, and was not an attempt to make them come out the same. (With relative dynamics chaos develops. Some trumpet players can play much louder than others -- how would you compensate for that in marking a score? And how could the conductor know what you really wanted?)
Thus in notating a score, you need to mark it so that the score reveals the balances that you want to achieve. In rehearsal the conductor may need to tell certain players to play louder or softer in order to achieve this. But in using GPO playback, you may need to set MIDI playback levels that are different from the notated dynamic symbols. (Beware if too much of this is required because you may be asking the impossible of the performer. I once saw a Webern score that asked a soprano to sing a B6 pp, and some performer had written in the margin "Yeah, right.")
My main concern is that people might get used to an unrealistic dynamic range if they use the 19% to 100% scale. When I used this scale to playback the orchestral piece I mentioned via MIDI, the first comment my wife made was that the dynamic range was too large. She is not a musician, but she immediately recognized that the range of dynamics she was hearing was different from what she had heard in live performance. | <urn:uuid:4eab8e7d-270c-4aa1-a1c5-61bf61265631> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.northernsounds.com/forum/showthread.php/37331-Real-world-dynamics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721027.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00549-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97887 | 806 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Climate, Culture and Recreation Draw Visitors
11 REASONS THE WORLD IS WATCHING TUCSON
By Romi Carrell Wittman
Since the early days of the city, Tucson has been a haven for those seeking a healthier, more balanced life.
With its dry climate and 300-plus days of sunshine each year, Tucson initially gained a reputation as a treatment center for asthma and tuberculosis patients. Today, it is world-renowned for its botanical splendor, diverse culture and amenities, year-round outdoor activities, top spas and overall embrace of healthy living.
In 2019, Jarrod Moss of Caterpillar jumped at the opportunity to work in Tucson. Moss, his wife, Autumn, and son, Josh, had lived all over the country, but they wanted to experience the biodiversity available here. “As a biologist, I wanted to live in an area with wildlife that we wouldn’t encounter anywhere else in the world,” Autumn said.
It was Tucson’s unique culture that drew Jamie Maslyn Larson here. A landscape architect born and raised in Phoenix, Larson has lived and worked in many cities. Last year, she accepted a position as executive director of Tohono Chul and made Tucson her home. Chief among her reasons was its authenticity.
“Through economic or development policy, some cities have unintentionally eviscerated their spirit of place, wiping out their natural landscapes, undermining small business and erasing the culture that makes a place unique. Those cities have lost their soul,” she said. “Tucson citizens, on the other hand, seem to know what makes this place special and demand that policy makers embrace and celebrate its rich culture, protect the Sonora desert and deal with the quirks that make our city unique.”
Michael Guymon, president and CEO of Tucson Metro Chamber, echoed this feeling. “For many years, Tucson has promoted our quality of life to attract visitors and highly talented individuals,” he said. “The Tucson Sunshine Climate Club was created in the 1920s to promote Tucson as the place to live a healthy life and operate a business. While the Sunshine Climate Club no longer exists, today those strong quality-of-life values are evident in our cycling culture and our many wellness experiences and activities.”
Startup Tucson, a community nonprofit committed to growing small business and entrepreneurship, leveraged the region’s culture and community to attract remote workers during the pandemic. “For those looking to make a change and move from pandemic-hit big cities, Tucson has so much to offer,” said Liz Pocock, Startup Tucson’s CEO.
New residents Calder and Lisa Hynes agreed. Calder was part of Startup Tucson’s first cohort and he and his young family moved from Los Angeles to Tucson in 2021.
“A few people had shared Remote Tucson with me, including my parents,” Calder said. “We’d been considering a move so we could have a better lifestyle for our family.”
The family considered other cities along the West Coast and Southwest. Having grown up in Tucson, Calder thought it would be a good fit. “We wanted to raise our kids in a place that was safe and would provide opportunities,” he said. “Living in Los Angeles as two full-time working parents, we didn’t have the time with our kids that we wanted.”
Calder, who works at sports and entertainment agency Wasserman, had a job that went permanently remote. Lisa, on the other hand, had a position with Loyola Marymount University that was temporarily remote, so she had to decide whether she wanted to give up her position. After moving to Tucson, she was hired by the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Management.
“Life here is immeasurably better,” Calder said. “I don’t have a commute and I can pick the kids up from school each day. And it’s just easier to get around Tucson. We can be more present. It’s like we’ve found all these extra hours in the day.”
Tucson is also world-renowned as a top wellness destination. With two famous destination spas – Canyon Ranch and Miraval – visitors flock here each year to rest and renew the soul. Other features like The Loop, an award-winning paved mixed-use path that encircles the city, and the annual El Tour de Tucson cycling event also draw people from around the globe.
Soon, the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine will build its ambitious new headquarters here. Once completed, the 30,000-square-foot facility will be a central part of UArizona’s Health Sciences campus.
The center, created in 1994 and currently spread out over several off-campus facilities, is internationally recognized for its evidence-based clinical practice, innovative education programs and research in integrative medicine. The center’s approach to wellness includes both conventional medicine and complementary therapies like acupuncture and massage therapy.
At the center’s official groundbreaking in May, UArizona President Dr. Robert C. Robbins said, “Dr. Weil and the University of Arizona made medical history back in 1994 when he established the world’s first program in integrative medicine. (Now) the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine will have a home worthy of the center’s reputation for excellence.”
Tucson’s sterling reputation for health and wellness will continue to grow. As Guymon said, “The Loop provides year-round, safe cycling and, as a destination, individuals flock here from all corners of the globe to experience our wellness amenities. Tucson has a great and unique story to tell.” | <urn:uuid:2cc656bb-4315-4ab9-9570-b677c4fcceea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://biztucson.com/2022/07/01/no-4-city-of-wellness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.966345 | 1,215 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Temporal range: 80 Ma Cretaceous - Recent
|Panama rubber tree (Castilla elastica)|
The Moraceae — often called the mulberry family or fig family — are a family of flowering plants comprising about 38 genera and over 1180 species. Most are widespread in tropical and subtropical regions, less so in temperate climates. The only synapomorphy within Moraceae is presence of laticifers and milky sap in all parenchymatous tissues, but generally useful field characters include two carpels sometimes with one reduced, compound inconspicuous flowers, and compound fruits. Included are well-known plants such as the fig, banyan, breadfruit, mulberry, and Osage-orange. The 'flowers' of Moraceae are often pseudanthia (reduced inflorescences).
Formerly included within the now defunct order Urticales, recent molecular studies have resulted in its placement within Rosales in a clade called the urticalean rosids that also includes Ulmaceae, Celtidaceae, Cannabaceae and Urticaceae. Cecropia, which has variously been placed in Moraceae, Urticaceae, or their own family, Cecropiaceae, is now included in Urticaceae.
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- Datwyler, Shannon L. & Weiblen, George D. (2004): On the origin of the fig:Phylogenetic relationships of Moraceae from ndhF sequences. American Journal of Botany 91(5): 767-777. PDF fulltext
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Vehicles drive through floodwaters on Canal Boulevard in Thibodaux, La., Jan. 10. Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a statewide emergency Thursday after storms rolled across Louisiana, dumping huge amounts of rain and flooding some areas. The declaration lets Louisiana use state money to help local governments recover from storm damage.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency Thursday, as the National Weather Service issued multiple flood warnings after severe weather drenched the state's southeast region.
In addition to flooding concerns, the National Weather Service confirmed at least three tornadoes touched down in Louisiana Thursday morning: one near New Iberia, another in Breaux Bridge and a third near Plaquemine.
"The state anticipates additional parishes will declare states of emergency and that assistance may be needed to assist the parishes in their response to this continuing threat," the declaration read.
The state's Acadia, Avoyelles, Concordia, East Carroll, Evangeline, Livingston and St. Landry parishes also made emergency declarations, which will help prepare funds and resources for responding to flooding from the storms, WDSU reported.
Widespread street flooding was reported in Ascension, St. James, St. John and Livingston parishes, according to WDSU.
The Louisiana National Guard is on standby and has sent high-water trucks to some areas, according to WDSU.
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UPDATE: A LENNOX Head gym owner's idea to offer tax breaks to the fit and healthy and impose sugar and fat taxes on junk food seems to have struck a sensitive nerve on The Northern Star's Facebook page.
Posters on the social media site have been largely scathing of the idea, with a few exceptions.
Louise Foster wrote "I'm on medication that has side effects including weigh gain. Does this mean I should be taxed? I can't help being sick and needing these meds."
Lisa Thompson labelled the idea "absolutely ridiculous", arguing we should be taxed "only on our income", while
Dennis Pickford predicted the policy might force people to "join a gym or pay your fat tax".
Kim Andrews wrote that "those struggling with weight issues don't need to be penalised for it, they need the proper support to help change their lives for the better. Let's start looking at more ways to get people into fitness, NOT discourage those who need it the most."
Others gave some support to the general thrust of the idea, with Mat Newell suggesting "tax deductions for gym fees and other costs associated with living a healthy lifestyle" as an option.
Stewart Dodd noted that the government already taxed smokers through higher cigarette prices, "so why not tax junk food/sugar addicts".
But Rhett Patrick said the obesity scourge might be tackled first with tougher packaging laws: "Look at all the low fat products out there with the heart foundation tick of approval that have more sugar in them then a can of coke! Fat people don't want to be fat they just need the right advice."
INITIAL REPORT: A LENNOX Head gym owner says the government should offer tax breaks for the healthy and impose fat and sugar taxes to fight growing obesity levels.
Personal trainer David Westaway, from Surfit gym, admitted the idea was a divisive one.
The strategy would involve similar price signals used to combat smoking alongside a kind of inverse carbon tax with incentives for people who didn't pollute their bodies.
"If you've got your cholesterol, blood pressure and weight under control, there needs to be some kind of financial reward for it," Mr Westaway said. "If you can't get it together yourself, rather than tax you for being overweight, give financial incentives for people who can.
"It's becoming a problem for our economy."
The cost of obesity to the Australian economy was calculated at more than $56 billion in 2008 and rising fast.
Obesity has also overtaken smoking as the biggest national killer in recent years.
Mr Westaway said insurance companies should adopt similar strategies by offering lower premiums to those who passed health checks.
"If you look after yourself, you're costing the insurance company next to nothing."
He also agreed with the idea of a sugar tax, and not just on junk foods, because sugar hid in many "health foods" too.
A spokesman from the Australian Food and Grocery Council said fat and sugar taxes had been "extensively examined both internationally in Australia" and had proven unsuccessful.
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Rio annual carnival has kicked off in Brazil, but the parades and street parties have a sombre tinge coming after a nightclub fire that killed 238 people.
Mourning rituals continued as the mayor of Rio de Janeiro handed over the keys of the city to carnival ceremonial figurehead King Momo.
President Dilma Rousseff attended a memorial Mass for the fire victims at Brasilia’s cathedral on Thursday night.
She is not taking part in the five-day party, spending it in Bahia state.
More than 60 casualties of the inferno remain in hospital, and many cities – particularly near the southern city of Santa Maria where the fire happened – have scaled down their festivities as a result.
For Brazil, Rio Carnival 2013 is an important test of the city’s infrastructure ahead of the big sporting events lined up for the future, including the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics in 2016.
Streets in Rio, where festivities kick off on Saturday, were already crowded on Friday with thousands of people, following more spontaneous street parades.
This year, more than 700 processions will make their way through various parts of the city, with US actress Megan Fox among the international celebrities expected to take part.
The carnival is set to draw 1.1 million tourists to Rio, generating some $650 million for the local economy. Hotels and restaurants are booked almost to capacity.
South Korean pop phenomenon PSY – whose trademark Gangnam Style dance mimicking trotting on a horse, holding the reins and spinning a lasso has made him a household name – will perform during the street parties in Brazil’s third largest city, Salvador.
Last year, the Cordao da Bola Preta, one of Rio’s oldest and most popular carnival street parties, attracted 2.2 million revellers – the largest crowd in its 93-year history.
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Frank got his first trumpet lessons from this father at the age of 8. Until the age of 18 Miklos Kallai , the former principal trumpet player of the theater in Frankfurt / Oder was his teacher. Frank joined the music class of the Schillergymnasium in Heidenheim until the age of 17, before he decided to study for a technical career. From 1988 to 1989 he was a member of the army band of the Heeresmusikkorps 10 in Ulm . During his time at university he played principal trumpet at the Universitätsorchester Ulm and at the Kammerorchester Ulmer Studenten (KUS). Since that time he performes regularly with the Giengener Bläserensemble brass quintett. Since 1995 Frank Gruson is the principal trumpet player in the Sinfonieorchester der DaimlerChrysler AG in Stuttgart, where he is also active in its brass quintett.
In addition to this, Frank Gruson has specialised on the field "Organ & Trumpet". Please send requests for weddings, concerts or background of services to requests(at)gruson.de.
Repertoire for Organ & Trumpet:
- Henry PURCELL (1659-1695), Trumpet Tune
- John STANLEY (1713-1786), Trumpet Voluntary
- John CLARKE (ca. 1670-1707), Prince of Denmark's march
- Marc-Antoine CHARPENTIER (1634-1704), Prelude du Te Deum
- Johann S. BACH (1685-1750), Air from Orchestersuite D-Dur
- Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL (1685-1759), Largo aus der Oper Xerxes
- Johann Christoph PEPUSCH (1667-1752), Trompetenkonzert D-Dur
- Henry PURCELL (1659-1695), Sonata D-major
- Giovanni Buonaventura VIVIANI, Sonata Prima (1678)
- Jean-Baptiste LOEILLET (1653-1728), Sonate la b-majeur
- Tomaso ALBINONI (1651-1750), Concerto D-Major
- Benedetto MARCELLO (1686-1739), Sonata
- Georg Philip TELEMANN (1681-1767), Concerto D-Dur
- Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1756-1791), Ave Verum
- Franz SCHUBERT (1797-1828), Ave Maria
- Charles GOUNOD (1818-1893), Ave Maria, theme from Bach
- Alan HOVHANNES, Sonata for Trumpet and Organ Opus 200 (1963)
... und many more
Repertoire for Trumpet & Piano:
- Alexander GOEDICKE, Concert Study Opus 49
- Alexander ARUTJUNJAN, Concert for Trumpet
- Scott JOPLIN, Maple Leaf Rag, (1899)
- Andrew Lloyd WEBBER, Memory (Theme from Cats)
... and many more
Repertoire for Synphonic Orchestra:
- J.S. Bach, Weihnachtsoratorium
- G.F. Händel, Feuerwerksmusik
- G.F. Händel, Wassermusik
Synphonies of Mozart, Beethoven, Dvorak, Schostakovic, etc.
all popular Messen of Mozart and Verdi.
Frank Gruson performs
- on a B-trumpet Bach Stradivarius Model 37G , Elkhart, Ind. U.S.A.
- on a C-trumpet MUK512 of Norbert Axmann, Juist, Germany (picture at top)
- on a Piccolo-B/A trumpet of Henri Selmer, Paris (picture at left)
Ezzelino Maggiolini, Dodici Studi Difficili per Tromba SiB, 1925 Study 1
Ezzelino Maggiolini, Dodici Studi Difficili per Tromba SiB, 1929 Study 4
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In the last year or so I've become addicted to a puzzle game known as Slitherlink. Here's the premise of the game, as described on Wikipedia:
Slitherlink is played on a rectangular lattice of dots. Some of the squares formed by the dots have numbers inside them. The objective is to connect horizontally and vertically adjacent dots so that the lines form a single loop with no loose ends. In addition, the number inside a square represents how many of its four sides are segments in the loop.
Other shapes can be used in lieu of the standard grid, as long as each tile has 4 sides. These include snowflake, penrose, laves and altair. They add complexity by increasing the possible paths from an intersection, but the same rules apply to their solution.
If that didn't make sense, let me show you a fairly simple version of this puzzle. Starting with this unfilled grid,
one of the first things you can spot is the cell with a '0'. A zero means that none of the segments around it are used in the final loop. So one of the first things I can do is remove those four neighboring segments.
Now let's look at the neighboring cell with a '3'. Since one of the four neighboring segments have been removed, it's obvious that the other three lines participate in the loop.
This goes on until the puzzle is solved.
The version It's available as part of Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection, but there it's called Loopy. One of the nice things about Loopy is that it provides different difficulty levels, and formats other than squares.
After playing for a while you get a good sense of strategies and can play more and more difficult variants. Here's one that I worked on for almost four hours until discovering a problem in the upper right corner.
With regards to using dictionaries and online tools to solve crosswords, Will Shortz credits his predecessor at the New York Times with this quote: "It's your puzzle. Solve it any way you want." Similarly, you can solve Loopy puzzles any way you want. Here are some of the variants I've come up with while playing:
Speculation: Since Loopy allows you infinite levels of undo, it's easy to use speculation as a puzzle-solving tactic. For instance, if you're not sure whether a particular line segment is part of the loop, you can merely start traversing in a direction to see what follows. If you're taken to an impossible position, you know your guess was wrong, and that the opposite of your guess is correct; a proof-by-contradiction if you will.
There are problems with the speculation variant, though. One is that it only really provides information when your guess turns out to be wrong (unless your guess leads you to completing the loop.) If your guess is correct, or perhaps it just leads you to another position that requires more speculation, you get no concrete information. So using speculation requires making good choices: speculate in small areas where you'll quickly corner yourself.
Another problem with speculation is that you have to remember where you made your guess. While undoing your guesses, if you're not careful, you'll undo too much, or worse, not enough. How I typically address this is by clicking on my guess so many times that when rapidly undoing, it also undoes my many clicks, so visually it looks like a rapid flash.
No speculation: After learning more and more solving techniques, you have less of a need to speculate on the board, and can either solve more complex parts of a puzzle in your head, or better, handle speculating in your head. The no-speculation variant just means just that: no speculating is allowed. If you mark a segment in the puzzle as part of the loop, or not in the loop, it's because you know it to be so. The four-hour mega cairo puzzle above was played with no-speculation.
No undo: A variant of no-speculation, but it requires surprisingly more focus and hand-eye-coordination. When I typically play no-speculation, if I accidentally mark a segment I didn't intend to, I just undo and correct it. No-undo basically means, no undo. It's not quite the same as choosing to solve a crossword puzzle with a pencil or pen, particularly for larger puzzles. Very often you find yourself seeing several obvious steps, and you're bound to make a mistake if you're lazy or not paying attention.
Mark segments only: Although I haven't explicitly said this yet, every segment in the loop can be in one of three states: undecided, on-the-loop or off-the-loop. (These can be seen in these screen captures as yellow, grey and black.) Clicking on an unmarked segment marks it as on-the-loop; right-clicking marks a segment as off-the-loop. On a Mac, there's no right-click -- you have to press the command key in conjunction with a click. So while you can play one-handed on Loopy for Windows, you can't play one-handed on Loopy for Mac. So I discovered this variant where you were only allowed to mark lines as part of the loop. No marking lines as off-the-loop.
This makes the game considerably more difficult. Any segments that you know are off the loop have to be managed by your brain. I tend to not play this variant too often.
Here's a partially completed puzzle. On the left only segments in the loop are marked. If I also marked segments that are not in the loop, the puzzle would look like the one on the right, and there are already three superbly obvious segments in the loop.
Clear only: The opposite of mark segments only. You can only mark those segments that are off the loop, at least, until the puzzle is complete. I've discovered some interesting strategies trying to solve puzzles with this restriction.
Here's another partially completed puzzle. On the left only segments out of the loop are marked. Marking segments that I know are in the loop provides much more information.
This is currently my favorite way to play.
Clear only, one continuous segment: This is basically the same as the clear only variant with one additional rule: you can mark segments in the loop, but all segments in the loop must be connected to each other. This is a slightly easier variant than clear only,
Basically you start the game like you're playing clear only and when you find it most valuable, start a line segment.
In the sample puzzle above it's obvious that everything in the lower right corner of the puzzle is on the loop, but they can't be marked as such. The lower left also has some obvious spots. Maybe in a couple of moves I can connect the lower left to the single segment.
When playing this variant I tend to keep my board free from a single segment for quite a long time. Often if I want to mark a region, the marking doesn't necessarily buy me anything. So I often find thinking about creating a segment as a way to study the puzzle.
On paper: Try printing the puzzles on paper. It feels like an entirely different puzzle.
If you haven't tried Loopy, I suggest you do. If you have limited time during your day, I suggest you play something else.
But if you do play Loopy, by what rules do you play?
Update: Writing this post encouraged me to do try a large puzzle again, but this time playing clear-only, one continuous segment. no speculation. I'm just getting started, as you see.
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Big Girl supersizes egg
Taranaki chicken lays an egg within an eggJENNA HOUGHTON
A big chicken has laid an unusually big egg - which hatched another surprise.
Rob Booth discovered the super egg in his New Plymouth backyard coop, and immediately thought his chook "Big Girl" had outdone herself.
And when he cracked open the egg a few days later, he discovered it held more than he had originally thought.
Inside was another egg, shell and all.
"I've never heard of it happening. I've spoken to a few people who have got chooks and they've never heard of it either," he said.
Mr Booth's wife Carole said, "The big eggs she lays are about size nine but this thing was like a 12."
The couple had kept the super-size egg on the kitchen bench before deciding one night to crack it open to accompany their dinner of cold meat and veges.
When the second egg hit the pan, Mr Booth immediately reached for his phone to snap a picture of it.
"Carole was annoyed because I cracked it open when she was sitting watching TV. She would have got the camera out and videoed it."
The couple suspect the giant egg was formed while Big Girl waited for her three broody coop-mates to lay their eggs.
"They won't lay anywhere but their nest. What we think happened is she just held on to her egg and then laid another one around it," Mrs Booth said.
And the taste verdict?
"It was a nice tasting fresh egg," Mr Booth said.
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The third-party records doctrine holds that information a person voluntarily provides to a third party is treated differently from information that person holds to him or herself, and thus government gathering of said information is subject to looser rules—subpoenas, rather than warrants. If the third party is cooperative, the government doesn't even need subpoenas sometimes.
The doctrine has gotten some attention in the wake of tech companies' cooperation with NSA metadata gathering. But the conflicts don't have to be so high-tech. In Los Angeles, some motel owners are fighting a law that requires them to gather information about their guests and then hand it over to the police on demand, without either a warrant or a subpoena. Courthouse News reports:
Motels owners fighting a Los Angeles ordinance allowing warrantless searches of registration records told the 9th Circuit that the law is unconstitutional.
The ordinance requires owners to record guest information, including names and addresses; total number of guests; make, type and license number of the guest's vehicle; date and time of arrival; scheduled date of departure; room number; rate charged; method of payment, and name of employee who checked the guest in. Upon request, motel owners must then give such information to police.
After Los Angeles motel owners Naranjibhai and Ramilaben Patel filed suit, U.S. District Judge Dale Fisher found that the Patels did not show they have a privacy interest in the registry information. A divided three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit affirmed but the court agreed later to rehear the case en banc.
Judges invoked last year's Supreme Court ruling that police violated the Constitution by putting a tracking device on a vehicle without a warrant, and that ruling matters because the police would have to trespass on the hotel's private property to collect the data. Judge Alex Kozinski had some choice comments when the city's deputy attorney tried to defend the ordinance somehow by explaining that motel owners who refused to cooperate would be cited with a misdemeanor, which the city then magnanimously permitted them to fight:
"Oh that's so much better!" Chief Judge Alex Kozinski sarcastically exclaimed.
"So this is the coercion - they say show me your computer, or I will write you up and you go to jail. Why is that not a trespass?" he asked.
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EDITOR’S NOTE: Ira Grupper is the author of “Labor Paens,” a column that appears in FORsooth, the monthly newspaper of the Louisville, Ky., chapter of Fellowship of Reconciliation, This is his column in the April issue.
There were twenty of us from here in Louisville, Kentucky, active and retired union sisters and brothers from the Communication Workers of America (CWA), United Auto Workers (UAW), and Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers Union (BCTGM). We drove in two vans to Indianapolis, Indiana, to support the thousands and thousands of Indiana workers massed in the Indiana legislature building.
In Indiana, as in Wisconsin and Ohio, the Republican-dominated legislature and a reactionary Republican governor are hell bent on destroying municipal collective bargaining rights, and focused on rolling back union gains won thru many decades of struggle.
We met up with two Louisville union brothers from the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW). Both of them were standing before a massive crowd, a throng that completely filled the main floor of the atrium, and all the floors above. One strummed his guitar and both belted out union songs to a jubilant audience.
Bill Londrigan, state president of the Kentucky AFL-CIO, gave a powerful speech in support of our friends to the north: “A few short years ago the workers and unions of Kentucky faced a similar challenge when a newly elected Republican governor made passage of right-to-work-for-less and repeal of prevailing wage two of his top agenda items…
“…And, like the union members of Indiana, (we) came to (our) capitol in Frankfort by the thousands…When it was all over we defeated both right-to-work and repeal of prevailing wage!”
How glorious was this Indiana throng, decked out in union jackets, shirts and caps, chanting and singing. We also stood in support of the Democratic legislators who crossed into a neighboring state to deprive the Republicans of a quorum, and while the Republicans were exposed for their vicious attack on the working class.
The politicians claim to represent the people. We, the people, were there to represent ourselves.
But the outcome of this struggle is not settled. Republican capital and power is formidable. Yet, and as of this writing (March 9), with his disapproval number at nearly 60 percent, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is facing possible mass defections by Republicans from his anti-worker agenda. Then, again, the reactionaries hold state power.
Still, our labor movement for too long has been divided, uncreative, seemingly flummoxed by companies closing in the U.S. and reopening overseas. Unions have for too long attended labor-management seminars, and have embraced that new euphemism, “working families,” instead of that old truth: the “working class.”
There are signs that the U.S. labor movement, divided into two camps—the AFL-CIO, and Change to Win—is beginning to re-energize. But, minus a creative approach to reach masses of workers, is it enough?
Enter the Emergency Labor Meeting (ELM). Ninety-six union leaders and activists from 26 states, and from a cross-section of the labor movement, gathered at the Laborers Local 310 Hall in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 4-5, 2011, in response to an invitation-only letter sent out in January urging them to “explore together what we can do to mount a more militant and robust fight-back campaign to defend the interests of working people.”
Your columnist was there, representing the Kentucky Labor Institute (KLI), a group that hopes to set up classes to teach labor history throughout Kentucky. Here, are some of the fifteen “perspectives” approved by ELM:
The cold-blooded (capital) offensive threatens the very existence of our unions. Labor movement unity in action — public and private sector, the two federations and the independent unions — is indispensable… (T)he key to an effective fight-back is mobilization of the union ranks…in the workplace and in the streets.
…There is plenty of money available without demanding givebacks from public employees, but this requires changing our nation’s priorities to raise taxes on the rich, redirect war dollars to meet human needs, and more… We not only defend the social insurance model — Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, public education, food stamps, unemployment insurance, etc. — but demand that these programs be strengthened… Nor can contract negotiations create the 27 million full-time jobs urgently needed today. Since the private sector has failed to do this (in fact, the corporations continue to off-shore good full-time jobs in their continued drive to lower labor costs), we need a public sector that can put America back to work…
…we…champion the needs of the entire working class, including the unemployed, not just our dues-paying members.
…we reject every attempt to divide us by race, skin color, gender, immigration status, religion, or sexual orientation. This means not only politically correct resolutions but active support to all targets of such pernicious discrimination.
A unified, energized working class could reach out (to) students, mom-and-pop businesses, family farmers, and others who are being squeezed by the corporate class. (No) partner(ing) with the Chamber of Commerce and corporate America…
Our goals cannot be met while American blood and vast amounts of our tax dollars are being consumed by unjust wars to advance the global corporate agenda. We say end the wars, bring all of our troops home now…
…The mutual declarations of support between protesters in Madison (Wisconsin) and insurgent independent unions in Egypt are a proud example that deserve wide emulation. **Since many of the attacks we face today have bipartisan support, labor must act independently of these two parties. **We must view organizing the South as fundamental to rebuilding a strong national labor movement in this country.
We close with the words of Abraham Lincoln (1861): “Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital; that, in fact, capital is the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration.”
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Hilton Head seeks renourishment permit
The town of Hilton Head Island wants state permission to undertake a beach renourishment project to combat erosion.
The plan is to place as much as 2 million cubic yards of sand along 40,000 feet of shoreline on Hilton Head Island. The work will involve a hydraulic cutter-suction pipeline dredge. The effects of the project are expected to keep for eight to 10 years.
Work is planned between Oct. 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016, according to the public comment announcement.
The sand will be taken from two sites — the Barrett Shoals, the island’s southern end, and Baypoint Shoals, the northern end. Renourishment activities on Daufuskie Island have used sand from Barrett Shoals.
Hilton Head’s last comprehensive renourishment was completed in February 2007, according to state records.
If interested in making public comments to South Carolina regulators, contact wojoskpa@DHEC.sc.gov or call 846-9400. The comments deadline is Aug. 9. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is also accepting comments from the public about the effects of the future project. For information, call Debbie King at 329-8044. | <urn:uuid:01b89efc-7844-4cfd-9084-a1b90be32382> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.blufftontoday.com/bluffton-news/2014-07-13/hilton-head-seeks-renourishment-permit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943605 | 259 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The collections from Oceania and Insulindia originate in the voyages of discovery from the late 18th century and early 19th century (Bougainville, Freycinet, Dumont d'Urville, Collet, Tournefort etc.) supplemented throughout the 20th century by scientific expeditions organised by museums and research institutes.
The Marquesas Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia – territories which have been or are still strongly influenced by France – form part of these flagship assemblages, constituted of ancient pieces, typologies of a variety of objects and supplemented by a large quantity of visual documentation (photos, drawings and archives). But the museum also holds an unexpectedly rich collection of items from New Guinea. The Insulindia collections are represented by significant assemblages of personal ornaments, stones with funerary or prestige connections (Sumatra, Sumba, Nias, Borneo, Philippines etc.) and remarkable Batak objects (Sumatra). Contemporary creation is represented by a group of acrylic paintings on canvas from the Central Australian Desert acquired from the 1990s onwards. | <urn:uuid:a0ed4878-f5bd-4b24-b4e1-54cb93f076da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://quaibranly.fr/en/collections/all-collections/history-of-the-collections/the-oceania-collections/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00170-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920621 | 229 | 2.375 | 2 |
Victor Valley College Launches Solar Thermal & PV Tech Training
Featured In The High Desert Daily
By Staff Reports
July 15, 2013 | Victorville, CA
Victor Valley College (VVC) continues to stay on the leading edge of education by offering a Solar Thermal & Photovoltaic (PV) Installation Tech training class on August 8 with the help of Southern California Edison (SCE).
SCE—through the California Solar Initiative program—has agreed to provide scholarship opportunities to help create green jobs and train the next generation of solar electric and solar water heating installers.
“This is a great opportunity for our students to get a top-notch renewable energy education at an affordable price,” says Anthony Bonato, Construction Technology Department Chair at the college. “Southern California Edison is very involved in our local education initiatives. They were fantastic throughout this whole process and these scholarship opportunities will help a lot of High Desert students get the training they need.”
While there are other solar installer classes available, none of them are as comprehensive as the one at VVC. For starters, this class covers 12 weeks of intensive training—including lab work, theory and hands-on experience— and features four separate types of installation models: an S-tile roof, a shingle roof, a flat roof and a ground-mounted system as well as a solar thermal component in which students will learn how to install and troubleshoot solar water heating systems. This training is designed to give students the practical, hands-on experience they will need to be productive in the field.
The customized curriculum was developed in conjunction with Desert Solar (DS), a solar system provider in Apple Valley. DS Operations Manager Scott Mazolla, who oversees installations for DS (including those at Apple Valley High School) and knows what professional installers need to succeed, was instrumental in building the curriculum, wanting practical elements included in the lesson plans so students are able to hit the ground running once they graduate.
Solar is the fastest-growing sector of the renewable energy industry and green careers are becoming more prevalent. In fact, VVC has scheduled a job fair featuring some of the biggest names in solar employment once the class is completed.
Once students have completed the VVC training they should be well prepared to take the NABCEP Certification Exam, an industry recognized credential.
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Community wastewater monitoring data from Bowling Green show an elevation in indicators for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, consistent with the local increase of coronavirus cases, according to a news release by the Wood County Health Department.
In a new effort to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19, a network across Ohio is studying samples of wastewater to look for the presence of fragments from the virus that causes the disease. An upward trend of viral gene copies has been detected in the Bowling Green Water Pollution Control Facility sewershed, which serves the Bowling Green and Portage communities.
This trend is consistent with the increase in cases of COVID-19 recently observed in Bowling Green and the broader Wood County community.
These results come in the same week as Wood County was elevated to level 3 (red) in the Ohio Public Health Advisory System. Wood County was at level 2 (orange) for several weeks due to increasing cases, with the majority coming from within the community and not in congregate settings. The reason for the move up to Level 3 is that more people went to a health care provider with COVID symptoms and then received a confirmed or suspected COVID-19 diagnosis.
The increase of COVID-19 cases in communities is typically tracked by testing people with symptoms, an indicator that lags behind the actual spread of the disease. However, research has shown that non-infectious RNA (ribonucleic acid) from the virus that causes COVID-19 can be detected in wastewater as many as 3-7 days before those infections lead to increases in reported cases or hospitalizations. This means that monitoring raw wastewater in sewage collection systems can provide an early warning of disease increase in a community.
When interpreting this specific viral data in wastewater, it is only appropriate to monitor and observe the trends detected in a community over time, not individual daily readings themselves. Levels in the Bowling Green community increased 7.5 times, from 1.5 million gene copies per person per day on Oct. 25 to 11.3 MGC per person per day on Nov. 4. Based on the most recent sample collected Nov. 8, current levels are 5.6 times higher than they were on Oct. 25. | <urn:uuid:33a5ca6f-bdb7-4b02-8319-357b70cd4c9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fcnews.org/news/27759/elevated-coronavirus-levels-detected-in-wood-co-wastewater | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.951311 | 457 | 2.9375 | 3 |
From the Winter Programme Organiser
lt has occurred to me that perhaps 1 have made too much of my granddaughters in these pieces. The elder profited from knowing that nine times nine was grandad’s age, though the benefit now appears very temporary; and the elder has already appeared on the upper floor of a double-decker bus but she now serves to introduce today’s topic.
We were discussing Humpty-Dumpty, as one does, and sought to find out something about him, and I produced my Oxford Dictionary of English, a large volume about four inches thick.
“Grandad” she said: “what a marvellous dictionary”- this from a child of nine, who immediately leapt five points up the doting scale.
She was right. A dictionary is a marvellous book, and from an early age we take great pleasure in dipping into this huge well of words, and searching out in print all the naughty words we can think of ..But then it came to me: why Dictionary? For Diction is how we speak, and not for finding out the meanings of what we are saying. Admittedly it puts some idea of pronunciation in very small print, some upside down or reversed, but the function of a Dictionary is to explain.
I thought the Greeks, who are said “to have a word for it” might be on to something, because they call their Dictionary a lexicon. But that comes from lexis a word, and a verb legein – to speak. So I reverted to my Dictionary to see what it had to say for itself . The word Diction admits to being about “a method of enunciation” , but a Dictionary is “a book listing words in alphabetical order, and it does admit to being about the meanings of words, but the derivation is from the word Diction or even dictionarium, So we’re left with Diction.
And l’ve forgotten what we found out about Humpty Dumpty. I do know he’s not our next speaker; who is Mr. Russell Bowes to talk about Capability Brown; followed by Mr David Nicholls, who will take us round Ray Island; and out old friend Tony Curtis, who will take us Lord knows where.
By which time we shall be into a Happy New Year.
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The Summer Vegan Pledge
Try veganism this June and get all of the help you need.
What is the Summer Vegan Pledge?
The Summer Vegan Pledge is a 30-day vegan pledge that takes place in June. In short, it is the opportunity for those who are interested, to try a vegan diet for the month. You will get all of the help and advice that you need to stay vegan throughout the month, including:
- A FREE welcome pack full of recipes, advice about nutrition, tips on shopping and more
- Regular updates throughout the month to keep you motivated and informed
- Access to exclusive social media channels for sharing tips and advice
- Details about vegan events and special offer
- One-to-one help if you need it
Five reasons why you should try veganism this June!
1) It helps stop animal suffering!
The production of meat, dairy, eggs and fish causes terrible animal suffering – and approximately one billion land animals are slaughtered every year in the UK. Animal Aid’s investigations have found that there is no such thing as humane slaughter, and nor can animal farming be considered ‘humane’. By avoiding animal products, you will no longer be contributing to the callous animal suffering that goes on inside these industries.
2) It’s good for the planet!
Animal farming is the biggest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions globally. It is also the leading cause of deforestation, species extinction, ocean dead zones and water pollution. Show that you care about the planet by eating a plant-based diet.
3) It’s cheap!
As well as being bad for the planet and animals, meat and dairy products, such as cheese, tend to be more expensive. So if you are on a budget or are a student, opting for cheaper protein sources like beans, lentils, pulses and whole grains will not only save animals, but will also do wonders for your bank balance.
4) You can still eat all of the foods you love!
What’s your favourite meal? There’s a vegan version of that! Nowadays being vegan is so easy – you can still enjoy all of the foods that you do now, but without the animal suffering. Vegan versions of ‘chicken’ nuggets, sausages, ice-cream and even steak are available in supermarkets, in health food shops and online!
5) It’s healthy!
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Changing hair color is a great way to take your overall look to the next level. But does this mean you can’t braid your braids? So, What Happens If You Dye Your Hair In Braids ?
You can braid your hair after dyeing, but you must wait at least two weeks. Hair dyes contain powerful chemicals that can strain the hair and require additional recovery time and care. Give your hair proper care within two weeks after dyeing your hair, and you can style it your way.
Now that we know that we need to wait for a while before dyeing and styling, let us immediately understand how to manage dyed hair so that we can style it in a healthy way during this period. Follow Viknews Now.
Video how long should you wait to get braids after dying hair
Can you color your hair before getting braids
Despite choosing the color, dyed hair needs more careful care. This is to ensure that there is no permanent damage and that the hair is in a healthy state and can be styled or re-dyed as needed.
There is nothing worse than dyeing your hair. It just looks dry and crisp and will fade or wash off quickly. Waste?
Well, to prevent this from happening to you, you can take some measures to take care of your dyed hair.
Read Now : How Long Does It Take To Get Highlights ?
1. Wait at least 3 days (72 hours) before washing.
Have you ever wondered why the hair dye drops so much when you wash your hair after dyeing your hair? This is because the cuticle of the hair is still open.
Dyeing opens the cuticle of the hair, allowing the color to penetrate the hair completely. Sometimes this layer is exposed immediately after dyeing, so the color is easily washed off.
How long should you wait to get braids after dying hair : It usually takes a while for the stratum corneum to close, sometimes as long as 3 days. Therefore, waiting to wash your hair after dyeing means that the color has time to settle and produce more pigment, because the hair can be properly absorbed by the dye and stay longer.
2. Wash your hair with warm water.
There is nothing better than taking a hot shower and letting water run through your hair after a long day. However, although this is very comfortable, it is definitely not good for freshly dyed hair.
Hot water can open the cuticle of the hair. This is very useful for adding moisture like deep conditioning, but if you do this unwisely, it also has the ability to peel off your hair and its color.
Use warm/cold water to fully open the stratum corneum to absorb water and maintain color. After washing, rinse your hair with cold water to seal the cuticle and protect the color and moisture.
3. Choose natural hair products
As mentioned earlier, hair dye is a powerful chemical process that can have a lasting effect on the hair. This is why using hair care products that contain a lot of chemicals in their ingredients, such as shampoos or conditioners, do more harm than good.
These types of products run the risk of removing the natural oils and overall moisture from the hair. If these products have such a function, they also have the ability to remove color.
After dyeing, the goal is to restore natural oils and moisture to make the hair strong and healthy enough for subsequent styling and dyeing. Using natural products helps achieve this goal while maintaining color.
4. Don’t wash your hair often.
As I mentioned earlier, washing your hair with warm or hot water runs the risk of opening the stratum corneum and losing important nutrients, moisture, and dyed color to your hair.
This is why it is important not to wash your hair frequently and avoid hair loss. Instead, wash your hair every 4-7 days. If you think you need to wash your hair in between, you can always try dry shampoo.
Dry shampoo (organic colorless version) has a magical way to keep your hair fresh and clean without removing it. It is also very fast and easy to apply.
Can You Dye Hair While In Braids?
If you currently have a braided hairstyle and have been bitten by a worm (of course, this is metaphorical), you may be wondering if you can tie your hair up and dye it directly.
I mean, no one wants to spend money to braid their hair instead of keeping it for a lifetime. However, sometimes you can’t control the excitement of wanting to change your appearance, which can put you in a dilemma.
Unfortunately, dyeing your hair into braids is definitely not a good idea. The braid only reveals a small part of natural hair, so only this part is dyed.
When you braid your hair with hair extensions, your natural hair is not completely exposed. Your roots are visible, and all parts of the braid are exposed.
The fragments hidden in the braids are gone, replaced by dyed braid extensions and bald heads. This is why it is better to wait until the end of the life of the braid and remove it before dyeing.
Read More : Can you re bleach your hair the same day ?
How to prepare your hair for dyeing after braiding
Can you dye your hair while in braids : After removing the braids, you will need to dye your hair. I mean, when I want to change, I always like to see my thoughts come to life in my hair. However, there are some things to keep in mind when combing hair after dyeing.
Here is how to prepare your hair after weaving.
- Give it time-your hair needs time to recover. Wait at least two weeks before dying. This will give your hair enough time to regain moisture and properly prepare for the dyeing process.
- Moisture recovery-Hair usually dries out after weaving, so use at least two deep conditioning treatments while waiting for dyeing. Deep conditioner is one of the fastest ways to restore moisture to hair.
- Damaged hair is easy. Braided hair is usually very fragile, and the ends of the hair may be slightly damaged.
- Treatment: Simply trim and treat your hair, treat it with protein.
- Wash your hair two days in advance-avoid washing your hair before dyeing your hair. Freshly washed hair may be a bit dry, and the washing process will make the scalp dry and sensitive to dyes. However, oily and messy hair cannot be dyed well. If you wash your hair two days ago, it will be in perfect dyeing state.
- Communication is very important. When you are ready to dye your hair and go to a stylist, it is important to clearly communicate your current hair position and expectations. This will ensure that you and your stylist are on the same page, and you have more opportunities to get what you want.
Can you color your hair before getting braids
Dying braids have multiple effects, but not all effects are ideal or positive. There are a few things to consider, but it is best to remove the braids before dyeing your hair.
Compared to the inside of each braid, the dye has a greater impact on the exposed surface of the braid. When the hair is braided, the color looks solid, but once it is taken off, the color will change to the previous color.
The permanent color should be rinsed off and neutralized with shampoo. Otherwise, the hair will continue to be processed. It is difficult to guarantee that all the colors inside the braid will be removed and the internal strands will be damaged. Chemical burns may occur on the scalp, especially French braids and corn braids.
Temporary colors cause much less damage than permanent colors because there is no promotion or violent chemical reaction. The longer the temporary color stays on the hair, the longer the color effect lasts. Removing the headband before the color disappears completely will exacerbate the mottled effect.
Braided extension cord
If the braid is used for hair extension, the hair extension will be affected by the color. Human hair extensions that have been dyed before may not adhere to the new color like natural hair. Synthetic extension is completely unaffected by color, but chemical processes can break down chains.
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Some Remarks on Cantor-Lukasiewicz Fuzzy Set Theory
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Some Remarks on Cantor-Lukasiewicz Fuzzy Set Theory.
Logic Journal of the IGPL. Roč. 21, č. 2 (2013), s. 183-186 ISSN 1367-0751
Grant CEP: GA ČR GAP202/10/1826
Výzkumný záměr: CEZ:AV0Z10300504
Klíčová slova: naive comprehension scheme * fuzzy set theory * consistency * Lukasiewicz logic
Kód oboru RIV: BA - Obecná matematika
Impakt faktor: 0.530, rok: 2013
Lukasiewicz predicate logic with its standard and its general semantics is denoted by Ł. Over this logic, we study the set theory CŁ0 with full comprehension (but without extensionality; adding it would trivialize the theory, as proved by Grishin). A proof of consistency of CŁ0 was published by White, but his proof was criticized as having a gap. Here Section 1 analyses the problem of consistency of CŁ0. In Section 2, I discuss the problem of omega-inconsistency of the CŁ0 (with its general semantics) using ideas of Yatabe. Section 3 presents some construction of crisp sets in this theory.
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A CASE OF SUCCESSFUL SURGICAL TREATMENT OF A PATIENT WITH LYMPHEDEMA OF LOWER LIMBSJournal: I.P. Pavlov Russian Medical Biological Herald (Vol.26, No. 2)
Publication Date: 2018-06-30
Authors : P.N. Myshencev S.E. Katorkin L.A. Lichman;
Page : 288-295
Keywords : lymphedema; surgical treatment; lower limbs;
The importance of treatment of patients with lymphedema of lower limbs arises from difficulties in their medical and social rehabilitation. At the expressed stages of the disease resection surgical operations are indicated which present complicated interventions. In the work clinical observation of a 33 year-old female patient with IV stage of primary lymphedema of the right lower limb is presented. In the course of conservative treatment after a complex examination including volume try, ultrasound, computed tomography, the patient was made dermalipofascioectomy using method of shave therapy. The operation of modified dermalipofascioectomy of the shin was performed by Karavanov II method under spinal anesthesia with use of mono- and bipolar coagulation. At the stage of elimination of fibrotically changed tissue dermatome Acculan 3Ti (GA 670) was used with controlled ranges of thickness within 0.2-1.2 mm and width within 8-78 mm. Intraoperative loss of blood and lymph was 800 ml and was compensated for with crystalloid, colloid solutions and fresh frozen plasma in the volume of 600 ml. Active drainage of the region of the postoperative wound was conducted by Redon method within 10-12 days. Postoperative period ran without complications, with improvement of the patient's condition. Clinical observation showed a positive role of application of shave therapy apparatus at the main stage of resection operations.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Armenian National Institute (ANI) announced the launch of the Spanish version of its widely-consulted website on the Armenian Genocide. The creation of the Spanish ANI site follows upon the earlier successful launch of the Turkish language version of the site.
The ANI website contains extensive records on the history and affirmation of the Armenian Genocide when 1.5 million Armenian Christians fell victim to the Young Turk government policy of mass deportation and annihilation. The Spanish version reproduces ANI’s catalog of official documents from around the world. These records are posted in their original languages, many in PDF format, and can now be accessed in English, Turkish, and Spanish. The leading institutional website on the Armenian Genocide since its inception 23 years ago, the ANI website annually registers more than 7 million hits. Widely consulted by educators and students, the site is also a major source of information in preparation of April 24 commemorative activities utilized by journalists, government officials, and the public.
The ANI Spanish site reproduces many of the most popular sections of the main site: maps, photographs, FAQs, chronology, list of countries, and international affirmation records, including the milestone resolutions adopted by the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate in October and December 2019 respectively.
Countries in the Spanish-speaking world were among some of the first to reaffirm the Armenian Genocide, with Uruguay leading the process as far back as 1965. Most South American countries, including Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Venezuela, and Brazil recognize the Armenian Genocide. Portuguese-speaking Brazil was joined by Portugal itself whose parliament recognized the Armenian Genocide in April 2019.
“We feel privileged to bring the widely used ANI resource to the attention of the Spanish-speaking world, which has produced some of the greatest champions of human rights around the world” said ANI Board Chairman Van Z. Krikorian. “Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term ‘genocide’ in 1944, cited the Armenian experience as a definitional example. In supporting the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention, the United States in 1951 did the same. In addition, the Armenian Genocide was cited as a precedent in the post-WWII Nuremberg trials. Campaigns to deny and rewrite the history of genocide and human rights violations have led to worse crimes and continue, even today.”
“The lessons those who remember the Armenian and other genocides try to teach relate directly to universal issues of basic human dignity. Genocides start with thoughts and words, build step by step, and culminate with mass scale violence, forced conversions, and similar atrocities. We stand with every person of good conscience to work against such man-made disasters and hope that instructional resources available through ANI can become additional tools for educating about this fundamental area of knowledge,” added Krikorian.
“The ANI Spanish site was created with the support and encouragement of several individuals,” added ANI Director Dr. Rouben Adalian. “I want to thank them for pulling together another chapter in the Institute’s ongoing efforts to educate the public about the Armenian Genocide. Our summer intern Serena Hajjar skillfully embarked on the project. Sonia Arakelian extended editorial support from Mexico City. Federico Gaitan Hairabedian, who heads the Buenos Aires, Argentina-based The Luisa Hairabedian Foundation, an organization dedicated to the cause of historical justice, and the team that he assembled, especially Garine Morcecian and Vilén Ter Gazarian, steered this phase of the project to completion,” added Dr. Adalian.
“Our longtime webmaster Mark Malkasian continues to guide ANI’s digital presence,” continued Dr. Adalian. “Above and beyond managing our Internet presence and seeing to it that the sites’ design makes the difficult subject of the Armenian Genocide easily accessible to the general public, especially to students and teachers, Malkasian continues to oversee making the site presentable in all platforms. As of late, he has overseen the upgrading of the ANI site and has made it even more mobile-friendly. Whichever their preferred platform, ANI visitors will be viewing a more streamlined website with easier access to content,” stated Dr. Adalian.
ANI maintains a broad range of online resources about the Armenian Genocide. The online museum is an interactive site allowing visitors to proceed at their own pace, and includes a very popular introductory video. Several digital exhibits released by ANI since the centennial of the Armenian Genocide cover many aspects of the experience of the Armenian people starting in 1915. The ANI digital exhibits are based on photographic collections from U.S. archival repositories and document the extensive humanitarian intervention of American volunteers, who arrived in Armenia and across the Middle East in the immediate aftermath of the genocide.
“I also want to thank The Luisa Hairabedian Foundation for collaborating with ANI, as well as recognize their many contributions for raising awareness about human rights and the recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Argentina. We appreciate their partnership, welcome their participation in bringing ANI resources to the attention of the Latin American public, and look forward to continuing our collaboration,” concluded Krikorian. | <urn:uuid:93c07af6-2979-428b-adf0-6a31c57f3db7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://massispost.com/2020/04/armenian-national-institute-website-available-in-spanish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945052 | 1,088 | 2.828125 | 3 |
In placing orders, shipping works best when orders come in bulk. Though with orders that come smaller or lesser than the expected amount, it hurts the shipping companies due to the costs involved. In such circumstances, you would encounter the option for freight consolidation. This method works by putting smaller packages together into one cohesive shipment. This helps in reducing both shipment costs and environmental impact.
Using order consolidation has its upsides and downsides. Today, we will look at these details and see how to make this work for you.
Reduced Shipping Costs
To start, we will look at the advantages you gain from order consolidation. One of the more noticeable advantages of this arrangement is that it costs less on shipping.
When you have shipment loads that are Less than Load (LTL), the shipping fee would depend on the size of the item. The rates would also vary between shipping companies. Though this changes when it fills up only 1/6 of the full load.
In such situations, it would end up with you paying for the rate equivalent to a full shipment size. This will have you shoulder the other underlying fees.
This changes when you go for order consolidation. By putting more LTL packages in a single shipment, you can reduce the costs of shipping.
This works well for cooperative setups. Here, you have one shipment to cover multiple packages from different sources.
You get to divide the costs with others, letting you pay your side of the container or truck. This also applies to warehousing, especially with orders that go through international shipping.
There is also an arrangement where you have a warehouse for packages from multiple shops. For such an arrangement, you need order consolidation to answer that. This allows you to send the packages to your area in a single shipment.
Streamlined Transportation with Faster Delivery Times
With this setup, you can get shorter times for transit and lead times. Due to how freights go in the same direction, the shipping becomes streamlined with its speed. This helps with timeframes due to how the majority of freights shipped using freight consolidation follow the same routes.
With this in mind, not only does it shorten the timeframe for the package to arrive, but it also comes without any interruptions. This means the order gets to the receiver without any stops.
Reduced Item Damage Risk
A single package on its own when placed for international shipping has a high chance of damage. It could end up getting jostled around and tossed from one corner to another without any means to secure it. This can prove detrimental as it damages the ordered item.
When you have it alongside other packages in a single shipment, it secures the item in place. This means it has less space for it to get tossed around. You can achieve this through simpler shipping schedules.
Needing Lower Levels of Inventory
Opting for order consolidation allows you to use a consolidation warehouse to make this work. On this aspect, you need low inventory levels when fulfilling customer orders. On the business side, this helps you open up more space for other merchandise and products to sell.
Store owners would note this as an advantage. It allows them to sell products with a higher variety. It also helps with organizing products and reduces inventory carrying costs.
Reduced Emissions and Environmental Impact
One of the things that affect the environment is fuel emissions. What makes order consolidation attractive is its approach towards efficiency.
Not only does it apply efficiency in storage space for the shipment. It also puts it into practice with fuel emissions and costs.
Instead of splitting up different shipments in separate runs, you end up having packages shipped by batch. This reduces the number of trucks and other transportation vehicles involved in the delivery.
Helps Avoid Overcrowded Docks
For brick-and-mortar shops, overcrowded docks can impede in handling shipments. With this method, you can avoid overcrowded docks by reducing the number of trucks present. With more space on the dockside, you have an easier time handling the products.
This opens up towards increased efficiency. It helps avoid late shipments and unintended detention times.
Improving Customer Satisfaction
With order consolidation, customer satisfaction improves. Not only does it provide the products with better quality, but it also charges less on shipping. With improved customer satisfaction, they would want more.
Logistics Scheduling Becomes Complicated
For this approach, scheduling becomes one of the trickier aspects. The process of scheduling the shipments may end up being the long and heavy portion of the whole arrangement. It involves a lot of aspects of organization and execution.
If you choose to play this setup by ear, you would end up in a disorganized mess. You would end up with frequent reschedules and service calls.
Consider going for a defined system for order consolidation. With an organized system in place, you have a simpler time dealing with such issues.
Fulfillment Inaccuracies and Shipping Delays
Another notable problem is in the shipping in itself. Though this pertains to the other aspect, the warehouse. Order consolidation opens up a lot of complications in the scheduling. Making any wrong calls on this would cause delays in fulfillment.
The other issue that would come up would be inaccuracies. Without proper supervision, the packages may end up at the wrong address.
What you need to pull this off is a reliable logistics service provider. They can assist with situations involving warehousing and inventory.
Order Consolidation for Efficient Order Fulfillment
Using order consolidation provides a good number of advantages. It provides an efficient means for fulfilling products for orders that have smaller packages. While complicated, a reliable logistics company can help you ease out these situations.
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The transition from couch potato to beginning runner allows you to ease into a healthy exercise program that facilitates weight loss. Programs like the Couch-to-5K running plan start from the basics with only short bursts of running that almost any person can handle, even if you're used to planting yourself on the couch most of the day. As you begin running, your body burns more calories to help you lose weight faster. Combine the running program with other healthy changes to maximize weight loss.
Consult with your physician to make sure you are physically able to participate in a running program. Discuss any concerns about your health that could potentially be an issue with running, such as an old injury or asthma.
Write each workout in the beginning runner program on your calendar. This helps you remember when you need to run and helps you commit to the running sessions. Running regularly is key to burning extra calories and losing weight. In addition to the Couch-to-5K program, several beginning runner programs are available online from sites like Running Planet. Another option is to consult with a trainer to develop a personalized program or to join a running club for beginners.
Follow the running program without skipping ahead. If you push yourself too hard, you are more likely to give up or injure yourself. Repeat workouts if you don't feel you are ready to advance in the program.
Fuel your body with healthier foods so that you are better able to handle the runs. Focus on healthy grains, fruits, vegetables and lean protein to get nutrients while keeping your calories lower than usual. For weight loss, you need a calorie deficit that is created by burning more calories than you eat. The combination of a healthier diet and the running program makes it easier to achieve the deficit.
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Virginia-based school supplies store offers suggestions on how parents can reduce lack of learning retention during summer vacation.
Online PR News – 19-July-2012 – Virginia Beach, VA – VIRGINIA BEACH, VA – With the arrival of summer, Teachers & Parents Store (TAPS) has announced a number of tips for parents to help children to reduce the learning loss and bridge the gap of summer vacation. The Virginia-based school and teacher supplies store has many summer learning books and craft projects to help parents rise to the challenge.
"Studies show that children can lose up to 2.6 months of grade level equivalency skills during the summertime," said Megan Wright of TAPS. "This is an important time for parents to encourage their children to continue learning. Making it fun helps them to retain more information."
Wright suggested that parents choose a summer learning workbook appropriate to their child's age and grade level and do activities regularly. TAPS carries several series designed specifically for children in pre-school through eighth grade, including the Summer Bridge Activities book. Workbooks focus on a variety of school subjects, including reading, language arts, science social studies, math, writing and physical education.
One way to keep a child's learning skills fresh is to schedule summer workbook activities for about 20 minutes every day so that it becomes a part of the child's routine. This helps to close the summertime learning gap.
Wright also recommends reviewing the previous year's subjects, as well as those topics planned for the upcoming year. Additional summer fun learning activities can take place in the car or on the plane while traveling. Books for summertime reading and educational craft project supplies are currently available at the Teachers and Parents Store, as are POP word and math games.
About Teachers & Parents Store: Teachers & Parents Store (www.TAPSonline.com) sells school supplies, educational toys and educational toys for parents and teachers raising young achievers. The Virginia-based company has locations in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Hampton and Richmond and also takes online orders for customers nationwide. TAPS is a Small Women and Minority (SWAM) owned and certified business in business since 2007.
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Is Google Photoscan The Most Trending Thing Now?
Everyone loves their childhood days. We try to keep them as a safe memory through our printed photographs. When I mentioned printed photograph some memory would have passed through your heads. Isn’t it? But most of our printed photographs are getting damaged as years passes by. What if a solution has been found for this problem. And the solution is simply called Photoscan ,a Google app.
Google Photoscan is new app by Google Photos to scan and save your printed photographs using your mobile phone camera. This app is available and can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
Google Photoscan is similar to turning your printed photographs into digital copies. The converted photos can be saved in your Google Drive or Google Photos. Hence, you can access these photos from any device from anywhere.
You might be thinking it is just an app. But think of a situation, when you wanted to use your childhood picture as your profile picture. What did you do? You took your phone camera and clicked a shot by placing your childhood photo beneath. Were you satisfied? I don’t think so. Because it was not that clear and lacked the effect.But Photoscan is going to give a replica of your printed photographs.
Lets have a discussion about it.
Google Photoscan for Android
Photoscan just don’t take a photo of a printed photo. Instead it creates an upgraded digital scan with instinct edge detection, smart rotation and position correction.
How does it work?
Google Photoscan is similar to a camera but the difference comes only in the additional scanning. The app is available for both Android and iOS as well. The app will digitize the printed photos in seconds. It is very simple to use. Open the photoscan and click on “snapshot” button to digitize any of your printed photo. After which four dots appears on your phone in a square region which is to get the accurate edges of your photo. Move your phone along the dots one by one for scanning. On reaching each dot wait for the scanning of the dot to complete. In conclusion, your printed photo is digitized and can be saved in Google Drive or Google Photos.
The app offers certain benefits. Want to know?
- The application crops the photo itself to the required dimensions.
- Automatically rotates to the specific position.
- The four dots we discussed above helps to detect edges correctly.
- On scanning it is glare free.
- The photos can be automatically saved to your drive or gallery.
- Eliminates reflection.
Google Photoscan is useful or not?
Google Photoscan is an app that can be put on your phone, but it is going to be useful for the ones whose printed photos are locked up in a shelf to avoid damage. Google’s latest app is going to be a good news for the ones who are tired of bunching up their printed photos. And probably it is also going to be a bad news for digital scanners and shelfs.
Google Photoscan provide additional feature like the digitized photo can be edited in the edit tool. You just have to tap on the digitized photo and can see options to edit the photo like cropping, light effects, adjusting colour and so on. After when your digitized photo is ready you can save online in your drive or gallery.
What is new in Google Photos?
Google Photos are coming up with new tools for editing which is actually amazing. Because there are new and enhanced filters, more worldly editing tools and improved auto enhance feature. Face selfies might get one treatment; landscape pictures will get another. You can also make delicate adjustments to your photos using option in the edit tool like light, colour, pop etc…
Time to end up….
Google Photoscan is going to be a high rated application because each and everyone might be needing its use. Even I need it because lots of printed photos are locked up in my shelf to avoid damage.
Some might think it is just a camera. For those people, I would like to say, Yes it is a camera and why don’t you try your camera in a different way dude. Apart from camera it has come up with more fascinating edit tools which is actually new to our sight. Hence give a try and get experienced from it.
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Write the Sight Words: "Then"
This worksheet asks your child to practice writing the sight word "then". This worksheet will help your child learn the sight word "then" by having him trace the different letters in the word and then use it in a sentence. After he finishes this worksheet he will have practiced his handwriting skills and gained experience with the word ask. Learning sight words like then will help improve his reading skills. | <urn:uuid:442b35b9-3f53-4fe8-a4a0-aa258a4291f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/first-sight-then/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00387-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963635 | 89 | 4.0625 | 4 |
A Survey of Malachi
God's people didn't know it, but they stood on the brink of silence . . . God's silence . . . for the four hundred-year period between the Old Testament and the New. And Malachi was the last call of the Old Testament. Prophesying after the days of Nehemiah, Malachi witnessed the settled, stagnant, corrupt indifference of God's people, which the prophet deplored. The people's intermarrying with foreigners (non-Jews), neglecting to pay tithes, and offering blemished sacrifices at the altar caused Malachi to confront them and warn them of the consequences of such atrocities. Silence came soon after, but as long as Malachi was on the scene, the nation heard plenty!
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Gait Functional Analysis: Study of the lower limb with a multi-segment foot model
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Gait analysis is presently a common and useful tool for both biomechanical research and clinical practice. A lot of studies have developed multi-segment foot models in order to characterize foot kinematics. However, very few studies deal with dynamic analysis and no validation has yet been done. The present study proposes a multi-segment foot model that allows assessment of movements and mechanical actions within the foot. The instrumentation consists in a Motion Analysis® System with eight Eagle® cameras and two Bertec® forceplates. One RsScan® baropodometric plate is also used. Ten healthy people are involved in this study. For each subject, ten gait trials are collected combining kinematic, dynamic and baropodometric information. An original method of external actions distribution based on Coulomb’s laws will be used for inverse dynamics computation. The results are consistent with literature data and additional information (joint angles and joint moments) is available with the present study. Future works involving more subjects will provide the statistical analysis required to assess the detection of pathologic cases. | <urn:uuid:00aa9bb0-eef1-4746-baf6-afb14e3b555f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://upcommons.upc.edu/handle/2099.1/10408 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00268-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882036 | 262 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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General George Henry Thomas, one of the principal Union commanders in the Western Theater. | <urn:uuid:ada11976-9350-432c-a080-6d45b543d1ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/keyword/western | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924457 | 94 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Outdoor hemp and marijuana growers are getting ready to get their crops in the ground in the coming weeks, but before they sow seeds or plant clones or seedlings, it’s important to get a good start with proper soil testing, conditioning and preparation.
Crop yield and performance is impacted by field selection and soil preparation, making where and how cultivators grow just as important as what they grow.
And generally, because marijuana and hemp crops are such similar crops, the same soil health practices work for both.
“I think the difference in THC and hemp when it comes to production and soil prep is really the market value,” said Skip Newcomb, farm director at East Fork Cultivars in Takilma, Oregon, a producer that grows both hemp and lower-THC marijuana for CBD production.
“That’s the big difference for us is, we put more into it, knowing that we’re going to get that out of it, but essentially it’s the same exact plant – it grows the same, it looks the same, although I would say THC genetics sometimes do have a little more vigor.”
Growers – especially those who produce other crops – may be tempted to pick their worst field to produce hemp or marijuana, because they may consider it risky crop.
But choosing a flat field is key to good yield at harvest, especially if mechanical harvesters will need to navigate that terrain, said Eric Singular, director of development and communications with International Hemp, a hemp genetics company in Denver.
Young plants need enough moisture when they’re first planted to ensure that seeds can germinate and emerge – but once crops are established, too much moisture can be detrimental.
Cannabis doesn’t like “wet feet,” which is to say it doesn’t like to sit in water, so one of the first things growers need to assess is their soil type in the field and the drainage situation.
Ideally, growers will have porous, loamy soil, but hemp and marijuana can grow in any type of soil, as long as it has proper drainage, according to Scott Propheter, a farmer and CBD executive in North Carolina.
“I’ve seen fantastic crops grown on straight red clay. I’ve seen fantastic crops grown on extremely sandy soils. But I think the basic principle that that applies across all of them is, they were well-drained fields,” Propheter said.
The first step growers need to take to get ready for growing season is order soil tests, which can reveal information such as soil alkalinity, nutritional imbalances and contaminants like heavy metals and pesticides.
Many growers test soils after crops are harvested in the fall, so they can take steps to add any necessary amendments or plant cover crops before the winter, according to Singular.
Late winter to early spring, when fields are staring to dry out, is also a good time to test soil. But be sure to account for enough time to order soil amendments and have them delivered, as this can take some time depending on the location of the grow.
According to Singular, test fields in the spring when the temperature is around 40 degrees Fahrenheit to determine soil temperature.
In southern regions of the U.S., some hemp growers learned the hard way in 2020 that direct sowing seeds in the ground when the soil temperature is 80 to 90 degrees Fahrenheit means that the seeds won’t germinate, “because the seeds just bake in the ground,” Singular says.
Testing for contaminants such as residual pesticides and heavy metals is important for flower, biomass and grain crops – especially for growers pursuing U.S. Department of Agriculture organic certification for hemp or a comparable local certification for marijuana – although some states don’t require it, even though they test crops for contaminants after harvest, said Newcomb.
Noel Garcia, chief operating officer and head crop production consultant with TPS Lab in Edinburg, Texas, said he advises growers to test for heavy metals before they plant anywhere.
“I can’t stress enough how important a soil test is,” Garcia said.
“Hemp is a huge bio-accumulator, meaning it accumulates heavy metals, and a lot of times people would totally disregard that before they even considerate planting or even worse before they even consider buying a piece of property.”
He said there are some areas in Texas and other parts of the country that have high levels of arsenic or cadmium; growers may not realize that until they harvest and try to sell.
“Then the processor will send a sample to the lab and test for heavy metals … and come to find out you’re very high in arsenic and cadmium, and now you lost your entire crop, and you won’t be able to sell it.”
Planting in “clean” fields is another key success strategy, though there are few herbicides, if any, that are registered for use on hemp through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency – and none cleared for use on marijuana crops – so growers don’t have the option to “burn down” weeds with chemicals, like farmers do before planting traditional crops, to ensure a clean field before planting.
Growers can naturally mitigate weeds by planting as early as possible, to let the plants get established before weeds start growing.
“As soon as the soil temperatures get warm, if weeds are growing in the field, that means the crop could be growing in the field,” Singular said.
“If you’re getting in the ground right when those soil temperatures are starting to go north of 40 degrees, you’re going to beat the weeds, and that is by far the most environmentally friendly way to manage your weeds, just getting in early and getting that canopy established,” Singular said.
For grain and fiber hemp varieties, growers can also try planting 5 to 10 more pounds of seed per acre than they need to cut out room for the weeds to grow.
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Supporters of Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children can double their donation over the festive period, during the Big Christmas Challenge taking place this week.
In October, cycling enthusiast Sam Smuts is taking on an epic cycling challenge to raise vital funds for WheelPower, who support wheelchair sports.
There are concerns that the number of babies with Down’s syndrome aborted in Scotland will rise following a decision announced by the government.
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children call on Glasgow community to raise vital funds for equipment to support four-year-old child and her family.
With lockdown restrictions easing it’s time to adapt. Three people share the challenges they face following the guidelines when living with a disability.
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced plans today (8 July) to prevent mass unemployment due to the ongoing pandemic, but charities say more needs to be done to support young people with disabilities.
Guide Dogs have asked the general public to ‘keep their distance, but don’t disappear’ – to help those trying to social distance with sight loss.
A charity, which has been at the heart of the Surrey community for more than 85 years this June, is still facing an uncertain future due to the impact of COVID-19 on its fundraising and donations.
Today (15 May) is Spinal Cord Injuries Awareness Day. Every year, spinal cord injury charities come together to hold the event, to celebrate the day and raise money.
Tyrese Dibba is teaching thousands of people across the UK British Sign Language (BSL), with videos released during Deaf Awareness Week.
Newlife, the charity for disabled children, has called on the UK Government to receive further funding. The charity reveals how.
There’s no denying that we’re loving in strange times and it’s perfectly normal if you’re fining it hard to cope at the moment. Everything has changed you may need some time to adjust to the new normal.
Today (11 April) is World Parkinson’s Day, where we raise awareness of the condition to help the wider community understand what living with Parkinson’s is really like.
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If you are writing an informative article about gender equality, you should be aware that the subject is rather politically charged nowadays. Many men and women feel that women are the gainers of gender equality, and that men would be the losers of it. However, in fact, the way we view ourselves as gender-wise does not necessarily coincide with how we see the planet as a whole.
For example, the widely held belief is that girls are the victims of violence at substantially higher rates than men are. While it’s a fact that women are sometimes brutalized by men in public settings such as on roads and in public parks, it’s also true that there are far more essay about gender equality female victims of domestic violence compared to male victims. And that does not mean that violence against girls is automatically connected with sex discrimination, because many people wrongly think.
Another commonly held belief is that women are badly educated in the sciences and arts. While it’s true that women are severely underrepresented in the fields of engineering and computer science, the two of those occupations have far more job opportunities for men compared to women. Men are far more likely to be professionals in fields like medicine and law, where they make more money and secure higher wages.
The belief that girls are disadvantaged by their gender often comes in the false notion that all careers need a degree. This line of thinking is partly responsible for the continuing shortage of girls in some essential professions, like engineering and computer science. Even when professional degrees do exist, like medical professionals and professionals, girls are far less inclined to have them than guys. The belief that”all professions require a degree” is what resulted in this”glass ceiling” phenomenon, which is supposedly the continuing bias against women in the workplace. (That, however, is simply not true.)
1 reason that essay writing concerning sex issues can be challenging is that people have a tendency to think about sex in terms of biology alone. Biological differences between women and men, after all, are mostly determined by genetic predisposition, so there’s really no way to explain why people are raised in different ways. And biological differences between races are often explained away by cultural norms, because cultural norms are connected with race. When you are writing an essay about gender equality, you must be certain you don’t fall in to this snare. Because although different biological traits might account for why women and men are attracted to each other, they don’t have anything to do with why people see or treat each other the exact same way.
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Noureddine Krichene obtained PhD in Economics in the University of California in 1980. He started to work in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 1986. N. Krichene was the advisor at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah from 2005 to 2007. He was a consultant before he joined the IMF. Noureddine Krichene’s area of work covers finance, macroeconomic policies, as well as energy and water economics. His researches and publications are mostly related to finance, economic and monetary fields. (“Authors’ Biography”, 2016). The paper seeks to define the views of Noureddine Krichene on topical issues of economics and Islamic banking through analyzing his scholar works.
Noureddine Krichene has published 25 work and research papers in Islamic economics and finance, finance, monetary theory, exchange rate theory, and energy and water economics. Some topics he covered include modeling stochastic volatility and its use in stock returns, studying market expectations of the euro-dollar exchange rates from option prices, modeling of oil prices trends using different factors that influence them, and the purchasing power parity in some East African countries. He was also a co-author of such books as The Stability of Islamic Finance and other. Noureddine Krichene also writes regularly for the Asian Times Online, and focuses on economics, events and trends in the financial and business world (INCEIF, 2010).
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In order to study the author’s perspective and views, it is necessary to study his most famous books and publications. Noureddine Krichene published several articles devoted to oil prices, as this question is important for many Islamic countries that trade in oil. In his paper “An Oil and Gas Model”, the author formulated a short-run model that had explicit role for monetary policy to analyze global oil and gas markets. The model studied in detail the features of those markets and their vulnerability depending on business cycles. The author states that the short-run demand for oil and gas was price–inelastic, relatively income–elastic, and depended on the interest and exchange rates. That model can be used to forecast oil and gas sales and prices for short periods under policy scenarios (Krichene, 2007). In his paper “Crude Oil Prices: Trends and Forecast”, the author argues using his model that crude oil prices became under growing pressure and seemed unlimited because of low interest rates and U.S. dollar that depreciated quickly. The author propels the idea of restoring stable oil markets as the only way of its development and stability (Krichene, 2008).
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One of the most famous books by Noureddine Krichene is Islamic Capital Markets: Theory and Practice. It provides a deep outlook of the purpose and entity of Islamic capital markets. The book discusses Islamic capital markets from both theoretical and practical sides. It also studies ideas about central banking, money, and the theory of economic growth in terms of Islamic capital markets. Islamic Capital Markets: Theory and Practice can be useful for students and specialists as it guides on investing in Islamic assets, as well as investigates the structure of financial products on the Islamic market and their risk management. In this book, Noureddine Krichene studies the development of such capital markets as Malaysia, which are leading in the field. In the book he investigates such notions as valuation, duration, immunization, convexity, forward rates, yield curves ,deals, and risks for Islamic financial instruments (Krichene, 2013).
One more large and informative book by N. Krichene is Introductory Mathematics and Statistics for Islamic Finance. This book is a good guide to quantitative methods that are used within the sphere of Islamic finance. The author uses applications based on research, and the book provides knowledge on Islamic finance theory and practice. It informs about a set of common tools for studying Islamic finance and provides many examples that can help in practical calculations. The author shows that mathematics and statistics are important for any economic or financial sphere, including Islamic finance. In this book, the author covers such topics as algebra, matrices, calculations and differential equations, probability theory and statistical formula (Krichene & Mirakhor, 2014).
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One more interesting book by N. Krichene is The Gold Standard Anchored in Islamic Finance. The book focuses on the study of the origins of the gold standard. The authors explain why it failed globally and how it could be effectively used again in the context of Islamic finance with the help of 100% reserve banking. This book is quite interesting in the context of financial and economic history (Askari & Krichene, 2016).
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This is the web portal to receive news and information about Andrew D. Basiago’s quest to lobby the US government to disclose its teleportation secret so that teleportation can be adopted on a global basis to help humanity achieve planetary sustainability in the 21st century.
For his revelations about the existence of time travel and life on Mars, Andy has been identified as a "planetary-level whistle blower" by the Web Bot project of futurists Clif High and George Ure. The Web Bot analyzes the content of the World Wide Web and uses Asymmetric Linguistic Trend Analysis (ALTA) to predict future global trends. Web Bot
A "peak experience" is how Andy described his lecture at the Ramtha School of Enlightenment (RSE) in Yelm, Washington on February 12, 2011. Andy received standing ovations when he entered the Great Hall at RSE to the resounding chords of Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire," when he called for public teleportation by 2020, and when he concluded his five-hour talk. His address was attended live by 1,250 people, viewed online by 250 others, translated into nine languages, and streamed live to 25 nations. Ramtha School of Enlightenment
"Project Pegasus and The Triumph of the Human Spirit" was the title of Andy's talk at the Free Your Mind Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 9-10, 2011. During his talk, Andy provided a rare glimpse into the efforts that were made while he was serving on Project Pegasus to make him forget his time travel experiences, and how he overcame such oppression, so that today, one human being, empowered by the dream of bringing teleportation to the world, is ending the United States government's time travel cover-up. Free Your Mind 2
Andy spoke at Joan Ocean's Dolphin & Teleportation Symposium in Kona, Hawaii on June 20-24, 2011. His keynote lecture "A Brief History of Time Travel" was described as a "tour d' force." He followed it up with "The Hidden History of The Discovery of Life on Mars," his new lecture that relates his experiences on Mars from 1981 to 1983 to his Mars findings made since 2008. Joan Ocean
Andrew D. Basiago brought his truth campaign about the US time travel and Mars cover-ups to Maui for the first time when he lectured at the Temple of Peace in Haiku, Hawaii on July 23-24, 2011. During his talks, Andy linked President Barack Obama to the US Mars visitation program, revealing that Obama was his classmate in a Mars training program held at The College of the Siskiyous in 1980, and vowed future revelations about the US time-space program. Sacred Matrix
Andy was a guest speaker at Swedenborg Hall in San Diego, California on August 13-14, 2011. During his two-day lecture on the time travel and Mars cover-ups, The Reverend Carla A. Friedrich, pastor of the Swedenborgian Church, found numerous parallels between Andy's time travel experiences and the notions of Emanuel Swedenborg, the 18th century theologian who inspired George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Swedenborgian Church & Hall of San Diego
Life on Mars was the focus when Andy joined Alfred L. Webre and Laura M. Eisenhower at the Truth Event held in Port Townsend, Washington on August 26-27, 2011. After Andy spoke at the first Truth Event on November 20, 2010, he was hailed by Truth Event founder Charlie Arthur as "a rare and a great American" for bringing the truth about the US time-space program to the American people. This Truth Event focused on ending the cover-up of life on Mars and the US presence there. Truth Event
Andy was the keynote speaker when the Canadian Society of Questers met September 23-26, 2011 at Prestige Harbourfront and Convention Centre in Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada. In his keynote address on September 23rd, Andy told of the quest he has been on for over 10 years to prove his time travel experiences in DARPA's Project Pegasus in the early 1970s and share them with others. In a workshop on September 25th, he then told of his related quest to prove and share his experiences in the CIA's Mars visitation program during 1980 to 1983. Canadian Society of Questers
The Awakening Center in Rainier, Washington hosted Andrew D. Basiago in an all-day lecture on Saturday, October 8, 2011. During his visit to The Awakening Center, Andy told of his experiences in both DARPA's Project Pegasus [1968-72] and the CIA's Mars visitation program [1980-83]. The event began at 11:00 o'clock AM and ended when the last question was answered after 5:00 o'clock AM. The Awakening Center is located at 10905 138th Avenue NE, Rainier, WA 98576. They can be reached via e-mail at email@example.com and by telephone at (360) 446-7018.
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Andy was a guest on Coast to Coast AM on November 10, 2011. This marked his fourth appearance on Coast. Host George Noory has stated that he believes Andy's account of having time traveled in Project Pegasus. In a Coast to Coast Insta-Poll held after Andy's second appearance on Coast on November 11, 2010, 65% of Coast listeners agreed and 19% disagreed with Andy that the US government researched and developed time travel in the 1960s and 1970s. During this broadcast, Andy's Mars co-adventurer William B. Stillings and Mars whistle blower Laura M. Eisenhower corroborated his claim that the US government has a secret presence on Mars. Coast to Coast AM
By popular demand, The Awakening Center in Rainier, Washington again hosted Andy in an all-day lecture on Saturday, November 12, 2011 from 11:00 o'clock AM to 5:00 o'clock PM. During his talk, Andy focused in detail on his exploits in the CIA's Mars visitation program, including his training with classmates Barack H. Obama, Regina E. Dugan, William C. McCool, and William Stillings and the trips that they took to Mars from a “jump room” in El Segundo, California [1981-83]. The Awakening Center is located at 10905 138th Avenue NE, Rainier, WA 98576. They can be reached via e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.org and by telephone at (360) 446-7018.
The Awakening Center
Andrew D. Basiago has joined ExoUniversity as a faculty member and member of its board of advisers. Andy marked Earth Day on April 22, 2012 by traveling to Vancouver, BC, Canada to lecture with the founder of ExoUniversity, Alfred Lambremont Webre, about the public policy benefits of adopting teleportation as a new mode of civilian transport. On June 1, 2012, Andy returned to Vancouver to tape a lengthy interview by Webre about Andy’s experiences in the CIA’s jump room program of the early 1980’s. The next day, Andy appeared publicly with US chrononaut Bernard Mendez, one of his fellow jumpers from the jump room program. Mendez is a former assistant to President Richard M. Nixon who investigated the jump room program for the US intelligence community by participating in it. These productions will soon be available for download at www.exouniversity.org.
Andrew D. Basiago returned to the Awakening Center in Rainier, Washington on Saturday, April 28, 2012 for a joint public appearance with fellow jump room experiencer Bernard Mendez. Andy lectured about the advent of time-space exploration in DARPA’s Project Pegasus in the early 1970’s and then interviewed Mendez about their exploits together in the CIA's Mars visitation program in the early 1980’s. Mendez was the Presidential-level investigator who participated in the jump room program to answer key questions, such as whether the jumpers were reaching Mars or an artificial planetary holographic domain. This was the first time that two US chrononauts have appeared together live and discussed their project experiences at the same public event.
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Andrew D. Basiago was a featured speaker at UFO CON 2012 in Santa Clara, California on September 15-16, 2012. The topic of his presentation was "Destination Mars: The CIA's Jump Room Program, 1980-1984." In his talk, Andy told the story of his experiences with Barack H. Obama, Regina E. Dugan, Bernard Mendez, William B. Stillings and other US chrononauts in the US secret space program in the early 1980's.
UFO Con 2012
Andrew D. Basiago brought his Truth Campaign about the US time travel and Mars jump room cover-ups to Phoenix. In "Project Pegasus and the Advent of Time Travel, 1968-1972," Andy told the story of his experiences in DARPA’s Project Pegasus. Topics included the forms of time travel that emerged by 1970; why children were involved in time travel; what events the US government had prior knowledge of; time travel and the US presidency; and the implications of time travel in law and policy. This lecture was held Saturday, January 19, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the Clarion Hotel Phoenix Tech Center, 5121 East La Puente Avenue, Phoenix, AZ. In "The Mars Project in US Time Travel History, 1980-84," Andy related his experiences as a young man going to Mars for the CIA’s jump room program. Topics included his training for Mars in 1980; the purposes of the Mars jump room program; his fellow jumpers, including President Barack Obama; what the Red Planet was like; and his experiences visiting Mars via jump room from 1981 to 1984. This lecture was held Sunday, January 20, 2013 from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm at the University of Advancing Technology, 2625 West Baseline Road, Tempe, AZ.
Andrew D. Basiago was a popular speaker at the Free Your Mind 2 conference held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 25-27, 2013. At the Free Your Mind 1 Conference held in Philadelphia on April 9-10, 2011, Andy spoke about his childhood time travel adventures in DARPA's Project Pegasus in the early 1970's. At this second Free Your Mind conference, he addressed his experiences during college in the CIA's Mars jump room program in the early 1980's with fellow jumpers Regina E. Dugan, William C. McCool, Bernard Mendez, Barack H. Obama, and William B. Stillings. In this talk, Andy revealed for the first time the identity of two prominent Americans who served in the jump room program with him, Admiral Stansfield Turner, a former Director of Intelligence, who Andy and Bernard encountered one time on Mars, and Mary Jean Eisenhower, director of the People to People Ambassador Program, who accompanied Andy, Bernard, and Regina on a jump in 1983.
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A "tour d' force" is how was described "The Portal in Hawaii," a seminar on time travel and Mars visitation led by Andrew D. Basiago at Sky Island Ranch in Kona, Hawaii from July 21-26, 2013. During the symposium, Joan Ocean of Dolphin Connection guided guests in swimming with the dolphins and Jean-Luc Bozzoli presented his new work, Voyage to Infinity with Whales & Dragons.
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Coast to Coast AM with George Noory, 11/11/09 Andrew D. Basiago: Project Pegasus
Tonight, in a major disclosure event, the US time travel cover-up ends, as one of America’s early time-space explorers steps forward to reveal what he experienced and what he learned during the early years of time travel research and development by the United States government.
Our guest, Andrew D. Basiago, lawyer, writer, Mars researcher, and planetary whistle blower, brings his truth campaign to Coast-to-Coast AM, as he relates his childhood experiences in DARPA’s Project Pegasus, and shares with us the true history of the US time-space program.
Stay tuned, as tonight, we go in search of the past and the future, and discuss Project Pegasus, the real Philadelphia Experiment!
Andrew D. Basiago is a lawyer in private practice in Washington State, a writer, and a 21st century visionary.
He holds five academic degrees, including a BA in History from UCLA and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge.
Andy is a leading figure in the Truth Movement, who is heading a campaign to lobby the United States government to disclose such controversial truths as the fact that Mars harbors life and that the United States has achieved “quantum access” to past and future events.
He has been identified as the first of two major planetary whistle blowers predicted by ALTA, the Web Bot project that analyzes the content of the World Wide Web to discern future trends.
Andy’s writings place him at the forefront of contemporary Mars research. His paper The Discovery of Life on Mars, published in 2008, was the first work to prove that Mars is an inhabited planet. After publishing his landmark paper, Andy founded the Mars Anomaly Research Society.
Andy is also one of America’s time travel pioneers. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was a child participant in the secret US time-space program, Project Pegasus.
He was the first American child to teleport and took part in probes to past and future events utilizing different forms of time travel then being researched and developed by DARPA.
For ten years, Andy has investigated his experiences in Project Pegasus on a quest to prove them and communicate them to others.
Soon, he will publish a tell-all book that will describe his awe-inspiring and terrifying experiences in Project Pegasus and the true story of the emergence of time travel in the US defense community 40 years ago.
Tonight, we will discuss Andy’s childhood experiences in Project Pegasus and his crusade as a lawyer to have the US government disclose its time travel secrets.
He will share with us the people, the places, the technologies, and the experiences that he encountered as a child time traveler in Project Pegasus, at the dawn of the time-space age!
"Imagine a world in which one could jump through Grand Central Teleport in New York City, travel through a vortal tunnel in the time-space continuum, and emerge several seconds later at Union Teleport in Los Angeles. Such a world has been possible since 1968, when teleportation was first achieved by DARPA's Project Pegasus. When my quest, Project Pegasus, succeeds, such a world will emerge, and human beings linked globally via teleportation will proclaim the Time-Space Age has begun."
— Andrew D. Basiago
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Don’t leave college now even though this is the time of year when many college students decide to drop out. This especially common for first year students.
For some who are away from home it is because they are homesick. For some they have found that college is harder than they expected. For some of those who are struggling academically a drop in grades may threaten financial aid or scholarships.
If you are homesick, students often find that a few weeks at home under the watchful eye of mom and dad as opposed to the freedom of campus life is all they need to realize that campus life is not so bad.
The friends from high school, like you, have made new friends and found new interests and so the old closeness may not be as you imagined it would be. Don’t leave college now. Home is not where you really want to be again.
Academic issues may be more salvageable than you realize. The term is not over yet. You can talk to professors about how to ace the final exam or paper or you can negotiate an incomplete.
It is likely too late now to drop classes that look headed for disaster, but see if you can mitigate the damage. Seek out a tutor or head to the writing center. If you had actually done these things earlier (like they told you to at orientation when you were either not listening or were assuming you could handle it) you might not be in a pickle now.
The main thing is now to come clean to your professor, adviser or dean and see what can be done.
Don’t leave college and go back home—especially if you messed up.
Schools are used to students having this reality check in the first semester and then getting it together later. It does not mean that you can’t get into a good graduate school later. It may however tell you that the field you thought you wanted may not be your cup of tea after all. Whatever you do don’t leave college now.
Talk to your adviser and the others there to serve you in the career or pre-med/pre-law offices to be sure you are on the right path. Dropping in and out can cost you in the long term.
If you think of transferring then you need to be sure that credits from one school will transfer to another so you do not waste money retaking requirements. Don’t leave college now to go to work because you will be postponing the higher earnings that a college degree can provide.
Whatever you do – don’t leave college now – do not just walk away.
If you are thinking you might want to leave college – talk to someone and do it officially.
You may be able to take a leave of absence if there is a health or family crisis. In any event the registrar has to know that you have dropped out.
Otherwise you will wind up with bills for classes you did not complete and for which you may get an F. That will damage your GPA and leave you in debt to the school. If you owe them money the school will not release your transcripts to other schools should you want to transfer. You may lose your financial aid if your GPA drops as the result of those Fs.
Walking away is always a disaster. It will be better if you don’t leave college now.
Dr. Cantarella is the author of I CAN Finish College: The Overcome Any Obstacle and Get Your Degree Guide and a consultant on higher education, access and success.
See Chapter 9 of I CAN Finish College and contact Dr. Cantarella at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Even though their songs are known by millions around the world, only now has a book been published that reveals how The Beatles sounded the way they did. This lavishly illustrated hardcover volume is the first to examine all the instruments and equipment The Beatles used to compose, rehearse, perform and record some of the best-loved popular music of all time. It features 335 color and black & white photos of The Beatles - many never before published - as well as prime memorabilia, including instrument sales receipts, manufacturers? ads, concert posters and more. The book?s year-by-year format analyzes in detail The Beatles? entire touring and recording career. Beatles Gear was written by Andy Babiuk, a staff consultant to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a 20+-year employee of House of Guitars, and an advisor to auction houses on music-related memorabilia. Includes a foreword by esteemed Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn.
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Andy Babiuk (born November 27, 1963) is an American musician, author, consultant, and owner of Andy Babiuk’s Fab Gear in Fairport, New York.
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Change how fast your iPad locks the screen
Just like a regular desktop computer or laptop, your iPad will automatically lock itself - depending on whether or not you have enabled password-protection on your iPad, you will get either a prompt to "Slide to Unlock", or be prompted to enter a passcode to unlock your iPad. By default, the iPad will lock itself after 5 minutes of inactivity. This means that you leave your iPad on the side, without video or audio playback, and no iPad game in progress but paused, and do not interact with any of its buttons - whether physical controls on the hardware, or on screen buttons, sliders, etc. You will always know when your iPad goes into sleep or energy saving mode, because the screen will start to dim (the auto lock feature activates itself later on). This tutorial explains how to change how fast the iPad automatically locks itself.
Change your iPad Auto-Lock settings
Follow these simple steps to customize when your iPad locks (if ever!)
- First, click on the round "Home" button to see your Home screens, and navigate to the one where you see the "Settings" button that displays three gears as its icon.
- When your iPad settings screen loads, the "General" section should be automatically selected on the left. Look at the fourth group of options on the right, and you will see an "Auto-Lock" button, which also shows your current setting (by default, "5 Minutes"). Tap on the Auto-Lock button to choose another value:
- The next screen of options will display a series of timer values, in minutes, that you can change to: 2 Minutes, 5 Minutes, 10 Minutes, 15 Minutes, or "Never". Choose any other number of minutes to increase or decrease the time it takes for your iPad to lock itself automatically (and show the password prompt if you enabled that feature).
- To disable Auto-Lock on iPad, just tap on the "Never" option, and it will be enabled. This means that your iPad remains ready to start pretty much all the time. If you set your iPad to never lock itself, keep in mind that password protection no longer plays its role; make sure that you remember to turn that off if you are traveling or using your iPad in a public location or unfamiliar setting (school, work, public library, etc.)
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by John R. Fischer
, Senior Reporter | August 27, 2021
A patient with UnitedHealthcare’s HMO plan can expect to pay $1,093 for an MR scan at Aurora St. Luke’s in Milwaukee, as opposed to a patient with its PPO plan, who will pay over $4,000 for the same service.
While previously unknown, such disparities are becoming public knowledge following the passage of the Hospital Price Transparency Rule that requires hospitals to disclose rates they negotiate with insurers for their services.
To better understand the full extent of these disparities, The New York Times, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, investigated
medical costs at 60 different hospitals for services ranging from pregnancy tests to X-rays and CT scans.
Among its findings was the fact that certain services may be cheaper for uninsured patients. For instance, the University of Mississippi Medical Center charges Aetna patients $2,144 for a colonoscopy and Cigna members $1,463. Meanwhile, uninsured patients only pay $782. Additionally, those with high deductibles who have reached their deductibles may still have to pay out-of-pocket.
“It’s not just individual patients who are in the dark,” Martin Gaynor, a Carnegie Mellon economist who studies health pricing, told The Times. “Employers are in the dark. Governments are in the dark. It’s just astonishing how deeply ignorant we are about these prices.”
In addition, small health insurers can sometimes secure better deals than top insurance companies, and a single insurer may have a half-dozen different prices within the same facility, based on individual plans, according to the Times. Even simple procedures can have price disparities that amount to thousands of dollars.
This results in patients struggling to pay medical bills and winding up with higher premiums, especially when they are not aware of different rates charged at different hospitals for the same service. At Intermountain Health in Utah, patients pay $1,800-$6,400 for a rabies shot, while at U-Florida Health Shands, the price ranges from $5,200-$13,100.
Introduced under the Trump administration in 2019
and supported by Biden, the Hospital Price Transparency rule is designed to help patients make smarter financial decisions about their health. Insurers and hospital groups that oppose the rule claim the complex nature of medical billing will only “confuse and frustrate” consumers and potentially lead to delays, higher prices and avoidance of necessary care. | <urn:uuid:4e8db087-4771-43e7-8f18-a64e8a2ee3cc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://de.dotmed.com/news/story/55744 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.948212 | 519 | 1.945313 | 2 |
German Metal Workers’ 4.3% Pay Settlement Seen Setting Benchmark
A 4.3 percent pay increase for German metal workers doesn’t pose an inflation threat even as it sets a precedent for other industries, economists said.
The IG Metall union said the 13-month deal for 800,000 workers in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg will serve as a benchmark for the 3.6 million metal workers across Germany. Economists including Holger Schmieding at Berenberg Bank said the settlement, which equates to a 4 percent gain in annual terms, will also provide a model for other industries in Europe’s largest economy.
It “surpasses the 3 percent pace which we consider compatible with both full employment and inflation below 2 percent in the long run,” said Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg in London. “There is, however, no need to be concerned about a price-wage spiral. The service sector should get lower wage hikes, and higher wages in the metal industry are not going to be passed on to prices.”
German workers are seeking pay increases that exceed inflation as unemployment at a two-decade low bolsters their bargaining power. Wage restraint over the past decade has increased companies’ competitiveness and helped the economy to weather Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, widening the divergences between Germany and some of its euro-area partners.
“The wage increases were deserved and will help to support private consumption and thereby economic growth,” said Jens Kramer, an economist at NordLB in Hanover, Germany. Still, “there is no need to worry about inflation getting out of hand in Germany,” he said.
The IG Metall wage increase was twice the European Central Bank’s 2 percent inflation limit and well above Germany’s 2.2 percent inflation rate. The union had asked for 6.5 percent.
Ver.di, the country’s main labor union for non- manufacturing workers, won agreements in late March for a pay increase of as much as 6.3 percent over two years for state and municipal employees. Negotiations are also taking place in other industries.
Germany’s chemical-sector union, IG BCE, is demanding a 6 percent industry-wide pay raise over 12 months for 550,000 employees. Ver.di is also seeking a 6 percent increase for 220,000 workers in the banking industry.
Germany recorded growth of 0.5 percent in the first quarter even as eight euro-area countries were in recession.
German inflation will probably exceed the euro-area average this year, Schmieding said. “But we maintain our view that this change in relative positions will occur by inflation falling elsewhere in Europe due to labor-market slack and weak demand, and not by German inflation rising above its current level.”
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While parrying partisan attacks on its decision to eject Saddam Hussein from power, the Bush administration last Friday received surprise support from one of the Iraq war’s staunchest foes: Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Speaking at a summit in Kazakhstan, Putin served up a shocker. According to Russian intelligence, he said, the Ba’athist regime had been developing plans to strike at the United States, as well as American interests overseas. Putin claimed he took these plans so seriously that he had warned the United States several times after 9-11 about the looming danger posed by Iraq.
Iraq a threat to American national security? You heard heard it from Putin: “I can confirm that after the events of September 11, 2001, and up to the military operation in Iraq, Russian special services and Russian intelligence several times received … information that official organs of Saddam’s regime were preparing terrorist acts on the territory of the United States and beyond its borders, at U.S. military and civilian locations,” Putin said.
Further buttressing that claim was the anonymous Russian intelligence agent, who confirmed to the Russian Interfax news agency that Russia had received a report early in 2002, detailing the plans of Iraqi secret agents to launch attacks on U.S. diplomatic and military facilities. He also had some words of wisdom, noting that “in investigating the causes of the Iraq crisis, it is necessary to take into account all of the aspects, including the direct threat to the United States from the Saddam Hussein regime.”
With that, the Russians did more than just expose the hollowness of their obstructionist opposition to the war; they also undercut the argument of those critics — John Kerry springs fleetly to mind — who claimed that Iraq was a war of choice, a feel-good distraction from more pressing issues of national security.
Putin obviously takes a different view. In his telling, the principal reason Russia objected to the war was that Saddam had yet to attack the United States. That this was indeed Saddam’s intention is, to Putin, beyond dispute. As he explained Friday, “It’s one thing to have information that Saddam’s regime is preparing terrorist attacks, but we didn’t have information that it was involved in any known terrorist attacks.”
By this logic, if the Bush administration is to be condemned, it is for not sitting back and waiting for the Iraqi attacks to go through the tragic formality of taking place. Bush: Too Quick to Fight Terrorism. You could do worse for an election-year slogan.
OF COURSE, NOT ALL critics see it that way. Skeptics were swift to note that the credibility of the Russian intelligence cited by Putin is impossible to measure. They have a point. But it may be remembered that Russian intelligence services have had a close collaborative relationship with their Iraqi counterparts stretching back three decades, ever since the erstwhile KGB inked a secret intelligence agreement with Saddam Hussein’s spooks in 1973.
Nor has the relationship fizzled recently. Back in February, for example, news reports cast light on the continuing cooperation between Iraq and Russian intelligence services, exposing an intelligence swap that included a Russian-supplied list of assassins available for “hits” in the West; details of arms deals in the Middle East; and a signed agreement to share intelligence. As a former KGB head with close ties to Russia’s top intelligence agency, the Federal Security Service (FSB), Putin was clearly privy to this intelligence.
This forces the question: Why wasn’t the Russian intelligence included in the administration’s case for war? The shocked reaction its revelation elicited from the U.S. intelligence community on Friday suggests an answer: Contrary to the Russians’ claims, they never supplied it. And why would they? Armed with a host of compelling justifications for regime change, the U.S. didn’t exactly need another reason to oust Saddam. The Russians weren’t about to give them one, in any case. Now, eager to mend fences, they’ve relented.
But possibly the biggest reason to doubt claims that Russia actually turned over the intelligence to the United State is its source, the FSB. The agency put up fierce objections to war in Iraq. So fierce, in fact, that one eminent Russian media defense analyst described the agency in 2003 as “a leading party of the pro-Saddam lobby.”
Whatever one makes of the dubious Russian claims about intelligence sharing, the revelation that Saddam had every design to attack the United States underscores the wisdom of the preemptive war against Iraq. Add to this the September 11 commission’s findings that there were verifiable contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda, as well as the cropping up of sarin and other chemical weapons in Iraq, and it becomes clear that the administration’s policy was correct all along.
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The basic requirements needed to photograph dogs are equipment and subjects. You need camera gear (I exclusively use Tamron’s range of Super Performance Series lenses) and actual dogs to pose for you. You can photograph your own dog, or that of a friend or family member, or even offer to photograph at your local rescue centre. More on this soon, first, let’s get into my top dog photography tips.
I will start with this tip first because it really is the most important of them all. Nothing is worth doing if it’s not fun.
The simple key to relaxed and happy pooch pics is to create an environment where your pooch can be relaxed and happy. Making sure your dog feels safe and at ease is the key to crafting wonderful portraits. Dog’s moods reflect in their faces and body language and by making their session a positive and fun experience they will see their photo session as an adventure and reward you with big smiles and cheerful energy.
If your dog’s interest starts to fade, or they just aren’t up for it on the day, you can always put your session off to a time when your pet is feeling more playful. Just like people, some dogs are active in the mornings, while others prefer to be up and about in the afternoons. Choose your dog’s optimum activity time and use it to your photo taking advantage. Try to avoid posing them too much or overly controlling them, as the general rule is, the more you try to pose them, the more they will do the exact opposite of what you want. If you let them have free reign, they will be more relaxed, and you will be able to capture their true personality.
Most dogs are won over by either toys or treats – or both! Once you decide which motivator your dog will be most responsive to, use that to get his attention. If you wave a treat under your dog’s nose then pull it upwards, chances are he will look up at you and you can use those precious seconds where he is focussed on the treat, to get your shots.
Likewise, if a squeaky toy or tennis ball is his thing you can hold it near him to get him interested in it and then snap away while he is intently waiting for you to throw it. Be sure to offer regular rewards, otherwise, you may find your pooch’s attention starts to wane. If your dog is particularly active, you can give them a toy to play with or a treat to chew on to keep them settled.
Waiting until that split-second moment of a perfect photo opportunity presents itself requires anticipation, then timing. Once you see the shot, grab it as quickly as you can! This is something you will get faster at, the more you practice, and the development of digital cameras means you can take as many shots as you need to in order to get the photo you are after.
Learn as much as you can about your pet’s behaviour and habits, and spend time observing them before you start snapping. Do they tilt their head when you make a certain sound? Do they do tricks on command? You can start to plan their response based on what you ask them to do for you, like shake hands or rolling over. These quirky antics are fabulous to capture with your camera and will lead to distinct images of your dog.
Patience was the first thing I had to learn when I started photographing animals and it’s a crucial factor when taking portraits of your dog. Repeating movements and words calmly and gently creates a chilled atmosphere for your pet. If you speak your commands in a happy, light tone, you can encourage your dog to focus on you and catch those spilt second photographic moments.
I like to think of patience in dog photography as a three-step process.
Be creative and experiment with different perspectives, angles, and vantage points. There aren’t really any hard and fast composition rules with photography – sometimes the most interesting images are off centre or a bit quirky. Dogs are closer to the ground than we are, so take a series of images while lying on the ground and shooting from their point and view. Or consider taking photos directly at their eye level while they are sitting up, or shoot from above, pointing the camera straight down at them. You even crop parts of them out by zooming in for a close up nose shot, or detailed eye image. Don’t overlook paws, tails, and ears too for an abstract feel.
Be sure to check your background for objects beside or behind your subject. Chairs, people, rubbish bins, light posts, other dogs (to name but a few) can all ‘photobomb’ your subjects and are things you need to watch out for. You can move people and other dogs out of the way – with the inanimate objects you can change the angle of your shot or move your dog elsewhere to avoid getting these elements in your image.
Interesting features that add something to your image make for a great shot, whereas unwanted objects or clutter can be distracting. I try to go for clean and simple backgrounds like green grass or blue sky, a nice park bench, or patterned surface. If your pooch won’t sit still, position them on a sturdy chair or bench where they feel comfortable. This will buy you valuable seconds, as they won’t be able to race off as quickly as they can when they are on the ground.
Most of all, the time you spend with your dog should be fun, and photographing them is no exception. Make your photo session light and easy and enjoy yourself. The experience is just as important as the end result.
A wonderful way to give back to dogs in need, and to hone your photography skills, is to volunteer your time a local dog shelter.
So you have a selection of great pet pics on your camera, what do you do now? I don’t think images have a life unless they are shared in some way - either online through a website or social media platform or printed up for the enjoyment of all who see them.
At the end of each photo session I download my images into a folder on a hard drive, which us subsequently backed up to the cloud. The folder name is usually the year and subject. I then conduct a mini audit and cull down the images to a few favourite shots. If I have several photos the same, I go for the sharpest, most engaging one, and I prefer to choose one strong photo, over three similar ones.
I use Photoshop to edit my images on my BenQ monitor. This ensures the colours and tones are accurate in my final photo, which is of high importance to me. Whether I’m sharing the image online or printing it for myself or a client, I want it to exactly reflect my edit.
By the time my edits are complete, I’ve already started thinking about which dog I’d like to photograph next, and soon I start my photo session process all over again.
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Alex Cearns OAM is a world-renowned pet and animal photographer, business coach, and author from Australia. Through her business Houndstooth Studio, she photographs over 1000 beloved pet dogs each year and no matter where she is, the natural focus of her lens is always the local dogs.
Alex lives with her two rescue dogs, Pip and Pixel, and it’s safe to say she is a crazy dog lady, with dogs being her favourite animals.
“To me, dogs are love and light. They are always joyous and give so much back to us”, she says. “They are our best friends and our loyal companions, always pleased to see us and happy for each day they get to spend with us. They are pure of heart and just want to please. Nothing makes me smile more than spending time with my dogs and laughing at their zany, adorable antics. Photographing them is something I thoroughly enjoy as I get to preserve special memories of our time together.”
Alex shares her top dog photo tips to help you take fabulous pooch pics plus some advice on how to photograph rescue dogs at a shelter.
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They organise public opinion and formulate the general wilL The problems facing the modem State are many and complex. People haveordinarily all sorts of opinions and views about one and the same issue. The first function of political parties is to organise these myriads ot opinions by educating the people. Every party selects those issues which are of fundamental importance or are likely to appeal to the voters. It then formulates its own views, policy and programme about it and popularises it among the voters by means of the press, platform and other means ol propaganda. Thus it explains these problems to the people. At the same time other parties put before them their own views and policies and thus enable them to judge these issues by themselves. In this way they act, as Lowell puts it, as brokers of ideas. As Bryce says, they bring order out of chaos of opinions and views. If there were no political parties in the modern State, politics would be a sheer babble of tongues. A disorganised mass of people can neither formulate principles nor agree on policy. Thus political parties organise public opinion and express the will of the people or the General Will. By serving, as Gettel says, as the motive force in crystallising public: opinion, they make democracy workable over large areas of the modern nation States.
They select candidates for public offices. The second function of political parties is to select candidates for election, to plan, organise and run election campaigns and to win them by winning majority of votes for their own candidates. This is their essential and very useful function in the modem democratic government. As elections are expensive affairs, and some candidates are too poor to bear them, the party defrays the election expenses of such candidates from the party funds, contributed by its members and supporters. Moreover, the voters cannot know the candidates or choose them. The parties select them and acquaint the voter* with their qualifications and merits and thus convince the votes of the superiority of their own candidates over those of the rival parties. They are launching pad or spring-boards for new leaders to capture governmental power. They provide opportunities for leaders to come to power.
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They also criticize the Government. The party or parties which are returned in minority to the legislature, form the Opposition. It performs no less important and useful function than that of running the administration. The opposition parties keep the ruling party in check, point out its weaknesses, and prevent it from becoming despotic or negligent of national interests. They expose corruption and favoritism and scandals of the ruling party. The Opposition is, therefore, aptly described as the Watchdog of the democracy.
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R.I.P. Howard Zinn
From his hometown paper:
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa Monica, Calif, where he was traveling. He was 87.
His daughter, Myla Kabat-Zinn of Lexington, said he suffered a heart attack.
“He’s made an amazing contribution to American intellectual and moral culture,” Noam Chomsky, the left-wing activist and MIT professor, said tonight. “He’s changed the conscience of America in a highly constructive way. I really can’t think of anyone I can compare him to in this respect.”
Chomsky added that Dr. Zinn’s writings “simply changed perspective and understanding for a whole generation. He opened up approaches to history that were novel and highly significant. Both by his actions, and his writings for 50 years, he played a powerful role in helping and in many ways inspiring the Civil rights movement and the anti-war movement.”
For Dr. Zinn, activism was a natural extension of the revisionist brand of history he taught. “A People’s History of the United States” (1980), his best-known book, had for its heroes not the Founding Fathers — many of them slaveholders and deeply attached to the status quo, as Dr. Zinn was quick to point out — but rather the farmers of Shays’ Rebellion and union organizers of the 1930s.
As he wrote in his autobiography, “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train” (1994), “From the start, my teaching was infused with my own history. I would try to be fair to other points of view, but I wanted more than ‘objectivity’; I wanted students to leave my classes not just better informed, but more prepared to relinquish the safety of silence, more prepared to speak up, to act against injustice wherever they saw it. This, of course, was a recipe for trouble.”
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How Long For Milk to Dry Up After Weaning Toddler?
Weaning is a process that a mother either dreads or really looks forward to, and for some mother’s the two emotions overlap. The process can be difficult because breastfeeding becomes habit for both mother and baby and it also becomes second nature for the body to keep producing milk. Therefore, even if you have planned to wean your baby and you are at peace with the idea, you may be wondering exactly how long it will take for your milk to dry up and how comfortable the whole process will be.
Milk Production and Drying After Weaning
The first few days are usually the most difficult after weaning, but if you can get through these first couple of days you will usually be just fine. How long it takes for the milk to dry up after weaning your toddler really does vary from woman to woman. Most women will find that if they are going to become engorged that it only lasts for two to four days and then the milk production will begin to decrease. Most women find that the milk is completely or just about dried up after two weeks.
Some women will continue to notice a small amount of milk production for some time. In some instances the milk production can last weeks, months, or years. If the milk production is bothersome you can talk to your doctor and he or she may be able to prescribe medications that will aide in the drying up process. Most women are not bothered by the drying up process after the first couple days, as it is just a matter of time.
To help with the drying out process you should definitely wean slowly. You should gradually decrease feedings every day for a couple weeks until you are only breastfeeding a couple times a day. This will help to signal to your body that it needs to slow down milk production. When you wean slowly in this way you will not become as engorged, if you become engorged at all, and the drying out process will usually go a lot more smoothly for most women.
Many women like to aid the drying out process by placing cabbage leaves in their bra. This is something that has been done for ages and most women swear by it. You simply place whole cabbage leaves over the breast and then put on a bra. When you leave the cabbage leaves on for a whole day or even repeat the process for a couple days it is supposed to aide in the drying out of the milk to make the whole process a lot more comfortable. | <urn:uuid:48835a64-a5f5-433e-993b-09e3742bbddf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thelaboroflove.com/articles/how-long-for-milk-to-dry-up-after-weaning-toddler | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00099-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973596 | 510 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Law schools are primarily interested in an applicant's academic preparation and performance. While there are no specific requirements beyond the bachelor's degree, undergraduates considering a career in law should select a major or concentration that interests them and allows them to excel in the classroom. Grades matter greatly. Applicants with higher grade point averages have more viable options when applying to law schools.
It is recommended that students take a normal to heavy course-load each semester and take only one or two courses Pass/Fail during their undergraduate career. Students need to demonstrate that they are motivated learners by going beyond what is required of them (e.g., enrolling in more than the minimum points required each semester, writing a thesis). Students however, should not jeopardize their grade point average by taking too many credits in a given semester. Law schools also look for an upward grade trend.
Beyond fulfilling major or concentration requirements, students are encouraged to take a variety of courses that expose them to different disciplines and assist in the development of their analytic, critical thinking, and writing skills.
Undergraduates should begin early in their college career forming relationships with faculty members. Law schools, typically expect applicants to have two faculty recommendations. Students who have connected with a faculty member, and have performed well in their class, are strongly encouraged to ask the faculty member to write them a letter of recommendation before the end of the semester or shortly thereafter. Students should not wait until their senior year to begin asking faculty members for recommendations. The recommendation waiver form is also available in every advising center. Recommendations are placed in the student's permanent file until they are ready to apply to law school.
Undergraduates are also encouraged to become involved in extracurricular activities that reflect their interests and values and to take a leadership role in one or more of these activities. Students should be careful, however too not devote so much time to outside activities that their grades suffer. Activities will not compensate for poor grades.
Columbia undergraduates and alumni/ae considering a career in law should seek information about the law profession itself before they begin to investigate the law school application process. Strategies for finding out more about the law profession include: subscribing to the pre-law listserv attending a variety of campus information sessions that are held throughout the academic year; reading about legal careers; conducting informational interviews with attorneys; and working in a law-related field.
The pre-law listserv provides students and alumni/ae with information about events, scholarships, internship opportunities, summer programs, and other relevant information for those interested in the fields of law.
The Office of Preprofessional Advising sponsors information sessions throughout the academic year. Some of these sessions feature the perspectives of Columbia alumni/ae currently enrolled in law school, and others feature the perspectives of law professionals who practice a variety of legal specializations. The Office of Pre-professional Advising also sponsors programs that feature law school admission officers. These sessions are good sources of information for prospective law school students. Additionally, law schools, including Columbia Law, welcome undergraduates to information sessions, as well as to some of their classes. Read the pre-law listserv and individual school web sites for listings of law school open houses and visitation information.
Students and alumni/ae are encouraged to read about the process of applying to law school, law school experiences, and legal careers. The Office of Pre-professional Advising provides a suggested reading list.
Another great way to find out more about the legal profession is conducting informational interviews with attorneys. Professionals are often very eager to talk about their careers with others interested in the Law. The Center of Career Education provides guidelines for conducting informational interviews.
Though law-related work experience is not an important factor in law school admission, students should consider pursuing law-related summer jobs, internships, and part-time employment during the academic year. For an overview of career possibilities in legal fields, prospective applicants may wish to seek full-time employment in a law-related field after graduation.
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Calls of the wild
Durk Stark learned from an early age the way that being in the woods or beside a body of water in the wild can connect a person to the outdoors.
He grew up hunting waterfowl and whitetails in the Alexandria area. It was during these hunts that he developed an appreciation for the rich tradition of hunting in America.
Now from his home in Pepin, Wis., Stark captures the allure of that hunting heritage by making wing-bone turkey calls.
These calls were a favorite of turkey hunters almost 40 years ago. But as wild turkey numbers continued to grow, the growing number of hunters created a demand for new and easy to use calls. Now the box, slate and diaphragm have become the calls of choice for most hunters in search of America's largest game bird.
Ever the purist, though, Stark was not about to conform to modern technology.
"It's a different sound that's in the woods that you can't buy in the store," he said of the wing-bone call. "It's a much sweeter sound. It's also that sense of tradition and being connected to that."
That tradition extends back as far as 6500 BC. In 1940, on an archaic site in Benton County, Tenn., a number of Native American artifacts were unearthed prior to the construction of a dam that formed Kentucky Lake.
Among the discoveries were wing-bone yelpers made from the bones of wild turkeys. Microscopic analysis show they were crafted together in much the same way that call makers do today.
Over his years of hunting, Stark has found that using handcrafted materials has helped him remain connected to this heritage.
He started by making his own cedar arrows and restoring bamboo fly rods. It was not until he moved to Wisconsin in 1992, though, that he was introduced to turkey hunting.
"Growing up in Alexandria, there weren't any turkeys around at that time," Stark said. "Being a new parent, you often are not able to get in the woods as often as you like to. I needed to find things to do in the winter time."
His interest in wing-bone calls was spurred after reading an article on them in Turkey and Turkey Hunting magazine.
After a Thanksgiving meal, Stark collected the wing bones of the turkey, making his first call in 1992.
"I just started doing it for my own personal interest," he said.
But what started as a hobby has grown into a successful business. Stark works full-time as a special education teacher and also home-schools his daughter with his wife.
Through all of this, he finds time to make between 110 and 250 calls a year through his business, Custom Wingbones by Durk.
He, along with many other call makers, is dedicated to preserving a tradition once established by the Native Americans. This is not limited to call making, though. He applies these same principles to the woods, hunting only with a bow.
"The only way I hunt anything is with bow, whether it's turkey, deer, carp or coyote," Stark said. "I love to hunt. If I loved to kill, I'd use a gun. A bow puts me closer in contact with the animal. I have to be a better woodsman and have a cleaner shot."
His art reflects this approach to the sport. Around 90 percent of the calls he makes today are collectors' items, many of which have earned him a number of accolades.
Stark took second place at the Grand National Custom Call Making Contest in the decorative wing bone category this past spring. The calls for the event were later auctioned off for almost $2,000.
In 2006, he took second place at the Minnesota National Wild Turkey Federation convention in the wing-bone category and honorable mention at the Midwest Nationals that same year.
Along with the awards, he was recently commissioned to make a special edition call for Pheasants Forever's 25th anniversary.
"I never would have imagined that my artwork and call making would have ever went down this path," he said. "I am very grateful for other call makers who have given me feedback and guidance as well as a very patient wife and daughter who have also had many interesting things happen in their lives because of my call making business."
Much of his work can be seen at Wild Wings Galleries in Lake City, and those looking to commemorate a special hunt with one of his calls can contact Stark at firstname.lastname@example.org.
"I continue to be very grateful and appreciative of anyone who purchases one of my calls for hunting or the many others who appreciate the artwork and want them for collector pieces," he said.
Calls range from $90 to $200 for a set of calls in a black walnut display box, with each one helping to preserve a tradition too often forgotten.
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British farmers were urged to ‘seize the golden opportunities’ of the middle-class Asian export market, as the Government launched its new post-Brexit trade campaign.
Emerging markets in Asia are where the ‘real opportunities lie for Britain and our farmers,’ Liz Truss recently told the National Farmers Union conference.
The Secretary of State is quite right when she said Britain can become a world leader in exporting ‘high-value and high standard produce’. But, if our local abattoirs do not qualify for AVA Certification without financial support, those Asian markets will find their ‘quality’ beef and other supplies elsewhere.
We have customers waiting impatiently in Singapore to take delivery of Ote Hall Sussex grass fed beef. Unfortunately the closest AVA certified abattoir is in Scotland. A journey I am not prepared to put my livestock through, and an expense which would wipe out any profits we could make.
Our local abattoir is 15 minutes down the road. For the past eighteen months Ministers at both DEFRA and the Department of Trade have been made aware of the need for grants and funding to help small local family run abattoirs upgrade their facilities so they can offer farmers across the county the certification they require to export. Added to which the over thirty month scheme must be abandoned.
Both issues would open up the market and allow farms such as Ote Hall to send our quality produce to Asia, bringing valuable income into the UK and support the farming industry.
Liz Truss says that by the end of this decade, 66 per cent of the world’s middle class consumers are expected to be found in Asia, and they are hungry for top quality food and drink. Produced from farm to fork to the very highest standards.
I sincerely hope she will bring forward her predictions, and visit Sussex sometime soon to understand the urgency, so we can get our quality meat out there now, not in ten years’ time!
Oliver Poole’s important front page article last week on fly-tipping is clearly a national problem which needs addressing. Most of us do not go about the countryside dumping loads of rubbish in gate ways, fields and beauty spots. However, some of us are equally responsible for dropping litter across the countryside leaving a trail as we discard bottles, coffee cups, crisp packets, poo bags and face masks.
Farmers and landowners are tired of clearing up behind members of the public who clearly consider their rubbish to be some else’s problem.
If it were not for kind and responsible locals who take bags with them, and return home laden with other people’s rubbish, our farm would be awash with trash. Ours is not a unique problem, this is happening nationwide.
Occasionally someone declares that next week will be ‘Litter Picking Week’, and hundreds of enthusiasts go out picking up litter. Photos are taken by the local press, everyone is applauded for collecting huge piles of litter, and they all go home.
The litter is dropped all day every day, year in year out. It is now time to name and shame. Take photos of the culprits, ask them to take their litter home and make people responsible for their actions.
Well done WSG for bringing fly tipping to the surface. Perhaps both subjects can be combined in a major effort to protect our beautiful and precious countryside.
We are appalled by David Attenborough’s horrific images of our oceans clogged by plastic waste, and critical of less educated nations seen to dump their household rubbish and raw sewage directly into rivers and seas.
As a nation our behaviour is no better with litter and fly tipping smeared across our green and pleasant land. This is not only disgusting and unacceptable, it is a criminal offence.
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AS16-118-18880 (16 April 1972) --- A good view of Earth photographed about one hour after trans-lunar injection on April 16, 1972. Although there is much cloud cover, the United States in large part, most of Mexico and some of Central America are clearly visible. Note the Great Lakes (Michigan and Superior) and the Bahama Banks (note different shade of blue below Florida). While astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module (LM) "Orion" to explore the Descartes highlands region of the moon, astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, command module pilot, remained with the Command and Service Modules (CSM) "Casper" in lunar orbit.
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Nanoscience or nanotechnology is the study of management of materials at molecular or atomic scale on different applications. The market for nanoparticles in drug technology holds prime share in the global pharmaceuticals market. Applications of nanotechnology can be classified into nanomedicine, chemicals and cosmetics, materials, food technology, energy, military, electronics, agriculture and others.
Use of nanoparticles in pharmaceutical technology is mainly driven by growth in demand for personalized medicine. This market is classified according to applications such as biotechnology, drug development, and drug delivery. The biotechnology market is further classified according to the use of nanoparticles in fields such as research and development, cellular repair, stem cell research, in vitro imaging, biosensors among many others. The major areas in drug development and drug formulation where nanoparticles are substantially used are bioseparation, drug analysis, analysis and removal of toxins, incorporation of insoluble drugs, DNA nanoparticle development, screening of drug candidates and others.
This market is at present experiencing large scale patent acquisition, collaborations and mergers. The U.S. is viewed as the largest market for use of nanoparticles in pharma technology. The major geographical markets for nanoparticles in this technology are North America, Asia Pacific, Europe and Rest of the World.
Some of the market players in this industry are Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals, PLC, Abraxis Biosciences, Inc., Novartis International AG, GE Global Research, Nano Interface Technology, Inc., Amag Pharmaceuticals Inc. and some others.
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Saturday, May 2, 2015
TV VIEWING 101: CLASS #10: COMBINING OF SKETCH AND TALK, AND QUALITY ANALYSIS
Morning Class. Hey, now! I know it's been awhile since our last class, I know some of you turned in your homework's already, to the rest of you, pass it up, if you did it. I hope you did. And, you all know that this classroom session was shot to hell a few months back.
For those of you just joining, you're ten classes behind so you might want to catch up, but basically we're finishing up our section on Variety programs and I had separated that into two classes previously, one on talk show variety shows and one on sketch comedy variety shows and we were going to then discuss how both of those genres were combined to form the modern Primetime Variety Show. Until the Primetime Emmys announced, they're not two separate kinds of Variety. So, there goes that class.
(Throws away folder of notes into a nearby trashcan)
I know, I know, Whomp-wa. Well, it makes sense actually, part of the reason I thought they needed to be separated was because of how different they can be, so in that sense not that unforeseeable. The thing is is that Variety in some aspects is still a bit of a combination Talk and Sketch. I've probably mentioned "The Jack Benny Program" a few times, because it really is sorta somebody was just given a half-hour of television and carte blanche to do anything he wanted and he took advantage of it. On that show, much of the time, he used a more traditional Variety Show format where he would bring out a guest for that week, and there was always a guest star, and they would have a conversation about the star and maybe if they were a singer or a comic they'd perform a bit, and then, you'd see them show up in a sketch, oftentimes making light of their career in some way. It seems like the perfect bare combination of sketch and talk, and you still see variations of this, for instance, on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", when a musical guest will perform a famous song of there's using classroom instruments instead of more traditional rock/pop instruments. (This is usually before they come out for the interview section) However, if you take a closer look at "The Jack Benny Program", you'll realize something else about those interview segments. They're not always interviews actually. In fact usually, they're just as scripted as the full-fledge sketch acts that are performed. Sometimes it's more obvious than others, and certainly if you had somebody like Bob Hope guest appearing, there might be more ad-libbing, but guest aren't always great at that.
Even on Variety Shows, today. Every talk show has a talent booker that does pre-interviews with all the guests on the shows to come with interesting topics of conversation that could make the guest look good, engaging, entertaining and keep the show moving. You ever notice how on "Saturday Night Live", how, when there's a host with only a limited background in comedy, especially if it's somebody who isn't an actor, perhaps a famous athlete, how they sometimes resort to doing the "Questions from the Audience" monologue? Yeah, that's not just an homage/parody of Carol Burnett that's done as a way to hide the host's lack of abilities and to move the attention onto their more seasoned sketch performers. This is why you'll notice that certain people will show up on those kinds of shows more often than others, some are more natural variety show guests than others. Smart celebrities actually prepare for it, Adam Sandler always does stand-up before being a guest on a talk show and actually hones the material that he'll talk about as a guest. It'll be a little different since it'll be told in a different context, but he's more-than-talented enough to adjust and improvise with someone. James Corden's introduced this more British style of a talk show structure, where instead of a one-on-one interview with his guests, he brings out all his guests at once and let them play off of each other as well as him. Graham Norton is probably the most famous for doing this across the pond, although Dick Cavett did that a version of this as well although when he did it, it took more of the form of a roundtable discussion, it seems more like "Washington Week" than variety. (Although Larry Wilmore's got some success at this so far.)
Until sketch comedy started breaking out into it's own new genre, well, not entirely new, but basically starting breaking away from the traditional talk or classic variety format, (By classical variety, I mean something like "The Ed Sullivan Show", which really was mostly a variety of different kinds of performers and performances) and just started very strictly focusing on sketch, the was always this combination of talk and sketch, some more sketch, some more talk, but both skills were basically needed. It's partly because of how "SNL" really inevitably ended up the last real variety show that showcase the sketch comedy, at least in America that the backlash to this primarily sketch-based programming started taking shape. There's definitely other influences, especially from other countries, "Monty Python's Flying Circus" for instance from England, and Canada had "Kids in the Hall" and "Bizarre" that would air on pay cable in America, but I think most would agree that the real first shot in this was actually "In Living Color". That one had guests performer, rarely if ever, did it have a host and the only musical performances it had were dancers known as the Fly Girls and they were marginalized as the show went on. It also showcase the Wayans Brothers, and Damon Wayans in particular, was infamous at that time for having been fired from "SNL", after switching characters during a live performance. The show also famously switched the typical predominately white cast format of "SNL" and went with a mainly African-American cast, but even more than that, what it really showed was that it was possible for more unique artists out there who might not be ready for Primetime, to create their own little niche of sketch instead. This is where "Key & Peele", "Broad City", "Portlandia", "Inside Amy Schumer"'s have come about and there were quite a few before too, especially in recent years they found a home on cable. Curiously except for "In Living Color" and for a while on "MADTV", this idea of more unique voices doing sketch, just didn't work on network television in recent years. It always had before of course, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Sonny & Cher, even Donny & Marie had success with their own brand of sketch variety and to be completely honest, those were the bottom of variety barrel, but "The Ben Stiller Show" last 13 episodes and frankly nobody saw them until they caught on years later and that's the most successful of this group. You remember "The Dana Carvey Show"? "The Paula Poundstone Show"? "She TV"? "Cedric the Entertainer Presents" "The Colin Quinn Show"? No? I guess you could blame those failures on the lack of publicity or frankly the fact that these shows weren't particularly great or even good, although I thought some of them were, but I think it was also difficult to publicize a variety show, particularly sketch, on Network, that's not on Late Night, at least anymore. Arguably, "SNL"'s most successful competitor was a show called "Fridays", that actually beat in the ratings in 1980, but when the show moved to 8:00pm after being bumped by what would become the show "Nightline", they fell off. That's the other way "SNL" changed the game, they didn't just go after a younger crowd and demographic, since they were edgier in their material and from there on in, sketch comedy itself is now regarded as an edgier form of comedy than the sitcom. It's always been satire, going back to Sid Caesar, but there weren't too many people who did imitations of Nixon, for instance. Even something like "Laugh-In" was silly and referential, while sketch became more confrontational than any other form of comedy. Dana Carvey can do a lot of voices, sure, but that's not really enough for an alternative to "SNL".
Well, talk, sketch, Variety, whatever you want to call it, how can you tell when they're good or not? And which ones are the best, or more importantly why are they the best? Especially with talk shows, it's a far more blurred line than ever, because there's more of them out right now. But let's approach it some other way. How can you tell when someone's a bad talk show host? Obviously some people are more adept at it than others. John McEnroe didn't last long, did he? You probably didn't know he had a Primetime talk show at one point, did you? Well, he's not overly charismatic, he's not a natural comedian, he's not known for interviewing people too often, although it is apart of his job when he's commentates sports, something he does know, but yeah, it's not that surprising he wasn't that good at it. It's a tricky thing to determine, 'cause everybody is different. People questioned Jay Leno's interview skills at one point early in his reign as host of "The Tonight Show", but even at his worst there's numerous differences between his interview skills and David Letterman's style of interviewing his guests. Leno became more adept according to most but neither approach is more or less correct than the other. A full set of skills is needed, knowing how to use them is second and then the third is probably the ability to mold and shape the show into their own. A representation of the host that's both natural and comforting that also fits the show's style and is entertaining. This rarely happens immediately. Even Carson's early months are painful to watch sometimes. It's a skill and it requires practice. It's a lot of preparation to make it look that natural, or in some cases, unnatural like Craig Kilbourn would go for at times. Meanwhile, sketch comedy might only require now a visionary and talented artists' mind, matched with a unique and singular vision. Hell, you can basically just get your friends together pretty much and now you've got a critically-acclaimed sketch show. That's why it's still hard to knock "Saturday Night Live" off it's pedestal. When Dave Chappelle quit, there was no more "Chappelle's Show". You can't replace him. This is why it's hard-to-believe in some ways that Sketch has managed to succeed in separating itself enough from Talk to warrant a new Emmy category. "Saturday Night Live" is not based around one person's unique vision. Yes, Lorne Michaels is still the man in charge and giving the show it's final say, but even he left for a couple years there, but now there's been numerous head writers and there's certain more-than-enough acolytes of Michaels out there to believe that if/when he does ever exit "SNL" that the show will live on in the current structure and format he intended, and that format is also intended to evolve over the years. The kind of humor in "SNL" in the late '70s is very different than the humor that they use today. With so many options, preferences, and styles out there right now, it almost has become a matter of preference. There's a reason why there's so many Variety Talk and Variety Sketch shows around and it's not just because there's more options and avenues out there for them to exist, it's that for the most part, they're funny. At the top of their game, good, in their own ways and able to carve out a spot that's a clear visual representation of their own image and the freedom to do, mostly whatever to them seems funny. It's a bizarre thing to really think about, but for the most part, these are all funny shows. Some more than others, I would question anybody's judgment who thinks "Mind of Mencia" was a great sketch comedy series, but even then, that's probably as great a depiction of his style of humor and strengths as anything else he could've done. (And lord knows what anybody saw in Tom Green that made him unfortunately famous.)
The thing that hurts shows like these, especially when compared to a behemoth like "SNL" in particular for sketch is that since they are the visions of a particular comic mind(s), they then end up becoming dated rather quickly. Satire itself is pointed and much of it at the culture and events of the time. Out of context that doesn't mean these shows, especially some of the more political ones, they don't always hold up over time. This is one of the reasons why "The Carol Burnett Show" still remains relevant, she's funny, but she's not really satirical. Mostly, she's famous for doing parodies of movies and broadway shows and most of those are still relevant in our culture. There was a character-based humor in that show's sketches. "The Family" sketches, that some of you might refer to as "Mama's Family", the sitcom that was spun off from those sketches, there's not an actual joke written in them. Sure, Tim Conway might always improvise something, but the humor comes from the characters and the situations, what they do and how they react. They play it seriously and it comes off as funny. (If somebody would tell Michael Patrick King that that's how "2 Broke Girl$" should work,- uh, nevermind.) Because she was able to be hilarious without going after the more obvious political and cultural characters of the day, her show holds up more. More than any other genre really, Variety, both talk and sketch, are time capsules, representations of the moments when they were occurring. Doesn't mean they aren't still funny and sometimes the comedy can transcend the time period, Dana Carvey still performs George Bush, some 20+plus years after his presidency ended, but it does mean that the material has a tendency to exist in a vacuum. Have any of you ever heard of Vaughn Meader? Probably not, but he became one of the most famous people in the world because of his comedy album "The First Family", last I checked, you can listen to it on Youtube and it's in the National Recording Registry. The whole album is of sketches where he played President John F. Kennedy and it took place inside the White House. He was renowned as having the best Kennedy impersonation ever and for a couple years he was the biggest star in comedy. Then, well, you can figure out what happened from here. After Kennedy's assassination, he spent much of the rest of his career aimlessly trying to seek out that fame again through numerous other avenues, and none of them particularly succeeded. Not only was material dated, but now it was tragically dated and nobody wanted to listen to it. Only really recently has his comedic genius really been rewritten into the comedy history books as we're not far enough away to look back at his most famous works. It's still incredibly funny if you ever want to give a listen and I highly recommend you do, but this is the risk you take regarding sketch comedy, especially satire.
It's cliche to say, but the best barometer of comedy, especially variety sketch and talk, is, well, timing. After you realize how talented you have to be to pull it off with even a modicum of success and eliminate those who aren't capable of doing it, everything else is timing. Remember how the Hugh Grant interview turned the ratings from Letterman to Leno, he had the perfect guest at the perfect time and with Leno as talented as he is, he didn't let the perfect timing slip by. This is why "Laugh-In" wouldn't work now, but did work then. Arsenio Hall tried again recently to recapture what he had in the late '80s and early '90s, but the timing was not there anymore. Maybe he lost his touch a bit, but still, that's why there's so few Johnny Carson's out there and why there's a bunch of Dennis Miller's. A lot of "Mr. Show"'s but just one "Saturday Night Live". Hell, "Sabado Gigante" finally got canceled recently, one of the last remnants of the classical variety structure on network television, sure Spanish Language television, but still.... Some are time capsules, others are mosaics of modern recent modern history, like a bound collection of a news magazine one of those ones that the library has with every copy of Life or something like that.
Alright, I know hasn't been a normal class and we've been way late with everything, so no homework tonight. Study up for the test. If you want extra credit, take a variety show, talk, sketch, classical, one that didn't last too long or hasn't lasted that long, if you want to do a modern one and talk about why it didn't or whether it won't or maybe it will, have the long-lasting legacy of say Carson, Letterman, SNL, etc., or ponder a show that could've had that legacy and ask why it didn't. Again, that's if you want extra credit. Keep an eye on your e-mails and Facebooks and whatnot and I'll let you know what we'll be studying next class.
Alright, see you all next class. (Tug on ear)
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Tuesday, February 23, 2021
David Fontana (George Washington), What Do Constitutional Law Professors Do?, 2020 Wis. L. Rev. 317 (2020):
This Essay—written for a symposium hosted by the Wisconsin Law Review on Andrew Coan’s splendid new book [Rationing the Constitution: How Judicial Capacity Shapes Supreme Court Decision-Making (Harvard University Press 2019)]—examines the social space that nonclinical, tenure-track American constitutional law professors occupy, and whether that social space is a desirable one.
Constitutional law professors are relatively unique among faculty in the current American research university for the degree to which they speak to those inside and outside of the university. Constitutional law professors are socialized by and participate in the research community of the university but also the elite legal profession. They aspire to speak truth to power, but they are also part of the power that they seek to evaluate. It is good for a society to have scholarly insights brought to bear on important decisions by powerful people, and law professors are increasingly the ones doing that. It is also good to have a scholarly discipline generated by combining its own original insights with the insights of other disciplines. As the humanities and social sciences produce more technical scholarship, more removed from the comprehension and concerns of daily life, this engaged and interdisciplinary role for constitutional law professors becomes more important because it is more uncommon. However, being such a part of the system that one aspires to evaluate also encourages law professors to be more deferential and defensive of existing power structures.
John Hart Ely inscribed his landmark book about constitutional theory to Chief Justice Earl Warren—his former boss—and wrote about him that “[y]ou don’t need many heroes if you choose carefully.” We might never be able to appreciate the heroism of Chief Justice Warren—if you believe he was heroic—without the scholarship of a law professor (and dean) like Ely. It took a scholar who was present for the deeds of Chief Justice Warren truly to understand them and to theorize them. Political scientists might have been dissecting the political leanings of the Justices on the Warren Court, and humanists analyzing their theories of justice. It took a law professor, though, to understand what Chief Justice Warren was doing, and what it meant for our country. Even more dramatically, without the support of legal academics like Ely, could Chief Justice Warren ever have been heroic in the first place (if indeed he was)?
But what about when institutions like the Supreme Court are far from heroic? Does the degree to which law professors are part of the same social space as institutions like the Court make it hard to appreciate when they go astray? Members of a family are the only ones who can ever truly understand that family, but therefore are often the only ones who can ever truly be critical of it. | <urn:uuid:f4171b32-ec83-4a93-bd31-204142257f0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2021/02/what-do-constitutional-law-professors-do.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.964232 | 618 | 1.929688 | 2 |
A new report warns that the cost from lost productivity at work related to the new NFL season could add up to $10.5 billion. And there we were, thinking the biggest waste of time at work came from fielding an endless stream of IT industry reports?
In an effort to do something productive with these sometimes insightful, sometimes scary, sometimes silly and frequently self-serving studies, we've boiled down each of about 20 that we've received over the past couple of months into one digestible story. Without further ado and in no particular order:
* The average fantasy sports player earns about $38 per hour and based on an average of nearly 1.19 hours per week dealing with their team during work hours, companies lose about $45.22 in wages per worker each week, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the global outplacement and business coaching consultancy, which came up with its numbers by crunching those from a couple of fantasy sports groups.
* Perhaps playing fantasy football at work can be included in an Internet users' Bill of Rights. Two-thirds of about 200 people attending the second Internet Governance Forum in Brazil last November agreed with this statement: "A global internet users' Bill of Rights should be adopted." Only 6% disagreed. Such a Bill of Rights would include things such as freedom of information, freedom of expression, and the right of people to have affordable access, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
* Not that everyone is going to log on even if they are offered affordable access. Only 44% of Kentucky households subscribe to broadband even though most do have access to it, according to Connected Nation, which issued a report that all full-time adult students in Kentucky with broadband at home use the 'Net for educational purposes. So clever.
* Well, more clever than a lot of organizations anyway. Just over half of organizations require only passwords for employees to access critical data, according to a survey of 150 companies by Quest Software and the Aberdeen Group. Companies play fast and loose with their password rules, too, according to the survey, with almost half allowing standard dictionary terms and more than two-thirds not specifying password length.
* Not that that sort of thing has anything to do with the number of confirmed data breaches reported through mid-August blowing by the number reported for all of last year. According to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center, last year a total of 446 breaches were reported, and as of Aug. 22 this year 449 got reported. Of course, there are many more breaches than those reported, and the ITRC says it is thankful that at least a few states are starting to make info available through their Attorney General offices.
* You could just blame Japan for your network security troubles. Japan proved to be the Godzilla of attack traffic-generation in the second quarter as the country of origin for 30% of such traffic worldwide, according to content delivery network provider Akamai. The study, which was conducted by monitoring Akamai's global network of more than 30,000 servers, measured distributed denial-of-service attacks, Web site hacking attempts and DNS hijackings for 139 countries. The United States had the second-highest percentage of attack traffic for the second quarter, at 21.5%, while China came in third at 16.8%.
* Not that top executives don't have even bigger worries. The top hurdle faced by 300 top executives (such as CEOs and CIOs) surveyed by the Society for Information Management is IT-business alignment. Building business skills in IT, IT strategic planning, attracting new IT professionals and making better use of information rounded out the top 5 concerns.
* Of course, there's also the little matter of IT spending. The outlook is still pretty grim, with growth expected to be just 4% for the year (down from 6% last year), but not all signs are bad, according to the latest Goldman Sachs survey of 100 managers with strategic decision-making authority at Fortune 1,000 companies. On the bright side is that spending intentions on network gear is rebounding (for the next 12 months, 54% of respondents said they expect their network spending to grow, and that's up from 42% the last time they were asked). However, Goldman describes plans for discretionary IT projects as "anemic."
* As for the other type of "green," a third of 75 organizations asked by Cutter Consortium if they have a long-term plan/strategy targeted at reducing the environmental footprint of their IT infrastructure said no, 38% said yes and 29% said they didn't know. Broken down further, 57% of European organizations said they had one vs. 37% in the United States.
* Regardless of the tough economy, companies are having to fork over big salaries to enterprise applications experts due to a shortage of people with SAP skills, according to new research from Foote Partners. The value of some SAP skills rose between 25% and 30% over the first six months of 2008 and nearly twice that over the past 12 months. "If you're looking for SAP Web Application Server, Production Planning, Business Objects, Quality Management, Strategic Enterprise Management, Product Lifecycle Management, HCM and MDM module and skills experience, you're suddenly paying a lot more," says David Foote, CEO of the research group. | <urn:uuid:524b4a56-3ef0-4abf-ad74-c937bd1d37a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcworld.com/article/151142/alarming_it_facts.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00205-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965469 | 1,084 | 1.578125 | 2 |
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